Replying to undo "Insightful" mod. I was going for "Redundant" especially since you are full of your own rhetoric.
Elections DO matter, especially when the candidates are close on many issues.
Not that this administration got it right, but do you understand the difference between Universal Health Care and the status quo? How about alternative energies, supporting American workers (Michigan), understanding the benefit of information technology, women’s health, freedom of religion, etc.?
I'm not saying the current just left-of-center administration has all of these down cold. Far from it. I’m also not saying the current administration hasn't really fouled things up (NDAA). I *am* saying that there are distinct and important differences between what passes for Democrat and what passes for Republican, even in US elections heavily influenced by corporate interests.
No USB slots this time either, so if one wants to plug in a wireless modem or connect to a non-Apple USB printer, one is SOL?
You can't even troll properly. First, there is no such thing as an Apple USB printer. Second, when printing from an iPad, one does so wirelessly using a compatible third-party printer. Third, wireless modem? Your phone is your wireless modem and your iPad connects to it using WiFi. Why would you plug a wire into your iPad to use a wireless modem?
Why, thank you Captain Helpful, but I'm sure that the OP (along with everyone else reading) had that figured out already and was simply indulging in some playfully pedantic tongue-in-cheek analysis.:-)
Sorry, my previous reply was based on my misunderstanding your question.
A better answer to your question is that the Mark Bretherton (CEO) expresses a reluctance to "upgrade" to digital until digital at least matches the quality of 70mm.
Damn right! He is the president and has access to the magic wand of "make shit instantly happen" and he has yet to use it for anything to help the country out.
He definitely had a "make shit instantly happen” button when it came to bin Laden.
This seems to be a popular opinion on/., that SOPA will be split into riders that will be passed separately. I doubt this will happen.
The media incumbents (aka MAFIAA) wanted their very own nuclear option with regard to the web. Congress have no technological understanding whatsoever. Despite warnings from technology experts, the attitude of most supporting Congressional representatives was “We’re going to pass this anyway” which attitude reveals a serious failure to understand the potential effect of a SOPA-like bill.
Then the current administration, known to be a bit more on point with regard to technology, expressed its reservations, outlining in precise and concise detail the problems with such a bill. This along with the increasing public (technologist) outcry was enough to undo the go-alongs.
US Congressional representatives now better understand the magnitude of such legislation, if only in terms of the size of the public outcry and the force of Executive opposition.
SOPA is not going away, sure, but I doubt it will be cobbled together piecemeal from rider legislation.
Regarding your use of bit.ly links./. is the full web. This is not Twitter. I'm not about to follow your links which obscure their final destination domain behind "bit.ly" and I'm guessing many in this community feel the same.
You don't always use bit.ly and my guess is if you used it even less you might be more likely to score an occasional "Informative".
Could you come down off your 4-difit UID geek high-horse and for a picosecond entertain the idea that not everything is so easily controlled in a highly dynamic nonlinear multivariate system commonly referred to as a child-rearing household in a developed nation?
Raising children is hard (I say this as a mid-forties bachelor not living in my parents' basement), and I would never dare to presume that avoiding all accidents is possible regarding the welfare of a child. I'd doubly not dare to presume such if I were a parent.
Ignorant as I am, I at least know better than to cast smug blame on the parents of children who have undergone a medical emergency. For all that is good, please follow these steps:
1. Get off high horse.
2. Discard smugness.
3. Search for "fellow feeling" and "sense of compassion".
4. Generously apply results from previous step wherever needed.
It would be nice if universities required the profs to list the book costs and the average resale value of books bought for their classes in the course list. Then when you had three profs teaching African History and two of them have average end costs of $100 and one has $300 because the prof keeps changing books, enrollment for that one prof plummets and his department head threatens to cut that class off the list. That's the only way to fix that problem.
You act as if professors work in the bookstore with a database of book prices open on their computers. Having been university faculty, I know professors are "shielded" frrom the price of the books they select for pedagogical (as opposed to financial) reasons. Usually, faculty submit a list with titles and authors to administrative staff who then notify ordering faculty of new editions and other changes to the book order. Faculty get desk copies that have no price; faculty do not know how much the books they choose to best teach the subject cost.
