I understand and noted that there are exceptions. I can't live with 32gb, but my partner does-- easily. A USB port is great, but some tablets don't have them. They lack of one can also be managed by the cloud providers out there-- unless you pay for broadband on the hoof.
I also agree that it won't be long until a good keyboard works... Archos as a 250GB 7" tablet so storage is conquered. Tiny screens are getting easier for tired eyes to see. WiFi everything makes peripherals easier to deal with.
In industrial and commercial applications, battery life is a problem, as is the ability to change them out. I know of three companies that have user-replaceable batteries that are as easy as notebook batteries, so that problem is becoming solved. Today, however, I have a machine with a 1TB SSD and need it, and very serious compiling and rendering capability-- used without the problem of sending it to the cloud and adding network latency. In my gig, tempus pecunia est. For reading or free surfing, a tablet is great... especially by the pool.
I believe in the right tool for the right job. Tablet + kbd is a reasonable input/lookup tool for lots of applications, and for surfing/media/entertainment. An ARM CPU, even four of them, isn't going to build and compile apps, serious docs, render video, etc. But that's ok. There are other tools for that.
In my garage, I have literally thousands of tools, some of which will be used at most, once, some never. Some are as valuable as my right arm up to the elbow, they're just that cool for what I do when I restore cars. The right tool for the right job is great.
This is someone that doesn't program, doesn't write long docs, is used to surfing a lot, and probably just does blog updates. A tablet is perfect.
Others with differing job needs would toss that tablet like a TV from a balcony. Except for a few rare ones, tablets can't hold much data, don't have a variety of ports, must download everything (and no DVDs, etc), and most importantly: you can't do a user-changes-battery. Yes, there are exceptions.
They have tiny screens, and by the time you add an external keyboard, it's back to the size of a netbook. As media consumption devices, they're spectacular. They're less expensive than a Macbook Air, but so is a Porsche 914.
The Turks are doing a good secular job. They still have their own past to rectify, ranging from Armenian relations to making peace with the Kurds and Greeks. Not that the US, where I live, has an untarnished past. I wish people would stop fighting their great great grandfather's wars.
The outcomes are uncertain. Israel has only placed superficial and cosmetic emphasis on goodwill towards any of its neighbors. It doesn't live in the future so much as in the past, despite entrepreneurial efforts to the contrary. It makes money in a modern way, but fights battles that are as old as recorded history. Yet Israel is a chess piece on a bigger board, and it knows this. The EU and US fear Arab unity, and with good reason: they're addicted to oil. Without oil, much would be different, but it makes a lot of wealth from a cheap energy source. Industrialized economies need energy. Yet they don't wise up.
I hope not. Yet I'm an old man. I've been watching wars develop for a long time. It's not a shrug, it's a feeling like: we've been here before, and it could get ugly, quickly, with a lot of loss of life.
China's not in good shape either. The EU is bumming and the Euro is tottering on falling apart. All those spare troops in Afghanistan and Iraq need something to do.
WW3 could be on its way. The Afghanis need to decide whose side they're on, and so do the Pakistanis. Israel, who has lots of trouble making friends, will be wondering what to do. The Saudis will try to keep the peace by carrying a big stick, but that'll probably backfire.
My guess: the drone business goes away. Iraq needed to crow about something because times are desperate there, too. One stick poked up the hornets nest of the US Congress, and the swarm will come out; that vote will pass probably without hesitation. Then a lot of people die, unnecessarily, because the ego of several highly placed and powerful people will have been maimed.
Not the facts you pull from your hind-end. You want arguments set by your own boorish citation of "facts" when the "facts" you cite are both vaporous and incapable of discussion.
Level headed discussions mandate discourse based on real facts, not the sort of opinions that are the crux of popular propaganda citation. I crave facts; you bandy only bullshit and sucker bait.
You're pulling additional pseudo-factoids out of your posterior, and foisting them as some sort of gospel. We can't argue our various credentials in a place like/., and you're a twit to try.
I don't even try to corroborate or object to your arguments because it's all a straw man here. Such is the discourse of fools, should you continue.
You presume a lot. I like facts, and that has nothing to do with my politics. I care not one whit what they mod me. I'm not trolling for anything, and yes, I read the article and understand it for what it is. I also responded to an individual who in turn, had responded to a post. What part of that didn't you see? My lifestyle is humble. What other people do is what other people do; I try to aid those less fortunate than I, and decry no one for their fortune. Enjoy.
