While I think there is a lot of crap on PBS there is a lot of good stuff to like "Nova", and I really like "This Old House" and "New Yankee Workshop". Also, if you've been paying attention there is a lot of advertising on PBS, it comes in big chunks between the shows in the form of sponsorships. I think that PBS only gets 5 or 10 percent of it's money directly from taxes, but they also get a lot of tax breaks too.
There's a lot of hyperbole in your post, but this is true: cultural apathy and self interest to the point of idiocy will destroy western civilization, not terrorists. Now excuse me while I tune in Oprah and watch some Youporn.
I don't really have a problem with leaking the video. What I do have a problem with is their faulty analysis that they attached to it, and the setting up of a flame war by calling the site collateral murder. That website was commentary, not news. This is the issue I have with the mainstream media too. Tell what happend, not your analysis of what happened - if people are too stupid to be able to understand it blame them, their parents and the crappy school system. What I really want are just the facts with no ideological filter. Something that unfortunately is extremely rare, and all but impossible today. Part of impartial reporting is keeping you moral outrage / preaching, etc to yourself, even if most people agree with you.
I've been buying stuff in the US for 30+ years and the only things I've ever needed to provide ID for purchasing are my house, cars, guns and plane tickets. That's it, unless you're trying to open a line of credit, like a cell phone account or something like that, or open a bank account. In most cases you don't even need to show ID to get utilities hooked up. They turn them on remotely and send you a bill...
What have you tried to purchase / do that required ID?
True. But a lot of people on this thread are complaining about the app store comments, etc. This is the reason for the app store comments - built in bias due to the pool from which people self-selected to take the poll. This does not tell anything meaningful. People that self-select to take these generally are either very happy and want to tell everyone, or are pissed off and want to tell everyone. I mean, generally, how many anti-Apple people read Daring Fireball on a daily basis?
We aren’t trying to capture a demographically representative sample of all iPad owners and we didn’t normalize the results. The opinions you’re about to read reflect only the experiences of the folks who took our survey–readers of Technologizer and other sites (such as Daring Fireball) that linked to it. Which is fine by us: We were dying to learn what you thought.
Not scientific, not normalized, not statistically meaningful.
The Infinion chipset in the iPhone already has the support needed for CDMA from what I've read, basically they just need to put the right radios in the phone, and Verizon needs to make the network enhancements to support visual voice mail.
THe potential market in the US is huge, probably in the neighborhood of 60 million potential new buyers. Of course only a fraction of those will purchase, but since the Verizon customer base is about the same size as AT&T's and given the penetration of the iPhone in to AT&T's customer base, it will be millions of sales for Apple.
On a personal note, I've had LA Cellular / Cingular / AT&T for a long time, and in So Cal / Arizona I've never had any issues with AT&T
If anyone could pull this off, I'd say it would be Cisco
I'm not real familiar with their teleconference stuff, but if it's like I remember it, it's a big jump from what they have to a general use business tablet. I'd like to be proven wrong as competition is good, but I just don't see it. Even if this thing is great at teleconferencing it will fail if it doesn't perform other business functions well. If it doesn't have a full exchange client and native support for PowerPoint it will be a complete failure. I mean, who are the users for this? it's not the average worker because the average worker has a desktop or a laptop which can be outfitted with a top of the line logitech webcam for $100 and companies aren't going to be handing out $900 devices to anyone below director level. It's not for conference rooms because most modern conference rooms have built in solutions for group conferencing. This is for executives, and if it can't replace a blackberry and a laptop for meetings they're not going to buy one except as a toy.
I think RiM and even Microsoft, if they can create a touch based UI, are the ones who could do a good job here. I mean, Microsoft did a pretty good job of the UI for the XBOX, they should be able to figures something out for this.
I agree for the most part. Maybe I've been living under a rock for the past 10 years, but I'm not aware that Cicso has ANY deep user interaction / UI design and implementation skills in house, except for their recent purchase of MOTO, which seems like they have a couple, but not all the bases covered. Personally I give this a slim chance of any success, and I constantly wonder why these companies seem to want to push into areas far outside their core competency. Apple clearly has the design chops to move from a PC to a cell phone and a tablet, but I will be shocked it Cisco can move from their core business into a successful tablet. Personally I've been wondering why RiM doesn't go after this market since they seem to have a very good understanding of what strictly business users want in a mobile device.
