1. Swappable battery without sending the phone back to Apple. 2. Open development 3. Custom ROMs
1. Actually, a swappable battery means another latch/compartment to get dirty, broken, wet, or damaged. The ideal device would be hermetically sealed. Barring that, as few ports/hatches as possible. 2. What restrictions do you think the Army has on apps they distribute? 3. No, but yes. Custom hardware (not ROMs) is the key to Android's future in the Army. If you need to take out the radio or camera for security restrictions, add a hardware switch for any features, put a glove-friendly touchscreen on, ruggedize, or otherwise customize the hardware it's possible with Android and impossible with Apple.
Another one is B12. That can lead to depression and anxiety, among other things, and is actually fairly hard for the gut to absorb. (Thus it's fairly easy to damage/overload it enough to create a deficiency.) The liver normally stores huge amounts of B12 relative to the body's needs, though, so symptoms may not show up for months or years.
This survey only covers billed 2G/3G data. As an iPhone owner, I know the data I user per month on AT&T networks has declined recently as AT&T wi-fi hotspots seem to be proliferating everywhere. From Panera to McDonalds, it seems like most lunch spots have free wi-fi, and my home and work certainly does. I don't know how good Verizon's phones are at dealing with wi-fi, or whether they include 802.11b/g/n like the iPhone. In addition, as apps are often more efficient than sites at communicating over the network, some of the reduction is almost certainly due to "there's an app for that" reduction.
In short, I really don't think the MB/month over 2G/3G is necessarily indicative of how much internet is used on a phone anymore.
There is decreasing amounts of doubt that the world is warming up. The disconnect occurs in the automatic assumption that
1. humans are causing it
It is nice we've made progress on this front. 15 years ago the argument REALLY WAS that Global Warming didn't exist at all. 10 years ago they were still trying to manipulate the data to make it seem like there was a localized "cooling trend" beginning. Now we've FINALLY reached the point where we at least acknowledge it's happening and start to examine why.
The case for anthropogenic causes is pretty strong. By scientific standards, it's stronger than many things people take for granted in astronomy or particle physics. But because politics has gotten involved and it's inconvenient, there's a natural reaction to try to explain it away with natural causes.
2. we MUST do something DRASTIC AND IMMEDIATE to stop it
I haven't seen any bills before my Congress to do anything drastic or immediate. Right now we're having a hard enough time convincing everyone that we SHOULD do something REASONABLE over DECADES to slow it down. It's worth noting that doing nothing, by many reasonable estimates, is going to be much more expensive than taking action now. We're once again mortgaging our kids' future to pay for our laziness today.
Maybe so, but Microsoft is competing against Apple, and my guess is Apple's graph for the iPod Touch profitability doesn't look anything like Microsoft's. That graph is what I would call "successful".
Only losing a couple million dollars is "rather well"? The XBox sells well because it's subsidized by the Office and Windows monopolies, but it's not exactly a profit center.
I'll assume you meant there's no way to prove any of its claims. The same is true for vertical evolution.
No, he meant falsify. If we started finding fossils that suddenly changed from one type of animal to another in a single generation, or fossils where the exact same collection of species are stagnant all the way back to the beginning of time, or even where identical complex features suddenly appeared in many species separated by a wide distance simultaneously... or if we weren't able to reproduce selective breeding or specification in the lab... or if no bacteria ever developed resistance to antibiotics... or if genetic tests on existing fossils hadn't shown genetic drift tempered by survivability in an environment...
These types of observations would start to falsify the theory of evolution. The theory would have to change to accommodate them.
There is no way to falsify creationism. Any observation anyone makes can simply be explained by "God made it that way." There is no way to refute it with evidence-- it is a belief-based system that depends on supreme being instead of natural processes.
Flash is, simply, a proprietary format that they don't have any patent control over. They want h264, which is a proprietary format controlled by a consortium they are a major member of.
h.264 and Flash aren't incompatible. And Apple's a minor member of that consortium with almost no patents in the game. Apple just wants the best products and doesn't want to have to depend on others to get them, and Flash is the opposite of both of those things.
Considering how much Apple has contributed to open source over the past few years, they obviously value it highly. Heck, their biggest competitor in their fastest-growing market is basing their entire web experience on Apple's browser engine, so it doesn't seem like Apple is too worried about competition there.
The real question is how many of those remaining users are actual *new* subscribers and not just those who had already had print subscriptions even before the change.
On the contrary, my first thought was how many of those 90% were just adblock freeloaders who were trying to get content without allowing the ads that pay for the content anyway? Losing them just means lower bandwidth bills and better profitability.
