Also if people are hip to the problems of cashlessness, maybe something like darkcoin/dash can gain ground instead of whatever the banks and governments are pushing.
If South Koreans have nothing to worry about, why do they need to keep having 1-2 million protester demonstrations demanding their president step down?
I'd be pleased if Apple removed their absolutely painful fullscreen crap. All programs that benefited from fullscreen mode already had it before 10.8 and it worked much better. I keep using old versions of select programs because they use the old style fullscreening instead of the new motion-sickness inducing crap where you can't even float windows over fullscreened apps anymore. I stopped using browsers in fullscreen mode just because using old versions that actually work properly is a security risk!
By that logic, how can you justify ANY punishment for crimes? Surely the time wasted in prison is irrecoverable as well? Opportunities lost due to the expense of fines and being branded a criminal?
Disclaimer: I have never seen anybody use a tablet with a keyboard. I don't own one nor do I expect to get one in the foreseeable future.
The (retina) iPad's screen is easily more than 3x as good as that on any netbook I've seen (and in fact better than any PC laptop), even a good phone has better resolution, color and viewing angles. If they sold them as computer monitors I would buy one. If we weren't stuck in the dark ages of fullHD TN panels I'm sure there would be more demand for computing power on desktops, too, but what good will it all do if your photos, websites and games won't look any better? If you can't even have a whole page of a book shown on-screen at once without the text being rendered at such low res as to make it genuinely difficult to read? There are diminishing returns on computing power when your user interface devices are the limiting factor.
I think part of the success of tablets has to do with how advances on traditional PCs have been made too difficult. Windows isn't resolution independent. Netbooks were intentionally marginalized. Outside linux-style package managers you still had to hunt your software down one-by-one from all over the internet until Apple's App Store. The trends for easier and more mobile computers have been apparent for decades. Perhaps "general use" computers aren't all that general use after all if they can't keep up?
They hopefully copied the Nokia 3310, that unassuming phone has reached meme status for its indestructibility. Youtube is full of videos of it getting dropped and hit by a sledgehammer and it survives. The covers absorb almost any shock and fly around everywhere in spectacular fashion, leaving the innards unharmed.
If there's risk of getting hit by a car to the point that I need to wear a helmet I really don't want to bike anywhere. Helmet or not, getting hit by a car seems very unpleasant!
I've bought a keyboard for 5€ new, I don't see much of a profit margin there. If you want a GOOD keyboard, that is considerably more complicated to manufacture and correspondingly costs much more than $35.
I have trouble relating to your position on this. So you can decide you don't want to follow some particular god, fine. What does this have to do with actually believing in him? Have I been misled into thinking that people who "believe in god" actually believe he exists, instead of just playing along with the ceremonies because it's what their culture does?
As for them releasing new patents shortly before the old ones would expire, that is a risky strategy if they held off on purpose - because someone else could have filed a patent before them.
Wouldn't others be prevented from patenting such things because of prior art?
Where do you get music that has frequencies above 22kHz? Is it not more likely that you would get unwanted noise than actual signal in supersonic frequencies because they cannot be deliberately mastered? Even if the high frequency signals came from the recording as intended, AND the speaker could play that high, they would just produce intermodulation distortion on the speaker degrading the quality of the actually audible spectrum.
There is individual variation of course, with claims going as far up as 25kHz. 100kHz however is clearly overkill.
There is no point to GIMP on a mac anyways, since X11 on OS X doesn't support tablets. No wonder they never even tried to make is usable on the platform.
Multiplayer drawing is awesome! openCanvas 1.1 and paintchat are as close as it gets for now, both being over a decade old by now and not particularly reliable.
OS X has gone downhill since 10.4. I stopped "upgrading" at 10.6 because my laptop came with 10.5 and that was so buggy they had to advertise the next major version as having no new features!
you try to minimize buttons/case size as much as possible
You do that because Apple does that. When iPhone first came out, and often still today, a vocal minority howled about how few buttons it has and about the minimal bezel. iPad simply scales up iPhone's form.
No, you do that because it is the obvious thing to do. I remember back in the 90s when one-line screens on cell phones were the norm and Nokia's newer models had bigger, higher res ones, it was clear to me way back then that the screen size is the primary usability factor of a phone and that touch screens would be inevitable. I do not claim to have been any visionary, I claim that it was obvious to every dumb kid not even yet in high school 20 years ago. As for the lack of buttons... it is a very serious compromise, there's no denying it. It is also the obviously right choice if you want the web in your pocket, as there's really no other choice.
Night and day difference between the designs? I see a big screen with most of the buttons on the sides along with connectors and the camera at the top back corner. They look virtually identical to me (I have an iPhone).
