Yeah, just like that faddish "mouse" idea Jobs got from Xerox, or that overpriced dysfunctional "computer" he and a buddy hacked up in their garage. Delusions of grandeur and crazy out-of-the-box designs left him a pauper... no, wait, that's right, he's a multi-billionaire whose garage-startup is one of the most valuable companies in the world. Huh.
Yes, the iPad can be left behind. Yes, the battery may drain. Pretty soon you learn to not do that, and prepare Plan Bs. It's part of coming to grips with reality, where whining doesn't solve the problem - planning and coping does. The charger and cord are small, so carry them everywhere (I do); universities are outfitting ever more desks with power outlets. Those who don't learn to prepare will fail, just like the real world. This isn't high school, nobody will hold your hand thru the day any more.
Yes, the iPad isn't as convenient as a textbook for page flipping or resolution. It's getting there though, with much faster response than Kindle et al, and ability to pinch/zoom for fast scaling. It is more convenient for sheer data volume, where another book doesn't add another gram to device weight. There are tradeoffs between speed/resolution vs. weight/volume - just like the real world.
Nothing is perfect, there are always tradeoffs. The iPad is resolving many issues more than any other high technology has before - not perfect yet, and always some limitations, but may remaining issues are passing. Resolution will soon be a non-issue with the onset of "retina display"; page-flipping will improve with processor speed and better GUIs. Cloud computing deprecates the importance of having a particular device in-hand, reducing replacement (from loss or breakage) to little more than device cost(!). In the meantime, it brings advancement of rapid updates, interaction, video, etc. which processed dead tree carcasses lack.
Trickle-down economics (which is what you describe) doesn't work.
Explain that to the people who don't get jobs building, maintaining, and servicing the new yacht that Ballmer won't be buying because the money was confiscated for government waste.
You guys DO realize "the rich" can, and are, turn off their incomes for a while to avoid this BS, right? NYC isn't getting any more out of Limbaugh because he left the state & city which were trying to take ever more of his income. Suddenly all these "soak the rich" schemes are losing rich to soak. Stockholders would be happy to drop the CEO's income to an untaxable $1/yr for a while.
Same issue re: Obama wanting to terminate Bush's "tax cuts for the rich", hence the rush-to-first-post confusion.
And no I'm not rich. I just know that what isn't yours isn't yours.
Balances out, I get what I pay for, you dont want to pay, so you get nothing:)
I would be very happy with that arrangement. I want to pay for my choice of health care, my choice of schools for my kids, my choice of housing, etc. Problem is the system you back puts a gun to my head and takes 75% of my money regardless of whether I want to participate or not.
help them stop being poor! Henry Ford knew it - when he was asked why he paid his workers more than the competition, he said "I want them to be able to buy my cars."
Bingo. Henry Ford's solution to poverty was to employ more people and pay them more as private corporate policy, and not by giving the "extra" money to the state. Ballmer & Bezos can't hire more people, or pay employees more, if they don't have that 9%. The state sure isn't going to create as many jobs or raise pay nearly as much with it.
The great anecdote demeaning peer-reviewed journals is The Social Text Affair, where a prominent peer-reviewed journal published with enthusiasm the article "Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity", only to be informed it was, in fact, computer-generated gibberish submitted as a joke.
Hey, most people are not aware of the latest memes. Those who know about Pedobear may know (yes, tautology) but most people don't. Nice that the Sheriff does issue at least an explanation with appropriate warning. And yes, most people find jokes about pedophilia not funny, and don't want such material anywhere near their kids.
You have ignored the obvious: this thread is about cyborgs, which are part man part machine (implanted computer is implied). You're talking about 21st Century pen-pals.
This "cell phones and social networking make us cyborgs" stuff is just a childish attempt to jump on a fantasy's bandwagon. Cyborgs are cool, so you want to be one and proceed to extrapolate the notion to non-sequiturs to your satisfaction. No, you're not a cyborg because you have an iPhone and a Facebook account any more than having a telegraph key and CW radio does.
