NinjaVideo.net and TVshack.net? Never heard of either one - UNTIL NOW. I hope one of them has Blake's 7, haven't seen that since I was a kid.
I got every single episode of Blake's 7 a couple of years ago via bittorrent. I used mininova to find the torrents. They included the DVD special features, with the making-of interviews with the cast and crew which are just fascinating.
The only thing I couldn't find there is the Blake's Junction spoof, which you can watch on Youtube.
[...] to document the process fully and to release anything that would help others to do the same.
Yes, because his documenting everything and making it available to everyone won't help people that don't live where he lives. Right?
I believe that the point the AC was trying to get across is that helping others learn how to build poorly insulated homes out of materials that aren't really suitable for home construction, isn't really helping at all.
If every PC laptop uses the same plug, I would jump for joy. If it was an Apple style "magsafe" style connector I would get down on my knees and fellate each and every member of the standards committee. I've been griping for years now how the connector conspiracy is still going strong in the laptop space and what a pain it is to keep matching power cords to laptops.
Ok, no on the blowjob thing; you don't know where those committee members have been.
The "magsafe" connector is better than anyone who hasn't used it realizes. Not only does it "break away" nicely and easily, but it also means you don't have to use any effort to plug the thing in. I just get the connector within an inch or so and the magnet pulls it into place. I've just dangled the cord near my MacBook Pro and it will snap into place by itself.
The strain relief on the Apple connectors sucks - it's basically nonexistent, so they can fail there, but if they fixed that (pretty easy) then it would be perfect.
Also, while they're at it, why not spec out a standarized battery compartment?
Because it's a silly idea. Even cars don't have standardized batteries. Ok, they do, but there are something like 20-30 different standardized car battery types.
"To the public's dismay, JAXA officials said they were not sure whether any samples had been collected."
That's Japanese for "it didn't work".
I work in an office where we have periodic dealings with representatives of Japanese industry (actual Japanese people in Japan).I can tell you absolutely that in Japan, if someone says they're "not sure" about whether something happened or is possible, it means "the answer is no".
"It's very difficult" also means "the answer is no"
In the Japanese culture, it's bad to say you can't do something, or to admit failure. Silly as it sounds to us westerners, instead of saying outright "no" they use mushy words to avoid losing face.
There's nothing wrong with that, but you have to understand what they're actually saying when they say things like that.
I can't believe the father quit his job over this. Does he really think this is really gonna support his family in 5 years time?
"Quit" is a euphemism for saying he wasn't making any money selling residential real estate anyway, so he decided to sell t-shirts, which turned out to be the right decision. I know a realtor who right now is decorating cakes at a local supermarket.
It's not like realtors are "employed" anyway - they can be affiliated with a brokerage, but they're not employees in the classical sense. They can come and go as they please and work as much or as little as they choose to.
He can go back to selling real estate any time he wants, it's not like he gave up tenure or something.
I was thinking EMP related to the seismic activity. IIRC that is still somewhat controversial though.
In that it doesn't exist, yes it's controversial.
The only credible papers written about electromagnetism from or prior to earthquakes talk about resistivity changes (which are not emitted EM) or waves. No pulses. (The P in EMP stands for pulse.)
Doesn't that just say that Bill Gates says that he never said that line?
It doesn't provide proof that he didn't say it, any more than a defendant in court saying "no, your honor, I did not do that crime." is considered as proof of innocence.
That may be the case, but I wouldn't bet on it. The rendering engine is the same, but everything else is different - Android is based on Linux, iPhoneOS is based on Darwin. Different platforms, different architectures, different builds.
Following that reasoning the bugs should also be in Chrome and Safari on Linux, MacOS, Windows...
Webkit is the rendering engine. If the bugs are in Webkit, then they are in all the products that use Webkit.
You mean I can break even after only four years? Sign me up!
Generally that's true in older, poorly insulated homes. In more recently constructed homes (10 years old or less) adding additional insulation will have a longer payback period. That is, if the builder actually insulated the home as required. Most screw it up somewhere.
