I tried the Fire on display in Target, wasn't too impressed by it compared to my Nook Color. I have my NC set to dual boot the stock firmware or Cyanogenmod and it's pretty damned awesome for a sub-$200 tablet (bought it for $180 last May before the Fire or Nook Tablet came out). The NC is perfect as a color-eReader-meets-light-tablet even with the stock firmware. Netflix plays great on it, web browsing is pretty good, the app selection is nowhere near Android market, but all of the basic apps are there. The 7" screen is a good compromise between large enough for netflix and reading but small enough to fit in my pocket or my girlfriend's purse.
Anything muchlarger than the 7" form factor will have to compete toe to toe with the iPad and that's gonna be a tough market to get into - especially when people still think of the Nook Color and Kindle Fire as glorified eReaders rather than light duty tablets.
Yes, along with the logic to only use it in a worst-case scenario such as the enemy stealing one. Blowing up a nuke is a hell of a lot less dangerous to the surrounding population than detonating a nuke. Of course, I would also hope they would use the optional crew to flew it whenever possible if carrying an nuclear payload and use the remote/automation when carrying less dangerous payloads.
First of all, even consumer grade electronics require you to have physical access to the machine to hack it if it's properly set up. Something this expensive is going to have numerous measures to prevent enemies from gaining physical access in the first place, such as self-destruct. This is why the episode of BSG where they didn't want to network the systems together because of the Cylons hacking in remotely is so laughable (it would take a single firewall rule in that case... deny all incoming traffic) - there's consumer grade encryption available that far exceeds the capability of the most advanced military computers to crack within a practical amount of time. You would only be able to hack these things while they're in the air, and as long as you're within range of it. It's not like a server that's available 24/7 in one spot for you to brute force.
Secondly, I would expect military grade equipment to be fail-secure. That is, even if they did gain physical access, it would brick itself rather than allowing someone to make changes. I would really, really hope start of the art military hardware is more secure than a simple PS3. Not saying it can't be done, just saying you sound like the media hyping it up with FUD that doesn't come close to the real world.
Most end users never noticed. People that needed the storage paid the higher price. People that didn't actually need it just held off until prices went down.
I think the job performance of any public employee should be public information as long as it doesn't included protected information such as health (which it shouldn't). The union has every right to protest evaluation methods, but then they should work on changing the methods - not hiding the information.
Building on what you said, I think it would work to define a genre as being tied to a specific emotional state. All horror movies (should) make you nervous/anxious/scared. All comedy should make you laugh. All action movies get the adrenaline flowing. I sure as hell had different emotional states between Star Wars and Blade Runner. Science Fiction belongs in the same group as historical, non-fiction or fantasy. Rather than being tied to a specific emotion or reaction, it's more closely tied to the setting or plot devices. Unless you're going to recognize every movie that takes place in the 1800's as being a genre, then science fiction isn't a genre itself so much as a subset or variation of specific genres. Of course, there's more than one way to define "genre".
Science Fiction films tend to be subsets of either action or drama films, but with more special effects. Just because it's a different setting doesn't change that it's an action and/or drama with a lot of special effects.
Tracfone is the cheapest by far. I was with them for years until I needed a smartphone with data. Get a phone with triple minutes and buy the biggest cards and you can get 4.4 cents per minute (texts are.3 minutes to send or receive).
You added Mythonia, but there's still only 50 states? Is this after California fell in the ocean, after Texas seceded or after Florida was sold to Cuba?
What about the huge number of cases where nobody cheated, the couple just no longer loved each other or the huge number of cases where the woman cheated?
From the cases I've personally known, it's just as often the woman's behavior or neither party's explicit behavior that leads to it.
I think I know what prompted this change. In the 90's, American automakers were using Windows 95 and later ME to design cars. They got so used to crashes, bugs and things just breaking they thought it was what consumers expected of all products.
Just wait until we hit the Year of Linux on the Auto Designer's Desktop.
You obviously don't have much experience with software at the business level. The $10k usually includes support, upgrades, etc. It's not like they're charging $10,000 for a basic word processor.
Good point. Seeing as many PCs have 8 or more USB ports now, I would take a hardware dongle over the current registration key, activation, etc MS uses for Windows now.
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I tried the Fire on display in Target, wasn't too impressed by it compared to my Nook Color. I have my NC set to dual boot the stock firmware or Cyanogenmod and it's pretty damned awesome for a sub-$200 tablet (bought it for $180 last May before the Fire or Nook Tablet came out). The NC is perfect as a color-eReader-meets-light-tablet even with the stock firmware. Netflix plays great on it, web browsing is pretty good, the app selection is nowhere near Android market, but all of the basic apps are there. The 7" screen is a good compromise between large enough for netflix and reading but small enough to fit in my pocket or my girlfriend's purse.
