Most of the people that I know that own trucks only use them as a truck occasionally.
At what point do you draw the line between "occasionally" and "often"? Every two weeks?
At whatever point the person owning the car decides. It's not like people proposing this idea want a law mandating it. It's simply saying that if you have a truck and you use the bed for picking up a christmas tree once a year, you probably don't really need the truck all that much. You might end up saving a ton of cash on a cheaper car (up front expense, maintenance, gas, etc.).
How has this notion that somehow the iPad can't play music while doing other things become such a common myth? The iPhone has been able to do this since day one.
Probably well before day one of release. Probably around day one of design discussions.
The lack of multitasking just means that you can't listen to external music streams (last.fm, pandora, etc).
That's the real shame. It made sense with the iPhone to limit the number of apps that could run at once to increase battery life. I hope that they release a modification to the OS for the iPad that would lift that restriction so pandora could run in the background as iTunes does.
Also, no USB ports and oh yea, you can only run one app at a time. Can't have itunes up and surf the web at the same time.
Are you serious. Unless Apple decides to jump the shark they're not going to remove the ability of the OS to run iTunes at the same time as any other app that doesn't have sound. Trying going to an Apple store and playing around with an iPod touch or an iPhone and you'll see that the music keeps playing while you surf the web, check your e-mail, play card games, etc.
The iPad is not meant to be a full fledged computer (lamentably), it is more of an ultra portable media device. If it truly has a 10 hour battery life with video playback that makes it an incredible video player for traveling. If viewed in that light the iPad should be a success. I do wish they had decided to simply make a multi touch computer instead, it would have been much more exciting.
What the fuck were those guys thinking? We know about the fight with Fujitsu over the iPad name, but in today's New York Times there was an article about the ambiguous vulgarity of the name itself. From that one:
Many women are saying the name evokes awkward associations with feminine hygiene products. People from Boston to Ireland are complaining that "iPad," in their regional brogue, sounds almost indistinguishable from "iPod," Apple's music player.
So indistinguishable from iPod is the word iPad that Steve Jobs himself mistakenly called the iPad an iPod during the press release. I thought that was funny. But seriously, people should stop beefing about the name, sure some women will be reminded of a tampon, but on occasion people refer to their homes as their pad. Theirs padding in the sofa. Hell, people sometimes pad their computer memory, or their ego.
Funny thing, iPod doesn't appear as a spelling error in safari but iPad does, better get that patch out quickly apple.
So how do you write apps for the iPad? Do you have to get your builds approved by the Apple Store before you can test them?
My understanding is that you run it on a virtual environment on your Mac. I don't know the process of actually running it on a full fledged piece of hardware, maybe you have to get a special one that doesn't require the App Store approval process for testing?
If the UK is anything to go by, it doesn't necessarily help much. O2 and Orange both sell the iPhone for virtually the same price on very similar contracts.
Knowing Apple, it wouldn't surprise me at all if they're responsible for this.
Or, just thinking outside the box, Apple sells the iPhone for X where X >> A, B, C... generic phones. It doesn't make sense to cut (and eat) the price of an expensive phone. If people are going to spend a few hundred on it there's no point in cutting. There is a point to cutting a 10 pound phone down to 0 to get people to buy it.
Sun light has the tendency to shine above a person and not directly into their faces. And when it is directly into their faces it's generally at an angle where the atmosphere is pulling a decent amount of that luminance away.
Finally, I could maybe buy the insurance line if we were talking perhaps even a few multiples, but a $100 device to $18k? That's one hell of an insurance policy.
The insurance is to cover a misdiagnosis that in a worst case scenario could result in death or lifetime medical care. Do you have any idea what malpractice insurance costs? It's the same for the medical suppliers as well. Now, if it were simply insurance incase somebody fell off the balance board it would be much cheaper.
How often do you run into people under that amount of light. Trust me, anyone without makeup under that much lighting would not look too good, hence one of the needs for makeup on actors.
You must not understand where all the radios in your cell phones were designed. The fact that most companies don't have to think about designing their own radios frees them up to do other things (a la the iPhone).
Nokia wants the patents for multi touch cross licensed. These patents are even more trivial than GSM, 3G and Wi-Fi.
Really. They may be trivial to implement now because others have done the work to produce them, but designing the transmitter and logic board to accurately connect a cell phone to a cellular network is not trivial. Neither is a multitouch capacitive screen. Go design something and when I copy your design scheme or buy a prefab piece of equipment don't come whining when I call the implementation trivial.
It is a federal offense to riffle through someone else's mail. This nonsense by the RIAA and friends is like saying "yeah we agree that FEDEX etc. shouldn't be going through other peoples' mail... except to make sure that people aren't pirating things..."
