read the first one, didn't care for it so never finished the trilogy. A better book, if I remember correctly, was Mars Crossing, it was well written from a technical standpoint and made me never want to travel in space unless it was like Star Trek, shattering my childhood dreams. All the very real problems they had, the confines, the hostility towards life. No thanks.
If it's like dictation on the iPhone then its almost the same thing. It uses the same voice and has all the dictation abilities of Siri. Using the handicap accessibility feature to add "speak" to the copy menu, it can even read to you any highlighted text at varying speeds (great for listening in the car to emails, notes, or reviews).
My guess is they are artificially holding back on that small switch for the next iPhone release or iOS 6.0. Siri is much more useful on an iPhone than on a tablet in it's current state. Until they allow Siri to (officially) start interacting more with some 3rd party apps and controlling settings in iOS then there isn't as much of a point by putting it on a tablet. They aren't as mobile as phones.
I can't be the only one that thinks the new name, Play Store, sounds a lot like something that would come from a children's toy mfg. Not the image you want to brand on your serious apps. Should've kept it Market.
It's a nice clarification of statements by many involved but the final conclusion is still a guess as to actually what happened. It does not "debunk" the story only offers an alternative possibility of actual events.
Most think it is the exercise and weight training that they lose weight with. For some it is but for most it is a few extra calories burned but not the amount that approaches what you lose during the day just living. Diet cannot be overlooked for [healthy] weight loss. It's depressing to see how many calories you burned running for 20 minutes and then realize those are just enough to cover that non-diet cola you had earlier in the day.
For pics and videos you have Google+/Picasa web albums and with G+ it's near unlimited space for normal size things. For documents there's Google Docs, as mentioned. What else do you need? Are they going to unify this into a single space or create a Carbonite type backup system? It seems like they already have a "Google Drive", it's just slightly broken up into separate services that enhance the features of the content.
I welcome it, just wonder about usage. I have a SkyDrive acct with 25GB free that I hardly use. Perhaps this is more oriented towards their Google Apps business accounts.
points out that every Tea Party meeting he has attended began in prayer
So do sessions of Congress and many other government activities, let alone sporting events and numerous other activities. Starting with a prayer doesn't mean you want to install a theocracy. Congress used to print bibles for schools, yet I don't recall the founding fathers setting up a theocracy.
Reminds me of the latest Mission Impossible:Ghost Recall movie where they have contact that provide a sort of data feed to a local smartphone. Though thinking about it, there seems to be an easier way to implement than a contact for the purposes they were using it for...
My iPhone 3GS can do basic voice actions as well. Your anecdote is nothing new and one that everyone already knows about. You have never used Siri I can tell.
Way to go, highlighting the fact you have an illegal copy of the Muppets which isn't even out on DVD until the end of March. This doesn't help the promotion of the Pi.
WebOS failed on two fronts:
WebOS failed where Apple succeeded because WebOS didn't have the cult following,
And why didn't WebOS have the "cult" following? Seems it/they should have spent more on marketing or at least making things that everyone wanted. The most technically superior product does not always win and thankfully so.
There are only 3 models of iOS phones currently being sold. You can't expect one of the tens-hundreds of Android phones to outsell anything on a platform of only 3 models.
And the reason for this is that Android users have Choice - this is a Good Thing, not a Bad Thing.
It's only good to a point to where the models are actually supported. If you buy a smartphone and the mfg never updates the software or supports it afterwards due to the next big thing coming out, I don't see how anyone can see that as a good thing, unless the model was near perfect at launch. Having too much of this Good Thing leads to bad things.
THAT did save Apple to some extent as Steve's said that they were days away from bankruptcy.
No, not according to news reports at the time. Apple had 1.2 B in cash on hand. The 150M was nice but was nothing that would save them from any bankruptcy. The bigger help was Office for Mac and other cross licensing deals.
And IMHO, reading on the iPad is just fine. The same as reading on your coveted laptop you seem to want to cling so dearly to.
I enjoy reading on the iPad too, but I also enjoy reading outside in the summer. Even in the shade, on an 80 degree day my iPad 1 started complaining about overheating.
Interesting. We got our iPad2 a couple months ago. Now while I don't see us using it much outside, I will have to watch for that. Perhaps it's and iPad1 thing as my iPad/iPhone don't warm up unless I'm playing games.
