As a user of Adobe's suite, my personal problem is that I have tried to track weird network access on my computer. Also, although the applications have become more stable, I get plenty of strange behavior and lock-ups due to the network closing a connection.
This becomes about productivity and the software messing up my computer as much as the resources used to connect. Some people were dismissing Apple's authentication system rumors, and as a person who does purchase the software I use, I would love nothing more than for this crap to be relegated to history. Do I trust Apple more than some of these small companies, may be a question implying the lesser of two evils, but the choice in this instance would be nice.
I ditched Quark because of their annoying authentication practices, but am stuck with this crapware now!
Attempted to make it impossible to tape music... Tried to close used record shops when CDs arrived... Wanted us to purchase anew every single album or song...
And, came up with those annoying, impossible to remove CD seals...
It would be nice if the networks built effective networks as opposed to trying to become the next Microsoft by controlling all associated markets. Likewise, it would be nice if Google, and other companies, focused on building usable network protocols and tools. It is damn annoying to experience the state of the networks in the US.
But barring pragmatism, somebody disrupting the market by implementing WiMax in major cities would be great.
I think that this idea is actually very intelligent, but would like to add that the interaction is the missing element. Consider that most people not already tied to a desktop/terminal are likely knowledge workers as opposed to data entry types, and the need for mobility is important. Even people with workstations need laptops to work in other locations.
What I would like to see is something about 4" x 7" which functions somewhat like an iPhone, except with the addition of a pen. Combine this with a desktop dock with hard storage. Company information does not leave the office, and necessary documents are accessible via VPN. These things would need decent processors and graphic capabilities or dock with some kind of collaborative processing for connection with real monitors and keyboards.
Part of the issue, in my opinion, is really interaction and social in nature as opposed to IT. Treating a device like a glorified cell phone will allow a lot more flexibility once the the technology accommodates. The mobile is the future of computing...
I was speaking to somebody yesterday who had incredibly poor hearing, until he had an operation, and the doctors stated that he had essentially been reading lips without knowing it...
We compensate for our senses in lots of ways, and some people can actually hammer out messages without even looking at their keyboard, but the iPhone requires you to look at it. I can enter text reasonably well on the iPhone, but still slower than a Blackberry.
It will be interesting to see how the haptic screen technology will change this.
I totally agree. I came from a Blackberry 8800 to the Phone of i, and miss the keyboard. I'm not much of a text-er, so it isn't that bad. A decent browser was more of a necessity. At first I totally missed the Gmail widgets, but now they essentially exist on the iPhone.
One of these days, we'll see more models if Apple wants to expand market share. But, I totally agree with a cautious approach to such a large market -- get a model out suited to the iPod demographic, and see what comes next.
I am really surprised that somebody has not made a keyboard for the thing!
I owned a Fujitsu several years ago, and would love nothing more than a decently sized tablet, particularly from Apple. As a designer, being able to have a portable, Cintiq like device would be fantastic. That said, I'm not holding my breath, especially for one with decent horsepower.
A 14" tablet would be a bit large, unless the screen goes to the edge like the iPhone. Having considered installing Linux on the tablet, I am curious what functionality you expect to get? I haven't looked in a while, but has anybody made any progress in a tablet distribution? There was none 3 year years ago.
I totally agree. Even in print and web, I have clients who require Quark (ick!), and I use BBEdit and other independent applications for sites, rather than Dreamweaver.
What I have been thinking about is a Linux based version of their Air platform. A decent browser experience is great, but what about a desktop which remained consistent across platforms for users in specific markets?
If I am correct, the current OS X application packaging spec was supposed to a allow a simple drag and drop. The application packages can be opened to reveal the structure.
It is unfortunate that the detail you describe is even necessary, as most of this stuff should reside with the application. But, software companies are likely not pleased about such simplicity.
