Ping is completely opt-in. The iTunes Store is completely opt-in. Even "Genius" is opt-in (since it sends your library contents and play information to Apple servers where the mixes are calculated).
And I'd add Double-Twist to the list of iTunes alternatives, especially if you have an Android phone.
Our society has decided we want to encourage marriage between different-sex couples and that we want to encourage procreation. That encouragement takes the form of tax breaks.
You disagree, fine. But you need to change our society's collective mind. In our society that's accomplished through lobbying, cash donations, and (mis-)education of the public, and voting.
We're currently in the middle of such a debate about encouraging marriage between same-sex couples. This will probably happen at some point because there is no real reasons not too.
But I don't think you're going to have much success convincing people that we shouldn't encourage, or should actually discourage, stable households and the continuance of our species.
Click the "Discussion" link. Select Slashdot Classic Discussion System. Set Display Mode to Nested, Sort Order to Oldest First, and Threshold and Highlight Threshold to whatever you want (mine is 5: Score +5 and 3: Score +3 respectively). I also recommend selected Hard Thresholds, Reparent Highly Rated Comments, and increasing comment limit, comment byte limit, and index spill to something large like 100, 1024k, 500.
Making up the wordplay in headlines is creative, but the result only enables the reader to feel superior to other people, without needing to think creatively or experience actual emotions. And it often obscures the actual content.
"Note: Finding humor in word-play is an excellent way to feel superior to other people, without needing to think creatively or experience actual emotions." -- http://xkcdexplained.com/post/591687743/malamanteau
I don't think it would be trivial at all if HP wants to sell a great device that can be favorably compared to the iPad.
There are two major sticking points, to my mind:
One: WebOS is heavily dependent on swiping. Swiping back, swiping up, pinching, etc. I can't imagine a tablet that hasn't been designed with this in mind being physically comfortable to use.
Two: WebOS is a much more "lean" OS compared to Windows 7. Using hardware designed for WebOS will likely cost much more than it should and battery usage won't have been tuned properly.
Do not use your personal computer for work. Do not use your work computer for fun. You are asking for trouble.
If you are a contractor or such, you should already have your hard drive encrypted. Provide the facility with evidence that your hard drive is encrypted.
There is no good excuse, in 2010, to not have the hard drive of your computers encrypted. Operating systems should be encrypting hard drives by default during installation. The only exception is if they are servers sitting in a physically secured data center.
The health care facility needs to get its written policies in order. They should explicitly prohibit computers that are not the property of the facility from being attached to its network. They should explicitly prohibit access to its email servers from computers (including mobile devices) it does not own. It should implement measures to enforce this and not be wishy-washy about someday terminating access, maybe, we really mean it this time. They are asking for trouble.
Anyone else think it's hilarious how John Gruber is pouting about Gizmodo and the iPhone 4 leak? It's like he's a six-year-old who was just told by a drunk uncle that Santa and the Tooth Fairy are actually just his parents. "I want my sense of childlike wonder back! **waaaaaaaah!**
I'll wait to display outrage until after a jury has issued a verdict and the appeals process has run its course.
I'm still willfully naive enough to believe that a competent defense and a motivated defendant with a solid moral grounding can teach the judicial system enough science to win.
"Most geeks like Mac OS X exactly because it's a solid Unix that grandparents can use."
I like OS X because it's a solid Unix **I** can use. I say that as a Unix geek & nerd.
What is your point?
I use something because it provides the best value. The nutjub "opensource community" has completely failed to live up to its promise since the mid 2000s or so.
When there is an open platform that can do a fraction of what my iPad can I will agree that you have a point.
I brought my iPad to D&D Encounters tonight because my daughter had to come with due to my wife's previous commitment.
My daughter loves the Adobe Ideas app (she just knows it's the blue pencil icon) because it's easier to draw with and choose colors with than the other two drawing/sketching apps I have on there. She kept going back to listen to the book apps she'd already listened to a couple times that evening (Toy Story and Dr. Seuss ABCs and Alice). Her favorite is Diner Dash even though she keeps losing at the last level I mastered.
The entire D&D session was almost derailed by uber nerds wanting to use and/or talk about my iPad instead of playing D&D.
After that encounter and after my wife picked up my daughter after my wife's salon appointment (I know! what a fucking cliche, right?) I ended up having a long conversation about Apple and why I pre-ordered an iPad.
My takeaway was the only people buying and using netbooks, and the people who most want an iPad, are people who are a most perfect fit for either an iPad or a MacBook.
As someone who uses OpenBSD from a command line for most of my professional life and who turns to Apple as soon as my time is my own, I have to say I think most of the Apple hate amongst the fellow nerds here is just jealousy.
