Apple didn't just package it better. They packaged it so it works on the device. Features don't get used when they are too clumsy. Try to sell me a hand power drill that requires two hands to operate and I'll tell you to suck it. Sure if it was the only drill available I'd try to make it work but I'd drop it instantly the minute I saw a one handed version.
The interface is the tool. Without a good interface it's just a bunch of technology being under used.
I got my wife an iPhone as a laptop replacement. It does everything she would use a laptop for. Email, web (including banking though most is done through the banks App), music, photos, games. I'll get her an iPad for Xmas cause it will be like a big iPhone. She'll love it. If I got her a Netbook or a laptop she'd just be asking me for help all the time to install things and fix things but she wouldn't actually do more with it.
I don't expect her personal use pattern to change ever.
Obama wasn't calling out particular devices. 5 years ago it would gave been "laptops on wifi, iPods, MP3 players, Cellphones with net connections, Playstation and Nintendo mobile" Yes both iPods and mp3 players:) adds that presidential touch.
In any case he's warning an at risk group of university students to focus on their education rather than being distracted by always on media and Media.
These speeches aren't always 100% addressing the greatr society. Sometimes they specifically address the physical audience.
What's funny to me is that my iPhone gets 113/160 and at least 7 points were lost because of video/ audio codecs. The rest was web workers and forms.
I actually agree w the MS rep though. HTML 5 is not yet a standard and there are a lot of things (like web workers and forms) that haven't really been fully thought out.
I wrote a Flash app optimized for touch. A Panasonic In Flight Entertainment application. Flash was fine to develop in but the performance on the device was pretty abysmal. Just my anecdotal evidence. Embedded Linux w/ Flash 10 swf support. Custom built for this purpose.
Art is the act of making. If careful consideration is taken during the creation of an object (whether physical, virtual, dimensional or abstract) there is the potential for art. Art is from an artisan. You cannot separate the two. What is not art is the slapped together creation of necessity or utility (though you can make utilitarian art). A carefully planned meal presented with care is art. A room arranged with intent is art. Certainly a game which expresses more than mete mechanics of play is art. Even thoughtfully discerned and employed game theory/mechanics is art if the result is enlightening.
Recreating the same again would not be art without the addition of a new layer of expression (which is why you can't copy Wharhol's style and call it art) - the innovation of expression is what can be considered the artfulness rather than the technique.
Say for arguments sake that every application created for a PC ran on bare metal CPU or at worst on a BIOS to provide access to hardware: hard drives, input devices, peripherals, networking, etc.
This should make those applications much faster as there would be no middle man OS getting in the way telling the app what it could or couldn't do with resources. Every request by the app was responded to as fast as the CPU was able.
This is what the poor MS guy is talking about. How many apps do you want to run at a time? More than 32? Well there's going to be 128 cores available in the not so distant future. You could run 128 applications that could talk to each other (conceivably) without any standard OS getting in the way. Now of course you would likely need a few 'applications' which we take for granted as part of the System OS - File management and Search, Basic Networking (getting IPs, DNS, DHCP, etc), Print Manager, etc. so some cores would be taken up by these utility apps.
Overall though you would be running one app, one core with a Hypervisor of sorts managing the interconnect.
You have to admit that it's an interesting perspective if nothing else... stop trying to manage threads, processes, optimization for parallel computing... just stop and realize that you don't have to any more. There are plenty of cores to go around... just give the app it's own core and let it run hog wild.
On Macs you always could (well as far back as I go - OS 7.1) continue using the GUI while actions were taking place. This leads to the sometimes annoying but usually hilarious episodes where you accidentally open hundreds of files but then hit cmd+. to cancel all of your opens.. so you see a tiling of windows for a few seconds, then an untiling of windows for the next few seconds.
In Windows this could never happen because it would only open the first file - then the PC would lock up and you'd have to just quit Explorer via Task Manager (which may actually be more productive - unless you actually do want to open hundreds of files... then you're screwed in Windows, it will never happen).
Apple has even managed to streamline their transition methodology so it now appears to be a seamless experience... look at 32 bit to 64 bit handling in 10.6 - you get a dialogue telling you it's going to open in 32 bit mode, then it just works. Classic (OS 9) support was similar towards the end, you could open a Universal app in either Classic or OS X by checking a box.
Microsoft bought Virtual PC but didn't do anything with it for several years. They should have dropped it into Vista as the emulator, auto-opened unsupported applications in an XP window - nobody would have known the difference... voila, backwards compatibility with anything supported on XP (which was almost everything). Finally they could have just go on with making a new OS.
Now of course with Parallels or VMWare, you can run any Windows applications on any machine - Mac, Windows, Linux so you can have compatibility and choice.
Couldn't you just validate first then test? Seems like if you are standards compliant you'll be good in any standards based browser. I then test in ie with the ie7/8.js file conditionally included. Usually works first go as well ( as far as rendering).
