Well if you think it's acceptable I suggest you slap $50-100 onto the price of such devices to account for all the proprietary shit you need to buy and tote around to use the device in a non proprietary way. And if you don't do that then you too agree it's not acceptable. And it's not acceptable.
I would be interested if you could point to two LCD televisions which look in any way different apart from the manufacturers logo.
Irrelevant and wrong - brand name TVs are generally quite distinct from each other in terms of their bezel, base, gloss / matte finish, decals, remote control, speakers, ports, colour scheme etc. Put a Sony, Toshiba, Samsung, LG and Sharp TV next to each other and you'd instantly notice many differences. Put a bunch of laptops or phones next to each other and the same will be true.
In this case we see Samsung mimic a lot of the visual cues of the iPad, to such an extent that most reasonable people would believe it was intentional. While I am anti Apple in most things I am not surprised they are upset and I would not be surprised if the Tab gets pulled and redesigned. That said, Apple are thieving bastards when it suits them so I wouldn't feel any sympathy if they ultimately lose to Samsung.
Additionally I see no justification for Apple to extend legal action to other tablets such as the Xoom, Eee Pad, Iconia etc., which IMO do not remotely resemble the iPad at all except in ways that come from the nature of the devices. Such actions appear to be anticompetitive rather than supported by any legimate legal reason. I hope they fail and fail hard there too.
Why they didn't put a proper usb port and hdmi out on it is beyond me.
Probably the same reason Apple don't. Because they can rip people off by selling them overpriced dongles & cables. It's bad enough that Apple does it, and completely unacceptable that an Android tablet should.
IMO at the very least a tablet should have a Micro-b USB and SD / Micro SD slot. Better yet if it can charge & sync through the USB cable. If they want to shove their own connector on there too for docks / port replication / HDMI / hi speed charging out then fine but even for that there is a industry standard called PDMI which combines HDMI, USB, power and some other stuff into a single connector.
These are suits regarding the equivalent of design patents. If Apple thinks it has a design patent over both Samsung and Motorola (the two tablets are quite different from each other), it is basically claiming that it has a patent on the design of *any* thin tablet device.
Which would be utterly absurd. I can understand the Galaxy Tab thing since the devices were very similar in appearance. The Xoom looks nothing like an iPad in any way.
I really can't understand what Samsung were thinking with their device at all. People who want to pay stupid money for an iPad like device have probably already paid stupid money for an actual iPad. Who are their market for this thing? Android users? I doubt Android users are at all enamoured by something that costs so much, and apes an iPad even in the bad ways such as high price, sealed in batteries, proprietary connectors etc.
The blackberry story looks like so much bullshit. How many people own blackberry devices compared to other kinds of phones. I imagine most rioters if they communicated at all would have done so through sms, twitter and so on.
Money well spent? You could probably build 2 or 3 luxury 5000 passenger Star Trek (or other franchise) themed cruise ships for that price and then you wouldn't have to expect people to fly to Jordan to enjoy them either.
I doubt any charity would (if they had sense) use a computer with the software that was on it when it was donated. Who knows what is on there - viruses, trojans, porn collections, bank details etc. They'd wipe it and install from scratch. Given that, they would have their own ideas of what to install but as a courtesy you could supply the original install discs if you had them. You could also offer to help them choose an OS if you wanted to volunteer to set it up, in which case their requirements would dictate what OS to use.
Colour doesn't come into it. The criteria required to participate in the riots is a subtle blend of youth, resentment, stupidity, entitlement, poverty, criminality, irresponsibility and disrepect for authority. Morons basically.
Citation needed please: where does it say he was a violent drug dealer?
This portrait suggests he was affiliated with a gang suspected of murdering 3 people, was suspected by police of dealing drugs and guns and was a person of sufficient interest that an anti-firearms team decided to stop him. At which point he pulls a gun and gets shot for his troubles. Does that mean he's a violent drug dealer? That strongly suggests he was to me.
A reasonable description of the original shooting was the guy was a known gang member and suspected dealer, was being tailed as part of a police anti-drugs / anti-firearms operation, was stopped, he pulled a gun (a converted replica), and one of the policemen shot him for his troubles. The inquest will likely dissect things further than that but sounds to me that the police will claim self defence.
His family staged a protest but a number of outsiders used it as an excuse to riot. Probably members of his gang but it it snowballed from there. People should take solace from the fact that the courts will be very busy handing out sentences to many of these morons over the coming weeks.
