This is wrong. The grocery store are only responsible if the food they sold was toxic because of something they did to it (such as left it on a shelf after its expiration date). An issue like allergen contaminants in your favorite snack is definitely not something the grocery store would be liable for.
And in-app purchases are not toxic. They're perfectly reasonable. People who like them include developers. If Apple didn't give this ability to developers you'd probably be hearing more people complaining about how awful Apple's walled garden is to content makers, further restricting what their apps can do. Furthermore, while some users don't like in-app purchases, many other users enjoy them because it allows them to get additional content without having to get a whole new app. Each app has its own overhead. What takes up more space on your phone? Multiple versions of your favorite game, or 1 version of your game with some in-app purchased plugins?
Your grocery store "vets" what foods they allow on their shelves. If you're allergic to nuts and the cookies contain nuts but have no label indicating such and it makes you ill, you don't get to sue the grocery store. You sue the cookie manufacturer for medical bills.
A "walled garden" does not suddenly change the rules about who's responsible for what. Responsibility always goes to who manufactured/designed the product regardless of middlemen. Walled gardens are not game changers. Their App Store is no different than any other physical store out there.
Apple doesn't force developers submitting iPhone apps to have in-app purchases. It's up to the developer of that app. If people aren't happy with how their kid raked up a huge bill buying smurfberries, they need to 1) take personal responsibility or 2) if they must sue, sue the game developer. Suing Apple for simply giving developers an option to code something easily doesn't make sense.
A solar sail wouldn't accomplish what he was proposing. The CMB is (as far as a solar sail would be concerned) pretty much the same in all directions. In a universe with no stars and only the CMB, a solar sail would go nowhere.
Also, a Crookes radiometer isn't a good example, as it requires a partial-vaccume to work. They don't work in the hard-vaccume of space.
I think you're saying could mislead a person to overestimate the ability of mercury to escape landfills. In the 80's we set about ensuring that new landfills have 1) flexible plastic liners and 2) are surrounded by clay. If you know your soil science, clay is good at great at catching any would be leeching contaminants. A toxic leechate accumulates at the bottom of the landfill, but it's piped to treatment ponds.
I just felt like pointing out that modern landfills are not simply holes in the ground that easily allow all contaminates to escape. If the landfill was constructed and maintained properly the mercury can be treated.
The throw-away issue isn't an Apple one, it's a laptop issue in general. It's not like CPU/Graphics on laptops have had a history of being an easy do-it-yourself job, regardless of brand. Laptops have always been inherently hard to upgrade since they're attempting to be as compact as possible. And at least Apple attempts to mitigate the damage of a throw-away society by putting a checkbox on the order form that gives you an option of mailing in your old computer so they can recycle it.
They found a bad apple. So that makes our sample size is n=1 so far. Can anybody cite evidence of additional issues, or is this being hyped up like the iPhone 4 antenna story?
Firewire? Apple was one of the few major players to support it.
They didn't just support it. From what I remember, Firewire (the original Firewire 400) was actually invented by Apple. And it was open for everyone to use. The only thing restrictive about Firewire which Apple might be guilty of is their ownership of the logo for it.
The word theory isn't limited to just a scientific context. For example: Game Theory, Chaos Theory, Probability Theory and yes, String Theory. It's okay to refer to mathematical frameworks as a theory.
You realize that VLC has a license and Apple was violating that license? Apple could have modified the agreement on the iStore, but instead, they chose to remove VLC.
Apple is being dumb in order to retain control of a dying market. Apple is becoming like IBM was in the late '80s.
I'm sorry, but it wasn't Apple who violated anything. It was Applidium who ported VLC code to an iPhone app.
And Apple can't fix anything by modifying an agreement, as it's not their license that's in question, it's the GPL. They'd actually have to restructure how their content distribution system works.
Apple isn't going to do it because they want to control everything.
When a company's actions lack any financial motive, chances are they're doing it out of principle. When Apple exercises control over something (like a closed iPhone App Store), it has a financial motive. Refusal to sell personal information has no financial motive.
Sort of yes, sort of no. Some people live in rural or semi-rural areas where they have crappy ISPs. That means you can't play SC2 any way you like, any time you like. Much of this game requires a constant internet connection, especially since (and I learned this the hard way) it's prone to random deletion of your locally cached maps for no apparent reason (forcing you to redownload everything).
