When the status quo was a room full of vacuum tubes, I doubt that the way forward (solid state transistors) was as clear as you suggest. Hindsight is 20/20 and all that. There is a vast world of difference between making smaller, faster, better vacuum tubes, and making a transistor. So I think GP's suggestion that we are in the vacuum tube era of quantum computing is reasonable, and we are waiting on the equivalent of a quantum transistor to make quantum computing feasible.
I think that the fanboy crowd is much less important to the iPhone's success in 2011 than it was in 2007. I have a hard time believing that there are 37 million fanboys out there, and that's how many iPhones Apple sold last quarter. Fanboys are important at the beginning of a product's existence, as guinea pigs and evangelists. But depending on them alone is not sustainable in the long run, and to actually grow the product has to appeal to non-fanboys as well.
What WebOS didn't have that both iOS and Android have, which I believe is the main reason it failed, is a well established ecosystem. Android has the Android market as well as Google docs, Google voice, Google maps, etc. all integrated with a single Google ID. iOS has the App Store, as well as iTunes, iBooks, iCloud, etc. all integrated with a single Apple ID.
Smartphones today can't stand alone as isolated devices, even if they are really amazing devices. They need the rest of the ecosystem to survive. That's why WebOS failed, and why Windows Phone 7 is struggling. Both are pretty good systems. But they both lack the well established ecosystem that iOS and Android have.
Only if you take a revisionist view of history. Solid fuel rockets were invented by the Chinese in the 9th century as an application of their invention of gunpowder. Tsiolkovsky did write about ideas for improving rockets (Wikipedia says 1903, not 1907) including ideas on using liquid fuels. But I wouldn't exactly call it a 'design'. More like a 'brainstorm'. The design credit would go to Goddard in 1912 who actually developed the first working design for liquid fueled rockets.
3)... The BBC article says it "went missing shortly after takeoff in November is due to crash land on Earth this weekend". I'm not sure how the BBC puts those conflicting details in the same sentence, but keep up the typical good work BBC.
Not exactly conflicting. By "went missing", they mean they weren't able to establish a communications link with it. It was then subsequently found both visually by amateur astronomers and by radar tracking stations. This allowed an orbital trajectory to be determined, and also indicated that it was tumbling. So while they aren't able to communicate with it, they know exactly where it is and where it is going.
There really is a sort of sublime irony in a poster blatantly ripping off a blog post which defends the idea that certain companies are ripping off Apple.
The flexibility of the applications to move from one platform to another...
This is actually the case, and not just marketing. 'Write once, run everywhere' truly can work. Where I work, our business applications are all written in Java, running in Tomcat. Our server infrastructure is a mix of Linux and Windows servers, depending on which suits a particular task better. We recently had to move an app from a Linux app server to a Windows app server due to compatibility issues in integration with a 3rd party application, and the app was able to be moved without modifying it at all.
The vegan (as opposed to vegetarian) "philosophy" prohibits using or consuming anything animal derived, even if the animal itself isn't killed. That's why vegans won't drink milk or eat honey. So even silk that didn't involve killing the worms still came from worms, and is therefore still a vegan taboo.
Having never heard of the server in question until this/. article, when I read the summary my mind parsed the name as alternately 'neh-GIN-ex' or 'en-GIN-ex' with 'GIN' pronounced like in 'begin', not like the drink.
Using a solitary 'N' as a syllable at the beginning of a name is ambiguous as to whether the implied vowel should be at the beginning or the end. For example, when I first saw its name printed, I thought the graphics card manufacturer was pronounced 'neh-vid-ee-ah'.
The United States is a Common Law country. That means simply that precedent is in fact law. If you don't like the idea of courts establishing law through precedent, then move to a Statutory Law country.
Many biblical scholars believe exactly that. That certain portions of the Hebrew oral tradition that was later codified in the Genesis portion of the Torah did in fact originate during the Babylonian exile period.
Well, if you accept that language change is not constant , then one could argue that given two languages that evolved from a common parent language (such as Icelandic and Norwegian evolving from Old Norse), if one has changed less from the parent language (Icelandic) than the other (Norwegian) over time, then it could be considered to be 'less evolved'.
But aside from that one pedantic nitpick, mod parent up, please.
