It may seem that Apple is moving slowly into the cloud computing age and that it has many assets that are simply not leveraged in what could be a massive cloud environment that could cause more than just a headache for Google and Microsoft.
This sentence means absolutely nothing. Editors are supposed to edit the content that appears on the site, not just act as gatekeepers.:-/
as an engineer, I'm held to considerably higher standards than just about any other member of society in general. This applies both in my spare time and while taking part in my professional endeavors. A single complaint or gripe is easily misunderstood by the average schmuck who then manages to get the entire "issue" blown completely out of proportion and flung around all over the internet.
You sound pretty obnoxious. I don't think the "average schmuck" would treat an engineer any differently to any other professional (doctor, lawyer, accountant...) -- especially given that engineers have significantly less contact with the general public than other professions.
The GP wants to increase text size. Decreasing the screen resolution works, but LCDs don't look nice when using non-native resolutions. Windows allows you to change the "DPI" (not really sure if this is a sensible way of describing the setting) so as to make fonts larger even while using a high resolution. Apparently, OS X doesn't.
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66355 Cloaking refers to the practice of presenting different content or URLs to users and search engines. Serving up different results based on user agent may cause your site to be perceived as deceptive and removed from the Google index.
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I'm not really sure why that aspect of a book's behaviour is desirable. I like the fact that my ebook reader isn't 'bendable', because it means I can prop it up while I'm reading in bed without having to actually support its weight.
Have you ever used an e-ink display? I've yet to encounter a backlit LCD that can be read easily in direct sunlight. Or indeed read at all for any length of time without inducing eyestrain.
Unfortunately, many vendors' sites — including highly prominent ones like the Enom-registrar reject the sub-addressing e-mails as "invalid" — the verifying regular expressions must be too complicated for the dumb programmer wannabees, employed by these companies.
I've always assumed that that was not because the code couldn't handle an email address with a + in it, but because sub-addressing is a well-known trick and legitimate businesses want to stop you from using it (without being deliberately dishonest and stripping out everything following the +).
Variable screen size is less of an issue when you have a desktop-sized screen. You have a lot less freedom to use dynamic layouts when you've only got a few square inches of screen space to work with.
explain to me what a) brought on these draconian laws/ideals b) what the opposition is doing against it? I've always (maybe naively) thought of Australia as a laid-back and liberal kind of a place.
As others have pointed out, Australia has a pretty socially-conservative citizenry. In fact, it's the less conservative of the two major parties (Labor) pushing the censorship legislation. The opposition (who actually call themselves the 'Liberal' party) are not attacking the legislation because it's not an important issue to the Australian public -- people are more concerned about energy policy than anything else at the moment.
Both the mandatory internet filter legislation and the AFACT v iiNet case have been mentioned on Slashdot several times, but neither have much presence in the Australian media. I've never seen either issue mentioned on a mainstream news broadcast, nor have I seen them appear before page 15 or so of the major newspapers in my state. The average foreign Slashdot reader knows a lot more about the 'censorship movement' in Australia than the average Australian.
I've never used it, but Perfect Browser would appear to be such an application. Yes, it still uses WebKit to actually render webpages, and as such it only replaces Safari's 'chrome', but it's still a browser.
Apple's done some pretty questionable things in the past, but I don't see how having a non-removable battery in the iPhone is abusive. Preventing third-party developers from 'duplicating existing functionality' on the phone, on the other hand...
It's not reasonable to compare the minimum penalties for rape and murder to the maximum penalties for copyright infringement. In the vast majority of cases, 'sharing songs' will not result in any penalty. Regardless of how strongly you might disagree with the potential consequences of breaking copyright law, it's disingenuous to imply that society penalizes copyright infringement more severely than rape and murder.
if you really want to be technical, the 'media' is the disc itself -- removable in the case of an optical or floppy drive, fixed inside the drive in the case of a hard drive
I stopped using my iPod Classic when I got an iPhone -- I find the touchscreen interface much easier to navigate. No more having to go into the settings menu to change things like shuffle/repeat options, and the artists/albums/songs options are consistently in the same place (using a Classic, you had to navigate to them using the wheel and then click). The click wheel was pretty good, but personally I think the touch screen is a lot better. I'm curious as to why you find it so difficult to use.
Hold on, you realise compression (as in the loudness war) is different to compression (as in mp3), right? It sounds like you might be conflating the two.
Me, I can't listen to mp3 anymore. Even at 320k, the hiss in the upper registers sets my teeth aching. This gets really annoying when listening to an mp3 disc on long trips in the car.
I'll believe it when you can consistently pick the 320kbps mp3 in an ABX test.
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This sentence means absolutely nothing. Editors are supposed to edit the content that appears on the site, not just act as gatekeepers. :-/
Neither of those devices has practical functionality beyond reading ebooks. Compared to the iPad they are "dedicated" e-readers.
as an engineer, I'm held to considerably higher standards than just about any other member of society in general. This applies both in my spare time and while taking part in my professional endeavors. A single complaint or gripe is easily misunderstood by the average schmuck who then manages to get the entire "issue" blown completely out of proportion and flung around all over the internet.
