How do you configure the dock to auto-hide and reappear with no delay?
Actually, it seems a LOT shorter than 500ms. My guess is that it is what used to be called a "VBI" task. That is, approximately 1/60th of a second.
-Doug
Is there another operating system that has per-application volume faders and a fully floating point audio path? Because I haven't seen any other OS that does... and I find that incredibly useful on a daily basis...
Don't know about the floating point thing, but OS X has per-application volumes; just not all in one place (which I will admit has always annoyed me).
Because 7 has features XP doesn't. Like support for the TRIM command for SSDs. Like an audio mixer that lets you set different volumes for each application, instead of each hardware output, which is floating point from the ground up. Like desktop rendering that is accelerated by your GPU. Like UAC. Like Aero Snap. Etc.
It's not like Windows 7 is just a facelift on Windows XP, There are differences that aren't even hard to find.
Not trolling, but why does an Operating System care about being "Floating Point"?
but they are using them for e-mail and contact management and calendaring and tasks - all the things that windows PDA's did.
if i remember right - MS the patents on almost all of the Office/Work/Organizer on Mobile device with sync.
It doesn't mater what OS or what language you write that in/on if you are copying someones ideas you are copying them and if they have a patent for it then you are supposed to licence it.
I think it's exacerbated by the fact that some of them, like the one I had to deal with at 106th and Pennsylvania, are just too frickin' SMALL. There's no "buffer zone" to get from one lane to the other. And you're right. Everyone in Carmel drives like they literally own the road; so it's like a really bad mix of aggressive and geriatric drivers. I was on 106th St, trying to get to Meridian at about 8am, and I SWEAR I had to sit for more than a minute, and then I sort of just had to go for it, and nearly got sideswiped for my trouble.
I don't know where they are "working"; but it sure ain't here...
You would be better served to carry a steel plate, pipe or bar than a magnet.
I love this solution... You buy a high price ultra light carbon bike, then strap a steel pipe to it to trigger traffic lights.
Hey, *I* didn't design the laws of physics!
Actually, a piece of thinwall conduit would probably work as well. It's not the mass, it's the area. But it's got to be ferrous. Aluminum will work to some extent; but for the best bang-per-ounce, steel (sheet metal or thinwall conduit) should work just fine...
Oh, and did you ever stop to think that a "composite" bike might not make the best "trigger" for the loop-sensor?
It's almost like, they didn't really care about anything but getting a bunch of carriers locked into their platform, and abandoning their own (or other) efforts...
Bingo!
"Google" and "abandoned effort" are becoming damn near synonymous.
Actually, I was talking about Google getting OTHERS to abandon THEIR efforts; but I still agree with your statement.;-)
I could spend hours replying inline to your arguments,
But I can't so, this ad hominem attack will have to do...
but another slashdotter summed it all by pointing at your login name.
Add it that your post is factless
I said "Please tell me why anyone in their right mind would buy a Xoom? It costs more than an iPad, doesn't have very many apps (the point of the article), has shorter battery life, slow-ass graphics, etc. The list goes on and on." That doesn't sound "factless" to me. And it was an interrogatory; which you dismiss on the basis of my Username?!? Riiiiight. That's a compelling response...
and you reference "people" that you have no statistics about.
The only reference to the word "people" comes in this sentence: "I'm sure that when you show people your Xoom, that you carefully avoid the rough edges on Android, and take care not to mention stuff like the nonfunctional SD slot."
That was simply making a presumption. Tell me I'm wrong, and that you make sure to point out the Xoom's non-functional SD slot, the dearth of apps, the inadequate GPU, the low battery life, the fact that it actually costs a bit more than an iPad. C'mon, tell me I'm wrong. Show me that my "statistics" are incorrect.
We probably do not revolve around that same 'people' according to what you say.
I actually don't "revolve around" anyone. I do actual research, and form my own opinions.
Keep telling yourself that. And keep telling yourself you didn't make a mistake.
So far I am just fine, thank you.
I'm sure you are. It's amazing the lengths most people will go to to justify a bad decision...
And, while we're on the subject of 5 string bass tunings, the standard 5 string bass tuning starts out at "B" (30 Hz), not "A". I don't own one, but in 2 minutes of Googling, I can't find a 5 string tuning that starts out at A.
Standard tuning down a whole step would put the 5th string down at A. This and other even lower dropped tunings are very common in the modern metal world but are used across pretty much all genres of musics. I'm not a bassist myself, but I'm sure this is pretty commonly used as having an open A string on the low end is probably a lot more useful than an open B string simply because in the world of guitar music A is a lot more common key than B simply because of the way guitars are tuned.