You can't argue with an ideologue, and remember that than an ideologue says "educated" what they mean is "agrees with my ideology", and if you don't you're "uneducated". Personally I respect a lot of the tea party movement, because when you look at it objectively, and not through t the eyes of CNN, Fox, etc, there are a lot of libertarian concepts which I can get behind. If the parent wants to make fun of people who care enough to try to change things so be it. But as you said, snarky, snide comments only hurt his credibility.
Yes. It's called Chrome. The day I discovered the WebKit development tools in Chrome was the day I switched from Firefox, and Chrome did a nice job of porting all my bookmarks and such. I really like Firefox but the reality is that all too frequently becomes unstable and requires me to shut it down and restart it, or worse, kill it. As a bonus it has the super special ability to slow down all my other apps when it become unstable.
Yes it is, and if you search for that phrase you will see that it is short for Supreme court justices, where the apostrophe stands for court justice. I have seen this contraction before and thought it strange until I had it explained to me. You will find that many newspapers and such use it. For example: https://www.lectlaw.com/files/exp20.htm
Supremes is also used, but I've never been able to figure out what Diana Ross had to do with the Supreme Court.
So, sorry to be a pendant, but to answer your question, yes, I do type English, and apparently I understand it better than you. CmdrTaco is using correct grammer and spelling.
A couple of weeks ago I was watching qualifying for the Canadian Grand Prix on Speed Network, after which they showed the 24 hours of Le Mans, of which I watched about 10 hours worth. I was all excited and expecting the Canadian Grand Prix on Sunday but no, it was some stupid NASCAR recap show (not a race) then some "Two Rednecks in a Garage" show. Pardon me for wanting to actually see racing and not that other crap. If you like racing, (not the kind that is a constant left turn), it's hard to find in the US. I really can't stand NASCAR - it's boring as hell except for the crashes. The rest of the world can have their "football" with their "nils" and whatnot. I just want some real road racing and rally racing, and no, monster truck rallies don't count either./rant
So how come this problem was not identified during the system test of the device? Were all the testers instructed to hold it that way? Or maybe they identified it, but did not have the courage to report it?
Because all the test phones were placed in in plastic, look-like-a-3g case to hide the design. Based on the phone found by Gizmodo, they apparently had special plastic cases made to put the whole phone in. They did not, as the AC below states, build some of the version 4 phones with special cases. However his point about not testing stands. The plastic outer case offered enough insulation to not cause the problem.
Yeah. The piece of info I was looking for was the part about a black hole maintaining it's angular momentum, and apparently it's electrical charge. It is true that most if not all massive bodies have some measurable spin.
Fine. Is it the employer's prerogative to not hire blacks or Mexicans either? How do you know there was any bigotry in the workplace? Seriously, if a company fired someone because they found out somehow that the employee signed a petition that the employer opposes, that employer should be sued out of existence. I'm all for the rights of individuals, personal responsibility and I hate most of this PC crap, but are you seriously advocating that employers should be able to fire people if they disagree with their political position? That's all well and good until the opposite occurs, right? A company supports gay marriage and fires people that don't? What about a company that doesn't support gay marriage firing employees that do? That's OK too, right? Keep in mind we're not talking about hiring or firing gays, we're talking about hiring and firing based on political and social positions.
I'll go on record. I have issues with gay marriage, ranging from tax benefits to the adoption of children. Actually, I have issues with the state being involved in marriage at all to tell the truth. Any two people of legal age ought to be able to sign a simple contract that covers things like patients rights, community property, etc. The state should have no say one way or another IMO.
If memory serves (not always reliable before coffee) the radiation emanates from the poles, and actually comes from the accretion disk, not the hole itself. I believe that all black holes rotate due to the fact that they retain the angular momentum from in-falling matter.
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While I think there is a lot of crap on PBS there is a lot of good stuff to like "Nova", and I really like "This Old House" and "New Yankee Workshop". Also, if you've been paying attention there is a lot of advertising on PBS, it comes in big chunks between the shows in the form of sponsorships. I think that PBS only gets 5 or 10 percent of it's money directly from taxes, but they also get a lot of tax breaks too.
