Having owned an iPhone and having worked in an environment where I've used and configured Android devices, I can absolutely believe that an iPhone is a better device than Android phones.
From what I've seen, iOS is significantly easier to use than Android.
If anything, this is more evidence of the imminent death of optical media(at least as we know them).
When everyone had CD drives it was generally easy to use a disc from one location in another.
Then some people got DVD discs, and for a while there were a lot of people who didn't have a DVD drive. If you brought a DVD from one place to another there was no guarantee you'd be able to use it.
Then we got to a point when most people had DVD drives, and it was generally easy to take a DVD from one place to another again.
Then there were multiple popular DVD formats(DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD-R DL, DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD+R DL), and it wasn't necessarily easy to take your data from your house to your friend's house.
Then there were HD-DVD and Blu-Ray.
Now there will be holographic discs.
A few years from now there will be another incompatible format that promises to hold exponentially more.
And it could happen again and again and again.
Incompatible formats, lack of portability, lack of rewritability, fragility, and overall inconvenience in terms of storage are what are putting an end to optical media.
If there's one thing this world needs it's more patents.
There's too much innovation and not enough litigation nowadays.
P.S.: The order of the words in this posts and the subject is innovative so I've just applied for a patent for it, so if you quote it or reply to it you can expect to hear from my lawyers.
The telecoms should be allowed to implement caps only if they are required to advertise their speed as the maximum data rate that would be sustainable under the cap. You're not really getting 10Mbps if you can't get 10Mb for every second.
So for example, there are 2,592,000 seconds in a month(60 seconds * 60 minutes * 24 hours * 30 days).
If the cap is 150GB the company should not be legally allowed to advertise their connection as anything greater than 150GB/2,592,000.
Really the question should be to yourself, and it should be exactly the same question that your boss is asking you: Are you the right person for this job?
It's not my concern to find the right employee for my employer. It is the responsibility of the employee to satisfactorily do what is asked of them(provided that what is asked is both possible and reasonable given the job's listed job requirements and pay), and it is the responsibility of the employer to make sure that employment is mutually beneficial. Employers make money by keeping some percentage of the productivity of their employees, and they do have a responsibility to create a positive work environment for said employees.
If an employer creates a hostile work environment, and especially if an employer does things like try to take away employees' personal time(off the clock), it is completely unreasonable to expect said employees to consider said employer's position ahead of their own.
tl;dr: I do my job well and treat employers well. I deserve the same treatment from them, and if they're not willing to treat me well, I'm not willing to be their employee.
What *will* happen is that those who can get better jobs(the best workers) will, and the people who will be left will be the worst and least-qualified workers.
If the management are thinking up brilliant ideas like this, it would be a good idea to get your résumé to as many other potential employers as possible.
I wonder what was the reaction of the car that rear-ended the driverless car.
I think I might freak out if I rear-ended a car, but if I then got out of my car and walked over to find that the car I rear-ended was driving but there was no one inside, I think saying I would be "freaked out" would be an incredible understatement.
Patents provide minimal protection for individuals and significant protection for large corporations.
If a large corporation creates something and someone infringes the patent, the large corporation sues the person who's infringing until the person who infringed is broke.
If an individual creates something and a large corporation infringes the patent, the individual sues until the individual is broke, and the large corporation continues infringing on the patent.
It's interesting that people automatically seem to think of numbers when thinking of unique IDs, like phone numbers or government IDs.
Why?
It would make more sense to just use email addresses. In the same way that it makes sense to use sentences for passwords, it makes more sense for unique IDs to be based on something significantly more diverse and difficult to guess than a meaningless string of numbers.
IDs should be determinable by the person who's going to be affected by them, and in the rare case of duplicates, they should be asked to choose another. There's no reason why everyone needs a "number".
But seriously, if there are alien life forms, we don't even know that we'd be on the same scales as them.
They could be a hundred meters tall or they could be microscopic. And they could perceive time in an extremely delayed manner(with our seconds feeling like hours to them) or an extremely accelerated manner(with our hours feeling like seconds to them).
We don't know that the things on our earth that we consider natural resources are the same things that an alien civilization would consider natural resources. Humanity's waste products might be the things the aliens most precious needs, or their waste products might be things we could eat as food. Maybe they could eat dirt.
I think that hiding makes sense until we have the capability for travel between solar systems, specifically because there is a possibility that aliens encountered would pose a danger to us, but to naturally assume that whichever ones we encountered would want to do things that would harm us seems a little too paranoid.