I have had experience with this issue in terms of cell cards. My Verizon CDMA card was much "faster" and more responsive than the EDGE card due to the fact that one gets an actual connection through an IP number in CDMA. Somebody add to this, but that was my recollection in terms of online applications and such. Edge really was not great in my opinion, but I stuck with it nonetheless for a couple of years.
If UMTS/HSDPA is worse, I'm not looking forward to it. EDGE on my iPhone truly blows most of the time.
What about OpenMoko (http://openmoko.com/)? Perhaps Java isn't as consistent as it should be, development-wise. But, developing mobile applications is a rather new phenomenon, compared to computing in general.
As an iPhone owner, I am really considering looking at this product. Running something like Processing (processing.org) on a device with a touch screen would be great. Windows/Microsoft has alway had a pretty decent perspective on developer support, even if their products aren't personally relevant.
Given that I had three copies of the CD, one for the office, one for the car, and one for home, prior to the rise of digital players, this is good for the market. It seems entirely reasonable for me to pay ten dollars, likely more than they would ever get from a label, and use the files how I wish.
This is the future of the market, which is why I feel that Apple should spin iTunes into the marketplace, and take their profits. An open marketplace for the music, and perhaps movie, industry would be fantastic.
Well, they were LEDs and filled with lead if you ever opened one up!
But, we forgive you for being nearly a three-quarters of a million in/. time, which is reverse from normal. Hell, I waited a year and change. A slow adopter...
And, don't even get me on the subject of cigarettes! WTF, I'll never be able to live a clean life with all of these sinful things around. Well, off to the airport restroom...
The only reason I even looked in iTunes was because getting 256bit AAC files with no DRM would finally allow me to stop buying CDs, burning them at a lower (256) resolution (fair use), and then giving them to friends. Since this is not available for all of the music on the service, and I purchase a lot of independent music, this ultimately is not possible yet.
Who cares, until they stop making CDs... Then, I'll play pirate!
How about the good old fashioned way, by using various forms of communications outside of mathematics to describe ideas? Einstein's Dreams was a pretty cool book... Coming to science through ideas of what makes the world tick is fascinating and very likely exactly why many scientists become scientists -- to understand. To understand something esoteric but important. The most interesting scientists are those who look at things beyond their work, but they were probably like that before they became scientists. Some analogous reading may be Edge (edge.org) or "Three Scientists and Their Gods."
Speaking as a father, the most influential people are your child's peers.
One would hope that WiMax would settle the technical issues.
However, the "free market" that you advocate has been turned into a license for the entrenched "monopolies." Our government is us, or should be us anyway. I would expect any business where the management removes itself from the function would run that way.
But, if a goal-oriented "internet" is off-topic, what can I say? It was established with a purpose, and will need to be reevaluated and continually rebuilt for purposes. These purposes will become as unimaginable as the current form is from the originally intended net.
Perhaps the question should be re-framed. As an iPhone owner, the most damaging aspect of the product is the AT&T service. Edge blows on this thing. As a consumer in Chicago, city-wide wireless would be an incredible benefit to business. But, our shortsightedness, or the effective lobbying by various groups, makes us focus on their business rather than ours. I am also a small business person.
Whatever it is that we are being sold, it is ineffective at best and long-term incredibly damaging to education, business, and culture. In the states, we like to argue about the "issues" which is in effect lobbying, rather than the discuss the desired results. What kind of economy do we want? And, what do we need to achieve it?
Whether the computer is useful in education, whether the businesses we should focus on are large or small, or whether it costs too much are side issues at best. Our infrastructure and our priorities are unfortunately showing all to well lately.
I agree. As the owner of a small design office with up to a dozen, I used Retrospect to automatically back up everything including the Mac and Windows laptops. This is much better than the local option, and a tape was always off site!
Thinking about losses made me shake. Thank god for beer...
The humanities have a way of describing the technical in ways that illuminate inventive possibilities. Some would argue that thought prefigures the actual well beforehand. Whether we are aware of it or not, culture works alongside science. It is easy to be dismissive of differences, but it takes a village, so to speak.
