Timing, when referring to pulsars, refers to the timing of the pulses, which is determined by the pulsar's spin rate. Each pulse is going to be affected in almost identical ways by anything between us, gravitational effects, whatever, almost all the time. Sure, if something big happened to pass between us and the pulsar there might be a lensing event, but you'd just use a different pulsar.
The spin, however, isn't perfectly regular. It slows down for a variety of reasons, and can be changed a bit by star quakes.
It's not so much difficulty. With a camera you're reconstructing captured and stored visual information. You're storing a representation of photons then using a display device to recreate similar photons and send them on.
With a sonar "image" you're converting non-visual information into a visual form. You're not representing photons with photons, you're representing something else with photons.
Most people wouldn't have any difficulty saying that an image showing pressure variation in a wind tunnel was computer generated. This is the same thing.
Okay. What are the properties of, say, element 120? Unfortunately there aren't any known exemplars in it's group. In fact, it seems it's group is largely theoretical.
Well, I guess there was a sad day a couple of decades ago. People have been hacking their remote controls, cars, thermostats, etc. for as long as these things have had microprocessors/controllers.
Notable device hacks from today include the iPhone, iPad, Android phones, and game consoles.
Well, for a webcam photo the computer just throws the pixels on the screen. For a JPEG the process is a little more involved, but it's still image data and gets tossed onscreen.
This sonar image started as a bunch of very complicated times. Yes, time. The time it takes a sound wave to travel to and return from the sub. Then the computer converts those times into distances. But you're not done - sonic imaging (either sonar or ultrasound) is somewhat complicated to reconstruct, so the computer has to do a bunch of work there as well. Finally you get an image, which is then displayed on screen.
Ah, but my rook is checking your "qat" which nullifies your bunt so the penalty reverses and transmogrifies. You have to sing the I'm Sorry song while touching the flags in alphabetical order. Twice.
"but we, and the world, are a whole lot more stable now"
And there's the problem. Stability means demanding ever more TV channels to entertain us. Instability means working your butt off to make sure you're better than the other guy.
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"My personal main gripe would be that you can't write on it as if it were paper, more specifically a pad of paper."
Why not? Buy yourself a stylus. I've seen the Pogo ones for as little as $3. There are LOTS of sketch pad / notebook type apps. There are even some that have very impressive handwriting recognition (note that your paper pad doesn't do handwriting recognition).
"It's that simple. If all you want is a cheap, fast, easy way to browse the internet then MAYBE the iPad is it but you simply cannot give this to grandma and never expect to have to support it again."
True. Now, my grandmother has a notebook. She never uses it. She liked checking her e-mail and getting messages from her kids and grandkids when we first got her the notebook, and when someone is around to bring it to her and get it running, but hauling out the notebook herself was too much of a pain. Now she makes up reasons why she doesn't need e-mail (oh, the mail is good enough for me...).
An iPad might just be perfect for her. She can use it casually and just has to remember to charge it every few days. Updates are really quite few and far between (mandatoryish ones even more so). One of us could easily update it for her while visiting.
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Exactly. Have to read some online technical documentation? You can do it hunched over your desktop/notebook, or you can grab a tablet, lean back and read it like you would a hard copy. The closest I've found to this with a notebook is to have it on my lap in a hammock.
An iPad isn't a computer replacement, but it's going to be a great supplement. One way I see using it is like I'd use a dual monitor setup - document/web page tutorial or reference on the iPad with, for example, code on the big screen.
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"The good thing is that this tiny fraction of a percent that this device represents won't have significant impact on changing the web as we know it...not in the least."
The iPad certainly isn't solely responsible for all of that, but Flash would seem to be a pretty poor horse to back going forward.
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"Even the chat clients can become an issue because you have to keep switching out of them to view links that people send. A buddy sends me link to all sorts of sites while we chat, from looking up a product on ebay.com or newegg.com to articles about technology or automotive. I have to copy the link, then close out of the chat, and then switch to the browser, paste the URL (because no way on earth I'm going to type it again). It works even though it is cumbersome."
Get a decent chat client. All the ones I've looked at on the iPhone have built in web browsers. Click on the link and they show it to you.
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Sure. I've got lots of textbooks that easily weigh twice that. Hardcover novels must push that too. Even some of the bigger paperback novels are probably close.
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Put it in a ziplock and it should work just fine in the shower.
If you want to be more careful, I think I have a clear underwater bag that should work, and is certified by the Israeli special forces to work for scuba divers. I think someone is even selling one specifically as a waterproof iPad case.
