Crippled ability to print anything -- you can buy the $30 Apple Camera Adapter to get some USB support, and/or simply email whatever you need to print to a computer, but what a pain.
You're not even trying... iOS 4.2 will introduce printing support. Also this app works wonders for me right now: PrintBureau.
Look, the iPad isn't perfect, and it is not a replacement for a netbook/laptop in a lot of cases (but does work better in some use cases). There are legitimate issues, so why do you pollute your argument with stuff that is no longer an issue?
If Android is going to really "flood the market" with tablets, it better revise it's decision to require a carrier contract to allow Market access. What use is a tablet that doesn't have the biggest storefront available for that OS? There's no way they're going to compete with Apple on price if they require contracts... I already have a contract for my smartphone, I can't afford a 2nd one just for data on a non-primary device.
Because, believe it or not, Google and Apple are "close" to one another. As close as two companies can be while still sorta competing. The two companies share alot of the same board members to my understanding. And Brin, Page, and Jobs are not enemies.
Then Jobs proclaimed that Google was trying to kill the iPhone... sure, this could all be fluff, and the two companies are really being controlled by "them" or Dr. Evil, but if so, they have quite a few people fooled... especially since Apple is now increasing the fronts on which they compete with Google, and vice versa.
HP is a big company. They don't need everything to run the same OS.
What's really interesting about your link is the title of the article: HP's New Printer Tablet Stays Away From Android Market Why has Google still not taken on the iPad directly, given the iPad's huge success for Apple? HP is a huge presence, they could market the Android-based tablet + printer without the need for the carriers, but they're still denied the goodness of the Android Market... why?
I read the notes, noticed the Column and WHEN triggers. Is this in other SQL databases? If it is, I haven't seen it before. In any case, it's pretty cool that you can setup triggers on a conditional statement. That would really help me out in a lot of scenarios, as I work in the BI space, so alerting is a big deal.
Isn't this just syntactic sugar? What's the difference between logic in the trigger determining when to issue the payload logic, and the logic outside the trigger... especially if the trigger (re)uses a parametrized stored proc for it's payload?
Not that this isn't nice, but it may also lead to code scattering, increasing maintainability issues.
That should enable the elimination of TSA completely! A Win-Win!
No, as long as there is money to be made in the fear industry, TSA will still be around... all it takes is something like that body-bomb scene from The Dark Knight and the flying-in-the-buff in a transparent plane will be worse than ever... think body cavity search.
Still not sure what the benefit of this is, since it seems against the whole concept of cloud computing, but perhaps it's all about management services of said cloud:
The first scenario does have a different twist in that HDS actually manages from afar the local storage within the customer's firewall. We repeat: Hitachi is managing cloud-type storage inside its customers' own arrays.
The benefit, ostensibly, is that you outsource your IT mechanics and have the internal IT guy(s) do provisioning and maintenance management through the vendor(s)... sounds just like the IBM model, with the catch that, if it's standardized enough, then vendor is replaceable (not stuck on z/OS). Still not sure how this is any more secure than your garden-variety VPC, but I think it may have better availability metrics -- even if the uplink goes dark, your internal network should still be available on-site.
Just to be fair, that's what many said about Apple; they were going up against incumbents like RIM and Windows Mobile on the smartphone side
Wait, isn't this just another version of Windows Mobile? Microsoft has had 10 years to make a strong mobile move, it's not like they're some upstart "rulebreaker" like Apple (who has had a history of rulebreaking). They were the incumbents, the "inevitable", the heirs to the throne that Nokia held (by virtue of their desktop dominance)... back in 2000.
Now 10 years later, no sane person would compare Microsoft to Apple in mobile... other than, perhaps that all of their moves (GSM only, no cut/paste, unified and locked-down app store, etc) seem completely copied from Apple's game plan from 3 years ago.
This is getting a little frustrating and a little weird. No one has announced free hosting. No one will, until there is a demand for it.
Someone will. Amazon EC2 and other cloud services make it completely simple to setup your own service running whatever you want. Diaspora will just be another checkbox for hosting services as well. To really take off someone will need to offer something like this for free, maybe Google or some other outfit will provide it just to spite Facebook. Or perhaps an ad-supported model (which you can migrate off by setting up your own service ).
