I've had good luck with Jaadu VNC (now called iTeleport). Some of the other iPhone clients haven't been revised to work with the full display size, but iTeleport does, as of a few days ago.
I think that's the problem. I understand the cool factor, but even a netbook is so much more functional than an iPad that I can't really see the justification of going with an iPad over a netbook, unless you're someone who absolutely, positively despises keyboards and knows you'll only use it for web browsing, iPhone-type games, and e-books.
There are a few use cases that aren't immediately obvious for a large handheld device with a very high-grade touchscreen. For instance, it makes an unbelievably nice VNC client.
Why on earth would you want to use an iPad to browse the internet if you have a laptop? Tiny screen, no Flash support, no keyboard... when did it become hip to use crippled devices?
If so, can you comment on why Google makes it so amazingly difficult to flag Usenet messages as spam? Why don't you include a "Report spam" button next to every post?
We need to restore them to their proper place and purpose, which is to protect individuals from corporations, not the other way around.
Sigh. No, their proper place and purpose is not to "protect individuals from corporations." It's
To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.
All you have to ask about a given patent application is, "Is this going to promote the progress of anything but some lawyer's vacation-home equity?" If an engineer who's confronted with the same problem is likely to arrive at a similar solution, then the answer is "No," and the patent should not be granted.
If we could just make the USPTO understand that whatever solution is immediately grasped by the first person to confront a problem is not always worth a government-granted monopoly, we'd go a long way toward reforming the system. It has nothing to do with whatever anti-corporatist agenda you're pushing. The patent system is ridiculously broken, and I'm not sure it's possible to make it work equitably for all stakeholders from inventors to end users. But if it is, then that should be the goal.
1. There are a handful of phones on the market that are arguably better than the iPhone.
No, there aren't. No matter how much you want to believe there are.
You don't seem to understand that lists of features with bullet points next to them do not make one device "better" than another, and are consequently not responsible for sales volume.
Apple desperately needs competition, and the reason they don't have any is because too many people think like you do.
Nope. Apple trying to turn back the clock to the 80s is not right for most people in the end.
It would be nice if they were only turning it back to the 1980s. MS-DOS was an open, documented OS that anyone could write and publish applications for.
Apple is going back to the pre-Microsoft days of the 1960s and 1970s, when your System 360 mainframe could run any software you wanted as long as you licensed it from IBM.
Who will play Ross Perot to Jobs's Thomas J. Watson?
Apple can't obtain or act on search warrants. Apple can't charge or prosecute anyone for a crime. The lack of even the most basic knowledge of how our system of justice works is just appalling. Do they put you kids through a civics course in school anymore?
It must be nice to be that naive.
"Mr. Jobs draws a lot of water in this town, Doe. You don't draw shit. We got a nice quiet $50+ billion dollar company here, and I aim to keep it nice and quiet. So let me make something plain. I don't like you sucking around trying to sell our stolen prototypes, Doe. I don't like your jerk-off name, I don't like your jerk-off face, I don't like your jerk- off behavior, and I don't like you, jerk-off --do I make myself clear?"
But no, you're right, I'm sure the cops around there don't say "Heil" when Apple says "Sieg," or anything.
What I don't like is the stupid people who believe in that stuff. 'cause the way I see it, if it wasn't god, religion, or church that is sinking their claws into the gullable, it would be something else.
(Patiently, as if to a child) You're right, in the absence of religion, people would come up with other reasons for doing irrational, destructive, and hurtful things to other people.
But you know what?
If they were motivated by anything besides religion, we could call them on it.
Religion is nothing in the world but a free pass for committing atrocities. It's time that pass was revoked.
Why... very Ultimish I would say... what happened to the eight virtues, making ethical decisions in order to become an Avatar (U4), resolving conflicts thorugh the use of peace and diplomacy (U6), etc...?
Electronic Arts has altered the franchise. Pray they do not alter it further.
Well, I cheated and used Wikipedia to look up HEPES, so that's probably a deal-breaker anyway. That one wasn't mentioned in The Andromeda Strain, and I couldn't infer anything from the acronym...
