That's OK, it also gives users a year to figure out how to plug electricity into that port with the lightning bold next to it. You know the one with the universal symbol for electricity...
Depends on the software being use. I use https://www.instamapper.com/ . It is a third party with no vested interest in any speeding case that I might be involved in. I also don't have access to their servers, so while I might be able to send packets with bad data, I could not retroactively change data after a stop. So, data from instamapper would be exactly the same situation as if your local grocery store had a security tape showing you were there instead of at the scene of a crime. Neither would be certified and calibrated, but both would be evidence from a third party that you were not committing the crime.
No, extra pay for police to do there job does NOT have valuable qualities. The police's job includes testifying when their claims are being used in a court of law. They should not be paid extra for this, and in fact should be found in contempt if they don't show up.
What? If "good enough" wasn't what the PC was sold on, "IBM Compatibles" would have never gotten off the ground. The PC has lived off of "good enough" most of it's life. It didn't become the best option personal computer wise until about 1995, and by 2005, they had reached the point that people stopped caring about the speed so much. So, they only sold on performance for about 10 years.
For my gTablet, I got a leather case that has a keyboard built in. It folds up like a book, has a stand so that when open it can be used like a laptop, and when you want it to be a tablet, it pops right out and is a tablet. While this setup is slightly kludy, it is 90% of the way to making laptops pointless.
You are on a different page than the rest of the 'Climate Change' folks. It is consistently stated by these groups that the average temperature of the planet is rising, and that the rise of the global temperature is the really big problem.
I don't breathe 500 feet underground, nor does my water come from there.
While you may have a private well that is less than 500 feet, an awful lot of societies water DOES come from 500 feet underground, and you certainly use resources made available by pulling water from 500 feet underground.
In English, when someone says you must be X age, that means X or older. Just as in bars, even though the sign says you must be 21 to enter, anyone over 21 can do so. Why 13? My guess is that it is the age that people become adults. The law may not give you full rights until you are 25, but for tens of thousands of years, humans have become adults a ~13, which is the age that our biology dictates we are adults. No doubt they didn't think it out to that extent, but they likely did think that 13 was about the age that the kids parents will not have a say in the matter, and society recognizes that.
Yes, it is silly that people younger must lie to get an account. When Android was first released it required a gmail account to activate the phone. technically anyone under the age of 14 could not have had an Android phone and still followed the TOS.
Of course, Apple would have made the receiver without a replaceable battery, required you to install iTunes to download the data, only let you look at Apple authorized views, and when you would have periods of blindness, they would tell you that you were looking wrong.
Pretty much all headphone jacks have a slight click. The story could more easily be read the other way around. Their Apple engineers tried to slip below par work into the prototypes, and Jobs was aghast that his product was so much worse than even the most low budget audio device, that he mad the engineers spen all night bringing up the iPod's quality to that of even low budget trash. Why do you think he felt there should be a click? Because that is what he was used to with the other audio devices he has used. It was already the norm.
Their designs are not far better in consistency and execution than all of their competition. They have spectacular failurs like Macs that burn themselves up if you set something on top of them, and phones that lose reception because they antenna is badly designed. The difference is that Apple is very good at blaming the user for the failures, and they have built this myth that if they do it, it must be right.
The Emperors New Clothes applies exactly to Apple products.
You are describing a mythical Apple that doesn't exist. I had never noticed "there being a subtle (but satisfying) 'click' when plugging-in a cable". So, I inspected the Mac Mini sitting on my desk. Nope. No click when I plug in the cables. Not even a little bit. The edges where the parts meet up also have gaps. They didn't even bother to put the power button on the front of the machine. All in all, it is a moderately attractive box. Nothing special, but moderately attractive, and a usability disaster.
Just like all companies Apple makes compromises. They are just good at convincing people that the compromises they make are features.
That logic would indicate that it was stupid to develope for Windows, Linux, OSX, as well. I hear there are a few companies that do just fine developing sofware for systems that don't require permission to sell your software. In fact, I have spent the last 15 years making a good living developing software for systems that are not locked down by the vendor.
