Always the same ridiculous assertions from people who don't understand how useful tablets are and can be. The idea that there's no reason to buy a tablet except because I want to be trendy is just absurd. I've completely replaced my laptop for all mobile computing with an iPad. I write emails, read books, do work, make money, travel and consume entertainment on it. My laptop has left my desk maybe twice in the last year and a bit (since the iPad 1 was released). There's no Apple fever. There's a desire to get away from devices that aren't suited to the task at hand (which the laptop is for most of my mobile computing needs). If I want or need a keyboard I can keep a bluetooth keyboard around or get an eePad Transformer which is a rather nice device because it's the best of both worlds (though I still find Android to be a very confusing and clunky OS). For 9%% of my mobile computing needs I don't need an attached keyboard. In fact a keyboard is an active hindrance. Have you ever tried to read something in portrait mode on a laptop? Have you ever tried to scrub through a quicktime movie while holding a laptop with one hand on a busy film set? Yeah. No thanks. I'll take the tablet.
Nobody's been able to compete with Apple in this domain yet (though I'm certain in a few years they will manage it) so they're crying sour grapes and declaring the market dead. Uh huh. Riiiight.
300 was an exciting but pointless movie. I enjoyed the experience of watching it in the theatre and then promptly forgot everything about it when I got home.
Watchmen was boring and pointless.. I wanted to leave the theatre while watching it.
I agree with this completely. Scott Pilgrim had the advantage, for me, of being *fun* and silly and just plain easy to watch. I thoroughly enjoyed the experience of watching it.. as opposed to Watchmen in which I was shifting in my seat and looking at my watch.
No.. I've liked some adaptations: V for Vendetta, Scott Pilgrim among the best of them and 300 for the sheer ridiculous spectacle. I don't consider the material low brow in the least. I just thought it was a boring, pointless movie. Too many flashbacks showing what could have been manage much more simply and artfully. The problem I have with Watchmen is the same problem I had with Sin City -- the adaptation was *too* faithful. I felt like the filmmakers were just reading the books to me... I wasn't engaged at all. Not nearly the same was I was engaged when I read the actual books -- both of which I found thought provoking and exciting to read.
They missed an opportunity to *adapt* the material for the screen. Instead they *recited it* on screen.
Scratch that part about the headers and side bars. When the window is narrow they scroll away as they should (IMHO). When the window is wide they stay put (which I don't like).
I'm using Mac OS 10.6.5 with Safari 5.0.3 and I don't see any of the high CPU usage on idle reading. Nor do I see any headers or sidebars that stay attached to the page. Window resizes are very laggy, though. The font in the comments is easy to read and has good contrast. I would like the article text to use the same color (I agree it's too pale currently).
Also a nice bonus to the update: on the previous version the "Many More" button at the bottom of the main page would disappear in my iOS-based browser (Atomic)... making it rather hard to click. Now it stays where it's supposed to be.
As far as syncing things like contacts and calendars there is nothing that compares to mobile me. Data on all of my ios devices and macs (I have 5 devices to keep sync - iPhone iPad, home iMac, laptop and work Mac) syncs instantly. No need to even tell it what to do beyond entering my username and password. I've never seen any service/app combination from either Microsoft or Google that comes even close in that arena.
I've never really been interested in storing my documents on a remote webserver so google's apps don't really hold any interest for me.
As far as a holistic ecosystem goes.. Apple has nailed it.
Which are nothing more than different GUI for WebKit.
The problem with that being... ?
Pesonally, none of my problems with Mobile Safari have anything to do with the engine.. it's all GUI.. So far I'm liking Atomic.. still a bunch of issues.. but I threw my dollar in to support continued development.
I don't know why *you* can't run The Atomic Browser on your phone. But I can.. only cost me $0.99 too.. for both my iPhone and my iPad. It still needs lots of work but it offers tabbed browsing and in-page search which are two big missing features for me from Safari.
Certainly keyboards were around before the space race.. but if you think computing technology as we know it would exist today were it not for the space race.. you're fooling yourself. Nevermind telecommunications. You don't like GPS? Satellite communications? Weather satellites? Television broadcasts? All the new materials science?
Military research (and make no mistake.. that's what the space race was.. a military endeavour) gave us all of this tech that we are using now. And more research into space travel is better than none.
Just make the punishment for cheating sufficiently harsh. You cheat.. you get kicked out. Simple.
I dunno about Stanford but when I went to school my CS classes (especially the earlier ones) were huge. I never met most of my classmates. I would be *extremely* pissed off to have my academic standing affected by someone else's cheating.
If you watch this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IXYsDdPvbo You'll see that that is, in fact, what the technology is meant to do. Fire a small, single stage rocket from the cannon.
I looked at Qt for internal software development at my company. In the end we chose WxWidgets. It was a pain in the ass for years.. but we did it because I wasn't interested in feeding Trolltech's cockamamie pricing scheme. One license per (named) developer per platform? Can only change developers once every 6 months? Ridiculous. We employ co-op programmers who come and go every 4 months. Simply not workable.
