Apple had a stranglehold on component supplies, which really prevented price competition. Supply has adjusted now, so we should see the usual price spread Apple/Sony/Wannabees vs rest of the world fairly soon. Wannabees do seem to include Motorola, who seem to think they deserve Apple margins while having none of the flair, and, frankly not even putting in the hard design work and support. Also, maybe the market will mature. Android has all the apps needed now, so Apple can't use that argument. And the thinness thing baffles me. I got a cheap Touchpad, all the teens were "Oh, it's too thick !" as if thickness was of any relevance for a 10" sedentary tablet, and even for a mobile one (though I much prefer 7" for mobile use)... I'm awed at Apple's ability to set the agenda here.
That one is capacitive. I actually bought their earlier effort, the $150 Novo8, and was pleasantly surprised: 8", 1280x800 capacitive TN, HD video playback with HDMI, OK build quality. What spoiled that was the 3hr battery life, but I knew that before buying it.
called a filesystem. And several possible UI (even better than skinning !) called File Managers, which let you list all files on your disk, and , for example, sort them by name, date, director... Then there's an advanced feature: double-clic on a file, and it starts playing ! There might be patents pending on the whole thing, so use it while you can !
MMmmm. As long as you have to have sysadmin-level tech knowledge to install and maintain a PC, let alone use it, not a chance. How many people could be mechanics for their own cars ? MS dropped the ball big time. Linux is actually worse. Chrome assumes we're ready to give up all standalone capabilites to get rid of the issues... If only Apple weren't so expensive and restrictive and locked down...
The Asus is 12" I think, and offers only 3hrs of battery. OK in a pro environment for one meeting at a time (and an outlet is never very far), but not as a peripatetic student.
It's the only 10" tablet with an active digitizer currently on the market. 7" is too small, let alone 5.3", Asus's 12" or the Atom ones won't last a day... HTC are supposed to release another active 10" shortly, but the Thinkpad Tablet is out now, has no glaring defects, and is a regular, if a bit bulky (comes with plenty of ports), Android tablet.
Retired politicians/pundits/... with no stakes in the game anymore are by far the most entertaining and interesting. Plus they want to get rid of stuff they've had on their chest for a while, ie all the lies and stupidities they've ha to spout to please their electoral bases.
The issue is not so much that a prototype was lost, but how they handled the retrieval efforts, passing themselves off as police, making immigration threats...
You wouldn't. Look at what Apple does: they hype Facetime, then Siri, and then when you go to buy that, you have to choose between the economy (16 GB), Regular (32 GB) or Deluxe (64GB) model. Flash or RAM size is not a deciding factor: most people don't really know what it does, everybody has the same, and most have SD card anyway, or had rather not say they don't.
Flash / RAM size is not a key feature. Apps and style are.
I totally agree that that children should not be beaten (especially not with implements !), nor shouted at or belittled, but helped along and mentored and respected and loved. I've got 2 incidents to the contrary though:
- my nephew had a "testing boundaries" (i guess) phase, at around 4 years. He was having tamper tantrums and stuff, and once kicked me. I kicked him back. Not hard enough to *hurt* him, but enough to make him hurt, well, feel it. I'd do it again, I think, because i really hate violence (once broke up with someone for slapping me -once-), and I do think kids need to be taught stuff. Maybe I could have tried and explain with him that I was physically and emotionally hurt, but I do think "kick and you'll be kicked" is acceptable, especially when it's probably a testing phase, and just once. He's actually very sweet. I tried to explain to him why kicking is not OK, and that if he kicked me, I'd kick him back. The next big fight we had (I had misunderstood which "Smurfs" episode he wanted to see), he just went at me verbally, in a quite outspoken way that was actually cute. - very linked to that, I remember as a kid (probably a bit older, 6-ish) once being absolutely odious with my very sweet grandma, just to check if I could push endlessly. I got a strong slap, and I distinctly remember thinking "ok, so she will do it if i really push it". I think it's good she did it, and i remember thinking quite a bit about what that meant. My kicking back my nephew was actually directly decided by that memory, though the age difference bothers me.
Obviously, neither have anything to do with using a belt, on a kid, for a certain length of time, when no-one was originally hurt. That guy should be.. well, beaten too.
I'd second that. A big tablet (10") is only part of the answer. As important, as usual, are the ergonomics peripherals: a "bed" table, and a holder so that so doesn't have to hold the device, and it's at a comfortable angle for viewning and touching. I'd go with a iPhone, probably Gen1, just to be sure to have lots support and software. Preloaded with music and films and pictures of her family, too.
Actually, I upgraded my 10" Touchpad to a 7" Nook, and I'm much happier with it. The 7" Nook - fits in a single hand, - and in my man-purse. - It's also a lot lighter and easier to hold in bed, while walking... - and can charge from a PC USB port, without a dedicated charger. - all the rest feels the same: videos, mail, rss, ereading. I know the 10" is much bigger, but it's not noticeable for those uses.
