I'm not sure what the speeds in the article actually mean - they may be an average capped to the maximum bitrate of a Netflix stream, hence the clustering at such slow speeds around 2-2.5 mbps. The cheap Charter service in my tiny podunk midwestern town gives me 30 mpbs in terms of real performance whenever I connect to a fast server, for instance when I'm downloading something off of Steam.
Help me out with my iPhone 5: how do I get rid of the Newstand App? How can I even hide it? The "create a folder and then quickly drag the app onto the folder" thing doesn't seem to work for me, by the way.
Why does my iPhone 5 often need to be plugged into my PC 3 or 4 times before it will be recognized in iTunes?
Once Siri bugs out and stops letting me speak into the microphone to give voice input, how do I get it to work again? Resetting the phone doesn't work, but usually after a few days it starts listening again.
I want to put apps just in the four corners of my display, not all over it in an ugly and rather unusable grid. How can I do that?
I want to quickly copy a 10 GB folder onto my iPhone from my computer. How can I do that?
Why does the mail app show that I have 5 unread messages but show none in my inbox? Why does the gmail app show the messages correctly if the iPhone mail app can't?
Once I get a telemarketing call, how can I block all calls that share the same area code and 3 number prefix as that number?
These are a small handful of the things I'd really like answers for on my iPhone. I was able to do them all trivially on my SGS2 by either flipping through menus for 30 seconds or doing an obvious search in the stupidly named Google Play Store. Despite all this I like the iPhone 5, mostly for its great battery life.
But there was no beginning. Either there was a big bang, in which time did not exist "prior to" that event, time was created by the event... or the event we consider to be the big bang was the end of the contraction cycle of the universe and it's return to expansion... in which case, again, there was no beginning.
Both of those are excellent examples of something beginning. You're either discussing the beginning of time or the beginning of this cycle of the universe. It's almost impossible to come up with a better use of the noun "beginning."
You know, I'd always heard that too. I've been an iOS user since the iPhone 3G so I've bought my share of apps there and have a good feel for mobile app pricing. I was pretty surprised by the prices in the Google Play store when I bought a Nexus 7 last week. Often things I'd expect to pay $.99-$1.99 for in the App Store are $5-7.
I wonder if this is a new trend? Are they compensating for lower sales, or has the Android market changed recently?
I just moved from Android back to an iPhone for the first time in a few generations and for the apps I want I'm seeing something of the reverse. A lot of the apps I used on my SGS2 for free cost $1-5 to unlock a similar feature set in iOS. A lot of the things I did with Android can't be done at all until the iPhone 5 gets jailbroken (like a robust call blocker).
On the other hand, last night I didn't have my expensive new lightning cable near my bed but I saw that I still had 68% of my battery charge left after a day of moderate use, so I didn't charge my phone while I slept. When I woke up this morning I still had 62% of my battery life remaining. I'm impressed, but I'll probably still leave iOS when another upgrade becomes available on my Sprint account in six months.
A full term baby can't collect food for itself, effectively locomote, or do much of anything without assistance. If left unattended for a few dozen hours it perishes. It's fully adapted to function as a biological unit it its nominal environment...providing that environment includes caretakers to manage nearly every aspect of its existence required to survive. A fetus is also fully adapted to function as a biological unit in its nominal environment...a uterus. I'm not seeing a sharp distinction.
If its not a disease then you can't prescribe for it and insurance won't pay for it. Whenever in doubt of the hidden agenda, follow the money. These guides are essentially accounting code manuals, not medical in any way. It's very much the same as going to a mechanic for service and having them look up which procedures are covered under warranty.
My first thought was "Huh? How would a car have a warranty?" Then I remembered that many, many people buy new cars and I'm probably in the minority.
No. I'm pointing out that humans have a cognitive defect that causes us to label inconvenient mental configurations as "diseases", rather than addressing the important questions directly. Is this person happy? Can they achieve their goals without assistance? Can they effectively function in our society as it currently exists?
Not really. When dealing with a cognitive "defect" that's been diagnosed as a "disease," psychiatrists are more concerned with the questions you ask than anything else. Psychiatry isn't about finding the abnormal and forcing it to conform. It's about finding ways for people to be happy and functional regardless of their various psychological peculiarities.
Googles 20% work on your own project sound nice? Pah! At Sony entire teams could work 100% on stuff that nobody knew could ever work.
