How many kids get moved from an abusive house to only end up in a place where they either get abused or ignored? How many parents get accused of abusing children when in fact they haven't done anything wrong, I'm going to guarantee that the percentage is more then 0, What are a parents rights when they lose the kids, well pretty much nothing, they get told what they can and can not do. So how exactly is this helping all the kids that need it? I know a kid that got removed from his house and he ended up going into 4 homes where his stuff got stolen, broken and destroyed. He got beat, abused and kicked out on the street.
Explain to me exactly how that helped him? If you want better stories he has more then just make you wonder what is wrong with the social system, kids are getting put into worse situations then they get removed from, I wish I was making this up but it's horrible and sad I'm not.
Yes if you consider Steve Jobs like Hitler which isn't a far extraction, he did mention how he wants to destroy an entire Operating System because he just didn't like it:-).
The Playbook had mail apps from the start, if you find it completely bothersome to have to click two or three icons to read your mail then no one can really help you. If you sync'd the Playbook with your blackberry you got mail and calender support, what did you get if you sync'd an iPhone with the iPad? The Playbook has better initial codec support on the device, it has better video quality supporting HDMI, it has flash support. The Playbook has HDMI out which is something the iPad can't say for itself, the Playbook is a reasonable size and not the size of a small TV ( iPad ). The Playbook is lighter ( which all apple fans should love ), I think that little list speaks up for the Playbook, I've used for an iPad and Playbook and right now I only use a Playbook because it's the only device which really delivers on what a user wants a tablet to do.
1GHz ARM Cortex-A8 processor
Apple A4 chipset
Dimensions: 242.8 x 189.7 x 13.4 mm
Weight: 730 g
9.7-inch LED-backlit TFT capacitive touchscreen with 768 x 1024 pixels resolution
Display features: scratch-resistant surface, multi-touch input method, accelerometer
256MB RAM
Internal storage: 16GB, 32GB, 64GB
Internet connectivity: WiFi + 3G; WiFi
Bluetooth 2.1
USB 2.0
TV-out 35mm audio jack
Spec Wise Playbook 1:
BODY Dimensions 194 x 130 x 10 mm
Weight 425 g
DISPLAY Type TFT capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
Size 600 x 1024 pixels, 7.0 inches (~170 ppi pixel density)
Multitouch Yes
SOUND Alert types N/A
Loudspeaker Yes, with stereo speakers
3.5mm jack Yes
MEMORY Card slot No
Internal 16/32/64 GB storage, 1 GB RAM
DATA GPRS No
EDGE No
Speed No
WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n
Bluetooth Yes, v2.1, EDR
USB Yes, microUSB v2.0
CAMERA Primary 5 MP, 2592x1944 pixels, autofocus
Video Yes, 1080p@30fps
Secondary Yes, 3 MP, 1080p@30fps
So off the bat:
The Ram on the playbook is increased greatly, The Video quality is better, the support codecs are better, There is flash support, The form factor is nice ( This is a preference but the iPad was WAY to big over it's Length and Width ), Weight is lower, Better USB Support, Better TV out as the playbook supports HDMI, Better sounds chipset drivers. Thats a simple first base analysis, you could go deeper and look at chips and code but based off this I would say the Playbook takes it.
On a side note I find iOS to be completely unusable, it has a very poor user experience. I find Apple has never really made a good GUI and when your dealing with an end product it's something you have to look at, the Playbook has a very natural and intuitive layout making it a joy to use every day, the iPad has everything mixed together, bad initial icon's and a silly over all design, of course this is just what I think and I'll take it that not everyone thinks this way so I'll leave this one to the side.
The iPad one is the lowest quality tablet I have ever used, I'm not joking. It's to big, has a horrible OS installed on it, has a cumbersome feel and user experience and to top it off it doesn't support flash. I fail to see any comparison, even the iPad 2 which I've also used doesn't compare, being thin doesn't make you better, it just makes you look like you care about about your look then your users experience. The iPad 2 suffers from all the same issues and it adds the new feature of being to thin.
In general I hate almost everything apple puts out because they never seem to care about how there user will use there products, they just know when they put an apple on it some people will buy out of impulse. I have yet to find an apple product ( minus the iPod ) that delivers a decent user experience from the OS up the esthetics.
