This is silly. ADHD children also aren't motivated to do well on IQ tests. That's because motivation is a confounding variable that will mess up the test. Rather than say the concept of IQ is flawed, we should be saying that the measurements can be flawed.
I'm quite skeptical that Apple is actually collecting location data for itself, both with the iPhone and OS X. iPhone's recent locations file was just a cache and does not go to Apple, and iOS only offers LocationServices as an API for apps. For OS X, are you sure you didn't configure Apple to sync the system time with the network time server and autodetect your Time Zone?
It seems Android shares a similar problem, though the file containing the location data is "only accessible on devices that have been rooted and opened up to installation of unsigned apps."
It's the same with Apple, you either need to jailbreak to access the file (since regular apps can't access that space), or pore through your backup from iTunes.
I don't care about this, I don't give people access to my phone, and I'm sure AT&T already has the identical location data, since the file only showed very broad cell tower data, like the fact that I'm in the east side of a city but that's it. The government would only have to look at my credit card records to find out where I was.
Like it or not, the iPad is now considered the gold standard of tablets. Anyone competing will have to outdo the features or provide a unique feature Apple can't deliver.
If Motorola is going to market their Xoom, which costs more than an iPad, weighs more than an iPad, is bigger than an iPad, has less apps in its app marketplace than an iPad, and has shorter battery life than an iPad, then why shouldn't a reviewer say it's a bad tablet for your money?
Apple didn't actively disparage these things, some of them just were not ready for market or not ready for the 1.0 iPhone.
3G in 2007? AT&T didn't have the network ready, and Apple couldn't find a battery to accomodate it that would fit in the case. Enterprise? Apple had it ready by iPhone OS 2.0 etc.
I don’t understand why so many reviewers bend over backwards to grade these things on a curve. If the iPad 2 had the problems and deficiencies the Xoom and PlayBook have, these same reviewers would (rightly) trash it, and declare (again, rightly) that Apple had finally lost its Midas touch.
These aren’t “beta” tablets. They’re bad tablets. It’s that simple. It’s true that their hardware seems closer to iPad-caliber than their software, but improving software is the hardest part of making products like these. By the time RIM releases “a serious software update or three” the entire market will have changed. The truth is, Motorola, Samsung, and now RIM have released would-be iPad competitors that pale compared to the iPad. Just say it.
The mass market doesn’t buy, and doesn’t want to buy, products based on what they might become months from now if these companies somehow dramatically improve the software. They buy products for what they are today, out of the box. Motorola and RIM and Samsung are Apple’s industry peers. These are the big leagues, this is The Show. They’re charging customers real money to buy these things. They should be judged by the same standards. Judging these things on a curve is the flip side of my criticism of Walt Mossberg’s iPad 2 review:
Stating the plain truth, that the iPad 2 has no serious competition as a mainstream consumer device, doesn’t make you biased. It makes you accurate.
They don't NEED such a group, but the reason minorities form such groups is for several reasons. One is Networking, which will help you secure a good job, Another is to encourage more people in that minority group to enter the profession; e.g. The Society of Women Engineers.
I've seen this coming years ago. Some people only read websites that they agree with, but then fall into the echo chamber. People who read only DailyKos will only see a steady stream of left-wing, anti-corporate, anti-Republican ideas, while those who read WND will see nothing but increasing proof that Obama is the literal antichrist and trying to bankrupt the country. Both of these sides have small grains of truth to their arguments, but these sites will focus on it, ignore contradicting evidence, and create a self-reinforcing narrative. You see it also on TV with Fox News, whose narrative is "the liberals are at it again."
Either you force yourself to make friends outside of your comfort zone, or social networks start exposing you to random postings, or people actually go out and start reading other points of view.
It's far more than that, Apple is rumored to be developing a sort of cloud user-space, where you can login on anyone's Mac as a Guest and it will pull all your apps, documents, and preferences from the App Store and iDisk cloud. There's even talk of a Net-booting cloud.
I don't think google buying up the record labels and moving them to a DRM-free online business will actually make more money overall. EMI makes its money via sales of physical albums and online downloads via stores like iTunes and Amazon. If google can snatch up EMI, force them to change their business policies and somehow Google+EMI makes more revenue than before, then it will go forward with the shareholders. If Google buys up EMI and cripples their profits so google can make more profit in Google Music, then G.M. will have to make a lot more profit than Google+EMI otherwise the shareholders will put a stop to it. You can't just go buying up publicly-held companies and run them into the ground, the shareholders have voting power over it.
