FYI. I'm typing this on an iPad mini right now. Exact dimensions of the box:
5.75" wide, 8.50" tall, 1.50" deep
I picked it up at Target two days ago. No forklift, inside guy or fencing operation required.
First Impressions
I've owned an original iPad, the iPad 2 and the 3rd generation. I actually switch off between the two and the three regularly. The three has a better screen and processor, but the two is noticeably lighter and it makes a big difference if you're standing/walking while holding it with one hand and typing with the other, which I do every day. I was initially going to ignore the mini, but when I saw the display in the store I figured I'd take a look. It's so much lighter and thinner, it's like the difference between holding a small paperback book and a larger hardcover.
Regarding Jobs's assertion that they'd have to include sandpaper so you could whittle down your fingers to use it, either he had fatter fingers than I or it was just his perfectionism talking. He must have hated typing on his iPhone. Occasionally my fingers miss "keys" but I'd chalk that up to them being so used to typing on the larger keyboard of my other three iPads. In fact, the smaller keyboard is about right for me to hold it with both hands and type with my thumbs, which is faster and more comfortable than the previous one-handed method.
The thinner bezel on the sides helps make the device smaller without sacrificing screen real estate, and I don't find that I miss it. I don't need that space to hold it. With the regular iPad it's key to gripping it securely because of the weight.
I'd read reports about the screen quality being lower than competitors, but it's not that noticeable. It's not as sharp as a retina display, but the retina display necessitated a larger battery in the iPad 3 to keep the same battery life, which made the thing thicker and heavier. For this size, I'm guessing they went with a display that wasn't as battery hungry to keep the weight down, and if so that was a good tradeoff.
When I think of a photo booth, I imagine a sequence of photos of the subjects in different poses printed in a vertical filmstrip-like layout. Would the 3D statuette equivalent of this be a totem pole of poses?
I always hoped they would work on Warp technology first....
Technically, the warp always comes first when you are working on a cloak. The warp is the layer of threads that you weave the weft through to create the fabric. If you don't have the warp first, the fabric, space and time are simply chaos.
In order to listen to a neuron for long, or help people control a prosthetic as they do a natural limb, the electrodes need to be able to survive for years in the brain without doing significant damage. With only six weeks of testing, the team couldn’t say for sure how the electrode would fare in the long term, but the results were promising. "Typically, we saw a peak in immune response at two weeks, then by three weeks it subsided, and by six weeks it had already stabilized."
The electrode has to last for years (the summary says they're shooting for 70), but they only have six weeks of successful testing. The acute rejection subsided, but it could become a chronic, repeated rejection. With artificial hearts, acute rejection is most likely to occur in the first 3 to 6 months. Six weeks seems like a short time for this. Obviously the brain is a very different organ, but part of the reason they're pursuing this is because science knows far less about the brain than it does the heart.
Somewhere in a hot tub, Paris Hilton is screaming: "They do brain implants, now? Oh my god, I want a set of those! Oh my– call my plastic surgeon and tell him I want those. Not too big. I just had my hair done."
TI could release the official TI-xx app for the iPhone/Android, sell different features, etc, and probably make a boat load of money.
Because an iPhone/android phone on the desk is even more of a distraction/cheat-risk than a graphing calculator that runs arkanoid. My math teacher used to make each of us wipe the memory in front of him before each test.
Dude, Sony discontinued this product 7 years ago. I'm sure you've gotten your money's worth out of it.
Think about it this way: If it died of hardware failure instead, would you be so upset? Likely not.
The appliance that heats my home is 50 years old. The manufacturer has been out of business since before I was born. Thank God they didn't have this mentality or I'd be in big trouble right now. Remember that the next time you're considering a Sony product. I do. I grew up with everything Sony, but ever since they took functionality away from my PS3, over and over, I make a conscious choice not to buy their products. Even if I don't see a suitable alternative (which sometimes does happen with mid-range headphones), I'll leave the store without buying anything. Every time. You might say I got my money's worth out of the company, so I'm done with it.
Extraordinary. You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means. In fact, the more you use it, the more ordinary it becomes. Google has been blocked before — you even say so in the summary. China blocks major western properties it considers disruptives during important national events (like the party congress, or the Olympics) when sentiments are running high and adrenaline is pumping to minimize the chances of an incident that could endanger lives or detract from the party message. If it's happened before, it's happening now, and it will happen again, I'd call that business as usual in China. It's ordinary... By definition.
At least here in Las Vegas the voting machines here are held to the same standards of slot machines... The rest of the nation has it wrong sadly.
You mean no matter who's using the machine, the odds are they won't get what they wanted, but they'll feel like they got close enough that they keep coming back to pull the lever? No, I think that's pretty much what the rest of the nation gets.
