I'd think you're right, but I still hear plenty of non-to-semi-technical people making crash/unstable related jokes about windows. Your experience may differ
Whether those are fallacies or not doesn't really matter in the short term. The reputation is there, and has been there for decades. Most of the time justified imho. That image will take many more years to change
Nah. They should've learned something else from Vista. That if your current version is unpopular, you can raise prices of the last popular one and laugh all the way to the bank.
By accident modded this "Informative". Posting as to erease my grave error. Have you even looked at the sales train wreck Nokia have had since partnering with MS?
Depends on their menu design. With a huge tablet and a well designed menu, it's quite possible to get an overview at just a glance, and get a lot done by pressing a button or two.
Compare this to many modern cars (like Audi and BMW) where they seem to prefer a complex menu, 5" screen, controlled by a wheel. Operating these still require 100% focus on screen. They also still have some normal one-use buttons, but are the teslas absolutely stripped from all buttons?
1. what happens with the batteries when it's done?
They are recyclable. How efficiently recycled? I don't know, but will likely improve in time.
4. what about the impact on the electric grid? Is there any?
Not as bad as you think. It could even result in a net positive. A big problem today in the electric grid is peak power. The grid is in many places already maxed out during beginning and end of office hours. However during night time the available capacity is huge. Coincidentally most current electric car owner charge their cars during night time.
Also note that many power technologies have big problems adjusting to changing power requirements (like the mentioned peak power). A nuclear power facility for instance takes weeks to adjust power output, and months to shut down. Not to mention its recurring costs are about the same running at 100% as 30%. Imagine everyone had a big power bank in their cars connected to the grid (most of the time). Now people could potentially charge and buy cheaper power during times of excess production, then sell (parts) of it back to the grid during expensive peak power (for a net profit of the car owner). A similar principle applies with unreliable sources such as wind and solar. This would make electricity cheaper for everyone, by reducing waste production.
5. Isn't COAL a huge part of our electric grid?
By choice. In the US. This could be fixed independently. Even if you'd build a power company running on gasoline, this would still be a net gain due to bigger engines being more efficient.
Every bigger religion has had bad apples, that's true. What's unique about Islam is that their leader Muhammed himself raped, enslaved, kidnapped, murdered and at least ordered people to stone in his name. This is pretty well documented in Hadith, an important source of Islamic knowledge for every interpretation of Islam as far as I know.
This discussion is fruitless. You didn't even respond to any of my main points.
And I never even mentioned the speech you linked to. I was simply referring to their training, arming and funding of several groups that certainly have Israels death on their public agenda.
For now ignoring your first point. Take a look at the top right map of countries with conscription based military. These include my own country and many Islamic and Arab ones. I strongly refuse the notion that anyone that have or might some day serve in the army should be considered legitimate military targets.
higher chance of being killed [in traffic than by terrorism]
This is correct. I also suspect that traffic is a higher cause of death than murder in any country. Which is again second to heart disease diseases. However I fail to see how this is relevant. Are you suggesting that Israel should stop worrying about terrorism until it's higher than traffic incidents (and vica versa with murders in other countries)?
Any particular reason why [not discuss land ownership]
My reason is that I'm tired of arguing with people that haven't done more historical homework than looking at newspapers. You seem to have gone further, so I'll quickly state my view on it. First a history resume of the british mandate of palestine. As the link is written by Israelis it should be taken with a grain of salt. A key point is that what is now called Jordan were also part of the full cake. Ignoring that point you are right that a majority (55%?) were given to a minority (35%). But most of the land were located in the next to useless Negev desert. It was also calculated a lot of Jewish migration to happen. Yes many from western countries, but also a huge amount from Arab and Islamic countries. So in my view it's a bit like the exchange between Greece/Turkey or India/Pakistan, not simply a foreign invasion. In any case, there were no real negotiations about this. Neighboring Arab countries simply attacked, demanding everything.
Regarding the Gaza blockade issue, what would you do in Israels shoes? Hamas doesn't even bother to hide his intentions of destroying Israel. And with support of Iran or other countries, they pose similar danger as Cuba when the Soviets were transporting missile bases there. They hold a blockade till today (imho now unjustified). Act of war or not, I'd prefer a blockade before an outright invasion. The intents also matters. In the wikipedia article you linked to, the Egyptian president announced before the 6 day war:
Our basic objective will be the destruction of Israel. The Arab people want to fight
Moving on. You answer my question about IDF terror motive with another question. I've spoken to many Arabs that have the idea that the "zionist regime" is a machine that is evil, just for being evil, even at the cost of bad international press. Is this what you're suggesting? And yes, Quassam rockets sucks as a military weapon. So what? I don't know your hometown, but if I came close to it, and started to launch such rockets against it, would you ignore the threath?
