There will not be a 7" iPad Mini b/c:
1. the screen resolution will match up to the iPhone not the "retina display" iPad
2. it would cut into iPad sales
3. Nobody would buy a $200 iPod Touch w/ 3.5" screen for only $50 less than a $250 iPad Mini or an iPhone if they wanted a small screen
I am very much looking forward to upgrading my 3.5" iPod Touch to the New iPod Touch w/ 7" screen.
I've never considered putting on "parenting" software. I'm more concerned the software company is likley to screw up my computer - and hence my kids - then anything they'll come across on the internet. They are on the computer adn the internet alot, have been for years, and I've never been worried.
What is it that your afraid of that you need software to protect your kids? Do you view too much porn and pop-ups are crowding you screen? do you view a lot of child porn and you don't want you kids to find your stash? What is it you are proctecting them from?
Don't let them sleep over MJ house, shower w/ old men or give out personal info. Nothing they see will actually cause them to go blind.
But the data only plan will cost as much, probably more, than a calling plan and data plan combined. And if you buy a cellphone w/o a calling plan the smartphone is called a "tablet", not a phone. I'm sorry, it just isn't a phone anymore. I use my iPod Touch all the time for phone calls - Google Voice combined with some random Talk app I found" - but I never call it a phone. Because it isn't a phone.
1. Is there a jammer for the jammer? If not, shouldn't somebody be working on making one?
2. Have the South Koreans ASKED the North to stop or are they just whining about it on Facebook? IF they asked and the North said "no", well it really goes against everything I beleive in but I would do something violent. Does the south have pinpoint accuracy (or there abouts) missiles that could take the trucks out? I don't think bombing the entire city would be a good idea. Maybe the Navy seals need some sequel material?
I remember starting grad school 20 years ago spending $1,400 on a little 1 piece Compaq Presario and thinking - "Good thing for credit cards or nobody could buy a computer." And then I realized - there will always be "the next big thing' in technology for people to spend money on. Bigger tvs. Even bigger tvs. Flat screen tvs. 3D tvs. Sony Walkmans, mp3 players, iPods, iPads, notebooks, Netbooks, cell phones, smart phones, dial-up, broadband. I'm not saying it's all for the worse, nor am I putting on my tinfoil hat, but I'm pretty sure theirs a good correlation between the explosion of consumer electronics and the explosion of credit card debt.
Thanks to the US govt people can stop worrying about the trilateral commission and smoking old men in dark back rooms. Who needs conspiracy theories are theorists when the govt. can do anything it wants right out in the open. We're all criminals and pirates. Well except for white collar criminals, their just good capitalists.
But how many Xbox360 versions have come out in those 6 years? I'm no expert, but they've added HDMI, several bigger hard drives, had an "Arcade" version along with several other names, and now the whole packaging it with the Kinect to make it more like a new system. And then you have the firmware updates allowing for online streaming and other things. I'm guessing an early Xbox360 out of the box is very different than the one you'ld buy today. So yes, the "traditional lifespan" for a console generation is 5 years, but this hasn't been a traditional generation for the Xbox360 or to a lessor extent the PS3. The Wii is almost unchanged unless you count sneakily dropping Gamecube support, and as that idiot Pachter said should have been updated in 2009.
I'm not ready for a new Sony system either, but I like all the changes this one has had.
I got stopped and searched at one of these checkpoints in 1988, 24 years ago. We were nowhere near the border, about 30 miles away, somewhere in Arizona. There weren't any dogs, just some guys in uniforms and mirrored Cool Hand Luke sunglasses. We had to get out of the car while they searched it. So, this isn't new, and it isn't near the border. And they don't stop doing it b/c it works. Probably shouldn't call it "border" patrol though, more like "rape your rights' patrol.
I know there is a lot going on in this article that is technically over my head, but I wish people would stop talking about "glasses free" 3D like it's some futuristic flying car. The 3DS has been out for a year, and it has 3D tech for game playing, photo taking and video recording in a $170 kids toy. I know there are a couple of cell phones also. I'm sure the fiber optic stuff is great and all, but glasses free 3D is here now.
