Just carry a second (or third) charged battery and switch it when the battery is drained.
I've got an auxiliary battery, just go to amazon.com and enter the search term "iPhone 4 battery pack" the entry level price seems to be at around 10 bucks.
The folks at Qantas or the government should employ Reagan solution...
Yeah, that was a brilliant move, fire 11,345 air traffic controllers and ban them from working in their field for life all because they decided to fight for their rights. The FAA brought in military air traffic controllers, put in overtime trying to train new ones, and it still took them close to 10 years to bring staffing to normal levels. Better yet they only managed to do that by eating crow, ignoring Reagan's order and hiring some of these guys back. It seems Reagan and his neocon geniuses hadn't counted on the fact that you don't just pull random citizens off the street, give them a 3 month course in air traffic controlling and let them loose on the world of civilian air traffic management. It takes YEARS to train an air traffic controller and there is a good reason for it. Just because conservatives practically worship Reagan doesn't mean that he never did galactically stupid things.
Give Apple another 10 years and we'll see if this "culture of innovation" supposedly created at Apple continues, or it was just one man with a plan that drove their share price.
That depends on the people who took over from Jobs and how well Jobs judged their abilities. If they think like him the company will prosper. If the spreadsheet monkeys move in they'll piss away everything Jobs achieved inside of 10 years... tops.
I think you mean creator or inventor. It's not like the Lisp programming language was just sat out in the wilds of Chile under a rock waiting to be found by an archaeologist.
Actually Lisp is just one of the many languages heavily influenced by Lambda calculus which was introduced by Alonzo Church back in the 1930s and 40s. Back then Lamda calculus it was just another system in mathematical logic that only a few mathematicians and logicians knew or cared about. So in a sense John McCarthy did find it under a rock although not in the wilds of Chile but rather in a scientific paper.
It doesn't really look all that different, just evolved. Both have docks and iOS doesn't have widgets.
Really? Even at the time that thing looked more like a Blackberry killer than anything else and it still does today. Seems to me that people at Google/HTC/Samsung took a good look at where they were heading after the iPhone 1G unveiling and made some major changes. That's natural, it's called competition, but it doesn't change the fact that every smartphone worth buying after the iPhone 1G saw the light of day was in some way an iPhone knockoff. They had to be iPhone knockoffs in order to sell because the iPhone, love it or hate it, was and is a game changer. I've been buying smart phones since way before the iPhone, most of them ranged from disappointing to complete crap. The ones I liked the most were the Sony Ericsson P8xx and P9xx series who, surprise, surprise, had a generally similar layout to the iPhone but still paled by comparison.
I really wish folks would stop bringing up the Streisand effect - because it's mostly bullshit both in nature and in the way it gets misused. (As you did OP, you might want to read that article yourself.) Sometimes it happens that way, most of the time it doesn't.
Knowing Jeremy Clarkson I'm pretty sure that if Telsa doesn't get Streisanded over this by the media Jeremy will start a crusade on his show to make sure they do. The more they sue him, and the worse they lose, the louder he will shout that fact from the rooftops at every opportunity. When somebody gives your product a bad review the proper reaction is to shut up, fix the product, and resubmit it to review. Suing the reviewer because he thinks your product stinks is just about the worst way you can react.
With a foreign power in control of GPS, the EU had to respond. The USA is not the closest allie to European countries (including the UK) as you would think. The USA stood by for 2 years whilst france & belgium were invaded and also stayed neutral when the UK administered Falkland islands (Islas malvinas) were invaded in 1981 by the argentians.
That's not quite fair. The WWI and WWII invasions of Belgium and France were pre-NATO and the USA had no obligations to intervene. The Falklands war placed the US in a pickle, firstly Argentina had some support in S-America and they could hardly intervene without creating a diplomatic mess, secondly any help from the USA for Britain would have been deeply humiliating to the latter. As it was the British succeeded by the skin of their teeth so no harm was done. The US also provided diplomatic help behind the scenes by securing either the cooperation or neutrality of several S-American nations in favor of the Brits.
Not just judges that need science education, it's the politicians who seem to thrive on junk science and present it as fact. Politicians across the globe are dangerously uneducated, which makes them dangerous when making laws.
That's precisely the point, if this manual is successful it will be followed up by a second volume: "Simple Science for Senators." It is based on the "Curious George" series.