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"But he noted that the iPad isn't usable even for grandmas. Lets face it, you have to use keyboard every now and then to use web or to do basically anything. That's not going to change until we have good speech recognition. Also if the iPad weights too much even for a guy without your hands getting sore, how can a grandma keep it in hand?"
I don't know about your grandma, but mine likes to do her reading her with book in her lap (she's not holding it up, why would she hold up an iPad?) and she types by the tried and true hunt and peck method, which works just as well (maybe better) on a virtual keyboard as it does on a physical one.
As for your other points, you might have noticed that Flash has taken a bit of a beating lately, you apparently have never used a multi-network chat client (does anybody seriously keep MSN, Skype, Facebook, whatever else all running at the same time?) and must have somehow missed the plethora of Office compatible viewers and editors available for the iPhone, many of which will surely soon have iPad versions.
Sure, the iPad isn't for anyone, but none of your objections seem to be actual serious reasons why the average person wouldn't use one.
Sounds like neither one of you is a particularly good driver. He can't drive a standard and you lack the skill to properly judge when it is safe to turn onto a street and rely on your car's performance to save you.
We're talking about the iPad versus netbooks here. Perhaps you could try a bit harder to keep up instead of hunting down my posts and "thinking" up obnoxious replies?
"If you reply, please have the decency to understand basic facts like market share."
My, you are obnoxious aren't you? Are you just socially inept or do you have some serious Apple envy? 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.
8-14% of the notebook market isn't exactly "niche." 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. If you count all the microprocessors in the world then Microsoft is pretty "niche" as well.
You also don't seem to know the definition of the term "vaporware." And your reply to my other post suggests you don't know what "multitouch" means.
Most companies specify their battery life with fairly light usage. Apparently the reviewers are getting 11+ hours on the iPad playing videos constantly, wifi on, bright screen, sound on and checking e-mail in the background. In other words, pretty much all out.
There's an SSH client program for it, even officially.. If you're going to jailbreak it and install an SSH server anyway you might as well just use a regular terminal app though.
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Timing, when referring to pulsars, refers to the timing of the pulses, which is determined by the pulsar's spin rate. Each pulse is going to be affected in almost identical ways by anything between us, gravitational effects, whatever, almost all the time. Sure, if something big happened to pass between us and the pulsar there might be a lensing event, but you'd just use a different pulsar.
The spin, however, isn't perfectly regular. It slows down for a variety of reasons, and can be changed a bit by star quakes.
It's not so much difficulty. With a camera you're reconstructing captured and stored visual information. You're storing a representation of photons then using a display device to recreate similar photons and send them on.
With a sonar "image" you're converting non-visual information into a visual form. You're not representing photons with photons, you're representing something else with photons.
Most people wouldn't have any difficulty saying that an image showing pressure variation in a wind tunnel was computer generated. This is the same thing.
Sorry, element 121.
Okay. What are the properties of, say, element 120? Unfortunately there aren't any known exemplars in it's group. In fact, it seems it's group is largely theoretical.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodic_table_(extended)
Well, I guess there was a sad day a couple of decades ago. People have been hacking their remote controls, cars, thermostats, etc. for as long as these things have had microprocessors/controllers.
Notable device hacks from today include the iPhone, iPad, Android phones, and game consoles.
There's a pretty picture.
It's not particularly news worthy, in a general sense, but it's a lot more "news for nerds" than a lot of stories.
It's pretty deep if you want to make a high res sonar image of it from the surface.
This company is probably more used to doing high res sonar images of harbours and cable landing areas.
Well, for a webcam photo the computer just throws the pixels on the screen. For a JPEG the process is a little more involved, but it's still image data and gets tossed onscreen.
This sonar image started as a bunch of very complicated times. Yes, time. The time it takes a sound wave to travel to and return from the sub. Then the computer converts those times into distances. But you're not done - sonic imaging (either sonar or ultrasound) is somewhat complicated to reconstruct, so the computer has to do a bunch of work there as well. Finally you get an image, which is then displayed on screen.
So, do you think there's a difference?
It's been hacked: http://www.tuaw.com/2010/04/05/the-ipad-has-been-jailbroken/
Ah, but my rook is checking your "qat" which nullifies your bunt so the penalty reverses and transmogrifies. You have to sing the I'm Sorry song while touching the flags in alphabetical order. Twice.
"but we, and the world, are a whole lot more stable now"
And there's the problem. Stability means demanding ever more TV channels to entertain us. Instability means working your butt off to make sure you're better than the other guy.
"My personal main gripe would be that you can't write on it as if it were paper, more specifically a pad of paper."
Why not? Buy yourself a stylus. I've seen the Pogo ones for as little as $3. There are LOTS of sketch pad / notebook type apps. There are even some that have very impressive handwriting recognition (note that your paper pad doesn't do handwriting recognition).
