By the time the iPhone came out, there was no one competent at Palm (if there ever was any). Smartphones at Palm weren't created there anyway, they were bought in the Handspring acquisition.
"Head of UI team" at Palm is not a qualification nor would such a person recognize that they had been ripped off. They weren't involved in their own products to begin with.
Threaded text messaging was another Palm innovation stolen by Apple. Bet the head of UI didn't know that either.
This is, of course, the correct answer and one that has been known for ages. This is how primary education is done and is the motivation for land grant colleges. College used to be affordable in-state or even free.
We don't need to invent a new solution, we need to return to what we used to have. Restore education as a public service, it should not be a profit center and our kids should not be turned into indentured servants.
"Although not released until 1992 due to legal complications, development of 386BSD, from which NetBSD, OpenBSD and FreeBSD descended, predated that of Linux. Linus Torvalds has said that if 386BSD had been available at the time, he probably would not have created Linux.[32]"
A 386 BSD *had* "existed" but it's future was cloudy due to lawsuit. Had the timing of those legal questions been more favorable, there would be no Linux today.
"It won't. Is this extended support going to avoid XP from being replaced? I bet not. Therefore paying for the extended support *plus* replacing is certainly going to cost more than just replacing."
Which is why you should buy a new car tomorrow, even if you bought one just last week.
"Anything that can run Windows 7 could run linux. Anything that can run embedded Windows 7 would have no problem running linux. Or OpenBSD."
And what support contracts do those come with?
Windows XP continues to run after the support contract ends. By switching to any of the ones you mention, they would simply be spending time, money and effort to move the support end date up to now.
"The 10 commandments are of jewish origin, and are respected by muslims as well, since they are included in the quran. They didn't come from Jesus, so the 'overtly Christian message' comment just seems to be way off the mark and most importantly, it is technically incorrect."
What is hysterical about all if this is that it doesn't matter at all. It's all stuff made up by ignorant, primitive people thousands of years ago. The precise names we give to the people who originated it, as if we really knew, is irrelevant. Accepting your comments as accurate and meaningful implies there is a legitimacy to the topic that doesn't exist. It's the product of rantings of the deranges carried forward through centuries of ignorance.
Nothing came from Jesus since Jesus is a work of fiction. Doesn't mean there aren't "Christian messages".
"The downfall of modern society is the illusion of strength that the internet provides."
Look who's talking!
People make so much noise about knowing what the definition of marriage is. Gays don't care about that, they care about equal treatment under the law. "Might makes right" seems reasonable when it's your own prejudices that are threatened.
"On what evidence do you base your claim that the same number of calories per day will make you thinner if they come from a source that doesn't raise blood glucose?"
This is a really good question, in fact a central one. Now that you know what the question is, you could actually research it rather than have someone on/. do it for you. It is not "his claim", it is a fundamental truth.
"This is called confirmation bias. When you get the results you want assume the data to be true. When you don't, just assume the data is bad so that you can dismiss it."
and maybe it's because the data IS bad.
The people who insist weight control is nothing other than a simple, algebraic formula are the ones dismissing "data". It is quite possible for a 10% change to have an effect for one person but that's not proof that everyone else is just weak.
"The military studies that indicate the body will not enter starvation mode until you hit 6% body fat..."
Military studies are only concerned with young, healthy men. Obese people are commonly in "starvation mode" despite their body fat. That's why they are obese and that's why calorie counting won't matter for them. The underlying failure has to be fixed, not their "character flaws".
But your body varies that based on what it perceives are survival circumstances. It has a number of mechanisms to preserve itself when faced with famine. Your body isn't an engine burning gas a constant rate.
"This is utter nonsense."
You are an idiot.
"A morbidly obese person who stays on a diet will eventually get the same metabolism and behavior as the skinniest person."
You are laughably wrong. You practice the science of "I don't have this problem therefore it doesn't exist".
You wouldn't claim that an alcoholic suddenly stops being an alcoholic the moment he stops drinking and you wouldn't claim that the liver damage he may have accumulated over a lifetime of abuse is suddenly absent because he is sober. Same with obesity, diabetes, fatty liver, metabolic syndrome, whatever the problem(s) are. You need to stop being a fool and learn something.
"And as I said repeatedly, if you aren't getting enough calories, it is UTTERLY IMPOSSIBLE for your body to deposit excess fat."
Yeah, you should stop saying that. It makes you look stupid.
"It's pure PHYSICS that if you need a certain number of calories, and if you do not consume enough, you will lose weight."
Anyone who thinks "pure PHYSICS" matters in this discussion is too ignorant to participate in the discussion. Come back when you have some life experience.
Of course, it is impossible to know either the "certain number of calories" needed or the actual amount you consume so the whole point is irrelevant.
