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Can you do that just by hovering over a spinner box? Aside from that it just seems to be a personal preference, and I see no reason to try to paint as something that inefficient use X all day long without any objective evidence. I take advantage of the ability to click next to a slider to change the value in discrete steps, it may seem like inefficient use of screen space to some, but it's arguable whether reducing all UI elements to their bare minimum to save some pixels makes up for the reduced amount of information.
These people use their home computers for the Web and email, for very simple word processing and maybe for the ambitious, spreadsheets for home accounts and hobbies.
True, but my experience is that most people have that one little program that they would never give up, it might be something for their hobby or just some silly cute thing, but if they can't find it on the app store they would be upset. Another thing is that simple word processing is almost always coupled with a printer, and that printer is rarely wireless enabled.
I don't think there's anything to stop them using an iPad for all that, especially with the keyboard addon.
That is already two addons, a USB adapter (if it supports printers) and the keyboard. Granted you wouldn't keep the printer attached all the time, but if you also need the adapter for your camera, then simply unplugging the printer can turn into a two step process. Worse, the keyboard destroys the "kick back in your comfy chair" aspect, if you want to write for any amount of time you are at your desk where you might as well use a full sized keyboard and the computer that will print without hunting for an adapter.
Of course Apple doesn't want to completely kill the market for Macs.I fully expect to see an iLife for iPad, that's just full of little hints that you could do more on a real Mac.
The cynic in me says that this is the reason Apple is fighting netbooks, they are small, cheap and can replace a computer for many people. If they make an expensive netbook no one will buy it, if they make a cheap one they might eat into Macbook and possibly Mini sales. On the other hand, if they consistently attack netbooks as a bad idea, and then release a better replacement that does what most people would want to do away from their main computer, but not quite enough to use it at your desk, they can charge quite more then for a comparable netbook (because netbooks are bad and this isn't one), but less then their laptops and desktops without eating into that market segment too much.
I suspect it's not a "real" computer not because of/. nerds, but because Apple doesn't want it to be one, we are just pointing this out.
People looking for an e-book reader may be happy, but that depends on whether they were trying to escape from LCD screens and what format they desire (as a fan of e-pub I'm still looking for a good reader... sony maybe?).
Depending on your DRM needs or lack thereof you might want to look at an Ectaco jetBook. It has an LCD screen, a reflective, greyscale, 160dpi LCD, not your typical backlit monitor, that kicks the shit out of a Sony reader with a touchscreen and is comparable to the non-touchscreen one without the flicker. It does not however do DRM well, or at all depending on how you squint and which version of the reader you look at.
Seems to me that the iPad does everything a computer does, but only if Apple lets it.
And that is exactly what makes it into an appliance, instead of a general purpose computer, at least for me. If the iPad can't meaningfully replace their main computer for most of the folks who will be buying it and winds up augmenting it, then it isn't a computer for them either.
Just in case it's not clear, by "meaningfully replacing" I mean that they could perform all of their day-to-day computing on the device and would only miss out on tasks directly limited by the reduced CPU, RAM, etc. power. In other words it's a computer for most people, if they were willing to accept it as their only computer. And I doubt a watered down office suite will satisfy this point for most people unless the demographic has shifted far enough into web-only use.
I could do with just a netbook if I had to, could you do that with an iPad?
Make sure to ignore the fact that it refers to the first generation device, not the improved version that actually did well in the market after it fixed the shortcomings leading to the original comment.
You're height is not in your legs, good for you. I'm 6'3" and half of the time it's not that the guy in front of my would crush into my knees, it's that he would never get anywhere in the first place.
So how do you suggest I lose this fat that makes my knees stick into the seat in front of me and my shoulders bump into people next to me? Or is 6'3" freakishly tall these days?
It's the percentage of surfers that can actually see H.264 with the video tag, so all browsers. The end user doesn't care too much if the video tag (the specific part that IE doesn't support) is supported. Theora's share of this market is just shy of 35%.
If we only look at Firefox, Chrome and Safari (to my knowledge they haven't made a final release with video support) then H.264 support is still under 20% while Theora is over 90%. Chrome is growing, but when Opera's final release should offset that increase.
Firefox has APIs that proprietary software can hook into, therefore Firefox can include components that can't be redistributed and still be open source? What kind of argument is that even supposed to be? I guess right up the alley with your "I said so" debate technique. Nothing you said has supported what you call a "fact".
Something can only supported by browsers with a marketshare (combined) of under ten percent, can hardly be called a defacto standard. It is an ISO standard and adopted as the defacto standard in many areas, web browsers are not one of those.
I am trying to build Chromium with support for H.264 video support enabled. AFAICT, it looks like adding ffmpeg_branding=Chrome to the gyp defines should be all that is necessary
It also prevents you from legally redistributing in a country that enforces patents in the MPEG LA pool, and possibly others.
To recap you can build most of Chrome from the Chromium codebase, that doesn't make it open source. You can potentially build Chromium with H.264 enabled, but the browser you get is not redistributable in large parts of the world. The OSI only talks about the copyright license, but other explicit limitations on free redistribution are still against the spirit of it.
Did they also ask if his father's name was Bob, John, Edvard and Vader? Getting a series of yes/no questions right is much easier then getting a series of related yes/no questions right.
Did the people who interpreted the data know the correct answers to the questions? Where they in the room when the questions where asked? Where they told the questions at all?
The answer to all of the above better be 'no'. And just how general where these questions?
So should he have been telling: "Stop being a crybaby!" instead? Because this is what the whole thing boils down to. Social skills are great, but can only help one kid pass another while running from the bear.
Only works if the herd instinct in the bullies is weak and/or the bully isn't bad enough to wait for you in a dark alley in turn. In short, retaliation only works on bullies that weren't dangerous to begin with.
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Can you do that just by hovering over a spinner box? Aside from that it just seems to be a personal preference, and I see no reason to try to paint as something that inefficient use X all day long without any objective evidence. I take advantage of the ability to click next to a slider to change the value in discrete steps, it may seem like inefficient use of screen space to some, but it's arguable whether reducing all UI elements to their bare minimum to save some pixels makes up for the reduced amount of information.
GIMP is going nowhere? They are switching the graphics engine to support bigger color spaces and finally shutting up the massive amounts of people complaining about the multi-window interface (unfortunately since most of them had no intention to use GIMP in the first place they'll just jump on some other minor "problem").
True, but my experience is that most people have that one little program that they would never give up, it might be something for their hobby or just some silly cute thing, but if they can't find it on the app store they would be upset. Another thing is that simple word processing is almost always coupled with a printer, and that printer is rarely wireless enabled.
That is already two addons, a USB adapter (if it supports printers) and the keyboard. Granted you wouldn't keep the printer attached all the time, but if you also need the adapter for your camera, then simply unplugging the printer can turn into a two step process. Worse, the keyboard destroys the "kick back in your comfy chair" aspect, if you want to write for any amount of time you are at your desk where you might as well use a full sized keyboard and the computer that will print without hunting for an adapter.
The cynic in me says that this is the reason Apple is fighting netbooks, they are small, cheap and can replace a computer for many people. If they make an expensive netbook no one will buy it, if they make a cheap one they might eat into Macbook and possibly Mini sales. On the other hand, if they consistently attack netbooks as a bad idea, and then release a better replacement that does what most people would want to do away from their main computer, but not quite enough to use it at your desk, they can charge quite more then for a comparable netbook (because netbooks are bad and this isn't one), but less then their laptops and desktops without eating into that market segment too much.
I suspect it's not a "real" computer not because of /. nerds, but because Apple doesn't want it to be one, we are just pointing this out.
Depending on your DRM needs or lack thereof you might want to look at an Ectaco jetBook. It has an LCD screen, a reflective, greyscale, 160dpi LCD, not your typical backlit monitor, that kicks the shit out of a Sony reader with a touchscreen and is comparable to the non-touchscreen one without the flicker. It does not however do DRM well, or at all depending on how you squint and which version of the reader you look at.
And that is exactly what makes it into an appliance, instead of a general purpose computer, at least for me. If the iPad can't meaningfully replace their main computer for most of the folks who will be buying it and winds up augmenting it, then it isn't a computer for them either.
Just in case it's not clear, by "meaningfully replacing" I mean that they could perform all of their day-to-day computing on the device and would only miss out on tasks directly limited by the reduced CPU, RAM, etc. power. In other words it's a computer for most people, if they were willing to accept it as their only computer. And I doubt a watered down office suite will satisfy this point for most people unless the demographic has shifted far enough into web-only use.
I could do with just a netbook if I had to, could you do that with an iPad?
Make sure to ignore the fact that it refers to the first generation device, not the improved version that actually did well in the market after it fixed the shortcomings leading to the original comment.
I don't for a second believe that typing on a tiny touchscreen "keyboard" for three days would help matters.
You're height is not in your legs, good for you. I'm 6'3" and half of the time it's not that the guy in front of my would crush into my knees, it's that he would never get anywhere in the first place.
It's not like it's the person who bought two seats that overbooked the plane...
So how do you suggest I lose this fat that makes my knees stick into the seat in front of me and my shoulders bump into people next to me? Or is 6'3" freakishly tall these days?
Disregard the stats in the second paragraph, I completely managed to space the fact that Firefox 3.0 is still going strong. :-/
It's the percentage of surfers that can actually see H.264 with the video tag, so all browsers. The end user doesn't care too much if the video tag (the specific part that IE doesn't support) is supported. Theora's share of this market is just shy of 35%.
If we only look at Firefox, Chrome and Safari (to my knowledge they haven't made a final release with video support) then H.264 support is still under 20% while Theora is over 90%. Chrome is growing, but when Opera's final release should offset that increase.
Firefox has APIs that proprietary software can hook into, therefore Firefox can include components that can't be redistributed and still be open source? What kind of argument is that even supposed to be? I guess right up the alley with your "I said so" debate technique. Nothing you said has supported what you call a "fact".
Chrome and Safari are a far cry from everything. We are talking about HTML5, right?
Something can only supported by browsers with a marketshare (combined) of under ten percent, can hardly be called a defacto standard. It is an ISO standard and adopted as the defacto standard in many areas, web browsers are not one of those.
Take advantage of the freedom to redistribute the binary in the US. In large numbers. And then call up MPEG LA for a chat and rub it into their noses.
http://www.google.com/chrome/eula.html
It also prevents you from legally redistributing in a country that enforces patents in the MPEG LA pool, and possibly others.
To recap you can build most of Chrome from the Chromium codebase, that doesn't make it open source. You can potentially build Chromium with H.264 enabled, but the browser you get is not redistributable in large parts of the world. The OSI only talks about the copyright license, but other explicit limitations on free redistribution are still against the spirit of it.
Not to mention that they have a patent in the MPEG LA H.264 pool.
Chrome is not open source. Chromium doesn't have H.264. It's you, who is "not even remotely accurate".
Did they also ask if his father's name was Bob, John, Edvard and Vader? Getting a series of yes/no questions right is much easier then getting a series of related yes/no questions right.
Alexander: yes. Bob: no. John: no. Edvard: yes. Vader: no. Hmm...
Did the people who interpreted the data know the correct answers to the questions? Where they in the room when the questions where asked? Where they told the questions at all?
The answer to all of the above better be 'no'. And just how general where these questions?
Most of those are not relevant in regards to HTML5. Apple's portable devices are, since they can browse the web.
So should he have been telling: "Stop being a crybaby!" instead? Because this is what the whole thing boils down to. Social skills are great, but can only help one kid pass another while running from the bear.
Only works if the herd instinct in the bullies is weak and/or the bully isn't bad enough to wait for you in a dark alley in turn. In short, retaliation only works on bullies that weren't dangerous to begin with.
So how many firewire only iPods have they sold for $400?
I want to see this picture, but with a scratched iPad in place of the netbook.