Why would you have two plans? He's talking about using the iPad's bluetooth tether setup to use your existing phone's data plan for wireless browsing. Now you have internets in your lap and cancer in your pocket, all on the one plan, yay!
And I think this is the main point that a lot of people, including me, are missing about this. It's not meant to be a netbook. It's not meant to be an ebook reader. It's meant to be a big iPod Touch, and that's IT. I see this and I think "how cruddy, it's too big to pocket and it doesn't have a keyboard." Mr Silver sees it and thinks "how cruddy, it has no flash, no adblock and is a closed software platform." But the market they're aiming for are people who saw an iPod Touch and thought "wow that's awesome, I wish it were bigger so I could read news pages more easily." And that's who this device is for.
No, this is NEW because it's got 'i' in front of it and because Jobs just listed all its shortcomings as wonderful features. Hopefully not too many people will be suckered into buying one before the world realises that flipscreen tablet netbooks are far, far more practical and useful.
How about 4) The Internet, where an appropriate medium is chosen for each web page.
So for your game aggregation sites, you have embedded flash. For educational or lightweight application use you have HTML/DOM/JavaScript with maybe embedded Java or Silverlight, and for the rest of the web you have HTML/CSS. I like this option.
In its DOE supercomputer research proposal IBM said that the "exciting proof-of-principle work still presents very big scientific challenges before one can be confident that practical propulsion batteries can be based on the Li/Air system. The most important ones are to realize a high percentage of the theoretical energy density, to improve electrical efficiency of recharging, to increase the number of times the battery can be cycled, to limit the negative effects of moisture in the air, and to improve the power density.
So yes, water vapour in the air is still a problem, they're not realising a high percentage of the theoretical energy density, the cycle life is poor, and the power density is poor. And all of these problems present "very big scientific challenges". Sounds a LONG way off to me.
NiMH batteries are terrible compared to LiPoly or nanophosphate lithium batteries. The only reason we're still stuck with them is manufacturers trying to gouge back the R&D costs that they sunk before lithium batteries appeared and sunk their NiMH market.
Metal-air battery chemistries have been used before in EVs - specifically zinc-air batteries - but they are generally primary cells and need to be mechanically recharged. TFA mentions charging so possibly the lithium-air cells are proper secondary cells. Also, the specific power of air-based batteries is historically very low, and I note that the only mention of power in TFA is where they say:
The most important [scientific challenges] are to realize a high percentage of the theoretical energy density, to improve electrical efficiency of recharging, to increase the number of times the battery can be cycled, to limit the negative effects of moisture in the air, and to improve the power density.
Of course you could always do a hybrid battery pack using Li-Air for bulk storage and nanophosphate lithium or even ultracaps for load levelling.
If we're talking about cost decisions, what the hell is this thing's advantage over an iPod touch? A bigger screen so that older, more presbyopic people who don't like moving pictures can use it? Touchscreen is a good replacement for mouse/keyboard in a pocket-sized form factor but if you're looking at something bigger than a netbook, why not just use a friggin' netbook? Get one with a touch screen that folds into a tablet if you want, but when you need to type something, you'll have a keyboard right there.
It astonishes me, although I guess it shouldn't given Sturgeon's Law, that people will watch Jobs giving a laundry list of ways in which this device is stupid and defective and then praise it as innovation. "Doesn't have X" and "can't do X" are NOT FEATURES. *GAH*
I'm not sure I understand what you're referring to . ..enhance.
Cordelia: Look! Right there, zoom in on that.
Xander: It's a videotape.
Cordelia: So? They do it on television all the time.
Xander: Not with a regular VCR they don't.
[...]
Oz: What's that? Pause it.
Xander: Guys! It's just a normal VCR. It doesn't... Oh wait, uh, it can do pause.
The GGGP or whatever never said anything about how many people used it. He just said "compiz came before Aero". Which, iirc, is true. If you want anecdotes, the first I saw of compositing window managers was some university project that used a spring-mesh simulation to make windows wobble when you dragged them around on the screen. This was back in 2003 or so.
In this formulation it's no more mysterious or "instant" communication than if you each chose one of two closed bags, one containing a red marble and the other containing black. When you open your bag, you "instantly" know what color marble the other person has. But that information was not transferred from them to you, it was something you already knew and just had to correlate with your actual marble color. No communication between you is possible via these marble bags.