I think this is the norm in any innovative company. I don't know anyone who does science and doesn't spend a third or a half of his or her time developing personal projects.
I have used PayPal as the payment processor on my website for years. I run an honest service, I resolve any purchase disputes quickly. I am as ethical in my transactions as I know how to be. I have never, ever, had any problem with PayPal, or access to my money. In fact, they recently upgraded my account standing with them so that in the event of any customer dispute, funds in my account are no longer held by them, because I have demonstrated that I am a trustworthy user of their services. Zero problems with PayPal.
Just saying... sometimes the problem isn't with them... sometimes it's a problem with what people try to get away with when using their services.
It's interesting that every defense of Paypal comes from an AC.
We sort of can do an aggregate evaluation if we look at all of the state numbers and use all of the elections where Silver modeled the outcome based on polling and treat them as separate events. When we do so we see that Silver is most likely wrong...about his uncertainty. His predictions with 50-80% seem to be accurate something like >95% of the time, so he's probably overestimating the error in his model.
Less surprising is that the top vulnerabilities are Oracle's Java and Adobe products. In fact, Adobe can claim 5 of the top 10. Too bad I still have Reader and Flash on my system, but Java was purged from my system about a week after I stopped doing Java development.
Just to reinforce the picture of Java as crapware, it blows my mind that Oracle packages shit like the Ask Toolbar in the regular security updates and you have to uncheck a box in order to prevent its installation. Oracle is a Zynga-level company.
It's because copying your competitors and adding a few minor features isn't really innovation. Even the Xbox is still years from paying off the huge amount of money thrown at it.
But on MSNBC this morning the new iPad Fire (or is it iPad Nexus 7?) was called "Apple's latest innovation," so I think you must be wrong. Hell, it seems copying your competitors and then removing major features counts as innovation.
Agreed. Nokia == BlackBerry. Device manufacturer means NOTHING in the mobile marketplace - operating system does!
I think the logo and the hardware matter, not the OS. If iPhone 5 started shipping tomorrow with Android 4.2 or WP8, most users would be either oblivious or ecstatic at the amazing innovations Apple has introduced.
I really prefer that Seth Green guy better. The Robot Chicken sendup was funnier.
Not just funnier - it actually added something to Star Wars beyond its own characters and braindead pop culture references. The Family Guy SW shows were pretty terrible.
I first assumed this app would connect directly to my XBox via Bluetooth, and act as an actual controller device. It doesn't. Instead it requires internet connectivity on both the XBox and phone, and goes through the XBox Live servers (you have to sign into your XBox account on your phone, and also be logged into that XBox account on the XBox itself, before it can connect). I don't feel like messing around watching network traffic today, but I'm curious if XBox Live hands my phone over directly to the XBox (they find one another on my local network), or if all communication has to go through the XBox Live servers. There is a bit of latency, so I bet all communication is going out over the internet even though the devices are only 5 feet apart and both on the same LAN.
I found the gestures a bit clunky. For example, you have to touch-hold while dragging to drag faster. However there isn't any method (that I could find) to go through a whole page at a time in the XBox menus. I had to go item by item. I think I would prefer a simple D-Pad type setup on my phone, with dedicated buttons to scroll entire pages / screens at a time.
For reference, 360 controllers don't use bluetooth.
yeah, but what happens when there's a generation of kids who grew up playing angry birds as their first game instead of super mario? for them playing on a gamepad will be as alien as playing on touch screen is to you...
I think that rather there will be a generation who played Angry Birds instead of nothing. I don't think ultracasual touchscreen games are eating into existing game markets at all. Console and PC gaming are still growing, after all. Just like the Wii didn't result in fewer 360 sales (compare to the original xbox sales numbers, for instance), ultracasuals are creating a new separate market only really tied to the console market through the word "gaming" and the confusion the publishers feel when they look at studios like Zynga as upstart competitors and wonder where they came from.
Claiming that ultracasuals will kill console gaming is like claiming that Hotwheels will kill sales of passenger cars (car analogy!). Yes, they both include various types of "cars" but they don't eat each other's lunch.
Ah yes, that bone-headed article that might be relevant if it were whispered to a handful of people but as a massively consumed and overly quoted piece of tripe it eliminates all of its own arguments.
I guess Shaggy 2 Dope and Violent J were busy tonight.
I doubt these two candidates sincerity, I am suspicious of their motivation and I encourage their supporters to think very carefully before voting for them.
