This isn't completely accurate. You get a free iPad simulator with the xcode SDK. If you don't want to test on physical hardware you can just test on that. When you want to actually put the software in the store though you do need to pay the $99 fee.
Obviously their philosophy happens to line their pockets. For a design philosophy like apple though adding the ability to move outside the predefined limits of the UI philosophy would in itself be bad for the majority of users.
This is like the way that Windows hides system files from novice users but enables non-novice users to toggle being able to see them. Of course enabling that means having to write all sorts of extra code to allow that toggle, to allow for the different view perspectives.
I think Apple has come to the conclusion that operating systems have become incredibly complex and that the average user experience can be greatly enhanced by hiding that complexity.
Complexity minimized by iPad/iPhone OS: file systems file extensions directory structures minimized peripheral device considerations minimization of virii due to app store
All of those things are just headaches for the average user.
Apple has created a device that follows a design philosophy started with their first generation iPod: Less is more.
Apple's iPod didn't support every possible audio format. The iPod (originally) only played music, that was it. The iTunes Store was the real selling point for the iPod. With an iPod you had access to all that content and having to purchase then rip a CD (or troll limelight) to get onto your MP3 player was no longer a requirement. Apple won the electronic music device market by making things simple.
The iPad is a device which makes computing VERY simple. The Apple app store is to computer software what the iTunes music store was to music files. Is it going to be a tinkering geeks favorite? No, of course not. Is it likely to be well received by it's intended audience (lay users), yes most likely.
Personally I think all of us have a duty to fore warn the stltoday.com readers that posting in the comments section is very likely to result in being unemployed within a matter of hours.
What I've noticed is that they have two commenting systems. One that is wordpress and doesn't require login, and one that is of a higher quality that has a login system. The wordpress comments are on all of the "Blog" type articles.
I've used dos/windows my entire life (with the exception of a few years of Apple ][c in early grade school.) Sadly I don't want Vista so bad that I'm actually considering buying a Mac.
The thing is I know that if I buy a Mac I'll probably never return to the Windows universe once I start buying software for the Mac that can't be used on a future version of Windows.
I imagine the entire computer hardware industry is suffering because they are locked into exclusive agreements with Microsoft. I know many, many, people who won't buy a computer until Vista is not their only option. These same people also advise friends and families members to either buy a mac, or hold out. (No point in advising less knowledgeable family members to buy Linux unless you want to play tech support for mommy for the next 4 years.)
Now that I'm looking at the price tag on Windows 7... I have to wonder if it is in fact time to just switch to an Apple notebook. I really like my iPod after all... they probably design their OS with the same level of ease of use....
You sound almost like you're in complete denial. Suggesting that the things you list are something that mostly only affect the lower class in the US and that it's nothing out of the ordinary for any country- you only have to look at your president from his rich family to see it's a problem that affects a large part of the US across every class.
Bush doesn't actually believe in God. He's part of the ultra-wealthy party. The only way they can get the lower class to vote against their own interests is to get them to vote for God. Bush is known to have lost an election because of his lack of faith, so he became determined to never be "out christianed" again. And he hasn't been.
I was pointing out two of several subcultures in the US. In the bay area we have a working class as well that differs on some of the points of the southern and midwestern working class, but for the most part aren't all that different.
I'm sorry that you feel so defensive about where it is you are from.
Nope the city county of San Francisco. I've lived all over the bay area though and most of the bay area retains a similar belief system among the middle class.
America, just like England or any country across the Atlantic, has subsets of culture.
The "fast food, celebrity [tabloid obsession], gas guzzling cars, and guns, [and god]" you speak of is the working class America. Especially southern and mid-western working class America. I believe in England this type of person would be called a scally or a chav.
The primarily middle class area in the west where I live is heavily populated by an entirely other subset of Americans that are educated, peace loving, atheist/agnostic, socialist minded, and environmentally conscious.
While we may not be wasting our congress persons time with debates on fox hunting, we are wasting their time with debates on flag burning.
