Comment Re:(cough)bullshit(cough) (Score 1) 577
Apple has sold a keyboard dock for the iPad from day one, AND the iPad has been compatible with Bluetooth keyboards from day one. So how would a keyboard be "next"?
Apple has sold a keyboard dock for the iPad from day one, AND the iPad has been compatible with Bluetooth keyboards from day one. So how would a keyboard be "next"?
The "mistake argument" isn't claiming that the whole location history implementation is a mistake, it's claiming that it's intended to be a cache, not a permanent archive. Nothing in the patent has anything to do with this.
If the price listed on the SpaceX website ($125M) is accurate, "we" are making progress, if by "we" you mean the people who actually work on this stuff rather than posting on Slashdot. Saturn V launches cost in the hundreds of millions each, in 1970 dollars.
If you're invited inside a big datacenter and want to take good pictures, at least rent an ultra-wide-angle lens. These pedestrian shots of individual wiring cabinets feel extremely flat.
You're comparing time I'd actually have to spend myself (10 minutes running to the store, if I had a game store down the block, which I don't, but never mind) with time my computer would have to spend (2 hours downloading). Sure, I'll happily task my computer with hours of work just to save myself ten minutes (especially when those ten minutes are actually half an hour at least).
Besides, in the case of Dragon Age 2 you could get an encrypted pre-download and have the whole thing ready to go on release day, so if I were really impatient to play it the digital download would be way better.
Back in the real world, all the dozens of Safari-based Web browsers in the App Store have always had the same designation. This is not a new policy and has nothing to do with Opera being a competitor; it's part of the parental control system. It's not as if the designation makes a difference to anyone who doesn't have parental controls enabled.
How do the Android parental controls handle issues like this?
Yeah, the royalty-free period on h.264 was already extended to forever. Still only applies to certain uses though (as always).
If you want to confuse a bunch of UPSes plug about 4-5 of them into each other in a circle.
Disclaimer: don't.
Banks make money (and have done so for centuries) because deposited money which is loaned out is then present in two accounts. Mints only make representations of money (coins/bills/etc).
Not sure if that's what GP was going for but it's true that banks make much more of the "money" than government institutions these days.
That doesn't make the slightest bit of sense.
It's a mystery to me why this is such a big story. Compaq used Torx screws exclusively for years and years. Why? Who cares? It's just a screw, you want to work on Compaqs you buy a Torx set.
Do you really, really truly, believe that a significant portion of Apple's user base is capable of successfully servicing their own phones? This obviously doesn't have much effect on independent repair shops, who are already able to open the new screws anyway. Since end-users can't fix their own phones anyway and independent repair shops will still be able to open the phones, how does this affect the serviceability of the phone?
Has anyone drawn up a comparison diagram of which manufacturers use what kind of screws in their cell phones? Does that equate to the elusive "openness" now? At least it's better than arguing about whether Flash or H.264 is more "open", I guess.
In terms of danger to yourself and others, the difference between 70 and 75 is (counter-intuitively) much larger than the difference between 20 and 25.
Jeopardy has a substantial penalty for incorrect answers, so blindly buzzing in requires a high threshold of confidence that you will be able to correctly answer any possible question (or, um, correctly question any possible answer).
While the titanium M9 is sort of dumb the sensor is "full-frame" (24mmx36mm) so it's going to be a whole lot better than a point-and-shoot. But no better than the regular M9 which is "only" $7000.
Really, the thing about file management should be taken as a knock on modern file systems generally. The file system concept is increasingly an anachronism; for a decade or more it's simply lacked the capabilities demanded by modern applications. It's not surprising that when developers (on whatever platform) want to do things that don't fit neatly into the filesystem model, they tend to ignore the FS structure and go at it alone.
There have been attempts over and over to fix the FS, but that's been a spectacular failure despite massive investments (WinFS, the ambitions of ReiserFS4, etc). I think it's become clear that each application is going to want to structure data according to its own needs; while the FS served us well for years, a growing amount of user data doesn't fit neatly into "file" and "directory", and even when it does, users want files without names (photos), files which appear in more than one "directory" (music), etc.
With each app's data structure turning into a sort of "unique snowflake", if you will, the idea of a single interface that could manage data across all your applications (the Finder, Explorer, etc) is simply unrealistic. Users have become accustomed to thinking of their data as existing within their applications because no other concept is really workable. The big question is how data will be moved around within these "silos", but that isn't a new problem anyway.
That's kind of odd, since uppercase letters are all similar to each other, and harder to distinguish (custom isn't the only reason people hate them). The only advantage of uppercase letters is that they are mostly slightly larger. Using all caps may be easier, but simply using a larger font size may be more effective.
The major difference between bonds and bond traders is that the bonds will eventually mature.