I have a much better idea. A fundamentalist Christian has no business seeing a physician or being in a hospital ever.
Corinthians 2:12:5:...but for myself I will glory nothing but in my infirmities. For though I should have a mind to glory, I shall not be foolish: for I will say the truth. But I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth in me, or any thing he heareth from me. And lest the greatness of the revelations should exalt me, there was given me a sting of my flesh, an angel of Satan, to buffet me. For which thing, thrice I besought the Lord that it might depart from me. And he said to me: My grace is sufficient for thee: for power is made perfect in infirmity. Gladly therefore will I glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may dwell in me. Power is made perfect. ..The strength and power of God more perfectly shines forth in our weakness and infirmity; as the more weak we are of ourselves, the more illustrious is his grace in supporting us, and giving us the victory under all trials and conflicts. For which cause I please myself in my infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ. For when I am weak, then am I powerful.
Any Christian that pushes intelligent design over evolution should have the courage of their convictions and forsake modern medicine. Glory in your disease, for it is a gift from God.
Disease - "The term disease broadly refers to any condition that impairs normal function". Therefore, being deaf is a disease, paralyzed is a disease, etc. Perhaps that bible verse is encouraging people with disease to accept what can not be cured, that "it is a gift from god", instead of your interpretation that it is trying to tell them to never visit doctors.
How is the domain automatically his if it is his name? What if the domain was registered by someone else bearing the name "Ron Paul"? Would Politician Ron Paul be able to wrest control of the domain from the not-as-well-known Ron Paul based solely on name recognition? And what if not-as-well-known Ron Paul wanted to sell the domain name? Should he be limited in selling it to someone whose name is "Ron Paul" or can he sell it to anything (for example, a fan of politician Ron Paul).
(Not saying that's what happened here. Just pointing out that having a name isn't the same thing as automatically having rights to a domain name with said name.)
You would be absolutely 100% correct, IF the domain ronpaul.com was being used for some other purpose. Maybe there's a plumber named Ron Paul who wants to put up a website. Or an accountant. Or a guy named Ron Paul wants to sell auto parts on the Internet. Those are all legitimate.
But that's not the case here. The domain is being used exclusively for activities relating to Ron Paul the congressman from Texas. This is exactly the definition of cybersquatting.
This x100. It's cybersquatting to buy the name of a famous person or brand and wait for them to offer six-figures to buy it. RonPaulFans.com would be ok for fans to own, but RonPaul.com should belong to Ron Paul.
Because everything Apple does is super important! Even a rumor about them possibly thinking about making a gadget that 100 other companies are also working on is important enough to get an immediate front page on Slashdot.
You're right. The touchscreen phones everyone now has? Were not popular until the iPhone, then every manufacture started making touchscreen phones and completely changed cellphones and communication. Tablets sucked (windows xp tablet edition yuck!) until the iPad. So yeah, apple making a watch is super important.
Speaking of updates, nice to see iOS provides latest updates even to older phones like the 2009 3GS supports the latest iOS 6.1. Read an article about google patching a android vulnerability but only offered it for Andriod 4.2 Jelly Bean which came out November 2012. All older versions of android are still vulnerable. No one wants to offer android users updates to their phones, seems their mentality is "buy a new Android every 3 months when the new OS comes out". Who has time or money to buy new phones and tablets every 3 months? This problem is going to get worse before it gets better, google needs to offer a way to update all these older devices to the latest version of android.
The A6 and A6X are in the same speed range as the high-end G5's and low end CoreSolos (and a few CoreDuos) from 6 years ago. And yes, it is very impressive, especially when you consider the power, heat, size, cooling, and price differences between them. It also makes you wonder about the future, in 6 years will we have Sandy Bridge i5 level performance in our phones?
It's truly phenomenal. And then you realize that this power, heat, size, price, cooling savings also includes an impressive GPU as well.
