You are a Apple fanboy. You are completely out of touch with reality. I submit the fact that there are in existance of Android fanboys as proof there is a market for tablets outside of iPad, and that the release of a 7" iPad would not remove the market for 7" Android tablets.
So, based on you comments, you are now faced with deciding whether you are a slavishly deluded Apple fanboy, or that slavishly deluded Android fanboys don't exist, and every criticism of Apple has nothing to do with others being fanboys.
There are several very good reasons why he shouldn't have a raw feed from the device manufacturer./quote?
Yes, the same reason that some people shouldn't be allowed to vote, or should be owned instead of being responsible for their own well being....
That is an important point on this subject. Implants are only going to become more common in the future. That implant and it's software are a part of him now. What percent of a person can be outright owned by another person before we call them a slave? 1%, 10%, does it have to be 100%?
I haven't used KDE 4 extensively, but from what I could tell with my very limited use of it, it was done right. It looked like it could be configured as a traditional desktop, or to behave like a tablet from a UI standpoint, and that the difference is just what theme you had set.
I'm not sold on Windows 8, but you are right about the touch screens. There is this underlying fear by many that if you have a touch screen, someone is going to come in and confiscate your mouse and your going to be forced to hold your arm in front of you 8 hours a day. That isn't going to happen. At some point in the future, all of our monitors will have touch screens. Launching the 5 or 6 most common applications will be easier with a touch screen than mouse. I imagine walking up to my desktop, touching the Email icon, and then pressing the close button on the screen if there is nothing interesting. If there is something to reply to, I would then sit down and use the keyboard/mouse interface.
Khan Academy is great, but I agree with you that it isn't going to change the landscape of programming languages. Online language courses are everywhere, and have been for as long as the internet has been available to the masses.
I always found it a pretty poor argument to claim that Apple invented the touch screen phone by buying telephone touch screens and selling them to consumers. The screens Apple used were used by Apple in the way that the inventor intended. Apple didn't come up with an 'innovative' use for them.
MS isn't blameless in the OEM crapware problem. MS has clearly pushed to make Windows an OEM product. If MS didn't want OEM crapware on the machines, they would have sold Windows in retail for close if not the same price as the price paid by the hardware manufacturers. If they had, more people would have bought windows retail without the crapware. Not everybody, but enough that the hardware manufacturers would have had to think twice before loading down a machine.
Of course "Just works" is the joke people tell about Apple, and those that believe it. It goes hand in hand with "You are holding it wrong". Obviously the Apple products "Just Work" because any problem with them is due to the consumer "holding it wrong".
The video output shield is $22.50. This puts it only $12.50 less than the Pi. It also limits you to black and white, and does not have HDMI. Since the cheapest I have seen the arduino for is $11.50, I am thinking that once you decide you need video, it is time to move up from the arduino to the Pi.
"Innovation" is meaningless. It is used specifically to imply "invention" while not really saying anything so that when the speaker is called out on it, they can get weaselly on the definition. It is a word that means nothing.
The connector does lead to Apple getting better accessories, and Google should really take note. Of course, the answer is that Google should be pushing a combination of bluetooth and NFC for accessories.
It is simpler than even that. The article points out the pricing pressure in the PC market. The PC doesn't show how a market fails. It shows how it succeeds. Even Apple succumbed and started producing PCs. If the article writer's hypothesis was correct, DEC would still be around. None of us would be using PCs. I have no doubt that Google would LOVE to have Android fail like the PC.
Your response is fascinating. In response to the question of how Android could look like a cheap copy given it has more customizability, your response is that having more takes away from testing, so it looks like a copy. It is fascinating that you rationalize that someone copy something from Apple that Apple doesn't have....
The statistician may weep, but the writer would rejoice. A single number is the correct way to deliver information given the context of the statement. The information you are looking for would be appropriate in a full review. This statement was from a quick blog post.
I had been under the impression that WP7 software was going to be incompatible with WP8. If WP8 is backward compatible with WP7 then it isn't quite as bad, but MS does not get a pass on 6 and 6.5. Saying MS doesn't have fragmentation because their OS versions are too incompatible with each other to count isn't really a valid argument.
