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Re: Can there be free will in a world where pre-destiny exists?
I'm afraid we will be one of those examples sooner than we think.
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I'm not religious, I don't think things 'happen for a reason' or any other such nonsense. Sorry guys, I just don't buy it.
The existence of reality as we see it is the consequences of millions of small incidents, all happening by chance within a few defined rules that we call 'physics'. Sometimes the effects are macroscopic (Classical Physics) and sometimes they are microscopic and counter-intuitive (Quantum Physics).
To say that there is a 'plan' in place by observation of two seemingly-unrelated events affecting each other is - simply - wrong. The history of evolution (for instance) is made up of a series of 'mistakes', dead-ends, inefficiencies, chance mutations and adjustments to profound alterations in environment yet we're here with millions of other species and in many cases are traceable back to millions of years ago. If anybody tries to use a teleological argument against evolution you can, quite frankly, go home and then read about the evolutionary trace of the human eye before you even consider using that as a tired, clichéd example.
In fact, all teleological arguments can sod off. If you need to see some plan in everything, so be it but there's no evidence of such a plan and the onus of truth is upon those making the supposition.
Also, read about the 'Babel Fish' paradox. It's hilarious. This thread has been irritating me for days and I'm not going to sugar-coat my response, as uncompromising as it is.
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Duncan, surely the great mysteries are worthy of a whole lot more investigation than being passed off as "chance events"?
Not all "chance events" are equal. Some "take" and some don't. The universe and the earth have tendencies. They tend to produce life - and humans. Our existence is proof of that fact.
Imagine the first replicating cell. Was that a truly random event or was there something underneath - an underpinning fabric of reality based in other dimensions - that was trying to replicate? That was driving towards replication? Towards life?
After all, having replicated once, why would the cell do it again? To me, the start of life seems dynamically like the Big Bang - something new springing forth from a wellspring of potential energy. The urge to replicate and survive is surely echoed throughout all life.
Why would a creature with human capacities appear? Human mental abilities appear to be overkill in evolutionary terms. Obviously there's an evolutionary arms race with human brains - smart people are today's alphas. Rationalist attitudes say that our search for meaning and spiritual tendencies are by-products of the mental gear we inherited through natural selection - mere curios and artefacts rather than reflections of our deeper nature.
Maybe so, but that's surely not certain.
Science and spirituality routinely talk at cross purposes. Religion and spirituality is certainly full of mythology, but they are practical tools when working with subjective reality. Great power and comfort comes from faith, belief, confidence, creative imagination, placebo effects, hypnosis, etc. We don't understand the whys or hows of mind-over-matter, but we instinctively know how to use it - if our rational minds don't get in the way.
Why wait for science to catch up when you can access our mental capacities now via mysticism? Who cares if something is based on mythology or science if it works? Whatever methods we use only need last a lifetime, not pass the test of eternal verities.
Having said that, I do not believe religion has any place in public policy, other than the freedom of people to hold their own beliefs. Spirituality's value is in the subjective realm and it will continue to be useful until science catches up and enables us to control those aspects of mind.
One day we won't need spirituality because we will always be capable of peak performance and always be in the zone, we will be able to routinely and fully unlock our skills and potentials and we will be capable of mentally controlling and regulating illness and pain and we will be in a contant state of bliss /peak experience. Until then, we don't have the smarts because we haven't scientifically cracked the code, but we can still use our instinctive equipment.
To quote the famous brilliant Donald Rumsfeld poem:
The Unknown
As we know,
There are known knowns.
There are things we know we know.
We also know
There are known unknowns.
That is to say
We know there are some things
We do not know.
But there are also unknown unknowns,
The ones we don't know
We don't know.
Sorry about straying from "destiny", but Duncan and I are good at going offtopic :)
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For instance, if you step on an ant, it doesn't know you exist. It doesn't even know it exists. But some force came in and ended its existence. What if things that happen to us, that we cannot perceive a reason for, are things being manipulated by a higher life form?
Someone pass the weed....
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Grea, I like you an awful lot but I'm going to have to disagree.
My look at reality is cold and stark. I see no spirituality, I see nothing but chance events. I see no purpose or meaning and no evidence to demonstrate to the contrary. I hear and see beautiful things and accept that there are plenty of things that humanity just doesn't know about life, the Universe and everything.
I don't believe in destiny. I don't really believe anything. I may as well be a nihilist apart from the a priori harshness of the Cogito. Human mental abilities appear from chance.
The abyss stares back.
Meanwhile, I listen to Beethoven.
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In a nutshell, we aren't special. We walk around everyday fooling ourselves and each other, thinking we are more than we really are, and that the ultimate goal is somewhere beyond our existence. In reality, the ultimate goal is to just survive.
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Re: Can there be free will in a world where pre-destiny exists?
I think ants would know they exist, in a similar way as we know we exist when we are infants. There's no existential rumination, of course, but ants certainly know enough of their own existence to recognise danger to themselves and battle like heck to survive - just as we do. They can also differentiate between their nest mates and "foreigners".
How we would come across to ants ... in terms of scale, maybe like an earthquake, twister or cyclone. I've done some cartoons on this topic:
Hmm, this is a more common theme in my toons than I realised ...
It reminds me of a comment quoted by Richard Dawkins, where a scientist asked a friend:
"Why do you suppose it was natural for man to assume the sun went around the Earth rather than the Earth was rotating?"
His friend replied, "Obviously it just looks as though the sun is going around the Earth".
Lichtenstein replied, "Well, what would it look like if it had looked as though the Earth was rotating?"
It's a trippy thought ... almost as trippy as wondering what a life with hard, measurable evidence of meaning would be like ...
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Personally, if I was a betting gal I'd put money on us discovering microscopic life in the water tables under the Martian surface. As 8 said, there could also be forms of life out there that we are unable to recognise or detect.
Today's computers are better than those developed in the 1960s. In the same way we are better than cockroaches.
When it comes down to species survival, bacteria will kick cockroaches' sorry spiky asses (apart from the fine specimen in my avatar). They are the most resilient and successful creatures as a group.
Let's take the lie of optimism in sports. Sportspeople have faith that they will win every game, even when the evidence is against them. But they need that attitude to perform at their peak. How about the lie of the placebo effect? We use this lie constantly - it is an essential part of drug testing. Or should we wait until we understand it better?
Take another example - religiosity amongst underprivileged, uneducated people. Often religion is their only comfort in unimaginably difficult lives. We can't tell these people to wait until we have the solutions to rational manipulation of brain dynamics to produce dopamine - they need their salve now. Religion fills the void (despite its many odious aspects). Humans have a lot of evolving to do and in the interim we will devise bandaid solutions to keep us going.