Sure, there are various sorts of things to consider beyond benchmarks and such, but it's quite impressive no matter how you look at it. And even if the specific details for the story in question, PPC 750 (I'm assuming that because you are referencing it, that's what's in Curiosity), vs an A6 SoC isn't a fair fight, I do think most people (including most Slashdot nerds) would either be surprised, or at least find it an interesting tidbit, that the processing power of the solar system's most advanced robot is dwarfed by an everyday consumer phone used by millions. Even those of us who understand the process through which technology is tested, selected, hardened, and programmed for, how reliability and consistency is preferred over raw performance, how embedded processors aren't taxed in the same way desktop, or even mobile, systems are taxed, etc., how even we can see the unique and notable dynamic here.
The impressive part isn't the speed, it's the fact the A6 in the iPhone 5 is running with the same 3.7v 1400mah battery in the original 412mhz iPhone. That's like throwing the supercharged V8 in your car but still getting 50mpg Prius numbers.
Assume you could cover the entire top surface(s) of a small car with solar panels and let them charge batteries
all day while the car is parked at work. Assume battery charging is 100% efficient:
Panel Area ~4 m^2 (liberal, but I'm trying to make a point)
Panel Efficiency 20.4%
Time in sun 8 hours
Sun angle derate 50%
Solar input ~1kw/m^2
Then the batteries get charged with 1*4*8*0.5*0.204 ==> ~3.26 KWH
A small car engine is rated at ~200 KW (i.e. Ford Focus Spec at 223 KW)
If you average using only 1/4 the available power ===> 50 KW
The saved energy in the battery will move you for 60min*3.26/50 ===> ~4 minutes
So, you run out of juice about the time you hit the on-ramp of the freeway.
The point being, this isn't going to work unless you have more efficient cells, more efficient vehicles, more
solar panel area, or a combination of all three.
Actually the Nissan Leaf gets about 4.5 miles per KWH. So if the panels on the car really can generate 3.26 KWH in only 8 hours that's 4.5 miles * 3.26 KWH = 14.67 miles just on solar power. That's pretty significant IMHO, that would be worth adding solar panels to the car, even if you have a place to park and charge it at night. For example, let's say your daily commute is 25 miles, that's 175 miles a week. For the sake of simplicity let's say the Leaf gets 87.5 miles per charge, so the user would charge twice a week in this example. If the solar panels generate a 14.67 mile range every day, that's only 10.33 miles being used by batteries instead of the full 25 miles, so instead of charging twice a week, user would charge every 8 days. This is huge, especially for people that live in apartments or other situations where plugging your car in is not convenient, they could bring the car somewhere once every 8 days for a full charging.
You could stick a couple of square meters of solar panels on a typical car, which at 20% efficiency would give you about 240W on a sunny day. For a half-hour commute (fifteen minutes each way) and eight hours in the car park, that would give you about five horsepower if the battery is 100% efficient and you didn't need to use any other electrical items, like AC or headlights.
So it's potentially possible, but would be a really crappy drive.
I still go out of my way to give my business to Amazon or any other legal alternative to avoid doing business with apple whenever possible.
Really not sure what it was they did to piss me off (probably a huge pile of small things over the years) but man I just do not like them.
It was only apple that gave use MP3 players and downloadable music and touchscreen phones and tablets, so you should hate them. What about the 32 megabyte Diamond Rio? Yes other MP3 players existed, but Apple made them popular and simple and stopped the music industry from claiming MP3 players were designed to steal music. Then after years of napster and limewire, apple finally gave us a legit way to download music cheaply. Then after years of awful windows mobile phones and Palm insisting touchscreens needed a stylus for writing one c h a r a c t e r A t A T I m e Apple finally gave us the iPhone, which showed the world there was a large marketplace for a all touchscreen phone with onscreen keyboard. Next Apple reinvented tablets by sticking four ipad touches together and charging $500. We all laughed and laughed at apple, but millions of people gave them $500. Apple might not have invented MP3 players or smartphones or tablets, they just made them popular, which allowed others to make clones that could be sold.
And regardless, isn't it a genial, brilliant idea? Of the kind that even your dog might think while taking a crap. The obviousness of these patents is so clear that it stopped being funny long ago, now it is only outraging.
I agree, sucks companies have to patent the obvious, but if apple didnt patent it someone else would in 2015 and then sue apple for using it for 8 years like the patent troll patenting podcasts in 2009.
I already have a phone that does this. As someone who is aware of my surroundings and generally conscientious, I simply turn my phone to "vibrate" or even - God forbid - OFF... It works very well indeed. And I even still receive alerts if a call or text came in. Amazing technology.
