In our language, 'equal rights' means 'the same rights'. 'Equal but different' was deemed 'not equal rights'. Banning same sex marriage is like the old segregated water fountains. Saying, "Anyone can drink from a water fountain that is listed for use by their race is equal rights.", and "Blacks wanting to drink from white water fountains is asking for extra rights." is absurd. The same applies to marriage. Even if Joe is willing, Mike cannot marry Joe. Sharron can marry Joe. That is not equal.
Handwriting will never be able to take the shine off of typing. With just rudimentary initial instruction, virtually everyone types faster than they can handwrite. Handwriting recognition is a forth input method. It is possible to replace a keyboard with it, but it is as kludgy for keyboard tasks as the keyboard is for mouse tasks.
I would say, Yes, they did. The smart phone was just the merging of the PDA with the cell phone. The PDA was already doing most of the things you list. I know that when the trend started, I kept looking for a PDA that included a phone instead of a phone that included a PDA. It was obvious even then that we would have exactly the kinds of problem we are having if the phone companies got a hold of the PDA market.
Until the lock down gets bad enough that the guy who brings in his less powerful personal computing device can get twice as much work done as the one who is limited by the mainframe access he is granted. Then we can hear about how the new technology of personal computing is what works. Of course, this ebb and flow might be exactly what has to happen.
Even in Star Trek, most of the computer work was done at a keyboard. It may have been a touch screen keyboard, but it certainly wasn't voice. Voice was used mostly in the home, or for simple commands when there was no keyboard available.
Seriously. Except for fringe cases, laptop monitors should be 1920x1080. I know that there will be those that howle that they should be higher resolution. But, since every TV sold is now also a montior, 1920x1080 is the single most common monitor size that a laptop can be plugged in to.
Then one of us is sorely mistaken about the average developer's computer. Most of the developers I know use good equipment at home, but what they have at work would definitly fit the description of 'inferior cpu power'. I will acknowledge that their input devices tend to be decent, and their screen(sizes) are a mixed bag.
I would agree with that. We hit a plateau in software, where the next step will take significantly more power than we had when we plateaued. The question is whether the traditional PC sticks around long enough for us to get to the next level, or if the explosion of smaller, lower power devices pushes us to down a different technological evolutionary line.
Over time, though, many of those basic computer users are moving to tablets (and the iPad in particular).
This I think points out the wishful think of of some folks. I know that "Many" is an impercise word, but I don't see nearly enough people doing that today to indicate any kind of real trend. What percent of PC (including Macs) owners today own an iPad? How many people own an iPad and no PC? From my persepective, it looks like the same kind of 'trend' of people buying Macs. We keep hearing how everyone is going to OSX, but it is still way closer to Linux's market share than it is Windows.
I actually do believe that we will see further uptake of tablets, but their is certainly not enough movement yet to call it a trend. So, while your statement is grammatically correct, in practice it is not.
I agree. Just as the wedge PCs of the past like the C64, AtariST, Apple 2, etc.. gave way to the box with a keyboard and monitor attached, and they were still PCs. The Box will likely give way to a tablet with a keyboard an mouse. That doesn't mean it isn't a personal computer.
Centralization for the benefit of maintenance is not inherently better. It is better if you have high failure rate hardware. Whether there are physically reliable enough servers at this point in time is a different question. Certainly at this point, a project like this would only be connecting a replacement on site. It shouldn't take any more local skill or time than inserting a Super Nintendo cartridge.
It even worked on mobile devices. My laptop did mixed searches just fine, and it was definitely a mobile device. Most Windows tablets could also do mixed searches. I'm pretty sure that even with our hair splitting where we define one kind of computer to be a completely different animal than another computer because of how it was marketed, a tablet is still considered a 'mobile device'.
One of the stupidest things about PI (Patant Insanity) is the current trend of getting patents on things that are already covered by patents. Old PI would patent "A Device that does X". Now we get a bunch of PI that is in the form of "A MOBILE device that does X". Only in bizzaro IP world is "mobile device" not a subset of "device".