This is exactly how I've always seen it. I never understood why quantum researchers just discarded out-of-hand the idea of additional 'hidden variables' (like the colour of the marble inside the bag). Sure, they don't like to add hidden variables to explain things unless there's no other option, but it feels to me like they're mistaking their own preference about a model of reality for actual reality itself. I don't see why it's so hard to believe that entangling a particular pair of entangled particles could cause them to collapse deterministically to the same colour.
Wait - you say that like pissing off (or on) the US and the MPAA is a "BAD THING". I don't see it, myself.
You don't? Because I do. Chances are a large percentage of your technology and your modern culture come from the U.S. No matter how trendy it is to hate them for being large, somewhat insular and comfortably well-off, you can't deny that the U.S. contributes a lot to the rest of the world. And no, I'm not from the states - I just hate the hypocrisy of people who eagerly download movies made with MPAA money while badmouthing all that is American in some vain attempt to appear 'cultured'.
Yeah, I oops'd.:P Of course, armoury doesn't (yet!) list all of my alts...;)
And, despite my brief waver of resolve (for a moment there the terrorists really DID win) I concur with Yamata there. I don't think I'd want to work for someone who based my work performance review on anything but my performance at work. Not that, in fact, I think my boss is that sort of guy, I was being more general than specific.
Actually, I find that the pace of the scaling eventually starts to be a turn-off. It's true that you get rapidly more powerful in the game and you're going "wow, this is amazing, I'm such a winner, I'm so good" and it feels great. But then you realise that it's a sliding scale and the numbers are getting bigger but everything else gets the same. It's as if you got a job and spent your first pay packet on an [Old Television]. Then you get a pay rise and spend your next packet on a [New Television]. But after that you realise that you're still spending 50% of your pay packet on a new television that's the same as the old one but with slightly better stats and a different name, and it still has the same old shows on it. It does get boring.
unless your job consist of carrying heavy objects all day long or something really physical then YES its the frigging same thing sitting at one desk or another for christ sake people need to get a grip on reality
Including you. The reality is that I could be off for three days feeling like death, and on the fourth day still feel shonky enough to think I might be contagious, but not enough to be fully bedridden. I have a choice of either going to work, coughing on three people, and costing my company nine days of lost productivity, or staying home and playing WoW and costing my company one day of productivity. I think I know which my manager'd prefer.
I had the application-folder lag after my first install-every-crap-app-I-could-find spree, it's because it takes a while to load the icons for user-installed applications. Make a folder called 'crap' and move all your blinky lights, sparkler simulator, lighter simulator, and all the other crud into it.
There's no multi-touch, it struggles a bit with youtube videos and the overall experience isn't quite as polished as with the iPhone. I've had it hang a couple of times, too, and the web browser crashes on some large pages. It's not perfect, but it has no real competition in the $29/mo price bracket. Places it wins out over the iPhone are the higher-res 16x9 screen, openness of the platform, and the form factor which is more phone-like and so more comfortable to make calls with.
Is it really cheaper to sue for peace? I mean, can't the legal teams for both companies see this down the road and come to some sort of mutual agreement in advance? It'd sure save a lot of time and money, not to mentioning freeing the courts a bit. Why is it acceptable policy to sue instead of discussing?
Yeah, you know what this is REALLY about? The fact that Nokia has just released a few iPhone-class devices that dramatically undercut the inflated prices Apple is asking while providing 99% of the value. Take the 5800 XM for instance, I recently got one and it does about 80% of things just as well as an iphone and the rest it does better. And it's $29/mo where I live compared to $89/mo for an iphone. They're trying to scare competitors out of their marketplace, nothing more nothing less.
I did read the article. A pattern like that can be generated by, for example, the repetitive flailing motion of someone with a serious developmental syndrome. It by no mean indicates any intelligence, let alone artistic merit. It's interesting that as a byproduct of his technique, Pollock's paintings contain fractal patterns, but it makes his art neither more relevant nor more meaningful.
The article is a terrible piece of pop sci journalism. For instance, "Taylor could make the Pollockizer's motions chaotic or regular, thereby creating both fractal and nonfractal patterns." - fractal and chaotic are two very different, albeit related, things. And "He wasn't merely imitating nature, he was adopting its mechanism: chaos dynamics." is just plain wrong. Chaos theory is a good way to describe some aspects of nature but it's not a mechanism in any sense of the word.
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Why would you have two plans? He's talking about using the iPad's bluetooth tether setup to use your existing phone's data plan for wireless browsing. Now you have internets in your lap and cancer in your pocket, all on the one plan, yay!
