Apple was a willing partner with AT&T in their exclusivity deal, so I'm not sure you can let Apple of the hook. Hopefully they are realizing that it may not have been such a good idea to tie their nifty new devices down so proprietorially.
Yes, it is complicated and no, science won't be able to prove that a new food product is 100% safe for 100% of the people - but that doesn't mean that a thorough and rigorous testing process should not be conducted.
So you are saying that if it is too hard and/or costly to test something before putting it out to the market, you should just put it out there anyway? Caveat emptor? I'm sure all the Thalidomide babies out there would agree with you 100%.
I would agree with you if I thought that the food industry would also play by those rules - use neutral, 3rd party science to determine what was safe, effective, etc. But we know that doesn't happen.
The Ixtoc well was 3.6km long, but it was only drilled in water 50m deep. Deepwater Horizon was working a well 1,500m deep when it blew. I think there is a huge difference between working at 50m deep in water vs 1,500m deep.
Yes, and we should also remove matches from store shelves because they could be used to burn incriminating notes. Additionally, paper should be treated with arsenic so spies and other nefarious scoundrels can't eat them and destroy evidence. That will take a bit out of crime!
I really don't see this in the current system - at least in elementary school where my friends' kids are and where my daughter will soon be. What I see is a constant dumbing down of teaching across the board. It is all about teaching to standardized tests and not discriminating (for any reason).
In the Seattle school system, every kid in the same grade gets the same math lesson on the same day. It is ridiculous - the current methodology, so far as I can tell, is teaching everybody at the level of the lowest common denominator.
When I was in school in Colorado (many years ago), we had 3 "tracks" - high, middle, and low. We were slotted into them by performance and teacher recommendations. There was never an IQ test that I can recall. I'm sure it was hard to get out of your track once you were in it, but I don't know. Luckily I was in the "high" track and so had a relatively challenging and interesting education in the public school system. Something I fear my daughter won't have.
I think it more appropriate to ask - if you leave your door unlocked and somebody walks in and rips your CDs and DVDs, are you - as the homeowner - negligent or in any way culpable?
Answering the question of who pays, and in what proportion and order is important. Ultimately you are right that everybody will bear the cost, but it is critical that the entity doing business and potentially reaping the benefits also bear the full costs. If not, then that cost is external to the market forces of the commodity, and market forces are what make things efficient and ultimately benefit everybody.
For the most part, oil companies have been held accountable for their drilling operations and they have learned it is a lot better for their bottom line to not spill oil than to clean it up later. That makes things better for everybody. It is important that BP (and others if they are also responsible) be held accountable for the full cost of their operation.
I, and other citizens of energy intensive societies, will end up paying more for safer, cleaner energy - of course - that is as it should be.
It will be interesting to see what fate awaits the iPad. I am an early adopter - obviously my various laptops can do everything the iPad can, some things (like producing as opposed to consuming) are very nearly impossible on an iPad. It is not a general purpose computer and if you buy one thinking that is what it is or what it will become, you will most definitely be disappointed.
It is an attempt to make an appliance. And I think a pretty good one. A grandma could much more easily be brought to the digital age to see pictures of their grand kids on facebook with an iPad than anything else I've ever seen. (Of course, you have to have a real computer with iTunes to get it running in the first place - but never mind that...)
For what it is, an appliance to consume entertainment of various kinds, I like it - it is great for my commute. I can read, listen, watch, play - whatever - all with one, easy to use, simple device. I could do that with my iTouch, but I like the larger screen of the iPad. I can't work so well with it (though I find it much easier to compose emails with it than any smartphone) - but who the hell wants to work all the time?
I think that if the iPad succeeds, we will find it in high use by those who are now generally frustrated by computers. This isn't just the older folks - there are lots of people young and old out there who never built a computer with spare parts and who don't know or care what OS they have, etc. Those folks just might like the iPad if they try it. It may be that the geeks have to be excited enough to buy one, then bored enough to give it to their grandmas a few months later - when grandma hits the senior center with it, well, maybe we'll see another sales spike that will keep the iPads from following the way of the Newton.