Humans have achieved great amounts of control of ourselves and environment as compared with other animals, but nowhere near our potential. We go to rehab, diet, take nicotine substitutes, have misunderstandings, temper tantrums, forget things, go into denial, etc etc - endless examples of us not being in control.
As time goes on, those of us who are safe from the coming mass population correction will gain greater mastery through our ever closer link with machines. And I think that will be special ...
Re: Can there be free will in a world where pre-destiny exists?
Ants know they exist.
Call me J
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Chances are if there is life outside our solar system we will never know. But if inside our solar system it exists, I would either go the Mars route or possibly Europa.
I was wondering what that was in your avatar. I thought maybe it was a wasp or hornet.
I would say the placebo effect is no different than a psychosomatic response, except its a positive reaction instead of a negative one. No lie required, just insert an idea.
I have no comment about the religious. They have the freedom to believe what they want, no matter their social status. I just wish that all the ones I run into knew how to have an objective discussion without getting mad or telling me I'm going to hell.
If my destiny was predetermined, and my free will is not mine and it really isn't free, whomever decided my fate was incredibly drunk at the time.
Oh, so there's no God because he doesn't exist. He doesn't show himself, there's no proof, etc.
What about human rights? They sure as hell don't exist either. You have no rights.
As a matter of fact, everything around me is just a figment of my imagination. An illusion. When the dreamer wakes up, everyone of the made up people disappears.
"Ahooh, Gojira, you are so powerful"
Seriously, the "no proof" argument is really wearing thin in the 21st century. If someone died and there's no evidence, does that mean he was never alive?
Did the domino fall the other way? Freak happening or divine intervention. It's a sticky subject.
"... As war machine, crushes their balls, God have mercy..."
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Re: Can there be free will in a world where pre-destiny exists?
If you heard me tell my kid that if they left their matchbox cars on the stairs we would be homeless, you would probably think I was nuts. But yet if they leave their cars on the stairs, I could fall down the stairs. If I fell down the stairs, I could break my neck. If I broke my neck, I could spend months in the hospital. If I spend months in the hospital, I could lose my job. If I lose my job, I don't get a paycheck. If I don't get a paycheck, I can't pay the bills. If I can't pay the bills, we will get evicted. If we get evicted, we will be homeless.
In no way does leaving toy cars on the stairs guarantee homelessness. This is why the butterfly effect is fun, but not a good argument. Too many ifs.
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If we have no evidence to say somebody existed, then we have no reason to believe they existed. Why would you assume they did? What would constitute as evidence? I, for example, believe that Jesus Christ actually existed because there is a wealth of supporting evidence but I don't believe that he was the son of God.
Your existence isn't an illusion - it's the only thing that's absolutely and objectively true. It's called the 'cogito'. I suggest you look it up. However, there is no absolute way to 'prove' (in the true sense of the word) that anything you observe, see, touch, feel or experience is real. One draws a line between practical proof of reality based upon communicated interactions, etc. but actually there is no way to definitively prove that anything outside us exists. As somebody that has in the past suffered from psychotic episodes (hallucinations, visual and auditory) I can assure you that not all you see or hear is necessarily real.
No, there is no such thing as objective human rights. They don't necessarily exist. They are a construct made by humans for practical reasons. They certainly didn't exist before humans. Why the Hell would you use that as an example? Are you trying to say they're woven into the very fabric of the Universe? Bollocks. It's a terrible example if you're trying to demonstrate a point. In the same way, there is no such thing as objective morality, ethics, culinary practise, law, politics...
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I guess that's kind of destiny.
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Look at some drummers acting like we know something. I love this thread Uncle Larry. Are we divine? Did we take a left turn somewhere, fall from "Grace" or Cosmic awareness that we are Gods ourselves...and now we're quarantined from some universal podcast? Maybe there are millions of planets with more advanced life. Maybe we're overdue for a genetic upgrade.
I would definitely want Polly-Non to be one of my mentors (and personal trainer!).
putting the funk in dysfunctional...
Re: Can there be free will in a world where pre-destiny exists?
And considering the strong hint of panpsychism and anthropo-skepticism in this thread, I don't think causality should be assumed; I mean, you can assume for the purposes of your argument, but you'll never agree to terms. Non-causality in metaphysics and epistemology are pretty well-established (and still current), so statements like "we can all assume cause and effect" aren't really true for all metaphysical systems. If you think that all information or matter is similar, or that all is reducible to information or a matter, then cause and effect disappears or becomes only correlative.
Lively discussion. Good stuff.
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The slippery slope is an argumental fallacy that debunks the random series of events. The user who linked these events is guilty of using a slippery slope. Perhaps my wording left a bit to be desired.
No one, especially me, has assumed anything in reference to cause and effect. I do not use the word assume unless absolutely necessary. Assumption is the whole problem in a discussion like this. Once someone assumes something, fact gets thrown out the window and any answer then becomes acceptable. Why? Because unknown terms have been introduced.
Every effect has a cause. Correlation deals with relationships. Not guarantees. Example: There is a correlation between smoking and lung cancer. But lung cancer is not guaranteed to a smoker, nor is it necessarily caused by smoking. Non smokers can get lung cancer too.
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I don't even necessarily disagree with assuming causal relationships. But my point is that the event isn't reduced to cause and effect in a lot of philosophical systems, current and ancient. The informal logic you cite, the naturalistic panpsychism of panspermia - these are hard to reconcile with strict causality. But you're insisting on it. I'll admit these are minor points in the scope of the argument, but they're technical points worth mentioning.
Slippery slope arguments are generally intentional, and they're often effective (and valid). I feel like the appearance of the slope is what makes the "butterfly effect" rhetorically powerful, actually: there are so many steps on the slope with seemingly weak causality. But it's actually the steps that exhibit strong causality, and our perception of the steepness of the slope that makes us doubt the accuracy of the scientific model. It's the impossibility of the scale between the butterfly and the storm that intrigues us, but exhibits coherence when you focus. It mimics the models chaos proposes. It's a great metaphor.
Again, these are quibbles, kind of a fallacy in itself.
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Nate ... "panpsychism"... now there's a concept. Is the universe one thing - a cohesive system like a complex organism? Or is it a just conglomeration of galactic clusters like a cosmic junkyard?
If the universe is a super organism, how much care would such a "being" put into its tiny component parts? Would it care as much about you as you'd care about the fate of a single cell in your body? Destiny baby ... maybe best not to rely on it ...
