Also note, that iPhone infers an actual model differing only in capacity depending on time reference. An iPhone now implies iPhone 4, last year, a 3GS, etc.
Android is just an OS with lots of different models. It's actually surprising that one device has that much dominance.
Exploit or not, that is still a pretty funny video. I love the fact that the guy spent all that time in the store without a single employee asking if he could help him with something. I guess Apple has an OS security problem *and* a customer service problem.
That's not a customer service problem, nothing chases me out of a store faster than overeager salespeople rabid with the thought of commissions. The car dealership I eventually bought from had 0 salespeople chasing after me or the other customers so I could browse in peace, I know where to find them once I need help. Same with an Apple Store.
This is different than, say, one of those big name department stores where you can't find anyone when and if you actually want help or to but something.
I always thought the colleges were accomplices as it was another source of revenue for them having an on-campus book store without raising tuition.
Schools I'm not so sure, as they often have to answer to their state capital although I'm sure there are kickbacks there as well (like the annual chocolate selling scheme and/or gift catalog is one major kickback to the school).
at least in school (can't speak for higher education). The have softcover booklets, with about 8-10 weeks worth of material. That means they are about 100 pages long, maybe shorter. Plus, they contain the practice problems and you can write in them. I never understood the practice of carry these heavy tomes called textbooks around, especially even after a year, that half of it is never relevant to the course in many instances. You also get to keep the booklets and don't have to go through the nonsense of putting covers on them or otherwise.
But people aren't as eager to write textbooks/practice problems as they are to make articles about their obsession. I wish Wikimedia Foundation made use of their mature efforts like Wikipedia and allowed a single banner ad per page (clearly labeled as sponsor, offer a no-ad subscriber version) and then funnel the money toward immature efforts such as these.
I know you want full electric, but I just don't trust batteries not to crap out over many charges. Also, while a VW has good mpg, service/repairs/parts are just too much money and reliability is midling.
I have to check, but I have the same actiontec router and I believe the default setting is not to allow anyone not in the internal network to change settings or even remotely access it or log in, even if you have the correct password. This would seem to circumvent that.
Example: J.S. Bach didn't hide from the newly invented piano and cry "Ach, mein Gott, give me mein harpsichord and save me from the barbarian pianoforte". No, Bach took the piano and made it his bitch.
You sir, should drop whatever you're doing and start writing History Textbooks (and maybe History Channel documentaries) as of now. I want my kids to be reading quotes like this and others like it in school, then I'll know they'll be paying attention in school and learning.
Think about it, if walmart lost their supply chain, probably 1/3 of Americans would die of malnutrition within a week, or gain 50kg from the take out consumed.
Walmart is nutritious AND less calories than take-out?! BTW, Americans don't gain kg, pounds or lbs, sure, but not kg.
It really depends on what exactly you want to do and what you have. Apple's automator will be good to learn some things. Those Lego kits are a great way to combine programming with real world results and not just get on screen results. Dylan is an easy language. Scheme is more to teach language theory. Lisp is a diiferent way to think of things. C is the great-granddaddy of the other major family of langaues and need-to-know if one gets into programming. Later major languaes will be a hybrid of ideas between these two language families. There are lesser used languages that try different ideas.
But, what is the end-goal? The summary mentions a lot about web design and HTML but then says that's from and earlier thread. Programming won't teach you about web design (not much anyway). Web design only dabbles a bit in programming if it's limited to HTML/CSS. SQL is another thing (databases). And "learning technology" can range from learning to navigate your basic desktop to making spreadsheets to designing simulations in C, etc.
It's hard to get candy here without a pinata to hit.
The legal system, just like any profession, has it's own definitions and most-favored customer is one of them. If they didn't have accepted definitions, most contracts suits would go nowhere because the meaning of anything could be debated (ie depends on the meaning of the word "is" is)
By the time you want more performance you will most likely get a whole new system.
Which, with an atom, will be a whole lot sooner than with a more powerful chip. If you're building your own system, then it's likely a desktop and that means it has to be able to handle desktop tasks and not just netbook ones (perhaps even act as a MythTV box, etc).