Compilers are helped a lot by the fact that RAM is cheap. I work on a Smalltalk compiler, and with all of the profile-driven optimisations it's now within a few percent of GCC-compiled C for performance.
Of course, GCC-compiled C is slower than LLVM-clang-compiled C these days. Actually using bytecode and a virtual machine as an intermediary to more efficient static compilation is a nifty new use case I wouldn't have considered a few years ago.
I would think computer scientists would dig Farenheight. On the scale, brine's (sea water) freezing point is 0, and fresh water's freezing point is 32 (2^5). Normal body temperature was 96 on the original scale, or 32+64, or 2^5 + 2^6. These reference points were easy to mark because you could bisect the markings repeatedly until you got down to an integer degree, since they could be easily expressed with powers of two. Unfortunately it didn't quite work out, because if brine freezes at zero the average human is 98.6, but it was a worthy base-two geek effort!
Um, that doesn't look much like an iPhone. Much less so than any Android phone. The screen is bigger than the blackberry and the hardware keyboard is missing, but other than that its interaction patterns seem utterly different. I'm not saying that the iPhone doesn't build on some previously developed concepts, but there's a pretty distinct break between pre-iPhone smartphone design and post-iPhone smartphone design.
Can you point me at some pictures? Every android prototype I've seen looked like an iPhone rival (mytouch 3g basically).
Considering Google had been making Android prototypes since before the original iPhone was ever released to the public, I'll ask you the same question... can you find any pictures of any Android prototypes that look like the iPhone but pre-date its unveiling?
I can't.
If I go to Google Images and google for Android Prototypes, I get lots of things that look like a Blackberry and nothing that even remotely resembles an iPhone... until the iPhone is released. Then about 6 months later the Android prototypes start looking (surprise!) like an iPhone.
Android and iOS were built from the ground up to make use of touch.
Every prototype of Android device looked like a Blackberry until the iPhone came out. At that point Android bolted on their multi-touch look and feel... there's no "ground up" design relating to touch in either the iPhone or Android. The core OS just handles files, memory, network, power, processes, etc. Apple could replace UIKit eventing with some keyboard/stylus-based input API and replace a small fraction of iOS.
To get it right takes a lot more than the touch UI being right. It takes an entire infrastructure to make the device disappear and become the task. Despite Microsoft's size, they've never been an infrastructure company so it'll be a challenge.
You answered your own mystery. Because a copyright doesn't protect from other people re-implementing your system and methods. The entire point of patents is to protect a way of doing things, whether that way is physical or virtual. You can argue that you don't think virtual things should get the same protection as physical things, but since patents and copyright do different things I don't see why you think the latter should immediately not apply.
Besides, in order for evolution to change a trait in a species, it has to occur in someone naturally through random mutation, viral gene swaps, new enzymes activating a new combination of genes, etc. Without genetic engineering, you might have to wait millions of years for that event, at which point humans might not even exist any longer.
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Every Kin cell phone buyer is now locked into a (usually) 2 year contract to use and pay for a phone with no future.
Perhaps you're not aware that Cisco sells $500,000 videoconferencing rooms to the DoD? Augmenting that with a tablet seems like a no brainer. Maybe they'll even go ruggedized and have that niche to themselves.
As you mentioned in your own post, vaccines are not very profitable for pharma companies, which is why 95% of the flu vaccine manufacturers have gotten out of the business. And calling flu "the common flu" as if it's no more serious than a cold is disingenuous when it's one of the most deadly diseases in the world. Yes, it's "a personal choice" whether to vaccinate, just like drinking and driving (which kills far fewer people annually than flu) is a personal choice. At some point, though, people unwilling to be responsible members of society have to be dealt with somehow.
The "traditional" Christian vows are an exchange of ownership of the woman from her father to her husband. That's what the legalese "to have and to hold" means... the phrase is used in legal documents to execute the transferal of title. It's even still used in some property title sales if you look in a land records database.
Apple's support for "open standards" is limited to only support for such standards when they depend on proprietary formats like AAC, mp3, h.264, etc. No support for Vorbis, Theora, VP8 or anything that can be implemented freely without a patent license.
Oh please. Apple will include anything that lets them sell substantially more hardware. If Vorbis or Theora would sell millions of units, they'd rapidly be well-supported across Apple's hardware line. The fact of the matter is that the standard codecs you mention (AAC, MP3, h.264) sell the most units, and because of the widespread industry support actually offer the best experience for the user.
