The Kindle Fire line is an Android tablet with a custom UI and comes with Amazon's app store pre-installed instead of Google's. It's in the same class as the Nexus tablets and iPads.
None of which can be personalized to a level that the standard desktop or laptop PC, without having to break into them, void warranties, et. al.
We counted Apple IIs and Commodore 64s as PCs. These new systems are far more powerful and capable, why not call them PCs too?
Apple ]['s and Commodore 64's could be opened up, hacked, modded, and have 3rd party software installed without having to battle with the manufacturer.
What's personal about a device you are not allowed to have complete control over? If Apple (or Google, or MS, or whoever) gets to decide what I can and cannot do with the hardware, is it really my "personal" computer? Of course not - it's a really, really expensive platform I'm leasing, essentially, from a corporation.
Thus, I find tablets and smartphones to be decidedly not PC (pun most definitely intended)
No, of course not. I draw the line at having an actual keyboard (which makes my daughter's HTC Desire Z phone more of a PC than a typical tablet is). TFA is just self-serving bullshit. And shame on TFS for publicizing the rubbish.
Ooh, ooh, and removable/expandable storage!
Seriously, WTF is up with many tablets not having an SD slot?
You mean you would shoot at my RC airplane with a scoped rifle?
1) not all rifles are created equally - a 30-06 has a much greater range than, say, a 9mm carbine.
2) I never said I would shoot it with a rifle, anyway; you shouldn't assume so much - a shotgun would likely be plenty effective. And yes, if you trespass on my property with your little toy, I can and will blow that fucker to pieces. Then, I'd likely call the sheriff and have you arrested for trespassing and littering, among other potential charges.
Regardless, shooting a rifle at a high angle into the air is a remarkably reckless thing to do. That bullet will come down with lethal velocity at a random location, perhaps several miles away.
No shit? Well, thanks Captain Obvious, whatever would we do without you?
Perhaps you should give your idea more thought.
Perhaps you should give yours some thought, period, instead of assuming the worst of people you don't know.
I play around with RC planes and my kids want to attach a camera to our next project. Does that make me a criminal? I thought it made me a cool Dad!
Take it outside city limits, you should be fine with the law.
Can't speak for the rural folks around those parts, but I know that if I were out in my field and saw something suspicious and obviously unmanned flying over my property, I'd be hard pressed to not at least scope the thing, if not blow it clear out of the sky just out of principle.
Shouldn't it read: "Games Workshop commits perjury filing false DMCA take down request."?
perjury is lying under oath.
No, this is just good old fashioned douchebaggery, masquerading under the guise of IP protection.
Actually, DMCA notices are sent under penalty of perjury. So in effect, they ARE under oath. Whoever marked the above as informative needs to read the laws they cower from.
Wrong, wrong, wrong. You are obviously not in the medical business.
No CAT Scan, MRI or Cancer drugs would have been invented without patents to give the inventors time to make their years of investment back by a period of exclusivity. Regulation by the government (mostly for safety & efficacy) is just another business expense, like fuel, that all players pay. The price to enter the game.
Fun fact: Most medical device and pharmaceutical research is actually done by the NIH, on the taxpayer dime, only to be subsequently patented and locked down by greedy-ass, for-profit corporations.
The free market is a lot like communism - on paper, it sounds like an ideal system, but when you introduce the human element, it becomes a total clusterfuck.
This aerostat says its altitude is 10,000 feet, but no caliber rifle right now will be able to shoot vertically more than 1,500 ft.
Really? That seems awfully short.
Fullbore target shooting is done over horizontal ranges of up to 1000 yards (3000 feet), implying that the bullet has a nontrivial velocity after 300 feet of travel through air. Without air resistance, rifle bullets would travel to probably around 50,000 feet, implying a nontrivial velocity after 3000 feet vertivally.
IOW, the bullet would go well over 1,500 feet vertically.
Some googling around indicated calculations show maybe 3000m (10k feet) for a.30-06 fired vertically.
Not saying you'd be able to hit a target at that height, but 10k ft vertically is just about within range of fairly ordinary rifles.
The accuracy would suck.
Hence my use of the qualifier, "pretty much right." Yes, there are a few calibers that can theoretically reach a 10,000 ft range, but not easily or accurately.
You could get/build a non-automatic and just pay the tax for a destructive device.
This is true, I had a friend in high school that machined a.50 rifle from scratch with his dad, and if I recall correctly, they did have to register it as a destructive device.
I have no interest in doing research to convince anybody that they should have some self respect. I run such a company, so I'm 100% positive they exist.
Good for you. I'm 100% positive anecdotes do not equate to evidence. So, unless you want to name the company you claim to run, and post the documentation that proves what you say about it is true, I'm inclined to not believe you.
