441ppi is AWESOME, by the way! The "retina" display is only 326ppi! Your eyes will not be able to see individual pixels on that screen... it'll look as good or even better than print.
This is the #1 reason (and really only one necessary) for me to stick with my iOS enabled devices. These devices are only a few months old and cannot be upgraded?! Seriously?! I'm done considering a switch to Android.
I've been using Skype video conferencing for the past 5 years to take an online Spanish class, and for the past several months it has been terrible. There have been many instances of dropped calls, degraded call quality, frozen video, etc. Throw in the v5 UI fiasco and it was time for a change.
A few weeks ago we started trying alternatives (MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, AIM, and a few others) and finally settled on ooVoo [http://www.oovoo.com], which is not a perfect replacement, but works much better than Skype in the areas that matter. The video is much more clear and we have not suffered a single dropped call.
Disclaimer: I own every fucking Apple product made in the last 10 years. And 2 of some of them.
I use my iPad2 all day long - listening to music, playing games, taking notes, managing my OmniFocus todo lists, reading Slashdot.. you know, the usual. I have often thought "Could this replace my Macbook Pro?", and the answer is always "no!".
It isn't fast enough. It doesn't have tab from field to field, even with the external keyboard. While the apps that it does run are nice, they are not nearly as full featured as their "real" Mac based counterparts. There is no file system, so you can't manage your documents in a hierarchy like you can on a "real" Mac. Apparently this is what Apple wants to kill anyways... who needs folders, right? Well, I do. I like folders, and the iPad doesn't have them. There is no external storage, other than a very awkward (not to mention slow) interface to iDisk and/or Dropbox. And finally, there is no way to use my Magic Trackpad with the device... I constantly have to reach up and touch the screen when I am using the external keyboard.. and you know, after 15 minutes, my arm feels like it wants to fall off.;-)
And there's one more thing... I can't install apps other than what Apple says is ok to install on the iPad. Until they give me full control over the device, it'll just be a toy that is good at managing todo lists and playing games.
The University of Lincoln, NE is known for 1 thing - the Cornhuskers. I grew up in Nebraska, and the running joke was "What does the big red N on the front of the college entrance mean? Knowledge."
What do you expect them to say? They want more money, but are not the best thinkers... so they come up with something idiotic. Go team!
What happened is pretty simple, really. You have an island that is prone to earthquakes. You have a very bright people who decided to do something that in hindsight was really stupid and put a fragile building that houses incredibly frail yet awesomely powerful technology on said island. Mix and stir and you have a deadly and devastating cocktail of doom.
"Dalvik does not align to Java SE nor Java ME Class Library profiles[8][9] (e.g., Java ME classes, AWT or Swing are not supported). Instead it uses its own library[10] built on a subset of the Apache Harmony Java implementation."
Ok... so you can download Android, make changes to it and then compile it. Then what? Apparently actually using your compiled Android OS is not possible... so I guess "Open", when speaking about Android, falls just shy of "useful".
A friend of mine used to be a contractor to NASA and he used to tell me stories about how you could get into trouble if you queried the wrong column in a database table. His background check was so extensive that it went on for 3 months, while he just sat around and brought home paychecks for doing absolutely NOTHING.
He also said that if you pushed the wrong number on the elevator and got off on the wrong floor, you would be interrogated and possibly fired. If you did it more than once, you would definitely be fired.
You have a good point, but that wasn't what I was referring to. I am simply referring to the capitalist idea of "competition being good for the consumer".
When Android innovates, Apple must respond, and vice versa. This benefits people with money looking to buy a phone - aka "consumers".
I saw an interview with Frank Zappa when I was younger, and I think he hit the nail on the head. He said (paraphrasing, it was a long time ago...) "They're only _words_! If you give them no weight, then their meaning is worthless to kids and they won't bother saying them!" What was so unbelievable was that the interviewer didn't "get it". I was maybe 20 at the time, and I most certainly did, and I think he was absolutely correct. If the parents tell the kid "Don't say the f-word, it's bad!", the kid will do it... because it's bad! Because the word has "weight". It's the human condition - kids long to be "bad", to do things that adults don't like.
Case in point: My coworker has a 2 year old daughter, who picked up "What the Fuck!" from someone. She saw the opportunity to shock mommy and daddy one day, so she drops the F bomb. Dad cautioned mom against saying anything to the daughter at all... just to ignore it. The daughter hasn't said it since. Had they made a big deal about it... you bet they would have heard it again... even the 2 year old knows what is "bad" and wants to say it.
It is the global imperative of every single being on this planet, from ants to elephants, with the odd exception of Panda bears, to perpetuate the species. It's the underlying driving force of evolution. We are born, we grow, we procreate, we die... rinse and repeat.
What Hawking is saying is simply that if we wish to fulfill our evolutionary destiny... for this driving force to continue... we will need to find another hospitable home to do it since we will eventually outgrow and probably make this one uninhabitable in the process.
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I'm a fan of the new Sony Xperia Z.. that's a pretty damned nice looking phone!
My wife has an iPhone 4S and I have a SGS3... the screen on the 4S seems very tiny in comparison.
441ppi is AWESOME, by the way! The "retina" display is only 326ppi! Your eyes will not be able to see individual pixels on that screen... it'll look as good or even better than print.
Ah yes, caps is da bomb ;-)
Ok, now I feel like I'm part of the in crowd again LOL
Just to be sure, I type file:/// into TextEdit or a new Mail message or whatever and it's supposed to crash?
Running OS X 10.8.2 here, and I tried it in TextEdit, Mail, and Safari.. no crash.
