Buy Fukishima Nori today!!!! Then surf in Hawaii!!!!!!!
Every thing is fine.... We don't have decent wars any more and smoking is down, just consume.
meh, Let's trust a body that gets funding from a body that uses bi-products for deterrence....
But I'm assuming of course, given that we know current known nuclear power* is inefficient and only has enough usable fuel for the next half a century or so, that you're not some dick head with a vested interest in nuclear power for your own wallet regardless of the danger to the rest of us?
Waste?(answer that first : waste?)
*Not including thorium - but again, waste?
I love engineers, but every so often, a few of us should be lined up and shot.
So since when is "the rest of the world" Canada? The frequency Telstra has picked (1800MHz) looks to be common across Asia and Europe... It's only North America where that doesn't figure.
But not to worry, I'm sure Apple will release the iPad 3S in a few months featuring exactly the same crap as the iPad 3 apart from the wireless chipset that supports 4G in the real rest of the world.
Maybe he gets in the senate, get's on a committee (doubt that but anyway) and learns why secrets are kept.
I personally agree with everything he's done. If we were all completely open about everything we have done that directly effected at least one other human, I don't reckon there would be war. If there were, they would be very short. Courts can be great things when they're not bogged down in IP law and drugs.
spoken as someone with no direct interest in the money for killing tea towel heads consortium.....
...Sometimes I need eBay, for example. Sometimes a cause I care about is only accepting Paypal donations (esp. if they are not based in US).
You never need eBay. Go to another site. eBay is only as big as they are because people think they need eBay. And if a cause I care about only accepts Paypal, I would contact them and suggest they widen their payment options and consider dumping Paypal altogether.
I shut Paypal out when they blocked payments to Wikileaks and they won't get my business again. As the GP says, this is yet another reason, not that I need one.
+1 Agree wholeheartedly. Disclaimer: I have never used webOS - flame me if you will.
From my experience, Android multitasking sucks when it comes to switching tasks, iOS doesn't rate at all, Maemo was good compared to both of those but from what I have seen of how webOS handles it, I would gladly have that on my phone. Shame their promotion wasn't a bit better, I would have bought.
Unfortunately with Ubuntu you currently have the choice of bleeding edge but unstable or very stable but getting a bit old. PPAs help when available for what you want, but really being able to compile your own software and fix minor build problems helps a lot. I tend to go for statically linked libs for newer software where I can't easily have the version of a lib I need. Either that or where possible I install static builds of software compiled by the software producer, for example Blender is a stupid thing to install from the Ubuntu repository and is much better sitting under/opt.
Of course this is not easy for everyone, but then not everyone has the need/desire to run bleeding edge software on an old and stable OS.
There is a sense I get from your comment that you are a Microsoft schill, or one of those eeeedjuts that thinks that software that costs more to license is somehow "premier". The only "premier" software I have been annoyed I can't run at home has fallen into the "games" category and games are what dual boot is for. Apart from that, there's nothing I can't do on the home system (U10.04+++) that I can on the work system(WinXP Pro) and a lot of tasks (photo processing, network diagnostics, file manipulation, web browsing) that I find easier on Linux than Windows. Having played with win7, there's little it offers over XP apart from tighter security, good support for 64bit and even more assumptions that I don't know what I'm doing so power user stuff should be buried deeper.I'll move to 7 when I absolutely have to. The only thing about Linux I don't like currently is power management.
I have more professional experience with Windows than Linux (~18 years vs. ~13) and the installation is still way easier on any modern Linux distro than Windows. The reason I say that is that Windows goes away for some unspecified or highly inaccurate amount of time and then comes back requiring user input whereas Linux distros give you accurate assessments of time required and ask all the questions they need answers to upfront. Also a windows install requires generally >=2 reboots whereas a Linux needs <=2. The reboots require user input so the more there are, the more irritating the process. Of course there are tools to automate the roll out for both systems which reduce these irritations, but they are effectively the same for both systems and an initial run through of the installation process is still required.
