As Apple grows demand for its products, it grows demand in no small part by taking business away from its competitors. Apple does well, but Microsoft does less well that it otherwise would.Getting one business to do better is not the same thing at all as growing an overall economy so everyone does better.
Your friend fails to probe further than the surface and sees his example of capitalism as a zero sum game, which it is not.
Nobody could have predicted in 2000 that we'd be looking at the longest period of economic downturn ever seen in this country's history (if not globally). But all it took was a few airplanes slamming into the side of some buildings to cause radical shifts in our way of life, our economy, etc.
So you think the irrational dot-com boom and then bust and the housing market crash, etc were all caused by terrorist attacks? 9/11 had an effect on the economy but not near the amount the the first two did (or did you not mean to connect those two sentences).
People used to vote for Mickey Mouse as a write-in candidate, but, frankly, I'm afraid to see what Disney would do with that kind of power.
After visiting their parks this year I'm guessing it will bring excessive number of employees waiting on you, clean streets, mowed grass and lots of maintenance jobs bringing happiness to everyone? Though given the nature of it all being run by the central planning government would be a bit creepy. Toodles!
and is becoming a quick way to short-circuit certain kinds of arguments
The real problem here comes from people using that as a "short cut" to an actual argument.
On the one hand, we've done a great job at getting them to grasp that correlation does not imply causation.
Emphasis mine. Correlation DOES suggest causation though as many here have already argued. It just doesn't prove/denote/equal it. Or to put it more in Slashdot terms correlation =/ causation. But it does imply, that's usually the basis of the first step in investigation.
You mean the 5 bedroom 6.5 bath house with a 30 gallon electric min code water heater and the 30 gallon min code well tank but a few k in stone counter tops has is priorities wrong?
No, it's much easier and cheaper to upgrade to a 40-50 gallon water heater, or the newer (for US) instant hot water heaters. But upgrading to stone counter tops can be a few thousand.
Plus confirmation that the world was round made a pretty big splash. (Though that was lessened somewhat by the fact that Columbus did not, in fact, find China (the East) by going west.)
The technology we have today would have looked like magic to Columbus. He was operating 600 years ago, so the technological standards have changed a bit....and what seems trivial to us would have been a Big Deal in 1492. Columbus' actions were probably as significant as a moon base would be for us today.
No, just no. The axe and flint and saw had been around for hundreds if not thousands of years prior and all the tech was well known, working with earth and lumber well known, forest animals well known, etc. Not similar at all.
How many times must it be pointed out that back before Columbus sailed to the Americas, there were no Starbucks or Dunkin Donuts or Apple stores in the area now known as the United States? Wasn't a lot of anything except a lot of forest.
Columbus didn't have to take along all of his food, air supply, fuel, and mountains of equipment. To turn a forest into useful structures, you need a simple blade of an axe and a saw, maybe a pick for the dirt and rocks (and all the req'd labor) and maybe some flint. To turn regolith and rock into simple building supplies suitable for micro-g and airless environ, you need...considerably more. That is unless you have a magic wand. You don't have a magic wand do you?!
I'm curious about the statement that some we are seeing around 500M y.o. Can someone tell me what that is based upon? I'm not up on the latest numbers but I thought the universe was to be approx 14B y.o. Does it take into account increasing expansion of space over that period? Does it assume we are at the furthest point away from those other galaxies (or are they saying it only extends 500M light years beyond us)? I understood all of it except that side comment./noob question.
That is not a patent that you violate or license, that is a web of patents specifically designed to cover as much of technology as possible so that any implementation, no matter how different from the competitor will violate at least one. Why do you think Samsung is so confident that they do not even to see the iPhone5 to be sure it violates their tech, just the spec: 4G LTE - we got that cornered ?
Then they should already be suing over the latest iPad which has LTE and not waiting for the iPhone release? This article is all FUD anyway as Qualcomm is the chip provider and has the right to pass on the license.
Perhaps Google will revisit what they deliver for free in the future, as it stands these residents are getting $30-50/month worth of service for free so it's pretty hard to complain.
I don't disagree with that but it seems similar to the "20MB online storage for free!" that cable companies used to give out with your account no too long ago that quickly became near worthless.
If the residents pay the $300 install fee they get 10Mbps speed for 10 years without paying any further fee. For many of the poorer neighborhoods this was the only way to get enough households to participate to justify the buildout.
That seems avg on speed right now (or below) but what will 10Mbps look like in 10 years? Pitifully slow. I'd think with Google Fiber the speed would be around 10x that.
