If you'd get a normal tablet or computer, you wouldn't need to jailbreak it. Apple is moving us towards closed computer environments. If Microsoft did this everyone would be angry about it, but now that it's Apple its all fine and classy.
Most people do not want to tinker. Please get over it. The iPod, iPhone, iPad are wonderfully easy to use, and are not lacking for applications. I'm glad that MS and others are also working on similar devices, because we don't want Apple to become the mobile device monopoly like MS is in the OS arena, lest they stop innovating also. So please keep buying and supporting those non-Apple products if you prefer them. Just don't be upset if Apple happens to be the market leader.
Guns are already illegal within the Chicago city limits. Guess those "reasonable gun control laws" aren't quite working out like you'd hoped, huh?
When you can go one county over, or over to Indiana to get a gun, it's not that effective. But it's a start, and hopefully the pro-gun areas will get a clue one of these days and institute their own bans on guns. Then we may start seeing some positive effects.
No. That is a gross oversimplification. The point is that handguns are illegal in Chicago, yet last week there were 40 shootings. Let me repeat that. Last week there were 40 shootings in Chicago despite the fact that handguns are illegal in Chicago. This seems to me to be a good indication that gun control laws like those that Chicago has do not work. It's all very nice to say that gee, if we just outlawed guns then nobody would have them and no one would get shot, but last I checked, we don't live in a world populated with unicorns and faeries.
Actually, what doesn't work is having armed citizens as a means of protection. The last I checked, there was no nation wide ban on guns. As long as one state allows over allows firearms, there's nothing keeping them out. What we need is a national ban on guns, across the board. Then we may start seeing some improvement.
Unfortunately, there are plenty of other website that have an iPhone-specific app that duplicates their site functionality rather than just making a website what it ought to be, a nearly universal interface.
You obviously don't remember the this-site-only-work-with-Internet-Explorer years. The iPhone has the largest presence in the mobile web browsing market, and companies will code their sites for the one big player, the rest be damned. Netscape (do you even know there was a browser before Firefox?) had to adapt IE extensions and quirks to stay compatible. I suspect the other mobile device browsers will follow suit and make themselves iPhone compatible, and find a way to present themselves as iPhones.
At least Safari tries to be HTML compliant, so this is not necessarily a bad thing. Just an annoying phase that will pass.
I really hate the complaints over the ending of Independence Day.
Agreed. Where's the rage over the flaws in Star Wars and Star Trek? It's probably just the typical hate-what's-popular schtick. Somehow only liking obscure material makes one feel more geeky, or something.
Aren't there other interesting stories that could be told through the art of movies that are not stupid?
You obviously never saw "The Puppet Masters." Sometimes it's worse when Hollywood has a brilliant story to start with, and completely loses any semblance of the original material. If you are going to make mediocre movies, there's no problem starting with mediocre scripts. A lot of Roger Corman and Hammer Studio movies come to mind. Great entertaining films in all their cheesiness.
In the interest of openness, I've decided to release the exploit. Hopefully, this will ignite the PS3 scene [...]
Looks like the fires need a little more than that to get lit, but there's a lot of pissed off users now with torches just aching to start a blaze.
Sony had to see this coming, now we just have to see if they'll try to litigate their way out of it or own up.
I love the way that slashdot geeks think that they are the average user. The number of linux installs on PS3 is so small that there's no reason for Sony to continue to support it, basically a few high computing centers and a few hackers, as opposed to the millions of gamers who have no idea it's even there. And yes there is a reason to turn it off. To remove it from the list of features that need to be supported going forward.
Since it only lasted a year on the market and quickly fell into disuse, I do not see how we've had 15 years of Bob. Instead, we've seen user interfaces and platforms change quite a bit in that time.
Not 15 years of Bob, 15 years of the specter/memory/nightmare of Bob, that something so bad could ever have been taken seriously. These days when you design software, Bob is still seen as the lowest common denominator, the level below which no application can strive to attain, or not strive, as the case may be.
Is this another benign Safari hack that has no real world application, or another one where you need physical access to the box, or another that is already patched in the newer releases? What does "were forced to run exploit code" mean? It says "hacked into a MacBook." Is this another vulnerability in a 3rd party wireless driver? I'm not saying that it's not legit, but "Safari on OS X" without versions and details doesn't tell me a whole lot. Sounds like BS to me.
Most of the recent advances are done using stem cells from the patient's own body... this was always legal, but too many people got caught up in fighting for embryonic stem. Maybe the restrictions against using embryonic stem cells advanced medical technology by pushing researchers and doctors to use the patient's own stem cells instead.
