He would say that. He's got to keep his heated driveway running somehow.
But there does need to be a massive improvement in solar technology. I've often thought that the water could be preheated with solar power (black pipes in glass cages) before being heated by coal fired or gas fired plants. It would require less energy then.
Your washing machine sources hot water to reduce the amount of heating it does itself. So the idea is well established.
The first home computers were very limited, the first laptops were very limited so it's obvious when you create a new form factor that it will be limited at first and then grow and develop naturally.
An iPad with x86 and a more complete OS would have failed. It would have had about 3 or 4 hours battery life, been twice as thick, weighed more, cost more and so on.
Most computer users are not programmers, are not command line wizards. If this was a tablet being launched in the 1980s then sure, it would be complex, hard to use and geeky. But the Internet has made most people computer users, people who weren't interested in computers even though they were around for decades.
Okay answer this. To access the voicemail the "hacker" would have needed to know her phone number. How on earth would a newspaper get such information unless volunteered?
It's likely they paid a bent cop or a friend for the information. That's not exactly good is it?
It doesn't matter how good the passcode is, the fact is they obtained the phone number with a view to trying to gain access to personal information. Even if the passcode was 0000 they still had no legal right to be accessing the voicemail, not to mention deleting messages which could have been vital information for the Police investigation.
Thing is, they claim better colour reproduction, sharper images and so on. When in reality a HDMI cable can only degrade when it is producing errors in the signal. But such a cable is *faulty* not just average in quality.
It would be like saying a higher quality USB cable results in better print outs when connected to your printer.
What about the internal wiring of the TV? surely it is pointless using a £100 interconnect when the internal wiring of the TV is using fairly cheap wire?
It's always the same, "we don't need tablet apps as phone apps look good" which isn't true. If you wanted to see the same phone app bigger you could just hold the phone closer to your face:)
If Apple's iPad was like that people would be pointing the finger and laughing. But because Android has the problem people say "It's okay, we don't need that".
This reminds me of Canon and Nikon camera fans. For years Nikon fans would say "we don't need full frame sensors" because Canon had them and Nikon didn't. As soon as Nikon had them they were proclaiming it was the best thing since sliced bread.
Porsche's have barely changed in years, especially the 911. They get refinements but nothing major.
Electric cars are developing at a faster pace, so by the time you've paid off your car (you would probably need finance) there will be a much better model with twice or more the range.
A small fuel tank on a car would mean more stops, but with an electric car the recharge time may be overnight. Not much use. But if it was 10 minutes or there was an option to swap batteries then it wouldn't be so bad.
It's also looks like you aren't good enough to get a job or that your skills and experience have been evaluated and you have been made a pay offer of $0.
i had to kill my profile folder and start again with FF4 as it was running so bad. However FF5 seems to have improved performance, which is probably why they released it so fast.
Perhaps there's no money in it? Apple are quite happy raking in record sums of money from hardware sales rather than trying to figure out how to monetize a free online service.
Seriously, it's a phone. You call people on it, you do a bit of browsing and email on it. Run a few apps on it.
Some of us have better things to do than worry about root access, building ROMs and "using the device how I want".
When you have a serious lack of time due to family commitments, social life and other hobbies you just want a phone that works well and doesn't require lots of techie time to get it working well.
People who defend their choice of phone by the ability to build and install their own ROM need to get a life.
Fact this everyone is in favour of green energy until a windfarm is proposed on the local beauty spot.
There's too many NIMBYs to make wind farms work. They can't generate all the energy we need.
Nuclear is safer than Coal and Gas when you take into account the number of miners and gas workers who have died in accidents over the years. The number of people who have died as a result of Nuclear is in the 60s. Cars kill thousands a year but I don't see many people talking about eliminating those?
We could have reduced energy usage massively before home computers took off, but we're too reliant on them now to start to talk about cutting back on electricity usage.
Personally i don't want to be forced to live like a caveman just so people can carry on flying around the world on holiday. Nobody seems to be forcing the airlines to do anything about their emissions.
It's good for the public and the browser makers. But damned annoying for the developers who believed the Silverlight evangelists preaching about how it was going to kill Flash. It's also a bit irritating for those who invested time building Silverlight chart engines and other rich controls for reporting tools.
It could end up that large organisations will have to pay lots of money to hire these sort of people and they will be only available to the highest bidder.
If anything, the "man on the street" test is often the best one and usability testing is always best done with a total beginner.
Geeks will adapt to all sorts of ridiculously unusable and bad interfaces (command line?:)) but the general public won't.
