For example the left right swipe, which makes sense on a tablet you are holding like a book but its a royal PITA to deal with on a non touch laptop with a touchpad.
Can you give more specific details on this one? What exactly does that swipe do, and why is it so much worse on a touchpad?
(BTW, one of the VERY first things I do on new Mac OS X user is make trackpad scrolling scroll the "old" way, which is no longer the default. It's perfectly logical _to me_ for it to be "backwards" when touching an iPad/iPhone directly compared to using a trackpad and moving something on the disconnected screen.)
I'm typing on a "Early 2009" Mac Pro, with an ADB "Apple Keyboard" and Kensington TurboMouse trackball.. Obviously through an ADBUSB converter.
When this keyboard dies, I'll find another one (I had a stash of them at one point). A scroll wheel would be nice to have, but (1) I already have this trackball, and (2) current trackballs THAT I HAVE SEEN don't seem to have the giant trackball right in the middle (i.e. same layout). Yes, they are probably out there, but since the one I have works, I don't want to buy a new one. If a new one were almost exactly the same + scrollwheel for like $20, then yeah I'd buy it.
But the government absolutely sucks at everything they do.
(I agree with you on healthcare.)
But what about the fine Internet you're using to discuss? The infrastructure was created by the government.
You also slam roads, but I don't think we'd have as good of a transportation system as we do (from my U.S. perspective) if it were all private. I tend to lean libertarian on many fiscal issues, but voted for high speed rail in CA, and BART extensions, etc. Even if just to get others off my damn road!!!
Right now, in the US Rationing is happening in the form of '30+million people getting no health care.
Who is "getting no health care."?
Are you claiming that people without insurance by definition are not getting health care? Because they are. Hospitals are required by law (unfortunately(*)) to treat people in the ER, whether they can pay or not.
(*) I think if they have a life threatening ailment, they should have to be treated. If they DON'T have a life threatening ailment, after being triaged to decide that, the hospital should be able to refuse to treat them (send them to an urgent care clinic, a free clinic, whatever).
I think the milk is a bad analogy. It only affects the person consuming it, unlike low power light bulbs or leaded gasoline. If someone wants to eat something that is potentially hazardous, that's their business.
It affects me, because I'm being forced to subsidize your insurance. (Just like I'm fine with you riding a motorcycle without a helmet if I don't have to pay to scrape you off the road.)
"If you're not a liberal when you're 25, you have no heart. If you're not a conservative by the time you're 35, you have no brain." misattributed to Winston Churchill, at least according to Wikipedia.
(I don't actually believe the quote, since brains obviously is always more important, but it is a nice saying.)
There are many senior citizens who were progressives when FDR was in the White House and they're still progressives.
The heart of the plan is the very conservative idea of individual responsibilityÃ"the individual mandate was a conservative idea until the Democrats embraced it, at which point it suddenly became a socialist plot against Americans.
You are mixing two very different things. How is the individual mandate related to individual responsibility?
I am for individual responsibility -- it's an individual's responsibility to GET THEIR OWN INSURANCE.
BTW, I voted for Obama, even though I *disagree* with his views on health care (and a lot of other things), precisely because he isn't a hypocrite about health care (and a bunch of other things) like Romney is.
That, and cap and tax. It's been proven time and time again that exchanging "carbon credits" doesn't actually accomplish anything
Citation?
California recently had its first sale of the pollution credits. Part of the money goes to the state (to pay for further environmental upgrades), part goes between the companies that sell the credits. The amount of credits goes down IIRC 3% a year, so companies have to either buy credits, or make environmental improvements, then they can sell credits to other companies and make money.
How is that not a perfect supply/demand solution to solving a problem? Companies that do better than required make money, plus they're saving money in the long run due to the environmental improvements.
My luck with CFLs in cold weather has been great. â¦.Many are real dim when they first come on if it is very cold, but always warm up and provide the same light they did in warm weather.
Apparently, it hasn't been great. His complaint is exactly that they take a while to reach full brightness, which is what you're saying too.
(I'm not saying I agree.. I don't live in 'the cold', and from the various responses to these threads, apparently different brands matter a lot.)
Thus the expectation that next gen consoles will be mostly off-the-shelf parts. That's fine with me, so long as they equal the performance of a current $500 gaming PC.
