Pretty much because the difference between the bad ones and the good ones is all in the display assembly - it makes up the bulk of the cost. A decent screen and touch interface etc is going to set you back - and then it becomes "an expensive tablet".
There's a reason that the iPad and other Android tablets of similar quality to it are as expensive as they are - if someone could make an equivalent tablet for a lot less (ie, down in the $200 range) they would have done it already. When you go cheap, you've got no choice but to compromise on the screen - the rest of the pieces aren't really adding all that much to the cost.
"Firewire" (an IEE standard, like many common interfaces), "Airport" (Apple's name for it's totally standard implementation of 802.11a/b/g/n), and "no USB" (err, on what? All of Apple's devices support USB....) as "weird Apple standards"....
I'm not really sure what you're driving at here, but the only way you could be more wrong is if you said Hydrogen was the least common element in the universe.
Anyway, ignoring all your totally ignorant "truthiness" about that, there's plenty of customisation and choice. I take it you've never actually *used* an Apple product before, to actually test this out for yourself? You're just repeating the talking points and wishing really hard that it's true.
If we're throwing around generalisations... have you ever met a Linux user who doesn't live in their mom's basement? I mean, all they do is troll Apple stories and crow about how everyone else are just "sheeple" because they don;t compile their own OS from scratch every weekend.
Right, and in normal situations you would say that. If you automatically jump to "this person is taking a clearly wrong position, he must be being paid by an evil corporation to promote it" then something is wrong.
Off the top of my head, assuming the junction is being monitored then the person running the light is going to get a ticket anyway (if they run the light after the computer has predicted so).
The side benefit of the prediction is that the system might hold the other light longer to prevent injuries to those people actually following the law. That the lawbreaker is also safer is just a side effect - they still get a ticket, but maybe they don't take out a minivan full of old people while doing it.
They have been trying, since long before the patent on Atorvastatin expired, but it's one of those double edged swords - it's such a good drug in the first place that all attempts to come up with the "next big thing" that replaces it have failed.
The iOS SDK is free with XCode - in fact, it makes up a substantial part of the download size, and Xcode is free itself. (The latest version is $5 due to SOX rules if you have 10.6, but is free with Lion. Older versions are also still free)
To deploy your code onto hardware and into the store you need to pay the $99 fee, but other than that you can mess about with it as much as you like.
Wait, you just said "2 grand is nothing for one person in a company" when talking about the cost of MS tools, then you balk at $99 for iOS development?
RIAA insistence on DRM is what made the iTunes Store so big
are his exact words.
My point is that isn't the case - if anything the presence of DRM on the store initially only hampered sales, since it meant you *had* to use an iPod, or burn your tracks to CD first.
The alternative was no one would be able to - part of the licensing deal with the music industry was that breaks in the FairPly DRM had to be closed up within a certain timeframe or they could withdraw their content from the store. Spreading it out across multiple vendors just makes fixing that sort of thing very difficult (look at the CSS system on DVDs).
Ultimately Apple didn;t want the DRM at all, and licensing it out would have just prolonged its life. It wasn't long before DRM-free stores started springing up when Apple showed people that online music sales actually worked - up to that point everyone was pointing and laughing at their attempt since it was "obvious" that people would simply use file sharing sites since those were free, instead of paying money.
A big factor in Apple's dominance with iTunes Music Store was that they did it first, with the biggest collection of music (I'm sure there were other, earlier stores offering limited selections), offering something cheap and convenient. If anything, having the DRM on the music was a hindrance more than anything, since it made it more difficult for people with non-iPods to buy music from them (you had to burn to CD first). With the DRM gone now, the iTunes store supports anything that can play AAC files.
We have an IR spectrometer called "old faithful" that is hooked up to a PC running Win 95. It can't print spectra to the network laser, so it has an ancient inkjet connected to it. Still, it does the job and it very rarely breaks down - unlike the Tensor 27's which always seem to be moaning about lamp failures and so on.
Similarly, the UV/vis units are running a very old version of the software that was clearly designed in the 3.1/95 era - it is hardcoded to 8+3 filenames and various other oddities. Still works though.
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Pretty much because the difference between the bad ones and the good ones is all in the display assembly - it makes up the bulk of the cost. A decent screen and touch interface etc is going to set you back - and then it becomes "an expensive tablet".
There's a reason that the iPad and other Android tablets of similar quality to it are as expensive as they are - if someone could make an equivalent tablet for a lot less (ie, down in the $200 range) they would have done it already. When you go cheap, you've got no choice but to compromise on the screen - the rest of the pieces aren't really adding all that much to the cost.
"Firewire" (an IEE standard, like many common interfaces), "Airport" (Apple's name for it's totally standard implementation of 802.11a/b/g/n), and "no USB" (err, on what? All of Apple's devices support USB....) as "weird Apple standards"....
I'm not really sure what you're driving at here, but the only way you could be more wrong is if you said Hydrogen was the least common element in the universe.
Anyway, ignoring all your totally ignorant "truthiness" about that, there's plenty of customisation and choice. I take it you've never actually *used* an Apple product before, to actually test this out for yourself? You're just repeating the talking points and wishing really hard that it's true.
