If you are sorting and displaying your photos (to a client, for example), that isn't creation, that's consumption.
I know what I'm doing with a camera and every single professional image I've produced since 1995 has had some level post processing in Photoshop (or Lightroom these days).
Before Photoshop we would "edit" our film and prints, even when we "knew what we were doing". We would dodge, burn, push the film development for different ISO, etc. etc. all because no SLR camera can make a perfect image right out of the camera.
So yes, tablets are great for consuming my content, but it's all being edited on my desktop Mac, then sync'd to the device. My camera creates 16 megapixel RAW files that bring Photoshop to its knees. There's no way an iPad could stand up to the same demands.
I can't be for sure but isn't iPhoto on an iPad the same thing as iPhoto for a Mac? If so, then how does that suck big time, other than the input device is your finger instead of a mouse?
Yeah but you didn't get a $1 smart phone either. Chances are you paid around $200 for a smart phone PLUS the 2-year contract.
$200 isn't that much less than a decent PC that can be had for $400-500 with a monitor, minus the crazy 24 month contract fee.
I can put it another way. For many of us, if our smart phone didn't have the phone, and was just a data device (with the high cost data plans and stupid contracts) we wouldn't own one. It wouldn't supplant our laptops/desktops. But, if I have to have a phone on me, I might as well have one I can check my email and sign my timecard with as well.
You can't dethrone something if you aren't replacing it. People are buying more smart phones, but they aren't NOT buying PCs. Smart phones are in addition to, not a replacement of, PCs.
I was told in 3rd grade (1978) that all the oil would be gone by the year 2000. Now it's almost 2011 and there is no end in sight. Plenty of wars over imaginary supply fears and OPEC monopolies, but no shortage of black stuff in the ground for us humans to burn.
No, it means a portable device, like an iTouch, costs $150 and can do many of the things a casual computing person would need, so there's no sense in shelling out $900 for a boring Dell box.
For the rest of us, we'll have smart phones, tablets, laptops, AND a standard desktop (or three) for many years to come.
Tablets are a NEW segment--they are IN ADDITION to, not replacing desktop PCs.
If you are a touch typist, having to hold a shift key down for more than 2 capital letters in a row really slows down your typing speed and contributes more to repetitive motion injuries.
But in England, they have tomes of weekly printed gossip "newspapers". I'm not talking about TMZ or even People Magazine...I'm talking a weekly printed newspaper, then all the tv presenters have shows to sift through them and gossip about them....it's like "The View" but without all the annoying women talking over each other.
Now if we could just get some page three girls over here!
mainly through the US's own reaction to the event, which would have been out of the news within a couple of days in the UK if it wasn't for the US constantly blathering about it
I lived in England for several years. Don't kid yourself--you are the most gossip happy western culture on the planet.
Christ, you have tv shows that do nothing but sit around and read the gossip papers on air and talk about them. Gossip about gossip!
You just wrote 7 paragraphs ripping Blizzard's "cash cow" and the "smacktards'" "mindless conformity" and how Blizzard is putting a "positive spin" or creating "peer pressure to keep paying" and how Apple is the same, using "people's names to get more business" and not caring about "your privacy if it helps makes a quick buck."
Sounds like you think that's the problem to me. What else could the problem be, given you've posted no alternative?
No, the difference between Blizzard and Apple is that my kids' WoW account gets hacked at least once a month. Apple stuff is important enough to hack into (my mobile me account is super boring, and I have no idea what Ping is supposed to be..maybe you can buy songs with my credit card if you hack me?).
Hey, hey...easy with the "40 and up" zingers! I'll be 41 in a couple of weeks and you are right. I really don't get it (social media). I do have a facebook account that I use to post random musing and pics of my children, but other than that, we "old" guys are mostly too busy with real life.
No, they used Jeremy Clarkson playing Gran Turismo4. One is not a real driver and the other is not a real racing sim (its a game, not an accurate sim).
