dick applebaum

ericthehalfbee said:

dick applebaum said:

ericthehalfbee said:

So looking forward to an iPad Pro with an A12X.

Yeah, and  a kb with trackpad for precision display of a cursor on the screen.

NYC/Brooklyn Academy of Music == Business meets Creativity == Office & Photoshop

Full Office in the iPad would be something. Then I wouldn’t have to listen to the fake Excel power users saying they can’t do pivot tables on the iPad making it useless. 

Have a look at this... The article discusses Numbers on the Mac, but it seems to be implemented on iOS too:



https://macmost.com/using-smart-categories-pivot-tables-in-mac-numbers.html

StrangeDays said:

spice-boy said:

Apple please design a phone that is easier to hold, and has a battery which last 24 hour, I don't care about making a sci-fi movie with mine. 

“Apple, please change physics and chemistry.”

Seriously, there’s a reason no company on earth has magic batteries. Until there is a breakthrough in chemistry and something new is discovered, you can’t fault Apple for having the same batteries as everyone else. 

Ya' know...

I've got this feeling on the back of my neck that a breakthrough of something old and obvious is about to happen...

Remember one of these:



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crookes_radiometer

Obviously, black and white when exposed to light/heat/radiation can generate energy:

Mmm... Black and White extreme opposites -- like yin and yang:

In Chinese philosophy, yin and yang (/jɪn/ and /jɑːŋ, jæŋ/; Chinese: 陰陽 yīnyáng, lit. "dark-bright", "negative-positive") describes how seemingly opposite or contrary forces may actually be complementary, interconnected, and interdependent in the natural world, and how they may give rise to each other as they interrelate to one another. In Chinese cosmology, the universe creates itself out of a primary chaos of material energy, organized into the cycles of Yin and Yang and formed into objects and lives. Yin is the receptive and Yang the active principle, seen in all forms of change and difference such as the annual cycle (winter and summer),

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yin_and_yang

....Black and White extreme opposites -- like ones and zeros

Now, what is comprised of ones and zeros... 

Why all the bits of programs and data stored on your iPhone...

If there were a way to expose these ones and zeros on your iPhone as black and white images to light/heat/radiation...

Then there's this:

Back in August 2014, researchers at Michigan State University created a fully transparent solar concentrator, which could turn any window or sheet of glass (like your smartphone’s screen) into a photovoltaic solar cell. Unlike other “transparent” solar cells that we’ve reported on in the past, this one really is transparent, as you can see in the photos throughout this story. According to Richard Lunt, who led the research at the time, the team was confident the transparent solar panels can be efficiently deployed in a wide range of settings, from “tall buildings with lots of windows or any kind of mobile device that demands high aesthetic quality like a phone or e-reader.”
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Scientifically, a transparent solar panel is something of an oxymoron. Solar cells, specifically the photovoltaic kind, make energy by absorbing photons (sunlight) and converting them into electrons (electricity). If a material is transparent, however, by definition it means that all of the light passes through the medium to strike the back of your eye. This is why previous transparent solar cells have actually only been partially transparent — and, to add insult to injury, they usually they cast a colorful shadow too.

The organic salts absorb UV and infrared, and emit infrared — processes that occur outside of the visible spectrum, so that it appears transparent.

To get around this limitation, the Michigan State researchers use a slightly different technique for gathering sunlight. Instead of trying to create a transparent photovoltaic cell (which is nigh impossible), they use a transparent luminescent solar concentrator(TLSC). The TLSC consists of organic salts that absorb specific non-visible wavelengths of ultraviolet and infrared light, which they then luminesce (glow) as another wavelength of infrared light (also non-visible). This emitted infrared light is guided to the edge of plastic, where thin strips of conventional photovoltaic solar cell convert it into electricity. [Research paper: DOI: 10.1002/adom.201400103 – “Near-Infrared Harvesting Transparent Luminescent Solar Concentrators”]

If you look closely, you can see a couple of black strips along the edges of plastic block. Otherwise, though, the active organic material — and thus the bulk of the solar panel — is highly transparent. (Read: Solar singlet fission bends the laws of physics to boost solar power efficiency by 30%.)

https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/188667-a-fully-transparent-solar-cell-that-could-make-every-window-and-screen-a-power-source

If I understand this correctly, you could charge your iPhone by using your iPhone.

radarthekat said:

I think I also know how Apple thinks and I think Apple actually thinks about how many coal-fired power plants exist to power computers with specs beyond what most users need.  It’s a thin line between compute power and compute efficiency, and I think Apple deliberately walks the compute efficiency side of that line, know it could easily spec up (design) a crazy performing machine and knowing they will constantly take flack for not doing so.  TBut that’s the path Apple walks, better for the environment, worse for performance-hungry consumers who don’t think of that bigger picture. 

