Virtual desktops are more about organization than productivity. It makes me no good as a programmer to test an application and having all my monitoring tools and debugging logs feed to a hidden virtual desktop.
A coder that's doing a lame HTML table based page? No. An actual programmer that is running memory management and performance monitoring tools and debugging real time, while monitoring logs, does need the dual monitors, I'd even argue triple monitors.
And, following that goal, it gives us free speech (with no listed exceptions). Unless the people overthrow their government and create a new constitution, the one we have now still applies.
The Constitution does protect the freedom of speech of every citizen, and even of non-citizens — but only from restriction by the Congress. This simply means the congress cant pass a law that, for instance, prevents newspapers from printing stories about Scientology. Your state, though, has the power to limit your speech. You have to double check with your own state's constitution to see how far that constitution protects your speech from your state's own government. Every state may have it's own set of laws that limits free speech, but for the most part they only protect you from the government itself and maybe not to the extent you think. Outside of the government, a work place has all the right to limit your speech while within the place, so can a school or any other property owner while you are within their property.
In addition, the Constitution does not specifically mention a right to privacy. However, Supreme Court decisions over the years have established that the right to privacy is a basic human right, and as such is protected by virtue of the 9th Amendment. You standing in front of my house yelling insults does result in a violation of my privacy and is enough to involve law enforcement, under my own constitutional rights. I may not be able to silence you, but can enforce my rights to remove you from the premises. Local law enforcement may have it's own ways of handling you should you refuse to respect my basic human rights.
So, in your view, it should be perfectly legal for a father to call his son garbage, scourge of the world, tell him the world would be better off if he just died or had he never been born at all. He should be able to tell him every morning he wished he died, from the day he was born to the day he was old enough to leave the house or just commit suicide, as long as he didn't physically attack him, because after all, these are just words and it's the child's own fault if he feels offended and driven to suicide by day to day verbal abuse throughout his entire life?
Freedom does not equate anarchy. In an orderly society you have rules and there are limits to what you can do. Speech is a powerful tool and can be used to express yourself, but also can be used to humiliate, torture, and create chaos when used properly. It's not hard for an adult to scar a child for life with the mere use of words. This is why speech has limits drawn out by law.
You can voice discontent with your government without being shoot, you can write songs with obscene language without being jailed, or write books about the most obscure and twisted of sexual fetiches without being stoned to death. That is where your free speech lies.
There is a horrible misconception in the youngest generations (and sometimes it survives to a select few older individuals) that you can't have freedom without complete anarchy without realizing that such a thing is impossible. In a world of anarchy the stronger sets the rules, for all purposes ending the anarchy nearly as fast as it's declared. Even your voice can easily be taken away by individuals with stronger voice. Remove all laws that limit speech and anyone with the resources can slander you and convince the world that you must be jailed, your tongue cut and eventually electrocuted without ever needing evidence to back it up, all he will need is his charisma, money or power to surpass your own.
We need rules. If we don't have rules, the bullies will impose their own. This applies to speech as much as it applies to guns.
The reason Netflix supports only specific devices has little to do with hardware fragmentation and more to do with included software DRMs.
It's very likely Netflix will eventually either look for a way to avoid non-certified devices from streaming, or studios force them to remove Android support, and by support, I mean tell their servers to block the platform (should they not manage to block reliable un-certified devices.)
I personally find it a bit stupid, but they are contractually obligated to make sure the stream only works on devices with the proper DRM. It's one thing in the desktop but what is the use of a DRM in a cellphone? If some one can go through the trouble of somehow intercepting and leaching a Netflix stream, store it in memory, and then distribute that in a torrent... heck, let them! That same person would had pirated 20 other movies in that same time had he done it from a PC!
Grownups? Maybe you mean the megacorps can cut deals while the poor indie devs are left out?
Why would Amazon complain publicly?
Like Adobe?
> Perhaps, just perhaps, Amazon itself thinks the rules don't bother them
How do you infer that?
Is that a honest question? By using the 3rd definition of that word (according to Dictionary.com): to guess; speculate; surmise.
Don't ignore the "OR" though.
But there is always a third option: they dont care, they will try to hook as many kindle consumers as they can, and once Apple bans them they let everyne know Apple closed their door on them and if they want to keep reading their kindle bought books they now need to buy a Kindle device, leading to more profits for them. That's the extremist tinfoilist option, IMHO.
