Although I'm getting rid of my n800, and I had an n770 before that which was short lived as well, it is a nice profile. What people do not gather about the iPhone and such are the possibilities of interaction and actual work. It is far from there, but say in five years, our primary computer will be of this scale.
The UMPC was like the original Newton, not enough, but too much. The screen was too small, and the interaction too minimal. Another lock-in gone awry. I did just purchase a BB 8800 and have to say that the interaction for most sites, as well as the usability sort of sucks. Apple, in spite of Palm's better judgment, is going to walk in, unless somebody comes up with something better and more useful.
The future is work methods and usable thinking, rather than usability per se.
I used to tell a very conservative friend, that if you create two areas, one which is liberal and has social programs and the other that is conservative and independent, people would choose to live in the first. We'd also have all the woman, which would be a nice addition.
The problems with healthcare, IMHO, really reflect a capitalistic, market oriented economy. We have excellent healthcare in terms of keeping us alive when we're nearly dead, but little that makes the time we're here better. most of those things really do involve choice, but our choices are pretty much limited to options which are profitable. Small, incremental, sustainable choices inevitably fall into the appendix. You can bet that the prescription options have been supplied by their friendly, blond representative as well.
I'm a pragmatist. try both options, and see what works. We're spending a trillion bucks on a war, and can't supply a free college education or healthcare to everyone? These are things that benefit everybody, as a strong economy really does raise all boats. How many people, like my conservative friend, miss the Clinton years? Trickle down is for kinky sex.
As I have been moving most services to GMail and such, my primary plugin is Browser Sync. Remembering my tabs is important! A couple of others, like FireBug, are pretty cool. I wish that Apple went with Mozilla and developed WebKit around the base.
Camino should be Safari. Tabs and memory like Opera should be built into browsers at this point, and Safari/Camino should most definitely have the reduced page view perhaps in a more elegant manner. A widget/background view of updated pages would be pretty nifty -- isn't the browser just about our entire lives nowadays?
For Mozilla, the core should be rock solid, and the interface clean. OS X touches are the things that increase application interactions -- Keychain...
As a platform the thing is very nifty, true, but it has some interesting uses as a platform if people developed with a different mindset. The 770 and this device changed my thoughts about what mobile devices should be. I'd like a small useful "phone" that acts as a local router, with devices that perform specific functionality around it. Think of the tablet as a screen for your mobile.
As an ADD'er, I'm interested in how I can create tools for keeping me on track. The 800 can sit at the desk, act as a radio, run widgets, and act as something like Xerox's multiple display system. There aren't a whole lot of thought tools in this area (mobile), and a lot of opportunity. I'm happy that Nokia has the gumption to put something like this on the market. Your mileage may vary...
I'm a fan of web mail, particularly Gmail, and am beginning to use the calendar and applications more often. As a designer, the things that will likely remain on the desktop are power applications, and even in these instances I see a lot of "smart" back-up and collaboration/sharing between web resources. As processors themselves begin to share resources across networks, I can't imagine that applications will not do the same.
Which is more jarring to a business, when the server goes down, or the network? In my experience it's the network, everything stops, and people wander around in a creepy malaise.
As a Mac user the digital output is really attractive. What I miss is a really simple integrated amplifier with a digital input, a volume control, and speaker outputs -- sort of like my old Audiolab. Some of the new digital amps are cool, but awfully pricey. It would be sort of cool to be able to add in a modular card for wireless as well, or simply use an Airport with digital outputs!
Does anybody know of any powered speakers, like the Meridiens, that have optical inputs?
Reduction is the key, but as you can tell I like some convenience thrown in for good measure.
I'm not saying that the product is 1.0 as much as the service is 1.0. Do we really have the infrastructure to transfer all of the 1080 files that people want? I bought a 720 camera, and every time I shot something (small video snapshots and such) it amounted to a CD-Rom of material. Most users are really going to find this stuff cumbersome. Also, what is the cost of an iTV with a 750 gig hard drive? How does it get backed up? And, how much does it cost for Apple to redeliver the content.
