Where I live, people like to buy season tickets to sporting events, keep the tickets to the games they can actually attend, and sell the others at a discount. Because of this, I went to a hockey game where tickets cost $40, but I only paid $25.
Sound like they're using their monopoly possition to their advantage over the competition... If this were the other way around you'd be crying for government action against MS.
Have you ever used Microsoft Office for Mac? It's just as bad and you actually have to pay for it.
Note: I do think that Apple really needs to improve iTunes on Windows.
It doesn't matter how big your credit limit is, it matters how many credit cards you have. Basically, they wouldn't sell more than two iPads to the same credit card while that limit was in effect.
No, he has proven that Nintendo isn't taking advantage of available markets. If Nintendo made their games available on the Android Market, he would actually have the opputunity to pay for them.
Hard-drives are usually refered to as "storage" as opposed to "memory". The reason I used both of them in my example was to point out that hard-drives are measured in Base 10 multiples of bytes while RAM is measured in Base 2 multiples of bytes.
Sorry about the 10^5 mistake. It definitely is 10^9, though my value for a gibibyte was correct.
Hardrives are measured in bytes, 10^5 bytes is a gigabyte. However, memory is also measured in bytes, 2^30 bytes is a gibibyte (although often refered to as a gigabyte).
The parents shouldn't be given enough money to become rich but, in the case that the vaccines did cause the child to be autistic, they should be given money to assist with treating their child's autism.
I think that if there really are as many iPad competitors as the article suggests that it could possibly do a lot to improve the iPad. If most consumers really want an open application marketplace and they show it with their wallets, Apple may be forced to loosen up their control over the App Store.
Being careless with a car and making a dangerous object accessable are two different things. Driving while reading, resulting in someone's death, is comparable to shooting a gun with your eyes closed. Leaving a gun on a table is the same as leaving your car unlocked with the keys in the ignition. Vehicular manslughter and leaving a gun on a table, even with the safety off, are not even close to being the same thing.
It makes sense for a school to try to protect their property and ensure that it is used for good purposes (studying as opposed to pron), but how would spying on the students ever protect their property?
The really disturbing thing about this isn't that the school could remotely activate the webcams, it's that they did, and they used that power to invade their student's privacy. Besides, the person actually doing the spying must have some serious issues.
In every Humanities class I've ever been, the teachers always try to convey that humans just continually rehash ideas that other people thought up. That people use others ideas to such an extent that almost everything we do is a derivative work. The reuse of ideas, or even small sentences or clips of music, to come up with new works has come to be known as "Fair Use".
I've never read the book in question or any of the books that were "sampled" into it, so it would be idiotic for me to comment as to whether it's Fair Use or not. If she used passages from many books and she included quite a bit of her own writing, then there is nothing wrong with her book. In fact, if her story was original enough there would be no reason for her to even cite the authors she borrowed from.
This is still not what I wanted the iPad to be. I wanted a slate form-factor, laptop comparable specs, non-proprietary ports (USB), a stylus interface, and a slick, new OS. I got a big iPod Touch and a laptop that turns into a big iPod Touch; I don't think I'll buy either.
Just make the punishment for cheating sufficiently harsh. You cheat.. you get kicked out. Simple.
Most universities kick students out as soon as they are caught cheating. If the cheaters try to go to apply to another school, the last question on the app is usually "Have you ever been disciplined for Academic Dishonesty?", to which answering "yes" is an auto-fail.
Although I worded it particularly oddly, I meant to say that I don't know anyone who works at a large, or even midsize, company that primarily uses Macs. You are correct to point out that Apple computers used to dominate in the 80's, though I know a former Kaypro employee who would dispute that.
I agree that Macs tend to cost less over time, but I was trying to point out that the initial costs (computers, training, etc.) would be higher than if the company used PCs.
I've never heard of anyone who works at a company that uses Macs. The company I work at uses PCs exclusively, and probably saves quite a bit of money by doing so. My work PC has never crashed, has never had a virus, runs relatively fast, and was probably quite cheap. I do have to have an IT person mess with computer every now and then, and thats usually because a poorly written application fails and needs to be reinstalled.
For most businesses switching to Macs would require new IT people, retraining of employees, and finding applications that function in OS X. The computers would also likely cost considerably more than PCs.
When the computers are doing all of the intellectual work what will people do? I doubt that factory jobs would be prevalent as the employees would be replaced by robots. Will we simply laze about all day posting on Slashdot? Or, will our robot overlords kill all of us? It seems like the easy solution would be not to develop advanced AI, it's not going to develop itself...yet.
I really hope we get this electric car thing figured out soon because I am just about sick of following smoke belching vehicles every day.
The electrical components of my gas burning vehicle shorted and caused the rest of the vehicle to be consumed by flames in a very smokey manner, certainly smokier than other car I've observed. As the electric parts of the car were responsible for said fire, it seems resonable that electric cars will burst into flames more often than gas burning cars. Therefore, it can be logically deduced that electric cars will result in much more smoke than the fossil fueled alternatives.
Apple should just drop the iPad, start doing some mad R&D, and come up with a product people actually want with a respectable name like iSlate or iTablet.
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I hate that I always have to buy a new power brick if one breaks even though I have dozens of the things from other laptops.
Where I live, people like to buy season tickets to sporting events, keep the tickets to the games they can actually attend, and sell the others at a discount. Because of this, I went to a hockey game where tickets cost $40, but I only paid $25.
