Also, I believe that the fee doesn't kick in unless you've manufactured 10,000 units so the little guy who's developing an app for fun or limited distribution doesn't have to pay anything at all.
Funny thing is that the Apple TV is exactly what the FOSS crowd likes--open hardware architecture and eminently hackable--but it has not sold very well. Yet, the same people say that the iPhone will perish unless Apple opens it up.
For example he won't use Flash, because it is inferior and crashes OS X [...], yet he uses AT&T's network (which gives him kickbacks using money from your monthly data plan that would be better spent on upgrading their network). AT&T is inferior and drops calls.
He chose AT&T because it's the only GSM carrier in the US that uses the same 3G frequencies that the rest of the world uses. Simple as that. Now that the iPhone is well-established, it's possible that Apple may release a CDMA version for Verizon and Sprint. My guess is that they're going to wait until those carriers roll out their G4 EVO networks; I think
Sprint has already done this so they may get the iPhone before Verizon.
First, I'm a huge fan of Twain, both as a man and an author.
That said, the forward for an early edition of a compilation of Twain's short works of social commentary, Mark Twain on the Damned Human Race suggested that he was bisexual and was fond of black men.
I personally doubt this and I don't know if this same forward is included in the current edition, but if it is true, it might be one of the things revealed in his memoirs. Given the societal views of his era when it came to homosexuality, I could certainly understand why he'd want to wait for a full century after his death to let the world know about it.
I was going to post a rather trolling post about the misuse of "it's" instead of "its", but then thought that the submitter probably didn't have English as their first language and thus doesn't deserve my trolling. CmdrTaco has no such excuse, though. Anyway, please fix the mistake.
Its allways rong to be a grammer or speling troll. Get a lief. English evolves and it's ussers makes they're own rooles.
"Portugal, Europe" - is there another continent that has a country called Portugal? Also those noobs deserve to go down after the stunt they pulled in the Spanish civil war.
It was no doubt intended to differentiate the country Portugal from this major U.S. metropolis.
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Waiting for someone to make a good quality, aesthetically-pleasing and ergonomic tablet [...] No tablet for me until then.
Good quality, aesthetically-pleasing and ergonomic? That pretty much precludes anything coming out of HP these days. Bill and Dave must be rolling over in their graves thinking about what their once-great company has become since the Carly Fiorina era.
No, seriously, you can do it at home--get a ham radio license and start doing some experiments aimed at better understanding the behavior of the ionosphere (which is a plasma) and it's effects on radio wave propagation. No only could you make a significant contribution to science, you could have some fun in the process.
because it had truetype fonts. The combination of Windows 3.1 and HP's deskjet printers made it possible to perform desktop publishing for hundreds of dollars less than using other alternatives.
Of course, it didn't work as well as the other alternatives either. I worked at a service bureau at that time and we absolutely hated it when files that had been created under Windows 3.x came in because we knew it was going to cause us headaches. While Windows might have worked okay for simple documents printed to a user's own printer, it wasn't adequate for high-end graphics work.
I think that is based on the assumption that Mexico would want Texas. I suspect Mexico has enough problems of its own and would not be interested in the deal.
A very good point. I was thinking that Mexico would like to have a new, northern state (they could call it Baja Oklahoma) but it might be more of a drain on their resources than a boon.
Besides, if we sold Texas to Mexico, then angry anti-Mexico Texans might try to immigrate into the US.
But the irony of that alone would almost be worth it.
... a sign of some elements of Texas pushing harder for secession from the rest of the country? If so, I say bring it on...
Better yet, let's just sell Tejas back to Mexico before they have the chance to secede. Not only would that that solve the Texas Problem, it would bring some money into the Federal treasury.
I'm not a real programmer. I used to play with BASIC back 25 years ago or so and I've fooled around with writing C code for microcontrollers a bit lately but my skills are very limited to say the least. None the less, I was able to parse that regular expression without too much trouble. That leads me to believe that it can't be all that hard for someone who codes for a living to understand it. Still, it would be helpful to spend a minute or two with some helpful commenting.
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Also, I believe that the fee doesn't kick in unless you've manufactured 10,000 units so the little guy who's developing an app for fun or limited distribution doesn't have to pay anything at all.
Umm... Even on our rather aqueous planet, where the only CO2 ice is either synthetic or located in seriously inhospitable places [...]
Just out of curiosity, is there a place on earth where there is naturally-ocurring dry ice? A Google search comes up empty.
Ha. Einstein. What an idiot.
Yeah. Not only did he predict that it would be impossible to measure Brownian Motion, he predicted that no Slashdotter would ever get laid.
Oh, wait...
Apple TV?
Funny thing is that the Apple TV is exactly what the FOSS crowd likes--open hardware architecture and eminently hackable--but it has not sold very well. Yet, the same people say that the iPhone will perish unless Apple opens it up.
