It is distinct possibility that smartphones, tablets and TV set-top devices (Apple TV) will grow in popularity and power to replace the PC as the dominant method of using the Internet. Apple is currently the largest player in each of those segments and if that domination grows the way Windows did back in the day, we could end up with Apple dominating the way Windows has in the past.
I admit those are big IFs, and the odds are probably against it working out perfectly for Apple, but is certainly possible.
Even if you are not a Apple customer, if they end up dominating and you want to provide something on the Internet that people are going to be able to see, you will have to play by Apple's rules or face obscurity. As I pointed out in the grandparent post, Apple's rules are a lot more inflexible then most monopolist's because it's not about money.
I think it's that most omnipotent, profitable monopolies only care about money. Jobs has a specific vision about how people should be using the devices he makes and he doesn't want people using it any other way.
Most companies wouldn't care if people use apps that are ugly and doesn't conform to UI specs, but Jobs does, so those apps are blocked from the iPhone and iPad. This also mean some apps with innovative UI will be blocked as well.
User interface is only one example of the restrictions he has imposed.
While the invasion of Iraq did bolster Iran a little, before the invasion both Iraq and Iran where enemies of Israel, and now they have one less enemy, so it was a significant net gain for them.
It's a classic moment, but when they started out to save Spock, they where merely risking their careers by stealing the Enterprise and going to a restricted planet. They had no reason to expect they would encounter Klingons.
The fan film Of Gods of Men raises more interesting questions about if the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.
The trouble is Microsoft has to base it on Windows OS, because the ability to run legacy Windows software is the only advantage they have over iOS, Blackberry, Android, WebOS or any other tablet.
While the other attributes he lists are inherent in intelligent life, an alien intelligence may not necessarily anything resembling love. Most animals don't mate for life, or are even together more then a few hours. Many animals don't care for their children either.
1) We had to identify that there was unobtanium there: if that required a probe to be sent that is 1 trip there, plus one communication back. If there is some way to detect it by observation then no trip is needed, so let's assume that to be nice. 2) We had to send a probe there to get the Na'vi DNA, and somehow communicate that back to Earth. That is at least one trip there + one communication back (the reason for the distinction will become clear shortly).
If a probe was sent to a planetary system where life was detached, or even suspected, it would have had a wide array of capabilities, including identifying minerals and returning DNA analysis.
If you divide the number of books by the current world population, you get that there are one unique books for every 50 people, or on average one in 50 people wrote a book, including many poor, illiterate and children.
Of course, some book writers have died and many have written more the one book, but I suspect that most books have been written recently and their writers are still alive.
If you only include adults who live a comfortable western lifestyle, it may be as maybe as high as one in 10.
Sounds like, unlike Apple, Palm or Android, they wrote a multi-threaded OS capable of running WebKit from scratch, rather then being based on Linux or BSD.
Although it's not really that hard if only have to support limited hardware you've designed yourself and you have ready access graduates from one of the most respected Computer Science programs in the world (University of Waterloo).
I'm pretty sure lying to convince someone to give you money is a criminal offense. Saying that they are from Microsoft or that they have detached a virus are lies.
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It is distinct possibility that smartphones, tablets and TV set-top devices (Apple TV) will grow in popularity and power to replace the PC as the dominant method of using the Internet. Apple is currently the largest player in each of those segments and if that domination grows the way Windows did back in the day, we could end up with Apple dominating the way Windows has in the past.
I admit those are big IFs, and the odds are probably against it working out perfectly for Apple, but is certainly possible.
Even if you are not a Apple customer, if they end up dominating and you want to provide something on the Internet that people are going to be able to see, you will have to play by Apple's rules or face obscurity. As I pointed out in the grandparent post, Apple's rules are a lot more inflexible then most monopolist's because it's not about money.
I think it's that most omnipotent, profitable monopolies only care about money. Jobs has a specific vision about how people should be using the devices he makes and he doesn't want people using it any other way.
Most companies wouldn't care if people use apps that are ugly and doesn't conform to UI specs, but Jobs does, so those apps are blocked from the iPhone and iPad. This also mean some apps with innovative UI will be blocked as well.
User interface is only one example of the restrictions he has imposed.
While the invasion of Iraq did bolster Iran a little, before the invasion both Iraq and Iran where enemies of Israel, and now they have one less enemy, so it was a significant net gain for them.
It's a classic moment, but when they started out to save Spock, they where merely risking their careers by stealing the Enterprise and going to a restricted planet. They had no reason to expect they would encounter Klingons.
The fan film Of Gods of Men raises more interesting questions about if the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.
I don't consider villainy among satellite galaxies to be intergalactic any more then villainy among the moons of a planet to be interplanetary.
Darth Vader was hardly an intergalactic villain. His villainy was strictly limited to one galaxy.
Window Mobile and it's many predecessors have never been particularly successful. There's no reason to think a tablet version would do any better.
The trouble is Microsoft has to base it on Windows OS, because the ability to run legacy Windows software is the only advantage they have over iOS, Blackberry, Android, WebOS or any other tablet.
I think you got your Christmas present.
While the other attributes he lists are inherent in intelligent life, an alien intelligence may not necessarily anything resembling love. Most animals don't mate for life, or are even together more then a few hours. Many animals don't care for their children either.
Actually Mt. Zeus was on Europa, not Ganymede.
The giant diamond was one of many ejected from Jupiter when it ignited in 2010 and collided with Europa.
Imagine if colour TV had started of with everything in bright block primary colours only.
Wasn't that why Star Trek the original series had everything in bright block primary colours only?
1) We had to identify that there was unobtanium there: if that required a probe to be sent that is 1 trip there, plus one communication back. If there is some way to detect it by observation then no trip is needed, so let's assume that to be nice.
2) We had to send a probe there to get the Na'vi DNA, and somehow communicate that back to Earth. That is at least one trip there + one communication back (the reason for the distinction will become clear shortly).
If a probe was sent to a planetary system where life was detached, or even suspected, it would have had a wide array of capabilities, including identifying minerals and returning DNA analysis.
The real question: "I'm a friendly blogger. Why isn't anyone paying me?"
You should receive no pity from Kahless.
Is that a good thing or a bad thing?
Faulty generalization
90% of all scientists who ever lived are alive today and many of the books have been written by scientists.
While the percentage may not be has high for all authors, but I think it would be close.
If you divide the number of books by the current world population, you get that there are one unique books for every 50 people, or on average one in 50 people wrote a book, including many poor, illiterate and children.
Of course, some book writers have died and many have written more the one book, but I suspect that most books have been written recently and their writers are still alive.
If you only include adults who live a comfortable western lifestyle, it may be as maybe as high as one in 10.
Sounds like, unlike Apple, Palm or Android, they wrote a multi-threaded OS capable of running WebKit from scratch, rather then being based on Linux or BSD.
Although it's not really that hard if only have to support limited hardware you've designed yourself and you have ready access graduates from one of the most respected Computer Science programs in the world (University of Waterloo).
That wouldn't be true if remote control car engine where doubling in power every 18 months.
I'm pretty sure lying to convince someone to give you money is a criminal offense. Saying that they are from Microsoft or that they have detached a virus are lies.
Any of the eighty eight thousand variations that modern web browsers and handle.
HTML
Pick one!
Do you what else is entirely constructed at the nanoscale level and was never subject to safety testing?
Every living thing on planet Earth.