New standards are always rough on the early adopter
Standards? What standards? Maybe if you stuck to the standards this would not have happened to you.
All electronics stores everywhere overstocked on Apple peripherals to the point that speakers connecting to non-Apple device are hard to come by. This is the payback time! My turn to walk with a gleeful grin, as millions $ worth of equipment finds its way to the dumpsters worldwide.
There was an experiment when they studied children from poor families adopted by rich foster parents. When children grew up they did better in life than their biological family, but not as well as the foster parents.
Morale: environment (education) can help, but people are not born equal.
I might look a little awkward when on the phone, but 7" phone should be ideal. I try reading books on my 4", but it is a bit smallish. Same goes for browsing the web.
7" still comfortably fits in the pocket. I would be preferred if it lost the wide bezel around the edges mo maximize screen for less pocket space. Another nice feature would be a concave screen, for in-pocket ergonomics reason.
Or we can solve problems like this first. Stop burning coal and oil for energy and switch to clean nuclear energy. For best effect, eliminate oil and coal LOBBY from the government, which would allow it to even ACKNOWLEDGE that we have a global warming problem and that something needs to be done.
a measureable net savings in terms of resources consumed by the individual.
I think your are preaching to the wrong choir here. The dude owns multiple SUVs because he needs to tow "large trailers and boats"!
Here's a useful guide for you: How to Identify Where a Driver is From
10. Four-wheel drive pick-up truck, shotgun mounted in rear window, beer cans on floor, squirrel tails attached to antenna: West Virginia.
My spouse and I use LibreOffice daily for serious stuff -- it is fast and reliable, even on a machine from 2001. There is nothing major to complain about, except for MS monopoly on doc and docx formats, but that is not really a LibreOffice's fault. We convert everything to Adobe PDF, and the documents are guaranteed to look exactly the same on all systems, unlike MS docs, which are always a line or two off when opened on another computer. Where a.doc/.ppt is needed we export to Office 2003, because docx export is seriously broken.
I did not bring this incompatibility with everything and everyone on our heads on purpose, but we run Ubuntu on all computers and installing MS Office would mean mucking around with Wine, not to mention finding my license keys, which got lost eons ago. What is shocking is that it turned out rather trivial to survive without MS Office, so I don't plan to ever need it in the future.
We can continue dissecting the exact cost structure and who pays those until the time ends. The concept is: after all costs are included, direct and external, for the society as a whole, traveling by train is cheaper than by car. Grandparent argued that train is only better when it is subsidized, completely forgetting that highway system is a form of subsidy and isn't cheap either.
Regarding your arguments:
Other than the fuel tax, you pay all that reguardless of whether or not you're taking the train.
If we had a functioning railroad system in US, we would need much less highway infrastructure, and it would be cheaper to maintain
Police and Ambulance services aren't tied to highway funds (in most states, anyway).
They are paid by our taxes. It is not relevant how the funds are distributed inside government, they are paid by us. So are medical services, as well as car damage, which is paid by victims directly.
Highway maintenance is theoretically paid by fuel taxes
All I see is "paid by us".
Trucking companies pay for a good chunk of the highway taxes
And where do they get that extra money?
since the cost rolls downhill to the consumer.
Oh, thank you!
If you eliminated the highway system altogether and rode the train
This is impossible, as train suffers from some logistics limitation, but if a significant portion of population used train, we would need much fewer highways.
Road congestion is a problem, sure, but you can factor that into your trip time estimates. I do, and I do it for a living.
I do, and try to take a train when possible. This also means I don't have to stare at the congested road for hours, but can read a book instead. The good part is that we have a pretty good rail system around NYC. The bad part is that it does not stretch far enough, and bus is not as comfy as train.
Lots of MBA speak and imaginary "what did we miss" reasons, but he still does not get the real reason: they are stuck with the "was cool 6 years ago" paradigm. Blackberry Storm is a move in the right direction, but they say it is an utter failure.
