You want to wait anyway, because they're not releasing the Lotr EEs on Blu-Ray until later this year or sometime in 2011.
The current Blu-Ray trilogy is just a blatant money grab, ripped from the playbook of Lucas in hopes that you'll buy the same movies twice (or more, for those who already own the DVDs.)
No, Apple's policies are more like the topiary in The Shining than a hedge maze or walled garden. Not only are consumers being denied a way to get where they want to go, the walls of the garden are closing in behind them.
As someone else said, Apple's behavior is a far cry from the company that gave us this.
How much time do you spend reading in the sun? I was always told not to do that as a kid (although I never understood why) so I never picked up the habit.
Under any circumstances other than direct sunlight, reading from an iPhone display is not a problem. If Apple uses the same LCD+backlight tech on the iPad it'll be fine for almost everyone.
There's nothing funnier than an e-Ink fan posting "Waaaaah, people will never want to read from an LCD all day long" arguments from his 30" LCD, in front of which he will remain all day, reading.
Maybe they can get the people from Youtube that are in charge of overlapping volume controls and 360p-480p selectors. That might be a good middle ground between technically-literate jurors and barking morons.
But in any case, I still have to wonder: why in the hell does a reduced instruction set computer have a buggy leap-year function?
Mr. Xeno, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent post were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone on Slashdot is now dumber for having read it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
At $500 I'm still not interested in it. If I'm in their target market (and I think I should be) then it is overpriced by at least a couple hundred dollars.
You sound broke. Broke people don't buy apps. Therefore, you're not in anyone's target market.
If the tablet solves the e-reader problem, I'll be happy with it. Right now there are no e-readers that make me want to use them to read newspapers, books, and technical documents. All of them have one gaping flaw or another.
Think of whatever gadget Apple is announcing as if it were just another household appliance. I don't care if my e-reader is "open" any more than I care if my dishwasher is. I just want it not to suck. It will live on my kitchen table where there used to be a two-week-thick pile of newspapers, and that's basically all I ask of it.
Has anyone started thinking about how one could shoot one of these things down sans a SAM, in a way than won't hurt anyone?
Gee, if only the subjects of the UK were permitted to own devices capable of using rapid chemical combustion to accelerate small lead projectiles to high velocities.
The down side of working in climate change is that the only time you ultimately get to see if you are right or wrong is when we become extinct or not.
Sure, and the problem is, we could say the same thing about theologians studying the Book of Revelation, or psychics who publicize the warnings of Nostradamus. Extraordinary calls to action require extraordinary credibility.
The damage was that IPCC had, or I think still has, such a stellar reputation that people view it as an authority -- as indeed they should
Um, no. You get to be viewed as an "authority" when at least some of your predictions come true.
Can anyone name one specific, numerically-quantified prediction made by IPCC researchers that has actually come to pass, by means other than obvious coincidence or luck?
The WSJ subscription though the Amazon Kindle store for $120 / year seems to be doing OK. If NYT want to be successful in this space, they'd better partner with Apple (tablet) or Amazon or some other distributer of subscribed content.... not go it alone with a paywall.
I see the paywall as part of this strategy, not an alternative to it. It makes no sense to charge for subscription access on the Kindle or Apple tablet, while giving the same content away for free on the PC.
I would bet $100 that someone from the NYT will be standing on the stage next to Jobs next week, announcing a content partnership of some sort. I like the NYT but I hate messing with dead-tree newspapers, so I'll probably take them up on it, if it's not too expensive.
With Plays4Sure, Microsoft didn't stab the consumers in the back. They stabbed their business partners in the back. That debacle was never about the end user.
First of all, try to prove that anything except for yourself even exists. You can't.
Um, no, it's trivial. All I have to do is define the term "exist" properly. Something exists if, from my point of view, it's distinguishable from nothing. If someone wants to object to that definition, well, they'll have to "exist" in order to do it. QED.
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You want to wait anyway, because they're not releasing the Lotr EEs on Blu-Ray until later this year or sometime in 2011.
The current Blu-Ray trilogy is just a blatant money grab, ripped from the playbook of Lucas in hopes that you'll buy the same movies twice (or more, for those who already own the DVDs.)
No, Apple's policies are more like the topiary in The Shining than a hedge maze or walled garden. Not only are consumers being denied a way to get where they want to go, the walls of the garden are closing in behind them.
As someone else said, Apple's behavior is a far cry from the company that gave us this.
The reason why software patents are a problem is that nobody needs that level of documentation in order to practice the art they describe.
