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Does a stylus work at all on a capacitive touch screen?
How about freedom to use whatever I want to and live the lifstyle that I, not Mr. Stallman likes?
Is there really that much difference between libertarianism and libertarian socialism? Both are anti-authoritarian political ideologies. The main disagreement seems to be about the role of labor unions in our society. There is much more common ground between libertarian socialism and libertarianism than there is between libertarianism and American centrism.
To be fair, qemu is appallingly slow. Windows in Microsoft's Virtual PC for Mac (on Power PC macs) was several orders of magnitude moe performant.

Machine-code translation can be done well, but that still doesn't mean trying to pack a desktop OS onto a mobile platform is going to be a good idea.
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Catching a ball off a deflection is pretty surprising, and you generally don't see players spontaneously considering things and deciding to run out the clock when the end zone's in front of him and defenders are behind him, especially not in a situation where you need the touchdown to win. Grinding down the clock in football is generally accomplished by play selection, with the use of a running game rather than a passing game, because incomplete passes stop the clock. The only other example of this that I know of, and a much more dramatic one, is Brian Westbrook's kneel-down on the 1 yard line -- http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-network-playbook/09000d5d80547...
I don't know if the Apple Tablet will impact Wacom's business in any way, but for what it's worth a picture drawn on an even smaller screen using one of these "not half decent graphic applications" ended up on the cover of The New Yorker.

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/tny/2009/05/jorge-colo...

And simply because Apple don't supply a stylus with the device, doesn't mean that you can't use one with it.

http://tenonedesign.com/stylus.php
if all I have is an iPad, I can write lots of potentially interesting software for it. They are still programmable, after all.

That said, the fact that you seem to think that cooking meals, gardening, woodworking, and appliance repair are also impossible indicates to me that you're not really railing about the iPad.

These are great days to tinker. Just a slightly different kind of tinkering, is all.
ooohhhhhh....I had been eating more.
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boring!
I'm underwhelmed not because the geek in me finds the technical specs lacking, but because I don't see anything innovative. The hardware and software are absolutely predictable (except for lacking a few features like a webcam and a USB port): no brilliant UI solution to the problem of typing while holding the tablet, no special screen tech to work well in reflective mode, no new business model for news or books, nothing. It's the lowest common denominator of all the rumors and anybody's guess at what a "big ipod touch" would look like. It shouldn't have taken any CE/computing company, much less Apple, years to design this.
LOL well said!
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or maybe orthogonal?
The drawing apps are pretty good though (on the iphone - so one assumes better on the iPad :D). That's Wacom's low end market threatened (especially as you can draw direct to the screen - which you wont get from Wacom for $499 :D)

EDIT: one of my Graphic design buddies says he's hoping to get one for mockups and day to day sketch work (and see how it goes for more hardcore design)
I thought it was inappropriate, not for questioning Zinn, but for doing so in a way much more biased than Zinn himself. Zinn was a great historian; Daniel J. Flynn is the proud author of Why the Left Hates America: Exposing the Lies That Have Obscured Our Nation’s Greatness.

Flynn loses any remaining credit for calling Zinn a Marxist, continuously. That's a label chosen for its emotional resonance; not its meaning. Zinn was a socialist, a libertarian socialist, an anarchist sympathizer, a leftist... but he didn't go around labeling himself as a Marxist on the back of the books, that's something only done by his critics. I might as well be calling Flynn a fascist.
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Nice enough drawing (watch the video), but it can't hold a candle to what artists in general produce using digital tools.

That stylus is just a passive device to touch the screen, the styluses (sp?) attached to professional tablets are active, carry pressure sensitive tips and usually have one or more buttons to modify the function of the touch by the tip.

There is a big difference between 'finger painting' and professional production grade artwork.

As always, a 'real' artist will be able to do things with a medium that others can only dream of, just like Yehudi Menuhin would be able to get more music out of a crappy violin than a skilled amateur.

But that would most likely not have meant that he would have abandoned his Bussetto for some piece of junk.

I expect the same holds true for people that use tablets professionally or for serious drawing, instead of using it to show off what you can do with advanced finger painting.

There just is no comparing.
except none of that was verifiable or insider info; this wasn't speculation, but hard fact (and something new - the e-book store)
I'm sorry, but did you actually read the post you're commenting on?