Or to make a Dead Poets Society-esque speculation - the entire universe could even be a single subatomic particle of a larger being. Or maybe not :)
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I don't assume cause and effect. Show me an effect that has no cause. We may be using different definitions of the word assume. I use it as the insertion of an idea or principle that goes without knowing, but fits the parameters. I don't like that word.
I mentioned Panspermia twice, but never insisted on it. It does occur, but I only mentioned it as an idea as to why life itself was generated.
As far as Slippery Slope goes, it is not a valid form of argumentation. I have spent the past four semesters taking Philosophy, Logic, Ethics, and Critical Thinking, and can tell you without a doubt that the Slippery Slope is an argumental fallacy and is not acceptable as far as a reason to accept a claim. Every argument can be deconstructed as a slippery slope, but that is obviously in reverse.
I would just like to state that in this topic, I've picked my side, but that's it. I obviously don't know the answers, but also am not going to sway from the side I've chosen. I actually enjoy this kind of stuff.
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Or it's possible that life is just a stage in the evolution of the universe; just as living things have capacities beyond inanimate objects, something could spring from life that is more connected and potent still. The science fiction writer in me says that that our next stage of evolution will be cyborgism. We have been becoming more melded with our machines for a long time. This will only increase. In time we'll have all of Google at our disposal mentally as though the information was our own memories. We will be superhuman by today's standards.
The cyborgs' problem will be physical ailments since many will be living in a perfect virtual world and the body will lack exercise and won't evolve quickly enough. All body parts will be replaced by much more resilient mechanical parts. At one point there'll be just a brain in a mechanical body. Bit by bit the brain will be upgraded with mechanical replacement parts until there'll just be a frontal lobe. And then we will be much higher functioning machines - indestructable, able to travel interstellar distances. Can tear up any dance steps you can imagine with ease. Sing like Shirley Bassey. Almost anything.
But things won't be perfect. The songwriting will suck. There will be Pink Floyd and Devo tribute bands.
And yeah, I like this stuff more than drum chat, which is a lot!
Re: Can there be free will in a world where pre-destiny exists?
Alright. In my opinion, no. There cannot be free will in a world where pre-destiniy exists.
But there isn't any pre-destiny. No matter how you care to define it, there just isn't.
Call me J
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Re: Can there be free will in a world where pre-destiny exists?
J, addressing the actual topic was sooo three days ago!
Death and taxes are part of everyone's destiny.
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Ants can't contemplate their existence. My point stands.
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Consider the piano-falling-in-the-woods example upthread. You have an object, you have a space, and you therefore assume movement and presence in space and time. Now, imagine that same space, with no object in it. Do movement and time still provide explanative force (this is what Leibniz and Newton quarreled over)? Or is it the matter itself that provides the force, via will or some other innate energy?
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I think us humans tend to find more than is really there sometimes.
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My favorite way to contemplate whether or not there is destiny is this: Imagine if we could stop time and rewind it 10 seconds. When we played those 10 seconds back, would anything change from the way it played out the first time? And if you believe so, why?
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I chose to read the posts in this thread...I think, or was it my destiny? I am very impressed with the arguments for and against, though I do not claim to understand all of them, who said drummers aren't intellectual beings?
I swallowed my crayon now....
'I STILL wanna be the man with the 50lb hammer...'
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There are other destinies that are hereditary or conditional that one has almost no control over. That being said, I'm not going to be pretend that I understand half of what is being talked about in this thread.
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Who would thought that I was pre-destined to meet you at the LDS?
...or that the lovely house we just bought has been sold twice, the sale chain didn't went through twice, each time they had to put it back on the market, until we came around.... is that pre-destiny???
I don't really know, but I'm chuffed on both cases, you're a fine gentlman Larry and the house is perfect, it's my destiny and I'm pretty happy with it :)
Keep On Drumming
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LDS is coming up and I am getting more excited by the week...
So Henri, are you settled enough to be able to contribute here? I'd like to hear all about what you have been doing these last few months. Good to have you back man!
Sucking all the fun right out of life....
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Are we assuming there's more to animals than there really is? Or do we underestimate them?
My view is based on the fact that I know what it feels like to be alive and I can't see why the experience of being, surviving, thriving, pleasure and pain, etc would be so different for other animals. Philosophers talk about "the problem of other minds", which means we cannot be sure than any other person or animal is conscious or just programmed.
Our intuition says so but we can't know for sure, which was the thrust of a famous philosophical piece called 'What Is It Like To Be A Bat?" ... the answer, of course, being "dunno".
But do we really not know or do we expect too much certainty? Life for me seems pretty well as other humans describe it. So I'll assume it's not The Truman Show and everyone else is conscious and experiences life in a similar way to me - trials and tribulations, health and illness, happiness and sadness etc.
Now all this appears pretty similar to my dog. Her behaviour suggests a mentality like a human child whose mental age will never advance beyond 6 years or so. Given our different senses, she seems to respond to stimulus pretty similarly to how I did as a child.
I suspect that all animals have a commonality of existence - just with different senses, capacities and general makeup. Certainly, an ant's capacity for pain would seem trivial as compared with the Shakespearean suffering we humans experience, but an ant's suffering may not seem so trivial to the ant concerned ...
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Nice post Grea. Animals experience pain and I think all the other emotions we do. Maybe they can't express them in a way we understand. When I finally saw my cat after 3 weeks (I thought he ran away) I was all kinds of happy. He looked completely indifferent, no emotion like you would see in a dog. But when we leave for vacation, he becomes a wreck, doesn't eat. I caught a toad while fishing last week, and when I thrust my hook point through his thigh muscle, the sound he made let me know for sure he was in pain. He caught me no bass, so I let him off the hook. I bet he felt a little relief at being able to go free. This topic has gotten too deep for me to comment on anymore. You guys amaze me.
Sucking all the fun right out of life....
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Call me J
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I dunno, Grea. Dogs are pretty smart. Lumping all animals together isn't really something you can do. Some animals don't have even a central nervous system. They're not experiencing much more than plants are. Worms and ants aren't dogs.
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I have fish too, and they are trained to recognize the tapping on the glass when it is time to eat. A purely Pavlovian response, but still a response.
Even creatures without central nervous systems are thought to have some sort of awareness. Maybe not self awareness, but situational awareness at least. Look at trees when there is a possibility of rain, they turn their leaves up in order to catch the rain. Why would they do this if they weren't aware? And look at all the experiments done on plants that involve talking to the plants and/or playing them music. The resulting growth surely has something to do with awareness and feeling of some sort. I always wondered if it hurt the grass when I mow it.