If we're throwing around generalisations... have you ever met a Linux user who doesn't live in their mom's basement? I mean, all they do is troll Apple stories and crow about how everyone else are just "sheeple" because they don;t compile their own OS from scratch every weekend.
Right, and in normal situations you would say that. If you automatically jump to "this person is taking a clearly wrong position, he must be being paid by an evil corporation to promote it" then something is wrong.
The "anyone who has an opinion different to mine is obviously a shill" thing on slashdot is getting tiresome.
It *is* possible for people to like things that the /, groupmind dislikes without them being paid to do so.
Off the top of my head, assuming the junction is being monitored then the person running the light is going to get a ticket anyway (if they run the light after the computer has predicted so).
The side benefit of the prediction is that the system might hold the other light longer to prevent injuries to those people actually following the law. That the lawbreaker is also safer is just a side effect - they still get a ticket, but maybe they don't take out a minivan full of old people while doing it.
They wanted to put you on, but they didn't have any way to contact you.
"Daily Mail"
That tells you all you need to know about the accuracy of that story.
They have been trying, since long before the patent on Atorvastatin expired, but it's one of those double edged swords - it's such a good drug in the first place that all attempts to come up with the "next big thing" that replaces it have failed.
I find it amusing that you seem to seriously think the "slashdot crowd" is pro-Apple.
Everything that you said, except opposite.
The iOS SDK is free with XCode - in fact, it makes up a substantial part of the download size, and Xcode is free itself. (The latest version is $5 due to SOX rules if you have 10.6, but is free with Lion. Older versions are also still free)
To deploy your code onto hardware and into the store you need to pay the $99 fee, but other than that you can mess about with it as much as you like.
Wait, you just said "2 grand is nothing for one person in a company" when talking about the cost of MS tools, then you balk at $99 for iOS development?
What's that word I'm looking for? Begins with H?
Hippocampus? No.
Hypnotist? No.
Hypocrite! That's it!
You forgot to log in.
RIAA insistence on DRM is what made the iTunes Store so big
are his exact words.
My point is that isn't the case - if anything the presence of DRM on the store initially only hampered sales, since it meant you *had* to use an iPod, or burn your tracks to CD first.
The alternative was no one would be able to - part of the licensing deal with the music industry was that breaks in the FairPly DRM had to be closed up within a certain timeframe or they could withdraw their content from the store. Spreading it out across multiple vendors just makes fixing that sort of thing very difficult (look at the CSS system on DVDs).
Ultimately Apple didn;t want the DRM at all, and licensing it out would have just prolonged its life. It wasn't long before DRM-free stores started springing up when Apple showed people that online music sales actually worked - up to that point everyone was pointing and laughing at their attempt since it was "obvious" that people would simply use file sharing sites since those were free, instead of paying money.
A big factor in Apple's dominance with iTunes Music Store was that they did it first, with the biggest collection of music (I'm sure there were other, earlier stores offering limited selections), offering something cheap and convenient. If anything, having the DRM on the music was a hindrance more than anything, since it made it more difficult for people with non-iPods to buy music from them (you had to burn to CD first). With the DRM gone now, the iTunes store supports anything that can play AAC files.
What a funny interpretation of history you have there, that bears absolutely no resemblance to reality at all.
DRM on iTunes (at launch and for a time afterwards) being the reason it grew so big? Nonsense.
Nope, no "whooosh", that really wasn't a jokey, lighthearted reply.
Ah, trying to backtrack (or a different AC).
Starting off with "Ah, the Apple bitch" is really not in the spirit of the joke.
So, no, not "that stupid", but just calling someone on no sense of humour. What's your excuse?
Oh relax, cupcake it's a JOKE.
Jesus. No one has a sense of humour anymore.
Samsung are apparently hosing down crates of Galaxy II S 's with gasoline trying to copy the feature as we speak.
Yes, my sister got hers a couple of days ago. They are getting round to it, it's just taking time. This is in the UK, fwiw.
"Which door is the entry to the control room?"
"Both, but you have to go through them simultaneously."
As you stand there looking confused, the Quantum Mechanic turns and gives you a little wave....
Ah, so now it's the quantity = better side of the coin, now that we're not comparing Windows to Linux installs ;)
I kid, I kid.
Linux is a computer, right? ;)
You might want to check your terminology before dispensing statistics.
Yes, but at least we were informed of a new release of Linux Mint!
Oh, and that Firefox added another integer to their hourly release cycle!
There are going to be lots of stories that don't interest people on an news aggregation and discussion site.
We have an IR spectrometer called "old faithful" that is hooked up to a PC running Win 95. It can't print spectra to the network laser, so it has an ancient inkjet connected to it. Still, it does the job and it very rarely breaks down - unlike the Tensor 27's which always seem to be moaning about lamp failures and so on.
Similarly, the UV/vis units are running a very old version of the software that was clearly designed in the 3.1/95 era - it is hardcoded to 8+3 filenames and various other oddities. Still works though.