You no longer buy a game and own it as your piece of property.
While I kind of agree with you on several points, I have to point out that physical ownership of games isn't really a walk in the park either. Through deterioration of physical media and hardware becoming obsolete, the vast majority of games purchased over the last 30 years are not in a playable state today [citation needed]. In terms of the odds of being able to pick up your game and actually play it in 10, 20 or 30 years, I think they increase rather than decrease as a result of systems like steam.
Indeed. In fact, I'd say the average android user is a lot smugger than the average iphone user these days. I should know, I'm one of them now with my nice new Desire.
That's largely a myth. The mathematics of playing poker usually involves making simple calculations of pot odds or making rough estimates of the probability of your hand being a winner or your opponents folding to a bet or raise. You can be an excellent poker player with no explicit awareness of the mathematics that are the basis of your actions. The key traits common to most great poker players are situational awareness and pattern recognition.
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Your comment inadvertantly cuts right to the point of this matter.
What the hell is "bringing OS/2 back" going to acheive? It was a great operating system in it's time, and offered multitasking and a file system that at least wasn't completely defective during a time when the viable alternative for PCs was shitty. Today, however, those problems are long gone. Every operating system in common use offers everything that OS/2 offered, and much, much more. How does "resurrecting" OS/2 on top of a linux kernel and a modern file system even make sense? What are you actually resurrecting? The mediocre GUI? The bundled utilities? Were there any?
Even acheiving flawless source or binary compatibility with a 10 year old deprecated OS seems like an impossible pipe dream, so it's unlikely that the few nutbag holdouts will even switch. Apparently they must be happy with what they have, and hopefully they're thoroughly firewalled away from anything else, so why would they even care?"
If this is a marketing effort intended to bring the OS/2 brand back, then go for it. An effort to build an OS/2 layer on top of something that is nothing like OS/2 seems pointless..
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For a while, I was frequently referencing a handful of PDFs ranging from 10 to 70 MB.
Yeah, that might take something like a minute to be ready to read on your device. Given wlan, ofcourse
Some PDFs are books. I don't think there's much difference in requirements between reading a "book" and reading a 300 page PDF.
Well, duh. Thing is, while books are likely to have a page count average in the several hundreds, PDFs are in most cases shorter. Even when they aren't, you might not be reading them back to back, in fact you said yourself you were referencing them.
Look. I'm sure that in your highly specialized scenario of reading hundreds of pages a day while walking around in the sunshine outside wireless range, the ipad might not be a great device. In a more general PDF reader usage scenario, I think it would be excellent. With or without a USB port.
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Firing up an FTP client, uploading the file, then typing in a URL is more work than dragging it to a USB device, and that only works if you already have a hosting account set up. Plus, if the file is large, you have to wait for it to upload from your PC and then wait again for it to download to the Pad.
Surely there's some iDisk support with drag and drop goodness? Perhaps even caching on the device? Yeah, that doesn't solve the uploading/downloading issue, but how big are your PDFs anyway?
The iPad is also terrible, for reasons already stated: poor battery life, weight, and a screen that's unreadable in bright light. Outside of wifi range, internet only works on AT&T's overloaded network, only if you pay for it, and you have to pay hundreds extra just to have that option.
See, I'd agree that those are all perfectly cromulent arguments in support of the ipad being a terrible book reader. For PDFs, where you're likely to be reading inside, at home or at work, for a shorter period of time, they just don't seem to matter much.
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Pulling PDFs to the device over the wireless is going to be easier than going through a usb stick in almost every situation.
Does it have SMB support? No? Well, you'd better hope the PDFs you're trying to read are in your email inbox or on a web site.
If they're not, then put them there. How is that harder than coping to an external device?
Display is going to be perfect and portability will be great. You are talking about the one area where this thing will be better than everything that has ever existed.
Perhaps you're forgetting the Kindle, which weighs half as much, runs for weeks instead of hours on a charge, and is readable in sunlight.
Oh, please. Be serious! I actually use the kindle myself for reading PDFs, and it is terrible. It's slow, has no color, no wlan, and if you want to view a whole page at once it is as expensive as the ipad. Internet only works in the US, too.
Great argument, but if you really have so little need for flash, why bother with flashblock? Why not just uninstall the flash plugin?
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I have a real need for a portable PDF reader with an SD slot and/or USB port.
Oh, come on. This argument is just bullshit. If you're going to slam the ipad, you could atleast point to something that it will not absolutely excel at doing. Pulling PDFs to the device over the wireless is going to be easier than going through a usb stick in almost every situation. Display is going to be perfect and portability will be great. You are talking about the one area where this thing will be better than everything that has ever existed.
