I bet you it does - but the sad thing is it'll probably be like the Iphone. Even if it only has a small market share, we'll still be getting daily free advertising and hype from it in the media, and people will be deluded enough to think it's the market leader, and thus think they were right.
It's a self-fulfilling prophecy - it'll be hyped, because of the hype.
The Amiga hasn't had Flash for years, long before Apple thought of this "innovation". Therefore, the Amiga deserves the credit for reshaping the Internet!
(Seriously - whatever fucked up justification for missing features will they come up with next? I thought it's bad enough to try to twist missing features into a positive, but now they're deluded enough to claim that the Ipad is now the saviour of the Internet?)
My 5800 beats an Iphone hands down, at half the price. And here's the thing - whatever features the Iphone has that mine doesn't, I'm just going to play the same trick and say "But why would I need that", followed by "Actually, by not having this feature, I'm reshaping the Internet!!!"
It's the new form of debating. Don't worry about facts or evidence - just assert that your favourite product is reshaping the Internet!!!.
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Really? If someone handed you an iPhone today, you couldn't get any use out of it? Even if you don't ever install a single application on it and only use it with default iphone OS software, it's a perfectly serviceable: phone, email device, web browser, music & video player, text messaging device, calendar, pocket camera, gps-enabled mapping device, weather forecaster, voice memo recorder, notepad, clock, and calculator.
I wouldn't get any use out of it, because I already have a perfectly functional phone (a 5800). Even compared to my 5 year old dirt cheap V980, I'd miss things like copy/paste, MMS and ability to install whatever apps I liked. He did say "geeks" and not "person who's never owned a mobile phone":)
It's okay, you can buy one, you know. Nobody with a life thinks less of someone because of the computer or phone they use.
Why on earth would I want to buy an Apple phone? I don't care what phone people use. But there are people who are always on about the Iphone being the best phone ever, and how everyone uses them. Has there once been an article on the 5800, at all? Yet we get daily Iphone and Ipad Slashvertisements. It's fair game therefore to criticise those products. I don't care what people use, but those people who always talk about their Iphone when they use it, or go on about how wonderful they think it is? Or the media going on about how wonderful the Istale, Ipad, or whatever it's called this week, is allegedly going to be? They certainly seem to care about what people use.
Neither is being a close second place in US smart phone market share. Yeah sure, Nokia ships boatloads of cell phones and the smart phone market gets lost in that.
Ah yes, the classic pro-Apple trick of only looking at the ill-defined "smartphone" market. Can you give me a definition that includes the original Iphone, but doesn't include most feature phones? Yes, if you solely look at the US (I'm not in the US, there is a world outside of it, you know), and then look at the hand-picked companies of Apple, Google and RIM, it's great that Apple are number 2. But in the real world, where we look at all companies rather than just an arbritrary selection, they're after Nokia, LG, Samsung, Motorola, RIM - with only Google that they're beating.
But even if we accept that restricted market, Nokia are still strong at 40% - so the fact that they ship a boatload of cheaper phones is irrelevant, they're still the leader at the high end too.
If you count all the microprocessors in the world then Microsoft is pretty "niche" as well.
MS don't make microprocessors.
You also don't seem to know the definition of the term "vaporware."
Product that's been hyped and rumoured for 5 years, and has been labelled vaporware. Yep, the Ipad counts. Just because a product might be finally released doesn't stop it being vaporware (e.g., if DNF was released tomorrow, it wouldn't change a thing; Windows 2000 was labelled vaporware by Wired IIRC, even though it was finally released).
And your reply to my other post suggests you don't know what "multitouch" means.
Explain? I know what multitouch is. "Why would I need that?" - that's the typical Iphone user reply, when being told one of the many features that the Iphone lacks, isn't it? What new version of "multitouch" has the latest Iphone bought us, that wasn't around in 2007?
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I think you've got it backwards. The Slashdot crew claims that the Iphone is the most successful phone ever, yet the market reality is that Apple are one of the least successful companies in the mobile market (after Nokia, LG, Samsung, Motorola, RIM etc).
And the same Slashdot crew that greeted the first iPod with "No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame."?
