No, it doesn't. It's a compromise, just like anything else. Having dedicated, high-quality keys with excellent tactile feedback is ideal, however it isn't always practical. There's no way you can do that on a phone with apps, for instance, because every app is different and you need to be able to reconfigure it on the fly. Having it on a Model M keyboard works fine, because you don't expect it to change and there's plenty of room there for lots of keys, unlike a phone. And the keyboard sits on your desk; it's not mobile, so there's no real penalty for it being big. The HP48-series calculators were great in their time (though slow for a lot of things, especially anything involving the menus), but they were about as big as a modern phablet, and that's all they did.
If you're already carrying around a 5" screen smartphone, why not have an app that does most of that stuff (esp. when you can just use the free version and not pay anything)? Maybe you like hauling around a dedicated calculator everywhere you go on the off change you want to convert degrees to radians, but I'm not going to; an Android app works just fine for that.
It's been repeatedly demonstrated that it wasn't, in fact. It was just a better effort than similar devices which preceded it.
Right, but not innovation. That's not what this is about.
Oh please. I hate to defend Apple of all companies, but "innovation" is not being the first to come up with the very first version of something, that's "invention". The two are not the same. Putting together existing parts (and refining them significantly) into a new overall package is innovation; it's really the same thing as engineering, but also combined with design.
I still remember when the iPhone first came out. It was truly intuitive and easy to use for people who hadn't used one before, and it was actually attractive; this just wasn't true for preceding devices with their tiny screens with resistive touchscreens and crappy OSes. Thankfully, Android came along later (though it has major problems too, namely mfgrs abandoning devices quickly), but I have to give credit where it's due. The iPhone is the whole reason everyone has a smartphone now; no one cared about them before because they really weren't easy to use (nor attractive).
Yep, but not on the same phones unfortunately (if I'm not mistaken, some phones can do both). And from what I can tell in my area, Sprint has significantly better coverage.
Is this what USasians think is a generous vacation policy? You're seriously impressed about being able to take a whole week of vacation?!? LOL.
He's talking about the tech industry. Not every place in the US is like that, nor is every tech company, that's really more about the high-profile (=high pressure) ones.
In most industries, 2-4 weeks per year is the norm, sometimes more in government positions.
But yeah, if you work at Apple, don't expect to take much vacation time.
Throw in Cruz and Carson and Santorum and Huckabee too. I'll spare Walker since he dropped out.
This is really a horrible set of candidates we have this time around, except for Sanders. The top three IMO are Sanders, Biden (who isn't even running yet), and Trump (and that's just because there isn't anyone better).
Oh please, this is just dumb. The iPod click-wheel isn't innovative? The iPhone wasn't innovative? No, Apple never was the absolute first to market with something, but under Jobs they were frequently first to market with something that people actually really liked, and which caught on, and a big part of that was doing a good job with product design (e.g., compare the old WinCE phones with the first iPhone--who the fuck wants to use a stylus on a phone?).
Bernie is great, but in a hypothetical scenario where you have to choose from the Republican candidates, which one would you pick? That's kinda what we're talking about here.
Personally, I'd pick Trump easily. All the others are either religious wackos, Objectivism fans, or one of the worst CEOs in recent history. Trump is the only one of the bunch who's sane and connected.
Huh? While I agree about the Mac twits and the systemd flamewars (and FreeBSD pushers), there's absolutely no shortage of Windows lovers around here. You may have a point that it isn't exactly brand-new, but I do believe that it's worse lately. I could be wrong though.
I'm not saying the drivers don't have rational reasons for discriminating. But the OP claimed that taxi drivers can't discriminate, when in reality, they do constantly; they're infamous for it.
At least with Uber, it's normal for you to punch in your destination on the app, so the driver can see immediately where you want to go and decide if he wants to take you there. So a black guy in Manhattan who just wants to go from Midtown to the Upper West Side won't have any problems getting an Uber ride, while taxis will pass him by and refuse to pick him up (because the taxis think he's going to the Bronx).
and/or give a H1B worker the freedom to change sponsors after 1 year.
