I bet Jobs would love to appear on a big screen to announce he's bailing MS out like Gates did at Macworld in '97. It'll never happen though, MS is still a powerhouse, a huge unglamorous and un-sexy powerhouse.
AC wanted to know about solutions to connect his iPad & Macbook Pro and OSX has VNC baked in, so the above apps are the most relevant to his query (with the exception of LogMeIn all use VNC.)
Keyboard and mouse are just part of the claim, the article mentions an app to connect to a virtual desktop. Does iPad have this, if so what is the name of the app, and how much is it? I really want my iPad and MacBook Pro to be somehow gracefully merged...
But Apple products look nice and have rather good build quality. Have you taken a look at this thing ? It's built as a slot-in accessory to a desk phone and it shows.
Take off your rose colored nostalgia glasses and try to install Windows 3.1 with trumpet windsock connected to the internet in a VM. Then try to use it a week for anything remotely useful. Have the suicide hotline number nearby when attempting this.
Yeah about that: "Optional HD media station with USB peripherals, 10/100/1000 wired connectivity, and a handset option"
And from TFA: "A WiFi only version of the tablet will be available worldwide from July 31 at an estimated price of $750." I can't see anything on storage capacity. Wifi-only iPad2 starts at $499 (16Gb) to a max of $699 (64Gb)
Here's why I don't buy that: if the science was shoddy someone would come along and conclusively disprove global warming and besides being automatically catapulted to the top of his/her field he/she would personally make millions on the lecture circuit. Yet despite the millions poured into research by fossil fuel companies here we are. And even if one day global warming turns out to be a dud one day, the money wasn't wasted. It's been spent learning about the climate, the oceans, making weather satellites, improving computer modeling, developing sustainable power sources, etc... Remember: without public money we wouldn't have gone to the moon nor would we be having this conversation on the internet.
Plus, seriously, are you going to suggest that giving someone three pads of multi-colored post-it-notes to review post-it-notes is "payola"? Maybe if they live in a trailer park, I guess . . . ?
Book reviewers get free copies of books. Film reviewers go to free screenings of films. Video games - the same. People who make the full purchase themselves are the exception, not the rule.
Yes and movie reviews and video game reviews are mostly bullshit because of it. On the other hand people like the Michelin Guide whose star rating is coveted by restaurants go in anonymous, "secret shopper" style.
Right... And i thought such injunction is inconsistent with HRA 1998 / ECHR Article 10, freedom of expression. You shouldn't block the public access to information...
Unless that information is copyrighted, or patented, or a trade secret, or immoral, or a matter of national security, or...
To be fair... its only because they can address the letter to microsoft, which is in its own juridiction.
All this means is that a multinational can't move part of its assets to europe and then have immunity to the us govt.
If MS wants immunity, it has to leave America.
And this is also the way it works in Europe, or Belgium at least: if police have a search warrant they can also search the local network and all connected servers that can be reached through normal operations even though they might be physically located outside of belgian police jurisdiction.
That's the smart phone model. Fully sandboxed, system can only be written after a cryptographic key is obtained from a trusted source (the vendor) and all files synced to another device or the cloud. Get pwned and flash the device with a system image and sync files/settings to get back the exact system state.
As a tinkerer I understand the sentiment but that really just an adherence to OOP isn't it ? You expose a documented interface to the outside to use. If you use anything but the interface you are accepting breakage can occur at any moment (if say Apple changes the underlying hardware platform) and your app shouldn't be in the store. It's the programming equivalent to soldering a wire to the inside of your TV. You can still deploy it for yourself or in a corporation though.
No I agree there's a lot of crappy software in both but I think in general the software quality doesn't exactly improve if you "go off the beaten path" of the big centralized app stores so to speak. Most professional developers and serious amateurs take the trouble of getting into the big app stores. I'm also not saying there isn't anything out there from "side loading" app sites (or whatever it's called in Android) or even the jailbreak Cydia store for iPhone but it seems they are most valuable to a small community of hardcore geeks.
I've got Quicktime 7 installed on Lion DP3 (I think it got carried over by Migration assistant, not sure because I did a few installs.) Good thing too because Quicktime X 10.1 is still a ways from feature parity with the old version. Hopefully for FCP users Apple will follow the same logic there: don't break anything for users who want to keep using the old version for certain features while the new one matures.
