There was an Apple ][ in every classroom when I was a kid. We used it to die of dysentery on the Oregon Trail. Did we learn anything about history? No.
I was class of 1990, so I'm thinking that we are probably the same age. When I was in 5th grade, I was exposed for the first time to a Commodore Vic-20 in the classroom which caused my parents to buy me a Commodore 64 when I was 10. I got my first modem (Mitey Mo 300 baud) when I was 13. Started my own bulletin board when I was 14. Started a computer company when I was 20. Bought my first house when I was 21. Sold my computer company when I was 25. Got a job in corporate America. Became the CTO at the 3000+ publicly traded company I've worked at for the last 12 years.
Despite being extremely intelligent, I did not do well in school and never spent a minute in college. Never had a career interest outside of computers. If it weren't for that Vic-20 and the occasional Apple IIe I was exposed to in school, I very likely would be homeless right now. Instead, I am very financially successful, married with 3 fantastic kids.
Playing with crayons and chalk and playing outside are important, but so is exposure to the machines that run the world today. As with anything, it's the balance that's important.
Touch screens are ok for older students, but tactile reinforcement of buttons is good for younger kids.
Both my 3 year old daughter and my 5 year old son have used my iPhone for about 18 months now. They fly through the thing. I never even had to teach my son how to use it - he knew how to unlock it from the first time he saw me do it.
I'm no user of Bing, but it was pretty obvious reading the article that this guy has an axe to grind against Bing. First he supposedly finds a security flaw that enables you to game the system, uses that security flaw personally and posts for others how to do it on his site and now he's posting about this.
And to top it off, he's a competitor. Pretty slimy.
Blackberry has an emulator for every model they've made that I could see. They are freely available and easy to download and set up.
Visual Studio comes with emulators for every Windows Mobile phone that is out there. I believe you can also freely download them without Visual Studio.
The iPhone has an emulator as well - but you have to be running a Mac. But it's freely available and easy to download.
Nokia? Yeah, they have emulators too.
Not every manufacturer has them of course, but most do.
BitTorrent, IRC and Usenet have been shut down for years. I dare you to try to get anything from them! It's impossible. They have been literally shut down by the MPAA and RIAA.
We are left with one alternative: Rapidshare. Sure, it's not perfect but that's all we have after the effective campaigns of the RIAA and MPAA. Now it looks like they'll have to focus all their attention on Rapidshare. Darn. Then we will be left with nothing.
But to reiterate, no need to focus on BitTorrent, IRC or Usenet - those are already dead. Yup. Dead and buried. Nothing to see there.
I'm usually on WiFi when I'm at home which is probably where I do most of my usage. The people that are on 400 MB per month probably don't have WiFi where they use it most often.
My review is on this review of the original review of the book. I found it to be a snarky piece that questions the worth of the original review and even the book it reviews. Its main argument is that the book and review only contain obvious points.
There I saved everyone the time needed to read that 10 paragraph Review of the Review of the book.
I have a brown Zune too. When I first got it, I absolutely loved it. 30 GB of storage, ability to play photos, videos and music either in headphones or on my TV. Then a strange thing happened... Last September I wanted to get a mobile device that allowed me to surf the web. I saw my friends' iPhones and thought it was a good experience. "No problem" I thought. I'll just check out this Windows Mobile 6 stuff. I started on a hunt to find a non-iPhone that browsed the web as well as an iPhone. I went to AT&T stores (since I had their service already though my contract had expired), Verizon stores and Sprint stores. At the time, every other phone's web surfing was a J-O-K-E compared to the iPhone. A joke. I can't tell you how much it pains me to say that, since I am in reality a Microsoft fan and have used their development products professionally for over a decade and a half.
So I got the iPhone 3G. My Zune was then in the glove compartment of my car for a few months. I pulled it out a few weeks ago to try out the Zune games that seemed to be taking off. What I used to think was a sleek, intuitive interface on the Zune now looked clunky. The entire device actually felt cheap. The Zune hadn't changed though - I did. I got used to the iPhone. But anyway, I upgraded my Zune firmware, installed the Zune Games and actually tried the default ones out. Texas Hold'em was actually fun. But man, the experience is nothing - NOTHING - like the iPhone.
I guess I'll try selling my brown Zune on eBay before they become totally worthless.
From the moment they entered primary school 15 years ago, they have been under the boot of a "one-strike" "zero-tolerance" public school system
You have officially scared the shit out of me. The first of my three kids enters kindergarten next fall, and I don't want him to be a mindlessly obedient robot, but I agree with you that is the natural consequence of these stupid policies.
