I don't have any hard data yet, but anecdotal evidence so far says you're incorrect. ArsTechnica's poll of their employees with a 4S indicate anywhere from 3-15 average Siri uses per day. My wife already prefers it to typing on the phone. I think it's especially interesting since it integrates fairly well with a car's bluetooth integration.
I can imagine a future screen-less phone that's just a stick with a speaker, mic, and button, with everything being done via voice...
Tell that to Mubarak, he might have a different opinion.
You are referring to Air Chief Marshall Muhammad Hosni Sayyid Mubarak of the Egyptian Air Force, and the Egyptian army's previous pick to lead the country? I wonder who the army will pick as their next leader of the country?
Right. Which explains why one of the first governments that was overthrown in the "Arab Spring" was Egypt... a staunch US ally that the US had poured many billions of dollars into. Congratulations. You managed to set a new record for cluelessness.
The Egyptian government has yet to be overthrown. Egypt was ruled by the military before the arab spring, and it's ruled by the military today.
Not quite. It's the same sensor as in the EVO 4G, but the "camera" functionality includes lenses, filters, packaging, and software. The lens is a 5-element F/2.4 lens. The filters include an "adaptive IR filter", which supposedly reduces noise significantly. The software includes tight integration with the new CPU allowing very fast picture taking (a little over a second to first pic, 0.5s per pic after that).
It is definitely new. I'd say Siri is the magical part of the 4S, not the camera, but the camera is no slouch.
Which makes me suspicious. The can make a vaccine for the variant of Herpes (Chicken Pox) that has one outbreak, and that is the end of it, but they can't make a vaccine for the variant that has reoccurring outbreaks for the the persons entire life. For that variant, they can only come up with on going treatment to suppress the symptoms.
Think about it... The vaccine works the same way actually getting Chicken Pox works from the immune system's memory's point of view. The fact that you tend to only get chicken pox a few times in your life (if you include shingles) is why there can be so effective a vaccine. The fact that the immune system can't keep some other herpes in check as well is why a vaccine is less effective for those variants.
It's not as preposterous as it seems, especially considering how long these application processes can take. Before the iPhone, almost no one used the term "multi-touch". Here's Google's trending on the term. [google.com] Note that the iPhone was released in 2007. As the USPTO rightly points out, it is more descriptive than distinctive and has rapidly become a common phrase, so they rightly denied the trademark. But it probably didn't seem as preposterous when the request was originally made.
I know you're trying to be funny, but they really are when it comes to kids. The immediacy of something you touch and hold makes it a much different experience. My sons love to play the Montessori apps which teach various math and writing. The interface is insanely simple and it's instant-on.
I'm not saying it's a perfect use of money (and hey, what about the kids who already have them?), but it is a valid thing to try.
Can we please stop re-naming economists you don't agree with "neo-Marxists" (or the more popular "socialist"). The question of deficit vs. excess spending is orthogonal to the effect the spending itself has on the economy. The point is where to apply the force-- at the bottom or the top. Reaganomics advocated extreme deficit spending while cutting the top earners' taxes in the theory that they'd create jobs. It didn't work, and he was forced to raise taxes again for several years in a row. (When they say this unemployment is "the worst since 1983" you know what they're talking about.) Anyway, the question of tax-and-spend (i.e. "liberal") versus borrow-and-spend (ie. "conservative") isn't really relevant here.
Besides, other *actual* research seems to contradict his theory. Siblings have a 25% greater chance of having autism than unrelated people if one is diagnosed, and identical twins have 50% greater... but fraternal twins have a 33% greater chance. That's pretty much a dead ringer proof that it is a mix of both genetics and environment-- otherwise fraternal twins would have exactly the same chance as non-twin siblings.
The paper behind the 1998 article didn't even claim photoreceptors. They just wanted to test whether light applied to the bloodstream through the skin affected the body's rhythm, and the knees have a lot of blood vessels.
Is this submission a late April Fools joke? If there's one thing worse than symposiums where they debate the meaning of the word 'gamification', it's an online discussion about such symposiums on Slashdot.
Most of the core MacOS X systems are not closed source. You can download most of them here. It's true that a lot of the GUI is closed source, but if you're talking about a remote exploit, you're probably hitting a lot of open source packages.
The obvious counter-example to this is Apple. They are suing Samsung for making near-exact replicas of many Apple inventions without the expenditure of any R&D or in fact bringing anything new into the world... yet they still subsequently created the iPad that's become a new multi-billion dollar industry in less than 2 years. Obviously they are still rapidly innovating. It's not an either-or thing.
