It's really, really bad. I have one. I use it to watch PBS -- the PBS app isn't very good. Crashes now and then, video flips back in time and then catches up confusingly, doesn't provide good search tools. But it's portable, and I can use it in the can.
I keep trying to do other stuff with the iPad. Everything I try which claims to make the thing do something well turns out to make it do a crappy job of that task.
It's all really bad. Badly designed. Impossible to copy and paste. Impossible to select text quickly. Pointing at things doesn't work all that well (your finger is big). So you can get a stylus and a bluetooth keyboard, but you're still left with a crappy MODEL. It's not a good system for actually doing anything.
People keep telling me they love the iPad. That it works for this or that. But I try what they recommend and what the app always does is make the iPad less horrible. But not less horrible enough.
The iPad is light. It's really portable. But it needs a complete overhaul to do anything well.
Android ain't fantastic either, but it's realy not as bad as the iPad.
DHCP questions are a great way to screen. Huge numbers of applicants will ascribe magic abilities to DHCP and leave massive "here a miracle occurs" balloons in their descriptions of how it works.
It's really not that hard, but somehow manages to frighten unskilled people.
If you recall, they were trying to sell about 10,000 to early adopters, to get software written and bugs knocked out. The general public went crazy over the idea and the price, and we basically forced them to change Beta into Release.
We just recently saw a study which shows that the TSA isn't an issue -- Americans don't hate them that much.
But the study didn't control for whether you'd flown or not in the past few years.
Obviously, I'd like to see the study redone with whether you've flown. I suspect people who've flown HATE the TSA and people who haven't think they're grand.
But I'd also like another variable added. People who vote.
I suspect the people who don't hate the TSA are a complacent bunch who don't read, don't think, and don't vote. I further suspect people who don't fly don't vote. But it could go the other way. I want to see those numbers. The TSA may be a much, MUCH bigger issue than the administration thinks it is, or they may be completely right -- ignore it, because it's not something the real people who vote crare about.
In 15 years, more than half will be electric. In 20, virtually all cars will be. Musk is predicting a smooth growth curve for something which will have an outrageous knee.
Come back to this post in 15 years. Either I'll be right, or Musk and I will both be outrageously wrong.
This thing REALLY needs a tally light (an led showing when it's recording) so we'll know when we're being photographed or video recorded.
In a world with of facial rec software, a camera like this WITHOUT a tally light is very valuable. Just record everything, do facial rec vs. people with facbook accounts, and dump the video, keep a signed still every few seconds. Now you can sell movement info with gps locations to facebook or anyone else. A fraction of people with Glass do this, and you can keep a database and sell location info and a photo (and proximity to other people) at any instant (or a short duration) for... $100? (Maybe the service doing the facial rec and agregating the results keeps 70% of that. You get $30.) In a crowded city, you could make some serious change by just farming people's identities and locations complete with image for proof, signed with a private key known only to the recorder, who could be called upon to testify at te divorce trial that the images were his/hers.
At some point enough people would be doing it that it wouldn't be very profitable, but we could also assume that everyone would know where we were at all times.
And that's without big brother watching (Google capturing this themselves), because we can't trust our peers.
If these things don't have a tally light, I'm buying a gorilla mask as soon as glass become popular. Hmm. No, I guess we'd all have to start buying the SAME mask...
This is actually a brilliant statement. Samsung should drag Ohio Art into the fray. They could REALLY use the free publicity. And yes, Apple CLEARLY is infringing on the etch-a-sketch design, at least int he original patent.
The corners mean profit goes to American rich people instead of Korean rich people. So Samsung is definitely in the wrong here. And they're not contributing enough money to American politicians. It's trickle-down theory, finally actually working.
No, you need the non-treated bandaids as a control. Unless you can show that the same techniques were already used in almost identical conditions with untreated bandaids, in which case we can compare against that. It's not high-quality, but it's something. And unless the patients were told in this other study from which we're borrowing the control, that the bandaids have a radioactive pellet on them, it's not really testing all your conditions.
You don't know, in this case, whether it's the bandaid, the radioactive agent, or the placibo effect.
Having thousands or even millions of people later treated using a technique you haven't studied properly is what's really unconscionable, and this happens in medicine all the time.
Ha Ha! This is double-whammy funny! Because 'let me google that for you' doesn't come up with the right answer. Which mean's this joker couldn't be bothered to google it before pasting a link.
OK, yes, this makes a gasoline engine more efficient by emulating a diesel. Why not just go with diesel, then?
Is there more energy density in gasoline? Is it cheaper to produce? Or is this just about gasoline being more widely available and consumers being more comfortable with it?
The problem with watches, really, is that they are so inaccurate. Virtually all watches are simply wrong all the time.
The problem is the technology. We over-engineer chronometers and this gets us ever-closer to the right time, but never really gives us a completely accurate timepiece.
