Wonderful! Then every time I pick up an additional cable, it's like I'm upgrading my entire peripheral connector support, with costs to match!
Who needs to buy a new USB cable when you could be buying a USB cable plus USB PC Card expansion in one!
Even better, I currently have a box of like 50 assorted USB cables in my closet. Now with Thunderbolt, when I need to connect a peripheral, I won't be able to just reach in and find one who's length matches. I'll need to go in and find a cable with the right length that is also compatible with my device's speed even though they all have the same connectors.
This whole thing sounds like a marketer's wet dream.
I'm not sure how much water you argument holds when the worst European country in terms of telecom price/quality is still better than the best states in the US. Finland has a lower population density than the United States, and simultaneously better telcom.
So while true that Europe is a patchwork of carriers across its different states, every state there is better than any state in the US.
Indeed it must not, because turning a blind eye to crime just because you don't like the victim leads to mob rule. It is the antithesis of the rule of law on which our society is founded, which protects our rights as well as Sony's. That's one slope that history has proven time and time again to be very slippery indeed.
I don't think the history has conclusively proven at all whether the rule of law enforced blindly without regards to who is right or wrong is a good thing.
For example, the Underground Railroad illegally helping escaped slaves, or every revolution in the history of the world.
Obviously the importance of the cause is different here, but it helps make my point clearer by using high-profile examples.
Did you read the headline even before responding? Your post completely failed to address the point of the article, which is why Android is winning on phones, but losing on tablets.
Good thing? Who said anything about a good thing. That is a good additional insight of yours, though.
The Android market's oxygen for innovation, to use the OP's metaphor, seems to hinge mainly on the profitability of Google's search and advertisement business. Good thing for Android, though, that so far that seems fairly secure.
The case is not already closed, and you're already calling that the other side (the so-called "Apple Haters") won't buy it because their minds are set. Whose mind is that will not change no matter the proof?
Assuming your numbers are true, there's another big part of the story there, though, that's missing from your analysis. Most of the Android innovation comes not from the individual manufacturers but from Google. Google manages to finance its innovation in smartphones by leveraging its highly profitable search division, which isn't included in your analysis.
In fact, many would argue that the "innovation" that comes from Android handset manufacturers is in fact harmful, creating fragmentation and poorly designed add-ons to Android that damage the Android brand. Many of the best reviewed Android devices are, in fact, just running vanilla Android on fairly interchangeable hardware.
"In Prince George’s County, cameras are operated entirely by municipalities, which can set them up within half-mile school zones. The devices are installed by vendors that typically receive about 40 percent of the payout on each ticket, with the rest going to local, county and state government."
How could anyone have thought that this was a good idea? If the only thing the private corps are doing is the installation, why are they getting 40% of all future proceeds? If the private corps are doing the on-going process of operating and maintaining the cameras, then you just incentivized them to do whatever causes more tickets to be mailed out.
My guess is that it's the later, and the local municipalities are more than happy to incentivize the private corps to break the law, since they're getting 60% cuts. Then, when scandals like this one break out, they wash their hands of the matter and say we didn't know what was happening, it was that corrupt private contractor.
From Solandri's description, if accurate, it sounds like CDMA as a technology is without a doubt superior in this respect. GSM requires two radios to do data, CDMA requires only one. If CDMA phone makers wish, it sounds like they could include a separate dedicated data radio, and increase their costs to the same as the costs of making GSM phones. They have simply chosen not to, making the products inferior.
I've tried out SIP on my hacked up phone running XDAndroid Gingerbread, and the call quality was terrible over SIP, even though I was on wifi. I had it setup using a Gizmo5 account (sad that they're being shutdown), and the call quality on Gizmo5 was fine over the exact same wifi connection from my computer.
I'm wonder if it's just because I'm running Android on a hacked up phone that was never designed to run it. Does anyone else have any experience with the call quality on SIP on Gingerbread?
I'm sorry to interrupt your outrage baiting that you've gotten a +5 Insightful on, but do you have a cite for when you say "shareholders have 0 say in what the CEO and board gets paid or even who is on it."
Shareholders' main right is to set who is on the board of directors.
Furthermore, one of the board of director's main rights it to determine what the CEO and board gets paid.
Traditionally, a corporation is like a representative republic. It's true, shareholders don't get a direct say in how much the CEO gets paid, but they do get to pick representatives to be on the board who in turn get to decide how much the CEO gets paid.
Nope, it's not really partisan like that. It's more like the lack of basic features that have been simply taken for granted on competitors for years or even over a decade is lame.
The iPhone was rightfully criticized for its lack of multitasking, or copy and paste, or 3G. Just like Android was rightfully criticized for its lack of voicedialing with Bluetooth.
That's sure a self-serving post that's been rating Informative.
