I could walk off into the woods today and live there for months and be perfectly happy. They are just tools, and are not needed to live. Don't let them become addictions.
Because matter can not ever attain the speed of light. This stuff has so much energy thrown into it that our brains can't even begin to comprehend and is going about as fast as you can go, period.
Anyways, they are getting pretty good at measuring stuff like that. The technique they used is in TFA and is pretty interesting.
Except that it's a crock of shit. A lot of people need offline access to data and/or applications. I'm one of them, and no I don't just *think* I need it. You posted as an AC of course because you're just trolling, and yes I bit, but that arguement is just a crock of shit.
That's not a knock on the iPhone at all either. It's a fact of life for a decent subset of mobile users. Any phone, from any company, that requires you to use airtime or have a good connection to use an app is not nearly as useful to many of us as an app that runs natively on the device and can access local data without a network connection.
I know what you mean. I tend to suspect both sides have ulterior motives. I certainly didn't mean to imply that Verizon was innocent in all of this. I just do not trust a thing I hear from a union rep either.
The price is the main reason I think it will fail, that and I personally don't think touch screen devices will be all that usable. A lot of people want tactile buttons, and also don't want to smear their screen up with fingerprints and pizza sauce.
I guess for a subset of people it will be a nice and expensive toy, but a large touchscreen device that requires two hands to use to it's full potential just isn't what I see as a very useful mobile phone. *Especially* at that pricepoint.
The only outcome Apple is interested in is selling product and making money for their shareholders. That's what companies do. People who ascribe revolutionary motives beyond this to any company are misguided.
You're absolutely correct. I could go on for *pages* about the excesses and outright bad behavior I've seen excused by union members because they could, not to mention the tremendous cost they've inflicted on our economy. They were a necessary thing at one time, but they have not become power centers of their own right, generally run by corrupt individuals.
Mod us all offtopic, although I'd submit that the premise of not trusting the union rep automagically is very much on topic.
Thank you for the voice of reason. I'm so sick of hearing this or that prediction about the iPhone. I personally don't think it will be all that big, but I also don't really care either way. The important thing to note is *it is not out yet*, as you said. I wish people would just stop blathering about it until it is.
I'm all for changes to copyright law addressing fair use and sharing between friends, but to say that you wish counterfieters had gotten away with it crosses the line IMO. They are commercially profiting from other peoples' work without paying one cent in royalties. Sure, the RIAA rips off artists and pays only small amounts of royalties, but they still do pay them.
WTF? Like the person buying the 1 billionth computer will hem and haw and say "Gee I don't know if I should...I mean this will push us up to 1 billion..."
Tell you what, you stay here then. The rest of us will move off to another planet and use it all up before moving on, like we're supposed to do. Lifeforms use resources. Generally speaking, successful lifeforms use them really well, then move on to a new source. I'm tired of the human self loathing I am bombarded with. Should we be smarter and try to be cleaner as we use up resources? Sure. Should we feel bad about using them? Not in the least. I know you didn't expound, but your post certainly gave the impression that you think it would be better if we just died off here on Earth and didn't move on to greener pastures.
That's exactly how Readyboost works with Vista. Smaller files are cached, larger ones are generally not. In real world scenarios it really only gives a slight boost though, unless you're running it on a memory contrained system.
Except for when his 'roomate' was running a male escort service out of their home. I don't care what they do in bed, but that's a bit beyond the pale. At least he's doing something good here, even if it's for political reasons and not because it's what's right.
I've been trying to irradiate spiders and let them bite me for years now. All I get is an itchy welt each time. I'm going to sue Marvel for false advertising, damn it!
No offense, but as a layman who has studied cosmology for a couple of decades out of personal interest, I hope you all find something entirely different and have to start all over again. It is more entertaining that way, not to mention far more interesting.
Oh I don't disagree with you at all. Of course scientists are human and thus subject to all the effects of ego, etc. I was speaking more from a philosophical viewpoint. Trust me, I know all too well how bratty academic types can be!
They care about finding out one way or another so they can move on to other investigations. Many scientists are just as happy to find out the theory they are testing is *disproven* as they are when it's *proven*. It's about advancing the body of knowledge.
Do methane breathing creatures fart oxygen? That's the important question here!
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I have been following it somewhat, but since I haven't contributed in any significant way in some years a) my interest isn't what it once was and b) my opinion isn't all that important to anyone. I'm just shootin' the shit here on/., not trying to change the world.
They'll do what they'll do and it will be what it will be. From the looks of things the GPL3 could actually work to hurt FOSS in general, not help it.
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There are very few business larger than a couple of hundred users that aren't standardized on a proprietary email system, mostly Notes and Exchange.
I could walk off into the woods today and live there for months and be perfectly happy. They are just tools, and are not needed to live. Don't let them become addictions.
I dunno how useful this is. I usually just recognize the voice myself. Our wetware has some wonderful capabilities.
