You don't do that though. You make a 'lite' application that has a limited functionality but is optimized for the tablet / phone / whatever. Like iWork for the iPad. Review and annotate on the tablet, do large pivot tables on a real computer. You sell it for a few dollars or bundle it. That sort of thing.
While I share your general sentiments, this may not be all that relevant anymore. Instead of a monolithic 'application', like Word, Excel or Photoshop you will have a core API and various UIs that pop up depending on your hardware. If you're running Photoshop in a small tablet, you will get a small subset of uncoordinated mess that is the underlying Photoshop code. You might be able to select pictures, tag them (actually that's Bridge, but the concept is the same), change a few things but not necessarily be able to crank through a 95 layer 2 GB panorama. Save it, go to your real computer, run the big stuff.
You're seeing this with the iPad now in it's early stage. Photoshop express, iWork for the iPad (iHate that stupid nomenclature) etc. It's really having consistent data file structures and an easy way to share the data. Standards and networks for the win!
For instance: arthroscopic knee surgery, a very common procedure, doesn't actually help.. If you were afraid of "duh" research, you'd never ask that question in the first place.
Not the greatest of examples for 'duh' ness. There were longstanding concerns that arthroscopic surgery for osteoarthritis (the usual form of 'wear and tear' arthritis) shouldn't work because there was no plausible mechanism to explain it. It continued to be popular because (at least the US) because you could bill for it and you were 'doing something'. It actually did work - people got better - but likely because they got off the knee and had physical therapy. It had nothing to do with the surgery.
The sham experiment was proposed numerous times but never managed to get past the various Institutional Review Boards - basically ethics committees - who felt that doing sham surgery with anesthesia and an incision would not be ethical since there was a chance of harm and no chance of help. Turns out they were wrong, but that happens. It created quite a stir in the ethics literature. Sometimes you really do have to check out those assumptions.
Still up for examination: Arthroscopic surgery for ACL (Anterior Cruciate Ligament) repair and meniscal surgery (the meniscus in the knee is a little shock absorber that often gets frayed and worn out, arthroscopic surgery is often done to 'clean up' the little bugger) may well be of little benefit compared to rest and rehab. You don't know until you look. Especially in medicine, we have volumes and volumes of 'received wisdom' - stuff that has been taught for generations but never subject to rigorous analysis. There is a lot of garbage in that 'wisdom'. Stay tuned.
I'm oddly excited about the idea of docking my phone into a tablet and then docking that phone-tablet into a keyboard and then docking that phone-tablet-keyboard into a docking station for a desktop keyboard and monitor.
Somehow I think you Rule 34'd this discussion. Congrats.
The good news is that we are theoretically and potentially prepared to handle such flow of events, if we stay together, believe in our collective ability to do this, don't let panic and delusion spread and take the best of us, and basically stay focused and put and do our best to SURVIVE - flourish in a changing world without bringing ourselves to extinction. Which means, life for most on the planet will be very different, but hunams will survive. We're quite adaptable really:) I hope the same would go for as many other species on Earth as possible.
Yeah, that's what happens when you google for a link and pick the most likely sounding one. At least it's not goatse or something similar. It's just weird.
Totally. Actually, Gearbox should have gotten in touch with Gamestop, and put the names of the people with the longest active pre-orders in the credits under "Thanks" or "True Believers" or "You can stop holding your breath now" or something.
They would probably do better to check with the Social Security Administration to see who died in the interim. Could save them a bunch of trouble.
This is SAIC we are talking about. Corruption, regulatory capture, and general parasitism-on-dodgy-private-contract-projects are basically their business model.
Wait. What? That's the business model for the US Senate.
Beautiful video! Does anyone know what the orange laser is used for? Pointing things out to others? Bouncing off the moon? Shooting those pesky UFOs?
It's an aiming laser. It's sort of described in the ESO website. Seems to help the other telescopes track. Remember that these telescopes are hooked together to form a "Very Large Telescope".
My original thought was that the astronomers were bored and were shooting aliens, but I guess that's not the case.
Absolutely not. If that was the case, I would have found the video we're discussing to be boring. MTV is absolute shit with regards to both their content and production value. Dissolves ARE boring, though, and way overused. This video does not need them. Why use them when they're not needed?
I would have cropped it a little different, more to the left.
It's not hard to believe? Try to imagine taking OSX and disabling the ability for any un-signed executables or scripts to run.
And that would be fine. As long as it was a toggle. I would love a version of OS X that really locked the system down ala the iPhone. Not for me, but for my wife anyone else who doesn't want to deal with the computer being a computer. Kinda of live Parental controls on steroids.
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You don't do that though. You make a 'lite' application that has a limited functionality but is optimized for the tablet / phone / whatever. Like iWork for the iPad. Review and annotate on the tablet, do large pivot tables on a real computer. You sell it for a few dollars or bundle it. That sort of thing.
While I share your general sentiments, this may not be all that relevant anymore. Instead of a monolithic 'application', like Word, Excel or Photoshop you will have a core API and various UIs that pop up depending on your hardware. If you're running Photoshop in a small tablet, you will get a small subset of uncoordinated mess that is the underlying Photoshop code. You might be able to select pictures, tag them (actually that's Bridge, but the concept is the same), change a few things but not necessarily be able to crank through a 95 layer 2 GB panorama. Save it, go to your real computer, run the big stuff.
You're seeing this with the iPad now in it's early stage. Photoshop express, iWork for the iPad (iHate that stupid nomenclature) etc. It's really having consistent data file structures and an easy way to share the data. Standards and networks for the win!