And I think this is the main point that a lot of people, including me, are missing about this. It's not meant to be a netbook. It's not meant to be an ebook reader. It's meant to be a big iPod Touch, and that's IT. I see this and I think "how cruddy, it's too big to pocket and it doesn't have a keyboard." Mr Silver sees it and thinks "how cruddy, it has no flash, no adblock and is a closed software platform." But the market they're aiming for are people who saw an iPod Touch and thought "wow that's awesome, I wish it were bigger so I could read news pages more easily." And that's who this device is for.
No, this is NEW because it's got 'i' in front of it and because Jobs just listed all its shortcomings as wonderful features. Hopefully not too many people will be suckered into buying one before the world realises that flipscreen tablet netbooks are far, far more practical and useful.
So let me get this straight: No one is complaining about this, except for the people who are?
Not only that, but the only sales lost because of the lack of flash are the ones that didn't buy the product!
Well, that and ubiquitous network and internet access.
How about 4) The Internet, where an appropriate medium is chosen for each web page.
So for your game aggregation sites, you have embedded flash. For educational or lightweight application use you have HTML/DOM/JavaScript with maybe embedded Java or Silverlight, and for the rest of the web you have HTML/CSS. I like this option.
In its DOE supercomputer research proposal IBM said that the "exciting proof-of-principle work still presents very big scientific challenges before one can be confident that practical propulsion batteries can be based on the Li/Air system. The most important ones are to realize a high percentage of the theoretical energy density, to improve electrical efficiency of recharging, to increase the number of times the battery can be cycled, to limit the negative effects of moisture in the air, and to improve the power density.
So yes, water vapour in the air is still a problem, they're not realising a high percentage of the theoretical energy density, the cycle life is poor, and the power density is poor. And all of these problems present "very big scientific challenges". Sounds a LONG way off to me.
Metal-air battery chemistries have been used before in EVs - specifically zinc-air batteries - but they are generally primary cells and need to be mechanically recharged. TFA mentions charging so possibly the lithium-air cells are proper secondary cells. Also, the specific power of air-based batteries is historically very low, and I note that the only mention of power in TFA is where they say:
The most important [scientific challenges] are to realize a high percentage of the theoretical energy density, to improve electrical efficiency of recharging, to increase the number of times the battery can be cycled, to limit the negative effects of moisture in the air, and to improve the power density.
Of course you could always do a hybrid battery pack using Li-Air for bulk storage and nanophosphate lithium or even ultracaps for load levelling.
If we're talking about cost decisions, what the hell is this thing's advantage over an iPod touch? A bigger screen so that older, more presbyopic people who don't like moving pictures can use it? Touchscreen is a good replacement for mouse/keyboard in a pocket-sized form factor but if you're looking at something bigger than a netbook, why not just use a friggin' netbook? Get one with a touch screen that folds into a tablet if you want, but when you need to type something, you'll have a keyboard right there.
It astonishes me, although I guess it shouldn't given Sturgeon's Law, that people will watch Jobs giving a laundry list of ways in which this device is stupid and defective and then praise it as innovation. "Doesn't have X" and "can't do X" are NOT FEATURES. *GAH*
I'm not sure I understand what you're referring to . . .enhance.
Cordelia: Look! Right there, zoom in on that.
Xander: It's a videotape.
Cordelia: So? They do it on television all the time.
Xander: Not with a regular VCR they don't.
[...]
Oz: What's that? Pause it.
Xander: Guys! It's just a normal VCR. It doesn't... Oh wait, uh, it can do pause.
The scary part is my mom ate it all up and loved the show.
The really scary part is that she's no different from 90% of people.
The GGGP or whatever never said anything about how many people used it. He just said "compiz came before Aero". Which, iirc, is true. If you want anecdotes, the first I saw of compositing window managers was some university project that used a spring-mesh simulation to make windows wobble when you dragged them around on the screen. This was back in 2003 or so.
In this formulation it's no more mysterious or "instant" communication than if you each chose one of two closed bags, one containing a red marble and the other containing black. When you open your bag, you "instantly" know what color marble the other person has. But that information was not transferred from them to you, it was something you already knew and just had to correlate with your actual marble color. No communication between you is possible via these marble bags.
This is exactly how I've always seen it. I never understood why quantum researchers just discarded out-of-hand the idea of additional 'hidden variables' (like the colour of the marble inside the bag). Sure, they don't like to add hidden variables to explain things unless there's no other option, but it feels to me like they're mistaking their own preference about a model of reality for actual reality itself. I don't see why it's so hard to believe that entangling a particular pair of entangled particles could cause them to collapse deterministically to the same colour.