Prior art doesn't matter anymore. The US is now a first-to-file country. And since Apple was the first to file a patent on glossy black surfaces with rounded corners, ancient Mesopotamians are now banned from importing or selling their stela in the US. Also, it helps that Apple can hire better lawyers than extinct civilizations can.
A correction to your analogy: The nuances and differences between communism, socialism, and progressivism are as meaningful as the nuances and differences between the effects and uses of different types of nuclear reactors. Certain kinds can be found in bombs whose only purpose is to destroy, while others can be found in power plants. The latter can either be horribly dangerous or immensely beneficial, depending on how well they are designed and maintained.
Communism clearly lends itself to totalitarianism (USSR, NK, Cuba) even though that wasn't its original intent by Marx or even Lennin. Socialism can benefit a society if handled carefully (Sweden, Norway), though it has a high potential for abuse. Progressivism concerns itself mostly with social justice issues, and only takes on economic issues when they directly relate to the oppressed, such as advocating for a minimum wage. Advocating for civil rights is a far cry from totalitarianism. MLK Jr. and his movement had no desire for political power. Just for equality.
People who truly have an accurate vision of the future don't make silly public predictions or videos about where they think technology will be in 5 years. They work in secret in labs at places like Google or Apple making said future actually happen so that in 5 years they can sell it to you.
The "no we won't listen to what users want" mentality also spread to their handling of bug fixes. I know one datapoint doesn't make a pattern, but a former coworker of mine submitted a bug report to the FF team, and the response was something along the lines of "FF is open source. You're a software developer. Why don't you submit a patch yourself rather than just complaining about it." Never mind the fact that said former coworker was a web developer, and even a pro at HTML/CSS/Javascript may know when a browser feature is broken but won't have a clue how to fix it.
It is in fact made of equilateral hexagons and pentagons. What it isn't made up of is true equilateral triangles. Each triangle face is slightly elongated so that the vertex of the triangle is raised above the plane of the hexagon/pentagon so that the resulting vertex is on the same circumscribed sphere that the hexagon/pentagon vertexes are on. That results in two different lengths of chords in the final dome, but all of the chords forming hexagons and pentagons in the base 'soccer ball' will be equilateral.
Note that the gingerbread pattern isn't a true geodesic dome, as it is made up of just the hexagons and pentagons, not the subdivided triangles. So a gingerbread dome-home made from the http://www.geo-dome.co.uk/ pattern would be more impressive and satisfying to the pedantic nerds here on/.
The right tools to create web sites are web standards. But the right tools for building a RIA consist of proper application frameworks and SDKs. Flash provides this in the form of Flex and BlazeDS, something that HTML5 currently lacks. I agree that flash has no place on the common web, but it certainly is a decent platform for RIAs.
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Flash may have not been originally intended to create applications, but the Flex framework and BlazeDS make it a very nice platform for doing so. Much better than developing an RIA directly in HTML/JS/CSS.
When you get to hundreds of people, you now have a small community. Living in 'isolation' with 500 people for 3 years is night and day compared to the psychological experience of living in isolation with 5.
There are two ways to activate Siri. You can hold the home button for 2 seconds and then talk at your phone, or you can just hold the phone up to your ear like you were on a call. When you just hold it up to your ear, the proximity sensor detects that, and automatically activates Siri. So unless you shout into your phone so everyone in the room can hear your conversation, nobody should be able to tell whether you are talking to someone on a phone call, or talking to Siri.
What I've found I use Siri for the most is things that would require typing more than two words, especially putting together to-do lists and reminders. It's much faster to say what I want than to type it out. I have never used android's voice features, but I get the feeling that I probably wouldn't want to have to memorize and remember the exact order of words to use for the commands I'd want to use.
Having to memorize a set of actions required to interface with a computer is fine for most geeks, but a definite barrier to technology for the rest of the non-geek world. That's why personal computers only became mainstream when the GUI replaced the CLI, why Palm's Graffiti (or similar systems) is not the primary input method of handhelds in the smartphone era, and it's why Siri will have a much greater adoption and usage rate among non-geeks than Android's voice commands.
iOS 4 runs so craptastically on my 3G that it probably shouldn't have been available for that phone in the first place. There was absolutely no surprise whatsoever that it is only available on the 3GS and better.
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When the status quo was a room full of vacuum tubes, I doubt that the way forward (solid state transistors) was as clear as you suggest. Hindsight is 20/20 and all that. There is a vast world of difference between making smaller, faster, better vacuum tubes, and making a transistor. So I think GP's suggestion that we are in the vacuum tube era of quantum computing is reasonable, and we are waiting on the equivalent of a quantum transistor to make quantum computing feasible.