On the other hand, the 1920s portion of my home was made significantly warmer last winter with about $50 worth of cans of expanding foam sealant.
The 1990s portion was built with really good insulation, and there's just not much to be gained there. Some, but not much.
I am considering temporarily pulling some of the attic insulation out so I can seal all the tiny holes in the electrical boxes above things like light fixtures, and seal the boxes to the ceiling board. Supposedly the small amount of airflow leaking from these fixtures adds up to a significant heat loss, and the only expense to fix it is a roll of foil tape used on the backside of the boxes.
Since I have a gas forced-air furnace for heat, which uses air for combustion, I'm going to install a cold-air intake on the outside of the house with insulated duct all the way to just outside the furnace cabinet. The first year we were in this house I noticed cold air coming into the basement - it was being pulled down the balloon-framed walls all the way from the attic, because the furnace burner creates a low pressure area in the basement. The cold air also had a side effect of cooling the walls as it flowed down to the basement. Cost for the cold air intake should be under $50. I expect it to pay for itself in the first month of winter.
Neither. The horizontal pieces between the studs are called firebreaks. They are there solely to slow fire down and help prevent it from spreading between building floors vertically through the wall stud space. They don't serve much mechanical structural purpose, but they do also help prevent vertical cold air flow inside the walls which helps the insulation (fiberglass insulation doesn't stop airflow, it just filters out the dust).
The 1920s portion of my house does not have any firebreaks in two of the exterior walls, as it's built using so-called "balloon framing" which used long vertical studs that run continuously from the rim beam on top of the foundation all the way to the attic. Because of this, cold air can flow down the walls from the attic in winter. I've injected firestop foam into strategic parts of the wall to stop this, as I found some parts of the interior wall surface were below freezing last winter.
What they need to do is uncouple phone from the network -- to the point that the subsidized phone contract is seperate from the phone plan (allowing a customer to switch from month to month) and to stop distinguishing between different types of data -- like texts vs emails and the like. It's all just data.
Verizon's network has been CDMA, which I'm not terribly familiar with (I closed my Verizon account back in 2002 and haven't looked back), but at least for GSM, text and data are not the same thing. I don't know how it works in CDMA, so it could be different for Verizon, but over GSM, SMS messages are squeezed into unused space in control packets that the phones and towers exchange normally even if there's no call happening. So on GSM networks, SMS isn't data and incurs no cost at all to the operator. SMS should be completely free on GSM providers.
Data, on the other hand, takes up packets/bandwidth that would otherwise be available for voice service, so there is a cost.
Verizon has always seen their customers purely as a source of profit, and has done everything they can to maximize the fees they can charge customers - going as far as disabling bluetooth file exchange on their phones so customers have to send things like pictures via the Verizon network so they incur data charges.
Eliminating unlimited data plans is a logical step in maximizing profits.
The "vampire power" thing is a bit overrated, actually.
No, it isn't.
Switching power supplies, like good quality cell phone chargers and laptop power supplies generally use almost no power when they're not under load. At least, the ones in my house don't. I know this because...
I installed a Brultech ECM-1240 on my house's breaker panel. It has current taps around the main feed, and several other house circuits, like the kitchen outlets, furnace (which also works as my a/c blower in the summer), etc. It sends the data over IP to a low power PC (6W, thanks to a low power CPU and SSD) which stores it in a database and generates graphs you can view in a web browser (unfortunately using a Flash applet).
The software was, to put it mildly, complicated to set up. Seriously. It's not quite a finished product, and it has a few gotchas that prevent it from working until you figure out the mindset of the person who hacked it together. Once it's working, it's pretty neat though.
So, what did I find?
The powered subwoofer in the living room uses 10W when it's in "Standby" mode. It's now wired to a relay connected to my receiver's switched outlet, so it's never on unless the receiver is also on.
