I'm predicting a future in which Job's says something akin to the "you're holding it wrong" but for multi-touch...
The "Two Finger" pinch... The "Three Finger" pinch... The "Four Finger" pinch... The "Five Finger" pinch....
it's intuitively obvious what it does..
Don't forget the 1,2,3,4 and 5 finger tap, swipe (up and down)
I think he wants to do away with the keyboard and replace it with an obscure input method akin to the Palm Pilot's stylus input method. Want to type a "S", that would require a 2finger "clockwise" swipe followed by a 3 finger tap. Kind of link braille but with swipes and circles instead of just dots.
My wife writes certification exams for a large IT company. It's not enough that her company has to create 6-7 versions of their exam and pull 100 questions out of a pool of a 1000. In older versions you could go back and check/review/revise an answer before you hit the big "Submit for Grading" button. Now the exam constantly grades you and when it determines that either you cannot pass or you cannot fail, the test is automatically ended and you score is provided. Thereby making it harder for someone to see all 100 questions on their specific test.
Why?
In Asia test takers were paid to go in, sit in the exam and just memorize as many questions as possible. Now if they miss say 31% of the questions, the exam is over (assuming you need a 70% to pass).
Not only is the exam much harder now, but it's more expensive for students to take.
There was a time (ask your parents if you're under 40) when you rented your telephone from the phone company. No different than today you rent your cable box. The only phone that was allowed to plug into the wall jack was the one you rented from the phone company.
Fast forward X years...
There was a time (ask your parents if you're under 40) when you didn't rent your applications from the computer/tablet/smartphone company. No different than today you rent your time machine. The only application that was allowed to be installed on your mac was the one you rented from computer/tablet/smartphone company.
The Ghostbusters also use equipment to hunt and find ghosts, such as a PKE meter, Ecto-Goggles, and a Ghost Sniffer. A PKE meter is a handheld device, used in locating and measuring Psycho-Kinetic Energy, which is a unique environmental byproduct emitted by ghosts. The device's most prominent feature are winged arms that raise and lower in relation to the amount of PKE detected while a digital display gives an exact reading for the operator. The Giga meter is a device similar to the PKE meter, featured in Ghostbusters II. As explained by Egon in the original script, the Giga meter measures PKE in GeV, or giga-electronvolts. Ecto-Goggles, sometimes known as "Spectro-Visors", are a special pair of goggles that visually trace PKE readings. They are particularly useful in helping its wearer see normally invisible ghosts and it can also be used to assist in tracking ghosts within a visible field of search.
I think it's absurd to censor books. I mean, if you're teaching it in middle school I can see it more but I don't think I would want to teach a censored book. If something is too racy for me to read in class, I'd choose not to read it. Literature is like art, I wouldn't hang a scarf over David's man bits on the sculpture. A novel is written in the context of the time of the setting. "Nigger" was a regular term used. "Negroe" as well. These terms help us understand and comprehend. I think white washing (no pun intended to the fence in the novel) is absurd and shouldn't be done.
I sometimes teach The Kite Runner. I find it quite uncomfortable to read the rape scene allowed. So, I warn kids before we get to it that there is a disturbing scene coming up, that out of respect for those who have experienced or know someone who has gone through something so horrible, we will read it silently and if they choose to opt out of reading it, they can. When we talk about what happened we say rape but I let them skip the details if they need to.
"Apple wins injunction against Dept of XYZ because it didn't consider Mac Mini's for the primary platform for processing tax returns as it decided to go with IBM p690s instead."
This looks like it could be a move to allow people to purchase an appliance that would connect to an Virtual Desktop environment. Similar to what we're seeing in the enterprise space with Wyse, Citrix, VmWare etc... whereby the user has a 'dumb terminal' at their desk and their OS is actually running on a VM in the datacenter. This significantly cuts down the costs especially with those that don't need the mobility of a laptop or specialized hardware at the desktop (graphics designers come to mind). But if you're doing Outlook/IE/Office or even if you're a programmer (VI/EMACS etc...) there's no reason your entire environment couldn't be hosted in the datacenter.
