(disclaimer: I have no idea how well it will sell, or whether it will flop or be huge).
You don't? You must be the only person on this website that doesn't know how well and or poorly the iPad will sell. Why don't you have the information that everyone else here seems to have mystically acquired?
Excellent reading skills. I didn't say that getting out first was key. I said that getting your product in front of the people who want to buy it is key.
Right now, even if it is unavailable in Germany, I bet a majority of Germans know what an iPad is, its all over the news.
Now maybe the WePad will be launched with huge fanfare and a parade in Berlin, I don't know, but if most people know what an iPad is but don't know what a WePad is then the WePad will not be as successful as the iPad and that's all there is to it.
They might be somewhat more successful but there is more too making a me too product than getting it out the door quickly. You need to get it in front of customers who are currently considering buying an iPad and that is not an easy thing to do. Right now everyone knows about the iPad, not just geeks here on slashdot. In 6 months, how many people outside of geeks on slashdot will know about the WePad.
It could be a vastly superior unit but it wont matter if most people don't know about it.
ok, lets say you have a scheme that requires a new password every month with at least one number and letter, not that difficult. Heck lets throw a capitol leter in there too
January01 February02 March03 ect....
Not exactly secure is it. If you have seen one of those passwords you will know the users passwords on that system at any time. I have seen this technique used by people at companies with password aging.
My first though (after a brief "Sue them for what?") is that perhaps Apple should attempt a take over of Adobe. Adobe has plenty of good pro apps that would go great along side Apples pro apps.
But then I think back to what I know from having worked with Adobe. Its a highly bloated organization, not run in a very efficient manner. Their authoring tools are great, but a lot of what made them a great company doesn't seem to be there anymore. The project that I worked on with them was very poorly conceived, poorly executed and was already on its third or fourth iteration (none of them ever went anywhere beyond the pilot program I worked on).
For Apple, buying adobe could be too much of a drag, they would want them to be a subsidiary but the changes they would have to make to streamline to corporation could be more than Apple would want to bite off.
Many of them are not idea applications and many of them were originally developed outside of Apple. (plus there is this whole framework for the pro apps that apple uses. I don't much care for the technique and even Apple wouldn't recommend it to other developers. They get away with it because of the level of control the have over the platform, framework and applications)
In most cases installers are used to install ancillary files in places other than the application folder, or to register services or other fairly advanced features. Some people still use libraries stored in a shared location although this is kind of a waste since you will have to jump through hoops to make sure new versions don't overwrite your versions. The one case where this makes sense is if you have a suite of apps that is only updated as a whole and shares some libraries, but I'm still not sure its worth the savings in hard drive space vs complexity.
The mac method of dealing with applications is much easier on end users, in particular consumer level end users. Its one of the most appealing things about the platform for non technical users.
There is no reason that I should have to worry about dependencies just to install a new browser.
Its not a folder to the user, its the executable file to the user. The same thing the user goes and clicks on to launch the application is the thing they throw out. Under the hood for a developer an application is a folder with an internal structure that allows them to put all the libraries and resources the application needs right into the package. The result is a single object to the user that contains the entire application.
In many cases good mac apps don't even have an installer, you just drag the application from the CD (or disk image or your downloads folder) into your application folder and your done.
Package managers might take care of dependencies for you, but not really having dependencies in the first place is a lot easier for the user to deal with.
the real question is, will devices like this ever take off in the business environment. I can see a few uses, mostly among IT people who might carry something small like this around to be fully connected all the time, but really I think the market for tablets is infotainment in and out of the home for people who really dont need or want a full blown computer.
nothing apple makes is like a package manager. From a mac users point of view a package manager is nothing but a pain in the ass.
Mac applications (and iPhone ones) when they are properly made, are single files (actually a folder, but not to the user) that handles everything you need. You dont have to worry about dependencies. When you want to get rid of it you just throw it out.
