If you watch the video of the guy you'll notice he doesn't say it costs $35 to produce but rather he has a contract to buy a million of them at $35. He goes on to empathically say that this wouldn't be a retail price but this is the price at which it would be delivered to educational institutions. That makes me think it's more heavily subsidized (by all parties involved) than they are letting on. It could make financial sense for the company to get these tablets in the hands of students even at a loss, like Apple also does iPod giveaways from time to time.
Your analogy is flawed. If you want to stay with the prohibition metaphor it's more like this: if I want to take a job abroad and don't care if I can drink there I can go work in a Muslim country, if I do want to drink alcohol I just go work in another western country and either way I can come home (desktop) and drink all I want. I restrict my own choice by adjusting my prerequisites. The fact I can choose between 2 companies with different visions for their products is the very essence of choice.
Yeah one author doing it probably won't work, it's not an impulse buy unless there's some kind of large market à la iTunes and I don't specifically have to go looking. Then there's the appalling state of advertising for books, I mostly hear of worthwhile books only through word of mouth. The whole industry is so stale it's going to take more than a few renegades to breathe some fresh air into it.
What ebooks need is a dramatic drop in price like what iTunes did to mp3's. Buy a book for a buck, who'd bother to pirate, why go to a library and who cares if you like it or not, just click and try. Of course it'll mostly end the mega profits of a handful but the majority of authors would come out about the same.
Actually Apple made their point and now are getting kudos for returning to the original situation, Flash out but Flash compiled to compliant native code back in. Not bad if you ask me.
From what twisted, alternate universe do you come from? before Microsoft it was standard for any OS to come with a compiler or at least an interpreter for some given language (usually C or BASIC), and even Microsoft gave one away, just not on the same disk.
Sure, that's why Bill Gates got his start selling BASIC. You've been spoilt by living in the age of GCC.
No, it's not. It has the potential to become one for as long as you keep paying Apple's fee, but the moment you stop is the moment it returns back to being nothing but a shiny toy.
"But it's not freeeeeee." Suck it up already. Go to a large corporation sometime and ask them what happens to all their production COBOL code when they stop paying their license fees. Runtime licenses, developer licenses, etc. Some of these arrangements make Apple look like santa claus.
Here you go the way to code, run whatever you want on your iDevice. A lot of companies are doing just that, rolling their own applications and distributing it to their devices. Give the groupthink a rest and lay off the propaganda. You may not like this product, and that's ok, but it's no reason to regurgitate falsehoods.
If it's "cut down" then people have been running "cut down" computers for decades. It's a pretty nice OS, you have to purchase a license to develop your own software for it (barring jailbreak) but then that's historically been the rule. It IS a general purpose computer: get a license, code whatever the hell you want for it and it'll run it. Though I think you'll find that most of which you want to develop is already in the AppStore.
Agree 100%. The groupthink in Apple articles is getting way out of hand with what basically amount to anti Apple flames routinely modded up to +5 insightful and the attitude starts with this kind of bullshit in the summary. I can deal with the bad jokes but not the misinformation as with the digs here. Several xvid players are already in the iPad AppStore but hey let's not let the facts get in the way of a lame story.
The lack of Apples popularity had always kept them in niche marketplaces until now but the iPhone now makes them commonplace and popular enough to mean money for blackmarket hacking. This doesn't mean its more secure its totally the opposite. It means it's less secure because it hasn't been targeted until now. In fact I'd spout there are just as many exploits in the wild for iOS and MacOS as there is for Windows Vista in present day.
Citation needed. iDevices are absolutely everywhere so which reputable source is reporting your flood of exploits ? "Absolute fantasy" indeed.
Battery life is fine if you keep the screen off. I get a standby power draw of roughly 5mA on average on my Desire. That works out to about 280h of standby time, and that's with a bunch of always-connected applications (Google Sync always active, an IM client, SIP client) in the background, and WiFi and Bluetooth on. Turn all that stuff off and I get values more around 3mA... 466h.
Obviously a screen that draws almost 100x as much (seriously, at full power the AMOLED screen draws close to 300mA!) is going to kill off the battery very quickly.
