I have crappy 42 year old eyes and I stare at a crappy samsung monitor 14 hours a day and I don't really have any issues. I think the e-ink vs. LCD situation is somewhat overblown. I'm sure it affects some people, but I don't notice anymore eyestrain on my monitor than I do reading a book for an extended period of time.
Windows tablet editions are simply windows. You use your finger as a mouse, and you use an on screen keyboard in place of a real keyboard. This is the root reason excepting expense. Why is there not a lot of tablet software? Because the tablet OS is just windows, so everything that runs on windows will run on a tablet, but the experience isn't that good. The standard mouse / keyboard interactions don't translate well. I had a Compaq tablet and it was a fun, novel experience, but after playing with it I chose a think pad t-series and gave the tablet back to IT because the track stick and the keyboard were much more conducive to a good Windows experience.
I think that people that are clamoring to have a full OS are completely missing the point; the iPad will be successful precisely because it isn't a full OS. It will be successful because it will offer the user the ability do do all the things they'd want to do on a tablet: browse the web, read their email, read a book, watch a movie, maybe play a game. Generally speaking, you're not going to write a paper, do your taxes, play Crysis, code, do serious graphic design, etc. on a tablet, unless that tablet has a full keyboard and a external or convertible monitor.
Personally speaking, based on everything I've read the iPad is almost exactly the secondary device I want. e-Book reader (yes, not eInk, I don't care), browser, movies, music, some games, and that's it. This is the device I'll take on day trips instead of my laptop, unless I need to write a document or do coding on the road. This is the device I'll use sitting on the couch or the patio to browse the web. This is the device I'll read a book on while on a plane or at a coffee shop waiting for a friend. The three things that I don't like are lack of multi-tasking (I'd like to leave skype running in the background, for instance), a front facing camera (for skype) and the lack of a USB port. By all accounts iPhone OS version 4 adds multi-tasking, and I can hook up my camera to review photos using an adapter (yuck), so essentially, no camera is my only real issue (and a small one at that) assuming the iPhone 4.0 OS info is true.
Really, I can see the iPad as the only computer needed for a large group of people. My parents for example do little on the computer other than browse the internet and do e-mail. With the 3g account they could get rid of their monthly ISP bill, and with the keyboard dock they can answer lengthy e-mails.
I predict that even in this economy the iPad will be a success for Apple.
Does that make the collision 7 TeV? Serious question - I'm not sure I completely understand the physics. OK. I almost completely don't understand them. I have read that the LHC produced collisions of 14TeV, here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronvolt and that the most energetic cosmic rays are 10^8 TeV. If all that it true, doesn't it completely and totally kill the whole "LHC will destroy the world" bullshit?
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In the case of government run health care the taxpayers inevitably pay higher taxes when it treats people who are sick.
re-fixed that for you.
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In other words, he didn't know what he was talking about and he campaigned on vaporware. Why is no one at all in the MSM asking these questions. You can bet you ass that if Bush made those types of promises and was elected and didn't deliver CNN would have crawled up his ass with a microscope.
Who's worse? The person that initiates this stuff, or the person who runs a political campaign railing against this stuff, then embraces it once elected? I respectfully suggest that you pull your head out of your ass, or is it up Obama's ass? Oh, that's right. You posted AC and will never read this. Wimp.
That's true, however all banks that I'm aware of post no firearms allowed. If I was carrying my compact concealed I might just wear it anyway - it's not a violation of state law, and all they can do is ask you to leave, but really I only go to the bank a few times a year, and most of those trips are to the drive through.
Depends on the state. I live in Arizona and I carry a handgun anytime I feel like it, anywhere but a bank or a federal building. I don't usually, because it's not necessary. Don't try this in California unless you want to see the inside of a jail cell. Gotta love states that can arrest you and convict you for exercising your constitutional rights.
is that most users prefer a "walled garden" even if they don't know that's what it is. Most users only want to do a few things on their phone such as browse the web, read e-mail, text, and make calls. Most users want a dead simple, easy to understand interface. Like iTunes or hate it, it makes setting up your phone, managing media and applications brain-dead simple even while it is somewhat limiting.
Tim can rail against the iPhone all he wants to, but at the end of the day, all I have to say to him is check the current market share scoreboard. It's going to take more than a developer evangelist shitting on the competition to increase Android's market share.
Thus far the consumer has chosen, and they have chosen iPhone by a significant margin. There's a reason why the Droid is buy one get one free on Verizon, and it's not because it's outselling the iPhone.
Apple demands not only a one-time sales price from the operators (as most other mobile manufacturers do) but also a part of the monthly fee paid by iphone-customers.
while no one out side of Apple and the carriers know for sure, it has been assumed based on information from the minimal disclosures that Apple has made that Apple had this model when they launched the first iPhone, but then changed to a standard subsidy model with the launch of the 3G iPhone.
One point of confusion for analysts is that Apple uses subscription accounting for iPhone sales. So assuming they get about $360 for AT&T for each phone sold, they recognize that revenue over 24 months, or $15 a month. It's in here somewhere.
