No. For two reasons. Like somersault above, I already have a tablet for tablet-y things. I've tried reading with the Kindle app, and while the presentation is good, the glow from the screen strains my eyes. Also, battery life sucks for this purpose.
The second and more important reason is I wanted an e-ink display for a reader. A touch screen isn't very useful, either.
So what I ordered was the previous generation Kindle Keyboard as they call it now, with no ads. Small, great battery life,/and/ they had a refurbished one for $40 off, making the price $100.
I know you used a subject of "If this is true", but I'm going to save my outrage until some facts rise to the surface here.
If this actually involved another iphone N prototype, the whole "lost iphone in a bar" shtick is played out. I'm surprised that tactic would be used again (and I'm making a cynical assumption that the original incident with N=4 was a ruse).
If the person contacted by the "police" was threatened or upset, let him file a complaint and come out in a more official way. Did people actually come to his house, and did they actually claim they were SFPD?
No grinding in RDR? Oh, the activities are slightly different, but here's a partial list of activities you must repeat over and over.
Ride the (train | horse) a long time. Talk with a (paranoid hermit | old fart | grizzled miner). Round up some (cows | horses) that got loose. Save a (child | whore). Help a stranger. Kill a (wolf | cougar | bear), or several. Play a game of (sharpshooter | knife & fingers | poker).
Your percentage of completed game also feels like the percentage of world you must traverse on every mission.
I didn't mind buying RDR and playing the amount I did. I'm a sucker for large virtual worlds you can explore, and Rockstar delivers just that. But as a game it's a chore.
The display XOOMs (and other devices) are tortured devices. The XOOM on display at a nearby Verizon was running some live background, plus having all kinds of widgets across all screens. It was a mess, and crashed within a couple minutes of me picking it up.
That said, my XOOM runs great, we use it all the time to check weather, music and maps. It's a great device. What we like about it is the device just floats around the house, so whenever we need to look up something, it's right there, and it's a more usable screen than a smartphone. I don't remember it ever crashing with our normal use.
Oh, and I just tried accessing your test page, and it came up fine.
Android phones have come a long way from the short battery capacities of say, the G1.
I put my Atrix on the charger last night when it was down to 30%. The phone's recorded battery "uptime" at that point was 2 days, 11 hours. This is with my normal phone+email+web usage.
But use the navigation app for even a little while, and the battery doesn't last long with all that HW turned on: GPS, screen, graphics, network radio, etc.
My new fartlight app has an MSRP of $300. The Pro version is $400 and tweets each utterance, reports the location on foursquare, and invites all my facebook friends to fart and light up too.
Isn't this true of any computer, or your washer and dryer, your house's AC system, or your car? DIY is always cheaper because you simply don't have to pay for somebody else's time and profit margin. The limiting factors include your own ability to disassemble and properly reassemble the thing, and having access to adequate knowledge/documentation.
I totally agree with you though, that $755 is a ridiculous repair fee.
As weird as this is to the "concerned parents and teachers" in Oklahoma, it is a basic effect of our minds and perception. There are no demons, no narcotic gateways, no pushers, and for most people, no permanent effects(*).
When the "Brain Machine" aka Sound-Light Machine (SLM) article came out in MAKE, I immediately built one. For me, it works great, and the visuals I see tend to be geometric patterns, depending on the frequency of the beats. It can be quite intense. For those who haven't seen this, apart from the silly graphics on the glasses as pictured in the article, the "brain machine" is a pair of safety glasses with LEDs, the microcontroller, and a headphone jack. The LEDs flash in synchronicity to the binaural beats, and this is what makes it so powerful -- your brain gets two very important senses stimulated the same way. Once the sequence finishes, the effect is totally over, there is no linger feeling, or "high" or demonic possession.
They used to sell audio cassettes that had binaural beat recordings. After I built the SLM, a friend showed me cassettes he had purchased a couple decades ago in Europe, but I haven't heard them to compare.
(*) The only caution I can think of is the possibility of bad effects in people susceptible to seizures. I don't know enough about that condition to know if seizures can be triggered through our hearing, but the SLM-like devices could possibly be a trigger to light-sensitive individuals.
