I really dont think you want to stack an iPad's specs up against a $400 laptop. Maybe you do, but it wont be pretty. Just so you know, $400 is "core i3" range, which will slaughter just about any ARM proc on the market.
But you're not comparing to a $400 laptop. iPad Mini = $329 + Apple Wireless Keyboard $69, = $398. iPad 2 = $399 + $69 (AWK) = $468. So, you're comparing to a $200-$235 laptop. Which is going to be both underpowered, and cheap quality. So, I'll stick with my original statement.
I'll never understand that. You basically bought two cheap laptops....
Do that, and what you have are two cheap laptops that are slow, don't work right, and and are 2-5x the size and 3x-10x what an iPad/iPad Mini weighs. If you need a laptop, by all means buy a laptop. But if what you need is a tablet, buy a tablet.
There is literally no reason an Iphone or Ipad couldn't use a bluetooth keyboard or mouse.
Well, you're half right. They can use bluetooth keyboards, including the Apple Wireless keyboard and many third party keyboards. Mouse is another matter, the UI is designed for touch, and while a mouse is a pointing device, it's not the same as a touch interface, so there literally is a reason it doesn't support a mouse. It's not that it couldn't support a mouse, but that would require some changes to the UI, and many apps.
Yes, none of the failures occurred during the original warranty period. Any the only one covered by a manufacturer's warranty extension (due to a manufacturing flaw) occurred after both the original warranty and the extended warranty expired.
I always purchase extended warranties for my laptop computers, and almost every time, I've had to use it. In each case, the covered repair would have cost more than the extended warranty did. Laptops use many components that are specific to that model and are costly to replace.
However, I never purchase extended warranties on desktop computers, and rarely on other devices.
Citation needed....I can't think of any, so please, by all means, enlighten me.
And if you can't think of any, it must not exist, right? Yes, I am being sarcastic.
Painting/drawing is one category. Some types of photo manipulation or collages, photography and videography (taking the pics/vids, not the editing), almost anything that benefits from multi-touch (zooming, twisting, etc.). In general, types of creation or manipulation that are best accomplished by strokes of fingers or hands rather than typing or tapping. Some audio content creation and editing is also better suited to the multi-touch tablet interface than to a desktop/notebook (even with a touch screen), e.g. musical instrument simulator apps.
That depends entirely upon the type of content creation and manipulation you're doing. Some content is far easier to create using a touch-screen interface, while "traditional" documents are notably more difficult to create using that interface. Tablets are great for some types of content creation, but they are not a replacement for every type of content creation.
Actually, that's an ex-post-facto delegation, it doesn't show where Congress ever delegated the authority to the states in the first place, which would be necessary for the state laws to be valid. So, when you find that statute, you'll have something. Here's a head start for you, you have to find a federal statute that supercedes the first federal copyright act, the Copyright Act of 1790.
Incorrect. Article 6, clause 2, states: "This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding."
10th Amendment states: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
As this is an explicit grant of authority to Congress, it is exclusively a federal power. Unless Congress delegated that power to the states, the states have no authority. It's questionable whether they could even legally delegate it to the states.
Article 1, Section 8, clause 8 of the US Constitution says: "The Congress shall have Power.... To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;"
So, it should always have been under federal jurisdiction, not state. Indeed, that should make any state laws regarding it null and void due to federal supremacy.
Or, you could go with Virgin Mobile, a wholly owned subsidiary of Sprint in the USA, and get the same features on the same Sprint network for less. Of course, you have to pay more up front for the phone, but if you're going to keep a phone for more than about 2 yrs, it's cheaper in the long run.
I mean, Wind Turbine Syndrome can make their customers ill while they shop, creating even more business. Of course, health insurance rates might rise./sarcasm
They would have to be selective about what they download. 500GB is 4Tb. Even assuming 90% utilization on a 1Gb Ethernet connection or 900Mb/s, that's over 74 minutes to download. 90% utilization is very difficult to sustain. 900Mb/s is 111 MB/s, which is near the sustained average transfer rate of a modern HD. So, any way you look at it, most of that data can't be used beyond in-flight monitoring.