You clearly haven't used a playbook, if you have then your blind. Reviewers can say what they want, it doesn't make them right, after all some reviewers would of called Hitler's method's a new view to solve a problem.
Wow thats a really good reply! I would say my experience with teachers was fairly bad, I've had very few qualified teachers come my way. When I think of a teacher what I want to find is one who can play with number, language and social science like a master chef, not missing on beat and getting excited about it. What I've had the "pleasure" of meeting is the sit on the chair, read the text book and get mad if someone answers a question out of scope of the text book. We actually had a science text book with errors in it and when I use to ask why the book was wrong and t hen tell her the right explanation she would make an off handed comment and move on with the wrong explanation.
The real problem is the complete lack of qualified teacher's. A teacher needs to be a true master of all subjects so regardless of a text book the teachers should work with numbers like a mathematician. Bad text books can be overcome by excellent teaching and from what I remember my teachers were jokes. Don't blame the text books blame the unqualified teacher's.
I would stay away from Ubuntu or Mint, I would go Slackware or Gentoo. The issue with picking Ubuntu as a development environment is that is has enough small changes to standard API's and standard device drivers where it's not really Linux development, it's Ubuntu development. There is also a lack of good cross compilers and cross environments available from Ubuntu. All of these issues can be mitigated on Gentoo which is the distro of choice for any real Linux user.
Lets see wordpress doesn't need much power, Google Docs is a waste of time, just use Libra Office, Linux is free and so is the Gimp so just get good solid computers and install Linux, I just saved 40 Million.
I'd like to think our kids are smart enough in this day and age not to download any free piece of software they see but if they aren't I have a good hunch this only affects Windows based computers which leads back to the parents making a bad platform choice:-).
You sound like a physicist who thinks they know everything about biology. What do you know about GPS? Do you realize it operates *BELOW* the noise floor? What do you know about intermodulation interference?
And you sounds like a lazy engineer or probably technologist that opened a datasheet from digikey and is trying to act like he knows everything.
Basically what happened here was that GPS manufacturers don't want to produce decent circuits to drive the GPS units. Unless both of these signal operate in the same frequency and use the same access technology ( OFDM, FDM, QPSK etc... ) then they wont entirely block each other out. What the GPS guys are complaining about is that they will have to produce GPS systems capable on have highly focused signal reception systems that can separate out interference. It's a classic example of lazy design = cry baby's.
Before someone flys off the handle and acts likes I have no idea what I'm talking about, I've designed highly focused radio systems using very similar technology. The difficultly in design goes WAY up but on the other hand when you trying only focus in on a small band you should ONLY be looking that band and nothing else, if you throw together crappy antenna's ( Apple ) then your going to have crappy reception and every other wireless / radio technology will block you. It's not there fault, it's yours, if you do the design and do the design to an exceptional level you will be able to find the needle in the haystack.
Maybe it's time for the GPS guys to start designed better GPS units which solve this issue instead of complaining about it. If the spectrum doesn't get used now it will in the future and we'll come to the same issues then. The only true solution is going back to the lab and over designing the devices now and we will never have this issue. If you do have half assed work you'll always be redoing it later.
They should not put Office on the iPad, Apples wants to stand out and act like there the queen bee's, they want to make commercials talking about how Windows can't even touch Apple and they proceed to push there products in our faces. I'm NOT an apple fan, I actually generally hate them, they have a 2nd or 3rd rate user experience and prices that are so high you'd think there products are coated in gold. This time Microsoft should make apple invent there own office program and yet again show everyone that apple users aren't going to be compatible.
What the doctors are saying is that they know more then the parents who sit at google and search keywords. The vaccines were developed to be as safe as possible and to mitigate the very real risk of disease, for a parent to refuse a vaccination for the kid there saying that they want the child to have an increased risk of getting sick or even dying.
The doctor should and does have every right to kick the family out of the practice, doesn't the doctors oath say "Do no harm" which is what the vaccination does! It prevents harm. There really up holding there own oath.
There so right, child porn is the only bad thing on the internet, hence why if you don't support online surveillance you must support child porn, there is nothing else that is inappropriate on the net.
