I have stuff spread out all over the place. For photos, I use iCloud, because it synchronizes between my tablet, phone, and laptop.
For other documents, I usually leave them parked in the app that created them and let iOS back them up to my iCloud account. I have some of stuff parked in Dropbox.
I use a Logitech Bluetooth keyboard that syncs with three devices. I take it with me to the office each day so that I can easily switch between the MacBook Pro and the iPad Pro.
With my earlier iPads, i was using a keyboard case, but they just felt like they added too much to the tablet. I've decided that I like the separate keyboard.
My day-to-day computing needs are satisfied by an iPad Pro.
I use Pythonista for Python scripting. Pythonista is a very capable Python IDE, and I don't use even a tenth of what it can do.
I use Textastic for general text editing and for web app development. Textastic allows me to install web apps on the iPad's home screen, which I love. It's the closest I can come to developing and installing my own apps on the iPad.
I use Apple's notes app for note-taking and quick sketches. I work for a small games company, so these quick sketches are often what I start with when designing a new game. The Apple Pencil works very well.
For more refined sketches, I use Procreate. I also use Procreate for my personal art projects.
For illustration, I use Autodesk Graphic
I use Keynote for simple prototypes. For more complex prototypes, I'll mock up something in Textastic.
For spreadsheets and word processing, I prefer Pages and Numbers, but I keep Excel and Word on the device for work stuff. I also use Google's offerings for collaborative stuff with the co-workers who don't like the Microsoft stuff.
OminiGraffle, for doing flow charts of the apps we're working on.
Netflix, Amazon Video, Amazon Music, Apple's Music, Kindle, iBooks, etc., for media consumption
At the office, I use a MacBook Pro a lot, but the iPad Pro is very useful. At home, I use the iPad Pro almost exclusively.
This is what works for me. Please don't tell me that the iPad can't be used for "real work". I've been using my iPads to help out with my professional work for the past six years. The iPad Pro with the Apple Pencil is the best one so far.
If you drag from the "123" button on the keyboard, it will temporarily show the keyboard for numbers and symbols. Move your finger to the key you want and release. The character will be typed and the first keyboard will return.
The iPhone keyboard has a similar trick that when you drag from, say, the key for the exclamation point and comma. Drag from it and you can quickly type an apostrophe. Many keys do this.
I practiced with b$str0ngm@n for a few seconds and I think I could get used to typing it on a regular basis with a minimal hit in speed.
Actually, the plus symbol has nothing to do with in-app purchases. It denotes universal apps -- apps which will run on the iPhone or iPod Touch as well as the iPad.
> Personally I find the built-in keyboard hard to use, so I usually connect a USB keyboard and mouse if I'm working on it for an extended period.
When I connect an external keyboard, I turn the display around on the XO and angle it away from me, so that the XO's keyboard is behind the screen, rather than in front. I find this to be more comfortable.
You may have already considered this, but nobody I've demonstrated this to had figured it out for themselves.
Not a criticism, but an observation: somewhere in there you'll have to find a way to supply the farmer with a machine capable of running WoW, a connection to WoW, and a WoW account.
Personally, I'd love for them to drop the UMD and pop in a couple of memory stick slots there. I know it won't happen, but games could be sold on read-only memory sticks.
I use the PSP's web browser to view offline pages that I've saved on my desktop computer and transferred over for reading while I'm commuting. I've ripped DVDs to watch while commuting. I play games too, but the web browser, music, photos and video makes it a much more versatile device. Accommodating more than one memory stick would be great.
If you're using OS X, you can drag the icon of the image to the dock icon of your email program. I know that Apple Mail will create a new message with the image attached, and I'm pretty sure that Entourage does the same thing.
If you're using OS 9, you can do the same, if you have the Application Switcher floating on your display. Just drag the file to the tile of your mail program.
This requires the program to support the action, but I think that most do.
Others have said this, but I'll emphasize. If you're serious about not worrying about a car, your best bet is to find a job and a living situation that are in reasonable proximity.