Screw that. Give them the freedom to change sponsors as soon as they step onto the tarmac. Otherwise, it's nothing more than indentured servitude. If the company needs them sooooo badly, they should be willing to risk them leaving, and they should be paying them so handsomely that they won't want to leave (in addition to the sponsorship fees). If the company isn't willing to fork out this much money, then they don't really need that worker.
Why bother with that, when you can instead install uBlock Origin which doesn't whitelist anything, and even better, uses a fraction of the RAM of ABP? ABP is very inefficient; that's why everyone's switching to the uBlock stuff.
Yeah, and Fringe is sci-fi, not considered real at all. Comic book stuff is even more so; no one takes that stuff seriously, it's really just fantasy but without orcs and elves.
Um, my understanding is they were not GIVEN a unit at all, they were SOLD a unit. So how does First Sale doctrine not apply? (Note: the price is irrelevant.)
The problem I see right away with this app is the problem of anonymous reviews. If the app only allows people to review each other but from real-name accounts, so you know exactly is criticizing you, that's free speech, and it still allows you to sue to reviewer for libel. However, if the app allows anonymous reviews, I can't imaging how it won't be immediately bogged down in libel lawsuits against the company itself, considering how damaging this can really be to people.
I use Ad-Block's element-hiding add-on [adblockplus.org] to get rid of not merely ads, but various other elements I dislike In fact, I'm addicted. Upon coming to a new (or recently redesigned) site, I must clean it up before reading.
You sound like you have some serious OCD issues. Have you tried doing the same with uBlock (or better yet uBlock Origin)? And have you thought about publishing your filters so other people can have a more enjoyable web experience? If you're going to go to all that trouble, you might as well share it!
I hate to defend we advertisers, but this doesn't really make sense here. Even if the "good apples" (hahaha, yeah right) actually got together and decided on standards for web advertising, such as no flashing, no pop-ups, no pop-unders, no auto-starting videos, etc., how exactly would they enforce this?
It's not like it's that hard to code up a pop-up ad. Any decent programmer could probably figure it out in a few hours, even if they don't know JavaScript, and in a few days put together a working ad system using pop-ups and serving ads from someplace.
How would an industry consortium prevent this? Kick out anyone who does it? Oh no! I've been kicked out of the advertisers' club! So what?
The only way this kind of thing could be enforced is by government regulation, and sending in police to physically seize domains and servers found to be violating the law (as this standard would have to be enacted into law for this to happen). And even this is problematic since the web easily crosses national borders.
This is why ad-blocking is popular: there's little chance the government is going to step in and fix it (and why should they?), there's no feasible way for advertisers to police themselves (even if they were so inclined, which I don't think they are), and it's easy enough to just use a technological solution to block almost all ads.
At this point, the only way advertisers are going to get past the ad-blockers is to either buy them all off (which won't work because someone will just fork the existing ones, as we've seen several times now), or resort to serving ads from the same domain or even server as the web page.
Yep. If you buy an object, you have every right to take it apart. It's pretty disgusting that there's a bunch of sycophants on Slashdot of all places criticizing this. This site has really gone to shit since the 90s.
However, Apple's actions here are also more evidence that you have to be a complete stooge to buy into the Apple ecosystem. It's not even like Microsoft Windows, where you can make the argument that you need it because a bunch of business-critical software only runs on it; this simply isn't the case with iDevices. There are alternatives, namely Android, and even (ugh) Windows Phone. At this point, I'm so disgusted by Apple that if Android didn't exist, I'd recommend Windows Phone over the iPhone, and that's pretty significant coming from me.
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No, it doesn't. It's a compromise, just like anything else. Having dedicated, high-quality keys with excellent tactile feedback is ideal, however it isn't always practical. There's no way you can do that on a phone with apps, for instance, because every app is different and you need to be able to reconfigure it on the fly. Having it on a Model M keyboard works fine, because you don't expect it to change and there's plenty of room there for lots of keys, unlike a phone. And the keyboard sits on your desk; it's not mobile, so there's no real penalty for it being big. The HP48-series calculators were great in their time (though slow for a lot of things, especially anything involving the menus), but they were about as big as a modern phablet, and that's all they did.