Therefore, Apple patented the concept of using someone else's new technology for one of it's primary intended purposes.
This isn't about patents, it's about the combination of two words, "multi-touch" and whether you can trademark them. Prior art has nothing to do with it. Even if the phrase 'multi-touch' was used in connection with touch screen technology in 1972, 1984 or whenever in some obscure articles or CS papers, isn't really that important. I'm pretty sure the phrase "encrypted streaming media" was in general use for describing "encrypted streaming media" way before Google successfully trademarked it. What is important is whether the phrase 'multi-touch' was in general use to describe touch screen devices before Apple decided to use it in it's marketing efforts. This is more like Ford trying to trademark the words "Car" and "Automobile". For whatever reason it's not acceptable to trademark "multi-touch" or "automobile" but was at some point perfectly acceptable to trademark "encrypted streaming media". Perhaps the days when you could trademark things like: "encrypted streaming media", "double click" and "windows" are over.
"How could Apple try to trademark 'Multi-touch' with a straight face?" They can't; that's why they do it with a flagrantly crooked one. Regarding penalties, I simply won't touch a Mac, or any Mac product. Especially after they fussed with that patent to remotely disable video on "smart" phones.
They probably used the same face that Google used when they trademarked: DIAGNOSTICS, CONTENT EXCHANGE, ENCRYPTED STREAMING MEDIA, LIKE and DOUBLECLICK. Corporations will apply for all sorts of crap just to see what they get away with just like tourists will raid the hotel buffet even though it isn't included in the super saver bargain basement economy vacation package because the worst that can happen is an embarrassing 15 seconds of looking like a cheapskate in front of dozens of people you'll never see again.
So did these genetic studies look for Neandertal markers, and if so, what did they find?
Something like 4% of the genome of modern Europeans is attributable to admixture with archaic humans. Apperently isn't easy to be 100% sure which types of archaic humans were responsible for the admixture, they may have been Neanderthals, Denisovans, older archaic groups of humans, groups of archaic humans that are as yet undocumented archeologically or any combination of the above. In case of modern Europenas, admixture with Neanderthals is simply one of the most likely scenarios. Even though history and common sense tells us that one of the first things different groups of humnans do when they first meet (if they don't kill each other) is... well... shagging... there are still people in the scientific community who are extremely opposed to the notion of admixture with archaic humans and practically write the possibility of admixture off without any real proof. It's kind of like the theory the Polynesians made landfall in the Americas way before Columbus. Until very recently entertaining this notion was considered career suicide. Apparently a portion of the scientific community is still of the opinion that even though the Polynesians managed to island hop across the Pacific in canoes they still managed by some colossal feat of navigational incompetence to miss the two biggest islands in the Pacific, N and S America. And this despite the fact that evidence to the contrary has been stacking up in recent years. The same pretty much applies to the Vikings, apparently they were smart enough to cross the entire N-Atlantic and reach Newfoundland but for a long time some scientist still doubted they were smart enough to cross the Straits of Belle Isle to the continent, all terrifying 15 km of it.
In a galaxy far away, large corporate conglomerates wage battle to gain dominance in the vastness of space. The only hope of survival are a small, but pathetic force of Jedi nerds who resist the insidious marketing ploys and legal shenanigans of these dominating legal war mongrels. Will these Jedi nerds prevail? Stay tuned for continuing episodes of the Phone Wars.
Other quotes:
"These are not the phones you are looking for"
"Apple. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy"
Steve Jobs: Wenchi Chen... I am your father.....
Wenchi Chen: NO... NO... That's not true, that's impossible... NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO........
I second AC, this is blatantly nothing to do with how fast you'll get your news of hailstorms in Florida, as you'll spend more that 6ms deciding whether to type FOJ or OJ (is this a reference to Trading Places?) in your email. This is purely so that traders with the fastest black boxes can take advantage of tiny changes in values.
