His "Airtight Garage" was the basis for the fantastic architecture of the San Francisco Sony Metreon's original game arcade. (Unfortunately, after years of deterioration and changes in ownership, the Metreon has been torn out and replaced with a Target store.)
Even if we were no longer dependent on foreign oil, so many other countries around the world would be, that the middle east would still be getting funding for their terrorist programs.
As long as we're talking hypotheticals, a solution that reduces US oil dependency (foreign and domestic) might be replicable in other places. One replicated, that solution would reduce dependence on oil everywhere.
Your remarks about Jobs understanding the nature of the PC market as intertwined with but separate from other computing markets makes a lot of sense. Had I mod points, you'd get my +1.
I also really like your contextualization of Jobs' statement that "We have to get past the idea that for Apple to win, Microsoft has to lose." From everything I can see, this is exactly the case.
Microsoft, while not the uncontested juggernaut of yore, is in no sense of the word "losing". What has become apparent is that Microsoft has to compete and from what I've seen its consumers who are reaping the benefits.
Red-haired women (FTA notes most studies have been conducted on female mice and female women) have a resistance to capsaicin. Compared to whom? Blonde-haired white people? Brown-haired white people?
How about Koreans, NONE of whom have genetcially-derived red hair? Or Latinos? Or Vietnamese? One could to this all day.
Actually these iStoves run on the same chips as the iPhone, the difference being they have Flash installed. iStove loads a page, Flash pegs the CPU, and iStove gets hot enough to fry an egg.
Perhaps you should lobby for an expansion of hate crimes laws, so that they cover "nerds" as well.
This is the best suggestion you've had this entire thread. The answer is not to ease punishment for hate crimes but to legally recognize all groups who are persecuted for simply being.
Well, you might want to find a different example, because I disagree with that hitman law. Mainly based on the fact that I believe in absolute freedom of speech. Simply a preference.
I have some karma to burn and I'm going to burn it right now: YOU ARE A STUPID FUCK and I cannot wait until you get hoisted by your own petard.
Not sure what you're referring to, but I remember looking at the ipad and saying "This is too expensive for what it does."
You're asking us to look at your failed estimation of a device's optimal price as something noteworthy? Do you (and your mods) realize that the market has decided the iPad is not too expensive for what it does and that history has shown you to be wrong on this score?
Apple has a long-standing tactic of creating shells to do their brand and part buying, to make it difficult for the rumor mills and competitors to figure out what Apple is up to.
Not only that, but China also has a legal culture where companies use shell companies to make purchases. According to Reuters:
Industry executives have said employing special-purpose entities to acquire trademarks is a frequent tactic in China.
Not that this will prevent Proview from wanting to get more from the deal after-the-fact. In my opinion, the real kicker's gotta be that the name of the shell company Apple used.
Proview accuses Apple of creating a special purpose entity -- IP Application Development Ltd, or IPAD -- to buy the iPad name from it, concealing Apple's role in the matter.
Darnedest thing is though, what hasn't been done is for someone to propose a plausible mechanism as to why GE crops would be dangerous.
You're fail to understand what drives some scientists to adhere to the principal of least harm.
If there are possible adverse, irreversible effects of human activity on our ecosystem, and the state of our knowledge is such that we can as a species initiate such effects without understanding how they manifest, then one school of thought is to halt human intervention/activity in those potentially sensitive shared domains.
Your shouting at length to "explain how this harm may come about" when we do not have the technical understanding about how such harms may come about is, despite your education and rational abilities, stupidity in action.
The moral of the story here is there are things we don't know that can cause great irreversible harm and that regulating/preventing activity in certain circumstances can avoid these harms.
I have to say, I don't think I've ever seen Slashdot fail so spectacularly.
Authors of the most highly-modded posts upthread don't seem to realize that when a Tesla Roadster’s battery completely discharges the vehicle cannot be put into tow mode and the battery cannot be recharged, hence the the term "bricked". The second sentence of the article you link spells this out.
It's bunk. If the battery pack is completely discharges, tow it to a charger, plug it in and wait.
Just RTFA'd and am coming back to rebut you a second time.
Unfortunately, BasilBrush, you seem to not have read the full text of Michael Degusta's article which documents that five Tesla roadsters have been bricked in the US. Furthermore, if you had read through Degusta's post you would understand why one cannot simply tow a bricked Tesla roadster to a charger.
Degusta also claims if the Roadster battery completely discharges, one cannot tow the disabled vehicle by conventional means.
After battery death, the car is completely inoperable. At least in the case of the Tesla Roadster, it’s not even possible to enable tow mode, meaning the wheels will not turn and the vehicle cannot be pushed nor transported to a repair facility by traditional means.
