No, the entire web should give up flash because security experts have been saying so for years, and because flash performance SUCKS compared to other native formats that don't require plug-ins, and because flash costs money and other options are FOSS, and because Apple had the balls to be the first one to simply openly agree and take a stand saying we won;t include it unless Adobe fixes it, and Adobe refuses to fix it.
please blame adobe for making crap software, and refusing to update that software to be secure, faster, and easier to code, and stop blaming apple for abandoning an obsolete and risky application that runs poorly on even much more powerful hardware. Supporting flash in it;s current iteration would have added over $120 to the iPad's hardware cost, and dropped the battery life to under 3 hours. Seriously, you'd vote for that?
VIDEO performance, over wifi, with backlighting at normal settings and bluetooth enabled is TESTING over 10 hours, some claiming 12, with the iPad. Reading books, in a dim room with the backlight down to lower levels, testers were claiming close to 16 hours. A USB port is never that far away such that a simply $5 cable (ubiquitous in every store if I forget one) can charge the iPad. I charge my phone every night, why not the Pad. No one is realistically going to read more than 16 concurrent hours without having something to charge the pad off (it's standby time btw is 30 DAYS! and that's ACTIVE, receiving notifications over WiFi, no off/asleep).
Thanks for bringing FUD to the table. Try some actual data next time.
Also, i never said it was for ebooks, it;s a MEDIA COMSUMPTION DEVICE, and that means all forms. Also note, current iBook prices (in the store now) are generally the same or lower than Amazon, since Apple is nice enough to give the publisher a significant cut (70%), they're consistently offering lower prices, baiting amazon and others to change policies. Also, who said I buy ANYTHING from iTunes???? There are a thousand free sources of media, and the iPad and iPhone happily play any non-DRM content natively.
$399 for black and white low rez graphics on a 100% locked down platform, or $499 for one that still lasts a full day no questions asked, has a beautiful color screen that's easier to read in the dark (I tried a kindle for a week and returned it, thanks but no thanks, e-ink does suck except in bright light), and can play video in 720p and play 3d games, and edit documents, and surf the web, and manage my e-mail and calandar and photo albums, and 200,000 other apps at an average price under $5? Who's the fucking moron?
White macbook MSRP? no. But MacMall and bestbuy will both sell one for that price, as will apple if you ask nicely. Education price is $899, but you do not need to verify to anyone you actually qualify, just ask them to beat that price and throw in a few extras like mac Mall does.
H.264 is only supported on GMA-HD (and then only partially), and requires an iseries or higher CPU to perform 720p.
There are numerous maches advertised as netbooks over $500, but i agree, only a moron buys one. That said, none UNDER $500 can match the iPads specs, period. Closest competitor is a $629 Acer if you include HTML5 video full screen as an expectation.
I have an eee. Rarely use it. It's good for a basic document edit, or research, but as a companion device for traveling, it's lack of any gaming or video performance makes it less than useless to me. Given the boot time, I'd rather pull out a real 13" notebook any time. I keep it around for other people only, and bring it to the beach so i don't have to worry about damaging an expensive machine.
it;s just an update to OS 3.1... Wait for OS 4 and you'll see these things added. Tabs requires a much more involved overhaul of the OS, as does local folders which requires changes to the underlying storage on the device.
Exactly, I have Win 7 on a dual core farily basic rig with a 3 year old GPU and 2GB of RAM. It takes about 30 seconds from completion of POST (which is about a minute since I have a RAID adapter in there, and dull a full memory clean on cold boot), to a login screen, and about 15 more seconds after that until it establishes a wifi connection and stops thrashing the disks long enough to open e-mail and a browser. all said, not bad.
My wife's friend brought by a shiny new $600 netbook, one that actually had a basic non-intel GPU capable of limited video performance (most netbooks fall flat with flash, and can not do H.264 at native screen resolution let alone 720P). It had a 2GHz Atom/arm/whatever it was, and 2GB of RAM. It took more than 3.5 minutes to boot windows 7 to a login screen, and more than 70 seconds after login to open outlook and a web browser. by 5 minutes in, I'll have forgotten why I was booting it up. Technically, it smoked the iPad's specs, but it was compeltely unusable from a concencince/companion device standpoint. $250 more and I'd have gotten a machine capable of playing WoW, running virtual machines, a 13" screen, and the power and performance to edit video and run a full OS, on a 7 hour battery (aka, a White Macbook).
A USB port might have been nice, but honestly the thing is designed to consume from the cloud... A USB adapter is provided to connect cameras and SD cards, but aside from that, very little ever needs to be physically connected to the device that can't be done via bluetooth.