Current "when"? In other words, can't some no name off brand PC maker always be ahead of a console, which needs standardized hardware (part of the point of having a console), and a long lead time to get games written for it?
Remember, Zynga has never made a single "good" game - plenty of profitable and popular games - but largley as a result of placement and spread through facebook. Nobody I know ever got a Zynga game outside of facebook besides Words with Friends on the iPhone.
You must not know many people. I play Words, Hanging Free, Scramble Free, and DrawSomething on my iPhone. All of them the free versions. I hate ads, but MOST of the time the ads are tolerable and short enough that it's not even worth $.99 (when they lower the price) to avoid those⦠But it's getting close.
You can very easily turn off the announcements from a game. Sure, you have to do it once per game that your friends play, but that's FAR less irritating (IMHO) than you can't get Most Recent sorting to stick on the web. (It DOES seem to stick on the newest version of the iPhone app.)
I have never really understood why many Americans are so hostile to unionization. There appears to be decades of brainwashing in action and mythos regarding correlation between hardwork and financial success.
But a union can be the exact opposite of "hard work leading to financial success" (which is what I presume you were implying).
A union goes against meritocracy by treating everyone equally. So yes, it is beneficial to some, but detrimental to those that would otherwise have made above the union-defined wage.
Plus, there's things like SAG which apparently just charge you tons of money (practically involuntarily) and you get nothing back, plus the stereotypical (but probably based on real examples) "pay 4 guys to sit around and do nothing because it's required by the union" kind of things.
And my salary is paid out of profits from the company I work for that came from other people buying things from them.
No, your salary is paid out of *income* of the company you work for (whether current income, previous years' income ("savings"), or private investments), and it counts as an expense. The profits are what comes after all expenses have been paid.
Santa Clara, CA has its own power plant, and this page mentions "all municipal electric utilities of Northern California". So there ARE utilities that are not simply government sanctioned monopolies (by third party companies).
Apple upgrade their OS so often in order to make hardware appear to be outdated earlier than necessary, because they still make the majority of their money with hardware sales.
Doesn't logically follow, since the OS upgrades work on older hardware, and have sometimes (SnowLeopard?) made the OS much faster on existing hardware.
iOS... well who cares, it's all Apple from the bottom up and they use that to make you buy newer iphones as a marketing strategy.
Details? iOS releases have been available for the existing phones for a few years, generally (i.e. updates for "old" phones in the field)⦠and on day one.. Unlike your "I got Gingerbread a long time before Motorola officially released it". (Plus you can still buy new Android phones that DON'T run the current release, and presumably won't get an upgrade at all.)
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Gee, you're only almost 7 years off!
Can you give more specific details on this one? What exactly does that swipe do, and why is it so much worse on a touchpad?
(BTW, one of the VERY first things I do on new Mac OS X user is make trackpad scrolling scroll the "old" way, which is no longer the default. It's perfectly logical _to me_ for it to be "backwards" when touching an iPad/iPhone directly compared to using a trackpad and moving something on the disconnected screen.)
I'm typing on a "Early 2009" Mac Pro, with an ADB "Apple Keyboard" and Kensington TurboMouse trackball.. Obviously through an ADBUSB converter.
When this keyboard dies, I'll find another one (I had a stash of them at one point). A scroll wheel would be nice to have, but (1) I already have this trackball, and (2) current trackballs THAT I HAVE SEEN don't seem to have the giant trackball right in the middle (i.e. same layout). Yes, they are probably out there, but since the one I have works, I don't want to buy a new one. If a new one were almost exactly the same + scrollwheel for like $20, then yeah I'd buy it.
(I agree with you on healthcare.)
But what about the fine Internet you're using to discuss? The infrastructure was created by the government.
You also slam roads, but I don't think we'd have as good of a transportation system as we do (from my U.S. perspective) if it were all private. I tend to lean libertarian on many fiscal issues, but voted for high speed rail in CA, and BART extensions, etc. Even if just to get others off my damn road!!!
Who is "getting no health care."?
Are you claiming that people without insurance by definition are not getting health care? Because they are. Hospitals are required by law (unfortunately(*)) to treat people in the ER, whether they can pay or not.
(*) I think if they have a life threatening ailment, they should have to be treated. If they DON'T have a life threatening ailment, after being triaged to decide that, the hospital should be able to refuse to treat them (send them to an urgent care clinic, a free clinic, whatever).