This would be great for musical chairs. Needs to melt a little faster, but just set the chairs to have one destruct after each round, and no more need to manually remove a chair each time.
Loser pays as a statutory requirement is a bad idea. However, loser pays should be an allowed option in every civil case, something that the judge/jury can impose when the circumstances warrant it. When the plaintiff has presented a good case, but still loses, loser pays could be unnecessarily punitive.
You assume the current, commercially viable, supply is all that is available. A newer, cheaper refining process can make sources that currently aren't commercially viable become viable.
WPS on the routers I've seen requires pushing a button on the router, then connecting and entering the PIN within ~2-3 mins. So, attempting to brute-force WPS will get you nowhere on the routers I've used, except during the extremely rare instances when I'm using WPS to connect a new device.
And, if it is a neighbor trying to get free access, you could set up a guest network (either using your router if it supports a guest network, or have him/her provide a router that you connect to your network), if you're willing to share your bandwidth.
Half right. It does take a lot of energy to climb, but you regain most of that on descent making it approx 0 net change. However, flying at high altitude reduces air density, and therefore, drag, resulting in a net fuel savings.
It's a bit more complicated still, propeller driven planes may lose some propeller efficiency in the thinner air. For any given plane, there is a limit on how high it can fly, and trade-offs in drag vs propulsion efficiency, lift vs weight, as well as design (pressure and operational temperature) limits. However, as a rule, the higher you can fly the plane (within it's design limits), the more fuel efficient the trip will be. Short flights may be constrained a bit because the optimal climb rate and optimal descent rates might limit the max height to less than what the optimal height the plane is capable of.
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I really dont think you want to stack an iPad's specs up against a $400 laptop. Maybe you do, but it wont be pretty. Just so you know, $400 is "core i3" range, which will slaughter just about any ARM proc on the market.
But you're not comparing to a $400 laptop. iPad Mini = $329 + Apple Wireless Keyboard $69, = $398. iPad 2 = $399 + $69 (AWK) = $468. So, you're comparing to a $200-$235 laptop. Which is going to be both underpowered, and cheap quality. So, I'll stick with my original statement.
MS office never left the Mac.
I'll never understand that. You basically bought two cheap laptops ....
Do that, and what you have are two cheap laptops that are slow, don't work right, and and are 2-5x the size and 3x-10x what an iPad/iPad Mini weighs. If you need a laptop, by all means buy a laptop. But if what you need is a tablet, buy a tablet.
There is literally no reason an Iphone or Ipad couldn't use a bluetooth keyboard or mouse.
Well, you're half right. They can use bluetooth keyboards, including the Apple Wireless keyboard and many third party keyboards. Mouse is another matter, the UI is designed for touch, and while a mouse is a pointing device, it's not the same as a touch interface, so there literally is a reason it doesn't support a mouse. It's not that it couldn't support a mouse, but that would require some changes to the UI, and many apps.
Yes, none of the failures occurred during the original warranty period. Any the only one covered by a manufacturer's warranty extension (due to a manufacturing flaw) occurred after both the original warranty and the extended warranty expired.
I always purchase extended warranties for my laptop computers, and almost every time, I've had to use it. In each case, the covered repair would have cost more than the extended warranty did. Laptops use many components that are specific to that model and are costly to replace.
However, I never purchase extended warranties on desktop computers, and rarely on other devices.
But 2010 was 3 years ago. Surely we can land there now.
Citation needed....I can't think of any, so please, by all means, enlighten me.
And if you can't think of any, it must not exist, right? Yes, I am being sarcastic.
Painting/drawing is one category. Some types of photo manipulation or collages, photography and videography (taking the pics/vids, not the editing), almost anything that benefits from multi-touch (zooming, twisting, etc.). In general, types of creation or manipulation that are best accomplished by strokes of fingers or hands rather than typing or tapping. Some audio content creation and editing is also better suited to the multi-touch tablet interface than to a desktop/notebook (even with a touch screen), e.g. musical instrument simulator apps.
