I wouldn't say that's a one for one. I love Archer but do not like Venture Brothers at all. However, if you love Archer, check out the short lived Frisky Dingo...it was a fantastic show (by the same people) that no one watched. And then there's Sealab, but everyone watched that:p
Frisky Dingo was the Firefly of animated television. It never really had a chance, but was some of the most brilliant writing I've ever seen. Archer is carrying on well in that light though. Hell, apparently I'll watch anything with H. Jon Benjamin doing voice work. Lucy Daughter of the Devil is another awesome, but short lived show.
I'm wondering how AT&T is going to justify how they know you're tethering in the first place? They can base it solely on amount of data consumed...but that's in no way accurate. Are they going to admit that they're monitoring your data stream without your permission or notification? Ouch...that's gonna get ugly. Are they going to admit they've backdoor'd your phone to see what apps you're running...double ouch.
I don't see any way for AT&T to definitively identify people who are tethering without a fairly egregious privacy violation.
The plastic is the same as it always was, the source material is all that's different. This is better marketing through sounds/feels good science, not through environmentalism. Hell, these bottles are going to use an order of magnitude more energy and other resources to produce than the old fashioned kind, so...yay?
Trading plastic bottles made from petroleum for plastic bottles made from FOOD isn't much of a win. The end product is the EXACT SAME PLASTIC that we're filling up landfills with right now, just made from food sources. Well done Pepsi...you missed the point entirely, but I'm confident you can still spin it into a positive to the organic/vegan/hippie crowd.
How about Apple offer the OPTION to either have a timed period of no re-authorization, or require it every time? The idea that Apple was just flabbergasted than CHILDRENS games with trivially simply in app purchases were resulting in purchases not authorized by the parents is laughable. Apple knew exactly what was going on, refused to do anything about it until the gravy train intersected the negative publicity tractor trailer, and now is putting in a change that can only be called "plausible deniability". It's not going to change anything because they haven't fixed the issue...they've just done enough so they can claim they did the best they could, but whoopsie we still need to charge your credit card a few hundred bucks.
I'm over 60 years old and, with the right woman, hell, even with Five-Finger Mary, could easily crank up a 4-hour boner, no blue pill required.
WTF is wrong with men these days? Viagra et al are an effin giant industry. I must watch bad ads on TV and get spammed just because you guys can't get it up. For God's sake, get yourselves a goddam' spider so I don't have to listen to yet another "E.D." ad in the middle of Star Trek.
"E.D"... - hah, makes me laugh! Bunch of pussies! And get offa my lawn!
If I had to venture a guess, the vast majority of ED cases could be solved without drugs, by simply nailing a new, hotter chick.
The problem is, once you've built a tablet with a capacitive screen AND the ability to display modern web content, you've already gone way past the $100 price point and have specs comparable to or exceeding the iPad. AJAX applications and HTML5 need some pretty hefty processing power as it is.
you've missed the point entirely. I don't WANT or NEED specs comparable to or exceeding the ipad. I don't want or need ajax applications or HTML5 (arguably). What I'd liek to have is a very bare bones portable web browser appliance. If apple can justify no Flash, then we've already accepted the market will accept a less than 100% compatible device.
Hell, maybe it would even foster a return to better web page practices. Plain old vanilla HTML is speedy and HIGHLY portable.
I assume you want WIFI included. How about a camera?
I can't for the life of me figure out what I would want a camera on a tablet for. Apple seems to have people convinced they need at least two, but I'm willing to wager that 99% of those cameras are NEVER used after one "look, a camera app" launch.
Nowhere in the article does it say that they are doing it "because Democracy would have 'Democrat' in it." That was just an editorial comment by the obviously juvenile and biased article-poster.
We are a constitutional republic. We are not a pure democracy.
jesus christ...how did this end up a point of slashdot discussion? The OP, literally made up the reasoning "because it would have democrat in it" out of thin air, then 3/4 of the commentators here ran with it without bothering to RTFA. The fact that the US is NOT a democracy is obviously very poorly taught in schools, illustrated by the number of people here who are surprised by the fact.
The "it must be utopia" jab is further illustration of the political naivete of the OP. Does he really, really think governments should self-paralyze into inaction until 2 or 3 core issues are 100% resolved?
