It just so happens that your object here is only MOSTLY opaque. There's a big difference between mostly opaque and all opaque. Mostly opaque is slightly transparent. With all opaque, well, with all opaque there's usually only one thing you can do.
Ah, you're back to complaining about having to jailbreak. I thought when you said iOS wasn't robust enough you actually had something interesting to say about the OS, not about Apple's policies.
The problem with relays is that it's pretty hard to put one between here and a Lagrange point that's going to stay put for any length of time.
They might have suggested IR because it disperses a lot less than microwave.
The whole thing sounds like a fantastic way to power space colonies on the moon, Mars and at the Lagrange points, but not such a great way of sending power to Earth.
The problem is not safety protocols. Besides the issue of actually getting the power down to the ground, as they point out in the article, a laser beam sent a million km is going to diverge a non-trivial amount (and the lower the frequency it is, the worse the divergence). Your fancy power station isn't any good if you need something the size of a continent to collect the power on the receiving end.
That guy is complaining about the lack of a non-jailbreak common area, and non-jailbreak accessible file manager. iOS supports these things just fine. You can jailbreak your own iOS device and find out, or you can read one of the zillions of posts about people sshing to their iOS device.
The command line is fully accessible (once you jailbreak) from the device itself using MobileTerminal. Unfortunately that project hasn't been updated for the iPad yet, so in that case you need to use an SSH app to SSH to localhost. Works great.
If by user-level file manager you mean a pretty GUI, you can use something like iFile or Mobile Finder. Note that Linux doesn't have a pretty "built in" GUI file management system either - you have to install X and a window manager for that.
I think you're kidding yourself. Apple doesn't want to have to deal with large numbers jailbreakers. Their actions aren't consistent with a company that actually cares whether a few people jailbreak their devices or not. I have personally returned a jailbroken and non-functional iPod touch for a replacement. If Apple really wanted to discourage jailbreakers they wouldn't replace devices that were clearly jailbroken.
"Second, if it doesn't exist in the UI, for all intents and purposes, it doesn't exist. The UI controls what average users can do."
Yes, we're back to you wanting a pretty GUI. That's fine, but it's not a comment on the "robustness" of the operating system. Linux is a good, robust operating system and doesn't have a pretty GUI, although you can add one if you want.
No, any geosynchronous orbit will spent all or most of it's time within the magnetosphere. You have to put this thing elsewhere, probably at a Lagrange point. Beaming power from a Lagrange point is not a trivial problem (it's never actually been tried from geosynchronous orbit either).
If their government has chosen not to offer fire protection, and you have to go to contract someone else to get it, then their government isn't in charge of fire protection, is it?
My government doesn't provide hot lunches. Are they still in charge of hot lunches?
1) iOS has a file manager. Complete with rm, cp, mv etc.
2) iOS can run whatever you want. It just has to be compiled for ARM. If you want a GUI, it has to use the included GUI toolkit, or OpenGL.
3) Has nothing to do with the OS.
4) Sure you can. ps is there, as is top, etc.
Your problem is that Apple doesn't want you to (trivially) access any of these things. That doesn't mean that iOS doesn't have them. They're easily available if you jailbreak. And you're going to have to do more than jailbreak to run Chrome.
It was a neighbouring city government that had agreed to provide fire services on an individual basis to people in a county that didn't want to either set up it's own fire department or be annexed by the city.
In this case the city government was just like a private contractor.
They should set things up so that everyone pays, or they get a fine or go to jail. To make that work I guess you'd have to have the government in charge of fire protection, but then they could make sure everyone got it. Then there wouldn't be issues like this.
Which is basically what Apple does. The ONE incident where jailbroken phones were bricked involved not just a jailbreak but some extra "weird-ass system level shit" (as the GP put it), and Apple said ahead of time that the update might brick some jailbroken phones. If you a) updated and b) didn't bother to restore your phone to factory settings before you did, you kind of deserved it.
Oh, and by "brick" they meant "temporarily disable until you went into a store and we fixed it for you for free."
The article gives a 10 m x 10 m sail (1000 homes) as an example, and then goes off the deep end. It SOUNDS like it might be practical if you could figure out the power beaming problem, but in order to arrive at that conclusion you have to do your own math.