Sorry for the OT post I just wanted to point this out.
I know that death metal uses dropped tunings, and I figured that's what hairyfeet was doing. I also am surprised that someone would start a guitar-like instrument with a B, especially when using it with Rock, which loves to be in A and E, but it is the 5th of E, which is where I figured it got started.
The iPod was designed to sell macs and failed to do so and eventually the Windows iTunes software was released.
The iPhone came out and could do the same things an iPod could do but also had apps and phone service.
Apple realized there were people who wanted to use apps on a non-phone device that was smaller and cheaper and made the iPod Touch.
The iPod Touch, as part of the overall scheme of things, does not need to exist to sell hardware. The iPod covered that already. The only benefit Apple has from the Touch version is to sell apps on it.
Next time you troll someone, check their user ID and note that I actually own two actual working MessagePads. I've followed Apple a long time, thanks.
I trolled nothing. And you have nothing on me. I have an Apple 1, which I have had since I got it in 1976.
If you know Apple as well as you say you do, you would have realized that I was speaking not about a specific product or products; but rather in general terms.
And the iPod started the "switcher" revolution, which continues to this day. Hardly a failure.
Offering it on Windows just fanned the flames (significantly, I'll admit).
And your "Apple realized" comment speaks to your overall arrogance. You are not privvy to Apple's marketing or product roadmaps. How could you presume to know that "Apple realized" that people wanted a non-phone iPhone? I'd say more like Apple had planned the iPod Touch from the beginning, and launched it when it became prudent to do so.
You're pretty fucking stupid (and I meant every virulent word of that) if you have been "following Apple" for any length of time and sincerely believe that app sales are but a blip on Apple's bottom line.
So, it seems that it is you, not I, that needs to watch the news...
I personally hate XOOM, but calling it a $700 paperweight is an overstatement made by a fanboi. No wonder your name is macs4all...
Let's see what you call it when you go to try and sell it.
And my Username has nothing to do with facts. And 'dems da facts. Sorry you have to resort to an ad hominem attack to bolster your position; but it still doesn't change the fact that it is a half-baked, overpriced, under-speced product.
In short, a paperweight; or soon destined to become one.
All in all, I believe they reduce the risk of fatal accidents but do cause more non-fatal ones (there are probably some statistics floating around but I cba looking them up...)
Statistics seem to claim the opposite, according to Wikipedia they are actually safer, with up to 90% fewer fatalities because most collisions occur at an indirect angle.
But 90% fewer fatalities on 500% more accidents is, what? And yes, I pulled that 500% out of my behind; but they have just GOT to cause more fender-benders and near-misses than conventional intersections.
From the article: 90% fewer fatal/serious injuries on 40% fewer accidents.
Your behind is not a reliable source of information.
If there are fewer accidents, it's because either someone is cooking the statistics, or people are so terrified of them, they simply avoid using them whenever possible.
How many have just decided that Android tablets are DOA, and are developing for iOS instead?
*Waves hand*. It's a gamble, but I honestly hope for the sake of tinkering and openess that the IPad hype will slowly decline in favor of Android-based devices.
I read a lot of "People prefer the IPad", "People say NO to Android" but in my day-to-day experience, people just do not know what Android devices are capable of and how they really compare. When I show my XOOM to people who are telling me they're about to buy an IPad, they are usually surprised how the XOOM seem to work just as well. Most of the feedback I get goes around "I'd buy that but it doesn't have that app that I love on my IPhone". Absolutely true and on spot with TFA.
I'm sure that when you show people your Xoom, that you carefully avoid the rough edges on Android, and take care not to mention stuff like the nonfunctional SD slot.
Please tell me why anyone in their right mind would buy a Xoom? It costs more than an iPad, doesn't have very many apps (the point of the article), has shorter battery life, slow-ass graphics, etc. The list goes on and on.
You can crow all you want about Android being "open"; but that really hasn't worked out so well in practice, has it? So, it comes down to being a contrarian. Nothing wrong with that; but don't pretend that the Xoom is anything more than a wannabe iPad. 'Cuz it ain't.
So have fun you didn't waste $700 on a paperweight, instead of actually getting to enjoy the 100,000 iPad-specific (and 350,000 iPhone) apps.
Yeah, the walls of that garden are just a-closin' in... Keep telling yourself that. And keep telling yourself you didn't make a mistake when nobody wants to give you $100 for that Xoom, while used iPads will still be selling at 2/3 their original list price.