Accidental "reply all" is just that, an accident. Muscle memory, inattention, etc...it's going to happen for a variety of reasons. It could be handled as simply as a reply all having an extra "are you sure" dialog that includes a count of how many people will be receiving it.
reply all mailstorm is completely different...that is a result of INTENTIONAL behavior. people are INTENDING to reply to all, usually to show their idiocy by saying "stop replying to all". No amount of "are you sure" or other cute crap is going to stop people from intentionally, but inappropriately replying to all.
Its' too little too late. Don't even try to compete on specs, or other bullshit...compete on price and targeted use. Get a $100 capacitive touch screen tablet that is little more than a portable web browser...watch how many you sell. I'll take 3 today. Hell, I'll sell my ipad and buy however many I can with the proceeds.
Why would you assume that? And even were it the case, why an ipad? it's far from the most convenient ebook reader, and a terrible note-taker, so a laptop would still be superior.
This is marketing, trying to get interest in the school generated. It's been done many times before, "giving away" macbooks, ipods, etc to new students. Apple heavily subsidizes educational purchases, so it's just usually apple products.
Jesus...what a dick. Some authors seem to be able to work on multiple projects at the same time, some can't. I get it. Martin needs to figure out that he's in the SECOND category and deal with it. It's not like we're saying "dont' take a leak", we're saying "stop working on other shit IF it means you can't finish current projects". It's not rocket science. This work ethic would get someone fired but quick in any other industry...and no apologies needed.
He even went so far as to tear into his fans on his blog, saying he doesn't owe us anything....
Really? I'd love to have that conversation with him. Maybe suggest he put THAT right on the cover so his readers know what to expect from him. Think he's got the balls to tell people BEFORE he's got their money that he'll finish the story if and when he feels like it?
I bugged my local SciFi bookstore for ages when I was in high school, waiting for White Gold Wielder.
HAH, yes! Me too. The funny thing, is I bought "wounded land" on paperback, so it had already been out a while, and I swear I remember waiting FOREVER for "one tree" and then "white gold wielder" to finish the series. I just looked at the wikipedia and it was actually only 2 years between the first two books, then one for the last one. That's nothing these days.
I'll echo someone I read a couple of days ago and say this is the longest wait for half of a book I've ever encountered.
Agreed. If you can't see a big "F-U" from Martin between the lines, you aren't paying very close attention. 100% due to Martin and Robert Jordan, I will never, EVER pick up and start reading another book series that isn't completed the day I buy the first one. Screw you guys, screw you all.
And everyone was worried that he was going to pull a Jordan."
There's still two books to go, and Martin is 62 years old. Since it was SEVEN years between "a feast for crows" and "a dance with dragons", he would be 76 at this rate before he finishes. That's beyond the average american lifespan, so yes...a "jordan" is a very real possibility.
Do you mean not drawing the story to completion in a small number of books, or leaving a series unfinished by PASSING AWAY? I don't know in what sense you meant that phrase but that's kind of offensive, isn't it?
The latter. And it's supposed to be offensive. Jordan drug out the Wheel of Time series for over 20 years...it wasn't just possible he was going to die before finishing it, it was a statistical certainty. And he didn't give a rats ass. He worked on other projects, games, tv series...let WOT languish with 3-4 years between books, etc. So yes it's offensive, and he deserved it.
I just don't see the lack of an SD Card slot as a downside. most users don't have SD Cards coming out of their pockets. SD Card slots are ubiquitous, SD Cards though, not so much.
I'll make it easy for you. Apple thinks 16GB of additional flash storage is worth $100. NewEgg thinks it's worth $20.
Pretending you don't know the usefulness of removable media betrays your bias.
that being said, I never said the Ipad wasn't a useful device, I use mine all the time. My point was that the ipad 2 is NOT a revolutinary upgrade, did NOT address any of the shortcomings of the original, and is not a compelling upgrade. It's an extremely minor tech refresh, nothing to get all moist about...unless you're an apple fanboi in the media desperate to get your gush time.
"Yesterday's announcement of the second-generation iPad showed exactly why there was so much excitment around the device. As the video hands on shows, iPad 2 makes up for all the things lacking in the original iPad.