Seeing this video I can't help but laugh. It's the same tired Suburbanite Scare Story that D&D was in the 70's-80's, or that "satanic cults" were in the 80's.
During the summer last year, we heard an explosion in the back yard. It turned out to be my daughter's soccer ball that was sitting in the sun. The outer skin must have been very weakly stitched, because we never had but 7-8psi in it.
I saw the clip of Ronaldo taking ball to the knee, then immediately collapsing while clutching his face. The USA-ALG game yesterday had a bunch of this, too. On one hand, instant reply for the refs would clarify some of these issues.
On the other hand, I like how football/soccer matches go without delays. If video replay was used, I fear it'd be as slow as American football (which we should call Armball.).
Are football refs known for strong biases? In the world cup matches I've watched, I see bad calls/missed fouls on either team.
I disagree. I don't think Apple is interested in walking away from a desktop/server OS. Their pro hardware lines, various software packages, servers and burgeoning IT support, and reputation among The Creatives will ensure Mac OS remains. One simply cannot Create on IOS devices, compared to a desktop. A full computer has such different usage than purely mobile/consumptive devices.
I read the article, and it's more about how some features in IOS appear to be influencing OS X APIs, and how a very small sampling of developers think OS X is going away. There isn't substantial support of either.
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No. For two reasons. Like somersault above, I already have a tablet for tablet-y things. I've tried reading with the Kindle app, and while the presentation is good, the glow from the screen strains my eyes. Also, battery life sucks for this purpose.
The second and more important reason is I wanted an e-ink display for a reader. A touch screen isn't very useful, either.
So what I ordered was the previous generation Kindle Keyboard as they call it now, with no ads. Small, great battery life, /and/ they had a refurbished one for $40 off, making the price $100.
I know you used a subject of "If this is true", but I'm going to save my outrage until some facts rise to the surface here.
If this actually involved another iphone N prototype, the whole "lost iphone in a bar" shtick is played out. I'm surprised that tactic would be used again (and I'm making a cynical assumption that the original incident with N=4 was a ruse).
If the person contacted by the "police" was threatened or upset, let him file a complaint and come out in a more official way. Did people actually come to his house, and did they actually claim they were SFPD?
My conclusion so far is this whole story is bull.
Guile is not Javascript, and Guile does not fully support Javascript.
Are you saying Guile is alive, prosperous, and popular? I'll agree it's alive, but only barely.
Sounds like his behavior is right.
No grinding in RDR? Oh, the activities are slightly different, but here's a partial list of activities you must repeat over and over.
Ride the (train | horse) a long time.
Talk with a (paranoid hermit | old fart | grizzled miner).
Round up some (cows | horses) that got loose.
Save a (child | whore).
Help a stranger.
Kill a (wolf | cougar | bear), or several.
Play a game of (sharpshooter | knife & fingers | poker).
Your percentage of completed game also feels like the percentage of world you must traverse on every mission.
I didn't mind buying RDR and playing the amount I did. I'm a sucker for large virtual worlds you can explore, and Rockstar delivers just that. But as a game it's a chore.
Your comment about Portland's cost evaluation interested me, and for others with similarly piqued interests, I found this explanation by PolitiFact Oregon:
http://www.politifact.com/oregon/statements/2011/mar/19/sam-adams/portland-mayor-sam-adams-says-portlands-spent-its-/
The only correction I have is that the estimate is for 1 mile of urban highway, not 3.
Interesting stuff.
I wonder if it was Eastasia, or if those longtime friends of Eurasia betrayed us...
I've not followed what has happened with previous id releases.
What have people done with them?
The display XOOMs (and other devices) are tortured devices. The XOOM on display at a nearby Verizon was running some live background, plus having all kinds of widgets across all screens. It was a mess, and crashed within a couple minutes of me picking it up.
That said, my XOOM runs great, we use it all the time to check weather, music and maps. It's a great device. What we like about it is the device just floats around the house, so whenever we need to look up something, it's right there, and it's a more usable screen than a smartphone. I don't remember it ever crashing with our normal use.
Oh, and I just tried accessing your test page, and it came up fine.