Who seriously believes that nerds are going to fly in sufficient numbers to the middle east and spend enough money to justify spending a billion and a half dollars on a theme park? It's one of those ideas which is so fucking stupid it would take a king to greenlight it.
This is more like Child-proofing. You will be surprised what a 5 year old can do.
I expect they see their market being companies who want to store records for very long periods of time, possibly centuries, not people with kids. I do agree though that kids can be horrifically destructive with discs though.
And by your same logic lowering taxes for the wealthy will do Jack and Shit. Why not abolish taxes for the super rich altogether!
Of course back in reality if you tap the rich for money you will get more money. Maybe some will attempt to evade paying but I expect they already do, which is why it might be a good idea to plug some of those loopholes and ensuring compliance through stricter tax audits. It's not a case of doubling anything either, simply observing that the economic wheels have come off the US economy and the money has to come from somewhere to put it back on track. And that absolutely should include the rich.
I think it's a very simple proposition to measure and adjust - how much do the "rich" (i.e. some % of top earners) pay under one tax regime vs another. If the amount goes down and you're in the middle of financial crisis then you need to put it up. You NEED to put it up. I'm sure that the tax net isn't wide enough either and could do with a widespread reform but it's also clear who has the broadest shoulders to pay and it isn't the poor bastards at the bottom. That's in addition to cutting expenditure, cutting waste & corruption and everything else.
The problem in the US appears to be that neither side has the power to make a decisive decisions so they engage in these stupid showdowns where they resolve to be irresolute and the situation gets worse. The US political system for all it's supposed advantages strikes me as a complete joke in a crisis that pitches one side against the other. While other governments often have their own faults at least there is usually one party / coalition in charge who can make a decision and it must be abided by.
You ascribe too much thought to the rioters. They don't give a flying fuck for some random person who got shot. They just see it as an excuse to have a go at the police, smash things, set things on fire and steal. Do you think these actions will have the slightest affect on how the police behave? Do you think the next time some guy is taking shots at them they'll hold their fire in case killing him kicks off a riot? Of course not.
The police shoot someone over there, and they have a riot? What's the deal with that?
The family of the victim supposedly arranged a peaceful protest and a bunch of outsiders hijacked it. I expect the shooting made a convenient to engage in a spot of rioting and looting. Probably a mix of local gangs and anarchists. I hope the lot get the book thrown at them.
For the price an Apple computer costs it SHOULD be good quality. Sadly just because something looks good quality doesn't mean it is. It's not hard to find a litany of faults which have affected MacBook computers over the years. Expanding batteries, cracked casings, yellowing casing, overheating CPUs, warping, MagSafe shorting and fires etc. It's not surprising in some respect because Apple do push the limits of industrial design. But what looks nice does not always equate into good build quality or reliability either.
It's weight and volume. A normal size laptop is a lot less convenient to haul around usually requiring a laptop case. A netbook more easily fit in any other bag you happen to be carrying, e.g. rucksack, overnight bag. Some but not all netbooks also have better chargers which more resemble phone chargers than power bricks. Netbooks obviously have drawbacks of their own such as screen size and speed so it depends on what you need it for. I own a desktop, a laptop and a netbook and I reckon I use them all in equal measure.
I would blame the netbook falloff on cheap laptops.... I just bought an Acer 15.6" on Newegg for $345. Why would I purchase a netbook when I get the real deal?
Depends what you need it for. Hauling around a 15.6" PC in a laptop bag isn't fun. A netbook will happily sit in bag or carry-on case making it perfect for light use away from home, or even as a second PC if someone else is using the first.
The sheer range of models and the fact that manufacturers keep making them would suggest they're hugely popular.
I know I love my netbook though I wish it was faster. It's a full blown PC that doesn't cost much, runs for ages on a charge and is easy to sling in an overnight case or similar.
Why do people care what these rating agencies say?
Because it is a way to measure of risk. If the US borrows money off the market, the interest rate reflects the credit rating. The better the rating the lower the rate. The lower the rating the higher the rate. By being downgraded the US will find it more expensive and harder to borrow money at the rate it desires.
What amazes me is that any politician of any slant would think it's a great idea to allow the most wealthy people in society to escape from taxation at the point it is needed most.
As near as I could tell, Web 2.0 boiled down to one thing: The HTTP request object in javascript.
