I'm trying to comprehend under what justification my comment would be modded down. I can see someone thinking it wasn't insightful enough to mod up (it's just an opinion after all, although I think it expresses a valid alternative viewpoint and carefully explains and justifies such a position ). Perhaps it's not interesting (again, opinions are like assholes, but when I moderate, I think when someone bucks the trend and goes against the "herd mentality" (hmmm... is that inflammatory, well isn't iSheep inflammatory then?) and clearly defends their position with logical rhetoric it's always interesting, even if I don't happen to agree). And it certainly wasn't funny. But maybe it's informative in some way? I guess that's open to interpretation. All of those are great reasons for NOT modding me up. But I don't see the justification for modding me down. If someone else thinks it's interesting or informative or whatever, why would you think they are wrong? And even if you do think that, why would you then further seek to mod me down past my base karma? Seems like politically motivated moderating to me. And frankly, I've seen a lot more of that in recent months on other's posts. I've spent a lot of time undoing political moderation lately, even for posts I personally disagree with.
What happened to Slashdot? I know moderation used to be a lot fairer and impartial than it's become. I sense the digg-ification of Slashdot is upon us.
However, I have no love for MS, but I I do prefer google not have my search data and bing is easier to incorporate into my workflow than duckduckgo... (and I generally prefer Bing maps to most other in-browser desktop providers)
Allow me to qualify one statement: google maps was not totally useless. Just as a mapping app. As a way to find locations near me or near something else, it was excellent. But I switched to Bing for that purpose now. It seems equally good and I don't have to worry about them tracking all my map searches and indexing them against my gmail and youtube usage.
You can count me as one user who thinks it is the "best ever."
Ideal? No. Best it can be? No.
But "best ever", abso-fucking-lytely: YES
I like it better than Google maps on my desktop, in fact:
It's issues, as I understand it, can be itemized very simply: (1) some satellite images are warped; (2) searching for locations by name is flawed and risks taking you to the wrong place. No one actually cares about item 1, so woop-di-doo to everyone with their panties in a bunch over that. Yes, satellite view is very useful on occasion (as a mountain biker I depend on it often), but it's hardly used as much as map view and the few that critically rely on perfect satellite imagery probably have a preferred dedicated solution. For item 2, yes, everyone cares about this. But for me at least, maybe half of the critical navigation use cases for maps on the iPhone consist of entering an address, not searching. For the situations where I have to search, the workaround is simple: lookup the address elsewhere first and then ask Siri to take me there. Boom. Apple will straighten this issue out over time, and as we all know, the sooner they get the app in the wild being used by millions of people, the sooner they can do that.
But the ADVANTAGES are HUGE.
Do you remember zooming in on Google maps and waiting for the tiles to load? Do you remember zooming in and out and seeing blurry pixelated stand-ins while you waited for discrete zoom steps? Or worse, how about those awkward in-between zoom levels where you were stuck with fuzzy-looking maps? Wait, it got worse: how about tiles that never refreshed at all and you were left with a map that was part zoomed in and part zoomed out? Or even tiles that never loaded at all so all you get is a gray square?
With Apple Maps, this is all a thing of the past. The maps are INSANELY responsive. Zooming in and out is seamless and smooth. Panning is seamless and smooth. No more stutters, no delays, no dropped tiles. No fragmented imagery. No more waiting for something that eventually times out and then your connection sucks and you can't get it back and you're suddenly stuck with no map. And it wasn't just iOS: I suffer the same some-tiles-that-never-load on my desktop computer when using Google maps even over a high bandwidth cable modem.
How about walking around downtown somewhere, trying to find that bar five blocks over, and being lost... so you pull out your iPhone, but north is on top and you're walking south-east so you get confused about turning left or right at certain intersections. What did you do? You enabled compass mode so you could tell which way you were going to see if you were headed there. But now you need to zoom in or out again to see things better. Bam! compass mode would disengage and you'd lose your orientation again. It was impossible to keep both. Now that's a thing of the past, just rotate freely and pinch to zoom in or out without losing your rotation.
