Earlier this summer I saw an ad for a "Thomas and Friends" train ride in a town an hour from here. Took my kids, they loved it. It was fun. How the smeg would I have even known about it without having seen an ad? You suggesting I should have randomly searched and spontaneously discovered it?
1 cent per page? I would owe $10 a day with that model. $300/month and close to $4000 a year. No. I much prefer the advertising that gives me free internet
Bingo. Frankly, I can't understand this overwhelming hatred of ads. I have the chance to hide ads on slashdot, but I haven't bothered. As I surf the web I barely notice them. They're just background noise.
Police found the iPads using the same method every iPad owner has with Find my iPad
Not true. Did you read the article? They looked at IP addresses and Apple IDs in Apple's DBs when the stolen devices synched to iTunes, then cross-referenced them with ISPs. Find your iPad is a useless toy that disappears with a factory reset.
Apparently it is. For much of Slashdot, no place on the planet is as bad as the USA when it comes to human rights. Apparently even North Korea is better.
Kidnapping for ransom and express kidnappings, often in connection with carjackings, are of particular concern in Guayaquil. Express kidnappings involve the brief detention of an individual, who is released only after being forced to withdraw funds from an ABM or after arranging for family to pay a ransom. Canadians should exercise caution when using taxis, as taxi drivers have been reportredly conducting express kidnappings. Travellers should always use reputable radio taxi companies.
Bottom line? It's well-known that there is a much-higher-than-average risk of kidnapping in Ecuador.
Express kidnappings are a common crime in Ecuador and are on the increase, particularly in Quito and Guayaquil. Both Ecuadorians and foreign visitors are targets. The kidnappings involve short-term opportunistic abductions aimed at extracting cash from victims who are selected at random. They are held while criminals empty their bank accounts using the victims bank cards. Once the money has been taken the victim is usually released in an isolated area. However, criminals have started to force victims to take them to their homes once they have withdrawn the cash, and violence is becoming more common. This type of crime can involve illegitimate taxis and complicit taxi drivers. In some recent cases in January, March and April 2012, the passengers were pepper sprayed. In 2009 a British tourist was express-kidnapped from a hotel in the north of Quito.
People who write business applications are generally pretty mainstream by geek standards
I have to agree - I work for a software company that writes business apps and this largely describes our culture. I think it also helps that our office has many women - Granted, they mostly work in marketing, sales, finance etc, but they're around. Interestingly though, we do have a few hardcore geeks - And they work in IT, not writing code.
the single biggest improvement in that respect would actually be to move DEFCON from Las Vegas. People just behave badly there - for better or worse this isn't just a geek thing or a DEFCON thing
Part of the reason many events are in Vegas is purely because of the numbers. Flights to Vegas are cheap, hotel rooms range from the Motel 6 to, well, the sky's the limit, and there's lots of conference space. Other convention cities like Orlando might have two of the three, but vegas is the only place with three of the three.
All right, all right - But apart from better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater system and baths and public order... what have the Romans done for us?!
Who cares about a possible iPad Mini that isn't drinking the Kool-Aid already
The people who are already drinking the Kool-Aid represent a huge untapped market. We have an iPad - It would be nice to have another tablet but we're not going to drop that much coin again on a second tablet - A smaller, cheaper one? Maybe. A smaller tablet could be used by the kids, could be used in the car... All that good stuff.
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The IBM PC was the one strange thing in that you could install any OS on it.
My TRS-80 ran TRS-DOS, UltraDOS, DOSPlus, NewDOS/80, LDOS,..
I'm no MS-hater (looking forward to Win8) but dude I gotta give you total cred-points for an excellent historical reference. Everyone hauls out the tired ol' Bob and ME, but referencing DOS 4 is a stroke of genius.
Democracts and Republicans . They both spend money like drunken sailors. The only difference is democrats try to fund their spending a little with taxes, whereas the GOP waits for the funding to magically trickel down.
The x86 Windows tablets are netbooks with the keyboards lopped off.
Incorrect, you Anonymous Coward. The i86 tablets have much better processors than netbooks ever did, with better displays and longer battery life.
And the touch based ecosystem for Metro is a joke compared to iOS.
Incorrect, you Anonymous Coward. Have you used touch on an i86 Win8 tablet? We have prototypes here where I work and they're a pleasure to use.
If you are traveling add up the weight of all your luggage etc. and then with a straight face pretend the the extra 3 pounds for the MBA is going to matter.
You need to pack lighter, Anonymous Coward. It does matter. Plus it's about having all your data in one place, not spread across multiple devices.
If you're important enough to do that much traveling then you can afford a real laptop and a real tablet.