Well that was the main thing but greater maturity of DOM, HTML and CSS played their part. Even before XMLHttpRequest turned up it was still possible to do something analogous by doing a form submitting within an invisible iframe and parsing the result. XMLHttpRequest made things a lot easier although same origin policy was a huge pain. Most modern browsers allow cross origin requests these days but it's still a pain to set up.
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Well if you think it's acceptable I suggest you slap $50-100 onto the price of such devices to account for all the proprietary shit you need to buy and tote around to use the device in a non proprietary way. And if you don't do that then you too agree it's not acceptable. And it's not acceptable.
I would be interested if you could point to two LCD televisions which look in any way different apart from the manufacturers logo.
Irrelevant and wrong - brand name TVs are generally quite distinct from each other in terms of their bezel, base, gloss / matte finish, decals, remote control, speakers, ports, colour scheme etc. Put a Sony, Toshiba, Samsung, LG and Sharp TV next to each other and you'd instantly notice many differences. Put a bunch of laptops or phones next to each other and the same will be true.
In this case we see Samsung mimic a lot of the visual cues of the iPad, to such an extent that most reasonable people would believe it was intentional. While I am anti Apple in most things I am not surprised they are upset and I would not be surprised if the Tab gets pulled and redesigned. That said, Apple are thieving bastards when it suits them so I wouldn't feel any sympathy if they ultimately lose to Samsung.
Additionally I see no justification for Apple to extend legal action to other tablets such as the Xoom, Eee Pad, Iconia etc., which IMO do not remotely resemble the iPad at all except in ways that come from the nature of the devices. Such actions appear to be anticompetitive rather than supported by any legimate legal reason. I hope they fail and fail hard there too.
Why they didn't put a proper usb port and hdmi out on it is beyond me.
Probably the same reason Apple don't. Because they can rip people off by selling them overpriced dongles & cables. It's bad enough that Apple does it, and completely unacceptable that an Android tablet should.
IMO at the very least a tablet should have a Micro-b USB and SD / Micro SD slot. Better yet if it can charge & sync through the USB cable. If they want to shove their own connector on there too for docks / port replication / HDMI / hi speed charging out then fine but even for that there is a industry standard called PDMI which combines HDMI, USB, power and some other stuff into a single connector.
These are suits regarding the equivalent of design patents. If Apple thinks it has a design patent over both Samsung and Motorola (the two tablets are quite different from each other), it is basically claiming that it has a patent on the design of *any* thin tablet device.
Which would be utterly absurd. I can understand the Galaxy Tab thing since the devices were very similar in appearance. The Xoom looks nothing like an iPad in any way.
I really can't understand what Samsung were thinking with their device at all. People who want to pay stupid money for an iPad like device have probably already paid stupid money for an actual iPad. Who are their market for this thing? Android users? I doubt Android users are at all enamoured by something that costs so much, and apes an iPad even in the bad ways such as high price, sealed in batteries, proprietary connectors etc.
The blackberry story looks like so much bullshit. How many people own blackberry devices compared to other kinds of phones. I imagine most rioters if they communicated at all would have done so through sms, twitter and so on.
Money well spent? You could probably build 2 or 3 luxury 5000 passenger Star Trek (or other franchise) themed cruise ships for that price and then you wouldn't have to expect people to fly to Jordan to enjoy them either.
I would be surprised if the mean age was higher than 22. Most of the footage mostly shows youths and young men.
I doubt any charity would (if they had sense) use a computer with the software that was on it when it was donated. Who knows what is on there - viruses, trojans, porn collections, bank details etc. They'd wipe it and install from scratch. Given that, they would have their own ideas of what to install but as a courtesy you could supply the original install discs if you had them. You could also offer to help them choose an OS if you wanted to volunteer to set it up, in which case their requirements would dictate what OS to use.
Colour doesn't come into it. The criteria required to participate in the riots is a subtle blend of youth, resentment, stupidity, entitlement, poverty, criminality, irresponsibility and disrepect for authority. Morons basically.
Citation needed please: where does it say he was a violent drug dealer?
This portrait suggests he was affiliated with a gang suspected of murdering 3 people, was suspected by police of dealing drugs and guns and was a person of sufficient interest that an anti-firearms team decided to stop him. At which point he pulls a gun and gets shot for his troubles. Does that mean he's a violent drug dealer? That strongly suggests he was to me.