The screen still allows me to read comics and web page without zooming, though only in scroll-heavy landscape mode. But the 10" Touchpad was not too good with portrait web either, things were awful small.
I'm looking to upgrade to a Galaxy Tab 7.7, maybe. I'm quite happy with the Nook, and hate proprietary ports. But darn those AMOLED screens are nice !
It doesn't really have to: - Nokia is very well connected with carriers, so they should get shelf space and deals with no problem - most Nokia users are quite happy with the quality, if not features, of their phone. Nokia should have easy sales there - Hero phones and oddballs don't really sell that much. The latest commodity smartphone (not Apple then ^^) to have a huge success is the Galaxy S 2. It really doesn't have outstanding specs, except maybe for its camera. It's its a well done, light, solid phone, that's it. I'll be getting a Galaxy Note soon, but everyone thinks I'm crazy.
1- What's the fun in that ? 2- Plus, some people can use (or need) several computers. I for one have a NAS/Torrent/DLNA server. Used to be an old regular PC (100-ish watts), then a nettop (40-ish watts), is currently a misused ARM netbook (15-ish watts)... I'm fairly sure the Pi will be able to take over competently. And I'll keep another one around for Linux education purposes.
We'll have to split the difference on that one: - the device does use USB power. this changed very recently, cf their site. - indeed, the $25 model A does not have Ethernet, sorry. the $35, 256 MB RAM that I plan to get does.
Hundreds ? Rather, tens: an SD card and USB cable to power it are the bare minimum, for a headless server or station via SSH. If you want interactivity, add keyboard, mouse, and screen if you don't want to ssh into it, and micro-USB power supply if it's far from a PC. The most expensive by far is a screen , which most use don't require.
I can be witness. I used to have a regular PC, now I'm down to a nettop + arm server + netbook + tablet + smartphone, and I'll try out 2 Pis to replace the nettop. Also, the marketshare of tablets and laptops/netbooks compared to desktops is ever rising.
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Apple had a stranglehold on component supplies, which really prevented price competition. Supply has adjusted now, so we should see the usual price spread Apple/Sony/Wannabees vs rest of the world fairly soon. Wannabees do seem to include Motorola, who seem to think they deserve Apple margins while having none of the flair, and, frankly not even putting in the hard design work and support.
Also, maybe the market will mature. Android has all the apps needed now, so Apple can't use that argument. And the thinness thing baffles me. I got a cheap Touchpad, all the teens were "Oh, it's too thick !" as if thickness was of any relevance for a 10" sedentary tablet, and even for a mobile one (though I much prefer 7" for mobile use)... I'm awed at Apple's ability to set the agenda here.
That one is capacitive. I actually bought their earlier effort, the $150 Novo8, and was pleasantly surprised: 8", 1280x800 capacitive TN, HD video playback with HDMI, OK build quality. What spoiled that was the 3hr battery life, but I knew that before buying it.
called a filesystem. And several possible UI (even better than skinning !) called File Managers, which let you list all files on your disk, and , for example, sort them by name, date, director...
Then there's an advanced feature: double-clic on a file, and it starts playing !
There might be patents pending on the whole thing, so use it while you can !
MMmmm. As long as you have to have sysadmin-level tech knowledge to install and maintain a PC, let alone use it, not a chance. How many people could be mechanics for their own cars ?
MS dropped the ball big time. Linux is actually worse. Chrome assumes we're ready to give up all standalone capabilites to get rid of the issues... If only Apple weren't so expensive and restrictive and locked down...
The Asus is 12" I think, and offers only 3hrs of battery. OK in a pro environment for one meeting at a time (and an outlet is never very far), but not as a peripatetic student.
It's the only 10" tablet with an active digitizer currently on the market. 7" is too small, let alone 5.3", Asus's 12" or the Atom ones won't last a day... HTC are supposed to release another active 10" shortly, but the Thinkpad Tablet is out now, has no glaring defects, and is a regular, if a bit bulky (comes with plenty of ports), Android tablet.
I wouldn't trust those blankets.
Retired politicians/pundits/... with no stakes in the game anymore are by far the most entertaining and interesting. Plus they want to get rid of stuff they've had on their chest for a while, ie all the lies and stupidities they've ha to spout to please their electoral bases.
The issue is not so much that a prototype was lost, but how they handled the retrieval efforts, passing themselves off as police, making immigration threats...
You wouldn't. Look at what Apple does: they hype Facetime, then Siri, and then when you go to buy that, you have to choose between the economy (16 GB), Regular (32 GB) or Deluxe (64GB) model. Flash or RAM size is not a deciding factor: most people don't really know what it does, everybody has the same, and most have SD card anyway, or had rather not say they don't.