"150% more storage" of which 30% can't be used without crippling windows performance and making fragmentation impossible, and of which on the iPad the OS and all common apps takes less than 1GB, but on a netbook, 20-40GB is chewed up for the same. 150% for formatted storage, 50% less "usable" storage....and on the netbook, it's not flash based (aka SSD). Which do you prefer?
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My wife's MBP 15" 2.66 gets very close to 7 hours with the second GPU off, watching video over WiFI with screen brightness at about half, and gets just about 6 hours playing games with the second GPU on (and about 5.5 hours under Windows 7). This also includes the use of Bluetooth concurrent with the other features, backlit keyboard on, etc.
My iPhone 3GS gets almost exactly the advertised runtime playing either video with screen on or music with it off. Left in complete standby, it's shy a few hours of expected standby time, but I have ActiveSync enabled and that means it's not really in standby completely.
My iPod Nano ran more than 14 hours playing music, still had some battery left when i woke up in the morning and found it still going.
Apple's run times are withing 10% of advertized runtime, under NORMAL USE (default unless otherwise documented) settings. However, i have found Dell, HP, and most other systems I've used (including most other phones) are only capable of the same "withing 10% of advertised" battery performance when settings are tweaked, and all optional features are disabled. Typically, battery life in a non-apple notebook I fund to run about 60-70% of advertised life. Apple may not hit the mark dead on, but at least they hit the target's surface. Others completely miss and you're off in the woods looking for the arrow...
Apple reports "general use" battery life, others report "under lab conditions" battery life, which is completely irrelevant.
With reviewers claiming the iPad is getting consistantly over 9 hours run time, screen on, streaming data with connections to the web for e-mail and alerts running, that's pretty friggin good. Reading an ebook with wifi turned off should even more.
Short term visitation, and permanent legal residency for non-citizens are two different things.
Just because a parent is not a citizen does not mean a natural born child is not.
Just because you can't vote does not mean congress should be blind to you, as one day you may very well vote.
Legal residency, citizen or not, still has to account for local school base, public service allotments (fire, police, etc), and more. These people must be counted.
Your political and cultural views are important. The only people we should disregard are true illegal residents, but even for those we need to know how many there are to appropriately associate resources to finding and registering/removing them, and to account for the crime/economic/job impact they impart.
Internally, 420p is completely plausible. however, that's not the idea... With NFC, and an appropriate receiver (or a simple dock and cable) 1080p connection to a TV is completely within reason. Further, a tiny adjustment to the mini displayport on upcoming mac notebooks (and PCs as well, since it's part of the standard), and video in to a notebook through playback on an iPod/iPhone is completely plausible.
Yup. If you pay taxes, have a job on the books, a SS card, have a driver's license, have a bank account, have debt of virtually any kind, go to school, they already have this data.
The problem is (and why we still require very desperately the census), is that it is in lots of different places, not consolidated, half out-of-date, filled with inaccuracy and mistakes, and doesn't include anyone who otherwise is not in the system. Further, there are people (politicians, school districts, etc) who need some of this data whom we do NOT want to have access to the rest. Further, since immigration can NOT get this data, the census is one of the only ways we get details on illegal immigrants. It explicitly can not be used against them, so most of them fill it out (and if they don't, someone knocks on their door and we get the data anyway).
I suggest you read and understand this then: The law
Title 13
Sec. 221. Refusal or neglect to answer questions; false answers
(a) Whoever, being over eighteen years of age refuses or willfully neglects, when requested by the Secretary, or by any other authorized officer or employee of the Department of Commerce or bureau or agency thereof acting under the instructions of the Secretary or authorized officer, to answer, to the best of his knowledge, any of the questions on any schedule submitted to him in connection with any census or survey provided for by subchapters I, II, IV, and V of chapter 5 of this title, applying to himself or to the family to which he belongs or is related, or to the farm or farms of which he or his family is the occupant, shall be fined not more than $100.
(b) Whoever, when answering questions described in subsection (a) of this section, and under the conditions or circumstances described in such subsection, willfully gives any answer that is false, shall be fined not more than $500. (c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, no person shall be compelled to disclose information relative to his religious beliefs or to membership in a religious body.
Since they're gonna have to charge me and the other tax payers $47 to come knock on your door since you refuse to answer the form, I'm happy to hear you'll be paying at least twice that back into the tax pool to help cover my federal taxes next year.