That was one person, not a crew. And yes, why is his opinion invalid? Popularity doesn't mean a product isn't lame - or are you telling me that Windows and IE are the best products ever?
And the same techno-pundits who are, once again, predicting the spectacular failure of a new device which, by all indications, appears to be headed for a spectacularly successful product launch?
Again, you've got it backwards. All I see is endless amounts of hype and free advertising over a vaporware product, that in the real world, no one gives a shit about.
Yeah, I'm sure Steve Jobs is sweating bullets over the opinions of some AC's here at Slashdot.
*snort* And obviously the Ipad is going to be market leader, because you say so. The sad thing is that even if reality proves me right, like the Iphone, you'll be here in a year's time nonetheless insisting that the Ipad is market leader. Facts don't actually matter anymore. Meanwhile, I'm going to go back to my Amiga, which is the number one selling computer.
Multitouch is old news. First of all it's not the be all and end all anyway - I don't need multitouch on my 5800 (I'd rather have the advantages of a resistive screen), just as Iphone users say they don't need the large number of basic features that the Iphone lacks, but my 5800 and every other phone has.
But even if we concede it as something useful, that was only something new in 2007, in the original Iphone - which itself lacked loads of other basic features that even cheap phones had, and wasn't even a smartphone. It's 2010 - 2007 is old news, and loads of phones offer multitouch. What is offered by today's Apple phones?
I don't care that they've sold millions - the point you're missing is that there are other companies who have sold millions more. You do realise that the mobile market is measured in the billions? Nokia have 40% of the mobile market (with the remainder taken up by LG, Samsung, Motorola, RIM - Apple aren't even on the map). Microsoft have 90+% of the desktop market. And as for the tablet market, the Ipad is still vaporware.
If you reply, please have the decency to understand basic facts like market share. The Amiga sold millions, but that doesn't mean it's the market leader anymore.
not only have you completely missed the point, but the next 10 years of computer industry evolution are going to be very confusing for you, as the mainstream market increasingly ignores the tech specs that geeks obsess over in favor of user experience considerations that are far more relevant to normal users.
Where to start?
1. Please drop the "geeks versus normal users" argument. The point you are missing is that it's only among geeks that there is the obsession. Among normal people, they (Macs, Iphones, and the Ipad) are niche products. Yes, there are normal users who only care about being hip, but plenty of normal users do care about features too - if you really think otherwise, then you are the one suffering from a typical geek fallacy. (Even if they do care about being hip, there's still no reason to choose this device over netbooks, phones or other tablets.)
2. His argument is not against tablets, but the Ipad. Yes, he picked netbooks as an argument, but there are other tablets too. I'm sure that tablets will become more common in the next 10 years, but only when they are cheaper than the more functional netbooks - it won't be because of Apple.
3. Ah yes, like someone else in this thread, you adopt the classic Apple tactic of talking in meaningless terms of "user experience considerations". Let's have some evidence of what you mean? Otherwise, my response is:
"Oh, you're going to find the next 10 years very confusing if you think that the Ipad is going to become more popular than anything else. People are much more interested in user experience, which is better provided by other products, at a lower price".
See? Like you, I asserted, without making any arguments for my point of view. We might as well say "Ipad sucks! No, Ipad rules!" Do I get my +5 mods now?
I would say, let's see how well it's sold in a year's time. But if the Iphone is anything to go buy, the sad fact is that even if it's a niche product in the market, you'll still be here talking as if they're the market leader.
Ah yes, the classic Apple trick - throw about ill-defined terms like "user experience", but don't actually argue your case or explain why it's better.
Period.
Yes indeed, period - you don't actually have an argument, you stop right there. Although wait, actually you still carrry on:
Nobody (*) cares that a netbook has more storage,
They're selling far more than an Ipad.
Unless it has the same user experience it's not a competitor
They all do - phones, netbooks, other tablets.
and nothing on the market so far has even close to the same user experience.
Evidence for this assertion? Otherwise I might as well claim that DNF (another yet to be released overhyped vaporware product) is the best game ever, because nothing else has the same "user experience".
Plus there are other tablets around anyway, if one wants that format. They're just not being given the free advertising by Slashdot or the rest of the media.
