> Although I wonder if fluoride ions take longer than six-seconds to work their magic.
I hear fluoride is just industrial waste and is being used by the government for mind control. I got this info from sites that folks who claim that mercury in vaccinations is causing autism pointed me to, and it's on teh interwebz so it must be true.;)
If we ever perfect fusion reactors, then the helium supply will be for all practical intents and purposes infinite - and just think, nuclear fusion is only (5|10|25|50|200) years away!
It works for electricity and methane because new electricity or natural gas technology and major standards changes ever require upgrades; they just need to replace pipelines and cables as they rot or snap, and are relatively low maintenance and remarkably reliable, all things considered. The same is not true of telecommunications.
Not everyone wants to use a P&S at party, wedding or other extremely-low-light event where the shutter will lag for 1.5 seconds trying to focus with that super-slow lens only to end up with the camera shooting with a shutter speed of 1/3" resulting in a blurry mess, or wants to shoot a sporting event relying on 10x digital zoom only to have the resultant photos smeary pixellated mess.
No, we have run out of refined plutonium, which is either extracted from "spent" fuel rods (which really aren't spent, our stone-age nuclear power plants simply cannot make use of them), or created in breeder reactors and extracted from that fuel. What NASA will be resorting to is buying Plutonium from Russia's decommissioned nuclear weapons because the nukephobia in this country will not allow us to produce more.
It's doubtful we would run out of uranium before the sun kills all life on Earth a billion years from now.
I propose that the NSA be allowed to wiretap phone calls and keep logs of phone calls when they have either a) a court-issued warrant or b) direct and verifiable probable cause. In fact I think there is some old document, words scribbled on parchment that were mumbling something about court oversight over the government prohibiting unreasonable search and seizures, but perhaps I'm just a radical extremist and only imagined the whole thing.
> The middle-click will be used to start selections, and provide text contextual menus (such as word definitions, sharing, etc.)
So, the middle click-to-paste is "confusing to others" but mixing right and left mouse button features is not?!
No one is confused by the middle click to paste except for Gnome developers. Middle click to paste is one of X's strengths when it comes to text editing; you have a clipboard and a pesudo-clipboard and when I am working on a project I often make use of both and never confuse the two. It's really handy having two buffers to paste from.
If you want to delete the archive of your site, edit robots.txt to disallow them. They will wipe out the archive - or at least "tombstone" it so it is visible to no one (who knows if it's actually deleted behind the scenes)
> 1. A lightning connector has the capability to muliplex most of the 30 pins of the old dock connector down to 4 pins. It has to support a lot more functionality for backward compatibility with peripherals than USB sync and charge. The only functionality the dropped with lightning was their old car kit integration, which has been replaced by BT integration and iTunes in the Car. Everything else still works on a lightning cable with an adapter. Pretending that its a 1:1 functionality match to a micro-USB cable is a misrepresentation of what the cable does.
And yet, Android phones as well as many DSLRs and camcorders manage to do the same exact thing (for AV, HDMI (see: MHL), control lines, etc.) as well as provide USB host mode (something Apple still can't seem to figure out;)) via mini-usb and micro-usb. I fail to see where the lightning port gives an advantage there. Another great thing some Android makers have done is extended Micro USB further to 11 connectors for additional functionality and video bandwidth (while preserving 100% compatibility with micro USB).
>2. Crappy 3rd party accessories generate support calls,fail in nasty intermittent and hard to track down ways, and in some cases injure and kill people.
Does the genuine Apple-branded USB->lightning cable authenticate against the USB port and ensure it is connected only to an Apple charger or a Mac? if no, and it will pass current from third-party USB ports, your entire argument for #2 is moot.
>3. They aren't blocking 3rd party cables or removing functionality after the fact (they COULD, but their actions so far are not). They throw a dialog if the devices thinks the cable isn't one that went through their Made for iPhone/iPad/iPod licensing and certification program - which means it presents an invalid vendor ID from the multiplexor. Thats it. Why would they do this ? [....] Almost all cases of damage and injury to their very likely come from cheap copy cables and chargers. [that's bullshit btw]
The same reason Microsoft engaged in FUD when Microsoft was fighting against Linux servers and losing big time - if you cannot innovate, threaten and scare the customer to get them to continue buying more product from you.
