When I wanted to sit on my comfy chair on my deck wrapped in a blanket with a coffee in one hand and/. in the other. Or when I want to browse while standing for an hour on the train twice a day.
Ok, given. But I'll say a mobile phone (even the iPhone) probably better serves you for these purposes. It's anecdotal, but I ride the train an hour to work every day, and I've never seen anyone whip out an iPad. A kindle, an iPhone, even other mp3 players (Zune, etc.) and smart phones, but the iPad seems to not be very popular on the train even among the massive yuppie, hipster population that rides with me. But then again, the trains I ride are often packed, to the point where even a phone takes up more room than there might be. I can imagine people whipping out iPads as easily as they would a netbook or other laptop computer.
Or when I want to just not carry around a 5lb brick everywhere I go when not working.
Netbooks are considerably lighter than 5lb. Not a good strawman.
Or when I don't want unblockable popups.
Use Firefox with NoScript on your netbook. With that, not only can I block pop-up ads, but all ads. Oh wait, but you can't do that on an iPad, so it must not count as an advantage of the netbook.
You mean like a motorcycle instead of a car?
People don't drive motorcycles for the same purposes as they might drive a car. You can compare a convertible to a motorcycle, but in the end, it's still not quite the same. So you can't call a motorcycle a cripped car. You can call a smart car a crippled car. But so few people drive that, it would pretty much invalidate your argument.
You mean like a regular cell phone instead of a smart phone?
Most people who can afford it, and who have a need for it, use smart phones. Nobody who has a data plan will use a regular phone anymore.
You mean like a laptop instead of a desktop?
Laptops serve a completely different function. They're not a portable desktop, so much as a portable computer.
The iPad was, and continues to be presented as a replacement for the netbook. In order for it to replace the netbook, it has to fill the same niche. Which quite frankly, it's not so good at. It may be good at other things, in which case it wouldn't be a replacement for a netbook, but I'm not so sure about that either.
Nor is it a good replacement for a kindle, but nobody seems to be talking about that these days...
It unusually sensational for a financial article. Its bias, however, is par for the course.
Remember the "financial analysts" talking about how great the stock market is all the way until the minute before it crashed? These articles are written by shepards catering to sheep. They'll always say there is no big bad wolf, because that's what sheep like to hear.
The real analysts are working for the financial companies, and their analyses are completely secret. Why do you think Goldman was secretly shorting mortgage-backed securities while still selling them as highly rated? It's because if Goldman stopped doing the latter, they'd lose their advantage in the former. So they have to maintain the facade, in order that they can reap all the benefits.
Financial articles and analyses are all pretty much based on this idea. Not only does nobody want to read naysayers and doom and gloom sotries, but it's more advantageous for the parent companies providing these analyses to skew the truth towards as positive a light as possible.
I'm not necessarily questioning the separation between church and state in Fortune, but the overall layman perception of the iPad is that it is a good thing for the iPad to be doing well, and that's the mentality articles about the iPad will cater to.
We who are engineers and scientists though, know better (or should) than to look at analysis without looking at the data. Not only that, but as we're a little more cynical than most, we also tend to wonder what's not being said. And in this case, it's pretty obvious the author is grasping at straws, and that the information in the article does not provide any usable indication.
You're picking at semantics here. Cellular networks may be cells, but if you take a step back, you can see that the infrastructure is still a tree, with a central root node per area that connects to the rest of the telephone network.
This isn't quite true either. Because of speculation, oil can actually go up a lot more due to the perception of a future shortage. At the same time, it will go down if there's a perception of a future surplus. Basically, there's far more forces at play right now than just a simple oil leak, including global economic conditions. Oil prices probably won't be affected by this, even if the entire reserve suddenly bubbles to the surface in one gigantic burp. 30 years down the line, when all of the reserves are consumed, perhaps then this would matter. Then again, the amount of oil that has spilled out so far would probably delay the inevitable by about a day.