But you're right, I almost never upgrade the CPU. I go for ram first, and I found a good, small SSD is worth much more in perceived speed than incremental CPU upgrades. An atom is 32 bit only IIRC, so there is no upgrading beyond 4GB ram at most (Windows 32 it's 3GB, not sure how Linux handles it on 32 bit systems).
Microsoft Windows is really so much harder to use than Ubuntu. Everything on Ubuntu just works, and you have to fuss with windows to get it to do what you want, keep it from getting a virus, hunt all over the web to get software updates.....
I've used a lot of OSes in my time, and there is no way Ubuntu is easier than Windows 7 (a major improvement over XP) on anything but the security front. I tried the latest Ubuntu LTS and it actually seemed a downgrade of the Ubuntu a few years back - a lot of things that used to work just didn't. For instance my dual monitor setup, it insisted that it make my right side monitor the main one (where the main drop down lists are), perhaps because it was the analog one while the second one was the DVI port (the video card insists on putting the bios startup on the same one). I tried changing this many times but it never took effect - it was so bad that I couldn't even drag programs or files from one window to another.
This type of thing always worked seamlessly in window ever since I had Dual monitors and I could configure them how I wanted to. It also used to work in Ubuntu, even with the Nvidia drivers.... there's also a bunch of things, but this is one concrete example that comes off the top of my head.
Ubuntu is great, but it's still catching up to Windows/OS_X, and I hope the day comes soon.
"Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming: any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp."
It will likely use a fraction of electricity that a modern laptop uses. If for no other reason than at that price point you can't get batteries with big capacities plus all the other components.
So the bill won't be higher, even with 5. Now, if you did a beowulf cluster with 1000s, yeah, some pricier components probably will give better performance per electrical unit.
When I was in grade school there were 3 sections that the kids were split into. Regular kids, slower kids, advanced kids (I forget the exact names now is has been over 30 years). It was not a one size fits all then and it still is not. Maybe NY does things different.
That's not the thing I'm talking about. In most American schools I gather, tou have your special need eduaction, votec, advanced section where you take some AP or college classes ahead of others, and the majority of students just kinda amble towards the middle route to college. There's not really a lot of choice in classes until 10th grade, and then it's kinda like a very limited multiple choice until college. The advance students usually just take classes 1-2 years ahead in math or english, but not a wholly different curriculum
Most, however, first attend Grundschule from the age of six to ten or 12.
In contrast, secondary education includes four types of schools: the Gymnasium is designed to prepare pupils for university education and finishes with the final examination, Abitur, after grade 12 or 13. The Realschule has a broader range of emphasis for intermediate pupils and finishes with the final examination, Mittlere Reife, after grade 10; the Hauptschule prepares pupils for vocational education and finishes with the final examination, Hauptschulabschluss, after grade 9 or 10 and the Realschulabschluss after grade 10. There are two types of grade 10: one is the higher level called type 10b and the lower level is called type 10a; only the higher level type 10b can lead to the Realschule and this finishes with the final examination Mittlere Reife after grade 10b. This new path of achieving the Realschulabschluss at a vocationally-oriented secondary school was changed by the statutory school regulations in 1981 - with a one-year qualifying period. During the one-year qualifying period of the change to the new regulations, pupils could continue with class 10 to fulfil the statutory period of education. After 1982, the new path was compulsory, as explained above. Other than this, there is the Gesamtschule, which combines the three approaches. There are also Förderschulen/Sonderschulen. One in 21 pupils attends a Förderschule.[2][3] Nevertheless the Förderschulen/Sonderschulen can also lead, in special circumstances, to a Hauptschulabschluss of both type 10a or type 10b, the latter of which is the Realschulabschluss.
