That's why people spend $3 in the app store for either Air Video or StreamToMe. Both apps have a server component for your Mac or PC that will transcode your gigs of downloaded porn to iPad-optimized video on the fly. Open a port on your firewall, and StreamToMe can stream your "entertainment" from your home Mac to your iPad or iPhone anywhere you are on the net.
I don't know, you can download a number of SSH apps from the app store and use one to connect to a real computer. If one thinks of the iPad as a really smart touch-based, graphical input/output device that has limited resources of its own (like the iPhone), instead of as a one-piece PC with an onscreen keyboard, then that distinction opens up a whole new market that rides on the success of the iPhone, which has already seen more popularity and mainstream familiarity than OS X.
The iPad and its imitators all have potential, but not running Windows or OS X and their apps. Touch screen tech just isn't suited for apps designed for mouse input, because there's only touches: the device can't tell if a finger is hovering, like a mouse pointer with the button up because it only senses touches, analogous to clicking/dragging. Besides their tiny UI widgets, Win/OS X app interfaces are designed with mouse input assumed.
Yes, I know it's the same OS tech underpinning both the pad and the mac. And it would be nice to have Apple allow ad-hoc distribution without code signing, or at least allow app store alternatives that needn't adhere to the Apple-Disney smut scrub, aka App Store Approval Process. But it's their toy and they can lock it down if they want and we can not buy it if we... oh wait who am I kidding I'll buy two...
When watching programs like soap operas that don't require full-time attention, we'll be doing other stuff on our computers (work, WoW, newsreading, facebook, email etc) and often not bother to skip commercials if we're not even paying attention to what's playing on the TiVo.
It'd be interesting to see if certain classes of shows get commercial-skipped more than others. Here, shows that require full couch-sitting attention will get commercial-skipped a lot more than shows that can be treated more as background noise.
From what admittedly little I've read, so-called netbooks have razor-thin profit margins and the only reason they're selling is because the full-size laptop market is getting closer to being saturated.
For people who want an underpowered, smallish laptop for web browsing and email, what's wrong with a 12" PowerBook G4 from eBay? Full-size keyboard, 1024x768 screen, 1 to 1.5 GHz. $250-$300.
... Especially given the solid work already done by FireFox, Opera, and Safari.
An understatement given that Google Chrome is a re-chromed Safari.
I heard the announcement about Chrome on NPR at work today (not my entertainment choice but that's not relevant) and the story talked about Chrome as competition for IE and Firefox. Being a Mac zealot I of course thought "what about Safari?!?" and began dreading the testing and tweaking of sites I manage for Chrome compatibility.
So I get home tonight and fire up Virtual PC and install Chrome for XP. First thing I look at is the HTTP_USER_AGENT string...
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.149.27 Safari/525.13
Oh joy! This isn't a new browser war, this is a blessing that will have many more people using a browser that renders pages as intended without additional compatibility hacks.
Now about that speedy new JS engine -- I assume that's the new JS engine that's already in the nightly WebKit builds and that'll be included in Safari 4? I'm just guessing, not gonna RTFA or anything.
What struck me most about the article was the site's level of staffing... eleven visual designers, information architects and design technologists in his group alone, not including outside web editors/producers, graphics and multimedia teams, and the software engineers on the CMS team.
At the community newsmagazine for which I work, I wear all those hats. Granted, it's nowhere near the size of the NY Times or nytimes.com. The print edition contains about 40-45 stories each week, and after the paper goes to press Wednesday night, I get all the content on the web in about a half hour using a custom Applescript Studio-based CMS, publishing direct from our QuarkXpress layouts into a MySQL database, which feeds both the PHP-based web front end and the weekly e-newsletter. The goal of the site was to be a literal dump of the print edition onto the web in the most effecient way possible -- meaning, me working as little as possible since I'm paid hourly.
The previous web-based CMS we were using six years ago was so cumbersome it took at least four hours to get the paper posted online (and it looked like shit once it was up there).
On the new redesign of the site I've been working on for the past month I could have used my own team of "design technologists" just to find workarounds for all of IE's stupid rendering quirks.