Is he the CEO? I would not bet on Blackberry making a comeback.
"Maury, I am out of control. Yeah, I use drugs. I can do what I waunt, biatch! Yeah, I have sex, and I don't use protection! It's my hot body; I'll do what I waunt! I don't go to school and I kill people! What-evah! I'll do what I waunt!" - Eric Cartman
- The grand-grandparent argument was that pharma companies are wasteful, and their monopolies and way of doing business should be taken away.
- The grandparent's idea was "oh, but their research ain't cheap, so their business is justified".
- The article you linked is titled "Big Pharma Spends More On Advertising Than Research And Development, Study Finds". While I must thank you for supporting my point, your number of "24.4% of their US domestic sales" is misleading: "Sales" does not equate "budget"! Sales is the gross amount of money they get, from which they subtract things like taxes and raw material cost, operations, building rent and other expenses not related to our argument. Budget is a more loosely defined term, with meaning depending on context. So it is from that "budget" that they could spend ALL on research they dump over 50% on peddling it to doctors and to patients directly, soaring cost of our healthcare, prescribing their patented, overpriced and unproven drugs to patients who hardly need them, etc.
informs the patient that he should be asking about X
Go ahead and kill yourself swallowing expensive, poorly tested, patented drugs, when a cheap generic is available and it is proven to have no side effects. Guess what, nobody "informs the patient" about generics, because patented stuff brings them the most money. You can forget about traditional medicine and treatments that don't involve drugs, those are a big no-no in the modern medicine.
And this is not just a problem for idiots who watch drug commercials on TV (sorry), but the doctors get pressured into prescribing new untested expensive stuff, so one has to be very careful even when taking doctor's advice these days.
And then some people up the thread go ahead and start defending "poor underfunded drug cartels" because they "need money for research". No, they spend that money for shoving their expensive crap down our throats, not research.
You believe that your statement is self-evident; It is not. Why should these things be patented? You develop a self-driving car, and suddenly nobody else can sell self-driving cars? How can this be good? Advances in self-driving car segment suddenly freezes for 15 years, because nobody can innovate, while you don't have to. What's next, we get conquered by a nation that did not observe your stupid IP laws, and they advanced light years ahead in technological development?
And then they spend over 50% of budget for marketing, which is a complete waste and presses physicians to prescribe their patented crap to patients who do not need it. The whole system is rotten, sorry.
if X is position of the slider in the interval [1..100], and Y (Boolean algebra) stands for "unlocked", then Y(X) = (X > 99)
Yes, software is math all the way
The same pharma companies that spend over 50% of budget on marketing and advertising? Don't you think it is a little wasteful?
PS: No, I don't need to provide a link, google it.
No, the people in Russia tried to spread the knowledge secretly, and most did not try at all, because getting executed does no good to you or to freedom.
I think you are the spoiled kid here, who thinks that freedom is a god given right. It is not. Freedom of speech is one of the few thin barriers separating US from plunging into a Nazi style dictatorship, and when the Government starts to round up those who spoke against it, it smells very foul.
Umm, you are aware that Twitter is not the government, right?
Twitter is the envelope, the mailman, the messenger boy, the pigeon. Nobody says that a pigeon is the government. I think you are confusing the messenger boy with the entity that intercepts him, opens your letters, then arrests and sentences you to death by fire.
entire purpose of making your messages public
If it were public then why would the government need to subpoena? I suspect it was not public, but rather private to people who subscribed to the tweets. To make an analogy:
You are in Soviet Russia, 1937. You tell your friends at a gathering that Communism has some issues. The government "subpoenas" everything you say. You are sent to Gulag, where you spend the rest of your miserable life.
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New standards are always rough on the early adopter
Standards? What standards? Maybe if you stuck to the standards this would not have happened to you.
