You can have both. In Germany, the price is the price. No surcharges. No surprises.
OTOH, at a few gas stations I've been too there, they had huge stickers near the price displaying reminding me how much money off of every liter went straight to the government. One even had a breakdown on the reciept.
is that companies always thought they were for things like Child's First Computer type of toy. Little did we understand that children come along with computers just fine, it was the adults that needed the hand-holding.
As iPad's sales are still going strong, many people still won't get it. They're usually the ones that understand how to get the computer to do almost anything.
I often thought that Yahoo and Microsoft just violated the KISS rule. Yahoo.com comes from the "web portal" days of AOL and seems determined to die with it. Bing.com, to their credit, seems to have learned the lesson finally that people like Google's minimalism and just slaps a background image on it to differentiate their service somehow, but I don't like their results that much and what they do well isn't that different from what Google delivers. Damned if they do, damned if they don't.
Unless Bing starts behaving like Apple and delivering what I don't even know I want yet, I don't see it heading much anywhere.
In other words, kids are no more "addicted" to the internet than they were at one point addicted to fishing, or basketball, or any other hobbie that kids have ever had.
That may be so, but the internet is an always-available activity. With basketball and fishing, you generally have to quit when the sun goes down.
The closest analog here is/was the TV, and it was the great boogeyman from the 1970s to 1990s, being blamed by people for wasting their kid's time. All this comes down to is schoolwork/productivity vs said activity.
So what you say is perfectly true, this is just a case of competing interests. It's not hard to see that a kid's interest will overwhelm boring homework or any other work in the undisciplined. It's a legitimate problem - but disguising it as addiction may make people tackle it the wrong way (i.e. pills, or telling kid to quit it cold turkey) and ignore that the work is so boring (not that this can always be fixed).
Now let's say one day she says to you, "From now on, I'm going to charge you for sex. When you want to hold my hand, you've got to pay. When you want to talk to me, you've got to pay."
Oh, wow, Apple has to be the most honest woman out there. The others usually disguise this via other means.
be? Loss-less would be ideal but would run even modern data cards down to nothing in meantime.
Jpeg is okay, but it puts it's pictures into 32x32 blocks which doesn't always make sense (made more sense in the days of 640x480 pics) and jpeg2000 never seems to be implemented anywhere for some reason, especially the browser level.
I think you overestimate the current profitability of the online audience... hell, South Park even made fun the difficulty to monetize online success in "Canada on Strike", a relatively recent episode.
Otherwise, I agree with you, those 3 shows carry comedy central. Comedy Central tries to strike out on other good shows but they usually suck, whether cartoons (Drawn Together, Ugly Americans) or shows like Tosh.0.
Hell, reruns of Futurama is their 4th biggest thing, but seeing the same 60 episodes gets old fast... hopefully the new ones will be good.
More likely he's just not caring. You bought the iPhone hardware, put money in his pocket, and relieved his company the expense of having to support the phone should you ever go to the genius bar with the phone like that.
The porn thing is probably just being in a rock and hard place of having stuff like that in the App store yet there being only one app store. If it went in, you'd have all the parenting groups crying foul, and once another app store opens that Apple allows the phone to connect to, they'll have just blessed their own competition.
I would prefer the iPad, because I personally hate a bunch of shit in the car, including a mound of DVDs. They just clutter up the whole car, and usually become unplayable either through sticky fingers or scratches from going all around uncased, and what not. Not to mention that in an accident, shit flying all around can cause problems. Heck, it can cause an accident just from sliding around and somehow ending between your feet and the brake.
In fact, unless it's a real car trip, I hate the thought of bringing up kids conditioned not to be away from a screen for a minute, being fed it nonstop. Not too long ago, once you got out of the house, you got to escape the TV at least.
At least a portable gaming system is interactive. The iPad wouldn't be too bad either, with movie downloads and whatnot, especially netflix. But I won't be buying downloaded movies from apple or anyone else until the sell DRM-less versions just like the music now. They might as well, people just convert and upload the DVDs/Blu-Ray without problems as it is.