Nice and declaratory and wrong. Saying it doesn't make it so. Such simpleton solutions make nice points at the pub, but they aren't real, and they won't work. This isn't rocket science, but it's also not hip-pocket figures bandied about as fact.
And when you're dead, you're not spending even your best capital gain. That's the point. Know you nothing of actuarial tables?
Were it I, the contribution would be a percentage contribution with no cap. Suddenly you'd get a vast pool of capital to fund the bonds with, cash-positive. But hey-- that's a tax increase. You must revile, as though government wasn't designed to allow civil function in society.
Mine's slightly more banal, and a bit more pragmatic. Yet I agree with his, wholeheartedly. I was under 10yrs old before John XXIII and Paul VI finished Vatican II.
It's all subject to immense amounts of argumentativeness because the process is also NOT open. Every crackpot out there gets to deny reality, because reality is sooooo tough to discern. It's rife for abuse and politicking.
Like Sgt Friday used to say: Just the facts, ma'am.
Arguing statistics that were pulled out of his butt is silly. This is a poster with a mission that you're responding to, not one with referential, cited facts. Of course this is/., where they're unnecessary. Carry on.
To the telcos, community owned utilities are the most feared development that could happen, and with good reason. But the vendors in the industry, from the fiber makers to the equipment makers are also in the pockets of the telcos. They know who butters their bread, and they're not going to ally the development of community network in any way.
It's NOT a socialism vs capitalism vs communism problem. It's a continuation of corporations protecting their turf.
Yet we've seen this before. We fought it then, we'll fight it again. In my estimation, I granted Comcast a right of way on my property. They change things, they lose that right of way. Get in the spirit of owning your own property again, and we'll get back to why we allow utilities to do what they do. We're the people.
In twenty years, California will have swollen to perhaps 50million people, many of them taking the I-5 or US101 route from LA to the Bay area. I-5 is pretty much clogged now: imagine what happens if you have to continue to resize Oakland, San Jose, SF, Burbank, LAX, John Wayne, Palm Springs, Sacramento, and all of the other regional airports to accommodate grown-- along with the freeways. Something's going to give. Invest now, and the infrastructure is there. Don't invest, and it's going to get uglier than it is now.... much uglier.
Uh, hang on a second. We're war dialing your voice mail box now, to see what kind of dirt we can get on you. We'll have a reporter sitting outside your flat, a halfblock away, so that we can peer in on your subsversive activities, and all of those strange chicks with adam's apples going into your place.
You and your George Soros defenders need to be taken down a notch. After all, communism is right around the corner, and you're an obvious sympathizer.
It seems to currently work on Nexus and nothing else. Are you going to give community guidance as to how to sandbox the OS or calls, so that others can watch the cockroaches? I don't even mind rooting the phone, if I can find ways to get a mirror of application outbound system calls documented. Sure would be nice......
I disagree. Categorization is a function of communications and the desire to minimize entropics in information transfer within a medium.
By its nature categorization is a semantical reference. Hot is not cold, nor is large small. It's referential. It has to do with context, and the capacity to differentiate description. Categorization by its fundamental nature is the antithesis of arbitrary.
Yes, there are bodies of people, like the posted EU committee, that make poor choices to describe. They need to be spanked and sent home with no dinner as punishment for being childish and irresponsible to those they serve. Dismissing categorization because of those twits, however, is an unnecessary move. We all get to make mistakes.
The parser used to input messages and/or extract them can be much more intelligent than the silly one I used. My point is that adding in data to nearly any protocol is child's play. Detecting the same is different, which is why noise needs to be understood (as in my feeble attempt) to identify potential mods that are actually data, but the best ones are simply undetectable because they spent more than the pittance that I did to form the system. You were a parser already.
You can hideMayorBloomberg messaisaages in all sorbigjerkts of ways. Shoving encrybecauseheevictedtheOWSpted or unencrypted information is child's play. VoIP is just one more medium.
The Internet is seven bit; everything is text. We start from there.
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I understand and noted that there are exceptions. I can't live with 32gb, but my partner does-- easily. A USB port is great, but some tablets don't have them. They lack of one can also be managed by the cloud providers out there-- unless you pay for broadband on the hoof.
