1. False. Anyone who types with more than two fingers (one on either hand) or who does not stare directly at the keyboard will have trouble with this. It only works on the phone because you can only type with two fingers... Just about the only person I can think of who doesn't use more than two fingers and stares at the keys is my girlfriend's father. And he's not going to buy any electronics any time soon (unless their home computer, which is a mac, breaks).
2. True enough.
3. My non-techie girlfriend has an iPhone and runs into the multi-tasking problem with shocking frequency. While it might not influence initial sales, it will definitely influence user satisfaction. The extents of this problem are not clear until you've used the device for a while.
4. Or you have the choice of a well constructed netbook for $400. You get what you buy, as always, except with the mac product, where you get what you buy *.666. Let's call it Jobs' Number. Want a $1000 laptop? On sale at $1500!
5. Based on the price of the iPhone equivalent cover, I expect this to cost another $50-$100.
I had not realized that "top student" meant a student who would not be destroyed by their 24-year-old drunk community college peers. And no, I am not saying anything about community colleges as institutions, but rather that the "top student" attending one likely knows some of the older students and will end up hanging out with them (lacking age-appropriate friends). And we should worry about having some sort of social caste in which to reside, which they certainly DO have in a typical highschool (see band, honors, etc). And from my brother's experience in a community college for dual-enrollment purposes, I can say that many of the biology "professors" are creationist nutjobs (at least in Florida), and the math "professors" don't know what they are doing or are too exhausted to do it. Are we trying to burn out our "top students" so fast? At least most honors teachers in secondary schools "care".
that being said, i think it probably needs a good overhaul (organic growth over 20 years can't be pretty to maintain)
you think 20 years is bad? You've got a few billion years of very organic growth in your own codebase, and it practically maintains itself, no overhauls required.
If I could afford to randomly modify my software and kill any iterations which crash/displease me a few billion times my code would be "self sustaining" too.
The other way to improve on "quality" is to increase the set size, or rather, the resolution of your state. Again, when it comes to displays, anything above your display rate + resolution is meaningless, but if you want something you can scale (time stretch, zoom in on) it could be worthwhile.
But at this point the biggest factor in "realism" is not so much the temporal/spatial resolution so much as the complexity of the governing rules themselves (and the efficient use of polygons and quality of textures). Making a grassy field blow in a breeze does not require incredible color depth, for instance, but an accurate and convincing model of how the grass moves in the real world. Which may require considering all sorts of variables down to grass's resistance/reactance (forgive the electrical terminology) to torsion forces, etc.
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The true iPad Nano will be touch sensitive, but have no screen or interface of any kind.
So explain to me what it is then? What does one do with the iPad? Watch YouTube all day? Because that's all I've heard out of the apple gallery.
1. False. Anyone who types with more than two fingers (one on either hand) or who does not stare directly at the keyboard will have trouble with this. It only works on the phone because you can only type with two fingers... Just about the only person I can think of who doesn't use more than two fingers and stares at the keys is my girlfriend's father. And he's not going to buy any electronics any time soon (unless their home computer, which is a mac, breaks). 2. True enough. 3. My non-techie girlfriend has an iPhone and runs into the multi-tasking problem with shocking frequency. While it might not influence initial sales, it will definitely influence user satisfaction. The extents of this problem are not clear until you've used the device for a while. 4. Or you have the choice of a well constructed netbook for $400. You get what you buy, as always, except with the mac product, where you get what you buy * .666. Let's call it Jobs' Number. Want a $1000 laptop? On sale at $1500!
5. Based on the price of the iPhone equivalent cover, I expect this to cost another $50-$100.
Well at least now I have an excuse to fill the garage with things other than my car. Before I just felt like a fool.
So you get two 1.5 passenger cars? Cool! I wonder what plane you use to divide your #3.
And industry driven HTML5 standards :(
Let's just call it a "jobs bill".
We tested the wait-a-week-to-heal-one-hit-point model, but it did not score well with 18-24 males.
Well unless my secure you mean destroyed... Secure implies retrievability :)
Does this include VGA or DVI with analog composite outputs? Because the idea of a 640x480 CRT monitor makes me tear up.
Where is this happening? Dare I assume the United States? Epic description fail.
This is me wishing I had mod points for you.
What is a grud?
For Singularity reference.
I had not realized that "top student" meant a student who would not be destroyed by their 24-year-old drunk community college peers. And no, I am not saying anything about community colleges as institutions, but rather that the "top student" attending one likely knows some of the older students and will end up hanging out with them (lacking age-appropriate friends). And we should worry about having some sort of social caste in which to reside, which they certainly DO have in a typical highschool (see band, honors, etc). And from my brother's experience in a community college for dual-enrollment purposes, I can say that many of the biology "professors" are creationist nutjobs (at least in Florida), and the math "professors" don't know what they are doing or are too exhausted to do it. Are we trying to burn out our "top students" so fast? At least most honors teachers in secondary schools "care".
There's a reason why a 16 yr old is many times more likely to wreck a car than a 19 year old.
Because they have only been driving a year? Also, NEEDS CITATION.
But what about all those risk averse criminals who want to be sure you are >30 minutes away by helicopter??
What if it was an ad for the site you actually wanted? :)
welcome our new squatter neighbors.
that being said, i think it probably needs a good overhaul (organic growth over 20 years can't be pretty to maintain)
you think 20 years is bad? You've got a few billion years of very organic growth in your own codebase, and it practically maintains itself, no overhauls required.
If I could afford to randomly modify my software and kill any iterations which crash/displease me a few billion times my code would be "self sustaining" too.
One. Time. Pad. Seriously, though. That's truly secure. Unless you catch the guy with the other pad before he burns it.
Rules don't stop people from setting off bombs in their pants. People stop people from setting off bombs in their pants.
Great, now if only they could find a way to require no glasses on the person watching it.
The key words there are "state of the art". If it used 200W then, odds are it still does.
The other way to improve on "quality" is to increase the set size, or rather, the resolution of your state. Again, when it comes to displays, anything above your display rate + resolution is meaningless, but if you want something you can scale (time stretch, zoom in on) it could be worthwhile.
But at this point the biggest factor in "realism" is not so much the temporal/spatial resolution so much as the complexity of the governing rules themselves (and the efficient use of polygons and quality of textures). Making a grassy field blow in a breeze does not require incredible color depth, for instance, but an accurate and convincing model of how the grass moves in the real world. Which may require considering all sorts of variables down to grass's resistance/reactance (forgive the electrical terminology) to torsion forces, etc.