Why not? It could replace a slashvertisement or Idle post on a slow day.
What would you rather read about: some shmuck who has poor balance and fell off her wii fit (and will likely sue Nintendo for not pasting a warning label reading "Note: if you are a klutz you might fall off, injure a nerve and become permanently horny", or that an OSS project is pushing out a time bomb to bring their app down? I come here for tech news, not lazy, uncoordinated clod news.
The problem is the RIAA wants to redefine copyright infringement to exclude all fair use; their position is that if you rip your CD collection to MP3 or AAC, you are stealing from them. Oh sure, you paid between $13.98 and $24.98 for each of your 300 CDs, but what have you paid lately? The RIAA members have a right to perpetual income from your purchase, you know.
Ditto for MPAA and Films|TV series|etc.
You do have a lot to object to and even fear from the suggestion of legislation allowing this bullshit to occur.
As a democracy, we get to define what we mean by freedom.
I see you are not an American then. See, The united States of America is a constitutional republic, not a democracy, and in this country the Constitution outlines what freedom is; the constitution does not grant us rights. What the Constitution does is prevent the government from encroaching upon our rights, and if something is not enumerated in the Constitution as a government power, in theory, the government is not permitted to enact upon that something. I see nothing in the Constitution which allows the government to require me to pay for health care for illegal aliens or for legal residents who want a free ride and not work for a living.
I'm looking forward to the day that Obamascare is taken before SCOTUS, and I am also looking forward to this coming November.
Well "true" multitasking in its purest sense isn't possible without multiple processors; otherwise you are only timeslicing and task-switching. SMP is the most common multiple-CPU configuration. What multi-core has to offer is SMP in a single CPU socket - increasingly more often on a single die, and it allows for real multitasking where multiple threads can be executed literally at the same time, or one cpu could be assigned by the OS to OS and higher priority app functions (such as your phone call, etc.) and the other processes can be dynamically shifted to another core, or a CPU intensive thread-safe app can gain a vast improvement in performance by allowing multiple threads to run in parallel across multiple CPUs.
My M6400 with it's LED backlit screen, backlit keyboard, core 2 quad processor and dual hard drives can manage 3 hours on a charge with wifi enabled and in use the whole time. I'd say 10 hours for a small tablet with no hard drives, a small, low-nit screen and vastly reduced functionality and interfaces/ports is pretty much guaranteed. If I wanted 10 hours, I'd buy a Dell m4400 and equip it with both the 9-cell battery and the power slice; it will easily do 10 hours without any sacrifice in performance, features, and ease of use and other limitations the iPad introduces.
iPad = overgrown iPhone, minus the phone. Besides, on a device with a screen as large as the iPads, I'd expect flash so I can use hulu, crackle, etc.
In RI and MA if you're across the white line when the light turns red you are obligated to proceed through the intersection. It's not always practical though, due to how massholes drive.
Do higher-end CFLs do the same thing to you? They supposedly increase the AC frequency to 10kHz or so to eliminate flicker. I am prone to migraines myself and generally hate flourescent lighting but have used CFLs for about five years without any problem.
You should jailbreak it. Jailbreaking made my 3G S usable.:) What the heck was Apple thinking, not allowing multitasking (who is the retard who thought suspending GPS when a call comes in is a good thing?!), not including something like sbsettings, and not allowing users to pick their own wallpapers and icon styles for the dock? And then, there is access to the filesystem and the ability to run a bash prompt and cron jobs, which I use in conjunction with SSH to monitor servers. I use my iPhone for a LOT of work and yet my highest data usage (after the first month I had it anyway) has been about 800MB.
How common are dead pixels anyway? I see hot and dead pixels on only the cheapest lowest-end displays. Bad inverters and bad ribbon PCBs are far more common.
"The radiation suits for working in the reactor are inadequate. We're not turning the reactor back on until you give us better protection!"
"This milling machine is dangerous and there is no emergency stop. We're not working until it's fixed."
"We're undepaid and cannot afford to buy our own homes and are tired of living in company housing. We're on strike until you give us real living wages."
What do you think the answer to that would be in China? I'm betting it would be prison time.
Both the summary and the article express how much smaller something is, without saying "n times smaller." If you never believed in miracles, here is incontrovertible proof!
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Why not? It could replace a slashvertisement or Idle post on a slow day.
What would you rather read about: some shmuck who has poor balance and fell off her wii fit (and will likely sue Nintendo for not pasting a warning label reading "Note: if you are a klutz you might fall off, injure a nerve and become permanently horny", or that an OSS project is pushing out a time bomb to bring their app down? I come here for tech news, not lazy, uncoordinated clod news.
Search for Google is a cost center. They make their money through advertising, and through a much lesser degree, search appliances.
