Any char-grilled meat, or even toast. In fact, pretty much any food that is burnt. Of course, people have been ingesting small amounts of carcinogens for ages without getting cancer. Unless these LEDs contain a significant amount, or they can leech out in a landfill, are they really a heath hazard? Or is this just an extension of annoying warning labels?
My only experience with the iPhone is the pubic unit in the local stores -- full of grease from all sorts of people, but when the screen is on, you don't notice a thing. Perhaps it's a different case outside in bright sunlight -- I don't know.
I don't trust Apple to not just disable an app because it competes with some shiny new one they themselves developed.
Well, I do. I guess that's the key difference here. Apple have made products that compete with 3rd party developers, but disabling a legit app for their own competing app is quite a bit different and would probably cause them a lot of trouble if they were stupid enough to ever try such a thing, which I doubt they ever would. Maybe I'm just not paranoid enough?
Well, an old prop and a jet engine are quite fundamentally different, as piston engines are still quite different to turbines. Of course, all turboprops, jets, and turbofans are based on the same turbine principals.
And that gives one country the right to invade another and claim it as their own and torture and kill anyone who disagrees? How Tibet used to be is a poor excuse for what happened. Who's to say that things wouldn't have changed on their own? China can't justify what they did. What you are saying is like the US invading Iraq and then claiming it as their own, attempting to control all the mosques, torturing and murdering any Muslims who disagree, all in the name of democracy. Tibet was far from perfect, but that's no excuse for what the Chinese did and are still doing today.
Yeah, I that's what I thought. Surely a public city project can find developers willing to treat it like a public project, and not a commercial project? But then again, this is the US, not Sweden, I guess.
Sounds like they got ripped off in the first place. It shouldn't cost that much to develop something like that unless you have no clue about what you're doing.
Half-assed media player? It basically has the same interface as an iPod, which is still the best around, in my experience. I agree with you about the PDA part -- you can't even sync notes with Mail, but that will change. And hopefully this little problem will be gone by the time I get one, too.
I do know that the Mac Pro has a nice clean interior, with fancy features such as toolless and cableless HDD installation. Most computers don't have that. And a recent Tom's Hardware article actually found out that other Macs aren't really that much more expensive than an equivalent, anyway. And their EFI is better than BIOS for my use. Apple are playing to the common denominator, but it's not to the lowest when you get out there and look at the competition.
Problem is, my Treo 600 is starting to get a bit flaky, and the syncing no longer works properly without a lot of mucking about. The iPhone is the only phone that I would consider replacing it with, because every other single phone I've seen, researched, and used has a crap interface compared to the iPhone. It's not like buying a big new TV. The question for me is if it's worth baring with my current broken set-up until this iPhone problem is fixed, or get an iPhone and accept this possible problem as a small trade-off. Stop putting everyone in the same boat.
I agree. When I was forced to change my password, I just ended up making them very easy to remember and therefore easier for someone else to guess/brute-force.
I get what you mean. I think there was some specific concern (true or not) involving putting some kind of chemicals in something like a toothpaste tube. Perhaps if someone had tried to smuggle a cannon on-board as a Canon lens, they'd suddenly be a lot more finicky about anything that looks like a camera lens.
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Some of the later ones has visors, clear, and black, IIRC.
Computer and cellphone stores, perhaps? Maybe "display" would have been a better word than "public".
Any char-grilled meat, or even toast. In fact, pretty much any food that is burnt. Of course, people have been ingesting small amounts of carcinogens for ages without getting cancer. Unless these LEDs contain a significant amount, or they can leech out in a landfill, are they really a heath hazard? Or is this just an extension of annoying warning labels?
My only experience with the iPhone is the pubic unit in the local stores -- full of grease from all sorts of people, but when the screen is on, you don't notice a thing. Perhaps it's a different case outside in bright sunlight -- I don't know.
I don't trust Apple to not just disable an app because it competes with some shiny new one they themselves developed.
Well, I do. I guess that's the key difference here. Apple have made products that compete with 3rd party developers, but disabling a legit app for their own competing app is quite a bit different and would probably cause them a lot of trouble if they were stupid enough to ever try such a thing, which I doubt they ever would. Maybe I'm just not paranoid enough?
Sorry, when I said jet, I meant turbojet.
Well, an old prop and a jet engine are quite fundamentally different, as piston engines are still quite different to turbines. Of course, all turboprops, jets, and turbofans are based on the same turbine principals.
You're seriously comparing an LED sign to pouring blood on someone's porch?
And that gives one country the right to invade another and claim it as their own and torture and kill anyone who disagrees? How Tibet used to be is a poor excuse for what happened. Who's to say that things wouldn't have changed on their own? China can't justify what they did. What you are saying is like the US invading Iraq and then claiming it as their own, attempting to control all the mosques, torturing and murdering any Muslims who disagree, all in the name of democracy. Tibet was far from perfect, but that's no excuse for what the Chinese did and are still doing today.
Kea have demonstrated this, and it's been known for quite a while.
No, actually. Many projects for public use aren't done at normal commercial rates.
There are easy ways around that if you really need to do it.
Yeah, I that's what I thought. Surely a public city project can find developers willing to treat it like a public project, and not a commercial project? But then again, this is the US, not Sweden, I guess.
Sounds like they got ripped off in the first place. It shouldn't cost that much to develop something like that unless you have no clue about what you're doing.
Just how hostile is the average American working environment compared to other 1st world countries?
Half-assed media player? It basically has the same interface as an iPod, which is still the best around, in my experience. I agree with you about the PDA part -- you can't even sync notes with Mail, but that will change. And hopefully this little problem will be gone by the time I get one, too.
I do know that the Mac Pro has a nice clean interior, with fancy features such as toolless and cableless HDD installation. Most computers don't have that. And a recent Tom's Hardware article actually found out that other Macs aren't really that much more expensive than an equivalent, anyway. And their EFI is better than BIOS for my use. Apple are playing to the common denominator, but it's not to the lowest when you get out there and look at the competition.
Apple could win based on "brand damage" alone. Good luck to Psystar, because they are going to need it.
And these problems never happen with other computer manufacturers? Or is it just a case of the spotlight only being on Apple?
Problem is, my Treo 600 is starting to get a bit flaky, and the syncing no longer works properly without a lot of mucking about. The iPhone is the only phone that I would consider replacing it with, because every other single phone I've seen, researched, and used has a crap interface compared to the iPhone. It's not like buying a big new TV. The question for me is if it's worth baring with my current broken set-up until this iPhone problem is fixed, or get an iPhone and accept this possible problem as a small trade-off. Stop putting everyone in the same boat.
I agree. When I was forced to change my password, I just ended up making them very easy to remember and therefore easier for someone else to guess/brute-force.
The power consumption of a high-end DSLR with external flashes and other acessories can be quite high.
I get what you mean. I think there was some specific concern (true or not) involving putting some kind of chemicals in something like a toothpaste tube. Perhaps if someone had tried to smuggle a cannon on-board as a Canon lens, they'd suddenly be a lot more finicky about anything that looks like a camera lens.
Have you read this?
Some, yes, but when you're a big company, you can't be everything to everyone, so obviously when I say "someone", I don't mean everyone.