probably spent more money than the equivalent purchase on Android / computer?
I'd believe it. If you purchase through an app, the prices displayed are at the mercy of the provider. I once tried to price match Amazon's prices on its iOS app vs amazon.com.. you'd be surprised. I'd swear they were manipulating their prices based on what device you were viewing it from.
Adding the content for Amazon Prime members is enticing... but really, work on how the product feels in the hands of the user (user experience). Then you *might* take some users away from the iPad.
I beg to differ on this one. In my own experience, I'm very selective who I let into my social neworking sites (myspace, fb, etc). When people join a social network they expose a little bit of themselves to the world and that exposure is worth the effort of filtering access to it. Also I think that social interactions online are no longer 'anonymous'; people are making social networks with other people they know or have met previously, i.e. it's more personal.
I'm curious though, no doubt darknets will be smaller than the entire network. How will people respond to the fact that they may be only downloading from one seeder vs 5? and this seeder might be on a asynchronous internet line so the download speed will probably be 5x-10x the average download speed of p2p networks today?
If you look at boxee there is a way to stream video from major cable networks (ABC, CBS, CNN, ABCnews, etc). For most people, this was already available if you sat at your computer, loaded a browser, and watched it. Boxee frees you from that by presenting a slick interface that looks pretty nice on 50"+ HDTV's.
Boxee also has an app plugin for browsing and streaming videos directly from netflix. No more are you limited to watching it on your desktop PC (or the flimsy interface of Windows XP if you originally had an HTPC hooked up to your TV).
One unfortunate problem though, is that ABC.go.com and netflix use Silverlight, so the ability the watch videos from those sources (at least for now) is limited to the OS X platform. (The next release will likely have it in Windows.
Boxee implements social networking with video recommendations. The problem of watching freely available content online was that it was difficult to find. Although free video RSS feeds are available on miroguide.com, the aspect of social network makes each video rss feed viral. Provided you have many friends and those friends have even a few rss video feeds, suddenly you have a lot of them to choose from.
Keep in mind that boxee is in its alpha stages. I think besides making the application itself more platform independent and stable, the team will probably clean up their social networking gateway.
Boxee won't free you from cable if the content you want to watch isn't already available online (via torrent, website, or what have you).
On my Powerbook G4 1.25 Ghz with 3/4 gig ram, I have a mandatory pause after every character I input into spotlight search (as the list is updated in real time). Annoying. I would have preferred searching after a complete search term is input. Seriously, who searches for foo when they know they're looking for foobar? If you want foo*, allow me to specify *... then again this would be confusing for non unix people.
Organisms that are able to survive at cold temperatures are very interesting. From a structural point of view, these organisms contain adaptations that prevent their proteins from cold denaturation. From a food science point of view, it is these kinds of organisms that allow us to have "creamy" ice cream.
Though the parent is correct, this technology greatly reduces the time and effort involved in 'crystallizing' proteins. Most common approach is to use the hanging drop method, where a drop of the sample is suspended over a highly concentrated solution. The sample concentrates due to the negative osmotic pressure and the protein 'crystallizes'. The crystallization process can be hastened by using a 'nucleant', usually a small crystal of the sample that you have previously crystallized. Also, the exact identity and composition of the concentrated solution is varied in order to find the right crystallization conditions. This is a very tedious process (imagine setting up 96 different concentrated solutions, each differing in about 1% concentration of the solutes) and time intensive.
The discovery of a 'universal' nucleant (close to the one suggested by the authors of this study) and the development of a matrix to encourage crystallization would greatly speed the screening process, and ultimately, crystallization of proteins.
Big question, why? They could instead improve the accuracy of their google maps, which puts my house nearly a block and a half away of where it should be.
Then again, we pay USGS to map out GPS maps... but I can't see the point in mapping out 3D maps.
This author-pays plan--discussed at length in the House of Commons report--is based on the assumption that scientific authors supported by public funds or philanthropic grants can simply write the additional costs of publication into their grant applications.
Surprise, in my profession (chemistry graduate) those grants are (at least in the US), NSF, NIH, or DARPA.... all government (tax payer) funded agencies. If we write those into our grants, in essence, the tax payer is paying.
In a sense Linux (and the open source movement perhaps) is already loosing big time to Mac OS X. With fink, I can get a good amount of open source tools to run on my Mac, with no regard of the open source movement, etc.
I second this. I have a pelican case for my 12" Powerbook. It comes in an extra hard case, is water proof, and surrounds your computer in a plush 3" of foam. It's a little heavy (averaging 7 lbs), but if i put down $1000+ for a computer, you better believe I want it to be comfy. I use it on my bike all the time (the case fits in a standard backpack), and is really convenient at the airport. A little pricey at $135, but if you want to protect your investment, this is the way to go.
Less common cases like the error message shown above should also be abstracted if possible. Knowing that the operation is not permitted offers little help to the unaccustomed user. GNOME already does an outstanding job in catching many of these types of errors and translating them into something users can understand. It is the hope of the reviewers that the developers continue in this regard.
I dunno I prefer to have rather verbose error messages. Though it may not mean much to the common user, it can be quite helpful if they seek help from a more knowledgeable user. Besides, why change it? all you can (usually) do is click ok anyways.
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Who said it has to be everyone?
Because some of these comments are in serious need of more education...
Don't tell me what new (technical features) your product has.. tell me how it's going to change how I think about mobile communication.
