Wow. Really? You have a pretty messed up view of god there pal. You also don't seem to believe in personal responsibility. Man was given a paradise to live in with all the food he could ever eat, immortality, a wife, the peace of mind of naivety with just one simple rule. Not 10 commandment but just one and man still had to screw that one up.
You do realize that it didn't actually happen right ? It's an allegory about not listening to wimmenfolk or about never questioning authority or some other positive message like that like that, I forget. I'm really a big believer in personal responsibility but I'm also pragmatic enough to know that "you don't put the cat next to the milk" as the dutch saying goes. I was actually going for a funny mod but got an insightful instead, you got to love Slashdot.
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops also have pretty good movie reviews where they cut directly to the chase as it were. Like their review of Black Swan :
"Darren Aronofsky's nightmarish, morally muddled drama plays on the extremes of sexual repression and debauched license and, whether read as insisting on the necessity of indiscriminate experience or as a cautionary tale, presents its heroine's experimentation with voyeuristic excess. Strong sexual content, including graphic lesbian and nonmarital heterosexual activity, as well as masturbation, drug use, a few instances of profanity, much rough and some crude language and numerous sexual references. O -- morally offensive.."
isn't an iPhone kinda incompatible with your religion? It's a large, unnecessary expenditure of money and resources when there are millions of poor.
God helps those that help themselves... to an iphone. The catholic church, while having its ascetics like the franciscan monks, has never been anti materialistic.
Plus it's a status symbol, and I'm pretty sure pride is a sin (correct me if I'm wrong, not a Catholic).
Pride is a sin. Buy an iphone + buy this app and confess pride-fullness, problem solved.
1) It's published by a private company, not the church 2) It got an imprimatur from the Vatican : "In the Catholic Church an imprimatur is an official declaration by a Church authority that a book or other printed work may be published." Basically just a label "this is OK." 3) The church teaches that absolution can only be given by God through a priest.
Sorry to say it (I'm not the same AC btw) but the iPhone is overrated. I really think > 500k people jumped the shark. But I guess that is what "follow-the-crowd" does to you.
You're a snob, making judgements about people based on the products they buy. What's ironic is that the sort of affectation that relegates a huge group of people to "follow-the-crowd" just based on the purchase of a phone is itself just a form of group-think.
"When all was said and done I was just another, goddamn, trendy ass POSER." - Stevo, SLC Punk!
The amount of energy you'd get out of such a scheme would be ridiculously low, much lower than the energy needed to build the equipment. You'd be better off generating energy from biogas produced by effluent and dumping expired pets in the septic tank.
Then this clown should have released his code for free because he based it on something that apparantly belongs to the public. But oh no, he filled it with DRM and put it up for a sale on a DRM riddled platform.
Don't claim information wants to be free if you are trying to sell your rip-off.
That depends on your definition of freedom, it's the classic BSD vs GPL discussion.
Imagine if you actually came up with an ORIGINAL game, the Tetris Company blatantly "cloned" it, and released it in the same marketplace... would that be fair?
If they did it 25+ years from now I would probably consider it fair game, yes.
Apple takes out a LOT of patents each year, the vast majority of them will never be used or are just there to cover their ass, including I might add something very much like what you were suggesting a couple posts up. What you are linking to seems to be some sort of specialty artists' pen like the ones Wacom makes rather than a general purpose stylus. It makes sense for Apple to take out some patents in case they ever want to move into that market with the iPad.
Have you actually used an iPad ? I use one daily and accidental touches are so rare I cannot offhand think of a single instance (though I'm sure there must have been.) You sound a lot like how I thought about touch screens back when I used a Palm. Those apps aren't "workarounds" they are first class applications made by developers using the standard iOS api. I probably sound like a fanboy but I find it hard to overstate just how well iOS works.
Writing in a capacitive screen is a disaster. You need a wand like device and software which filters out extraneous false inputs like a person holding the device, accidentally brushing the screen or whatever. I don't believe for a second that the solution even with filtering would be tolderable.