Precisely, I went to a big presentation a couple of years ago. They were looking for people with a background in network programming and operating systems (for speed optimization work) as well as AI and data mining. What these bozos were planning to do was build a fully automated HTF system that made trades with next to no human supervision to profit from tiny fluctuations in market prices. As far as I am concerned thats 's making money off of market noise and variations in network latency. There are loads of people who carry a big torch for HFT but as far as I am concerned these HFT types are only one step up from e-mail spammers. I'll reserve my respect for people who create real value, for example: by investing money into startups run by crazy nerds with insane ideas about better ways of doing internet searches or bringing computers to the average household.
the joke is CS is never up to date cause the guy teaching it has been stuck behind the same unix terminal for the last 30 years and has no effin clue what is out there while dismissing it as "consumer"
CS degrees aren't about teaching people to be proficient in C#, Visual Basic, Python or administrating Microsoft Team Foundation server or Apache Web servers. If that's what you think the purpose of a CS degree is you are barking up the wrong tree. A CS degree is about understanding things like the time and resource complexity of algorithms, different kinds of logic, it's about teaching you to recognize intractable problems or about model checking which can you detect things like deadlocks and race conditions and security critical bugs. Most of this is timeless stuff that doesn't become obsolete so quickly. The theory of computation was laid down by Alan Turing, John von Neumann and others before and during WWII but it is still as relevant as ever in all sorts of applications including mundane stuff like XML parser design. Whether a CS degree is of any use to you depends on what you do for a living. If you are building AJAX systems and basic web services a CS degree will probably help you rather little although you would still probably benefit from a BSc degree in CS. If you want to build software with object detection and face recognition features capable of competing with the best current commercial applications you have two choices. You can either shell out an arm and a leg for a proprietary high level computer vision SDK or start reading CS papers and build your own SDK in which case you might want to think about a higher level CS degree.
I'd suggest someone who reads a thread and then posts to it. They care.
I'm guessing you're a closet apple 'fanboi' who just lacks the money to indulge.
I find it amusing how Apple themed threads seem to attract one Apple fanboy/girl expressing approval for every nine people wanting to rant on incessantly like some tin-foil-hat wearing crackpot about how they hate all things Apple. From my point of whew this is simple; I'm a Mac user, I didn't know about this new diagnostic tool and I appreciate begin made aware of it. I realize that this isn't a topic of earth shaking importance but people who find this topic uninteresting have the option of, just moving on to the next story without pausing first to complain about this one!
You realize that Ford DID make airplanes a long time ago. Not only that but they were GOOD at it.
Actually all Ford did was buy up a company that had shamelessly copied much of the technology behind what became the Ford Trimotor from Junkers Flugzeugbau AG in Germany (the same kind of intellectual property borrowing the US is now complaining that China does). One could almost say the Ford Trimotor was a Fokker F.VII made with Junkers' methods. In fact the Fokker F.VII and the Ford Trimotor look so much alike people often confuse photographs of the two even though the two aircraft used completely different construction methods. Mind you the Ford was easily the superior design... thanks in no small measure to Prof. Junkers. Ford's significant contribution was not their designs, it was the way they applied Ford's assembly line techniques to aircraft production making their prices highly competitive which was one of the reasons why Junkers never managed to get much of a foothold on the US market. Ford later contributed hugely to the 18.000 plus B.24 bombers made during the war.
FWIIW on Bing 'define:' searches also give you the meaning of a word or phrase without you having to click any links. The currency conversion is a different story.
Google is my preferred search engine, but the results are noticeably geek slanted..
Really? I'd say they were very noticeably shopping website slanted.
So, what's your point? Google searches are slanted in all sorts of ways and the same probably to Bing. I have been using both Google and Bing for a quite a while now and he has a point. Try searching on a set of compiler errors messages using Google and Bing which I have beed doing a lot of lately. My experience has been that Google gets you more hits in that particular niche.
I feel dated, I mean, "back in the day" this was how you used a machine like this...
Brings back memories doesn't it?
Stuck on step 12 of the Red Hat Linux installation process because the slick new GUI dialog is bigger than your tiny display causing the OK button to be off the screen and no amount of blind keyboard navigation will allow you to continue.
Curses...
Reboot and switch to Text mode installation....
It installs....
Now figure out which jumpers to set on the Sound Blaster 16 board to get it working...
After a lot of head scratching you figure out that for some strange reason the volume is turned down so low by default you can't hear the test sound... crank up the volume and you finally hear the magic words: "Hello. This is Linus Torvalds, and I pronounce Linux, Linux."
Now fire up an editor and rewrite the default X11 config file to get the display card up and running...
Hoping nothing gets fried... Phew!... everything seems OK.
Lather, rinse, repeat...
Fire up X11... Yeeeeehaaaa!!! SUCESS!!! ***More*** than 16 crappy colors.