I have yet to meet a teacher in elementary school who can use a computer yet alone comment on the health concern and technology behind wireless networks. I don't think the teachers union is the right group to go at this, I think maybe the IEEE might just be a little more qualified to make this call. After all I had one teacher in grade 8 who didn't know it was possible to save an image from the world wide web, I had another who thought hacking was opening up a window that had only text on it and no graphics!!!!
Apple should of never been allowed to get that patient! I would say the ability to unlock a phone through touch motion is active public domain knowledge and should fall outside the requirement for filing a patient. I think it's time for some major change in the US patient office. Technically Apple can now block EVERY single touch screen phone on the market and being developed. They have been allowed to secure a monopoly in a growing field, how on earth it that fair? Whats next is Apple going to patient toilet paper and go to court with everyone who goes to the bathroom?
Software Testing is a very unique job, its not just sitting at a desk and following a series of steps to test a software product. I was a software tester for 8 months as a coop student and I would say the biggest surprise was that software testing had no good formal description. When I did my software testing I used more experimental methods then formal methods. I personally never saw the point to formal testing, formal software testing never made and sense because software never preforms in an exact formal way. if 99.99% of a software's running time is produces output x, y ad z that means 0.01% of the time it will produce x, y and t output. The goal of a good software tester is to find a way to produce the 0.01% case and document it. When you preform formal software testing your only following steps to make sure you produce 99.99% of cases which doesn't really tell you a lot.
Software testing should NEVER be outlined by the developer, a developer will ALWAYS be biased on how to test there software. It's also important that the developer listen to the software tester, I had more then a few cases were company's told me to screw off when I was able to exploit there software through testing. Software testing is literally like solving a mystery, you know something will happen and you need to find the steps of a bug to get from stable to issue.
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How many kids get moved from an abusive house to only end up in a place where they either get abused or ignored? How many parents get accused of abusing children when in fact they haven't done anything wrong, I'm going to guarantee that the percentage is more then 0, What are a parents rights when they lose the kids, well pretty much nothing, they get told what they can and can not do. So how exactly is this helping all the kids that need it? I know a kid that got removed from his house and he ended up going into 4 homes where his stuff got stolen, broken and destroyed. He got beat, abused and kicked out on the street.
Explain to me exactly how that helped him? If you want better stories he has more then just make you wonder what is wrong with the social system, kids are getting put into worse situations then they get removed from, I wish I was making this up but it's horrible and sad I'm not.
Yes if you consider Steve Jobs like Hitler which isn't a far extraction, he did mention how he wants to destroy an entire Operating System because he just didn't like it :-).
The Playbook had mail apps from the start, if you find it completely bothersome to have to click two or three icons to read your mail then no one can really help you. If you sync'd the Playbook with your blackberry you got mail and calender support, what did you get if you sync'd an iPhone with the iPad? The Playbook has better initial codec support on the device, it has better video quality supporting HDMI, it has flash support. The Playbook has HDMI out which is something the iPad can't say for itself, the Playbook is a reasonable size and not the size of a small TV ( iPad ). The Playbook is lighter ( which all apple fans should love ), I think that little list speaks up for the Playbook, I've used for an iPad and Playbook and right now I only use a Playbook because it's the only device which really delivers on what a user wants a tablet to do.
Consult a lower post where I compared them spec for spec also please note I did mention how the Apple user experience is horrible, which it is!