Those third party hardware developers were also expected (in a stupid honorary fashion) to spread the platform by promoting their machines to new markets. Instead these clone builders started to target current Apple consumers stealing the little market-share Apple had away from them and pushing them near bankruptcy. At the end, the license was not "denied", they were given enough head warning that their contracts would not be renewed, and Apple bought back the contracts of the two clone makers that would had been able to keep going for a year past the rest. It's not like they left crying and broke, they had their business bought back out of their hands.
The kindle app can still link to the Kindle store, it just is required to also offer an in-app purchase option on top of the linking.
The funny thing is everyone but Amazon seems to complain about that. Perhaps, just perhaps, Amazon itself thinks the rules don't bother them. Or perhaps they already made a deal with Apple, like grownups tend to do.
Not only is NT a descendant of OS/2, the fist release of NT, 3.1, was originally developed as OS/2 3.0. It would had been released as such, but tensions between IBM and Microsoft over the success of Windows 3.0 lead IBM to culminate their cooperation. MS just took their stuff and released it as Windows NT 3.1. It was IBM that said "fuck it!" IBM made many mistakes while dealing with Microsoft, allowing MS to license DOS to other vendors was just the first of many to come. Microsoft was not developing that "secret VMS powered OS" until IBM said "fuck it!"
Technically they did not lie. MS' OS/2 kernel powered WinNT, XP, Vista and Win7. It was stupid for anyone to ignore the then present market based on what is in the faraway future.
The true reason TomTom is because they were not expecting more efficient speed traps, just retroactive speeding tickets based on the included personal information that was tied up to your driving logs.
My wife is from Tbilisi, Georgia and she has told me this is nothing new. Russia has a long history of taking credit for everything in the caucus, from regional foods, to traditions, to even attempt the world to think actors and singers are of Russian origin.
I am not sure what they get out of it. Perhaps they attempt using it as tourism lure, or a local morale thing. For the most part, the other countries have made sure the rest of the world knows better.
A pencil yes, a stylus no. If handwriting is your goal, I still think old fashioned notepad and a pen (prefer pen over pencil any day, even if i have to strike through half the sheet.)
Taking notes is good. Reading book and taking notes is good. Reading book and exercising as you go is even better, but not mutually exclusive. Taking notes makes you focus on the notes, at least for a few seconds, missing part of the lecture that may had been important. In small classrooms I seen professors pause when he sees people taking notes, and that can work too, but once you get to that minimal level of interactivity, I would no longer call it a lecture.
There are many other things I have covered to many other replies, but a big one is mood. Many things can affect it (lack of sleep, accidents, family tragedies, economical situation, breakups, etc) and you can't just reschedule the lecture for later when you feel better, or slow it down so you can absorb anything based on your current state of mind. You can do that with a book. You can also do that with a downloaded lecture. Provided none of these issues prevent you from getting to the class room, you can also just record the thing as I first suggest it and go through it at your own speed later, pausing to google up terms that may pop up. Those are some of the reasons I insist the lectures are a terrible way of learning off itself. They are a standard that was established before even the 8MM film was developed and should had been revamped a long time ago. Some institutions do at least offer lectures for digital download the day after.
You don't need a tablet to do this recording, you can use anything from old fashion tape recorders to dedicated digital ones, but the most devices you can consolidate into one the better.
You note that apple deletes post on this, but the first two hits I got in google were from Apple's own support articles with trouble shooting instructions. One for windows and one for OSX. It adds the possibility of missing software, drivers and other things. The third link with the issue was from a forum thread of some one that ended up solving the issue using the mentioned support articles.
As for copying albums, I have never seen that duplicate issue, and I have many songs twice showing up in multiple playlists. I have seen the song show up twice in the same playlist, though. That may be what you are talking about. That noted, you can easily sync in a single album, or song, by dragging it from the library to the phone icon. iTunes starts a sync and adds the items you tossed in along with anything that must sync. You can do this with apps, podcasts, eBooks, videos, anything that shows under Library. You can also set the music library to "only sync checked" and uncheck everything that you don't want synced in. Its easy to select all tracks of an album, right click, and then specify "Check selection."
I am not trying to just defend iTunes sync, since I think there is a LOT of room for improvement. Lord do I hate App Syncing and re-installing apps through iTunes... I just find your issue very rare. There may be a few cases, and I'm not sure how many are not fixed with Apple's support site's trouble shooting steps, but my brother owns one, my two best friends own one each, and I own 3 devices and never seen that issue other than within the first few months due to syncing with a second computer.