The problem is the RIAA wants to redefine copyright infringement to exclude all fair use; their position is that if you rip your CD collection to MP3 or AAC, you are stealing from them. Oh sure, you paid between $13.98 and $24.98 for each of your 300 CDs, but what have you paid lately? The RIAA members have a right to perpetual income from your purchase, you know.
Ditto for MPAA and Films|TV series|etc.
You do have a lot to object to and even fear from the suggestion of legislation allowing this bullshit to occur.
I see you are not an American then. See, The united States of America is a constitutional republic, not a democracy, and in this country the Constitution outlines what freedom is; the constitution does not grant us rights. What the Constitution does is prevent the government from encroaching upon our rights, and if something is not enumerated in the Constitution as a government power, in theory, the government is not permitted to enact upon that something. I see nothing in the Constitution which allows the government to require me to pay for health care for illegal aliens or for legal residents who want a free ride and not work for a living.
I'm looking forward to the day that Obamascare is taken before SCOTUS, and I am also looking forward to this coming November.
Well "true" multitasking in its purest sense isn't possible without multiple processors; otherwise you are only timeslicing and task-switching. SMP is the most common multiple-CPU configuration. What multi-core has to offer is SMP in a single CPU socket - increasingly more often on a single die, and it allows for real multitasking where multiple threads can be executed literally at the same time, or one cpu could be assigned by the OS to OS and higher priority app functions (such as your phone call, etc.) and the other processes can be dynamically shifted to another core, or a CPU intensive thread-safe app can gain a vast improvement in performance by allowing multiple threads to run in parallel across multiple CPUs.
My M6400 with it's LED backlit screen, backlit keyboard, core 2 quad processor and dual hard drives can manage 3 hours on a charge with wifi enabled and in use the whole time. I'd say 10 hours for a small tablet with no hard drives, a small, low-nit screen and vastly reduced functionality and interfaces/ports is pretty much guaranteed. If I wanted 10 hours, I'd buy a Dell m4400 and equip it with both the 9-cell battery and the power slice; it will easily do 10 hours without any sacrifice in performance, features, and ease of use and other limitations the iPad introduces.
iPad = overgrown iPhone, minus the phone. Besides, on a device with a screen as large as the iPads, I'd expect flash so I can use hulu, crackle, etc.
In RI and MA if you're across the white line when the light turns red you are obligated to proceed through the intersection. It's not always practical though, due to how massholes drive.
Do higher-end CFLs do the same thing to you? They supposedly increase the AC frequency to 10kHz or so to eliminate flicker. I am prone to migraines myself and generally hate flourescent lighting but have used CFLs for about five years without any problem.
Maybe the automatic opt-in of Buzz isn't so evil after all!
--Kim
You should jailbreak it. Jailbreaking made my 3G S usable. :) What the heck was Apple thinking, not allowing multitasking (who is the retard who thought suspending GPS when a call comes in is a good thing?!), not including something like sbsettings, and not allowing users to pick their own wallpapers and icon styles for the dock? And then, there is access to the filesystem and the ability to run a bash prompt and cron jobs, which I use in conjunction with SSH to monitor servers. I use my iPhone for a LOT of work and yet my highest data usage (after the first month I had it anyway) has been about 800MB.
How common are dead pixels anyway? I see hot and dead pixels on only the cheapest lowest-end displays. Bad inverters and bad ribbon PCBs are far more common.
Professional courtesy?
I can't see organized labor happening in China.
"The radiation suits for working in the reactor are inadequate. We're not turning the reactor back on until you give us better protection!"
"This milling machine is dangerous and there is no emergency stop. We're not working until it's fixed."
"We're undepaid and cannot afford to buy our own homes and are tired of living in company housing. We're on strike until you give us real living wages."
What do you think the answer to that would be in China? I'm betting it would be prison time.
I have the answer: the net power output of the "magnet motors" you see on youtube.
Both the summary and the article express how much smaller something is, without saying "n times smaller." If you never believed in miracles, here is incontrovertible proof!
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Lobbyists, kickbacks, and of course, hundreds of dollars' worth of budget overruns and years added to the delivery date.
That is of course, if the project goes well. ;)
How long until realdoll licenses this for all the 40-year-old comic book guy-type guys living in their mothers' basements?
They accidentally the whole thing!
That's what the olympic-sized pool filled with sharks is for.
Corporations are people too! (in a legal sense)
At one point my dream car was a ZR-1 Corvette. However after having owned one for a while my tastes have changed.
Now I am looking for a car that is strong and powerful like a gorilla, yet soft and yielding like a nerf bat. Like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWn0R68yFKQ&feature=related
How is it not justice?
Justice is about punishment, not rehabilitation. It has never been about rehabilitation.
No more cruel than permanently scarring someone's emotional/mental health.
and, you can get your wish if you run an older Firefox release.
http://www.downloadatlas.com/no_status_bar_links/slashdotter-by-christopher-finke.html