Why are these "statistics" reported here every freaking month, despite the fact that they are suspect in their validity and that their collection methods are not open for review or comment? The statistics that Net Applications collects are based solely on their customer base, and yet despite my pointing this out every time it is posted - the posts continue each month.
I can tell you that any hope is welcome. My Dad was using PDT treatments (which ruined the contrast in his vision) and Avantis injections (which were some help), but the real break through was when Lucentis came of trial and became available. He went from diminished vision and the prospect of not being able to drive to a vastly improved vision spectrum and only limiting his night driving (due to contrast issues). While the injections are costly ($1500 just for the drug - thank god for his insurance coverage!) it's been a night and day difference. I've been very involved in his treatments, taking him each month and going in the office and treatment rooms to gauge his progress and ask questions. We're lucky to have a great retina specialist who invites questions and participation, and thanks to this my Dad is able to do most of the things he used to enjoy - reading the newspaper, driving Mom around, working in the garden and workshop. But before Lucentis, it looked like I was going to need to move back in and care for him (not that I would have minded in the least - I have wonderful parents). If you or a loved one is suffering from this disease, please see a RETINA specialist asap - time is a factor. As far as the subject of the article, I am looking at it with great hope, because as a preventative it may be of use to me since I have some of the early signs myself.
If I paste my face on Obama's body, does that make me the President...or for that matter a black man?!? Of course not, and neither does it make an *actual* minor involved in a *simulated sexual act*.
The better question to ask is if their answer changes if their childs face is superimposed on a nude adult.
Did you actually READ the original post? This was the whole point!
'What's next, will Scientologists have to wear yellow, six-pointed stars on our clothing?'
How about T-Shirts that say "I'm with Stupid" with the arrow pointing up? How dare they compare their made up religion to someone else's made up religion.
I have been waiting for this for a long time and will gladly test the hell out of it. If you've ever tried accessing WIKIpedia with Mobile IE you'd know it was an exercise in futility.
Interesting how the photo shows the sticker on the actual urinal, but no picture of mythical sensor with the camera in it in this or the original article.
Anyone stupid enough to fall for this one deserves to go on a snipe hunt. Do you think for even a moment that DHS would do something like this without a proper vetting; something so invasive and objectionable?
The reasoning behind this has nothing to do with efficiency, quality, etc. it's about artistic sensibility. For the same reason people love the fixed focus Lomo Cameras. Many of these photos are slightly blurry, over saturated and many of them hang in galleries and museums or are featured in priceless private collections. Poloroid film has a similar quality to it and can be quite effective in the right hands. It tends to shift to red and yellow casts which endow the subject with an instant retro look and feel.
Sorry, but some times, technology ISN'T the most important consideration. I own about 4 of the old bellows rangefinder models and would love to see film become available for them. Right now they are just art/conversation pieces; I imagine if I could CREATE art pieces using them, it would be invigorating. Not being able to "fix it in the mix" with Photoshop would force me to work harder in composition and choice of subject at the time of the shot.
I thought this was a well written and incredibly thoughtful tutorial and am grateful to the OP for posting it here.
What I couldn't understand was all the negative digs here from/. posters. That was until I read this (quoted from the tutorial):
I don't subscribe to the lunatic fringe's view that Microsoft is Big Brother or that Bill Gates is evil. Windows Vista didn't steal my girl, wreck my truck, or kill my dog. It's just utterly disappointing and incredibly overpriced.
Put simple - Tablets suck except for a very few niche uses... And even for those few uses, netbooks do the job cheaper and more conveniently.
Put simple - that's why you're posting on/. instead of working for a company like Apple. They've already proven that tablets - which is what the iPhone essentially is, just in a smaller form factor - don't suck, and millions of consumers agreed. Tablets with a user interface done right, that is. This is not just a move to come up with a cool new toy, this is an acknowledgment of a growing market replete with a built in catalog of available applications that users actually want. And as a bonus, they can expand to users who want a Kindle but expect a but more for their bucks than just a reader. And I'm damn glad, since I put my Dad into the stock early and it's going to be my inheritance some day.
