A $99 iPad would be a true game-changer, and I think something along those lines is the next step.
Yes, if it cost one fifth of its present cost, it would be nice. It does not.
My wife is perfectly content to watch DVDs, out of a box, on her laptop. I thought that was madness when I first saw it.
(Emphasis added.) Odds are her laptop was cheaper than an iPad.
Which doesn't, I should add, play DVDs. A casual TV watcher could have replaced their TV with a laptop last year between Hulu and (ordinary mail-order) Netflix.
The iPad will never be there. The screen is too small.
By 2015? Let's do the math... i7 is quad-core 3ghz, iPad is single-core 1ghz. Moore's law asks for doubling every 1.5 years, so it should grow 8 times in the intervening time, so you should have 2ghz*4. Not quite an Itanium, but then the iPad is optimized for battery life. If it had the battery life of your laptop it could handle considerably more, so yeah, you will have a tablet with an i7 and comparable integrated graphics chip by 2015.
Yes. Because your tablet will have dual HDMI ports, with several USB ports that you can plug into your nice display and keyboard with several mice and not know the difference.
You still think that you're going to have a desktop in 5 years, don't you?
I've got news for you: by 2015, most computers will be phone/tablet/netbook form factor devices that you plug into some sort of a dock when you want to sit down at a desk. Having established Linux kernel drivers so these function with existing devices is going to be a key issue.
By 2020, you will not be able to buy a phone without the ability to dock it in this manner.
But the article basically explains why anyway. The majority of mobile platforms are Linux based, and keeping WebOS strengthens the Linux ecosystem. And objectively, driver support is where most of the issues are going to come into play. Between RIM, iPhone OS, Android, and WinMo, the market is already too fragmented for anyone hoping to reach everyone with a single native application to do so. What's going to be important is what you can plug into your phone (monitor, keyboard, printer, flash drive, etc. ) Apps are icing on the cake, and browser apps for the most part can get all the functionality of a native app. And given that the majority run Webkit, you can even get away with not testing on too many platforms. (Screen size and dimensions are the bigger issue anyway.)
CPU is questionable given the GPU differences. Nexus may have hopped on the Snapdragon bandwagon a little too soon for it to give a ton of benefit over the Droid.
It's also worth noting the Droid is intentionally underclocked like most of the iPhones. For a mobile device, it seems like the natural state of being is to underclock the processor for battery savings.
So far nobody has died because of the nuclear industry's negligence. What we need is a probe of our coal industry, and expansion of the comparably clean nuclear engery, with research into minimizing and recycling nuclear waste for fuel.
My largest concern is what chance my Droid sitting in my breast pocket might give me breast cancer (which men do get.) Especially whenever it's running hot, there's enough energy just in heat radiating off the thing that over the course of years I could see problems possibly arising.
Of course, no more than any other electronic device, but until now I haven't been in the habit of keeping them within millimeters of my skin all day.
There's really not much they can do with that information beyond getting statistics on what sort of routers are in use, and how much security there is. I mean, what are they going to do, put up a public database for wardrivers to take advantage of? I just don't see where this information is potentially a privacy violation unless they already know everything else about you.
If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place, but if you really need that kind of privacy, the reality is that search engines including Google do retain this information for some time, and it's important, for example that we are all subject in the United States to the Patriot Act. It is possible that that information could be made available to the authorities.
Basically he's saying it's not as big a deal as everyone's making it out to be if they publish it on the Internet, because the US government is legally empowered to confiscate all of it without much due process.
Wikipedia has proven that peer review can be supported for almost nothing. If universities got their shit together they could make one massive data store with zero difficulty, and no middlemen making it impossible to find crap without spending hundreds of dollars per researcher for month.
The storage and administrative costs for all research papers should cost at most $50/researcher, and that's probably enough to build twenty redundant data centers around the world to carry every copy of every research paper published for the past twenty years.
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Certainly. Especially if you want to do massive fuzz testing to look for vulnerabilities and bugs in said browser.
It isn't worth the price premium when you can't backup and it won't play without more tools to prevent you from backing up or even watching it.
You horrible person, using Apple software in conjunction with non-Apple software.
Yes, if it cost one fifth of its present cost, it would be nice. It does not.
(Emphasis added.) Odds are her laptop was cheaper than an iPad.