But I do wish a simple book would be adequate these days. And I'm saying this as a frequent flyer who appreciate the personal entertainment systems in the seats these days, and their role in shutting the brats up.
Plus good luck fixing it. At least a non-integrated unit can be easily replace (at least much more cheaply) and is also upgradeable.... for instance, what if you start buying Blu-ray, what good is that DVD player in the car.
These days, what often brakes in cars are the electronics, of course some manufacturers are better than others although some are surprisingly bad (Mercedes) -- and when you have to fix problems out of warranty, it can be as expensive as any mechanical problem.
I restrict my electronic cars options to windows/locks, a/c, and radio, and whatever else is standard because it should be well-tested.
It's not a computer because it's not Turing complete. And the reason it's not Turing complete, is that it can't run any program. And the reason it can't run any program is the app store moderation.
It has a lot of properties from a Turing machine, but the tape is bounded by people accepting and rejecting certain patterns.
The hardware itself is Turing complete. What you are complaining about is the stock iPhone/iPad OS. But it's like saying a computer is not Turing complete because you don't have tho administrator password to it.
The Chinese approach to ethics is almost purely situational. Compound this with a manipulative media, and what you get are fat, happy citizens who are staunchly nationalistic and xenophobic. All they care about is money.
Replace that "Chinese" with American and you would have a vaguely true statement as well!
Although this report doesn't surprise me, China already had been faking Antiques 5,000 years ago. It's a long tradition.
To be fair, faked results happen here from time to time. But the scientific community built around verifying thing would eventually collectively beat this type of behavior down - sometimes motivated by schadenfreude as much as anything from the pure good of their hearts. All that is different in China is probably this type of infrastructure. Nothing more or less.
Is talking on the phone really a single task? Is cooking? Surely each of those is made up of countless sub-tasks even if you don't consciously think about them.
There are many challenges like this:
Its impossible to spin your RIGHT leg in a clock wise possion and then rub your stomach with your RIGHT arm in a counter clockwise possisoneverytime you do it either your right leg or your right arm will start spinning the same way as the leg or arm
Just try it. Stand up. Spin your right leg to the right. Then place your right hand on your stomach and rub your stomach in a counter clockwise possion at the same time as your leg is spinning
It's obvious to me it's not just the thinking but the brains inputs and outputs... however, I think people in general seriously overestimate their ability to do multitasking (well). Usually they do a bunch of things half-assed, like chatting online, watching TV, etcetera, and not really catching half of the interactions they participate in. Maybe it's a modern desire to appear busy (hardworking), I honestly don't know.
I wonder if they would make fun of Einstein for being so single-minded?
None of this means the current system is ideal or even good. Too many rules, loopholes, some corporations getting out of taxes, etcetera.
The APT-TAX. It was devised by University of Wisconsin Economics Professor. He calculated that if you taxed each and every transaction in the economy at 0.3% rate, you would get enough to abolish every other tax in the land from the federal to local level.
To give you an idea, someone gives you $1,000, you pay $3. Someone gives you $100,000, you pay $300. $1M, $3K. $1B, $3M.
Now, how does this bring in enough income? Well, it is based on every transaction on the economy. There are no loopholes, whether it's: Timmy getting lunch money from mom/dad, charity, business, stock sales or purchases, home sales, or billion dollar transfers between companies. Yet, it is so low, it doesn't create friction.
Of course, on a personal level, the government would miss out on everyday transactions between people. But that's not much of the economy anyway. Based on every $10k income level, the could charge $10 on these missed on April 15th. So a $100K income person would be $100 on this assumption. Or something like that.
After that point, employers, businesses, banks, etcetera would have to track all their transactions (they already do) and charge them automatically and forward them to the government. Point of Sales like 7-Eleven or your supermarket would do the same.