Like I said iOS is pretty good at detecting false imputs all by itself and it's not at all hard to filter out touches: all touches go into an array with length, start point, etc. as attributes that help the developer easily weed out "odd" touches. But you're obviously not going to take my word for it, take a look at some videos of people writing withtheirfingers or a stylus. Besides, for the kind of short note taking on the go you do with a tablet the virtual keyboard or even the above finger-style input is perfectly adequate.
There was a great article recently comparing Apple today with the Sony of last century that quoted Sony founder Ibuka (about releasing a color tv before the technology was ready) saying :
"And Ibuka refused, saying, 'No, we will only do great products. We will only do high quality goods. We will only do breakthrough technology.'"
An attitude unfortunately mostly absent in today's tech industry.
Android vendors don't need to do the heavy lifting, creating the OS. They just have to make sure their hardware and firmware works with the OS they are given by Google. How many different Android devices does each vendor have to support ? Maybe HTC has more than 4 but they also have complete control over the hardware they offer in their phone.
Outdated argument. It'll matter for smartphones because users won't be able to get the latest games, like their friends do. Phones aren't just phones anymore and hardly anyone treats them as just phones, not even the relatively tech illiterate.
Good enough for mobile use, it's a multi-purpose device not a dedicated movie-player. When you seriously want to watch your movie you can use Airplay to stream it to your AppleTV directly from your iPad (or your computer.)
However I fully expect that when Microsoft produce a tablet that it *could* be a drop in replacement. We know they're porting Windows to ARM. It's not hard to envisage they device a tablet shell for conventional tablet like stuff, but plug the device into a dock and suddenly you get a Windows desktop. It could be an incredibly powerful arrangement. Biggest fly in the ointment is ARM != x86 and how do they port / emulate all those x86 apps. That's a problem I have seen an adequate answer to.
As long as they're copying Apple they could use QuickTransit, like Apple did to ease the PowerPC to Intel transition.
I agree they are in some ways. I laugh when I hear puff pieces about of schools or hospitals using an iPad. How exactly do they scribble notes on their tablets? The answer is they can't because they're capacitive. A resistive screen would allow a user to tap or write with a stylus. You can buy wands for capacitive screens but you have to fastidiously avoid touching any other part of the screen while you write.
No, because they are multi-touch touching another part of the screen doesn't interfere with the writing, iOS is smart enough to do things like that by default (even if it wasn't you could just pull the touch that's look like writing of the array programmatically dropping what look like accidental touches.) The iPad has other strong points that makes it good for hospitals: it is lightweight, portable, strong developer base, relatively easy to develop custom applications for, network connected and above all has a battery that lasts an entire shift worth of use.
There is no reason that a decent tablet shouldn't retail for half of what an iPad costs and in part that could be achieved by jettisoning superfluous or redundant hardware.
Bullshit. You can't bring down cost by ordering a small run of custom hardware even if it is "simpler" (what does a GPS chip really cost wholesale.) Some low cost Taiwanese company would've done it by now if that were true. No one can touch Apple on price because A: they've got the market cornered on some components and B: due to their success they can order in quantities other companies can only dream of (at the moment?).
I don't think so, for one I think the term "killer app" predates Java applets. I also remember reading somewhere Jobs, like a lot of people, had a habit of calling applications "apps" since the 80's but frustratingly I cannot find it right now.
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It also shows a major flaw in conspiracies: they tend to be exposed. Or maybe that's just what they want us to think ;-)
Credibility with who? College Sophomore, standing at a lit table in the Student Center? Certainly!
Anybody else? Possibly.
Credibility with major newspapers across the world, who (re)publish content from wikileaks, and their readership.
Wow. Really? You have a pretty messed up view of god there pal. You also don't seem to believe in personal responsibility. Man was given a paradise to live in with all the food he could ever eat, immortality, a wife, the peace of mind of naivety with just one simple rule. Not 10 commandment but just one and man still had to screw that one up.
