Apple excels at creating beauty, in both hardware and software (BTW, I'm using an Imac right now). This iPad is no exception. My only question is: Will I be able to put my own Operating System on it?
The old G3,G4,G5 macs were open enough so that I could load my own OS on them (sometimes BSD, sometimes Linux). The same goes with the current Intel macs. While I sometimes marvel at the beauty of OS X and how Apple has created a user friendly UNIX, I want more freedom.
Unless Apple is open enough to let us (the minority) play and tinker with the internals so that we can install an OS that might be visually inferior(to most) but is philosophically superior, unless Apple can allow us to do this - I will never buy one.
I will patiently wait until the other players create a tablet that will run x86.
All the other stuff in the article is not much use to me, all I need is make; make install.
Oh freddled gruntbuggly?thy micturations are to me As plurdled gabbleblotchis on a lurgid bee. Groop I implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes. And hooptiously drangle me with crinkly bindlewurdles, Or I will rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon, see if I don't!
That's the first thing I'm gonna try translating, if and when I get to use this.
I upgraded everything, but still found that it took very long to begin loading a page. A heavily 'ad-laden' page has to make many DNS queries before the page even starts to appear. Google DNS is an order of magnitude faster than the one provided with my Bell WiMax.
But make sure you test it first. Your ISP's DNS might not be as bad as mine.
In some parts of Europe all writing is (or at least was) in fountain pen. In some parts of North America, most students never see a fountain pen, yet alone use it.
And the way students are taught is different as well. In Europe(at least some parts), first students learn to hand-write, then print, the opposite happens in North America. Recently (in some parts of North America)there has been talk about hand-writing being phased out.
I don't want to seem like a troll, but while you did mention HP twice in your post you also said that previously you used a Fountain pen for note-taking.
If you know how to use a fountain pen, chances are your writing is far better than the majority of the (younger)population out there, many of whom have never even seen a fountain pen. Therefore your experience with hand writing recognition software will be different than most. But can you elaborate on what software you use?
Every single hour the Internet HoneyGrid scans some 40 million websites for malicious code as well as 10 million emails for unwanted content and malicious code.
So 40 million sites per hour is 960 million sites per day. While wikipedia says that there over 25 billion pages but can that number be accurate?
Based on... what? The non peer reviewed and questionable paper they used to show they aren't melting?
I don't think I know what you're talking about. What paper (peer reviewed or otherwise) showed that they are not melting?
Interesting how people will complain about a problem with a large study, but ignore those same problems with the study the supports the belief.
What large study? 35 year quote that was used by a magazine, and then quoted in the report.
I sure as hell hope those glaciers are still there for you grand kids to enjoy. If the paper they based criticism is true, the glaciers wont' be there for you grand children, children.
Perhaps you haven't heard, but according to some scientists, global warming is taking a break I think it's safe to say that the glaciers will still be there.
My Bias? facts as the current data support them. The few errors in a study this large really isn't unexpected. Science. Sadly, instead of learning context of the error, it's impact, and what part of the IPCC it occurred in, people jump to their pet belief and how this mistake 'proves' the other hundreds of papers are wrong.
For science to truly be science, it must be unbiased. When science is used to manipulate people, and all those scientists with views to the contrary are shunned and gagged, it ceases to be science - and becomes an abomination.
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Iran Suspends Google's Email Service
In Iran I presume
I thought that Iran was on the US trade embargo list.
My employer hasn't switched from IE6.
It's OK, your new employer might use IE8.
(my employer doesn't know I have a netbook here, I get to use Firefox :)
Why should Apple spend development time on something that only the vast minority of potential users, I'd estimate at >1%, will want to do?
Without that (less than) 1% who run FreeBSD where would OS X be?
I'm just hoping.
Apple excels at creating beauty, in both hardware and software (BTW, I'm using an Imac right now). This iPad is no exception.
My only question is: Will I be able to put my own Operating System on it?
The old G3,G4,G5 macs were open enough so that I could load my own OS on them (sometimes BSD, sometimes Linux).
The same goes with the current Intel macs.
While I sometimes marvel at the beauty of OS X and how Apple has created a user friendly UNIX, I want more freedom.
Unless Apple is open enough to let us (the minority) play and tinker with the internals so that we can install an OS that
might be visually inferior(to most) but is philosophically superior, unless Apple can allow us to do this - I will never buy one.
I will patiently wait until the other players create a tablet that will run x86.
All the other stuff in the article is not much use to me, all I need is make; make install.
I've learned so much from games.
Everything, from Tetris to GTA (my favorite).
