yeah sure, like apple would allow you to use their magical iPad with magical OS with magical Apps to use it as a real computer.

Exactly what Jobs needed, another excuse to bloat his ego.

Who are his potential buyers, if no one reads, as he claims?

If you ever wiped a raid in World of Warcraft, you'll believe this guy, those guys can get really scary, specially when they found out you did it on purpose just to see what the "fear button" did :P


Believe me there is nothing more scary than 24 angry players with huge repair bills, and no epic loot.....

I have the exact same question.

I want to develop a small iPhone applications, I dont have a mac to develop nor an iPhone (I want to build apps for friends, family).

What is the approximate cost or investment I need to start developing?, cause the article mentioned around $20,000 which I don't think it applies to the applications I'm planning, but for starting who much will it be?

Why would we use a very expensive robot to do menial work that a human with minimum wage can do?

No, the ones that should be worried are the ones that their work could not only be replaced but improved by a robot, see lets say some architect which has a huge salary, a robot with his abilities would replace him and save money for the company.

I think that when that happens humans will be the ones doing the menial work, not robots

Human computing has nothing to do with computer computing, you can not and should not try to compare them on the same branch

Why? because human computing its not based on producing the best and optimal result, it produces a set of results that are likely to be right. You could link every single one computer in the world and still you wouldn't have the same computing power.

Exactly this behavior is what AI is studying, because in most cases finding the optimal solution using the traditional ways its impossible on a short time, but maybe we dont need the optimal solution, just one good enough for the purpose.

Take for example walking, the human brain does not compute the movement of each step precisely, it only says "ok this step is good enough for not falling", and sometimes very few times we fall, or trip, why? because of that non optimal solution, yet those non optimal solutions solve the problem very well and could be applied for most of our actions.

Computing power has nothing to do with AI, important yes but not crucial to AI, there are things that are better solved using computing power than AI (like complex calculations), and there are other problems that are only solved by AI

actually you don't even need a robot to replace some menial work.....
A lot of works could be replaced by a simple script, since most work are just some modification or a repeating task

We are investigating robots in order to reproduce the hardwork that requires thinking, so that the discovery and generation of knowledge becomes faster and of better quality, replacing the human work, will only be a happy consequence

Well the basic idea they are trying to sell when using java is the multiplatform capability, you know code for one, use everywhere..... Which is a total lie.....

Having coded and released applications for Blackberry, Nokia, and other java based platform I know that in order for your application to get the best of the phone you need to use the specific API of each vendor, so at the end you must have very different code for each platform....

So if you are loosing the multiplatform code, then I see no actual reason to use java, and maybe change for a faster and more efficient languaje.

LOL I know but it has hdmi port (which isn't common on a laptop on my country), and was of perfect size for playing WoW everywhere

Actually this problem actually happened to me, I updated my HP notebook from Vista to windows 7 and within a week it told me my battery was useless, to be honest it never occurred to me that it could be a problem with the OS, specially since days later the video card melted, so the battery problem didn't seem that important compared to the dead video card :(, still saving to fix that laptop, i really liked it

Actually I do see a need for multiple apps, since its more a browser experience (or at least that how they sell it), I would like to enter a webpage and while it loads maybe go to some other app and return to the webpage fully loaded, I dont think thats possible without multi tasking.

And enough already of the HTML5 fairy tales, yes we all know HTML5 is the future, as we all know IPv6 is the future, still, you can't possibly hope that all the web pages with flash content are going to redesign them on a short lapse of time, I think flash is going to remain with us for a long of time, its never going to die, period.

I mean the iPad would be perfect for the little flash games, just imagine Farmville of facebook (over 75.2 million active users), or most facebook flash apps.

ahh but you only compared specifications of the iPad, a real comparisson would also include:
Acer:
external USB compatible (usb, hdd, etc)
real web experience
videocam
real OS
multitasking
and endless choice of applications.

Then the 2x battery life doesn't seem that important (specially with some netbooks achieving almost 7hours of battery life)

Linus still a normal guy who decides what to use if he likes it, hes not concerned if its propietary or free (i liked a lot his review on his linksys router), hes not a troll like Stallman who surfs the web using terminal lol

you dont have to care, he just gave his opinion like you are giving it right now.