You are obviously trying to be obtuse on this one. A 50" screen is WAY better than a 3 inch screen for playing video games. Only an idiot would think that because I don't want to drag around a 50" screen, being able to play video games on the one in my living room isn't WAY better when I have the choice.
The same goes for a 10" viewfinder on a camera. If I have access to the larger screen, it is WAY better. The fact that many people do carry around their iPad anyway, it is WAY better tan a tiny 2.5" screen. It is also WAY better for making edits to the picture before sending it on to someone.
You seem to be trying to take the stance that if you can find ANY case where a smaller device would work better, that means the larger one has no point.
Sure you can win in the linux world. You use Debian until you decide you would rather have a bleeding edge distro. Then you switch to Ubuntu. When you get tired of the issues of having a bleeding edge distro, you switch back to Debian until you start wanting bleeding edge again. Maybe you use one of the in between distros for a while when you feel like it. Sounds like a win to me. There are time and uses that I want bleeding edge. There are times and uses that I want stability. The fact that I get to choose means that I win.
No, I wouldn't haul around an iPad for the sole purpose of taking a photo. I'm surprised you would even ask that. I would like to have a 10" viewfinder if I am carrying it around a 10" screen anyway.
Not all digital cameras have LCDs. and it would be better in the same way that reading a book is way better on a 10" screen than it is on a 2.5" screen.
So, you define, just works, as being synonymous with "whatever the device does". That is a meaningless metric, as everything in the universe does what it does. Thus "Just Works" is pure PR in the same way that "Tastes better" is pure PR.
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That's OK, it also gives users a year to figure out how to plug electricity into that port with the lightning bold next to it. You know the one with the universal symbol for electricity...
No kidding. There is no way that Apple was last. I'm still waiting on the DVD upgrade to my TI-99/4A.
Depends on the software being use. I use https://www.instamapper.com/ . It is a third party with no vested interest in any speeding case that I might be involved in. I also don't have access to their servers, so while I might be able to send packets with bad data, I could not retroactively change data after a stop. So, data from instamapper would be exactly the same situation as if your local grocery store had a security tape showing you were there instead of at the scene of a crime. Neither would be certified and calibrated, but both would be evidence from a third party that you were not committing the crime.
No, extra pay for police to do there job does NOT have valuable qualities. The police's job includes testifying when their claims are being used in a court of law. They should not be paid extra for this, and in fact should be found in contempt if they don't show up.
What? If "good enough" wasn't what the PC was sold on, "IBM Compatibles" would have never gotten off the ground. The PC has lived off of "good enough" most of it's life. It didn't become the best option personal computer wise until about 1995, and by 2005, they had reached the point that people stopped caring about the speed so much. So, they only sold on performance for about 10 years.
For my gTablet, I got a leather case that has a keyboard built in. It folds up like a book, has a stand so that when open it can be used like a laptop, and when you want it to be a tablet, it pops right out and is a tablet. While this setup is slightly kludy, it is 90% of the way to making laptops pointless.
I know that the iPad has similar keyboard/covers.
True, that is why I canceled by accounts with Wells Fargo.
That is what the malicious people want you to think.
https://squareup.com/ Another way for individuals to take credit cards.
Plenty of those exists. No flexible processor necessary. http://www.smarthome.com/_/ProductResults.aspx?Ntt=freeze
You are on a different page than the rest of the 'Climate Change' folks. It is consistently stated by these groups that the average temperature of the planet is rising, and that the rise of the global temperature is the really big problem.
I don't breathe 500 feet underground, nor does my water come from there.
While you may have a private well that is less than 500 feet, an awful lot of societies water DOES come from 500 feet underground, and you certainly use resources made available by pulling water from 500 feet underground.
If you film it, she is an actress. Hookers are women who have sex for money and are not recorded.
