Companies are free to not use it. Heck, designing for the dock connector effectively locks them out of every other mp3 player vendor's market.
Oh, you mean that selling accessories that are designed for the iPod is a profitable notion? And that piggybacking off of Apple's R&D, and interface protocols, allows third party manufacturers to make products that are more attractive to potential customers, and therefore, more profitable?
Do you suppose they might be, say, in excess of 10% more profitable? I bet they are.
It's a business decision. You license Apple's connector, get their engineering support and protocol documentation, and a shiny little Made for iPod stamp to put on your box, or you don't.
I don't doubt for a moment that AW&ST can and does get stuff wrong, but their credibility is a lot better than yours. So why would I take your word over theirs?
Demonstrably not true. I know dozens of people who use no land line. Yes, they're all geeky early adopters, but clearly VOIP and cellular can and do replace land lines for some users.
To a good approximation, the video card in laptops is NOT user replaceable. I've taken apart my fiancee's iBook, and I thought that was fairly complicated. That swap looks like a massive pain.
And I still want to know how much that part costs. Dell repair stuff ain't cheap.
Asserting that the "other side" is just as bad is a tacit acceptance of the fact that there is not a meaningful "other side"...just two groups trying to destroy slightly different sets of my liberties.
I don't care very much about live TV, and the sports I want to see aren't broadcast anything like live anyhow, and they're often unavailable on any channel.
So, here's at least one consumer for which your examples are totally irrelevant.
If Sony stopped selling DVD players and amplifiers tomorrow, would anybody care?
Sony has some good products. (I happen to like the PS2 just fine) They are not leading the home electronics market. They haven't had an honest to goodness innovation since the Walkman.
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"what made people think that evolution stopped with the modern era?"
What makes you think that people think that?
But cheap, clean power enables electric cars to be more practical. That sounds like a pretty good idea to me.
How about "People are dumb because they're from rural areas."
I'd even argue that education has very little to do with what happens in public schools, but that's a different argument altogether.
You're making vast overgeneralizations to bolster your (rather patronizing) thesis.
"these people are the type who make the "correlation is causation" mistake with alarming regularity."
Read your post again, and then tell me how you're not in the same group.
Companies are free to not use it. Heck, designing for the dock connector effectively locks them out of every other mp3 player vendor's market.
Oh, you mean that selling accessories that are designed for the iPod is a profitable notion? And that piggybacking off of Apple's R&D, and interface protocols, allows third party manufacturers to make products that are more attractive to potential customers, and therefore, more profitable?
Do you suppose they might be, say, in excess of 10% more profitable? I bet they are.
It's a business decision. You license Apple's connector, get their engineering support and protocol documentation, and a shiny little Made for iPod stamp to put on your box, or you don't.
s/NASA/Congress and the Air Force, and you're right.
What are you talking about?
Maybe if it were operated under the auspices of the public, it would have been Congress-crittered to death like the Shuttle and the ISS.
I don't doubt for a moment that AW&ST can and does get stuff wrong, but their credibility is a lot better than yours. So why would I take your word over theirs?
Bigger, more complex, vastly more capable, and older, and with a truly radical design concept and engine system.
But, yeah, apart from that, just like SS1.
Speak for yourself. There are some of us that have some integrity.
Same reason your groceries aren't shipped from the farm to the store in Ferraris. Payload capacity.
"Can we not, as a species, keep at least one place free of war and hostility?"
From a species perspective, clearly not. Wherever there are people, there will be strife.
See, what a lot of film geeks miss is this:
I LIKE popcorn movies. I think it's FINE to go be entertained for two hours and munch on popcorn.
Yes, I appreciate a Good Film, but I also like plain ol' movies.
Yeah, because those photoshop jedis are totally the target market for the iMac. ...right.
Demonstrably not true. I know dozens of people who use no land line. Yes, they're all geeky early adopters, but clearly VOIP and cellular can and do replace land lines for some users.
Free expression is more important that the convenience of some academics.
If they couldn't separate idle speculation from well founded hypotheses, they weren't very good academics.
When was the last time a ban solved a problem?
Why is that AOL's problem?
OK, my initial impression was right.
To a good approximation, the video card in laptops is NOT user replaceable. I've taken apart my fiancee's iBook, and I thought that was fairly complicated. That swap looks like a massive pain.
And I still want to know how much that part costs. Dell repair stuff ain't cheap.
Turnabout is NOT fair play.
Asserting that the "other side" is just as bad is a tacit acceptance of the fact that there is not a meaningful "other side"...just two groups trying to destroy slightly different sets of my liberties.
No, but in one semantic sense, unless you don't return, you haven't LEFT.
Huh. How much did that part cost you from Dell?
Seriously, that is interesting. I've disassembled a number of laptops, and I've never seen one with a video daughterboard.
I don't care very much about live TV, and the sports I want to see aren't broadcast anything like live anyhow, and they're often unavailable on any channel.
So, here's at least one consumer for which your examples are totally irrelevant.
If Sony stopped selling DVD players and amplifiers tomorrow, would anybody care?
Sony has some good products. (I happen to like the PS2 just fine) They are not leading the home electronics market. They haven't had an honest to goodness innovation since the Walkman.