Well, duh. Wikipedia is a place to store and retrieve knowledge, not a place to transfer or teach it. Wikipedia can't replace a real human teacher or professor, or even a specialized book on a particular subject. The best it can do is either be an introduction to new knowledge, or a refresher to existing knowledge, whereas what you're looking for is the wide body of stuff in the middle. Knowledge that is very general will fit into the introduction category, while knowledge that is very specific will fit into the refresher category. This math article and other specific math articles fall into the latter category.
There's a reason why specialized fields have developed their own jargon, and math in particular has its own lexicon. It's not to keep the uneducated masses out; it's to keep the ambiguity of human spoken and written language from creeping in. If you want to learn the mathematics and you don't have the base to understand the lexicon, you're starting from 0 so take a class or otherwise find someone to teach you. If you can understand the lexicon, or you can figure it out because you already have taken a class or you intuitively understand the concepts involved, Wikipedia will give you tons of knowledge with a little effort.
If you're too cheap or too unmotivated to take a class or put the effort into learning about the lexicon first, then you're just lazy and not in any position to complain.
I think GP was saying it could replace the high beam. The infrared imaging system can be switched off when the infrared high beam is off as well, so that when you're driving towards me with your infrared brights, I'll still only see your normal headlights so long as my infrared brights are off.
And because in suburban and rural areas, you can turn these up without bothering people inside a building, you can have them project farther, to the point where you can spot that deer headed straight for the road from much farther away.
And here I was thinking, if any government organization could lift a balloon with all the hot air they created, it would be NASA. I guess Obama's budget cuts had a much larger deflationary effect than anyone expected.
It's a system designed not to be effective, efficient, or good in any way, but to be able to cover your own ass and shift the blame elsewhere when things inevitably go wrong.
Engadget is owned by AOL, which was spun off from Time Warner at the end of last year.
Anyway, the point still stands. AOL's experience with the internet is far greater than anybody else's. If there's anybody who knows the in's and out's of internet legality, it would be them.
Third. The phrase "Haulin' Ass and Gettin' Paid" does not actually appear on legitimate US currency.
But it sure as hell would be cooler than that generic and boring "In God We Trust". Hell, every denomination should have its own tagline. Like "Payin' to Play" on the 20 and "Don't Forget to Tip" on the 1.
First you roll out the updates to the machines that need to differenciate bills so that all the machines can handle the new bills. Then you introduce the new bills.
This is just another symptom of what happens when people with extremist views have access to lots of journalists looking for a scoop and television cameras: their views get a whole lot more attention than they normally would.
The 'Muslim world', for the most part, didn't have the scale of change as the 'western world' did during the Industrial Revolution. They basically missed it.
They didn't miss it. The Islamic golden age significantly predated the age of enlightenment. They already had advance science and math long before Europe and the Christians. Arabic numbers? Algebra? However, the culture eventually turned towards religion and here lies the result. As opposed to the age of enlightenment, where people turned away from religion, and hence the civilization prospered.
What? Catholicism was pretty much all there was to Christianity until the Protestant Reformation.
Sure, there were Jewish Christians (and not the Jews for Jesus kooks, but real Jewish people who believed Christ was the Son of God as opposed to a mere prophet), but those got wiped out in the middle ages. Few, if any, still survive from those lineages.
You're thinking "Protestant" is synonymous with "Christian", which is simply untrue. Not to mention that a quick search in Wikipedia will reveal that Roman Catholics are but one group of Catholics, the Eastern Orthodox and Assyrian being among other Catholics.
Neither your definition of Christianity nor Catholicism is correct, so I declare you troll.
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When I wanted to sit on my comfy chair on my deck wrapped in a blanket with a coffee in one hand and /. in the other.
Or when I want to browse while standing for an hour on the train twice a day.
Ok, given. But I'll say a mobile phone (even the iPhone) probably better serves you for these purposes. It's anecdotal, but I ride the train an hour to work every day, and I've never seen anyone whip out an iPad. A kindle, an iPhone, even other mp3 players (Zune, etc.) and smart phones, but the iPad seems to not be very popular on the train even among the massive yuppie, hipster population that rides with me. But then again, the trains I ride are often packed, to the point where even a phone takes up more room than there might be. I can imagine people whipping out iPads as easily as they would a netbook or other laptop computer.