And turn by turn? We got it now. Wait, even better: turn by turn that takes traffic into account and gives you the optimal route, updating live? We got that now. And 3D view (not talking the flyover stuff here, just basic 3D view) kicks butt and pans really intuitively and helps give you a feel for the layout.
In short, usability -- Apple's hallmark -- has increased a hundred-fold. Google maps was practically useless for me. Really, it was. Apple maps on the other hand, is everything I ever expected from a mapping app and it's obviously only going to get better.
To me, the idea of offering multiple personas for a single username is a completely obvious thing to want to do for online communities.
Easy example: a popular musician may want to appear as "Sting" to fans but as "Gordon Sumner" to business and financial types, and perhaps "Gordie" to family. Each persona would not just have a different name, but would engage in different activities and form relationships with different people.
That is because the prior art here is reality itself. This is how humans live and form relationships in real life. We adopt personas, we get branded with nicknames and become personalities of different kinds to the various people we deal with in our lives. All the world's a stage and we are merely players, after all.
The complication for an online community is only in the additional UI, database, and permissions/security overhead that a programming team must deal with. There is no need for a patent here.
The action against Samsung was about more than just rounded corners. In particular, it was about them trying to shamelessly ape the whole Apple brand and appearance instead of coming up with their own way.
Really, not just IMAP... the whole notion that you might see the same messages everywhere is blazingly obvious once you have the concept of networked computing in the first place.
They don't offer free tethering because you have to pay for what you consume.
That other companies have the temerity to charge you extra just for the privilege of tethering is a whole other problem. That would be like the water company charging you extra for the privilege of using water to wash with instead of just drinking it.
The fact is, we pay for data plans, unlimited or metered. Either way, it should be ours to do as we wish with! The telcos should not be allowed (should not have any right) to impose on us any kinds of fees or limitations on what we have purchased from them. End of story.
I'd guess at least half of people buying the new 5 are existing iPhone users with a 4 or lower model. Maybe 10-15% are new users and another 10-15% are 4S users with money to burn or a damaged phone and needing a new one anyway. The remaining 20-30% is my margin of error =P
So many shriek and bitch about other people jumping like lemmings sight-unseen on a new phone from Apple. Look, it's a fucking phone. We're paying a fucking contract that we'd be paying regardless, month after month. We want the best experience we can get given the price we pay monthly and in the context of our user style and use preferences. Apple has delivered on that for us time and time again in the past. There's no reason at this time to mistrust that there's something wrong with the new phone. Even antennagate blew over as a non-event. So, as soon as our contracts allow and as soon as there is a new model that does everything we like but about twice as fast and better in other ways, of course we won't hesitate to upgrade. It would be idiotic not to, in fact.
There's a fix for sticking and non-responsive home buttons involving force-quitting a core app (resets something somehow) and shutting down your phone and depressing and then wiping the whole button area thoroughly with alcohol and a q-tip (esp around the edges)... let dry, boot back up. I did both of these with mine last July and it's been like new ever since.
The first step sounds like voodoo, but I did it and immediately the button was working again. I only did the second step as well because it seemed like a logical and good thing to do anyway.
The problem is that iPhones have historically sold out and then remain hard to get for a few weeks after. So if you want a newly released iPhone, you have to either get in really early, stand in line all day at a store, or wait about a month or more.
For me, leaving AT&T is a huge deal. I was still on AT&T when I bought the 4 two years ago and I simply cannot take another day with these idiot fraudsters. So I wanted to jump on the new phone ASAP and not have to deal with standing in line.
Plus, my dad is excited to get my iPhone 4 as a hand-me-down. So I'd like to get that to him before this winter.
It all adds up to not possibly waiting any longer than the first day. I'm sure plenty of other folk have similar motives.
I'm skeptical Sublime is any more platform independent than say, Google Chrome, MS Office, or Adobe Photoshop.*
Yes, there are versions of each designed for each platform, but this is not the same as tossing out platform-specific code in favor of platform independence. I.e., I have no qualms with someone porting TextEdit to other platforms, but the OP seemed to be suggesting literally making TextMate platform independent (like much other OSS out there).
