This has the trademarks of every other BS medical/science project.
1. promise billions to investors if you succeed
2. pretend that there is no competition and your project is the best
3. lie and lie and lie and lie and lie to keep the funding coming in so the scientists can keep their jobs
4. the entire project collapses when your competition actually invent something, seeing as how they were 5 years ahead of you in the first place
5. try to get a show on the discovery channel
Oh good, that's what Africa needs is a significantly higher population with a higher growth rate. Just being realistic here, people. I think they might want to focus on providing food and shelter and income as well before more people attempt to live in a climate that doesn't support human life.
Really? Because I distinctly remember in economics class learning the very popular business technique that as soon as you reach a certain level of potential demand and product sales, you stop everything, say "fuck you, we're Amazon" and don't sell any more of that product. It was one of the top surefire ways to run a successful business.
I think it'd get more readers with "New Report Finds Amazon CEO Did Not Take Economics Class Ever" because if your supply demand curve hits a certain demand level then goes straight down, your company is beyond all levels of stupid. They might have to actually name such a level of business stupidity after Amazon. To have customers saying "shut up and take my money!" and then a company saying "Ummm we're just not going to sell to you" that's mind-bogglingly stupid.
As a 3-month old small business owner who's trying all day every day to get every last interested customer possible in the door to buy any of my products, I frankly find it offensive and disgusting that they think they can afford to do something like that. That's right up there with Dell getting Windows 7 for $50 and me getting it for $100.
By the way, the US and possibly world's largest online retailers, in order, are as follows:
#1 Amazon
#2 Newegg.com
I think I know which one of those two I'm going to support now.
Oh yeah, NOW is when they'd realize that. Not when every news organization on the planet reported 23 billion in liquid cash reserves for Apple or when every news organization in the universe reported on the conditions at Apple's Foxconn plants. I think people knew they were getting utterly price-screwed by Apple before the Samsung trial! You would think that Apple is only riding on dedicated Apple fanboys who are in denial and think it costs $450 to make an iPhone but apparently they're still getting other customers than that too...for now.
As a matter of fact, to beat Apple, it has to work really well on Apple devices.
Of course, if you flip it around and look at how amazingly bad iTunes is on the PC, you'll notice how that statement is complete BS. In fact, anyone anywhere knows that Apple became popular by creating the fake image that if you buy an Apple device, you can show off and tell your friends you're better than them. Now that too many people have Apple products, that fell apart so they've resorted to lying about being better at graphics and video editing and suing their competition.
Back to the original article's point, all that they need to beat Apple's iphone and ipad is the keyboard. EVERYONE who types over 30WPM on a standard keyboard hates typing on ipads and iphones. They could put up a giant banner at Best Buy with the Microsoft Surface tablet on it and just put "It has a physical keyboard" and that's all that's necessary. Or they could really drive up the score by adding another banner under it that says: "Screw skydrive, Screw iCloud, this has a USB port." People do know how to use flash drives these days and my flash drive worked just fine last February 29th, unlike some clouds.
Earlier this week I installed the final version of Windows 8. And it is awesome. That's not a joke. Windows 8 is absolutely, unequivocally stellar. And yet, at the end of the day, I am right back to using Linux
But this is less an opinion piece and more a drug trip. Seriously, what planet is this person from?! I HATE WINDOWS 8 and I'm no Linux person. Their interface is garbage. Unless the Linux person who wrote this is just amazed that they don't have to type fifty 500-character command line entries just to install a Java plugin, I don't see how this opinion could have possibly come out other than a drug trip.
That's ridiculous. If I sell illegal drugs and get $1 mil, I have to give that $1 mil back. They don't just say stop doing it and I keep the money. Federal law states that if money is gained illegally, it has to be undone. They're not depositing money into an Iranian account, they're un-receiving money from Iran, which sounds a hell of a lot more legal.
Thanks to the sanctions, they can't get refunds either.
I think that last part is just Blizzard actually, lol. I would think that receiving $50 or whatever from services provided to an Iranian then getting told that's not allowed would mean you have to undo the trade by giving that $50 back.