If you choose to prostitute yourself out to an unscrupulous company for something as banal as a job, that's your problem.
Being able to provide food and shelter to my family is what you consider 'banal?' What'r you, some kind of trust-fund baby that's never been forced to make that decision of, 'do I stand up for my morals, or do I feed my family?' If so, good for you, but that's no reason to be a prick to those of us who weren't blessed with a silver spoon in our mouths.
Either you get it, or you don't, and you clearly don't.
And we come back to the ad hominem attacks. I've always been a firm believer that if a person can't posit their argument without resorting to marginalizing opposition, be it through childish insults or other means, that said person doesn't have a valid argument to begin with. You have succeeded in supporting my contention, so I suppose congratulations are in order.
P.S. if you really do run a company, and you're as combative with your employees who disagree with you as you have been with me, I would imagine your turnover rate is astronomical.
This aerostat says its altitude is 10,000 feet, but no caliber rifle right now will be able to shoot vertically more than 1,500 ft.
Limiting yourself to only shoulder-fired rifles, you're pretty much right.
However, when you take into consideration some of the larger caliber, mounted rifles, the picture changes - the Bofors 40mm rifle, for example, has an effective range of 40-60,000 feet, well beyond the flight ceiling of the target, er, balloon in question.
And yes, civilians can own a Bofors, provided they pass the same rigors as are required for other fully automatic weapons.
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Then yes, it's a PC. If it's something smaller than a Mainframe, and you can do something DIGITAL with it, then it's generally a PC.
Technically, that makes it a microcomputer or minicomputer, but not necessarily a PC.
The Kindle Fire line is an Android tablet with a custom UI and comes with Amazon's app store pre-installed instead of Google's. It's in the same class as the Nexus tablets and iPads.
None of which can be personalized to a level that the standard desktop or laptop PC, without having to break into them, void warranties, et. al.
Thus, not a PC.
I can say all of those things about my android tablet, my nook tablet, and my raspberry pi. So these are all PCs?
No you can't - just try to install something from the OSS FDroid market on your Nook without having to root (read: break into) it.
Liar, or ignoramus? Guessing the latter.
We counted Apple IIs and Commodore 64s as PCs. These new systems are far more powerful and capable, why not call them PCs too?
Apple ]['s and Commodore 64's could be opened up, hacked, modded, and have 3rd party software installed without having to battle with the manufacturer.
Think about it - the term is "personal" computer.
What's personal about a device you are not allowed to have complete control over? If Apple (or Google, or MS, or whoever) gets to decide what I can and cannot do with the hardware, is it really my "personal" computer? Of course not - it's a really, really expensive platform I'm leasing, essentially, from a corporation.
Thus, I find tablets and smartphones to be decidedly not PC (pun most definitely intended)
Do tablets really count as a "PC"?
No, of course not. I draw the line at having an actual keyboard (which makes my daughter's HTC Desire Z phone more of a PC than a typical tablet is). TFA is just self-serving bullshit. And shame on TFS for publicizing the rubbish.
Ooh, ooh, and removable/expandable storage!
Seriously, WTF is up with many tablets not having an SD slot?
Scope?
Yea, spotting scope; like this one.
You mean you would shoot at my RC airplane with a scoped rifle?
1) not all rifles are created equally - a 30-06 has a much greater range than, say, a 9mm carbine.
2) I never said I would shoot it with a rifle, anyway; you shouldn't assume so much - a shotgun would likely be plenty effective. And yes, if you trespass on my property with your little toy, I can and will blow that fucker to pieces. Then, I'd likely call the sheriff and have you arrested for trespassing and littering, among other potential charges.
Regardless, shooting a rifle at a high angle into the air is a remarkably reckless thing to do. That bullet will come down with lethal velocity at a random location, perhaps several miles away.
No shit? Well, thanks Captain Obvious, whatever would we do without you?
Perhaps you should give your idea more thought.
Perhaps you should give yours some thought, period, instead of assuming the worst of people you don't know.
I play around with RC planes and my kids want to attach a camera to our next project. Does that make me a criminal? I thought it made me a cool Dad!
Take it outside city limits, you should be fine with the law.
Can't speak for the rural folks around those parts, but I know that if I were out in my field and saw something suspicious and obviously unmanned flying over my property, I'd be hard pressed to not at least scope the thing, if not blow it clear out of the sky just out of principle.
Shouldn't it read: "Games Workshop commits perjury filing false DMCA take down request."?
perjury is lying under oath.
No, this is just good old fashioned douchebaggery, masquerading under the guise of IP protection.
Actually, DMCA notices are sent under penalty of perjury. So in effect, they ARE under oath. Whoever marked the above as informative needs to read the laws they cower from.
Did not know that.
Someone mod this guy Informative.
