For some models of iPad with certain methods of charging and using, it can be on OR build up charge. For the most part, with a proper iPad charger, it can be on AND charging. He must have been running a first-gen Retina iPad on a low-power USB port or charger with the screen brightness way up and radios on, OR he was turning it off and taking turns between charging and using.
Wow, what a lame attitude. Sure, maybe I don't want to write a hundred-page doc or build a hundred-slide presentation from scratch, but why wouldn't I want to be able to make little fixes as needed? I comprehend exactly what a tablet is good at -- doing things quickly and easily, anywhere, without having to unfold a laptop, find a seat, wait for it to come up, etc etc etc. I can be anywhere, any time, and think of something and *poof* -- open, edit, close. Done. Which, by the way, is exactly what I currently do with Google Docs and my phone. Big work from my desk, little adjustments when the muse strikes. (And no, this does not mean I am chained to my job and expected to work every hour of every day. The docs I edit are not even for work -- it's just my own stuff and I like being able to have instant access to it whenever.)
It's not like anyone is forcing you or anyone else to use it. If google wants to write the software, let them!
Ten years ago, when Windows XP tablets first started coming out, there was a sketching/diagramming app that took your shapes and "fixed" them -- you draw a kind-of circle and *poof* it would snap into a perfectly round, evenly-stroked circle. We have handwriting recognition now -- it should be pretty easy to write software to parse a hand-written equation to something properly set in TeX or MathML or whatever -- potentially MUCH better than key combinations. Or imagine a tool that let you build equations by dragging the characters around, or at the very least, a custom software keyboard -- that's what they're great at, after all.
That said, I agree about not wanting to type long-form things on a touchscreen, but kids today are evidently into it.
I had a surprisingly good time spinning the globe and looking at weather around the world, and zooming in and out and learning a little geography along the way. I spent a good amount of time with it, to be honest. That was the great thing about it -- it was just a really nice 3D-ish/VR-ish globe that you could zoom in and out of, like Google Maps, and the weather was a hook or a bonus. That said, the Wii has spent the last few years in a kid's room so I haven't been on it much since the first few months after Christmas all those years ago.
The apps are already built and they just need a source of data -- I wish they'd partner with Yahoo or someone and keep them going. The older kid just moved out and the Wii just made its triumphant return to the living room. I'm genuinely sad about this news. I'm not, like, all broken up about it, but it's like when a show you like gets cancelled, or when the lead singer of a band dies.
I don't know what the future holds for Google Glass, but I know one thing for sure: Marc Andreessen should not be bald. I'm pretty sure I saw him in a movie with Dan Aykroyd and Jane Curtain twenty years ago...
Speaking for an hour and a half at the D: All Things Digital confab, Jobs said the day is coming when only one out of every few people will need a traditional computer.
"When we were an agrarian nation, all cars were trucks because that's what you needed on the farms." Cars became more popular as cities rose, and things like power steering and automatic transmission became popular.
"PCs are going to be like trucks," Jobs said. "They are still going to be around." However, he said, only "one out of x people will need them."
No, the Turbo button was for making Solitaire even more awesome than it naturally is: when you play your last card and get to the big finish where the cards start bouncing around, you press and un-press the button to change the speed of the cards.
At least, that was the only thing I ever used it for.
Thanks for feeding your employees. This results in less traffic on crowded Bay Area roads at lunchtime and less pollution in the air, thus saving taxpayers time and money.
Are they also upset that they invented the Tablet PC in 2002 and then Apple ate their lunch eight years later by actually delivering it in an appealing form factor that people actually wanted? "Waaah, waaah, we were fiiiiirst!" Apple learned that "first" doesn't always equal success, but they quit whining about it and did something about it instead. Worked out pretty well for them.
> Of course, this doesn't even address the fact that the most reliable > Internet connection in the world is completely useless if the server(s) > that you're attempting to connect to are down due to incompetence
We're talking about Microsoft here. When would that everhappen?
This is a dire situation and a big concern of gamers that Microsoft needs to address head-on with a solid marketing campaign. People want to be sure that they'll be able to play the games they paid for forever. They should name their new DRM service something that sounds rock-solid. "Plays for Sure" is a simple, obvious name, but it gets the idea across. When you see the name "Plays for Sure", you'll know Microsoft is taking care of you.
