to say nothing of the millions of dollars that the prepaid cellphone providers get from the use of these phones for illegal purposes, such as drug trafficking networks.
Hard to wiretap something that you only use for a week or two, and then throw in the gutter.
I was unaware that telling Adobe to make a flash client that doesn't kill the battery and completely suck was equivalent to "lock[ing] adobe out of their devices".
They actually tried this with FireWire (IEEE-1394) in the consumer electronics industry back in 2000-ish, but then the whole HDCP thing came up, and that was that.
The idea is that you'd have a home theater receiver that just had a crapload of firewire ports on the back, and all your stuff would plug in via that, including speakers. Never happened though.
And what's with all the love for Sunshine? The premise sounded like another typical, tedious, scientifically illiterate Hollywood movie all the way down to the secret killer, crew getting picked off one by one, and impossibly large plot holes. How was it not awful?
I also don't understand this. I got it through NetFlix, watched it, and found that there wasn't even one quality to this film that made me want to talk to anyone about it. The acting was wooden and laconic, the storyline was linear and predictable, the musical score wasn't much, and overall it just had the feeling of a made-for-SyFy movie with a bigger budget so it wasn't as cheesy and terrible.
All in all, it was incredibly mediocre. If this is what passes for a "stand-out" Sci-Fi film, then maybe the Sci-Fi genre has really flushed farther down the drain than I thought.
Actually, the best use for twitter I've seen yet, is in rally racing. People all along the route can 'tweet' when a car goes by, giving a semi-realtime look at where every participant is on the course, if you know the position of the tweeter.
This, is of course, a single valid use in a massive cargo container ship of waste.
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Or, you could search on "Cisco IOS", and get exactly what you want, plus a handful of gripes like the one you just posted.
Expanding foam expands because the gas that is inside the foam is at higher pressure than the atmosphere, and is trying to escape. This equation changes greatly when instead of atmospheric pressure (~14 PSI) you are talking about 5,000 feet of water (2,165 PSI)
I like the picture of all the eyesore windmills standing above the tree - because that's what it would take, everywhere, in order to adopt wind power as our primary generation method.
It's even easier than that:/System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist has it in easily readable XML, and has for every single version of Mac OS X ever released.
Because it's hard to grep/System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist to figure out if you're on 10.6.3 or above and use the API, isn't it? I mean, that's a whole line of code you'd have to add!
The general public doesn't give a damn about DPI numbers, nor should they. They care about something that gives them value for their dollars, and marketing is all about conveying the value.
Why is this a hard thing to suss out? Branding sells to the uninformed, or willingly ignorant.
A normal person who just wants a kickass phone doesn't want to compare DPI or arcmin numbers, they want to see a colorful badge and a swanky trademark along with something that is obviously better than the competing device next to it, whether they know it or not.
Calling something a mouthful of numbers and acronyms, such as "a 326 DPI LCD panel", isn't going to get nearly the consumer attention as a "Retina Display" will.
Other than the magical spill-less tankers, that's exactly what we're doing right now with the recently enacted executive ban on oil production in the Gulf.
That's a $10B check that the White House just cut to the middle east and Russia for their natural gas and oil.
Is there anything more useless than the phone book these days? Right about now, TV Guide is laughing at the phone book.
If there was a way that I could opt out of getting that slab of dead tree dropped on my doorstep, I'd do it in a heartbeat. That thing weighs more than the computer that I can look up the same information on 100x faster and more accurately. Even if I did want the damn thing, there's nowhere to put it in my house, because it's so damn big. What am I supposed to do with that, throw it on the roof until I need it? Prop open a door?
Yeah, I know, it's made of whatever% of recycled paper, and is 100% recycleable. Unfortunately, it's also 100% useless, and a 100% waste of energy to deliver it to me, and for me to drop it directly in the recycle bin, and the trash hauler to take it away.
Thank $_DEITY they put them in those plastic bags to prevent them from getting wet while they moulder away on my porch though. I want them to be in pristine condition when I shitcan them. Hopefully I don't throw my back out lifting the fucker.
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to say nothing of the millions of dollars that the prepaid cellphone providers get from the use of these phones for illegal purposes, such as drug trafficking networks.
Hard to wiretap something that you only use for a week or two, and then throw in the gutter.
By the calendar, yes.
By the marketing department, "next year" is 6 - 18 months away.
I was unaware that telling Adobe to make a flash client that doesn't kill the battery and completely suck was equivalent to "lock[ing] adobe out of their devices".
Oh, I don't know, any of the widely available clear epoxy resins or acrylic coatings?
Seek, and ye shall find: http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iPhone-4-Teardown/3130/1
Thus giving Apple hundreds of millions of dollars worth of free media advertising, and selling far more devices than they would have otherwise.
Great plan, idiot. This is why you aren't in charge of anything media-related.