As far as not using Dreamweaver -- well, duh. BBEdit all the way.
Months ago I cynically asked friends if Hillary's health care plan meant jacking up my taxes and handing the cash over to the insurance companies and HMOs that financed her campaign. I was joking.
Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton said Sunday she might be willing to garnish the wages of workers who refuse to buy health insurance to achieve coverage for all Americans.
The New York senator has criticized presidential rival Barack Obama for pushing a health plan that would not require universal coverage. Clinton has not always specified the enforcement measures she would embrace, but when pressed on ABC's "This Week," she said: "I think there are a number of mechanisms" that are possible, including "going after people's wages, automatic enrollment."
Clinton said such measures would apply only to workers who can afford health coverage but refuse to buy it, which puts undue pressure on hospitals and emergency rooms. With her proposals for subsidies, she said, "it will be affordable for everyone."
I've been egging my boss for two years to get new Macs for my department (weekly newspaper production) to replace our current setups (two PM G4 400Mhz, one PM G3 300MHz and one PM 6500 120MHz) and, being a traditional penny-pinching publisher, have gotten little more out of him than a pair of new mice and a smattering of software upgrades (Quark 6, FontAgent Pro).
G5s are way out of his price range. Even the discounted PM G4 1.25s (while they were still available) were rejected because buying three meant spending in the neighborhood of $7K.
As long as these $500 boxes can be upgraded to at least 1 GB RAM and can connect to a VGA monitor, my wish for new hardware this year may come true.
I bought my home system in March '03 (dual 1.4GHz) and at the time that was the fastest Mac on the planet. A single 1.25GHz ain't no slouch if you have to work on a 400MHz G4 all day. I feel sorry for the guy running Quark 6 & Photoshop on the G3 300, that's cruel & unusual punishment.
If you have more than one computer, then you probably already have an ethernet switch or hub, so it shouldn't matter, should it? What am I missing here?
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In any larger city's gay community you can't swing a dead cat without hitting a gay porn performer, past or present.
That's why people spend $3 in the app store for either Air Video or StreamToMe. Both apps have a server component for your Mac or PC that will transcode your gigs of downloaded porn to iPad-optimized video on the fly. Open a port on your firewall, and StreamToMe can stream your "entertainment" from your home Mac to your iPad or iPhone anywhere you are on the net.
I don't know, you can download a number of SSH apps from the app store and use one to connect to a real computer. If one thinks of the iPad as a really smart touch-based, graphical input/output device that has limited resources of its own (like the iPhone), instead of as a one-piece PC with an onscreen keyboard, then that distinction opens up a whole new market that rides on the success of the iPhone, which has already seen more popularity and mainstream familiarity than OS X.
The iPad and its imitators all have potential, but not running Windows or OS X and their apps. Touch screen tech just isn't suited for apps designed for mouse input, because there's only touches: the device can't tell if a finger is hovering, like a mouse pointer with the button up because it only senses touches, analogous to clicking/dragging. Besides their tiny UI widgets, Win/OS X app interfaces are designed with mouse input assumed.
Yes, I know it's the same OS tech underpinning both the pad and the mac. And it would be nice to have Apple allow ad-hoc distribution without code signing, or at least allow app store alternatives that needn't adhere to the Apple-Disney smut scrub, aka App Store Approval Process. But it's their toy and they can lock it down if they want and we can not buy it if we ... oh wait who am I kidding I'll buy two ...
When watching programs like soap operas that don't require full-time attention, we'll be doing other stuff on our computers (work, WoW, newsreading, facebook, email etc) and often not bother to skip commercials if we're not even paying attention to what's playing on the TiVo. It'd be interesting to see if certain classes of shows get commercial-skipped more than others. Here, shows that require full couch-sitting attention will get commercial-skipped a lot more than shows that can be treated more as background noise.
From what admittedly little I've read, so-called netbooks have razor-thin profit margins and the only reason they're selling is because the full-size laptop market is getting closer to being saturated. For people who want an underpowered, smallish laptop for web browsing and email, what's wrong with a 12" PowerBook G4 from eBay? Full-size keyboard, 1024x768 screen, 1 to 1.5 GHz. $250-$300.