There is not going to be a third party that breaks into the US political system nationwide. It's not going to happen because it cannot happen. The system is specifically designed for it not to happen, and the sooner supporters of these two lunatics get that message, the better off they will be.
On the other hand, there is certainly a place for political outsiders in the local elections, where they could actually have an impact. Most significantly, by influencing one of the two existing political parties. And it's much easier than you might think. Just about anywhere in the US, an average person could become a party committee member practically just by showing up, and once you've done that, now YOU are one of the people who picks primary candidates and who gets on the ballot and who doesn't. School boards, park district boards, but mainly members of the local party structure is the way to go.
That's how the tea party did it. They started showing up (albeit with corporate money in their pockets) for everything from the local school board to party precinct captains to committee members, and they ended up completely taking over the entire Republican Party and bending every elected Republican to their will. Just like that.
If you don't like the way politics works in the US, there are plenty of ways to approach changing it, but if you think you're going to do it by voting for a Libertarian or Greenie or some other third party candidate for president, you might as well just go jack off in your shoe for all the good it will do you. And that's without the rather questionable agendas of the two candidates named in this story.
Just think: Who stands to gain the most if a bunch of people vote for Ron Johnson? Jill Stein? Do you think that fact is lost on the Republican and Democratic parties? Do any of you believe that either Johnson or Stein is going to be elected president?
I think that most of the people on/. take for granted much of what you've spelled out here and will choose to vote for the perceived lesser of the two major evil candidates. I will. On the other hand, I can imagine a third party actually causing change in one of the evil parties. Imagine an anti-TSA party and pretend it pulled 5% of the vote, and that most of that 5% were registered Republican (for the sake of argument). That's enough to swing the election. I imagine that the Republicans would at least seriously consider adding an anti-TSA platform for the next round of elections.
They can probably justify it, but I won't pay it. If they beat the iPad by $100 or included the keyboard at the same price, maybe.
That is exactly what they did. The 32GB Surface is $100 cheaper than the the 32GB iPad, and with the touch cover they're exactly the same price.
It still seems overly expensive, but I think the price thing going for the MS tablet is that it has an SD slot, so if you buy the 32 GB version you have unlimited addon storage for free, not to mention (presumably) the ability to get files onto and off of your tablet without the need to use a clunky software interface akin to iTunes.
but I'm happier than I think I'd be if I had taken a job on wall street that was offered to me out of undergrad, for $150k a year.
Sorry, you're talking shit outta your ass if you think you could have gotten a $150k a year job on Wall Street out of undergrad, let alone with an Astronomy degree.
Several of my classmates got more than that, two of them with astronomy degrees (one BA and one BS) right out of undergrad. It depends on your school. At mine we basically had an open invitation to come work for several of the Wall Street firms, though among the people I knew only the poorest students took that invitation.
Oddly enough, Micro-USB was specifically designed with the exact complaint you have in mind. While it is smaller than the Mini-USB it replaced, that was secondary to its main purpose, which was to improve durability. Not only is it supposed to be more durable in terms of the number of times it can be inserted/removed, but it is also designed such that, when it fails, the (most likely cheaper) cord will be the part to break rather than the (most likely more expensive) device. I'd cite a source but I can't pick which one - look up any documentation on Micro-USB and you'll read the same thing.
For what it is worth, in my personal experience, I have not seen any such issues with Micro-USB. The only times I can recall in which I've seen them fail have been because the cord itself - well away from the connector - was damaged, such as by a wheeled chair rolling over them. However, I have seen a number of the just replaced Apple connectors causing issues. For example, this summer, I've seen an iPod where the connection on the device - not the cord - was bent to one side so that the cord-side connector would not fit in. Mind you this wasn't so terrible - I repaired it with a thin knife and a careful hand - but still, in my personal experience, the old Apple connector has a significantly worse record than the Micro-USB.
I've had a 50% failure rate on device manufacturer supplied micro-USB ports. I think that micro-USB failed to meet its design goal of durability. Mini-USB, supposedly expected to fail in many fewer plug/unplug cycles than micro-USB, has 0% failure rate in my experience. My sample size for micro-USB is approaching 20 and mini-USB is around 40. I suspect that the performance testing done on USB connectors must be robot-run perfectly aligned plug/unplug cycling rather than real world plugging things in while looking somewhere else or in the dark.