The music industry generated $27.5 billion in 2008. Do you think Google can top that if they destroyed them? If not, the companies' shareholders won't put up with it.
I like the idea, but corporations are driven by profit, not 'the right thing'.
Despite Google's do-gooder philosophy, the shareholders are not going to allow google to modify the record labels' policies. Do you think if Google suddenly owned a record company that company would cease all DRM? Not if the shareholders get wind of it, you're obligated to grow profits not shrink them.
Sounds similiar to the "breakthrough procedure" performed in the classic Flowers for Algernon, when they made the main character a genius for a short amount of time.
Depends on the system. Unless the devices are going to flag when the camera is pointed at ordinary things like mailboxes, they probably won't be able to tell a car bumper from a regular wall. Obscuring license plates could become a simple hack, the same way smiling in a mugshot ruined facial recognition apps.
This article is a lot of things, but Luddite is not one of them. Claiming google is too powerful, too intrusive, are not uncommon complaints. If I, as a Mac user announce my disgust of Microsoft, am I a luddite too?
Luddite is generally synonymous with technology-phobia and hatred of labor-saving devices. Does the author claim we shouldn't use search engines or get rid of smartphones? No. He's just saying Google is malignant and malicious, not opining on tech in general.
It's like when Bon Jovi said Steve Jobs killed the music experience. No, and that also wasn't luddite.
As I said in an earlier post, Aloha Airlines had 20 feet of walls and ceiling suddenly tear off the fuselage. The only death was a flight attendant who was in the aisle at the time, I'm sure the 700 mile an hour wind and immediate turbulence is what made her fall out, not some sudden pressure change of only 8.5psi. Mythbusters tested it, even detonating explosives on the window in the pressurized plane didn't knock Buster out of his seat.
Hollywood put this idea in everyone's minds that everyone gets sucked out into space, like Goldfinger, if you shoot out a window on a plane. Just doesn't happen that way.
That wasn't due to depressurization, did you all miss that Mythbusters episode when they shot a hole in the pressurized cabin and nothing scary happened? Aloha airlines was a special incident, the flight attendent was killed when 10 feet of walls and ceiling suddenly peeled off the plane, and the ensuing explosion probably threw her out of the fuselage from where she was standing in the aisle.
No No No, you're not sucked out of a plane. Sheesh, is Discovery trying to blatantly go for the lurid headline when their own links on the page to the Mythbusters test show nothing happens?
All those hollywood movies are peddling falsehood, and it looks like Discovery is doing the same for profit and pageviews. Sheesh.
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Studies show that sedentary activities for hours increases heart disease, even if you exercise during the week as well.
What would kill more people, violence stimulated by video games, or heart attacks and strokes at younger ages due to lack of exercise?
This is silly. ADHD children also aren't motivated to do well on IQ tests. That's because motivation is a confounding variable that will mess up the test. Rather than say the concept of IQ is flawed, we should be saying that the measurements can be flawed.
I'm quite skeptical that Apple is actually collecting location data for itself, both with the iPhone and OS X. iPhone's recent locations file was just a cache and does not go to Apple, and iOS only offers LocationServices as an API for apps. For OS X, are you sure you didn't configure Apple to sync the system time with the network time server and autodetect your Time Zone?
It seems Android shares a similar problem, though the file containing the location data is "only accessible on devices that have been rooted and opened up to installation of unsigned apps."
It's the same with Apple, you either need to jailbreak to access the file (since regular apps can't access that space), or pore through your backup from iTunes.
I don't care about this, I don't give people access to my phone, and I'm sure AT&T already has the identical location data, since the file only showed very broad cell tower data, like the fact that I'm in the east side of a city but that's it. The government would only have to look at my credit card records to find out where I was.
Like it or not, the iPad is now considered the gold standard of tablets. Anyone competing will have to outdo the features or provide a unique feature Apple can't deliver.
If Motorola is going to market their Xoom, which costs more than an iPad, weighs more than an iPad, is bigger than an iPad, has less apps in its app marketplace than an iPad, and has shorter battery life than an iPad, then why shouldn't a reviewer say it's a bad tablet for your money?
Apple didn't actively disparage these things, some of them just were not ready for market or not ready for the 1.0 iPhone.
3G in 2007? AT&T didn't have the network ready, and Apple couldn't find a battery to accomodate it that would fit in the case.
Enterprise? Apple had it ready by iPhone OS 2.0
etc.
As John Gruber, of Daring Fireball, said:
He's probably afraid of all the hate mail he's gonna get. "You're an Apple fanboy!"
