A PC might be lacking in many areas. But if it doesn't do what you need it to, you can _make it_ do it. What, media player doesn't allow your codec? Install VLC. What, Media Center isn't playing your codec? Install Boxee. What, windows sucks for your uses? Install Linux.
True, most movies aren't made with single-digit-year-olds in mind. But when little Staisy wants Cinderella, she wants Cinderella. And she wants it once a week or more often
Yeah, she wants it, oh well...
I've seen this behavior with plenty of my friends and it just blows my mind. Their kid will sit in front of the TV watch Cars or some Disney cartoon over and over and over. Every time I am at their house, the kid will be watching the same movie. Is this really healthy for a child? I have enough of a problem with the television being the sitter for a kid under the age of 10, but at least give them some variety.
Oh, believe me, I know, your kid really wants to watch that movie again. They demand it. They will not behave if you don't let them watch it. This is a parenting problem. How about interacting with your children instead of letting them set the rules?
If your Droid has more pixels per square inch, then yes, the iPhone is slowly catching up to your Droid.
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With the iPod Touch/iPhone/iPad, you CAN listen to music while using any other application, such as the web browser. This has always been the case. When people say that the iPhone/iPad doesn't support multi-tasking, they are referring to using more than one third party application at a time.
Apple made it clear from the beginning that the iTunes store wasn't about turning a profit in sales of music, it was about selling iPods. iTunes has gone on to sell an enormous amount of music and video, but the rental service doesn't exactly have jaw dropping numbers. You are correct, Apple's new release selection is much better than Netfix (as far as downloads goes), even given that the availability of iTunes rentals is usually a month behind the wider release date for a title. However, in the United States, Netfix has a huge audience, eclipsing those who rent movies from iTunes. Netfix also has a much deeper catalog of older releases available for download.
What could this mean for Apple? In the short term, users rent new releases from iTunes, and stream older material from Netflix. This probably doesn't hurt Apple's rental business too much, but most importantly drives hardware sales.
Apple would trade iTunes movie rentals for iPod Touch/iPhone/iPad sales in a heartbeat. iTunes is certainly popular, but how many users rent the videos? Why not let a separate company worry about the movie rental business, while you sell hardware to their customers?
Tobacco companies were able to create confusion as to whether smoking caused cancer by repeating "evidence" from so called experts. Net-neutrality opponents have managed to confuse the subject to the point where the average person doesn't even know what supporting net neutrality means. If you can confuse the lay-person enough, they will start to doubt all sides, regardless of the fact that one side is made up of peer-reviewed scientists, and the other side is industry popaganda. Just look at all of the arguments that are being listed in the comments for this story that have been refuted multiple times.
What to believe anymore? As a layperson - I've personally reached the point where I simply cannot trust what anyone says. I've tried to make sense of the issue myself with what little scientific and statistical background I have and what little I can understand from the literature I am not particularly impressed with the quality of evidence supporting the "smoking causes cancer"hypothesis.
or, perhaps more topical,
What to believe anymore? As a layperson - I've personally reached the point where I simply cannot trust what anyone says. I've tried to make sense of the issue myself with what little scientific and statistical background I have and what little I can understand from the literature I am not particularly impressed with the quality of evidence supporting net-neutrality
Repeat something enough, and you can cause confusion.
The Google brand would go a long way. I saw a decent amount of information on a new "Google phone", back when it was released, but not many people seem to be aware that its called the T-Mobile G1. The G1 also suffers from a name that isn't quite as memorable as iPhone or Razor. I tend to confuse products that are just a combination of letters and numbers, like various car models.
The article seems to make some laughable assertions:
A smart handset manufacturer could build a top-of-the-line Android device that outshines Apple's phone in at least a few areas... a much better Web browser
Really? Is that such a trivial task? Safari is a well established browser, and assuming that a mobile competitor can be cranked out trivially is questionable.
I'd liken religious faith to quantum mechanics. Quantum makes sense, but not according to our normal methods of understanding. It has different rules very different from classical mechanics (secular worldviews), but taken as a whole is consistent
Except, you know, we have some underlying evidence to cause us to believe in quantum mechanics, and we will cast that belief aside in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. With religious faith, on the other hand, we start with a premise and defend it passionately regardless of the evidence.
Hosting a bunch of images doesn't do any good unless you have a text (or at least searchable) description of what you're downloading. Without context, warehoused information is useless.
Yes, someone should invent a method for posting images on the internet and associating text with them.
The Bing commercial is hilarious. I love how it subtly implies that the entire financial crisis was caused by people not using Microsoft's search engine.
As someone who has also worked in the computer vision field, I agree completely. However, I have found that it is sadly pointless to discuss out how this stuff really works on slashdot, as the only comments that will be modded up have to do with tin-foil hat like predictions. You can point out that a national database of faces is unrealistic, as techniques such as Principle Components Analysis aren't accurate on massive data sets, and your comment will squander at 1. Don't even bother pointing out all of the inaccuracies in the article, such as how face detection commonly works. Most people on this site think that this all works like it is shown in the movies.
