American's don't think long term. The corporatist culture of "get it down now, for as little expense possible" is like a plague on any notion of process and thought.
Witness the destruction of a perfectly good public transportation system in the 50s. Since the late 70s "oil crisis" cities, states, regions, and the country have been subsidizing massive public transportation initiatives. In fact, there's more stimulus spending for the New England states and rail just announced.
Right now a good portion of the country blame an administration only 12 months old for the entire deficit! Run up during 8 years after the country achieved a surplus. Give the guy a fucking break -- he inherited 2 wars and an imminent depression largely due to money sucking greed whores.
The World is Flat my friend, very flat... welcome!
And here in America (of course all over the world too) we think one human being is actually worth 25 million dollars in a year!
Humans let their big brains fool them.
That is a very good first post. I can't touch it, nor would I want to for that matter.
But the false market of these rocks has basically caused me to steer way clear of them. The woman I married and love doesn't have one from me, the only woman I purchased one for, well, I ran away.
My gosh, Apple has taken so much crap for not including Flash on the iPhone and not supporting Adobe in their desire to have the Flash plugin run on the iPhone (never mind most flash content already sucks, try it without a mouse(!) onHover event).
I use ClickToFlash for Safari, and, all my Firefoxen gets flashblock. I load Flash when I want to load it, not when some ad server or asswipe with an art degree (uh, that's me!) thinks their website menus would be really neato in Flash.
You must be a proud European to think that it was the EU controlling wether or not iTunes had to carry a tune with DRM. Hah!
It was the music publishing industry... period. Apple never wanted anything to do with it in the first place.
You sure can smell it can't you? The smell of troll bait in the morning...
The iPhone is fine, so fine it's sold 10 million units. It works just fine.
Before the iPhone we had the choice between crap and crappy and a decent RIM device. Please don't tell me about your Treo.
After the iPhone we have a few choices of very good, very smart devices.
The post is a rumor which doesn't suit/. as many have pointed out... but most of the replies are trolls who feel it's their duty to point out how much the iPhone sucks, the users are idiots, or if only it ran Linux wouldn't the world be a whole lot better?
I can't wait for the announcement to see what new device or new services are potentially opened up. I don't care to prognosticate but it'd be nice to have open carrier choices among all handsets -- but this has never really been the case. Thanks to innovation and a little more pressure from Google openly stating this as their goal it may happen.
Just like DRM and iTunes where so many needed to blame Apple, call the service shit, call the device shit, it's happening with ATT, carrier lock-in, and the iPhone.
Agreed about the pricing structure... I don't recall what the "view archived article" cost used to be but IIRC it was over a buck. For a researcher OK I guess a few articles here and there would be fine but for the average reader the news is ephemeral -- I very rarely want to pay.99 for an old article I will read once..99 for a song -- you betcha, I'll have years of enjoyment for that one dollar.
I think what's really "Insightful" about @amaupin's post is that the poster might want to consider getting out for a walk and maybe even doing some pushups or some other exercise.
Very interesting points. I agree w/re to how my peers' trackpads are configured and when people mouse around on my machine... everyone is bewildered!
That said, I never want to go back to two buttons and a wheel. I love two finger tapping and all the gestures.
Am considering the Wacom Bamboo as alternate input device on my mac pro rather than the magic mouse.
I also consider a future where you lift the laptop lid and are presented with a blank surface upon which you may input text (pop-up keyboard), manipulate photos, scribble/write with a stylus... all without sullying the viewing screen. Imagine an entire software keyboard and the potential customizations.
Agreed! @Starayo -- I dunno but when I type on a phone's physical keyboard it feels like torture... those tiny keys and since you have to physically press them down it's a much longer motion than the much larger touch sensitive keys of the iPhone.
This post is not interesting, informative, nor very useful.
Everyone knows we can scroll more rapidly by flicking the wheel a little faster.
As for a clean surface touch mouse getting dirty I can only ask what is your point? Hmmm, spill on an electronic input device and what happens? It potentially gets shorted out. But if it's just food the simpler surface of the Magic Mouse is much easier to clean than a wheel mouse with gears and crevices and such where the soda/pizza/goo will become mired.
I'd much rather spill on a Magic Mouse than my Death Adder... the Death Adder would be a nightmare to clean while I'd just wipe off the Magic Mouse much like I do the iPhone/iPod surface.
