I know I'll (rightly) be labeled an Apple fanboi for this but THAT IS FUCKING BRILLIANT!!
That is easily one of the coolest damn accessories I've seen for a computer device! Gawd damn, the 10 year old geek that hung around arcades who still lives in me is jumping up and down with glee over that while the Apple fanboi in me is saying "yeah. I know. I want to get it already. Calm the hell down kid!"
You're right. Considering that the tablet in question is about as versatile as the appliances you mentioned, I now have no complaints about it being locked down. Just lock it away somewhere and my joy will be complete.
*YAWN*
Sorry. You were commenting on the versatility of a product you've never, ever, ever, not-even-for-a-second, laid your hands upon. Please continue. Your incredibly-informed opinions on this subject are absolutely riveting!
Think for yourself. Do you want a 'computer' that only allows you to do what they want you to do?
I am thinking for myself when I say I want a computing device that just works.
I have a netbook (MSI Wind) that I've hacked to run OSX with a second partition for Ubuntu. I am capable of tinkering with my computers and am not afraid of the process even though it can be involved and frustrating at times. Sometimes, however, I just want my computing device to work. I want to push a button, check email, browse the web, watch some videos, listen to some music, play some games, and whatever else I want to do, and not worry about having to tinker and play and fix. And fix. And fix.
If I choose to tinker, I'll research the options available and buy a machine for tinkering, as I have done and as I probably will do again in the future. If I want a device that just works, I will buy the machine that requires the least amount of tinkering.
I appreciate your concern but, thanks, I'll think for myself. Sometimes, as is the case when I contemplate buying a tablet PC, I just want something that works. From my experience with my iPod Touch and my iPhone and from what I've seen from the numerous reviews I've read on the iPad, the iPad is a computing device that just works. So, thinking for myself, I am very eager to buy one when it launches in Canada. After all, with my G5, my hackintosh MSI Wind netbook, and aforementioned iPod and iPhone, I clearly need more computing gadgets...:)
I realize you were making a joke (and a funny one at that) but, let's be serious - the people behind thing (Darl first and foremost among them) made TONS of money off of this. To imply that he (and his ilk) are stupid is missing the point. Just because he ran his business into the ground doesn't mean that he's run his own finances into the ground. Who cares about the success or failure of a company when you're sipping champagne on your yacht?
As one of the few countries in the world whose economy is not absolutely sitting in the toilet, we, the People of Canada, would like to politely ask you all to fuck off, eh. We appreciate your opinions on our intellectual property laws but, given that we're not bordering on bankruptcy and/or forcing our people to live in a Nanny-state like the rest of you seem to be, we are forced to assume we must be doing something right while the rest of you aren't exactly laying down templates of "how it should be done."
We do apologize for the broad generalizations that may be made in this message but, really, the point remains - fuck off, eh. Mind your own damn business and we'll mind our own. We've done pretty well at minding our business and are just fine with things as they are. Thanks.
Prior to Facebook, social networking sites were pretty much utilized only by the "geeks" of society. Now, with Facebook, everyone and their mom and their grandma has a page. With this flood of people unaccustomed to "life on the internet", people are learning how to conduct themselves on social networking sites all over again. Not only are the non-geeks learning how all this techno-babble works - geeks are also learning how the new social networking environment works. For example, prior to Facebook, on other sites (LiveJournal, for example), my contacts understood that what I said there was to remain there. They were virtual conversations with my friends. Now, however, I'm realizing that the people I have on Facebook do not have that innate understanding of "how it works." Things I say on Facebook, just as a venue to vent, become an issue. I'm being forced to re-evaluate how a social networking site "works" because of all the people who are now using it who just don't understand how it _should_ work.
All of this is to say that it's a very dangerous time to be active on a social networking site. _YOU_ may understand how it all works. Your _FRIENDS_ may understand that you're just venting about a shitty day at work or whatever. Can you be certain your MOM or your BOSS similarly understands these things?...
The web is still in its infancy so the technologies involved with it - especially those for publishing on it - are still developing and constantly changing. Roughly every three to four years, many "technologies" which were previously thought to be "standard" begin to shows signs of age and start to fall from grace. Flash has had a long run, considering how rapidly things are constantly changing but, like pretty much everything involved with the internet at this stage, it is now fading from grace. Other alternatives are beginning to rise which have specifically targeted Flash's weaknesses. And, in a handful of years, they'll be replaced as something new steps up.
The internet is still young and evolving and it will be some time (decades) before it really settles down and true standards establish themselves.