Considering how often I back stuff up, but how rarely I ever use those backups, I'll gladly take 1,000 times faster backups even if it means slower read speeds than we have now. Really, I'ld take that trade-off in a heartbeat.
3 disgruntled about to be let go TSA employees concoct a scheme to steal all of the loose change left behind by passengers to support the pregnant girl of whom one of them is the father They steal Vin Diesel's bag of Mafia money by mistake. Hilarity and ultra-violence ensue.
Didnt' we just spend the last 6 months saying the iPhone 5 was going to have this screen? Or at least the iPhone 5 was definetly going to be released in October? Isn't this all getting to be a bit too much Apple speculation? At least the Apple iTV is a whole new project so maybe we can just speculate on that for a few months.
I can't help but think that in a world where kids are growing up w/ smartphones which automatically upload the photo you just took and the location you took it that in 20 years anybody is going to care about "location" privacy. I was driving around Long Island yesterday and my wife noted that on the Maps app on my iPod Touch we were being "tracked". I know not every place has as many wifi hot spots as we do right now, but in 20 years you will be tracked one way or another. Forget tinfoil hats, get a tinfoil phone pouch.
On a somewhat related note, I really hate red light cameras. Especially those that are advertised as anything other than money makers. Right on red is legal, just don't let the camera see you doing it. Total BS.
I played the demo at Target today and to misquote Dr. Zira "It's just so damned ugly". I love cell shading, and the cartoony graphics,and the great color scheme, but it is in my eyes a pixelated mess. I know the Wii can't due HD, but I really thought Nintendo could pull some magic out of a hat on this one and have it look good. I have a hard time looking at most Wii games except the Nintendo ones, both the Galaxy game and SSBB look great. Monster Hunter Tri even looks better than this. I'm really looking forward to playing this come Sunday, but I'm not sure how happy I'll be looking at it (52" 1080p LCD tv).
I think we need a bill supporting more piracy if NBC / Warner can't even get their free OTA tv program online somewhere. Which begs the question - if it's given away freely, is it really stealing? I pay for cable, I pay for my tv, I pay for the electric, I pay for my broadband internet, I pay real estate taxes to live in the US to be able to view these shows, and now I miss 1 episode of Chuck free on tv Friday night so now I have to become a criminal. Screw you all.
I've never used hotmail, but know quite a few people who do. I don't think I know anybody in real life who uses Slashdot. There are a lot more real people in the world than Slashdot readers, some of you keep forgetting that.
I have a friend who still uses his Juno email account. This despite having broadband wireless w/ Time Warner hooked up in his Brooklyn apartment. Juno.
I like the way Google gmail led me to Voice which allows me to make free calls and send/receive txt messages over WiFi. I have a $5 month Pay-as-you-go cell phone plan that I almost never use now. I suppose Microsoft has something similar w/ Hotmail.
Being locked in a room ON EARTH for 520 days doesn't even begin to measure the mental strain of being in SPACE for 520 days. I'm guessing if 1 of the 6 did go batshit w/ a knife police would have been sent in to stop this "experiment". For the first half of the trip every day in space is getting further from home w/ the excitement of being the first people to Mars, the way back to Earth they'll probably eat each other. But not in a good way.
I'm sorry all you knowledgeable geeks spending all your time playing WOW paying 8c so your horse can have wings, this isn't about that, it's about the Smurfs charging NINETY NINE DOLLARS for a bucket of make believe berries. It's not even make believe caviar. That price is obviously picked as an evil attempt to get kids to do something they shouldn't, b/c I don't care how much you like the Smurfs, nobody, not even Bernie Madoff and his illegal billions, should be spending $99 on imaginary berries. Not even with your cheatin' ex's stolen credit card should you be giving the makers of this game $99 for anything in a virtual game. And if you don't have kids then I'm sorry, but you really don't know anything. I don't care if you're a live in nanny or au pair or greatest aunt in the world, if they aren't your kids you don't know. So don't give advice or critique on something you seriously have no idea whatsoever about, you're just making yourself look like a smug superior jack@ss and even if you were 100% correct, which by the way if you don't have kids you have no chance of being, but nobody is going to listen to you anyway, b/c you don't know, so just shut up and go away.
