I'm not talking about hardware purchasers in general, but about those who buy as much as you do. Most people own one-two pieces of apple hardware at best. Incidentally most of these people would probably also not care one bit if someone got sued for "illegal stuff".
Get feature list for each, compare, notice absence of many things. This topic has been done to death, and if you still don't know the answer, I'm just too lazy to google it for you. Do it yourself.
Erm. Both your claims cannot have been made by anyone who has had any real contact with ship based weapons. First, in measure of rapid fire, kinetic guns absolutely destroy everything else. One of the main advantages of the anti air gatling CIWS is that it puts up a wall of small projectiles, which can be tracked by radar, which can auto-correct direction of the stream based on target's relative location to the stream. Which can then retarget near-instantly as kinetic gun turret is also light.
Energy is another huge problem on modern ships. Zumwalt-class was long considered for a nuke to power it because gas-turbines are simple not powerful enough to feed a modern AEGIS destroyer/cruiser anymore. Modern fire control radar going on full power trying to burn through interference generated by the target consumes several tens of percent of total ship power output nowadays - this is something you can find on navy's own website (.mil), sourced to their generals. I linked one such source when this topic came on slashdot before. Energy is in EXTREMELY short supply on a non-nuclear powered ship in a combat situation.
And sure, laser can fire for long distance in many conditions. It just won't hit anything meaningful in heavy rain or fog, or even if it does, it will cause minor burns to biological unshielded targets at worst. Good thing it never rains and is never foggy above large masses or water. Even better that there are never large temperature changes over the ocean surfaces causing various optical distortions. Nosiree!
I predict that the weapon of choice for space conflict will be guided missiles that carry a payload of several hundred depleted uranium flechettes, fired when the missile reaches an appropriate distance from the target.
That's how modern anti-air missiles work (except for cheaper shrapnel material). Most people don't seem to realise it, instead thinking that movie-esque missiles that ram planes down are the reality.
So in your professional, legal opinion they cannot formulate a deal under the table where apple would agree to collect information necessary for prosecution when subpoenas come if RIAA and such agree to fund the "costs"?
Really?
Well, hey, I have some real estate on the moon to sell you. Interested? Very good investment, absolutely perfect for naive fools.
Chinese prefer battle tested, actually functioning systems, meaning kinetic weapons. Not massively unreliable, energy hungry weapons designed mainly for application in vacuum and optimal for distances where kinetic weapons cease to be viable.
We've been there already, many many times. This weapons is a future technology demonstrator for space wars. It has little to no room on planet surface with all the impurities of the air, nasty atmospheric conditions, and generally sucking in comparison to chemical propulsion mass drivers also known as firearms.
You are likely in a very small minority. Most people use a PC for itunes and buy almost nothing but digital stuff from apple. They can afford to lose you as gains are significantly larger.
Until record companies pay him 30 for every one he gives to them, so they can sue for maximum possible penalty under US law. Nets both parties a really nice bonus.
Minor upgrades rarely if ever break plug-ins. And yes, I just had the same upgrade a few hours ago myself. It's actually became stupid to upgrade from 3.6.x now because of the new update schedule and 4.0 actually stripping needed features to "chromify" firefox.
Always assume that most of your plug-ins won't work properly for at least a few days after a new major version release (+0.1 before, +1 now).
I use a fairly exotic translation library for my native language, and usually end up waiting weeks for it to be updated to work properly (from 2 to 3 and every time 3 got a major upgrade).
Starving on the peasants in Ukraine had a very logical reason behind it. USSR needed to get off its knees after being completely pillaged by its long civil war. Stalin managed to make one of the poorest countries in the world into one of the strongest in just a few years by essentially robbing the countryside. The years Ukrainian peasants were starting, USSR was selling millions of tons of grains abroad, and building an industrial sector in the country with the money.
It had nothing to do with communism, and everything to do with twisted version of patriotism that Stalin possessed.
It finished with commission being essentially put against the wall by parliament. Ultimatum was clear: either you strike software patents from patent reform package and we pass it, or you keep it and it gets voted down.
