unless you are self employed the option is for a Company to either offer you health care or your company pay a fine to decline it.
Given that health insurance companies want someone earning $30,000 to pay $15,000 a year for health care is the real problem. What's worse is that the person earning $100,000+ a earn pays less than $5,000 for even better coverage.
1 in 6 American's are currently without health insurance, some are by choice but for most the choice was made by health insurance companies that won't provide any affordable benefits unless your earning a minimum of 40k a year person person in a married couple.
Personally I have always believed device drivers should be Installed in firmware in the device itself with a stanard set of interface protocals for working the device. Driver updates would be complicated however upgradeing hardware would be easier. It seems wrong the amanufacture can add so many features to "dedicated" hardware that they put out so many driver releases.
Either the os can poll the hardware ask whatthe hardware supports. Installs is literally insert new hardware.
The faster you go the direction of wind, and it's speed changes. What is hard for most people to under stand there are really no lines on a boat that are solid. even the lines that hold the mast up can be tweaked. while any given boat has a top hull speed, you can design boats with hull speed numbers many times that of the wind. The fastest sailboat to date was clocked doing 60mph, (55knots) in a 30mph(25 knot) breeze. That's doing twice wind speed.
Sailing is areodynamics, hydrodynamics, and a tinker's dream all combined into one package.
no I wouldn't as your completely wrong about me. I switch OS's on a regular basis. all my data files are in open formats so I can switch quickly between OS's.
on a driod their is no back button in landscape mode, you have to use the hardware buttons which are in a awkward place in landscape. The browser doesn't have a clear method of going back in fact bringing up the address bar itself is a pain. maybe I am just blind but on the iphone there is a clear button that is always on screen showing the back, forward, bookmarks, and tabs. I didn't see anything like that in landscape mode. I kept getting stuck in a layout designed for large screens(web sites fault) but my iphone could still navigate such pages, where as the droid would get stuck in menu options.
the droid does handle sites designed for mobiles better, but I don't want half ass mobile websites. I want the full site. The iphone delivers, droid doesn't, always. Now to be fair I haven't played with 2.2 yet maybe parts of it have finally caught up. However even my iphone 3G with 2.0 was a far better overall experience to use that android has been so far. The fact that HTC has to add their own TUI on top of android should say a lot more than people realize.
Actually I have friends with various droid phones.
Just the other day I tried to use his phone to search for a random want ad that we were making fun of. I spent 10 minutes struggling to use the web browser. The keyboard responded stupidly, and for the life of me I couldn't find the back button in landscape mode, web sites would get stuck in menu selections( I was in the wrong drop down menu and it wouldn't let me out without selecting something).
I got so frustrated I pulled out my iPhone and went to the same website to show the usabity differences. I found the ad with my iPhone a lot faster as I could navigate the complex website far easier.
Android has the features, but using them requires a counter intuitive stupid methods( like rotate to portait and press the back button to get out of long menus)
apple hates adobes stance on flash that non windows non x86 processors get buggy years later versions of flash that windows users get. Really it takes adobe years toport their software. Apple is a hardware company. For all we know the next ipad will use an intel atom processor. Apple will make ittrivial to run the current arm apps on x86 but adobe will take 18 additional months to port their non native apps
The next point is trust. Do you trust adobe to let a browser plugin have complete access to your hardware? Flash needs itand with selectable output controls you soon won't be able to watch hulu over a VGA cablebut need dvi. It hasn't been annouced but thatis what is coming.
A browser plugin requiring hardware access is just stupid. The browser doesn't need that kind of access why should a plugin? Isn't thatwhat the os isfor?
Limit hardware options and use planned obsolesce seems to be working for apple very well. 1 new phone yearly and support that phone for 3+ years. Limit battery replacement optioons to make the consumer make a choice. buy a new battery, or just get a new phone.
what is it 80% of consumers just buy a new phone when their battery doesn't hold the charge that it used to anyways. I know that is what i do. the average battery so far lasts me 2-3 years. iphone 3G is 2 years old and the original is going on 3. I know the battery life in my 3G isn't what it once was. Now I will look at options and find one that works for me. 99% of my music is in MP3 format anyways.
