The problem with mechanical arms is what do you attach them to? If you attach them to struts then you have to have the struts in place and in a position to reach every conceivable angle before you send the arm out there. So you need some sort of torso to hold the arm and position it. If you have a torso you need some head control unit that can look around independently of the arm to help guide both the arm and torso units. Sometimes you need more than one hand doings something so lets make it two arms. too. so we have two arms for doing things and a head control unit to see what they are doing, all attached to a torso support structure. Oh crap we forgot to add mobility to it? wheels? tracks maybe? nope they don't work well in space? no gravity how about a propeller? no air in the vacuum. that leaves us with fuel using thrusters, or I know how about two more arms coming out of the base of the torso. We can call them legs.
{/sarcasm}
next time try to look at the entire problem. Not just an arm. The ISS has one really big one of those. what is needed is a small self contained movable arm and the required support pieces to make it work.
I actually would prefer to go back to Mac Classic for my interface, but I can't because Apple doesn't give me the choice. With Microsoft products, I can still make Windows 7 look and act damned-close to Windows 95 if I want.
That's the problem why would you want to? I can understand changing your interface to suit your needs. heck I can't stand a standard KDE, or gnome setup until I have heavily customized it to make it useful for me. However currently both my computers are Mac's running OS X. Why? well OS X has some problems they are a lot easier to live with than any other OS's problems. Linux still doesn't support modern things like rotate and resize on the fly, or the ability to plug any monitor in and automatically adjust the settings accordingly.(before any one suggests otherwise, I try every new linux release waiting for xrandr to support my monitors, I can only ever get them to work through xconfig, and then I lose xrandr support.)
I haven't played much with Windows 7 yet however Windows always seems to get in my way when i am trying to work. it's like it is feature complete but lacking ease of use polish.
Constant change is good for everyone but fanatics, and morons.
Change means that when PPC was better than 68k the 68k could be dropped. When Intel finally caught up with PPC that shift could happen too. In 10-15 more years when ARM chips are out performing Intel x86 chips Apple can switch to that.
If you don't like change go back to using a punch card and a dot matrix printer for your interface.
While I agree with the majority of your post remember that 90% of consumers don't upgrade anything more than RAM. Us techies on slashdot are the EXCEPTION not the rule. Normal people and businesses almost never upgrade machines beyond RAM unless something breaks.
So why do we all have giant towers when everything most need fits into the space of a mac mini? Only a small group of people really need the big towers.
So Apple is bad for annoucing a new transitional framework. Waiting six months and realizing that only a couple of companies would ever use it as itwas only designed to last a couple of years anyways?
Carbon was always supposed to be just a transitional framework. Something to help port from OS 9 to OS X. That like msft supporting win 16 frameworks in windows 7. Apple moves faster however during the ppc to intel transition those who used the coccoa frameworks transitioned a lot faster and easier than those who used the ppc designed carbon frameworks.
I would live to see msft mange a major processor shift. It would take 10 years.
While you may or may not be joking apple has a very good reason for this random command?
It is obvious. Apple is the ONLY OS company that can move it's ENTIRE product line to new hardware in the span of a couple of years. During the PPC to Intel transition all applications coded with xcode ported over with relative quickness. It took adobe what 4 years to do what apple did with their OS and software in 3?
Apple has a history of changing processors. the next version of the ipad may not use ARM but something else that can do more processing with less power draw. Applications coded Apples strict way will transition between the platforms with relative ease. Applications code with Adobe's help will take 4-5 years before there is an update.
How long do you think it would take MSFT to more to a different chipset? heck MSFT has a hard time supporting 64bit hardware from 2003.
While apple is getting really strict(and it is getting worse) the fact is Adobe treats apple as a second class citizen. 10 million ipads out there will start to crimp adobe more than 10 million developers working on gnash.
Only three pieces are or have been launched by protons Zarya(now storage, early power source), zvedza(main section), nauka(Russian research modual yet to be launched).
So 5 out of 16 launches Are Russian of which 2 are airlocks, 1 was needed to get things going but is now storage. And 2 are main pieces
Russia has done 1/3 the heavy lifting of the shuttle.
That is the point everyone forgets. China has only one advantage over the USA. Cheap labor. China doesn't have any other resources that the usa also has. Tapping thoseresources isjust too expensive due to labor. Not to mention the hundreds of thousands of tons of resources sitting in our landfills.
