Yeah, in many things I tend to be on the Texas side of the issue, but this is wrong. If they want more space industry in Texas, they should try to entice more commercial business, not negotiate more of my tax money.
...but shouldn't commercial spacecraft be backed up by other commercial spacecraft?
Were I being snarky, I might point out that backing up, say, Virgin Galactic with Orion seems a lot like backing up Fedex Overnight with the US Post Office.
I understand about the camera. I'm sure it's important to someone. In my defense, you're talking to a professional photographer; I have very little interest in phone cameras and tend to ignore them. For just one reason, besides my rugged, weatherproof DSLR gear, I own a pocket camera which I use for very specific purposes. It's waterproof. The phone is not.
Parenthetically, although I'm a Photoshop user, I do a lot of my work in Adobe Lightroom (the workflow is better) and for me Lightroom was the killer app for the iPad, that could finally make me buy another Apple product since the old dual proc G4 on which I used to run Photoshop. I borrowed an ipad and downloaded the app, prepared to be amazed.
It's a frakking toy. Of the 30+ adjustments you can make on the PC, you can make only eight on the ipad. And the app assumes that the photos are coming from another Apple device -- the walled garden makes it impossible to get photos from the camera to the ipad without going through an intermediary device, so I'd have to carry a macbook besides, which breaks the paradigm. It's a toy for young hipsters to dress up photos from their iphone, not for serious work. So I gave the ipad back and went back to the PC. Too bad. (I understand this is mostly Adobe's fault, and I've complained bitterly about it on the Adobe forums.)
Parenthetically again, why a PC? I switched when Apple and Adobe started their pissing contest on Flash and certain Adobe-unfriendly changes Apple had made to OSX. Photoshop was the killer app, for me, on the Mac. When it looked like things were going badly, I switched to Windows 7 when it was time to upgrade. The other reason is that I can afford a much more powerful Windows box than I could a Mac, paying Apple boutique prices. I still hate Microsoft but don't see any other practical solution.
Anyway, what I was getting at is that forbidding Siri on the 4 is entirely a marketing decision, as the application (as you know) works fine on that device. It's just another way to lock people into the disposable mindset.
But kudos to you for finding a workaround on your own phone instead of buying into tiny incremental upgrades.
The most rabid fan would buy the iPad2 the first day it came out, and then buy the iPad3 the first day it came out. And he wouldn't care how much it cost if he got it first.
> Perhaps you do. Apple users just want something that works. That's why Apple doesn't need to change designs between cycles and people still buy them anyway- because they are actually useful and people buy them for that more than for something they display for looks only.
...so tell me truthfully: Besides bragging rights, what was the real difference, to actual users, between the 4 and the 4s?
> Why have we grown so accustomed to the style changing radically every new release? Not just apple, but any phone, or gadget, or car... Why do we feel this need to see a new fancy box?
I think that's the direction Apple's designers are going. You buy the new box not because it looks any different, or acts any different, but simply because we tell you to.
During a long period of unemployment after dot com bust, I bought the special tool to split the ipod case, and made some money replacing batteries, cracked screens and audio jacks. I know Apple will grudgingly do these things, but at the prices they charge (due to repairs going against the business model of forklift upgrade) it's easy to undercut them and still make a profit. It didn't quite pay the bills, but probably helped getting me through a dry stretch. Just sayin'. I'm wondering if I should look into what it takes to get an ipad open.
> Actually, my iPad 1 battery life is just fine. And it runs pretty much all the apps that my iPad 2 does. Same goes for my iPhone 2G - battery life is still good, and it still runs a surprisingly large number of apps, even at iOS 3.1.3.
> Quite frankly, you should do some research before you speculate
What, he should have asked you what your iPad 1 battery life was before he speculates?
> You mean like a laptop? And before you say something about, "You can work with the laptop plugged in!", remember you can do the exact same with a tablet.
I would not have said that. I would have said "laptop batteries are user replaceable". Although come to think of it, I don't *know* that macbook batteries are user replaceable, was going by just about every other laptop made. (I work on laptops as a sideline.) If they're not, (in a macbook) that would be a good reason not to get one. Especially a used one.
I'm pretty sure that won't work. If a file system is mounted by a non-root user, the ownership of setuid programs should appear as "anonymous" or "anybody" or "guest" or somesuch.
Well, no, c'mon, let's not lose track of the fact that computers are *for* something, and computer administration is not an end in itself. Regular people sometimes need computers for specific non-IT-related tasks, and they shouldn't have to be sysadmins in order to do work on their computers.
The issue is not how many obscure command line flags the user knows, but whether the user is able to get the job done, whatever that job may be.
But if as an administrator you expect infrastructure management to be point-and-click mindless, you don't deserve the job.
It's not the CPU. IOS and Android aren't popular because they run on ARM. They're popular because they have well thought-out touch interfaces, good reliability, good integration with the hardware, an SDK that people actually want to develop to, and a well populated marketplace. You don't have any of those things. Switching CPUs isn't going to help.
At the site closest to me, it doesn't appear to be either collected or burned off, but just released into the air. And I seem to remember it's not the methane that smells bad, it's the other gasses produced (ketones? I don't remember anymore) but it sure do stink.
I haven't lived in the SF Bay Area in many years -- does the ground at that outdoor arena in Mountain View still spontaneously burst into flame?
because the volume of methane from vegetable waste will make a huge difference on our dependence on foreign oil.
...However, it's not a bad idea for a survival or deep backwoods technique, if the process scales down reasonably well. Not sure I can consume that much fruit, though.
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Yeah, in many things I tend to be on the Texas side of the issue, but this is wrong. If they want more space industry in Texas, they should try to entice more commercial business, not negotiate more of my tax money.
Were I being snarky, I might point out that backing up, say, Virgin Galactic with Orion seems a lot like backing up Fedex Overnight with the US Post Office.
I understand about the camera. I'm sure it's important to someone. In my defense, you're talking to a professional photographer; I have very little interest in phone cameras and tend to ignore them. For just one reason, besides my rugged, weatherproof DSLR gear, I own a pocket camera which I use for very specific purposes. It's waterproof. The phone is not.
Parenthetically, although I'm a Photoshop user, I do a lot of my work in Adobe Lightroom (the workflow is better) and for me Lightroom was the killer app for the iPad, that could finally make me buy another Apple product since the old dual proc G4 on which I used to run Photoshop. I borrowed an ipad and downloaded the app, prepared to be amazed.
It's a frakking toy. Of the 30+ adjustments you can make on the PC, you can make only eight on the ipad. And the app assumes that the photos are coming from another Apple device -- the walled garden makes it impossible to get photos from the camera to the ipad without going through an intermediary device, so I'd have to carry a macbook besides, which breaks the paradigm. It's a toy for young hipsters to dress up photos from their iphone, not for serious work. So I gave the ipad back and went back to the PC. Too bad. (I understand this is mostly Adobe's fault, and I've complained bitterly about it on the Adobe forums.)
Parenthetically again, why a PC? I switched when Apple and Adobe started their pissing contest on Flash and certain Adobe-unfriendly changes Apple had made to OSX. Photoshop was the killer app, for me, on the Mac. When it looked like things were going badly, I switched to Windows 7 when it was time to upgrade. The other reason is that I can afford a much more powerful Windows box than I could a Mac, paying Apple boutique prices. I still hate Microsoft but don't see any other practical solution.
Anyway, what I was getting at is that forbidding Siri on the 4 is entirely a marketing decision, as the application (as you know) works fine on that device. It's just another way to lock people into the disposable mindset.
But kudos to you for finding a workaround on your own phone instead of buying into tiny incremental upgrades.
So, you understand that Siri worked on your 4, up to the point where Apple shut it off, and works fine in A/B comparisons on a rooted 4?
The most rabid fan would buy the iPad2 the first day it came out, and then buy the iPad3 the first day it came out. And he wouldn't care how much it cost if he got it first.
You're welcome.
> Perhaps you do. Apple users just want something that works. That's why Apple doesn't need to change designs between cycles and people still buy them anyway- because they are actually useful and people buy them for that more than for something they display for looks only.
> Why have we grown so accustomed to the style changing radically every new release? Not just apple, but any phone, or gadget, or car... Why do we feel this need to see a new fancy box?
I think that's the direction Apple's designers are going. You buy the new box not because it looks any different, or acts any different, but simply because we tell you to.
I can afford it, I just don't want to be associated with Apple fanatics.
"Hey man, I see you have an iPad 3. How long did you stand in the rain to buy it?"
"Um, I didn't, I walked in the store a week after it came out and bought one off the shelf."
"You're a freak, man."
During a long period of unemployment after dot com bust, I bought the special tool to split the ipod case, and made some money replacing batteries, cracked screens and audio jacks. I know Apple will grudgingly do these things, but at the prices they charge (due to repairs going against the business model of forklift upgrade) it's easy to undercut them and still make a profit. It didn't quite pay the bills, but probably helped getting me through a dry stretch. Just sayin'. I'm wondering if I should look into what it takes to get an ipad open.
Well yes, but you're an ipad owner, so you should be ok with this. Apple's business model is well known.
> Actually, my iPad 1 battery life is just fine. And it runs pretty much all the apps that my iPad 2 does. Same goes for my iPhone 2G - battery life is still good, and it still runs a surprisingly large number of apps, even at iOS 3.1.3.
> Quite frankly, you should do some research before you speculate
What, he should have asked you what your iPad 1 battery life was before he speculates?
> You mean like a laptop? And before you say something about, "You can work with the laptop plugged in!", remember you can do the exact same with a tablet.
I would not have said that. I would have said "laptop batteries are user replaceable". Although come to think of it, I don't *know* that macbook batteries are user replaceable, was going by just about every other laptop made. (I work on laptops as a sideline.) If they're not, (in a macbook) that would be a good reason not to get one. Especially a used one.
Because 3 > 2. Get with the program!
It'll sell millions just on the "3".
I'm pretty sure that won't work. If a file system is mounted by a non-root user, the ownership of setuid programs should appear as "anonymous" or "anybody" or "guest" or somesuch.
Well, no, c'mon, let's not lose track of the fact that computers are *for* something, and computer administration is not an end in itself. Regular people sometimes need computers for specific non-IT-related tasks, and they shouldn't have to be sysadmins in order to do work on their computers.
The issue is not how many obscure command line flags the user knows, but whether the user is able to get the job done, whatever that job may be.
But if as an administrator you expect infrastructure management to be point-and-click mindless, you don't deserve the job.
Thus again proving that for any platform, there will always be someone somewhere who likes it.
Dear Mister Balmer.
It's not the CPU. IOS and Android aren't popular because they run on ARM. They're popular because they have well thought-out touch interfaces, good reliability, good integration with the hardware, an SDK that people actually want to develop to, and a well populated marketplace. You don't have any of those things. Switching CPUs isn't going to help.
Yours Truly,
The User Community
At the site closest to me, it doesn't appear to be either collected or burned off, but just released into the air. And I seem to remember it's not the methane that smells bad, it's the other gasses produced (ketones? I don't remember anymore) but it sure do stink.
I haven't lived in the SF Bay Area in many years -- does the ground at that outdoor arena in Mountain View still spontaneously burst into flame?
because the volume of methane from vegetable waste will make a huge difference on our dependence on foreign oil.
Well, right, and anyone who seriously believes C. didn't inhale must have been inhaling themselves.
And none of this really matters.
Depending on the type... I guess I could see that. Selena Gomez' personal nudes, keep. Nudes of Selena Gomez from five years ago, REFORMAT.
So if you bought a refurbished drive and it had porn on it?
Moreover, drug use over 30 years ago!