Nah, if you honestly think windows is an easier installation process you either don't know what you're doing or you've got lint for brain cells. But reading your sig I guess you're probably smart and getting paid well enough to appear stupid...
Heck, I installed Ubuntu 11.10 (clean install) on my machine a while back.
There's your problem. 11.10 is a dogs breakfast. I've been playing with a few of the newer Debian based systems of late and I can honestly say that nothing has really worked all that well for me without a lot of stuffing around. Part of that is the Unity/Gnome3 "we know how you use a computer better than you do" school of UI design, part of it driver/kernel/power management, but the overall experience is not so good. The nicest has been Linux Mint 12, but even that has had power management issues on my laptop.
Ubuntu 10.04 (LTS) on the other hand has been rock solid. My installation is heavily tweaked (out of preference, not need), but I still use standard repositories and it has been bullet proof. It's still supported on the desktop until April next year, so I'd recommend it over 11.10 which is really better for bleeding edge/tester types. The most annoying thing about installing it now would be having to download all the updates, but that's the same for Win 7 anyway.
Funnily enough, I just installed Win7 enterprise on a machine for work and found getting that working far more painful than I remember the install of Ubuntu 10.04 was.
One possibility is that global temperatures have been cooler than the norm for the past several thousand years and whatever caused that global cooling trend has now corrected itself and Earth's temperatures are returning to more normalized levels that were experienced around 5-10 thousand years ago.
It's true from ice records that the last 4 thousand years have been cooler than the 4 thousand before that, but if you go back a further 4000 years, things were a lot colder for a lot longer (~80,000 years).
So to take your point a bit further, perhaps the current spike is not a return to normal temperatures from 5-10 thousand years ago (actually 10 thousand was much colder) but a natural spike along the 100,000 year cycle which may simply be due to our crossing the galactic equator.
If this is so, it's likely to result in heightened seismic activity from changes in gravitational pull, burying significant amounts of biomass underground along with a sudden and significant drop in temperature trapping large amounts of carbon in permafrost. It also means that any attempts to engineer the climate are like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.
I think engineering the climate is a silly idea. and here's why:
If the above scenario isn't true it's very likely, given the long and proud tradition of people fucking with natural systems to solve problems, only to cause some bigger problems down the line that no one notices until someone says "we have a problem...". There was an old woman who swallowed a fly...
If the above scenario is true then either engineering will work to level out the global climate and rob future generations of fossil fuel reserves (think of the children) or engineering won't work but will waste a lot of money that would be better spent on hookers.
No, I think we should hold off on the engineering. Spend some of the money on the science so we fully understand what's going on before we charge in and break things and the rest on hookers so we at least have fun if the science takes too long to give us answers. You know it makes sense.
I've found them to start off great, but they deteriorate after a while and feel kinda yuck. I think bang for buck standard phosphor bronze is about as good.
* Variables have to be typed in all caps for historical reasons..
Whenever I use all caps for variables (or constants) I tend to have underscores in them and rarely use digits. WHAT IS WRONG WITH A FREAKING SHIFT LOCK!?!?!
Whew. Sorry, but whoever thought a caps lock was an improvement over shift lock was an idiot.
I may be wrong, but I think that changing the software part way through the life of a product could be seen as a breach of statutory warranty under Australian law. If you bought something that was advertised to do something and then find it can't do it, you can at least get a refund for it, regardless of whether the software is licensed or sold. The software is essential to the operation of the machine and must allow the product to perform the advertised functions.
I don't know how different consumer law is in California, but I would think a similar argument could be used. I used statutory warranty to get a windows install DVD for a laptop I bought a few years back because the laptop with recovery partition didn't have Microsoft Windows Vista as described by the Microsoft site. It was my little way of punishing HP for forcing the Microsoft tax on me.
A strange irony that christmas has since been co-opted by the non-christian... what goes around...
