I attend political debates, couple of times a month with different audiences and I have yet to meet a single person from the left mistake Onion with real news. I have also very rarely seen people from the right make that mistake. However, people who attend these talks are most likely better educated.
Back on topic, regarding general public this was released three years ago and at the time the left didn't come out and mistake this with real news. From looking at Facebook and Twitter, it seems like a whole lot of people on the right have been duped.
Be glad if you're holding on to an iPhone 3G(s) from last year... you got most of the good features from the new operating system while the new hardware doesn't seem ready for prime time.
Cross out 3g from that. My 3g with the measly 128MB of RAM (compared to 256 and 512 on 3GS and iPhone 4 respectively) runs extremely slow after update to iOS4. When noted this on the Apple forums I was told that technology doesn't wait for my old phone and I should upgrade and pay good money if I expect a nice phone. My 3g is less than two years old. In return for this slowdown, the only useful features that I have got are folders and multiple exchange accounts. Nothing else. Apple didn't just fail at design of the new iPhone, but also abandoned previous generations with the iOS upgrade.
Considering the mindset of the era, this actually is a good indicator of how Jefferson and other founding fathers understood that there was something wrong with the status quo and managed to change it.
on the planet happens to be the head honcho of Catholic church. What a reformation that is!
Christianity was never reformed. The one and only thing that changed was Christian theocracies went away for good. See what atrocities Vatican commits with the little amount of power left to them, imagine what they get back the unlimited powers they once had.
Unfortunately Islam is still the law of land in several countries. Once those theocracies fall the threat dies with them.
Partly depends on how "well connected" the data is.
For instance, in case of Friend of A Friend if I am your one and only friend and basically gateway to the outside then me going offline means you are not live anymore either. This of course is a rare case. Also, as with many other problems related to Semantic Web and Linked Data, this is more of an engineering challenge rather than a fundamental flaw. There are different (proposed) strategies (some borrowed from current web) that deal with all the potential issues but at least IMHO lack of immediately obvious financial gains is slowing both research and funding in the area, so the potential solutions just stay mostly theoretical.
Replacing Windows with Linux in a corporate environment I can fully understand. Migrating from MS Office to Symphony though, is as stupid as it gets. Symphony is the monster child of Open Office and Notes and from personal experience plain sucks.
It's time for Islam to learn what Christianity learned hundreds of years ago.
That never happened. Christianity never learned anything, in fact they lost control as a result of not learning and adapting. They were thrown out of governments for good and lost the power to enforce their ways on the rest of us. Give Christianity back the power they had a in the dark ages and in a decade or two "peaceful" and "tolerant" Christians will be burning heathens on crosses in the name of their lord. If you have any doubts about that keep in mind how with the tiny bit of power left in hands of Vatican they systematically and on a global scale sexually abuse innocent children, silence the victims, protect the culprits and still consider themselves righteous. Then imagine what would happen if church had unlimited powers
The reason there are relatively few terrorist Christian militias or individual Christianterrorists is fear of harsh repercussions, specifically prosecution by the state. Bring back church to the state and their fears will vanish, then you'll see how hurting Christians' feelings, including you and I's innocent jokes about Jesus would result in "bodily harm".
tldr; It is Islamic states (or generally religion+state) that are the problem, not Islam per se. For more proof, I was in Iran during the original cartoon controversy. Not a single person knew or cared about the cartoons until state media started blasting them. Not a single grassroots protest happened, not a single gathering, until government sponsored protests (which most people have to attend) started.
It's amazing how programmed the top brass at Microsoft are to including this word "innovation" in every speech.
Have you listened to top brass of any large company with a large R&D?! They all use nice words.
Of course, as you note, they are (given their R&D resources) about the most un-innovative company you could imagine.
You are equating R&D with productization. Microsoft Research is much more diverse than you think it is. That includes funding a shitload of basic sciences research which is not even intended to find a place within any product. Maybe taking a look at the research areas and the thousands of published papers would help you understand what Microsoft Research and its R&D resources are about.
AFAIK, Microsoft never really announced anything. They even went as far as calling it a rumor and at best some "sources" called it an incubation project.
Announced product examples are Windows Phone 7 and Natal.