Back on the microphone, I have not tested an iPad 2 yet, not sure where the microphone is located. If it's in the same place as the iPad 1, then the microphone may be pointing sideways when video recording. Also note that audio recording apps don't work like the video recording ones. You can do a lot of sensitivity tweaks with dedicated audio apps.I just tested the default Audio Memo app and went from the far corner of my living room to the furthest corner in the kitchen (no walls but lots of furniture in between). Microphone pointing up and a total distance of 29ft (measured it right now with measuring tape) and it was a clear recording (with some echo but thats to be expected). Outdoors things may work much different but right now this discussion is about closed a closed room.
As for cost, again, if you manage to replace enough dead tree books with eBooks, that alone covers the cost of the device. Anything extra is just bonus.
You're just trolling now saying the known fucking sync issue (that every single one of my coworkers has had as well, as well as my wife) is my fault for being incompetent.
I have 3 iOS devices, 1 windows desktop, 1 windows laptop, 1 mac desktop and 1 mac laptop. I learned it the hard way myself (as noted, many computers.) The first month of ownership. Having the issue once or twice in the early months of ownership is understandable. If you have this issue consistently and have not looked up documentation, it is your own fault, specially after a couple of years that you claim owning the device. Heck, you don't even need documentation, the dialog box that comes up when you attempt to sync with another machine clearly warns you (although I admit that did not stop me of doing my own first accidental wipe.)
I don't need to research my iPad's microphone. I just need to test it as I own one. To this date, if it works better than my own ears (no hyperbole, but worth noting I suffer of light hearing issues.)
The hardware keyboard is only for people that are extremely attached to one. I have started to get extremely fluid at using the iPad's touch screen keyboard and only complain is the amount of screen it can eat up, but rarely is it a true hinderance.
There are many many things I rather my tax dollars didn't pay. We don't get a vote on that stuff, unfortunately. Or fortunately. Don't think I'll ever make up my mind on that opinion.
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Virtual desktops are more about organization than productivity. It makes me no good as a programmer to test an application and having all my monitoring tools and debugging logs feed to a hidden virtual desktop.
A coder that's doing a lame HTML table based page? No. An actual programmer that is running memory management and performance monitoring tools and debugging real time, while monitoring logs, does need the dual monitors, I'd even argue triple monitors.
Do I get triple points for reading it in my third vertical monitor?
And, following that goal, it gives us free speech (with no listed exceptions). Unless the people overthrow their government and create a new constitution, the one we have now still applies.
The Constitution does protect the freedom of speech of every citizen, and even of non-citizens — but only from restriction by the Congress. This simply means the congress cant pass a law that, for instance, prevents newspapers from printing stories about Scientology. Your state, though, has the power to limit your speech. You have to double check with your own state's constitution to see how far that constitution protects your speech from your state's own government. Every state may have it's own set of laws that limits free speech, but for the most part they only protect you from the government itself and maybe not to the extent you think. Outside of the government, a work place has all the right to limit your speech while within the place, so can a school or any other property owner while you are within their property.
In addition, the Constitution does not specifically mention a right to privacy. However, Supreme Court decisions over the years have established that the right to privacy is a basic human right, and as such is protected by virtue of the 9th Amendment. You standing in front of my house yelling insults does result in a violation of my privacy and is enough to involve law enforcement, under my own constitutional rights. I may not be able to silence you, but can enforce my rights to remove you from the premises. Local law enforcement may have it's own ways of handling you should you refuse to respect my basic human rights.
So, in your view, it should be perfectly legal for a father to call his son garbage, scourge of the world, tell him the world would be better off if he just died or had he never been born at all. He should be able to tell him every morning he wished he died, from the day he was born to the day he was old enough to leave the house or just commit suicide, as long as he didn't physically attack him, because after all, these are just words and it's the child's own fault if he feels offended and driven to suicide by day to day verbal abuse throughout his entire life?
Freedom does not equate anarchy. In an orderly society you have rules and there are limits to what you can do. Speech is a powerful tool and can be used to express yourself, but also can be used to humiliate, torture, and create chaos when used properly. It's not hard for an adult to scar a child for life with the mere use of words. This is why speech has limits drawn out by law.
You can voice discontent with your government without being shoot, you can write songs with obscene language without being jailed, or write books about the most obscure and twisted of sexual fetiches without being stoned to death. That is where your free speech lies.