Not at all. This was a natural evolution, especially due to the rejection issues. If anything, we would have had this technology sooner as more scientists would have gotten involved earlier, and we would be much further ahead.
To be honest I'd rather ride a freaking bicycle than this boring enclosed driverless segway.
As would I, but this is perfect for when the weather does not accommodate bike riding.
Future tech used to be cool, fast and just plain kick ass.
Popular Mechanics sensationalist predictions that never come true are kick ass and exciting. This is reality, and I think it's pretty exciting.
But now its just suck ass, partly due to the whole global warming doomsday environmentalist 'green' 'anything you do is a sin' mentality & paranoid obsession with safety that has been going around.
The fact that this is not a rocket car is due to environmental change? I'm not seeing the logic there.
There should be less of this type of slow driverless segway and more Tesla Roadster, Wrightspeed X1 or even a practical 4 seater without worthless gimmicks like integrated twitter and facebook.
Because those things costs more than the gross domestic product of most small towns around the world. This is a possible design for real people to use, not millionaires.
There is no reason at all why electric cars should be slow, ugly and boring or even as impractical as this thing is.
It's very practical for people trying to get to work, or to the train station, or the local shops. It's not practical for hyper speed travel across country. It's not meant for that.
Basically where is my flying car and get off my lawn.
Your flying car is still not practical. Please go get an engineering degree and help design it if that is what you want. Until then, I'll be happily zipping around waving "ciao." And I don't have a lawn. What a stupid waste of land. Plant some trees already.
Get some first hand experience with carpentry and build yourself one. It's not difficult.
Then please build me one. No, actually, I doubt if you've ever picked up a wood working tool in your life. Carpentry is a craft that it is not picked up overnight, not to mention the cost of the tools and wood. You need more than some "borrowed tools." Please go troll somewhere else.
It's good that readers are getting better, but they are still nowhere near the 300+ dpi of the printed page. Any large table or graphic just doesn't work.
Make sure you let every one of them know how you feel about their opinion of us come election time!
You mean that nice man I read heard about on the news who's looking out for our health? This is how many politicians get reelected. The average citizen votes on feeling, not on reason.
The pieces can represent anything (battalions or regiments, for instance), so it makes perfect sense.
But then it would also make perfect sense to be able to combine two or more decimated companies into a battalion, while maintaining the experience and combat abilities.
You're trying to make sense in a game where it takes 20 years for an airplane to fly around the globe? Don't get me wrong, I love the game, but I also gave up on it making any sense a long time ago.
One solution might be introducing new peripherals but they need more advanced peripherals because at this point you need to justify paying for another 15 pounds of plastic.
The justification is breakage. The plastic drums are a joke and few last beyond a year of usage. The plastic guitars are almost as bad. However, I agree completely that they need to produce more advanced peripherals. While you can use a "real" electronic drum kit via a midi interface, the guitar is still a toy without strings.
And along that point, it's worth reminding people that the Rock Band Network just launched, making it even easier for those bands to get on there. The downside being that you'll have to rely on community rating to show up among the crowd of other bands on there - there were a 100 tracks released on launch of the
And I'd like to point out that the RBN is for XBox, less than 1/3 of the user base, with no guarantee that any particular song will show up in the Sony and Nintendo stores after a minimum of a month. No, RBN is a slap in the face to 2/3 of the RB players, a big negative in my books.
Real safety testing is very, very difficult to do in a controlled way.
The only way to test on humans is to actually test on humans. People are always willing to take a risk when they are living with constant pain, as are these people. I wonder if the real culprit on the delay is the insurance companies? Or is it the established medical community who are not tooled up yet for maximum profit on the procedure?
Actually most of the south side is working class to middle class and pretty safe. The west side has the worst slums in Chicago. I don't know why people always pick on the south side.
Stupid doctors are as much to blame for this as the FDA. When a drug company's patent is about to expire, they often superficially change the molecular structure of the popular drug so that they can get a new patent. Then they start the marketing blitz to "ask your doctor about" the new drug. Smart doctors will prescribe the proven cure over the patent cash-in drugs.
Actually the current trick is to wait 7 years to release the time release version as a new patent, instead of releasing it at the same time as the original medicine. So we all have to wait 7 years until we can ever hope for a time release version, and then only at inflated prices.
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If you'd get a normal tablet or computer, you wouldn't need to jailbreak it. Apple is moving us towards closed computer environments. If Microsoft did this everyone would be angry about it, but now that it's Apple its all fine and classy.
Most people do not want to tinker. Please get over it. The iPod, iPhone, iPad are wonderfully easy to use, and are not lacking for applications. I'm glad that MS and others are also working on similar devices, because we don't want Apple to become the mobile device monopoly like MS is in the OS arena, lest they stop innovating also. So please keep buying and supporting those non-Apple products if you prefer them. Just don't be upset if Apple happens to be the market leader.