It's not a matter of being able to 'afford it' you Anonymous Coward - It's about not having to carry as much crap around, and through security checkpoints. Why would I carry a tablet and a laptop when I only have to carry one device?...and as a 6'3 guy, it's a pain trying to use a laptop in economy. A tablet is much easier.
Why piss around with a Windows tablet that has [snip] for an ecosystem
Huh? The tablet has a fantastic corporate ecosystem - It ties perfectly into Windows. An i86 tablet runs Windows apps natively, has full integration into AD and a familiar desktop.
You draw the line when your activities impact others around you. I live in a residential neighbourhood with two small kids. My kids need sleep and we (the parents) need sleep. Therefore, you do not have a right to have a party that keeps us awake. If you have a lifestyle where loud parties are part of what you do, then go live somewhere where this doesn't bother others.
Similarly, what if they work late hours? Do you expect them to mow their lawn while at work
Then you pay a local kid to mow your lawn after school, or a lawn mowing company. When I was 14 I mowed a bunch of lawns for people when they weren't around.
would you complain about them mowing their lawn at 11pm?
Yes, but it's largely an academic question. Unless you live in the Yukon or Alaska, it's too dark at 11pm to effectively mow your lawn anyway.
People like me - I travel regularly for business. At airports and on planes I would use the device in tablet-style. When I get to my hotel room, I'd set the device up on my desk and use it with a mouse and keyboard.
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If I want a product, I can search for it
Earlier this summer I saw an ad for a "Thomas and Friends" train ride in a town an hour from here. Took my kids, they loved it. It was fun. How the smeg would I have even known about it without having seen an ad? You suggesting I should have randomly searched and spontaneously discovered it?
If you'll bare with me for one second
I'll keep my trousers on for now, if you don't mind.
1 cent per page? I would owe $10 a day with that model. $300/month and close to $4000 a year. No. I much prefer the advertising that gives me free internet
Bingo. Frankly, I can't understand this overwhelming hatred of ads. I have the chance to hide ads on slashdot, but I haven't bothered. As I surf the web I barely notice them. They're just background noise.
I don't know what 70s and 80s prices were, but a normal fare across the US is ~$500
I don't have any 70s figures close at hand, but in 1958 a roundtrip ticket between New York and Los Angeles was $208 - So that's about $1600 today.
I know in general air travel is 'on average' about a third less in cost than it was in the 'golden age.'
Police found the iPads using the same method every iPad owner has with Find my iPad
Not true. Did you read the article? They looked at IP addresses and Apple IDs in Apple's DBs when the stolen devices synched to iTunes, then cross-referenced them with ISPs. Find your iPad is a useless toy that disappears with a factory reset.
but when an new telescope is proposed to study how the universe was made, it comes in pretty distant down the list
That's because the politicians & taxpayers already *know* how the universe was made: Jesus's daddy waved it into being one afternoon. Case closed.
There are some majority-held views on Slashdot - In no particular order -
a) The USA is a police state, and anyone who doesn't realize this is an idiot
b) Microsoft is evil.
c) Every business-grade application in a corporate environment can and should be replaced by an FOSS offering.
d) All digital content should be free.
I could go on... Doesn't mean I'm going to leave, but if someone new started reading comments after a short while they'd realize the above as well.
Is that the best you've got?
Apparently it is. For much of Slashdot, no place on the planet is as bad as the USA when it comes to human rights. Apparently even North Korea is better.
Those sites will become unavailable if Flash is removed on mobile devices.
Oh gee, he quoted from a British Government website. Isn't that special?
Sigh.
http://www.voyage.gc.ca/countries_pays/report_rapport-eng.asp?id=78000
Kidnapping for ransom and express kidnappings, often in connection with carjackings, are of particular concern in Guayaquil. Express kidnappings involve the brief detention of an individual, who is released only after being forced to withdraw funds from an ABM or after arranging for family to pay a ransom. Canadians should exercise caution when using taxis, as taxi drivers have been reportredly conducting express kidnappings. Travellers should always use reputable radio taxi companies.
Bottom line? It's well-known that there is a much-higher-than-average risk of kidnapping in Ecuador.
source?
http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/travel-and-living-abroad/travel-advice-by-country/south-america/ecuador/
Express kidnappings are a common crime in Ecuador and are on the increase, particularly in Quito and Guayaquil. Both Ecuadorians and foreign visitors are targets. The kidnappings involve short-term opportunistic abductions aimed at extracting cash from victims who are selected at random. They are held while criminals empty their bank accounts using the victims bank cards. Once the money has been taken the victim is usually released in an isolated area. However, criminals have started to force victims to take them to their homes once they have withdrawn the cash, and violence is becoming more common. This type of crime can involve illegitimate taxis and complicit taxi drivers. In some recent cases in January, March and April 2012, the passengers were pepper sprayed. In 2009 a British tourist was express-kidnapped from a hotel in the north of Quito.