This watch uses completely different technology to improve its accuracy to better than any other watch (really, it's phenomenal), and at the same time makes it able to withstand magnetic fields and shock:
I think it's worse than that. I think the dems didn't vote for it because they knew there was enough votes in the Republican camp to carry it. If there weren't, then they would have been required to vote for it.
You are wrong on this. See LBJ. Presidents do have power, when they know how to wield it. This one (Obama) has shown he either has no clue how to do it, or knows that not wielding power benefits his real friends more than wielding it.
I've posted this before inthis same thread, but...
Rocky Anderson aims for real campaign finance reform, real healthcare reform, and prosecuting corporate and governmental law-breakers. Which is why you haven't seen him on any major news outlet in the past few months other than Al Jazeera. It's not just politicians who like the status quo. Reduce the amount corporations can spend on politicians and you reduce the amount politicians can spend on advertising.
There is not a vast conspiracy in as much as they don't NEED to conspire. They all have settled into a niche they like in the current ecosystem. Everyone wants to keep everything the same, and so they all contribute to it. Large corporations, politicians, the parties and the media. They all want the same thing: to keep things basically the same, which incrementally increasing spending and reducing taxes. They don't care that it's CLEARLY a train wreck in progress.
Each person in power does his or her bit to keep things as they are. They stir the pot, but only enough to keep people upset, not to cause change. Abolition will never be legal or illegal. Mexicans immigrants will never be embraced or sent packing. Campaign finance reform will never get completely killed or actually happen.
The system works. And so we are all doomed unless a force which has a different priority gets some leverage, and forces the above players to look for a new niche.
"But if you're a democrat, a republican in office is likely a legitimately worse outcome for you." As of this year, I'm just not so sure of this anymore. I hate everything that the Republicans stand for (hyperbole, but not really by that much, if you look at what they really stand for, as opposed to the way they couch it) but I'm hard pressed to see how Romney could be any more Republican than Obama is.
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The iPad is terrible.
It's really, really bad. I have one. I use it to watch PBS -- the PBS app isn't very good. Crashes now and then, video flips back in time and then catches up confusingly, doesn't provide good search tools. But it's portable, and I can use it in the can.
I keep trying to do other stuff with the iPad. Everything I try which claims to make the thing do something well turns out to make it do a crappy job of that task.
Art. SSH. Cheap games. Writing. Note management. Fail, fail, fail, fail, fail.
It's all really bad. Badly designed. Impossible to copy and paste. Impossible to select text quickly. Pointing at things doesn't work all that well (your finger is big). So you can get a stylus and a bluetooth keyboard, but you're still left with a crappy MODEL. It's not a good system for actually doing anything.
People keep telling me they love the iPad. That it works for this or that. But I try what they recommend and what the app always does is make the iPad less horrible. But not less horrible enough.
The iPad is light. It's really portable. But it needs a complete overhaul to do anything well.
Android ain't fantastic either, but it's realy not as bad as the iPad.
DHCP questions are a great way to screen. Huge numbers of applicants will ascribe magic abilities to DHCP and leave massive "here a miracle occurs" balloons in their descriptions of how it works.
It's really not that hard, but somehow manages to frighten unskilled people.
If you recall, they were trying to sell about 10,000 to early adopters, to get software written and bugs knocked out. The general public went crazy over the idea and the price, and we basically forced them to change Beta into Release.
Did they test enough? Yeah -- we're the testers.
That was the advertised PLAN.
The VIA board, at $179, is simply not in the same class. It's not an alternative.
It's for completely different projects.
We just recently saw a study which shows that the TSA isn't an issue -- Americans don't hate them that much.
But the study didn't control for whether you'd flown or not in the past few years.
Obviously, I'd like to see the study redone with whether you've flown. I suspect people who've flown HATE the TSA and people who haven't think they're grand.
But I'd also like another variable added. People who vote.
I suspect the people who don't hate the TSA are a complacent bunch who don't read, don't think, and don't vote. I further suspect people who don't fly don't vote. But it could go the other way. I want to see those numbers. The TSA may be a much, MUCH bigger issue than the administration thinks it is, or they may be completely right -- ignore it, because it's not something the real people who vote crare about.
In 15 years, more than half will be electric. In 20, virtually all cars will be. Musk is predicting a smooth growth curve for something which will have an outrageous knee.
Come back to this post in 15 years. Either I'll be right, or Musk and I will both be outrageously wrong.
Looks like it's a pull. You can stop it by turning off auto-update.
This thing REALLY needs a tally light (an led showing when it's recording) so we'll know when we're being photographed or video recorded.
In a world with of facial rec software, a camera like this WITHOUT a tally light is very valuable. Just record everything, do facial rec vs. people with facbook accounts, and dump the video, keep a signed still every few seconds. Now you can sell movement info with gps locations to facebook or anyone else. A fraction of people with Glass do this, and you can keep a database and sell location info and a photo (and proximity to other people) at any instant (or a short duration) for ... $100? (Maybe the service doing the facial rec and agregating the results keeps 70% of that. You get $30.) In a crowded city, you could make some serious change by just farming people's identities and locations complete with image for proof, signed with a private key known only to the recorder, who could be called upon to testify at te divorce trial that the images were his/hers.