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Nov. 1, 2013
ATHENS, Ga. --- The Georgia soccer team concluded the 2013 regular season Thursday evening and learned shortly after that it finished sixth in the conference heading into next week's SEC Championships in Orange Beach, Ala.
With an overall record of 12-6-1 and a league ledger of 5-5-1, Georgia is the No. 6 seed and will receive a first round bye into Wednesday's quarterfinal round. The Bulldogs will meet No. 3 South Carolina on Nov. 6 at 3:30 p.m. ET. The No. 7-10 seeds will play their first round games on Monday to kick off the action.
Georgia earned a 2-0 win over the Gamecocks earlier this season in the conference opener in Athens on Sept. 20.
Georgiadogs.com will offer live audio coverage and the Georgia Soccer Live Blog for the entirety of the team's stay at the tournament. The Bulldogs are in search of their first SEC title, while the winner also secures an automatic bid to the upcoming NCAA Championships.


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Let's take a short break from interleague play
May 21, 2010, 10:41 AM EDT
Interleague play begins again tonight. Feel the excitement?
Nah, me neither. Don't get me wrong: I was against interleague play when it was first proposed because I am a scared old man who fears change, but after it got started I got used to it rather quickly. I even began to enjoy some aspects of it. I'm not gonna lie to you: Mets-Yankees is kinda neat, as is the Cubs-White Sox, Angels-Dodgers and other geographic rivalries. I've even gotten into the Indians-Reds thing (though I wish they'd split the difference in travel time and play the games here in Columbus).
But like so many people — players included — I really wish they'd find a way to stick to those rivalry games and spare us series of the Rays-Astros variety, which outweigh those attendance-driving marquee matchups. I'd rather see more games between teams competing for playoff spots in their own leagues, thank you very much. The unbalanced schedule already means that some teams fighting for the postseason face a harder road than others. Interleague play exacerbates that. And leads to dumb two-game series. And makes people focus too much on league inequality and do a bunch of other things that, again, because I am old and fear change, I don't particularly like.
But it's not going anywhere. It has proven to be financially successful and does draw some people into the game who wouldn't otherwise watch it (baseball isn't dumb; they know people like me aren't going anywhere). We all like to pretend that baseball is a public trust or something, with its mission being to make us all warm and happy, but it's a business just like any other business, and interleague play makes good business sense.
Still, interleague play doesn't start until tonight, and I'm already tired of it. So how about this one, tiny suggestion: give it a two-year break so as to restore some of the novelty of it. Take those two years and see whether we're scheduling out interleague play optimally or to see how else we can improve it. I can't help but think that there's a better way to do this whole thing.
A way that doesn't make the whole affair both unfair and yawn-inducing.
- guest - May 21, 2010 at 4:29 PM
who cares about the unbalanced schedule. id rather see the royals vs the reds than the boring pirates again and again. sure id rather see them play the phillies or rockies or dodgers more but you cant play them all the time or it becomes like the pirates series to me.
- Eternal Optimist - May 21, 2010 at 4:41 PM
Amen to that!
- Bronx HS - May 21, 2010 at 4:51 PM
Baseball is no longer relevant. Over priced players; drug abusers and other less than stellar personal habits. Wake up to the over-hype of the media unless, perhaps, the Matrix is real and this is all a horrible dream
- BehrFacts - May 21, 2010 at 5:00 PM
Inter "league" doesn't work for the "league."
It works in some specific instances, either for cross town rivals or a few choice neighboring city matchups.
As someone who hasn't really come back to being a full time MLB fan since the days of play stopping labor disputes…I wait til the world series for the only meaningful interleague play that I care about.
- Mr. Z - May 21, 2010 at 5:05 PM
If it were not for the DH interleague play would be the worst idea ever visited on MLB
- JJMN - May 21, 2010 at 5:21 PM
Ah, the Rockies are playing IN Minnesota…
- Jack Meoffer - May 21, 2010 at 5:21 PM
I love interleague play. Nothing excites me more ever few years when the Florida Marlins and Seattle Mariners match up in a clash against titans. I get a warm feeling all over my body.
- Jangocat - May 21, 2010 at 5:40 PM
No way man, I don't know about other towns but the Phillies have awesome inter league games. Playing the Red Sox tonight. It doesn't get any better then to play some of the powerhouse AL teams like the Sox and the Yankees. They play the Sox 2 series and the Yankee's 1. I could do without the Twins series on their schedule but it will still be interesting enough seeing some different players.
- scatterbrian - May 21, 2010 at 5:45 PM
You might as well give up on all sports and forms of entertainment with that criteria.
- Mikey - May 21, 2010 at 5:53 PM
Shut up and leave inter league play alone…There are some better games in these series than there are in 'normal' play. what difference does it make anyway??? These are not just exhibition games, they count…. Want to change something??? AL teams should be allowed to use DL in all games… It's to damn bad that the NL doesn't use it..
- zitiz64 - May 21, 2010 at 6:05 PM
Lets get the designated hitter uniform one way or the other then and only then does Interleague make sense.
- Big Al - May 21, 2010 at 7:10 PM
Make it go away. Then maybe the Cardinals and Cubs could play each other more than three times before the middle of August. Go Cards.
- Cello Tune - May 31, 2010 at 12:15 PM
I like interleague play. The variety is great. The geographic "rivalries" playing every year may be a bit much (like Mets-Yankees, Angels-Dodgers, etc.). What if the leagues were even with the same amount of teams? There would be one interleague series everyday. Now which should switch leagues?
I think the schedules could be more balanced in each league. I hate to see a team play its own divisional teams 18 or 19 times. Reduce those games in favor of some intra-divisional rivalries and put them on a rotational basis. For instance, instead of the Atlanta Braves playing 18 or 19 games against their divisional opponents, reduce those and have them play an extra series against the Cubs, Cardinals, Astros, Dodgers, and Giants one year and the next, the Pirates, Brewers, Reds, Padres, and Diamondbacks. The home-away of those series would rotate. Within the division, there would be one less series and the home-away rotation would also take affect annually.
- Cello Tune - May 31, 2010 at 12:21 PM
Use the DH for all inter-league games on the even-numbered years only. Don't use the DH on the odd-numbered years for all inter-league games.
Ever considered a home-opener inter-league game? I guess so if both leagues were balanced and there was an inter-league series every day of the season.
