So let me see here. Product "ABC" has smallish market share and can't seem to get out of the shadow of competing Product "XYZ" which has a dominant majority of market share. Now, If I happen to go to a special location and see that people there prefer ABC, that equates to "it seems clear that regular people like [ABC] products very much."
That's some real spin there. Obviously people like Macs because they have captured a decent share of the desktop computer market, but it is not correct to find niche groups of people that use them in greater numbers to say that people like them more.
I would think 1AM in a park in NYC is far from the safest time of day to be there. I doubt they are concerned about safety. This was most likely scheduled for a time that would draw as little attention from the non-protesting public as possible and cause maximum disruption to the protesters camped in the park.
Only if the protest is sleeping in a park. If they all show up in the morning and leave at night to go sleep somewhere else it can go on just fine. Of course the authorities know that if people aren't sleeping in the park they won't show up every morning and the whole thing will start to fade away.
yes because true geeks believe that Psychology is a hard science with definite rules to determine without a doubt what someones mental age is to get the intelligence quotient of mental age / physical age. It's a mathematical term in the sense that there is division, but beyond that it's a silly measurement.
Don't forget it being preceded by excessive amounts of hype and fervor from Apple fans.
I, for one, can't wait for the Apple TV, Apple car, Apple kitchen appliances, Apple washer/dryer, and Apple light bulbs so that every milliWatt of electric power I use will go through a device that has finally been perfected by Apple.
"...the firm's executives reportedly justified their strategy by saying it was best for the company. With the unvested shares, the executives believed they could attract more top talent with the promise of stock."
Do they really think they will be able to attract top talent with the promise of holding on to some stock for awhile, but having it taken back before they can actually sell it? I seriously doubt any future employees will want even one UNvested share of stock.
Seriously dude, he didn't mention Android at all. Let's drop this "if your not with us your against us" mindset. Perhaps the GP just hates all these consumer mobile devices and used the term iProduct as a generic term for them all.
I agree with you on all your points. All fees and charges serve some purpose to keep the financial machine moving. Some can be debated as excessive and some can be seen as a downright good deal.
My original thought was that if the GP did switch all his credit cards to credit union cards from major commercial banks, he wouldn't exactly be avoiding the financial system that is in place. The only way to really avoid it would be to get paid in cash (or cash equivalents), keep it stuffed under a rock or where ever, and use that for all your purchases. Not really my idea of modern life, but I suppose someone could do it.
Bank fees are really only onerous and excessive when you don't have a lot of actual assets held with a bank. I've found that when keeping a good enough balance in a top tier commercial bank, they don't charge me fees to access and move my money as long as I'm not using specialty services like wire transfers. The hidden fees I pay them are in the form of lower interest rates than I could get elsewhere, so that would be how they afford the services I get from them.
And VISA, MasterCard, et al. will continue to collect their money off of your credit card purchases. Sure it doesn't come out of your pocket directly, but it sure acts as pressure to retailers to raise prices. If you really want to do banks in, use cash for everything, but that seems to be downright prehistoric now days.
Citation NOT needed. Seriously, how many times do you need to see citations about the relative destruction of coal vs. nuclear power. Just look at any other Slashdot story about nuclear power or possibly look further down this very page. Just pretending you don't know the answer doesn't change anything. I suppose you need a citation to back up claims that the Earth orbits the Sun too.
Maybe they're just cowards, but I have the suspicion that they didn't want to out anybody, because they didn't want to be complicit in any murders. Zetas is not to be fucked with if they know who you are, but I doubt they have better cyber-intelligence skills than the US gov't which has been unable to identify Anon members. So what names would Zetas have to go on if this operation went on? The People that Anonymous outs would be silenced as weak links, and it's quite possible that Anonymous outs the wrong guys and gets them killed for no reason. It's a big step for a group like Anonymous to go from releasing information that makes the populace more informed about what is really going on to releasing information that will almost certainly result in people dying.
My only problem with the Tea Party is that they run as Republicans. If they really have a philosophy that is so different from the two major parties, why do they run on the ticket of the Republicans. I know starting a new party and running third party makes it a lot harder to win elections, but you can define your positions much clearer and separate from those you disagree with. Or is the goal to reform the entire Republican parties ideals and positions from the inside?