I asked more than once for them to sell the product as a package.. a site license or something pro-rated based on the number of developers (1-5, 5-10, whatever).. I also asked them to simply offer a paid yearly support contract which I would gladly buy since our biggest complaint with Wx was the lack of support. No across the board from Trolltech.
So.. we found an alternative.. a free one, as it happens.. but money wasn't the issue.
For the kind of small-scale internal commercial development we do Trolltech's business model was not workable.
So you'll be buying only things that are "Made in USA"?
Only be watching movies produced, shot or have post production entirely within the USA? (Here's a tip.. don't watch *any* movies.. it's probably safer that way as far as your loyalty is concerned)
Only be buying food grown in the USA?
Not using Linux? Since many of the contributors aren't US programmers.
I mean.. sure.. it's much more expensive to only buy local.. but hey.. you'll be loyal that way.
Sadly the world just doesn't work the way you want it to. Lowest price wins.. country/state/provinces with the best tax incentives wins. Quality is in competition with price.. but it is possible to have both. For many things it's great to buy local.. but if you want to live in a world where "loyalty to country" exists.. talk to the consumers first.. *we're* the ones pushing prices down, requiring things like outsourcing, etc.
1) So? 2) So? 3) How so? 4) So? 5) You can buy music from other stores and then copy those tracks into iTunes. Unless of course your store of choice has some *other* DRM in it.. 6) in iTunes it does 7) not for long 8) so? Does any other iPod or useful MP3 player have removable main storage? 9) true.. not a big deal enough for me, though. 11) I'm willing to pay for a device that does what I want. No other device does what I want like an iPod. Now.. as it turns out the iPod Touch is actually not a very good iPod.. I find the interface to be inferior to the click wheel version. It *does* (once unlocked, of course) actually make a decent enough PDA.
I know as an AC you probably won't see this message.. but hey.. I was bored... fed the troll. Sue me.
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Always the same ridiculous assertions from people who don't understand how useful tablets are and can be. The idea that there's no reason to buy a tablet except because I want to be trendy is just absurd. I've completely replaced my laptop for all mobile computing with an iPad. I write emails, read books, do work, make money, travel and consume entertainment on it. My laptop has left my desk maybe twice in the last year and a bit (since the iPad 1 was released). There's no Apple fever. There's a desire to get away from devices that aren't suited to the task at hand (which the laptop is for most of my mobile computing needs). If I want or need a keyboard I can keep a bluetooth keyboard around or get an eePad Transformer which is a rather nice device because it's the best of both worlds (though I still find Android to be a very confusing and clunky OS). For 9%% of my mobile computing needs I don't need an attached keyboard. In fact a keyboard is an active hindrance. Have you ever tried to read something in portrait mode on a laptop? Have you ever tried to scrub through a quicktime movie while holding a laptop with one hand on a busy film set? Yeah. No thanks. I'll take the tablet.
Nobody's been able to compete with Apple in this domain yet (though I'm certain in a few years they will manage it) so they're crying sour grapes and declaring the market dead. Uh huh. Riiiight.
Yes.
The "blanket claim" to which I was referring was CmdrTaco's in his summary.
300 was an exciting but pointless movie. I enjoyed the experience of watching it in the theatre and then promptly forgot everything about it when I got home.
Watchmen was boring and pointless.. I wanted to leave the theatre while watching it.
I wasn't responding to anyone who said "for my part". That came *after* what I posted.
From CmdrTaco's original summary:
"The most frustrating part of this is that Watchmen was actually *good*"
how is that any different from what I said?
I agree with this completely. Scott Pilgrim had the advantage, for me, of being *fun* and silly and just plain easy to watch. I thoroughly enjoyed the experience of watching it.. as opposed to Watchmen in which I was shifting in my seat and looking at my watch.
Scott Pilgrim -- good
Watchemen -- not good
In my opinion.
So why is the blanket claim that a movie is *good* not a troll? Why does it not go both ways?
Is it really necessary to preface *everything* one writes with "In my opinion"?
No.. I've liked some adaptations: V for Vendetta, Scott Pilgrim among the best of them and 300 for the sheer ridiculous spectacle. I don't consider the material low brow in the least. I just thought it was a boring, pointless movie. Too many flashbacks showing what could have been manage much more simply and artfully. The problem I have with Watchmen is the same problem I had with Sin City -- the adaptation was *too* faithful. I felt like the filmmakers were just reading the books to me... I wasn't engaged at all. Not nearly the same was I was engaged when I read the actual books -- both of which I found thought provoking and exciting to read.
They missed an opportunity to *adapt* the material for the screen. Instead they *recited it* on screen.
Watchmen was an overlong, overwrought, overly wordy, over hyped, over produced mess.
It was not, by any stretch of the imagination, good.
Scratch that part about the headers and side bars. When the window is narrow they scroll away as they should (IMHO). When the window is wide they stay put (which I don't like).
