The Wired article http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/07/bluerats/ notes that they dropped a 10 gram weight onto the backs of the mice while the mice were under anesthesia (it doesn't specify if the weight was made by ACME).
A quick Google Pulled up the Phones as:
Phones (and associated test platform)
* Blackberry(TBA)
* Android(Dev G1)
* iPhone(locked 2.0)
* Nokia/Symbian(N95-1)
* Windows Mobile (HTC Touch)
I have the HTC Touch. It has a built in security feature: It will crash whatever you are running to try to exploit it. If anyone here figures out how to exploit it, please tell Microsoft. Not so that they will patch it, but so they can use it as an example to developers for how to code.
...let her know that you will definitely not vote for her again...
She'll be 79 years old when her current term ends. I don't know that she cares about future votes. And by the way, how many 75 year olds do you know that you would feel comfortable dealing with all of these issues?
I'm no more interested in the quality of another customer's service with this product than any other -- when I go out to eat, I'm not going to let them overcook my steak to be sure they get your souffle just right. Why should this be different?
They didn't sell you a steak and me a souffle. They sold us both a buffet. All of the other customers get their food as normal, but I'm a big fat guy. Instead of taking my plate, sitting down, and eating, I stay up at the buffet and eat there without even putting the food on my plate. I'm in the way of others trying to get food and eating most of it myself. Now the management is going to make me get in line to eat rather than stay at the buffet.
If you want your steak, you've got to get a dedicated line.
Just as an example: I'll bet Apple patented the magnetic cord of the MacBook
US patent application number 11/876,733 filed October 22 2007.
And lets look at what happened with that. My girlfriend left her charger at home on a trip so we were going to get a new one. Come to find out that they cost $80. $80.00! For a charger! And of course, there are no other options. Keep in mind that this $80 charger has ratings of 1.5/5 (60W) and 2/5 (80W) on Apple's own webstore.
Why does the screen have to be see-through? Why not just have a touchpad on the back that operates a cursor on the front without any change in existing tech?
Your point is only valid if your whatever you are looking at completely obscures everything else. A maximized window, for example. This almost never happens in the real world. Do you store cans in your pantry only 1 deep with that 1 plane of cans completely occupying your entire field of vision? I store my cans several deep and I can see bits of ones in the back that I may want to access.
There's a reason we don't use a 3D writing system. Many cultures use(d) pictures to convey things. 2D pictures with representations of 3D life. Just like a computer monitor is 2D but can present representations of 3D.
I was at Disneyland a couple of weeks ago and a woman was pushing through people in the Pirates line with her ~4 year old son. We let her go by because it looked like they were rejoining someone up front. Then we heard the woman say to a group in front of us, "Sorry, he doesn't know how to wait". Well, how the hell is he going to learn?
Well posting this on slashdot should ensure that their servers get a proper stress-test.
They should know what they're in for. From the Newsweek article, How He Did It:
"At the end of August, as Hurricane Gustav threatened the coast of Texas, the Obama campaign called the Red Cross to say it would be routing donations to it via the Red Cross home page. Get your servers ready--our guys can be pretty nuts, Team Obama said. Sure, sure, whatever, the Red Cross responded. We've been through 9/11, Katrina, we can handle it. The surge of Obama dollars crashed the Red Cross Web site in less than 15 minutes."
A coworker of mine had hers delivered on Tuesday. I played with it and liked it. She hated it from the get go. Why? She has long fingernails. She can't use the capacitive touchscreen with her nails and its difficult to tap accurately with nails blocking your view. Likewise, the keys on the keyboard are nearly flush so she can't type very well on it since she can't feel the keys well with her fingers. I'd gladly take it off her hands, but T-Mobile has no 3G here.
While you are being funny, there is solid foundation behind your joke. With CAPTCHAs, we are using computers to identify humans. We should be using them to identify other computers.
Also, the user interface when using Safari on the iPhone 3G is vastly superior to anything else I've experienced on a cellphone, including a bunch of Opera-using ones.
I'm guessing that you haven't used Opera 9.5 yet. Its much better than the previous versions that would have been on your old phone. This weekend, I messed around with an HTC Touch (EV-DO Rev A) using Opera Mobile 9.5 Beta and an iPhone 3G. Safari is not vastly superior. Some people may find it better, but not by much. Some also may find Opera Mobile better (assuming they work out the beta bugs). Of course, nothing can change the fact that the higher resolution and screen size on the iPhone made it more pleasant to use...
I need no frigging computer or software...to activate other phones.
I'd mod you up if I could. The point is not that you need activation, the point is that Apple isn't letting AT&T do it and is requiring that the consumer get iTunes and do it themselves at home. Add that to the fact that iTunes is required to get 3rd party apps and you can see how Apple is using the iphone to further shoehorn their way onto the desktop.
So if NYCL is our enemy, as you claim, then what the screaming budgie fuck does that make the RIAA lawyers?
I have no opinion on the matter but just want to point out that the mentality, "the enemy of my enemy is my friend," often doesn't work out to well. Like, I dunno, Iraq.
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The Wired article http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/07/bluerats/ notes that they dropped a 10 gram weight onto the backs of the mice while the mice were under anesthesia (it doesn't specify if the weight was made by ACME).
I see a picture of somebody that is having sex with someone that got released from prison.
Don't forget that the Apple construction also provides free thigh burns. That's an extra point, I think.