I am not going to argue the benefits of pay as you go, as those are obvious. My point was just that what we have now has all of the same problems as government run health care, but there is a middle man grabbing handfuls of money in the process.
Magnolia. Were they supposed to be anything more than a scam? There was one around here that last for about 2 years. I went into it when it first opened. It was when HD screens had just started to come down in price, but before mainstream adoption. I had noticed that most of the Wide screen TVs did not yet offer keyholing of 4:3 pictures. They just stretched everything out to look like Mario Bros. characters. I asked the sales person if they had any models that didn't stretch strand format pictures to fill the screen. They guy looked at me like I was crazy and asked why I would want that and explained the wide screen was a better picture. That pretty well told me everything I needed to know about that place.
You do realize that when someone goes into a retail shop, they ARE entitled to someone else's labor, and that when you are paid to work in that shop, you are there to supply them with that labor, right?
Not only that, you would be amazed at how good a 3 month old can be as a sounding board. If you just show a little enthusiasm when you say it, they will listen to whatever technical challenges you have, giving you the outlet to hear your challenge out loud so that you can figure the problem out yourself. They never offer up bad advice, or lead you down the wrong technical path. Oh, and hand puppets help too!
I do agree that for general health care, we should be on either a cash and carry, or fully government paid system. Having my doctor chosen largely by my employer negotiating with insurance companies on one side, and doctors negotiating with insurance companies on the other is absolutely the worst system we could have.
The first problem with our health system is that the vast majority of people don't understand the difference between health insurance and health payment plans.
Because their competitor bought your doctor an all expense paid vacation, and they are worried that he might just neglect to bring up their treatment instead of their competitor's reasonable, but not quite as effective treatment?
I don't know. No doubt that there are plenty of diseases that we can treat but not cure at this time, but I look at things like Herpes vs. Chicken Pox. We have all sorts of treatments for Herpes. I recognize that Herpes and Chicken Pox are not the exact same disease, but they are in the same family. Chicken Pox is a get it once, and any future outbreaks (Shingles) are both non-communicable and so rare that most people will never get one. If a treatment for symptoms was introduced, the vast majority of people would take it exactly the same number of times that they would take the 'cure'. So, we have a vaccine.
On the other hand, Herpes is forever contagious and has frequent outbreaks. The number of times a person takes the treatment is FAR more often than the number of times someone would take a 'cure' (vaccine)
Now, I am willing to believe that it is possible that a vaccine for Chicken Pox is easier than a vaccine for Herpes, but it would be silly not to see this as a highly suspicious situation given that the diseases are in the same family, Herpes is not airborne so could have a chance of actually being wiped out, there is more profit in Herpes being spread than wiped out, and that Herpes is a far bigger blight on humanity causing greater suffering by a wide margin then Chicken Pox.
The stupid people part has to be viewed from the fact that 'stupid' is a shade of gray. We all have our point that we decide people have moved to far along that line and have crossed into stupid. The vast majority of people just take what their doctor says at face value. I call that stupid, but others think that I am stupid for not taking them at face value because they are "experts".
A good example is one of my pet peeves. The Chicken Pox vaccine. The data indicates that it is more likely to be harmful to people who have taken it instead of helpful. It is also trivial to see the profit motives involved in it's wide spread use. The CDC literally lists profit for the parent as one of the primary reasons parents should give it to their kids.
Ask your friends with kids if their child has had the Chicken Pox vaccine. I would assume that we can agree that "I don't know" definitely fits into the "stupid category". For the remaining parents, ask them why they got it. I would bet that no one of them will tell you that it was because they were told it was good. While they likely didn't see an ad on TV, it is likely that their doctors are recommending it because of advertising.
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While there are a lot of iPhones out there, the number of Macs is small enough to be largely irrelevant.
