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supercharger network is still proprietary
Tesla opened up their patents but I doubt current non-Tesla electric cars can actually be charged by them without over-heating.
I also doubt they will just let anyone use their superchargers because they are currently paying the power bill... but you'd have to be on the pay from some dubious source to turn this fact into anti-tesla spin.
a testament to the potential dangers of nuclear power.
A list to remind us of the real dangers of coal power: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_coal_mining_accidents_i...
If something goes wrong with the precision manoeuvres on the way to the ISS, you can get long delays while the orbit is adjusted: http://www.space.com/20030-spacex-dragon-space-capsule-probl... I kinda wish they showed off a toilet :P
Apple hasn't had trouble selling 27"/30" Displays and iMacs before, if they can handle those, they can handle a HDTV display. An Apple TV Set just needs two things:
1. Input ZERO for Airplay. When you airplay a video from your phone/iPad, the TV turns on automatically and starts playing the video without you having to find the crappy TV and receiver remotes and switching to the right input.
2. The ability to upgrade easily by just plugging in a new $99 puck whenever you want to take advantage of a new service that requires more processing speed.
He was talking about driving the interface. The iPad has been designed from the ground up with capactive touch so that you can navigate an iPad with your fingers. Adding a pen digitiser changes nothing.
You clearly have never read the comic in question and have jumped on the band wagon. In no way was it a rape joke. Please show me how it was a joke about rape? I'm not a penny arcade fan but people who say that the original strip is a "rape joke" are the ones responsible for why the dickwolves saga will never be put behind us. You are perpetuating a myth that the original comic was a rape joke and in doing so are empowering rape culture.
Yes, I felt a bit ill during the first day but I have since got used to it. However, I think it's mainly because I've subconsciously learnt to not pay attention during the animations.
The iPad has already mastered touch tableting. Adding a digitiser does not change that.
Everyone uses a pen.
The iPhone 5, 4s, 4 etc has sold out too, despite not having one.
The iPhone 4 added a gyroscope, the 4s added a better microphones and associated audio chipset to improve speech recognition. The iPhone 5 added support for Airdrop. Following your logic then Apple really has no excuse not to add features like a digitiser because they will sell out anyway.
They did it because it enables some things
Yes, and a pen digitiser and palm rejection enables reliable note taking, annotation and illustration.
the technology doesn't offer much outside of that market (designers, painters and painting enthusiasts etc) That's like saying that only journalists and novel writers need a keyboard, only photographers need a camera. The success of the iPad over traditional laptops has come from a natural way to interact with things directly like they do in real life. In real life people use pens everyday to jot things down.
If it was, Surface would have faired better too. What? The Surface does not have a pen. Only the Surface pro which is $400 more expensive than an iPad and doesn't run iOS.
makes nothing easier, except drawing
Exactly. Drawing includes illustration and annotation. Two things that make communicating faster and easier. As the old saying goes, a picture paints a thousand words.
The market for fingerprint readers for smart phones was almost nothing. Just look at the motorola atrix. Now Apple has added a fingerprint scanner and integrated it purely to make it slightly easier to log into your phone, and the iPhone 5s has sold out.
If Apple added proper pen support with palm rejection software APIs to an iPad, you'll bet that people will still buy iPads. Mums will use pens to annotate their extension plans for their new house, maps to the park for child birthdays. Kids will use the pen to become better illustrators which will help them be better communicators later in life. Uni students will use pens to jot down notes quickly and draw math equations with ease.
The pen on a tablet is not a niche. The Surface Pro is a niche product.
Ideally, when you wake up in the morning, a great podcast app will open with an auto-generated playlist featuring your favourite podcasts that have new episodes released for that day, already downloaded and ready to go.
If you can't just press play on your podcast app and jump in your car or on your treadmill and have it play something you want to listen to without having to micro manage it beforehand, it's not a great podcast app.
I know of no podcast apps that can do this yet. So there is a lot of work to do in this field.
Proton's failure rate is concerning given that it is meant to deliver the last major segment of the ISS at the end of this year.
Is this a serious thought out comment or a joke?
Even coal powered electric plants are far more efficient than an ICE. So they are a cheaper source of fuel for the consumer and are putting out less C02. They are also far away from populated cities so the pollution isn't choking up the air in the city.
"Gas" powered cars are terrible. They choke up the roads with smog, they require way too much maintenance and they can't be fuelled with solar, wind or nuclear or other sustainable fuel sources.
The system only works if it's round trip
Why?
Are you kidding me? At 1m15s you can actually see the stars behind her.
Using the latest DSLRs you can film under moonlight now.
What we need is lower noise.
> We always have to support HTML5 because so much of our traffic comes from email
Because LinkedIn are spamming scum.
Upvote for you sir! Exactly, you don't need a stylus to run the Win8 UI. A touch interface should be designed with a finger as the primary interface in ind, which was what Jobs was talking about.
A Pen is just an additional tool to make the tablet experience better in various use cases, just like a bluetooh keyboard.
Since they will be shipping just before the Christmas sales period, at the earliest... They have a whole 6 months or more to reveal further details and keep interest high.
This Sony "meeting" was a vast improvement over the PS Vita launch which was all about specs, and not games, and that's not what sells game consoles and why the Vita is all but dead as game dev platform.
Putting Jonathon Blow on stage, who is a big critic of Microsoft's support of indie gamers was also great promotion of Sony as the gaming world heads to GDC.
For non-apple standards, this was a great event.
But a much better way would have just been to add a "subscribe" button to podcasts in the itunes store, even if they were still in the music app, (which was once called the "iPod" app). Just as magazines in Newstand are allowed to let users subscribe and download new issues in the background.
Being in the music app also allowed them to be searchable by spotlight, which even gave you a blue indicator of what episode was un-listened.
Yep, podcasts will remain niche if there is no built in support with a home screen app. Just as smartphone apps were niche until apple added the app store on the home screen.
Now if a podcaster wants to tweet "check out my podcast" with a link, they have to preface it by saying "make sure you already have a podcast app installed". A lot of friction for users unfamiliar with the medium.
Of course, Apple, even in a built in app, would never add all the features serious podcast listeners would need, so Pocket casts would still healthy exist. In fact, with the increased exposure podcasts would have on the home screen, Pocket casts would have even more people searching for "pro podcast apps".
Now all Pocket Casts has is the chance to compete with a free Apple podcast app tucked away in the app store.
Ok, if someone tweets to you "Check out this cool podcast" and provides a direct link, how many steps does it take for you to subscribe?
So,in the future, iOS will no longer have built in podcast support? iPhone users will now always have to download a separate app to get podcasts?
This is a huge set-back for the podcast medium. There is so much friction convincing potential blue water podcast listeners to subscribe to podcasts.
Haters are going to automatically say "podcasts are a niche, they have a small audience" so who cares? Well, before Apple put in built in support for smart phone apps in iOS with an app store on the home screen. The smartphone app audience was one of the smallest around. Now look at where we are.
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So if one Steam game starts messing up Macs, Apple could pull Valve's certificate and all Steam games would stop running on Macs with the default settings? I guess that just encourages Valve to be careful about what they sell on their store.
It will be interesting to see what Valve decides to do.