Android phones have come a long way from the short battery capacities of say, the G1.
I put my Atrix on the charger last night when it was down to 30%. The phone's recorded battery "uptime" at that point was 2 days, 11 hours. This is with my normal phone+email+web usage.
But use the navigation app for even a little while, and the battery doesn't last long with all that HW turned on: GPS, screen, graphics, network radio, etc.
The Tesla S. We must do TORCS to it.
Yesssssssssss.
My new fartlight app has an MSRP of $300. The Pro version is $400 and tweets each utterance, reports the location on foursquare, and invites all my facebook friends to fart and light up too.
Information wants to be free, right?
Hmm, a tiny gyro, needs computation, plus low-power requirements. Is it a parallax propeller chip?
No, that didn't fix anything.
Isn't this true of any computer, or your washer and dryer, your house's AC system, or your car? DIY is always cheaper because you simply don't have to pay for somebody else's time and profit margin. The limiting factors include your own ability to disassemble and properly reassemble the thing, and having access to adequate knowledge/documentation.
I totally agree with you though, that $755 is a ridiculous repair fee.
Ha ha! The Brown Note: myth busted!
As weird as this is to the "concerned parents and teachers" in Oklahoma, it is a basic effect of our minds and perception. There are no demons, no narcotic gateways, no pushers, and for most people, no permanent effects(*).
When the "Brain Machine" aka Sound-Light Machine (SLM) article came out in MAKE, I immediately built one. For me, it works great, and the visuals I see tend to be geometric patterns, depending on the frequency of the beats. It can be quite intense. For those who haven't seen this, apart from the silly graphics on the glasses as pictured in the article, the "brain machine" is a pair of safety glasses with LEDs, the microcontroller, and a headphone jack. The LEDs flash in synchronicity to the binaural beats, and this is what makes it so powerful -- your brain gets two very important senses stimulated the same way. Once the sequence finishes, the effect is totally over, there is no linger feeling, or "high" or demonic possession.
They used to sell audio cassettes that had binaural beat recordings. After I built the SLM, a friend showed me cassettes he had purchased a couple decades ago in Europe, but I haven't heard them to compare.
(*) The only caution I can think of is the possibility of bad effects in people susceptible to seizures. I don't know enough about that condition to know if seizures can be triggered through our hearing, but the SLM-like devices could possibly be a trigger to light-sensitive individuals.
One can find lots of related devices on the net. In no order are:
MindSpa
Procyon AVS
For helping with autism: Audio/Visual Entrainment
Seeing this video I can't help but laugh. It's the same tired Suburbanite Scare Story that D&D was in the 70's-80's, or that "satanic cults" were in the 80's.
Your own ignorance does not prove, let alone imply, their incompetence.
I'm glad they're also scheduling an intermission.
Same here. I've also noticed lots of glitching on audio playback, where it is not only dropping out, but also playing at 1.5X normal speed.
The frustration of it is that I kept the 3.1.3 image around but it will not reinstall. The restoration has failed every time.
During the summer last year, we heard an explosion in the back yard. It turned out to be my daughter's soccer ball that was sitting in the sun. The outer skin must have been very weakly stitched, because we never had but 7-8psi in it.
I saw the clip of Ronaldo taking ball to the knee, then immediately collapsing while clutching his face. The USA-ALG game yesterday had a bunch of this, too. On one hand, instant reply for the refs would clarify some of these issues.
On the other hand, I like how football/soccer matches go without delays. If video replay was used, I fear it'd be as slow as American football (which we should call Armball.).
Are football refs known for strong biases? In the world cup matches I've watched, I see bad calls/missed fouls on either team.
I disagree. I don't think Apple is interested in walking away from a desktop/server OS. Their pro hardware lines, various software packages, servers and burgeoning IT support, and reputation among The Creatives will ensure Mac OS remains. One simply cannot Create on IOS devices, compared to a desktop. A full computer has such different usage than purely mobile/consumptive devices.
I read the article, and it's more about how some features in IOS appear to be influencing OS X APIs, and how a very small sampling of developers think OS X is going away. There isn't substantial support of either.