How sad and pathetic your miserable life must be that you have to gain satisfaction by being a "tough guy" on an internet forum. Do you beat your girlfriends to make yourself feel better too?
Wow, I'd respond but your attempt at building up a straw man argument re: me being a "tough guy" has made me realize just how pathetic you are. At this point, I have absolutely no choice but to assume that you were anally raped as a child by someone very tall and that you now have a Napolean complex of gargantuan proportions.
As such, I now feel sorry for you and wish you good day. The favor of a reply to your next inane comment will not be granted as I will be busy pondering societal changes that might best effect preventing another young man's life being ruined as yours was. Keep hope alive, Dan. Even though your life is hopeless and destitute, keep hope alive. God bless you.
Just because you had the right to take such a photograph doesn't mean you should have done it, or should have ignored the guy who asked you to delete it. It'd have been the respectful and courteous thing to do, you stupid brute.
So nice to see you again! It's been, what? Six years since I took that picture of your wife?
I see you're as "courteous" as you were that night so long ago when you were yelling your "tough guy" threats across the parking lot until you walked over and realized your beer muscles weren't going to help you out this time. I'm glad to see you survived driving around drunk like a lunatic that night, too. Hopefully you didn't kill anyone else.
At least one positive thing might have come out of that night... hopefully you and your wife learned not to ease biological urges in public parking lots in front of dozens of people.
Anyway, thanks for reminiscing. Please tell that slut of a wife of yours I said "hi" the next time you drop off your child support check for those kids that aren't even yours.
It was 2:00 am and I was walking down the street at the shore in New Jersey. I saw some chick in a skirt with her underwear around her ankles, squatting as she was peeing outside a pizza restaurant. I whipped out my digital camera, took a picture from about 30 feet away and kept on walking.
Next thing I know, some dude claiming to be her husband runs over and demands I delete the picture. I tell him, "No way." Well, my nick is not bigtallmofo for no reason (I'm 6'8") and this guy was like 5'4" and skinny. That's probably why he didn't forcefully insist. But he did follow me in his car for about 20 minutes as I walked. I was on my way to my girlfriend's house and instead of going right there I just walked around in circles until he got tired of following me in his car. He never said another word to me before he drove off.
So, I support the rights of photographers everywhere to take pictures in public. Even if it's some dude's wife peeing in a pizza restaurant parking lot.
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Look, I'm the epitome of a swing voter. I think they're all idiots. But to blame the Bush administration (alone) for de-regulation shows you don't know what you're talking about.
Is there anyone with any depth of writing knowledge at all, that seriously believes that we should use such a corruptible technology as pencil and paper voting machines in our sacred voting process?
You can't secure them. Anybody with an eraser knows this. Plus, there is no way to verify whether anyone is changing votes after the fact.
And we argue over whether to have engraved-stone trails?
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The proposed system is not perfect, so you refuse to acknowledge it might be the best practical solution because you refuse to really look how it compares to alternatives. In short, you're an alarmist at best.
If it was easy to cast a vote with a pencil and a paper and now it's not that easy, then *it is* machine fault.
You really, really, really underestimate some people's stupidity. This is NOT a technology problem. It's a stupid people problem:
1. Remember hanging chads? You know, the thing where some people couldn't figure out that you had to poke the entire piece of paper out.
2. Remember where some people voted for multiple people on their paper ballot and were disqualified? Sure, maybe they were purposely trying to throw their vote away. More likely they couldn't figure out how to use a PENCIL properly.
I could go on and on. Stop trying to think that paper/pencil means perfect and hold any machine up to the standard of perfection.
There are just too many stupid, tired, distracted, illiterate, whatever people out there. Voting won't be 100% or even 99% perfect no matter what mechanism we use. Guess what - that means tens of thousands of lost votes.
As others have said, this really is a GSM issue and not an iPhone issue. The sound I hear from my computer speakers with my iPhone is identical to what I heard from my Nokia 3610 which is about as un-iPhone as a phone can get without being better described as a rock.
Seriously - the interference sound is identical.
My only concern really is what is this doing to my neurons, rods, cones and assorted other presumably sensitive body parts. I don't care about a goofy sound coming from my computer speakers every once in a while.
What caused normally cautious lenders to make subprime loans in the first place?
