Seriously though, "defense" budget: $700 bill/year. National Institute of Health: $30 billion/year. 50% of humanity consists of creatures not entirely different than monkeys.
You know what's hilarious? We spend $700 billion/year on the "defense" budget vs. $30 billion/year on the NIH. I find that hilarious. All these stupid diseases could be cured in 15 years if we reversed those numbers.
It's actually surprising how little time these companies get to sell their drugs exclusively. Not that it's a bad thing, mind you, just surprising. Probably has to do with Congress not wanting to prevent themselves from having access to cheap, generic versions of these new life-saving drugs.
Because people have limited budgets to spend on their daily lives. If they pirate one thing, that just frees up money to buy another thing. Ending piracy does not "increase sales", because people don't magically have more money to spend than before.
Is it REALLY that hard to understand? If you want higher sales then demand Congress raise taxes on the rich and increase wages of the poor and middle class. Then everyone will have more money to spend, including on your own products.
It's really difficult and not available. Megaupload's been around for years and a ton of stuff gathered over those years were on their servers.
If the DoJ had at least given a cruddy warning they were taking down the service people could have reacquired their most important files. I was planning to back everything up, but was waiting for inflated HDD prices to go back down.
So here's the thing about wireless bandwidth. Current LTE gets 5-12 mbps down. Upcoming LTE Advanced has 10x the capacity. It triples capacity in the same spectrum, and allows aggregation of nonadjacent slices of spectrum. This allows the carriers and your phone to use all available spectrum. LTE A can achieve 1 gbps over 67 MHz. Verizon and AT&T have 100+ MHz each. They'll both be capable of 2 gbps eventually. Obviously it will take time to transition spectrum over from CDMA to LTE, but due to the massive cost advantage of IP based networks over circuit switched ones, all carriers are rushing to roll out 4G.
5th generation wireless networks, the generation after LTE Advanced, are predicted to achieve 5 times greater capacity.
You realize AT&T asked Apple the exact same thing DoCoMo is asking here? It was announced as "apple and att are working together to decrease network load of iphone devices" back in the early days.
It's both hardware and software. AT&T asked Apple to do the exact same thing. And now Apple has had some battery drain issues with the introduction of notifications and such. Of course Apple will eventually fix those issues with iOS 5.1, while Google's OEMs don't really care.
Users aren't tech savvy. The vast majority don't even know the difference between a gigabyte or a gigahertz. Opening up the OS to native applications will push the OS much farther ahead. The app "ecosystem" development has been severely harmed by MS's closed down attempts to mimic Apple.
History plays no role in the much more profitable consumer market, where choices are made almost spontaneously. MS also has a ton of legacy software in the enterprise market that WP7 can tie into.
The bottom line is Microsoft needs to open up the phone to developers, users, and even pirates. As is said in the x86 market, piracy is "Intel's dirty little secret". It's especially useful for selling hardware in developing countries. This is why MeeGo is so popular. It's a fast, *open* OS with an iOS-like paradigm. Anyone can develop for it, there are no restrictions, nothing is locked down, sideload, backwards load, whatever you want- it's all possible.
This is especially important to younger audiences that don't have the money to pay for every single app or extra feature. Apple is the exception, but even they have tens of millions of jailbroken iOS devices. Still, no one can mimic Apple. It's a recipe for failure.
I mean iOS paradigm that isn't closed. Piracy enables hardware sales (and there's no evidence it harms software sales). Apple can do the whole closed thing partly because they're Apple, and partly because millions jailbreak their iOS devices.
Yes, uploading an incredibly rare and nearly impossible to find or buy ova series or game series is worth prosecuting. I'm sure all the thousands of teens and college kids who use those things would have bought everything if they couldn't download them.
Sigh... you baby boomers. There is a special place in the depths of hades for you and the wanton destruction you've brought upon society.
You can't copy Apple. No one can mimic their success. If MS wants to sell more hardware they need to open up the phone, even if this allows for piracy. Piracy enables hardware sales in the x86 space. We all know it. It's Intel's "dirty little secret". The same holds true for Android hardware.
It's an iOS alternative that doesn't suck as badly as Android does. In fact it's fluid, is open, runs practically everything, allows for piracy (which actually enables sales of hardware in developed and less developed countries), and is efficient with battery usage.
Android is a horrible, ugly, piece of trash iOS ripoff that needs to die before its malware-infected carcass spreads its disease any further. MeeGo is the iOS alternative that people crave.
And that's the problem. The phone was designed by "artists". No one wants to spend long trying to "understand" their phone, even if it increases utility in the long run. They just want something simple.
If MS had their own Windows Phone retail stores where they could explain everything to people then it might work, but otherwise it's not gonna happen.
