Are you kidding? Load that sucker up with some Blue/Green Algae and a 5 Million year release cycle for a land plant and an amoeba and teraform a world.
Hell a needle head would be enough to oxygenize a world in under 2000 years. Very practical.
Because you don't assess your needs before becoming aware of available products? Because you buy the top of the line regardless of what it does for you? Because you don't consider price/performance ratios? Because a trendy commerical is more likely to affect your buying decision than research and reviews?
It doesn't sound like you're too bad of a "sheeple" because you are aware that you are giving in to silly childish wants and preferences.
Obviously people who pay too much, buy crap products, and are influenced by commercials make capitalism SUCK.
People who know how to use a PC might be offended that some idiot buys a $2500 machine that they could have built for $500... why because the good companies, those that produce a $500 machine that works well, lasts, is flexible, etc. get less profits(per unit) while a bad company that overcharges has higher margins. This makes the good companies wish they were bad companies and before long there are no good companies.
Where the rubber really hits the road is that the person who bought the $2500 machine could have paid someone knowledgeable $100 to save them $2000(-100). Instead that $100 went to advertisers who just annoy everyone.
Programming is the one thing you can't jimmy, ignore, brownnose, bash, connive, respect/dignity/busniesslikeness or make mistakes doing. Yes people hate it, it's a hell of a lot easier to wear a nice suit, write reports no one reads and play minesweeper.
We're supposed to trust the phone system more than the internet but government has done fuck all to protect that trust.
This is a perfect example, my phone says a number in (wherever) I pick it up. The person on the other end isn't in (wherever). This should be illegal, problem solved.
"There is still no serious Android competitor to the new iPad, with its unparalleled 2048x1536 display. Android fans usually try to respond by telling me that I don't really need a high-res display." - AppleFanboy
There is still no serious Apple competitor to newer Android tablets with unparralelled battery life of 40-50% more than the iPad2. Apple fans usually try to respond by saying that you can just plug it in. But that doesn't change the fact that when I go to my tablet expecting 40-50% battery life it's dead. - !AppleFanboy
At close proximity you might be able to actually tell that resolution from the one below it (probably an Android). Given 3 days apart from both tablets you couldn't pass the taste test(re: resolution), on battery life you SURE AS HELL COULD.
"just with borders on the top and bottom." - The fact that this is at +5 PROVES COOL-AID drinking.
Borders are what happens when a resolution doesn't make sense, it's the worst/universal solution for this kind of idiocy, the only alternative is stretching but that looks strange, especially where the colours need to blend.
Anyway the article reads iPhone 5, we're stealing some of Samsung's shit... and what new things we're adding aren't thought out or useful (1mm, ARE YOU KIDDING ME? How about 2x denser battery using up slightly more real estate?! How about a removable cover so you can change battery).
So Apple fanboys! Are you going to buy this new adapter or the "all new iCords", you know the ones that are 4x as expensive... but they're WHITE!
Really? REALLY?! You do know your country is involved in about 6-7 WARS, RIGHT NOW!
And where you're not at war you're selling drugs and weapons?!
The fact that you're APATHETIC and IGNORANT about your own EVIL ACTIONS makes you BETTER than someone who is extreme about something THEY ACTUALLY UNDERSTAND?
Maybe the film comported itself as though it understood the muslim religion or people with a muslim philosophy. Maybe it proved that it knew more than most americans and was still absolutely insane and horrible (not difficult to imagine given most americans) that might justifiably have lead them to believe that you were a bunch of close minded idiots who didn't deserve to live.
because they won't go in one until they're 18+. If great ideas need implementation then factories are very important learning tools.
It is extremely important for break out potential and producing actually useful members of society.
Another place you should take your kids if you get the chance is court. Fight a parking ticket or some other minor legal skirmish and bring the kids along. Sure it will be a bit demoralizing for them to see their parents "lose" but it will keep them from being scared of the courts, give them a tiny insight into why the courts are how they are (very important because it allows them to get inside the legal mind. If they don't make an effort to understand legality and societal commitment they'll likely develop anti-social notions).
Also factories help people understand finance, why am I able to afford a lighter that would take me 8 months to build for what amounts to 10 minutes of effort at my job? Am I paying too much for the lighter even so? How long would it take to assemble(materials/parts) and build?
Studetns should be paid nominal wages however, otherwise part of the lesson is lost. And school should be acknowledged as a full time job, and one of the few where a youth's income ratio (time x X) is the same or better than an adults.
Give Anonymous a break, it's an anarchist colective. Organization of message may not be their strong point. I'm more loath to trust the FBI. Largely because this scary shit could easily be tied to some good initiative but they remain oddly silent.
So why all this static against teaching your kids to program if you've found it a fun and fulfilling career?