You can't get elected to any national office unless you are religious (this is not a rule, but many surveys even reported here on slashdot show that a majority of people don't trust, and won't vote for, atheists).
You don't have to be religious, you just can't be overtly anti-religious and need to be respectful. That's where many get blowback from, including here.
And when will they do their continuing ed to remain accredited or get higher degrees? Similar stories for custodians, cafeteria workers, bus drivers, etc.
When? The same time that most working professionals do that. This is not a new issue unique to teaching, most of the working world already deals with this.
I don't see how adding more donors to your rolls at this point is going to help either candidate with the undecided in the practically 2 months that are left. Will making one more commercial spend actually change someone's mind? Don't they spend enough as it is? At some point there has to be diminishing returns, if not negative, on a PR election campaign. I know at least for me, if I'm constantly bombarded by political ads, it begins to turn me against the candidate (just like car commercials).
The key to true morality isn't "what would Jesus do", but "what makes sense and actually works to produce favorable outcomes". By that standard, you cannot do better than a scientist.
Only if by "true morality" you mean subjective morality. Most subjective morality scares me, which is morality by the majority *at that time*, just like unchecked democracy.
I fail to see how your post got rated as "offtopic" except for the/. groupthink. Good post though you will inevitably be downvoted due to the "-1 disagrees with my religious beliefs"
It's called the Universal Access Fund. It's still on your telco bill.
Actually it's called the Universal Service Fund (USF) And from at least the wikipedia entry it is set to transition over and end by 2018 so it may not be an actual new tax
On October 27, 2011, the FCC approved a six-year transfer process that would transition money from the Universal Service Fund High-Cost Program to a new $4.5 billion a year Connect America Fund for broadband Internet expansion, effectively putting an end to the USF High-Cost Fund by 2018
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As Apple grows demand for its products, it grows demand in no small part by taking business away from its competitors. Apple does well, but Microsoft does less well that it otherwise would.Getting one business to do better is not the same thing at all as growing an overall economy so everyone does better.
Your friend fails to probe further than the surface and sees his example of capitalism as a zero sum game, which it is not.
Nobody could have predicted in 2000 that we'd be looking at the longest period of economic downturn ever seen in this country's history (if not globally). But all it took was a few airplanes slamming into the side of some buildings to cause radical shifts in our way of life, our economy, etc.
So you think the irrational dot-com boom and then bust and the housing market crash, etc were all caused by terrorist attacks? 9/11 had an effect on the economy but not near the amount the the first two did (or did you not mean to connect those two sentences).
People used to vote for Mickey Mouse as a write-in candidate, but, frankly, I'm afraid to see what Disney would do with that kind of power.
After visiting their parks this year I'm guessing it will bring excessive number of employees waiting on you, clean streets, mowed grass and lots of maintenance jobs bringing happiness to everyone? Though given the nature of it all being run by the central planning government would be a bit creepy. Toodles!
How many rich CEO's spend money on helping the economy to grow? Lately they have been saving all of their money in offshore tax havens.
Ahh don't you just love the smell of class warfare in the morning!
the most important reason is the (perceived) anonymity.
"Give a man a mask and he will show you his true identity."
While a paraphrase of the Oscar Wilde quote, it's true regardless.
and is becoming a quick way to short-circuit certain kinds of arguments The real problem here comes from people using that as a "short cut" to an actual argument. On the one hand, we've done a great job at getting them to grasp that correlation does not imply causation.
Emphasis mine. Correlation DOES suggest causation though as many here have already argued. It just doesn't prove/denote/equal it. Or to put it more in Slashdot terms correlation =/ causation. But it does imply, that's usually the basis of the first step in investigation.
You mean the 5 bedroom 6.5 bath house with a 30 gallon electric min code water heater and the 30 gallon min code well tank but a few k in stone counter tops has is priorities wrong?
No, it's much easier and cheaper to upgrade to a 40-50 gallon water heater, or the newer (for US) instant hot water heaters. But upgrading to stone counter tops can be a few thousand.
Plus confirmation that the world was round made a pretty big splash. (Though that was lessened somewhat by the fact that Columbus did not, in fact, find China (the East) by going west.)
2000 years of history would disagree with you: http://www.livescience.com/16468-christopher-columbus-myths-flat-earth-discovered-americas.html
The technology we have today would have looked like magic to Columbus. He was operating 600 years ago, so the technological standards have changed a bit. ...and what seems trivial to us would have been a Big Deal in 1492. Columbus' actions were probably as significant as a moon base would be for us today.
No, just no. The axe and flint and saw had been around for hundreds if not thousands of years prior and all the tech was well known, working with earth and lumber well known, forest animals well known, etc. Not similar at all.
