Sounds like somebody just wants to gripe about a $40,000 camera costing $40,000.
No, the writer still sees a place for large format and SLR cameras, especially for very big enlargements. But the point-and-shoots keep getting better and better, and while I'm no pro, I know of pros (David Hobby, Darwin Wiggett) who have reached the conclusion that they can do the job for many professional applications, and they're a lot easier to carry around. In a few years, today's digital SLR may look very clunky and dorky hanging around one's neck.
Well, that kind of takes the fun out of this kind of story in which images from a Canon point-n-shoot are indistinguishable from those taken by a $40,000 Hasselblad.
Because the iPhone is expensive? For a cell phone, sure it is. But most cell phones aren't handheld computers (yet).
With telecom in many developing countries, buyers skipped having a land line and went right for cell phones. Buyers in developed economies often realize they don't need a land line. I'm not one of them, but, in today's economy, if someone buys a cell phone and it's also a usable web browser, why pony up for a desktop, laptop, or even a netbook?
I don't know if the Amish would appreciate the association with Microsoft. Yeah, they avoid modern technology, but don't they have something in common with Linux and open source, at least philosophically? Roll your own, DIY, emphasis on craftsmanship? My neighbor had a shed built for him by a Pennsylvania Amish craftsman, and the thing is beautifully made. Actually, it's a miniature replica of his (rather unusual to begin with) 1929 Tudor-style house.
I think it's the carbon economy and the institutions that support it, academic included, that are in serious crisis. The Sierra Club ranks colleges by their greenness, and, curiously, the Ivies aren't in the top ranks. Places like Middlebury and Oberlin are. These are small colleges that focus on the teaching of undergraduates. Maybe that's part of why they seem to be leading green thinking.
I am hopeful for a new generation of leaders that are more aware of humanity's impact on the planet. Of course, it would be hard to be any less aware than the current administration.
I thought Walt Mossberg was pretty positive about it, and the gyst was that this really is a handheld computer. I have neither a G1 nor an iPhone, but I'm watching them closely. I'm a math teacher, and I would love to have a handheld Wifi-equipped computer to just slide under an overhead projector and demo stuff to my students. (Yeah, as if they don't all already have iPhones! Actually, only a few do.) The G1 lacks enough storage for me, but the data plan is more attractive. The iPhone has the storage but the data plan is a potential nightmare. Maybe an iPod Touch... Anyway, I'd expect the G1 and iPhone to converge in terms of features and data plans over the next few releases.
At any rate, I love seeing real competition in this space, AND neither is Microsoft. I expect the success of the iPhone and G1 to show my students and colleagues that there are alternatives to Windows.
if, through some quirk of the calendar, Pirate Day and Anti-Pirate Day fell on the same day? Would they annihilate each other? Could the energy released be harnessed somehow, say, to run a Beowulf cluster?
So, the wooden stake is actually the mole's attorney? The worms think a lawyer is coming, and that's why they jump out of the ground? Now it makes sense!
Does the iPhone replace a more expensive student "necessity?" Most universities either explicitly or implicitly require a computer, and in most cases, a notebook. I read the article and found no mention of a traditional pc, though I'm sure they're used. I graduated from college in 1988, when you had to go to "the computer center" to use a pc that cost several thousand dollars. Can I reimagine it now, just toting around a little iPod Touch? More connected, fantastically more portable, AND cheaper? Hell yeah.
I always thought those people were assholes, and I'd fly into a rant about how dangerous and reckless that behavior was. But they're just trying to save money. People really are basically good after all!
This particular piece is pretty bad, but I heard one of the more lucid explanations of the whole mess and bailout response by NYTimes reporter Gretchen Morgenson on NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross. That was back on September 23. You can find the podcast here; it's a little stale now as the baleout has evolved since, but Gretchen Morgenson won me as a fan that day.
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Tell me if you can hear this: Whoosh!
Sorry, couldn't resist. I don't mean to be insensitive to workers' hearing loss or any other physical or psychological effects.
Never saw that coming.
"Better ingredients. Better OS. Papa Steve's."