THANK YOU for posting that, as bitcoin gets enough needless hate around slashdot already. Here, let me go back in time about 6 months and post what every single intelligent bitcoin user said on the forums about this guy:
"Anyone who invests with this fake bullshit is a moron"
Last night in DDO I lit myself on fire with blue fire, turned into wraith mode, and floated around throwing banked pumpkin head grenades at unsuspecting players in the main area, calling myself the ghost of Halloween past. It caused some lols.:-P So I think I'm good.
So let's see, how fast does a spaceship go after blasting off with a rocket? And how long does it take to get to the moon? Okay, now let's compare that to the speed of something traveling along an elevator wire. If it's pulled by the wire, the most powerful metal alloys in the world still wouldn't hold up to a reasonable speed. Then there's friction so let's say it's mag-lev, except not really lev since it's going straight up. That'd get maybe 100MPH if they're lucky since a bullet train can go like 200 on the ground going perpendicular to gravity. So I hope they enjoy their 6 month long journey to the moon on that elevator.
I think 15% would put them around even with Intel. That means it's a toss up except, oh wait, their boards are ungodly expensive. I really don't know why, probably chipset manufacturing cost or something. A really nice MSI B75 board with all metal caps is $65 and my usual H77MA-G43 board is a mere $90. All the AMD ones i looked at that had the features I wanted (basically same ones as those last two I mentioned) are all $100 and usually well over a hundred. Just to get SATA III at all was terribly expensive on any AMD board with any chipset. So unless it has an onboard 1833MHz memory controller, that's the end of that. But who knows, boards might come out super cheap for the new chips.
Combofix, believe it or not, specializes in removing all forms of remote control software. Most people don't know that. In fact, it will even destroy gotomeeting related files whether you want it to or not:-P Also, any system setting viewer like even the ancient HijackThis will list all LSP and protocol changes and all startup entries and all browser plugins. Just get rid of anything you can't identify or that google says is a remote control viewer. If malware scanners can't pick up anything bad, a system restore will definitely destroy any legitimate remote control software so between the two, you should disable any control they had.
So, reset all passwords for all significant accounts, add a fraud alert to his credit report or add a third party lockdown solution like Lifelock (even though I hate them) and you should be set.
How much do you think Samsung would have to pay IBM to get them to file an injunction against their iPad infringing on their original patent for a tablet? My guess would be not much. I think Apple just painted the biggest, most legitimately attackable target on themselves in human history. They're about to get IBM/Dell/LG/HP/GE/Lenovo-stomped. At least they've got all that 23 billion in cash laying around for legal fees. They're pretty lucky they didn't use it to pay their Foxconn slave labor workers sufficiently.
I don't know if you knew this or not but it's actually illegal. Oh and by the way, no, getting high to make yourself feel better about all your problems and pretending that it makes them go away is not healthy at any usage frequency.
They must not have looked at Java's security history since about version 6r16 when they decided to do quarterly updated. Although, they've broken many, many, many installs of Java by releasing 3 or 4 updates in 1 month. Maybe they should just build it with some sort of security in mind and they wouldn't have this problem.
Saying the iPhone harmed HP and Dell is idiotic. It's a phone, not a computer. You can still do maybe 10% of common tasks on it compared to a computer and that includes typing at a reasonable speed. I think everyone here knows what really went wrong with HP and Dell so here's my suggestion on how to fix it:
Back when I had huge applications to program for college, I'd be up until the early morning and my brain would be spun up into high gear so it'd be hard to fall asleep. Often times, I'd finally get to sleep and keep writing the software in my sleep. Then I'd wake up and be mad that I'd have to retype it all but retyping it as soon as I woke up proved that it actually was pretty good code:-D
Also, since there's a popular theory that dreams are merely simulations of situations that your brain can practice so it's more prepared if it ever happens in reality, it's not surprising that a person is capable of learning and remembering while asleep. That's sort of the point.
I think this just might maybe have to do with the fact that they cheaped out on low res, grainy, piece of crap cameras that can see about 10 feet reliably.
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This has the trademarks of every other BS medical/science project.