You do realize that it didn't actually happen right ? It's an allegory about not listening to wimmenfolk or about never questioning authority or some other positive message like that like that, I forget. I'm really a big believer in personal responsibility but I'm also pragmatic enough to know that "you don't put the cat next to the milk" as the dutch saying goes. I was actually going for a funny mod but got an insightful instead, you got to love Slashdot.
Well, you might want to watch it; but you only should if you think you might like "David Lynch does a snuff film".
It just keeps sounding better and better :-)
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops also have pretty good movie reviews where they cut directly to the chase as it were. Like their review of Black Swan :
"Darren Aronofsky's nightmarish, morally muddled drama plays on the extremes of sexual repression and debauched license and, whether read as insisting on the necessity of indiscriminate experience or as a cautionary tale, presents its heroine's experimentation with voyeuristic excess. Strong sexual content, including graphic lesbian and nonmarital heterosexual activity, as well as masturbation, drug use, a few instances of profanity, much rough and some crude language and numerous sexual references. O -- morally offensive.."
Makes me actually want to watch it.
As I keep saying, if God didn't want me to covet my neighbour's ass, He wouldn't have given her such a magnificent ass ;)
You sure ? After all this is the guy who put a fruit tree in the middle of a garden and put a "do not eat" sign on it. He's a bit of dick like that.
isn't an iPhone kinda incompatible with your religion? It's a large, unnecessary expenditure of money and resources when there are millions of poor.
God helps those that help themselves ... to an iphone. The catholic church, while having its ascetics like the franciscan monks, has never been anti materialistic.
Plus it's a status symbol, and I'm pretty sure pride is a sin (correct me if I'm wrong, not a Catholic).
Pride is a sin. Buy an iphone + buy this app and confess pride-fullness, problem solved.
1) It's published by a private company, not the church
2) It got an imprimatur from the Vatican : "In the Catholic Church an imprimatur is an official declaration by a Church authority that a book or other printed work may be published." Basically just a label "this is OK."
3) The church teaches that absolution can only be given by God through a priest.
Let's not make this into something it's not.
Sorry to say it (I'm not the same AC btw) but the iPhone is overrated. I really think > 500k people jumped the shark. But I guess that is what "follow-the-crowd" does to you.
You're a snob, making judgements about people based on the products they buy. What's ironic is that the sort of affectation that relegates a huge group of people to "follow-the-crowd" just based on the purchase of a phone is itself just a form of group-think.
"When all was said and done I was just another, goddamn, trendy ass POSER." - Stevo, SLC Punk!
The amount of energy you'd get out of such a scheme would be ridiculously low, much lower than the energy needed to build the equipment. You'd be better off generating energy from biogas produced by effluent and dumping expired pets in the septic tank.
Then this clown should have released his code for free because he based it on something that apparantly belongs to the public. But oh no, he filled it with DRM and put it up for a sale on a DRM riddled platform.
Don't claim information wants to be free if you are trying to sell your rip-off.
That depends on your definition of freedom, it's the classic BSD vs GPL discussion.
Imagine if you actually came up with an ORIGINAL game, the Tetris Company blatantly "cloned" it, and released it in the same marketplace... would that be fair?
If they did it 25+ years from now I would probably consider it fair game, yes.
People forget that before the iPad came out a lot of analysts predicted a retail price of $800 up to $1000 USD. It's priced pretty aggressively.
Apple takes out a LOT of patents each year, the vast majority of them will never be used or are just there to cover their ass, including I might add something very much like what you were suggesting a couple posts up. What you are linking to seems to be some sort of specialty artists' pen like the ones Wacom makes rather than a general purpose stylus. It makes sense for Apple to take out some patents in case they ever want to move into that market with the iPad.
Have you actually used an iPad ? I use one daily and accidental touches are so rare I cannot offhand think of a single instance (though I'm sure there must have been.) You sound a lot like how I thought about touch screens back when I used a Palm. Those apps aren't "workarounds" they are first class applications made by developers using the standard iOS api. I probably sound like a fanboy but I find it hard to overstate just how well iOS works.