Or when I want to just not carry around a 5lb brick everywhere I go when not working.
Netbooks are considerably lighter than 5lb. Not a good strawman.
Or when I don't want unblockable popups.
Use Firefox with NoScript on your netbook. With that, not only can I block pop-up ads, but all ads. Oh wait, but you can't do that on an iPad, so it must not count as an advantage of the netbook.
You mean like a motorcycle instead of a car?
People don't drive motorcycles for the same purposes as they might drive a car. You can compare a convertible to a motorcycle, but in the end, it's still not quite the same. So you can't call a motorcycle a cripped car. You can call a smart car a crippled car. But so few people drive that, it would pretty much invalidate your argument.
You mean like a regular cell phone instead of a smart phone?
Most people who can afford it, and who have a need for it, use smart phones. Nobody who has a data plan will use a regular phone anymore.
You mean like a laptop instead of a desktop?
Laptops serve a completely different function. They're not a portable desktop, so much as a portable computer.
The iPad was, and continues to be presented as a replacement for the netbook. In order for it to replace the netbook, it has to fill the same niche. Which quite frankly, it's not so good at. It may be good at other things, in which case it wouldn't be a replacement for a netbook, but I'm not so sure about that either.
Nor is it a good replacement for a kindle, but nobody seems to be talking about that these days...
It unusually sensational for a financial article. Its bias, however, is par for the course.
Remember the "financial analysts" talking about how great the stock market is all the way until the minute before it crashed? These articles are written by shepards catering to sheep. They'll always say there is no big bad wolf, because that's what sheep like to hear.
The real analysts are working for the financial companies, and their analyses are completely secret. Why do you think Goldman was secretly shorting mortgage-backed securities while still selling them as highly rated? It's because if Goldman stopped doing the latter, they'd lose their advantage in the former. So they have to maintain the facade, in order that they can reap all the benefits.
Financial articles and analyses are all pretty much based on this idea. Not only does nobody want to read naysayers and doom and gloom sotries, but it's more advantageous for the parent companies providing these analyses to skew the truth towards as positive a light as possible.
I'm not necessarily questioning the separation between church and state in Fortune, but the overall layman perception of the iPad is that it is a good thing for the iPad to be doing well, and that's the mentality articles about the iPad will cater to.
We who are engineers and scientists though, know better (or should) than to look at analysis without looking at the data. Not only that, but as we're a little more cynical than most, we also tend to wonder what's not being said. And in this case, it's pretty obvious the author is grasping at straws, and that the information in the article does not provide any usable indication.
You're picking at semantics here. Cellular networks may be cells, but if you take a step back, you can see that the infrastructure is still a tree, with a central root node per area that connects to the rest of the telephone network.
This isn't quite true either. Because of speculation, oil can actually go up a lot more due to the perception of a future shortage. At the same time, it will go down if there's a perception of a future surplus. Basically, there's far more forces at play right now than just a simple oil leak, including global economic conditions. Oil prices probably won't be affected by this, even if the entire reserve suddenly bubbles to the surface in one gigantic burp. 30 years down the line, when all of the reserves are consumed, perhaps then this would matter. Then again, the amount of oil that has spilled out so far would probably delay the inevitable by about a day.
Buy RED. It's a little pricier than the ones you've listed (until the Scarlet comes out), but it doesn't come with such nonsense restrictions.
This is, in fact, the calculation used in the summary.
Bits are delimited in powers of 10, whereas bytes are delimited in powers of 2, hence:
4 Tb = 500 billion bytes.
In reality, 4Tb is more like 466 GB.
But practically speaking, with error correction and other overhead, 4Tb is closer to 400GB of useable space.
Well, duh. Wikipedia is a place to store and retrieve knowledge, not a place to transfer or teach it. Wikipedia can't replace a real human teacher or professor, or even a specialized book on a particular subject. The best it can do is either be an introduction to new knowledge, or a refresher to existing knowledge, whereas what you're looking for is the wide body of stuff in the middle. Knowledge that is very general will fit into the introduction category, while knowledge that is very specific will fit into the refresher category. This math article and other specific math articles fall into the latter category.
