I'm no expert on languages, but doesn't Objective-C deliver on what it's intended to be? A light-weight object oriented extension to C without all the extra stuff that makes C++ difficult to use?
Also doesn't it's dynamic runtime stuff allow certain things that C++ doesn't?
Actually an app of that size can only be downloaded over Wifi, you can buy it over the cell network but if over a certain size (last I saw it was 30MB) your download will wait for you to get home or work.
Dogs beg for attention and do whatever we want them to, cats simply don't care what we want and ignore us.
Anyhow, brain-size is not a good predictor of intelligence. You need good behavioral testing with food in boxes or on ledges or hanging from strings.
I saw how crows were tested for intelligence when they put food at the end of a string hanging from a stick, it had to figure out how to lift the string, hold it with it's foot while reaching down further and repeating. Many other types of birds couldn't figure it out.
It's doable but your pictures have to already be in the Photo Library. If you were getting pictures off the web you'd first save them to the library then go select them in Keynote.
One glaring omission is the "Instant-Alpha" that the desktop version has, though there's probably "an app for that" that'll do it and save to your library. It can be cumbersome but you can do the whole thing right on the iPad.
I don't get you "Can't create on the iPad" people, did you say the same thing when the mouse came out? There's tons of examples out there you just chose to ignore them.
That's funny I just went to a 2 week long training class where the instructors used an iPad to present all their lectures everyday all day long. Using Keynote presentations and videos here and there it was 10x better than the typical Power Point crap I've been subjected to.
You can do plenty of "real work" on an iPad if you're not married to MS Office.
Actually I forgot my own iPad delivered lecture that went smoother than previous ones using a laptop, partly because it fit on the podium I was stuck with and didn't distract the audience. It's presenter mode needs improvement but it did the job. I'll probably do the next few the same way since it's not as cumbersome as having a laptop on the stage.
Rumor is that's what Apple is working towards with Lion and iOS API's being added to the Desktop OS.
With built in suspend and resume on all apps it becomes trivial to move a running process over to another device. I suppose they'll sell it to end-users as a desktop in a cloud, probably a Me.com service of some kind.
Because those aren't what marketing prioritizes. Generally a company needs to sell the software and get it out it's doors, how well it performs only affects some vague future release. Botnet guys live or die by the performance of their software, they can take the time to get it right and "when it's ready".
So the lesson is, if you want to make quality software that makes you beam with pride, stuff you could put in "Beautiful Code" you ought to be a virus writer.;)
I have to disagree here. 30 years is a long time. They didn't have photos of him and memory is not as great as we think sometime. As time went on their exact memory of his face would slowly blur and as their son grew older they wouldn't even notice as his face would change so slowly. At the most they might say "Hey, doesn't he look kind of like Calvin?" "No, Calvin was much taller".
Shoot I almost married this girl 10 years ago and now can barely remember what she looked like.:)
It's got a larger, higher resolution than a lot of netbooks. It has a Core2 instead of an Atom. It has a full-sized keyboard. It doesn't come with some tiny amount of flash memory that's almost totally full with just the OS on it.
So how do YOU draw the line between a laptop and a netbook? Size? Weight? Number of ports? Inclusion of an optical drive?
This is in-line with another trend: streamlining the user experience for the most common options to the point of excluding second tier ones (can't easily tell Time Machine to use part of a drive, even though it would be a reasonable and simple feature)
It's doable from the command-line and there's several apps you can download to do it with a GUI. I'm using it right now so that Time Machine doesn't eat up my drobo.
There were a few cases years back of businesses being sued for selling DVD ripping / jukebox systems. Since ripping your own DVDs is still technically illegal in the USA, marketing and selling such services is somewhat dangerous in these times.
You could start out by word of mouth, but once you get enough business to pay the rent you're going to show up on their radar.
And what the hell is "HTML5 database storage"--and why would I want to give any app persistent storage? Seems like a great way to store malware...
If you use gmail on an iPad in Safari when you log in for the first time with a username it'll as if you give permission to make a 10MB storage file on the device for that users email cache.
It does this for every gmail account you log on with. If you accept, then the next time you go to gmail it loads the default view with the cache and then the new emails pop up at the top of the inbox much quicker than loading it all from scratch.
It's just a faster way of loading your emails and giving it more of an "app" feel.
About the dependancies, Linux could easily handle the same problems by static compiling certain apps. For example when you download the OS X versions of Gimp or Inkscape they have a huge set of dependancies packaged inside the "bundle".
Part of the problem is that Linux guys don't want to waste any disk space on static binaries and find the idea of multiple copies of libraries packaged with apps a bad idea.
So the bundles are "user friendly" but sub-optimal from an efficiency standpoint.
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I'm no expert on languages, but doesn't Objective-C deliver on what it's intended to be? A light-weight object oriented extension to C without all the extra stuff that makes C++ difficult to use?
Also doesn't it's dynamic runtime stuff allow certain things that C++ doesn't?
Actually an app of that size can only be downloaded over Wifi, you can buy it over the cell network but if over a certain size (last I saw it was 30MB) your download will wait for you to get home or work.
And if you want future Apple news to happen, don't leak it.
Steve Jobs has canceled actual products and ripped up supplier contracts for much less than this.