If you really do have a "real need" for a portable PDF reader, the entry level ipad should be a steal and an automatic purchase for you.
See? You yourself only wanted casual sex, so you're quite a hypocrite for bashing people for "starting a relationship with a lie". (Clue: if you're not ready to marry someone after dating for a year, then you're never going to be interested in marrying them. If you keep "dating" them, it's just because you want casual sex.)
While this may accurately describe you, there's just no way you can pass it off as a blanket statement about every individual in every situation ever. Also, while there might be a stronger tendency to separate "casual" and "meaningful" sex in the U.S., that's just not how it works in most of Europe. People, especially young people, meet, become attracted and have sex because it's a fun way to get to know each other. From there, it could really go either way. Many relationships start as strings of one night stands where you're never completely sure if it's going to happen again or not. The level of commitment one feels during this stage varies from person to person and from relationship to relationship, there are really not any set rules. Thus, there is also no clear definition of sex as either "casual" or "committed". As in most other areas of life, there are only shades of gray
Additionally, the premise that you can't live in a committed relationship for an extended period without wanting kids or marriage is frankly archaic. Many choose different lives, and with divorce readily available and socially acceptable you could easily argue that the institution is without meaning anyway
Just the fact that people can detect fatty acids in their non-fat milk doesn't imply that there is an actually taste receptor for fat. Could also be the change of texture of the milk or activation of other taste receptors by the fatty acids. I would only call this a specific taste when the associated taste receptor protein is identified.
The fact that I included that part in my comment gives indication that I might not have missed it
Errr - Where? You do know that you have to type the thought, as well as think it...
Actually, fanboy has been happily living on linux for the last decade, not really giving a toss about Apple or Psystar or anyone. Still, he is currently contemplating the purchase of a macbook, so he decided to dig a little into this. And while he could find plenty of evidence of Apple's desire to tie their OS to their own hardware, he found no evidence of apple computers shutting down and refusing to boot if you replaced a random piece of hardware in it, like you have repeatedly claimed.
Putting aside the questions of what Psystar did or did not do, or whether they were fairly treated in court, it appears as though the "apple chip" you refer to is the EFI, used as a BIOS replacement in intel macs. It needs to be there in order for you to boot OSX, and it needs to be supported by a compatible firmware. This seems to have been a long standing hurdle in the path of hackintosh developers. Not because it is a magical mystery box that hates everything non-apple, but because it just isn't on most motherboards, and if it is it just emulates BIOS. This, again, is not through evil apple voodoo, but mostly due to the fact that most windows versions doesn't support it, which gives motherboard vendors little incentive to put it there in the first place.
Now, there are some real concerns about if or how OSX can be legally installed on off the shelf hardware, and you may happily discuss those. What you may not do is make up a complete lie ("There's a chip inside every mac that renders it inoperable if non-apple hardware is detected") and post it multiple times in the same thread in order to make it appear true. That is trolling, whether you want to admit it or not.
...and only with programs that they want you to use...
Wait, what?! How do you people not get modded down for this blatant misinformation? There are absolutely no restrictions on what applications you can run on OSX, as
evidencedbythevastselectionoffreeandopensourcesoftwareavailableforit, much of it competing directly with apple products.
You keep stating these things as fact, but aren't you really just trolling?
I can't find any reference to "the apple chip", or any kind of boot time hardware verification scheme in OSX at all. In fact, people seem to be trivially replacing memory and hard drives in their macs with third party components, and even making fresh installs from the supplied install dvd onto blank third party hard drives. Some adventurous individuals are even building hackintoshes from scratch that contain no apple supplied hardware, and are capable of installing retail versions of OSX. Obviously apple supports the hardware they support, and ship the drivers they ship, but I just can't find any evidence of the kind of third party lockout you so frantically keep suggesting.
So I guess, Mr Rockoon, that I'm respectfully asking you to put up or shut up. Offer us some evidence of your claims, or crawl back into the troll hole from which you came.
For now. Eventually, no longer the default, it will start to rot due to lack of programmer eyeballs. In a few years it will be removed from the codebase as unmaintainable cruft.
Sadly, this is the correct decision. It was a ballsy move by the GNOME developers to try to introduce this feature because they thought it was the Right Thing to do, but the world at large just didn't want to get on board.