The PS3 wakes itself up at all times of the night - oh, you think it's off, but it's nowhere near off. It'll wake up for whatever nefarious reason whenever the hell it wants to and then it stays on until you turn it off again - all the time using about 150W continuously. I wanted to watch Bluray movies, not heat the room all night, thanks. I turn off it's power switch (on the rear of the unit) after I shut it down now.
The Apple TV uses 30W all the time - ok, this is Apple's fault, I think. There's no power switch, and I don't think there's even an option to shut it down. I just unplug it, which is inconvenient since we use the Airtunes function a lot.
I've even found some things that aren't really vampire power, but are what I call bugs and inefficiencies:
The color laser printer upstairs decided one day that sleep mode means "run all your motors and keep the fuser warm for no apparent reason." Averaging about 350W continuously (we don't use the upstairs of the house much, so it went unnoticed until I came home and saw the power usage chart. Reset the printer and all is well so far.
The basement dehumidifier was going through defrost cycles very frequently. You could see them as a sawtooth on top of the main power use graph. I took the machine apart, washed the coils and replaced some insulation that had fallen off one of the refrigerant lines. Power use dropped by about 50W and the defrost cycles happen much further apart.
Anyhow, I guess my main point is that your house is probably full of power wasting appliances, but unless you know what's going on, you'll never find them. Except the laser printer - I heard that one when I went into the room it's in.
You don't need anything as complicated as my setup, just something that will record the power usage (or even just current) coming in on your main power feed. It's really helpful though to know when things are going wrong.
Looking at the graph, I can see big things like the house a/c, the garage door opener, etc., but also small things - in the winter I could see the 8W used by the furnace's gas valve as it cycled the burners on and off, and I can see the 3W from the solenoid valve in the fridge when someone gets a glass of water from the dispenser on the fridge door.
Sure, any or all of this stuff can be Google'd/Wikipedia'ed/etc., but does one want to go through that for an article summary? Especially when it would have been soooo easy to just expand the acronym...
Especially when it's standard journalism (and general writing) practice to expand acronyms the first time they're used, particularly when they are obscure.
To expect every reader to either know the definition of the acronym, or to search Google for it is the height of arrogance. It's also a good way to turn off readers.
Because it is something foreign, and probably also because it is African, they're all upset.
Bull shit.
People are upset because the noise is extremely distracting, conveys nothing about the fans' excitement with the game, and according to a South African audiologist who was on the news yesterday, the sound is well past the threshold for causing hearing damage.
It would be one thing if the sound changed to reflect the excitement of the crowd during the game, but it doesn't. It's just a constant loud wall of sound at basically the same level from the start of the game to the end.
It's similar in level and monotony to running jet engines at full throttle on test stands in the stadium, throughout the entire game. It doesn't add, it detracts.
What you are saying is that traditions have to be respected, no matter how stupid or disruptive they are.
I propose an alternative. All other countries should create a tradition of randomly setting explosive charges off in their stadiums whenever the South African team is there.
The New York Times isn't going anywhere very soon. Of the two, it's more likely that Twitter would be eclipsed by some new service and the word "tweet" would return to being a sound birds make.
Certainly, for archival purposes, thinking about people in the future who might be reading news articles for research, "sent via Twitter" or something similar is more understandable than "tweeted" At least you could infer that Twitter was a messaging service from "sent via Twitter".
The word "tweet" might lead future historians to believe people went around making bird noises.
It's not _projecting onto ones retina_ any more than another LCD screen is.
But you see, they all do that. All visible objects do that. That's how our eyes work. Light reflected or emitted from objects uses the lens in your eye to project an image onto your retina. It is technically correct, and no, it's not anything special, other than being a high resolution display.
Could it be, that this is just a trade name? (and that perhaps some people have a little too much time on their hands?)
When I search for a document on my Mac, I don't expect an actual Spotlight to shine on the document.
When I restore a file from a backup using Time Machine, I don't imagine that there's actual time travel taking place.