There is a horrible misconception in the youngest generations (and sometimes it survives to a select few older individuals) that you can't have freedom without complete anarchy without realizing that such a thing is impossible. In a world of anarchy the stronger sets the rules, for all purposes ending the anarchy nearly as fast as it's declared. Even your voice can easily be taken away by individuals with stronger voice. Remove all laws that limit speech and anyone with the resources can slander you and convince the world that you must be jailed, your tongue cut and eventually electrocuted without ever needing evidence to back it up, all he will need is his charisma, money or power to surpass your own.
We need rules. If we don't have rules, the bullies will impose their own. This applies to speech as much as it applies to guns.
The reason Netflix supports only specific devices has little to do with hardware fragmentation and more to do with included software DRMs.
It's very likely Netflix will eventually either look for a way to avoid non-certified devices from streaming, or studios force them to remove Android support, and by support, I mean tell their servers to block the platform (should they not manage to block reliable un-certified devices.)
I personally find it a bit stupid, but they are contractually obligated to make sure the stream only works on devices with the proper DRM. It's one thing in the desktop but what is the use of a DRM in a cellphone? If some one can go through the trouble of somehow intercepting and leaching a Netflix stream, store it in memory, and then distribute that in a torrent... heck, let them! That same person would had pirated 20 other movies in that same time had he done it from a PC!
Grownups? Maybe you mean the megacorps can cut deals while the poor indie devs are left out?
Why would Amazon complain publicly?
Like Adobe?
> Perhaps, just perhaps, Amazon itself thinks the rules don't bother them
How do you infer that?
Is that a honest question? By using the 3rd definition of that word (according to Dictionary.com): to guess; speculate; surmise.
Don't ignore the "OR" though.
But there is always a third option: they dont care, they will try to hook as many kindle consumers as they can, and once Apple bans them they let everyne know Apple closed their door on them and if they want to keep reading their kindle bought books they now need to buy a Kindle device, leading to more profits for them. That's the extremist tinfoilist option, IMHO.
Those third party hardware developers were also expected (in a stupid honorary fashion) to spread the platform by promoting their machines to new markets. Instead these clone builders started to target current Apple consumers stealing the little market-share Apple had away from them and pushing them near bankruptcy. At the end, the license was not "denied", they were given enough head warning that their contracts would not be renewed, and Apple bought back the contracts of the two clone makers that would had been able to keep going for a year past the rest. It's not like they left crying and broke, they had their business bought back out of their hands.
The kindle app can still link to the Kindle store, it just is required to also offer an in-app purchase option on top of the linking.
The funny thing is everyone but Amazon seems to complain about that. Perhaps, just perhaps, Amazon itself thinks the rules don't bother them. Or perhaps they already made a deal with Apple, like grownups tend to do.
True, they should had gone out and made their apps to sell their eBooks on the Nook or the Kindle.
...write geekier narcisist headlines?
That is figurative, not literal.
Not only is NT a descendant of OS/2, the fist release of NT, 3.1, was originally developed as OS/2 3.0. It would had been released as such, but tensions between IBM and Microsoft over the success of Windows 3.0 lead IBM to culminate their cooperation. MS just took their stuff and released it as Windows NT 3.1. It was IBM that said "fuck it!" IBM made many mistakes while dealing with Microsoft, allowing MS to license DOS to other vendors was just the first of many to come. Microsoft was not developing that "secret VMS powered OS" until IBM said "fuck it!"
Technically they did not lie. MS' OS/2 kernel powered WinNT, XP, Vista and Win7. It was stupid for anyone to ignore the then present market based on what is in the faraway future.
Intentional hyperbole is not meant to be taken literally.
Yea, I mean, since when does the police take any part in road engineering?
The true reason TomTom is because they were not expecting more efficient speed traps, just retroactive speeding tickets based on the included personal information that was tied up to your driving logs.
Did you mean Caucasus?
Yea, thats what I meant! :P
My wife is from Tbilisi, Georgia and she has told me this is nothing new. Russia has a long history of taking credit for everything in the caucus, from regional foods, to traditions, to even attempt the world to think actors and singers are of Russian origin.
I am not sure what they get out of it. Perhaps they attempt using it as tourism lure, or a local morale thing. For the most part, the other countries have made sure the rest of the world knows better.
Great post.
A pencil yes, a stylus no. If handwriting is your goal, I still think old fashioned notepad and a pen (prefer pen over pencil any day, even if i have to strike through half the sheet.)