I find his comment about Adobe wanting to be involved in getting creative ideas out there - be it on the internet or paper or whatever - to be a promising sign. It _appears_ Adobe is well-aware that things are going to change and their only chance is to roll with the punches and evolve when needed. Time, of course, will tell if they put their money where their mouths are...
Why not try to make a search engine that doesn't track what you do? I'd pay a subscription for such a thing.
No you wouldn't. Seriously, let's be real - you absolutely would not pay for a subscription to a search engine.
And neither would anyone else. Nobody.
There are simply too many free alternatives out there (Google, Yahoo, Alta Vista, etc., etc., etc.) - only a complete and utter twit who was absolutely new to the internet would pay for a subscription to a search engine.
If you're going to suggest a business model, at least suggest one that has some vague, remote possibility of being successful.
If you want to check out Google Voice, there you go.
People say that Apple is the only source for getting apps on the iPhone. They are wrong. As the above link points out, developers can develop web apps that work with the iPhone and do not require Apple's approval. (I'll note, as another example, Bejewelled 2 was first released as a web app that was absolutely fantastic.)
If you want to try out Google Voice, feel free to do so. It's available for the iPhone. As a web app.
Apple may have created a walled garden but there's still a world out there and flowers do grow (to stick with the lame walled-garden analogy...). Outside the walled garden, it may be wild and untamed and hard to find some flowers that appeal to you, but that doesn't mean they can't grow out there.
Ok, enough with the garden analogy... You get my point though. It is untrue that the only way to develop for the iPhone is through Apple. Develop a web app. Publish url. Done.
You keep using this word evil but I don't think you know what it means.
Creating a "walled garden" for an app store is _NOT_ evil. Deal with it. In case you hadn't noticed, virtually every store on the planet practices that every day. They don't just stock products because they exist - they only stock products that match their store's motif if they think they can sell it. Sorry. Not evil. Totally, utterly, not evil.
Just because you don't like it doesn't make it "evil".
It's too early to read the article. Can someone summarize for me?
(It's a joke. It's a joke. But, it is too early... I wish I was still asleep but I have to get up for work... I'd love to have flex hours and be able to start later. I'm pretty sure I'd be happier at my job if I could. I think this sort of approach to a school is brilliant and I applaud them for being bold enough to be willing to give it a try.)
Seriously, it boggles the mind that the media corporations have managed to brainwash people sufficiently that they have politicians proposing a tax that enables them to be paid _FOR DOING NOTHING!_ Just because they exist, they expect to be paid. It's a degree of entitlement that my brain has troubles comprehending. I want to rant more but I'm just too flabbergasted to be able to put together a coherent sentence... I clearly went into the wrong industry - I actually have to work for my pay check. I should have gone into music distribution where I can get paid just for being there.
Seriously, the media companies (music, first and foremost among them since the RIAA and CRIA are the most antagonistic of them) need to fuck off. Eh.
News to me. I own an old 406 gig iPod which is about eight years old and still works like a dream. I own an first gen iPod Touch which works perfectly. And I own an iPhone 3GS which works flawlessly. Now, I know that's anecdotal evidence but I think the millions and millions and millions and millions of people who own iPods (and often multiple iPods) would disagree with your claim that they are engineered to fail.
Feel free to prove me wrong but I doubt you'll succeed.
With this, my opinion of Google is now changing. I was a very large fan of Google and thought they were doing a fine balancing act between "making money" and "doing the 'right' thing." This, however, is turning things considerably ugly and is painting Google in a very unpleasant light. Mud-slinging is never pretty and often makes the slinger look worse than the target.
In case Google has forgotten, Apple has a lot of fans. Outright insulting Apple in this way forces people to decide, Apple or Google, and Google might not like the choice people make. After all, switching away from Apple means buying all new hardware and software. Switching away from Google just means typing in "www.bing.com".
I know which choice I'm going to be inclined to make in the future...
Ok, so, I'm curious - what apps (not names since I doubt I'll know what the jailbroken app does by name - I'm interested in function) beyond the core apps which already run in the background do you find beneficial to have running in the background? I can see it being important to have apps that wills ave their state as you switch from one to another (switching from a word processor app to Safari to research something and back to your document to continue writing, for example), but that can easily be handled with saving the current state and relaunching within that saved state which most apps that could benefit from that already do. What app processes do you find you need to have actually, actively _running_ in the background? Also, keeping in mind apps that don't benefit from push notifications (chat software, for example, which can get notifications of new messages via the already-existing push notification functionality).