> Maybe it is to make the users aware that they AREN'T using an licensed cable.
who gives a shit? If the Apple-branded cable will pass line voltage from a faulty USB port into an iPhone wielded by a fool holding it in a bathtub, it doesn't matter whether the cable is an Apple-branded cable or a third-party one, there is a high chance of electrocution either way. Why take on the liability of displaying that warning if in fact the Apple cable is actually no safer than the third-party cable in this regard? Or, is Apple's charging cable hard-wired to an Apple chargers now? (they're not). It's all about the money - and Apple is engaging in anti-competitive tactics here. That is THE ONLY reason they refuse to go the standardized Mini/Micro USB route like everyone else on the planet has.
> For one thing, as iPads can pull 12 W/2.1 A on full charge, a cheap cable designed for 500 mW USB connectivity may fail over time in a way that something that took this into account did not.
2100mw / 5v =.42 a
Current capacity for 22ga wire: 4.42 amps
How is the cable in a knock-off charger anywhere near any danger threshold?!?! Based on cheap 22AWG wire, there is a 10x safety margin.
> Chernobyl was the result of shoddy, bureaucratic management - see how well that worked for the USSR
Chernobyl was the result of reckless experiments with a known-faulty design with total lack of responsible behavior under rule of a communist government which cared only about policy and power and wealth in the hands of a few, not giving one whit for human lives.
It makes total sense. Think of it like shrinking a processor die - by bringing the transistors closer together you decrease the distance the signal needs to travel to be processed. Compare the size of a human brain to a fly's brain; 100,000 neurons and 10 million synapses that are packed into a space smaller than 1 mm^3 vs. a human's 87 billion neurons and 10^15 synapses for the entire nervous system, with the brain alone comprising 1250 cm^3 of volume.
> Generally I'm not a dropper. What happens is something gets in the way (like a wall or table edge) and I hit the edge of the phone, knocking it out of my hand.
> The bluetooth keyboard will hopefully keep me from bouncing mine. The initial crack was from bouncing it on the floor of the car because of my overly large fingers and the frustration with texting (I was the passenger so don't get too wound up:) ). The shattered screen from the second bounce was the same issue.
Dude! You are a dropper. Your denial reminded me of this:
Slashdotters: What. do you like, throw this or something? Bigbutt: I bump into things and objects knock it out of my hands, and this floor below me cracks the screen when it bounces. Slashdotters: What's that mean you bounce it? Bigbutt: Well, it means it slips out of my hands when I skillfully bump into stuff in an uncontrolled manner, or when I am angrily texting. Next! Slashdotters: Basically, you just drop Bigbutt: It's uh, it's not dropping, all right? I bump into stuff or text furiously and it jumps out of my hand. Slashdotters: nononono, it falls out of your hand and cracks when it falls on the floor. That's dropping! Bigbutt: "not really. NEXT!" Slashdotters (to bystander): "Hey man, let me ask you something. Someone drops something and cracks a phone, what do you call it? Bystander: "I don't know. Dropping?"
5/5c isn't a compelling upgrade from an iPhone 4. I wanted am upgrade so I went with a Samsung Galaxy S4. Now I have a 1080p screen, IR blaster (universal remote ftw!), SD slot, replaceable/upgradable battery, more RAM, USB host mode (camera tethering!), widgets, and a bunch of other features that Apple refuses to offer. The great thing is, the phone is not much heavier than the iPhone, and it's not really large either (I had a cellphone in the mid 90s - if you want to talk about a large cellphone. ..) but the screen is much more usable - tighter dot pitch of 441ppi makes it easy to read full-page PDFs because the text is actually rendered fully rather than presented as a smeared approximation.