--- * If Sublime truly 100% platform independent, wow... that's some insane miracle. Because all my habitual keyboard editing maneuvers and shortcuts work as they would in a native app, as does drag and drop and integration with other apps (like sftp).
Mac users as a bunch tend to loathe GUI-critical software that "runs anywhere" (like anything Java, Air, and nix apps running under X11). This is also one of the things that makes TextMate specifically so great. It integrates with your Mac environment so seamlessly, it renders text fantastically, it uses UI conventions that you are accustomed to from native apps... etc, etc, etc, the list goes on.
If you want something like TextMate on a different platform, go ahead and bake your own. But don't try to suggest that not being able to run TextMate elsewhere is some kind of flaw.
At least it displays properly on my retina screen, unlike the aforementioned BBEdit.
BBedit was my go-to editor years ago. And it still is for some things. Any kind of batch file operations for example, or transforming tab delimited notes I take into sql inserts.
Establish private, accredited, gun licensing organizations. Make licenses graduated (basic handgun license all the way to automatics and concealeds).
Let them come up with the timelines and curriculum, as long as they are held partly responsible financially for graduates who commit crimes with guns.
In fact, hold them civilly liable for heinous crimes committed by graduates that a jury feels they should have had the foresight to realize was a bad thing waiting to happen. Cancel their accreditation for any situation where they are judged negligent.
This way, the government is not involved in deciding who gets guns and who doesn't, nor what types of guns but we instill enough paranoia in the system that it makes damn sure the wrong people are not licensed (or licensed too soon or for the wrong weapons).
No, she doesn't. If she turns around, she misses her chance to kill her dinner and risks getting killed herself or at the very least hurt. Instead, she's going to opt to hunt one down and claim it as her own and only defend that.
A bigger squirrel coming to take his nuts is committing a violation of property. The squirrel will do what it can to protect the nut outside of risking its safety. However, the squirrel will take no action against another squirrel who's copying what it does.
That's legalistic obfuscation of the relevant point.
The relevant point, is that tangible property is associated with certain "natural rights" whereas IP is not. It's clear that physical items and land are claimed by creatures as being their own and they naturally defend against intruders and looters. IP, however, has no natural analog. It is simply an entitlement created by our civilized social order to promote creative efforts because we see some value to them.
A squirrel hunts for a nut and gets to keep it and has a natural right to hold and defend the nut against other squirrels. A lion protects her kill against free-riders.
That same squirrel has no right to prevent other squirrels from observing and adopting it methods for nut finding. That same lioness has no recourse against another lioness following her to find her secret pack of wildebeest.
It's not a double-standard. You can't call someone your homey either unless it's true. Calling them that when it's not true makes you fake. You must share something particular in order to be allowed to use certain terms.
It's ok to say 'nigga' or 'nikka/nickle' etc... said like that, it's a term of endearment. When you say it how it was originally spelled and pronounced "nigger" then you are talking about it's original disparaging connotation.
So the problem is, you cannot use the new variants of the word unless you _mean_ it as a term of endearment, and when you do use it, it needs to be obvious that's how you mean it and it needs to be the truth (the one you are speaking of is endeared to you) and vice-versa, the one you are speaking of would agree and accept that endearment.
This brings up a whole other semantic issue, namely, that in order for the one you are speaking of to accept the term, it must be a mutually understood thing. The trouble is, that the term typically comes weighted with the notion that you and the one you are speaking of share the nature of the term. You are both niggas. Hence, you cannot really call someone your boo or hun-bun if you are not also their boo or hun-bun.
This is the sole reason why it's "acceptable" for blacks and unacceptable for whites. The blacks that do object to other blacks using the term do so both because they believe it is an awful term of endearment in the first place, borrowing from a horrible racist past associated with the word it derives from, and also because of the exact "double-standard" it seems to suggest (though not really true).
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I'm trying to comprehend under what justification my comment would be modded down. I can see someone thinking it wasn't insightful enough to mod up (it's just an opinion after all, although I think it expresses a valid alternative viewpoint and carefully explains and justifies such a position ). Perhaps it's not interesting (again, opinions are like assholes, but when I moderate, I think when someone bucks the trend and goes against the "herd mentality" (hmmm... is that inflammatory, well isn't iSheep inflammatory then?) and clearly defends their position with logical rhetoric it's always interesting, even if I don't happen to agree). And it certainly wasn't funny. But maybe it's informative in some way? I guess that's open to interpretation.
