Just because it's "illegal" in Clark Co., doesn't mean that it doesn't exist.
True enough, but you could say that about any large American city. In any case, because prostitution is not legal in Clark County, the true Saudi Arabia of prostitution would be either Pahrump or Elko, Nevada, both places where it is legal.
Las Vegas is the Saudi Arabia of prostitution, booze, gambling, and insane energy use.
Prostitution is illegal in Clark County, NV, where Las Vegas is located. You are completely correct on the booze, gambling and insane energy use, however.
You could, however, order an S5PC110A01 from Samsung, it's the same chip.
[Citation Needed]
Considering the guys with the infrared microphotography equipment couldn't say that for certain--in fact, they suggested otherwise--I don't understand how you can make that statement.
Oh, yeah, I agree--it's not particularly exciting. My post was in response to the AC who apparently didn't read TFA and said the A4 is just a "standard, general-purpose consumer-grade embedded processor." It's not; as I said, it's nothing revolutionary but it has been customized for Apple's purposes.
I don't see what's so interesting here. It's a standard, general-purpose, consumer-grade embedded processor.
Not exactly, which is what the article is all about. While the A4 is nothing revolutionary, it's not an off-the-shelf item either. Apple took a general purpose processor and re-designed it specifically for use in its mobile devices.
Well seeing as how this is just a comic book, couldn't they have just put it on an iPhone/iPad-formatted website behind a paywall?
That's what I thought too but it turns out that it's more than just a comic book, it's an interactive reader's companion to "Ulysses." It's possible that it could have been published as a Web app, I suppose (haven't seen it, I don't own an iPad), but it seems best suited to be an iApp.
In any case, I'm happy that Apple reversed it's bone-headed decision. I think they need to put together some people with a background in art to review cases like this. Right now, they're letting people with an engineering degree make artistic decisions based on some poorly-defined criteria and it's making them look bad.
This just a race condition, which was taught when I was a sophomore in college(and I knew about in high school).
Probably because a lot of people who play with the Arudino (including me) are not professional programmers. They're largely self-taught amateurs--typically garage inventors and a surprisingly large number of artists who have probably never even heard of race condition and don't really care, either.
Gates was a businessman and only that. Show me proof he was a philanthropist before he was filthy rich.
Even more to the point, show me proof that he was a philanthropist before his company became the subject of an anti-trust investigation. Kind of funny how that happened; the Feds move to investigate Microsoft and, suddenly, Bill Gates becomes a philanthropist.
I appreciate what Gates has done in the last few years but I don't think his motives are entirely pure.
The web site owners have reason to be peeved - if the user uses reader extensively, for web sites that are ad-based, they have no revenue stream
That's not correct. The page loads initially with all the ads intact; the "Reader" is an option that can only be invoked after the page loads so the site owner gets the same revenue regardless of whether the viewer uses it or not.
And if he had Not signed the NDA, what was he supposed to do?.
Well, if free speech were that big of an issue to him, he should have exercised his right and made a big loud issue of it to force Apple to back down on the NDA. Apparently, he was more interested in getting a new iPod so it's sort of disingenuous to make an argument that his rights were "raped," as you have put it.
You were in your own home, and you were displaying a firearm to show that you had the means to protect your family. Brandishing a firearm is legal when you are concerned about your own safety.
Right, and that's what kept me out of jail, but it was a good lesson about what's legal and what's not.
More like a battle of half-wits. Both positions are equally incorrect.
Shallow, superficial thinkers are going to use the Internet in shallow, superficial ways. Facebook and Twitter come immediately to mind but there are a myriad of ways to waste time on the Web. Deeper thinkers will use the Internet as a resource, a way to find information rather than for entertainment purposes alone. And it can't be denied that the ease of access to information is what has made the Internet the truly revolutionary thing that it is. It's changed everything. Yes, it's true, a lot of the information on the Web is not very good but most people have come to the realization on their own. If anything, that has actually created a larger group of skeptical, critical thinkers than ever before.
If the neighbor got the first call off and said "OMG HE PULLED A GUN ON ME FOR NO REASON" the cops are probably going to respond.
That's exactly what happened. Once the cops arrived and sorted things out, they immediately took my side on the issue, but warned me about the laws on brandishing a weapon. Given the circumstances, I think they handled it well even if I did end up in handcuffs for a while. They were very calm throughout and actually polite. Of course, we were also cooperative; it's kind of hard not to be when you've got a fully-automatic weapon trained on you.
I actually tried to call the police before I grabbed my gun but my call didn't go through. I mentioned that to one of the cops and he looked at another cop and they both nodded knowingly. Apparently, they were aware that there was a problem with the 911 system. The city has revamped their entire emergency phone system since then.
The UK iPod owner was not forced to sign the NDA, he made the choice to do so in exchange for a new iPod. If anything, he whored himself out for new gizmo.
It doesn't threaten anyone, or shouldn't, but it is brandishing, which is an offense and should be.