1. promise billions to investors if you succeed
2. pretend that there is no competition and your project is the best
3. lie and lie and lie and lie and lie to keep the funding coming in so the scientists can keep their jobs
4. the entire project collapses when your competition actually invent something, seeing as how they were 5 years ahead of you in the first place
5. try to get a show on the discovery channel
Oh good, that's what Africa needs is a significantly higher population with a higher growth rate. Just being realistic here, people. I think they might want to focus on providing food and shelter and income as well before more people attempt to live in a climate that doesn't support human life.
Really? Because I distinctly remember in economics class learning the very popular business technique that as soon as you reach a certain level of potential demand and product sales, you stop everything, say "fuck you, we're Amazon" and don't sell any more of that product. It was one of the top surefire ways to run a successful business.
I think it'd get more readers with "New Report Finds Amazon CEO Did Not Take Economics Class Ever" because if your supply demand curve hits a certain demand level then goes straight down, your company is beyond all levels of stupid. They might have to actually name such a level of business stupidity after Amazon. To have customers saying "shut up and take my money!" and then a company saying "Ummm we're just not going to sell to you" that's mind-bogglingly stupid.
As a 3-month old small business owner who's trying all day every day to get every last interested customer possible in the door to buy any of my products, I frankly find it offensive and disgusting that they think they can afford to do something like that. That's right up there with Dell getting Windows 7 for $50 and me getting it for $100.
By the way, the US and possibly world's largest online retailers, in order, are as follows:
#1 Amazon
#2 Newegg.com
I think I know which one of those two I'm going to support now.
Oh yeah, NOW is when they'd realize that. Not when every news organization on the planet reported 23 billion in liquid cash reserves for Apple or when every news organization in the universe reported on the conditions at Apple's Foxconn plants. I think people knew they were getting utterly price-screwed by Apple before the Samsung trial! You would think that Apple is only riding on dedicated Apple fanboys who are in denial and think it costs $450 to make an iPhone but apparently they're still getting other customers than that too...for now.
Put like 1 sentence on your website that's anti-muslim and the FBI would be interested in anyone that even generates a 404 lol.
Of course, if you flip it around and look at how amazingly bad iTunes is on the PC, you'll notice how that statement is complete BS. In fact, anyone anywhere knows that Apple became popular by creating the fake image that if you buy an Apple device, you can show off and tell your friends you're better than them. Now that too many people have Apple products, that fell apart so they've resorted to lying about being better at graphics and video editing and suing their competition.
Back to the original article's point, all that they need to beat Apple's iphone and ipad is the keyboard. EVERYONE who types over 30WPM on a standard keyboard hates typing on ipads and iphones. They could put up a giant banner at Best Buy with the Microsoft Surface tablet on it and just put "It has a physical keyboard" and that's all that's necessary. Or they could really drive up the score by adding another banner under it that says: "Screw skydrive, Screw iCloud, this has a USB port." People do know how to use flash drives these days and my flash drive worked just fine last February 29th, unlike some clouds.
But this is less an opinion piece and more a drug trip. Seriously, what planet is this person from?! I HATE WINDOWS 8 and I'm no Linux person. Their interface is garbage. Unless the Linux person who wrote this is just amazed that they don't have to type fifty 500-character command line entries just to install a Java plugin, I don't see how this opinion could have possibly come out other than a drug trip.
Running windows 8?!?! THEY CLEARLY COPIED APPLE! You know, by...having an operating system and being not square.
Oh come on. That's almost as stupid as saying that February 29th destroys clouds...oh wait.
but see, they don't need one since the ISS has an onboard emergency medical hologram :-P
That's ridiculous. If I sell illegal drugs and get $1 mil, I have to give that $1 mil back. They don't just say stop doing it and I keep the money. Federal law states that if money is gained illegally, it has to be undone. They're not depositing money into an Iranian account, they're un-receiving money from Iran, which sounds a hell of a lot more legal.
I think that last part is just Blizzard actually, lol. I would think that receiving $50 or whatever from services provided to an Iranian then getting told that's not allowed would mean you have to undo the trade by giving that $50 back.