Really??? My reaction was just the opposite...the iPad 2 brought almost nothing new to the table of any note.
Cameras? Specifically cameras of such low resolution as to be deliberately avoided mentioning specifics on. what would I use them for? the video conferencing that I'm not going to do?
Thinner? wow...I was so wishing I could get 2/10th of an inch of my life back
faster processor? ok, that's good I guess...but I haven't had anything I've wished the CPU was faster for.
2 ounces lighter? see above "thinner" reference. Make it "light" and I'll be happy, lighter is just a way of saying "this brick is lighter than that brick"
still no flash, still no SD card slot, still no wireless sync...I don't see how this qualifies as "makes up for ALL the things lacking in the original ipad". I like my ipad, and I use it every day...but this is an extremely minor update to the platform. It's hard to imagine any objective observer getting excited about the ipad 2 over the original.
Lately all you have heard is the complete opposite. That they are impossible to completely erase so it's unsafe to store company/secure data on them. Because even if you erase the file its still left on the disk and just marked as empty. Now they say they erase them self.
you've discovered the paradox that exists in the gulf between "in theory" and "in the real world". In the real world, a lot of shit that people get lathered up about is completely impractical and for all real-world purposes "impossible". But that doesn't stop some tech "editor" on a slow news day from hype pimping some theory as if it's the pending zombie apocalypse.
Over the decades I've read several studies testing peoples opinions of different bitrates and compression schemes. The typical response is people can just barely tell that there is a difference between bitrates, but they are unable to accurately pick the HIGHER bitrate one. In other words, even when they can tell there is a difference, they're still not sure what one is the original...just that they sound "different".
I don't even want to get started on "audiophiles". They're institutionalized hatred of the sound of live music sickens me...they claim to want the best quality possible, but won't suffer through anything that hasn't been run through an unintentional distortion or dynamic range limiting filter.
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I wouldn't say that's a one for one. I love Archer but do not like Venture Brothers at all. However, if you love Archer, check out the short lived Frisky Dingo...it was a fantastic show (by the same people) that no one watched. And then there's Sealab, but everyone watched that :p
Frisky Dingo was the Firefly of animated television. It never really had a chance, but was some of the most brilliant writing I've ever seen. Archer is carrying on well in that light though. Hell, apparently I'll watch anything with H. Jon Benjamin doing voice work. Lucy Daughter of the Devil is another awesome, but short lived show.
I'm wondering how AT&T is going to justify how they know you're tethering in the first place? They can base it solely on amount of data consumed...but that's in no way accurate. Are they going to admit that they're monitoring your data stream without your permission or notification? Ouch...that's gonna get ugly. Are they going to admit they've backdoor'd your phone to see what apps you're running...double ouch.
I don't see any way for AT&T to definitively identify people who are tethering without a fairly egregious privacy violation.
Same as before. Yes. No.
The plastic is the same as it always was, the source material is all that's different. This is better marketing through sounds/feels good science, not through environmentalism. Hell, these bottles are going to use an order of magnitude more energy and other resources to produce than the old fashioned kind, so...yay?
Trading plastic bottles made from petroleum for plastic bottles made from FOOD isn't much of a win. The end product is the EXACT SAME PLASTIC that we're filling up landfills with right now, just made from food sources. Well done Pepsi...you missed the point entirely, but I'm confident you can still spin it into a positive to the organic/vegan/hippie crowd.
How about Apple offer the OPTION to either have a timed period of no re-authorization, or require it every time? The idea that Apple was just flabbergasted than CHILDRENS games with trivially simply in app purchases were resulting in purchases not authorized by the parents is laughable. Apple knew exactly what was going on, refused to do anything about it until the gravy train intersected the negative publicity tractor trailer, and now is putting in a change that can only be called "plausible deniability". It's not going to change anything because they haven't fixed the issue...they've just done enough so they can claim they did the best they could, but whoopsie we still need to charge your credit card a few hundred bucks.
I'm over 60 years old and, with the right woman, hell, even with Five-Finger Mary, could easily crank up a 4-hour boner, no blue pill required.
