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New element-ary, my dear iPad
http://www.youtube.c...tch?v=uPUWbVLzVZI

cordially,
New :-)
"Pictures are better then words because some words are big and hard to understand"
Peter Griffin (Family Guy)
New :-) The poster don't do that, either.
New Re: element-ary, my dear iPad
http://www.youtube.c...g&feature=channel - wow...
Regards,
-scott
Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
New They burned through a bunch of SLR shutters
1/4 million images in 6 weeks to produce the final 3D interactive images.
New Neat. Thanks.
New I think this thing's niche could be education.
Something with video, sound, and tactile manipulation would fit right into how a good number of children learn.
Regards,
-scott
Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
New Yup.
Most mornings I see bunches of little kids walking to elementary school with huge packs on their backs. Something that frees them from lugging textbooks around would be a good thing, too. If Jobs is smart, he'll push the book-reader aspects of this thing really hard.

I just got an e-mail from Theodore singing the praises of his Elements on the iPad. :-)

Cheers,
Scott.
New Wrong solution to that problem
The problem with kids struggling under packs of books is that they're taking home that much work at all.
The research base showed no correlation between academic achievement and homework -- besides reading -- in elementary school, a small benefit in middle school and more for high school.
http://ed.stanford.e...me=notify1&id=580

Even though the objective statistics claim homework in the elementary level has little effect on testing, I'm going to go ahead and describe a subjective benefit that justifies doing it anyway.
http://lrs.ed.uiuc.e...cthome/page5.html

I may have corrected a typo in the highlighted part of that last one.


In other words, no kid under 12 should ever be bringing home books. It doesn't help. Making it easier to carry the books is solving the wrong problem.
--

Drew
New Interesting.
Dunno that I agree, but it's something to think about.

Cheers,
Scott.
(Who honestly doesn't remember doing a lot of homework in grade school, but does remember having issues practicing cursive writing at home in 3rd grade.)
New Re: Interesting.
I can say that when I take a look at the literally hours of work my kids (8 & 10) are supposed to do each night that I think it's completely insane.
New impressive!
hmm, my tax refund will be enough for an iPad...
New KHLRPD
Know what? Paper don't do that.
--

Drew
New Hope mine comes soon
IPAD Wi-Fi+3G 64Gh
"Pictures are better then words because some words are big and hard to understand"
Peter Griffin (Family Guy)
New Isn't the 3G a month out?
New Re: Isn't the 3G a month out?
about
"Pictures are better then words because some words are big and hard to understand"
Peter Griffin (Family Guy)
New I #8 you
And no, that's not SMS shorthand :)

http://www.geekcultu...oftech/index.html
New The point being...
In twenty-five years (or likely five) this will look as quaint as MacPaint running on the original Mac 128K. But just as that original underpowered box transformed the world of personal computing (for all that the Beast never acknowledged its paternity), posterity may not understand that this was the tipping point.

cordially,
New I must confess to be amused at the nerdRage engendered by it
New Thank You
"Pictures are better then words because some words are big and hard to understand"
Peter Griffin (Family Guy)
New Ditto likewise.
I'm happy being an observer because I am *not* the target market - a fact I realized about three weeks ago and which means Apple's marketing and product development makes more sense. And that's quite apart from the reason I haven't bought any other Apple products (except the only major innovative product made when Jobs was absent: a Newton. Which may tell you more about Jobs than me).

So why am I not the market? In a nutshell, it's because I know how to program my VCR. Well, I did when I still used one.

I might be the target market later, but I'm not at the moment. They have to convice highly techno-aware people that giving up your computing experience to what Apple has decided is what it should be is a good thing. They might be waiting a long time.

Wade.

Q:Is it proper to eat cheeseburgers with your fingers?
A:No, the fingers should be eaten separately.
New The only thing I really dislike...
...is the lack of Flash. Otherwise I'd probably get one for lazing on the couch. My iPod Touch irritates me in that the only streaming video I can watch is YouTube. If I find a random site with videos on it, too bad.

I may get one for my son as an educational device (if there are more programs like The Elements out there).

Regards,
-scott
Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
New that won't be an issue for long
CBS.com Prepping HTML5 Video Playback for iPad
http://www.macrumors...layback-for-ipad/

Vimeo's adding support
http://www.Vimeo.com/blog:268


Brightcove is adding support. Their customers include a number of broadcasters
http://blog.brightco...video-experiences
http://www.brightcov...ove/our-customers

Apple has a list as well, CNN, Reuters, New York Times, Time, ESPN, Major League Baseball, Netflix, NPR, etc.
http://www.apple.com...d/ready-for-ipad/
New Yes, that will be nice when it's there.
Once everyone decides on a codec, though. :-P
Regards,
-scott
Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
New hehe
Mozilla is the odd man out, even Microsoft's supporting H.264.