The Android 'Fragmentation' is a red herring. If you are going to complain that there are more than one version of the OS in the wild, MS's phone OS is not what you could call "gotten right". Have they had a single version that could run the previous version's apps? 6, 6.5, 7 and now 8 are all completely incompatible with each other. And no phone gets updated to the new incompatible version.
Of course, maybe we are reading it wrong. Maybe the prediction that "WP8 will eclipse iOS by 2016" means that analyst thinks the 10 WP users will eclipse the 5 users left on iOS. It seems unlikely, but it seems just as likely as WP8 gaining as much market share as Apple has now.
Not for me personally, since I don't own any guns that shoot anything but water or nurf darts, but Yes. You not teaching your 3 year old about gun safety (or taking full responsibility for making sure your 3 year old doesn't get access to a gun) creates the same kind of unnecessarily-extra inconvenience for people that you not teaching your 3-year old other basic safety measures. Things like "Don't put things in electrical outlets.", "Don't play with knives.", and "Don't run out into the street." There are lots of dangerous things in the world. It is impossible to lock down every object that can kill a kid. It is the parent's responsibility to teach the child not to kill themselves. That includes me. I don't own guns, but I have taught my son enough about gun safety to keep him from killing himself. That can be as simple as "Don't play with it." I taught him not to drive the car, don't lick knives, look both ways before crossing the street, and never swim alone. These are MY responsibilities as a parent. If my neighbor has a pool, and my kid were to climb over the fence and drown, it would be heart breaking for me. It would destroy me, BUT it would not be my neighbors fault.
So, yes. It would be irresponsible for you as a parent not to teach your child how to be safe.
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You are a Apple fanboy. You are completely out of touch with reality. I submit the fact that there are in existance of Android fanboys as proof there is a market for tablets outside of iPad, and that the release of a 7" iPad would not remove the market for 7" Android tablets.
So, based on you comments, you are now faced with deciding whether you are a slavishly deluded Apple fanboy, or that slavishly deluded Android fanboys don't exist, and every criticism of Apple has nothing to do with others being fanboys.
I would bet on the former.
There are several very good reasons why he shouldn't have a raw feed from the device manufacturer./quote? Yes, the same reason that some people shouldn't be allowed to vote, or should be owned instead of being responsible for their own well being....
That is an important point on this subject. Implants are only going to become more common in the future. That implant and it's software are a part of him now. What percent of a person can be outright owned by another person before we call them a slave? 1%, 10%, does it have to be 100%?
I haven't used KDE 4 extensively, but from what I could tell with my very limited use of it, it was done right. It looked like it could be configured as a traditional desktop, or to behave like a tablet from a UI standpoint, and that the difference is just what theme you had set.
I'm not sold on Windows 8, but you are right about the touch screens. There is this underlying fear by many that if you have a touch screen, someone is going to come in and confiscate your mouse and your going to be forced to hold your arm in front of you 8 hours a day. That isn't going to happen. At some point in the future, all of our monitors will have touch screens. Launching the 5 or 6 most common applications will be easier with a touch screen than mouse. I imagine walking up to my desktop, touching the Email icon, and then pressing the close button on the screen if there is nothing interesting. If there is something to reply to, I would then sit down and use the keyboard/mouse interface.
Khan Academy is great, but I agree with you that it isn't going to change the landscape of programming languages. Online language courses are everywhere, and have been for as long as the internet has been available to the masses.
Just like all those people who can't see the Emperor's magnificent new clothes.
Come now. The iPhone interface isn't exactly new. The chicklet icon goes way back into the 80s.
I always found it a pretty poor argument to claim that Apple invented the touch screen phone by buying telephone touch screens and selling them to consumers. The screens Apple used were used by Apple in the way that the inventor intended. Apple didn't come up with an 'innovative' use for them.
MS isn't blameless in the OEM crapware problem. MS has clearly pushed to make Windows an OEM product. If MS didn't want OEM crapware on the machines, they would have sold Windows in retail for close if not the same price as the price paid by the hardware manufacturers. If they had, more people would have bought windows retail without the crapware. Not everybody, but enough that the hardware manufacturers would have had to think twice before loading down a machine.