Lame article... which is really just a reprint of photos from IBM Storage Archives site.
I bet the author's email to IBM asking permission to use the photos went something like this:
Dear IBM Archives Group:
I am an author at MacWorld and I have no more ideas for what to write about since bloggers have better sources on the iPhone/iPad/iPod/iOS than I. I'm in desperate need of source material and I came across your archives website. Since most of my readers thought storage was build by Apple, I'd like to show them that you guys have been making storage since before Apple was around and most of my readers were born. Can I just copy a bunch of your pics and make a slideshow out of them? My editor will kill me if I don't. By the way, I was a OS/2 user back in the early 90s and my mother used an IBM selectric typewriter in college.
Some states have closed primaries in which you have to be registered to that party in order to vote in the primary. Might be an interesting conversation to see the democratic leaders registering as Republicans so they can vote for Palin or Elmer Fudd...
I used to work on an old IBM AS400 which provided about 150 terminals (5250) to a bank. At random times, all of the terminals would lose connection to the AS400 which was located in the datacenter which was located in the floor below where everyone sat. The connections would only drop during the daytime, we could hook up all sorts of diagnostic equipment at night and almost never saw a drop.
After about 2 weeks of troubleshooting we determined that every time the elevator passed the cable infrastructure which was run down the elevator shaft, it would cause the terminal sessions to drop...
Imagine everytime you left the building at 2am after not being able to find a problem; to have someone call you and say "just as you were leaving the terminals reset..."
If by "enhancements" they mean "throw the awesomebar out a window", I'm all for it.
I'm actually quite a fan of the awesome bar. I know i'm probably in the minority around here, but when I create a bookmark I just add a few tags to the bookmark and I'm done. No more having to go through folders and submenus of bookmarks. Also makes it easier to search through my history, especially if I want to run the same google query. Makes it pretty handy in that respect.
I know that if you have a bad experience you tell 10 people and if you have a good experience you tell 1 person.
If you set the bar such that computer science in HS requires a high level background of math and computer skills, then you'll scare away the average student. Having a CS101 class in reality be a "introduction to computers" is perfectly fine in my book, as you don't want to start off with Day1: Introduction to Pointers. As that will scare of 99% of the non computer nerds. When i was in college (back in '93), there was a CS101, Intro to Computers and there was a CS102: Women in Computing.
While the first one was a "how does a computer work? How to use a computer?" the other class (CS102) was aimed specifically at women (and only allowed women to take). It was taught by our female professors in an environment to encourage women to pursue a college career in Computer Engineering or Computer Science. As a reference my CS+CPE graduating class in '98 had 2 women in it (and 100 men). While some women out there had the background in computers to jump right into the standard initial CS courses, many others were turned off by the daunting requirements and misconceptions about taking CompSci/Engineering.
This type of course layout is used in all sorts of curriculums. Ever take a cooking/woodshop/swimming class? They don't start with advanced techniques.
I worked at a large company and there's three types of cubical layouts. Older style, new style and none.
Older Style: these were the original cubical designs, which were about 12ft long and probably about 6ft deep.
These are being replaced by:
New Style: They basically took the older style cubicles and cut out 1/3 of the space.
These are being replaced by:
None: This is an open floor plan with flat tables with power outlets and IP phones. There are small one person rooms on the fringe of the floor if you need to take a personal call or be on speakerphone. There's no walls between the tables separating your desk from someone elses. Also, the work spaces are not assigned, first come first served.
The reasoning: It's all about not having to build/buy more buildings so you either cram more people into smaller spaces or put them into an environment whereby they share work spaces or determine on their own that it's more comfortable to work from home. Since VPN access is cheaper than providing power/cooling/lighting/network/phone for an office/cubical occupant.
