You do know that iPads have wi-fi, right, so will connect to the same networks that your netbook would connect to? So you're only 'saving' $250 comparing like for like, and that $250 buys you better battery life and a far more robust piece of kit.
Any serious photographer who's doing work for magazines and newspapers will need/want a quad core with 8Gb of RAM. Seriously, if you've spent more than 5 minutes cleaning and processing RAWs for a professional shoot you'll want the fastest machine with the most memory you can get your hands on.
To counter anecdote with anecdote, I have a 15" MacBook Pro and my wife has an 11" MacBook Air. 80% of the time, when I'm at home and want to surf, use Facebook, do email, Skype or watch streaming media, I'll grab my iPad. The MacBook comes out when I want to edit video or use Photoshop. I almost never want to access Flash enabled websites. Why don't you sell your iPad?
Yep, same here. Whatever criticisms people might have of the iOS platform, syncing works great. My wife and I publish our calendars and address books to each other and that all stays in sync over 2 phones, 2 MacBooks and an iPad. I find it highly amusing how many of my friends don't sync their devices at all, or when they do it's an couple of hours with the phone plugged into a laptop via USB.
Look at the Wikipedia link, and at the many other GUI histories available on the web. The first image with a pull-down menu is captioned "Macintosh Desktop (1984)". All of the earlier images (and text referencing them) that show something that looks like a menu is in fact a modal button (either clickable or a reference to a function key) that changed the mode of the screen. Apple invented pull-down menus that allowed preferences to be set and choices made in a modeless manner, i.e. the application window below remained unchanged. Apple have ripped-off plenty of design features, as has every company involved in GUI design, but they did indeed invent the pull-down menu and they should get credit for it.
That wouldn't be the case, because the sidebar clock is the same physical size on both monitors. Unless Windows 7 is doing some funky resolution-independent stuff for the sidebar that I'm not aware of, both monitors must be the same resolution. The left-hand one looks like someone has smeared butter over the screen, maybe that's how Dell punishes customers for buying their cheaper option.
Surely the metal tip of a ballpoint pen (gas propelled or otherwise) is also conductive? But point taken about the limitations of using pencils, although I would think that having a stock of short pencils with soft leads that wouldn't shatter could solve those problems quite easily.
It's the same, but the activation is done via wi-fi or the cellular data network. Apple knows the IMEIs it has sold to each network, and will only allow the iPhone to activate on the allowed network. In the UK, the good networks will allow centralised unlocking of iPhones for a small fee once a proportion of the contract has passed, then when you restore the iPhone it will say something like "congratulations your iPhone has been unlocked" because the Apple database was updated by the network.
If you can bring out the bass by playing with an equaliser, then it is there. You can't make a track that's lacking in bass sound bassier with an EQ, unless you're emphasising harmonics higher up the spectrum or the EQ isn't just an EQ and has a subharmonic synth. If there is a mismatch in EQ between the recording/transcoding and the amp, speakers and room then you can make the bass louder by bringing up the lower frequencies or de-emphasising higher frequencies that were masking the bass.
I think they were partially compatible. Plenty of application software that was written "correctly" was compatible across OS versions, but many games were not because they directly accessed hardware and used OS routines from the ROMs which they expected to be memory-mapped in certain locations. There was a big aftermarket for putting older OS ROMs into newer machines with external switches in order to run legacy games.
This is pretty normal though, isn't it? Ask a room full of nerds who invented the programmable computer, or who invented the electric light bulb. There's a lot of disagreement as to what counts as invention - first diagram, first proof of concept, first patent, first marketable product, first successful product. People like Apple because they bring polished products to market that do things that normal people want their devices to do, without getting in the way, and for that they get credit for many ideas.
Yes, doing it well with a handheld device is novel. Thousands of scientific paper abstracts start with the phrase "A novel application of...". A device in your hand that understands a subset of naturally spoken English and provides a comprehensive range of useful responses is revolutionary. It saddens me that so many self-professed geeks would rather gripe about the semantics of who was first rather than celebrate an excellent piece of AI technology.
How much marketing was there for the iPhone 4S? At least in the UK, so far, I haven't seen a single TV or billboard advert, and haven't heard a radio advert. I'm not saying they're not there, but they're hardly pervasive (unlike the last Samsung product). It's been more or less a press release, email for those signed up to Apple email marketing, and word of mouth based on features that speak for themselves. I would say the iPhone 4S has pretty much sold itself.
Really? Then you probably haven't used it in any practical way. Yesterday I asked "what's the circumference of a circle of diameter 3cm?". Try it. Now think about the practical applications, particularly when it moves out of Beta and it supports a decent hands-free way of addressing (cue Scottie "Computerrrr..."). I already use Google and Wolfram Alpha for practically any query when I'm at a computer, having an effective interface to do the same thing when I'm doing a practical task is amazing. I realise Apple didn't invent it, but as usual they've made it practical and widely available.
The copyright holders can release a GPL'ed product also under a distribution license that imposes further restrictions. The copyright holders can do as they please with their work. If they feel that it is commercially viable to release a GPL'ed version with source code and a paid-for version on the app store for people who are willing to pay for the convenience, that's entirely their choice as the copyright holder.
