Your refusal to accept basic facts in no way moots my argument. So perhaps you'd like to "try again next time" you obstinate, arrogant, snide, condescending yet ignorant and innumerate fuckwit;-)
I was in it - it was not a particularly bad storm. Heavy winds, lots of cloud-to-cloud lightning, but very little rain or cloud-to-ground lightning. I lost power repeatedly, but it was always back up within seconds. And I'm located way out in a rural area, where the power supply is much more vulnerable (every time a major hurricane hits, I'm usually without power for about a week - bad enough that I bought a small generator).
According to TFA, they were only without power for half an hour, and that the ongoing problems were related to recovery, not actual power-lossage. So their problems are more "bad disaster planning" than "bad disaster".
Still, you'd think a major data center would have the usual UPS and generator setup most major data centers have - half an hour without power is something they should have been able to handle. Or at least have enough UPS capacity to cleanly shut down all the machines or migrate the virtual instances to a different datacenter.
BTW, having lived in rural areas in MD, they were far less likely to be victims of the weather than built up areas (where I currently live in MD). The rural electric co-ops are MUCH better about preventative maintenance than the for profit companies. Further, one minor outage in Montgomery Co. (where I currently am) can put hundreds or thousands of times more people without power than a similar outage in St. Mary's Co.
In short, get your head out of your ass, and understand that the world is bigger than the view from your mom's basement would lead you to believe.
Meh, it's PEPCO for the most part. They wouldn't have been working Friday night anyway. Ought to be an interesting bit of discussion with the utility commission regarding their current desired rate hike.
I suggest that you aren't old enough to remember 8-track tape if you imply that they can be wound back and forth. Hell, just going in one direction gave pretty good odds of screwing up. Methinks you're getting your formats mixed up.
No, it's a guess. In fact, multiple guesses and poor assumptions on your part.
You claim that a 100% growth rate in sales would result in 50% of phones being purchased in the past year is wrong on more than one level, and from this statement, your other flaws in thinking follow. First, a 100% growth rate in sales does not imply that 50% are new after one year. It implies that the growth rate is twice what it was in the previous year. So if we have three years, 1, 2, 3. Year 1 sells 10 units. Growth rate for year 2 is 10%, meaning 11 units sold. Growth rate increases by 100% for year three means that the growth rate is 20%. That means, in year three, 14 units sold (it's closer to 13, but I'm being generous to your line of thought). So, there are 35 units on the market, 14 in the previous year. Pretty far from 50%. You don't know the growth rate between years 1 and 2, so knowing the growth rate for years 2 to 3 doesn't really tell you anything.
So, what you probably meant is sales in year three equal the sum of sales from years 1 and 2. Year 1, 10 units, year 2, 11 units, year 3, 21 units. Ok, no problem. At the end of year 3, at least 21 out of 42 units will be running the latest version of the OS. There is a problem here, and you ignored it, despite it being pointed out to you more than once (albeit obliquely). Within a month, developers with sites viewed by iOS devices saw the latest version 50-60 percent of the time. The 21 units sold in our demonstration scenario are not all in the first 2-4 weeks. Not even half occur this quickly.
New sales likely account for far fewer devices than you are giving credit for.
Now, to be fair in the other direction, there is something you don't seem to suggest that is certainly an issue now: how many of the 21 fictional units bought in years 1 and 2 are obsolesced by a phone bought in year 3? Not everyone sells his old phone. I probably won't. So if I get an iPhone 5, it will increase the number of units on iOS 5, at the same time decreasing the number of units on iOS 4. Now that the US and other parts of the world are approaching saturation points for iPhones, this becomes a greater issue. Not many new customers to gain, but plenty of old ones replacing old stuff.
Because what you view as 'flexibility' is viewed by the vast multitudes as 'unneeded complexity'. When smartphones and pads (primariily the iPad) became good enough, they ditched the computer in droves.
