The link you posted doesn't work when followed directly. What people must do is:
Go to http://thomas.loc.gov. The bill, HR3962: Affordable Health Care for America Act, should be clearly linked in the homepage, but if it isn't just search for bill number HR3962. From there, follow the link "Text of Legislation". That takes you to the table of contents, where getting to Title III, Subsection C, Section 347 is straightforward.
Actually, the inability to multitask on the iPhone is an artificial limitation that does not apply to some built-in programs like the iPod functionality and the Phone app.
On the iPhone, while you are on a phone call you CAN press the home button and launch any other app without interrupting your call (I jut tried it with the included Maps app and Google Earth). A green band appears on the top of the screen, wich you can touch to return to the phone app.
I'm not sure what would happen if the app resqueted to use the speaker or the microphone, though. On the other hand, I'm not sure what would happen in that case with other phones either!
Actually, no. If you are using the "Maps" app that is included, you can exit the app, use several apps in the mean time and return to Maps days later and it will immediately return to wherever you left it. If you were following directions, the route will still be there at the last step where you left it (although your current location will have changed, of course). You won't have to download anything again until you need new tiles.
And if you are using one of the dedicated GPS apps, well that's one advantage of those apps: the maps are stored locally.
However, Google is working with Apple on bringing it to the iPhone, and it's not ruling out licensing the software to makers of portable navigation devices used in cars throughout the world, said Gundotra, vice president of engineering at Google for mobile and developers. The process involving Apple is slightly different from the usual App Store submission process, because Maps is a built-in iPhone application, he said.
So yes, this will come out for the iPhone, but it's not ready yet.
let me clarify: since a given tor node is not just handling its own demands, but is also relaying other nodes' traffic, (...)
That's where you're wrong. A Tor client isn't required to be a node, i.e., he is not required to relay traffic for others. It is basic etiquette to become a node if you use the client, but no one is forcing you. Why do you think Tor is so slow? Leechers!
So, if relaying traffic is turned of on the cell phone client (and it IS turned off by default on the desktop clients), the total bandwidth consumed is going to be the one of the direct connection plus the overheads of all the layers of encryption, which is not too much.
Furthermore, today I found another Wash Post article that behaves in the same way: refreshing it repeatedly some times produces a weirdly rendered page with larger fonts and a blue "Advertisement" label written vertically on the left margin.
But... it was an article on political news! So that confirms that the problem is a bug at either end.
I therefore apologize to those who read my message and even more to Michael Arrington of TechCrunch.com for saying that he had stooped down to write an ad disguised as a legitimate article. That is clearly not the case.
Hmmm.... I wondered why I had been moded as Troll so I revisited TFA today... and now it looks like a normal Washington Post article (no longer a large font), and the blue "Advertisement" tag is only visible in an actual ad, and horizontally, not vertically.
Yesterday I saw the tag both in an ad located in the same place in the page, and out side, next to the article page....
Ah, wait... if I follow the link repeatedly, I get the version I got yesterday about 10% of the time. I wonder if it's a bug in the code, a problem with their server, or a rendering bug in Safari.
I thought the article looked weird, visually different from other Wash Post articles (e.g., much larger font). So I took a closer look.
Go to the sixth paragraph. The one starting with "The Droid poses a different and more significant challenge...". Look at the left margin. What do you see?
A word in blue, written vertically: "Advertisement"
That is not a real article by Michael Arrington of TechCrunch.com, it is an ad commissioned to him. The difference is that he is being payed to say whatever the sponsors want him to say.
Although sleazy this is legal because to the observant reader it is clear that it is not a typical article from that publication, and, heck, it even says openly that it is an Advertisement.
Let me guess: you are the same delusional soul to whom I replied originally. At least you have similarly twisted ideas full of misconceptions and expressed in the same bizarre language, full of grammatical inconsistencies. As the original message, yours makes very little sense. And most of what makes any sense at all is, well.... wrong.
Given the absurdity of the messages and the way they are written I suspect that you suffer from a mild mental impairment, so trying to reason with you is most certainly futile. So I just wanted to comment on one thing you said:
You haven't a clue where you stand, because you have read the books given you by certified government education, while ignoring the non-catalogued books in the Library of Congress [...]
Sooooo..... you based your "knowledge" on "facts" that are supposedly registered in some obscure books that are "hidden" in the Library of Congress in order to perpetuate some obscure political agenda. Any similarity to several Hollywood movies is pure coincidence... (Dude! You are living in a movie script! Awesome!)
