What if China goes the DIY route and makes its own ISA or microarchitecture with silicon-level censorship and monitoring, or an always-open backdoor for the Chinese intelligence agencies?
We will still buy those products because they are the cheapest.
But they need to blow it up somewhere with some population density, and planes spend 90% of the time over sparsely populated areas... entering the cockpit is near impossible these days.
Blowing up a bomb in an airport causes far more economic damage (since the airport would shut down) and panic among far more people than a single plane (especially after the introduction of reinforced cockpit doors). After all, planes crash for many reasons already, and people still take the chance.
"Multiple" as in: two. Heck, there have been far more situations where overly drunk passengers have tried to open the plane door in flight, but they still don't ban drunk idiots on the planes.
Does it make sense? The iPad 2 does not say "iPad 2" anywhere, just "iPad". My MacBook Pro is not called the MacBook Pro 4 for being the fourth generation of that product. At work, my HP EliteBook probably has some five-digit number to differentiate it from its siblings, but I could not care less. If you buy a 2012 Ford Focus, it does not say "Ford Focus 25" or whichever model they are at now.
So the newest model is the 2012 release of the iPad.
But I do look forward to the jokes that will surround the Samsung Galaxy S IV. "What, are you supposed to plug it into your blood stream now? Haha!"
No. E.g. in order to make the various companies competitive, the cellphone-maker-Samsung does not get any preferential treatment from screen-maker-Samsung, but competes for the production on the same "level" as e.g. Apple. Likewise, screen-maker-Samsung does not automatically get the business of cellphone-maker-Samsung which can go to Sharp or whomever if they so desire.
They are both fully owned by an umbrella corporation, though. But I assume they keep the company boards separate to avoid insider knowledge from spreading.
You are not entitled to a success in business. The gamers do not owe the developers money to recuperate their costs. When the potential customer is in a store looking to buy a new game, he cares f*ck all about how much the game cost to make, he cares about what is this game worth to me. And if a used copy is cheaper, then that is an option for as long as the industry sells physical goods.
Second-hand sales of goods is a FACT and has been for centuries. They should take that into consideration in their business cases, or they suck at what they do. This myth that if people only bought new games they would make more and prices would lower is nonsense on two fronts: Prices are mostly fixed anyway (games is not a free market) and the gamers would be far more wary about buying the games since they would not be able to recoup some of the cost by selling off a bad game since there would not be a second-hand market. So: Prices fixed, but less sales does not mean more games.
The U.S. military is too busy attacking "Arabia" to defend Europe. Why do you think European countries don't have a military? After all, where did you think all the British, German, Danish, Norwegian etc. forces that joined in America's neocolonial moneysinks were? Figments of someone's imagination?
What security? More Americans are killed on the road every year than the total number of Americans killed in terrorist attacks, yet I do not see mandatory alcometer locks or GPS-based speed throttling in cars over there. You care shit all about security, you just want to feed public money to various lobbying industries, like the company that sold the body scanners the TSA uses.
Of course it does! That the iPad sold more in three months than Windows-based tablets had in ten years was just marketing and the reality distortion field in effect. Clearly, Windows Pen Edition was the ultimate in human-computer interaction.
So instead of paying $10 in public money for an abortion pill they want to pay $thousands in public money later to educate and treat the resulting child?
Yeah, but that's counterfactual history, it's like wondering what scientific advances could have been produced instead with the billions spent on stockpiling nukes.
... and if you buy an "application" in any other store, do you think the store does not take a cut? They could have made Mac OS into a controlled OS years ago if that was their goal. But they are probably getting pissed at these third-party runtimes (slow Flash, buggy Java) that screw things up.
Not ownership, but you can only sell non-free output from iBooks Author on the iTunes store. Which does not prevent you from using any other way to format your content and sell it elsewhere. The iBooks Author is just Apple's free "SDK" for their proprietary ePub extensions format.
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What if China goes the DIY route and makes its own ISA or microarchitecture with silicon-level censorship and monitoring, or an always-open backdoor for the Chinese intelligence agencies?
We will still buy those products because they are the cheapest.
But they need to blow it up somewhere with some population density, and planes spend 90% of the time over sparsely populated areas... entering the cockpit is near impossible these days.
