{"id":1530,"date":"2012-11-22T18:57:59","date_gmt":"2012-11-22T18:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=1530"},"modified":"2012-11-22T18:58:01","modified_gmt":"2012-11-22T18:58:01","slug":"things-that-should-be-different-in-our-tech-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2012\/11\/things-that-should-be-different-in-our-tech-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Things that should be different in our tech world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nerdcore shit, sorry.<\/p>\n<p>Looking at it, things that seem obvious but aren\u2019t for OEMs and all actors of this microcosm.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>WEB <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What do we do on the web, most of the time? We read. Displays and text rendering techniques are getting better but there\u2019s one thing that stays out of the discussion: FONTS. We live with like, 9 different fonts and that\u2019s it. Publishing and text should be able to use any type of font, how awesome it would be. We\u2019re starting to <a href=\"http:\/\/tympanus.net\/codrops\/2011\/02\/10\/the-problem-with-web-fonts\/\" target=\"_blank\">have options<\/a> but there\u2019s no standard and it\u2019s all about hacking. The HTML5 specs don\u2019t contain ANYTHING about this.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile they try so hard to run 3D in my browser. It\u2019s useless native apps do that much better, which leads me to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>3D <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We\u2019re using small form factor devices these days and obviously 3D makes everything hot. So why don\u2019t we already have external graphic cards for when we game? PCI Express allows that and both main graphic manufacturers have solutions ready for this since 2007\/2008. It never took off because they suck. And it sucks for us because finding a laptop with enough GPU power without costing you $1000 or looking like a Transformer is a nightmare. Which leads me to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>AMD <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You see today chip manufacturers search for the Holy Grail: being able to make CPUs and GPUs. Intel as huge as they are suck at GPUs, years that they say they have something when they have nothing. Nvidia is starting to make CPUs -only ARM based though- but are really into GPUs. The only company that has experience in both is AMD. The sad part is that they didn\u2019t deliver so well in the past and with Intel pressuring <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/OEM\" target=\"_blank\">OEM<\/a>s, machines with AMD tech are always super lame 17\u201d ugly ass laptops. It\u2019s terrible because their shit is really good: a quad-core and 384 shaders units embedded in a slim notebook with which you can play 3D games better -up to twice as much fps, that\u2019s no little bump- than on much more expensive Intel \u201cultrabook\u201d stuff. Best deal ever. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>APIs <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Developers are trying to avoid to be dependent on one company making one OS, but they\u2019re willing to be dependent on one company making an API, which is much more restrictive. Despite countless examples showing how it ruins the ability to build for long, developers don\u2019t rush for open APIs or standards so much. Twitter is the best example. To get news in a stream form we have <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rss\" target=\"_blank\">rss\/opml<\/a> or the new <a href=\"http:\/\/quick.newsriver.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">river of news<\/a>, both totally open. Make apps using these. Don\u2019t silo data, don\u2019t make people sign up. Let the data flow and build\/sell nice, simple and designed things around them. People will rush to them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nerdcore shit, sorry. Looking at it, things that seem obvious but aren\u2019t for OEMs and all actors of this microcosm. WEB What do we do on the web, most of the time? We read. Displays and text rendering techniques are getting better but there\u2019s one thing that stays out of the discussion: FONTS. We live [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1531,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530\/revisions\/1531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}