This from the company that caused a hotmail outage by letting passport.com expire in 1999... then let hotmail.co.uk expire in 2003... then let a certificate expire that caused the complete outage of Azure just a few weeks ago. And I'm supposed to depend on these morons if I want to play a game? No thanks.
Maybe the same kind of MORON that can't read the summary? It's what the OP wrote: "It might be a year or two before Adobe delivers Web-only versions of its products..."
"Web-only" means "there is not a native version." Hence the use of the word "only" after the word "Web."
> It might be a year or two before Adobe delivers > Web-only versions of its products
LOLOL. Fucking A. The day Adobe stops shipping native apps will be the day when the bandwidth between adobe.com and my house is as high as the bandwidth between my CPU and my RAM, and as reliable. Which is to say, FUCKING NEVER.
What MORON doesn't see much difference between between editing 140 MB images and reading 140-character posts? That's literally a million-to-one difference right there. (1,048,576 to 1, actually.)
In other news, the head of a company with a BILLION users said moving to HTML5 was his biggest mistake.
Slashdot, for so many years, has done such a SHITTY job of April Fool's day, I like having a big giant indicator that a story is not even worth looking at. When I visit again tomorrow (seriously -- I'm done for the day) I can just scroll and read all the stories down to the point where they're encrypted. Thanks guys!
Seriously, you guys suck balls at 4/1. I'd complain, but what I have to say has been said a million times before, and you're obviously not listening, so why bother. I check in each year to see if you did anything clever* like "OMG PONIES!", then I'm gone until 4/2.
* and yes, "OMG PONIES!" counts as clever around here. Low, low standards.
Thanks for the info. I would guess that paying an early term fee would count as "fully satisfying contractual obligations." Or maybe T-Mo can unlock it for you. Now that I've had time to look at it, their site says "If you need to unlock your phone, contact your carrier or visit a smartphone unlocking website" and a link to www.releasemycode.com . Fine print says "Check your warranty and contract with your carrier to see what conditions apply to unlocking your device. T-Mobile is not affiliated with and does not endorse releasemycode.com. Use at your own risk."
Probably, it depends on who you talk to. If you walk into an AT&T store, you might get a cool guy who will unlock it for you with no hassle, or you might get a guy who won't unlock it no matter what documentation you shove in his face. And an early term fee will be at least $95 from AT&T, and that's if you only have one month left: "$325 minus $10 for each full month of completed Service Commitment" -- so 23 months in you'd still owe ($325 - $230) = $95.
A couple small notes about the OS X terminal -- I'm not saying this Enlightenment thing is bad or not needed or Apple did it first, but just vaguely related, and of possible interest to people reading this thread...
- drag a file from the Finder into Terminal and it writes the path.
- `open` will open files, folders, or apps. `open.` will open the directory you're currently in. `open foo.txt` will open foo.txt in your default text editor, same as if you had double-clicked it in the Finder. I wrote a script called 'blank' that creates new blank documents: `touch $1` followed by `open $1` to create a new empty (text) file and open it in my default GUI editor.
- `pbcopy` copies standard output to the clipboard. `pbpaste` gives the clipboard as standard output. So you can do things like `ls | pbcopy` to copy a list of folder contents to the clipboard. (Though Mac/Unix/DOS line break differences can cause issues.)
Labs at my school have HP workstations left on 24/7. (I've tried to convince them to let them sleep -- making some progress. As in, people agree it's good to do, but no one can be arsed to do it.) With a kill-o-watt I pegged them at about 160w idle. (Not counting the 24" LCD left on, showing a screensaver.)
25 computers x 160w = 4kwh per hour. If they're only needed 40 hrs/week, then 4 x (168-40) = 512 kwh wasted per week. At $0.10 per kwh, that's $50 per week, per lab. So $2500 per year, per lab, and we have at least 5, maybe 20, maybe more, labs like this. (Been a long time since I've gone on a whole campus tour after hours.) And that's not even touching on the waste to keep the AC running to keep the (empty) rooms that much cooler. Insane.
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Yeah, because laptops never run out of juice. :-|
For some models of iPad with certain methods of charging and using, it can be on OR build up charge. For the most part, with a proper iPad charger, it can be on AND charging. He must have been running a first-gen Retina iPad on a low-power USB port or charger with the screen brightness way up and radios on, OR he was turning it off and taking turns between charging and using.
http://www.macworld.com/article/1150356/ipadcharging.html
I prefer Safari over Firefox or Chrome.