The lives, especially civilian lives lost from the King David hotel attack were tragic indeed. But the hotel were the British headquarters. Sounds like military to me. Also key scientists working on building nuclear bombs for a religious fanatical regime that is publicly working to destroy the state might also sound like a military target. I don't think I'd call the bombing of the Pentagon building in 2001 a terrorist attack either.
Any attacks aiming purely for civilian targets are terrorists in my book. Whether the Judean desert is stolen and occupied is IMHO a big grey area which I don't want to discuss
As for your accusation of the IDF terrorism, I'll have to go for a [Citation needed]. What could the IDF even gain from just massacring a school with no military target as you suggest?
Yes it's a definitely a balance. I actually miss the a++ feature in python. It trades brevity and expression for some (minor) readability and newbie friendliness. In the case of lambdas I simply personally favor the readability of the JS solution in front of the Python brevity. Probably a lot due to allowing multi line lambdas also (which is of course another subject if it's good or bad by itself). Attempts to compress useful code down to a one liner often ends up with very hard to read code.
In any case I'm not trying to say the JS solution is overall better. Just simpler and easier to read.
I'm not saying it's a huge difference, but there certainly is one.
Python is my favorite language of choice, but I very often remember wrong the exact lambda syntax when I've had to use it, and by extension often avoid using it for that very reason. And the first time I read it in use I felt overwhelmed and had to google it. However first time I read the JS syntax in some jquery code I immediately understood that I was passing an anonymous function with access to local scope. Didn't even have to learn or know about any "lambda concept".
Also in python, a++ is in fact not allowed precisely because a+=1 or a=a+1 is easier to read, learn and understand:)
JS solution may be the most verbose, but I'd argue that it's the easiest to read, learn and understand, since it doesn't introduce more language grammar.
And assholes will be considered superior to the pussy since it unifies gay and heterosexual intercourse:)
In more seriousness I suspect the unification is way too early, and doesn't look all that advantages yet. I don't want Autocad and MS office on my phone. I want a mobile dwg app and a mobile office suite. Completely different UI paradigms to be done well. A familiar brand and color and color scheme (like Autocad mobile) would help, but no complete necessity. Halo will also need a serious rewrite to even run on a qualcomm chip, never mind what it takes to make it fun to play. I love Uncharted on my PS3, but I wouldn't enjoy playing that type of game on my iphone. Neither are there THAT many gamers. 60 million sold is nothing to sneeze at, but more smartphones are sold then that per quarter.
I want to skip your flamebait Android remark. But I'll note that premium Android phones like the Samsung Galaxy S2 costs more than probably any WP7 device, yet have sold way more than all WP7 devices combined (10 million vs estimated 2-3 million).
In WP7 Microsoft is trying to copy Apples "we know what hardware you want" slogan actually. Qualcomm single core chips only. No SD cards. No USB. No front camera. Only stuff that MS approves of. Its limitations are even presented as features. You don't need xyz (sounds familiar?). Maybe this is changing in WP8, though I wouldn't have my hopes up.
You are right that 14 years should be a time when most income sources for an original artwork should be exhausted. I just don't see the necessity to artificially limit it as such, as long as it doesn't hinder future progress. Yes Disney are assholes, but it's not a human right to eventually get all the content you want.
You could also spin your example around. What if the Volkswagen commercial was very quickly and poorly made, and they just found a fantastic 15 year old song from an artists that never got through to the right people. In the case of success, Volkswagen may sell more cars through no work of their own. I don't see why the original artist shouldn't get to be the one deciding if he'd demand a royalty, or let them use it for free (and probably make up for it in live shows).
I guess I'm in a minority here, but I don't see why copyright length is a problem. If "Eye of the tiger" were covered under copyright for all eternity, how exactly would future musicians be hindered to make new and even similar music? You can usually get around a copyright with incredibly small implementation changes.
And with only 14 years coverage, I suppose it would be ok to make my own closed fork of the linux kernel also?
When many moons ago Coca Cola attempted to improve their recipe with "New Coke", they also took a hefty nosedive in sales and marketshare. However after months (maybe even a year?) of struggling, they backpedaled and reintroduced "Coke Classic". This move was so popular that their sales surged so much that after some time they had a net gain from the whole thing. So successful that they were accused of the doing entire thing on purpose as a marketing ploy.
It might not be too late for their N9 "Qt phone" series yet.
