Would the rumoured/anticipated Tablet be a full Mac OS X system?
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From: Doc O'Leary on 23 Dec 2009 13:11 In article <dfritzin-67DD12.19104722122009(a)news.eternal-september.org>, David Fritzinger <dfritzin(a)nospamtome.hotmail.com> wrote: > In article <paul.nospam-A5BCBA.15005322122009(a)pbook.sture.ch>, > Paul Sture <paul.nospam(a)sture.ch> wrote: > > > In article <timmcn-450039.19093621122009(a)news-2.mpls.iphouse.net>, > > Tim McNamara <timmcn(a)bitstream.net> wrote: > > > > > In article <m2ws0gp3ed.fsf(a)revier.com>, Jochem Huhmann <joh(a)gmx.net> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > Maybe, but don't be surprised if what you get is an oversized iPhone > > > > with an OS based on the iPhone OS. > > > > > > I think that is probably more likely than a full OS X installation. I > > > want one that is 8.5 x 11" or A4 size so that I can digitize all my > > > music lead sheets and just take that to gigs and rehearsals instead of a > > > pile of fake books. > > > > Ditto. I want one which displays an A4 page properly - in other words at > > 90� to the orientation of traditional computer screens, but for movies > > still works in "landscape mode". > > > > I actually saw this on a dumb terminal some 20 years ago. You could use it > > like a normal 24 x 80 terminal but when you rotated the screen it > > automatically switched to 66 x 132 for reading computer listings. > > I know Radius made a monitor for Macs that did the same thing, sometime > back in the late '80s or early '90s, I think. Essentially every Mac should do this now; look at the Displays preference for a Rotate menu. A common prank is to set someone's screen to 180 degrees when they're away. -- My personal UDP list: 127.0.0.1, localhost, googlegroups.com, ono.com, and probably your server, too.
From: Wes Groleau on 23 Dec 2009 16:31 Doc O'Leary wrote: > preference for a Rotate menu. A common prank is to set someone's screen > to 180 degrees when they're away. A common prank in the 1980's in shops where people used X-windows and didn't secure their X-servers was to screen-shot their display and redisplay the image offset so they were clicking the wrong spot. Another was to make the display look like stuff on it was melting. -- Wes Groleau Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire! http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/rulings/pants-fire/
From: Wes Groleau on 23 Dec 2009 16:33 Wes Groleau wrote: > Jochem Huhmann wrote: >> Desktop operating systems are just wrong for such devices. This was a >> major reason why tablet PCs were such a failure. What Apple is aiming at > > Failure? Could it be that _some_ of them were a failure because > the UI sucked? Looks to me like the Motion Computing device did well. > > The Modbook seems good, too, though I can't get my hands on one to be > sure of it. I borrowed a Classmate Companion for my wife to try. Looked good in the reviews, but in real-life, the user interface sucks. On top of that, it is Windows. -- Wes Groleau What if not everyone uses an expression? What then? http://Ideas.Lang-Learn.us/barrett?itemid=1552
From: Wes Groleau on 23 Dec 2009 16:42 Fred Moore wrote: > they're gunna head for the border. Gimme a Day Timer so I can feel the > crisp solidity of wood fiber between my fingers and a Bic pen that > writes in REAL ink." I tried unsuccessfully for at least a decade to use a Franklin Day Planner. I learned that such tools only help people who are already organized. Electronic versions have the exact same flaw as the paper ones--if you forget an appointment or task, something you don't remember to look at will not help. BUT, the electronic ones have a slight advantage--they make noise to help you remember to look at them. (Assuming you remembered to write in the appointment or task) > Well, now you have the ultimate argument to which I have no rebuttal. A > 100,000 apps is damn impressive. And so many of them are not only > exquisite time wasters, they're FREE! But even if you have the four hundred dollar model (32 GB) you can't possibly FIT ten percent of those apps into it. Then again, you don't need 75 apps that do the same thing--unless of course you're fourteen years old and that "thing" is making fart sounds. [1] [1] 75 is a guess. I couldn't be bothered to count them even if it were easy to do. -- Wes Groleau Hostility to TPRS http://Ideas.Lang-Learn.us/barrett?itemid=1596
From: nospam on 23 Dec 2009 17:28
In article <hgu2rv$fr8$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Wes Groleau <Groleau+news(a)FreeShell.org> wrote: > > Well, now you have the ultimate argument to which I have no rebuttal. A > > 100,000 apps is damn impressive. And so many of them are not only > > exquisite time wasters, they're FREE! > > But even if you have the four hundred dollar model (32 GB) you can't > possibly FIT ten percent of those apps into it. a substantial number of apps are around 1 meg (or less), which means you could fit about 30,000 apps on a 32 gig device, or roughly 25% of all of the apps. if you select smaller apps you can load quite a bit more. good luck with remembering the names of all the apps you installed :) > Then again, you > don't need 75 apps that do the same thing--unless of course you're > fourteen years old and that "thing" is making fart sounds. [1] > > [1] 75 is a guess. I couldn't be bothered to count them > even if it were easy to do. appshopper.com returns 559 hits for a search on 'fart'. that may seem like a lot, but it's only 0.41% based on appshopper's 137516 approved apps. a search for 'battery' returns 1000 (i suspect that's the limit of the search). now that apps on the 3.x firmware can read the battery level, everyone is writing a battery application. some are pretty good and some are horrible. |