Sound like they're using their monopoly possition to their advantage over the competition... If this were the other way around you'd be crying for government action against MS.
Have you ever used Microsoft Office for Mac? It's just as bad and you actually have to pay for it.
Note: I do think that Apple really needs to improve iTunes on Windows.
It doesn't matter how big your credit limit is, it matters how many credit cards you have. Basically, they wouldn't sell more than two iPads to the same credit card while that limit was in effect.
No, he has proven that Nintendo isn't taking advantage of available markets. If Nintendo made their games available on the Android Market, he would actually have the opputunity to pay for them.
Hard-drives are usually refered to as "storage" as opposed to "memory". The reason I used both of them in my example was to point out that hard-drives are measured in Base 10 multiples of bytes while RAM is measured in Base 2 multiples of bytes.
Sorry about the 10^5 mistake. It definitely is 10^9, though my value for a gibibyte was correct.
Unfortunately, I fail at math today. I realized it was wrong as soon as I clicked submit...but it was already too late.
Hardrives are measured in bytes, 10^5 bytes is a gigabyte. However, memory is also measured in bytes, 2^30 bytes is a gibibyte (although often refered to as a gigabyte).
The parents shouldn't be given enough money to become rich but, in the case that the vaccines did cause the child to be autistic, they should be given money to assist with treating their child's autism.
I think that if there really are as many iPad competitors as the article suggests that it could possibly do a lot to improve the iPad. If most consumers really want an open application marketplace and they show it with their wallets, Apple may be forced to loosen up their control over the App Store.
Employing a person full-time for $55/hr could potentially cost more than paying a person $128/hr only when they are nedded.
Being careless with a car and making a dangerous object accessable are two different things. Driving while reading, resulting in someone's death, is comparable to shooting a gun with your eyes closed. Leaving a gun on a table is the same as leaving your car unlocked with the keys in the ignition. Vehicular manslughter and leaving a gun on a table, even with the safety off, are not even close to being the same thing.
I knew it was bad when hand sanitizer started popping up all over the place.
It makes sense for a school to try to protect their property and ensure that it is used for good purposes (studying as opposed to pron), but how would spying on the students ever protect their property?
The really disturbing thing about this isn't that the school could remotely activate the webcams, it's that they did, and they used that power to invade their student's privacy. Besides, the person actually doing the spying must have some serious issues.
In every Humanities class I've ever been, the teachers always try to convey that humans just continually rehash ideas that other people thought up. That people use others ideas to such an extent that almost everything we do is a derivative work. The reuse of ideas, or even small sentences or clips of music, to come up with new works has come to be known as "Fair Use".
I've never read the book in question or any of the books that were "sampled" into it, so it would be idiotic for me to comment as to whether it's Fair Use or not. If she used passages from many books and she included quite a bit of her own writing, then there is nothing wrong with her book. In fact, if her story was original enough there would be no reason for her to even cite the authors she borrowed from.
This is still not what I wanted the iPad to be. I wanted a slate form-factor, laptop comparable specs, non-proprietary ports (USB), a stylus interface, and a slick, new OS. I got a big iPod Touch and a laptop that turns into a big iPod Touch; I don't think I'll buy either.
Just make the punishment for cheating sufficiently harsh. You cheat.. you get kicked out. Simple.
Most universities kick students out as soon as they are caught cheating. If the cheaters try to go to apply to another school, the last question on the app is usually "Have you ever been disciplined for Academic Dishonesty?", to which answering "yes" is an auto-fail.
Although I worded it particularly oddly, I meant to say that I don't know anyone who works at a large, or even midsize, company that primarily uses Macs. You are correct to point out that Apple computers used to dominate in the 80's, though I know a former Kaypro employee who would dispute that.
I agree that Macs tend to cost less over time, but I was trying to point out that the initial costs (computers, training, etc.) would be higher than if the company used PCs.
I've never heard of anyone who works at a company that uses Macs. The company I work at uses PCs exclusively, and probably saves quite a bit of money by doing so. My work PC has never crashed, has never had a virus, runs relatively fast, and was probably quite cheap. I do have to have an IT person mess with computer every now and then, and thats usually because a poorly written application fails and needs to be reinstalled. For most businesses switching to Macs would require new IT people, retraining of employees, and finding applications that function in OS X. The computers would also likely cost considerably more than PCs.
When the computers are doing all of the intellectual work what will people do? I doubt that factory jobs would be prevalent as the employees would be replaced by robots. Will we simply laze about all day posting on Slashdot? Or, will our robot overlords kill all of us? It seems like the easy solution would be not to develop advanced AI, it's not going to develop itself...yet.
I really hope we get this electric car thing figured out soon because I am just about sick of following smoke belching vehicles every day.
The electrical components of my gas burning vehicle shorted and caused the rest of the vehicle to be consumed by flames in a very smokey manner, certainly smokier than other car I've observed. As the electric parts of the car were responsible for said fire, it seems resonable that electric cars will burst into flames more often than gas burning cars. Therefore, it can be logically deduced that electric cars will result in much more smoke than the fossil fueled alternatives.
This must be why people can think up a comeback before I'm finished with the original joke.
The first thing I thought of was OCZ's Neural Impulse Actuator...then I read the part about "restoring vision to the blind".
Apple should just drop the iPad, start doing some mad R&D, and come up with a product people actually want with a respectable name like iSlate or iTablet.
I'm struggling to see how your opinion relates to GM selling Saab to Spyker...