WTF is wrong with men these days? Viagra et al are an effin giant industry. I must watch bad ads on TV and get spammed just because you guys can't get it up. For God's sake, get yourselves a goddam' spider so I don't have to listen to yet another "E.D." ad in the middle of Star Trek.
"E.D"... - hah, makes me laugh! Bunch of pussies! And get offa my lawn!
If I had to venture a guess, the vast majority of ED cases could be solved without drugs, by simply nailing a new, hotter chick.
The problem is, once you've built a tablet with a capacitive screen AND the ability to display modern web content, you've already gone way past the $100 price point and have specs comparable to or exceeding the iPad. AJAX applications and HTML5 need some pretty hefty processing power as it is.
you've missed the point entirely. I don't WANT or NEED specs comparable to or exceeding the ipad. I don't want or need ajax applications or HTML5 (arguably). What I'd liek to have is a very bare bones portable web browser appliance. If apple can justify no Flash, then we've already accepted the market will accept a less than 100% compatible device.
Hell, maybe it would even foster a return to better web page practices. Plain old vanilla HTML is speedy and HIGHLY portable.
I assume you want WIFI included. How about a camera?
I can't for the life of me figure out what I would want a camera on a tablet for. Apple seems to have people convinced they need at least two, but I'm willing to wager that 99% of those cameras are NEVER used after one "look, a camera app" launch.
Nowhere in the article does it say that they are doing it "because Democracy would have 'Democrat' in it." That was just an editorial comment by the obviously juvenile and biased article-poster. We are a constitutional republic. We are not a pure democracy.
jesus christ...how did this end up a point of slashdot discussion? The OP, literally made up the reasoning "because it would have democrat in it" out of thin air, then 3/4 of the commentators here ran with it without bothering to RTFA. The fact that the US is NOT a democracy is obviously very poorly taught in schools, illustrated by the number of people here who are surprised by the fact.
The "it must be utopia" jab is further illustration of the political naivete of the OP. Does he really, really think governments should self-paralyze into inaction until 2 or 3 core issues are 100% resolved?
These are two different, and UNRELATED issues.
Accidental "reply all" is just that, an accident. Muscle memory, inattention, etc...it's going to happen for a variety of reasons. It could be handled as simply as a reply all having an extra "are you sure" dialog that includes a count of how many people will be receiving it.
reply all mailstorm is completely different...that is a result of INTENTIONAL behavior. people are INTENDING to reply to all, usually to show their idiocy by saying "stop replying to all". No amount of "are you sure" or other cute crap is going to stop people from intentionally, but inappropriately replying to all.
Its' too little too late. Don't even try to compete on specs, or other bullshit...compete on price and targeted use. Get a $100 capacitive touch screen tablet that is little more than a portable web browser...watch how many you sell. I'll take 3 today. Hell, I'll sell my ipad and buy however many I can with the proceeds.
assuming textbooks are available on it
Why would you assume that? And even were it the case, why an ipad? it's far from the most convenient ebook reader, and a terrible note-taker, so a laptop would still be superior.
This is marketing, trying to get interest in the school generated. It's been done many times before, "giving away" macbooks, ipods, etc to new students. Apple heavily subsidizes educational purchases, so it's just usually apple products.
Jesus...what a dick. Some authors seem to be able to work on multiple projects at the same time, some can't. I get it. Martin needs to figure out that he's in the SECOND category and deal with it. It's not like we're saying "dont' take a leak", we're saying "stop working on other shit IF it means you can't finish current projects". It's not rocket science. This work ethic would get someone fired but quick in any other industry...and no apologies needed.
He even went so far as to tear into his fans on his blog, saying he doesn't owe us anything....
Really? I'd love to have that conversation with him. Maybe suggest he put THAT right on the cover so his readers know what to expect from him. Think he's got the balls to tell people BEFORE he's got their money that he'll finish the story if and when he feels like it?
I bugged my local SciFi bookstore for ages when I was in high school, waiting for White Gold Wielder.
HAH, yes! Me too. The funny thing, is I bought "wounded land" on paperback, so it had already been out a while, and I swear I remember waiting FOREVER for "one tree" and then "white gold wielder" to finish the series. I just looked at the wikipedia and it was actually only 2 years between the first two books, then one for the last one. That's nothing these days.
