Thats exactly the advantage of a cross platform browser. You don't tie your browser to a particular OS and viceversa. As the cost of upgrading every OS there is high, you are still using a browser so unsafe that even Microsoft acknowledges that is a security hole, and probably for browsing the net, making mostly worthless any layer of security you set up there (firewalls, antivirus, etc). In the other hand, moving to Chrome, Firefox or Opera, dont forces you to change right now the operating system, and have more freedom choosing to which OS move next, all the organization or just a few sectors where another could fit better in their needs, along with a good improvement in security, speed and compatibility with what internet is turning into.
That match only will happen if Jobs win over Ballmer. Im not sure if Jobs skill throwing shurikens will have a chance against Ballmer with a few chairs at hand.
A bible (or any of the other books for the other religions) have some use. Could be a first step for getting eternal life, gives you a community, could give some respect, all inside the people that believes in its value. And money can lose value pretty fast, like in Zimbabwe.
take that green pieces of paper and burn it. Is just a f---in piece of paper, who cares? Is your belief that have a value what matters. Quite frankly, if you are going to get upset about a bunch of money, you're taking life way too seriously.
What would make us stupid is not to take advantage of available resources. And having more resources open doors, not close them. Same could be said about electronic calculators, is not about doing the math, but what you do with the results. You can always do the math by hand or memorize something, but you are not forced because what matters is what you do with that.
But yes, somehow Internet makes us stupid, but not in the "why remember what is online?" way. Is a meme machine, worse than old radio, worse than tv. Viral is the new culture. No thinking needed, just behave like, do like, or just like, whatever you already saw on internet. Is a good thing for marketing campaings, you just put something that seem cool enough and people buy it, no critical thinking involved, just accept what the mass/social media orders, That is the real danger of internet, not the "external storage" part.
No hardware keyboard, a portion of the usable screen dedicated to the touch keyboard, not continuous display (if you want to display something big, and eventually something enables the lower screen to display part of it), It gives that the surface where you actually type at different angle where you read, and well, you can fold it.
Make me remember the mockups of the XO 2.0 (or 3.0?) that were around a year or 2 around, with 2 screens, but was mostly a continuous display, and were meant for children. The lower part wasnt always a keyboard, was a second display was used also for i.e. playing naval war, or reading a ebook in 2 pages holding it like a real book.
Anyway, maybe we are overanalizing. This kind of things could be meant to be a complementary device, to be used for what they are good at (just reading ebooks/internet, playing some games, playing some media, etc), while keeping our normal desktop/notebooks for things that require keyboard/hard disk/etc
People care first about "oh, shiny!" before actually testing it. And then convince themselves that they didnt make an horrible mistake, that they really prefered it to be that way, or change their using habits to its limitations.
Is not that bad. It could turn web 3.0 to social mostly for tech aware people, the others won't leave content (comments, blog posts, etc) as much because is uncomfortable with their devices, or move people from facebook to twitter because they have to type less to participate.
When started to appear the mentos on coke videos in internet, suddently a lot wanted to try that, but the consequences of doing it wrong or unsafe werent so bad, even funny sometimes. But if this goes viral, well, the darwin awards will have to open a special chapter.
There is no equivalence between stealing in the digital world vs stealing in the physical one. If i go to a library, and steal a book, you lose it, it becomes unavailable for everyone except me. What im doing in practice is reading something published without your permission.
Is ridiculous to verbatim copy things necessary from the physical world to the digital one as copying them in the other direction (imagine if your browser or your internet connection only limit you to connect to just one place at a time, and even takes from minutes to hours to go to another site, and just dont dare to try to access a site in another country).
The reasons that are there from the start are not valid anymore, but you copy them because, well, mean more profit. So add the cost of printing, storing, moving, exporting, stocking with the risk they become old/obsolete/get wet/whatever and the bunch of intermediaries that happens in the real world into a pack of bits that have none of those problems
With frankencamera you could do HDR and a lot more things in an "intelligent" camera with software. In fact the first implementation in a mass consumption device was in the N900, it takes several photos, regulates exposition and other parameters to make that photo in a more parametrizable way that the iphone could do. But not sure if that would be enough for HDR video, if needs that the input, in real time, have different something at hardware level. In that case maybe something like this 3D camera would be needed. And could give some meaning to such devices... not only shooting in 3d, but in HDR video.