It's going to be a throwback to the 80s. Nevermind the minaturisation of the last decade - Apple fans love their products, they want everyone to know they use them, so what good is making Ipods and Iphones small, where no one can see the shiny Apple logo unless they wave it around in people's faces? No, we're now going to see Ipad users walking around, carrying their Ipads on their shoulders, blasting out music and showing how hip they are, whilst all the business yuppies will be holding their brick-sided Ipad to their ears to conduct the latest business deals.
My 5800 supports multitasking, and the battery lasts for days. I don't have the battery life problems that I hear Iphone users complaining about. Oh, and it was half the price of an Iphone, too.
I don't think Slashdot has ever had a single story for this phone, from the world market leader in mobile phones - in contrast with the daily Iphone stories. But then this has long stopped being a place to come for news on technology. Now it's coverage of consumer appliances from Apple - just look at this story, with the first post trying to defend it by comparing it to dishwashers, for heaven's sakes...
I was assuming this story is an April Fool's - surely the Istale or whatever it is being rumoured to be called this week hasn't finally been released, after 5 years of hype and rumour?
I look forward to the story about DNF being released...
But we don't get stories about microwaves and dishwashers on Slashdot. What is this - News for Nerds, or Consumer Product Weekly?
(Of course, I know damn well that if Apple were to release a dishwasher, we'd start getting daily Slashdot stories about it, with people and the media labelling it a "Washing Up Bowl Killer" and going "Apple have revolutionised the market" even before it's released, and even when it's only got 1% of the market, claiming "It doesn't matter that this technology existed already, because no one actually used it before Apple came along, honest". Stories about dishwashers from the market leaders would be ignored - the only coverage of other companies would be if Google decided to release one, which would included to make Apple's small share look better.)
Firstly, that's a straw man. Companies use generalised data all the time for marketing purposes. And actually, I'd say you're wrong - typically the response to "privacy" rights over public material is that people have to right to privacy - especially if it's on Facebook!
Secondly, these aren't mutually exclusive. Perhaps some people might have objected to this guy doing what he's doing, but that doesn't mean that it's right to claim he's bound by some TOS.
But hey, since arguing against straw men is an easy way to get karma, allow me to say actually, you're wrong, copyright infringement isn't stealing, and Linux is better than Windows.
If you measured by volume, it wouldn't surprise me if most material transferred on the Internet full stop was infringing material, not just on the p2p search engines. Are we going to shut down Google and the ISPs then?
Google's intention is completely different and they act on removal notices.
So is IsoHunt willing to respond to specific removal notices? Here they're being told to remove everything - are you telling me that Google would comply to a blanket "remove everything that points to an infringing torrent or file"? And that an ISP would also be able to comply to a blanket "stop transferring anything that's being pirated"?
I've seen that video before, and sorry, but it's a load of rubbish - there is no mathematical or scientific basis to what he talks about above 4 dimensions.
The many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics is just an interpretation - quantum theory does not tell us that it is true. But even if it was true, it makes no sense to call this the 5th dimension. Yes, colloquially in sci-fis, we call in "travelling to another dimension" when people travel to parallel universes, but mathematically it makes no sense to call it a dimension (which implies a continuum - if the universe splits into two, what's the universe halfway between them in this 5th dimension?)
To then say that the 6th dimension is simply magically jumping through this 5th dimension makes no sense at all. From this point onwards, there isn't even any vague relevance to science - he's just making it up as he goes along.
And lastly, this has nothing to do with the dimensions of string theory - if these exist, these would be additional spatial dimensions, not the nonsense that he's made up.
The frustrating thing is that the video is presented in a friendly way that makes it seem convincing - no doubt the reason why it's been propagated around the web, and you got modded up for it.
The iPhone's refusal to adopt Flash, coupled with its huge popularity
*heh* Yes, I'm sure that 5% of the phone market[*], let alone the comparison to people using netbooks, laptops and desktops, is really responsible for the change.
But assuming you're right for a moment, can I also make a request that the next Iphone:
* Refuses to load any web page that isn't 100% correctly written. * Only runs open source programs. * Stops supporting native programs, which just further fragments the market, when cross-platform support would be much preferred.