The USA may collapse financially however inside of 20years we have the tools,tech, and resources to rebuild. All it will take is deflation to lower labor costs, or a total war on the scales of WW II.
It is variable. The shuttle launches 7 not 3 people however the shuttle can also carry literally tons of cargo too something that requires multiple launches with russias design. It is why NASA built the iss. Launching the components is cheaper and more can bedone in any given section with the shuttle.
So for transporting just new people Soyuz isthe way to go. You needto expand the station the shuttle isbetter
but your forgetting that the average person is a moron. They aren't smart enough to understand that they have a risk exposure, let alone how to protect themselves. Not to mention since the standard of our culture and all cultures is to shut up about any topic that is too complicated it doesn't get talked about enough for people to learn that hey actually have risk exposures. It took congressional committees and decades to enact HIPPA. The final law change may have been quick but 20-30 years of abuses had to be recorded before anyone stood up and said stop.
I am not going to get into a debate on just how stupid the average person is.
Try looking at the whole picture. legalized drugs would be abused more so than they are now. look at legalized alcohol and the problems it causes and multiple that with the various effects drugs have. Americans like to abuse things because of their closed Puritan culture, compare our censorship laws and degrees to that of europe? How many nude beaches are in the USA?? Why is saying the word drugs, or pussy bad on the radio and tv? Why does a 5 second glimpse of boob make a move r rated, and why are movies so heavily edited for network tv? most of that isn't done by europe.
Learn the real differences in culture, society, and where they really come from and you might learn why i consider you delusional. from there if your smart enough you can adjust your beliefs to what you see is right.
And that is why your delusions is worse.
without HIPPA companies weren't held responsible because it was always some other companies fault. Every company could plead it wasn't us because there was no way to track who was actually responsible.
There is a reason greed is a deadly sin among some religions. Let's try this another way. dec. of 2006 Circuit city BOD executives noticing a small drop in sales and in need of their bonus checks, fired their top 3000 sales earners. the top 3000 who the company paid the most in salary that weren't managers. But who also accounted for the majority of their sales. They paid themselves tens of millions of dollars in bonuses. By July 2007 Sales were a third of what they should be and by dec. 2007 most stores were closing up as the whole company was bankrupt.
That same kind of executive thinking is found in the majority of CEO's. read http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2010/news/1004/gallery.top_ceo_pay/index.html?source=cnn_bin&hpt=Sbin over half the people on this list have gotten major bonuses yet are still posting losses for the same year. Do you want that kind of thinking to have total but deniable control over your health?
that is life without HIPPA.
Just remember the vast majority of laws are there because someone abused something to the detriment of many. The law may not be perfect but having it is better than the alternative.
that's just it the ipad is made for web browsing with fingers in a tablet format. It is why the ipad will succeed where all others have failed. it's OS is designed for big fat fingers, not the tiny point of a mouse or stylus.
As for the rest of the market, during the pre announcement and after the original announcement of the ipad asus, and many others announced similar products. A couple even announced price ranges of double what apple turned around and priced the ipad at for a base model.
However Where is MSFT office for tablet screens? MSFT has made ONE good application for touch screens and then left everything else to whither and die. There are very few decent third party apps that make solid use of touch inputs.
Wher eis the interface that is designed for touch screens? The task bar desktop is horrible way as a tablet isn't a desktop it is a tablet. Just moving icons around to make them touch ffreindly doesn't make the whole OS touch freindly.
A couple of honest questions, how easy is it to say adjust the sound volume from the tray icon with a touch screen and no stylus? Is it easy to hit on the first try? does it require more than one touch to bring up. What about third party apps? do they all adjust their menus and buttons to allow for nice and easy touch interface or are they designed for a mouse? What about Right click, a lot of windows apps require right click for various functions. how does it do right click? Do all third party apps fully support the touch interface when no keyboard or mouse is available?
Apple has solved all those questions. I have been trying windows tablets since they first came and always found them lacking. one or two good apps doesn't a tablet make. One Note may be awesome but the rest of the experience of windows tablets for me has been a let down.
Just because software runs on a given platform doesn't mean it was designed for it. Open Office on maemo basically requires a keyboard to work with properly as it is built around a keyboard mouse interface and not a touch one.
Tablets aren't designed for significant amount of data entry. Tablets are for sitting on the couch. Tablets are for working in the kitchen trying out new food ideas. Tablets are for leaning up against a tree in a park and reading.
