I'm still open minded about all this. I don't really think cell phone radiation is bad for me, but I would move or protest if someone put up the cell transmitter on my roof.
That's OK -- they can put one on my roof anytime they want. It will be nice to have the carrier sending me money every month, for a change.
That really hits the nail on the head. If you give your stuff away for free, you can tell complainers to get bent. But if you charge so much as $0.15, your customers own your sorry ass.
Google's going to have to learn that little fact of life sooner or later.
Well, *my* phone obeys the laws of thermodynamics. Have fun storing your smartphone in a cryogenic dewar, or whatever you have to do to get 3 weeks' battery life out of it.
Also, the reason you'll want to give everyone else the vote is that if we're denied the vote, and you get to sit pretty in your mansions while we starve due to neglect, we will kill you. Without legitimacy, a government is nothing more than a collection of thugs.
ROFL. Kill them how? With nasty looks and strongly-worded letters? In America, the right-wingers are the ones with the guns.
Well, for one thing, I doubt Yoda could have forced a major cellular carrier to give up control over the phone's feature set and stop nickel-and-diming customers to death. If you didn't pay an extra $5/month for Google Maps, you can probably thank Jobs.
Not because it's the best phone available, which it might or might not be depending on who you ask, but because there's a guy in Cupertino with a black turtleneck, a borrowed liver, and a really shitty attitude who owns the exact same phone I do, and who has the power to make it suck less.
Even if he has to stare down AT&T to do it.
What other phone manufacturer can go to bat for their customers like that?
The Internet as we enjoy it, where we can get cheap access that is reasonably fast, relies on the idea of sharing bandwidth. That means we all can't use all our bandwidth all the time.
True, and another way to put this is that using a packet-switched system as if it were a circuit-switched system is never, ever going to be a good idea.
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Obviously, I'm no fan of globalization. I'm perfectly happy to allow the Finnish to do things their way, South Africans do things their way, and New Yorkers to do things their way. I can look at each, and decide for myself which is best for me - if any
Expected, maybe not, but certainly advised. Faced with a potentially violent kidnapper, who in most cases will have the upper hand (if the kidnapping is even slightly well planned), the fight option is likely to get you needlessly injured or killed.
Yeeeeah. He was... fishing... at night, in stormy weather, a thousand miles off the coast of Somalia, but within 300 yards of the only merchant ship within 50 nautical miles.
As much as I can bash Verizon for their gestapo-like moves in other areas, at least they've given us the tools to completely disable features like these through account management online.
Cool. I never really understood what "Stockholm Syndrome" meant until now.
It's highly unlikely that HP will make money on that one. 3com doesn't have anything which HP doesn't have a better version of already. This makes even less sense than the Compaq deal
How much further along would server side be if Microsoft had truly worked with the Java community instead of going it's own way with.Net?
Java is a piece of crap compared to C#. MS did the right thing by out-competing an inferior player.
How much better would cellphones be if Microsoft had not bought, and slowly strangled, Danger?
Dunno, but something tells me I'd still own an iPhone.
How much further along would so many areas be if Microsoft had not bought up so many experts and stuffed them in an R&D group with almost no real world output, instead of having them work on practical technologies that made it to market?
That point is valid. The mission statement of Microsoft Research is "Tie up as many industry gurus as possible and keep them from working for anyone else."
Would the HD video market have been as fragmented as it was without Microsoft pushing HD-DVD long past the point it was obviously dead just so they would get licensing revenue from the menu system?
IMHO no, the HD video market would still be a race to see who's going to capture the coveted 5% of the market base who bought LaserDisc players. From the perspective of most consumers, HD discs are a solution looking for a problem.
My issue in general here (yes, I am a creationist...I'm a delusional moron, I know) is that while 40,000 generations of E. Coli did show some form of usable mutation, it doesn't account for many other inconsistencies with evolution as the be-all and end-all for how we got where we were
Which has more "inconsistencies?" Your biology book, or your Bible?
Why do you hold your professor to one standard of proof, and your pastor to another?
The most immediately memorable example of this for me is the bombardier beetle. The system it's got in place to ward off predators relies on a series of chemicals and an expulsion system that incremental evolution can't account for.
I may go to hell because I disbelieve in God, but if I do, I expect I'll see you there. Why? Because in sentences like the above, you're the one demonstrating the kind of arrogance it takes to tell God what His creations can and cannot do.
My position, if anything, is more respectful than yours.
Given that Apple was the first into the whole PDA space with the Newton - remember, they coined the phrase Personal Digital Assistant - I should think that quite a few Palm features are covered by Apple patents.
Very true as well. Point being, patent attacks between the two companies would be a classical MAD scenario. Nobody would win but the lawyers and the cockroaches.
Or USB-IF could revoke the patent license because Palm is not following their regulations. Then Palm can be sued for patent infringement.
Which'll never happen. Palm may not have the best product now, but they had several years' head start on just about everyone. Can you imagine how many iPhone features are covered by Palm patents?
If Apple sues Palm, or if they start a proxy war through the USB-IF, they might as well move their company from California to East Texas, because they'll spend the rest of their lives in patent litigation.
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I'm still open minded about all this. I don't really think cell phone radiation is bad for me, but I would move or protest if someone put up the cell transmitter on my roof.
That's OK -- they can put one on my roof anytime they want. It will be nice to have the carrier sending me money every month, for a change.
Not exactly the same thing as selling hardware.
That really hits the nail on the head. If you give your stuff away for free, you can tell complainers to get bent. But if you charge so much as $0.15, your customers own your sorry ass.