I think you meant, "Our last real freedom is GNU/Linux,"
No, I think he meant "Linux". Unless you want to rename the product to "X/MIT/GNU/BSD/Apache/Linux", there's no real need to explicitly cite everyone who's contributed to Linux.
I'm still not buying any device which is effectively a handheld computer, but which lacks the ability to run more than one interactive application simultaneously.
So you seem to have very specific implementation-level requirement for the tools you use to do your work. Do you also require the software to use specific sorting algorithms and screen pixel representations? Wouldn't it be more effective to measure tools by task effectiveness?
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1. Actually, a swappable battery means another latch/compartment to get dirty, broken, wet, or damaged. The ideal device would be hermetically sealed. Barring that, as few ports/hatches as possible.
2. What restrictions do you think the Army has on apps they distribute?
3. No, but yes. Custom hardware (not ROMs) is the key to Android's future in the Army. If you need to take out the radio or camera for security restrictions, add a hardware switch for any features, put a glove-friendly touchscreen on, ruggedize, or otherwise customize the hardware it's possible with Android and impossible with Apple.
Another one is B12. That can lead to depression and anxiety, among other things, and is actually fairly hard for the gut to absorb. (Thus it's fairly easy to damage/overload it enough to create a deficiency.) The liver normally stores huge amounts of B12 relative to the body's needs, though, so symptoms may not show up for months or years.
This survey only covers billed 2G/3G data. As an iPhone owner, I know the data I user per month on AT&T networks has declined recently as AT&T wi-fi hotspots seem to be proliferating everywhere. From Panera to McDonalds, it seems like most lunch spots have free wi-fi, and my home and work certainly does. I don't know how good Verizon's phones are at dealing with wi-fi, or whether they include 802.11b/g/n like the iPhone. In addition, as apps are often more efficient than sites at communicating over the network, some of the reduction is almost certainly due to "there's an app for that" reduction.
In short, I really don't think the MB/month over 2G/3G is necessarily indicative of how much internet is used on a phone anymore.
It is nice we've made progress on this front. 15 years ago the argument REALLY WAS that Global Warming didn't exist at all. 10 years ago they were still trying to manipulate the data to make it seem like there was a localized "cooling trend" beginning. Now we've FINALLY reached the point where we at least acknowledge it's happening and start to examine why.
The case for anthropogenic causes is pretty strong. By scientific standards, it's stronger than many things people take for granted in astronomy or particle physics. But because politics has gotten involved and it's inconvenient, there's a natural reaction to try to explain it away with natural causes.
I haven't seen any bills before my Congress to do anything drastic or immediate. Right now we're having a hard enough time convincing everyone that we SHOULD do something REASONABLE over DECADES to slow it down. It's worth noting that doing nothing, by many reasonable estimates, is going to be much more expensive than taking action now. We're once again mortgaging our kids' future to pay for our laziness today.
Maybe so, but Microsoft is competing against Apple, and my guess is Apple's graph for the iPod Touch profitability doesn't look anything like Microsoft's. That graph is what I would call "successful".
Only losing a couple million dollars is "rather well"? The XBox sells well because it's subsidized by the Office and Windows monopolies, but it's not exactly a profit center.
No, he meant falsify. If we started finding fossils that suddenly changed from one type of animal to another in a single generation, or fossils where the exact same collection of species are stagnant all the way back to the beginning of time, or even where identical complex features suddenly appeared in many species separated by a wide distance simultaneously... or if we weren't able to reproduce selective breeding or specification in the lab... or if no bacteria ever developed resistance to antibiotics... or if genetic tests on existing fossils hadn't shown genetic drift tempered by survivability in an environment...
These types of observations would start to falsify the theory of evolution. The theory would have to change to accommodate them.
There is no way to falsify creationism. Any observation anyone makes can simply be explained by "God made it that way." There is no way to refute it with evidence-- it is a belief-based system that depends on supreme being instead of natural processes.
Thus, not science.
h.264 and Flash aren't incompatible. And Apple's a minor member of that consortium with almost no patents in the game. Apple just wants the best products and doesn't want to have to depend on others to get them, and Flash is the opposite of both of those things.
Considering how much Apple has contributed to open source over the past few years, they obviously value it highly. Heck, their biggest competitor in their fastest-growing market is basing their entire web experience on Apple's browser engine, so it doesn't seem like Apple is too worried about competition there.
My favorite was always the 2000 article Bush: 'Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over... almost everything in the article came true.