Think of it this way: we've reached a point in American society where people have built lives around the privately-owned automobile. If you don't want to conform, you're going to have to instead build your life around a completely different set of instructions.
Remember that your job and your home are only two destinations that you're going to want to travel to. You're going to need groceries, for instance, and access to other businesses.
I live in downtown Baltimore without a car, and there are groceries, shopping, restaurants, entertainment venues, etc. all within walking distance of my apartment. I work in DC, so each morning I walk 5 blocks to the train station and catch the commuter train into DC and then transfer to the METRO to reach my office. I wake up at 6 am and I'm at my desk by 8:20. My commuter rail pass is $150 per month, using my student discount.
Remember that there are other transportation methods you can use besides walking: taxi cabs, rental cars, public transportation. Mix and match these alternatives to get to where you need to go when you need to get there.
But it still remains that if your location doesn't have the infrastructure and business density to support your ambition, then you need to move if you're serious. Build your life around not having a car.
And another thing...the mail client should NEVER be allowed to execute code with out asking the user forty times!
And I bet you'd still have users that would click the "Yes, i'm an idiot" button forty times just so they could see the pretty new screen saver their friend so thoughtfully sent them!
Please see my other comment replying to your earlier points and sharing my decision to revert to the protected music files after considering them.
However, I want to point out that I didn't rip off anyone by using PlayFair. I paid for the music. I never intend to own copies of music that I haven't paid for.
I did violate the TOS and the DMCA, but I didn't steal. I didn't even violate copyright. These issues are muddy enough without leaping to those kinds of conclusions.
I've been considering your reply ever since I read it, and I do feel that you have a point.
Interestingly, I'm still not uncomfortable breaking the DMCA, because, as I said, I don't feel that it is a good law. It should never have been passed.
What does give me pause is your observation that I have broken an agreement with Apple that I have made. I do take my agreements seriously, although I'm sure I'm breaking other agreements as well. For instance, I have created disk images of Neverwinter Nights and Warcraft III to make it more convenient to play them. I copy DVDs to my laptop hard drive when I travel for convenience as well. I never carefully read whatever notices came with those titles and I'm sure I'm violating them as well.
Because I am violating the agreement I made and there are no inconvenient issues, tonight when I return home, I'll restore my backups of the encrypted songs, so one point to you. However, I'll stop making purchases from the iTunes Music Store, so indeterminate dollars lost for Apple and the record labels.
Finally, I never characterized my actions as civil disobedience. As another posted has supplied, it would more clearly be civil disobedience if I had brought my actions to Apple's notice explicitly. Since I have no intention of doing that, I'm merely breaking a law and a TOS for my convenience.
I have great respect for those who feel strongly enough to engage in civil disobedience (at least, when I agree with their aims!), I wouldn't include myself in their ranks.
Now, I'm sure you'll be critical of my decision because you feel I only accepted your point because there's no overriding inconvenience to me. But in truth, I accepted your point because I agree with it and there was no other real issue to weigh against it.
There are proper routes you can take in the justice system to get a law like the DMCA repealed, until then breaking it doesn't make you look like anything except a criminal.
You're right. I am a criminal. There's no way to deny that. However, given that most of us are criminals in one way or another (say, driving over the speed limit), I don't feel particularly unusual.
It's only picking a friend's pocket if I take my unencrypted iTunes and give them to others. Until I do that, it's no less morally wrong than storing my DVDs on my hard drive with DeCSS for my personal use.
In fact, as soon as I confirmed that PlayFair worked, I celebrated by purchasing $11 worth of music at the iTunes Music Store, which I then promptly stripped of all DRM, and I'll be buying more in the future now that I know that all I have to do is back my files up and I'll have this music for the rest of my life, regardless of what happens to Apple.
So I've actually put money in my friend's pocket.
The one place that Apple's DRM failed me was at the office. My office mates and I share our music libraries, and they weren't able to access my protected music. Yet Apple provides music sharing for the other music I've purchased and ripped from CDs. If it is fair use for my ripped music, it should be fair use for my protected music as well. I don't understand the distinction.