Lobbyists who drafted the reform figured that nothing would be worse for their cause then a very public rejection by a generally elected legislative body and decided to not even put the package to a vote.
Except that they're not. Some politicians certainly do want software patents, but getting it from back door actually got harder after Lisbon was adopted, giving parliament even more powers.
Commission, which is not elected and is essentially a lobbyist organisation wants these patents in. Parliament does not. The reason they didn't put software patents to the vote was because it was painfully clear that they would get massively rejected. There is always a right to get the vote in on a later date, as is with ANY law change. Situation changes, and just because a certain law wasn't right at time x doesn't mean it won't be right at time y. This is universally true.
Most of the elderly have a problem with their kids not visiting them nearly enough, and their mental health suffering greatly from loneliness as a result. I would know, I worked in elder care on a summer job and being the only guy I actually didn't have to wash/take care of person hygiene of anyone in spite of that being one of the main tasks.
Know why? Because I was the only young guy who applied and got the job, and my main job consisted of just going to old men's places and talking to them or doing some heavy lifting for them. Frankly, I think that's also what put a lot of thing in perspective for me back then - I was a young kid, and seeing just how lonely these people were on a personal level taught me to really appreciate my own life. Because when it was pretty damn obvious that for those months I worked there, the person's high point of the day was my 15-minute visit to deliver him the newspaper and food, and chat him up to see how things are makes you really appreciate how good your own life is even in the angsty late teen period.
Sometimes I think that maybe a mandatory service for all youth a la conscription to work at a elderly care for a few months or a year would be a good thing, and not just for the system.
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I'm not talking about hardware purchasers in general, but about those who buy as much as you do. Most people own one-two pieces of apple hardware at best. Incidentally most of these people would probably also not care one bit if someone got sued for "illegal stuff".
Get feature list for each, compare, notice absence of many things. This topic has been done to death, and if you still don't know the answer, I'm just too lazy to google it for you. Do it yourself.
I never turn down free tinfoil hats! :)
Erm. Both your claims cannot have been made by anyone who has had any real contact with ship based weapons. First, in measure of rapid fire, kinetic guns absolutely destroy everything else. One of the main advantages of the anti air gatling CIWS is that it puts up a wall of small projectiles, which can be tracked by radar, which can auto-correct direction of the stream based on target's relative location to the stream. Which can then retarget near-instantly as kinetic gun turret is also light.
Energy is another huge problem on modern ships. Zumwalt-class was long considered for a nuke to power it because gas-turbines are simple not powerful enough to feed a modern AEGIS destroyer/cruiser anymore. Modern fire control radar going on full power trying to burn through interference generated by the target consumes several tens of percent of total ship power output nowadays - this is something you can find on navy's own website (.mil), sourced to their generals. I linked one such source when this topic came on slashdot before. Energy is in EXTREMELY short supply on a non-nuclear powered ship in a combat situation.
And sure, laser can fire for long distance in many conditions. It just won't hit anything meaningful in heavy rain or fog, or even if it does, it will cause minor burns to biological unshielded targets at worst. Good thing it never rains and is never foggy above large masses or water. Even better that there are never large temperature changes over the ocean surfaces causing various optical distortions. Nosiree!
I predict that the weapon of choice for space conflict will be guided missiles that carry a payload of several hundred depleted uranium flechettes, fired when the missile reaches an appropriate distance from the target.
That's how modern anti-air missiles work (except for cheaper shrapnel material). Most people don't seem to realise it, instead thinking that movie-esque missiles that ram planes down are the reality.
So in your professional, legal opinion they cannot formulate a deal under the table where apple would agree to collect information necessary for prosecution when subpoenas come if RIAA and such agree to fund the "costs"?
Really?
Well, hey, I have some real estate on the moon to sell you. Interested? Very good investment, absolutely perfect for naive fools.
If I'm so desperate for vertical space that I don't care for features, I'll hit F11, thank you very much. Until then, I'd like my features to stay.
Chinese prefer battle tested, actually functioning systems, meaning kinetic weapons. Not massively unreliable, energy hungry weapons designed mainly for application in vacuum and optimal for distances where kinetic weapons cease to be viable.
