Nothing beats it for what? I'll grant you security if you're absolutely worried that an unmarked van is going to be tailing you for miles and hacking into the car's wifi network. But speed? Unless the car is wired your bottleneck is going to be the car's connection to the Internet.
Although your idea would allow LAN parties in the car. Fun!
Sufficient quality for what exactly? I can see it, it looks great; but, then, an iPad or laptop isn't really the place for checking reference material. If I want the full movie experience I'll physically (like a cave man!) put the blu-ray into my home theater. Fantastic picture, better sound but not exactly bus compatible.
Using HandBrake's universal encoding preset outputs movie files I can: watch on the big screen, watch on the iPod Touch, and watch on the iPad: all with excellent video quality and access to the commentary tracks. Loading up a dozen movies or so is plenty for my portable viewing device to get me through public transit to/from work. The fact that I can also read pragmatic programmers and o'reilly books (yay epub) if I want is also fantastic.
So there you go, what can I do with the iPad that I couldn't with a laptop? Practically use it on a bus without being the annoying guy taking up 1.7 seats or doing the arm tuck squeeze the whole ride. The fact that it has enough battery power for me to use it all day long without a charge (and I mean use it for movies, books, browsing, email) is also a big plus. My laptop makes it 3, maybe 4, hours without a charge; my iPad makes it 10 or 12.
The iPad has essentially replaced my laptop for everything except coding and encoding.
Still? It will *always* be the age of bacteria. They simply out-live us. There's more of them by any measure you'd care to take, they adapt faster, they survive in more environments, and they were here first. We've evolved around their presence. We literally could not live without them.
Also, that's an excellent point in the crazy global warming debate. I don't think enough people know/realize that the Earth's atmosphere wasn't always as oxygen rich as it is now.
Unfortunately IT certification has nowhere near the requirements and rigor that doctor and engineer certification requires.
If IT certification were more than "pay $amount -> get cert" then I'd be all for giving them credence. But they aren't. Currently they just highlight the programmer or IT professional who wants to hide their incompetence with paper.
Seriously? I personally don't know anyone that listens to music radio stations anymore. NPR sure, but other than that it's CDs, burned CDs, and iPods. Because clearchannel took over and turned the airwaves into bland mush.
Correct. That's been the case since January 2009 when Apple strong-armed the music industry into allowing them to remove the DRM from the iTunes store.
It used to be, that if you had a computer you had to work to get it to do anything fun/useful. Constructing a dos bootdisk to play Wing Commander that would load all the necessary modules (HIMEM.SYS!) without going over the limit started me, or at least continued to push me, down the technical career path. That doesn't mean that those computers magically turned me into a computer geek, just that only geeks played computer videogames.
Nowadays, computers can be simple devices no more interactive than a television. After setting up the Internet and a browser you can stop thinking and just veg out on youtube, facebook, flash game sites, etc. The great thing about computers is that they are generic devices, they can do just about anything that you want.
Buying kids art supplies doesn't magically make artists. Buying kids dictionaries doesn't magically confer a large vocabulary. Buying kids TVs doesn't magically transmit every educational documentary into their brains.
A flashlight doesn't have purely cosmetic features that make it look more like a lightsaber. Gotta say that I'm siding with Lucasarts on this one. They were clearly trying to convey a sense of "lightsaber" with the design.
Replacing. The general populace sees the untethering of their data from a local device as a huge benefit. No more worries about data transfer, backups, etc.
Even in my (techie nerd) case the iPad has replaced my laptop far more than I thought it would. Instead of just being used for occasional web browsing and email and some fun apps, it fast became my dominate computing platform outside of work. The only things I still use my laptop for are coding and transcoding. Everything else, from casual browsing to reading documentation to email to videos to netflix to crazy apps I didn't even know existed (seriously, I can hold my iPad up to the night sky and it will show me what astronomical features I'm gazing at as I pan it around): all iPad. It's a little mind boggling how my almost brand new laptop quickly started to feel like an antiquated piece of computing. Like booting up an old computer: fun and useful, but only to a point.
My wife grew up surrounded by animals and has extremely bad allergies. She didn't know what it was like to breathe normally until she moved into her first apartment that had always been animal-free.
I prefer scattered information myself. If I need a term, I'll look it up and get an actual understanding and more information than I'd get from a single sentence explanation.
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Perhaps you are assigning a value and testing on it at the same time.
if (foo=unknown_result()) { print "unknown_result returned a True value which is now in foo"; }
Nothing beats it for what? I'll grant you security if you're absolutely worried that an unmarked van is going to be tailing you for miles and hacking into the car's wifi network. But speed? Unless the car is wired your bottleneck is going to be the car's connection to the Internet.
Although your idea would allow LAN parties in the car. Fun!
Good ol' configuring *expanded* (opposed to extended) memory for Wing Commander 1+2.
Damn September.