I'm a cyborg. It's a concrete reality. My heart beats because it's wired to a computer. I have to go for periodic diagnostics, reprogramming, and battery changes. (Actual thanks for provoking me, reminds me of another diagnostic required on Thursday.) Without it, I'm dead.
Yes, technology satisfies emotional needs too. Eliciting happiness from Facebook doesn't make you a cyborg.
Warm fuzzy "we're all cyborgs, kum by yah" is kinda pathetic. There's a vast difference between technology facilitating your emotional needs, vs. keeping you alive.
For all the sci-fi fantasy and the "we all are" cyborg nonsense, some of us living among you ARE cyborgs. Maybe not as exciting as a Borgified Picard, but without computer implants and mechanical augmentation we wouldn't be alive (and some have advantages as a result).
"They allowed the Opera Mini browser, even though it directly competes with (and is ~5 times faster than) Apple's Safari"
No, it doesn't compete. It works in a fundamentally different manner, with a different user experience. Displaying a pre-rendered bitmap obtained from a cloud server is not the same as fetching web data and rendering the page on-device; as such, there is much it cannot do "live".
A primary reason for using, unto requiring, hardware video playback is power consumption. Early in the iPad's release someone noted that the reason it could handle not just an 11-hour on time, but an 11-hour video playback time, was that video was routed thru a very efficient hardware video decoder. Without doing so, battery life would be stunted to way below the near-all-day on time.
This leads to the extrapolation to and beyond the "it's absolutely necessary" observation.
From the just-released submission guidelines:
13.2 Apps that rapidly drain the device's battery or generate excessive heat will be rejected
They had to limit distribution. The limited audience was still big enough to crush video stream service, at least to many. Best to limit to those who have a history of shelling out big bucks to Apple, rather than to curious tightwads.
You forgot the >$60/mo for cable TV service to get data to that DVR.
This is (well, is the beginning of) what-you-want when-you-want pay-for-only-what-you-want Internet-driven "a la carte" TV in a cheap ($99) convenient (power, HDMI, done) small (hockey puck) package which people have been clamoring for. It renders the DVR obsolete.
Wonder when networks will talk Apple into pushing free, but commercial-laden, episodes.
My family watches maybe 2 shows a week, that's $8, which is way less than cable for a broad menu of stuff we don't want or at inconvenient times, and the "hockey puck" makes PVRs obsolete, streams the ever-growing Netflix menu on demand, streams our music library from any computer, shows video/photos from my iPad, etc, etc...
Hey, it may not be for you. It's great for me, and a bunch of millions of others like me.
Yes, it's a valid question. No, we don't seem to have a consensus answer to it. Answers are "at conception" vs. a squishy "don't know but that's not it".
Not long ago another country was derided for terminating 12 million of what were not legally humans. Maybe we shouldn't be funding the termination of what reasonable people differ over calling "human".
Not a slope we want to start sliding down, especially as we value _individual_ rights. Maybe the person being terminated would like a say too.
Whenever I drive thru Virginia (up I-81) there's a sign announcing "Entering Virginia's Technology Corridor" which is followed by hundreds of miles of rolling green pastures.
How about quoting the rest of that sentence: "it's about four times larger than the average new American home built in 2006, and it essentially functions as both a residence and a business office since both Al and Tipper work out of their home." And by business office, that means an office with staff.
So did W's ranch. He ran the whole country from that 4000 sq ft.
Seems the much maligned president owned, with little fanfare, a rather "green" home. Passive solar heating, natural cooling, geothermal energy, modest size, rainwater collection, nature preserve, all made for a model environmentalist domicile. (This in contrast to the fast talking "green" showman whose mansion burned 20x the national average.)
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Yeah, just like that faddish "mouse" idea Jobs got from Xerox, or that overpriced dysfunctional "computer" he and a buddy hacked up in their garage. Delusions of grandeur and crazy out-of-the-box designs left him a pauper ... no, wait, that's right, he's a multi-billionaire whose garage-startup is one of the most valuable companies in the world. Huh.