All electronics stores everywhere overstocked on Apple peripherals to the point that speakers connecting to non-Apple device are hard to come by. This is the payback time! My turn to walk with a gleeful grin, as millions $ worth of equipment finds its way to the dumpsters worldwide.
There was an experiment when they studied children from poor families adopted by rich foster parents. When children grew up they did better in life than their biological family, but not as well as the foster parents.
Morale: environment (education) can help, but people are not born equal.
I once detected the Moon in British Columbia. Detected and "impacted by" is not the same.
I might look a little awkward when on the phone, but 7" phone should be ideal. I try reading books on my 4", but it is a bit smallish. Same goes for browsing the web.
7" still comfortably fits in the pocket. I would be preferred if it lost the wide bezel around the edges mo maximize screen for less pocket space. Another nice feature would be a concave screen, for in-pocket ergonomics reason.
Or we can solve problems like this first. Stop burning coal and oil for energy and switch to clean nuclear energy. For best effect, eliminate oil and coal LOBBY from the government, which would allow it to even ACKNOWLEDGE that we have a global warming problem and that something needs to be done.
a measureable net savings in terms of resources consumed by the individual.
I think your are preaching to the wrong choir here. The dude owns multiple SUVs because he needs to tow "large trailers and boats"!
Here's a useful guide for you:
How to Identify Where a Driver is From
10. Four-wheel drive pick-up truck, shotgun mounted in rear window, beer cans on floor, squirrel tails attached to antenna: West Virginia.
My spouse and I use LibreOffice daily for serious stuff -- it is fast and reliable, even on a machine from 2001. There is nothing major to complain about, except for MS monopoly on doc and docx formats, but that is not really a LibreOffice's fault. We convert everything to Adobe PDF, and the documents are guaranteed to look exactly the same on all systems, unlike MS docs, which are always a line or two off when opened on another computer. Where a .doc/.ppt is needed we export to Office 2003, because docx export is seriously broken.
I did not bring this incompatibility with everything and everyone on our heads on purpose, but we run Ubuntu on all computers and installing MS Office would mean mucking around with Wine, not to mention finding my license keys, which got lost eons ago. What is shocking is that it turned out rather trivial to survive without MS Office, so I don't plan to ever need it in the future.
Other than the fuel tax, you pay all that reguardless of whether or not you're taking the train.
If we had a functioning railroad system in US, we would need much less highway infrastructure, and it would be cheaper to maintain
Police and Ambulance services aren't tied to highway funds (in most states, anyway).
They are paid by our taxes. It is not relevant how the funds are distributed inside government, they are paid by us. So are medical services, as well as car damage, which is paid by victims directly.
Highway maintenance is theoretically paid by fuel taxes
All I see is "paid by us".
Trucking companies pay for a good chunk of the highway taxes
And where do they get that extra money?
since the cost rolls downhill to the consumer.
Oh, thank you!
If you eliminated the highway system altogether and rode the train
This is impossible, as train suffers from some logistics limitation, but if a significant portion of population used train, we would need much fewer highways.
Road congestion is a problem, sure, but you can factor that into your trip time estimates. I do, and I do it for a living.
I do, and try to take a train when possible. This also means I don't have to stare at the congested road for hours, but can read a book instead. The good part is that we have a pretty good rail system around NYC. The bad part is that it does not stretch far enough, and bus is not as comfy as train.
Grammar Nazi strikes again! It is because of people like you that we delay the orxogrefkl riform, and wi dont hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld
adult film industry files these suits expecting people to settle
We should boycott AFI for doing this sort of crap! Who is with me?
Lots of MBA speak and imaginary "what did we miss" reasons, but he still does not get the real reason: they are stuck with the "was cool 6 years ago" paradigm. Blackberry Storm is a move in the right direction, but they say it is an utter failure.
Is he the CEO? I would not bet on Blackberry making a comeback.
...someone like TSA. They finally installed naked scanners in JFK. I am not even sure if i can opt out, or if i should.