In your scenario, it's quite likely that the faculty requiring more expensive texts will have better, more authoritative, more current texts than the faculty with less-expensive texts. Price is not a guarantee of quality, but it sometimes provides a quick index to value.
Why do so many nerd readers not consult dictionaries (and their included pronunciation keys) when reading and encountering new words? Dictionaries are the Google of hard copy books (or at least dictionaries were before Google existed).
I never understood the phenomenon of poorly spoken literates. A few pronunciation errors are understandable and to be expected, but more than two or three percent of your spoken vocabulary is mispronounced, you reveal a disregard for accuracy and precision regarding language, especially given how widely available reasonably good dictionaries have been in the last 100 years.
There are some people with the brain construction to manipulate abstract symbols and the rest can't. Somewhere between 40 and 60 percent of the population can do it.
Every person capable of speaking or understanding human language has “the brain construction to manipulate abstract symbols”.
Jobs didn't blink when he said Flash will never work on mobile. He was convinced Flash was unviable way before Adobe acknowledged as much 4 years after the iPhone debuted.
He knew this day was a matter of time. It's the rest of us who are "surprised".
Have you ever used a touchscreen to play games? Constantly having your arm at attention and moving your hands around blocks screen real estate is a really big minus most people don't consider.
Have you ever used a touch-enabled device to play CARD GAMES? Touch-based devices offer more intuitive and easier-to-hit targets than the abstracted controls of something like a Nintendo hand held. Incidentally (not really), there is much anecdotal evidence that elderly peopledo very wellwith iPads. In some cases, iPads can also be used as an assistive device.
Regarding cost, iPads are right around $500. That's really not much for a device that may dramatically improve an elderly woman's quality of life. An iPad potentially be a more useful device than a Nintendo hand held, which I'm guessing would be disregarded after a few uses.
Use tax in California is comparable to the use taxes employed in 21 other US states (as of 2007). You seem to be implying that because enforcement is voluntary/difficult legislation should be scuttled.
You do realize that’s not a legal argument that will pass muster. Right?
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Replying to undo "Insightful" mod. I was going for "Redundant" especially since you are full of your own rhetoric.
Elections DO matter, especially when the candidates are close on many issues.
Not that this administration got it right, but do you understand the difference between Universal Health Care and the status quo? How about alternative energies, supporting American workers (Michigan), understanding the benefit of information technology, women’s health, freedom of religion, etc.?
I'm not saying the current just left-of-center administration has all of these down cold. Far from it. I’m also not saying the current administration hasn't really fouled things up (NDAA). I *am* saying that there are distinct and important differences between what passes for Democrat and what passes for Republican, even in US elections heavily influenced by corporate interests.
Yeah, I'm actually surprised by this, but then I realized TFA is based on rumor. I seriously doubt iPad 3 will be thicker than iPad 2.
You can't even troll properly. First, there is no such thing as an Apple USB printer. Second, when printing from an iPad, one does so wirelessly using a compatible third-party printer. Third, wireless modem? Your phone is your wireless modem and your iPad connects to it using WiFi. Why would you plug a wire into your iPad to use a wireless modem?
The name ISO is taken from the ISO 9660 file system used with CD-ROM media, but what is known as an ISO image might also contain a UDF (ISO/IEC 13346) file system or a DVD or Blu-ray Disc (BD) image.
Heh. I know you really meant "whoosh".
Sorry, my previous reply was based on my misunderstanding your question.
A better answer to your question is that the Mark Bretherton (CEO) expresses a reluctance to "upgrade" to digital until digital at least matches the quality of 70mm.
At 4:30 into the video, the CEO of IMAX Australia mentions that they have been using 70mm for quite some time.
LOL is short for laugh out loud. L[arbitrary number of O's]L's are visual representations of "long" laugh out louds.
He definitely had a "make shit instantly happen” button when it came to bin Laden.
Slashdot also generates money through paid subscriptions.
This seems to be a popular opinion on /., that SOPA will be split into riders that will be passed separately. I doubt this will happen.
The media incumbents (aka MAFIAA) wanted their very own nuclear option with regard to the web. Congress have no technological understanding whatsoever. Despite warnings from technology experts, the attitude of most supporting Congressional representatives was “We’re going to pass this anyway” which attitude reveals a serious failure to understand the potential effect of a SOPA-like bill.
