The more significant argument for developing on iOS is that Apple users spend more money on apps.
Regarding the comments about Android's painfully slow (or nonexistent) upgrade schedule for existing devices, Google is obviously trying to address this problem by making it easier for hardware manufacturers to port new Android versions for their platform using the new PDK.
However, I suspect that the Android hardware manufacturers are torn about upgrading. Their current model (except for the Nexus series) is that people have to buy a new device in order to get a new Android version. As a consumer, it sucks. As a manufacturer, it's a dangerous, game, as it tempts people to abandon Android for Apple, where new OS versions are rolled out (pretty much) across all the hardware.
Let's define terms here: Lying means intentionally making statements to lead people to believe something that the liar knows isn't true.
We lie all the time
Speak for yourself.
And the common sense was that about everything smalltalk can be deconstructed to be purely lying: "Good Morning".
False example. In common parlance, "Good morning" is a short form of something like "I wish you a good morning", not a statement that it is, or has been, a good morning.
imagine contractual talks without small or big lies ("$1000 will be my last offer.", and then they finally agree to $1100). Why this should be punishable per se if it happens online is not clear.
It looks as if part of your point is that because many people in our society lie in order to advance their desires (as in your example of contract negotiation), lying is therefore required and therefore acceptable.
Lying is NOT necessary. However, many people fear that the consequence of being truthful may be greater than the consequence of lying. The rationale for lying not being against the law most of the time is that it would be nearly impossible to enforce, the most obviously damaging instances of lying are already illegal (fraud, slander, libel, etc), and people presume that most lies are not harmful, because the negative effects are not immediately visible.
Perhaps because his philanthropic work is focused in part on education, and understanding which kinds of philanthropic investment produces positive results.
I'm with you. Although, in 50 years, Bill Gates will be remembered for his work as a philanthropist, not as a software tycoon. And in that light, I feel pretty good about Bill Gates these days.
Consider the intent of Facebook's email service: To remove people's need or desire to use Google services (Gmail, in this case). The big picture goal is that Facebook effectively becomes the Internet for people, the way AOL used to be.
For the spammer, the value of Facebook email is not clear, but Google's spam filtering isn't doing spammers any favors. It's possible that Facebook's spam filters will be as effective (or more? who knows) as Google's.
The "stuttering" effect you are accustomed to seeing when you watch movies at home is an effect of the movies frame rate not being accurately reproduced by your TV. A 120Hz TV solves this problem for 24 fps movies.
Unfortunately, 48fps will require me to get a 240Hz display to solve the same problem.
Home video was traditionally 24 or fewer frames per second. (Unless by "traditionally" you mean the past few years when you could record digital video at more than 30 frames per second.)
Bonobos and chimps have interbreeded succesfully. They differ genetically less than some groups of humans do.
Seriously, cite your source if you're going to say stuff like this. Have chimps and bonobos interbred and produced fertile offspring? Yes, there have been bonobo/chimp matings that produced live offspring, but were the offspring fertile? (None of the information I found appears to answer that question).
In a sense that's not even divergent evolution, as humans are just discarding the specializations that chimps develop as they mature, rather than replacing them with a different set of specializations.
Interesting question, but there are numerous architects, and this would be protected as "fair use" for a number of reasons. See Google Maps, Google Earth, etc for similar representation of copyright-protected architecture.
Of course, you're right, people are being taught to accept an appeal to authority as "proof"
As a result, those students in geometry class would say: "You can't give me an 'F'... I proved those triangles are congruent by showing you where it says so in the book!"
It's not about education. What's happening is certain groups are training people to believe things are true based on "because I say so" instead of "I can prove it". Pretty scary, if you think about the implications.
This contains a pronouncement of truth "The truth is that we cannot...." which isn't really true, and/or terms (such as "distant past", "virtual", and "real" are so poorly understood or undefined that the pronouncement fails to communicate something which actually is true.
Also, the egg did, in fact, precede the chicken, (as another poster pointed out, there were animals that laid eggs, and one of them laid the egg of the first chicken).
The statement about people "who believe science can offer more than a theory" appears to capitalize on misunderstanding of the scientific method, as if a "theory" were a "hypothesis". This statement (and the rest of the post) also appears to completely discount empirical evidence, (without which, oddly enough, "faithful" people could not learn or develop "divine" explanations.)
As long as the purchaser or recipient understands the limitation before buying or accepting the gift, there's nothing wrong with selling or giving the modified device.
If he misrepresented the device as being in "like new" condition, that would be different.
I bet HP doesn't want to fight a PR battle with a major customer and potential customer. Anything substantive they say about this would probably be in the course of a formal investigation.
Hmmm... Maybe I'm reading this wrong and this is really a political battle between the Comptroller and the Deputy mayor for Operations, where the Comptroller is trying to pin the blame for what he asserts is an overly expensive project on the Operations guy.
No, in other words, the Comptroller is deliberately making it SOUND as if HP and NYC weren't using change control documents.
I don't know what the political situation is, but I'm SURE that the comptroller's office is trying to assert that cost overruns are the fault of somebody other than the city, and trying to force the contract's cost penalty (to the contractor) provisions to kick in, thus saving the city money.
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In other news, How hot is vehicle theft is your area?
Micheal Mann should be all over this!
No kidding! Nothing says "non-stop action entertainment" quite like 8th-century tree rings, dude...
The more significant argument for developing on iOS is that Apple users spend more money on apps.
Regarding the comments about Android's painfully slow (or nonexistent) upgrade schedule for existing devices, Google is obviously trying to address this problem by making it easier for hardware manufacturers to port new Android versions for their platform using the new PDK.