If I use the feature that shows all of my overlapping windows resized so they fit on the screen and I can choose which one to work on, I don't expect the crew from 20/20 or 60 Minutes or Dateline NBC to show up and do an actual Exposé.
Holy crap, I just found out there's no control tower or runway involved in using Airport networking! What a complete and total fraud!
MobileMe doesn't actually cause me to move around either!
And, worst of all, the damned Magic Mouse doesn't have any magical powers! I just tried to cast a Patronus Charm with it, just like in those Harry Potter movies, and the damn thing didn't work at all. It doesn't even fly around unless you throw it. I want my money back!
My Nokia N95 (from 2-3 years ago) already can do this. On the "Office" menu, there's a Barcode application that uses the phone's camera to read 2D barcodes and decode them.
Yes, as long as Apple continues to make the iMac and MacBook and doesn't try to pitch the iPad as a replacement for them. The problem is that while most PC makers have a small (10"), medium (13"), and desktop replacement (15-17") laptop, Apple makes iPad instead of a MacBook mini. Imagine what would happen if Apple discontinued the MacBook (not Pro) in favor of the iPad XL.
This is a very weak argument based on conjecture and nothing more. The fact is that Steve Jobs sees no future in netbooks and Apple won't be producing one any time soon. The iPad isn't a netbook, it's a device for what many people do with netbooks - surf the web and kill time.
You might as well have said "Imagine what would happen if Steve Jobs' One More Thing this year is that Apple is invading Poland?"
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NinjaVideo.net and TVshack.net? Never heard of either one - UNTIL NOW. I hope one of them has Blake's 7, haven't seen that since I was a kid.
I got every single episode of Blake's 7 a couple of years ago via bittorrent. I used mininova to find the torrents. They included the DVD special features, with the making-of interviews with the cast and crew which are just fascinating.
The only thing I couldn't find there is the Blake's Junction spoof, which you can watch on Youtube.
Yes, because his documenting everything and making it available to everyone won't help people that don't live where he lives. Right?
I believe that the point the AC was trying to get across is that helping others learn how to build poorly insulated homes out of materials that aren't really suitable for home construction, isn't really helping at all.
If every PC laptop uses the same plug, I would jump for joy. If it was an Apple style "magsafe" style connector I would get down on my knees and fellate each and every member of the standards committee. I've been griping for years now how the connector conspiracy is still going strong in the laptop space and what a pain it is to keep matching power cords to laptops.
Ok, no on the blowjob thing; you don't know where those committee members have been.
The "magsafe" connector is better than anyone who hasn't used it realizes. Not only does it "break away" nicely and easily, but it also means you don't have to use any effort to plug the thing in. I just get the connector within an inch or so and the magnet pulls it into place. I've just dangled the cord near my MacBook Pro and it will snap into place by itself.
The strain relief on the Apple connectors sucks - it's basically nonexistent, so they can fail there, but if they fixed that (pretty easy) then it would be perfect.
Also, while they're at it, why not spec out a standarized battery compartment?
Because it's a silly idea. Even cars don't have standardized batteries. Ok, they do, but there are something like 20-30 different standardized car battery types.
"To the public's dismay, JAXA officials said they were not sure whether any samples had been collected."
That's Japanese for "it didn't work".
I work in an office where we have periodic dealings with representatives of Japanese industry (actual Japanese people in Japan).I can tell you absolutely that in Japan, if someone says they're "not sure" about whether something happened or is possible, it means "the answer is no".
"It's very difficult" also means "the answer is no"
In the Japanese culture, it's bad to say you can't do something, or to admit failure. Silly as it sounds to us westerners, instead of saying outright "no" they use mushy words to avoid losing face.
There's nothing wrong with that, but you have to understand what they're actually saying when they say things like that.
I can't believe the father quit his job over this. Does he really think this is really gonna support his family in 5 years time?
"Quit" is a euphemism for saying he wasn't making any money selling residential real estate anyway, so he decided to sell t-shirts, which turned out to be the right decision. I know a realtor who right now is decorating cakes at a local supermarket.
