You obviously haven't been paying to international politics recently. Extension of US laws (aka: "harmonisation" or "bringing laws in sync", esp. copyright and drug law) to other countries is part and parcel of negotiations. Often times a country will decide that access to the US as a market for their exports outweighs the consequences of taking onboard more egregious aspects of the US body of law.
Well I guess you're not voting in the right leaders then... Canadians are responsible for Canada just as US Citizens are for the US. We may not have the democracy we attempt to have, but its our permission and negligence that holds us responsible for our countries. In the end, you will feel that responsibility whether you like it or not; your fellows are going to jail for senseless reasons in this case, etc etc etc.
Just because an iPad can't do everything a netbook can do doesn't mean it isn't meant to replace it. It really means that its a crappy attempt to replace something better with something worse by way of trendsetting marketing.
Don't skew reality here. You're pretending that because it does less that its in a different market. lol. The only 'different' market are people who want to buy the image of iPad ownership. Aside from that, those people think they're getting the same uses as a netbook.
Make a list of things you wish to do on an iPad and I guarantee you that same list is included in the much larger list of things you wish to do on a netbook.
I agree. The Iphone is whats obsolete. I have an HTC Touch Pro 2 and its way better than even the newest iphone -- and thats because it actually does what I want, not what it wants me to do. To me, and others who prefer options and versatility, Apple is perpetually obsolete.
There are apparently 3 types of people involved in these 'apple issue' debates, but only one type is actually having the problem:
1) Apple fanboys - these people love apple stuff and the image they get for owning it so much that nothing matters, these people are never upset by apple. I understand. We're all fanboys of something. 2) Technology realists - these people look at the core and peripheral values of the technology they consider, they see the shortcomings of the iPad and iPhones and are usually swayed enough to buy the better tech out there. They weigh out the actual options and decide (usually not apple) what to buy.
But the people that always seem afflicted and are the source of all this drama are 3) Trendy Consumers - they don't know WHAT they really want. They follow marketed trends and hardly look at the tech they are buying until they are using it. This often leads to a post-purchase realization that their trendy product may not be as cool as they wanted. Some of these people are still cool with the object trendyness, and some come here on slashdot to produce articles attempting to blame Apple for their own skewed attempt at interacting with life.
The lesson to be learned is to quit being trendy and attempt to actually be in control of yourself.
Its not a netbook and shouldn't really be compared to one.
Since its uses are parallel to those of a netbook, I completely disagree.
For any place/purpose you could use an iPad, a netbook can do it. Additionally, there are things that the netbook can do that the iPad cannot.
The *ONLY* think a netbook can't do that your iPad can do is be an iPad. Once you've come to realize you bought an ornament it will make more sense to you why people compare it to netbooks.
Its a netbook with less options. Its a netbook without a keyboard. Its a netbook with limited space. Its a netbook that doesn't run Flash. Oh... and its a netbook by Apple, and so it has an 'i' in its name. Cool huh?
Yeah my 2006 Blackberry is really obselete now. Going online, checking my mail, instant messaging, and god forbid calling people has never been a worse experience. But I guess I don't have a fart button app, time to throw it out.
The fact is you are right, but don't miss the humor in all this. I think its hilarious that the guy posting this article made the *choice* to move to the iPad, and now blames Apple for the change in the market. Hello! Wake up dummy! You voted to support this with your DOLLARS when you already knew it would be this way --- oh and now its 'blame apple' time. And as far as I know all the netbooks are still available. Will your trend-wad friends not hang with you if you whip out your Acer instead of an iPad? Go get some REAL friends.
As far as I can tell this article is no more than a mask to cover the buyers remorse for being weak enough to fall for Apple's marketing/buzz/trend campaign. Boo hoo.
...is if the fine costs far more than what was made from the corrupt action. If it isn't, then the fine is no more than a cost of doing business. As in most cases, the fine probably *won't* be greater than the profits made, and thus there is nothing good that will come of it.
The guy actually did predict it, but it was about a week early. The authorities were ripping him for causing undue alarm... and then the quake hit....
So now I'm sitting here reading this new article wonder WTF?!?! Didn't he do his job right (or about as right as you can get with stuff like this)? They even doubted him.. and now they're saying he didn't even do his job at all. Thats B.S.
No indications means they didn't detect any indication. That could be due to poor technology, or perhaps because there were no indications.
You know what is funny?
I recall a couple articles on slashdot around the time it all happened... You know what happened? Look up the links on slashdot if you like.
