Considering the huge differences between the two countries, he has a point. Obviously we're not going to invade them and shouldn't. The fact that they actually have an active pro-democracy movement that is willing to risk their lives for their cause is quite a step above Iraq, though, where we just went by the word of a few exiles who told us what we wanted to hear.
The hardware unlocking doesn't even require a soldering iron. It could be done a lot more easily with something like this. Much lower probability of bricking your $600 phone, and much less effort required as well.
Insightful? I know it's fun to hate on Dvorak, but give him his due when he actually does make a good point. You know someone didn't RTFA when they come down on the side of WGA.
Have you seen a Thinkpad from the last few years? They're the same as they were before the handover. Most electronics are made in China, it generally comes down to who makes them and how much oversight there is. If it's some random cheap company, then it probably will be crappy. If it's a legitimate company (like Lenovo), then the quality will generally be higher. Seeing as Seagate drives are already made in China, I don't see why this would be a big deal.
If America was humble enough to ask for high-speed railways, both France and Japan would build and run transcontinental superexpresses for free, just to get rid of USA's coast-to-coast car and plane traffic, which are major polluters.
Bullshit. I wish this was true, but you've just got diarrhea of the mouth. I would love to be able to take an express train across the country, it would be great if someone would build one. I very highly doubt that France or Japan would be so generous, though...
The way the whole issue has been handled is ridiculous. Extrapolating the very limited data we have to predict Armageddon in the next century is ridiculous. It's like starting to track someone's height at age 10 and then 4 years later predict that they'll double in height by the time they reach 30.
Not to say that we shouldn't be studying it more, or taking steps to mitigate the possibility, but there's way too much hype and doomsday scenarios being thrown out there. Conservation is a worthy goal in and of itself, we should be doing it regardless of whether our houses will be under 10 feet of water in 50 years. But using FUD to push something like this is ridiculous.
Big Oil only wants you to think that they're not practical. I'm sure they have plenty of them locked up with their stash of electric cars and air engines.
But they're operating on the assumption that only 10% of their customers will be using their services at any given time while telling each customer that they're welcome at any time. It works out most of the time, but it's still pretty dishonest. And as more and more people sign up for their service, their ability to reliably deliver on their promises decreases.
With different and distinct cultural groups it gives humanity more variations on how to resist diseases and other health afflictions with varying results. One race/culture may resist one disease yet be weak to another.
This is exactly why intermarriage between groups with different genetic makeups is good. Only marrying within your own ethnic group only allows the susceptibility to certain diseases (like Sickle-cell disease, which is caused by a recessive gene) to be passed on generation to generation. This hurts you, not helps you.
This is totally ignoring the fact that there's generally more genetic diversity within a single race/ethnic group than there is between different ones. Race as we know it today is just as much cultural as it is genetic.
I know it's fashionable on Slashdot to rail on copyright claims and whatnot, but what an effing moron! It's obviously not worth a year in jail, but how stupid do you have to be to bring a camcorder into a theater at all, let alone pull it out and use it?
I think if we weren't nickel-and-dimed for every service that goes beyond voice calling, we'd be a lot more open to all those extra features. I'd love to be able to browse the web on my phone if I didn't have to pay $20 extra for a data plan. I'd text message slightly more than never if I didn't get charged every time. As it is, I only use my phone as a phone because if I just hit a wrong button, I have to pay for it.
That may be the case with a small company in a niche market, but when you're as big as Apple and you're selling hundreds of thousands of units, you recoup those R&D costs a lot more quickly. They're making a pretty hefty profit off of the iPhone.
Seriously, though, wouldn't the truly tech-savvy not need a million buttons, one for each feature/control? Wouldn't the truly "wonky" be able to do more with less?
I'd say if you're not tech-savvy, you're probably better off with the option where every command gets its own button so you don't get confused by things like so-called "menus" and "touch screens".
I'd say the opposite. Use the mouse and keyboard combination as an analogy. The tech-savvy computer user uses all kinds of keyboard shortcuts to do what plenty of people only know how to do with a mouse. GUIs are pretty and possibly more intuitive, but you can get things done a lot faster with hardware buttons than a point-and-click interface.
If the phrase "fuck off" sets off a pornographic fantasy in your head, then you're totally missing the point. No one takes curses that literally, they're just more forceful ways of saying things.
Ah, yes. Part of the world-view that believes that as soon as we leave Iraq, all the mujahadeen will apologize and go home, and Al Qaeda will disband. Uh, where did you find that in this:
Generally speaking I'm with you, but I don't think the GOP is going to come crashing down. What I'm really praying for is a schism, where the religious right casts out the libertarian non-believers.
