I can tell the screen isn't as good on some apps (Carcassonne and iMessage particularly) but being I haven't ever used an iPad with a retina display, it's not bad at all.
A friend who had the iPad1 and the iPad3 Retina says the screen isn't as good as the 3 but the form factor and weight make it awesome for him.
It's not surprisingly low, it's surprising how high it is and how someone could possibly be open to the idea of higher profit margins on their devices.
I was in the market for a 7"-ish tablet. It was down to the FireHD, Nexus 7, or iPad Mini. While I was extremely disappointed in the price announced for the Mini, I ended up getting one anyway for a few reasons:
1. We have iPhones and my kid (who will be the primary user of the device) is already accustomed to the interface
2. The educational games/books we've downloaded for it are already there and ready to be synced.
3. I liked the educational software available in the Apple app store over what I saw available for both the Kindle and the Nexus 7. Perhaps I didn't look hard enough--I don't know but it seemed much better from the Apple side.
4. Everything the FireHD can do, the iPad can do possibly better depending on what review you read (the external speakers being one downside but I don't believe he'll be needing stereo speakers).
5. I like the look, size, and weight of the device with the larger screen.
6. As an Apple (iPhones, Mini, and MBP) and Amazon customer (I'm a Prime member and use them for video rentals, most online purchases, etc), I simply preferred the Apple device even though it was considerably more money.
A prosecutor and possibly a judge may argue that his actions differ from security cameras in the sense that a security camera is fixed in place and watches a predefined area to spot crimes and identify perpetrators.
I wasn't aware there were regulations limiting the adding of security cameras to places that record what's in the public's view. This is no different than a business putting up a camera on one corner of the building and deciding to move it to another.
The key here seems to be repeated attempts of what he is doing. I'm guessing as long as he doesn't do it after being told to stop he's not harassing anyone.
Annoying, perhaps but being annoying isn't illegal.
In the county in which I reside, if you "get out of jury duty" you still have to sit in the jury pool for three days of active on-site time and seven more days of "on-call" status.
Your best bet is to stop your fucking whining, do the damn trial for a day or two, and go home. My companies pay for jury duty so aside from it being a pain in the fucking ass being that we only have one car and the courthouse is 30 miles out in the middle of nowhere, it was better than being at work.
I may be way off base here but I was under the distinct impression that working dogs and their handlers were trained to ignore such things and concentrate on the task at hand.
Not trained? What? Most people I know realize the tasks they do could be automated. However, they do everything in their power to ensure they aren't because they believe it keeps their relatively mindless and easy job "safe". This mindset is prevalent in the public sector and the unionized public sector especially.
I was able to come in and completely revamp a position I was hired to do to expand it to encompass at least 50x more work with a little Access/VBA and some learned-on-the-job DW knowledge.
They are still running the same exact reports I wrote when I left 5 years ago and haven't added a single one to the mix. Someone has now taken over my position and enters text in the fields the scripts prompt for and passes out the paperwork it automatically prints. It's a sad day for our tax dollars.
Actually, I would hire a contractor to do the work and expect him to farm out the work to subcontractors to do the parts he cannot. Usually these subs are brought in at the lowest bid the contractor can find to get the job finished on time while passing inspection.
You know. You're right. You don't *need* any of those things in a phone. However, most people *want* those things in a phone.
I have a Garmin 76CSx with the entirety of North America loaded. I have used it extensively both for geocaching and traveling. It's an amazing device for autorouting and I would never consider a phone in their current states as a replacement for this device. That said, I use it only when I'm geocaching (which is pretty rare these days, after nearly 5000 found it's just not as fun as it used to be) or while I'm traveling across long distances which may find me out of service. The rest of the time I use my phone. Why? Because it's more convenient, it is easier to use, and it has voice turn-by-turn. Yup, they have their issues but claiming I wouldn't want a new phone w/a GPS I can turn on and off at will is silly.
I also own a Nikon D5000 DSLR. I use it to take photos fairly often, especially of food and ones of the kids that we want to make more special than our iPhone 4S and 5 can offer. However, it's a pain in the ass to upload and e-mail photos and it's big and bulky to carry around everywhere with us when we're already carrying stuff to fuel a 2.5 year old and a 4 month old. IOW, yeah, the DSLR is superior and an iPhone would never make up for it but the convenience factor alone makes the DSLR almost obsolete.
