Another thing about "Recovery". Since Lion is going to be electronic distribution only.... some people are thinking that this browser mode might allow you to reinstall the OS somehow.... either by saving the Lion image to a USB Key or doing some sort of direct install.
I don't know about that one personally.... but I guess it is possible.
1. Guest Access (as has been pointed out here) 2. Recovery. If you hose up your HD it may be possible to troubleshoot using this browser. It actually boots from a "recovery partition"... so your actual OSX installation doesn't even need to work. 3. Finding a stolen / lost machine. The idea is that if someone picks up your machine and tries to use it.... they might use this browser mode for a while allowing "Find my Mac" to phone home and show the coordinates of the machine.
That last one seems dodgy to me.... but that's the rumor going around the Mac sites.
Personally, I think Guest Access is a great idea. If I know I'm going to have people over to my house all evening (maybe to watch football)... I can leave a laptop around in this mode for anyone to use all evening... without fear that they are getting into my personal stuff.
One final note: This is only enabled after downloading the iCloud installer to go with Lion preview.... just in case anyone else out there is trying to figure out how to use it.
My wife's Gmail account got caught up in this! Last weekend I received some spam from _her_ gmail account. We immediately logged in and Google said that it had detected suspicious behavior and made her reset her password. It then showed us the connection log... and everything looked normal except one particular connection: FROM CHINA!
We were pissed.... but it doesn't appear that anything else was compromised (she didn't have anything sensitive in her Gmail account luckily).
Things really seem to be escalating on the 'net lately... from PS Network to Lockheed and now to Gmail. I really have to wonder if China is _actively_ participating at this point...
As someone who spends all day developing a C++ library for massively parallel engineering simulation.... I'm really excited about this announcement. My team has played with some of the early C++0x features in Intel's compiler and GCC and we're definitely going to be adopting a few of them, but can't commit ourselves until they are a bit more universally available.... which now, they hopefully will be.
C++ certainly still has it's strong points over many other languages... especially when you need that cross section of good OO design and performance (like we do). There are many things I love using Python for but there a also a TON of times I need complete control over everything in order to get the most out of the machine I'm using.
Just tell it to use "Left Click" instead... and use three finger dragging to move it around! (Three finger dragging can be enabled in System Prefs->Trackpad if you don't already have it enabled).
It's pretty fun to use in photostreams on Flickr.... all of the pictures swirling around the ball looks awesome.
Also... if you use it on Google Maps you can kind of actually play a game of Katamari! It really will pick up the map tiles (after it gets large enough) seems to grow extremely fast at that point though.... but I haven't played with the parameters too much yet.
I've been running it with the max number of items with Safari 5.0.3 on a 17" MBP without any trouble at all...
"Gee, when i'm 104 years old i'll finally be able to read that thing i always wanted to!"
Or you could, maybe, do some work for someone and they will give you these vouchers we call "money" that you can trade for the right to read someone else's work called a book...
You might have been able to power it off a hand-crank.... but how did you read it in the dark;-)
This is what I always think when I hear people say that Kindles are so much easier to read on than iPads.... they're only easier in perfectly lighted places... and there are TONS of others where an iPad is easier to read (in bed with lights off, on a train, on the subway, on an overnight international flight, in the back of a car at night, etc... etc...)
I'm a fairly serious amateur photographer (took well over 10,000 photos last year all around the globe)... and here's what I do.
1. Use a Mac with Time Machine and an external HD (if that's not an option I'm sure you can find a backup solution for windows that is similar). With Time Machine I always have at least one backup of every photo that hits my HD. Further, this also backs up my Lightroom database files, which if you are shooting in RAW are almost just as important!
2. Backup offsite. This is another external HD that I bring home periodically and plug in and do a manual copy to it. You can keep it at work, at a friend's house, at a family member's house... wherever.
3. Backup to the web. For me this is Flickr. I pay the yearly fee (don't remember what it is) and it gives you unlimited uploads and storage of the full size images. All of my finished and worked up photos go here. It's not a complete and perfect backup (like using a web backup service would give me because I can't upload the RAW files to Flickr).... but it gives a huge leg up on that "My house just burned down therefor I lost every photo" scenario.
I wonder what happens if someone steals your phone (or just if a roommate picks it up).... can they then get into your Facebook account by requesting a one-time password?
I'm sure they've thought of this trivial case... but I wonder how they're going to handle it.
Spare us the nationalism. The US was never under threat. Or you mean your freedom to drive oil-guzzling SUVs? I don't think the military can claim higher moral ground than Verizon.
(reread) Oh... you were being ironic. sorry:)
Never under threat... oh other than planes running into buildings, killing thousands.... along with however many plots have been foiled without us even knowing about it.
Just thought I would point out that there are THOUSANDS of _free_ (as in beer) apps in the App Store....