No, the writer still sees a place for large format and SLR cameras, especially for very big enlargements. But the point-and-shoots keep getting better and better, and while I'm no pro, I know of pros (David Hobby, Darwin Wiggett) who have reached the conclusion that they can do the job for many professional applications, and they're a lot easier to carry around. In a few years, today's digital SLR may look very clunky and dorky hanging around one's neck.
Well, that kind of takes the fun out of this kind of story in which images from a Canon point-n-shoot are indistinguishable from those taken by a $40,000 Hasselblad.
You mean InBev?
...but it has the emotional development of a 13-year old. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
e can't be serious.
Because the iPhone is expensive? For a cell phone, sure it is. But most cell phones aren't handheld computers (yet).
With telecom in many developing countries, buyers skipped having a land line and went right for cell phones. Buyers in developed economies often realize they don't need a land line. I'm not one of them, but, in today's economy, if someone buys a cell phone and it's also a usable web browser, why pony up for a desktop, laptop, or even a netbook?
I don't know if the Amish would appreciate the association with Microsoft. Yeah, they avoid modern technology, but don't they have something in common with Linux and open source, at least philosophically? Roll your own, DIY, emphasis on craftsmanship? My neighbor had a shed built for him by a Pennsylvania Amish craftsman, and the thing is beautifully made. Actually, it's a miniature replica of his (rather unusual to begin with) 1929 Tudor-style house.
No, bioluminescence is much cooler than any movie, even if it stars Clint Eastwood.
I think it's the carbon economy and the institutions that support it, academic included, that are in serious crisis. The Sierra Club ranks colleges by their greenness, and, curiously, the Ivies aren't in the top ranks. Places like Middlebury and Oberlin are. These are small colleges that focus on the teaching of undergraduates. Maybe that's part of why they seem to be leading green thinking.
I am hopeful for a new generation of leaders that are more aware of humanity's impact on the planet. Of course, it would be hard to be any less aware than the current administration.
I thought Walt Mossberg was pretty positive about it, and the gyst was that this really is a handheld computer. I have neither a G1 nor an iPhone, but I'm watching them closely. I'm a math teacher, and I would love to have a handheld Wifi-equipped computer to just slide under an overhead projector and demo stuff to my students. (Yeah, as if they don't all already have iPhones! Actually, only a few do.) The G1 lacks enough storage for me, but the data plan is more attractive. The iPhone has the storage but the data plan is a potential nightmare. Maybe an iPod Touch... Anyway, I'd expect the G1 and iPhone to converge in terms of features and data plans over the next few releases.
At any rate, I love seeing real competition in this space, AND neither is Microsoft. I expect the success of the iPhone and G1 to show my students and colleagues that there are alternatives to Windows.
if, through some quirk of the calendar, Pirate Day and Anti-Pirate Day fell on the same day? Would they annihilate each other? Could the energy released be harnessed somehow, say, to run a Beowulf cluster?
Regarding constipation, everyone's asking the same question: when will there be a subnotebook in suppository form?
No, I'm thinking he's done with the staple guns, now that all the XKCD fangirls are lining up to blow him.
So, the wooden stake is actually the mole's attorney? The worms think a lawyer is coming, and that's why they jump out of the ground? Now it makes sense!
Does the iPhone replace a more expensive student "necessity?" Most universities either explicitly or implicitly require a computer, and in most cases, a notebook. I read the article and found no mention of a traditional pc, though I'm sure they're used. I graduated from college in 1988, when you had to go to "the computer center" to use a pc that cost several thousand dollars. Can I reimagine it now, just toting around a little iPod Touch? More connected, fantastically more portable, AND cheaper? Hell yeah.
Tailgater.
I always thought those people were assholes, and I'd fly into a rant about how dangerous and reckless that behavior was. But they're just trying to save money. People really are basically good after all!
This particular piece is pretty bad, but I heard one of the more lucid explanations of the whole mess and bailout response by NYTimes reporter Gretchen Morgenson on NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross. That was back on September 23. You can find the podcast here; it's a little stale now as the baleout has evolved since, but Gretchen Morgenson won me as a fan that day.
Not really relevant, since old persons don't use email. Just ask John McCain.
Couldn't it just be repurposed to fight terrorists?
I'll never give a direct answer.
He should have used AC instead -- but then you might have survived to tell your tale.