All in all, I believe they reduce the risk of fatal accidents but do cause more non-fatal ones (there are probably some statistics floating around but I cba looking them up...)
Statistics seem to claim the opposite, according to Wikipedia they are actually safer, with up to 90% fewer fatalities because most collisions occur at an indirect angle.
But 90% fewer fatalities on 500% more accidents is, what? And yes, I pulled that 500% out of my behind; but they have just GOT to cause more fender-benders and near-misses than conventional intersections.
When traffic is light, they are simply not needed. And when traffic is heavy, they are just fucking DANGEROUS. Or dead-stopped. Or both.
All the companies who sell magnets designed for this, say they work. But you can't trust their opinion.
I've never been able to find an article written by an expert on the topic.
Anecdotal reports are NOT reliable, since these light sensors nearly always work without any magnet. So how do you know if the magnet is working?
You would be better served to carry a steel plate, pipe or bar than a magnet. Those loop sensors work by the mass of metal "detuning" an oscilator. The resultant change-in-frequency is detected by a phase-locked loop (which falls "out of lock" temporarily). or a bandpass filter (which produces less signal output when the oscillator is "detuned"), either of which conditions is what really triggers the "vehicle present" signal. Actually, it's kind of a low-rent magnetometer.
IMHO, a magnet of any reasonable size will have relatively insignificant effect on the loop. The person above who drives a zig-zag pattern is probably causing the frequency to bounce around enough to get above the detection threshold; but I'd be surprised if the magnet trick works. What you need is a cable-operated steel bar or plate that you can drop down over the loop, then pick back up when it is obvious you're going to get a "turn".
I live in Indianapolis (Carmel is a suburb of Indy), and that city has gone Roundabout-Crazy!
A few months ago, I was looking for someplace that I didn't exactly know which street it was on, and thus, blew past it by one cross-street.
But, because of the over-use of roundabouts, I ended up having to go almost TWO MILES out of my way, to get back to the street I wanted.
About a week ago, driving to work (I work on the northernmost end of Carmel. Fortunately, there are no roundabouts normally on my route!), and diverted to a side-street to stop for gas. Getting back to the main thoroughfare (Meridian St./U.S. 31) required negotiating one of the damnable roundabouts. Not only is there no "unwritten protocol" like there is at stop signs, and thus, at busy times, aggressive/late drivers just bully on through, instead of stopping and waiting their turn; but the design of the roundabouts seems to REQUIRE an insane amount of lane-switching (there is a poorly-marked inner and outer lane), which PROMOTES, rather than PREVENTS, side-swipe type collisions, from people trying to cross lanes to get to their "exit" on the roundabout, rather than going around another "lap", like I'm sure the engineers had in mind. Roundabouts also take about 4 times (at least!) as much real-estate as a small intersection (which this was), and I can't even imagine how much more tax dollars they cost. If anyone else here lives near Carmel, this was the roundabout at 106th and Pennsylvania. Both are very small streets, but due to the density of businesses in that area, during rush hour, they are pretty busy. If the roundabout had been made larger (and even more wasteful), there would be more time to negotiate these lane-changes; but as stands, they are a traffic HAZARD.
But, a few years ago, the mayor of Carmel took a vacation in Europe, liked the roundabouts, and now everyone has to suffer for it.
PS why on earth would you want an Android based music player? Apple made the iPod Touch because they have their own music store and also want to sell apps.
Um, you have that backwards. Do you even read slashdot?
Apple created the iTunes Store (and later, the App Store) because they wanted to sell Macs and iPods, and later iPhones, iPod Touches, iPads. You have Apple's business model 180 degrees ass-backwards. As has been stated again, and again, and again; Apple makes the majority of its PROFIT from the sale of HARDWARE. The rest is just there to drive hardware sales. Period.
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Fast forward to now, since the x86 macs, they can finally actually run MS-DOS programs. (boot disk of course)
Can you actually run MS-DOS on an intel mac? Is the lack of BIOS support not a problem?
Parallels Desktop lists MS-DOS as a supported "Guest" OS. So, I guess so, eh?
So tired your meme it is.
No, PC means wintel box.
No. That's PeeSee.
How do you configure the dock to auto-hide and reappear with no delay?
Actually, it seems a LOT shorter than 500ms. My guess is that it is what used to be called a "VBI" task. That is, approximately 1/60th of a second. -Doug
Really? Try switching where your window controls are located. I'll wait until you get back.
That didn't take long...
