You would think so, and I'll give you that Apple has time to improve before this new device comes out, but its claimed specs compare very favorably to the actual iPhone specs.
iPhone: 115.5 x 62.1 x 12.3
Moto Tao: 115.80 x 60.00 x 13.70
Assuming that's what ships, and that remains to be seen, I'll happily take an extra 1.4mm for a full slideout keyboard. And I'm a mac user at home.
Then the government should pass that price along to producers or consumers of electricity according to their production or consumption of it.
What they're doing here amounts to the government singling out specific behaviors and lifestyles in a discriminatory fashion.
Shame on the citizens of California for standing for this. Were its major population centers not captured in large clouds of smug, I suspect they wouldn't.
If we are successful in our current pursuit of manmade global warming, by the end of the century, much of Antarctica could be habitable and productive. This seems a worthwhile tradeoff for slightly higher temperatures in the tropics and loss of some costal regions.
With more arable land and increased crop yields around the globe, the earth will be an Eocene paradise.
Life is short. If we have the ability to radically alter the climate of the earth for the better within our lifetimes, I say we go for it.
Apple doesn't seem to appreciate the value of a physical keyboard.
The current full on screen keyboard necessitates the device have the physical dimensions to support a slide out physical keyboard. Why not add one, Apple?
Hopefully we don't have another one-button mouse debacle on our hands.
It's the difference between having one line of text input visible, and having an entire page of text input visible. Given the form factors are the same dimensions, which device would you rather have, all other things being equal?
The iPhone form factor makes it clumsy as a smart phone, and the lack of physical keyboard makes it clumsy as a mobile internet device.
Also, iPhone apps are currently developed for a single form factor.
Android-based manufacturers will be able to deliver smart phones with more practical phone form factors, and also deliver mobile internet devices with physical keyboards and other physical inputs.
If Apple attempts this, either their app store will become segmented or app development and approval costs will increase. And once you need to make your app work on multiple form factors, you might just decide to move to the Android platform where for the same development cost you get access to a larger market.
I appreciate my iPhone aesthetically, and the apps and touch screen gestures are phenomenal, but for me the lack of a physical keyboard means the iPhone stays primarily a smart phone and not a mobile internet device.
The problem is that the iPhone's form factor makes it not a very practical smart phone, all things considered.
Whereas a mobile internet device to me is a device that I can sit down in a coffee shop, browse the internet, and write emails, comfortably and without compromises. I can't do this on the iPhone either.
My iPhone is primarily a technical curiosity that I tolerate because I think it's a cool, innovative platform.
But I think the future will hold two more specialized devices: 1) a smart phone with a more efficient and practical form factor, with Apple quality touch input and apps 2) a mobile internet device with a full physical keyboard, with Apple quality touch input and apps
I know the open Android market will ensure there are companies that deliver these devices. It remains to be seen whether Apple will be blindsided or lead.
Apple's current apps will become a liability here because unlike Android apps, they are developed for only a single form factor.
But the minority of programmers who got into the profession because they spent their evenings and weekends in school hardware hacking or hobbyist programming rather than socializing, are bound to behave strangely when placed into a highly social environment - the workplace - and when their strange behavior is accepted rather than questioned or openly mocked as it would have been in those school days, they are bound to persist in it.
If we had the technology, would the world tolerate its use?
Currently in first world countries being rich or being poor might make life more or less pleasant for its approximately 77 years, but so far, being the wealthiest or most powerful person in the world can't even guarantee you'll live to see 90.
If being rich and being poor meant the difference between living to 177 instead of 77, or even 177 instead of 107, what would that do to our society?
How many people would steal or kill to live even another 70 years? How many people would kill or go to war to allow a parent, spouse, or child to live another 70 years?
I'd like to think that Heinz wouldn't kill to allow his wife to live another 70 years, but I don't know that I wouldn't. I don't know that I wouldn't for myself. Would you?
The surgeons had to build the shape and structure of the desired bone, the scaffolding, from cadaver femur bone tissue.
From the popular media I've been lead to believe the promise of stem cells the ability to grow specific bones, tissues, and organs, using information encoded in the cells, rather than just growing the generic tissue and shaping it artificially.
What needs to happen for us to go from growing cheek bone tissue around scaffolding, to implanting stem cells and instructing them to build cheek bones?
Listing FOSS contributions outside of Other Experience can look like stretching, and is stretching unless it's either something you're spending, say, 20+ hours/week on, or you're applying for your first position out of school. If you're not, it's not really the kind of professional experience you want to showcase, is it?
