PS It is very annoying when you want to describe picante foods and you lose nuance of meaning because of the overlap between hot and spicy. Thanks for pointing out a better word to use to describe that flavor!
What about... "zippy"? It's an English word, and it makes you seem like a senior citizen!
Indeed, am I the only one thinking that maybe she should be hooked on hydrocodone instead of Ho-Hos? There are plenty of reasons for over-eating, and one of them is dopamine insufficiency. Since she's in pain, she could easily get a prescription for some good narcotics and solve both problems.
I hit my wall when my school's computer lab only had ergonomic keyboards. That will generally teach you to at least keep your hands on the correct side of the keyboard!
FWIW, I used to hit the T with my right hand and other sorts of nonsense. I'm still not 100% correct with the pinkies (wide hands), but I'm the fastest typer I know.
From everyone who has actually tried the iPad, it seems to be MUCH more than just the screen size that is different. Different touches, different app possibilities because of that screen size difference and more features in OS 3.2.
Apps can be built for the iPod Touch and modified versions for the iPad; you are reading too much into the demo showing how to run existing apps.
As an iPhone/iPad developer, I can confirm this. Just recompiling iPhone apps for the iPad, while it may compile and work, is not the way to go. (Which should also not be confused with running native iPhone apps on the iPad and getting auto-scaling; however, you end up with similar results.)
Instead of having a list and switching to a detailed view when something is selected, you're supposed to implement the new split view control so you can show the list AND the content at the same time in landscape. When you rotate to portrait, it shows the content only and you can implement a drop-down menu to select different items from your list. Apple has confirmed that this functionality will not be available on the iPhone/iPod Touch due to the screen size.
One year ago - Slashdotters complaining about Flash on websites. Now - Slashdotters complaining that Apple doesn't support Flash on products they'll never buy.
All this confusion! Which side do I root for? Apple or Flash? It's enough to make my head explode!
On the one hand, I want to criticize Apple's products for lacking features, and because of all those snobby hipsters wearing turtle necks. Heh heh heh, so smug with their cappucinos and art galleries! On the other hand, its lack of features will help destroy my arch nemesis (Flash) and move the web toward standard ways of delivering video and interactive experiences.
It's enough to tear my Asperger's/semi-autistic mind in half!
You must be using a different Google Maps than I, since every instance of it I've ever used is HTML + Javascript. Yes, their coders are that good that they can fool the layman into thinking they use Flash.
So, not quite sure what your point was. My point was that the only real technical reason to have Flash is for Flash games, most of which have iPhone equivalents/ports anyway.
Now to act like a fanboy, even though I ripped Apple in the previous thread I posted in.
without enough storage to use as a media player
It's a portable device; you don't need every single piece of media you have on it. If you're at home, watch your media on something else.
a crippled web browser
What does Flash do for you when you're traveling/away from home/etc? Usually I'm looking up restaurants and using Google Maps. If I'm at the gym, I'm reading news articles on my iPhone. If you're away from home with a focus on doing something else, what use is Flash, really? It has some merit for video, which is being addressed with HTML5, but you don't seriously want to use interactive Flash games when you're on the go.
no hardware keyboard for office apps
Again, if I'm away from home and want a simple device to surf the web/email/etc on, I don't want to haul around extra peripherals.
limited developer access
The SDK is a free download and you just need to pay $99 a year to put unlimited of your own personal apps on it, as long as they keep with the iPhone pricing.
That said, the first thing I'd do is jailbreak it so I can use the unix terminal and all sorts of GNU apps.
Exactly. That's what everyone's missing - it's an appliance, not a computer. When it comes to traveling, I would prefer traveling with an iPad rather than a laptop. I don't need fancy capabilities and a large paperweight that dies after 4 hours of usage. Heck, with 10 hours battery life, I could go somewhere for a weekend and not even have to bring a charger. It's going to have a minimally-sized case with minimal auxiliary components to carry with it.
And it's only $500! For a decent PC tablet, it looks like the price is much more (for a much less streamlined experience). Not to mention, I don't want yet another computer to maintain with updates, optimizations, and malware protection.