There's a reason why specialized fields have developed their own jargon, and math in particular has its own lexicon. It's not to keep the uneducated masses out; it's to keep the ambiguity of human spoken and written language from creeping in. If you want to learn the mathematics and you don't have the base to understand the lexicon, you're starting from 0 so take a class or otherwise find someone to teach you. If you can understand the lexicon, or you can figure it out because you already have taken a class or you intuitively understand the concepts involved, Wikipedia will give you tons of knowledge with a little effort.
If you're too cheap or too unmotivated to take a class or put the effort into learning about the lexicon first, then you're just lazy and not in any position to complain.
I think GP was saying it could replace the high beam. The infrared imaging system can be switched off when the infrared high beam is off as well, so that when you're driving towards me with your infrared brights, I'll still only see your normal headlights so long as my infrared brights are off.
And because in suburban and rural areas, you can turn these up without bothering people inside a building, you can have them project farther, to the point where you can spot that deer headed straight for the road from much farther away.
I suspect the LHC operators would be very disappointed if this were to happen before they could get it to run at full power.
I think he meant Final Fantasy.
Long live Final Fantasy indeed.
GP obviously doesn't work for NASA.
And here I was thinking, if any government organization could lift a balloon with all the hot air they created, it would be NASA. I guess Obama's budget cuts had a much larger deflationary effect than anyone expected.
I guess her panties are the final boss that you have to take down before you can get to it.
If you didn't have representation, you wouldn't have had all those loopholes...
It's a system designed not to be effective, efficient, or good in any way, but to be able to cover your own ass and shift the blame elsewhere when things inevitably go wrong.
Your use of "we" makes me wonder if you were involved in the case. Were you by any chance among the jury?
Engadget is owned by Time Warner
Engadget is owned by AOL, which was spun off from Time Warner at the end of last year.
Anyway, the point still stands. AOL's experience with the internet is far greater than anybody else's. If there's anybody who knows the in's and out's of internet legality, it would be them.
Third. The phrase "Haulin' Ass and Gettin' Paid" does not actually appear on legitimate US currency.
But it sure as hell would be cooler than that generic and boring "In God We Trust". Hell, every denomination should have its own tagline. Like "Payin' to Play" on the 20 and "Don't Forget to Tip" on the 1.
First you roll out the updates to the machines that need to differenciate bills so that all the machines can handle the new bills. Then you introduce the new bills.
How difficult is that?
When gas is over $3 a gallon, taking $50-$100 to fill up isn't uncommon for a large SUV.
This is just another symptom of what happens when people with extremist views have access to lots of journalists looking for a scoop and television cameras: their views get a whole lot more attention than they normally would.
Fixed that for ya.
The 'Muslim world', for the most part, didn't have the scale of change as the 'western world' did during the Industrial Revolution. They basically missed it.
They didn't miss it. The Islamic golden age significantly predated the age of enlightenment. They already had advance science and math long before Europe and the Christians. Arabic numbers? Algebra? However, the culture eventually turned towards religion and here lies the result. As opposed to the age of enlightenment, where people turned away from religion, and hence the civilization prospered.
What? Catholicism was pretty much all there was to Christianity until the Protestant Reformation.
Sure, there were Jewish Christians (and not the Jews for Jesus kooks, but real Jewish people who believed Christ was the Son of God as opposed to a mere prophet), but those got wiped out in the middle ages. Few, if any, still survive from those lineages.
You're thinking "Protestant" is synonymous with "Christian", which is simply untrue. Not to mention that a quick search in Wikipedia will reveal that Roman Catholics are but one group of Catholics, the Eastern Orthodox and Assyrian being among other Catholics.
Neither your definition of Christianity nor Catholicism is correct, so I declare you troll.
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DECRYPTING it with an unauthorized backup tool is not legal in the USA thanks to the DMCA
Fixed that for ya. It's legal to "circumvent" DRM in free countries.
He buys Playboy to read the articles. And that's what everybody else who buys the Playboy app does too.