Seriously, I look stupid enough holding a normal phone to my ear.
I just don't see the value of a larger iPod touch.
actually this got me thinking of a return to the original futurizations of a traditional home phone: - By using a bluetooth headset can work as traditional phone - Coupling it with a front or swiveling webcam, could bring videophone - As a low powered computer can access web and apps. - Can even incorporate wireless control over smart home devices - lights, appliances, etc. - more size = more storage capacity, allowing it to hold the average user's entire media inventory, which could in turn be broadcast locally via dock or wirelessly depending on the setup
Thus becoming the defacto must-have home appliance. This may not be their current goal, but definitely my own wish - oh and a pony!
If banks really wanted two-way authentication to work properly, they'd use a hardware device (USB-key) that had to be present in the machine to login to your account. The hardware device would be implemented in such a way to make it impossible to copy the functionality of it without physical access to it.
curiously enough, banks in mexico provide customers with either USB dongles, or them dingy's with the numbers that change. For the most part i hate the hoops one has to jump through and inconvenience about such systems, and the libertarian in me thinks that restrictions should increase in proportion to actual threats rather than perceived ones. So I'm torn between recognizing that robust security systems should be in place, and the ease of use that i've come to enjoy. Sadly i know which way the wind blows...and it blows!
"Anyone know anybody who bought Vista except as bundled with hardware?" I guess mac users that needed it so that IT at work would let them keep their puter...tho i personally would suggest XP. I'd "buy" the old lisence off someone that downgraded to Vista. I wonder if they keep track of sales to Mac users.
Does this mean that in France one can't take candid street photographs as one can in the US, and publish such photos? As an amateur photographer I was pleased to read in the NYT not long ago about a man wining a case against a Rabbi objecting to his portrait (taken in a manhattan street) being shown at a photo exhibition...and tho i usually favor privacy laws, there was something i liked about the freedom to photograph public spaces and the people within it i found acceptable - particularly for artistic purposes. Is the distinction in France particularly because of the intended purpose not being for art but for a form of commerce? Is there a similar distinction in US law? -F-
As a longtime Flash developer i can also tell you that wether u use it for animation, GUIs or for basic web apps, the primary appeal to people like me was that Macromedia created avery easy to learn authoring environment. And even as the application grew to include programming and such, its concept of timeline, tweens, movieclips, etc. was far simpler to learn than the alternatives - including MM Director. To me that is the core strength of Flash. So whoever attempts to compete should take that into consideration. Before Adobe acquired MM they failed miserably at competing because they had a very clunky authoring environment (at least as noted by most of my developer peers at the time)
Don't apoligize for the metric system...it's the "english", "imperial", or whatever-you-may-call- it system that sucks! It is a burden to progress just because it'd be culturaly unacceptable to part from it...
It's the scientists that surpize me. I can't remember anything other than metric since my freshmen Aerospace Eng courses. How could they even consider advanced projectile mathematics with other units?
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Seriously, I look stupid enough holding a normal phone to my ear.
I just don't see the value of a larger iPod touch.
actually this got me thinking of a return to the original futurizations of a traditional home phone:
- By using a bluetooth headset can work as traditional phone
- Coupling it with a front or swiveling webcam, could bring videophone
- As a low powered computer can access web and apps.
- Can even incorporate wireless control over smart home devices - lights, appliances, etc.
- more size = more storage capacity, allowing it to hold the average user's entire media inventory, which could in turn be broadcast locally via dock or wirelessly depending on the setup
Thus becoming the defacto must-have home appliance. This may not be their current goal, but definitely my own wish - oh and a pony!
Speculation is not news and should not be on /.. The are enough Apple-centered websites with discussions like this.
it is NOT news, that's why its here and not on...uhm...digg! - and there is another thread already for stating the obvious
Dec 21, 2012
in that case, over a century to go:
21:12:2112 (euro notation)
-F-
If banks really wanted two-way authentication to work properly, they'd use a hardware device (USB-key) that had to be present in the machine to login to your account. The hardware device would be implemented in such a way to make it impossible to copy the functionality of it without physical access to it.
curiously enough, banks in mexico provide customers with either USB dongles, or them dingy's with the numbers that change. For the most part i hate the hoops one has to jump through and inconvenience about such systems, and the libertarian in me thinks that restrictions should increase in proportion to actual threats rather than perceived ones. So I'm torn between recognizing that robust security systems should be in place, and the ease of use that i've come to enjoy. Sadly i know which way the wind blows...and it blows!
"Anyone know anybody who bought Vista except as bundled with hardware?"
I guess mac users that needed it so that IT at work would let them keep their puter...tho i personally would suggest XP. I'd "buy" the old lisence off someone that downgraded to Vista.
I wonder if they keep track of sales to Mac users.
Does this mean that in France one can't take candid street photographs as one can in the US, and publish such photos? As an amateur photographer I was pleased to read in the NYT not long ago about a man wining a case against a Rabbi objecting to his portrait (taken in a manhattan street) being shown at a photo exhibition...and tho i usually favor privacy laws, there was something i liked about the freedom to photograph public spaces and the people within it i found acceptable - particularly for artistic purposes. Is the distinction in France particularly because of the intended purpose not being for art but for a form of commerce? Is there a similar distinction in US law?
-F-
As a longtime Flash developer i can also tell you that wether u use it for animation, GUIs or for basic web apps, the primary appeal to people like me was that Macromedia created avery easy to learn authoring environment. And even as the application grew to include programming and such, its concept of timeline, tweens, movieclips, etc. was far simpler to learn than the alternatives - including MM Director. To me that is the core strength of Flash. So whoever attempts to compete should take that into consideration. Before Adobe acquired MM they failed miserably at competing because they had a very clunky authoring environment (at least as noted by most of my developer peers at the time)
Don't apoligize for the metric system...it's the "english", "imperial", or whatever-you-may-call- it system that sucks! It is a burden to progress just because it'd be culturaly unacceptable to part from it...
It's the scientists that surpize me. I can't remember anything other than metric since my freshmen Aerospace Eng courses. How could they even consider advanced projectile mathematics with other units?