"50/50" is probability, you need more than one experiment to decide the ratios of the two different states. The problem is, once you have made, say 1000 experiments you have really just moved 1000 steps along a path; there are other paths you could have ended up on. So maybe you come to exactly 50/50 as the ratio, but somewhere out there in the multiverse there is a world where the 1000 experiments led to a 70/30 ratio instead. You just cannot observe it because you diverged at some point: You are not there, you are here.
Take over in what sense? They made emergency loans to much of the car companies that otherwise would have gone bust (leaving mostly just Ford). And mandating health insurance so that you don't have poor contagious sick people walking the streets. There is no take-over there, either. So he was still crazy.
Ah yes, it must have been Sony's fault, after all, Toshiba had mighty Microsoft on its side. Sony had just... well, most other manufacturers actually... on their side. Pioneer made a HD-DVD player too, but they bet on both horses in the race.
Face it, the right technology won that war. But because of the "war" we had to suffer a period of really expensive disks when both platforms were supported.
What, a paranoid Soviet defector who built a cult of personality around her? When did she have good ideas? Handing the reins from elected Government to a rich self-perpetuating elite that preys on the poor is certainly not one.
What? Vinyl? Recorded music? Preposterous! It will be the death of live music as we know it. Movies? Recorded plays? It will be the death of stage theater! And television? It will be the death of cinema!
Or at least that was the going fear mongering at the time. If Oman had been around then I guess we might still not have any of those.
Hey, an AC jumped on the train of people who blow shit out of proportion in order to make themselves look better. Shut up and eat your Doritos, zit-face, while you Google for John Carmacks rant about OpenGL versus DirectX.
Your sarcasm would be appropriate if, at some point in time, Apple allowed you to install software from any source on the iPad. As Microsoft does with the current Windows.
It's more like going to a mall compared to braving the dark streets of the downtown shops.
Not sure what "freedoms" Android users crave that aren't satisfied by the selection in the Apple app store. You cannot run any more on a device that has been written for it, and iOS has the most developers.
If someone else than the original author decompiles a commercial program and release the source, then it is not open source, it is a copyright violation. Forcing open other people's software for some religious RMS-worshipping reason is fanaticism.
Why do you lie? Neither Apple nor Microsoft do this if we are talking the Windows and OS X side. Gatekeeper is an option on OS X Mountain Lion, and does not exist on Windows, where any app stores are optional.
What do you mean "do something"? They have something that is called "local storage" for something called "apps". You can have files on them that the apps read and write. I mean, what were you going to use a laptop for without wi-fi? Plus it's easier to get a tablet with a cellular connection than a laptop (at least built-in).
Well, there were a lot of other errors there as well... hard to notice the spelling error when you call immensely successful products "mediocre jokes".
So picking other products than you do is being fanatical. It cannot possibly be because we actually like the products or due to good marketing to the general population.No, it is all witchcraft and Reality Distortion Fields and whatnot.
If anyone are fanatical it's the "you are dumb if you do not get a Samsung GS3" freaks that flood all over the Internet with their mythmaking about Apple, decrying any positive press as "bias" and insulting the users of Apple hardware whenever they can. One would think we were infidels and iPhone was haram or something...
There are "mapping solutions for iOS" if you are willing to pay, and has been for years. The only problem is that Siri will not open them but will use the builtin.
Are you smoking crack? The new Google-provided YouTube app is leagues better than the old app. I can actually get my channel subscriptions there, just for one thing: The old one supported a fraction of the site's added functionality and was only useful for opening the occasional YouTube link.
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Ah, are we getting some economics into our physics now?
"In the long run, we are all dead" - John Maynard Keynes.
"50/50" is probability, you need more than one experiment to decide the ratios of the two different states. The problem is, once you have made, say 1000 experiments you have really just moved 1000 steps along a path; there are other paths you could have ended up on. So maybe you come to exactly 50/50 as the ratio, but somewhere out there in the multiverse there is a world where the 1000 experiments led to a 70/30 ratio instead. You just cannot observe it because you diverged at some point: You are not there, you are here.
Yeah, "nice reputation you've got here, company. Pity if something should... happen to it."