Last time I checked Fars was the mouthpiece of the Iranian government, and Fox has been extremely critical of the current administration and congress. Your analogy is flawed. Also most of what is on Fox is commentary, not news. The "News" on Fox seems to be pretty much like the other news channels: sensational and fluffy with a sprinkle of pseudo-intellectualism.
It's only a pyramid scheme if America ceases to exist
At the rate we're racking up debt, it's very possible that America won't exist in a couple of decades, at least not financially, and certainly not as we know it...
That is on average, and there are a lot of reasons why average life span is less that just health care. Drug related violence for one, auto accidents for another which both kill a lot more people per-capata in the US than, say, Western Europe.
For example, life expectancy is higher at birth in the U.K., by 1.7 years for males and.9 years for females, but life expectancy at older ages is greater in the U.S. than in the U.K. For men, life expectancy is greater at birth and up until age 60 in the U.K., but then the pattern reverses and men can expect to live longer in the U.S. at ages 65, 70, 75, 80 and 85. By age 75, male life expectancy is greater than in the U.K. by at least six months. Likewise, U.K. women have higher life expectancy at birth and up until age 55; at ages 60 and above, American women have greater life expectancy than their U.K. counterparts, and by age 75 women live longer in the U.S. than in the U.K. by 8-9 months.
I don't have an explanation for this, but these numbers would seem to suggest that there are other factors at work than just access to health care. Most people can expect to receive the great bulk of their medical care at the end of their life. Since once you reach the age of 60 in the US you can expect to live longer than you counterparts in the UK it seems to me that there are other factors at play. Here is a crap load of data if interested: http://www.irdes.fr/EcoSante/DownLoad/OECDHealthData_FrequentlyRequestedData.xls
Regardless I vote for sending the guys (and/or gals) to the moon.
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TRS-80 Model 4 made a really good BBS system. Searchlight BBS...
I have crappy 42 year old eyes and I stare at a crappy samsung monitor 14 hours a day and I don't really have any issues. I think the e-ink vs. LCD situation is somewhat overblown. I'm sure it affects some people, but I don't notice anymore eyestrain on my monitor than I do reading a book for an extended period of time.
Windows tablet editions are simply windows. You use your finger as a mouse, and you use an on screen keyboard in place of a real keyboard. This is the root reason excepting expense. Why is there not a lot of tablet software? Because the tablet OS is just windows, so everything that runs on windows will run on a tablet, but the experience isn't that good. The standard mouse / keyboard interactions don't translate well. I had a Compaq tablet and it was a fun, novel experience, but after playing with it I chose a think pad t-series and gave the tablet back to IT because the track stick and the keyboard were much more conducive to a good Windows experience.
I think that people that are clamoring to have a full OS are completely missing the point; the iPad will be successful precisely because it isn't a full OS. It will be successful because it will offer the user the ability do do all the things they'd want to do on a tablet: browse the web, read their email, read a book, watch a movie, maybe play a game. Generally speaking, you're not going to write a paper, do your taxes, play Crysis, code, do serious graphic design, etc. on a tablet, unless that tablet has a full keyboard and a external or convertible monitor.
Personally speaking, based on everything I've read the iPad is almost exactly the secondary device I want. e-Book reader (yes, not eInk, I don't care), browser, movies, music, some games, and that's it. This is the device I'll take on day trips instead of my laptop, unless I need to write a document or do coding on the road. This is the device I'll use sitting on the couch or the patio to browse the web. This is the device I'll read a book on while on a plane or at a coffee shop waiting for a friend. The three things that I don't like are lack of multi-tasking (I'd like to leave skype running in the background, for instance), a front facing camera (for skype) and the lack of a USB port. By all accounts iPhone OS version 4 adds multi-tasking, and I can hook up my camera to review photos using an adapter (yuck), so essentially, no camera is my only real issue (and a small one at that) assuming the iPhone 4.0 OS info is true.
Really, I can see the iPad as the only computer needed for a large group of people. My parents for example do little on the computer other than browse the internet and do e-mail. With the 3g account they could get rid of their monthly ISP bill, and with the keyboard dock they can answer lengthy e-mails.
I predict that even in this economy the iPad will be a success for Apple.
it's for sale, just not shipping until April 3rd. http://www.apple.com/ipad/pre-order/?aid=AIC-WWW-NAUS-K2-PREORDER-IPAD-INDEX&cp=PREORDER-IPAD-INDEX
True, the web cams are still active. http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html
Does that make the collision 7 TeV? Serious question - I'm not sure I completely understand the physics. OK. I almost completely don't understand them. I have read that the LHC produced collisions of 14TeV, here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronvolt and that the most energetic cosmic rays are 10^8 TeV. If all that it true, doesn't it completely and totally kill the whole "LHC will destroy the world" bullshit?
re-fixed that for you.
DARPA is about it as far as I can tell...
