but... Gulf of Mexico... of the Gulf Stream, one of Earth's strongest currents. The oil isn't going to stay there, in the Gulf. Cuba, Jamaica, Bahamas, Florida's east coast, most of the US eastern seaboard, and probably even England and Western Africa will have some of BP's shit in their eyes, eventually.
The display really is the thing. 326ppi is incredibly dense.... makes the device worth it JUST for the display. As it is, the display is higher resolution than, say, ANY head mounted display, and those cost between $300-$3000. With a $5 photographers LUPE, and some duct tape, you can build a monocular HMD out of this for $205 (plus the duct tape) or... a binocular HMD for $410 (all of this, of course, not considering the contract). What excites me... is the next revision of HMDs should be AMAZING. And the bottom should drop out of the price of the current offerings (lucky if you find sucky 640x480 displays).
I don't understand how it's not murder. The rules of engagement were not followed, the helicopter was not being engaged... even if they were carrying guns... what happened to "lay down your arms and surrender?"
Hey, keep it down, or not only will US corporations gain personhood... which they already have... but if they can't grease congress, they'll grant them citizenship so they can!
Even Apple realized that OS/X was not the thing to run on a smartphone
Actually, Apple is using OS X on the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad, and soon, the Apple TV. They changed the name of the OS from OS X to iPhone OS, but it's the same thing. Apple is attempting to differentiate the OS that runs on their desktops, servers, and laptops by calling it "Mac OS X," but it is, in fact, the same underlying BSD operating system, basically, FreeBSD userland and a Mach kernel. Mac OS X uses Quartz with the Aqua theme for it's GUI window management, which is absent from iPhone OS. The equivalent in iPhone OS is Springboard.
You are wrong. IF Apple's OS was a big target for virus, worms, malware and security issues, AND Apple said "yes, we know our OS sucks, is not secure and virus laden... but we've made this great software we call 'Apple Defender' that you can PURCHASE from us to make our OS what it should have been when you bought it,"
THEN Apple would be Microsoft 2.0.
As it is, Adobe holds that title, Adobe is the new Microsoft, and has been since the Millennium.
Wheatpaste is awesome for band flyers. There's a flyer wheatpasted to the side of a building to this day advertising a Doobie Brothers show that we missed nearly 40 years ago.
totally... I can't imagine living without iFrame. And to think of all the man-years this poor developer put into such a simple and elegant implementation of a complex and hairy problem: what to do about borderless photos?
/sarcasm
Sorry, I'm with Steve on this one. Maybe, of all the worthless apps in AppStore, iFrame is among the least annoying... sort of has a hook in current culture (we do frame pictures, after all), but... it's not like this is some killer app that Apple is disavowing.
They say in law, even though it is patently false in it's implementation, that "better a hundred guilty men go free than one innocent man be jailed," (it's more like 50/50, sadly).
But I say, Better a hundred valid and useful and killer apps get rejected from the AppStore, than have one worthless, thoughtless, uninspired app be approved.
iPhone OS developers, I have a message for you: get your shit together, create and compete like your lives depended on it, and stop wasting my time kthxbai
OMG you're right. Also, seems a little weird, doesn't it? OK, most won't mind an SSD in their optical drive, but what happens when they start turning up in keyboards and mice? or in LCDs? Or in daughter cards and motherboards? My God, man... what happens when they get into the PSU?? Before we know it...there's gonna be SSDs in SSDs! And by then it WILL BE TOO LATE.
Apple used 2G, 3G, etc to refer to their iPod generations for quite a while, and before that they used the Motorola G3 and G4 processors in Macs.
Ok, you are the third to point this out, and I did overlook it, and it is interesting. Unfortunately, it is also moot, because while Apple may have used the 'G' for iPod, they didn't use it that way for iPhone. As my esteemed cowardly supporter has pointed out, the 2nd iPhone, which was still a 1st generation iPhone, was called the "iPhone 3G."