Of course "Just works" is the joke people tell about Apple, and those that believe it. It goes hand in hand with "You are holding it wrong". Obviously the Apple products "Just Work" because any problem with them is due to the consumer "holding it wrong".
AROS an Amiga clone is already being ported to the Pi as well. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COUrcZat6oc Although to be fair, it is currently Linux hosted.
The video output shield is $22.50. This puts it only $12.50 less than the Pi. It also limits you to black and white, and does not have HDMI. Since the cheapest I have seen the arduino for is $11.50, I am thinking that once you decide you need video, it is time to move up from the arduino to the Pi.
"Innovation" is meaningless. It is used specifically to imply "invention" while not really saying anything so that when the speaker is called out on it, they can get weaselly on the definition. It is a word that means nothing.
Nope. It only goes back to the 3GS. iOS5 doesn't work on the 3G either.
The connector does lead to Apple getting better accessories, and Google should really take note. Of course, the answer is that Google should be pushing a combination of bluetooth and NFC for accessories.
It is simpler than even that. The article points out the pricing pressure in the PC market. The PC doesn't show how a market fails. It shows how it succeeds. Even Apple succumbed and started producing PCs. If the article writer's hypothesis was correct, DEC would still be around. None of us would be using PCs. I have no doubt that Google would LOVE to have Android fail like the PC.
The interesting part of the response was when he claimed that those features which do not exist in iOS make Android look like a copy of iOS.
Your response is fascinating. In response to the question of how Android could look like a cheap copy given it has more customizability, your response is that having more takes away from testing, so it looks like a copy. It is fascinating that you rationalize that someone copy something from Apple that Apple doesn't have....
The statistician may weep, but the writer would rejoice. A single number is the correct way to deliver information given the context of the statement. The information you are looking for would be appropriate in a full review. This statement was from a quick blog post.
I had been under the impression that WP7 software was going to be incompatible with WP8. If WP8 is backward compatible with WP7 then it isn't quite as bad, but MS does not get a pass on 6 and 6.5. Saying MS doesn't have fragmentation because their OS versions are too incompatible with each other to count isn't really a valid argument.
The Android 'Fragmentation' is a red herring. If you are going to complain that there are more than one version of the OS in the wild, MS's phone OS is not what you could call "gotten right". Have they had a single version that could run the previous version's apps? 6, 6.5, 7 and now 8 are all completely incompatible with each other. And no phone gets updated to the new incompatible version.
Of course, maybe we are reading it wrong. Maybe the prediction that "WP8 will eclipse iOS by 2016" means that analyst thinks the 10 WP users will eclipse the 5 users left on iOS. It seems unlikely, but it seems just as likely as WP8 gaining as much market share as Apple has now.
There's usually a conspiracy from the "experts" to shut them out.
combined with this part:
And, of course, there's usually a lot of funding from an organization with a vested interest in opposing the the original science.
is just awesome. It is surprising how many people didn't pick up on your joke.
I have yet to see one, and I have looked.
Not for me personally, since I don't own any guns that shoot anything but water or nurf darts, but Yes. You not teaching your 3 year old about gun safety (or taking full responsibility for making sure your 3 year old doesn't get access to a gun) creates the same kind of unnecessarily-extra inconvenience for people that you not teaching your 3-year old other basic safety measures. Things like "Don't put things in electrical outlets.", "Don't play with knives.", and "Don't run out into the street." There are lots of dangerous things in the world. It is impossible to lock down every object that can kill a kid. It is the parent's responsibility to teach the child not to kill themselves. That includes me. I don't own guns, but I have taught my son enough about gun safety to keep him from killing himself. That can be as simple as "Don't play with it." I taught him not to drive the car, don't lick knives, look both ways before crossing the street, and never swim alone. These are MY responsibilities as a parent. If my neighbor has a pool, and my kid were to climb over the fence and drown, it would be heart breaking for me. It would destroy me, BUT it would not be my neighbors fault.
So, yes. It would be irresponsible for you as a parent not to teach your child how to be safe.