You, BasilBrush, are suggesting that people should RTFA, and I totally agree (about to go do so myself). I recommend something similar to you which is that you read Degusta's assertions and address those points directly rather than relying so heavily on a reaction to Degusta's post.
They are toys. They use them to surf the web in meetings, they play games on it, and so on. They use them to have fun and waste time, not to do work.
Academics are those whose mission is to pursue knowledge for knowledge’s sake. I’m not surprised many professors are entranced by tablet devices (iPads) given my own experience with them.
As a former academic who currently works in web development, I have an iPad and I wish wish WISH that I had had one when I had been a professor. I use a PDF reader (iAnnotate) that allows me to annotate PDFs, upload those PDFs to my desktop. From there I can (using custom PERL scripts) generate XML containing the content and metadata of those annotations, which XML objects I incorporate into an XML editor/viewer (Tinderbox) for editing, organizing, and HTML export. I bring the exported HTML into a CMS and publish that on the web. Between these pieces of software and hardware is ENORMOUS pedagogical potential
I know this because I had such a system in place as a faculty and students who hated Blackboard regularly commented how useful and more efficient my online course materials were. This was pre-tablet device (read pre-iPad), so I had been using a desktop program (open source Skim) to make these annotations. iAnnotate is a much more direct translation of book-reading skills and had iPads existed prior to my leaving academia for the Silicon Valley, I would have been using one, too.
tl;dr: I suspect that the "ooh shiny" professors have for tablet devices is actually the realization that touch devices are a paradigm shift from desktops, a paradigm with its own set of advantages and possibilities. Faculty buy into these things not because they are easily distracted but because they have a researcher’s curiosity for useful technologies.
Except that 'Metro' isn't just Windows 8, it is the future UI paradigm for Windows/Microsoft. IE 10 will have two versions, Metro and 'traditional'. I don't think MS is going to continue to create two versions in the future. Windows 9 will take things one steep further
MS has not yet announced a release date for Windows 8, which makes me suspect Fall 2012 is an early (and unlikely) target. Given this speculation, Windows 8's UI paradigm will not be available to the general public until more than 16 months after Android's ICS and 6 months after Mac OS X Mountain Lion (which integrates additional features from iOS to OS X).
It's not even like MS is even aiming for a moving target anymore but, instead, is taking square aim at a horse that will have died long after having left the barn.
(Don't worry about that last paragraph. My English doctorate licenses me to mix metaphors.)
A better solution is to buy a real Tablet PC (not a girly man "tablet" like the iPad)
I'm honestly unable to understand what you mean by this phrase and parenthetical explanation. What is a "real Tablet PC" capable of that an iPad is not?
I have a distinct feeling you're speaking from ignorance (rather than just outright trolling) but I am curious if there is a difference you (or others) care to share.
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San Francisco Target Store? Ain't no such thing, yet. Apparently development is to be completed by fall of this year after having been originally projected for this winter.
Actually Slashdot did report Moebius's death in 1868 when it happened. Today's story is a dupe.
As long as we're talking hypotheticals, a solution that reduces US oil dependency (foreign and domestic) might be replicable in other places. One replicated, that solution would reduce dependence on oil everywhere.
Presently at 1, your post is way undermodded.
Your remarks about Jobs understanding the nature of the PC market as intertwined with but separate from other computing markets makes a lot of sense. Had I mod points, you'd get my +1.
I also really like your contextualization of Jobs' statement that "We have to get past the idea that for Apple to win, Microsoft has to lose." From everything I can see, this is exactly the case.
Microsoft, while not the uncontested juggernaut of yore, is in no sense of the word "losing". What has become apparent is that Microsoft has to compete and from what I've seen its consumers who are reaping the benefits.
In the name of all that's good, please don't do that again.
Red-haired women (FTA notes most studies have been conducted on female mice and female women) have a resistance to capsaicin. Compared to whom? Blonde-haired white people? Brown-haired white people?
How about Koreans, NONE of whom have genetcially-derived red hair? Or Latinos? Or Vietnamese? One could to this all day.
Exactly because, you know, most blokes will be playing at 10. This one goes one higher.
Yes but whinging, the gerundive form of “whinge”, has two "g"s.
Nice try but it needs further clarification. "Ch" as in "school" or ch "branch">?
Actually these iStoves run on the same chips as the iPhone, the difference being they have Flash installed. iStove loads a page, Flash pegs the CPU, and iStove gets hot enough to fry an egg.
This is the best suggestion you've had this entire thread. The answer is not to ease punishment for hate crimes but to legally recognize all groups who are persecuted for simply being.
I have some karma to burn and I'm going to burn it right now: YOU ARE A STUPID FUCK and I cannot wait until you get hoisted by your own petard.
