"The latest smartphone sales data from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech shows that strong uptake of the iPhone 5 over the past 12 weeks* has boosted iOS back to the number one spot in the US. It now has a 48.1% share of US smartphone sales compared with Android which has 46.7%." You don't see why that's nonsense? maybe you should read it again.
First it's iPhone 5 in the last 12 weeks, then it's lumped in with every iPhone ever sold. Not meaningful.
Are they talking about total sold, or total in use? Really, it's more complicated, and I seriously doubt their number. I can' find any other numbers that back there overall article. And it says iOS numbers. So, iPad, touch are ion there as well.
Owner the life time of each OS, there have been about 70 million iOS devices, and over a billion(1,000,000,000) Android devices sold. So , again, what are the comparing? It seems to me the only reasonable comparison is total number over a specified time frame. Only then can any real discussion begin.
Don't blame Tim Cook. Apple was driven by Steve Jobs in every respect. No one else can do that. I said after Jobs death, Apple will loose his momentum in about a year. Look at what the stock started doing Look at that, the stock peak just about a year after his death and has been declining.
Just to be clear, I would love Apple products, hate Apples 'toll bridge to the internet' philosophy. If it wasn't for that, I would buy an iPad. So I have no interest in them going away or collapsing. I just think Apple needs a driver. People who are strong drivers seldom work for other companies.
maps primary characteristic is accuracy. Everything else is icing. SO if you want to buy icing and don't care about the cake, fine. That doesn't mean the map is
".I've never seen a movement more desperate for love and attention. " ah, so making forecast based on actual data, using science to make predictions and then those prediction coming true is a 'movement'? No it's science. It makes forecasts, and they are accurate. It's more data the, yet again, shows that AGW is a fact.
I also suspect you don't know what 'scientific theory' means. Hint: Gravity is a scientific theory. Germs are a scientific theory.
Now if you have an alternate reason temperatures are rising so fast?
No. they are crumbling becasue bankers lied. It has nothing to do with social services, it has to do with lack of regulation and regulational over site.
Notice how Canada didn't due to bad? Notice how every country with good regulation over site didn't due to bad? The social service gambit is a misdirection by corporatists and bankers.
Becasue facts have been deemed 'liberal'. And if you consider agreeing with anything being deemed liberal, you are an enemy and will be shunned. So these people who have no clue how to us critical thinking skills goose step along and st try and march over people who apply actual data when informing an opinion.
And that's not county the million of people in America who effectively can't wait in line becasue they can't afford to go to the Dr. Those people are basically in a line infinitely long.
IN pretty much every country with universal health care the life expectancy is longer, more people get care, and there are SHORTER lines. I"m not sure why you would perpetuate that myth. Oh wait, it's becasue you don't actually apply thought and research and date to any opinion. Just spew incorrect rubbish that was spoon fed into your brain.
" but norway/sweden/denmark and maybe the UK. " haha. and Japan, and Canada and United Arab Emirates and so on.
Thirty-two of the thirty-three developed nations have universal health care. The exception being the US. All the Single payer countries have better healthcare the the US. IN fact almost all of them have better health care then the US>
And the best health care in the world? The VA. That's right the taxpayer funded IS VA system is constantly rated the best in the world.
no, I don't want to end up like Greece, that's why I want strong financial regulation. You don't think the problems in Greece was from social service , do you? And if the US enact act proper regulations, it will be fine. Most of what you hear about US social services collapsing or failing is a lie.
Everything I have said in the post can be factually confirmed with a little research. I suggest you start actually applying good thinking skills and do some actual research.
False. They want to keep your data and resell it. Like most other corporation, they will use anything they can access to make money. Just like corporation will poison local water sources.
", you don't get to opt out the way you do with a relationship with a corporation" You never get to opt out of a relationship with a corporation. You can stop buying their products, depending,. But they will continue to use anything that have about you to make money anyway they can. You may not be active in the relationship, but it still exists.
The Government has check and balances, you have recourse, you have accountability. None of those things exist with corporation unless they are mandated by the government to have them. Corporation would lock the doors and let you burn to death if it was cheaper for them. Never forget that.
If you did a transaction with a corporation, and then 6 months later your data gets copied by an unauthorized source, what can you do?