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Why does everything have to be open? the "built it yourself" PC market is a niche for geeks. Most computers sold now are laptops which may as well be made by the person selling you the OS as they're not built to any generic standard internally. So why aren't people complaining about the laptop market not being "open"?
RIM isn't dying because they have a bad product, they are dying because they are a phone associated with business and consumers wanting a personal phone don't want a phone from a stuffy business orientated vendor.
RIM had one or two killer ideas, Push Email and Remote Wipe. Both are commonplace elsewhere now, although Push Email tends to be done differently on non-RIM devices due to their patent.
RIM released a tablet computer that has none of their strengths in corporate phones, no email, no 3G connectivity and the usability was criticised too, O2 in the UK refuse to sell it for that reason.
That's funny because almost all Apple software (bar the high end pro stuff) doesn't have licence keys, online activation and all the other crap Microsoft and others have forced on users over the years.
A patent is just protection on an idea, the idea may not be a good one but one that may eventually become a reality.
I'd love such a feature on all phones. Then I could watch a gig without some idiot in front taking an extremely rubbish video with clipped sound blocking my view.
Why pay £20-30 for a concert ticket then spend half of the gig watching it through a 3 inch screen?
So I guess you're typing your message using Lynx browser running in a terminal? I guess not, so you're guilty of using a dumbed down computer interface. Real men use the command line, using a mouse you're avoiding learning a zillion keyboard shortcuts which requires skill.
Computers used to be reliable, simple to use and required very little technical skills. Microsoft and Intel ruined this with their lousy inferior designs (Amigas, Atari STs and Acorn Archimedes computers were much nicer to use).
So far from dumbing down computers, Apple and others are trying to get us back to where we were before Microsoft and the junk that is the PC architecture ruined computing. The fact that everyone seems to be investigating the use of ARM is a good thing as the ARM series of processors can be traced back to Acorn in the 80s so it is at least a decade newer in concept than x86.
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The Pacman movie was about some people in a club munching pills and listening to repetitive music.
Avoid sawing through the chips and capacitors too, they contain all sorts of nasty stuff.
He would say that. He's got to keep his heated driveway running somehow.
But there does need to be a massive improvement in solar technology. I've often thought that the water could be preheated with solar power (black pipes in glass cages) before being heated by coal fired or gas fired plants. It would require less energy then.
Your washing machine sources hot water to reduce the amount of heating it does itself. So the idea is well established.
The first home computers were very limited, the first laptops were very limited so it's obvious when you create a new form factor that it will be limited at first and then grow and develop naturally.
An iPad with x86 and a more complete OS would have failed. It would have had about 3 or 4 hours battery life, been twice as thick, weighed more, cost more and so on.
Most computer users are not programmers, are not command line wizards. If this was a tablet being launched in the 1980s then sure, it would be complex, hard to use and geeky. But the Internet has made most people computer users, people who weren't interested in computers even though they were around for decades.
Okay answer this. To access the voicemail the "hacker" would have needed to know her phone number. How on earth would a newspaper get such information unless volunteered?
It's likely they paid a bent cop or a friend for the information. That's not exactly good is it?
It doesn't matter how good the passcode is, the fact is they obtained the phone number with a view to trying to gain access to personal information. Even if the passcode was 0000 they still had no legal right to be accessing the voicemail, not to mention deleting messages which could have been vital information for the Police investigation.
Thing is, they claim better colour reproduction, sharper images and so on. When in reality a HDMI cable can only degrade when it is producing errors in the signal. But such a cable is *faulty* not just average in quality.
It would be like saying a higher quality USB cable results in better print outs when connected to your printer.
What about the internal wiring of the TV? surely it is pointless using a £100 interconnect when the internal wiring of the TV is using fairly cheap wire?
It's always the same, "we don't need tablet apps as phone apps look good" which isn't true. If you wanted to see the same phone app bigger you could just hold the phone closer to your face :)
If Apple's iPad was like that people would be pointing the finger and laughing. But because Android has the problem people say "It's okay, we don't need that".
This reminds me of Canon and Nikon camera fans. For years Nikon fans would say "we don't need full frame sensors" because Canon had them and Nikon didn't. As soon as Nikon had them they were proclaiming it was the best thing since sliced bread.
What's not to like about a quieter more refined drive? and no gears!!!
Electric motors are hugely powerful and smooth. They just need a lot of power which can't be stored easily right now.
Electricity can be produced from gas, coal, renewables and nuclear. With petrol you have to have oil, there is no choice.
Porsche's have barely changed in years, especially the 911. They get refinements but nothing major.
Electric cars are developing at a faster pace, so by the time you've paid off your car (you would probably need finance) there will be a much better model with twice or more the range.