Flash / RAM size is not a key feature. Apps and style are.
i heard tsunamis are da bomb !
I'm no expert. Intuitively, a block of ice breaking away from a bigger block of ice kinda makes me think there's melting, thus warming, involved.
I totally agree that that children should not be beaten (especially not with implements !), nor shouted at or belittled, but helped along and mentored and respected and loved. I've got 2 incidents to the contrary though:
- my nephew had a "testing boundaries" (i guess) phase, at around 4 years. He was having tamper tantrums and stuff, and once kicked me. I kicked him back. Not hard enough to *hurt* him, but enough to make him hurt, well, feel it. I'd do it again, I think, because i really hate violence (once broke up with someone for slapping me -once-), and I do think kids need to be taught stuff. Maybe I could have tried and explain with him that I was physically and emotionally hurt, but I do think "kick and you'll be kicked" is acceptable, especially when it's probably a testing phase, and just once. He's actually very sweet. I tried to explain to him why kicking is not OK, and that if he kicked me, I'd kick him back. The next big fight we had (I had misunderstood which "Smurfs" episode he wanted to see), he just went at me verbally, in a quite outspoken way that was actually cute.
- very linked to that, I remember as a kid (probably a bit older, 6-ish) once being absolutely odious with my very sweet grandma, just to check if I could push endlessly. I got a strong slap, and I distinctly remember thinking "ok, so she will do it if i really push it". I think it's good she did it, and i remember thinking quite a bit about what that meant. My kicking back my nephew was actually directly decided by that memory, though the age difference bothers me.
Obviously, neither have anything to do with using a belt, on a kid, for a certain length of time, when no-one was originally hurt. That guy should be.. well, beaten too.
not well, scrolling involved. I rarely i ever encounter those, though.
I'd second that. A big tablet (10") is only part of the answer. As important, as usual, are the ergonomics peripherals: a "bed" table, and a holder so that so doesn't have to hold the device, and it's at a comfortable angle for viewning and touching.
I'd go with a iPhone, probably Gen1, just to be sure to have lots support and software. Preloaded with music and films and pictures of her family, too.
Actually, I upgraded my 10" Touchpad to a 7" Nook, and I'm much happier with it. The 7" Nook
- fits in a single hand,
- and in my man-purse.
- It's also a lot lighter and easier to hold in bed, while walking...
- and can charge from a PC USB port, without a dedicated charger.
- all the rest feels the same: videos, mail, rss, ereading. I know the 10" is much bigger, but it's not noticeable for those uses.
The screen still allows me to read comics and web page without zooming, though only in scroll-heavy landscape mode. But the 10" Touchpad was not too good with portrait web either, things were awful small.
I'm looking to upgrade to a Galaxy Tab 7.7, maybe. I'm quite happy with the Nook, and hate proprietary ports. But darn those AMOLED screens are nice !
Mmmm... what we "clearly see here" is not chronic under-supply, but supply disruption by exceptional weather.
and the opposite worked so well for the educational system !
It doesn't really have to:
- Nokia is very well connected with carriers, so they should get shelf space and deals with no problem
- most Nokia users are quite happy with the quality, if not features, of their phone. Nokia should have easy sales there
- Hero phones and oddballs don't really sell that much. The latest commodity smartphone (not Apple then ^^) to have a huge success is the Galaxy S 2. It really doesn't have outstanding specs, except maybe for its camera. It's its a well done, light, solid phone, that's it. I'll be getting a Galaxy Note soon, but everyone thinks I'm crazy.
1- What's the fun in that ?
2- Plus, some people can use (or need) several computers. I for one have a NAS/Torrent/DLNA server. Used to be an old regular PC (100-ish watts), then a nettop (40-ish watts), is currently a misused ARM netbook (15-ish watts)... I'm fairly sure the Pi will be able to take over competently. And I'll keep another one around for Linux education purposes.
The thing's power input is MicroUSB, and it has a dedicated port for that (it can't go through the "data" ports:
http://www.raspberrypi.org/?p=260
Do you think a lot of people reading this, on slashdot, do not have a computer yet ?
We'll have to split the difference on that one:
- the device does use USB power. this changed very recently, cf their site.
- indeed, the $25 model A does not have Ethernet, sorry. the $35, 256 MB RAM that I plan to get does.
Hundreds ? Rather, tens: an SD card and USB cable to power it are the bare minimum, for a headless server or station via SSH. If you want interactivity, add keyboard, mouse, and screen if you don't want to ssh into it, and micro-USB power supply if it's far from a PC. The most expensive by far is a screen , which most use don't require.
I can be witness. I used to have a regular PC, now I'm down to a nettop + arm server + netbook + tablet + smartphone, and I'll try out 2 Pis to replace the nettop. Also, the marketshare of tablets and laptops/netbooks compared to desktops is ever rising.