An italian seismologist/geologist actually *DID* predict the earthquakes and told everyone to grab their socks and look out. He warned about a week early and was reemed for it and was actually being tried by an italian court for something akin to yelling fire in a theater, etc. Then after the quake happened a little later, I think he got the charges dropped.
It seems to me in Italy, as in the US, there is a bit of disparity between the people/government and science --- with science only having weight when it is convenient, and being easily discredited when we don't like it.
I'm a biologist. I actually understand what value those 'biological things' have. You are placing far too little value on those 'things'. And this is catastrophic -- whether it leads to serious detriment to mankind is unknown right now, but despite that the event is most definitely catastrophic.
I'm sorry you don't know enough to understand. Good luck with that.
All 3 are responsible. They can sue each other later...
The thing to consider, though... how do you put a price on catastrophe? These companies don't really have enough money to compensate for it -- and in reality, since when could you ever compensate with MONEY something this ridiculously catastrophic to all things biological being affected.
we should force them to reinvest all of their money (which would/should be paid to the people anyway for such catastrophe) into renewable energy production and then allow them to sell it to us a lightly profitable rates.
Foods.. like candy (or anything you enjoy) are PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS devices/goods.
When I'm in the mood for a hard candy to last me a good 20 minutes... a grape jolly rancher is my pursuit of happiness.
Fooz can get up off my jolly rancher nutts. I'm 28, but if I was 10 and bringing some of my halloween stash, they can go suck one And I'm sure my parents would have told them to go suck one, too.
I have attempted several sprint rebates... both took over 7 months to complete... one had to be completely resubmitted 3 times... the other, two times.
I am not posting anonymously so you can see my name and contact me later if you decide to push forward for class action. I will gladly testify to my experience. Despite ultimately receiving the rebates it was very clear to me that they deliberately mis-process and lose your information as standard practice to prevent what they likely consider 'losses' (which is when they actually pay you like they said they would).
Clearly the solution is to both develop advanced cheap energy and work to "live within our means."
That sounds like balance.../sarcasm on
We can't fix problems without being extreme!/sarcasm off
The balance comes whether we like it, accept it, or cope with it --- or not. Life is less of an unexpected roller coaster when we stay closer to natural balances --- but that's not what WE do. We want to push everything in one direction, maximizing benefit, waiting for that ultimate deficit to kick in (or apathetic or ignorant to the fact that it WILL kick in).
Yeah... wait.. no? I totally didn't go to www.nonetbrutality.com and I totally didn't see that this was 'just a powerpoint project'.
I'm curious why a project like this would be so involved that the student would pay for a domain name and hosting, and then (yes, i'm telling you to go to the site right now) do everything as legitimately as possible without mention of it being a project.
I'm not saying it was/was-not done by the telecoms. But the site is real, and its intentions/purposes appear real as well.
OK, let's ignore for a moment the fact that water vapor is a greenhouse gas responsible for up to 76% of the greenhouse effect (as opposed to CO2 which is responsible for 1/3) of that. Let's also ignore the magical energy source required to pump all this water into the air. What could possibly go wrong? Where can I buy stock?/sarcasm
Or the fact that sunlight is what plants/algae use. And that plants/algae convert that energy via RuBisCo carbon fixation, which is how carbon is cycled from CO2 in the atmosphere back into living organisms.
Add to it the fact that due to global dimming from particle emissions already, we are only experiencing at the surface about 90% of the sunlight we were 100 years ago. ------
The last thing we need right now are short-sighted snake-oil salesmen trying to score grants and blondes.
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You obviously haven't been paying to international politics recently. Extension of US laws (aka: "harmonisation" or "bringing laws in sync", esp. copyright and drug law) to other countries is part and parcel of negotiations. Often times a country will decide that access to the US as a market for their exports outweighs the consequences of taking onboard more egregious aspects of the US body of law.
Well I guess you're not voting in the right leaders then... Canadians are responsible for Canada just as US Citizens are for the US. We may not have the democracy we attempt to have, but its our permission and negligence that holds us responsible for our countries. In the end, you will feel that responsibility whether you like it or not; your fellows are going to jail for senseless reasons in this case, etc etc etc.
Hope for the best, lol.
You can't say the world needs his work more than they need him. The two are inseparable.
Why? Are *you* going to take that risk and do his job? Is anyone else? No. And that's obvious.
So if you say the world needs his work, you should be saying it needs him too because he's the only guy doing it.
No... He was right to bitch BEFORE he spent dollars on the iPad. Now he's just another idiot shooting himself in the foot.
