There is no skype in the android market when I search. Nimbuzz shows up, but that's it. I have a Google N1 and live in Canada, so IDK if that makes a difference.
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I don't understand something.
A $829 tablet is as useful as a $3000 computer?
Perhaps if all you do is browse and check email. If you have any actual work to do, I'd be willing to bet that the iPad rapidly becomes lacking. In fact, as someone has already pointed out, you can get a computer more powerful than the iPad for less.
Quite frankly, the iPad is pretty much a toy. There is no real utility in it, aside from being a somewhat different way of sitting at the couch and surfing the web (different than say, sitting at the couch and surfing the web with you laptop). I can see some utility in capacitive touchscreen laptops because they have both an actual keyboard and a mouse-alternative (touching the screen for action). When I encounter such a system, I will buy it instead.
And it will likely be a better system for the money than the iPad.
Android has the NDK so you can write C/C++ code and compile it for the smartphones. The API itself is not closed either, as there are guys such as the ogre3d people who are replacing bits of it with libraries that support exceptions. Flash is not yet available on Android, but it will be soon.
ChromeOS is Linux, based on ubuntu. It is open source. All of it. You can download and compile the source. In fact, that was the only way to get it to run in a virtual when I installed it.
If you don't think Windows has a C API, think again. You can get all the APIs for windows services with a typical Visual Studio EE install (which is free). You can download APIs for more specific things, such as MS Office document handling.
How are you getting modded up? You don't seem terribly well informed.
I don't buy anything you just said. There is a lot of anecdotal points you make that are the complete opposite of my experience. Mind you, perhaps in the business scene mac and ipads make more sense. The few company directors I know have apple products as status symbols, even though all they really do is check email.
Fighting XP? Explain that. I've used XP and now 7, and I never had to fight it. Granted, I do development - real development, Haskell and C/C++, not PHP (though I certainly can when it's needed), so perhaps my ability exceeds that of your typical user, definitely your typical OSX user.
As for requiring more training going from XP to 7 than going from XP to OSX.... what are you on? 7 is a lot like XP - more so than OSX. My computer illiterate wife had no problem using 7 when I installed it. I'm more productive on Win7 than I was on XP, or ever was with OSX.
Is 7 perfect? No. But in all honesty it is a decent OS. It looks good, runs fast, has some good productivity features, and is backward compatible. I can run it on any hardware I choose. The next best OS for me is Ubuntu. If you know Linux, it's powerful, if you don't, it's still a breeze to use. OSX is fine, but it's just not worth paying the apple premium for the apple hardware you're required to run it on.
And OSX has a BSD core, but it's heavily and far from open source now. As for it coming with an open source browser, that's just a moot point: All OSes have open source browser options.
Back to the iPad. I've used one, and couldn't find a real use for it. My phone and laptop cover all my needs with some overlap. The iPad doesn't really offer me anything. As a coder, the iPad does a worse job than existing devices. To have to 'accessorize it' into somewhat usefulness (bluetooth keyboard) doesn't help at all.
I'm not surprised that 2 million iPads have sold. Every mac 'enthusiast' I know has bought/will buy one. There are a lot more mac 'enthusiasts' out there who will buy these things up over the next while too.
I agree. Likely if they were advanced enough to travel or send something here, they'd have telescopes so powerful they'd be able to see our planet lit up artificially on the night side. They'd come no matter what.
Hopefully, it wouldn't be a scenario like in the "Killing Star" book, where they bombarded earth using relativistic weapons from afar, then sent swarms of nano bots to scour us out of the solar system before they arrived.
There is also the small possibility that we actually are the most advanced civilization within any meaningful distance. We have no idea how likely this scenario is because we have no idea what the real occurrence rate for intelligent life is, so it could be very possible and even likely. In which case, we are our own biggest threat.
What are iPad's sales figures like? I haven't seen any. I can see a use for the iPad for certain people, but I'm on the side of the fence that says it won't do particularly amazing. Maybe better than AppleTV, but that's about it.
My webservers are still showing Safari and OSX user-agents being around 10%. It hasn't changed much since the iPad release, so IDK how much people are using it.