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Photography Show at Belen Art League
In 2010, the Belen Art League wanted to bring a few more people through its doors and thought photography might be one way to do it, says CeCe Aragon, a BAL volunteer.
Four years later, the BAL Spring Photography Show is a bigger hit than ever, drawing in 14 photographers and 49 photos in the categories of Student Beginner, Non-Professional and Professional.
On Friday Michael Ceschiat, head of the University of New Mexico-Valencia Campus Art Department, walked the rooms of the Becker Street gallery, judging the dozens of unique images displayed throughout, listening to his emotional responses to determine who would take home the first-, second- and third-place ribbons in each category and the coveted Best of Show.
"The judge chose the picture that spoke to him and emitted some kind of emotional response," said Aragon.
Best of Show went to William Pearson's photo of a crumbling adobe with a horse taking a mid-day siesta in it's shadow, his head resting in a window frame.
Aragon said Ceschiat chose the photo, appropriately titled "Midday," because the structure is such a quintessential New Mexican scene and the equine added a humorous touch.
In the Student Beginner category, Monika Martin took first for her photo "Old Bar in Mountainair," and third place for "Broken Vase," while second place was won by Nikki Morgan for her photo "One Love, One Nation."
In the Non-Professional Category, Malvern "Mal" Stevens won first place for "Quarai, Salinas Pueblo Mission" and second for "Belen Water Tower," and third place went to Geni Hatch's photo "We Are Packed and Ready."
Honorable mention in that category was given to CeCe Aragon's "I Hate War" photo.
In the Professional category, Rosalind Ogawa received the first-place ribbon for her photo "Staircase in the Woods," and second place for "Mandala Dissolution," while Jamie Ford took home third for her photo "Room with a View."
Ogawa said she has been working in photography for around 70 years, since she was a child helping her father in his darkroom in their home from the time she could walk.
"My dad gave me a camera he brought back from Germany after the war," Ogawa said. "I think he found it in the rubble in Berlin. It was a tiny little box camera."
Ogawa, who now shoots primarily with digital, said her interest in photography has to do with the process of focusing on details, preserving experiences and the "high" you get when you find something you enjoy looking at.
"I get high just looking at shadows," she says. "I've never had the greatest memory in the world either, so it's a way to document and remember things."
Ford is a multi-media artist whose artistic eye lends itself naturally to the realm of photography.
"I've been snapping photos my whole life," Ford says, adding that her grandchildren are among her favorite subjects. Her photo, "Room with a View," captured the image of a bird house nestled in the trees in Florida in late November when she was visiting family.
"I knew as soon as I took the picture that it was one of my all-time favorite that I've taken," she says.
Ford says photography allows her to capture a moment in time and focus on elements that could be ignored in the rush of the world.
Stevens, who also paints in watercolor, is another life-long photographer that credits the craft as "a fun hobby."
"When I was a boy, all we had were little 'brownie box' cameras and I was never satisfied with the pictures they made," Stevens said.
So when he got into his 20s, he purchased his first 35mm film camera. Then, after serving in the military for 6 1/2 years, he went back to college to finish his degree, where he took photography classes.
"It was just something I couldn't get away from," he says. "It's sort of record keeping, but you also look for pretty things and try to get a good angel on it."
The photography show will be up at the BAL, located at 509 Becker Ave. in Belen, until May 17. The gallery is open from 12-4 p.m., Wednesday through Saturday.
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May 1, 2009
Box Score
Ryan Saldivar hit an RBI single in the eighth to break a 2-2 tie and propel Lamar to a 3-2 win over McNeese State in a classic pitchers duel at Vincent-Beck Stadium in the first game of a split Southland Conference series Friday night.
Lamar's Eric Harrington allowed two runs in the eighth and McNeese's Tyler Davis surrendered a pair in the fourth as the starters allowed just 10 hits combined as neither factored into the decision. For Harrington, it is his fourth no decision, with seven wins and zero losses, as he struck out seven and allowed just one unearned run on four hits.
Instead, Ricky Testa (4-3) picked up the win for the Cardinals as he struck out four in 1.2 innings of one-hit ball, while Scott Holstein (2-5) was saddled with the loss after Saldivar's hit and a pair of walks were the only men he allowed to reach base in his one inning of work.
Lamar (31-17, 15-10 SLC) extended its winning streak to seven games and remained in a tie for third in the SLC standings with UTSA and UT Arlington. The Cards had seven hits, four walks and left seven runners on base, with three in scoring position.
McNeese State (19-24, 8-17 SLC) dropped its seventh-straight game and managed just eight base runners on the night. Sam Merrill had two hits, a walk and a RBI to lead the Cowboy offense. Steven Irvine had a bunt single off Testa on a safety squeeze in the top of the eighth that tied the game at 2-2.
The Cardinals took a 2-0 lead in the fourth inning when Jeremiah Sammy and Quentin Luquette had run scoring singles to the left side for each of their first hits of the game. Sammy, Saldivar and Tyler Link each had two hits for the Cardinals. Saldivar's game winner was hit just over the outstretched glove of second baseman Jace Peterson, who was making just his ninth start of the season due to a broken collarbone that shortstop Shon Landry suffered earlier this week.
All 12 hits were singles with none giving even a hint of extra bases.
The teams will move to Cowboy Diamond in Lake Charles, La. for the final two games of their series. Saturday's game will start at 3 p.m. and Sunday's is set for a 1 p.m. first pitch.


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I'm as new to Linux, as you are to Solaris, so I have no solutions. However, your mention of solving a problem such as this by removing the nvidia module caught my eye. I have had the same problem updating the kernel in SuSe in the past, so I have been delaying doing this again, until I understood how to deal with it. However, I have never installed the Nvidia driver on any of these installations, because the installer asks for a newer kernel than I have. When I run rmmod, it says that no module even exists, so obviously it could not be removed. This would suggest that something else is the basis of the problem. However I have used the SuSe installation repair function, to repair and reinstall Grub, but this did not solve the problem either. Though you are still seeking a solution for Solaris, perhaps you could shed some light on Linux?
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Imagining iOS 5 [Updated]
Back on March 1, I tried to imagine what we'd see in iOS 5. Unlike preview years, however, there was no iOS 5 event in the spring. Instead, Apple will now be previewing iOS 5 in June, at WWDC 2011. As in this monday. So I'm revisiting my list, updating it with the latest news and rumors, and wondering what Apple could do that'll be big enough to make us forget the lack of a new iPhone introduction this time around.
So what will iOS 5 bring? We'll give you our want list, after the break.