As for the browser and social media. I actually sometimes prefer the mobile browsing experience to the regular. In order to use my laptop I have to have access to it. Sometimes I'm somewhere that I do not have access to my machine. Other times the machine sits on the table and I am on my phone because it's easier to scroll through my RSS items, e-mail and social media stuff on the phone than it is on the computer. Oh and "high speed browsing" is kinda funny. My iPhone seems as fast as my MBP and it has LTE when I'm out of the house which matches (and sometimes beats--especially in upstream) my business class connection at home (I am routinely pulling 25/25 on VZW LTE in the MSP metro area vs 25/3 on Charter Business Class).
Do I not understand how search engine choice works? To me Google is not forcing users to use their search functions like MSFT was doing by forcing PC OEMs to push out Windows, right?
If we take a look at general websites with search functionality, don't they return internal results at the top and external results at the bottom because users of a particular site are likely to be interested in content pushed out by the same site their on more than external?
It has nothing to do with gas for me. It has to do with other costs: car cost, maintenance, taxes, insurance. My $700 bike with free yearly tuneups for life saves me a ton. Gas for a drive 5.1 miles one way is really negligible compared to the other costs.
As a result, there is very little coordination, and we end up with sprawl because of it.
No, we end up with sprawl because living the American dream includes a home with a yard and not high density housing. And even when planners are forced to create HDH to reduce or slow sprawl, Americans would rather continue to spread out to get their piece of the dream than live in a 'Pass the Sugar' neighborhood or HDH communities.
The biggest problem with all of this is that instead of building transit infrastructure which makes sense, we try to retrofit half-broken models into areas where it will not work. BRT, supposedly LRT on rubber (we heard this in the 1950s - 1970s; oh how history repeats itself), was going to be the savior to the communities here South of Mpls/StP. What we ended up with are widened roads, a lot of construction, and the eventuality that express buses taking 35 minutes to get downtown will be eliminated so we can take up to 1.5 hours to do the same trip on BRT (they claim this won't happen but after spending 100+ million on the project, they will want it to be used and it won't be until they force it to be).
There are so many competing interests and opinions in our country that stating simply that 'building new roads is easier' is not entirely true. It sucks but we get to deal with it.
There was a recent job posting for some marketing company (I forget the name; I'm sure if you do a Google search you'll find it) that wanted a Klout score above 35 to be hired.
1. I have a 48 Klout score and while I work with marketing data analytics, I am not influential on any topics, at all.
2. If someone needs to have a 35+ on Klout, that shows just how irrelevant this number is for a marketing gig.
3. The fact that companies are interested in this number means someone is trying to make it relevant and thus the entire thing is scary as shit.
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While Klout apparently believes I'm most influential in the "Twin Cities", "Food" and "Games" and one could make an argument for the first two, the third is just batshit crazy.
Klout is meaningless and should be completely ignored.
It's pretty crazy that I'm still with the same site I was reading back in high school and my freshman year of college.
I still remember my first +4 post and how I got contacted by the guy who in HS introduced me to the site I would continually contribute to as a commenter for the next 15 years of my life because it floated to the top.
I went to my first/. meetup after moving to Minnesota, a state where I knew no one and realized the community this site has built covers such a wide range of "nerds" that while I didn't fit intothe local area Slashbot mentality, I still had a community in which my opinions were read and sometimes read and appreciated up through today. I don't know many other places where so many different lifestyles and opinions about the same base topics can coexist happily.
However, to respond to the parent post, it was during these 15 years that I went to college, graduated, worked in many different fields, got married, had two kids, and changed from a die-hard Linux geek to someone who can appreciate all OSs for what they offer--something I would NEVER have imagined myself being when I was in my teens.
I would venture a guess the 15+ million Mormons worldwide do. The fact that the Mormon religion is heavily invested in business (right or wrong considering their status as a religion), I would guess it wasn't Linus' brightest moment--apology or not.
I was out in Orlando for work in April and LA in May. At MSP (my home airport) and MCO we had a choice in scanner methods, in LA we didn't. I refused to use the scanner, instead opting for the manual pat down.
At MCO I was through the "traditional" scanner method quickly, 10 minutes faster than my coworkers who got their chromosomes scrambled. In LA, I was 30 seconds behind my coworker.
It's not fucking worth it to use the scanners. IMO we should all be opting out and forcing the TSA to work harder to get the job done. If people stood up against the intrusion it would be far more effective than the courts telling them to do X and them ignoring it.