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I'd think you're right, but I still hear plenty of non-to-semi-technical people making crash/unstable related jokes about windows. Your experience may differ
Whether those are fallacies or not doesn't really matter in the short term. The reputation is there, and has been there for decades. Most of the time justified imho. That image will take many more years to change
Nah. They should've learned something else from Vista. That if your current version is unpopular, you can raise prices of the last popular one and laugh all the way to the bank.
By accident modded this "Informative". Posting as to erease my grave error. Have you even looked at the sales train wreck Nokia have had since partnering with MS?
Depends on their menu design. With a huge tablet and a well designed menu, it's quite possible to get an overview at just a glance, and get a lot done by pressing a button or two.
Compare this to many modern cars (like Audi and BMW) where they seem to prefer a complex menu, 5" screen, controlled by a wheel. Operating these still require 100% focus on screen. They also still have some normal one-use buttons, but are the teslas absolutely stripped from all buttons?
To nitpick Germany is more number #6 in Europe when it comes to average gross monthly salary. Switzerland, Norway and Denmark thrones the list.
1. what happens with the batteries when it's done?
They are recyclable. How efficiently recycled? I don't know, but will likely improve in time.
4. what about the impact on the electric grid? Is there any?
Not as bad as you think. It could even result in a net positive. A big problem today in the electric grid is peak power. The grid is in many places already maxed out during beginning and end of office hours. However during night time the available capacity is huge. Coincidentally most current electric car owner charge their cars during night time.
Also note that many power technologies have big problems adjusting to changing power requirements (like the mentioned peak power). A nuclear power facility for instance takes weeks to adjust power output, and months to shut down. Not to mention its recurring costs are about the same running at 100% as 30%. Imagine everyone had a big power bank in their cars connected to the grid (most of the time). Now people could potentially charge and buy cheaper power during times of excess production, then sell (parts) of it back to the grid during expensive peak power (for a net profit of the car owner). A similar principle applies with unreliable sources such as wind and solar. This would make electricity cheaper for everyone, by reducing waste production.
5. Isn't COAL a huge part of our electric grid?
By choice. In the US. This could be fixed independently. Even if you'd build a power company running on gasoline, this would still be a net gain due to bigger engines being more efficient.
Every bigger religion has had bad apples, that's true. What's unique about Islam is that their leader Muhammed himself raped, enslaved, kidnapped, murdered and at least ordered people to stone in his name. This is pretty well documented in Hadith, an important source of Islamic knowledge for every interpretation of Islam as far as I know.
The mafia analogy doesn't work. No apple employee walks around forcing developers to develop for iOS at gunpoint.
This discussion is fruitless. You didn't even respond to any of my main points.
And I never even mentioned the speech you linked to. I was simply referring to their training, arming and funding of several groups that certainly have Israels death on their public agenda.
For now ignoring your first point. Take a look at the top right map of countries with conscription based military. These include my own country and many Islamic and Arab ones. I strongly refuse the notion that anyone that have or might some day serve in the army should be considered legitimate military targets.
This is correct. I also suspect that traffic is a higher cause of death than murder in any country. Which is again second to heart disease diseases. However I fail to see how this is relevant. Are you suggesting that Israel should stop worrying about terrorism until it's higher than traffic incidents (and vica versa with murders in other countries)?
My reason is that I'm tired of arguing with people that haven't done more historical homework than looking at newspapers. You seem to have gone further, so I'll quickly state my view on it. First a history resume of the british mandate of palestine. As the link is written by Israelis it should be taken with a grain of salt. A key point is that what is now called Jordan were also part of the full cake. Ignoring that point you are right that a majority (55%?) were given to a minority (35%). But most of the land were located in the next to useless Negev desert. It was also calculated a lot of Jewish migration to happen. Yes many from western countries, but also a huge amount from Arab and Islamic countries. So in my view it's a bit like the exchange between Greece/Turkey or India/Pakistan, not simply a foreign invasion. In any case, there were no real negotiations about this. Neighboring Arab countries simply attacked, demanding everything.
Regarding the Gaza blockade issue, what would you do in Israels shoes? Hamas doesn't even bother to hide his intentions of destroying Israel. And with support of Iran or other countries, they pose similar danger as Cuba when the Soviets were transporting missile bases there. They hold a blockade till today (imho now unjustified). Act of war or not, I'd prefer a blockade before an outright invasion. The intents also matters. In the wikipedia article you linked to, the Egyptian president announced before the 6 day war:
Moving on. You answer my question about IDF terror motive with another question. I've spoken to many Arabs that have the idea that the "zionist regime" is a machine that is evil, just for being evil, even at the cost of bad international press. Is this what you're suggesting? And yes, Quassam rockets sucks as a military weapon. So what? I don't know your hometown, but if I came close to it, and started to launch such rockets against it, would you ignore the threath?