In our language, 'equal rights' means 'the same rights'. 'Equal but different' was deemed 'not equal rights'. Banning same sex marriage is like the old segregated water fountains. Saying, "Anyone can drink from a water fountain that is listed for use by their race is equal rights.", and "Blacks wanting to drink from white water fountains is asking for extra rights." is absurd. The same applies to marriage. Even if Joe is willing, Mike cannot marry Joe. Sharron can marry Joe. That is not equal.
Handwriting will never be able to take the shine off of typing. With just rudimentary initial instruction, virtually everyone types faster than they can handwrite. Handwriting recognition is a forth input method. It is possible to replace a keyboard with it, but it is as kludgy for keyboard tasks as the keyboard is for mouse tasks.
Reread what you quoted and wrote. You are confused.
I would say, Yes, they did. The smart phone was just the merging of the PDA with the cell phone. The PDA was already doing most of the things you list. I know that when the trend started, I kept looking for a PDA that included a phone instead of a phone that included a PDA. It was obvious even then that we would have exactly the kinds of problem we are having if the phone companies got a hold of the PDA market.
Until the lock down gets bad enough that the guy who brings in his less powerful personal computing device can get twice as much work done as the one who is limited by the mainframe access he is granted. Then we can hear about how the new technology of personal computing is what works. Of course, this ebb and flow might be exactly what has to happen.
Even in Star Trek, most of the computer work was done at a keyboard. It may have been a touch screen keyboard, but it certainly wasn't voice. Voice was used mostly in the home, or for simple commands when there was no keyboard available.
Seriously. Except for fringe cases, laptop monitors should be 1920x1080. I know that there will be those that howle that they should be higher resolution. But, since every TV sold is now also a montior, 1920x1080 is the single most common monitor size that a laptop can be plugged in to.
Then one of us is sorely mistaken about the average developer's computer. Most of the developers I know use good equipment at home, but what they have at work would definitly fit the description of 'inferior cpu power'. I will acknowledge that their input devices tend to be decent, and their screen(sizes) are a mixed bag.
I would agree with that. We hit a plateau in software, where the next step will take significantly more power than we had when we plateaued. The question is whether the traditional PC sticks around long enough for us to get to the next level, or if the explosion of smaller, lower power devices pushes us to down a different technological evolutionary line.
Over time, though, many of those basic computer users are moving to tablets (and the iPad in particular).
This I think points out the wishful think of of some folks. I know that "Many" is an impercise word, but I don't see nearly enough people doing that today to indicate any kind of real trend. What percent of PC (including Macs) owners today own an iPad? How many people own an iPad and no PC? From my persepective, it looks like the same kind of 'trend' of people buying Macs. We keep hearing how everyone is going to OSX, but it is still way closer to Linux's market share than it is Windows.
I actually do believe that we will see further uptake of tablets, but their is certainly not enough movement yet to call it a trend. So, while your statement is grammatically correct, in practice it is not.
I agree. Just as the wedge PCs of the past like the C64, AtariST, Apple 2, etc.. gave way to the box with a keyboard and monitor attached, and they were still PCs. The Box will likely give way to a tablet with a keyboard an mouse. That doesn't mean it isn't a personal computer.
Centralization for the benefit of maintenance is not inherently better. It is better if you have high failure rate hardware. Whether there are physically reliable enough servers at this point in time is a different question. Certainly at this point, a project like this would only be connecting a replacement on site. It shouldn't take any more local skill or time than inserting a Super Nintendo cartridge.
It even worked on mobile devices. My laptop did mixed searches just fine, and it was definitely a mobile device. Most Windows tablets could also do mixed searches. I'm pretty sure that even with our hair splitting where we define one kind of computer to be a completely different animal than another computer because of how it was marketed, a tablet is still considered a 'mobile device'.
One of the stupidest things about PI (Patant Insanity) is the current trend of getting patents on things that are already covered by patents. Old PI would patent "A Device that does X". Now we get a bunch of PI that is in the form of "A MOBILE device that does X". Only in bizzaro IP world is "mobile device" not a subset of "device".