Yes, people who take out $100,000 in student loans without job prospects may be seen as not too bright, but the people lending them money can't be too bright then either (see Robert Deniro, Mean Streets) unless they think the govt. is going to bail them out - unless of course you are the govt in which case you can just raise taxes, and finally why the heck does college cost so much anyway? The rate of inflation is criminally insane. Batman needs to kick Bruce Wayne's @ss.
The whole system is screwed. You take out huge college loans to get a job b/c you can't get a job w/o a college degree, then you graduate and there aren't any jobs so you take out even more student loans to go to grad school, after which you just become a college professor for all the incoming college students. And tuition keeps going up and up and up and up... How many colleges have lowered their tuition since or b/c of the 2008 recession? And people can't work to pay their own college tuition, if they could find jobs to begin with they wouldn't need to go to college. Wrapping gifts at ToyRUS over the holidays isn't even going to buy you a textbook. The system is screwed and I really really hope they fix it within the next 10 years before my kids hit college.
woo hoo, success!! Now if I can just figure out how to get my camera icon on my locked screen b/c nothing I do will get it there. Small potatoes though.
After a slowing DL - from 4 to 6 to 17 to 18 minutes - I finally received an error message telling me my install didn't work. After a quick Apple.com check I went back into iTunes and hit the install button again. It didn't DL anything this time, so I don't know if it installed 4.35 again or 5. It's restoring my iPod apps now. Been taking a while actually. I hope it isn't trying to install every app on the PC cause it ain't gonna fit on my 8gig iPod Touch, not by a longshot.
This is my first Apple update after only owning my iPod for 2 months so I'm about as newbie at this as anyone is going to get. Glad I didn't wait though for the new iPod Touch announcement last week - ooooh, white. (I already paid a straight $199 at Amazon.)
Wishing everybody else good luck w/ their updates.
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There will not be a 7" iPad Mini b/c: 1. the screen resolution will match up to the iPhone not the "retina display" iPad 2. it would cut into iPad sales 3. Nobody would buy a $200 iPod Touch w/ 3.5" screen for only $50 less than a $250 iPad Mini or an iPhone if they wanted a small screen I am very much looking forward to upgrading my 3.5" iPod Touch to the New iPod Touch w/ 7" screen.
And we're also safe from green gargantuas from the sea and brown gargantuas from the mountains.
I've never considered putting on "parenting" software. I'm more concerned the software company is likley to screw up my computer - and hence my kids - then anything they'll come across on the internet. They are on the computer adn the internet alot, have been for years, and I've never been worried. What is it that your afraid of that you need software to protect your kids? Do you view too much porn and pop-ups are crowding you screen? do you view a lot of child porn and you don't want you kids to find your stash? What is it you are proctecting them from? Don't let them sleep over MJ house, shower w/ old men or give out personal info. Nothing they see will actually cause them to go blind.
What, no love for Chrome 20? Shouldn't that be some kind of milestone?
But the data only plan will cost as much, probably more, than a calling plan and data plan combined. And if you buy a cellphone w/o a calling plan the smartphone is called a "tablet", not a phone. I'm sorry, it just isn't a phone anymore. I use my iPod Touch all the time for phone calls - Google Voice combined with some random Talk app I found" - but I never call it a phone. Because it isn't a phone.
1. Is there a jammer for the jammer? If not, shouldn't somebody be working on making one? 2. Have the South Koreans ASKED the North to stop or are they just whining about it on Facebook? IF they asked and the North said "no", well it really goes against everything I beleive in but I would do something violent. Does the south have pinpoint accuracy (or there abouts) missiles that could take the trucks out? I don't think bombing the entire city would be a good idea. Maybe the Navy seals need some sequel material?
I remember starting grad school 20 years ago spending $1,400 on a little 1 piece Compaq Presario and thinking - "Good thing for credit cards or nobody could buy a computer." And then I realized - there will always be "the next big thing' in technology for people to spend money on. Bigger tvs. Even bigger tvs. Flat screen tvs. 3D tvs. Sony Walkmans, mp3 players, iPods, iPads, notebooks, Netbooks, cell phones, smart phones, dial-up, broadband. I'm not saying it's all for the worse, nor am I putting on my tinfoil hat, but I'm pretty sure theirs a good correlation between the explosion of consumer electronics and the explosion of credit card debt.
