I'm so freaking excited about this! I'm actually giddy just thinking about the day this comes out! I cannot wait to stay home and completely ignore it!
"Safely" is the key word, imho. There's no reliable data (ie, not provided by the manufacturers of the devices themselves) as to the level of x-ray exposure and the long term effects of repeated exposures. There's no way to know how "safe" they are until longitudinal studies can be completed and that takes a long time. In the mean time, it's "take our word for it." I'd rather not.
You are so stupid and ignorant, your company deserves to go under just for having you on the payroll.
Thank you for your assessment. Please remove Steve Jobs' dick from your ass before posting next time.
Re:Makes up for all the things lacking in iPad1?
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The business case for the iPad (in our company anyway) would include (a) running bespoke apps to hook into our transaction processing system so reps in the field could enter orders from customer premises directly and/or query order/inventory status for customers while on site, and (b) giving presentations while on site at customers. Most projectors accept hdmi in. As is, via the adapter they could show presentations with projectors but it's yet one more type of specialized cable they have to keep track of instead of a relatively cheap standard short HDMI cable. And it's a PITA and stupid and one more way Apple tries to nickle and dime you, imho.
The removable storage is less for putting things ON the damn thing and more for getting things OFF of it. Like after you've given your presentation and the customer says that was great can you copy it to my USB thumb drive here so I can show it to the CEO later. Yes, you can just say "I'll email it to you" but many e-mail systems limit the size of attachments to 10MB or under and some large presentations and PDFs with lots of embedded images go over that but still well under the limits of even the smallest USB thumb drives. Also, SD card for holding/loading said bespoke apps in standardized/manageable ways, etc.
I can't imagine we'd put iPads directly on our corporate network. But most of our salespeople do have laptops and VPN connections. Replacing those with something smaller, lighter, still able to get e-mail on and run necessary apps and give presentations and do the things they do now...that is also less easy for them to get "YOU HAVE A VIRUS! CLICK HERE TO GIVE US YOUR CREDIT CARD INFO!!!!" phishing trojan crap on is desirable. But iPads don't really fit the bill as of right now.
Plus, considering our corporate web site is now flash heavy (don't blame me, I tried but it's out of my control), it'd be kind of stupid to give our salespeople devices that couldn't even pull up our own company's web site. (Oh...and you're 100% right about iTunes.)
Yeah, but does it have an app that will build you an island and fucking transform it into a jet and fly you there?
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You beat me to it. Those two things right there contribute to making the iPad a no go in our corporate environment even though some of our senior management loves the shiny things. USB Host port plz. And not via a fscking apple port adapter. Put a native USB port and native SD slot (with HC and preferably XC support) and a native HDMI out on the sucker. Then maybe we'll get the SDK, port some bespoke apps and start equipping our sales reps with these things.
Until then, hey, they're cool for checking the weather forecast from my couch.
First off: "We trust that AT&T will not take it personally"
Hahahaha! That's like a big middle finger stuck right into the ruling. Nice!
Now that I got that out of my system...the whole corporate personhood thing is such a farce anyway. A corporation is nothing but a group of people. It could be one person or 100,000 people. But if you remove all the people from the corporation, can it make a decision? Can it sign a piece of paper? Can it continue to function at all? NO.
What's worse: the idea that people do things "on behalf" of corporations. Such as the fallacy that a corporation is to blame and not the person who does the wrong thing and rationalizes "I'm not a sociopath because I decided to pollute that river with toxic waste then obstruct justice during the investigation by shredding all those documents on behalf of the corporation."
Corporations don't commit crimes. People do. Maybe it's "on behalf of" the corporation. But it's always a person doing the deed.
Again, a corporation is its people. It's not its own person.
This one time when there was a teacher in a rural town way back when. She taught in a one room school house. One day she went out into the town square and loudly proclaimed for all the towns folk to hear how stupid her students were. She was sacked.
Then a new teacher was hired. Whenever her small group of close friends came over for a dinner party, she would tell them all how stupid her students were in the privacy of her own home. She kept her job.
If you don't like your students, that's fine. You can think they are all dumb as a box of rocks even. And you are welcome to rant about them in private. But in public, unless you want to lose your job, keep your fool mouth shut.
No, the point is FOSS will help us become an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We'll take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week But all the decision of that officer have to be ratified at a special biweekly meeting. By a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs, but by a two-thirds majority in the case of more...