What's that old saying?
"No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people."
Sorry I meant rifles that are considered rifles by the ATF and not destructive devices like that 40mm would be.
Ah.
Yes, that does make a bit of a difference...
My point was .50 BMG and similar where used in AA guns,
Really? which ones?
Here's a list of AA guns from Wikipedia, only one of which (the M45 quadmount) being a .50 cal (12.7mm)
since it is the upper end of rifle rounds
Incorrect; for example, the Bofors AA gun I mentioned earlier is a rifle with a 40mm round.
They could have hired Micheal Bay to direct.
Shouldn't it read: "Games Workshop commits perjury filing false DMCA take down request."?
perjury is lying under oath.
No, this is just good old fashioned douchebaggery, masquerading under the guise of IP protection.
Only a few?
"Few" is a subjective term.
Replace "subjective" with "relative."
Long day already.
Only a few?
"Few" is a subjective term.
Then how do AA guns work?
Not even going to dignify this with an LMGTFY link...
Wrong, wrong, wrong. You are obviously not in the medical business.
No CAT Scan, MRI or Cancer drugs would have been invented without patents to give the inventors time to make their years of investment back by a period of exclusivity. Regulation by the government (mostly for safety & efficacy) is just another business expense, like fuel, that all players pay. The price to enter the game.
I call B.S., and provide the following link to the National Institute of Health's Invention Reporting Requirements for Grants and Funding page.
Fun fact: Most medical device and pharmaceutical research is actually done by the NIH, on the taxpayer dime, only to be subsequently patented and locked down by greedy-ass, for-profit corporations.
The free market is a lot like communism - on paper, it sounds like an ideal system, but when you introduce the human element, it becomes a total clusterfuck.
This aerostat says its altitude is 10,000 feet, but no caliber rifle right now will be able to shoot vertically more than 1,500 ft.
Really? That seems awfully short.
Fullbore target shooting is done over horizontal ranges of up to 1000 yards (3000 feet), implying that the bullet has a nontrivial velocity after 300 feet of travel through air. Without air resistance, rifle bullets would travel to probably around 50,000 feet, implying a nontrivial velocity after 3000 feet vertivally.
IOW, the bullet would go well over 1,500 feet vertically.
Some googling around indicated calculations show maybe 3000m (10k feet) for a .30-06 fired vertically.
Not saying you'd be able to hit a target at that height, but 10k ft vertically is just about within range of fairly ordinary rifles.
The accuracy would suck.
Hence my use of the qualifier, "pretty much right." Yes, there are a few calibers that can theoretically reach a 10,000 ft range, but not easily or accurately.
And yes, civilians can own a Bofors
That would be pretty cool.
It is indeed.
Since you seem to be mad about the criticism what exactly is better about it?
Haters gonna hate.
D-bag OP, like most trolls, just wants to hear his own head rattle.
And Dolphin.
You could get/build a non-automatic and just pay the tax for a destructive device.
This is true, I had a friend in high school that machined a .50 rifle from scratch with his dad, and if I recall correctly, they did have to register it as a destructive device.
I have no interest in doing research to convince anybody that they should have some self respect. I run such a company, so I'm 100% positive they exist.
Good for you. I'm 100% positive anecdotes do not equate to evidence. So, unless you want to name the company you claim to run, and post the documentation that proves what you say about it is true, I'm inclined to not believe you.
If you choose to prostitute yourself out to an unscrupulous company for something as banal as a job, that's your problem.
Being able to provide food and shelter to my family is what you consider 'banal?' What'r you, some kind of trust-fund baby that's never been forced to make that decision of, 'do I stand up for my morals, or do I feed my family?' If so, good for you, but that's no reason to be a prick to those of us who weren't blessed with a silver spoon in our mouths.
Either you get it, or you don't, and you clearly don't.
And we come back to the ad hominem attacks. I've always been a firm believer that if a person can't posit their argument without resorting to marginalizing opposition, be it through childish insults or other means, that said person doesn't have a valid argument to begin with. You have succeeded in supporting my contention, so I suppose congratulations are in order.
P.S. if you really do run a company, and you're as combative with your employees who disagree with you as you have been with me, I would imagine your turnover rate is astronomical.
Crack - you should really stop smoking it.
This aerostat says its altitude is 10,000 feet, but no caliber rifle right now will be able to shoot vertically more than 1,500 ft.
Limiting yourself to only shoulder-fired rifles, you're pretty much right.
However, when you take into consideration some of the larger caliber, mounted rifles, the picture changes - the Bofors 40mm rifle, for example, has an effective range of 40-60,000 feet, well beyond the flight ceiling of the target, er, balloon in question.
And yes, civilians can own a Bofors, provided they pass the same rigors as are required for other fully automatic weapons.