Found them at Target a couple years ago, haven't had an issue with cords since then. They have a soft felt on one side, tiny hooks (smaller than normal velcro) on the other and aren't as bulky as regular velcro. Use them to bundle the cords together at regular intervals so they can't get tangled. Or loop excess cord and use this stuff to hold it in a loop.
Product....Kindle...iPadMin...Surface Cost.......174.00...198.00.....284.00 Price......199.00...329.00.....599.00 Profit.....14.37%...66.16%.....110.9%
So Microsoft is hoping that by embracing Apple's strategy (huge profit margins on hardware) and extending it (almost double Apple's margin, which is already four times Amazon's), it can extinguish the Kindle Fire? I know MS doesn't do business the way it used to, but leopards don't change their spots.
And why can't nav and topo apps store maps and the like on the SD card?
MS Security?
It's possible that if MS is requiring apps to be on the internal memory, they'll require the developer's data to be there too.
Developer Lack of Foresight?
Who's to say the developers will think of that? The most-common complaint on the iTunes store about Navigon's otherwise-excellent app is that every time they release an update to the software, you have to download all your maps again. Even if it's just a bug fix that has nothing to do with the map data. They used to make you download all the maps, even if you just needed your state. After they were acquired by Garmin, their response to the complaints was to include a map manager that lets you choose which states you need... but you still have to download them every time you update the software. If you keep the maps for the whole U.S. on your device (I like to know that I've got the maps ahead of time, without having to sit down and download them before I go someplace), we're talking about a few gigabytes of data that you already had. They don't seem very interested in letting you store your maps outside the app.
What kind of application collection takes up 16 GB, other than a bunch of hardcore games?
Navigation apps. Navigon's app is several gigabytes once you download the maps, the 3D terrain data, the POI data, etc.
Topographical apps. Several gigabytes.
Why would someone put both nav and topo maps on their tablet? Every couple months I attach my iPad to my dash (large-screen turn-by-turn GPS), drive to a different destination in another state, throw the iPad in my backpack and go hiking in a place where there are no cell-towers (hence the topographical apps).
...expansion slots so people who need more memory can buy it off the shelf at any corner store for relatively cheap, preloading it with everything including the kitchen sink doesn't seem like a bad idea.
Interesting contrast between the Surface and the iPad. With the Surface, the memory can be bought at any corner store, but software is a little hard to come by, so they loaded it up. A kitchen sink full of ugly dishes is always a bad idea.
Realistically, that means the OS and productivity suite (if you need the whole thing... most people will have no use for Keynote unless they're actually giving presentations) are taking 2.3GB away from your usable space. That's 14% on a 16GB iPad, 7% on a 32GB, or roughly 4% of a 64GB model.
They probably spend 500k on toilet paper in a year.
<SARCASM>Or three or four really good developers who they treat like toilet paper. But, again, that's nothing. They probably flush thousands of developers every year!</SARCASM>
This should be covered for public companies in the U.S. by Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404, which is the top-down risk assessment. Basically, management is required to have certain internal controls in place (IT Security is one of the named categories), and the required risk assessment is supposed to evaluate those controls. If someone has "hacked" in and stolen sensitive information, your controls have failed and the auditor's report should reflect that. At the very least, Sarbanes-Oxley would require the disclosure of attacks that could impact the company's financials at the end of the quarter, but there may be a threshhold for reporting earlier to ensure shareholders are not blindsided by something really big. I am not a lawyer or an auditor, but if I were looking for that threshold, this is where I'd expect to find it.
(How ironic that they chose 404 to be the title of a report in which an auditor is looking for missing files)
1. Sue Hollywood for two HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS for the "unlawful and political destruction" of Megaupload
2. Use funds to buy 6,500-mile-long "undersea cable"
3. Use the "undersea cable" to give the people of New Zealand free "high-speed internet," and your new, secure, New Zealand-based "Me.ga" a fat pipe for the transfer of Hollywood's pirated movies
4. Use the "high-speed internet" to become a national hero who will never be extradited to the U.S.
5. Use the profits from "Me.ga" to pick up where he left off before his home was invaded
Did I miss anything? I included the Dr. Evil-esque finger quotes. It only works if he can successfully sue Hollywood for that much before he is extradited, and if the people of NZ are willing to turn a blind eye to his motives. Or the fact that you'd have to be batshit crazy to reveal this plan to the world while you're fighting extradition for piracy.
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FYI. I'm typing this on an iPad mini right now. Exact dimensions of the box:
5.75" wide, 8.50" tall, 1.50" deep
I picked it up at Target two days ago. No forklift, inside guy or fencing operation required.
First Impressions
I've owned an original iPad, the iPad 2 and the 3rd generation. I actually switch off between the two and the three regularly. The three has a better screen and processor, but the two is noticeably lighter and it makes a big difference if you're standing/walking while holding it with one hand and typing with the other, which I do every day. I was initially going to ignore the mini, but when I saw the display in the store I figured I'd take a look. It's so much lighter and thinner, it's like the difference between holding a small paperback book and a larger hardcover.
