That was my impression when they pointed out the fact that results were almost never the same from one week to the next. It seemed like someone was going through and adding a +1 or a -1 to every percent each week. So that the one poll that they actually carried out god-knows-how-long-ago could be re-used ad infinitum, but some change would always be present to make it look like it was a fresh poll.
Should he be down there trying to clean the gulf with his fucking kidneys?
I think there are a lot of people who forget that Obama wasn't facing off in the last election against Aquaman, but for the record John McCain wouldn't be using telekinetic powers to summon a posse of dolphins to plug the leak in the gulf either. It's either that or else we've somehow come to think that knee-jerk, blustery statements/actions that don't address the real problem (like the Patriot act or the invasion of Iraq) are a good thing.
Wrong. Now that teabaggers know what the term means, they call themselves tea partiers.
I'm reading that link, reading "One of the exhortations was 'Tea Bag the Fools in D.C.' A protester was spotted with a sign saying, 'Tea Bag the Liberal Dems Before They Tea Bag You.'", and thinking that whoever wrote that exhortation and sign knew what the term meant which is at odds with your statement.
They did the same thing with Pure Digital Technologies, the makers of the Flip Video cameras. Yes, they bought them after they were popular, but it is a sign that they are interested in selling consumer products. Their CEO said as much in a recent interview with Newsweek
If it was obvious then why was the late-comer iphone such a run-away hit? others had plenty of time and funds to originate it.
You're completely ignoring the questions of whether these particular patents apply to the same aspect(s) of the phone that made it a hit and whether what made them a hit wasn't just an obvious evolution of what others were already doing (this seems to be what made the iPod a hit). They're suing for 22 different patents at this point, so really all we need to know about those 22 claims is that the iPhone sells a lot of hardware? Nokia sells even more phones than Apple does, so by your standard all their patent claims must be valid also.
At least some of these Apple patents have to do with using two fingers to move in different motions, where using one finger to poke or slide on a touchscreen was an established practice. Was it a good idea for them to do this? Yes. Is it so novel that no one else should be able to do it for 25 years unless they pay Apple money? Not in my opinion.
I think MS is killing their ability to make a strong tablet platform by choosing to add tablet functionality as just an extension to the existing OS that already has a huge installed base of non-tablet devices. There's something to be said for making a new platform whose apps only run on tablets to prevent developers from seeing tablet users as just a niche of the existing market rather than its own market. If they see it as just a niche they are more likely to ignore it or to make apps that hit more squarely on the non-tablet part of the market "but are also not-completely-crappy on the tablet." If they see it as its own market they hopefully build apps from the groundup with a tablet interface in mind, and they're much better apps because of it.
Of course there is a chicken-and-egg problem there where few developers will target a new platform unless the hardware is selling, and people won't want to buy the hardware until there is a good set of applications. That's a hump that the iPhone got over with non-stop hype, and the Palm Pre seemingly never got over.
I'm not saying that married people don't work as hard, or don't work Saturdays or what not. I'm saying that married people are more likely to "have plans". Whether that means that it's harder to work 4 hours late today with no notice or to come in on your off-day tomorrow, both of those things are going to be seen by an employer as a downside. That's a completely separate discussion than whether or not those requests are fair or not.
It's more of a "married, have kids, and have responsibilities outside of work" issue, then an age issue. If you have people at home who want/need you to be there, you're less able to stick out more hours at the drop of a hat. It just so happens that fewer of the younger workers fit into that category, so it gets attributed to the wrong cause. People also probably find it easier to justify discriminating against an employee because they're old versus because they have a family.
The only place that age actually does fit in is that older workers are more likely to realize that working unreasonable overtime hours ultimately benefits them less than it should.
I think you're missing what they're really doing. In the past if an app included location-specific advertising there used to be a pop-up asking you if the app could use your location. Now that they've told all the other ad networks that they can't do location-specific advertising but bundled this same feature into iAd, they've added this text to the Terms of Service so that iAd can deliver location-specific advertising without asking your permission (because you gave it to them when you hit OK on the ToS). It was obvious that they were going to do this, and it's incredibly slimy.
The strange part is that according to the article in addition to this touchscreen netbook using Windows 7 they released one with Android...but left out the touchscreen part:
The AC100 is a little larger and more traditional. It's got a keyboard and a trackpad, but weighs just 870g, with a 10.1-inch display. It's 21mm thick, and will be running Android 2.1, placing it in a strange middle ground between mobile phone, a tablet and a netbook.