Apple ID activation (via iCloud account?)
Right now before you can use a new iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad you (or the store where you bought it) have to tether it to iTunes on Mac or Windows and "activate" it. How 2007. Android just needs a Gmail address. webOS just needs a Palm profile. Facebook phones (you know they're coming!) will just need your @facebook.com address. Apple has millions and millions of iTunes IDs, Apple IDs, and MobileMe IDs. Let us use those -- or better yet, unify those first and then let us use our unified Apple ID -- an iCloud ID perhaps -- to activate our iOS devices.
Moreover, just like when you login to MobileMe for the first time on a new Mac, let iOS immediately check the iCloud and download our preferences. Let us type in that ID and get our mail, calendar, and contacts accounts, Wi-Fi setups, and all our other Settings synced down to our device.
If we lose our iPhone or iPad, or simply update to a new one, we should be able to login with our Apple ID and immediately have our phone restored to a personalized, working state. Sure huge media, apps, games, etc. will still require iTunes tether to sync, but give us a basic on-device, online way to start.
(Seeing as how the facial recognition login is still likely a few years off...)
Untethered firmware updates (via Airport/Time Capsule?)
Wireless sync and software updates are the dream. Zune tried with the former and Android and webOS already do the latter. The size of iOS updates -- the entire firmware re-installed each time -- require such a solid internet and power connection that tethering to iTunes is often the right choice.
But rumor has it Apple might be using their Airport Extreme + hard drive combo, Time Capsule, to stage firmware updates. Since they're plugged in and on ethernet, much like the Apple TV, they could presumably load up and make firmware updates available on-device, like Apple TV already does.
Even more interesting would be a trickle update, where tiny binary files containing the just the updated bits would constantly become available when online. A bad trickle update could kill your device, so there's a lot to be concerned about still, but that certainly seems like a better future, and one Google's Chrome experiments with today.
Contact and status aggregation (and Twitter integration?)
Once we have the one Apple ID to rule them all, we need a saner way of handling all the other IDs and accounts. Facetiously I'd say just copy webOS' Syngery. Seriously, however, between email, IM, Twitter and Facebook status, contact information, and all the different online stores with often conflicting data it's annoying and unworkable to keep them all sandboxed and separate. We've been asking for this on iOS for years now as well.
If we know a contacts online account, let us enter it. Then pull in their profile information and status, silo it so it stays internally separate, but present it back to us in a unified view.
Facebook is presenting email, IM, SMS, etc. in a unified Facebook message system now and while it's still a little kludgy it shows how the boundary between different communication forms are breaking down. Apple is great at "hiding the pipes" (the backend data sources that bring information into their apps) and showing the user only a single clean, consistent UI. They're doing that now with unified inbox in Mail -- regardless of which account an individual message is in, we see them all in the unified inbox. It would be great to see Apple expand this not just across email accounts but across protocols.
If I bring up Leanna, let me see her latest emails, Twitter and Facebook status, IM's, SMS, etc. all as "messages" (hey, let 3rd parties hook in so I can see Foursquare, Instagram, etc. if she offers them and I approve them on my device.) Then thread them and let me reply back to them automagically using the proper protocol.
We've heard rumors now that Twitter will be deeply integrated into iOS 5. An additional way to share photos, perhaps. A communication protocol to peer email and SMS, potentially. iOS' answer to BlackBerrys BBM, even. That's all fine for Twitter but Twitter isn't the sum total of internet chat. We need more.
App state sync (via iCloud?)
Taking it one step further, right now if we use an app on iPhone and then go and use the same app on iPad -- even if it's a universal binary -- there's no persistency of state. Unless the developer is syncing on their own or with a popular web service like DropBox, there's no way to get to your latest data from different devices. Apple could provide a consistent method for doing this.
We've asked for it before when it comes to games -- let Game Center sync our game progress between devices. If we get to a certain level in Infinity Blade on iPhone we want to pick up iPad and keep going from that level. But really, a general app state sync API would be even better. When iOS saves the information locally, push it up to the cloud and the next time the app is launched on any device, check the cloud for the latest state.
Given Apple has now announced they'll be showing off iCloud services, but haven't uttered a peep about what those services will include, it could be a logical fit for state syncing too. (Like the Data Center, until we know what it's for, it's for everything, right?)
App store upgrades
Originally I wanted App Store trials, subscriptions, and upgrades. To be able to download an app or game, try it for a short period of time, then decide to buy it and if the developer offers a really compelling upgrade, pay for it without having to buy a whole new "2" app would be fantastic for users and developers alike. Over time, with freemium and $0.99 apps with in-app purchases the need to demo has lessened for me. And Apple has already announced subscriptions -- to much controversy -- but upgrades are still needed.
iTunes knows what apps we've bought. We know it knows because when we try to buy a paid app we've already bought, iTunes tells use we've already bought it and that we can download it again for free. Why can't the same system be used to determine, for example, that we've already bought Tweetie 1 and hence we can download Tweetie 2 at an upgrade price. Apple could allow developers to set that upgrade price in iTunes Connect, an extension of how they can set universal sale prices today. We've seen some strange screens pop up that seem to indicate Apple is at least experimenting with the idea, but why not pull the trigger? Again, it's more overhead for Apple but the customer experience boost would be enormous.
Note: With Lodsys now filing suit against developers for using in-app purchase as way to upgrade from free/lite to full apps, the need for real, App Store handled demos is back.
File handling
Similarly, it's still vexing to try and get your documents onto iOS, to make sure you have the latest version, to be able to edit it and seamlessly save it back to the device and cloud. For years we've asked for a Mobile Finder app, or more recently a Files app, that would work like a system-wide repository for documents the way Photos works for videos and images.
Most users don't need file system access the same way they don't need everything running in the background all the time. What they need is the functionality file access provides in a way that's robust and usable on mobile devices.
In that way a Files.app would give us access all our documents the same way we go to the Photos app or call up the picture picker in a 3rd party app today. (Yes, pretty much what Apple does in the online-only iDisk app.)
Good on-device handling is only one piece of the puzzle, however. We need to be able to round-trip the documents from our Windows or Mac PC and our Google or iCloud. Right now we can do some of that, sort of, in a painful and convoluted way. Apple is addressing some of this in the new Mac OS X Lion preview with AirDrop -- a way to move files between Macs as easily as iOS moves video and print jobs with AirPlay and AirPrint. There are also hints of improved WebDAV-based sharing in OS X Lion Server. But that all still sounds disjointed and overly complex.