Given that the only part of "Christmas" that is observed by non Christians is the name, I find that an odd comment. Yule has been around a lot longer than Christmas. The cult of the zombie Jew has nothing to do with it as far as I'm concerned.
The name Christmas is obviously Christian. The rest of it isn't (apart from the church stuff but that means nothing to me). Some still call it Yule.
The original Santa was called Odin or Woden or whatever it is depending on the branch of the language you want to take. He had a white beard and flew on an eight legged horse in the middle of winter and gave kids gifts. He wore all green before Coca Cola marketing got to him. The Christmas tree, feasting, giving gifts and all of that stuff are pre Christian. In fact I think if you were to follow Christian teaching strictly you would definitely not be doing any traditional Christmas stuff because that would be observing a Pagan tradition and surely that's against the rules....
Of course it's just another one of those Pagan things that got absorbed into Christian culture - like eggs and rabbits for the Northern Hemisphere Spring fertility festival. Or saying Lucifer was a fallen angel because the bringer of light was just a little to awesome for Jesus to compete with...
But isn't the x86 instruction set inherently silly? I thought modern processors run RISC cores with shenanigans wrapped around to implement the x86 legacy. Surely that means that they are inherently less efficient even if it's only marginal.
Looking at the 4+1 thing that NVidia has done with Tegra3 I think it may be too late for x86 and it may finally die a death. We can only hope.
No Cheerful MacFanboi, I am not a fan of Samsung as such. I have a Samsung phone and it is better for doing my job than the iPhone work has supplied me. Previously I had a Nokia N900 which I preferred. I'm not a fan of any brand. They make good products and bad products and I assess them on their merits. Apple hasn't made anything that has impressed me for about 6 years and even then it was an expensive way of getting a Linux laptop with a silly keyboard so I didn't buy it.
I do get the shits with some brands because of the way they behave, like the case in TFA. I also tend to avoid Sony gear because of their love of Sony only interfaces (e.g. memory stick, betamax) although they haven't done one of those for a while. There may be other brands I don't like much, but I can't think of them off the top of my head.
If you are implying I am being in any way deluded, pretentious or elitist, could you please explain how?
There's no delusion in any of my points and I have already explained factually why Apple products are shittier than other equivalents.
I'm not pretentious because I'm not pretending anything.
This is just me being myself stating what I experience.
It's hardly elitist to point out how shitty products from a particular brand are when they clearly are in comparison to the majority of the competition. I even use an iPhone for work (I did tell the manager who made the decision to get them it was a stupid decision and explained why) and as a telephone with email and a calendar it is okay. I still take my Android phone with me everywhere because it has features I need to actually do my job, as did the Nokia N900 I had previously. Is that elitist or just sensible?
If you are an Apple fanboi with hurt feelings, I'm sorry. I deliberately avoided things like the UI design where Android has buttons that behave consistently and iOS doesn't because these are purely matters of taste.
Because there is a massive fan base out there for a company that makes shit products. Sure the hardware might be okay (if you could change the battery yourself or add additional storage) but the software ecosystem is so locked down that you can't use the hardware to it's potential and the whole package is overpriced. This is why I think of iIdiots as idiots. I have no particular adherence to any brand, I just hate brands with abusive business practices.
Hhhm, I think some of what you just posted reinforces my point in a round about sort of way. If you adhere strictly to the letter of the law, there is plenty to invalidate government but we don't because it makes more sense not to. I wouldn't know about first year uni students but I know well enough about our law and history. I know that the basis of our law is in contracts between British royalty and the pope and that we (or our ancestors) were never party to those contracts and neither the Crown or Papacy had the right to enter into those contracts on our behalf. That combined with the League of Nations/U.N. debarkle and the murkiness around the Letters Patent make for some interesting thought experiments.