Anything muchlarger than the 7" form factor will have to compete toe to toe with the iPad and that's gonna be a tough market to get into - especially when people still think of the Nook Color and Kindle Fire as glorified eReaders rather than light duty tablets.
Yes, along with the logic to only use it in a worst-case scenario such as the enemy stealing one. Blowing up a nuke is a hell of a lot less dangerous to the surrounding population than detonating a nuke. Of course, I would also hope they would use the optional crew to flew it whenever possible if carrying an nuclear payload and use the remote/automation when carrying less dangerous payloads.
First of all, even consumer grade electronics require you to have physical access to the machine to hack it if it's properly set up. Something this expensive is going to have numerous measures to prevent enemies from gaining physical access in the first place, such as self-destruct. This is why the episode of BSG where they didn't want to network the systems together because of the Cylons hacking in remotely is so laughable (it would take a single firewall rule in that case... deny all incoming traffic) - there's consumer grade encryption available that far exceeds the capability of the most advanced military computers to crack within a practical amount of time. You would only be able to hack these things while they're in the air, and as long as you're within range of it. It's not like a server that's available 24/7 in one spot for you to brute force.
Secondly, I would expect military grade equipment to be fail-secure. That is, even if they did gain physical access, it would brick itself rather than allowing someone to make changes. I would really, really hope start of the art military hardware is more secure than a simple PS3. Not saying it can't be done, just saying you sound like the media hyping it up with FUD that doesn't come close to the real world.
Cooking dinner? There's an app for that.
But then how would we hear the politicians over the constant crashing of cymbals? On the bright side, assassins would no longer need silencers.
What's worse? The the fact that they have to deny these kind of accusations or the fact that they're probably lying?
And you know for sure what prices will be six to nine months from now?
Most end users never noticed. People that needed the storage paid the higher price. People that didn't actually need it just held off until prices went down.
I think the job performance of any public employee should be public information as long as it doesn't included protected information such as health (which it shouldn't). The union has every right to protest evaluation methods, but then they should work on changing the methods - not hiding the information.
Building on what you said, I think it would work to define a genre as being tied to a specific emotional state. All horror movies (should) make you nervous/anxious/scared. All comedy should make you laugh. All action movies get the adrenaline flowing. I sure as hell had different emotional states between Star Wars and Blade Runner. Science Fiction belongs in the same group as historical, non-fiction or fantasy. Rather than being tied to a specific emotion or reaction, it's more closely tied to the setting or plot devices. Unless you're going to recognize every movie that takes place in the 1800's as being a genre, then science fiction isn't a genre itself so much as a subset or variation of specific genres. Of course, there's more than one way to define "genre".
Science Fiction films tend to be subsets of either action or drama films, but with more special effects. Just because it's a different setting doesn't change that it's an action and/or drama with a lot of special effects.
Tracfone is the cheapest by far. I was with them for years until I needed a smartphone with data. Get a phone with triple minutes and buy the biggest cards and you can get 4.4 cents per minute (texts are .3 minutes to send or receive).
It'd be a great way to promote tourism. "Come to Alaska! Scenic vistas, wildlife and no mandatory groping!"
You added Mythonia, but there's still only 50 states? Is this after California fell in the ocean, after Texas seceded or after Florida was sold to Cuba?
I still sleep in two chunks, only I call the second one "work"
I thought we had tenure to better prevent students from learning from apathetic and burned out professors.
They'd have to change their name. I, for one, could never welcome any overlord named Buckeyballs.
Oranges in a crate form a solid? I thought the crate still gave it the overall structure? Take away the crate, and the oranges all come tumbling down.
What about the huge number of cases where nobody cheated, the couple just no longer loved each other or the huge number of cases where the woman cheated?
From the cases I've personally known, it's just as often the woman's behavior or neither party's explicit behavior that leads to it.
I think I know what prompted this change. In the 90's, American automakers were using Windows 95 and later ME to design cars. They got so used to crashes, bugs and things just breaking they thought it was what consumers expected of all products.
Just wait until we hit the Year of Linux on the Auto Designer's Desktop.
So electronic launch would have exactly the same recoil as using chemical explosives?
Or if you have a webcam, it will accept sincere looking smiles.
You obviously don't have much experience with software at the business level. The $10k usually includes support, upgrades, etc. It's not like they're charging $10,000 for a basic word processor.
Good point. Seeing as many PCs have 8 or more USB ports now, I would take a hardware dongle over the current registration key, activation, etc MS uses for Windows now.