Regarding Jobs's assertion that they'd have to include sandpaper so you could whittle down your fingers to use it, either he had fatter fingers than I or it was just his perfectionism talking. He must have hated typing on his iPhone. Occasionally my fingers miss "keys" but I'd chalk that up to them being so used to typing on the larger keyboard of my other three iPads. In fact, the smaller keyboard is about right for me to hold it with both hands and type with my thumbs, which is faster and more comfortable than the previous one-handed method.
The thinner bezel on the sides helps make the device smaller without sacrificing screen real estate, and I don't find that I miss it. I don't need that space to hold it. With the regular iPad it's key to gripping it securely because of the weight.
I'd read reports about the screen quality being lower than competitors, but it's not that noticeable. It's not as sharp as a retina display, but the retina display necessitated a larger battery in the iPad 3 to keep the same battery life, which made the thing thicker and heavier. For this size, I'm guessing they went with a display that wasn't as battery hungry to keep the weight down, and if so that was a good tradeoff.
I assume that you get weightless cameras from the same store that physics professors get their "frictionless inclines" and "massless pulleys" from?
I know that store! Everything is perpetually out of stock.
When I think of a photo booth, I imagine a sequence of photos of the subjects in different poses printed in a vertical filmstrip-like layout. Would the 3D statuette equivalent of this be a totem pole of poses?
I always hoped they would work on Warp technology first....
Technically, the warp always comes first when you are working on a cloak. The warp is the layer of threads that you weave the weft through to create the fabric. If you don't have the warp first, the fabric, space and time are simply chaos.
Perfect /'perfikt/
adj.
Having all the parts and qualities that are needed or wanted, an no flaws or weaknesses.
If there are caveats, it's not perfect. Don't slap false labels on things to make them sound more impressive. Call it what it is.
In order to listen to a neuron for long, or help people control a prosthetic as they do a natural limb, the electrodes need to be able to survive for years in the brain without doing significant damage. With only six weeks of testing, the team couldn’t say for sure how the electrode would fare in the long term, but the results were promising. "Typically, we saw a peak in immune response at two weeks, then by three weeks it subsided, and by six weeks it had already stabilized."
The electrode has to last for years (the summary says they're shooting for 70), but they only have six weeks of successful testing. The acute rejection subsided, but it could become a chronic, repeated rejection. With artificial hearts, acute rejection is most likely to occur in the first 3 to 6 months. Six weeks seems like a short time for this. Obviously the brain is a very different organ, but part of the reason they're pursuing this is because science knows far less about the brain than it does the heart.
Somewhere in a hot tub, Paris Hilton is screaming: "They do brain implants, now? Oh my god, I want a set of those! Oh my– call my plastic surgeon and tell him I want those. Not too big. I just had my hair done."
TI could release the official TI-xx app for the iPhone/Android, sell different features, etc, and probably make a boat load of money.
Because an iPhone/android phone on the desk is even more of a distraction/cheat-risk than a graphing calculator that runs arkanoid. My math teacher used to make each of us wipe the memory in front of him before each test.
"We're working with Nokia on a 35s with a graphing function that has an inverted-color screen. We're calling it the Lumia X-Ray." -Meg Whitman
Dude, Sony discontinued this product 7 years ago. I'm sure you've gotten your money's worth out of it.
Think about it this way: If it died of hardware failure instead, would you be so upset? Likely not.
The appliance that heats my home is 50 years old. The manufacturer has been out of business since before I was born. Thank God they didn't have this mentality or I'd be in big trouble right now. Remember that the next time you're considering a Sony product. I do. I grew up with everything Sony, but ever since they took functionality away from my PS3, over and over, I make a conscious choice not to buy their products. Even if I don't see a suitable alternative (which sometimes does happen with mid-range headphones), I'll leave the store without buying anything. Every time. You might say I got my money's worth out of the company, so I'm done with it.
Extraordinary. You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means. In fact, the more you use it, the more ordinary it becomes. Google has been blocked before — you even say so in the summary. China blocks major western properties it considers disruptives during important national events (like the party congress, or the Olympics) when sentiments are running high and adrenaline is pumping to minimize the chances of an incident that could endanger lives or detract from the party message. If it's happened before, it's happening now, and it will happen again, I'd call that business as usual in China. It's ordinary... By definition.
FutureDoc just harvested a crop of Marijuana on FarmVille!
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At least here in Las Vegas the voting machines here are held to the same standards of slot machines... The rest of the nation has it wrong sadly.
You mean no matter who's using the machine, the odds are they won't get what they wanted, but they'll feel like they got close enough that they keep coming back to pull the lever? No, I think that's pretty much what the rest of the nation gets.