I see where you're going with this. You're blaming the "Community Reinvestment Act" (CRA) that basically forces banks to lend to people they wouldn't otherwise lend to (i.e. people with bad credit) because they have to fulfill racial quotas.
I agree with you that this is part of the issue. But this whole problem is so far beyond liberal/conservative or Republican/Democrat. The problem is that we have a fairly corrupt system right now and everyone in power is culpable.
How about one of the reasons they made subprime loans was because they made money from them and they didn't have to bear the risk? You know, good old fashioned banker greed. So CRA was pushing them in that direction - but they were more than willing to go along!
Somehow the genius quants -- the best and brightest geeks Wall Street firms could buy -- fed $1 trillion in subprime mortgage debt into their supercomputers, added some derivatives, massaged the arrangements with computer algorithms and -- poof! -- created $62 trillion in imaginary wealth.
Thanks, New York Times. Does your average reader have the reading comprehension of a 9 year old these days?
Here's what happened in simple English: investment banks invented various ways of packaging mortgages into securities. They then convinced ratings agencies to give these new securities AAA status even though the ratings agencies didn't understand them. This gave mortgage brokers a license to commit fraud because they could give a mortgage to anyone with or without a pulse and there was a sucker just dying to buy that new mortgage from them. With such easy money available, real estate agents were able to pump and dump properties (strong-arming housing appraisers was a favorite tactic) like there was no tomorrow and convince people that housing prices only go up in a straight line. In the final act of the play, the investment bankers, mortgage brokers and real estate agents that caused this retire in the Cayman Islands while taxpayers are left to clean up the mess while we hope our economy doesn't literally implode.
I don't see what's so complicated about any of this. It's pure and simple fraud on the most massive of scales.
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There was an Apple ][ in every classroom when I was a kid. We used it to die of dysentery on the Oregon Trail. Did we learn anything about history? No.
I was class of 1990, so I'm thinking that we are probably the same age. When I was in 5th grade, I was exposed for the first time to a Commodore Vic-20 in the classroom which caused my parents to buy me a Commodore 64 when I was 10. I got my first modem (Mitey Mo 300 baud) when I was 13. Started my own bulletin board when I was 14. Started a computer company when I was 20. Bought my first house when I was 21. Sold my computer company when I was 25. Got a job in corporate America. Became the CTO at the 3000+ publicly traded company I've worked at for the last 12 years.
Despite being extremely intelligent, I did not do well in school and never spent a minute in college. Never had a career interest outside of computers. If it weren't for that Vic-20 and the occasional Apple IIe I was exposed to in school, I very likely would be homeless right now. Instead, I am very financially successful, married with 3 fantastic kids.
Playing with crayons and chalk and playing outside are important, but so is exposure to the machines that run the world today. As with anything, it's the balance that's important.
Touch screens are ok for older students, but tactile reinforcement of buttons is good for younger kids.
Both my 3 year old daughter and my 5 year old son have used my iPhone for about 18 months now. They fly through the thing. I never even had to teach my son how to use it - he knew how to unlock it from the first time he saw me do it.
Touch screens are just natural to use.
I'm no user of Bing, but it was pretty obvious reading the article that this guy has an axe to grind against Bing. First he supposedly finds a security flaw that enables you to game the system, uses that security flaw personally and posts for others how to do it on his site and now he's posting about this.
And to top it off, he's a competitor. Pretty slimy.
A 33 MHz 486 was several times faster than a 33 MHz 386.
MHz is almost meaningless when comparing speed, even in CPUs that are very similar. Even somewhat technical people fail to realize this frequently.
Blackberry has an emulator for every model they've made that I could see. They are freely available and easy to download and set up.
Visual Studio comes with emulators for every Windows Mobile phone that is out there. I believe you can also freely download them without Visual Studio.
The iPhone has an emulator as well - but you have to be running a Mac. But it's freely available and easy to download.
Nokia? Yeah, they have emulators too.
Not every manufacturer has them of course, but most do.
How can there be a rule about something that was destroyed years ago by the legitimate and merciful actions of the RIAA and MPAA?
BitTorrent, IRC and Usenet have been shut down for years. I dare you to try to get anything from them! It's impossible. They have been literally shut down by the MPAA and RIAA.
We are left with one alternative: Rapidshare. Sure, it's not perfect but that's all we have after the effective campaigns of the RIAA and MPAA. Now it looks like they'll have to focus all their attention on Rapidshare. Darn. Then we will be left with nothing.
But to reiterate, no need to focus on BitTorrent, IRC or Usenet - those are already dead. Yup. Dead and buried. Nothing to see there.