Each time the iPhone has changed its hardware "it's been way ahead of any Android devices"?
You point to the resolution of the display and the better camera, and the gyroscope. Those are pretty arbitrary criteria.
I say 4G data connection and a bigger, MUCH more vibrant screen are way more important than the criteria you named, does that now make Android devices "way ahead of" the iPhone hardware?
Or are those not as important as the factors you named?
Heck, let's play the game your way, and just go back one year, to the iPhone 3GS. At that point, it had an inferior resolution display to what was available on Android, it had an inferior camera to the best available on android. So that would make Android devices "way ahead of" the iPhone 3GS when it came out right? Or were a different set of arbitrary characteristics the most important back then?
There are times when one piece of hardware is significantly better than another. Right now, neither the Android nor the iPhone camp is able to claim being the clear cut winner of hardware.
If everyone considered donating things to the community to be "silly" then there would be no such thing as charity or volunteerism, and the world would be a much sadder place.
You may not remember, but back in the day, before Windows Mobile was called Windows Mobile, they competed on quality on it as well. Their main rival, Palm, stagnated for years rehashing the same products and Microsoft swooped in and ate their lunch.
With Palm dealt with, Microsoft then went on to do what they do, and stagnated Windows Mobile until someone else came along and ate their lunch.
I don't think you'll be able to from the demo. They had enemies in it you had to cut at a specific angle and such.
I'm pretty hopeful for this. The sword fighting in Wii Sports Resort is fairly convincing. Port that into an actual game like Zelda, and it should be fun.
Note for anyone else whose curiosity was piqued, this only works with 32bit systems with 950 chipset based systems, and does not work with GMA X3100, GMA X4500, GMA 500, or GMA 900.
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Wonderful! Then every time I pick up an additional cable, it's like I'm upgrading my entire peripheral connector support, with costs to match!
Who needs to buy a new USB cable when you could be buying a USB cable plus USB PC Card expansion in one!
Even better, I currently have a box of like 50 assorted USB cables in my closet. Now with Thunderbolt, when I need to connect a peripheral, I won't be able to just reach in and find one who's length matches. I'll need to go in and find a cable with the right length that is also compatible with my device's speed even though they all have the same connectors.
This whole thing sounds like a marketer's wet dream.
I'm not sure how much water you argument holds when the worst European country in terms of telecom price/quality is still better than the best states in the US. Finland has a lower population density than the United States, and simultaneously better telcom.
So while true that Europe is a patchwork of carriers across its different states, every state there is better than any state in the US.
Indeed it must not, because turning a blind eye to crime just because you don't like the victim leads to mob rule. It is the antithesis of the rule of law on which our society is founded, which protects our rights as well as Sony's. That's one slope that history has proven time and time again to be very slippery indeed.
I don't think the history has conclusively proven at all whether the rule of law enforced blindly without regards to who is right or wrong is a good thing.
For example, the Underground Railroad illegally helping escaped slaves, or every revolution in the history of the world.
Obviously the importance of the cause is different here, but it helps make my point clearer by using high-profile examples.
Just tried out the Youtube app on Android, and it does not seem to have any option to upload video via streaming, only after you've hit done.
Presumably by that point the cops have already smashed your phone.
Did you read the headline even before responding? Your post completely failed to address the point of the article, which is why Android is winning on phones, but losing on tablets.
Good thing? Who said anything about a good thing. That is a good additional insight of yours, though.
The Android market's oxygen for innovation, to use the OP's metaphor, seems to hinge mainly on the profitability of Google's search and advertisement business. Good thing for Android, though, that so far that seems fairly secure.
The case is not already closed, and you're already calling that the other side (the so-called "Apple Haters") won't buy it because their minds are set. Whose mind is that will not change no matter the proof?
Interesting stats, got a link to the cite?
Assuming your numbers are true, there's another big part of the story there, though, that's missing from your analysis. Most of the Android innovation comes not from the individual manufacturers but from Google. Google manages to finance its innovation in smartphones by leveraging its highly profitable search division, which isn't included in your analysis.
In fact, many would argue that the "innovation" that comes from Android handset manufacturers is in fact harmful, creating fragmentation and poorly designed add-ons to Android that damage the Android brand. Many of the best reviewed Android devices are, in fact, just running vanilla Android on fairly interchangeable hardware.
"In Prince George’s County, cameras are operated entirely by municipalities, which can set them up within half-mile school zones. The devices are installed by vendors that typically receive about 40 percent of the payout on each ticket, with the rest going to local, county and state government."
How could anyone have thought that this was a good idea? If the only thing the private corps are doing is the installation, why are they getting 40% of all future proceeds? If the private corps are doing the on-going process of operating and maintaining the cameras, then you just incentivized them to do whatever causes more tickets to be mailed out.