If you do not fill it out completely, the census bureau is required to contact you by phone if possible, by mail if not, and by door if you do not respond. It cost approx $50 per door they knock on, and about $4 if you simply fill out the form. Do you really want to spend the $46 more? They are required by LAW to collect this. Your refusal to fill out the form does NOT change that.
here's a nice quote for you: The law
"Title 13
Sec. 221. Refusal or neglect to answer questions; false answers
(a) Whoever, being over eighteen years of age refuses or willfully neglects, when requested by the Secretary, or by any other authorized officer or employee of the Department of Commerce or bureau or agency thereof acting under the instructions of the Secretary or authorized officer, to answer, to the best of his knowledge, any of the questions on any schedule submitted to him in connection with any census or survey provided for by subchapters I, II, IV, and V of chapter 5 of this title, applying to himself or to the family to which he belongs or is related, or to the farm or farms of which he or his family is the occupant, shall be fined not more than $100.
(b) Whoever, when answering questions described in subsection (a) of this section, and under the conditions or circumstances described in such subsection, willfully gives any answer that is false, shall be fined not more than $500. (c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, no person shall be compelled to disclose information relative to his religious beliefs or to membership in a religious body."
yes they DO need to know your race so that when they draw districting lines that ACCOUNT for your race, and ensure that your general racial beliefs have equal representation, especially where races concentrate themselves willingly. it;s also important to know the racial background so that school districts can appropriately draw boundaries and bus routs to avoid segregation and ensure the most effective MIX of students.
The census today doesn't ask "nation of origin" or "religion" it asks RACE.
I think the only race we care about at this point would be one you could link to terrorism, but that's not even a selection on the form, and the closest definition of that race includes about 1 billion people in 40 nations.
There's nothing in our census form that can not be plainly OBSERVED of you. That data is useless to anyone other than the people who draw districting lines. The long-form census of the 40s and 50s is gone, never to return.
I don't consider anything people can learn about me from simply looking at me from a distance is private in ANY way.
Across from me is a black family, 4 kids. Next to me is an older white couple, never seen any kids. Other side is a white family, 3 kids. behind me is a middle aged single white woman with 2 big mean dogs, next door to her is an asian family who's ancient mother? lives with them. Is any of this important?
The census does NOT ask you "what is your nation of origin" or "what is your religion" it asks "what is your race" and "what is your age". The ONLY piece of data on that for of ANY concern is your name and phone number, and there are VERY specific laws about how that can NOT be used for anything other than the confirmation of census data. It's also VERY clear in the law that this data WILL be released (in 70 years?) at which point it will be essentially useless to anyone other than genealogists.
The WHOLE PURPOSE of the census is to a) count you so you get enough representation in various congresses and b) help with districting lines so that you get adequate representation as a race and age group. Would you like LESS representation? Don't fucking vote.
Ensuring that race has adequate representation in the drawing of districting lines is #1, and the exact reason this data is collected at all.
Medical data that might apply to racial impact should be collected.
How race may or may not be a factor in regional salary bases (to see if companies might be screwing people a bit heavily in an area).
Tracking the intermingling of different societies is also something worth studying, or when to major groups merge into an area there is potential conflict.
Racial background in local schools is a tool used to measure various things. (or rather sheds light on other measurements).
All well and good, in a self paced learning environment. This would not work in an elementary/middle school where a teacher still has such a limited time to present all the material in the book that will appear on the final exam that they're lucky to teach all of it once, and have a brief review when the tests get handed back.
As the one student falls behind, the teacher is forced to continue teaching the new material while they're still struggling with the old, so they're not keeping up, and that pretty much GUARANTEES they'll fail the next test. The teacher can not provide the additional one-on-one time to handle working with these laggards individually. instead, they're carried along having missed that one lesson in the hopes they'll catch the next.
In a proper district, if they can't keep up, they're soon identified, and moved to a slower pace classroom, or given remedial education in another classroom or after school. If the whole class is running slow, or they all miss a key lesson and do poorly, the teacher re-teaches that step before moving on, and if that continues long enough (whole classes doing poorly) we look to the teacher as the issue. However, when 70% of the class is A/B, and 20% is C, and 10% scrape along the failing line, and continue to do so test after test, either they don;t meld with the teaching style and need to be moved to an alternate room with a teacher who uses a different style (there are several core teaching methods, and each favor a different learning type, which a curriculum coordinator is tasked with identifying and matching to students), or they're simply slow, and need more help or need to be placed in a slower classroom altogether.