I was cursing at it just the other day. FC14 says there are some updates, so I look at them and nothing seemingly troublesome is in the list. After the update, howerver, my @#%)@#% ATI video drivers stop working with Wine. OpenGL still works fine in Linux, but after the update, I had to reinstall video drivers to get Wine to let me play guild wars.
Or how about the time a week or so before that on the same FC14 host when VirtualBox was being a PITA about allowing XP in a guest VM access a plugged in USB flash drive. Gee, on Windows hosts I just plug it in and LO AND F-ING BEHOLD, IT WORKS IN THE GUEST VM! But no, not on Linux. There's some god-forsaken filter bullshit that has to be set up and/or some issue with group privileges and proper rights and yada yada yada. I DON'T FREAKING CARE. JUST LET ME USE MY F-ING FLASH DRIVE.
Of course, my Win7 office PC gets cursed at daily. If not for something stupid with the OS, for some stupidly behaved app. For instance, why the fsck does Excel put cells with commas in them inside quotes when saving a file TAB DELIMITED? Sure, when saving a file as a CSV, please put quotes around the text fields, ESPECIALLY ones with commas in them. But TAB delimited? Now I have to remove those quotes from the file. One more F-ing step for me to get this data formatted the way our ERP system wants it in order to import it. Thanks for that boneheaded logic Microsoft. F@#$(T@$T@O@)~!!!!
Just the simple fact that they're going berserk like this makes me want to go find the exploit info and post it in as many places as possible...behind 7 proxies.
1. See interesting but slightly too small pic on web page
2. scroll wheel to zoom the page
3. IMAGE NO LONGER VIEWABLE BECAUSE ASSHATS ARE AFRAID YOU'LL COPY IT.
A new study published today on Slashdot conducted in my mind on hypothetical children in grades third, fourth, seventh and eighth claims that almost all of those suffer mental health problems.
The video game part is irrelevant. Not as confident about the 3rd/4th graders but I don't know many middle school kids who aren't at least moderately depressed. They are in middle school, for christ's sake.
Okay, I'm late to the party what with over 400 comments already. But I was just commenting the other day about how Facebook is the new AOL. Remember back in its heyday when every company, every TV commercial, every everything said "AOL keyword BLAHBLAHBLAH" at the end? Notice how now every company, every TV commercial, and every everything now says "Like us at Facebook.com/BLAHBLAHBLAH" ?
Everything old is new again. It's the circle of life. And Facebook will eventually go the same way as AOL. It's already started.
"the details of the designs have been lost or forgotten. While there have been great efforts to reverse engineer the 6502 from the outside, there has not been the hardware equivalent of the source code — until now"
Heeere we are!!! Born to be kings! We're the Princes of the Universe...
Yeah, should've redacted that one I would think. That's irresponsible. I'd say they can easily identify the one person who fits that description and do all kinds of nasty things to him and/or his family.
No actually. I don't/didn't know it. I haven't read any of the cables themselves. Only the press coverage. I've missed any coverage of that. I'll look deeper into it though.
I'm guessing you heard/read something about Wikileaks releasing something about "British-educated engineers from a prominent pre-revolution Isfahan family that owned a large Iranian factory and were once Iranian national fencing champion and former president of the Iran Fencing Association, and former vice-president of an Azerbaijan sports association" in regards to protests inside Iran.
Do you have a link to an article or anything about that? Or am I to take your word for it? I don't think Wikileaks wants to put any person in physical danger and I don't support any of their actions that do. But evidence is key. I need evidence that they released such info and it has indeed put said person/people in danger. Do you have such evidence?
...when Assange decides it's a good idea to reveal the identity of an important Iranian political protester...
I searched on google and ixquick but could find no reference to wikileaks divulging the name of iranian protestors. Could you provide a citation or link to an article that backs up your assertion? Could you provide a single link anywhere that says information published by Wikileaks has led to a single death?
Because I hear this mantra all the time but have yet to find a single shred of evidence to back it up. So it would appear to be more of the same: fear mongering to shut people up.
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I'm so freaking excited about this! I'm actually giddy just thinking about the day this comes out! I cannot wait to stay home and completely ignore it!
You're right. I do know. We purchased two for IT to test and essentially play around with to see how/if we could fit them into our environment.