For one thing, if someone called and told you a plane fell down with your brother inside, would your first impulse really be to run down to his place and "secure" his flatscreen?
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You no longer buy a game and own it as your piece of property.
While I kind of agree with you on several points, I have to point out that physical ownership of games isn't really a walk in the park either. Through deterioration of physical media and hardware becoming obsolete, the vast majority of games purchased over the last 30 years are not in a playable state today [citation needed]. In terms of the odds of being able to pick up your game and actually play it in 10, 20 or 30 years, I think they increase rather than decrease as a result of systems like steam.
Indeed. In fact, I'd say the average android user is a lot smugger than the average iphone user these days. I should know, I'm one of them now with my nice new Desire.
Mod parent up. His analysis is excellent.
That's largely a myth. The mathematics of playing poker usually involves making simple calculations of pot odds or making rough estimates of the probability of your hand being a winner or your opponents folding to a bet or raise. You can be an excellent poker player with no explicit awareness of the mathematics that are the basis of your actions. The key traits common to most great poker players are situational awareness and pattern recognition.
Your comment inadvertantly cuts right to the point of this matter.
What the hell is "bringing OS/2 back" going to acheive? It was a great operating system in it's time, and offered multitasking and a file system that at least wasn't completely defective during a time when the viable alternative for PCs was shitty. Today, however, those problems are long gone. Every operating system in common use offers everything that OS/2 offered, and much, much more. How does "resurrecting" OS/2 on top of a linux kernel and a modern file system even make sense? What are you actually resurrecting? The mediocre GUI? The bundled utilities? Were there any?
Even acheiving flawless source or binary compatibility with a 10 year old deprecated OS seems like an impossible pipe dream, so it's unlikely that the few nutbag holdouts will even switch. Apparently they must be happy with what they have, and hopefully they're thoroughly firewalled away from anything else, so why would they even care?"
If this is a marketing effort intended to bring the OS/2 brand back, then go for it. An effort to build an OS/2 layer on top of something that is nothing like OS/2 seems pointless..
For a while, I was frequently referencing a handful of PDFs ranging from 10 to 70 MB.
Yeah, that might take something like a minute to be ready to read on your device. Given wlan, ofcourse
Some PDFs are books. I don't think there's much difference in requirements between reading a "book" and reading a 300 page PDF.
Well, duh. Thing is, while books are likely to have a page count average in the several hundreds, PDFs are in most cases shorter. Even when they aren't, you might not be reading them back to back, in fact you said yourself you were referencing them.
Look. I'm sure that in your highly specialized scenario of reading hundreds of pages a day while walking around in the sunshine outside wireless range, the ipad might not be a great device. In a more general PDF reader usage scenario, I think it would be excellent. With or without a USB port.
Firing up an FTP client, uploading the file, then typing in a URL is more work than dragging it to a USB device, and that only works if you already have a hosting account set up. Plus, if the file is large, you have to wait for it to upload from your PC and then wait again for it to download to the Pad.
Surely there's some iDisk support with drag and drop goodness? Perhaps even caching on the device? Yeah, that doesn't solve the uploading/downloading issue, but how big are your PDFs anyway?
The iPad is also terrible, for reasons already stated: poor battery life, weight, and a screen that's unreadable in bright light. Outside of wifi range, internet only works on AT&T's overloaded network, only if you pay for it, and you have to pay hundreds extra just to have that option.
See, I'd agree that those are all perfectly cromulent arguments in support of the ipad being a terrible book reader. For PDFs, where you're likely to be reading inside, at home or at work, for a shorter period of time, they just don't seem to matter much.
Pulling PDFs to the device over the wireless is going to be easier than going through a usb stick in almost every situation.
Does it have SMB support? No? Well, you'd better hope the PDFs you're trying to read are in your email inbox or on a web site.
If they're not, then put them there. How is that harder than coping to an external device?
Display is going to be perfect and portability will be great. You are talking about the one area where this thing will be better than everything that has ever existed.
Perhaps you're forgetting the Kindle, which weighs half as much, runs for weeks instead of hours on a charge, and is readable in sunlight.
Oh, please. Be serious! I actually use the kindle myself for reading PDFs, and it is terrible. It's slow, has no color, no wlan, and if you want to view a whole page at once it is as expensive as the ipad. Internet only works in the US, too.
Great argument, but if you really have so little need for flash, why bother with flashblock? Why not just uninstall the flash plugin?