I'm leaving Switzerland tomorrow after a workshop, and must say that the sinking dollar aside, I am seeing a lot more wealth than in the past. Could it be the social approaches to education, the mixed economies of manufacturing, cultural production, and agriculture? Could I be imagining it? The average person appears to be doing quite well with August off, as well as a pretty high tax burden and expensive basic necessities.
I'll see socialized medicine and a free higher educational system in my lifetime in the States. What the causes that is the question.
That probably could have been stated better! I believe the question is what is each good for? If free is a goal, then why not run Linux as an OS? But, why on Apple hardware, not that the cost is bad nowadays compared with the "general" hardware quality and design if that's your thing.
If you need OS X applications, why not run Linux through Parallels or some VM? If Linux is your primary OS, use BootCamp to allow access to OS X. These approaches make sense depending upon your needs. Want access to everything at the same time -- Parallels. Want to run everything within Linux, and only need to access OS X once in a while -- BootCamp. Want to run open applications -- us X11. This doesn't seem any more complicated than using Windows and OS X applications. But if performance is an issue, why are you using a consumer machine?
Aside from workflow and high performance issues, it has never been so easy to work across platforms, and frankly I feel that Apple has done a pretty decent job of developing the right resources.
"Have you seen our army? We are in no position to have an enemy! Problem solved!"
We had some founding fathers that thought of this, but those C average folks thought that they knew/know better. No standing army, freedom FROM religion, not FOR A RELIGION, and limited set of functions with state centrism. Although I happen to be more social-ist, and believe that economies grow more through social investment, the thought is appealing.
Why don't they find something truly hazardous to dump into the lake and let the people stay home? There's probably a better market for heavy metals. Those jobs could even pay well!
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As a user of Adobe's suite, my personal problem is that I have tried to track weird network access on my computer. Also, although the applications have become more stable, I get plenty of strange behavior and lock-ups due to the network closing a connection.
This becomes about productivity and the software messing up my computer as much as the resources used to connect. Some people were dismissing Apple's authentication system rumors, and as a person who does purchase the software I use, I would love nothing more than for this crap to be relegated to history. Do I trust Apple more than some of these small companies, may be a question implying the lesser of two evils, but the choice in this instance would be nice.
I ditched Quark because of their annoying authentication practices, but am stuck with this crapware now!
Given that these are the people who:
Attempted to make it impossible to tape music...
Tried to close used record shops when CDs arrived...
Wanted us to purchase anew every single album or song...
And, came up with those annoying, impossible to remove CD seals...
I say they never will learn!
It would be nice if the networks built effective networks as opposed to trying to become the next Microsoft by controlling all associated markets. Likewise, it would be nice if Google, and other companies, focused on building usable network protocols and tools. It is damn annoying to experience the state of the networks in the US.
But barring pragmatism, somebody disrupting the market by implementing WiMax in major cities would be great.
I think that this idea is actually very intelligent, but would like to add that the interaction is the missing element. Consider that most people not already tied to a desktop/terminal are likely knowledge workers as opposed to data entry types, and the need for mobility is important. Even people with workstations need laptops to work in other locations.
What I would like to see is something about 4" x 7" which functions somewhat like an iPhone, except with the addition of a pen. Combine this with a desktop dock with hard storage. Company information does not leave the office, and necessary documents are accessible via VPN. These things would need decent processors and graphic capabilities or dock with some kind of collaborative processing for connection with real monitors and keyboards.
Part of the issue, in my opinion, is really interaction and social in nature as opposed to IT. Treating a device like a glorified cell phone will allow a lot more flexibility once the the technology accommodates. The mobile is the future of computing...
I was speaking to somebody yesterday who had incredibly poor hearing, until he had an operation, and the doctors stated that he had essentially been reading lips without knowing it...
