I literally pulled mine out of the box and turned it on and it worked perfectly. It has never, ever crashed (the OS), and I've owned it for many months. I know 4 other people with ipads, and they all have had the same experience. Either you are a troll, or you had bad hardware, which is anything but the norm.
And what does individual programs crashing have to do with the OS? I've had a few - maybe one a month - just disappear, but it requires no action on my part other than reopening the app (or deleting it!) it certainly doesn't affect my 0 maintenance time.
You should really look at yourself in the mirror. You're clearly holding the exact position you accuse me of holding, in reverse. But hey, I'll play along and clarify.
What can one do with an iPad that I can't do with an alternative? 1) Pull it out of the box, and within 1 minute have almost any book on my screen and read it for 10 hours straight without a charge. On the living room couch. 2) Setup an Apple ID, and then have any of hundreds of thousands of pieces of software on my device in one click, usually for only a couple dollars or less. 3) Let my 2 year old daughter use it with no supervision, and her actually be able to open her apps and navigate with no issues. 4) Give it to my father to browse the Internet or play with apps, and not have to tell him how to use it. And he won't break it. 5) Spend 0 time setting up or maintaining it. It really just works. 6) Have access to an enormous amount of software designed specifically for a touch screen, much of it extremely high quality.
I could keep going, but i think i've made my point. I enjoy using it.
Only a computer geek who has no grasp of what the larger demographic wants would think this. The fact is that the iPad is selling well (4th quarter projections of 15-20 million) because a huge amount of people, who obviously aren't you, really like to use it.
Apple doesn't even include that software in iOS devices anymore, and furthermore it was used in addition to cell and gps technologies to speed up location data, never as stand alone location finder. Clearly anyone who thinks iOS devices use wifi points to find location has never used an iOS device. For example, my fathers house out in the boonies has no wifi networks in range, and yet My iPad gets the location perfectly. I don't even know why I'm talking to you.
LMAO You think I get great locations in apps like google maps from *wifi points*? I knew apple hating was in fashion, but I didn't know checking your brain at the door was cool too.
I see your mistake. Linux is not a "desktop OS", it is an advanced OS for production systems or people who like to tinker. Pretending it is otherwise will only cause grief in the long term.
You're on drugs. Credit card processing alone will cost you 2%(ish) plus a static per transaction fee. The app store allows you to process easy small payments with no hassle to the customer (which is already better than you are even capable of getting outside of an app store), hosts your application page and deals with all the bandwidth needs, plus gives you an enormous exposure that you just can't get outside of the app store. You may be able to argue that 30% is too high, but you just sound stupid and ignorant saying that 2% is the alternative.
I have no doubt that 'opting out' causes the problem to get dramatically worse, as the companies use the additional details (you have to fax your drivers licens to the first one on the list) to increase the value of your portfolio and sell it off to a bunch of other databases while they are 'removing' you from their own. They probably don't even bother removing you from theirs, because honestly what consequences are they going to suffer?
He doesn't have any evidence of apps being pulled from phones because he was making a comment from emotion, pretending it was one of fact. His entire post was basically an "I love my phone which isn't an iPhone, therefore iphones suck - oh and when I dropped it on to solid concrete it broke, what a piece of crap!"
The joke here is that the courts have virtually guaranteed that this guy will go back to spamming by giving him such a large monetary punishment. I mean consider from his perspective: he can no longer make any money legally (other than a very basic income that the courts will allow him to keep), so he's forced to go under the table (or live a paltry life). Considering that his skills and contacts all revolve around spamming... Guess what his next illicit job is going to be? Spamming!
On top of that, claiming that a single spam causes $100 worth of damages is ridiculous, verging on incompetent. A spam causes maybe a cent worth of damages, rounding to the nearest penny, even including wasting peoples time and whatnot. Double that for punitive and the total becomes a much more sensible $100,000.
You have to be kidding. System 7 came out 20 YEARS ago. I have an Apple iBook I purchased in 2003, and I upgraded it from Panther, to Tiger, to Leopard, without a single fresh install, and it still works great. Try doing that with a 2003 windows computer...
Just ask Canada to extradite him... They've never refused an extradition request from the US. They'll probably even get him out of another country just to extradite him.