In comparison, the SoC uses very little power (full CPU load on the Desire's Snapdragon is 40mA higher than idle - tested with SetCPU's stress test) and scales very well with load. If you really want to increase use time, build more efficient screens... fuck the processor.
So what you're saying is this new dual core processor will be great for watching 1080p movies with the screen off (or on an e-ink screen) ?
at the request of who? Last I checked, Belgium didn't even have a government!
I guess it has been about 2 years since we've had a stable government and that's also about the time it takes for a request to get processed by the bureaucrats here in my experience.
The US has the strictest standards when it comes to this - babies we try to save here would be written off as late-term miscarriages elsewhere.
Yeah the standards are so strict the US has been widely criticised for having the "second worst newborn death rate in modern world." Hey at least you beat Latvia. Worse still, U.S. childbirth deaths are still on the rise bucking a world wide trend. But don't worry, just turn on the TV and put on Glen Beck or some other US propagandist and he'll reassure you're The Greatest Nation On Earth(TM).
Sure but you know what, classical marxist communism came of age in a time when "the media" really was a capitalist enterprise entirely committed to its destruction and even today you could argue this. Who thinks the likes of Rupert Murdoch would give any regime that goes a different way from the US a fair shake ? Castro is really astute when he says that the internet, taken as a whole, isn't dominated by these traditional media empires which are owned by the capitalist class with a vested interest in the status quo. There's a lot of talk in the west of the "free press" but the fact is that for most of our history information has come from powerful information brokers aligned most of time with capital and the state. Just take a critical look at the history of the AP for example. That doesn't excuse the marxist stance on media freedom of course, but you do have to understand it is a cultural thing based on real blows dealt to popular movements in their formative years and not just "because they're evil."
Also, a great deal of Cuba's foremost cigar-producing families fled Cuba, when Castro took over.
That just doesn't make sense. Tobacco is planted by the working class, cigars are rolled by the working class just as they always have been. It's like saying the US couldn't produce cotton after the civil war because slave owners were shot during battle.
(from wikipedia) "Bob Wilson (William Shatner) is a salesman on an airplane for the first time since his nervous breakdown six months ago. He spots a gremlin on the wing of the plane. Every time someone else looks out the window, the gremlin leaps out of view, so nobody believes Bob's seemingly outlandish claim. Bob realizes that his wife is starting to think he needs to go back to the sanitarium, but also, if nothing is done about the gremlin, it will damage the plane and cause it to crash. Bob steals a sleeping policeman's revolver, and opens the window marked "Auxiliary Exit" to shoot the gremlin, succeeding despite the fact that he is nearly blown out of the plane himself. Once the plane has landed, although he is whisked away in a straitjacket, a final shot reveals evidence of his claims: the unusual damage to the plane's engine nacelle -- yet to be discovered by mechanics."
Well damn, The Simpsons did that one on one of the "Treehouse of horror" shows didn't they ? The more you know...
That same episode of SNL had a send-up of TJ Hooker where Shatner is trapped on the hood of a car full of fleeing felons, writing a note to his ex-wife: "it's been three days now... they have to run out of gas soon..."
Shatner's on my list of celebrities who I like just because they went on SNL and were good at either mocking themselves, or worked hard to actually do good comedy. See Garth Brooks (who did a Mango sketch), Jason Priestly, and Justin Timberlake as the dancing milkshake.
How about Tom Cruise ? That video almost made me forget what a nutball he is and definitely makes me feel better about liking some of his movies.
I sometimes combine the two with my 8 month old: she sits on my lap and mashes on an unconnected keyboard while I type on a connected one just out of reach. It satisfies her curiosity about the noise daddy's making and I can respond to some email. Then she'll tire of it and we'll move on to some other toys.
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If you watch the video of the guy you'll notice he doesn't say it costs $35 to produce but rather he has a contract to buy a million of them at $35. He goes on to empathically say that this wouldn't be a retail price but this is the price at which it would be delivered to educational institutions. That makes me think it's more heavily subsidized (by all parties involved) than they are letting on. It could make financial sense for the company to get these tablets in the hands of students even at a loss, like Apple also does iPod giveaways from time to time.