Assange has done more for Democracy, as in the right of people to direct the actions of their government, than the entire Western world has done since WWII.
What a statement... maybe you've been watching too much FoxNews and forgot your history. Here's a few things off the top of my head which are much more important from a standpoint "in the right of people to direct the actions of their government" than some guy releasing a bunch of emails/letters/phone conversations detailing our negotiations with other nations concerning finding Bin Laden or bombing Iraq.
Civil Rights Act of 1964, which gave all Americans the right to be served in facilities which are open to the public--hotels, restaurants, theaters, retail stores, and similar establishments, as well as greater protection for the right to vote.
Civil Rights Act of 1968, which prohibited discrimination in housing, and prohibited discrimination concerning the sale, rental, and financing of housing based on race, religion, national origin, and as of 1974, gender; as of 1988, the act protects the disabled and families with children. It also provided protection for civil rights workers.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights which was lead by Eleanor Roosevelt. Article 21 said, "everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country, directly or through freely chosen representatives. (3) The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures."
The Womens' Suffrage movement, many countries only in the 20th century first allowed women to vote and or obtain positions in government. Ask your mother/grandmother if they care more about the right to vote or what Assange is doing. $5 says they have no idea who he is.
India became a democratic Republic in 1947 and held its first elections in 1950. Remember it was previously under British rule.
What about the rise of democracy in the 70s and 80s after the fall of the USSR?
Did you know that NewYork City has 468 train stations, only 35 less than the total number of train stations in the rest of the country? And has a daily ridership of 5.1million people. Compare this with the airline industry which (from various sources) claim that as many as people fly in the United States each day.
Btw, in the US there are 14,951 airports as of 2008, including 5,146 with paved runways, and 9,805 with unpaved runways.
The problem here is that you have 5.1million people trying to make it through 468 train stations each day. That doesn't include people taking regional (like Amtrak) trains into NY and then transferring to local trains.
Can anybody imagine trying to scan all the passengers that go through 42nd Street? 58million per year... If I have to get to the subway station an hour ahead of my subway, I might as well take a cab, or walk.
Edelman cites a 2007 admission from Google's Marissa Mayers that they placed Google Finance at the top of the results page, calling it 'only fair' because they made the search engine
How is this any different than MSFT saying "We made IE as the default browser because we made the OS"?
What OS and hardware platform does Apple run in it's datacenters? I'm not envisioning rows and rows of racks of mac-minis to serve up internal email and web pages? Are they are a linux shop on HP/IBM/beigebox?
Does your electrical company increase your rates or move to a higher tier if you run appliances all day long? What about your water company? I know in my area both of these apply. Which is why it's cheaper to have water trucked in than it is to use the old garden hose. If I was closer to a fire hydrant I could ask the water company to run a line and hook up a meter as well.
Or are you just a bit sore that your 500GB limit, which probably equates to 100 netflix movies a month will be used up? If you're watching 100 netflix movies a month I suggest you try using that other service called..
There's a reason why the chairs in a classroom do not have the 5 handles and knobs that my office chair does.
A chair is not a carnival ride. Putting a kid in a basic rotating chair is bad enough, but giving them one that goes up and down/leans/tilts etc... just asking for kids to goof off.
So you tell the parents, "Your kids will be smarter if you use product X." Parents in the hyper competitive nature of schools today will do whatever it takes to make sure their child gets the $500 aeron chair. The parents will scrambled to pump as much money as they can into making sure their kid gets the advantage.
What do you think Apple is doing trying to get iPads into every classroom? Because Apple makes more money off of selling 10million iPads every year to schools, then it does when they buy books/pencils/paper.
Think of the children and your wallet will open up.
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I'm predicting a future in which Job's says something akin to the "you're holding it wrong" but for multi-touch...
The "Two Finger" pinch...
The "Three Finger" pinch...
The "Four Finger" pinch...
The "Five Finger" pinch....
it's intuitively obvious what it does..