This just isn't going to catch on. The reason touch screens can work if done properly is that it is an easy intuitive interaction which has very defined parameters (ie touching the screen and moving your finger around) which is a piece of cake to pick up, and not easy to make a lot of mistakes with. Waving your hand around in the air is practically the exact opposite of all that: difficult to understand (what else do we interact with like that?), hard to pick up anything other than very simple motions (how do i grab something?), and super easy to make mistakes (oh hi Joe! Woops i deleted my email...). I think this will be another novelty technology that never getsnany further than prototypes.
I have to ask this: How does putting your money in the bank protect you from loss due to inflation? If you're suggesting that interest counters inflation.... I guess you havent been paying attention to interest and inflation rates... Not only that, but the graph you linked to actually shows a lot of periods on negative inflation, where you're money would *gain* value as cash.
Hilariously I was exactly the opposite of this. I never even considered getting and iPad, as I saw no possible use i would have for it, and i had absolutely no desire to own one. I'm not even in the market for a computer, and I hate laptops.
2 weeks ago i was in a store and had an opportunity to use an iPad for a little while. I was blown away. It was so intuitive, so easy to use and so *pleasant* to use. I didnt have to fiddle with a little trackpad or mouse nubby thingy. I didnt have to find some annoying way to position it on my lap without burning my balls or sitting in some strange uncomfortable position to give a flat surface for it. It just sat in my hands, and i pointed at what i wanted.
The next day I bought one, and now i sit in the living room with the family to check my email and browse website, even play games. I stopped playing wow because of the iPad. I'm more social, play with my daughter more (she presses the button to turn it off and then starts playing her own games while I'm reading slashdot lol), and am generally extremely satisfied with it. Not only do I like it better than netbooks, but i like it better than desktops for casual usage.
At work of course i still use a 30" monitor and 8 core machine, with a real keyboard:)
Many people are going on about how they use a password manager or a hasher or some such which supposedly solves this problem of remebering passwords, but all they've really done is substitute one inconvenience for another. The reason people use one password everywhere is *convenience*. They do not want to remember a bunch of different passwords, or worse, forget them! Sure a password manager prevents that when you are at your computer, but now it's almost impossible to login unless you have your computer in front of you, which could be extremely inconvenient under certain circumstances, for example if you need to access an email while visiting family for dinner and didn't bring your laptop, or if you lose your computer.
People who use one password for everything are not going to stop unless a more convenient option arises, which is unlikely to occur. I guess the people who steal passwords will always have a job!
Actually, I was being quite serious. I encourage anyone who reads a comment by x2A to take it with a grain of salt, and at least go back and read his past comments keeping in mind that he may be an MS employee paid to comment on slashdot.
With that in mind, it really pisses me off that corporations have their grubby little hands in our minds. They lie to us, manipulate us, and their only care is money. At least greedy people like other things, such as sex:) Corporations only goal is money. Laws and morals are part of the game to them, and they use them only to serve their interest in making money, and ignore them when it pays off. I find it personally reprehensible that anyone would allow themselves to be used by a corporation to do immoral things (such as lieing and manipulating). Companies are not worth it.
x2A will of course deny being an MS shill, anyone in such a position would. And of course I am not 100% sure he/she is one. However, what I DO know is that they exist, for MS and many other companies, both on forums such as slashdot and in real life. Instead of calling me an idiot, at least posit your comments on this idea, and or defend yourself with constructive comments. Note that it is not your pro-MS attitude that keys me off here, it is the abundance of past comments you have made which are so pro-MS they feel glossy, constructed. You even insert just enough random other comments to try and distract away.
Holy smokes, I looked through your past comments and was blown away! You're a real live MS troll! I always knew MS had to have people who they paid just to surf slashdot and make pro MS comments, but I've never actually confirmed one before! Cool!
I don't know if you said copyright law makes allofmp3.com illegal, but the anonymous reply to the question of how allofmp3.com is illegal was title 17, which is copyright law. I agree that downloading a song from allofmp2.com is similar to downloading one through Kazaa. You may note, however, that downloaders do not get sued for using Kazaa, uploaders do. Therefore, if I were to download a song from someone in Russia via Kazaa, RIAA suing precedence suggests there would be no legal consequence.
What I'm more interested in, is how you interpret copyright law to make the claim that downloading songs is illegal.
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I literally pulled mine out of the box and turned it on and it worked perfectly. It has never, ever crashed (the OS), and I've owned it for many months. I know 4 other people with ipads, and they all have had the same experience. Either you are a troll, or you had bad hardware, which is anything but the norm.