While I can see your point, I don't agree at all. Movie content is generated on a continuous basis. We have all paid to see movies, and we will pay again to see movies in the future. When you guy groceries at a store on a regular basis, you are considered a customer of that store. You don't become a former customer until you decide to stop going to that store altogether.
That's not the issue. The claim is that the MPAA is not suing customers. I've pointed out that everyone who watches movies, downloaded or otherwise, has likely paid for movies before, meaning they are customers.
The MPAA is suing customer, whether those customers are criminals or not.
Just because you're a not a customer for one pirated movie doesn't mean you haven't been a customer. There is a chance you've seen the movie in the the theater and wanted to copy when the dvd, but didn't think it was worth $20.
You paid to see it once, but you found the pay-to-buy price too high, and found a different channel to acquire it. I bet if you looked at any of the people sued by the MPAA, you'll find they've also paid to see films created by MPAA members - in pretty much every case. Is that not a customer?
As a bit of an aside, does it matter if you try to make the data private via encryption?
There could be an interesting relationship here: If you claim (probably rightfully) that you own the copyright to the 'content' in question, and encrypt it, does this mean that it would be unlawful for anyone to try and decrypt it under the DMCA?
I go for pixels. As many pixels as I can get for the price. I'll forgo a lot of other things except perhaps processor speed, because compiling times can be/are very long.
Unfortunately, it's very hard to get 1920x1200 (WUXGA) for $1200 or less.
I suppose the dell studio xps can be about the limit, and gives good enough pixelage (1920x1080) for about $1250. Thinkpads are pretty much the same (unless you're buying in canada, then don't bother - thinkpads are $1k more expensive there for some reason).
Much like EEstor. These things sure do have a tendancy into vapour. However, it's hard to raise money for a project without the hype.
I do, however, hope they are successful. Electric cars are so much simpler than gasoline ones, and require so few exotic material (outside of the battery, which is usually recyclable anyway), that I can see them eventually being much cheaper than their gasoline counterparts.
I think this points out more of a difference between marketeer and researcher payscales, I'd imagine there are more researcher than marketeers for a given product, and I'd imagine there are more materials and time requirements for research than there is for marketing.
That's the approach GM and Dodge have taken. It could work, and it's an interesting backup plan. IMO, I'd want it to be optional - either an installable/removable item or a genset trailer. The genset as part of the car really adds complexity and cost.
You will learn to plan better. Do you run your car near Empty all the time? What do you do when that behaviour burns out your fuel pump a few miles from home? A gas can doesn't help you in that situation.
However, if you're driving an EV a city, there's a good chance you'll be near an outlet when your batteries go flat, so find it and plug in. Electricity is amazingly easy to find.
If you're in the middle of the wilderness, well, you probably should have been paying attention, but if there's a station nearby (where you would otherwise get gas), I'm sure there would be a tow truck that would get you to an outlet fast.
I'm a big fan of the tesla and electric cars in general. I think the US government has a site up stating that there is only about 12 million tonnes of lithium available worldwide, but then I saw this: http://www.prlog.org/10062026-world-lithium-reserves-found-to-be-abundant-in-new-report.html. Seems we have enough, depending on how much lithium a battery pack takes. I guess there is always some possibiliy that EEStor will have something great in... store for us.
Actually, flash player now supports H.264. You can actually play.mp4 and quicktime.mov H.264 containers within flash now. Likely this is just a format upgrade - same bitrate, better codec.
When google does this, it's in agreement with the content owner - likely he is using google's adsense program to make ad money and pay for his server.
If the ISP were to alter the stream so that the ads served would belong to it, and not the content owner/google, they are in reality 'stealing money' from the content owner.
This practice, if it takes off, will have a seriously detrimental effect on the 'free' internet, unless of course some kind of encryption is used. I don't think HTTPS alone is up to the task because the ISPs could sniff the key exchange.
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There is no skype in the android market when I search. Nimbuzz shows up, but that's it. I have a Google N1 and live in Canada, so IDK if that makes a difference.
I don't understand something.
A $829 tablet is as useful as a $3000 computer?
