"Better" is a terrible way of looking at it, the new interface comes with a different set of trade-offs than the old. Supposedly, the new widgets will be easier to develop and maintain (which is better by any reasonable definition), but not as powerful (which isn't better).
Car Analogy: You currently have a pickup truck. The dealer shows you a fancy car that gets great gas mileage and doesn't require much maintenance. You say "I can't haul as much stuff in that, it's a piece of crap."
Exactly. It is probably only a decent movie, but it certainly isn't the atrocity claimed by people that would have preferred a more direct translation (which likely would have been miserably plodding).
Nope. It is a lighter set of APIs that are intended to change less across versions, which benefits developers that are making lighter weight extensions. There doesn't seem to be much intent to abandon the old mechanism.
(that comment is by the blog author; the key part is "I personally don't think we're anywhere near the point where we can look at the old-style extension model and claim it's not needed anymore. But the goal is to drive everything that can be moved to Jetpacks to that model, because it's a better model for users and developers." )
In the Will Smith version of I Robot, the 3 laws computer that rules USR has gone awry, so the guy who invents the robots builds one without the 3 laws...and with other motivation.
You would never have a patent on 'a hinge', you would have a patent on the specific sort of hinge that you created (this doesn't directly answer you, but it points out where you have got it wrong).
(I don't claim a deep understanding of that case, but it appears it was overturned because the combination of elements was found to be obvious to a practitioner, not because of prior art)
If prices continue to drop, the same thing could be implemented using two screens (I guess the exterior screen would have other semi-useful applications when the laptop was open).
Personally, I think thin and cheap are a much bigger deal for OLEDs than semi-transparency.
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"Better" is a terrible way of looking at it, the new interface comes with a different set of trade-offs than the old. Supposedly, the new widgets will be easier to develop and maintain (which is better by any reasonable definition), but not as powerful (which isn't better).
Car Analogy: You currently have a pickup truck. The dealer shows you a fancy car that gets great gas mileage and doesn't require much maintenance. You say "I can't haul as much stuff in that, it's a piece of crap."
net10 buys time on AT&T and T-Mobile towers, and they manage to lock sim cards to individual devices.
You stop letting them spend all day in the basement.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_theory
BTW, have you cracked the 56k barrier yet, or have you given up on that?
Of course, while there are interesting things on twitter:
http://twitter.com/search?q=conan
There is also some amazing crap:
http://twitter.com/search?q=%23imtiredof
Exactly. It is probably only a decent movie, but it certainly isn't the atrocity claimed by people that would have preferred a more direct translation (which likely would have been miserably plodding).
It wouldn't be so bad if you could put a cryptographic certificate on your phone and use that for various identity and credit authorization needs.
Oh, and the solution to the certificate being compromised is to revoke it and issue yourself a new one.
Nope. It is a lighter set of APIs that are intended to change less across versions, which benefits developers that are making lighter weight extensions. There doesn't seem to be much intent to abandon the old mechanism.
It doesn't sound like the old extension mechanism is going anywhere:
http://steelgryphon.com/blog/2010/01/09/on-personas-and-themes/#comment-107468
(that comment is by the blog author; the key part is "I personally don't think we're anywhere near the point where we can look at the old-style extension model and claim it's not needed anymore. But the goal is to drive everything that can be moved to Jetpacks to that model, because it's a better model for users and developers." )
Maybe he went to Michigan Tech.
I don't disagree, but malware droppers are probably a bigger issue that tiresome inanity.
In the Will Smith version of I Robot, the 3 laws computer that rules USR has gone awry, so the guy who invents the robots builds one without the 3 laws...and with other motivation.
Much like we have had robotic cars for decades.
Make sure to set PDF to 'off' before visiting them, I have seen ads there recently that serve pdfs, presumably to drop malware.
It sounds like you have a reasonable plan.
I guess you will be sad when they are granted a patent.
Is there really anybody who doesn't prefer sledgehammers?
I mean sure, they aren't the best hammer for lots of tasks, but they are the best hammer for lots of fun stuff.
You would never have a patent on 'a hinge', you would have a patent on the specific sort of hinge that you created (this doesn't directly answer you, but it points out where you have got it wrong).
(I don't claim a deep understanding of that case, but it appears it was overturned because the combination of elements was found to be obvious to a practitioner, not because of prior art)
I don't either, but it isn't strictly due to resistance, some of it is social passivity and things like that.
The patent is probably much more specific than you are imagining.
Apple uses cables that happen to have a USB plug on one side.
Maybe they will charge a fee for fidelity.
Off-putting, but a great way to segment the market.
Reflow.
(PDF has added support for reflow, but most pdf production is done with a fixed size in mind.)
OLEDs are direct emission, they are not an LCD technology.
If prices continue to drop, the same thing could be implemented using two screens (I guess the exterior screen would have other semi-useful applications when the laptop was open).
Personally, I think thin and cheap are a much bigger deal for OLEDs than semi-transparency.