It's like a 12 year old Disney intern ate a bunch of crayons and threw up on the screen.
[sarcasm mode=on]But.. but... it's "Lovely and Intuitive"!!! Didn't you RTFA?! [/sarcasm]
I am not a fan either... I think that it feels very weird. Maybe I would consider it a decent start, I guess.
This is the #1 reason (and really only one necessary) for me to stick with my iOS enabled devices. These devices are only a few months old and cannot be upgraded?! Seriously?! I'm done considering a switch to Android.
So what is better for video conferencing between Mac and Windows?
Who is moderating this troll up? His post is utter nonsense and completely incorrect.
I've been using Skype video conferencing for the past 5 years to take an online Spanish class, and for the past several months it has been terrible. There have been many instances of dropped calls, degraded call quality, frozen video, etc. Throw in the v5 UI fiasco and it was time for a change.
A few weeks ago we started trying alternatives (MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, AIM, and a few others) and finally settled on ooVoo [http://www.oovoo.com], which is not a perfect replacement, but works much better than Skype in the areas that matter. The video is much more clear and we have not suffered a single dropped call.
Disclaimer: I own every fucking Apple product made in the last 10 years. And 2 of some of them.
I use my iPad2 all day long - listening to music, playing games, taking notes, managing my OmniFocus todo lists, reading Slashdot.. you know, the usual. I have often thought "Could this replace my Macbook Pro?", and the answer is always "no!".
It isn't fast enough. It doesn't have tab from field to field, even with the external keyboard. While the apps that it does run are nice, they are not nearly as full featured as their "real" Mac based counterparts. There is no file system, so you can't manage your documents in a hierarchy like you can on a "real" Mac. Apparently this is what Apple wants to kill anyways... who needs folders, right? Well, I do. I like folders, and the iPad doesn't have them. There is no external storage, other than a very awkward (not to mention slow) interface to iDisk and/or Dropbox. And finally, there is no way to use my Magic Trackpad with the device... I constantly have to reach up and touch the screen when I am using the external keyboard.. and you know, after 15 minutes, my arm feels like it wants to fall off. ;-)
And there's one more thing... I can't install apps other than what Apple says is ok to install on the iPad. Until they give me full control over the device, it'll just be a toy that is good at managing todo lists and playing games.
The University of Lincoln, NE is known for 1 thing - the Cornhuskers. I grew up in Nebraska, and the running joke was "What does the big red N on the front of the college entrance mean? Knowledge."
What do you expect them to say? They want more money, but are not the best thinkers... so they come up with something idiotic. Go team!
Why did you install Windows, again? :D
WORK! Ugh. Luckily it's in a VM :-)
The best use for IE is to download another browser after installing Windows.
What happened is pretty simple, really. You have an island that is prone to earthquakes. You have a very bright people who decided to do something that in hindsight was really stupid and put a fragile building that houses incredibly frail yet awesomely powerful technology on said island. Mix and stir and you have a deadly and devastating cocktail of doom.
Sad, but true.
They call it Java, but technically it's not Java... it doesn't run on a JVM, and uses a custom development kit (not the JDK).
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalvik_(software)
"Dalvik does not align to Java SE nor Java ME Class Library profiles[8][9] (e.g., Java ME classes, AWT or Swing are not supported). Instead it uses its own library[10] built on a subset of the Apache Harmony Java implementation."
Ok... so you can download Android, make changes to it and then compile it. Then what? Apparently actually using your compiled Android OS is not possible... so I guess "Open", when speaking about Android, falls just shy of "useful".
A friend of mine used to be a contractor to NASA and he used to tell me stories about how you could get into trouble if you queried the wrong column in a database table. His background check was so extensive that it went on for 3 months, while he just sat around and brought home paychecks for doing absolutely NOTHING.
He also said that if you pushed the wrong number on the elevator and got off on the wrong floor, you would be interrogated and possibly fired. If you did it more than once, you would definitely be fired.
Those gubment folks are pretty strict.
You have a good point, but that wasn't what I was referring to. I am simply referring to the capitalist idea of "competition being good for the consumer".
When Android innovates, Apple must respond, and vice versa. This benefits people with money looking to buy a phone - aka "consumers".
Consumers.
I saw an interview with Frank Zappa when I was younger, and I think he hit the nail on the head. He said (paraphrasing, it was a long time ago...) "They're only _words_! If you give them no weight, then their meaning is worthless to kids and they won't bother saying them!" What was so unbelievable was that the interviewer didn't "get it". I was maybe 20 at the time, and I most certainly did, and I think he was absolutely correct. If the parents tell the kid "Don't say the f-word, it's bad!", the kid will do it... because it's bad! Because the word has "weight". It's the human condition - kids long to be "bad", to do things that adults don't like.
Case in point: My coworker has a 2 year old daughter, who picked up "What the Fuck!" from someone. She saw the opportunity to shock mommy and daddy one day, so she drops the F bomb. Dad cautioned mom against saying anything to the daughter at all... just to ignore it. The daughter hasn't said it since. Had they made a big deal about it... you bet they would have heard it again... even the 2 year old knows what is "bad" and wants to say it.
It is the global imperative of every single being on this planet, from ants to elephants, with the odd exception of Panda bears, to perpetuate the species. It's the underlying driving force of evolution. We are born, we grow, we procreate, we die... rinse and repeat.
What Hawking is saying is simply that if we wish to fulfill our evolutionary destiny... for this driving force to continue... we will need to find another hospitable home to do it since we will eventually outgrow and probably make this one uninhabitable in the process.
Life is just a fantasy...