Oddly, it doesn't have a touchscreen -- just a traditional TFT. Controlling Android with a mouse and keyboard is an odd experience, but you get used to it relatively quickly, especially once you get used to the custom software that Toshiba has preloaded the device with. That software allows your homescreen to change based on what network you're connected to -- allowing you to have one for home, one for work, etc.
I own a touchscreen Windows 7 netbook, and either my touchscreen is incredibly imprecise or Windows is not the way to go.
The worst part is that even if you google Kettle and get to their website, the front page for their product is a essentially a changelog and roadmap. There are FAQ links but even the "Beginners FAQ" (which should be "WTF is Kettle?" style Q&A) is a product troubleshooting guide.
I suspect that the same secrecy-obsessed person that built the product website also wrote this review
Apparently that oil well had not previously produced oil for sale,
Oil prices are set based on speculative futures. In other words, normally people would say, opps - that means less oil coming to market down the road so the price needs to jump - and it does. Odd that it didn't do what it has always done in this case.
It's not clear to me whether you think this oil spill should affect the price of oil because it is slowing down the speed with which it becomes a useable well, or because the worldwide supply of oil is being reduced by this wastage. If it's the latter, it should be pointed out that the amount of oil lost that would ruin the environment is much less than the amount of oil lost that would make a substantial difference in world supply. if it's the former, than we'd have to know A. when this well was going to be ready to produce oil for the market, B. how this spill impacted that planned date, and C. what other oil wells will be coming on line around that time.
It seems like you don't know any of those things, but you're using it as a basis to complain about markets. You're probably right that oil markets are messed up, but maybe you should find another illustration of that since this has so many unknowns.
where an end user pays directly for video services on a title-by-title basis...royalties for video greater than 12 minutes (there is no royalty for a title 12 minutes or less) are..the lower of 2% of the price paid to the
Licensee (on first arms length sale of the video) or $0.02 per title
If you're giving the video away free, then the lower of those two rates is 2% of nothing which is nothing
Apparently that oil well had not previously produced oil for sale, so losing it didn't impact supply at all. From the Wiki page:
The platform commenced drilling in February 2010 at a water depth of approximately 5,000 feet (1,500 m).[11] At the time of the explosion the rig was drilling an exploratory well.[12] The planned well was to be drilled to 18,000 feet (5,500 m) below sea level, and was to be plugged and suspended for subsequent completion as a subsea producer.[11] Production casing was being run and cemented at the time of the accident. Once the cementing was complete, it was due to be tested for integrity and a cement plug set to temporarily abandon the well for later completion as a subsea producer.
If they were concerned about admob ads in apps revealing too much information about in-development devices, they should either A. go ahead and not use those apps on their in-development devices or B. firewall their in-development devices so that they cannot contact admob's servers.
This is simply Apple wanting admob's customers and not bothering to compete on the merits of their iAd product. Instead of adding features and value to app developers in order to differentiate themselves, they removed features that their competition can offer.
Data isn't like that. If the connection is present, it costs no more for the internet provider to transmit at maximum bandwidth versus transmitting nothing at all, for a given period of time. You might as well use it. The only limitation is bandwidth, since the "pipe" is only so big, so if everyone is trying to transmit/receive data at the same time, they're going to be limited as they have to share.
You're wrong. Radio spectrum is a finite resource; there's no more untapped frequencies. It follows the same economics of energy, which is constrained by how fast we can suck it out of the ground. Radio spectrum is constrained by how smartly we can divide it up.
It's definitely finite. Even if channels weren't an issue, they'd still have capacity planning to do on the backhaul network. . It seems like there are a lot of good reasons for them to do this, but a lot of sliminess in the way that it happened.
On the one hand making the plans unlimited meant that they couldn't plan out their infrastructure very well, and it was almost like selling general admission tickets to a venue without knowing how many seats there are. They also probably quietly booted most of the same people who were downloading more than what they've now established as their limit, so at least they're honest about it now. How many times have we on Slashdot bitched that people were selling "unlimited" contracts on something that was clearly limited, and then booting people when they passed some unspecified level? They also took advantage of the fact that the iPad wireless is contract-less to show people that sometimes wireless contracts aren't just for the wireless company's protection. 2GB is also a lot of data for a month, I have 1.5GB used on my iPhone since I upgraded last summer. iPads would surely have apps that use more data, and some people will use more than others. But that's a lot of frigging data, and we're talking about cell usage while it seems like people would already prefer faster wifi speeds when available.