Looks like they're describing their study of the molecular structure of something called fascin. It was crystallized for X-ray study in a zwitterionic buffering agent, the details of which are not important to anyone not trying to reproduce this particular measurement. They hammered the crystal with very high energy X-rays emitted by relativistic electrons from a synchrotron in Brookhaven, New York (IIRC). Information about the molecular struture was then obtained through software-based analysis that cross-referenced the diffraction measurements against a standard library of protein molecule geometries, which suggests that fascin is also a protein of some sort.
A full tank of gas would be nice, but not required.
Exactly how hard would it be to take the thing in a dimly lit bar from a guy who is playing with it(who wouldn't?) while drinking a few too many beers?
INT: THE INN OF THE PRANCING PONY, REDWOOD CITY, NIGHT. A growth-stunted hipster with hairy toes and a faded Apple T-shirt waves an iPhone 4G prototype around drunkenly, revealing it to anyone who cares to look. A mysterious stranger in a dark corner of the room pays very close attention. Elsewhere, the Dark Riders of Steve lash their mounts, wheeling and converging with horrifying speed...
"You have found a cursed iPhone -3G, forged in the fires of the Far East by the black-clad lich Evetsboj. It says here that the owner of the artifact will be drained of 100 gold each month it is possessed. All books containing spells of violence or tales of ribaldry will be erased immediately upon taking possession of the artifact. The iPhone -3G cannot be dropped, sold, given away, or otherwise unequipped unless the possessor pays a 300 GP early termination fee. Attempts to use the iPhone -3G as a normal phone will fail on a d20 roll of 12 or less in wilderness areas, or 15 in towns and cities. After each usage attempt, successful or otherwise, a 6 hour recharging period must elapse. Hmm, yeah, wow, sucks to be you."
You don't have a clue how the internet industry actually works, and you blindly scream "GUB'MINT IS BAD!" over and over, believing that being screwed by corporations is far better than allowing a DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED government help you.
And what happens what that DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED government pulls something like this? Personally I'd rather have an uncensored 56K connection that a 100Mb pipe that terminates at Disney World.
Gotta love New Statism. It seems that every generation has to learn the hard way that government only does things right at first.
Really really really wish I could find some middle-ground...there are tons of excerpts on hundreds of websites for specific electronic applications, but even 'beginner kits' such as those from Adafruit and the like do not give detailed WHY's...but only how to solder the thing and perhaps make it do something nifty...
Also, it appears that the figures in the link you posted are merely talking about the number of users who have access to a given carrier or manufacturer's mobile app store. Unless I'm missing something (which is possible) that survey does not address the number of users who actually use their phone's app store.
The latter quantity is what determines monopoly power in the market sector, and as far as I'm aware, the only question is how many nines there are past the decimal point in Apple's market share percentage.
(Shrug) I don't have the real figures, and can't be troubled to research them. The original poster is the one making an extraordinary claim (that Apple doesn't enjoy what amounts to a monopoly on aftermarket smartphone apps.)
I'm saying the appstore is about 25% of the market based on usage. According to this anyway [techcrunchies.com] or I could say the Iphone is 25% of the smartphone market based on this [arstechnica.com]
Sorry, man, but those numbers are batshit insane. There's no way on earth the Apple outlet distributes only 25% of end-user apps for mobile phones.
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I've had good luck with Jaadu VNC (now called iTeleport). Some of the other iPhone clients haven't been revised to work with the full display size, but iTeleport does, as of a few days ago.
I think that's the problem. I understand the cool factor, but even a netbook is so much more functional than an iPad that I can't really see the justification of going with an iPad over a netbook, unless you're someone who absolutely, positively despises keyboards and knows you'll only use it for web browsing, iPhone-type games, and e-books.
There are a few use cases that aren't immediately obvious for a large handheld device with a very high-grade touchscreen. For instance, it makes an unbelievably nice VNC client.