I'm pretty excited, and the price is chump change for programmer's salary. The only thing I'm apprehensive about is AT&T - it would be nice to just use it with my existing iPhone data plan.
We looked into that as well, though it wasn't me personally so I don't know all the details. I just know the verdict was that that method is deprecated and/or isn't guaranteed to work and/or didn't work for either technical or legal reasons.
Perhaps I'm not explaining this correctly. I don't really want to implicate my company by being too specific, but I'll try this again.
We sell software to businesses. I'm sure you're familiar with the site-license type of model. That's what we do. We have many, many customer organizations. In short, we send them CDs and they install and maintain the infrastructure like any other enterprise solution (with our help, of course).
The only legitimate way to get an iPhone application to our customer organizations so that they can distribute the application to their employees would be to give them the source code such that they could compile and distribute the binaries using their Apple enterprise developer license. The enterprise license does not allow you to distribute the provisioning profile/binaries to non-employees. There's no way around this.
Well, that solution fell through, as I stated in my previous post. Apple decided they didn't want us sending our source code to all of our customers. Probably due to them realizing what a clusterfuck that would be. I'm kind of glad, but I'm still kind of annoyed that they changed their mind.
And yes, while I'm aware of organizations that are, in fact, breaking the Apple enterprise license, we cannot afford to do so.
On top of the licensing mess that third party vendors have to deal with, I should have mentioned that there's no good way to deploy, configure, and maintain iPhone/touch applications in the enterprise, which is perhaps even more annoying.
So Apple's been good and bad to us, but the main point is that they aren't enterprise friendly.
Anyway, I'd love to be more specific than that, but as it is I've probably said too much. If you're interested, feel free to contact me privately somehow or other.
The enterprise license is what an organization would buy to deploy an application to their workers.
We sell to organizations - not our workers. The enterprise license doesn't let you do that.
What we *wanted* to do was give our customer organizations our source code so that *they* could use the enterprise license and so that we could avoid the App Store.
Our lawyers, and Apple's lawyers, had agreed on this model, as well as various people at Apple. Then, someone high-up at Apple came down and said that route wasn't possible anymore and against their terms. Because their terms are so damn broad, we didn't have any recourse and certainly didn't want to get into a spat with Apple.
But thanks for your suggestion!!! I hope you feel smug now for calling us cheap, asshole.
There are some things that are not enterprise ready
Let me tell you right now: the iPhone/iPod Touch platform is one of those things not enterprise ready. This seems as good of a post to rant off of as any.
I work at a company that wants to sell iPhone software to enterprise customers. We've talked to Apple a hundred times and they reneged on every single one of their promises to help so far. They have no interest in the enterprise or enterprise applications.
Hello, App Store.
Now, our competitors can see our (awesome) product and we have weirdos downloading it who can't use it. Not to mention, we can't put out quick fixes (which is kind of important for my business) because of the Apple Gatekeepers.
Oh yeah, and we can only have one client version and must retain server compatibility (and/or customer-specific lock-out logic) for older clients.
I'm all for less harmful people. Hell, give them all the heroin they want at the lowest price.
Everybody's got their vegetative outlet and priorities; you can't expect them all to coincide with yours. I'm rather glad that more people aren't running around screwing shit up.
Well, at least our top priority isn't killing everybody AND watching "Jersey Shore". Humans ain't so bad as long as they're living fairly comfortably and have TV.
One thing's certain- Intel better donate to them next time they need salt and equipment. MY company would have. Now Intel's whining and losing money, but if they had foresight to be good neighbors in the community and help out, there would be no problem.
I would prefer a built-in tax, too, for the simplicity. Although that would probably encourage tax hikes since we can't really see what slice the government is getting.
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PS It is very annoying when you want to describe picante foods and you lose nuance of meaning because of the overlap between hot and spicy. Thanks for pointing out a better word to use to describe that flavor!
What about... "zippy"? It's an English word, and it makes you seem like a senior citizen!
Indeed, am I the only one thinking that maybe she should be hooked on hydrocodone instead of Ho-Hos? There are plenty of reasons for over-eating, and one of them is dopamine insufficiency. Since she's in pain, she could easily get a prescription for some good narcotics and solve both problems.
He's a socialist! He worships Stalin! Obama is ruining the United States once again!