THANK YOU for posting that, as bitcoin gets enough needless hate around slashdot already. Here, let me go back in time about 6 months and post what every single intelligent bitcoin user said on the forums about this guy:
"Anyone who invests with this fake bullshit is a moron"
Morons are morons. It's not bitcoin-dependent.
Last night in DDO I lit myself on fire with blue fire, turned into wraith mode, and floated around throwing banked pumpkin head grenades at unsuspecting players in the main area, calling myself the ghost of Halloween past. It caused some lols. :-P So I think I'm good.
So let's see, how fast does a spaceship go after blasting off with a rocket? And how long does it take to get to the moon? Okay, now let's compare that to the speed of something traveling along an elevator wire. If it's pulled by the wire, the most powerful metal alloys in the world still wouldn't hold up to a reasonable speed. Then there's friction so let's say it's mag-lev, except not really lev since it's going straight up. That'd get maybe 100MPH if they're lucky since a bullet train can go like 200 on the ground going perpendicular to gravity. So I hope they enjoy their 6 month long journey to the moon on that elevator.
I think 15% would put them around even with Intel. That means it's a toss up except, oh wait, their boards are ungodly expensive. I really don't know why, probably chipset manufacturing cost or something. A really nice MSI B75 board with all metal caps is $65 and my usual H77MA-G43 board is a mere $90. All the AMD ones i looked at that had the features I wanted (basically same ones as those last two I mentioned) are all $100 and usually well over a hundred. Just to get SATA III at all was terribly expensive on any AMD board with any chipset. So unless it has an onboard 1833MHz memory controller, that's the end of that. But who knows, boards might come out super cheap for the new chips.
Combofix, believe it or not, specializes in removing all forms of remote control software. Most people don't know that. In fact, it will even destroy gotomeeting related files whether you want it to or not :-P Also, any system setting viewer like even the ancient HijackThis will list all LSP and protocol changes and all startup entries and all browser plugins. Just get rid of anything you can't identify or that google says is a remote control viewer. If malware scanners can't pick up anything bad, a system restore will definitely destroy any legitimate remote control software so between the two, you should disable any control they had.
So, reset all passwords for all significant accounts, add a fraud alert to his credit report or add a third party lockdown solution like Lifelock (even though I hate them) and you should be set.
How much do you think Samsung would have to pay IBM to get them to file an injunction against their iPad infringing on their original patent for a tablet? My guess would be not much. I think Apple just painted the biggest, most legitimately attackable target on themselves in human history. They're about to get IBM/Dell/LG/HP/GE/Lenovo-stomped. At least they've got all that 23 billion in cash laying around for legal fees. They're pretty lucky they didn't use it to pay their Foxconn slave labor workers sufficiently.
I don't know if you knew this or not but it's actually illegal. Oh and by the way, no, getting high to make yourself feel better about all your problems and pretending that it makes them go away is not healthy at any usage frequency.
But what about all the alleged positive effects like eating a whole bunch and becoming a lazy fast ass and getting arrested...oh wait...
They must not have looked at Java's security history since about version 6r16 when they decided to do quarterly updated. Although, they've broken many, many, many installs of Java by releasing 3 or 4 updates in 1 month. Maybe they should just build it with some sort of security in mind and they wouldn't have this problem.
Saying the iPhone harmed HP and Dell is idiotic. It's a phone, not a computer. You can still do maybe 10% of common tasks on it compared to a computer and that includes typing at a reasonable speed. I think everyone here knows what really went wrong with HP and Dell so here's my suggestion on how to fix it:
1. use parts that are actually good
2. make money
Back when I had huge applications to program for college, I'd be up until the early morning and my brain would be spun up into high gear so it'd be hard to fall asleep. Often times, I'd finally get to sleep and keep writing the software in my sleep. Then I'd wake up and be mad that I'd have to retype it all but retyping it as soon as I woke up proved that it actually was pretty good code :-D
Also, since there's a popular theory that dreams are merely simulations of situations that your brain can practice so it's more prepared if it ever happens in reality, it's not surprising that a person is capable of learning and remembering while asleep. That's sort of the point.
I think this just might maybe have to do with the fact that they cheaped out on low res, grainy, piece of crap cameras that can see about 10 feet reliably.