On the other hand the iPad has no alternative providers, so everyone who bought one is pretty hemmed in. Maybe that's why this happened though, supposedly the reason why the iPad was AT&T only to begin with was that no other provider wanted to offer the unlimited data plan that cheaply. Another thing I don't like is that you can sign up for unlimited now and be grandfathered in, but when you bought it you were led to believe that you could turn unlimited data on and off whenever. It's not clear to me whether that sort of intermittent use is grandfathered in. It's also hard to believe that whatever argument they have for doing this wasn't there a month ago when the iPad 3G was released.
It's unique for a specific day, but it also isn't. As they add more detail to a story, a new story comes across with the same slug (or even slightly changed). They're matching comments to slugs instead of to some sort of a story ID, because they want the comments to stay on the story as it's revised. Imagine a story on the World Trade Center attacks coming through 10+ times as more and more detail filters in, and every time a new version comes through all the comments get wiped.
Unfortunately it looks like their attempt to fix a weakness in the underlying delivery is overcorrecting. These things are pieced together by human editors on some sites, but I'm sure Yahoo isn't the only one to botch an attempt at automating it.
There are huge benefits to using E-ink for a reader over a traditional screen (battery life, eye-strain), and right now E-ink is essentially limited to monochrome. Add to that the fact that most books are just black text on white and it becomes more of a balanced trade-off than you make it sound. The iPad is a web/video browsing device that also happens to show books, so clearly monochrome would be out of the question.
it looks like a custom OS or one of the many cellphone OS's, you can probably make a better guess at it using the image below the Flash movie than the movie itself since they only demo a single app.
"Existing accounts will be allowed to grandfather in" would seem to make class action suits groundless, any new device is bought with the new rules in place?
well, the 2.1 update is apparently only a month old, so it's pretty clear that HTC is running at least a version behind. I believe the Droid only recently got its update too, so this is not just an HTC issue. So while it's not fair to portray them as keeping up with the pace, can't you root any of these phones and run the latest version just without the SenseUI or whatever bells-and-whistles that HTC is adding?
The CS5 program was apparently just going to compile the Flash interpreter into your program, so banning that could still mean that he doesn't like the performance of the Flash interpreter. I do think that there are lots of secondary side-effects of banning Flash that he loves though (fewer online video sites that you can use on your iPhone means more iTunes sales, fewer free Flash game sites that you can use means more crapware games sales), and most of his arguments can be easily waved aside by making Flash an optional app that people would have to know that they're installing so if it's buggy and crashes a lot the blame goes where it should.
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That was my impression when they pointed out the fact that results were almost never the same from one week to the next. It seemed like someone was going through and adding a +1 or a -1 to every percent each week. So that the one poll that they actually carried out god-knows-how-long-ago could be re-used ad infinitum, but some change would always be present to make it look like it was a fresh poll.
What is "leadership or sense of urgency"?
Should he be down there trying to clean the gulf with his fucking kidneys?
I think there are a lot of people who forget that Obama wasn't facing off in the last election against Aquaman, but for the record John McCain wouldn't be using telekinetic powers to summon a posse of dolphins to plug the leak in the gulf either. It's either that or else we've somehow come to think that knee-jerk, blustery statements/actions that don't address the real problem (like the Patriot act or the invasion of Iraq) are a good thing.
Wrong. Now that teabaggers know what the term means, they call themselves tea partiers.
I'm reading that link, reading "One of the exhortations was 'Tea Bag the Fools in D.C.' A protester was spotted with a sign saying, 'Tea Bag the Liberal Dems Before They Tea Bag You.'", and thinking that whoever wrote that exhortation and sign knew what the term meant which is at odds with your statement.
Meh ... they just bought an existing company.
They did the same thing with Pure Digital Technologies, the makers of the Flip Video cameras. Yes, they bought them after they were popular, but it is a sign that they are interested in selling consumer products. Their CEO said as much in a recent interview with Newsweek
given the recent iPhone 4 release there are probably a lot of people who'd sell their old 3GS or 3G for cheaper than an iPod Touch costs
So, Nokia sues Apple, who kicks the dog (htc)?
If it was obvious then why was the late-comer iphone such a run-away hit? others had plenty of time and funds to originate it.