Don't forget the 1,2,3,4 and 5 finger tap, swipe (up and down)
I think he wants to do away with the keyboard and replace it with an obscure input method akin to the Palm Pilot's stylus input method. Want to type a "S", that would require a 2finger "clockwise" swipe followed by a 3 finger tap. Kind of link braille but with swipes and circles instead of just dots.
My wife writes certification exams for a large IT company. It's not enough that her company has to create 6-7 versions of their exam and pull 100 questions out of a pool of a 1000. In older versions you could go back and check/review/revise an answer before you hit the big "Submit for Grading" button. Now the exam constantly grades you and when it determines that either you cannot pass or you cannot fail, the test is automatically ended and you score is provided. Thereby making it harder for someone to see all 100 questions on their specific test.
Why?
In Asia test takers were paid to go in, sit in the exam and just memorize as many questions as possible. Now if they miss say 31% of the questions, the exam is over (assuming you need a 70% to pass).
Not only is the exam much harder now, but it's more expensive for students to take.
There was a time (ask your parents if you're under 40) when you rented your telephone from the phone company. No different than today you rent your cable box. The only phone that was allowed to plug into the wall jack was the one you rented from the phone company.
Fast forward X years...
There was a time (ask your parents if you're under 40) when you didn't rent your applications from the computer/tablet/smartphone company. No different than today you rent your time machine. The only application that was allowed to be installed on your mac was the one you rented from computer/tablet/smartphone company.
The Ghostbusters also use equipment to hunt and find ghosts, such as a PKE meter, Ecto-Goggles, and a Ghost Sniffer. A PKE meter is a handheld device, used in locating and measuring Psycho-Kinetic Energy, which is a unique environmental byproduct emitted by ghosts. The device's most prominent feature are winged arms that raise and lower in relation to the amount of PKE detected while a digital display gives an exact reading for the operator. The Giga meter is a device similar to the PKE meter, featured in Ghostbusters II. As explained by Egon in the original script, the Giga meter measures PKE in GeV, or giga-electronvolts. Ecto-Goggles, sometimes known as "Spectro-Visors", are a special pair of goggles that visually trace PKE readings. They are particularly useful in helping its wearer see normally invisible ghosts and it can also be used to assist in tracking ghosts within a visible field of search.
I think it's absurd to censor books. I mean, if you're teaching it in middle school I can see it more but I don't think I would want to teach a censored book. If something is too racy for me to read in class, I'd choose not to read it. Literature is like art, I wouldn't hang a scarf over David's man bits on the sculpture. A novel is written in the context of the time of the setting. "Nigger" was a regular term used. "Negroe" as well. These terms help us understand and comprehend. I think white washing (no pun intended to the fence in the novel) is absurd and shouldn't be done.
I sometimes teach The Kite Runner. I find it quite uncomfortable to read the rape scene allowed. So, I warn kids before we get to it that there is a disturbing scene coming up, that out of respect for those who have experienced or know someone who has gone through something so horrible, we will read it silently and if they choose to opt out of reading it, they can. When we talk about what happened we say rape but I let them skip the details if they need to.
I can see it now...
"Apple wins injunction against Dept of XYZ because it didn't consider Mac Mini's for the primary platform for processing tax returns as it decided to go with IBM p690s instead."
Sorry this is just a case of sour grapes.
This looks like it could be a move to allow people to purchase an appliance that would connect to an Virtual Desktop environment. Similar to what we're seeing in the enterprise space with Wyse, Citrix, VmWare etc... whereby the user has a 'dumb terminal' at their desk and their OS is actually running on a VM in the datacenter. This significantly cuts down the costs especially with those that don't need the mobility of a laptop or specialized hardware at the desktop (graphics designers come to mind). But if you're doing Outlook/IE/Office or even if you're a programmer (VI/EMACS etc...) there's no reason your entire environment couldn't be hosted in the datacenter.