Perhaps if all you do is browse and check email. If you have any actual work to do, I'd be willing to bet that the iPad rapidly becomes lacking. In fact, as someone has already pointed out, you can get a computer more powerful than the iPad for less.
Quite frankly, the iPad is pretty much a toy. There is no real utility in it, aside from being a somewhat different way of sitting at the couch and surfing the web (different than say, sitting at the couch and surfing the web with you laptop). I can see some utility in capacitive touchscreen laptops because they have both an actual keyboard and a mouse-alternative (touching the screen for action). When I encounter such a system, I will buy it instead.
And it will likely be a better system for the money than the iPad.
Android has the NDK so you can write C/C++ code and compile it for the smartphones. The API itself is not closed either, as there are guys such as the ogre3d people who are replacing bits of it with libraries that support exceptions. Flash is not yet available on Android, but it will be soon.
ChromeOS is Linux, based on ubuntu. It is open source. All of it. You can download and compile the source. In fact, that was the only way to get it to run in a virtual when I installed it.
If you don't think Windows has a C API, think again. You can get all the APIs for windows services with a typical Visual Studio EE install (which is free). You can download APIs for more specific things, such as MS Office document handling.
How are you getting modded up? You don't seem terribly well informed.
The iPad is a shiny device that requires the user to also buy a Mac to actually get good use out of it.
I don't buy anything you just said. There is a lot of anecdotal points you make that are the complete opposite of my experience. Mind you, perhaps in the business scene mac and ipads make more sense. The few company directors I know have apple products as status symbols, even though all they really do is check email.
Fighting XP? Explain that. I've used XP and now 7, and I never had to fight it. Granted, I do development - real development, Haskell and C/C++, not PHP (though I certainly can when it's needed), so perhaps my ability exceeds that of your typical user, definitely your typical OSX user.
As for requiring more training going from XP to 7 than going from XP to OSX.... what are you on? 7 is a lot like XP - more so than OSX. My computer illiterate wife had no problem using 7 when I installed it. I'm more productive on Win7 than I was on XP, or ever was with OSX.
Is 7 perfect? No. But in all honesty it is a decent OS. It looks good, runs fast, has some good productivity features, and is backward compatible. I can run it on any hardware I choose. The next best OS for me is Ubuntu. If you know Linux, it's powerful, if you don't, it's still a breeze to use. OSX is fine, but it's just not worth paying the apple premium for the apple hardware you're required to run it on.
And OSX has a BSD core, but it's heavily and far from open source now. As for it coming with an open source browser, that's just a moot point: All OSes have open source browser options.
Back to the iPad. I've used one, and couldn't find a real use for it. My phone and laptop cover all my needs with some overlap. The iPad doesn't really offer me anything. As a coder, the iPad does a worse job than existing devices. To have to 'accessorize it' into somewhat usefulness (bluetooth keyboard) doesn't help at all.
I'm not surprised that 2 million iPads have sold. Every mac 'enthusiast' I know has bought/will buy one. There are a lot more mac 'enthusiasts' out there who will buy these things up over the next while too.
So would an LCD monitor.
I agree. Likely if they were advanced enough to travel or send something here, they'd have telescopes so powerful they'd be able to see our planet lit up artificially on the night side. They'd come no matter what.
Hopefully, it wouldn't be a scenario like in the "Killing Star" book, where they bombarded earth using relativistic weapons from afar, then sent swarms of nano bots to scour us out of the solar system before they arrived.
There is also the small possibility that we actually are the most advanced civilization within any meaningful distance. We have no idea how likely this scenario is because we have no idea what the real occurrence rate for intelligent life is, so it could be very possible and even likely. In which case, we are our own biggest threat.
This is the attitude that fails software companies.
Are those sales into channels or to individuals?
What are iPad's sales figures like? I haven't seen any. I can see a use for the iPad for certain people, but I'm on the side of the fence that says it won't do particularly amazing. Maybe better than AppleTV, but that's about it.
My webservers are still showing Safari and OSX user-agents being around 10%. It hasn't changed much since the iPad release, so IDK how much people are using it.
