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.
Easy payment is something we need to improve on. Online payment needs to become more accesible. We've got Google Checkout, PayPal, credit cards,... but they're all just proxies to where my money is (bank account). They all need to be set up and not every site accepts them, requiring you to join another system.
Plus on different parts of the world some of them might not even be available to you at all.
I wish banks worldwide would work together to create a fast and reliable online wire transfer protocol. (fast, solid API to verify payments,...)
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.
There is no reason that iPad software won't be as sophisticated as current desktop applications like Excel.
Yes there is. Apple seems pretty intent on keeping their policy of forbidding interpreters, plug-ins, virtual machines and the like. To really be as sophisticated as Excel, a program must include a scripting language and extension mechanism. That's not to say that a spreadsheet without those features isn't just as useful to most users, but it certainly isn't as sophisticated.
Apple may, of course ignore the rules it requires third-party developers to live under when building its own software.
> There is no reason that iPad software won't be as sophisticated as current desktop applications like Excel.
Only if you consider the fact that both are computers and theoretically capable of running any arbitrary code.
Also factor in the new way of using a computer (via touchscreen). Will that work out? Consider the fact that Apple has a tight control on apps and development. How will the amount of innovation fostered by each system compare?
When you consider those things, you'll realize the argument is not on whether or not the iPad is capable of replacing the software but on whether or not the iPad's design and platform can be a viable alternative to the way we use computers. Because, theoretically any computer is capable of replicating software capabilities.
Consider the Mac vs PC battle. The Mac is capable of doing pretty much everything your PC does, but why does it have less market penetration? Consider the various factors to that.
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.
I think the idea is that they still store details but it makes it much easier to pick them up afterwards. With a traditional skimmer you maybe have to remove it to get at the juicy stolen details which is a whole load of extra risk vs. just walking by with a laptop.
I doubt anyone is waiting in a parked car across the street having details streamed to them in real time, you never know though...
Where does that leave us? Where does that leave Emerson? I guess one could be an apologist and focus on "foolish," but that turns the quote into, "Consistency is bad, except when it isn't."
Why do people even care about random quotes from a crazy transcendentalist? Just because something is old and sounds profound doesn't mean it's correct.
Foolishness is part of a foolish consistency. A well-reasoned consistency is nobody's hobgoblin. This is not, of course, to say that well-reasoned consistency precludes foolish consistency in other areas.
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.