Look at it from this point of view - the age of consent in many places is under 18. A lot of people think that's perfectly reasonable, particularly since a lot of people have sex for the first time when they're under 18 anyway.
On the other hand, it's not uncommon for the minimum age to enter into a contract to be 18. Now, the original purpose of child porn laws is to stop production - not to go after kids who sext each other.
While having sex and someone (such as the person you had sex with) having pictures of it might seem like pretty much the same thing, having sex and agreeing to have pictures and videos produced, published and distributed don't seem nearly as similar.
Well mine does. Everyone else I know just uses whatever they got free with their DSL/Cable subscription. They get a new one every year or so when they sign a new contract or when the old one breaks.
I don't think even I have a five year old router. I don't think the transition costs are anywhere near as much as you imply, or that there's any way it would take as long as you think.
"These are all things that are not possible on the iPad (Well, some are to a degree, but I've found them highly deficient."
Try iAnnotate PDF for all your marking up needs. It works very well. GoodReader has recently implemented some annotation capabilities as well, although they're not as polished as iAnnotate.
I'm a post doc and that one app has made the iPad a pretty key part of my work. I was actually writing my own before I found it.
Actually, Apple made a tablet OS run on a cell phone. So really, the smart phone as Apple sees it is a little tablet that can make phone calls.
Makes more sense that way, hey?
"Clearly Apple won but it's not as if one direction is obviously superior to the other from an objective viewpoint."
Well, Apple's approach is so far one of the most successful products ever manufactured, and the other directions that have been taken have resulted mostly in flops and occasionally in a marginal product. It seems Apple's direction is obviously superior to at least the others that people have taken so far.
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It just so happens that your object here is only MOSTLY opaque. There's a big difference between mostly opaque and all opaque. Mostly opaque is slightly transparent. With all opaque, well, with all opaque there's usually only one thing you can do.
Ah, you're back to complaining about having to jailbreak. I thought when you said iOS wasn't robust enough you actually had something interesting to say about the OS, not about Apple's policies.
My mistake.
What are you going to do when your phone breaks?
They've done it before. They'll do it again. Watch.
The problem with relays is that it's pretty hard to put one between here and a Lagrange point that's going to stay put for any length of time.
They might have suggested IR because it disperses a lot less than microwave.
The whole thing sounds like a fantastic way to power space colonies on the moon, Mars and at the Lagrange points, but not such a great way of sending power to Earth.
The problem is not safety protocols. Besides the issue of actually getting the power down to the ground, as they point out in the article, a laser beam sent a million km is going to diverge a non-trivial amount (and the lower the frequency it is, the worse the divergence). Your fancy power station isn't any good if you need something the size of a continent to collect the power on the receiving end.
That guy is complaining about the lack of a non-jailbreak common area, and non-jailbreak accessible file manager. iOS supports these things just fine. You can jailbreak your own iOS device and find out, or you can read one of the zillions of posts about people sshing to their iOS device.
The command line is fully accessible (once you jailbreak) from the device itself using MobileTerminal. Unfortunately that project hasn't been updated for the iPad yet, so in that case you need to use an SSH app to SSH to localhost. Works great.
If by user-level file manager you mean a pretty GUI, you can use something like iFile or Mobile Finder. Note that Linux doesn't have a pretty "built in" GUI file management system either - you have to install X and a window manager for that.
I think you're kidding yourself. Apple doesn't want to have to deal with large numbers jailbreakers. Their actions aren't consistent with a company that actually cares whether a few people jailbreak their devices or not. I have personally returned a jailbroken and non-functional iPod touch for a replacement. If Apple really wanted to discourage jailbreakers they wouldn't replace devices that were clearly jailbroken.
"Second, if it doesn't exist in the UI, for all intents and purposes, it doesn't exist. The UI controls what average users can do."
Yes, we're back to you wanting a pretty GUI. That's fine, but it's not a comment on the "robustness" of the operating system. Linux is a good, robust operating system and doesn't have a pretty GUI, although you can add one if you want.
No, any geosynchronous orbit will spent all or most of it's time within the magnetosphere. You have to put this thing elsewhere, probably at a Lagrange point. Beaming power from a Lagrange point is not a trivial problem (it's never actually been tried from geosynchronous orbit either).
If their government has chosen not to offer fire protection, and you have to go to contract someone else to get it, then their government isn't in charge of fire protection, is it?
