It's pretty humorous hearing someone so worried about losing data wanting to make the second most destructive action you can make in an application be easier to hit.
No, dropping your iPhone is the most destructive action, which is a lot easier when you're trying to stretch your thumb across it. And unlike the fuck you and close button, back can be canceled, and its logic is more cleanly associated with individual screens.
Yeah, and thanks to Fitt's Law, a button near your thumb is way more ergonomic than a button away from it.
I said woo, which encompasses everything up to the yellow bar, but damn. Actually, that doesn't surprise me about psychologists. It's kind of hard to believe in both in the soul and the mechanistic mind. The percentage of atheist mechanical engineers, however, is shocking. My memory of undergrad has religiosity in engineers to be quite common. I wonder what makes them different?
I was thinking of practicing scientists versus practicing graduates of other disciplines, not strictly college professors. Where are the hard sciences other than biology?
Right, so it in fact was not a stupid idea to put it on the iPad as the original poster was claiming.
No, it is stupid, because it kills the application, and you'd better hope it saved state. Every fucking time I accidentally close Netflix on the iPad there is at least thirty seconds for the application to start again and the movie to buffer. Safari is pretty damn annoying too, as it re-downloads and re-renders large pages.
Actually Back is pretty consistent being the upper left.
Which is pretty stupid in a device that is usually being manipulated by the thumb of the right hand.
Why must one live in Brazil? The instinct of "status" can drive people to act irrationally in any context. It sounds like you believe it is all a social construction, and can be whisked away with the application of the correct ideology.
Mandatory hardware buttons, and dictate their placement. Having the back button, menu button, and home button change places on different Android devices is retarded. And make it hard to accidentally hit them. Apple's "fuck whatever you're doing and quit" key is stupidest UI decision ever made. Putting it where you hold the device makes it even worse.
Want to be real awesome? Have touch-sensitive dedicated scroll areas off the display surface.
Support pen input, from low-end pressure screens to that fancy induction Wacom stuff. That is the real future of tablets, always has been, always will be. There is a reason only children fingerpaint.
I can download books from Amazon, or the book section of the iTunes store
Are you really so dense, or just trolling? I'm talking about putting existing media on the device to read. PDF files. Text files. Documents in a myriad of formats that Preview supports natively in Mac OS, but the iPad doesn't support.
I see a lot of talk about it changes everything, but I found it to be nothing more than an giant iPod that is marginally more pleasant to use than a smaller device for surfing the web and watching movies. It doesn't replace a real computer, because entering text on it is a pain in the ass. You can't even put things to read on it without third party software and a ridiculous sync process in iTunes.
Catholics care. They care because they believe in the sacrament of forgiveness. They care because they believe that people have immortal souls that can last more than 500 years after someone's death.
Somehow I doubt Copernicus is going to forgive them.
There was an argument? All I saw was false assertions applied to what "most astrobiologists believe".
What "most astrobiologists believe" is that these are the things necessary for life (as we know it): liquid water, carbon and the elements favored for long-chain organic molecules, and a source of chemical energy to drive metabolism.
Europa is the only location that could possibly fit these criteria, and nobody simply assumes we will find life there. Stating "Saying 'follow the water' casts too wide a net" isn't an argument, it is a projection of a non-expert's ignorance on the competence of experts.
People have known that water is very common for decades. You're not saying anything meaningful. I think you're getting ahead of yourself making statements about which you know nothing.
After all, these APIs have been around for years, yet only the iPhone has started the whole steal-private-data thing that every other phone could've done for a long time now.
For the same reason PCs get all the viruses: they have the most naive and least technically sophisticated customer base. Apple knew the iPhone would be a juicy target for malware, far more so than previous smartphones. Application signing and remote revocation is the one thing they did right, which is why Android Market does the same and all the new application stores are following through. (Of course, Symbian actually did this first.)
programmers need to be told how to do their jobs and with what tools otherwise you wind up with the most successful operating system and process architecture in history
Until the iPhone, how many phone manufacturers supported the development of phone applications beyond a few chosen partners?
All of them. Palm, Nokia Series 60, Sony Ericsson UIQ, RIM BlackBerry, and dozens of manufacturers using Windows Mobile - you could download the development kits and write any application you wanted, and sell them directly to your customers.
That *is* laughable, because the only reference to Christianity you quote is from many years after the founding of the country, from such a minor player you felt the need to qualify him as a "founding father" and provide an individual link to Wikipedia.
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It's pretty humorous hearing someone so worried about losing data wanting to make the second most destructive action you can make in an application be easier to hit.
No, dropping your iPhone is the most destructive action, which is a lot easier when you're trying to stretch your thumb across it. And unlike the fuck you and close button, back can be canceled, and its logic is more cleanly associated with individual screens.
Yeah, and thanks to Fitt's Law, a button near your thumb is way more ergonomic than a button away from it.
