There are always some latent stresses but generally the rock will not fracture to relieve them. What the minor earthquakes show is that fracking creates a non-destructive means of relieving stresses at low levels. Given that the quakes were small enough to pass unnoticed unless you were actually looking for them, there's no real reason to scream FRACKING CAUSES EARTHQUAKES. Try working on your reading comprehension, nothing i said implied that fracking was not the reason for the quakes.
Sigh, yet another "The SKY IS FALLING" story from the clueless.
The micro-fractures plus the injection of water, sand & detergents used by fracking are making small stress relieving adjustments (earthquakes) possible.
It's just what we would need to eliminate major earthquakes. Unfortunately the geology of earthquake zones & that where fracking can be useful to recover recover otherwise unavailable gas do not overlap so it will never happen as a beneficial side effect of commercial fracking.
I'm glad for you, seriously. My point was more that what you consider to be a unique value to android isn't as I demonstrated by easily turning your words around to support a larger position.
You cannot buy market share if shipping != sales. Crowing "WE'RE THE BIGGEST"* means nothing at present. We need to wait untill the beginning of next year to see how the holiday sales turn out to see how samsung's bet turns out.
Polls show that iPhone users have the highest satisfaction numbers & would usually renew with another iPhone. Approval & renewal rates for everyone else are much lower. Apple skeptics put it down to brainwashing, discounting how many people have tried others, been burned and are now happy to renew.
I chose my current Apple device based on "specs" and price. It turned out well but I could just as easily defect to a different brand. Not being Android is irrelevant.
That's the nice thing about not being tied to the preconceptions of benefits any model or OS. I can feel fairly comfortable choosing between any brand out there based on features and price whether or not I've been burned by them (HTC, Samsung, Nokia, Sony-Ericsson) in the past in some way.
You have just shown that you do not know how Walmart works. Walmart doesn't pay their suppliers right away, they wait until the product has sold to pay them. Playing with the cash they made off customers while waiting to pay off suppliers is how they make much of their profit. If the product does not move Walmart will send it back so unsold units costs Walmart little & Samsung a lot. If the shipped phones do not sell before Xmas it will take muck longer to sell them as sales nosedive Q1.
Overproducing has already been fatal to two Apple rivals relatively recently: HP & Palm. Both announced rosy shipping numbers, filled up their sales channels with unsold product & then threw in the towel.
So Samsung won't make as much money? who cares if they're putting many devices on the market at similar rates than the iPhone.
Their bankers and stockholders will care.
A Movie isn't a success because it is shown all over the country but because it's sales figures show that millions paid to see it. In the same way shipping numbers only detail availability.
Both Palm with their Pré & then HP with their Touchpads also announced huge shipment numbers initially. Their actual sales were much lower, filling their sales channels to the point where some vendors were sending the units back, This lost them both lots of money and eventually they both ended up tanking.
Shipping shows how much they invested in sales inventory & costs them money. Sales shows how much money they make off the product. That's why you need to rely on sales rather than shipping to see if a product is a success or not.
The most interesting questions is rather: "How many of the shipped pones will actually get sold before 2012?" Samsung has shown it can produce phones now let's see if they can actually sell them.
Who says that the cops don't have the list ? Oh yeah, Anonymous, the nadir of reliability... Why are you accepting anonymous statements without even worrying whether their actions are helping pedophiles by corrupting any ongoing investigations?
Oh grow up & recognize that pork is non-denominational, will you? Democratic sponsors of STS like Nelson show that your attempt to blame republicans making democrats shoulder their part of responsibility for this flying pig are futile.
All anonymous is doing is pushing them further underground. Have they helped to obtain admissible evidence against the sickos? No. Do they know if they have just compromised an investigation that would have put the sickos away? No.
Anonymous is a lynch mob & there is no justice to be found in any lynch mob.
Surely even if you have never taken any law classes you have watched enough TV to know that hearsay is useless in a court of law? Besides that, you're taking Anonymous' statements at face value. How the fuck would they know whether the people on the sites are under surveillance by authorities compiling enough real evidence to put the sickos away? No, Anonymous is (as usual) pumping up their own egos at society's expense. Much like a lynch mob they feel empowered to right a wrong, but again much like a mob their effects are usually counterproductive. If they were intelligent they would leave everyone alone. They're not.
I'd really prefer it if they would stop attacking everyone. Sure they're attacking the kiddie porn purveyors at present but the effects are counterproductive. They are purportedly attacking the biggest sites. Guess what, the bigger the site the more chance that it has shown up on the Feds & other governments radar. So by driving the sickos further underground instead of getting evidence & putting them away they are doing the public a disservice.
It's not as if there wasn't a recent article detailing how some nut was storing radioacttive bottles around tokyo which at least had a kernel of interesting info. This is just a puff-piece for anti-nukes to exhibit their angst.