According to a 2 June 1999, article in The Virginian-Pilot,[23] Robertson had extensive business dealings with Liberian president Charles Taylor. According to the article, Taylor gave Robertson the rights to mine for diamonds in Liberia's mineral-rich countryside. According to two Operation Blessing pilots who reported this incident to the state of Virginia for investigation in 1994, Robertson used his Operation Blessing planes to haul diamond-mining equipment to Robertson's mines in Liberia, despite the fact that Robertson was telling his 700 Club viewers that the planes were sending relief supplies to the victims of the genocide in Rwanda. In response to Taylor's alleged crimes against humanity the United States Congress passed a bill In November 2003 that offered two million dollars for his capture. Robertson accused President Bush of "undermining a Christian, Baptist president to bring in Muslim rebels to take over the country." At the time Taylor was harboring Al Qaeda operatives who were funding their operations through the illegal diamond trade.[24] On February 4, 2010, at his war crimes trial in the Hague, Charles Taylor testified that Robertson was his main political ally in the U.S., and that he had volunteered to make Liberia's case before U.S. administration officials in exchange for concessions to Robertson's Freedom Gold, Ltd., to which Taylor gave a contract to mine gold in southeast Liberia.
How do they do it? It's not just the browsing speed which is faster (though a bit "degraded" page viewing experience compared to Safari) but everything in the interface is faster. On 3G, even the keyboard which seemingly is the same keyboard widget that Safari uses is much much more responsive than when typing in Safari. Same goes for tab switching as mentioned in the summary and other actions like stop, reload, etc. Very snappy interface altogether.
Once OS X's market share grows large enough that developers won't risk abandoning the platform but at the same time small enough that Apple won't risk monopoly abuse charges.
June 2007 - Oct 2008 ~ 16 months, twice what you came up with.
Apple keeps babbling about browser share as a sign of market penetration, so it only makes sense to get back at them with the same "logic".
Considering how heavily Apple markets iPhone and how mostly oblivious Google is in that era, (leaves it all to carriers which usually keep the Android name out) then yes, Android is doing pretty fucking well.
Android is already at 19% vs iPhoneOS (likely includes iPods as well) is at 64%. Considering the fact that first Android devices were released in October 2008 vs. iPhone's initial release of June 2007, I'd say Android is doing pretty fucking well!
I think Slashdotters are for the most part woefully ignorant of how the rest of humanity actually uses computers, and would do well to understand these types of use cases. They will sell millions.
Firstly, Slashdot is not a single uniform entity. There are many different opinions which in case of iPad there are slashdotters all over the love-hate spectrum. You're not the exception here.
Secondly, in your rush to blame Slashdot, you came up with an example which not only doesn't support "sell millions" argument but also goes against it. iPad's market is much more mainstream than niche semi-disabled 95 year olds. Everyone with an interest in reading eBooks, watching movies on the go, reading news, doing lite creative work, using some productivity tools, students reading textbooks, etc. is the target market.
All of this however doesn't change the fact that Apple has declared war on tinkering and as more and more consumers adopt the "appliance computing" model that Apple spearheads, the future of computing looks less and less bright. Hopefully all alternatives will not perish.
I'm afraid that's not a solution, not even a workaround. It'a "borrow two more legs and run away" plan doomed to fail. If you read my comment carefully, I didn't say iPhone or iPad or iCar. I said phone, tablet, car, etc because it's a growing trend even outside of Apple's world. Should I give up on all the useful new tech because they are not absolute life necessities?
I've been tethering on my iPhone long before my carrier allowed it, that's not the case for 99% of the market and since more providers are adopting this scheme/scam I'm having more and more trouble keeping up. That's why I said it's getting ridiculous.
I'm expected to pay the service provider 30$ for home Internet, 30$ for phone and now 30$ for tablet?! Very soon our cars will be connected devices and not long after that glasses, watches, etc. Are we supposed to keep paying up per device? It's highly unreasonable, specially since most people don't use two devices at the same time.
+5 Insightful? Really?! Microsoft has hundreds of partners of different sizes, many have been with them for decades, some competing at the same time and are still alive and well and some have been bought out.
In Novell's case however, it's not like they were taking over the world before "closing paths" with MS, they were already in dire straits and had nothing like the growth rate of Redhat. It's all guesswork but their partnership extending Novell's life seems like a much more likely outcome than your assessment of what happened.
What tool did you use? There are different ones (quickpwn, blackra1n, etc.)
I used blackra1n and it wasn't more than 5 minutes + 1 quick reboot.
It takes more than that just to back up the data on the phone before updating.
I don't see how backing up iPhone counts as part of jailbreaking time since it's not mandatory. And the long backup time... well, that is simply not true unless you sync your iPhone infrequently which would result in a longer backup time. I sync two or three times a week and don't notice any significant backup times.
Bricking it might not be a huge danger, but winding up with a half functional system is.
How half functional? Please elaborate. It's more of a success/fail case, there's no fuzziness here.
And it's 45 minutes that you'll be repeating over, and over, and over again. While finding some apps don't work, waiting for others to catch up, etc.
All my previously installed apps worked perfectly fine after jailbreaking, if not better for the new ability to multi-task. What do yo mean catch up? The apps you downloaded from iTunes are already there and will continue running, what is supposed to "catch up"?