If you don't have an Internet connection to Blizzard's servers, you can't play maps you've created, even when they're already right on your hard drive.
Yeah, because one typing error on an uneditable web forum is an indicator eh? Makes total sense.
My point still stands. Much of what's on ArXiv is crap. I've seen too many jackoffs claim that they've proven/disproven the Riemann hypothesis, and they go to ArXiv because it's the only place that doesn't tear their paper apart.
Oni was a product of "Bungie West" an offshoot of Bungie itself. They had slightly different goals than Bungie did, namely making games that were Mac/PC/Console releases. People forget Bungie West existed mainly because Oni was their ONLY game before Bungie dissolved them.
Halo originally wasn't ever intended to be an XBox game. Back in those days, Bungie was a Mac-only game company.
Then Bungie publicly showed a demo of an early alpha version in action. M$ saw it and decided they wanted to have it as an exclusive for the new console they were developing.
To Mac users it was like Halo was stolen before it even left the womb.
The LED light does actually produce significant heat. It's nowhere near as much heat as an incandescent or CFL, but because LED's have such a very low heat tolerance (heat reduces their lifespan), keeping them cooled them isn't as easy as simply removing the AC/DC converter.
Some theories posit that trichromatic vision is a genetic mutation where the M cone gene was copied and mutated to result in a slight shift. If it were a truly independent adaptation, you might expect it to be much further away
Why would genetic mutations be distinct or exclusive from "truly independent adaptation? I'm guess I fail to see the distinction, since aren't all adaptations genetic mutations?
Also, since I'm unfamiliar with any evolutionary debates regarding the biological evolution of color sensors, have any biologists hypothesized that perhaps the mutation stuck simply because it may have served as a useful redundancy against the occasional occurrence of a certain type of color-blindness? (just making an uneducated guess there).
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This is wrong. The grocery store are only responsible if the food they sold was toxic because of something they did to it (such as left it on a shelf after its expiration date). An issue like allergen contaminants in your favorite snack is definitely not something the grocery store would be liable for.
And in-app purchases are not toxic. They're perfectly reasonable. People who like them include developers. If Apple didn't give this ability to developers you'd probably be hearing more people complaining about how awful Apple's walled garden is to content makers, further restricting what their apps can do. Furthermore, while some users don't like in-app purchases, many other users enjoy them because it allows them to get additional content without having to get a whole new app. Each app has its own overhead. What takes up more space on your phone? Multiple versions of your favorite game, or 1 version of your game with some in-app purchased plugins?
Your grocery store "vets" what foods they allow on their shelves. If you're allergic to nuts and the cookies contain nuts but have no label indicating such and it makes you ill, you don't get to sue the grocery store. You sue the cookie manufacturer for medical bills.
A "walled garden" does not suddenly change the rules about who's responsible for what. Responsibility always goes to who manufactured/designed the product regardless of middlemen. Walled gardens are not game changers. Their App Store is no different than any other physical store out there.
Apple doesn't force developers submitting iPhone apps to have in-app purchases. It's up to the developer of that app. If people aren't happy with how their kid raked up a huge bill buying smurfberries, they need to 1) take personal responsibility or 2) if they must sue, sue the game developer. Suing Apple for simply giving developers an option to code something easily doesn't make sense.
A solar sail wouldn't accomplish what he was proposing. The CMB is (as far as a solar sail would be concerned) pretty much the same in all directions. In a universe with no stars and only the CMB, a solar sail would go nowhere.
Also, a Crookes radiometer isn't a good example, as it requires a partial-vaccume to work. They don't work in the hard-vaccume of space.
When you say "Phong shading is wrong", isn't that just with respect to visible light? Are you sure "Phong is wrong" for thermal radiation?
I think you're saying could mislead a person to overestimate the ability of mercury to escape landfills. In the 80's we set about ensuring that new landfills have 1) flexible plastic liners and 2) are surrounded by clay. If you know your soil science, clay is good at great at catching any would be leeching contaminants. A toxic leechate accumulates at the bottom of the landfill, but it's piped to treatment ponds.
I just felt like pointing out that modern landfills are not simply holes in the ground that easily allow all contaminates to escape. If the landfill was constructed and maintained properly the mercury can be treated.
Yes, like Dell also does. Was there a point you were trying to make?
