a lot of iOS apps are HUGE the newer games can easily hit 2GB of storage on your device if not more
and you can just download the cloud onto your phone. why pay the carriers when you can download over cheap home connections and carry your media everywhere you go
the Windows and Office guys were printing all the money and killed anything that endangered their revenue stream. now that the money flow is ending they are probably panicking. old story.
google does something similar with their ad business bringing in all the cash and has some risk. apple's rule is that every product they sell has to make a profit at the cash register.
my ipad might not have the paper specs but i can use it on the train to work and on the couch COMFORTABLY apps like Pulse and flipboard you don't need a keyboard
last year NYC had a hurricane and the trains didn't run for days either. i know because i take the LIRR into Penn almost daily and it was flooded out. LIRR ran on a reduced schedule for a month or more.
so how long is that vienna to lisbon trip by train?
i'll take flying NYC to Denver in 4 1/2 hours over a much longer HSR trip any day. i can fly out of NYC at 7am and be at my mom's house for lunch. same with a weekend at vegas. fly out friday afternoon from NYC and be back sunday night
call me when SSD drives come in 1TB sizes and are affordable
my macbook HD died and i bought one of these seagate drives with 8GB flash for the 1TB model. $130 including tax at newegg and best buy. nice speed difference too. SSD is faster but i don't really care since most of my computing is done on my iphone and ipad
in the 21st century we have air travel for long distance travel. in the north east we also have amtrak for trips in the 1-3 hour range to bypass the TSA nonsense at airports these days
it's like the idiotic no money concept in star trek the writers/producers are rich hollywood types always dreaming up utopian societies with no money where people just work for no reason. but these people aren't willing to give up their money
big deal its illegal to sing happy birthday to make money off it, when someone gets sued for singing it in their backyard or chuck e cheese, call me water is dirty in the ground, costs money to clean it. clean water always cost money go make your own character, people do it every day people have been paying patent royalties for decades. nothing new is made in a vacuum. get over it. part of doing business. that's why we have standards based patent pools
lots of us old people did a lot of work over the years to get computing and tech to where it is today. if you want to profit off it, pay up or write your own OS and all the software from scratch
that's ghetto lottery thinking right there. you're a failure unless you become a billionaire.
most people are content to view success as living a comfortable life. even hundreds of years ago lots of people became merchants or craftsmen because they had no chance of becoming royalty and didn't want to
earth people went to space in huge space liners controlled by robots. the robots made sure the people were always chilling and never worked. the robots became a dictatorship controlling the fat out of shape lazy humans.
same here. the security forces would quickly take control from these dumb rich people who only want to lie around tanning and resting.
most of the net worth of the ultra rich is in stocks, bonds and lots of other paper they would have to sell for cash money. but there is almost not enough cash money to pay for all of their "net worth"
on paper Bill Gates might be worth $30 billion but its all MS stock. if he sold all of it today the value would drop to the point where he might get 1/3 of it. his worth is from the dividends MS pays. not like he has $30 billion in the bank.
same with tim cook and others who get paid hundreds of millions of $$$ on paper but its 95% restricted stock options they can't turn into cash for many years if ever
but if you were to build a space station, the people building it and supplying the materials would want to be paid TODAY. IN CASH. real money. you would have to find people to lend you the money to buy the bonds to pay for this thing at 5% or more in interest which would mean $50 billion per year in interest payments
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a lot of iOS apps are HUGE
the newer games can easily hit 2GB of storage on your device if not more
and you can just download the cloud onto your phone. why pay the carriers when you can download over cheap home connections and carry your media everywhere you go
the Windows and Office guys were printing all the money and killed anything that endangered their revenue stream. now that the money flow is ending they are probably panicking. old story.
google does something similar with their ad business bringing in all the cash and has some risk. apple's rule is that every product they sell has to make a profit at the cash register.
they did try, but failed with IE6
then google and firefox came along with extensions
my ipad might not have the paper specs but i can use it on the train to work and on the couch COMFORTABLY
apps like Pulse and flipboard you don't need a keyboard
what if your kid hates programming and anything like it and wants to focus on the liberal arts?