Wait - you say that like pissing off (or on) the US and the MPAA is a "BAD THING". I don't see it, myself.
You don't? Because I do. Chances are a large percentage of your technology and your modern culture come from the U.S. No matter how trendy it is to hate them for being large, somewhat insular and comfortably well-off, you can't deny that the U.S. contributes a lot to the rest of the world. And no, I'm not from the states - I just hate the hypocrisy of people who eagerly download movies made with MPAA money while badmouthing all that is American in some vain attempt to appear 'cultured'.
I thought it was just an example of the Yellow Peril running from the even more terrifying Fuzzy Blue Peril.
Yeah, I oops'd. :P Of course, armoury doesn't (yet!) list all of my alts... ;)
And, despite my brief waver of resolve (for a moment there the terrorists really DID win) I concur with Yamata there. I don't think I'd want to work for someone who based my work performance review on anything but my performance at work. Not that, in fact, I think my boss is that sort of guy, I was being more general than specific.
[Staff of Get Things Done] and a [Helm of Good Life Choices], yeah. And maybe a [Scroll of Banish Unrealistic Expectations].
Actually, I find that the pace of the scaling eventually starts to be a turn-off. It's true that you get rapidly more powerful in the game and you're going "wow, this is amazing, I'm such a winner, I'm so good" and it feels great. But then you realise that it's a sliding scale and the numbers are getting bigger but everything else gets the same. It's as if you got a job and spent your first pay packet on an [Old Television]. Then you get a pay rise and spend your next packet on a [New Television]. But after that you realise that you're still spending 50% of your pay packet on a new television that's the same as the old one but with slightly better stats and a different name, and it still has the same old shows on it. It does get boring.
Because all gamers and all video games are the same.
unless your job consist of carrying heavy objects all day long or something really physical then YES its the frigging same thing sitting at one desk or another
for christ sake people need to get a grip on reality
Including you. The reality is that I could be off for three days feeling like death, and on the fourth day still feel shonky enough to think I might be contagious, but not enough to be fully bedridden. I have a choice of either going to work, coughing on three people, and costing my company nine days of lost productivity, or staying home and playing WoW and costing my company one day of productivity. I think I know which my manager'd prefer.
10 min after her bedtime, she is sleeping, every night. She is 20 month old.
You should have trained her to farm you gold by now.
I had the application-folder lag after my first install-every-crap-app-I-could-find spree, it's because it takes a while to load the icons for user-installed applications. Make a folder called 'crap' and move all your blinky lights, sparkler simulator, lighter simulator, and all the other crud into it.
There's no multi-touch, it struggles a bit with youtube videos and the overall experience isn't quite as polished as with the iPhone. I've had it hang a couple of times, too, and the web browser crashes on some large pages. It's not perfect, but it has no real competition in the $29/mo price bracket. Places it wins out over the iPhone are the higher-res 16x9 screen, openness of the platform, and the form factor which is more phone-like and so more comfortable to make calls with.
Is it really cheaper to sue for peace? I mean, can't the legal teams for both companies see this down the road and come to some sort of mutual agreement in advance? It'd sure save a lot of time and money, not to mentioning freeing the courts a bit. Why is it acceptable policy to sue instead of discussing?
Yeah, you know what this is REALLY about? The fact that Nokia has just released a few iPhone-class devices that dramatically undercut the inflated prices Apple is asking while providing 99% of the value. Take the 5800 XM for instance, I recently got one and it does about 80% of things just as well as an iphone and the rest it does better. And it's $29/mo where I live compared to $89/mo for an iphone. They're trying to scare competitors out of their marketplace, nothing more nothing less.
I did read the article. A pattern like that can be generated by, for example, the repetitive flailing motion of someone with a serious developmental syndrome. It by no mean indicates any intelligence, let alone artistic merit. It's interesting that as a byproduct of his technique, Pollock's paintings contain fractal patterns, but it makes his art neither more relevant nor more meaningful.
The article is a terrible piece of pop sci journalism. For instance, "Taylor could make the Pollockizer's motions chaotic or regular, thereby creating both fractal and nonfractal patterns." - fractal and chaotic are two very different, albeit related, things. And "He wasn't merely imitating nature, he was adopting its mechanism: chaos dynamics." is just plain wrong. Chaos theory is a good way to describe some aspects of nature but it's not a mechanism in any sense of the word.