Strictly speaking, the very obese tend to die very young from any number of diseases (heart disease, diabetes, etc). Since you can't start collecting SS until 65 or 67 or some other "really old" number, there are a good many who will never collect a single check.
With that in mind, I'd like to present a solution to the problem of solvency in the SSA. As a "thank you" gift, the US gov't should send a bag of Cheetos and a six pack of Mountain Dew to every American who contributes to social security in a given month. People will feel like they're getting something for their taxes, and will trim that big fat baby boomer bubble off the SS payroll. America binged in the 50s. It's time for her to purge...
True, but the money spent on treated their diabietes for years greatly exceeds anything they would collect from social security.
I say reward people for losing weight and while we're at it stop giving people money to have more children. Tax breaks I get, but there are people that pay no taxes and are given govt aid for each kid they have. That's dumb, we are rewarding them for not being able to support their children.
Raises curiosity: how much work is done by this 15-old boy and how much is actually done by his father?
I imagine about the same ratio as famous professors and the grad-students working under them... Don't underestimate the ideas and work that can be done by underlings. Only in this case, the underling gets the credit, in the other case, usually not so much...
15 yr old, with no college or astronomy knowledge, joins astrophysicist dad at work, and 15 yr old makes break thru scientific discovery? Seems legit
I would happily live with a 6mm or *gasp* 7mm device if it had a microsd slot and few extra hrs of battery life. But Apple started this race for thin game and everyone has been playing catchup ever since by sacrificing features. I filled 64gb in 3 months, most are 1-2gb games. P0rn is the one thing not on the device since I can stream that from dropbox, etc.
I agree swipe to unlock isn't particularly innovative, but a phone that is just a giant touchscreen using only your fingers and a integrated app store is pretty revolutionary. Before apple no device brought those three features together. Blackberry had a store but the store was very limited due to the device limitations, having a large capative touchscreen on every iOS device allowed for many different kinds and styles of apps.
Strange comment since even the newest version of iOS was largely an attempt to play catch-up with Android, since Android has more features to begin with.
Apple devices are largely for those that don't want to or need to do as much as more "nerdier" solutions, similar in a way that a Fischer-Price toy is more appropriate for a toddler than a real cell phone.
I think you meant that "apple is like a Fischer Price toy" to be an insult, but that's exactly what people want. A device that does exactly what it's mean to do and does it very well and is virtually indestructible? Um, yes please! I work with enough tech everyday, who wants yet another device that requires hacking and rooting and trouble-shooting? Not me. iOS works perfectly from the box, and they have about a billion apps and billions of case options and compatible with tons of 3rd party devices from stereos to cars to treadmills. And for a "nerdier" solution? There's an app for that, there's an app for everything! Probably several apps. If Nintendo Gameboy taught us anything it's not the features or CPU or screen, it's the apps the device runs that matters. Android is playing catchup in the app department and I have no doubt they'll beat apple someday, but today is not that day;)
I'd never tell a gamer to buy a Mac. But I'd also never recommend that an artist get a PC. And I'd definitely never suggest that my grandmother run linux. Each has its place.
But a gamer should buy an iPhone, the games on iOS are pretty amazing, console quality. Check out walking dead. The console and PC version is the same one as one iOS. Android not supported.
Not so right about the form factor though. The 7" tablet seems to have become the dominant one, without people filing down their fingers:), although attributing Everything to Steve Jobs without acknowledging the natural progression of technology, or what happened before it is ridiculous, or the other people who worked on the iPad. The most remarkable thing about the iPad at launch was its price:) something Apple seem to have forgotten.
I was just thinking that, and take it further: thank you Apple for redefining smartphones. Smartphones sucked so bad until the iPhone came out, now every phone is practically an iPhone clone. Remember the Motorola Q or Windows Mobile? Didnt even have a marketplace, you'd just have to search for apps and hope they ran well on your device.
People seem to forget that Apple and Steve is to thank for all these devices we have now. Tablets would not have existed without the popularity of the iPhone.
- Don't use linkedin at all. Telling everybody on the internet where you work is doggonne retarded.