Yes, the iPad can be left behind. Yes, the battery may drain. Pretty soon you learn to not do that, and prepare Plan Bs. It's part of coming to grips with reality, where whining doesn't solve the problem - planning and coping does. The charger and cord are small, so carry them everywhere (I do); universities are outfitting ever more desks with power outlets. Those who don't learn to prepare will fail, just like the real world. This isn't high school, nobody will hold your hand thru the day any more.
Yes, the iPad isn't as convenient as a textbook for page flipping or resolution. It's getting there though, with much faster response than Kindle et al, and ability to pinch/zoom for fast scaling. It is more convenient for sheer data volume, where another book doesn't add another gram to device weight. There are tradeoffs between speed/resolution vs. weight/volume - just like the real world.
Nothing is perfect, there are always tradeoffs. The iPad is resolving many issues more than any other high technology has before - not perfect yet, and always some limitations, but may remaining issues are passing. Resolution will soon be a non-issue with the onset of "retina display"; page-flipping will improve with processor speed and better GUIs. Cloud computing deprecates the importance of having a particular device in-hand, reducing replacement (from loss or breakage) to little more than device cost(!). In the meantime, it brings advancement of rapid updates, interaction, video, etc. which processed dead tree carcasses lack.
It's called capitalism.
It's very successful.
Explain that to the people who don't get jobs building, maintaining, and servicing the new yacht that Ballmer won't be buying because the money was confiscated for government waste.
You guys DO realize "the rich" can, and are, turn off their incomes for a while to avoid this BS, right? NYC isn't getting any more out of Limbaugh because he left the state & city which were trying to take ever more of his income. Suddenly all these "soak the rich" schemes are losing rich to soak. Stockholders would be happy to drop the CEO's income to an untaxable $1/yr for a while.
Same issue re: Obama wanting to terminate Bush's "tax cuts for the rich", hence the rush-to-first-post confusion.
And no I'm not rich. I just know that what isn't yours isn't yours.
I would be very happy with that arrangement.
I want to pay for my choice of health care, my choice of schools for my kids, my choice of housing, etc.
Problem is the system you back puts a gun to my head and takes 75% of my money regardless of whether I want to participate or not.
Bingo. Henry Ford's solution to poverty was to employ more people and pay them more as private corporate policy, and not by giving the "extra" money to the state. Ballmer & Bezos can't hire more people, or pay employees more, if they don't have that 9%. The state sure isn't going to create as many jobs or raise pay nearly as much with it.
Who will do more to stimulate the economy of Washington state with that 9%? Ballmer & Bezos or Governor Gregoire?
Who will do more to stimulate the economy with that 9%? Balmer or the Obama?
The great anecdote demeaning peer-reviewed journals is The Social Text Affair, where a prominent peer-reviewed journal published with enthusiasm the article "Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity", only to be informed it was, in fact, computer-generated gibberish submitted as a joke.
Hey, most people are not aware of the latest memes. Those who know about Pedobear may know (yes, tautology) but most people don't. Nice that the Sheriff does issue at least an explanation with appropriate warning. And yes, most people find jokes about pedophilia not funny, and don't want such material anywhere near their kids.
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You have ignored the obvious: this thread is about cyborgs, which are part man part machine (implanted computer is implied). You're talking about 21st Century pen-pals.
This "cell phones and social networking make us cyborgs" stuff is just a childish attempt to jump on a fantasy's bandwagon. Cyborgs are cool, so you want to be one and proceed to extrapolate the notion to non-sequiturs to your satisfaction. No, you're not a cyborg because you have an iPhone and a Facebook account any more than having a telegraph key and CW radio does.
I'm a cyborg. It's a concrete reality. My heart beats because it's wired to a computer. I have to go for periodic diagnostics, reprogramming, and battery changes. (Actual thanks for provoking me, reminds me of another diagnostic required on Thursday.) Without it, I'm dead.