I disliked the old Apple connector and haven't tried the new one, but even if it's significantly better I'd still prefer to use the very flawed micro-USB just because I have tons of them sitting around the house.
You might be tempted to think that this means ordinary errors aren't as common as we thought. Lots of papers - actually most papers, at least in medicine - are wrong for reasons like the author being confused, doing the statistics wrong, or using a type of experiment that can't support the conclusions drawn. But merely publishing a paper that's bullshit? That usually isn't enough to trigger a retraction, because retracting papers looks bad for the journals. Only an accusation of Serious Willful Misconduct can reliably force a retraction.
I've owned a Motorola Droid (original) since it was first release, so almost 3 years. This thing is solid, it's been dropped many times, even on concrete. Other than some markings on the metal frame it's still fine. The glass screen has held up fine as well. I've accidentally carried in my pocket with car keys a few times. There are a few minor scratches but not bad. If I go with another Motorola droid product I wouldn't consider damage insurance.
On the other hand, we've given the kids iPod touches last year, and within 5 months they were all shattered. It seems for those devices even a minor drop is catastrophic. I don't know how different an iPhone is from an iPod as far as build and materials, but I'd consider the iPod touches fragile.
Given that, I'm ready for a phone upgrade and am considering the Motorola Droid Razr Maxx HD, or the iPhone 5 as my next phone. All my computers at home ar Apple (24" iMac, 15" macbook, 17" macbook pro), I like the apple hardware and OS, but have never owned their iPhone. Can some long-time apple owners chime in on how your devices tend to hold up to typical abuse? I'm not hard on my electronic, but realistically at some point it will get dropped or keyed. I'm used to not having to worry about that.
The iPhone will be very resistant to being keyed - it uses the same glass as the Moto phone. On the other hand, the previous several iPhones have all been very shatter prone. This one might be better because it's lighter, but it's still using the same sort of materials and was designed by some of the same people so I wouldn't put money on it.
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I'm not sure what the speeds in the article actually mean - they may be an average capped to the maximum bitrate of a Netflix stream, hence the clustering at such slow speeds around 2-2.5 mbps. The cheap Charter service in my tiny podunk midwestern town gives me 30 mpbs in terms of real performance whenever I connect to a fast server, for instance when I'm downloading something off of Steam.
What exactly about iOS is hard to use?
Help me out with my iPhone 5: how do I get rid of the Newstand App? How can I even hide it? The "create a folder and then quickly drag the app onto the folder" thing doesn't seem to work for me, by the way.
Why does my iPhone 5 often need to be plugged into my PC 3 or 4 times before it will be recognized in iTunes?
Once Siri bugs out and stops letting me speak into the microphone to give voice input, how do I get it to work again? Resetting the phone doesn't work, but usually after a few days it starts listening again.
I want to put apps just in the four corners of my display, not all over it in an ugly and rather unusable grid. How can I do that?
I want to quickly copy a 10 GB folder onto my iPhone from my computer. How can I do that?
Why does the mail app show that I have 5 unread messages but show none in my inbox? Why does the gmail app show the messages correctly if the iPhone mail app can't?
Once I get a telemarketing call, how can I block all calls that share the same area code and 3 number prefix as that number?
These are a small handful of the things I'd really like answers for on my iPhone. I was able to do them all trivially on my SGS2 by either flipping through menus for 30 seconds or doing an obvious search in the stupidly named Google Play Store. Despite all this I like the iPhone 5, mostly for its great battery life.
But there was no beginning. Either there was a big bang, in which time did not exist "prior to" that event, time was created by the event... or the event we consider to be the big bang was the end of the contraction cycle of the universe and it's return to expansion... in which case, again, there was no beginning.
Both of those are excellent examples of something beginning. You're either discussing the beginning of time or the beginning of this cycle of the universe. It's almost impossible to come up with a better use of the noun "beginning."
You know, I'd always heard that too. I've been an iOS user since the iPhone 3G so I've bought my share of apps there and have a good feel for mobile app pricing. I was pretty surprised by the prices in the Google Play store when I bought a Nexus 7 last week. Often things I'd expect to pay $.99-$1.99 for in the App Store are $5-7.
I wonder if this is a new trend? Are they compensating for lower sales, or has the Android market changed recently?