Ok, we can shut off Slashdot now, because no one's going to beat this post.
You win Slashdot.
They actually tried this with FireWire (IEEE-1394) in the consumer electronics industry back in 2000-ish, but then the whole HDCP thing came up, and that was that.
The idea is that you'd have a home theater receiver that just had a crapload of firewire ports on the back, and all your stuff would plug in via that, including speakers. Never happened though.
Yeah, but how many Libraries of Congress per Fortnight? (LoC/Fn)
Go for it, math boy! Show us what you got!
Oh, it's just a small percentage, so we can screw them with their pants on - no problem.
If it was a bigger percentage, then we should care more about their livelihood? At what percent do people start to matter? 10%? 40%?
And what's with all the love for Sunshine? The premise sounded like another typical, tedious, scientifically illiterate Hollywood movie all the way down to the secret killer, crew getting picked off one by one, and impossibly large plot holes. How was it not awful?
I also don't understand this. I got it through NetFlix, watched it, and found that there wasn't even one quality to this film that made me want to talk to anyone about it. The acting was wooden and laconic, the storyline was linear and predictable, the musical score wasn't much, and overall it just had the feeling of a made-for-SyFy movie with a bigger budget so it wasn't as cheesy and terrible.
All in all, it was incredibly mediocre. If this is what passes for a "stand-out" Sci-Fi film, then maybe the Sci-Fi genre has really flushed farther down the drain than I thought.
Actually, the best use for twitter I've seen yet, is in rally racing. People all along the route can 'tweet' when a car goes by, giving a semi-realtime look at where every participant is on the course, if you know the position of the tweeter.
This, is of course, a single valid use in a massive cargo container ship of waste.
Or, you could search on "Cisco IOS", and get exactly what you want, plus a handful of gripes like the one you just posted.
Incoming flamebait mod in 5... 4... 3...
Yeah, but what bearing does personal experience have in comparison to hearsay FUD?!
Because millions of phones each downloading hundreds of megabytes over an already congested wireless network is a hum-dinger of a good idea, right?
Idiot.
This isn't a 4 MB ROM for your Motorola RAZR. This is a full blown OS.
Expanding foam expands because the gas that is inside the foam is at higher pressure than the atmosphere, and is trying to escape. This equation changes greatly when instead of atmospheric pressure (~14 PSI) you are talking about 5,000 feet of water (2,165 PSI)
I like the picture of all the eyesore windmills standing above the tree - because that's what it would take, everywhere, in order to adopt wind power as our primary generation method.
It's even easier than that: /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist has it in easily readable XML, and has for every single version of Mac OS X ever released.
Because it's hard to grep /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist to figure out if you're on 10.6.3 or above and use the API, isn't it? I mean, that's a whole line of code you'd have to add!
Why use something that requires and explanation? Because it requires and explanation.
If potential buyers are asking questions, they are interested buyers, and you're that much closer to a sale. That's how it works.
I think this speaks poorly of the general public
The general public doesn't give a damn about DPI numbers, nor should they. They care about something that gives them value for their dollars, and marketing is all about conveying the value.
Why is this a hard thing to suss out? Branding sells to the uninformed, or willingly ignorant.
A normal person who just wants a kickass phone doesn't want to compare DPI or arcmin numbers, they want to see a colorful badge and a swanky trademark along with something that is obviously better than the competing device next to it, whether they know it or not.
Calling something a mouthful of numbers and acronyms, such as "a 326 DPI LCD panel", isn't going to get nearly the consumer attention as a "Retina Display" will.
Other than the magical spill-less tankers, that's exactly what we're doing right now with the recently enacted executive ban on oil production in the Gulf.
That's a $10B check that the White House just cut to the middle east and Russia for their natural gas and oil.
Is there anything more useless than the phone book these days? Right about now, TV Guide is laughing at the phone book.
If there was a way that I could opt out of getting that slab of dead tree dropped on my doorstep, I'd do it in a heartbeat. That thing weighs more than the computer that I can look up the same information on 100x faster and more accurately. Even if I did want the damn thing, there's nowhere to put it in my house, because it's so damn big. What am I supposed to do with that, throw it on the roof until I need it? Prop open a door?
Yeah, I know, it's made of whatever% of recycled paper, and is 100% recycleable. Unfortunately, it's also 100% useless, and a 100% waste of energy to deliver it to me, and for me to drop it directly in the recycle bin, and the trash hauler to take it away.
Thank $_DEITY they put them in those plastic bags to prevent them from getting wet while they moulder away on my porch though. I want them to be in pristine condition when I shitcan them. Hopefully I don't throw my back out lifting the fucker.
But it's HALLIBURTON!
*waves hands in a scary fashion*
HALLIBURTON! SCARY!!!
Do you see it now?