The UK and America aren't all that different.
Scotland by the way is one of the most beautiful places I've ever been. I look forward to returning someday. The food in Scotland has a lot in common with the American south (where the fattest Americans are) lard is not a seasoning, no matter how much the American South and Scotland may wish it so.
>You mean like the Democrats did in 2000 and 2004?
You forget that the politics of the Bush Administration was to deny liberals a role in government entirely. They stated outright that liberal ideas had no value and had no place in the Republican administrative or legislative agenda.
The Obama Democrats are in fact looking for the best ideas, regardless of whether they come from progressives or conservatives. Labor and Capital have to work together to find a WORKING solution, not an ideology based solution to fixing the economy so it works for all Americans.
I know that providing a basic standard of health care for everybody is something that we can afford as a nation, and something that we should do because it is simply the right thing to do.
I pay taxes not because I don't want the IRS to come after me, I pay them because I know I'm getting a bargain for my money in terms of roadways, police, fire, etc... It's cheaper to have a government bureaucracy than to have a corporate profit machine funneling undeserved millions into the pockets of fallible executives who neither serve their customers or their shareholders with their greed.
And as a personal note Guido.... I help my neighbors when they are in need, even when it might inconvenience me. I'm sorry that basic value was never instilled in you by the community and family you grew up in. Despite your greed if there comes a day when you've lost your job, or your business, I'll be happy that my tax dollars are providing you and your children with health care. I'll be happy that the other social safety nets we're going to build will be in place to catch you so that you can get back to whatever life you had before you fell. Even if you hated others for having needed that same safety net at some point in their lives. Even if you cursed them from taking a small percentage more of your income to fund these services. I'll be happy to have the IRS taking my small percentage to cover you while you can't cover yourself. I care for my fellow Americans that much.
In the end it saves you money to have socialized medicine. You can either choose to pay for standard health care or you can pay much much more through your taxes for catastrophic care through ER visits for preventable conditions.
I spent the last 5 days in Sun Valley, Nevada talking to people of all colors, knocking on their doors and asking them to vote. The feeling on the ground in this battleground state was HOPE. Real HOPE that we can get past the petty divisions that have kept this nation from progressing past Reagan.
All of us need to forgive the Republicans and invite them to JOIN us in creating the future America in which every American will have a stronger stake in our economy, socialized medicine, and equality for everybody. Because these things benefit the Republicans as much as they benefit us. It isn't us against them, it's us AND them. That has ALWAYS been the real message of the Obama campaign.
Today conservatives will try to shove the wedge between us again. We must tell their followers that their differing opinions have value while showing them our own values.
The era of gotcha politics has finally come to an end. If we want to move forward all of us have to forgive the Republican supporters. They still have a place in this country and we want them at our side. They can join us, or they can rally against us, but we're going to keep moving forward as a nation. Like I said, the things we want benefit them as well. We just have to show them how.
The problem is that people who's privacy was invaded unjustly (ie, no contraband found) because of a false alert are not going to be in front of the Supreme Court challenging the search. (Because they weren't cited and unless they want to specifically bring a privacy claim, have nothing to challenge.)
yes, because this wouldn't have reached the Supreme Court if the dog had alerted, a search conducted, and no arrest made because there were no drugs.
Your argument is the same as saying that the supreme court would be right to rule the police can search every house they want because the only challenges would be from people who were arrested for contraband found during those searches.
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Fabulis isn't selling anything. The money in the account is for payroll and office space. There is no reason to require contact info.
This isn't completely accurate. You get a free iPad simulator with the xcode SDK. If you don't want to test on physical hardware you can just test on that. When you want to actually put the software in the store though you do need to pay the $99 fee.
Well, that's really what comes down to.
I'll give the iPad (as seen on Weds) one big mark against it though: no flash support.
Since the iPad is a tool for using the web as much as it is an e-reader, Flash should be supported.
I've used the iPad Nano (ie, an iPhone.)