Something that combines the Files.app idea with AirDrop, supported on iOS, Mac, and PC, and able to sync with a far more robust, speedy, and reliable iDisk or WebDAV would be grand. While I don't expect Apple to include support for DropBox, Box.net, Google Docs, etc. letting the user configure them in a WebDAV-like manner would be outstanding.
Open Files.app. Add a sync source if you want one and have one. Let any app, including iWork, Docs to Go, QuickOffice, etc. open, edit, and save back the files. And keep them in sync. (Oh, and add similar cloud sync options to Photos.)
And again, this is the place for a nebulous, "let iCloud handle it" comment. Going from Keynote on Mac to iPad to iPhone could be transparent under a system like that.
System-wide Voice Control
Apple introduced basic VoiceControl a couple years ago in iOS 3 for iPhone 3GS letting us place calls or play music. Google trounced this with system-wide voice commands in Android starting with the Nexus One last year. Apple needs to take the lead back here. There are lots of rumors that Apple will use their SIRI acquisition to bridge the gap but SIRI isn't voice control any more than it's a search engine. It uses voice recognition to tie into popular, existing search engines to provide basic, intelligent services for users. Steve Jobs has called it Artificial Intelligence. SIRI could be a robust extension of voice control and a way to "synergize" multiple sources of online data, but Apple needs to deliver the underpinnings and that's new, home-grown tech.
With rumors of a massive Nuance partnership at work, it looks like the people who bring us Dragon Dictate could be making this a reality. Finally.
Elegant notifications
Apple's current badge, sound, and popup notification system -- virtually unchanged since 2007 -- is so unwieldy that it's difficult to imagine Apple built it knowing 3rd party apps and push notifications were in the pipeline. Android is less obtrusive but can become messy quickly, webOS far more elegant, and while Jailbreak has offered several interesting alternatives for iOS, none of them seem like an Apple solution.
And we need an Apple solution. The status quo is untenable. If you're on the phone or playing a game and one -- or so help you many -- popups appear you have to view them immediately or dismiss them forever and you can't even hang up your call or do any basic screen command while that model dialog remains on screen. It's like being a prisoner. And if you dismiss it out of annoyance you may not even remember what it was for later, and you have no workable way of finding out.
More than just a better system for staking and packing notifications, we need a better way to interact with them. Like Ally said, BiteSMS for Jailbreak runs rings around the current iOS Messages app. That might not be the model Apple implements, but it should be the spirit.
It's the last truly gaping, galling deficiency in iOS. It's the last huge item other mobile OS use to poke fun. It just has to be fixed. Fortunately Apple hired the man who designed the webOS notification system so that's reassuring.
It took 3 years for copy/paste, 4 years for multitasking -- 5 should be notifications.
We've heard Apple is working on it. Apple hired Rich Dellinger, the guy who architected notifications for webOS almost a year ago. My guess is we'll get it, but we'll get it on Apple's terms -- meaning just like how multitasking wasn't the traditional method but addressed a lot of user facing issues, iOS 5 notifications won't be like Android or webOS or Jailbreak, but will address a set of common needs.
Theme Store
Georgia said this well; Apple doesn't need to do themes the way Cydia or BlackBerry does. At least not at first. They could provide their own set of 4-6 themes to start the same way they offer templates in Keynote or Pages. They could sell them in a Theme Store and once the process was hardened, slowly open it up to 3rd parties.
There's a lot of money to be made in themes. Apple likes money. Users like themes. It's simple math, even if implementing it is complex.
I don't think we'll see it in iOS 5 but hey, we'll need something to look forward to for iOS 6...
iWork for iPhone... got dropped in a PR this week. iMovie for iPad and GarageBand came with iPad 2, as did PhotoBooth. There aren't a lot of signature Apple apps missing from iOS anymore, with the notable exception of a real iPhoto or Aperture for image editing.
Apple will be sticking with Google for Map Data but we could see a new Maps app, using Google new vector tiles and Placebase and Poly9 or other differentiating technology would be great. Even at the amazing pace Apple has updated and released a lot of the iOS apps there's still so much that could be done with the built-in and App Store apps that we could easily fill another post. (And likely will!) but this is another area to watch come iOS 5.
A new weather app -- one with landscape mode for more details -- would be good as well. Anything left untouched since iOS 1 really needs some attention...!
NFC, maybe in a discreet mobile payments app, could appear but that feels more like a fall and iPhone 5 announcement.
Like we said in Imagining iPad 2, while Apple is secretive they're also cyclical and subject to the laws of physics and economics, which means they're somewhat predictable. This year's iOS will fill some gaps, shave off some rough edges, surprise and delight us with a few killer features, and disappoint us with a couple inexplicable misses.
If Apple shows off iOS 5 tomorrow our guess is 2011 will be the year of notifications, cloud, and a lot more. What are your guesses?
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TechCrunch is reporting that Apple has hired Peter Hajas, the creator of jailbreak MobileNotifier, though this apparently only was in the last week or so, so it is highly unlikely any of his work would be in an iOS5 announcement, unless they had been working on his OSS code before formally announcing a hire. http://goo.gl/RwgjX
WHOA, nice!!! Personally I prefer Notified Pro, but Hajas's app is still fantastic. Hopefully this brings good things!
custom text tones... apple has been lagging on these for way to long!!!!
Great article. I'd love everything stated in here. Honestly, it's asking for a lot all at once though. Notifications, twitter integration, icloud integration, cosmetic changes and 1 or 2 other things on the list is what i'm expecting. Maybe they should hire you next so you can educate them on what the consumer really wants next. If i had to make a list. I'd just steal yours lol
I'm firmly in the camp that themes are a pipe dream. Apple has given no indication that they will support anything theme like except for maybe the color of text highlighting and scroll bars. That has been the case since Mac OS X was first rolled out and stayed that way. I'm also firmly in agreement with what apple must be thinking... themes ruin the UI experience. They change things only for the sake of change. Changing the UI theme changes the experience and makes the device harder to use. Steve wants someone to be able to pick up any iOS device and be able to use it. It's part of the experience. It's also meaningless fluff, it doesn't help me consume content or get work done. I do NOT want themes, they are a bad idea that people continue to delude themselves into thinking they need.
an example of meaningless fluff like this are the motion wallpapers android supports. Great idea, until you realize they drain the battery. What functionality did that motion wallpaper get you? And you don't realize it until you say "OMFG this phone sucks the battery life is awful." So now it becomes a crappy feature. And yet people still to this day think it's an advantage over iPhone. They shut up real quick when ask them what affect that has on their battery life.
