Not impressed. Took Robonaut forever to extend it's hand, which was way low. Astronaut had to reach down for it and then wait for Robo to close its hand. My kids robosapiens could do this.
Yeah, this will happen real soon, just like the paperless office.
If not fake, it was clearly staged in advance. Prepared speech; chair, laptop and camera already set up in a field away from neighbors' homes (the one considerate thing he did before shooting); gun belt strapped on.
Sure it still works. You don't know if the cat's dead or alive until you open the box, or x-ray it. X-raying is just another way of looking inside the box. Sorry, I'm taking this too seriously.
I agree with you that alternative contact managers need access to Address Book, and that people will complain no matter what. And alternative calendars (I'm using one) need access to the iOs Calendar in addition to Address Book, which may be a whole other privacy issue. However, these alternative address books and calendars do not need to be uploading your data to their servers unless you authorize it (they could ask you this the first time the app is launched, and the choice should remain available in the app's settings).
He'll be my hero if he gets Facebook banned world wide.
Read on BBC.com how this was already hacked. From what I could tell from the article, hackers wait until you are properly logged in to your bank, so it doesn't matter what security procedures you go through to get logged in. Once logged in, malware lying in wait on your computer then inserts itself between you and your bank account, and you don't see the malware making withdrawals, or sending a check to Romania or whatever it is they do.
But you asked for a cheeseburger and got chicken.
I always though a form of artificial mental telepathy was possible by connecting 2-way radios to our brains. Of course, we will soon tire of voice calls only and will want to be able to download apps and play games. Hackers will have a lot of fun.
I didn't care for Agenda, glad it was only 99 cents. It's prettier than the built in Calendar app. However, it's badge does not display the day and date the way Calendar does (maybe Apple won't let them). Agenda lacks a "Today" button so it takes at least two presses to get back to today. In month view, if you press on a dotted day, the event does not show at the bottom of the screen; you get taken to another screen and can't see the rest of the month. The list view shows every day, even ones with no events, so it takes much longer to scroll to a date if I want to check a future event. Most of this may just be personal preference, but Agenday's not for me and I deleted it.
Slightly more balanced coverage from the BBC, which reminds us this also happens in the UK when someone posts a dumb remark:
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Still, even the BBC is just reporting on The Sun article. Is there any independent verification that this really happened?
Okay, now I know that "destroy" is UK slang for "party." The problem with tweets is you cannot tell if the author meant "party" or "destroy." Still, questioning them at the airport should have sufficed. The rest was overkill.
Now be careful: in the US we say "wasted" to mean both "drunk" and "killed." So I guess you can't use US slang either.
Wife and I have iPhones. Hers has a white case and mine has a black case. So we can tell them apart!
When my wife dropped hers part way down the stairs, the case saved it. Having to hassle with insurance and with getting a replacement is not equivalent to having a case. Especially when the case saves your phone several times a year.
These kinds of youthful cartoon action heroes appeal to kids. Not teenagers, but little kids watching the Cartoon Network.
Need to fix the link to Frederic #corrections
I like my Glock 17, too. It's the one I keep loaded in the house for the "uninvited." I'm also happy I haven't had to use it yet, 'cept for target practice. I live in Texas where it is not impossible to own a hand gun.
More interesting model of the solar system is at the Arecibo radiotelescope observatory in Puerto Rico. As you walk from the parking lot and up the outside steps, you pass a model of the sun, a little bigger than a grapefruit. Some steps later you pass a scale model of Mercury (a very tiny object). Many more steps gets you to Venus, etc. Finally, you finish the long climb to the top, you see the big antenna structure, and you're informed that Neptune would be beyond the far side the valley that the holds the 20-acre dish. Maybe having to walk uphill while passing the dime-sized Earth and other planets helps reinforce the distance. Worth the trip.
And yet we, self included, continue to buy their stuff.
Comments overheard at school:
"The Cloud ate my homework."
"That F's not my fault. My battery died in the middle of an open book exam."
"My teacher makes us turn the sound off, so I can't hear my tunes."
"Yeah? My teacher makes us keep the sound on so he can tell what we're doing on our iPads."
"Hey! Are those two boys getting into a fight?" (They watch as two kids angrily toss their bookbags to the floor and start shoving each other.)
"Oh, crap. Their iPads are f***ed!"
"Our crappy school wifi crashes every morning when the bell rings and everyone turns on their iPads."
"Hi, Suzy. Can I walk you home and carry your iPad for you?"
"Hell, no. You'll just steal it!"
"Alright, Orville! Just march up to the electronic white board and type 'I will not talk in class' one hundred times."
Orville grins, thinking {cut 'n' paste is my friend}
"The entire science class got suspended?"
"Yeah. They all held up their iPads and flashed a big multi-screen porn at the football game."
"Animated?"
Not sure how useful iBooks Author is for K-12 teachers. Those textbooks, at least for the public schools, are prescribed by a separate State Board of Education in each of our 50 states, and the books are usually approved only after an arduous political process.