Even if you're spending substantial time on a FOSS project, you still may not want to list it outside of Other Experience other than to explain what you have been doing in the time since your most recent employment.
What you don't want to do is give the impression that you're trying to cover up for being under-qualified, for lacking in professional experience, or that you're not employable in a traditional position.
OK. Fine. Then let's also take away the privilege of the casinos of wielding the force of government against customers who use that same technology in these private establishments to gain an edge of the house.
Why should government force favor the one party over the other?
Simple. It shouldn't. Except that it's been bought and sold.
OK. Fine. It's a private establishment and they it is their right to set their rules and to select their customers.
However, shame on the citizens of these states (mine included) for giving the force of government laws to these thugs' schemes. They can use all the wiz-bang technology they want, but if you so much as bring in a mechanical counting device you will be fined and do time in jail.
I've never understood why a self-respecting, rational person would give anything to these cretins.
I see their video with this contorted user interface for accessing what are just standard applications, and I know they've missed the boat.
If they had spent all the time they put into the window manager, into researching powerful uses of multi-touch to carry out the functions of common business APPS, then they might have something.
As it stands this is just another window manager to toss in the dustbin of failed window manager history. I mean seriously, the window manager reverts back to Alt+Tab or Expose style operation for more than 5 windows anyhow. I would never consider using this over Expose.
Another alternative in the absence of copyright is that software for a platform like the iPhone would be software as a service, where what you pay for is not the copy of the software, but access to the server running the software. Of course that would only work for a narrow range of software.
Another alternative in the absence of copyright is that device makers would lock down the platform and partner with developers to still charge money to put a piece of software on a computer. Although this would mean the end of the general purpose computer.
Hopefully neither seem like good alternatives to anyone sane.
But the point of view of the consumer getting more for his or her money isn't one I'd heard before. That's interesting.
I'm always disappointed when people say TNG was just a space soap operate. It wasn't just a soap opera for geeks. The poster's point is that TNG was more than a setting or a soap operate. It was a canvas on which to casually explore fascinating social and philosophical ideas that couldn't be and weren't done anywhere else, brought home by two excellent actors and characters.
The setting and the science existed primarily to provide a sufficiently epic stage on which to encounter compelling social and philosophical subjects without seeming pretentious or absurd to the average viewer.
Watching TNG was an ennobling experience.
See: Chain of Command, The Measure of a Man, Ship in a Bottle
Heck, even look at Encounter at Farpoint. The acting and the dialogue had real flaws, but the premise, humanity as a species on a trial, isn't something you can pull off on any other series so directly and on such a scale.
Hmm. Again I am not a lawyer, but it's my reading that 506 pertains to criminal liability. 501 provides for civil liability and I believe stands independently of 506. I think 506 is for cases where the FBI goes after big time pirate clearing houses.
I'd be interested to hear what an IP lawyer thinks of the viability of civil cases for downloading alone (but not interested enough to pay to hear that opinion!). I can't figure out whether the RIAA aren't pursuing it because the case wouldn't hold up, or because of the logistics of it, or just because they don't want to alienate their customer (hah!).
That's fine that after 10-15 years your craft is no longer your highest interest or priority, but that won't matter when someday you get passed over by an employer for someone for who his or her craft is. Given the current economic situation, that someday might be sooner than later.
You can call it balance, call it experience, and it probably is, but however you parse it, if your productive output is less than that of someone else, you can't fault an employer for choosing someone else, especially someone else at half your salary.
I have no idea who you are, and as far as I can tell you don't have a privileged opinion, so I'm going to treat your blog post like any other post on slashdot.
The problem here isn't not coding when you're not working. The problem isn't that you don't spend your weekends learning Haskell when your job has nothing to do with Haskell. I doubt an employer has ever raised such an expectation. You seem to be setting this up as a straw man, but what you seem to be reacting against is the desire of employers to hire, retain, and reward employees who have a willingness to go above and beyond the call of duty.
I don't know how smart or valuable you think you are, but considering I've never heard of you, and your post made it to Slashdot by way of your personal blog, you're probably not as unique and special as you think you are. If you aren't willing to go the extra mile, especially in this job market, there is a line of 10 guys behind you who are, and who are probably just as intelligent, and who will be grateful for the opportunity.
You're welcome to be a 9 to 5 guy, and you're welcome to blog about it, but please drop this pretense that you are entitled to be, or are a better employee for it.
I am not a lawyer, but I like to try to read and understand our laws. To my understanding it breaks down as follows.
