God you are so right. Although modded funny, your post is insightful.
I've been comparing iPhone and Android, and the really useful apps are available on both platforms. Shazam, Evernote, Trapster. The gimmicky compass, spirit level, sound boards etc. as well.
The extra thousands of apps for the iPhone are crap I'd never use anyway. It's as redundant as one country being able to blow up the whole world five times, versus another country only being able to do it once.
What I really want, is a keyboard. Palm have abandoned us in Australia and the other phones are taking their sweet time getting here.
I honestly don't recall spending any hours memorizing spelling and suspect the only people who do are entrants in spelling bee contests.
I simply made a conscious effort to learn and when spelling errors were pointed out, I'd learn from that as well.
The totally lazy approach of the younger generation is such that I frequently receive resumes via email, in MS Word format from technically proficient candidates, with spelling errors. Not only are they bad spellers, they are so friggin' lazy or stupid they don't even right click on the red wavy underline. On a goddamned job application!
My office is generally paperless, but I usually print those ones out so I can enjoy throwing them in the waste paper bin.
Your typical teenager probably doesn't even use a pen, and the majority of their communication would be on a device with a built-in spell checker. IT is as though they go out of their way to spell like an idiot. Is it really that much more efficient to type "Im going 2 da park"?
As technology gets smarter, we as a society will be getting dumber. We are setting ourselves up to be completely pwnd by Skynet.
There is no justification for an $18,000 price difference for what amounts to the same fundamental technology
Depends on your definition of "technology".
Sure, if you're only talking about a few bits of plastic and some gizmos, you may have a point. However the underlying R&D is a whole different story, as is the insurances and testing alluded to by other comments above.
That's why patents are important, to give someone who has invested in developing something, time to make their money back before others simply copy the idea.
Whereas in Europe or the Middle East, you can establish a network with 100% population coverage quite easily, the same size network in Australia wouldn't cover a single state.
Same goes for broadband networks. It's too hard which is why nobody has ever really competed with Telstra.
My military friends, some of whom have had to deal with IEDs
My best friend's girlfriend's brother, heard from her Father's former flatmates room-mate's sister, that you are not exactly citing a useful source and are in fact mistaken...
Nonsense, anonymous coward. The only reason Israel is compared to ARab countries (who certainly are among the worst in the world) is that they are right next door.
However you can compare Israel to any country on Earth and it will stack up favourably.
For example, one major terrorist attack in New York. How many killed in response? Whereas, every single day in Israel is like 9/11 as far as terrorist motives go. Yet has Israel used "Shock and Awe" as it easily could? No. Instead, they took massive casualties, going literally door to door looking for terrorists in order to minimise civilian casualties due to Hamas hiding behind civilian human shields.
America would have simply bombed the shit out of Gaza and the world would probably be a safer place for it.
Or is this where you include America as one of the worst countries in the world?
Fact: Israel is a modern liberal democracy. Is it perfect? Of course not, and no other country on Earth is. However given the challenges it faces, Israel is a remarkable success story. Contrast it with the abject failure that is the Arab world and it shows how sad it is that people are willing to attack anything Israel does, while handing a free pass to the Arabs no matter how evil or stupid their actions are.
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God you are so right. Although modded funny, your post is insightful.
I've been comparing iPhone and Android, and the really useful apps are available on both platforms. Shazam, Evernote, Trapster. The gimmicky compass, spirit level, sound boards etc. as well.
The extra thousands of apps for the iPhone are crap I'd never use anyway. It's as redundant as one country being able to blow up the whole world five times, versus another country only being able to do it once.
What I really want, is a keyboard. Palm have abandoned us in Australia and the other phones are taking their sweet time getting here.
Apps schmapps.
Yeah!
Why should someone else's expertise, hard work or effort be allowed to give them an advantage over you? It's not fair!
I really wish there was a way to mod your comment +1 Socialist.
Or Jack Bauer is being divided by Chuck Norris.
Once Were Warriors.
Now are geeks.
I honestly don't recall spending any hours memorizing spelling and suspect the only people who do are entrants in spelling bee contests.