But the books are not catalogued! That means that you have not read them either, so you know all this from hearsay, and thus the credibility is... quite low...
(I know, I know, you know all that because you are The Master Librarian of The Library of Congress, yada yada yada... Sure, whatever makes you happy.)
Yes, I know about the theory of Richard Amerike as the origin of the name America, but to be frank with you it seems as historical revisionism by people who refuse to accept a non-Anglo-centric view (much like the AC that I replied to and the one that also replied to my post, pretty sure they are the same).
I think the Wikipedia entry on Amerik summarizes that theory in a fairly complete way. (Of course, being Wikipedia we must tae it with a grain of salt, but still). You will notice that Amerik's involvement is fairly minor, and unlikely to justify the naming of a continent after him.
In particular look at the second-to-last paragraph of that section, which explains why Waldseemuller would have used the name "America" in his map, according to the Amerik theory.
It basically says that the name of Amerik may have appeared in Cabot's maps (something impossible to prove since the maps don't exist any more), and Amerigo Vespucci may have seen those maps and thus used that name in his documents. Documents in which, by the way, his name would appear as Americus Vespuccius since at the time official documents, at least for the Spanish and Portugese crowns, were always written in Latin (and thus Cristoforo Colombo appeared as Christophorus Columbus -- ever wondered why the country is called Colombia and not Columbia?). America is the feminine for of Americus? Oh, just a coincidence, then.
Furthermore, Waldseemuller, (who used Vespucci's documents to produce his famous map and featured him prominently with a portrait at the top, labeling him Americi Vespvciii), may have thought mistakenly that Vespucci used the word America due to his own name, since Vespucci said nothing on the contrary.
All this in a theory concocted in 1908. Quite frankly there are too many mays in a theory that tries to explain how the name of a minor character got on the main piece of solid evidence (Waldseemuller's map), furthermore on the least related side of the map (South vs North America). By Occam's Razor I'm far more inclined to believe the simple theory: he placed the name America there because Americus/Americi was apparently the first cartographer that discovered (or at least confirmed) that the new lands were indeed a separate continent and not part of Asia as some thought. He placed the name down there because, well, those are the lands Vespucci charted, and he used the feminine form because all the known "continents" had feminine names in Latin.
But just in case someone reads this and thinks there is some substance to it, the first half sentence already has an egregious mistake, as does the subject.
1) Columbus never set foot on what is now the continental USA, he only visited the Antilles, and parts of Central and South America.
2) The name America comes from the latinization of the name of Amerigo Vespucci (i.e., Americus Vespucius), an Italian cartographer who first mapped the East coast of South America. He never set foot in Noth America. Thus, the earliest known map that contains the name "America" (by Martin Waldseemuller, 1507) places that label right in the middle (actually towards the south) of South America. How the present-day country ended up with that name is actually amazing.
With hyper-threading each processor core is treated by the operating system as two separate cores instead of one. Thus, a dual quad-core Mac Pro seems to have 16 processors.
Granted, it is a far cry from actually having 16 separate cores, but in a multi-threaded efficient environment like the one provided by GCD you will see an improvement over an 8-core machine with no hyper-threading.
Stories like this is getting pretty lame, same entry is showing up on googles first page as well.
"Actually, no"
Yea, they are, [...]
You misunderstood me. I meant that the "same entry" is actuallly not "showing up on googles first page as well," where the same entry of course refers to the one mentioned in the summary, i.e., the one from Yahoo Answers.
[...] because if there where some substance to your claims an ad for Apple Store should not show up when I search for "Windows sucks" on Bing
I don't know what you mean by "an ad for the Apple Store", I don't see such a thing. But this is not too important.
More importantly, you are bringing a completely different query into the discussion. If Microsoft had manipulated a specific query to reflect better on them, examining a different query proves nothing.
And very interestingly, now the top six results for "Why is Windows so expensive?" are actually related to Microsoft Windows being expensive. A very reasonable explanation is that someone at Microsoft was made aware of the article and embarrassed into fixing the problem, whether the said problem was intentional or coincidental.
Stories like this is getting pretty lame, same entry is showing up on googles first page as well.
Actually, no.
I just performed the query in both search engines. The only "Why are Macs so expensive?" or similar entry in Google is from TechRadar, and is currently in the 7th position. This entry is NOT in the first page of Bing's results. Seven of the other results are Microsoft Windows related, one on vinyl windows, one on HDTV wall mounts.