Also... you can program your own apps for your own iDevice as well. Anyone that registers and downloads XCode can make apps that they can use and distribute (in a limited way) to friends.
Finally... I'm not into the "hinged tablet" for one reason: how do you hold it in one hand and interact with it with the other? With a smallish book you can hold it in the middle in a somewhat awkward way... but for something substantial like two tablets tied together? I just don't see it. I suppose you could fold one half behind the other... but now it's twice as thick.
I don't think people have really thought about what it means to have to tablets tied together in that way...
Good for you. Better pray to Jobs that Apple doesn't decide to spontaneously remove what you want, even delete it from your device. Yes, they can do that.
Note that they might theoretically have this capability... but I've never seen it invoked. Yes... they _do_ remove apps from the store... but if you already own that app you get to keep it forever. They don't yank it off your computer or your device.
We use a revision control system (like subversion for instance) for storing the EXACT state of everything that went into generating a result... and just don't store the result.
Any time we need to pull something back up we can always get the specific revision out of the repository and recreate the result.
I've never understood this bit myself. I stare at a backlit computer screen for upwards of 9 to 10 hours a day... how is a couple of hours of reading on an iPad going to do any worse?
I currently use my iPhone for HOURS every night. I read books... I surf the net... I play games... I check and write email. All of this on a tiny backlit screen that I have to hold fairly close to my face. The iPad is going to be a 1000 times better at all of those things.
I'm not alone in this either... I know tons of people with iPhones that use them constantly and I never hear anyone complain about the "backlit screen hurting my eyes"...
Further... I _want_ a backlit screen... so I can read it in places that don't have great light... like dark airplanes and subway tunnels. Like in bed with the lights off at night so my wife can sleep. And in a ton of other places that don't suit a reflective screen.
I'm convinced that this is a myth. I hope Mythbusters picks it up and runs with it sometime.
If you're looking to connect a camera with that SDCARD slot... that is possible... see the bottom of this page: http://www.apple.com/ipad/specs/
But if you were looking to expand the storage space of the device itself... sadly that's not possible... although certain applications may be able to use the SDCARD slot to store things.... don't know.
- Price - Yes! Compared to an E-Reader like a Kindle DX for the same price... I'll take a device that can do hundreds of things well over a device that can only do one.
- Battery Life - Yes! It gets 10 hours of battery... what more could you want from a device that does so much?
- Connectivity - Yes! Wifi and 3G (admittedly expensive). Also.. you can connect a camera to it using USB or SDCARD (bottom of this page: http://www.apple.com/ipad/specs/ )
- Usability - Definitely! Millions of people already intuitively know how to use one. Navigation is simple... interacting is simple. How would you make it more usable... and what the hell is a "test editor"?
- Multitasking - No. I agree here... I hope it comes in OS 4.0... but it's not a show stopper for millions of people currently using iPhone OS devices....
My wife and I thought it was well done as well. We've also recently gone to Paris... and it brought back good memories for us.
I think it did a beautiful job of showing the service off... and reminding people that Google still works and is extremely efficient. It didn't need to be all in your face and loud... unlike other search engine adds. (Yaaaaaaaaaaahooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
I'm sure it will get ripped apart here on Slashdot... but it definitely wasn't aimed at the Geek crowd.
Try using actual Maple instead of using it through Matlab. It has a pretty awesome GUI interface that allows you to enter equations either visually (like put down an integral symbol and fill out the fields) or using the command syntax...
But either way it beautifully renders your math so it looks just like it does on paper. This is the reason I always reach for Maple over any other calculator.
Ah - but this is only if you can see the tabs.... which you might not be able to do if there is only one tab open (and you don't have tabs always being displayed since it's a waste of space).
You are technically correct though.
I just find the tab reattachment system in Chrome to be quite a bit more elegant.
Out of all of those plugins... the one I thought I would miss the most is Download Statusbar... but as it turns out Stacks mostly serve the same purpose. Being able to expand my Download Stack and see the progress of all of my currently downloading files (displayed as a moving progress bar _in_ the file icon itself no less!) mostly does the job that Download Statusbar used to...
The other thing that Statusbar was good for was double clicking files after they had finished downloading... so you didn't have to go hunt down your Download folder and the file and open it. Again... the Download Stack does this job (and others like dragging that downloaded file onto a USB drive) very well.
I definitely like Firefox... but I've also found that I don't miss it as much (or at all) like I thought I would...
Slashdot Mirror
Another thing about "Recovery". Since Lion is going to be electronic distribution only.... some people are thinking that this browser mode might allow you to reinstall the OS somehow.... either by saving the Lion image to a USB Key or doing some sort of direct install.
I don't know about that one personally.... but I guess it is possible.