It is much more interesting to consider what drives hunger and what causes a body that is overweight to continually trigger hunger. People also need to stop thinking of all food as equal. There's a lot more that's important than just calories, anyone who is stuck in such simplistic thinking doesn't know what weight problems are like.
"Counting calories is a very effective way to lose/gain weight."
It is an effective way for SOME people to lose weight, specifically those whose weight regulation systems work the way they are supposed to. It's not true for everyone especially those who have the weight issues to begin with.
It's always those who have no experience with problematic weight control that offer up simplistic grade-school weight loss "facts" on their way to dismissing others' very real problems. No one desires to be obese; it is a failure of the body to work properly not a weakness or character issue.
" A 4.7" display is clearly in the realm of "difficult to use with one hand"..."
A 4.7" display is trivailly easy to use with one hand. The Moto X has a glorious form factor.
"Getting an Android phone with a 4" display generally means buying one with severely downgraded internal specs, leaving Apple to pretty much own the high-end compact smartphone market segment."
Yeah, like smaller batteries, lower clock rates, lower resolution screens, and dual core processors...just like an iPhone. The problem with Android is its crappy software not its inability to make smaller phones with "premium" specs. Apple proves that less hardware does just fine as long as you don't suck.
Just finished trying Android (Moto X) again for 3.5 months after being disgusted with a Note 2. Also tried the Nexus 4 and 5 as well as a Nexus 7 and a Sony Xperia Z Ultra. One thing they all had in common...infuriating low quality software that is constantly screwing up. I have never had a phone pocket activate itself as relentlessly as the Moto X. That phone cries out for better software. The packaging is great.
I'm delighted to be back on iPhone despite its ugly new iOS7 appearance, teeny display and hard-to-hold form factor. Apple is likely to fix that stuff in a year while Google never will. Android battery life is still pitiful and there's nothing uglier than stock KitKat. Embarrassing.
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By the time the iPhone came out, there was no one competent at Palm (if there ever was any). Smartphones at Palm weren't created there anyway, they were bought in the Handspring acquisition.
"Head of UI team" at Palm is not a qualification nor would such a person recognize that they had been ripped off. They weren't involved in their own products to begin with.
Threaded text messaging was another Palm innovation stolen by Apple. Bet the head of UI didn't know that either.
This is, of course, the correct answer and one that has been known for ages. This is how primary education is done and is the motivation for land grant colleges. College used to be affordable in-state or even free.
We don't need to invent a new solution, we need to return to what we used to have. Restore education as a public service, it should not be a profit center and our kids should not be turned into indentured servants.
From the article you linked to...
"Although not released until 1992 due to legal complications, development of 386BSD, from which NetBSD, OpenBSD and FreeBSD descended, predated that of Linux. Linus Torvalds has said that if 386BSD had been available at the time, he probably would not have created Linux.[32]"
A 386 BSD *had* "existed" but it's future was cloudy due to lawsuit. Had the timing of those legal questions been more favorable, there would be no Linux today.
"RAID doesn't protect against user stupidity ..."
In fact, RAID 6 depends on it.
"It won't. Is this extended support going to avoid XP from being replaced? I bet not. Therefore paying for the extended support *plus* replacing is certainly going to cost more than just replacing."
Which is why you should buy a new car tomorrow, even if you bought one just last week.
"Anything that can run Windows 7 could run linux.
Anything that can run embedded Windows 7 would have no problem running linux.
Or OpenBSD."
And what support contracts do those come with?
Windows XP continues to run after the support contract ends. By switching to any of the ones you mention, they would simply be spending time, money and effort to move the support end date up to now.
This comment is filled with stupid.
"To me, the term "mobile browser" brings up the specter of the old browsers one typically found in phones before the iPhone..."
So the problem is your understanding of what a mobile browser is.
The iPhone, in fact, defined the first mobile browser. Prior to that, phones tried to make browsers work just like desktop versions.
But peak/off-peak pricing is itself an artificial circumstance caused by inadequate infrastructure.
A solution that could be better implemented centrally.
Until everyone does it and the pricing structure changes.
"The 10 commandments are of jewish origin, and are respected by muslims as well, since they are included in the quran. They didn't come from Jesus, so the 'overtly Christian message' comment just seems to be way off the mark and most importantly, it is technically incorrect."
What is hysterical about all if this is that it doesn't matter at all. It's all stuff made up by ignorant, primitive people thousands of years ago. The precise names we give to the people who originated it, as if we really knew, is irrelevant. Accepting your comments as accurate and meaningful implies there is a legitimacy to the topic that doesn't exist. It's the product of rantings of the deranges carried forward through centuries of ignorance.
Nothing came from Jesus since Jesus is a work of fiction. Doesn't mean there aren't "Christian messages".
"The downfall of modern society is the illusion of strength that the internet provides."