It would be greeat fun in a classroom, to hold the iPad and oyurself at just the right angle to avoid all the lights being reflected spectacularly on it - has anyone actually tried to read for long on an iPad? And that lovely blocky low res screen? The iPad doesn't even offer a quarter of the resolution of a real book, and about a quarter of the amount of material visible on a large textbook open with two pages visible. Who in their sane mind is going to replace that with a crummy highly reflective low resolution tiny 10 inch screen that you pay half a grand for?
I suppose it would depend on your major / study subject. In my engineering and elective classes, reading for long periods of time was not a common occurrence, just reading the problem and working it. Long reading only happened in literature and history classes. And IMHO, reading on the iPad is just fine. The same as reading on your coveted laptop you seem to want to cling so dearly to.
As for your "low-res" comment, the credible rumors point to the iPad 3 launch in March as having a retina-type display. Also, numerous universities have gone to an all Apple campus with Freshmen getting Macbooks and/or iPads, iPhones as part of tuition. This would fold quite nicely into that setup.
Regardless of how well it does in the general education realm, this will be a hit with all those professions that require continuing education credits to maintain your license. My spouse already has to order CD's/DVD's of medical education material from such publishers and many times they will give you an iPad if your order is over $1000. I can see this being a big hit since tablets (iPads) have a huge install base now (30+ million last year, projected 48+ million this year).
See that's the thing. Even if it was CO2 or even human caused CO2, it's not nearly as big a factor as many other naturally occurring things in affecting temperatures from everything I've seen (not a climate expert).
All the conservation and using of renewables is great, but I'm still skeptical of (or at least how much) of it is human caused. No doubt we affect it some, but to what amount is the big debate.
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read the first one, didn't care for it so never finished the trilogy. A better book, if I remember correctly, was Mars Crossing, it was well written from a technical standpoint and made me never want to travel in space unless it was like Star Trek, shattering my childhood dreams. All the very real problems they had, the confines, the hostility towards life. No thanks.
If it's like dictation on the iPhone then its almost the same thing. It uses the same voice and has all the dictation abilities of Siri. Using the handicap accessibility feature to add "speak" to the copy menu, it can even read to you any highlighted text at varying speeds (great for listening in the car to emails, notes, or reviews).
My guess is they are artificially holding back on that small switch for the next iPhone release or iOS 6.0. Siri is much more useful on an iPhone than on a tablet in it's current state. Until they allow Siri to (officially) start interacting more with some 3rd party apps and controlling settings in iOS then there isn't as much of a point by putting it on a tablet. They aren't as mobile as phones.
I can't be the only one that thinks the new name, Play Store, sounds a lot like something that would come from a children's toy mfg. Not the image you want to brand on your serious apps. Should've kept it Market.
It's a nice clarification of statements by many involved but the final conclusion is still a guess as to actually what happened. It does not "debunk" the story only offers an alternative possibility of actual events.
He made it off the island after all!
Most think it is the exercise and weight training that they lose weight with. For some it is but for most it is a few extra calories burned but not the amount that approaches what you lose during the day just living. Diet cannot be overlooked for [healthy] weight loss. It's depressing to see how many calories you burned running for 20 minutes and then realize those are just enough to cover that non-diet cola you had earlier in the day.
Will you be starring as the next movie of the Riddick series (Pitch Black, etc)
For pics and videos you have Google+/Picasa web albums and with G+ it's near unlimited space for normal size things. For documents there's Google Docs, as mentioned. What else do you need? Are they going to unify this into a single space or create a Carbonite type backup system? It seems like they already have a "Google Drive", it's just slightly broken up into separate services that enhance the features of the content.
I welcome it, just wonder about usage. I have a SkyDrive acct with 25GB free that I hardly use. Perhaps this is more oriented towards their Google Apps business accounts.
she honestly can't remember the password. How the hell are they going to rule on that???
I bet it's "Bosco". They should try Bosco.
/seinfeld
http://www.relevantmagazine.com/life/current-events/features/24005-how-christian-is-the-tea-party
points out that every Tea Party meeting he has attended began in prayer
So do sessions of Congress and many other government activities, let alone sporting events and numerous other activities. Starting with a prayer doesn't mean you want to install a theocracy. Congress used to print bibles for schools, yet I don't recall the founding fathers setting up a theocracy.
and I don't go out of my way to keep track of the current presidential election - but from what I can see Obama should coast to victory.