My point about Mabo is that I believe the High Court made an error in law. That is that the High Court, being a product of the system introduced illegally by the Crown, had no jurisdiction in the case and was/is itself an illegal entity. Proceeds of crime if you will. That it was a determination on Crown land is irrelevant when you take into account the fact that private land was given by the Crown either through commerce or occupancy but the Crown never had the right to give it. Of course the High Court could not rule in any other way without ceasing to exist and to rule on the legitimacy of governments or the constitution would have been outside their jurisdiction, so they did what they had to. And sure, you could argue statute of limitations, but again that is part of a system that is introduced by a criminal mob from Great Britain and is therefore illegitimate.
I wouldn't say and have never said that any of our governments can't make decisions, but if you think for a moment that an act of parliament is a law, you're a fool. Any judge knows that.
Again, more interesting thoughts. The law is an ass.
Generally not. I did take it out recently after I updated a cpu monitor type thing and the battery started dropping rapidly and the phone got hot. It gets very warm doing gps, skype/fring etc, but that's to be expected.
Another reason a non removable battery is brain dead stupid is that there is no hard power switch, so you never really know when it is turned off and you can't force it. A colleague recently had a problem where the work supplied iPhone froze and couldn't be restarted for half a day. Thankfully I haven't had that problem with my iPhone (no apps on it because I don't do iTunes) but it has on my Samsung and again, I can very quickly yank the battery and restart. Anyone in technology who is arrogant enough to assume that the technology they produce is infallible should not be in technology.
Possibly, but I think the one good thing that came from this for Samsung is the free publicity. Geeks all know about the Transformer Prime, but average consumers don't and probably won't find out about it for ages because Asus don't really advertise much.
Meanwhile Samsung has been all over the papers and mainstream news sites and it has been obvious to a lot of them that Apple is frightened that the Galaxy might be better than an iPad if the comments on the (very pro Apple) Fairfax news are anything to go by. The whole episode has created a bit of an anti Apple backlash and I wouldn't be surprised if it plays out to Samsung's advantage in the medium term.
Yeah! What is with that? It's cheaper to get someone in the US to buy something and send it over than it is to buy it here but we are closer to China/Taiwan... And it's not just Apple. I figured out the cheapest way to get an eePad transformer with a doc is to buy the parts separately from the US and Hong Kong. You can save $100 on the cheapest local price.
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Buy Fukishima Nori today!!!! Then surf in Hawaii!!!!!!!
Every thing is fine.... We don't have decent wars any more and smoking is down, just consume.
meh, Let's trust a body that gets funding from a body that uses bi-products for deterrence....
But I'm assuming of course, given that we know current known nuclear power* is inefficient and only has enough usable fuel for the next half a century or so, that you're not some dick head with a vested interest in nuclear power for your own wallet regardless of the danger to the rest of us?
Waste?(answer that first : waste?)
*Not including thorium - but again, waste?
I love engineers, but every so often, a few of us should be lined up and shot.
So since when is "the rest of the world" Canada? The frequency Telstra has picked (1800MHz) looks to be common across Asia and Europe... It's only North America where that doesn't figure.
But not to worry, I'm sure Apple will release the iPad 3S in a few months featuring exactly the same crap as the iPad 3 apart from the wireless chipset that supports 4G in the real rest of the world.
That's why I always carry black PVC tape and super glue. Stick it on and give it back. Not that I'm a celeb mind you.....
Attention whore, maybe. Idealist, certainly.
Maybe he gets in the senate, get's on a committee (doubt that but anyway) and learns why secrets are kept.
I personally agree with everything he's done. If we were all completely open about everything we have done that directly effected at least one other human, I don't reckon there would be war. If there were, they would be very short. Courts can be great things when they're not bogged down in IP law and drugs.
spoken as someone with no direct interest in the money for killing tea towel heads consortium.....
You never need eBay. Go to another site. eBay is only as big as they are because people think they need eBay. And if a cause I care about only accepts Paypal, I would contact them and suggest they widen their payment options and consider dumping Paypal altogether.
I shut Paypal out when they blocked payments to Wikileaks and they won't get my business again. As the GP says, this is yet another reason, not that I need one.
You need help
+1 Agree wholeheartedly. Disclaimer: I have never used webOS - flame me if you will.