Bless the maker and his water, bless the coming and going of him, may his passing cleanse the world.
Not that kind of worm. This kind. We have to wait a couple of million years until the planet dries up for the big ones. Oh, a FTL travel. And Spice.
Yes, prior to this, California had a tax on honesty.
Well no wonder they're broke.
Just pass a nationwide sales tax and remit the proceeds to the states. Problem solved.
And just why do you think the states would see any of that money? Guess who is really broke?
God Bless Vespucciland!
For instance: arthroscopic knee surgery, a very common procedure, doesn't actually help.. If you were afraid of "duh" research, you'd never ask that question in the first place.
Not the greatest of examples for 'duh' ness. There were longstanding concerns that arthroscopic surgery for osteoarthritis (the usual form of 'wear and tear' arthritis) shouldn't work because there was no plausible mechanism to explain it. It continued to be popular because (at least the US) because you could bill for it and you were 'doing something'. It actually did work - people got better - but likely because they got off the knee and had physical therapy. It had nothing to do with the surgery.
The sham experiment was proposed numerous times but never managed to get past the various Institutional Review Boards - basically ethics committees - who felt that doing sham surgery with anesthesia and an incision would not be ethical since there was a chance of harm and no chance of help. Turns out they were wrong, but that happens. It created quite a stir in the ethics literature. Sometimes you really do have to check out those assumptions.
Still up for examination: Arthroscopic surgery for ACL (Anterior Cruciate Ligament) repair and meniscal surgery (the meniscus in the knee is a little shock absorber that often gets frayed and worn out, arthroscopic surgery is often done to 'clean up' the little bugger) may well be of little benefit compared to rest and rehab. You don't know until you look. Especially in medicine, we have volumes and volumes of 'received wisdom' - stuff that has been taught for generations but never subject to rigorous analysis. There is a lot of garbage in that 'wisdom'. Stay tuned.
but frankly what's stopping us?.
Our current political system that is so polarized that we cannot vote on even the most trivial of ideas, concepts or programs.
"We have met the enemy and it is us"
I'm oddly excited about the idea of docking my phone into a tablet and then docking that phone-tablet into a keyboard and then docking that phone-tablet-keyboard into a docking station for a desktop keyboard and monitor.
Somehow I think you Rule 34'd this discussion. Congrats.
The good news is that we are theoretically and potentially prepared to handle such flow of events, if we stay together, believe in our collective ability to do this, don't let panic and delusion spread and take the best of us, and basically stay focused and put and do our best to SURVIVE - flourish in a changing world without bringing ourselves to extinction. Which means, life for most on the planet will be very different, but hunams will survive. We're quite adaptable really :) I hope the same would go for as many other species on Earth as possible.
You don't follow politics much, do you?
Yeah, that's what happens when you google for a link and pick the most likely sounding one. At least it's not goatse or something similar. It's just weird.
With all due respect, I strongly doubt that the US Government are installing consumer grade OSes on nuclear plant machinery.
I doubt they're installing Windows in general on it. QNX or similar is more likely.
No, they've just decided to put it on warships. First the sea, then the sky's the limit!
Thanks for that!
Or, put another way, their data came from AOL...so we now know the sexual preferences of the elderly and the mentally challenged...whee!
For the purposes of today's discussion (this being Slashdot and all), it's a pretty good start.
I'm a computational neuroscientist. I view the mind as software.
Righto. Abort, Retry, Fail for you, dude.
Totally. Actually, Gearbox should have gotten in touch with Gamestop, and put the names of the people with the longest active pre-orders in the credits under "Thanks" or "True Believers" or "You can stop holding your breath now" or something.
They would probably do better to check with the Social Security Administration to see who died in the interim. Could save them a bunch of trouble.
HWY 101 rocks, don't ruin it w/ a damn phone!
Why not, everyone else does.
This is SAIC we are talking about. Corruption, regulatory capture, and general parasitism-on-dodgy-private-contract-projects are basically their business model.
Wait. What? That's the business model for the US Senate.
If you want any rural 3G with an iphone, it leaves out everybody.
You get Edge (if you're lucky) and you will like it!
Have you considered leaving your phone at home and going on a real vacation?
Beautiful video! Does anyone know what the orange laser is used for? Pointing things out to others? Bouncing off the moon? Shooting those pesky UFOs?
It's an aiming laser. It's sort of described in the ESO website. Seems to help the other telescopes track. Remember that these telescopes are hooked together to form a "Very Large Telescope".
My original thought was that the astronomers were bored and were shooting aliens, but I guess that's not the case.
Absolutely not. If that was the case, I would have found the video we're discussing to be boring. MTV is absolute shit with regards to both their content and production value. Dissolves ARE boring, though, and way overused. This video does not need them. Why use them when they're not needed?
I would have cropped it a little different, more to the left.
Yeah. Word for word repost of a professionally written article.
BTW, nice article. Great images. Makes you realize how insignificant we are.
It's not hard to believe? Try to imagine taking OSX and disabling the ability for any un-signed executables or scripts to run.
And that would be fine. As long as it was a toggle. I would love a version of OS X that really locked the system down ala the iPhone. Not for me, but for my wife anyone else who doesn't want to deal with the computer being a computer. Kinda of live Parental controls on steroids.
It was to be announced at the Party Congress on Monday. As you know, the Premier loves surprises.
No wonder it's not the year of the Linux desktop yet.
Sheesh. No shiny. Requires mathematics to understand.
Lame.