I'll pre-empt things by noting that, yes, I realize having Skype run in the background would be beneficial but it's far from essential given that you're using an iPhone which already has _phone_ functionality. I know there are various apps that do things that the core apps already do on specific networks that some people would love to have running in the background. I'm curious about functionality not covered by a core app.
For some time now, I have been able to listen to music and browse the web, text, chat, etc. by just switching apps.
Uh, you do know you can do that with a non-jailbroken iPhone, right? You didn't mention anything that a stock iPhone is incapable of doing so, if that's why you jailbroke your iPhone, you wasted your time... If there are other apps that you're running with backgrounder, fine, but that was a bad list of example tasks given the iPhone can do that out of the gate.
This isn't an accident. This isn't "whoops, I tripped and bumped into a ladder and accidentally caused a guy to fall and die." This is "whoops, I left a loaded gun unattended within reach of a child." This isn't an accident. This is criminal negligence, at a bare minimum.
You're right. Accidents happen. This is not an accident. To dismiss it as an accident is... well, it's just sad. Pathetic and sad.
I didn't read the whole site but, from what I read, this guy is bitching about "such behaviour" on his jailbroken iPhone. And this is relevant how? He made a choice - one that many people make - and that choice has consequences. Play within the walled garden and you have some restrictions but considerable protection. Abandon the walled garden and you have near-total choice but your protections are discarded.
Seriously, I could care less about someone's opinion when they're basing it on their jailbroken device. They made a choice. Deal with the consequences of that choice.
So "feeling bad" about the consequences of an action is reason to have charges dropped? Sorry. No. The degree of criminal negligence in this situation demands judicial action, regardless of just how bad the parents may or may not feel. Remorse may play a role in determining sentencing but it sure as hell has no place in the decision of whether or not charges should be laid.
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I know I'll (rightly) be labeled an Apple fanboi for this but THAT IS FUCKING BRILLIANT!!
That is easily one of the coolest damn accessories I've seen for a computer device! Gawd damn, the 10 year old geek that hung around arcades who still lives in me is jumping up and down with glee over that while the Apple fanboi in me is saying "yeah. I know. I want to get it already. Calm the hell down kid!"
Too! Fucking! Cool!
I thought Linux's bird was a penguin, not a duck...
You're right. Considering that the tablet in question is about as versatile as the appliances you mentioned, I now have no complaints about it being locked down. Just lock it away somewhere and my joy will be complete.
*YAWN*
Sorry. You were commenting on the versatility of a product you've never, ever, ever, not-even-for-a-second, laid your hands upon. Please continue. Your incredibly-informed opinions on this subject are absolutely riveting!
Think for yourself. Do you want a 'computer' that only allows you to do what they want you to do?
I am thinking for myself when I say I want a computing device that just works.
:)
I have a netbook (MSI Wind) that I've hacked to run OSX with a second partition for Ubuntu. I am capable of tinkering with my computers and am not afraid of the process even though it can be involved and frustrating at times. Sometimes, however, I just want my computing device to work. I want to push a button, check email, browse the web, watch some videos, listen to some music, play some games, and whatever else I want to do, and not worry about having to tinker and play and fix. And fix. And fix.
If I choose to tinker, I'll research the options available and buy a machine for tinkering, as I have done and as I probably will do again in the future. If I want a device that just works, I will buy the machine that requires the least amount of tinkering.
I appreciate your concern but, thanks, I'll think for myself. Sometimes, as is the case when I contemplate buying a tablet PC, I just want something that works. From my experience with my iPod Touch and my iPhone and from what I've seen from the numerous reviews I've read on the iPad, the iPad is a computing device that just works. So, thinking for myself, I am very eager to buy one when it launches in Canada. After all, with my G5, my hackintosh MSI Wind netbook, and aforementioned iPod and iPhone, I clearly need more computing gadgets...
I realize you were making a joke (and a funny one at that) but, let's be serious - the people behind thing (Darl first and foremost among them) made TONS of money off of this. To imply that he (and his ilk) are stupid is missing the point. Just because he ran his business into the ground doesn't mean that he's run his own finances into the ground. Who cares about the success or failure of a company when you're sipping champagne on your yacht?
The only branch of spacetime where you can still reach Slashdot's server is this one where you got really lucky.
Sorry. I find it funny that you're describing a Slashdot reader as getting really lucky.
;)
I know. I know. I'm on the same boat so I shouldn't jest.