Speaking as someone who was married to a deaf person: fuck them and their entitlement attitude. Seriously, the deaf are hands down the worst of all of the disabled when it comes to expecting others to bend over backwards to placate them. Fortunately, the ex wasn't too bad (until after the divorce) but I got to witness it. It is particularly egregious when one considers that many cases of deafness can be cured with cochlear implants. But nooooo, this would destroy 'deaf culture'. Genocide.
Keep the lot of them. Burn Gallaudet while you're at it.
What you said didn't contradict what he said, it clarified it. And just because it has a name and is old doesn't mean it is asinine. Wars (well, small local skirmishes) have been fought over this more than once in the past and will be again in the future.
Debian.org is classified with "Tecnical Information" that is good, and "Shareware/Freeware" that MS classify as bad. I don't know if it is enough to block the site.
Does Microsoft classify as good vs. bad, or do they just categorize and leave it to users to set up local policies for which they block?
I know which way it is for the site blocking software where I work...
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Pot, kettle, black.
OK, but what about the facts :-O
The fact is you are an uneducable troll.
Your refusal to accept basic facts in no way moots my argument. So perhaps you'd like to "try again next time" you obstinate, arrogant, snide, condescending yet ignorant and innumerate fuckwit ;-)
Pot, kettle, black.
Not worth attempting to educate him. None so blind as he who will not see.
Your inability to understand the terms you are using moots your entire argument. Try again next time.
Yawn. I'm speaking of 'the community'. I have met them. And they are reprehensible.
Would you like to know my opinions about different races, nationalities, sexual predispositions, and so forth?
I'll give any individual a chance, but stereotypes work well for dealing with groups.
I was in it - it was not a particularly bad storm. Heavy winds, lots of cloud-to-cloud lightning, but very little rain or cloud-to-ground lightning. I lost power repeatedly, but it was always back up within seconds. And I'm located way out in a rural area, where the power supply is much more vulnerable (every time a major hurricane hits, I'm usually without power for about a week - bad enough that I bought a small generator).
According to TFA, they were only without power for half an hour, and that the ongoing problems were related to recovery, not actual power-lossage. So their problems are more "bad disaster planning" than "bad disaster".
Still, you'd think a major data center would have the usual UPS and generator setup most major data centers have - half an hour without power is something they should have been able to handle. Or at least have enough UPS capacity to cleanly shut down all the machines or migrate the virtual instances to a different datacenter.
Me, me, me, me, me!
Your post brings this to mind.
BTW, having lived in rural areas in MD, they were far less likely to be victims of the weather than built up areas (where I currently live in MD). The rural electric co-ops are MUCH better about preventative maintenance than the for profit companies. Further, one minor outage in Montgomery Co. (where I currently am) can put hundreds or thousands of times more people without power than a similar outage in St. Mary's Co.
In short, get your head out of your ass, and understand that the world is bigger than the view from your mom's basement would lead you to believe.
Meh, it's PEPCO for the most part. They wouldn't have been working Friday night anyway. Ought to be an interesting bit of discussion with the utility commission regarding their current desired rate hike.
I suggest that you aren't old enough to remember 8-track tape if you imply that they can be wound back and forth. Hell, just going in one direction gave pretty good odds of screwing up. Methinks you're getting your formats mixed up.
Mac users know better than to open their computers. You might untangle the interwebs in there.
Opening the box lets out the magic smoke. Everyone knows this.
No, it's a guess. In fact, multiple guesses and poor assumptions on your part.
You claim that a 100% growth rate in sales would result in 50% of phones being purchased in the past year is wrong on more than one level, and from this statement, your other flaws in thinking follow. First, a 100% growth rate in sales does not imply that 50% are new after one year. It implies that the growth rate is twice what it was in the previous year. So if we have three years, 1, 2, 3. Year 1 sells 10 units. Growth rate for year 2 is 10%, meaning 11 units sold. Growth rate increases by 100% for year three means that the growth rate is 20%. That means, in year three, 14 units sold (it's closer to 13, but I'm being generous to your line of thought). So, there are 35 units on the market, 14 in the previous year. Pretty far from 50%. You don't know the growth rate between years 1 and 2, so knowing the growth rate for years 2 to 3 doesn't really tell you anything.