The other interesting point I see in this comparison is: Apple ships, Microsoft noodles and over complicates. I've been using multi-touch on Apple trackpads and getting basically hooked. When I use another trackpad which doesn't support two and three finger gestures I'm all WTF. Likewise I frequently want to use multi-touch on many interfaces.
Meanwhile, Microsoft gives us The Surface (to the sound of Carmina Burana in the background) and HP and other vendors give us touch monitors, as if we EVER want to reach out vertically and mess up the visual view port into our computing universe. You think a mouse is tricky to keep clean? Just try holding your arm vertical and sullying up your monitor all day with Windows 7 and one of those HPs. It's just the silliest implementation of touch I've seen and is only useful in about.001% of daily computing.
First -- I have no idea how you even pirate an iPhone application... do you just copy the binary out of the iTunes folder? Is it not digitally signed?
Second -- Why would you pirate something costing so little?
Third -- imagine the press Apple will get if they have ever tighter control! Right now bloggers and whiners garner a lot of attention when they complain about big old evil Apple Inc. and the App Store. And these complaints lead to a false hypothesis that the ship is sinking and developers are leaving in droves! All based on a developer leaving a development team at a company and making some public statements, and, a few other developers making public statements after their app is rejected from the AppStore. Apple even seems to communicate to them as to why yet they still stand slack jawed. Just imagine if Apple did something mean to pirates.
I find it quite nice to browse my network neighbor's libraries and my own machines at home.
As for AppStore rejections... arbitrary to us yes. I believe there is communication to the developer's as to why apps are rejected. It's not as if Apple says no and there is not a reason given but that the developer may not agree with the reasoning or how enforcement is applied in one case vs. the other which does seem to indeed to be arbitrary.
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American's don't think long term. The corporatist culture of "get it down now, for as little expense possible" is like a plague on any notion of process and thought.
Witness the destruction of a perfectly good public transportation system in the 50s. Since the late 70s "oil crisis" cities, states, regions, and the country have been subsidizing massive public transportation initiatives. In fact, there's more stimulus spending for the New England states and rail just announced.
Right now a good portion of the country blame an administration only 12 months old for the entire deficit! Run up during 8 years after the country achieved a surplus. Give the guy a fucking break -- he inherited 2 wars and an imminent depression largely due to money sucking greed whores.
Have you SEEN OLED outside? It blows. Have you used an iPhone/Touch screen outside, it's pretty damn readable.
The World is Flat my friend, very flat ... welcome!
And here in America (of course all over the world too) we think one human being is actually worth 25 million dollars in a year!
Humans let their big brains fool them.
That is a very good first post. I can't touch it, nor would I want to for that matter.
But the false market of these rocks has basically caused me to steer way clear of them. The woman I married and love doesn't have one from me, the only woman I purchased one for, well, I ran away.
My gosh, Apple has taken so much crap for not including Flash on the iPhone and not supporting Adobe in their desire to have the Flash plugin run on the iPhone (never mind most flash content already sucks, try it without a mouse(!) onHover event). I use ClickToFlash for Safari, and, all my Firefoxen gets flashblock. I load Flash when I want to load it, not when some ad server or asswipe with an art degree (uh, that's me!) thinks their website menus would be really neato in Flash.
You must be a proud European to think that it was the EU controlling wether or not iTunes had to carry a tune with DRM. Hah! It was the music publishing industry ... period. Apple never wanted anything to do with it in the first place.
I have to admit though, H.264 kind of rocks in quality, but; we need open streams and open formats.
You sure can smell it can't you? The smell of troll bait in the morning ...
/. as many have pointed out ... but most of the replies are trolls who feel it's their duty to point out how much the iPhone sucks, the users are idiots, or if only it ran Linux wouldn't the world be a whole lot better?
The iPhone is fine, so fine it's sold 10 million units. It works just fine.
Before the iPhone we had the choice between crap and crappy and a decent RIM device. Please don't tell me about your Treo.
After the iPhone we have a few choices of very good, very smart devices.
The post is a rumor which doesn't suit
I can't wait for the announcement to see what new device or new services are potentially opened up. I don't care to prognosticate but it'd be nice to have open carrier choices among all handsets -- but this has never really been the case. Thanks to innovation and a little more pressure from Google openly stating this as their goal it may happen. Just like DRM and iTunes where so many needed to blame Apple, call the service shit, call the device shit, it's happening with ATT, carrier lock-in, and the iPhone.
Troll bait hoo-ha-ha!
Uh, tomatoes are a what? A fruit my friend!