I also agree that it won't be long until a good keyboard works... Archos as a 250GB 7" tablet so storage is conquered. Tiny screens are getting easier for tired eyes to see. WiFi everything makes peripherals easier to deal with.
In industrial and commercial applications, battery life is a problem, as is the ability to change them out. I know of three companies that have user-replaceable batteries that are as easy as notebook batteries, so that problem is becoming solved. Today, however, I have a machine with a 1TB SSD and need it, and very serious compiling and rendering capability-- used without the problem of sending it to the cloud and adding network latency. In my gig, tempus pecunia est. For reading or free surfing, a tablet is great... especially by the pool.
I believe in the right tool for the right job. Tablet + kbd is a reasonable input/lookup tool for lots of applications, and for surfing/media/entertainment. An ARM CPU, even four of them, isn't going to build and compile apps, serious docs, render video, etc. But that's ok. There are other tools for that.
In my garage, I have literally thousands of tools, some of which will be used at most, once, some never. Some are as valuable as my right arm up to the elbow, they're just that cool for what I do when I restore cars. The right tool for the right job is great.
This is someone that doesn't program, doesn't write long docs, is used to surfing a lot, and probably just does blog updates. A tablet is perfect.
Others with differing job needs would toss that tablet like a TV from a balcony. Except for a few rare ones, tablets can't hold much data, don't have a variety of ports, must download everything (and no DVDs, etc), and most importantly: you can't do a user-changes-battery. Yes, there are exceptions.
They have tiny screens, and by the time you add an external keyboard, it's back to the size of a netbook. As media consumption devices, they're spectacular. They're less expensive than a Macbook Air, but so is a Porsche 914.
The Turks are doing a good secular job. They still have their own past to rectify, ranging from Armenian relations to making peace with the Kurds and Greeks. Not that the US, where I live, has an untarnished past. I wish people would stop fighting their great great grandfather's wars.
The outcomes are uncertain. Israel has only placed superficial and cosmetic emphasis on goodwill towards any of its neighbors. It doesn't live in the future so much as in the past, despite entrepreneurial efforts to the contrary. It makes money in a modern way, but fights battles that are as old as recorded history. Yet Israel is a chess piece on a bigger board, and it knows this. The EU and US fear Arab unity, and with good reason: they're addicted to oil. Without oil, much would be different, but it makes a lot of wealth from a cheap energy source. Industrialized economies need energy. Yet they don't wise up.
I hope not. Yet I'm an old man. I've been watching wars develop for a long time. It's not a shrug, it's a feeling like: we've been here before, and it could get ugly, quickly, with a lot of loss of life.
China's not in good shape either. The EU is bumming and the Euro is tottering on falling apart. All those spare troops in Afghanistan and Iraq need something to do.
WW3 could be on its way. The Afghanis need to decide whose side they're on, and so do the Pakistanis. Israel, who has lots of trouble making friends, will be wondering what to do. The Saudis will try to keep the peace by carrying a big stick, but that'll probably backfire.
My guess: the drone business goes away. Iraq needed to crow about something because times are desperate there, too. One stick poked up the hornets nest of the US Congress, and the swarm will come out; that vote will pass probably without hesitation. Then a lot of people die, unnecessarily, because the ego of several highly placed and powerful people will have been maimed.
Not the facts you pull from your hind-end. You want arguments set by your own boorish citation of "facts" when the "facts" you cite are both vaporous and incapable of discussion.
Level headed discussions mandate discourse based on real facts, not the sort of opinions that are the crux of popular propaganda citation. I crave facts; you bandy only bullshit and sucker bait.
You're pulling additional pseudo-factoids out of your posterior, and foisting them as some sort of gospel. We can't argue our various credentials in a place like /., and you're a twit to try.
I don't even try to corroborate or object to your arguments because it's all a straw man here. Such is the discourse of fools, should you continue.
Translation:.... and the horse your rode in on.
You presume a lot. I like facts, and that has nothing to do with my politics. I care not one whit what they mod me. I'm not trolling for anything, and yes, I read the article and understand it for what it is. I also responded to an individual who in turn, had responded to a post. What part of that didn't you see? My lifestyle is humble. What other people do is what other people do; I try to aid those less fortunate than I, and decry no one for their fortune. Enjoy.
