I don't blame them too much when Chrome is eating market share both from IE and Firefox. The problem is that Firefox's response is to copy Chrome. But why would I want to run a poor copy when I can just run the original?
which will hide all the nasty implementation details of various platforms from you and make it simple to develop.
Yes, make it simple to develop shitty, inefficient apps because the "programmers" who bawww over actually having to learn how things work write absolutely abysmal code.
No, but the fixed costs of the infrastructure eventually ends up being far exceeded by the revenue coming in which is his point. Or do you care to point out how 1GB of "overage" data somehow costs AT&T 10 times more than a "regular" GB of data.
Great. Microsoft has made zero threats against Mono and has in fact done just the opposite. They've made countless promises to not sue, have had their own staff help the Mono project repeatedly and have supplied tons of documentation to them and have made agreements with Novell to cover the Mono implementation from issues. But yeah, let's keep beating the 7 year old drum of how Microsoft is imminently going to sue over patents over Mono yet has every year NOT don that. If you spread the FUD long enough it has to come true, right?
Right, it's not as if they inflate their actual costs or anything. I mean it's makes perfectly logical sense that a 200MB data plan from AT&T costs $15 while 2GB costs $25. Care to explain to me why the former plan costs nearly 7x more per MB than the latter?
Good point. We should have all the people currently hacking on the Kinect or using the SDK to just stop all work and abandon it all because PCM2 can't see any important applications for the hardware. With such definitive evidence on the uselessness of the Kinect, this SDK or any apps currently written or being worked on, I can't see how any could argue against these conclusions.
No clue. I'm not the one who constantly spreads FUD about how Microsoft is always imminently going to sue Linux distros out of existence for bundling Mono and Mono apps or devs for using it to create apps with.
Apparently because Microsoft is always just around the corner from suing people for patent infringement for using Mono (lather, rinse, repeat for every year since this has yet to happen) despite all evidence to the contrary. It's funny that despite the FSF declaring that there was no longer a "Java Trap" after Sun released a GPL version, that Java is the source of patent flaming whereas Microsoft hasn't done anything but help Mono and make constant promises about not suing.
As you heard, our sell-in was quite aggressive and this first quarterly result was quite, you know, fourth-quarter unit [figure] was around two million. Then, in terms of sell-out, we also believe it was quite small. We believe, as the introduction of new device, it was required to have consumers invest in the device. So therefore, even though sell-out wasn’t as fast as we expected, we still believe sell-out was quite OK.
"Sell-out" means actual sales to consumers. So why should anyone believe that Samsung or any of these other tablet markers are doing anything different now than Samsung was back in January when it was trying to inflate their "quite small" sales by using the shipped figures instead? Oh right, Motorola and RIM also had to have their actual sales figures dropped as well after pulling the same tactic.
Samsung didn’t give any figures, but when a company describes sales of a flagship product as “quite small,” you better believe those sales are microscopic.
As you heard, our sell-in was quite aggressive and this first quarterly result was quite, you know, fourth-quarter unit [figure] was around two million. Then, in terms of sell-out, we also believe it was quite small. We believe, as the introduction of new device, it was required to have consumers invest in the device. So therefore, even though sell-out wasn’t as fast as we expected, we still believe sell-out was quite OK.
This was back when people were touting the "2 million Galaxy Tabs" sold when in fact that was just the shipped figure and then Samsung is saying the sales were "quite small". Yes, that would lead very much to believe that it is "dramatically less". Otherwise, if the sales were so great why don't they quote the actual sales numbers rather than the shipped numbers? Businesses do this to hide the fact that actual sales suck.
Pass laws that any creature with human DNA is human and has the same rights as any other human.
What a stupid idea. How exactly do you define "human DNA"? Do you somehow think our DNA is unique? By this logic, we'd have to give rights to every mammal on earth since we share DNA with them.
You have a small group of religious nuts out there, if they can show that you toss ethics aside to do the work they will gather groups of people who are more moderate. Then you loose your funding, having to defend yourself, trouble getting new funding, etc....
Then that's the issue with having funding of research being a political issue.
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The same as the 60W. That was sort of the whole point of the competition. Same light output for lower wattage.
They seem to have chrome and android envy
I don't blame them too much when Chrome is eating market share both from IE and Firefox. The problem is that Firefox's response is to copy Chrome. But why would I want to run a poor copy when I can just run the original?
So Mozilla is building an Internet-based cult?
So wanting efficient programs and competent programmers writing them makes me elitist? Did I travel to the bizarro world?
So we know which books to avoid?
which will hide all the nasty implementation details of various platforms from you and make it simple to develop.