Obviously their philosophy happens to line their pockets. For a design philosophy like apple though adding the ability to move outside the predefined limits of the UI philosophy would in itself be bad for the majority of users.
This is like the way that Windows hides system files from novice users but enables non-novice users to toggle being able to see them. Of course enabling that means having to write all sorts of extra code to allow that toggle, to allow for the different view perspectives.
I think Apple has come to the conclusion that operating systems have become incredibly complex and that the average user experience can be greatly enhanced by hiding that complexity.
Complexity minimized by iPad/iPhone OS:
file systems
file extensions
directory structures
minimized peripheral device considerations
minimization of virii due to app store
All of those things are just headaches for the average user.
Apple has created a device that follows a design philosophy started with their first generation iPod: Less is more.
Apple's iPod didn't support every possible audio format. The iPod (originally) only played music, that was it. The iTunes Store was the real selling point for the iPod. With an iPod you had access to all that content and having to purchase then rip a CD (or troll limelight) to get onto your MP3 player was no longer a requirement. Apple won the electronic music device market by making things simple.
The iPad is a device which makes computing VERY simple. The Apple app store is to computer software what the iTunes music store was to music files. Is it going to be a tinkering geeks favorite? No, of course not. Is it likely to be well received by it's intended audience (lay users), yes most likely.
Colonel Mustard killed the Flash with the iPad in the Library.
Personally I think all of us have a duty to fore warn the stltoday.com readers that posting in the comments section is very likely to result in being unemployed within a matter of hours.
What I've noticed is that they have two commenting systems. One that is wordpress and doesn't require login, and one that is of a higher quality that has a login system. The wordpress comments are on all of the "Blog" type articles.
Go to work!
I've used dos/windows my entire life (with the exception of a few years of Apple ][c in early grade school.) Sadly I don't want Vista so bad that I'm actually considering buying a Mac.
The thing is I know that if I buy a Mac I'll probably never return to the Windows universe once I start buying software for the Mac that can't be used on a future version of Windows.
I imagine the entire computer hardware industry is suffering because they are locked into exclusive agreements with Microsoft. I know many, many, people who won't buy a computer until Vista is not their only option. These same people also advise friends and families members to either buy a mac, or hold out. (No point in advising less knowledgeable family members to buy Linux unless you want to play tech support for mommy for the next 4 years.)
Now that I'm looking at the price tag on Windows 7... I have to wonder if it is in fact time to just switch to an Apple notebook. I really like my iPod after all... they probably design their OS with the same level of ease of use....
Aren't blow and cocaine the same thing? Redundancy is often listed as a reason for getting a pink slip.
Where is the "Whatcouldgowrong" tag when we need it?
You sound almost like you're in complete denial. Suggesting that the things you list are something that mostly only affect the lower class in the US and that it's nothing out of the ordinary for any country- you only have to look at your president from his rich family to see it's a problem that affects a large part of the US across every class.
Bush doesn't actually believe in God. He's part of the ultra-wealthy party. The only way they can get the lower class to vote against their own interests is to get them to vote for God. Bush is known to have lost an election because of his lack of faith, so he became determined to never be "out christianed" again. And he hasn't been.
I think he's talking about suburban culture where people are unlikely to know their neighbors personally. (There are of course exceptions.)
I was pointing out two of several subcultures in the US. In the bay area we have a working class as well that differs on some of the points of the southern and midwestern working class, but for the most part aren't all that different.
I'm sorry that you feel so defensive about where it is you are from.
Nope the city county of San Francisco. I've lived all over the bay area though and most of the bay area retains a similar belief system among the middle class.
Yes you have actually missed something actually.
America, just like England or any country across the Atlantic, has subsets of culture.
The "fast food, celebrity [tabloid obsession], gas guzzling cars, and guns, [and god]" you speak of is the working class America. Especially southern and mid-western working class America. I believe in England this type of person would be called a scally or a chav.