How many times must it be pointed out that back before Columbus sailed to the Americas, there were no Starbucks or Dunkin Donuts or Apple stores in the area now known as the United States? Wasn't a lot of anything except a lot of forest.
Columbus didn't have to take along all of his food, air supply, fuel, and mountains of equipment. To turn a forest into useful structures, you need a simple blade of an axe and a saw, maybe a pick for the dirt and rocks (and all the req'd labor) and maybe some flint. To turn regolith and rock into simple building supplies suitable for micro-g and airless environ, you need...considerably more. That is unless you have a magic wand. You don't have a magic wand do you?!
This. I don't think most realize just how complex spacecraft are and the materials needed let alone manufacturing in micro-g environment.
Great, I finally review this thread and am correct (5.0.1 AT&T 4S) and confirmed by posters below, yet got rated -1. Thanks /.
I'm curious about the statement that some we are seeing around 500M y.o. Can someone tell me what that is based upon? I'm not up on the latest numbers but I thought the universe was to be approx 14B y.o. Does it take into account increasing expansion of space over that period? Does it assume we are at the furthest point away from those other galaxies (or are they saying it only extends 500M light years beyond us)? I understood all of it except that side comment. /noob question.
Bigger screen, faster CPU&GPU, more ram, new camera? Oh wait.. they did that.
As well as a complete redesign of the interior. iFixit report here on /. mentions how it's much more repairable than the 4/4s.
You can turn off 3G/4G data in the settings if you want to match.
No you can't (unless you Jailbreak). Not since the 4S, it's no longer an option in the Settings menu.
That is not a patent that you violate or license, that is a web of patents specifically designed to cover as much of technology as possible so that any implementation, no matter how different from the competitor will violate at least one. Why do you think Samsung is so confident that they do not even to see the iPhone5 to be sure it violates their tech, just the spec: 4G LTE - we got that cornered ?
Then they should already be suing over the latest iPad which has LTE and not waiting for the iPhone release? This article is all FUD anyway as Qualcomm is the chip provider and has the right to pass on the license.
Perhaps Google will revisit what they deliver for free in the future, as it stands these residents are getting $30-50/month worth of service for free so it's pretty hard to complain.
I don't disagree with that but it seems similar to the "20MB online storage for free!" that cable companies used to give out with your account no too long ago that quickly became near worthless.
If the residents pay the $300 install fee they get 10Mbps speed for 10 years without paying any further fee. For many of the poorer neighborhoods this was the only way to get enough households to participate to justify the buildout.
That seems avg on speed right now (or below) but what will 10Mbps look like in 10 years? Pitifully slow. I'd think with Google Fiber the speed would be around 10x that.
You can't get elected to any national office unless you are religious (this is not a rule, but many surveys even reported here on slashdot show that a majority of people don't trust, and won't vote for, atheists).
You don't have to be religious, you just can't be overtly anti-religious and need to be respectful. That's where many get blowback from, including here.
And when will they do their continuing ed to remain accredited or get higher degrees? Similar stories for custodians, cafeteria workers, bus drivers, etc.
When? The same time that most working professionals do that. This is not a new issue unique to teaching, most of the working world already deals with this.
I don't see how adding more donors to your rolls at this point is going to help either candidate with the undecided in the practically 2 months that are left. Will making one more commercial spend actually change someone's mind? Don't they spend enough as it is? At some point there has to be diminishing returns, if not negative, on a PR election campaign. I know at least for me, if I'm constantly bombarded by political ads, it begins to turn me against the candidate (just like car commercials).
The key to true morality isn't "what would Jesus do", but "what makes sense and actually works to produce favorable outcomes". By that standard, you cannot do better than a scientist.
Only if by "true morality" you mean subjective morality. Most subjective morality scares me, which is morality by the majority *at that time*, just like unchecked democracy.
I fail to see how your post got rated as "offtopic" except for the /. groupthink. Good post though you will inevitably be downvoted due to the "-1 disagrees with my religious beliefs"
It's called the Universal Access Fund. It's still on your telco bill.
Actually it's called the Universal Service Fund (USF)
And from at least the wikipedia entry it is set to transition over and end by 2018 so it may not be an actual new tax
On October 27, 2011, the FCC approved a six-year transfer process that would transition money from the Universal Service Fund High-Cost Program to a new $4.5 billion a year Connect America Fund for broadband Internet expansion, effectively putting an end to the USF High-Cost Fund by 2018
No, I would not pay this tax.
It's funny b/c you think you have a choice.