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From: nospam on 28 Jan 2010 21:52 In article <000a75f7$0$2258$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot(a)vaxination.ca> wrote: > > because it makes absolutely no sense. for example, desktop apps assume > > a mouse and cursor and there is no mouse or cursor. > > Not quite this. Desktop apps process events. Some are keydown and key > release events, some are mouse movements, so are mouse clicks. > > A virtual keyboard can generate those events. And a finger press on the > screen can generate a mouse down event for the widget undert it suchj as > a button). but there is no cursor, so there's no need for a mouse. you directly touch the button or object.
From: isw on 28 Jan 2010 23:42 In article <C7878C14.487188%bobhaar(a)me.com>, Robert Haar <bobhaar(a)me.com> wrote: > On 1/28/10 6:38 AM, "Tom Stiller" <tom_stiller(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > > > In article <280120100305043376%nospam(a)nospam.invalid>, > > nospam <nospam(a)nospam.invalid> wrote: > > > >> In article <4b6140f0$0$1965$742ec2ed(a)news.sonic.net>, Kevin McMurtrie > >> <mcmurtrie(a)pixelmemory.us> wrote: > >> > >>> Making a larger iPhone that runs on > >>> any GSM network as long as it's AT&T is just pissing customers off. > >> > >> except for it being unlocked and no contract required, pay as you go, > >> cancel at any time. > > > > And it's not a phone. > > But Skype would turn it into one - not that the form factor makes it > convenient. Were you planning on holding it up to your ear? 8^} Just get a Bluetooth earbud. Isaac
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Per_R=F8nne?= on 28 Jan 2010 23:48 Nick Naym <nicknaym@_remove_this_gmail.com.invalid> wrote: > In article 1jd0vmp.n918mdfmgmk3N%per(a)RQNNE.invalid, Per R�nne at > per(a)RQNNE.invalid wrote on 1/28/10 3:30 AM: > > Kevin McMurtrie <mcmurtrie(a)pixelmemory.us> wrote: > >> The iPhone was revolutionary because it made a pocket-sized touch-screen > >> both elegant and commonplace. Making an iPhone bigger is not impressive > >> and maybe even counter-productive. Making a larger iPhone that runs on > >> any GSM network as long as it's AT&T is just pissing customers off. > > > > Most GSM networks don't run AT&T, and they run the iPhone perfectly > > well. Don't mistake the US for the world ... > > Viewing the world and its problems through US-centric glasses is a > self-centered cultural habit we've gotten into...we have a difficult time > understanding why the rest of the world doesn't adopt/conform to our > obviously superior socio-political-economic norms and values. I guess they had the same self-centered cultural habit in Rome a couple of millenia ago :-). BTW, do you know that they had tablets in Rome too? They used the word 'tabula' [hence 'tablet'] and they were small plates with vax the size of an iPad that you could write easily erasable notes on. -- Per Erik R�nne http://www.RQNNE.dk Errare humanum est, sed in errore perseverare turpe
From: Fred Moore on 29 Jan 2010 11:49 In article <015b3b11$0$20820$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot(a)vaxination.ca> wrote: > Martin Trautmann wrote: > > > No, it doesn't. It may share some parts with OS-X. But which univeral > > binaries do you know which do run both on a MacBook and an iPhone? > > Apple simply needs to compile a version of Rosetta for ARM and which > emulates 64 bit 8086s. This way, you could run Intel OS-X apps on your iPaD. > > So you could run the OS-X Rosetta that emulates PPC over Intel, over the > the IpAd Rosetta which emulates Intel on Arm :-) (You could then run > SheepShaver which could emulate MacOs on PPC, and that MacOS has the > built in 68k emulator :-) Oh YES! Then I can run my Amiga and even my Commodore emulators on top of that and have a REAL gaming machine. What's you say the clock speed was? ;)
From: Robert Haar on 29 Jan 2010 12:31
On 1/28/10 11:42 PM, "isw" <isw(a)witzend.com> wrote: > In article <C7878C14.487188%bobhaar(a)me.com>, > Robert Haar <bobhaar(a)me.com> wrote: > >> On 1/28/10 6:38 AM, "Tom Stiller" <tom_stiller(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >> >>> In article <280120100305043376%nospam(a)nospam.invalid>, >>> nospam <nospam(a)nospam.invalid> wrote: >>> >>>> In article <4b6140f0$0$1965$742ec2ed(a)news.sonic.net>, Kevin McMurtrie >>>> <mcmurtrie(a)pixelmemory.us> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Making a larger iPhone that runs on >>>>> any GSM network as long as it's AT&T is just pissing customers off. >>>> >>>> except for it being unlocked and no contract required, pay as you go, >>>> cancel at any time. >>> >>> And it's not a phone. >> >> But Skype would turn it into one - not that the form factor makes it >> convenient. > > Were you planning on holding it up to your ear? 8^} No, but I'd like phone that I can carry with me easily without a brief case. I don't have pockets big enough for the iPad. Although I might carry it around the house. |