Because matter can not ever attain the speed of light. This stuff has so much energy thrown into it that our brains can't even begin to comprehend and is going about as fast as you can go, period.
Anyways, they are getting pretty good at measuring stuff like that. The technique they used is in TFA and is pretty interesting.
Am I going to see the same black cat cross a threshold twice when they change the live code? Deja vu?
Except that it's a crock of shit. A lot of people need offline access to data and/or applications. I'm one of them, and no I don't just *think* I need it. You posted as an AC of course because you're just trolling, and yes I bit, but that arguement is just a crock of shit.
That's not a knock on the iPhone at all either. It's a fact of life for a decent subset of mobile users. Any phone, from any company, that requires you to use airtime or have a good connection to use an app is not nearly as useful to many of us as an app that runs natively on the device and can access local data without a network connection.
I know what you mean. I tend to suspect both sides have ulterior motives. I certainly didn't mean to imply that Verizon was innocent in all of this. I just do not trust a thing I hear from a union rep either.
Why isn't the iPaq or Treo "an amazing computing and communication platform?"
Simple. They aren't made by Apple so they do not have 'buzz', nor a pack of fanbois and grrls.
It looks like a very nice, powerful, and way overpriced phone. Nothing to see here revolution wise, move along. Move along.
The price is the main reason I think it will fail, that and I personally don't think touch screen devices will be all that usable. A lot of people want tactile buttons, and also don't want to smear their screen up with fingerprints and pizza sauce.
I guess for a subset of people it will be a nice and expensive toy, but a large touchscreen device that requires two hands to use to it's full potential just isn't what I see as a very useful mobile phone. *Especially* at that pricepoint.
The only outcome Apple is interested in is selling product and making money for their shareholders. That's what companies do. People who ascribe revolutionary motives beyond this to any company are misguided.
You're absolutely correct. I could go on for *pages* about the excesses and outright bad behavior I've seen excused by union members because they could, not to mention the tremendous cost they've inflicted on our economy. They were a necessary thing at one time, but they have not become power centers of their own right, generally run by corrupt individuals.
Mod us all offtopic, although I'd submit that the premise of not trusting the union rep automagically is very much on topic.
Thank you for the voice of reason. I'm so sick of hearing this or that prediction about the iPhone. I personally don't think it will be all that big, but I also don't really care either way. The important thing to note is *it is not out yet*, as you said. I wish people would just stop blathering about it until it is.
I'm all for changes to copyright law addressing fair use and sharing between friends, but to say that you wish counterfieters had gotten away with it crosses the line IMO. They are commercially profiting from other peoples' work without paying one cent in royalties. Sure, the RIAA rips off artists and pays only small amounts of royalties, but they still do pay them.
Well first, this isn't meant for biological applications. Second, if it were then I somehow doubt it would be *worse* than having *no skin at all*.
WTF? Like the person buying the 1 billionth computer will hem and haw and say "Gee I don't know if I should...I mean this will push us up to 1 billion..."
Tell you what, you stay here then. The rest of us will move off to another planet and use it all up before moving on, like we're supposed to do. Lifeforms use resources. Generally speaking, successful lifeforms use them really well, then move on to a new source. I'm tired of the human self loathing I am bombarded with. Should we be smarter and try to be cleaner as we use up resources? Sure. Should we feel bad about using them? Not in the least. I know you didn't expound, but your post certainly gave the impression that you think it would be better if we just died off here on Earth and didn't move on to greener pastures.
That's exactly how Readyboost works with Vista. Smaller files are cached, larger ones are generally not. In real world scenarios it really only gives a slight boost though, unless you're running it on a memory contrained system.
Except for when his 'roomate' was running a male escort service out of their home. I don't care what they do in bed, but that's a bit beyond the pale. At least he's doing something good here, even if it's for political reasons and not because it's what's right.
I've been trying to irradiate spiders and let them bite me for years now. All I get is an itchy welt each time. I'm going to sue Marvel for false advertising, damn it!
No offense, but as a layman who has studied cosmology for a couple of decades out of personal interest, I hope you all find something entirely different and have to start all over again. It is more entertaining that way, not to mention far more interesting.
Oh I don't disagree with you at all. Of course scientists are human and thus subject to all the effects of ego, etc. I was speaking more from a philosophical viewpoint. Trust me, I know all too well how bratty academic types can be!
They care about finding out one way or another so they can move on to other investigations. Many scientists are just as happy to find out the theory they are testing is *disproven* as they are when it's *proven*. It's about advancing the body of knowledge.
You mean -1 Indepedantic, don't you?
Do methane breathing creatures fart oxygen? That's the important question here!
I have been following it somewhat, but since I haven't contributed in any significant way in some years a) my interest isn't what it once was and b) my opinion isn't all that important to anyone. I'm just shootin' the shit here on /., not trying to change the world.
They'll do what they'll do and it will be what it will be. From the looks of things the GPL3 could actually work to hurt FOSS in general, not help it.