Yes, it is freedom. "Freedom of speech" meant that you would get no governmental reprisal for saying something. It has never applied to slander and defamation of someone else. This is common law precedent predating the founding of the US.
But the people who want a choice of screen sizes, durability, features, looks and yes, even cost are a real majority.
No, the real majority just care about costs. I know this because I know people who work at the stores selling these phones. The people zoom in on what is the cheapest looking phone that looks the coolest. That's about it. They couldn't care about the resolutions, the CPUs cores, the amount of memory, etc.
The price and popularity of Samsung's Galaxy models should tell you that the "cheap Android" slur is just FUD.
And worldwide, those phones represent around 5% of all Android phones. If you look at the Android phones being sold in China, Africa, etc. they are not phones like the Galaxy models. They are basically phones that are just steps up from feature phones.
No, I meant exactly what I said. People buy the phones because they are cheap. And many of those cheap phones are junk with low resolution screens, crappy GPUs, if they even have A-GPS many of them don't even work that great, etc. You need to realize that the vast majority of Android phones being sold are not the Nexus, HTC Ones or Galaxy SII and SIIIs. The vast majority of Android phones are basically only slightly better than feature phones.
Android phones can do everything an iPhone or Windows Phone does, at a lower cost.
Let me guess, you're comparing the unsubsidized price of the newest iPhone to the subsidized price of an Android device. Otherwise, you're full of it. The iPhones don't cost anymore on contract than any comparable Android device. And on the unsubsidized price the difference is usually 10-15% higher for the iPhone. At least in the US, that is.
So it is not cheap, it is a more valuable option for the customer.
No, the "value" was the fact that they got it free or for less than $100 not anything else.
And the reason for that is because the underlying platform is more 'open'
Of which the average consumer neither knows nor cares. I know people who work at Verizon and T-Mobile stores. The people buying the phones overwhelmingly do it for price. That and the fact that the people selling the phones in stores get higher commissions for pushing Android devices usually. Outside of geeks the buyers couldn't care less about Android using Linux, or being open source or that they can root and install custom ROMs. Geeks love to project this as the reason why people buy Android phones overwhelmingly. It is not.
The rest of us demand more control, more chaos, and more competition.
No, the vast majority of Android users are people buying it because the phones are cheap. Not because they care about being able to root the phone, install alternative browsers, or wanting "chaos". The XDA-like crowd is a pretty niche minority.
One anecdote does not invalidate anything. Look up the satisfaction rates of people in other first-world countries for their health care systems. It's not anything like what the right-wingers lead people to believe.
This type of all of your data are belong to us mentality is simply going to drive fragmentation of the Internet as well as a rush to spawn unrouted networks and darknets.
And? You think that isn't the goal? The average user isn't going to use unrouted networks and darknets. The content will effectively be inaccessibly the the vast majority of average users and that's all these governments care about. The 1 in 10000 person who is using some obscure darknet really doesn't register on their radar.
Yes, the manufacturing plant being referred to in the article is in Peoria, Illinois.
That local expertise attracted Komatsu. After being owned by Mr. LeTourneau, Westinghouse Electric and Dresser Industries, the Peoria plant was sold to Komatsu about two decades ago as part of the Japanese company's effort to establish a major American presence. Komatsu makes smaller mining trucks in Japan, but its largest trucks, able to carry as much as 360 tons of ore, come from Peoria.
And again, nothing in either the article or submission stated that Komatsu was a US company. They were strictly referring to the US-based manufacturing plants that create products that these companies export from the US.
Neither the submission nor the article says otherwise. This doesn't change the fact that the products being referred to are manufactured in a US-base plant.
Yes, but it was not running on a consumer PC. It was "cloud rendered" . Maybe you need to have read the whole story?
Hardware Setup For this project four “server” machines have been used to represent the cloud. The relevant components of each machine are:
Motherboard: Intel® DX58SO (code name Smackover)
CPU: Intel® CoreTM i7-980x processor (6 cores, 2 threads per core, 3.33 GHz)
Intel code name Knights Ferry PCIe card (32 cores, 4 threads per core)
Gigabit Ethernet
Nope. Contrary to what the Rush Limbaughs and Sean Hannitys would have you believe almost no one in other first-world countries would trade their health care system for that of the US. And, yes, this is even with the errors that happen.
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Gamers on Windows are used to having a trial version. Honestly, if there isn't a trial version I just pass right over it.
And yet very few games cone with one and yet. I think you are falsely extrapolating your own wants to the public at large.
Because they have to pay the salaries of the programmers and testers.
And you think that makes any difference, how?
Yes, it is freedom. "Freedom of speech" meant that you would get no governmental reprisal for saying something. It has never applied to slander and defamation of someone else. This is common law precedent predating the founding of the US.