That is ANOTHER reason to move to HTML (or another format that can flow the content to the way is being displayed), at least for the cases where is not strictly required that things look exactly the same in every device, even when it can't at a decent resolution. Is a format that is being abused. How many pdfs you have which content really requires that content don't flow or get reformated to better fit in your screen, of whatever device you have? We usually don't need a slideshow of the photos of the pages of a real book, we need its content in a computer in the way that makes it easier for us to read it.
they choose to ban a gamer over losing their job. That could be found at google and the risk that also this wasnt in bing is nothing good to agree there.
The CPU that always matters is on the other side of the keyboard. Flashy shiny things that distracts you and sometimes make you forget or change your mind on what you are searching for sometimes are harmful. Being able to opt out of that feature, in the other hand, is a positive thing.
How much of that is in our genes vs how much is in fact cultural? The dance of 500, 1000 or 10000 years ago was probably considered irresistible at their own time and boring now.
Probably is just culture what makes things (dance moves, clothing, hair styles or whatever) irresistible or not. Maybe is not just physical fitness what is being seen there, but also ability to perform or create a meme. "Functional" attractiveness of the opposite sex has changed with culture too
So you know how much time in advance you will get if something really coming this way next time. Much bigger and problematic ones probably would be easier to spot and predict with more time, but still is pretty scary.
There are reasons for doing cpu intensive things (even if not particulary 1080p video) in a portable device of the size of a phone that you carry as much as your phone. But you are right that battery is a problem. Something that should have hopely days of autonomy could have a few hours using a powerful cpu, apps that take advantage of it, and a big, bright and colorful touchscreen unless using a high capacity battery. Before adding even more power hungry capabilities to phones some optimization on the power part should be done
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... but force every product containing it to show cigarette-like warning labels
Is not for XP, so maybe unless you are using Windows 7, how much forcing to use Windows Vista for it is an improvement in performance?
Thats exactly the advantage of a cross platform browser. You don't tie your browser to a particular OS and viceversa. As the cost of upgrading every OS there is high, you are still using a browser so unsafe that even Microsoft acknowledges that is a security hole, and probably for browsing the net, making mostly worthless any layer of security you set up there (firewalls, antivirus, etc). In the other hand, moving to Chrome, Firefox or Opera, dont forces you to change right now the operating system, and have more freedom choosing to which OS move next, all the organization or just a few sectors where another could fit better in their needs, along with a good improvement in security, speed and compatibility with what internet is turning into.
Dont want to wait 15 billon years to see the next Blue Screen of Big Bang
That match only will happen if Jobs win over Ballmer. Im not sure if Jobs skill throwing shurikens will have a chance against Ballmer with a few chairs at hand.
A bible (or any of the other books for the other religions) have some use. Could be a first step for getting eternal life, gives you a community, could give some respect, all inside the people that believes in its value. And money can lose value pretty fast, like in Zimbabwe.
take that green pieces of paper and burn it. Is just a f---in piece of paper, who cares? Is your belief that have a value what matters. Quite frankly, if you are going to get upset about a bunch of money, you're taking life way too seriously.
What would make us stupid is not to take advantage of available resources. And having more resources open doors, not close them. Same could be said about electronic calculators, is not about doing the math, but what you do with the results. You can always do the math by hand or memorize something, but you are not forced because what matters is what you do with that.
But yes, somehow Internet makes us stupid, but not in the "why remember what is online?" way. Is a meme machine, worse than old radio, worse than tv. Viral is the new culture. No thinking needed, just behave like, do like, or just like, whatever you already saw on internet. Is a good thing for marketing campaings, you just put something that seem cool enough and people buy it, no critical thinking involved, just accept what the mass/social media orders, That is the real danger of internet, not the "external storage" part.
No hardware keyboard, a portion of the usable screen dedicated to the touch keyboard, not continuous display (if you want to display something big, and eventually something enables the lower screen to display part of it), It gives that the surface where you actually type at different angle where you read, and well, you can fold it.
Make me remember the mockups of the XO 2.0 (or 3.0?) that were around a year or 2 around, with 2 screens, but was mostly a continuous display, and were meant for children. The lower part wasnt always a keyboard, was a second display was used also for i.e. playing naval war, or reading a ebook in 2 pages holding it like a real book.