It's not like realtors are "employed" anyway - they can be affiliated with a brokerage, but they're not employees in the classical sense. They can come and go as they please and work as much or as little as they choose to.
He can go back to selling real estate any time he wants, it's not like he gave up tenure or something.
I was thinking EMP related to the seismic activity. IIRC that is still somewhat controversial though.
In that it doesn't exist, yes it's controversial.
The only credible papers written about electromagnetism from or prior to earthquakes talk about resistivity changes (which are not emitted EM) or waves. No pulses. (The P in EMP stands for pulse.)
To be fair, Gates never said that line. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bill_Gates#Misattributed
Doesn't that just say that Bill Gates says that he never said that line?
It doesn't provide proof that he didn't say it, any more than a defendant in court saying "no, your honor, I did not do that crime." is considered as proof of innocence.
That may be the case, but I wouldn't bet on it. The rendering engine is the same, but everything else is different - Android is based on Linux, iPhoneOS is based on Darwin. Different platforms, different architectures, different builds.
Following that reasoning the bugs should also be in Chrome and Safari on Linux, MacOS, Windows...
Webkit is the rendering engine. If the bugs are in Webkit, then they are in all the products that use Webkit.
You mean I can break even after only four years? Sign me up!
Generally that's true in older, poorly insulated homes. In more recently constructed homes (10 years old or less) adding additional insulation will have a longer payback period. That is, if the builder actually insulated the home as required. Most screw it up somewhere.
On the other hand, the 1920s portion of my home was made significantly warmer last winter with about $50 worth of cans of expanding foam sealant.
The 1990s portion was built with really good insulation, and there's just not much to be gained there. Some, but not much.
I am considering temporarily pulling some of the attic insulation out so I can seal all the tiny holes in the electrical boxes above things like light fixtures, and seal the boxes to the ceiling board. Supposedly the small amount of airflow leaking from these fixtures adds up to a significant heat loss, and the only expense to fix it is a roll of foil tape used on the backside of the boxes.
Since I have a gas forced-air furnace for heat, which uses air for combustion, I'm going to install a cold-air intake on the outside of the house with insulated duct all the way to just outside the furnace cabinet. The first year we were in this house I noticed cold air coming into the basement - it was being pulled down the balloon-framed walls all the way from the attic, because the furnace burner creates a low pressure area in the basement. The cold air also had a side effect of cooling the walls as it flowed down to the basement. Cost for the cold air intake should be under $50. I expect it to pay for itself in the first month of winter.
Do you perhaps mean a row of horizontal studs?
Do you perhaps mean joists?
Neither. The horizontal pieces between the studs are called firebreaks. They are there solely to slow fire down and help prevent it from spreading between building floors vertically through the wall stud space. They don't serve much mechanical structural purpose, but they do also help prevent vertical cold air flow inside the walls which helps the insulation (fiberglass insulation doesn't stop airflow, it just filters out the dust).
The 1920s portion of my house does not have any firebreaks in two of the exterior walls, as it's built using so-called "balloon framing" which used long vertical studs that run continuously from the rim beam on top of the foundation all the way to the attic. Because of this, cold air can flow down the walls from the attic in winter. I've injected firestop foam into strategic parts of the wall to stop this, as I found some parts of the interior wall surface were below freezing last winter.
What they need to do is uncouple phone from the network -- to the point that the subsidized phone contract is seperate from the phone plan (allowing a customer to switch from month to month) and to stop distinguishing between different types of data -- like texts vs emails and the like. It's all just data.
Verizon's network has been CDMA, which I'm not terribly familiar with (I closed my Verizon account back in 2002 and haven't looked back), but at least for GSM, text and data are not the same thing. I don't know how it works in CDMA, so it could be different for Verizon, but over GSM, SMS messages are squeezed into unused space in control packets that the phones and towers exchange normally even if there's no call happening. So on GSM networks, SMS isn't data and incurs no cost at all to the operator. SMS should be completely free on GSM providers.