That's not an official wallpaper, not in 3.2.2 at least. You can see the official complement of wallpapers in this screenshot. The closest to what you describe is the "oasis" wallpaper, palm trees surrounded by desert.
Agreed - I haven't actually found anything in iOS4 for the iPad 1 that I have needed yet, besides the fact that they removed my favourite wallpaper from iOS4 (the desert island scene), so really I lost out:( Haven't found anywhere that offers it as a download yet either.
I assume this was sarcasm. But the difference, as I understand it, is that on Android, a user doesn't need to downgrade to a jailbreakable version just to install applications outside the scope of what the central app store's curator allows. All Android-powered phones support adb install, and most support "Unknown sources". Even AT&T has been turning "Unknown sources" back on due to popular demand for Amazon Appstore.
This argument is akin to the one made for Windows some decades back. "But look at the abundance of great shareware for the platform", while actually it was more like a steaming pile of VB6 homework projects.
Possibly an English language translation would benefit those people not fluent in Apple. Is this more of a "hurray, Apple have finally put a stop to the scourge of downgrading" or more of a "booo, why are Apple stopping people downgrading"?
This is more a "Huh, Apple has finally closed the loophole we were using to allow downgrades but we all knew this was coming."
Apple isn't forcing anyone. iTunes will ask very nicely if you want to upgrade, download file only or go away and not bother you again (until the next version that is.)
If you care about the future of personal computing, and the use of computers to make things, to create (which I do), then Apple has gone straight into the shitter.
I care about those things too and my opinion on the matter is diametrically opposed to yours. Frankly I think all this worry is based on a gut feeling about possible implications of the technology rather than reality.
You're talking about a beta, it's not even gone gold yet. And even if it is in the final version they could work it out before 10.7.1, which is really what people should wait for if they don't want to be early adopters.
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Aren't there enough problems in IT without adding an hereditary gentry to the list ?
I bet Jobs would love to appear on a big screen to announce he's bailing MS out like Gates did at Macworld in '97. It'll never happen though, MS is still a powerhouse, a huge unglamorous and un-sexy powerhouse.
AC wanted to know about solutions to connect his iPad & Macbook Pro and OSX has VNC baked in, so the above apps are the most relevant to his query (with the exception of LogMeIn all use VNC.)
Along with uncontrollable smugness and a tendency towards beards.
Keyboard and mouse are just part of the claim, the article mentions an app to connect to a virtual desktop. Does iPad have this, if so what is the name of the app, and how much is it? I really want my iPad and MacBook Pro to be somehow gracefully merged ...
iTeleport, VNC Viewer,LogMeIn, Screens, Mocha and probably some others. Take your pick. I'm partial to iTeleport myself.
But Apple products look nice and have rather good build quality. Have you taken a look at this thing ? It's built as a slot-in accessory to a desk phone and it shows.
Take off your rose colored nostalgia glasses and try to install Windows 3.1 with trumpet windsock connected to the internet in a VM. Then try to use it a week for anything remotely useful. Have the suicide hotline number nearby when attempting this.
Yeah about that: "Optional HD media station with USB peripherals, 10/100/1000 wired connectivity, and a handset option"
And from TFA: "A WiFi only version of the tablet will be available worldwide from July 31 at an estimated price of $750." I can't see anything on storage capacity.
Wifi-only iPad2 starts at $499 (16Gb) to a max of $699 (64Gb)
Here's why I don't buy that: if the science was shoddy someone would come along and conclusively disprove global warming and besides being automatically catapulted to the top of his/her field he/she would personally make millions on the lecture circuit. Yet despite the millions poured into research by fossil fuel companies here we are. And even if one day global warming turns out to be a dud one day, the money wasn't wasted. It's been spent learning about the climate, the oceans, making weather satellites, improving computer modeling, developing sustainable power sources, etc ... Remember: without public money we wouldn't have gone to the moon nor would we be having this conversation on the internet.
Plus, seriously, are you going to suggest that giving someone three pads of multi-colored post-it-notes to review post-it-notes is "payola"? Maybe if they live in a trailer park, I guess . . . ?
It's not the amount that makes it a bribe.
That's not true at all.
Book reviewers get free copies of books. Film reviewers go to free screenings of films. Video games - the same. People who make the full purchase themselves are the exception, not the rule.
Yes and movie reviews and video game reviews are mostly bullshit because of it. On the other hand people like the Michelin Guide whose star rating is coveted by restaurants go in anonymous, "secret shopper" style.
Right... And i thought such injunction is inconsistent with HRA 1998 / ECHR Article 10, freedom of expression. You shouldn't block the public access to information...
Unless that information is copyrighted, or patented, or a trade secret, or immoral, or a matter of national security, or ...
To be fair... its only because they can address the letter to microsoft, which is in its own juridiction.
All this means is that a multinational can't move part of its assets to europe and then have immunity to the us govt.
If MS wants immunity, it has to leave America.
And this is also the way it works in Europe, or Belgium at least: if police have a search warrant they can also search the local network and all connected servers that can be reached through normal operations even though they might be physically located outside of belgian police jurisdiction.
That's the smart phone model. Fully sandboxed, system can only be written after a cryptographic key is obtained from a trusted source (the vendor) and all files synced to another device or the cloud. Get pwned and flash the device with a system image and sync files/settings to get back the exact system state.
As a tinkerer I understand the sentiment but that really just an adherence to OOP isn't it ? You expose a documented interface to the outside to use. If you use anything but the interface you are accepting breakage can occur at any moment (if say Apple changes the underlying hardware platform) and your app shouldn't be in the store. It's the programming equivalent to soldering a wire to the inside of your TV. You can still deploy it for yourself or in a corporation though.
No I agree there's a lot of crappy software in both but I think in general the software quality doesn't exactly improve if you "go off the beaten path" of the big centralized app stores so to speak. Most professional developers and serious amateurs take the trouble of getting into the big app stores. I'm also not saying there isn't anything out there from "side loading" app sites (or whatever it's called in Android) or even the jailbreak Cydia store for iPhone but it seems they are most valuable to a small community of hardcore geeks.
I've got Quicktime 7 installed on Lion DP3 (I think it got carried over by Migration assistant, not sure because I did a few installs.) Good thing too because Quicktime X 10.1 is still a ways from feature parity with the old version. Hopefully for FCP users Apple will follow the same logic there: don't break anything for users who want to keep using the old version for certain features while the new one matures.
That's not an official wallpaper, not in 3.2.2 at least. You can see the official complement of wallpapers in this screenshot. The closest to what you describe is the "oasis" wallpaper, palm trees surrounded by desert.
Agreed - I haven't actually found anything in iOS4 for the iPad 1 that I have needed yet, besides the fact that they removed my favourite wallpaper from iOS4 (the desert island scene), so really I lost out :( Haven't found anywhere that offers it as a download yet either.
You mean this one ?
I assume this was sarcasm. But the difference, as I understand it, is that on Android, a user doesn't need to downgrade to a jailbreakable version just to install applications outside the scope of what the central app store's curator allows. All Android-powered phones support adb install, and most support "Unknown sources". Even AT&T has been turning "Unknown sources" back on due to popular demand for Amazon Appstore.
This argument is akin to the one made for Windows some decades back. "But look at the abundance of great shareware for the platform", while actually it was more like a steaming pile of VB6 homework projects.
Possibly an English language translation would benefit those people not fluent in Apple. Is this more of a "hurray, Apple have finally put a stop to the scourge of downgrading" or more of a "booo, why are Apple stopping people downgrading"?
This is more a "Huh, Apple has finally closed the loophole we were using to allow downgrades but we all knew this was coming."
Apple isn't forcing anyone. iTunes will ask very nicely if you want to upgrade, download file only or go away and not bother you again (until the next version that is.)
If you care about the future of personal computing, and the use of computers to make things, to create (which I do), then Apple has gone straight into the shitter.
I care about those things too and my opinion on the matter is diametrically opposed to yours. Frankly I think all this worry is based on a gut feeling about possible implications of the technology rather than reality.
You can still install QT7 in 10.7 if you want to.
You're talking about a beta, it's not even gone gold yet. And even if it is in the final version they could work it out before 10.7.1, which is really what people should wait for if they don't want to be early adopters.