OK, then I guess I misspoke, because what I'm talking about ISN'T the same as what you're talking about.
It is "pollution credits" SOLD BY THE STATE, THEN SOLD BETWEEN COMPANIES TO EACH OTHER.
That is completely different from what you're talking about.
It affects me, because I'm being forced to subsidize your insurance. (Just like I'm fine with you riding a motorcycle without a helmet if I don't have to pay to scrape you off the road.)
"If you're not a liberal when you're 25, you have no heart. If you're not a conservative by the time you're 35, you have no brain."
misattributed to Winston Churchill, at least according to Wikipedia.
(I don't actually believe the quote, since brains obviously is always more important, but it is a nice saying.)
Wow, you know 132+ year old senior citizens?
(just kidding)
You are mixing two very different things. How is the individual mandate related to individual responsibility?
I am for individual responsibility -- it's an individual's responsibility to GET THEIR OWN INSURANCE.
BTW, I voted for Obama, even though I *disagree* with his views on health care (and a lot of other things), precisely because he isn't a hypocrite about health care (and a bunch of other things) like Romney is.
Citation?
California recently had its first sale of the pollution credits. Part of the money goes to the state (to pay for further environmental upgrades), part goes between the companies that sell the credits. The amount of credits goes down IIRC 3% a year, so companies have to either buy credits, or make environmental improvements, then they can sell credits to other companies and make money.
How is that not a perfect supply/demand solution to solving a problem? Companies that do better than required make money, plus they're saving money in the long run due to the environmental improvements.
Umm, the bulbs SAVE money in the long run. If you can't afford the 'huge' outlay for a couple of bucks light bulb, there's a real problem.
Apparently, it hasn't been great. His complaint is exactly that they take a while to reach full brightness, which is what you're saying too.
(I'm not saying I agree.. I don't live in 'the cold', and from the various responses to these threads, apparently different brands matter a lot.)
Current "when"? In other words, can't some no name off brand PC maker always be ahead of a console, which needs standardized hardware (part of the point of having a console), and a long lead time to get games written for it?
Nobody goes there anymore, they're too crowded.
You must not know many people. I play Words, Hanging Free, Scramble Free, and DrawSomething on my iPhone. All of them the free versions. I hate ads, but MOST of the time the ads are tolerable and short enough that it's not even worth $.99 (when they lower the price) to avoid those⦠But it's getting close.
You can very easily turn off the announcements from a game. Sure, you have to do it once per game that your friends play, but that's FAR less irritating (IMHO) than you can't get Most Recent sorting to stick on the web. (It DOES seem to stick on the newest version of the iPhone app.)
But a union can be the exact opposite of "hard work leading to financial success" (which is what I presume you were implying).
A union goes against meritocracy by treating everyone equally. So yes, it is beneficial to some, but detrimental to those that would otherwise have made above the union-defined wage.
Plus, there's things like SAG which apparently just charge you tons of money (practically involuntarily) and you get nothing back, plus the stereotypical (but probably based on real examples) "pay 4 guys to sit around and do nothing because it's required by the union" kind of things.
Yeah, a country that wants to completely obliterate another country is oh so respectful of copyright infringement and export laws.
I prefer less, since I can go backwards in the file. Oh wait, that's not what you were talking about, was it?
No, your salary is paid out of *income* of the company you work for (whether current income, previous years' income ("savings"), or private investments), and it counts as an expense. The profits are what comes after all expenses have been paid.
Santa Clara, CA has its own power plant, and this page mentions "all municipal electric utilities of Northern California". So there ARE utilities that are not simply government sanctioned monopolies (by third party companies).
https://siliconvalleypower.com/index.aspx?page=1967
I think that joke bombed.
Doesn't logically follow, since the OS upgrades work on older hardware, and have sometimes (SnowLeopard?) made the OS much faster on existing hardware.
Details? iOS releases have been available for the existing phones for a few years, generally (i.e. updates for "old" phones in the field)⦠and on day one.. Unlike your "I got Gingerbread a long time before Motorola officially released it". (Plus you can still buy new Android phones that DON'T run the current release, and presumably won't get an upgrade at all.)
Gee, upgrading the OS on my iPhone is really easy, and can be done OTA.