Making retakes of tests an extracurricular activity is possible, to an extent, but typically only at the sacrifice of other homework, sports, or projects. We're already overburdening these kids, and cutting back on the amount of homework assigned to avoid stress and burnout. Also, there are some things certain kids are just never really going to get. Identifying a trouble subject for a kid is NOT a situation of throwing effort at it, it's a situation where one might decide that if they're not good at that thing, but good at others, even within the same subject, that moving on and accepting they won;t get those few questions right is WORTH THE LOSS in favor of other positive education. Some kids love repetitive processes in math, but fail at the more abstract. Other kids love the puzzles, and hate the repetition. Are you to cripple both when they hit the stage they hate and hold them back from getting to learning they love? I say no, and so does my wife who is an advanced math and sciences teacher for 3rd and 4th grade.
God, if I wasn't marked as a fanbio I'd have expected to get modded +5-insightful for this post.
Troll however I guess is the tag issued to anyone who backs Apple or Jobs in any way with an insightful comment or valid argument.
Did i post negatively? no. Did i use foul language? No. Did I incite a vicious conversation thread based on an off or controversial comment? no.
Yet, TROLL I am labeled....
I don't even plan to buy an iPad, i was just pointing out that there could be business logic behind this statement, contractual obligations, as ya know, the iPhone can't tether today in the first place, so how could the iPad tether through it!?!?!
Some nice guy who agreed with me got modded redundant...
This may very well be the reason he said "tethering" is not possible. First off, dock - to - dock connector cable? Was the connector designed for this? Is there a crossover option? likely not.
Next, is it relevant? If the iPhone can operate as a hot spot via an app, assuming it's AT&T approved since this is akin to tethering which is currently NOT approved, then there's no reason to "tether" at all.
Jobs has to be careful about what he claims the device is capable of when there may be provider blocks in place contradicting that statement, and he;s also got to be careful to not state things like "well, on anyone but AT&T" openly. Also, the iPad is being launched US only from day 1 right, or at least in wifi only versions (3G overseas is not yet announced), so he could simply be limiting his comments to announced product versions.
Don't seriously think for a second this won't be able to be done, and likely with a non-jail broken device, but without provider support he can't commit to it without violating some unspoken contact term, so he;s got to be careful...
1, from experience, other phones that background don;t just work, they're buggy and crash regularly. 2. a web page left in the background is refreshing, might be running flash, has adds, and yes it DOES drain usage. Music over WiFi drains a lot more power than music from a local disk. Chat APIs are not idle, they're pining against servers constantly. The POINT of ANY background app that can;t simply use a notification is that it very much IS doing something, and IS using CPU cycles, if it wasn't, notifications would be completely acceptable (and simpler for devs).
and OS 4 won't do this? You have fore knowledge that is counter to most rumors? If you doubt it, wait until June then see and decide, but please stop claiming it "doesn't" have multitasking when it should simply be stated "doesn't YET have multitasking" especially when there clearly there's hints as to pop-over functionality in the new OS, and apple has already rumored about in-development APIs for things like background music (which honestly is the single and only app outside GPS I'd ever need more than a notification for).
Jobs can not confirm iPad to iPhone tethering officially because AT&T does not allow tethering the iPhone at all. When this changes, the story will change. This is not news, this is Apple trying not to get sued for promising a feature they are well aware that user contracts forbid clearly and openly.
Its possible there's an underlying dock-dock connection physical incompatibility, and that is is in fact not possible to crossover connect to device as such, but bluetooth tethering should still be completely feasible.
I can only see the ISP as the intervening authority here, not Apple.
No, not review and approve, just provide the conduit. A cloud centralized patching service for registered providers. It would offer smaller vendors a way of keeping patch servers online at lower expense, and gives mass vendors a single conduit. It would also reduce the number of ports I need to open in my corporate firewalls, (and hopefully also work in System Center and WSUS enabling me to centrally control patch distribution instead of 15,000 users hitting the web for updates), and it would ensure users knew where the patch was coming from (no more sys tray pop-ups that could be viruses).
Microsoft would certainly limit this system to premium and gold level registered partners who meet certain requirements, and I'm sure some nominal fee for getting an account set up would keep most of the riff-raff out of the system, but no, just like 3rd party drivers already sent through this system, it's not on Microsoft to QA this stuff, just offer a way to get it. A cloud service offered to registered corporation developer/partners.
These guys already release their own patches. We hear about QA issues all the time. All we're doing is centralizing and simplifying the distribution...
