The airport extreme is leaps and bounds better than any other router I have tried. I fiddled with a lot of routers of the last 15 years, and they were all a PITA, except the airport extreme. It didn't even occur to me that you COULD have a router that sat in the corner and just worked forever, without requiring reboots and updates and fiddling every few weeks.
This device is below your foot, and doesn't require your foot to do crunches or anything. Your foot isn't going to get more tired. It works by using the already existing energy in the compression of your soles due to gravity and a humans need to lift a little with every step. Ths is actually the perfect place to get energy which is currently being wasted. You could potentially do something similar in a cars suspension or braking (it's already done in the braking in some cars, actually).
I have to ask though: why do you feel the need to criticize things that have no real impact on you?
Certainly there are android phones at the same price point as the iphone, except that the most popular android phones are the cheap ones which usually either have zero upfront cost or no contract. So in reality the situation is more similar to what I suggested: Android is the cheap alternative to the iPhone.
It's obvious that if you offer a tablet with similar features to an iPad but substantially cheaper, even if it lacks in some areas (such as apps or polish), people will buy it. It doesn't take a genius to realize that. Thats pretty much what's happening with the iPhone and Android phones already. The question that interests me more is whether a worse tablet (worse specs) at a substantially reduced price point will sell well.
And yet developers are still treated like second class citizens in far too many organizations. The fact is that most management simply does not have any appreciation or understanding of good coding practices, instead using short term metrics to try to recognize valuable developers... Such as how little they are willing to work for. Just recently I read a comment here on slashdot from some developer who said his whole team had been working 12-16 hour days for a year and a half with no extra pay... Because it would "secure" their future with the company. They are in for a very sad surprise.
Currently on my touch device I have GT Racing, Civilization, Dead Space, Assassins Creed, GTA... To name a very small few. You are never going to convince anyone who has actually used games on a touch device that there are no good games.
The sad thing about the whole green movement is how it is so directed at private individuals, who are supposed to massively inconvenience themselves by buying green cars and bicycling and recycling and buying green clothes and green food and using CFL's (god those are ugly) and use all of there disposable income to help Mother Earth! But in reality it's the corporations who are telling us we should be green, while corporations are responsible for 95% of all carbon emissions. Yes, 95%. If every person in the world stopped using their car, it would make virtually no difference to carbon emissions. The biggest single source is industry and energy generation, which accounts for the lions share.
I'm going to call your BS. If you're running from meeting to meeting then you are just closing the lid and going, why would you even notice how much time it takes to go to sleep? The MacBook pro I use at work is awake before I have the lid completely open, and asleep in about 5-20 seconds. The Mac pro I use which has tons of ram takes longer to go to sleep, but wakes up just as fast. So are you lying?
BBC did a study on how much google customizes search results recently, and found that it is substantially less than is commonly believed. In fact from person to person, they found very little actual customization, rather mostly just tweaking of searh result order. Country to country there was more differences in results, however even then the top 5 results were usually very similar.
I picked up EA's entire iOS library a few weeks ago (dozens of games) when they went on sale for $1 each. The vast majority of them are equal in quality to standard console or computer games. If you only pay attention to the top lists (by downloads, rating, category, or whatever), then generally you don't see any 'turds'. This idea that the hundreds of thousands of apps on the apple app store are all low quality is ridiculous.
The only one of those things I have in my house is a few incandescent bulbs (in places where CFL's don't work properly). Although to be honest my local hardware store doesn't even sell incandescent anymore...
You may be surprised to find his out, but what you think a company should do to be successful, probably won't work. For example, you think motorola should make it easy to update with no nasty tricks to keep unauthorized OS installs off, but the majority of people don't care. For another example, you think they should stop being jerks, yet time and time again being jerks is what makes companies big and successful. The reality is that the way you think the world should be, is not how it is.
The iPhone, like most modern phones, can tether "out of the box" just fine. It's the phone companies that stop it. In fact the iPhone hotspots out of the box, which is a hell of a lot better than tethering. People who have not used an iPhone for any extended period of time should be banned from speaking about them.
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I have BBC Planet Earth in both 720 and 1080 and the difference is phenomenal, even at 10'. Things like flocks of birds that are mush in 720 become clear in 1080. Sure the pixels aren't visible, but the picture itself is much clearer.
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I have a 42" and sit about 10' away, and can EASILY tell the difference between 720 and 1080. So something about that chart is either wrong, or does not tell the whole story.
Unfortunately for you, you are in the vast, vast minority. Most people can find everything they are interested in on the apple app store, and a bunch of stuff that they love but would never have thought of. The fact that the app store is so extensive, combined with the more useable interface (I know, I know - you don't give a stuff for sissy 'usability'), make iOS a significantly more appealing platform... to everybody else.
