I'd wager that the people who are "outraged" with this ad are the same people who a little while ago would have belittled the iPad as not being a computer because of lame excuse a, b, or c.
This reminds me of the old story that got around, supposedly about a Wordperfect support call. It went something like:
Caller: Your software broke my computer!
WP: Okay, what happened?
Caller: The screen has gone black and the computer won't do anything.
(eventually)
WP: Can you take a look around the back of the computer and makes sure the cables are all securely plugged in?
Caller: Okay, I'll need to get a torch.
WP: Why?
Caller: It's dark, I can't see, the power is off.
WP: Do you still have the packing for your computer?
Caller: Yes.
WP: Please pack your computer up and send it back. You're too stupid to use a computer.
*click*
Interesting that nearly all advancement and innovation in computing is happening in areas that Microsoft does not occupy, or if they are there, they are a bit player or leech.
In addition to the inet_ntoa and inet_aton and related calls, we have a special inet_ntoaustralia that all TCP stacks here have to implement. It flips the 1's and 0's vertically, so they appear to be in the correct orientation to the host.
Would you be so kind as to highlight some of those flaws and how they affected you? This might save others from making the same mistake and having the same regrets you did.
On a Mac, the trackpad is both a pointer-based interface and a touch based gesture interface. Move one finger around and the cursor moves. Swipe up and down with two fingers and the content in the current application moves up and down, pinch in or out with two fingers and the content zooms in and out. Rotate with two fingers and the content rotates around as well. While doing any of these gestures, the cursor does not move, the gesture is manipulating the content of the application window or performing some kind of other action like showing the desktop or invoking launch pad.
Do you consider a touch based interface only when you're prodding at the actual screen with your fingers? Or, do we need to find another term when the touching is happening on a part of a device that is not also displaying the content?
That's a good starting point but not the hard part. The basic the problem with that is how to converge the touch-based and pointer-based (mouse/trackpad) paradigms. Apple hasn't even started yet.
Actually, Apple have. For a long time. Their touch based input is via their trackpads.
Right, when I buy my car, I want it with Continental tyres and I don't want to have to pay for the Goodyear tyres that the car builder is forcibly shoving into the boot even though I don't want them.
I would bet that the SDKs for native app development were in development simultaneously with iPhone development.
Of course they were. How do you think the Apple provided native Apps were built? In fact, when the SDK was announced, it was announced as giving third party developers access to the same tools that Apple used to build their own native Apps.
Why would you need that, when you can easily use so many bluetooth or microphones built into headphones?
So very true. However, a lot of people out there still prefer to grab "the phone" when it rings or pick it up when they want to talk to someone. Besides, have you ever tried to slam down a bluetooth headset when it all just got too much?
Yes, they do support PoE when docked in the media station.
They also require connectivity to a WLAN at all times for signalling, but will use the wired LAN for voice/video when docked. I must be one of the very few people who actually make use of a Cius, it has a lot of promise as a device that combines a video phone and with the addition KDM, a VDI client that you can pick up and take with you when you leave your desk.
There are some "version 1" issues of course, like the the hdmi display being limited to only to mirroring at the moment and I believe they are the only available Atom based Android tablet, so it does run warmer than others. I however think a 7" screen is too small when trying to use a tablet as a replacement for a laptop for things like note taking in meetings.
Now, if the Cius tablet is going away, might we see a dock for an iDevice that has a telephone handset?
It's going to be the current generation of phone, with an added Infiniband port. Then, you can lash a couple of thousand of them together to make a "super"-phone.
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... or drink water from the wrong cup.
I'd wager that the people who are "outraged" with this ad are the same people who a little while ago would have belittled the iPad as not being a computer because of lame excuse a, b, or c.
Spam Will Be 'Solved' In 2 Years -- Bill Gates, 2004
If only he'd put a number on a maximum number of emails sent per spammer. 640,000 SPAMs should be enough for anyone!
This reminds me of the old story that got around, supposedly about a Wordperfect support call. It went something like:
Caller: Your software broke my computer!
WP: Okay, what happened?
