Posts by SteveH
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So maybe you can see it but perhaps it can't be captured on a video camera...
Interesting... may be worth sacrificing a microwave as an experiment...
I think what you get with that microwave experiment is a plasma ball. Whether "ball lightning" is the same thing or not, who knows?
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I didn't find it that big a deal, really.
Well, Apple think jailbreaking is a big deal. They tried to persuade Congress that it was. Now they claim it is a breach of copyright, patent law and anything else they can throw at you.
But, you keep presenting this to punters as "not a big deal". Why?
Misinterpret Russell's words much? He's talking about the limitations of Keynote and you've taken those words as a defense of Apple's arbitrary restrictions. Of course a lot of people would like iOS to be a more open platform. But I'm certain that the vast majority of users don't really care, just as they don't care that they can't hack their Wii/PS3.
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Maybe obvious useful functionality (PXTs, projector support, front-facing cameras) get left out so they can be added later as a marketing tactic?
I suspect that the stuff they left out that is common on phones (PXTs, cameras, calling) was done to try to differentiate the iPad from a phone. Even so people still disparaged it as "just a big iPhone". Though the difference in screen size makes all the difference for many uses.
Projector/external monitor support is there, though obviously the lack of screen mirroring is bad (and strange). Since the iPad has to be tethered to the projector/monitor anyway it's not ideally suited to giving presentations in that way, IMHO. I think the way I'd do it would be to drive the projector from a laptop and then use the iPad to control the laptop (via VNC or whatever) wirelessly.
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One trick that I found useful on my PDA which has a touch screen - turn your finger upside down and point with your nail. You get a much smaller, more precise point that way. It takes a little while to get used to. You could use a stylus too, but that's something you have to carry. Mind you, anything will do for one, a plastic fork or toothpick from the plane would have helped.
You can do those things on resistive touch screens but they won't work on capacitive touch screens like the iPad, iPhone, and other smartphones have these days.
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Being stuck in a traffic jam on a bus is qualitatively worse than being stuck in the same jam in your car.
I don't agree. In a bus you can read or mess about on your phone or whatever. It's not safe to do that in a car if you're driving. I'd prefer to be in the traffic jam in a bus provided I had a seat.
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So why don't you move out to the Airport? That would make your Wife's commute so much easier.
We did. But the point is that if I couldn't work from home then there would be no place that didn't result in a long commute for one of us - and that's probably the case for many couples these days. I'm just saying that living near your workplace is becoming increasingly impractical for couples. As more couples both work and the larger the city becomes the more people will be in that situation.
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Working closer to home is good too, especially if you live on the Shore, come to think of it, is there any other reason to live on the Shore?.
Working closer to home isn't always possible, especially in households with two or more workers. My office is an Albany and my wife works out by the airport. We can't both work close to home. Well actually we can because I'm able to work from home, but that's not an option for many people.
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Only takes a "good" multiple-fatality crash involving a truck that didn't need to be on the road before the penny-pinching attitude of Joyce on matters rail becomes very, very short-sighted. Especially since road safety is also his bailiwick. I wonder if there'd be grounds to sue for failure to adequately discharge his statutory duty to road safety, along the lines of the lawsuit just brought against NIWA.
Politicians make decisions on health that are much more directly responsible for deaths. If a lawsuit was going to work surely that'd be the place to start?
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Agreed. These guys seem increasingly desparate.
They should be getting desperate. The levels of willful ignorance required to deny climate change at this point are pretty high.
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Though that 700m radius is still at the upper end of the 400-800m walking distance in the report that Angus cited.
Yes, I'd be reluctant to walk much further than that. Especially if it was wet.