The iTV is a bundle of hardware and services. Most of the reviews have been pretty positive in this repsect. This review compares it against HDTV. I don't really feel that it is relevant to the current service levels available. iTunes is a good service/product because it balances fidelity and availability. I complained about 128 AAC as being a real problem, but lo and behold, I compressed all of my music at this rate, have it available on my laptop, and have a decent, but not expensive back-up routine.
Even though I have a Terra byte raid array, my data was pushing the limits of safety. So that's several thousand in equipment to operate effectively. Who's going to pay that for TV?
Isn't this a 1.0 product, and how do we expect that iTV is going to approach HDTV anytime soon?
This would be like putting an iPod next to my Japanese custom-tuned CD player form Marantz or even an old Meridien! How about the fifties Marantz Gold pre-amp? Throw in some cool Macintosh tube amps! But, what do I still use? iTunes with headphones on my MacBook. 14000 songs any time/any place...
TV used to be a static product (in more ways than one), now we get to enjoy life-cycles.
Apple has to do very little to remain one of the few profitable computer manufacturers. Should the iPhone be even a minor success, it will likely push Apple past Dell. Should Apple throw out some additional devices, Apple's OS will become a pretty interesting alternative. for a lot more users.
OS X will spread, as devices become primary platforms. One day we'll probably see an education laptop with a minimal OS X installed, similar to the iTV and the iPhone -- much like the Newton education laptop.
Remember, Windows as a platform is comprised of dozens of manufacturers. Apple is alone and does not license.
As they've publicly announced, this will hopefully dispel all of the statements that Jobs was full of it and playing games with his opinion piece. Since I have never purchased anything from the iTMS, I have no copy protection. I've loaded files on a Nokia N880 and they play, so they should play on the Rio if AAC is supported.
As you can export any of your non-DRM music from iTunes, any jail cell you inhabit is of your own making. Apparently, here on/. your not alone in that cell however.
I tend to prefer ambient or electronic, especially the variety with lots of subtle repetitions. I like to think it's my inner autistic rocking back and forth. For thinking, classical often gets in the way!
The great thing about lots of the past music has been the tie to visual arts, both graphic design and visual experiences. The problem with a lot of the digital music now is the loss of these cues and links. As a "collector" of music, parts of this I miss. Having the whole lot that took a dozen boxes to move (ultimately to the resale shop) on my laptop, even at 128 AAC is really appealing. It was very hard to finally make the irreversible decision to get rid of it all.
Now I have music in something where alphabetically it is really easy to find. Well, except for all of that Japanese noise! But, I don't have my visual cues, my stacks... My musical "thought" process is gone. Seeing the edge of a CD with a certain color made me think of playing it. Seeing something, made me dig for a cover. It is harder in lots of ways to find the music in intuitive ways.
He isn't simply after the memorabilia, he's after the memory. It's that subtle difference between work and working. A task is easy to break down, and code around perhaps. But, making meaningful software and work methods is a whole lot more difficult.
Hey, no reason to be cautious in light of found problems. Why on Earth would Monsanto hide such questionable information, when discussions of GM foods were discussed as "drugs" to be tested? Come on, it's just corn, they said. What's there to be afraid of? The sad thing is that it will be farmers trying to rid their fields, likely unsuccessfully, of such products when the public catches wind of this. As I'm in advertising, and green is getting to be a pretty powerful message, it won't take much to create new patterns of purchasing. I better start looking at how to fit a "Non Genetically Modified" banner next to the Transfat Free label!
Think about it the next time you buy a bag of snacks. Have another chip.
Get a North Face water proof back pack. They come in three sizes! Also check out the back pack section! I carried a 17" PowerBook through Europe with the appropriate adapters, but I've moved down to a MacBook for weight reasons. A laptop has yet to be damaged in such trips!
I must say that gadets ultimately wind up weighing more than a laptop with all of the necessary connectors and such. Also check out the Eagle Creek travel towels for you hostel stays! They dry quickly and take little space.
And, how about ZuneTunesTM songs playing on a Fairplay or any MP3 player? I assume this is included in the legislation. Perhaps crafting speeches which attack the problem rather than a vendor is a lost art.