Wow, what a lame attitude. Sure, maybe I don't want to write a hundred-page doc or build a hundred-slide presentation from scratch, but why wouldn't I want to be able to make little fixes as needed? I comprehend exactly what a tablet is good at -- doing things quickly and easily, anywhere, without having to unfold a laptop, find a seat, wait for it to come up, etc etc etc. I can be anywhere, any time, and think of something and *poof* -- open, edit, close. Done. Which, by the way, is exactly what I currently do with Google Docs and my phone. Big work from my desk, little adjustments when the muse strikes. (And no, this does not mean I am chained to my job and expected to work every hour of every day. The docs I edit are not even for work -- it's just my own stuff and I like being able to have instant access to it whenever.)
It's not like anyone is forcing you or anyone else to use it. If google wants to write the software, let them!
Ten years ago, when Windows XP tablets first started coming out, there was a sketching/diagramming app that took your shapes and "fixed" them -- you draw a kind-of circle and *poof* it would snap into a perfectly round, evenly-stroked circle. We have handwriting recognition now -- it should be pretty easy to write software to parse a hand-written equation to something properly set in TeX or MathML or whatever -- potentially MUCH better than key combinations. Or imagine a tool that let you build equations by dragging the characters around, or at the very least, a custom software keyboard -- that's what they're great at, after all.
That said, I agree about not wanting to type long-form things on a touchscreen, but kids today are evidently into it.
This.
I had a surprisingly good time spinning the globe and looking at weather around the world, and zooming in and out and learning a little geography along the way. I spent a good amount of time with it, to be honest. That was the great thing about it -- it was just a really nice 3D-ish/VR-ish globe that you could zoom in and out of, like Google Maps, and the weather was a hook or a bonus. That said, the Wii has spent the last few years in a kid's room so I haven't been on it much since the first few months after Christmas all those years ago.
The apps are already built and they just need a source of data -- I wish they'd partner with Yahoo or someone and keep them going. The older kid just moved out and the Wii just made its triumphant return to the living room. I'm genuinely sad about this news. I'm not, like, all broken up about it, but it's like when a show you like gets cancelled, or when the lead singer of a band dies.
I don't know what the future holds for Google Glass, but I know one thing for sure: Marc Andreessen should not be bald. I'm pretty sure I saw him in a movie with Dan Aykroyd and Jane Curtain twenty years ago...
Steve Jobs, June 2010:
Speaking for an hour and a half at the D: All Things Digital confab, Jobs said the day is coming when only one out of every few people will need a traditional computer.
"When we were an agrarian nation, all cars were trucks because that's what you needed on the farms." Cars became more popular as cities rose, and things like power steering and automatic transmission became popular.
"PCs are going to be like trucks," Jobs said. "They are still going to be around." However, he said, only "one out of x people will need them."
No, the Turbo button was for making Solitaire even more awesome than it naturally is: when you play your last card and get to the big finish where the cards start bouncing around, you press and un-press the button to change the speed of the cards.
At least, that was the only thing I ever used it for.
... someone hacked Japan's phone and tweeted a racy selfpic.
Thanks for feeding your employees. This results in less traffic on crowded Bay Area roads at lunchtime and less pollution in the air, thus saving taxpayers time and money.
Jeez, some people...
Are they also upset that they invented the Tablet PC in 2002 and then Apple ate their lunch eight years later by actually delivering it in an appealing form factor that people actually wanted ? "Waaah, waaah, we were fiiiiirst!" Apple learned that "first" doesn't always equal success, but they quit whining about it and did something about it instead. Worked out pretty well for them.
> Of course, this doesn't even address the fact that the most reliable
> Internet connection in the world is completely useless if the server(s)
> that you're attempting to connect to are down due to incompetence
We're talking about Microsoft here. When would that ever happen?
> Sooner or later every server is shut down.
This is a dire situation and a big concern of gamers that Microsoft needs to address head-on with a solid marketing campaign. People want to be sure that they'll be able to play the games they paid for forever. They should name their new DRM service something that sounds rock-solid. "Plays for Sure" is a simple, obvious name, but it gets the idea across. When you see the name "Plays for Sure", you'll know Microsoft is taking care of you.
This from the company that caused a hotmail outage by letting passport.com expire in 1999... then let hotmail.co.uk expire in 2003... then let a certificate expire that caused the complete outage of Azure just a few weeks ago. And I'm supposed to depend on these morons if I want to play a game? No thanks.