Look who's talking!
People make so much noise about knowing what the definition of marriage is. Gays don't care about that, they care about equal treatment under the law. "Might makes right" seems reasonable when it's your own prejudices that are threatened.
He never got far enough to look around because he was required to shower before entering.
The Seiki TVs are absolutely horrible as computer monitors ESPECIALLY for photo work.
"The actual distinction in convenience is a half a second of fiddling per day."
This is, of course, wrong. Typical for /. though, people with utterly no experience stating things as fact and getting modded Insightful.
That is NOT why optimizing compilers were invented.
"On what evidence do you base your claim that the same number of calories per day will make you thinner if they come from a source that doesn't raise blood glucose?"
This is a really good question, in fact a central one. Now that you know what the question is, you could actually research it rather than have someone on /. do it for you. It is not "his claim", it is a fundamental truth.
"This is called confirmation bias. When you get the results you want assume the data to be true. When you don't, just assume the data is bad so that you can dismiss it."
and maybe it's because the data IS bad.
The people who insist weight control is nothing other than a simple, algebraic formula are the ones dismissing "data". It is quite possible for a 10% change to have an effect for one person but that's not proof that everyone else is just weak.
"The military studies that indicate the body will not enter starvation mode until you hit 6% body fat..."
Military studies are only concerned with young, healthy men. Obese people are commonly in "starvation mode" despite their body fat. That's why they are obese and that's why calorie counting won't matter for them. The underlying failure has to be fixed, not their "character flaws".
People can gain fat on 2000 calories a day. You only feel differently because you know nothing.
"Your body's "at rest" metabolism absolutely dominates."
But your body varies that based on what it perceives are survival circumstances. It has a number of mechanisms to preserve itself when faced with famine. Your body isn't an engine burning gas a constant rate.
"This is utter nonsense."
You are an idiot.
"A morbidly obese person who stays on a diet will eventually get the same metabolism and behavior as the skinniest person."
You are laughably wrong. You practice the science of "I don't have this problem therefore it doesn't exist".
You wouldn't claim that an alcoholic suddenly stops being an alcoholic the moment he stops drinking and you wouldn't claim that the liver damage he may have accumulated over a lifetime of abuse is suddenly absent because he is sober. Same with obesity, diabetes, fatty liver, metabolic syndrome, whatever the problem(s) are. You need to stop being a fool and learn something.
"And as I said repeatedly, if you aren't getting enough calories, it is UTTERLY IMPOSSIBLE for your body to deposit excess fat."
Yeah, you should stop saying that. It makes you look stupid.
"It's pure PHYSICS that if you need a certain number of calories, and if you do not consume enough, you will lose weight."
Anyone who thinks "pure PHYSICS" matters in this discussion is too ignorant to participate in the discussion. Come back when you have some life experience.
Of course, it is impossible to know either the "certain number of calories" needed or the actual amount you consume so the whole point is irrelevant.
It is much more interesting to consider what drives hunger and what causes a body that is overweight to continually trigger hunger. People also need to stop thinking of all food as equal. There's a lot more that's important than just calories, anyone who is stuck in such simplistic thinking doesn't know what weight problems are like.
"Counting calories is a very effective way to lose/gain weight."
It is an effective way for SOME people to lose weight, specifically those whose weight regulation systems work the way they are supposed to. It's not true for everyone especially those who have the weight issues to begin with.
It's always those who have no experience with problematic weight control that offer up simplistic grade-school weight loss "facts" on their way to dismissing others' very real problems. No one desires to be obese; it is a failure of the body to work properly not a weakness or character issue.
" A 4.7" display is clearly in the realm of "difficult to use with one hand"..."
A 4.7" display is trivailly easy to use with one hand. The Moto X has a glorious form factor.
"Getting an Android phone with a 4" display generally means buying one with severely downgraded internal specs, leaving Apple to pretty much own the high-end compact smartphone market segment."
Yeah, like smaller batteries, lower clock rates, lower resolution screens, and dual core processors...just like an iPhone. The problem with Android is its crappy software not its inability to make smaller phones with "premium" specs. Apple proves that less hardware does just fine as long as you don't suck.
Just finished trying Android (Moto X) again for 3.5 months after being disgusted with a Note 2. Also tried the Nexus 4 and 5 as well as a Nexus 7 and a Sony Xperia Z Ultra. One thing they all had in common...infuriating low quality software that is constantly screwing up. I have never had a phone pocket activate itself as relentlessly as the Moto X. That phone cries out for better software. The packaging is great.
I'm delighted to be back on iPhone despite its ugly new iOS7 appearance, teeny display and hard-to-hold form factor. Apple is likely to fix that stuff in a year while Google never will. Android battery life is still pitiful and there's nothing uglier than stock KitKat. Embarrassing.