My Fujitsu slate was thinner, larger, more useful, and more powerful. Plug in a Happy Hacker when at home, and it was sufficiently powered. I also used Verizon CDMA...
This thing is a brick, which very often is harder to store/transport than a larger slate. Think notebooks. Once these things are as large as iPods/cell phones, they will become revolutionary, though I hazard to guess that the interaction models, and new ways of generating thinking artifacts will be the revolutionary part.
Well, the iPhone has one advantage that the Newton, which I loved, did not. A net connection. It is most certainly not the same sort of device, with the iPod being closer in functionality. But, I suppose that we have to endure the endless chatter until "the thing" arrives. It's expensive, it's going to be shiny, and the most interesting aspects we won't know about at least until it ships. Namely, how will OS X for mobile effect the landscape.
The iPhone is surely intriguing. Slap in a terminal, and get a bluetooth keyboard. It's been a while since I used Pine.
A lofty goal would be that I intend to climb a 20,000 foot peak. An idiotic assertion would be that I am a new kind of being able to climb such peaks at my leisure.
I always liked the Newton, but thought that it should be a bit larger. My Fujitsu slate was pretty near perfect, except for Windows and Intel Graphics. The thing weighed in at 2 lbs! Not bad at all...
The PowerBook 2400 was my favorite Mac ever. I owned 2 of them. What a fantastic profile. even now looking at the photos, they still look like great machines. I bought a MacBook instead of the MacBook Pro for the size, and I'm not the only one I know. Apple should realize that they are losing sales to lower end machines.
Here's dreaming that true pro Mac slate comes someday!
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Size doesn't matter to most women, within reason...
This sounds like some jerk complaining that he isn't getting any and he's hung like a horse. In the words of Ze, assohole.
Although I'm getting rid of my n800, and I had an n770 before that which was short lived as well, it is a nice profile. What people do not gather about the iPhone and such are the possibilities of interaction and actual work. It is far from there, but say in five years, our primary computer will be of this scale.
The UMPC was like the original Newton, not enough, but too much. The screen was too small, and the interaction too minimal. Another lock-in gone awry. I did just purchase a BB 8800 and have to say that the interaction for most sites, as well as the usability sort of sucks. Apple, in spite of Palm's better judgment, is going to walk in, unless somebody comes up with something better and more useful.
The future is work methods and usable thinking, rather than usability per se.
I used to tell a very conservative friend, that if you create two areas, one which is liberal and has social programs and the other that is conservative and independent, people would choose to live in the first. We'd also have all the woman, which would be a nice addition.
The problems with healthcare, IMHO, really reflect a capitalistic, market oriented economy. We have excellent healthcare in terms of keeping us alive when we're nearly dead, but little that makes the time we're here better. most of those things really do involve choice, but our choices are pretty much limited to options which are profitable. Small, incremental, sustainable choices inevitably fall into the appendix. You can bet that the prescription options have been supplied by their friendly, blond representative as well.
I'm a pragmatist. try both options, and see what works. We're spending a trillion bucks on a war, and can't supply a free college education or healthcare to everyone? These are things that benefit everybody, as a strong economy really does raise all boats. How many people, like my conservative friend, miss the Clinton years? Trickle down is for kinky sex.
That's why they should be super-secure, like at a nuclear research laboratory, such as Los Alamos!
Nothing is secure.
As I have been moving most services to GMail and such, my primary plugin is Browser Sync. Remembering my tabs is important! A couple of others, like FireBug, are pretty cool. I wish that Apple went with Mozilla and developed WebKit around the base.
Camino should be Safari. Tabs and memory like Opera should be built into browsers at this point, and Safari/Camino should most definitely have the reduced page view perhaps in a more elegant manner. A widget/background view of updated pages would be pretty nifty -- isn't the browser just about our entire lives nowadays?
For Mozilla, the core should be rock solid, and the interface clean. OS X touches are the things that increase application interactions -- Keychain...
You're going to make our little challenged friend feel bad... Let it have it's day in the sun.
