One woman was quoted as saying that the iPad fits in her purse, is discreet, and remarkably absorbent. It did drop out a few times, but she found out she was holding it wrong.
The FCC is trying to move broadband providers from class a to class b. They don't want regulatory control over all aspects, just want to make sure that every website gets "equal bandwidth opportunity". Think of the internet as a series of tubes...
IMHO if the school wants to require an OS or Specific software packages then they need to pony up the money for the laptop and set it up the way they want it.
Which we do at the school district in which I work. Macs mostly.
I'm blowing already spent mod points to ask this, but what school district has en edict requiring a porno operating system?
"led by nano-engineering professor Joseph Wang, has designed some high-tech underwear that may save lives."
This is just the perfect storm for jokes. I'm surprised no-one has ran with the nano line yet...
These underwear may not protect your back, but they've got your ass!
You're all wrong. Everyone knows that Steve Jobs has a habit of slurring his "w"s into "r"s. Wetina is the actual name, and it's not for the screen. It means when a guy is walking down the street displaying his iPhone 4, it'll make all the girls wetina' you know where.
I've been using mine for a month now and haven't found a situation where I've needed to use a desktop.
What have you been using it for, a paperweight? The first thing the iPad asks for out of the box is a connection to a computer with iTunes. Check the "getting started" portion of your manual.
right up until we can get iPads and then everyone gets an iPad. No more desktop computers.
This may make sense in your head until you actually get an iPad and realize you need a desktop computer just to get the thing to start working. You'll also need the desktop computer for OS upgrades, and for backups and restoring when the iPad decides to foul up. It really is like an oversized ipod touch.
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Flamebait, I know. But honestly, having used 7 for a while on my personal machines and having to still use XP at work, it's 7 all the way. I shall pretend that Vista never happened.
Not flamebait, just the common observation from the non-apple fanboi. BTW, whats Vista? *wink*
The link between iTunes, iPod and iPhone shouldn't be seen as fundamentally different from the link between MS Windows, MS Internet Explorer and MS Office.
You mean besides abusive contractual obligations to third parties, like Pay for a Windows license even if you're shipping Linux on a computer, or else we'll take away all your licenses?
Yeah, that's nothing like an absent set of rules for the biggest smartphone OS and it's locked in store. There's nothing abusive when Apple chooses to reject apps that do what Apple does, or wants to do in the future. How about rejecting an app that was previously approved based on an update? Don't update your app, Apple might revoke the entire thing!
Once a product has a large enough market share, monopoly regulations come into play, whether there are competitors or not. Especially if you use your market share in one market to gain share in a different market. Which is precisely why Microsoft had to change some things - even though there were dozens of other operating systems and office products.
And the share of the smartphone market that Apple holds might just be big enough, especially when seen in the context of their market share of the music player market.
The link between iTunes, iPod and iPhone shouldn't be seen as fundamentally different from the link between MS Windows, MS Internet Explorer and MS Office.
This is what has been floating in my head, but I've been unable to put into words. Excellent comment!
The officer in question claimed that the other car was traveling more than 10mph above the speed limit.
I don't claim to be able to gauge speeds that accurately, but I can definitely tell if a car is going that much faster than the limit.
People got speeding tickets before radar guns, ya know.
Put this in perspective. 10 over a 10mph limit is easy to tell. 10 over in a 20, shouldn't be too hard. 10 over in a 60? Pretty hard to tell. Unless he's passing cars left and right, it's not going to be as simple as you think.
If some car ZOOMS by it's pretty easy for me to tell its speeding, radar gun or not (I'm not a police officer). If you have even a modicum of experience driving and you can't estimate whether or not a car is speeding you should probably have your driver's license taken away.
If you're talking about someone doing 50 in a 30, you're correct that it's pretty easy. But the difference between 60 and 70 isn't as obvious as you may think. Calling it accurately, and consistently? BS. That's why they have Radar and LiDar and all their other toys, so they can catch the minor offenders as well.
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One woman was quoted as saying that the iPad fits in her purse, is discreet, and remarkably absorbent. It did drop out a few times, but she found out she was holding it wrong.
'It's hard to ignore the quality issues that the new iPhone has faced.'
The quality issues aren't with the iPhone, they are with the iPhone customers. They're holding the phone wrong, remember?
Number of buses that have been killed off during the years is considerable:
And yet, the short bus isn't killed off, and it continues to grow it's user base.
Work avoidance is a very serious problem, guys. Did you know that about 40% of sick days are taken on a Monday or a Friday?
Not to mention that 90% of statistics are made up.
What facebook should be ashamed of is that they bowed to pressure from these lunatics.
Yeah, that's the only thing facebook should be ashamed of...
The FCC is trying to move broadband providers from class a to class b. They don't want regulatory control over all aspects, just want to make sure that every website gets "equal bandwidth opportunity". Think of the internet as a series of tubes...