The only law I'm breaking is the DMCA, and my karma (the karma that Jobs refers to) will be just fine, because the DMCA is a bad law that I'm convinced will eventually be struck down. To say that I have fair use of my music, but that I can't use the tools to get that fair use is to say that I don't have fair use at all.
I'll continue to purchase music from iTMS. I'll continue to use PlayFair. I'll continue to pay for my music and get the use out of it that I am entitled to.
I'm not a meteorologist or any kind of scientist, but I do know that our planet's weather is a huge system for balancing the heat in the oceans and the atmosphere.
I know that I don't know a lot and there's much I'm glossing over, but that's why the oceans and atmosphere have currents -- cold masses are migrating towards the equator, which receives more direct sunlight, and warm masses generally migrate towards the poles.
At the same time, a lot of heat energy is simply reflected back into space.
Whatever our weather is doing is the result of these processes.
If -- for whatever reason -- less of the heat energy coming from sunlight were reflected into space, our weather system would have to cope with it somehow. To me, it would be obvious that this would make the weather behave unpredictably as the warm and cold masses jockeyed about.
What I read from the article is that the Pentagon isn't so much deciding what's causing climate shift, but rather what might happen politically and how to deal with it. Somebody's taking a longer view and that's not a bad thing.
Finally, I'm really surprised at how callous some posters can be. Suggesting that only the poor people of the world would die off, ruling them expendable and pointing out that then the survivors could expand into their areas? What a horrible perspective.
I can appreciate that this would be a normal result of our global political system, which acts on its own forces as inexorable as the weather, but it's still pretty chilling and even more reason to try to create strategies for coping.
I've been a Macintosh owner for years, so a dearth of software titles at retail locations is a familiar situation.
If this trend continues, PC gamers will be doing the same thing that Mac owners have been doing -- they'll get their goods online or through the few retail outlets that continue to offer them.
I doubt very seriously that PC gaming is dying because less retail shelf space may be devoted to PC games. As the Mac shows, a platform's survival is not dependent upon a single sales channel.
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I've heard it said, "Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Petty power corrupts out of all proportion."
I have stuff spread out all over the place. For photos, I use iCloud, because it synchronizes between my tablet, phone, and laptop.
For other documents, I usually leave them parked in the app that created them and let iOS back them up to my iCloud account. I have some of stuff parked in Dropbox.
I use a Logitech Bluetooth keyboard that syncs with three devices. I take it with me to the office each day so that I can easily switch between the MacBook Pro and the iPad Pro.
With my earlier iPads, i was using a keyboard case, but they just felt like they added too much to the tablet. I've decided that I like the separate keyboard.
At the office, I use a MacBook Pro a lot, but the iPad Pro is very useful. At home, I use the iPad Pro almost exclusively. This is what works for me. Please don't tell me that the iPad can't be used for "real work". I've been using my iPads to help out with my professional work for the past six years. The iPad Pro with the Apple Pencil is the best one so far.
I read about this iPad keyboard trick recently.
If you drag from the "123" button on the keyboard, it will temporarily show the keyboard for numbers and symbols. Move your finger to the key you want and release. The character will be typed and the first keyboard will return.
The iPhone keyboard has a similar trick that when you drag from, say, the key for the exclamation point and comma. Drag from it and you can quickly type an apostrophe. Many keys do this.
I practiced with b$str0ngm@n for a few seconds and I think I could get used to typing it on a regular basis with a minimal hit in speed.
Actually, the plus symbol has nothing to do with in-app purchases. It denotes universal apps -- apps which will run on the iPhone or iPod Touch as well as the iPad.
More vaporware from Microsoft.
> Personally I find the built-in keyboard hard to use, so I usually connect a USB keyboard and mouse if I'm working on it for an extended period.
When I connect an external keyboard, I turn the display around on the XO and angle it away from me, so that the XO's keyboard is behind the screen, rather than in front. I find this to be more comfortable.
You may have already considered this, but nobody I've demonstrated this to had figured it out for themselves.
Sorry, I misread your comment. I withdraw my observation.