In a typical notebook, how much power does memory actually consume compared to other components (CPU, HD, screen, wireless transmitter etc..)?
Lame article... which is really just a reprint of photos from IBM Storage Archives site.
I bet the author's email to IBM asking permission to use the photos went something like this:
Dear IBM Archives Group:
I am an author at MacWorld and I have no more ideas for what to write about since bloggers have better sources on the iPhone/iPad/iPod/iOS than I. I'm in desperate need of source material and I came across your archives website. Since most of my readers thought storage was build by Apple, I'd like to show them that you guys have been making storage since before Apple was around and most of my readers were born. Can I just copy a bunch of your pics and make a slideshow out of them? My editor will kill me if I don't. By the way, I was a OS/2 user back in the early 90s and my mother used an IBM selectric typewriter in college.
Some states have closed primaries in which you have to be registered to that party in order to vote in the primary. Might be an interesting conversation to see the democratic leaders registering as Republicans so they can vote for Palin or Elmer Fudd...
I used to work on an old IBM AS400 which provided about 150 terminals (5250) to a bank. At random times, all of the terminals would lose connection to the AS400 which was located in the datacenter which was located in the floor below where everyone sat. The connections would only drop during the daytime, we could hook up all sorts of diagnostic equipment at night and almost never saw a drop.
After about 2 weeks of troubleshooting we determined that every time the elevator passed the cable infrastructure which was run down the elevator shaft, it would cause the terminal sessions to drop...
Imagine everytime you left the building at 2am after not being able to find a problem; to have someone call you and say "just as you were leaving the terminals reset..."
If by "enhancements" they mean "throw the awesomebar out a window", I'm all for it.
I'm actually quite a fan of the awesome bar. I know i'm probably in the minority around here, but when I create a bookmark I just add a few tags to the bookmark and I'm done. No more having to go through folders and submenus of bookmarks. Also makes it easier to search through my history, especially if I want to run the same google query. Makes it pretty handy in that respect.
I know that if you have a bad experience you tell 10 people and if you have a good experience you tell 1 person.
If you set the bar such that computer science in HS requires a high level background of math and computer skills, then you'll scare away the average student. Having a CS101 class in reality be a "introduction to computers" is perfectly fine in my book, as you don't want to start off with Day1: Introduction to Pointers. As that will scare of 99% of the non computer nerds. When i was in college (back in '93), there was a CS101, Intro to Computers and there was a CS102: Women in Computing.
While the first one was a "how does a computer work? How to use a computer?" the other class (CS102) was aimed specifically at women (and only allowed women to take). It was taught by our female professors in an environment to encourage women to pursue a college career in Computer Engineering or Computer Science. As a reference my CS+CPE graduating class in '98 had 2 women in it (and 100 men). While some women out there had the background in computers to jump right into the standard initial CS courses, many others were turned off by the daunting requirements and misconceptions about taking CompSci/Engineering.
This type of course layout is used in all sorts of curriculums. Ever take a cooking/woodshop/swimming class? They don't start with advanced techniques.
..In other news, viewers of Telemundo are more likely to be speakers of Spanish or are bilingual.
I worked at a large company and there's three types of cubical layouts. Older style, new style and none.
Older Style: these were the original cubical designs, which were about 12ft long and probably about 6ft deep.
These are being replaced by:
New Style: They basically took the older style cubicles and cut out 1/3 of the space.
These are being replaced by:
None: This is an open floor plan with flat tables with power outlets and IP phones. There are small one person rooms on the fringe of the floor if you need to take a personal call or be on speakerphone. There's no walls between the tables separating your desk from someone elses. Also, the work spaces are not assigned, first come first served.
The reasoning: It's all about not having to build/buy more buildings so you either cram more people into smaller spaces or put them into an environment whereby they share work spaces or determine on their own that it's more comfortable to work from home. Since VPN access is cheaper than providing power/cooling/lighting/network/phone for an office/cubical occupant.