1. 17 USC 501 defines copyright infringement as violation of the exclusive rights of the copyright owner 2. 17 USC 106 defines reproducing in copies to be an exclusive right of the copyright owner 3. 17 USC 101 defines copies in a way that seems to include copying onto computer disk 4. 17 USC 501 provides for large statutory damages to be awarded for copyright infringement so defined
Now, I can not find any cases in which an individual has been found liable under 17 USC 501 for his or her act of downloading alone, but all of the pieces are there to make that case. It's probably just a matter of the logistics and the cost/benefit of making the case. A credit card billing, an IP address, and a long list of copyrighted works downloaded would probably be enough to bring a profitable multi-million dollar case.
For uploads Rapidshare claims to log IPs. For downloads Rapidshare claims not to log the IP or the specific file downloaded, only the account, the date, and the amount of data downloaded. However, ISPs for individual Rapidshare servers may, and could be subpoenaed for downloader information, just as YouTube was, and would have to comply.
Let's not repeat it with nuclear weapons in the hands of unstable or theocratic regimes.
45 years ago, had the nuclear weapons states been regimes characterized by fanaticism and fundamentalism rather than ultimately by secular rationality, we might well be living, or not living, in a post-apocalyptic world. We almost were.
30 years ago Iran was overthrown by religious fanatics and angry, vehemently anti-Western mobs who established a theocratic regime that still rules unopposed today.
It's not about fairness or deserts. "Deserve's got nothing to do with it." Iran having a nuclear weapon is simply not in our rational self interest. Is it worth a few billion in military hardware to Israel and giving them the greenlight to take out some nuclear sites like then did in 1981, in exchange for being damn sure there is one less nuclear weapons state? It sure seems that way.
I've been on fastmail for several years, and $40/year is nothing for the peace of mind I get knowing that our private emails are not being used or sold for advertising to us or anyone else, as well as the ability to serve as the mail host for my domains and used by me and my family.
They were ahead of Google in offering IMAP, including SSL for IMAP and SMTP, although I see Google has now caught up.
Something else I appreciate is the effectiveness of the server-side spam filtering. I've never had to spend any of my time fiddling with training my spam filtering. The default server-side rules take care of everything.
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You would think so, and I'll give you that Apple has time to improve before this new device comes out, but its claimed specs compare very favorably to the actual iPhone specs.
iPhone: 115.5 x 62.1 x 12.3
Moto Tao: 115.80 x 60.00 x 13.70
Assuming that's what ships, and that remains to be seen, I'll happily take an extra 1.4mm for a full slideout keyboard. And I'm a mac user at home.
Then the government should pass that price along to producers or consumers of electricity according to their production or consumption of it.
What they're doing here amounts to the government singling out specific behaviors and lifestyles in a discriminatory fashion.
Shame on the citizens of California for standing for this. Were its major population centers not captured in large clouds of smug, I suspect they wouldn't.
If we are successful in our current pursuit of manmade global warming, by the end of the century, much of Antarctica could be habitable and productive. This seems a worthwhile tradeoff for slightly higher temperatures in the tropics and loss of some costal regions.
With more arable land and increased crop yields around the globe, the earth will be an Eocene paradise.
Life is short. If we have the ability to radically alter the climate of the earth for the better within our lifetimes, I say we go for it.
Apple doesn't seem to appreciate the value of a physical keyboard.
The current full on screen keyboard necessitates the device have the physical dimensions to support a slide out physical keyboard. Why not add one, Apple?
Hopefully we don't have another one-button mouse debacle on our hands.
It's the difference between having one line of text input visible, and having an entire page of text input visible. Given the form factors are the same dimensions, which device would you rather have, all other things being equal?
The iPhone form factor makes it clumsy as a smart phone, and the lack of physical keyboard makes it clumsy as a mobile internet device.
Also, iPhone apps are currently developed for a single form factor.
Android-based manufacturers will be able to deliver smart phones with more practical phone form factors, and also deliver mobile internet devices with physical keyboards and other physical inputs.
If Apple attempts this, either their app store will become segmented or app development and approval costs will increase. And once you need to make your app work on multiple form factors, you might just decide to move to the Android platform where for the same development cost you get access to a larger market.
I appreciate my iPhone aesthetically, and the apps and touch screen gestures are phenomenal, but for me the lack of a physical keyboard means the iPhone stays primarily a smart phone and not a mobile internet device.
The problem is that the iPhone's form factor makes it not a very practical smart phone, all things considered.
Whereas a mobile internet device to me is a device that I can sit down in a coffee shop, browse the internet, and write emails, comfortably and without compromises. I can't do this on the iPhone either.