You sound like a typical American voter unfortunately.
Reminds me of the latest Mission Impossible:Ghost Recall movie where they have contact that provide a sort of data feed to a local smartphone. Though thinking about it, there seems to be an easier way to implement than a contact for the purposes they were using it for...
"Let's put another 'shrimp on the bar-by",
"let's not".
rolls up window and gets head stuck.
My iPhone 3GS can do basic voice actions as well. Your anecdote is nothing new and one that everyone already knows about. You have never used Siri I can tell.
My bad, it was just a preview. I await my thorough lashing.
Way to go, highlighting the fact you have an illegal copy of the Muppets which isn't even out on DVD until the end of March. This doesn't help the promotion of the Pi.
WebOS failed on two fronts: WebOS failed where Apple succeeded because WebOS didn't have the cult following,
And why didn't WebOS have the "cult" following? Seems it/they should have spent more on marketing or at least making things that everyone wanted. The most technically superior product does not always win and thankfully so.
There are only 3 models of iOS phones currently being sold. You can't expect one of the tens-hundreds of Android phones to outsell anything on a platform of only 3 models.
And the reason for this is that Android users have Choice - this is a Good Thing, not a Bad Thing.
It's only good to a point to where the models are actually supported. If you buy a smartphone and the mfg never updates the software or supports it afterwards due to the next big thing coming out, I don't see how anyone can see that as a good thing, unless the model was near perfect at launch. Having too much of this Good Thing leads to bad things.
THAT did save Apple to some extent as Steve's said that they were days away from bankruptcy.
No, not according to news reports at the time. Apple had 1.2 B in cash on hand. The 150M was nice but was nothing that would save them from any bankruptcy. The bigger help was Office for Mac and other cross licensing deals.
No but arable land shifting won't be in a day either. Plus newer farm-able soils will be more nutrient rich than the over farmed current land.
And IMHO, reading on the iPad is just fine. The same as reading on your coveted laptop you seem to want to cling so dearly to.
I enjoy reading on the iPad too, but I also enjoy reading outside in the summer. Even in the shade, on an 80 degree day my iPad 1 started complaining about overheating.
Interesting. We got our iPad2 a couple months ago. Now while I don't see us using it much outside, I will have to watch for that. Perhaps it's and iPad1 thing as my iPad/iPhone don't warm up unless I'm playing games.
It would be greeat fun in a classroom, to hold the iPad and oyurself at just the right angle to avoid all the lights being reflected spectacularly on it - has anyone actually tried to read for long on an iPad? And that lovely blocky low res screen? The iPad doesn't even offer a quarter of the resolution of a real book, and about a quarter of the amount of material visible on a large textbook open with two pages visible. Who in their sane mind is going to replace that with a crummy highly reflective low resolution tiny 10 inch screen that you pay half a grand for?
I suppose it would depend on your major / study subject. In my engineering and elective classes, reading for long periods of time was not a common occurrence, just reading the problem and working it. Long reading only happened in literature and history classes. And IMHO, reading on the iPad is just fine. The same as reading on your coveted laptop you seem to want to cling so dearly to.
As for your "low-res" comment, the credible rumors point to the iPad 3 launch in March as having a retina-type display. Also, numerous universities have gone to an all Apple campus with Freshmen getting Macbooks and/or iPads, iPhones as part of tuition. This would fold quite nicely into that setup.
Regardless of how well it does in the general education realm, this will be a hit with all those professions that require continuing education credits to maintain your license. My spouse already has to order CD's/DVD's of medical education material from such publishers and many times they will give you an iPad if your order is over $1000. I can see this being a big hit since tablets (iPads) have a huge install base now (30+ million last year, projected 48+ million this year).
See that's the thing. Even if it was CO2 or even human caused CO2, it's not nearly as big a factor as many other naturally occurring things in affecting temperatures from everything I've seen (not a climate expert).
All the conservation and using of renewables is great, but I'm still skeptical of (or at least how much) of it is human caused. No doubt we affect it some, but to what amount is the big debate.
Oh that Colonel Sanders, with his wee beedy eyes. Making you crave his chicken fortnightly!