You need to look up the incorporation doctrine. The First Amendment has applied to the states for 65 years now.
Are their lips moving? Then they're lying.
1. The republican party lies about having free market ideals.
You just realized that politicians lie?
But what if you never gave it to them?
But the people who want a choice of screen sizes, durability, features, looks and yes, even cost are a real majority.
No, the real majority just care about costs. I know this because I know people who work at the stores selling these phones. The people zoom in on what is the cheapest looking phone that looks the coolest. That's about it. They couldn't care about the resolutions, the CPUs cores, the amount of memory, etc.
The price and popularity of Samsung's Galaxy models should tell you that the "cheap Android" slur is just FUD.
And worldwide, those phones represent around 5% of all Android phones. If you look at the Android phones being sold in China, Africa, etc. they are not phones like the Galaxy models. They are basically phones that are just steps up from feature phones.
You mean low cost, not cheap.
No, I meant exactly what I said. People buy the phones because they are cheap. And many of those cheap phones are junk with low resolution screens, crappy GPUs, if they even have A-GPS many of them don't even work that great, etc. You need to realize that the vast majority of Android phones being sold are not the Nexus, HTC Ones or Galaxy SII and SIIIs. The vast majority of Android phones are basically only slightly better than feature phones.
Android phones can do everything an iPhone or Windows Phone does, at a lower cost.
Let me guess, you're comparing the unsubsidized price of the newest iPhone to the subsidized price of an Android device. Otherwise, you're full of it. The iPhones don't cost anymore on contract than any comparable Android device. And on the unsubsidized price the difference is usually 10-15% higher for the iPhone. At least in the US, that is.
So it is not cheap, it is a more valuable option for the customer.
No, the "value" was the fact that they got it free or for less than $100 not anything else.
And the reason for that is because the underlying platform is more 'open'
Of which the average consumer neither knows nor cares. I know people who work at Verizon and T-Mobile stores. The people buying the phones overwhelmingly do it for price. That and the fact that the people selling the phones in stores get higher commissions for pushing Android devices usually. Outside of geeks the buyers couldn't care less about Android using Linux, or being open source or that they can root and install custom ROMs. Geeks love to project this as the reason why people buy Android phones overwhelmingly. It is not.
The rest of us demand more control, more chaos, and more competition.
No, the vast majority of Android users are people buying it because the phones are cheap. Not because they care about being able to root the phone, install alternative browsers, or wanting "chaos". The XDA-like crowd is a pretty niche minority.
One anecdote does not invalidate anything. Look up the satisfaction rates of people in other first-world countries for their health care systems. It's not anything like what the right-wingers lead people to believe.
Overwhelmingly, they don't.
It doesn't. That's the whole point.
Because its priced at what people are willing to pay.
Captain Obvious is obvious?
Yeah, they're on to another poorly selling product.
This type of all of your data are belong to us mentality is simply going to drive fragmentation of the Internet as well as a rush to spawn unrouted networks and darknets.
And? You think that isn't the goal? The average user isn't going to use unrouted networks and darknets. The content will effectively be inaccessibly the the vast majority of average users and that's all these governments care about. The 1 in 10000 person who is using some obscure darknet really doesn't register on their radar.
Yes, the manufacturing plant being referred to in the article is in Peoria, Illinois.
That local expertise attracted Komatsu. After being owned by Mr. LeTourneau, Westinghouse Electric and Dresser Industries, the Peoria plant was sold to Komatsu about two decades ago as part of the Japanese company's effort to establish a major American presence. Komatsu makes smaller mining trucks in Japan, but its largest trucks, able to carry as much as 360 tons of ore, come from Peoria.
And again, nothing in either the article or submission stated that Komatsu was a US company. They were strictly referring to the US-based manufacturing plants that create products that these companies export from the US.
Neither the submission nor the article says otherwise. This doesn't change the fact that the products being referred to are manufactured in a US-base plant.
Yes, but it was not running on a consumer PC. It was "cloud rendered" . Maybe you need to have read the whole story?
Hardware Setup
For this project four “server” machines have been used to represent the cloud. The relevant components of each machine are:
Motherboard: Intel® DX58SO (code name Smackover)
CPU: Intel® CoreTM i7-980x processor (6 cores, 2 threads per core, 3.33 GHz)
Intel code name Knights Ferry PCIe card (32 cores, 4 threads per core)
Gigabit Ethernet
Dumbass...
Yes, the minimum for acceptable performance. Not minimum to launch it.
Yes, because only games involve serial tasks. *facepalm*
People already do get quarantined if they carry highly infectious diseases. What's your point?
Nope. Contrary to what the Rush Limbaughs and Sean Hannitys would have you believe almost no one in other first-world countries would trade their health care system for that of the US. And, yes, this is even with the errors that happen.