Re: How can the iPad be as popular as it is?

Posted by Russ Abbott on
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/How-can-the-iPad-be-as-popular-as-it-is-tp6415938p6416719.html

After writing the previous message I thought that perhaps if I signed up as a developer I'd be able to do more. So I did. The best I could determine, one has to download the developer IDE to a Mac. The web page suggests that one can then run something one develops on both the IDE's iPad (and iPhone and iPod) simulator and on the real thing. But I wasn't able to find the place where it said how to run something one developed on the real thing.  Of course I don't have a Mac to use as a IDE platform in any case so it's all theoretical anyway.

Which reminds me that last evening while looking through Witten, Data Mining, a book I'm using for a Data Mining course, I came across a discussion of the problem of having too many attributes. Theoretically, additional attributes should not hurt. But in practice they do.

Question: What's the difference between theory and practice?
Answer: There is no difference between theory and practice, in theory. But in practice there is.

 

-- Russ

On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 1:18 AM, Russell Standish <[hidden email]> wrote:

On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 11:07:32PM -0700, Russ Abbott wrote:
>
> Or am I wrong about all this?  Is there a way to these things, and I just
> don't know the secret handshake?
>

No, you are not wrong in all this.

Personally, I don't get the iPad at all - seems anything it can do is
done better with my Samsung netbook running Linux, and there are many
things my Sammy can do that the iPad can't. As you have just
noted. Yet the netbook has similar form factor, similar battery life
and is about half the cost. Go figure.

Cheers

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