would be a HUGE game-changer.
Think about it: few auto injuries, minimal or no insurance costs, people who have difficulty driving freed up, a constant chauffeur, and work being done instead of driving. It would be awesome. Let’s hope it happens soon.
bad of the dead, but let’s face it, Steve Jobs was a nut.
I have an iPad. I run several different Mac computers. Jobs was a mental case. No, I’m not saying that he didn’t have some very good ideas, I’m saying that he was a nutjob.
There are two big things that I don’t like about my iPad, one much bigger than the other. I’ll start with the small one first:
There is no way to put a USB drive on the unit. That means that I can’t use it for what I wanted, since I want to back up documents. Yes, there are ways to work around it (email myself documents, for instance), but it is a HUGE pain in the butt. I also can’t watch and download movies because of that. Yes, I could rip them, save them to iTunes, etc., but again, we are in the “pain in the butt” area. I understand that pricing is based on storage, and that giving it a USB port undercuts that drastically. OK, it’s a real pain but I can live with it.
The other issue is more a problem. Steve Jobs had this irrational mania about FLASH, and he made it so the iPad won’t take flash. That means that there are certain programs I can’t run, all because of Steve Jobs’ mental illness. Most web sites use flash to make videos work, so here I have a web browser that is crippled. Nice.
This is nothing short of goofy. I hope that now that Jobs is dead I can finally get flash on my iPad.
Sunday Examiner article on technology. It really is pretty good and it is deserving of a read. We need to understand that when it comes to technology, government is the problem.
I don’t know if this bugs anyone else, but it really bugs me.
So I go to the WSJ’s opinion page, and there is an article that is mildly interesting. I click on it. There on the page is a paragraph or two, and then in order to read more I have to pay. What? I thought I avoided that by going to a different site than the main paper.
It really torques me. I’m sick of people begging for money. I do not begrudge them selling their wares–not at all. But I totally object to being snookered. Before you click on the article, there’s no way to even tell that you have to pay to get it. Nonsense.
Maybe I’m the only only one this irritates, but you can be that I will never subscribe and now I may never go back to that page. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
How about you have a list of articles you can read for free, and those you have to pay for? But no, they make it so you have to click on the article and read a few paragraphs in order to know. Really irritating.
kind of Ozone Fairy in Krugman’s mind? What is this guy stupid? Why anyone would even listen to this moron is beyond me.
so I could run a certain program that my accountant needs, and I had forgotten why and how much I hate Windoze. Horrible, slow, unwieldy, totally non-intuitive. And a bunch of crapware I don’t even want and that slows my machine down, to boot! It is terrible. Honestly, I don’t know why anyone uses it–I think it is just inertia from the IT department. I used Windoze for about 20 years, since the DOS days. I remember when it was a big technological deal that there was a WYSIWYG interface. My first computer was when I was in college, and it was (then) a screamer: a 286-12 with a huge hard drive of 60 megabytes (I have a portable mini hard drive that is a terabyte and it cost me less then $100). The system cost me nearly five grand, and I thought I was getting a bargain.
Now the point of this is not to reminisce about the old days or to compare my current MacBook Pro 17″ with a G7. The point is that I switched to Mac about 7 years ago, and boy, am I glad I did! I can’t tell you how much better it is, and that is driven home to me whenever I have to use Windoze. Talk about a step down! The OSX is so much better than OS9. I hated Macs before and the Mendelian Spousal Unit (MSU) ran an OS9 network that she hated with a passion. But OSX is really nice. I would never go back.
I may not like Apple’s politics, but their products are sure nice to work on!
Honestly, I hate it. It is SOOOO stinking slow that it is unbearable. What a pig! I am glad I use Mac, since this is horrible. I only use Windoze when I have to, and believe me it is a punishment.
will likely come out. The Mendelian Spousal Unit (MSU) got an iPad for Christmas, and the biggest beef I have with it is that there is no USB port. There are rumors that the new iPad will have a USB port, but I guess we’ll see tomorrow. Other rumors say it will have an SD card slot. I’d rather have the USB slot though the SD slot would be a huge improvement.