Any group that is capable of such travel is likely to get their energy from somewhere, but even in our own solar system, is earth the biggest source of energy? Jupiter alone would likely provide millions of times the amount of power that could be obtained from Earth, and wouldn't have the danger of infection from Earth's bacteria and viruses. And the sun provides unmeasurable amounts of power compared to Earth. And even the sun isn't a large star.
Compared to many others, our solar system would be like a crumb to any civilization searching for resources.
And one last thing I wonder about: Is humanity's fear of extraterrestrial intelligence based on humanity's own instinct of survival of the fittest? And if so, is it reasonable to guess that other forms of intelligence would have such instinct? And would they even perceive us as competition? Or would they have out-evolved that need?
It makes sense to be cautious and to attempt to not be found, but it's also good to have some perspective. We have no idea about the motivations of any intelligence that would contact us or come here.
There are better ways to kill off entire civilizations than by accelerating objects to 99% of the speed of light.
Aliens could just do this:
Introduce comparatively amazing new technology to comparatively primitive humans. Make it so the technology provides some new ability like the ability to travel more quickly or to feed more people.
Make it so when the technology is used, it releases gases which are toxic to humans and which terraform this planet into an environment more suitable for the aliens.
All the aliens would have to do would be to wait for the humans to kill *themselves* to use the technology.
With piracy, a company sells a copy and the buyer makes a copy for someone else(and whether that someone else would have bought a copy without piracy is debatable). If I buy a 99-cent song and give you a copy, that is "piracy".
With robbery, someone takes someone else's belongings. If someone takes your money without giving you anything and without your consent, that is "robbery".
Because as soon as extraterrestrial life is discovered, the Vatican will be likely to lose power very very quickly.
Especially if that life is intelligent enough to communicate, and especially if that life has its own creation myth(s) or even *plausible* creation stories.
Apple should stop providing samples, and watch revenues from music sales plummet.
Within a week or so, Apple will be providing samples again, and ASCAP won't dare to suggest again that Apple should stop providing the incentive for people to try music they might later purchase.
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Having owned an iPhone and having worked in an environment where I've used and configured Android devices, I can absolutely believe that an iPhone is a better device than Android phones.
From what I've seen, iOS is significantly easier to use than Android.
Or do a search for search on Google. The first result? Bing.
If anything, this is more evidence of the imminent death of optical media(at least as we know them).
When everyone had CD drives it was generally easy to use a disc from one location in another.
Then some people got DVD discs, and for a while there were a lot of people who didn't have a DVD drive. If you brought a DVD from one place to another there was no guarantee you'd be able to use it.
Then we got to a point when most people had DVD drives, and it was generally easy to take a DVD from one place to another again.
Then there were multiple popular DVD formats(DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD-R DL, DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD+R DL), and it wasn't necessarily easy to take your data from your house to your friend's house.
Then there were HD-DVD and Blu-Ray.
Now there will be holographic discs.
A few years from now there will be another incompatible format that promises to hold exponentially more.
And it could happen again and again and again.
Incompatible formats, lack of portability, lack of rewritability, fragility, and overall inconvenience in terms of storage are what are putting an end to optical media.
High Definition Innovative Video Information Interface
HDIVII
If there's one thing this world needs it's more patents.
There's too much innovation and not enough litigation nowadays.
P.S.: The order of the words in this posts and the subject is innovative so I've just applied for a patent for it, so if you quote it or reply to it you can expect to hear from my lawyers.
That's a misconception.
Android phones have a bigger percentage of the marketshare of phones than the iPhone has.
But the total number of devices running iOS(iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, tv is 59% greater than the total number of devices running Android.
The same way you destroy lead and other heavy metals.
Wrap it up. Call it new. Sell it to unsuspecting Americans.
Problem solved.
The telecoms should be allowed to implement caps only if they are required to advertise their speed as the maximum data rate that would be sustainable under the cap. You're not really getting 10Mbps if you can't get 10Mb for every second.
So for example, there are 2,592,000 seconds in a month(60 seconds * 60 minutes * 24 hours * 30 days).
If the cap is 150GB the company should not be legally allowed to advertise their connection as anything greater than 150GB/2,592,000.
150GB = 150,000MB = 150,000,000kB = 1,200,000Mb = 1,200,000,000kb
1,200,000,000kb/2,592,000 seconds = 462.962kbps
Blazing fast broadband.
It's not my concern to find the right employee for my employer. It is the responsibility of the employee to satisfactorily do what is asked of them(provided that what is asked is both possible and reasonable given the job's listed job requirements and pay), and it is the responsibility of the employer to make sure that employment is mutually beneficial. Employers make money by keeping some percentage of the productivity of their employees, and they do have a responsibility to create a positive work environment for said employees.