They can't as easily ignore an airport full of VERY angry passengers waiting in long lines to do it the "hard" way.
That's bull. You can vote out the intruders and they have to leave. A business can keep on intruding as long as it can afford to.
Not necessarily. Politicians are voted in, staff are not and many times staff are the ones who have direct access to your data, not the politicians themselves.
But that was via assembling data people chose to submit to Target through their purchases. This is the government assembling data that their citizens probably didn't want to submit.
Remember, you have a choice not to support private business intrusion, you don't have a choice not to support government intrusion.
I doubt Apple will ever copy the cheap feeling the Galaxy SIII has when you hold it in your hand. I have been an iPhone user since the 3G (10/2008) and was interested in seeing how the Galaxy SIII would be as a replacement device knowing all the great things people are saying about it.
I picked it up in the store and it felt cheap, almost like a child's toy. Light yes, durable, not so much. As someone who dropped their iPhone4 less than 72 hours after purchasing it and watching the back glass shatter, I wanted something more durable. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear the S3 would help me much in that area.
I played with the device for about 25 minutes and found myself saying, "meh". While I'm glad there is a choice between Apple and Android phones and a wide variety to choose from for those who like that sort of thing, I decided to stick w/the iPhone.
I picked mine up Friday morning (the Verizon store told me if I was there by 8 AM I could get one) and I have been pleased. It's not perfect by any means I don't want to say the device is flawless, but as someone who has used both, I still much prefer the iPhone to the S3 and don't see any copying at all.
This is why medical, law, and engineering schools heavily promote study groups where you appear IN PERSON to interact with your classmates. The nuance of the spoken word, and the nonlinearity of conversation, adds a powerful dimension to the student's internalization of the material in ways you just cannot duplicate with words on a screen or paper.
I learn much better by reading and writing, not by listening to people talk. While traditional education models do push for one method over the other, it doesn't mean that someone may learn better in another way. While I am not going to argue there are not faults in online education, just because a traditional model has been accepted as optimal doesn't mean it is and should be eliminated.
Disclaimer: I am a student of online education and I have worked in both public not-for-profit and private for-profit education institutions which offer online components or are outright all online.
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I can tell the screen isn't as good on some apps (Carcassonne and iMessage particularly) but being I haven't ever used an iPad with a retina display, it's not bad at all.
A friend who had the iPad1 and the iPad3 Retina says the screen isn't as good as the 3 but the form factor and weight make it awesome for him.
2.5 and 5 months. Obviously the 2.5 year old will be the primary user for at least another 1.5 years.
I was in the market for a 7"-ish tablet. It was down to the FireHD, Nexus 7, or iPad Mini. While I was extremely disappointed in the price announced for the Mini, I ended up getting one anyway for a few reasons:
1. We have iPhones and my kid (who will be the primary user of the device) is already accustomed to the interface
2. The educational games/books we've downloaded for it are already there and ready to be synced.
3. I liked the educational software available in the Apple app store over what I saw available for both the Kindle and the Nexus 7. Perhaps I didn't look hard enough--I don't know but it seemed much better from the Apple side.
4. Everything the FireHD can do, the iPad can do possibly better depending on what review you read (the external speakers being one downside but I don't believe he'll be needing stereo speakers).
5. I like the look, size, and weight of the device with the larger screen.
6. As an Apple (iPhones, Mini, and MBP) and Amazon customer (I'm a Prime member and use them for video rentals, most online purchases, etc), I simply preferred the Apple device even though it was considerably more money.
YMMV.
I wasn't aware there were regulations limiting the adding of security cameras to places that record what's in the public's view. This is no different than a business putting up a camera on one corner of the building and deciding to move it to another.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/harassment
The key here seems to be repeated attempts of what he is doing. I'm guessing as long as he doesn't do it after being told to stop he's not harassing anyone.
Annoying, perhaps but being annoying isn't illegal.
In the county in which I reside, if you "get out of jury duty" you still have to sit in the jury pool for three days of active on-site time and seven more days of "on-call" status.
Your best bet is to stop your fucking whining, do the damn trial for a day or two, and go home. My companies pay for jury duty so aside from it being a pain in the fucking ass being that we only have one car and the courthouse is 30 miles out in the middle of nowhere, it was better than being at work.
That's a moral issue, not what I was originally referencing.