Diaspora looks cool and I think Facebook is due for a serious implosion as it's users privacy and corporate profitability needs clash further and further. Most folks I know do NOT want to put all their kiddo's photos on there, but instead the main users are small businesses (ie, dance instructor) who drum up business, and the self-infatuated crowd who noone really listens to. Once a real option emerges, there will be mass exodus.... think, 10 years ago everyone used hotmail, then yahoo came along, then gmail.
There is a category rapidly emerging between the motorcycle and full-on automobile: the Low Speed Vehicle (if electric, also considered the Neighborhood Electric Vehicle). The relevant sections of the two similar articles are:
A low-speed vehicle (LSV) is a legal class of 4-wheel vehicles that have a maximum capable speed typically around 25 mph (40 km/h), and have a minimum capable speed (typically 20 mph (32 km/h)) that allows them to travel on public roads not accessible to all golf carts or neighborhood electric vehicles (NEV). The vehicles operate under very similar restrictions to but without the specification of battery electric power.[citation needed] See the NEV article for general vehicle requirements.
The NEV article states the safety requirements:
Regulations for operating an NEV vary by state. The federal government allows state and local governments to add additional safety requirements beyond those of Title 49 Part 571.500. For instance,the State of New York requires additional safety equipment to include windshield wipers, window defroster, speedometer, odometer and a back-up light. Generally, they must be titled and registered, and the driver must be licensed. Because airbags are not required the NEV cannot normally travel on highways or freeways. NEVs in many states are restricted to roads with a speed limit of 35 mph (56 km/h) or less.
In addition, some states have increased the MPH limit (owner can easily mod this) to 35MPH, allowing them to travel on 45MPH roads in the slow lane:
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has published safety guidelines in the United States which apply to vehicles operating in the 20-25 mile-per-hour speed range.[4] As of January 2007, twenty-five of the fifty states of the United States had passed legislation legalizing the use of low-speed vehicles on highways in the state.[4] By 2009, nearly all 50 states allow LSVs, also called NEVs, to drive on their roads. Either they follow FMVSS500 (25 mph top speed on 35 mph limit roads), or make their own more aggressive law. as of end of 2008, 9 states had made it legal to drive them 35 mph speed, most on 45 mph streets. In 2009, Texas has passed a new law (SB129) allowing them to drive 35 mph on 45 mph roads; California and New Mexico have proposed laws in their respective legislatures.
All of this adds up to a vehicle that is good for local commuting (if allowed on the 45MPH "expressways") and grocery grabbing, with minimal safety requirements and if it's non-emissions, also benefit from tax incentives.
I'm definitely keeping my eye on this, it'd be great for those days when I don't want to ride the bike to work (i.e., have to pick up the kid). The Edison2 car would fit nicely here (though it wouldn't get tax credits).
Aside from the pure things that can go wrong aspect, there is the fact that requiring independent counting of votes at the local level increases participation in our democracy.
Of course the ruling class (wealthy and political dynasties) wants to sabotage that exactly because it benefits them directly.
Personally, I believe we should have a national holiday for big vote days so we can celebrate the most important function of a citizen in a democracy.
Google offers a "Chrome Frame" plug-in for IE that renders pages with WebKit instead of MSHTML if they opt in...
This is the perfect conditions under which we can "support" those recalcitrant but politically powerful users who can't be bothered to switch to Firefox, Chrome or Safari.
I switched our web server to inject this tag on all pages, and also a alert banner based on browser detection (IE < 8, without Chrome Frame) on all pages that tell the user "Your experience can be improved if you install Chrome Frame".
Complaints about how our site renders improperly... have all but disappeared... Thanks Google for giving me a way to break the rusty bear-trap that is IE6.
It's not the 90's and 00's of Linux, but the Unix wars of the 1980's where proprietary Unixes battled it out for the workstation market. The corporate greed of Unix vendors (as opposed to the ideological Linux battles after-wards) allowed a Microsoft to flourish and eventually control the high end market.