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I'm usually on WiFi when I'm at home which is probably where I do most of my usage. The people that are on 400 MB per month probably don't have WiFi where they use it most often.
While we the people believe the principles involved are moot. The RIAA believes we the people should be mute.
I see what you did there...
My review is on this review of the original review of the book. I found it to be a snarky piece that questions the worth of the original review and even the book it reviews. Its main argument is that the book and review only contain obvious points.
There I saved everyone the time needed to read that 10 paragraph Review of the Review of the book.
The Yellow Pages are more invasive. They give your home address and name.
That's assuming you have a name like "Dominos Pizza" or "Allstate Insurance".
For the rest of us with people names, we're generally more concerned about the White Pages.
No one installs and uses "Linux," they install an operating system that happens to use the Linux kernel's functionality
You have officially won the "semantics of the year" award!!
I have a brown Zune too. When I first got it, I absolutely loved it. 30 GB of storage, ability to play photos, videos and music either in headphones or on my TV. Then a strange thing happened... Last September I wanted to get a mobile device that allowed me to surf the web. I saw my friends' iPhones and thought it was a good experience. "No problem" I thought. I'll just check out this Windows Mobile 6 stuff. I started on a hunt to find a non-iPhone that browsed the web as well as an iPhone. I went to AT&T stores (since I had their service already though my contract had expired), Verizon stores and Sprint stores. At the time, every other phone's web surfing was a J-O-K-E compared to the iPhone. A joke. I can't tell you how much it pains me to say that, since I am in reality a Microsoft fan and have used their development products professionally for over a decade and a half.
So I got the iPhone 3G. My Zune was then in the glove compartment of my car for a few months. I pulled it out a few weeks ago to try out the Zune games that seemed to be taking off. What I used to think was a sleek, intuitive interface on the Zune now looked clunky. The entire device actually felt cheap. The Zune hadn't changed though - I did. I got used to the iPhone. But anyway, I upgraded my Zune firmware, installed the Zune Games and actually tried the default ones out. Texas Hold'em was actually fun. But man, the experience is nothing - NOTHING - like the iPhone.
I guess I'll try selling my brown Zune on eBay before they become totally worthless.
From the moment they entered primary school 15 years ago, they have been under the boot of a "one-strike" "zero-tolerance" public school system
You have officially scared the shit out of me. The first of my three kids enters kindergarten next fall, and I don't want him to be a mindlessly obedient robot, but I agree with you that is the natural consequence of these stupid policies.
How sad and pathetic your miserable life must be that you have to gain satisfaction by being a "tough guy" on an internet forum. Do you beat your girlfriends to make yourself feel better too?
Wow, I'd respond but your attempt at building up a straw man argument re: me being a "tough guy" has made me realize just how pathetic you are. At this point, I have absolutely no choice but to assume that you were anally raped as a child by someone very tall and that you now have a Napolean complex of gargantuan proportions.
As such, I now feel sorry for you and wish you good day. The favor of a reply to your next inane comment will not be granted as I will be busy pondering societal changes that might best effect preventing another young man's life being ruined as yours was. Keep hope alive, Dan. Even though your life is hopeless and destitute, keep hope alive. God bless you.
Just because you had the right to take such a photograph doesn't mean you should have done it, or should have ignored the guy who asked you to delete it. It'd have been the respectful and courteous thing to do, you stupid brute.
So nice to see you again! It's been, what? Six years since I took that picture of your wife?
I see you're as "courteous" as you were that night so long ago when you were yelling your "tough guy" threats across the parking lot until you walked over and realized your beer muscles weren't going to help you out this time. I'm glad to see you survived driving around drunk like a lunatic that night, too. Hopefully you didn't kill anyone else.
At least one positive thing might have come out of that night... hopefully you and your wife learned not to ease biological urges in public parking lots in front of dozens of people.
Anyway, thanks for reminiscing. Please tell that slut of a wife of yours I said "hi" the next time you drop off your child support check for those kids that aren't even yours.
It was 2:00 am and I was walking down the street at the shore in New Jersey. I saw some chick in a skirt with her underwear around her ankles, squatting as she was peeing outside a pizza restaurant. I whipped out my digital camera, took a picture from about 30 feet away and kept on walking.