Fast forward a few more days...
Your computer is finally in something resembling a usable condition.
It's not acceptable if you're an Evil Tax And Spend Democrat tasked with fixing the problem.
It's OK to run a massive deficit, or reduce taxes during a war, or create massive unfunded programs like Medicare D, if you're a Fiscally Responsible Republican however.
That this viewpoint (or at least the first half of it) is unquestioningly repeated by nearly the entire media is the problem. The Republican party's slow descent into insanity began when they realized that the media would unquestioningly repeat absolutely anything they said, no matter how ludicrous or patently false...
What I found interesting was watching a round table discussion on the BBC and CNN after the compromise was announced where a representative of the Republican party went on and on about how "we won". There are also democrats who are claiming some sort of success. They both missed the point completely. This was not about the Republicans or the Democrats "winning" it was about them growing up and draggin the US economy out of the swamp. I generally don't think much of the tea-baggers, they are way to extreme for my taste, but their representitive did make a good point. He said that all sorts of people were flooding him with messages and showing up in his office to urge cutbacks and spending restraint but not in their own entitlements or programs which sums up the situation pretty nicely. The Republicans and the Democrats both chickened out on dealing with this exact issue. If the US is to sail out of this mess it needs to make painful entitlement cuts, defense cuts and also even if it is abhorrent to the Republicans it may need to raise taxes and cancel tax breaks. Even Saint Reagan raised taxes although all the Republicans ever seem to remember is his tax cuts.
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Just carry a second (or third) charged battery and switch it when the battery is drained.
I've got an auxiliary battery, just go to amazon.com and enter the search term "iPhone 4 battery pack" the entry level price seems to be at around 10 bucks.
The folks at Qantas or the government should employ Reagan solution...
Yeah, that was a brilliant move, fire 11,345 air traffic controllers and ban them from working in their field for life all because they decided to fight for their rights. The FAA brought in military air traffic controllers, put in overtime trying to train new ones, and it still took them close to 10 years to bring staffing to normal levels. Better yet they only managed to do that by eating crow, ignoring Reagan's order and hiring some of these guys back. It seems Reagan and his neocon geniuses hadn't counted on the fact that you don't just pull random citizens off the street, give them a 3 month course in air traffic controlling and let them loose on the world of civilian air traffic management. It takes YEARS to train an air traffic controller and there is a good reason for it. Just because conservatives practically worship Reagan doesn't mean that he never did galactically stupid things.
Two major factors:
1. Nokia's CEO Stephen Elop was a senior exec for M$ prior being hired as Nokia's CEO
2. M$ offered ~ $1B in incentives to Nokia.
Nevertheless, they seem to be hedging their bets and they'd be dumb if they didn't. Apparently Nokia just confirmed that the N9 MeeGo phone will be 'fully supported'
Give Apple another 10 years and we'll see if this "culture of innovation" supposedly created at Apple continues, or it was just one man with a plan that drove their share price.
That depends on the people who took over from Jobs and how well Jobs judged their abilities. If they think like him the company will prosper. If the spreadsheet monkeys move in they'll piss away everything Jobs achieved inside of 10 years... tops.
I think you mean creator or inventor. It's not like the Lisp programming language was just sat out in the wilds of Chile under a rock waiting to be found by an archaeologist.
Actually Lisp is just one of the many languages heavily influenced by Lambda calculus which was introduced by Alonzo Church back in the 1930s and 40s. Back then Lamda calculus it was just another system in mathematical logic that only a few mathematicians and logicians knew or cared about. So in a sense John McCarthy did find it under a rock although not in the wilds of Chile but rather in a scientific paper.
It doesn't really look all that different, just evolved. Both have docks and iOS doesn't have widgets.
Really? Even at the time that thing looked more like a Blackberry killer than anything else and it still does today. Seems to me that people at Google/HTC/Samsung took a good look at where they were heading after the iPhone 1G unveiling and made some major changes. That's natural, it's called competition, but it doesn't change the fact that every smartphone worth buying after the iPhone 1G saw the light of day was in some way an iPhone knockoff. They had to be iPhone knockoffs in order to sell because the iPhone, love it or hate it, was and is a game changer. I've been buying smart phones since way before the iPhone, most of them ranged from disappointing to complete crap. The ones I liked the most were the Sony Ericsson P8xx and P9xx series who, surprise, surprise, had a generally similar layout to the iPhone but still paled by comparison.
