Indeed, that really is the smart bit. Grab a few Jupiter/AresV style boosters, and go find Ceres or something like it, and get it into near-earth orbit, say, someplace geosynchronous. Much better destination than either the moon or Mars, and solves the "eggs-in-one-basket" problem.
What that looked like to me was someone who was furious that a person who self-taught himself C in less than a few years implemented a kernel scheduler that kicked the crap out of anything the community came up with to date.
Hence the whole hulla-bulloo over BTRFS. If Linux had a license compatible with ZFS, then this wouldn't be an issue. But it's not, so they have to do a clean-room implementation of the whole thing. Nevermind the wars about VFS layering, and whether a filesystem should be doing snapshotting and volume management or not.
I so wanted to run OpenFiler for my NAS. But their lack of support for CF media drove me to EON (OpenSolaris) with my 6TB RAIDZ2 array. FreeNAS still has ZFS as experimental, and I'm just not ready to trust experimental to my data.
I've been looking at the Lenovo IdeaPad as much next utility computer. It's right in that sweet-spot of price, too.
I like the iPhone OS (I have a Touch 3G), but not on a tablet. Okay, so tablet based software needs to be built differently, great - but that doesn't mean I'm going to cripple myself. And portrait display typing layout? Wow, someone really thinks the iPhone is all that and a cup of tea, don't they?
The reason XBox has netflix built in and the PS3 doesn't is the same reason the iPhone is only available to AT&T customers - predatory anti-consumer contracts.
Fact is, the only reason I have a PS3 is because it plays Blu-ray, and it use it far more for Netflix than Bluray, but the only gaming console I actually wanted to BUY was the Wii.
The XBox doesn't interest me. I drooled over Halo, but then realized if I waited a short period of time, I could get it for the PC, which is where I do all my FPS gaming anyway.
Problem is, once you refuse, you go on the list, and you'll always be picked for "random full body scanning."
I accidentally forgot a folding knife on my backpack, and was lucky I got to ship it home, but for two years I was subject to an automatic chemical and full-on luggage inspection.
Sadly enough, a backpack full of HE and ball bearings would do devastating things to MCO in Orlando on any Sunday as thousands of revelers return from Walt Disney World.
It's why I try to get through security hours before my flight when there's 10 maybe 20 people in line. It's been my belief that's where the next round of suicide bombings in the West are going to be.
Which is what this security theater is all about trying to hide. Oh shiny shiny, look at this... don't look at this over here, this broken process that allowed a man on a no-fly list to actually FLY ON A FRAKING AIRPLANE... oops, Shiny full body scanner - nude pics of Russell Crowe and Jessica Alba for all! Shiny shiny...
It probably has more to do with more flights on smaller planes than anything to do with security. Instead of 747-200's flying around with 400+ passengers, you end up with 150-200 people on a plane.
I'm with you there. I'd dial 911, tell them a girls getting gang raped and I'm off to start killing rapists and they'd better start sending cops and ambulances...
Right. But unless s/he could prove rape, they would lose, because they would have to voluntarily put your uncomfortably large penis into whatever uncomfortably tiny orifice it went into.
Schools should be a place for learning communication, math, and usable life and critical thinking skills. Economics courses, investing, everyone understands MONEY, use it to teach. Since we spend the majority of our life pursuing it, we should be trained in how to grow it, save it, maximize it.
You put any of our current drones against the air defenses that Iraq had in the first gulf war, and D day would have gone much differently. Going downtown to Baghdad would have been suicide. Countries who are our enemies pay attention to the systematic way we destroyed their radar coverage, and how a few small holes caused by Apaches was all it took to lead to the systematic destruction of their air defenses.
Don't be predictable, stay maneuverable, and don't show your Aces before the final round of betting.
I have a Pre+ in my hands, and after a day of using it, I'm ready to take it back. It's polished and pretty, but it's not as snappy, and the UI doesn't seem as consistent as the Touch.
And the $9.99/m Verizon wants to change me for access to Navigator? I was better off keeping the one on Sprint.
I might just take the Pre+ back and get a MiFi. I don't make a lot of calls a month - maybe Skype on the Touch will be good enough for me?
I'm with you on the development bit, which is why I might just get an Android. Then again, most of my apps are webbased, so I might be able to get by with Apple Webapps.
Great counter. I make no bones about it, I have fallen in device love with my Touch.
I'm not sure I'm going to like it when I eventually have to replace it's battery. As a music and video player, I don't see it becoming obsolete anytime soon, except for that.:-/
All told, I think the experience all-around is better with the Apple devices. And it's probably going to make a better smartphone/pda for me. Do I wish Apple had a portrait-style sliding keyboard like the Pre+ does? Yes. But I'll make do without it.
What everyone is missing about this launch, is what I think will make the ipad a RAGING success.
Apple now [arguably] has a better eBook than the Kindle (If Stanza on the Touch is anything to go on), color, with WiFi, and 3G, and a boatload of storage.
Apple has a well-known DRM chain. Apple is popular with the kids.
Apple is going to get textbook manufacturers to create iPad-only content for kids heading off to college, making the iPad a mandatory tool to have for school, and finally allowing the textbook publishers to kill the used-book market for good.
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Indeed, that really is the smart bit. Grab a few Jupiter/AresV style boosters, and go find Ceres or something like it, and get it into near-earth orbit, say, someplace geosynchronous. Much better destination than either the moon or Mars, and solves the "eggs-in-one-basket" problem.
What that looked like to me was someone who was furious that a person who self-taught himself C in less than a few years implemented a kernel scheduler that kicked the crap out of anything the community came up with to date.