This is why the N9 is selling so well. It runs Meego, an OS with a paradigm similar to iOS. The market desperately wants a competitor to iOS that doesn't suck as badly as Android does.
It doesn't have text reflow in the browser. That's pathetic. Eventually MS will allow native apps and Opera will be released for WP7, but IE9 should have come with text reflow. And don't give me the stupid fanboy response of "I don't need it." or "It's woooorse with it". Screw those fanboys.
There are very few "happy" Android customers. The highest rated Android OEM has a satisfaction rating of 45%. There's a reason Apple sales have been exploding despite the iPhone's expense. The market is desperate for an iPhone-like UI without the lag, battery drain, bugginess and poor overall user-experience of Android. MeeGo could have been that OS, but Nokia's executives were too scared to take a risk.
I still think WP7 will sell if MS advertises properly and opens up the phone a little. Its tight-fisted controls that prevent native app development and a very rigid UI are pathetic attempts to mimic Apple, and shouldn't be followed.
That said, Nokia severely underestimated how intense of a demand there is for an Apple-like OS that *isn't* Android. Seriously, average users generally dislike Android. The highest rated Android OEM has a satisfaction rating of 45%. People desperately want something iOS-like that *isn't* as insanely expensive as iPhones are. But Android is a terrible substitute. It's endlessly laggy, it drains battery like a sieve, and overall provides poor end user experience.
Nokia could have utterly *dominated* the smartphone market with MeeGo. They thought it was the "ecosystem" that sold smartphones, without understanding that you don't need an ecosystem in an OS market so devoid of competition.
Do you realize how many rare anime series or games were on megaupload? Do you understand how impossible it is to find out of print manga, or how insanely expensive it is to buy rare material from overseas if you can even find it?
There has to be something someone can do. Can't a third party pay the server hosting companies to maintain the data? There was a ton of rare and hard to get stuff on megaupload, like anime games and old series, that will be impossible to recollect.
Isn't there anyone willing to pay the server companies long enough to prevent them from deleting all that material while Megaupload's trial is conducted?
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I sincerely hope this drug gives you the opportunity to live a normal, 100 frickin' year long life- without going bankrupt.
Frickin' COMMUNISTS!
Seriously though, "defense" budget: $700 bill/year. National Institute of Health: $30 billion/year. 50% of humanity consists of creatures not entirely different than monkeys.
You know what's hilarious? We spend $700 billion/year on the "defense" budget vs. $30 billion/year on the NIH. I find that hilarious. All these stupid diseases could be cured in 15 years if we reversed those numbers.
It's actually surprising how little time these companies get to sell their drugs exclusively. Not that it's a bad thing, mind you, just surprising. Probably has to do with Congress not wanting to prevent themselves from having access to cheap, generic versions of these new life-saving drugs.
Because people have limited budgets to spend on their daily lives. If they pirate one thing, that just frees up money to buy another thing. Ending piracy does not "increase sales", because people don't magically have more money to spend than before.
Is it REALLY that hard to understand? If you want higher sales then demand Congress raise taxes on the rich and increase wages of the poor and middle class. Then everyone will have more money to spend, including on your own products.
It's really difficult and not available. Megaupload's been around for years and a ton of stuff gathered over those years were on their servers.
If the DoJ had at least given a cruddy warning they were taking down the service people could have reacquired their most important files. I was planning to back everything up, but was waiting for inflated HDD prices to go back down.
So here's the thing about wireless bandwidth. Current LTE gets 5-12 mbps down. Upcoming LTE Advanced has 10x the capacity. It triples capacity in the same spectrum, and allows aggregation of nonadjacent slices of spectrum. This allows the carriers and your phone to use all available spectrum. LTE A can achieve 1 gbps over 67 MHz. Verizon and AT&T have 100+ MHz each. They'll both be capable of 2 gbps eventually. Obviously it will take time to transition spectrum over from CDMA to LTE, but due to the massive cost advantage of IP based networks over circuit switched ones, all carriers are rushing to roll out 4G.
5th generation wireless networks, the generation after LTE Advanced, are predicted to achieve 5 times greater capacity.
It's sometimes google's own applications doing the damage (like talk and latitude)
You realize AT&T asked Apple the exact same thing DoCoMo is asking here? It was announced as "apple and att are working together to decrease network load of iphone devices" back in the early days.
It's both hardware and software. AT&T asked Apple to do the exact same thing. And now Apple has had some battery drain issues with the introduction of notifications and such. Of course Apple will eventually fix those issues with iOS 5.1, while Google's OEMs don't really care.