Take over in what sense? They made emergency loans to much of the car companies that otherwise would have gone bust (leaving mostly just Ford). And mandating health insurance so that you don't have poor contagious sick people walking the streets. There is no take-over there, either. So he was still crazy.
Ah yes, it must have been Sony's fault, after all, Toshiba had mighty Microsoft on its side. Sony had just... well, most other manufacturers actually... on their side. Pioneer made a HD-DVD player too, but they bet on both horses in the race.
Face it, the right technology won that war. But because of the "war" we had to suffer a period of really expensive disks when both platforms were supported.
Sorry, but those are in the lyrics of a song by Lily Allen. The Copy-Cops will be around shortly to hand you your fine.
(As an aside, I just noticed that Spotify have added the uncensored version of the song, while keeping the funny censored version around. *clap clap*)
Copyright is not capitalism because it is a monopoly granted by the Government. It is more akin to the guild system that Adam Smith attacked.
What, a paranoid Soviet defector who built a cult of personality around her? When did she have good ideas? Handing the reins from elected Government to a rich self-perpetuating elite that preys on the poor is certainly not one.
What? Vinyl? Recorded music? Preposterous! It will be the death of live music as we know it.
Movies? Recorded plays? It will be the death of stage theater! And television? It will be the death of cinema!
Or at least that was the going fear mongering at the time. If Oman had been around then I guess we might still not have any of those.
Hey, an AC jumped on the train of people who blow shit out of proportion in order to make themselves look better. Shut up and eat your Doritos, zit-face, while you Google for John Carmacks rant about OpenGL versus DirectX.
Your sarcasm would be appropriate if, at some point in time, Apple allowed you to install software from any source on the iPad. As Microsoft does with the current Windows.
Apple PR used the term walled garden? When?
It's more like going to a mall compared to braving the dark streets of the downtown shops.
Not sure what "freedoms" Android users crave that aren't satisfied by the selection in the Apple app store. You cannot run any more on a device that has been written for it, and iOS has the most developers.
Sorry, but Nintendo, Sony, SEGA, Atari* etc. made lock-in devices called "games consoles" years and years before Apple did.
*) Well, the 2600 was a far simpler device so it was easier to make "unofficial" games for it, like the ex-Atari employees in Activision did.
If someone else than the original author decompiles a commercial program and release the source, then it is not open source, it is a copyright violation. Forcing open other people's software for some religious RMS-worshipping reason is fanaticism.
current ... all programs
Why do you lie? Neither Apple nor Microsoft do this if we are talking the Windows and OS X side. Gatekeeper is an option on OS X Mountain Lion, and does not exist on Windows, where any app stores are optional.
What do you mean "do something"? They have something that is called "local storage" for something called "apps". You can have files on them that the apps read and write. I mean, what were you going to use a laptop for without wi-fi? Plus it's easier to get a tablet with a cellular connection than a laptop (at least built-in).
MS can't charge for an OS and remain competitive with Android, which is free.
Why not, they have remained competitive with Linux for years.
Yes, the same way the Buzz failure doomed Google. Dead in a year I tell ya. Better switch your browser back to Yahoo! before it is too late.
It never existed other than in the minds of people who prefer to believe in sci-fi instead of marketing.
Well, there were a lot of other errors there as well... hard to notice the spelling error when you call immensely successful products "mediocre jokes".
Hello? They tried. And Google wanted more than Apple wanted to give so the negotiations stranded. "Most certainly" is easy to shout from the sideline.
So picking other products than you do is being fanatical. It cannot possibly be because we actually like the products or due to good marketing to the general population.No, it is all witchcraft and Reality Distortion Fields and whatnot.
If anyone are fanatical it's the "you are dumb if you do not get a Samsung GS3" freaks that flood all over the Internet with their mythmaking about Apple, decrying any positive press as "bias" and insulting the users of Apple hardware whenever they can. One would think we were infidels and iPhone was haram or something...
30 years ago wants its "Apple is dying" back.
There are "mapping solutions for iOS" if you are willing to pay, and has been for years. The only problem is that Siri will not open them but will use the builtin.
Are you smoking crack? The new Google-provided YouTube app is leagues better than the old app. I can actually get my channel subscriptions there, just for one thing: The old one supported a fraction of the site's added functionality and was only useful for opening the occasional YouTube link.