In other words, he didn't know what he was talking about and he campaigned on vaporware. Why is no one at all in the MSM asking these questions. You can bet you ass that if Bush made those types of promises and was elected and didn't deliver CNN would have crawled up his ass with a microscope.
Not at 10-20 a week: http://www.examiner.com/x-12767-US-Headlines-Examiner~y2010m3d17-Hawaii-considers-making-it-legal-to-ignore-birther-requests-for-presidents-birth-certificate
Says the user that posted AC.
Gitmo? Still open.
Iraq? Still there.
Transparent? Health care negotiations behind closed doors.
Wire taps under the patriot act? Not discontinued under Obama http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/06/obama_doj_seeks_dismissal_wiretap_lawsuit/
Who's worse? The person that initiates this stuff, or the person who runs a political campaign railing against this stuff, then embraces it once elected? I respectfully suggest that you pull your head out of your ass, or is it up Obama's ass? Oh, that's right. You posted AC and will never read this. Wimp.
Same (or worse) as the old boss. Is anybody really surprised?
ALL of my personal info on Facebook is incorrect. What kind of fool would publish their birth date, full name and address?
That's true, however all banks that I'm aware of post no firearms allowed. If I was carrying my compact concealed I might just wear it anyway - it's not a violation of state law, and all they can do is ask you to leave, but really I only go to the bank a few times a year, and most of those trips are to the drive through.
Depends on the state. I live in Arizona and I carry a handgun anytime I feel like it, anywhere but a bank or a federal building. I don't usually, because it's not necessary. Don't try this in California unless you want to see the inside of a jail cell. Gotta love states that can arrest you and convict you for exercising your constitutional rights.
is that most users prefer a "walled garden" even if they don't know that's what it is. Most users only want to do a few things on their phone such as browse the web, read e-mail, text, and make calls. Most users want a dead simple, easy to understand interface. Like iTunes or hate it, it makes setting up your phone, managing media and applications brain-dead simple even while it is somewhat limiting.
Tim can rail against the iPhone all he wants to, but at the end of the day, all I have to say to him is check the current market share scoreboard. It's going to take more than a developer evangelist shitting on the competition to increase Android's market share.
Thus far the consumer has chosen, and they have chosen iPhone by a significant margin. There's a reason why the Droid is buy one get one free on Verizon, and it's not because it's outselling the iPhone.
Maybe Nokia should get a three-headed dog to guard their patents...
Apple demands not only a one-time sales price from the operators (as most other mobile manufacturers do) but also a part of the monthly fee paid by iphone-customers.
while no one out side of Apple and the carriers know for sure, it has been assumed based on information from the minimal disclosures that Apple has made that Apple had this model when they launched the first iPhone, but then changed to a standard subsidy model with the launch of the 3G iPhone.
One point of confusion for analysts is that Apple uses subscription accounting for iPhone sales. So assuming they get about $360 for AT&T for each phone sold, they recognize that revenue over 24 months, or $15 a month. It's in here somewhere.
Last time I checked Fars was the mouthpiece of the Iranian government, and Fox has been extremely critical of the current administration and congress. Your analogy is flawed. Also most of what is on Fox is commentary, not news. The "News" on Fox seems to be pretty much like the other news channels: sensational and fluffy with a sprinkle of pseudo-intellectualism.
The chick with the big rack that's been go googling me according to the ads on my Facebook page...
and risking jail time, what else do you expect form a dictator?
TI-99/4A with the extended BASIC module was far superior to all of them.
It's only a pyramid scheme if America ceases to exist
At the rate we're racking up debt, it's very possible that America won't exist in a couple of decades, at least not financially, and certainly not as we know it...
That is on average, and there are a lot of reasons why average life span is less that just health care. Drug related violence for one, auto accidents for another which both kill a lot more people per-capata in the US than, say, Western Europe.
For example, life expectancy is higher at birth in the U.K., by 1.7 years for males and .9 years for females, but life expectancy at older ages is greater in the U.S. than in the U.K. For men, life expectancy is greater at birth and up until age 60 in the U.K., but then the pattern reverses and men can expect to live longer in the U.S. at ages 65, 70, 75, 80 and 85. By age 75, male life expectancy is greater than in the U.K. by at least six months. Likewise, U.K. women have higher life expectancy at birth and up until age 55; at ages 60 and above, American women have greater life expectancy than their U.K. counterparts, and by age 75 women live longer in the U.S. than in the U.K. by 8-9 months.
I don't have an explanation for this, but these numbers would seem to suggest that there are other factors at work than just access to health care. Most people can expect to receive the great bulk of their medical care at the end of their life. Since once you reach the age of 60 in the US you can expect to live longer than you counterparts in the UK it seems to me that there are other factors at play. Here is a crap load of data if interested: http://www.irdes.fr/EcoSante/DownLoad/OECDHealthData_FrequentlyRequestedData.xls
Regardless I vote for sending the guys (and/or gals) to the moon.
Personally I think written dates should take the form year month day, ex. 2010 March 13th. Like decimal numbers.