All that is surely a good thing - we get the changes made, whilst my phone doesn't lose any features in the meantime, as I'm not an Apple phone user.
[*] Before anyone replies, or mods me down for stating the facts, have the decency to look up the basic market figures.
If Microsoft's new mobile OS doesn't allow multitasking, then that's poor too. And I have to laugh - given how much Windows Mobile is hated around here, especially by Iphone fans, I see it's now being hailed as a good example of a mobile OS?
No, personally I'm doing okay with Nokia, like 40% of the market.
I can get away with multitasking on my 5800. No one's claiming it's needed - I mean, nothing's needed on a phone, anyway. If you only want basic necessities, you can do with a cheap $50 phone. But multitasking is very useful to have on a 5800, and if I was paying twice the price, I'd expect that, and more.
And if the Iphone is so simply designed, why is multitouch required?
Except that the iPhone already supported multitasking and all of Apple's own apps were able to run in the background.
By that logic, any bog standard feature phone around since 2005 at least has been able to multitask, because you could run the built in apps together, and it's only the 3rd party apps that don't multitask.
(Not to mention - the non-installed "apps" are the thing that Iphone users rave about the most, so if they run at crippled functionality, that's a major bug, that's laughable in a phone pretending to be a smartphone. Why is the Iphone considered a smartphone, and other phones that can "multitask", by your definition, not?)
In many cases, yes, it is better that third-party apps couldn't run in the background. Considering how poor of quality many third-party iPhone apps are, it's a great thing that they couldn't sit around in the background eating up battery.
So you will now argue that the Iphone is a poorer product, as it can multitask, right?
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I bet you it does - but the sad thing is it'll probably be like the Iphone. Even if it only has a small market share, we'll still be getting daily free advertising and hype from it in the media, and people will be deluded enough to think it's the market leader, and thus think they were right.
It's a self-fulfilling prophecy - it'll be hyped, because of the hype.
The Amiga hasn't had Flash for years, long before Apple thought of this "innovation". Therefore, the Amiga deserves the credit for reshaping the Internet!
(Seriously - whatever fucked up justification for missing features will they come up with next? I thought it's bad enough to try to twist missing features into a positive, but now they're deluded enough to claim that the Ipad is now the saviour of the Internet?)
My 5800 beats an Iphone hands down, at half the price. And here's the thing - whatever features the Iphone has that mine doesn't, I'm just going to play the same trick and say "But why would I need that", followed by "Actually, by not having this feature, I'm reshaping the Internet!!!"
It's the new form of debating. Don't worry about facts or evidence - just assert that your favourite product is reshaping the Internet!!!.
Really? If someone handed you an iPhone today, you couldn't get any use out of it? Even if you don't ever install a single application on it and only use it with default iphone OS software, it's a perfectly serviceable: phone, email device, web browser, music & video player, text messaging device, calendar, pocket camera, gps-enabled mapping device, weather forecaster, voice memo recorder, notepad, clock, and calculator.
I wouldn't get any use out of it, because I already have a perfectly functional phone (a 5800). Even compared to my 5 year old dirt cheap V980, I'd miss things like copy/paste, MMS and ability to install whatever apps I liked. He did say "geeks" and not "person who's never owned a mobile phone" :)
I'm not obnoxious, I'm just stating facts.
It's okay, you can buy one, you know. Nobody with a life thinks less of someone because of the computer or phone they use.
Why on earth would I want to buy an Apple phone? I don't care what phone people use. But there are people who are always on about the Iphone being the best phone ever, and how everyone uses them. Has there once been an article on the 5800, at all? Yet we get daily Iphone and Ipad Slashvertisements. It's fair game therefore to criticise those products. I don't care what people use, but those people who always talk about their Iphone when they use it, or go on about how wonderful they think it is? Or the media going on about how wonderful the Istale, Ipad, or whatever it's called this week, is allegedly going to be? They certainly seem to care about what people use.
Neither is being a close second place in US smart phone market share. Yeah sure, Nokia ships boatloads of cell phones and the smart phone market gets lost in that.