He DOES have the choice right now, and in perfect contradiction he votes with his dollars against his own expressed interest.
You see why I wrote LOL? This guy doesn't know if he's walking or pooping.
I can play your childish games, too.
* Why do you feel your manhood is being threatened by being the target demographic for the iPad?
* Why do you feel that your iPad (and hence you personally) are being threatened by netbooks?
* Why do you feel belittled when people choose an netbook over a iPad?
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I don't own a netbook or iPad. Quit trying so hard to troll defensive and you might have seen the fact in my post.
Hold on a second.
Just because an iPad can't do everything a netbook can do doesn't mean it isn't meant to replace it. It really means that its a crappy attempt to replace something better with something worse by way of trendsetting marketing.
Don't skew reality here. You're pretending that because it does less that its in a different market. lol. The only 'different' market are people who want to buy the image of iPad ownership. Aside from that, those people think they're getting the same uses as a netbook.
Make a list of things you wish to do on an iPad and I guarantee you that same list is included in the much larger list of things you wish to do on a netbook.
just buy the phone but not the service.
i bet you end up using it as a phone, haha.
Which planet do you live on?
Other smartphone are not obsolete by a long shot.
I stopped reading after the first sentence.
I agree. The Iphone is whats obsolete. I have an HTC Touch Pro 2 and its way better than even the newest iphone -- and thats because it actually does what I want, not what it wants me to do. To me, and others who prefer options and versatility, Apple is perpetually obsolete.
There are apparently 3 types of people involved in these 'apple issue' debates, but only one type is actually having the problem:
1) Apple fanboys - these people love apple stuff and the image they get for owning it so much that nothing matters, these people are never upset by apple. I understand. We're all fanboys of something.
2) Technology realists - these people look at the core and peripheral values of the technology they consider, they see the shortcomings of the iPad and iPhones and are usually swayed enough to buy the better tech out there. They weigh out the actual options and decide (usually not apple) what to buy.
But the people that always seem afflicted and are the source of all this drama are 3) Trendy Consumers - they don't know WHAT they really want. They follow marketed trends and hardly look at the tech they are buying until they are using it. This often leads to a post-purchase realization that their trendy product may not be as cool as they wanted. Some of these people are still cool with the object trendyness, and some come here on slashdot to produce articles attempting to blame Apple for their own skewed attempt at interacting with life.
The lesson to be learned is to quit being trendy and attempt to actually be in control of yourself.
its more of a distraction than a stepping stone. the 'something' lacking those flaws are the netbooks that preceded it.
the iPad is an expensive distraction to extort money from trendy fools.
Its not a netbook and shouldn't really be compared to one.
Since its uses are parallel to those of a netbook, I completely disagree.
For any place/purpose you could use an iPad, a netbook can do it. Additionally, there are things that the netbook can do that the iPad cannot.
The *ONLY* think a netbook can't do that your iPad can do is be an iPad. Once you've come to realize you bought an ornament it will make more sense to you why people compare it to netbooks.
Its a netbook with less options.
Its a netbook without a keyboard.
Its a netbook with limited space.
Its a netbook that doesn't run Flash.
Oh... and its a netbook by Apple, and so it has an 'i' in its name. Cool huh?
Lol. Apple. Lol.
Yeah my 2006 Blackberry is really obselete now. Going online, checking my mail, instant messaging, and god forbid calling people has never been a worse experience. But I guess I don't have a fart button app, time to throw it out.
The fact is you are right, but don't miss the humor in all this.
I think its hilarious that the guy posting this article made the *choice* to move to the iPad, and now blames Apple for the change in the market. Hello! Wake up dummy! You voted to support this with your DOLLARS when you already knew it would be this way --- oh and now its 'blame apple' time. And as far as I know all the netbooks are still available. Will your trend-wad friends not hang with you if you whip out your Acer instead of an iPad? Go get some REAL friends.
As far as I can tell this article is no more than a mask to cover the buyers remorse for being weak enough to fall for Apple's marketing/buzz/trend campaign. Boo hoo.
LOL.
...is if the fine costs far more than what was made from the corrupt action. If it isn't, then the fine is no more than a cost of doing business. As in most cases, the fine probably *won't* be greater than the profits made, and thus there is nothing good that will come of it.
... of course it is faulty.
It was the same quake.
http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/04/06/1935246/Scientist-Forced-To-Remove-Earthquake-Prediction
Seems these authorities/politicians have their heads up their asses.