They don't NEED such a group, but the reason minorities form such groups is for several reasons. One is Networking, which will help you secure a good job, Another is to encourage more people in that minority group to enter the profession; e.g. The Society of Women Engineers.
Why is it "caught" on video? Was it some elusive thing?
I've seen this coming years ago. Some people only read websites that they agree with, but then fall into the echo chamber. People who read only DailyKos will only see a steady stream of left-wing, anti-corporate, anti-Republican ideas, while those who read WND will see nothing but increasing proof that Obama is the literal antichrist and trying to bankrupt the country. Both of these sides have small grains of truth to their arguments, but these sites will focus on it, ignore contradicting evidence, and create a self-reinforcing narrative. You see it also on TV with Fox News, whose narrative is "the liberals are at it again."
Either you force yourself to make friends outside of your comfort zone, or social networks start exposing you to random postings, or people actually go out and start reading other points of view.
It's far more than that, Apple is rumored to be developing a sort of cloud user-space, where you can login on anyone's Mac as a Guest and it will pull all your apps, documents, and preferences from the App Store and iDisk cloud. There's even talk of a Net-booting cloud.
I don't think google buying up the record labels and moving them to a DRM-free online business will actually make more money overall. EMI makes its money via sales of physical albums and online downloads via stores like iTunes and Amazon. If google can snatch up EMI, force them to change their business policies and somehow Google+EMI makes more revenue than before, then it will go forward with the shareholders. If Google buys up EMI and cripples their profits so google can make more profit in Google Music, then G.M. will have to make a lot more profit than Google+EMI otherwise the shareholders will put a stop to it. You can't just go buying up publicly-held companies and run them into the ground, the shareholders have voting power over it.
Are there really that many people who delete their local file once it goes on YouTube?
The music industry generated $27.5 billion in 2008. Do you think Google can top that if they destroyed them? If not, the companies' shareholders won't put up with it.
I like the idea, but corporations are driven by profit, not 'the right thing'.
No, that's like saying Papparazzi have the same rights as Wikileaks.
Wikileaks publishes confidential information exposing government wrongdoing. What these UK tabloids did was spy on Jude Law's voicemails.
Despite Google's do-gooder philosophy, the shareholders are not going to allow google to modify the record labels' policies. Do you think if Google suddenly owned a record company that company would cease all DRM? Not if the shareholders get wind of it, you're obligated to grow profits not shrink them.
You mean IBM/Microsoft?
But do they have a sultry voice like the Aperture Science Turret?
Sounds similiar to the "breakthrough procedure" performed in the classic Flowers for Algernon, when they made the main character a genius for a short amount of time.
Depends on the system. Unless the devices are going to flag when the camera is pointed at ordinary things like mailboxes, they probably won't be able to tell a car bumper from a regular wall. Obscuring license plates could become a simple hack, the same way smiling in a mugshot ruined facial recognition apps.
This article is a lot of things, but Luddite is not one of them. Claiming google is too powerful, too intrusive, are not uncommon complaints. If I, as a Mac user announce my disgust of Microsoft, am I a luddite too?
Luddite is generally synonymous with technology-phobia and hatred of labor-saving devices. Does the author claim we shouldn't use search engines or get rid of smartphones? No. He's just saying Google is malignant and malicious, not opining on tech in general.
It's like when Bon Jovi said Steve Jobs killed the music experience. No, and that also wasn't luddite.
As I said in an earlier post, Aloha Airlines had 20 feet of walls and ceiling suddenly tear off the fuselage. The only death was a flight attendant who was in the aisle at the time, I'm sure the 700 mile an hour wind and immediate turbulence is what made her fall out, not some sudden pressure change of only 8.5psi. Mythbusters tested it, even detonating explosives on the window in the pressurized plane didn't knock Buster out of his seat.
Hollywood put this idea in everyone's minds that everyone gets sucked out into space, like Goldfinger, if you shoot out a window on a plane. Just doesn't happen that way.
That wasn't due to depressurization, did you all miss that Mythbusters episode when they shot a hole in the pressurized cabin and nothing scary happened? Aloha airlines was a special incident, the flight attendent was killed when 10 feet of walls and ceiling suddenly peeled off the plane, and the ensuing explosion probably threw her out of the fuselage from where she was standing in the aisle.
No No No, you're not sucked out of a plane. Sheesh, is Discovery trying to blatantly go for the lurid headline when their own links on the page to the Mythbusters test show nothing happens?
All those hollywood movies are peddling falsehood, and it looks like Discovery is doing the same for profit and pageviews. Sheesh.