Is it all perfect? of course not. But if you need to go beyond what Apple thinks is good for you then it's very much worth it.
and it's virtually impossible to break/brick your iPhone in a way that it won't be restorable. In the rare event you manage to brick it, the only danger is losing the (in most cases useless) warranty. But that doesn't really matter because Apple support will check the humidity sensors and if they are not triggered, Apple will give you a replacement. They will not bother discovering whether the device was jailbroken or not. It costs Apple more to determine an unknown problem than to give you a refurbished or even new iPhone.
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I attend political debates, couple of times a month with different audiences and I have yet to meet a single person from the left mistake Onion with real news. I have also very rarely seen people from the right make that mistake. However, people who attend these talks are most likely better educated.
Back on topic, regarding general public this was released three years ago and at the time the left didn't come out and mistake this with real news. From looking at Facebook and Twitter, it seems like a whole lot of people on the right have been duped.
Please explain how you will be typing on an invisible keyboard?! Virtual Laser Keyboard is as good as it gets.
Cross out 3g from that. My 3g with the measly 128MB of RAM (compared to 256 and 512 on 3GS and iPhone 4 respectively) runs extremely slow after update to iOS4. When noted this on the Apple forums I was told that technology doesn't wait for my old phone and I should upgrade and pay good money if I expect a nice phone. My 3g is less than two years old. In return for this slowdown, the only useful features that I have got are folders and multiple exchange accounts. Nothing else. Apple didn't just fail at design of the new iPhone, but also abandoned previous generations with the iOS upgrade.
Considering the mindset of the era, this actually is a good indicator of how Jefferson and other founding fathers understood that there was something wrong with the status quo and managed to change it.
Because we have too few researchers and can only focus on one area at a time?!
on the planet happens to be the head honcho of Catholic church. What a reformation that is!
Christianity was never reformed. The one and only thing that changed was Christian theocracies went away for good. See what atrocities Vatican commits with the little amount of power left to them, imagine what they get back the unlimited powers they once had.
Unfortunately Islam is still the law of land in several countries. Once those theocracies fall the threat dies with them.
Partly depends on how "well connected" the data is.
For instance, in case of Friend of A Friend if I am your one and only friend and basically gateway to the outside then me going offline means you are not live anymore either. This of course is a rare case. Also, as with many other problems related to Semantic Web and Linked Data, this is more of an engineering challenge rather than a fundamental flaw. There are different (proposed) strategies (some borrowed from current web) that deal with all the potential issues but at least IMHO lack of immediately obvious financial gains is slowing both research and funding in the area, so the potential solutions just stay mostly theoretical.
Replacing Windows with Linux in a corporate environment I can fully understand. Migrating from MS Office to Symphony though, is as stupid as it gets. Symphony is the monster child of Open Office and Notes and from personal experience plain sucks.
That never happened. Christianity never learned anything, in fact they lost control as a result of not learning and adapting. They were thrown out of governments for good and lost the power to enforce their ways on the rest of us. Give Christianity back the power they had a in the dark ages and in a decade or two "peaceful" and "tolerant" Christians will be burning heathens on crosses in the name of their lord. If you have any doubts about that keep in mind how with the tiny bit of power left in hands of Vatican they systematically and on a global scale sexually abuse innocent children, silence the victims, protect the culprits and still consider themselves righteous. Then imagine what would happen if church had unlimited powers
The reason there are relatively few terrorist Christian militias or individual Christian terrorists is fear of harsh repercussions, specifically prosecution by the state. Bring back church to the state and their fears will vanish, then you'll see how hurting Christians' feelings, including you and I's innocent jokes about Jesus would result in "bodily harm".
tldr; It is Islamic states (or generally religion+state) that are the problem, not Islam per se. For more proof, I was in Iran during the original cartoon controversy. Not a single person knew or cared about the cartoons until state media started blasting them. Not a single grassroots protest happened, not a single gathering, until government sponsored protests (which most people have to attend) started.
Have you listened to top brass of any large company with a large R&D?! They all use nice words.
You are equating R&D with productization. Microsoft Research is much more diverse than you think it is. That includes funding a shitload of basic sciences research which is not even intended to find a place within any product. Maybe taking a look at the research areas and the thousands of published papers would help you understand what Microsoft Research and its R&D resources are about.
AFAIK, Microsoft never really announced anything. They even went as far as calling it a rumor and at best some "sources" called it an incubation project.
Announced product examples are Windows Phone 7 and Natal.
I use Skydrive. It's 25 GB of free space, simple UI and pretty fast upload/download speeds.
Source.
Hitler was behind the ban all along.
But that was not my question, I understand how the rendering through proxy and OBML work.
But Opera Mini has a much faster interface altogether, even the same keyboard widget that Safari uses is much more responsive in Opera Mini.
