I love Texas. There isn't a state like it. But this is just one more good reason as to why we need open-source books to come onto the mainstream. Seriously. Does history change? Does math change? Not the stuff they're teaching now. It's the same repeated curriculum. So why are we spending so many tax dollars on this crap when we should be rounding up that money in an effort to create something anyone can use or modify?
That's great that they don't feel that the DMCA provisions were meant to apply to Youtube. What's amusing about it, though, is that they shouldn't have been writing the laws in the first place. Much less interpreting them. I'm pretty sure our government pays people to do that.
There's the funny part about it. This really applies to the whole obsession with "thin" that Apple has. And mind you tapered and thin are different. Apple is about image, so let's keep that in mind. But, as we decrease thickness in one direction there's a diminishing return. Not only is there little difference between a 5mm and 10mm device to most people, as you approach these smaller figures that dimension becomes less and less relevant. The iPad is still kind of big. Mind you, there ARE other dimensions to worry about. With this in mind, it wouldn't have been difficult for Apple to have added a short array of USB ports to one side. But of course, how would they sell accessories if they let their users do whatever they wanted?:o
But you have to realize that there's a trend right now. The more information we have the less privacy there will be. Someone is going to be the controller of this information. And right now Google is the best candidate. I don't know if the will be true in the future but I do have faith that corporate culture is something that takes a long time to kill off. And the corporate culture at Google seems to be about as pro-consumer as it can get. Remember, you're losing your privacy ANYWAY. This is about who the best candidate is to control that information.
Grow Google, grow! Plant the seeds. Water them daily. Make sure they get enough sunlight. We'll lose our privacy one day. But to whom? Wouldn't you rather it be Google than anyone else? Grow them big. They will hire the engineers. They will build the things no one else will. Why? Because they have a clue and a corporate culture nearing perfection. They're one of the few companies looking out for you and me and that's why we have to stand by them no matter what. Sure, Google's voice may only be big, now. But how small do you think they'll remain should the people advocate Google as their speaker? They're watching out for our privacy and rights in a world increasingly controlled by corporations. Even when our own government will betray us, Google stands there and does what they can. I love Google. It would be absurd not to. Who else is going to watch after me? Apple? Facebook? HAHAHAHAHA. I only feel bad that Google doesn't have physical products. I'd love to give them more money.
Okay, so, your solution to using your under-powered over-price feature-less piece of crap is to go out and spend more exorbitant amounts of money? I do believe the netbook market was aimed at a low price-point. Oh no, I'm pretty sure the iPad and netbook demographics are completely different. The people that buy iPads throw their money around with little concern whereas those who go for netbooks want to stick to a better deal and more options. But if you want to drop 60 bucks into a crappy keyboard that only works with one 500 dollar device, that's cool. In the meantime, us folk that enjoy having options and capabilities will continue sticking with standard devices that don't require expensive adapters and Apple's kid-friendly programs playground.
Thank you for being one of the few people intelligent enough to read a bargraph. As I was going through elementary school I felt strongly that my comrades and I had learned the tools of math well enough to accomplish this task. Unfortunately this latest situation has proved me to be QUITE WRONG. So, thank you very much for being intelligent enough to read this. Seriously, you should be the guy checking this shit out for websites because it's obvious that the others are simply incapable.
But of course, the original poster of the statistics was a dedicated Apple blog. There are vested interests everywhere but that doesn't justify bullshit statistics. Paul is right here, in this case. He calls out the bullshit statistics. And I assure you, the previous article that this one is referring to was because people are just too stupid to read graphs.
So, 44 percent of people that were intending to buy a portable computing device purchased an Apple portable computing device instead? I don't think that says anything except that a lot of the people that have/are considering buying an iPad were considering buying an equivalent device (netbook) prior to discovering the iPad.
The drop in netbook sales momentum has been relatively consistent and this implies that there are other factors at play. What about how powerful smart phones are now? The Nexus One could provide all of the needs a netbook would.
Unfortunately, that doesn't actually solve anything and we have the software to do what you're talking about already. This is about leveraging the power of the Internet and using their servers. I don't really see this working even if they have servers everywhere.
Does no one else get offended at the suggestion of real-time cloud gaming due to obvious latency issues? It's bad enough having my network ping at 100ms, I don't need it to take 100ms for a screen refresh. Or is there something about the implementation I'm missing?
Thank you for pointing out so many flaws. I don't know what I like best. The notice that copyright is all about one-hit-wonders or noting that it's absurd that copyrights are transferable (coupled with the increased length). If I had mod points, I'd try to use them to help your cause.