> So, in the minds of most of the pundits today, yes, Apple made a mistake by releasing two new iPhones.
I don't see two new iPhones. I see one old iPhone 5 with a pretty-colored plastic case, and another old iPhone 5 with a slightly upgraded processor, new flash, and a FIPS reader (which the market has offered in the past and customers rejected as being "meh"), and yet still the same old puny low-resolution screen, and still no SD slot or USB host mode. Nothing notable that is new, really.
Also, the one in something like 30-billion chance that you contract it through a handshake? It hasn't ever been confirmed to happen but is theoretically possible. Also, I hope you don't use public toilets, because some HIV strains have been evolved which can survive for long periods in the open air on hard surfaces. Don't use public restrooms, don't touch handrails, etc.
Not everyone with HIV is gay (most aren't!), has "unsafe" sex, or does IV drugs.
So you're not a dentist, a physician, surgeon, EMT, tattoist, piercer, virus technician, phlebotomist, LNA, RN, LPN, or a compassionate person with first aid skills so you would never, ever come into contact with anyone else's blood, and you're fortunate enough to never, ever need a transfusion, require dental work, or any surgery or injections? There are people who live straight-edge lives who have contracted HIV, you know - and that doesn't take into account rape victims, children of AIDS patients, and so on.
Also, HIV is prevalently a heterosexual disease now. It hasn't been a predominantly gay disease since the 1980s. FYI condoms are only 90% effective at best, so I hope your whores aren't infected.
Off on it's way to become V'ger, come back looking for its creator, build a probe in the image of a carbon unit, then merge with a carbon unit, leave our dimension, and finally, some suspect, go psychotic and eventually evolve into the Borg.
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> Although I wonder if fluoride ions take longer than six-seconds to work their magic.
I hear fluoride is just industrial waste and is being used by the government for mind control. I got this info from sites that folks who claim that mercury in vaccinations is causing autism pointed me to, and it's on teh interwebz so it must be true. ;)
If we ever perfect fusion reactors, then the helium supply will be for all practical intents and purposes infinite - and just think, nuclear fusion is only (5|10|25|50|200) years away!
It works for electricity and methane because new electricity or natural gas technology and major standards changes ever require upgrades; they just need to replace pipelines and cables as they rot or snap, and are relatively low maintenance and remarkably reliable, all things considered. The same is not true of telecommunications.
Not everyone wants to use a P&S at party, wedding or other extremely-low-light event where the shutter will lag for 1.5 seconds trying to focus with that super-slow lens only to end up with the camera shooting with a shutter speed of 1/3" resulting in a blurry mess, or wants to shoot a sporting event relying on 10x digital zoom only to have the resultant photos smeary pixellated mess.
why? Because the reflex lenses are slow (f/8, or in the cited case, f/11), lack contrast, and generally suck.
No, we have run out of refined plutonium, which is either extracted from "spent" fuel rods (which really aren't spent, our stone-age nuclear power plants simply cannot make use of them), or created in breeder reactors and extracted from that fuel. What NASA will be resorting to is buying Plutonium from Russia's decommissioned nuclear weapons because the nukephobia in this country will not allow us to produce more.
It's doubtful we would run out of uranium before the sun kills all life on Earth a billion years from now.
I have a better idea, which I shall propose here.
I propose that the NSA be allowed to wiretap phone calls and keep logs of phone calls when they have either a) a court-issued warrant or b) direct and verifiable probable cause. In fact I think there is some old document, words scribbled on parchment that were mumbling something about court oversight over the government prohibiting unreasonable search and seizures, but perhaps I'm just a radical extremist and only imagined the whole thing.
> The middle-click will be used to start selections, and provide text contextual menus (such as word definitions, sharing, etc.)
So, the middle click-to-paste is "confusing to others" but mixing right and left mouse button features is not?!
No one is confused by the middle click to paste except for Gnome developers. Middle click to paste is one of X's strengths when it comes to text editing; you have a clipboard and a pesudo-clipboard and when I am working on a project I often make use of both and never confuse the two. It's really handy having two buffers to paste from.