Ah yes, the classic pro-Apple trick of only looking at the ill-defined "smartphone" market. Can you give me a definition that includes the original Iphone, but doesn't include most feature phones? Yes, if you solely look at the US (I'm not in the US, there is a world outside of it, you know), and then look at the hand-picked companies of Apple, Google and RIM, it's great that Apple are number 2. But in the real world, where we look at all companies rather than just an arbritrary selection, they're after Nokia, LG, Samsung, Motorola, RIM - with only Google that they're beating.
But even if we accept that restricted market, Nokia are still strong at 40% - so the fact that they ship a boatload of cheaper phones is irrelevant, they're still the leader at the high end too.
If you count all the microprocessors in the world then Microsoft is pretty "niche" as well.
MS don't make microprocessors.
You also don't seem to know the definition of the term "vaporware."
Product that's been hyped and rumoured for 5 years, and has been labelled vaporware. Yep, the Ipad counts. Just because a product might be finally released doesn't stop it being vaporware (e.g., if DNF was released tomorrow, it wouldn't change a thing; Windows 2000 was labelled vaporware by Wired IIRC, even though it was finally released).
And your reply to my other post suggests you don't know what "multitouch" means.
Explain? I know what multitouch is. "Why would I need that?" - that's the typical Iphone user reply, when being told one of the many features that the Iphone lacks, isn't it? What new version of "multitouch" has the latest Iphone bought us, that wasn't around in 2007?
I think you've got it backwards. The Slashdot crew claims that the Iphone is the most successful phone ever, yet the market reality is that Apple are one of the least successful companies in the mobile market (after Nokia, LG, Samsung, Motorola, RIM etc).
And the same Slashdot crew that greeted the first iPod with "No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame."?
That was one person, not a crew. And yes, why is his opinion invalid? Popularity doesn't mean a product isn't lame - or are you telling me that Windows and IE are the best products ever?
And the same techno-pundits who are, once again, predicting the spectacular failure of a new device which, by all indications, appears to be headed for a spectacularly successful product launch?
Again, you've got it backwards. All I see is endless amounts of hype and free advertising over a vaporware product, that in the real world, no one gives a shit about.
Yeah, I'm sure Steve Jobs is sweating bullets over the opinions of some AC's here at Slashdot.
*snort* And obviously the Ipad is going to be market leader, because you say so. The sad thing is that even if reality proves me right, like the Iphone, you'll be here in a year's time nonetheless insisting that the Ipad is market leader. Facts don't actually matter anymore. Meanwhile, I'm going to go back to my Amiga, which is the number one selling computer.
Multitouch is old news. First of all it's not the be all and end all anyway - I don't need multitouch on my 5800 (I'd rather have the advantages of a resistive screen), just as Iphone users say they don't need the large number of basic features that the Iphone lacks, but my 5800 and every other phone has.
But even if we concede it as something useful, that was only something new in 2007, in the original Iphone - which itself lacked loads of other basic features that even cheap phones had, and wasn't even a smartphone. It's 2010 - 2007 is old news, and loads of phones offer multitouch. What is offered by today's Apple phones?
Er no, market share disagrees with you.
I don't care that they've sold millions - the point you're missing is that there are other companies who have sold millions more. You do realise that the mobile market is measured in the billions? Nokia have 40% of the mobile market (with the remainder taken up by LG, Samsung, Motorola, RIM - Apple aren't even on the map). Microsoft have 90+% of the desktop market. And as for the tablet market, the Ipad is still vaporware.
If you reply, please have the decency to understand basic facts like market share. The Amiga sold millions, but that doesn't mean it's the market leader anymore.
not only have you completely missed the point, but the next 10 years of computer industry evolution are going to be very confusing for you, as the mainstream market increasingly ignores the tech specs that geeks obsess over in favor of user experience considerations that are far more relevant to normal users.
Where to start?
1. Please drop the "geeks versus normal users" argument. The point you are missing is that it's only among geeks that there is the obsession. Among normal people, they (Macs, Iphones, and the Ipad) are niche products. Yes, there are normal users who only care about being hip, but plenty of normal users do care about features too - if you really think otherwise, then you are the one suffering from a typical geek fallacy. (Even if they do care about being hip, there's still no reason to choose this device over netbooks, phones or other tablets.)