How do they do it? It's not just the browsing speed which is faster (though a bit "degraded" page viewing experience compared to Safari) but everything in the interface is faster. On 3G, even the keyboard which seemingly is the same keyboard widget that Safari uses is much much more responsive than when typing in Safari. Same goes for tab switching as mentioned in the summary and other actions like stop, reload, etc. Very snappy interface altogether.
Once OS X's market share grows large enough that developers won't risk abandoning the platform but at the same time small enough that Apple won't risk monopoly abuse charges.
June 2007 - Oct 2008 ~ 16 months, twice what you came up with.
Apple keeps babbling about browser share as a sign of market penetration, so it only makes sense to get back at them with the same "logic".
Considering how heavily Apple markets iPhone and how mostly oblivious Google is in that era, (leaves it all to carriers which usually keep the Android name out) then yes, Android is doing pretty fucking well.
From today's announcement, specifically Jobs himself: US Mobile Browser Usage
Android is already at 19% vs iPhoneOS (likely includes iPods as well) is at 64%. Considering the fact that first Android devices were released in October 2008 vs. iPhone's initial release of June 2007, I'd say Android is doing pretty fucking well!
I think Slashdotters are for the most part woefully ignorant of how the rest of humanity actually uses computers, and would do well to understand these types of use cases. They will sell millions.
Firstly, Slashdot is not a single uniform entity. There are many different opinions which in case of iPad there are slashdotters all over the love-hate spectrum. You're not the exception here.
Secondly, in your rush to blame Slashdot, you came up with an example which not only doesn't support "sell millions" argument but also goes against it. iPad's market is much more mainstream than niche semi-disabled 95 year olds. Everyone with an interest in reading eBooks, watching movies on the go, reading news, doing lite creative work, using some productivity tools, students reading textbooks, etc. is the target market.
All of this however doesn't change the fact that Apple has declared war on tinkering and as more and more consumers adopt the "appliance computing" model that Apple spearheads, the future of computing looks less and less bright. Hopefully all alternatives will not perish.
I'm afraid that's not a solution, not even a workaround. It'a "borrow two more legs and run away" plan doomed to fail. If you read my comment carefully, I didn't say iPhone or iPad or iCar. I said phone, tablet, car, etc because it's a growing trend even outside of Apple's world. Should I give up on all the useful new tech because they are not absolute life necessities?
I've been tethering on my iPhone long before my carrier allowed it, that's not the case for 99% of the market and since more providers are adopting this scheme/scam I'm having more and more trouble keeping up. That's why I said it's getting ridiculous.
I'm expected to pay the service provider 30$ for home Internet, 30$ for phone and now 30$ for tablet?! Very soon our cars will be connected devices and not long after that glasses, watches, etc. Are we supposed to keep paying up per device? It's highly unreasonable, specially since most people don't use two devices at the same time.
+5 Insightful? Really?! Microsoft has hundreds of partners of different sizes, many have been with them for decades, some competing at the same time and are still alive and well and some have been bought out.
In Novell's case however, it's not like they were taking over the world before "closing paths" with MS, they were already in dire straits and had nothing like the growth rate of Redhat. It's all guesswork but their partnership extending Novell's life seems like a much more likely outcome than your assessment of what happened.
Five minute?
What tool did you use? There are different ones (quickpwn, blackra1n, etc.) I used blackra1n and it wasn't more than 5 minutes + 1 quick reboot.
It takes more than that just to back up the data on the phone before updating.
I don't see how backing up iPhone counts as part of jailbreaking time since it's not mandatory. And the long backup time... well, that is simply not true unless you sync your iPhone infrequently which would result in a longer backup time. I sync two or three times a week and don't notice any significant backup times.
Bricking it might not be a huge danger, but winding up with a half functional system is.
How half functional? Please elaborate. It's more of a success/fail case, there's no fuzziness here.
And it's 45 minutes that you'll be repeating over, and over, and over again. While finding some apps don't work, waiting for others to catch up, etc.
All my previously installed apps worked perfectly fine after jailbreaking, if not better for the new ability to multi-task. What do yo mean catch up? The apps you downloaded from iTunes are already there and will continue running, what is supposed to "catch up"?
Is it all perfect? of course not. But if you need to go beyond what Apple thinks is good for you then it's very much worth it.
and it's virtually impossible to break/brick your iPhone in a way that it won't be restorable. In the rare event you manage to brick it, the only danger is losing the (in most cases useless) warranty. But that doesn't really matter because Apple support will check the humidity sensors and if they are not triggered, Apple will give you a replacement. They will not bother discovering whether the device was jailbroken or not. It costs Apple more to determine an unknown problem than to give you a refurbished or even new iPhone.