OT, but I had a palm/forehead moment the other day... watching an ad about power storage for solar arrays and windmills — using lead-acid battery arrays to store the power generated for use when the sun/wind is not available.

What is the environmental cost of:

• building the batteries
• maintaining the batteries
• disposing of the batteries after their useful life

maestro64 said:

Sounds like Woz sold his name to a company trying to capitalize on his name. 

Woz was not known for is program background besides the fact he wrote the IWM for the Apple II which contain machine code. He was primarily known for his talent in hardware. Would you take a software class from a Hardware guy, probably but never take a hardware class from a software guy.

Knowing Woz, I doubt he sold his name -- rather, I suspect he used his name to support a cause he felt worthy...  This appears to be somewhat similar to Woz' involvement with the Bill Graham organization:

Steve Wozniak, cofounder of Apple and creator of the Apple I and Apple II personal computers, believed that the 1970s were the "Me" generation.[1] He intended the Us Festivals, with Bill Graham's participation, to encourage the 1980s to be more community-oriented and combine technology with rock music.[2] The first was held Labor Day weekend in September 1982 and the second was Memorial Day weekend in May 1983. Wozniak paid for the bulldozing and construction[3] of a new open-air field venue as well as the construction of an enormous state-of-the-art temporary stage at Glen Helen Regional Park near Devore, San Bernardino, California.[citation needed] (This site was later to become home to Blockbuster Pavilion—now San Manuel Amphitheater—the largest amphitheatre in the United States as of 2007.)[citation needed] The festival stage has resided at Disneyland in Anaheim since 1985, and has operated under various names and functions as the Videopolis dance club, the Videopolis Theatre, and the Fantasyland Theater.[citation needed]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Festival

As to Woz' programming background -- The Apple ][ had Built-in (ROM) software programs: including an OS, trapdoor mechanism,  Integer BASIC, Assembler, Hi-Res Graphics, Lo-Res Graphics -- as well as the later IWM.

The original Apple II operating system was in ROM along with Integer BASIC. Programs were entered, then saved and loaded on cassette tape.
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_II_series

I worked for the IBM Palo Alto Support Center in 1978 when I got my Apple ][.  We supported the IBM System/360.  The Apple ][ basic hardware specs were similar.  in 1979, I brought my Apple ][ into the office for a few days to test RS-232 connectivity to a new IBM Color CRT Terminal under development.  The Apple ][ worked just fine and AIR, the Apple ][ total purchase price was approximately the same as the IBM Controller monthly rental...  Also, the Apple ][ could do things the 360 and CRT terminal terminal could 
not do.  (I left IBM in 1979 to open an Apple store).


Later, Woz created the CL9 CORE Universal Programmable Remote Control for Audio/Video...  The CORE was essentially an Apple IIe in a hand-held format -- and even had an attachable RS-232 Interface.



http://www.ktronicslc.com/core.html

tmay said:

dick applebaum said:

Latko said:

dick applebaum said:

In 2007, Apple’s iPhone changed the way we communicate with each other...

The Xs seems to radically break with that phenomenon

The A12 Bionic chip, especially the neural engine have yet to be exploited... 

I suspect that we’ll soon see Aipple and 3rd-party apps that can dynamically determine what the camera is seeing (signs, buildings, landmarks, etc.) and package that with what the iPhone already knows...

Consider a simple example: your friend is at Niagara Falls and you can see what she is looking at via the Find Frends app...

...the weather is here I wish you were beautiful — oh, you are and so am I (both).

Give me a Siri interface to an AI version of IMDB, and I might be able to track those long ago scenes in film and television that I barely remember, but want to see again.

Oh yeah...

...”there were these three woodsmen”...

or

...”thank god Hop Sing was”...


Ya know, categorizing IMDB videos as a searchable database would be a naturural for Apple’s FoundationDB...

Maybe Apple should buy Vimeo.