You didn't read any more than title did you? She already has a 2008 Mac notebook (which by definition has to be Intel based and therefore Windows compatible).
Stop right there. Apple is making devices that are easy to use and require very little technical expertise. The rest of your post is irrelevant after that start.
Companies such as barnes and nobles are HUGE companies who do not buckle to the likes of Microsoft.
If they went after you or I? We'd be fucked without EFF support. However, the companies they're suing over android are in no way small fry.
What? Barnes and Noble is "HUGE"? Since when? Barnes and Noble has a market capitalization of slightly over half a billion dollars. Microsoft makes that much in PROFIT in a week. MSFT could buy BKS out of petty cash and never even notice the purchase. I'd guess that Microsoft pays nearly as much in lawyers salaries and legal expenses per year as Barnes and Noble is worth as a whole company.
One point I want to add though is that you don't lose any privacy by using Facebook. If Facebook jacked into my computer and started posting all kinds of things that I didn't authorize it to, that would be losing privacy. However, for the most part, my Facebook profile gets no more data than I CHOOSE to give it.
What you choose to give it, PLUS what everybody you're linked to chooses to reveal about you or inadvertently reveals about you.
I don't know, it's kind of too similar to MS dragging its feet after it won the browser wars with IE6, leaving things unfixed and broken while Office went through a few revisions and great sales.
Not really the same. This is neither "broken" nor "unfixed". It "works" just fine. It's simply not as optimized at this time.
You'd think that on Slashdot of all places, they wouldn't bother saying "Nobel Prize of computing" in the article title, but would just say "...wins Turing Award."
If readers don't know who Turing was, they can Google it and learn something in the process.
That was my feeling, too. When I read the headline, my first thought was, "Slashdot is one of the few big websites where this really didn't need to be explained."
Do soccer fan websites trumpet how Germany just won the "Super Bowl of soccer"?
I collect sales tax for those purchases. But even if I didn't, I'd still owe just as much to the state based on the total amount I sold to Texans, pure and simple.
Just because Amazon did the wrong thing doesn't mean Texas is "asking for a handout."
From what I understand, Texas is asking for $250M in taxes from before Amazon had a presence in the state, during which time they were absolved of being required to collect them. In that case, it's just like any other mail order business where the purchaser is required to report those taxes and pay the taxes himself. So, no. It's not the same thing.
Not only he managed to get the vision of the computer has appliance, he also managed to make Pixar a household name when George Lucas didn't had any idea about what to do with the studio, made tablet computers interesting for consumers and revolutionized phone industry.
To be fair, Lucas didn't sell Pixar because he didn't know what to do with it. Lucas was going through a divorce and he had cash flow problems, so he sold the animation studio for liquidity. Even Jobs' idea for Pixar wasn't for them to become a moviemaker.
App Store is pretty generic, you would think the Parent Office would deny Apple just because its the right thing to do...
If it's so generic, I'm sure you'll have no problem citing at least 100 cases where "App Store" was used by a company to denote a mobile program repository, right?
Laptops are invariably used in areas with bad lighting, glare, etc. Glossy screens are less than ideal in those situations.
My TV or desktop computers, on the other hand, are in controlled environments. I can eliminate glare, so I'll take the better apparent saturation that glossy gives me in those cases. (If I have a choice, that is)
I don't think this word means what you think it means.
For those too lazy to read your link, here is the relevant excerpt:
As for the battery life, Greer said it's not as horrible as Steve Jobs might have made it out to be in his open letter earlier this month. "It's not too bad," he said. "Android has a little bit of an issue with battery life anyway. I just plug it in to my laptop, so I'm not super sensitive to it. I'd definitely say it depends on the game too."
So he's saying it's "not too bad", but he keeps his phone plugged into a charger/laptop. Okay.
As he said, you're blind to how the rest of the world uses computers. A 95 year old man who grew up during the Great War cannot just jump from one version of Windows to another without a lot of unlearning and relearning. Hell, my programmer father who grew up in the second WW still doesn't intuitively know what needs to be double-clicked vs. single-clicked in Windows.
The post is parodying the now-famous (here, at least) Slashdot article commentary posted by none other than CmdrTaco about the introduction of Apple's iPod:
"No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame."
