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 <[email protected]>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 > > -- > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) > Principal, High Performance Coders > Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] > University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >
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