iPhones outsold all Android phones on Verizon last quarter combined. iOS is still gaining market share, and now they're doing it at Android's expense, not just Blackberry's.
Detonation (disambiguation)
Engine knocking, a manifestation of improper combustion timing in internal combustion engines
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Engine knocking
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"Pinging" redirects here. For other uses, see Ping (disambiguation).
That seems to show that detonation == engine knocking == pinging.
From the back-fire page:
A Back-fire or backfire is an explosion...
and an explosion is what the common meaning of detonation is.
Seriously, wikipedia has all these answers, and you can find them yourself. One explosion is not necessarily the same as all other explosions. Backfiring is a very specific case and instance of detonation, which is not at all like pinging or knocking.
And this should serve as an object lesson about speaking authoritatively on subjects on which you have little to no knowledge and training, especially on a tech heavy forum where there are CERTAIN to be experts on almost every technical and scientific field known to man.
given a choice between no sweatshops or sweatshops as they currently exist, the workers are actually better off with the sweatshops.
The choice isn't limited to no sweatshops or sweatshops as they currently exist. It may be an improvement over the past period of no sweatshops, but no one is proposing that factories be closed and not replaced. The challenge is how to improve things further given the consequences of global politics, culture and economics. To simply call it a win because it is better than one conceivable alternative or has improved from the past is unethical.
And one way to "improve things further" is the path that Apple as taken, to hold their suppliers accountable for working conditions. How many other tech companies are doing this? Where are the news stories decrying their use of "slave labor" (which is already inaccurate to begin with)?
My partnership uses secure Exchange servers for email. HIPAA compliant, which unfortunately means use of unlock passwords are mandatory. Annoying, but compliant.
I find myself going to Wikipedia for my initial searches for general information more and more often, and Google less so as time goes on for specifically the reasons you cited here.
To answer your question about why anyone would be surprised, it's because Google is still held in a glowing light, at least on tech sites, and people still take them for their word.
Would those people be interested in buying some oceanfront property in Nebraska?
Apple is the second largest corporation in the world, but they are likely to nearly double their profits just like they did last year. It's not that MSFT is large or entrenched, it's that their product market is mature. MSFT is no longer a growth company because their product has saturated the market. There's nowhere to grow. All their attempts at expanding outside their core competency (if you can call monopoly abuse a core competency) have been at best break even, and at worst miserable failures.
Tell that to my SGS, and any of the newer generation phones, on which flash runs perfectly fine for the most part. It takes a horribly inefficient Flash file to cause a slowdown.
This is a contradiction in terms. Either it runs "perfectly fine" or it doesn't.
Microsoft has filed a complaint against Apple with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, claiming that the iPhone maker's attempt to claim exclusive rights to the "App Store" moniker should be voided.
In its filing with the USPTO, Microsoft says "App Store" is too much an everyday term to be trademarked.
So they definitely still do mix it up...
GP said Apple and MSFT wouldn't sue each other over patents. What you've cited is a trademark dispute. Not the same thing.
Jet fuel is comparable to gasoline in price.
However there's more than just the jet fuel cost. The cost of printing 40 pounds of flight manuals and updates yearly and the manpower to make sure that the updated pages are put in every pilots flight manuals is not insubstantial, either.
No, the biggest reason nobody has offered to buy Apple is because no single entity has the nearly half a trillion US dollars just lying around that it would take to buy them.
There are many place where you can sign up to do "reviews" and/or run blogs that are actually supported by various companies. A person I know makes a living doing this. Similarly, publishers and authors use promo companies that will go and write good reviews for their books on Amazon, and bad reviews of their competitors...
ttyl
Farrell
You're missing the point of his post. The point is that you used the wrong word. The word you want is "shills", not "shrills".
You're totally wrong, influential sources inside Apple have already said that OSX and iOS will be converging, and it's only a matter of time. There's no reason it can't have multiple interfaces; hell, Apple has done that BEFORE with Classic Mac OS and the alternate launcher interface with the big stupid icons. Didn't last long, but that interface is now back on mobiles, with more eye candy.
What you are saying is contradicted by both Apple and reality.
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SF "bus lanes" are also usable by taxis and bicycles. They actually stay pretty well used.
iPhones outsold all Android phones on Verizon last quarter combined. iOS is still gaining market share, and now they're doing it at Android's expense, not just Blackberry's.
Can you clarify then?
Then can you fix Wikipedia:
Detonation (disambiguation) Engine knocking, a manifestation of improper combustion timing in internal combustion engines ----- Engine knocking From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia "Pinging" redirects here. For other uses, see Ping (disambiguation).