My iPhone is primarily a technical curiosity that I tolerate because I think it's a cool, innovative platform.
But I think the future will hold two more specialized devices:
1) a smart phone with a more efficient and practical form factor, with Apple quality touch input and apps
2) a mobile internet device with a full physical keyboard, with Apple quality touch input and apps
I know the open Android market will ensure there are companies that deliver these devices. It remains to be seen whether Apple will be blindsided or lead.
Apple's current apps will become a liability here because unlike Android apps, they are developed for only a single form factor.
But the minority of programmers who got into the profession because they spent their evenings and weekends in school hardware hacking or hobbyist programming rather than socializing, are bound to behave strangely when placed into a highly social environment - the workplace - and when their strange behavior is accepted rather than questioned or openly mocked as it would have been in those school days, they are bound to persist in it.
If we had the technology, would the world tolerate its use?
Currently in first world countries being rich or being poor might make life more or less pleasant for its approximately 77 years, but so far, being the wealthiest or most powerful person in the world can't even guarantee you'll live to see 90.
If being rich and being poor meant the difference between living to 177 instead of 77, or even 177 instead of 107, what would that do to our society?
How many people would steal or kill to live even another 70 years? How many people would kill or go to war to allow a parent, spouse, or child to live another 70 years?
I'd like to think that Heinz wouldn't kill to allow his wife to live another 70 years, but I don't know that I wouldn't. I don't know that I wouldn't for myself. Would you?
The surgeons had to build the shape and structure of the desired bone, the scaffolding, from cadaver femur bone tissue.
From the popular media I've been lead to believe the promise of stem cells the ability to grow specific bones, tissues, and organs, using information encoded in the cells, rather than just growing the generic tissue and shaping it artificially.
What needs to happen for us to go from growing cheek bone tissue around scaffolding, to implanting stem cells and instructing them to build cheek bones?
Listing FOSS contributions outside of Other Experience can look like stretching, and is stretching unless it's either something you're spending, say, 20+ hours/week on, or you're applying for your first position out of school. If you're not, it's not really the kind of professional experience you want to showcase, is it?
Even if you're spending substantial time on a FOSS project, you still may not want to list it outside of Other Experience other than to explain what you have been doing in the time since your most recent employment.
What you don't want to do is give the impression that you're trying to cover up for being under-qualified, for lacking in professional experience, or that you're not employable in a traditional position.
OK. Fine. Then let's also take away the privilege of the casinos of wielding the force of government against customers who use that same technology in these private establishments to gain an edge of the house.
Why should government force favor the one party over the other?
Simple. It shouldn't. Except that it's been bought and sold.
OK. Fine. It's a private establishment and they it is their right to set their rules and to select their customers.
However, shame on the citizens of these states (mine included) for giving the force of government laws to these thugs' schemes. They can use all the wiz-bang technology they want, but if you so much as bring in a mechanical counting device you will be fined and do time in jail.
I've never understood why a self-respecting, rational person would give anything to these cretins.
Window management is a solved problem.
I see their video with this contorted user interface for accessing what are just standard applications, and I know they've missed the boat.
If they had spent all the time they put into the window manager, into researching powerful uses of multi-touch to carry out the functions of common business APPS, then they might have something.
As it stands this is just another window manager to toss in the dustbin of failed window manager history. I mean seriously, the window manager reverts back to Alt+Tab or Expose style operation for more than 5 windows anyhow. I would never consider using this over Expose.
Another alternative in the absence of copyright is that software for a platform like the iPhone would be software as a service, where what you pay for is not the copy of the software, but access to the server running the software. Of course that would only work for a narrow range of software.
Another alternative in the absence of copyright is that device makers would lock down the platform and partner with developers to still charge money to put a piece of software on a computer. Although this would mean the end of the general purpose computer.
Hopefully neither seem like good alternatives to anyone sane.
But the point of view of the consumer getting more for his or her money isn't one I'd heard before. That's interesting.
Which do you find to be the better development platform?
How long did it take you to develop your first successful app?
That's the answer. A government one does. That's what happens when you get to spend other people's money with no accountability to the market.
I'm always disappointed when people say TNG was just a space soap operate. It wasn't just a soap opera for geeks. The poster's point is that TNG was more than a setting or a soap operate. It was a canvas on which to casually explore fascinating social and philosophical ideas that couldn't be and weren't done anywhere else, brought home by two excellent actors and characters.
The setting and the science existed primarily to provide a sufficiently epic stage on which to encounter compelling social and philosophical subjects without seeming pretentious or absurd to the average viewer.