The primarily middle class area in the west where I live is heavily populated by an entirely other subset of Americans that are educated, peace loving, atheist/agnostic, socialist minded, and environmentally conscious.
While we may not be wasting our congress persons time with debates on fox hunting, we are wasting their time with debates on flag burning.
The UK and America aren't all that different.
Scotland by the way is one of the most beautiful places I've ever been. I look forward to returning someday. The food in Scotland has a lot in common with the American south (where the fattest Americans are) lard is not a seasoning, no matter how much the American South and Scotland may wish it so.
I was grumpy. Sorry.
Have you considered that perhaps it's better to let the lazy do what they do best (not work) where they aren't costing unwitting employers money?
Then I say "grow the F2#$ up."
A lot of kids don't want to eat their vegetables either. If a tax payer wants to act like a selfish greedy child they should be treated like one.
>You mean like the Democrats did in 2000 and 2004?
You forget that the politics of the Bush Administration was to deny liberals a role in government entirely. They stated outright that liberal ideas had no value and had no place in the Republican administrative or legislative agenda.
The Obama Democrats are in fact looking for the best ideas, regardless of whether they come from progressives or conservatives. Labor and Capital have to work together to find a WORKING solution, not an ideology based solution to fixing the economy so it works for all Americans.
I know that providing a basic standard of health care for everybody is something that we can afford as a nation, and something that we should do because it is simply the right thing to do.
I pay taxes not because I don't want the IRS to come after me, I pay them because I know I'm getting a bargain for my money in terms of roadways, police, fire, etc... It's cheaper to have a government bureaucracy than to have a corporate profit machine funneling undeserved millions into the pockets of fallible executives who neither serve their customers or their shareholders with their greed.
And as a personal note Guido.... I help my neighbors when they are in need, even when it might inconvenience me. I'm sorry that basic value was never instilled in you by the community and family you grew up in. Despite your greed if there comes a day when you've lost your job, or your business, I'll be happy that my tax dollars are providing you and your children with health care. I'll be happy that the other social safety nets we're going to build will be in place to catch you so that you can get back to whatever life you had before you fell. Even if you hated others for having needed that same safety net at some point in their lives. Even if you cursed them from taking a small percentage more of your income to fund these services. I'll be happy to have the IRS taking my small percentage to cover you while you can't cover yourself. I care for my fellow Americans that much.
In the end it saves you money to have socialized medicine. You can either choose to pay for standard health care or you can pay much much more through your taxes for catastrophic care through ER visits for preventable conditions.
I spent the last 5 days in Sun Valley, Nevada talking to people of all colors, knocking on their doors and asking them to vote. The feeling on the ground in this battleground state was HOPE. Real HOPE that we can get past the petty divisions that have kept this nation from progressing past Reagan.
All of us need to forgive the Republicans and invite them to JOIN us in creating the future America in which every American will have a stronger stake in our economy, socialized medicine, and equality for everybody. Because these things benefit the Republicans as much as they benefit us. It isn't us against them, it's us AND them. That has ALWAYS been the real message of the Obama campaign.
Today conservatives will try to shove the wedge between us again. We must tell their followers that their differing opinions have value while showing them our own values.
The era of gotcha politics has finally come to an end. If we want to move forward all of us have to forgive the Republican supporters. They still have a place in this country and we want them at our side. They can join us, or they can rally against us, but we're going to keep moving forward as a nation. Like I said, the things we want benefit them as well. We just have to show them how.
The problem is that people who's privacy was invaded unjustly (ie, no contraband found) because of a false alert are not going to be in front of the Supreme Court challenging the search. (Because they weren't cited and unless they want to specifically bring a privacy claim, have nothing to challenge.)
yes, because this wouldn't have reached the Supreme Court if the dog had alerted, a search conducted, and no arrest made because there were no drugs.
Your argument is the same as saying that the supreme court would be right to rule the police can search every house they want because the only challenges would be from people who were arrested for contraband found during those searches.