If an employer creates a hostile work environment, and especially if an employer does things like try to take away employees' personal time(off the clock), it is completely unreasonable to expect said employees to consider said employer's position ahead of their own.
tl;dr: I do my job well and treat employers well. I deserve the same treatment from them, and if they're not willing to treat me well, I'm not willing to be their employee.
What *will* happen is that those who can get better jobs(the best workers) will, and the people who will be left will be the worst and least-qualified workers.
If the management are thinking up brilliant ideas like this, it would be a good idea to get your résumé to as many other potential employers as possible.
I think the fact that it's not obvious what the actual candidate said and what a comedian impersonating her said says a lot more.
Can we install more than one of these in a system and then configure them like a RAID 0 array?
I'd like to connect four 250GB SSD modules together to form a 1TB portable RAID 0 SSD.
I wonder what was the reaction of the car that rear-ended the driverless car.
I think I might freak out if I rear-ended a car, but if I then got out of my car and walked over to find that the car I rear-ended was driving but there was no one inside, I think saying I would be "freaked out" would be an incredible understatement.
Patents provide minimal protection for individuals and significant protection for large corporations.
If a large corporation creates something and someone infringes the patent, the large corporation sues the person who's infringing until the person who infringed is broke.
If an individual creates something and a large corporation infringes the patent, the individual sues until the individual is broke, and the large corporation continues infringing on the patent.
It's interesting that people automatically seem to think of numbers when thinking of unique IDs, like phone numbers or government IDs.
Why?
It would make more sense to just use email addresses. In the same way that it makes sense to use sentences for passwords, it makes more sense for unique IDs to be based on something significantly more diverse and difficult to guess than a meaningless string of numbers.
IDs should be determinable by the person who's going to be affected by them, and in the rare case of duplicates, they should be asked to choose another. There's no reason why everyone needs a "number".
Are you *trying* to make me hit my ISP's bandwidth cap today?
Cuil!
The link in the summary is to Mac Rumors, not to Mac OS Rumors, which is an unrelated site.
But seriously, if there are alien life forms, we don't even know that we'd be on the same scales as them.
They could be a hundred meters tall or they could be microscopic. And they could perceive time in an extremely delayed manner(with our seconds feeling like hours to them) or an extremely accelerated manner(with our hours feeling like seconds to them).
We don't know that the things on our earth that we consider natural resources are the same things that an alien civilization would consider natural resources. Humanity's waste products might be the things the aliens most precious needs, or their waste products might be things we could eat as food. Maybe they could eat dirt.
I think that hiding makes sense until we have the capability for travel between solar systems, specifically because there is a possibility that aliens encountered would pose a danger to us, but to naturally assume that whichever ones we encountered would want to do things that would harm us seems a little too paranoid.
Any group that is capable of such travel is likely to get their energy from somewhere, but even in our own solar system, is earth the biggest source of energy? Jupiter alone would likely provide millions of times the amount of power that could be obtained from Earth, and wouldn't have the danger of infection from Earth's bacteria and viruses. And the sun provides unmeasurable amounts of power compared to Earth. And even the sun isn't a large star.
Compared to many others, our solar system would be like a crumb to any civilization searching for resources.
And one last thing I wonder about: Is humanity's fear of extraterrestrial intelligence based on humanity's own instinct of survival of the fittest? And if so, is it reasonable to guess that other forms of intelligence would have such instinct? And would they even perceive us as competition? Or would they have out-evolved that need?
It makes sense to be cautious and to attempt to not be found, but it's also good to have some perspective. We have no idea about the motivations of any intelligence that would contact us or come here.
There are better ways to kill off entire civilizations than by accelerating objects to 99% of the speed of light.
Aliens could just do this:
All the aliens would have to do would be to wait for the humans to kill *themselves* to use the technology.
With piracy, a company sells a copy and the buyer makes a copy for someone else(and whether that someone else would have bought a copy without piracy is debatable). If I buy a 99-cent song and give you a copy, that is "piracy".
With robbery, someone takes someone else's belongings. If someone takes your money without giving you anything and without your consent, that is "robbery".
This is robbery.
Because as soon as extraterrestrial life is discovered, the Vatican will be likely to lose power very very quickly.
Especially if that life is intelligent enough to communicate, and especially if that life has its own creation myth(s) or even *plausible* creation stories.
"About"?
Apple should stop providing samples, and watch revenues from music sales plummet.
Within a week or so, Apple will be providing samples again, and ASCAP won't dare to suggest again that Apple should stop providing the incentive for people to try music they might later purchase.
OS X already runs on ARM processors. If you have an iPhone, you already have a copy of OS X running on an ARM processor.