When my Dad died last year, I made a VM of his laptop so I could help my mom out finding documents and other things that she would need for taxes and getting everything sorted out in her name.
That is pretty much done now, but I still keep my dad's VM around. I was his tech support and I was always answering questions and sorting things out when they got messed up. He had made some funny personalizations to it (sounds and such). So even though I don't need it anymore, I still fire it up when I miss him. I even apply all the pending updates - I guess it is part of my grieving process.
That is absurd - there is a perfectly valid range of options between keeping every incremental change, whether released to a client or not, and obstruction of justice.
You may want to check with your legal folks before going too far - my experience is that these days it is more important to destroy drafts (so they are not discoverable in court) than to protect against users having to redo something they screwed up.
For our family, if it is in the dictionary (the one pulled off the shelf at game time and put on the table for all to see) and not a proper noun, then it counts. That dictionary is pretty old - I'd bet it has baguette but maybe not burqa. You play your tiles and take your chances...
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I'm not sure who the iPad was aimed at, but as a gadget hound I'm always an easy target.
I think that primarily the iPad offers quick and easy access to entertainment. Music, video, web, books, and games. It is good for commuting and as the "couch computer" that the reviewer stated. It is fast - click the home button, swipe the unlock, find your icon and boom - there you are, looking at your movie, checking email, or calling up a search on the web. I find it much faster than a laptop in terms of waking up from sleep mode and starting up an app that isn't already loaded.
They are an anti-laptop format: iPads are easy to hold and operate single-handed but awkward trying to work with it on a table. Laptops are great on tables but are nearly impossible to operate while holding. So when you are in a situation where you think, "man, it would suck to try to use my laptop now", I would guess that an iPad might be just the ticket.
I knew going into the purchase that the iPad is more of a larger iPhone/iTouch and that was fine with me since my only complaint about my iTouch was that it would be nice to have a bigger screen. I am not disappointed - yet neither am I thrilled or surprised. I like it and have no regrets.
2) Guns are no more dangerous than a table saw. Either one can cause great harm when used improperly, but rarely causes harm when used properly.
Using a gun properly would mean that there are no accidental injuries - but proper use of a gun very well may mean hitting your target and causing injury and/or death (see your #3). Proper use of a table saw never results in death or injury, accidental or purposeful.
Yeah - VBA is huge. A relatively intelligent power user can get a lot done using VBA. Of course they use all kinds of globals and don't type declare anything, have never heard of source control, - indenting?? scalability?? etc etc - they will create the most horrific program as seen by the eyes of a "real" programmer... but it will have got the job done and - on balance - solved more problems than it caused.
I think it is a good ruling only as far as it seems clear that there was a contractual agreement to do one thing and apparently EMI was doing something else.
But in particular, I'm not really a fan of the artist having that kind of control. It is common to object because the RIAA or whoever tries to insert themselves between the artist and the consumer. But in a case like this, isn't what Pink Floyd trying to do very similar? They have created something and want to go beyond that act of creation and dictate how it should be consumed.
What if they went a step further? What if they said not only do you have to buy the whole album, but when you listen, you have to listen to each track in order - just like you would if you went to a live performance? Of course that could never realistically be enforced, but making me buy a whole album even if I want just one song seems to me to be almost as bad.
My understanding was that Apple didn't implement flash on the iPhone/iTouch because it essentially allows applications to be run on the device that didn't go through their store. If that is true then I doubt Apple will implement an HTML 5 browser on their iDevices that will allow much functionality.
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So you are saying they should be suing the soothsayers?
Apple was a willing partner with AT&T in their exclusivity deal, so I'm not sure you can let Apple of the hook. Hopefully they are realizing that it may not have been such a good idea to tie their nifty new devices down so proprietorially.
Yes, it is complicated and no, science won't be able to prove that a new food product is 100% safe for 100% of the people - but that doesn't mean that a thorough and rigorous testing process should not be conducted.
