Posted on 01/20/2011 9:58:08 AM PST by artificial intelligence
Right, Gnutella, theres a blast from the past.
I had Gnutella back in the day. Kazaa was another biggie.
Also I didn’t say “where” even though you put “where” in quotes. You could say “place”.
It was a p2p, right, before torrents? You download software, and these systems sometimes mesh with each other. These came right after Napster? Somewhat similar to eMule but earlier? I was using eMule until somewhat recently, the last 3 or 4 years.
bittorrent and the pirate bay, blogspot.com and rapidshare.
just did some research
http://www.ehow.com/about_6384521_history-file-sharing-programs.html
Early 90s. The full-height (3.25 inches high) gigabyte hard drive that did not thermally recalibrate (which would interrupt the data flow) was obscenely expensive. The $3,000 single-speed SCSI CD writer was touchy too. You DID NOT touch the computer during the burning. Clicking on something could cause a disk access that could interrupt the data flow and cause a burn underrun, ruining your CD. There was no underrun buffer. You set everything up for the burn, clicked, and prayed.
Looks like you want a laptop with a docking station. The problem with plugging a touch-based tablet into a big monitor is that then you are no longer doing touch, but the UI is not optimized for mouse use.
A UI that could switch between the two use metaphors on the fly could be interesting, but that doesn’t exist now, and I don’t see one on the horizon.
It’s not just sucking battery. It’s poor performance. It’s the fact that most Flash apps are not made for touch screens. It’s that Flash is notoriously buggy, causing browser or OS instability and crashes in pretty much every platform it’s on. It’s that Flash is notoriously insecure, the source of many vulnerabilities across multiple computing platforms.
The gift of Flash is a white elephant.
Right, but we’ve all been over this many times before. Battery is one of the excuses, but not the only one.
I’m not defending flash, it’s apples attitude that’s bad.
Like the Democrats, Apple thinks they know better than you, that they, not you, should be making the decisions.
Flash might suck, but it did get where it was for some reason. People like it. People who do webpages like to use flash sometimes and they want people to see the flash they use, and don’t like apple preventing their people from seeing that content. People want the content on the webpages they go to, not Apple’s approved content. Aren’t a lot of widgets in flash? I would predict your answer would likely be data showing a drop off in the use of flash in widgets. Which would be caused in part by apples refusing to show flash.
I’m not a big fan of flash, it’s Apple’s attitude toward it.
People clearly do want flash, based on the downloads of the pseudoflash browser for the ipad. And flash is far better today than it was 10 years ago when every band page had an unnecessary flash intro. Back then, computers were not better equipped to handle flash. But we survived, and flash turned out to be pretty handy.
There’s a product out there, I’ll try to find a link.
http://cgi.ebay.com/7-Touch-Screen-WIFI-UMPC-MID-Pierre-Cardin-S7-XP-EMS-/260524294452?pt=Laptops_Nov05&hash=item3ca8754134
I think this product is overpriced, because it’s pretty old, not state of the art, but it’s basically a xp computer with a touch screen.
I was thinking of getting that maybe a few months ago if I could at around $400 (now, as I said before, I think that the generic android makers will get the job done).
I mean, i’m typing on my laptop right now and it does not seem at all hard to imagine making the screen a touchscreen and putting it where the keyboard is. Make it smaller.
If the performance of a mouse and keyboard really really suck on a touchscreen, then that’s a problem.
How about this - skip the mouse part, or, the tablet acts as the mouse. big lcd screen in front of you, keyboard in front of you, tablet on the right, where a mouse usually goes. Pick up, hold, use the touchscreen when necessary or desired. place down the touchscreen when watching the. if you’re reading a document, when all you really need to do is swipe to turn a page, you don’t really need to be looking at the touchscreen tablet device to operate it.
People like to joke about connectors, but i’d like to see some ir in there. I just became aware of “media players”, which are little boxes that either hold a hard drive or hook up to an external hard drive or a sd card or a micro sd card, or any external usb storage device and send your media files to your tv or your stereo. These devices can send out a 1080p hdmi signal to your tv. They’re operated by remote control. You could have a remote control that operates the tablet, like remotes operate these media centers. up down left right enter. play. so, the ability to receive infared signals from a remote control would be another type of “connector” i’d like to see.
It just looks right now like a tablet would be a really good tv room computer.
Maybe okay for you, but fail in the marketplace. Experience has shown people don't want a desktop UI shoved into a tablet.
People like to joke about connectors, but i’d like to see some ir in there.
We have Bluetooth for that now. It's secure and doesn't require line of sight.
It just looks right now like a tablet would be a really good tv room computer.
There's a Remote Control app for the iOS devices you can use to run a Mac connected to your TV.
Has anyone answered your question yet?
Funny thing is, that's usually true. Remember Henry Ford, if he'd asked his customers what they want, the'd have said a faster horse.
but it did get where it was for some reason.
Macromedia and its precursor got the major web browser makers to include Flash support. Chicken/egg was a big problem then, and this got the chickens out there.
Aren’t a lot of widgets in flash?
These days, Flash is mainly advertising, video and online games.
Back then, computers were not better equipped to handle flash.
Flash wasn't such a drag on my PC back when my PC was slower than modern phones. Flash has become big, bloated, buggy and insecure. Time to rid ourselves of it. Apple was only the first to drop Flash. Google is following with Chrome, and don't expect it to last long on IE.
Okay, so he’s an idiot. How is this Apple’s fault? True, Apple products are generally user-friendly, but you know what they say about idiot-proof, they’ll just build a better idiot.
It all depends - final answer... 8-)
Well, here’s a point in Apple’s favor, people didn’t really want tablets at all until iPad. People were just not thinking about tablets, they didn’t know they existed, and if they did know, they probably assumed that they weren’t good.
With iPad, people were fully aware how cool the screens could be and that tablets even existed. The iPad created desire for tablets. Now that we’re at that point, we have the questions of what the tablet should be, what it should have, etc.
Because the iPad was the first tablet people actually desired. The secret was to not try to shoehorn a desktop OS into a tablet.
PFL
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