And even then, the exact same survey company said Android had 22% tablet market share in the Christmas quarter. So it went from 2% to 22% from calendar Q2 to Q4 last year, then 22% to 30% from last Q4 to this Q2. Sure looks like even their over-inflated, Android-biased survey shows Android tablets asymptotically approaching about 35% of the market someday. Their growth curve-- and it's the most optimistic one of all the Android tablet research out there-- doesn't look good for Android taking a majority of the market any time soon.
You can even recompile your Mach+BSD kernel and install it on your Mac or hackintosh.
Since Apple has also rejected GPLv3, they are moving away from all things GNU in their user space as well. That means they've contributed heavily to LLVM and clang to replace GCC, also under the BSD license and written an entire new libc/c++ which they've also open-sourced. They've probably done more for BSD-licensed OS work than anyone in the world at this point.
I'm not entirely sure why they get a reputation for being closed. It's true Darwin as a separately-installable distro never caught on and they ended the project, but they're very open and permissive about their core OS development.
Besides, isn't this exactly what the patent system is for? No one can argue that before the iPhone there existed a hand-held touchscreen device that flipped its interface based on an accelerometer. This doesn't even fall into the complaints of patenting pure math-- it's an actual device with a specific function that didn't exist before Apple created it. If this isn't the sort of R&D investment that patents are supposed to protect, then what is?
If it's not innovative, and if a mercury switch is all that's needed, then Android and Blackberry devices should be happy to keep doing things the old way.
If you buy it without this GPU, then Apple was right not to spend the money on it. Don't buy it if it's not up to your needs and Apple will learn to set the product/price appropriate to the market.
Personally, I don't care much about desktop/laptop GPU power anymore as much as I care about what Apple can cram into the iPad 3...
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I don't have any hard data yet, but anecdotal evidence so far says you're incorrect. ArsTechnica's poll of their employees with a 4S indicate anywhere from 3-15 average Siri uses per day. My wife already prefers it to typing on the phone. I think it's especially interesting since it integrates fairly well with a car's bluetooth integration.
I can imagine a future screen-less phone that's just a stick with a speaker, mic, and button, with everything being done via voice...
yet another dick-move-in-sheeps-clothing by apple.
Yet another? One wonders if you're reading Slashdot on a WebKit-based browser. Apple's been a pretty prolific open source contributor.
Tell that to Mubarak, he might have a different opinion.
You are referring to Air Chief Marshall Muhammad Hosni Sayyid Mubarak of the Egyptian Air Force, and the Egyptian army's previous pick to lead the country? I wonder who the army will pick as their next leader of the country?
Right. Which explains why one of the first governments that was overthrown in the "Arab Spring" was Egypt... a staunch US ally that the US had poured many billions of dollars into. Congratulations. You managed to set a new record for cluelessness.
The Egyptian government has yet to be overthrown. Egypt was ruled by the military before the arab spring, and it's ruled by the military today.
Not quite. It's the same sensor as in the EVO 4G, but the "camera" functionality includes lenses, filters, packaging, and software. The lens is a 5-element F/2.4 lens. The filters include an "adaptive IR filter", which supposedly reduces noise significantly. The software includes tight integration with the new CPU allowing very fast picture taking (a little over a second to first pic, 0.5s per pic after that).
It is definitely new. I'd say Siri is the magical part of the 4S, not the camera, but the camera is no slouch.
Which makes me suspicious. The can make a vaccine for the variant of Herpes (Chicken Pox) that has one outbreak, and that is the end of it, but they can't make a vaccine for the variant that has reoccurring outbreaks for the the persons entire life. For that variant, they can only come up with on going treatment to suppress the symptoms.
Think about it... The vaccine works the same way actually getting Chicken Pox works from the immune system's memory's point of view. The fact that you tend to only get chicken pox a few times in your life (if you include shingles) is why there can be so effective a vaccine. The fact that the immune system can't keep some other herpes in check as well is why a vaccine is less effective for those variants.
Oops... mis-copied the link: Here is the Google Trends on the term "multi-touch" (again note that the iPhone is circa 2007.)
It's not as preposterous as it seems, especially considering how long these application processes can take. Before the iPhone, almost no one used the term "multi-touch". Here's Google's trending on the term. [google.com] Note that the iPhone was released in 2007. As the USPTO rightly points out, it is more descriptive than distinctive and has rapidly become a common phrase, so they rightly denied the trademark. But it probably didn't seem as preposterous when the request was originally made.
