You are correct. Upon reading the article, they apparently run software that takes a snapshot ever few minutes. That doesn't mean that they were not viewing streaming footage, but it does make it plausible that they were only getting snapshots.
And it should be kept in mind that there is no way that what the teachers saw was a still photo. They presented a still photo, but there is no way that they would have gotten that shot by just having a random still photo. They were absolutely watching video.
Well, Adobe and Leapfrog detail exactly why they would use flash to produce a very successful touch screen device. Given that the device has been on the market for over half a decade, works perfectly fine, and has made them plenty of money, I am inclined to believe they made the right choice.
More to the point. The author is not only an idiot because he isn't smart enough to think of how to make flash work with a touch screen... He is an idiot because there has already been a very successful touchscreen device that is 100% flash. The Leapster by Leapfrog is a Flash only device. You can buy it in any Toys R Us, and has been very successful. It works just fine.
It seems that the current trend by Apple fanboys is to claim that Apple engineers are completely incompetent. Not long ago, it was the claim that Apple engineers were too incompetent to fit a microSD and battery door in an iPod sized device, while basement budget Emprex could fit them in a device half the iPod's size. Obviously this not extends to the iPad. At 50x the size, the Apple fanboys must still believe the Apple engineers are even too incompetent to fit them in that huge device.
Now, we get an article claiming that Apple engineers are so incompetent that it would be IMPOSSIBLE for them to accomplish a task that has been widely available in a child's toy for over half a decade.
It can be even worse than that. Sometimes the term 'lifetime' is defined as the lifetime of that particular item. Thus, if your product dies, it is by definition past it's lifetime; whether that is 5 years after purchase, or 2 days.
A) The problem is that the previous poster claimed that the iPhone is $99 compared to the knock off's $120. That is simply untrue. Even using your math that puts the iPhone at $340, the knock off is still dramatically cheaper. The previous poster was trying claim that the iPhone was cheaper. Using discount example, it only takes 1 year for the TCO on the unsubsidized phone to become less than the iPhone. Of course the $599 price ticket on the iPhone is total BS. Since you cannot buy one unsubsidized, any number that is put out there is simply for marketing purposes.
Either way, the fact that someone claimed an iPhone was cheaper than a $120 unsubsidized phone shows that people cannot count, and as long as people cannot count, and are easily confused by the subsidized price, you will always see the subsidies.
No, kidding. I don't want to be on the phone with someone who cannot stop watching their video for two minutes anyway. Honestly, the fact that the projector and the phone are integrated would work out well. In the same way that a phone and an MP3 play work out well. When a call comes in, I don't have to pause the music. It pauses for me. Then when I hang up, the music starts back up. This is a good thing, not a problem. Slightly off topic, but also cool is that a program on my Android phone will pause movies on my XBMC box when a call comes in. So, if I have a movie playing while I work, and someone from the office calls me, I don't have to fiddle with the remote to get the video to pause before I answer.
You don't need to buy 'fake' stickers. There are plenty of stickers that don't have a specific companies name on them. This is because security systems are not generally made by the monitoring company. Companies like Brinks probably don't want you to realize that they just buy off the shelf equipment and then sell it at 1000% markup. Anyone interested should check out http://www.smarthome.com./ They sell the same stuff as the monitoring companies. They also have partnered with a monitoring company that will happily work with self installers. It is dramatically cheaper. Obviously, this is only advice for those that are comfortable setting up their own electronics. It isn't hard, but you do have to read the directions.
For those those that just want the sticker, they can buy the stickers there too. There is nothing 'fake' about the stickers. Brinks and their like don't have a patent on putting a sticker on your window to say that you have a security system.
That being said. Actual as I said, you are right, actual burglars have told me that 90% of an alarm's effectiveness is in the stickers.
Actually, those little stickers are pretty effective. Having known a few burglars, they were pretty unanimous in the behavior of moving to an easier target every time they saw any sign of an alarm system.
Whether, they want to believe it or not, this is the kind of 'Socialization' that kids are getting in public schools. This may be a slightly more extreme example, but part of the 'Socialization' program that schools run is to train students to believe that they have no rights at all. I can remember in school, both students and faculty trying to claim that school rules WERE laws. I have heard that same thing parroted many times since I have been out of school. Many times right here on slashdot.
The first time I heard a home school advocate talk about how public school was never intended for education, but was in fact a socialization program, I thought she was a loon. Since then, the pro public school advocates (many here on slashdot) have convinced me that she wasn't as crazy as I thought. The constant insisting by public school advocates that the education may be lacking, but the public school is for socialization pretty well spells it out.