Why on earth would you want to use an iPad to browse the internet if you have a laptop? Tiny screen, no Flash support, no keyboard... when did it become hip to use crippled devices?
Try it.
If you have any commercial software in your office, you may rest assured that the same terms appear in license agreements you're already bound to.
The time to complain about this was about 30 years ago.
PS. I live in Australia.
Then you have very little moral authority on the matter of freedom of speech, or many other freedoms for that matter.
If so, can you comment on why Google makes it so amazingly difficult to flag Usenet messages as spam? Why don't you include a "Report spam" button next to every post?
True. I think a lot of people looking forward to the Bilski decision are going to be disappointed for just that reason.
We need to restore them to their proper place and purpose, which is to protect individuals from corporations, not the other way around.
Sigh. No, their proper place and purpose is not to "protect individuals from corporations." It's
All you have to ask about a given patent application is, "Is this going to promote the progress of anything but some lawyer's vacation-home equity?" If an engineer who's confronted with the same problem is likely to arrive at a similar solution, then the answer is "No," and the patent should not be granted.
If we could just make the USPTO understand that whatever solution is immediately grasped by the first person to confront a problem is not always worth a government-granted monopoly, we'd go a long way toward reforming the system. It has nothing to do with whatever anti-corporatist agenda you're pushing. The patent system is ridiculously broken, and I'm not sure it's possible to make it work equitably for all stakeholders from inventors to end users. But if it is, then that should be the goal.
1. There are a handful of phones on the market that are arguably better than the iPhone.
No, there aren't. No matter how much you want to believe there are.
You don't seem to understand that lists of features with bullet points next to them do not make one device "better" than another, and are consequently not responsible for sales volume.
Apple desperately needs competition, and the reason they don't have any is because too many people think like you do.
Nope. Apple trying to turn back the clock to the 80s is not right for most people in the end.
It would be nice if they were only turning it back to the 1980s. MS-DOS was an open, documented OS that anyone could write and publish applications for.
Apple is going back to the pre-Microsoft days of the 1960s and 1970s, when your System 360 mainframe could run any software you wanted as long as you licensed it from IBM.
Who will play Ross Perot to Jobs's Thomas J. Watson?
Apple can't obtain or act on search warrants. Apple can't charge or prosecute anyone for a crime. The lack of even the most basic knowledge of how our system of justice works is just appalling. Do they put you kids through a civics course in school anymore?
It must be nice to be that naive.
"Mr. Jobs draws a lot of water in this town, Doe. You don't draw shit. We got a nice quiet $50+ billion dollar company here, and I aim to keep it nice and quiet. So let me make something plain. I don't like you sucking around trying to sell our stolen prototypes, Doe. I don't like your jerk-off name, I don't like your jerk-off face, I don't like your jerk- off behavior, and I don't like you, jerk-off --do I make myself clear?"
But no, you're right, I'm sure the cops around there don't say "Heil" when Apple says "Sieg," or anything.
I'm an atheist too, and I want to say for the record that the Catholic Church is not my enemy.
That is the Catholic Church's call to make, not yours.
You may not be their enemy, but rest assured that they are most certainly yours.
What I don't like is the stupid people who believe in that stuff. 'cause the way I see it, if it wasn't god, religion, or church that is sinking their claws into the gullable, it would be something else.
(Patiently, as if to a child) You're right, in the absence of religion, people would come up with other reasons for doing irrational, destructive, and hurtful things to other people.
But you know what?
If they were motivated by anything besides religion, we could call them on it.
Religion is nothing in the world but a free pass for committing atrocities. It's time that pass was revoked.
All it will do is make a few Atheists happy.
There's an old aphorism from Sun Tzu Wu: "When you see your enemy making serious mistakes, do not interfere!"
As an atheist I couldn't possibly be happier with the Catholic Church and the deranged B-movie villain they elected Pope.
Being Stephen Hawking is a fate worse than death? Because that's what you just described, pretty much.
Not your call, bro'.