I have a 32" tv in my bedroom and a 52" tv in my living room, but in a phone booth I think 26" would be more than enough.
Thanks to the US govt people can stop worrying about the trilateral commission and smoking old men in dark back rooms. Who needs conspiracy theories are theorists when the govt. can do anything it wants right out in the open. We're all criminals and pirates. Well except for white collar criminals, their just good capitalists.
But how many Xbox360 versions have come out in those 6 years? I'm no expert, but they've added HDMI, several bigger hard drives, had an "Arcade" version along with several other names, and now the whole packaging it with the Kinect to make it more like a new system. And then you have the firmware updates allowing for online streaming and other things. I'm guessing an early Xbox360 out of the box is very different than the one you'ld buy today. So yes, the "traditional lifespan" for a console generation is 5 years, but this hasn't been a traditional generation for the Xbox360 or to a lessor extent the PS3. The Wii is almost unchanged unless you count sneakily dropping Gamecube support, and as that idiot Pachter said should have been updated in 2009. I'm not ready for a new Sony system either, but I like all the changes this one has had.
I got stopped and searched at one of these checkpoints in 1988, 24 years ago. We were nowhere near the border, about 30 miles away, somewhere in Arizona. There weren't any dogs, just some guys in uniforms and mirrored Cool Hand Luke sunglasses. We had to get out of the car while they searched it. So, this isn't new, and it isn't near the border. And they don't stop doing it b/c it works. Probably shouldn't call it "border" patrol though, more like "rape your rights' patrol.
I know there is a lot going on in this article that is technically over my head, but I wish people would stop talking about "glasses free" 3D like it's some futuristic flying car. The 3DS has been out for a year, and it has 3D tech for game playing, photo taking and video recording in a $170 kids toy. I know there are a couple of cell phones also. I'm sure the fiber optic stuff is great and all, but glasses free 3D is here now.
Considering how often I back stuff up, but how rarely I ever use those backups, I'll gladly take 1,000 times faster backups even if it means slower read speeds than we have now. Really, I'ld take that trade-off in a heartbeat.
3 disgruntled about to be let go TSA employees concoct a scheme to steal all of the loose change left behind by passengers to support the pregnant girl of whom one of them is the father They steal Vin Diesel's bag of Mafia money by mistake. Hilarity and ultra-violence ensue.
Didnt' we just spend the last 6 months saying the iPhone 5 was going to have this screen? Or at least the iPhone 5 was definetly going to be released in October? Isn't this all getting to be a bit too much Apple speculation? At least the Apple iTV is a whole new project so maybe we can just speculate on that for a few months.
I can't help but think that in a world where kids are growing up w/ smartphones which automatically upload the photo you just took and the location you took it that in 20 years anybody is going to care about "location" privacy. I was driving around Long Island yesterday and my wife noted that on the Maps app on my iPod Touch we were being "tracked". I know not every place has as many wifi hot spots as we do right now, but in 20 years you will be tracked one way or another. Forget tinfoil hats, get a tinfoil phone pouch. On a somewhat related note, I really hate red light cameras. Especially those that are advertised as anything other than money makers. Right on red is legal, just don't let the camera see you doing it. Total BS.
I played the demo at Target today and to misquote Dr. Zira "It's just so damned ugly". I love cell shading, and the cartoony graphics ,and the great color scheme, but it is in my eyes a pixelated mess. I know the Wii can't due HD, but I really thought Nintendo could pull some magic out of a hat on this one and have it look good. I have a hard time looking at most Wii games except the Nintendo ones, both the Galaxy game and SSBB look great. Monster Hunter Tri even looks better than this. I'm really looking forward to playing this come Sunday, but I'm not sure how happy I'll be looking at it (52" 1080p LCD tv).