It was never the fact that MS implemented non-standardized tags or specs.. it's that they did so and then stopped! They let IE6 stand with little more than security fixes for nearly a decade.
I applaud any browser maker that pushes the web forward - but do so knowing that you will likely be revising your implementation as standards are approved and adopted. This is why so much of CSS3+ implementation starts as mozilla-css-supported-thing-here and webkit-css-thing-there. Developers can choose to implement or not. HTML tags would be no different - then when the standard is set the browser simply supports both the prior behavior and the new standard behavior but identifies that the prior is deprecated and phases out support over 2-3 minor or major versions (depending on their dev cycle).
I pay about $50 / month with a FIOS bundle from Verizon (total is $120 w/ HD and HD DVR rental). I get 25 MB down and 15MB up. This is in a suburb of Dallas so YMMV.
Apple's iPhone Continues to Outpace Smartphone Industry Growth - while proving your point in one sense, regarding Nokia, also demonstrates a counterpoint to your 'marginal' comment - 3rd worldwide in volume and market share with over 10% is anything but marginal. With a growth rate of > 90% there is every reason to believe iPhones will over take RIM in the near future. If you were to look at "Consumer" phone usage/market share I'd be willing to bet iPhones are already #2 and fast closing on Nokia.
Gadgets and smart phones are still primarily a man's toy/device... this UI is very effeminate and reminds me of a magazine... maybe that's what they mean by code-naming it 'Metro' as in metro-sexual... It's not all bad but I wonder how well it scales to things like email inboxes, etc. ie: we're looking at comps of navigation screens but there's no screens of what form controls look like, preference dialogs, etc.
It's much improved from what we've seen in the past but there's a lot of room still for mistakes and bad UI decisions.
Uh we have thousands of years of bits and pieces of history -translated and adulterated as the editors saw fit. Thera nothing wrong with the written word but I would say we've recorded a million more times the history in the last decade than was recorded in all of history due to the digital revolution.
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Apple didn't just package it better. They packaged it so it works on the device. Features don't get used when they are too clumsy. Try to sell me a hand power drill that requires two hands to operate and I'll tell you to suck it. Sure if it was the only drill available I'd try to make it work but I'd drop it instantly the minute I saw a one handed version.
The interface is the tool. Without a good interface it's just a bunch of technology being under used.
I got my wife an iPhone as a laptop replacement. It does everything she would use a laptop for. Email, web (including banking though most is done through the banks App), music, photos, games. I'll get her an iPad for Xmas cause it will be like a big iPhone. She'll love it. If I got her a Netbook or a laptop she'd just be asking me for help all the time to install things and fix things but she wouldn't actually do more with it.
I don't expect her personal use pattern to change ever.
+2 for the RoboCop tie in.
Obama wasn't calling out particular devices. 5 years ago it would gave been "laptops on wifi, iPods, MP3 players, Cellphones with net connections, Playstation and Nintendo mobile" Yes both iPods and mp3 players :) adds that presidential touch.
In any case he's warning an at risk group of university students to focus on their education rather than being distracted by always on media and Media.
These speeches aren't always 100% addressing the greatr society. Sometimes they specifically address the physical audience.
What's funny to me is that my iPhone gets 113/160 and at least 7 points were lost because of video/ audio codecs. The rest was web workers and forms.
I actually agree w the MS rep though. HTML 5 is not yet a standard and there are a lot of things (like web workers and forms) that haven't really been fully thought out.
No that's classic cannabalism. Eat your enemies to gain their power. See the movie Ravenous or wikipedia cannabalism.
I wrote a Flash app optimized for touch. A Panasonic In Flight Entertainment application. Flash was fine to develop in but the performance on the device was pretty abysmal. Just my anecdotal evidence. Embedded Linux w/ Flash 10 swf support. Custom built for this purpose.
Art is the act of making. If careful consideration is taken during the creation of an object (whether physical, virtual, dimensional or abstract) there is the potential for art. Art is from an artisan. You cannot separate the two. What is not art is the slapped together creation of necessity or utility (though you can make utilitarian art). A carefully planned meal presented with care is art. A room arranged with intent is art. Certainly a game which expresses more than mete mechanics of play is art. Even thoughtfully discerned and employed game theory/mechanics is art if the result is enlightening.
Recreating the same again would not be art without the addition of a new layer of expression (which is why you can't copy Wharhol's style and call it art) - the innovation of expression is what can be considered the artfulness rather than the technique.
Where did you find a PS2 keyboard? I thought they only came out for the PS3!
Hmmm we should call it something like "The Last Sky Fighter" and send some old lizzardy looking dude in to seal the deal.
I think your reference may have flown over your mods collective heads. Sky Network. Now contract that.
They should instead spray on biological reactants to absorb odors and/or biodegradation accelerators to speed up the process.