You may not agree with all his arguments, but the post addresses the "no innovation" claim head on (scan for Sgt. Pepper’s, if you can't find it).
there's a kludgy sponge stick (http://tenonedesign.com/stylus.php), that sucks. I can't be bothered to carry it, but I can for damn sure be bothered to carry my Wacom bluetooth where ever I take my MacBook. The bigger issue is there's no SVG graphics app for the iphone.
I don't know football at all, so I can only take your word for it.
Stupid rocket science and BaseKit
> That's Wacom's low end market threatened

Not really, a low end wacom tablet sells for < $100, and will interface with everything between 'paint shop pro', and the gimp all the way up to photoshop, illustrator and autocad.

> (and see how it goes for more hardcore design)

If that works out then you will still have to implement roughly 80% of photoshop before there would be any significant threat from this to the tablet market.

Seriously, I hope your friend gets a kick out of it and I hope that he will be inspired to do great stuff but I really can't see a serious threat here. I can see the 'rough sketch' work, but no way this thing will be used to produce final artwork in the near future.

There are some vertical market applications that are interesting though.
how did this get 5 votes so quickly when almost everything else on the new page has a single vote? is this an example of "friends" voting together?
I work at a school considering a laptop program. This was our first question, and we couldn't find anything in specs that explicitly talked about this.

I have to assume that you will be able to print wirelessly, but there's that tiny fear that somehow you can't as a protective feature for the ebooks. Silly question, but can you print from a Kindle or a Nook?
http://daringfireball.net/2009/08/ninjawords
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Could it all be perception? Like maybe Safari and Chrome make smoother animations to hide the loading times? I seem to remember there was a similar thing with menus in OS X vs Windows (or Linux?) - one was actually faster, but the other was perceived faster because they animated how the menu items would unfold.

Also there are of course issues with preloading the browser, which would (unfairly) reduce startup times.
Yeah it's shocking but it's true, isn't it? I mean, everyone who's using both Firefox and Chrome/Safari experiences it every day.
Yeah well, all of us geeks complain about what this thing can't do and doesn't have. But in the end, Bray comes to the right conclusion: the iPad wasn't designed for us.

The iPhone and the iPad are just what portable devices look like after crossing the chasm: no multi-tasking (a massive number of people I know do not grok multi-tasking), minimally-complicated input devices, and obviously: no developer tools or software freedom.

Because "being able to run whatever software I choose" is only great when the user belongs to that n% (where n is small) of people who know what they're doing. I will be "selling" (as in recommending) these iThings to many friends and relatives, and at the same time, I don't think I'll ever buy them myself.
If it doesn't have the barcode/iCam feature (where you swipe a book under the camera and it reads the ISBN) then it's a pale shadow of Delicious Library.
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Having seen PG talk in the past doesn't mean he won't be interesting this time. (I am not saying RTM won't be interesting. He will be.)
bitch bitch bitch... ffs people, I thought the whole thing about being creative were that you were, um, creative.

It's easy: a. don't buy one, or b. if you accidentally do buy one, then think of something creative to do with it.

It seems there's a large number of people at the moment who can't see them selves buying one of these (sorry, still can't bring myself to call it an iPad) for whatever reason, and they're working hard at mentally positioning those who may buy one as 'stupid', 'couch potatoes', 'dumb', 'fanboys', 'not creative people', 'want to be cool', 'gullible', 'buying it just because of the marketing' etc. I'm sure you've read the endless swathe of similar comments today. Why? Why is is so hard to accept that whilst a product ay not be for you, it may be just what someone else wants?

[Disclaimer: I'm in the group of those who probably won't buy one. I can't see a use case for it yet]
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>And, boy, was I hungry at first. After a while I wasn't hungry any more...

That's the real secret, and it could use some expansion. Isn't that where 99% of dieters fail? Why were you able to overcome your hunger when so many people find that an impossible challenge?

People have a great deal of difficulty overcoming that feeling of hunger -- realizing that just because they feel something, they don't have to act on it. I've jokingly considered writing a diet book focused on this concept; apparently diet books are the only types of books that consistently make money.
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You can bet that the these reactions of "it doesn't have this or that" have already been addressed and are sitting in prototypes locked in an interior room at 1 Infinite Loop. USB and cameras are easy to add. I'm waiting for handwriting recognition and 3D UI modes. This device will evolve into something very cool and useful just like the original deck-of-cards iPod evolved into what we have today.
> The iPhone was an evolutionary leap instead of a revolutionary leap.