-- Ethanol-fueled
AGREED!!!!!!
I do NOT want strangers to know every job I ever worked! The risks of social engineering are HUGE! God forbid they call some dumb boss I had and pretend to be god knows who and get social security number or who knows what info from them. Plus stalking would be *extremely* easy with job info because I'm there more than I'm at home! Tires slashed by some nutty gf or employee from ten yrs ago and I have *no* idea why? No thanks! LinkedIn completely baffles me, people make the same information public on LinkedIn then bitch when Facebook shares it with your friends
I would go to BBB and attorney state general on that, then there's a record and papertrail. Manager of a fast food chain calling my boss because I left a bad review is absurd.
Agreed. Foursquare is dying. Facebook allows check-ins, so no one is using foursquare. So if your website is dying how do you get some press coverage? Make an outrageous claim that you're going to publish the full names and locations of all of your customers! Instant news coverage! 3 days later, claim due to "public outcry" you're changing your mind! Instant hero and more press! Thousands of new users sign up to the website! Marketing Basics 101 right there
While I agree sony sucks, very few ps3 customers care if they can put Linux on their ps3 and there is nothing people can do about malware on a PC they already bought and thats easy to remove. Instagram's new TOS was saying they own all your photos and would sell them to anyone that paid and you'd get nothing. That's a little different then what Sony did.
I believe the 25% drop due to the new TOS, because if anything people are uploading MORE pics during the holidays, not less.
My kids do 13/16 and they love it on the big screen though a HTPC. They have laptop and Samsung phones but they prefer to sit there and use the TV as a computer. If there was an 10 Foot UI linux distro the TV would get way more computer time usage between watching HULU/Netlix/Cracle, playing games/STEAM and watching video from websites.
RTFA: Netflix/crackle/YouTube/playing games is considered "watching TV", study was trying to see who was surfing with their TV, like going to/. or Facebook and reading. Your kids watching video on your tv is not "using the TV as a computer"...... unless you think computers were made for watching videos, in which case your geek card is formally revoked and you may leave thru the door on your right.
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I have a much better idea. A fundamentalist Christian has no business seeing a physician or being in a hospital ever.
Any Christian that pushes intelligent design over evolution should have the courage of their convictions and forsake modern medicine. Glory in your disease, for it is a gift from God.
Disease - "The term disease broadly refers to any condition that impairs normal function". Therefore, being deaf is a disease, paralyzed is a disease, etc. Perhaps that bible verse is encouraging people with disease to accept what can not be cured, that "it is a gift from god", instead of your interpretation that it is trying to tell them to never visit doctors.
How is the domain automatically his if it is his name? What if the domain was registered by someone else bearing the name "Ron Paul"? Would Politician Ron Paul be able to wrest control of the domain from the not-as-well-known Ron Paul based solely on name recognition? And what if not-as-well-known Ron Paul wanted to sell the domain name? Should he be limited in selling it to someone whose name is "Ron Paul" or can he sell it to anything (for example, a fan of politician Ron Paul).
(Not saying that's what happened here. Just pointing out that having a name isn't the same thing as automatically having rights to a domain name with said name.)
You would be absolutely 100% correct, IF the domain ronpaul.com was being used for some other purpose. Maybe there's a plumber named Ron Paul who wants to put up a website. Or an accountant. Or a guy named Ron Paul wants to sell auto parts on the Internet. Those are all legitimate.
But that's not the case here. The domain is being used exclusively for activities relating to Ron Paul the congressman from Texas. This is exactly the definition of cybersquatting.
This x100. It's cybersquatting to buy the name of a famous person or brand and wait for them to offer six-figures to buy it. RonPaulFans.com would be ok for fans to own, but RonPaul.com should belong to Ron Paul.
At least one famous person shares my name. Which one of us owns the dot com rights?
Probably the more famous person. I'm sure there's more than one Madonna in the world but Madonna.com should probably belong to the singer.
Because everything Apple does is super important! Even a rumor about them possibly thinking about making a gadget that 100 other companies are also working on is important enough to get an immediate front page on Slashdot.
You're right. The touchscreen phones everyone now has? Were not popular until the iPhone, then every manufacture started making touchscreen phones and completely changed cellphones and communication. Tablets sucked (windows xp tablet edition yuck!) until the iPad. So yeah, apple making a watch is super important.