There's a lot of hyperbole in your post, but this is true: cultural apathy and self interest to the point of idiocy will destroy western civilization, not terrorists. Now excuse me while I tune in Oprah and watch some Youporn.
I don't really have a problem with leaking the video. What I do have a problem with is their faulty analysis that they attached to it, and the setting up of a flame war by calling the site collateral murder. That website was commentary, not news. This is the issue I have with the mainstream media too. Tell what happend, not your analysis of what happened - if people are too stupid to be able to understand it blame them, their parents and the crappy school system. What I really want are just the facts with no ideological filter. Something that unfortunately is extremely rare, and all but impossible today. Part of impartial reporting is keeping you moral outrage / preaching, etc to yourself, even if most people agree with you.
I've been buying stuff in the US for 30+ years and the only things I've ever needed to provide ID for purchasing are my house, cars, guns and plane tickets. That's it, unless you're trying to open a line of credit, like a cell phone account or something like that, or open a bank account. In most cases you don't even need to show ID to get utilities hooked up. They turn them on remotely and send you a bill...
What have you tried to purchase / do that required ID?
True. But a lot of people on this thread are complaining about the app store comments, etc. This is the reason for the app store comments - built in bias due to the pool from which people self-selected to take the poll. This does not tell anything meaningful. People that self-select to take these generally are either very happy and want to tell everyone, or are pissed off and want to tell everyone. I mean, generally, how many anti-Apple people read Daring Fireball on a daily basis?
We aren’t trying to capture a demographically representative sample of all iPad owners and we didn’t normalize the results. The opinions you’re about to read reflect only the experiences of the folks who took our survey–readers of Technologizer and other sites (such as Daring Fireball) that linked to it. Which is fine by us: We were dying to learn what you thought.
Not scientific, not normalized, not statistically meaningful.
One more thing, holding the phone like that is a bag of hurt. Boom.
At least he took my advice http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1698482&cid=32690678&art_pos=25
And the Kardashians...
The Infinion chipset in the iPhone already has the support needed for CDMA from what I've read, basically they just need to put the right radios in the phone, and Verizon needs to make the network enhancements to support visual voice mail.
THe potential market in the US is huge, probably in the neighborhood of 60 million potential new buyers. Of course only a fraction of those will purchase, but since the Verizon customer base is about the same size as AT&T's and given the penetration of the iPhone in to AT&T's customer base, it will be millions of sales for Apple.
On a personal note, I've had LA Cellular / Cingular / AT&T for a long time, and in So Cal / Arizona I've never had any issues with AT&T
If anyone could pull this off, I'd say it would be Cisco
I'm not real familiar with their teleconference stuff, but if it's like I remember it, it's a big jump from what they have to a general use business tablet. I'd like to be proven wrong as competition is good, but I just don't see it. Even if this thing is great at teleconferencing it will fail if it doesn't perform other business functions well. If it doesn't have a full exchange client and native support for PowerPoint it will be a complete failure. I mean, who are the users for this? it's not the average worker because the average worker has a desktop or a laptop which can be outfitted with a top of the line logitech webcam for $100 and companies aren't going to be handing out $900 devices to anyone below director level. It's not for conference rooms because most modern conference rooms have built in solutions for group conferencing. This is for executives, and if it can't replace a blackberry and a laptop for meetings they're not going to buy one except as a toy.
I think RiM and even Microsoft, if they can create a touch based UI, are the ones who could do a good job here. I mean, Microsoft did a pretty good job of the UI for the XBOX, they should be able to figures something out for this.
I agree for the most part. Maybe I've been living under a rock for the past 10 years, but I'm not aware that Cicso has ANY deep user interaction / UI design and implementation skills in house, except for their recent purchase of MOTO, which seems like they have a couple, but not all the bases covered. Personally I give this a slim chance of any success, and I constantly wonder why these companies seem to want to push into areas far outside their core competency. Apple clearly has the design chops to move from a PC to a cell phone and a tablet, but I will be shocked it Cisco can move from their core business into a successful tablet. Personally I've been wondering why RiM doesn't go after this market since they seem to have a very good understanding of what strictly business users want in a mobile device.