On the contrary, my first thought was how many of those 90% were just adblock freeloaders who were trying to get content without allowing the ads that pay for the content anyway? Losing them just means lower bandwidth bills and better profitability.
Of course, GCC-compiled C is slower than LLVM-clang-compiled C these days. Actually using bytecode and a virtual machine as an intermediary to more efficient static compilation is a nifty new use case I wouldn't have considered a few years ago.
I would think computer scientists would dig Farenheight. On the scale, brine's (sea water) freezing point is 0, and fresh water's freezing point is 32 (2^5). Normal body temperature was 96 on the original scale, or 32+64, or 2^5 + 2^6. These reference points were easy to mark because you could bisect the markings repeatedly until you got down to an integer degree, since they could be easily expressed with powers of two. Unfortunately it didn't quite work out, because if brine freezes at zero the average human is 98.6, but it was a worthy base-two geek effort!
Um, that doesn't look much like an iPhone. Much less so than any Android phone. The screen is bigger than the blackberry and the hardware keyboard is missing, but other than that its interaction patterns seem utterly different. I'm not saying that the iPhone doesn't build on some previously developed concepts, but there's a pretty distinct break between pre-iPhone smartphone design and post-iPhone smartphone design.
Considering Google had been making Android prototypes since before the original iPhone was ever released to the public, I'll ask you the same question... can you find any pictures of any Android prototypes that look like the iPhone but pre-date its unveiling?
I can't.
If I go to Google Images and google for Android Prototypes, I get lots of things that look like a Blackberry and nothing that even remotely resembles an iPhone... until the iPhone is released. Then about 6 months later the Android prototypes start looking (surprise!) like an iPhone.
Every prototype of Android device looked like a Blackberry until the iPhone came out. At that point Android bolted on their multi-touch look and feel... there's no "ground up" design relating to touch in either the iPhone or Android. The core OS just handles files, memory, network, power, processes, etc. Apple could replace UIKit eventing with some keyboard/stylus-based input API and replace a small fraction of iOS.
To get it right takes a lot more than the touch UI being right. It takes an entire infrastructure to make the device disappear and become the task. Despite Microsoft's size, they've never been an infrastructure company so it'll be a challenge.
You answered your own mystery. Because a copyright doesn't protect from other people re-implementing your system and methods. The entire point of patents is to protect a way of doing things, whether that way is physical or virtual. You can argue that you don't think virtual things should get the same protection as physical things, but since patents and copyright do different things I don't see why you think the latter should immediately not apply.
Besides, in order for evolution to change a trait in a species, it has to occur in someone naturally through random mutation, viral gene swaps, new enzymes activating a new combination of genes, etc. Without genetic engineering, you might have to wait millions of years for that event, at which point humans might not even exist any longer.
I'm sure they'll both be pissed.
Perhaps you're not aware that Cisco sells $500,000 videoconferencing rooms to the DoD? Augmenting that with a tablet seems like a no brainer. Maybe they'll even go ruggedized and have that niche to themselves.
As you mentioned in your own post, vaccines are not very profitable for pharma companies, which is why 95% of the flu vaccine manufacturers have gotten out of the business. And calling flu "the common flu" as if it's no more serious than a cold is disingenuous when it's one of the most deadly diseases in the world. Yes, it's "a personal choice" whether to vaccinate, just like drinking and driving (which kills far fewer people annually than flu) is a personal choice. At some point, though, people unwilling to be responsible members of society have to be dealt with somehow.
The "traditional" Christian vows are an exchange of ownership of the woman from her father to her husband. That's what the legalese "to have and to hold" means... the phrase is used in legal documents to execute the transferal of title. It's even still used in some property title sales if you look in a land records database.
Oh please. Apple will include anything that lets them sell substantially more hardware. If Vorbis or Theora would sell millions of units, they'd rapidly be well-supported across Apple's hardware line. The fact of the matter is that the standard codecs you mention (AAC, MP3, h.264) sell the most units, and because of the widespread industry support actually offer the best experience for the user.
No, I think he meant "Linux". Unless you want to rename the product to "X/MIT/GNU/BSD/Apache/Linux", there's no real need to explicitly cite everyone who's contributed to Linux.
Really? Ok, then! I'd like to run one of the hundreds of thousands of iOS apps on it! (Or even one of the 50 or so I've downloaded so far.)
So you seem to have very specific implementation-level requirement for the tools you use to do your work. Do you also require the software to use specific sorting algorithms and screen pixel representations? Wouldn't it be more effective to measure tools by task effectiveness?