Oh, come on. This argument is just bullshit. If you're going to slam the ipad, you could atleast point to something that it will not absolutely excel at doing. Pulling PDFs to the device over the wireless is going to be easier than going through a usb stick in almost every situation. Display is going to be perfect and portability will be great. You are talking about the one area where this thing will be better than everything that has ever existed.
If you really do have a "real need" for a portable PDF reader, the entry level ipad should be a steal and an automatic purchase for you.
Wow, you are incredibly american.
While this may accurately describe you, there's just no way you can pass it off as a blanket statement about every individual in every situation ever. Also, while there might be a stronger tendency to separate "casual" and "meaningful" sex in the U.S., that's just not how it works in most of Europe. People, especially young people, meet, become attracted and have sex because it's a fun way to get to know each other. From there, it could really go either way. Many relationships start as strings of one night stands where you're never completely sure if it's going to happen again or not. The level of commitment one feels during this stage varies from person to person and from relationship to relationship, there are really not any set rules. Thus, there is also no clear definition of sex as either "casual" or "committed". As in most other areas of life, there are only shades of gray
Additionally, the premise that you can't live in a committed relationship for an extended period without wanting kids or marriage is frankly archaic. Many choose different lives, and with divorce readily available and socially acceptable you could easily argue that the institution is without meaning anyway
Are you for real?
Examples of criminally negligent crimes are criminally negligent homicide and negligent endangerment of a child. Usually the punishment for criminal negligence, criminal recklessness, criminal endangerment, wilful blindness and other related crimes is imprisonment, unless the criminal is insane (and then in some cases the sentence is indeterminate).
Errr - Where? You do know that you have to type the thought, as well as think it...
Well, to be fair..
Meh, I'm fine with my current strategy of drinking enough to regret it in the morning but not enough to not remember why.
Actually, fanboy has been happily living on linux for the last decade, not really giving a toss about Apple or Psystar or anyone. Still, he is currently contemplating the purchase of a macbook, so he decided to dig a little into this. And while he could find plenty of evidence of Apple's desire to tie their OS to their own hardware, he found no evidence of apple computers shutting down and refusing to boot if you replaced a random piece of hardware in it, like you have repeatedly claimed.
Putting aside the questions of what Psystar did or did not do, or whether they were fairly treated in court, it appears as though the "apple chip" you refer to is the EFI, used as a BIOS replacement in intel macs. It needs to be there in order for you to boot OSX, and it needs to be supported by a compatible firmware. This seems to have been a long standing hurdle in the path of hackintosh developers. Not because it is a magical mystery box that hates everything non-apple, but because it just isn't on most motherboards, and if it is it just emulates BIOS. This, again, is not through evil apple voodoo, but mostly due to the fact that most windows versions doesn't support it, which gives motherboard vendors little incentive to put it there in the first place.
Now, there are some real concerns about if or how OSX can be legally installed on off the shelf hardware, and you may happily discuss those. What you may not do is make up a complete lie ("There's a chip inside every mac that renders it inoperable if non-apple hardware is detected") and post it multiple times in the same thread in order to make it appear true. That is trolling, whether you want to admit it or not.
...and only with programs that they want you to use...
Wait, what?! How do you people not get modded down for this blatant misinformation? There are absolutely no restrictions on what applications you can run on OSX, as evidenced by the vast selection of free and open source software available for it, much of it competing directly with apple products.
You keep stating these things as fact, but aren't you really just trolling?
I can't find any reference to "the apple chip", or any kind of boot time hardware verification scheme in OSX at all. In fact, people seem to be trivially replacing memory and hard drives in their macs with third party components, and even making fresh installs from the supplied install dvd onto blank third party hard drives. Some adventurous individuals are even building hackintoshes from scratch that contain no apple supplied hardware, and are capable of installing retail versions of OSX. Obviously apple supports the hardware they support, and ship the drivers they ship, but I just can't find any evidence of the kind of third party lockout you so frantically keep suggesting.
So I guess, Mr Rockoon, that I'm respectfully asking you to put up or shut up. Offer us some evidence of your claims, or crawl back into the troll hole from which you came.
For now. Eventually, no longer the default, it will start to rot due to lack of programmer eyeballs. In a few years it will be removed from the codebase as unmaintainable cruft.
Sadly, this is the correct decision. It was a ballsy move by the GNOME developers to try to introduce this feature because they thought it was the Right Thing to do, but the world at large just didn't want to get on board.
Whoa, big fat [citation needed] right there!
For one thing, if someone called and told you a plane fell down with your brother inside, would your first impulse really be to run down to his place and "secure" his flatscreen?