And that is where the non user replaceable battery comes in. You see after 2 years my Iphone 3g is running about 70% of it's battery life than when i first got it. In 6 months my phone will be almost 2.5 years old and I will be ready for the next phone anyways.
The real question is will I find a decent android phone with a decent UI that can easily surf the web, and you know make calls, or will i have to upgrade to an Iphone HD that comes out in 6 weeks?
Droids always come off as half finished to me, with no polish and poor craftsmanship in the hardware.
yes but the only hardware acceleration for flash is running windows.
Even flash 10.1 will only hardware accelerate flash video on some devices but not all. Flash will still drain down mobile devices at a massively increased rate for little gain. carefully read adobe's words. they can only do part of it and the beta's prove it.
Not to mention flash is way to hardware specific for a PLUGIN. Flash wants direct hardware access for a limited access plugin. it is why adobe has such a hard time porting to to various platforms.
the thing is I have seen water divining work. The guy used a dowsing rod and found 4 wells for my neighbors, and 2 for my family. He even tracked the water from our neighbors well to our own. later geologists came through and mapped the entire area too. That old man was off by maybe 5%
How it works i can't answer, but I did witness it working. He was wrong once, and with that, he as off by 10 feet in depth. (he said 20' and in reality it was 30')
I suggest you read the history of Al capone. He was never tried for killing anyone. Instead he went to jail for not paying taxes on his speakeasies, and illegal liqueur sales.
I don't know why people fail to understand history the implications it has across time. I am personally waiting for the IRS to start cracking down on drug dealers. there are billions in taxes that are waiting to be collected.
this right here is the point. the software isn't optimized for the hardware. They can't get the best use out of any given chip. Apple does more "advanced" features on less powerful hardware and ram than anyone else. how is it possible that they got the OS working better than anyone else?
Oh and for the record every andriod phone I have used have had horrible interfaces, hard to navigate browsers(where the fsck is the back button in landscape mode, and why does the typing on the keyboard have to be so painful?)
When it comes down to it, I use outlook(email, calendering) MS Office,( word processing but I prefer Open Office personally) a PDF viewer,and the front end for our database server.(runs over SSH).
If apple were to fix the stupid document handling(itunes is not a file manager media syncs' work ok but documents?) I could easily fit an ipad into my work flow.
apparently your a moron and can't understand history in any way shape or form.
Windows 7 tablet is no different than windows XP tablet that has for the last 10 years failed to make any kind of headway.
All you describe are random small (and not so small) flaws, in the technical approach of Iphone OS. ou can't understand that a tablet isn't a netbook, and it isn't a full blown computer. having a desktop OS on a tablet is like installing netBSD onto a toaster. Just because you can doesn't mean it will work well.
anyone with an IQ under 100 would work just fine. Since that is half the population anyways it would be good for world wide population control too. If you want to be nice you can even throw in an average. You can take the test 3 times and they average your score.
Bonus it would limit the influence of religion as most conservatives, and religious idiots are under 100 IQ points anyways, and those that are above it while holding their beliefs actually can be reasoned with.
We have time warner business call at 7 locations across upstate NY.
On average time warner is dropping 1-2 locations every month. now overall their service isn't bad in any one given location, but overall it is about 95% uptime.
English is and always have been the bastard child of every other language. merging and combining new words into it. it is constantly changing. It had gone formal for several years and is now gone more open. By the end of this century it will swing back to becoming more formal.
no but the internet wouldn't exist without the military. so no facebook. Eventually civilian tech would have made something similiar though it would be like surfing the internet with aol 24-7.
Civilian internet -- AOL Military Internet converted and expanded by businesses and civilians. -- is the one we got.