With the Libertarians.
I think that the fanboy crowd is much less important to the iPhone's success in 2011 than it was in 2007. I have a hard time believing that there are 37 million fanboys out there, and that's how many iPhones Apple sold last quarter. Fanboys are important at the beginning of a product's existence, as guinea pigs and evangelists. But depending on them alone is not sustainable in the long run, and to actually grow the product has to appeal to non-fanboys as well.
What WebOS didn't have that both iOS and Android have, which I believe is the main reason it failed, is a well established ecosystem. Android has the Android market as well as Google docs, Google voice, Google maps, etc. all integrated with a single Google ID. iOS has the App Store, as well as iTunes, iBooks, iCloud, etc. all integrated with a single Apple ID.
Smartphones today can't stand alone as isolated devices, even if they are really amazing devices. They need the rest of the ecosystem to survive. That's why WebOS failed, and why Windows Phone 7 is struggling. Both are pretty good systems. But they both lack the well established ecosystem that iOS and Android have.
Only if you take a revisionist view of history. Solid fuel rockets were invented by the Chinese in the 9th century as an application of their invention of gunpowder. Tsiolkovsky did write about ideas for improving rockets (Wikipedia says 1903, not 1907) including ideas on using liquid fuels. But I wouldn't exactly call it a 'design'. More like a 'brainstorm'. The design credit would go to Goddard in 1912 who actually developed the first working design for liquid fueled rockets.
3) ... The BBC article says it "went missing shortly after takeoff in November is due to crash land on Earth this weekend". I'm not sure how the BBC puts those conflicting details in the same sentence, but keep up the typical good work BBC.
Not exactly conflicting. By "went missing", they mean they weren't able to establish a communications link with it. It was then subsequently found both visually by amateur astronomers and by radar tracking stations. This allowed an orbital trajectory to be determined, and also indicated that it was tumbling. So while they aren't able to communicate with it, they know exactly where it is and where it is going.
There really is a sort of sublime irony in a poster blatantly ripping off a blog post which defends the idea that certain companies are ripping off Apple.
http://macjournals.com/blog/2012/01/10/dan-lyons-showing-self-awareness-what-self-awareness/
Unless, of course, bonch really is Matt Deatherage of MacJournals, in which case, congratulations on quoting yourself.
The satisfaction of knowing you were correct.
The flexibility of the applications to move from one platform to another ...
This is actually the case, and not just marketing. 'Write once, run everywhere' truly can work. Where I work, our business applications are all written in Java, running in Tomcat. Our server infrastructure is a mix of Linux and Windows servers, depending on which suits a particular task better. We recently had to move an app from a Linux app server to a Windows app server due to compatibility issues in integration with a 3rd party application, and the app was able to be moved without modifying it at all.
The vegan (as opposed to vegetarian) "philosophy" prohibits using or consuming anything animal derived, even if the animal itself isn't killed. That's why vegans won't drink milk or eat honey. So even silk that didn't involve killing the worms still came from worms, and is therefore still a vegan taboo.
Having never heard of the server in question until this /. article, when I read the summary my mind parsed the name as alternately 'neh-GIN-ex' or 'en-GIN-ex' with 'GIN' pronounced like in 'begin', not like the drink.
Using a solitary 'N' as a syllable at the beginning of a name is ambiguous as to whether the implied vowel should be at the beginning or the end. For example, when I first saw its name printed, I thought the graphics card manufacturer was pronounced 'neh-vid-ee-ah'.
The United States is a Common Law country. That means simply that precedent is in fact law. If you don't like the idea of courts establishing law through precedent, then move to a Statutory Law country.
Many biblical scholars believe exactly that. That certain portions of the Hebrew oral tradition that was later codified in the Genesis portion of the Torah did in fact originate during the Babylonian exile period.
Well, if you accept that language change is not constant , then one could argue that given two languages that evolved from a common parent language (such as Icelandic and Norwegian evolving from Old Norse), if one has changed less from the parent language (Icelandic) than the other (Norwegian) over time, then it could be considered to be 'less evolved'.
But aside from that one pedantic nitpick, mod parent up, please.
