No, in the case of ISP's this could directly harm the "nudged" companies' competitors by reducing available bandwidth to them. In your example this would be similar to Google letting them buy actual search results that are displayed as such to the user.
Not in the results themselves. They can pay for ads which may appear near the results but are clearly separated from them. Google doesn't sell PageRank.
Hmm, my last Samsung was actually pretty rugged, it was the verizon A930. In addition to taking a beating in general it survived a rage-propelled flight down a concrete staircase and off the.5 story landing onto the ground in a parking garage. I must have been lucky with that one, granted it was a big plastic beast of a phone, even for the time.
The iPod and iTunes defined an easy, safe, legal means for carrying your music around and purchasing it online.
Easy, safe, and legal means of carrying your music around existed before the iPod as did means of purchasing music online or did you forget about Rio and eMusic?
The iPod Touch pushed into territory previously occupied by PDAs and showed how applications and music players could co-exist in the same device.
PDAs with applications and music players also existed well before the iPod Touch.
The iPhone took the Touch a step further and integrated your cell phone.
Ever heard of Windows Mobile? It may not have been the best OS ever but it was certainly around and on smartphones long before the iPhone existed. It was also fully capable of multitasking and copy/paste, both of which took Apple quite a while to introduce for the iPhone line (their multitasking implementation still leaves much to be desired).
Finally, the iPad leveraged the phenomenal user interface that Apple engineered for its new portable consumer devices and made the screen large enough to be attractive to use in an armchair at home.
As a former iPhone owner who switched to Android for more freedom in what I do with my phone I have no interest in the iPad mainly because it faces the same Apple-imposed limitations as the iPhone did. Many people won't care but there are a significant minority who do.
And during all this, their computers have made major switches to Intel CPUs and OS X.
I fail to see how switching to the same CPU architecture the rest of the industry was on is innovative. OS X has some neat UI innovations and I consider it to be a pretty good OS but you can't treat that as a completely new innovation either. It's mostly Unix under the hood, poke around with a Mac for a bit and you'll see for yourself.
Everyone else has been just trying to keep up. It has actually been an incredible accomplishment by Jobs. Say what you will about the man or his methods, but he has completely and authoritatively defined the interaction of humans and their computing devices during his lifetime. Apple deserves the attention.
I completely disagree that Steve Jobs has completely and authoritatively defined the interaction of humans and computers. There are many pioneers in this field and Jobs is not even top among them. He is certainly not the one and only (as implied by "completely and authoritatively"). If you want to see a huge pioneer in HCI do some research on Xerox PARC.
People love apple and it's fabuously high quality ineffebly well designed products.
Having owned a few of their products I would hesitate to call them high quality, especially in the reliability department. The iPod Classic has been trouble free but both the original iPhone and the 3gs gave me quite a few issues, as a matter of fact the original is still sitting in a desk drawer, only useful as a paperweight now.
Only if you have an expedient means of selling the gold while the price remains higher. Too bad the machines won't buy and sell, all you'd have to figure out is a real-time price feed to your smartphone then camp out next to the ATM.
Nerds are always heated up about weapons? I must have missed the memo on that one. Now if you meant we're annoyed at how difficult it is to legally purchase a firearm in certain states then I would certainly agree...
Just you wait till they start building war robots....
We will all be speaking japanese, watching anime, and eating ramen while washing ti down with a bottle of ramune....
I think close to half the students at the engineering school I went to did that already... albeit most could only speak certain phrases learned from the anime.
John Gruber just entered Apple Fanboy land... at least we now know where his bullshit is coming from.
John Gruber has been pro-Apple for a long time, just take a look back at his blog history. Looking at the blog post in question he didn't offer up much opinion at all, mostly just quotes from other articles.
I only saw it in the papers, I live in NJ so I did not experience it firsthand. I find it very interesting to get the point of view from someone who was there, I noticed a few articles mentioned training but most of the information I could find implied issues with the optical scanning.
I do find it curious they went with that method as opposed to a touchscreen solution that would maintain printed record of votes as well (something similar to a cash register ticker tape). Seems like that would cause less problems and confusion so long as the interface was intuitive.
I wouldn't think the difference of a single person choosing vs. multiple people choosing would meet the non-obvious criteria. Take a vote, go with the majority, seems fairly obvious.
Well it can be used as a contraction (i.e. "it's" rather than "it is") or as a possessive (i.e. Dragon's Lair, the dragon owns the lair). There are of course the special cases, "its" and "it's" for example where "its" is the proper possesive, it's common for these to be confused.
Thank you! I read the whole article linked wondering what exactly the problem was that made it impossible to play for lefties. If the original author had included that information I think he would have found more sympathy with the readers.
Which is one of a very long list of things that make me unhappy with Sharepoint, it's everything including the kitchen sink but doesn't seem to do anything very well.
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No, in the case of ISP's this could directly harm the "nudged" companies' competitors by reducing available bandwidth to them. In your example this would be similar to Google letting them buy actual search results that are displayed as such to the user.
Not in the results themselves. They can pay for ads which may appear near the results but are clearly separated from them. Google doesn't sell PageRank.
Defined as: (n) application, application program, applications programme (a program that gives a computer instructions that provide the user with tools to accomplish a task) "he has tried several different word processing applications"
Hmm, my last Samsung was actually pretty rugged, it was the verizon A930. In addition to taking a beating in general it survived a rage-propelled flight down a concrete staircase and off the .5 story landing onto the ground in a parking garage. I must have been lucky with that one, granted it was a big plastic beast of a phone, even for the time.