I just moved from Android back to an iPhone for the first time in a few generations and for the apps I want I'm seeing something of the reverse. A lot of the apps I used on my SGS2 for free cost $1-5 to unlock a similar feature set in iOS. A lot of the things I did with Android can't be done at all until the iPhone 5 gets jailbroken (like a robust call blocker).
On the other hand, last night I didn't have my expensive new lightning cable near my bed but I saw that I still had 68% of my battery charge left after a day of moderate use, so I didn't charge my phone while I slept. When I woke up this morning I still had 62% of my battery life remaining. I'm impressed, but I'll probably still leave iOS when another upgrade becomes available on my Sprint account in six months.
A full term baby can't collect food for itself, effectively locomote, or do much of anything without assistance. If left unattended for a few dozen hours it perishes. It's fully adapted to function as a biological unit it its nominal environment...providing that environment includes caretakers to manage nearly every aspect of its existence required to survive. A fetus is also fully adapted to function as a biological unit in its nominal environment...a uterus. I'm not seeing a sharp distinction.
If its not a disease then you can't prescribe for it and insurance won't pay for it. Whenever in doubt of the hidden agenda, follow the money. These guides are essentially accounting code manuals, not medical in any way. It's very much the same as going to a mechanic for service and having them look up which procedures are covered under warranty.
My first thought was "Huh? How would a car have a warranty?" Then I remembered that many, many people buy new cars and I'm probably in the minority.
No. I'm pointing out that humans have a cognitive defect that causes us to label inconvenient mental configurations as "diseases", rather than addressing the important questions directly. Is this person happy? Can they achieve their goals without assistance? Can they effectively function in our society as it currently exists?
Not really. When dealing with a cognitive "defect" that's been diagnosed as a "disease," psychiatrists are more concerned with the questions you ask than anything else. Psychiatry isn't about finding the abnormal and forcing it to conform. It's about finding ways for people to be happy and functional regardless of their various psychological peculiarities.
"If you're a Steam user, you can set up Big Picture by simply by connecting your PC or Mac to your TV via a single HDMI cable."
So what kept you from doing that last month, or last year?
Big Picture didn't exist last year, and last month you could do it but it was still in beta.
Googles 20% work on your own project sound nice? Pah! At Sony entire teams could work 100% on stuff that nobody knew could ever work.
I think this is the norm in any innovative company. I don't know anyone who does science and doesn't spend a third or a half of his or her time developing personal projects.
I have used PayPal as the payment processor on my website for years. I run an honest service, I resolve any purchase disputes quickly. I am as ethical in my transactions as I know how to be. I have never, ever, had any problem with PayPal, or access to my money. In fact, they recently upgraded my account standing with them so that in the event of any customer dispute, funds in my account are no longer held by them, because I have demonstrated that I am a trustworthy user of their services. Zero problems with PayPal.
Just saying... sometimes the problem isn't with them... sometimes it's a problem with what people try to get away with when using their services.
It's interesting that every defense of Paypal comes from an AC.
We sort of can do an aggregate evaluation if we look at all of the state numbers and use all of the elections where Silver modeled the outcome based on polling and treat them as separate events. When we do so we see that Silver is most likely wrong...about his uncertainty. His predictions with 50-80% seem to be accurate something like >95% of the time, so he's probably overestimating the error in his model.
Less surprising is that the top vulnerabilities are Oracle's Java and Adobe products. In fact, Adobe can claim 5 of the top 10. Too bad I still have Reader and Flash on my system, but Java was purged from my system about a week after I stopped doing Java development.
Just to reinforce the picture of Java as crapware, it blows my mind that Oracle packages shit like the Ask Toolbar in the regular security updates and you have to uncheck a box in order to prevent its installation. Oracle is a Zynga-level company.
It's because copying your competitors and adding a few minor features isn't really innovation. Even the Xbox is still years from paying off the huge amount of money thrown at it.
But on MSNBC this morning the new iPad Fire (or is it iPad Nexus 7?) was called "Apple's latest innovation," so I think you must be wrong. Hell, it seems copying your competitors and then removing major features counts as innovation.
Agreed. Nokia == BlackBerry. Device manufacturer means NOTHING in the mobile marketplace - operating system does!
I think the logo and the hardware matter, not the OS. If iPhone 5 started shipping tomorrow with Android 4.2 or WP8, most users would be either oblivious or ecstatic at the amazing innovations Apple has introduced.
I really prefer that Seth Green guy better. The Robot Chicken sendup was funnier.