Spec Wise iPad 1:
1GHz ARM Cortex-A8 processor
Apple A4 chipset
Dimensions: 242.8 x 189.7 x 13.4 mm
Weight: 730 g
9.7-inch LED-backlit TFT capacitive touchscreen with 768 x 1024 pixels resolution
Display features: scratch-resistant surface, multi-touch input method, accelerometer
256MB RAM
Internal storage: 16GB, 32GB, 64GB
Internet connectivity: WiFi + 3G; WiFi
Bluetooth 2.1
USB 2.0
TV-out 35mm audio jack
Spec Wise Playbook 1:
BODY Dimensions 194 x 130 x 10 mm
Weight 425 g
DISPLAY Type TFT capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
Size 600 x 1024 pixels, 7.0 inches (~170 ppi pixel density)
Multitouch Yes
SOUND Alert types N/A
Loudspeaker Yes, with stereo speakers
3.5mm jack Yes
MEMORY Card slot No
Internal 16/32/64 GB storage, 1 GB RAM
DATA GPRS No
EDGE No
Speed No
WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n
Bluetooth Yes, v2.1, EDR
USB Yes, microUSB v2.0
CAMERA Primary 5 MP, 2592x1944 pixels, autofocus
Video Yes, 1080p@30fps
Secondary Yes, 3 MP, 1080p@30fps
So off the bat:
The Ram on the playbook is increased greatly, The Video quality is better, the support codecs are better, There is flash support, The form factor is nice ( This is a preference but the iPad was WAY to big over it's Length and Width ), Weight is lower, Better USB Support, Better TV out as the playbook supports HDMI, Better sounds chipset drivers. Thats a simple first base analysis, you could go deeper and look at chips and code but based off this I would say the Playbook takes it.
On a side note I find iOS to be completely unusable, it has a very poor user experience. I find Apple has never really made a good GUI and when your dealing with an end product it's something you have to look at, the Playbook has a very natural and intuitive layout making it a joy to use every day, the iPad has everything mixed together, bad initial icon's and a silly over all design, of course this is just what I think and I'll take it that not everyone thinks this way so I'll leave this one to the side.
The iPad one is the lowest quality tablet I have ever used, I'm not joking. It's to big, has a horrible OS installed on it, has a cumbersome feel and user experience and to top it off it doesn't support flash. I fail to see any comparison, even the iPad 2 which I've also used doesn't compare, being thin doesn't make you better, it just makes you look like you care about about your look then your users experience. The iPad 2 suffers from all the same issues and it adds the new feature of being to thin.
In general I hate almost everything apple puts out because they never seem to care about how there user will use there products, they just know when they put an apple on it some people will buy out of impulse. I have yet to find an apple product ( minus the iPod ) that delivers a decent user experience from the OS up the esthetics.
You clearly haven't used a playbook, if you have then your blind. Reviewers can say what they want, it doesn't make them right, after all some reviewers would of called Hitler's method's a new view to solve a problem.
Great a thinner, higher resolution tablet which still doesn't come close to matching the playbook. In this case sales doesn't equal quality!
They don't help kids, they just hurt parents!
Wow thats a really good reply! I would say my experience with teachers was fairly bad, I've had very few qualified teachers come my way. When I think of a teacher what I want to find is one who can play with number, language and social science like a master chef, not missing on beat and getting excited about it. What I've had the "pleasure" of meeting is the sit on the chair, read the text book and get mad if someone answers a question out of scope of the text book. We actually had a science text book with errors in it and when I use to ask why the book was wrong and t hen tell her the right explanation she would make an off handed comment and move on with the wrong explanation.
The real problem is the complete lack of qualified teacher's. A teacher needs to be a true master of all subjects so regardless of a text book the teachers should work with numbers like a mathematician. Bad text books can be overcome by excellent teaching and from what I remember my teachers were jokes. Don't blame the text books blame the unqualified teacher's.
I would stay away from Ubuntu or Mint, I would go Slackware or Gentoo. The issue with picking Ubuntu as a development environment is that is has enough small changes to standard API's and standard device drivers where it's not really Linux development, it's Ubuntu development. There is also a lack of good cross compilers and cross environments available from Ubuntu. All of these issues can be mitigated on Gentoo which is the distro of choice for any real Linux user.
Lets see wordpress doesn't need much power, Google Docs is a waste of time, just use Libra Office, Linux is free and so is the Gimp so just get good solid computers and install Linux, I just saved 40 Million.
Microsoft had a computer date bug? Armature hour!
Ya exactly there you go, It's my pearl of wisdom for the day.
Women will unfriend someone for wearing the wrong shoes with a skirt, I think men have known this for years.
I'd like to think our kids are smart enough in this day and age not to download any free piece of software they see but if they aren't I have a good hunch this only affects Windows based computers which leads back to the parents making a bad platform choice :-).
