A lot of the problem is the price. The Surface RT could have been a decent low-end tablet, but NOT at iPad prices. The Pro sounds like a good machine, but way too expensive. If they'd priced RT to compete with the cheap Androids, and the Pro where they priced RT, they might have had some decent tablets.
Agreed! I've seen people with real names (at least real sounding names) flame & troll like crazy, and people with handles like "IP Freely" be rational and well-respected members of the community.
Most people tend to believe things based on their social groups. Which is why Republicans and Democrats tend to be clumped together and have similar beliefs on completely unrelated issues.
I've always wondered why gun owners are expected to be religious. Just because both are (allegedly) Republicans?
The advantages of big screen and better sound are more than trashed by the bozos behind me crunching potato chips in my ear, and the inability to pause when I have to pee right when the movie's getting good.
A few years ago, I spent about 9 months working a fairly rural section of Missouri.* I'm white and my supervisor was a very dark-skinned black man. We got to talking about fishing and I casually suggested a few fishing spots in the more remote areas. My supervisor very calmly looked at me and said "You're white. You can go anywhere you like around here. I'm a black man in Missouri. There are just certain places I don't go for my own safety."
OTOH, there are plenty of urban areas where your supervisor could go that wouldn't be a good idea for you or I to venture into.
I lived in Raytown around the old drug store back in the early 00s. Lots of JoCo people thought it was the hood, yet Raytown High School was the highest rated school in the metro, I lived in a dead quiet suburban neighborhood (why I moved actually). I'm not saying there aren't crime-ridden neighborhoods, just as you point out this app is going to be overrun with perceptions and not real data.
Good point! My neighborhood was always rather poor, and many people thought it was bad, when it wasn't really. Nowdays, it really IS bad, but you can't always go by perceptions.
I live in a bad KC neighborhood, and though I'm not too concerned about being dragged from my car, the parts of my area I think twice about walking through is growing constantly. A friend got robbed last week in broad daylight, near a convenience store that I wouldn't go near unless I were packing AK-47s. I hear about shootings & stabbings weekly. And my area is far from the worst. The worst wouldn't need modern tech to warn people to stay away; they look like warzones!
There's one website I know of which had a choice between PP and Google Wallet. I don't even have a PP account because they're well known for this kind of crap.
I'd say that getting hit by a car while dicking with your phone DOES separate you from the animals. Even the dumbest ape knows to get out of the way of a charging rhino.
I don't mind my house looking like a library. But there's a non-trivial chance that if I kept buying physical books, I'd hit critical mass and my entire house would collapse into a black hole.
I thought Venus WAS at, or near the "Goldilocks zone". It's just all the CO2 clouds that mess that up, presumably from the ancient Venusions driving their SUVs.
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I understand Apple running out of cats. But they surely could have switched to dogs. There's a lot of dogs that are better than "Maverick".
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Snow Leopard is slowly becoming the XP of Macs. You aren't alone. Too bad Apple still artificially limits what OSes run on their machines despite being standard x86 hardware underneath.
Yup. I have run Lion & Mountain Lion on my macbook, but my iMac is Snow Leopard, and I have no reason to upgrade. The newer OSs aren't nearly as bad as Vista or W8, but they aren't as good as the older SL. Apple, like Microsoft, is getting worse, not better.
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A lot of the problem is the price. The Surface RT could have been a decent low-end tablet, but NOT at iPad prices. The Pro sounds like a good machine, but way too expensive. If they'd priced RT to compete with the cheap Androids, and the Pro where they priced RT, they might have had some decent tablets.
Many Android users are still on 2.X because the carriers won't upgrade.
I've been trying to upgrade my Ipad 1, and it's so slow it doesn't even say it's available yet!
If they can make me immortal by watching ads, I'd gladly watch ads.
Well, the ads will make your life SEEM longer.
Also, if they can extend lifespans, they can pump ads at us longer.
Agreed! I've seen people with real names (at least real sounding names) flame & troll like crazy, and people with handles like "IP Freely" be rational and well-respected members of the community.
Most people tend to believe things based on their social groups. Which is why Republicans and Democrats tend to be clumped together and have similar beliefs on completely unrelated issues.
I've always wondered why gun owners are expected to be religious. Just because both are (allegedly) Republicans?
Have you tried a different finger? I often use a different finger when I get pissed off.
Including you!
I consider that a major security hole that needs to be fixed!
The advantages of big screen and better sound are more than trashed by the bozos behind me crunching potato chips in my ear, and the inability to pause when I have to pee right when the movie's getting good.
And the popcorn tastes like crap.
A few years ago, I spent about 9 months working a fairly rural section of Missouri.* I'm white and my supervisor was a very dark-skinned black man. We got to talking about fishing and I casually suggested a few fishing spots in the more remote areas. My supervisor very calmly looked at me and said "You're white. You can go anywhere you like around here. I'm a black man in Missouri. There are just certain places I don't go for my own safety."
OTOH, there are plenty of urban areas where your supervisor could go that wouldn't be a good idea for you or I to venture into.
I lived in Raytown around the old drug store back in the early 00s. Lots of JoCo people thought it was the hood, yet Raytown High School was the highest rated school in the metro, I lived in a dead quiet suburban neighborhood (why I moved actually). I'm not saying there aren't crime-ridden neighborhoods, just as you point out this app is going to be overrun with perceptions and not real data.
Good point! My neighborhood was always rather poor, and many people thought it was bad, when it wasn't really. Nowdays, it really IS bad, but you can't always go by perceptions.
I live in a bad KC neighborhood, and though I'm not too concerned about being dragged from my car, the parts of my area I think twice about walking through is growing constantly. A friend got robbed last week in broad daylight, near a convenience store that I wouldn't go near unless I were packing AK-47s. I hear about shootings & stabbings weekly. And my area is far from the worst. The worst wouldn't need modern tech to warn people to stay away; they look like warzones!
There's one website I know of which had a choice between PP and Google Wallet. I don't even have a PP account because they're well known for this kind of crap.
I'd say that getting hit by a car while dicking with your phone DOES separate you from the animals. Even the dumbest ape knows to get out of the way of a charging rhino.
The DMV probably has it too. They used to use SSN for the license number, and though they quit that, I bet it's still in their files.
And how long they were actually cool for...
5 days, IIRC.
I don't mind my house looking like a library. But there's a non-trivial chance that if I kept buying physical books, I'd hit critical mass and my entire house would collapse into a black hole.
Every manufactured car in the last few years with cruise control has braked cruise control.
Many people have cars more than a few years old.
I'm sure the Klingons are.
I thought Venus WAS at, or near the "Goldilocks zone". It's just all the CO2 clouds that mess that up, presumably from the ancient Venusions driving their SUVs.
I understand Apple running out of cats. But they surely could have switched to dogs. There's a lot of dogs that are better than "Maverick".
Snow Leopard is slowly becoming the XP of Macs. You aren't alone. Too bad Apple still artificially limits what OSes run on their machines despite being standard x86 hardware underneath.
Yup. I have run Lion & Mountain Lion on my macbook, but my iMac is Snow Leopard, and I have no reason to upgrade. The newer OSs aren't nearly as bad as Vista or W8, but they aren't as good as the older SL. Apple, like Microsoft, is getting worse, not better.
"Brilliant" is relative. In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
senders who know the recipient is driving at the time...Facebook couldn't know
You greatly underestimate how much data Facebook is collecting about you ;-) (that's a joke, not a claim to inside info on Facebook's operations).
And, I'm sure Zuckerburg knows it was a joke.