zero.. oh, I should disconnect one of those two? really?
Yep, that's pretty much it. Your workflow is unusual enough that it's not worth troubling everybody else with the cost and weight of more ports when you could just carry along a four port USB hub.I mean you are already carrying around a laptop, externa HD w/cable, mouse, and then other devices. Does it really hurt to just throw in a small USB hub too? (which is probably smaller than your MP3 player) The figure I've heard before is 80/20. The make their products work with the 80% of people and work well. The other 20% are left to deal. Now 20% is by no means rare, but not enough of a demand to force their needs on the other 80%. Then there is always the chance that the 20% really don't know what they want and in your case would switch to complaining about the cost, weight and size of a Mac Book if they all had four USB ports.
Personally, I carry around a wireless USB mouse and a thumb drive. I do digital photography on location. iPhone gets pugged into the wall instead of the laptop because it normally syncs with my desktop and gets confused when I plug it into my laptop. (I'm in the 20% there I think.) I purposely don't carry around an external HD or other devices simply because I don't want to carry around extra shit. I've got enough stuff in my bag especially on overseas flight that I've learned every ounce counts. I just buckle down before I leave and make sure I have the space on my internal HD or upgrade to a larger one. I can sympathize with your plight, but I can't say you are correct.
Because if you are actually using that many peripherals with your laptop at the same time, using a USB hub won't be any more trouble or you bought the wrong thing and really need a desktop.
I hear you. I'm a iPhone owner willing to look at Android devices, but the questionable updates thing has me saying no. I understand even the Nexus One isn't current with updates of Android and if Google can't/won't keep their own phone up to date, then it's too big a risk to bet on anybody else.
Because not everybody interprets the bible the way you do.
Because not everybody gives the same importance to the parts of the bible that you give.
Because not everybody thinks the bible is the be all end all of what God wants, but rather the place to begin thinking about it.
Trust me, you say you want all that, but once you get it, you'll be adding on more criteria such as something that is light and easy to carry around. You can go onto eBay and buy something like what you say you want for less than $300 in the form of an XP tablet. Have been for years. Still, you haven't done it and would regret it if you did.
It's like when Ford said "If I had asked my customers what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse."
Actually, they do exist. I have one. It's an HP tc1100. Fujitsu also makes them. However, they are rare and the reason they are rare is the same reason other other tablets are rare: they simply suck. For a laptop, they are expensive due to the special screen. As a tablet, they are heavy and thick. You have to write on them with a stylus and it's fairly hard to do that as they are so thick. On top of that, it may have some tablet features, but it's still a desktop OS. Add on that they are usually sluggish and slow since they use a lower power processor to keep power and weight down. The swivel screen sounds neat, but functionally, it just doesn't really work well enough to provide any sort of demand. That's why they "don't exist".
Other languages have that issue also. I remember a German friend saying how the Berliners wouldn't be able to understand her if she spoke in her normal Bavarian dialect that she was using with family and neighbors two days earlier.
Having used both a iPhone and also a friend's W7 phone, I can say that the Windows phone was far superior.
How? I'd like to hear some specifics. What impressed you about it? Was it more fluid and lagged less in operation? Did it have a screen that was larger with better touch sensitivity? Better built in apps? Let's see some bullet points.
It's not so much "banning" as "your implementation is piss poor, even on Windows, try again later".
No, it's banned. It's banned just like Java. The base reason that Flash is not on the iPhone is because they do not allow non-Apple apps the run their own code on the iPhone, probably for security reasons. That Flash is a resource hog, the cause of most Apple browser crashes, and probably wouldn't provide a good experience because most apps aren't built for a touchscreen interface, is just additional reasons to be happy it's not on the iPhone.
Like Java, either Apple can allow apps to run their own code, or Apple could make it's own Flash and Java apps for the iPhone. Neither is really coming anytime soon if ever.
*Citation Needed*
Sorry, but between the figures I've seen, "gun crime" might be reduced, but crime is not. For that matter, murder rate doesn't drop for any longer than the first year after the ban either. People just switch to other weapons. So unless you figure it is inherently better to be killed with a knife than a gun, gun control really doesn't seem to solve anything. The one thing it does usually show is an increase in crime and police brutality.
Arguably it's constitutionally forbidden, in the absence of a declaration of war by our Congress.
