I think you missed my point, people don't buy an iPad realizing they can't print, they buy it because someone showed it to them and they liked the interface for browsing the web although they didn't realize the lack of Flash so if they are car people they will have a lot of trouble viewing those sites.
People buy Apple products these days and expect to have to pay extra to get adapters when it's completely unnecessary. This is not rational. Of course populations of people usually aren't rational so I guess that's neither here nor there.
Why? When you can buy an Archos for half as much and achieve all of the same functionality and them some and in the same easy to use interface. People bought iPads because they were really easy to use, much like the iPhone. The Archos has the same strengths. They are computers for people who aren't technical.
My sister is an artist and completely computer illiterate, she can quite easily take the card out of her camera and put it in the Archos or she can even directly attach her camera, she can even print!
There's no reason to make apologies for Apple, they purposefully limited their hardware to force people to buy accessories, it's a great strategy from a business standpoint as there are a great many people who are happy to live with the limitations of the software despite the hardware being capable of much much more.
From what I've seen, most other companies have chosen to offer various sizes rather than forcing everyone into a single mold, all while charging less. Eventually this will hurt Apple as they will have to move fast to keep up and large companies have a bad habit of moving slow.
There are a few of these on the market already. The Archos 70 has what you're looking for. There are other models that are differently sized so you even have the option there.
Most of the chinese knock-offs are 802.11g but the newer tablets coming out now are 802.11N like the Archos.
After you spent even more money to get accessories that are already present on every other device in the market. Slashdotters aren't happy with the device because it adds completely unnecessary hurdles to use, a USB port with USB host on it would solve the vast majority of complaints. Of course this is why competitors advertise the fact that they have USB so you can hook any old USB keyboard without the need to buy unnecessary adapters. I give Apple credit for creating an accessory industry out of nothing. Why people keep buying Apple products and the proprietary connectors they use I'll never fully understand when the Archos or APad are far more useful, cost less, and come in a variety of sizes. When the iPad first came out I could understand it, but these day? Hell no
Oh, I agree with that whole statement. If the DEA were dissolved though that FBI couldn't absorb that many officers, local police. This of course would also be a training nightmare for the FBI as procedures and practices are quite different between the two organizations.
There are lots of ways the people could be put to use, those pieces need to be in place before anything could get political support for decriminalization. I think many lives would benefit from this and our prisons would no longer be overcrowded but it would be at a massive financial hard ship to a great many people bot in drug enforcement and in drug smuggling, this will lead to an escalation of tensions, there's too much money at stake. I think in the long run it would definitely be worth it, but getting many people to make large sacrifices I feel is unlikely at best.
When you have both a budget and employment problem you need to be careful where you cut, if you remove one hundred thousand people from the government payroll then that hundred thousand other people now add to the unemployment rate exacerbating the issue further.
Obviously the government can't just employ everybody but you need to be very careful about when and where you cut or the whole house of cards will come tumbling down.
Great in principle, but in reality, the maintain that level of budgeting you have to have a boogie man. I'm not sure I'd want that level of manpower shifted towards the war on terror given the number if injustices on both sides of the fence.
Ultimately the question becomes, how much police is enough? Crime rates traditionally rise when the economy and unemployment are bad, more cops aren't going to fix that issue, although employing more people as cops would lessen the issue slightly.
I'm not saying we need fewer or more police, I actually think it's far too simplistic to speak in terms like that, here in Phoenix metro area there are places that need more police while places like Scottsdale have tons of manpower. It's weighted based on tax base rather than demographics.
I'd say when the economy is doing well then you can ratchet back their budgets reallocating funds where they are needed most rather than sticking necessarily to law enforcement. Why did Sheriff Joe buy an anti-aircraft gun for a hundred and fifty thousand dollars for instance? That money could have been put to better use elsewhere, especially since it was drug money as opposed to tax dollars.
That sums up nicely how I feel, thank you. I wasn't actually suggesting the parent should run for office, but that others fed up like him can and will get involved.
Right now the mainstream political discourse is seriously lacking in diversity, more people need to get involved rather than lose hope.