This combined with a trackball and Linux is the best security against n00bs.
I hit my wall when my school's computer lab only had ergonomic keyboards. That will generally teach you to at least keep your hands on the correct side of the keyboard!
FWIW, I used to hit the T with my right hand and other sorts of nonsense. I'm still not 100% correct with the pinkies (wide hands), but I'm the fastest typer I know.
Maybe they're from Butter Dimension like Topato!. "I AM MADE OF POISON!"
Best link I can find with the text. http://www.wigu.com/overcompensating/2005/09/i-am-made-of-poison-and-xml.html My favorite web comic ever. http://wigu.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wigu
Karma be damned! If any story is worth a Topato plug, it's this one.
You don't have control of them, but Apple does. Look how many sites have been redesigned just for the iPhone.
GO APPLE!!! I'm going to buy five iPads just so Flash will finally die!!!
From everyone who has actually tried the iPad, it seems to be MUCH more than just the screen size that is different. Different touches, different app possibilities because of that screen size difference and more features in OS 3.2.
Apps can be built for the iPod Touch and modified versions for the iPad; you are reading too much into the demo showing how to run existing apps.
As an iPhone/iPad developer, I can confirm this. Just recompiling iPhone apps for the iPad, while it may compile and work, is not the way to go. (Which should also not be confused with running native iPhone apps on the iPad and getting auto-scaling; however, you end up with similar results.)
Instead of having a list and switching to a detailed view when something is selected, you're supposed to implement the new split view control so you can show the list AND the content at the same time in landscape. When you rotate to portrait, it shows the content only and you can implement a drop-down menu to select different items from your list. Apple has confirmed that this functionality will not be available on the iPhone/iPod Touch due to the screen size.
One year ago - Slashdotters complaining about Flash on websites.
Now - Slashdotters complaining that Apple doesn't support Flash on products they'll never buy.
All this confusion! Which side do I root for? Apple or Flash? It's enough to make my head explode!
On the one hand, I want to criticize Apple's products for lacking features, and because of all those snobby hipsters wearing turtle necks. Heh heh heh, so smug with their cappucinos and art galleries!
On the other hand, its lack of features will help destroy my arch nemesis (Flash) and move the web toward standard ways of delivering video and interactive experiences.
It's enough to tear my Asperger's/semi-autistic mind in half!
That's seriously what my mom calls it. She's been using Firefox for years and still says "Motzilla Fox Fire"
I'm as big of a Linux advocate as anyone, but even I'm not delusional enough to think those advantages are going to sway the public.
You must be using a different Google Maps than I, since every instance of it I've ever used is HTML + Javascript. Yes, their coders are that good that they can fool the layman into thinking they use Flash.
So, not quite sure what your point was. My point was that the only real technical reason to have Flash is for Flash games, most of which have iPhone equivalents/ports anyway.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVuh1Ymve2I
I had to look this up. The song is actually "The Last Time"
Now to act like a fanboy, even though I ripped Apple in the previous thread I posted in.
without enough storage to use as a media player
It's a portable device; you don't need every single piece of media you have on it. If you're at home, watch your media on something else.
a crippled web browser
What does Flash do for you when you're traveling/away from home/etc? Usually I'm looking up restaurants and using Google Maps. If I'm at the gym, I'm reading news articles on my iPhone. If you're away from home with a focus on doing something else, what use is Flash, really? It has some merit for video, which is being addressed with HTML5, but you don't seriously want to use interactive Flash games when you're on the go.
no hardware keyboard for office apps
Again, if I'm away from home and want a simple device to surf the web/email/etc on, I don't want to haul around extra peripherals.
limited developer access
The SDK is a free download and you just need to pay $99 a year to put unlimited of your own personal apps on it, as long as they keep with the iPhone pricing.
That said, the first thing I'd do is jailbreak it so I can use the unix terminal and all sorts of GNU apps.
Exactly. That's what everyone's missing - it's an appliance, not a computer. When it comes to traveling, I would prefer traveling with an iPad rather than a laptop. I don't need fancy capabilities and a large paperweight that dies after 4 hours of usage. Heck, with 10 hours battery life, I could go somewhere for a weekend and not even have to bring a charger. It's going to have a minimally-sized case with minimal auxiliary components to carry with it.