Not just funnier - it actually added something to Star Wars beyond its own characters and braindead pop culture references. The Family Guy SW shows were pretty terrible.
I first assumed this app would connect directly to my XBox via Bluetooth, and act as an actual controller device. It doesn't. Instead it requires internet connectivity on both the XBox and phone, and goes through the XBox Live servers (you have to sign into your XBox account on your phone, and also be logged into that XBox account on the XBox itself, before it can connect). I don't feel like messing around watching network traffic today, but I'm curious if XBox Live hands my phone over directly to the XBox (they find one another on my local network), or if all communication has to go through the XBox Live servers. There is a bit of latency, so I bet all communication is going out over the internet even though the devices are only 5 feet apart and both on the same LAN.
I found the gestures a bit clunky. For example, you have to touch-hold while dragging to drag faster. However there isn't any method (that I could find) to go through a whole page at a time in the XBox menus. I had to go item by item. I think I would prefer a simple D-Pad type setup on my phone, with dedicated buttons to scroll entire pages / screens at a time.
For reference, 360 controllers don't use bluetooth.
yeah, but what happens when there's a generation of kids who grew up playing angry birds as their first game instead of super mario? for them playing on a gamepad will be as alien as playing on touch screen is to you...
I think that rather there will be a generation who played Angry Birds instead of nothing. I don't think ultracasual touchscreen games are eating into existing game markets at all. Console and PC gaming are still growing, after all. Just like the Wii didn't result in fewer 360 sales (compare to the original xbox sales numbers, for instance), ultracasuals are creating a new separate market only really tied to the console market through the word "gaming" and the confusion the publishers feel when they look at studios like Zynga as upstart competitors and wonder where they came from.
Claiming that ultracasuals will kill console gaming is like claiming that Hotwheels will kill sales of passenger cars (car analogy!). Yes, they both include various types of "cars" but they don't eat each other's lunch.
I posted this link in this conversation already but.....voting for them won't have any more or less of an effect than voting for anyone else. Your vote doesn't matter.
Ah yes, that bone-headed article that might be relevant if it were whispered to a handful of people but as a massively consumed and overly quoted piece of tripe it eliminates all of its own arguments.
I guess Shaggy 2 Dope and Violent J were busy tonight.
I doubt these two candidates sincerity, I am suspicious of their motivation and I encourage their supporters to think very carefully before voting for them.
There is not going to be a third party that breaks into the US political system nationwide. It's not going to happen because it cannot happen. The system is specifically designed for it not to happen, and the sooner supporters of these two lunatics get that message, the better off they will be.
On the other hand, there is certainly a place for political outsiders in the local elections, where they could actually have an impact. Most significantly, by influencing one of the two existing political parties. And it's much easier than you might think. Just about anywhere in the US, an average person could become a party committee member practically just by showing up, and once you've done that, now YOU are one of the people who picks primary candidates and who gets on the ballot and who doesn't. School boards, park district boards, but mainly members of the local party structure is the way to go.
That's how the tea party did it. They started showing up (albeit with corporate money in their pockets) for everything from the local school board to party precinct captains to committee members, and they ended up completely taking over the entire Republican Party and bending every elected Republican to their will. Just like that.
If you don't like the way politics works in the US, there are plenty of ways to approach changing it, but if you think you're going to do it by voting for a Libertarian or Greenie or some other third party candidate for president, you might as well just go jack off in your shoe for all the good it will do you. And that's without the rather questionable agendas of the two candidates named in this story.
Just think: Who stands to gain the most if a bunch of people vote for Ron Johnson? Jill Stein? Do you think that fact is lost on the Republican and Democratic parties? Do any of you believe that either Johnson or Stein is going to be elected president?
I think that most of the people on /. take for granted much of what you've spelled out here and will choose to vote for the perceived lesser of the two major evil candidates. I will. On the other hand, I can imagine a third party actually causing change in one of the evil parties. Imagine an anti-TSA party and pretend it pulled 5% of the vote, and that most of that 5% were registered Republican (for the sake of argument). That's enough to swing the election. I imagine that the Republicans would at least seriously consider adding an anti-TSA platform for the next round of elections.
Have not really heard of her until I went to this position survey
All my friends, regardless of political party, are told by that site that they side with Jill Stein. So do I, apparently.
They can probably justify it, but I won't pay it. If they beat the iPad by $100 or included the keyboard at the same price, maybe.