Maybe the same kind of MORON that can't read the summary? It's what the OP wrote: "It might be a year or two before Adobe delivers Web-only versions of its products..."
"Web-only" means "there is not a native version." Hence the use of the word "only" after the word "Web."
Your move, moron.
> It might be a year or two before Adobe delivers
> Web-only versions of its products
LOLOL. Fucking A. The day Adobe stops shipping native apps will be the day when the bandwidth between adobe.com and my house is as high as the bandwidth between my CPU and my RAM, and as reliable. Which is to say, FUCKING NEVER.
What MORON doesn't see much difference between between editing 140 MB images and reading 140-character posts? That's literally a million-to-one difference right there. (1,048,576 to 1, actually.)
In other news, the head of a company with a BILLION users said moving to HTML5 was his biggest mistake.
> Chrome did not initially have incognito, that came later.
WRONG. It was there since day 1. It was even in the fricking comic -- page 22.
Slashdot, for so many years, has done such a SHITTY job of April Fool's day, I like having a big giant indicator that a story is not even worth looking at. When I visit again tomorrow (seriously -- I'm done for the day) I can just scroll and read all the stories down to the point where they're encrypted. Thanks guys!
Seriously, you guys suck balls at 4/1. I'd complain, but what I have to say has been said a million times before, and you're obviously not listening, so why bother. I check in each year to see if you did anything clever* like "OMG PONIES!", then I'm gone until 4/2.
* and yes, "OMG PONIES!" counts as clever around here. Low, low standards.
Not a big deal. It was a long time ago.
I put all my data in a cave and sealed the entrance with a big rock -- but three days later it was all gone.
Thanks for the info. I would guess that paying an early term fee would count as "fully satisfying contractual obligations." Or maybe T-Mo can unlock it for you. Now that I've had time to look at it, their site says "If you need to unlock your phone, contact your carrier or visit a smartphone unlocking website" and a link to www.releasemycode.com . Fine print says "Check your warranty and contract with your carrier to see what conditions apply to unlocking your device. T-Mobile is not affiliated with and does not endorse releasemycode.com. Use at your own risk."
Probably, it depends on who you talk to. If you walk into an AT&T store, you might get a cool guy who will unlock it for you with no hassle, or you might get a guy who won't unlock it no matter what documentation you shove in his face. And an early term fee will be at least $95 from AT&T, and that's if you only have one month left: "$325 minus $10 for each full month of completed Service Commitment" -- so 23 months in you'd still owe ($325 - $230) = $95.
A couple small notes about the OS X terminal -- I'm not saying this Enlightenment thing is bad or not needed or Apple did it first, but just vaguely related, and of possible interest to people reading this thread...
- drag a file from the Finder into Terminal and it writes the path.
- `open` will open files, folders, or apps. `open .` will open the directory you're currently in. `open foo.txt` will open foo.txt in your default text editor, same as if you had double-clicked it in the Finder. I wrote a script called 'blank' that creates new blank documents: `touch $1` followed by `open $1` to create a new empty (text) file and open it in my default GUI editor.
- `pbcopy` copies standard output to the clipboard. `pbpaste` gives the clipboard as standard output. So you can do things like `ls | pbcopy` to copy a list of folder contents to the clipboard. (Though Mac/Unix/DOS line break differences can cause issues.)
Labs at my school have HP workstations left on 24/7. (I've tried to convince them to let them sleep -- making some progress. As in, people agree it's good to do, but no one can be arsed to do it.) With a kill-o-watt I pegged them at about 160w idle. (Not counting the 24" LCD left on, showing a screensaver.)
25 computers x 160w = 4kwh per hour. If they're only needed 40 hrs/week, then 4 x (168-40) = 512 kwh wasted per week. At $0.10 per kwh, that's $50 per week, per lab. So $2500 per year, per lab, and we have at least 5, maybe 20, maybe more, labs like this. (Been a long time since I've gone on a whole campus tour after hours.) And that's not even touching on the waste to keep the AC running to keep the (empty) rooms that much cooler. Insane.
1) When my 2 years is up with AT&T this fall, can I take my AT&T iPhone 4S over to T-Mobile and use it there, since they both use SIMs?
2) How is T-Mobile's coverage in Orlando & the SF Bay Area? (Specifically, the Peninsula?)