Let the sheeple throw their money at the new iPad 3. Personally, I will be waiting to see what novelties Samsung & Others bring to market.
This is why Apple gets the attention. You (and I) are still waiting to get a decent Android tablet, and Apple is selling the third generation of theirs. My wife & kids are loving their iPad/iPod Touches, while I'm fiddling with the old Droid I bought because I got fed up waiting for "Samsung & Others" to produce something I wanted to actually pay for.
Seriously, what would you tell someone who wanted a tablet within the next month to buy? I'd say wait until next month & get an iPad 3. If they wanted a Transformer they wouldn't be asking my advice, they'd have bought it.
True dat. I usually buy most everything online, but I'll often drive the 1/2 hour to microcenter because the prices are good. Or, as just happened, the power supply on my main home machine dies on a Friday afternoon & I don't want to wait for shipping.
You can do the same thing with rsync and ssh as you can do with DropBox.
While I agree that you can do a lot with open protocols, Dropbox has its place. I mostly use it with Keepass; the Android version works well with dropbox, and I also use it for transferring epubs to Aldiko. Set it and forget it. If I had more complex needs it might be worth using a hosting service, but dropbox is pretty convenient for me.
I have an iPad 2 - despite the fact that it displays "Not Charging" when you plug it in, it will in fact charge from a.5 amp source. It's slow, but if you leave it overnight it'll be ~10% higher than when you plugged it in. For many people this might well be enough; I know I often don't use more than 10% in the course of a day. And yes, I realize that this is what you were saying at the end of your comment...
If you want a really free map source, try openstreetmap.org & some of the apps which use their maps. Still a work in progress, but much improved over even a year ago. If every geek on/. cleaned up their neighborhood map it would be better than the paid maps - I've certainly added features like weird one way streets and things around me which don't show up on commercial maps.
As I noted above, the cost is only for those with insurance - they'll treat the uninsured free if they make less than $150k. So while it might cause insurance premiums to rise slightly, it shouldn't bankrupt anyone.
From a radio report, apparently they will also provide it free for uninsured people who earn less than $150k, so they'll be treating more than they'll be getting paid for.
If you get to the image of the original document, you'll see that the lack of caps & the (incorrect today) usage of "it's" are indeed there in the original.
There's also the difference that in the US, we expect to be able to subscribe to a magazine cheaply, and there really aren't newsagents around with the type of selection you get in the UK. In the UK, subscriptions are unusual (hence expensive) which is why you don't see the subscription cards. I do think that the robust newsagent market is good for competition, which leads to the giveaways on the covers and a generally high quality. Right now I'm paying for an expensive magazine for kids from France; it's much better than any of the US offerings.
Bogus. If this was indeed the case then they should have kept him under surveillance until there was evidence that acting on his theoretical "crime" was eminent.
Agreed, and I'd add that if you really think this guy is a terrorist, why only two years? What are you going to do when he gets out and he's even more pissed off, along with all his friends and family? The whole thing is bogus.
I agree that the UK is not a police state, but there are a number of aspects of laws there (like this, and the ability to ban books) which are pretty troubling. I myself was once stopped and searched on the street in London, basically for having long hair. I politely asked if I could decline to be searched, was informed that if I did I would be arrested, and let them go through my bag. It was pretty funny really, I had a bunch of pens in a ziplock bag; when they saw it their faces lit up like "ah, the drugs!". They were a bit crestfallen after that. In the US that would have been an illegal search. Not that there aren't troubling laws in the US!
The flaw with this is, in my car I know that the sticky mess on the seats came from my kids spilling juice. It's less gross to me than the unknown sticky messes in other people's cars, and way less gross than those found on public transport. A big part of personal transport isn't the logic of it, it's having your own controlled space, and the fact that it's more sensible to use these like zip cars doesn't mean that a majority of people in a wealthy country are going to do it.
True, but if I had more time I might try to find a makerspace locally to play with one. You can do some cool stuff like printing forms which can then be cast etc. Alas, I'm already too busy.
To put it mildly, if I am reading a book about quilting, I want the let the quilting expert write the book, not the guy that can compile the information and has the technical proficiency to write the HTML code.
I say that as a writer, who is a geek.
I agree, which is why editors and typesetters should still have a place. I read quite a few ebooks, and right now the quality is pretty hit and miss. The book I'm reading right now was obviously just run through a basic conversion program - for example, when the author quotes other writers, the text is indented, but the second and subsequent paragraphs in the quote are in a different typeface. Even the most cursory read through by an intern should have spotted that, and there are a number of smaller problems too.
Ideally, your quilting author should write the book, then hand it over to the artistic geek to be laid out. An editor should be involved both before and after the geek. That's how paper books work, and ebooks will benefit from a similar workflow. You don't expect an author to just print out a Word doc and that's the end of it.
http://www.hideipvpn.com/ has servers in the US & UK; I use them once in a while if I want to access region specific content. Pretty cheap and fast enough for my needs so I'm happy.
There are also machines which can laser sinter titanium - they use them for airplane parts and such. You won't be doing that with your makerbot or reprap anytime soon, but it's out there already.
Judging by the pictures (can't see the video) it is a pretty standard 4-door sedan. I assume the optional rear facing seat are to allow kids to sit in the trunk area or something. In fact, on their website it says seating up to 7 - that would be 5 normal seats plus two kids in the trunk I guess.
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Where did you get yours? Best I can see is over $200 for the 16GB. For that you could pick up a lightly used Touchpad, and get a bigger screen.
That looks cool, but it appears to only be sold in China.
Let the sheeple throw their money at the new iPad 3. Personally, I will be waiting to see what novelties Samsung & Others bring to market.
