Why i could not play music while reading a web page/book or taking a photo? Or playing music, updating my gps, and running a pedometer while walking? Or being able to receive skype calls while doing anything else?
Some of the most obvious uses of multitasking were covered by this apple update (mostly around voip, audiostreaming, and gps), but a few is not the same as everything to the core. Maybe the average iphone owner dont want to ssh to their phones, but you always ends finding a situation where you would want that your smartphone do more than a thing at once.
[scratches head while reading your comment] I don't see any advantage on multitasking neither, we humans must be designed against doing more than a thing at once.
Wont be much worse than when mac fans cried in terror when tried to use a 2-button mouse. Fortunately, this "multitasking" on the iphone will be so delimited by apple policies that they wont notice it most of the time.
Local social networking is the next next big thing, taking advantage of location-aware devices like smartphones with gps. There are a lot of stablished players in that field, including google and yahoo. Foursquare is one of the big ones, and the Yahoo move could be more related to some strategic IP involved than buying code or community,
Probably won't be the game, but wiith a bit of luck will the players the ones that will solve those problems. Never is the gun the one that kills and go to jail.
Usually you don't use those linux servers on hosting companies as desktops where you run acrobat reader. And desktops/notebooks/etc are usually more frequently updated (both as using new distributions or with patches available in the case you prefer to stick with a non latest version).
But anyway, you don't need root access to do most of what botnets/spambots do, with plain user access is bad enough. And targetted attacks could access most of what the user do without needing to go root neither.
When i partially read the title tought that was about Microsoft and Apple moving us to the Middle Age, but patents and their economic policies are from a bit later than those dates. The least i could imagine that was about those companies getting old.
You should not use organic materials to build those windows. It attract bugs,is perfect for growing up virus and other health threats, and are so easy to break that they dont protect you against thieves. Over that, you need to do permanently big expending on cleaning solutions.
I agree that it alone could give HTML5 a decisive push and even do the final stab to all IE versions previous to 9.0.
Regarding how stupid it could or not be, think that the final goal of most of the web is profit. If you have a compact and probably big group of people so willing to spend money in ipad and associated apps, they could drop a few extra bucks around your site too. After all, web could be seen as just another app for it.
"merely another smartphone", "merely another mp3 player", i think i heard that arguments before. And if well is all hype and little substance, still a lot of people will buy that hype.
At least the articles of the last few days suggest that it real name should be Ipadmodo. And hope that it dont happens here. "Ipaddot, news for ipad users, stuff that matters to Apple" just dont sound right.
He invented also a device that moved him back 19 years. And his bio dont tell about the years he was hidden fearing facing his younger self. So we must thank him for personal computers and that the universe didnt got destroyed by a paradox.
People is too stupid to coordinate to save the environment, i agree with that. Will be even harder to coordinate how to get a global government, unless some major empir... i mean government basically go to global war "for the environment" (not that it is a weaker excuse than most that have been used for previous wars). Maybe a global termonuclear war will solve the environment problem (or at least, the problem around those tiny little creatures that are causing it).
If were a living thing, it would have cancer, several kinds of it, spread all around the body. Botnets, zombies armies, spam, malware sites... a good percent of it is just badly sick. It have several brains too, some of them playing against the health of the whole body by not letting the "blood" flow freely all around, as some governments censoring it because political reasons or lobbying ones.
It have its strengths too, is maturing (hopely), have a good defense system so the sickness spread around don't infect everything, and it evolves fast (even if limited by laws, patents, trolls, etc), getting more personal and localized.
With a bit of luck people, institutions and governments starts to worry about its health, the ecosystem that it is and start working on preserving it as much as the planet we live.
... a metalic robot disguised as human is going door by door killing all the Liu Gongs on the phone guide of Pekin. There is only one John Connor, but countless bunnies in the future.
A webcam (or maybe 2 for 3d gesture recognition) is the only hardware device needed, no special hardware that senses with not very fine resolution where are your fingers and usually not with how much intensity are pressing. Think in Microsoft Surface, or better yet, in Sixth Sense technology. Moving the game to mostly software land gives a good potential for features, at least if cpu is enough.
Genetic inferiority, low iq, and bad look are no deterrent if you have castes or "nobility". Don't need to see to old europe for examples, in america someone with all those disadvantages managed to be the previous president.. In fact, he could had got the darwin award for an entire country.
The patent system have value to society. In this particular case, a negative one. We are advancing and improving too fast and need something that slow the entire civilization down, and with a bit of luck, take us several steps backward, and this kind of patent trolls are one of the best tools for that thing.
Or at least work as a perfect case study to show to even the dumbest (honest) bonehead in governments that there is something very wrong in the system around this.
Not only does massive damage, affect the entire world climate, and those living around them mutates in so strange ways, that the only solution is reform... i mean, euthanasia.
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What about calling it Nemesis? Maybe is not as close as it is supposed to be, but is the best candidate so far.
Why i could not play music while reading a web page/book or taking a photo? Or playing music, updating my gps, and running a pedometer while walking? Or being able to receive skype calls while doing anything else?
