I would figure that they would have planned for it, with spam being so prevalent in almost every internet communication system. But are the measures that they have come up with really effective?
I'm talking about the private messages, not the "wall" feature on facebook. Even that is controllable though, you can just leave, remove, or "unlike" groups, apps and people who are sending you updates that you don't like. Or you can just hide them permanently. Very different from email spam.
It would be great to have an open-source, open-standards, distributed social-networking system to replace Facebook. Except that when you mention SMTP, I shudder to think of all the spam that such a system would make possible. I get zero spam at facebook right now, so I can see why some people seem to prefer to communicate through facebook than through email now.
I hope that this new concept would be engineered from the ground up to never allow spam, but that seems like a tough thing to do without an absolute central authority.
Whoah, I hope you used the general "you" and not me specifically for your whole response! I did not insult you, and do not insult people on the net (Apple fans or not).
I think you missed my point, which was: get used to getting insulted because more and more people are disliking Apple.
On the other hand I guess you could also say that more and more people are starting to like Apple as well.
What I didn't say but meant to imply, and anyone on the internet should be well aware of by now, is that internet folks are generally not the most polite bunch, and especially not if they root against your "team", so the insults will keep coming.
Sorry dude, but too bad. I used to admire Apple and wanted to have their computers (just couldn't afford to or bring myself to pay the significant premiums for them over equivalent PCs). Now after all their antics with the iPhone pretty much all that admiration is gone because I realize that they're similar to or worse than Microsoft nowadays! I imagine that my experience is not unique among other Slashdot geeks.
So the old-timer Apple-haters that hated Apple for no good reason whatsoever are probably welcoming a lot of new members to their club who do have good reasons to dislike Apple. Better get used to the negativity for as long as Apple continue their questionable practices.
Unfortunately, you'll never get the chance to shoot with Kodachrome. Sometimes it's nice being a geezer; I wonder what my grandfather was able to experience that I'll never get the chance to?
That's actually incorrect. Search the web: there's tons of Kodachrome on ebay right now, for example. Get it, shoot it, and process it fast though, because like the article says, the last place will stop processing it in December.
I happen to have a cartridge of Kodachrome Super 8 movie film that I plan on shooting.
From what I've read (and I think seen as well) the answer is yes, Kodachrome does render color in its own special way, supposedly nice rich saturated colors.
This is pretty well known. Just search the web for comparisons between e-ink and LCD screens which the iPad and other computers use. It's not just the resolution, but contrast and lighting as well (reflective vs. producing its own light, which is also fatiguing). E-ink is really still generally considered the best type of electronic screen for extended reading of text. It's unfortunate that it's still only black and white, but I imagine that they will come up with a color upgrade to the technology soon enough.
Wait, that specific example you provided is not a valid comparison. The new hardcover price you quoted is from a random third party seller (no Amazon itself), and it has a $3.99 shipping cost. Total: $10.69 or $1.52 more expensive than the kindle version.
The price of the new hardcover sold by Amazon itself is $10.40, and the List price (what you'd likely pay at a brick and mortar bookstore) is $25.99.
So I would say the ebook price wins out in all cases. I've never owned an ebook reader before, but I'm starting to notice that they usually seem to price the ebook versions just under their already low prices for the printed versions.
I didn't expect anyone on Slashdot to trot out the old and tired "real football" line. Soccer is the real football. You know, the sport that is played with the feet and with a ball? You must have been thinking of handegg instead, that American sport where players play with the hands and an egg, instead of a ball?
None. Though it seems that perhaps you misunderstood the sentence to which you replied. It said nothing about sales. It only allowed for the possibility (or likelyhood) that even many of the people buying the ipad might not know exactly what they need it for.
T-Mobile is in fact GSM as well. Interesting that you would say they are ghetto though. I love their service and how they do business, and I believe they are supposed to be the carrier with the best customer satisfaction. Maybe the coverage is bad in your area?
What the console makers do is different from what Apple is doing: AFAIK none of the console makers mandate what language you have to write your apps with. Whether it's worse or not depends on perspective.