The lives, especially civilian lives lost from the King David hotel attack were tragic indeed. But the hotel were the British headquarters. Sounds like military to me. Also key scientists working on building nuclear bombs for a religious fanatical regime that is publicly working to destroy the state might also sound like a military target. I don't think I'd call the bombing of the Pentagon building in 2001 a terrorist attack either.
Any attacks aiming purely for civilian targets are terrorists in my book. Whether the Judean desert is stolen and occupied is IMHO a big grey area which I don't want to discuss
As for your accusation of the IDF terrorism, I'll have to go for a [Citation needed]. What could the IDF even gain from just massacring a school with no military target as you suggest?
A sad action indeed. However the numbers are clear that terrorist attacks went very down afterwards.
Here you go. Nokia did their best to hide the embarressing numbers.
Off-shore wind power is not really viable at the moment. The platforms are very expensive to build, and efficiency is very low.
Great. Another page taking forever to load :)
Yes it's a definitely a balance. I actually miss the a++ feature in python. It trades brevity and expression for some (minor) readability and newbie friendliness. In the case of lambdas I simply personally favor the readability of the JS solution in front of the Python brevity. Probably a lot due to allowing multi line lambdas also (which is of course another subject if it's good or bad by itself). Attempts to compress useful code down to a one liner often ends up with very hard to read code.
In any case I'm not trying to say the JS solution is overall better. Just simpler and easier to read.
I'm not saying it's a huge difference, but there certainly is one.
Python is my favorite language of choice, but I very often remember wrong the exact lambda syntax when I've had to use it, and by extension often avoid using it for that very reason. And the first time I read it in use I felt overwhelmed and had to google it. However first time I read the JS syntax in some jquery code I immediately understood that I was passing an anonymous function with access to local scope. Didn't even have to learn or know about any "lambda concept".
Also in python, a++ is in fact not allowed precisely because a+=1 or a=a+1 is easier to read, learn and understand :)
JS solution may be the most verbose, but I'd argue that it's the easiest to read, learn and understand, since it doesn't introduce more language grammar.
And assholes will be considered superior to the pussy since it unifies gay and heterosexual intercourse :)
In more seriousness I suspect the unification is way too early, and doesn't look all that advantages yet. I don't want Autocad and MS office on my phone. I want a mobile dwg app and a mobile office suite. Completely different UI paradigms to be done well. A familiar brand and color and color scheme (like Autocad mobile) would help, but no complete necessity. Halo will also need a serious rewrite to even run on a qualcomm chip, never mind what it takes to make it fun to play. I love Uncharted on my PS3, but I wouldn't enjoy playing that type of game on my iphone. Neither are there THAT many gamers. 60 million sold is nothing to sneeze at, but more smartphones are sold then that per quarter.
I want to skip your flamebait Android remark. But I'll note that premium Android phones like the Samsung Galaxy S2 costs more than probably any WP7 device, yet have sold way more than all WP7 devices combined (10 million vs estimated 2-3 million).
In WP7 Microsoft is trying to copy Apples "we know what hardware you want" slogan actually. Qualcomm single core chips only. No SD cards. No USB. No front camera. Only stuff that MS approves of. Its limitations are even presented as features. You don't need xyz (sounds familiar?). Maybe this is changing in WP8, though I wouldn't have my hopes up.
You are right that 14 years should be a time when most income sources for an original artwork should be exhausted. I just don't see the necessity to artificially limit it as such, as long as it doesn't hinder future progress. Yes Disney are assholes, but it's not a human right to eventually get all the content you want.
You could also spin your example around. What if the Volkswagen commercial was very quickly and poorly made, and they just found a fantastic 15 year old song from an artists that never got through to the right people. In the case of success, Volkswagen may sell more cars through no work of their own. I don't see why the original artist shouldn't get to be the one deciding if he'd demand a royalty, or let them use it for free (and probably make up for it in live shows).
I guess I'm in a minority here, but I don't see why copyright length is a problem. If "Eye of the tiger" were covered under copyright for all eternity, how exactly would future musicians be hindered to make new and even similar music? You can usually get around a copyright with incredibly small implementation changes.
And with only 14 years coverage, I suppose it would be ok to make my own closed fork of the linux kernel also?
It's from the Google+ stream of Andy Rubin
When many moons ago Coca Cola attempted to improve their recipe with "New Coke", they also took a hefty nosedive in sales and marketshare. However after months (maybe even a year?) of struggling, they backpedaled and reintroduced "Coke Classic". This move was so popular that their sales surged so much that after some time they had a net gain from the whole thing. So successful that they were accused of the doing entire thing on purpose as a marketing ploy.
It might not be too late for their N9 "Qt phone" series yet.