Speaking of updates, nice to see iOS provides latest updates even to older phones like the 2009 3GS supports the latest iOS 6.1. Read an article about google patching a android vulnerability but only offered it for Andriod 4.2 Jelly Bean which came out November 2012. All older versions of android are still vulnerable. No one wants to offer android users updates to their phones, seems their mentality is "buy a new Android every 3 months when the new OS comes out". Who has time or money to buy new phones and tablets every 3 months? This problem is going to get worse before it gets better, google needs to offer a way to update all these older devices to the latest version of android.
The A6 and A6X are in the same speed range as the high-end G5's and low end CoreSolos (and a few CoreDuos) from 6 years ago. And yes, it is very impressive, especially when you consider the power, heat, size, cooling, and price differences between them. It also makes you wonder about the future, in 6 years will we have Sandy Bridge i5 level performance in our phones?
It's truly phenomenal. And then you realize that this power, heat, size, price, cooling savings also includes an impressive GPU as well.
Sure, there are various sorts of things to consider beyond benchmarks and such, but it's quite impressive no matter how you look at it. And even if the specific details for the story in question, PPC 750 (I'm assuming that because you are referencing it, that's what's in Curiosity), vs an A6 SoC isn't a fair fight, I do think most people (including most Slashdot nerds) would either be surprised, or at least find it an interesting tidbit, that the processing power of the solar system's most advanced robot is dwarfed by an everyday consumer phone used by millions. Even those of us who understand the process through which technology is tested, selected, hardened, and programmed for, how reliability and consistency is preferred over raw performance, how embedded processors aren't taxed in the same way desktop, or even mobile, systems are taxed, etc., how even we can see the unique and notable dynamic here.
The impressive part isn't the speed, it's the fact the A6 in the iPhone 5 is running with the same 3.7v 1400mah battery in the original 412mhz iPhone. That's like throwing the supercharged V8 in your car but still getting 50mpg Prius numbers.
You mean....like a VM?
like everyone else runs android on anything other than a phone/tablet? /facepalm for windowsandroid software to even be created
chrome in android in windows in vmware in windows? #Inception
Do the math on a solar powered car.....
Assume you could cover the entire top surface(s) of a small car with solar panels and let them charge batteries all day while the car is parked at work. Assume battery charging is 100% efficient: Panel Area ~4 m^2 (liberal, but I'm trying to make a point) Panel Efficiency 20.4% Time in sun 8 hours Sun angle derate 50% Solar input ~1kw/m^2
Then the batteries get charged with 1*4*8*0.5*0.204 ==> ~3.26 KWH A small car engine is rated at ~200 KW (i.e. Ford Focus Spec at 223 KW) If you average using only 1/4 the available power ===> 50 KW The saved energy in the battery will move you for 60min*3.26/50 ===> ~4 minutes
So, you run out of juice about the time you hit the on-ramp of the freeway.
The point being, this isn't going to work unless you have more efficient cells, more efficient vehicles, more solar panel area, or a combination of all three.
Actually the Nissan Leaf gets about 4.5 miles per KWH. So if the panels on the car really can generate 3.26 KWH in only 8 hours that's 4.5 miles * 3.26 KWH = 14.67 miles just on solar power. That's pretty significant IMHO, that would be worth adding solar panels to the car, even if you have a place to park and charge it at night. For example, let's say your daily commute is 25 miles, that's 175 miles a week. For the sake of simplicity let's say the Leaf gets 87.5 miles per charge, so the user would charge twice a week in this example. If the solar panels generate a 14.67 mile range every day, that's only 10.33 miles being used by batteries instead of the full 25 miles, so instead of charging twice a week, user would charge every 8 days. This is huge, especially for people that live in apartments or other situations where plugging your car in is not convenient, they could bring the car somewhere once every 8 days for a full charging.
And typically get most of their power from coal.
You could stick a couple of square meters of solar panels on a typical car, which at 20% efficiency would give you about 240W on a sunny day. For a half-hour commute (fifteen minutes each way) and eight hours in the car park, that would give you about five horsepower if the battery is 100% efficient and you didn't need to use any other electrical items, like AC or headlights.
