1. Be blind to the many PDA/smartphones available without cameras. 2. Buy a phone with a camera 3. Drill hole through camera 4. Dry up those tears and live your life cameraless.
Let's see - crappy 1.3 megapixel camera with bad optics and a non-scratch resistant plastic lens. Slow software that can't take pictures anywhere but outside in ideal sunlight, crappy slow software to browse the pictures, and usually no way (or some very obscure way) to get the pictures off of your phone without paying to send them via some misguided and unbelievably expensive MMS message.
Yea I can't figure out why people aren't using the hardware "features" either.
What is really amazing is that people seem to come out in droves to defend the carriers. I wrote an article on the ridiculously high cost of text messages some time ago (which was also featured here on/. as well as several major media outlets - yes, I'm tooting my own horn) and couldn't count the people who came out and said "DUH! They're charging what they are because people are willing to pay it!"
These are the kind of assholes who troll around the web looking for any discussion in which to insert their derogatory "I'm smarter than you - it's so obvious!" attitude while ignoring the issue at hand. No, prices are not justified by the markets willingness to pay them. Do you think it is justified that a friend of mine had to go $400,000 in debt because he got brain cancer while he didn't have insurance? His family was willing to pay it, so it must be a great deal, right? Do you think that higher and higher gas prices are justified even while the price of oil drops and oil companies post record profits quarter after quarter?
No, of course those things aren't justified. Just like it wouldn't be justified if all the food manufacturers suddenly decided to charge 10x more for food. It's anti competitive and it's illegal for a very good reason. Price fixing ruins the free market and ensures that consumers get the crappiest possible product for the greatest price. It ruins innovation and takes a huge dump on everyone in the market. Several historical examples show this, but I won't get into that here. Two seconds of critical thinking will get you to the same conclusion.
Text messaging is a 100 billion dollar industry in the U.S. That's bigger than all the movies, all the music, and all the video games in the entire world put together. The current cost of a single 140 byte text message is 40 cents (which is obfuscated by the fact that the sender AND the receiver are both paying 20 cents each). I can get a letter hand delivered to any doorstep in the U.S. for about the same price. The cost of a text message to the carrier is virtually ZERO. Yet somehow, they are saying that 40 cents is a fair price. I want to know why, and I'm glad someone in congress is doing something about it.
Global warming is not an industry, it's a religion with all the same zealous leadership, supernatural claims, and faith-based following that is characteristic of any religion.
This isn't an attack but a serious question: I thought we had all already figured out the carbon dating is highly inaccurate. Like, the more recent something is, the more inaccurate the results (in theory) - so to get accurate results you have to assume something is really old to begin with.
Besides that, the amount of carbon in the atmosphere has never been at equilibrium. If we don't know where it started, we're missing the first figure in the equation to determine something's age.
I thought this was generally accepted now? Apparently I'm wrong?
(p.s. I believe the earth to be billions of years old or whatever)
I'm sick of people calling out Bush for a slow response to Katrina. There's plenty to dislike about Bush we don't need to make crap up.
For anyone who for some reason doesn't know this: The federal government cannot go in and provide aid in a place like post-Katrina New Orleans unless the governor asks for it. It's against the law and the very basic nature of our country for the federal government to just go and do that kind of stuff. The governor in Louisiana was slow to ask for aid and was therefore slow to get it.
Bush actually tried to pass a law that would allow the federal government to quickly respond to such disasters and he was accused of trying to take over with an oppressive hand.
Seriously, I dislike Bush as much as the next guy but I'm not so stupid that I can't see the reality of a situation.
This comment is burried so far down that probably nobody will ever read it, but I was thinking that a glass master might would probably last 25 years. You can get one made at any place that presses CDs - it will be (relatively) cheap and should last.
Who cares about whether or not it is alive. Can this virus be used to infect other viruses in a controlled manner? Can we program it to kill aids or other viral diseases?
You are absolutely right. I worked for HP for quite some time, and believe me - the commodity hardware that $500 HP computer is built with is dirt compared to what Apple uses.
Think about it. HP sells a consumer laptop for $500 that includes all the bells and whistles, a webcam, shiny media buttons, etc. etc. Then they sell a business end laptop for 3x as much that is slower and has less features. Do you think there is a reason for this?
Consumer laptops are made with the absolute cheapest parts HP can source THAT DAY. Two laptops sitting next to each other on the shelf at the store can have different parts but look exactly the same. The quality control in this situation is, understandably, not good.
Business machines are the same in an entire series. They use good, proven hardware, and every single machine uses the same stuff. That way you can flash the same OS image onto all of them without problems. You can't do that with the consumer stuff.