Caller: The screen has gone black and the computer won't do anything.
(eventually)
WP: Can you take a look around the back of the computer and makes sure the cables are all securely plugged in?
Caller: Okay, I'll need to get a torch.
WP: Why?
Caller: It's dark, I can't see, the power is off.
WP: Do you still have the packing for your computer?
Caller: Yes.
WP: Please pack your computer up and send it back. You're too stupid to use a computer.
*click*
I'm hoping that v1 meant flat battery, not dead.
Interesting that nearly all advancement and innovation in computing is happening in areas that Microsoft does not occupy, or if they are there, they are a bit player or leech.
In addition to the inet_ntoa and inet_aton and related calls, we have a special inet_ntoaustralia that all TCP stacks here have to implement. It flips the 1's and 0's vertically, so they appear to be in the correct orientation to the host.
Would you be so kind as to highlight some of those flaws and how they affected you? This might save others from making the same mistake and having the same regrets you did.
On a Mac, the trackpad is both a pointer-based interface and a touch based gesture interface. Move one finger around and the cursor moves. Swipe up and down with two fingers and the content in the current application moves up and down, pinch in or out with two fingers and the content zooms in and out. Rotate with two fingers and the content rotates around as well. While doing any of these gestures, the cursor does not move, the gesture is manipulating the content of the application window or performing some kind of other action like showing the desktop or invoking launch pad.
Do you consider a touch based interface only when you're prodding at the actual screen with your fingers? Or, do we need to find another term when the touching is happening on a part of a device that is not also displaying the content?
That's a good starting point but not the hard part. The basic the problem with that is how to converge the touch-based and pointer-based (mouse/trackpad) paradigms. Apple hasn't even started yet.
Actually, Apple have. For a long time. Their touch based input is via their trackpads.
Can someone remind me how to uninstall IE from Windows?
Something like this?
Right, when I buy my car, I want it with Continental tyres and I don't want to have to pay for the Goodyear tyres that the car builder is forcibly shoving into the boot even though I don't want them.
Erg, no it wouldn't. Excuse coffee deprived brain.
That, and 'OR' would be a lot more useful in that context as well.
Compare Spanning Tree Protocol.
... in three big dimensions: strategy, capability, collaboration, agility, common goals, divisional strategies.
Did Steve also head up the Spanish Inquisition?
DONKEY.BAS, of course!
with an Ethernet cable.
You'll find that a nice length of thicknet cable is more effective.
I would bet that the SDKs for native app development were in development simultaneously with iPhone development.
Of course they were. How do you think the Apple provided native Apps were built? In fact, when the SDK was announced, it was announced as giving third party developers access to the same tools that Apple used to build their own native Apps.
Why would you need that, when you can easily use so many bluetooth or microphones built into headphones?
So very true. However, a lot of people out there still prefer to grab "the phone" when it rings or pick it up when they want to talk to someone. Besides, have you ever tried to slam down a bluetooth headset when it all just got too much?
Yes, they do support PoE when docked in the media station.
They also require connectivity to a WLAN at all times for signalling, but will use the wired LAN for voice/video when docked. I must be one of the very few people who actually make use of a Cius, it has a lot of promise as a device that combines a video phone and with the addition KDM, a VDI client that you can pick up and take with you when you leave your desk.
There are some "version 1" issues of course, like the the hdmi display being limited to only to mirroring at the moment and I believe they are the only available Atom based Android tablet, so it does run warmer than others. I however think a 7" screen is too small when trying to use a tablet as a replacement for a laptop for things like note taking in meetings.
Now, if the Cius tablet is going away, might we see a dock for an iDevice that has a telephone handset?
It's going to be the current generation of phone, with an added Infiniband port. Then, you can lash a couple of thousand of them together to make a "super"-phone.
MSVC tools and .NET are extensions of the MS monopoly
How? They are just tools which are not shipped with windows and any other company could have created them.
There used to be a company called Sun that had a product called Java you might like to as about that one.
The #1 movie in America was called "Ass." And that's all it was for 90 minutes. It won eight Oscars that year, including best screenplay.