I think that sentencing someone to take no classes is a bit light. Although, since there are no classes, it would be impossible for those individuals to get an A, I guess the problem is solved.
No. No we are not. I don't think there is anyone on either side of the debate that would say this we are talking about the first cut of a delicate surgery. We are definitely talking about hacking parts off with a chainsaw. And I don't need to have a PhD to tell the difference.
No, at least here in the US, we still pay farmers NOT to grow corn. As long as people are paid to NOT grow corn, you cannot honestly say that corn ethanol is taking food out of peoples mouths.
I may not be qualified to perform heart surgery, but I am qualified to tell you that using a chain saw is the wrong approach. I can also tell you that building freeway bridges out Hershey Bars is a really dumb idea. Claiming that not having a PhD means you cannot speak intelligently on a subject is just dumb.
There is nothing wrong with eating cat. Just because some countries have decided that they are too cute do eat doesn't make it wrong. In fact, I only wish that eating cat was legal and common where I live. Here in Northern California, cats have gotten to the point of being an infestation. The cat per square mile ratio simply cannot support them all, but people just keep feeding them and letting them breed with no predators. Maybe the Aussie bikers could give US bikers some good recipies.
I reported a proprietary bug. To Microsoft no less. It was several years ago. I reported to MS that MS-Money couldn't add correctly. I even walked the tech support guy throught he process, where I showed him that if you saved 100k a year, MS-Money would show you as having saved a whopping 80k after 10 years. The tech support acknowledged the problem, and confirmed that it was reproducible on his end.
The result? About 4 weeks later, a message was left on my answering machine saying that since I wasn't home, they were going to close out the bug report. Needless to say, I don't use MS-Money any more. Of course, since MS has now officially given up on that product, no one will be using it much longer.
I get it, you believe that if someone has 15 pounds more fat that 80's Schwarzenegger, and 15 pounds less muscle, they are either on steroids or obese. May both.
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You are correct. Upon reading the article, they apparently run software that takes a snapshot ever few minutes. That doesn't mean that they were not viewing streaming footage, but it does make it plausible that they were only getting snapshots.
And it should be kept in mind that there is no way that what the teachers saw was a still photo. They presented a still photo, but there is no way that they would have gotten that shot by just having a random still photo. They were absolutely watching video.
Even more to the point, there has been a flash based touchscreen device widely available for over half a decade.
The Leapster by Leapfrog is a Flash only device. You can buy it in any Toys R Us, and has been very successful. It works just fine.
Well, Adobe and Leapfrog detail exactly why they would use flash to produce a very successful touch screen device. Given that the device has been on the market for over half a decade, works perfectly fine, and has made them plenty of money, I am inclined to believe they made the right choice.
The thing is, it is not new.
The Leapster by Leapfrog is a Flash only device. You can buy it in any Toys R Us, and has been very successful. It works just fine.
Touchscreen flash is over half a decade old. Claiming that flash is impossible on a touch screen is like claiming 64bit is impossible on the desktop.
More to the point. The author is not only an idiot because he isn't smart enough to think of how to make flash work with a touch screen... He is an idiot because there has already been a very successful touchscreen device that is 100% flash. The Leapster by Leapfrog is a Flash only device. You can buy it in any Toys R Us, and has been very successful. It works just fine.
It seems that the current trend by Apple fanboys is to claim that Apple engineers are completely incompetent. Not long ago, it was the claim that Apple engineers were too incompetent to fit a microSD and battery door in an iPod sized device, while basement budget Emprex could fit them in a device half the iPod's size. Obviously this not extends to the iPad. At 50x the size, the Apple fanboys must still believe the Apple engineers are even too incompetent to fit them in that huge device.
Now, we get an article claiming that Apple engineers are so incompetent that it would be IMPOSSIBLE for them to accomplish a task that has been widely available in a child's toy for over half a decade.
It can be even worse than that. Sometimes the term 'lifetime' is defined as the lifetime of that particular item. Thus, if your product dies, it is by definition past it's lifetime; whether that is 5 years after purchase, or 2 days.
A) The problem is that the previous poster claimed that the iPhone is $99 compared to the knock off's $120. That is simply untrue. Even using your math that puts the iPhone at $340, the knock off is still dramatically cheaper. The previous poster was trying claim that the iPhone was cheaper. Using discount example, it only takes 1 year for the TCO on the unsubsidized phone to become less than the iPhone. Of course the $599 price ticket on the iPhone is total BS. Since you cannot buy one unsubsidized, any number that is put out there is simply for marketing purposes.
Either way, the fact that someone claimed an iPhone was cheaper than a $120 unsubsidized phone shows that people cannot count, and as long as people cannot count, and are easily confused by the subsidized price, you will always see the subsidies.