I'm sure lots of people will bring up the fact that shipped phones does not have a 1-to-1 correlation to sold phones. They may not sell and be returned to the manufacturer. That being said, how many times could HTC or Samsung or any other company get away with over shipping devices that don't sell before retailers stop ordering as many devices? I seriously doubt HTC is shipping vast quantities of phones in these numbers that didn't sell. This isn't a failing product like the TouchPad prior to the fire-sale, or the Playbook. These are just commodity smart phones.
Whether you love or hate Apple, the important point to debate is not exactly who is king of the hill in smart phones, but the fact that it is not just one player that rules it all any more. Anything can change as time goes on and no major handset manufacturer can let up or they might fall hopelessly behind.
Insurance companies will do what they always do. Try to avoid every major payment that they can and, in the future, when they have a statistically relevant sample set on these cars, they will set the rates in a way to ensure that they make money.
Google would have to weigh the potential litigation costs of these auto-cars against the money they could make selling them. They would then make them or not depending on if they see a net positive to the operation financially.
Personally, I don't see any way that driverless cars or auto cars or whatever you want to call them will ever be sold to the public without some legislation being passed concerning them. Either limiting damage claims, or having governments take a major role in the systems.
So, you're saying that fear of oppressive laws and penalties should make people change their lifestyles and suppress what they believe to be a good and valid lifestyle choice. I suppose you think those guys who fought in the revolutionary war should have just paid their taxes to King George because the penalty if they got caught would have been terrible.
I'd wager you've seen and met quite a few functional pot smokers already. Part of being functional in the current legal climate, is not telling everyone that you smoke pot. Painting wide swaths of the population with the brush of a stereotype helps no one.
And finally, there is a lot of marijuana that is not connected to any bloodshed and misery. It's a plant that people can easily grow themselves, but once again due to excessively harsh punishments, people are even more afraid to have plants in their possession than the dried flowers. Diamonds are tied to human misery due to the conditions in the places where they are found, but marijuana is only tied to this bloodshed due to oppressive laws that force people to go to black markets to obtain it.
There really isn't a good scientific measurement for the "addictiveness" of a substance other than simply polling the population to see what people are addicted to, but I'm concerned with your use of the word "poosible" in regards to marijuana being less addictive to nicotine. I think I speak for every person on earth that has used both for any length of time when I say that nicotine is absolutely, positively more addictive than marijuana. That may sound like hyberbole and exaggeration, but I really believe that to be an absolute truth that any human on Earth would back up.
You mean like everyone jumping from asset bubble to asset bubble thinking they're going to get rich this time, but never remembering all the losses from the last dumb idea?
Yes, yes it is pretentious. Don't know why I was even thinking about arguing that the use of the apostrophe is acceptable. It must have possessed me for a bit.
It's great that the iPhone works for your hands, but I have a hand span larger than your 8.25". I could easily use a larger screen. The idea is not to get one size that fits a lot of people and then tell everyone else they're srcewed, but to give them choices. Like cars with more headroom and legroom, it's nice to have choices of phones with larger screens.
The Mayans didn't say any such thing. Their freakin calendar ends in 2012. Ends like our calendar ends on Dec 31st every year. Does that mean the end of the world? No, our calendar starts over with January in the next year. So too does the Mayan calendar start over in a new cycle.
This chart is only useful if you define what a major version of android is. It seems that everyone is taking 2.1, 2.2, and 2.3 to be three different major versions of Android. That doesn't mesh with my concept of version numbering. It seems to me there would be 4 major versions. 1.x, 2.x, 3.x, and 4.x. If this chart even attempted to use 3.x as a major version for phones, it is horribly biased as that version was never, and probably will never be, used on phones.
If you're concerned that a phone is not being supported to go from 2.1 -> 2.3, what exactly are you worried about, enhanced copy/paste functionality? Support for the barometer sensors that your phone doesn't have?
I have an HTC Hero as well. I was dissapointed with the lack of updates for my phone too, so I put Cyanogenmod on it. Now it runs 2.3 (Gingerbread) just fine. Funny thing, even though the version of Android is newer and some things are slicker, I don't see a huge disadvantage to staying with the version that the carriers supported. I AM happy that I removed all the bloatware that HTC put all over the device though.