So when people compare Apple to HP or other manufacturers, keep in mind that it's the business class machines that you should be looking at. Apple doesn't use commodity hardware - they use the same piece in every unit in a series, and they use parts that are high quality and proven to work well.
This is why people think Apple is expensive, when it's actually quite competitive.
People really think our moon was formed from debris from our earth after being hit by an asteroid? That doesn't work on SO MANY levels.
First off, I don't care how hard that astroid hit, it's not sending stuff into space. If the entire earth was made out of TNT and you set it off, the gravity would pull everything right back together again (this is true according to Dr. Melvin A. Cook).
Second, it would seem that from an analysis of the composition of the moon and the composition of the earth, that they really aren't made out of the same stuff.
To be fair, Leopard wasn't just about adding a few "shinies." In fact, they really only added coverflow, the dock thing, and the transparent menu bar. A lot more innovate features were included like webclips, stacks, updated finder, new front row, better ical and address book, nifty new ichat features, fixed airport menu, parental controls, preview, quick look, better security, spaces, better terminal, TIME MACHINE, full Unix certification, and a whole host of developer tools and under the hood stability improvements.
Apple didn't just add bling - they made the operating system more stable and fixed a lot of bugs. So, be fair - we didn't pay $120 for a new dock.
I come to slashdot because if I want to know more about a story I can read the comments and usually get a lot of good insight from people who are knowledgeable about the subject matter.
I avoid Digg because, well... the comments look a lot like this.
I just solved a several month long sleep problem with my MBP by removing the HP print drivers.
It's funny that the two times my Mac has been screwed up were either Microsoft's fault (mouse driver) or HP's fault (printer driver).
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1. Be blind to the many PDA/smartphones available without cameras.
2. Buy a phone with a camera
3. Drill hole through camera
4. Dry up those tears and live your life cameraless.
Missing a call is worse than having your phone stolen?
Who are you waiting for a call from? Geeez.
Let's see - crappy 1.3 megapixel camera with bad optics and a non-scratch resistant plastic lens. Slow software that can't take pictures anywhere but outside in ideal sunlight, crappy slow software to browse the pictures, and usually no way (or some very obscure way) to get the pictures off of your phone without paying to send them via some misguided and unbelievably expensive MMS message.
Yea I can't figure out why people aren't using the hardware "features" either.
oh lord o cobol, hear my prayer.
I haven't peaked. I haven't even begun to peak. And when I do peak, you're going to know it because I'm going to peak all over everybody.
What is really amazing is that people seem to come out in droves to defend the carriers. I wrote an article on the ridiculously high cost of text messages some time ago (which was also featured here on /. as well as several major media outlets - yes, I'm tooting my own horn) and couldn't count the people who came out and said "DUH! They're charging what they are because people are willing to pay it!"
These are the kind of assholes who troll around the web looking for any discussion in which to insert their derogatory "I'm smarter than you - it's so obvious!" attitude while ignoring the issue at hand. No, prices are not justified by the markets willingness to pay them. Do you think it is justified that a friend of mine had to go $400,000 in debt because he got brain cancer while he didn't have insurance? His family was willing to pay it, so it must be a great deal, right? Do you think that higher and higher gas prices are justified even while the price of oil drops and oil companies post record profits quarter after quarter?
No, of course those things aren't justified. Just like it wouldn't be justified if all the food manufacturers suddenly decided to charge 10x more for food. It's anti competitive and it's illegal for a very good reason. Price fixing ruins the free market and ensures that consumers get the crappiest possible product for the greatest price. It ruins innovation and takes a huge dump on everyone in the market. Several historical examples show this, but I won't get into that here. Two seconds of critical thinking will get you to the same conclusion.
Text messaging is a 100 billion dollar industry in the U.S. That's bigger than all the movies, all the music, and all the video games in the entire world put together. The current cost of a single 140 byte text message is 40 cents (which is obfuscated by the fact that the sender AND the receiver are both paying 20 cents each). I can get a letter hand delivered to any doorstep in the U.S. for about the same price. The cost of a text message to the carrier is virtually ZERO. Yet somehow, they are saying that 40 cents is a fair price. I want to know why, and I'm glad someone in congress is doing something about it.
My article on the subject is here, btw, for anyone interested or who hasn't already seen it: http://gthing.net/the-true-price-of-sms-messages
What kind of person won't take 45 seconds to watch an advertisement, but then spend 20 minutes writing up an analysis of it complete with references?
I'm sorry, you sounded like you might know what you were talking about but I stopped reading at "I didn't actually watch the commercial..."
They don't already have some way of sharing information?
How the hell have we survived this long?
Don't forget Jujitsu and a crash course in helicopter piloting.
Anyone? Anyone?