The Mazda car he was in is really easy to drive, and 100 mph is very slow (relatively speaking). Even had he wrecked, he most likely would have walked away unhurt at those low speeds. The biggest danger is indeed the last corner, because it is downhill then bottoms out right at the apex and throws you towards the concrete pit wall. The only real escalation of risk is when you add a second through 20th competitor on the track and they start running INTO each other.
You're kidding right? 15 laps and y ou're allowed to do 100km/hr on a bend? 3 days and you're a racing expert?
Well, 3 days, plus totally dominating the online racing world since at least 1997. And it was 100mph, not kph. AND 100mph is pretty slow in racing terms.
Only drag racing is a spending competition on wheels
I take it you haven't watched Formula 1 in the past, oh, 15 years or so? Interesting that 7 time champion Michael Schumacher couldn't finish higher than 9th (out of 24) when when stuck in an underfunded team's car.
Yeah but car racing has engineering as a key component, which is why it baffles me that so many slashdot people slam on it. Car racing is more science than sport (to me), so it should appeal to slashdot.
I'm glad the article pointed out the physicality of racing. I've only raced Karts, and those are strenuous enough to require a guy to work out 3-4 times a week to keep up.
You are (generally) incorrect. Of the two (generally accepted) sim racers, iRacing is the better of the two (rFactor being the other).
I know Greger from racing with him online as far back as 1997. He's a legend. If HE backs iRacing (along with the the Dave Kaemmerer guy, sp?, who has devoted his life to that sim engine, pun intended), then I'm pretty sure there's nothing better.
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If you are sorting and displaying your photos (to a client, for example), that isn't creation, that's consumption.
I know what I'm doing with a camera and every single professional image I've produced since 1995 has had some level post processing in Photoshop (or Lightroom these days).
Before Photoshop we would "edit" our film and prints, even when we "knew what we were doing". We would dodge, burn, push the film development for different ISO, etc. etc. all because no SLR camera can make a perfect image right out of the camera.
So yes, tablets are great for consuming my content, but it's all being edited on my desktop Mac, then sync'd to the device. My camera creates 16 megapixel RAW files that bring Photoshop to its knees. There's no way an iPad could stand up to the same demands.
I can't be for sure but isn't iPhoto on an iPad the same thing as iPhoto for a Mac? If so, then how does that suck big time, other than the input device is your finger instead of a mouse?
Yeah but you didn't get a $1 smart phone either. Chances are you paid around $200 for a smart phone PLUS the 2-year contract.
$200 isn't that much less than a decent PC that can be had for $400-500 with a monitor, minus the crazy 24 month contract fee.
I can put it another way. For many of us, if our smart phone didn't have the phone, and was just a data device (with the high cost data plans and stupid contracts) we wouldn't own one. It wouldn't supplant our laptops/desktops. But, if I have to have a phone on me, I might as well have one I can check my email and sign my timecard with as well.
You can't dethrone something if you aren't replacing it. People are buying more smart phones, but they aren't NOT buying PCs. Smart phones are in addition to, not a replacement of, PCs.
I was told in 3rd grade (1978) that all the oil would be gone by the year 2000. Now it's almost 2011 and there is no end in sight. Plenty of wars over imaginary supply fears and OPEC monopolies, but no shortage of black stuff in the ground for us humans to burn.
No, it means a portable device, like an iTouch, costs $150 and can do many of the things a casual computing person would need, so there's no sense in shelling out $900 for a boring Dell box.
For the rest of us, we'll have smart phones, tablets, laptops, AND a standard desktop (or three) for many years to come.
Tablets are a NEW segment--they are IN ADDITION to, not replacing desktop PCs.
I hear it's going to ship with Duke Nukem Forever as a standard install.
If you are a touch typist, having to hold a shift key down for more than 2 capital letters in a row really slows down your typing speed and contributes more to repetitive motion injuries.