This is why Apple gets the attention. You (and I) are still waiting to get a decent Android tablet, and Apple is selling the third generation of theirs. My wife & kids are loving their iPad/iPod Touches, while I'm fiddling with the old Droid I bought because I got fed up waiting for "Samsung & Others" to produce something I wanted to actually pay for.
Seriously, what would you tell someone who wanted a tablet within the next month to buy? I'd say wait until next month & get an iPad 3. If they wanted a Transformer they wouldn't be asking my advice, they'd have bought it.
True dat. I usually buy most everything online, but I'll often drive the 1/2 hour to microcenter because the prices are good. Or, as just happened, the power supply on my main home machine dies on a Friday afternoon & I don't want to wait for shipping.
You can do the same thing with rsync and ssh as you can do with DropBox.
While I agree that you can do a lot with open protocols, Dropbox has its place. I mostly use it with Keepass; the Android version works well with dropbox, and I also use it for transferring epubs to Aldiko. Set it and forget it. If I had more complex needs it might be worth using a hosting service, but dropbox is pretty convenient for me.
I have an iPad 2 - despite the fact that it displays "Not Charging" when you plug it in, it will in fact charge from a .5 amp source. It's slow, but if you leave it overnight it'll be ~10% higher than when you plugged it in. For many people this might well be enough; I know I often don't use more than 10% in the course of a day.
And yes, I realize that this is what you were saying at the end of your comment...
Ahh, JonKatz - the only reason I finally got an account was so I could block him!
If you want a really free map source, try openstreetmap.org & some of the apps which use their maps. Still a work in progress, but much improved over even a year ago. If every geek on /. cleaned up their neighborhood map it would be better than the paid maps - I've certainly added features like weird one way streets and things around me which don't show up on commercial maps.
As I noted above, the cost is only for those with insurance - they'll treat the uninsured free if they make less than $150k. So while it might cause insurance premiums to rise slightly, it shouldn't bankrupt anyone.
From a radio report, apparently they will also provide it free for uninsured people who earn less than $150k, so they'll be treating more than they'll be getting paid for.
If you get to the image of the original document, you'll see that the lack of caps & the (incorrect today) usage of "it's" are indeed there in the original.
Yeah, the control traffic every three minutes is *just* as important to them as stopping the VOIP apps...
There's also the difference that in the US, we expect to be able to subscribe to a magazine cheaply, and there really aren't newsagents around with the type of selection you get in the UK. In the UK, subscriptions are unusual (hence expensive) which is why you don't see the subscription cards. I do think that the robust newsagent market is good for competition, which leads to the giveaways on the covers and a generally high quality. Right now I'm paying for an expensive magazine for kids from France; it's much better than any of the US offerings.
Bogus. If this was indeed the case then they should have kept him under surveillance until there was evidence that acting on his theoretical "crime" was eminent.
Agreed, and I'd add that if you really think this guy is a terrorist, why only two years? What are you going to do when he gets out and he's even more pissed off, along with all his friends and family? The whole thing is bogus.
I agree that the UK is not a police state, but there are a number of aspects of laws there (like this, and the ability to ban books) which are pretty troubling. I myself was once stopped and searched on the street in London, basically for having long hair. I politely asked if I could decline to be searched, was informed that if I did I would be arrested, and let them go through my bag. It was pretty funny really, I had a bunch of pens in a ziplock bag; when they saw it their faces lit up like "ah, the drugs!". They were a bit crestfallen after that. In the US that would have been an illegal search. Not that there aren't troubling laws in the US!
The flaw with this is, in my car I know that the sticky mess on the seats came from my kids spilling juice. It's less gross to me than the unknown sticky messes in other people's cars, and way less gross than those found on public transport. A big part of personal transport isn't the logic of it, it's having your own controlled space, and the fact that it's more sensible to use these like zip cars doesn't mean that a majority of people in a wealthy country are going to do it.
True, but if I had more time I might try to find a makerspace locally to play with one. You can do some cool stuff like printing forms which can then be cast etc. Alas, I'm already too busy.
To put it mildly, if I am reading a book about quilting, I want the let the quilting expert write the book, not the guy that can compile the information and has the technical proficiency to write the HTML code.
I say that as a writer, who is a geek.
I agree, which is why editors and typesetters should still have a place. I read quite a few ebooks, and right now the quality is pretty hit and miss. The book I'm reading right now was obviously just run through a basic conversion program - for example, when the author quotes other writers, the text is indented, but the second and subsequent paragraphs in the quote are in a different typeface. Even the most cursory read through by an intern should have spotted that, and there are a number of smaller problems too.
Ideally, your quilting author should write the book, then hand it over to the artistic geek to be laid out. An editor should be involved both before and after the geek. That's how paper books work, and ebooks will benefit from a similar workflow. You don't expect an author to just print out a Word doc and that's the end of it.
http://www.hideipvpn.com/ has servers in the US & UK; I use them once in a while if I want to access region specific content. Pretty cheap and fast enough for my needs so I'm happy.
http://www.makerbot.com/
Under $2000 to get going.
I would like to see a sintered titanium AK-47.
There are also machines which can laser sinter titanium - they use them for airplane parts and such. You won't be doing that with your makerbot or reprap anytime soon, but it's out there already.
I see your point, but they have added it as a new category so it should be slightly easier to find stuff.
Hadn't heard of duckduckgo somehow, going to give it a shot. Thanks!
Judging by the pictures (can't see the video) it is a pretty standard 4-door sedan. I assume the optional rear facing seat are to allow kids to sit in the trunk area or something. In fact, on their website it says seating up to 7 - that would be 5 normal seats plus two kids in the trunk I guess.