Why... very Ultimish I would say... what happened to the eight virtues, making ethical decisions in order to become an Avatar (U4), resolving conflicts thorugh the use of peace and diplomacy (U6), etc...?
Electronic Arts has altered the franchise. Pray they do not alter it further.
Well, I cheated and used Wikipedia to look up HEPES, so that's probably a deal-breaker anyway. That one wasn't mentioned in The Andromeda Strain, and I couldn't infer anything from the acronym...
Looks like they're describing their study of the molecular structure of something called fascin. It was crystallized for X-ray study in a zwitterionic buffering agent, the details of which are not important to anyone not trying to reproduce this particular measurement. They hammered the crystal with very high energy X-rays emitted by relativistic electrons from a synchrotron in Brookhaven, New York (IIRC). Information about the molecular struture was then obtained through software-based analysis that cross-referenced the diffraction measurements against a standard library of protein molecule geometries, which suggests that fascin is also a protein of some sort.
A full tank of gas would be nice, but not required.
Exactly how hard would it be to take the thing in a dimly lit bar from a guy who is playing with it(who wouldn't?) while drinking a few too many beers?
INT: THE INN OF THE PRANCING PONY, REDWOOD CITY, NIGHT. A growth-stunted hipster with hairy toes and a faded Apple T-shirt waves an iPhone 4G prototype around drunkenly, revealing it to anyone who cares to look. A mysterious stranger in a dark corner of the room pays very close attention. Elsewhere, the Dark Riders of Steve lash their mounts, wheeling and converging with horrifying speed...
(DM checks Dungeon Master's Guide, rolls dice, snickers ominously)
"You have found a cursed iPhone -3G, forged in the fires of the Far East by the black-clad lich Evetsboj. It says here that the owner of the artifact will be drained of 100 gold each month it is possessed. All books containing spells of violence or tales of ribaldry will be erased immediately upon taking possession of the artifact. The iPhone -3G cannot be dropped, sold, given away, or otherwise unequipped unless the possessor pays a 300 GP early termination fee. Attempts to use the iPhone -3G as a normal phone will fail on a d20 roll of 12 or less in wilderness areas, or 15 in towns and cities. After each usage attempt, successful or otherwise, a 6 hour recharging period must elapse. Hmm, yeah, wow, sucks to be you."
You don't have a clue how the internet industry actually works, and you blindly scream "GUB'MINT IS BAD!" over and over, believing that being screwed by corporations is far better than allowing a DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED government help you.
And what happens what that DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED government pulls something like this? Personally I'd rather have an uncensored 56K connection that a 100Mb pipe that terminates at Disney World.
Gotta love New Statism. It seems that every generation has to learn the hard way that government only does things right at first.
Really really really wish I could find some middle-ground...there are tons of excerpts on hundreds of websites for specific electronic applications, but even 'beginner kits' such as those from Adafruit and the like do not give detailed WHY's...but only how to solder the thing and perhaps make it do something nifty...
The columns that have been running for the past couple of years by H. Ward Silver, N0AX in QST might fit that bill. See http://www.arrl.org/hands-on-radio and http://www.arrl.org/shop/ARRL-s-Hands-On-Radio-Experiments/.
Also, it appears that the figures in the link you posted are merely talking about the number of users who have access to a given carrier or manufacturer's mobile app store. Unless I'm missing something (which is possible) that survey does not address the number of users who actually use their phone's app store.
The latter quantity is what determines monopoly power in the market sector, and as far as I'm aware, the only question is how many nines there are past the decimal point in Apple's market share percentage.
(Shrug) I don't have the real figures, and can't be troubled to research them. The original poster is the one making an extraordinary claim (that Apple doesn't enjoy what amounts to a monopoly on aftermarket smartphone apps.)
I'm saying the appstore is about 25% of the market based on usage. According to this anyway [techcrunchies.com] or I could say the Iphone is 25% of the smartphone market based on this [arstechnica.com]
Sorry, man, but those numbers are batshit insane. There's no way on earth the Apple outlet distributes only 25% of end-user apps for mobile phones.