I was going to say give them an Android phone and pay them 10c a line they program. If you start em early they'll get the basics down and start doing their own projects before Grade 1.
But hearing the hardware assembly idea I like that to. IT is a good career, if Slashdotters cannot agree on the one true OS (I run Mint) no one ever will.
Again IT is a good career, Hardware optimization shouldn't be magic.
Put cameras in classrooms. If a kid displays symptoms of child abuse, react.
The rapists and kidnappers need to be caught. Put more police on the streets, we have a 10% unemployment rate (in Canada) make it 9%.
We could solve the problems being attacked by homeland security, and the nasty surveillance programs simply by doubling the number of Police. And it'd be cheaper!
"Stop the "free software" puritanism. If something that's needed can be licensed and included on a "free as in beer" binary basis, and it can't practicably solved with OSS software in time for ship date, include the "free as in beer" version. This goes double for vendor-supplied hardware drivers." -
WHOA THERE!! If my network driver is sending "random data" then I don't have control of my PC. The same goes for MANY aspects of the system.
You're a slashdot reader, you may think we're paranoid about this stuff and out of line but I assure you the general public would feel the same way! If we want the general public to come over to Linux making sure it's MORE SECURE and ENTIRELY OWNED by the user will get us there.
If your business is trying to seriously push Google, Microsoft, or Apple out of an area you don't use their products. These companies DO HAVE BACKDOORS in their software for the simple reason that it's significantly advantageous to do so, and as long as they have no reason to reveal them (ALA:Code Breaking) there isn't a conflict.
As Google, Microsoft, Facebook etc. become more blatant in their big brotherness Linux will gain in popularity.
Business knows what happens when an IT guy goes rogue and they realize that if their OS goes rogue they're in the same boat.
Linux needs to maintain it's current philosophy that a user controls their system. They need to expand this to having a dedicated and well funded security analysis and code review team.
In the coming years this will push Linux into business, and then into the home. If the world finds out that Microsoft is reading their documents or Google is analyzing their search patterns on an individual basis Linux wins.
Oh and as far as this GUI fighting goes... Linux has no advertising. people don't know what Cinnamon, KDE2, Gnome2, Enlightenment17, etc Look like.
When my Linux Mint (and Android) system started it came with a helpful tutorial window. Simply adding a "I don't like The Look and Feel" option with 12 pictures of alternate desktops selected by popularity solves the problem.
And yes, standardize the APIs, and set defaults for grandmas.
I find it interesting that people notice this with prices and often compare but don't compare other information. For example you could get slightly edited news footage or film footage with a different theme or message. I would certainly be interested in supporting efforts to check for this kind of manipulation or it will someday be put in place.
That's just it. Smart Phone doesn't mean smart phone. It means computer that can be used as a phone. Anything that's been done with a PC is prior art. Apple simply moves features that were in PCs before, into a phone. It's absurd that they can claim patents on that type of "innovation",
I also agree that this is designed to end with a copyright oligopoly between Google, Samsung and Apple.
Google is the one doing a lot of innovation, I have their first gen dev phone the G1, it's significantly better than an iPhone for anything but gaming. A lot of people are keeping their iPhone 3s because unless you game heavily there's no real upgrade.
Samsung and other Android makers are putting out phones that will quickly be totally adequate. Since OsX is loosing market share Apple is trying to get 2 more generations of phones in before there's no reason to upgrade.
Finally, this is obviously biased by a U.S. jury thinking that the US is the end all innovation master. I would be surprised if this verdict carried in Europe or any other country which isn't tied to US apron strings. Though the US has been using unrelated pressures to keep their patents seen as the innovation for a while now, so we'll probably see some of that.
When you think of Smart Phones as small cheap ubiquitous computers and Apple as trying to maintain a $500-600 price point the damage done to computing in the developing world is obviously horrific.
Google isn't Linux, but Apple just might be Microsoft. This verdict is their way of buying time until they can launch something proprietary like DirectX10. If they can keep the illusion that "smart phones" are phones, not computers, alive for a while longer they may succeed.
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The reasons lying is bad are obvious. Sometimes liars get caught, sometimes not depends on the situation.
Shilling is about starting a relationship with one of two companies (even if one is yourself). Lying at a strategic time can make all the difference.
"Federal prosecutors piled on nine additional felony charges."
Guess those article authors didn't wanna share them.
Free content will never get protection from all the paid content will it?
You can get a palm (V/T?) with an IR keyboard quite cheap.
They use batteries which might be more or less expensive for your needs (rechargeables?).
You can probably get them in bulk somewhere.
Less than your desired price and come with full size keyboards and VERY minimal power needs.
