This is not insightful. It's ignorant of history, truth, and completely hyperbolic.
DIPYO? It might not be insightful, but the only way you could say I'm "ignorant of truth" is if you were sleeping under a rock for the last three decades.
Is this going to be cheaper than SSD? The price point for solid state finally reached where platter drives were about ten years ago (a dollar or less a gig) and I installed one on my system just last week as my OS drive. Also, are these going to be significantly faster than the standard five platter density drives? Frankly, weight only matters in tablets, phones, and laptops. I'm not aware of any crushing weight problems in the steel server racks...
Dumbest up-modded post in the history of Slashdot?
Even better, they could combine the "SS" with the new "Lightning" connector, and shape the S's like lightning bolts! Think about how cool would that be!... what?
The model destined to the Indian market could be decorated with swastikas.
Amazon.com doesn't ship 99.999% of the items (and amazon.de and amazon.co.uk don't ship 70% of the items) to Finland, a bona fide EU member. I imagine Amazon gives even less of a shit about some Asian country.
(the undercurrent message of my post is: fuck Amazon, basically)
So, let's see: your LeapPad2 costs $100, does not have access to a vast array of applications (it is walled in a very tiny garden), has a 5" screen and to top it all off, it doesn't come with rechargeable batteries.
And you wonder "why this one (the Tabeo) is interesting"? Compared to that LeapPad, even a turd with a touchscreen would be interesting.
This whole Android vs. Apple situation reminds me of the beginning of the (Intel) PC vs. Apple Macs. MS DOS was ubiquitous, any manufacturer could use it, and so was Windows 3.1. Sure, they were uglish, but anyone who was ready to pay Microsoft, was free to load them on their PCs, be it workstations or laptops. And while Macs had an early advantage, they pretty soon became a niche player.
It seems like Android is becoming as ubiquitous as DOS+Windows were back in the early to mid 90's.
This is explained in the article. Each rocket launch is considered a "mission". Each satellite placed in orbit is considered a "mission". So if a rocket is launched with two satellites on board, that counts as three "missions".
Maybe this mission counting system was devised by some ex-Arthur Andersen accountants.
Or maybe some of the people who worked at my previous employer, brought back with them the awesome ideas about software metrics we used:/
That's strange; I thought it was Timothy Ray Brown the only man to be officially declared cured from AIDS. Apparently, he was cured 3 years ago as a result of a bone marrow transplant (to cure leukemia) from a donor with a rare genetic mutation that makes him/her immune to HIV. Brown was declared cured last July.
You bring your opponent over to your point of view and they agree with your superior logic and evidence.
You are brought over to your opponents position and agree with their superior logic and evidence.
The only people ever, as far as I could experience, to change their minds based on a discussion and/or facts presented to them, are scientists. Maybe that's because outside of the scientific world there is only faith, as in "I don't believe in AGW" - and faith is a nasty SOB...
"Global warming" as the term is generally used is not science. It's a political program. It's true that measured temperatures are higher than the last hundred years or so. That's a fact. But the "why it's happening" is not science, it's conjecture (I deliberately don't use the word theory, because I respect theory).
In other words, you disrespect 97% of the scientists - that's the proportion of those who consider man-made CO2 emissions as the most likely cause (or strongest forcing mechanism) for global warming. Since you hold such an extraordinary position, I would be very interested to read the scientific basis of it.
They should call it the Blackberry 12, since it'll be released one chapter after Chapter 11.
RIM is a profitable company. You know, they're adding money to their bank account quarter after quarter. That's not the best way to approach bankruptcy.
The fact is most of the things Icaza complained about were things where he had a say or actually caused them but did not do anything at the time and now he starts harping on how Linus is responsible for the behavior he had for things he himself created. For example his complaint about different desktops. Had he never founded GNOME then KDE would probably be the dominant desktop. He caused the split. If his only issue was the Qt license he could have started his own implementation of Qt rather than making a whole new desktop based on GTK+. The API incompatibilities in GNOME could have been mitigated. Even GTK+ at least had a stable API since 2.0 was released so I don't get why the GNOME folks need to be constantly breaking compatibility for their bits.
