And you needed daringfireball because Apple hid the link to it on the fucking main page.
Riiiiight. Because anyone who uses Apple products has apple.com as their homepage, and incessantly checks it for news? As somebody who would be considered what the kids call an Apple "fanboy" I only ever visit the Apple domain when I want to purchase something, or I need to consult the support forums, or perhaps watch a movie trailer occasionally.
It will be funny to see all the Apple fanboys who were screaming "It was big bad AT&T and not my PRECIOUS Apple who was the bad guy!!!" and how their fanboy minds deal with this news.
You can find a fanboy response here. Although I guess it isn't sensationalist enough for your tastes. Although I don't remember any screaming beforehand. Is it possible to scream in text? I guess there's caps-lock.
Do you have no memory of recent history at all? Until recently, Apple has under-marketed to a ridiculous degree. It has literally sat on great products without bothering to tell the world about them.
Because if you've spent anytime on the Internet and haven't come across someone ranting against women who want to stay at home to raise their kids as being "pathetic" you're either living in a dreamworld or are one of those people.
I've been on the internet since around 1990, and I've never heard such things. Perhaps you travel in bad circles? In any case, basing your general assessment of humans on random internet posters is a bad idea.
It's a tiny, tiny fraction of people (generally from the same cool inner city chattering class) that have bought into the strange ideology of suppressing and heaping scorn on a womans natural motherly instinct.
What the fuck? Who, exactly, is "heaping scorn on a woman's natural motherly instincts"?
Citation not needed. Calculation does the trick. For the amount of components of a chip to double, their size has to reduce 1/sqrt(2) every 18 months.
No it doesn't. You could just double the size of the chip, and keep the circuits/components the same size. Or introduce some new process that gives the same effect.
It's highly unlikely that we can make patterns that small by then.
Moore's Law isn't about size, it's about cost per transistor. Which continues to drop as it always has.
Have you considered taping a piece of black paper over the entertainment center door glass, so as to block IR signals from reaching the PS3 when the doors are closed?
How would this help, as the PS3 remote uses Bluetooth rather than IR?
I very much doubt that it's a new Xbox. more likely it's some other kid's who sent it back to get patched up when it failed.
But the weird thing is that you consider this a good thing. You have to send your console away for two weeks? that doesn't sound very convenient to me.
What you're all missing is that the Ipod took off because it was so heavily advertised and marketed in what was then considered a niche market and effectively ignored.
Except that it didn't. The iPod was successful long before it was heavily marketed. This also doesn't explain why other heavily-marketed products in this area failed.
This will be nice for those using large public displays that need multi-touch support.
I doubt that the products mentioned in this story are "large public displays." They are talking about tablet sized Personal Computers.
I'm not really seeing the big deal about multitouch in a tablet-sized (i.e 8-12") computer. Multitouch is great for devices like PDAs and phones with small screens, where you don't do much in the way of complex input aside from texting or selecting items. But for a full PC-like OS, it doesn't seem that useful. For a tablet machine, I'd want it to be more stylus-based, with pressure detection, like a Wacom Cintiq. Then you could use it for fine manipulation, drawing, graphics editing, etc. Fingers are too clumsy for this sort of work.
It's a conundrum, because you don't want styluses for small devices like phones or PDAs, because they are annoying and get in the way. Hence the success of the iPhone versus other PDA devices. But once you get beyond a certain size, it's fingers that get in the way. And I guess once you get to an even bigger size, fingers become useful again.
To me, this just seems like a poor fit for finger manipulation. Small phone? Multitouch is great (with one hand). Big-ass table? Multitouch is great (with two hands) Something in-between? Stylus is great, as it's a similar size to our paper notebooks and documents.
I guess when they say "touch" they mean models that can use a finger instead of a stylus. Tablet computers have been with us for some time now, but nobody seems particularly interested, other than delivery services taking signatures, and those are more like a PDA than a computer.
But the real WTF is the title "Windows 7 Igniting Touchscreen PC Market." Seriously? That's 100% marketing speak. How is Windows 7 "igniting" this market, when there are no actual units being sold, and thus no idea if it will actually "catch fire" or not?