New keyboard-free laptop introduced by Apple
"Maury, I am out of control. Yeah, I use drugs. I can do what I waunt, biatch! Yeah, I have sex, and I don't use protection! It's my hot body; I'll do what I waunt! I don't go to school and I kill people! What-evah! I'll do what I waunt!" - Eric Cartman
- The grand-grandparent argument was that pharma companies are wasteful, and their monopolies and way of doing business should be taken away.
- The grandparent's idea was "oh, but their research ain't cheap, so their business is justified".
- The article you linked is titled "Big Pharma Spends More On Advertising Than Research And Development, Study Finds". While I must thank you for supporting my point, your number of "24.4% of their US domestic sales" is misleading: "Sales" does not equate "budget"! Sales is the gross amount of money they get, from which they subtract things like taxes and raw material cost, operations, building rent and other expenses not related to our argument. Budget is a more loosely defined term, with meaning depending on context. So it is from that "budget" that they could spend ALL on research they dump over 50% on peddling it to doctors and to patients directly, soaring cost of our healthcare, prescribing their patented, overpriced and unproven drugs to patients who hardly need them, etc.
pharma companies spend 50% on advertising
informs the patient that he should be asking about X
Go ahead and kill yourself swallowing expensive, poorly tested, patented drugs, when a cheap generic is available and it is proven to have no side effects. Guess what, nobody "informs the patient" about generics, because patented stuff brings them the most money. You can forget about traditional medicine and treatments that don't involve drugs, those are a big no-no in the modern medicine.
And this is not just a problem for idiots who watch drug commercials on TV (sorry), but the doctors get pressured into prescribing new untested expensive stuff, so one has to be very careful even when taking doctor's advice these days.
And then some people up the thread go ahead and start defending "poor underfunded drug cartels" because they "need money for research". No, they spend that money for shoving their expensive crap down our throats, not research.
These things can and should have protection.
You believe that your statement is self-evident; It is not. Why should these things be patented? You develop a self-driving car, and suddenly nobody else can sell self-driving cars? How can this be good? Advances in self-driving car segment suddenly freezes for 15 years, because nobody can innovate, while you don't have to. What's next, we get conquered by a nation that did not observe your stupid IP laws, and they advanced light years ahead in technological development?
And then they spend over 50% of budget for marketing, which is a complete waste and presses physicians to prescribe their patented crap to patients who do not need it. The whole system is rotten, sorry.
if X is position of the slider in the interval [1..100], and Y (Boolean algebra) stands for "unlocked", then Y(X) = (X > 99)
Yes, software is math all the way
Big pharma is all about marketing crappy and expensive meds to people who don't need them: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080105140107.htm
The same pharma companies that spend over 50% of budget on marketing and advertising? Don't you think it is a little wasteful?
PS: No, I don't need to provide a link, google it.
preventing the economic collapse... returning the stock market to its value before his predecessors wrecked the economy.
And he did it right after walking on water! In his next move the President plans to make it rain manna and bring peace to Middle East.
I think you are the spoiled kid here, who thinks that freedom is a god given right. It is not. Freedom of speech is one of the few thin barriers separating US from plunging into a Nazi style dictatorship, and when the Government starts to round up those who spoke against it, it smells very foul.
Umm, you are aware that Twitter is not the government, right?
Twitter is the envelope, the mailman, the messenger boy, the pigeon. Nobody says that a pigeon is the government. I think you are confusing the messenger boy with the entity that intercepts him, opens your letters, then arrests and sentences you to death by fire.
entire purpose of making your messages public
If it were public then why would the government need to subpoena? I suspect it was not public, but rather private to people who subscribed to the tweets. To make an analogy:
You are in Soviet Russia, 1937. You tell your friends at a gathering that Communism has some issues. The government "subpoenas" everything you say. You are sent to Gulag, where you spend the rest of your miserable life.