We compensate for our senses in lots of ways, and some people can actually hammer out messages without even looking at their keyboard, but the iPhone requires you to look at it. I can enter text reasonably well on the iPhone, but still slower than a Blackberry.
It will be interesting to see how the haptic screen technology will change this.
I totally agree. I came from a Blackberry 8800 to the Phone of i, and miss the keyboard. I'm not much of a text-er, so it isn't that bad. A decent browser was more of a necessity. At first I totally missed the Gmail widgets, but now they essentially exist on the iPhone.
One of these days, we'll see more models if Apple wants to expand market share. But, I totally agree with a cautious approach to such a large market -- get a model out suited to the iPod demographic, and see what comes next.
I am really surprised that somebody has not made a keyboard for the thing!
I owned a Fujitsu several years ago, and would love nothing more than a decently sized tablet, particularly from Apple. As a designer, being able to have a portable, Cintiq like device would be fantastic. That said, I'm not holding my breath, especially for one with decent horsepower.
A 14" tablet would be a bit large, unless the screen goes to the edge like the iPhone. Having considered installing Linux on the tablet, I am curious what functionality you expect to get? I haven't looked in a while, but has anybody made any progress in a tablet distribution? There was none 3 year years ago.
I totally agree. Even in print and web, I have clients who require Quark (ick!), and I use BBEdit and other independent applications for sites, rather than Dreamweaver.
What I have been thinking about is a Linux based version of their Air platform. A decent browser experience is great, but what about a desktop which remained consistent across platforms for users in specific markets?
In eighteen months, we're assured.
If I am correct, the current OS X application packaging spec was supposed to a allow a simple drag and drop. The application packages can be opened to reveal the structure.
It is unfortunate that the detail you describe is even necessary, as most of this stuff should reside with the application. But, software companies are likely not pleased about such simplicity.
I have had experience with this issue in terms of cell cards. My Verizon CDMA card was much "faster" and more responsive than the EDGE card due to the fact that one gets an actual connection through an IP number in CDMA. Somebody add to this, but that was my recollection in terms of online applications and such. Edge really was not great in my opinion, but I stuck with it nonetheless for a couple of years.
If UMTS/HSDPA is worse, I'm not looking forward to it. EDGE on my iPhone truly blows most of the time.
What about OpenMoko (http://openmoko.com/)? Perhaps Java isn't as consistent as it should be, development-wise. But, developing mobile applications is a rather new phenomenon, compared to computing in general.
As an iPhone owner, I am really considering looking at this product. Running something like Processing (processing.org) on a device with a touch screen would be great. Windows/Microsoft has alway had a pretty decent perspective on developer support, even if their products aren't personally relevant.
Given that I had three copies of the CD, one for the office, one for the car, and one for home, prior to the rise of digital players, this is good for the market. It seems entirely reasonable for me to pay ten dollars, likely more than they would ever get from a label, and use the files how I wish.
This is the future of the market, which is why I feel that Apple should spin iTunes into the marketplace, and take their profits. An open marketplace for the music, and perhaps movie, industry would be fantastic.
Well, they were LEDs and filled with lead if you ever opened one up!
/. time, which is reverse from normal. Hell, I waited a year and change. A slow adopter...
But, we forgive you for being nearly a three-quarters of a million in
Remember the $600 dollar price tag of the Moto Razr when it was first launched? What does one go for now? Free perhaps...
I don't understand the fuss. Prices drop as production ramps, and development costs are recouped.
And, don't even get me on the subject of cigarettes! WTF, I'll never be able to live a clean life with all of these sinful things around. Well, off to the airport restroom...
The only reason I even looked in iTunes was because getting 256bit AAC files with no DRM would finally allow me to stop buying CDs, burning them at a lower (256) resolution (fair use), and then giving them to friends. Since this is not available for all of the music on the service, and I purchase a lot of independent music, this ultimately is not possible yet.
