Aside from the "fucking crazy" part, which is subjective, I find no inconsistency between her site and Tetsuya's claims.
Do believe there is one? Was this misreported:
Before the vote, Assemblywoman Sharron Angle, R-Reno, sought to postpone the vote so she could add an amendment to block fluoridation in Washoe County. The Washoe County Commission in 1992 rejected fluoridation, and Angle said the Legislature should not approve fluoridation in her county without a vote of its people.
Her website itself plainly states she wants to eliminate the department of education and social security. If she were a slashdotter she'd be a troll of the first order. These crackpots have been with us for decades, and they'll run us into the ground if we let them. Do you really want this particular person on in front of reporters everyday holding forth on her beliefs about who Republicans are and what they want?
It's hard for me to believe the Colorado could contribute to any more significant infrastructure/industrial projects -- the flow has been damed and diverted so many times it doesn't even consistently reach the ocean anymore.
The senators would be appointed by their state legislatures in a manner that's up to them -- in the 19th century the state legislature would hold a vote, or the governor would make an appointment subject to state senate advice and consent, or whatever.
The problem with this approach was that it made senate seats a form of patronage for governors and state political machines, and while the people appointed might have been worthy there was zero democratic accountability, and senate appointment was a notoriously corrupt institution -- take the recent Rod Blagojevich nonsense and imagine it were the norm. Eliminating the direct election of senators in order to control "pork" or earmarks, which are themselves only about 2% of the federal budget, and are at least as big a problem with House members, is a pretty extreme solution.
I didn't make my point completely clearly, so let me state it:
Apple has an incentive to prevent embarrassing or non-consensual collection and use of customer's personal information because they are paid by the customer! If they piss the customer off they get less money.
AdMob, Facebook and other networks have zero incentive to prevent embarrassing or non-consensual disclosures, and they're paid by people that are dying for those disclosures, and all of the negative repercussions of these disclosures fall onto other parties.
Customers pay Apple for hardware and services, so Apple's incentive is to make customers happy.
Advertisers pay ad networks, and ad network's basic job is to collect analytics.
This is like a textbook definition of adverse selection -- people want Apple to allow more ad networks to be able to collect analytics, in the hope that this will cause more price competition between ad networks on the iOS platform, lower app developer costs.
But this won't happen. What'll happen is apps will stay the same price -- free -- but now your personal analytic information will be spread to the four winds of the Earth, and one day some grandma will get an ad on her freecell app that offers "a coupon to Depends users with Black 2007 Cadillacs who went to Bishop's Buffet this morning" and it'll be an outrageous scandal. And people will blame Apple, not the vendor -- we'll see the same rationalistic bull that people have been plying with the iPad email debacle, where somehow Apple is responsible for keeping its partners in line to a degree that is basically impossible.
Again, this whole debate seems to be driven by people who are angry because Apple won't let them use method X to make money on their platform. It's Apple's platform, it's not a public utility, it's not a commons, and as long as only 30% of smartphone users use it they can do whatever they hell they want.
And anyone who complains is just admitting that they don't prefer Android and what they really want is an iPhone OS with an Android app developer business case. But it's not Apple's duty to provide that.
Now holding iPhone in front of face at comfortable distance... Ruler tells me I'm holding it 18-20 inches away.
However, 12 inches is still comfortable, and I do see people holding their phones that close, just not me. And 24-30" seems to be where I hold it when I'm looking at it in the discreet from-the-waist manner.
This guys argument reminds me vaguely of the guy who asked about Itchy striking Scratchy's same rib twice and making two distinct notes.
But with smartphones, it's enough of an "appliance" that I don't think anyone will care. And we'll be stuck with Apple's draconian policies for the next 20 years.
Who the hell cared about Windows being the dominant monoculture, until the virus epidemics? It's STILL the dominant monoculture, and if you want your application used outside of the US or commercially you must support it. Nobody cares even now.
What you're trying to say is: "With PCs, there has never been significant pressure for open systems, and 10 years of widespread availability of open software, operating systems and hardware has made almost zero impact on the open/proprietary share of platforms. But with any information technology I don't think any user will care. We'll will be stuck with the App Store agency business model for the next 20 years." Just as we were stuck with the anti-competitive "Windows Tax" Microsoft rentier model before it.
Stupid users, making developers lives difficult again. If only they knew how to flash their own ROMs and sideload hacked firewall configs onto their cellphone, they would be so much happier!
Very true. With such a small sensor the video quality is going to be quite pitiful.
Off topic, but I find it interesting that a Canon 5D MKII has a bigger sensor for video than the Red One. (Used for movies like Gamer and The Book of Eli) If I wanted to shoot 720p, I would just go for a midrange Nikon or Canon and get about 5x the quality.
Keep in mind that none of the 24p DSLRs record a raw video file or even have an SDI out. If you're using them you're stuck with H.264.
The now-trashed Constitution was written in secret and all of the members of the Convention observed an oath of secrecy while it was written and for many years after. If they hadn't, the individual members wouldn't have been able to make any of the compromises they did and the process would have quickly stymied. On the other hand, minutes were kept and the members wrote a lot of commentary before and after the fact.
This is was what I was trying to figure out, too. In the absence of any load on the output you can make it move all kinds of speeds and directions, but doesn't the motor driving the differential have to offer at least as much torque as the load being driven? If you're going uphill the differential input has to be at least as powerful as the engine, otherwise the engine is just going to drive the differential motor around instead of be driven by it and turning the wheels.
I think you've got a typo in yer second one, but in the first case X is something like an Archos, and in the second Y is a JooJoo, or an Adam, or any one of the many, many tablet computers we've seen over the past decade. What, these are terrible products? You don't say. You can hack an Archos or any number of Intel tablet PCs to run Linux, then you're free as a bird. What people really want is for someone else to do all of the work of creating the perfect development and distribution system for them, so they can reap all of the benefits.
Or any netbook, really; aren't people on slashdot constantly telling me that a netbook replaces an iPad for better value?
Whenever someone complains about the iPhone OS on slashdot, what they're really saying is "Android phones and Linux tablets are so terrible, that I'd rather complain about the fact that the best smartphone/mobile OS out there comes with a bunch of restrictions that only apply to self-righteous and moralistic geeks who spend about 10x as much time complaining as the do developing."
The AC can try to spin it however he wants, but if you jailbreak the gear you won't get:
OS updates
The store; neither the Apps, the music, the movies, nor the books
Customer service
You will get the shell, and the ability to run "whatever you want." However, if you want a shell and an open environment and no media stores, why don't you just buy an Android phone?
This complaining about the iPhone OS as if it were the only game in town, or ever could be, is pointless.
At least modern western society has few restrictions about what you can do when you are alone on property to which you hold title.
And you do own an iPad. But the hardware is unmarketable without software and the services, and modern western society has a lot of contradictory ideas about how software constitutes property, and is pretty firm on the idea that services aren't property and can be fulfilled in any way the provider wishes as long as there's no fraud.
In any case, this is a red herring. People don't complain about the freedom to use any software they want with an iPad -- you can do this by jailbreaking. What they really want is to force Apple to provide them with software and services notwithstanding the terms of the contract between Apple and the user.
Breaking into a house is hard work, yet for some reason people offering this service find themselves hounded at every turn by big gubmint. Stoopid big gubmint.
News flash: not everything is for sale, regardless of what the most desperate and/or evil among us may wish to vend.
It's a lot sexier to talk about Harrison Bergeron-style 50-pound encroachments on our FREEDOM! than concede 14 ounces of styrofoam probably prevents thousands of cases of brain injury a year.
As with all of these arguments, the FREEDOM! to ride a bike without a "goddamn-helmet-my-parents-didn't-have-to-wear" is an absolute and self-sufficient good, and the children that my get injured or die as a result are immaterial, since they aren't the speaker and therefore, from a strictly libertarian point of view, their suffering is irrelevant and none of anybody's business.
Such is the way people rationalize the misery of their fellow men, and turn it into a virtue.
+1 this, Google Wave would definitely be a way to build an open, distributed alternative to Facebook. I don't think such a thing would address the fundamental issues of piracy (you can't really delete a Wave, and instead of worrying about the privacy policy of facebook you worry about the privacy policy of your Wave host), but it's the solution TFA is looking for.
I would remind readers that Opera actually has something called Opera Unite, which gives you facebook-like media and blogging services, except all of your information resides on your computer and can be turned on and off at will. This utterly failed to catch on because nobody leaves their computer on reliably enough to serve as a host for such things, the setup was complicated and none of your friends did it. Any alternative to facebook would need years of aggressive marketing to get the network effects going, and nobody is going to leave facebook for the mere political reasons.
Slashdot Mirror
But Lonestar won't take the money, because he fell in love with Vespa along the way.
Aside from the "fucking crazy" part, which is subjective, I find no inconsistency between her site and Tetsuya's claims.
Do believe there is one? Was this misreported:
Her website itself plainly states she wants to eliminate the department of education and social security. If she were a slashdotter she'd be a troll of the first order. These crackpots have been with us for decades, and they'll run us into the ground if we let them. Do you really want this particular person on in front of reporters everyday holding forth on her beliefs about who Republicans are and what they want?
Maybe. As we all learned a few years ago, when a reporter asks a politician what newspapers or magazines they read, it's a vicious partisan attack. Angle and that unaccredited quack Rand Paul, after some initial missteps, are never going to appear on a news program again, and will simply use the internet and the odd Fox News interview to do their public relations.
It's hard for me to believe the Colorado could contribute to any more significant infrastructure/industrial projects -- the flow has been damed and diverted so many times it doesn't even consistently reach the ocean anymore.
The senators would be appointed by their state legislatures in a manner that's up to them -- in the 19th century the state legislature would hold a vote, or the governor would make an appointment subject to state senate advice and consent, or whatever.
The problem with this approach was that it made senate seats a form of patronage for governors and state political machines, and while the people appointed might have been worthy there was zero democratic accountability, and senate appointment was a notoriously corrupt institution -- take the recent Rod Blagojevich nonsense and imagine it were the norm. Eliminating the direct election of senators in order to control "pork" or earmarks, which are themselves only about 2% of the federal budget, and are at least as big a problem with House members, is a pretty extreme solution.
I didn't make my point completely clearly, so let me state it:
Apple has an incentive to prevent embarrassing or non-consensual collection and use of customer's personal information because they are paid by the customer! If they piss the customer off they get less money.
AdMob, Facebook and other networks have zero incentive to prevent embarrassing or non-consensual disclosures, and they're paid by people that are dying for those disclosures, and all of the negative repercussions of these disclosures fall onto other parties.
Let me make sure I understand your argument:
This is like a textbook definition of adverse selection -- people want Apple to allow more ad networks to be able to collect analytics, in the hope that this will cause more price competition between ad networks on the iOS platform, lower app developer costs.
But this won't happen. What'll happen is apps will stay the same price -- free -- but now your personal analytic information will be spread to the four winds of the Earth, and one day some grandma will get an ad on her freecell app that offers "a coupon to Depends users with Black 2007 Cadillacs who went to Bishop's Buffet this morning" and it'll be an outrageous scandal. And people will blame Apple, not the vendor -- we'll see the same rationalistic bull that people have been plying with the iPad email debacle, where somehow Apple is responsible for keeping its partners in line to a degree that is basically impossible.
Again, this whole debate seems to be driven by people who are angry because Apple won't let them use method X to make money on their platform. It's Apple's platform, it's not a public utility, it's not a commons, and as long as only 30% of smartphone users use it they can do whatever they hell they want.
And anyone who complains is just admitting that they don't prefer Android and what they really want is an iPhone OS with an Android app developer business case. But it's not Apple's duty to provide that.
I think for you this is about more than just the "retina" claim... Keep the politics out of it.
Notice how the mouse sensitivity is set at 80-year-old-grandmother level on Mac's?
You know, there is a preference panel for that...
Now holding iPhone in front of face at comfortable distance... Ruler tells me I'm holding it 18-20 inches away.
However, 12 inches is still comfortable, and I do see people holding their phones that close, just not me. And 24-30" seems to be where I hold it when I'm looking at it in the discreet from-the-waist manner.
This guys argument reminds me vaguely of the guy who asked about Itchy striking Scratchy's same rib twice and making two distinct notes.
But with smartphones, it's enough of an "appliance" that I don't think anyone will care. And we'll be stuck with Apple's draconian policies for the next 20 years.
Who the hell cared about Windows being the dominant monoculture, until the virus epidemics? It's STILL the dominant monoculture, and if you want your application used outside of the US or commercially you must support it. Nobody cares even now.
What you're trying to say is: "With PCs, there has never been significant pressure for open systems, and 10 years of widespread availability of open software, operating systems and hardware has made almost zero impact on the open/proprietary share of platforms. But with any information technology I don't think any user will care. We'll will be stuck with the App Store agency business model for the next 20 years." Just as we were stuck with the anti-competitive "Windows Tax" Microsoft rentier model before it.
Stupid users, making developers lives difficult again. If only they knew how to flash their own ROMs and sideload hacked firewall configs onto their cellphone, they would be so much happier!
The PRS-505 is a good reader, but it has no radios or network connection and its bookstore is horrible. I went Kindle to iPad.
And I'm a Sony employee :)
Very true. With such a small sensor the video quality is going to be quite pitiful. Off topic, but I find it interesting that a Canon 5D MKII has a bigger sensor for video than the Red One. (Used for movies like Gamer and The Book of Eli) If I wanted to shoot 720p, I would just go for a midrange Nikon or Canon and get about 5x the quality.
Keep in mind that none of the 24p DSLRs record a raw video file or even have an SDI out. If you're using them you're stuck with H.264.
Halt and Catch Fire
The now-trashed Constitution was written in secret and all of the members of the Convention observed an oath of secrecy while it was written and for many years after. If they hadn't, the individual members wouldn't have been able to make any of the compromises they did and the process would have quickly stymied. On the other hand, minutes were kept and the members wrote a lot of commentary before and after the fact.
This is was what I was trying to figure out, too. In the absence of any load on the output you can make it move all kinds of speeds and directions, but doesn't the motor driving the differential have to offer at least as much torque as the load being driven? If you're going uphill the differential input has to be at least as powerful as the engine, otherwise the engine is just going to drive the differential motor around instead of be driven by it and turning the wheels.
Great. What's in it?
Neck juice, you insensitive clod.
I think you've got a typo in yer second one, but in the first case X is something like an Archos, and in the second Y is a JooJoo, or an Adam, or any one of the many, many tablet computers we've seen over the past decade. What, these are terrible products? You don't say. You can hack an Archos or any number of Intel tablet PCs to run Linux, then you're free as a bird. What people really want is for someone else to do all of the work of creating the perfect development and distribution system for them, so they can reap all of the benefits.
Or any netbook, really; aren't people on slashdot constantly telling me that a netbook replaces an iPad for better value?
Whenever someone complains about the iPhone OS on slashdot, what they're really saying is "Android phones and Linux tablets are so terrible, that I'd rather complain about the fact that the best smartphone/mobile OS out there comes with a bunch of restrictions that only apply to self-righteous and moralistic geeks who spend about 10x as much time complaining as the do developing."
The AC can try to spin it however he wants, but if you jailbreak the gear you won't get:
You will get the shell, and the ability to run "whatever you want." However, if you want a shell and an open environment and no media stores, why don't you just buy an Android phone?
This complaining about the iPhone OS as if it were the only game in town, or ever could be, is pointless.
And you do own an iPad. But the hardware is unmarketable without software and the services, and modern western society has a lot of contradictory ideas about how software constitutes property, and is pretty firm on the idea that services aren't property and can be fulfilled in any way the provider wishes as long as there's no fraud.
In any case, this is a red herring. People don't complain about the freedom to use any software they want with an iPad -- you can do this by jailbreaking. What they really want is to force Apple to provide them with software and services notwithstanding the terms of the contract between Apple and the user.
Breaking into a house is hard work, yet for some reason people offering this service find themselves hounded at every turn by big gubmint. Stoopid big gubmint.
News flash: not everything is for sale, regardless of what the most desperate and/or evil among us may wish to vend.
Christ, it's a fucking helmet! Sufficiently ideological thinking turns every pragmatic effort into a vile sellout.
It's a lot sexier to talk about Harrison Bergeron-style 50-pound encroachments on our FREEDOM! than concede 14 ounces of styrofoam probably prevents thousands of cases of brain injury a year.
As with all of these arguments, the FREEDOM! to ride a bike without a "goddamn-helmet-my-parents-didn't-have-to-wear" is an absolute and self-sufficient good, and the children that my get injured or die as a result are immaterial, since they aren't the speaker and therefore, from a strictly libertarian point of view, their suffering is irrelevant and none of anybody's business.
Such is the way people rationalize the misery of their fellow men, and turn it into a virtue.
It's just a big Palm Pre? What a ripoff! /sarcastic
+1 this, Google Wave would definitely be a way to build an open, distributed alternative to Facebook. I don't think such a thing would address the fundamental issues of piracy (you can't really delete a Wave, and instead of worrying about the privacy policy of facebook you worry about the privacy policy of your Wave host), but it's the solution TFA is looking for.
I would remind readers that Opera actually has something called Opera Unite, which gives you facebook-like media and blogging services, except all of your information resides on your computer and can be turned on and off at will. This utterly failed to catch on because nobody leaves their computer on reliably enough to serve as a host for such things, the setup was complicated and none of your friends did it. Any alternative to facebook would need years of aggressive marketing to get the network effects going, and nobody is going to leave facebook for the mere political reasons.