Dude. get over it. It went to federal court and the court says that war is whatever congress decides it is. If they give money to the president to invade something, that's all they have to do. Nowhere in the constitution does it say anything about formal declaration of wars.
While I agree that sales taxes are ridiculous and hard and all that, I feel it's important to point out that Amazon actually has a presence in Texas, and therefore when they sell product to Texans they actually do need to be collecting sales tax and remitting it to the State of Texas.
The main issue seems to be that the states are changing the definition of "presence", sometimes seemingly retroactively. It used to be if your headquarters was situated in the state, then people buying from you needed to pay income tax. Then it was if it was shipped from that state. Then if the company had any offices whatsoever, so even if Amazon had some offices serving only internal customers, then they would have to collect tax on everything bought by the state. Now, states like NY and Texas are saying that if any company they are "partners" with are in the state, then the partner company has to collect tax. Amazon hires a company in NY to do some coding, then Amazon has to collect taxes on stuff bought by New Yorkers.
Really, this is all just mail order and things should have been settled and stabalized with Sears back in the days of the wild west. However, states are looking for more money and changing the agreements and telling companies to pray they don't change them any more.
Because it costs less than a few hundred to replace?
There isn't a massive 4" touch screen just waiting to crack.
Without said screen they're much smaller.
They don't need charged daily.
There are lots of old people that still haven't even figured out how to text yet.
I have a $20 disposable, pay-as-you-go mobile phone that I picked up from Family Dollar a few years back. I only turn it on when I'm leaving the house, and it's only used when communication is necessary. All it does is make voice calls and send texts, though I've never even done the latter.
Dad? Is that you! When did you learn how to use an internet forum?
Does anyone else thing it's rather silly that ICANN is seriously considering new, highly-specific TLDs?
No, I think it's rather silly they haven't already gone with the idea of allowing pretty much any TLD possible rather than dividing them up into.a few ill fitting choices.
I don't know why you are modded funny, as that is truly an insightful perspective.
I'm sure he was modded "Funny" becuase he said "engineers look for the right way to do things". Of course, they do, from their standpoint. just as business guys look for the right way to do things which means low cost way of doing things. If you let engineers run things and we'll all end up with arcane command line interfaces again or at best GUIs built by engineers for engineers. I'd really like to see evidence that engineer designs products are actually liked by consumers rather than products designed by designers which were later given to engineers to make happen.
You sounds like my father when I bought my first home computer in the 80's. Only worried about your needs which are stuck in the past and then trying to project them on others. Now yell at the iPad owners for being in your yard.
That doesn't argue for warning PHBs. It argues for becoming a Conversion Specialist!
And you do that by convincing your current boss to go with your idea for the ipv6 conversion project, doing the conversion, and putting that project on your resume. When everybody else is just thinking about becoming a Conversion Specialist, you'll have training and project experience already at somebody else's expense.
Use the robots to free up staff, let the human staff take care of the elderly. Have more automation in test results, checking on patients that are unconscious, filling meds, etc.
I'm sure their is a list of things the people in the hospitals hate to do that are boring, repeatable, and don't involve a patient directly. Put the robots there.
I'm sorry, but that's not probably the problem. Ever worked at or even been in a home for the elderly, especially dementia patients like they were talking about in TFA? They are not jobs people want. I know I'd rather be doing a boring repeatable job that didn't involve patients directly for less pay than working in such a place. Once, when I was desperate for a job in college I went to such a home to apply. I walked in, asked for an application, and then walked out to my car and threw the application in the back seat floor knowing that I'd never even fill it out simply due to the smell of the place while I was in the entry lobby for two minutes. Get rid of the hospital jobs with robots, and the people will move to other jobs but I bet not the ones taking care of the elderly.
Actually, the advantage of the internet is that once a page is laid out, it isn't done... you can go back and make corrections (frequently due to mistakes pointed out by readers) at any time.