It's not so much the range but the recharge time.
A small fuel tank on a car would mean more stops, but with an electric car the recharge time may be overnight. Not much use. But if it was 10 minutes or there was an option to swap batteries then it wouldn't be so bad.
It's also looks like you aren't good enough to get a job or that your skills and experience have been evaluated and you have been made a pay offer of $0.
i had to kill my profile folder and start again with FF4 as it was running so bad. However FF5 seems to have improved performance, which is probably why they released it so fast.
Exactly. You need a simple or cute name to catch on.
Diaspora is an awful name, I know it has a meaning (although I had to Google it so as to make sure it wasn't a disease) but it's hardly catchy.
Tuxchat would have been better.
Perhaps there's no money in it? Apple are quite happy raking in record sums of money from hardware sales rather than trying to figure out how to monetize a free online service.
Kids do buy games without their parents permission too. Which may only become apparent after a few days.
Seriously, it's a phone. You call people on it, you do a bit of browsing and email on it. Run a few apps on it.
Some of us have better things to do than worry about root access, building ROMs and "using the device how I want".
When you have a serious lack of time due to family commitments, social life and other hobbies you just want a phone that works well and doesn't require lots of techie time to get it working well.
People who defend their choice of phone by the ability to build and install their own ROM need to get a life.
Name the alternatives that don't cost ten times as much?
That's why Final Cut took off, it replaced edit suits costing ten times the price.
Fact this everyone is in favour of green energy until a windfarm is proposed on the local beauty spot.
There's too many NIMBYs to make wind farms work. They can't generate all the energy we need.
Nuclear is safer than Coal and Gas when you take into account the number of miners and gas workers who have died in accidents over the years. The number of people who have died as a result of Nuclear is in the 60s. Cars kill thousands a year but I don't see many people talking about eliminating those?
We could have reduced energy usage massively before home computers took off, but we're too reliant on them now to start to talk about cutting back on electricity usage.
Personally i don't want to be forced to live like a caveman just so people can carry on flying around the world on holiday. Nobody seems to be forcing the airlines to do anything about their emissions.
It's good for the public and the browser makers. But damned annoying for the developers who believed the Silverlight evangelists preaching about how it was going to kill Flash.
It's also a bit irritating for those who invested time building Silverlight chart engines and other rich controls for reporting tools.
It could end up that large organisations will have to pay lots of money to hire these sort of people and they will be only available to the highest bidder.
Why do you have to be a geek to judge technology?
If anything, the "man on the street" test is often the best one and usability testing is always best done with a total beginner.
Geeks will adapt to all sorts of ridiculously unusable and bad interfaces (command line? :)) but the general public won't.
Why does everything have to be open? the "built it yourself" PC market is a niche for geeks. Most computers sold now are laptops which may as well be made by the person selling you the OS as they're not built to any generic standard internally. So why aren't people complaining about the laptop market not being "open"?
RIM isn't dying because they have a bad product, they are dying because they are a phone associated with business and consumers wanting a personal phone don't want a phone from a stuffy business orientated vendor.
RIM had one or two killer ideas, Push Email and Remote Wipe. Both are commonplace elsewhere now, although Push Email tends to be done differently on non-RIM devices due to their patent.
RIM released a tablet computer that has none of their strengths in corporate phones, no email, no 3G connectivity and the usability was criticised too, O2 in the UK refuse to sell it for that reason.
That's funny because almost all Apple software (bar the high end pro stuff) doesn't have licence keys, online activation and all the other crap Microsoft and others have forced on users over the years.
A patent is just protection on an idea, the idea may not be a good one but one that may eventually become a reality.
I'd love such a feature on all phones. Then I could watch a gig without some idiot in front taking an extremely rubbish video with clipped sound blocking my view.
Why pay £20-30 for a concert ticket then spend half of the gig watching it through a 3 inch screen?
So I guess you're typing your message using Lynx browser running in a terminal? I guess not, so you're guilty of using a dumbed down computer interface. Real men use the command line, using a mouse you're avoiding learning a zillion keyboard shortcuts which requires skill.
Computers used to be reliable, simple to use and required very little technical skills. Microsoft and Intel ruined this with their lousy inferior designs (Amigas, Atari STs and Acorn Archimedes computers were much nicer to use).
So far from dumbing down computers, Apple and others are trying to get us back to where we were before Microsoft and the junk that is the PC architecture ruined computing. The fact that everyone seems to be investigating the use of ARM is a good thing as the ARM series of processors can be traced back to Acorn in the 80s so it is at least a decade newer in concept than x86.