My ZoomInfo.com profile says I'm Head of Security for Newman Enterprises in Wisconsin.
Newman Enterprises is a fictional company on The Young and the Restless. The show has a character named Jeff.
In reality I publish a web site for soap opera fans. ZoomInfo gathered my alleged employment history from recaps of Y&R episodes posted by users.
http://www.zoominfo.com/Search/PersonDetail.aspx?PersonID=1219954157
... Especially given the solid work already done by FireFox, Opera, and Safari.
An understatement given that Google Chrome is a re-chromed Safari.
I heard the announcement about Chrome on NPR at work today (not my entertainment choice but that's not relevant) and the story talked about Chrome as competition for IE and Firefox. Being a Mac zealot I of course thought "what about Safari?!?" and began dreading the testing and tweaking of sites I manage for Chrome compatibility.
So I get home tonight and fire up Virtual PC and install Chrome for XP. First thing I look at is the HTTP_USER_AGENT string...
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.149.27 Safari/525.13
Oh joy! This isn't a new browser war, this is a blessing that will have many more people using a browser that renders pages as intended without additional compatibility hacks.
Now about that speedy new JS engine -- I assume that's the new JS engine that's already in the nightly WebKit builds and that'll be included in Safari 4? I'm just guessing, not gonna RTFA or anything.
Last I checked, and this was a few years ago, you could get an Apple IIe for less than $10 on eBay.
I always stand in the sun when I smoke. Do I break even?
What struck me most about the article was the site's level of staffing... eleven visual designers, information architects and design technologists in his group alone, not including outside web editors/producers, graphics and multimedia teams, and the software engineers on the CMS team.
At the community newsmagazine for which I work, I wear all those hats. Granted, it's nowhere near the size of the NY Times or nytimes.com. The print edition contains about 40-45 stories each week, and after the paper goes to press Wednesday night, I get all the content on the web in about a half hour using a custom Applescript Studio-based CMS, publishing direct from our QuarkXpress layouts into a MySQL database, which feeds both the PHP-based web front end and the weekly e-newsletter. The goal of the site was to be a literal dump of the print edition onto the web in the most effecient way possible -- meaning, me working as little as possible since I'm paid hourly.
The previous web-based CMS we were using six years ago was so cumbersome it took at least four hours to get the paper posted online (and it looked like shit once it was up there).
On the new redesign of the site I've been working on for the past month I could have used my own team of "design technologists" just to find workarounds for all of IE's stupid rendering quirks.
As far as not using Dreamweaver -- well, duh. BBEdit all the way.
So how soon until I can recharge my MacBook Pro with crotch heat? I'm thinking, maybe, perpetual porn machine.
Income was inversely proportional to amount of time spent writing blog posts. I'd read the survey myself but I have to get back to work.
I've been egging my boss for two years to get new Macs for my department (weekly newspaper production) to replace our current setups (two PM G4 400Mhz, one PM G3 300MHz and one PM 6500 120MHz) and, being a traditional penny-pinching publisher, have gotten little more out of him than a pair of new mice and a smattering of software upgrades (Quark 6, FontAgent Pro).
G5s are way out of his price range. Even the discounted PM G4 1.25s (while they were still available) were rejected because buying three meant spending in the neighborhood of $7K.
As long as these $500 boxes can be upgraded to at least 1 GB RAM and can connect to a VGA monitor, my wish for new hardware this year may come true.
I bought my home system in March '03 (dual 1.4GHz) and at the time that was the fastest Mac on the planet. A single 1.25GHz ain't no slouch if you have to work on a 400MHz G4 all day. I feel sorry for the guy running Quark 6 & Photoshop on the G3 300, that's cruel & unusual punishment.
I wasn't even aware of that, sitting here in California watching NBC.
So I'm gonna guess you're not getting the same 24/7 Michael Phelps marketing machine that we're seeing. How fortunate for you.
If you have more than one computer, then you probably already have an ethernet switch or hub, so it shouldn't matter, should it? What am I missing here?