You can't argue with an ideologue, and remember that than an ideologue says "educated" what they mean is "agrees with my ideology", and if you don't you're "uneducated". Personally I respect a lot of the tea party movement, because when you look at it objectively, and not through t the eyes of CNN, Fox, etc, there are a lot of libertarian concepts which I can get behind. If the parent wants to make fun of people who care enough to try to change things so be it. But as you said, snarky, snide comments only hurt his credibility.
Yes. Our blacklist attendent plays this: http://www.payphone-directory.org/sounds/wav/bell/disconnected.wav then disconnects.
Or, the polling could be dead accurate, and the election results that are not correct.
Don't Stop Believin'
Yes. It's called Chrome. The day I discovered the WebKit development tools in Chrome was the day I switched from Firefox, and Chrome did a nice job of porting all my bookmarks and such. I really like Firefox but the reality is that all too frequently becomes unstable and requires me to shut it down and restart it, or worse, kill it. As a bonus it has the super special ability to slow down all my other apps when it become unstable.
Yes it is, and if you search for that phrase you will see that it is short for Supreme court justices, where the apostrophe stands for court justice. I have seen this contraction before and thought it strange until I had it explained to me. You will find that many newspapers and such use it. For example: https://www.lectlaw.com/files/exp20.htm
Supremes is also used, but I've never been able to figure out what Diana Ross had to do with the Supreme Court.
So, sorry to be a pendant, but to answer your question, yes, I do type English, and apparently I understand it better than you. CmdrTaco is using correct grammer and spelling.
Contractions Motherfucker, do you speak them?
I find your lack of faith disturbing
A couple of weeks ago I was watching qualifying for the Canadian Grand Prix on Speed Network, after which they showed the 24 hours of Le Mans, of which I watched about 10 hours worth. I was all excited and expecting the Canadian Grand Prix on Sunday but no, it was some stupid NASCAR recap show (not a race) then some "Two Rednecks in a Garage" show. Pardon me for wanting to actually see racing and not that other crap. If you like racing, (not the kind that is a constant left turn), it's hard to find in the US. I really can't stand NASCAR - it's boring as hell except for the crashes. The rest of the world can have their "football" with their "nils" and whatnot. I just want some real road racing and rally racing, and no, monster truck rallies don't count either. /rant
Deism is harmless. Theism is a deadly evil.
Spot. Fucking. On.
missing link: http://gizmodo.com/5573201/did-concealment-of-prototype-iphone-4-devices-mask-reception-issues
So how come this problem was not identified during the system test of the device? Were all the testers instructed to hold it that way? Or maybe they identified it, but did not have the courage to report it?
Because all the test phones were placed in in plastic, look-like-a-3g case to hide the design. Based on the phone found by Gizmodo, they apparently had special plastic cases made to put the whole phone in. They did not, as the AC below states, build some of the version 4 phones with special cases. However his point about not testing stands. The plastic outer case offered enough insulation to not cause the problem.
Yeah. The piece of info I was looking for was the part about a black hole maintaining it's angular momentum, and apparently it's electrical charge. It is true that most if not all massive bodies have some measurable spin.
Fine. Is it the employer's prerogative to not hire blacks or Mexicans either? How do you know there was any bigotry in the workplace? Seriously, if a company fired someone because they found out somehow that the employee signed a petition that the employer opposes, that employer should be sued out of existence. I'm all for the rights of individuals, personal responsibility and I hate most of this PC crap, but are you seriously advocating that employers should be able to fire people if they disagree with their political position? That's all well and good until the opposite occurs, right? A company supports gay marriage and fires people that don't? What about a company that doesn't support gay marriage firing employees that do? That's OK too, right? Keep in mind we're not talking about hiring or firing gays, we're talking about hiring and firing based on political and social positions.
I'll go on record. I have issues with gay marriage, ranging from tax benefits to the adoption of children. Actually, I have issues with the state being involved in marriage at all to tell the truth. Any two people of legal age ought to be able to sign a simple contract that covers things like patients rights, community property, etc. The state should have no say one way or another IMO.
If memory serves (not always reliable before coffee) the radiation emanates from the poles, and actually comes from the accretion disk, not the hole itself. I believe that all black holes rotate due to the fact that they retain the angular momentum from in-falling matter.