So it's potentially possible, but would be a really crappy drive.
Nissan Leaf gets 4.5 miles per kWh. So every hour of charging would get about 1 mile, assuming your math is correct.
I still go out of my way to give my business to Amazon or any other legal alternative to avoid doing business with apple whenever possible.
Really not sure what it was they did to piss me off (probably a huge pile of small things over the years) but man I just do not like them.
It was only apple that gave use MP3 players and downloadable music and touchscreen phones and tablets, so you should hate them. What about the 32 megabyte Diamond Rio? Yes other MP3 players existed, but Apple made them popular and simple and stopped the music industry from claiming MP3 players were designed to steal music. Then after years of napster and limewire, apple finally gave us a legit way to download music cheaply. Then after years of awful windows mobile phones and Palm insisting touchscreens needed a stylus for writing one c h a r a c t e r A t A T I m e Apple finally gave us the iPhone, which showed the world there was a large marketplace for a all touchscreen phone with onscreen keyboard. Next Apple reinvented tablets by sticking four ipad touches together and charging $500. We all laughed and laughed at apple, but millions of people gave them $500. Apple might not have invented MP3 players or smartphones or tablets, they just made them popular, which allowed others to make clones that could be sold.
And regardless, isn't it a genial, brilliant idea? Of the kind that even your dog might think while taking a crap. The obviousness of these patents is so clear that it stopped being funny long ago, now it is only outraging.
I agree, sucks companies have to patent the obvious, but if apple didnt patent it someone else would in 2015 and then sue apple for using it for 8 years like the patent troll patenting podcasts in 2009.
I already have a phone that does this. As someone who is aware of my surroundings and generally conscientious, I simply turn my phone to "vibrate" or even - God forbid - OFF... It works very well indeed. And I even still receive alerts if a call or text came in. Amazing technology.
Yes Apple already patented the technology, silencing the phone based on GPS location. Similar to geofencing that came out in iOS 5
to keep the obese from ruining social security ?
Strictly speaking, the very obese tend to die very young from any number of diseases (heart disease, diabetes, etc). Since you can't start collecting SS until 65 or 67 or some other "really old" number, there are a good many who will never collect a single check.
With that in mind, I'd like to present a solution to the problem of solvency in the SSA. As a "thank you" gift, the US gov't should send a bag of Cheetos and a six pack of Mountain Dew to every American who contributes to social security in a given month. People will feel like they're getting something for their taxes, and will trim that big fat baby boomer bubble off the SS payroll. America binged in the 50s. It's time for her to purge...
True, but the money spent on treated their diabietes for years greatly exceeds anything they would collect from social security.
I say reward people for losing weight and while we're at it stop giving people money to have more children. Tax breaks I get, but there are people that pay no taxes and are given govt aid for each kid they have. That's dumb, we are rewarding them for not being able to support their children.
Raises curiosity: how much work is done by this 15-old boy and how much is actually done by his father?
I imagine about the same ratio as famous professors and the grad-students working under them... Don't underestimate the ideas and work that can be done by underlings. Only in this case, the underling gets the credit, in the other case, usually not so much...
15 yr old, with no college or astronomy knowledge, joins astrophysicist dad at work, and 15 yr old makes break thru scientific discovery? Seems legit
I would happily live with a 6mm or *gasp* 7mm device if it had a microsd slot and few extra hrs of battery life. But Apple started this race for thin game and everyone has been playing catchup ever since by sacrificing features. I filled 64gb in 3 months, most are 1-2gb games. P0rn is the one thing not on the device since I can stream that from dropbox, etc.
I agree swipe to unlock isn't particularly innovative, but a phone that is just a giant touchscreen using only your fingers and a integrated app store is pretty revolutionary. Before apple no device brought those three features together. Blackberry had a store but the store was very limited due to the device limitations, having a large capative touchscreen on every iOS device allowed for many different kinds and styles of apps.
Ahem? http://www.reddit.com/r/apple/search?q=wishlist&restrict_sr=on&sort=relevance&t=all
Strange comment since even the newest version of iOS was largely an attempt to play catch-up with Android, since Android has more features to begin with.
