Not necessarily: You could always whack the assailant in the teeth with the gun, forcefully throw it at him etc. Of course you could do that with any number of objects that cost much less than $7K. But maybe the robocop factor is worth the price tag to some?
So really what you're saying is that Earth is to extraterrestrials what Cancun is to Americans or Florida is to Canadians. In which case we can look forward to a booming tourist industry.
Another angle: iPad and Mono have to be two of the five worst product names in the industry. (I can only think of Wang as being worse.) Fat chance they'll take over the world. Nobody will ever want to call tech support and complain about a Mono-problem.
Or is it just a matter of there being more people who are familiar with it?
Yes and no. Using.NET is not synonymous with using C#. There's VB.NET, Ruby and Python flavors and so on. So many, many more people are familiar with something or the other that will work as a.NET language. By comparison very few know Objective-C.
At the same time.NET framework (or Mono in this case) handles a lot of the programming tedium associated with "regular" C, like memory allocation/deallocation, variable initialization, dangling pointers and such. Fewer opportunities for bugs. But I don't know how Objective C stacks up here.
And then there's written English, a non-ideogrammatic "phonetic" script that in reality conveys little/no information on pronunciation. Wherein lies the utility of that?
1. Ability to handle distraction is not a constant like, say your eye color. It varies with the circumstances. One day you might handle lots of distraction at the level of a fighter pilot, but the next day have the flu or you're hung over and probably shouldn't be on the road even if you're doing it 10-and-2, eyes sweeping.
2. Whatever happened to equality in the eyes of the law, justice is blind and other such misguided populist notions?
3. I remember reading about a study where people rated themselves in terms of their driving skills. Nobody said "I'm a below average driver", even that the statistical probability of that being the case is very low. (Read: I bet you really, really suck at driving, dude.:-)
The Missile from France went down my pants, so I need you to dance and prance
Translation: "Dear Susan, My new room mate Jean Claude has shown me aspects of myself that I wasn't aware of before. Please don't pine for me. Go out, have some fun and maybe you meet somebody who can appreciate you in a way I cannot anymore."
My email and my phone number are the two things in my life that are constantly subject to abuse by outsiders. (Spammers, telemarketers etc.) You have not made a convincing case why it's actually a good idea to extend merger them or to other aspects of my life.
What will Apple do with it? "Not a damn thing" would be my guess, at least not in this decade. They just bought the technology so nobody else would, just in case.
Doesn't this really say something about deficiencies in the current e-ink and e-book implementations? I mean, if you have text in electronic format it should be nearly trivial to convert to braille/speech/what have you. I say throw out the damn thing from classrooms everywhere until the vendors fix that.
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Not necessarily: You could always whack the assailant in the teeth with the gun, forcefully throw it at him etc. Of course you could do that with any number of objects that cost much less than $7K. But maybe the robocop factor is worth the price tag to some?
So really what you're saying is that Earth is to extraterrestrials what Cancun is to Americans or Florida is to Canadians. In which case we can look forward to a booming tourist industry.
"Mono Touch". Lame. We want stereo!
Disclaimer: before everybody goes apeshit with their mod points, that was a joke. Not a good one perhaps, but still a joke.
No, for sure. As in: "Is that a monkey in your iPad or are you just happy to see me?"
Another angle: iPad and Mono have to be two of the five worst product names in the industry. (I can only think of Wang as being worse.) Fat chance they'll take over the world. Nobody will ever want to call tech support and complain about a Mono-problem.
Or is it just a matter of there being more people who are familiar with it?
Yes and no. Using .NET is not synonymous with using C#. There's VB.NET, Ruby and Python flavors and so on. So many, many more people are familiar with something or the other that will work as a .NET language. By comparison very few know Objective-C.
At the same time .NET framework (or Mono in this case) handles a lot of the programming tedium associated with "regular" C, like memory allocation/deallocation, variable initialization, dangling pointers and such. Fewer opportunities for bugs. But I don't know how Objective C stacks up here.
And then there's written English, a non-ideogrammatic "phonetic" script that in reality conveys little/no information on pronunciation. Wherein lies the utility of that?
Why exactly should we support or admire this moron?
Because information wants to be free? :)
Precisely. Who says a usable computer has to cost an ARM and a leg?
car analogy anybody?
I'm very much looking forward to riding in cars that are better drivers than I am.
If we all commit to keep texting while we drive that day might be here very soon!
Exactly. Cars are unsafe primarily because of the meat popsicle behind the wheel. I've been saying that for years.
Mr Toyota chairman - is that you?
1. Ability to handle distraction is not a constant like, say your eye color. It varies with the circumstances. One day you might handle lots of distraction at the level of a fighter pilot, but the next day have the flu or you're hung over and probably shouldn't be on the road even if you're doing it 10-and-2, eyes sweeping.
2. Whatever happened to equality in the eyes of the law, justice is blind and other such misguided populist notions?
3. I remember reading about a study where people rated themselves in terms of their driving skills. Nobody said "I'm a below average driver", even that the statistical probability of that being the case is very low. (Read: I bet you really, really suck at driving, dude. :-)
Or mandate the use of a chauffeur. That would create some much needed jobs as well.
Well, actually Chrome == Chromium, at least most commonly. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrome for the exciting details.
Actually, step one is they have to agree it's really a bug. Could be somebody's warped idea of a feature, you know.
I agree. They should at least adjust for 5 years worth of inflation!
Nope. AT & T installed pay phones all over Manhattan.
Crap! I'm the youngest sibling. Destined for exploitation evidently.
Why can't they just use source forge like everybody else?
The Missile from France went down my pants, so I need you to dance and prance
Translation: "Dear Susan, My new room mate Jean Claude has shown me aspects of myself that I wasn't aware of before. Please don't pine for me. Go out, have some fun and maybe you meet somebody who can appreciate you in a way I cannot anymore."
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My email and my phone number are the two things in my life that are constantly subject to abuse by outsiders. (Spammers, telemarketers etc.) You have not made a convincing case why it's actually a good idea to extend merger them or to other aspects of my life.
What will Apple do with it? "Not a damn thing" would be my guess, at least not in this decade. They just bought the technology so nobody else would, just in case.
Doesn't this really say something about deficiencies in the current e-ink and e-book implementations? I mean, if you have text in electronic format it should be nearly trivial to convert to braille/speech/what have you. I say throw out the damn thing from classrooms everywhere until the vendors fix that.