And what does individual programs crashing have to do with the OS? I've had a few - maybe one a month - just disappear, but it requires no action on my part other than reopening the app (or deleting it!) it certainly doesn't affect my 0 maintenance time.
You should really look at yourself in the mirror. You're clearly holding the exact position you accuse me of holding, in reverse. But hey, I'll play along and clarify.
What can one do with an iPad that I can't do with an alternative?
1) Pull it out of the box, and within 1 minute have almost any book on my screen and read it for 10 hours straight without a charge. On the living room couch.
2) Setup an Apple ID, and then have any of hundreds of thousands of pieces of software on my device in one click, usually for only a couple dollars or less.
3) Let my 2 year old daughter use it with no supervision, and her actually be able to open her apps and navigate with no issues.
4) Give it to my father to browse the Internet or play with apps, and not have to tell him how to use it. And he won't break it.
5) Spend 0 time setting up or maintaining it. It really just works.
6) Have access to an enormous amount of software designed specifically for a touch screen, much of it extremely high quality.
I could keep going, but i think i've made my point. I enjoy using it.
Enjoy using it. That was easy.
Only a computer geek who has no grasp of what the larger demographic wants would think this. The fact is that the iPad is selling well (4th quarter projections of 15-20 million) because a huge amount of people, who obviously aren't you, really like to use it.
Apple doesn't even include that software in iOS devices anymore, and furthermore it was used in addition to cell and gps technologies to speed up location data, never as stand alone location finder. Clearly anyone who thinks iOS devices use wifi points to find location has never used an iOS device. For example, my fathers house out in the boonies has no wifi networks in range, and yet My iPad gets the location perfectly. I don't even know why I'm talking to you.
LMAO
You think I get great locations in apps like google maps from *wifi points*? I knew apple hating was in fashion, but I didn't know checking your brain at the door was cool too.
That's funny, GPS on my base model iPad works great.
I see your mistake. Linux is not a "desktop OS", it is an advanced OS for production systems or people who like to tinker. Pretending it is otherwise will only cause grief in the long term.
You're on drugs. Credit card processing alone will cost you 2%(ish) plus a static per transaction fee. The app store allows you to process easy small payments with no hassle to the customer (which is already better than you are even capable of getting outside of an app store), hosts your application page and deals with all the bandwidth needs, plus gives you an enormous exposure that you just can't get outside of the app store. You may be able to argue that 30% is too high, but you just sound stupid and ignorant saying that 2% is the alternative.
I have no doubt that 'opting out' causes the problem to get dramatically worse, as the companies use the additional details (you have to fax your drivers licens to the first one on the list) to increase the value of your portfolio and sell it off to a bunch of other databases while they are 'removing' you from their own. They probably don't even bother removing you from theirs, because honestly what consequences are they going to suffer?
He doesn't have any evidence of apps being pulled from phones because he was making a comment from emotion, pretending it was one of fact. His entire post was basically an "I love my phone which isn't an iPhone, therefore iphones suck - oh and when I dropped it on to solid concrete it broke, what a piece of crap!"
Those type of comments are all too common.
The joke here is that the courts have virtually guaranteed that this guy will go back to spamming by giving him such a large monetary punishment. I mean consider from his perspective: he can no longer make any money legally (other than a very basic income that the courts will allow him to keep), so he's forced to go under the table (or live a paltry life). Considering that his skills and contacts all revolve around spamming... Guess what his next illicit job is going to be? Spamming!
On top of that, claiming that a single spam causes $100 worth of damages is ridiculous, verging on incompetent. A spam causes maybe a cent worth of damages, rounding to the nearest penny, even including wasting peoples time and whatnot. Double that for punitive and the total becomes a much more sensible $100,000.
You have to be kidding. System 7 came out 20 YEARS ago.
I have an Apple iBook I purchased in 2003, and I upgraded it from Panther, to Tiger, to Leopard, without a single fresh install, and it still works great. Try doing that with a 2003 windows computer...
Just ask Canada to extradite him... They've never refused an extradition request from the US. They'll probably even get him out of another country just to extradite him.
This just isn't going to catch on.
The reason touch screens can work if done properly is that it is an easy intuitive interaction which has very defined parameters (ie touching the screen and moving your finger around) which is a piece of cake to pick up, and not easy to make a lot of mistakes with. Waving your hand around in the air is practically the exact opposite of all that: difficult to understand (what else do we interact with like that?), hard to pick up anything other than very simple motions (how do i grab something?), and super easy to make mistakes (oh hi Joe! Woops i deleted my email...).
