As someone who has used Apple devices for a lot longer than they've currently been popular, I can tell you Apple has *always* been the worst in the industry for things like this.
The difference is, ten years ago Apple didn't matter.
Tablets are typically used inside. E-books are often not.
The iPad is not usable on a beach, in a park, or anywhere else in direct sunlight, unfortunately. (I wish it was.)
The Kindle, however, works beautifully. B&W e-ink and LCD screens works great without backlights and don't get washed out in direct sunlight. Color LCDs, by their very nature, do, and we are not even remotely close to a good purely reflective color screen.
So until then, I'll use a tablet inside, and its my Kindle that goes on vacation with me. Especially once it dawned on me that I could toss it in a ziploc bag and use it around sand and water without worry.
I'm not sure the product managers at Asus really would consider a product to be an epic fail because one poster on the internet doesn't like it for their needs.
As a hint: you are one of six billion people, your needs *might* just not be the same as the rest of them.
To rephrase your question:
Why can't these Slashdotters get it through their heads? Their needs are not the mainstream needs, and the tablet makers do not care if it doesn't meet them.
Well, if it makes your rant feel any better, of all the format's out there Amazon's is the most trivial (and by trivial, I do mean trivial) to "unprotect" for future reading.
DRM is a pretty strong word for a book obfuscated with a key derived from your serial number.
Your analysis completely ignores the cost of the electricity to run a setup like that.
I went from an older similar setup with about 1TB of storage to a dedicated NAS box with 2TB of storage with similar performance characteristics -- and saved $40 a month in electricity.
A 500GB drive draws as much power as a 2TB drive, and server motherboards and power supplies devour power.
People seem to be missing that. BP is stepping up and taking care of another companies fuck up. Now, I have no idea -- perhaps they have a contractual obligation to do so... but BP and the people who work there are not the ones who deserve the blame here.
Their shareholders already have -- their stock value has dropped $50b or more since the accident, which is an order of magnitude more than the cost of all the fines and cleanup in the Exxon-Valdez spill.
Arguably its a good time to become a BP shareholder, not the other way around.
The waste is denser than lead, keep in mind. It sounds like a lot, but in volume it really isn't.
The newest thinking for the waste is really simple and, frankly, surprising it wasn't considered before: Use deep drilling technology to drill a half dozen miles deep, drop it down there, and plug the hole behind it. Problem solved.
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As someone who has used Apple devices for a lot longer than they've currently been popular, I can tell you Apple has *always* been the worst in the industry for things like this.
The difference is, ten years ago Apple didn't matter.
Now we're laughing at you, instead.
The phone wasn't stolen until he sold it.
That's been covered a thousand times before.
Maybe you should think about it twice before assuming people don't know what they're talking about.
As pointed out by the more rational comments on the story.
1) Its English Russia. Go read the other stories on the site. Now as yourself if its likely to be true.
and
2) Someone posted a link to one of the photos which came from a stock photo service.
Tablets are typically used inside. E-books are often not.
The iPad is not usable on a beach, in a park, or anywhere else in direct sunlight, unfortunately. (I wish it was.)
The Kindle, however, works beautifully. B&W e-ink and LCD screens works great without backlights and don't get washed out in direct sunlight. Color LCDs, by their very nature, do, and we are not even remotely close to a good purely reflective color screen.
So until then, I'll use a tablet inside, and its my Kindle that goes on vacation with me. Especially once it dawned on me that I could toss it in a ziploc bag and use it around sand and water without worry.
I'm not sure the product managers at Asus really would consider a product to be an epic fail because one poster on the internet doesn't like it for their needs.
As a hint: you are one of six billion people, your needs *might* just not be the same as the rest of them.
To rephrase your question:
Why can't these Slashdotters get it through their heads? Their needs are not the mainstream needs, and the tablet makers do not care if it doesn't meet them.
Well, if it makes your rant feel any better, of all the format's out there Amazon's is the most trivial (and by trivial, I do mean trivial) to "unprotect" for future reading.
DRM is a pretty strong word for a book obfuscated with a key derived from your serial number.
If they get a release on his likeness, death would only be a cost bump in the film -- its easy enough to do him digitally.
I suspect it amounts to the fact that nothing gets the slashbot's panties wet like the possibility of something wiping out Microsoft.
Your analysis completely ignores the cost of the electricity to run a setup like that.
I went from an older similar setup with about 1TB of storage to a dedicated NAS box with 2TB of storage with similar performance characteristics -- and saved $40 a month in electricity.
A 500GB drive draws as much power as a 2TB drive, and server motherboards and power supplies devour power.
Have you ever been on a boat in the ocean?
Its a BIG place. Very wide. Very deep.
Oil floats.
Oh, and natural oil eruptions have been happening naturally all along.
So on what basis are you saying it looks like it might just do that? Because its not on any scientific basis.
In most cases you're violating the terms of service of your internet connection if you do.
I wish I had mod points to un-troll your post, because you're absolutely right.
The GP is the troll.
The energy they produce is useful as long as you're not the one standing next to it ...
Lost finale is on the 23rd.
*starts to hyperventilate*
Sounds like someone who has a proven track record of making bad decisions ...
Make the bullets out of gold, then they can take them in exchange, or take them ... um ... the other way.
BP neither built, nor owned, nor ran the oil rig.
People seem to be missing that. BP is stepping up and taking care of another companies fuck up. Now, I have no idea -- perhaps they have a contractual obligation to do so... but BP and the people who work there are not the ones who deserve the blame here.
Their shareholders already have -- their stock value has dropped $50b or more since the accident, which is an order of magnitude more than the cost of all the fines and cleanup in the Exxon-Valdez spill.
Arguably its a good time to become a BP shareholder, not the other way around.
Yes, you're absolutely right.
You are not a lawyer.
About the rest of it, yeah, you're pretty much wrong.
You're right, you're so smart. Clearly smarter than anyone else on Slashdot.
But I'll rephrase my shot, since you claim to know what you're talking about:
You should look for a refund on your education.
Is that better?
There is little or no groundwater that deep, and what water there is is locked in the rocks permanently.
Education is a good first step to understanding reality... you should educate yourself before talking about issues you don't understand.
Grand Total: $675.00, or about 3.375 hours with a decent, geeky prostitute
Seems economical.
Wait, what?
There's geeky prostitutes? *checks wallet*
The waste is denser than lead, keep in mind. It sounds like a lot, but in volume it really isn't.
The newest thinking for the waste is really simple and, frankly, surprising it wasn't considered before: Use deep drilling technology to drill a half dozen miles deep, drop it down there, and plug the hole behind it. Problem solved.
Fuck off, they didn't start anything.
You might want to ask your doc to up your meds ...