The iPod and iTunes defined an easy, safe, legal means for carrying your music around and purchasing it online.
Easy, safe, and legal means of carrying your music around existed before the iPod as did means of purchasing music online or did you forget about Rio and eMusic?
The iPod Touch pushed into territory previously occupied by PDAs and showed how applications and music players could co-exist in the same device.
PDAs with applications and music players also existed well before the iPod Touch.
The iPhone took the Touch a step further and integrated your cell phone.
Ever heard of Windows Mobile? It may not have been the best OS ever but it was certainly around and on smartphones long before the iPhone existed. It was also fully capable of multitasking and copy/paste, both of which took Apple quite a while to introduce for the iPhone line (their multitasking implementation still leaves much to be desired).
Finally, the iPad leveraged the phenomenal user interface that Apple engineered for its new portable consumer devices and made the screen large enough to be attractive to use in an armchair at home.
As a former iPhone owner who switched to Android for more freedom in what I do with my phone I have no interest in the iPad mainly because it faces the same Apple-imposed limitations as the iPhone did. Many people won't care but there are a significant minority who do.
And during all this, their computers have made major switches to Intel CPUs and OS X.
I fail to see how switching to the same CPU architecture the rest of the industry was on is innovative. OS X has some neat UI innovations and I consider it to be a pretty good OS but you can't treat that as a completely new innovation either. It's mostly Unix under the hood, poke around with a Mac for a bit and you'll see for yourself.
Everyone else has been just trying to keep up. It has actually been an incredible accomplishment by Jobs. Say what you will about the man or his methods, but he has completely and authoritatively defined the interaction of humans and their computing devices during his lifetime. Apple deserves the attention.
I completely disagree that Steve Jobs has completely and authoritatively defined the interaction of humans and computers. There are many pioneers in this field and Jobs is not even top among them. He is certainly not the one and only (as implied by "completely and authoritatively"). If you want to see a huge pioneer in HCI do some research on Xerox PARC.
People love apple and it's fabuously high quality ineffebly well designed products.
Having owned a few of their products I would hesitate to call them high quality, especially in the reliability department. The iPod Classic has been trouble free but both the original iPhone and the 3gs gave me quite a few issues, as a matter of fact the original is still sitting in a desk drawer, only useful as a paperweight now.
Only if you have an expedient means of selling the gold while the price remains higher. Too bad the machines won't buy and sell, all you'd have to figure out is a real-time price feed to your smartphone then camp out next to the ATM.
Ah, fair enough. I'll freely admit I get pretty fired up about lawmakers trying to ban them.
Nerds are always heated up about weapons? I must have missed the memo on that one. Now if you meant we're annoyed at how difficult it is to legally purchase a firearm in certain states then I would certainly agree...
Just you wait till they start building war robots....
We will all be speaking japanese, watching anime, and eating ramen while washing ti down with a bottle of ramune....
I think close to half the students at the engineering school I went to did that already... albeit most could only speak certain phrases learned from the anime.
I'm surprised Reuters even picked it up, I just lost a little more respect for them (not that I have much respect for any news agency lately).
You don't have to be a snob to realize that without the (very technically impressive) 3d and CG work it would be a pretty lackluster film.
John Gruber just entered Apple Fanboy land... at least we now know where his bullshit is coming from.
John Gruber has been pro-Apple for a long time, just take a look back at his blog history. Looking at the blog post in question he didn't offer up much opinion at all, mostly just quotes from other articles.
Do you have any sources for this? I'd be interested to read more into it, if that's true then Skyhook has no business complaining.
bonus fun fact: Apple used skyhook until iPhone OS (as it was then called) version 3, at which point they started doing it in house.
Which raises the question of why Skyhook is not suing both Apple and Google.
I only saw it in the papers, I live in NJ so I did not experience it firsthand. I find it very interesting to get the point of view from someone who was there, I noticed a few articles mentioned training but most of the information I could find implied issues with the optical scanning.
I do find it curious they went with that method as opposed to a touchscreen solution that would maintain printed record of votes as well (something similar to a cash register ticker tape). Seems like that would cause less problems and confusion so long as the interface was intuitive.
I wouldn't think the difference of a single person choosing vs. multiple people choosing would meet the non-obvious criteria. Take a vote, go with the majority, seems fairly obvious.
Well it can be used as a contraction (i.e. "it's" rather than "it is") or as a possessive (i.e. Dragon's Lair, the dragon owns the lair). There are of course the special cases, "its" and "it's" for example where "its" is the proper possesive, it's common for these to be confused.
The scantron approach didn't work out so well for NYC recently.
Thank you! I read the whole article linked wondering what exactly the problem was that made it impossible to play for lefties. If the original author had included that information I think he would have found more sympathy with the readers.
I thought sparkles came from vampire meat?
Believe me I wish my work would use just about anything else.
"unicorn bacon"
But bacon is already magical! What could unicorn possibly add?
Which is one of a very long list of things that make me unhappy with Sharepoint, it's everything including the kitchen sink but doesn't seem to do anything very well.
Ah, at least they fixed it. I used Win7 since beta but never really looked at the game center, seems I was missing out on some great amusement.