All of those are great reasons for NOT modding me up. But I don't see the justification for modding me down. If someone else thinks it's interesting or informative or whatever, why would you think they are wrong? And even if you do think that, why would you then further seek to mod me down past my base karma?
Seems like politically motivated moderating to me. And frankly, I've seen a lot more of that in recent months on other's posts. I've spent a lot of time undoing political moderation lately, even for posts I personally disagree with.
What happened to Slashdot? I know moderation used to be a lot fairer and impartial than it's become. I sense the digg-ification of Slashdot is upon us.
Obviously I'm a raving lunatic.
However, I have no love for MS, but I I do prefer google not have my search data and bing is easier to incorporate into my workflow than duckduckgo... (and I generally prefer Bing maps to most other in-browser desktop providers)
They can't cross-reference it with my email or youtube usage.
Besides, their map search results are better than Google's.
Allow me to qualify one statement: google maps was not totally useless. Just as a mapping app. As a way to find locations near me or near something else, it was excellent. But I switched to Bing for that purpose now. It seems equally good and I don't have to worry about them tracking all my map searches and indexing them against my gmail and youtube usage.
You can count me as one user who thinks it is the "best ever."
Ideal? No.
Best it can be? No.
But "best ever", abso-fucking-lytely: YES
I like it better than Google maps on my desktop, in fact:
It's issues, as I understand it, can be itemized very simply: (1) some satellite images are warped; (2) searching for locations by name is flawed and risks taking you to the wrong place. No one actually cares about item 1, so woop-di-doo to everyone with their panties in a bunch over that. Yes, satellite view is very useful on occasion (as a mountain biker I depend on it often), but it's hardly used as much as map view and the few that critically rely on perfect satellite imagery probably have a preferred dedicated solution. For item 2, yes, everyone cares about this. But for me at least, maybe half of the critical navigation use cases for maps on the iPhone consist of entering an address, not searching. For the situations where I have to search, the workaround is simple: lookup the address elsewhere first and then ask Siri to take me there. Boom. Apple will straighten this issue out over time, and as we all know, the sooner they get the app in the wild being used by millions of people, the sooner they can do that.
But the ADVANTAGES are HUGE.
Do you remember zooming in on Google maps and waiting for the tiles to load? Do you remember zooming in and out and seeing blurry pixelated stand-ins while you waited for discrete zoom steps? Or worse, how about those awkward in-between zoom levels where you were stuck with fuzzy-looking maps? Wait, it got worse: how about tiles that never refreshed at all and you were left with a map that was part zoomed in and part zoomed out? Or even tiles that never loaded at all so all you get is a gray square?
With Apple Maps, this is all a thing of the past. The maps are INSANELY responsive. Zooming in and out is seamless and smooth. Panning is seamless and smooth. No more stutters, no delays, no dropped tiles. No fragmented imagery. No more waiting for something that eventually times out and then your connection sucks and you can't get it back and you're suddenly stuck with no map. And it wasn't just iOS: I suffer the same some-tiles-that-never-load on my desktop computer when using Google maps even over a high bandwidth cable modem.
How about walking around downtown somewhere, trying to find that bar five blocks over, and being lost... so you pull out your iPhone, but north is on top and you're walking south-east so you get confused about turning left or right at certain intersections. What did you do? You enabled compass mode so you could tell which way you were going to see if you were headed there. But now you need to zoom in or out again to see things better. Bam! compass mode would disengage and you'd lose your orientation again. It was impossible to keep both. Now that's a thing of the past, just rotate freely and pinch to zoom in or out without losing your rotation.
And turn by turn? We got it now. Wait, even better: turn by turn that takes traffic into account and gives you the optimal route, updating live? We got that now. And 3D view (not talking the flyover stuff here, just basic 3D view) kicks butt and pans really intuitively and helps give you a feel for the layout.