I simply made a conscious effort to learn and when spelling errors were pointed out, I'd learn from that as well.
The totally lazy approach of the younger generation is such that I frequently receive resumes via email, in MS Word format from technically proficient candidates, with spelling errors. Not only are they bad spellers, they are so friggin' lazy or stupid they don't even right click on the red wavy underline. On a goddamned job application!
My office is generally paperless, but I usually print those ones out so I can enjoy throwing them in the waste paper bin.
Here's proof: I was correcting my teacher's spelling in fourth grade.
It's not "sloppy spelling". It's wilful ignorance. You do not need to be well educated to know the difference between "to" and 2, "the" and "da" etc.
The simple fact is, they don't give a shit and their educators have nurtured that attitude by not giving a shit either.
I assure you the majority of sub-literate such comments on Youtube which prompted my original rant, were not typed on a cellphone.
It's the product of laziness combined with acceptance of mediocrity as the norm.
Change!
Sorry, but Firefox goes that extra mile because webpages might lead you somewhere else than they actually pretend to lead you ...
Oh please. As if that would ever happen.
Grow up.
No wonder they can't find time to spell properly.
Your typical teenager probably doesn't even use a pen, and the majority of their communication would be on a device with a built-in spell checker. IT is as though they go out of their way to spell like an idiot. Is it really that much more efficient to type "Im going 2 da park"?
As technology gets smarter, we as a society will be getting dumber. We are setting ourselves up to be completely pwnd by Skynet.
>What do the cellphones taste like?
Apple.
This would be more important in a nuclear reactor and not so big a deal to a hobbyist.
Depends what his hobby was. Muhahahahah....
There is no justification for an $18,000 price difference for what amounts to the same fundamental technology
Depends on your definition of "technology".
Sure, if you're only talking about a few bits of plastic and some gizmos, you may have a point. However the underlying R&D is a whole different story, as is the insurances and testing alluded to by other comments above.
That's why patents are important, to give someone who has invested in developing something, time to make their money back before others simply copy the idea.
Stop trying to take credit for Santa's hard work, troll.
Didn't you read the article? There's no way cops could ever catch up with him in order to pull him over...
And the naughty kids get a visit by Davros.
Times New Roman.
Which annoys the hell out of hungry Uruguayan footballers...
Obviously you're new here...
It's too hard due to the land size.
Whereas in Europe or the Middle East, you can establish a network with 100% population coverage quite easily, the same size network in Australia wouldn't cover a single state.
Same goes for broadband networks. It's too hard which is why nobody has ever really competed with Telstra.
My military friends, some of whom have had to deal with IEDs
My best friend's girlfriend's brother, heard from her Father's former flatmates room-mate's sister, that you are not exactly citing a useful source and are in fact mistaken...
Nonsense, anonymous coward. The only reason Israel is compared to ARab countries (who certainly are among the worst in the world) is that they are right next door.
However you can compare Israel to any country on Earth and it will stack up favourably.
For example, one major terrorist attack in New York. How many killed in response? Whereas, every single day in Israel is like 9/11 as far as terrorist motives go. Yet has Israel used "Shock and Awe" as it easily could? No. Instead, they took massive casualties, going literally door to door looking for terrorists in order to minimise civilian casualties due to Hamas hiding behind civilian human shields.
America would have simply bombed the shit out of Gaza and the world would probably be a safer place for it.
Or is this where you include America as one of the worst countries in the world?
Fact: Israel is a modern liberal democracy. Is it perfect? Of course not, and no other country on Earth is. However given the challenges it faces, Israel is a remarkable success story. Contrast it with the abject failure that is the Arab world and it shows how sad it is that people are willing to attack anything Israel does, while handing a free pass to the Arabs no matter how evil or stupid their actions are.
And let me guess... Some of your best friends are Jewish, right?
Go away, anonymous coward.
And don't forget to wear hearing protection.
Bzzzt. The modern Jewish state didn't exist before 1948.
Look up Judea or have a read through the New Testament and Koran - hardly Jew-biased source material.
Smug, aren't you!