Assange has done more for Democracy, as in the right of people to direct the actions of their government, than the entire Western world has done since WWII.
What a statement... maybe you've been watching too much FoxNews and forgot your history. Here's a few things off the top of my head which are much more important from a standpoint "in the right of people to direct the actions of their government" than some guy releasing a bunch of emails/letters/phone conversations detailing our negotiations with other nations concerning finding Bin Laden or bombing Iraq.
Civil Rights Act of 1964, which gave all Americans the right to be served in facilities which are open to the public--hotels, restaurants, theaters, retail stores, and similar establishments, as well as greater protection for the right to vote.
Civil Rights Act of 1968, which prohibited discrimination in housing, and prohibited discrimination concerning the sale, rental, and financing of housing based on race, religion, national origin, and as of 1974, gender; as of 1988, the act protects the disabled and families with children. It also provided protection for civil rights workers.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights which was lead by Eleanor Roosevelt. Article 21 said, "everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country, directly or through freely chosen representatives. (3) The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures."
The Womens' Suffrage movement, many countries only in the 20th century first allowed women to vote and or obtain positions in government. Ask your mother/grandmother if they care more about the right to vote or what Assange is doing. $5 says they have no idea who he is.
India became a democratic Republic in 1947 and held its first elections in 1950. Remember it was previously under British rule.
What about the rise of democracy in the 70s and 80s after the fall of the USSR?
With the thousands (millions?) of servers that google has, how about planting a few trees...
Did you know that NewYork City has 468 train stations, only 35 less than the total number of train stations in the rest of the country? And has a daily ridership of 5.1million people. Compare this with the airline industry which (from various sources) claim that as many as people fly in the United States each day.
Btw, in the US there are 14,951 airports as of 2008, including 5,146 with paved runways, and 9,805 with unpaved runways.
The problem here is that you have 5.1million people trying to make it through 468 train stations each day. That doesn't include people taking regional (like Amtrak) trains into NY and then transferring to local trains.
Can anybody imagine trying to scan all the passengers that go through 42nd Street? 58million per year... If I have to get to the subway station an hour ahead of my subway, I might as well take a cab, or walk.
Uh...
My iPAD was made in China...
Edelman cites a 2007 admission from Google's Marissa Mayers that they placed Google Finance at the top of the results page, calling it 'only fair' because they made the search engine
How is this any different than MSFT saying "We made IE as the default browser because we made the OS"?
What OS and hardware platform does Apple run in it's datacenters? I'm not envisioning rows and rows of racks of mac-minis to serve up internal email and web pages? Are they are a linux shop on HP/IBM/beigebox?
Does your electrical company increase your rates or move to a higher tier if you run appliances all day long? What about your water company? I know in my area both of these apply. Which is why it's cheaper to have water trucked in than it is to use the old garden hose. If I was closer to a fire hydrant I could ask the water company to run a line and hook up a meter as well.
Or are you just a bit sore that your 500GB limit, which probably equates to 100 netflix movies a month will be used up? If you're watching 100 netflix movies a month I suggest you try using that other service called..
FRESH AIR.
Might survive a nuclear attack, but not some script kiddie and an admin that likes pictures of Pam Anderson.
There's a reason why the chairs in a classroom do not have the 5 handles and knobs that my office chair does.
A chair is not a carnival ride. Putting a kid in a basic rotating chair is bad enough, but giving them one that goes up and down/leans/tilts etc... just asking for kids to goof off.
So you tell the parents, "Your kids will be smarter if you use product X." Parents in the hyper competitive nature of schools today will do whatever it takes to make sure their child gets the $500 aeron chair. The parents will scrambled to pump as much money as they can into making sure their kid gets the advantage.
What do you think Apple is doing trying to get iPads into every classroom? Because Apple makes more money off of selling 10million iPads every year to schools, then it does when they buy books/pencils/paper.
Think of the children and your wallet will open up.