I can't imagine playing NES games on the iPhone would be much fun. I'll buy that the tactile sensation of real buttons is unnecessary for dialing a phone or browsing a web, but it seems like it would be essential for playing most fast-paced games like most NES titles. So for the benefit of iphone users and software developers, here is a non-exhaustive list of what the iPhone is and isn't:
The iPhone is...
A phone
A music player
A very nice mobile web browser
Expensive
Shiny
The iPhone is not...
A video game platform
The dawn of a new revolution of electronic communications which will render all devices before it obsolete and bring eternal enlightenment to all those who lay their eyes upon its glory.
How are they going to justify the Big Brother system in New York? Not only do they not have such a fee, but if they did it would be easily implemented by tolls on the bridges and tunnels that are the only way of getting to Manhattan from outside.
There actually is talk of possibly instating a congestion charge in Manhattan, but it would only be for higher-traffic areas (i.e. midtown) which is why they're pushing the idea of surveillance cameras rather than bridge/tunnel tolls.
How on earth is the parent poster defending censorship? Nothing was said about his opinion of this censorship, he was questioning the summary's implication that this connected with Jane Cherry (Karl Rove's "protoge").
No word yet if the assignment of a Karl Rove protege high up in NASA has any connection.
Ah-ha! How could I be so foolish thinking that this could just be the case of one security guard being an idiot? Surely this is all part of Karl Rove's plan! He needs to get rid of the Saturn V rocket plans in order to keep our enemies from attacking the top secret laser-equipped moon bases he's built to control the earth with. It's all so simple!
The technical advantages of DisplayPort are minimal. Dual-link DVI can already do most of the things that DisplayPort does, and it has the advantage of already having decent market penetration. At first glance, I thought DisplayPort was doomed to become another in a long line of digital video standards that never caught on (LDI, OpenLDI, PanelLink, etc.). On closer examination, I think it might have a shot though.
The importance of DisplayPort is two-fold. First, unlike DVI, it's an open standard, thus requiring no license. Second, although DisplayPort's capabilities don't have much over DVI, the way it implements capabilities does. Namely, it requires less electronics and simpler/smaller cabling, potentially making it significantly cheaper to produce DisplayPort products.
How is it that after all these years, there are still people who don't realize that nothing that happens on the internet is real? That hot chick you've been chatting with? There's a 95% chance she is a dude and a 5% chance that she is fat, ugly and crazy. That dude who told you he would slit your whole family's throats and shit down their esophaguses because you like original Star Trek better than the Next Generation? He's 12 years old. Porn sites that say their girls are having sex for the first time? They're lying. That e-mail you got from a guy in Nigeria who wants to give you money? You're not going to get it.
Yes, but there are only so many initialisms available, they overlap regularly. My favorite one is POS, either "Point of Sale" or "Piece of Shit". I loved calling referring to the cash registers at my last job as POS systems because they were both.
Yeah, they sure didn't understand the 700,000 (!) customers who bought the phone on the first weekend.
Too bad that number's made up because Apple hasn't released how many phones they sold in the first weekend. AT&T, however, just recently said that only activated 146,000 iPhones during it's first two days on sale.
While we still don't know how many phones they sold in the first weekend, this is the first hard number we have to estimate it. It obviously doesn't take into account any people who had trouble activating their phones at first, nor anybody who bought the phone on Sunday July 1st, but it gives us an idea. Adding in those people, it's entirely possible that your estimate 700,000 is more than twice as many as were actually sold. At best, I doubt they sold even 400,000.
Several of my English teachers set quotas to drive the point home: one exclamation, one semicolon, one use of ellipses, one parenthetical or emdash phrase per essay, regardless of length.
That sounds asinine. Why is it always English teachers who think up these stupid rules. I can write five paragraph essays with more than five paragraphs, I can start sentences with a conjunction appropriately and I can certainly excercise restraint in using semicolons, parentheticals, etc. while still using them more than once in an essay.
Seriously, I love reading and writing, but nothing has done more damage to that love than English teachers.
No, no, the story that was posted earlier this week was about this study. This story is the study. Even though they have the exact same data, they're entirely different: This one has graphs!
For those unfamiliar with Frank W. Abagnale, the author of this book, he was the real-life basis for the movie Catch Me if You Can about his crime spree in the 1960s, during which he took on various fake personalities and passed over $2.5M in bad checks. So he definitely has some practical expertise about the criminal mind and identity theft.
That said, nowadays, identity theft online is a very large section of ID theft related crimes nowadays and I would question his expertise in this area since most of his crimes were committed in a time before the internet or even widespread inter-bank computer networks.
Okay, so now that the music industry has killed radio over the air they're trying to kill radio on the internet as well, that makes sense. To those of you who would say this is a bad thing, just remember, they can only shoot themselves in the foot so many times before they run out of feet.
since when has cheap cut glass been "diamond like" ?
Cubic Zirconia is much more than just cut glass, read up about it. You're right in saying that they're not diamonds, but they are indeed diamond-like, they're much harder than most other gems (though far off from diamond) and have a very similar physical appearance. It's one of the most diamond-like substances available along with moissanite (silicon carbide). As for cheap, cubic zirconia are certainly far far cheaper than diamonds, but not particularly cheap compared to a lot of raw materials.
This article comes from a site called iTWire which I had never heard of before yesterday when the article about Firefox's popularity in Europe was posted. Judging from these two articles, I think I would be plenty happy if articles from iTWire never made it to the front page of Slashdot again.