If you think that you're the intended market for Galileo with your hand-held GPS units you're mistaken. Unless you're willing to pay expensive licensing fees for sub meter resolution (which can already be gained in GPS using terrestrial emitters), Galileo brings nothing new to the table. Galileo's main reason for existing is as pork for European satellite constructors selling it to airlines to use in automated landing systems is a fig leaf and it's development for use in cheap chips as a replacement/adjunct to GPS is a misinformed dream. Competition between an existing free "good enough" solution and an incomplete expensive system has almost always turned out badly for the second.
Not necessarily. This is less adding a spare tire in the trunk that can be used to replace a flat on one of the existing tires & more the first few pieces of a new & incompatible wheel attachment system that has been devised to keep european space workers busy. In a decade or two once all the pieces have been installed and a distribution network is set up it may actually turn out to be a better system but to be able to use it you're going to have to pay through the nose. The definition of better depends on who you are. Clearly better for the space workers & people who need the upgrades & are willing to pay for them. Not necessarily better for people happy with the existing setup.
No argument here, I install & maintain Bluecoats & other security related solutions for a living. Fortunately for my consience, my clients are a lot less oppressive/dangereous that the SG.
Bluecoat is not just a box, it's a service. If Bluecoat is serious about not wanting to be used by Syria they should blackhole Syria's IP ranges. No this can't shut off the service as the syrians could use a proxy server outside their IP ranges but it would show that Bluecoat has made an effort...
How is it confusing that the iPhone 3G was the first model to work on 3G networks? The 4 & the 4S are not 4G phones & do not have any 'G's in their names that's not confusing either. It looks like you're just generally confused...
No. The borg face is not a stupid joke as you are trying to depict it but a mark of contempt that/. bestowed on Microsoft back when it thought that it could use it's monopolies to trample others into the dust at will. The collective memory of people on/. does not forgive past attempts on MS's part to deprive us of our livelihood easily and the continued use of the borgface is a sign of that. Those that call it childish miss the point.
Aircraft landing is really tough.... Landing on a ship might be doable in the very far future but right now the technology is nowhere near that.
Your misguided attempt to compare CTOL carrier aircraft with a VTOL just shows that you don't understand the two enough to make a valid comparison. As Helicopters have shown for over half a century, landing on a ship is not particularly difficult once you can land vertically. The Brits even showed 25 years ago that they could operate harriers from their much smaller carriers in sea conditions that would have shut down CTOL operations from a supercarrier.
Bezos wouuld certainly avoid landing during any sea-state over dead calm initially but would certainly work up to landing in minor sea-states or deploy landing pad two ships in normally calm regions that are far enough apart to avoid needing to be shutdown at the same time.
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Woosh...
There are always some latent stresses but generally the rock will not fracture to relieve them. What the minor earthquakes show is that fracking creates a non-destructive means of relieving stresses at low levels. Given that the quakes were small enough to pass unnoticed unless you were actually looking for them, there's no real reason to scream FRACKING CAUSES EARTHQUAKES. Try working on your reading comprehension, nothing i said implied that fracking was not the reason for the quakes.
Sigh, yet another "The SKY IS FALLING" story from the clueless.
The micro-fractures plus the injection of water, sand & detergents used by fracking are making small stress relieving adjustments (earthquakes) possible.
It's just what we would need to eliminate major earthquakes. Unfortunately the geology of earthquake zones & that where fracking can be useful to recover recover otherwise unavailable gas do not overlap so it will never happen as a beneficial side effect of commercial fracking.
I'm glad for you, seriously. My point was more that what you consider to be a unique value to android isn't as I demonstrated by easily turning your words around to support a larger position.
You cannot buy market share if shipping != sales. Crowing "WE'RE THE BIGGEST"* means nothing at present. We need to wait untill the beginning of next year to see how the holiday sales turn out to see how samsung's bet turns out.
* in shipping over a selected time period.
Polls show that iPhone users have the highest satisfaction numbers & would usually renew with another iPhone. Approval & renewal rates for everyone else are much lower. Apple skeptics put it down to brainwashing, discounting how many people have tried others, been burned and are now happy to renew.
I chose my current Apple device based on "specs" and price. It turned out well but I could just as easily defect to a different brand. Not being Android is irrelevant.
That's the nice thing about not being tied to the preconceptions of benefits any model or OS. I can feel fairly comfortable choosing between any brand out there based on features and price whether or not I've been burned by them (HTC, Samsung, Nokia, Sony-Ericsson) in the past in some way.
s/expecting/hoping for/
You have just shown that you do not know how Walmart works. Walmart doesn't pay their suppliers right away, they wait until the product has sold to pay them. Playing with the cash they made off customers while waiting to pay off suppliers is how they make much of their profit. If the product does not move Walmart will send it back so unsold units costs Walmart little & Samsung a lot. If the shipped phones do not sell before Xmas it will take muck longer to sell them as sales nosedive Q1.
Overproducing has already been fatal to two Apple rivals relatively recently: HP & Palm. Both announced rosy shipping numbers, filled up their sales channels with unsold product & then threw in the towel.
We'll see how Samsung fares.
Truly an insightful post...
So Samsung won't make as much money? who cares if they're putting many devices on the market at similar rates than the iPhone.
Their bankers and stockholders will care.