I think this will be another novelty technology that never getsnany further than prototypes.
I have to ask this:
How does putting your money in the bank protect you from loss due to inflation?
If you're suggesting that interest counters inflation.... I guess you havent been paying attention to interest and inflation rates...
Not only that, but the graph you linked to actually shows a lot of periods on negative inflation, where you're money would *gain* value as cash.
You either hold it with one hand, or use your thumbs to click stuff. Except when your looking at porn.
Sounds fun. Try telling that to Cindy up in PR. You know, the kind of person who actually uses the same password for everything. Yup, problem solved!
Hilariously I was exactly the opposite of this. I never even considered getting and iPad, as I saw no possible use i would have for it, and i had absolutely no desire to own one. I'm not even in the market for a computer, and I hate laptops.
2 weeks ago i was in a store and had an opportunity to use an iPad for a little while. I was blown away. It was so intuitive, so easy to use and so *pleasant* to use. I didnt have to fiddle with a little trackpad or mouse nubby thingy. I didnt have to find some annoying way to position it on my lap without burning my balls or sitting in some strange uncomfortable position to give a flat surface for it. It just sat in my hands, and i pointed at what i wanted.
The next day I bought one, and now i sit in the living room with the family to check my email and browse website, even play games. I stopped playing wow because of the iPad. I'm more social, play with my daughter more (she presses the button to turn it off and then starts playing her own games while I'm reading slashdot lol), and am generally extremely satisfied with it. Not only do I like it better than netbooks, but i like it better than desktops for casual usage.
At work of course i still use a 30" monitor and 8 core machine, with a real keyboard :)
Many people are going on about how they use a password manager or a hasher or some such which supposedly solves this problem of remebering passwords, but all they've really done is substitute one inconvenience for another. The reason people use one password everywhere is *convenience*. They do not want to remember a bunch of different passwords, or worse, forget them! Sure a password manager prevents that when you are at your computer, but now it's almost impossible to login unless you have your computer in front of you, which could be extremely inconvenient under certain circumstances, for example if you need to access an email while visiting family for dinner and didn't bring your laptop, or if you lose your computer.
People who use one password for everything are not going to stop unless a more convenient option arises, which is unlikely to occur. I guess the people who steal passwords will always have a job!
And now you can't access any of your websites from someone elses machine. Awesome!
Your wrong isn't my wrong.
I do not believe it is ethical for some people to attempt to control the use of ideas, whether they believe they innovated them or not.
Actually, I was being quite serious. I encourage anyone who reads a comment by x2A to take it with a grain of salt, and at least go back and read his past comments keeping in mind that he may be an MS employee paid to comment on slashdot.
:) Corporations only goal is money. Laws and morals are part of the game to them, and they use them only to serve their interest in making money, and ignore them when it pays off. I find it personally reprehensible that anyone would allow themselves to be used by a corporation to do immoral things (such as lieing and manipulating). Companies are not worth it.
With that in mind, it really pisses me off that corporations have their grubby little hands in our minds. They lie to us, manipulate us, and their only care is money. At least greedy people like other things, such as sex
x2A will of course deny being an MS shill, anyone in such a position would. And of course I am not 100% sure he/she is one. However, what I DO know is that they exist, for MS and many other companies, both on forums such as slashdot and in real life. Instead of calling me an idiot, at least posit your comments on this idea, and or defend yourself with constructive comments. Note that it is not your pro-MS attitude that keys me off here, it is the abundance of past comments you have made which are so pro-MS they feel glossy, constructed. You even insert just enough random other comments to try and distract away.
Holy smokes, I looked through your past comments and was blown away! You're a real live MS troll! I always knew MS had to have people who they paid just to surf slashdot and make pro MS comments, but I've never actually confirmed one before! Cool!
I don't know if you said copyright law makes allofmp3.com illegal, but the anonymous reply to the question of how allofmp3.com is illegal was title 17, which is copyright law. I agree that downloading a song from allofmp2.com is similar to downloading one through Kazaa. You may note, however, that downloaders do not get sued for using Kazaa, uploaders do. Therefore, if I were to download a song from someone in Russia via Kazaa, RIAA suing precedence suggests there would be no legal consequence.
What I'm more interested in, is how you interpret copyright law to make the claim that downloading songs is illegal.