That seems to show that detonation == engine knocking == pinging.
From the back-fire page: A Back-fire or backfire is an explosion... and an explosion is what the common meaning of detonation is.
Seriously, wikipedia has all these answers, and you can find them yourself. One explosion is not necessarily the same as all other explosions. Backfiring is a very specific case and instance of detonation, which is not at all like pinging or knocking.
And this should serve as an object lesson about speaking authoritatively on subjects on which you have little to no knowledge and training, especially on a tech heavy forum where there are CERTAIN to be experts on almost every technical and scientific field known to man.
given a choice between no sweatshops or sweatshops as they currently exist, the workers are actually better off with the sweatshops.
The choice isn't limited to no sweatshops or sweatshops as they currently exist. It may be an improvement over the past period of no sweatshops, but no one is proposing that factories be closed and not replaced. The challenge is how to improve things further given the consequences of global politics, culture and economics. To simply call it a win because it is better than one conceivable alternative or has improved from the past is unethical.
And one way to "improve things further" is the path that Apple as taken, to hold their suppliers accountable for working conditions. How many other tech companies are doing this? Where are the news stories decrying their use of "slave labor" (which is already inaccurate to begin with)?
My partnership uses secure Exchange servers for email. HIPAA compliant, which unfortunately means use of unlock passwords are mandatory. Annoying, but compliant.
Battery technology is getting better and cheaper every year. Labor is only getting more expensive.
I find myself going to Wikipedia for my initial searches for general information more and more often, and Google less so as time goes on for specifically the reasons you cited here.
Apple had the simpler Voice Control a year before Google's Android did.
Not limited to ad-sales as a business model? What percentage of revenues is Google currently making and projected to make on non-ad revenues?
To answer your question about why anyone would be surprised, it's because Google is still held in a glowing light, at least on tech sites, and people still take them for their word.
Would those people be interested in buying some oceanfront property in Nebraska?
I'm not saying Republicans are angles or anything like that.
You could, however, say they are quite obtuse.
Following that logic, Republicans must, therefore, be wrong. Because you cannot be both obtuse and right.
Ahem. They didn't lose the case. They failed to obtain injunctive relief. Not the same thing. The case has not been decided at this time. ;)
Apple is the second largest corporation in the world, but they are likely to nearly double their profits just like they did last year. It's not that MSFT is large or entrenched, it's that their product market is mature. MSFT is no longer a growth company because their product has saturated the market. There's nowhere to grow. All their attempts at expanding outside their core competency (if you can call monopoly abuse a core competency) have been at best break even, and at worst miserable failures.
Mod this stupid fuck down to oblivion.
"Fringe vocal minorities" could be at least as accurately used to describe FOSS zealots.
Tell that to my SGS, and any of the newer generation phones, on which flash runs perfectly fine for the most part. It takes a horribly inefficient Flash file to cause a slowdown.
This is a contradiction in terms. Either it runs "perfectly fine" or it doesn't.
First, Apple has sued Microsoft in the past, and Microsoft sued Apple earlier this year over the "App Store" trademark
So they definitely still do mix it up ...
GP said Apple and MSFT wouldn't sue each other over patents. What you've cited is a trademark dispute. Not the same thing.
This is /. 2011.
Google good. Apple bad.
Jet fuel is comparable to gasoline in price. However there's more than just the jet fuel cost. The cost of printing 40 pounds of flight manuals and updates yearly and the manpower to make sure that the updated pages are put in every pilots flight manuals is not insubstantial, either.
And incredibly easy and cheap to cultivate. None of the Rx eyedrops for glaucoma are cheap. Actually, almost no Rx eye drops are cheap for anything.
I'm staying away from this thing.
No, the biggest reason nobody has offered to buy Apple is because no single entity has the nearly half a trillion US dollars just lying around that it would take to buy them.
There are many place where you can sign up to do "reviews" and/or run blogs that are actually supported by various companies. A person I know makes a living doing this. Similarly, publishers and authors use promo companies that will go and write good reviews for their books on Amazon, and bad reviews of their competitors...
ttyl Farrell
You're missing the point of his post. The point is that you used the wrong word. The word you want is "shills", not "shrills".
You're totally wrong, influential sources inside Apple have already said that OSX and iOS will be converging, and it's only a matter of time. There's no reason it can't have multiple interfaces; hell, Apple has done that BEFORE with Classic Mac OS and the alternate launcher interface with the big stupid icons. Didn't last long, but that interface is now back on mobiles, with more eye candy.
What you are saying is contradicted by both Apple and reality.
Citations, please.