I really do think this split is inevitable, I just can't tell if it is going to happen by 2012 or 2020. ?
From Wikipedia:
Many scientists who have studied squid mass strandings believe that they are cyclical and predictable, but the length of time between strandings is not yet known. A period of 90 years between mass strandings has been proposed by Frederick Aldrich, an Architeuthis specialist, who used this value to correctly predict a relatively small stranding that occurred between 1964 and 1966. By and large, however, squid strandings remain a yet unsolved problem. It is strange, but it doesn't seem to be a new phenomenon.
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I really don't think there's much controversy about whether or not a dog was really talking to David Berkowitz.
Considering the huge differences between the two countries, he has a point. Obviously we're not going to invade them and shouldn't. The fact that they actually have an active pro-democracy movement that is willing to risk their lives for their cause is quite a step above Iraq, though, where we just went by the word of a few exiles who told us what we wanted to hear.
Good point. Those subsidized Asian-edition "Do not sell in the US" paperback textbooks are what got my cheap ass through college.
The hardware unlocking doesn't even require a soldering iron. It could be done a lot more easily with something like this. Much lower probability of bricking your $600 phone, and much less effort required as well.
Insightful? I know it's fun to hate on Dvorak, but give him his due when he actually does make a good point. You know someone didn't RTFA when they come down on the side of WGA.
Have you seen a Thinkpad from the last few years? They're the same as they were before the handover. Most electronics are made in China, it generally comes down to who makes them and how much oversight there is. If it's some random cheap company, then it probably will be crappy. If it's a legitimate company (like Lenovo), then the quality will generally be higher. Seeing as Seagate drives are already made in China, I don't see why this would be a big deal.
I don't think he's promoting it, he's just accepting the reality of it.
According to this New York Times article, it's where he got his money.
It's very appropriate that Stuart Pivar made his millions making something else that was full of shit.
If America was humble enough to ask for high-speed railways, both France and Japan would build and run transcontinental superexpresses for free, just to get rid of USA's coast-to-coast car and plane traffic, which are major polluters.
Bullshit. I wish this was true, but you've just got diarrhea of the mouth. I would love to be able to take an express train across the country, it would be great if someone would build one. I very highly doubt that France or Japan would be so generous, though...
The way the whole issue has been handled is ridiculous. Extrapolating the very limited data we have to predict Armageddon in the next century is ridiculous. It's like starting to track someone's height at age 10 and then 4 years later predict that they'll double in height by the time they reach 30. Not to say that we shouldn't be studying it more, or taking steps to mitigate the possibility, but there's way too much hype and doomsday scenarios being thrown out there. Conservation is a worthy goal in and of itself, we should be doing it regardless of whether our houses will be under 10 feet of water in 50 years. But using FUD to push something like this is ridiculous.
Big Oil only wants you to think that they're not practical. I'm sure they have plenty of them locked up with their stash of electric cars and air engines.
But they're operating on the assumption that only 10% of their customers will be using their services at any given time while telling each customer that they're welcome at any time. It works out most of the time, but it's still pretty dishonest. And as more and more people sign up for their service, their ability to reliably deliver on their promises decreases.
Cute? She looks like the lost Kerry sister.
I know it's fashionable on Slashdot to rail on copyright claims and whatnot, but what an effing moron! It's obviously not worth a year in jail, but how stupid do you have to be to bring a camcorder into a theater at all, let alone pull it out and use it?
I think if we weren't nickel-and-dimed for every service that goes beyond voice calling, we'd be a lot more open to all those extra features. I'd love to be able to browse the web on my phone if I didn't have to pay $20 extra for a data plan. I'd text message slightly more than never if I didn't get charged every time. As it is, I only use my phone as a phone because if I just hit a wrong button, I have to pay for it.
That may be the case with a small company in a niche market, but when you're as big as Apple and you're selling hundreds of thousands of units, you recoup those R&D costs a lot more quickly. They're making a pretty hefty profit off of the iPhone.
But the problem isn't from the wifi itself, it's from the transformer in the router.
If the phrase "fuck off" sets off a pornographic fantasy in your head, then you're totally missing the point. No one takes curses that literally, they're just more forceful ways of saying things.
Assuming this is real, he wasn't just joking at the end.
At least it's entertaining, even if it is blatant advertising. Seeing an iPhone turned into black dust is strangely satisfying.