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From: Mark on 23 May 2010 05:38
On Sat, 22 May 2010 11:40:06 +0100, Jon wrote
(in article <ht8ca6$2ok$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>):

> On 22/05/2010 10:36am, Rob wrote:
>> On 21/05/2010 18:27, SteveH wrote:
>>> Rob<patchoulianREMOVE(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 21/05/2010 17:17, SteveH wrote:
>>>>> Pd<peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>> snip
>>>>>
>>>>> Amusingly, the combination of Nokia and I assume Windows makes
>>>>> transferring photos from his phone to his computer 'painful'.
>>>>>
>>>>> Should have bought a Mac and an iPhone....
>>>>
>>>> Actually, you say that - is there a way to do it
>>>> wirelessly/bluetoothable?
>>>
>>> Yes - Bluetooth, you can browse most phones from the Mac.
>>>
>>
>> Ah, OK. Is there a guide somewhere - blowed if I can figure it out, and
>> seems I''m not alone:
>>
>> http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=11556431&#11556431
>>
>> It's good to know I can browse my iPhone from my Mac, though. If someone
>> could just let me know how!
>>
>>> Or just send via Bluetooth from the phone.
>>
>> Again, I just don't see it - I have email/MMS options only.
>>
>> Thanks, Rob
>>
> PhoneView (shareware) is the best way via USB, Apple should have
> provided a tool like this from day one.
>
> http://www.ecamm.com/mac/phoneview/
>
>

Also DiskAid and iPhone Explorer

<http://www.digidna.net/products/diskaid>

<http://www.macroplant.com/iphoneexplorer/>

Cheers ... Mark

From: Rowland McDonnell on 23 May 2010 12:13
Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote:

> Jaimie Vandenbergh said:
>
> > It's the last bit that throws me - choosing Java and .NET as managed
> > environments strikes me as the wrong choice of examples. But
> > otherwise, sure - building managed environments is one of several
> > things that Apple does pretty well. I don't see any problem with that,
> > though the lunatic fringe of the OSS movement certainly would.
>
> I can't see Apple needing to do that. They've managed switching from
> 68000 to PowerPC to Intel relatively painlessly, and wouldn't see any
> benefit from having any kind of architecture-neutral virtual machine.

The future involves more ISAs, more flex in CPU design, more diversity
than we have had lately.

Apple has computers which run on ARM CPUs, for example (call 'em iPhones
and iPods and iPads).

Intel developed - a while back - a huge CPU array containing dozens of
CPUs, not all the same. The point was to work out how to use such a
device, mind - turns out to be a tricky one, that. At least with
current tech...

Programming graphics cards involves a different ISA, sortathing.

It's all getting more diverse, and the software must be able to exploit
this diversity if it's to be any damned use.

There will come a time when it'll all start to get platform-independent,
when porting will start to become more trivial, when one will `just be
able to run software, on whatever'. Ish, within limits, etc.

And Apple will be in the van. At least, Apple will /probably/ be in the
van, if that line of development looks to Apple management to be a go-er
from the point of view of what Apple management wants to do. Which it
might be.

Rowland.

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From: Sak Wathanasin on 24 May 2010 04:09
On 21 May, 16:58, pe...(a)cara.demon.co.uk (Peter Ceresole) wrote:
> Pd <peterd.n...(a)gmail.invalid> wrote:
> > Nobody *needs* a computer - what about
> > pen and paper, and an abacus?
>
> Until I got older, I used a 'brain'.

Did you catch "Upgrade Me" on BBC 4? "Poet and gadget lover Simon
Armitage explores people's obsession with upgrading to the latest
technological gadgetry." Still available in iPlayer.
From: Peter Ceresole on 24 May 2010 04:22
Sak Wathanasin <sw(a)nan.co.uk> wrote:

> Did you catch "Upgrade Me" on BBC 4? "Poet and gadget lover Simon
> Armitage explores people's obsession with upgrading to the latest
> technological gadgetry." Still available in iPlayer.

Thank you. Sounds like fun.
--
Peter
From: whisky-dave on 24 May 2010 08:34

"Peter Ceresole" <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:1jiupcw.187r96r11lc7jjN%peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk...
> Pd <peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid> wrote:
>
>> Nobody *needs* a computer - what about
>> pen and paper, and an abacus?
>
> Until I got older, I used a 'brain'.

I had an 8 inch floppy, thenn it went down to 5 1/4 inches
then 3/12 inches and now it's the size of my thumb !.

>
> Nothing much left, these days. So now I use a Palm TX.

and you should see the size shinkage in external storage devices
over the years ;-0



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