Apple's ENTIRE early marketing years were about teaching everyone what a personal computer could do for the average person who had a need or interest in computing. Take a look at this..
He has far more than he would ever get from Microsoft, isnt that enough? Try adding something useful and helpful to the conversation, not just snark. Most of us here are familiar with the regressive-logic hell that is Trust.
Its a constructive use of Reductio ad Absurdum more than Straw Man. He forced the conversation to a ridiculous place because well Garbage In, Garbage Out.
Perhaps it would be best is the FTC forced all advertisers to be barred from using terms like 'unlimited'. Its hard to blame someone for 'abuse', when you use terms that dont have limits carefully stated. Force them to set a scope and sell on solid performance metrics, not hopes and dreams and there is no issue. If i pay for 100/10 with unlimited transfer, that should mean that i should be able to shift as much data as 100/10 will physically allow per month. If a service cant meet that requirement, then they shouldnt be allowed to use the term unlimited.
Thankfully we dont have to justify it to you or anyone. We believe it is a CREATOR granted right for free men to own weaponry. We have fashioned our government to reflect that belief, going as far as outright banning our government from interfering with gun ownership on a very fundamental level. It doesnt matter what you think about it, thats the entire point of the 2nd Amendment. Its a right whether you agree with it or not.
While i agree with you in the practical, i disagree in principal. Part of being human is forcing authority to show its hand to see the limits of its force. How authority responds to that is an indication of the type of society you are living in. You can only swing the Hammer of the State so hard. Finding out how hard the State will actually swing it is dangerous, but important work. For the record i think the Drone registration is an INCREDIBLY heavy handed approach and will instill fear and doubt more than anything else.
Since you insist on playing a stupid semantic game, please define your terms and then compare and contrast the difference between and image and a photo as it relates to the discussion at hand.
When we talk about removable in this context it usually means it can be done without tools by the end user in the field. You are talking about whether its REPLACEABLE, which is a different argument. Most phone's batteries are replaceable by a person familiar with electronics. My Moto G battery isnt removable in this context, but i could easily replace it with a new battery for about $6.
Except when it doesnt work, which has happened to me lots of times, even when running multiple, co-located servers. Plex and local storage are not the same thing. Also, im a lifetime member so please dont bring up sync, its junk. I maintain a Plex server for my family, but everything i watch is stored locally on-device if at all possible. Sneakernet > streaming, always. Streaming is a compromise.
The removable battery thing stopped being an issue when stupid cheap battery banks became available. I have one custom built by Motorola for the Moto G/X line. Its effectively the same thing as having a removable battery other than being able to remove all power easily. I carried removable batteries for almost a decade, now i just keep the motorola battery handy. Did i mention i paid $10 for it....
My 14nm Intel NUC has a VGA port on it. The 22nm version of the NUC didnt even have VGA, why would intel add it on their most forward facing machines when the previous 22nm models didnt have it? There must be a market need for it.
A minor correction . Free Speech is the idea that you can say things. Its a spectrum like anything else going from completely permissive on one end to restricted for reasons on the other. Its a completely separate idea from the FIRST AMENDMENT, which is a limitation on the U.S. government. Generally The First Amendment of the U.S. is very permissive of speech, with exceptions for things like obvious inciting of harm (and other unspecified ' i know it when i see it' clauses).
I only mention this because people get these ideas confused and then the conversation stops being about Free Speech, and it starts being only about The First. It limits the conversation to LEGAL arguments, citing court decisions etc and drowns out any moral speech. Its boring to only look at life through the lens of the law.
The problem is these platforms are becoming DE FACTO speech platforms to the point that either they need to start developing common carrier rulesets, or we need to develop other comms platforms that people can easily join and communicate on. I am not comfortable ceding THIS much speech to a EULA alone. These platforms are used ALOT, its time we start thinking about enforcing The First a little harder when you are reaching so many minds. Information is becoming far too malleable, which is one of the key take-aways of Orwell's 1984. I dont invoke Orwell often, but im seeing speech shaping occurring daily now.