Advantage? Somehow having to worry about content that has already gone through editorial and then making changes to it even through it has probably has already brought in all the viewers it ever will is advantageous? Perhaps to the reader, but certainly not the publisher. Certainly not any library or for any use that might desire a citation from as if things can be changed, they are pretty unreliable sources. This opposed to the old way where such corrections are done in the next issue, fill the letters pages, inspire conversation, and if it needs to be revisited, creates articles that generally write themselves in the process of filling the white space between the ads as well as providing a method of determining popularity of said topics with readers
30M?!?!?!?!? How do you spend 30M developing a fairly simple iPad app... I build iPad apps professionally (or so I thought) apparently I'm in the minor leagues... I really can't comprehend where you'd spend 30M in iPad Development... even including infrastructure and servers.. I still don't get it
It's not 30M on an iPad app. It's 30M on a start up of a national magazine with a digital method of distribution. They probably have actual editors, writers, reporters, designers, and IT people who support everybody all week to hire and set up, as well as physical location and equipment. Add in the advertising sales guys who will actually make all the money and their expenses, and it adds up pretty quickly. 30M probably isn't even that high a number for what they are attempting which is basically coming out with a competitor to Time, Newsweek, and the like.
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Yep, that's pretty much it. Your workflow is unusual enough that it's not worth troubling everybody else with the cost and weight of more ports when you could just carry along a four port USB hub.I mean you are already carrying around a laptop, externa HD w/cable, mouse, and then other devices. Does it really hurt to just throw in a small USB hub too? (which is probably smaller than your MP3 player) The figure I've heard before is 80/20. The make their products work with the 80% of people and work well. The other 20% are left to deal. Now 20% is by no means rare, but not enough of a demand to force their needs on the other 80%. Then there is always the chance that the 20% really don't know what they want and in your case would switch to complaining about the cost, weight and size of a Mac Book if they all had four USB ports.
Personally, I carry around a wireless USB mouse and a thumb drive. I do digital photography on location. iPhone gets pugged into the wall instead of the laptop because it normally syncs with my desktop and gets confused when I plug it into my laptop. (I'm in the 20% there I think.) I purposely don't carry around an external HD or other devices simply because I don't want to carry around extra shit. I've got enough stuff in my bag especially on overseas flight that I've learned every ounce counts. I just buckle down before I leave and make sure I have the space on my internal HD or upgrade to a larger one. I can sympathize with your plight, but I can't say you are correct.
Because if you are actually using that many peripherals with your laptop at the same time, using a USB hub won't be any more trouble or you bought the wrong thing and really need a desktop.
I hear you. I'm a iPhone owner willing to look at Android devices, but the questionable updates thing has me saying no. I understand even the Nexus One isn't current with updates of Android and if Google can't/won't keep their own phone up to date, then it's too big a risk to bet on anybody else.
Because not everybody interprets the bible the way you do.
Because not everybody gives the same importance to the parts of the bible that you give.
Because not everybody thinks the bible is the be all end all of what God wants, but rather the place to begin thinking about it.
Trust me, you say you want all that, but once you get it, you'll be adding on more criteria such as something that is light and easy to carry around. You can go onto eBay and buy something like what you say you want for less than $300 in the form of an XP tablet. Have been for years. Still, you haven't done it and would regret it if you did.
It's like when Ford said "If I had asked my customers what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse."
Which, BTW, is how Apple wanted people to do things in the first place. People screamed and wanted apps and a store, so they got that too.
Actually, they do exist. I have one. It's an HP tc1100. Fujitsu also makes them. However, they are rare and the reason they are rare is the same reason other other tablets are rare: they simply suck. For a laptop, they are expensive due to the special screen. As a tablet, they are heavy and thick. You have to write on them with a stylus and it's fairly hard to do that as they are so thick. On top of that, it may have some tablet features, but it's still a desktop OS. Add on that they are usually sluggish and slow since they use a lower power processor to keep power and weight down. The swivel screen sounds neat, but functionally, it just doesn't really work well enough to provide any sort of demand. That's why they "don't exist".
Other languages have that issue also. I remember a German friend saying how the Berliners wouldn't be able to understand her if she spoke in her normal Bavarian dialect that she was using with family and neighbors two days earlier.
How? I'd like to hear some specifics. What impressed you about it? Was it more fluid and lagged less in operation? Did it have a screen that was larger with better touch sensitivity? Better built in apps? Let's see some bullet points.
No, it's banned. It's banned just like Java. The base reason that Flash is not on the iPhone is because they do not allow non-Apple apps the run their own code on the iPhone, probably for security reasons. That Flash is a resource hog, the cause of most Apple browser crashes, and probably wouldn't provide a good experience because most apps aren't built for a touchscreen interface, is just additional reasons to be happy it's not on the iPhone.