+1 Anyway, I don't see them as viable with their pricing and their warranty for big business. They just cost too darn much.
Ah. Let the Jeal... er, Hate Begin...
Is there another operating system that has per-application volume faders and a fully floating point audio path? Because I haven't seen any other OS that does... and I find that incredibly useful on a daily basis...
Don't know about the floating point thing, but OS X has per-application volumes; just not all in one place (which I will admit has always annoyed me).
Because 7 has features XP doesn't. Like support for the TRIM command for SSDs. Like an audio mixer that lets you set different volumes for each application, instead of each hardware output, which is floating point from the ground up. Like desktop rendering that is accelerated by your GPU. Like UAC. Like Aero Snap. Etc. It's not like Windows 7 is just a facelift on Windows XP, There are differences that aren't even hard to find.
Not trolling, but why does an Operating System care about being "Floating Point"?
but they are using them for e-mail and contact management and calendaring and tasks - all the things that windows PDA's did.
if i remember right - MS the patents on almost all of the Office/Work/Organizer on Mobile device with sync.
It doesn't mater what OS or what language you write that in/on if you are copying someones ideas you are copying them and if they have a patent for it then you are supposed to licence it.
Didn't the Newton MessagePad pre-date them all?
I think it's exacerbated by the fact that some of them, like the one I had to deal with at 106th and Pennsylvania, are just too frickin' SMALL. There's no "buffer zone" to get from one lane to the other. And you're right. Everyone in Carmel drives like they literally own the road; so it's like a really bad mix of aggressive and geriatric drivers. I was on 106th St, trying to get to Meridian at about 8am, and I SWEAR I had to sit for more than a minute, and then I sort of just had to go for it, and nearly got sideswiped for my trouble.
I don't know where they are "working"; but it sure ain't here...
You would be better served to carry a steel plate, pipe or bar than a magnet.
I love this solution... You buy a high price ultra light carbon bike, then strap a steel pipe to it to trigger traffic lights.
Hey, *I* didn't design the laws of physics!
Actually, a piece of thinwall conduit would probably work as well. It's not the mass, it's the area. But it's got to be ferrous. Aluminum will work to some extent; but for the best bang-per-ounce, steel (sheet metal or thinwall conduit) should work just fine...
Oh, and did you ever stop to think that a "composite" bike might not make the best "trigger" for the loop-sensor?
It's almost like, they didn't really care about anything but getting a bunch of carriers locked into their platform, and abandoning their own (or other) efforts...
Bingo! "Google" and "abandoned effort" are becoming damn near synonymous.
Actually, I was talking about Google getting OTHERS to abandon THEIR efforts; but I still agree with your statement. ;-)
I could spend hours replying inline to your arguments,
But I can't so, this ad hominem attack will have to do...
but another slashdotter summed it all by pointing at your login name.
Add it that your post is factless
I said "Please tell me why anyone in their right mind would buy a Xoom? It costs more than an iPad, doesn't have very many apps (the point of the article), has shorter battery life, slow-ass graphics, etc. The list goes on and on." That doesn't sound "factless" to me. And it was an interrogatory; which you dismiss on the basis of my Username?!? Riiiiight. That's a compelling response...
and you reference "people" that you have no statistics about.
The only reference to the word "people" comes in this sentence: "I'm sure that when you show people your Xoom, that you carefully avoid the rough edges on Android, and take care not to mention stuff like the nonfunctional SD slot."
That was simply making a presumption. Tell me I'm wrong, and that you make sure to point out the Xoom's non-functional SD slot, the dearth of apps, the inadequate GPU, the low battery life, the fact that it actually costs a bit more than an iPad. C'mon, tell me I'm wrong. Show me that my "statistics" are incorrect.
We probably do not revolve around that same 'people' according to what you say.
I actually don't "revolve around" anyone. I do actual research, and form my own opinions.
Keep telling yourself that. And keep telling yourself you didn't make a mistake.
So far I am just fine, thank you.
I'm sure you are. It's amazing the lengths most people will go to to justify a bad decision...
And, while we're on the subject of 5 string bass tunings, the standard 5 string bass tuning starts out at "B" (30 Hz), not "A". I don't own one, but in 2 minutes of Googling, I can't find a 5 string tuning that starts out at A.
Standard tuning down a whole step would put the 5th string down at A. This and other even lower dropped tunings are very common in the modern metal world but are used across pretty much all genres of musics. I'm not a bassist myself, but I'm sure this is pretty commonly used as having an open A string on the low end is probably a lot more useful than an open B string simply because in the world of guitar music A is a lot more common key than B simply because of the way guitars are tuned.
