Well then that's bad intended behaviour. The back button should reverse the loading of a new page after clicking a link. It should not interfere with scrolling at all.
Well, democracy is not everything. If the majority of the electorate wants to fight wars, or repress a certain minority, then you've still got a problem there.
What about people outside the US? Before Apple, the FBI couldn't track them. Now that the phones are sending their gps tracks home every 12 hours, they probably can...
It doesn't for me. I have to click on the page first to make them work. OS X 10.6.7 / Safari 5.0.5 here (basically the newest thing you can get from Apple).
I often scroll down using space or the pagedown key. This has worked with every webpage I've encountered so far.
While I don't care about the styling, every single linked example on that page doesn't work with space or the pagedown key. I wish there was a bit more polish here...
Abstract: new language and new API go hand in hand. A memory managed combo trades execution speed for faster program creation. Was already needed 5 years ago. The recent garbage collection additions don't cut it. Microsoft started working on their successor (.net) 10 years ago and now it's starting to look good. Apple gained some leeway when the iPhone happened. With ever improving CPUs on mobile devices, Apple still risks losing ground down the line.
Exactly, many people cannot differentiate front/back and up/down with general purpose HRTF, something that is much better with a custom HRTF.
For basic experiments, put 2 small microphones into your ear canals, hit record, then go for a walk. The result will blow you away :-)
To record your custom HRTF, get an anechoic chamber, put 2 small microphones into your ear canals, then record impulse responses from all directions. Not quite as simple.
I agree. Here's a crazy idea: App creators are limiting themselves. They don't think in the big picture. They play it save. All because previous App denials have made it terribly expensive to create something and then be shut down at the last step.
Where is the next Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Photoshop, Hypercard, Eclipse, XCode, Visual Studio, browser extensible with plugins like Firefox, vmware, Bittorrent, Protools, Cubase, Live, Avid, FCP, Maya, Blender, Max, Aftereffects or Dreamweaver?
Well, quite a few of them have been actively banned by Apple.
I haven't seen any really complex new Apps for the iPad, where somebody invested heavily. Games don't count, they are very rarely killed by Apple. Ports don't count neither, there is less investment there.
Where are the big investments?
I've seen 5 so far: Pages, Numbers, Keynote, Garageband, and TheDaily. 4 from Apple and 1 from Murdoch, created with the personal guarantee by Murdoch's buddy Jobs that it will reach customers.
Could somebody comment? Are there app creators that indeed play it save? Are there others that are investing big time and have just not reached their 1.0 yet?
Great stuff. Without correct speaker positioning and well-matching HRTFs for each listener, I feel that this won't fly.
Btw: I'm thinking about creating a 3D audio game where the HRTF model is constantly refined for the player while he is playing. Does anybody know whether there has already been work done in this direction, either academically or in the indie game world?
Don't you think the whole "lose face" part of the japanese culture is a run down model? With all the mistakes made in the Fukushima plant pre and post incident due to not wanting to lose face (or not controlling enough so that the other party doesn't lose face), it's hard to overlook all the bad things that this concept brings...
Or to ask differently: what do you think is good about the concept?
Think such a thing doesn't exist? Well think again: http://www.hovding.com/en/how/