I think we need a bill supporting more piracy if NBC / Warner can't even get their free OTA tv program online somewhere. Which begs the question - if it's given away freely, is it really stealing? I pay for cable, I pay for my tv, I pay for the electric, I pay for my broadband internet, I pay real estate taxes to live in the US to be able to view these shows, and now I miss 1 episode of Chuck free on tv Friday night so now I have to become a criminal. Screw you all.
I've never used hotmail, but know quite a few people who do. I don't think I know anybody in real life who uses Slashdot. There are a lot more real people in the world than Slashdot readers, some of you keep forgetting that. I have a friend who still uses his Juno email account. This despite having broadband wireless w/ Time Warner hooked up in his Brooklyn apartment. Juno. I like the way Google gmail led me to Voice which allows me to make free calls and send/receive txt messages over WiFi. I have a $5 month Pay-as-you-go cell phone plan that I almost never use now. I suppose Microsoft has something similar w/ Hotmail.
Being locked in a room ON EARTH for 520 days doesn't even begin to measure the mental strain of being in SPACE for 520 days. I'm guessing if 1 of the 6 did go batshit w/ a knife police would have been sent in to stop this "experiment". For the first half of the trip every day in space is getting further from home w/ the excitement of being the first people to Mars, the way back to Earth they'll probably eat each other. But not in a good way.
It's called capitalism.
I'm sorry all you knowledgeable geeks spending all your time playing WOW paying 8c so your horse can have wings, this isn't about that, it's about the Smurfs charging NINETY NINE DOLLARS for a bucket of make believe berries. It's not even make believe caviar. That price is obviously picked as an evil attempt to get kids to do something they shouldn't, b/c I don't care how much you like the Smurfs, nobody, not even Bernie Madoff and his illegal billions, should be spending $99 on imaginary berries. Not even with your cheatin' ex's stolen credit card should you be giving the makers of this game $99 for anything in a virtual game. And if you don't have kids then I'm sorry, but you really don't know anything. I don't care if you're a live in nanny or au pair or greatest aunt in the world, if they aren't your kids you don't know. So don't give advice or critique on something you seriously have no idea whatsoever about, you're just making yourself look like a smug superior jack@ss and even if you were 100% correct, which by the way if you don't have kids you have no chance of being, but nobody is going to listen to you anyway, b/c you don't know, so just shut up and go away.
Yes, people who take out $100,000 in student loans without job prospects may be seen as not too bright, but the people lending them money can't be too bright then either (see Robert Deniro, Mean Streets) unless they think the govt. is going to bail them out - unless of course you are the govt in which case you can just raise taxes, and finally why the heck does college cost so much anyway? The rate of inflation is criminally insane. Batman needs to kick Bruce Wayne's @ss. The whole system is screwed. You take out huge college loans to get a job b/c you can't get a job w/o a college degree, then you graduate and there aren't any jobs so you take out even more student loans to go to grad school, after which you just become a college professor for all the incoming college students. And tuition keeps going up and up and up and up... How many colleges have lowered their tuition since or b/c of the 2008 recession? And people can't work to pay their own college tuition, if they could find jobs to begin with they wouldn't need to go to college. Wrapping gifts at ToyRUS over the holidays isn't even going to buy you a textbook. The system is screwed and I really really hope they fix it within the next 10 years before my kids hit college.
woo hoo, success!! Now if I can just figure out how to get my camera icon on my locked screen b/c nothing I do will get it there. Small potatoes though.
After a slowing DL - from 4 to 6 to 17 to 18 minutes - I finally received an error message telling me my install didn't work. After a quick Apple.com check I went back into iTunes and hit the install button again. It didn't DL anything this time, so I don't know if it installed 4.35 again or 5. It's restoring my iPod apps now. Been taking a while actually. I hope it isn't trying to install every app on the PC cause it ain't gonna fit on my 8gig iPod Touch, not by a longshot. This is my first Apple update after only owning my iPod for 2 months so I'm about as newbie at this as anyone is going to get. Glad I didn't wait though for the new iPod Touch announcement last week - ooooh, white. (I already paid a straight $199 at Amazon.) Wishing everybody else good luck w/ their updates.