The read was actually worth it, and shouldn't be written off so quickly. In a paragraph from the original article:
The name also did it a disservice in that this was never Sarah Connor's story, at least not for me. The series shone brightest when a light was trained on John Connor's transformation from whiny teen to reluctant leader. It was in relation to John that the other characters made sense. Despite the title, Sarah Connor doesn't really deserve chronicling - she isn't that interesting a character. Obsessed people very rarely are, especially when the cause of that obsession has been explained. Sarah's obsessed with protecting her son, because he's going to save the world. This means that her attitude to everybody is always exactly the same: aggressive, surly and suspicious. She doesn't change. It's her moulding of her son that strikes a note. Her attempts to protect him increasingly push him away, turning him into the man he needs to become, even as she's trying to connect. It was this journey that was at the centre of the series - watching John grow into the role he didn't want. Watching how the other characters shaped him, and he them. Watching a mythology being spun.
I felt the same way; for me it was never about Sarah Connor, it was about answering the question of how John Connor grew a pair and started taking on the characteristics of a real leader - the third movie's ending made it all look like an accident of fate when in reality, the seeds of leadership had to be planted somewhere in his life in order for him to cope with the reality that confronted him. It could have served as a nice lead in to the upcoming movie, and in some ways it still accomplished that much.
Seems like every month we get a post like this, citing the same source, and I post the same comment - that the only thing this measures is the statistics of Net Applications clients use their HitsLink software. No methodology is ever given or available via an easy to find link on their site. In my book that invalidates any hard conclusions. Perhaps this time my comment will actually get modded up enough for others to see and question....but I doubt it.
But now suppose the government offers a $5 rebate (funded by a tax on all 100 million Internet users) to anyone who buys anti-virus software.
Funded by who now?! Here's a better idea; fund it from a tax placed on all users/organizations that send out more than 1000 emails per hour (or some reasonable amount that allows for legitimate mailers). You not only reduce the amount of spammers and malware senders - a major source of virii in the first place - and the rest of us legitimate users who either purchase and use protection or opt for a more secure OS aren't penalized.
With an estimated 96% of all mail in the pipe classified as spam, taking steps to prevent abuse will lead to lower levels of virii at the same time, not to mention the bandwidth returned to legitimate use. Otherwise the suggestions amount to little more than asking the taxpayers paying for my condoms so I can be safe and not spread disease to the rest of the citizens. Hey, if I want to "play craps with my dick" (as Eddie Murphy put it) I'm a big boy and should be responsible enough to protect myself.
By this externalities logic, why aren't the taxes collected on my cigarettes offered BACK to me in the form of nicotine patches or smoking cessation medication subsidies? After all, encourage me not to smoke and make it easy and less costly for those of us who don't have health insurance, and no one has to suffer my second hand smoke effects or health costs. No, instead they are used to fund pet projects and pork, which is exactly what this would become.
Besides repeating that no one NEEDS to use the WinMo app store, unlike the iPhone, I'll add that you might want to look into two apps, either Inesoft Phone Extensions or SPB Mobile Shell 3.00. Both of these have dialer improvements (to say the least) and offer the ability to customize the replacements to an extent.
I'm not a shill for either company, but I can say I am using both of them and am quite happy with the options and differences they make. Not quite turning my Samsung i760 an iPhone replacement but getting damn close.
You mean Active Stink ? It's always a challenge to get that to work, but strangely enough in syncing over the air with one of my clients Exchange servers (I'm there on a LTA 3 days a week) it seems to work flawlessly, so trying the Verizon wireless sync for home office syncing is an option I will definitely think of - thanks for the tip. I have noticed something though - got a hold of the SPB Shell 3.0 beta and since I installed it and turned off my today plug ins, the thing has never been more stable. I am definitely going to purchase it, even though the price is a little steeper than usual; it's probably the best app I have seen for having access to all my needs in a pda phone.
I have the same phone, but not the same results. I'm on my second i760 and am rebooting it constantly. Nothing major loaded on it and not overloaded with shells or today gizmos. I'd love to see a list of your apps and know who your provider is; this has been driving me crazy. If I could get it to work like yours, I'd be happy.
Comments like yours are the reason I come to/. in the first place. (That and the funny shit, of course.) Well thought and gave me reason to pause and consider.
Agreed, wholeheartedly, and well put. This "the information should be free" crap is always posted by people who want *everything* to be "free"...except of course the things THEY produce.