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It's called upselling
Red hat and all the open source companies do it as well. And google
why would i buy this compared to paying for 5 years of x box live?
some of you people are crazy. spend lots of money to bypass some feature that costs less than the workaround
good luck in the old country
hope you live a high carb diet of mostly pasta and potatoes, with bread and followed by diabetes
there is a reason everyone is a drunk there
its 41 hours lisbon to vienna
in the USA only the craziest train fans would opt for this kind of trip over flying.
last year NYC had a hurricane and the trains didn't run for days either. i know because i take the LIRR into Penn almost daily and it was flooded out. LIRR ran on a reduced schedule for a month or more.
so how long is that vienna to lisbon trip by train?
europe is tiny
i'll take flying NYC to Denver in 4 1/2 hours over a much longer HSR trip any day. i can fly out of NYC at 7am and be at my mom's house for lunch. same with a weekend at vegas. fly out friday afternoon from NYC and be back sunday night
call me when SSD drives come in 1TB sizes and are affordable
my macbook HD died and i bought one of these seagate drives with 8GB flash for the 1TB model. $130 including tax at newegg and best buy.
nice speed difference too. SSD is faster but i don't really care since most of my computing is done on my iphone and ipad
a lot of freight is already transported by rail. HSR is for people, and in most cases people prefer to fly because its faster
how do you make the electricity to run the HSR train?
hamsters?
what exactly is this love affair with HSR?
in the 21st century we have air travel for long distance travel. in the north east we also have amtrak for trips in the 1-3 hour range to bypass the TSA nonsense at airports these days
It will be classic Steven king
Goes on and on and just ends. Like a m. Night shylan movie
Can't you stream shows from the website?
so what content have machines created all on their own?
it's like the idiotic no money concept in star trek
the writers/producers are rich hollywood types always dreaming up utopian societies with no money where people just work for no reason. but these people aren't willing to give up their money
big deal
its illegal to sing happy birthday to make money off it, when someone gets sued for singing it in their backyard or chuck e cheese, call me
water is dirty in the ground, costs money to clean it. clean water always cost money
go make your own character, people do it every day
people have been paying patent royalties for decades. nothing new is made in a vacuum. get over it. part of doing business. that's why we have standards based patent pools
lots of us old people did a lot of work over the years to get computing and tech to where it is today. if you want to profit off it, pay up or write your own OS and all the software from scratch
that's ghetto lottery thinking right there. you're a failure unless you become a billionaire.
most people are content to view success as living a comfortable life. even hundreds of years ago lots of people became merchants or craftsmen because they had no chance of becoming royalty and didn't want to
Wall-E from disney
earth people went to space in huge space liners controlled by robots. the robots made sure the people were always chilling and never worked. the robots became a dictatorship controlling the fat out of shape lazy humans.
same here. the security forces would quickly take control from these dumb rich people who only want to lie around tanning and resting.
this is not cash but stocks, bonds and other investments they can't just sell to turn into cash
chances are they have lots of their own debt they use to live financed by the interest and other payments they get from their own wealth
most of this capital is not real money
most of the net worth of the ultra rich is in stocks, bonds and lots of other paper they would have to sell for cash money. but there is almost not enough cash money to pay for all of their "net worth"
on paper Bill Gates might be worth $30 billion but its all MS stock. if he sold all of it today the value would drop to the point where he might get 1/3 of it. his worth is from the dividends MS pays. not like he has $30 billion in the bank.
same with tim cook and others who get paid hundreds of millions of $$$ on paper but its 95% restricted stock options they can't turn into cash for many years if ever
but if you were to build a space station, the people building it and supplying the materials would want to be paid TODAY. IN CASH. real money. you would have to find people to lend you the money to buy the bonds to pay for this thing at 5% or more in interest which would mean $50 billion per year in interest payments