Comment Re:The closest you get is... (Score 1) 783
The downside is that there are no access to the local file system.
Ah, but you CAN:
http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/file/filesystem/
The downside is that there are no access to the local file system.
Ah, but you CAN:
http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/file/filesystem/
have you SEEN the way meatware AI operates a car? At least a google driverless car would use its turn signal before suddenly jerking into a turn and trying to kill me on a bike with a right hook.
Speaking of faulty sensors, that's pretty much what goes down when meatware AI has a certain alcohol content. Or uses a cellphone. Or eats fast food. Or puts on makeup. Or deals with newer meatware instances in the back seat. Or looks down to adjust the radio. Or falls alseep. Or is distracted in thought. Or....
a radio host just took a picture of the pictures on the phone's screen with his phone's camera
I like your post, but transistors have basically the same function as their vacuum tube ancestors. They're engineered and optimized to do the same thing, but with less power and more reliability. A change in design, for instance, would be tri-state logic instead of the familiar 1's and 0's of today.
Actually, one thing comes to mind: asynchronous non-clocked cpu's! I heard intel did some experiments with this using their pentium design and made significant improvements in speed and power consumption, but it was probably not practical for their roadmap of future processors. I think that's a good analogy like you are describing.
See more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asynchronous_circuit
Agreed. I was really excited about it when I got it, but I couldn't invite friends, and then later I had invites but they weren't accepting more people temporarily. Then my invites were useful again and no one really cared at that point. They had a brilliant opportunity to usher in a lot of users, thereby making the more serious users happy, and instead they just pissed it away. At least with email I could send to other people with email. With a limited user base of G+ users, I had a better (IMO) platform with a tiny fraction of people from FB, which is to say it wasn't very valuable to me as a user.
If the authorities really wanted to keep things civil, they would do something about the elite minority committing wholesale theft against everyone else in the country. They also might try to uphold constitutionally protected rights, or not pepper spray kettled peaceful protesters in the face, or impose disciplinary action on those who represent them poorly instead of promoting such despicable activity.
I lol'ed at this
I looked into this when I first read about it. Apparently a disproportionate amount of "spontaneous combustion" cases are older people found next to fire places, this man included. I was not able to find details that would rule out an existing fire in the fireplace contributing to the cause, like an absence of ashes. It's speculated that these cases are people who had a stroke or heart attack while warming themselves by the fire, after which a small spark flies out and eventually smolders the entire body.
On the contrary, I view FB as a venue to advertise myself, my thoughts, and my interests to the world around me. I want to create influence, and if I don't want something to be known to FB I (wait for you mind to be blown...) simply don't post it. Amazing!
Oh, and that myth about lemmings committing mass suicide by jumping off of cliffs? That's complete nonsense fabricated for a nature film created by (wait for you mind to be blown a second time...) DISNEY! That's right, you've been successfully misled by MouseCorp/ABC.
You just got chumped, chump.
You do realize that a trackpad is not "touch" as in touchscreen, right?
let's see... on one you are interacting with virtual objects in the device in a touchy way, using a device that emphasizes "touch" using the word "touch" in a literal way. On the other you are doing the exact same thing, but the point of contact is on the screen instead.
You realize that the people in this thread confusing touch interface with the specific implementation of a touch screen are not me, right?
In a lot of ways, a touchpad is just a mouse by any other name. What makes them interesting are more recent developments that allow these "touch" conventions, for instance two-finger scrolling (which I *love*). I never suggested a poor ergonomic setup, nor would I. With a kinect-like thing, a user could just hover their hands over the keyboard and have little transparent hand avatars on the screen. It's the concept that's important, and debating flimsy hypothetical implementations completely misses the point.
I think Jobs is okay. Heck, I even like the guy. But I read between the lines and take what he says with a block of salt. Remember when iPod competitors started having video playback? He played a scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark to poke fun at them and say they were going to the wrong place. Now how many current iPods play video? All of them except the screenless shuffle I think?
I don't recall him saying that touch isn't a viable input method (and no one is providing any links here), but I'd believe that he'd say something like that only to be later contradicted by his own products, as evidenced by what I've quoted earlier.
The OP said "touch interface" and then refers to "touch" as an "input method". The trackpad is described as "multi-touch".
I stand by my statements and provide further evidence of "touch" making its way to the desktop. Look! It's an official apple support page about multi-touch gestures in OSX Lion, one of the big things they were promoting about it: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4721
If you're touching a trackpad (distinct from mousing, which is more using a stick to poke things instead of touching directly), what and where you are touching the interface is largely arbitrary. It's not that crazy to imagine a kinect-like desktop interface being common so that people can touch items in their desktop experience without smudging the screen up with fingerprints.
... it's maybe the ONE thing I agree with Steve Jobs about -- touch does NOT work as a viable input method for a desktop.
He may have said that at some point, but you should know by now that Apple changes the kool-aid they serve every so often. He's even spoken at length about merging iOS concepts into the desktop OSX.
I've copied some text straight from the apple web site for the "Magic Trackpad" that make touch sound like you're no longer cool without it:
"The new Magic Trackpad is the first Multi-Touch trackpad designed to work with your Mac desktop computer."
"And it supports a full set of gestures, giving you a whole new way to control and interact with what’s on your screen."
"Magic Trackpad gives you a whole new way to control what’s on your Mac desktop computer. When you perform gestures, you actually interact with what’s on your screen. You feel closer to your content, and moving around feels completely natural."
Yeah, I sat through the "cat" example and it was annoying to watch. I then searched for some awk examples, and I came up with a page full of "insert title here" entries that were all noise and no signal.
And you can't control the playback apart from starting it. THAT SUCKS! Can't even pause? rewind, move the time cursor or w/e it's called.
This site is *not* ready for public consumption. I really wish it were.
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