iPhone is a consumer trend and not an essential item, you can easily buy another Smartphone. Does anyone remember Hypercard? a million 'stacks' available, about 10 of them were really useful. Apple has limited development on a platform that always had a finite life. They made their money, what do they care?
NNOOOOOO!! They were loosing hardware sales when they licensed MacOS 7, Only one company, Power Computing, was producing low end Macs, the rest were producing premium end machines that competed with Apple, so Apple pulled the plug, renamed v7.7 to v8.0 and helped Power Computing leave the market, and kept PC drivers on Apple's ftp site. Apples reputation, deserved or not, relies on control of hardware and software, split it up and every dog-eared corner shop will produce 'Mac clones' with crap drivers and bad design and then the Apple gloss will disappear. I could never see why there is so much fuss about WANTING MacOSX for X86 when Windows is supposed to be so good, and Linux will crush Apple any-day-now.
As for Phystar, you play with the big boys, you get burned. (applies to MS, McBurgers, Crafty foods, any of them)
Books will be read, assignments will be completed by students, TV will return to the entertainment center of the livingroom, people will not stay up all night, games will be payed on a board, you'll have to pick up a pen and write to people, or dust off your printer. (you do know that impact printers were cheaper to run and lasted longer than inkjets) I would welcome that future. There was data transfer before the 'net, BBS, forums, chat, can all work without the net, thus we may just find a different way to do net-like things.
it's a game, part of the game was finding out what was going on and getting to an end. It (they) didn't need some intro/story to get you in the mood. BAH!! I think of DOOM as something that HAD been ported to almost every hardware platform.
Hello Kindle, which is what I want for read and transporting PDFs and other stuff. there is enough software out there to convert much of my stored text into something that I can download.
this logo thing happened long before iTunes, and the case has be settled. It was a trademark dispute over the name Apple and was partly put at ease when Apple Computers said that they would have nothing to do with music, then came MP3, iTunes and iPods, but as I said, the case has been settled. As for the woolworths logo, I was wonder how long before Apple Inc said something.
can't a number of pay TV companies remotely control what features/material your set-top box has or has not? Or phone companies that add features or content via SIMs etc?
currently blocks RF at 100GHz, which is just about nothing to do with Wi-Fi or Cell/mobile phones. I doubt if it'll affect anything that you currently have in a home or office, I suspect that clay bricks do a better job. Actually, I'm wondering if there is a translation problem here and that the figures are incorrect.
People don't seem to care that a HERF gun fires microwaves, and that microwaves will do physical damage to people. If they will interfere with electronics then they will interfere with the people standing near the target. Personally I hope that the Darwin effect will kick in and the people who think that playing with HERF in their garage is fun, will be sterile after a few HERF test runs.
OK, a new unit of measure. Most people that have some idea of what the SKA is could handle a unit like a TB instead of a GB. I suppose they could have used the old 'sheets of paper', or 'Libraries of Books' analogy, so we are lucky in that respect. as for the Billion PCs, are they Xeons? or P-IVs, dual or quad core?
By the same reasoning, cooking should be mandatory, as would a number of other subjects. I would argue that there are few people leaving school that require touch typing, even in this keyboard centric world, that's why we have GUIs.:)
less than 0.1% of computer buyers care, 99.9% of buyers associate GB with 10^9 or 1,000,000,000 because that's what GB actually means. Computer people have altered the spelling of dozens of words and abbreviations for decades, great!, but DON'T pick on people who do it the correct way.
the article contains almost no information on most of the icons featured, disappointed at the anti-apple remarks. Soooo much more could have been done with this subject.
nice to see a person that has the right tool for the job. BTW you wern't locked into Apple, you were locked into the software developers choice of OS and hardware.
can't see this one doing any more than costing money. Trackpads have been in computers for a decade and several systems have gestures built in long before 2003. I doubt that suggesting a finger vs a pen/stylus would make this unique enough to make it patentable.
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iPhone is a consumer trend and not an essential item, you can easily buy another Smartphone. Does anyone remember Hypercard? a million 'stacks' available, about 10 of them were really useful. Apple has limited development on a platform that always had a finite life. They made their money, what do they care?
...goes the hopes of millions, that Google OS would kill MS. You may as well run Win Mobile or Moblin or iMacOSX.