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So let me see here. Product "ABC" has smallish market share and can't seem to get out of the shadow of competing Product "XYZ" which has a dominant majority of market share. Now, If I happen to go to a special location and see that people there prefer ABC, that equates to "it seems clear that regular people like [ABC] products very much."
That's some real spin there. Obviously people like Macs because they have captured a decent share of the desktop computer market, but it is not correct to find niche groups of people that use them in greater numbers to say that people like them more.
I would think 1AM in a park in NYC is far from the safest time of day to be there. I doubt they are concerned about safety. This was most likely scheduled for a time that would draw as little attention from the non-protesting public as possible and cause maximum disruption to the protesters camped in the park.
Only if the protest is sleeping in a park. If they all show up in the morning and leave at night to go sleep somewhere else it can go on just fine. Of course the authorities know that if people aren't sleeping in the park they won't show up every morning and the whole thing will start to fade away.
yes because true geeks believe that Psychology is a hard science with definite rules to determine without a doubt what someones mental age is to get the intelligence quotient of mental age / physical age. It's a mathematical term in the sense that there is division, but beyond that it's a silly measurement.
that Google has followed through on releasing the source code. This is awesome news after Honeycomb went MIA as far as source release.
Don't forget it being preceded by excessive amounts of hype and fervor from Apple fans.
I, for one, can't wait for the Apple TV, Apple car, Apple kitchen appliances, Apple washer/dryer, and Apple light bulbs so that every milliWatt of electric power I use will go through a device that has finally been perfected by Apple.
"...the firm's executives reportedly justified their strategy by saying it was best for the company. With the unvested shares, the executives believed they could attract more top talent with the promise of stock."
Do they really think they will be able to attract top talent with the promise of holding on to some stock for awhile, but having it taken back before they can actually sell it? I seriously doubt any future employees will want even one UNvested share of stock.
Seriously dude, he didn't mention Android at all. Let's drop this "if your not with us your against us" mindset. Perhaps the GP just hates all these consumer mobile devices and used the term iProduct as a generic term for them all.
I agree with you on all your points. All fees and charges serve some purpose to keep the financial machine moving. Some can be debated as excessive and some can be seen as a downright good deal.
My original thought was that if the GP did switch all his credit cards to credit union cards from major commercial banks, he wouldn't exactly be avoiding the financial system that is in place. The only way to really avoid it would be to get paid in cash (or cash equivalents), keep it stuffed under a rock or where ever, and use that for all your purchases. Not really my idea of modern life, but I suppose someone could do it.
Bank fees are really only onerous and excessive when you don't have a lot of actual assets held with a bank. I've found that when keeping a good enough balance in a top tier commercial bank, they don't charge me fees to access and move my money as long as I'm not using specialty services like wire transfers. The hidden fees I pay them are in the form of lower interest rates than I could get elsewhere, so that would be how they afford the services I get from them.
And VISA, MasterCard, et al. will continue to collect their money off of your credit card purchases. Sure it doesn't come out of your pocket directly, but it sure acts as pressure to retailers to raise prices. If you really want to do banks in, use cash for everything, but that seems to be downright prehistoric now days.
Citation NOT needed. Seriously, how many times do you need to see citations about the relative destruction of coal vs. nuclear power. Just look at any other Slashdot story about nuclear power or possibly look further down this very page. Just pretending you don't know the answer doesn't change anything. I suppose you need a citation to back up claims that the Earth orbits the Sun too.
in the safety of your own home
Hey, some of us post from work.
Maybe they're just cowards, but I have the suspicion that they didn't want to out anybody, because they didn't want to be complicit in any murders. Zetas is not to be fucked with if they know who you are, but I doubt they have better cyber-intelligence skills than the US gov't which has been unable to identify Anon members. So what names would Zetas have to go on if this operation went on? The People that Anonymous outs would be silenced as weak links, and it's quite possible that Anonymous outs the wrong guys and gets them killed for no reason. It's a big step for a group like Anonymous to go from releasing information that makes the populace more informed about what is really going on to releasing information that will almost certainly result in people dying.
My only problem with the Tea Party is that they run as Republicans. If they really have a philosophy that is so different from the two major parties, why do they run on the ticket of the Republicans. I know starting a new party and running third party makes it a lot harder to win elections, but you can define your positions much clearer and separate from those you disagree with. Or is the goal to reform the entire Republican parties ideals and positions from the inside?