Anyway, maybe we are overanalizing. This kind of things could be meant to be a complementary device, to be used for what they are good at (just reading ebooks/internet, playing some games, playing some media, etc), while keeping our normal desktop/notebooks for things that require keyboard/hard disk/etc
People care first about "oh, shiny!" before actually testing it. And then convince themselves that they didnt make an horrible mistake, that they really prefered it to be that way, or change their using habits to its limitations.
Is not that bad. It could turn web 3.0 to social mostly for tech aware people, the others won't leave content (comments, blog posts, etc) as much because is uncomfortable with their devices, or move people from facebook to twitter because they have to type less to participate.
When started to appear the mentos on coke videos in internet, suddently a lot wanted to try that, but the consequences of doing it wrong or unsafe werent so bad, even funny sometimes. But if this goes viral, well, the darwin awards will have to open a special chapter.
Not waiting for it, telepathy works in both directions... and i would like that at least my dreams are free of Google Ads.
There is no equivalence between stealing in the digital world vs stealing in the physical one. If i go to a library, and steal a book, you lose it, it becomes unavailable for everyone except me. What im doing in practice is reading something published without your permission.
Is ridiculous to verbatim copy things necessary from the physical world to the digital one as copying them in the other direction (imagine if your browser or your internet connection only limit you to connect to just one place at a time, and even takes from minutes to hours to go to another site, and just dont dare to try to access a site in another country).
The reasons that are there from the start are not valid anymore, but you copy them because, well, mean more profit. So add the cost of printing, storing, moving, exporting, stocking with the risk they become old/obsolete/get wet/whatever and the bunch of intermediaries that happens in the real world into a pack of bits that have none of those problems
With frankencamera you could do HDR and a lot more things in an "intelligent" camera with software. In fact the first implementation in a mass consumption device was in the N900, it takes several photos, regulates exposition and other parameters to make that photo in a more parametrizable way that the iphone could do. But not sure if that would be enough for HDR video, if needs that the input, in real time, have different something at hardware level. In that case maybe something like this 3D camera would be needed. And could give some meaning to such devices... not only shooting in 3d, but in HDR video.
Not sure if all it does is just spreading itself. Could try things in the style of the Zeus Botnet to get some profit
The actual file don't go in the mail, just the link to download it. mimedefang or antivirus at the mail server don't have anything to do with it.
That were with the old style apples... what newer ones have are iWorms
That is ANOTHER reason to move to HTML (or another format that can flow the content to the way is being displayed), at least for the cases where is not strictly required that things look exactly the same in every device, even when it can't at a decent resolution. Is a format that is being abused. How many pdfs you have which content really requires that content don't flow or get reformated to better fit in your screen, of whatever device you have? We usually don't need a slideshow of the photos of the pages of a real book, we need its content in a computer in the way that makes it easier for us to read it.
they choose to ban a gamer over losing their job. That could be found at google and the risk that also this wasnt in bing is nothing good to agree there.
The CPU that always matters is on the other side of the keyboard. Flashy shiny things that distracts you and sometimes make you forget or change your mind on what you are searching for sometimes are harmful. Being able to opt out of that feature, in the other hand, is a positive thing.
How much of that is in our genes vs how much is in fact cultural? The dance of 500, 1000 or 10000 years ago was probably considered irresistible at their own time and boring now.
Probably is just culture what makes things (dance moves, clothing, hair styles or whatever) irresistible or not. Maybe is not just physical fitness what is being seen there, but also ability to perform or create a meme. "Functional" attractiveness of the opposite sex has changed with culture too
They even invented a word to tell when both coexist not just in the same market, but in the same device.
So you know how much time in advance you will get if something really coming this way next time. Much bigger and problematic ones probably would be easier to spot and predict with more time, but still is pretty scary.
There are reasons for doing cpu intensive things (even if not particulary 1080p video) in a portable device of the size of a phone that you carry as much as your phone. But you are right that battery is a problem. Something that should have hopely days of autonomy could have a few hours using a powerful cpu, apps that take advantage of it, and a big, bright and colorful touchscreen unless using a high capacity battery. Before adding even more power hungry capabilities to phones some optimization on the power part should be done
is in the eye of the beholder...not in the stamps..