Do you really believe that Turing should have become celibate because his sexual preferences were illegal?
Do you feel the same way about pedophiles? Not that being gay is anything like being a pedophile. However, your statement applies equally well to pedophiles. Why do you feel that it doesn't it apply there?
I swear, with all the real oppression going on in today's world, it's astounding the nonsense people come up with to bellyache about in the name of "freedom."
Yes, some people even spend their time whining about other people whining -- can you believe that!
I can no longer access netflix without upgrading the firmware. Though, I guess that it's not clear whether continued netflix access was ever promised...
Well, the touch driver chip in the HP unit is $11, the display is $60 and the touch input device itself is about $50 - it all adds up. There's $60 you don;t need to spend while building a netbook.
Most "decent" tablets also use an IPS display (display angle is IMO more important on a tablet, as you're more likely to use it off-axis), while most netbooks have pretty crappy displays.
When we were building the tablet PC in 2001, the vice president in charge of Office at the time decided he didnâ(TM)t like the concept. The tablet required a stylus, and he much preferred keyboards to pens and thought our efforts doomed. To guarantee they were, he refused to modify the popular Office applications to work properly with the tablet. So if you wanted to enter a number into a spreadsheet or correct a word in an e-mail message, you had to write it in a special pop-up box, which then transferred the information to Office. Annoying, clumsy and slow.
Love him or hate him, can you imagine Steve Jobs allowing such a situation to exist within his company?
My recollection is a bit fuzzy, its been decades since doing 6502 assembly on Apple IIs and C64s, but didn't 65C02 add a txy (transfer x and y registers) and possibly a few other opcodes?
And an unconditional relative branch (BRA) instruction. Can you believe that the 6502 didn't have an unconditional branch? You had to do something like "SEC; BRC xxx" instead, to use one of the conditional branches. Weird...
Sure, it just wan't Apple's innovation. The day it was released and instantly panned by Taco for not being as good an iRiver has become part of Slashdot lore. Apple's genius was the scroll wheel interface, and perhaps making it easy to rip CDs with iTunes.
It was actually even more than that. Apple had an exclusive on the 1.8" hard drive in the iPod (portent of things to come?), and so you had previously only had a choice of either small (~128MB) flash-based players, or quite large 2.5" hard disk players.
In addition, the iPod had a 400Mb Firewire connection, while all of the other players had 12Mb USB 1.0 connections, which obviously made transfers much faster...
Not going to happen. You've forgotten about the Motorola ROKR [wikipedia.org]. That was the last time Apple let someone else be in charge of the hardware, and it wasn't pretty.
Except for all of the car stereo manufacturers who license iPod connectivity. I think that is a bit more similar.
Math education was terrible when I was in school. I am a practical person: without real world problems, I can't get a real handle on anything. When I took Calculus I hated derivatives...It was never explained what they were *for*...It just seemed like masturbation. The next semester I took physics and the prof made some offhanded remark about the equations of motion, and the whole thing became perfectly fucking clear! I had goddamn twitching foaming epiphany right in the middle of fucking class! I wanted to take my heavy ass book and beat the shit out of my calc prof!
Being able to learn something that is abstract is also a skill...
On the contrary. Highschool level Geometry is important. It is where you are taught to derive proofs based upon postulates and theorems. It is the process that is important, not the results, per se.
I chatted with a new high school math teacher last Thanksgiving, and made that exact statement. He then stated that they don't teach proofs anymore. I guess that there aren't enough pictures...
I wonder if this is how my school did it. In grade school we had rather simple looking analogue clocks that essentially mimicked the clock on the control panel for the PA system. If there was a power outage the clocks would stop, and when the power came back we would see them run quick to catch up.
So you're hypothesizing that, after a power outage, they increase the line frequency for a while to compensate for the time down?
The bigest problem for changing from 50->60 or 60->50 are electric motors. (fans, vaccums, elevators, FACTORIES, power tools, water pumps, and generaly changing factories is propably very expensive, you may not complain when vaccuming will give you 20%more or less power, but when conveyor belts, mixing machines, crains, and lot of other stuff gets faster or slower you get into trouble. And I am not even considering that in one or other way the efficiency got worse/better and things get stronger/weaker. In home you get some problems. ( like refiregerator(pump is Hz fixed, kitchen/toilet Fan, vaccuming, food processors and other spinning things. TV, clock, radio, PC, chrgers: (is generaly not huge problem)
Your lack of right parentheses makes me uneasy. Like a badly-formed Lisp program...
