Charging at home every day, assuming an outdoor parking spot in the yard. he certainly spends more than that untangling the cables, plugging in, putting the cables back...
No I don't. I arrive at home, plug it in - the outlet is right next to the car. It takes around 10-15 seconds; I don't even think about it.
Seriously - we are talking about new technology - a new gadget to play with. We could be talking about the interface, comparing it to other smart watches, discussing possible future apps that would make sense in this context. But no - it's from Apple, so let's all talk about how we don't want a watch.
Personally I think the success of the watch highly depends on the interface. Other smart watches have been hard to navigate, and I am not entirely sure I believe Apple has cracked the code on the. If they have, this could be a really cool device. If not, I don't think we will see too many generations of it.
Still, taking a random test in two groups, which is more likely to be OK with porn? The gay-friendly or gay-hating one? Even when watered down to gay-friendly vs simply all people, I think you would see a clear trend thanks to the pre-selection of the group on a somewhat related topic.
So you are saying, that if you are "gay-indifferent" (whatever that may be), you are not as much in favor of free access to pornography as if you are "gay-friendly"?
I don't think I agree.
Now, I don't know where you are from, but living in Denmark, I find the term "gay-friendly" rather... strange. Isn't everybody gay-friendly? I mean, except for the very few homophobes out there .
At least, I have been brought up to consider homosexuality just another sexuality - and I don't make the link to pornography at all. It find it really weird that you do.
Maybe you do. I think you are stretching it a bit too far.
However, one of the points made were, that children have access to the App Store, and that Apple does not want to give them access to porn.
Don't get me wrong here, I don't support Apple in this case - I think they are totaly nuts.
But I do not agree with the statement, that if you are a gay-friendly company it has to mean, that you are more in favor of pornography.
It could (and should) just mean, that you support everybody's right to their personal sexuality.
Absolutely nothing. In no way has anyone been making baseless, unfounded jokes about Apple user's sexual orientation behind their backs. That's a vicious rumour. You're being paranoid.
So... because because people make jokes about Apple users being gay, it is weird that Apple doesn't allow porn in their App Store?
I fail to see how that makes sense. But hey, you got modded up, I am clearly missing something;)
I guess the iPad isn't the obvious choice for most people on Slashdot. For me, however, it is. I spend a lot of time at home using my iPhone browsing the web, planning dinner for the next day, reading books, playing games - and sitting there in my favorite couch, I don't want to open my laptop - I just want to use my iPhone; except, the screen is too small. For now, I get along - but for me the iPad is the obvious choice; it would fit perfectly with my habits.
You don't need to go into the command line at all even to install it.
[...]
Granted, doing some obtuse things after the install may require some CLI commands,[...]
Some of those things you need to go to the CLI to get working can be quite essential, though. And having to go to the CLI is the main problem with Linux, as far as I am concerned.
My mother is using Kubuntu. She doesn't know that - she is just happy to have a nice PC, that is working. And why is it working? Because I set it up for her. I have spend quite a few hours in the CLI, getting everything working.
Granted, most of the things worked right out of the package, and it is very few things I have had to mess around with, but those things that I needed to go to the CLI to fix - she would have never figured it out.
On Windows my mother could setup new hardware by herself, as everything comes with a CD-ROM and a manual. With Linux, I have to fix things for her.
However, the time I spend fixing minor problems is nowhere near the time I used to spend removing viruses, search-bars and more nasty crap from her Windows-machine, so all in all I am happy - but while Linux is pretty near something anyone could setup, it's not all there yet, and until it is, we are just not going to get people to switch.
I understand that you're probably not a gun owner, so you're talking about something you know nothing about, but despite what TV tells you there is no arms race in practical firearm ownership.
I understand you are probable a gun owner, so you're talking about something you know nothing about. We don't go around shooting each other in the rest of the western world. When people don't have guns, burglars don't bring them either. People don't get shot - neither in shootouts or in accidents.
People are being killed with the same basic designs and calibers that they were a hundred years ago. There are advances of course, but things like 1911 and AK-47 aren't just clever names, they're dates. A gun designed (and sometimes built) 60 years ago will kill anyone just as well as one built yesterday.
That may be true. And whilst you keep killing each other with the same calibers, we keep going around not killing each other.
That is not what we see here in Denmark, where I live. Burglars do not carry guns. You are not held up at gunpoint.
