Sigh. As with many things, we don't really know what is and isn't caused by "climate change." Why for instance does CA now have so many fires but TX has fewer? Could it be climate change? Sure. Could it be the major differences CA enacted around forest management that TX didn't? Sure. But all you ever hear about is climate change.
There's many studies that show that the number of extreme weather events went up significantly in the past decades around the globe. This is way more global and longer running that some policy in some US state.
"During the last few decades, the solar activity is not increasing. It has stabilized at a high level, but the Earth's climate still shows a tendency toward increasing temperatures," Usoskin explained.
He suspects even if there were a link between the Sun's activity and global climate, other factors must have dominated during the last few decades, including the increase of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
THe ticketing agent could have been given an escort to put him to the front of the security lines. As little as two years ago this was done for me a couple of times. By no means was there any sort of emergency other than the possibility that the line may cause me to miss my flight. The airline was Mexicana (out of business now). They stopped doing that in favor of a "tough shit" in the past 18 months or so, and I end up having to pay ~$200 to reschedule.
I read it . . . loved parts of it . . . and simultaneously thought it was most random book ever.
He does give a disclaimer at the beginning, where he says the book is not meant to be read from beginning to end. When looked at that way, the work is somewhat more coherent.
I bought the Kindle version, and when reading on the iPad, this work really comes into its own: it's more of a collection of linked content than a book proper. The chapter notes are important, and the links to YouTube and content on his website are useful. One the iPad, I can access that content quickly and then return to where I was reading.
I will say that whatever the flaws in this work, Tim Ferris has changed two important aspects of my life forever with his two books: how I work, and now how I eat.
Interestingly enough, I found that by structuring The 4HB like this, Tim addressed one of my main problem with his previous book, The 4HWW:
The 4HWW "introduced a few interesting concepts but was pretty poorly written. Specifically because the information was scattered and the chapters didn't lead into each other."
(The above is quoted as it is from an email a friend sent to me yesterday: he summed-up my thoughts better than I could have.)
Gruber had some interesting speculation on last week's episode of The Talk Show podcast.
I'm paraphrasing but he was essentially wondering aloud if, due to AirPlay capabilities, iPads and iPhones would be able to deliver content to the Apple TV . . . and then become a remote control for the content on the TV.
This could be video like the MLB app delivers, or other apps that would lend themselves to being shown on one (big) screen, and controlled on another (small) screen. Think: games.
All of this sounds very "Apple" to me, in that it's completely consistent with how they think about integrated solutions.
And if true, I'll buy an Apple TV for the first time.
A game with the action shown on the TV and the interface shown on an iPad would be awesome. Imagine the incredible UI ideas that would be possible if you had the entire screen as your canvas.
> other apps that would lend themselves to being shown on one (big) screen, and controlled on another (small) screen. Think: games.
:) That's something I wanted to do way before AirPlay, by using the iOS device as a web-server of some sort and display the big screen part of the games through a web browser (on laptop, game console...). In particular, one idea was for games like Pictionary or Taboo: the small device is a controller as well as the private part of the game (with the hints).
However, I never implemented anything due to my lack of experience with iOS and the fact that it seemed that the game console web browsers were fairly limited... contact me if anyone would like to do something around that though, even if just for fun!
There is already SDK support for real-time video overlays (since iOS 3.2)
> Consider a movie player view to be an opaque structure. You can add your own custom subviews to layer content on top of the movie but you must never modify any of its existing subviews.
In addition to layering content on top of a movie, you can provide custom background content by adding subviews to the view in the backgroundView property.
Wow Gruber has a great theory. He thinks that the announced feature of Airplay will appear on the new AppleTV. Answer: ...yeah.
Inter-device compatibility will be complicated by having a new platform. But there will likely be a similarity between the iPad and the Apple TV. The AppleTV will be 1280x720 and the iPad is 1024x768.
At any rate, the touching will be through other IOS devices or possibly after-market controllers. But it's true, in general it won't make so much sense in terms of the binary on your iPad compared to the Apple TV.
The ecosystem is rich, but I'm not sure sure about about universal applications that can go from iPad to iPhone to AppleTV. For games you're going to have a lot of graphics slogging around for each version, and the app's size will suffer. You may also want to charge each separately.