Data, on the other hand, takes up packets/bandwidth that would otherwise be available for voice service, so there is a cost.
This isn't really surprising.
Verizon has always seen their customers purely as a source of profit, and has done everything they can to maximize the fees they can charge customers - going as far as disabling bluetooth file exchange on their phones so customers have to send things like pictures via the Verizon network so they incur data charges.
Eliminating unlimited data plans is a logical step in maximizing profits.
Ohhhh, You've been a BAD boy *cracks whip*
If you're doing that to five year olds, then you've got a problem.
I was disappointed to see that the dog wasn't holding a gun. Clearly that family is not fully committed to being armed.
The "vampire power" thing is a bit overrated, actually.
No, it isn't.
Switching power supplies, like good quality cell phone chargers and laptop power supplies generally use almost no power when they're not under load. At least, the ones in my house don't. I know this because...
I installed a Brultech ECM-1240 on my house's breaker panel. It has current taps around the main feed, and several other house circuits, like the kitchen outlets, furnace (which also works as my a/c blower in the summer), etc. It sends the data over IP to a low power PC (6W, thanks to a low power CPU and SSD) which stores it in a database and generates graphs you can view in a web browser (unfortunately using a Flash applet).
The software was, to put it mildly, complicated to set up. Seriously. It's not quite a finished product, and it has a few gotchas that prevent it from working until you figure out the mindset of the person who hacked it together. Once it's working, it's pretty neat though.
So, what did I find?
The powered subwoofer in the living room uses 10W when it's in "Standby" mode. It's now wired to a relay connected to my receiver's switched outlet, so it's never on unless the receiver is also on.
The PS3 wakes itself up at all times of the night - oh, you think it's off, but it's nowhere near off. It'll wake up for whatever nefarious reason whenever the hell it wants to and then it stays on until you turn it off again - all the time using about 150W continuously. I wanted to watch Bluray movies, not heat the room all night, thanks. I turn off it's power switch (on the rear of the unit) after I shut it down now.
The Apple TV uses 30W all the time - ok, this is Apple's fault, I think. There's no power switch, and I don't think there's even an option to shut it down. I just unplug it, which is inconvenient since we use the Airtunes function a lot.
I've even found some things that aren't really vampire power, but are what I call bugs and inefficiencies:
The color laser printer upstairs decided one day that sleep mode means "run all your motors and keep the fuser warm for no apparent reason." Averaging about 350W continuously (we don't use the upstairs of the house much, so it went unnoticed until I came home and saw the power usage chart. Reset the printer and all is well so far.
The basement dehumidifier was going through defrost cycles very frequently. You could see them as a sawtooth on top of the main power use graph. I took the machine apart, washed the coils and replaced some insulation that had fallen off one of the refrigerant lines. Power use dropped by about 50W and the defrost cycles happen much further apart.
Anyhow, I guess my main point is that your house is probably full of power wasting appliances, but unless you know what's going on, you'll never find them. Except the laser printer - I heard that one when I went into the room it's in.
You don't need anything as complicated as my setup, just something that will record the power usage (or even just current) coming in on your main power feed. It's really helpful though to know when things are going wrong.
Looking at the graph, I can see big things like the house a/c, the garage door opener, etc., but also small things - in the winter I could see the 8W used by the furnace's gas valve as it cycled the burners on and off, and I can see the 3W from the solenoid valve in the fridge when someone gets a glass of water from the dispenser on the fridge door.
Sure, any or all of this stuff can be Google'd/Wikipedia'ed/etc., but does one want to go through that for an article summary? Especially when it would have been soooo easy to just expand the acronym...
Especially when it's standard journalism (and general writing) practice to expand acronyms the first time they're used, particularly when they are obscure.
To expect every reader to either know the definition of the acronym, or to search Google for it is the height of arrogance. It's also a good way to turn off readers.
Because it is something foreign, and probably also because it is African, they're all upset.
Bull shit.