My government doesn't provide hot lunches. Are they still in charge of hot lunches?
1) iOS has a file manager. Complete with rm, cp, mv etc.
2) iOS can run whatever you want. It just has to be compiled for ARM. If you want a GUI, it has to use the included GUI toolkit, or OpenGL.
3) Has nothing to do with the OS.
4) Sure you can. ps is there, as is top, etc.
Your problem is that Apple doesn't want you to (trivially) access any of these things. That doesn't mean that iOS doesn't have them. They're easily available if you jailbreak. And you're going to have to do more than jailbreak to run Chrome.
It was a neighbouring city government that had agreed to provide fire services on an individual basis to people in a county that didn't want to either set up it's own fire department or be annexed by the city.
In this case the city government was just like a private contractor.
They should set things up so that everyone pays, or they get a fine or go to jail. To make that work I guess you'd have to have the government in charge of fire protection, but then they could make sure everyone got it. Then there wouldn't be issues like this.
What's non-robust about iOS? It's pretty much a full UNIX underneath. Is it a prettier window manager you want?
I saw the video a week or so ago. Chrome on the iPad looks like a REALLY slow web browser.
Not sure what's so cutting edge about that.
Which is basically what Apple does. The ONE incident where jailbroken phones were bricked involved not just a jailbreak but some extra "weird-ass system level shit" (as the GP put it), and Apple said ahead of time that the update might brick some jailbroken phones. If you a) updated and b) didn't bother to restore your phone to factory settings before you did, you kind of deserved it.
Oh, and by "brick" they meant "temporarily disable until you went into a store and we fixed it for you for free."
I'm not so sure it would be a good idea to have hundreds of these things and their attached gigawatt lasers, all aimed at Earth.
One big international one might be a good idea. In order to "just redirect the beam for a few seconds" you have to convince everyone... good luck.
The article gives a 10 m x 10 m sail (1000 homes) as an example, and then goes off the deep end. It SOUNDS like it might be practical if you could figure out the power beaming problem, but in order to arrive at that conclusion you have to do your own math.
Look at it from this point of view - the age of consent in many places is under 18. A lot of people think that's perfectly reasonable, particularly since a lot of people have sex for the first time when they're under 18 anyway.
On the other hand, it's not uncommon for the minimum age to enter into a contract to be 18. Now, the original purpose of child porn laws is to stop production - not to go after kids who sext each other.
While having sex and someone (such as the person you had sex with) having pictures of it might seem like pretty much the same thing, having sex and agreeing to have pictures and videos produced, published and distributed don't seem nearly as similar.
"how it would be insane for child porn to include those who can have sex legally. "
Why is it insane to have separate ages of consent for having sex and publishing pictures and video of it?
How is it any less insane to judge someone able to vote and volunteer for military service but not drink?
I'm intrigued and wish to subscribe to your web comic.
Actually, I only got half way through the first panel.
You mean those Puritans who bailed on England because of all the impure, happy go lucky tolerance that was going on?
Well mine does. Everyone else I know just uses whatever they got free with their DSL/Cable subscription. They get a new one every year or so when they sign a new contract or when the old one breaks.
I don't think even I have a five year old router. I don't think the transition costs are anywhere near as much as you imply, or that there's any way it would take as long as you think.
"These are all things that are not possible on the iPad (Well, some are to a degree, but I've found them highly deficient."
Try iAnnotate PDF for all your marking up needs. It works very well. GoodReader has recently implemented some annotation capabilities as well, although they're not as polished as iAnnotate.
I'm a post doc and that one app has made the iPad a pretty key part of my work. I was actually writing my own before I found it.
XCode more than works well with open source software, it's a nice GUI on top of gcc and llvm.
You don't have to imagine. Grab a free VNC app for an iPad and try it out for yourself. It's horrible. OS X on a tablet is pretty painful too.
Actually, Apple made a tablet OS run on a cell phone. So really, the smart phone as Apple sees it is a little tablet that can make phone calls.
Makes more sense that way, hey?
"Clearly Apple won but it's not as if one direction is obviously superior to the other from an objective viewpoint."
Well, Apple's approach is so far one of the most successful products ever manufactured, and the other directions that have been taken have resulted mostly in flops and occasionally in a marginal product. It seems Apple's direction is obviously superior to at least the others that people have taken so far.