2. His argument is not against tablets, but the Ipad. Yes, he picked netbooks as an argument, but there are other tablets too. I'm sure that tablets will become more common in the next 10 years, but only when they are cheaper than the more functional netbooks - it won't be because of Apple.
3. Ah yes, like someone else in this thread, you adopt the classic Apple tactic of talking in meaningless terms of "user experience considerations". Let's have some evidence of what you mean? Otherwise, my response is:
"Oh, you're going to find the next 10 years very confusing if you think that the Ipad is going to become more popular than anything else. People are much more interested in user experience, which is better provided by other products, at a lower price".
See? Like you, I asserted, without making any arguments for my point of view. We might as well say "Ipad sucks! No, Ipad rules!" Do I get my +5 mods now?
I would say, let's see how well it's sold in a year's time. But if the Iphone is anything to go buy, the sad fact is that even if it's a niche product in the market, you'll still be here talking as if they're the market leader.
Yes, because the average person now owns an Ipad. (April fools!)
Ah yes, the classic Apple trick - throw about ill-defined terms like "user experience", but don't actually argue your case or explain why it's better.
Period.
Yes indeed, period - you don't actually have an argument, you stop right there. Although wait, actually you still carrry on:
Nobody (*) cares that a netbook has more storage,
They're selling far more than an Ipad.
Unless it has the same user experience it's not a competitor
They all do - phones, netbooks, other tablets.
and nothing on the market so far has even close to the same user experience.
Evidence for this assertion? Otherwise I might as well claim that DNF (another yet to be released overhyped vaporware product) is the best game ever, because nothing else has the same "user experience".
Indeed - and they're a fraction of the price.
Plus there are other tablets around anyway, if one wants that format. They're just not being given the free advertising by Slashdot or the rest of the media.
It's going to be a throwback to the 80s. Nevermind the minaturisation of the last decade - Apple fans love their products, they want everyone to know they use them, so what good is making Ipods and Iphones small, where no one can see the shiny Apple logo unless they wave it around in people's faces? No, we're now going to see Ipad users walking around, carrying their Ipads on their shoulders, blasting out music and showing how hip they are, whilst all the business yuppies will be holding their brick-sided Ipad to their ears to conduct the latest business deals.
My 5800 supports multitasking, and the battery lasts for days. I don't have the battery life problems that I hear Iphone users complaining about. Oh, and it was half the price of an Iphone, too.
I don't think Slashdot has ever had a single story for this phone, from the world market leader in mobile phones - in contrast with the daily Iphone stories. But then this has long stopped being a place to come for news on technology. Now it's coverage of consumer appliances from Apple - just look at this story, with the first post trying to defend it by comparing it to dishwashers, for heaven's sakes...
I was assuming this story is an April Fool's - surely the Istale or whatever it is being rumoured to be called this week hasn't finally been released, after 5 years of hype and rumour?
I look forward to the story about DNF being released...
But we don't get stories about microwaves and dishwashers on Slashdot. What is this - News for Nerds, or Consumer Product Weekly?
(Of course, I know damn well that if Apple were to release a dishwasher, we'd start getting daily Slashdot stories about it, with people and the media labelling it a "Washing Up Bowl Killer" and going "Apple have revolutionised the market" even before it's released, and even when it's only got 1% of the market, claiming "It doesn't matter that this technology existed already, because no one actually used it before Apple came along, honest". Stories about dishwashers from the market leaders would be ignored - the only coverage of other companies would be if Google decided to release one, which would included to make Apple's small share look better.)
Firstly, that's a straw man. Companies use generalised data all the time for marketing purposes. And actually, I'd say you're wrong - typically the response to "privacy" rights over public material is that people have to right to privacy - especially if it's on Facebook!
Secondly, these aren't mutually exclusive. Perhaps some people might have objected to this guy doing what he's doing, but that doesn't mean that it's right to claim he's bound by some TOS.