The very idea that AP is wrong for wanting to keep their business alive by - shudder! - asking people to compensate them for the *considerable* expenses associated with producing content is like saying, "Hey, I know that pool is on your property and all, and you paid to have it built, but you filled it with rain water and that's free so I'm going to go swimming now - K-thanx-bye!"
Give up on these lame frigging April Fools posts. Not one of them has been funny or even mildly entertaining. If you want humor, post some actual news stories and let the/. denizens have at it.
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Why are these "statistics" reported here every freaking month, despite the fact that they are suspect in their validity and that their collection methods are not open for review or comment? The statistics that Net Applications collects are based solely on their customer base, and yet despite my pointing this out every time it is posted - the posts continue each month.
No, and my view made it look like you were replying to the OP - my apologies, I now see what you said in context.
I can tell you that any hope is welcome. My Dad was using PDT treatments (which ruined the contrast in his vision) and Avantis injections (which were some help), but the real break through was when Lucentis came of trial and became available. He went from diminished vision and the prospect of not being able to drive to a vastly improved vision spectrum and only limiting his night driving (due to contrast issues). While the injections are costly ($1500 just for the drug - thank god for his insurance coverage!) it's been a night and day difference. I've been very involved in his treatments, taking him each month and going in the office and treatment rooms to gauge his progress and ask questions. We're lucky to have a great retina specialist who invites questions and participation, and thanks to this my Dad is able to do most of the things he used to enjoy - reading the newspaper, driving Mom around, working in the garden and workshop. But before Lucentis, it looked like I was going to need to move back in and care for him (not that I would have minded in the least - I have wonderful parents). If you or a loved one is suffering from this disease, please see a RETINA specialist asap - time is a factor. As far as the subject of the article, I am looking at it with great hope, because as a preventative it may be of use to me since I have some of the early signs myself.
Did you actually READ the original post? This was the whole point!
...You can see Russia!
How about T-Shirts that say "I'm with Stupid" with the arrow pointing up? How dare they compare their made up religion to someone else's made up religion.
I have been waiting for this for a long time and will gladly test the hell out of it. If you've ever tried accessing WIKIpedia with Mobile IE you'd know it was an exercise in futility.
Interesting how the photo shows the sticker on the actual urinal, but no picture of mythical sensor with the camera in it in this or the original article.
Anyone stupid enough to fall for this one deserves to go on a snipe hunt. Do you think for even a moment that DHS would do something like this without a proper vetting; something so invasive and objectionable?
The reasoning behind this has nothing to do with efficiency, quality, etc. it's about artistic sensibility. For the same reason people love the fixed focus Lomo Cameras. Many of these photos are slightly blurry, over saturated and many of them hang in galleries and museums or are featured in priceless private collections. Poloroid film has a similar quality to it and can be quite effective in the right hands. It tends to shift to red and yellow casts which endow the subject with an instant retro look and feel.
Sorry, but some times, technology ISN'T the most important consideration. I own about 4 of the old bellows rangefinder models and would love to see film become available for them. Right now they are just art/conversation pieces; I imagine if I could CREATE art pieces using them, it would be invigorating. Not being able to "fix it in the mix" with Photoshop would force me to work harder in composition and choice of subject at the time of the shot.
What I couldn't understand was all the negative digs here from
Now I get it...
Put simple - that's why you're posting on /. instead of working for a company like Apple. They've already proven that tablets - which is what the iPhone essentially is, just in a smaller form factor - don't suck, and millions of consumers agreed. Tablets with a user interface done right, that is. This is not just a move to come up with a cool new toy, this is an acknowledgment of a growing market replete with a built in catalog of available applications that users actually want. And as a bonus, they can expand to users who want a Kindle but expect a but more for their bucks than just a reader. And I'm damn glad, since I put my Dad into the stock early and it's going to be my inheritance some day.
Astronauts drinking pee and sweat or the fact that this story has almost as many comments as the "Battery fueled by air" story?
I felt the same way; for me it was never about Sarah Connor, it was about answering the question of how John Connor grew a pair and started taking on the characteristics of a real leader - the third movie's ending made it all look like an accident of fate when in reality, the seeds of leadership had to be planted somewhere in his life in order for him to cope with the reality that confronted him. It could have served as a nice lead in to the upcoming movie, and in some ways it still accomplished that much.
