Face it folks, petroleum fuels are going to get way more scarce in the next 20 years; we either find a way to wean ourselves off of it, or we go back to the dark ages.
Or we could spend that 50B on wars in order to maintain our 25% world energy consumption rate (although as 5% of the world population, the rest of the world is starting to wise up on that, especially China.)..
would it actually send your confession anywhere? Since your confessions are supposed to be anonymous and strictly confidential, you might as well pipe it to/dev/nulll...
Like it or not, computers are becoming appliances, so everything in the future needs to be designed with a UX in mind... which is why Apple places UX and OS designers in the top position, while all the engineers and salespeople work below them.
I think this is a function of the fact that there are more peripherals for Apple now, so there's more things to break. When the "It just works" campaign started, there was hardly anything available that wasn't Apple produced, so yeah, things "Just worked" in most instances, but you had an extremely limited choice of what you could use. Now that Apple products have a larger ecosystem, they are running into the same problems as PCs... and thus the migration away from the Apple price premiums for basically no benefit.
On the flip side, the non-tech people are liking the Apple garden as much or more than before, because iOS is very gentle and easy for the non-tech savvy; they have no need for flexibility and the large icons and limited customizability of the whole thing is perfect for them.
So no, I doubt the iPad 2 is going to murder the Android tablets in terms of functionality, usability, price or any other technical metric. I don't see iOS having any significant changes between now and the advent of the iPad 2. The latest iterations of Android absolutely destroy iOS in terms of usability, speed, stability, flexibility and visual interface.
You forget how apple products are designed: It's the lack of features that's a feature, especially for the common (non-techie) crowd that wants a online device that's as simple to use as an appliance (like a toaster or a TV).
The whole "walled garden" aspect is irrelevant as long as the device does what most people want.
As for iOS fragmentation; there's only 3 iOS devices being shipped (iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad) with only a few variations between them.... A hell of a lot less fragmented then Android will ever be.
MS had a great ideas for tablet computing, but running a WIMP-based OS made it useless.. There's a reason why the iPad quickly outsold all windows based tablets ever produced.
Apple stores your CC details on your iTunes account, not your phone. Your phone will ask for the account password to authenticate media & app purchased though it, but the CC transaction details happen between apple and your CC company (not your phone).
Sure, the chip can be there, but if you don't have a NFP account then it doesn't matter.
From what I heard it's for small transactions; like convenience stores, lunch outings, vending machines, etc. A limit of $50 a day or such. You can't buy a car with it.
The NFP chip needs to be less then 4 inches from the scanning device to work; if it uses a 2-way key encryption (layered with session encryption), so it would be difficult for a 3rd party device to snoop anything useful.
It may prompt your *phone* to agree with the transaction (maybe ask for a PIN code, or a biometric scan). If the phone authenticates the transactions with your bank it would be difficult for someone to do many fraudulent transactions.
I'm not sure if that's in the best interest of tablet devices, which are generally used for basic content consumption (with light data input) or casual gaming.
It's not like you can swap out a motherboard/CPU/RAM and upgrade it incrementally (like the DIY PC crowd); the end user will constantly have to buy a whole new tablet in order to stay current with the next generation touch-OS.
Maybe that's the plan after all.. since it would be in the manufaturer's interest to make all of them all final devices that are hardly upgradeable so it'll force to users to shell out $500 every 18 months or so.
Actually, 30% isn't too bad once you figure out what you figure out your app's non-development costs.
Things like marketing/advertising/promotion/hosting will surely cost more 30% if you had to do it completely on your own. It would be nearly impossible to price apps at a few dollars under that scenario.
We're an 8 person print shop with all Macs (not just design/prepress, but accounting, receptionist... everyone)-- The mini server certainly look appealing, Here's why:
1. Full AFP compatibility: When you're an all mac shop you need it. There's no time to mess with Netatalk settings if you're getting random disconnects and stuff. Other servers may give you fits if you enter filenames with \"/?*| in them (all of these are legit mac filename characters.)
2. Searching for filenames on a mac sever is very quick, since the server keeps all filenames under a b-tree (using HFS+). When searching a Linux or SMB server, the mac has to traverses the entire directory tree to search for files, which takes excruciatingly long when you have almost half a million files on the server.