That depends entirely upon the type of content creation and manipulation you're doing. Some content is far easier to create using a touch-screen interface, while "traditional" documents are notably more difficult to create using that interface. Tablets are great for some types of content creation, but they are not a replacement for every type of content creation.
But the 10th Amendment makes it clear that the powers explicitly granted to Congress, are NOT granted to the States or the People.
Actually, that's an ex-post-facto delegation, it doesn't show where Congress ever delegated the authority to the states in the first place, which would be necessary for the state laws to be valid. So, when you find that statute, you'll have something. Here's a head start for you, you have to find a federal statute that supercedes the first federal copyright act, the Copyright Act of 1790.
Incorrect. Article 6, clause 2, states: "This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding."
10th Amendment states: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
As this is an explicit grant of authority to Congress, it is exclusively a federal power. Unless Congress delegated that power to the states, the states have no authority. It's questionable whether they could even legally delegate it to the states.
Article 1, Section 8, clause 8 of the US Constitution says: "The Congress shall have Power .... To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;"
So, it should always have been under federal jurisdiction, not state. Indeed, that should make any state laws regarding it null and void due to federal supremacy.
Or, you could go with Virgin Mobile, a wholly owned subsidiary of Sprint in the USA, and get the same features on the same Sprint network for less. Of course, you have to pay more up front for the phone, but if you're going to keep a phone for more than about 2 yrs, it's cheaper in the long run.
Which is why I have advocated for loser pays as an option the judge can impose on a case-by-case basis, when the facts/merits of the case warrant it.
I mean, Wind Turbine Syndrome can make their customers ill while they shop, creating even more business. Of course, health insurance rates might rise. /sarcasm
ASLR is not a security feature, it's an obfuscation feature.
They would have to be selective about what they download. 500GB is 4Tb. Even assuming 90% utilization on a 1Gb Ethernet connection or 900Mb/s, that's over 74 minutes to download. 90% utilization is very difficult to sustain. 900Mb/s is 111 MB/s, which is near the sustained average transfer rate of a modern HD. So, any way you look at it, most of that data can't be used beyond in-flight monitoring.
This would be great for musical chairs. Needs to melt a little faster, but just set the chairs to have one destruct after each round, and no more need to manually remove a chair each time.
Don't worry, it has a remote management card.
Loser pays as a statutory requirement is a bad idea. However, loser pays should be an allowed option in every civil case, something that the judge/jury can impose when the circumstances warrant it. When the plaintiff has presented a good case, but still loses, loser pays could be unnecessarily punitive.
You assume the current, commercially viable, supply is all that is available. A newer, cheaper refining process can make sources that currently aren't commercially viable become viable.
WPS on the routers I've seen requires pushing a button on the router, then connecting and entering the PIN within ~2-3 mins. So, attempting to brute-force WPS will get you nowhere on the routers I've used, except during the extremely rare instances when I'm using WPS to connect a new device.
And, if it is a neighbor trying to get free access, you could set up a guest network (either using your router if it supports a guest network, or have him/her provide a router that you connect to your network), if you're willing to share your bandwidth.
Half right. It does take a lot of energy to climb, but you regain most of that on descent making it approx 0 net change. However, flying at high altitude reduces air density, and therefore, drag, resulting in a net fuel savings.
It's a bit more complicated still, propeller driven planes may lose some propeller efficiency in the thinner air. For any given plane, there is a limit on how high it can fly, and trade-offs in drag vs propulsion efficiency, lift vs weight, as well as design (pressure and operational temperature) limits. However, as a rule, the higher you can fly the plane (within it's design limits), the more fuel efficient the trip will be. Short flights may be constrained a bit because the optimal climb rate and optimal descent rates might limit the max height to less than what the optimal height the plane is capable of.
Easy, yes. But all too frequently, not done. No algorithm is safe from a poor implementation.