Patents have always been a mess and i dont think any groundbreaking inventions can be said to stem from the patenting system.
Uh... the transitor was patented by AT&T. The almost immediate groundbreaking thing developed with them was cheap, portable radios. Companies sold lots of them. Pocket-sized radios were the iPods of the day.
You either love Graffiti 2 or hate it. I too used Graffiti for along time. I always thought some characters were weird, and I never managed to make my letter 'e's such that they'd be recognized as 'e's the first try.
It took me only about a week to switch my brain to using Graffiti 2, but I like it much better. All of the alphabeting characters can be written "normally" and in lower-case. (Grafitti was a weird mix of upper- and lower-case.)
My only complaint about Graffiti 2 is that the "puntuation shift" is too involved what with the leading and trailing upstroke. But overall, I like Graffiti 2 much better.
I was aware of Alpine's plans, but this is the first I've seen a picture of it. I was afraid they'd do something like this: the wire is still there. Ugh. I want no wires. Remeber when cassette decks were standard in cars, then portable CD players came out, then those horrible adapters came out? You know, the ones with a fake cassette and wires all over your front seat? I hated those.
The right solution is to make the iPod slip into a slot for it, preferably with the slot in the head unit itself behind the fold-down faceplate.
I'm entitled to want what I want.
This will be the first, others will come after....
so you want apple... to design something specifically for you rneeds... because you're too lazy to do it yourself, but too damn picky about 'style' to accept an existing solution?
While I doubt that they're exclusively my needs (I really think such a product would sell much better than, say this), my answer is: yep, exactly. And I'm not going to compromise what I want and accept anything less. I'd rather do without than have a half-assed solution. Sorry your standards aren't as high.
next thing you'll be telling me is that people dont want to... take pictures with their phones
I've never seen anybody in public actually using a camera phone as a camera. It's a gimmick. Sure, a few people might use it as a camera, but I doubt it's regularly. Camera phones probably did well in test marketing because people thought they were novel/cool. But once the novelty wears off, the camera will probably see little use.
Do you own/use a camera phone as a camera? Know anybody that does regularly?
The long-term digital music/movies business is not a "one trick pony" -- in the future it's bound to be integrated into every cell phone, PDA, car stereo, home stereo, cable box, and television set.
The thing that companies haven't figured out yet is that nobody wants to watch movies on portable devices with tiny screens. It's an application looking for a market.
I guess the development of an 'iPod' division indicates that Apple is looking at the big picture and not just the trick pony.
If they really wanted to do that, they would have created a "consumer electronics" division.
You can run the wire from that jack to whatever location you want to put the iPod in.
I don't consider a wire hanging elegant. Like I said, it's not up to Apple's standards. If Apple does it, you can be it will be done right (iPod with Bluetooth?).
Apple decreases the emphasis on its Computer division to focus more and more effort on the Music side. The Mac as we know it disappears.
As nice as it is, the iPod is pretty much a one-trick pony. Do you really think Apple could sustain itself on the (relatively small) profit margins of the iPod alone? Additionally, iTunes and the iTMS are presumeably staying in the Mac division. The FireWire sync of one's entire music library fom iTunes is the killer feature of the iPod. The iPod division will still have to work closely with the Mac division.
What I'm hoping will happen with the iPod division will be that they will start making their own iPod accessories. What I really want is a car head unit that has a slot that one just pops the iPod into. Current iPod adapter solutions are all crap and don't measure up to Apple design standards.
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The Western notion of God means the being is all-powerful, morally perfect, and the creator of the universe.
And if somebody removes their religious blinders for just a little while and actually thinks such a statement through, they'll realize that there are some serious problems with it.
Not all search engines are designed or intended for indexing and searching the entire web, and not everybody needs such a search engine. Often, people want to search their stuff: their documents on their local disks, their e-mail, etc.
While writing a local search engine isn't trivial, it's a lot easier than writing a web search engine since all the scaling issues disappear -- I know: I wrote
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I agree, this is a solution looking for a problem, and it's going to die a quick death.
At least this has the potential to be marginally useful unlike that kidney-bean-shaped Discover card with a hinged case. (Remember those?) AFAIK, they were market as being "conversation starters" and didn't claim any real advantage.
A fourth is conditional compilation for assertions or other development aids; again, you can do this more neatly with a simple 'if' statement -- and a decent compiler or runtime will optimise it away when not used.
Suppose I have debugging code in that can be switched on/off at runtime. Furhter suppose that, for production, I want it not even present. Because the 'if' statement tests a variable and not a constant, no compiler can optimize it away.
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It took me only about a week to switch my brain to using Graffiti 2, but I like it much better. All of the alphabeting characters can be written "normally" and in lower-case. (Grafitti was a weird mix of upper- and lower-case.)
My only complaint about Graffiti 2 is that the "puntuation shift" is too involved what with the leading and trailing upstroke. But overall, I like Graffiti 2 much better.
The right solution is to make the iPod slip into a slot for it, preferably with the slot in the head unit itself behind the fold-down faceplate.
I'm entitled to want what I want.
All I can do is hope that somebody gets it right.Do you own/use a camera phone as a camera? Know anybody that does regularly?
Please stop suggesting things. (I never asked for suggestions.) I've already looked into all of them and they all suck.
What I'm hoping will happen with the iPod division will be that they will start making their own iPod accessories. What I really want is a car head unit that has a slot that one just pops the iPod into. Current iPod adapter solutions are all crap and don't measure up to Apple design standards.
Feh... LaTeX is a new-fangled text-markup package. I still write papers using troff, pic, tbl, etc. Seriously.
While writing a local search engine isn't trivial, it's a lot easier than writing a web search engine since all the scaling issues disappear -- I know: I wrote one.
Except that has nothing to do with what I'm talking about.
A preprocessor is still useful in this case.