I was wandering about this for some time, you look at any electronics board, the biggest things on them are chips, which are actually many many small components, and capacitors, which are disproportionately big in comparison to everything else which has been turned into miniscule gizmos integrated into everything else.
Firstly, from what I've seen so far, this story has been in conjunction with other iPhone stories (I'm in the UK, so I may see several in a day that are posted actually over 2 half days, not that there's much difference). Secondly, its a self fulfilling article its an article saying, there are lots of articles about the iphone, and by doing that, its adding to the number of articles, and amount of hype there is, if you don't draw the line at how many iphone articles, draw it at lets just keep them simple and no articles about the hype etc...
Exibit 1> "Both sides stand to lose out with 1/3 of of new releases coming from Universal" "and an estimated 15% of Universal's sales coming from digital downloads." An orange
Could they not have found a better statistic like, % of Universals sales, and % of Apple's sales of Universal films out the total number of films, cos the way it is here, it is the number of titles Apple releases of Universal, they aren't necessarily as popular as other new releases.
They waste alot of space on connections to the outside, many that aren't used. How about using the bluetooth already built in, to pair with a device which has ports which you can buy separately and comes as a separate object, so when not in use it can be stowed away, or (example I never use firewire) it can be cut completely. So a separate unit you plug your usb stuff into, and it transmits the data via bluetooth. Maybe not for say, displays, but I think it may be viable for sound, or usb, or firewire, may need advances in speed though, but it'd be interesting technology (and a bit of fun could be had yoinking your colleagues USB stick via bluetooth:P)
Disclaimer: I am fully aware this idea is badly put forward, but I can't be bothered to rewrite.
I'm not so sure, anyone can figure out how much the RIAA would loose from that, and as a result, they would be jusitifed (in their view) to spend up to that much on lawyers to kill this, that's a lot of money....
Yes, but nevertheless, that'd be all the copyrights gone, the 4 big music companies with all their music free, if that doesn't kill music companies I don't know what will.
It has been a well known fact that some companies use their power to fix prices. For example, Oakleys sun glasses absolutely don't budge, you sell their glasses for less than they want and you'll never be able to resell any of their stock ever again. The same is mostly true of apple, where it comes to Ipods and such, their power is in the fact that they are the only producers and they have the distribution to hold products hostage.
Of course I like this in oakleys, because largely as a result of this security oakleys have very good customer service. Unfortunately not all companies carry this through, like apple, their customer service could be very good, but just isn't anything special (I'm not saying its bad, just not particularly good).
The guy who has been illegally extradited from the UK to the USA (illegal because America kills people, and no country can extradite to a country that murders people in order to claim revenge for crimes as put in law by the Geneva convection which the UK is meant to adhere to) for hacking an American site whilst he was in the UK and therefore not under the jurisdiction of the USA (he could have been prosecuted by the UK police) and is now going to serve up to (cant remember exactly) 70 years in prison, he may disagree with you.
How the hell did you get moderated up, your comment is idiotic! Yes, what I'm typing now is flame. I read the article and if you actually looked at my comment you'd see, not only I read it, I gave a bloody example from it, how do you give examples from an article you haven't read, i'm intrigued. Secondly, yes there are moments but these moments quickly pass when you consider he is a clearly biased writer, I refuse to give credit to one writer who is clearly biased going and accusing someone else of bias. "It seems much of the article points out that the iPhone gravitates heavily toward open standards, which I find to be a very good thing." Which has been stated in many other articles and doesn't need to be bought up again, especially in this context of whetehr it will be successful, as this is a personal phone not a business phone, so the standards will generally not make much difference to many people. And as for the article not being about AT&T, it does have parts about AT&T and if you hadn't noticed the iphone is unbreakably linked to AT&T because you have to spend several hundred dollars on an AT&T contract if you want one.
In future post under your account name, stand by what you say, or do you not give what you say enough value to actually have the balls to stand behind it.
Slashdot has just posted yet another clearly biased article about how great the ipod is going to be, personally I think there should be an investigation into either bribery or conflict of interests of the runners of this site. Okay, I'm being a bit melodramatic, but this article doesn't add anything plus it implies some real crap, for example when it implies an article by gizmodo about the shady past of AT&T is nothing but a weak smear campaign dragging up every tiny thing from the past, it's a well known fact that AT&T is not one of the best providers, and does have a bad record. I'd like to registeer my complaint about this, another iphone hype articcle, being here, right now.
Actually I'm fairly sure there are ways of mapping a.de domain to america, you'd just have to fiddle around with some stuff, for example explaining that the company will have some presence in germany.
Google does have morals, just as long as the market they are standing up against isn't to big, and they'll get the customers anyway (through their austrian service). I could accept what they did in China because it was a business decision to have a limited presence rather than no presence, but this kind of hypocrity is just crap.
The AO rating in America has historically also been the kiss of death in America because many shops wont stock it, and many people wont buy it because of how extreme it has been labled, so their American market is limited to a niche of hardcore adult gamers, their british market is gone, not good for sales.
