Moses did come down from the mountain caring some curiously rounded corner rectangular tablets after chatting with God. Moses was the first one to steal this idea.
I believe that God designed and manufactured those tablets. Moses was just a distributor.
Lots of phone makers were making phones that had Java apps on them before the iPhone. Most of those apps were garbage, though, and seemed mainly designed to provide the carrier with more cash.
So when it comes to smartphones - maybe "smart" refers not to the phone, but to the phone's owner. As in, they were smart enough not to buy a phone filled with those crappy Java apps.
Touch screens also have poor conveyance of intent.
You touch the screen - and that's about it. You can't hover with your fingers and then choose to click, you can't convey different intent (right-click, middle-click, other mouse buttons etc.) easily.
You also can't see what your clicking while you hold onto it if it's right under your finger.
While I'm sure the touchscreen has a bright future, the significant of the interface is currently being overstated - all the "cool stuff" ultimately will come from pairing touchscreens with other devices including traditional things like keyboards.
What if you touch the screen with your middle finger? That might work.
I'm reminded of the rotary engine, used in some WWI aircraft. The crankshaft was stationary -- attached to the plane's firewall -- and the entire engine block, including the cylinders, rotated around it. (The propeller was attached to the engine block.) In this way, no flywheel was necessary (the block was its own flywheel), saving weight, and the engine was cooled naturally, by the air flow over the moving cylinders. I don't know how the engines were balanced.
In a similar manner, the Sandia Cooler moves the heatsink through the air, rather than the air through the heatsink. It's solving a different problem, but I've always been fond of contrarian thinking like this.
Don't forget we should be teaching biblical Pi instead of heathen devil math.
"And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one rim to the other it was round all about, and...a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about....And it was an hand breadth thick...." — First Kings, chapter 7, verses 23 and 26
Clearly Pi = 3
Sinners.
Why don't you tell me the EXACT value of Pi.... smart guy!
3 is a perfectly good approximation if you don't need high accuracy.
Perhaps you're just considering a specific country. According to Wikipedia, the overall world sex ratio is 101 males to 100 females. At birth, the ratio is more like 106 males to 100 females, though males die earlier than females, especially in their last years. (An aunt who used to be a delivery room nurse told me that female babies are generally stronger than males, so eg. a premature female has a higher chance of surviving.) Some cultures don't like girl babies, leading to infanticide or abortions, so the ratio can get artificially skewed; it also just seems to naturally vary a bit.
Apple has the most brand loyal customers on the planet
It's just a fad
Just like any other fads, this "Apple frenzy fad" will become stale, people will lose interest in Apple, once a new-kid-in-town with new fangle tricks appears
I've heard that mantra so many times before when the iMac came out, when the iPod came out, when the iPhone came out, when the iPod touch came out and when the iPad 1 came out. Are you seeing a pattern here? I keep on seeing people on slashdot predicting the demise of Apple year after year.
I'd like to point out to you that most speed limit are ridiculously LOW.
Case in point, the expressways in the major metropolitan city in the U.S. called Chicago where the speed limit on the expressways is 55 MPH. From my estimation, the number of drivers at or below the speed limit is approximately 5%. I also estimate that the average speed of all drivers is approximately 70-75 MPH.
Now what does this tell you about how "reasonable" the posted speed limits are?
As a matter of fact, those who drive the speed limit in the left lane create a tremendous danger for everyone.
I'll be interested to see if it has full software rendering engine bypassing the hardware decoder. I don't see why it shouldn't, I believe that's what the desktop VLC does.
Motorola spun off Motorola Mobility earlier this year, an that's the company that Google bought. That's not the same company that's making Motorola branded set-top boxes or any of the other electronic products that aren't related mobile phones.
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Moses did come down from the mountain caring some curiously rounded corner rectangular tablets after chatting with God. Moses was the first one to steal this idea.
I believe that God designed and manufactured those tablets. Moses was just a distributor.
Lots of phone makers were making phones that had Java apps on them before the iPhone. Most of those apps were garbage, though, and seemed mainly designed to provide the carrier with more cash.
So when it comes to smartphones - maybe "smart" refers not to the phone, but to the phone's owner. As in, they were smart enough not to buy a phone filled with those crappy Java apps.
No, I've seen a few and that's definitely NOT it.
Touch screens also have poor conveyance of intent.
You touch the screen - and that's about it. You can't hover with your fingers and then choose to click, you can't convey different intent (right-click, middle-click, other mouse buttons etc.) easily.
You also can't see what your clicking while you hold onto it if it's right under your finger.
While I'm sure the touchscreen has a bright future, the significant of the interface is currently being overstated - all the "cool stuff" ultimately will come from pairing touchscreens with other devices including traditional things like keyboards.
