Well, I kinda doubt that Apple is NOT going to upgrade the iPad. Their 1st gen stuff usually is pretty threadbare. I'm guessing gen 2 will be a fairly hefty upgrade. Or maybe not, Apple does weird things.
I wonder if this is the first post to get 'Troll' for bashing the government, regardless if I missed the part where Oracle did break the contract. Refreshing!
I see your point. When I said problem, I meant that it's going to buggy, and the majority of people who buy it will have a buggy product. As in the majority of people who buy something and will never try to alter it./. is very big on OOS, Linux, jailbreaking, etc. The other 320 million people in the US don't even know what those words mean (to any significant extent).
When I went from engineer/IT to management, I've found that the other groups have little sense of what tech is. Forget the general population, browser still equals IE in their minds.
Rain is wet. No kidding, people dislike/fear that which is different from them or what they like. Anyone recall the the violence over the Twilight books/movies? If you liked the one guy instead of the other guy, people (mostly girls) would get into fights. Sadly, I can also envision slap-fights about differing Linux distros. Repubs and Demos are especially funny when they argue- they both just want to spend money. just on THEIR terms.
Your right about the electronics part- Apple has always been part HW, part SW. MS was only SW for a long time; it takes time to cultivate/find the right people for the wacky HW that Apple puts out. MS's main problem is that they are vary reactionary in the HW market. Jobs just thinks up crazy stuff and somehow sells it (I'm waiting for a robot Apple monkey...) MS really needs a clean break with their OS/software. "XP Compatibility mode"? They're pulling so much weight that they can't pull off something really new & great. Apple managed to change from Motorolla's 64X architecture to PPC, then switch over to OS X and finally to Intel. MS doesn't want to pull that type of trigger (yeah, I know established businesses and such. But if you believe in your product, you pull that trigger.)
But I'd rather have a more controlled environment where, for the most part, the apps have been vetted so they're not trying to steal any info from me. Part of the reason I'm not an Android fan (and no, I don't have an iPhone. Actually, I don't even have a smartphone).
Being open and fancy-free is fine for some things, but for others I'd prefer some measure of security.
Since when does everyone have to bend over for every different interest out there. I don't have an iPhone, iPod, or iPad and have no plans on getting any of them.
The newest "network computer" cry that the PC will die. This is what, the 3rd, 4th, time? Sure cloud/network computing would be great is you trust the provider, always have super-fast communications, and never have an outage. Oops.
"Good news is that it is an opt-in service, so you don't have to use iGoogle as you energy monitor."
I thought my electric company did this pretty accurately, though they tend to charge more. Either I've missed something really big or the wording was badly phrased. Especially the part where it implies you have to have some type of personal energy monitor for your home.
"50 ARM powered clones..." My first take on reading this was a pad that had 50 ARM processors in it, making me wonder what the heck was going to power this thing! Of course I got it on the 2nd read, but still.
Now there is a project for you super-mod freaks! Take a pad (iPad or clone) and stuff it enough power to rival a low-level server. Or even a good laptop. That would be funky. I wouldn't even try this, since the last time I soldered I set my (wooden) desk on fire. There were mitigating circumstances, but still....
Sounds like what he saw was waking up from "sleep" mode. I only did a wake up from hibernate once when the power cord got knocked off overnight and the battery drained (I was running some task) to the point where it went into an auto-hibernate mode. Plugged in the cord, hit the space bar, and it took a good 30-some seconds to get going (I didn't time it). But really, I'm not doing real-life Missile Defense, so I can deal with the 30 second wait once every year when I mess up like that! Mmmm, Missile Defense... need to fire up MAME....
New Apple stuff is always sky-high in price. I forget the actual prices now, but weren't the original iPods and iPhones really, really pricey? I guess it's something akin to the "early adopter tax" phenomena.
Though the iPad might be perfect for my mom. Very tech afraid, though I eventually thought how to browse the web on my Macbook, somewhat. I'll give it a year and see how it's doing.
I read through a bunch of the comments, and I agree with turning off the file sharing. Some others suggested random reboots, turning on/off file sharing randomly.
I don't need this, but is there a deamon that could occasionly turn file sharing off and on for random periods of time? I'm also not a programmer, so would this be hard?
I'm just throwing this out there. (Would also be fun if you could do this and send some type of message that he has corrupted his portn stache. Or is that just mean?)
If you look around at the "guests" in the vid (all of whom are in street garb), you can see them laughing. When this came out about 4 DAYS ago/., it was supposedly the 'first non-sanctioned Apple Store wedding'. What the heck is that supposed to mean? Is there a waiting list for 'sanctioned' weddings? Do you get a free iPod per nupital?
When I clicked on YouTube vid, ahem, a few days back, I thought it would be some cute Apple employee and spouse getting married in the store, after hours, with friends. Ahhh, no.
I just hope that was not a real ceremony for those 2. That would make monkeys cry. And probably their parents to beat them silly.
I'm actually with you. When you are reading in a constant light, whether low or high level, the pupils adjust. The problems come when you have 2 different light sources with different focul lengths; say a dim reading light and a bright TV across the room. Or a bright laptop screen and a dim TV across the room. Your eyes will get fatigued from switching, but won't cause any damage.
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Well, I kinda doubt that Apple is NOT going to upgrade the iPad. Their 1st gen stuff usually is pretty threadbare. I'm guessing gen 2 will be a fairly hefty upgrade. Or maybe not, Apple does weird things.
And you completely missed the point....
If it's built in at the hardware level by some jerk, isn't that more of a backdoor?
I wonder if this is the first post to get 'Troll' for bashing the government, regardless if I missed the part where Oracle did break the contract. Refreshing!
