... would make the BBC a state organ, subject to the political whims of the current incumbents. Come the next recession, bye bye Auntie Beeb. At least the licence fee, for all it's faults, maintains a fairly safe distance between broadcaster, state and treasury.
And without having to have an (often unannounced) advert break every 6 minutes, as is increasingly the case on commercial channels, rendering them unwatchable to anyone except demented gerbils.
I wonder how long before the advertisers get wise to the fact that PVRs mean no-one needs to watch adverts, so they pull their business, and the commercial channels all collapse.
and built-in networking and a very large 960Mb of user RAM. Oddly enough, it also had a fore-runner of USB in the form of PicoNet, which could daisy-chain peripherals and interfaces off a single RJ45 (i think) serial port.
As I understand it, it ensures that your Mac, PC, iPod, IPhone are all synced without physically having to do it yourself. As a bonus, you get a backup of your stuff on iCloud in case of nasty accidents/theft of your device(s).
It is all about SYNCing, nothing to do with STREAMing. All iCloud does is ensure all your iDevices (including Macs and PCs) are transparently synchronised. This may include your music, which does not have to be uploaded to iCloud if iTunes Match has a copy of all your tracks. If not, then only those non-matched tracks are uploaded, but ONLY for the purpose of re-synching back to other devices, not for streaming.
They want you to store data and use apps locally, otherwise you would not buy high-capacity iPhones etc, and would not pay for local apps.
To summarise, iCloud keeps your local off-line world in sync; it is not about the on-line use of data or applications."
Instead of thinking 'what is the best thing for usability?', the programmers think 'how do I want to implement this?'. In open source thinking, everyone can program and everyone will adapt the source to their taste. No wonder we are still waiting for Linux to take off with the general public!
Many open source projects suffer from this attitude. The programmers want to do 'clever' stuff and there is no-one to ask who it benefits (other than the clever programmers).
Just look at Python 3. They spend al the time messing around, adding in or removing clever features, when what we need is a stable, well-supported language which does not require scripts to be updated with each new release of the interpreter. What they should be doing is making sure that all the modules from Python 2 are updated to work with Python 3; but NO, that's not exciting enough, they need to add new niche features to a bloated language, just 'cos they can.
I can't wait for the day when comments are silenced. Then I'll be free to pursue my dream of opening a cake shop in Penrith (one that serves fine wine, obviously).
that this allows you to access the web to troubleshoot when your system goes wrong. How many times have you seen 'for help go to our support website' when the help you need is how to get connected.
The article twice mentions music streaming from the cloud. This is the largest misconception about iCloud.
It is all about SYNCing, nothing to do with STREAMing. All iCloud does is ensure all your iDevices (including Macs and PCs) are transparently synchronised. This may include your music, which does not have to be uploaded to iCloud if iTunes Match has a copy of all your tracks. If not, then only those non-matched tracks are uploaded, but ONLY for the purpose of re-synching back to other devices, not for streaming.
They want you to store data and use apps locally, otherwise you would not buy high-capacity iPhones etc, and would not pay for local apps.
To summarise, iCloud keeps your local off-line world in sync; it is not about the on-line use of data or applications.
Realistically, how can you keep expanding and 'grow' your way out of over-population?
It's like suggesting that to deal with the pensions time-bomb we need to produce more babies to support the ageing population.
Admittedly, one day population growth will slow, but we will have long-ago exhausted the carrying capacity of the Earth, or more likely, been wiped out by disease or famine.
Those articles look very interesting; certainly along the lines that I have been thinking since I was at school in the seventies (when the population was a mere 4 billion!). I shall enjoy reading them this eveving.
The real problem, that no-one is publicly prepared to admit, is over-population.
Global population is due to pass 7 billion later this year, and headed for 10 billion by 2050. Consider that after WW2, the population was only 2.5 billion, and we can see that shortages of everything are going to occur much sooner than we like to think.
Most of the world is not capable of sustaining the current large population, never mind producing more food, which will allow more reproduction which ....
Large areas of the world (including Europe) are, or will soon be, suffering water stress. Not enough fresh water for living, never mind for more intensive agriculture.
Current intensive farming using fertilisers is just stripping the existing land of nutrients. Once this land is exhausted, then a famine like nothing we have seen in history will occur.
So maybe it will all balance out in the end, and the population will return to a more sustainable level.
At first, Apple marketing literature did not specify a separate name for the operating system, stating simply that the "iPhone runs OS X".[6] Initially, third-party applications were not supported. Steve Jobs argued that developers could build web applications that "would behave like native apps on the iPhone".[7][8] On October 17, 2007, Apple announced that a native SDK was under development and that they planned to put it "in developers' hands in February".[9] On March 6, 2008, Apple released the first beta, along with a new name for the operating system: "iPhone OS".
if they spent half the money used to fight illegal drugs on producing a safe, legal high then they could tax it and watch the money roll in.
When will they learn the lessons of Prohibition? Human nature is such that people will always find some way of getting out of their nuts; much better that it is legal and known rather than illegal and unknown substances.
We could then have sensible conversations with our kids about how to safely use drugs, instead of letting them find out by trial and error.
"You can play back through up to six sets of speakers simultaneously, though it won’t let you assign different tracks to different speaker sets at the same time, so it stops short of being a genuine Sonos-bothering multi-room system."
You can play different iP*d/PC/Mac sources through different Airport express-connected speakers, though, and use an iP*d as a remote control for the PC or Mac iTunes. I do this to 6 sets of speakers from 8 possible sources, all controlled from a single MacBook running Apple Remote Desktop.
"At the time Windows was not intended to be networked - the only nod to connectivity was a simple terminal application - so it seemed unimportant."
Connectivity WAS unimportant - PC networking was barely heard of. Remember IBM PC LAN Program? Torus Tapestry? They were just being released, and took so much memory that you couldn't have loaded Windows at the same time, anyway!
Dial up modems? Acoustic couplers for your landline handset were the order of the day.
Security? That would be the lock on the office door, then,
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"Thank F**k we don't get that much"
Yet!
General taxation funding the BBC ...
... would make the BBC a state organ, subject to the political whims of the current incumbents. Come the next recession, bye bye Auntie Beeb. At least the licence fee, for all it's faults, maintains a fairly safe distance between broadcaster, state and treasury.
And without having to have an (often unannounced) advert break every 6 minutes, as is increasingly the case on commercial channels, rendering them unwatchable to anyone except demented gerbils.
I wonder how long before the advertisers get wise to the fact that PVRs mean no-one needs to watch adverts, so they pull their business, and the commercial channels all collapse.
Original Source
Just make sure you install flash from Adobe, not some dodgy site, Simples!
Oh, and install a virus checker for the other 3 possible threats.
I wonder if HR people spot the irony ...
in using such a de-humanising term as 'human resources' when they mean 'people' or 'personnel' ?
80186, in fact
and built-in networking and a very large 960Mb of user RAM. Oddly enough, it also had a fore-runner of USB in the form of PicoNet, which could daisy-chain peripherals and interfaces off a single RJ45 (i think) serial port.
Why do they call it a cloud?
'cos it's light and fluffy and insubstantial, I guess
Multiple devices?
As I understand it, it ensures that your Mac, PC, iPod, IPhone are all synced without physically having to do it yourself. As a bonus, you get a backup of your stuff on iCloud in case of nasty accidents/theft of your device(s).
RTFM - Apple do not mention streaming
As I wrote in an earlier comment,
" This is the largest misconception about iCloud.
It is all about SYNCing, nothing to do with STREAMing. All iCloud does is ensure all your iDevices (including Macs and PCs) are transparently synchronised. This may include your music, which does not have to be uploaded to iCloud if iTunes Match has a copy of all your tracks. If not, then only those non-matched tracks are uploaded, but ONLY for the purpose of re-synching back to other devices, not for streaming.
They want you to store data and use apps locally, otherwise you would not buy high-capacity iPhones etc, and would not pay for local apps.
To summarise, iCloud keeps your local off-line world in sync; it is not about the on-line use of data or applications."
Interesting comparison ...
http://www.cultofmac.com/what-tablets-looked-like-before-the-ipad-proves-how-revolutionary-apples-tablet-really-was/109373
How do you think the police caught them?
They brought them back for a refund ...
This one, you mean?
http://9to5mac.com/2011/06/07/steve-jobs-presents-ideas-for-new-apple-super-campus-to-cupertino-city-council/
E.L.E.N.I.N.
Extinction Level Event, Nasty Impact Near
That's the attitude that creates this situation
Instead of thinking 'what is the best thing for usability?', the programmers think 'how do I want to implement this?'. In open source thinking, everyone can program and everyone will adapt the source to their taste. No wonder we are still waiting for Linux to take off with the general public!
Open source suffers from "'Cos we can" syndrome
Many open source projects suffer from this attitude. The programmers want to do 'clever' stuff and there is no-one to ask who it benefits (other than the clever programmers).
Just look at Python 3. They spend al the time messing around, adding in or removing clever features, when what we need is a stable, well-supported language which does not require scripts to be updated with each new release of the interpreter. What they should be doing is making sure that all the modules from Python 2 are updated to work with Python 3; but NO, that's not exciting enough, they need to add new niche features to a bloated language, just 'cos they can.
I trust the Cake and wine shop does well!
From an earlier comment:
Sarah Bee
Re: Happy are the days #
Posted Monday 25th January 2010 12:38 GMT
I can't wait for the day when comments are silenced. Then I'll be free to pursue my dream of opening a cake shop in Penrith (one that serves fine wine, obviously).
You'll be much missed!
Duh!
Like we were EVER going to put everything on the fluff (sorry, Cloud).
As per, use what is appropriate, where it is appropriate, when it is appropriate.
These are probably the same researchers
who suggest giving dementia patients Statins, so that they don't die a quick death of heart disease, but linger on for years with no quality of life.
Would you like a (small) glass of wine to wash your pills down, dear?
The admiration of gay bikers?
But only if you're wearing well-fitting leathers!
Confused anatomy
Does one have to be a contortionist to be able to go titsup and faceplant all in the space of the same article?
I know ...
lets burn all the remaining oil, coal and trees to keep warm for the next 70 years.
70 years later as the earth warms up ...
No fuel for air-conditioning(or anything else, for that matter)
I guess ...
that this allows you to access the web to troubleshoot when your system goes wrong. How many times have you seen 'for help go to our support website' when the help you need is how to get connected.
According to Dennis Ritchie Linux IS UNIX
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix-like#Categories
Not about streaming!
The article twice mentions music streaming from the cloud. This is the largest misconception about iCloud.
It is all about SYNCing, nothing to do with STREAMing. All iCloud does is ensure all your iDevices (including Macs and PCs) are transparently synchronised. This may include your music, which does not have to be uploaded to iCloud if iTunes Match has a copy of all your tracks. If not, then only those non-matched tracks are uploaded, but ONLY for the purpose of re-synching back to other devices, not for streaming.
They want you to store data and use apps locally, otherwise you would not buy high-capacity iPhones etc, and would not pay for local apps.
To summarise, iCloud keeps your local off-line world in sync; it is not about the on-line use of data or applications.
Publicly admit
Because they they go on to try and solve a different problem, like global warming as a deflection from the REAL problem.
In Malthus' time ...
... there weren't 7-10 billion people to feed and fuel.
It's the scale of the problem, year after year.
Anyway, growth is the economists answer.
Realistically, how can you keep expanding and 'grow' your way out of over-population?
It's like suggesting that to deal with the pensions time-bomb we need to produce more babies to support the ageing population.
Admittedly, one day population growth will slow, but we will have long-ago exhausted the carrying capacity of the Earth, or more likely, been wiped out by disease or famine.
Or been demolished to make way for a by-pass ...
People have been suggesting a peak of 10 billion for a long time ...
if anything it was revised down to between 7.5 and 9 billion, which was plainly unrealistic.
@AC 13:36
Thanks.
Those articles look very interesting; certainly along the lines that I have been thinking since I was at school in the seventies (when the population was a mere 4 billion!). I shall enjoy reading them this eveving.
Cheers
Yet more deflection from the real problem
The real problem, that no-one is publicly prepared to admit, is over-population.
Global population is due to pass 7 billion later this year, and headed for 10 billion by 2050. Consider that after WW2, the population was only 2.5 billion, and we can see that shortages of everything are going to occur much sooner than we like to think.
Most of the world is not capable of sustaining the current large population, never mind producing more food, which will allow more reproduction which ....
Large areas of the world (including Europe) are, or will soon be, suffering water stress. Not enough fresh water for living, never mind for more intensive agriculture.
Current intensive farming using fertilisers is just stripping the existing land of nutrients. Once this land is exhausted, then a famine like nothing we have seen in history will occur.
So maybe it will all balance out in the end, and the population will return to a more sustainable level.
Windows 8 Tiled mode?
Oh, yes, i remember the Windows 1.x interface. Funny how, if you wait long enough, history repeats.
I wonder if we'll get Program Manager and File Mangler included?
Remember this?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/23/iphone_will_fail/page2.html
Perhaps Apple do know what CONSUMERS want. That's why they make money.
Maybe we should all stop chucking vitriol and just use what suits our personal taste.
Thank God (or the council) for conservation areas
Otherwise whole areas start looking like a Large Array Radio Telescope
I don't want a nasty satellite dish on my house ...
already got a digital-capable aerial, thanks!
Phone 78And previously known as
OS X for iPhone
Also from Wikipedia:
At first, Apple marketing literature did not specify a separate name for the operating system, stating simply that the "iPhone runs OS X".[6] Initially, third-party applications were not supported. Steve Jobs argued that developers could build web applications that "would behave like native apps on the iPhone".[7][8] On October 17, 2007, Apple announced that a native SDK was under development and that they planned to put it "in developers' hands in February".[9] On March 6, 2008, Apple released the first beta, along with a new name for the operating system: "iPhone OS".
Dissuage
Most dictionaries don't define it. It sounds like a portmanteau of dissuade and assuage; to reduce the pain of discouragement, perhaps?
As a gay man ...
I've often found ginger men attractive. I like big noses and sticky-out ears too.
Names, names, names
Didn't we used to call the cloud 'mainframes'? Didn't we used to call cloud appliances 'terminals'?
"Get down from that cloud, someone needs the fluff!"
Product vs OS
People can actually buy an iPhone product. Where do I buy this mythical 'Android' product?
Oh, that's right, you mean one of the many products running Android OS.
For actual customers (as opposed to techies), that is an important distinction.
Just think ...
if they spent half the money used to fight illegal drugs on producing a safe, legal high then they could tax it and watch the money roll in.
When will they learn the lessons of Prohibition? Human nature is such that people will always find some way of getting out of their nuts; much better that it is legal and known rather than illegal and unknown substances.
We could then have sensible conversations with our kids about how to safely use drugs, instead of letting them find out by trial and error.
Everyone is so indifferent ...
that they feel the need to comment on their indifference!
As a long-time baldy ...
I've always said keeping it clippered short is MUCH sexier than a delusional, whispy comb-over. Now we have the proof!
Nice that the wife has a say then...
That is all.
Multi-room capabilities...
"You can play back through up to six sets of speakers simultaneously, though it won’t let you assign different tracks to different speaker sets at the same time, so it stops short of being a genuine Sonos-bothering multi-room system."
You can play different iP*d/PC/Mac sources through different Airport express-connected speakers, though, and use an iP*d as a remote control for the PC or Mac iTunes. I do this to 6 sets of speakers from 8 possible sources, all controlled from a single MacBook running Apple Remote Desktop.
All for MUCH less than a multi-room Sonos.
"Can I assume that those buttons will be present on a Mac laptop .. ?"
It's called a 'two-fingered tap' - these days abscence ... etc
Err ...
Apple have made multi-button mice since at least 2005. If you click on the left side, it does a left click; on the right side ... you get the idea.
These days absence of physical buttons does not indicate absence of functionality.
Just a wild guess, but ...
this would double as a remote control for Apple TV/iTunes/Media and also act as remote gesture mouse for sofa-surfing TV connected Macs.
Is anyone dumb enough to buy this?
I have observed that intellect is inversely proportional to the size of installed TV, but there must be limits!
'Ello 'Ello
is this AirFlick ...
of the Gestapo?
Re: Objective Testing Please
Not all of us want to be attractive to the **opposite** sex!
How about "which phone makes you most sexually attractive" ?
Simple Times
"At the time Windows was not intended to be networked - the only nod to connectivity was a simple terminal application - so it seemed unimportant."
Connectivity WAS unimportant - PC networking was barely heard of. Remember IBM PC LAN Program? Torus Tapestry? They were just being released, and took so much memory that you couldn't have loaded Windows at the same time, anyway!
Dial up modems? Acoustic couplers for your landline handset were the order of the day.
Security? That would be the lock on the office door, then,
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