Actually... Apple did mention as part of "Find My Mac":
http://www.macrumors.com/2011/06/07/os-x-lion-developer-preview-4-adds-find-my-mac/
The idea has three purposes:
1. Guest Access (as has been pointed out here)
2. Recovery. If you hose up your HD it may be possible to troubleshoot using this browser. It actually boots from a "recovery partition"... so your actual OSX installation doesn't even need to work.
3. Finding a stolen / lost machine. The idea is that if someone picks up your machine and tries to use it.... they might use this browser mode for a while allowing "Find my Mac" to phone home and show the coordinates of the machine.
That last one seems dodgy to me.... but that's the rumor going around the Mac sites.
Personally, I think Guest Access is a great idea. If I know I'm going to have people over to my house all evening (maybe to watch football)... I can leave a laptop around in this mode for anyone to use all evening... without fear that they are getting into my personal stuff.
One final note: This is only enabled after downloading the iCloud installer to go with Lion preview.... just in case anyone else out there is trying to figure out how to use it.
My wife's Gmail account got caught up in this! Last weekend I received some spam from _her_ gmail account. We immediately logged in and Google said that it had detected suspicious behavior and made her reset her password. It then showed us the connection log... and everything looked normal except one particular connection: FROM CHINA!
We were pissed.... but it doesn't appear that anything else was compromised (she didn't have anything sensitive in her Gmail account luckily).
Things really seem to be escalating on the 'net lately... from PS Network to Lockheed and now to Gmail. I really have to wonder if China is _actively_ participating at this point...
As someone who spends all day developing a C++ library for massively parallel engineering simulation.... I'm really excited about this announcement. My team has played with some of the early C++0x features in Intel's compiler and GCC and we're definitely going to be adopting a few of them, but can't commit ourselves until they are a bit more universally available.... which now, they hopefully will be.
C++ certainly still has it's strong points over many other languages... especially when you need that cross section of good OO design and performance (like we do). There are many things I love using Python for but there a also a TON of times I need complete control over everything in order to get the most out of the machine I'm using.
Just tell it to use "Left Click" instead... and use three finger dragging to move it around! (Three finger dragging can be enabled in System Prefs->Trackpad if you don't already have it enabled).
It's pretty fun to use in photostreams on Flickr.... all of the pictures swirling around the ball looks awesome.
Also... if you use it on Google Maps you can kind of actually play a game of Katamari! It really will pick up the map tiles (after it gets large enough) seems to grow extremely fast at that point though.... but I haven't played with the parameters too much yet.
I've been running it with the max number of items with Safari 5.0.3 on a 17" MBP without any trouble at all...
Really sweet hack!
"Gee, when i'm 104 years old i'll finally be able to read that thing i always wanted to!"
Or you could, maybe, do some work for someone and they will give you these vouchers we call "money" that you can trade for the right to read someone else's work called a book...
Just one option.
You might have been able to power it off a hand-crank.... but how did you read it in the dark ;-)
This is what I always think when I hear people say that Kindles are so much easier to read on than iPads.... they're only easier in perfectly lighted places... and there are TONS of others where an iPad is easier to read (in bed with lights off, on a train, on the subway, on an overnight international flight, in the back of a car at night, etc... etc...)
Are you being sarcastic? I hope so! But just in case I recommend: http://www.flickr.com/
I'm a fairly serious amateur photographer (took well over 10,000 photos last year all around the globe)... and here's what I do.
1. Use a Mac with Time Machine and an external HD (if that's not an option I'm sure you can find a backup solution for windows that is similar). With Time Machine I always have at least one backup of every photo that hits my HD. Further, this also backs up my Lightroom database files, which if you are shooting in RAW are almost just as important!
2. Backup offsite. This is another external HD that I bring home periodically and plug in and do a manual copy to it. You can keep it at work, at a friend's house, at a family member's house... wherever.
3. Backup to the web. For me this is Flickr. I pay the yearly fee (don't remember what it is) and it gives you unlimited uploads and storage of the full size images. All of my finished and worked up photos go here. It's not a complete and perfect backup (like using a web backup service would give me because I can't upload the RAW files to Flickr).... but it gives a huge leg up on that "My house just burned down therefor I lost every photo" scenario.
Just my $0.02
What you want is Qt... it does all of this in native C++ (and there are binding for python and ruby if you want to go that route):
http://qt.nokia.com/products/
I wonder what happens if someone steals your phone (or just if a roommate picks it up).... can they then get into your Facebook account by requesting a one-time password?
I'm sure they've thought of this trivial case... but I wonder how they're going to handle it.
Spare us the nationalism. The US was never under threat. Or you mean your freedom to drive oil-guzzling SUVs?
I don't think the military can claim higher moral ground than Verizon.
(reread) Oh ... you were being ironic. sorry :)
Never under threat... oh other than planes running into buildings, killing thousands.... along with however many plots have been foiled without us even knowing about it.
That's a pretty big oversight, dude.