Are you serious? The article that you link to compares the number shot to death in Chicago to the number of US soldiers being killed in Iraq. Wouldn't it make sense to compare the number of people being shot in both places, not just US soldiers?
On the other hand, if you buy a $25000 hybrid, you might only need to buy $30 of gas a week, but unless your car payments are less than $120 a month, you aren't saving any money by buying a hybrid.
You'd have to be doing some serious driving to go through $30 of gas a week with a hybrid...
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You do realize that the iPhone does tethering, but AT&T charges $20 to enable it? That is a carrier restriction, not an Apple restriction.
Yeah, she wants it, oh well...
I've seen this behavior with plenty of my friends and it just blows my mind. Their kid will sit in front of the TV watch Cars or some Disney cartoon over and over and over. Every time I am at their house, the kid will be watching the same movie. Is this really healthy for a child? I have enough of a problem with the television being the sitter for a kid under the age of 10, but at least give them some variety.
Oh, believe me, I know, your kid really wants to watch that movie again. They demand it. They will not behave if you don't let them watch it. This is a parenting problem. How about interacting with your children instead of letting them set the rules?
I'm guessing this story was posted by someone with absolutely no experience with enterprise-level businesses.
If your Droid has more pixels per square inch, then yes, the iPhone is slowly catching up to your Droid.
With the iPod Touch/iPhone/iPad, you CAN listen to music while using any other application, such as the web browser. This has always been the case. When people say that the iPhone/iPad doesn't support multi-tasking, they are referring to using more than one third party application at a time.
Apple made it clear from the beginning that the iTunes store wasn't about turning a profit in sales of music, it was about selling iPods. iTunes has gone on to sell an enormous amount of music and video, but the rental service doesn't exactly have jaw dropping numbers. You are correct, Apple's new release selection is much better than Netfix (as far as downloads goes), even given that the availability of iTunes rentals is usually a month behind the wider release date for a title. However, in the United States, Netfix has a huge audience, eclipsing those who rent movies from iTunes. Netfix also has a much deeper catalog of older releases available for download.
What could this mean for Apple? In the short term, users rent new releases from iTunes, and stream older material from Netflix. This probably doesn't hurt Apple's rental business too much, but most importantly drives hardware sales.
Apple would trade iTunes movie rentals for iPod Touch/iPhone/iPad sales in a heartbeat. iTunes is certainly popular, but how many users rent the videos? Why not let a separate company worry about the movie rental business, while you sell hardware to their customers?
...as a Republican, am I supposed to believe that scientists understand solar weather or not?
Tobacco companies were able to create confusion as to whether smoking caused cancer by repeating "evidence" from so called experts. Net-neutrality opponents have managed to confuse the subject to the point where the average person doesn't even know what supporting net neutrality means. If you can confuse the lay-person enough, they will start to doubt all sides, regardless of the fact that one side is made up of peer-reviewed scientists, and the other side is industry popaganda. Just look at all of the arguments that are being listed in the comments for this story that have been refuted multiple times.
I hadn't been aware that it was against the law to jailbreak an iPhone.
or, perhaps more topical,
Repeat something enough, and you can cause confusion.
Yes, just like his presupposition that pink unicorns don't exist. I don't understand why he just doesn't believe in whatever people tell him.
The article seems to make some laughable assertions:
Really? Is that such a trivial task? Safari is a well established browser, and assuming that a mobile competitor can be cranked out trivially is questionable.
Except, you know, we have some underlying evidence to cause us to believe in quantum mechanics, and we will cast that belief aside in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. With religious faith, on the other hand, we start with a premise and defend it passionately regardless of the evidence.
Yes, someone should invent a method for posting images on the internet and associating text with them.
The Bing commercial is hilarious. I love how it subtly implies that the entire financial crisis was caused by people not using Microsoft's search engine.
I liked this comment best when you posted it on April 6th: http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1189359&cid=27477809
Stuff in video games follows predictable patterns! I wonder how they did it that way?
As someone who has also worked in the computer vision field, I agree completely. However, I have found that it is sadly pointless to discuss out how this stuff really works on slashdot, as the only comments that will be modded up have to do with tin-foil hat like predictions. You can point out that a national database of faces is unrealistic, as techniques such as Principle Components Analysis aren't accurate on massive data sets, and your comment will squander at 1. Don't even bother pointing out all of the inaccuracies in the article, such as how face detection commonly works. Most people on this site think that this all works like it is shown in the movies.
Are you serious? The article that you link to compares the number shot to death in Chicago to the number of US soldiers being killed in Iraq. Wouldn't it make sense to compare the number of people being shot in both places, not just US soldiers?
I would hope that the punishment would be the same as would be handed out to someone that hacked my hotmail count.
Not that, you know, I have a hotmail account...
Although, he and those involved in the case shouldn't have to answer to a subpoena...
Yeah, someone should try to build a car that runs on diesel. If that is even possible, then we could look into other technologies.
You'd have to be doing some serious driving to go through $30 of gas a week with a hybrid...