I was impressed with it until I tried to use Netflix on my iPad and it crawled like a sloth in molasses. Recently, I browsed through the movie selection on my Xbox for the first time and a long while, and was blown away with how smooth and slick the user interface is.
Native, even using something like.Net, will always beat HTML.
Should Google+ and maybe even the notorious Facebook evolve into two-tiered sites where those who choose to remain anonymous are 'identified' as such and denied access to certain site features, while being free to post, blog, or tweet their views, without summarily getting their accounts suspended or revoked?
Hey, I know the business on the corner is going to fail, does that make me skilled on roads?
Actually, yes. The widespread ability to drive is why corner groceries have succumbed to big box grocery stores. But you'd only expect that if you'd already been to them.
Facebook is AOL 2.0. It is now how old people experience the Internet, while the newbies who whet their teeth on Facebook are learning to go outside the sandbox.
AOL is still around, but you'd get laughed at if you tried to claim it wasn't dead.
This technology is a Hammer of Freedom thrown at the screen to prevent your phone from being indoctrinated by Big Content. Apple is always looking out for your interests, which the haters just don't understand.
Perhaps you missed this part: "biotech, career development, economics and finance, education, energy, information technology, mobility, robotics, and space". I've emphasized the fields that are rather knowledge intensive, and even a brilliant self-teaching wonderkid isn't going to have the time to learn what they need to know and satisfy the demands of venture capitalists expecting them to produce the next big fad. In college they could be learning from the brightest minds in their field, but in the VC scene they'll be learning how to build tchotchkes for wealthy bureaucrats.
I don't think they're particularly worried about safety. What they are worried about is the perception that science kits can be used for making poisons and explosives. Today's political climate does not distinguish between having uncommon knowledge and having the intent to use it to do harm.
Right, because charging more money for the education clearly attracts less talent to Ivy League schools.
It does not. What attracts the "talent" are the full-ride scholarships and need-based aid, which are funded by all the morons with rich parents who only want the name on their degree.
If you raise the price on the "talent", you will see the Ivy League quickly turn into the joke that most other expensive liberal arts schools are.
Never mind that that is simply not true, as the genre includes some of the most beautiful and mature artistic works ever published.
When the authors win Nobel Prizes (eg. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Doris Lessing), then it's not considered science fiction or fantasy, then it is literature.
They do this because the ethos of the literary critic is grounded in resentment. They resent not having talent themselves, they resent the lack of attention given to their field, and they greatly resent how the scientific rationalist worldview does not consider mere rhetoric as a valid form of argument. They value opinion over evidence, and in that respect they are no different than the talking heads on Fox News. You must flatter them and their ideology before they will accept your fantastic literature as literature.
What they're too stupid to comprehend is that all literature descends from fantasy. Keeping stories plausible is a modern invention. In every culture, the original fiction always involved gods, magic, and feats of heroism.
No, it refers to a crack released on or before the day the game it targets is released. Script kiddies only use the term because they think warez d00ds are the coolest.
Who the fuck is a Pastabagel and why would I give a fuck about what he thinks? If he doesn't understand something, he should learn it, and not whine about trusting the "experts" who have actually made the effort.
Malda, this is straight up trolling, and I am disappoint.
Slashdot Mirror
I was impressed with it until I tried to use Netflix on my iPad and it crawled like a sloth in molasses. Recently, I browsed through the movie selection on my Xbox for the first time and a long while, and was blown away with how smooth and slick the user interface is.
Native, even using something like .Net, will always beat HTML.
> Most of the intelligently religious I know cede the physical plane to science.
That is not indicative of actual intelligence. At least the fundamentalist is logically consistent.
Through a hole in Cheyenne Mountain.
Hey, don't forget schadenfreude.
I think you mean 9x4.
Blizzard jumped a shark.
No.
No they aren't. You have a pretty stupid conception of trade unions.
Actually, yes. The widespread ability to drive is why corner groceries have succumbed to big box grocery stores. But you'd only expect that if you'd already been to them.
Facebook is AOL 2.0. It is now how old people experience the Internet, while the newbies who whet their teeth on Facebook are learning to go outside the sandbox.
AOL is still around, but you'd get laughed at if you tried to claim it wasn't dead.
lol, somebody is a bit ignorant and defensive.
Well, the important thing is that you've figured out how to feel superior to both.
This technology is a Hammer of Freedom thrown at the screen to prevent your phone from being indoctrinated by Big Content. Apple is always looking out for your interests, which the haters just don't understand.
Nobody, but that won't stop them from assuming that a miracle technology will suddenly appear and solve all their problems.
Trojans in software downloaded from sketchy websites? GTFO!
lol, "don't need college the education" indeed, most of them have already gone to college!
Perhaps you missed this part: "biotech, career development, economics and finance, education, energy, information technology, mobility, robotics, and space". I've emphasized the fields that are rather knowledge intensive, and even a brilliant self-teaching wonderkid isn't going to have the time to learn what they need to know and satisfy the demands of venture capitalists expecting them to produce the next big fad. In college they could be learning from the brightest minds in their field, but in the VC scene they'll be learning how to build tchotchkes for wealthy bureaucrats.
Yes, it is.
Well, that was an easy argument to win.
> There is no substitute for raw talent nurtured by a stimulating and engaging environment.
Does not follow.
> There are few to no "in the wild" viruses or trojans for Linux/Mac
Is that so? Then why did I just read this in Google News:
http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/05/02/6570126-malware-attack-specifically-targets-mac-users
I don't think they're particularly worried about safety. What they are worried about is the perception that science kits can be used for making poisons and explosives. Today's political climate does not distinguish between having uncommon knowledge and having the intent to use it to do harm.
It does not. What attracts the "talent" are the full-ride scholarships and need-based aid, which are funded by all the morons with rich parents who only want the name on their degree.
If you raise the price on the "talent", you will see the Ivy League quickly turn into the joke that most other expensive liberal arts schools are.
When the authors win Nobel Prizes (eg. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Doris Lessing), then it's not considered science fiction or fantasy, then it is literature.
They do this because the ethos of the literary critic is grounded in resentment. They resent not having talent themselves, they resent the lack of attention given to their field, and they greatly resent how the scientific rationalist worldview does not consider mere rhetoric as a valid form of argument. They value opinion over evidence, and in that respect they are no different than the talking heads on Fox News. You must flatter them and their ideology before they will accept your fantastic literature as literature.
What they're too stupid to comprehend is that all literature descends from fantasy. Keeping stories plausible is a modern invention. In every culture, the original fiction always involved gods, magic, and feats of heroism.
No, it refers to a crack released on or before the day the game it targets is released. Script kiddies only use the term because they think warez d00ds are the coolest.
> But sometimes you've gotta work with what you get: for example, I own an iPhone, and I really do like it.
So you lick the boot that kicks you.
Who the fuck is a Pastabagel and why would I give a fuck about what he thinks? If he doesn't understand something, he should learn it, and not whine about trusting the "experts" who have actually made the effort.
Malda, this is straight up trolling, and I am disappoint.