The Google logo got caught with its hand in the ballot box cookie jar! It's all over Google's front page!
Nice link! Found "A Supercomputer In A Church" in Barcelona there. Wow...
I like these: Scotch Cord Organizer Straps
Found them at Target a couple years ago, haven't had an issue with cords since then. They have a soft felt on one side, tiny hooks (smaller than normal velcro) on the other and aren't as bulky as regular velcro. Use them to bundle the cords together at regular intervals so they can't get tangled. Or loop excess cord and use this stuff to hold it in a loop.
Product....Kindle...iPadMin... Surface
Cost.......174.00...198.00.....284.00
Price......199.00...329.00.....599.00
Profit.....14.37%...66.16%.....110.9%
So Microsoft is hoping that by embracing Apple's strategy (huge profit margins on hardware) and extending it (almost double Apple's margin, which is already four times Amazon's), it can extinguish the Kindle Fire? I know MS doesn't do business the way it used to, but leopards don't change their spots.
Legal to Photograph Your Marked Ballot
Alabama
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Maine
North Dakota
Rhode Island
Tennessee
Vermont
Wyoming
The Law on This is Unlcear
Arkansas
Connecticut
DC
Hawaii
Idaho
Kansas
Kentucky
Maryland
Ohio
Illegal to Photograph Your Marked Ballot
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And why can't nav and topo apps store maps and the like on the SD card?
MS Security?
It's possible that if MS is requiring apps to be on the internal memory, they'll require the developer's data to be there too.
Developer Lack of Foresight?
Who's to say the developers will think of that? The most-common complaint on the iTunes store about Navigon's otherwise-excellent app is that every time they release an update to the software, you have to download all your maps again. Even if it's just a bug fix that has nothing to do with the map data. They used to make you download all the maps, even if you just needed your state. After they were acquired by Garmin, their response to the complaints was to include a map manager that lets you choose which states you need... but you still have to download them every time you update the software. If you keep the maps for the whole U.S. on your device (I like to know that I've got the maps ahead of time, without having to sit down and download them before I go someplace), we're talking about a few gigabytes of data that you already had. They don't seem very interested in letting you store your maps outside the app.
What kind of application collection takes up 16 GB, other than a bunch of hardcore games?
Navigation apps. Navigon's app is several gigabytes once you download the maps, the 3D terrain data, the POI data, etc.
Topographical apps. Several gigabytes.
Why would someone put both nav and topo maps on their tablet? Every couple months I attach my iPad to my dash (large-screen turn-by-turn GPS), drive to a different destination in another state, throw the iPad in my backpack and go hiking in a place where there are no cell-towers (hence the topographical apps).
...expansion slots so people who need more memory can buy it off the shelf at any corner store for relatively cheap, preloading it with everything including the kitchen sink doesn't seem like a bad idea.
Interesting contrast between the Surface and the iPad. With the Surface, the memory can be bought at any corner store, but software is a little hard to come by, so they loaded it up. A kitchen sink full of ugly dishes is always a bad idea.
iOS reserves 1.5GB for the system partition, and OS uses 800 MB of that. (see paragraph four)
When the retina iPad was introduced, Pages went from 95MB to 269MB, and Numbers went from 109MB to 283MB.
Keynote currently clocks in at 286MB.
Realistically, that means the OS and productivity suite (if you need the whole thing... most people will have no use for Keynote unless they're actually giving presentations) are taking 2.3GB away from your usable space. That's 14% on a 16GB iPad, 7% on a 32GB, or roughly 4% of a 64GB model.
With Windows NT, the NT stood for New Technology. Perhaps the RT in Windows RT stands for Retaining-water Technology.
They probably spend 500k on toilet paper in a year.
<SARCASM>Or three or four really good developers who they treat like toilet paper. But, again, that's nothing. They probably flush thousands of developers every year!</SARCASM>
This should be covered for public companies in the U.S. by Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404, which is the top-down risk assessment. Basically, management is required to have certain internal controls in place (IT Security is one of the named categories), and the required risk assessment is supposed to evaluate those controls. If someone has "hacked" in and stolen sensitive information, your controls have failed and the auditor's report should reflect that. At the very least, Sarbanes-Oxley would require the disclosure of attacks that could impact the company's financials at the end of the quarter, but there may be a threshhold for reporting earlier to ensure shareholders are not blindsided by something really big. I am not a lawyer or an auditor, but if I were looking for that threshold, this is where I'd expect to find it.
(How ironic that they chose 404 to be the title of a report in which an auditor is looking for missing files)
Did I miss anything? I included the Dr. Evil-esque finger quotes. It only works if he can successfully sue Hollywood for that much before he is extradited, and if the people of NZ are willing to turn a blind eye to his motives. Or the fact that you'd have to be batshit crazy to reveal this plan to the world while you're fighting extradition for piracy.