We have 100+ yeas of history regarding corporate behavior in the US, and 100s of years of history on corporate behavior in Europe. We no what happens when they are left unchecked, and it isn't good.
becasue a rail system doesn't take you a mile to someone front door. Nor does it get you a carton of milk at the store.
With automated cars I suggest you think of services it will preform. Drive through grocery stores. Car drive up, submits order. Gets loaded comes home.
" The truth is that if I'm not in control of my whereabouts anymore," strawman. No one is proposing you can't control you whereabouts.
Yeah, I can't wait. Of course, the economic will need to change. Eventually money won't matter. Robots, they make everything better.
Every person in an industrialized society has had a robot of some kind influence their life. From airplanes, to the phones system, to autopilots, to their smart phone.
It' since that you put the lives of your children on the line based on absolutely no research what so ever. Hell, why don't you use old wives takles fro medical treatment?
It's NOT safer for the occupants. OTOH, it's nice that you cling to stupid in order to drive a penis replacement.
Much better to risk your children then feel bad about yourself, right?
"Anyone ever seen a car/bus impact?" Yes, head on. "and they pour the occupants of the car out, while the bus occupants are generally unharmed." no, the car was destroyed, but all the people got out with minor injury. Estimated impact speed, 45 MPH. It was a 15,000 dollar Saturn. Assuming you bought a new suburban, you could have spent that money on a Mercedes and been even safer.
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You never have had to do any budgeting for large organization, have you?
"The latest smartphone sales data from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech shows that strong uptake of the iPhone 5 over the past 12 weeks* has boosted iOS back to the number one spot in the US. It now has a 48.1% share of US smartphone sales compared with Android which has 46.7%."
You don't see why that's nonsense? maybe you should read it again.
First it's iPhone 5 in the last 12 weeks, then it's lumped in with every iPhone ever sold.
Not meaningful.
Are they talking about total sold, or total in use?
Really, it's more complicated, and I seriously doubt their number. I can' find any other numbers that back there overall article.
And it says iOS numbers. So, iPad, touch are ion there as well.
Owner the life time of each OS, there have been about 70 million iOS devices, and over a billion(1,000,000,000) Android devices sold.
So , again, what are the comparing?
It seems to me the only reasonable comparison is total number over a specified time frame. Only then can any real discussion begin.
Don't blame Tim Cook.
Apple was driven by Steve Jobs in every respect. No one else can do that.
I said after Jobs death, Apple will loose his momentum in about a year.
Look at what the stock started doing Look at that, the stock peak just about a year after his death and has been declining.
Just to be clear, I would love Apple products, hate Apples 'toll bridge to the internet' philosophy. If it wasn't for that, I would buy an iPad.
So I have no interest in them going away or collapsing. I just think Apple needs a driver. People who are strong drivers seldom work for other companies.
Ne, I could run Apple~
Nothing beets the real world, regardless of how well you're QA is set up.
maps primary characteristic is accuracy. Everything else is icing.
SO if you want to buy icing and don't care about the cake, fine.
That doesn't mean the map is
better.
" left Apple headquarters in Antarctica, and walked to his home in Middelfart, Denmark."
If it was April, I just would have assumed it was a joke.
".I've never seen a movement more desperate for love and attention. "
ah, so making forecast based on actual data, using science to make predictions and then those prediction coming true is a 'movement'?
No it's science.
It makes forecasts, and they are accurate. It's more data the, yet again, shows that AGW is a fact.
I also suspect you don't know what 'scientific theory' means.
Hint: Gravity is a scientific theory. Germs are a scientific theory.
Now if you have an alternate reason temperatures are rising so fast?
No. they are crumbling becasue bankers lied. It has nothing to do with social services, it has to do with lack of regulation and regulational over site.
Notice how Canada didn't due to bad? Notice how every country with good regulation over site didn't due to bad?
The social service gambit is a misdirection by corporatists and bankers.
Becasue facts have been deemed 'liberal'. And if you consider agreeing with anything being deemed liberal, you are an enemy and will be shunned.
So these people who have no clue how to us critical thinking skills goose step along and st try and march over people who apply actual data when informing an opinion.
And that's not county the million of people in America who effectively can't wait in line becasue they can't afford to go to the Dr. Those people are basically in a line infinitely long.