Therefore, I win. Tech journalists are morons, espescially when they repeat mistakes that other tech journalists have made. (And, if you don't mind me responding to RMingin here as well, this is a swipe at moronic tech journalists, and not at Apple, who really had nothing to do with this naming debockle, other than failing to just call the second iPhone the "iPhone 2")
From what I've read, which isn't much, Foxconn is one of the better places to work there. So not only is it not Apple's doing, I don't think it's Foxconn's doing either, or rather, if Foxconn is to blame, all other Chinese companies that are exploiting their workers even worse are also to blame, as well as the Chinese government that allows it's citizens to be exploited without protections, as well as the archaic Chinese culture that dictates if you fail in some way you must commit suicide to salvage your family's honor (or some batshit crazy garbage), as well as the individual Chinese sense of identity, which has been manipulated for millennia by sometimes brilliant and sometimes brutal cultural leaders. I mean... I know there's a billion of them... but there's got to be a better way. What would happen if tomorrow China was suddenly just like the US, and all the Chinese had all the great things US citizens think they have (regarding freedoms and individual self-determination)? What's the worst that could happen?
... but unless the iPhone 4G/HD blows me out of the water, when my iPhone 3G contract comes up in July, I'm going to Sprint to take advantage.
Ah, I see you've noticed that tech journalists are unabated idiots. It went something like this... the next gen iPhone is stolen or left in a bar, and tech journalists immediately start referring to it as the "iPhone 4G" even though it's obvious (to anyone that stops to think about this for 10 seconds) that whatever it is, it can't possibly be that.
So... the difference between the iPhone 4G and every other 4G phone that might be released? Every other 4G phone is a 4G phone, while the iPhone 4G, named by the brilliant tech journalists, due out next month, is only a 3G phone and the third generation of Apple iPhone products. It is the 4th released iPhone... where the 'G' comes in is anyone's guess.
Until the poor bastard lost his prototype iPhone, the 'G' moniker was used only for multiples of earth gravity and cell phone generations. Now, the G is used to describe the fourth iPhone, i.e. the 3rd gen iPhone, aka the iPhone 4G... and like a good Weezar album or a Rocky movie, the iPhone following subsequent to the release of the next iPhone will also be known as the iPhone 4G, and it will be a 4G phone. Please don't confuse the iPhone 4G with the iPhone 4G. The former is a 3G phone, while the latter is a 4G phone.
Really, the problem isn't with the Computer Science field at all. Computer Science is a subset of the study of Mathematics. The problem is with the field of Information Technology, i.e. the field of Computer Practice. The number of IT programs at universities has probably expanded, but many are masquerading as a C.S. program, but in reality Computer Science is ill equiped in either case to fill the field of IT, whether it's theory or software design (it's never really been engineering), I would compare it to expecting medical schools to somehow fill all the roles of the entire medical field, including orderlies, nurses to physicians assistants and pharmacists.
so... just because idiots call it that, you have to? Let them be idiots. You know better... call it something else. You could think up your own names, or I gave plenty of options that aren't patently false, like "iPhone 4G" is in at least 2 ways.
I mean the iPhone 4G, which (if not the official Apple name for it) is how everyone is referring to the next release of the iPhone, due to be announced officially by Steve at the WWDC keynote next month.
ah, I see. Allow me to educate you on how incredibly stupid it is to refer to the next iPhone this way, even if everyone, and this includes "intelligent" journalists, are calling it the "iPhone 4G"
First of all, and what I feel to be the most important, is that everyone, and I mean everyone, when speaking about cell technology, uses the capital 'G.' This is pretty much standard now, even if not official. If I say "2G," or "3G," or "4G," everyone immediately assumes I am talking about generations of cell technology. Someday, there WILL be an iPhone 4G. But it will not be in 2010, nor I doubt 2011.
Second of all, the next iPhone due to be announced next month, is not the fourth generation iPhone. Where everyone seems to make the mistake is in assuming that the original iPhone and the iPhone 3G are separate generations, but this is not so. The platform of these two phones is nearly identical, and even Apple considers them to be from the same hardware generation as is apparent from the way they are identified internally.
iPhone1,1 = orig iPhone
iPhone1,2 = iPhone 3G
iPhone2,1 = iPhone 3GS
iPhone3,1 = Apple's next iPhone
You see, the original iPhone was actually a 3G cell phone (EDGE is technically a 3G technology, 2.5G is a made up marketing term). The iPhone 3G updated the baseband radio and added a GPS chip, which is insufficient for a bump in generation. It's precisely the same hardware platform between the two releases. The 3GS added a faster processor, thus meeting the criteria for a generation bump. The next iPhone has done the same thing, making it the THIRD generation of iPhone from Apple. Also, it will be a 3G cell phone.