That is why basically all phones are subsidized. Most people don't know how to count, so they think that $1800 is less than $120.
No, kidding. I don't want to be on the phone with someone who cannot stop watching their video for two minutes anyway. Honestly, the fact that the projector and the phone are integrated would work out well. In the same way that a phone and an MP3 play work out well. When a call comes in, I don't have to pause the music. It pauses for me. Then when I hang up, the music starts back up. This is a good thing, not a problem. Slightly off topic, but also cool is that a program on my Android phone will pause movies on my XBMC box when a call comes in. So, if I have a movie playing while I work, and someone from the office calls me, I don't have to fiddle with the remote to get the video to pause before I answer.
Yep. That's how we know that nuclear is bad.
You don't need to buy 'fake' stickers. There are plenty of stickers that don't have a specific companies name on them. This is because security systems are not generally made by the monitoring company. Companies like Brinks probably don't want you to realize that they just buy off the shelf equipment and then sell it at 1000% markup. Anyone interested should check out http://www.smarthome.com./ They sell the same stuff as the monitoring companies. They also have partnered with a monitoring company that will happily work with self installers. It is dramatically cheaper. Obviously, this is only advice for those that are comfortable setting up their own electronics. It isn't hard, but you do have to read the directions.
For those those that just want the sticker, they can buy the stickers there too. There is nothing 'fake' about the stickers. Brinks and their like don't have a patent on putting a sticker on your window to say that you have a security system.
That being said. Actual as I said, you are right, actual burglars have told me that 90% of an alarm's effectiveness is in the stickers.
Actually, those little stickers are pretty effective. Having known a few burglars, they were pretty unanimous in the behavior of moving to an easier target every time they saw any sign of an alarm system.
Too late. The age you are looking for for adulthood is 13. They have already been retarded to the age of 18.
Whether, they want to believe it or not, this is the kind of 'Socialization' that kids are getting in public schools. This may be a slightly more extreme example, but part of the 'Socialization' program that schools run is to train students to believe that they have no rights at all. I can remember in school, both students and faculty trying to claim that school rules WERE laws. I have heard that same thing parroted many times since I have been out of school. Many times right here on slashdot.
The first time I heard a home school advocate talk about how public school was never intended for education, but was in fact a socialization program, I thought she was a loon. Since then, the pro public school advocates (many here on slashdot) have convinced me that she wasn't as crazy as I thought. The constant insisting by public school advocates that the education may be lacking, but the public school is for socialization pretty well spells it out.
I think that sentencing someone to take no classes is a bit light. Although, since there are no classes, it would be impossible for those individuals to get an A, I guess the problem is solved.
No. No we are not. I don't think there is anyone on either side of the debate that would say this we are talking about the first cut of a delicate surgery. We are definitely talking about hacking parts off with a chainsaw. And I don't need to have a PhD to tell the difference.
No, at least here in the US, we still pay farmers NOT to grow corn. As long as people are paid to NOT grow corn, you cannot honestly say that corn ethanol is taking food out of peoples mouths.
I may not be qualified to perform heart surgery, but I am qualified to tell you that using a chain saw is the wrong approach. I can also tell you that building freeway bridges out Hershey Bars is a really dumb idea. Claiming that not having a PhD means you cannot speak intelligently on a subject is just dumb.
My aunt is paid by the government NOT to grow corn. I'm not too worried about people going hungry due to lack of corn being caused by fuel use.
Are you actually trying to say that dead cats breed more frequently than Neutered cats? That seems highly unlikely to me.
There is nothing wrong with eating cat. Just because some countries have decided that they are too cute do eat doesn't make it wrong. In fact, I only wish that eating cat was legal and common where I live. Here in Northern California, cats have gotten to the point of being an infestation. The cat per square mile ratio simply cannot support them all, but people just keep feeding them and letting them breed with no predators. Maybe the Aussie bikers could give US bikers some good recipies.
That's a super power? I guess I'll have to add that to my list.
I reported a proprietary bug. To Microsoft no less. It was several years ago. I reported to MS that MS-Money couldn't add correctly. I even walked the tech support guy throught he process, where I showed him that if you saved 100k a year, MS-Money would show you as having saved a whopping 80k after 10 years. The tech support acknowledged the problem, and confirmed that it was reproducible on his end.
The result? About 4 weeks later, a message was left on my answering machine saying that since I wasn't home, they were going to close out the bug report. Needless to say, I don't use MS-Money any more. Of course, since MS has now officially given up on that product, no one will be using it much longer.
I get it, you believe that if someone has 15 pounds more fat that 80's Schwarzenegger, and 15 pounds less muscle, they are either on steroids or obese. May both.