My guess is that it's the later, and the local municipalities are more than happy to incentivize the private corps to break the law, since they're getting 60% cuts. Then, when scandals like this one break out, they wash their hands of the matter and say we didn't know what was happening, it was that corrupt private contractor.
From Solandri's description, if accurate, it sounds like CDMA as a technology is without a doubt superior in this respect. GSM requires two radios to do data, CDMA requires only one. If CDMA phone makers wish, it sounds like they could include a separate dedicated data radio, and increase their costs to the same as the costs of making GSM phones. They have simply chosen not to, making the products inferior.
Same word 'superior', two different contexts.
I've tried out SIP on my hacked up phone running XDAndroid Gingerbread, and the call quality was terrible over SIP, even though I was on wifi. I had it setup using a Gizmo5 account (sad that they're being shutdown), and the call quality on Gizmo5 was fine over the exact same wifi connection from my computer.
I'm wonder if it's just because I'm running Android on a hacked up phone that was never designed to run it. Does anyone else have any experience with the call quality on SIP on Gingerbread?
To all repliers claiming that OP's laptop is not a laptop because it's CPU is too powerful, please meet the No True Scotsman logical fallacy:
http://www.logicalfallacies.info/presumption/no-true-scotsman/
The claim made in the summary is: "The Apple MacBook Pro (Thunderbolt) is the fastest laptop out there."
The summary is NOT, it is the fastest "true" laptop out there weighing X pounds or running at Y degrees.
I'm sorry to interrupt your outrage baiting that you've gotten a +5 Insightful on, but do you have a cite for when you say "shareholders have 0 say in what the CEO and board gets paid or even who is on it."
Shareholders' main right is to set who is on the board of directors.
Furthermore, one of the board of director's main rights it to determine what the CEO and board gets paid.
Traditionally, a corporation is like a representative republic. It's true, shareholders don't get a direct say in how much the CEO gets paid, but they do get to pick representatives to be on the board who in turn get to decide how much the CEO gets paid.
Goldman Sachs, Monsanto, BP, and many others thank you for your strict limitation on what "real" evil is.
After all, they're just companies trying to protect their profits.
Nope, it's not really partisan like that. It's more like the lack of basic features that have been simply taken for granted on competitors for years or even over a decade is lame.
The iPhone was rightfully criticized for its lack of multitasking, or copy and paste, or 3G. Just like Android was rightfully criticized for its lack of voicedialing with Bluetooth.
In my mind at least.
I'm shocked by the fact that you're a Slashdot reader that wasn't aware that Apple would try to control your use of your phone.
That said, AT&T carries a number of pretty decent Android phones now. Check out the Captivate for a very nice one.
http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/verizon-mobile-hotspot-on-webos-devices-now-free/
That's sure a self-serving post that's been rating Informative.
Each time the iPhone has changed its hardware "it's been way ahead of any Android devices"?
You point to the resolution of the display and the better camera, and the gyroscope. Those are pretty arbitrary criteria.
I say 4G data connection and a bigger, MUCH more vibrant screen are way more important than the criteria you named, does that now make Android devices "way ahead of" the iPhone hardware?
Or are those not as important as the factors you named?
Heck, let's play the game your way, and just go back one year, to the iPhone 3GS. At that point, it had an inferior resolution display to what was available on Android, it had an inferior camera to the best available on android. So that would make Android devices "way ahead of" the iPhone 3GS when it came out right? Or were a different set of arbitrary characteristics the most important back then?
There are times when one piece of hardware is significantly better than another. Right now, neither the Android nor the iPhone camp is able to claim being the clear cut winner of hardware.
If everyone considered donating things to the community to be "silly" then there would be no such thing as charity or volunteerism, and the world would be a much sadder place.
You may not remember, but back in the day, before Windows Mobile was called Windows Mobile, they competed on quality on it as well. Their main rival, Palm, stagnated for years rehashing the same products and Microsoft swooped in and ate their lunch.
With Palm dealt with, Microsoft then went on to do what they do, and stagnated Windows Mobile until someone else came along and ate their lunch.
Maybe there's more to it than you presented, but from what you've said, seems like a non sequitor.
I don't think you'll be able to from the demo. They had enemies in it you had to cut at a specific angle and such.
I'm pretty hopeful for this. The sword fighting in Wii Sports Resort is fairly convincing. Port that into an actual game like Zelda, and it should be fun.
Note for anyone else whose curiosity was piqued, this only works with 32bit systems with 950 chipset based systems, and does not work with GMA X3100, GMA X4500, GMA 500, or GMA 900.
Not hypothetical: taking arguments to their logical extremes points outs flaws in black and white thinking, and adds to depth of understanding.
Maybe you should actually try the scenario I presented.