Until Android made it big but had no real support for real time video, just about every phone with a UMTS radio had a front facing camera. This because one of the big selling points from the carriers point of view was mobile video calls...
I this not what the buzzword pushers have wanted to sell ever since they started talking about "the cloud"?
Hell, the big boys never wanted people to leave the mainframe world. We just found ourselves in a world where lugging the storage media, and later the whole computer, around was more effective then trying to dial in to work. Now that connectivity have caught up with that, the trends are reversing. Much to the chagrin of the nerds that enjoy "modable" computers.
Also, it is a very good visualizer for the state of things at any one time. This because anyone can see a reference to G15 and look up that rectangle to see what the state of things are and work out the logic of the code in their head.
with a bit of creative interpretation, one could say they got a faster horse (at least in the context of horse and carriage).
It may not be that people do not know what they want, but that they do not know how to describe what they want outside of referencing existing objects.
So the issue is that the end points of peaks and troughs are shifting, indicating that there are more energy in the system? That is, the highs of high pressure and the lows of low pressure are becoming more pronounced?
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Because rather then various entries for food, gear and whatsnot there is one entry for contractor billing on the spreadsheet.
Also, if shit happens they can "cancel" the contract and turn around to hire someone else (never mind that it may well be the same outfit under a different name). Plausible deniability...
Redesign? Reads to me like drag and drop, something that has been with mouse based GUI since day one. Hell, how long have Apple used dragging and dropping the optical media icon to the trash bin as the eject media action? Reads to me like he is just reminding them about KISS. Thing is that when it comes to Apple, KISS ends up meaning that all users are locked out of tweaking the options. The proverbial hood is welded shut...
This comes from it having evolved with time and new use cases...
It started with USB in A and B form, A being the computer host) side and B being the peripheral side. This because at the time all the smarts was expected to be in the computer, the B shape was easier to integrate in various designs, and one avoided the issue of someone plugging in a hub wrongly (only one B port, but multiple A ports).
As devices became smaller, a need for a smaller version of the plug was found, and so we got mini-A and B.
The real change came with micro, as now phones where rivaling computers in smarts. As such, the A and B thinking no longer applied. End result, the micro-AB port on the "peripheral" side to accompany the USB-OTG definition. This allowing both the A and B micro plugs to be inserted, so that a phone or similar can act both as a host and a peripheral.
Thing is tho, and this is what makes USB a standard, is that a old USB camera with a full size B port can be plugged into a phones micro-AB port with the use of a adapter and still be expected to work!
Now perhaps it would be nice if future computers started shipping with one or more micro-AB ports , gradually phasing out the full size A over time, This could perhaps even allow laptops to be directly wired together using a USB cable without the need for specialized cables.
heh, the first thing i see with the Apple ads is that the are basically show and tell instruction videos (here is how to take a photo, here is how to buy a app, here is how to do XYZ). No wonder Apple products are "easy to use", we are being told how things are done at every advertisement break...
1 i overlook as that do not impact Android as a system directly.
2 Could be done via the mentioned Accessory system (it is barely 7 months old, so give it time).
3 has the issue of design restraint. i suspect some kind of NFC/induction system is more likely to work then a physical connector. There are however an attempt at a dock connector, called PDMI. But so far the only big name that seems to use it is Samsung, and they even managed to "proprietize" the implementation.
4 may come about via the Accessory system, tho i suspect he somewhat overlooks the complexity of what he is asking for. For instance, webcams do not have a USB profile like one find for storage and input devices (keyboard, mouse, joypad). Also, the phone would basically have to present itself as a USB hub with multiple attached USB devices for what he asked for to work. More likely, now that 4.0 unveiled is that we see something like the Motorola webtop. By this i mean that one attach a display and input devices to the phone, and the phone presents the Android tablet interface to the user via the connected display. This would in essence turn the phone into his desktop computer for the duration.
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Supposedly Max Planck has said that science progresses one funeral at a time...
Digital Guy Fawkes?
Was there not a commercial or two made a few years back that had John Wayne in them?
I am still waiting for Hollywood to pull a agent Smith on all the actors of a movie, or even to archive their digital likeness for future use...
Next up, swapping a high salary actor with a cheap body double and some software.
They dropped of the radar for Android phones because Android did not support UMTS video calling, or something like that.
Until Android made it big but had no real support for real time video, just about every phone with a UMTS radio had a front facing camera. This because one of the big selling points from the carriers point of view was mobile video calls...
I this not what the buzzword pushers have wanted to sell ever since they started talking about "the cloud"?