And destroy a multi-billion dollar drug enforcement industry??? Truthfully I think he's on the right track there but I don't see support for it for purely economic reasons. I don't believe the taxation of it would offset the ridiculous amounts of money we spend on drug enforcement right now, those budgets need to come down little by little first, then it can be legalised.
That's the problem right now, people see picking on Sarah Palin as picking on the little guy despite the absurd suggestions and proposals she puts forward. Those of us the recognize it as absurd don't know how to fight it because rational argument isn't going to work when the other side is appealing to emotion. That's why I'd like to see her run for office, in a debate this would become apparent very quickly. Of course you have states like Nevada where the incumbent is far from perfect and by all means should replaced but the only person running against him is a person that hides their agenda and their plans. In that situation it's the devil you know versus the one you don't.
As for the parent, I think they meant to say the media pays attention because it's like watching a train wreck and happens to get good ratings while those that support her and her "common" ways genuinely want to hear what she says. The same goes with Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh, I don't know anyone on the democratic side that has such large numbers of followers. The democrat side has the worst PR people in the business though which is why they failed so hard during the last round of elections. There needs to be some cleaning in Congress with all the false statements coming from in the last four years the Republican side but neither side is saintly.
The thing I see is hopefully the formation of a new party, the Republican party could split in half and then there would be three major parties which would pave the way for more parties and the eventual removal of all party affiliations. It remains to be seen when it will happen but a third major party does seem pretty inevitable considering the lack of resolve of the democratic party and lack of integrity on the republican side, a third party needs to emerge with a clean slate. Ideally the party would be based on rationalism, but right now it looks like it's based on emotion and revisionist history.
Indeed, there should be a distinction between personal file sharing and actively pirating and making money. The statues are in place for CD duplicators and not online distribution where many people can and do distribute unknowingly.
Given how much harder the founders of the United States had it than we do today I find your statement to be just reaction to fear that the media has instilled in you. Why do we have to torture people to survive? Last I checked we're surviving quite well and the overreactions are what is hurting out position further rather than helping. When you resort to torturing people then you will have no will of the people on your side as they will just see you as another tyrant.
A great many soldiers in the past died for our principles and I'd rather they not died in vain as I believe those are strong principles that we actually can maintain without dropping everything just because a criminal organization out there wants to do us harm. If we had handled it like a criminal organization instead of all out combat then the whole thing would have cost a whole lot less and we probably would have actually gotten the man we set out to get. The fact that we haven't even found Osama Bin Laden yet is true testament to where you get when you abandon your ideals for the fear of the day.
Also, torture has shown many times throughout history to be ineffective as it just forces the person to say what you want to hear. Too many people get caught up in the retribution part that they forget the real goal is to get more information and the FBI has had great success with this without resorting to torture. So the question becomes again, why should we violate our principles at this stage of the game? If there was an all out assault on our homeland with women and children being raped and murdered like the time of our forefathers perhaps then we should consider resorting to guerrilla tactics as we did then.
The only threat to our survival I see today is the fact that we violate our very noble principles and torture people seemingly indiscriminately. This only serves to polarise the people we are actually trying to help.
I didn't realize we were that weak of a nation that we had to violate our principles to win. Of course, what competition are we in? If you're talking military conflict there is no nation on Earth capable of withstanding an American lead attack.
Why do we have ideals? If we're actually losing a war then I'd say it's time to evaluate tactics but when war is this asymmetric there is no excuse. The irony of the whole terrorism angle is that is actually a stated service of the FBI. Their interrogation tactics are far more effective and guess what? They don't have to torture. Just because the other side is doing it, doesn't mean it's okay that we do it. If a friend of yours was jumping off a cliff would you follow him?
huh? I use USB 2.0 DVI adapters all the time so I can have three monitors on my laptop, I can even string six or more of them together and you think USB 3.0 somehow couldn't handle that? As someone that already has USB 3.0 in my machine and external hard drives with USB 3.0 support I can say that the same is not true for USB 3.0. eSata has it's own problems and you're relying on your motherboard to time it correctly, nine times out of ten when I reboot a computer with a Drobo hooked to it, it will fail to post because the Drobo hasn't responded in time. So I just restart with Drobo off, then turn it back on after the machine has booted, finally just mount -a and away I go.