You're completely ignoring the questions of whether these particular patents apply to the same aspect(s) of the phone that made it a hit and whether what made them a hit wasn't just an obvious evolution of what others were already doing (this seems to be what made the iPod a hit). They're suing for 22 different patents at this point, so really all we need to know about those 22 claims is that the iPhone sells a lot of hardware? Nokia sells even more phones than Apple does, so by your standard all their patent claims must be valid also.
At least some of these Apple patents have to do with using two fingers to move in different motions, where using one finger to poke or slide on a touchscreen was an established practice. Was it a good idea for them to do this? Yes. Is it so novel that no one else should be able to do it for 25 years unless they pay Apple money? Not in my opinion.
I think MS is killing their ability to make a strong tablet platform by choosing to add tablet functionality as just an extension to the existing OS that already has a huge installed base of non-tablet devices. There's something to be said for making a new platform whose apps only run on tablets to prevent developers from seeing tablet users as just a niche of the existing market rather than its own market. If they see it as just a niche they are more likely to ignore it or to make apps that hit more squarely on the non-tablet part of the market "but are also not-completely-crappy on the tablet." If they see it as its own market they hopefully build apps from the groundup with a tablet interface in mind, and they're much better apps because of it.
Of course there is a chicken-and-egg problem there where few developers will target a new platform unless the hardware is selling, and people won't want to buy the hardware until there is a good set of applications. That's a hump that the iPhone got over with non-stop hype, and the Palm Pre seemingly never got over.
I'm not saying that married people don't work as hard, or don't work Saturdays or what not. I'm saying that married people are more likely to "have plans". Whether that means that it's harder to work 4 hours late today with no notice or to come in on your off-day tomorrow, both of those things are going to be seen by an employer as a downside. That's a completely separate discussion than whether or not those requests are fair or not.
It's more of a "married, have kids, and have responsibilities outside of work" issue, then an age issue. If you have people at home who want/need you to be there, you're less able to stick out more hours at the drop of a hat. It just so happens that fewer of the younger workers fit into that category, so it gets attributed to the wrong cause. People also probably find it easier to justify discriminating against an employee because they're old versus because they have a family.
The only place that age actually does fit in is that older workers are more likely to realize that working unreasonable overtime hours ultimately benefits them less than it should.
I think you're missing what they're really doing. In the past if an app included location-specific advertising there used to be a pop-up asking you if the app could use your location. Now that they've told all the other ad networks that they can't do location-specific advertising but bundled this same feature into iAd, they've added this text to the Terms of Service so that iAd can deliver location-specific advertising without asking your permission (because you gave it to them when you hit OK on the ToS). It was obvious that they were going to do this, and it's incredibly slimy.
I own a touchscreen Windows 7 netbook, and either my touchscreen is incredibly imprecise or Windows is not the way to go.
The worst part is that even if you google Kettle and get to their website, the front page for their product is a essentially a changelog and roadmap. There are FAQ links but even the "Beginners FAQ" (which should be "WTF is Kettle?" style Q&A) is a product troubleshooting guide.
I suspect that the same secrecy-obsessed person that built the product website also wrote this review
Apparently that oil well had not previously produced oil for sale,
Oil prices are set based on speculative futures. In other words, normally people would say, opps - that means less oil coming to market down the road so the price needs to jump - and it does. Odd that it didn't do what it has always done in this case.
It's not clear to me whether you think this oil spill should affect the price of oil because it is slowing down the speed with which it becomes a useable well, or because the worldwide supply of oil is being reduced by this wastage. If it's the latter, it should be pointed out that the amount of oil lost that would ruin the environment is much less than the amount of oil lost that would make a substantial difference in world supply. if it's the former, than we'd have to know A. when this well was going to be ready to produce oil for the market, B. how this spill impacted that planned date, and C. what other oil wells will be coming on line around that time.
It seems like you don't know any of those things, but you're using it as a basis to complain about markets. You're probably right that oil markets are messed up, but maybe you should find another illustration of that since this has so many unknowns.
If you're giving the video away free, then the lower of those two rates is 2% of nothing which is nothing
It's obvious that they just want a share of the ad revenue, you don't need to bother to look for other explanations.
Onscreen keyboards aren't new to tablets, you're telling me that not even having the option of character recognition (like the iPad) is a feature?