Between all the Apple, Commodore, TRS 80, and Sinclair fans there is no winning.
As a platform the thing is very nifty, true, but it has some interesting uses as a platform if people developed with a different mindset. The 770 and this device changed my thoughts about what mobile devices should be. I'd like a small useful "phone" that acts as a local router, with devices that perform specific functionality around it. Think of the tablet as a screen for your mobile.
As an ADD'er, I'm interested in how I can create tools for keeping me on track. The 800 can sit at the desk, act as a radio, run widgets, and act as something like Xerox's multiple display system. There aren't a whole lot of thought tools in this area (mobile), and a lot of opportunity. I'm happy that Nokia has the gumption to put something like this on the market. Your mileage may vary...
I'm a fan of web mail, particularly Gmail, and am beginning to use the calendar and applications more often. As a designer, the things that will likely remain on the desktop are power applications, and even in these instances I see a lot of "smart" back-up and collaboration/sharing between web resources. As processors themselves begin to share resources across networks, I can't imagine that applications will not do the same.
Which is more jarring to a business, when the server goes down, or the network? In my experience it's the network, everything stops, and people wander around in a creepy malaise.
As a Mac user the digital output is really attractive. What I miss is a really simple integrated amplifier with a digital input, a volume control, and speaker outputs -- sort of like my old Audiolab. Some of the new digital amps are cool, but awfully pricey. It would be sort of cool to be able to add in a modular card for wireless as well, or simply use an Airport with digital outputs!
Does anybody know of any powered speakers, like the Meridiens, that have optical inputs?
Reduction is the key, but as you can tell I like some convenience thrown in for good measure.
OS 10 was still more interesting. And, the future was most certainly brighter than the color NeXTs
I'm not saying that the product is 1.0 as much as the service is 1.0. Do we really have the infrastructure to transfer all of the 1080 files that people want? I bought a 720 camera, and every time I shot something (small video snapshots and such) it amounted to a CD-Rom of material. Most users are really going to find this stuff cumbersome. Also, what is the cost of an iTV with a 750 gig hard drive? How does it get backed up? And, how much does it cost for Apple to redeliver the content.
The iTV is a bundle of hardware and services. Most of the reviews have been pretty positive in this repsect. This review compares it against HDTV. I don't really feel that it is relevant to the current service levels available. iTunes is a good service/product because it balances fidelity and availability. I complained about 128 AAC as being a real problem, but lo and behold, I compressed all of my music at this rate, have it available on my laptop, and have a decent, but not expensive back-up routine.
Even though I have a Terra byte raid array, my data was pushing the limits of safety. So that's several thousand in equipment to operate effectively. Who's going to pay that for TV?
Isn't this a 1.0 product, and how do we expect that iTV is going to approach HDTV anytime soon?
This would be like putting an iPod next to my Japanese custom-tuned CD player form Marantz or even an old Meridien! How about the fifties Marantz Gold pre-amp? Throw in some cool Macintosh tube amps! But, what do I still use? iTunes with headphones on my MacBook. 14000 songs any time/any place...
TV used to be a static product (in more ways than one), now we get to enjoy life-cycles.
Apple has to do very little to remain one of the few profitable computer manufacturers. Should the iPhone be even a minor success, it will likely push Apple past Dell. Should Apple throw out some additional devices, Apple's OS will become a pretty interesting alternative. for a lot more users.
OS X will spread, as devices become primary platforms. One day we'll probably see an education laptop with a minimal OS X installed, similar to the iTV and the iPhone -- much like the Newton education laptop.
Remember, Windows as a platform is comprised of dozens of manufacturers. Apple is alone and does not license.
And, why exactly is it that when one purchases a product that sucks, that one can not return it? Well, it has a license, that's why.
It's because of people like you, that we have to buy computers with Windows licenses. Well, when I don't buy a Mac, which isn't often.
Sucker.
As they've publicly announced, this will hopefully dispel all of the statements that Jobs was full of it and playing games with his opinion piece. Since I have never purchased anything from the iTMS, I have no copy protection. I've loaded files on a Nokia N880 and they play, so they should play on the Rio if AAC is supported.