If you're already carrying around a 5" screen smartphone, why not have an app that does most of that stuff (esp. when you can just use the free version and not pay anything)? Maybe you like hauling around a dedicated calculator everywhere you go on the off change you want to convert degrees to radians, but I'm not going to; an Android app works just fine for that.
Just Google "Cruz dominionist" for lots of links.
https://www.quora.com/Is-Ted-C...
http://www.politicususa.com/20...
The last one might be "liberal", but it has a video from Cruz's own father. If that's not good enough for you, I don't know what is.
It's been repeatedly demonstrated that it wasn't, in fact. It was just a better effort than similar devices which preceded it.
Right, but not innovation. That's not what this is about.
Oh please. I hate to defend Apple of all companies, but "innovation" is not being the first to come up with the very first version of something, that's "invention". The two are not the same. Putting together existing parts (and refining them significantly) into a new overall package is innovation; it's really the same thing as engineering, but also combined with design.
I still remember when the iPhone first came out. It was truly intuitive and easy to use for people who hadn't used one before, and it was actually attractive; this just wasn't true for preceding devices with their tiny screens with resistive touchscreens and crappy OSes. Thankfully, Android came along later (though it has major problems too, namely mfgrs abandoning devices quickly), but I have to give credit where it's due. The iPhone is the whole reason everyone has a smartphone now; no one cared about them before because they really weren't easy to use (nor attractive).
Yep, but not on the same phones unfortunately (if I'm not mistaken, some phones can do both). And from what I can tell in my area, Sprint has significantly better coverage.
Better yet, just make an Android app. There's already one that does most of what the HP RPN calculators did; it's called "RealCalc".
Why bother carrying around an extra calculator when you can just do it with your phone?
Is this what USasians think is a generous vacation policy? You're seriously impressed about being able to take a whole week of vacation?!? LOL.
He's talking about the tech industry. Not every place in the US is like that, nor is every tech company, that's really more about the high-profile (=high pressure) ones.
In most industries, 2-4 weeks per year is the norm, sometimes more in government positions.
But yeah, if you work at Apple, don't expect to take much vacation time.
You should try it sometime! (Not screwing her. I wouldn't wish that on anyone.
Even her ex-husband is bashing her publicly. Poor guy is probably mentally scarred for life.
Throw in Cruz and Carson and Santorum and Huckabee too. I'll spare Walker since he dropped out.
This is really a horrible set of candidates we have this time around, except for Sanders. The top three IMO are Sanders, Biden (who isn't even running yet), and Trump (and that's just because there isn't anyone better).
Oh please, this is just dumb. The iPod click-wheel isn't innovative? The iPhone wasn't innovative? No, Apple never was the absolute first to market with something, but under Jobs they were frequently first to market with something that people actually really liked, and which caught on, and a big part of that was doing a good job with product design (e.g., compare the old WinCE phones with the first iPhone--who the fuck wants to use a stylus on a phone?).
Bernie is great, but in a hypothetical scenario where you have to choose from the Republican candidates, which one would you pick? That's kinda what we're talking about here.
Personally, I'd pick Trump easily. All the others are either religious wackos, Objectivism fans, or one of the worst CEOs in recent history. Trump is the only one of the bunch who's sane and connected.
Carson is a young-earth creationist and a crackpot. He's definitely not "thoughtful".
Cruz follows Dominionist Theology and keeps trying to shut the government down.
I like Sanders, but I'll take Trump any day over these two wackos. Biden would probably be OK too.
Huh? While I agree about the Mac twits and the systemd flamewars (and FreeBSD pushers), there's absolutely no shortage of Windows lovers around here. You may have a point that it isn't exactly brand-new, but I do believe that it's worse lately. I could be wrong though.
I'm not saying the drivers don't have rational reasons for discriminating. But the OP claimed that taxi drivers can't discriminate, when in reality, they do constantly; they're infamous for it.
At least with Uber, it's normal for you to punch in your destination on the app, so the driver can see immediately where you want to go and decide if he wants to take you there. So a black guy in Manhattan who just wants to go from Midtown to the Upper West Side won't have any problems getting an Uber ride, while taxis will pass him by and refuse to pick him up (because the taxis think he's going to the Bronx).
and/or give a H1B worker the freedom to change sponsors after 1 year.
