Mod parent WAY up. The issues with the iPhone 4 has *nothing* to do with human hands absorbing RF radiation, and everything with having two exposed antennas right there where it's supposed to be gripped by the user. Theres a good reason why it's the only phone on the market with this "feature".
YEAH! And Microsoft WORD should only let you use WORDS...not crappy images and all that.
Damn right it should. Im sick and tired people using only the tools they know (usually Word and Excel) for every single computer related task.
Yesterday a coworker sent me a screenshot to show a bug on an application were working on. It was a huge (5Mb+) Excel file with a pasted screenshot, using cell borders and shading to highlight the issue.
...the only way to compensate for a poorly designed antenna by software is increasing the broadcast power, which the battery won't be too happy about. Maybe they're really found an issue with the signal strength display, but given that you have two external microwave antennas which are really easy to short into one other, i'm still skeptical...
...this time he's way wrong, IMHO. I still haven't found any game that can be considered art per se, but, ultimately, you can make art out of everything. As John Lennon better said it, "I'm an artist, and if you give me a tuba, I'll bring you something out of it."
However it it was really all that, it would have a much larger fan base.
Opera IS a great browser, but your argument holds no water. It's a great product with a large fanbase - check the Opera forums if you don't beleive me. Firefox is great and a way much better browser than IE ever was, and check the usage statistics for both. Sometimes popularity has little to do with value.
The better question is, why doesn't the US get the hell out? They have no business being there. There are no WMDS there. Wasn't that the whole justification the government gave in attacking Iraq?
The exclusion of PHP is debatible (is not really different from a gazillon other interpreted languages out there), but the exclusion of C, is, IMHO, a gross mistake. C teaches basic low-level concepts that other languages, outside assembler perhaps, dont even touch - memory management being the principal. Nowadays every developer accustomed to Java seems to think garbage collection is the end of all memory handling issues...
Hell, just today with my desk behind our retail sales floor. I've had an old lady come in enquiring about pre-ordering it, just so she can check her email in Cambodia. Schools are talking about it, business is talking about it, but the most surprising thing is that the older generation, the type of folk who see computers as these big, ugly, hard machines to use are not just wanting them, they are consistently calling us each and every day to find out the latest news on them.
Oh for Pete's sake. It's been the same with every single Apple product launched recently - hype, hype, hype. I actually tried one of these at the Apple Store in SF and the description of "oversized iPhone" fits it perfectly. It's neat and very well built, but i find it hard shelling $500+ for a device that's only good at browsing web or watching videos. Seriously, whatever you can do on your iPhone you can do on your iPad... and not much more. The lack of multitasking in particular is a killer for any actual computer work. Also, i'm not particularly fond on tapping on glass for long periods of time.
That's fun. I'm typing this from Opera 10 on my atom-powered netbook, and i enjoy AXAJ, HTML 5, Flash and everything, yet NONE of these are hardware accelerated (at least not directly by the browser). Modern computers are grossly overpowered to render web pages.
Guy creates functionality I've been using in Java for 8 years; film at 11.
Good point, even when I still don't get why people think of Java being "cross-platform". It is cross-platform... if you happened to choose the right platform supporting the right version running just the right version of the JVM. It's even worse if you start adding stuff like Swing, JDBCs, Beans or the gazillon frameworks out there.
I've honestly had less trouble running Perl code between platforms that i did with Java.
He is richer than any of us, he understand things that we don't! Money and glory is a religion for the idiots.
Much, much, MUCH agreed. The guy doesn't need nor want the money, he's happy as it is. HAPPY. Let him be.
Snake Plissken: Got a smoke? Malloy: The United States is a non-smoking nation! No smoking, no drugs, no alcohol, no women - unless you're married - no foul language, no red meat! Snake Plissken: [sarcastic] Land of the free.
I was going to post the same thing. This technology is called automatic quartz, and was pioneered by Seiko with their Kinetic line. It works great... on watches, which have a VERY low power consumption. Normal wrist movement is enough to charge a watch within a day and keep it running for months, even with no aditional movement. Citizen does something similar with their Eco-drive line, which are powered by light instead of motion (less moving parts).
They might be able to scale it for cellphones, but laptops (even netbooks) are relatively too power hungry for these generators. I'd love to see some details on this though...
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In other news does anyone have any idea if there are any brands of spray paint which are a good dielectric?
Any sprayable lacquer will do just fine, thing is, it won't last too long. You might want to try some Kapton tape...
Mod parent WAY up. The issues with the iPhone 4 has *nothing* to do with human hands absorbing RF radiation, and everything with having two exposed antennas right there where it's supposed to be gripped by the user. Theres a good reason why it's the only phone on the market with this "feature".