The throw-away issue isn't an Apple one, it's a laptop issue in general. It's not like CPU/Graphics on laptops have had a history of being an easy do-it-yourself job, regardless of brand. Laptops have always been inherently hard to upgrade since they're attempting to be as compact as possible. And at least Apple attempts to mitigate the damage of a throw-away society by putting a checkbox on the order form that gives you an option of mailing in your old computer so they can recycle it.
They found a bad apple. So that makes our sample size is n=1 so far. Can anybody cite evidence of additional issues, or is this being hyped up like the iPhone 4 antenna story?
Firewire? Apple was one of the few major players to support it.
They didn't just support it. From what I remember, Firewire (the original Firewire 400) was actually invented by Apple. And it was open for everyone to use. The only thing restrictive about Firewire which Apple might be guilty of is their ownership of the logo for it.
The word theory isn't limited to just a scientific context. For example: Game Theory, Chaos Theory, Probability Theory and yes, String Theory. It's okay to refer to mathematical frameworks as a theory.
You realize that VLC has a license and Apple was violating that license?
Apple could have modified the agreement on the iStore, but instead, they chose to remove VLC.
Apple is being dumb in order to retain control of a dying market. Apple is becoming like IBM was in the late '80s.
I'm sorry, but it wasn't Apple who violated anything. It was Applidium who ported VLC code to an iPhone app.
And Apple can't fix anything by modifying an agreement, as it's not their license that's in question, it's the GPL. They'd actually have to restructure how their content distribution system works.
Apple isn't going to do it because they want to control everything.
When a company's actions lack any financial motive, chances are they're doing it out of principle. When Apple exercises control over something (like a closed iPhone App Store), it has a financial motive. Refusal to sell personal information has no financial motive.
Got an example you can link to?
For what it's worth, immaculate conception isn't unheard of in humans: http://journals.lww.com/greenjournal/Abstract/1979/03001/Pregnancy_in_a_True_Hermaphrodite.14.aspx
Comparing the DOS prompt to a Unix shell is like comparing a toddler's big-wheels to a top end performance motorcycle.
Sort of yes, sort of no. Some people live in rural or semi-rural areas where they have crappy ISPs. That means you can't play SC2 any way you like, any time you like. Much of this game requires a constant internet connection, especially since (and I learned this the hard way) it's prone to random deletion of your locally cached maps for no apparent reason (forcing you to redownload everything).
If you don't have an Internet connection to Blizzard's servers, you can't play maps you've created, even when they're already right on your hard drive.
Yeah, because one typing error on an uneditable web forum is an indicator eh? Makes total sense.
My point still stands. Much of what's on ArXiv is crap. I've seen too many jackoffs claim that they've proven/disproven the Riemann hypothesis, and they go to ArXiv because it's the only place that doesn't tear their paper apart.
Although arxiv is a preprint repository, virtually all papers you find there have ended up published in peer-reviewed publications.
I'm sorry, but this is just wrong. I've plenty of crappy non-peer reviewed papers on ArXiv.
Oni was a product of "Bungie West" an offshoot of Bungie itself. They had slightly different goals than Bungie did, namely making games that were Mac/PC/Console releases. People forget Bungie West existed mainly because Oni was their ONLY game before Bungie dissolved them.
What makes you think that? The original public demo? That was an super early alpha, so of course it looked different. That goes for any game.
Halo originally wasn't ever intended to be an XBox game. Back in those days, Bungie was a Mac-only game company.
Then Bungie publicly showed a demo of an early alpha version in action. M$ saw it and decided they wanted to have it as an exclusive for the new console they were developing.
To Mac users it was like Halo was stolen before it even left the womb.
The LED light does actually produce significant heat. It's nowhere near as much heat as an incandescent or CFL, but because LED's have such a very low heat tolerance (heat reduces their lifespan), keeping them cooled them isn't as easy as simply removing the AC/DC converter.
Some theories posit that trichromatic vision is a genetic mutation where the M cone gene was copied and mutated to result in a slight shift. If it were a truly independent adaptation, you might expect it to be much further away
Why would genetic mutations be distinct or exclusive from "truly independent adaptation? I'm guess I fail to see the distinction, since aren't all adaptations genetic mutations?
Also, since I'm unfamiliar with any evolutionary debates regarding the biological evolution of color sensors, have any biologists hypothesized that perhaps the mutation stuck simply because it may have served as a useful redundancy against the occasional occurrence of a certain type of color-blindness? (just making an uneducated guess there).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compatibility_of_C_and_C%2B%2B