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No, the entire web should give up flash because security experts have been saying so for years, and because flash performance SUCKS compared to other native formats that don't require plug-ins, and because flash costs money and other options are FOSS, and because Apple had the balls to be the first one to simply openly agree and take a stand saying we won;t include it unless Adobe fixes it, and Adobe refuses to fix it.
please blame adobe for making crap software, and refusing to update that software to be secure, faster, and easier to code, and stop blaming apple for abandoning an obsolete and risky application that runs poorly on even much more powerful hardware. Supporting flash in it;s current iteration would have added over $120 to the iPad's hardware cost, and dropped the battery life to under 3 hours. Seriously, you'd vote for that?
VIDEO performance, over wifi, with backlighting at normal settings and bluetooth enabled is TESTING over 10 hours, some claiming 12, with the iPad. Reading books, in a dim room with the backlight down to lower levels, testers were claiming close to 16 hours. A USB port is never that far away such that a simply $5 cable (ubiquitous in every store if I forget one) can charge the iPad. I charge my phone every night, why not the Pad. No one is realistically going to read more than 16 concurrent hours without having something to charge the pad off (it's standby time btw is 30 DAYS! and that's ACTIVE, receiving notifications over WiFi, no off/asleep).
Thanks for bringing FUD to the table. Try some actual data next time.
Also, i never said it was for ebooks, it;s a MEDIA COMSUMPTION DEVICE, and that means all forms. Also note, current iBook prices (in the store now) are generally the same or lower than Amazon, since Apple is nice enough to give the publisher a significant cut (70%), they're consistently offering lower prices, baiting amazon and others to change policies. Also, who said I buy ANYTHING from iTunes???? There are a thousand free sources of media, and the iPad and iPhone happily play any non-DRM content natively.
$399 for black and white low rez graphics on a 100% locked down platform, or $499 for one that still lasts a full day no questions asked, has a beautiful color screen that's easier to read in the dark (I tried a kindle for a week and returned it, thanks but no thanks, e-ink does suck except in bright light), and can play video in 720p and play 3d games, and edit documents, and surf the web, and manage my e-mail and calandar and photo albums, and 200,000 other apps at an average price under $5? Who's the fucking moron?
White macbook MSRP? no. But MacMall and bestbuy will both sell one for that price, as will apple if you ask nicely. Education price is $899, but you do not need to verify to anyone you actually qualify, just ask them to beat that price and throw in a few extras like mac Mall does.
For the Atom ability to decode H.1264, maybe you should read this:
http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/quick-reference-guide-to-intel-integrated-graphics/
H.264 is only supported on GMA-HD (and then only partially), and requires an iseries or higher CPU to perform 720p.
There are numerous maches advertised as netbooks over $500, but i agree, only a moron buys one. That said, none UNDER $500 can match the iPads specs, period. Closest competitor is a $629 Acer if you include HTML5 video full screen as an expectation.
I have an eee. Rarely use it. It's good for a basic document edit, or research, but as a companion device for traveling, it's lack of any gaming or video performance makes it less than useless to me. Given the boot time, I'd rather pull out a real 13" notebook any time. I keep it around for other people only, and bring it to the beach so i don't have to worry about damaging an expensive machine.
it;s just an update to OS 3.1... Wait for OS 4 and you'll see these things added. Tabs requires a much more involved overhaul of the OS, as does local folders which requires changes to the underlying storage on the device.
Exactly, I have Win 7 on a dual core farily basic rig with a 3 year old GPU and 2GB of RAM. It takes about 30 seconds from completion of POST (which is about a minute since I have a RAID adapter in there, and dull a full memory clean on cold boot), to a login screen, and about 15 more seconds after that until it establishes a wifi connection and stops thrashing the disks long enough to open e-mail and a browser. all said, not bad.
My wife's friend brought by a shiny new $600 netbook, one that actually had a basic non-intel GPU capable of limited video performance (most netbooks fall flat with flash, and can not do H.264 at native screen resolution let alone 720P). It had a 2GHz Atom/arm/whatever it was, and 2GB of RAM. It took more than 3.5 minutes to boot windows 7 to a login screen, and more than 70 seconds after login to open outlook and a web browser. by 5 minutes in, I'll have forgotten why I was booting it up. Technically, it smoked the iPad's specs, but it was compeltely unusable from a concencince/companion device standpoint. $250 more and I'd have gotten a machine capable of playing WoW, running virtual machines, a 13" screen, and the power and performance to edit video and run a full OS, on a 7 hour battery (aka, a White Macbook).
A USB port might have been nice, but honestly the thing is designed to consume from the cloud... A USB adapter is provided to connect cameras and SD cards, but aside from that, very little ever needs to be physically connected to the device that can't be done via bluetooth.