We so many acronyms in defense contracting that my caps lock key is on for nearly every third word.
But in England, they have tomes of weekly printed gossip "newspapers". I'm not talking about TMZ or even People Magazine...I'm talking a weekly printed newspaper, then all the tv presenters have shows to sift through them and gossip about them....it's like "The View" but without all the annoying women talking over each other.
Now if we could just get some page three girls over here!
mainly through the US's own reaction to the event, which would have been out of the news within a couple of days in the UK if it wasn't for the US constantly blathering about it
I lived in England for several years. Don't kid yourself--you are the most gossip happy western culture on the planet.
Christ, you have tv shows that do nothing but sit around and read the gossip papers on air and talk about them. Gossip about gossip!
You just wrote 7 paragraphs ripping Blizzard's "cash cow" and the "smacktards'" "mindless conformity" and how Blizzard is putting a "positive spin" or creating "peer pressure to keep paying" and how Apple is the same, using "people's names to get more business" and not caring about "your privacy if it helps makes a quick buck."
Sounds like you think that's the problem to me. What else could the problem be, given you've posted no alternative?
No, the difference between Blizzard and Apple is that my kids' WoW account gets hacked at least once a month. Apple stuff is important enough to hack into (my mobile me account is super boring, and I have no idea what Ping is supposed to be..maybe you can buy songs with my credit card if you hack me?).
Hey, hey...easy with the "40 and up" zingers! I'll be 41 in a couple of weeks and you are right. I really don't get it (social media). I do have a facebook account that I use to post random musing and pics of my children, but other than that, we "old" guys are mostly too busy with real life.
Think, "ooh, Jack and Jill from work and 10 of their facebook 'friends' are playing WoW, let's join them."
And the problem with that is what, exactly? Isn't that kind of the entire point of social media?
A) Earnhardt is probably contractually obliged to participate (because they pay him to do so).
B) Lots of race car drivers like to play racing games and sims, just like lots of NBA players like to play basketball video games.
C) F1 teams have custom sim rigs because they can afford it. I have rFactor, because I can't even afford iRacing!
No, they used Jeremy Clarkson playing Gran Turismo4. One is not a real driver and the other is not a real racing sim (its a game, not an accurate sim).
The Mazda car he was in is really easy to drive, and 100 mph is very slow (relatively speaking). Even had he wrecked, he most likely would have walked away unhurt at those low speeds. The biggest danger is indeed the last corner, because it is downhill then bottoms out right at the apex and throws you towards the concrete pit wall. The only real escalation of risk is when you add a second through 20th competitor on the track and they start running INTO each other.
120mph in a Skip Barber open-wheeler feels like 35 mph in our street cars...zzzzzzzzzzzzz.
You're kidding right? 15 laps and y ou're allowed to do 100km/hr on a bend? 3 days and you're a racing expert?
Well, 3 days, plus totally dominating the online racing world since at least 1997. And it was 100mph, not kph. AND 100mph is pretty slow in racing terms.
Or from living in Finland.
Only drag racing is a spending competition on wheels
I take it you haven't watched Formula 1 in the past, oh, 15 years or so? Interesting that 7 time champion Michael Schumacher couldn't finish higher than 9th (out of 24) when when stuck in an underfunded team's car.
Yeah but car racing has engineering as a key component, which is why it baffles me that so many slashdot people slam on it. Car racing is more science than sport (to me), so it should appeal to slashdot.
I'm glad the article pointed out the physicality of racing. I've only raced Karts, and those are strenuous enough to require a guy to work out 3-4 times a week to keep up.
You are (generally) incorrect. Of the two (generally accepted) sim racers, iRacing is the better of the two (rFactor being the other).
I know Greger from racing with him online as far back as 1997. He's a legend. If HE backs iRacing (along with the the Dave Kaemmerer guy, sp?, who has devoted his life to that sim engine, pun intended), then I'm pretty sure there's nothing better.