From my experience, Android multitasking sucks when it comes to switching tasks, iOS doesn't rate at all, Maemo was good compared to both of those but from what I have seen of how webOS handles it, I would gladly have that on my phone. Shame their promotion wasn't a bit better, I would have bought.
Unfortunately with Ubuntu you currently have the choice of bleeding edge but unstable or very stable but getting a bit old. PPAs help when available for what you want, but really being able to compile your own software and fix minor build problems helps a lot. I tend to go for statically linked libs for newer software where I can't easily have the version of a lib I need. Either that or where possible I install static builds of software compiled by the software producer, for example Blender is a stupid thing to install from the Ubuntu repository and is much better sitting under /opt.
Of course this is not easy for everyone, but then not everyone has the need/desire to run bleeding edge software on an old and stable OS.
There is a sense I get from your comment that you are a Microsoft schill, or one of those eeeedjuts that thinks that software that costs more to license is somehow "premier". The only "premier" software I have been annoyed I can't run at home has fallen into the "games" category and games are what dual boot is for. Apart from that, there's nothing I can't do on the home system (U10.04+++) that I can on the work system(WinXP Pro) and a lot of tasks (photo processing, network diagnostics, file manipulation, web browsing) that I find easier on Linux than Windows. Having played with win7, there's little it offers over XP apart from tighter security, good support for 64bit and even more assumptions that I don't know what I'm doing so power user stuff should be buried deeper.I'll move to 7 when I absolutely have to. The only thing about Linux I don't like currently is power management.
I have more professional experience with Windows than Linux (~18 years vs. ~13) and the installation is still way easier on any modern Linux distro than Windows. The reason I say that is that Windows goes away for some unspecified or highly inaccurate amount of time and then comes back requiring user input whereas Linux distros give you accurate assessments of time required and ask all the questions they need answers to upfront. Also a windows install requires generally >=2 reboots whereas a Linux needs <=2. The reboots require user input so the more there are, the more irritating the process. Of course there are tools to automate the roll out for both systems which reduce these irritations, but they are effectively the same for both systems and an initial run through of the installation process is still required.
Nah, if you honestly think windows is an easier installation process you either don't know what you're doing or you've got lint for brain cells. But reading your sig I guess you're probably smart and getting paid well enough to appear stupid...
There's your problem. 11.10 is a dogs breakfast. I've been playing with a few of the newer Debian based systems of late and I can honestly say that nothing has really worked all that well for me without a lot of stuffing around. Part of that is the Unity/Gnome3 "we know how you use a computer better than you do" school of UI design, part of it driver/kernel/power management, but the overall experience is not so good. The nicest has been Linux Mint 12, but even that has had power management issues on my laptop.
Ubuntu 10.04 (LTS) on the other hand has been rock solid. My installation is heavily tweaked (out of preference, not need), but I still use standard repositories and it has been bullet proof. It's still supported on the desktop until April next year, so I'd recommend it over 11.10 which is really better for bleeding edge/tester types. The most annoying thing about installing it now would be having to download all the updates, but that's the same for Win 7 anyway.
Funnily enough, I just installed Win7 enterprise on a machine for work and found getting that working far more painful than I remember the install of Ubuntu 10.04 was.
It's true from ice records that the last 4 thousand years have been cooler than the 4 thousand before that, but if you go back a further 4000 years, things were a lot colder for a lot longer (~80,000 years).
So to take your point a bit further, perhaps the current spike is not a return to normal temperatures from 5-10 thousand years ago (actually 10 thousand was much colder) but a natural spike along the 100,000 year cycle which may simply be due to our crossing the galactic equator.
If this is so, it's likely to result in heightened seismic activity from changes in gravitational pull, burying significant amounts of biomass underground along with a sudden and significant drop in temperature trapping large amounts of carbon in permafrost. It also means that any attempts to engineer the climate are like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.
