I went to jury selection once. We had to stare down the defendant and selection was based on this interaction alone. There was no vocal interaction with the lawyers at all. Unless you somehow look significantly smarter than the rest of the population, there is no way they would know about your superior intellect.
Considering that the jury are bound by the legalese in their every day life, I would hope they understand it to the letter. If they do happen to encounter something they are not familiar with during the trial, it should be encouraged for them to become more familiar with what is going on. It is their duty as a citizen to know and understand the law, after all.
Ignorance of legalese is not required to judge trials on fact alone. It is quite easy for a normally functioning brain to separate the two concepts.
Well, yeah. If you are driving a large and heavy machine, with no suspension, towing an even larger implement that just fits within the lane boundaries, 15 miles per hour is fast. Believe it or not, tractors do not handle like Ferraris.
From a coding standpoint where I would think to use a respondsToSelector: in Objective-C I wind up making an interface containing exactly 1 method in Java.
With Objective-C, a method may not even exist at compile time. It is impossible to define formal interfaces in many cases. respondsToSelector allows you to ensure that any arbitrary object walks, swims, and quacks like a duck without strict class definitions.
Canada is an even larger country and the 21Mbps 3G networks are already in operation. The 4G network rollout is planned for early 2010 which should provide even greater speeds.
Apple OS updates are officially every 18 months, but they have a history of not even meeting that timeframe. Where are you getting this annual OS upgrade idea?
AIM and Facebook provide SMS gateways. Which means that they can get your messages on their computer and they can also get your messages on their cell phone.
Unless you have a data plan, email on cell phones is usually out of the question. Having to use a cell phone when a perfectly good computer is available is awkward. It is all about letting them choose which device they want to use at a given time.
If you choose a communication service that is fixed to one device, the appeal is significantly less. At least that's my theory.
Hopefully this push from Google will really help the situation.
If Google can push, why can't you? In fact, you are in a better position to convert users than Google is since your users may not use any Google services.
I don't think it should matter how exactly it communicates with your code
What if I write an application that makes calls to standard Unix commands and the user is using the GNU operating system? Should that make my application subject to the GPL?
What if I make my application available to a variety of different Unix flavours? Will it automatically inherit the code sharing license restrictions of the Unix utilities on every platform it runs on?
I'm seeing sub 100ms latencies while tethering my iPhone 3G over a 3G network. Not as fast as my DSL connection can provide, but well within the tolerable limits. Definitely not a reason to call 3G a small pipe either.
You are quite right that processing power is a big problem. Although, keep in mind that filtering is a not a free, as in CPU usage, operation either.
For one, the jail braking doesn't really enable pirated stuff to play
Sure it does. The majority of moderately popular paid apps see more downloads from the cracked sources than they do on the App Store itself. Some figures say up to 100:1.
The consumer decided that the product was more important than the service.
If you want a basic cell phone that was old technology ten years ago, you can find amazing customer service. If you want a modern phone, such as an iPhone, you're going to have to settle for poor customer service.
And it makes sense. Service is expensive. The companies that took the service money and poured it into the product ended up with a much better product at the expense of quality service.
So, the question is, do you want a better product, or do you want better service?
because they are effectively admitting that they had it wrong
Perhaps they determined that older vehicles, that are only capable of safely traveling 55MPH, were no longer in use? Road construction isn't the only thing that has changed since the speed limits were previously set.
Normally I would use Twitter to find out why a site is inaccessible, since it is the goto place for up to the minute news. While Slashdot did eventually bring the story forward, it too far too long to be relevant. Twitter was already back online by the time this story appeared on the front page.
Some browsers do attempt to "fix" URLs. These services break those features, since the domain is always resolved properly as far as the browser is concerned.
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I went to jury selection once. We had to stare down the defendant and selection was based on this interaction alone. There was no vocal interaction with the lawyers at all. Unless you somehow look significantly smarter than the rest of the population, there is no way they would know about your superior intellect.
Considering that the jury are bound by the legalese in their every day life, I would hope they understand it to the letter. If they do happen to encounter something they are not familiar with during the trial, it should be encouraged for them to become more familiar with what is going on. It is their duty as a citizen to know and understand the law, after all.