If anything HDMI 1.4 is the only current competitor but it's connectors are all over the board. HDMI 1.4 support ethernet alongside video and audio, has automobile specifications and is the only real competition. Of course HDCP needs to die, all the manufacturers using different handshake frequencies so your Sony Bluray will have trouble with your Samsung tv or Pioneer receiver.
LightPeak won't take off if it is exclusive to Apple, the reason USB took off was because it was available everywhere and it was good for everyone.
The Archos 70 boasts better battery life than the iPad, might be time to update that info there. The Atom based tablets are of course going to have worse battery life but when you're talking about using the same processor you're going to have a hard time making that argument plausible.
That is not what the article in question is talking about. They are talking about regular repeater setups which can't go through more than three walls. Like I said, we have a repeater, it's 40 feet away from the antenna on the roof where reception is good and where there was no reception or low reception we're now working well.
If it was really an issue the FCC would have gotten involved a long time ago. The theory that you can use a yagi style antenna to connect to a cell site to somehow cause interference just doesn't hold up. When using omnidirectional antennas with high power then you have the chance to cause a lot of interference because your signal is making it to multiple towers, when using a directional yagi style antenna the signal is hitting one tower. If the tower lacks capacity that isn't the fault of the repeater.
Retransmit it 40 feet down yes where reception is poor, interference would be next to nothing when you go from having no reception to enough to make a call.
Just so you know, you would not be able to extend their signal 5 miles down the way, that would take a couple of watts whereas boosters from the manufacturers in the article are well below that. I have great reception on top of this building and almost no reception inside the building. Now that I have a repeater I can actually make calls inside. I'm not sure extending their signal 40 feet down in a 3000 square foot section of the building is going to cause any issues whatsoever with their weak signal.
We are the target market for these products. If it was really an issue cell phone carrier would have filed a complaint with the FCC but its not really a problem so they are simply trying to get rid of them to move to their model of using bandwidth that I already pay for to use their service that I also already pay for. They are making money on my bandwidth and don't wish to build capacity in their towers which are horribly anaemic. We have a show that 250k people attend, ATT's solution to cell problems? Had two T1s to their existing tower since reception was fine. Wow, a whole 3megs more bandwidth, that will help the 6000 people that are trying to use your service in a 1 square mile radius! The event is even in the same place at the same time every year so they could temporarily turn up circuits, there's even a SONET link in the same room as their gear and they choose to use T1s? Really?
We gave them billions to build infrastructure, much of that they squandered and now that people are fighting back to get what they've paid for they need to defend themselves against their own poor decisions in the past. If they hadn't gotten tax money as well as crazy service pricing rates that we have to pay anyway then people would be more willing to play ball. For now, the repeaters help a lot of us that just need to get work done, we've waited patiently for years and they've done nothing, now its time for us to act with the GNU Radio or any other means at our disposal, the problem is, the more they force us to do, the less control they have over it, they are seeking to regain the control they lost.
Was that sarcasm? I know lots of radio stations that love people for repeating their signal for them. It's win-win! If you were sending another signal on the same frequency it would be something else entirely but that's not what a repeater does.
This of course is great until you realize that ATT will not allow you to use their femtocell if you have a business account as the cell is limited to five devices which you have to explicitly enable. This means guests of your house won't receive any benefit whereas the repeater in this building helps everyone. This biggest issue I usually have with ATT isn't reception though, after installing the repeater I still get system busy and dropped calls all the time. Fortunately my personal cell is Sprint so when I'm really in a bind I'll just use that. Sometimes in the server room I'm on hold for a long time, sucks to have your call drop after waiting a half an hour.
ATT also locks VOIP out of my phone even though its built into the OS so I can't use the built-in wifi to use my own PBX to make calls. Again, not an issue on Sprint. The owner of the company is almost fed up enough to change, I look forward to the day.
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I think you missed my point, people don't buy an iPad realizing they can't print, they buy it because someone showed it to them and they liked the interface for browsing the web although they didn't realize the lack of Flash so if they are car people they will have a lot of trouble viewing those sites.