Bing, on the other hand, is returning "Why are Macs so expensive?" and similar results six times, in positions 1 (Yahoo answers), 2 (gamesforwindows.com, go figure), 5 (Yahoo answers again, now for MackBooks), 6 (WikiAnswers), 8 (TechSpot), and 9 (Digg). The other four entries are about vinyl windows, Windows hosting providers, OSS commercial software, and fish (fish!). Not ONE of them is actually about Microsoft Windows.
Then the scheduler on the iPhone is does suck [sic] because I extensively use multitasking on my Windows Mobile device (HTC Touch HD) and the battery life is descent.
Or, as the parent post said, you use a combination of programs that happen to play nicely and not use battery intensive resources when not needed.
Other people run background apps all the time in jailborken iPhones just fine. On the other hand, some people on other phones complain of abysmal battery life and blame the manufacturer when the real culprit is a 3rd party app run amok. Well, guess what, the fruit company doesn't want anyone to blame them for the failures of inexpert programmers outside of Apple.
Well, the iPod touch does have a short battery life when using WiFi actively. But if you listen to music from the iPod library, then you can expect the battery to last 8-10 times longer.
Yes, I know, I know. There's a reason why you use Pandora: so that you can listen to music that you don't currently have. But still, if your library isn't too small, maybe you can use the iPod again as you wanted.
Not to nitpick, but 1984 and Animal Farm aren't available for the iRex at all. Not legally anyway. And if they are, I will certainly mod you up for linking me to them.
Hmmmm.... and how exactly are you going to do that? You know, you can't moderate in this discussion because you commented on it... Doh?
gtkpod has "preliminary support for the iPhone and the iPod Touch but they must be jailbroken to work". Haven't tried it, though, as iTunes works great on my Macs.
Mmmmm... Do you realize that pocket dialing on an iPhone is way, way harder?
Hints: The special gesture to unlock the phone. The fact that you normally have to navigate to the phone app and the numeric keypad (easy when you intend to, hard too do by accident. And, specially, the fact that the touch screen doesn't work through cloth.
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The link you posted doesn't work when followed directly. What people must do is:
Go to http://thomas.loc.gov. The bill, HR3962: Affordable Health Care for America Act, should be clearly linked in the homepage, but if it isn't just search for bill number HR3962. From there, follow the link "Text of Legislation". That takes you to the table of contents, where getting to Title III, Subsection C, Section 347 is straightforward.
Actually, the inability to multitask on the iPhone is an artificial limitation that does not apply to some built-in programs like the iPod functionality and the Phone app.
On the iPhone, while you are on a phone call you CAN press the home button and launch any other app without interrupting your call (I jut tried it with the included Maps app and Google Earth). A green band appears on the top of the screen, wich you can touch to return to the phone app.
I'm not sure what would happen if the app resqueted to use the speaker or the microphone, though. On the other hand, I'm not sure what would happen in that case with other phones either!
Actually, no. If you are using the "Maps" app that is included, you can exit the app, use several apps in the mean time and return to Maps days later and it will immediately return to wherever you left it. If you were following directions, the route will still be there at the last step where you left it (although your current location will have changed, of course). You won't have to download anything again until you need new tiles.
And if you are using one of the dedicated GPS apps, well that's one advantage of those apps: the maps are stored locally.
How is the parent post redundant?
Off-topic, sure, I can see why some people might consider it off-topic. But redundant?
Typical moderation abuse.
So no google maps navigation for the iPhone?
From this CNET article:
So yes, this will come out for the iPhone, but it's not ready yet.
let me clarify: since a given tor node is not just handling its own demands, but is also relaying other nodes' traffic, (...)
That's where you're wrong. A Tor client isn't required to be a node, i.e., he is not required to relay traffic for others. It is basic etiquette to become a node if you use the client, but no one is forcing you. Why do you think Tor is so slow? Leechers!
So, if relaying traffic is turned of on the cell phone client (and it IS turned off by default on the desktop clients), the total bandwidth consumed is going to be the one of the direct connection plus the overheads of all the layers of encryption, which is not too much.
Furthermore, today I found another Wash Post article that behaves in the same way: refreshing it repeatedly some times produces a weirdly rendered page with larger fonts and a blue "Advertisement" label written vertically on the left margin.
But... it was an article on political news! So that confirms that the problem is a bug at either end.