Are you kidding? Load that sucker up with some Blue/Green Algae and a 5 Million year release cycle for a land plant and an amoeba and teraform a world.
Hell a needle head would be enough to oxygenize a world in under 2000 years. Very practical.
"you are renting it." "as long as I make the payments." And those payments are higher than if you paid up front?
So how is that not renting it again?
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_162-20013286-10391704.html.
Comes down to horney stupid women. More women's education! Better than goats in 2035!
Because you don't assess your needs before becoming aware of available products? Because you buy the top of the line regardless of what it does for you? Because you don't consider price/performance ratios? Because a trendy commerical is more likely to affect your buying decision than research and reviews?
It doesn't sound like you're too bad of a "sheeple" because you are aware that you are giving in to silly childish wants and preferences.
Obviously people who pay too much, buy crap products, and are influenced by commercials make capitalism SUCK.
People who know how to use a PC might be offended that some idiot buys a $2500 machine that they could have built for $500... why because the good companies, those that produce a $500 machine that works well, lasts, is flexible, etc. get less profits(per unit) while a bad company that overcharges has higher margins. This makes the good companies wish they were bad companies and before long there are no good companies.
Where the rubber really hits the road is that the person who bought the $2500 machine could have paid someone knowledgeable $100 to save them $2000(-100). Instead that $100 went to advertisers who just annoy everyone.
Do you begin to see the problem?
Social is easier.
Net + = Win. Try that with Code.
Programming is the one thing you can't jimmy, ignore, brownnose, bash, connive, respect/dignity/busniesslikeness or make mistakes doing. Yes people hate it, it's a hell of a lot easier to wear a nice suit, write reports no one reads and play minesweeper.
Those hours /2 = brownosing time. Time to find a new company, next generation "management" is going to be a waste of space.
We're supposed to trust the phone system more than the internet but government has done fuck all to protect that trust.
This is a perfect example, my phone says a number in (wherever) I pick it up. The person on the other end isn't in (wherever). This should be illegal, problem solved.
"There is still no serious Android competitor to the new iPad, with its unparalleled 2048x1536 display. Android fans usually try to respond by telling me that I don't really need a high-res display." - AppleFanboy
There is still no serious Apple competitor to newer Android tablets with unparralelled battery life of 40-50% more than the iPad2. Apple fans usually try to respond by saying that you can just plug it in. But that doesn't change the fact that when I go to my tablet expecting 40-50% battery life it's dead. - !AppleFanboy
At close proximity you might be able to actually tell that resolution from the one below it (probably an Android). Given 3 days apart from both tablets you couldn't pass the taste test(re: resolution), on battery life you SURE AS HELL COULD.
Win Android.
"just with borders on the top and bottom." - The fact that this is at +5 PROVES COOL-AID drinking.
Borders are what happens when a resolution doesn't make sense, it's the worst/universal solution for this kind of idiocy, the only alternative is stretching but that looks strange, especially where the colours need to blend.
Anyway the article reads iPhone 5, we're stealing some of Samsung's shit... and what new things we're adding aren't thought out or useful (1mm, ARE YOU KIDDING ME? How about 2x denser battery using up slightly more real estate?! How about a removable cover so you can change battery).
So Apple fanboys! Are you going to buy this new adapter or the "all new iCords", you know the ones that are 4x as expensive... but they're WHITE!
Really? REALLY?! You do know your country is involved in about 6-7 WARS, RIGHT NOW!
And where you're not at war you're selling drugs and weapons?!
The fact that you're APATHETIC and IGNORANT about your own EVIL ACTIONS makes you BETTER than someone who is extreme about something THEY ACTUALLY UNDERSTAND?
Maybe the film comported itself as though it understood the muslim religion or people with a muslim philosophy. Maybe it proved that it knew more than most americans and was still absolutely insane and horrible (not difficult to imagine given most americans) that might justifiably have lead them to believe that you were a bunch of close minded idiots who didn't deserve to live.
Q.E.D.
because they won't go in one until they're 18+. If great ideas need implementation then factories are very important learning tools.
It is extremely important for break out potential and producing actually useful members of society.
Another place you should take your kids if you get the chance is court. Fight a parking ticket or some other minor legal skirmish and bring the kids along. Sure it will be a bit demoralizing for them to see their parents "lose" but it will keep them from being scared of the courts, give them a tiny insight into why the courts are how they are (very important because it allows them to get inside the legal mind. If they don't make an effort to understand legality and societal commitment they'll likely develop anti-social notions).
Also factories help people understand finance, why am I able to afford a lighter that would take me 8 months to build for what amounts to 10 minutes of effort at my job? Am I paying too much for the lighter even so? How long would it take to assemble(materials/parts) and build?