I uploaded a short clip of the green mile to FB the other day to make a point to a friend , and as soon as it finished uploading, FB said it was blocked on copyright grounds, automatically. I was trying to show the scene in Green Mile where Percy is gloating over a dead prisoner, and Brutal viciously scolds him saying 'leave him alone, hes paid what he owed. Hes square with the house again'. Its a 20 seconds clip out of a 3 hour movie... that kind of heavy handedness is ridiculously over the top and stifled a conversation i was having with a friend.. Is that clip really a threat to anyone's revenue? Its time for new conversation about how far these platforms can stifle speech or if we need to legally limit their scope.
The point is you have to ask for permission to get your app to run, either from MS directly, or you have to set up a complicated infrastructure (which requires calling home to mommy to set up). You cant run ARBITRARY code on RT devices, which is the only relevant point.
I have a Moto G 1st gen i bought unlocked from amazon. It still has un-removable (through normal user means) apps from Motorola and others. MotoCare, that silly3d artistic app, and a few others.
Or newer ones too! The relevant argument here is can it run arbitrary code or not.There is nothing old or deprecated about Win32 applications. This is MS propaganda in your head.
He will sell out to Microsoft, a convicted abusive monopolist, right there next to AT&T and Standard Oil, but Facebook is a bridge too far? What a tool.
Twitter's only accomplishment is gathering a shit ton of users they cant monetize. They have nothing else. I do not see them being an independent company for very long. Twitter as a concept is cool, Twitter as a business is a joke. They are the Yahoo.com of the tech group.
EC2 is 9 years old... While you are technically correct, it seems many in this thread are forgetting how much actual time has passed and how rapidly things have changed.
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I picked up my RPi Zero for $5.00 at retail....
Apple's ENTIRE early marketing years were about teaching everyone what a personal computer could do for the average person who had a need or interest in computing. Take a look at this..
http://www.printmag.com/wp-con...
Some of us remember a time before PC meant Wintel.
He has far more than he would ever get from Microsoft, isnt that enough? Try adding something useful and helpful to the conversation, not just snark. Most of us here are familiar with the regressive-logic hell that is Trust.
Its a constructive use of Reductio ad Absurdum more than Straw Man. He forced the conversation to a ridiculous place because well Garbage In, Garbage Out.
Perhaps it would be best is the FTC forced all advertisers to be barred from using terms like 'unlimited'. Its hard to blame someone for 'abuse', when you use terms that dont have limits carefully stated. Force them to set a scope and sell on solid performance metrics, not hopes and dreams and there is no issue. If i pay for 100/10 with unlimited transfer, that should mean that i should be able to shift as much data as 100/10 will physically allow per month. If a service cant meet that requirement, then they shouldnt be allowed to use the term unlimited.
TL:DR - Dont make promises you cant keep.
Thankfully we dont have to justify it to you or anyone. We believe it is a CREATOR granted right for free men to own weaponry. We have fashioned our government to reflect that belief, going as far as outright banning our government from interfering with gun ownership on a very fundamental level. It doesnt matter what you think about it, thats the entire point of the 2nd Amendment. Its a right whether you agree with it or not.
While i agree with you in the practical, i disagree in principal. Part of being human is forcing authority to show its hand to see the limits of its force. How authority responds to that is an indication of the type of society you are living in. You can only swing the Hammer of the State so hard. Finding out how hard the State will actually swing it is dangerous, but important work. For the record i think the Drone registration is an INCREDIBLY heavy handed approach and will instill fear and doubt more than anything else.
Since you insist on playing a stupid semantic game, please define your terms and then compare and contrast the difference between and image and a photo as it relates to the discussion at hand.
When we talk about removable in this context it usually means it can be done without tools by the end user in the field. You are talking about whether its REPLACEABLE, which is a different argument. Most phone's batteries are replaceable by a person familiar with electronics. My Moto G battery isnt removable in this context, but i could easily replace it with a new battery for about $6.