Exactly, and it's something I once got in trouble for doing. The following is a true story:
One day years ago, I had been having some trouble with a drug-addled neighbor. It had escalated throughout the day and finally reached the crisis point around 7 PM, when I though he was going to come in through my window and cause harm to my wife, a dinner guest and I. I ran into the bedroom, grabbed my Mini-14 and made sure he saw it as I racked the action. The guy left, but a while later, I noticed the motion sensor light in front of the house had come on. Thinking it was my neighbor returning for more trouble, I peeked out through the blinds only to see that it wasn't him, it was several police officers. Armed police officers, one of whom had his M-16 pointed right at me. Trust me when I say that that's not a good feeling.
In short, all three of us in the house were ordered out, handcuffed and sat down on a wall while the PD sorted the whole thing out. In the end, I wasn't arrested or anything--in fact, the cops said it was my neighbor's fault--but I learned that just showing a weapon can be considered a crime under certain circumstances.
I just pulled out my cell phone, which has a screen resolution about half that of the new iPhone. At 12" I can't see any pixels because of my presbyopia--it's far too blurred for me to even be able to read it, let alone be bothered by pixelation. When I hold it at a comfortable viewing distance, I can't see any pixels either.
A consumer products manufacturer makes a slightly exaggerated claim about the specs on one of it's new models! Stop the presses! Film at 11!
I mean, really, what's the big deal? Stuff like this goes on all the time and people just laugh it off. Here on Slashdot, however, there have been hundreds of posts over the last two days about it. To quote William Shatner: Get a life!
Google should play hardball by creating more non-ad material (of high value to apple users), and displaying it in the same way the adds are displayed. Thus if the appleans want to consume it they will need to turn off the ad blocker, or switch to andriod.
Only problem with that being that Google has never shown any ability to create content of real value. In truth, the only thing Google has really been successful at doing is selling ads. Which, by the way, they'll still be able to do on the iOS. They just will no longer be able to use their analytics to spy on iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch users to help them compete against Apple.
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Just because it's "illegal" in Clark Co., doesn't mean that it doesn't exist.
True enough, but you could say that about any large American city. In any case, because prostitution is not legal in Clark County, the true Saudi Arabia of prostitution would be either Pahrump or Elko, Nevada, both places where it is legal.
Interestingly (to me, anyhow), the state of Nevada is actually larger than New Zealand. Only about half as many people, though:
Nevada: 110,567 sq mi (286,367 sq km), 2010 pop. 2,600,000
New Zealand: 103,737 sq mi (268,680 sq km), 2010 pop. 4,296,756
This could mean that Nevada has a larger potential for geothermal energy.
Las Vegas is the Saudi Arabia of prostitution, booze, gambling, and insane energy use.
Prostitution is illegal in Clark County, NV, where Las Vegas is located. You are completely correct on the booze, gambling and insane energy use, however.
You could, however, order an S5PC110A01 from Samsung, it's the same chip.
[Citation Needed]
Considering the guys with the infrared microphotography equipment couldn't say that for certain--in fact, they suggested otherwise--I don't understand how you can make that statement.
Oh, yeah, I agree--it's not particularly exciting. My post was in response to the AC who apparently didn't read TFA and said the A4 is just a "standard, general-purpose consumer-grade embedded processor." It's not; as I said, it's nothing revolutionary but it has been customized for Apple's purposes.
I don't see what's so interesting here. It's a standard, general-purpose, consumer-grade embedded processor.
Not exactly, which is what the article is all about. While the A4 is nothing revolutionary, it's not an off-the-shelf item either. Apple took a general purpose processor and re-designed it specifically for use in its mobile devices.
Well seeing as how this is just a comic book, couldn't they have just put it on an iPhone/iPad-formatted website behind a paywall?
That's what I thought too but it turns out that it's more than just a comic book, it's an interactive reader's companion to "Ulysses." It's possible that it could have been published as a Web app, I suppose (haven't seen it, I don't own an iPad), but it seems best suited to be an iApp.
In any case, I'm happy that Apple reversed it's bone-headed decision. I think they need to put together some people with a background in art to review cases like this. Right now, they're letting people with an engineering degree make artistic decisions based on some poorly-defined criteria and it's making them look bad.
The artists should stick to art and stay out of technology if they're too lazy to RTFM.
You sound like this guy.
This just a race condition, which was taught when I was a sophomore in college(and I knew about in high school).
Probably because a lot of people who play with the Arudino (including me) are not professional programmers. They're largely self-taught amateurs--typically garage inventors and a surprisingly large number of artists who have probably never even heard of race condition and don't really care, either.
Gates was a businessman and only that. Show me proof he was a philanthropist before he was filthy rich.
Even more to the point, show me proof that he was a philanthropist before his company became the subject of an anti-trust investigation. Kind of funny how that happened; the Feds move to investigate Microsoft and, suddenly, Bill Gates becomes a philanthropist.
I appreciate what Gates has done in the last few years but I don't think his motives are entirely pure.