I'm even thinking about writing a book about it once I get paroled.
What if your virus (biological) detecting chip gets a virus (computer)?
They will swap (hex)base pairs and result in a silicone/biological hybrid intent on destroying its human creators.
Sorta like Skynet.
That way you wouldn't need to worry about vir...
Oh,
sorry.
Oh freddled gruntbuggly?thy micturations are to me
As plurdled gabbleblotchis on a lurgid bee.
Groop I implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes.
And hooptiously drangle me with crinkly bindlewurdles,
Or I will rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon,
see if I don't!
That's the first thing I'm gonna try translating, if and when I get to use this.
(I hope the warranty covers everything)
Are you crazy? Dihydrogen monoxide kills over 4000 people a year in the US alone!
Replace the 'dihydrogen monoxide' with 'hydroxyethane'.
It might not improve things, but it seems like more fun.
First
"New Material Transforms Car Bodies Into Batteries"
After that
"Body Heat Energy Generation"
Then we're all turned into batteries and the Matrix begins
No,No,No...
Snakes make most girls run away.
Try google DNS.
No, I'm not joking.
I upgraded everything, but still found that it took very long to begin loading a page.
A heavily 'ad-laden' page has to make many DNS queries before the page even starts to appear.
Google DNS is an order of magnitude faster than the one provided with my Bell WiMax.
But make sure you test it first. Your ISP's DNS might not be as bad as mine.
That is utter nonsense.
There must be some mathematical equation or perl or ruby script involved somewhere.
In some parts of Europe all writing is (or at least was) in fountain pen. In some parts of North America, most students never see a fountain pen, yet alone use it.
And the way students are taught is different as well. In Europe(at least some parts), first students learn to hand-write, then print, the opposite happens in North America. Recently (in some parts of North America)there has been talk about hand-writing being phased out.
I don't want to seem like a troll, but while you did mention HP twice in your post you also said that previously you used a Fountain pen for note-taking.
If you know how to use a fountain pen, chances are your writing is far better than the majority of the (younger)population out there, many of whom have never even seen a fountain pen. Therefore your experience with hand writing recognition software will be different than most.
But can you elaborate on what software you use?
I'm just going to take an etch-a-sketch to one of my classes and take notes with it.
Think Different(R)
Every single hour the Internet HoneyGrid scans some 40 million websites for malicious code as well as 10 million emails for unwanted content and malicious code.
So 40 million sites per hour is 960 million sites per day. While wikipedia says that there over 25 billion pages but can that number be accurate?
That is so untrue. There is value in what I write.
American components, Russian components... all made in Taiwan!
Lev Andropov.
Bluetooth is just another version of wifi.
The bluetooth frequencies range from 2.402GHz to 2.480GHz
Just the power output is different.
mom... howd u know i was on /. better yet howd u know my user name....
Moms just know.
It's one of those 'eyes in the back of your head' things.
I remember my mom...
She wasn't at all pleased.
But now with DSL you can see so many more pictures than with dial-up.
Let's call it the Cicada bug.
A Cicada has a life-cycle of 17 years.
Now Microsoft is about to squash it.
Is this a record(for a bug that's "known about" anyways?
A while ago OpenBSD developer found a 33 year old bug.
It depends on your definition of "known about" I guess.
Based on... what? The non peer reviewed and questionable paper they used to show they aren't melting?
I don't think I know what you're talking about. What paper (peer reviewed or otherwise) showed that they are not melting?
Interesting how people will complain about a problem with a large study, but ignore those same problems with the study the supports the belief.
What large study? 35 year quote that was used by a magazine, and then quoted in the report.
I sure as hell hope those glaciers are still there for you grand kids to enjoy. If the paper they based criticism is true, the glaciers wont' be there for you grand children, children.
Perhaps you haven't heard, but according to some scientists, global warming is taking a break
I think it's safe to say that the glaciers will still be there.
My Bias? facts as the current data support them. The few errors in a study this large really isn't unexpected. Science. Sadly, instead of learning context of the error, it's impact, and what part of the IPCC it occurred in, people jump to their pet belief and how this mistake 'proves' the other hundreds of papers are wrong.
For science to truly be science, it must be unbiased. When science is used to manipulate people, and all those scientists with views to the contrary are shunned and gagged, it ceases to be science - and becomes an abomination.
... written by hundreds of individuals = "climate evangelism". Apparently.
No, preaching something that doesn't exist and then claiming that science supports what you preach is "climate evangelism".
I'm looking forward to visiting those glaciers with my great-grandkids.