250mb a month is way too low. The telcos are looking to profit on the very high probability of overages charges on this one.
Right now all I have is my apple tv and TV. Valve wants to put more cables and a box ? This better be worth it.
Something to bring "hobby" Apple TV into the mainstream and get rid of those god awful $30 dongles.
probably spent more money than the equivalent purchase on Android / computer?
I'd believe it. If you purchase through an app, the prices displayed are at the mercy of the provider. I once tried to price match Amazon's prices on its iOS app vs amazon.com .. you'd be surprised. I'd swear they were manipulating their prices based on what device you were viewing it from.
What's your backup system like?
How difficult is it to recover from a hardware failure?
How will you know a hardware failure has occurred?
Adding the content for Amazon Prime members is enticing... but really, work on how the product feels in the hands of the user (user experience). Then you *might* take some users away from the iPad.
Screw this, I'd like access to their Mobile BroadBand service. Maybe not as fast, but definitely better coverage.
BTW, QWest has a similar deal with AT&T. As a QWest DSL subscriber I have access to all of at&t's hotspots.
I beg to differ on this one. In my own experience, I'm very selective who I let into my social neworking sites (myspace, fb, etc). When people join a social network they expose a little bit of themselves to the world and that exposure is worth the effort of filtering access to it. Also I think that social interactions online are no longer 'anonymous'; people are making social networks with other people they know or have met previously, i.e. it's more personal.
I'm curious though, no doubt darknets will be smaller than the entire network. How will people respond to the fact that they may be only downloading from one seeder vs 5? and this seeder might be on a asynchronous internet line so the download speed will probably be 5x-10x the average download speed of p2p networks today?
If you look at boxee there is a way to stream video from major cable networks (ABC, CBS, CNN, ABCnews, etc). For most people, this was already available if you sat at your computer, loaded a browser, and watched it. Boxee frees you from that by presenting a slick interface that looks pretty nice on 50"+ HDTV's.
Boxee also has an app plugin for browsing and streaming videos directly from netflix. No more are you limited to watching it on your desktop PC (or the flimsy interface of Windows XP if you originally had an HTPC hooked up to your TV).
One unfortunate problem though, is that ABC.go.com and netflix use Silverlight, so the ability the watch videos from those sources (at least for now) is limited to the OS X platform. (The next release will likely have it in Windows.
Boxee implements social networking with video recommendations. The problem of watching freely available content online was that it was difficult to find. Although free video RSS feeds are available on miroguide.com, the aspect of social network makes each video rss feed viral. Provided you have many friends and those friends have even a few rss video feeds, suddenly you have a lot of them to choose from.
Keep in mind that boxee is in its alpha stages. I think besides making the application itself more platform independent and stable, the team will probably clean up their social networking gateway.
Boxee won't free you from cable if the content you want to watch isn't already available online (via torrent, website, or what have you).
On my Powerbook G4 1.25 Ghz with 3/4 gig ram, I have a mandatory pause after every character I input into spotlight search (as the list is updated in real time). Annoying. I would have preferred searching after a complete search term is input. Seriously, who searches for foo when they know they're looking for foobar? If you want foo*, allow me to specify * ... then again this would be confusing for non unix people.
Organisms that are able to survive at cold temperatures are very interesting. From a structural point of view, these organisms contain adaptations that prevent their proteins from cold denaturation. From a food science point of view, it is these kinds of organisms that allow us to have "creamy" ice cream.
The discovery of a 'universal' nucleant (close to the one suggested by the authors of this study) and the development of a matrix to encourage crystallization would greatly speed the screening process, and ultimately, crystallization of proteins.
Big question, why? They could instead improve the accuracy of their google maps, which puts my house nearly a block and a half away of where it should be. Then again, we pay USGS to map out GPS maps... but I can't see the point in mapping out 3D maps.
Agreeed.. Definitely do a clean reinstall, or run Software Update before you go to Tiger if you plan on upgrading.
I mapped my house in Chelsea, MA (reasonably detailed since it's in Metro Boston) and it pointed to a house that's nearly four blocks over.
Surprise, in my profession (chemistry graduate) those grants are (at least in the US), NSF, NIH, or DARPA.... all government (tax payer) funded agencies. If we write those into our grants, in essence, the tax payer is paying.
In a sense Linux (and the open source movement perhaps) is already loosing big time to Mac OS X. With fink, I can get a good amount of open source tools to run on my Mac, with no regard of the open source movement, etc.
I second this. I have a pelican case for my 12" Powerbook. It comes in an extra hard case, is water proof, and surrounds your computer in a plush 3" of foam. It's a little heavy (averaging 7 lbs), but if i put down $1000+ for a computer, you better believe I want it to be comfy. I use it on my bike all the time (the case fits in a standard backpack), and is really convenient at the airport. A little pricey at $135, but if you want to protect your investment, this is the way to go.
Less common cases like the error message shown above should also be abstracted if possible. Knowing that the operation is not permitted offers little help to the unaccustomed user. GNOME already does an outstanding job in catching many of these types of errors and translating them into something users can understand. It is the hope of the reviewers that the developers continue in this regard. I dunno I prefer to have rather verbose error messages. Though it may not mean much to the common user, it can be quite helpful if they seek help from a more knowledgeable user. Besides, why change it? all you can (usually) do is click ok anyways.