Which doesn't, I should add, play DVDs. A casual TV watcher could have replaced their TV with a laptop last year between Hulu and (ordinary mail-order) Netflix.
The iPad will never be there. The screen is too small.
It sounds like this is not an actual display, just a film that translates infrared light into visible light when it is supplied with power.
By 2015? Let's do the math... i7 is quad-core 3ghz, iPad is single-core 1ghz. Moore's law asks for doubling every 1.5 years, so it should grow 8 times in the intervening time, so you should have 2ghz*4. Not quite an Itanium, but then the iPad is optimized for battery life. If it had the battery life of your laptop it could handle considerably more, so yeah, you will have a tablet with an i7 and comparable integrated graphics chip by 2015.
Yes. Because your tablet will have dual HDMI ports, with several USB ports that you can plug into your nice display and keyboard with several mice and not know the difference.
Idiot.
You still think that you're going to have a desktop in 5 years, don't you?
I've got news for you: by 2015, most computers will be phone/tablet/netbook form factor devices that you plug into some sort of a dock when you want to sit down at a desk. Having established Linux kernel drivers so these function with existing devices is going to be a key issue.
By 2020, you will not be able to buy a phone without the ability to dock it in this manner.
But the article basically explains why anyway. The majority of mobile platforms are Linux based, and keeping WebOS strengthens the Linux ecosystem. And objectively, driver support is where most of the issues are going to come into play. Between RIM, iPhone OS, Android, and WinMo, the market is already too fragmented for anyone hoping to reach everyone with a single native application to do so. What's going to be important is what you can plug into your phone (monitor, keyboard, printer, flash drive, etc. ) Apps are icing on the cake, and browser apps for the most part can get all the functionality of a native app. And given that the majority run Webkit, you can even get away with not testing on too many platforms. (Screen size and dimensions are the bigger issue anyway.)
New management, new market. There's no reason for WebOS to sink or swim other than what HP decides to do with it.
Tell that to my boss.
Only as slow as your connection.
And the point is "slow" is relative. It's very fast compared to remote desktop solutions.
CPU is questionable given the GPU differences. Nexus may have hopped on the Snapdragon bandwagon a little too soon for it to give a ton of benefit over the Droid.
It's also worth noting the Droid is intentionally underclocked like most of the iPhones. For a mobile device, it seems like the natural state of being is to underclock the processor for battery savings.
Blazing lights coming off your property are an invitation to park on the side of the road and read a map.
Naturally regulation is essential. But the point is that at current levels of regulation, nuclear is much safer than coal.
So far nobody has died because of the nuclear industry's negligence. What we need is a probe of our coal industry, and expansion of the comparably clean nuclear engery, with research into minimizing and recycling nuclear waste for fuel.
My largest concern is what chance my Droid sitting in my breast pocket might give me breast cancer (which men do get.) Especially whenever it's running hot, there's enough energy just in heat radiating off the thing that over the course of years I could see problems possibly arising.
Of course, no more than any other electronic device, but until now I haven't been in the habit of keeping them within millimeters of my skin all day.
There's really not much they can do with that information beyond getting statistics on what sort of routers are in use, and how much security there is. I mean, what are they going to do, put up a public database for wardrivers to take advantage of? I just don't see where this information is potentially a privacy violation unless they already know everything else about you.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/184446/googles_schmidt_roasted_for_privacy_comments.html
Basically he's saying it's not as big a deal as everyone's making it out to be if they publish it on the Internet, because the US government is legally empowered to confiscate all of it without much due process.
Who is this aimed at if not people who are hoping to cancel their cable subscriptions? Why would anyone pay twice for (mostly) the same shows?
But the point is all that is managing access... it should actually be easier than Wikipedia. The journal has basically nothing to do with it.
On the subject of text messaging, it's obvious to anyone with a brain that there's been collusion.
If they were trying to optimize their networks and provide better service, the base plan would be for text and voice minutes would cost extra.
$50/month.
Wikipedia has proven that peer review can be supported for almost nothing. If universities got their shit together they could make one massive data store with zero difficulty, and no middlemen making it impossible to find crap without spending hundreds of dollars per researcher for month.
The storage and administrative costs for all research papers should cost at most $50/researcher, and that's probably enough to build twenty redundant data centers around the world to carry every copy of every research paper published for the past twenty years.
They've been too busy trying to create a true cross-platform desktop player that supports not sucking.