I therefore apologize to those who read my message and even more to Michael Arrington of TechCrunch.com for saying that he had stooped down to write an ad disguised as a legitimate article. That is clearly not the case.
Hmmm.... I wondered why I had been moded as Troll so I revisited TFA today... and now it looks like a normal Washington Post article (no longer a large font), and the blue "Advertisement" tag is only visible in an actual ad, and horizontally, not vertically.
Yesterday I saw the tag both in an ad located in the same place in the page, and out side, next to the article page....
Ah, wait... if I follow the link repeatedly, I get the version I got yesterday about 10% of the time. I wonder if it's a bug in the code, a problem with their server, or a rendering bug in Safari.
Weird.
I thought the article looked weird, visually different from other Wash Post articles (e.g., much larger font). So I took a closer look.
Go to the sixth paragraph. The one starting with "The Droid poses a different and more significant challenge...". Look at the left margin. What do you see?
A word in blue, written vertically: "Advertisement"
That is not a real article by Michael Arrington of TechCrunch.com, it is an ad commissioned to him. The difference is that he is being payed to say whatever the sponsors want him to say.
Although sleazy this is legal because to the observant reader it is clear that it is not a typical article from that publication, and, heck, it even says openly that it is an Advertisement.
I don't see Apple becoming the de-facto smartphone standard; I think they're going to remain stuck in the single digits worldwide.
Hummm.... 14% of the worldwide market share and 23% in the US is not single digits....
Perhaps you are thinking about the overall cellphone market share? In that case it is certainly in the single digits.
Dude, you have been trolled. That rant has been circulating in Slashdot and elsewhere since I arrived here around 11 years ago.
They have upgraded the specs of the machines, but otherwise the wording is identical.
Sorry!
Let me guess: you are the same delusional soul to whom I replied originally. At least you have similarly twisted ideas full of misconceptions and expressed in the same bizarre language, full of grammatical inconsistencies. As the original message, yours makes very little sense. And most of what makes any sense at all is, well.... wrong.
Given the absurdity of the messages and the way they are written I suspect that you suffer from a mild mental impairment, so trying to reason with you is most certainly futile. So I just wanted to comment on one thing you said:
You haven't a clue where you stand, because you have read the books given you by certified government education, while ignoring the non-catalogued books in the Library of Congress [...]
Sooooo..... you based your "knowledge" on "facts" that are supposedly registered in some obscure books that are "hidden" in the Library of Congress in order to perpetuate some obscure political agenda. Any similarity to several Hollywood movies is pure coincidence... (Dude! You are living in a movie script! Awesome!)
But the books are not catalogued! That means that you have not read them either, so you know all this from hearsay, and thus the credibility is... quite low...
(I know, I know, you know all that because you are The Master Librarian of The Library of Congress, yada yada yada... Sure, whatever makes you happy.)
Yes, I know about the theory of Richard Amerike as the origin of the name America, but to be frank with you it seems as historical revisionism by people who refuse to accept a non-Anglo-centric view (much like the AC that I replied to and the one that also replied to my post, pretty sure they are the same).
I think the Wikipedia entry on Amerik summarizes that theory in a fairly complete way. (Of course, being Wikipedia we must tae it with a grain of salt, but still). You will notice that Amerik's involvement is fairly minor, and unlikely to justify the naming of a continent after him.
In particular look at the second-to-last paragraph of that section, which explains why Waldseemuller would have used the name "America" in his map, according to the Amerik theory.
It basically says that the name of Amerik may have appeared in Cabot's maps (something impossible to prove since the maps don't exist any more), and Amerigo Vespucci may have seen those maps and thus used that name in his documents. Documents in which, by the way, his name would appear as Americus Vespuccius since at the time official documents, at least for the Spanish and Portugese crowns, were always written in Latin (and thus Cristoforo Colombo appeared as Christophorus Columbus -- ever wondered why the country is called Colombia and not Columbia?). America is the feminine for of Americus? Oh, just a coincidence, then.
Furthermore, Waldseemuller, (who used Vespucci's documents to produce his famous map and featured him prominently with a portrait at the top, labeling him Americi Vespvciii), may have thought mistakenly that Vespucci used the word America due to his own name, since Vespucci said nothing on the contrary.