I hope you can see that many are making a mistake that will only serve to introduce confusion into language when talking about iPhone, which is a cell phone, and cell technology generations. Prior to the discussions about the next iPhone appearing online, NO ONE used the capital "G" to refer to Apple's hardware generations, and ALL used it when referring to cell tech generations.
So it really is your choice... do you want to sound foolish, and quite possibly confuse anyone who is listening? or do you want to be accurate?
Some suggestions: call it the "iPhone HD" or the "iPhone A4" or the "A4 iPhone," or maybe even confusingly the "iPhone 4," but please stop refering to it as something that everyone agrees it can not possibly be (there is no 4G network to speak of in the US, thus, there will be no iPhone 4G).
um... what? You are awefully confused... may want to get your eyes checked... becayse, sorry, that's 3G that's around the corner. Yes... in no time at all we'll have excellent 3G coverage in the US... just around the corner... coming soon to a provider near you.
By the time the US gets 4G (let's just say,"gets" means... say... 40% coverage nationwide), flying cars will be going out of style.
I paid $1 and $12 shipping for a used Apple Personal LaserWriter in 2003, maybe another $2 for a localtalk/ethernet adapter. I had to take it apart and clean it, put it back together and calibrate it, give it a new toner cartridge, but it works great. Sure, it's only 300dpi and does about 4ppm, max, but the prints are sharp... it works great. Who made the engine? HP or Canon, I forget, but it's notable how many Apple LaserWriters are still pumping out prints. The Personal LW is not a good example, the other, high output laser printers from the 90's, with the same printer engine manufacturer (starting to think it was Canon), are pretty incredible. I don't believe a $80-$150 new laser printer could stand up to one of the powerhouse laser printers from the 90's (that cost $2-4K). Maybe the new one gives nicer prints, but if it's still printing in 15 years on the same drum, I'll be surprised. Then again, the student purchasing the $80-$150 laser printer isn't going to be printing 30K pages a month.
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but... Gulf of Mexico... of the Gulf Stream, one of Earth's strongest currents. The oil isn't going to stay there, in the Gulf. Cuba, Jamaica, Bahamas, Florida's east coast, most of the US eastern seaboard, and probably even England and Western Africa will have some of BP's shit in their eyes, eventually.
The display really is the thing. 326ppi is incredibly dense.... makes the device worth it JUST for the display. As it is, the display is higher resolution than, say, ANY head mounted display, and those cost between $300-$3000. With a $5 photographers LUPE, and some duct tape, you can build a monocular HMD out of this for $205 (plus the duct tape) or... a binocular HMD for $410 (all of this, of course, not considering the contract). What excites me... is the next revision of HMDs should be AMAZING. And the bottom should drop out of the price of the current offerings (lucky if you find sucky 640x480 displays).
I don't understand how it's not murder. The rules of engagement were not followed, the helicopter was not being engaged... even if they were carrying guns... what happened to "lay down your arms and surrender?"
Hey, keep it down, or not only will US corporations gain personhood... which they already have... but if they can't grease congress, they'll grant them citizenship so they can!
Well, you see... including themselves and especially their readers, no one knew they were journalists.
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Even Apple realized that OS/X was not the thing to run on a smartphone
Actually, Apple is using OS X on the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad, and soon, the Apple TV. They changed the name of the OS from OS X to iPhone OS, but it's the same thing. Apple is attempting to differentiate the OS that runs on their desktops, servers, and laptops by calling it "Mac OS X," but it is, in fact, the same underlying BSD operating system, basically, FreeBSD userland and a Mach kernel. Mac OS X uses Quartz with the Aqua theme for it's GUI window management, which is absent from iPhone OS. The equivalent in iPhone OS is Springboard.
You are wrong. IF Apple's OS was a big target for virus, worms, malware and security issues, AND Apple said "yes, we know our OS sucks, is not secure and virus laden... but we've made this great software we call 'Apple Defender' that you can PURCHASE from us to make our OS what it should have been when you bought it,"
THEN Apple would be Microsoft 2.0.
As it is, Adobe holds that title, Adobe is the new Microsoft, and has been since the Millennium.
Sailing vessels can go faster than the wind, why shouldn't a car be able to?
Sail boats can sail faster than the wind... while sailing into the wind, it's their fastest tack. Let's see a car do that.