I may be way off base here but I was under the distinct impression that working dogs and their handlers were trained to ignore such things and concentrate on the task at hand.
I found myself trying to scroll my laptop screen regularly with my fingers and then I got the MBP and now I'm able to do it on my touchpad.
FWIW, I hate smudges on my screen.
Not trained? What? Most people I know realize the tasks they do could be automated. However, they do everything in their power to ensure they aren't because they believe it keeps their relatively mindless and easy job "safe". This mindset is prevalent in the public sector and the unionized public sector especially.
I was able to come in and completely revamp a position I was hired to do to expand it to encompass at least 50x more work with a little Access/VBA and some learned-on-the-job DW knowledge.
They are still running the same exact reports I wrote when I left 5 years ago and haven't added a single one to the mix. Someone has now taken over my position and enters text in the fields the scripts prompt for and passes out the paperwork it automatically prints. It's a sad day for our tax dollars.
Actually, I would hire a contractor to do the work and expect him to farm out the work to subcontractors to do the parts he cannot. Usually these subs are brought in at the lowest bid the contractor can find to get the job finished on time while passing inspection.
A phone seems to fit this model just fine.
You know. You're right. You don't *need* any of those things in a phone. However, most people *want* those things in a phone.
I have a Garmin 76CSx with the entirety of North America loaded. I have used it extensively both for geocaching and traveling. It's an amazing device for autorouting and I would never consider a phone in their current states as a replacement for this device. That said, I use it only when I'm geocaching (which is pretty rare these days, after nearly 5000 found it's just not as fun as it used to be) or while I'm traveling across long distances which may find me out of service. The rest of the time I use my phone. Why? Because it's more convenient, it is easier to use, and it has voice turn-by-turn. Yup, they have their issues but claiming I wouldn't want a new phone w/a GPS I can turn on and off at will is silly.
I also own a Nikon D5000 DSLR. I use it to take photos fairly often, especially of food and ones of the kids that we want to make more special than our iPhone 4S and 5 can offer. However, it's a pain in the ass to upload and e-mail photos and it's big and bulky to carry around everywhere with us when we're already carrying stuff to fuel a 2.5 year old and a 4 month old. IOW, yeah, the DSLR is superior and an iPhone would never make up for it but the convenience factor alone makes the DSLR almost obsolete.
As for the browser and social media. I actually sometimes prefer the mobile browsing experience to the regular. In order to use my laptop I have to have access to it. Sometimes I'm somewhere that I do not have access to my machine. Other times the machine sits on the table and I am on my phone because it's easier to scroll through my RSS items, e-mail and social media stuff on the phone than it is on the computer. Oh and "high speed browsing" is kinda funny. My iPhone seems as fast as my MBP and it has LTE when I'm out of the house which matches (and sometimes beats--especially in upstream) my business class connection at home (I am routinely pulling 25/25 on VZW LTE in the MSP metro area vs 25/3 on Charter Business Class).
YMMV.
Do I not understand how search engine choice works? To me Google is not forcing users to use their search functions like MSFT was doing by forcing PC OEMs to push out Windows, right?
If we take a look at general websites with search functionality, don't they return internal results at the top and external results at the bottom because users of a particular site are likely to be interested in content pushed out by the same site their on more than external?
It has nothing to do with gas for me. It has to do with other costs: car cost, maintenance, taxes, insurance. My $700 bike with free yearly tuneups for life saves me a ton. Gas for a drive 5.1 miles one way is really negligible compared to the other costs.
No, we end up with sprawl because living the American dream includes a home with a yard and not high density housing. And even when planners are forced to create HDH to reduce or slow sprawl, Americans would rather continue to spread out to get their piece of the dream than live in a 'Pass the Sugar' neighborhood or HDH communities.
The biggest problem with all of this is that instead of building transit infrastructure which makes sense, we try to retrofit half-broken models into areas where it will not work. BRT, supposedly LRT on rubber (we heard this in the 1950s - 1970s; oh how history repeats itself), was going to be the savior to the communities here South of Mpls/StP. What we ended up with are widened roads, a lot of construction, and the eventuality that express buses taking 35 minutes to get downtown will be eliminated so we can take up to 1.5 hours to do the same trip on BRT (they claim this won't happen but after spending 100+ million on the project, they will want it to be used and it won't be until they force it to be).