Screw that. Give them the freedom to change sponsors as soon as they step onto the tarmac. Otherwise, it's nothing more than indentured servitude. If the company needs them sooooo badly, they should be willing to risk them leaving, and they should be paying them so handsomely that they won't want to leave (in addition to the sponsorship fees). If the company isn't willing to fork out this much money, then they don't really need that worker.
You obviously can't read either: they had to spend $1 for the unit. That puts it under the First Sale doctrine.
They purchased this item too. They had to pay $1 for it. That qualifies for "for sale".
I dunno, but if I'm paying for it (even if it's only $1), then it seems to me I own it, regardless of any NDAs, and First Sale doctrine applies.
Why bother with that, when you can instead install uBlock Origin which doesn't whitelist anything, and even better, uses a fraction of the RAM of ABP? ABP is very inefficient; that's why everyone's switching to the uBlock stuff.
Yeah, and Fringe is sci-fi, not considered real at all. Comic book stuff is even more so; no one takes that stuff seriously, it's really just fantasy but without orcs and elves.
Um, my understanding is they were not GIVEN a unit at all, they were SOLD a unit. So how does First Sale doctrine not apply?
(Note: the price is irrelevant.)
Whoops.... "we advertisers" is supposed to be "web advertisers".
The problem I see right away with this app is the problem of anonymous reviews. If the app only allows people to review each other but from real-name accounts, so you know exactly is criticizing you, that's free speech, and it still allows you to sue to reviewer for libel. However, if the app allows anonymous reviews, I can't imaging how it won't be immediately bogged down in libel lawsuits against the company itself, considering how damaging this can really be to people.
I use Ad-Block's element-hiding add-on [adblockplus.org] to get rid of not merely ads, but various other elements I dislike
In fact, I'm addicted. Upon coming to a new (or recently redesigned) site, I must clean it up before reading.
You sound like you have some serious OCD issues. Have you tried doing the same with uBlock (or better yet uBlock Origin)? And have you thought about publishing your filters so other people can have a more enjoyable web experience? If you're going to go to all that trouble, you might as well share it!
I hate to defend we advertisers, but this doesn't really make sense here. Even if the "good apples" (hahaha, yeah right) actually got together and decided on standards for web advertising, such as no flashing, no pop-ups, no pop-unders, no auto-starting videos, etc., how exactly would they enforce this?
It's not like it's that hard to code up a pop-up ad. Any decent programmer could probably figure it out in a few hours, even if they don't know JavaScript, and in a few days put together a working ad system using pop-ups and serving ads from someplace.
How would an industry consortium prevent this? Kick out anyone who does it? Oh no! I've been kicked out of the advertisers' club! So what?
The only way this kind of thing could be enforced is by government regulation, and sending in police to physically seize domains and servers found to be violating the law (as this standard would have to be enacted into law for this to happen). And even this is problematic since the web easily crosses national borders.
This is why ad-blocking is popular: there's little chance the government is going to step in and fix it (and why should they?), there's no feasible way for advertisers to police themselves (even if they were so inclined, which I don't think they are), and it's easy enough to just use a technological solution to block almost all ads.
At this point, the only way advertisers are going to get past the ad-blockers is to either buy them all off (which won't work because someone will just fork the existing ones, as we've seen several times now), or resort to serving ads from the same domain or even server as the web page.
Yep. If you buy an object, you have every right to take it apart. It's pretty disgusting that there's a bunch of sycophants on Slashdot of all places criticizing this. This site has really gone to shit since the 90s.
However, Apple's actions here are also more evidence that you have to be a complete stooge to buy into the Apple ecosystem. It's not even like Microsoft Windows, where you can make the argument that you need it because a bunch of business-critical software only runs on it; this simply isn't the case with iDevices. There are alternatives, namely Android, and even (ugh) Windows Phone. At this point, I'm so disgusted by Apple that if Android didn't exist, I'd recommend Windows Phone over the iPhone, and that's pretty significant coming from me.