A Movie isn't a success because it is shown all over the country but because it's sales figures show that millions paid to see it. In the same way shipping numbers only detail availability.
Both Palm with their Pré & then HP with their Touchpads also announced huge shipment numbers initially. Their actual sales were much lower, filling their sales channels to the point where some vendors were sending the units back, This lost them both lots of money and eventually they both ended up tanking.
Shipping shows how much they invested in sales inventory & costs them money. Sales shows how much money they make off the product. That's why you need to rely on sales rather than shipping to see if a product is a success or not.
The most interesting questions is rather: "How many of the shipped pones will actually get sold before 2012?" Samsung has shown it can produce phones now let's see if they can actually sell them.
Who says that the cops don't have the list ? Oh yeah, Anonymous, the nadir of reliability... Why are you accepting anonymous statements without even worrying whether their actions are helping pedophiles by corrupting any ongoing investigations?
Oh grow up & recognize that pork is non-denominational, will you? Democratic sponsors of STS like Nelson show that your attempt to blame republicans making democrats shoulder their part of responsibility for this flying pig are futile.
After erasing their own names and adding a few of their enemies' to it?
All anonymous is doing is pushing them further underground. Have they helped to obtain admissible evidence against the sickos? No. Do they know if they have just compromised an investigation that would have put the sickos away? No.
Anonymous is a lynch mob & there is no justice to be found in any lynch mob.
Surely even if you have never taken any law classes you have watched enough TV to know that hearsay is useless in a court of law? Besides that, you're taking Anonymous' statements at face value. How the fuck would they know whether the people on the sites are under surveillance by authorities compiling enough real evidence to put the sickos away? No, Anonymous is (as usual) pumping up their own egos at society's expense. Much like a lynch mob they feel empowered to right a wrong, but again much like a mob their effects are usually counterproductive. If they were intelligent they would leave everyone alone. They're not.
I'd really prefer it if they would stop attacking everyone. Sure they're attacking the kiddie porn purveyors at present but the effects are counterproductive. They are purportedly attacking the biggest sites. Guess what, the bigger the site the more chance that it has shown up on the Feds & other governments radar. So by driving the sickos further underground instead of getting evidence & putting them away they are doing the public a disservice.
It's not as if there wasn't a recent article detailing how some nut was storing radioacttive bottles around tokyo which at least had a kernel of interesting info. This is just a puff-piece for anti-nukes to exhibit their angst.
For shame Tomothy...
If you think that you're the intended market for Galileo with your hand-held GPS units you're mistaken. Unless you're willing to pay expensive licensing fees for sub meter resolution (which can already be gained in GPS using terrestrial emitters), Galileo brings nothing new to the table. Galileo's main reason for existing is as pork for European satellite constructors selling it to airlines to use in automated landing systems is a fig leaf and it's development for use in cheap chips as a replacement/adjunct to GPS is a misinformed dream.
Competition between an existing free "good enough" solution and an incomplete expensive system has almost always turned out badly for the second.
Not necessarily. This is less adding a spare tire in the trunk that can be used to replace a flat on one of the existing tires & more the first few pieces of a new & incompatible wheel attachment system that has been devised to keep european space workers busy. In a decade or two once all the pieces have been installed and a distribution network is set up it may actually turn out to be a better system but to be able to use it you're going to have to pay through the nose.
The definition of better depends on who you are. Clearly better for the space workers & people who need the upgrades & are willing to pay for them. Not necessarily better for people happy with the existing setup.
No argument here, I install & maintain Bluecoats & other security related solutions for a living. Fortunately for my consience, my clients are a lot less oppressive/dangereous that the SG.
Bluecoat is not just a box, it's a service. If Bluecoat is serious about not wanting to be used by Syria they should blackhole Syria's IP ranges. No this can't shut off the service as the syrians could use a proxy server outside their IP ranges but it would show that Bluecoat has made an effort...
How is it confusing that the iPhone 3G was the first model to work on 3G networks? The 4 & the 4S are not 4G phones & do not have any 'G's in their names that's not confusing either. It looks like you're just generally confused...
No. The borg face is not a stupid joke as you are trying to depict it but a mark of contempt that /. bestowed on Microsoft back when it thought that it could use it's monopolies to trample others into the dust at will. The collective memory of people on /. does not forgive past attempts on MS's part to deprive us of our livelihood easily and the continued use of the borgface is a sign of that. Those that call it childish miss the point.
Aircraft landing is really tough. ... Landing on a ship might be doable in the very far future but right now the technology is nowhere near that.
Your misguided attempt to compare CTOL carrier aircraft with a VTOL just shows that you don't understand the two enough to make a valid comparison. As Helicopters have shown for over half a century, landing on a ship is not particularly difficult once you can land vertically. The Brits even showed 25 years ago that they could operate harriers from their much smaller carriers in sea conditions that would have shut down CTOL operations from a supercarrier.
Bezos wouuld certainly avoid landing during any sea-state over dead calm initially but would certainly work up to landing in minor sea-states or deploy landing pad two ships in normally calm regions that are far enough apart to avoid needing to be shutdown at the same time.