People buy Apple products these days and expect to have to pay extra to get adapters when it's completely unnecessary. This is not rational. Of course populations of people usually aren't rational so I guess that's neither here nor there.
Why? When you can buy an Archos for half as much and achieve all of the same functionality and them some and in the same easy to use interface. People bought iPads because they were really easy to use, much like the iPhone. The Archos has the same strengths. They are computers for people who aren't technical.
My sister is an artist and completely computer illiterate, she can quite easily take the card out of her camera and put it in the Archos or she can even directly attach her camera, she can even print!
There's no reason to make apologies for Apple, they purposefully limited their hardware to force people to buy accessories, it's a great strategy from a business standpoint as there are a great many people who are happy to live with the limitations of the software despite the hardware being capable of much much more.
From what I've seen, most other companies have chosen to offer various sizes rather than forcing everyone into a single mold, all while charging less. Eventually this will hurt Apple as they will have to move fast to keep up and large companies have a bad habit of moving slow.
There are a few of these on the market already. The Archos 70 has what you're looking for. There are other models that are differently sized so you even have the option there.
Most of the chinese knock-offs are 802.11g but the newer tablets coming out now are 802.11N like the Archos.
After you spent even more money to get accessories that are already present on every other device in the market. Slashdotters aren't happy with the device because it adds completely unnecessary hurdles to use, a USB port with USB host on it would solve the vast majority of complaints. Of course this is why competitors advertise the fact that they have USB so you can hook any old USB keyboard without the need to buy unnecessary adapters. I give Apple credit for creating an accessory industry out of nothing. Why people keep buying Apple products and the proprietary connectors they use I'll never fully understand when the Archos or APad are far more useful, cost less, and come in a variety of sizes. When the iPad first came out I could understand it, but these day? Hell no
Oh, I agree with that whole statement. If the DEA were dissolved though that FBI couldn't absorb that many officers, local police. This of course would also be a training nightmare for the FBI as procedures and practices are quite different between the two organizations.
There are lots of ways the people could be put to use, those pieces need to be in place before anything could get political support for decriminalization. I think many lives would benefit from this and our prisons would no longer be overcrowded but it would be at a massive financial hard ship to a great many people bot in drug enforcement and in drug smuggling, this will lead to an escalation of tensions, there's too much money at stake. I think in the long run it would definitely be worth it, but getting many people to make large sacrifices I feel is unlikely at best.
When you have both a budget and employment problem you need to be careful where you cut, if you remove one hundred thousand people from the government payroll then that hundred thousand other people now add to the unemployment rate exacerbating the issue further.
Obviously the government can't just employ everybody but you need to be very careful about when and where you cut or the whole house of cards will come tumbling down.
Great in principle, but in reality, the maintain that level of budgeting you have to have a boogie man. I'm not sure I'd want that level of manpower shifted towards the war on terror given the number if injustices on both sides of the fence.
Ultimately the question becomes, how much police is enough? Crime rates traditionally rise when the economy and unemployment are bad, more cops aren't going to fix that issue, although employing more people as cops would lessen the issue slightly.
I'm not saying we need fewer or more police, I actually think it's far too simplistic to speak in terms like that, here in Phoenix metro area there are places that need more police while places like Scottsdale have tons of manpower. It's weighted based on tax base rather than demographics.
I'd say when the economy is doing well then you can ratchet back their budgets reallocating funds where they are needed most rather than sticking necessarily to law enforcement. Why did Sheriff Joe buy an anti-aircraft gun for a hundred and fifty thousand dollars for instance? That money could have been put to better use elsewhere, especially since it was drug money as opposed to tax dollars.
That sums up nicely how I feel, thank you. I wasn't actually suggesting the parent should run for office, but that others fed up like him can and will get involved.
Right now the mainstream political discourse is seriously lacking in diversity, more people need to get involved rather than lose hope.
And destroy a multi-billion dollar drug enforcement industry??? Truthfully I think he's on the right track there but I don't see support for it for purely economic reasons. I don't believe the taxation of it would offset the ridiculous amounts of money we spend on drug enforcement right now, those budgets need to come down little by little first, then it can be legalised.
Parent didn't say Ron Paul was worthless, he said that the attention was worthless because it didn't convert people to his way of thinking.