People who write business applications are generally pretty mainstream by geek standards
I have to agree - I work for a software company that writes business apps and this largely describes our culture. I think it also helps that our office has many women - Granted, they mostly work in marketing, sales, finance etc, but they're around. Interestingly though, we do have a few hardcore geeks - And they work in IT, not writing code.
the single biggest improvement in that respect would actually be to move DEFCON from Las Vegas. People just behave badly there - for better or worse this isn't just a geek thing or a DEFCON thing
Part of the reason many events are in Vegas is purely because of the numbers. Flights to Vegas are cheap, hotel rooms range from the Motel 6 to, well, the sky's the limit, and there's lots of conference space. Other convention cities like Orlando might have two of the three, but vegas is the only place with three of the three.
500 years of democracy and peace.
All right, all right - But apart from better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater system and baths and public order... what have the Romans done for us?!
Brought peace!
Oh SHUT UP!
Who cares about a possible iPad Mini that isn't drinking the Kool-Aid already
The people who are already drinking the Kool-Aid represent a huge untapped market. We have an iPad - It would be nice to have another tablet but we're not going to drop that much coin again on a second tablet - A smaller, cheaper one? Maybe. A smaller tablet could be used by the kids, could be used in the car... All that good stuff.
The IBM PC was the one strange thing in that you could install any OS on it.
My TRS-80 ran TRS-DOS, UltraDOS, DOSPlus, NewDOS/80, LDOS,..
DOS 4.0
I'm no MS-hater (looking forward to Win8) but dude I gotta give you total cred-points for an excellent historical reference. Everyone hauls out the tired ol' Bob and ME, but referencing DOS 4 is a stroke of genius.
the federal government and Democrats
Democracts and Republicans . They both spend money like drunken sailors. The only difference is democrats try to fund their spending a little with taxes, whereas the GOP waits for the funding to magically trickel down.
How could I? You're an Anonymous Coward.
The x86 Windows tablets are netbooks with the keyboards lopped off.
Incorrect, you Anonymous Coward. The i86 tablets have much better processors than netbooks ever did, with better displays and longer battery life.
And the touch based ecosystem for Metro is a joke compared to iOS.
Incorrect, you Anonymous Coward. Have you used touch on an i86 Win8 tablet? We have prototypes here where I work and they're a pleasure to use.
If you are traveling add up the weight of all your luggage etc. and then with a straight face pretend the the extra 3 pounds for the MBA is going to matter.
You need to pack lighter, Anonymous Coward. It does matter. Plus it's about having all your data in one place, not spread across multiple devices.
So basically you need a laptop.
No, because at 6'3 a laptop is unusable in economy class on most airlines.
If you're important enough to do that much traveling then you can afford a real laptop and a real tablet.
It's not a matter of being able to 'afford it' you Anonymous Coward - It's about not having to carry as much crap around, and through security checkpoints. Why would I carry a tablet and a laptop when I only have to carry one device? ...and as a 6'3 guy, it's a pain trying to use a laptop in economy. A tablet is much easier.
Why piss around with a Windows tablet that has [snip] for an ecosystem
Huh? The tablet has a fantastic corporate ecosystem - It ties perfectly into Windows. An i86 tablet runs Windows apps natively, has full integration into AD and a familiar desktop.
Wind power does not work for base line power.
Depends where you are. Works pretty well in The Netherlands. Probably not so much parts of India.
Where do you draw the line?
You draw the line when your activities impact others around you. I live in a residential neighbourhood with two small kids. My kids need sleep and we (the parents) need sleep. Therefore, you do not have a right to have a party that keeps us awake. If you have a lifestyle where loud parties are part of what you do, then go live somewhere where this doesn't bother others.
Similarly, what if they work late hours? Do you expect them to mow their lawn while at work
Then you pay a local kid to mow your lawn after school, or a lawn mowing company. When I was 14 I mowed a bunch of lawns for people when they weren't around.
would you complain about them mowing their lawn at 11pm?
Yes, but it's largely an academic question. Unless you live in the Yukon or Alaska, it's too dark at 11pm to effectively mow your lawn anyway.
Who is this targeting?
People like me - I travel regularly for business. At airports and on planes I would use the device in tablet-style. When I get to my hotel room, I'd set the device up on my desk and use it with a mouse and keyboard.