Then when things had settled with KDE and GNOME he started pushing C# as a development language. Thankfully most people ignored him and his pro-Microsoft agenda.
Quoted for truth. This piece of history should be remembered, or else it will be repeated.
Actually Samsung and LG do very little (almost none) of their manufacturing in Korea. It's too expensive. The majority of their mass productions lines are in China and eastern Europe (for the euro market)
Actually, that's just a fancy soundbite but it's not true: the majority of Samsung's production is done in South Korea. They'll open a few more plants in PRC next year, and are about to open a large facility in Texas, but even then, most of the production will be in Korea.
Maybe you should visit Samsung's production facilities in Korea - pretty breathtaking.
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This is not insightful. It's ignorant of history, truth, and completely hyperbolic.
DIPYO? It might not be insightful, but the only way you could say I'm "ignorant of truth" is if you were sleeping under a rock for the last three decades.
Even if Apple removed every competitor from the market, I'm not buying any of their products. I don't want to turn into a moron.
The letter of the law doesn't matter. The spirit of the law doesn't matter. The constitution of the USA doesn't matter.
Do you have money? Power? That matters. And as long as the powers to be want software patents, that's what you'll have, the way it is right now.
Is this going to be cheaper than SSD? The price point for solid state finally reached where platter drives were about ten years ago (a dollar or less a gig) and I installed one on my system just last week as my OS drive. Also, are these going to be significantly faster than the standard five platter density drives? Frankly, weight only matters in tablets, phones, and laptops. I'm not aware of any crushing weight problems in the steel server racks...
Dumbest up-modded post in the history of Slashdot?
Why would India want a swastika laden phone?
Or did you perhaps mean http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sauwastika [wikipedia.org]
Apparently the old addage about a little knowledge being dangerous is true.
Wait a minute; you get all high and mighty because I supposedly mispelled "swastika"? And then go off with a "a little knowledge is dangerous"?
So here is the correct spelling, Mr. screwhead:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika
Oh, right, turns out I didn't miss-spell it after all.
What VM do you use? I am quite ignorant when it comes to virtualization, I left IT (I am now back into academia) before virtualization became big.
Even better, they could combine the "SS" with the new "Lightning" connector, and shape the S's like lightning bolts! Think about how cool would that be! ... what?
The model destined to the Indian market could be decorated with swastikas.
I expect Apple will sue HTC and win
In the US, they would.
Amazon.com doesn't ship 99.999% of the items (and amazon.de and amazon.co.uk don't ship 70% of the items) to Finland, a bona fide EU member. I imagine Amazon gives even less of a shit about some Asian country.
(the undercurrent message of my post is: fuck Amazon, basically)
Writing technical documentation with an iPad? The stench of BS is getting strong.
Only rabid Apple fanbois could have modded this post up. Or people who never used an iPad for editing a single sentence.
Actually yes, you can. Finland welcomes you.
It should be fun to watch, especially since I live in a country where Apple doesn't dictate what can and cannot be imported.
They are very nice...run off 4 AAs for a week
O RLY
Looking around the site you linked to, one easily finds:
Battery Life Up to 9 hours
Welp, that was easy enough to debunk.
So, let's see: your LeapPad2 costs $100, does not have access to a vast array of applications (it is walled in a very tiny garden), has a 5" screen and to top it all off, it doesn't come with rechargeable batteries.
And you wonder "why this one (the Tabeo) is interesting"? Compared to that LeapPad, even a turd with a touchscreen would be interesting.
Once they realized that they had a massive exodus of customers, they made the business decision to reverse their stance.
GoDaddy never reversed their stance on SOPA! They basically said that they will not be so upfront with their support of the bill.
I'm sorry you're having difficulties because of this hack. It's so sad that GoDaddy customersare in the shit like you are now.