Wheatpaste is awesome for band flyers. There's a flyer wheatpasted to the side of a building to this day advertising a Doobie Brothers show that we missed nearly 40 years ago.
totally... I can't imagine living without iFrame. And to think of all the man-years this poor developer put into such a simple and elegant implementation of a complex and hairy problem: what to do about borderless photos?
/sarcasm
Sorry, I'm with Steve on this one. Maybe, of all the worthless apps in AppStore, iFrame is among the least annoying... sort of has a hook in current culture (we do frame pictures, after all), but... it's not like this is some killer app that Apple is disavowing.
They say in law, even though it is patently false in it's implementation, that "better a hundred guilty men go free than one innocent man be jailed," (it's more like 50/50, sadly).
But I say, Better a hundred valid and useful and killer apps get rejected from the AppStore, than have one worthless, thoughtless, uninspired app be approved.
iPhone OS developers, I have a message for you: get your shit together, create and compete like your lives depended on it, and stop wasting my time
kthxbai
OMG you're right. Also, seems a little weird, doesn't it? OK, most won't mind an SSD in their optical drive, but what happens when they start turning up in keyboards and mice? or in LCDs? Or in daughter cards and motherboards? My God, man... what happens when they get into the PSU?? Before we know it.. .there's gonna be SSDs in SSDs! And by then it WILL BE TOO LATE.
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very cool.
Apple used 2G, 3G, etc to refer to their iPod generations for quite a while, and before that they used the Motorola G3 and G4 processors in Macs.
Ok, you are the third to point this out, and I did overlook it, and it is interesting. Unfortunately, it is also moot, because while Apple may have used the 'G' for iPod, they didn't use it that way for iPhone. As my esteemed cowardly supporter has pointed out, the 2nd iPhone, which was still a 1st generation iPhone, was called the "iPhone 3G."
Therefore, I win. Tech journalists are morons, espescially when they repeat mistakes that other tech journalists have made. (And, if you don't mind me responding to RMingin here as well, this is a swipe at moronic tech journalists, and not at Apple, who really had nothing to do with this naming debockle, other than failing to just call the second iPhone the "iPhone 2")
From what I've read, which isn't much, Foxconn is one of the better places to work there. So not only is it not Apple's doing, I don't think it's Foxconn's doing either, or rather, if Foxconn is to blame, all other Chinese companies that are exploiting their workers even worse are also to blame, as well as the Chinese government that allows it's citizens to be exploited without protections, as well as the archaic Chinese culture that dictates if you fail in some way you must commit suicide to salvage your family's honor (or some batshit crazy garbage), as well as the individual Chinese sense of identity, which has been manipulated for millennia by sometimes brilliant and sometimes brutal cultural leaders. I mean... I know there's a billion of them... but there's got to be a better way. What would happen if tomorrow China was suddenly just like the US, and all the Chinese had all the great things US citizens think they have (regarding freedoms and individual self-determination)? What's the worst that could happen?
... but unless the iPhone 4G/HD blows me out of the water, when my iPhone 3G contract comes up in July, I'm going to Sprint to take advantage.
Ah, I see you've noticed that tech journalists are unabated idiots. It went something like this... the next gen iPhone is stolen or left in a bar, and tech journalists immediately start referring to it as the "iPhone 4G" even though it's obvious (to anyone that stops to think about this for 10 seconds) that whatever it is, it can't possibly be that.
So... the difference between the iPhone 4G and every other 4G phone that might be released? Every other 4G phone is a 4G phone, while the iPhone 4G, named by the brilliant tech journalists, due out next month, is only a 3G phone and the third generation of Apple iPhone products. It is the 4th released iPhone... where the 'G' comes in is anyone's guess.
Until the poor bastard lost his prototype iPhone, the 'G' moniker was used only for multiples of earth gravity and cell phone generations. Now, the G is used to describe the fourth iPhone, i.e. the 3rd gen iPhone, aka the iPhone 4G... and like a good Weezar album or a Rocky movie, the iPhone following subsequent to the release of the next iPhone will also be known as the iPhone 4G, and it will be a 4G phone. Please don't confuse the iPhone 4G with the iPhone 4G. The former is a 3G phone, while the latter is a 4G phone.