Depends on your definition of humanity. Life will continue, to be sure. Whether or not you'd call it humanity is an open question.
Sufficient quality for what exactly? I can see it, it looks great; but, then, an iPad or laptop isn't really the place for checking reference material. If I want the full movie experience I'll physically (like a cave man!) put the blu-ray into my home theater. Fantastic picture, better sound but not exactly bus compatible.
Ok.
Using HandBrake's universal encoding preset outputs movie files I can: watch on the big screen, watch on the iPod Touch, and watch on the iPad: all with excellent video quality and access to the commentary tracks. Loading up a dozen movies or so is plenty for my portable viewing device to get me through public transit to/from work. The fact that I can also read pragmatic programmers and o'reilly books (yay epub) if I want is also fantastic.
So there you go, what can I do with the iPad that I couldn't with a laptop? Practically use it on a bus without being the annoying guy taking up 1.7 seats or doing the arm tuck squeeze the whole ride. The fact that it has enough battery power for me to use it all day long without a charge (and I mean use it for movies, books, browsing, email) is also a big plus. My laptop makes it 3, maybe 4, hours without a charge; my iPad makes it 10 or 12.
The iPad has essentially replaced my laptop for everything except coding and encoding.
Technology doesn't drive families apart, nor does it bring them together.
Hey now, I resen...ooh another new shiny app!
I like my glossy screens for coding, even in the sunlight I'll happily code on my macbook or take notes on my ipad.
Still? It will *always* be the age of bacteria. They simply out-live us. There's more of them by any measure you'd care to take, they adapt faster, they survive in more environments, and they were here first. We've evolved around their presence. We literally could not live without them.
Also, that's an excellent point in the crazy global warming debate. I don't think enough people know/realize that the Earth's atmosphere wasn't always as oxygen rich as it is now.
Unfortunately IT certification has nowhere near the requirements and rigor that doctor and engineer certification requires.
If IT certification were more than "pay $amount -> get cert" then I'd be all for giving them credence. But they aren't. Currently they just highlight the programmer or IT professional who wants to hide their incompetence with paper.
Never?
Oh no! A company is trying to let me know about a product it sells!
Oh no! A company is trying to target it's advertising so that I'm not bored with useless ads!
The horror?
Seriously? I personally don't know anyone that listens to music radio stations anymore. NPR sure, but other than that it's CDs, burned CDs, and iPods. Because clearchannel took over and turned the airwaves into bland mush.
Correct. That's been the case since January 2009 when Apple strong-armed the music industry into allowing them to remove the DRM from the iTunes store.
Yes. Computer's aren't magical education transmitters.
It used to be, that if you had a computer you had to work to get it to do anything fun/useful. Constructing a dos bootdisk to play Wing Commander that would load all the necessary modules (HIMEM.SYS!) without going over the limit started me, or at least continued to push me, down the technical career path. That doesn't mean that those computers magically turned me into a computer geek, just that only geeks played computer videogames.
Nowadays, computers can be simple devices no more interactive than a television. After setting up the Internet and a browser you can stop thinking and just veg out on youtube, facebook, flash game sites, etc. The great thing about computers is that they are generic devices, they can do just about anything that you want.
Buying kids art supplies doesn't magically make artists. Buying kids dictionaries doesn't magically confer a large vocabulary. Buying kids TVs doesn't magically transmit every educational documentary into their brains.
A flashlight doesn't have purely cosmetic features that make it look more like a lightsaber. Gotta say that I'm siding with Lucasarts on this one. They were clearly trying to convey a sense of "lightsaber" with the design.
Replacing. The general populace sees the untethering of their data from a local device as a huge benefit. No more worries about data transfer, backups, etc.
Even in my (techie nerd) case the iPad has replaced my laptop far more than I thought it would. Instead of just being used for occasional web browsing and email and some fun apps, it fast became my dominate computing platform outside of work. The only things I still use my laptop for are coding and transcoding. Everything else, from casual browsing to reading documentation to email to videos to netflix to crazy apps I didn't even know existed (seriously, I can hold my iPad up to the night sky and it will show me what astronomical features I'm gazing at as I pan it around): all iPad. It's a little mind boggling how my almost brand new laptop quickly started to feel like an antiquated piece of computing. Like booting up an old computer: fun and useful, but only to a point.
My wife grew up surrounded by animals and has extremely bad allergies. She didn't know what it was like to breathe normally until she moved into her first apartment that had always been animal-free.
Anecdotal evidence is anecdotal.
Not as rare as you think if you factor in that all motorcycles have a manual transmission.
I prefer scattered information myself. If I need a term, I'll look it up and get an actual understanding and more information than I'd get from a single sentence explanation.
I'm not disagreeing with #2, but I don't get your use cases. Why print an email or directions, don't you have your iPad?
I found that rolling my own package was more user friendly than shoehorning into LaTeX.
Being bored is not a prerequisite for forming grand mental models. Some actually think for the fun of thinking.