Despite Google being the unifying factor, the carriers are even more greedy and less capable than the Unix vendors of old, and meanwhile Apple remains ascendant and proprietary.
Inconsistent user interfaces diminish network effects and will suppress Android adoption... then there are abominations like the Verizon vCast store.
I am not a Apple fan, but you don't need a voice mail contract to get access to the marketplace, you could use wi-fi. Yeah, you need 3g it get it in more places then wi-fi, but there isn't anything anyone can do about that.
Name one Android device that has access to Marketplace that you don't need a phone plan to buy. OHA requires devices to have phone capability to access marketplace:
Google hasn't officially given the go ahead for any hardware maker to install the Android Market app on a device that doesn't meet the minimum requirements -- which basically means you need to have a device with an accelerometer, WiFi, and phone capabilities.
For example, Magic: The Gathering has exactly that property where you can spend money to buy better cards. Is it that they've balanced it better, so the proportional effect of card-buying is less (you can't purely buy yourself victory)?
I used to be an M:tG addict a few years ago (12 to be specific), and I think on the tournament scene, the best most competitive and interesting games weren't the ones you played with pre-built decks (unless there were ceiling rules like say, only uncommon and common cards) but the games that involved everyone buying a set of packs and either: making a deck from those (which, while fun did involve more luck) or doing a booster draft competition.
Even more fun is getting together with some of your friends or the in-store gang and doing a "pass the trash" tourney (similar to booster draft) which re-used the spare cards that no one really needed anymore but were still fun to play with.
Money was always an issue, but compared to other activities like skiing, skateboarding, etc, this was not that expensive if you didn't get sucked into the whole trading aspect. Plus you could sell off your unused/unwanted cards... they were still physical items.
and before people tout about the high price, other tiers are available.
Yeah, looked at the site, and wow, 50Mb/s internet (symmetric!) is cheaper than my complete-shit Comcast 20Mb/s (asymmetric, 4Mb/s up... with "powerboost" aka, non-sustained). In fact their cheapest plan is better (symmetric vs. asymmetric) than even the best Comcast plan.
Apple has an mp3 player cheaper than any Android phone that I'm aware of + an arbitrary app store limitation.
Colour me unimpressed.
You want unimpressed? Why is there no Android challenger to the iPod Touch? Even the iPad challengers all *require* cellular accounts or have no Marketplace access. Android and OHA better change their stance or they will not be making much headway into the corporate or home markets. I don't want a Tablet/phone, and I don't think many other people will either. I sure as hell don't want to pay for an additional voice contract just to get a tablet that has Marketplace access.
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I'm confused about why a hacked up beamsplitter based system would be so noteworthy, when the single-sensor method will suffer less light loss thanks to the simpler optical path.
Wouldn't beam-split remove any time differential, making fast-motion HDR video theoretically perfect? I mean, if you're doing time-slices, you could have subject movement in that slice, right?
I believe, as research has shown, that too much choice can actually be a bad thing. In terms of things like software platforms, too much choice can not only be bad, but destructive to progress (i.e., think of competing packaging tools on various linux distros or maybe virus protection software on windows). The lack of a single or small set of clear choices prevents network effects from taking place, and introduces disarray that can be exploited by the malicious or incompetent.
There are extremes, and a happy medium... I prefer being happy.
I originally thought it was Osama bin Laden, but it seems that OBL is not really pushing the public's buttons. Perhaps Assange is the new "bad guy"? Of course the media elite needs to continue tearing him down until all we see is hate, but give them time, they're very good at character assassination.
Apple must feel secure enough in it's ecosystem or have felt enough pressure from regulators to make the change, it does seem uncharacteristic of the typical fortress-like mentality bred by previous incursions.
I think it will be good for everyone involved that the rules are clearer and more app creation tools exist, as long as the approval process is both stringent and non-abusive.
Also glad that Flash applets are not allowed... those are 90% advertisements, and for those useful non-ad content, I'm happy using my desktop to view them.
Ironically, the primary site for which I really need a faster Javascript engine is Slashdot. For a heavily-commented article I switch to Chrome.