I really wish folks would stop bringing up the Streisand effect - because it's mostly bullshit both in nature and in the way it gets misused. (As you did OP, you might want to read that article yourself.) Sometimes it happens that way, most of the time it doesn't.
Knowing Jeremy Clarkson I'm pretty sure that if Telsa doesn't get Streisanded over this by the media Jeremy will start a crusade on his show to make sure they do. The more they sue him, and the worse they lose, the louder he will shout that fact from the rooftops at every opportunity. When somebody gives your product a bad review the proper reaction is to shut up, fix the product, and resubmit it to review. Suing the reviewer because he thinks your product stinks is just about the worst way you can react.
... high up in the food-chain at Telsa Motors should read this wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
With a foreign power in control of GPS, the EU had to respond. The USA is not the closest allie to European countries (including the UK) as you would think. The USA stood by for 2 years whilst france & belgium were invaded and also stayed neutral when the UK administered Falkland islands (Islas malvinas) were invaded in 1981 by the argentians.
That's not quite fair. The WWI and WWII invasions of Belgium and France were pre-NATO and the USA had no obligations to intervene. The Falklands war placed the US in a pickle, firstly Argentina had some support in S-America and they could hardly intervene without creating a diplomatic mess, secondly any help from the USA for Britain would have been deeply humiliating to the latter. As it was the British succeeded by the skin of their teeth so no harm was done. The US also provided diplomatic help behind the scenes by securing either the cooperation or neutrality of several S-American nations in favor of the Brits.
Maybe that explains why so many Europeans feel the EU is an evil institute. But I bet nobody outside the EU ever hears about tat.
"So many" = "a few right-wing nut jobs".
To be fair that sentiment is shared by a few left wing nut jobs.
Not just judges that need science education, it's the politicians who seem to thrive on junk science and present it as fact. Politicians across the globe are dangerously uneducated, which makes them dangerous when making laws.
That's precisely the point, if this manual is successful it will be followed up by a second volume: "Simple Science for Senators." It is based on the "Curious George" series.
Therefore, Apple patented the concept of using someone else's new technology for one of it's primary intended purposes.
This isn't about patents, it's about the combination of two words, "multi-touch" and whether you can trademark them. Prior art has nothing to do with it. Even if the phrase 'multi-touch' was used in connection with touch screen technology in 1972, 1984 or whenever in some obscure articles or CS papers, isn't really that important. I'm pretty sure the phrase "encrypted streaming media" was in general use for describing "encrypted streaming media" way before Google successfully trademarked it. What is important is whether the phrase 'multi-touch' was in general use to describe touch screen devices before Apple decided to use it in it's marketing efforts. This is more like Ford trying to trademark the words "Car" and "Automobile". For whatever reason it's not acceptable to trademark "multi-touch" or "automobile" but was at some point perfectly acceptable to trademark "encrypted streaming media". Perhaps the days when you could trademark things like: "encrypted streaming media", "double click" and "windows" are over.
"Repeat-O-Poke"
Bill Clinton already owns that trademark, although Berlusconi is now suing him for the rights.
"How could Apple try to trademark 'Multi-touch' with a straight face?" They can't; that's why they do it with a flagrantly crooked one. Regarding penalties, I simply won't touch a Mac, or any Mac product. Especially after they fussed with that patent to remotely disable video on "smart" phones.
They probably used the same face that Google used when they trademarked: DIAGNOSTICS, CONTENT EXCHANGE, ENCRYPTED STREAMING MEDIA, LIKE and DOUBLECLICK. Corporations will apply for all sorts of crap just to see what they get away with just like tourists will raid the hotel buffet even though it isn't included in the super saver bargain basement economy vacation package because the worst that can happen is an embarrassing 15 seconds of looking like a cheapskate in front of dozens of people you'll never see again.
So did these genetic studies look for Neandertal markers, and if so, what did they find?