However, I suspect that the Android hardware manufacturers are torn about upgrading. Their current model (except for the Nexus series) is that people have to buy a new device in order to get a new Android version. As a consumer, it sucks. As a manufacturer, it's a dangerous, game, as it tempts people to abandon Android for Apple, where new OS versions are rolled out (pretty much) across all the hardware.
Let's define terms here: Lying means intentionally making statements to lead people to believe something that the liar knows isn't true.
We lie all the time
Speak for yourself.
And the common sense was that about everything smalltalk can be deconstructed to be purely lying: "Good Morning".
False example. In common parlance, "Good morning" is a short form of something like "I wish you a good morning", not a statement that it is, or has been, a good morning.
imagine contractual talks without small or big lies ("$1000 will be my last offer.", and then they finally agree to $1100). Why this should be punishable per se if it happens online is not clear.
It looks as if part of your point is that because many people in our society lie in order to advance their desires (as in your example of contract negotiation), lying is therefore required and therefore acceptable.
Lying is NOT necessary. However, many people fear that the consequence of being truthful may be greater than the consequence of lying.
The rationale for lying not being against the law most of the time is that it would be nearly impossible to enforce, the most obviously damaging instances of lying are already illegal (fraud, slander, libel, etc), and people presume that most lies are not harmful, because the negative effects are not immediately visible.
Perhaps because his philanthropic work is focused in part on education, and understanding which kinds of philanthropic investment produces positive results.
I completely agree with his assessment
I'm with you. Although, in 50 years, Bill Gates will be remembered for his work as a philanthropist, not as a software tycoon. And in that light, I feel pretty good about Bill Gates these days.
Consider the intent of Facebook's email service: To remove people's need or desire to use Google services (Gmail, in this case). The big picture goal is that Facebook effectively becomes the Internet for people, the way AOL used to be.
For the spammer, the value of Facebook email is not clear, but Google's spam filtering isn't doing spammers any favors. It's possible that Facebook's spam filters will be as effective (or more? who knows) as Google's.
Animals only need to evolve when their environments change.
(Ok, they have shanged some since the cretatious as the wiki article says)
More to the point: The surviving animals are the ones who are better suited to (or adapt more easily to) their environment than their competitors.
Remember that next time you clean the dinosaur feces off your car.
As a press release its almost the perfect opposite of science.
So, what you're saying is that Fujitsu used..... magic!
More specifically, religion. A press release is marketing, after all.
The "stuttering" effect you are accustomed to seeing when you watch movies at home is an effect of the movies frame rate not being accurately reproduced by your TV. A 120Hz TV solves this problem for 24 fps movies.
Unfortunately, 48fps will require me to get a 240Hz display to solve the same problem.
What are you talking about?
Home video was traditionally 24 or fewer frames per second. (Unless by "traditionally" you mean the past few years when you could record digital video at more than 30 frames per second.)
Interesting choice. Your collection of O'Reilly pics will look much more lifelike on a retina display.
Bonobos and chimps have interbreeded succesfully. They differ genetically less than some groups of humans do.
Seriously, cite your source if you're going to say stuff like this.
Have chimps and bonobos interbred and produced fertile offspring? Yes, there have been bonobo/chimp matings that produced live offspring, but were the offspring fertile? (None of the information I found appears to answer that question).
In a sense that's not even divergent evolution, as humans are just discarding the specializations that chimps develop as they mature, rather than replacing them with a different set of specializations.
Nah, it's just that humans don't live long enough. :-)
Nah. It's just confusing because the summary is more informative than the typical Slashdot summary.
Interesting question, but there are numerous architects, and this would be protected as "fair use" for a number of reasons. See Google Maps, Google Earth, etc for similar representation of copyright-protected architecture.
Huh? We're talking about Northwestern, right?
I wonder if this is related to one of the wealthiest people in Korea. (And that therefore we are possibly supporting this cause of mis-education by eating sushi.
Of course, you're right, people are being taught to accept an appeal to authority as "proof"
As a result, those students in geometry class would say: "You can't give me an 'F'... I proved those triangles are congruent by showing you where it says so in the book!"
It's not about education. What's happening is certain groups are training people to believe things are true based on "because I say so" instead of "I can prove it". Pretty scary, if you think about the implications.
This contains a pronouncement of truth "The truth is that we cannot...." which isn't really true, and/or terms (such as "distant past", "virtual", and "real" are so poorly understood or undefined that the pronouncement fails to communicate something which actually is true.
Also, the egg did, in fact, precede the chicken, (as another poster pointed out, there were animals that laid eggs, and one of them laid the egg of the first chicken).
The statement about people "who believe science can offer more than a theory" appears to capitalize on misunderstanding of the scientific method, as if a "theory" were a "hypothesis". This statement (and the rest of the post) also appears to completely discount empirical evidence, (without which, oddly enough, "faithful" people could not learn or develop "divine" explanations.)
Hmmm.... I wonder if the major effect of this will be for people to use more live musicians instead of recorded music.
As long as the purchaser or recipient understands the limitation before buying or accepting the gift, there's nothing wrong with selling or giving the modified device.
If he misrepresented the device as being in "like new" condition, that would be different.
I bet HP doesn't want to fight a PR battle with a major customer and potential customer. Anything substantive they say about this would probably be in the course of a formal investigation.
Hmmm... Maybe I'm reading this wrong and this is really a political battle between the Comptroller and the Deputy mayor for Operations, where the Comptroller is trying to pin the blame for what he asserts is an overly expensive project on the Operations guy.
No, in other words, the Comptroller is deliberately making it SOUND as if HP and NYC weren't using change control documents.
I don't know what the political situation is, but I'm SURE that the comptroller's office is trying to assert that cost overruns are the fault of somebody other than the city, and trying to force the contract's cost penalty (to the contractor) provisions to kick in, thus saving the city money.