You sound like a physicist who thinks they know everything about biology. What do you know about GPS? Do you realize it operates *BELOW* the noise floor? What do you know about intermodulation interference?
And you sounds like a lazy engineer or probably technologist that opened a datasheet from digikey and is trying to act like he knows everything.
Basically what happened here was that GPS manufacturers don't want to produce decent circuits to drive the GPS units. Unless both of these signal operate in the same frequency and use the same access technology ( OFDM, FDM, QPSK etc... ) then they wont entirely block each other out. What the GPS guys are complaining about is that they will have to produce GPS systems capable on have highly focused signal reception systems that can separate out interference. It's a classic example of lazy design = cry baby's.
Before someone flys off the handle and acts likes I have no idea what I'm talking about, I've designed highly focused radio systems using very similar technology. The difficultly in design goes WAY up but on the other hand when you trying only focus in on a small band you should ONLY be looking that band and nothing else, if you throw together crappy antenna's ( Apple ) then your going to have crappy reception and every other wireless / radio technology will block you. It's not there fault, it's yours, if you do the design and do the design to an exceptional level you will be able to find the needle in the haystack.
Maybe it's time for the GPS guys to start designed better GPS units which solve this issue instead of complaining about it. If the spectrum doesn't get used now it will in the future and we'll come to the same issues then. The only true solution is going back to the lab and over designing the devices now and we will never have this issue. If you do have half assed work you'll always be redoing it later.
They should not put Office on the iPad, Apples wants to stand out and act like there the queen bee's, they want to make commercials talking about how Windows can't even touch Apple and they proceed to push there products in our faces. I'm NOT an apple fan, I actually generally hate them, they have a 2nd or 3rd rate user experience and prices that are so high you'd think there products are coated in gold. This time Microsoft should make apple invent there own office program and yet again show everyone that apple users aren't going to be compatible.
What the doctors are saying is that they know more then the parents who sit at google and search keywords. The vaccines were developed to be as safe as possible and to mitigate the very real risk of disease, for a parent to refuse a vaccination for the kid there saying that they want the child to have an increased risk of getting sick or even dying.
The doctor should and does have every right to kick the family out of the practice, doesn't the doctors oath say "Do no harm" which is what the vaccination does! It prevents harm. There really up holding there own oath.
There so right, child porn is the only bad thing on the internet, hence why if you don't support online surveillance you must support child porn, there is nothing else that is inappropriate on the net.
I have yet to meet a teacher in elementary school who can use a computer yet alone comment on the health concern and technology behind wireless networks. I don't think the teachers union is the right group to go at this, I think maybe the IEEE might just be a little more qualified to make this call. After all I had one teacher in grade 8 who didn't know it was possible to save an image from the world wide web, I had another who thought hacking was opening up a window that had only text on it and no graphics!!!!
I'm not joking about those 2 situations.
Sorry I meant patent
Apple should of never been allowed to get that patient! I would say the ability to unlock a phone through touch motion is active public domain knowledge and should fall outside the requirement for filing a patient. I think it's time for some major change in the US patient office. Technically Apple can now block EVERY single touch screen phone on the market and being developed. They have been allowed to secure a monopoly in a growing field, how on earth it that fair? Whats next is Apple going to patient toilet paper and go to court with everyone who goes to the bathroom?
Software Testing is a very unique job, its not just sitting at a desk and following a series of steps to test a software product. I was a software tester for 8 months as a coop student and I would say the biggest surprise was that software testing had no good formal description. When I did my software testing I used more experimental methods then formal methods. I personally never saw the point to formal testing, formal software testing never made and sense because software never preforms in an exact formal way. if 99.99% of a software's running time is produces output x, y ad z that means 0.01% of the time it will produce x, y and t output. The goal of a good software tester is to find a way to produce the 0.01% case and document it. When you preform formal software testing your only following steps to make sure you produce 99.99% of cases which doesn't really tell you a lot.
Software testing should NEVER be outlined by the developer, a developer will ALWAYS be biased on how to test there software. It's also important that the developer listen to the software tester, I had more then a few cases were company's told me to screw off when I was able to exploit there software through testing. Software testing is literally like solving a mystery, you know something will happen and you need to find the steps of a bug to get from stable to issue.