Then why don't you run for office? If you really believe that it's an illusion surely you could change it by getting yourself elected.
Right now we choose to re-elect incumbents that don't deliver, until that stops then you can expect them to continue on business as usual.
That's the problem right now, people see picking on Sarah Palin as picking on the little guy despite the absurd suggestions and proposals she puts forward. Those of us the recognize it as absurd don't know how to fight it because rational argument isn't going to work when the other side is appealing to emotion. That's why I'd like to see her run for office, in a debate this would become apparent very quickly. Of course you have states like Nevada where the incumbent is far from perfect and by all means should replaced but the only person running against him is a person that hides their agenda and their plans. In that situation it's the devil you know versus the one you don't.
As for the parent, I think they meant to say the media pays attention because it's like watching a train wreck and happens to get good ratings while those that support her and her "common" ways genuinely want to hear what she says. The same goes with Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh, I don't know anyone on the democratic side that has such large numbers of followers. The democrat side has the worst PR people in the business though which is why they failed so hard during the last round of elections. There needs to be some cleaning in Congress with all the false statements coming from in the last four years the Republican side but neither side is saintly.
The thing I see is hopefully the formation of a new party, the Republican party could split in half and then there would be three major parties which would pave the way for more parties and the eventual removal of all party affiliations. It remains to be seen when it will happen but a third major party does seem pretty inevitable considering the lack of resolve of the democratic party and lack of integrity on the republican side, a third party needs to emerge with a clean slate. Ideally the party would be based on rationalism, but right now it looks like it's based on emotion and revisionist history.
No, since identity theft actually hurts the original party. Your identity is most definitely not in the same exact condition as before the act.
Indeed, there should be a distinction between personal file sharing and actively pirating and making money. The statues are in place for CD duplicators and not online distribution where many people can and do distribute unknowingly.
Given how much harder the founders of the United States had it than we do today I find your statement to be just reaction to fear that the media has instilled in you. Why do we have to torture people to survive? Last I checked we're surviving quite well and the overreactions are what is hurting out position further rather than helping. When you resort to torturing people then you will have no will of the people on your side as they will just see you as another tyrant.
A great many soldiers in the past died for our principles and I'd rather they not died in vain as I believe those are strong principles that we actually can maintain without dropping everything just because a criminal organization out there wants to do us harm. If we had handled it like a criminal organization instead of all out combat then the whole thing would have cost a whole lot less and we probably would have actually gotten the man we set out to get. The fact that we haven't even found Osama Bin Laden yet is true testament to where you get when you abandon your ideals for the fear of the day.
Also, torture has shown many times throughout history to be ineffective as it just forces the person to say what you want to hear. Too many people get caught up in the retribution part that they forget the real goal is to get more information and the FBI has had great success with this without resorting to torture. So the question becomes again, why should we violate our principles at this stage of the game? If there was an all out assault on our homeland with women and children being raped and murdered like the time of our forefathers perhaps then we should consider resorting to guerrilla tactics as we did then.
The only threat to our survival I see today is the fact that we violate our very noble principles and torture people seemingly indiscriminately. This only serves to polarise the people we are actually trying to help.
I didn't realize we were that weak of a nation that we had to violate our principles to win. Of course, what competition are we in? If you're talking military conflict there is no nation on Earth capable of withstanding an American lead attack.
Why do we have ideals? If we're actually losing a war then I'd say it's time to evaluate tactics but when war is this asymmetric there is no excuse. The irony of the whole terrorism angle is that is actually a stated service of the FBI. Their interrogation tactics are far more effective and guess what? They don't have to torture. Just because the other side is doing it, doesn't mean it's okay that we do it. If a friend of yours was jumping off a cliff would you follow him?
huh? I use USB 2.0 DVI adapters all the time so I can have three monitors on my laptop, I can even string six or more of them together and you think USB 3.0 somehow couldn't handle that? As someone that already has USB 3.0 in my machine and external hard drives with USB 3.0 support I can say that the same is not true for USB 3.0. eSata has it's own problems and you're relying on your motherboard to time it correctly, nine times out of ten when I reboot a computer with a Drobo hooked to it, it will fail to post because the Drobo hasn't responded in time. So I just restart with Drobo off, then turn it back on after the machine has booted, finally just mount -a and away I go.