And it's only $500! For a decent PC tablet, it looks like the price is much more (for a much less streamlined experience). Not to mention, I don't want yet another computer to maintain with updates, optimizations, and malware protection.
I'm pretty excited, and the price is chump change for programmer's salary. The only thing I'm apprehensive about is AT&T - it would be nice to just use it with my existing iPhone data plan.
We looked into that as well, though it wasn't me personally so I don't know all the details. I just know the verdict was that that method is deprecated and/or isn't guaranteed to work and/or didn't work for either technical or legal reasons.
Perhaps I'm not explaining this correctly. I don't really want to implicate my company by being too specific, but I'll try this again.
We sell software to businesses. I'm sure you're familiar with the site-license type of model. That's what we do. We have many, many customer organizations. In short, we send them CDs and they install and maintain the infrastructure like any other enterprise solution (with our help, of course).
The only legitimate way to get an iPhone application to our customer organizations so that they can distribute the application to their employees would be to give them the source code such that they could compile and distribute the binaries using their Apple enterprise developer license. The enterprise license does not allow you to distribute the provisioning profile/binaries to non-employees. There's no way around this.
Well, that solution fell through, as I stated in my previous post. Apple decided they didn't want us sending our source code to all of our customers. Probably due to them realizing what a clusterfuck that would be. I'm kind of glad, but I'm still kind of annoyed that they changed their mind.
And yes, while I'm aware of organizations that are, in fact, breaking the Apple enterprise license, we cannot afford to do so.
On top of the licensing mess that third party vendors have to deal with, I should have mentioned that there's no good way to deploy, configure, and maintain iPhone/touch applications in the enterprise, which is perhaps even more annoying.
So Apple's been good and bad to us, but the main point is that they aren't enterprise friendly.
Anyway, I'd love to be more specific than that, but as it is I've probably said too much. If you're interested, feel free to contact me privately somehow or other.
The enterprise license is what an organization would buy to deploy an application to their workers.
We sell to organizations - not our workers. The enterprise license doesn't let you do that.
What we *wanted* to do was give our customer organizations our source code so that *they* could use the enterprise license and so that we could avoid the App Store.
Our lawyers, and Apple's lawyers, had agreed on this model, as well as various people at Apple. Then, someone high-up at Apple came down and said that route wasn't possible anymore and against their terms. Because their terms are so damn broad, we didn't have any recourse and certainly didn't want to get into a spat with Apple.
But thanks for your suggestion!!! I hope you feel smug now for calling us cheap, asshole.
There are some things that are not enterprise ready
Let me tell you right now: the iPhone/iPod Touch platform is one of those things not enterprise ready. This seems as good of a post to rant off of as any.
I work at a company that wants to sell iPhone software to enterprise customers. We've talked to Apple a hundred times and they reneged on every single one of their promises to help so far. They have no interest in the enterprise or enterprise applications.
Hello, App Store.
Now, our competitors can see our (awesome) product and we have weirdos downloading it who can't use it. Not to mention, we can't put out quick fixes (which is kind of important for my business) because of the Apple Gatekeepers.
Oh yeah, and we can only have one client version and must retain server compatibility (and/or customer-specific lock-out logic) for older clients.
I'm all for less harmful people. Hell, give them all the heroin they want at the lowest price.
Everybody's got their vegetative outlet and priorities; you can't expect them all to coincide with yours. I'm rather glad that more people aren't running around screwing shit up.
Well, at least our top priority isn't killing everybody AND watching "Jersey Shore". Humans ain't so bad as long as they're living fairly comfortably and have TV.
One thing's certain- Intel better donate to them next time they need salt and equipment. MY company would have. Now Intel's whining and losing money, but if they had foresight to be good neighbors in the community and help out, there would be no problem.
I would prefer a built-in tax, too, for the simplicity. Although that would probably encourage tax hikes since we can't really see what slice the government is getting.
Any western democracy. They can hardly decide what color underpants to wear, much less how to brainwash their youth.
Are you using Compiz? My experience with nVidia + more than TwinView = Compiz fail.