"150% more storage" of which 30% can't be used without crippling windows performance and making fragmentation impossible, and of which on the iPad the OS and all common apps takes less than 1GB, but on a netbook, 20-40GB is chewed up for the same. 150% for formatted storage, 50% less "usable" storage. ...and on the netbook, it's not flash based (aka SSD). Which do you prefer?
My wife's MBP 15" 2.66 gets very close to 7 hours with the second GPU off, watching video over WiFI with screen brightness at about half, and gets just about 6 hours playing games with the second GPU on (and about 5.5 hours under Windows 7). This also includes the use of Bluetooth concurrent with the other features, backlit keyboard on, etc.
My iPhone 3GS gets almost exactly the advertised runtime playing either video with screen on or music with it off. Left in complete standby, it's shy a few hours of expected standby time, but I have ActiveSync enabled and that means it's not really in standby completely.
My iPod Nano ran more than 14 hours playing music, still had some battery left when i woke up in the morning and found it still going.
Apple's run times are withing 10% of advertized runtime, under NORMAL USE (default unless otherwise documented) settings. However, i have found Dell, HP, and most other systems I've used (including most other phones) are only capable of the same "withing 10% of advertised" battery performance when settings are tweaked, and all optional features are disabled. Typically, battery life in a non-apple notebook I fund to run about 60-70% of advertised life. Apple may not hit the mark dead on, but at least they hit the target's surface. Others completely miss and you're off in the woods looking for the arrow...
Apple reports "general use" battery life, others report "under lab conditions" battery life, which is completely irrelevant.
With reviewers claiming the iPad is getting consistantly over 9 hours run time, screen on, streaming data with connections to the web for e-mail and alerts running, that's pretty friggin good. Reading an ebook with wifi turned off should even more.
Yes, the GPU in the A4 processor is fully capable of 1080p H.264. this is a documented feature of the GPU.
Short term visitation, and permanent legal residency for non-citizens are two different things.
Just because a parent is not a citizen does not mean a natural born child is not.
Just because you can't vote does not mean congress should be blind to you, as one day you may very well vote.
Legal residency, citizen or not, still has to account for local school base, public service allotments (fire, police, etc), and more. These people must be counted.
Your political and cultural views are important. The only people we should disregard are true illegal residents, but even for those we need to know how many there are to appropriately associate resources to finding and registering/removing them, and to account for the crime/economic/job impact they impart.
Internally, 420p is completely plausible. however, that's not the idea... With NFC, and an appropriate receiver (or a simple dock and cable) 1080p connection to a TV is completely within reason. Further, a tiny adjustment to the mini displayport on upcoming mac notebooks (and PCs as well, since it's part of the standard), and video in to a notebook through playback on an iPod/iPhone is completely plausible.
You can live here quite legally and not be a citizen. You still get representation. Citizenship is a higher bar.
Yup. If you pay taxes, have a job on the books, a SS card, have a driver's license, have a bank account, have debt of virtually any kind, go to school, they already have this data.
The problem is (and why we still require very desperately the census), is that it is in lots of different places, not consolidated, half out-of-date, filled with inaccuracy and mistakes, and doesn't include anyone who otherwise is not in the system. Further, there are people (politicians, school districts, etc) who need some of this data whom we do NOT want to have access to the rest. Further, since immigration can NOT get this data, the census is one of the only ways we get details on illegal immigrants. It explicitly can not be used against them, so most of them fill it out (and if they don't, someone knocks on their door and we get the data anyway).
I suggest you read and understand this then:
The law
Title 13
Sec. 221. Refusal or neglect to answer questions; false answers
(a) Whoever, being over eighteen years of age refuses or willfully neglects, when requested by the Secretary, or by any other authorized officer or employee of the Department of Commerce or bureau or agency thereof acting under the instructions of the Secretary or authorized officer, to answer, to the best of his knowledge, any of the questions on any schedule submitted to him in connection with any census or survey provided for by subchapters I, II, IV, and V of chapter 5 of this title, applying to himself or to the family to which he belongs or is related, or to the farm or farms of which he or his family is the occupant, shall be fined not more than $100.
(b) Whoever, when answering questions described in subsection (a) of this section, and under the conditions or circumstances described in such subsection, willfully gives any answer that is false, shall be fined not more than $500. (c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, no person shall be compelled to disclose information relative to his religious beliefs or to membership in a religious body.
Since they're gonna have to charge me and the other tax payers $47 to come knock on your door since you refuse to answer the form, I'm happy to hear you'll be paying at least twice that back into the tax pool to help cover my federal taxes next year.
