That surprises you? Really? This is Apple we're talking about. They'll put a non standard port on their devices, then happily sell you a bevy of stylish white plastic adapters for $30 a pop.
I'm a system administrator. I didn't go to college. I'm more competent than most of my peers that did go to college.
Why is it that only IT workers tend to have this position? "I'm the top of my field and I never went to college. Therefore college is worthless for everyone"
How come I never hear from physicists, biologists, or chemists who are at the top of their field and never spent a day in college?
Maybe IT belongs in a trade school and not a university?
c) isn't necessary. If a,b,d, and e are true it's till in our best interest to stop it. Just because our extinction is natural, doesn't mean we have to accept it.
The UI is identical to the Zune HD, which I find far superior to the iPod in terms of usability. The grid of icons fits a single-app centric UI nicely, but that's not what microsoft is going for here. The metro UI is task-based, where similar tasks are grouped into hubs, and each page of the hub acts almost like an independent yet related app. Personally, I feel like interaction with the metro UI is very fluid (you flow from one task to the next), whereas the iPod UI is very isolated (you start and stop tasks continually)
Which sound like a much better model that "All apps are free." This lowers the barrier of entry for the one-off app dev, but makes it very expensive for the cookie-cutter app devs to operate.
I'm aware of this, but the response I got was it would be too slow, and it only accepts words, not drawings or scribbles.
I think the bottom line was it didn't fit her reading style and she wasn't about to conform to it. A lot of the more traditional readers in my family feel the same way.
My girlfriend is an English major, and reads maybe a book a week. I wanted to get her a Kindle, but she told me not to because she can't write in them; marking up the books is essential for when she goes back to write papers, so she remembers her thoughts at the time of reading.
I use my tablet PC for my textbooks, and write in them using digital ink. I was looking forward to doing this on the iPad, but sadly there is not digitizer. (writing with your finger or a capacitive pen just doesn't cut it)
I think they need to spend more time in field tests with the actual device.
Except that the Apple culture/mystique thrives on secrecy; the more you're out in the field, the more likely people are going to spot you testing the new iDevice. They went so far as disguising the iPhone 4 as an iPhone 3GS to test in the field, ironically shielding it from the problem they were trying to find.
You are clearly making up a story that you'd really like to believe.
I'm glad you noticed the part where he said "I believe." His story is the most believable, considering what we know about Apple and their attitude toward design; not many companies have an executive design position. The alternative to his story is that no one at Apple, through all the design, engineering, and testing never encountered or fathomed the idea that touching an antenna would fuck with the signal. I personally find that hard to believe, but if it's true maybe I should send in my resume.
Apple wasn't producing immaculate products from Heaven before
Apple certainly isn't guilt free from raising expectations for their products. I mean, just look at the product page for the iPhone. "This changes everything. Again."
After reading their marketing language, describing their products as "magical" and "revolutionary," when you realize the product is just another gizmo with associated gizmo flaws it's natural to be disenchanted and a little angry.
Touching the iPhone 4 antenna in a very specific way so as to cause reception to drop temporarily
Except the antenna is on the perimeter of the device. Touching it is almost unavoidable, and the reception drop may be temporary, but it has been shown to be enough to drop calls reproducibly depending on ambient signal strength.
I think it's more like saying when my hands are at 10 and 2 on my steering wheel, my car won't go as fast as it will when they're at 7 and 4. Depending on where I am, the car might even completely stop.
If the manufacturer came out and said "Just don't hold the wheel at 10 and 2", is that acceptable?
The most sensible thing to do is both shout and return the product. If Apple doesn't know why people are returning their iPhones, iPhone 5 will have the same problems.
If the command centre operator cannot identify possible intruders through the robot's audio or video communications system, the operator can order it to fire its gun or 40mm automatic grenade launcher.'
If the operator is doing all the decision making, doesn't that just make this a fancy remote control car with weapons on top? Like battle bots? I think this would be more chilling if the robot was making the kill decision, but humans killing each other is nothing new
There are services which make an app for you. Essentially they offer templates where you can fill in the info you want. You'll find these apps in the form of quote lists, picture slideshows, and sound boards. Developers like Brighthouse Labs do this, and their app count reachers into the thousands.
I'm not saying that enabling novice developers will make the signal/nose ratio any better; I'm simply saying even without them it's so bad their presence wouldn't be anything new
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It's a great way to clear inventory for when they release the new version in a month.
then the $350 Toshiba with the two year old CPU is good enough.
If you want an old CPU, the newly refreshed Macbook Pro with a Core 2 Duo would work too. Of course it'll still cost you $1200.
That surprises you? Really? This is Apple we're talking about. They'll put a non standard port on their devices, then happily sell you a bevy of stylish white plastic adapters for $30 a pop.
So government only fucks things up unless it doesn't fuck things up, those times don't count. Gotcha.
This is slashdot, where "read the flipping article" has been repeated so much, it needed to be acronymitized.