I'm not saying it's right, but are carriers such as FedEx and UPS bound by those same restrictions. I understand that it's illegal to snoop through USPS mail, but what about private, commercial carriers?
Excuse me? Low end torque doesn't matter at all? What do you think gets a car moving from a dead stop? And accelerates it to cruising speed? It's called low end torque. Obviously you have never seen HP/torque curves for gasoline and diesel engines before.
Apparently you've never seen the T-curve of an electric motor. Let me give you a hint, it's highest point is a band of revs beginning at zero. Torque, especially low end, is not something an electric motor lacks.
What, exactly, has the country of Yemen done to you?
And you wonder why the middle east hates you. Hint: It's not because of your freedom, it's because you're the biggest race of douchebags on the planet.
I wasn't aware that USAian was a race. That's news to me.
Twenty years of Sony and others selling "digital" headphones has made me a stickler for the proper use of the word "digital".:-)
I'm more upset with HDCP and content control than any mislabeling of digital. Though I get what you're saying, unless that bad boy comes with a DAC. It's kinda like the guys at Best Buy trying to convince me that I need to buy the 4' HDMI Monster Cable for $99 instead of the 8' generic one that only cost $20 (though I still felt like I was getting ripped). Gold plugs just ain't worth it.
ADA ridiculousness has gone so far as to force places like rock climbing gyms to make their locker rooms and ramps to the wall wheelchair accessible.
That's more reasonable than the harley davidson one. If you don't have the use of your legs you're not going to ride a motorcycle. You can still climb walls without the use of your legs.
I just don't really see a good solution other then not serving nuts on a flight with an allergic. Which is reasonable on a case by case basis in my opinion.
Do you have any idea how much the overhead for making sure not to serve peanuts on certain flights with allergic passengers would be. It's going to end up all or nothing, specialty service is expensive. Either always no peanuts, always separated seating, or always deal with your allergy.
Simple, a cellular network card slot so that you can choose your carrier. That would be the best possible solution as I don't think you could hardwire a card in to work with any carrier (well, the technologies available but the carriers probably wouldn't play ball).
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Most of the people that I know that own trucks only use them as a truck occasionally.
At what point do you draw the line between "occasionally" and "often"? Every two weeks?
At whatever point the person owning the car decides. It's not like people proposing this idea want a law mandating it. It's simply saying that if you have a truck and you use the bed for picking up a christmas tree once a year, you probably don't really need the truck all that much. You might end up saving a ton of cash on a cheaper car (up front expense, maintenance, gas, etc.).
How has this notion that somehow the iPad can't play music while doing other things become such a common myth? The iPhone has been able to do this since day one.
Probably well before day one of release. Probably around day one of design discussions.
The lack of multitasking just means that you can't listen to external music streams (last.fm, pandora, etc).
That's the real shame. It made sense with the iPhone to limit the number of apps that could run at once to increase battery life. I hope that they release a modification to the OS for the iPad that would lift that restriction so pandora could run in the background as iTunes does.
Also, no USB ports and oh yea, you can only run one app at a time. Can't have itunes up and surf the web at the same time.
Are you serious. Unless Apple decides to jump the shark they're not going to remove the ability of the OS to run iTunes at the same time as any other app that doesn't have sound. Trying going to an Apple store and playing around with an iPod touch or an iPhone and you'll see that the music keeps playing while you surf the web, check your e-mail, play card games, etc.
The iPad is not meant to be a full fledged computer (lamentably), it is more of an ultra portable media device. If it truly has a 10 hour battery life with video playback that makes it an incredible video player for traveling. If viewed in that light the iPad should be a success. I do wish they had decided to simply make a multi touch computer instead, it would have been much more exciting.
What the fuck were those guys thinking? We know about the fight with Fujitsu over the iPad name, but in today's New York Times there was an article about the ambiguous vulgarity of the name itself. From that one:
So indistinguishable from iPod is the word iPad that Steve Jobs himself mistakenly called the iPad an iPod during the press release. I thought that was funny. But seriously, people should stop beefing about the name, sure some women will be reminded of a tampon, but on occasion people refer to their homes as their pad. Theirs padding in the sofa. Hell, people sometimes pad their computer memory, or their ego.
Funny thing, iPod doesn't appear as a spelling error in safari but iPad does, better get that patch out quickly apple.
...when the person in front of me pushes their seat back it gets worse.
That's what the backside of an open hand is for.
So how do you write apps for the iPad? Do you have to get your builds approved by the Apple Store before you can test them?
My understanding is that you run it on a virtual environment on your Mac. I don't know the process of actually running it on a full fledged piece of hardware, maybe you have to get a special one that doesn't require the App Store approval process for testing?
If the UK is anything to go by, it doesn't necessarily help much. O2 and Orange both sell the iPhone for virtually the same price on very similar contracts.