Studetns should be paid nominal wages however, otherwise part of the lesson is lost. And school should be acknowledged as a full time job, and one of the few where a youth's income ratio (time x X) is the same or better than an adults.
Give Anonymous a break, it's an anarchist colective. Organization of message may not be their strong point. I'm more loath to trust the FBI. Largely because this scary shit could easily be tied to some good initiative but they remain oddly silent.
Librarians shouldn't lie. We treat them as disposable, so is google.
So why all this static against teaching your kids to program if you've found it a fun and fulfilling career?
I was going to say give them an Android phone and pay them 10c a line they program. If you start em early they'll get the basics down and start doing their own projects before Grade 1.
But hearing the hardware assembly idea I like that to. IT is a good career, if Slashdotters cannot agree on the one true OS (I run Mint) no one ever will.
Again IT is a good career, Hardware optimization shouldn't be magic.
Put cameras in classrooms. If a kid displays symptoms of child abuse, react.
The rapists and kidnappers need to be caught. Put more police on the streets, we have a 10% unemployment rate (in Canada) make it 9%.
We could solve the problems being attacked by homeland security, and the nasty surveillance programs simply by doubling the number of Police. And it'd be cheaper!
"Stop the "free software" puritanism. If something that's needed can be licensed and included on a "free as in beer" binary basis, and it can't practicably solved with OSS software in time for ship date, include the "free as in beer" version. This goes double for vendor-supplied hardware drivers." -
WHOA THERE!! If my network driver is sending "random data" then I don't have control of my PC. The same goes for MANY aspects of the system.
You're a slashdot reader, you may think we're paranoid about this stuff and out of line but I assure you the general public would feel the same way! If we want the general public to come over to Linux making sure it's MORE SECURE and ENTIRELY OWNED by the user will get us there.
If your business is trying to seriously push Google, Microsoft, or Apple out of an area you don't use their products. These companies DO HAVE BACKDOORS in their software for the simple reason that it's significantly advantageous to do so, and as long as they have no reason to reveal them (ALA:Code Breaking) there isn't a conflict.
As Google, Microsoft, Facebook etc. become more blatant in their big brotherness Linux will gain in popularity.
Business knows what happens when an IT guy goes rogue and they realize that if their OS goes rogue they're in the same boat.
Linux needs to maintain it's current philosophy that a user controls their system. They need to expand this to having a dedicated and well funded security analysis and code review team.
In the coming years this will push Linux into business, and then into the home. If the world finds out that Microsoft is reading their documents or Google is analyzing their search patterns on an individual basis Linux wins.
Oh and as far as this GUI fighting goes... Linux has no advertising. people don't know what Cinnamon, KDE2, Gnome2, Enlightenment17, etc Look like.
When my Linux Mint (and Android) system started it came with a helpful tutorial window. Simply adding a "I don't like The Look and Feel" option with 12 pictures of alternate desktops selected by popularity solves the problem.
And yes, standardize the APIs, and set defaults for grandmas.
I find it interesting that people notice this with prices and often compare but don't compare other information. For example you could get slightly edited news footage or film footage with a different theme or message. I would certainly be interested in supporting efforts to check for this kind of manipulation or it will someday be put in place.
Apple Patented that. And Google patented Smart Phones with more than one button.
"Multitouch displays did not exists in phones"
Did it exist on a PC? What makes a smart phone not a PC?
That's just it. Smart Phone doesn't mean smart phone. It means computer that can be used as a phone. Anything that's been done with a PC is prior art. Apple simply moves features that were in PCs before, into a phone. It's absurd that they can claim patents on that type of "innovation",
I also agree that this is designed to end with a copyright oligopoly between Google, Samsung and Apple.
Google is the one doing a lot of innovation, I have their first gen dev phone the G1, it's significantly better than an iPhone for anything but gaming. A lot of people are keeping their iPhone 3s because unless you game heavily there's no real upgrade.
Samsung and other Android makers are putting out phones that will quickly be totally adequate. Since OsX is loosing market share Apple is trying to get 2 more generations of phones in before there's no reason to upgrade.
Finally, this is obviously biased by a U.S. jury thinking that the US is the end all innovation master. I would be surprised if this verdict carried in Europe or any other country which isn't tied to US apron strings. Though the US has been using unrelated pressures to keep their patents seen as the innovation for a while now, so we'll probably see some of that.
When you think of Smart Phones as small cheap ubiquitous computers and Apple as trying to maintain a $500-600 price point the damage done to computing in the developing world is obviously horrific.
Google isn't Linux, but Apple just might be Microsoft. This verdict is their way of buying time until they can launch something proprietary like DirectX10. If they can keep the illusion that "smart phones" are phones, not computers, alive for a while longer they may succeed.