Except when it doesnt work, which has happened to me lots of times, even when running multiple, co-located servers. Plex and local storage are not the same thing. Also, im a lifetime member so please dont bring up sync, its junk. I maintain a Plex server for my family, but everything i watch is stored locally on-device if at all possible. Sneakernet > streaming, always. Streaming is a compromise.
The removable battery thing stopped being an issue when stupid cheap battery banks became available. I have one custom built by Motorola for the Moto G/X line. Its effectively the same thing as having a removable battery other than being able to remove all power easily. I carried removable batteries for almost a decade, now i just keep the motorola battery handy. Did i mention i paid $10 for it....
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/i...
My 14nm Intel NUC has a VGA port on it. The 22nm version of the NUC didnt even have VGA, why would intel add it on their most forward facing machines when the previous 22nm models didnt have it? There must be a market need for it.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00HO... (22nm Core i3)
http://nucblog.net/wp-content/... (14nm 'Celeron')
A minor correction . Free Speech is the idea that you can say things. Its a spectrum like anything else going from completely permissive on one end to restricted for reasons on the other. Its a completely separate idea from the FIRST AMENDMENT, which is a limitation on the U.S. government. Generally The First Amendment of the U.S. is very permissive of speech, with exceptions for things like obvious inciting of harm (and other unspecified ' i know it when i see it' clauses).
I only mention this because people get these ideas confused and then the conversation stops being about Free Speech, and it starts being only about The First. It limits the conversation to LEGAL arguments, citing court decisions etc and drowns out any moral speech. Its boring to only look at life through the lens of the law.
The problem is these platforms are becoming DE FACTO speech platforms to the point that either they need to start developing common carrier rulesets, or we need to develop other comms platforms that people can easily join and communicate on. I am not comfortable ceding THIS much speech to a EULA alone. These platforms are used ALOT, its time we start thinking about enforcing The First a little harder when you are reaching so many minds. Information is becoming far too malleable, which is one of the key take-aways of Orwell's 1984. I dont invoke Orwell often, but im seeing speech shaping occurring daily now.
I uploaded a short clip of the green mile to FB the other day to make a point to a friend , and as soon as it finished uploading, FB said it was blocked on copyright grounds, automatically. I was trying to show the scene in Green Mile where Percy is gloating over a dead prisoner, and Brutal viciously scolds him saying 'leave him alone, hes paid what he owed. Hes square with the house again'. Its a 20 seconds clip out of a 3 hour movie... that kind of heavy handedness is ridiculously over the top and stifled a conversation i was having with a friend.. Is that clip really a threat to anyone's revenue? Its time for new conversation about how far these platforms can stifle speech or if we need to legally limit their scope.
Twitter is ephemera and inertia. It could be replaced tomorrow on a whim. They know this.
The point is you have to ask for permission to get your app to run, either from MS directly, or you have to set up a complicated infrastructure (which requires calling home to mommy to set up). You cant run ARBITRARY code on RT devices, which is the only relevant point.
I have a Moto G 1st gen i bought unlocked from amazon. It still has un-removable (through normal user means) apps from Motorola and others. MotoCare, that silly3d artistic app, and a few others.
Its sad that you think this is meaningful work.......
"can't run older Win32 apps"
Or newer ones too! The relevant argument here is can it run arbitrary code or not.There is nothing old or deprecated about Win32 applications. This is MS propaganda in your head.
Google could have told them no, just like Apple did. In the end, its Google's fault for allowing them that kind of latitude on their platform.
He will sell out to Microsoft, a convicted abusive monopolist, right there next to AT&T and Standard Oil, but Facebook is a bridge too far? What a tool.
4GB of RAM should be the minimum today for a device intended to browse the desktop internet.
Most people dont care if they have proper regulation valves on their water heater,that doesnt mean there is no market for them.
Twitter's only accomplishment is gathering a shit ton of users they cant monetize. They have nothing else. I do not see them being an independent company for very long. Twitter as a concept is cool, Twitter as a business is a joke. They are the Yahoo.com of the tech group.
EC2 is 9 years old... While you are technically correct, it seems many in this thread are forgetting how much actual time has passed and how rapidly things have changed.