Yes, it is funny because it is true.
I am not going to argue the benefits of pay as you go, as those are obvious. My point was just that what we have now has all of the same problems as government run health care, but there is a middle man grabbing handfuls of money in the process.
Magnolia. Were they supposed to be anything more than a scam? There was one around here that last for about 2 years. I went into it when it first opened. It was when HD screens had just started to come down in price, but before mainstream adoption. I had noticed that most of the Wide screen TVs did not yet offer keyholing of 4:3 pictures. They just stretched everything out to look like Mario Bros. characters. I asked the sales person if they had any models that didn't stretch strand format pictures to fill the screen. They guy looked at me like I was crazy and asked why I would want that and explained the wide screen was a better picture. That pretty well told me everything I needed to know about that place.
You do realize that when someone goes into a retail shop, they ARE entitled to someone else's labor, and that when you are paid to work in that shop, you are there to supply them with that labor, right?
Not only that, you would be amazed at how good a 3 month old can be as a sounding board. If you just show a little enthusiasm when you say it, they will listen to whatever technical challenges you have, giving you the outlet to hear your challenge out loud so that you can figure the problem out yourself. They never offer up bad advice, or lead you down the wrong technical path. Oh, and hand puppets help too!
I do agree that for general health care, we should be on either a cash and carry, or fully government paid system. Having my doctor chosen largely by my employer negotiating with insurance companies on one side, and doctors negotiating with insurance companies on the other is absolutely the worst system we could have.
The first problem with our health system is that the vast majority of people don't understand the difference between health insurance and health payment plans.
Because their competitor bought your doctor an all expense paid vacation, and they are worried that he might just neglect to bring up their treatment instead of their competitor's reasonable, but not quite as effective treatment?
I don't know. No doubt that there are plenty of diseases that we can treat but not cure at this time, but I look at things like Herpes vs. Chicken Pox. We have all sorts of treatments for Herpes. I recognize that Herpes and Chicken Pox are not the exact same disease, but they are in the same family. Chicken Pox is a get it once, and any future outbreaks (Shingles) are both non-communicable and so rare that most people will never get one. If a treatment for symptoms was introduced, the vast majority of people would take it exactly the same number of times that they would take the 'cure'. So, we have a vaccine.
On the other hand, Herpes is forever contagious and has frequent outbreaks. The number of times a person takes the treatment is FAR more often than the number of times someone would take a 'cure' (vaccine)
Now, I am willing to believe that it is possible that a vaccine for Chicken Pox is easier than a vaccine for Herpes, but it would be silly not to see this as a highly suspicious situation given that the diseases are in the same family, Herpes is not airborne so could have a chance of actually being wiped out, there is more profit in Herpes being spread than wiped out, and that Herpes is a far bigger blight on humanity causing greater suffering by a wide margin then Chicken Pox.
The stupid people part has to be viewed from the fact that 'stupid' is a shade of gray. We all have our point that we decide people have moved to far along that line and have crossed into stupid. The vast majority of people just take what their doctor says at face value. I call that stupid, but others think that I am stupid for not taking them at face value because they are "experts".
A good example is one of my pet peeves. The Chicken Pox vaccine. The data indicates that it is more likely to be harmful to people who have taken it instead of helpful. It is also trivial to see the profit motives involved in it's wide spread use. The CDC literally lists profit for the parent as one of the primary reasons parents should give it to their kids.
Ask your friends with kids if their child has had the Chicken Pox vaccine. I would assume that we can agree that "I don't know" definitely fits into the "stupid category". For the remaining parents, ask them why they got it. I would bet that no one of them will tell you that it was because they were told it was good. While they likely didn't see an ad on TV, it is likely that their doctors are recommending it because of advertising.
This smells like a for-profit diploma mill.
There are other kinds?
Decent 10" tablets are already significantly above that price point. In the 7" size, they are $200 is the price point to hit.