If you are just a normal user, then the average consumer computer (i.e. one that runs OSX or Windows 7) is extremely simple.
What you say is true. However for the "average user" (read not folks on/.) Install then uninstall a couple of programs on the Windows box, and the registry gets a little cranky. Or on Windows or OS X they read an article that changing this, that, or the other setting will make the machine do "something cool." And then suddenly it does work the same as it did before.
The system isn't borked or anything. But the machine no longer behaves as it once did so it might as well be completely screwed as far as the user is concerned.
Give the same group of people a device which does what they need to amuse themselves. With an OS designed for it. With very little flexibility to save them from themselves, and everybody's happy.
Yes, even you. Because now you don't have to spend a weekend trying to figure out what Aunt Emma did to trash her registry.
Have we as a culture really become that goddamn stupid? Do we really need our computers to function like digital picture books?
Some people do just want digital picture books. Some just want to surf the web and stream Pandora. Just because someone doesn't want to use a computer for the same type. or breadth of things that you do doesn't mean they are stupid.
If fact I'm very sure that there are a lot of people out there who are a lot smarter than you, or me, that just want that digital picture book.
RealVNC, and Mocha both are easy to setup and work well. Although RealVNC wants you to use their server on your computer, I believe that both will work just fine with OS X built in Remote Desktop.
I've used Mocha with both 10.4 and 10.6.
Beyond that there are a number of handy remote control/trackpad keyboard apps as well. I've tried both Hippo Remote, and Mobile Air Mouse. Hippo is functional but is very basic. Mobile Air Mouse does all the basics, plus right click functionality. It also displays the shortcuts in the dock of the host machine allowing them to be launched with a tap on the iPad touchscreen.
Apples Remote Control app is out there too. But all it does is provide and interface with Front Row.
Everything Goolge does is beta and the/. Crowd eats it up. And yet Youtube putting up a beta version of their site using and open standard bypassing a proprietary format is a bad thing in your mind.
Who's the hypocrite now.
Your reading comprehension needs some work. Your first sentence shows that you couldn't understand the parent post's first sentence.
He said that Apple makes a closed device (iPhone) for accessing an open platform (the web). Please learn to read with both your eyes and mind open before typing your next rant.
There are 34 companies that have representatives on that committee. The assistant DA who requested the warrant said he didn't even know Apple was one of them.
I'd say that it's more of a reaction to Apples purchase of P.A. Semi in '08. Since P.A. Semi and Agnilux were both chip design firms. IIRC from yesterdays coverage, Agnilux was actually founded by guys who left P.A. Semi.
Although ARM is really a chip design firm also. They license the hell out of their designs. So even if Apple did nothing to effect the way other chip makers do business with ARM. They would be making money off of every processor that uses an ARM core.
This assumes of course that current users, and makers of ARM core processors aren't scared off by the potential of shenanigans by Apple.
WTF on you on about? Did you plan on writing assembly code for this thing? There is no reason to have to know exactly what the processor is, and all of its specs otherwise.
There's a reason for the SDK. If you write in one of the supported languages, using the supplied API's everything should work out just fine.
Hell, you can even test your work using the emulator. Although that never seems to be 100% accurate WRT accelerometer functions, it'll give you an indication that the interface is OK.
So in this case a tightly controlled platform serves this purpose better. No need to worry about which audio card is installed, does the GPU have HW support for the video codec you're using, etc.
You compare devices that keep trying to make a desktop OS on tablet HW work. A method which has previously failed several times. To a device that uses an OS from a popular cell phone that was designed from the ground up to be touch enabled.
While Android was designed for cell phone use. The interface was intentionally left wide open to make it usable on a wide range of HW. There's nothing wrong with that. I think it's great. Problem is that it allows different manufacturers to put their own UI on it which when combined with the variety of HW, makes it harder on developers to ensure that their software works as they intended on every device.
Usability will trump capability with consumers. No matter how "superior" the capabilities are. i.e. It's the interface stupid.