So, what you probably meant is sales in year three equal the sum of sales from years 1 and 2. Year 1, 10 units, year 2, 11 units, year 3, 21 units. Ok, no problem. At the end of year 3, at least 21 out of 42 units will be running the latest version of the OS. There is a problem here, and you ignored it, despite it being pointed out to you more than once (albeit obliquely). Within a month, developers with sites viewed by iOS devices saw the latest version 50-60 percent of the time. The 21 units sold in our demonstration scenario are not all in the first 2-4 weeks. Not even half occur this quickly.
New sales likely account for far fewer devices than you are giving credit for.
Now, to be fair in the other direction, there is something you don't seem to suggest that is certainly an issue now: how many of the 21 fictional units bought in years 1 and 2 are obsolesced by a phone bought in year 3? Not everyone sells his old phone. I probably won't. So if I get an iPhone 5, it will increase the number of units on iOS 5, at the same time decreasing the number of units on iOS 4. Now that the US and other parts of the world are approaching saturation points for iPhones, this becomes a greater issue. Not many new customers to gain, but plenty of old ones replacing old stuff.
TL;DR: You are confusing states and flows.
Because what you view as 'flexibility' is viewed by the vast multitudes as 'unneeded complexity'. When smartphones and pads (primariily the iPad) became good enough, they ditched the computer in droves.
I doubt Samsung will go out of business just because they stopped selling Apple their touch screens.
http://www.phonearena.com/news/Apple-ordered-65-70-million-LCD-panels-for-the-new-iPad-Samsung-still-spinning-off-the-pesky-LCD-business_id26867
I don't disagree, but similarly, I doubt Apple would shut down production if Samsung gets their panties in a bunch.
OMG, please tell me this is a joke? I weep for the future.
What would be funny is "Samsung stops selling Apple parts, every single Apple product now discontinued."
Followed shortly thereafter by "Samsung goes out of business due to massive overcapacity." Followed closely by "Sharp stock up over 100% due to new contracts with Apple."
What could possibly go wrong?
No reply to the person calling you on your BS? It's not like you haven't been posting all day long, at least 25 times since you were corrected.
Speaking as someone who was married to a deaf person: fuck them and their entitlement attitude. Seriously, the deaf are hands down the worst of all of the disabled when it comes to expecting others to bend over backwards to placate them. Fortunately, the ex wasn't too bad (until after the divorce) but I got to witness it. It is particularly egregious when one considers that many cases of deafness can be cured with cochlear implants. But nooooo, this would destroy 'deaf culture'. Genocide.
Keep the lot of them. Burn Gallaudet while you're at it.
Carry on then.
I bet you're a hit at parties.
The colored shirts are to make it easier to spot them in a crowd and round them up when it's time to move on to the next activity of the day.
What you said didn't contradict what he said, it clarified it. And just because it has a name and is old doesn't mean it is asinine. Wars (well, small local skirmishes) have been fought over this more than once in the past and will be again in the future.
Debian.org is classified with "Tecnical Information" that is good, and "Shareware/Freeware" that MS classify as bad. I don't know if it is enough to block the site.
Does Microsoft classify as good vs. bad, or do they just categorize and leave it to users to set up local policies for which they block?
I know which way it is for the site blocking software where I work...
... How will people call out for food?
They can't. Sally Struthers has been asking me to send them food for a long time now. At least I have an explanation now.
Marklar.
Assange is scheduled to be extradited to Sweden for a violent crime.
This is the first time I've heard anyone to describe ejaculation as "violent". A 13-year old female writer of fanfic, aren't we?
No. Larry Niven.
So pointing out that a case is he said/she said is now 'flamebait'? Stay awesome slashdot, stay awesome.