Read the FAQ on archive.org.
If you want to delete the archive of your site, edit robots.txt to disallow them. They will wipe out the archive - or at least "tombstone" it so it is visible to no one (who knows if it's actually deleted behind the scenes)
. . . until robots.txt wipes out the archive.
> 1. A lightning connector has the capability to muliplex most of the 30 pins of the old dock connector down to 4 pins. It has to support a lot more functionality for backward compatibility with peripherals than USB sync and charge. The only functionality the dropped with lightning was their old car kit integration, which has been replaced by BT integration and iTunes in the Car. Everything else still works on a lightning cable with an adapter. Pretending that its a 1:1 functionality match to a micro-USB cable is a misrepresentation of what the cable does.
And yet, Android phones as well as many DSLRs and camcorders manage to do the same exact thing (for AV, HDMI (see: MHL), control lines, etc.) as well as provide USB host mode (something Apple still can't seem to figure out ;)) via mini-usb and micro-usb. I fail to see where the lightning port gives an advantage there. Another great thing some Android makers have done is extended Micro USB further to 11 connectors for additional functionality and video bandwidth (while preserving 100% compatibility with micro USB).
>2. Crappy 3rd party accessories generate support calls,fail in nasty intermittent and hard to track down ways, and in some cases injure and kill people.
Does the genuine Apple-branded USB->lightning cable authenticate against the USB port and ensure it is connected only to an Apple charger or a Mac? if no, and it will pass current from third-party USB ports, your entire argument for #2 is moot.
>3. They aren't blocking 3rd party cables or removing functionality after the fact (they COULD, but their actions so far are not). They throw a dialog if the devices thinks the cable isn't one that went through their Made for iPhone/iPad/iPod licensing and certification program - which means it presents an invalid vendor ID from the multiplexor. Thats it. Why would they do this ? [....] Almost all cases of damage and injury to their very likely come from cheap copy cables and chargers. [that's bullshit btw]
The same reason Microsoft engaged in FUD when Microsoft was fighting against Linux servers and losing big time - if you cannot innovate, threaten and scare the customer to get them to continue buying more product from you.
> Maybe it is to make the users aware that they AREN'T using an licensed cable.
who gives a shit? If the Apple-branded cable will pass line voltage from a faulty USB port into an iPhone wielded by a fool holding it in a bathtub, it doesn't matter whether the cable is an Apple-branded cable or a third-party one, there is a high chance of electrocution either way. Why take on the liability of displaying that warning if in fact the Apple cable is actually no safer than the third-party cable in this regard? Or, is Apple's charging cable hard-wired to an Apple chargers now? (they're not). It's all about the money - and Apple is engaging in anti-competitive tactics here. That is THE ONLY reason they refuse to go the standardized Mini/Micro USB route like everyone else on the planet has.
> For one thing, as iPads can pull 12 W/2.1 A on full charge, a cheap cable designed for 500 mW USB connectivity may fail over time in a way that something that took this into account did not.
2100mw / 5v = .42 a
Current capacity for 22ga wire: 4.42 amps
How is the cable in a knock-off charger anywhere near any danger threshold?!?! Based on cheap 22AWG wire, there is a 10x safety margin.
> Sex is for procreation not recreation! Sinner!
I raise you one "Song of Solomon"
> Chernobyl was the result of shoddy, bureaucratic management - see how well that worked for the USSR
Chernobyl was the result of reckless experiments with a known-faulty design with total lack of responsible behavior under rule of a communist government which cared only about policy and power and wealth in the hands of a few, not giving one whit for human lives.
I'm libertarian and I found that comment funny. :-p
It makes total sense. Think of it like shrinking a processor die - by bringing the transistors closer together you decrease the distance the signal needs to travel to be processed. Compare the size of a human brain to a fly's brain; 100,000 neurons and 10 million synapses that are packed into a space smaller than 1 mm^3 vs. a human's 87 billion neurons and 10^15 synapses for the entire nervous system, with the brain alone comprising 1250 cm^3 of volume.
