I wonder how the worlds scientists who are all in consensus about the fact that climate change exists and it's causing weather patterns to be unpredictable would respond to your comment. It was fact long before it became political fodder to be poked and prodded and written off as pseudo-science...
...that 8 years ago RIM was the de-facto smart phone maker making blackberries and such, qwerty little things that had a web browser, texting, enterprise email and the like... They haven't changed their OS much in the last 10 years and still make qwerty little things (they tried a few touch screens without much success). They were still considered king in the enterprise until a few years ago. Now iOS is king with Android in a close 2nd. I'm actually a little surprised they lasted this long. Their "playbook" tablet was one of the worst selling tablets in history by a large corporation and promised to run Android apps on launch, it wasn't until a year later that it supported them.
So while its sad that RIM, inventors of the smart phone, are going out of business I can't really say I didn't see this one coming.
Right except this was killed by house "republicans"... not "leftists"...
I guess it's in facebooks hands to implement a ip login filter to detect logins from another ip and beef up account security if the ip's don't match.
I'll pick one up when I don't have to wear those stupid glasses and strain my eyes just to watch a movie... Also once the cost of 3d bluray disks are equal to non-3d... MPAA always trying to get more money for crappier content...
I do own a 2d HDTV and I love it but I don't think paying a premium for 3d when there's so little 3d content available and the technology isn't mature enough to NOT cause headaches is worthwhile...
Just made my friday, thanks, I'm off later tonight to get my D&D4e fix which I do every friday night so it's perfect that THIS article would show up on/. on a friday, making me wish it was 7pm instead of 9am...:( (I just crit my pants!)
I'd gladly pay a premium on silence... no whirring fans, no loud noises (unless you use the crappy dvd drive, but I removed mine to fit a SSD along with my internal sata HD)... the only time I hear any fans is when I'm doing heavy HEAVY operations and I have it sitting on my bed with little to no airflow...
Mac hardware (Case, display, backlit keyboard) is superior to the plastic crap most consumer laptop companies put out... but the guts (motherboard or "logic-board"(way to be different apple..), cpu, memory, hard drive) is identical to anything you can buy off newegg... So that's what I do... I buy the case with the "logic-board" (idiots) and add my own cheaper, more performant hardware off newegg... Apple can suck it if they want me to spend $400 on 4gb of SODIMM ram... when it's $40 on newegg...
But with enough money and treatments you can stave off the advancement of HIV indefinitely ([magic johnson])... Whilst not cured... his HIV is at the "undetectable" levels... 20 years after he announced he had it... I know of so many cases where cancer, after being treated, goes into remission, and comes back with a vengeance. ([andy whitfield - r.i.p])
is to spread the bets... I totally agree that in order to find that successful solution, one must look at ALL solutions to find the most successful. Sometimes its not as easy as saying "You succeeded, and you failed" but rather "You succeeded, and you did it better than the others"... So I would tend to agree with the poster on this one...
extreme but I can definitely see your point... Ad libraries may collect (do collect?) informational analytics on the devices they are displaying ads for and thus may [potentially] have an avenue to find out who the device owner is and how to gain back-door access via delivering trojans or exploits.
could they handle 60tb? probably... handle a format in anything less than a year's wait? probably not... even at 6gbps speeds of SATA III... it wouldn't make a difference if you had 1tb or 60tb... as the speed of the platter is what matters most to desktop users now a days. Sounds great for servers/file storage... doesn't make a difference to me and the speed of which I move files, video, games, iso's around on my drives. Now if they were to say "Hey, we increased the speed of SATA..." and came out with a SATA IV spec with like 12gbps speeds I'd say "Yey!" but ultimately... you get the picture.
oh +5 to this... Apple has gone out of their way to try and make their supply chain as worker friendly as possible (whilst still turning a profit, they are a business after all) but ultimately all our electronics (especially smart phones) are made in china... And at a lot worse factories than Foxconn..
i completely agree with you... quality will bring in people to pay for apps... free apps compensate for lack of quality by making them free and then the app makers trying to capitalize on it fill it with garbage ads and such... There's only so much you can do to polish a piece of shit... (although myth-busters proved you CAN do it:D )
too bad the execution of it was stolen from globible.com.... which I built for them... back in 2008.... when the kid who wrote this html5 timeline was still in high school... and ours had jesus riding dinosuars... and accounted for the mysterious "pre-genesis" era of time when science was magic and adam and eve got it on in the bushes...
You don't subject a kid like that to our educational system. Instead you hire private tutors or enroll him in a private college. Eventually he will show the institution what value he is and earn full scholarship through and even possibly become a fellow/researcher for that school. Do NOT send a kid like that to public school, it will only hurt his thirst for knowledge.
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I wonder how the worlds scientists who are all in consensus about the fact that climate change exists and it's causing weather patterns to be unpredictable would respond to your comment. It was fact long before it became political fodder to be poked and prodded and written off as pseudo-science...
Here's my bank ACCOUNT number to TRANSFER that $4,000,000 that my late step-aunt-in-law-second-removed-cousin left ME in your care.