Tap water is too variable. No city gets all of it's water from the same source. Not even Vegas were it has to get piped in. So you have totaeget multiple sources at the same time. Then you have placement. Water tends to get chlorinated and filtered. So youhave to poision it after is in high pressure pipes. Oy wastewater flows through non pressured lines.
i second this. many people think they can get by with only 4-5 hours of sleep a night, and then when they do get a chance to sleep deeply they can't wake up easily.
I am not above taking a nap during the weekends. Wake up on saturday eat, do some chores, or what ever take a nap for lunch and then go out for the evening to have fun.
Considering it isn't unusual to have all in one LCdisplays that are only a couple of inches thick to the mac mini or Shuttle computers which are the size of a bunch of CD cases. Big desktop cases only sell because they are at the right price.
Desktops won't go away, but i can say this I haven't owned a tower for years. I use the space for other things. however the real point is this.
The big difference is old tablets you could use the onscreen keyboards as they allowed only one character at a time entry. no multi touch. no user interface designed for a tablet. They were designed for a keyboard and mouse. Windows XP on a tablet is about as useful as win3.1 on an droid. Sure you can run it techincally but it isn't really designed for it, it runs like crap. A phone is not a desktop computer. a tablet is not a desktop computer. They should complement each other. A tablet isn't for sitting at a desk typing.
A tablet is to sit on the couch next to you while you watch tv or read the paper. to look up random notes. A tablet sits on the desk next to you as you play the latest PC game with the walk through on it. so you can browse the web with a swipe and a quick slash of the hand, instead of alt-tabbing out.
Try curling up on the couch with a netbook and a ipad. let me know which one fits in your lap with proper ergonomics to work with?
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unless you are self employed the option is for a Company to either offer you health care or your company pay a fine to decline it.
Given that health insurance companies want someone earning $30,000 to pay $15,000 a year for health care is the real problem. What's worse is that the person earning $100,000+ a earn pays less than $5,000 for even better coverage.
1 in 6 American's are currently without health insurance, some are by choice but for most the choice was made by health insurance companies that won't provide any affordable benefits unless your earning a minimum of 40k a year person person in a married couple.
the republican's refused to talk about that part.
Personally I have always believed device drivers should be Installed in firmware in the device itself with a stanard set of interface protocals for working the device. Driver updates would be complicated however upgradeing hardware would be easier. It seems wrong the amanufacture can add so many features to "dedicated" hardware that they put out so many driver releases.
Either the os can poll the hardware ask whatthe hardware supports. Installs is literally insert new hardware.
apparent wind angles and speed.
The faster you go the direction of wind, and it's speed changes. What is hard for most people to under stand there are really no lines on a boat that are solid. even the lines that hold the mast up can be tweaked. while any given boat has a top hull speed, you can design boats with hull speed numbers many times that of the wind. The fastest sailboat to date was clocked doing 60mph, (55knots) in a 30mph(25 knot) breeze. That's doing twice wind speed.
Sailing is areodynamics, hydrodynamics, and a tinker's dream all combined into one package.
I don't know I would rather watch paint dry and grass grow rather than watch idol, or dancing with egos.
no I wouldn't as your completely wrong about me. I switch OS's on a regular basis. all my data files are in open formats so I can switch quickly between OS's.
on a driod their is no back button in landscape mode, you have to use the hardware buttons which are in a awkward place in landscape. The browser doesn't have a clear method of going back in fact bringing up the address bar itself is a pain. maybe I am just blind but on the iphone there is a clear button that is always on screen showing the back, forward, bookmarks, and tabs. I didn't see anything like that in landscape mode. I kept getting stuck in a layout designed for large screens(web sites fault) but my iphone could still navigate such pages, where as the droid would get stuck in menu options.
the droid does handle sites designed for mobiles better, but I don't want half ass mobile websites. I want the full site. The iphone delivers, droid doesn't, always. Now to be fair I haven't played with 2.2 yet maybe parts of it have finally caught up. However even my iphone 3G with 2.0 was a far better overall experience to use that android has been so far. The fact that HTC has to add their own TUI on top of android should say a lot more than people realize.