Unless they are entertaining their cats http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9NP-AeKX40
While I can see your point, I don't agree at all. Movie content is generated on a continuous basis. We have all paid to see movies, and we will pay again to see movies in the future. When you guy groceries at a store on a regular basis, you are considered a customer of that store. You don't become a former customer until you decide to stop going to that store altogether.
That's not the issue. The claim is that the MPAA is not suing customers. I've pointed out that everyone who watches movies, downloaded or otherwise, has likely paid for movies before, meaning they are customers.
The MPAA is suing customer, whether those customers are criminals or not.
Again, doing something criminal doesn't disqualify you from being a customer. Two different concepts.
No.
A customer is a customer whether it was in the past or not. In all likelihood, the said customer would be a returning customer.
Given your reply it seems like you're assuming I'm condoning piracy. I'm not - no more than you are a member of the MPAA.
Just because you're a not a customer for one pirated movie doesn't mean you haven't been a customer. There is a chance you've seen the movie in the the theater and wanted to copy when the dvd, but didn't think it was worth $20.
You paid to see it once, but you found the pay-to-buy price too high, and found a different channel to acquire it. I bet if you looked at any of the people sued by the MPAA, you'll find they've also paid to see films created by MPAA members - in pretty much every case. Is that not a customer?
As a bit of an aside, does it matter if you try to make the data private via encryption?
There could be an interesting relationship here: If you claim (probably rightfully) that you own the copyright to the 'content' in question, and encrypt it, does this mean that it would be unlawful for anyone to try and decrypt it under the DMCA?
I go for pixels. As many pixels as I can get for the price. I'll forgo a lot of other things except perhaps processor speed, because compiling times can be/are very long.
Unfortunately, it's very hard to get 1920x1200 (WUXGA) for $1200 or less.
I suppose the dell studio xps can be about the limit, and gives good enough pixelage (1920x1080) for about $1250. Thinkpads are pretty much the same (unless you're buying in canada, then don't bother - thinkpads are $1k more expensive there for some reason).
Much like EEstor. These things sure do have a tendancy into vapour. However, it's hard to raise money for a project without the hype.
I do, however, hope they are successful. Electric cars are so much simpler than gasoline ones, and require so few exotic material (outside of the battery, which is usually recyclable anyway), that I can see them eventually being much cheaper than their gasoline counterparts.
I think this points out more of a difference between marketeer and researcher payscales, I'd imagine there are more researcher than marketeers for a given product, and I'd imagine there are more materials and time requirements for research than there is for marketing.
That's the approach GM and Dodge have taken. It could work, and it's an interesting backup plan. IMO, I'd want it to be optional - either an installable/removable item or a genset trailer. The genset as part of the car really adds complexity and cost.
You will learn to plan better. Do you run your car near Empty all the time? What do you do when that behaviour burns out your fuel pump a few miles from home? A gas can doesn't help you in that situation.
However, if you're driving an EV a city, there's a good chance you'll be near an outlet when your batteries go flat, so find it and plug in. Electricity is amazingly easy to find.
If you're in the middle of the wilderness, well, you probably should have been paying attention, but if there's a station nearby (where you would otherwise get gas), I'm sure there would be a tow truck that would get you to an outlet fast.
I'm a big fan of the tesla and electric cars in general. I think the US government has a site up stating that there is only about 12 million tonnes of lithium available worldwide, but then I saw this: http://www.prlog.org/10062026-world-lithium-reserves-found-to-be-abundant-in-new-report.html. Seems we have enough, depending on how much lithium a battery pack takes. I guess there is always some possibiliy that EEStor will have something great in... store for us.
Actually, flash player now supports H.264. You can actually play .mp4 and quicktime .mov H.264 containers within flash now. Likely this is just a format upgrade - same bitrate, better codec.
When google does this, it's in agreement with the content owner - likely he is using google's adsense program to make ad money and pay for his server.
If the ISP were to alter the stream so that the ads served would belong to it, and not the content owner/google, they are in reality 'stealing money' from the content owner.
This practice, if it takes off, will have a seriously detrimental effect on the 'free' internet, unless of course some kind of encryption is used. I don't think HTTPS alone is up to the task because the ISPs could sniff the key exchange.
Canada has tanks?
Does Canada know?