...that 8 years ago RIM was the de-facto smart phone maker making blackberries and such, qwerty little things that had a web browser, texting, enterprise email and the like... They haven't changed their OS much in the last 10 years and still make qwerty little things (they tried a few touch screens without much success). They were still considered king in the enterprise until a few years ago. Now iOS is king with Android in a close 2nd. I'm actually a little surprised they lasted this long. Their "playbook" tablet was one of the worst selling tablets in history by a large corporation and promised to run Android apps on launch, it wasn't until a year later that it supported them. So while its sad that RIM, inventors of the smart phone, are going out of business I can't really say I didn't see this one coming.
That was bloody quick...
Right except this was killed by house "republicans"... not "leftists"... I guess it's in facebooks hands to implement a ip login filter to detect logins from another ip and beef up account security if the ip's don't match.
My favorite law firm name is Bogins Munns & Munns cause whenever I hear it, I think to myself Bogus Buns & Buns... lol
I'll pick one up when I don't have to wear those stupid glasses and strain my eyes just to watch a movie... Also once the cost of 3d bluray disks are equal to non-3d... MPAA always trying to get more money for crappier content... I do own a 2d HDTV and I love it but I don't think paying a premium for 3d when there's so little 3d content available and the technology isn't mature enough to NOT cause headaches is worthwhile...
Just made my friday, thanks, I'm off later tonight to get my D&D4e fix which I do every friday night so it's perfect that THIS article would show up on /. on a friday, making me wish it was 7pm instead of 9am... :( (I just crit my pants!)
+1 * Achievement Earned: "Like a Douche" *
I was just about to post this... Hactivists sounds like a justification... in the end they are still cybercriminals...
I'd gladly pay a premium on silence... no whirring fans, no loud noises (unless you use the crappy dvd drive, but I removed mine to fit a SSD along with my internal sata HD)... the only time I hear any fans is when I'm doing heavy HEAVY operations and I have it sitting on my bed with little to no airflow...
Mac hardware (Case, display, backlit keyboard) is superior to the plastic crap most consumer laptop companies put out... but the guts (motherboard or "logic-board"(way to be different apple..), cpu, memory, hard drive) is identical to anything you can buy off newegg... So that's what I do... I buy the case with the "logic-board" (idiots) and add my own cheaper, more performant hardware off newegg... Apple can suck it if they want me to spend $400 on 4gb of SODIMM ram... when it's $40 on newegg...
But with enough money and treatments you can stave off the advancement of HIV indefinitely ([magic johnson])... Whilst not cured... his HIV is at the "undetectable" levels... 20 years after he announced he had it... I know of so many cases where cancer, after being treated, goes into remission, and comes back with a vengeance. ([andy whitfield - r.i.p])
is to spread the bets... I totally agree that in order to find that successful solution, one must look at ALL solutions to find the most successful. Sometimes its not as easy as saying "You succeeded, and you failed" but rather "You succeeded, and you did it better than the others"... So I would tend to agree with the poster on this one...
extreme but I can definitely see your point... Ad libraries may collect (do collect?) informational analytics on the devices they are displaying ads for and thus may [potentially] have an avenue to find out who the device owner is and how to gain back-door access via delivering trojans or exploits.
could they handle 60tb? probably... handle a format in anything less than a year's wait? probably not... even at 6gbps speeds of SATA III... it wouldn't make a difference if you had 1tb or 60tb... as the speed of the platter is what matters most to desktop users now a days. Sounds great for servers/file storage... doesn't make a difference to me and the speed of which I move files, video, games, iso's around on my drives. Now if they were to say "Hey, we increased the speed of SATA..." and came out with a SATA IV spec with like 12gbps speeds I'd say "Yey!" but ultimately... you get the picture.
oh +5 to this... Apple has gone out of their way to try and make their supply chain as worker friendly as possible (whilst still turning a profit, they are a business after all) but ultimately all our electronics (especially smart phones) are made in china... And at a lot worse factories than Foxconn..
We love you Wil. Hope its a huge success...
i completely agree with you... quality will bring in people to pay for apps... free apps compensate for lack of quality by making them free and then the app makers trying to capitalize on it fill it with garbage ads and such... There's only so much you can do to polish a piece of shit... (although myth-busters proved you CAN do it :D )
in true hacker fashion... well played good sir, well played...
depends... do you hate the phrase deep throat?
too bad the execution of it was stolen from globible.com.... which I built for them... back in 2008.... when the kid who wrote this html5 timeline was still in high school... and ours had jesus riding dinosuars... and accounted for the mysterious "pre-genesis" era of time when science was magic and adam and eve got it on in the bushes...
exactly, if you want something "iPad like".... just get an iPad...
+1 to this....
You don't subject a kid like that to our educational system. Instead you hire private tutors or enroll him in a private college. Eventually he will show the institution what value he is and earn full scholarship through and even possibly become a fellow/researcher for that school. Do NOT send a kid like that to public school, it will only hurt his thirst for knowledge.