Be fair... unlimited at present is implicitly "unlimited on an iPhone without tethering" and so is effectively constrained, and they've done their maths based on that. It's perfectly reasonable to charge a different price for a tethering option that will probably result in much higher download totals.
One reason may well be that the moon has an incredibly abrasive environment due to its lack of atmosphere. The wear rate on the lunar expeditions' equipment was incredible. Long term, that means a dome and constant repairs.
There has long been a theory that the upper atmosphere condensation caused by jets affects the temperature on the ground. If the ash cloud has only a small effect, the lack of contrails may cause a substantial heat increase over the next few weeks.
Possibly more importantly, where is the feedback mechanism? (The continuous integration equiv?)
Does an A&E triage nurse confirm/alter the categorisation and is it used to improve the system? Or do we blindly assume what we have is right until The Telegraph prints something?
State/Federal laws on disclosure trump corporate contracts. So it's not in anyone's interest to kick up - Apple failed to realise that they were placing an illegal restraint in a contract with a government body (which probably also failed to realise it).
I turn my BT headset on and off and it pairs with the phone, and I turn my phone on and off and it pairs with the headset.
If you suspend the TV, then the IR receiver keeps power. BT would be just the same. If you turn it off properly (like unplugging it) then nothing will turn it on again.
Logically, BT == IR.
Plus, I'd be able to find the fucking thing with that little blue light;-)
It does cost something to allow multi-tasking... it costs user dis-satisfaction at bad applications slowing the whole machine down. It does cost something to allow unlimited installation of untested 3rd party applications... it costs user dis-satisfaction at apps that are crappy.
So don't do those.
That's the plan, and it ties in well with the App Store / money thing too, but I have downloaded everything I have wanted for my iPhone for nothing (and then bought a couple lately, as I wanted to repay the devs). What need to run 3rd party apps am I missing?
As for multi-tasking, that's not needed for this kind of device. It switches apps in at most five seconds. What am I missing?
For me, the sheer fear factor of looking down from 9000 meters (30,000 feet) in not much more than my flight suit would be more than I'd be ready for.
Yeah. To correct the GP:
In fact, up that high you'd be messing with the three-holer transport jets and would probably need a pretty high-quality heated flight suit with a built in diaper.
Recently, here in the UK, an idiot tried to avoid paying his cab fare by running away through some bushes. They screened a 30 foot drop onto concrete (IIRC). He lived, and sued to tell the tale.
I'd have said there should be a fence if there is any chance of foot traffic. Dunnow what the freeway rules are though - isn't stopping on a freeway against the law?
why we should abandon an entire planet to a bunch of alien microbes
Or, perhaps (as there are now, by definition, no aliens, just pansperms), why we should abandon an entire planet to a bunch of microbes that are only slightly older than yeast.
No, you've missed out the rather important 'random mutations' part.
Bactierium A, which can tolerate a bit of citric acid, has three offspring which I shall call alpha, beta and gamma. Alpha is a perfect copy. Beta is mutant, missing the 'tolerate citric acid' gene. Gamma is also a mutant, with two copies of the 'tolerate citric acid' gene.
Alpha and Gamma survive and reproduct. Gamma reproduces lots, as the cost of activating the gene is way less than the benefit of being very tolerant of citric acid. Beta may or may not survive, and may or may not reproduce.
On to the next generation: the doubling occurs again in a few offspring. Repeat till an optimum number of copies for the amount of citric acid present is reached.
Over many generations, the bacterium HAS EVOLVED TO TOLERATE CITRIC ACID.
If you disagree, and say 'no gamma (et al) has just been tested and survived' then you are just redefining the word evolution, which is pointless.
Singh has claimed lots of things about how chiropractic is rubbish over the last few years. This is his right - it's just opinion. In this case he specifically said the BCA peddled bogus treatments. Well, I'd say that is libel. He is saying they are knowingly, deliberately, selling snake oil.
In the case of the ear infections, chiropractic care/has/ helped some people when standard medicine had not. It is theorised that this is because chiropractic care can improve lymph drainage (for example, by removing a restriction caused by a badly positioned joint, in this case the jawbone). The BCA didn't state that it would help every infection.
For a personal, parallel, example, 'leg massage can reduce the size of your feet' would be labelled as bogus by most people, but massage by my (trained masseuse) wife helped a wheelchair bound friend's feet go down by over a shoe size (again by improving lymph flow, we think).
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Or even the wonderful "poppycock!", from the Dutch phrase pappe cacke, soft shit.
Be fair... unlimited at present is implicitly "unlimited on an iPhone without tethering" and so is effectively constrained, and they've done their maths based on that. It's perfectly reasonable to charge a different price for a tethering option that will probably result in much higher download totals.
CHRIST! READ the FINE article. WATCH the FINE videos.
Then... MAYBE... type.
Worst /. post ever. /rant
Sorry, but you really exhibited the worst of /. here. And then some moron modded you insightful... *cries gently*
J.
One reason may well be that the moon has an incredibly abrasive environment due to its lack of atmosphere. The wear rate on the lunar expeditions' equipment was incredible. Long term, that means a dome and constant repairs.
There has long been a theory that the upper atmosphere condensation caused by jets affects the temperature on the ground. If the ash cloud has only a small effect, the lack of contrails may cause a substantial heat increase over the next few weeks.