The evolutionary theory term of art is "punctuated equilibrium": stable stable stable WOW stable stable
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ARM, MIPS, Sparc, PPC and x86/x86-64 compatible CPUs are all available from multiple suppliers.

There's still reasons, though, such as piecing together a systsem on a chip to meet specific power and feature requirements.
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In this more recent essay, Lawrence Lessig discusses how the copyright system might be reformed to prevent the same kind of issues Stallman exposes in the above:
http://www.tnr.com/print/article/the-love-culture
(Scroll down to "III" if you don't want to hear about documentary film or the Google book settlement)

(I submitted that to HN yesterday but I guess stuff that says "Stallman" attracts more viewers... it's worth your read though)
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The Wacom tablet computers sells in the thousands, iPad is going to sell in the millions. There is nothing like a wacom for drawing with hi quality, but I'm sure Apple realise a "notebook computer" needs a pen and will add it in the future.

The capacitive stylus has very poor resolution, and is difficult to contrast with the part of the hand that you use for support on the screen. It would be simpler to use an optical,sound, radio or inertial add on.
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He's got the right idea. As Michael Pollan( author of the Omnivore's Dilemma, which everyone should read) says: "Eat food, not too much, mostly plants"
I read it, and found the 'Yes, but it’s never been done all at once' assertion weak. The OP's general point is that the iPad is 'magic', which I correlate with 'innovation'; I think many of us are bummed because we see neither. (If it matters, I was giddy when the iPhone was announced; there was a lot of innovation in that device.)
Surely it could not have been genuine interest in the article, right?
Yes, because they lock down their products. You should be able to install on your iphone anything you want.
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out OS 9

I completely disagree. There's a need for high end machines for image, sound, and other professionals who use these machines because they are really good. Sure, some people who would have bought a iMac will end up buying an iPad instead because really all they need to do is surf the web and check their mail. But from there to discontinuing Mac OS X altogether it's a big leap of the imagination which I find unfounded.
Obviously we are out to get you.
Why were you able to overcome your hunger when so many people find that an impossible challenge?

1. I drank ice cold water whenever I felt hungry.

2. Initially I would look at that photo of me.

3. Later I looked at the chart and the predicted end date.
Perhaps it's because it's not about the iPad.
I usually see an encouraging initial weight loss followed by a slow climb back up after a period of stability. The article contains some advice on how he eats less - smaller meals not fewer and eat slowly. I think that could work. I'd like to see how long he's kept the weight off for.
well, it could be, but it doesn't seem like the usual kind of link for here [edit: for example, when i posted, almost all comments - including one now deleted - were negative]. on the other hand, it seems that it's a popular user so perhaps people are simply interested. it's also possible that it got to the front page with just a couple of early votes and then took off (a post of my own just behaved as strangely, which has made me think that is likely).

on the other hand, the pile of downvotes before anyone makes any kind of attempt to explain, tends to confirm the worst.
"you will still have to implement roughly 80% of photoshop"

Couldn't you just use the iPad as an input device for a desktop PC?
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When I was a boy, I spent many an hour wondering what dinosaurs actually looked like. This is amazing! I'm wondering, though, how sound it is to extrapolate from what the shape of the melanin container says about colour today to what it said about colour in the past?
Automation heavy is a good thing in my book. I think whether the developer writes it is often a function of what you're testing. For example, WinRunner has its own learning curve, and so seems to be left to QA more often. Whereas Selenium seems to have a smaller curve.

Generally though, I like the idea of someone else proofreading my work, because for the same reason that I forgot to account for a set of inputs, I will tend to forget to test with those inputs.
Yes. Yes, it is.
The core of the ChromeOS is open, http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/releasing-chromium-os....
Chrome OS is espousing a new style of computing which is all done through the web browser. Chrome OS has a standards based, no gatekeeper method of delivering new applications to users. It's called HTTP.
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That's just the date I proposed. I put it on the calendar that way to hold the date till I hear back from him.
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Not the way it is built today.

It's a device that is mostly geared towards consumption.

If there is going to be interoperability like that then I'd expect that to come from the same people that right now have 'jailbroken' iphones and other renegade stuff like that.