There are so many competing interests and opinions in our country that stating simply that 'building new roads is easier' is not entirely true. It sucks but we get to deal with it.
Yay for progress.
The irony in your statement is astounding.
There was a recent job posting for some marketing company (I forget the name; I'm sure if you do a Google search you'll find it) that wanted a Klout score above 35 to be hired.
1. I have a 48 Klout score and while I work with marketing data analytics, I am not influential on any topics, at all.
2. If someone needs to have a 35+ on Klout, that shows just how irrelevant this number is for a marketing gig.
3. The fact that companies are interested in this number means someone is trying to make it relevant and thus the entire thing is scary as shit.
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While Klout apparently believes I'm most influential in the "Twin Cities", "Food" and "Games" and one could make an argument for the first two, the third is just batshit crazy.
Klout is meaningless and should be completely ignored.
It's pretty crazy that I'm still with the same site I was reading back in high school and my freshman year of college.
I still remember my first +4 post and how I got contacted by the guy who in HS introduced me to the site I would continually contribute to as a commenter for the next 15 years of my life because it floated to the top.
I went to my first /. meetup after moving to Minnesota, a state where I knew no one and realized the community this site has built covers such a wide range of "nerds" that while I didn't fit intothe local area Slashbot mentality, I still had a community in which my opinions were read and sometimes read and appreciated up through today. I don't know many other places where so many different lifestyles and opinions about the same base topics can coexist happily.
However, to respond to the parent post, it was during these 15 years that I went to college, graduated, worked in many different fields, got married, had two kids, and changed from a die-hard Linux geek to someone who can appreciate all OSs for what they offer--something I would NEVER have imagined myself being when I was in my teens.
Best of luck Slashdot for another 15.
I would venture a guess the 15+ million Mormons worldwide do. The fact that the Mormon religion is heavily invested in business (right or wrong considering their status as a religion), I would guess it wasn't Linus' brightest moment--apology or not.
I was out in Orlando for work in April and LA in May. At MSP (my home airport) and MCO we had a choice in scanner methods, in LA we didn't. I refused to use the scanner, instead opting for the manual pat down.
At MCO I was through the "traditional" scanner method quickly, 10 minutes faster than my coworkers who got their chromosomes scrambled. In LA, I was 30 seconds behind my coworker.
It's not fucking worth it to use the scanners. IMO we should all be opting out and forcing the TSA to work harder to get the job done. If people stood up against the intrusion it would be far more effective than the courts telling them to do X and them ignoring it.
They can't as easily ignore an airport full of VERY angry passengers waiting in long lines to do it the "hard" way.
Not necessarily. Politicians are voted in, staff are not and many times staff are the ones who have direct access to your data, not the politicians themselves.
But that was via assembling data people chose to submit to Target through their purchases. This is the government assembling data that their citizens probably didn't want to submit.
Remember, you have a choice not to support private business intrusion, you don't have a choice not to support government intrusion.
If you say so. I went with a Nikon instead of a Canon DSLR for the same reason.
The iPhone has a metal back now. I don't see your point.
I doubt Apple will ever copy the cheap feeling the Galaxy SIII has when you hold it in your hand. I have been an iPhone user since the 3G (10/2008) and was interested in seeing how the Galaxy SIII would be as a replacement device knowing all the great things people are saying about it.
I picked it up in the store and it felt cheap, almost like a child's toy. Light yes, durable, not so much. As someone who dropped their iPhone4 less than 72 hours after purchasing it and watching the back glass shatter, I wanted something more durable. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear the S3 would help me much in that area.
I played with the device for about 25 minutes and found myself saying, "meh". While I'm glad there is a choice between Apple and Android phones and a wide variety to choose from for those who like that sort of thing, I decided to stick w/the iPhone.
I picked mine up Friday morning (the Verizon store told me if I was there by 8 AM I could get one) and I have been pleased. It's not perfect by any means I don't want to say the device is flawless, but as someone who has used both, I still much prefer the iPhone to the S3 and don't see any copying at all.
YMMV.
I learn much better by reading and writing, not by listening to people talk. While traditional education models do push for one method over the other, it doesn't mean that someone may learn better in another way. While I am not going to argue there are not faults in online education, just because a traditional model has been accepted as optimal doesn't mean it is and should be eliminated.
Disclaimer: I am a student of online education and I have worked in both public not-for-profit and private for-profit education institutions which offer online components or are outright all online.