People are upset because the noise is extremely distracting, conveys nothing about the fans' excitement with the game, and according to a South African audiologist who was on the news yesterday, the sound is well past the threshold for causing hearing damage.
It would be one thing if the sound changed to reflect the excitement of the crowd during the game, but it doesn't. It's just a constant loud wall of sound at basically the same level from the start of the game to the end.
It's similar in level and monotony to running jet engines at full throttle on test stands in the stadium, throughout the entire game. It doesn't add, it detracts.
What you are saying is that traditions have to be respected, no matter how stupid or disruptive they are.
I propose an alternative. All other countries should create a tradition of randomly setting explosive charges off in their stadiums whenever the South African team is there.
It's our tradition, and you have to respect it.
I thought that was what Chatroulette was for.
The New York Times isn't going anywhere very soon. Of the two, it's more likely that Twitter would be eclipsed by some new service and the word "tweet" would return to being a sound birds make.
Certainly, for archival purposes, thinking about people in the future who might be reading news articles for research, "sent via Twitter" or something similar is more understandable than "tweeted" At least you could infer that Twitter was a messaging service from "sent via Twitter".
The word "tweet" might lead future historians to believe people went around making bird noises.
is Benny Hill chasing it while sped-up violin music plays.
Seriously, it looks like something the BBC would have put together for an episode of the Goodies or Benny Hill.
Yes, I know Benny Hill wasn't on the BBC.
For starters try searching in System Preferences...
I didn't find any settings for magic in there either.
I do have a 3G iPad ordered though (before the June 6 cutoff), and I have high hopes as I've heard it said that it's a "magical device".
It's not _projecting onto ones retina_ any more than another LCD screen is.
But you see, they all do that. All visible objects do that. That's how our eyes work. Light reflected or emitted from objects uses the lens in your eye to project an image onto your retina. It is technically correct, and no, it's not anything special, other than being a high resolution display.
Could it be, that this is just a trade name? (and that perhaps some people have a little too much time on their hands?)
When I search for a document on my Mac, I don't expect an actual Spotlight to shine on the document.
When I restore a file from a backup using Time Machine, I don't imagine that there's actual time travel taking place.
If I use the feature that shows all of my overlapping windows resized so they fit on the screen and I can choose which one to work on, I don't expect the crew from 20/20 or 60 Minutes or Dateline NBC to show up and do an actual Exposé.
Holy crap, I just found out there's no control tower or runway involved in using Airport networking! What a complete and total fraud!
MobileMe doesn't actually cause me to move around either!
And, worst of all, the damned Magic Mouse doesn't have any magical powers! I just tried to cast a Patronus Charm with it, just like in those Harry Potter movies, and the damn thing didn't work at all. It doesn't even fly around unless you throw it. I want my money back!
My Nokia N95 (from 2-3 years ago) already can do this. On the "Office" menu, there's a Barcode application that uses the phone's camera to read 2D barcodes and decode them.
There's a page about it here: http://n95blog.com/barcodes-and-barcode-reader-for-s60/
I just tried it, and it does work. The barcode on that page decodes to http://n95blog.com
Not so fast, read the arbitration clause.
The first phase of a class action suit would be to get a judge to throw out the arbitration clause. Judges do that sort of thing.
Yes, as long as Apple continues to make the iMac and MacBook and doesn't try to pitch the iPad as a replacement for them. The problem is that while most PC makers have a small (10"), medium (13"), and desktop replacement (15-17") laptop, Apple makes iPad instead of a MacBook mini. Imagine what would happen if Apple discontinued the MacBook (not Pro) in favor of the iPad XL.
This is a very weak argument based on conjecture and nothing more. The fact is that Steve Jobs sees no future in netbooks and Apple won't be producing one any time soon. The iPad isn't a netbook, it's a device for what many people do with netbooks - surf the web and kill time.
You might as well have said "Imagine what would happen if Steve Jobs' One More Thing this year is that Apple is invading Poland?"