Writing in a capacitive screen is a disaster. You need a wand like device and software which filters out extraneous false inputs like a person holding the device, accidentally brushing the screen or whatever. I don't believe for a second that the solution even with filtering would be tolderable.
Like I said iOS is pretty good at detecting false imputs all by itself and it's not at all hard to filter out touches: all touches go into an array with length, start point, etc. as attributes that help the developer easily weed out "odd" touches. But you're obviously not going to take my word for it, take a look at some videos of people writing with their fingers or a stylus. Besides, for the kind of short note taking on the go you do with a tablet the virtual keyboard or even the above finger-style input is perfectly adequate.
Circle goes up, circle goes down. Never a miscommunication.
Meet The iPad Developers - Message To Mac Customers : "You disappoint us".
There was a great article recently comparing Apple today with the Sony of last century that quoted Sony founder Ibuka (about releasing a color tv before the technology was ready) saying :
"And Ibuka refused, saying, 'No, we will only do great products. We will only do high quality goods. We will only do breakthrough technology.'"
An attitude unfortunately mostly absent in today's tech industry.
Android vendors don't need to do the heavy lifting, creating the OS. They just have to make sure their hardware and firmware works with the OS they are given by Google. How many different Android devices does each vendor have to support ? Maybe HTC has more than 4 but they also have complete control over the hardware they offer in their phone.
Outdated argument. It'll matter for smartphones because users won't be able to get the latest games, like their friends do. Phones aren't just phones anymore and hardly anyone treats them as just phones, not even the relatively tech illiterate.
Good enough for mobile use, it's a multi-purpose device not a dedicated movie-player. When you seriously want to watch your movie you can use Airplay to stream it to your AppleTV directly from your iPad (or your computer.)
However I fully expect that when Microsoft produce a tablet that it *could* be a drop in replacement. We know they're porting Windows to ARM. It's not hard to envisage they device a tablet shell for conventional tablet like stuff, but plug the device into a dock and suddenly you get a Windows desktop. It could be an incredibly powerful arrangement. Biggest fly in the ointment is ARM != x86 and how do they port / emulate all those x86 apps. That's a problem I have seen an adequate answer to.
As long as they're copying Apple they could use QuickTransit, like Apple did to ease the PowerPC to Intel transition.
I agree they are in some ways. I laugh when I hear puff pieces about of schools or hospitals using an iPad. How exactly do they scribble notes on their tablets? The answer is they can't because they're capacitive. A resistive screen would allow a user to tap or write with a stylus. You can buy wands for capacitive screens but you have to fastidiously avoid touching any other part of the screen while you write.
No, because they are multi-touch touching another part of the screen doesn't interfere with the writing, iOS is smart enough to do things like that by default (even if it wasn't you could just pull the touch that's look like writing of the array programmatically dropping what look like accidental touches.) The iPad has other strong points that makes it good for hospitals: it is lightweight, portable, strong developer base, relatively easy to develop custom applications for, network connected and above all has a battery that lasts an entire shift worth of use.
There is no reason that a decent tablet shouldn't retail for half of what an iPad costs and in part that could be achieved by jettisoning superfluous or redundant hardware.
Bullshit. You can't bring down cost by ordering a small run of custom hardware even if it is "simpler" (what does a GPS chip really cost wholesale.) Some low cost Taiwanese company would've done it by now if that were true. No one can touch Apple on price because A: they've got the market cornered on some components and B: due to their success they can order in quantities other companies can only dream of (at the moment?).
You're saying we need someone to watch the watchmen ?
My sarcasm detector must be on the fritz again :-)
I don't think so, for one I think the term "killer app" predates Java applets. I also remember reading somewhere Jobs, like a lot of people, had a habit of calling applications "apps" since the 80's but frustratingly I cannot find it right now.