Every competitor to the upas expected apple to have a base price of $1000 with the pimped out models costing more. Acer who was going to release a device at $800 or so that was equivilant to the base Ipad model has since changed their minds. Since they are rushing to make meetoo products available they won't take the year needed to create the custom software required to make a touch based device useful. Instead they will ship keyboards and regular software and wonder what they are doing wrong.
While I agree with you on price apple has just undercut the rest of the market for that type of device by20-30%. It willtake every other company atleast a year to respond with competitive devices. All of which will fail to deliver a decent user experince. Everyone else will treat it as either a notebook or a desktop and add touch instead of creating a complete touch based user interface.
I have said before apple doesn't innovate hardware apples true innovation is a complete user freindly package.
I will not be surprised that if msft currier(spelled wrong) ever ships it will look more like windows 7 than the demos shown. Or as with windows tablet editions only one or two apps will be ported. Remember apple rewrote their office software for a touch based interface. Msft will never do that with ms office. Open source people will do a port of open office for maemo/andriod eventually in a couple of years as only two people will do it. Yet Apple is shipping it today.
So for all the hate apple gets they are still ahead of the competition by a couple of years.
no we can break the will of the enemy we just can't stomach the cost of actually breaking enough things to break the will of a zealot.
It is what pretty much everyone doesn't understand is that the USA has only moved it's troops to battle. They have fought well. But the USA as a whole hasn't moved to battle and that is something all together different.
Flash can't handle a scroll wheel let alone asensor that doesn't move. Your hide fails as a trackpad is just a normal mouse where you slide your finger instead of your while hand. A touch screen has no point if refrence until contact is made.
When flash finally supports scroll wheels I will be impressed. That means ithas caught up to the standard tech of the year 2000
If they think they can make a lot of money by strong arming people to pay for it do you think they would? Remember greed rules businesses.
The only reason they didn't now is because HTML5 isn't set and there are competing products out there ready to step in. if in 2016 there is no current competition then they just might start charging people.
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The problem with mechanical arms is what do you attach them to? If you attach them to struts then you have to have the struts in place and in a position to reach every conceivable angle before you send the arm out there. So you need some sort of torso to hold the arm and position it. If you have a torso you need some head control unit that can look around independently of the arm to help guide both the arm and torso units. Sometimes you need more than one hand doings something so lets make it two arms. too. so we have two arms for doing things and a head control unit to see what they are doing, all attached to a torso support structure. Oh crap we forgot to add mobility to it? wheels? tracks maybe? nope they don't work well in space? no gravity how about a propeller? no air in the vacuum. that leaves us with fuel using thrusters, or I know how about two more arms coming out of the base of the torso. We can call them legs.
{/sarcasm}
next time try to look at the entire problem. Not just an arm. The ISS has one really big one of those. what is needed is a small self contained movable arm and the required support pieces to make it work.
I actually would prefer to go back to Mac Classic for my interface, but I can't because Apple doesn't give me the choice. With Microsoft products, I can still make Windows 7 look and act damned-close to Windows 95 if I want.
That's the problem why would you want to? I can understand changing your interface to suit your needs. heck I can't stand a standard KDE, or gnome setup until I have heavily customized it to make it useful for me. However currently both my computers are Mac's running OS X. Why? well OS X has some problems they are a lot easier to live with than any other OS's problems. Linux still doesn't support modern things like rotate and resize on the fly, or the ability to plug any monitor in and automatically adjust the settings accordingly.(before any one suggests otherwise, I try every new linux release waiting for xrandr to support my monitors, I can only ever get them to work through xconfig, and then I lose xrandr support.)
I haven't played much with Windows 7 yet however Windows always seems to get in my way when i am trying to work. it's like it is feature complete but lacking ease of use polish.
Constant change is good for everyone but fanatics, and morons.
Change means that when PPC was better than 68k the 68k could be dropped. When Intel finally caught up with PPC that shift could happen too. In 10-15 more years when ARM chips are out performing Intel x86 chips Apple can switch to that.
If you don't like change go back to using a punch card and a dot matrix printer for your interface.
desktop CPU's can't fit into the space. let alone allow for passive cooling.
The only time the fans come on is when flash is running.
While I agree with the majority of your post remember that 90% of consumers don't upgrade anything more than RAM. Us techies on slashdot are the EXCEPTION not the rule. Normal people and businesses almost never upgrade machines beyond RAM unless something breaks.
So why do we all have giant towers when everything most need fits into the space of a mac mini? Only a small group of people really need the big towers.