Not to mention, RTFA, sony have refused to allow them to release on playstation and nintendo did the same for the wii, take two would need to recode this for the PC if they were to get it released at all. To quote the relevant part for you "The game was slated for a July 10 release for Sony Corp.'s PlayStation 2 console and PSP handheld device, and for Nintendo Co. Ltd.'s Wii console. But the game's fate is unclear because Sony and Nintendo do not allow "Adults Only" content on their systems."
I can't beleive they raised the issue of freedom of expression in order to defend this crap. Frankly it just seems weak when they say they want freedom of expression and that they are just trying to use the certain keywords in our society (like terror, freedom etc.) in order to create sympathy for themselves, but the misuse of these things do not wash, because when someone wants to raise a serious point they no longer have an arguement to defend themselves as these arguements no longer carry any value. And to add to that, they claim this whilst rolling over and giving up, so its like saying "Our principles state we should do this in the interest of free expression, but we don't stick by our principles so we'll just give up". I dislike what this game is, I dislike how they've handled the denial of distribution of this game, and I dislike the way this company acts in general making games deliberately to encourage violence, and anything else immoral just to make a quick buck, its not freedom, its moral bankrupcy.
The author mentions costs all the way through this article, this costs, that costs, and none of it is cheap. I got an OEM vista ultimate for £120 ($240) which from the looks of it is actually cheaper than the cost of pimping my XP.
Not to mention, this is a hell of alot of software, I mean, he's talking about installing several toys that will run 24/7 and of course this is gonna sap your processing power, and its not integrated, so it'll probably end up using more resources than vista.
To see how far on average the slashdot titles for stories are away from the actual content.
I wouldn't normally be bothered by the differnce between "First Born Gets All the Brains" and "Eldest Son Gets All the Brains" but come on, the story clearly states its not the first born, and by saying it is, you almost imply this a genetic study and it isn't, the whole point is if they were raised as the oldest, even if they aren't (ie, dead sibling) so the story is about nurture of the child and not genetics.
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I was wandering about this for some time, you look at any electronics board, the biggest things on them are chips, which are actually many many small components, and capacitors, which are disproportionately big in comparison to everything else which has been turned into miniscule gizmos integrated into everything else.
Surely thats basically a debit card....
Firstly, from what I've seen so far, this story has been in conjunction with other iPhone stories (I'm in the UK, so I may see several in a day that are posted actually over 2 half days, not that there's much difference). Secondly, its a self fulfilling article its an article saying, there are lots of articles about the iphone, and by doing that, its adding to the number of articles, and amount of hype there is, if you don't draw the line at how many iphone articles, draw it at lets just keep them simple and no articles about the hype etc...
Okay, MAYBE we need SOME news about the iPhone, HOWEVER, WE DON'T need STORIES ABOUT NEWS ABOUT THE iPhone.
of the effects. Here's what I mean
Exibit 1> "Both sides stand to lose out with 1/3 of of new releases coming from Universal" "and an estimated 15% of Universal's sales coming from digital downloads." An orange
Could they not have found a better statistic like, % of Universals sales, and % of Apple's sales of Universal films out the total number of films, cos the way it is here, it is the number of titles Apple releases of Universal, they aren't necessarily as popular as other new releases.
They waste alot of space on connections to the outside, many that aren't used. How about using the bluetooth already built in, to pair with a device which has ports which you can buy separately and comes as a separate object, so when not in use it can be stowed away, or (example I never use firewire) it can be cut completely. So a separate unit you plug your usb stuff into, and it transmits the data via bluetooth. Maybe not for say, displays, but I think it may be viable for sound, or usb, or firewire, may need advances in speed though, but it'd be interesting technology (and a bit of fun could be had yoinking your colleagues USB stick via bluetooth :P)
Disclaimer: I am fully aware this idea is badly put forward, but I can't be bothered to rewrite.
You're clearly just compensating for having a massive penis
I'm not so sure, anyone can figure out how much the RIAA would loose from that, and as a result, they would be jusitifed (in their view) to spend up to that much on lawyers to kill this, that's a lot of money....
Yes, but nevertheless, that'd be all the copyrights gone, the 4 big music companies with all their music free, if that doesn't kill music companies I don't know what will.
loose their copyrights if they are found in abuse of them?
Before it became a pure iPhone advertising tool, i honestly can't remember, and I can only imagine how empty it must have been...
It has been a well known fact that some companies use their power to fix prices. For example, Oakleys sun glasses absolutely don't budge, you sell their glasses for less than they want and you'll never be able to resell any of their stock ever again. The same is mostly true of apple, where it comes to Ipods and such, their power is in the fact that they are the only producers and they have the distribution to hold products hostage.
Of course I like this in oakleys, because largely as a result of this security oakleys have very good customer service. Unfortunately not all companies carry this through, like apple, their customer service could be very good, but just isn't anything special (I'm not saying its bad, just not particularly good).