Could someone please work this car news into a linux analogy for me please?
Man, reality has low FPS.
Those were computers, these are iPads.
Completely different.
I know you're trying to be funny, but they really are when it comes to kids. The immediacy of something you touch and hold makes it a much different experience. My sons love to play the Montessori apps which teach various math and writing. The interface is insanely simple and it's instant-on.
I'm not saying it's a perfect use of money (and hey, what about the kids who already have them?), but it is a valid thing to try.
Maybe we could inoculate them by injecting them with small amounts of electrons once a week.
Can we please stop re-naming economists you don't agree with "neo-Marxists" (or the more popular "socialist"). The question of deficit vs. excess spending is orthogonal to the effect the spending itself has on the economy. The point is where to apply the force-- at the bottom or the top. Reaganomics advocated extreme deficit spending while cutting the top earners' taxes in the theory that they'd create jobs. It didn't work, and he was forced to raise taxes again for several years in a row. (When they say this unemployment is "the worst since 1983" you know what they're talking about.) Anyway, the question of tax-and-spend (i.e. "liberal") versus borrow-and-spend (ie. "conservative") isn't really relevant here.
I think Steve Jobs' greatest innovations are what he removed from the products his company produced, not what he added to them.
Besides, other *actual* research seems to contradict his theory. Siblings have a 25% greater chance of having autism than unrelated people if one is diagnosed, and identical twins have 50% greater... but fraternal twins have a 33% greater chance. That's pretty much a dead ringer proof that it is a mix of both genetics and environment-- otherwise fraternal twins would have exactly the same chance as non-twin siblings.
The paper behind the 1998 article didn't even claim photoreceptors. They just wanted to test whether light applied to the bloodstream through the skin affected the body's rhythm, and the knees have a lot of blood vessels.
Is this submission a late April Fools joke? If there's one thing worse than symposiums where they debate the meaning of the word 'gamification', it's an online discussion about such symposiums on Slashdot.
Sarah Palin hosting a Discovery show and Neil Degrasse Tyson on FOX. What's going on??
Most of the core MacOS X systems are not closed source. You can download most of them here. It's true that a lot of the GUI is closed source, but if you're talking about a remote exploit, you're probably hitting a lot of open source packages.
The obvious counter-example to this is Apple. They are suing Samsung for making near-exact replicas of many Apple inventions without the expenditure of any R&D or in fact bringing anything new into the world... yet they still subsequently created the iPad that's become a new multi-billion dollar industry in less than 2 years. Obviously they are still rapidly innovating. It's not an either-or thing.
And even then, the exact same survey company said Android had 22% tablet market share in the Christmas quarter. So it went from 2% to 22% from calendar Q2 to Q4 last year, then 22% to 30% from last Q4 to this Q2. Sure looks like even their over-inflated, Android-biased survey shows Android tablets asymptotically approaching about 35% of the market someday. Their growth curve-- and it's the most optimistic one of all the Android tablet research out there-- doesn't look good for Android taking a majority of the market any time soon.
http://www.opensource.apple.com/release/mac-os-x-1068/
You can even recompile your Mach+BSD kernel and install it on your Mac or hackintosh.
Since Apple has also rejected GPLv3, they are moving away from all things GNU in their user space as well. That means they've contributed heavily to LLVM and clang to replace GCC, also under the BSD license and written an entire new libc/c++ which they've also open-sourced. They've probably done more for BSD-licensed OS work than anyone in the world at this point.
I'm not entirely sure why they get a reputation for being closed. It's true Darwin as a separately-installable distro never caught on and they ended the project, but they're very open and permissive about their core OS development.
Besides, isn't this exactly what the patent system is for? No one can argue that before the iPhone there existed a hand-held touchscreen device that flipped its interface based on an accelerometer. This doesn't even fall into the complaints of patenting pure math-- it's an actual device with a specific function that didn't exist before Apple created it. If this isn't the sort of R&D investment that patents are supposed to protect, then what is?
If it's not innovative, and if a mercury switch is all that's needed, then Android and Blackberry devices should be happy to keep doing things the old way.
Yeah, my kids placenta is still attached, and his hair and fingernails are getting rather long, but who am I to decide what's best for him?
we will likely get...
If you buy it without this GPU, then Apple was right not to spend the money on it. Don't buy it if it's not up to your needs and Apple will learn to set the product/price appropriate to the market.
Personally, I don't care much about desktop/laptop GPU power anymore as much as I care about what Apple can cram into the iPad 3...