"It's that simple. If all you want is a cheap, fast, easy way to browse the internet then MAYBE the iPad is it but you simply cannot give this to grandma and never expect to have to support it again."
True. Now, my grandmother has a notebook. She never uses it. She liked checking her e-mail and getting messages from her kids and grandkids when we first got her the notebook, and when someone is around to bring it to her and get it running, but hauling out the notebook herself was too much of a pain. Now she makes up reasons why she doesn't need e-mail (oh, the mail is good enough for me...).
An iPad might just be perfect for her. She can use it casually and just has to remember to charge it every few days. Updates are really quite few and far between (mandatoryish ones even more so). One of us could easily update it for her while visiting.
Exactly. Have to read some online technical documentation? You can do it hunched over your desktop/notebook, or you can grab a tablet, lean back and read it like you would a hard copy. The closest I've found to this with a notebook is to have it on my lap in a hammock.
An iPad isn't a computer replacement, but it's going to be a great supplement. One way I see using it is like I'd use a dual monitor setup - document/web page tutorial or reference on the iPad with, for example, code on the big screen.
"The good thing is that this tiny fraction of a percent that this device represents won't have significant impact on changing the web as we know it...not in the least."
Hm:
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/01/21/google_fights_flash_adds_html5_support_for_youtube_videos_in_safari.html
http://i.tuaw.com/2010/03/25/cbs-planning-html5-videos-for-ipad-compatibility/
http://www.dtechgadget.com/brightcove-announces-support-for-html5-video/
The iPad certainly isn't solely responsible for all of that, but Flash would seem to be a pretty poor horse to back going forward.
"Even the chat clients can become an issue because you have to keep switching out of them to view links that people send. A buddy sends me link to all sorts of sites while we chat, from looking up a product on ebay.com or newegg.com to articles about technology or automotive. I have to copy the link, then close out of the chat, and then switch to the browser, paste the URL (because no way on earth I'm going to type it again). It works even though it is cumbersome."
Get a decent chat client. All the ones I've looked at on the iPhone have built in web browsers. Click on the link and they show it to you.
Sure. I've got lots of textbooks that easily weigh twice that. Hardcover novels must push that too. Even some of the bigger paperback novels are probably close.
Put it in a ziplock and it should work just fine in the shower.
If you want to be more careful, I think I have a clear underwater bag that should work, and is certified by the Israeli special forces to work for scuba divers. I think someone is even selling one specifically as a waterproof iPad case.
"But he noted that the iPad isn't usable even for grandmas. Lets face it, you have to use keyboard every now and then to use web or to do basically anything. That's not going to change until we have good speech recognition. Also if the iPad weights too much even for a guy without your hands getting sore, how can a grandma keep it in hand?"
I don't know about your grandma, but mine likes to do her reading her with book in her lap (she's not holding it up, why would she hold up an iPad?) and she types by the tried and true hunt and peck method, which works just as well (maybe better) on a virtual keyboard as it does on a physical one.
As for your other points, you might have noticed that Flash has taken a bit of a beating lately, you apparently have never used a multi-network chat client (does anybody seriously keep MSN, Skype, Facebook, whatever else all running at the same time?) and must have somehow missed the plethora of Office compatible viewers and editors available for the iPhone, many of which will surely soon have iPad versions.
Sure, the iPad isn't for anyone, but none of your objections seem to be actual serious reasons why the average person wouldn't use one.
Sounds like neither one of you is a particularly good driver. He can't drive a standard and you lack the skill to properly judge when it is safe to turn onto a street and rely on your car's performance to save you.
We're talking about the iPad versus netbooks here. Perhaps you could try a bit harder to keep up instead of hunting down my posts and "thinking" up obnoxious replies?
"If you reply, please have the decency to understand basic facts like market share."
My, you are obnoxious aren't you? Are you just socially inept or do you have some serious Apple envy? 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.
8-14% of the notebook market isn't exactly "niche." 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. If you count all the microprocessors in the world then Microsoft is pretty "niche" as well.
You also don't seem to know the definition of the term "vaporware." And your reply to my other post suggests you don't know what "multitouch" means.
Most companies specify their battery life with fairly light usage. Apparently the reviewers are getting 11+ hours on the iPad playing videos constantly, wifi on, bright screen, sound on and checking e-mail in the background. In other words, pretty much all out.
There's an SSH client program for it, even officially.. If you're going to jailbreak it and install an SSH server anyway you might as well just use a regular terminal app though.
"Among normal people, they (Macs, Iphones, and the Ipad) are niche products."
Yeah, millions sold and the third largest company in the US kind of disagree with you.