That is exactly what they did. The 32GB Surface is $100 cheaper than the the 32GB iPad, and with the touch cover they're exactly the same price.
It still seems overly expensive, but I think the price thing going for the MS tablet is that it has an SD slot, so if you buy the 32 GB version you have unlimited addon storage for free, not to mention (presumably) the ability to get files onto and off of your tablet without the need to use a clunky software interface akin to iTunes.
but I'm happier than I think I'd be if I had taken a job on wall street that was offered to me out of undergrad, for $150k a year.
Sorry, you're talking shit outta your ass if you think you could have gotten a $150k a year job on Wall Street out of undergrad, let alone with an Astronomy degree.
Several of my classmates got more than that, two of them with astronomy degrees (one BA and one BS) right out of undergrad. It depends on your school. At mine we basically had an open invitation to come work for several of the Wall Street firms, though among the people I knew only the poorest students took that invitation.
Oddly enough, Micro-USB was specifically designed with the exact complaint you have in mind. While it is smaller than the Mini-USB it replaced, that was secondary to its main purpose, which was to improve durability. Not only is it supposed to be more durable in terms of the number of times it can be inserted/removed, but it is also designed such that, when it fails, the (most likely cheaper) cord will be the part to break rather than the (most likely more expensive) device. I'd cite a source but I can't pick which one - look up any documentation on Micro-USB and you'll read the same thing.
For what it is worth, in my personal experience, I have not seen any such issues with Micro-USB. The only times I can recall in which I've seen them fail have been because the cord itself - well away from the connector - was damaged, such as by a wheeled chair rolling over them. However, I have seen a number of the just replaced Apple connectors causing issues. For example, this summer, I've seen an iPod where the connection on the device - not the cord - was bent to one side so that the cord-side connector would not fit in. Mind you this wasn't so terrible - I repaired it with a thin knife and a careful hand - but still, in my personal experience, the old Apple connector has a significantly worse record than the Micro-USB.
I've had a 50% failure rate on device manufacturer supplied micro-USB ports. I think that micro-USB failed to meet its design goal of durability. Mini-USB, supposedly expected to fail in many fewer plug/unplug cycles than micro-USB, has 0% failure rate in my experience. My sample size for micro-USB is approaching 20 and mini-USB is around 40. I suspect that the performance testing done on USB connectors must be robot-run perfectly aligned plug/unplug cycling rather than real world plugging things in while looking somewhere else or in the dark.
I disliked the old Apple connector and haven't tried the new one, but even if it's significantly better I'd still prefer to use the very flawed micro-USB just because I have tons of them sitting around the house.
You might be tempted to think that this means ordinary errors aren't as common as we thought. Lots of papers - actually most papers, at least in medicine - are wrong for reasons like the author being confused, doing the statistics wrong, or using a type of experiment that can't support the conclusions drawn. But merely publishing a paper that's bullshit? That usually isn't enough to trigger a retraction, because retracting papers looks bad for the journals. Only an accusation of Serious Willful Misconduct can reliably force a retraction.
Bingo. Mod to +5.
I've owned a Motorola Droid (original) since it was first release, so almost 3 years. This thing is solid, it's been dropped many times, even on concrete. Other than some markings on the metal frame it's still fine. The glass screen has held up fine as well. I've accidentally carried in my pocket with car keys a few times. There are a few minor scratches but not bad. If I go with another Motorola droid product I wouldn't consider damage insurance.
On the other hand, we've given the kids iPod touches last year, and within 5 months they were all shattered. It seems for those devices even a minor drop is catastrophic. I don't know how different an iPhone is from an iPod as far as build and materials, but I'd consider the iPod touches fragile.
Given that, I'm ready for a phone upgrade and am considering the Motorola Droid Razr Maxx HD, or the iPhone 5 as my next phone. All my computers at home ar Apple (24" iMac, 15" macbook, 17" macbook pro), I like the apple hardware and OS, but have never owned their iPhone. Can some long-time apple owners chime in on how your devices tend to hold up to typical abuse? I'm not hard on my electronic, but realistically at some point it will get dropped or keyed. I'm used to not having to worry about that.
The iPhone will be very resistant to being keyed - it uses the same glass as the Moto phone. On the other hand, the previous several iPhones have all been very shatter prone. This one might be better because it's lighter, but it's still using the same sort of materials and was designed by some of the same people so I wouldn't put money on it.