Users aren't tech savvy. The vast majority don't even know the difference between a gigabyte or a gigahertz. Opening up the OS to native applications will push the OS much farther ahead. The app "ecosystem" development has been severely harmed by MS's closed down attempts to mimic Apple.
History plays no role in the much more profitable consumer market, where choices are made almost spontaneously. MS also has a ton of legacy software in the enterprise market that WP7 can tie into.
The bottom line is Microsoft needs to open up the phone to developers, users, and even pirates. As is said in the x86 market, piracy is "Intel's dirty little secret". It's especially useful for selling hardware in developing countries. This is why MeeGo is so popular. It's a fast, *open* OS with an iOS-like paradigm. Anyone can develop for it, there are no restrictions, nothing is locked down, sideload, backwards load, whatever you want- it's all possible.
This is especially important to younger audiences that don't have the money to pay for every single app or extra feature. Apple is the exception, but even they have tens of millions of jailbroken iOS devices. Still, no one can mimic Apple. It's a recipe for failure.
I mean iOS paradigm that isn't closed. Piracy enables hardware sales (and there's no evidence it harms software sales). Apple can do the whole closed thing partly because they're Apple, and partly because millions jailbreak their iOS devices.
Yes, uploading an incredibly rare and nearly impossible to find or buy ova series or game series is worth prosecuting. I'm sure all the thousands of teens and college kids who use those things would have bought everything if they couldn't download them.
Sigh... you baby boomers. There is a special place in the depths of hades for you and the wanton destruction you've brought upon society.
A flop? Or an Elop?
You can't copy Apple. No one can mimic their success. If MS wants to sell more hardware they need to open up the phone, even if this allows for piracy. Piracy enables hardware sales in the x86 space. We all know it. It's Intel's "dirty little secret". The same holds true for Android hardware.
If I ever meet someone in real life who denies that Android lags, I will smack them in the face. Yes you fandroids, even ICS lags.
The only saving grace for Android is text reflow in the browser. Although that says more about how stupid Microsoft is.
It's an iOS alternative that doesn't suck as badly as Android does. In fact it's fluid, is open, runs practically everything, allows for piracy (which actually enables sales of hardware in developed and less developed countries), and is efficient with battery usage.
Android is a horrible, ugly, piece of trash iOS ripoff that needs to die before its malware-infected carcass spreads its disease any further. MeeGo is the iOS alternative that people crave.
And that's the problem. The phone was designed by "artists". No one wants to spend long trying to "understand" their phone, even if it increases utility in the long run. They just want something simple.
If MS had their own Windows Phone retail stores where they could explain everything to people then it might work, but otherwise it's not gonna happen.
This is why the N9 is selling so well. It runs Meego, an OS with a paradigm similar to iOS. The market desperately wants a competitor to iOS that doesn't suck as badly as Android does.
It doesn't have text reflow in the browser. That's pathetic. Eventually MS will allow native apps and Opera will be released for WP7, but IE9 should have come with text reflow. And don't give me the stupid fanboy response of "I don't need it." or "It's woooorse with it". Screw those fanboys.
There are very few "happy" Android customers. The highest rated Android OEM has a satisfaction rating of 45%. There's a reason Apple sales have been exploding despite the iPhone's expense. The market is desperate for an iPhone-like UI without the lag, battery drain, bugginess and poor overall user-experience of Android. MeeGo could have been that OS, but Nokia's executives were too scared to take a risk.
I still think WP7 will sell if MS advertises properly and opens up the phone a little. Its tight-fisted controls that prevent native app development and a very rigid UI are pathetic attempts to mimic Apple, and shouldn't be followed.
That said, Nokia severely underestimated how intense of a demand there is for an Apple-like OS that *isn't* Android. Seriously, average users generally dislike Android. The highest rated Android OEM has a satisfaction rating of 45%. People desperately want something iOS-like that *isn't* as insanely expensive as iPhones are. But Android is a terrible substitute. It's endlessly laggy, it drains battery like a sieve, and overall provides poor end user experience.
Nokia could have utterly *dominated* the smartphone market with MeeGo. They thought it was the "ecosystem" that sold smartphones, without understanding that you don't need an ecosystem in an OS market so devoid of competition.
So why is Foxconn moving to Brazil?
It's all about wages. Don't be fooled.
Do you realize how many rare anime series or games were on megaupload? Do you understand how impossible it is to find out of print manga, or how insanely expensive it is to buy rare material from overseas if you can even find it?
There has to be something someone can do. Can't a third party pay the server hosting companies to maintain the data? There was a ton of rare and hard to get stuff on megaupload, like anime games and old series, that will be impossible to recollect.
Isn't there anyone willing to pay the server companies long enough to prevent them from deleting all that material while Megaupload's trial is conducted?