Yes, make it simple to develop shitty, inefficient apps because the "programmers" who bawww over actually having to learn how things work write absolutely abysmal code.
How so?
That's crazy talk. Next you'll be telling me that hackers can't really turn my computer into a bomb!
No, but the fixed costs of the infrastructure eventually ends up being far exceeded by the revenue coming in which is his point. Or do you care to point out how 1GB of "overage" data somehow costs AT&T 10 times more than a "regular" GB of data.
Great. Microsoft has made zero threats against Mono and has in fact done just the opposite. They've made countless promises to not sue, have had their own staff help the Mono project repeatedly and have supplied tons of documentation to them and have made agreements with Novell to cover the Mono implementation from issues. But yeah, let's keep beating the 7 year old drum of how Microsoft is imminently going to sue over patents over Mono yet has every year NOT don that. If you spread the FUD long enough it has to come true, right?
So then what exactly was the point of your post?
Important News Bulletin: PCM2 has no idea for how the Kinect could be used for interesting or important applications! Film at 11.
No you don't. The cloud already did all the math for you.
Right, it's not as if they inflate their actual costs or anything. I mean it's makes perfectly logical sense that a 200MB data plan from AT&T costs $15 while 2GB costs $25. Care to explain to me why the former plan costs nearly 7x more per MB than the latter?
Good point. We should have all the people currently hacking on the Kinect or using the SDK to just stop all work and abandon it all because PCM2 can't see any important applications for the hardware. With such definitive evidence on the uselessness of the Kinect, this SDK or any apps currently written or being worked on, I can't see how any could argue against these conclusions.
Why would they?
No clue. I'm not the one who constantly spreads FUD about how Microsoft is always imminently going to sue Linux distros out of existence for bundling Mono and Mono apps or devs for using it to create apps with.
And yet Microsoft hasn't raised a single lawsuit. Now, Java, on the other hand, has been an amusing source of patents suits recently.
Apparently because Microsoft is always just around the corner from suing people for patent infringement for using Mono (lather, rinse, repeat for every year since this has yet to happen) despite all evidence to the contrary. It's funny that despite the FSF declaring that there was no longer a "Java Trap" after Sun released a GPL version, that Java is the source of patent flaming whereas Microsoft hasn't done anything but help Mono and make constant promises about not suing.
How can PC be in a downward trend when sales of PCs continue to grow (yes, even if the growth is less than estimates)? Oh right, it's not.
How about Samsung's own statements about the Galaxy S just a couple of months ago:
As you heard, our sell-in was quite aggressive and this first quarterly result was quite, you know, fourth-quarter unit [figure] was around two million. Then, in terms of sell-out, we also believe it was quite small. We believe, as the introduction of new device, it was required to have consumers invest in the device. So therefore, even though sell-out wasn’t as fast as we expected, we still believe sell-out was quite OK.
"Sell-out" means actual sales to consumers. So why should anyone believe that Samsung or any of these other tablet markers are doing anything different now than Samsung was back in January when it was trying to inflate their "quite small" sales by using the shipped figures instead? Oh right, Motorola and RIM also had to have their actual sales figures dropped as well after pulling the same tactic.
Oh really?
Samsung didn’t give any figures, but when a company describes sales of a flagship product as “quite small,” you better believe those sales are microscopic.
As you heard, our sell-in was quite aggressive and this first quarterly result was quite, you know, fourth-quarter unit [figure] was around two million. Then, in terms of sell-out, we also believe it was quite small. We believe, as the introduction of new device, it was required to have consumers invest in the device. So therefore, even though sell-out wasn’t as fast as we expected, we still believe sell-out was quite OK.
This was back when people were touting the "2 million Galaxy Tabs" sold when in fact that was just the shipped figure and then Samsung is saying the sales were "quite small". Yes, that would lead very much to believe that it is "dramatically less". Otherwise, if the sales were so great why don't they quote the actual sales numbers rather than the shipped numbers? Businesses do this to hide the fact that actual sales suck.
This is how Samsung is able to push out such huge numbers for the Galaxy Tab, etc, because they are basically artificially inflating their numbers.
Pass laws that any creature with human DNA is human and has the same rights as any other human.
What a stupid idea. How exactly do you define "human DNA"? Do you somehow think our DNA is unique? By this logic, we'd have to give rights to every mammal on earth since we share DNA with them.
Yes, but Bat Boy is far cooler.
You didn't realize that animals (yes disregarding the fact that humans themselves ARE animals) don't have skin?
You have a small group of religious nuts out there, if they can show that you toss ethics aside to do the work they will gather groups of people who are more moderate. Then you loose your funding, having to defend yourself, trouble getting new funding, etc....
Then that's the issue with having funding of research being a political issue.