probably the same guy who modded parent troll) only read the headline and thinks the Governor is confiscating people's private phones.
Well, the typically sloppy slashdot editing is partially to blame.
The article doesn't say "confiscate". It says "the collection and return" (of items already owned by the Government...small detail). If people (not you) continue just read slashdot summaries, they are only getting half the picture, and even then, it's usually wrong, or so severely biased, that it leads people who don't RTFA to draw faulty conclusions.
I'm consistently amazed that people have any feelings (let alone strong ones) for service providers. It's the phone, not the network. Well, for some people it can't be the phone because the phone only works on a network they can't access. I'm guessing this is why adding Verizon is good for both Apple and Verizon.
I'm not aware of any incompatibility issues with new versions of the iPhone. This is one selling point (for me at least).
Applying the shortcomings of the open Android environment to the iPhone, when the iPhone's environment is designed specifically to avoid those problems is not valid.
BZZZZZ...he never said anything the performance of Android phones. Defending the merit of an iPhone is not the same thing as criticising an Android phone.
When some one has not even heard the name of a phone, specs are the only way they are going to sell.
No, this is simply not true.
Watch an iPhone commercial and tell me what specs they advertise. They don't. They show a guy using (some of) the features on the phone in a way that people can understand, regardless of tech specs.
They also publish specs to "check the box" for the lazy shoppers who don't want to feel like they are missing out.
Seriously, compare a Nikon and Canon equivalent DSLR. They all have features A, B, C...some have D, while others have E and F but not G. I'm thinking specifically of my dad who bought some lousy Sony camera because "it has more pixels than your Canon 1D".....riiiiiiight.
Why is it, though, that few people actually care about HOW GOOD Nikon's A is compared to Canon's A? They only care that Nikon has A, B, D, E, F.
Consumers are dumb so we get dumb marketing. If it didn't work, they would keep doing it.
"Lots of people care" is a very narrow, somewhat ego-centric distortion of a greater reality, however.
Yes, lots of people care about specs but most don't. If most people did, you could argue most people would have mostly the same stuff, because it is clearly evident that most stuff for sale can be quantifiably identified as being better or worse than the other thing.
If there's one thing I've learned in 41 years about US consumerism, it's that companies make stuff for the indiscriminate masses, not the hard-core hobbyists. There's more money to make that way.
What does "taking a slash" mean? Public urination? If so, then no, not even the most absurdly conservative jurisdictions would classify that as a sex offender.
If a person is going to have to pay for the rest of their lives with such limitations on their freedom, then why not simply execute them and be done with it?
Well I for one would rather live with a monitoring device and not be executed if I were a sex offender.
The binary logic of the slashdot crowd today is exceptionally prevalent.
And what, exactly, does our government plan to do? The article's premise is what his defense lawyers say could happen to him, not what the US government plans to do.
Not true. I'm a former public school curriculum designer (computer ed), and in the three different school districts I've worked in, keyboarding has been a curriculum standard for all three....IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
They are taught how to touch type and even required to meet minimum wpm. The fact that "many" don't know how is more a reflection that we try to make "every" child be able to instead of just those who want to learn how to.
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probably the same guy who modded parent troll) only read the headline and thinks the Governor is confiscating people's private phones.
Well, the typically sloppy slashdot editing is partially to blame.
The article doesn't say "confiscate". It says "the collection and return" (of items already owned by the Government...small detail). If people (not you) continue just read slashdot summaries, they are only getting half the picture, and even then, it's usually wrong, or so severely biased, that it leads people who don't RTFA to draw faulty conclusions.
I'm consistently amazed that people have any feelings (let alone strong ones) for service providers. It's the phone, not the network. Well, for some people it can't be the phone because the phone only works on a network they can't access. I'm guessing this is why adding Verizon is good for both Apple and Verizon.
I'm not aware of any incompatibility issues with new versions of the iPhone. This is one selling point (for me at least).
Applying the shortcomings of the open Android environment to the iPhone, when the iPhone's environment is designed specifically to avoid those problems is not valid.
BZZZZZ...he never said anything the performance of Android phones. Defending the merit of an iPhone is not the same thing as criticising an Android phone.
When some one has not even heard the name of a phone, specs are the only way they are going to sell.
No, this is simply not true.
Watch an iPhone commercial and tell me what specs they advertise. They don't. They show a guy using (some of) the features on the phone in a way that people can understand, regardless of tech specs.
They also publish specs to "check the box" for the lazy shoppers who don't want to feel like they are missing out.
Seriously, compare a Nikon and Canon equivalent DSLR. They all have features A, B, C...some have D, while others have E and F but not G. I'm thinking specifically of my dad who bought some lousy Sony camera because "it has more pixels than your Canon 1D".....riiiiiiight.
Why is it, though, that few people actually care about HOW GOOD Nikon's A is compared to Canon's A? They only care that Nikon has A, B, D, E, F.
Consumers are dumb so we get dumb marketing. If it didn't work, they would keep doing it.
"Lots of people care" is a very narrow, somewhat ego-centric distortion of a greater reality, however.
Yes, lots of people care about specs but most don't. If most people did, you could argue most people would have mostly the same stuff, because it is clearly evident that most stuff for sale can be quantifiably identified as being better or worse than the other thing.
If there's one thing I've learned in 41 years about US consumerism, it's that companies make stuff for the indiscriminate masses, not the hard-core hobbyists. There's more money to make that way.
Apple is now releasing a seven month old single-core phone against a deluge of versatile dual-core Tegra 2 devices.
And most people (not on slashdot) don't even know what that means, nor do they care. I know what that means I don't really care.
What does "taking a slash" mean? Public urination? If so, then no, not even the most absurdly conservative jurisdictions would classify that as a sex offender.
If a person is going to have to pay for the rest of their lives with such limitations on their freedom, then why not simply execute them and be done with it?
Well I for one would rather live with a monitoring device and not be executed if I were a sex offender.
The binary logic of the slashdot crowd today is exceptionally prevalent.
The idea of parole has never been insulting. That's all this is...parole. Screw up and back you go....
Yes, but will Verizon offer the "Dropped Calls" feature I get with AT&T?
Last I heard there wasn't a single person they could prove was harmed by the wikileaks releases
Well then you aren't paying attention. Your ignorance is not an accurate indication of reality.
And what, exactly, does our government plan to do? The article's premise is what his defense lawyers say could happen to him, not what the US government plans to do.
Not Detwoit!
Small-yet-critical-detail -- he was beaten and detained by Kuwaiti's in a Kuwaiti jail.
Kuwaitis are not the United States Government and Kuwati jails aren't policed by Americans.
Bonus 20 IQ points for not wearing a ball cap in the first place.
But the above post says casinos can ban people for "any" reason, not any "other" reason as you've correctly pointed out.
Call bs if you want but that's not what I said.
Too true, too true.
I'd like to see precedent where somebody was prosecuted for a bank giving you wrong change and you keeping it. Thats not stealing.
I suppose this is why we have air traffic control.
"[they] rely on mainly informal reasoning derived from their personal experiences,
I hang around this lot!
http://www.slashdot.org/
Oh yes, indeed, there it is. Proof that, in making everything BOLD, nothing stands out (page layout 101).
Then it's not a bad slashdot summary, it's a bad article summary.
Not true. I'm a former public school curriculum designer (computer ed), and in the three different school districts I've worked in, keyboarding has been a curriculum standard for all three....IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
They are taught how to touch type and even required to meet minimum wpm. The fact that "many" don't know how is more a reflection that we try to make "every" child be able to instead of just those who want to learn how to.