http://daringfirebal...illa_video_mobile
The practical effect of Mozilla’s current position will not be to drive adoption of Ogg Theora. What’s going to happen is that Safari, Chrome, and even IE9 users will be served HTML5 video, and Firefox users will get Flash.
...
Mozilla’s intransigence in the name of “openness” will result in Firefox users being served video using the closed Flash Player plugin, and behind the scenes the video is likely to be encoded using H.264 anyway.
New It is the only sane stance
http://www.betanews....treams/1265237599

The implied danger here is that a producer of video who did not use a licensed codec (whether or not he owed anything for it) could be exposing the viewer of that video to liability. Or as Mozilla contributor Robert O'Callahan described it in a blog post last Friday, "In other words, if you're an end user in a country where software patents (or method patents) are enforceable, and you're using software that encodes or decodes H.264 and the vendor is not on the list of licensees, the MPEG LA reserves the right to sue you, the end user, as well as the software vendor or distributor."


The others have (or think they have) deep enough pockets that they can put their end users out of the wind, then all the best to them. And then there is still the spectre that even free streams will need to pay royalties at the whim of MPEG-LA.
New Their end users are "out of the wind"
Apple, Google and Microsoft already have licenses for H.264. All Mozilla would need to do is have Firefox call the OS' built in video playback (Apple's QuickTime API, Microsoft's Windows Media Player API, etc).

Yes, that spectre does exist, but I would expect the same response that caused PNG to be created for lossless image compression would happen for video.
New Other players learned their lesson
There already is been a PNG-like replacement: Ogg Theora -- http://techcrunch.co...b-video-standard/

That's exactly what Firefox uses, and the other players learned from the GIF->PNG experience that if they support the new standard they lose control of the old one. So they aren't supporting it.
--

Drew
New Re: Other players learned their lesson
Theora has its own patent woes.

Gruber:
http://daringfirebal...submarine_patents

Rebuttal:
http://www.osnews.co...n_H264_Wait_What_
New That's really interesting
I just followed a link in the one I posted pointing to this ArsTechnica article -- http://arstechnica.c...-codec-debate.ars

What do you notice in this passage:
Apple and Google favor H.264 while Mozilla and Opera favor Ogg Theora. Google intends to ship its browser with support for both codecs, which means that Apple is the only vendor that will not be supporting Ogg.

In discussing the positions of browsers and their vendors, what do they not even bother mentioning?
--

Drew
New Who is the licensed supplier on Linux? And where after 2015?
MPEG-LA can stop extending the free content royalty policy once world+dog is locked to H.264. Then who will absorb the cost?
New Re: Who is the licensed supplier on Linux? And where after 2
apparently Adobe is as all the info I've seen is that sites plan to fall back to Flash for browsers that don't directly support H.264.

As for after 2015, dunno but H.264 will most likely be outdated by then - Google to Open-source VP8 for HTML5 Video
http://newteevee.com...-for-html5-video/
On2 went so far as to claim that it could provide “50 percent bandwidth savings compared to leading H.264 implementations.”
New Perhaps.
Apple, Inc are in the business of making money.

"Highly techno-aware people" - i.e. the nerd market - isn't where the money is. Too few in number and much more prone to blog about stuff than buy it.
New My TV doesn't play Flash!
I just spent $4,000 on a 57-inch plasma TV and it doesn't play Flash! In fact, it doesn't surf the web at all. And I can't figure out where to plug in the keyboard. Bluetooth seems to be disabled -- the wireless system seems to operate on infrared if you can believe it, meaning it's line-of-sight only.

Man, how can Sony build such crap. They must hate their customers.




The preceeding story is from an alternate Earth, where everything is exactly the same as this one except that I have more money and less sense.
--

Drew
New Correct.

Q:Is it proper to eat cheeseburgers with your fingers?
A:No, the fingers should be eaten separately.
New Where's the like button on that one?
New overview of 3 magazines on the iPad
http://vimeo.com/10676843
New Neat. Thanks.
New Hmm ...
On the one hand, Time and GQ -- intentionally or not -- acknowledge that some people prefer magazine-style reading, and some prefer web-style reading. That could be a bonus.

Unless apps like PopSci show that the iPad has its own style, which is the best of both worlds plus more that neither of the others can do.
--

Drew
New But, will it blend?
http://www.youtube.c...&feature=youtu.be
Regards,
-scott
Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
New Display kept working a *long* time
--

Drew
New The height of Murican atavism..
Now, when will he shred a 4" dia. wad of Franklins?
(the cheap-bastard's proxy for running a Bugatti Veyron into a brick wall at 210 mph.)
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

I could almost see voting for Palin in 2012 on the grounds that this sorry ratfucking excuse for a republic, this savage, smirking, predatory empire deserves her. Bring on the Rapture, motherfuckers!
-- via RC
New On one hand, it's just a mass-produced 'thing'
But despite that, such wanton destruction makes me kinda sad.