Micro SIM is going to be in use in just a couple of weeks when the 3G iPad comes out....
Just thought I would point out that there are THOUSANDS of _free_ (as in beer) apps in the App Store....
Also... you can program your own apps for your own iDevice as well. Anyone that registers and downloads XCode can make apps that they can use and distribute (in a limited way) to friends.
Finally... I'm not into the "hinged tablet" for one reason: how do you hold it in one hand and interact with it with the other? With a smallish book you can hold it in the middle in a somewhat awkward way... but for something substantial like two tablets tied together? I just don't see it. I suppose you could fold one half behind the other... but now it's twice as thick.
I don't think people have really thought about what it means to have to tablets tied together in that way...
Good for you. Better pray to Jobs that Apple doesn't decide to spontaneously remove what you want, even delete it from your device. Yes, they can do that.
Note that they might theoretically have this capability... but I've never seen it invoked. Yes... they _do_ remove apps from the store... but if you already own that app you get to keep it forever. They don't yank it off your computer or your device.
Friedmud
This is what we do around here...
We use a revision control system (like subversion for instance) for storing the EXACT state of everything that went into generating a result... and just don't store the result.
Any time we need to pull something back up we can always get the specific revision out of the repository and recreate the result.
Just do remember to backup your RCS repository ;-)
I've never understood this bit myself. I stare at a backlit computer screen for upwards of 9 to 10 hours a day... how is a couple of hours of reading on an iPad going to do any worse?
I currently use my iPhone for HOURS every night. I read books... I surf the net... I play games... I check and write email. All of this on a tiny backlit screen that I have to hold fairly close to my face. The iPad is going to be a 1000 times better at all of those things.
I'm not alone in this either... I know tons of people with iPhones that use them constantly and I never hear anyone complain about the "backlit screen hurting my eyes"...
Further... I _want_ a backlit screen... so I can read it in places that don't have great light... like dark airplanes and subway tunnels. Like in bed with the lights off at night so my wife can sleep. And in a ton of other places that don't suit a reflective screen.
I'm convinced that this is a myth. I hope Mythbusters picks it up and runs with it sometime.
If you're looking to connect a camera with that SDCARD slot... that is possible... see the bottom of this page: http://www.apple.com/ipad/specs/
But if you were looking to expand the storage space of the device itself... sadly that's not possible... although certain applications may be able to use the SDCARD slot to store things.... don't know.
- Price - Yes! Compared to an E-Reader like a Kindle DX for the same price... I'll take a device that can do hundreds of things well over a device that can only do one.
- Battery Life - Yes! It gets 10 hours of battery... what more could you want from a device that does so much?
- Connectivity - Yes! Wifi and 3G (admittedly expensive). Also.. you can connect a camera to it using USB or SDCARD (bottom of this page: http://www.apple.com/ipad/specs/ )
- Usability - Definitely! Millions of people already intuitively know how to use one. Navigation is simple... interacting is simple. How would you make it more usable... and what the hell is a "test editor"?
- Multitasking - No. I agree here... I hope it comes in OS 4.0... but it's not a show stopper for millions of people currently using iPhone OS devices....
You can connect a camera to the iPad using either USB or SDCARD. Look at the bottom of this page: http://www.apple.com/ipad/specs/
My wife and I thought it was well done as well. We've also recently gone to Paris... and it brought back good memories for us.
I think it did a beautiful job of showing the service off... and reminding people that Google still works and is extremely efficient. It didn't need to be all in your face and loud... unlike other search engine adds. (Yaaaaaaaaaaahooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
I'm sure it will get ripped apart here on Slashdot... but it definitely wasn't aimed at the Geek crowd.
Try using actual Maple instead of using it through Matlab. It has a pretty awesome GUI interface that allows you to enter equations either visually (like put down an integral symbol and fill out the fields) or using the command syntax...
But either way it beautifully renders your math so it looks just like it does on paper. This is the reason I always reach for Maple over any other calculator.
Ah - but this is only if you can see the tabs.... which you might not be able to do if there is only one tab open (and you don't have tabs always being displayed since it's a waste of space).
You are technically correct though.
I just find the tab reattachment system in Chrome to be quite a bit more elegant.
Out of all of those plugins... the one I thought I would miss the most is Download Statusbar... but as it turns out Stacks mostly serve the same purpose. Being able to expand my Download Stack and see the progress of all of my currently downloading files (displayed as a moving progress bar _in_ the file icon itself no less!) mostly does the job that Download Statusbar used to...
The other thing that Statusbar was good for was double clicking files after they had finished downloading... so you didn't have to go hunt down your Download folder and the file and open it. Again... the Download Stack does this job (and others like dragging that downloaded file onto a USB drive) very well.
I definitely like Firefox... but I've also found that I don't miss it as much (or at all) like I thought I would...