His family staged a protest but a number of outsiders used it as an excuse to riot. Probably members of his gang but it it snowballed from there. People should take solace from the fact that the courts will be very busy handing out sentences to many of these morons over the coming weeks.
Who seriously believes that nerds are going to fly in sufficient numbers to the middle east and spend enough money to justify spending a billion and a half dollars on a theme park? It's one of those ideas which is so fucking stupid it would take a king to greenlight it.
This is more like Child-proofing. You will be surprised what a 5 year old can do.
I expect they see their market being companies who want to store records for very long periods of time, possibly centuries, not people with kids. I do agree though that kids can be horrifically destructive with discs though.
Of course back in reality if you tap the rich for money you will get more money. Maybe some will attempt to evade paying but I expect they already do, which is why it might be a good idea to plug some of those loopholes and ensuring compliance through stricter tax audits. It's not a case of doubling anything either, simply observing that the economic wheels have come off the US economy and the money has to come from somewhere to put it back on track. And that absolutely should include the rich.
The problem in the US appears to be that neither side has the power to make a decisive decisions so they engage in these stupid showdowns where they resolve to be irresolute and the situation gets worse. The US political system for all it's supposed advantages strikes me as a complete joke in a crisis that pitches one side against the other. While other governments often have their own faults at least there is usually one party / coalition in charge who can make a decision and it must be abided by.
You ascribe too much thought to the rioters. They don't give a flying fuck for some random person who got shot. They just see it as an excuse to have a go at the police, smash things, set things on fire and steal. Do you think these actions will have the slightest affect on how the police behave? Do you think the next time some guy is taking shots at them they'll hold their fire in case killing him kicks off a riot? Of course not.
The police shoot someone over there, and they have a riot? What's the deal with that?
The family of the victim supposedly arranged a peaceful protest and a bunch of outsiders hijacked it. I expect the shooting made a convenient to engage in a spot of rioting and looting. Probably a mix of local gangs and anarchists. I hope the lot get the book thrown at them.
For the price an Apple computer costs it SHOULD be good quality. Sadly just because something looks good quality doesn't mean it is. It's not hard to find a litany of faults which have affected MacBook computers over the years. Expanding batteries, cracked casings, yellowing casing, overheating CPUs, warping, MagSafe shorting and fires etc. It's not surprising in some respect because Apple do push the limits of industrial design. But what looks nice does not always equate into good build quality or reliability either.
It's weight and volume. A normal size laptop is a lot less convenient to haul around usually requiring a laptop case. A netbook more easily fit in any other bag you happen to be carrying, e.g. rucksack, overnight bag. Some but not all netbooks also have better chargers which more resemble phone chargers than power bricks. Netbooks obviously have drawbacks of their own such as screen size and speed so it depends on what you need it for. I own a desktop, a laptop and a netbook and I reckon I use them all in equal measure.
I would blame the netbook falloff on cheap laptops.... I just bought an Acer 15.6" on Newegg for $345. Why would I purchase a netbook when I get the real deal?
Depends what you need it for. Hauling around a 15.6" PC in a laptop bag isn't fun. A netbook will happily sit in bag or carry-on case making it perfect for light use away from home, or even as a second PC if someone else is using the first.
Netbooks didnt become popular.
The sheer range of models and the fact that manufacturers keep making them would suggest they're hugely popular.
I know I love my netbook though I wish it was faster. It's a full blown PC that doesn't cost much, runs for ages on a charge and is easy to sling in an overnight case or similar.
Why do people care what these rating agencies say?
Because it is a way to measure of risk. If the US borrows money off the market, the interest rate reflects the credit rating. The better the rating the lower the rate. The lower the rating the higher the rate. By being downgraded the US will find it more expensive and harder to borrow money at the rate it desires.
What amazes me is that any politician of any slant would think it's a great idea to allow the most wealthy people in society to escape from taxation at the point it is needed most.
As near as I could tell, Web 2.0 boiled down to one thing: The HTTP request object in javascript.
Well that was the main thing but greater maturity of DOM, HTML and CSS played their part. Even before XMLHttpRequest turned up it was still possible to do something analogous by doing a form submitting within an invisible iframe and parsing the result. XMLHttpRequest made things a lot easier although same origin policy was a huge pain. Most modern browsers allow cross origin requests these days but it's still a pain to set up.
Go visit the Wayland site and look at its architecture. It's obvious how doing away with X will improve performance.