Or we could have reasonable gun control laws.
Guns are already illegal within the Chicago city limits. Guess those "reasonable gun control laws" aren't quite working out like you'd hoped, huh?
When you can go one county over, or over to Indiana to get a gun, it's not that effective. But it's a start, and hopefully the pro-gun areas will get a clue one of these days and institute their own bans on guns. Then we may start seeing some positive effects.
No. That is a gross oversimplification. The point is that handguns are illegal in Chicago, yet last week there were 40 shootings. Let me repeat that. Last week there were 40 shootings in Chicago despite the fact that handguns are illegal in Chicago. This seems to me to be a good indication that gun control laws like those that Chicago has do not work. It's all very nice to say that gee, if we just outlawed guns then nobody would have them and no one would get shot, but last I checked, we don't live in a world populated with unicorns and faeries.
Actually, what doesn't work is having armed citizens as a means of protection. The last I checked, there was no nation wide ban on guns. As long as one state allows over allows firearms, there's nothing keeping them out. What we need is a national ban on guns, across the board. Then we may start seeing some improvement.
All these restrictions are unconstitutional. Period.
Please go find another soap box. Gun restriction laws have been tried over and over, and they are quite legal by the constitution. Thank goodness.
Unfortunately, there are plenty of other website that have an iPhone-specific app that duplicates their site functionality rather than just making a website what it ought to be, a nearly universal interface.
You obviously don't remember the this-site-only-work-with-Internet-Explorer years. The iPhone has the largest presence in the mobile web browsing market, and companies will code their sites for the one big player, the rest be damned. Netscape (do you even know there was a browser before Firefox?) had to adapt IE extensions and quirks to stay compatible. I suspect the other mobile device browsers will follow suit and make themselves iPhone compatible, and find a way to present themselves as iPhones.
At least Safari tries to be HTML compliant, so this is not necessarily a bad thing. Just an annoying phase that will pass.
Hate to bitch, but unless it has a 49 position joystick for Sinistar, I'm not interested.
I really hate the complaints over the ending of Independence Day.
Agreed. Where's the rage over the flaws in Star Wars and Star Trek? It's probably just the typical hate-what's-popular schtick. Somehow only liking obscure material makes one feel more geeky, or something.
Aren't there other interesting stories that could be told through the art of movies that are not stupid?
You obviously never saw "The Puppet Masters." Sometimes it's worse when Hollywood has a brilliant story to start with, and completely loses any semblance of the original material. If you are going to make mediocre movies, there's no problem starting with mediocre scripts. A lot of Roger Corman and Hammer Studio movies come to mind. Great entertaining films in all their cheesiness.
In the interest of openness, I've decided to release the exploit. Hopefully, this will ignite the PS3 scene [...]
Looks like the fires need a little more than that to get lit, but there's a lot of pissed off users now with torches just aching to start a blaze.
Sony had to see this coming, now we just have to see if they'll try to litigate their way out of it or own up.
I love the way that slashdot geeks think that they are the average user. The number of linux installs on PS3 is so small that there's no reason for Sony to continue to support it, basically a few high computing centers and a few hackers, as opposed to the millions of gamers who have no idea it's even there. And yes there is a reason to turn it off. To remove it from the list of features that need to be supported going forward.
I'm really surprised that it lasted this long.
Since it only lasted a year on the market and quickly fell into disuse, I do not see how we've had 15 years of Bob.
Instead, we've seen user interfaces and platforms change quite a bit in that time.
Not 15 years of Bob, 15 years of the specter/memory/nightmare of Bob, that something so bad could ever have been taken seriously. These days when you design software, Bob is still seen as the lowest common denominator, the level below which no application can strive to attain, or not strive, as the case may be.
Is this another benign Safari hack that has no real world application, or another one where you need physical access to the box, or another that is already patched in the newer releases? What does "were forced to run exploit code" mean? It says "hacked into a MacBook." Is this another vulnerability in a 3rd party wireless driver? I'm not saying that it's not legit, but "Safari on OS X" without versions and details doesn't tell me a whole lot. Sounds like BS to me.
Most of the recent advances are done using stem cells from the patient's own body... this was always legal, but too many people got caught up in fighting for embryonic stem. Maybe the restrictions against using embryonic stem cells advanced medical technology by pushing researchers and doctors to use the patient's own stem cells instead.
Not at all. This was a natural evolution, especially due to the rejection issues. If anything, we would have had this technology sooner as more scientists would have gotten involved earlier, and we would be much further ahead.