The beauty of 3D is that the Z axis works both ways. They could take Jar Jar and sink him into the BACKGROUND until he's gone.
Was anyone actually worried he would "pull a Jordan?"
Yes. He's going to be well into his 70's before he's done, and he weighs like 400lbs.
I'll echo someone I read a couple of days ago and say this is the longest wait for half of a book I've ever encountered.
Agreed. If you can't see a big "F-U" from Martin between the lines, you aren't paying very close attention. 100% due to Martin and Robert Jordan, I will never, EVER pick up and start reading another book series that isn't completed the day I buy the first one. Screw you guys, screw you all.
And everyone was worried that he was going to pull a Jordan."
There's still two books to go, and Martin is 62 years old. Since it was SEVEN years between "a feast for crows" and "a dance with dragons", he would be 76 at this rate before he finishes. That's beyond the average american lifespan, so yes...a "jordan" is a very real possibility.
Do you mean not drawing the story to completion in a small number of books, or leaving a series unfinished by PASSING AWAY? I don't know in what sense you meant that phrase but that's kind of offensive, isn't it?
The latter. And it's supposed to be offensive. Jordan drug out the Wheel of Time series for over 20 years...it wasn't just possible he was going to die before finishing it, it was a statistical certainty. And he didn't give a rats ass. He worked on other projects, games, tv series...let WOT languish with 3-4 years between books, etc. So yes it's offensive, and he deserved it.
I just don't see the lack of an SD Card slot as a downside. most users don't have SD Cards coming out of their pockets. SD Card slots are ubiquitous, SD Cards though, not so much.
I'll make it easy for you. Apple thinks 16GB of additional flash storage is worth $100. NewEgg thinks it's worth $20.
how would the SD Card slot make things better?
Pretending you don't know the usefulness of removable media betrays your bias.
that being said, I never said the Ipad wasn't a useful device, I use mine all the time. My point was that the ipad 2 is NOT a revolutinary upgrade, did NOT address any of the shortcomings of the original, and is not a compelling upgrade. It's an extremely minor tech refresh, nothing to get all moist about...unless you're an apple fanboi in the media desperate to get your gush time.
"Yesterday's announcement of the second-generation iPad showed exactly why there was so much excitment around the device. As the video hands on shows, iPad 2 makes up for all the things lacking in the original iPad.
Really??? My reaction was just the opposite...the iPad 2 brought almost nothing new to the table of any note.
Cameras? Specifically cameras of such low resolution as to be deliberately avoided mentioning specifics on. what would I use them for? the video conferencing that I'm not going to do?
Thinner? wow...I was so wishing I could get 2/10th of an inch of my life back
faster processor? ok, that's good I guess...but I haven't had anything I've wished the CPU was faster for.
2 ounces lighter? see above "thinner" reference. Make it "light" and I'll be happy, lighter is just a way of saying "this brick is lighter than that brick"
still no flash, still no SD card slot, still no wireless sync...I don't see how this qualifies as "makes up for ALL the things lacking in the original ipad". I like my ipad, and I use it every day...but this is an extremely minor update to the platform. It's hard to imagine any objective observer getting excited about the ipad 2 over the original.
Lately all you have heard is the complete opposite. That they are impossible to completely erase so it's unsafe to store company/secure data on them. Because even if you erase the file its still left on the disk and just marked as empty. Now they say they erase them self.
you've discovered the paradox that exists in the gulf between "in theory" and "in the real world". In the real world, a lot of shit that people get lathered up about is completely impractical and for all real-world purposes "impossible". But that doesn't stop some tech "editor" on a slow news day from hype pimping some theory as if it's the pending zombie apocalypse.
Over the decades I've read several studies testing peoples opinions of different bitrates and compression schemes. The typical response is people can just barely tell that there is a difference between bitrates, but they are unable to accurately pick the HIGHER bitrate one. In other words, even when they can tell there is a difference, they're still not sure what one is the original...just that they sound "different".
I don't even want to get started on "audiophiles". They're institutionalized hatred of the sound of live music sickens me...they claim to want the best quality possible, but won't suffer through anything that hasn't been run through an unintentional distortion or dynamic range limiting filter.