I can personalize my phone with a simple non-motion wallpaper and it doesn't interfere with the interface. That's all I need.
Not just the folders are wrong. The fact that Apple presents a bunch of colorful but useless icons in the home screen is a bad idea. It is a poor use of precious screen real-estate and the folders just aggravated the problem. Apple is way behind in widgets (Android) / tiles (Windows Phone 7) and better catches up in iOS 5.
Wtf more can they do with folders?! Android is basically the same and WP7 doesnt even support them!
Great article, I really hope Apple fix notifications in iOS 5. Looking forward to hearing the details of iCloud at WWDC.
As usual iOS5 will be a let down to most people,hype on the build up is always the same with loads of what people want and expect not in it,I love my iPhone 4 but am really boared of the GUI and hope Apple revise this so I stay with them for a few more years until a real iPhone killer takes over,cus it will happen.
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Nevermind yet another way to share photos... just give me a way to organize my photos!!!
There are already apps that have a "trial" or "demo", then you pay the in-app price to unlock the rest. Mainly, Hidden-Picture games. Most of them are free for the first 1 or 2 chapters, and then $4.99 to upgrade and get access to the rest of the game. My girlfriend is a big hidden picture game fan, and she has loved all of the ones on the iPad. The touch interface + the far better visuals than PC ones really grabbed her.
I'd like to see a decent notifications system and a better way to handle photos. Anything other than that is gravy.Oh, and cuatom text tones - that way people will stop b1tching about them.
Glad to hear the rumour about the maker of MobileNotifier getting hired by Apple, his recent updates have been nothing short of stunning - just a few settings changes reqd to be perfect for the wider iOS using community
I'm not fussed about iCloud but would like to see tighter integration between apps, why can't facebook or twitter apps open when I get linked to these pages? It's sealed off working & it's less productive & a bad user experience. The mutterings from MS is that WP7 will be looking at tighter integrations & that can only be a good thing
Nice article but quite a few typos :)
I really wanted to have the ability to chose which song to play on the multitasking tray, we would just click on the iPod icon and a pop up would appear that reassembles the iPhone ipod app, so we would just touch the song we wanted to play
A new notification system is my biggest wish. Another big wish would be greater interoperability between apps. Like being able to add a "share to" menu item. eg. I'm looking at a web page, and I can "share" it to Evernote, etc., without having to mail it to an email address. Or the ability to be looking through the photo album and being able to share it with something that Apple doesn't provide natively (Picasa, Posterous, Photobucket). I don't think we'll see this given Apple's walled garden approach to everything, but I can hope. I also hope that someday that they allow other phone apps to be used (similar to Android) with an optional (i.e. only if the user enables it so as to prevent apps from taking over or confusing less technical users) popup to use Google Voice or Line2 instead of the native phone app. It would make it easier for me to use my iPhone for business yet keep my work and home life separate.
Nice piece Rene. Lots more "visionary" than what I see elsewhere, and that's necessary if an article like this is to be at all useful.
Hopefully in the same vein, I would like to see some visionary and disruptive changes made to FaceTime. In particular, if a FaceTime call fails (busy, or can't answer) that nice new iCloud capability in Virginia should offer to take an audio-visual, or audio only, message, and notify the intended recipient that message(s) await. Apple does not like to be beholden to the carriers, and this would certainly help the emancipation of Apple and the loosening of monopolies, while offering a truly useful service.
Also for FaceTime, it should be possible to play photos or videos from the camera roll in background while having a FaceTime chat (substituting for back-side camera on command). Apple TV 2 should be enabled to accept several FaceTime feeds at once and show them all on the big-screen TV. Might require a protocol permitting simultaneous view but only one 'caster at a time.
On another issue, I really would like to see user accounts on iDevices, combined with immediate implementation of facial recognition to ensure the right account is opened. Unlike what you implied in your article, I think this use for facial recognition could be implemented today. After all it would require actual recognition of only two to four faces in most cases, with all others being "not authorised". I think this could work today even if facial movement (speaking) were required for higher-security recognition. And for very highest security, this could be combined with voice-print recognition. I expect the biggest immediate use would be an families with children. The children would just love being asked by name what they would like to do today. And they would not be able to do or access any 'Adult stuff'. Apple of course would have to make a bunch of policy (read profitability) decisions, like does it sell an App twice for two users on one device, or insist that developers enable the same App to differentiate among users (e.g. Different photo and music collections, different documents in Word, different relationships to iCloud, etc) and charge a little less than double for such differentiated usage.
I think I am beginning to move from 'visionary' to 'death by detail', so time to stop now ....
Dialer. IPhone needs to be able to dial like Blackberry (never used Android so don't know if it can). Just start typing a name and voila! You get a number from contacts. I don't get why this is so hard for Apple to implement? I just bought a cheap $25 Nokia phone for emergencies and it has the same clunky 1990's contact search capability as iphone, just less elegant. It's a pain and less efficient to have to go to my contacts list and search for the number. I just switched from Blackberry and I have to say for ease of use, efficiency, and email, Blackberry has Apple beat (just relax fanboys cause my iphone now unifies all tech in my house - from phone to computer (2) I own all Apple).
Definitely file.app. With access to files like Blackberry, maybe it won't be so inefficient to send attachments in emails. I hate when I'm in the middle of typing an quick email, suddenly realise I need to attach something and then "crap!" I have to open up another app to access the file I want and restart my email (yes I can just cut and paste, but its a clunky way of doing it).
As useful and cool as the iphone is, it's just not streamlined for business, especially when you have to move between apps to do something. Some people may not mind, but for the price of an iPhone (unsubsidized) you'd think something like the dialer wouldn't be so "difficult" to use.
Maybe year six will include account specific email alerts and signatures. The iPhone is an amazing device, but its email handling and alerts is about 4 years behind the times. I come from the BB world, and for all the wonderful advancements, the BB still stomps the iPhone when it comes to handling multiple alerts and handling lots of messages. The major leg up for the iPhone is how amazingly well ActiveSync works, which BB has never had the visibility (due to the impact it would have on BEZ) to embrace. These sorts of decisions are what will eventually kill off BB.
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The Blue Devils held their first spring practice, gathering on the field for the first time since the difficult 48-34 loss to Cincinnati in the Belk Bowl on Dec. 27.
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Cutcliffe said it is up to Sirk to decide how much of a quarterback competition the team will have.
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Boone said playing behind Renfree the past three years, two active years and one while he was redshirting in 2010, have prepared him well for this assignment.
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