Watching TNG was an ennobling experience.
See: Chain of Command, The Measure of a Man, Ship in a Bottle
Heck, even look at Encounter at Farpoint. The acting and the dialogue had real flaws, but the premise, humanity as a species on a trial, isn't something you can pull off on any other series so directly and on such a scale.
Hmm. Again I am not a lawyer, but it's my reading that 506 pertains to criminal liability. 501 provides for civil liability and I believe stands independently of 506. I think 506 is for cases where the FBI goes after big time pirate clearing houses.
I'd be interested to hear what an IP lawyer thinks of the viability of civil cases for downloading alone (but not interested enough to pay to hear that opinion!). I can't figure out whether the RIAA aren't pursuing it because the case wouldn't hold up, or because of the logistics of it, or just because they don't want to alienate their customer (hah!).
That's fine that after 10-15 years your craft is no longer your highest interest or priority, but that won't matter when someday you get passed over by an employer for someone for who his or her craft is. Given the current economic situation, that someday might be sooner than later.
You can call it balance, call it experience, and it probably is, but however you parse it, if your productive output is less than that of someone else, you can't fault an employer for choosing someone else, especially someone else at half your salary.
I have no idea who you are, and as far as I can tell you don't have a privileged opinion, so I'm going to treat your blog post like any other post on slashdot.
The problem here isn't not coding when you're not working. The problem isn't that you don't spend your weekends learning Haskell when your job has nothing to do with Haskell. I doubt an employer has ever raised such an expectation. You seem to be setting this up as a straw man, but what you seem to be reacting against is the desire of employers to hire, retain, and reward employees who have a willingness to go above and beyond the call of duty.
I don't know how smart or valuable you think you are, but considering I've never heard of you, and your post made it to Slashdot by way of your personal blog, you're probably not as unique and special as you think you are. If you aren't willing to go the extra mile, especially in this job market, there is a line of 10 guys behind you who are, and who are probably just as intelligent, and who will be grateful for the opportunity.
You're welcome to be a 9 to 5 guy, and you're welcome to blog about it, but please drop this pretense that you are entitled to be, or are a better employee for it.
I am not a lawyer, but I like to try to read and understand our laws. To my understanding it breaks down as follows.
1. 17 USC 501 defines copyright infringement as violation of the exclusive rights of the copyright owner
2. 17 USC 106 defines reproducing in copies to be an exclusive right of the copyright owner
3. 17 USC 101 defines copies in a way that seems to include copying onto computer disk
4. 17 USC 501 provides for large statutory damages to be awarded for copyright infringement so defined
Now, I can not find any cases in which an individual has been found liable under 17 USC 501 for his or her act of downloading alone, but all of the pieces are there to make that case. It's probably just a matter of the logistics and the cost/benefit of making the case. A credit card billing, an IP address, and a long list of copyrighted works downloaded would probably be enough to bring a profitable multi-million dollar case.
For uploads Rapidshare claims to log IPs. For downloads Rapidshare claims not to log the IP or the specific file downloaded, only the account, the date, and the amount of data downloaded. However, ISPs for individual Rapidshare servers may, and could be subpoenaed for downloader information, just as YouTube was, and would have to comply.
It is not the role of government to protect you from failure to exercise good judgement, or from the consequences of acting without it.
Get real.
Let's not repeat it with nuclear weapons in the hands of unstable or theocratic regimes.
45 years ago, had the nuclear weapons states been regimes characterized by fanaticism and fundamentalism rather than ultimately by secular rationality, we might well be living, or not living, in a post-apocalyptic world. We almost were.
30 years ago Iran was overthrown by religious fanatics and angry, vehemently anti-Western mobs who established a theocratic regime that still rules unopposed today.
It's not about fairness or deserts. "Deserve's got nothing to do with it." Iran having a nuclear weapon is simply not in our rational self interest. Is it worth a few billion in military hardware to Israel and giving them the greenlight to take out some nuclear sites like then did in 1981, in exchange for being damn sure there is one less nuclear weapons state? It sure seems that way.
I've been on fastmail for several years, and $40/year is nothing for the peace of mind I get knowing that our private emails are not being used or sold for advertising to us or anyone else, as well as the ability to serve as the mail host for my domains and used by me and my family.
They were ahead of Google in offering IMAP, including SSL for IMAP and SMTP, although I see Google has now caught up.
Something else I appreciate is the effectiveness of the server-side spam filtering. I've never had to spend any of my time fiddling with training my spam filtering. The default server-side rules take care of everything.