3. A SOHO business is going to have very few employees, one of which is going to be the 'computer guy', but not a full time I.T. professional. (I'm a print shop guy first, web developer 2nd, and IT guy a distant third.). That's exactly the target market for this server.
There's a marketing campaign where Apple said Macs were immune to viruses? Please tell me which one, because I've never seen it.
I'm sure the idea has been pitched by their marketing people all the time, but Apple has been pretty careful about ever mentioning anything like that. If anything it's the users that promote such a meme.
Eh? My wife got a $250 linux based netbook. All she does is web browse and email.
In that case Linux works for her 100%, while a Microsoft solution will add no value besides costing more.
OSS lacks QA - show me a OSS project that government is likely to use that has any quality assurances. the big font stating "use at own risk" is a massive turn off for government and rightly so.
Um.. Microsoft's EULA basically says the same thing.
The Mac 400/800K 3.5" floppies had a variable speed spindle that would slow down the disk rotation as the read/write head went towards the outer tracks. This made the disks hold a bit more data as the track density would be more even across the disk...
The problem is this made the disks really difficult to read on non-apple drives... I'm not sure how they fixed it on the original Apple Superdrive (1.44Mb HD floppies)... it probably involved a special read controller rather then a variable speed spindle.
Even to this day a USB floppy drive on a Mac can't read those 400/800K disks.
Mac Safari already does that.. when you don't have Acrobat Reader installed.
That's because of quartz library, which is Mac OS X's pdf based graphics rendering subsystem.
It's great because it'll show pdfs directly in Mail app as an inline attachment. (no need to open it!).
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$170 Billion/year on our anti-terrorist wars... There's some fat we can trim
Face it folks, petroleum fuels are going to get way more scarce in the next 20 years; we either find a way to wean ourselves off of it, or we go back to the dark ages.
Or we could spend that 50B on wars in order to maintain our 25% world energy consumption rate (although as 5% of the world population, the rest of the world is starting to wise up on that, especially China.)..
would it actually send your confession anywhere? Since your confessions are supposed to be anonymous and strictly confidential, you might as well pipe it to /dev/nulll...
Like it or not, computers are becoming appliances, so everything in the future needs to be designed with a UX in mind... which is why Apple places UX and OS designers in the top position, while all the engineers and salespeople work below them.
I think this is a function of the fact that there are more peripherals for Apple now, so there's more things to break. When the "It just works" campaign started, there was hardly anything available that wasn't Apple produced, so yeah, things "Just worked" in most instances, but you had an extremely limited choice of what you could use. Now that Apple products have a larger ecosystem, they are running into the same problems as PCs... and thus the migration away from the Apple price premiums for basically no benefit.
On the flip side, the non-tech people are liking the Apple garden as much or more than before, because iOS is very gentle and easy for the non-tech savvy; they have no need for flexibility and the large icons and limited customizability of the whole thing is perfect for them.
So no, I doubt the iPad 2 is going to murder the Android tablets in terms of functionality, usability, price or any other technical metric. I don't see iOS having any significant changes between now and the advent of the iPad 2. The latest iterations of Android absolutely destroy iOS in terms of usability, speed, stability, flexibility and visual interface.
You forget how apple products are designed: It's the lack of features that's a feature, especially for the common (non-techie) crowd that wants a online device that's as simple to use as an appliance (like a toaster or a TV).
The whole "walled garden" aspect is irrelevant as long as the device does what most people want.
As for iOS fragmentation; there's only 3 iOS devices being shipped (iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad) with only a few variations between them.... A hell of a lot less fragmented then Android will ever be.
MS had a great ideas for tablet computing, but running a WIMP-based OS made it useless.. There's a reason why the iPad quickly outsold all windows based tablets ever produced.
It's more like they wait until they see Apple's success, *THEN* they start building knock offs.
(I find it strange how there's haters & doubters for everything Apple, yet the industry keeps following them.)
And slashdot owns your post. :-P WRONG.
Apple stores your CC details on your iTunes account, not your phone. Your phone will ask for the account password to authenticate media & app purchased though it, but the CC transaction details happen between apple and your CC company (not your phone).
Sure, the chip can be there, but if you don't have a NFP account then it doesn't matter.
From what I heard it's for small transactions; like convenience stores, lunch outings, vending machines, etc. A limit of $50 a day or such. You can't buy a car with it.
