Back in high school, I became incredibly paranoid about hygiene to the extent that I damaged the skin on my hands through overwashing, and was paranoid about not touching my shirt/pants after i'd been on a train, between the time when i'd washed my hands and walked to the kitchen table to eat.
At one point I realised it had all gone completely crazy, and during uni I took a conscious choice to relax, and to try and be more 'normal.' This meant observing the way others behaved, when they washed their hands, what they touched, what they considered normal. The diversity of the way people act, and what they think is clean/dirty is startling. I'm still perfecting my own middleground, and the people in this article are doing their best to reconcile so many differing ideas.
The instance in this article that people perceive deodorant-ness as cleanliness is amusing in the least, and nauseatingly smelly for the worst scented deodorants.
In Australia, the biggest carrier Telstra generally adds a tonne of crapware, and several people I know with htc desires have links to various telstra features that are broken on the default firmware. I seem to recall the reason telstra didnt get into the iphone game until significantly after the other carriers was because of the iphone impeding sales of telstra 'services'.
We also have the more budget oriented virgin mobile who have generally little to no customization depending on the phone.
I only watched the short video, but nothing appears revolutionary here. I seem to recall that recognising phone numbers, address and so fourth was advertised as a feature of android 1.x release.
Alot of the cleverness of the so called AI can by equally well replicated just by using well implemented device wide search, and the name recognition can generally be achieved either by looking up an exchange server, or regex'ing for common first name pattern and non-dictionary surname.
To me this does seem to be 'just another' skin, and visually, it doesn't seem very impressive at all.
Was anyone else here with a modern smart phone impressed?
The most striking for me when Jobs announced move to Intel was the bit where he told that they had OS X builds for Intel since the very first version of OS X.
Who knows what are they cooking in their secret kitchens.
NeXTStep was ported to x86 back in 1993, years before it was acquired and rebranded as Mac OS X. I would have been surprised if they had neglected to maintain an asset like that.
The concept seems obvious, but it hasn't stopped a slow sapping of functionality and permutability of data in the face of 'easy to use' solely GUI based tools. To say nothing of the rather difficult task of automating software without a CLI component...
I build jobs to pull stuff out of databases, transform it, then dump it in others. Also I deal with a kinda slow, proprietary GUI tool with a little bit of immediate power, followed by a deeper lack of ability to make changes to the 'visual code' in batch, amongst other complaints. I'd rather be in vim...
It doesn't feel as readily accessible or friendly as Threadless, despite the school-paper design. I was thinking it might be the subject matter, being that love of product design isn't quite as ubiquitous as people who like t-shirts, but it also occurs to me that while both demand community participation, the Threadless site has lots of cheerful looking people. I wonder if this impacts on desire to participate.
At one point I realised it had all gone completely crazy, and during uni I took a conscious choice to relax, and to try and be more 'normal.' This meant observing the way others behaved, when they washed their hands, what they touched, what they considered normal. The diversity of the way people act, and what they think is clean/dirty is startling. I'm still perfecting my own middleground, and the people in this article are doing their best to reconcile so many differing ideas.
The instance in this article that people perceive deodorant-ness as cleanliness is amusing in the least, and nauseatingly smelly for the worst scented deodorants.