Not a criticism, but an observation: somewhere in there you'll have to find a way to supply the farmer with a machine capable of running WoW, a connection to WoW, and a WoW account.
God clearly wanted a geographical based religious system.
So religion is deliberately region-encoded?
Personally, I'd love for them to drop the UMD and pop in a couple of memory stick slots there. I know it won't happen, but games could be sold on read-only memory sticks.
I use the PSP's web browser to view offline pages that I've saved on my desktop computer and transferred over for reading while I'm commuting. I've ripped DVDs to watch while commuting. I play games too, but the web browser, music, photos and video makes it a much more versatile device. Accommodating more than one memory stick would be great.
If you're using OS X, you can drag the icon of the image to the dock icon of your email program. I know that Apple Mail will create a new message with the image attached, and I'm pretty sure that Entourage does the same thing.
If you're using OS 9, you can do the same, if you have the Application Switcher floating on your display. Just drag the file to the tile of your mail program.
This requires the program to support the action, but I think that most do.
I immediately called my ex, who is an avid -- actually, compulsive -- collector and described this new hobby of 'uncollecting'.
His response? 'I hate him.'
Others have said this, but I'll emphasize. If you're serious about not worrying about a car, your best bet is to find a job and a living situation that are in reasonable proximity.
Think of it this way: we've reached a point in American society where people have built lives around the privately-owned automobile. If you don't want to conform, you're going to have to instead build your life around a completely different set of instructions.
Remember that your job and your home are only two destinations that you're going to want to travel to. You're going to need groceries, for instance, and access to other businesses.
I live in downtown Baltimore without a car, and there are groceries, shopping, restaurants, entertainment venues, etc. all within walking distance of my apartment. I work in DC, so each morning I walk 5 blocks to the train station and catch the commuter train into DC and then transfer to the METRO to reach my office. I wake up at 6 am and I'm at my desk by 8:20. My commuter rail pass is $150 per month, using my student discount.
Remember that there are other transportation methods you can use besides walking: taxi cabs, rental cars, public transportation. Mix and match these alternatives to get to where you need to go when you need to get there.
But it still remains that if your location doesn't have the infrastructure and business density to support your ambition, then you need to move if you're serious. Build your life around not having a car.
And another thing...the mail client should NEVER be allowed to execute code with out asking the user forty times!
And I bet you'd still have users that would click the "Yes, i'm an idiot" button forty times just so they could see the pretty new screen saver their friend so thoughtfully sent them!
Yes, iTunes works on Mac and Windows XP. Oh, and it works with iPod.
Now *that's* selection. AND value.
Apple doesn't really publicize this, but iTunes works with many other media players as well as the iPods.
Please see my other comment replying to your earlier points and sharing my decision to revert to the protected music files after considering them.
However, I want to point out that I didn't rip off anyone by using PlayFair. I paid for the music. I never intend to own copies of music that I haven't paid for.
I did violate the TOS and the DMCA, but I didn't steal. I didn't even violate copyright. These issues are muddy enough without leaping to those kinds of conclusions.
I've been considering your reply ever since I read it, and I do feel that you have a point.
Interestingly, I'm still not uncomfortable breaking the DMCA, because, as I said, I don't feel that it is a good law. It should never have been passed.
What does give me pause is your observation that I have broken an agreement with Apple that I have made. I do take my agreements seriously, although I'm sure I'm breaking other agreements as well. For instance, I have created disk images of Neverwinter Nights and Warcraft III to make it more convenient to play them. I copy DVDs to my laptop hard drive when I travel for convenience as well. I never carefully read whatever notices came with those titles and I'm sure I'm violating them as well.
Because I am violating the agreement I made and there are no inconvenient issues, tonight when I return home, I'll restore my backups of the encrypted songs, so one point to you. However, I'll stop making purchases from the iTunes Music Store, so indeterminate dollars lost for Apple and the record labels.
Finally, I never characterized my actions as civil disobedience. As another posted has supplied, it would more clearly be civil disobedience if I had brought my actions to Apple's notice explicitly. Since I have no intention of doing that, I'm merely breaking a law and a TOS for my convenience.