So Apple is bad for annoucing a new transitional framework. Waiting six months and realizing that only a couple of companies would ever use it as itwas only designed to last a couple of years anyways?
Carbon was always supposed to be just a transitional framework. Something to help port from OS 9 to OS X. That like msft supporting win 16 frameworks in windows 7. Apple moves faster however during the ppc to intel transition those who used the coccoa frameworks transitioned a lot faster and easier than those who used the ppc designed carbon frameworks.
I would live to see msft mange a major processor shift. It would take 10 years.
The problem is there is another .1 billion people who want to watch the world burn just for fun.
While you may or may not be joking apple has a very good reason for this random command?
It is obvious. Apple is the ONLY OS company that can move it's ENTIRE product line to new hardware in the span of a couple of years. During the PPC to Intel transition all applications coded with xcode ported over with relative quickness. It took adobe what 4 years to do what apple did with their OS and software in 3?
Apple has a history of changing processors. the next version of the ipad may not use ARM but something else that can do more processing with less power draw. Applications coded Apples strict way will transition between the platforms with relative ease. Applications code with Adobe's help will take 4-5 years before there is an update.
How long do you think it would take MSFT to more to a different chipset? heck MSFT has a hard time supporting 64bit hardware from 2003.
While apple is getting really strict(and it is getting worse) the fact is Adobe treats apple as a second class citizen. 10 million ipads out there will start to crimp adobe more than 10 million developers working on gnash.
So what haveyou done? Tripled your fire insurance? What happens when you fall asleep with a hooker over? Does she just helpherself on theway out?
why is it expensive to rebuild the industrial base? because labor is friggin expensive here.
Only three pieces are or have been launched by protons Zarya(now storage, early power source), zvedza(main section), nauka(Russian research modual yet to be launched).
So 5 out of 16 launches Are Russian of which 2 are airlocks, 1 was needed to get things going but is now storage. And 2 are main pieces
Russia has done 1/3 the heavy lifting of the shuttle.
That is the point everyone forgets. China has only one advantage over the USA. Cheap labor. China doesn't have any other resources that the usa also has. Tapping thoseresources isjust too expensive due to labor. Not to mention the hundreds of thousands of tons of resources sitting in our landfills.
The USA may collapse financially however inside of 20years we have the tools,tech, and resources to rebuild. All it will take is deflation to lower labor costs, or a total war on the scales of WW II.
It is variable. The shuttle launches 7 not 3 people however the shuttle can also carry literally tons of cargo too something that requires multiple launches with russias design. It is why NASA built the iss. Launching the components is cheaper and more can bedone in any given section with the shuttle.
So for transporting just new people Soyuz isthe way to go. You needto expand the station the shuttle isbetter
but your forgetting that the average person is a moron. They aren't smart enough to understand that they have a risk exposure, let alone how to protect themselves. Not to mention since the standard of our culture and all cultures is to shut up about any topic that is too complicated it doesn't get talked about enough for people to learn that hey actually have risk exposures. It took congressional committees and decades to enact HIPPA. The final law change may have been quick but 20-30 years of abuses had to be recorded before anyone stood up and said stop.
I am not going to get into a debate on just how stupid the average person is.
Try looking at the whole picture. legalized drugs would be abused more so than they are now. look at legalized alcohol and the problems it causes and multiple that with the various effects drugs have. Americans like to abuse things because of their closed Puritan culture, compare our censorship laws and degrees to that of europe? How many nude beaches are in the USA?? Why is saying the word drugs, or pussy bad on the radio and tv? Why does a 5 second glimpse of boob make a move r rated, and why are movies so heavily edited for network tv? most of that isn't done by europe.
Learn the real differences in culture, society, and where they really come from and you might learn why i consider you delusional. from there if your smart enough you can adjust your beliefs to what you see is right.
And that is why your delusions is worse. without HIPPA companies weren't held responsible because it was always some other companies fault. Every company could plead it wasn't us because there was no way to track who was actually responsible.
There is a reason greed is a deadly sin among some religions. Let's try this another way. dec. of 2006 Circuit city BOD executives noticing a small drop in sales and in need of their bonus checks, fired their top 3000 sales earners. the top 3000 who the company paid the most in salary that weren't managers. But who also accounted for the majority of their sales. They paid themselves tens of millions of dollars in bonuses. By July 2007 Sales were a third of what they should be and by dec. 2007 most stores were closing up as the whole company was bankrupt.