Global warming is not an industry, it's a religion with all the same zealous leadership, supernatural claims, and faith-based following that is characteristic of any religion.
This isn't an attack but a serious question: I thought we had all already figured out the carbon dating is highly inaccurate. Like, the more recent something is, the more inaccurate the results (in theory) - so to get accurate results you have to assume something is really old to begin with.
Besides that, the amount of carbon in the atmosphere has never been at equilibrium. If we don't know where it started, we're missing the first figure in the equation to determine something's age.
I thought this was generally accepted now? Apparently I'm wrong?
(p.s. I believe the earth to be billions of years old or whatever)
I'm sick of people calling out Bush for a slow response to Katrina. There's plenty to dislike about Bush we don't need to make crap up.
For anyone who for some reason doesn't know this: The federal government cannot go in and provide aid in a place like post-Katrina New Orleans unless the governor asks for it. It's against the law and the very basic nature of our country for the federal government to just go and do that kind of stuff. The governor in Louisiana was slow to ask for aid and was therefore slow to get it.
Bush actually tried to pass a law that would allow the federal government to quickly respond to such disasters and he was accused of trying to take over with an oppressive hand.
Seriously, I dislike Bush as much as the next guy but I'm not so stupid that I can't see the reality of a situation.
This comment is burried so far down that probably nobody will ever read it, but I was thinking that a glass master might would probably last 25 years. You can get one made at any place that presses CDs - it will be (relatively) cheap and should last.
Wealthy Mexicans need to carry a device in addition to being chipped?
Okay this just doesn't make sense - there are wealthy Mexicans?!?
As if torrents weren't already slow enough..
How about you grow up and use usenet like an adult.
Who cares about whether or not it is alive. Can this virus be used to infect other viruses in a controlled manner? Can we program it to kill aids or other viral diseases?
If we define life by things that can get infected and sick, then Windows XP is most certainly alive.
Death is a private matter, so are they going to withhold that as well?
"We have heard reports that Steve Jobs is dead. Can you confirm or deny?"
"I'm sorry, Steve Job's body is his own business. It would violate his privacy to tell you."
Not even HP business machines will stay the same for months at a time. You have to buy them in batches.
You are absolutely right. I worked for HP for quite some time, and believe me - the commodity hardware that $500 HP computer is built with is dirt compared to what Apple uses.
Think about it. HP sells a consumer laptop for $500 that includes all the bells and whistles, a webcam, shiny media buttons, etc. etc. Then they sell a business end laptop for 3x as much that is slower and has less features. Do you think there is a reason for this?
Consumer laptops are made with the absolute cheapest parts HP can source THAT DAY. Two laptops sitting next to each other on the shelf at the store can have different parts but look exactly the same. The quality control in this situation is, understandably, not good.
Business machines are the same in an entire series. They use good, proven hardware, and every single machine uses the same stuff. That way you can flash the same OS image onto all of them without problems. You can't do that with the consumer stuff.
So when people compare Apple to HP or other manufacturers, keep in mind that it's the business class machines that you should be looking at. Apple doesn't use commodity hardware - they use the same piece in every unit in a series, and they use parts that are high quality and proven to work well.
This is why people think Apple is expensive, when it's actually quite competitive.
Bill Gates admitted in an interview that the email was real and that he send out emails just like it all the time.
People really think our moon was formed from debris from our earth after being hit by an asteroid? That doesn't work on SO MANY levels.
First off, I don't care how hard that astroid hit, it's not sending stuff into space. If the entire earth was made out of TNT and you set it off, the gravity would pull everything right back together again (this is true according to Dr. Melvin A. Cook).
Second, it would seem that from an analysis of the composition of the moon and the composition of the earth, that they really aren't made out of the same stuff.
To be fair, Leopard wasn't just about adding a few "shinies." In fact, they really only added coverflow, the dock thing, and the transparent menu bar. A lot more innovate features were included like webclips, stacks, updated finder, new front row, better ical and address book, nifty new ichat features, fixed airport menu, parental controls, preview, quick look, better security, spaces, better terminal, TIME MACHINE, full Unix certification, and a whole host of developer tools and under the hood stability improvements.
Apple didn't just add bling - they made the operating system more stable and fixed a lot of bugs. So, be fair - we didn't pay $120 for a new dock.
Full list of new features in Leopard: http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/300.html
I come to slashdot because if I want to know more about a story I can read the comments and usually get a lot of good insight from people who are knowledgeable about the subject matter.
... the comments look a lot like this.
I avoid Digg because, well
I just solved a several month long sleep problem with my MBP by removing the HP print drivers. It's funny that the two times my Mac has been screwed up were either Microsoft's fault (mouse driver) or HP's fault (printer driver).