Unfortunately, I believe you. o.O
> Generally I'm not a dropper. What happens is something gets in the way (like a wall or table edge) and I hit the edge of the phone, knocking it out of my hand.
> The bluetooth keyboard will hopefully keep me from bouncing mine. The initial crack was from bouncing it on the floor of the car because of my overly large fingers and the frustration with texting (I was the passenger so don't get too wound up :) ). The shattered screen from the second bounce was the same issue.
Dude! You are a dropper. Your denial reminded me of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMwhZryRUr4
Slashdotters: What. do you like, throw this or something?
Bigbutt: I bump into things and objects knock it out of my hands, and this floor below me cracks the screen when it bounces.
Slashdotters: What's that mean you bounce it?
Bigbutt: Well, it means it slips out of my hands when I skillfully bump into stuff in an uncontrolled manner, or when I am angrily texting. Next!
Slashdotters: Basically, you just drop
Bigbutt: It's uh, it's not dropping, all right? I bump into stuff or text furiously and it jumps out of my hand.
Slashdotters: nononono, it falls out of your hand and cracks when it falls on the floor. That's dropping!
Bigbutt: "not really. NEXT!"
Slashdotters (to bystander): "Hey man, let me ask you something. Someone drops something and cracks a phone, what do you call it?
Bystander: "I don't know. Dropping?"
5/5c isn't a compelling upgrade from an iPhone 4. I wanted am upgrade so I went with a Samsung Galaxy S4. Now I have a 1080p screen, IR blaster (universal remote ftw!), SD slot, replaceable/upgradable battery, more RAM, USB host mode (camera tethering!), widgets, and a bunch of other features that Apple refuses to offer. The great thing is, the phone is not much heavier than the iPhone, and it's not really large either (I had a cellphone in the mid 90s - if you want to talk about a large cellphone. . .) but the screen is much more usable - tighter dot pitch of 441ppi makes it easy to read full-page PDFs because the text is actually rendered fully rather than presented as a smeared approximation.
> So, in the minds of most of the pundits today, yes, Apple made a mistake by releasing two new iPhones.
I don't see two new iPhones. I see one old iPhone 5 with a pretty-colored plastic case, and another old iPhone 5 with a slightly upgraded processor, new flash, and a FIPS reader (which the market has offered in the past and customers rejected as being "meh"), and yet still the same old puny low-resolution screen, and still no SD slot or USB host mode. Nothing notable that is new, really.
FWIW "catched" is outdated/obsolete but not incorrect.
The left, obviously. ;)
> Your state needs the tax dollars, so it's not so bad.
I disagree. Taxachusetts needs to drastically cut administrative overhead and slash thousands of public hack jobs.
Also, the one in something like 30-billion chance that you contract it through a handshake? It hasn't ever been confirmed to happen but is theoretically possible. Also, I hope you don't use public toilets, because some HIV strains have been evolved which can survive for long periods in the open air on hard surfaces. Don't use public restrooms, don't touch handrails, etc.
Not everyone with HIV is gay (most aren't!), has "unsafe" sex, or does IV drugs.
So you're not a dentist, a physician, surgeon, EMT, tattoist, piercer, virus technician, phlebotomist, LNA, RN, LPN, or a compassionate person with first aid skills so you would never, ever come into contact with anyone else's blood, and you're fortunate enough to never, ever need a transfusion, require dental work, or any surgery or injections? There are people who live straight-edge lives who have contracted HIV, you know - and that doesn't take into account rape victims, children of AIDS patients, and so on.
Also, HIV is prevalently a heterosexual disease now. It hasn't been a predominantly gay disease since the 1980s. FYI condoms are only 90% effective at best, so I hope your whores aren't infected.
Off on it's way to become V'ger, come back looking for its creator, build a probe in the image of a carbon unit, then merge with a carbon unit, leave our dimension, and finally, some suspect, go psychotic and eventually evolve into the Borg.