Something like 4% of the genome of modern Europeans is attributable to admixture with archaic humans. Apperently isn't easy to be 100% sure which types of archaic humans were responsible for the admixture, they may have been Neanderthals, Denisovans, older archaic groups of humans, groups of archaic humans that are as yet undocumented archeologically or any combination of the above. In case of modern Europenas, admixture with Neanderthals is simply one of the most likely scenarios. Even though history and common sense tells us that one of the first things different groups of humnans do when they first meet (if they don't kill each other) is... well... shagging... there are still people in the scientific community who are extremely opposed to the notion of admixture with archaic humans and practically write the possibility of admixture off without any real proof. It's kind of like the theory the Polynesians made landfall in the Americas way before Columbus. Until very recently entertaining this notion was considered career suicide. Apparently a portion of the scientific community is still of the opinion that even though the Polynesians managed to island hop across the Pacific in canoes they still managed by some colossal feat of navigational incompetence to miss the two biggest islands in the Pacific, N and S America. And this despite the fact that evidence to the contrary has been stacking up in recent years. The same pretty much applies to the Vikings, apparently they were smart enough to cross the entire N-Atlantic and reach Newfoundland but for a long time some scientist still doubted they were smart enough to cross the Straits of Belle Isle to the continent, all terrifying 15 km of it.
In a galaxy far away, large corporate conglomerates wage battle to gain dominance in the vastness of space. The only hope of survival are a small, but pathetic force of Jedi nerds who resist the insidious marketing ploys and legal shenanigans of these dominating legal war mongrels. Will these Jedi nerds prevail? Stay tuned for continuing episodes of the Phone Wars.
Other quotes:
"These are not the phones you are looking for"
"Apple. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy"
Steve Jobs: Wenchi Chen... I am your father.....
Wenchi Chen: NO... NO... That's not true, that's impossible... NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO........
I second AC, this is blatantly nothing to do with how fast you'll get your news of hailstorms in Florida, as you'll spend more that 6ms deciding whether to type FOJ or OJ (is this a reference to Trading Places?) in your email. This is purely so that traders with the fastest black boxes can take advantage of tiny changes in values.
Precisely, I went to a big presentation a couple of years ago. They were looking for people with a background in network programming and operating systems (for speed optimization work) as well as AI and data mining. What these bozos were planning to do was build a fully automated HTF system that made trades with next to no human supervision to profit from tiny fluctuations in market prices. As far as I am concerned thats 's making money off of market noise and variations in network latency. There are loads of people who carry a big torch for HFT but as far as I am concerned these HFT types are only one step up from e-mail spammers. I'll reserve my respect for people who create real value, for example: by investing money into startups run by crazy nerds with insane ideas about better ways of doing internet searches or bringing computers to the average household.
the joke is CS is never up to date cause the guy teaching it has been stuck behind the same unix terminal for the last 30 years and has no effin clue what is out there while dismissing it as "consumer"
CS degrees aren't about teaching people to be proficient in C#, Visual Basic, Python or administrating Microsoft Team Foundation server or Apache Web servers. If that's what you think the purpose of a CS degree is you are barking up the wrong tree. A CS degree is about understanding things like the time and resource complexity of algorithms, different kinds of logic, it's about teaching you to recognize intractable problems or about model checking which can you detect things like deadlocks and race conditions and security critical bugs. Most of this is timeless stuff that doesn't become obsolete so quickly. The theory of computation was laid down by Alan Turing, John von Neumann and others before and during WWII but it is still as relevant as ever in all sorts of applications including mundane stuff like XML parser design. Whether a CS degree is of any use to you depends on what you do for a living. If you are building AJAX systems and basic web services a CS degree will probably help you rather little although you would still probably benefit from a BSc degree in CS. If you want to build software with object detection and face recognition features capable of competing with the best current commercial applications you have two choices. You can either shell out an arm and a leg for a proprietary high level computer vision SDK or start reading CS papers and build your own SDK in which case you might want to think about a higher level CS degree.
I'd suggest someone who reads a thread and then posts to it. They care. I'm guessing you're a closet apple 'fanboi' who just lacks the money to indulge.
I find it amusing how Apple themed threads seem to attract one Apple fanboy/girl expressing approval for every nine people wanting to rant on incessantly like some tin-foil-hat wearing crackpot about how they hate all things Apple. From my point of whew this is simple; I'm a Mac user, I didn't know about this new diagnostic tool and I appreciate begin made aware of it. I realize that this isn't a topic of earth shaking importance but people who find this topic uninteresting have the option of, just moving on to the next story without pausing first to complain about this one!
You realize that Ford DID make airplanes a long time ago. Not only that but they were GOOD at it.