And, sure thing. "Custom apps" is fine with me. Any particular reason you dislike "bespoke" though?
"Safely" is the key word, imho. There's no reliable data (ie, not provided by the manufacturers of the devices themselves) as to the level of x-ray exposure and the long term effects of repeated exposures. There's no way to know how "safe" they are until longitudinal studies can be completed and that takes a long time. In the mean time, it's "take our word for it." I'd rather not.
Thank you for your assessment. Please remove Steve Jobs' dick from your ass before posting next time.
The business case for the iPad (in our company anyway) would include (a) running bespoke apps to hook into our transaction processing system so reps in the field could enter orders from customer premises directly and/or query order/inventory status for customers while on site, and (b) giving presentations while on site at customers. Most projectors accept hdmi in. As is, via the adapter they could show presentations with projectors but it's yet one more type of specialized cable they have to keep track of instead of a relatively cheap standard short HDMI cable. And it's a PITA and stupid and one more way Apple tries to nickle and dime you, imho.
The removable storage is less for putting things ON the damn thing and more for getting things OFF of it. Like after you've given your presentation and the customer says that was great can you copy it to my USB thumb drive here so I can show it to the CEO later. Yes, you can just say "I'll email it to you" but many e-mail systems limit the size of attachments to 10MB or under and some large presentations and PDFs with lots of embedded images go over that but still well under the limits of even the smallest USB thumb drives. Also, SD card for holding/loading said bespoke apps in standardized/manageable ways, etc.
I can't imagine we'd put iPads directly on our corporate network. But most of our salespeople do have laptops and VPN connections. Replacing those with something smaller, lighter, still able to get e-mail on and run necessary apps and give presentations and do the things they do now...that is also less easy for them to get "YOU HAVE A VIRUS! CLICK HERE TO GIVE US YOUR CREDIT CARD INFO!!!!" phishing trojan crap on is desirable. But iPads don't really fit the bill as of right now.
Plus, considering our corporate web site is now flash heavy (don't blame me, I tried but it's out of my control), it'd be kind of stupid to give our salespeople devices that couldn't even pull up our own company's web site. (Oh...and you're 100% right about iTunes.)
Yeah, but does it have an app that will build you an island and fucking transform it into a jet and fly you there?
You beat me to it. Those two things right there contribute to making the iPad a no go in our corporate environment even though some of our senior management loves the shiny things. USB Host port plz. And not via a fscking apple port adapter. Put a native USB port and native SD slot (with HC and preferably XC support) and a native HDMI out on the sucker. Then maybe we'll get the SDK, port some bespoke apps and start equipping our sales reps with these things.
Until then, hey, they're cool for checking the weather forecast from my couch.
First off: "We trust that AT&T will not take it personally"
Hahahaha! That's like a big middle finger stuck right into the ruling. Nice!
Now that I got that out of my system...the whole corporate personhood thing is such a farce anyway. A corporation is nothing but a group of people. It could be one person or 100,000 people. But if you remove all the people from the corporation, can it make a decision? Can it sign a piece of paper? Can it continue to function at all? NO.
What's worse: the idea that people do things "on behalf" of corporations. Such as the fallacy that a corporation is to blame and not the person who does the wrong thing and rationalizes "I'm not a sociopath because I decided to pollute that river with toxic waste then obstruct justice during the investigation by shredding all those documents on behalf of the corporation."
Corporations don't commit crimes. People do. Maybe it's "on behalf of" the corporation. But it's always a person doing the deed.
Again, a corporation is its people. It's not its own person.
This one time when there was a teacher in a rural town way back when. She taught in a one room school house. One day she went out into the town square and loudly proclaimed for all the towns folk to hear how stupid her students were. She was sacked.
Then a new teacher was hired. Whenever her small group of close friends came over for a dinner party, she would tell them all how stupid her students were in the privacy of her own home. She kept her job.
If you don't like your students, that's fine. You can think they are all dumb as a box of rocks even. And you are welcome to rant about them in private. But in public, unless you want to lose your job, keep your fool mouth shut.
I love the responders who missed the clue bus.
No, the point is FOSS will help us become an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We'll take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week But all the decision of that officer have to be ratified at a special biweekly meeting. By a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs, but by a two-thirds majority in the case of more...