Should have been flipped around:
Java is to JavaScript as Fish is to Phishing
Sounds better and more similarity.
Say for arguments sake that every application created for a PC ran on bare metal CPU or at worst on a BIOS to provide access to hardware: hard drives, input devices, peripherals, networking, etc.
This should make those applications much faster as there would be no middle man OS getting in the way telling the app what it could or couldn't do with resources. Every request by the app was responded to as fast as the CPU was able.
This is what the poor MS guy is talking about. How many apps do you want to run at a time? More than 32? Well there's going to be 128 cores available in the not so distant future. You could run 128 applications that could talk to each other (conceivably) without any standard OS getting in the way. Now of course you would likely need a few 'applications' which we take for granted as part of the System OS - File management and Search, Basic Networking (getting IPs, DNS, DHCP, etc), Print Manager, etc. so some cores would be taken up by these utility apps.
Overall though you would be running one app, one core with a Hypervisor of sorts managing the interconnect.
You have to admit that it's an interesting perspective if nothing else... stop trying to manage threads, processes, optimization for parallel computing... just stop and realize that you don't have to any more. There are plenty of cores to go around... just give the app it's own core and let it run hog wild.
On Macs you always could (well as far back as I go - OS 7.1) continue using the GUI while actions were taking place. This leads to the sometimes annoying but usually hilarious episodes where you accidentally open hundreds of files but then hit cmd+. to cancel all of your opens.. so you see a tiling of windows for a few seconds, then an untiling of windows for the next few seconds.
In Windows this could never happen because it would only open the first file - then the PC would lock up and you'd have to just quit Explorer via Task Manager (which may actually be more productive - unless you actually do want to open hundreds of files... then you're screwed in Windows, it will never happen).
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Apple has even managed to streamline their transition methodology so it now appears to be a seamless experience... look at 32 bit to 64 bit handling in 10.6 - you get a dialogue telling you it's going to open in 32 bit mode, then it just works. Classic (OS 9) support was similar towards the end, you could open a Universal app in either Classic or OS X by checking a box.
Microsoft bought Virtual PC but didn't do anything with it for several years. They should have dropped it into Vista as the emulator, auto-opened unsupported applications in an XP window - nobody would have known the difference... voila, backwards compatibility with anything supported on XP (which was almost everything). Finally they could have just go on with making a new OS.
Now of course with Parallels or VMWare, you can run any Windows applications on any machine - Mac, Windows, Linux so you can have compatibility and choice.
Couldn't you just validate first then test? Seems like if you are standards compliant you'll be good in any standards based browser. I then test in ie with the ie7/8.js file conditionally included. Usually works first go as well ( as far as rendering).
It was never the fact that MS implemented non-standardized tags or specs.. it's that they did so and then stopped! They let IE6 stand with little more than security fixes for nearly a decade.
I applaud any browser maker that pushes the web forward - but do so knowing that you will likely be revising your implementation as standards are approved and adopted. This is why so much of CSS3+ implementation starts as mozilla-css-supported-thing-here and webkit-css-thing-there. Developers can choose to implement or not. HTML tags would be no different - then when the standard is set the browser simply supports both the prior behavior and the new standard behavior but identifies that the prior is deprecated and phases out support over 2-3 minor or major versions (depending on their dev cycle).
Ah but the netbook will also run all the software you don't want it to run. Say hello to virii Trojans rootkits and malware.
That's just a list of software. Word is that MS is looking at Office for iPad. Software can be ported.
I pay about $50 / month with a FIOS bundle from Verizon (total is $120 w/ HD and HD DVR rental). I get 25 MB down and 15MB up. This is in a suburb of Dallas so YMMV.
Your anecdote is depressing.
Are you talking phones or smartphones?
Apple's iPhone Continues to Outpace Smartphone Industry Growth - while proving your point in one sense, regarding Nokia, also demonstrates a counterpoint to your 'marginal' comment - 3rd worldwide in volume and market share with over 10% is anything but marginal. With a growth rate of > 90% there is every reason to believe iPhones will over take RIM in the near future. If you were to look at "Consumer" phone usage/market share I'd be willing to bet iPhones are already #2 and fast closing on Nokia.
Gadgets and smart phones are still primarily a man's toy/device... this UI is very effeminate and reminds me of a magazine... maybe that's what they mean by code-naming it 'Metro' as in metro-sexual... It's not all bad but I wonder how well it scales to things like email inboxes, etc. ie: we're looking at comps of navigation screens but there's no screens of what form controls look like, preference dialogs, etc.
It's much improved from what we've seen in the past but there's a lot of room still for mistakes and bad UI decisions.
Uh we have thousands of years of bits and pieces of history -translated and adulterated as the editors saw fit. Thera nothing wrong with the written word but I would say we've recorded a million more times the history in the last decade than was recorded in all of history due to the digital revolution.
I'm betting that it's supposed slick performance is due to the fact that it does not multi-task.....