The NFP chip needs to be less then 4 inches from the scanning device to work; if it uses a 2-way key encryption (layered with session encryption), so it would be difficult for a 3rd party device to snoop anything useful.
It may prompt your *phone* to agree with the transaction (maybe ask for a PIN code, or a biometric scan). If the phone authenticates the transactions with your bank it would be difficult for someone to do many fraudulent transactions.
Apple can sell OSX Server as a virtualized system for x86-64 server hardware, so I wouldn't call them out on it yet.
I'm not sure if that's in the best interest of tablet devices, which are generally used for basic content consumption (with light data input) or casual gaming.
It's not like you can swap out a motherboard/CPU/RAM and upgrade it incrementally (like the DIY PC crowd); the end user will constantly have to buy a whole new tablet in order to stay current with the next generation touch-OS.
Maybe that's the plan after all.. since it would be in the manufaturer's interest to make all of them all final devices that are hardly upgradeable so it'll force to users to shell out $500 every 18 months or so.
Actually, 30% isn't too bad once you figure out what you figure out your app's non-development costs. Things like marketing/advertising/promotion/hosting will surely cost more 30% if you had to do it completely on your own. It would be nearly impossible to price apps at a few dollars under that scenario.
You would think most criminals would know not to carry a cell phone at all, since the cell towers tracks and record their location at every moment.
... in that people are stuck with DOS/Windows/Office because the cost to switch away are too great.
We're an 8 person print shop with all Macs (not just design/prepress, but accounting, receptionist... everyone)-- The mini server certainly look appealing, Here's why:
1. Full AFP compatibility: When you're an all mac shop you need it. There's no time to mess with Netatalk settings if you're getting random disconnects and stuff. Other servers may give you fits if you enter filenames with \"/?*| in them (all of these are legit mac filename characters.)
2. Searching for filenames on a mac sever is very quick, since the server keeps all filenames under a b-tree (using HFS+). When searching a Linux or SMB server, the mac has to traverses the entire directory tree to search for files, which takes excruciatingly long when you have almost half a million files on the server.
3. A SOHO business is going to have very few employees, one of which is going to be the 'computer guy', but not a full time I.T. professional. (I'm a print shop guy first, web developer 2nd, and IT guy a distant third.). That's exactly the target market for this server.
Well last year I bought the cheapest Mac (the $599 Mini. Yes I'm poor).
15 months later the logic board dies. My local Apple store repaired it for free......... even though it was 3 months out of warrantee!
It doesn't feel like cognitive dissonance when you're actually being taken care of.
So with 4 months on the clock, Obama single handedly made a 100-year old company turn bankrupt?? HAHAHA tell me another one!
Yeah! Look at Best Buy's $40 USB cables, $90 HDMI cables, etc... It's a goldmine!
There's a marketing campaign where Apple said Macs were immune to viruses? Please tell me which one, because I've never seen it.
I'm sure the idea has been pitched by their marketing people all the time, but Apple has been pretty careful about ever mentioning anything like that. If anything it's the users that promote such a meme.
Eh? My wife got a $250 linux based netbook. All she does is web browse and email. In that case Linux works for her 100%, while a Microsoft solution will add no value besides costing more.
OSS lacks QA - show me a OSS project that government is likely to use that has any quality assurances. the big font stating "use at own risk" is a massive turn off for government and rightly so.
Um.. Microsoft's EULA basically says the same thing.
Um.. The Wankle rotary is an ICE. The primary advantage with the wankle is power/weight ratio, not efficiency.
Oh and regular piston engines are used in all Mazdas except the RX sport cars.
The Mac 400/800K 3.5" floppies had a variable speed spindle that would slow down the disk rotation as the read/write head went towards the outer tracks. This made the disks hold a bit more data as the track density would be more even across the disk...
The problem is this made the disks really difficult to read on non-apple drives... I'm not sure how they fixed it on the original Apple Superdrive (1.44Mb HD floppies)... it probably involved a special read controller rather then a variable speed spindle.
Even to this day a USB floppy drive on a Mac can't read those 400/800K disks.
Mac Safari already does that.. when you don't have Acrobat Reader installed.
That's because of quartz library, which is Mac OS X's pdf based graphics rendering subsystem.
It's great because it'll show pdfs directly in Mail app as an inline attachment. (no need to open it!).