If newspapers devoted this much energy to the actual content and quality of journalism,
It's Entertainment Weekly we are talking about. It's not a newspaper or journalism, it's a PR outlet. So this fits perfectly, as the publication is not about content or quality, it's pure advertising.
What the hell does copyright term extension have to do with this story about the MTA and transit schedules? If any post deserves an "Offtopic" mod, it's this one.
Seeing as the MTA is a public service, paid for by taxpayers, I don't think there is the same obligation to put up with obnoxious users who are a drain on the system. Not that JCPenney has any obligation to put up with angry customers, it's just done for reputation/business reasons.
Would you expect to get away with angrily harassing, say, security workers at an airport? That behavior is likely to get you either ejected or arrested. Society shouldn't be enabling assholes.
I truly don't think he's saying that they should shut down TV and radio and blah blah blah...
That appears to be exactly what he is saying in his last paragraph - that they should fail. And throughout the rest of the post is a similar flavor of ranting against the evil FCC and the pointlessness of anything except his vision of high-tech digital media.
We have technology TODAY that allows for frequency hopping, for signal strength negotiation, for handling multiple devices on the same frequencies/channels, etc.
None of which will be likely to work in the event of a catastrophe that knocks out power and communications infrastructure. But a simple analog radio transmitter will run on a backup generator, and the signal is easily deciphered by the most simple and common technology, using a wide range of power sources, from a dry cell to a car battery, a hand crank, a potato with a couple of electrodes stuck in it, or even a crystal set with no power source other than the radio transmission itself.
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Just for the record: is there anything that you can name that can do more than Linux?
It would be nice if there were more than a few decent applications for it, though.
And you needed daringfireball because Apple hid the link to it on the fucking main page.
Riiiiight. Because anyone who uses Apple products has apple.com as their homepage, and incessantly checks it for news? As somebody who would be considered what the kids call an Apple "fanboy" I only ever visit the Apple domain when I want to purchase something, or I need to consult the support forums, or perhaps watch a movie trailer occasionally.
It will be funny to see all the Apple fanboys who were screaming "It was big bad AT&T and not my PRECIOUS Apple who was the bad guy!!!" and how their fanboy minds deal with this news.
You can find a fanboy response here. Although I guess it isn't sensationalist enough for your tastes. Although I don't remember any screaming beforehand. Is it possible to scream in text? I guess there's caps-lock.
Do you have no memory of recent history at all? Until recently, Apple has under-marketed to a ridiculous degree. It has literally sat on great products without bothering to tell the world about them.
Because if you've spent anytime on the Internet and haven't come across someone ranting against women who want to stay at home to raise their kids as being "pathetic" you're either living in a dreamworld or are one of those people.
I've been on the internet since around 1990, and I've never heard such things. Perhaps you travel in bad circles? In any case, basing your general assessment of humans on random internet posters is a bad idea.
It's a tiny, tiny fraction of people (generally from the same cool inner city chattering class) that have bought into the strange ideology of suppressing and heaping scorn on a womans natural motherly instinct.
What the fuck? Who, exactly, is "heaping scorn on a woman's natural motherly instincts"?
How is not serving someone who is angry and screaming over a trivial issue being a bigger asshole?
Citation not needed. Calculation does the trick. For the amount of components of a chip to double, their size has to reduce 1/sqrt(2) every 18 months.
No it doesn't. You could just double the size of the chip, and keep the circuits/components the same size. Or introduce some new process that gives the same effect.
It's highly unlikely that we can make patterns that small by then.
Moore's Law isn't about size, it's about cost per transistor. Which continues to drop as it always has.
Have you considered taping a piece of black paper over the entertainment center door glass, so as to block IR signals from reaching the PS3 when the doors are closed?
How would this help, as the PS3 remote uses Bluetooth rather than IR?
I can't think of another product in the history of, well, products to reach that high a percentage.
Have you ever heard of the brand of cars called "Jaguar"? I'm pretty sure they have close to 100% failure rate. At least in models released pre-90s.
Two weeks later...new XBox!