With such a simple tax code, imagine much of the IRS, accountants, and everyone else that would go out of business. And the boom in the economy without all that drag.
Every review I read says that iPad meets or exceeds the 10 hour battery claim.
If you cherrypick features, you can make many things look similiar that really aren't. Just look how successful the Windows CE OS is to this day.
If the iPad and the follow-up proved anything, a checklist of features isn't the end-all be-all to devices, just like an accurate map isn't a replacement for being there and experiencing the place.
Look, you aren't stealing. You aren't stealing until you're fired and you keep coming to work and forcibly removing money from your employer without their consent. That doesn't happen very often. Whoever says you're stealing by investing your time as you see fit is full of bullshit. You control your productivity and if your employer don't like it, they'll get someone else. It's that simple.
This logic is not sound. I remember reading a WW2 manual that warned the officer that if he goes into an area, and he sees men suddenly very busy at his approach, it probably means that they were slacking off while he was gone.
I know many people like that. Since employee/employer is a type of contract, what the employees do is a form of fraud by deliberate misrepresentation/deception. That's why companies pain themselves to come up with some type of productivity metric to measure these things, and in the long term, yes, the company knows whether you are worth it or not.
But going by other businesses, where an employee can bullshit/dupe an employer for a good while because the boss doesn't hang around their shoulder.
To make it easier, just extend that to subcontractor (let's say construction), and tell me they can't steal from the employer. The overall lesson you were putting across stays the same (Caveat Emptor) but leaving the employee without any morale responsibility is the wrong mindset.
(Now, I don't care if someone surfs for a while, you have to accomodate for human nature, but there are various degrees to everything.)
I think that's the cause, not because theres some difference in genes that makes you lose racial bias. They're friendly people and open to anyone. Rasism comes from not being open and friendly to people you think are somehow different.
I believe racism is partly learned but with a genetic component that is there for purpose of promoting speciation.
Common belief is that it is really because it will allow third parties to develop apps in Flash and deploy them on the web (potentially even downloading them to the iPhone), thus bypassing the App Store and Apple's cut of the money.
That makes no sense because they are pushing HTML5 which allows the same thing (didn't Google come out with Google Voice in January to bypass the App Store?)
They also showcased the netflix app for iPad/iPhone and that would seem to cost iTunes money for videos.
I'm a little torn on this. I'm all for freedom of just about everything - but only in stable societies.
What gives rise to the drug cartels is the lockdown of drugs in America. Just like how Alcohol prohibition gave rise to the Mafia.
The military does not solve these problems. If Mexico wanted to try a new tactic, they should start lobbying the USA to change their retarded drug laws.
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You can have both. In Germany, the price is the price. No surcharges. No surprises.
OTOH, at a few gas stations I've been too there, they had huge stickers near the price displaying reminding me how much money off of every liter went straight to the government. One even had a breakdown on the reciept.
Both requests can be met.
You ever hold an iPad? They're heavy as bricks. Strapping two together would be good excercise but not enjoyable.
is that companies always thought they were for things like Child's First Computer type of toy. Little did we understand that children come along with computers just fine, it was the adults that needed the hand-holding.
As iPad's sales are still going strong, many people still won't get it. They're usually the ones that understand how to get the computer to do almost anything.
What's good for the goose must be good for the gander, no?
I often thought that Yahoo and Microsoft just violated the KISS rule. Yahoo.com comes from the "web portal" days of AOL and seems determined to die with it. Bing.com, to their credit, seems to have learned the lesson finally that people like Google's minimalism and just slaps a background image on it to differentiate their service somehow, but I don't like their results that much and what they do well isn't that different from what Google delivers. Damned if they do, damned if they don't.
Unless Bing starts behaving like Apple and delivering what I don't even know I want yet, I don't see it heading much anywhere.
That may be so, but the internet is an always-available activity. With basketball and fishing, you generally have to quit when the sun goes down.
The closest analog here is/was the TV, and it was the great boogeyman from the 1970s to 1990s, being blamed by people for wasting their kid's time. All this comes down to is schoolwork/productivity vs said activity.
So what you say is perfectly true, this is just a case of competing interests. It's not hard to see that a kid's interest will overwhelm boring homework or any other work in the undisciplined. It's a legitimate problem - but disguising it as addiction may make people tackle it the wrong way (i.e. pills, or telling kid to quit it cold turkey) and ignore that the work is so boring (not that this can always be fixed).
Oh, wow, Apple has to be the most honest woman out there. The others usually disguise this via other means.
be? Loss-less would be ideal but would run even modern data cards down to nothing in meantime.
Jpeg is okay, but it puts it's pictures into 32x32 blocks which doesn't always make sense (made more sense in the days of 640x480 pics) and jpeg2000 never seems to be implemented anywhere for some reason, especially the browser level.
You're complicating it.
(206 * 2)/3 = 137.333
Why use 0.66xxxx whatever when you don't have to?
I think you overestimate the current profitability of the online audience... hell, South Park even made fun the difficulty to monetize online success in "Canada on Strike", a relatively recent episode.
Otherwise, I agree with you, those 3 shows carry comedy central. Comedy Central tries to strike out on other good shows but they usually suck, whether cartoons (Drawn Together, Ugly Americans) or shows like Tosh.0.
Hell, reruns of Futurama is their 4th biggest thing, but seeing the same 60 episodes gets old fast... hopefully the new ones will be good.
More likely he's just not caring. You bought the iPhone hardware, put money in his pocket, and relieved his company the expense of having to support the phone should you ever go to the genius bar with the phone like that.
The porn thing is probably just being in a rock and hard place of having stuff like that in the App store yet there being only one app store. If it went in, you'd have all the parenting groups crying foul, and once another app store opens that Apple allows the phone to connect to, they'll have just blessed their own competition.
Apple should come out with a solution though.
I would prefer the iPad, because I personally hate a bunch of shit in the car, including a mound of DVDs. They just clutter up the whole car, and usually become unplayable either through sticky fingers or scratches from going all around uncased, and what not. Not to mention that in an accident, shit flying all around can cause problems. Heck, it can cause an accident just from sliding around and somehow ending between your feet and the brake.
In fact, unless it's a real car trip, I hate the thought of bringing up kids conditioned not to be away from a screen for a minute, being fed it nonstop. Not too long ago, once you got out of the house, you got to escape the TV at least.
At least a portable gaming system is interactive. The iPad wouldn't be too bad either, with movie downloads and whatnot, especially netflix. But I won't be buying downloaded movies from apple or anyone else until the sell DRM-less versions just like the music now. They might as well, people just convert and upload the DVDs/Blu-Ray without problems as it is.
But I do wish a simple book would be adequate these days. And I'm saying this as a frequent flyer who appreciate the personal entertainment systems in the seats these days, and their role in shutting the brats up.
Plus good luck fixing it. At least a non-integrated unit can be easily replace (at least much more cheaply) and is also upgradeable.... for instance, what if you start buying Blu-ray, what good is that DVD player in the car.
These days, what often brakes in cars are the electronics, of course some manufacturers are better than others although some are surprisingly bad (Mercedes) -- and when you have to fix problems out of warranty, it can be as expensive as any mechanical problem.
I restrict my electronic cars options to windows/locks, a/c, and radio, and whatever else is standard because it should be well-tested.
The hardware itself is Turing complete. What you are complaining about is the stock iPhone/iPad OS. But it's like saying a computer is not Turing complete because you don't have tho administrator password to it.
Replace that "Chinese" with American and you would have a vaguely true statement as well!
Although this report doesn't surprise me, China already had been faking Antiques 5,000 years ago. It's a long tradition.
To be fair, faked results happen here from time to time. But the scientific community built around verifying thing would eventually collectively beat this type of behavior down - sometimes motivated by schadenfreude as much as anything from the pure good of their hearts. All that is different in China is probably this type of infrastructure. Nothing more or less.
There are many challenges like this:
It's obvious to me it's not just the thinking but the brains inputs and outputs... however, I think people in general seriously overestimate their ability to do multitasking (well). Usually they do a bunch of things half-assed, like chatting online, watching TV, etcetera, and not really catching half of the interactions they participate in. Maybe it's a modern desire to appear busy (hardworking), I honestly don't know.
I wonder if they would make fun of Einstein for being so single-minded?
The first and second generation iPhones have little discernable difference in CPU speed or ram. Why is the 1st generation too old, and the 2nd isn't?
None of this means the current system is ideal or even good. Too many rules, loopholes, some corporations getting out of taxes, etcetera.
The APT-TAX. It was devised by University of Wisconsin Economics Professor. He calculated that if you taxed each and every transaction in the economy at 0.3% rate, you would get enough to abolish every other tax in the land from the federal to local level.
To give you an idea, someone gives you $1,000, you pay $3. Someone gives you $100,000, you pay $300. $1M, $3K. $1B, $3M.
Now, how does this bring in enough income? Well, it is based on every transaction on the economy. There are no loopholes, whether it's: Timmy getting lunch money from mom/dad, charity, business, stock sales or purchases, home sales, or billion dollar transfers between companies. Yet, it is so low, it doesn't create friction.
Of course, on a personal level, the government would miss out on everyday transactions between people. But that's not much of the economy anyway. Based on every $10k income level, the could charge $10 on these missed on April 15th. So a $100K income person would be $100 on this assumption. Or something like that.
After that point, employers, businesses, banks, etcetera would have to track all their transactions (they already do) and charge them automatically and forward them to the government. Point of Sales like 7-Eleven or your supermarket would do the same.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automat...ransaction_tax
http://proliberty.com/observer/20010904.htm
With such a simple tax code, imagine much of the IRS, accountants, and everyone else that would go out of business. And the boom in the economy without all that drag.
You mean the ones paid for by federal/state/local taxes on gasoline paid for at the pump?
Every review I read says that iPad meets or exceeds the 10 hour battery claim.
If you cherrypick features, you can make many things look similiar that really aren't. Just look how successful the Windows CE OS is to this day.
If the iPad and the follow-up proved anything, a checklist of features isn't the end-all be-all to devices, just like an accurate map isn't a replacement for being there and experiencing the place.
This logic is not sound. I remember reading a WW2 manual that warned the officer that if he goes into an area, and he sees men suddenly very busy at his approach, it probably means that they were slacking off while he was gone.
I know many people like that. Since employee/employer is a type of contract, what the employees do is a form of fraud by deliberate misrepresentation/deception. That's why companies pain themselves to come up with some type of productivity metric to measure these things, and in the long term, yes, the company knows whether you are worth it or not.
But going by other businesses, where an employee can bullshit/dupe an employer for a good while because the boss doesn't hang around their shoulder.
To make it easier, just extend that to subcontractor (let's say construction), and tell me they can't steal from the employer. The overall lesson you were putting across stays the same (Caveat Emptor) but leaving the employee without any morale responsibility is the wrong mindset.
(Now, I don't care if someone surfs for a while, you have to accomodate for human nature, but there are various degrees to everything.)
I believe racism is partly learned but with a genetic component that is there for purpose of promoting speciation.
That makes no sense because they are pushing HTML5 which allows the same thing (didn't Google come out with Google Voice in January to bypass the App Store?)
They also showcased the netflix app for iPad/iPhone and that would seem to cost iTunes money for videos.
The conspiracy theory doesn't add up.
Why? It won't make you any safer as criminals have ways around this and only enables the government to track you via GPS.
What gives rise to the drug cartels is the lockdown of drugs in America. Just like how Alcohol prohibition gave rise to the Mafia.
The military does not solve these problems. If Mexico wanted to try a new tactic, they should start lobbying the USA to change their retarded drug laws.