Yes, technology satisfies emotional needs too. Eliciting happiness from Facebook doesn't make you a cyborg.
Warm fuzzy "we're all cyborgs, kum by yah" is kinda pathetic. There's a vast difference between technology facilitating your emotional needs, vs. keeping you alive.
For all the sci-fi fantasy and the "we all are" cyborg nonsense, some of us living among you ARE cyborgs. Maybe not as exciting as a Borgified Picard, but without computer implants and mechanical augmentation we wouldn't be alive (and some have advantages as a result).
"They allowed the Opera Mini browser, even though it directly competes with (and is ~5 times faster than) Apple's Safari"
No, it doesn't compete. It works in a fundamentally different manner, with a different user experience. Displaying a pre-rendered bitmap obtained from a cloud server is not the same as fetching web data and rendering the page on-device; as such, there is much it cannot do "live".
A primary reason for using, unto requiring, hardware video playback is power consumption. Early in the iPad's release someone noted that the reason it could handle not just an 11-hour on time, but an 11-hour video playback time, was that video was routed thru a very efficient hardware video decoder. Without doing so, battery life would be stunted to way below the near-all-day on time.
This leads to the extrapolation to and beyond the "it's absolutely necessary" observation.
From the just-released submission guidelines:
13.2 Apps that rapidly drain the device's battery or generate excessive heat will be rejected
They had to limit distribution. The limited audience was still big enough to crush video stream service, at least to many. Best to limit to those who have a history of shelling out big bucks to Apple, rather than to curious tightwads.
You forgot the >$60/mo for cable TV service to get data to that DVR.
This is (well, is the beginning of) what-you-want when-you-want pay-for-only-what-you-want Internet-driven "a la carte" TV in a cheap ($99) convenient (power, HDMI, done) small (hockey puck) package which people have been clamoring for. It renders the DVR obsolete.
Wonder when networks will talk Apple into pushing free, but commercial-laden, episodes.
My family watches maybe 2 shows a week, that's $8, which is way less than cable for a broad menu of stuff we don't want or at inconvenient times, and the "hockey puck" makes PVRs obsolete, streams the ever-growing Netflix menu on demand, streams our music library from any computer, shows video/photos from my iPad, etc, etc...
Hey, it may not be for you.
It's great for me, and a bunch of millions of others like me.
jollyreaper shall attribute quotes to whomever he wilt, in accordance to said quoted Law.
And that's the problem with the quote in question.
Yes, it's a valid question.
No, we don't seem to have a consensus answer to it. Answers are "at conception" vs. a squishy "don't know but that's not it".
Not long ago another country was derided for terminating 12 million of what were not legally humans.
Maybe we shouldn't be funding the termination of what reasonable people differ over calling "human".
Not a slope we want to start sliding down, especially as we value _individual_ rights. Maybe the person being terminated would like a say too.
Whenever I drive thru Virginia (up I-81) there's a sign announcing "Entering Virginia's Technology Corridor" which is followed by hundreds of miles of rolling green pastures.
What, there was a proliferation of cow-tipping?
How about quoting the rest of that sentence: "it's about four times larger than the average new American home built in 2006, and it essentially functions as both a residence and a business office since both Al and Tipper work out of their home." And by business office, that means an office with staff.
So did W's ranch. He ran the whole country from that 4000 sq ft.
Seems the much maligned president owned, with little fanfare, a rather "green" home. Passive solar heating, natural cooling, geothermal energy, modest size, rainwater collection, nature preserve, all made for a model environmentalist domicile. (This in contrast to the fast talking "green" showman whose mansion burned 20x the national average.)
You're new here, aren't you?
When persuade a Beowulf cluster of petrified Natalie Portmans to pour hot grits down your pants, then maybe we'll review your advice.
BTW: posting as Anonymous Coward does more to lower the overall level of this site.
Just because a contest is held doesn't mean it will complete.
The last IOCCC contest results have been highly anticipated for years now.