Yes! I spent hours playing that. It looks like this is a download of the game: http://www.stanford.edu/~cammat/HOVER/index.html
I'd also like to thank the windows 95 disc for introducing me to Weezer.
I'm a system administrator. I didn't go to college. I'm more competent than most of my peers that did go to college.
Why is it that only IT workers tend to have this position? "I'm the top of my field and I never went to college. Therefore college is worthless for everyone"
How come I never hear from physicists, biologists, or chemists who are at the top of their field and never spent a day in college?
Maybe IT belongs in a trade school and not a university?
c) isn't necessary. If a,b,d, and e are true it's till in our best interest to stop it. Just because our extinction is natural, doesn't mean we have to accept it.
You forgot step three. LMFTFY:
3. ???
Apple gave their employees free iPhones.
Google gave their employees Dream phones as a holiday bonus:
So according to you I suppose all these phones suck so much that they had to give them away.
The UI is identical to the Zune HD, which I find far superior to the iPod in terms of usability. The grid of icons fits a single-app centric UI nicely, but that's not what microsoft is going for here. The metro UI is task-based, where similar tasks are grouped into hubs, and each page of the hub acts almost like an independent yet related app. Personally, I feel like interaction with the metro UI is very fluid (you flow from one task to the next), whereas the iPod UI is very isolated (you start and stop tasks continually)
Which sound like a much better model that "All apps are free." This lowers the barrier of entry for the one-off app dev, but makes it very expensive for the cookie-cutter app devs to operate.
I'm aware of this, but the response I got was it would be too slow, and it only accepts words, not drawings or scribbles. I think the bottom line was it didn't fit her reading style and she wasn't about to conform to it. A lot of the more traditional readers in my family feel the same way.
My girlfriend is an English major, and reads maybe a book a week. I wanted to get her a Kindle, but she told me not to because she can't write in them; marking up the books is essential for when she goes back to write papers, so she remembers her thoughts at the time of reading. I use my tablet PC for my textbooks, and write in them using digital ink. I was looking forward to doing this on the iPad, but sadly there is not digitizer. (writing with your finger or a capacitive pen just doesn't cut it)
Or you could have searched for "Refresh Rate" in the start menu.
I think they need to spend more time in field tests with the actual device.
Except that the Apple culture/mystique thrives on secrecy; the more you're out in the field, the more likely people are going to spot you testing the new iDevice. They went so far as disguising the iPhone 4 as an iPhone 3GS to test in the field, ironically shielding it from the problem they were trying to find.
You are clearly making up a story that you'd really like to believe.
I'm glad you noticed the part where he said "I believe." His story is the most believable, considering what we know about Apple and their attitude toward design; not many companies have an executive design position. The alternative to his story is that no one at Apple, through all the design, engineering, and testing never encountered or fathomed the idea that touching an antenna would fuck with the signal. I personally find that hard to believe, but if it's true maybe I should send in my resume.
Apple wasn't producing immaculate products from Heaven before
Apple certainly isn't guilt free from raising expectations for their products. I mean, just look at the product page for the iPhone. "This changes everything. Again." After reading their marketing language, describing their products as "magical" and "revolutionary," when you realize the product is just another gizmo with associated gizmo flaws it's natural to be disenchanted and a little angry.
Touching the iPhone 4 antenna in a very specific way so as to cause reception to drop temporarily
Except the antenna is on the perimeter of the device. Touching it is almost unavoidable, and the reception drop may be temporary, but it has been shown to be enough to drop calls reproducibly depending on ambient signal strength.
I think it's more like saying when my hands are at 10 and 2 on my steering wheel, my car won't go as fast as it will when they're at 7 and 4. Depending on where I am, the car might even completely stop.
If the manufacturer came out and said "Just don't hold the wheel at 10 and 2", is that acceptable?
The most sensible thing to do is both shout and return the product. If Apple doesn't know why people are returning their iPhones, iPhone 5 will have the same problems.
Carmen Santiago
It's Carmen Sandiego man! You're killing my childhood!
If the command centre operator cannot identify possible intruders through the robot's audio or video communications system, the operator can order it to fire its gun or 40mm automatic grenade launcher.'
If the operator is doing all the decision making, doesn't that just make this a fancy remote control car with weapons on top? Like battle bots? I think this would be more chilling if the robot was making the kill decision, but humans killing each other is nothing new
There are services which make an app for you. Essentially they offer templates where you can fill in the info you want. You'll find these apps in the form of quote lists, picture slideshows, and sound boards. Developers like Brighthouse Labs do this, and their app count reachers into the thousands.
I'm not saying that enabling novice developers will make the signal/nose ratio any better; I'm simply saying even without them it's so bad their presence wouldn't be anything new
I played Dragon Age on Windows 7 Home Pro 64 bit, without a hitch. The card was an integrated Intel HD on a laptop.
I could get parts for a classic car easily, but try getting a PC game from 1995 to run well.
I've gotten plenty old games, mostly Sierra titles, to run on newer setups. What do you have trouble with?