So you are saying that if it is too hard and/or costly to test something before putting it out to the market, you should just put it out there anyway? Caveat emptor? I'm sure all the Thalidomide babies out there would agree with you 100%.
I would agree with you if I thought that the food industry would also play by those rules - use neutral, 3rd party science to determine what was safe, effective, etc. But we know that doesn't happen.
The Ixtoc well was 3.6km long, but it was only drilled in water 50m deep. Deepwater Horizon was working a well 1,500m deep when it blew. I think there is a huge difference between working at 50m deep in water vs 1,500m deep.
Yes, and we should also remove matches from store shelves because they could be used to burn incriminating notes. Additionally, paper should be treated with arsenic so spies and other nefarious scoundrels can't eat them and destroy evidence. That will take a bit out of crime!
I really don't see this in the current system - at least in elementary school where my friends' kids are and where my daughter will soon be. What I see is a constant dumbing down of teaching across the board. It is all about teaching to standardized tests and not discriminating (for any reason).
In the Seattle school system, every kid in the same grade gets the same math lesson on the same day. It is ridiculous - the current methodology, so far as I can tell, is teaching everybody at the level of the lowest common denominator.
When I was in school in Colorado (many years ago), we had 3 "tracks" - high, middle, and low. We were slotted into them by performance and teacher recommendations. There was never an IQ test that I can recall. I'm sure it was hard to get out of your track once you were in it, but I don't know. Luckily I was in the "high" track and so had a relatively challenging and interesting education in the public school system. Something I fear my daughter won't have.
I think it more appropriate to ask - if you leave your door unlocked and somebody walks in and rips your CDs and DVDs, are you - as the homeowner - negligent or in any way culpable?
Yes on the keyboard for the iPad, but a mouse is useless since there isn't any cursor to control with it.
Answering the question of who pays, and in what proportion and order is important. Ultimately you are right that everybody will bear the cost, but it is critical that the entity doing business and potentially reaping the benefits also bear the full costs. If not, then that cost is external to the market forces of the commodity, and market forces are what make things efficient and ultimately benefit everybody.
For the most part, oil companies have been held accountable for their drilling operations and they have learned it is a lot better for their bottom line to not spill oil than to clean it up later. That makes things better for everybody. It is important that BP (and others if they are also responsible) be held accountable for the full cost of their operation.
I, and other citizens of energy intensive societies, will end up paying more for safer, cleaner energy - of course - that is as it should be.
It will be interesting to see what fate awaits the iPad. I am an early adopter - obviously my various laptops can do everything the iPad can, some things (like producing as opposed to consuming) are very nearly impossible on an iPad. It is not a general purpose computer and if you buy one thinking that is what it is or what it will become, you will most definitely be disappointed.
It is an attempt to make an appliance. And I think a pretty good one. A grandma could much more easily be brought to the digital age to see pictures of their grand kids on facebook with an iPad than anything else I've ever seen. (Of course, you have to have a real computer with iTunes to get it running in the first place - but never mind that...)
For what it is, an appliance to consume entertainment of various kinds, I like it - it is great for my commute. I can read, listen, watch, play - whatever - all with one, easy to use, simple device. I could do that with my iTouch, but I like the larger screen of the iPad. I can't work so well with it (though I find it much easier to compose emails with it than any smartphone) - but who the hell wants to work all the time?
I think that if the iPad succeeds, we will find it in high use by those who are now generally frustrated by computers. This isn't just the older folks - there are lots of people young and old out there who never built a computer with spare parts and who don't know or care what OS they have, etc. Those folks just might like the iPad if they try it. It may be that the geeks have to be excited enough to buy one, then bored enough to give it to their grandmas a few months later - when grandma hits the senior center with it, well, maybe we'll see another sales spike that will keep the iPads from following the way of the Newton.
When my Dad died last year, I made a VM of his laptop so I could help my mom out finding documents and other things that she would need for taxes and getting everything sorted out in her name.