Actually, for this very earthquake, a scientists did.
http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/04/06/1935246/Scientist-Forced-To-Remove-Earthquake-Prediction
The guy actually did predict it, but it was about a week early. The authorities were ripping him for causing undue alarm... and then the quake hit....
So now I'm sitting here reading this new article wonder WTF?!?! Didn't he do his job right (or about as right as you can get with stuff like this)? They even doubted him.. and now they're saying he didn't even do his job at all. Thats B.S.
science out of your country.
No indications means they didn't detect any indication. That could be due to poor technology, or perhaps because there were no indications.
You know what is funny?
I recall a couple articles on slashdot around the time it all happened... You know what happened? Look up the links on slashdot if you like.
An italian seismologist/geologist actually *DID* predict the earthquakes and told everyone to grab their socks and look out. He warned about a week early and was reemed for it and was actually being tried by an italian court for something akin to yelling fire in a theater, etc. Then after the quake happened a little later, I think he got the charges dropped.
It seems to me in Italy, as in the US, there is a bit of disparity between the people/government and science --- with science only having weight when it is convenient, and being easily discredited when we don't like it.
I'm a biologist. I actually understand what value those 'biological things' have. You are placing far too little value on those 'things'. And this is catastrophic -- whether it leads to serious detriment to mankind is unknown right now, but despite that the event is most definitely catastrophic.
I'm sorry you don't know enough to understand. Good luck with that.
All 3 are responsible. They can sue each other later...
The thing to consider, though... how do you put a price on catastrophe? These companies don't really have enough money to compensate for it -- and in reality, since when could you ever compensate with MONEY something this ridiculously catastrophic to all things biological being affected.
we should force them to reinvest all of their money (which would/should be paid to the people anyway for such catastrophe) into renewable energy production and then allow them to sell it to us a lightly profitable rates.
Foods.. like candy (or anything you enjoy) are PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS devices/goods.
When I'm in the mood for a hard candy to last me a good 20 minutes... a grape jolly rancher is my pursuit of happiness.
Fooz can get up off my jolly rancher nutts. I'm 28, but if I was 10 and bringing some of my halloween stash, they can go suck one And I'm sure my parents would have told them to go suck one, too.
It has been cracked for a couple years now on other HTC phones.
Everything you've said is true.
I have attempted several sprint rebates... both took over 7 months to complete... one had to be completely resubmitted 3 times... the other, two times.
I am not posting anonymously so you can see my name and contact me later if you decide to push forward for class action. I will gladly testify to my experience. Despite ultimately receiving the rebates it was very clear to me that they deliberately mis-process and lose your information as standard practice to prevent what they likely consider 'losses' (which is when they actually pay you like they said they would).
I can agree with that. Thanks for bringing up the finer details that I had overlooked.
Domains are around $10/year.
Hosting, about $10/month.
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Students don't like to spend money on anything but beer and video games.
Clearly the solution is to both develop advanced cheap energy and work to "live within our means."
That sounds like balance... /sarcasm on
We can't fix problems without being extreme! /sarcasm off
The balance comes whether we like it, accept it, or cope with it --- or not. Life is less of an unexpected roller coaster when we stay closer to natural balances --- but that's not what WE do. We want to push everything in one direction, maximizing benefit, waiting for that ultimate deficit to kick in (or apathetic or ignorant to the fact that it WILL kick in).
Nothing to see here, move along.
Yeah... wait.. no? I totally didn't go to www.nonetbrutality.com and I totally didn't see that this was 'just a powerpoint project'.
I'm curious why a project like this would be so involved that the student would pay for a domain name and hosting, and then (yes, i'm telling you to go to the site right now) do everything as legitimately as possible without mention of it being a project.
I'm not saying it was/was-not done by the telecoms. But the site is real, and its intentions/purposes appear real as well.
OK, let's ignore for a moment the fact that water vapor is a greenhouse gas responsible for up to 76% of the greenhouse effect (as opposed to CO2 which is responsible for 1/3) of that. Let's also ignore the magical energy source required to pump all this water into the air. What could possibly go wrong? Where can I buy stock? /sarcasm
Or the fact that sunlight is what plants/algae use. And that plants/algae convert that energy via RuBisCo carbon fixation, which is how carbon is cycled from CO2 in the atmosphere back into living organisms.
Add to it the fact that due to global dimming from particle emissions already, we are only experiencing at the surface about 90% of the sunlight we were 100 years ago.
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The last thing we need right now are short-sighted snake-oil salesmen trying to score grants and blondes.
I bet you my left nut it only makes things worse.