For example he won't use Flash, because it is inferior and crashes OS X [...], yet he uses AT&T's network (which gives him kickbacks using money from your monthly data plan that would be better spent on upgrading their network). AT&T is inferior and drops calls.
He chose AT&T because it's the only GSM carrier in the US that uses the same 3G frequencies that the rest of the world uses. Simple as that. Now that the iPhone is well-established, it's possible that Apple may release a CDMA version for Verizon and Sprint. My guess is that they're going to wait until those carriers roll out their G4 EVO networks; I think Sprint has already done this so they may get the iPhone before Verizon.
First, I'm a huge fan of Twain, both as a man and an author.
That said, the forward for an early edition of a compilation of Twain's short works of social commentary, Mark Twain on the Damned Human Race suggested that he was bisexual and was fond of black men.
I personally doubt this and I don't know if this same forward is included in the current edition, but if it is true, it might be one of the things revealed in his memoirs. Given the societal views of his era when it came to homosexuality, I could certainly understand why he'd want to wait for a full century after his death to let the world know about it.
I was going to post a rather trolling post about the misuse of "it's" instead of "its", but then thought that the submitter probably didn't have English as their first language and thus doesn't deserve my trolling. CmdrTaco has no such excuse, though. Anyway, please fix the mistake.
Its allways rong to be a grammer or speling troll. Get a lief. English evolves and it's ussers makes they're own rooles.
"Portugal, Europe" - is there another continent that has a country called Portugal? Also those noobs deserve to go down after the stunt they pulled in the Spanish civil war.
It was no doubt intended to differentiate the country Portugal from this major U.S. metropolis.
Uh, what he said...
Waiting for someone to make a good quality, aesthetically-pleasing and ergonomic tablet [...] No tablet for me until then.
Good quality, aesthetically-pleasing and ergonomic? That pretty much precludes anything coming out of HP these days. Bill and Dave must be rolling over in their graves thinking about what their once-great company has become since the Carly Fiorina era.
No, seriously, you can do it at home--get a ham radio license and start doing some experiments aimed at better understanding the behavior of the ionosphere (which is a plasma) and it's effects on radio wave propagation. No only could you make a significant contribution to science, you could have some fun in the process.
Here's the first in a series of articles on the topic. You might find it interesting.
Don't open the box!
And, BTW, as a fellow Californian, I'm with you on Prop 16. Talk about an insidious power-grab, no pun intended.
I didn't even get to scroll down to the comments, I saw the pictures and dropped my mouse. still laughing.
Too bad--there were literally hundreds of reviews, some of them really, really funny. Check this one out. It's a personal favorite.
Let me put in a cheer for the "Alice in Wonderland" he annotated.
Thanks for that, I hadn't put him together with "The Annotated Alice." Fine book; mine is well-thumbed.
You must be a Baja Oklahoman yourself.
Nah--Texans generally have a sense of humor and know a joke when they see one.
They tried this approach with the Italians in New York in the early 20th century, but it didn't work then either.
They tried a hell of a lot harder than that right there in Louisiana back in 1891 and that didn't work either.
because it had truetype fonts. The combination of Windows 3.1 and HP's deskjet printers made it possible to perform desktop publishing for hundreds of dollars less than using other alternatives.
Of course, it didn't work as well as the other alternatives either. I worked at a service bureau at that time and we absolutely hated it when files that had been created under Windows 3.x came in because we knew it was going to cause us headaches. While Windows might have worked okay for simple documents printed to a user's own printer, it wasn't adequate for high-end graphics work.
If you kill a product it does not get another birthday.
Tell that to George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Dr. Martin Luther King.
If you visit Bing you can run a Windows 3.0 emulator written in Javascript. Even has sound.
And if you go here, you can run their Hell simulator, but who would want to? Same deal with a Windows 3.0 emulator.
No, it would just be called "Mex-Mex."
I think that is based on the assumption that Mexico would want Texas. I suspect Mexico has enough problems of its own and would not be interested in the deal.
A very good point. I was thinking that Mexico would like to have a new, northern state (they could call it Baja Oklahoma) but it might be more of a drain on their resources than a boon.
Besides, if we sold Texas to Mexico, then angry anti-Mexico Texans might try to immigrate into the US.
But the irony of that alone would almost be worth it.
... a sign of some elements of Texas pushing harder for secession from the rest of the country? If so, I say bring it on...
Better yet, let's just sell Tejas back to Mexico before they have the chance to secede. Not only would that that solve the Texas Problem, it would bring some money into the Federal treasury.
God, these are idiots.
Idiots? Why are you being so polite to those dunderheaded inbred fucking morons?
I'm not a real programmer. I used to play with BASIC back 25 years ago or so and I've fooled around with writing C code for microcontrollers a bit lately but my skills are very limited to say the least. None the less, I was able to parse that regular expression without too much trouble. That leads me to believe that it can't be all that hard for someone who codes for a living to understand it. Still, it would be helpful to spend a minute or two with some helpful commenting.