The day Apple sanctions their tablet to be used strictly as a dumb input device I'll buy you a beer.

It's a good idea though, I'll grant you that, I definitely would like to see that happen. Especially if you could use the bluetooth connection for doing it.

Car pc in the booth, use tablet as the user interface via bluetooth.

That'd be a nice niche. But I'm pretty sure it would require some 'warranty voided' hacking.

If some smart aleck manages to get Ubuntu NBR running on the 3G model it would suddenly be a whole lot more interesting to me.
Huh.

I adore Stephen Fry as much as the next guy, I try to get my weekly dose whenever possible. But on page two of this post I had this distinct feeling that this was bought. Hell, I was scanning the page looking for some kind indication that it was an advertisement.

I can understand why on page four it's stated that he was not paid to go there.

I did get a good chuckle over the Google Voice transcript, though :)
They certainly don't let other digital media sellers make it convenient for iPhone users. You have to go through their store (iTunes) in order to synchronize digital media from other stores to your phone.
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Hmm... I can't seem to find the original, but I quoted this phrase in a presentation I gave three years ago: http://www.slideshare.net/simon/javascript-libraries-the-big... (slide 5)

I think it's something I heard him say out loud in one of his earlier lectures at Yahoo. More recently, he's stated that "he used to think the browser was the most hostile programming environment ever devised, but then he found out about mobile programming" - http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-09-2007/jw-09-rwekeyno...
Here "as quickly as the fastest algorithm" means: it takes at most 5x longer, plus a colossal enormous additive constant.

To be a bit more precise, suppose you have a problem parameterized by some numbers a,b,c,...,z, and suppose there is some algorithm A that provably solves the problem, for any parameter values, in time T(a,b,c,...,z). Then Hutter's algorithm solves the problem im time at most 5T(a,b,c,...,z) + C where C, unfortunately, is something that looks like (smaller stuff) . 2^L where L is the length of the shortest proof that A solves the problem in time T(a,b,c,...,z).

That timing information probably gives a clue as to how the algorithm works. Modulo oversimplification and handwaving, it enumerates all possible proofs of the form "such-and-such an algorithm solves the problem at takes at most such-and-such an amount of time to do it", and interleaves this with executing whatever algorithm it's currently got the best time bound for. There's a bit of subtlety in scheduling things so that it doesn't waste lots of time on what turn out to be worse algorithms. And that's basically it.
I buy technology items based on only two criteria.

1. Does it help me save more time.
2. Does it help me save more money.

It's a no for both so I'm not getting it.
> iPad is going to sell in the millions

Wow! Your crystal ball must be a lot better than mine. I figure early adopters several tens of thousands, most of them people that want to be seen with the latest gadget.

Then they find out that it is cumbersome to have something like this because it requires a carrier, it does definitely not fit in your pocket, which was the reason Jobs was railing against netbooks not all that long ago.

And I actually agreed with him, now it seems he disagrees with himself.

The wacom tablet computers sell in the thousands because they are a niche device, the apple tablet for now is a niche device too, until the opposite has been proven.

This is not an iphone, and the iphone is not an ipod.

Iphones and Ipods are selling as good as they do because they fit their niche (pocket devices for entertainment and connectivity) very well, this device is in a completely different class.
And he pulled the post because of that.
Many, many thanks for this. I had neither the will nor the time to read the full article and your summary is excellent.
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He wasn't exactly bowled over by the iPhone either when it came out:
http://mattmaroon.com/2007/07/13/iphone/

Also, it did sell more than 10 millions units by the end of 2008 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IPhone_sales_per_quarter_s...
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Cutting sugar is extremely efficient and is guaranteed to make you lose weight (as well as reducing the odds of getting a cancer).

Reducing the amount of food works as well, but it depends on what you current food intake is.
That's the first thing I thought of when I saw it. Copyright is so tricky.
The pile of downvotes is quite likely a stab at the naysayery you displayed in disregarding an interesting article under the ASSUMPTION that someone did not truthfully obtain their votes
No multitasking means there's a whole pile of apps that will get written for Android but not iPad or iPhone. Personalized news aggregators, traffic alerts, proximity detectors and all kinds of things not yet envisioned. A passive "delivery" model as opposed to an active "fetch" model. Then again, when you're tied to AT&T you probably don't want a bunch of data-munching background processes anyway.
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