Blowing up a bomb in an airport causes far more economic damage (since the airport would shut down) and panic among far more people than a single plane (especially after the introduction of reinforced cockpit doors). After all, planes crash for many reasons already, and people still take the chance.
"Multiple" as in: two. Heck, there have been far more situations where overly drunk passengers have tried to open the plane door in flight, but they still don't ban drunk idiots on the planes.
Does it make sense? The iPad 2 does not say "iPad 2" anywhere, just "iPad". My MacBook Pro is not called the MacBook Pro 4 for being the fourth generation of that product. At work, my HP EliteBook probably has some five-digit number to differentiate it from its siblings, but I could not care less. If you buy a 2012 Ford Focus, it does not say "Ford Focus 25" or whichever model they are at now.
So the newest model is the 2012 release of the iPad.
But I do look forward to the jokes that will surround the Samsung Galaxy S IV. "What, are you supposed to plug it into your blood stream now? Haha!"
No. E.g. in order to make the various companies competitive, the cellphone-maker-Samsung does not get any preferential treatment from screen-maker-Samsung, but competes for the production on the same "level" as e.g. Apple. Likewise, screen-maker-Samsung does not automatically get the business of cellphone-maker-Samsung which can go to Sharp or whomever if they so desire.
They are both fully owned by an umbrella corporation, though. But I assume they keep the company boards separate to avoid insider knowledge from spreading.
Are you trying to introduce a "quality requirement" for opinions?
You are not entitled to a success in business. The gamers do not owe the developers money to recuperate their costs. When the potential customer is in a store looking to buy a new game, he cares f*ck all about how much the game cost to make, he cares about what is this game worth to me. And if a used copy is cheaper, then that is an option for as long as the industry sells physical goods.
Second-hand sales of goods is a FACT and has been for centuries. They should take that into consideration in their business cases, or they suck at what they do. This myth that if people only bought new games they would make more and prices would lower is nonsense on two fronts: Prices are mostly fixed anyway (games is not a free market) and the gamers would be far more wary about buying the games since they would not be able to recoup some of the cost by selling off a bad game since there would not be a second-hand market. So: Prices fixed, but less sales does not mean more games.
This is the new Slashdot where they will post "Water: now wet!" if it can get some ad impressions.
Screen-maker-Samsung is not the same company as cellphone-maker-Samsung though they have the same owner.
Inbreeding? I didn't know Kentucky was in Europe.
The U.S. military is too busy attacking "Arabia" to defend Europe. Why do you think European countries don't have a military? After all, where did you think all the British, German, Danish, Norwegian etc. forces that joined in America's neocolonial moneysinks were? Figments of someone's imagination?
What security? More Americans are killed on the road every year than the total number of Americans killed in terrorist attacks, yet I do not see mandatory alcometer locks or GPS-based speed throttling in cars over there. You care shit all about security, you just want to feed public money to various lobbying industries, like the company that sold the body scanners the TSA uses.
Of course it does! That the iPad sold more in three months than Windows-based tablets had in ten years was just marketing and the reality distortion field in effect. Clearly, Windows Pen Edition was the ultimate in human-computer interaction.
Editor on monitor 1, documentation on monitor 2, etc.
Not every "creed" or political system is a religion. There are plenty of liberal Christians for instance.
Correct: An Arabic scholar translated Indian math and taught the Europeans.
So instead of paying $10 in public money for an abortion pill they want to pay $thousands in public money later to educate and treat the resulting child?
Yeah, but that's counterfactual history, it's like wondering what scientific advances could have been produced instead with the billions spent on stockpiling nukes.
The amazing thing is that people still write new desktop apps in Java...
You mean like these guys?
(insert standard "Java is not Javascript" explanation here)
... and if you buy an "application" in any other store, do you think the store does not take a cut? They could have made Mac OS into a controlled OS years ago if that was their goal. But they are probably getting pissed at these third-party runtimes (slow Flash, buggy Java) that screw things up.
I got the impression 80% of Slashdot also hated Java with a passion. :)
Flash is an integral part of Zynga's Facebook games. Little else should require it.
My bank, however, considers Java to be integral when logging in to it.
Not ownership, but you can only sell non-free output from iBooks Author on the iTunes store. Which does not prevent you from using any other way to format your content and sell it elsewhere. The iBooks Author is just Apple's free "SDK" for their proprietary ePub extensions format.