My big complaint with Sprint is cross carrier SMS and MMS. Everyone I know finds Sprint extremely unreliable about sending or receiving anything which comes from or goes to Sprint's network. I've literally waited an hour for text message to appear on the phone next to me. They also seem to drop a huge number of messages; again, cross carrier. At one point, I'd guess perhaps as high as 80% drop rate - though that high is not what I'd call typical.
I had the same problems when I was on Sprint, though it's been a while. Some texts just wouldn't get through, and even when they did they'd be delayed by minutes to hours.
I told EA that we were NOT going to ship that as the first Id Software product on the iPhone. Using the iPhone's hardware 3D acceleration was a requirement, and it should be easy -- when I did the second generation mobile renderer (written originally in java) it was layered on top of a class I named TinyGL that did the transform / clip / rasterize operations fairly close to OpenGL semantics, but in fixed point and with both horizontal and vertical rasterization options for perspective correction. The developers came back and said it would take two months and exceed their budget.
Rather than having a big confrontation over the issue, I told them to just send the project to me and I would do it myself.
Carmack is such a bad ass. "You guys are morons. I'll code this myself."
Rather than having a big confrontation over the issue, I told them to just send the project to me and I would do it myself. Cass Everitt had been doing some personal work on the iPhone, so he helped me get everything set up for local iPhone development here, which is a lot more tortuous than you would expect from an Apple product. As usual, my off the cuff estimate of "Two days!" was optimistic, but I did get it done in four, and the game is definitely more pleasant at 8x the frame rate.
Not only that, but what the dev team estimated would take them at least 2 months, Carmack did in four days.
BTW, I've heard from a family member who is a Kaiser HMO patient that Kaiser does not allow Big Pharma reps direct access to its staff phyicians, and instead funnels them to some sort of departmental liaison; if that's true, that is certainly one good thing that an HMO is doing.
Kaiser is not typical of US HMOs. They're pretty much the last large vertically integrated HMO, which gives them significant advantages in many areas over the ones who just writes checks and shuffle paper.
More importantly, Kaiser is a non-profit organization. They don't have shareholders they have to please and no motive to "maximize shareholder value". Their goal is to provide the best care they can while still breaking even.
The same cannot be said for the rest of the HMOs in the US. Kaiser is so unusual and perhaps unique now that they really shouldn't be included in discussions about the general problems of "HMOs."
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You didn't read any more than title did you? She already has a 2008 Mac notebook (which by definition has to be Intel based and therefore Windows compatible).
Give the user the option of adding keys
Stop right there. Apple is making devices that are easy to use and require very little technical expertise. The rest of your post is irrelevant after that start.
This is not true, and it has never been true.
Companies such as barnes and nobles are HUGE companies who do not buckle to the likes of Microsoft.
If they went after you or I? We'd be fucked without EFF support. However, the companies they're suing over android are in no way small fry.
What? Barnes and Noble is "HUGE"? Since when? Barnes and Noble has a market capitalization of slightly over half a billion dollars. Microsoft makes that much in PROFIT in a week. MSFT could buy BKS out of petty cash and never even notice the purchase. I'd guess that Microsoft pays nearly as much in lawyers salaries and legal expenses per year as Barnes and Noble is worth as a whole company.
I wish I had mod points for this. Oh well.
One point I want to add though is that you don't lose any privacy by using Facebook. If Facebook jacked into my computer and started posting all kinds of things that I didn't authorize it to, that would be losing privacy. However, for the most part, my Facebook profile gets no more data than I CHOOSE to give it.
What you choose to give it, PLUS what everybody you're linked to chooses to reveal about you or inadvertently reveals about you.
Lets assume you're right, then what's your take on this: http://blog.millermedeiros.com/2011/01/ipad-is-the-new-ie6/
I don't know, it's kind of too similar to MS dragging its feet after it won the browser wars with IE6, leaving things unfixed and broken while Office went through a few revisions and great sales.
Not really the same. This is neither "broken" nor "unfixed". It "works" just fine. It's simply not as optimized at this time.
You'd think that on Slashdot of all places, they wouldn't bother saying "Nobel Prize of computing" in the article title, but would just say "...wins Turing Award."
If readers don't know who Turing was, they can Google it and learn something in the process.
That was my feeling, too. When I read the headline, my first thought was, "Slashdot is one of the few big websites where this really didn't need to be explained." Do soccer fan websites trumpet how Germany just won the "Super Bowl of soccer"?