1)They don't, but that's not what I said, and it's not the definition of a monopoly. They just have most of the market for mobile apps, based on amount of sales.
Keyword for xbox: games. Not random apps to do just about anything you want it to do. Games. Yes, there are a couple of non-game applications, like Netflix. But 99.9% of what runs on xbox is games and media. Not so for the iphone and ipad. They have general purpose apps to do just about anything you want them to, so yes, they are general purpose computers.
1) Except if they are found to be violating antitrust laws.
2)A lot of people that develop flash "apps" are not programmers.
3)What HTML5 video standards? Which ones do all the major browsers support?
I don't disagree that flash CAN be an annoyance (it can also be a convenience), but what Apple is doing is ridiculous. I can understand them blocking the flash player itself from their devices. But blocking any applications developed in flash and compiled to run natively in their OS? That's just off the charts of ridiculousness.
Except for if they are found to be violating antitrust law. Hint1: Apple has a monopoly on the mobile apps market. Hint2: Even if they didn't, you don't have to be a monopoly in order to violate certain antitrust laws.
Thanks for clarifying. I was mistakenly thinking it was a general purpose computer because of the availability of 200,000 general purpose applications for it. After reading your post I realized that it's just a phone, nothing else, nothing more. It's just like my old Panasonic cordless phone on my desk. My bad.
It's basically a keychain with several detachable smaller rings. It not only makes it really easy to group and separate your keys as you need them, but I discovered that it has the added bonus that it makes the bundle of keys much more flexible in your pocket, avoiding the situation where the keys stick out at a hard angle that makes it more likely to tear through your pocket.
It's pretty much a worst case scenario, but BP, and I suspect a whole lot of politicians, went out of their way to minimize the potential.
It looks like they didn't. It looks like they were part of an active lobby against using the best safety precautions available. Look at this post above yours for some additional info: http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1639434&cid=32078886
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I would figure that they would have planned for it, with spam being so prevalent in almost every internet communication system. But are the measures that they have come up with really effective?
I'm talking about the private messages, not the "wall" feature on facebook. Even that is controllable though, you can just leave, remove, or "unlike" groups, apps and people who are sending you updates that you don't like. Or you can just hide them permanently. Very different from email spam.
Wish I had mod points to mod you up informative.
It would be great to have an open-source, open-standards, distributed social-networking system to replace Facebook. Except that when you mention SMTP, I shudder to think of all the spam that such a system would make possible. I get zero spam at facebook right now, so I can see why some people seem to prefer to communicate through facebook than through email now.
I hope that this new concept would be engineered from the ground up to never allow spam, but that seems like a tough thing to do without an absolute central authority.
Whoah, I hope you used the general "you" and not me specifically for your whole response! I did not insult you, and do not insult people on the net (Apple fans or not).
I think you missed my point, which was: get used to getting insulted because more and more people are disliking Apple.
On the other hand I guess you could also say that more and more people are starting to like Apple as well.
What I didn't say but meant to imply, and anyone on the internet should be well aware of by now, is that internet folks are generally not the most polite bunch, and especially not if they root against your "team", so the insults will keep coming.
Sorry dude, but too bad. I used to admire Apple and wanted to have their computers (just couldn't afford to or bring myself to pay the significant premiums for them over equivalent PCs). Now after all their antics with the iPhone pretty much all that admiration is gone because I realize that they're similar to or worse than Microsoft nowadays! I imagine that my experience is not unique among other Slashdot geeks.
So the old-timer Apple-haters that hated Apple for no good reason whatsoever are probably welcoming a lot of new members to their club who do have good reasons to dislike Apple. Better get used to the negativity for as long as Apple continue their questionable practices.
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Unfortunately, you'll never get the chance to shoot with Kodachrome. Sometimes it's nice being a geezer; I wonder what my grandfather was able to experience that I'll never get the chance to?
That's actually incorrect. Search the web: there's tons of Kodachrome on ebay right now, for example. Get it, shoot it, and process it fast though, because like the article says, the last place will stop processing it in December.