It's not semantics, because people use the theft/stealing misnomer as a way to scare people into obeying copyright law to the letter, whilst the law is extended and extended to the benefit of large corporations and the detriment of society. Copyright should be a limited exclusivity in order for an author/artist/programmer/etc. to benefit from their work for a limited time in order that they can earn a living and continue to practice their art.
In follow-up to your previous post, infringement of the limited right to exclusivity does not cause that exclusivity to me permanently lost, anymore than when someone insults me I don't permanently lose my right to not be verbally abused. The whole point of copyright is that the work is widely available but limited in distribution. If someone infringes, the infringement can be made good, usually by making a payment. This is why the RIAA assault on ordinary people for minor copyright infringement is morally wrong: they ruin people's lives by manipulating the legal system and imposing fines many orders of magnitude greater than that needed to redress the infringement and deter future infringement.
It's not stealing, stealing is when you permanently deprive someone of their property. It's like - if I baked a perfect cake, and I was just about to eat it, then you came and copied the recipe and baked an identical cake, would that be stealing? No. If I had a cookbook, and you came and actually took my cookbook away, that would be stealing. Even if I had another copy of the cookbook, it would still be stealing because you deprived me of my property. I'm not saying copyright violation isn't wrong, I'm just saying it isn't stealing, for the same reason that it isn't rape, assault, slander or arson.
Xerox didn't agree, sued and lost. Your point? The X Window System is not, and never was, a "Desktop Style OS".
The point here is that Samsung is deliberately trying to clone the iPad, even down to the shape of the dock connector and the styling of the charger. I'm not sure about the validity of some of Apple's patents, but I think it's ridiculous for people to imply that Apple shouldn't be trying. I would think any decent company, in their position, would try to take action against a company of Samsung's size and influence blatently bringing out clone products.
They even copied the look of the power adaptor. It's ludicrous for anyone to claim this isn't a deliberate clone. Whether that's morally or legally wrong is a whole other question, but it's definitely a clone.
Apple always had USB _and_ Firewire. Firewire is the industry standard for non-PCI studio audio interfaces (pretty much all of the semi-pro and portable market) and until very recently also for digital video cameras. Firewire is pretty niche, but it's not been a failure, it's been a high-performance esoteric option, and I have no doubt Thunderbolt will be the same.
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Presumably you're on a small screen? Fullscreen is silly if you've got a big monitor.
You do know that iPads have wi-fi, right, so will connect to the same networks that your netbook would connect to? So you're only 'saving' $250 comparing like for like, and that $250 buys you better battery life and a far more robust piece of kit.
Any serious photographer who's doing work for magazines and newspapers will need/want a quad core with 8Gb of RAM. Seriously, if you've spent more than 5 minutes cleaning and processing RAWs for a professional shoot you'll want the fastest machine with the most memory you can get your hands on.
To counter anecdote with anecdote, I have a 15" MacBook Pro and my wife has an 11" MacBook Air. 80% of the time, when I'm at home and want to surf, use Facebook, do email, Skype or watch streaming media, I'll grab my iPad. The MacBook comes out when I want to edit video or use Photoshop. I almost never want to access Flash enabled websites. Why don't you sell your iPad?
Yep, same here. Whatever criticisms people might have of the iOS platform, syncing works great. My wife and I publish our calendars and address books to each other and that all stays in sync over 2 phones, 2 MacBooks and an iPad. I find it highly amusing how many of my friends don't sync their devices at all, or when they do it's an couple of hours with the phone plugged into a laptop via USB.
Look at the Wikipedia link, and at the many other GUI histories available on the web. The first image with a pull-down menu is captioned "Macintosh Desktop (1984)". All of the earlier images (and text referencing them) that show something that looks like a menu is in fact a modal button (either clickable or a reference to a function key) that changed the mode of the screen. Apple invented pull-down menus that allowed preferences to be set and choices made in a modeless manner, i.e. the application window below remained unchanged. Apple have ripped-off plenty of design features, as has every company involved in GUI design, but they did indeed invent the pull-down menu and they should get credit for it.
That wouldn't be the case, because the sidebar clock is the same physical size on both monitors. Unless Windows 7 is doing some funky resolution-independent stuff for the sidebar that I'm not aware of, both monitors must be the same resolution. The left-hand one looks like someone has smeared butter over the screen, maybe that's how Dell punishes customers for buying their cheaper option.
End users generally don't write their own software, by definition. So far, Apple provides all of their development tools for free.
Surely the metal tip of a ballpoint pen (gas propelled or otherwise) is also conductive? But point taken about the limitations of using pencils, although I would think that having a stock of short pencils with soft leads that wouldn't shatter could solve those problems quite easily.
It's the same, but the activation is done via wi-fi or the cellular data network. Apple knows the IMEIs it has sold to each network, and will only allow the iPhone to activate on the allowed network. In the UK, the good networks will allow centralised unlocking of iPhones for a small fee once a proportion of the contract has passed, then when you restore the iPhone it will say something like "congratulations your iPhone has been unlocked" because the Apple database was updated by the network.