In short, usability -- Apple's hallmark -- has increased a hundred-fold. Google maps was practically useless for me. Really, it was. Apple maps on the other hand, is everything I ever expected from a mapping app and it's obviously only going to get better.
To me, the idea of offering multiple personas for a single username is a completely obvious thing to want to do for online communities.
Easy example: a popular musician may want to appear as "Sting" to fans but as "Gordon Sumner" to business and financial types, and perhaps "Gordie" to family. Each persona would not just have a different name, but would engage in different activities and form relationships with different people.
That is because the prior art here is reality itself. This is how humans live and form relationships in real life. We adopt personas, we get branded with nicknames and become personalities of different kinds to the various people we deal with in our lives. All the world's a stage and we are merely players, after all.
The complication for an online community is only in the additional UI, database, and permissions/security overhead that a programming team must deal with. There is no need for a patent here.
So yes, the google patent should be invalidated.
Let's not be disingenuous.
The action against Samsung was about more than just rounded corners. In particular, it was about them trying to shamelessly ape the whole Apple brand and appearance instead of coming up with their own way.
Really, not just IMAP... the whole notion that you might see the same messages everywhere is blazingly obvious once you have the concept of networked computing in the first place.
but at the very least, IMAP should invalidate
They don't offer free tethering because you have to pay for what you consume.
That other companies have the temerity to charge you extra just for the privilege of tethering is a whole other problem. That would be like the water company charging you extra for the privilege of using water to wash with instead of just drinking it.
The fact is, we pay for data plans, unlimited or metered. Either way, it should be ours to do as we wish with! The telcos should not be allowed (should not have any right) to impose on us any kinds of fees or limitations on what we have purchased from them. End of story.
Wow. Modded down for that, huh.
I'm going to have to agree that battery life is the iPhone's achilles heel for me at least.
They really need to address this in a dramatic way by iPhone 7 imo to remain viable.
I'd guess at least half of people buying the new 5 are existing iPhone users with a 4 or lower model. Maybe 10-15% are new users and another 10-15% are 4S users with money to burn or a damaged phone and needing a new one anyway. The remaining 20-30% is my margin of error =P
So many shriek and bitch about other people jumping like lemmings sight-unseen on a new phone from Apple. Look, it's a fucking phone. We're paying a fucking contract that we'd be paying regardless, month after month. We want the best experience we can get given the price we pay monthly and in the context of our user style and use preferences. Apple has delivered on that for us time and time again in the past. There's no reason at this time to mistrust that there's something wrong with the new phone. Even antennagate blew over as a non-event.
So, as soon as our contracts allow and as soon as there is a new model that does everything we like but about twice as fast and better in other ways, of course we won't hesitate to upgrade. It would be idiotic not to, in fact.
There's a fix for sticking and non-responsive home buttons involving force-quitting a core app (resets something somehow) and shutting down your phone and depressing and then wiping the whole button area thoroughly with alcohol and a q-tip (esp around the edges)... let dry, boot back up. I did both of these with mine last July and it's been like new ever since.
The first step sounds like voodoo, but I did it and immediately the button was working again. I only did the second step as well because it seemed like a logical and good thing to do anyway.
http://osxdaily.com/2011/12/22/iphone-home-button-not-working-or-unresponsive-fix/
The problem is that iPhones have historically sold out and then remain hard to get for a few weeks after. So if you want a newly released iPhone, you have to either get in really early, stand in line all day at a store, or wait about a month or more.
For me, leaving AT&T is a huge deal. I was still on AT&T when I bought the 4 two years ago and I simply cannot take another day with these idiot fraudsters. So I wanted to jump on the new phone ASAP and not have to deal with standing in line.
Plus, my dad is excited to get my iPhone 4 as a hand-me-down. So I'd like to get that to him before this winter.
It all adds up to not possibly waiting any longer than the first day. I'm sure plenty of other folk have similar motives.
I'm skeptical Sublime is any more platform independent than say, Google Chrome, MS Office, or Adobe Photoshop.*
Yes, there are versions of each designed for each platform, but this is not the same as tossing out platform-specific code in favor of platform independence. I.e., I have no qualms with someone porting TextEdit to other platforms, but the OP seemed to be suggesting literally making TextMate platform independent (like much other OSS out there).