Aw, whatever will we do to help? Sigh, sob.... maybe shoulda jumped ship when GoDaddy made it public they support SOPA?
This whole Android vs. Apple situation reminds me of the beginning of the (Intel) PC vs. Apple Macs. MS DOS was ubiquitous, any manufacturer could use it, and so was Windows 3.1. Sure, they were uglish, but anyone who was ready to pay Microsoft, was free to load them on their PCs, be it workstations or laptops. And while Macs had an early advantage, they pretty soon became a niche player.
It seems like Android is becoming as ubiquitous as DOS+Windows were back in the early to mid 90's.
This is explained in the article. Each rocket launch is considered a "mission". Each satellite placed in orbit is considered a "mission". So if a rocket is launched with two satellites on board, that counts as three "missions".
Maybe this mission counting system was devised by some ex-Arthur Andersen accountants.
Or maybe some of the people who worked at my previous employer, brought back with them the awesome ideas about software metrics we used :/
Do you know how much dihydrogen monoxide is in organic foods? I've heard that shit is potentially deadly.
Potentially? Nobody has survived ingestion of that substance, in the long run - it is indeed 100% fatal!
That's strange; I thought it was Timothy Ray Brown the only man to be officially declared cured from AIDS. Apparently, he was cured 3 years ago as a result of a bone marrow transplant (to cure leukemia) from a donor with a rare genetic mutation that makes him/her immune to HIV. Brown was declared cured last July.
You bring your opponent over to your point of view and they agree with your superior logic and evidence.
You are brought over to your opponents position and agree with their superior logic and evidence.
The only people ever, as far as I could experience, to change their minds based on a discussion and/or facts presented to them, are scientists. Maybe that's because outside of the scientific world there is only faith, as in "I don't believe in AGW" - and faith is a nasty SOB...
"Global warming" as the term is generally used is not science. It's a political program. It's true that measured temperatures are higher than the last hundred years or so. That's a fact. But the "why it's happening" is not science, it's conjecture (I deliberately don't use the word theory, because I respect theory).
In other words, you disrespect 97% of the scientists - that's the proportion of those who consider man-made CO2 emissions as the most likely cause (or strongest forcing mechanism) for global warming. Since you hold such an extraordinary position, I would be very interested to read the scientific basis of it.
They should call it the Blackberry 12, since it'll be released one chapter after Chapter 11.
RIM is a profitable company. You know, they're adding money to their bank account quarter after quarter. That's not the best way to approach bankruptcy.
I know I'm going to get modded into oblivion for saying this.
I wish sometimes posts starting with this phrase actually got modded into oblivion. The sheer drama-queenish whininess is starting to irritate me.
If you have something controversial to say, just fucking say it. No need for the preemptive whining.
The fact is most of the things Icaza complained about were things where he had a say or actually caused them but did not do anything at the time and now he starts harping on how Linus is responsible for the behavior he had for things he himself created. For example his complaint about different desktops. Had he never founded GNOME then KDE would probably be the dominant desktop. He caused the split. If his only issue was the Qt license he could have started his own implementation of Qt rather than making a whole new desktop based on GTK+. The API incompatibilities in GNOME could have been mitigated. Even GTK+ at least had a stable API since 2.0 was released so I don't get why the GNOME folks need to be constantly breaking compatibility for their bits.
Then when things had settled with KDE and GNOME he started pushing C# as a development language. Thankfully most people ignored him and his pro-Microsoft agenda.
Quoted for truth. This piece of history should be remembered, or else it will be repeated.
Also: fuck you Miguel.
Actually Samsung and LG do very little (almost none) of their manufacturing in Korea. It's too expensive. The majority of their mass productions lines are in China and eastern Europe (for the euro market)
Actually, that's just a fancy soundbite but it's not true: the majority of Samsung's production is done in South Korea. They'll open a few more plants in PRC next year, and are about to open a large facility in Texas, but even then, most of the production will be in Korea.
Maybe you should visit Samsung's production facilities in Korea - pretty breathtaking.