Taking notes is good. Reading book and taking notes is good. Reading book and exercising as you go is even better, but not mutually exclusive. Taking notes makes you focus on the notes, at least for a few seconds, missing part of the lecture that may had been important. In small classrooms I seen professors pause when he sees people taking notes, and that can work too, but once you get to that minimal level of interactivity, I would no longer call it a lecture.
There are many other things I have covered to many other replies, but a big one is mood. Many things can affect it (lack of sleep, accidents, family tragedies, economical situation, breakups, etc) and you can't just reschedule the lecture for later when you feel better, or slow it down so you can absorb anything based on your current state of mind. You can do that with a book. You can also do that with a downloaded lecture. Provided none of these issues prevent you from getting to the class room, you can also just record the thing as I first suggest it and go through it at your own speed later, pausing to google up terms that may pop up. Those are some of the reasons I insist the lectures are a terrible way of learning off itself. They are a standard that was established before even the 8MM film was developed and should had been revamped a long time ago. Some institutions do at least offer lectures for digital download the day after.
You don't need a tablet to do this recording, you can use anything from old fashion tape recorders to dedicated digital ones, but the most devices you can consolidate into one the better.
You note that apple deletes post on this, but the first two hits I got in google were from Apple's own support articles with trouble shooting instructions. One for windows and one for OSX. It adds the possibility of missing software, drivers and other things. The third link with the issue was from a forum thread of some one that ended up solving the issue using the mentioned support articles.
As for copying albums, I have never seen that duplicate issue, and I have many songs twice showing up in multiple playlists. I have seen the song show up twice in the same playlist, though. That may be what you are talking about. That noted, you can easily sync in a single album, or song, by dragging it from the library to the phone icon. iTunes starts a sync and adds the items you tossed in along with anything that must sync. You can do this with apps, podcasts, eBooks, videos, anything that shows under Library. You can also set the music library to "only sync checked" and uncheck everything that you don't want synced in. Its easy to select all tracks of an album, right click, and then specify "Check selection."
I am not trying to just defend iTunes sync, since I think there is a LOT of room for improvement. Lord do I hate App Syncing and re-installing apps through iTunes... I just find your issue very rare. There may be a few cases, and I'm not sure how many are not fixed with Apple's support site's trouble shooting steps, but my brother owns one, my two best friends own one each, and I own 3 devices and never seen that issue other than within the first few months due to syncing with a second computer.
Back on the microphone, I have not tested an iPad 2 yet, not sure where the microphone is located. If it's in the same place as the iPad 1, then the microphone may be pointing sideways when video recording. Also note that audio recording apps don't work like the video recording ones. You can do a lot of sensitivity tweaks with dedicated audio apps.I just tested the default Audio Memo app and went from the far corner of my living room to the furthest corner in the kitchen (no walls but lots of furniture in between). Microphone pointing up and a total distance of 29ft (measured it right now with measuring tape) and it was a clear recording (with some echo but thats to be expected). Outdoors things may work much different but right now this discussion is about closed a closed room.
As for cost, again, if you manage to replace enough dead tree books with eBooks, that alone covers the cost of the device. Anything extra is just bonus.
You're just trolling now saying the known fucking sync issue (that every single one of my coworkers has had as well, as well as my wife) is my fault for being incompetent.
I have 3 iOS devices, 1 windows desktop, 1 windows laptop, 1 mac desktop and 1 mac laptop. I learned it the hard way myself (as noted, many computers.) The first month of ownership. Having the issue once or twice in the early months of ownership is understandable. If you have this issue consistently and have not looked up documentation, it is your own fault, specially after a couple of years that you claim owning the device. Heck, you don't even need documentation, the dialog box that comes up when you attempt to sync with another machine clearly warns you (although I admit that did not stop me of doing my own first accidental wipe.)
I don't need to research my iPad's microphone. I just need to test it as I own one. To this date, if it works better than my own ears (no hyperbole, but worth noting I suffer of light hearing issues.)
The hardware keyboard is only for people that are extremely attached to one. I have started to get extremely fluid at using the iPad's touch screen keyboard and only complain is the amount of screen it can eat up, but rarely is it a true hinderance.
There are many many things I rather my tax dollars didn't pay. We don't get a vote on that stuff, unfortunately. Or fortunately. Don't think I'll ever make up my mind on that opinion.