Not going to argue the culture clash that this will bring about in the Air Force. I do disagree with you on this point.
... akin to the Army splitting Tanks off into their own separate service, or the Navy doing the same with submarines.
Actually the difference between the primary roles of the Army and the Air Force is more akin to the difference between the Army and the Navy. Primary role of the Army is to project land power. For the Navy it is to project sea power. Air Force is well, to project air power.
It's not like the Army gave up all claim to having their own air assets in the '50s when the Air Force was created. Just strategic, airlift, and some tactical responsibilities. They still retained a lot of tactical, and rapid transport capabilities that made sense to retain.
You seem to be suggesting that the Air Force should have been kept under the Department of the Army the way that the Marine Corps remains under the Department of the Navy. Having it be the "air" component of the Army the way that the Marines are the "land" component of the Navy. However the primary mission of the Marine Corps is to provide and protect advanced naval bases through amphibious assault forces. This complements and adds to the capabilities for the Navy. But the Air Forces role is to provide air superiority, airlift, and strategic bombing. While that role for the Air Force certainly helps the Army in it's tactical situations, the bigger picture here is the strategic elements for the battle/war in whole not just the Army.
And lets not forget that all services have overlaps in capabilities. Every branch has their own aircraft, the Army has some boats, and the Air Force even has some ground forces.
And yes I was in the Corps, and my brother retired from the Air Force.
The worst part of watching NASCAR on a road course is that every off course excursion brings on a full course caution! I don't know why they can't use local yellows like even the most basic SCCA club racers do.
Seriously, one guy gets loose and goes off the track in one corner, doesn't even get stuck. And out comes the safety car, oops pace car. What a bunch of clowns.
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iPhone OS is "some version" of OS X.
Yeah well, but it's also too big to fit a your pocket. What do you have to say about that mister smarty pants?
What you say is true. However for the "average user" (read not folks on /.) Install then uninstall a couple of programs on the Windows box, and the registry gets a little cranky. Or on Windows or OS X they read an article that changing this, that, or the other setting will make the machine do "something cool." And then suddenly it does work the same as it did before.
The system isn't borked or anything. But the machine no longer behaves as it once did so it might as well be completely screwed as far as the user is concerned.
Give the same group of people a device which does what they need to amuse themselves. With an OS designed for it. With very little flexibility to save them from themselves, and everybody's happy.
Yes, even you. Because now you don't have to spend a weekend trying to figure out what Aunt Emma did to trash her registry.
Some people do just want digital picture books. Some just want to surf the web and stream Pandora. Just because someone doesn't want to use a computer for the same type. or breadth of things that you do doesn't mean they are stupid.
If fact I'm very sure that there are a lot of people out there who are a lot smarter than you, or me, that just want that digital picture book.
RealVNC, and Mocha both are easy to setup and work well. Although RealVNC wants you to use their server on your computer, I believe that both will work just fine with OS X built in Remote Desktop. I've used Mocha with both 10.4 and 10.6.
Beyond that there are a number of handy remote control/trackpad keyboard apps as well. I've tried both Hippo Remote, and Mobile Air Mouse. Hippo is functional but is very basic. Mobile Air Mouse does all the basics, plus right click functionality. It also displays the shortcuts in the dock of the host machine allowing them to be launched with a tap on the iPad touchscreen.
Apples Remote Control app is out there too. But all it does is provide and interface with Front Row.
What is the fascination with putting shit in your pockets around here lately?
When I was in the Corps, it seemed like a lot of Boy Scout troops were better funded than the Marines.
Wow. Just wow.
This just goes to show that the trendier something is when it's made, the sillier it will look in the future.
Everything Goolge does is beta and the /. Crowd eats it up. And yet Youtube putting up a beta version of their site using and open standard bypassing a proprietary format is a bad thing in your mind.
Who's the hypocrite now.
Your reading comprehension needs some work. Your first sentence shows that you couldn't understand the parent post's first sentence.