What if you touch the screen with your middle finger? That might work.
I believe you've hit the nail on the head. This is an iPhone concentric view point.
iPhone centric maybe?
2 gig of RAM to type a letter
A 64 bit letter!
I'm reminded of the rotary engine, used in some WWI aircraft. The crankshaft was stationary -- attached to the plane's firewall -- and the entire engine block, including the cylinders, rotated around it. (The propeller was attached to the engine block.) In this way, no flywheel was necessary (the block was its own flywheel), saving weight, and the engine was cooled naturally, by the air flow over the moving cylinders. I don't know how the engines were balanced.
In a similar manner, the Sandia Cooler moves the heatsink through the air, rather than the air through the heatsink. It's solving a different problem, but I've always been fond of contrarian thinking like this.
No, you're not.
Considering that Larry Ellison is buying himself a frikking island, perhaps the slap in the face finally pushed him into super-villainy...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/20/larry-ellisons-island-ora_n_1614130.html
Probably something along these lines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GO3mccvTCs
100% as fast would be 1.0x. They said 100% faster, which is (x + 1.0x)
or x+x or 2x
Is there some reason that you wanted to made this more complicated than it needs to be?
Making Android look like Windoof is about as "cool" as sprinkling dry dogshit on your cappuccino.
Darn right, everyone knows it's better with the fresh stuff.
Don't forget we should be teaching biblical Pi instead of heathen devil math.
"And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one rim to the other it was round all about, and...a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about....And it was an hand breadth thick...." — First Kings, chapter 7, verses 23 and 26
Clearly Pi = 3 Sinners.
Why don't you tell me the EXACT value of Pi.... smart guy!
3 is a perfectly good approximation if you don't need high accuracy.
Perhaps you're just considering a specific country. According to Wikipedia, the overall world sex ratio is 101 males to 100 females. At birth, the ratio is more like 106 males to 100 females, though males die earlier than females, especially in their last years. (An aunt who used to be a delivery room nurse told me that female babies are generally stronger than males, so eg. a premature female has a higher chance of surviving.) Some cultures don't like girl babies, leading to infanticide or abortions, so the ratio can get artificially skewed; it also just seems to naturally vary a bit.
Almost everyone dies in their last year....
In this case, it means "everyone else". Like when people think about their driving skill -- everyone else sucks.
80% of drivers polled claimed to be "better than average".
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Apple has the most brand loyal customers on the planet
It's just a fad
Just like any other fads, this "Apple frenzy fad" will become stale, people will lose interest in Apple, once a new-kid-in-town with new fangle tricks appears
I've heard that mantra so many times before when the iMac came out, when the iPod came out, when the iPhone came out, when the iPod touch came out and when the iPad 1 came out. Are you seeing a pattern here? I keep on seeing people on slashdot predicting the demise of Apple year after year.
Oh ya, well this year for sure!!!
How about you just don't speed, you jack-off...
I'd like to point out to you that most speed limit are ridiculously LOW.
Case in point, the expressways in the major metropolitan city in the U.S. called Chicago where the speed limit on the expressways is 55 MPH. From my estimation, the number of drivers at or below the speed limit is approximately 5%. I also estimate that the average speed of all drivers is approximately 70-75 MPH.
Now what does this tell you about how "reasonable" the posted speed limits are?
As a matter of fact, those who drive the speed limit in the left lane create a tremendous danger for everyone.
I'll be interested to see if it has full software rendering engine bypassing the hardware decoder. I don't see why it shouldn't, I believe that's what the desktop VLC does.
If you have no regard for your battery life....
So they both suck?
Patents should only cover technical innovations.
Trademarks should cover design, and with much more specificity. BRANDING people.
Personally, I think that branding people is going a little too far...
This article is from 2009. Why is this now hitting the front page?
Taco leaves and the place goes to Hell.
Or, Taco leaves because the place is going to Hell.
Isn't reading still the most popular bedtime activity?
I though it was sleeping. I'm way out of touch these days..
The most time consuming is sleeping. The most popular is sex.
Motorola spun off Motorola Mobility earlier this year, an that's the company that Google bought. That's not the same company that's making Motorola branded set-top boxes or any of the other electronic products that aren't related mobile phones.
WRONG...
http://www.motorola.com/Video-Solutions/US-EN/Products-and-Services
Wow a nice protective case is not enough?
How the heck do you thing that an atomic bomb or a nuclear reactor works? I believe that the "random" problem has been solved.
That 5G is gonna be BLAZING FAST!!!!
I agree, I generally find the abstracts to be far too abstract....