Actually all Ford did was buy up a company that had shamelessly copied much of the technology behind what became the Ford Trimotor from Junkers Flugzeugbau AG in Germany (the same kind of intellectual property borrowing the US is now complaining that China does). One could almost say the Ford Trimotor was a Fokker F.VII made with Junkers' methods. In fact the Fokker F.VII and the Ford Trimotor look so much alike people often confuse photographs of the two even though the two aircraft used completely different construction methods. Mind you the Ford was easily the superior design... thanks in no small measure to Prof. Junkers. Ford's significant contribution was not their designs, it was the way they applied Ford's assembly line techniques to aircraft production making their prices highly competitive which was one of the reasons why Junkers never managed to get much of a foothold on the US market. Ford later contributed hugely to the 18.000 plus B.24 bombers made during the war.
Rebels are just decoys, what is happening is that German (Grenzschutzgruppe), French (GIGN), British (SAS) and likely U.S. special forces, private armies and lÃf©gions Ãf©trangÃfres with Al Qaeda factions are attacking mostly civilians: the 21 August's toll is, more than 1000 deaths, 5000 wounded. They are aided in their progress by NATO bombings of non-military assets. It is time overdue to begin boycotting these bottomless sinkholes and war criminals. Goebbels would not believe how far media lies have reached.
What have you been smoking... I want some.
If I search for "define: bum nuggets"
FWIIW on Bing 'define:' searches also give you the meaning of a word or phrase without you having to click any links. The currency conversion is a different story.
Google is my preferred search engine, but the results are noticeably geek slanted..
Really? I'd say they were very noticeably shopping website slanted.
So, what's your point? Google searches are slanted in all sorts of ways and the same probably to Bing. I have been using both Google and Bing for a quite a while now and he has a point. Try searching on a set of compiler errors messages using Google and Bing which I have beed doing a lot of lately. My experience has been that Google gets you more hits in that particular niche.
I feel dated, I mean, "back in the day" this was how you used a machine like this...
Brings back memories doesn't it?
Stuck on step 12 of the Red Hat Linux installation process because the slick new GUI dialog is bigger than your tiny display causing the OK button to be off the screen and no amount of blind keyboard navigation will allow you to continue.
Curses...
Reboot and switch to Text mode installation....
It installs....
Now figure out which jumpers to set on the Sound Blaster 16 board to get it working...
After a lot of head scratching you figure out that for some strange reason the volume is turned down so low by default you can't hear the test sound... crank up the volume and you finally hear the magic words: "Hello. This is Linus Torvalds, and I pronounce Linux, Linux."
Now fire up an editor and rewrite the default X11 config file to get the display card up and running...
Hoping nothing gets fried... Phew!... everything seems OK.
Lather, rinse, repeat...
Fire up X11... Yeeeeehaaaa!!! SUCESS!!! ***More*** than 16 crappy colors.
Fast forward a few more days...
Your computer is finally in something resembling a usable condition.
It's not acceptable if you're an Evil Tax And Spend Democrat tasked with fixing the problem. It's OK to run a massive deficit, or reduce taxes during a war, or create massive unfunded programs like Medicare D, if you're a Fiscally Responsible Republican however. That this viewpoint (or at least the first half of it) is unquestioningly repeated by nearly the entire media is the problem. The Republican party's slow descent into insanity began when they realized that the media would unquestioningly repeat absolutely anything they said, no matter how ludicrous or patently false...
What I found interesting was watching a round table discussion on the BBC and CNN after the compromise was announced where a representative of the Republican party went on and on about how "we won". There are also democrats who are claiming some sort of success. They both missed the point completely. This was not about the Republicans or the Democrats "winning" it was about them growing up and draggin the US economy out of the swamp. I generally don't think much of the tea-baggers, they are way to extreme for my taste, but their representitive did make a good point. He said that all sorts of people were flooding him with messages and showing up in his office to urge cutbacks and spending restraint but not in their own entitlements or programs which sums up the situation pretty nicely. The Republicans and the Democrats both chickened out on dealing with this exact issue. If the US is to sail out of this mess it needs to make painful entitlement cuts, defense cuts and also even if it is abhorrent to the Republicans it may need to raise taxes and cancel tax breaks. Even Saint Reagan raised taxes although all the Republicans ever seem to remember is his tax cuts.