He said that Apple makes a closed device (iPhone) for accessing an open platform (the web). Please learn to read with both your eyes and mind open before typing your next rant.
Damn! To think I just spent the last of my mod points on another story.
But "repeated subjected" is not. ;-)
There are 34 companies that have representatives on that committee. The assistant DA who requested the warrant said he didn't even know Apple was one of them.
He paid someone for an item that he knew didn't belong to the person selling it.
'Nuff said.
Freescale licenses ARM too.
Apple has been interested in a better user experience since they put a GUI on their OS back in the early '80's.
I'm not going to get into whether it was inspired by or stolen from PARC here though.
I'd say that it's more of a reaction to Apples purchase of P.A. Semi in '08. Since P.A. Semi and Agnilux were both chip design firms. IIRC from yesterdays coverage, Agnilux was actually founded by guys who left P.A. Semi.
Although ARM is really a chip design firm also. They license the hell out of their designs. So even if Apple did nothing to effect the way other chip makers do business with ARM. They would be making money off of every processor that uses an ARM core.
This assumes of course that current users, and makers of ARM core processors aren't scared off by the potential of shenanigans by Apple.
Yeah, but nobody is willing to swim there.
WTF on you on about? Did you plan on writing assembly code for this thing? There is no reason to have to know exactly what the processor is, and all of its specs otherwise.
There's a reason for the SDK. If you write in one of the supported languages, using the supplied API's everything should work out just fine.
Hell, you can even test your work using the emulator. Although that never seems to be 100% accurate WRT accelerometer functions, it'll give you an indication that the interface is OK.
So in this case a tightly controlled platform serves this purpose better. No need to worry about which audio card is installed, does the GPU have HW support for the video codec you're using, etc.
Lets not forget, "It's too big to fit in my pocket."
Umm, no we can't.
You compare devices that keep trying to make a desktop OS on tablet HW work. A method which has previously failed several times. To a device that uses an OS from a popular cell phone that was designed from the ground up to be touch enabled.
While Android was designed for cell phone use. The interface was intentionally left wide open to make it usable on a wide range of HW. There's nothing wrong with that. I think it's great. Problem is that it allows different manufacturers to put their own UI on it which when combined with the variety of HW, makes it harder on developers to ensure that their software works as they intended on every device.
Usability will trump capability with consumers. No matter how "superior" the capabilities are. i.e. It's the interface stupid.
Hah! My username comes from my Orc Warboss.
Umm, you do know that iPhone has Wi-Fi right?
Oh no! We're doomed!
Not going to argue the culture clash that this will bring about in the Air Force. I do disagree with you on this point.
Actually the difference between the primary roles of the Army and the Air Force is more akin to the difference between the Army and the Navy. Primary role of the Army is to project land power. For the Navy it is to project sea power. Air Force is well, to project air power.
It's not like the Army gave up all claim to having their own air assets in the '50s when the Air Force was created. Just strategic, airlift, and some tactical responsibilities. They still retained a lot of tactical, and rapid transport capabilities that made sense to retain.
You seem to be suggesting that the Air Force should have been kept under the Department of the Army the way that the Marine Corps remains under the Department of the Navy. Having it be the "air" component of the Army the way that the Marines are the "land" component of the Navy. However the primary mission of the Marine Corps is to provide and protect advanced naval bases through amphibious assault forces. This complements and adds to the capabilities for the Navy. But the Air Forces role is to provide air superiority, airlift, and strategic bombing. While that role for the Air Force certainly helps the Army in it's tactical situations, the bigger picture here is the strategic elements for the battle/war in whole not just the Army.
And lets not forget that all services have overlaps in capabilities. Every branch has their own aircraft, the Army has some boats, and the Air Force even has some ground forces.
And yes I was in the Corps, and my brother retired from the Air Force.
Seriously, one guy gets loose and goes off the track in one corner, doesn't even get stuck. And out comes the safety car, oops pace car. What a bunch of clowns.