If you understand how Opera Mini works and why Apple bans other browsers (hint: it is not because they retrieve and display web pages) you would not find this surprising at all.
My Sprint Pre has no problem getting me through the day, full of email, texting, tunes (I've been listening to Pandora in the background for almost the last year), web, and a little gaming. It's especially awesome using mytether to turn it into a wi-fi access point for my iPad.
Multitasking, real multitasking, on WebOS is the best available on a mobile platform. I don't think that's going to change with iPhone OS4. Android doesn't even come close.
If you are going to go to the expense of creating and distributing physical media, just implement two-factor authentication.
SECURITY NERD RAGE! RAUGH!
In my opinion, pressing a little button on your bank-branded, credit card-sized PIN generator (such as the ones I have from Bank of America and PayPal/eBay) you keep in your wallet next to your credit cards and ID is waaaay easier than trying to remember what bullshit answer I gave to yet another off the wall "security" question. It's clearly much more secure.
Take a long, hard look at the Pre before you settle for anything Android.
I'm super happy with mine, especially that 1) third-party apps can be installed easily, 2) the multitasking and notifications are very, very elegant, 3) carriers can't fuck up the experience by making their own modifications or refusing to upgrade the software (or allow it to be upgraded), and 4) Sprint in the US has been a breath of fresh air for me since switching from Verizon last year.
They probably want to pick the most inexpensive worker rather than the most politically correct one. If they end up with an entire workforce full of H1B employees, perhaps an investigation should be done as to why there are no other qualified candidates in the area.
FTFY
Watching people get excited about and defend Google gives me terrible nostalgia of Microsoft's history.
Redhat is getting to be pretty bad about this too. Their entire business model revolves around selling support contracts to software you can download for free, so there is a very strong incentive to make that software require a support contract to get anything done.
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Don't spread FUD.
Ping is completely opt-in. The iTunes Store is completely opt-in. Even "Genius" is opt-in (since it sends your library contents and play information to Apple servers where the mixes are calculated).
And I'd add Double-Twist to the list of iTunes alternatives, especially if you have an Android phone.
Shoulda bought a Mac.
Our society has decided we want to encourage marriage between different-sex couples and that we want to encourage procreation. That encouragement takes the form of tax breaks.
You disagree, fine. But you need to change our society's collective mind. In our society that's accomplished through lobbying, cash donations, and (mis-)education of the public, and voting.
We're currently in the middle of such a debate about encouraging marriage between same-sex couples. This will probably happen at some point because there is no real reasons not too.
But I don't think you're going to have much success convincing people that we shouldn't encourage, or should actually discourage, stable households and the continuance of our species.
Shit, forgot to say:
Click the "Discussion" link. Select Slashdot Classic Discussion System. Set Display Mode to Nested, Sort Order to Oldest First, and Threshold and Highlight Threshold to whatever you want (mine is 5: Score +5 and 3: Score +3 respectively). I also recommend selected Hard Thresholds, Reparent Highly Rated Comments, and increasing comment limit, comment byte limit, and index spill to something large like 100, 1024k, 500.
(Oh, and it pisses the living sh!t out of me that Slashdot jumps down half a page when you expand a comment!)
Go to http://slashdot.org/help
Click the "Classic Index" link. Select Use Classic Index, Simple Design, Low Bandwidth, No Icons. Click Save.
Click the "Dynamic Index" link. Select Lowbandwidth [sic], Simple Design, Use Classic Index.
Voila, /. as $deity intended it.
Making up the wordplay in headlines is creative, but the result only enables the reader to feel superior to other people, without needing to think creatively or experience actual emotions. And it often obscures the actual content.
"Note: Finding humor in word-play is an excellent way to feel superior to other people, without needing to think creatively or experience actual emotions." -- http://xkcdexplained.com/post/591687743/malamanteau
How's the war against fake AV going for you?
I don't think it would be trivial at all if HP wants to sell a great device that can be favorably compared to the iPad.
There are two major sticking points, to my mind:
One: WebOS is heavily dependent on swiping. Swiping back, swiping up, pinching, etc. I can't imagine a tablet that hasn't been designed with this in mind being physically comfortable to use.
Two: WebOS is a much more "lean" OS compared to Windows 7. Using hardware designed for WebOS will likely cost much more than it should and battery usage won't have been tuned properly.
Do not use your personal computer for work. Do not use your work computer for fun. You are asking for trouble.
If you are a contractor or such, you should already have your hard drive encrypted. Provide the facility with evidence that your hard drive is encrypted.
There is no good excuse, in 2010, to not have the hard drive of your computers encrypted. Operating systems should be encrypting hard drives by default during installation. The only exception is if they are servers sitting in a physically secured data center.