Dogs beg for attention and do whatever we want them to, cats simply don't care what we want and ignore us.
Anyhow, brain-size is not a good predictor of intelligence. You need good behavioral testing with food in boxes or on ledges or hanging from strings.
I saw how crows were tested for intelligence when they put food at the end of a string hanging from a stick, it had to figure out how to lift the string, hold it with it's foot while reaching down further and repeating. Many other types of birds couldn't figure it out.
Yeah you don't get something like that just for being elected ya'know.
It's doable but your pictures have to already be in the Photo Library. If you were getting pictures off the web you'd first save them to the library then go select them in Keynote.
One glaring omission is the "Instant-Alpha" that the desktop version has, though there's probably "an app for that" that'll do it and save to your library. It can be cumbersome but you can do the whole thing right on the iPad.
I don't get you "Can't create on the iPad" people, did you say the same thing when the mouse came out? There's tons of examples out there you just chose to ignore them.
That's funny I just went to a 2 week long training class where the instructors used an iPad to present all their lectures everyday all day long. Using Keynote presentations and videos here and there it was 10x better than the typical Power Point crap I've been subjected to.
You can do plenty of "real work" on an iPad if you're not married to MS Office.
Actually I forgot my own iPad delivered lecture that went smoother than previous ones using a laptop, partly because it fit on the podium I was stuck with and didn't distract the audience. It's presenter mode needs improvement but it did the job. I'll probably do the next few the same way since it's not as cumbersome as having a laptop on the stage.
Rumor is that's what Apple is working towards with Lion and iOS API's being added to the Desktop OS.
With built in suspend and resume on all apps it becomes trivial to move a running process over to another device. I suppose they'll sell it to end-users as a desktop in a cloud, probably a Me.com service of some kind.
That's nothing Russian Ark.
"2000 Actors. 300 years of Russian History. 33 Rooms at the Hermitage Museum. 3 Live Orchestras. 1 Single Continuous Shot."
That's an hour and a half long with 2,000 people running around choreographed.
The reason that Pluto should be a planet is that
My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizza pies.
The summary seemed a bit more on the "Hah hah" side than a fan boi newsflash or slashvertisement.
Perhaps you were thinking of "Shadenfreude"?
Okay plenty of nerd rage going on here, but how do consumer types feel about the new google page?
I'm not saying it's any good but if the general population likes it more it's here to stay.
Get this man a job!
Finally a compelling reason to buy a Windows 7 phone...
and that STD test thing is neat too.
I find it interesting that you managed to spell "business" wrong yet got the rest of the URL right. Must be a Chrome user with broken copy and paste.
I don't know if I'd trust that list though.
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Because those aren't what marketing prioritizes. Generally a company needs to sell the software and get it out it's doors, how well it performs only affects some vague future release. Botnet guys live or die by the performance of their software, they can take the time to get it right and "when it's ready".
So the lesson is, if you want to make quality software that makes you beam with pride, stuff you could put in "Beautiful Code" you ought to be a virus writer. ;)
I have to disagree here. 30 years is a long time. They didn't have photos of him and memory is not as great as we think sometime. As time went on their exact memory of his face would slowly blur and as their son grew older they wouldn't even notice as his face would change so slowly. At the most they might say "Hey, doesn't he look kind of like Calvin?" "No, Calvin was much taller".
Shoot I almost married this girl 10 years ago and now can barely remember what she looked like. :)
Naww... that wasn't even on TV back then.
It's got a larger, higher resolution than a lot of netbooks. It has a Core2 instead of an Atom. It has a full-sized keyboard. It doesn't come with some tiny amount of flash memory that's almost totally full with just the OS on it.
So how do YOU draw the line between a laptop and a netbook? Size? Weight? Number of ports? Inclusion of an optical drive?
Anyways, I wouldn't buy one I still need DVDs.
It's doable from the command-line and there's several apps you can download to do it with a GUI. I'm using it right now so that Time Machine doesn't eat up my drobo.
Regarding your sig.
There were a few cases years back of businesses being sued for selling DVD ripping / jukebox systems. Since ripping your own DVDs is still technically illegal in the USA, marketing and selling such services is somewhat dangerous in these times.
You could start out by word of mouth, but once you get enough business to pay the rent you're going to show up on their radar.
If you use gmail on an iPad in Safari when you log in for the first time with a username it'll as if you give permission to make a 10MB storage file on the device for that users email cache.
It does this for every gmail account you log on with. If you accept, then the next time you go to gmail it loads the default view with the cache and then the new emails pop up at the top of the inbox much quicker than loading it all from scratch.
It's just a faster way of loading your emails and giving it more of an "app" feel.
I'm assuming the database is encrypted.
About the dependancies, Linux could easily handle the same problems by static compiling certain apps. For example when you download the OS X versions of Gimp or Inkscape they have a huge set of dependancies packaged inside the "bundle".
Part of the problem is that Linux guys don't want to waste any disk space on static binaries and find the idea of multiple copies of libraries packaged with apps a bad idea.
So the bundles are "user friendly" but sub-optimal from an efficiency standpoint.
Man all the sudden Ray Ozzie has all this free time on his hands to post on Slashdot!
Sucks when you're deaf. Guess I should do what the blind groups have done and sue everyone til they listen.