/. your not alone in that cell however.
As you can export any of your non-DRM music from iTunes, any jail cell you inhabit is of your own making. Apparently, here on
Will evolution dismiss the same 48%?
I tend to prefer ambient or electronic, especially the variety with lots of subtle repetitions. I like to think it's my inner autistic rocking back and forth. For thinking, classical often gets in the way!
The great thing about lots of the past music has been the tie to visual arts, both graphic design and visual experiences. The problem with a lot of the digital music now is the loss of these cues and links. As a "collector" of music, parts of this I miss. Having the whole lot that took a dozen boxes to move (ultimately to the resale shop) on my laptop, even at 128 AAC is really appealing. It was very hard to finally make the irreversible decision to get rid of it all.
Now I have music in something where alphabetically it is really easy to find. Well, except for all of that Japanese noise! But, I don't have my visual cues, my stacks... My musical "thought" process is gone. Seeing the edge of a CD with a certain color made me think of playing it. Seeing something, made me dig for a cover. It is harder in lots of ways to find the music in intuitive ways.
He isn't simply after the memorabilia, he's after the memory. It's that subtle difference between work and working. A task is easy to break down, and code around perhaps. But, making meaningful software and work methods is a whole lot more difficult.
Hey, no reason to be cautious in light of found problems. Why on Earth would Monsanto hide such questionable information, when discussions of GM foods were discussed as "drugs" to be tested? Come on, it's just corn, they said. What's there to be afraid of? The sad thing is that it will be farmers trying to rid their fields, likely unsuccessfully, of such products when the public catches wind of this. As I'm in advertising, and green is getting to be a pretty powerful message, it won't take much to create new patterns of purchasing. I better start looking at how to fit a "Non Genetically Modified" banner next to the Transfat Free label!
Think about it the next time you buy a bag of snacks. Have another chip.
Get a North Face water proof back pack. They come in three sizes! Also check out the back pack section! I carried a 17" PowerBook through Europe with the appropriate adapters, but I've moved down to a MacBook for weight reasons. A laptop has yet to be damaged in such trips!
I must say that gadets ultimately wind up weighing more than a laptop with all of the necessary connectors and such. Also check out the Eagle Creek travel towels for you hostel stays! They dry quickly and take little space.
And, how about ZuneTunesTM songs playing on a Fairplay or any MP3 player? I assume this is included in the legislation. Perhaps crafting speeches which attack the problem rather than a vendor is a lost art.
My Fujitsu slate was thinner, larger, more useful, and more powerful. Plug in a Happy Hacker when at home, and it was sufficiently powered. I also used Verizon CDMA...
This thing is a brick, which very often is harder to store/transport than a larger slate. Think notebooks. Once these things are as large as iPods/cell phones, they will become revolutionary, though I hazard to guess that the interaction models, and new ways of generating thinking artifacts will be the revolutionary part.
Well, the iPhone has one advantage that the Newton, which I loved, did not. A net connection. It is most certainly not the same sort of device, with the iPod being closer in functionality. But, I suppose that we have to endure the endless chatter until "the thing" arrives. It's expensive, it's going to be shiny, and the most interesting aspects we won't know about at least until it ships. Namely, how will OS X for mobile effect the landscape.
The iPhone is surely intriguing. Slap in a terminal, and get a bluetooth keyboard. It's been a while since I used Pine.
A lofty goal would be that I intend to climb a 20,000 foot peak. An idiotic assertion would be that I am a new kind of being able to climb such peaks at my leisure.
A quantum computer is a new sort of being.
I always liked the Newton, but thought that it should be a bit larger. My Fujitsu slate was pretty near perfect, except for Windows and Intel Graphics. The thing weighed in at 2 lbs! Not bad at all...
The PowerBook 2400 was my favorite Mac ever. I owned 2 of them. What a fantastic profile. even now looking at the photos, they still look like great machines. I bought a MacBook instead of the MacBook Pro for the size, and I'm not the only one I know. Apple should realize that they are losing sales to lower end machines.
Here's dreaming that true pro Mac slate comes someday!