The iPad has everything that any other computer has...
You mean like USB ports, the ability to create and run your own software, the ability to chose your own OS, the freedom to download software from anywhere you chose, Flash support, the ability to export and import files at will, etc.?
Oh God! Seriously...if you want a tablet that does all that, buy a Windows tablet.
The iPad does exactly what it was designed to do and what it is marketed to do. Fess up and just say that you're pissed off because it doesn't work how YOU think it should work. As far as that goes: tough titties. Buy a device that does what you want it and let the iPad be bought by the people to whom it was marketed.
NOTE: For the record, I think FOX News is shit and Murdoch should be hung by his balls...but let's not pretend that the BBC is some bastion of fairness and impartiality.
True. But for those other applications, just give me a touchscreen that works like an art tablet and automatically knows when you're switching from multitouch to stylus and I'm set.
You can...until you do so at one of the primary conventions and do it outside of the little, barbed-wire box they put you into. Then you end up in a warehouse full of cages.
What surprises me is that with all of us uber-wonks here on/., nobody seems to remember that THE FUCKING FCC CREATED THIS WHOLE FUCKING MESS IN THE FIRST PLACE BY NOT CLASSIFYING CABLECO INTERNET PROVIDERS AS COMMON CARRIERS! HELLOOOOOOOOOOOOOO?!?/cruise control
Does anyone not remember the whole Brand-X debacle? If the FCC had just bucked up then...or would buck up now and classify Comcast, Cox, Roadrunner, et al., correctly, Net Neutrality and Congress sticking their nose where it absolutely does NOT belong wouldn't even be an issue.
No, by definition, the President's job is to *execute* the wishes of Congress, who are our *representatives*.
The problem is that Congress has ceased to represent us (and now represents only special interests and corporate lobbyists) and has ceded nearly all of its power to the President, creating a de facto near-dictatorship.
Alternately, if you're male, cover your desktop with pictures of your own penis. "Mine1.jpg", "Mine2.jpg", "Mine3.jpg". I don't think they're going to search much farther after that.;)
Management (looking at motion feeds) : "What are anonymous blobs #245 and #777 doing? Why are they so close together?"
Security : "Well, they could be in a heated discussion...or it got worse and one's strangling the other..."
Management (now staring) : "Wait...zoom in. They seem to be bumping up against one another."
Security : "Well, then they're probably having...oh sh-!"
Personally, I'm going to take Steve's advice and go get my eyes chromed.
First, ya gotta kill a few people. Then you gotta get sent to a slam where they tell you you'll never see daylight again. You dig up a doctor and you pay him 20 menthol Kools...
Personally, I couldn't give a shit less about background apps (except for maybe an IM program...Adium on iPhone?). I'm personally waiting for 3G functionality and someone to write a decent terminal/SSH program for it so I can do basic emergency server fixes on the run (reboots, backups and such). It would make it a lot easier than me having to carry my laptop with me and find a wifi hotspot whenever something went wrong and I wasn't in the office.
2) all cellphones, whether active or not, can be located (by sending out signals which will provoke a passive response from their antenna's), over a short range (but still a few miles, given enough power in the transmitter)
So just turning it off, if you want to avoid being targeted, is not sufficient. Either wrap it in a (thin) faraday cage (which will itself be trackable from overhead if it's mass is too much, but hey), or, better, leave it at home. Do not use radio communication equipment.
Or you could just take the battery out when you're not using the phone or charging the battery. No power = no signal.
Um, no. Science only requires EVIDENCE before belief. The "Law" of Gravity is still just a theory. Have we been able to measure gravitational waves yet? No. Have we found the "gravitron" yet? No. Every theory, until it is disproven, is still Science's best guess.
And, yeah, I'm going here: Evolution is still a theory. It is Science's best guess of how life came about. There is plenty of evidence that it could be actually true. It may be disproven one day. My whole point is stop acting like Science can answer EVERYTHING. So far, it can't.
DISCLAIMER: I am a nondenominational protestant Christian. I'm not a zealot. I don't believe that Science and Religion are diametrically opposed. I can easily go into Genesis and point out a number of passages that could be interpreted that God used evolution as His engine of creation. I'm not going there *now*, as I need sleep. But if someone wants to, I'll go into that in the morning.:)
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Ustream.tv has had this capability for iPhone, Android and Nokia for about a year or so. I use the iPhone apps all the time.
http://www.ustream.tv/mobile
You mean like USB ports, the ability to create and run your own software, the ability to chose your own OS, the freedom to download software from anywhere you chose, Flash support, the ability to export and import files at will, etc.?