In order to enter university, students are, as a rule, required to hold the Abitur; however, those with a Meisterbrief (master craftman's diploma) have also been able to apply since 2009.[4][5] Those wishing to attend a "university of applied sciences" must, as a rule, hold the Abitur, the Fachhochschulreife or a Meisterbrief. Lacking those qualifications, pupils are eligible to enter a university or university of applied sciences if they can present additional proof that they will be able to keep up with their fellow students (see: Begabtenprüfung and Hochbegabtenstudium)
Basically, college here is the new minimum in a lot of circumstances even if the bachelor's degree has absolutely nothing to do with the job. Votech is kinda seen as for idiots here while there it's more accepted that some students excel in a academic setting and some work better with their hands, and you don't need to drag the latter kicking and screaming into classes until their 18.
Apple doesn't do this because its customers are financially rewarding it for not to do that type of thing. If Apple started, it would get punished by its current customer base who would move their $$$ elswhere if suitably annoyed. Apple also has 0 3rd party crapware on its computers AFAIK for the same reason. Dell's customers, otoh, would probably care less about bloatware if they could get the computer for $5 cheaper.
It's just like a Ferrari customers would get annoyed if they sat in their new car only to feel some cheap vinyl seats. Sure, Ferrari could save some money up front, but their image would suffer. (No, I'm not comparing Apple's Computer's to Ferrari's, just the demograhics.)
I hope so, America's one size fits all education until college isn't that great imo, many European countries at least section you off by scholastic aptitude after middleschool (don't worry, there are plenty room for latebloomers to achieve).
Not everyone will become or even wants to be an astronaut and are perfectly happy as a mechanic or something.
Like you, I am adverse to ad watching when I have already paid for something under the assumption I will be given unmitigated access to it. Like anyone else who has watched TV over the airwaves, I am interested in how you can reduce my financial liabilities via nominal time goblin advertisements and, while I'm certainly no economist, I believe that advertisements are very healthy for the economy. The market adjusts if they become too invasive or unhealthy (people revolt against the products using such tactics) but it results in more cash in my pocket to make more purchases with and entices me to make more purchases. Google's basically been minting money with them and has maintained a (for the most part) positive relationship with its consumers--despite those "consumers" being the very product they sell to other companies!
Cable was supposed to be ad-free. While I'm not against Apple here, I would like to say that I don't care if it makes something $20 a month cheaper, I'll pay that just not to work around the ads and have my device stay my device. In TV, ads are not nominal time goblins, they take at least 1/3 of the programming. My time spent watching TV dropped drastically when I watch it online because I can skip most of the bullshit.
Put goat meat in American supermarkets and they'll eat it. Americans eat anything and they don't care what it is.
"Was der Bauer nicht kennt, frisst er nicht."
I know quite an excellent and cheap sushi place near us. Sushi isn't common here but not completely uncommon. Unlike most Asian food places, this one is mostly frequented by Asians - which is one sign I look for in a ethnic place new to me that it has some quality. Also, all the ingredients were fresh. On rave reviews of my girlfriend after multiple visits, I reluctantly invited some other friends and observed many people don't like sushi or seafood, they beelined to the non seafood offerings and subsequently many people insist on going to a mediocre diner where you can get anywhere in the states. The ones who like seafood love the place.
Also, outside of the major three meats (chicken, pork, beef) I have to travel 2 hours into a large city or someplace with a large ethnic population to get something like goat, hare, etc.
People are creatures of habit. People don't like eating what they don't know. Most "new" things are just old, familiar ingredients mixed up in a slightly different way. If they grew up with mac and cheese, that's what they'll likely prefer, even if they can get pasta with a real cheese sauce for the same money.
Even though I grew up with a variety of foods (calf brains, pig ears, chocolate covered ants), I'm ultimately the same way, I just don't see myself eating other insects or those canned worms that the Koreans like.
A company not participating at all has as much influence for the good in China as Xeyon Inc. of the Hedron Nebula has with us. (Never heard of them?) In other words, your argument is that Google should be like space aliens in regards to China.
The other extreme is the role of IBM in the 3rd Reich, exacerbating the crimes committed by the Regime.
China is bad but not Nazi Germany or Stalinist USSR bad. Google isn't helping them hold onto their regime. If anything, they are helping open China to the rest of the world and vice versa. The alternative is Baidu which offers no resistance whatsoever to their own government.