Possibly more importantly, where is the feedback mechanism? (The continuous integration equiv?)
Does an A&E triage nurse confirm/alter the categorisation and is it used to improve the system? Or do we blindly assume what we have is right until The Telegraph prints something?
Sadly I believe the answer is (b).
Justin.
Probably not.
State/Federal laws on disclosure trump corporate contracts. So it's not in anyone's interest to kick up - Apple failed to realise that they were placing an illegal restraint in a contract with a government body (which probably also failed to realise it).
But that's a completely apples/oranges comparison.
How long does the battery last on the remote if you keep transmitting for an hour constantly (cos that's what a headset does).
The remote should only be using power when transmitting. The rest of the time the state can be kept in non-volatile memory.
No battery issue here.
I turn my BT headset on and off and it pairs with the phone, and I turn my phone on and off and it pairs with the headset.
If you suspend the TV, then the IR receiver keeps power. BT would be just the same. If you turn it off properly (like unplugging it) then nothing will turn it on again.
Logically, BT == IR.
Plus, I'd be able to find the fucking thing with that little blue light ;-)
Just.
Your comment is a little - just a LITTLE! - over the top for what Timothy actually wrote. I mean, it *is* a harsh way to find out.
Do you need to get laid by any chance?
Justin.
My writer friends have seen the keyboard dock for the iPad and are drooling... they will be working on it.
It does cost something to allow multi-tasking... it costs user dis-satisfaction at bad applications slowing the whole machine down.
It does cost something to allow unlimited installation of untested 3rd party applications... it costs user dis-satisfaction at apps that are crappy.
So don't do those.
That's the plan, and it ties in well with the App Store / money thing too, but I have downloaded everything I have wanted for my iPhone for nothing (and then bought a couple lately, as I wanted to repay the devs). What need to run 3rd party apps am I missing?
As for multi-tasking, that's not needed for this kind of device. It switches apps in at most five seconds. What am I missing?
Justin.
Yeah, but very few corps actually want/care about their workers visiting anything but the intranet.
So fuck em, let em surf from home on IE8/FF/Ch/Op/whatever-the-fuck.
J.
Yeah. To correct the GP:
Justin.
Asteroid collisions can produce big delta-V effects.
Big lumps of rock fall towards sun.
Earth is in the way.
We live on Earth.
HTH.
J.
I like the way he quoted the word people. What are they really? I suggest that he or she must be on some kind of drugs. Possibly Ritalin.
You suggesting you, me, and everyone in between should, after ten years or so, go and get a life?!
Nah, it'd be rubbish.
Just.
Recently, here in the UK, an idiot tried to avoid paying his cab fare by running away through some bushes. They screened a 30 foot drop onto concrete (IIRC). He lived, and sued to tell the tale.
I'd have said there should be a fence if there is any chance of foot traffic. Dunnow what the freeway rules are though - isn't stopping on a freeway against the law?
Justin.
Luckily, it's the Vatican who defines that, for the fictional version.
I personally suspect that the real dude stood for the liberation of Palestine from (ironically) Rome, and him and his being in charge of it.
That doesn't work on the iPhone app :(
Exactly as soon as we see cows evolving resistance to chainsaws.
Or, perhaps (as there are now, by definition, no aliens, just pansperms), why we should abandon an entire planet to a bunch of microbes that are only slightly older than yeast.
Justin.
I don't know what FA you are reading, but it isn't the one linked to when I click on it... Nor is it the Newsday article linked in the FA...
No, you've missed out the rather important 'random mutations' part.
Bactierium A, which can tolerate a bit of citric acid, has three offspring which I shall call alpha, beta and gamma. Alpha is a perfect copy. Beta is mutant, missing the 'tolerate citric acid' gene. Gamma is also a mutant, with two copies of the 'tolerate citric acid' gene.
Alpha and Gamma survive and reproduct. Gamma reproduces lots, as the cost of activating the gene is way less than the benefit of being very tolerant of citric acid. Beta may or may not survive, and may or may not reproduce.
On to the next generation: the doubling occurs again in a few offspring. Repeat till an optimum number of copies for the amount of citric acid present is reached.
Over many generations, the bacterium HAS EVOLVED TO TOLERATE CITRIC ACID.
If you disagree, and say 'no gamma (et al) has just been tested and survived' then you are just redefining the word evolution, which is pointless.
Justin.
Singh has claimed lots of things about how chiropractic is rubbish over the last few years. This is his right - it's just opinion. In this case he specifically said the BCA peddled bogus treatments. Well, I'd say that is libel. He is saying they are knowingly, deliberately, selling snake oil.
In the case of the ear infections, chiropractic care /has/ helped some people when standard medicine had not. It is theorised that this is because chiropractic care can improve lymph drainage (for example, by removing a restriction caused by a badly positioned joint, in this case the jawbone). The BCA didn't state that it would help every infection.
For a personal, parallel, example, 'leg massage can reduce the size of your feet' would be labelled as bogus by most people, but massage by my (trained masseuse) wife helped a wheelchair bound friend's feet go down by over a shoe size (again by improving lymph flow, we think).
On balance, I think Singh is guilty of libel.
Justin.