Oh God! Seriously...if you want a tablet that does all that, buy a Windows tablet.
The iPad does exactly what it was designed to do and what it is marketed to do. Fess up and just say that you're pissed off because it doesn't work how YOU think it should work. As far as that goes: tough titties. Buy a device that does what you want it and let the iPad be bought by the people to whom it was marketed.
Close. Very close. But, you forgot "I WANT THE COLD, MEXICAN BEER!" :)
I whipped the DVD back out and watched this a few nights ago. It's a guilty pleasure. /pedant
Um...really?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_BBC
NOTE: For the record, I think FOX News is shit and Murdoch should be hung by his balls...but let's not pretend that the BBC is some bastion of fairness and impartiality.
I really, REALLY hope you're joking if you're saying you actually BELIEVE that tripe about his campaign being funded ENTIRELY by the citizens.
http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/contrib.php?cycle=2008&cid=N00009638
True. But for those other applications, just give me a touchscreen that works like an art tablet and automatically knows when you're switching from multitouch to stylus and I'm set.
BTW...nice sig. ;)
Fix'd. ;)
2 copies of the radio play on mp3-CD here: http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Hitchhikers-Guide-Galaxy-Radio/dp/0563494212
You can...until you do so at one of the primary conventions and do it outside of the little, barbed-wire box they put you into. Then you end up in a warehouse full of cages.
What surprises me is that with all of us uber-wonks here on /., nobody seems to remember that THE FUCKING FCC CREATED THIS WHOLE FUCKING MESS IN THE FIRST PLACE BY NOT CLASSIFYING CABLECO INTERNET PROVIDERS AS COMMON CARRIERS! HELLOOOOOOOOOOOOOO?!? /cruise control
Does anyone not remember the whole Brand-X debacle? If the FCC had just bucked up then...or would buck up now and classify Comcast, Cox, Roadrunner, et al., correctly, Net Neutrality and Congress sticking their nose where it absolutely does NOT belong wouldn't even be an issue.
Common Carrier: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_carrier
Brand-X: http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/04-277.ZS.html & http://news.zdnet.com/2100-6005_22-143450.html
No, by definition, the President's job is to *execute* the wishes of Congress, who are our *representatives*.
The problem is that Congress has ceased to represent us (and now represents only special interests and corporate lobbyists) and has ceded nearly all of its power to the President, creating a de facto near-dictatorship.
Funny. I never noticed that when I lived in Alexandria (FFX county). When I moved up to Arlington, I did notice that food isn't taxed.
That was supposed to be a reply to MindlessAutomata. >:[
Dammit! This would get modded up...if I had any mod points at this moment. >:(
Alternately, if you're male, cover your desktop with pictures of your own penis. "Mine1.jpg", "Mine2.jpg", "Mine3.jpg". I don't think they're going to search much farther after that. ;)
Damn...and the iPhone is barely getting 3g.
*sigh* We are so far behind nature.
Knowing /., someone here will one up it and put BSD on it first.
Or this:
Management (looking at motion feeds) : "What are anonymous blobs #245 and #777 doing? Why are they so close together?"
Security : "Well, they could be in a heated discussion...or it got worse and one's strangling the other..."
Management (now staring) : "Wait...zoom in. They seem to be bumping up against one another."
Security : "Well, then they're probably having...oh sh-!"
Personally, I couldn't give a shit less about background apps (except for maybe an IM program...Adium on iPhone?). I'm personally waiting for 3G functionality and someone to write a decent terminal/SSH program for it so I can do basic emergency server fixes on the run (reboots, backups and such). It would make it a lot easier than me having to carry my laptop with me and find a wifi hotspot whenever something went wrong and I wasn't in the office.
Cassini: [message relayed from Cats] "All your base are belong to us. You have no chance to survive make your time."
And, yeah, I'm going here: Evolution is still a theory. It is Science's best guess of how life came about. There is plenty of evidence that it could be actually true. It may be disproven one day. My whole point is stop acting like Science can answer EVERYTHING. So far, it can't.
DISCLAIMER: I am a nondenominational protestant Christian. I'm not a zealot. I don't believe that Science and Religion are diametrically opposed. I can easily go into Genesis and point out a number of passages that could be interpreted that God used evolution as His engine of creation. I'm not going there *now*, as I need sleep. But if someone wants to, I'll go into that in the morning.
Damn! Is my Freudian slip showing again? *sigh*