Google can pack up their bags and sing to the choir here, but what good would that actually do?
* The cars will be scrupulous about obeying traffic laws and speed limits. But even with a small part self-driving cars, they will act as pace cars and slow and smooth traffic for everyone. Even more so, as they'll be recording everything happening around them, and other drivers know it. Pace will be slower, but people will arrive sooner.
I don't know what you're smoking, but when I was in Germany, the blitz camera (for speeding) in my part of town didn't cause people to go slower except in the very spot it was in. It caused enough rage that it was actually shot at night on multiple occasions.
In America, I live near a highway still marked an antiquated 55 mph, and everyone goes at least 70 mph. In my experience, there is nothing magically special or wise about the arbitrary speed limits, except they are set way too low in order for the cops to generate revenue on demand.
Your little do-good buggy will a) in fact slow me down on the highway causing me to get there slower and b) cause road rage in someone that will drive that little piece of shit off the road, taped or not.
I prefer the Economist myself, but the marketshare argument is old - many Japanese companies destroyed profit in pursuit of this elusive goal. But what good is it to chase readers who go so far as to block ads and don't think the content maker is entitled to anything?
Apple destroyed the notion that marketshare is end-all, be-all. It's only useful if you can leverage it somehow, but when you do, inevitably 50% of the rats escape the ship for the next thing.
That would be false. Read up on the Civil War. All the Southern states wanted was to secede from the Union. Only Texas has that 'right' due to the peculiar way it joined the US.
The only thing the civil war proved was that the stronger side won. Lincoln isn't particularly known for being a Constitutionalist.
Secession is the act that bore this union in the first place and so it remains a viable action although, predictably, the authorities in power will be against it just like they were in 1776.
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The world is not binary, it will be a combination of both.
Also note, that iPhone infers an actual model differing only in capacity depending on time reference. An iPhone now implies iPhone 4, last year, a 3GS, etc.
Android is just an OS with lots of different models. It's actually surprising that one device has that much dominance.
That's not a customer service problem, nothing chases me out of a store faster than overeager salespeople rabid with the thought of commissions. The car dealership I eventually bought from had 0 salespeople chasing after me or the other customers so I could browse in peace, I know where to find them once I need help. Same with an Apple Store.
This is different than, say, one of those big name department stores where you can't find anyone when and if you actually want help or to but something.
I always thought the colleges were accomplices as it was another source of revenue for them having an on-campus book store without raising tuition.
Schools I'm not so sure, as they often have to answer to their state capital although I'm sure there are kickbacks there as well (like the annual chocolate selling scheme and/or gift catalog is one major kickback to the school).
at least in school (can't speak for higher education). The have softcover booklets, with about 8-10 weeks worth of material. That means they are about 100 pages long, maybe shorter. Plus, they contain the practice problems and you can write in them. I never understood the practice of carry these heavy tomes called textbooks around, especially even after a year, that half of it is never relevant to the course in many instances. You also get to keep the booklets and don't have to go through the nonsense of putting covers on them or otherwise.
As for online books, I always thought wikibooks was a worthy effort:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page
But people aren't as eager to write textbooks/practice problems as they are to make articles about their obsession. I wish Wikimedia Foundation made use of their mature efforts like Wikipedia and allowed a single banner ad per page (clearly labeled as sponsor, offer a no-ad subscriber version) and then funnel the money toward immature efforts such as these.
What about the Honda Insight? $20k or so...
I know you want full electric, but I just don't trust batteries not to crap out over many charges. Also, while a VW has good mpg, service/repairs/parts are just too much money and reliability is midling.
I wished Honda bought their diesels here...
I have to check, but I have the same actiontec router and I believe the default setting is not to allow anyone not in the internal network to change settings or even remotely access it or log in, even if you have the correct password. This would seem to circumvent that.
You sir, should drop whatever you're doing and start writing History Textbooks (and maybe History Channel documentaries) as of now. I want my kids to be reading quotes like this and others like it in school, then I'll know they'll be paying attention in school and learning.
Walmart is nutritious AND less calories than take-out?! BTW, Americans don't gain kg, pounds or lbs, sure, but not kg.