Ignorance of legalese is not required to judge trials on fact alone. It is quite easy for a normally functioning brain to separate the two concepts.
Well, yeah. If you are driving a large and heavy machine, with no suspension, towing an even larger implement that just fits within the lane boundaries, 15 miles per hour is fast. Believe it or not, tractors do not handle like Ferraris.
With Objective-C, a method may not even exist at compile time. It is impossible to define formal interfaces in many cases. respondsToSelector allows you to ensure that any arbitrary object walks, swims, and quacks like a duck without strict class definitions.
They have not banned this Brainfuck interpreter. http://itunes.com/apps/brainfudge Hurray for App Store inconsistencies.
Canada is an even larger country and the 21Mbps 3G networks are already in operation. The 4G network rollout is planned for early 2010 which should provide even greater speeds.
Where are you finding an acre of land for $900 per acre? Around here it is closer to $9000 per acre.
Rogers uses UMTS 850/1900 and offers the HTC Dream (same as the G1) and the HTC Magic. It shouldn't be impossible to get one into the US.
Apple OS updates are officially every 18 months, but they have a history of not even meeting that timeframe. Where are you getting this annual OS upgrade idea?
iPhone apps run in a strict sandbox. They have no way to alter core experiences any more than a web app can.
AIM and Facebook provide SMS gateways. Which means that they can get your messages on their computer and they can also get your messages on their cell phone.
Unless you have a data plan, email on cell phones is usually out of the question. Having to use a cell phone when a perfectly good computer is available is awkward. It is all about letting them choose which device they want to use at a given time.
If you choose a communication service that is fixed to one device, the appeal is significantly less. At least that's my theory.
Chuck Norris' name takes up four pages because nobody is brave enough to put their name any closer.
If Google can push, why can't you? In fact, you are in a better position to convert users than Google is since your users may not use any Google services.
What if I write an application that makes calls to standard Unix commands and the user is using the GNU operating system? Should that make my application subject to the GPL?
What if I make my application available to a variety of different Unix flavours? Will it automatically inherit the code sharing license restrictions of the Unix utilities on every platform it runs on?
I'm seeing sub 100ms latencies while tethering my iPhone 3G over a 3G network. Not as fast as my DSL connection can provide, but well within the tolerable limits. Definitely not a reason to call 3G a small pipe either.
You are quite right that processing power is a big problem. Although, keep in mind that filtering is a not a free, as in CPU usage, operation either.
It is? Rogers rolled out their 20Mbps 3G network last week. That's significantly faster than the DSL connection to my home.
Granted, the iPhone hardware is not capable of those speeds. But even 7Mbps that the 3GS is capable of is not what I would consider a "small pipe".
Perhaps is so exceedingly wealthy that he has enough cash just sitting in the bank to pay for whatever medical care he needs, and then some?
Sure it does. The majority of moderately popular paid apps see more downloads from the cracked sources than they do on the App Store itself. Some figures say up to 100:1.
The consumer decided that the product was more important than the service.
If you want a basic cell phone that was old technology ten years ago, you can find amazing customer service. If you want a modern phone, such as an iPhone, you're going to have to settle for poor customer service.
And it makes sense. Service is expensive. The companies that took the service money and poured it into the product ended up with a much better product at the expense of quality service.
So, the question is, do you want a better product, or do you want better service?
Perhaps they determined that older vehicles, that are only capable of safely traveling 55MPH, were no longer in use? Road construction isn't the only thing that has changed since the speed limits were previously set.
Have you read any comments in the App Store? The average iPhone user has no idea how to read.
It is still working fine for me, and was at the time of posting as well.
Normally I would use Twitter to find out why a site is inaccessible, since it is the goto place for up to the minute news. While Slashdot did eventually bring the story forward, it too far too long to be relevant. Twitter was already back online by the time this story appeared on the front page.
Safari can be censored. Check the parental controls.
Some browsers do attempt to "fix" URLs. These services break those features, since the domain is always resolved properly as far as the browser is concerned.