I never said the iPhone was better. I said that the Android market is fragmenting/fragmented.
With an iPhone the only things you have to decide on are the size of storage and if you want to jailbreak it.
If you couldn't comprehend that I was talking about the Android as a platform being fragmented right now with four OS and a ton of hardware, then you need to pick up some reading comprehension.
I've owned Apple computers since 1993 and an iPhone since March 2009. What exactly am I doing wrong by owning and using them?
This is being typed out on an ASUS G73 I bought to game on. From an experienced Windows, LINUX and OS X user, here is an observation, Windows and modern Linux distros are a pain in the butt to use compared to OS X. PC hardware from the big vendors like Lenovo, ASUS, Dell or HP don't last as long as a Mac.
But when my PC went wonky and I needed to recover data, Ubuntu 10 is the first place I went to facilitate a recovery.
In the last ten years I've had countless incidents with malware, virus or trojans ending up on my PCs, in the same period I've come across three Word Macro viruses on my Macs.
I'm not buying a new iPhone right now till Apple fixes the antenna issue or comes clean on it, but how am I ignorant for buying one?
In some ways the US is becoming more centralized (intelligence, law enforcement, taxes), but in other ways it's reverting to a decentralized system.
The Department of Veterans affairs is going to let people in V.A. treatment use marijuana if the state law allows it. Thats a huge jump away from the old model of "if the Justice Department doesn't like it, it's not allowed". States are moving back to a states-rights point of view about gay marriage, immigration checks.
And those Teabaggers are really clamoring for decentralization.
I'm here in Alaska now and it feels like a place very far removed from a centralized United States, even with the huge military bases here in town (Anchorage), even the sign at the fort says - United States Army Alaska.
So the Canadian Federal Government doesn't toss out the big highway dollars like the US. Interesting.
I read about the Alaska Highway a bunch before and after I drove it. Interesting how Canada didn't want a highway up there, but the Yukon and BC always did (at least north BC).
We stayed at Haines Junction and met a crew of bridge finishers, turned out all the new bridges being built were paid for by the US, or mostly by the US. The US had to go directly to the Yukon about it because the Canadian government didn't want to hash out the details of the treaty they signed with the US over highway improvements.
Being in the US, I always thought of Canada as a tighter federation of states than the US was. Seems in some regards to be looser.
The US has alot of wide open spaces like Canada, but our population isn't bunched up as much along one main axis.
Driving across western Canada last fall (Vancouver to Alaska) I was struck by how poor the roads are in Canada, even Highway 1 compared to the US.
Get farther up in to BC, and they get really poor, I'd say the roads around Prince George, Dawson Creek or Fort St John were about the same quality as the rural highways across South Dakota (Highway 63 or 212)
Because you live in a nation-state where everyone gets access to government services equally.
Lets take your argument to services other than mail
Why should people from states not attacked on 9/11 fight in Afghanistan? Why should states without military bases get defended by the United States military?
Why should tax money from the wealthy go to the poor?
How about data analysis by someone who isn't an "enthusiast" and by someone who is qualified?
"...rate of pedestrian fatalities has in fact fallen over that same period" yes, we've been designing pedestrian safe bumpers and hoods in that period, cross walks are safer with better lights and audible warnings.
As someone who was clipped by a Prius in a parking lot when it was on battery, the damned things are quiet as hell and sneak up on you like a ICE powered automobile doesn't.
OK, why should otherwise stable and lawful organizations submit to Government mandated minimum wages?
If it's OK to set the minimum, and the tax rates, why not the maximum wage?
28.22% of US households make less than 25,000 dollars a year.
1.50% of US households make more than 250,000. What would be wrong with either taxing the living crap out of that 1.50% or establishing a maximum income of say, 400,000 dollars a year? It would impact less than 1.50% of US households.
As for being naive about whats going on in Afghanistan, I have family members there and as late as June of 2010 one of my students was an Afghani Pashtun exchange student who was very enlightening about the difference between pre-invasion and post invasion Afghanistan.
So nation building or supporting humanitarian efforts is less important than iPods?
News flash for you, before the fall of 2001 girls who went to school were killed in Afghanistan. So the rise of the iPod and OS X is more important than the work done in Afghanistan?
Why shouldn't every industry have a salary cap? The professional sports have salary caps and even profit sharing between teams (NFL for example with broadcast rights, national NFL sponsorships, and a redistributed portion of ticket sales.).
Corporations have pay levels for employees, government jobs have steps why the devil should CEOs be exempt from normal pay grades that the rest of the corporation has?
Jesus, even the President of the United States and Supreme Court Justices have reasonable pay scales as do the Generals and Admirals commanding the military.