No way that dude could be better than me...
Ego's abound everywhere, my friend...
That has nothing to do with the Kernel, and everything to do with the myriad of packaging issues.
Hence the whole hulla-bulloo over BTRFS. If Linux had a license compatible with ZFS, then this wouldn't be an issue. But it's not, so they have to do a clean-room implementation of the whole thing. Nevermind the wars about VFS layering, and whether a filesystem should be doing snapshotting and volume management or not.
I so wanted to run OpenFiler for my NAS. But their lack of support for CF media drove me to EON (OpenSolaris) with my 6TB RAIDZ2 array. FreeNAS still has ZFS as experimental, and I'm just not ready to trust experimental to my data.
I've done that with XP machines in VMs that I nice'd down to 286 speeds. :-)
Must have been annoying! '
You could already do this, with Citrix.
I've been looking at the Lenovo IdeaPad as much next utility computer. It's right in that sweet-spot of price, too.
I like the iPhone OS (I have a Touch 3G), but not on a tablet. Okay, so tablet based software needs to be built differently, great - but that doesn't mean I'm going to cripple myself. And portrait display typing layout? Wow, someone really thinks the iPhone is all that and a cup of tea, don't they?
Got a hard link to where I can actually BUY one of these?
The reason XBox has netflix built in and the PS3 doesn't is the same reason the iPhone is only available to AT&T customers - predatory anti-consumer contracts.
Fact is, the only reason I have a PS3 is because it plays Blu-ray, and it use it far more for Netflix than Bluray, but the only gaming console I actually wanted to BUY was the Wii.
The XBox doesn't interest me. I drooled over Halo, but then realized if I waited a short period of time, I could get it for the PC, which is where I do all my FPS gaming anyway.
Problem is, once you refuse, you go on the list, and you'll always be picked for "random full body scanning."
I accidentally forgot a folding knife on my backpack, and was lucky I got to ship it home, but for two years I was subject to an automatic chemical and full-on luggage inspection.
Sadly enough, a backpack full of HE and ball bearings would do devastating things to MCO in Orlando on any Sunday as thousands of revelers return from Walt Disney World.
It's why I try to get through security hours before my flight when there's 10 maybe 20 people in line. It's been my belief that's where the next round of suicide bombings in the West are going to be.
Which is what this security theater is all about trying to hide. Oh shiny shiny, look at this... don't look at this over here, this broken process that allowed a man on a no-fly list to actually FLY ON A FRAKING AIRPLANE... oops, Shiny full body scanner - nude pics of Russell Crowe and Jessica Alba for all! Shiny shiny...
It probably has more to do with more flights on smaller planes than anything to do with security. Instead of 747-200's flying around with 400+ passengers, you end up with 150-200 people on a plane.
I'm with you there. I'd dial 911, tell them a girls getting gang raped and I'm off to start killing rapists and they'd better start sending cops and ambulances...
Right. But unless s/he could prove rape, they would lose, because they would have to voluntarily put your uncomfortably large penis into whatever uncomfortably tiny orifice it went into.
Schools should be a place for learning communication, math, and usable life and critical thinking skills. Economics courses, investing, everyone understands MONEY, use it to teach. Since we spend the majority of our life pursuing it, we should be trained in how to grow it, save it, maximize it.
No, that's one-legged fat-men. One armed fat-men can't get the rolls out of the way so they can scratch their balls.
You put any of our current drones against the air defenses that Iraq had in the first gulf war, and D day would have gone much differently. Going downtown to Baghdad would have been suicide. Countries who are our enemies pay attention to the systematic way we destroyed their radar coverage, and how a few small holes caused by Apaches was all it took to lead to the systematic destruction of their air defenses.
Don't be predictable, stay maneuverable, and don't show your Aces before the final round of betting.
Then you're going to live to be 98, and outlive your son. Go figure.
And they turn off eBill, so I can't get my balance in my online bank like every other fraking vendor on earth. It didn't always used to be this way...
Poor proof-reading. :-)
I have a Pre+ in my hands, and after a day of using it, I'm ready to take it back. It's polished and pretty, but it's not as snappy, and the UI doesn't seem as consistent as the Touch.
And the $9.99/m Verizon wants to change me for access to Navigator? I was better off keeping the one on Sprint.
I might just take the Pre+ back and get a MiFi. I don't make a lot of calls a month - maybe Skype on the Touch will be good enough for me?
I'm with you on the development bit, which is why I might just get an Android. Then again, most of my apps are webbased, so I might be able to get by with Apple Webapps.
Great counter. I make no bones about it, I have fallen in device love with my Touch.
:-/
I'm not sure I'm going to like it when I eventually have to replace it's battery. As a music and video player, I don't see it becoming obsolete anytime soon, except for that.
All told, I think the experience all-around is better with the Apple devices. And it's probably going to make a better smartphone/pda for me. Do I wish Apple had a portrait-style sliding keyboard like the Pre+ does? Yes. But I'll make do without it.
Good catch. Not a con, a fuckup on my part.
Thanks.
What everyone is missing about this launch, is what I think will make the ipad a RAGING success.
:-)
Apple now [arguably] has a better eBook than the Kindle (If Stanza on the Touch is anything to go on), color, with WiFi, and 3G, and a boatload of storage.
Apple has a well-known DRM chain. Apple is popular with the kids.
Apple is going to get textbook manufacturers to create iPad-only content for kids heading off to college, making the iPad a mandatory tool to have for school, and finally allowing the textbook publishers to kill the used-book market for good.
That's my prediction.