According to this video, Apples uses a slightly different approach of just changing the size of the tap targets dynamically, but not changing the size or appearance of the keys.
I would guess Apple's approach is less distracting than changing the key size or highlighting the keys. Rather, it is just 'magic'.
O'Reilly does release the content of some of its books for free through at least two channels:
The first is their Open Books project which includes out-dated, out-of-print, or community produced texts.
The second is their embracing of the Founder's copyright, under which they will release hundreds of books in decades to come, in collaboration with their authors.
It would be great if those books were released earlier, but at least they have taken a stance on releasing them earlier than necessary.
I wonder if this will result in "co-ops" of iTunes Music Store users who band together to buy 25,000 songs at a discounted rate.
It seems like if you wanted 100 songs a year, you would just need 250 people like yourself to come together, pay apple $20,000, and everyone gets 20 songs free.
When I write out that final price, this seems less likely. But if there were some sort of online-escrow/bank account, maybe it would work.
Won't work.
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I think one of the smartest things Apple could do would be to make the iMac screen detacheable and simultaneously revamp their display lineup. The engineering behind making a single LCD screen that can either attach to an iMac or a base with ADC, DVI and VGA inputs (and a USB hub) should be trivial. Added to that, doing so would simultaneously reduce their overall production costs and widen their product line to fill a niche.
But then they would have to design a base and sell it separately. And worry about the LCD-Base connector, and how it might break, and making it forward compatible to future LCDs The LCD mount on an iMac is very sturdy, and has to be since people manhandle it all day. And once the LCD is removed and attached to a base, how do you make sure it stays that way.
The way things are now, the only electronics that are in the LCD are those that are essential, so costs are minimal. To make things portable, adaptable, and upgradable is to make them more expensive (at least in this case)?
He pointed out that Microsoft Office now "just works. You can use it all day long and you won't see the difference." Then he added that wasn't 100% true because, "The Paperclip still doesn't work."
This list suggests that Dean's campaign is going to be a train wreck. I volunteered at his rally in Wisconsin, and got within a few yards of him. I think that I, at 5'7", am taller than him.
It's too bad, since I don't feel strongly for for any of the other Dems, except Kucinich, who is even worse off in the appearance category. I wish it weren't so, but to win a presidential election in the U.S., you have to look presidential.
The strain you are speaking of is actually E. coli O157:H7, also known as Enterohemorrhagic , E. coli (EHEC).
I also think it is a bit of stretch to say that this is a "weird mutant strain" since there are plenty other types of E. coli that can cause diarrhea via food poisoning (including the closing related Enteropathogenic E. coli. Incidentally, O157:H7 doesn't seem to hurt adult cattle too much, it just seems to have a really bad effect inside us (particularly children and elderly).
Hollywood movies broadcast on the networks (or basic cable) are already far from perfect copies, due to the heavy editing of dialogue and scenes.
Jokes don't make sense, the plot loses any logic it might have had, and I just get frustrated.
After recently trying to watch "Mallrats" on Comedy Central, I can tell you that even if I could record a perfect copy of broadcast or basic cable movies, I wouldn't bother.
Anyone who's played Civ or MOO etc, knows the way to win the game is to maximize research.
(And to save umpteen people from replying to point out that I just suggested people base national / global policy in a video game, yeah yeah, I know. I still think it's a valid point.)
An interesting observation, but I think that it is possible that the reason that this works in Civ or MOO (though I have played neither) is that, in that defined system, maximizing research delivers maximimum game-end benefit. I don't think the same is necessarily true in meatspace (ie diminishing returns from long term investment as we reach limits of what is possible). Also, there is no game end the real world.
Of course, I agree that more research is needed to make alternative energy sources cheap enough to compete with oil.
From the article:
The machine also has an intelligent Ethernet port that can tell if it is plugged into an Ethernet network or directly into another Mac, which ordinarily requires a special "cross-over" cable.
I think this is pretty amazing, as I have never heard of this before, but I am not super up-to-date on network hardware.
PCR CAN be used for fingerpring. By pcr, you can generate large amounts of _specific_ areas of the DNA; this is determined by the sequence of the primers you use. This allows fingerprinting to happen in one step, if the primers attach to some highly repetitive region of the genome. It works on the same principle as the Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism technique for DNA fingerprinting, but requires much less starting material.
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According to this video, Apples uses a slightly different approach of just changing the size of the tap targets dynamically, but not changing the size or appearance of the keys.
I would guess Apple's approach is less distracting than changing the key size or highlighting the keys. Rather, it is just 'magic'.
The first is their Open Books project which includes out-dated, out-of-print, or community produced texts.
The second is their embracing of the Founder's copyright, under which they will release hundreds of books in decades to come, in collaboration with their authors.
It would be great if those books were released earlier, but at least they have taken a stance on releasing them earlier than necessary.
I wonder if this will result in "co-ops" of iTunes Music Store users who band together to buy 25,000 songs at a discounted rate.
It seems like if you wanted 100 songs a year, you would just need 250 people like yourself to come together, pay apple $20,000, and everyone gets 20 songs free.
When I write out that final price, this seems less likely. But if there were some sort of online-escrow/bank account, maybe it would work.
But then they would have to design a base and sell it separately. And worry about the LCD-Base connector, and how it might break, and making it forward compatible to future LCDs The LCD mount on an iMac is very sturdy, and has to be since people manhandle it all day. And once the LCD is removed and attached to a base, how do you make sure it stays that way.
The way things are now, the only electronics that are in the LCD are those that are essential, so costs are minimal. To make things portable, adaptable, and upgradable is to make them more expensive (at least in this case)?
He pointed out that Microsoft Office now "just works. You can use it all day long and you won't see the difference." Then he added that wasn't 100% true because, "The Paperclip still doesn't work."
This list suggests that Dean's campaign is going to be a train wreck. I volunteered at his rally in Wisconsin, and got within a few yards of him. I think that I, at 5'7", am taller than him.
It's too bad, since I don't feel strongly for for any of the other Dems, except Kucinich, who is even worse off in the appearance category. I wish it weren't so, but to win a presidential election in the U.S., you have to look presidential.
I also think it is a bit of stretch to say that this is a "weird mutant strain" since there are plenty other types of E. coli that can cause diarrhea via food poisoning (including the closing related Enteropathogenic E. coli. Incidentally, O157:H7 doesn't seem to hurt adult cattle too much, it just seems to have a really bad effect inside us (particularly children and elderly).
Brian.
Hollywood movies broadcast on the networks (or basic cable) are already far from perfect copies, due to the heavy editing of dialogue and scenes.
Jokes don't make sense, the plot loses any logic it might have had, and I just get frustrated.
After recently trying to watch "Mallrats" on Comedy Central, I can tell you that even if I could record a perfect copy of broadcast or basic cable movies, I wouldn't bother.
(And to save umpteen people from replying to point out that I just suggested people base national / global policy in a video game, yeah yeah, I know. I still think it's a valid point.)
An interesting observation, but I think that it is possible that the reason that this works in Civ or MOO (though I have played neither) is that, in that defined system, maximizing research delivers maximimum game-end benefit. I don't think the same is necessarily true in meatspace (ie diminishing returns from long term investment as we reach limits of what is possible). Also, there is no game end the real world.
Of course, I agree that more research is needed to make alternative energy sources cheap enough to compete with oil.
The machine also has an intelligent Ethernet port that can tell if it is plugged into an Ethernet network or directly into another Mac, which ordinarily requires a special "cross-over" cable.
I think this is pretty amazing, as I have never heard of this before, but I am not super up-to-date on network hardware.
Is this actually common?
I just downloaded the Adobe EBook reader (windows or Mac). , and then clicked the library button, which takes you to Adobe's eBook collection
Voila.
The same picture submitted by Art.
Disturbing. Very Disturbing.
But not suprising.
PCR CAN be used for fingerpring. By pcr, you can generate large amounts of _specific_ areas of the DNA; this is determined by the sequence of the primers you use. This allows fingerprinting to happen in one step, if the primers attach to some highly repetitive region of the genome. It works on the same principle as the Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism technique for DNA fingerprinting, but requires much less starting material.