Dear World,
As one of the few countries in the world whose economy is not absolutely sitting in the toilet, we, the People of Canada, would like to politely ask you all to fuck off, eh. We appreciate your opinions on our intellectual property laws but, given that we're not bordering on bankruptcy and/or forcing our people to live in a Nanny-state like the rest of you seem to be, we are forced to assume we must be doing something right while the rest of you aren't exactly laying down templates of "how it should be done."
We do apologize for the broad generalizations that may be made in this message but, really, the point remains - fuck off, eh. Mind your own damn business and we'll mind our own. We've done pretty well at minding our business and are just fine with things as they are. Thanks.
Sincerely and respectfully, Canada.
Prior to Facebook, social networking sites were pretty much utilized only by the "geeks" of society. Now, with Facebook, everyone and their mom and their grandma has a page. With this flood of people unaccustomed to "life on the internet", people are learning how to conduct themselves on social networking sites all over again. Not only are the non-geeks learning how all this techno-babble works - geeks are also learning how the new social networking environment works. For example, prior to Facebook, on other sites (LiveJournal, for example), my contacts understood that what I said there was to remain there. They were virtual conversations with my friends. Now, however, I'm realizing that the people I have on Facebook do not have that innate understanding of "how it works." Things I say on Facebook, just as a venue to vent, become an issue. I'm being forced to re-evaluate how a social networking site "works" because of all the people who are now using it who just don't understand how it _should_ work.
All of this is to say that it's a very dangerous time to be active on a social networking site. _YOU_ may understand how it all works. Your _FRIENDS_ may understand that you're just venting about a shitty day at work or whatever. Can you be certain your MOM or your BOSS similarly understands these things?...
The web is still in its infancy so the technologies involved with it - especially those for publishing on it - are still developing and constantly changing. Roughly every three to four years, many "technologies" which were previously thought to be "standard" begin to shows signs of age and start to fall from grace. Flash has had a long run, considering how rapidly things are constantly changing but, like pretty much everything involved with the internet at this stage, it is now fading from grace. Other alternatives are beginning to rise which have specifically targeted Flash's weaknesses. And, in a handful of years, they'll be replaced as something new steps up.
The internet is still young and evolving and it will be some time (decades) before it really settles down and true standards establish themselves.
I find his comment about Adobe wanting to be involved in getting creative ideas out there - be it on the internet or paper or whatever - to be a promising sign. It _appears_ Adobe is well-aware that things are going to change and their only chance is to roll with the punches and evolve when needed. Time, of course, will tell if they put their money where their mouths are...
Why not try to make a search engine that doesn't track what you do? I'd pay a subscription for such a thing.
No you wouldn't. Seriously, let's be real - you absolutely would not pay for a subscription to a search engine.
And neither would anyone else. Nobody.
There are simply too many free alternatives out there (Google, Yahoo, Alta Vista, etc., etc., etc.) - only a complete and utter twit who was absolutely new to the internet would pay for a subscription to a search engine.
If you're going to suggest a business model, at least suggest one that has some vague, remote possibility of being successful.
http://www.google.com/mobile/voice/
If you want to check out Google Voice, there you go.
People say that Apple is the only source for getting apps on the iPhone. They are wrong. As the above link points out, developers can develop web apps that work with the iPhone and do not require Apple's approval. (I'll note, as another example, Bejewelled 2 was first released as a web app that was absolutely fantastic.)
If you want to try out Google Voice, feel free to do so. It's available for the iPhone. As a web app.
Apple may have created a walled garden but there's still a world out there and flowers do grow (to stick with the lame walled-garden analogy...). Outside the walled garden, it may be wild and untamed and hard to find some flowers that appeal to you, but that doesn't mean they can't grow out there.
Ok, enough with the garden analogy... You get my point though. It is untrue that the only way to develop for the iPhone is through Apple. Develop a web app. Publish url. Done.
You keep using this word evil but I don't think you know what it means.
Creating a "walled garden" for an app store is _NOT_ evil. Deal with it. In case you hadn't noticed, virtually every store on the planet practices that every day. They don't just stock products because they exist - they only stock products that match their store's motif if they think they can sell it. Sorry. Not evil. Totally, utterly, not evil.
Just because you don't like it doesn't make it "evil".
The mind boggles.
Seriously, how do you walk into a bank to ask for a business loan for this sort of thing?
Wow...
It's too early to read the article. Can someone summarize for me?
(It's a joke. It's a joke. But, it is too early... I wish I was still asleep but I have to get up for work... I'd love to have flex hours and be able to start later. I'm pretty sure I'd be happier at my job if I could. I think this sort of approach to a school is brilliant and I applaud them for being bold enough to be willing to give it a try.)