I was cursing at it just the other day. FC14 says there are some updates, so I look at them and nothing seemingly troublesome is in the list. After the update, howerver, my @#%)@#% ATI video drivers stop working with Wine. OpenGL still works fine in Linux, but after the update, I had to reinstall video drivers to get Wine to let me play guild wars.
Or how about the time a week or so before that on the same FC14 host when VirtualBox was being a PITA about allowing XP in a guest VM access a plugged in USB flash drive. Gee, on Windows hosts I just plug it in and LO AND F-ING BEHOLD, IT WORKS IN THE GUEST VM! But no, not on Linux. There's some god-forsaken filter bullshit that has to be set up and/or some issue with group privileges and proper rights and yada yada yada. I DON'T FREAKING CARE. JUST LET ME USE MY F-ING FLASH DRIVE.
Of course, my Win7 office PC gets cursed at daily. If not for something stupid with the OS, for some stupidly behaved app. For instance, why the fsck does Excel put cells with commas in them inside quotes when saving a file TAB DELIMITED? Sure, when saving a file as a CSV, please put quotes around the text fields, ESPECIALLY ones with commas in them. But TAB delimited? Now I have to remove those quotes from the file. One more F-ing step for me to get this data formatted the way our ERP system wants it in order to import it. Thanks for that boneheaded logic Microsoft. F@#$(T@$T@O@)~!!!!
I'm a 39%-er.
I'm a lawyer!
He's a lawyer!
She's a lawyer!
We're a lawyer!
Wouldn't you like to be a lawyer? SUE!
Just the simple fact that they're going berserk like this makes me want to go find the exploit info and post it in as many places as possible...behind 7 proxies.
1. See interesting but slightly too small pic on web page
2. scroll wheel to zoom the page
3. IMAGE NO LONGER VIEWABLE BECAUSE ASSHATS ARE AFRAID YOU'LL COPY IT.
Hey, has anybody said anything witty about Egypt yet?
Remember, I said witty.
See: http://i.imgur.com/MUQZL.jpg (re: difference between purchased DVD and pirated copy)
A new study published today on Slashdot conducted in my mind on hypothetical children in grades third, fourth, seventh and eighth claims that almost all of those suffer mental health problems.
The video game part is irrelevant. Not as confident about the 3rd/4th graders but I don't know many middle school kids who aren't at least moderately depressed. They are in middle school, for christ's sake.
Okay, I'm late to the party what with over 400 comments already. But I was just commenting the other day about how Facebook is the new AOL. Remember back in its heyday when every company, every TV commercial, every everything said "AOL keyword BLAHBLAHBLAH" at the end? Notice how now every company, every TV commercial, and every everything now says "Like us at Facebook.com/BLAHBLAHBLAH" ?
Everything old is new again. It's the circle of life. And Facebook will eventually go the same way as AOL. It's already started.
Heeere we are!!! Born to be kings! We're the Princes of the Universe...
Come on...am I the only one who thougth of that?
When the laptop goes all hinky how do I press CTRL+ALT+DEL?
Found it: http://ibnlive.in.com/news/wikileaks-cablegate-some-indianorigin-people-supplying-equipment-to-iran/136079-53.html
Yeah, should've redacted that one I would think. That's irresponsible. I'd say they can easily identify the one person who fits that description and do all kinds of nasty things to him and/or his family.
No actually. I don't/didn't know it. I haven't read any of the cables themselves. Only the press coverage. I've missed any coverage of that. I'll look deeper into it though.
I'm guessing you heard/read something about Wikileaks releasing something about "British-educated engineers from a prominent pre-revolution Isfahan family that owned a large Iranian factory and were once Iranian national fencing champion and former president of the Iran Fencing Association, and former vice-president of an Azerbaijan sports association" in regards to protests inside Iran.
Do you have a link to an article or anything about that? Or am I to take your word for it? I don't think Wikileaks wants to put any person in physical danger and I don't support any of their actions that do. But evidence is key. I need evidence that they released such info and it has indeed put said person/people in danger. Do you have such evidence?
I searched on google and ixquick but could find no reference to wikileaks divulging the name of iranian protestors. Could you provide a citation or link to an article that backs up your assertion? Could you provide a single link anywhere that says information published by Wikileaks has led to a single death?
Because I hear this mantra all the time but have yet to find a single shred of evidence to back it up. So it would appear to be more of the same: fear mongering to shut people up.