That is pretty much done now, but I still keep my dad's VM around. I was his tech support and I was always answering questions and sorting things out when they got messed up. He had made some funny personalizations to it (sounds and such). So even though I don't need it anymore, I still fire it up when I miss him. I even apply all the pending updates - I guess it is part of my grieving process.
That is absurd - there is a perfectly valid range of options between keeping every incremental change, whether released to a client or not, and obstruction of justice.
You may want to check with your legal folks before going too far - my experience is that these days it is more important to destroy drafts (so they are not discoverable in court) than to protect against users having to redo something they screwed up.
For our family, if it is in the dictionary (the one pulled off the shelf at game time and put on the table for all to see) and not a proper noun, then it counts. That dictionary is pretty old - I'd bet it has baguette but maybe not burqa. You play your tiles and take your chances...
I'm not sure who the iPad was aimed at, but as a gadget hound I'm always an easy target.
I think that primarily the iPad offers quick and easy access to entertainment. Music, video, web, books, and games. It is good for commuting and as the "couch computer" that the reviewer stated. It is fast - click the home button, swipe the unlock, find your icon and boom - there you are, looking at your movie, checking email, or calling up a search on the web. I find it much faster than a laptop in terms of waking up from sleep mode and starting up an app that isn't already loaded.
They are an anti-laptop format: iPads are easy to hold and operate single-handed but awkward trying to work with it on a table. Laptops are great on tables but are nearly impossible to operate while holding. So when you are in a situation where you think, "man, it would suck to try to use my laptop now", I would guess that an iPad might be just the ticket.
I knew going into the purchase that the iPad is more of a larger iPhone/iTouch and that was fine with me since my only complaint about my iTouch was that it would be nice to have a bigger screen. I am not disappointed - yet neither am I thrilled or surprised. I like it and have no regrets.
Yep, UPS. Now status is:
"Brokerage released shipment. Shipment is submitted to clearing agency for further clearance"
I don't know if that is good or bad!
Mine started out in SHENZHEN, CN and is now in LOUISVILLE, KY. Hopefully past customs and unstoppable!
Perhaps you would be justified in your actions, but you would be wrong in terms of the definition of "harm".
2) Guns are no more dangerous than a table saw. Either one can cause great harm when used improperly, but rarely causes harm when used properly.
Using a gun properly would mean that there are no accidental injuries - but proper use of a gun very well may mean hitting your target and causing injury and/or death (see your #3). Proper use of a table saw never results in death or injury, accidental or purposeful.
Yeah - VBA is huge. A relatively intelligent power user can get a lot done using VBA. Of course they use all kinds of globals and don't type declare anything, have never heard of source control, - indenting?? scalability?? etc etc - they will create the most horrific program as seen by the eyes of a "real" programmer... but it will have got the job done and - on balance - solved more problems than it caused.
"Now, if you're trying to store your shopping list on c:\windows\system32 ... then the anti-virus app should block you."
I'd say if the anti-virus app has to block that, it is already too late! I think the OS has to have some responsibility for protecting itself.
I think it is a good ruling only as far as it seems clear that there was a contractual agreement to do one thing and apparently EMI was doing something else.
But in particular, I'm not really a fan of the artist having that kind of control. It is common to object because the RIAA or whoever tries to insert themselves between the artist and the consumer. But in a case like this, isn't what Pink Floyd trying to do very similar? They have created something and want to go beyond that act of creation and dictate how it should be consumed.
What if they went a step further? What if they said not only do you have to buy the whole album, but when you listen, you have to listen to each track in order - just like you would if you went to a live performance? Of course that could never realistically be enforced, but making me buy a whole album even if I want just one song seems to me to be almost as bad.
My understanding was that Apple didn't implement flash on the iPhone/iTouch because it essentially allows applications to be run on the device that didn't go through their store. If that is true then I doubt Apple will implement an HTML 5 browser on their iDevices that will allow much functionality.