The only time guns are used here, is when criminal gangs attack each other.
So yes, I think is *IS* a chicken and egg problem.
Law abiding gun owners don't fear other law abiding gun owners, unless you think sportsman clubs, social clubs and the dreaded NRA are all figments of my imagination. What they do fear is people who would break the laws they follow.
And the people who break the laws fear the law abiding gun owners. That's why they bring guns when they are out to rob someone. And that's why the law abiding gun owners need better, faster, more deadly guns. And that's why the criminals need them too. And so on, and so forth.
Huh? I've tried out Firefox 3 beta 3 as well as the latest Safari on windows as well as Mac, and Firefox is visibly slower on pages that use Javascript for managing the layout, i.e. scrolling graphics (this is not to start a debate on whether you should use Javascript for layout - sometimes it's appropriate, sometimes it's not).
If you don't want to be "treated differently", just because you happen to be on the road, you just set up forwarding of your landline. Any call to your landline will be forwarded to your mobile phone, and you pay the difference in price - the person calling you pays the regular landline price.
I know for a fact that it's possible in Denmark, at least, because I used to have such a setup. Actually the forwarding got enabled whenever I turned my mobile phone on, so I had to remember turning it off whenever I was at home, if I didn't want to pay for receiving calls.
Anyways, my point is: With the european system, you can actually choose to go "the american way" (though you need to have a landline as well as a mobile phone).
I would like to see the results from a comparative study of the people here in Denmark (which is a capitalistic democracy, despite the public healthcare system, free scholls and stuff like that) - compared to the politicians here the liberals and democrats are both right-wing conservatives.
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Charging at home every day, assuming an outdoor parking spot in the yard. he certainly spends more than that untangling the cables, plugging in, putting the cables back...
No I don't. I arrive at home, plug it in - the outlet is right next to the car. It takes around 10-15 seconds; I don't even think about it.
Are Industrial Networks also Vulnerable To non-devastating Cyberattacks?
The comments in this thread, I mean.
Seriously - we are talking about new technology - a new gadget to play with. We could be talking about the interface, comparing it to other smart watches, discussing possible future apps that would make sense in this context. But no - it's from Apple, so let's all talk about how we don't want a watch.
Personally I think the success of the watch highly depends on the interface. Other smart watches have been hard to navigate, and I am not entirely sure I believe Apple has cracked the code on the. If they have, this could be a really cool device. If not, I don't think we will see too many generations of it.
Printing. [...] (even if it needs a daemon / iTunes on a computer to avoid having to load printer drivers in the iPad).
Try "Print n Share" from the App store.
Still, taking a random test in two groups, which is more likely to be OK with porn? The gay-friendly or gay-hating one? Even when watered down to gay-friendly vs simply all people, I think you would see a clear trend thanks to the pre-selection of the group on a somewhat related topic.
So you are saying, that if you are "gay-indifferent" (whatever that may be), you are not as much in favor of free access to pornography as if you are "gay-friendly"?
I don't think I agree.
Now, I don't know where you are from, but living in Denmark, I find the term "gay-friendly" rather... strange. Isn't everybody gay-friendly? I mean, except for the very few homophobes out there
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At least, I have been brought up to consider homosexuality just another sexuality - and I don't make the link to pornography at all. It find it really weird that you do.
Correlation is not causation and all that
Exactly.
, but I see at least the correlation, here.
Maybe you do. I think you are stretching it a bit too far.
However, one of the points made were, that children have access to the App Store, and that Apple does not want to give them access to porn.
Don't get me wrong here, I don't support Apple in this case - I think they are totaly nuts.
But I do not agree with the statement, that if you are a gay-friendly company it has to mean, that you are more in favor of pornography.
It could (and should) just mean, that you support everybody's right to their personal sexuality.
Absolutely nothing. In no way has anyone been making baseless, unfounded jokes about Apple user's sexual orientation behind their backs. That's a vicious rumour. You're being paranoid.
So... because because people make jokes about Apple users being gay, it is weird that Apple doesn't allow porn in their App Store? I fail to see how that makes sense. But hey, you got modded up, I am clearly missing something ;)
The anti-porn rhetoric from the head of a politically liberal, gay-friendly company is pretty weird, to say the least.
What has "gay-friendly" got to do with it?