We've been there already, many many times. This weapons is a future technology demonstrator for space wars. It has little to no room on planet surface with all the impurities of the air, nasty atmospheric conditions, and generally sucking in comparison to chemical propulsion mass drivers also known as firearms.
This was done to death even on slashdot.
You are likely in a very small minority. Most people use a PC for itunes and buy almost nothing but digital stuff from apple. They can afford to lose you as gains are significantly larger.
Until record companies pay him 30 for every one he gives to them, so they can sue for maximum possible penalty under US law. Nets both parties a really nice bonus.
Status bar makes a great and most prominent example. And no, various add-on replacements don't fully replace the features that were stripped with it.
Believe it or not, there are language/spell checker packs even from 1st world countries that aren't on AMO. Same goes for several popular add-ons.
It will be a sad day on august 1st then, but in the end, I suspect that many will stick to 3.6 anyway.
Minor upgrades rarely if ever break plug-ins. And yes, I just had the same upgrade a few hours ago myself. It's actually became stupid to upgrade from 3.6.x now because of the new update schedule and 4.0 actually stripping needed features to "chromify" firefox.
Always assume that most of your plug-ins won't work properly for at least a few days after a new major version release (+0.1 before, +1 now).
I use a fairly exotic translation library for my native language, and usually end up waiting weeks for it to be updated to work properly (from 2 to 3 and every time 3 got a major upgrade).
In before prison slut walks.
Starving on the peasants in Ukraine had a very logical reason behind it. USSR needed to get off its knees after being completely pillaged by its long civil war. Stalin managed to make one of the poorest countries in the world into one of the strongest in just a few years by essentially robbing the countryside. The years Ukrainian peasants were starting, USSR was selling millions of tons of grains abroad, and building an industrial sector in the country with the money.
It had nothing to do with communism, and everything to do with twisted version of patriotism that Stalin possessed.
It finished with commission being essentially put against the wall by parliament. Ultimatum was clear: either you strike software patents from patent reform package and we pass it, or you keep it and it gets voted down.
Lobbyists who drafted the reform figured that nothing would be worse for their cause then a very public rejection by a generally elected legislative body and decided to not even put the package to a vote.
Except that they're not. Some politicians certainly do want software patents, but getting it from back door actually got harder after Lisbon was adopted, giving parliament even more powers.
Commission, which is not elected and is essentially a lobbyist organisation wants these patents in. Parliament does not. The reason they didn't put software patents to the vote was because it was painfully clear that they would get massively rejected. There is always a right to get the vote in on a later date, as is with ANY law change. Situation changes, and just because a certain law wasn't right at time x doesn't mean it won't be right at time y. This is universally true.
"In two-three countries, software patents are accepted". Everywhere else, they're not.
Specifically USA, South Korea and partially Japan. That's it.
Correct, which is why we have a concept of social security - something that no other species on the planet practices.
That doesn't change the fact that many, if not most of our actions are still guided by our instincts.
His "fantasy" is that apple will boot an application because it competes with their moneymaking scheme.
Which it does, and has done many times in the past.
Most of the elderly have a problem with their kids not visiting them nearly enough, and their mental health suffering greatly from loneliness as a result. I would know, I worked in elder care on a summer job and being the only guy I actually didn't have to wash/take care of person hygiene of anyone in spite of that being one of the main tasks.
Know why? Because I was the only young guy who applied and got the job, and my main job consisted of just going to old men's places and talking to them or doing some heavy lifting for them. Frankly, I think that's also what put a lot of thing in perspective for me back then - I was a young kid, and seeing just how lonely these people were on a personal level taught me to really appreciate my own life. Because when it was pretty damn obvious that for those months I worked there, the person's high point of the day was my 15-minute visit to deliver him the newspaper and food, and chat him up to see how things are makes you really appreciate how good your own life is even in the angsty late teen period.
Sometimes I think that maybe a mandatory service for all youth a la conscription to work at a elderly care for a few months or a year would be a good thing, and not just for the system.