Next thing I know, some dude claiming to be her husband runs over and demands I delete the picture. I tell him, "No way." Well, my nick is not bigtallmofo for no reason (I'm 6'8") and this guy was like 5'4" and skinny. That's probably why he didn't forcefully insist. But he did follow me in his car for about 20 minutes as I walked. I was on my way to my girlfriend's house and instead of going right there I just walked around in circles until he got tired of following me in his car. He never said another word to me before he drove off.
So, I support the rights of photographers everywhere to take pictures in public. Even if it's some dude's wife peeing in a pizza restaurant parking lot.
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I haven't shopped at Circuit City since they were pushing that DIVX bullshit, because they were pushing that DIVX bullshit.
I still laugh whenever I download a DivX/XVid movie and think about what those MPAA bastards tried to foist on us.
Look, I'm the epitome of a swing voter. I think they're all idiots. But to blame the Bush administration (alone) for de-regulation shows you don't know what you're talking about.
Clinton Repealed Glass-Steagall which was the single greatest de-regulation of banks since I don't know when.
All politicians are corrupt. As soon as everyone realizes this and doesn't think that their chosen team is exempt, the better off we'll be.
Is there anyone with any depth of writing knowledge at all, that seriously believes that we should use such a corruptible technology as pencil and paper voting machines in our sacred voting process?
You can't secure them. Anybody with an eraser knows this. Plus, there is no way to verify whether anyone is changing votes after the fact.
And we argue over whether to have engraved-stone trails? --- The proposed system is not perfect, so you refuse to acknowledge it might be the best practical solution because you refuse to really look how it compares to alternatives. In short, you're an alarmist at best.
If it was easy to cast a vote with a pencil and a paper and now it's not that easy, then *it is* machine fault.
You really, really, really underestimate some people's stupidity. This is NOT a technology problem. It's a stupid people problem:
1. Remember hanging chads? You know, the thing where some people couldn't figure out that you had to poke the entire piece of paper out.
2. Remember where some people voted for multiple people on their paper ballot and were disqualified? Sure, maybe they were purposely trying to throw their vote away. More likely they couldn't figure out how to use a PENCIL properly.
I could go on and on. Stop trying to think that paper/pencil means perfect and hold any machine up to the standard of perfection.
There are just too many stupid, tired, distracted, illiterate, whatever people out there. Voting won't be 100% or even 99% perfect no matter what mechanism we use. Guess what - that means tens of thousands of lost votes.
As others have said, this really is a GSM issue and not an iPhone issue. The sound I hear from my computer speakers with my iPhone is identical to what I heard from my Nokia 3610 which is about as un-iPhone as a phone can get without being better described as a rock.
Seriously - the interference sound is identical.
My only concern really is what is this doing to my neurons, rods, cones and assorted other presumably sensitive body parts. I don't care about a goofy sound coming from my computer speakers every once in a while.
What caused normally cautious lenders to make subprime loans in the first place?
I see where you're going with this. You're blaming the "Community Reinvestment Act" (CRA) that basically forces banks to lend to people they wouldn't otherwise lend to (i.e. people with bad credit) because they have to fulfill racial quotas.
I agree with you that this is part of the issue. But this whole problem is so far beyond liberal/conservative or Republican/Democrat. The problem is that we have a fairly corrupt system right now and everyone in power is culpable.
How about one of the reasons they made subprime loans was because they made money from them and they didn't have to bear the risk? You know, good old fashioned banker greed. So CRA was pushing them in that direction - but they were more than willing to go along!
Somehow the genius quants -- the best and brightest geeks Wall Street firms could buy -- fed $1 trillion in subprime mortgage debt into their supercomputers, added some derivatives, massaged the arrangements with computer algorithms and -- poof! -- created $62 trillion in imaginary wealth.
Thanks, New York Times. Does your average reader have the reading comprehension of a 9 year old these days?
Here's what happened in simple English: investment banks invented various ways of packaging mortgages into securities. They then convinced ratings agencies to give these new securities AAA status even though the ratings agencies didn't understand them. This gave mortgage brokers a license to commit fraud because they could give a mortgage to anyone with or without a pulse and there was a sucker just dying to buy that new mortgage from them. With such easy money available, real estate agents were able to pump and dump properties (strong-arming housing appraisers was a favorite tactic) like there was no tomorrow and convince people that housing prices only go up in a straight line. In the final act of the play, the investment bankers, mortgage brokers and real estate agents that caused this retire in the Cayman Islands while taxpayers are left to clean up the mess while we hope our economy doesn't literally implode.
I don't see what's so complicated about any of this. It's pure and simple fraud on the most massive of scales.