I see your point. When I said problem, I meant that it's going to buggy, and the majority of people who buy it will have a buggy product. As in the majority of people who buy something and will never try to alter it. /. is very big on OOS, Linux, jailbreaking, etc. The other 320 million people in the US don't even know what those words mean (to any significant extent).
When I went from engineer/IT to management, I've found that the other groups have little sense of what tech is. Forget the general population, browser still equals IE in their minds.
Rain is wet. No kidding, people dislike/fear that which is different from them or what they like. Anyone recall the the violence over the Twilight books/movies? If you liked the one guy instead of the other guy, people (mostly girls) would get into fights. Sadly, I can also envision slap-fights about differing Linux distros. Repubs and Demos are especially funny when they argue- they both just want to spend money. just on THEIR terms.
So you signed bad deals, so now you sue. Using our tax dollars. For a bad deal in the first place that used our tax dollars.
Hooray Government! (Seriously, is there nothing bad that happens that they don't at least try to blame on someone else anymore?)
Your right about the electronics part- Apple has always been part HW, part SW. MS was only SW for a long time; it takes time to cultivate/find the right people for the wacky HW that Apple puts out. MS's main problem is that they are vary reactionary in the HW market. Jobs just thinks up crazy stuff and somehow sells it (I'm waiting for a robot Apple monkey...) MS really needs a clean break with their OS/software. "XP Compatibility mode"? They're pulling so much weight that they can't pull off something really new & great. Apple managed to change from Motorolla's 64X architecture to PPC, then switch over to OS X and finally to Intel. MS doesn't want to pull that type of trigger (yeah, I know established businesses and such. But if you believe in your product, you pull that trigger.)
"The only thing necessarily rush-job about the tablets will be Windows."
Which is the customarily the #1 problem. When has MS -not- rushed something out too early?
Really, that is all I care about in this case- "iPad Urgency! iPad Urgnecy!"
This is standard MS- behind the iPod, behind the Playstation, now behind the iPad. I look forward to their name for their iPod clone- maybe Vavoom?
But I'd rather have a more controlled environment where, for the most part, the apps have been vetted so they're not trying to steal any info from me. Part of the reason I'm not an Android fan (and no, I don't have an iPhone. Actually, I don't even have a smartphone).
Being open and fancy-free is fine for some things, but for others I'd prefer some measure of security.
The latest results I could find was from 2006. Do you have a link to a new competition?
Don't use it.
Since when does everyone have to bend over for every different interest out there. I don't have an iPhone, iPod, or iPad and have no plans on getting any of them.
See how easy that is?
The newest "network computer" cry that the PC will die. This is what, the 3rd, 4th, time? Sure cloud/network computing would be great is you trust the provider, always have super-fast communications, and never have an outage. Oops.
"Good news is that it is an opt-in service, so you don't have to use iGoogle as you energy monitor."
I thought my electric company did this pretty accurately, though they tend to charge more. Either I've missed something really big or the wording was badly phrased. Especially the part where it implies you have to have some type of personal energy monitor for your home.
"50 ARM powered clones..."
My first take on reading this was a pad that had 50 ARM processors in it, making me wonder what the heck was going to power this thing! Of course I got it on the 2nd read, but still.
Now there is a project for you super-mod freaks! Take a pad (iPad or clone) and stuff it enough power to rival a low-level server. Or even a good laptop. That would be funky. I wouldn't even try this, since the last time I soldered I set my (wooden) desk on fire. There were mitigating circumstances, but still....
Sounds like what he saw was waking up from "sleep" mode. I only did a wake up from hibernate once when the power cord got knocked off overnight and the battery drained (I was running some task) to the point where it went into an auto-hibernate mode. Plugged in the cord, hit the space bar, and it took a good 30-some seconds to get going (I didn't time it). But really, I'm not doing real-life Missile Defense, so I can deal with the 30 second wait once every year when I mess up like that! Mmmm, Missile Defense... need to fire up MAME....
New Apple stuff is always sky-high in price. I forget the actual prices now, but weren't the original iPods and iPhones really, really pricey? I guess it's something akin to the "early adopter tax" phenomena.
Though the iPad might be perfect for my mom. Very tech afraid, though I eventually thought how to browse the web on my Macbook, somewhat. I'll give it a year and see how it's doing.
I read through a bunch of the comments, and I agree with turning off the file sharing. Some others suggested random reboots, turning on/off file sharing randomly.
I don't need this, but is there a deamon that could occasionly turn file sharing off and on for random periods of time? I'm also not a programmer, so would this be hard?
I'm just throwing this out there. (Would also be fun if you could do this and send some type of message that he has corrupted his portn stache. Or is that just mean?)
Is this like the South Park episode where Butters earned $300 million theoretical Internet dollars?
Like the 1TB drive in my Macbook? :)
If you look around at the "guests" in the vid (all of whom are in street garb), you can see them laughing. When this came out about 4 DAYS ago /., it was supposedly the 'first non-sanctioned Apple Store wedding'. What the heck is that supposed to mean? Is there a waiting list for 'sanctioned' weddings? Do you get a free iPod per nupital?
When I clicked on YouTube vid, ahem, a few days back, I thought it would be some cute Apple employee and spouse getting married in the store, after hours, with friends. Ahhh, no.
I just hope that was not a real ceremony for those 2. That would make monkeys cry. And probably their parents to beat them silly.
Surprised. A bunch of $10K computers dumped into a landfill, kinda like that ET Atari fiasco.
I'm actually with you. When you are reading in a constant light, whether low or high level, the pupils adjust. The problems come when you have 2 different light sources with different focul lengths; say a dim reading light and a bright TV across the room. Or a bright laptop screen and a dim TV across the room. Your eyes will get fatigued from switching, but won't cause any damage.
C'mon, this is /., where the only really important thing is the ability to play with the guts of the system.