Switch to old-style comments viewing system... I just get a dump of comments, nested appropriately. Makes for much nicer reading on a non-mobile device, albeit being a bit more bandwidth intensive initially.
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You're not even trying... iOS 4.2 will introduce printing support. Also this app works wonders for me right now: PrintBureau.
Look, the iPad isn't perfect, and it is not a replacement for a netbook/laptop in a lot of cases (but does work better in some use cases). There are legitimate issues, so why do you pollute your argument with stuff that is no longer an issue?
AFAIK, a lot of them are now doing facebook and other social network in-site apps.
If Android is going to really "flood the market" with tablets, it better revise it's decision to require a carrier contract to allow Market access. What use is a tablet that doesn't have the biggest storefront available for that OS? There's no way they're going to compete with Apple on price if they require contracts... I already have a contract for my smartphone, I can't afford a 2nd one just for data on a non-primary device.
Have you lived in a cave for the past year?
There were two shared directors as of May 2009 when the DOJ mentioned they would investigate. Then Eric Schmidt quit Apple's board and Arthur Levinson quit Google's board...
Then Jobs proclaimed that Google was trying to kill the iPhone... sure, this could all be fluff, and the two companies are really being controlled by "them" or Dr. Evil, but if so, they have quite a few people fooled... especially since Apple is now increasing the fronts on which they compete with Google, and vice versa.
Clearly, this is all orchestrated.
What's really interesting about your link is the title of the article: HP's New Printer Tablet Stays Away From Android Market Why has Google still not taken on the iPad directly, given the iPad's huge success for Apple? HP is a huge presence, they could market the Android-based tablet + printer without the need for the carriers, but they're still denied the goodness of the Android Market... why?
Isn't this just syntactic sugar? What's the difference between logic in the trigger determining when to issue the payload logic, and the logic outside the trigger... especially if the trigger (re)uses a parametrized stored proc for it's payload?
Not that this isn't nice, but it may also lead to code scattering, increasing maintainability issues.
No, as long as there is money to be made in the fear industry, TSA will still be around... all it takes is something like that body-bomb scene from The Dark Knight and the flying-in-the-buff in a transparent plane will be worse than ever... think body cavity search.
The benefit, ostensibly, is that you outsource your IT mechanics and have the internal IT guy(s) do provisioning and maintenance management through the vendor(s)... sounds just like the IBM model, with the catch that, if it's standardized enough, then vendor is replaceable (not stuck on z/OS). Still not sure how this is any more secure than your garden-variety VPC, but I think it may have better availability metrics -- even if the uplink goes dark, your internal network should still be available on-site.
Or Chrome/Safari/etc.
I never use the actual www page, unless I'm refining my results in which case, instant isn't that annoying.
I also now have migrated to domain-specific searches outside of Google (ie, code searches on code-specific sites like stackoverflow, etc)
Care to elucidate?
Wait, isn't this just another version of Windows Mobile? Microsoft has had 10 years to make a strong mobile move, it's not like they're some upstart "rulebreaker" like Apple (who has had a history of rulebreaking). They were the incumbents, the "inevitable", the heirs to the throne that Nokia held (by virtue of their desktop dominance)... back in 2000.
Now 10 years later, no sane person would compare Microsoft to Apple in mobile... other than, perhaps that all of their moves (GSM only, no cut/paste, unified and locked-down app store, etc) seem completely copied from Apple's game plan from 3 years ago.
Someone will. Amazon EC2 and other cloud services make it completely simple to setup your own service running whatever you want. Diaspora will just be another checkbox for hosting services as well. To really take off someone will need to offer something like this for free, maybe Google or some other outfit will provide it just to spite Facebook. Or perhaps an ad-supported model (which you can migrate off by setting up your own service ).
Diaspora looks cool and I think Facebook is due for a serious implosion as it's users privacy and corporate profitability needs clash further and further. Most folks I know do NOT want to put all their kiddo's photos on there, but instead the main users are small businesses (ie, dance instructor) who drum up business, and the self-infatuated crowd who noone really listens to. Once a real option emerges, there will be mass exodus.... think, 10 years ago everyone used hotmail, then yahoo came along, then gmail.