Apple devices are largely for those that don't want to or need to do as much as more "nerdier" solutions, similar in a way that a Fischer-Price toy is more appropriate for a toddler than a real cell phone.
I think you meant that "apple is like a Fischer Price toy" to be an insult, but that's exactly what people want. A device that does exactly what it's mean to do and does it very well and is virtually indestructible? Um, yes please! I work with enough tech everyday, who wants yet another device that requires hacking and rooting and trouble-shooting? Not me. iOS works perfectly from the box, and they have about a billion apps and billions of case options and compatible with tons of 3rd party devices from stereos to cars to treadmills. And for a "nerdier" solution? There's an app for that, there's an app for everything! Probably several apps. If Nintendo Gameboy taught us anything it's not the features or CPU or screen, it's the apps the device runs that matters. Android is playing catchup in the app department and I have no doubt they'll beat apple someday, but today is not that day ;)
I'd never tell a gamer to buy a Mac. But I'd also never recommend that an artist get a PC. And I'd definitely never suggest that my grandmother run linux. Each has its place.
But a gamer should buy an iPhone, the games on iOS are pretty amazing, console quality. Check out walking dead. The console and PC version is the same one as one iOS. Android not supported.
Not so right about the form factor though. The 7" tablet seems to have become the dominant one, without people filing down their fingers :), although attributing Everything to Steve Jobs without acknowledging the natural progression of technology, or what happened before it is ridiculous, or the other people who worked on the iPad. The most remarkable thing about the iPad at launch was its price :) something Apple seem to have forgotten.
Apple has sold 100 million iPads in less than 2 years.. While I would prefer a 7" tablet, it seems like a large market thinks 10" is fine.
I was just thinking that, and take it further: thank you Apple for redefining smartphones. Smartphones sucked so bad until the iPhone came out, now every phone is practically an iPhone clone. Remember the Motorola Q or Windows Mobile? Didnt even have a marketplace, you'd just have to search for apps and hope they ran well on your device.
People seem to forget that Apple and Steve is to thank for all these devices we have now. Tablets would not have existed without the popularity of the iPhone.
- Don't use linkedin at all. Telling everybody on the internet where you work is doggonne retarded.
-- Ethanol-fueled
AGREED!!!!!!
I do NOT want strangers to know every job I ever worked! The risks of social engineering are HUGE! God forbid they call some dumb boss I had and pretend to be god knows who and get social security number or who knows what info from them. Plus stalking would be *extremely* easy with job info because I'm there more than I'm at home! Tires slashed by some nutty gf or employee from ten yrs ago and I have *no* idea why? No thanks! LinkedIn completely baffles me, people make the same information public on LinkedIn then bitch when Facebook shares it with your friends
I would go to BBB and attorney state general on that, then there's a record and papertrail. Manager of a fast food chain calling my boss because I left a bad review is absurd.
Agreed. Foursquare is dying. Facebook allows check-ins, so no one is using foursquare. So if your website is dying how do you get some press coverage? Make an outrageous claim that you're going to publish the full names and locations of all of your customers! Instant news coverage! 3 days later, claim due to "public outcry" you're changing your mind! Instant hero and more press! Thousands of new users sign up to the website! Marketing Basics 101 right there
While I agree sony sucks, very few ps3 customers care if they can put Linux on their ps3 and there is nothing people can do about malware on a PC they already bought and thats easy to remove. Instagram's new TOS was saying they own all your photos and would sell them to anyone that paid and you'd get nothing. That's a little different then what Sony did.
I believe the 25% drop due to the new TOS, because if anything people are uploading MORE pics during the holidays, not less.
My kids do 13/16 and they love it on the big screen though a HTPC. They have laptop and Samsung phones but they prefer to sit there and use the TV as a computer. If there was an 10 Foot UI linux distro the TV would get way more computer time usage between watching HULU/Netlix/Cracle, playing games/STEAM and watching video from websites.
RTFA: Netflix/crackle/YouTube/playing games is considered "watching TV", study was trying to see who was surfing with their TV, like going to /. or Facebook and reading. Your kids watching video on your tv is not "using the TV as a computer"...... unless you think computers were made for watching videos, in which case your geek card is formally revoked and you may leave thru the door on your right.