Like Java, either Apple can allow apps to run their own code, or Apple could make it's own Flash and Java apps for the iPhone. Neither is really coming anytime soon if ever.
*Citation Needed* Sorry, but between the figures I've seen, "gun crime" might be reduced, but crime is not. For that matter, murder rate doesn't drop for any longer than the first year after the ban either. People just switch to other weapons. So unless you figure it is inherently better to be killed with a knife than a gun, gun control really doesn't seem to solve anything. The one thing it does usually show is an increase in crime and police brutality.
Dude. get over it. It went to federal court and the court says that war is whatever congress decides it is. If they give money to the president to invade something, that's all they have to do. Nowhere in the constitution does it say anything about formal declaration of wars.
The main issue seems to be that the states are changing the definition of "presence", sometimes seemingly retroactively. It used to be if your headquarters was situated in the state, then people buying from you needed to pay income tax. Then it was if it was shipped from that state. Then if the company had any offices whatsoever, so even if Amazon had some offices serving only internal customers, then they would have to collect tax on everything bought by the state. Now, states like NY and Texas are saying that if any company they are "partners" with are in the state, then the partner company has to collect tax. Amazon hires a company in NY to do some coding, then Amazon has to collect taxes on stuff bought by New Yorkers.
Really, this is all just mail order and things should have been settled and stabalized with Sears back in the days of the wild west. However, states are looking for more money and changing the agreements and telling companies to pray they don't change them any more.
There are lots of old people that still haven't even figured out how to text yet.
Dad? Is that you! When did you learn how to use an internet forum?
No, I think it's rather silly they haven't already gone with the idea of allowing pretty much any TLD possible rather than dividing them up into .a few ill fitting choices.
That's what they are saying but it's just one opinion so not really useful for drawing a universal generalization.
I'm sure he was modded "Funny" becuase he said "engineers look for the right way to do things". Of course, they do, from their standpoint. just as business guys look for the right way to do things which means low cost way of doing things. If you let engineers run things and we'll all end up with arcane command line interfaces again or at best GUIs built by engineers for engineers. I'd really like to see evidence that engineer designs products are actually liked by consumers rather than products designed by designers which were later given to engineers to make happen.
I wish I had mod points so I could mod you up as "Funny".
You sounds like my father when I bought my first home computer in the 80's. Only worried about your needs which are stuck in the past and then trying to project them on others. Now yell at the iPad owners for being in your yard.
And you do that by convincing your current boss to go with your idea for the ipv6 conversion project, doing the conversion, and putting that project on your resume. When everybody else is just thinking about becoming a Conversion Specialist, you'll have training and project experience already at somebody else's expense.
I'm sorry, but that's not probably the problem. Ever worked at or even been in a home for the elderly, especially dementia patients like they were talking about in TFA? They are not jobs people want. I know I'd rather be doing a boring repeatable job that didn't involve patients directly for less pay than working in such a place. Once, when I was desperate for a job in college I went to such a home to apply. I walked in, asked for an application, and then walked out to my car and threw the application in the back seat floor knowing that I'd never even fill it out simply due to the smell of the place while I was in the entry lobby for two minutes. Get rid of the hospital jobs with robots, and the people will move to other jobs but I bet not the ones taking care of the elderly.
Let the /.ing begin:
Anniston Star article on the case.
Advantage? Somehow having to worry about content that has already gone through editorial and then making changes to it even through it has probably has already brought in all the viewers it ever will is advantageous? Perhaps to the reader, but certainly not the publisher. Certainly not any library or for any use that might desire a citation from as if things can be changed, they are pretty unreliable sources. This opposed to the old way where such corrections are done in the next issue, fill the letters pages, inspire conversation, and if it needs to be revisited, creates articles that generally write themselves in the process of filling the white space between the ads as well as providing a method of determining popularity of said topics with readers
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It's not 30M on an iPad app. It's 30M on a start up of a national magazine with a digital method of distribution. They probably have actual editors, writers, reporters, designers, and IT people who support everybody all week to hire and set up, as well as physical location and equipment. Add in the advertising sales guys who will actually make all the money and their expenses, and it adds up pretty quickly. 30M probably isn't even that high a number for what they are attempting which is basically coming out with a competitor to Time, Newsweek, and the like.