Really, the problem isn't with the Computer Science field at all. Computer Science is a subset of the study of Mathematics. The problem is with the field of Information Technology, i.e. the field of Computer Practice. The number of IT programs at universities has probably expanded, but many are masquerading as a C.S. program, but in reality Computer Science is ill equiped in either case to fill the field of IT, whether it's theory or software design (it's never really been engineering), I would compare it to expecting medical schools to somehow fill all the roles of the entire medical field, including orderlies, nurses to physicians assistants and pharmacists.
so... just because idiots call it that, you have to? Let them be idiots. You know better... call it something else. You could think up your own names, or I gave plenty of options that aren't patently false, like "iPhone 4G" is in at least 2 ways.
I mean the iPhone 4G, which (if not the official Apple name for it) is how everyone is referring to the next release of the iPhone, due to be announced officially by Steve at the WWDC keynote next month.
ah, I see. Allow me to educate you on how incredibly stupid it is to refer to the next iPhone this way, even if everyone, and this includes "intelligent" journalists, are calling it the "iPhone 4G"
First of all, and what I feel to be the most important, is that everyone, and I mean everyone, when speaking about cell technology, uses the capital 'G.' This is pretty much standard now, even if not official. If I say "2G," or "3G," or "4G," everyone immediately assumes I am talking about generations of cell technology. Someday, there WILL be an iPhone 4G. But it will not be in 2010, nor I doubt 2011.
Second of all, the next iPhone due to be announced next month, is not the fourth generation iPhone. Where everyone seems to make the mistake is in assuming that the original iPhone and the iPhone 3G are separate generations, but this is not so. The platform of these two phones is nearly identical, and even Apple considers them to be from the same hardware generation as is apparent from the way they are identified internally.
iPhone1,1 = orig iPhone
iPhone1,2 = iPhone 3G
iPhone2,1 = iPhone 3GS
iPhone3,1 = Apple's next iPhone
You see, the original iPhone was actually a 3G cell phone (EDGE is technically a 3G technology, 2.5G is a made up marketing term). The iPhone 3G updated the baseband radio and added a GPS chip, which is insufficient for a bump in generation. It's precisely the same hardware platform between the two releases. The 3GS added a faster processor, thus meeting the criteria for a generation bump. The next iPhone has done the same thing, making it the THIRD generation of iPhone from Apple. Also, it will be a 3G cell phone.
I hope you can see that many are making a mistake that will only serve to introduce confusion into language when talking about iPhone, which is a cell phone, and cell technology generations. Prior to the discussions about the next iPhone appearing online, NO ONE used the capital "G" to refer to Apple's hardware generations, and ALL used it when referring to cell tech generations.
So it really is your choice... do you want to sound foolish, and quite possibly confuse anyone who is listening? or do you want to be accurate?
Some suggestions: call it the "iPhone HD" or the "iPhone A4" or the "A4 iPhone," or maybe even confusingly the "iPhone 4," but please stop refering to it as something that everyone agrees it can not possibly be (there is no 4G network to speak of in the US, thus, there will be no iPhone 4G).
especially with the 4G around the corner
um... what? You are awefully confused... may want to get your eyes checked... becayse, sorry, that's 3G that's around the corner. Yes... in no time at all we'll have excellent 3G coverage in the US... just around the corner... coming soon to a provider near you.
By the time the US gets 4G (let's just say,"gets" means... say... 40% coverage nationwide), flying cars will be going out of style.
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I paid $1 and $12 shipping for a used Apple Personal LaserWriter in 2003, maybe another $2 for a localtalk/ethernet adapter. I had to take it apart and clean it, put it back together and calibrate it, give it a new toner cartridge, but it works great. Sure, it's only 300dpi and does about 4ppm, max, but the prints are sharp... it works great. Who made the engine? HP or Canon, I forget, but it's notable how many Apple LaserWriters are still pumping out prints. The Personal LW is not a good example, the other, high output laser printers from the 90's, with the same printer engine manufacturer (starting to think it was Canon), are pretty incredible. I don't believe a $80-$150 new laser printer could stand up to one of the powerhouse laser printers from the 90's (that cost $2-4K). Maybe the new one gives nicer prints, but if it's still printing in 15 years on the same drum, I'll be surprised. Then again, the student purchasing the $80-$150 laser printer isn't going to be printing 30K pages a month.
Couldn't lots of Earth based lasers be focused on it to thaw it out? Just what are the sharks doing with those things?
They have a patent pool for criminal activity, too.