The NEV article states the safety requirements:
In addition, some states have increased the MPH limit (owner can easily mod this) to 35MPH, allowing them to travel on 45MPH roads in the slow lane:
All of this adds up to a vehicle that is good for local commuting (if allowed on the 45MPH "expressways") and grocery grabbing, with minimal safety requirements and if it's non-emissions, also benefit from tax incentives.
I'm definitely keeping my eye on this, it'd be great for those days when I don't want to ride the bike to work (i.e., have to pick up the kid). The Edison2 car would fit nicely here (though it wouldn't get tax credits).
Of course the ruling class (wealthy and political dynasties) wants to sabotage that exactly because it benefits them directly.
Personally, I believe we should have a national holiday for big vote days so we can celebrate the most important function of a citizen in a democracy.
This is the perfect conditions under which we can "support" those recalcitrant but politically powerful users who can't be bothered to switch to Firefox, Chrome or Safari.
I switched our web server to inject this tag on all pages, and also a alert banner based on browser detection (IE < 8, without Chrome Frame) on all pages that tell the user "Your experience can be improved if you install Chrome Frame".
Complaints about how our site renders improperly... have all but disappeared... Thanks Google for giving me a way to break the rusty bear-trap that is IE6.
Despite Google being the unifying factor, the carriers are even more greedy and less capable than the Unix vendors of old, and meanwhile Apple remains ascendant and proprietary.
Inconsistent user interfaces diminish network effects and will suppress Android adoption... then there are abominations like the Verizon vCast store.
Name one Android device that has access to Marketplace that you don't need a phone plan to buy. OHA requires devices to have phone capability to access marketplace:
I used to be an M:tG addict a few years ago (12 to be specific), and I think on the tournament scene, the best most competitive and interesting games weren't the ones you played with pre-built decks (unless there were ceiling rules like say, only uncommon and common cards) but the games that involved everyone buying a set of packs and either: making a deck from those (which, while fun did involve more luck) or doing a booster draft competition.
Even more fun is getting together with some of your friends or the in-store gang and doing a "pass the trash" tourney (similar to booster draft) which re-used the spare cards that no one really needed anymore but were still fun to play with.
Money was always an issue, but compared to other activities like skiing, skateboarding, etc, this was not that expensive if you didn't get sucked into the whole trading aspect. Plus you could sell off your unused/unwanted cards... they were still physical items.
Yeah, looked at the site, and wow, 50Mb/s internet (symmetric!) is cheaper than my complete-shit Comcast 20Mb/s (asymmetric, 4Mb/s up... with "powerboost" aka, non-sustained). In fact their cheapest plan is better (symmetric vs. asymmetric) than even the best Comcast plan.
I envy Chatanooga residents.
You want unimpressed? Why is there no Android challenger to the iPod Touch? Even the iPad challengers all *require* cellular accounts or have no Marketplace access. Android and OHA better change their stance or they will not be making much headway into the corporate or home markets. I don't want a Tablet/phone, and I don't think many other people will either. I sure as hell don't want to pay for an additional voice contract just to get a tablet that has Marketplace access.
Wouldn't beam-split remove any time differential, making fast-motion HDR video theoretically perfect? I mean, if you're doing time-slices, you could have subject movement in that slice, right?
There are extremes, and a happy medium... I prefer being happy.
I originally thought it was Osama bin Laden, but it seems that OBL is not really pushing the public's buttons. Perhaps Assange is the new "bad guy"? Of course the media elite needs to continue tearing him down until all we see is hate, but give them time, they're very good at character assassination.
I think it will be good for everyone involved that the rules are clearer and more app creation tools exist, as long as the approval process is both stringent and non-abusive.
Also glad that Flash applets are not allowed... those are 90% advertisements, and for those useful non-ad content, I'm happy using my desktop to view them.
Switch to old-style comments viewing system... I just get a dump of comments, nested appropriately. Makes for much nicer reading on a non-mobile device, albeit being a bit more bandwidth intensive initially.