I realize that this all works only at that quantum level but what implications, if any, does this have for Einstein's general theory of relativity?
The web site owners have reason to be peeved - if the user uses reader extensively, for web sites that are ad-based, they have no revenue stream
That's not correct. The page loads initially with all the ads intact; the "Reader" is an option that can only be invoked after the page loads so the site owner gets the same revenue regardless of whether the viewer uses it or not.
And if he had Not signed the NDA, what was he supposed to do?.
Well, if free speech were that big of an issue to him, he should have exercised his right and made a big loud issue of it to force Apple to back down on the NDA. Apparently, he was more interested in getting a new iPod so it's sort of disingenuous to make an argument that his rights were "raped," as you have put it.
You were in your own home, and you were displaying a firearm to show that you had the means to protect your family. Brandishing a firearm is legal when you are concerned about your own safety.
Right, and that's what kept me out of jail, but it was a good lesson about what's legal and what's not.
More like a battle of half-wits. Both positions are equally incorrect.
Shallow, superficial thinkers are going to use the Internet in shallow, superficial ways. Facebook and Twitter come immediately to mind but there are a myriad of ways to waste time on the Web. Deeper thinkers will use the Internet as a resource, a way to find information rather than for entertainment purposes alone. And it can't be denied that the ease of access to information is what has made the Internet the truly revolutionary thing that it is. It's changed everything. Yes, it's true, a lot of the information on the Web is not very good but most people have come to the realization on their own. If anything, that has actually created a larger group of skeptical, critical thinkers than ever before.
If the neighbor got the first call off and said "OMG HE PULLED A GUN ON ME FOR NO REASON" the cops are probably going to respond.
That's exactly what happened. Once the cops arrived and sorted things out, they immediately took my side on the issue, but warned me about the laws on brandishing a weapon. Given the circumstances, I think they handled it well even if I did end up in handcuffs for a while. They were very calm throughout and actually polite. Of course, we were also cooperative; it's kind of hard not to be when you've got a fully-automatic weapon trained on you.
I actually tried to call the police before I grabbed my gun but my call didn't go through. I mentioned that to one of the cops and he looked at another cop and they both nodded knowingly. Apparently, they were aware that there was a problem with the 911 system. The city has revamped their entire emergency phone system since then.
To be succinct, that's horseshit.
The UK iPod owner was not forced to sign the NDA, he made the choice to do so in exchange for a new iPod. If anything, he whored himself out for new gizmo.
It doesn't threaten anyone, or shouldn't, but it is brandishing, which is an offense and should be.
Exactly, and it's something I once got in trouble for doing. The following is a true story:
One day years ago, I had been having some trouble with a drug-addled neighbor. It had escalated throughout the day and finally reached the crisis point around 7 PM, when I though he was going to come in through my window and cause harm to my wife, a dinner guest and I. I ran into the bedroom, grabbed my Mini-14 and made sure he saw it as I racked the action. The guy left, but a while later, I noticed the motion sensor light in front of the house had come on. Thinking it was my neighbor returning for more trouble, I peeked out through the blinds only to see that it wasn't him, it was several police officers. Armed police officers, one of whom had his M-16 pointed right at me. Trust me when I say that that's not a good feeling.
In short, all three of us in the house were ordered out, handcuffed and sat down on a wall while the PD sorted the whole thing out. In the end, I wasn't arrested or anything--in fact, the cops said it was my neighbor's fault--but I learned that just showing a weapon can be considered a crime under certain circumstances.
Why is parent modded 0, troll? Because the Apple fanboys are upset that people with Droids can't see pixels at 1 foot either? Truth hurts, doesn't it?
Funny, my interpretation was that the undeserved troll mod came from an Apple Hater who didn't like the implication that Jobs might have been right.
I just pulled out my cell phone, which has a screen resolution about half that of the new iPhone. At 12" I can't see any pixels because of my presbyopia--it's far too blurred for me to even be able to read it, let alone be bothered by pixelation. When I hold it at a comfortable viewing distance, I can't see any pixels either.
Ahem. And I say it once again: Get a life!
If you can't do that, at least grow a pair and start posting with your nick.
I thought Apple published a new API in the latest Snow Leopard.
They did. The summary is incorrect.
A consumer products manufacturer makes a slightly exaggerated claim about the specs on one of it's new models! Stop the presses! Film at 11!
I mean, really, what's the big deal? Stuff like this goes on all the time and people just laugh it off. Here on Slashdot, however, there have been hundreds of posts over the last two days about it. To quote William Shatner: Get a life!
Google should play hardball by creating more non-ad material (of high value to apple users), and displaying it in the same way the adds are displayed. Thus if the appleans want to consume it they will need to turn off the ad blocker, or switch to andriod.
Only problem with that being that Google has never shown any ability to create content of real value. In truth, the only thing Google has really been successful at doing is selling ads. Which, by the way, they'll still be able to do on the iOS. They just will no longer be able to use their analytics to spy on iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch users to help them compete against Apple.