Your analogy is flawed. If you want to stay with the prohibition metaphor it's more like this: if I want to take a job abroad and don't care if I can drink there I can go work in a Muslim country, if I do want to drink alcohol I just go work in another western country and either way I can come home (desktop) and drink all I want. I restrict my own choice by adjusting my prerequisites. The fact I can choose between 2 companies with different visions for their products is the very essence of choice.
Yeah one author doing it probably won't work, it's not an impulse buy unless there's some kind of large market à la iTunes and I don't specifically have to go looking. Then there's the appalling state of advertising for books, I mostly hear of worthwhile books only through word of mouth. The whole industry is so stale it's going to take more than a few renegades to breathe some fresh air into it.
It's just another in a long line of IT religious wars. Anyone who takes it serious is an idiot. Maybe it's the geek version of sports rivalries.
Self delusional, cut off from reality and living off their old hits: MS, the Vegas years.
But ... uncle Bill told us he took Bob to the farm where he could play.
What ebooks need is a dramatic drop in price like what iTunes did to mp3's. Buy a book for a buck, who'd bother to pirate, why go to a library and who cares if you like it or not, just click and try. Of course it'll mostly end the mega profits of a handful but the majority of authors would come out about the same.
Actually Apple made their point and now are getting kudos for returning to the original situation, Flash out but Flash compiled to compliant native code back in. Not bad if you ask me.
Choice is good, not bad.
If I needed Flash I wouldn't have bought an iPhone. Choice made.
From what twisted, alternate universe do you come from? before Microsoft it was standard for any OS to come with a compiler or at least an interpreter for some given language (usually C or BASIC), and even Microsoft gave one away, just not on the same disk.
Sure, that's why Bill Gates got his start selling BASIC. You've been spoilt by living in the age of GCC.
No, it's not. It has the potential to become one for as long as you keep paying Apple's fee, but the moment you stop is the moment it returns back to being nothing but a shiny toy.
"But it's not freeeeeee." Suck it up already. Go to a large corporation sometime and ask them what happens to all their production COBOL code when they stop paying their license fees. Runtime licenses, developer licenses, etc. Some of these arrangements make Apple look like santa claus.
Here you go the way to code, run whatever you want on your iDevice. A lot of companies are doing just that, rolling their own applications and distributing it to their devices. Give the groupthink a rest and lay off the propaganda. You may not like this product, and that's ok, but it's no reason to regurgitate falsehoods.
If it's "cut down" then people have been running "cut down" computers for decades. It's a pretty nice OS, you have to purchase a license to develop your own software for it (barring jailbreak) but then that's historically been the rule. It IS a general purpose computer: get a license, code whatever the hell you want for it and it'll run it. Though I think you'll find that most of which you want to develop is already in the AppStore.
We also already have VIM so there's really no need for another text editor. *ducks*
Agree 100%. The groupthink in Apple articles is getting way out of hand with what basically amount to anti Apple flames routinely modded up to +5 insightful and the attitude starts with this kind of bullshit in the summary. I can deal with the bad jokes but not the misinformation as with the digs here. Several xvid players are already in the iPad AppStore but hey let's not let the facts get in the way of a lame story.
The lack of Apples popularity had always kept them in niche marketplaces until now but the iPhone now makes them commonplace and popular enough to mean money for blackmarket hacking. This doesn't mean its more secure its totally the opposite. It means it's less secure because it hasn't been targeted until now. In fact I'd spout there are just as many exploits in the wild for iOS and MacOS as there is for Windows Vista in present day.
Citation needed. iDevices are absolutely everywhere so which reputable source is reporting your flood of exploits ? "Absolute fantasy" indeed.
Battery life is fine if you keep the screen off. I get a standby power draw of roughly 5mA on average on my Desire. That works out to about 280h of standby time, and that's with a bunch of always-connected applications (Google Sync always active, an IM client, SIP client) in the background, and WiFi and Bluetooth on. Turn all that stuff off and I get values more around 3mA... 466h.