Admitedly, there are applications on the mac that don't work like this, but in general you dont deal with the same kind of issues on the mac as you do on windows or even linux. (unless you want to run some software that was developed for linux)
From where I sit, there is a lot more marketing for Droid then there is for the iPhone. WAY more.
People like to act like apple is some magical marketing machine. They aren't. They have marketing things that have failed in the past. The iPhone has more momentum because they hit the market first and hit it hard. Lots of people know someone who has an iPhone and not that many know someone who owns a Droid.
Its more than just who has the flashiest advertising... though it is true that you cant get by without advertizing and I think the G1 was very under advertized. The first android phone needed to hit hard and grab mind share like the iPhone did. As it is its been more of a slow adoption that makes them look like they are playing catchup. They could have waited 6 months and really hit hard and that probably would have led to Android being better positioned.
People are sick of jumping through hoops for technology and I suspect that developers will go where the users are. Now I'm not saying that open platforms need to be hard to use, but it is too often the case right now.
When it's done so with the intent to disrupt court activities by spamming a private email address?
Wait, which is it. Either this was his personal email address in which case I can't see how any amount of spam would disrupt is work activities or its an account provided by his employer in which case it is disingenuous to call it "personal."
I use open office for writing my resume (though I vastly prefer distributing it in PDF). I found that the layout ended up slightly different when I opened it in word on my girlfriends laptop. It lost some of the font size information that applied only to white space.
I had a.doc copy that I fixed up on her laptop and would use that when asked for a.doc resume but what a pain in the ass that was. If I hadn't had a computer with office on it I never would have known that the spacing was coming out wrong.
I am the only full time mac dev at my company. I am also just about the only dev who doesn't (yet) own an iPhone. There are even a few people who picked up iPads.
iPhones are popular, they fill a need that existed in the market and only recently have real competitors started to emerge. The iPhone is popular among both the tech savy and the non savy. People here need to accept that.
they could do that, but I bet that their margins on the iMac are considerably larger than their margins on the iPad. Whats in it for apple?
Unless people stop buying the iMac in favor of a setup like you are describing (which I think is a decent low cost alternative for students or casual users) in which case, isnt it really the market that made the decision?
Even without that there are certainly benefits. Tracking multiple objects, extrapolating the path of other cars, watching the road ahead.
Sure, driving thrid person in the real world is extremely hard. Lots of people find it harder to drive a car in a video game compared to real life, but there certainly are some basic skills that video games can teach.
If you want to find out if driving games make people better drivers you have to test the real world, first person driving skills of people who play games vs people who dont.
All this proves is that driving from the third person is difficult. No kidding, its a hack to get around the fact that in video games you cant turn your head to change your view.
Maybe he is the head of engineering at a small tech firm. Sometimes people at startups have to do things themselves that are done by a procurement department in larger companies.
Still, I do think it was odd that I didn't hear about any way for developers to get their hands on them a day or 2 early for testing. Not that I keep up with the Apple developer connection.
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Plus this will give them a chance to see what other things might be missing from the iPad OS and fix those issues in version 4.0 of the OS.
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There were some problems with older routers dealing with 802.11g devices when those first came out. I ran into that myself. The entire network would lock up shortly after a G device was connected to it. Since my router was pretty old (802.11 b I think) I just picked up a new one anyway.
yea, but I'm betting you need to have the insurance before someone comes to sue you.
If you knew that someone was going to come after you for the name of your open source project you probably wouldn't have used that name in the first place.
Its tough to justify paying for insurance to ensure your own rights, at least before you have experienced being the little guy in a lawsuit and by then it is too late.
economics is not a cheerful area of study. Its actually quite depressing.
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While it still sounds pretty bad (and second monitor via network is a bad idea) the fact that these clowns couldn't figure out right off the bat that you have to turn off video mirroring is just laughable.
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frankly, just a DVI adapter would be sufficient. If you have a VGA monitor chances are you already have a DVI to VGA adapter.
(disclaimer: I have no idea how well it will sell, or whether it will flop or be huge).