Agreed about the pricing structure ... I don't recall what the "view archived article" cost used to be but IIRC it was over a buck. For a researcher OK I guess a few articles here and there would be fine but for the average reader the news is ephemeral -- I very rarely want to pay .99 for an old article I will read once. .99 for a song -- you betcha, I'll have years of enjoyment for that one dollar.
It better be free, as in FREE! After all the stringing along and broken promises we deserve a happy ending.
FWIW -- I've never had a phone battery last 4 days if the phone was in use at all. Not a chocolate bar, Nokia anything, RAZR, or Palm Treo.
not with those background apps sucking processes boy! or that "live wallpaper" -- now that's some shiny battery draining tom foolery!
U2 the band is purportedly worth about 700 million dollars.
I have given them my money, seen them 4 times, bought most of the albums but come on Bono, how much more do you require?????
I think what's really "Insightful" about @amaupin's post is that the poster might want to consider getting out for a walk and maybe even doing some pushups or some other exercise.
Very interesting points. I agree w/re to how my peers' trackpads are configured and when people mouse around on my machine ... everyone is bewildered!
... all without sullying the viewing screen. Imagine an entire software keyboard and the potential customizations.
That said, I never want to go back to two buttons and a wheel. I love two finger tapping and all the gestures.
Am considering the Wacom Bamboo as alternate input device on my mac pro rather than the magic mouse.
I also consider a future where you lift the laptop lid and are presented with a blank surface upon which you may input text (pop-up keyboard), manipulate photos, scribble/write with a stylus
optical mouse !== multi-touch surface mouse .... FWIW!
Agreed! @Starayo -- I dunno but when I type on a phone's physical keyboard it feels like torture ... those tiny keys and since you have to physically press them down it's a much longer motion than the much larger touch sensitive keys of the iPhone.
This post is not interesting, informative, nor very useful.
... the Death Adder would be a nightmare to clean while I'd just wipe off the Magic Mouse much like I do the iPhone/iPod surface.
.001% of daily computing.
Everyone knows we can scroll more rapidly by flicking the wheel a little faster.
As for a clean surface touch mouse getting dirty I can only ask what is your point? Hmmm, spill on an electronic input device and what happens? It potentially gets shorted out. But if it's just food the simpler surface of the Magic Mouse is much easier to clean than a wheel mouse with gears and crevices and such where the soda/pizza/goo will become mired. I'd much rather spill on a Magic Mouse than my Death Adder
The other interesting point I see in this comparison is: Apple ships, Microsoft noodles and over complicates. I've been using multi-touch on Apple trackpads and getting basically hooked. When I use another trackpad which doesn't support two and three finger gestures I'm all WTF. Likewise I frequently want to use multi-touch on many interfaces.
Meanwhile, Microsoft gives us The Surface (to the sound of Carmina Burana in the background) and HP and other vendors give us touch monitors, as if we EVER want to reach out vertically and mess up the visual view port into our computing universe. You think a mouse is tricky to keep clean? Just try holding your arm vertical and sullying up your monitor all day with Windows 7 and one of those HPs. It's just the silliest implementation of touch I've seen and is only useful in about
Real artists ship?
First -- I have no idea how you even pirate an iPhone application ... do you just copy the binary out of the iTunes folder? Is it not digitally signed?
Second -- Why would you pirate something costing so little?
Third -- imagine the press Apple will get if they have ever tighter control! Right now bloggers and whiners garner a lot of attention when they complain about big old evil Apple Inc. and the App Store. And these complaints lead to a false hypothesis that the ship is sinking and developers are leaving in droves! All based on a developer leaving a development team at a company and making some public statements, and, a few other developers making public statements after their app is rejected from the AppStore. Apple even seems to communicate to them as to why yet they still stand slack jawed. Just imagine if Apple did something mean to pirates.
The two posts above are my two suggestions. ssh+rsync and/or dropbox.com
Which is LESS than other models prior to the App Store bucko.
Actually Bonjour is a feature called ZeroConf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeroconf which allows iTunes to discover neighbors and share tunes.
... arbitrary to us yes. I believe there is communication to the developer's as to why apps are rejected. It's not as if Apple says no and there is not a reason given but that the developer may not agree with the reasoning or how enforcement is applied in one case vs. the other which does seem to indeed to be arbitrary.
I find it quite nice to browse my network neighbor's libraries and my own machines at home.
As for AppStore rejections
Well put MVC1977 ...
or rather, I'd LOVE to have a limited vision which created 30 billion in cash. I mean that would just rot now wouldn't it?
You know this how?