But hey, since arguing against straw men is an easy way to get karma, allow me to say actually, you're wrong, copyright infringement isn't stealing, and Linux is better than Windows.
why not just consider it indeed being the same as any other spacial dimension? one in which we have a constant velocity
Velocity, in the time dimension? The rate of change of time, with respect to what, exactly? Be careful of what terms you're using.
If you measured by volume, it wouldn't surprise me if most material transferred on the Internet full stop was infringing material, not just on the p2p search engines. Are we going to shut down Google and the ISPs then?
Google's intention is completely different and they act on removal notices.
So is IsoHunt willing to respond to specific removal notices? Here they're being told to remove everything - are you telling me that Google would comply to a blanket "remove everything that points to an infringing torrent or file"? And that an ISP would also be able to comply to a blanket "stop transferring anything that's being pirated"?
I've seen that video before, and sorry, but it's a load of rubbish - there is no mathematical or scientific basis to what he talks about above 4 dimensions.
The many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics is just an interpretation - quantum theory does not tell us that it is true. But even if it was true, it makes no sense to call this the 5th dimension. Yes, colloquially in sci-fis, we call in "travelling to another dimension" when people travel to parallel universes, but mathematically it makes no sense to call it a dimension (which implies a continuum - if the universe splits into two, what's the universe halfway between them in this 5th dimension?)
To then say that the 6th dimension is simply magically jumping through this 5th dimension makes no sense at all. From this point onwards, there isn't even any vague relevance to science - he's just making it up as he goes along.
And lastly, this has nothing to do with the dimensions of string theory - if these exist, these would be additional spatial dimensions, not the nonsense that he's made up.
The frustrating thing is that the video is presented in a friendly way that makes it seem convincing - no doubt the reason why it's been propagated around the web, and you got modded up for it.
The iPhone's refusal to adopt Flash, coupled with its huge popularity
*heh* Yes, I'm sure that 5% of the phone market[*], let alone the comparison to people using netbooks, laptops and desktops, is really responsible for the change.
But assuming you're right for a moment, can I also make a request that the next Iphone:
* Refuses to load any web page that isn't 100% correctly written.
* Only runs open source programs.
* Stops supporting native programs, which just further fragments the market, when cross-platform support would be much preferred.
All that is surely a good thing - we get the changes made, whilst my phone doesn't lose any features in the meantime, as I'm not an Apple phone user.
[*] Before anyone replies, or mods me down for stating the facts, have the decency to look up the basic market figures.
If Microsoft's new mobile OS doesn't allow multitasking, then that's poor too. And I have to laugh - given how much Windows Mobile is hated around here, especially by Iphone fans, I see it's now being hailed as a good example of a mobile OS?
No, personally I'm doing okay with Nokia, like 40% of the market.
*shrugs* I guess that's Android for you. I've no problems on my 5800.
I don't think Apple did the wrong thing in putting off third-party multitasking for a while after the initial launch.
So now they'll allow it, you'll start saying it's bad for the Apple phones too?
Really, are you joking? The vast majority of apps that would work well as backgrounded apps are network connected apps.
And they work so much better as background apps when the Apple phones don't have the ability to run them?
I can get away with multitasking on my 5800. No one's claiming it's needed - I mean, nothing's needed on a phone, anyway. If you only want basic necessities, you can do with a cheap $50 phone. But multitasking is very useful to have on a 5800, and if I was paying twice the price, I'd expect that, and more.
And if the Iphone is so simply designed, why is multitouch required?
Except that the iPhone already supported multitasking and all of Apple's own apps were able to run in the background.
By that logic, any bog standard feature phone around since 2005 at least has been able to multitask, because you could run the built in apps together, and it's only the 3rd party apps that don't multitask.
(Not to mention - the non-installed "apps" are the thing that Iphone users rave about the most, so if they run at crippled functionality, that's a major bug, that's laughable in a phone pretending to be a smartphone. Why is the Iphone considered a smartphone, and other phones that can "multitask", by your definition, not?)
In many cases, yes, it is better that third-party apps couldn't run in the background. Considering how poor of quality many third-party iPhone apps are, it's a great thing that they couldn't sit around in the background eating up battery.
So you will now argue that the Iphone is a poorer product, as it can multitask, right?