You don't? You must be the only person on this website that doesn't know how well and or poorly the iPad will sell. Why don't you have the information that everyone else here seems to have mystically acquired?
Excellent reading skills. I didn't say that getting out first was key. I said that getting your product in front of the people who want to buy it is key.
Right now, even if it is unavailable in Germany, I bet a majority of Germans know what an iPad is, its all over the news.
Now maybe the WePad will be launched with huge fanfare and a parade in Berlin, I don't know, but if most people know what an iPad is but don't know what a WePad is then the WePad will not be as successful as the iPad and that's all there is to it.
They might be somewhat more successful but there is more too making a me too product than getting it out the door quickly. You need to get it in front of customers who are currently considering buying an iPad and that is not an easy thing to do. Right now everyone knows about the iPad, not just geeks here on slashdot. In 6 months, how many people outside of geeks on slashdot will know about the WePad.
It could be a vastly superior unit but it wont matter if most people don't know about it.
ok, lets say you have a scheme that requires a new password every month with at least one number and letter, not that difficult. Heck lets throw a capitol leter in there too
January01
February02
March03
ect....
Not exactly secure is it. If you have seen one of those passwords you will know the users passwords on that system at any time. I have seen this technique used by people at companies with password aging.
My first though (after a brief "Sue them for what?") is that perhaps Apple should attempt a take over of Adobe. Adobe has plenty of good pro apps that would go great along side Apples pro apps.
But then I think back to what I know from having worked with Adobe. Its a highly bloated organization, not run in a very efficient manner. Their authoring tools are great, but a lot of what made them a great company doesn't seem to be there anymore. The project that I worked on with them was very poorly conceived, poorly executed and was already on its third or fourth iteration (none of them ever went anywhere beyond the pilot program I worked on).
For Apple, buying adobe could be too much of a drag, they would want them to be a subsidiary but the changes they would have to make to streamline to corporation could be more than Apple would want to bite off.
Many of them are not idea applications and many of them were originally developed outside of Apple. (plus there is this whole framework for the pro apps that apple uses. I don't much care for the technique and even Apple wouldn't recommend it to other developers. They get away with it because of the level of control the have over the platform, framework and applications)
In most cases installers are used to install ancillary files in places other than the application folder, or to register services or other fairly advanced features. Some people still use libraries stored in a shared location although this is kind of a waste since you will have to jump through hoops to make sure new versions don't overwrite your versions. The one case where this makes sense is if you have a suite of apps that is only updated as a whole and shares some libraries, but I'm still not sure its worth the savings in hard drive space vs complexity.
The mac method of dealing with applications is much easier on end users, in particular consumer level end users. Its one of the most appealing things about the platform for non technical users.
There is no reason that I should have to worry about dependencies just to install a new browser.
funny, I haven't seen any of the tea party demonstrators comment on this issue, they don't seem concerned about it in the least.
Maybe you should join up with a group that actually has an opinion on this topic rather than jumping in with a bunch of rather reactionary folks.
from the sounds of it, without the proper conditions it will clump up and stop functioning. Still, caution would seem to be the best possible idea.
Its not a folder to the user, its the executable file to the user. The same thing the user goes and clicks on to launch the application is the thing they throw out. Under the hood for a developer an application is a folder with an internal structure that allows them to put all the libraries and resources the application needs right into the package. The result is a single object to the user that contains the entire application.
In many cases good mac apps don't even have an installer, you just drag the application from the CD (or disk image or your downloads folder) into your application folder and your done.
Package managers might take care of dependencies for you, but not really having dependencies in the first place is a lot easier for the user to deal with.
the real question is, will devices like this ever take off in the business environment. I can see a few uses, mostly among IT people who might carry something small like this around to be fully connected all the time, but really I think the market for tablets is infotainment in and out of the home for people who really dont need or want a full blown computer.
nothing apple makes is like a package manager. From a mac users point of view a package manager is nothing but a pain in the ass.