I think engineering the climate is a silly idea. and here's why:
If the above scenario isn't true it's very likely, given the long and proud tradition of people fucking with natural systems to solve problems, only to cause some bigger problems down the line that no one notices until someone says "we have a problem...". There was an old woman who swallowed a fly...
If the above scenario is true then either engineering will work to level out the global climate and rob future generations of fossil fuel reserves (think of the children) or engineering won't work but will waste a lot of money that would be better spent on hookers.
No, I think we should hold off on the engineering. Spend some of the money on the science so we fully understand what's going on before we charge in and break things and the rest on hookers so we at least have fun if the science takes too long to give us answers. You know it makes sense.
I've found them to start off great, but they deteriorate after a while and feel kinda yuck. I think bang for buck standard phosphor bronze is about as good.
Whenever I use all caps for variables (or constants) I tend to have underscores in them and rarely use digits. WHAT IS WRONG WITH A FREAKING SHIFT LOCK!?!?!
Whew. Sorry, but whoever thought a caps lock was an improvement over shift lock was an idiot.
Maybe to make the Chinese think there really is a Navy fleet up there? If it was true, surely they would just discredit/ignore him.
I may be wrong, but I think that changing the software part way through the life of a product could be seen as a breach of statutory warranty under Australian law. If you bought something that was advertised to do something and then find it can't do it, you can at least get a refund for it, regardless of whether the software is licensed or sold. The software is essential to the operation of the machine and must allow the product to perform the advertised functions.
I don't know how different consumer law is in California, but I would think a similar argument could be used. I used statutory warranty to get a windows install DVD for a laptop I bought a few years back because the laptop with recovery partition didn't have Microsoft Windows Vista as described by the Microsoft site. It was my little way of punishing HP for forcing the Microsoft tax on me.
Given that the only part of "Christmas" that is observed by non Christians is the name, I find that an odd comment. Yule has been around a lot longer than Christmas. The cult of the zombie Jew has nothing to do with it as far as I'm concerned.
The name Christmas is obviously Christian. The rest of it isn't (apart from the church stuff but that means nothing to me). Some still call it Yule.
The original Santa was called Odin or Woden or whatever it is depending on the branch of the language you want to take. He had a white beard and flew on an eight legged horse in the middle of winter and gave kids gifts. He wore all green before Coca Cola marketing got to him. The Christmas tree, feasting, giving gifts and all of that stuff are pre Christian. In fact I think if you were to follow Christian teaching strictly you would definitely not be doing any traditional Christmas stuff because that would be observing a Pagan tradition and surely that's against the rules....
Of course it's just another one of those Pagan things that got absorbed into Christian culture - like eggs and rabbits for the Northern Hemisphere Spring fertility festival. Or saying Lucifer was a fallen angel because the bringer of light was just a little to awesome for Jesus to compete with...
But isn't the x86 instruction set inherently silly? I thought modern processors run RISC cores with shenanigans wrapped around to implement the x86 legacy. Surely that means that they are inherently less efficient even if it's only marginal.
Looking at the 4+1 thing that NVidia has done with Tegra3 I think it may be too late for x86 and it may finally die a death. We can only hope.
No Cheerful MacFanboi, I am not a fan of Samsung as such. I have a Samsung phone and it is better for doing my job than the iPhone work has supplied me. Previously I had a Nokia N900 which I preferred. I'm not a fan of any brand. They make good products and bad products and I assess them on their merits. Apple hasn't made anything that has impressed me for about 6 years and even then it was an expensive way of getting a Linux laptop with a silly keyboard so I didn't buy it.
I do get the shits with some brands because of the way they behave, like the case in TFA. I also tend to avoid Sony gear because of their love of Sony only interfaces (e.g. memory stick, betamax) although they haven't done one of those for a while. There may be other brands I don't like much, but I can't think of them off the top of my head.
If you are implying I am being in any way deluded, pretentious or elitist, could you please explain how?
There's no delusion in any of my points and I have already explained factually why Apple products are shittier than other equivalents.