I once talked to Darl's wife on the phone. In high school one of us grabbed their number off Freenet (this was 2005 I think) and we ended up calling. I was the guy that ended up with the phone and I started going on about an investment opportunity as I was one of "Darl's colleagues". As soon as I brought up Linux she said, word for word, "You're full of shit."
I'm pretty certain that "take" means to "possess" and that "possession" can only occur with tangible property. One must always possess a medium on which their pattern is configured. Therefore, in order to take, one must take something tangible. The analogy simply breaks down.
When you're taking, you're always taking a medium. You are never taking from the Internet, you are copying. Or initiating what ultimately becomes a series of processes that end up copying stuff, if you want to be a bit more specific.
I really wish people would stop treating IP like actual property. It's not. Actual property has the problem of scarcity. You can't take IP. You can make copies of it, for sure. You can use it without an appropriate license. But the correlation drawn between stealing and copyright infringement is simply invalid.
I don't think YOU played the FF7 PC version. It was glitchy as SHIT. Particular events would cause crashes in the game (like the appearance of Yufi). The video quality was horrible! I'm also fairly confident that the FMVs were reencoded with a shittier encode because I remember cringing thoroughly at the quality. FF7 for PC is a PERFECT example of a shitty port. I never played FF7 on PSX as I never owned one so I was happy to finally try it out for PC. I could only get the game running with a couple of appropriately applied patches. Yes, a couple. And none of them were official.
Or we could not waste our time on Slashdot with frivolous articles that Hackaday wouldn't even consider posting. He hooked up what amounts to a huge Xbox360 controller to a PC? Not that impressive.
Yes. While users are one of the larger security issues, certain pieces of software have just as much potential to cause problems. Make the user pay extra for software that's inherently insecure? Hell yeah!
But I DON'T benefit from an educated and healthy society! Have you seen our society? It's only healthy and educated by society's standards. But not MINE. Fuck you and your Internet tax I know how to freshly install a damn operating system when I need to.
Yes. It seems absurd that they had the monitors pushed so far back. Truly, they might as well have gone with a bigger TV in this case. Eyefinity is about immersion, not resolution.
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I love Texas. There isn't a state like it. But this is just one more good reason as to why we need open-source books to come onto the mainstream. Seriously. Does history change? Does math change? Not the stuff they're teaching now. It's the same repeated curriculum. So why are we spending so many tax dollars on this crap when we should be rounding up that money in an effort to create something anyone can use or modify?
That's great that they don't feel that the DMCA provisions were meant to apply to Youtube. What's amusing about it, though, is that they shouldn't have been writing the laws in the first place. Much less interpreting them. I'm pretty sure our government pays people to do that.
There's the funny part about it. This really applies to the whole obsession with "thin" that Apple has. And mind you tapered and thin are different. Apple is about image, so let's keep that in mind. But, as we decrease thickness in one direction there's a diminishing return. Not only is there little difference between a 5mm and 10mm device to most people, as you approach these smaller figures that dimension becomes less and less relevant. The iPad is still kind of big. Mind you, there ARE other dimensions to worry about. With this in mind, it wouldn't have been difficult for Apple to have added a short array of USB ports to one side. But of course, how would they sell accessories if they let their users do whatever they wanted? :o
But you have to realize that there's a trend right now. The more information we have the less privacy there will be. Someone is going to be the controller of this information. And right now Google is the best candidate. I don't know if the will be true in the future but I do have faith that corporate culture is something that takes a long time to kill off. And the corporate culture at Google seems to be about as pro-consumer as it can get. Remember, you're losing your privacy ANYWAY. This is about who the best candidate is to control that information.
I love how quick you are to assume that most people would buy an iPad.
Grow Google, grow! Plant the seeds. Water them daily. Make sure they get enough sunlight. We'll lose our privacy one day. But to whom? Wouldn't you rather it be Google than anyone else? Grow them big. They will hire the engineers. They will build the things no one else will. Why? Because they have a clue and a corporate culture nearing perfection. They're one of the few companies looking out for you and me and that's why we have to stand by them no matter what. Sure, Google's voice may only be big, now. But how small do you think they'll remain should the people advocate Google as their speaker? They're watching out for our privacy and rights in a world increasingly controlled by corporations. Even when our own government will betray us, Google stands there and does what they can. I love Google. It would be absurd not to. Who else is going to watch after me? Apple? Facebook? HAHAHAHAHA. I only feel bad that Google doesn't have physical products. I'd love to give them more money.