I have great respect for those who feel strongly enough to engage in civil disobedience (at least, when I agree with their aims!), I wouldn't include myself in their ranks.
Now, I'm sure you'll be critical of my decision because you feel I only accepted your point because there's no overriding inconvenience to me. But in truth, I accepted your point because I agree with it and there was no other real issue to weigh against it.
There are proper routes you can take in the justice system to get a law like the DMCA repealed, until then breaking it doesn't make you look like anything except a criminal.
You're right. I am a criminal. There's no way to deny that. However, given that most of us are criminals in one way or another (say, driving over the speed limit), I don't feel particularly unusual.
I'm no fan of DRM, but when you agree to Apple's TOS for their service, you agree to get screwed by their restrictions.
This is copyright violation.
This is only copyright violation is you take these unencrypted tunes and give them to other people. Until then, this is not copyright violation.
Of course, it remains that using PlayFair is a violation of the DMCA.
It's only picking a friend's pocket if I take my unencrypted iTunes and give them to others. Until I do that, it's no less morally wrong than storing my DVDs on my hard drive with DeCSS for my personal use.
In fact, as soon as I confirmed that PlayFair worked, I celebrated by purchasing $11 worth of music at the iTunes Music Store, which I then promptly stripped of all DRM, and I'll be buying more in the future now that I know that all I have to do is back my files up and I'll have this music for the rest of my life, regardless of what happens to Apple.
So I've actually put money in my friend's pocket.
The one place that Apple's DRM failed me was at the office. My office mates and I share our music libraries, and they weren't able to access my protected music. Yet Apple provides music sharing for the other music I've purchased and ripped from CDs. If it is fair use for my ripped music, it should be fair use for my protected music as well. I don't understand the distinction.
The only law I'm breaking is the DMCA, and my karma (the karma that Jobs refers to) will be just fine, because the DMCA is a bad law that I'm convinced will eventually be struck down. To say that I have fair use of my music, but that I can't use the tools to get that fair use is to say that I don't have fair use at all.
I'll continue to purchase music from iTMS. I'll continue to use PlayFair. I'll continue to pay for my music and get the use out of it that I am entitled to.
By throwing your pc out the window you will be overcome with the need to go out of the house for things like... food... shopping..
Your monitor...
I'm not a meteorologist or any kind of scientist, but I do know that our planet's weather is a huge system for balancing the heat in the oceans and the atmosphere.
I know that I don't know a lot and there's much I'm glossing over, but that's why the oceans and atmosphere have currents -- cold masses are migrating towards the equator, which receives more direct sunlight, and warm masses generally migrate towards the poles.
At the same time, a lot of heat energy is simply reflected back into space.
Whatever our weather is doing is the result of these processes.
If -- for whatever reason -- less of the heat energy coming from sunlight were reflected into space, our weather system would have to cope with it somehow. To me, it would be obvious that this would make the weather behave unpredictably as the warm and cold masses jockeyed about.
What I read from the article is that the Pentagon isn't so much deciding what's causing climate shift, but rather what might happen politically and how to deal with it. Somebody's taking a longer view and that's not a bad thing.
Finally, I'm really surprised at how callous some posters can be. Suggesting that only the poor people of the world would die off, ruling them expendable and pointing out that then the survivors could expand into their areas? What a horrible perspective.
I can appreciate that this would be a normal result of our global political system, which acts on its own forces as inexorable as the weather, but it's still pretty chilling and even more reason to try to create strategies for coping.
Mac OS X is:
stable
asy to use
gorgeous
well rounded
You forgot "lickable"I've been a Macintosh owner for years, so a dearth of software titles at retail locations is a familiar situation.
If this trend continues, PC gamers will be doing the same thing that Mac owners have been doing -- they'll get their goods online or through the few retail outlets that continue to offer them.
I doubt very seriously that PC gaming is dying because less retail shelf space may be devoted to PC games. As the Mac shows, a platform's survival is not dependent upon a single sales channel.