I guess the iPad isn't the obvious choice for most people on Slashdot. For me, however, it is. I spend a lot of time at home using my iPhone browsing the web, planning dinner for the next day, reading books, playing games - and sitting there in my favorite couch, I don't want to open my laptop - I just want to use my iPhone; except, the screen is too small. For now, I get along - but for me the iPad is the obvious choice; it would fit perfectly with my habits.
You don't need to go into the command line at all even to install it.
[...]
Granted, doing some obtuse things after the install may require some CLI commands,[...]
Some of those things you need to go to the CLI to get working can be quite essential, though. And having to go to the CLI is the main problem with Linux, as far as I am concerned.
My mother is using Kubuntu. She doesn't know that - she is just happy to have a nice PC, that is working. And why is it working? Because I set it up for her. I have spend quite a few hours in the CLI, getting everything working.
Granted, most of the things worked right out of the package, and it is very few things I have had to mess around with, but those things that I needed to go to the CLI to fix - she would have never figured it out.
On Windows my mother could setup new hardware by herself, as everything comes with a CD-ROM and a manual. With Linux, I have to fix things for her.
However, the time I spend fixing minor problems is nowhere near the time I used to spend removing viruses, search-bars and more nasty crap from her Windows-machine, so all in all I am happy - but while Linux is pretty near something anyone could setup, it's not all there yet, and until it is, we are just not going to get people to switch.
It's obviously called football, because you primarily move the ball around by using your foot... eh...
We use IE7, and are *not* to install other browsers. For security reasons.
Firefox is specifically mentioned as a big no-no.
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I understand that you're probably not a gun owner, so you're talking about something you know nothing about, but despite what TV tells you there is no arms race in practical firearm ownership.
I understand you are probable a gun owner, so you're talking about something you know nothing about. We don't go around shooting each other in the rest of the western world. When people don't have guns, burglars don't bring them either. People don't get shot - neither in shootouts or in accidents.
People are being killed with the same basic designs and calibers that they were a hundred years ago. There are advances of course, but things like 1911 and AK-47 aren't just clever names, they're dates. A gun designed (and sometimes built) 60 years ago will kill anyone just as well as one built yesterday.
That may be true. And whilst you keep killing each other with the same calibers, we keep going around not killing each other.
How did outlawing guns solve a problem?
Look at the statistics. People don't get shot around here.
That is not what we see here in Denmark, where I live. Burglars do not carry guns. You are not held up at gunpoint. The only time guns are used here, is when criminal gangs attack each other. So yes, I think is *IS* a chicken and egg problem.
Law abiding gun owners don't fear other law abiding gun owners, unless you think sportsman clubs, social clubs and the dreaded NRA are all figments of my imagination. What they do fear is people who would break the laws they follow.
And the people who break the laws fear the law abiding gun owners. That's why they bring guns when they are out to rob someone. And that's why the law abiding gun owners need better, faster, more deadly guns. And that's why the criminals need them too. And so on, and so forth.
Huh? I've tried out Firefox 3 beta 3 as well as the latest Safari on windows as well as Mac, and Firefox is visibly slower on pages that use Javascript for managing the layout, i.e. scrolling graphics (this is not to start a debate on whether you should use Javascript for layout - sometimes it's appropriate, sometimes it's not).
There! See! You are doing it again! Stop being hostile, and fix my bug(s)!!!
Agreed - CSS is for layout, but tables are not obsolete; tables are still extremely useful for data.
Oh, the british think evolution is the answer. Here are some statistics for you: Comparing U.S. religious beliefs with other "christian" countries
If you don't want to be "treated differently", just because you happen to be on the road, you just set up forwarding of your landline. Any call to your landline will be forwarded to your mobile phone, and you pay the difference in price - the person calling you pays the regular landline price.
I know for a fact that it's possible in Denmark, at least, because I used to have such a setup. Actually the forwarding got enabled whenever I turned my mobile phone on, so I had to remember turning it off whenever I was at home, if I didn't want to pay for receiving calls.
Anyways, my point is: With the european system, you can actually choose to go "the american way" (though you need to have a landline as well as a mobile phone).
No we don't. We use the metric system ;-)
I would like to see the results from a comparative study of the people here in Denmark (which is a capitalistic democracy, despite the public healthcare system, free scholls and stuff like that) - compared to the politicians here the liberals and democrats are both right-wing conservatives.
My money's on the evil lawyers.