Did you seriously just write "CDs aren't portable"? Really? I know nerds have the stigma of being out of shape, but really?
Seriously, it boggles the mind that the media corporations have managed to brainwash people sufficiently that they have politicians proposing a tax that enables them to be paid _FOR DOING NOTHING!_ Just because they exist, they expect to be paid. It's a degree of entitlement that my brain has troubles comprehending. I want to rant more but I'm just too flabbergasted to be able to put together a coherent sentence... I clearly went into the wrong industry - I actually have to work for my pay check. I should have gone into music distribution where I can get paid just for being there.
Seriously, the media companies (music, first and foremost among them since the RIAA and CRIA are the most antagonistic of them) need to fuck off. Eh.
...iPods, iPhones are engineered to fail...
News to me. I own an old 406 gig iPod which is about eight years old and still works like a dream. I own an first gen iPod Touch which works perfectly. And I own an iPhone 3GS which works flawlessly. Now, I know that's anecdotal evidence but I think the millions and millions and millions and millions of people who own iPods (and often multiple iPods) would disagree with your claim that they are engineered to fail.
Feel free to prove me wrong but I doubt you'll succeed.
With this, my opinion of Google is now changing. I was a very large fan of Google and thought they were doing a fine balancing act between "making money" and "doing the 'right' thing." This, however, is turning things considerably ugly and is painting Google in a very unpleasant light. Mud-slinging is never pretty and often makes the slinger look worse than the target.
In case Google has forgotten, Apple has a lot of fans. Outright insulting Apple in this way forces people to decide, Apple or Google, and Google might not like the choice people make. After all, switching away from Apple means buying all new hardware and software. Switching away from Google just means typing in "www.bing.com".
I know which choice I'm going to be inclined to make in the future...
Ok, so, I'm curious - what apps (not names since I doubt I'll know what the jailbroken app does by name - I'm interested in function) beyond the core apps which already run in the background do you find beneficial to have running in the background? I can see it being important to have apps that wills ave their state as you switch from one to another (switching from a word processor app to Safari to research something and back to your document to continue writing, for example), but that can easily be handled with saving the current state and relaunching within that saved state which most apps that could benefit from that already do. What app processes do you find you need to have actually, actively _running_ in the background? Also, keeping in mind apps that don't benefit from push notifications (chat software, for example, which can get notifications of new messages via the already-existing push notification functionality).
I'll pre-empt things by noting that, yes, I realize having Skype run in the background would be beneficial but it's far from essential given that you're using an iPhone which already has _phone_ functionality. I know there are various apps that do things that the core apps already do on specific networks that some people would love to have running in the background. I'm curious about functionality not covered by a core app.
For some time now, I have been able to listen to music and browse the web, text, chat, etc. by just switching apps.
Uh, you do know you can do that with a non-jailbroken iPhone, right? You didn't mention anything that a stock iPhone is incapable of doing so, if that's why you jailbroke your iPhone, you wasted your time... If there are other apps that you're running with backgrounder, fine, but that was a bad list of example tasks given the iPhone can do that out of the gate.
Don't politicians have more important things to deal with?
I know. I know. I must be new to, well, western civilization...
...but accidents happen.
This isn't an accident. This isn't "whoops, I tripped and bumped into a ladder and accidentally caused a guy to fall and die." This is "whoops, I left a loaded gun unattended within reach of a child." This isn't an accident. This is criminal negligence, at a bare minimum.
... well, it's just sad. Pathetic and sad.
You're right. Accidents happen. This is not an accident. To dismiss it as an accident is
I didn't read the whole site but, from what I read, this guy is bitching about "such behaviour" on his jailbroken iPhone. And this is relevant how? He made a choice - one that many people make - and that choice has consequences. Play within the walled garden and you have some restrictions but considerable protection. Abandon the walled garden and you have near-total choice but your protections are discarded.
Seriously, I could care less about someone's opinion when they're basing it on their jailbroken device. They made a choice. Deal with the consequences of that choice.
So "feeling bad" about the consequences of an action is reason to have charges dropped? Sorry. No. The degree of criminal negligence in this situation demands judicial action, regardless of just how bad the parents may or may not feel. Remorse may play a role in determining sentencing but it sure as hell has no place in the decision of whether or not charges should be laid.
Yes, we can. Turn off your webcam.
Sorry. Got this computer from school. Didn't know the webcam was on...