Apparently we spell bingo differently in my world.
A team of experts takes a look at the evidence on A4 in an attempt to determine its
A4?....A4!!!! I GOT BINGO!
A networked computer system provides various services for assisting users in locating, and establishing contact relationships with, other users.
How long has 411 been using a networked computer system?
IMHO if the school wants to require an OS or Specific software packages then they need to pony up the money for the laptop and set it up the way they want it.
Which we do at the school district in which I work. Macs mostly.
I'm blowing already spent mod points to ask this, but what school district has en edict requiring a porno operating system?
"led by nano-engineering professor Joseph Wang, has designed some high-tech underwear that may save lives." This is just the perfect storm for jokes. I'm surprised no-one has ran with the nano line yet...
These underwear may not protect your back, but they've got your ass!
A Quick Look At KDE SC 4.5 Beta 1
Wow, it was so quick I missed it on the way to the Service Temporarily Unavailable page.
You're all wrong. Everyone knows that Steve Jobs has a habit of slurring his "w"s into "r"s. Wetina is the actual name, and it's not for the screen. It means when a guy is walking down the street displaying his iPhone 4, it'll make all the girls wetina' you know where.
I've seen pictures of it, and it looks like crap. I have a nice 21" Viewsonic CRT monitor, running 1024x768
That's just because the reality distortion field doesn't affect cameras.
Ok. Too literal people. The admins can have a provisioning PC/Mac without the employees having a computer.
One man's "too literal" is another man's "false advertisment".
Also, good luck getting that app that your office can't do without into the ipad. You know most every office has one.
I've been using mine for a month now and haven't found a situation where I've needed to use a desktop.
What have you been using it for, a paperweight? The first thing the iPad asks for out of the box is a connection to a computer with iTunes. Check the "getting started" portion of your manual.
right up until we can get iPads and then everyone gets an iPad. No more desktop computers.
This may make sense in your head until you actually get an iPad and realize you need a desktop computer just to get the thing to start working. You'll also need the desktop computer for OS upgrades, and for backups and restoring when the iPad decides to foul up. It really is like an oversized ipod touch.
Flamebait, I know. But honestly, having used 7 for a while on my personal machines and having to still use XP at work, it's 7 all the way. I shall pretend that Vista never happened.
Not flamebait, just the common observation from the non-apple fanboi. BTW, whats Vista? *wink*
That fake profile could have gotten that principle murdered.
I know alot of principles have been discarded, but I didn't know you could murder them!
No, it's nothing like Calvinball.
In Calvinball, both players got to change the rules. With the iphone, only Apple gets to.
Wait...there's rules? I've only seen judgments, if you've got the current set of rules, you should post them!
Troll? Really? So making a factual statement gets downmodded but trashing Apple is a guaranteed +1 Insightful...got it.
Welcome to /. Here's your tinfoil hat.
The link between iTunes, iPod and iPhone shouldn't be seen as fundamentally different from the link between MS Windows, MS Internet Explorer and MS Office.
You mean besides abusive contractual obligations to third parties, like Pay for a Windows license even if you're shipping Linux on a computer, or else we'll take away all your licenses?
Yeah, that's nothing like an absent set of rules for the biggest smartphone OS and it's locked in store. There's nothing abusive when Apple chooses to reject apps that do what Apple does, or wants to do in the future. How about rejecting an app that was previously approved based on an update? Don't update your app, Apple might revoke the entire thing!
Once a product has a large enough market share, monopoly regulations come into play, whether there are competitors or not. Especially if you use your market share in one market to gain share in a different market. Which is precisely why Microsoft had to change some things - even though there were dozens of other operating systems and office products. And the share of the smartphone market that Apple holds might just be big enough, especially when seen in the context of their market share of the music player market.
The link between iTunes, iPod and iPhone shouldn't be seen as fundamentally different from the link between MS Windows, MS Internet Explorer and MS Office.
This is what has been floating in my head, but I've been unable to put into words. Excellent comment!
The officer in question claimed that the other car was traveling more than 10mph above the speed limit.
I don't claim to be able to gauge speeds that accurately, but I can definitely tell if a car is going that much faster than the limit.
People got speeding tickets before radar guns, ya know.
Put this in perspective. 10 over a 10mph limit is easy to tell. 10 over in a 20, shouldn't be too hard. 10 over in a 60? Pretty hard to tell. Unless he's passing cars left and right, it's not going to be as simple as you think.
If some car ZOOMS by it's pretty easy for me to tell its speeding, radar gun or not (I'm not a police officer). If you have even a modicum of experience driving and you can't estimate whether or not a car is speeding you should probably have your driver's license taken away.
If you're talking about someone doing 50 in a 30, you're correct that it's pretty easy. But the difference between 60 and 70 isn't as obvious as you may think. Calling it accurately, and consistently? BS. That's why they have Radar and LiDar and all their other toys, so they can catch the minor offenders as well.