Some of the most obvious uses of multitasking were covered by this apple update (mostly around voip, audiostreaming, and gps), but a few is not the same as everything to the core. Maybe the average iphone owner dont want to ssh to their phones, but you always ends finding a situation where you would want that your smartphone do more than a thing at once.
[scratches head while reading your comment] I don't see any advantage on multitasking neither, we humans must be designed against doing more than a thing at once.
Wont be much worse than when mac fans cried in terror when tried to use a 2-button mouse. Fortunately, this "multitasking" on the iphone will be so delimited by apple policies that they wont notice it most of the time.
Local social networking is the next next big thing, taking advantage of location-aware devices like smartphones with gps. There are a lot of stablished players in that field, including google and yahoo. Foursquare is one of the big ones, and the Yahoo move could be more related to some strategic IP involved than buying code or community,
Probably won't be the game, but wiith a bit of luck will the players the ones that will solve those problems. Never is the gun the one that kills and go to jail.
Usually you don't use those linux servers on hosting companies as desktops where you run acrobat reader. And desktops/notebooks/etc are usually more frequently updated (both as using new distributions or with patches available in the case you prefer to stick with a non latest version).
But anyway, you don't need root access to do most of what botnets/spambots do, with plain user access is bad enough. And targetted attacks could access most of what the user do without needing to go root neither.
When i partially read the title tought that was about Microsoft and Apple moving us to the Middle Age, but patents and their economic policies are from a bit later than those dates. The least i could imagine that was about those companies getting old.
You should not use organic materials to build those windows. It attract bugs,is perfect for growing up virus and other health threats, and are so easy to break that they dont protect you against thieves. Over that, you need to do permanently big expending on cleaning solutions.
I agree that it alone could give HTML5 a decisive push and even do the final stab to all IE versions previous to 9.0.
Regarding how stupid it could or not be, think that the final goal of most of the web is profit. If you have a compact and probably big group of people so willing to spend money in ipad and associated apps, they could drop a few extra bucks around your site too. After all, web could be seen as just another app for it.
"merely another smartphone", "merely another mp3 player", i think i heard that arguments before. And if well is all hype and little substance, still a lot of people will buy that hype.
At least the articles of the last few days suggest that it real name should be Ipadmodo. And hope that it dont happens here. "Ipaddot, news for ipad users, stuff that matters to Apple" just dont sound right.
He invented also a device that moved him back 19 years. And his bio dont tell about the years he was hidden fearing facing his younger self. So we must thank him for personal computers and that the universe didnt got destroyed by a paradox.
In the ending (at least of xkcd) still is the command line.
All houses there are crooked
People is too stupid to coordinate to save the environment, i agree with that. Will be even harder to coordinate how to get a global government, unless some major empir... i mean government basically go to global war "for the environment" (not that it is a weaker excuse than most that have been used for previous wars). Maybe a global termonuclear war will solve the environment problem (or at least, the problem around those tiny little creatures that are causing it).
If were a living thing, it would have cancer, several kinds of it, spread all around the body. Botnets, zombies armies, spam, malware sites... a good percent of it is just badly sick. It have several brains too, some of them playing against the health of the whole body by not letting the "blood" flow freely all around, as some governments censoring it because political reasons or lobbying ones.
It have its strengths too, is maturing (hopely), have a good defense system so the sickness spread around don't infect everything, and it evolves fast (even if limited by laws, patents, trolls, etc), getting more personal and localized.
With a bit of luck people, institutions and governments starts to worry about its health, the ecosystem that it is and start working on preserving it as much as the planet we live.
... a metalic robot disguised as human is going door by door killing all the Liu Gongs on the phone guide of Pekin. There is only one John Connor, but countless bunnies in the future.
A webcam (or maybe 2 for 3d gesture recognition) is the only hardware device needed, no special hardware that senses with not very fine resolution where are your fingers and usually not with how much intensity are pressing. Think in Microsoft Surface, or better yet, in Sixth Sense technology. Moving the game to mostly software land gives a good potential for features, at least if cpu is enough.
The one measured there already assimilated 2 more of its kind.
Genetic inferiority, low iq, and bad look are no deterrent if you have castes or "nobility". Don't need to see to old europe for examples, in america someone with all those disadvantages managed to be the previous president.. In fact, he could had got the darwin award for an entire country.
The patent system have value to society. In this particular case, a negative one. We are advancing and improving too fast and need something that slow the entire civilization down, and with a bit of luck, take us several steps backward, and this kind of patent trolls are one of the best tools for that thing.
Or at least work as a perfect case study to show to even the dumbest (honest) bonehead in governments that there is something very wrong in the system around this.
Don't think so. In any moment Bill Gates will tell Miguel "I'm your father" and he will run out of Luke.
Not only does massive damage, affect the entire world climate, and those living around them mutates in so strange ways, that the only solution is reform... i mean, euthanasia.
Everyone knows that Linus is a benevolent dictator.