If anything HDMI 1.4 is the only current competitor but it's connectors are all over the board. HDMI 1.4 support ethernet alongside video and audio, has automobile specifications and is the only real competition. Of course HDCP needs to die, all the manufacturers using different handshake frequencies so your Sony Bluray will have trouble with your Samsung tv or Pioneer receiver.
LightPeak won't take off if it is exclusive to Apple, the reason USB took off was because it was available everywhere and it was good for everyone.
The Archos 70 boasts better battery life than the iPad, might be time to update that info there. The Atom based tablets are of course going to have worse battery life but when you're talking about using the same processor you're going to have a hard time making that argument plausible.
See Archos: Their tablets and media players run Android, some even include dual OS features to run Linux on them. They run on Cortex A8 processors.
That is not what the article in question is talking about. They are talking about regular repeater setups which can't go through more than three walls. Like I said, we have a repeater, it's 40 feet away from the antenna on the roof where reception is good and where there was no reception or low reception we're now working well.
If it was really an issue the FCC would have gotten involved a long time ago. The theory that you can use a yagi style antenna to connect to a cell site to somehow cause interference just doesn't hold up. When using omnidirectional antennas with high power then you have the chance to cause a lot of interference because your signal is making it to multiple towers, when using a directional yagi style antenna the signal is hitting one tower. If the tower lacks capacity that isn't the fault of the repeater.
Sounds like they've upped it for a third time. Of course that still doesn't work for most offices.
Retransmit it 40 feet down yes where reception is poor, interference would be next to nothing when you go from having no reception to enough to make a call.
Just so you know, you would not be able to extend their signal 5 miles down the way, that would take a couple of watts whereas boosters from the manufacturers in the article are well below that. I have great reception on top of this building and almost no reception inside the building. Now that I have a repeater I can actually make calls inside. I'm not sure extending their signal 40 feet down in a 3000 square foot section of the building is going to cause any issues whatsoever with their weak signal.
We are the target market for these products. If it was really an issue cell phone carrier would have filed a complaint with the FCC but its not really a problem so they are simply trying to get rid of them to move to their model of using bandwidth that I already pay for to use their service that I also already pay for. They are making money on my bandwidth and don't wish to build capacity in their towers which are horribly anaemic. We have a show that 250k people attend, ATT's solution to cell problems? Had two T1s to their existing tower since reception was fine. Wow, a whole 3megs more bandwidth, that will help the 6000 people that are trying to use your service in a 1 square mile radius! The event is even in the same place at the same time every year so they could temporarily turn up circuits, there's even a SONET link in the same room as their gear and they choose to use T1s? Really?
We gave them billions to build infrastructure, much of that they squandered and now that people are fighting back to get what they've paid for they need to defend themselves against their own poor decisions in the past. If they hadn't gotten tax money as well as crazy service pricing rates that we have to pay anyway then people would be more willing to play ball. For now, the repeaters help a lot of us that just need to get work done, we've waited patiently for years and they've done nothing, now its time for us to act with the GNU Radio or any other means at our disposal, the problem is, the more they force us to do, the less control they have over it, they are seeking to regain the control they lost.
Was that sarcasm? I know lots of radio stations that love people for repeating their signal for them. It's win-win! If you were sending another signal on the same frequency it would be something else entirely but that's not what a repeater does.
This of course is great until you realize that ATT will not allow you to use their femtocell if you have a business account as the cell is limited to five devices which you have to explicitly enable. This means guests of your house won't receive any benefit whereas the repeater in this building helps everyone. This biggest issue I usually have with ATT isn't reception though, after installing the repeater I still get system busy and dropped calls all the time. Fortunately my personal cell is Sprint so when I'm really in a bind I'll just use that. Sometimes in the server room I'm on hold for a long time, sucks to have your call drop after waiting a half an hour.
ATT also locks VOIP out of my phone even though its built into the OS so I can't use the built-in wifi to use my own PBX to make calls. Again, not an issue on Sprint. The owner of the company is almost fed up enough to change, I look forward to the day.