I'm sure lots of people will bring up the fact that shipped phones does not have a 1-to-1 correlation to sold phones. They may not sell and be returned to the manufacturer. That being said, how many times could HTC or Samsung or any other company get away with over shipping devices that don't sell before retailers stop ordering as many devices? I seriously doubt HTC is shipping vast quantities of phones in these numbers that didn't sell. This isn't a failing product like the TouchPad prior to the fire-sale, or the Playbook. These are just commodity smart phones.
Whether you love or hate Apple, the important point to debate is not exactly who is king of the hill in smart phones, but the fact that it is not just one player that rules it all any more. Anything can change as time goes on and no major handset manufacturer can let up or they might fall hopelessly behind.
Insurance companies will do what they always do. Try to avoid every major payment that they can and, in the future, when they have a statistically relevant sample set on these cars, they will set the rates in a way to ensure that they make money.
Google would have to weigh the potential litigation costs of these auto-cars against the money they could make selling them. They would then make them or not depending on if they see a net positive to the operation financially.
Personally, I don't see any way that driverless cars or auto cars or whatever you want to call them will ever be sold to the public without some legislation being passed concerning them. Either limiting damage claims, or having governments take a major role in the systems.
So, you're saying that fear of oppressive laws and penalties should make people change their lifestyles and suppress what they believe to be a good and valid lifestyle choice. I suppose you think those guys who fought in the revolutionary war should have just paid their taxes to King George because the penalty if they got caught would have been terrible.
I'd wager you've seen and met quite a few functional pot smokers already. Part of being functional in the current legal climate, is not telling everyone that you smoke pot. Painting wide swaths of the population with the brush of a stereotype helps no one.
And finally, there is a lot of marijuana that is not connected to any bloodshed and misery. It's a plant that people can easily grow themselves, but once again due to excessively harsh punishments, people are even more afraid to have plants in their possession than the dried flowers. Diamonds are tied to human misery due to the conditions in the places where they are found, but marijuana is only tied to this bloodshed due to oppressive laws that force people to go to black markets to obtain it.
There really isn't a good scientific measurement for the "addictiveness" of a substance other than simply polling the population to see what people are addicted to, but I'm concerned with your use of the word "poosible" in regards to marijuana being less addictive to nicotine. I think I speak for every person on earth that has used both for any length of time when I say that nicotine is absolutely, positively more addictive than marijuana. That may sound like hyberbole and exaggeration, but I really believe that to be an absolute truth that any human on Earth would back up.
You mean like everyone jumping from asset bubble to asset bubble thinking they're going to get rich this time, but never remembering all the losses from the last dumb idea?
Yes, yes it is pretentious. Don't know why I was even thinking about arguing that the use of the apostrophe is acceptable. It must have possessed me for a bit.
It's great that the iPhone works for your hands, but I have a hand span larger than your 8.25". I could easily use a larger screen. The idea is not to get one size that fits a lot of people and then tell everyone else they're srcewed, but to give them choices. Like cars with more headroom and legroom, it's nice to have choices of phones with larger screens.
The Mayans didn't say any such thing. Their freakin calendar ends in 2012. Ends like our calendar ends on Dec 31st every year. Does that mean the end of the world? No, our calendar starts over with January in the next year. So too does the Mayan calendar start over in a new cycle.
and your original article mentions Halloween with and without the apostrophe as acceptable.
This chart is only useful if you define what a major version of android is. It seems that everyone is taking 2.1, 2.2, and 2.3 to be three different major versions of Android. That doesn't mesh with my concept of version numbering. It seems to me there would be 4 major versions. 1.x, 2.x, 3.x, and 4.x. If this chart even attempted to use 3.x as a major version for phones, it is horribly biased as that version was never, and probably will never be, used on phones.
If you're concerned that a phone is not being supported to go from 2.1 -> 2.3, what exactly are you worried about, enhanced copy/paste functionality? Support for the barometer sensors that your phone doesn't have?
I have an HTC Hero as well. I was dissapointed with the lack of updates for my phone too, so I put Cyanogenmod on it. Now it runs 2.3 (Gingerbread) just fine. Funny thing, even though the version of Android is newer and some things are slicker, I don't see a huge disadvantage to staying with the version that the carriers supported. I AM happy that I removed all the bloatware that HTC put all over the device though.