The guy who has been illegally extradited from the UK to the USA (illegal because America kills people, and no country can extradite to a country that murders people in order to claim revenge for crimes as put in law by the Geneva convection which the UK is meant to adhere to) for hacking an American site whilst he was in the UK and therefore not under the jurisdiction of the USA (he could have been prosecuted by the UK police) and is now going to serve up to (cant remember exactly) 70 years in prison, he may disagree with you.
How the hell did you get moderated up, your comment is idiotic! Yes, what I'm typing now is flame. I read the article and if you actually looked at my comment you'd see, not only I read it, I gave a bloody example from it, how do you give examples from an article you haven't read, i'm intrigued. Secondly, yes there are moments but these moments quickly pass when you consider he is a clearly biased writer, I refuse to give credit to one writer who is clearly biased going and accusing someone else of bias. "It seems much of the article points out that the iPhone gravitates heavily toward open standards, which I find to be a very good thing." Which has been stated in many other articles and doesn't need to be bought up again, especially in this context of whetehr it will be successful, as this is a personal phone not a business phone, so the standards will generally not make much difference to many people. And as for the article not being about AT&T, it does have parts about AT&T and if you hadn't noticed the iphone is unbreakably linked to AT&T because you have to spend several hundred dollars on an AT&T contract if you want one.
In future post under your account name, stand by what you say, or do you not give what you say enough value to actually have the balls to stand behind it.
That's exactly, down to a T what it said, I mean really, exactly what the artcile said
Slashdot has just posted yet another clearly biased article about how great the ipod is going to be, personally I think there should be an investigation into either bribery or conflict of interests of the runners of this site. Okay, I'm being a bit melodramatic, but this article doesn't add anything plus it implies some real crap, for example when it implies an article by gizmodo about the shady past of AT&T is nothing but a weak smear campaign dragging up every tiny thing from the past, it's a well known fact that AT&T is not one of the best providers, and does have a bad record. I'd like to registeer my complaint about this, another iphone hype articcle, being here, right now.
Actually I'm fairly sure there are ways of mapping a .de domain to america, you'd just have to fiddle around with some stuff, for example explaining that the company will have some presence in germany.
Google does have morals, just as long as the market they are standing up against isn't to big, and they'll get the customers anyway (through their austrian service). I could accept what they did in China because it was a business decision to have a limited presence rather than no presence, but this kind of hypocrity is just crap.
I live on a hill! Whatcha gonna do now?!?!
The AO rating in America has historically also been the kiss of death in America because many shops wont stock it, and many people wont buy it because of how extreme it has been labled, so their American market is limited to a niche of hardcore adult gamers, their british market is gone, not good for sales.
Not to mention, RTFA, sony have refused to allow them to release on playstation and nintendo did the same for the wii, take two would need to recode this for the PC if they were to get it released at all. To quote the relevant part for you "The game was slated for a July 10 release for Sony Corp.'s PlayStation 2 console and PSP handheld device, and for Nintendo Co. Ltd.'s Wii console. But the game's fate is unclear because Sony and Nintendo do not allow "Adults Only" content on their systems."
I can't beleive they raised the issue of freedom of expression in order to defend this crap. Frankly it just seems weak when they say they want freedom of expression and that they are just trying to use the certain keywords in our society (like terror, freedom etc.) in order to create sympathy for themselves, but the misuse of these things do not wash, because when someone wants to raise a serious point they no longer have an arguement to defend themselves as these arguements no longer carry any value. And to add to that, they claim this whilst rolling over and giving up, so its like saying "Our principles state we should do this in the interest of free expression, but we don't stick by our principles so we'll just give up". I dislike what this game is, I dislike how they've handled the denial of distribution of this game, and I dislike the way this company acts in general making games deliberately to encourage violence, and anything else immoral just to make a quick buck, its not freedom, its moral bankrupcy.
Just for reference, before slashdot hit this article, it had >100 hits (after 6 days online), now 2000 and rising by ~50/min
The author mentions costs all the way through this article, this costs, that costs, and none of it is cheap. I got an OEM vista ultimate for £120 ($240) which from the looks of it is actually cheaper than the cost of pimping my XP.
Not to mention, this is a hell of alot of software, I mean, he's talking about installing several toys that will run 24/7 and of course this is gonna sap your processing power, and its not integrated, so it'll probably end up using more resources than vista.
To see how far on average the slashdot titles for stories are away from the actual content.
I wouldn't normally be bothered by the differnce between "First Born Gets All the Brains" and "Eldest Son Gets All the Brains" but come on, the story clearly states its not the first born, and by saying it is, you almost imply this a genetic study and it isn't, the whole point is if they were raised as the oldest, even if they aren't (ie, dead sibling) so the story is about nurture of the child and not genetics.
They used the records of around 250 000 people, mmmmkay?
The standard error pretty much disappears at that sort of number of participants.