Google's going to have to learn that little fact of life sooner or later.
Well, *my* phone obeys the laws of thermodynamics. Have fun storing your smartphone in a cryogenic dewar, or whatever you have to do to get 3 weeks' battery life out of it.
Also, the reason you'll want to give everyone else the vote is that if we're denied the vote, and you get to sit pretty in your mansions while we starve due to neglect, we will kill you. Without legitimacy, a government is nothing more than a collection of thugs.
ROFL. Kill them how? With nasty looks and strongly-worded letters? In America, the right-wingers are the ones with the guns.
You could have said exactly the same thing about airline pilots.
Well, for one thing, I doubt Yoda could have forced a major cellular carrier to give up control over the phone's feature set and stop nickel-and-diming customers to death. If you didn't pay an extra $5/month for Google Maps, you can probably thank Jobs.
Not because it's the best phone available, which it might or might not be depending on who you ask, but because there's a guy in Cupertino with a black turtleneck, a borrowed liver, and a really shitty attitude who owns the exact same phone I do, and who has the power to make it suck less.
Even if he has to stare down AT&T to do it.
What other phone manufacturer can go to bat for their customers like that?
The Internet as we enjoy it, where we can get cheap access that is reasonably fast, relies on the idea of sharing bandwidth. That means we all can't use all our bandwidth all the time.
True, and another way to put this is that using a packet-switched system as if it were a circuit-switched system is never, ever going to be a good idea.
Obviously, I'm no fan of globalization. I'm perfectly happy to allow the Finnish to do things their way, South Africans do things their way, and New Yorkers to do things their way. I can look at each, and decide for myself which is best for me - if any
That is globalization.
Fowl weather terminated the flight plan early.
Ah, that explains why they landed in Lake Washington.
There are MANY small-scale communist groups that work very well and have been doing so for decades without problem.
And as long as they don't shoot you for trying to leave, there's not a thing in the world wrong with that.
Expected, maybe not, but certainly advised. Faced with a potentially violent kidnapper, who in most cases will have the upper hand (if the kidnapping is even slightly well planned), the fight option is likely to get you needlessly injured or killed.
Well, there's some pre-9/11 thinking for you...
Fortunately he found the only found the only merchant ship within 50 nautical miles and was sailing to it to ask for help.
With a rocket launcher?
Yeeeeah. He was... fishing... at night, in stormy weather, a thousand miles off the coast of Somalia, but within 300 yards of the only merchant ship within 50 nautical miles.
That's the ticket.
Why is it that important to not see the same quote again?
Why is it so important to you that the government be involved in this decision?
As much as I can bash Verizon for their gestapo-like moves in other areas, at least they've given us the tools to completely disable features like these through account management online.
Cool. I never really understood what "Stockholm Syndrome" meant until now.
It's highly unlikely that HP will make money on that one. 3com doesn't have anything which HP doesn't have a better version of already. This makes even less sense than the Compaq deal
Patents.
How much further along would server side be if Microsoft had truly worked with the Java community instead of going it's own way with .Net?
Java is a piece of crap compared to C#. MS did the right thing by out-competing an inferior player.
How much better would cellphones be if Microsoft had not bought, and slowly strangled, Danger?
Dunno, but something tells me I'd still own an iPhone.
How much further along would so many areas be if Microsoft had not bought up so many experts and stuffed them in an R&D group with almost no real world output, instead of having them work on practical technologies that made it to market?
That point is valid. The mission statement of Microsoft Research is "Tie up as many industry gurus as possible and keep them from working for anyone else."
Would the HD video market have been as fragmented as it was without Microsoft pushing HD-DVD long past the point it was obviously dead just so they would get licensing revenue from the menu system?
IMHO no, the HD video market would still be a race to see who's going to capture the coveted 5% of the market base who bought LaserDisc players. From the perspective of most consumers, HD discs are a solution looking for a problem.
It's also kind of pathetic that you didn't just open the configfile and change it back
Welcome to 0.2% market share. Population: you.
My issue in general here (yes, I am a creationist...I'm a delusional moron, I know) is that while 40,000 generations of E. Coli did show some form of usable mutation, it doesn't account for many other inconsistencies with evolution as the be-all and end-all for how we got where we were
Which has more "inconsistencies?" Your biology book, or your Bible?
Why do you hold your professor to one standard of proof, and your pastor to another?
The most immediately memorable example of this for me is the bombardier beetle. The system it's got in place to ward off predators relies on a series of chemicals and an expulsion system that incremental evolution can't account for.
I may go to hell because I disbelieve in God, but if I do, I expect I'll see you there. Why? Because in sentences like the above, you're the one demonstrating the kind of arrogance it takes to tell God what His creations can and cannot do.
My position, if anything, is more respectful than yours.
It means that, once again, the USPTO's employee drug-testing policy has failed us all.
Given that Apple was the first into the whole PDA space with the Newton - remember, they coined the phrase Personal Digital Assistant - I should think that quite a few Palm features are covered by Apple patents.
Very true as well. Point being, patent attacks between the two companies would be a classical MAD scenario. Nobody would win but the lawyers and the cockroaches.
Or USB-IF could revoke the patent license because Palm is not following their regulations. Then Palm can be sued for patent infringement.
Which'll never happen. Palm may not have the best product now, but they had several years' head start on just about everyone. Can you imagine how many iPhone features are covered by Palm patents?
If Apple sues Palm, or if they start a proxy war through the USB-IF, they might as well move their company from California to East Texas, because they'll spend the rest of their lives in patent litigation.
Sure, sure, no argument there.