Anyways, that you think a netbook is in the same category, use-wise, as a tablet, illustrates that you are clearly not the target demographic.
But you and I both know that's all moot, don't we? Your various intonations about iPad users being 'self-important' and concerned with 'whether it goes with the pullover' they're wearing illustrate rather more accurately why you don't like iOS. However you're probably far too self-righteous and hypocritical to let your deluded prejudices drop for even the second it takes to realize this.
Almost completely irrelevant. When the 'admin' user attempts to do anything requiring root privileges, the system prompts for a password. If you are running as a non-admin user, you just have to fill in a different username in the password box that pops up (that of a admin account). If you don't know the admin account password, then you are obviously not managing your computer, and if you do... Then you have to type in an entire extra word to get root privileges! Wow!
Currently a user is still required to *find* the malware, *download* it, *execute* it, and then give it the *root password*! Call me silly, but i'm of the opinion that this does not constitute a giant threat (especially when there is only like one actual current piece of malware out there).
No the interest in publishing these stories is Apple bashing. You hadn't noticed the 5-10 articles a day like this on/.? It's worse than the MS heyday.
See this is a very normal but annoying aspect of many slash dotters outlooks: 'should'. Why 'should' I get a smartphone? The mobile carriers 'should' have more reasonable plans. Everyone else 'should' do exactly what I think is proper.
If you don't want a smart phone, then don't get one. No one else cares.
"If you really want to live in a world where it's perfectly acceptable for people to lie about their services in order to get your business, I wish you well."
I'm sorry to be the one to inform you of this, but we already live in a world like that.
The PDF exploit was patched in 10 days. All software has bugs and vectors of exploit, saying that a given platform has some is not interesting. Whats of interest is whether those exploits can practically be used for malicious purposes. So far it is almost unheard of on iOS. Considering that Android has had plenty of malware and Trojans, I think it is significant that iOS has had very few.
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The airport extreme is leaps and bounds better than any other router I have tried. I fiddled with a lot of routers of the last 15 years, and they were all a PITA, except the airport extreme. It didn't even occur to me that you COULD have a router that sat in the corner and just worked forever, without requiring reboots and updates and fiddling every few weeks.
Shoes already have absorption in them, it's a feature...
This device is below your foot, and doesn't require your foot to do crunches or anything. Your foot isn't going to get more tired. It works by using the already existing energy in the compression of your soles due to gravity and a humans need to lift a little with every step. Ths is actually the perfect place to get energy which is currently being wasted. You could potentially do something similar in a cars suspension or braking (it's already done in the braking in some cars, actually).
I have to ask though: why do you feel the need to criticize things that have no real impact on you?
Certainly there are android phones at the same price point as the iphone, except that the most popular android phones are the cheap ones which usually either have zero upfront cost or no contract. So in reality the situation is more similar to what I suggested: Android is the cheap alternative to the iPhone.
It's obvious that if you offer a tablet with similar features to an iPad but substantially cheaper, even if it lacks in some areas (such as apps or polish), people will buy it. It doesn't take a genius to realize that. Thats pretty much what's happening with the iPhone and Android phones already. The question that interests me more is whether a worse tablet (worse specs) at a substantially reduced price point will sell well.
And yet developers are still treated like second class citizens in far too many organizations. The fact is that most management simply does not have any appreciation or understanding of good coding practices, instead using short term metrics to try to recognize valuable developers... Such as how little they are willing to work for. Just recently I read a comment here on slashdot from some developer who said his whole team had been working 12-16 hour days for a year and a half with no extra pay... Because it would "secure" their future with the company. They are in for a very sad surprise.
Currently on my touch device I have GT Racing, Civilization, Dead Space, Assassins Creed, GTA... To name a very small few. You are never going to convince anyone who has actually used games on a touch device that there are no good games.
The sad thing about the whole green movement is how it is so directed at private individuals, who are supposed to massively inconvenience themselves by buying green cars and bicycling and recycling and buying green clothes and green food and using CFL's (god those are ugly) and use all of there disposable income to help Mother Earth! But in reality it's the corporations who are telling us we should be green, while corporations are responsible for 95% of all carbon emissions. Yes, 95%. If every person in the world stopped using their car, it would make virtually no difference to carbon emissions. The biggest single source is industry and energy generation, which accounts for the lions share.
This is true world wide and in developed nations (US http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/emissions/co2_human.html).
However in developing nations industry is even worse.