I'm using Mac OS 10.6.5 with Safari 5.0.3 and I don't see any of the high CPU usage on idle reading. Nor do I see any headers or sidebars that stay attached to the page. Window resizes are very laggy, though. The font in the comments is easy to read and has good contrast. I would like the article text to use the same color (I agree it's too pale currently).
Also a nice bonus to the update: on the previous version the "Many More" button at the bottom of the main page would disappear in my iOS-based browser (Atomic)... making it rather hard to click. Now it stays where it's supposed to be.
All in all a good update. Keep it up. Very nice.
As far as syncing things like contacts and calendars there is nothing that compares to mobile me. Data on all of my ios devices and macs (I have 5 devices to keep sync - iPhone iPad, home iMac, laptop and work Mac) syncs instantly. No need to even tell it what to do beyond entering my username and password. I've never seen any service/app combination from either Microsoft or Google that comes even close in that arena.
I've never really been interested in storing my documents on a remote webserver so google's apps don't really hold any interest for me.
As far as a holistic ecosystem goes.. Apple has nailed it.
Which are nothing more than different GUI for WebKit.
The problem with that being... ?
Pesonally, none of my problems with Mobile Safari have anything to do with the engine.. it's all GUI.. So far I'm liking Atomic.. still a bunch of issues.. but I threw my dollar in to support continued development.
I don't know why *you* can't run The Atomic Browser on your phone. But I can.. only cost me $0.99 too.. for both my iPhone and my iPad. It still needs lots of work but it offers tabbed browsing and in-page search which are two big missing features for me from Safari.
http://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/atomic-web-browser-fullscreen/id347929410
Certainly keyboards were around before the space race.. but if you think computing technology as we know it would exist today were it not for the space race.. you're fooling yourself. Nevermind telecommunications. You don't like GPS? Satellite communications? Weather satellites? Television broadcasts? All the new materials science?
Military research (and make no mistake.. that's what the space race was.. a military endeavour) gave us all of this tech that we are using now. And more research into space travel is better than none.
I think you're missing all of the collateral benefits that came from the space race. You're probably typing on one right now.
Just make the punishment for cheating sufficiently harsh. You cheat.. you get kicked out. Simple.
I dunno about Stanford but when I went to school my CS classes (especially the earlier ones) were huge. I never met most of my classmates. I would be *extremely* pissed off to have my academic standing affected by someone else's cheating.
If you watch this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IXYsDdPvbo You'll see that that is, in fact, what the technology is meant to do. Fire a small, single stage rocket from the cannon.
I looked at Qt for internal software development at my company. In the end we chose WxWidgets. It was a pain in the ass for years.. but we did it because I wasn't interested in feeding Trolltech's cockamamie pricing scheme. One license per (named) developer per platform? Can only change developers once every 6 months? Ridiculous. We employ co-op programmers who come and go every 4 months. Simply not workable.
I asked more than once for them to sell the product as a package.. a site license or something pro-rated based on the number of developers (1-5, 5-10, whatever).. I also asked them to simply offer a paid yearly support contract which I would gladly buy since our biggest complaint with Wx was the lack of support. No across the board from Trolltech.
So.. we found an alternative.. a free one, as it happens.. but money wasn't the issue.
For the kind of small-scale internal commercial development we do Trolltech's business model was not workable.
So you'll be buying only things that are "Made in USA"?
Only be watching movies produced, shot or have post production entirely within the USA? (Here's a tip.. don't watch *any* movies.. it's probably safer that way as far as your loyalty is concerned)
Only be buying food grown in the USA?
Not using Linux? Since many of the contributors aren't US programmers.
I mean.. sure.. it's much more expensive to only buy local.. but hey.. you'll be loyal that way.
Sadly the world just doesn't work the way you want it to. Lowest price wins.. country/state/provinces with the best tax incentives wins. Quality is in competition with price.. but it is possible to have both. For many things it's great to buy local.. but if you want to live in a world where "loyalty to country" exists.. talk to the consumers first.. *we're* the ones pushing prices down, requiring things like outsourcing, etc.
You want to date a programmer? Are you nuts?
No.. but one can "arbitrarily" select a fixed point as a reference.. as the parent poster stated.
"I arbitrarily choose the earth as the fixed point in the universe for all my velocity calculations."
See?
The "size" is considered to be the size of the event horizon
1) So?
2) So?
3) How so?
4) So?
5) You can buy music from other stores and then copy those tracks into iTunes. Unless of course your store of choice has some *other* DRM in it..
6) in iTunes it does
7) not for long
8) so? Does any other iPod or useful MP3 player have removable main storage?
9) true.. not a big deal enough for me, though.
11) I'm willing to pay for a device that does what I want. No other device does what I want like an iPod. Now.. as it turns out the iPod Touch is actually not a very good iPod.. I find the interface to be inferior to the click wheel version. It *does* (once unlocked, of course) actually make a decent enough PDA.
I know as an AC you probably won't see this message.. but hey.. I was bored... fed the troll. Sue me.
Incorrect assumption.
The headphone jack is fully accessible on the iPod Touch.