They are either based on simple mathematical algorithms or a one-line description of some obvious hack or another ("use a hash table to do x").
How much time do you spend reading in the sun? I was always told not to do that as a kid (although I never understood why) so I never picked up the habit.
Under any circumstances other than direct sunlight, reading from an iPhone display is not a problem. If Apple uses the same LCD+backlight tech on the iPad it'll be fine for almost everyone.
Mod parent +1 Insightful.
There's nothing funnier than an e-Ink fan posting "Waaaaah, people will never want to read from an LCD all day long" arguments from his 30" LCD, in front of which he will remain all day, reading.
Why can't they buy direct from Intel?
Maybe they can get the people from Youtube that are in charge of overlapping volume controls and 360p-480p selectors. That might be a good middle ground between technically-literate jurors and barking morons.
But in any case, I still have to wonder: why in the hell does a reduced instruction set computer have a buggy leap-year function?
Mr. Xeno, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent post were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone on Slashdot is now dumber for having read it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
At $500 I'm still not interested in it. If I'm in their target market (and I think I should be) then it is overpriced by at least a couple hundred dollars.
You sound broke. Broke people don't buy apps. Therefore, you're not in anyone's target market.
Mostly it pops up when someone is convinced they've found a way to transmit information faster than c.
Every x years, someone will find and publish a way to cure cancer... in mice.
Every y years, someone will invent and publish a way to treat phase velocity as if it were group velocity.
Every z years, someone will discover and publish a way to use metastable flip-flops to produce random numbers.
It's unlocked, which means it's unsubsidized. The 3G data plan is pretty cheap.
Sarah Palin?
If the tablet solves the e-reader problem, I'll be happy with it. Right now there are no e-readers that make me want to use them to read newspapers, books, and technical documents. All of them have one gaping flaw or another.
Think of whatever gadget Apple is announcing as if it were just another household appliance. I don't care if my e-reader is "open" any more than I care if my dishwasher is. I just want it not to suck. It will live on my kitchen table where there used to be a two-week-thick pile of newspapers, and that's basically all I ask of it.
Has anyone started thinking about how one could shoot one of these things down sans a SAM, in a way than won't hurt anyone?
Gee, if only the subjects of the UK were permitted to own devices capable of using rapid chemical combustion to accelerate small lead projectiles to high velocities.
Oopth.
The down side of working in climate change is that the only time you ultimately get to see if you are right or wrong is when we become extinct or not.
Sure, and the problem is, we could say the same thing about theologians studying the Book of Revelation, or psychics who publicize the warnings of Nostradamus. Extraordinary calls to action require extraordinary credibility.
My understand is that 2008 was the coolest year of the decade. That means there's enough variability to fall into the category of "lucky guess."
Question: would you get on an airplane if aerodynamic science were this imprecise?
This is not a troll, and "-1, Troll" is not a valid answer to my question.
The damage was that IPCC had, or I think still has, such a stellar reputation that people view it as an authority -- as indeed they should
Um, no. You get to be viewed as an "authority" when at least some of your predictions come true.
Can anyone name one specific, numerically-quantified prediction made by IPCC researchers that has actually come to pass, by means other than obvious coincidence or luck?
The WSJ subscription though the Amazon Kindle store for $120 / year seems to be doing OK. If NYT want to be successful in this space, they'd better partner with Apple (tablet) or Amazon or some other distributer of subscribed content.... not go it alone with a paywall.
I see the paywall as part of this strategy, not an alternative to it. It makes no sense to charge for subscription access on the Kindle or Apple tablet, while giving the same content away for free on the PC.
I would bet $100 that someone from the NYT will be standing on the stage next to Jobs next week, announcing a content partnership of some sort. I like the NYT but I hate messing with dead-tree newspapers, so I'll probably take them up on it, if it's not too expensive.
With Plays4Sure, Microsoft didn't stab the consumers in the back. They stabbed their business partners in the back. That debacle was never about the end user.
Sounds like they've got a deal with Apple in the works, and they don't want to give away the content that tablet users are going to be paying for.
It may not be that bad a deal...
Apple is a great company, but they are not large enough to build their own search engine, advertising platform, and back end services to run them.
Most people said they had no business trying to build a cell phone, either.
Ooopth.
this is what its about. ethernet cable (modern spec) has UNEQUAL LENGTH WIRES.
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First of all, try to prove that anything except for yourself even exists. You can't.
Um, no, it's trivial. All I have to do is define the term "exist" properly. Something exists if, from my point of view, it's distinguishable from nothing. If someone wants to object to that definition, well, they'll have to "exist" in order to do it. QED.