Conspiracy to kill someone is a crime as seeks to deprive one of the unalienable rights ("life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness") mentioned at the outset of the Constitution, before even the Bill of Rights where the First Amendment is enumerated.
You're asking us to look at your failed estimation of a device's optimal price as something noteworthy? Do you (and your mods) realize that the market has decided the iPad is not too expensive for what it does and that history has shown you to be wrong on this score?
Not only that, but China also has a legal culture where companies use shell companies to make purchases. According to Reuters:
Not that this will prevent Proview from wanting to get more from the deal after-the-fact. In my opinion, the real kicker's gotta be that the name of the shell company Apple used.
You're fail to understand what drives some scientists to adhere to the principal of least harm.
If there are possible adverse, irreversible effects of human activity on our ecosystem, and the state of our knowledge is such that we can as a species initiate such effects without understanding how they manifest, then one school of thought is to halt human intervention/activity in those potentially sensitive shared domains.
Your shouting at length to "explain how this harm may come about" when we do not have the technical understanding about how such harms may come about is, despite your education and rational abilities, stupidity in action.
The moral of the story here is there are things we don't know that can cause great irreversible harm and that regulating/preventing activity in certain circumstances can avoid these harms.
Thanks for this, AC.
I have to say, I don't think I've ever seen Slashdot fail so spectacularly.
Authors of the most highly-modded posts upthread don't seem to realize that when a Tesla Roadster’s battery completely discharges the vehicle cannot be put into tow mode and the battery cannot be recharged, hence the the term "bricked". The second sentence of the article you link spells this out.
Just RTFA'd and am coming back to rebut you a second time.
Unfortunately, BasilBrush, you seem to not have read the full text of Michael Degusta's article which documents that five Tesla roadsters have been bricked in the US. Furthermore, if you had read through Degusta's post you would understand why one cannot simply tow a bricked Tesla roadster to a charger.
According to Michael Degusta (author of The Understatement blog), five Tesla Roadsters have been bricked in the US. Degusta's source is "a regional service manager with Tesla".
Degusta also claims if the Roadster battery completely discharges, one cannot tow the disabled vehicle by conventional means.
You, BasilBrush, are suggesting that people should RTFA, and I totally agree (about to go do so myself). I recommend something similar to you which is that you read Degusta's assertions and address those points directly rather than relying so heavily on a reaction to Degusta's post.
As a former academic at a research university, I can say you know not whereof you speak.
Most faculty, especially ones above the Junior College level, think teaching is the part of the job that sucks, not writing and publishing.
Nice one.
On a serious note, another effect of too much exposure to light (depending on the source) is skin cancer.
Just watch out for the rascals who sneak up in the middle of the night to tip you over.
Academics are those whose mission is to pursue knowledge for knowledge’s sake. I’m not surprised many professors are entranced by tablet devices (iPads) given my own experience with them.
As a former academic who currently works in web development, I have an iPad and I wish wish WISH that I had had one when I had been a professor. I use a PDF reader (iAnnotate) that allows me to annotate PDFs, upload those PDFs to my desktop. From there I can (using custom PERL scripts) generate XML containing the content and metadata of those annotations, which XML objects I incorporate into an XML editor/viewer (Tinderbox) for editing, organizing, and HTML export. I bring the exported HTML into a CMS and publish that on the web. Between these pieces of software and hardware is ENORMOUS pedagogical potential
I know this because I had such a system in place as a faculty and students who hated Blackboard regularly commented how useful and more efficient my online course materials were. This was pre-tablet device (read pre-iPad), so I had been using a desktop program (open source Skim) to make these annotations. iAnnotate is a much more direct translation of book-reading skills and had iPads existed prior to my leaving academia for the Silicon Valley, I would have been using one, too.
tl;dr: I suspect that the "ooh shiny" professors have for tablet devices is actually the realization that touch devices are a paradigm shift from desktops, a paradigm with its own set of advantages and possibilities. Faculty buy into these things not because they are easily distracted but because they have a researcher’s curiosity for useful technologies.
MS has not yet announced a release date for Windows 8, which makes me suspect Fall 2012 is an early (and unlikely) target. Given this speculation, Windows 8's UI paradigm will not be available to the general public until more than 16 months after Android's ICS and 6 months after Mac OS X Mountain Lion (which integrates additional features from iOS to OS X).
It's not even like MS is even aiming for a moving target anymore but, instead, is taking square aim at a horse that will have died long after having left the barn.
(Don't worry about that last paragraph. My English doctorate licenses me to mix metaphors.)
I'm honestly unable to understand what you mean by this phrase and parenthetical explanation. What is a "real Tablet PC" capable of that an iPad is not?
I have a distinct feeling you're speaking from ignorance (rather than just outright trolling) but I am curious if there is a difference you (or others) care to share.