Then the current administration, known to be a bit more on point with regard to technology, expressed its reservations, outlining in precise and concise detail the problems with such a bill. This along with the increasing public (technologist) outcry was enough to undo the go-alongs.
US Congressional representatives now better understand the magnitude of such legislation, if only in terms of the size of the public outcry and the force of Executive opposition.
SOPA is not going away, sure, but I doubt it will be cobbled together piecemeal from rider legislation.
27 B/6? Now look what you've done to him!
Regarding your use of bit.ly links. /. is the full web. This is not Twitter. I'm not about to follow your links which obscure their final destination domain behind "bit.ly" and I'm guessing many in this community feel the same.
You don't always use bit.ly and my guess is if you used it even less you might be more likely to score an occasional "Informative".
Could you come down off your 4-difit UID geek high-horse and for a picosecond entertain the idea that not everything is so easily controlled in a highly dynamic nonlinear multivariate system commonly referred to as a child-rearing household in a developed nation?
Raising children is hard (I say this as a mid-forties bachelor not living in my parents' basement), and I would never dare to presume that avoiding all accidents is possible regarding the welfare of a child. I'd doubly not dare to presume such if I were a parent.
Ignorant as I am, I at least know better than to cast smug blame on the parents of children who have undergone a medical emergency. For all that is good, please follow these steps:
You act as if professors work in the bookstore with a database of book prices open on their computers. Having been university faculty, I know professors are "shielded" frrom the price of the books they select for pedagogical (as opposed to financial) reasons. Usually, faculty submit a list with titles and authors to administrative staff who then notify ordering faculty of new editions and other changes to the book order. Faculty get desk copies that have no price; faculty do not know how much the books they choose to best teach the subject cost.
In your scenario, it's quite likely that the faculty requiring more expensive texts will have better, more authoritative, more current texts than the faculty with less-expensive texts. Price is not a guarantee of quality, but it sometimes provides a quick index to value.
Why do so many nerd readers not consult dictionaries (and their included pronunciation keys) when reading and encountering new words? Dictionaries are the Google of hard copy books (or at least dictionaries were before Google existed).
I never understood the phenomenon of poorly spoken literates. A few pronunciation errors are understandable and to be expected, but more than two or three percent of your spoken vocabulary is mispronounced, you reveal a disregard for accuracy and precision regarding language, especially given how widely available reasonably good dictionaries have been in the last 100 years.
There are some people with the brain construction to manipulate abstract symbols and the rest can't. Somewhere between 40 and 60 percent of the population can do it.
Every person capable of speaking or understanding human language has “the brain construction to manipulate abstract symbols”.
What the hell are you talking about?
Didn't that already happen when DARPA funded the Internet?
Jobs didn't blink when he said Flash will never work on mobile. He was convinced Flash was unviable way before Adobe acknowledged as much 4 years after the iPhone debuted.
He knew this day was a matter of time. It's the rest of us who are "surprised".
Have you ever used a touchscreen to play games? Constantly having your arm at attention and moving your hands around blocks screen real estate is a really big minus most people don't consider.
Have you ever used a touch-enabled device to play CARD GAMES? Touch-based devices offer more intuitive and easier-to-hit targets than the abstracted controls of something like a Nintendo hand held. Incidentally (not really), there is much anecdotal evidence that elderly people do very well with iPads. In some cases, iPads can also be used as an assistive device.
Regarding cost, iPads are right around $500. That's really not much for a device that may dramatically improve an elderly woman's quality of life. An iPad potentially be a more useful device than a Nintendo hand held, which I'm guessing would be disregarded after a few uses.
Blame overreliance on A/B testing.
Inception? This is the apparatus imagined by Donnie Darko and his cute new girlfriend.
Mac OS X has both launchd and cron.
Cheese will be replaced by the smell of cheese. (relevant bit is maybe 2/3's in)
Use tax in California is comparable to the use taxes employed in 21 other US states (as of 2007). You seem to be implying that because enforcement is voluntary/difficult legislation should be scuttled.
You do realize that’s not a legal argument that will pass muster. Right?