...that Fox announced the won't be renewing "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" next season...perhaps they felt they had too many reality shows.
This headline is so obvious it just became self-aware.
Seems like every month we get a post like this, citing the same source, and I post the same comment - that the only thing this measures is the statistics of Net Applications clients use their HitsLink software. No methodology is ever given or available via an easy to find link on their site. In my book that invalidates any hard conclusions. Perhaps this time my comment will actually get modded up enough for others to see and question....but I doubt it.
Funded by who now?! Here's a better idea; fund it from a tax placed on all users/organizations that send out more than 1000 emails per hour (or some reasonable amount that allows for legitimate mailers). You not only reduce the amount of spammers and malware senders - a major source of virii in the first place - and the rest of us legitimate users who either purchase and use protection or opt for a more secure OS aren't penalized.
With an estimated 96% of all mail in the pipe classified as spam, taking steps to prevent abuse will lead to lower levels of virii at the same time, not to mention the bandwidth returned to legitimate use. Otherwise the suggestions amount to little more than asking the taxpayers paying for my condoms so I can be safe and not spread disease to the rest of the citizens. Hey, if I want to "play craps with my dick" (as Eddie Murphy put it) I'm a big boy and should be responsible enough to protect myself.
By this externalities logic, why aren't the taxes collected on my cigarettes offered BACK to me in the form of nicotine patches or smoking cessation medication subsidies? After all, encourage me not to smoke and make it easy and less costly for those of us who don't have health insurance, and no one has to suffer my second hand smoke effects or health costs. No, instead they are used to fund pet projects and pork, which is exactly what this would become.
Besides repeating that no one NEEDS to use the WinMo app store, unlike the iPhone, I'll add that you might want to look into two apps, either Inesoft Phone Extensions or SPB Mobile Shell 3.00. Both of these have dialer improvements (to say the least) and offer the ability to customize the replacements to an extent.
I'm not a shill for either company, but I can say I am using both of them and am quite happy with the options and differences they make. Not quite turning my Samsung i760 an iPhone replacement but getting damn close.
You mean Active Stink ? It's always a challenge to get that to work, but strangely enough in syncing over the air with one of my clients Exchange servers (I'm there on a LTA 3 days a week) it seems to work flawlessly, so trying the Verizon wireless sync for home office syncing is an option I will definitely think of - thanks for the tip. I have noticed something though - got a hold of the SPB Shell 3.0 beta and since I installed it and turned off my today plug ins, the thing has never been more stable. I am definitely going to purchase it, even though the price is a little steeper than usual; it's probably the best app I have seen for having access to all my needs in a pda phone.
Jim Rapoza of eWeek has a great article on the subject of monopolistic behavior in this month's issue (which can be seen on line at http://etech.eweek.com/content/operating_systems/apple_trumps_microsoft_google_as_tech_monopolist.html) and while I'm sure the view might not be as popular here on /. I think it bears reading.
I have the same phone, but not the same results. I'm on my second i760 and am rebooting it constantly. Nothing major loaded on it and not overloaded with shells or today gizmos. I'd love to see a list of your apps and know who your provider is; this has been driving me crazy. If I could get it to work like yours, I'd be happy.
Comments like yours are the reason I come to /. in the first place. (That and the funny shit, of course.) Well thought and gave me reason to pause and consider.
Agreed, wholeheartedly, and well put. This "the information should be free" crap is always posted by people who want *everything* to be "free"...except of course the things THEY produce.
The very idea that AP is wrong for wanting to keep their business alive by - shudder! - asking people to compensate them for the *considerable* expenses associated with producing content is like saying, "Hey, I know that pool is on your property and all, and you paid to have it built, but you filled it with rain water and that's free so I'm going to go swimming now - K-thanx-bye!"
..look up endlessly redundant April Fools "joke" posts. Guaranteed your first hit is /.
Give up on these lame frigging April Fools posts. Not one of them has been funny or even mildly entertaining. If you want humor, post some actual news stories and let the /. denizens have at it.
The comments are ALWAYS funnier than this crap.