Sorry for the OT post I just wanted to point this out.
I know that death metal uses dropped tunings, and I figured that's what hairyfeet was doing. I also am surprised that someone would start a guitar-like instrument with a B, especially when using it with Rock, which loves to be in A and E, but it is the 5th of E, which is where I figured it got started.
Someone missed the news break.
The iPod was designed to sell macs and failed to do so and eventually the Windows iTunes software was released.
The iPhone came out and could do the same things an iPod could do but also had apps and phone service.
Apple realized there were people who wanted to use apps on a non-phone device that was smaller and cheaper and made the iPod Touch.
The iPod Touch, as part of the overall scheme of things, does not need to exist to sell hardware. The iPod covered that already. The only benefit Apple has from the Touch version is to sell apps on it.
Next time you troll someone, check their user ID and note that I actually own two actual working MessagePads. I've followed Apple a long time, thanks.
I trolled nothing. And you have nothing on me. I have an Apple 1, which I have had since I got it in 1976.
If you know Apple as well as you say you do, you would have realized that I was speaking not about a specific product or products; but rather in general terms.
And the iPod started the "switcher" revolution, which continues to this day. Hardly a failure.
Offering it on Windows just fanned the flames (significantly, I'll admit).
And your "Apple realized" comment speaks to your overall arrogance. You are not privvy to Apple's marketing or product roadmaps. How could you presume to know that "Apple realized" that people wanted a non-phone iPhone? I'd say more like Apple had planned the iPod Touch from the beginning, and launched it when it became prudent to do so.
You're pretty fucking stupid (and I meant every virulent word of that) if you have been "following Apple" for any length of time and sincerely believe that app sales are but a blip on Apple's bottom line.
So, it seems that it is you, not I, that needs to watch the news...
I personally hate XOOM, but calling it a $700 paperweight is an overstatement made by a fanboi. No wonder your name is macs4all...
Let's see what you call it when you go to try and sell it.
And my Username has nothing to do with facts. And 'dems da facts. Sorry you have to resort to an ad hominem attack to bolster your position; but it still doesn't change the fact that it is a half-baked, overpriced, under-speced product.
In short, a paperweight; or soon destined to become one.
All in all, I believe they reduce the risk of fatal accidents but do cause more non-fatal ones (there are probably some statistics floating around but I cba looking them up...)
Statistics seem to claim the opposite, according to Wikipedia they are actually safer, with up to 90% fewer fatalities because most collisions occur at an indirect angle.
But 90% fewer fatalities on 500% more accidents is, what? And yes, I pulled that 500% out of my behind; but they have just GOT to cause more fender-benders and near-misses than conventional intersections.
From the article: 90% fewer fatal/serious injuries on 40% fewer accidents.
Your behind is not a reliable source of information.
If there are fewer accidents, it's because either someone is cooking the statistics, or people are so terrified of them, they simply avoid using them whenever possible.
How many have just decided that Android tablets are DOA, and are developing for iOS instead?
*Waves hand*. It's a gamble, but I honestly hope for the sake of tinkering and openess that the IPad hype will slowly decline in favor of Android-based devices. I read a lot of "People prefer the IPad", "People say NO to Android" but in my day-to-day experience, people just do not know what Android devices are capable of and how they really compare. When I show my XOOM to people who are telling me they're about to buy an IPad, they are usually surprised how the XOOM seem to work just as well. Most of the feedback I get goes around "I'd buy that but it doesn't have that app that I love on my IPhone". Absolutely true and on spot with TFA.
I'm sure that when you show people your Xoom, that you carefully avoid the rough edges on Android, and take care not to mention stuff like the nonfunctional SD slot.
Please tell me why anyone in their right mind would buy a Xoom? It costs more than an iPad, doesn't have very many apps (the point of the article), has shorter battery life, slow-ass graphics, etc. The list goes on and on.
You can crow all you want about Android being "open"; but that really hasn't worked out so well in practice, has it? So, it comes down to being a contrarian. Nothing wrong with that; but don't pretend that the Xoom is anything more than a wannabe iPad. 'Cuz it ain't.
So have fun you didn't waste $700 on a paperweight, instead of actually getting to enjoy the 100,000 iPad-specific (and 350,000 iPhone) apps.
Yeah, the walls of that garden are just a-closin' in... Keep telling yourself that. And keep telling yourself you didn't make a mistake when nobody wants to give you $100 for that Xoom, while used iPads will still be selling at 2/3 their original list price.