YEAH! And Microsoft WORD should only let you use WORDS...not crappy images and all that.
Damn right it should. Im sick and tired people using only the tools they know (usually Word and Excel) for every single computer related task. Yesterday a coworker sent me a screenshot to show a bug on an application were working on. It was a huge (5Mb+) Excel file with a pasted screenshot, using cell borders and shading to highlight the issue.
I'll just sit and wait for the torrent to appear!
I did. It was fun, but it didn't do much for me after it was done.
...the only way to compensate for a poorly designed antenna by software is increasing the broadcast power, which the battery won't be too happy about. Maybe they're really found an issue with the signal strength display, but given that you have two external microwave antennas which are really easy to short into one other, i'm still skeptical...
Mod parent up +1 "Wise beyond his age!"
...this time he's way wrong, IMHO. I still haven't found any game that can be considered art per se, but, ultimately, you can make art out of everything. As John Lennon better said it, "I'm an artist, and if you give me a tuba, I'll bring you something out of it."
However it it was really all that, it would have a much larger fan base.
Opera IS a great browser, but your argument holds no water. It's a great product with a large fanbase - check the Opera forums if you don't beleive me. Firefox is great and a way much better browser than IE ever was, and check the usage statistics for both. Sometimes popularity has little to do with value.
...when you didn't need to spend your time in Slashdot dodging advertisements disguised as news.
The better question is, why doesn't the US get the hell out? They have no business being there. There are no WMDS there. Wasn't that the whole justification the government gave in attacking Iraq?
Excellent question.
Im moral. You're not!
The exclusion of PHP is debatible (is not really different from a gazillon other interpreted languages out there), but the exclusion of C, is, IMHO, a gross mistake. C teaches basic low-level concepts that other languages, outside assembler perhaps, dont even touch - memory management being the principal. Nowadays every developer accustomed to Java seems to think garbage collection is the end of all memory handling issues...
Hell, just today with my desk behind our retail sales floor. I've had an old lady come in enquiring about pre-ordering it, just so she can check her email in Cambodia. Schools are talking about it, business is talking about it, but the most surprising thing is that the older generation, the type of folk who see computers as these big, ugly, hard machines to use are not just wanting them, they are consistently calling us each and every day to find out the latest news on them.
Oh for Pete's sake. It's been the same with every single Apple product launched recently - hype, hype, hype. I actually tried one of these at the Apple Store in SF and the description of "oversized iPhone" fits it perfectly. It's neat and very well built, but i find it hard shelling $500+ for a device that's only good at browsing web or watching videos. Seriously, whatever you can do on your iPhone you can do on your iPad... and not much more. The lack of multitasking in particular is a killer for any actual computer work. Also, i'm not particularly fond on tapping on glass for long periods of time.
How many of those 500,000 iPads were returned?
Apache is a foundation, not a company. I otherwise agree - they handled this really well in my opinion.
Touche!
That's fun. I'm typing this from Opera 10 on my atom-powered netbook, and i enjoy AXAJ, HTML 5, Flash and everything, yet NONE of these are hardware accelerated (at least not directly by the browser). Modern computers are grossly overpowered to render web pages.
That's actually pretty sad
Do we really need hardware acceleration to render web pages?!
Mod up. I was just about to whine about the same.
Guy creates functionality I've been using in Java for 8 years; film at 11.
Good point, even when I still don't get why people think of Java being "cross-platform". It is cross-platform... if you happened to choose the right platform supporting the right version running just the right version of the JVM. It's even worse if you start adding stuff like Swing, JDBCs, Beans or the gazillon frameworks out there.
I've honestly had less trouble running Perl code between platforms that i did with Java.
"The 1st" They were sequels to that?!?!
He is richer than any of us, he understand things that we don't! Money and glory is a religion for the idiots. Much, much, MUCH agreed. The guy doesn't need nor want the money, he's happy as it is. HAPPY. Let him be.
Remember that scene on "Escape from LA"?
Snake Plissken: Got a smoke?
Malloy: The United States is a non-smoking nation! No smoking, no drugs, no alcohol, no women - unless you're married - no foul language, no red meat!
Snake Plissken: [sarcastic] Land of the free.
I was going to post the same thing. This technology is called automatic quartz, and was pioneered by Seiko with their Kinetic line. It works great... on watches, which have a VERY low power consumption. Normal wrist movement is enough to charge a watch within a day and keep it running for months, even with no aditional movement. Citizen does something similar with their Eco-drive line, which are powered by light instead of motion (less moving parts).
They might be able to scale it for cellphones, but laptops (even netbooks) are relatively too power hungry for these generators. I'd love to see some details on this though...