Actually I have friends with various droid phones.
Just the other day I tried to use his phone to search for a random want ad that we were making fun of. I spent 10 minutes struggling to use the web browser. The keyboard responded stupidly, and for the life of me I couldn't find the back button in landscape mode, web sites would get stuck in menu selections( I was in the wrong drop down menu and it wouldn't let me out without selecting something).
I got so frustrated I pulled out my iPhone and went to the same website to show the usabity differences. I found the ad with my iPhone a lot faster as I could navigate the complex website far easier.
Android has the features, but using them requires a counter intuitive stupid methods( like rotate to portait and press the back button to get out of long menus)
Apple doesnt hate flash
apple hates adobes stance on flash that non windows non x86 processors get buggy years later versions of flash that windows users get.
Really it takes adobe years toport their software. Apple is a hardware company. For all we know the next ipad will use an intel atom processor. Apple will make ittrivial to run the current arm apps on x86 but adobe will take 18 additional months to port their non native apps
The next point is trust. Do you trust adobe to let a browser plugin have complete access to your hardware? Flash needs itand with selectable output controls you soon won't be able to watch hulu over a VGA cablebut need dvi. It hasn't been annouced but thatis what is coming.
A browser plugin requiring hardware access is just stupid. The browser doesn't need that kind of access why should a plugin? Isn't thatwhat the os isfor?
Limit hardware options and use planned obsolesce seems to be working for apple very well. 1 new phone yearly and support that phone for 3+ years. Limit battery replacement optioons to make the consumer make a choice. buy a new battery, or just get a new phone.
what is it 80% of consumers just buy a new phone when their battery doesn't hold the charge that it used to anyways. I know that is what i do. the average battery so far lasts me 2-3 years. iphone 3G is 2 years old and the original is going on 3. I know the battery life in my 3G isn't what it once was. Now I will look at options and find one that works for me. 99% of my music is in MP3 format anyways.
And that is where the non user replaceable battery comes in. You see after 2 years my Iphone 3g is running about 70% of it's battery life than when i first got it. In 6 months my phone will be almost 2.5 years old and I will be ready for the next phone anyways.
The real question is will I find a decent android phone with a decent UI that can easily surf the web, and you know make calls, or will i have to upgrade to an Iphone HD that comes out in 6 weeks?
Droids always come off as half finished to me, with no polish and poor craftsmanship in the hardware.
yes but the only hardware acceleration for flash is running windows.
Even flash 10.1 will only hardware accelerate flash video on some devices but not all. Flash will still drain down mobile devices at a massively increased rate for little gain. carefully read adobe's words. they can only do part of it and the beta's prove it.
Not to mention flash is way to hardware specific for a PLUGIN. Flash wants direct hardware access for a limited access plugin. it is why adobe has such a hard time porting to to various platforms.
the thing is I have seen water divining work. The guy used a dowsing rod and found 4 wells for my neighbors, and 2 for my family. He even tracked the water from our neighbors well to our own. later geologists came through and mapped the entire area too. That old man was off by maybe 5%
How it works i can't answer, but I did witness it working. He was wrong once, and with that, he as off by 10 feet in depth. (he said 20' and in reality it was 30')
I suggest you read the history of Al capone. He was never tried for killing anyone. Instead he went to jail for not paying taxes on his speakeasies, and illegal liqueur sales.
I don't know why people fail to understand history the implications it has across time. I am personally waiting for the IRS to start cracking down on drug dealers. there are billions in taxes that are waiting to be collected.
this right here is the point. the software isn't optimized for the hardware. They can't get the best use out of any given chip. Apple does more "advanced" features on less powerful hardware and ram than anyone else. how is it possible that they got the OS working better than anyone else?