Even France has fewer smoker then the US.
IN pretty much every country with universal health care the life expectancy is longer, more people get care, and there are SHORTER lines.
I"m not sure why you would perpetuate that myth. Oh wait, it's becasue you don't actually apply thought and research and date to any opinion. Just spew incorrect rubbish that was spoon fed into your brain.
" but norway/sweden/denmark and maybe the UK. "
haha. and Japan, and Canada and United Arab Emirates and so on.
Thirty-two of the thirty-three developed nations have universal health care. The exception being the US. All the Single payer countries have better healthcare the the US. IN fact almost all of them have better health care then the US>
And the best health care in the world? The VA. That's right the taxpayer funded IS VA system is constantly rated the best in the world.
no, I don't want to end up like Greece, that's why I want strong financial regulation. You don't think the problems in Greece was from social service , do you?
And if the US enact act proper regulations, it will be fine. Most of what you hear about US social services collapsing or failing is a lie.
Everything I have said in the post can be factually confirmed with a little research. I suggest you start actually applying good thinking skills and do some actual research.
False.
They want to keep your data and resell it.
Like most other corporation, they will use anything they can access to make money. Just like corporation will poison local water sources.
", you don't get to opt out the way you do with a relationship with a corporation"
You never get to opt out of a relationship with a corporation. You can stop buying their products, depending,. But they will continue to use anything that have about you to make money anyway they can. You may not be active in the relationship, but it still exists.
The Government has check and balances, you have recourse, you have accountability. None of those things exist with corporation unless they are mandated by the government to have them.
Corporation would lock the doors and let you burn to death if it was cheaper for them. Never forget that.
If you did a transaction with a corporation, and then 6 months later your data gets copied by an unauthorized source, what can you do?
We have 100+ yeas of history regarding corporate behavior in the US, and 100s of years of history on corporate behavior in Europe.
We no what happens when they are left unchecked, and it isn't good.
he doesn't want corporation to be regulated on what they can do and say on the internet.
"There are the occasional accidents in which wearing seat belts has actually been to the detriment of the occupants. "
citation?
"..are physically incapable of collision."
And if a bridge collapse? lightning strike?
" are extremely unlikely to be in a collision. "
becasue a rail system doesn't take you a mile to someone front door.
Nor does it get you a carton of milk at the store.
With automated cars I suggest you think of services it will preform.
Drive through grocery stores. Car drive up, submits order. Gets loaded comes home.
" The truth is that if I'm not in control of my whereabouts anymore,"
strawman. No one is proposing you can't control you whereabouts.
" at their core mechanical."
like people.
Marketing will just make the 'others' you family and the driver some random scum ball.
If the numbers are priorities, can you give an example of how they would collide?
Yeah, I can't wait. Of course, the economic will need to change. Eventually money won't matter.
Robots, they make everything better.
Every person in an industrialized society has had a robot of some kind influence their life. From airplanes, to the phones system, to autopilots, to their smart phone.
Why? humans would take any of that into consideration at the event of the decision.
Humans instinct: instinctive reflex to prevent harm to ourselves.
You can train to have a different response, so some situations,.
We are talking about an instinct(millisecond) reaction(avoid sudden object).
If people weight every option, no one could ever avoid an accident.
Emergent behaviors already shows machines will make unexpected decisions that would seem to be out of the bound of their programming.
I'd feel better if you quit tucking into blind spots.
It' since that you put the lives of your children on the line based on absolutely no research what so ever. Hell, why don't you use old wives takles fro medical treatment?
It's NOT safer for the occupants. OTOH, it's nice that you cling to stupid in order to drive a penis replacement.
Much better to risk your children then feel bad about yourself, right?
"Anyone ever seen a car/bus impact?"
Yes, head on.
"and they pour the occupants of the car out, while the bus occupants are generally unharmed."
no, the car was destroyed, but all the people got out with minor injury. Estimated impact speed, 45 MPH.
It was a 15,000 dollar Saturn. Assuming you bought a new suburban, you could have spent that money on a Mercedes and been even safer.
SHit happens.
All data right now shows that with an automatede system a lot less shit will happen. Like 95% less shit.
"Perfect is the enemy of the good."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_is_the_enemy_of_good