Okay, so, your solution to using your under-powered over-price feature-less piece of crap is to go out and spend more exorbitant amounts of money? I do believe the netbook market was aimed at a low price-point. Oh no, I'm pretty sure the iPad and netbook demographics are completely different. The people that buy iPads throw their money around with little concern whereas those who go for netbooks want to stick to a better deal and more options. But if you want to drop 60 bucks into a crappy keyboard that only works with one 500 dollar device, that's cool. In the meantime, us folk that enjoy having options and capabilities will continue sticking with standard devices that don't require expensive adapters and Apple's kid-friendly programs playground.
Thank you for being one of the few people intelligent enough to read a bargraph. As I was going through elementary school I felt strongly that my comrades and I had learned the tools of math well enough to accomplish this task. Unfortunately this latest situation has proved me to be QUITE WRONG. So, thank you very much for being intelligent enough to read this. Seriously, you should be the guy checking this shit out for websites because it's obvious that the others are simply incapable.
But of course, the original poster of the statistics was a dedicated Apple blog. There are vested interests everywhere but that doesn't justify bullshit statistics. Paul is right here, in this case. He calls out the bullshit statistics. And I assure you, the previous article that this one is referring to was because people are just too stupid to read graphs.
So, 44 percent of people that were intending to buy a portable computing device purchased an Apple portable computing device instead? I don't think that says anything except that a lot of the people that have/are considering buying an iPad were considering buying an equivalent device (netbook) prior to discovering the iPad.
The drop in netbook sales momentum has been relatively consistent and this implies that there are other factors at play. What about how powerful smart phones are now? The Nexus One could provide all of the needs a netbook would.
Unfortunately, that doesn't actually solve anything and we have the software to do what you're talking about already. This is about leveraging the power of the Internet and using their servers. I don't really see this working even if they have servers everywhere.
Does no one else get offended at the suggestion of real-time cloud gaming due to obvious latency issues? It's bad enough having my network ping at 100ms, I don't need it to take 100ms for a screen refresh. Or is there something about the implementation I'm missing?
Thank you for pointing out so many flaws. I don't know what I like best. The notice that copyright is all about one-hit-wonders or noting that it's absurd that copyrights are transferable (coupled with the increased length). If I had mod points, I'd try to use them to help your cause.
I once talked to Darl's wife on the phone. In high school one of us grabbed their number off Freenet (this was 2005 I think) and we ended up calling. I was the guy that ended up with the phone and I started going on about an investment opportunity as I was one of "Darl's colleagues". As soon as I brought up Linux she said, word for word, "You're full of shit."
I hate all of you.
I wish I could mod you down.
You're looking for "Canonical".
Sieg heil!
Carry on.
I'd give head for mod points right now.
I'm pretty certain that "take" means to "possess" and that "possession" can only occur with tangible property. One must always possess a medium on which their pattern is configured. Therefore, in order to take, one must take something tangible. The analogy simply breaks down.
When you're taking, you're always taking a medium. You are never taking from the Internet, you are copying. Or initiating what ultimately becomes a series of processes that end up copying stuff, if you want to be a bit more specific.
I really wish people would stop treating IP like actual property. It's not. Actual property has the problem of scarcity. You can't take IP. You can make copies of it, for sure. You can use it without an appropriate license. But the correlation drawn between stealing and copyright infringement is simply invalid.
I don't think YOU played the FF7 PC version. It was glitchy as SHIT. Particular events would cause crashes in the game (like the appearance of Yufi). The video quality was horrible! I'm also fairly confident that the FMVs were reencoded with a shittier encode because I remember cringing thoroughly at the quality. FF7 for PC is a PERFECT example of a shitty port. I never played FF7 on PSX as I never owned one so I was happy to finally try it out for PC. I could only get the game running with a couple of appropriately applied patches. Yes, a couple. And none of them were official.
Or we could not waste our time on Slashdot with frivolous articles that Hackaday wouldn't even consider posting. He hooked up what amounts to a huge Xbox360 controller to a PC? Not that impressive.
Yes. While users are one of the larger security issues, certain pieces of software have just as much potential to cause problems. Make the user pay extra for software that's inherently insecure? Hell yeah!
But I DON'T benefit from an educated and healthy society! Have you seen our society? It's only healthy and educated by society's standards. But not MINE. Fuck you and your Internet tax I know how to freshly install a damn operating system when I need to.
Yes. It seems absurd that they had the monitors pushed so far back. Truly, they might as well have gone with a bigger TV in this case. Eyefinity is about immersion, not resolution.