This article decries critics of GPLv3, dismissing their rants as FUD. The author, however, gives no examples of these critics and offers no evidence for why he considers them to be wrong, nor any ideas of why they would choose to spread their FUD. Besides the terrible writing, formatting and grammar of this article it is needlessly split into two pages, annoyingly prompting you to log in if you want to read the second page. Oddly enough though they will provide you with the full text of the article if you click on the links to print it or view it as a PDF (which, by the way, has even worse formatting than the web formatting).
The Firefox article, while an interesting topic, was really just a regurgitation of a study done by another site rewritten so that it was less informative and more difficult to read. Besides that, it included several obvious typos such as the following:
"Although clear market share gains for FF were reported in every single European territory, countries where IE still has not reached 20% market share include Britain, Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Ukraine, Norway and Denmark."
Really, there are countries where IE has not yet reached 20% market share? Are you sure you don't mean Firefox?
"Australasia, already a strong FF market..."
Ah yes, the beautiful country of Australasia, I hope I can visit it someday!
What a useless article, he dismisses people who criticize GPLv3 as people spreading FUD, but offers no rebuttal to their claims. I really have no strong feelings one way or the other about GPLv3, but if you want to convince your readers that the anti-GPLv3 people are wrong, you have to explain why you think that.
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The iPhone is...
- A phone
- A music player
- A very nice mobile web browser
- Expensive
- Shiny
The iPhone is not...This will never work because, as we all know, the earth is hollow.
How on earth is the parent poster defending censorship? Nothing was said about his opinion of this censorship, he was questioning the summary's implication that this connected with Jane Cherry (Karl Rove's "protoge").
LOL! IMHO the IETF WGs and the ISOC need to STFU and GTFO. The IETF is AOK without those SOBS. YMMV.
The technical advantages of DisplayPort are minimal. Dual-link DVI can already do most of the things that DisplayPort does, and it has the advantage of already having decent market penetration. At first glance, I thought DisplayPort was doomed to become another in a long line of digital video standards that never caught on (LDI, OpenLDI, PanelLink, etc.). On closer examination, I think it might have a shot though.
The importance of DisplayPort is two-fold. First, unlike DVI, it's an open standard, thus requiring no license. Second, although DisplayPort's capabilities don't have much over DVI, the way it implements capabilities does. Namely, it requires less electronics and simpler/smaller cabling, potentially making it significantly cheaper to produce DisplayPort products.
How is it that after all these years, there are still people who don't realize that nothing that happens on the internet is real? That hot chick you've been chatting with? There's a 95% chance she is a dude and a 5% chance that she is fat, ugly and crazy. That dude who told you he would slit your whole family's throats and shit down their esophaguses because you like original Star Trek better than the Next Generation? He's 12 years old. Porn sites that say their girls are having sex for the first time? They're lying. That e-mail you got from a guy in Nigeria who wants to give you money? You're not going to get it.
ad infinitum.
Yes, but there are only so many initialisms available, they overlap regularly. My favorite one is POS, either "Point of Sale" or "Piece of Shit". I loved calling referring to the cash registers at my last job as POS systems because they were both.
While we still don't know how many phones they sold in the first weekend, this is the first hard number we have to estimate it. It obviously doesn't take into account any people who had trouble activating their phones at first, nor anybody who bought the phone on Sunday July 1st, but it gives us an idea. Adding in those people, it's entirely possible that your estimate 700,000 is more than twice as many as were actually sold. At best, I doubt they sold even 400,000.
Seriously, I love reading and writing, but nothing has done more damage to that love than English teachers.
No, no, the story that was posted earlier this week was about this study. This story is the study. Even though they have the exact same data, they're entirely different: This one has graphs!
For those unfamiliar with Frank W. Abagnale, the author of this book, he was the real-life basis for the movie Catch Me if You Can about his crime spree in the 1960s, during which he took on various fake personalities and passed over $2.5M in bad checks. So he definitely has some practical expertise about the criminal mind and identity theft.
That said, nowadays, identity theft online is a very large section of ID theft related crimes nowadays and I would question his expertise in this area since most of his crimes were committed in a time before the internet or even widespread inter-bank computer networks.
Remember Christ? He's back! In robot form!
Okay, so now that the music industry has killed radio over the air they're trying to kill radio on the internet as well, that makes sense. To those of you who would say this is a bad thing, just remember, they can only shoot themselves in the foot so many times before they run out of feet.
This article decries critics of GPLv3, dismissing their rants as FUD. The author, however, gives no examples of these critics and offers no evidence for why he considers them to be wrong, nor any ideas of why they would choose to spread their FUD. Besides the terrible writing, formatting and grammar of this article it is needlessly split into two pages, annoyingly prompting you to log in if you want to read the second page. Oddly enough though they will provide you with the full text of the article if you click on the links to print it or view it as a PDF (which, by the way, has even worse formatting than the web formatting).
The Firefox article, while an interesting topic, was really just a regurgitation of a study done by another site rewritten so that it was less informative and more difficult to read. Besides that, it included several obvious typos such as the following:Really, there are countries where IE has not yet reached 20% market share? Are you sure you don't mean Firefox?Ah yes, the beautiful country of Australasia, I hope I can visit it someday!
What a useless article, he dismisses people who criticize GPLv3 as people spreading FUD, but offers no rebuttal to their claims. I really have no strong feelings one way or the other about GPLv3, but if you want to convince your readers that the anti-GPLv3 people are wrong, you have to explain why you think that.
Everything Michael Crichton writes is absolutely true. Don't believe me? Come over and I'll let you go for a ride on my pet dinosaurs.