You sound pretty obnoxious. I don't think the "average schmuck" would treat an engineer any differently to any other professional (doctor, lawyer, accountant...) -- especially given that engineers have significantly less contact with the general public than other professions.
The GP wants to increase text size. Decreasing the screen resolution works, but LCDs don't look nice when using non-native resolutions. Windows allows you to change the "DPI" (not really sure if this is a sensible way of describing the setting) so as to make fonts larger even while using a high resolution. Apparently, OS X doesn't.
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66355
Cloaking refers to the practice of presenting different content or URLs to users and search engines. Serving up different results based on user agent may cause your site to be perceived as deceptive and removed from the Google index.
You do, however, need an iPad with 3G to have GPS. (GPS is not available on the WiFi-only iPad.)
Thrashed so hard even with 2Gb of RAM that it killed a new 200Gb HDD, and that was with indexing off.
You think the OS was responsible for hardware failure?
I'm not really sure why that aspect of a book's behaviour is desirable. I like the fact that my ebook reader isn't 'bendable', because it means I can prop it up while I'm reading in bed without having to actually support its weight.
On the other hand, e-ink vs LCD, a big "eh".
Have you ever used an e-ink display? I've yet to encounter a backlit LCD that can be read easily in direct sunlight. Or indeed read at all for any length of time without inducing eyestrain.
UAC was created to fix a problem that was there before by a design problem. If there was no problem UAC would not have been needed.
If the design problem wasn't there UAC (or something functionally equivalent) would have been there from the start.
Unfortunately, many vendors' sites — including highly prominent ones like the Enom-registrar reject the sub-addressing e-mails as "invalid" — the verifying regular expressions must be too complicated for the dumb programmer wannabees, employed by these companies.
I've always assumed that that was not because the code couldn't handle an email address with a + in it, but because sub-addressing is a well-known trick and legitimate businesses want to stop you from using it (without being deliberately dishonest and stripping out everything following the +).
Or just click 'no' when the web app asks your web browser for location information which can't be inferred from your network traffic.
Variable screen size is less of an issue when you have a desktop-sized screen. You have a lot less freedom to use dynamic layouts when you've only got a few square inches of screen space to work with.
You obviously have no idea what constitutes a 'good defense argument'.
explain to me what a) brought on these draconian laws/ideals b) what the opposition is doing against it? I've always (maybe naively) thought of Australia as a laid-back and liberal kind of a place.
As others have pointed out, Australia has a pretty socially-conservative citizenry. In fact, it's the less conservative of the two major parties (Labor) pushing the censorship legislation. The opposition (who actually call themselves the 'Liberal' party) are not attacking the legislation because it's not an important issue to the Australian public -- people are more concerned about energy policy than anything else at the moment.
Both the mandatory internet filter legislation and the AFACT v iiNet case have been mentioned on Slashdot several times, but neither have much presence in the Australian media. I've never seen either issue mentioned on a mainstream news broadcast, nor have I seen them appear before page 15 or so of the major newspapers in my state. The average foreign Slashdot reader knows a lot more about the 'censorship movement' in Australia than the average Australian.
You're right, the penalties should not overlap. However, I was specifically referring to the GP's statement:
Sad sad day when harming and mentally scaring someone for life is barely a punishment compared to sharing songs.
This is not the case at all.
I've never used it, but Perfect Browser would appear to be such an application. Yes, it still uses WebKit to actually render webpages, and as such it only replaces Safari's 'chrome', but it's still a browser.
Apple's done some pretty questionable things in the past, but I don't see how having a non-removable battery in the iPhone is abusive. Preventing third-party developers from 'duplicating existing functionality' on the phone, on the other hand...
It's not reasonable to compare the minimum penalties for rape and murder to the maximum penalties for copyright infringement. In the vast majority of cases, 'sharing songs' will not result in any penalty. Regardless of how strongly you might disagree with the potential consequences of breaking copyright law, it's disingenuous to imply that society penalizes copyright infringement more severely than rape and murder.
I'm a law student, and this is why I still take notes by hand. Granted, most people use laptops, but not all of us do.
if you really want to be technical, the 'media' is the disc itself -- removable in the case of an optical or floppy drive, fixed inside the drive in the case of a hard drive
Uh, why exactly was the GP's English incorrect? I'd say your wording is easier to read, but the original wasn't wrong IMO.
I stopped using my iPod Classic when I got an iPhone -- I find the touchscreen interface much easier to navigate. No more having to go into the settings menu to change things like shuffle/repeat options, and the artists/albums/songs options are consistently in the same place (using a Classic, you had to navigate to them using the wheel and then click). The click wheel was pretty good, but personally I think the touch screen is a lot better. I'm curious as to why you find it so difficult to use.
Hold on, you realise compression (as in the loudness war) is different to compression (as in mp3), right? It sounds like you might be conflating the two.
Me, I can't listen to mp3 anymore. Even at 320k, the hiss in the upper registers sets my teeth aching. This gets really annoying when listening to an mp3 disc on long trips in the car.
I'll believe it when you can consistently pick the 320kbps mp3 in an ABX test.