In English, when someone says you must be X age, that means X or older. Just as in bars, even though the sign says you must be 21 to enter, anyone over 21 can do so. Why 13? My guess is that it is the age that people become adults. The law may not give you full rights until you are 25, but for tens of thousands of years, humans have become adults a ~13, which is the age that our biology dictates we are adults. No doubt they didn't think it out to that extent, but they likely did think that 13 was about the age that the kids parents will not have a say in the matter, and society recognizes that.
Yes, it is silly that people younger must lie to get an account. When Android was first released it required a gmail account to activate the phone. technically anyone under the age of 14 could not have had an Android phone and still followed the TOS.
Of course, Apple would have made the receiver without a replaceable battery, required you to install iTunes to download the data, only let you look at Apple authorized views, and when you would have periods of blindness, they would tell you that you were looking wrong.
Pretty much all headphone jacks have a slight click. The story could more easily be read the other way around. Their Apple engineers tried to slip below par work into the prototypes, and Jobs was aghast that his product was so much worse than even the most low budget audio device, that he mad the engineers spen all night bringing up the iPod's quality to that of even low budget trash. Why do you think he felt there should be a click? Because that is what he was used to with the other audio devices he has used. It was already the norm.
Their designs are not far better in consistency and execution than all of their competition. They have spectacular failurs like Macs that burn themselves up if you set something on top of them, and phones that lose reception because they antenna is badly designed. The difference is that Apple is very good at blaming the user for the failures, and they have built this myth that if they do it, it must be right.
The Emperors New Clothes applies exactly to Apple products.
You are describing a mythical Apple that doesn't exist. I had never noticed "there being a subtle (but satisfying) 'click' when plugging-in a cable". So, I inspected the Mac Mini sitting on my desk. Nope. No click when I plug in the cables. Not even a little bit. The edges where the parts meet up also have gaps. They didn't even bother to put the power button on the front of the machine. All in all, it is a moderately attractive box. Nothing special, but moderately attractive, and a usability disaster.
Just like all companies Apple makes compromises. They are just good at convincing people that the compromises they make are features.
Gmail TOS dictate that you must be13 years old to get an email account with them. THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!
This would imply that there is some merit to the suspicions about Google wanting to fix some things before rolling it out to the Nexus Ones.
That logic would indicate that it was stupid to develope for Windows, Linux, OSX, as well. I hear there are a few companies that do just fine developing sofware for systems that don't require permission to sell your software. In fact, I have spent the last 15 years making a good living developing software for systems that are not locked down by the vendor.
You are obviously trying to be obtuse on this one. A 50" screen is WAY better than a 3 inch screen for playing video games. Only an idiot would think that because I don't want to drag around a 50" screen, being able to play video games on the one in my living room isn't WAY better when I have the choice.
The same goes for a 10" viewfinder on a camera. If I have access to the larger screen, it is WAY better. The fact that many people do carry around their iPad anyway, it is WAY better tan a tiny 2.5" screen. It is also WAY better for making edits to the picture before sending it on to someone.
You seem to be trying to take the stance that if you can find ANY case where a smaller device would work better, that means the larger one has no point.
Sure you can win in the linux world. You use Debian until you decide you would rather have a bleeding edge distro. Then you switch to Ubuntu. When you get tired of the issues of having a bleeding edge distro, you switch back to Debian until you start wanting bleeding edge again. Maybe you use one of the in between distros for a while when you feel like it. Sounds like a win to me. There are time and uses that I want bleeding edge. There are times and uses that I want stability. The fact that I get to choose means that I win.
No, I wouldn't haul around an iPad for the sole purpose of taking a photo. I'm surprised you would even ask that. I would like to have a 10" viewfinder if I am carrying it around a 10" screen anyway.
Not all digital cameras have LCDs. and it would be better in the same way that reading a book is way better on a 10" screen than it is on a 2.5" screen.
So, you define, just works, as being synonymous with "whatever the device does". That is a meaningless metric, as everything in the universe does what it does. Thus "Just Works" is pure PR in the same way that "Tastes better" is pure PR.