I have an iPad, which I quite like, but I also would prefer the smaller size.
I recently bought a Nook Color, and hacked it (easily) to run Android. I really like it! The screen is of the same quality as the one in the iPad (IPS) with almost the same resolution as the iPad (1024x600).
And, currently, unless they're sold out, the Barnes & Noble eBay store is selling them for $199.
This. Because of the article, I just searched for a really simple app, stumbled across a free game which is not much more than "falling down" on any console (or TI calculator). It demands full internet access. No! bad app! You don't NEED that to work. Now go sit in the corner!
Many free apps are ad-supported, and the internet access is necessary to serve the ad content...
Care to explain my HP Envy, with aluminum/magnesium body, backlit keyboard, slot loading dvd, 128gb SSD, Radeon HD 5650, i5, 1600x900 screen?
Oh, and I bought it for $980 ($1400 before rebate. I miss you 30% BCB). The closest Macbook configuration (at the time) cost almost $3000, and couldn't even match in some specs (like the video card). Is OSX worth almost $1600? And people scoff at the price of Windows 7.
My current laptop is a Sony "CW" series, a 14" laptop, with an i5 processor and a 1600x900 screen, which I bought a year or so ago, for $950. I bought it mainly for the hires screen.
I wish I hadn't. The viewing angle on the screen is awful, and, other than the resolution, it just basically sucks. Apple would never put a screen that crappy into one of their systems. OTOT, the screens that they do use generally don't have the resolution that I would like. Hopefully, with the resolution-independent changes for Lion, they'll change that philosophy...
Because a lot of human trafficking and counterfeiting happens across our nation's borders. Actually, that's the best way to do it because it hampers local law enforcement. For human trafficking it's the best way because it puts people into a strange environment where they will not know how to ask for help. Especially if they are illegal immigrants, which is usually the case.
This seizure it totally unacceptable, but it's well within the scope of their operation to try something like this. Who else would do it?
So, kinda like the interstate commerce clause -- "if anything can be shown to even remotely affect the operations of terrorists, DHS can utilize its extensive powers policing it"? That is beyond "slippery slope"...
Yes, it certainly is fair. It would have been preferable if the admin in question had demanded to see a warrant first though. Demanding a warrant every time will help stop FBI fishing expeditions, and only inconvenience those who really deserve the data a tiny bit.
Do we know that a warrant wasn't given?
If the FBI did this without a warrant, they are actually being quite negligent IMO, considering that they could easily get a warrant in a case such as this. Given recent cases that email can be covered by the fourth amendment, then their seeking this information without a warrant could end up making the evidence inadmissible.
He's being tagged as a conservative because it was a Democrat that was shot. Would the tables be turned if it was a Republican? Would we assume the shooter was a liberal? Doubtful.
You really don't think that the conservative media (Fox News, Ann Coulter, etc.) wouldn't make that connection if the situation were reversed? Just... wow. That is far beyond reason...
no, what I said was that "self" was never a concern, therefore it was not selfish.
You speak in riddles.
decided that the right, UNselfish thing to do was to give them life.
your words
I'm assuming that you aren't trolling (it doesn't sound like you are...).
There are essentially four terms, that can become jumbled -- selfish, "not selfish", unselfish, and selfless. They form a spectrum, though often similar terms are assumed to be the same.
You are treating the poster's "not selfish" to be the same term as "unselfish", then equating that to be the same as "selfless". I don't believe that the original poster was making that correlation (nor do I believe that it is fair to).
Just because a particular act is not done for selfish reasons, doesn't mean that it was done for "selfless" reasons. There is a middle ground -- i.e. an act with is neither selfish or selfless (not using "unselfish" because the term means "selfless" to some people, and "not selfish" to others).
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Do you feel the same way about pedophiles? Not that being gay is anything like being a pedophile. However, your statement applies equally well to pedophiles. Why do you feel that it doesn't it apply there?
I swear, with all the real oppression going on in today's world, it's astounding the nonsense people come up with to bellyache about in the name of "freedom."