If you do not fill it out completely, the census bureau is required to contact you by phone if possible, by mail if not, and by door if you do not respond. It cost approx $50 per door they knock on, and about $4 if you simply fill out the form. Do you really want to spend the $46 more? They are required by LAW to collect this. Your refusal to fill out the form does NOT change that.
here's a nice quote for you:
The law
"Title 13
Sec. 221. Refusal or neglect to answer questions; false answers
(a) Whoever, being over eighteen years of age refuses or willfully neglects, when requested by the Secretary, or by any other authorized officer or employee of the Department of Commerce or bureau or agency thereof acting under the instructions of the Secretary or authorized officer, to answer, to the best of his knowledge, any of the questions on any schedule submitted to him in connection with any census or survey provided for by subchapters I, II, IV, and V of chapter 5 of this title, applying to himself or to the family to which he belongs or is related, or to the farm or farms of which he or his family is the occupant, shall be fined not more than $100.
(b) Whoever, when answering questions described in subsection (a) of this section, and under the conditions or circumstances described in such subsection, willfully gives any answer that is false, shall be fined not more than $500. (c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, no person shall be compelled to disclose information relative to his religious beliefs or to membership in a religious body."
yes they DO need to know your race so that when they draw districting lines that ACCOUNT for your race, and ensure that your general racial beliefs have equal representation, especially where races concentrate themselves willingly. it;s also important to know the racial background so that school districts can appropriately draw boundaries and bus routs to avoid segregation and ensure the most effective MIX of students.
Thank you for that post. I'd mod you up, but you;re already at 5...
The census today doesn't ask "nation of origin" or "religion" it asks RACE.
I think the only race we care about at this point would be one you could link to terrorism, but that's not even a selection on the form, and the closest definition of that race includes about 1 billion people in 40 nations.
There's nothing in our census form that can not be plainly OBSERVED of you. That data is useless to anyone other than the people who draw districting lines. The long-form census of the 40s and 50s is gone, never to return.
I don't consider anything people can learn about me from simply looking at me from a distance is private in ANY way.
Across from me is a black family, 4 kids. Next to me is an older white couple, never seen any kids. Other side is a white family, 3 kids. behind me is a middle aged single white woman with 2 big mean dogs, next door to her is an asian family who's ancient mother? lives with them. Is any of this important?
The census does NOT ask you "what is your nation of origin" or "what is your religion" it asks "what is your race" and "what is your age". The ONLY piece of data on that for of ANY concern is your name and phone number, and there are VERY specific laws about how that can NOT be used for anything other than the confirmation of census data. It's also VERY clear in the law that this data WILL be released (in 70 years?) at which point it will be essentially useless to anyone other than genealogists.
The WHOLE PURPOSE of the census is to a) count you so you get enough representation in various congresses and b) help with districting lines so that you get adequate representation as a race and age group. Would you like LESS representation? Don't fucking vote.
Race matters for many reasons:
Ensuring that race has adequate representation in the drawing of districting lines is #1, and the exact reason this data is collected at all.
Medical data that might apply to racial impact should be collected.
How race may or may not be a factor in regional salary bases (to see if companies might be screwing people a bit heavily in an area).
Tracking the intermingling of different societies is also something worth studying, or when to major groups merge into an area there is potential conflict.
Racial background in local schools is a tool used to measure various things. (or rather sheds light on other measurements).
All well and good, in a self paced learning environment. This would not work in an elementary/middle school where a teacher still has such a limited time to present all the material in the book that will appear on the final exam that they're lucky to teach all of it once, and have a brief review when the tests get handed back.
As the one student falls behind, the teacher is forced to continue teaching the new material while they're still struggling with the old, so they're not keeping up, and that pretty much GUARANTEES they'll fail the next test. The teacher can not provide the additional one-on-one time to handle working with these laggards individually. instead, they're carried along having missed that one lesson in the hopes they'll catch the next.
In a proper district, if they can't keep up, they're soon identified, and moved to a slower pace classroom, or given remedial education in another classroom or after school. If the whole class is running slow, or they all miss a key lesson and do poorly, the teacher re-teaches that step before moving on, and if that continues long enough (whole classes doing poorly) we look to the teacher as the issue. However, when 70% of the class is A/B, and 20% is C, and 10% scrape along the failing line, and continue to do so test after test, either they don;t meld with the teaching style and need to be moved to an alternate room with a teacher who uses a different style (there are several core teaching methods, and each favor a different learning type, which a curriculum coordinator is tasked with identifying and matching to students), or they're simply slow, and need more help or need to be placed in a slower classroom altogether.