Hell, the big boys never wanted people to leave the mainframe world. We just found ourselves in a world where lugging the storage media, and later the whole computer, around was more effective then trying to dial in to work. Now that connectivity have caught up with that, the trends are reversing. Much to the chagrin of the nerds that enjoy "modable" computers.
I think Google a web based IDE for Android that used a similar concept.
http://www.appinventorbeta.com/about/
Funnily, i thought they had closed it down...
Also, it is a very good visualizer for the state of things at any one time. This because anyone can see a reference to G15 and look up that rectangle to see what the state of things are and work out the logic of the code in their head.
with a bit of creative interpretation, one could say they got a faster horse (at least in the context of horse and carriage).
It may not be that people do not know what they want, but that they do not know how to describe what they want outside of referencing existing objects.
messenger vs message?
So the issue is that the end points of peaks and troughs are shifting, indicating that there are more energy in the system? That is, the highs of high pressure and the lows of low pressure are becoming more pronounced?
That sounds more like a variation on velcro.
Because rather then various entries for food, gear and whatsnot there is one entry for contractor billing on the spreadsheet.
Also, if shit happens they can "cancel" the contract and turn around to hire someone else (never mind that it may well be the same outfit under a different name). Plausible deniability...
I checked the program out, and to me it was 25 mins of apple product ads with 5 mins of ranting against "pirates", or something in that ballpark...
Hell, Hyneman seemed like he wanted to be anywhere but in front of the camera.
The Parc people knew what they had, but the Xerox board on the other hand...
Redesign? Reads to me like drag and drop, something that has been with mouse based GUI since day one. Hell, how long have Apple used dragging and dropping the optical media icon to the trash bin as the eject media action? Reads to me like he is just reminding them about KISS. Thing is that when it comes to Apple, KISS ends up meaning that all users are locked out of tweaking the options. The proverbial hood is welded shut...
Android phones and tablets are getting this now, and there is already USB-OTG for such uses (and why the micro-AB port exists).
This allows them to access external storage devices, input devices (including joypads and mice) and perhaps more in the future.
This comes from it having evolved with time and new use cases...
It started with USB in A and B form, A being the computer host) side and B being the peripheral side. This because at the time all the smarts was expected to be in the computer, the B shape was easier to integrate in various designs, and one avoided the issue of someone plugging in a hub wrongly (only one B port, but multiple A ports).
As devices became smaller, a need for a smaller version of the plug was found, and so we got mini-A and B.
The real change came with micro, as now phones where rivaling computers in smarts. As such, the A and B thinking no longer applied. End result, the micro-AB port on the "peripheral" side to accompany the USB-OTG definition. This allowing both the A and B micro plugs to be inserted, so that a phone or similar can act both as a host and a peripheral.
Thing is tho, and this is what makes USB a standard, is that a old USB camera with a full size B port can be plugged into a phones micro-AB port with the use of a adapter and still be expected to work!
Now perhaps it would be nice if future computers started shipping with one or more micro-AB ports , gradually phasing out the full size A over time, This could perhaps even allow laptops to be directly wired together using a USB cable without the need for specialized cables.
mini != micro...
heh, the first thing i see with the Apple ads is that the are basically show and tell instruction videos (here is how to take a photo, here is how to buy a app, here is how to do XYZ). No wonder Apple products are "easy to use", we are being told how things are done at every advertisement break...
variant? There is one kind of micro-USB...
1 i overlook as that do not impact Android as a system directly.
2 Could be done via the mentioned Accessory system (it is barely 7 months old, so give it time).
3 has the issue of design restraint. i suspect some kind of NFC/induction system is more likely to work then a physical connector. There are however an attempt at a dock connector, called PDMI. But so far the only big name that seems to use it is Samsung, and they even managed to "proprietize" the implementation.
4 may come about via the Accessory system, tho i suspect he somewhat overlooks the complexity of what he is asking for. For instance, webcams do not have a USB profile like one find for storage and input devices (keyboard, mouse, joypad). Also, the phone would basically have to present itself as a USB hub with multiple attached USB devices for what he asked for to work. More likely, now that 4.0 unveiled is that we see something like the Motorola webtop. By this i mean that one attach a display and input devices to the phone, and the phone presents the Android tablet interface to the user via the connected display. This would in essence turn the phone into his desktop computer for the duration.
5 not going to touch it....
Mind if i reference the allegory of the cave? (tho i admit, that is a sword that cut both ways in this regard)
Given that Motorola is not even capable of standardizing their webtop connectivity across their phone range, this will never happen.