Still, I guess this isn't the first event to prove that there is no low to which an advertiser will not stoop.
They said I was gullible ... and I believed them
New I guess they are going to have to...
Re-design the blendtec blender.

the new "widemouth" option.
New By the way, anybody else read "Prey"?
As I watched the gray dust swirling, I couldn't help thinking it looked like a swarm.
--

Drew
New Yep.
That was a weird novel.
Regards,
-scott
Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
New It's in your brain
You brought it up a week or so ago.

Yes, read it.
New Would have brought it up sooner, but that's when I read it
--

Drew
New Yes, the iPad *is* gadget porn.
http://news.cnet.com...-20001997-52.html
Regards,
-scott
Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
New iBookend.
http://www.techeye.n...ionality-launched

Entertaining video, too. :-)

Cheers,
Scott.
New hehehehe :-)
"Pictures are better then words because some words are big and hard to understand"
Peter Griffin (Family Guy)
New :-)
New Kos - My iPad as a Tool.
http://www.dailykos....My-iPad-as-a-tool

It still sounds like a well thought-out device, but if one needs a to drag along a bluetooth keyboard and potentially a couple of dongles, then it's approaching laptop weight and bulk...

(via Brad DeLong)

Cheers,
Scott.
New About the worst iPad review I've seen -> here.
http://www.clarionle...e-you-buy-an-iPad

Wow. :-/

(via Google News)

Cheers,
Scott.
New I have had my IPAD...
For 3 weeks and still LOVING IT
use it all the time
take it in my beg with me all the time
Works great
I use it to watch podcast next to my IMAC when on the web or playing Farmville
keep it next me when watching TV to get mail or to check Ebay
"Pictures are better then words because some words are big and hard to understand"
Peter Griffin (Family Guy)
New Will it Blend??
http://gizmodo.com/5...ipad-meet-blender

"Pictures are better then words because some words are big and hard to understand"
Peter Griffin (Family Guy)
     element-ary, my dear iPad - (rcareaga) - (55)
         :-) -NT - (Bman)
         :-) The poster don't do that, either. -NT - (Another Scott)
         Re: element-ary, my dear iPad - (malraux) - (8)
             They burned through a bunch of SLR shutters - (crazy)
             Neat. Thanks. -NT - (Another Scott) - (5)
                 I think this thing's niche could be education. - (malraux) - (4)
                     Yup. - (Another Scott) - (3)
                         Wrong solution to that problem - (drook) - (2)
                             Interesting. - (Another Scott) - (1)
                                 Re: Interesting. - (jake123)
             impressive! - (SpiceWare)
         KHLRPD - (drook)
         Hope mine comes soon - (Bman) - (3)
             Isn't the 3G a month out? -NT - (crazy) - (1)
                 Re: Isn't the 3G a month out? - (Bman)
             I #8 you - (SpiceWare)
         The point being... - (rcareaga) - (18)
             I must confess to be amused at the nerdRage engendered by it -NT - (pwhysall) - (17)
                 Thank You -NT - (Bman)
                 Ditto likewise. - (static) - (14)
                     The only thing I really dislike... - (malraux) - (10)
                         that won't be an issue for long - (SpiceWare) - (9)
                             Yes, that will be nice when it's there. - (malraux) - (8)
                                 hehe - (SpiceWare) - (7)
                                     It is the only sane stance - (scoenye) - (6)
                                         Their end users are "out of the wind" - (SpiceWare) - (5)
                                             Other players learned their lesson - (drook) - (2)
                                                 Re: Other players learned their lesson - (pwhysall) - (1)
                                                     That's really interesting - (drook)
                                             Who is the licensed supplier on Linux? And where after 2015? - (scoenye) - (1)
                                                 Re: Who is the licensed supplier on Linux? And where after 2 - (SpiceWare)
                     Perhaps. - (pwhysall) - (2)
                         My TV doesn't play Flash! - (drook)
                         Correct. -NT - (static)
                 Where's the like button on that one? -NT - (jake123)
         overview of 3 magazines on the iPad - (SpiceWare) - (2)
             Neat. Thanks. -NT - (Another Scott)
             Hmm ... - (drook)
         But, will it blend? - (malraux) - (8)
             Display kept working a *long* time -NT - (drook)
             The height of Murican atavism.. - (Ashton) - (1)
                 On one hand, it's just a mass-produced 'thing' - (Meerkat)
             I guess they are going to have to... - (folkert)
             By the way, anybody else read "Prey"? - (drook) - (3)
                 Yep. - (malraux)
                 It's in your brain - (crazy) - (1)
                     Would have brought it up sooner, but that's when I read it -NT - (drook)
         Yes, the iPad *is* gadget porn. - (malraux)
         iBookend. - (Another Scott) - (2)
             hehehehe :-) -NT - (Bman)
             :-) -NT - (SpiceWare)
         Kos - My iPad as a Tool. - (Another Scott)
         About the worst iPad review I've seen -> here. - (Another Scott) - (2)
             I have had my IPAD... - (Bman) - (1)
                 Will it Blend?? - (Bman)

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