I said woo, which encompasses everything up to the yellow bar, but damn. Actually, that doesn't surprise me about psychologists. It's kind of hard to believe in both in the soul and the mechanistic mind. The percentage of atheist mechanical engineers, however, is shocking. My memory of undergrad has religiosity in engineers to be quite common. I wonder what makes them different?
I was thinking of practicing scientists versus practicing graduates of other disciplines, not strictly college professors. Where are the hard sciences other than biology?
Right, so it in fact was not a stupid idea to put it on the iPad as the original poster was claiming.
No, it is stupid, because it kills the application, and you'd better hope it saved state. Every fucking time I accidentally close Netflix on the iPad there is at least thirty seconds for the application to start again and the movie to buffer. Safari is pretty damn annoying too, as it re-downloads and re-renders large pages.
Actually Back is pretty consistent being the upper left.
Which is pretty stupid in a device that is usually being manipulated by the thumb of the right hand.
Why must one live in Brazil? The instinct of "status" can drive people to act irrationally in any context. It sounds like you believe it is all a social construction, and can be whisked away with the application of the correct ideology.
Nonsense. The woo is strong In the humanities and soft sciences.
Mandatory hardware buttons, and dictate their placement. Having the back button, menu button, and home button change places on different Android devices is retarded. And make it hard to accidentally hit them. Apple's "fuck whatever you're doing and quit" key is stupidest UI decision ever made. Putting it where you hold the device makes it even worse.
Want to be real awesome? Have touch-sensitive dedicated scroll areas off the display surface.
Support pen input, from low-end pressure screens to that fancy induction Wacom stuff. That is the real future of tablets, always has been, always will be. There is a reason only children fingerpaint.
Maybe you're just a pussy.
Maybe? What part of "I bought an iPad" don't you understand?
But I think it's all quite suspiciously convenient.
I know, it's almost like the facts support the hypothesis.
I have one, and reading on it does in fact give me a headache.
If one could control the font and turn off antialiasing, perhaps it would be better.
Apple is the new Microsoft.
Go ahead and mod me down, but you fanboys can't deny it any longer.
I can download books from Amazon, or the book section of the iTunes store
Are you really so dense, or just trolling? I'm talking about putting existing media on the device to read. PDF files. Text files. Documents in a myriad of formats that Preview supports natively in Mac OS, but the iPad doesn't support.
You have absolutely no clue of what I'm talking about.
Though it is funny you should bring up HotSync and iTunes. That is one of the many similarities between the iPhone and old-school Palm devices.
I see a lot of talk about it changes everything, but I found it to be nothing more than an giant iPod that is marginally more pleasant to use than a smaller device for surfing the web and watching movies. It doesn't replace a real computer, because entering text on it is a pain in the ass. You can't even put things to read on it without third party software and a ridiculous sync process in iTunes.
Is this some kind of Halo clone?
Somehow I doubt Copernicus is going to forgive them.
That isn't to say that I don't agree with the interpretation, but it is just that: an interpretation.
Concern troll is concerned.
You didn't follow Mozee Toby's argument at all
There was an argument? All I saw was false assertions applied to what "most astrobiologists believe".
What "most astrobiologists believe" is that these are the things necessary for life (as we know it): liquid water, carbon and the elements favored for long-chain organic molecules, and a source of chemical energy to drive metabolism.
Europa is the only location that could possibly fit these criteria, and nobody simply assumes we will find life there. Stating "Saying 'follow the water' casts too wide a net" isn't an argument, it is a projection of a non-expert's ignorance on the competence of experts.
People have known that water is very common for decades. You're not saying anything meaningful. I think you're getting ahead of yourself making statements about which you know nothing.
If it's just a damned gadget, why do you want other people to control yours?
After all, these APIs have been around for years, yet only the iPhone has started the whole steal-private-data thing that every other phone could've done for a long time now.
For the same reason PCs get all the viruses: they have the most naive and least technically sophisticated customer base. Apple knew the iPhone would be a juicy target for malware, far more so than previous smartphones. Application signing and remote revocation is the one thing they did right, which is why Android Market does the same and all the new application stores are following through. (Of course, Symbian actually did this first.)
Indeed. We must trade our freedom for security.
No, sometimes they're features. How else would you jailbreak an iPhone?
programmers need to be told how to do their jobs and with what tools otherwise you wind up with the most successful operating system and process architecture in history
FTFY
Until the iPhone, how many phone manufacturers supported the development of phone applications beyond a few chosen partners?
All of them. Palm, Nokia Series 60, Sony Ericsson UIQ, RIM BlackBerry, and dozens of manufacturers using Windows Mobile - you could download the development kits and write any application you wanted, and sell them directly to your customers.
That *is* laughable, because the only reference to Christianity you quote is from many years after the founding of the country, from such a minor player you felt the need to qualify him as a "founding father" and provide an individual link to Wikipedia.
You're grasping at straws.