Who cares, until they stop making CDs... Then, I'll play pirate!
How about the good old fashioned way, by using various forms of communications outside of mathematics to describe ideas? Einstein's Dreams was a pretty cool book... Coming to science through ideas of what makes the world tick is fascinating and very likely exactly why many scientists become scientists -- to understand. To understand something esoteric but important. The most interesting scientists are those who look at things beyond their work, but they were probably like that before they became scientists. Some analogous reading may be Edge (edge.org) or "Three Scientists and Their Gods."
Speaking as a father, the most influential people are your child's peers.
One would hope that WiMax would settle the technical issues.
However, the "free market" that you advocate has been turned into a license for the entrenched "monopolies." Our government is us, or should be us anyway. I would expect any business where the management removes itself from the function would run that way.
But, if a goal-oriented "internet" is off-topic, what can I say? It was established with a purpose, and will need to be reevaluated and continually rebuilt for purposes. These purposes will become as unimaginable as the current form is from the originally intended net.
Perhaps the question should be re-framed. As an iPhone owner, the most damaging aspect of the product is the AT&T service. Edge blows on this thing. As a consumer in Chicago, city-wide wireless would be an incredible benefit to business. But, our shortsightedness, or the effective lobbying by various groups, makes us focus on their business rather than ours. I am also a small business person.
Whatever it is that we are being sold, it is ineffective at best and long-term incredibly damaging to education, business, and culture. In the states, we like to argue about the "issues" which is in effect lobbying, rather than the discuss the desired results. What kind of economy do we want? And, what do we need to achieve it?
Whether the computer is useful in education, whether the businesses we should focus on are large or small, or whether it costs too much are side issues at best. Our infrastructure and our priorities are unfortunately showing all to well lately.
I agree. As the owner of a small design office with up to a dozen, I used Retrospect to automatically back up everything including the Mac and Windows laptops. This is much better than the local option, and a tape was always off site!
Thinking about losses made me shake. Thank god for beer...
The humanities have a way of describing the technical in ways that illuminate inventive possibilities. Some would argue that thought prefigures the actual well beforehand. Whether we are aware of it or not, culture works alongside science. It is easy to be dismissive of differences, but it takes a village, so to speak.
I'm leaving Switzerland tomorrow after a workshop, and must say that the sinking dollar aside, I am seeing a lot more wealth than in the past. Could it be the social approaches to education, the mixed economies of manufacturing, cultural production, and agriculture? Could I be imagining it? The average person appears to be doing quite well with August off, as well as a pretty high tax burden and expensive basic necessities.
I'll see socialized medicine and a free higher educational system in my lifetime in the States. What the causes that is the question.
That probably could have been stated better! I believe the question is what is each good for? If free is a goal, then why not run Linux as an OS? But, why on Apple hardware, not that the cost is bad nowadays compared with the "general" hardware quality and design if that's your thing.
If you need OS X applications, why not run Linux through Parallels or some VM? If Linux is your primary OS, use BootCamp to allow access to OS X. These approaches make sense depending upon your needs. Want access to everything at the same time -- Parallels. Want to run everything within Linux, and only need to access OS X once in a while -- BootCamp. Want to run open applications -- us X11. This doesn't seem any more complicated than using Windows and OS X applications. But if performance is an issue, why are you using a consumer machine?
Aside from workflow and high performance issues, it has never been so easy to work across platforms, and frankly I feel that Apple has done a pretty decent job of developing the right resources.
"Have you seen our army? We are in no position to have an enemy! Problem solved!"
We had some founding fathers that thought of this, but those C average folks thought that they knew/know better. No standing army, freedom FROM religion, not FOR A RELIGION, and limited set of functions with state centrism. Although I happen to be more social-ist, and believe that economies grow more through social investment, the thought is appealing.
Why don't they find something truly hazardous to dump into the lake and let the people stay home? There's probably a better market for heavy metals. Those jobs could even pay well!