I very much doubt that it's a new Xbox. more likely it's some other kid's who sent it back to get patched up when it failed.
But the weird thing is that you consider this a good thing. You have to send your console away for two weeks? that doesn't sound very convenient to me.
What you're all missing is that the Ipod took off because it was so heavily advertised and marketed in what was then considered a niche market and effectively ignored.
Except that it didn't. The iPod was successful long before it was heavily marketed. This also doesn't explain why other heavily-marketed products in this area failed.
I just came from a meeting with Next Window... and they have sold 150k+ units of the first model with HP.
How can they be selling the units described in this story, when Windows 7 isn't even available yet? Do you have a link to this model?
This will be nice for those using large public displays that need multi-touch support.
I doubt that the products mentioned in this story are "large public displays." They are talking about tablet sized Personal Computers.
I'm not really seeing the big deal about multitouch in a tablet-sized (i.e 8-12") computer. Multitouch is great for devices like PDAs and phones with small screens, where you don't do much in the way of complex input aside from texting or selecting items. But for a full PC-like OS, it doesn't seem that useful. For a tablet machine, I'd want it to be more stylus-based, with pressure detection, like a Wacom Cintiq. Then you could use it for fine manipulation, drawing, graphics editing, etc. Fingers are too clumsy for this sort of work.
It's a conundrum, because you don't want styluses for small devices like phones or PDAs, because they are annoying and get in the way. Hence the success of the iPhone versus other PDA devices. But once you get beyond a certain size, it's fingers that get in the way. And I guess once you get to an even bigger size, fingers become useful again.
To me, this just seems like a poor fit for finger manipulation. Small phone? Multitouch is great (with one hand). Big-ass table? Multitouch is great (with two hands) Something in-between? Stylus is great, as it's a similar size to our paper notebooks and documents.
GI Joe did just fine without any actual story.
For certain values of "just fine."
I guess when they say "touch" they mean models that can use a finger instead of a stylus. Tablet computers have been with us for some time now, but nobody seems particularly interested, other than delivery services taking signatures, and those are more like a PDA than a computer.
But the real WTF is the title "Windows 7 Igniting Touchscreen PC Market." Seriously? That's 100% marketing speak. How is Windows 7 "igniting" this market, when there are no actual units being sold, and thus no idea if it will actually "catch fire" or not?
If newspapers devoted this much energy to the actual content and quality of journalism,
It's Entertainment Weekly we are talking about. It's not a newspaper or journalism, it's a PR outlet. So this fits perfectly, as the publication is not about content or quality, it's pure advertising.
It's Entertainment Weekly. Just reading it spells doom for all concerned.
Why would they advertise e-ink publishing using an LCD screen?
What the hell does copyright term extension have to do with this story about the MTA and transit schedules? If any post deserves an "Offtopic" mod, it's this one.
Seeing as the MTA is a public service, paid for by taxpayers, I don't think there is the same obligation to put up with obnoxious users who are a drain on the system. Not that JCPenney has any obligation to put up with angry customers, it's just done for reputation/business reasons.
Would you expect to get away with angrily harassing, say, security workers at an airport? That behavior is likely to get you either ejected or arrested. Society shouldn't be enabling assholes.
Now if you've got an Ipod there with the characteristic white headphones you're considered Trendy and hip.
What? That hasn't been true for a few years now.
I truly don't think he's saying that they should shut down TV and radio and blah blah blah...
That appears to be exactly what he is saying in his last paragraph - that they should fail. And throughout the rest of the post is a similar flavor of ranting against the evil FCC and the pointlessness of anything except his vision of high-tech digital media.
We have technology TODAY that allows for frequency hopping, for signal strength negotiation, for handling multiple devices on the same frequencies/channels, etc.
None of which will be likely to work in the event of a catastrophe that knocks out power and communications infrastructure. But a simple analog radio transmitter will run on a backup generator, and the signal is easily deciphered by the most simple and common technology, using a wide range of power sources, from a dry cell to a car battery, a hand crank, a potato with a couple of electrodes stuck in it, or even a crystal set with no power source other than the radio transmission itself.
[citation needed]