All in all, I believe they reduce the risk of fatal accidents but do cause more non-fatal ones (there are probably some statistics floating around but I cba looking them up...)
Statistics seem to claim the opposite, according to Wikipedia they are actually safer, with up to 90% fewer fatalities because most collisions occur at an indirect angle.
But 90% fewer fatalities on 500% more accidents is, what? And yes, I pulled that 500% out of my behind; but they have just GOT to cause more fender-benders and near-misses than conventional intersections.
When traffic is light, they are simply not needed. And when traffic is heavy, they are just fucking DANGEROUS. Or dead-stopped. Or both.
I think that, in the tablet-space (which is what we are discussing here, right?), you'd be daft to suggest anything different.
Dude, this is Slashdot, remember? What actually goes on in the real world is not relevant to people's beliefs here.
Yeah, you're right. Especially when it involves Android, Linux and/or Apple.
All the companies who sell magnets designed for this, say they work. But you can't trust their opinion.
I've never been able to find an article written by an expert on the topic.
Anecdotal reports are NOT reliable, since these light sensors nearly always work without any magnet. So how do you know if the magnet is working?
You would be better served to carry a steel plate, pipe or bar than a magnet. Those loop sensors work by the mass of metal "detuning" an oscilator. The resultant change-in-frequency is detected by a phase-locked loop (which falls "out of lock" temporarily). or a bandpass filter (which produces less signal output when the oscillator is "detuned"), either of which conditions is what really triggers the "vehicle present" signal. Actually, it's kind of a low-rent magnetometer.
IMHO, a magnet of any reasonable size will have relatively insignificant effect on the loop. The person above who drives a zig-zag pattern is probably causing the frequency to bounce around enough to get above the detection threshold; but I'd be surprised if the magnet trick works. What you need is a cable-operated steel bar or plate that you can drop down over the loop, then pick back up when it is obvious you're going to get a "turn".
For roundabouts that are busy, they just place traffic lights on them.
Doesn't that defeat the entire purpose for a roundabout?
I live in Indianapolis (Carmel is a suburb of Indy), and that city has gone Roundabout-Crazy!
A few months ago, I was looking for someplace that I didn't exactly know which street it was on, and thus, blew past it by one cross-street.
But, because of the over-use of roundabouts, I ended up having to go almost TWO MILES out of my way, to get back to the street I wanted.
About a week ago, driving to work (I work on the northernmost end of Carmel. Fortunately, there are no roundabouts normally on my route!), and diverted to a side-street to stop for gas. Getting back to the main thoroughfare (Meridian St./U.S. 31) required negotiating one of the damnable roundabouts. Not only is there no "unwritten protocol" like there is at stop signs, and thus, at busy times, aggressive/late drivers just bully on through, instead of stopping and waiting their turn; but the design of the roundabouts seems to REQUIRE an insane amount of lane-switching (there is a poorly-marked inner and outer lane), which PROMOTES, rather than PREVENTS, side-swipe type collisions, from people trying to cross lanes to get to their "exit" on the roundabout, rather than going around another "lap", like I'm sure the engineers had in mind. Roundabouts also take about 4 times (at least!) as much real-estate as a small intersection (which this was), and I can't even imagine how much more tax dollars they cost. If anyone else here lives near Carmel, this was the roundabout at 106th and Pennsylvania. Both are very small streets, but due to the density of businesses in that area, during rush hour, they are pretty busy. If the roundabout had been made larger (and even more wasteful), there would be more time to negotiate these lane-changes; but as stands, they are a traffic HAZARD.
But, a few years ago, the mayor of Carmel took a vacation in Europe, liked the roundabouts, and now everyone has to suffer for it.
People don't particularly want Android. They don't particularly *like* Android. Not on the whole. But people *do* want iPads.
Based on you and your mates from round the corner, or what? What mystical tree did you pluck this fact from?
I think that, in the tablet-space (which is what we are discussing here, right?), you'd be daft to suggest anything different.
PS why on earth would you want an Android based music player? Apple made the iPod Touch because they have their own music store and also want to sell apps.
Um, you have that backwards. Do you even read slashdot?
Apple created the iTunes Store (and later, the App Store) because they wanted to sell Macs and iPods, and later iPhones, iPod Touches, iPads. You have Apple's business model 180 degrees ass-backwards. As has been stated again, and again, and again; Apple makes the majority of its PROFIT from the sale of HARDWARE. The rest is just there to drive hardware sales. Period.