To be honest I'd rather ride a freaking bicycle than this boring enclosed driverless segway.
As would I, but this is perfect for when the weather does not accommodate bike riding.
Future tech used to be cool, fast and just plain kick ass.
Popular Mechanics sensationalist predictions that never come true are kick ass and exciting. This is reality, and I think it's pretty exciting.
But now its just suck ass, partly due to the whole global warming doomsday environmentalist 'green' 'anything you do is a sin' mentality & paranoid obsession with safety that has been going around.
The fact that this is not a rocket car is due to environmental change? I'm not seeing the logic there.
There should be less of this type of slow driverless segway and more Tesla Roadster, Wrightspeed X1 or even a practical 4 seater without worthless gimmicks like integrated twitter and facebook.
Because those things costs more than the gross domestic product of most small towns around the world. This is a possible design for real people to use, not millionaires.
There is no reason at all why electric cars should be slow, ugly and boring or even as impractical as this thing is.
It's very practical for people trying to get to work, or to the train station, or the local shops. It's not practical for hyper speed travel across country. It's not meant for that.
Basically where is my flying car and get off my lawn.
Your flying car is still not practical. Please go get an engineering degree and help design it if that is what you want. Until then, I'll be happily zipping around waving "ciao." And I don't have a lawn. What a stupid waste of land. Plant some trees already.
Get some first hand experience with carpentry and build yourself one. It's not difficult.
Then please build me one. No, actually, I doubt if you've ever picked up a wood working tool in your life. Carpentry is a craft that it is not picked up overnight, not to mention the cost of the tools and wood. You need more than some "borrowed tools." Please go troll somewhere else.
It's good that readers are getting better, but they are still nowhere near the 300+ dpi of the printed page. Any large table or graphic just doesn't work.
Make sure you let every one of them know how you feel about their opinion of us come election time!
You mean that nice man I read heard about on the news who's looking out for our health? This is how many politicians get reelected. The average citizen votes on feeling, not on reason.
The pieces can represent anything (battalions or regiments, for instance), so it makes perfect sense.
But then it would also make perfect sense to be able to combine two or more decimated companies into a battalion, while maintaining the experience and combat abilities.
You're trying to make sense in a game where it takes 20 years for an airplane to fly around the globe? Don't get me wrong, I love the game, but I also gave up on it making any sense a long time ago.
One solution might be introducing new peripherals but they need more advanced peripherals because at this point you need to justify paying for another 15 pounds of plastic.
The justification is breakage. The plastic drums are a joke and few last beyond a year of usage. The plastic guitars are almost as bad. However, I agree completely that they need to produce more advanced peripherals. While you can use a "real" electronic drum kit via a midi interface, the guitar is still a toy without strings.
And along that point, it's worth reminding people that the Rock Band Network just launched, making it even easier for those bands to get on there. The downside being that you'll have to rely on community rating to show up among the crowd of other bands on there - there were a 100 tracks released on launch of the
And I'd like to point out that the RBN is for XBox, less than 1/3 of the user base, with no guarantee that any particular song will show up in the Sony and Nintendo stores after a minimum of a month. No, RBN is a slap in the face to 2/3 of the RB players, a big negative in my books.
They're full of the most buzzword-laden bullshit I've ever seen from a CTO who is supposed to know what things are about technically.
Don't let the T in CTO confuse you. CTOs are generally MBAs who barely know their way around a PC, much less a server or network.
Real safety testing is very, very difficult to do in a controlled way.
The only way to test on humans is to actually test on humans. People are always willing to take a risk when they are living with constant pain, as are these people. I wonder if the real culprit on the delay is the insurance companies? Or is it the established medical community who are not tooled up yet for maximum profit on the procedure?
Vast swathes of the south side of Chicago,
Actually most of the south side is working class to middle class and pretty safe. The west side has the worst slums in Chicago. I don't know why people always pick on the south side.
Mormon scientists have found skolls! How interesting! Maybe this will get a Darwin award.
Don't be silly. They dated them at 4000 years old.
Perl and python are quite portable too, though not as portable as Java.
Perl is 100% portable unless you are a CPAN junkie.
Stupid doctors are as much to blame for this as the FDA. When a drug company's patent is about to expire, they often superficially change the molecular structure of the popular drug so that they can get a new patent. Then they start the marketing blitz to "ask your doctor about" the new drug. Smart doctors will prescribe the proven cure over the patent cash-in drugs.
Actually the current trick is to wait 7 years to release the time release version as a new patent, instead of releasing it at the same time as the original medicine. So we all have to wait 7 years until we can ever hope for a time release version, and then only at inflated prices.