That same kind of executive thinking is found in the majority of CEO's. read http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2010/news/1004/gallery.top_ceo_pay/index.html?source=cnn_bin&hpt=Sbin over half the people on this list have gotten major bonuses yet are still posting losses for the same year. Do you want that kind of thinking to have total but deniable control over your health? that is life without HIPPA.
Just remember the vast majority of laws are there because someone abused something to the detriment of many. The law may not be perfect but having it is better than the alternative.
my liberty and dodge stratus didn't. the cruise control only worked when already traveling over 30mph.
Also any tap on the brakes disables cruise control.
that's just it the ipad is made for web browsing with fingers in a tablet format. It is why the ipad will succeed where all others have failed. it's OS is designed for big fat fingers, not the tiny point of a mouse or stylus.
As for the rest of the market, during the pre announcement and after the original announcement of the ipad asus, and many others announced similar products. A couple even announced price ranges of double what apple turned around and priced the ipad at for a base model.
However Where is MSFT office for tablet screens? MSFT has made ONE good application for touch screens and then left everything else to whither and die. There are very few decent third party apps that make solid use of touch inputs.
Wher eis the interface that is designed for touch screens? The task bar desktop is horrible way as a tablet isn't a desktop it is a tablet. Just moving icons around to make them touch ffreindly doesn't make the whole OS touch freindly.
A couple of honest questions, how easy is it to say adjust the sound volume from the tray icon with a touch screen and no stylus? Is it easy to hit on the first try? does it require more than one touch to bring up. What about third party apps? do they all adjust their menus and buttons to allow for nice and easy touch interface or are they designed for a mouse? What about Right click, a lot of windows apps require right click for various functions. how does it do right click? Do all third party apps fully support the touch interface when no keyboard or mouse is available?
Apple has solved all those questions. I have been trying windows tablets since they first came and always found them lacking. one or two good apps doesn't a tablet make. One Note may be awesome but the rest of the experience of windows tablets for me has been a let down.
Just because software runs on a given platform doesn't mean it was designed for it. Open Office on maemo basically requires a keyboard to work with properly as it is built around a keyboard mouse interface and not a touch one.
Tablets aren't designed for significant amount of data entry. Tablets are for sitting on the couch. Tablets are for working in the kitchen trying out new food ideas. Tablets are for leaning up against a tree in a park and reading.
Every competitor to the upas expected apple to have a base price of $1000 with the pimped out models costing more. Acer who was going to release a device at $800 or so that was equivilant to the base Ipad model has since changed their minds. Since they are rushing to make meetoo products available they won't take the year needed to create the custom software required to make a touch based device useful. Instead they will ship keyboards and regular software and wonder what they are doing wrong.
While I agree with you on price apple has just undercut the rest of the market for that type of device by20-30%. It willtake every other company atleast a year to respond with competitive devices. All of which will fail to deliver a decent user experince. Everyone else will treat it as either a notebook or a desktop and add touch instead of creating a complete touch based user interface.
I have said before apple doesn't innovate hardware apples true innovation is a complete user freindly package.
I will not be surprised that if msft currier(spelled wrong) ever ships it will look more like windows 7 than the demos shown. Or as with windows tablet editions only one or two apps will be ported. Remember apple rewrote their office software for a touch based interface. Msft will never do that with ms office. Open source people will do a port of open office for maemo/andriod eventually in a couple of years as only two people will do it. Yet Apple is shipping it today.
So for all the hate apple gets they are still ahead of the competition by a couple of years.
think of the effect if you then tied a piece of buttered toast to the back of the cat and tossed it.
The worlds first perpetual motion motion. a super conducting frozen, cat trying to land on it's feet while toast tries to land butter side down.
no we can break the will of the enemy we just can't stomach the cost of actually breaking enough things to break the will of a zealot.
It is what pretty much everyone doesn't understand is that the USA has only moved it's troops to battle. They have fought well. But the USA as a whole hasn't moved to battle and that is something all together different.
Flash can't handle a scroll wheel let alone asensor that doesn't move. Your hide fails as a trackpad is just a normal mouse where you slide your finger instead of your while hand. A touch screen has no point if refrence until contact is made.
When flash finally supports scroll wheels I will be impressed. That means ithas caught up to the standard tech of the year 2000
If they think they can make a lot of money by strong arming people to pay for it do you think they would? Remember greed rules businesses.
The only reason they didn't now is because HTML5 isn't set and there are competing products out there ready to step in. if in 2016 there is no current competition then they just might start charging people.