I happen to have a cartridge of Kodachrome Super 8 movie film that I plan on shooting.
From what I've read (and I think seen as well) the answer is yes, Kodachrome does render color in its own special way, supposedly nice rich saturated colors.
This is pretty well known. Just search the web for comparisons between e-ink and LCD screens which the iPad and other computers use. It's not just the resolution, but contrast and lighting as well (reflective vs. producing its own light, which is also fatiguing). E-ink is really still generally considered the best type of electronic screen for extended reading of text. It's unfortunate that it's still only black and white, but I imagine that they will come up with a color upgrade to the technology soon enough.
Wait, that specific example you provided is not a valid comparison. The new hardcover price you quoted is from a random third party seller (no Amazon itself), and it has a $3.99 shipping cost. Total: $10.69 or $1.52 more expensive than the kindle version.
The price of the new hardcover sold by Amazon itself is $10.40, and the List price (what you'd likely pay at a brick and mortar bookstore) is $25.99.
So I would say the ebook price wins out in all cases. I've never owned an ebook reader before, but I'm starting to notice that they usually seem to price the ebook versions just under their already low prices for the printed versions.
I didn't expect anyone on Slashdot to trot out the old and tired "real football" line. Soccer is the real football. You know, the sport that is played with the feet and with a ball? You must have been thinking of handegg instead, that American sport where players play with the hands and an egg, instead of a ball?
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None. Though it seems that perhaps you misunderstood the sentence to which you replied. It said nothing about sales. It only allowed for the possibility (or likelyhood) that even many of the people buying the ipad might not know exactly what they need it for.
Interesting. I thought you could use other tools to write games for consoles. I swear I've at least heard of "middleware" tools for consoles.
T-Mobile is in fact GSM as well. Interesting that you would say they are ghetto though. I love their service and how they do business, and I believe they are supposed to be the carrier with the best customer satisfaction. Maybe the coverage is bad in your area?
Your reply doesn't disprove the GP's point.
What the console makers do is different from what Apple is doing: AFAIK none of the console makers mandate what language you have to write your apps with. Whether it's worse or not depends on perspective.
1)They don't, but that's not what I said, and it's not the definition of a monopoly. They just have most of the market for mobile apps, based on amount of sales.
2)True too. And I could be wrong as well.
Keyword for xbox: games. Not random apps to do just about anything you want it to do. Games. Yes, there are a couple of non-game applications, like Netflix. But 99.9% of what runs on xbox is games and media. Not so for the iphone and ipad. They have general purpose apps to do just about anything you want them to, so yes, they are general purpose computers.
1) Except if they are found to be violating antitrust laws.
2)A lot of people that develop flash "apps" are not programmers.
3)What HTML5 video standards? Which ones do all the major browsers support?
I don't disagree that flash CAN be an annoyance (it can also be a convenience), but what Apple is doing is ridiculous. I can understand them blocking the flash player itself from their devices. But blocking any applications developed in flash and compiled to run natively in their OS? That's just off the charts of ridiculousness.
Except for if they are found to be violating antitrust law. Hint1: Apple has a monopoly on the mobile apps market. Hint2: Even if they didn't, you don't have to be a monopoly in order to violate certain antitrust laws.
Thanks for clarifying. I was mistakenly thinking it was a general purpose computer because of the availability of 200,000 general purpose applications for it. After reading your post I realized that it's just a phone, nothing else, nothing more. It's just like my old Panasonic cordless phone on my desk. My bad.
Another alternative that I have found to be very useful: http://www.rei.com/product/685312
It's basically a keychain with several detachable smaller rings. It not only makes it really easy to group and separate your keys as you need them, but I discovered that it has the added bonus that it makes the bundle of keys much more flexible in your pocket, avoiding the situation where the keys stick out at a hard angle that makes it more likely to tear through your pocket.
It's pretty much a worst case scenario, but BP, and I suspect a whole lot of politicians, went out of their way to minimize the potential.
It looks like they didn't. It looks like they were part of an active lobby against using the best safety precautions available. Look at this post above yours for some additional info: http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1639434&cid=32078886