All this in a theory concocted in 1908. Quite frankly there are too many mays in a theory that tries to explain how the name of a minor character got on the main piece of solid evidence (Waldseemuller's map), furthermore on the least related side of the map (South vs North America). By Occam's Razor I'm far more inclined to believe the simple theory: he placed the name America there because Americus/Americi was apparently the first cartographer that discovered (or at least confirmed) that the new lands were indeed a separate continent and not part of Asia as some thought. He placed the name down there because, well, those are the lands Vespucci charted, and he used the feminine form because all the known "continents" had feminine names in Latin.
Wow, what an amazing display of hogwash.
But just in case someone reads this and thinks there is some substance to it, the first half sentence already has an egregious mistake, as does the subject.
1) Columbus never set foot on what is now the continental USA, he only visited the Antilles, and parts of Central and South America.
2) The name America comes from the latinization of the name of Amerigo Vespucci (i.e., Americus Vespucius), an Italian cartographer who first mapped the East coast of South America. He never set foot in Noth America. Thus, the earliest known map that contains the name "America" (by Martin Waldseemuller, 1507) places that label right in the middle (actually towards the south) of South America. How the present-day country ended up with that name is actually amazing.
With hyper-threading each processor core is treated by the operating system as two separate cores instead of one. Thus, a dual quad-core Mac Pro seems to have 16 processors.
Granted, it is a far cry from actually having 16 separate cores, but in a multi-threaded efficient environment like the one provided by GCD you will see an improvement over an 8-core machine with no hyper-threading.
Damn, where are the mod points when you need them?
Mod the parent up! It's an important and informative update on the original article itself!
Stories like this is getting pretty lame, same entry is showing up on googles first page as well.
"Actually, no"
Yea, they are, [...]
You misunderstood me. I meant that the "same entry" is actuallly not "showing up on googles first page as well,"
where the same entry of course refers to the one mentioned in the summary, i.e., the one from Yahoo Answers.
[...] because if there where some substance to your claims an ad for Apple Store should not show up when I search for "Windows sucks" on Bing
Stories like this is getting pretty lame, same entry is showing up on googles first page as well.
Actually, no.
I just performed the query in both search engines. The only "Why are Macs so expensive?" or similar entry in Google is from TechRadar, and is currently in the 7th position. This entry is NOT in the first page of Bing's results. Seven of the other results are Microsoft Windows related, one on vinyl windows, one on HDTV wall mounts.
Bing, on the other hand, is returning "Why are Macs so expensive?" and similar results six times, in positions 1 (Yahoo answers), 2 (gamesforwindows.com, go figure), 5 (Yahoo answers again, now for MackBooks), 6 (WikiAnswers), 8 (TechSpot), and 9 (Digg). The other four entries are about vinyl windows, Windows hosting providers, OSS commercial software, and fish (fish!). Not ONE of them is actually about Microsoft Windows.
Oh, come on! Windows 7 is still an improvement! It can only be a huge improvement (over Vista).
Then the scheduler on the iPhone is does suck [sic] because I extensively use multitasking on my Windows Mobile device (HTC Touch HD) and the battery life is descent.
Or, as the parent post said, you use a combination of programs that happen to play nicely and not use battery intensive resources when not needed.
Other people run background apps all the time in jailborken iPhones just fine. On the other hand, some people on other phones complain of abysmal battery life and blame the manufacturer when the real culprit is a 3rd party app run amok. Well, guess what, the fruit company doesn't want anyone to blame them for the failures of inexpert programmers outside of Apple.
Well, the iPod touch does have a short battery life when using WiFi actively. But if you listen to music from the iPod library, then you can expect the battery to last 8-10 times longer.
Yes, I know, I know. There's a reason why you use Pandora: so that you can listen to music that you don't currently have. But still, if your library isn't too small, maybe you can use the iPod again as you wanted.
Not to nitpick, but 1984 and Animal Farm aren't available for the iRex at all. Not legally anyway. And if they are, I will certainly mod you up for linking me to them.
Hmmmm.... and how exactly are you going to do that? You know, you can't moderate in this discussion because you commented on it... Doh?
It's her daughters placenta.
Tasteless!!
Hmmm... I've heard it's actually quite tasty.
gtkpod has "preliminary support for the iPhone and the iPod Touch but they must be jailbroken to work". Haven't tried it, though, as iTunes works great on my Macs.
Mmmmm... Do you realize that pocket dialing on an iPhone is way, way harder?
Hints: The special gesture to unlock the phone. The fact that you normally have to navigate to the phone app and the numeric keypad (easy when you intend to, hard too do by accident. And, specially, the fact that the touch screen doesn't work through cloth.