It really depends on what exactly you want to do and what you have. Apple's automator will be good to learn some things. Those Lego kits are a great way to combine programming with real world results and not just get on screen results. Dylan is an easy language. Scheme is more to teach language theory. Lisp is a diiferent way to think of things. C is the great-granddaddy of the other major family of langaues and need-to-know if one gets into programming. Later major languaes will be a hybrid of ideas between these two language families. There are lesser used languages that try different ideas.
But, what is the end-goal? The summary mentions a lot about web design and HTML but then says that's from and earlier thread. Programming won't teach you about web design (not much anyway). Web design only dabbles a bit in programming if it's limited to HTML/CSS. SQL is another thing (databases). And "learning technology" can range from learning to navigate your basic desktop to making spreadsheets to designing simulations in C, etc.
It's hard to get candy here without a pinata to hit.
The legal system, just like any profession, has it's own definitions and most-favored customer is one of them. If they didn't have accepted definitions, most contracts suits would go nowhere because the meaning of anything could be debated (ie depends on the meaning of the word "is" is)
http://www.businessdictionary.com/tips/22/the-most-favored-customer-clause.html
It's a movie, the whole thing was Nolan's dream. He shared it with us.
Which, with an atom, will be a whole lot sooner than with a more powerful chip. If you're building your own system, then it's likely a desktop and that means it has to be able to handle desktop tasks and not just netbook ones (perhaps even act as a MythTV box, etc).
But you're right, I almost never upgrade the CPU. I go for ram first, and I found a good, small SSD is worth much more in perceived speed than incremental CPU upgrades. An atom is 32 bit only IIRC, so there is no upgrading beyond 4GB ram at most (Windows 32 it's 3GB, not sure how Linux handles it on 32 bit systems).
I've used a lot of OSes in my time, and there is no way Ubuntu is easier than Windows 7 (a major improvement over XP) on anything but the security front. I tried the latest Ubuntu LTS and it actually seemed a downgrade of the Ubuntu a few years back - a lot of things that used to work just didn't. For instance my dual monitor setup, it insisted that it make my right side monitor the main one (where the main drop down lists are), perhaps because it was the analog one while the second one was the DVI port (the video card insists on putting the bios startup on the same one). I tried changing this many times but it never took effect - it was so bad that I couldn't even drag programs or files from one window to another.
This type of thing always worked seamlessly in window ever since I had Dual monitors and I could configure them how I wanted to. It also used to work in Ubuntu, even with the Nvidia drivers.... there's also a bunch of things, but this is one concrete example that comes off the top of my head.
Ubuntu is great, but it's still catching up to Windows/OS_X, and I hope the day comes soon.
"Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming: any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp."
It will likely use a fraction of electricity that a modern laptop uses. If for no other reason than at that price point you can't get batteries with big capacities plus all the other components.
So the bill won't be higher, even with 5. Now, if you did a beowulf cluster with 1000s, yeah, some pricier components probably will give better performance per electrical unit.
That's not the thing I'm talking about. In most American schools I gather, tou have your special need eduaction, votec, advanced section where you take some AP or college classes ahead of others, and the majority of students just kinda amble towards the middle route to college. There's not really a lot of choice in classes until 10th grade, and then it's kinda like a very limited multiple choice until college. The advance students usually just take classes 1-2 years ahead in math or english, but not a wholly different curriculum
Here's what I'm talking about:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_Germany
Basically, college here is the new minimum in a lot of circumstances even if the bachelor's degree has absolutely nothing to do with the job. Votech is kinda seen as for idiots here while there it's more accepted that some students excel in a academic setting and some work better with their hands, and you don't need to drag the latter kicking and screaming into classes until their 18.
Apple doesn't do this because its customers are financially rewarding it for not to do that type of thing. If Apple started, it would get punished by its current customer base who would move their $$$ elswhere if suitably annoyed. Apple also has 0 3rd party crapware on its computers AFAIK for the same reason. Dell's customers, otoh, would probably care less about bloatware if they could get the computer for $5 cheaper.