If you can bring out the bass by playing with an equaliser, then it is there. You can't make a track that's lacking in bass sound bassier with an EQ, unless you're emphasising harmonics higher up the spectrum or the EQ isn't just an EQ and has a subharmonic synth. If there is a mismatch in EQ between the recording/transcoding and the amp, speakers and room then you can make the bass louder by bringing up the lower frequencies or de-emphasising higher frequencies that were masking the bass.
I think they were partially compatible. Plenty of application software that was written "correctly" was compatible across OS versions, but many games were not because they directly accessed hardware and used OS routines from the ROMs which they expected to be memory-mapped in certain locations. There was a big aftermarket for putting older OS ROMs into newer machines with external switches in order to run legacy games.
This is pretty normal though, isn't it? Ask a room full of nerds who invented the programmable computer, or who invented the electric light bulb. There's a lot of disagreement as to what counts as invention - first diagram, first proof of concept, first patent, first marketable product, first successful product. People like Apple because they bring polished products to market that do things that normal people want their devices to do, without getting in the way, and for that they get credit for many ideas.
Yes, doing it well with a handheld device is novel. Thousands of scientific paper abstracts start with the phrase "A novel application of...". A device in your hand that understands a subset of naturally spoken English and provides a comprehensive range of useful responses is revolutionary. It saddens me that so many self-professed geeks would rather gripe about the semantics of who was first rather than celebrate an excellent piece of AI technology.
How much marketing was there for the iPhone 4S? At least in the UK, so far, I haven't seen a single TV or billboard advert, and haven't heard a radio advert. I'm not saying they're not there, but they're hardly pervasive (unlike the last Samsung product). It's been more or less a press release, email for those signed up to Apple email marketing, and word of mouth based on features that speak for themselves. I would say the iPhone 4S has pretty much sold itself.
Really? Then you probably haven't used it in any practical way. Yesterday I asked "what's the circumference of a circle of diameter 3cm?". Try it. Now think about the practical applications, particularly when it moves out of Beta and it supports a decent hands-free way of addressing (cue Scottie "Computerrrr..."). I already use Google and Wolfram Alpha for practically any query when I'm at a computer, having an effective interface to do the same thing when I'm doing a practical task is amazing. I realise Apple didn't invent it, but as usual they've made it practical and widely available.
I don't think Xerox invented the mouse or the GUI. Try Douglas Engelbart.
The copyright holders can release a GPL'ed product also under a distribution license that imposes further restrictions. The copyright holders can do as they please with their work. If they feel that it is commercially viable to release a GPL'ed version with source code and a paid-for version on the app store for people who are willing to pay for the convenience, that's entirely their choice as the copyright holder.
It's not semantics, because people use the theft/stealing misnomer as a way to scare people into obeying copyright law to the letter, whilst the law is extended and extended to the benefit of large corporations and the detriment of society. Copyright should be a limited exclusivity in order for an author/artist/programmer/etc. to benefit from their work for a limited time in order that they can earn a living and continue to practice their art.
In follow-up to your previous post, infringement of the limited right to exclusivity does not cause that exclusivity to me permanently lost, anymore than when someone insults me I don't permanently lose my right to not be verbally abused. The whole point of copyright is that the work is widely available but limited in distribution. If someone infringes, the infringement can be made good, usually by making a payment. This is why the RIAA assault on ordinary people for minor copyright infringement is morally wrong: they ruin people's lives by manipulating the legal system and imposing fines many orders of magnitude greater than that needed to redress the infringement and deter future infringement.
It's not stealing, stealing is when you permanently deprive someone of their property. It's like - if I baked a perfect cake, and I was just about to eat it, then you came and copied the recipe and baked an identical cake, would that be stealing? No. If I had a cookbook, and you came and actually took my cookbook away, that would be stealing. Even if I had another copy of the cookbook, it would still be stealing because you deprived me of my property. I'm not saying copyright violation isn't wrong, I'm just saying it isn't stealing, for the same reason that it isn't rape, assault, slander or arson.
Xerox didn't agree, sued and lost. Your point? The X Window System is not, and never was, a "Desktop Style OS".
The point here is that Samsung is deliberately trying to clone the iPad, even down to the shape of the dock connector and the styling of the charger. I'm not sure about the validity of some of Apple's patents, but I think it's ridiculous for people to imply that Apple shouldn't be trying. I would think any decent company, in their position, would try to take action against a company of Samsung's size and influence blatently bringing out clone products.
They even copied the look of the power adaptor. It's ludicrous for anyone to claim this isn't a deliberate clone. Whether that's morally or legally wrong is a whole other question, but it's definitely a clone.
Apple always had USB _and_ Firewire. Firewire is the industry standard for non-PCI studio audio interfaces (pretty much all of the semi-pro and portable market) and until very recently also for digital video cameras. Firewire is pretty niche, but it's not been a failure, it's been a high-performance esoteric option, and I have no doubt Thunderbolt will be the same.
All apple laptop batteries can be changed.
Based on that, scientific people cannot know that their wife/husband loves them, since it is not demonstrably true.