General Patraeus is an O-10 with 36 years, so he gets 17785 + 1739 for dependents + 223 + 183 + 333 a month roughly, so about 243,156 a year.
What CEO has more responsibility or duties than a combat commander in a time of war? Who really is worth more than that? Not even the most successful CEOs, not Steve Jobs, not Bill Gates.
"Very true. That said, I mean... and the advent of refrigeration killed the ice man."
Really? Up here in Anchorage Alaska and everywhere else I've lived has ice production somewhere, ice delivery men and ice delivery trucks. You know the people that haul the bags of ice to grocery stores, stop and robs or to banquets and weddings?
Well he won't be sent to Gitmo without due process. Due process is being carried out, extradition warrant, trial and he'll serve time in a minimum or medium security Federal Prison.
Its going to push small operations out of business, it's the consolidation of medical pot in Oakland.
My mother was a pot grower and dealer throughout the 1980s and 90s, she always said laws liberalizing pot were always going to be resisted by the dealers and growers.
Now, the idea that pain medication is under prescribed is nonsense or had to get a script for it ridiculous.. I've had no trouble over the years getting Vicodin, Oxycontin, Opana, Avinza, MS Contin, Methadone and finally Fentanyl patches (which I used daily for 14 months.)
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I never said the iPhone was better. I said that the Android market is fragmenting/fragmented.
With an iPhone the only things you have to decide on are the size of storage and if you want to jailbreak it.
If you couldn't comprehend that I was talking about the Android as a platform being fragmented right now with four OS and a ton of hardware, then you need to pick up some reading comprehension.
I won't go to Android at this point because there are too many models with different features and different OSes out there.
In June two Android OSes made up for 75% of the Android devices.
Right now four versions of the OS are making up the bulk of the phones
http://developer.android.com/resources/dashboard/platform-versions.html
With an iPhone I know what I'm getting in a model
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone_4
With Android I have to figure out the phone and what OS it's running to decide what I want
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system)#Update_history
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Android_devices#Smartphones
As soon as the iPhone is available on other carriers, it's really over for Android.
I've owned Apple computers since 1993 and an iPhone since March 2009. What exactly am I doing wrong by owning and using them?
This is being typed out on an ASUS G73 I bought to game on. From an experienced Windows, LINUX and OS X user, here is an observation, Windows and modern Linux distros are a pain in the butt to use compared to OS X. PC hardware from the big vendors like Lenovo, ASUS, Dell or HP don't last as long as a Mac.
But when my PC went wonky and I needed to recover data, Ubuntu 10 is the first place I went to facilitate a recovery.
In the last ten years I've had countless incidents with malware, virus or trojans ending up on my PCs, in the same period I've come across three Word Macro viruses on my Macs.
I'm not buying a new iPhone right now till Apple fixes the antenna issue or comes clean on it, but how am I ignorant for buying one?
In some ways the US is becoming more centralized (intelligence, law enforcement, taxes), but in other ways it's reverting to a decentralized system.
The Department of Veterans affairs is going to let people in V.A. treatment use marijuana if the state law allows it. Thats a huge jump away from the old model of "if the Justice Department doesn't like it, it's not allowed". States are moving back to a states-rights point of view about gay marriage, immigration checks.
And those Teabaggers are really clamoring for decentralization.
I'm here in Alaska now and it feels like a place very far removed from a centralized United States, even with the huge military bases here in town (Anchorage), even the sign at the fort says - United States Army Alaska.
So the Canadian Federal Government doesn't toss out the big highway dollars like the US. Interesting.
I read about the Alaska Highway a bunch before and after I drove it. Interesting how Canada didn't want a highway up there, but the Yukon and BC always did (at least north BC).
We stayed at Haines Junction and met a crew of bridge finishers, turned out all the new bridges being built were paid for by the US, or mostly by the US. The US had to go directly to the Yukon about it because the Canadian government didn't want to hash out the details of the treaty they signed with the US over highway improvements.
Being in the US, I always thought of Canada as a tighter federation of states than the US was. Seems in some regards to be looser.
Pay? It's a buck to do it online with the USPS.
Free in the Post Office.
The US has alot of wide open spaces like Canada, but our population isn't bunched up as much along one main axis.
Driving across western Canada last fall (Vancouver to Alaska) I was struck by how poor the roads are in Canada, even Highway 1 compared to the US.
Get farther up in to BC, and they get really poor, I'd say the roads around Prince George, Dawson Creek or Fort St John were about the same quality as the rural highways across South Dakota (Highway 63 or 212)
Because you live in a nation-state where everyone gets access to government services equally.
