What you are missing is that the hardest part is redesigning the interface of the OS for touch based input. This is what Microsoft never did and it's why Windows tablet PCs have always sucked.
The iPhone dictionary definitely considers key groupings when suggesting corrections. It also helps to prevent mistyping by making the "landing areas" for keys larger based on predictive text analysis:
Although you don’t see it with your eyes, the sizes of the keys on the iPhone keyboard are changing all the time. That is, the software enlarges the “landing area” of certain keys, based on probability.
For example, supposed you type “tim.” Now, the iPhone knows that no word in the language begins timw or timr—and so, invisibly, it enlarges the “landing area” of the E key, which greatly diminishes your chances of making a typo on that last letter.
Unfortunately, in the Scopes trial, the scientists did NOT win in the end. Scopes was found guilty, and attempts at appeal were rejected. Maybe they are trying to say the scientists won in the long run, but as far as I can tell the battle is still being waged.
....is not a mouse at all. It's the RollerMouse, which lets me mouse without taking my hands off the keyboard. I have used this for 10 years and continue to be amazed that its not the standard in computing.
I personally haven't heard of any exploit in the wild except the trojan, for which the user has to be willing to provide their password to any old bit of software with unknown providence - to be honest I don't know how one could protect against that on any system.
Luckily, Ivan Krstic knows how. From a CNET article about Bitfrost:
Instead of blocking specific viruses, the system (Bitfrost) sequesters every program on the computer in a separate virtual operating system, preventing any program from damaging the computer, stealing files, or spying on the user. Viruses are left isolated and impotent, unable to execute their code.
Almost no touch screens use heat sensitivity. You are thinking of capacitive touchscreens, which can also be triggered by proximity (i.e. before you physically touch it).
Nov. 24 2008 (Bloomberg) -- Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Europe's largest oil company, is examining possible oilfield projects in Iraq as the nation prepares to issue exploration permits next year, Chief Executive Officer Jeroen van der Veer said today.
Iraq expects to award contracts by June in its first oil-licensing round since the U.S. invasion in 2003, Oil Minister Hussain al- Shahristani said last month. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601102&sid=av8p.fV7hUFw&refer=uk
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You originally claimed that a full OS X with the iPhone GUI would be "easy" to accomplish. This is wrong.
What you are missing is that the hardest part is redesigning the interface of the OS for touch based input. This is what Microsoft never did and it's why Windows tablet PCs have always sucked.
A full OS X with the iPhone GUI would be fantastic, and relatively easily accomplishable.
You've never designed any software have you?
Wonder if it has anything to do with this?
So was the Crunchpad the most award winning vaporware product of all time?
Although you don’t see it with your eyes, the sizes of the keys on the iPhone keyboard are changing all the time. That is, the software enlarges the “landing area” of certain keys, based on probability. For example, supposed you type “tim.” Now, the iPhone knows that no word in the language begins timw or timr—and so, invisibly, it enlarges the “landing area” of the E key, which greatly diminishes your chances of making a typo on that last letter.
from http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/06/27/iphone-keyboard-secrets/
Unfortunately, in the Scopes trial, the scientists did NOT win in the end. Scopes was found guilty, and attempts at appeal were rejected. Maybe they are trying to say the scientists won in the long run, but as far as I can tell the battle is still being waged.
....is not a mouse at all. It's the RollerMouse, which lets me mouse without taking my hands off the keyboard. I have used this for 10 years and continue to be amazed that its not the standard in computing.
I personally haven't heard of any exploit in the wild except the trojan, for which the user has to be willing to provide their password to any old bit of software with unknown providence - to be honest I don't know how one could protect against that on any system.
Luckily, Ivan Krstic knows how. From a CNET article about Bitfrost:
Instead of blocking specific viruses, the system (Bitfrost) sequesters every program on the computer in a separate virtual operating system, preventing any program from damaging the computer, stealing files, or spying on the user. Viruses are left isolated and impotent, unable to execute their code.
Did anyone actually look at the chart in TFA? I would say "clearly ahead" is a stretch...
Almost no touch screens use heat sensitivity. You are thinking of capacitive touchscreens, which can also be triggered by proximity (i.e. before you physically touch it).
Nov. 24 2008 (Bloomberg) -- Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Europe's largest oil company, is examining possible oilfield projects in Iraq as the nation prepares to issue exploration permits next year, Chief Executive Officer Jeroen van der Veer said today. Iraq expects to award contracts by June in its first oil-licensing round since the U.S. invasion in 2003, Oil Minister Hussain al- Shahristani said last month. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601102&sid=av8p.fV7hUFw&refer=uk
Patience, my friend.....
Actually that is true. Because of our ridiculously antiquated electoral system people in non-swing states are effectively disenfranchised.
You don't know what you're talking about. Apple doesn't pay for product placement. The "budget" that you "found" doesn't exist: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/14/AR2006041401670.html
http://www.mcergo.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=Humanscale-Freedom-Chair&Store_Code=MC&search=freedom&offset=0&filter_cat=&PowerSearch_Begin_Only=&sort=&range_low=&range_high= Best chair I've ever used.
Unfortunately they are of some consequence. See 2000 and 2004.
So if I want to buy something, and I google the product and click a sponsored link, I'm an idiot? Chill out man.