Knowing Apple, it wouldn't surprise me at all if they're responsible for this.
Or, just thinking outside the box, Apple sells the iPhone for X where X >> A, B, C... generic phones. It doesn't make sense to cut (and eat) the price of an expensive phone. If people are going to spend a few hundred on it there's no point in cutting. There is a point to cutting a 10 pound phone down to 0 to get people to buy it.
Sun light has the tendency to shine above a person and not directly into their faces. And when it is directly into their faces it's generally at an angle where the atmosphere is pulling a decent amount of that luminance away.
Finally, I could maybe buy the insurance line if we were talking perhaps even a few multiples, but a $100 device to $18k? That's one hell of an insurance policy.
The insurance is to cover a misdiagnosis that in a worst case scenario could result in death or lifetime medical care. Do you have any idea what malpractice insurance costs? It's the same for the medical suppliers as well. Now, if it were simply insurance incase somebody fell off the balance board it would be much cheaper.
How often do you run into people under that amount of light. Trust me, anyone without makeup under that much lighting would not look too good, hence one of the needs for makeup on actors.
You must not understand where all the radios in your cell phones were designed. The fact that most companies don't have to think about designing their own radios frees them up to do other things (a la the iPhone).
Nokia wants the patents for multi touch cross licensed. These patents are even more trivial than GSM, 3G and Wi-Fi.
Really. They may be trivial to implement now because others have done the work to produce them, but designing the transmitter and logic board to accurately connect a cell phone to a cellular network is not trivial. Neither is a multitouch capacitive screen. Go design something and when I copy your design scheme or buy a prefab piece of equipment don't come whining when I call the implementation trivial.
It is a federal offense to riffle through someone else's mail. This nonsense by the RIAA and friends is like saying "yeah we agree that FEDEX etc. shouldn't be going through other peoples' mail... except to make sure that people aren't pirating things..."
I'm not saying it's right, but are carriers such as FedEx and UPS bound by those same restrictions. I understand that it's illegal to snoop through USPS mail, but what about private, commercial carriers?
Omega is the angular frequency. 1 Hz = 2pi rad. If you're computing electrical admittance you're going to want the angular frequency.
You use the "nu" when dealing with particles. For waves it is f. In electronics it is practically always f.
I'm sorry, but the correct answer is w (lower case Omega). No point in having to keep a 2pi hanging around in all your equations.
"...evil
quick, somebody justify and rationalize it"
for those of you just joining us, Google's corporate motto is "Don't be evil"
You're doing it wrong.
Excuse me? Low end torque doesn't matter at all? What do you think gets a car moving from a dead stop? And accelerates it to cruising speed? It's called low end torque. Obviously you have never seen HP/torque curves for gasoline and diesel engines before.
Apparently you've never seen the T-curve of an electric motor. Let me give you a hint, it's highest point is a band of revs beginning at zero. Torque, especially low end, is not something an electric motor lacks.
What, exactly, has the country of Yemen done to you?
And you wonder why the middle east hates you. Hint: It's not because of your freedom, it's because you're the biggest race of douchebags on the planet.
I wasn't aware that USAian was a race. That's news to me.
Twenty years of Sony and others selling "digital" headphones has made me a stickler for the proper use of the word "digital". :-)
I'm more upset with HDCP and content control than any mislabeling of digital. Though I get what you're saying, unless that bad boy comes with a DAC. It's kinda like the guys at Best Buy trying to convince me that I need to buy the 4' HDMI Monster Cable for $99 instead of the 8' generic one that only cost $20 (though I still felt like I was getting ripped). Gold plugs just ain't worth it.
They have to paint a single parking spot blue?
-1, Ignorant.
ADA ridiculousness has gone so far as to force places like rock climbing gyms to make their locker rooms and ramps to the wall wheelchair accessible.
That's more reasonable than the harley davidson one. If you don't have the use of your legs you're not going to ride a motorcycle. You can still climb walls without the use of your legs.
I just don't really see a good solution other then not serving nuts on a flight with an allergic. Which is reasonable on a case by case basis in my opinion.
Do you have any idea how much the overhead for making sure not to serve peanuts on certain flights with allergic passengers would be. It's going to end up all or nothing, specialty service is expensive. Either always no peanuts, always separated seating, or always deal with your allergy.
Yes, but if "You are" games then the shutting down of servers should be a little more frightening.
I was under the impression that Verizon and Sprint happen not to.
Verizon.
Sprint (select "Mobile Broadband" toggle).
AT&T.
T-Mobile.
Simple, a cellular network card slot so that you can choose your carrier. That would be the best possible solution as I don't think you could hardwire a card in to work with any carrier (well, the technologies available but the carriers probably wouldn't play ball).