Obviously a screen that draws almost 100x as much (seriously, at full power the AMOLED screen draws close to 300mA!) is going to kill off the battery very quickly.
In comparison, the SoC uses very little power (full CPU load on the Desire's Snapdragon is 40mA higher than idle - tested with SetCPU's stress test) and scales very well with load. If you really want to increase use time, build more efficient screens... fuck the processor.
So what you're saying is this new dual core processor will be great for watching 1080p movies with the screen off (or on an e-ink screen) ?
at the request of who? Last I checked, Belgium didn't even have a government!
I guess it has been about 2 years since we've had a stable government and that's also about the time it takes for a request to get processed by the bureaucrats here in my experience.
The US has the strictest standards when it comes to this - babies we try to save here would be written off as late-term miscarriages elsewhere.
Yeah the standards are so strict the US has been widely criticised for having the "second worst newborn death rate in modern world." Hey at least you beat Latvia. Worse still, U.S. childbirth deaths are still on the rise bucking a world wide trend. But don't worry, just turn on the TV and put on Glen Beck or some other US propagandist and he'll reassure you're The Greatest Nation On Earth(TM).
Sure but you know what, classical marxist communism came of age in a time when "the media" really was a capitalist enterprise entirely committed to its destruction and even today you could argue this. Who thinks the likes of Rupert Murdoch would give any regime that goes a different way from the US a fair shake ? Castro is really astute when he says that the internet, taken as a whole, isn't dominated by these traditional media empires which are owned by the capitalist class with a vested interest in the status quo. There's a lot of talk in the west of the "free press" but the fact is that for most of our history information has come from powerful information brokers aligned most of time with capital and the state. Just take a critical look at the history of the AP for example. That doesn't excuse the marxist stance on media freedom of course, but you do have to understand it is a cultural thing based on real blows dealt to popular movements in their formative years and not just "because they're evil."
Also, a great deal of Cuba's foremost cigar-producing families fled Cuba, when Castro took over.
That just doesn't make sense. Tobacco is planted by the working class, cigars are rolled by the working class just as they always have been. It's like saying the US couldn't produce cotton after the civil war because slave owners were shot during battle.
All part of teh lulz. INTERNET LOVE MACHINE is just another meme, messing with people by subverting their expectations of your behavior.
(from wikipedia) "Bob Wilson (William Shatner) is a salesman on an airplane for the first time since his nervous breakdown six months ago. He spots a gremlin on the wing of the plane. Every time someone else looks out the window, the gremlin leaps out of view, so nobody believes Bob's seemingly outlandish claim. Bob realizes that his wife is starting to think he needs to go back to the sanitarium, but also, if nothing is done about the gremlin, it will damage the plane and cause it to crash. Bob steals a sleeping policeman's revolver, and opens the window marked "Auxiliary Exit" to shoot the gremlin, succeeding despite the fact that he is nearly blown out of the plane himself. Once the plane has landed, although he is whisked away in a straitjacket, a final shot reveals evidence of his claims: the unusual damage to the plane's engine nacelle -- yet to be discovered by mechanics."
Well damn, The Simpsons did that one on one of the "Treehouse of horror" shows didn't they ? The more you know...
That same episode of SNL had a send-up of TJ Hooker where Shatner is trapped on the hood of a car full of fleeing felons, writing a note to his ex-wife: "it's been three days now... they have to run out of gas soon..."
Shatner's on my list of celebrities who I like just because they went on SNL and were good at either mocking themselves, or worked hard to actually do good comedy. See Garth Brooks (who did a Mango sketch), Jason Priestly, and Justin Timberlake as the dancing milkshake.
How about Tom Cruise ? That video almost made me forget what a nutball he is and definitely makes me feel better about liking some of his movies.
This video of an 18 month old using an iPad spelling app really opened my eyes to what the iPad could be used for.
I sometimes combine the two with my 8 month old: she sits on my lap and mashes on an unconnected keyboard while I type on a connected one just out of reach. It satisfies her curiosity about the noise daddy's making and I can respond to some email. Then she'll tire of it and we'll move on to some other toys.