Of course, you're insinuating that Apple scrambled with one month before announcement and redid their entire design to rip off the Prada, which I'm taking from you involves redoing the iPhone to be a touch screen based product. And, of course, this was a blatant copy, but LG never bothered to sue.
Your sarcasm detector must be broken, clearly grandparent is insinuating that there aren't many ways to design a touch screen phone. Which there aren't. So it follows that all touch screen phones look more or less alike.
With digital EQing and convolution $24 headphones or canalbuds can sound just fine. Frequency response is the most important factor affecting quality of sound for both headphones and speakers, and this is exactly what you can fix with a good equalizer. I love the PortaPros I have that cost 20€ on sale after just a very crude measurement of impulse response with the free and excellent DRC and a convolver audio effect. On my Sansa Clip+ with Rockbox I use the 5 band parametric EQ to fix the sound of my Sony EX50LPs, which are my most used headphones despite me owning full size headphones and canalbuds 5 times the price (which are great, too, and will no doubt last me longer, but are not as tiny, convenient and care free).
Of course there are many factors you cannot fix with EQ - distortion being a big problem with many types of headphones, quickness (as measured by waterfall plots), sensitivity and impedance (you want these to be a good match with your source), noise isolation, repeatability of seal, not to forget the inaudible but important factors such as comfort, build quality and style.
The ideal frequency response of headphones is still open for debate - most headphones shoot for a diffuse field response. Regardless of ideal most headphones have obvious flaws in their frequency response that can be fixed with the tools available for free.
I too use rockbox on the Sansa Clip+ and I must say that it is amazing. I'm a sound quality nazi and I find the 5 band parametric(!) equalizer a requirement to make even expensive canalbuds sound bearable. The Clips also have really good headphone amps. The player is tiny and has a standard mini USB socket instead of nasty proprietary cables. With rockbox installed it will play an insane range of file formats. It is also cheap as chips.
I don't foresee any phone replacing it as my primary music listening device (and I do have an iPhone).
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How do you read the chip? All you need for a barcode is a phone and an app.
Also if people are hip to the problems of cashlessness, maybe something like darkcoin/dash can gain ground instead of whatever the banks and governments are pushing.
If South Koreans have nothing to worry about, why do they need to keep having 1-2 million protester demonstrations demanding their president step down?
Not to mention that all OS X upgrades have been free for years now. Not that I think any of them has been as good as 10.6 was.
I'd be pleased if Apple removed their absolutely painful fullscreen crap. All programs that benefited from fullscreen mode already had it before 10.8 and it worked much better. I keep using old versions of select programs because they use the old style fullscreening instead of the new motion-sickness inducing crap where you can't even float windows over fullscreened apps anymore. I stopped using browsers in fullscreen mode just because using old versions that actually work properly is a security risk!
By that logic, how can you justify ANY punishment for crimes? Surely the time wasted in prison is irrecoverable as well? Opportunities lost due to the expense of fines and being branded a criminal?
Disclaimer: I have never seen anybody use a tablet with a keyboard. I don't own one nor do I expect to get one in the foreseeable future.
The (retina) iPad's screen is easily more than 3x as good as that on any netbook I've seen (and in fact better than any PC laptop), even a good phone has better resolution, color and viewing angles. If they sold them as computer monitors I would buy one. If we weren't stuck in the dark ages of fullHD TN panels I'm sure there would be more demand for computing power on desktops, too, but what good will it all do if your photos, websites and games won't look any better? If you can't even have a whole page of a book shown on-screen at once without the text being rendered at such low res as to make it genuinely difficult to read? There are diminishing returns on computing power when your user interface devices are the limiting factor.
I think part of the success of tablets has to do with how advances on traditional PCs have been made too difficult. Windows isn't resolution independent. Netbooks were intentionally marginalized. Outside linux-style package managers you still had to hunt your software down one-by-one from all over the internet until Apple's App Store. The trends for easier and more mobile computers have been apparent for decades. Perhaps "general use" computers aren't all that general use after all if they can't keep up?
You'll stop saying that the instant you get a Retina-style high-res display. I expect those to be everywhere in a year.
They hopefully copied the Nokia 3310, that unassuming phone has reached meme status for its indestructibility. Youtube is full of videos of it getting dropped and hit by a sledgehammer and it survives. The covers absorb almost any shock and fly around everywhere in spectacular fashion, leaving the innards unharmed.
If there's risk of getting hit by a car to the point that I need to wear a helmet I really don't want to bike anywhere. Helmet or not, getting hit by a car seems very unpleasant!