Nice and declaratory and wrong. Saying it doesn't make it so. Such simpleton solutions make nice points at the pub, but they aren't real, and they won't work. This isn't rocket science, but it's also not hip-pocket figures bandied about as fact.
And when you're dead, you're not spending even your best capital gain. That's the point. Know you nothing of actuarial tables?
Were it I, the contribution would be a percentage contribution with no cap. Suddenly you'd get a vast pool of capital to fund the bonds with, cash-positive. But hey-- that's a tax increase. You must revile, as though government wasn't designed to allow civil function in society.
Your defense of such foolishness is disingenuous. Jumping to his defense is a sign of the same pathology.
Mine's slightly more banal, and a bit more pragmatic. Yet I agree with his, wholeheartedly. I was under 10yrs old before John XXIII and Paul VI finished Vatican II.
It's all subject to immense amounts of argumentativeness because the process is also NOT open. Every crackpot out there gets to deny reality, because reality is sooooo tough to discern. It's rife for abuse and politicking.
Like Sgt Friday used to say: Just the facts, ma'am.
Arguing statistics that were pulled out of his butt is silly. This is a poster with a mission that you're responding to, not one with referential, cited facts. Of course this is /., where they're unnecessary. Carry on.
To the telcos, community owned utilities are the most feared development that could happen, and with good reason. But the vendors in the industry, from the fiber makers to the equipment makers are also in the pockets of the telcos. They know who butters their bread, and they're not going to ally the development of community network in any way.
It's NOT a socialism vs capitalism vs communism problem. It's a continuation of corporations protecting their turf.
Yet we've seen this before. We fought it then, we'll fight it again. In my estimation, I granted Comcast a right of way on my property. They change things, they lose that right of way. Get in the spirit of owning your own property again, and we'll get back to why we allow utilities to do what they do. We're the people.
In twenty years, California will have swollen to perhaps 50million people, many of them taking the I-5 or US101 route from LA to the Bay area. I-5 is pretty much clogged now: imagine what happens if you have to continue to resize Oakland, San Jose, SF, Burbank, LAX, John Wayne, Palm Springs, Sacramento, and all of the other regional airports to accommodate grown-- along with the freeways. Something's going to give. Invest now, and the infrastructure is there. Don't invest, and it's going to get uglier than it is now.... much uglier.
Uh, hang on a second. We're war dialing your voice mail box now, to see what kind of dirt we can get on you. We'll have a reporter sitting outside your flat, a halfblock away, so that we can peer in on your subsversive activities, and all of those strange chicks with adam's apples going into your place.
You and your George Soros defenders need to be taken down a notch. After all, communism is right around the corner, and you're an obvious sympathizer.
It seems to currently work on Nexus and nothing else. Are you going to give community guidance as to how to sandbox the OS or calls, so that others can watch the cockroaches? I don't even mind rooting the phone, if I can find ways to get a mirror of application outbound system calls documented. Sure would be nice......
I had a feeling about that.....
You're not my brother, and while there's trash on the Internet, parents do their best. Your defense of SOPA for censorship is incipit.
I disagree. Categorization is a function of communications and the desire to minimize entropics in information transfer within a medium.
By its nature categorization is a semantical reference. Hot is not cold, nor is large small. It's referential. It has to do with context, and the capacity to differentiate description. Categorization by its fundamental nature is the antithesis of arbitrary.
Yes, there are bodies of people, like the posted EU committee, that make poor choices to describe. They need to be spanked and sent home with no dinner as punishment for being childish and irresponsible to those they serve. Dismissing categorization because of those twits, however, is an unnecessary move. We all get to make mistakes.
The parser used to input messages and/or extract them can be much more intelligent than the silly one I used. My point is that adding in data to nearly any protocol is child's play. Detecting the same is different, which is why noise needs to be understood (as in my feeble attempt) to identify potential mods that are actually data, but the best ones are simply undetectable because they spent more than the pittance that I did to form the system. You were a parser already.
You can hideMayorBloomberg messaisaages in all sorbigjerkts of ways. Shoving encrybecauseheevictedtheOWSpted or unencrypted information is child's play. VoIP is just one more medium.
The Internet is seven bit; everything is text. We start from there.