Prior art doesn't matter anymore. The US is now a first-to-file country. And since Apple was the first to file a patent on glossy black surfaces with rounded corners, ancient Mesopotamians are now banned from importing or selling their stela in the US. Also, it helps that Apple can hire better lawyers than extinct civilizations can.
A correction to your analogy: The nuances and differences between communism, socialism, and progressivism are as meaningful as the nuances and differences between the effects and uses of different types of nuclear reactors. Certain kinds can be found in bombs whose only purpose is to destroy, while others can be found in power plants. The latter can either be horribly dangerous or immensely beneficial, depending on how well they are designed and maintained.
Communism clearly lends itself to totalitarianism (USSR, NK, Cuba) even though that wasn't its original intent by Marx or even Lennin. Socialism can benefit a society if handled carefully (Sweden, Norway), though it has a high potential for abuse. Progressivism concerns itself mostly with social justice issues, and only takes on economic issues when they directly relate to the oppressed, such as advocating for a minimum wage. Advocating for civil rights is a far cry from totalitarianism. MLK Jr. and his movement had no desire for political power. Just for equality.
People who truly have an accurate vision of the future don't make silly public predictions or videos about where they think technology will be in 5 years. They work in secret in labs at places like Google or Apple making said future actually happen so that in 5 years they can sell it to you.
The "no we won't listen to what users want" mentality also spread to their handling of bug fixes. I know one datapoint doesn't make a pattern, but a former coworker of mine submitted a bug report to the FF team, and the response was something along the lines of "FF is open source. You're a software developer. Why don't you submit a patch yourself rather than just complaining about it." Never mind the fact that said former coworker was a web developer, and even a pro at HTML/CSS/Javascript may know when a browser feature is broken but won't have a clue how to fix it.
It is in fact made of equilateral hexagons and pentagons. What it isn't made up of is true equilateral triangles. Each triangle face is slightly elongated so that the vertex of the triangle is raised above the plane of the hexagon/pentagon so that the resulting vertex is on the same circumscribed sphere that the hexagon/pentagon vertexes are on. That results in two different lengths of chords in the final dome, but all of the chords forming hexagons and pentagons in the base 'soccer ball' will be equilateral.
Note that the gingerbread pattern isn't a true geodesic dome, as it is made up of just the hexagons and pentagons, not the subdivided triangles. So a gingerbread dome-home made from the http://www.geo-dome.co.uk/ pattern would be more impressive and satisfying to the pedantic nerds here on /.
The right tools to create web sites are web standards. But the right tools for building a RIA consist of proper application frameworks and SDKs. Flash provides this in the form of Flex and BlazeDS, something that HTML5 currently lacks. I agree that flash has no place on the common web, but it certainly is a decent platform for RIAs.
Flash may have not been originally intended to create applications, but the Flex framework and BlazeDS make it a very nice platform for doing so. Much better than developing an RIA directly in HTML/JS/CSS.
These ships sometimes had hundreds of people
might possibly be the reason why
the men did not go bat shit insane.
When you get to hundreds of people, you now have a small community. Living in 'isolation' with 500 people for 3 years is night and day compared to the psychological experience of living in isolation with 5.
There are two ways to activate Siri. You can hold the home button for 2 seconds and then talk at your phone, or you can just hold the phone up to your ear like you were on a call. When you just hold it up to your ear, the proximity sensor detects that, and automatically activates Siri. So unless you shout into your phone so everyone in the room can hear your conversation, nobody should be able to tell whether you are talking to someone on a phone call, or talking to Siri.
What I've found I use Siri for the most is things that would require typing more than two words, especially putting together to-do lists and reminders. It's much faster to say what I want than to type it out. I have never used android's voice features, but I get the feeling that I probably wouldn't want to have to memorize and remember the exact order of words to use for the commands I'd want to use.
Having to memorize a set of actions required to interface with a computer is fine for most geeks, but a definite barrier to technology for the rest of the non-geek world. That's why personal computers only became mainstream when the GUI replaced the CLI, why Palm's Graffiti (or similar systems) is not the primary input method of handhelds in the smartphone era, and it's why Siri will have a much greater adoption and usage rate among non-geeks than Android's voice commands.
Because OTA updates in the Android world have completely killed off rooting, right?
iOS 4 runs so craptastically on my 3G that it probably shouldn't have been available for that phone in the first place. There was absolutely no surprise whatsoever that it is only available on the 3GS and better.