I'm not pretentious because I'm not pretending anything. This is just me being myself stating what I experience.
It's hardly elitist to point out how shitty products from a particular brand are when they clearly are in comparison to the majority of the competition. I even use an iPhone for work (I did tell the manager who made the decision to get them it was a stupid decision and explained why) and as a telephone with email and a calendar it is okay. I still take my Android phone with me everywhere because it has features I need to actually do my job, as did the Nokia N900 I had previously. Is that elitist or just sensible?
If you are an Apple fanboi with hurt feelings, I'm sorry. I deliberately avoided things like the UI design where Android has buttons that behave consistently and iOS doesn't because these are purely matters of taste.
Because there is a massive fan base out there for a company that makes shit products. Sure the hardware might be okay (if you could change the battery yourself or add additional storage) but the software ecosystem is so locked down that you can't use the hardware to it's potential and the whole package is overpriced. This is why I think of iIdiots as idiots. I have no particular adherence to any brand, I just hate brands with abusive business practices.
Don't come the raw prawn with me mate, or I'll do me flamin' block!
Hhhm, I think some of what you just posted reinforces my point in a round about sort of way. If you adhere strictly to the letter of the law, there is plenty to invalidate government but we don't because it makes more sense not to. I wouldn't know about first year uni students but I know well enough about our law and history. I know that the basis of our law is in contracts between British royalty and the pope and that we (or our ancestors) were never party to those contracts and neither the Crown or Papacy had the right to enter into those contracts on our behalf. That combined with the League of Nations/U.N. debarkle and the murkiness around the Letters Patent make for some interesting thought experiments.
My point about Mabo is that I believe the High Court made an error in law. That is that the High Court, being a product of the system introduced illegally by the Crown, had no jurisdiction in the case and was/is itself an illegal entity. Proceeds of crime if you will. That it was a determination on Crown land is irrelevant when you take into account the fact that private land was given by the Crown either through commerce or occupancy but the Crown never had the right to give it. Of course the High Court could not rule in any other way without ceasing to exist and to rule on the legitimacy of governments or the constitution would have been outside their jurisdiction, so they did what they had to. And sure, you could argue statute of limitations, but again that is part of a system that is introduced by a criminal mob from Great Britain and is therefore illegitimate.
I wouldn't say and have never said that any of our governments can't make decisions, but if you think for a moment that an act of parliament is a law, you're a fool. Any judge knows that.
Again, more interesting thoughts. The law is an ass.
Generally not. I did take it out recently after I updated a cpu monitor type thing and the battery started dropping rapidly and the phone got hot. It gets very warm doing gps, skype/fring etc, but that's to be expected.
Another reason a non removable battery is brain dead stupid is that there is no hard power switch, so you never really know when it is turned off and you can't force it. A colleague recently had a problem where the work supplied iPhone froze and couldn't be restarted for half a day. Thankfully I haven't had that problem with my iPhone (no apps on it because I don't do iTunes) but it has on my Samsung and again, I can very quickly yank the battery and restart. Anyone in technology who is arrogant enough to assume that the technology they produce is infallible should not be in technology.
Possibly, but I think the one good thing that came from this for Samsung is the free publicity. Geeks all know about the Transformer Prime, but average consumers don't and probably won't find out about it for ages because Asus don't really advertise much.
Meanwhile Samsung has been all over the papers and mainstream news sites and it has been obvious to a lot of them that Apple is frightened that the Galaxy might be better than an iPad if the comments on the (very pro Apple) Fairfax news are anything to go by. The whole episode has created a bit of an anti Apple backlash and I wouldn't be surprised if it plays out to Samsung's advantage in the medium term.
Yeah! What is with that? It's cheaper to get someone in the US to buy something and send it over than it is to buy it here but we are closer to China/Taiwan... And it's not just Apple. I figured out the cheapest way to get an eePad transformer with a doc is to buy the parts separately from the US and Hong Kong. You can save $100 on the cheapest local price.