NNOOOOOO!! They were loosing hardware sales when they licensed MacOS 7, Only one company, Power Computing, was producing low end Macs, the rest were producing premium end machines that competed with Apple, so Apple pulled the plug, renamed v7.7 to v8.0 and helped Power Computing leave the market, and kept PC drivers on Apple's ftp site. Apples reputation, deserved or not, relies on control of hardware and software, split it up and every dog-eared corner shop will produce 'Mac clones' with crap drivers and bad design and then the Apple gloss will disappear. I could never see why there is so much fuss about WANTING MacOSX for X86 when Windows is supposed to be so good, and Linux will crush Apple any-day-now.
As for Phystar, you play with the big boys, you get burned. (applies to MS, McBurgers, Crafty foods, any of them)
Didn't take long to see several 'for USA eyes only' messages on links via Clicker.
look and feel? he meant to say, it's GUI is consistent and works, like a Mac.
I could use a side mounted analogue 'stick. As for those of you who have the slightest thought that this might be real, all power to you.
Books will be read, assignments will be completed by students, TV will return to the entertainment center of the livingroom, people will not stay up all night, games will be payed on a board, you'll have to pick up a pen and write to people, or dust off your printer. (you do know that impact printers were cheaper to run and lasted longer than inkjets) I would welcome that future. There was data transfer before the 'net, BBS, forums, chat, can all work without the net, thus we may just find a different way to do net-like things.
it's a game, part of the game was finding out what was going on and getting to an end. It (they) didn't need some intro/story to get you in the mood. BAH!! I think of DOOM as something that HAD been ported to almost every hardware platform.
I thought that this was covered in the press last week, so why is it in /. now??
Hello Kindle, which is what I want for read and transporting PDFs and other stuff. there is enough software out there to convert much of my stored text into something that I can download.
I'd say that cap mouse was most likely to see commercial production, but I think i'd be happier with a big touch pad addition to a quality keyboard.
this logo thing happened long before iTunes, and the case has be settled. It was a trademark dispute over the name Apple and was partly put at ease when Apple Computers said that they would have nothing to do with music, then came MP3, iTunes and iPods, but as I said, the case has been settled. As for the woolworths logo, I was wonder how long before Apple Inc said something.
can't a number of pay TV companies remotely control what features/material your set-top box has or has not? Or phone companies that add features or content via SIMs etc?
currently blocks RF at 100GHz, which is just about nothing to do with Wi-Fi or Cell/mobile phones. I doubt if it'll affect anything that you currently have in a home or office, I suspect that clay bricks do a better job. Actually, I'm wondering if there is a translation problem here and that the figures are incorrect.
People don't seem to care that a HERF gun fires microwaves, and that microwaves will do physical damage to people. If they will interfere with electronics then they will interfere with the people standing near the target. Personally I hope that the Darwin effect will kick in and the people who think that playing with HERF in their garage is fun, will be sterile after a few HERF test runs.
OK, a new unit of measure. Most people that have some idea of what the SKA is could handle a unit like a TB instead of a GB. I suppose they could have used the old 'sheets of paper', or 'Libraries of Books' analogy, so we are lucky in that respect. as for the Billion PCs, are they Xeons? or P-IVs, dual or quad core?
I thought that it was just me. I have been worried that I had a bit of spyware or something, pages are just not acting right, but only in ebay.
do people seriously believe that only Governments do 'wiretaps' ? that commercial and criminal elements of the community do not?
By the same reasoning, cooking should be mandatory, as would a number of other subjects. I would argue that there are few people leaving school that require touch typing, even in this keyboard centric world, that's why we have GUIs. :)
and no chinese read /. so the secret is safe.
less than 0.1% of computer buyers care, 99.9% of buyers associate GB with 10^9 or 1,000,000,000 because that's what GB actually means. Computer people have altered the spelling of dozens of words and abbreviations for decades, great!, but DON'T pick on people who do it the correct way.
the article contains almost no information on most of the icons featured, disappointed at the anti-apple remarks. Soooo much more could have been done with this subject.
Half power does not usually mean half voltage, unless the value of the load also changes, just thought I'd toss this in.
nice to see a person that has the right tool for the job. BTW you wern't locked into Apple, you were locked into the software developers choice of OS and hardware.
can't see this one doing any more than costing money. Trackpads have been in computers for a decade and several systems have gestures built in long before 2003. I doubt that suggesting a finger vs a pen/stylus would make this unique enough to make it patentable.