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* If Sublime truly 100% platform independent, wow... that's some insane miracle. Because all my habitual keyboard editing maneuvers and shortcuts work as they would in a native app, as does drag and drop and integration with other apps (like sftp).
It's not it's insanely discrete undo behavior, that's for sure. :P
Oh hell no!
Mac users as a bunch tend to loathe GUI-critical software that "runs anywhere" (like anything Java, Air, and nix apps running under X11). This is also one of the things that makes TextMate specifically so great. It integrates with your Mac environment so seamlessly, it renders text fantastically, it uses UI conventions that you are accustomed to from native apps... etc, etc, etc, the list goes on.
If you want something like TextMate on a different platform, go ahead and bake your own. But don't try to suggest that not being able to run TextMate elsewhere is some kind of flaw.
At least it displays properly on my retina screen, unlike the aforementioned BBEdit.
BBedit was my go-to editor years ago. And it still is for some things. Any kind of batch file operations for example, or transforming tab delimited notes I take into sql inserts.
But for actual coding, TextMate all the way.
Establish private, accredited, gun licensing organizations. Make licenses graduated (basic handgun license all the way to automatics and concealeds).
Let them come up with the timelines and curriculum, as long as they are held partly responsible financially for graduates who commit crimes with guns.
In fact, hold them civilly liable for heinous crimes committed by graduates that a jury feels they should have had the foresight to realize was a bad thing waiting to happen. Cancel their accreditation for any situation where they are judged negligent.
This way, the government is not involved in deciding who gets guns and who doesn't, nor what types of guns but we instill enough paranoia in the system that it makes damn sure the wrong people are not licensed (or licensed too soon or for the wrong weapons).
No, she doesn't. If she turns around, she misses her chance to kill her dinner and risks getting killed herself or at the very least hurt. Instead, she's going to opt to hunt one down and claim it as her own and only defend that.
A bigger squirrel coming to take his nuts is committing a violation of property. The squirrel will do what it can to protect the nut outside of risking its safety. However, the squirrel will take no action against another squirrel who's copying what it does.
That's legalistic obfuscation of the relevant point.
The relevant point, is that tangible property is associated with certain "natural rights" whereas IP is not. It's clear that physical items and land are claimed by creatures as being their own and they naturally defend against intruders and looters. IP, however, has no natural analog. It is simply an entitlement created by our civilized social order to promote creative efforts because we see some value to them.
A squirrel hunts for a nut and gets to keep it and has a natural right to hold and defend the nut against other squirrels. A lion protects her kill against free-riders.
That same squirrel has no right to prevent other squirrels from observing and adopting it methods for nut finding. That same lioness has no recourse against another lioness following her to find her secret pack of wildebeest.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lawnmower_Man_(film)
It's not a double-standard.
You can't call someone your homey either unless it's true. Calling them that when it's not true makes you fake. You must share something particular in order to be allowed to use certain terms.
It's ok to say 'nigga' or 'nikka/nickle' etc... said like that, it's a term of endearment. When you say it how it was originally spelled and pronounced "nigger" then you are talking about it's original disparaging connotation.
So the problem is, you cannot use the new variants of the word unless you _mean_ it as a term of endearment, and when you do use it, it needs to be obvious that's how you mean it and it needs to be the truth (the one you are speaking of is endeared to you) and vice-versa, the one you are speaking of would agree and accept that endearment.
This brings up a whole other semantic issue, namely, that in order for the one you are speaking of to accept the term, it must be a mutually understood thing. The trouble is, that the term typically comes weighted with the notion that you and the one you are speaking of share the nature of the term. You are both niggas. Hence, you cannot really call someone your boo or hun-bun if you are not also their boo or hun-bun.
This is the sole reason why it's "acceptable" for blacks and unacceptable for whites. The blacks that do object to other blacks using the term do so both because they believe it is an awful term of endearment in the first place, borrowing from a horrible racist past associated with the word it derives from, and also because of the exact "double-standard" it seems to suggest (though not really true).
at the very least this AC needs to be modded up as underrated