Making retakes of tests an extracurricular activity is possible, to an extent, but typically only at the sacrifice of other homework, sports, or projects. We're already overburdening these kids, and cutting back on the amount of homework assigned to avoid stress and burnout. Also, there are some things certain kids are just never really going to get. Identifying a trouble subject for a kid is NOT a situation of throwing effort at it, it's a situation where one might decide that if they're not good at that thing, but good at others, even within the same subject, that moving on and accepting they won;t get those few questions right is WORTH THE LOSS in favor of other positive education. Some kids love repetitive processes in math, but fail at the more abstract. Other kids love the puzzles, and hate the repetition. Are you to cripple both when they hit the stage they hate and hold them back from getting to learning they love? I say no, and so does my wife who is an advanced math and sciences teacher for 3rd and 4th grade.
God, if I wasn't marked as a fanbio I'd have expected to get modded +5-insightful for this post.
Troll however I guess is the tag issued to anyone who backs Apple or Jobs in any way with an insightful comment or valid argument.
Did i post negatively? no.
Did i use foul language? No.
Did I incite a vicious conversation thread based on an off or controversial comment? no.
Yet, TROLL I am labeled....
I don't even plan to buy an iPad, i was just pointing out that there could be business logic behind this statement, contractual obligations, as ya know, the iPhone can't tether today in the first place, so how could the iPad tether through it!?!?!
Some nice guy who agreed with me got modded redundant...
This may very well be the reason he said "tethering" is not possible. First off, dock - to - dock connector cable? Was the connector designed for this? Is there a crossover option? likely not.
Next, is it relevant? If the iPhone can operate as a hot spot via an app, assuming it's AT&T approved since this is akin to tethering which is currently NOT approved, then there's no reason to "tether" at all.
Jobs has to be careful about what he claims the device is capable of when there may be provider blocks in place contradicting that statement, and he;s also got to be careful to not state things like "well, on anyone but AT&T" openly. Also, the iPad is being launched US only from day 1 right, or at least in wifi only versions (3G overseas is not yet announced), so he could simply be limiting his comments to announced product versions.
Don't seriously think for a second this won't be able to be done, and likely with a non-jail broken device, but without provider support he can't commit to it without violating some unspoken contact term, so he;s got to be careful...
1, from experience, other phones that background don;t just work, they're buggy and crash regularly.
2. a web page left in the background is refreshing, might be running flash, has adds, and yes it DOES drain usage. Music over WiFi drains a lot more power than music from a local disk. Chat APIs are not idle, they're pining against servers constantly. The POINT of ANY background app that can;t simply use a notification is that it very much IS doing something, and IS using CPU cycles, if it wasn't, notifications would be completely acceptable (and simpler for devs).
and OS 4 won't do this? You have fore knowledge that is counter to most rumors? If you doubt it, wait until June then see and decide, but please stop claiming it "doesn't" have multitasking when it should simply be stated "doesn't YET have multitasking" especially when there clearly there's hints as to pop-over functionality in the new OS, and apple has already rumored about in-development APIs for things like background music (which honestly is the single and only app outside GPS I'd ever need more than a notification for).
Jobs can not confirm iPad to iPhone tethering officially because AT&T does not allow tethering the iPhone at all. When this changes, the story will change. This is not news, this is Apple trying not to get sued for promising a feature they are well aware that user contracts forbid clearly and openly.
Its possible there's an underlying dock-dock connection physical incompatibility, and that is is in fact not possible to crossover connect to device as such, but bluetooth tethering should still be completely feasible.
I can only see the ISP as the intervening authority here, not Apple.
No, not review and approve, just provide the conduit. A cloud centralized patching service for registered providers. It would offer smaller vendors a way of keeping patch servers online at lower expense, and gives mass vendors a single conduit. It would also reduce the number of ports I need to open in my corporate firewalls, (and hopefully also work in System Center and WSUS enabling me to centrally control patch distribution instead of 15,000 users hitting the web for updates), and it would ensure users knew where the patch was coming from (no more sys tray pop-ups that could be viruses).
Microsoft would certainly limit this system to premium and gold level registered partners who meet certain requirements, and I'm sure some nominal fee for getting an account set up would keep most of the riff-raff out of the system, but no, just like 3rd party drivers already sent through this system, it's not on Microsoft to QA this stuff, just offer a way to get it. A cloud service offered to registered corporation developer/partners.
These guys already release their own patches. We hear about QA issues all the time. All we're doing is centralizing and simplifying the distribution...