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I might be able to use Hype for a client project to replace a Flash animation. But I need to know what versions of Internet Explorer that Hype animations will work with (most likely using explorercanvas). I couldn't find browser compatibility information on the website.
iPad might enable a paid content model that works. It has a frictionless payment system that handles small transactions. iPhone OS offers more robust interaction capabilities than web technology.
Most importantly, the public is accustomed to paying for apps. Paid content doesn't work on the web because people expect it to be free. Consumers view apps as objects, more like books or magazines, which they expect to pay for.
There is no reason that iPad software won't be as sophisticated as current desktop applications like Excel. What makes iPad really interesting to me is that we may be able to invent new ways to interact with software. The iWork (Numbers) demo in the iPad keynote shows some possibilities directly relevant to your point about Excel.
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If the skimmers transmitted the stolen data via Bluetooth, wouldn't the receiver have to be within 30 feet? That would seem to make it easy to track down.
If "a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds", where does that leave us?
If this story was actually about an "error over data on rising sea levels", it would be interesting. It's only a minor factual mistake that is easily checked and corrected.
The important story is that the change in sea level rolls up many other effects into a single indicator of the extent of global warming, and that sea level is rising faster than IPCC models predict.
Where's the expanded multitouch gesture vocabulary from the FingerWorks technology they acquired? That would have made iPad special. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1041628
Over the weekend, Flurry detected iPhone apps with their analytics embedded running on a device with a tablet-sized screen. That makes it very likely the tablet is running iPhone OS.
This article has the first evidence I've seen that the Apple tablet will have a large gesture vocabulary. It will be derived from the FingerWorks technology that Apple acquired in 2007. I used the FingerWorks keyboard for a year. The gestures were highly productive, and I've been hoping they would end up in the Apple tablet.
Wow, this is great! Worth paying for even though KeePassX is free.
It's not a "toy", it's a "minimum viable product".
Does anyone know if the speech recognition for text fields is done onboard the phone, or uploaded to Google?
I find the new Swype soft keyboard is much faster on Droid than the hardware keyboard or any of the other soft keyboards. It's even faster the best hardware keyboard I have used, the Treo 650. Swype takes an entirely new approach of tracing over the keys instead of pressing them.
http://www.androidcentral.com/download-beta-version-swype-an...
For kicking the tires on Android development, you can use the emulator.
Pages like this will be so much better when we have MathML in the browser and can stop using fuzzy images for mathematical formulas.
A good example of a "hybrid book" is the free physics textbook Motion Mountain (http://www.motionmountain.net/). It includes many animations, videos, and links.
Android apps can be self-signed and published in the Android Market.
"The only way the iPhone-on-Verizon scenario comes about in the near future is if Apple changes tactics and makes a second, CDMA-compatible version of the iPhone."
This is the weakness in Apple's strategy that Android can exploit, by having many models from multiple handset manufacturers. It won't last for long, though.
This plan is so unlikely that I wonder if the company is a scam. The company website has more details at http://www.interorbital.com.
They will send a crew on the first test flight of their new launcher. They are reckless. You test a new launch system in steps instead of trying to integrate everything on the first try. The launcher only takes 1000 kg to LEO. How will that accomodate an (also untested) crew capsule?
They are selling moon rocks too--from their upcoming lunar sample return mission.
It's fun to see the good names it comes up with--except almost none of them are dot com names. I wonder whether a dot com name is really so essential anymore. Unless your marketing relies on print or word of mouth, your traffic will come from links, where the text of the domain name doesn't matter. Hmmm, I can't quite bring myself to believe it...
If you do register a name from this site, be sure to click the Learn More link on the Google domain registration page. It will give you the option of choosing the registrar.
There's also a link at the end of the page to a similar list of OS X commands on the same site: http://ss64.com/osx/.
The best thing that ever happened to my handwriting was learning to keep up with my real analysis professor, who filled one blackboard after another. It forced the kinds of efficiencies described in the article.
Their book is available from the publisher, Allport Editions, at half the best price on Amazon.
It will be interesting to see how well this works. I developed a desktop check scanning application in 2007. We needed good quality scans to make the OCR work reliably. USAA has got to be getting high exception rates with this app, especially with the fixed focus cameras on iPhones before the 3GS.
With Bluetooth in the tablet, you can have a keyboard and mouse when you want them.
David Mindell gives more details of the AGC rope core memory in his book Digital Apollo. The software was stored in the wiring pattern, not in the cores themselves. The MIT programmers had to deliver final code three to four months before each mission. That turned out to be an advantage because "risky last minute changes of the program just before the flight were physically prevented," according to program director David Hoag.
The engineers at Grumman went to extraordinary lengths to trim weight from the Lunar Module so that its single ascent engine could boost it from the lunar surface. The book Moon Lander by chief engineer Thomas J. Kelly tells the story.
The flag was extended by a wire along the top.
Tesla told his story to the author of "Prodigal Genius" (1944), who wrote: "What Tesla had discovered was a means of creating a rotating magnetic field, a magnetic whirlwind in space which possessed fantastically new and intriguing properties...It was not necessary for him to construct models of copper and iron: in his mental workshop he constructed them in wide variety...The mental constructs were built with meticulous care as concerned size, strength, design and material; and they were tested mentally, he maintained, by having them run for weeks-after which time he would examine them thoroughly for signs of wear."
The full text of "Prodigal Genius", a somewhat hagiographic but still fascinating biography of Tesla, is online at http://www.rastko.rs/istorija/tesla/oniell-tesla.html.
More details here: http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/archos-announces-archos9-...