I'm going to call your BS. If you're running from meeting to meeting then you are just closing the lid and going, why would you even notice how much time it takes to go to sleep? The MacBook pro I use at work is awake before I have the lid completely open, and asleep in about 5-20 seconds. The Mac pro I use which has tons of ram takes longer to go to sleep, but wakes up just as fast. So are you lying?
BBC did a study on how much google customizes search results recently, and found that it is substantially less than is commonly believed. In fact from person to person, they found very little actual customization, rather mostly just tweaking of searh result order. Country to country there was more differences in results, however even then the top 5 results were usually very similar.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14155845
I picked up EA's entire iOS library a few weeks ago (dozens of games) when they went on sale for $1 each. The vast majority of them are equal in quality to standard console or computer games. If you only pay attention to the top lists (by downloads, rating, category, or whatever), then generally you don't see any 'turds'. This idea that the hundreds of thousands of apps on the apple app store are all low quality is ridiculous.
The only one of those things I have in my house is a few incandescent bulbs (in places where CFL's don't work properly). Although to be honest my local hardware store doesn't even sell incandescent anymore...
I also don't have any desktop computers...
You may be surprised to find his out, but what you think a company should do to be successful, probably won't work. For example, you think motorola should make it easy to update with no nasty tricks to keep unauthorized OS installs off, but the majority of people don't care. For another example, you think they should stop being jerks, yet time and time again being jerks is what makes companies big and successful. The reality is that the way you think the world should be, is not how it is.
The iPhone, like most modern phones, can tether "out of the box" just fine. It's the phone companies that stop it. In fact the iPhone hotspots out of the box, which is a hell of a lot better than tethering. People who have not used an iPhone for any extended period of time should be banned from speaking about them.
I have BBC Planet Earth in both 720 and 1080 and the difference is phenomenal, even at 10'. Things like flocks of birds that are mush in 720 become clear in 1080. Sure the pixels aren't visible, but the picture itself is much clearer.
I have a 42" and sit about 10' away, and can EASILY tell the difference between 720 and 1080. So something about that chart is either wrong, or does not tell the whole story.
Took me about an hour on a cable line. :)
And that's with a 80g download going at the same time
Not available on the Canadian app store. Is it only in the US?
This is ridiculous.
Unfortunately for you, you are in the vast, vast minority. Most people can find everything they are interested in on the apple app store, and a bunch of stuff that they love but would never have thought of. The fact that the app store is so extensive, combined with the more useable interface (I know, I know - you don't give a stuff for sissy 'usability'), make iOS a significantly more appealing platform... to everybody else.
Anyways, that you think a netbook is in the same category, use-wise, as a tablet, illustrates that you are clearly not the target demographic.
But you and I both know that's all moot, don't we? Your various intonations about iPad users being 'self-important' and concerned with 'whether it goes with the pullover' they're wearing illustrate rather more accurately why you don't like iOS. However you're probably far too self-righteous and hypocritical to let your deluded prejudices drop for even the second it takes to realize this.
Almost completely irrelevant.
When the 'admin' user attempts to do anything requiring root privileges, the system prompts for a password. If you are running as a non-admin user, you just have to fill in a different username in the password box that pops up (that of a admin account). If you don't know the admin account password, then you are obviously not managing your computer, and if you do... Then you have to type in an entire extra word to get root privileges! Wow!
Yes they COULD, but they haven't.
Currently a user is still required to *find* the malware, *download* it, *execute* it, and then give it the *root password*! Call me silly, but i'm of the opinion that this does not constitute a giant threat (especially when there is only like one actual current piece of malware out there).
No the interest in publishing these stories is Apple bashing. You hadn't noticed the 5-10 articles a day like this on /.? It's worse than the MS heyday.
See this is a very normal but annoying aspect of many slash dotters outlooks: 'should'.
Why 'should' I get a smartphone?
The mobile carriers 'should' have more reasonable plans.
Everyone else 'should' do exactly what I think is proper.
If you don't want a smart phone, then don't get one. No one else cares.
"If you really want to live in a world where it's perfectly acceptable for people to lie about their services in order to get your business, I wish you well."
I'm sorry to be the one to inform you of this, but we already live in a world like that.
The PDF exploit was patched in 10 days. All software has bugs and vectors of exploit, saying that a given platform has some is not interesting. Whats of interest is whether those exploits can practically be used for malicious purposes. So far it is almost unheard of on iOS. Considering that Android has had plenty of malware and Trojans, I think it is significant that iOS has had very few.
Also, you may want to brush up on modern OS usage numbers: Mac OS X has been rising steadily and quickly and is over 7% and iOS is around 2.5% (total web usage)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems