And thinking like this would be how many viruses get spread through email as well as facebook. All it takes is one virus to get through, blast your contacts list or facebook friends with emails and posts saying click here click here and you may not even be aware of it until everyone else starts complaining at you for being careless and spreading a virus.
If you're that interested in sharing a link of something cool you found on the internet, you should be able to at least spend 30 seconds provide some explanation of what it is with the link you just emailed to help quell the 'this could be a virus' worries. People who question it are just looking out for their own selves. Its no reason to get so upset about assuring these people you like that you did actually send the link and its not going to melt their computer.
I agree, but is not my point. My point is that everyone seems to be focusing on Apple like their the only company using Foxconn to assemble their products and because of Apple their work conditions are horrible. Many of the major tech companies in the world are customers for this same company and probably have similar working conditions. The groups trying to report on this story come off like they are hell-bent on vilifying Apple like they are the cause of their poor conditions (compared to US standards) because they have the big name recognition, when in reality its exactly the same as what many other companies are doing, including their biggest competitors. Nearly every article I see on it puts Apple in the headline as if Apple owns the factories and Tim Cook himself is over there with a whip at these factories, when the cause of the issue isn't Foxconn's customers, but Foxconn and the society and conditions in China itself.
So what was the reaction of the worker on the Samsung, Amazon, Dell, Sony, Nokia, Nintendo, Cisco, Barnes & Noble, HP, Intel, IBM, Microsoft, and Acer lines when shown their respective products that they put together?
Does anyone else look at that picture and think "DS9 wormhole mid-openning"? I did at first glance and thought this was going to be some wacko seriously suggesting wormhole aliens were the key to it.
For the record...Moe's is AWESOME! Its on the weekly rounds for restaurants we hit up at lunch at work. Found out later it was actually started in Atlanta by a friend from high school's dad after I fell in love with eating there.
Its a lot like Chipotle, but with a bit more selection for ingredients. Moe's has more variety and is great. Chipotle tends to have a bit more kick to it, but not as many options.
Because, I'm pretty sure, that this is still the internet. That's what we do.
That GridIt board is one of those simple, but genius, things I really wish I had thought of before them. Just ordered 2 as presents for my Dad and sister who's birthdays are later this month :) No idea where exactly they'll use it but I'm sure they'll come up with a million uses for it. Thanks! Made my birthday shopping for them super easy!
How is the port obsolete? I believe that is a cross section of the wire in the picture. They could still use the same connector on the computer, but a different one on the device. Worst case it would mean a new cable and new device, if I understand it all correctly.
I think the 720 thing is a limitation of the video output capabilities on the A4 processor on the Apple TV hardware, not the AirPlay software. I'll bet that if you up it to the A5 processor, it could do 1080
I've seen posters at bars, like in the bathroom in those ads above the urinals, advertising for research participants for very similar things. People participating in high risk behavior like that are surprisingly willing to come forward to help in these things if it means that suddenly their high risk behavior becomes slightly less risky and they can keep going the way they have for longer.
I was looking for the same reference about this. While Google may have been doing this in searches for a while, Apple was doing this well before Google was even around. Whether or not Google did it before the iPhone is immaterial. Its not an iPhone patent. Its Apple's patent for technology they developed in the 1990s and they've had it for well over a decade. Apple's been around for much longer than the iPhone has.
While its not perfect, it's still one hell of a step in the right direction. I'm impressed by it. Can't wait to see the perfection of the tech and the practical implementations
"How Apple got record companies to sign off on this is a mystery to me."
Because they pointed out to the music industry that before this they would be getting zero money for songs downloaded illegally, or from legitimately purchased songs now in MP3 format. Now, there is at least some money coming in from people trying to use a cloud service to sync these songs that they never would have had before while providing a useful service to people.
Because they pointed out to the music industry that before this they would be getting zero money for songs downloaded illegally, or from legitimately purchased songs now in MP3 format. Now, there is at least some money coming in from people trying to use a cloud service to sync these songs that they never would have had before while providing a useful service to people.
Some people actually prefer to have hardware buttons. They also open up extra screen real-estate since they don't have to be present on the screen. Just because they CAN do without them doesn't make it not designed for it because they keep them.
Interesting idea...I would use them if I had them...however I have some concerns about getting rid of ALL paper $1s...
A. What about the extra cost in fuel to transport these coins all over the place instead of the paper? 500 $1 bills are lighter (and possibly take up less space, guess it would depend on the size and shape of the coin) than 500 coins.
B. What about the rise in healthcare costs from treating all of the show performers (strippers, drag queens/kings, lounge singers) who gets knocked unconscious by all of these coins after hearing "MAKE IT RAIN!!"?
A. What about the extra cost in fuel to transport these coins all over the place instead of the paper? 500 $1 bills are lighter (and possibly take up less space, guess it would depend on the size and shape of the coin) than 500 coins.
B. What about the rise in healthcare costs from treating all of the show performers (strippers, drag queens/kings, lounge singers) who gets knocked unconscious by all of these coins after hearing "MAKE IT RAIN!!"?
So...its a fancy poncho with a hat?
Abnormally large single celled organisms? Anyone else thinking we just discovered Metroids in real life?
So they can pull them back in later this season to get some help with the Leviathans.
For practical use though for the majority of the world, how many people have perfect 20/20 vision and what distance to most people hold their devices when using them normally (like when they aren't trying to count the pixels).
I definitely don't have 20/20 vision and typically hold my phone about 2-3 feet away from my eyes when using it. It varies of course depending on what is comfortable for my position at the moment, but when trying to focus on it, its gets difficult to somewhere within the 1 ft - 2 ft range. At that range someone with very good vision MIGHT be able to barely differentiate between the pixels of the retina display if they are trying to, but most of the time you're not going to notice.
A 6" screen, as described in this article would most likely be used in a tablet-like device. Even less likely to be holding that close to your face that close (would you really use an iPad or any other tablet right up next to your face like that in normal use?) meaning the higher pixel density would become irrelevant except when trying to see the difference between the pixels.
The higher density is a great achievement by science and technology and being able to say we can do it. However using a 500 PPI display in a device would have about the same benefit to the consumer as using a lower quality display around 300 PPI, and end up just increasing the price and using up more processing power and battery power for the sake of saying "we have a bigger PPI" since most people wouldn't notice a difference 99% of the time.
I definitely don't have 20/20 vision and typically hold my phone about 2-3 feet away from my eyes when using it. It varies of course depending on what is comfortable for my position at the moment, but when trying to focus on it, its gets difficult to somewhere within the 1 ft - 2 ft range. At that range someone with very good vision MIGHT be able to barely differentiate between the pixels of the retina display if they are trying to, but most of the time you're not going to notice.
A 6" screen, as described in this article would most likely be used in a tablet-like device. Even less likely to be holding that close to your face that close (would you really use an iPad or any other tablet right up next to your face like that in normal use?) meaning the higher pixel density would become irrelevant except when trying to see the difference between the pixels.
The higher density is a great achievement by science and technology and being able to say we can do it. However using a 500 PPI display in a device would have about the same benefit to the consumer as using a lower quality display around 300 PPI, and end up just increasing the price and using up more processing power and battery power for the sake of saying "we have a bigger PPI" since most people wouldn't notice a difference 99% of the time.
I wish they would improve the picture portion. I get the idea of photo stream, though I don't want to use it personally, but there could be a lot of potential with just a little work. My thoughts of what to add:
A) iPhoto for Windows. A better photo management software for windows users. Right now all we have is to manually create folders and point iTunes at it. Integrate it into iTunes if needed, but something just for photo album, event, location management. They've needed this for years.
B) Bring back the MobileMe gallery. Was my favorite part of MobileMe.
C) Sync albums/events/etc between the iOS Photos App, iPhoto (windows and mac), and the iCloud Gallery. Allow users to specify what albums are synced, what are private and/or requires passwords in the gallery and what shows up in the main album list (like the MobileMe gallery did).
Gives the users a good, easy way to manage photos between multiple devices, share with friends on the web, and keep their privacy.
A) iPhoto for Windows. A better photo management software for windows users. Right now all we have is to manually create folders and point iTunes at it. Integrate it into iTunes if needed, but something just for photo album, event, location management. They've needed this for years.
B) Bring back the MobileMe gallery. Was my favorite part of MobileMe.
C) Sync albums/events/etc between the iOS Photos App, iPhoto (windows and mac), and the iCloud Gallery. Allow users to specify what albums are synced, what are private and/or requires passwords in the gallery and what shows up in the main album list (like the MobileMe gallery did).
Gives the users a good, easy way to manage photos between multiple devices, share with friends on the web, and keep their privacy.