The health care facility needs to get its written policies in order. They should explicitly prohibit computers that are not the property of the facility from being attached to its network. They should explicitly prohibit access to its email servers from computers (including mobile devices) it does not own. It should implement measures to enforce this and not be wishy-washy about someday terminating access, maybe, we really mean it this time. They are asking for trouble.
Anyone else think it's hilarious how John Gruber is pouting about Gizmodo and the iPhone 4 leak? It's like he's a six-year-old who was just told by a drunk uncle that Santa and the Tooth Fairy are actually just his parents. "I want my sense of childlike wonder back! **waaaaaaaah!**
Being green is good except for whenever **I** have to do it!
I'll wait to display outrage until after a jury has issued a verdict and the appeals process has run its course.
I'm still willfully naive enough to believe that a competent defense and a motivated defendant with a solid moral grounding can teach the judicial system enough science to win.
Explain it then.
"Can you not understand the concern?"
As a total geek & nerd: no.
"Most geeks like Mac OS X exactly because it's a solid Unix that grandparents can use."
I like OS X because it's a solid Unix **I** can use. I say that as a Unix geek & nerd.
What is your point?
I use something because it provides the best value. The nutjub "opensource community" has completely failed to live up to its promise since the mid 2000s or so.
When there is an open platform that can do a fraction of what my iPad can I will agree that you have a point.
I brought my iPad to D&D Encounters tonight because my daughter had to come with due to my wife's previous commitment.
My daughter loves the Adobe Ideas app (she just knows it's the blue pencil icon) because it's easier to draw with and choose colors with than the other two drawing/sketching apps I have on there. She kept going back to listen to the book apps she'd already listened to a couple times that evening (Toy Story and Dr. Seuss ABCs and Alice). Her favorite is Diner Dash even though she keeps losing at the last level I mastered.
The entire D&D session was almost derailed by uber nerds wanting to use and/or talk about my iPad instead of playing D&D.
After that encounter and after my wife picked up my daughter after my wife's salon appointment (I know! what a fucking cliche, right?) I ended up having a long conversation about Apple and why I pre-ordered an iPad.
My takeaway was the only people buying and using netbooks, and the people who most want an iPad, are people who are a most perfect fit for either an iPad or a MacBook.
As someone who uses OpenBSD from a command line for most of my professional life and who turns to Apple as soon as my time is my own, I have to say I think most of the Apple hate amongst the fellow nerds here is just jealousy.
If you understand how Opera Mini works and why Apple bans other browsers (hint: it is not because they retrieve and display web pages) you would not find this surprising at all.
My Sprint Pre has no problem getting me through the day, full of email, texting, tunes (I've been listening to Pandora in the background for almost the last year), web, and a little gaming. It's especially awesome using mytether to turn it into a wi-fi access point for my iPad.
Multitasking, real multitasking, on WebOS is the best available on a mobile platform. I don't think that's going to change with iPhone OS4. Android doesn't even come close.
If you are going to go to the expense of creating and distributing physical media, just implement two-factor authentication.
SECURITY NERD RAGE! RAUGH!
In my opinion, pressing a little button on your bank-branded, credit card-sized PIN generator (such as the ones I have from Bank of America and PayPal/eBay) you keep in your wallet next to your credit cards and ID is waaaay easier than trying to remember what bullshit answer I gave to yet another off the wall "security" question. It's clearly much more secure.
Take a long, hard look at the Pre before you settle for anything Android.
I'm super happy with mine, especially that 1) third-party apps can be installed easily, 2) the multitasking and notifications are very, very elegant, 3) carriers can't fuck up the experience by making their own modifications or refusing to upgrade the software (or allow it to be upgraded), and 4) Sprint in the US has been a breath of fresh air for me since switching from Verizon last year.
Sorry, but I refuse to play video games with a controller that looks like the most popular "personal massager" of all time.
I see "look and feel" lawsuit from Hitachi coming.
We don't treat health insurance like insurance. Insurance is for EMERGENCY and RARE EXPENSIVE claims.
That is because health insurance is for humans, not things.
Extra points for the guy destroying his guitar shirt at the end.
They probably want to pick the most inexpensive worker rather than the most politically correct one. If they end up with an entire workforce full of H1B employees, perhaps an investigation should be done as to why there are no other qualified candidates in the area.
FTFY
Watching people get excited about and defend Google gives me terrible nostalgia of Microsoft's history.
Redhat is getting to be pretty bad about this too. Their entire business model revolves around selling support contracts to software you can download for free, so there is a very strong incentive to make that software require a support contract to get anything done.