At some point enough people would be doing it that it wouldn't be very profitable, but we could also assume that everyone would know where we were at all times.
And that's without big brother watching (Google capturing this themselves), because we can't trust our peers.
If these things don't have a tally light, I'm buying a gorilla mask as soon as glass become popular. Hmm. No, I guess we'd all have to start buying the SAME mask...
Has anyone found a list of which routers are "supported" by this? I'd like to know if I have to take mine off-line right now.
Do I have a few days to go to openWRT, or do I have to do it today?
This is actually a brilliant statement. Samsung should drag Ohio Art into the fray. They could REALLY use the free publicity. And yes, Apple CLEARLY is infringing on the etch-a-sketch design, at least int he original patent.
The corners mean profit goes to American rich people instead of Korean rich people. So Samsung is definitely in the wrong here. And they're not contributing enough money to American politicians. It's trickle-down theory, finally actually working.
Either way we're screwed. It's Kang vs. Kodos.
This year I'm voting for a third party. ("Go ahead, throw your vote away! HAHAHAHAHAHAH!")
We're not using less gas. We have more cars.
No, you need the non-treated bandaids as a control. Unless you can show that the same techniques were already used in almost identical conditions with untreated bandaids, in which case we can compare against that. It's not high-quality, but it's something. And unless the patients were told in this other study from which we're borrowing the control, that the bandaids have a radioactive pellet on them, it's not really testing all your conditions.
You don't know, in this case, whether it's the bandaid, the radioactive agent, or the placibo effect.
Having thousands or even millions of people later treated using a technique you haven't studied properly is what's really unconscionable, and this happens in medicine all the time.
...there was no control group.
Ha Ha! This is double-whammy funny! Because 'let me google that for you' doesn't come up with the right answer. Which mean's this joker couldn't be bothered to google it before pasting a link.
A little spongy, but very good finger feel. You might prefer the NEC version, as the keycaps are more rounded. They've both made by Kyocera.
OK, yes, this makes a gasoline engine more efficient by emulating a diesel. Why not just go with diesel, then?
Is there more energy density in gasoline? Is it cheaper to produce? Or is this just about gasoline being more widely available and consumers being more comfortable with it?
I'm asking. Someone here knows, I bet.
The problem with watches, really, is that they are so inaccurate. Virtually all watches are simply wrong all the time.
The problem is the technology. We over-engineer chronometers and this gets us ever-closer to the right time, but never really gives us a completely accurate timepiece.
This watch uses completely different technology to improve its accuracy to better than any other watch (really, it's phenomenal), and at the same time makes it able to withstand magnetic fields and shock:
Indestructable Watch
There are MANY candidates better than Ron Paul.
I'm voting for Rocky Anderson.
I think it's worse than that. I think the dems didn't vote for it because they knew there was enough votes in the Republican camp to carry it. If there weren't, then they would have been required to vote for it.
They all have the same handlers, after all.
"Well, I believe I'll vote for a third party candidate!"
(In this case Rocky Anderson, but go ahead and hit me with the next line.)
You are wrong on this. See LBJ. Presidents do have power, when they know how to wield it. This one (Obama) has shown he either has no clue how to do it, or knows that not wielding power benefits his real friends more than wielding it.
I've posted this before inthis same thread, but...
Rocky Anderson aims for real campaign finance reform, real healthcare reform, and prosecuting corporate and governmental law-breakers. Which is why you haven't seen him on any major news outlet in the past few months other than Al Jazeera. It's not just politicians who like the status quo. Reduce the amount corporations can spend on politicians and you reduce the amount politicians can spend on advertising.
There is not a vast conspiracy in as much as they don't NEED to conspire. They all have settled into a niche they like in the current ecosystem. Everyone wants to keep everything the same, and so they all contribute to it. Large corporations, politicians, the parties and the media. They all want the same thing: to keep things basically the same, which incrementally increasing spending and reducing taxes. They don't care that it's CLEARLY a train wreck in progress.
Each person in power does his or her bit to keep things as they are. They stir the pot, but only enough to keep people upset, not to cause change. Abolition will never be legal or illegal. Mexicans immigrants will never be embraced or sent packing. Campaign finance reform will never get completely killed or actually happen.
The system works. And so we are all doomed unless a force which has a different priority gets some leverage, and forces the above players to look for a new niche.
"But if you're a democrat, a republican in office is likely a legitimately worse outcome for you." As of this year, I'm just not so sure of this anymore. I hate everything that the Republicans stand for (hyperbole, but not really by that much, if you look at what they really stand for, as opposed to the way they couch it) but I'm hard pressed to see how Romney could be any more Republican than Obama is.
And the same is true for most of Congress.