If they were concerned about admob ads in apps revealing too much information about in-development devices, they should either A. go ahead and not use those apps on their in-development devices or B. firewall their in-development devices so that they cannot contact admob's servers.
This is simply Apple wanting admob's customers and not bothering to compete on the merits of their iAd product. Instead of adding features and value to app developers in order to differentiate themselves, they removed features that their competition can offer.
Data isn't like that. If the connection is present, it costs no more for the internet provider to transmit at maximum bandwidth versus transmitting nothing at all, for a given period of time. You might as well use it. The only limitation is bandwidth, since the "pipe" is only so big, so if everyone is trying to transmit/receive data at the same time, they're going to be limited as they have to share.
You're wrong. Radio spectrum is a finite resource; there's no more untapped frequencies. It follows the same economics of energy, which is constrained by how fast we can suck it out of the ground. Radio spectrum is constrained by how smartly we can divide it up.
It's definitely finite. Even if channels weren't an issue, they'd still have capacity planning to do on the backhaul network. . It seems like there are a lot of good reasons for them to do this, but a lot of sliminess in the way that it happened.
On the one hand making the plans unlimited meant that they couldn't plan out their infrastructure very well, and it was almost like selling general admission tickets to a venue without knowing how many seats there are. They also probably quietly booted most of the same people who were downloading more than what they've now established as their limit, so at least they're honest about it now. How many times have we on Slashdot bitched that people were selling "unlimited" contracts on something that was clearly limited, and then booting people when they passed some unspecified level? They also took advantage of the fact that the iPad wireless is contract-less to show people that sometimes wireless contracts aren't just for the wireless company's protection. 2GB is also a lot of data for a month, I have 1.5GB used on my iPhone since I upgraded last summer. iPads would surely have apps that use more data, and some people will use more than others. But that's a lot of frigging data, and we're talking about cell usage while it seems like people would already prefer faster wifi speeds when available.
On the other hand the iPad has no alternative providers, so everyone who bought one is pretty hemmed in. Maybe that's why this happened though, supposedly the reason why the iPad was AT&T only to begin with was that no other provider wanted to offer the unlimited data plan that cheaply. Another thing I don't like is that you can sign up for unlimited now and be grandfathered in, but when you bought it you were led to believe that you could turn unlimited data on and off whenever. It's not clear to me whether that sort of intermittent use is grandfathered in. It's also hard to believe that whatever argument they have for doing this wasn't there a month ago when the iPad 3G was released.
It's unique for a specific day, but it also isn't. As they add more detail to a story, a new story comes across with the same slug (or even slightly changed). They're matching comments to slugs instead of to some sort of a story ID, because they want the comments to stay on the story as it's revised. Imagine a story on the World Trade Center attacks coming through 10+ times as more and more detail filters in, and every time a new version comes through all the comments get wiped.
Unfortunately it looks like their attempt to fix a weakness in the underlying delivery is overcorrecting. These things are pieced together by human editors on some sites, but I'm sure Yahoo isn't the only one to botch an attempt at automating it.
There are huge benefits to using E-ink for a reader over a traditional screen (battery life, eye-strain), and right now E-ink is essentially limited to monochrome. Add to that the fact that most books are just black text on white and it becomes more of a balanced trade-off than you make it sound. The iPad is a web/video browsing device that also happens to show books, so clearly monochrome would be out of the question.
it looks like a custom OS or one of the many cellphone OS's, you can probably make a better guess at it using the image below the Flash movie than the movie itself since they only demo a single app.
"Existing accounts will be allowed to grandfather in" would seem to make class action suits groundless, any new device is bought with the new rules in place?
well, the 2.1 update is apparently only a month old, so it's pretty clear that HTC is running at least a version behind. I believe the Droid only recently got its update too, so this is not just an HTC issue. So while it's not fair to portray them as keeping up with the pace, can't you root any of these phones and run the latest version just without the SenseUI or whatever bells-and-whistles that HTC is adding?
The CS5 program was apparently just going to compile the Flash interpreter into your program, so banning that could still mean that he doesn't like the performance of the Flash interpreter. I do think that there are lots of secondary side-effects of banning Flash that he loves though (fewer online video sites that you can use on your iPhone means more iTunes sales, fewer free Flash game sites that you can use means more crapware games sales), and most of his arguments can be easily waved aside by making Flash an optional app that people would have to know that they're installing so if it's buggy and crashes a lot the blame goes where it should.