Yes, some people even spend their time whining about other people whining -- can you believe that!
What else are you gonna do after all the cows have already been tipped?
Same reason that they forced 99 cent music downloads. They want to alter the industry ... which they will then try to control.
I can no longer access netflix without upgrading the firmware. Though, I guess that it's not clear whether continued netflix access was ever promised...
Most "decent" tablets also use an IPS display (display angle is IMO more important on a tablet, as you're more likely to use it off-axis), while most netbooks have pretty crappy displays.
Love him or hate him, can you imagine Steve Jobs allowing such a situation to exist within his company?
I think that the parent is suggesting that, if this is decided to be the case, then the lawsuit did have merit, as the plaintiffs owned the copyright.
Conversely, since the judge decided that the plaintiffs didn't have standing, then the plaintiffs cannot be the copyright owners.
A bit of a catch-22 situation there...
And an unconditional relative branch (BRA) instruction. Can you believe that the 6502 didn't have an unconditional branch? You had to do something like "SEC; BRC xxx" instead, to use one of the conditional branches. Weird...
It was actually even more than that. Apple had an exclusive on the 1.8" hard drive in the iPod (portent of things to come?), and so you had previously only had a choice of either small (~128MB) flash-based players, or quite large 2.5" hard disk players.
In addition, the iPod had a 400Mb Firewire connection, while all of the other players had 12Mb USB 1.0 connections, which obviously made transfers much faster...
Except for all of the car stereo manufacturers who license iPod connectivity. I think that is a bit more similar.
Being able to learn something that is abstract is also a skill...
I chatted with a new high school math teacher last Thanksgiving, and made that exact statement. He then stated that they don't teach proofs anymore. I guess that there aren't enough pictures...
So you're hypothesizing that, after a power outage, they increase the line frequency for a while to compensate for the time down?
Your lack of right parentheses makes me uneasy. Like a badly-formed Lisp program...
I'm partial to hot glue, myself...
I have an iPad, which I quite like, but I also would prefer the smaller size.
I recently bought a Nook Color, and hacked it (easily) to run Android. I really like it! The screen is of the same quality as the one in the iPad (IPS) with almost the same resolution as the iPad (1024x600).
And, currently, unless they're sold out, the Barnes & Noble eBay store is selling them for $199.
Many free apps are ad-supported, and the internet access is necessary to serve the ad content...
My current laptop is a Sony "CW" series, a 14" laptop, with an i5 processor and a 1600x900 screen, which I bought a year or so ago, for $950. I bought it mainly for the hires screen.
I wish I hadn't. The viewing angle on the screen is awful, and, other than the resolution, it just basically sucks. Apple would never put a screen that crappy into one of their systems. OTOT, the screens that they do use generally don't have the resolution that I would like. Hopefully, with the resolution-independent changes for Lion, they'll change that philosophy...
So, kinda like the interstate commerce clause -- "if anything can be shown to even remotely affect the operations of terrorists, DHS can utilize its extensive powers policing it"? That is beyond "slippery slope"...
Do we know that a warrant wasn't given?
If the FBI did this without a warrant, they are actually being quite negligent IMO, considering that they could easily get a warrant in a case such as this. Given recent cases that email can be covered by the fourth amendment, then their seeking this information without a warrant could end up making the evidence inadmissible.
You really don't think that the conservative media (Fox News, Ann Coulter, etc.) wouldn't make that connection if the situation were reversed? Just ... wow. That is far beyond reason...
I'm assuming that you aren't trolling (it doesn't sound like you are...).
There are essentially four terms, that can become jumbled -- selfish, "not selfish", unselfish, and selfless. They form a spectrum, though often similar terms are assumed to be the same.
You are treating the poster's "not selfish" to be the same term as "unselfish", then equating that to be the same as "selfless". I don't believe that the original poster was making that correlation (nor do I believe that it is fair to).
Just because a particular act is not done for selfish reasons, doesn't mean that it was done for "selfless" reasons. There is a middle ground -- i.e. an act with is neither selfish or selfless (not using "unselfish" because the term means "selfless" to some people, and "not selfish" to others).
Off-topic, I know, but that just makes me sad (assuming that you meant that you couldn't care less)...
If the prosecution withholds the evidence, then the defense doesn't see it. Dumbass, indeed...