Oh and for the record every andriod phone I have used have had horrible interfaces, hard to navigate browsers(where the fsck is the back button in landscape mode, and why does the typing on the keyboard have to be so painful?)
And that's really the point.
When it comes down to it, I use outlook(email, calendering) MS Office,( word processing but I prefer Open Office personally) a PDF viewer,and the front end for our database server.(runs over SSH).
If apple were to fix the stupid document handling(itunes is not a file manager media syncs' work ok but documents?) I could easily fit an ipad into my work flow.
Steve ballmer with devil ears is already being used for BSD so we are stuck with Borg Gates until MSFT folds or a new CEO is put into place.
apparently your a moron and can't understand history in any way shape or form.
Windows 7 tablet is no different than windows XP tablet that has for the last 10 years failed to make any kind of headway.
All you describe are random small (and not so small) flaws, in the technical approach of Iphone OS. ou can't understand that a tablet isn't a netbook, and it isn't a full blown computer. having a desktop OS on a tablet is like installing netBSD onto a toaster. Just because you can doesn't mean it will work well.
So they settled for user reports written in Powerpoint?
I don't think it is any better. in fact I think Crayon is a much better tool for reports than powerpoint.
anyone with an IQ under 100 would work just fine. Since that is half the population anyways it would be good for world wide population control too. If you want to be nice you can even throw in an average. You can take the test 3 times and they average your score.
Bonus it would limit the influence of religion as most conservatives, and religious idiots are under 100 IQ points anyways, and those that are above it while holding their beliefs actually can be reasoned with.
We have time warner business call at 7 locations across upstate NY.
On average time warner is dropping 1-2 locations every month. now overall their service isn't bad in any one given location, but overall it is about 95% uptime.
Did you miss the two points? We would be on an aol style network. Second it was the military funding of the backbone that enabled the connections.
English is and always have been the bastard child of every other language. merging and combining new words into it. it is constantly changing. It had gone formal for several years and is now gone more open. By the end of this century it will swing back to becoming more formal.
English does this on a regular basis.
no but the internet wouldn't exist without the military. so no facebook. Eventually civilian tech would have made something similiar though it would be like surfing the internet with aol 24-7.
Civilian internet -- AOL
Military Internet converted and expanded by businesses and civilians. -- is the one we got.
Tap water is too variable. No city gets all of it's water from the same source. Not even Vegas were it has to get piped in. So you have totaeget multiple sources at the same time. Then you have placement. Water tends to get chlorinated and filtered. So youhave to poision it after is in high pressure pipes. Oy wastewater flows through non pressured lines.
i second this. many people think they can get by with only 4-5 hours of sleep a night, and then when they do get a chance to sleep deeply they can't wake up easily.
I am not above taking a nap during the weekends. Wake up on saturday eat, do some chores, or what ever take a nap for lunch and then go out for the evening to have fun.
Considering it isn't unusual to have all in one LCdisplays that are only a couple of inches thick to the mac mini or Shuttle computers which are the size of a bunch of CD cases. Big desktop cases only sell because they are at the right price.
Desktops won't go away, but i can say this I haven't owned a tower for years. I use the space for other things. however the real point is this.
The big difference is old tablets you could use the onscreen keyboards as they allowed only one character at a time entry. no multi touch. no user interface designed for a tablet. They were designed for a keyboard and mouse. Windows XP on a tablet is about as useful as win3.1 on an droid. Sure you can run it techincally but it isn't really designed for it, it runs like crap. A phone is not a desktop computer. a tablet is not a desktop computer. They should complement each other. A tablet isn't for sitting at a desk typing.
A tablet is to sit on the couch next to you while you watch tv or read the paper. to look up random notes. A tablet sits on the desk next to you as you play the latest PC game with the walk through on it. so you can browse the web with a swipe and a quick slash of the hand, instead of alt-tabbing out.
Try curling up on the couch with a netbook and a ipad. let me know which one fits in your lap with proper ergonomics to work with?