It's just like a Ferrari customers would get annoyed if they sat in their new car only to feel some cheap vinyl seats. Sure, Ferrari could save some money up front, but their image would suffer. (No, I'm not comparing Apple's Computer's to Ferrari's, just the demograhics.)
I hope so, America's one size fits all education until college isn't that great imo, many European countries at least section you off by scholastic aptitude after middleschool (don't worry, there are plenty room for latebloomers to achieve).
Not everyone will become or even wants to be an astronaut and are perfectly happy as a mechanic or something.
Cable was supposed to be ad-free. While I'm not against Apple here, I would like to say that I don't care if it makes something $20 a month cheaper, I'll pay that just not to work around the ads and have my device stay my device. In TV, ads are not nominal time goblins, they take at least 1/3 of the programming. My time spent watching TV dropped drastically when I watch it online because I can skip most of the bullshit.
"Was der Bauer nicht kennt, frisst er nicht."
I know quite an excellent and cheap sushi place near us. Sushi isn't common here but not completely uncommon. Unlike most Asian food places, this one is mostly frequented by Asians - which is one sign I look for in a ethnic place new to me that it has some quality. Also, all the ingredients were fresh. On rave reviews of my girlfriend after multiple visits, I reluctantly invited some other friends and observed many people don't like sushi or seafood, they beelined to the non seafood offerings and subsequently many people insist on going to a mediocre diner where you can get anywhere in the states. The ones who like seafood love the place.
Also, outside of the major three meats (chicken, pork, beef) I have to travel 2 hours into a large city or someplace with a large ethnic population to get something like goat, hare, etc.
People are creatures of habit. People don't like eating what they don't know. Most "new" things are just old, familiar ingredients mixed up in a slightly different way. If they grew up with mac and cheese, that's what they'll likely prefer, even if they can get pasta with a real cheese sauce for the same money.
Even though I grew up with a variety of foods (calf brains, pig ears, chocolate covered ants), I'm ultimately the same way, I just don't see myself eating other insects or those canned worms that the Koreans like.
A company not participating at all has as much influence for the good in China as Xeyon Inc. of the Hedron Nebula has with us. (Never heard of them?) In other words, your argument is that Google should be like space aliens in regards to China.
The other extreme is the role of IBM in the 3rd Reich, exacerbating the crimes committed by the Regime.
China is bad but not Nazi Germany or Stalinist USSR bad. Google isn't helping them hold onto their regime. If anything, they are helping open China to the rest of the world and vice versa. The alternative is Baidu which offers no resistance whatsoever to their own government.
Google can pack up their bags and sing to the choir here, but what good would that actually do?
I don't know what you're smoking, but when I was in Germany, the blitz camera (for speeding) in my part of town didn't cause people to go slower except in the very spot it was in. It caused enough rage that it was actually shot at night on multiple occasions.
In America, I live near a highway still marked an antiquated 55 mph, and everyone goes at least 70 mph. In my experience, there is nothing magically special or wise about the arbitrary speed limits, except they are set way too low in order for the cops to generate revenue on demand.
Your little do-good buggy will a) in fact slow me down on the highway causing me to get there slower and b) cause road rage in someone that will drive that little piece of shit off the road, taped or not.
As for you pace car idea, here is the execution in real life:
http://green.autoblog.com/2007/08/25/what-happens-when-highway-drivers-are-forced-to-go-55-mph-its/
I prefer the Economist myself, but the marketshare argument is old - many Japanese companies destroyed profit in pursuit of this elusive goal. But what good is it to chase readers who go so far as to block ads and don't think the content maker is entitled to anything?
Apple destroyed the notion that marketshare is end-all, be-all. It's only useful if you can leverage it somehow, but when you do, inevitably 50% of the rats escape the ship for the next thing.
The only thing the civil war proved was that the stronger side won. Lincoln isn't particularly known for being a Constitutionalist.
Secession is the act that bore this union in the first place and so it remains a viable action although, predictably, the authorities in power will be against it just like they were in 1776.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secession_in_the_United_States