I've bought a keyboard for 5€ new, I don't see much of a profit margin there. If you want a GOOD keyboard, that is considerably more complicated to manufacture and correspondingly costs much more than $35.
Safari 5.1.7 is rock solid on OS X 10.6.8 in my experience. Not that I use it as the default browser anyways, maybe I should...
Doing everything that iTunes does is part of the problem. Why would you want that?
Not that iTunes's bloat and suck can be attributed just to having too many features.
I have trouble relating to your position on this. So you can decide you don't want to follow some particular god, fine. What does this have to do with actually believing in him? Have I been misled into thinking that people who "believe in god" actually believe he exists, instead of just playing along with the ceremonies because it's what their culture does?
As for them releasing new patents shortly before the old ones would expire, that is a risky strategy if they held off on purpose - because someone else could have filed a patent before them.
Wouldn't others be prevented from patenting such things because of prior art?
Which is laughable. What are they going to do, put you in jail after you kill yourself?
Where do you get music that has frequencies above 22kHz? Is it not more likely that you would get unwanted noise than actual signal in supersonic frequencies because they cannot be deliberately mastered? Even if the high frequency signals came from the recording as intended, AND the speaker could play that high, they would just produce intermodulation distortion on the speaker degrading the quality of the actually audible spectrum.
There is individual variation of course, with claims going as far up as 25kHz. 100kHz however is clearly overkill.
There is no point to GIMP on a mac anyways, since X11 on OS X doesn't support tablets. No wonder they never even tried to make is usable on the platform.
Multiplayer drawing is awesome! openCanvas 1.1 and paintchat are as close as it gets for now, both being over a decade old by now and not particularly reliable.
OS X has gone downhill since 10.4. I stopped "upgrading" at 10.6 because my laptop came with 10.5 and that was so buggy they had to advertise the next major version as having no new features!
you try to minimize buttons/case size as much as possible
You do that because Apple does that. When iPhone first came out, and often still today, a vocal minority howled about how few buttons it has and about the minimal bezel. iPad simply scales up iPhone's form.
No, you do that because it is the obvious thing to do. I remember back in the 90s when one-line screens on cell phones were the norm and Nokia's newer models had bigger, higher res ones, it was clear to me way back then that the screen size is the primary usability factor of a phone and that touch screens would be inevitable. I do not claim to have been any visionary, I claim that it was obvious to every dumb kid not even yet in high school 20 years ago. As for the lack of buttons... it is a very serious compromise, there's no denying it. It is also the obviously right choice if you want the web in your pocket, as there's really no other choice.
Of course, you're insinuating that Apple scrambled with one month before announcement and redid their entire design to rip off the Prada, which I'm taking from you involves redoing the iPhone to be a touch screen based product. And, of course, this was a blatant copy, but LG never bothered to sue.
Your sarcasm detector must be broken, clearly grandparent is insinuating that there aren't many ways to design a touch screen phone. Which there aren't. So it follows that all touch screen phones look more or less alike.
With digital EQing and convolution $24 headphones or canalbuds can sound just fine. Frequency response is the most important factor affecting quality of sound for both headphones and speakers, and this is exactly what you can fix with a good equalizer. I love the PortaPros I have that cost 20€ on sale after just a very crude measurement of impulse response with the free and excellent DRC and a convolver audio effect. On my Sansa Clip+ with Rockbox I use the 5 band parametric EQ to fix the sound of my Sony EX50LPs, which are my most used headphones despite me owning full size headphones and canalbuds 5 times the price (which are great, too, and will no doubt last me longer, but are not as tiny, convenient and care free).
Of course there are many factors you cannot fix with EQ - distortion being a big problem with many types of headphones, quickness (as measured by waterfall plots), sensitivity and impedance (you want these to be a good match with your source), noise isolation, repeatability of seal, not to forget the inaudible but important factors such as comfort, build quality and style.
The ideal frequency response of headphones is still open for debate - most headphones shoot for a diffuse field response. Regardless of ideal most headphones have obvious flaws in their frequency response that can be fixed with the tools available for free.
I too use rockbox on the Sansa Clip+ and I must say that it is amazing. I'm a sound quality nazi and I find the 5 band parametric(!) equalizer a requirement to make even expensive canalbuds sound bearable. The Clips also have really good headphone amps. The player is tiny and has a standard mini USB socket instead of nasty proprietary cables. With rockbox installed it will play an insane range of file formats. It is also cheap as chips.
I don't foresee any phone replacing it as my primary music listening device (and I do have an iPhone).
You can buy iTunes store credits with hard cash in the form of gift cards. I've done this myself and it works fine.