Lets take your argument to services other than mail
Why should people from states not attacked on 9/11 fight in Afghanistan? Why should states without military bases get defended by the United States military?
Why should tax money from the wealthy go to the poor?
I notice cars starting more by the puff of the exhaust and the vibration than the sound in parking lots.
I guess after 30+ years of being around cars,trucks, farm equipment, I watch for those things and the sound.
How about data analysis by someone who isn't an "enthusiast" and by someone who is qualified?
"...rate of pedestrian fatalities has in fact fallen over that same period" yes, we've been designing pedestrian safe bumpers and hoods in that period, cross walks are safer with better lights and audible warnings.
As someone who was clipped by a Prius in a parking lot when it was on battery, the damned things are quiet as hell and sneak up on you like a ICE powered automobile doesn't.
"7600" - 120 to 200 MHz PowerPC 604 that can go up to 1 GB of RAM.
I'm one of those Mac users who is also an NRA member. I keep both the Macs and guns.
Obama ran on the platform of invading Pakistan, another failed campaign promise.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/01/AR2007080101233.html
OK, why should otherwise stable and lawful organizations submit to Government mandated minimum wages?
If it's OK to set the minimum, and the tax rates, why not the maximum wage?
28.22% of US households make less than 25,000 dollars a year.
1.50% of US households make more than 250,000. What would be wrong with either taxing the living crap out of that 1.50% or establishing a maximum income of say, 400,000 dollars a year? It would impact less than 1.50% of US households.
I remember when people had reading comprehension.
Hint look at the URL - http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/02/taliban-pakistan-justice-women-flogging
Then read the article.
As for being naive about whats going on in Afghanistan, I have family members there and as late as June of 2010 one of my students was an Afghani Pashtun exchange student who was very enlightening about the difference between pre-invasion and post invasion Afghanistan.
Pakistan is not Afghanistan.
So nation building or supporting humanitarian efforts is less important than iPods?
News flash for you, before the fall of 2001 girls who went to school were killed in Afghanistan. So the rise of the iPod and OS X is more important than the work done in Afghanistan?
Really?
Well a CEO doesn't build a damned thing, they sit there and optimize stock price.
So Steve Jobs does more important work and accomplishes more than commander of ISAF?
General Patraeus is in charge of 120,000 people, plus contractors, consultants and other joint forces.
Steve Jobs is in charge of 34,000 people. He has gotten around 7,000,000,000 dollars since 2002.
7,000,000,000 vs 1,600,000 since 2002. So Jobs effort is really over 4000 times more valuable?
News flash, ISAF is rebuilding Afghanistan, what's Apple or Microsoft doing?
Why shouldn't every industry have a salary cap? The professional sports have salary caps and even profit sharing between teams (NFL for example with broadcast rights, national NFL sponsorships, and a redistributed portion of ticket sales.).
Corporations have pay levels for employees, government jobs have steps why the devil should CEOs be exempt from normal pay grades that the rest of the corporation has?
Jesus, even the President of the United States and Supreme Court Justices have reasonable pay scales as do the Generals and Admirals commanding the military.
General Patraeus is an O-10 with 36 years, so he gets 17785 + 1739 for dependents + 223 + 183 + 333 a month roughly, so about 243,156 a year.
What CEO has more responsibility or duties than a combat commander in a time of war? Who really is worth more than that? Not even the most successful CEOs, not Steve Jobs, not Bill Gates.
"Very true. That said, I mean... and the advent of refrigeration killed the ice man."
Really? Up here in Anchorage Alaska and everywhere else I've lived has ice production somewhere, ice delivery men and ice delivery trucks. You know the people that haul the bags of ice to grocery stores, stop and robs or to banquets and weddings?
Well he won't be sent to Gitmo without due process. Due process is being carried out, extradition warrant, trial and he'll serve time in a minimum or medium security Federal Prison.
And it is not in the Constitution.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life,_liberty_and_the_pursuit_of_happiness
The right to keep and bear arms is in the Constitution, the right to get drunk or high is not.
Its going to push small operations out of business, it's the consolidation of medical pot in Oakland.
My mother was a pot grower and dealer throughout the 1980s and 90s, she always said laws liberalizing pot were always going to be resisted by the dealers and growers.
Now, the idea that pain medication is under prescribed is nonsense or had to get a script for it ridiculous.. I've had no trouble over the years getting Vicodin, Oxycontin, Opana, Avinza, MS Contin, Methadone and finally Fentanyl patches (which I used daily for 14 months.)
Umm, no I had a prescription in the State of Oregon for medical pot.
So you are in a state that requires union membership for your profession, so you just have to work jobs that don't require it, like Fast Food?