No mod points today, alas. This is a truly rare insightful post.
I've used my 3G iPad (original) for turn by turn GPS both in the US and New Zealand. Not sure what your friend's problem was.
I collect sales tax for those purchases. But even if I didn't, I'd still owe just as much to the state based on the total amount I sold to Texans, pure and simple.
Just because Amazon did the wrong thing doesn't mean Texas is "asking for a handout."
From what I understand, Texas is asking for $250M in taxes from before Amazon had a presence in the state, during which time they were absolved of being required to collect them. In that case, it's just like any other mail order business where the purchaser is required to report those taxes and pay the taxes himself. So, no. It's not the same thing.
Not only he managed to get the vision of the computer has appliance, he also managed to make Pixar a household name when George Lucas didn't had any idea about what to do with the studio, made tablet computers interesting for consumers and revolutionized phone industry.
To be fair, Lucas didn't sell Pixar because he didn't know what to do with it. Lucas was going through a divorce and he had cash flow problems, so he sold the animation studio for liquidity. Even Jobs' idea for Pixar wasn't for them to become a moviemaker.
App Store is pretty generic, you would think the Parent Office would deny Apple just because its the right thing to do...
If it's so generic, I'm sure you'll have no problem citing at least 100 cases where "App Store" was used by a company to denote a mobile program repository, right?
"And thees? Thees is rice?"
Laptops are invariably used in areas with bad lighting, glare, etc. Glossy screens are less than ideal in those situations.
My TV or desktop computers, on the other hand, are in controlled environments. I can eliminate glare, so I'll take the better apparent saturation that glossy gives me in those cases. (If I have a choice, that is)
I don't think this word means what you think it means.
So he's saying it's "not too bad", but he keeps his phone plugged into a charger/laptop. Okay.
Will one out of every three stories from every newspaper, magazine, website, radio and TV station for the next 18 months really be about the iPad?
I need to know right now so I can prepare myself by drinking a large glass of neurotoxin, with a bullet to the brain chaser.
Doesn't matter. You obviously weren't in Apple's target market, anyway.
As he said, you're blind to how the rest of the world uses computers. A 95 year old man who grew up during the Great War cannot just jump from one version of Windows to another without a lot of unlearning and relearning. Hell, my programmer father who grew up in the second WW still doesn't intuitively know what needs to be double-clicked vs. single-clicked in Windows.
Don't understand the joke. Care to explain?
The post is parodying the now-famous (here, at least) Slashdot article commentary posted by none other than CmdrTaco about the introduction of Apple's iPod: "No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame."
What we are "bent out of shape" over is the fanboy notion that this is going to sweep away real computers.
Let me guess. You build straw men for a living?
I had the same problems when I was on Sprint, though it's been a while. Some texts just wouldn't get through, and even when they did they'd be delayed by minutes to hours.
As for the idiots, at least most of their grammar has elevated above a 6th grade level.
If there's demand, someone will supply it eventually. If the demand is for unrealistically cheap service, then that's not real demand.
Doesn't mean it will happen soon, or that a lot of businesses aren't going to suffer until the imbalance is addressed.
From the linked article:
Carmack is such a bad ass. "You guys are morons. I'll code this myself."
Not only that, but what the dev team estimated would take them at least 2 months, Carmack did in four days.
That's exactly when I quit going to CC as well.
BTW, I've heard from a family member who is a Kaiser HMO patient that Kaiser does not allow Big Pharma reps direct access to its staff phyicians, and instead funnels them to some sort of departmental liaison; if that's true, that is certainly one good thing that an HMO is doing.
Kaiser is not typical of US HMOs. They're pretty much the last large vertically integrated HMO, which gives them significant advantages in many areas over the ones who just writes checks and shuffle paper.
More importantly, Kaiser is a non-profit organization. They don't have shareholders they have to please and no motive to "maximize shareholder value". Their goal is to provide the best care they can while still breaking even.
The same cannot be said for the rest of the HMOs in the US. Kaiser is so unusual and perhaps unique now that they really shouldn't be included in discussions about the general problems of "HMOs."
The Labels used looser terms with Amazon in an effort to rob Apple of some marketing muscle and negotiating "leverage" and it failed, on both counts.
And either way, it was at least partially (if not completely) due to Apple's success that the labels ran to Amazon with the "no DRM" deal.