Mac applications (and iPhone ones) when they are properly made, are single files (actually a folder, but not to the user) that handles everything you need. You dont have to worry about dependencies. When you want to get rid of it you just throw it out.
Admitedly, there are applications on the mac that don't work like this, but in general you dont deal with the same kind of issues on the mac as you do on windows or even linux. (unless you want to run some software that was developed for linux)
From where I sit, there is a lot more marketing for Droid then there is for the iPhone. WAY more.
People like to act like apple is some magical marketing machine. They aren't. They have marketing things that have failed in the past. The iPhone has more momentum because they hit the market first and hit it hard. Lots of people know someone who has an iPhone and not that many know someone who owns a Droid.
Its more than just who has the flashiest advertising... though it is true that you cant get by without advertizing and I think the G1 was very under advertized. The first android phone needed to hit hard and grab mind share like the iPhone did. As it is its been more of a slow adoption that makes them look like they are playing catchup. They could have waited 6 months and really hit hard and that probably would have led to Android being better positioned.
People are sick of jumping through hoops for technology and I suspect that developers will go where the users are. Now I'm not saying that open platforms need to be hard to use, but it is too often the case right now.
When it's done so with the intent to disrupt court activities by spamming a private email address?
Wait, which is it. Either this was his personal email address in which case I can't see how any amount of spam would disrupt is work activities or its an account provided by his employer in which case it is disingenuous to call it "personal."
I use open office for writing my resume (though I vastly prefer distributing it in PDF). I found that the layout ended up slightly different when I opened it in word on my girlfriends laptop. It lost some of the font size information that applied only to white space.
I had a .doc copy that I fixed up on her laptop and would use that when asked for a .doc resume but what a pain in the ass that was. If I hadn't had a computer with office on it I never would have known that the spacing was coming out wrong.
I am the only full time mac dev at my company. I am also just about the only dev who doesn't (yet) own an iPhone. There are even a few people who picked up iPads.
iPhones are popular, they fill a need that existed in the market and only recently have real competitors started to emerge. The iPhone is popular among both the tech savy and the non savy. People here need to accept that.
they could do that, but I bet that their margins on the iMac are considerably larger than their margins on the iPad. Whats in it for apple?
Unless people stop buying the iMac in favor of a setup like you are describing (which I think is a decent low cost alternative for students or casual users) in which case, isnt it really the market that made the decision?
Even without that there are certainly benefits. Tracking multiple objects, extrapolating the path of other cars, watching the road ahead.
Sure, driving thrid person in the real world is extremely hard. Lots of people find it harder to drive a car in a video game compared to real life, but there certainly are some basic skills that video games can teach.
If you want to find out if driving games make people better drivers you have to test the real world, first person driving skills of people who play games vs people who dont.
All this proves is that driving from the third person is difficult. No kidding, its a hack to get around the fact that in video games you cant turn your head to change your view.
Maybe he is the head of engineering at a small tech firm. Sometimes people at startups have to do things themselves that are done by a procurement department in larger companies.
Still, I do think it was odd that I didn't hear about any way for developers to get their hands on them a day or 2 early for testing. Not that I keep up with the Apple developer connection.
Plus this will give them a chance to see what other things might be missing from the iPad OS and fix those issues in version 4.0 of the OS.
There were some problems with older routers dealing with 802.11g devices when those first came out. I ran into that myself. The entire network would lock up shortly after a G device was connected to it. Since my router was pretty old (802.11 b I think) I just picked up a new one anyway.
yea, but I'm betting you need to have the insurance before someone comes to sue you.
If you knew that someone was going to come after you for the name of your open source project you probably wouldn't have used that name in the first place.
Its tough to justify paying for insurance to ensure your own rights, at least before you have experienced being the little guy in a lawsuit and by then it is too late.
economics is not a cheerful area of study. Its actually quite depressing.
While it still sounds pretty bad (and second monitor via network is a bad idea) the fact that these clowns couldn't figure out right off the bat that you have to turn off video mirroring is just laughable.