A quick Google Pulled up the Phones as: Phones (and associated test platform) * Blackberry(TBA)
* Android(Dev G1)
* iPhone(locked 2.0)
* Nokia/Symbian(N95-1)
* Windows Mobile (HTC Touch)
I have the HTC Touch. It has a built in security feature: It will crash whatever you are running to try to exploit it. If anyone here figures out how to exploit it, please tell Microsoft. Not so that they will patch it, but so they can use it as an example to developers for how to code.
DIE HACKER DIE
Your German is unintelligible to me.
...let her know that you will definitely not vote for her again...
She'll be 79 years old when her current term ends. I don't know that she cares about future votes. And by the way, how many 75 year olds do you know that you would feel comfortable dealing with all of these issues?
I'm no more interested in the quality of another customer's service with this product than any other -- when I go out to eat, I'm not going to let them overcook my steak to be sure they get your souffle just right. Why should this be different?
They didn't sell you a steak and me a souffle. They sold us both a buffet. All of the other customers get their food as normal, but I'm a big fat guy. Instead of taking my plate, sitting down, and eating, I stay up at the buffet and eat there without even putting the food on my plate. I'm in the way of others trying to get food and eating most of it myself. Now the management is going to make me get in line to eat rather than stay at the buffet.
If you want your steak, you've got to get a dedicated line.
P.S. Hometown Buffet is gross.
Just as an example: I'll bet Apple patented the magnetic cord of the MacBook
US patent application number 11/876,733 filed October 22 2007.
And lets look at what happened with that. My girlfriend left her charger at home on a trip so we were going to get a new one. Come to find out that they cost $80. $80.00! For a charger! And of course, there are no other options. Keep in mind that this $80 charger has ratings of 1.5/5 (60W) and 2/5 (80W) on Apple's own webstore.
Nevermind, I RTFA and that's what they did. the "see-through" part is just a simulation.
Why does the screen have to be see-through? Why not just have a touchpad on the back that operates a cursor on the front without any change in existing tech?
Your point is only valid if your whatever you are looking at completely obscures everything else. A maximized window, for example. This almost never happens in the real world. Do you store cans in your pantry only 1 deep with that 1 plane of cans completely occupying your entire field of vision? I store my cans several deep and I can see bits of ones in the back that I may want to access.
There's a reason we don't use a 3D writing system.
Many cultures use(d) pictures to convey things. 2D pictures with representations of 3D life. Just like a computer monitor is 2D but can present representations of 3D.
Its comments like this that make me wish there was a +1 offtopic...
Another fastest browser... woo hoo.
I was at Disneyland a couple of weeks ago and a woman was pushing through people in the Pirates line with her ~4 year old son. We let her go by because it looked like they were rejoining someone up front. Then we heard the woman say to a group in front of us, "Sorry, he doesn't know how to wait". Well, how the hell is he going to learn?
Well posting this on slashdot should ensure that their servers get a proper stress-test.
They should know what they're in for. From the Newsweek article, How He Did It: "At the end of August, as Hurricane Gustav threatened the coast of Texas, the Obama campaign called the Red Cross to say it would be routing donations to it via the Red Cross home page. Get your servers ready--our guys can be pretty nuts, Team Obama said. Sure, sure, whatever, the Red Cross responded. We've been through 9/11, Katrina, we can handle it. The surge of Obama dollars crashed the Red Cross Web site in less than 15 minutes."
A coworker of mine had hers delivered on Tuesday. I played with it and liked it. She hated it from the get go. Why? She has long fingernails. She can't use the capacitive touchscreen with her nails and its difficult to tap accurately with nails blocking your view. Likewise, the keys on the keyboard are nearly flush so she can't type very well on it since she can't feel the keys well with her fingers. I'd gladly take it off her hands, but T-Mobile has no 3G here.
While you are being funny, there is solid foundation behind your joke. With CAPTCHAs, we are using computers to identify humans. We should be using them to identify other computers.
I'm pretty sure that BB would have no problem replicating that huge line I always see at the Apple Store.
This is the whole point, indeed. Mod parent up.
How did the test lab get their hands on the coke? I'm just wondering because I have some, er, experiments to do.
The Terminator Salvation got cheers as big as anything in the movie where I saw it.
Also, the user interface when using Safari on the iPhone 3G is vastly superior to anything else I've experienced on a cellphone, including a bunch of Opera-using ones.
I'm guessing that you haven't used Opera 9.5 yet. Its much better than the previous versions that would have been on your old phone. This weekend, I messed around with an HTC Touch (EV-DO Rev A) using Opera Mobile 9.5 Beta and an iPhone 3G. Safari is not vastly superior. Some people may find it better, but not by much. Some also may find Opera Mobile better (assuming they work out the beta bugs). Of course, nothing can change the fact that the higher resolution and screen size on the iPhone made it more pleasant to use...
I need no frigging computer or software...to activate other phones.
I'd mod you up if I could. The point is not that you need activation, the point is that Apple isn't letting AT&T do it and is requiring that the consumer get iTunes and do it themselves at home. Add that to the fact that iTunes is required to get 3rd party apps and you can see how Apple is using the iphone to further shoehorn their way onto the desktop.
I want some degree of protection from the entire browser crashing when a plugin misbehaves(***cough*** flash ***cough***)
(***cough*** acrobat ***cough***)
I have no opinion on the matter but just want to point out that the mentality, "the enemy of my enemy is my friend," often doesn't work out to well. Like, I dunno, Iraq.