Question: What kind of idiot would buy an Android-powered phone which isn't a Nexus phone?
About 99% of Android buyers. Because for various reasons Google doesn't really want to sell more Nexuses, Nexii or what ever more than one Google Nexus is called.
You really think that $mega_software_co gives two shits about a half-ass, wanna-be tech site like Slashdot?
They have been known to do so. Why is Apple any different?
Well, Apple keeps doing many things different than other companies. A lot ofanalysts and journalists keep complaining about it, yet Apple is successful either despite or because of it. Eg they don't go to any of the computer, entertainment and mobile phone trade fairs. When everybody got out of retail, they started the Apple Stores. And they don't give out Technology roadmaps.
So "Everybody else does it so $this_guy has to do it too" is a particular bad argument in the case of Apple.
Another argument is that sooner or later the men with guns are going to realize that the environment has to be protected. And then they will find that you muck up the numbers, and will have to be removed from the equation in order to make them come out correctly. Buh-bye!
Yikes! That's a wake up call right there. Always envisioned right-wing reactionary militants as the catalyzing agent for population reduction wars. Just goes to show that any authoritarian agents with power-centric ideologies they value above the sanctity of human life are dangerous as fuck.
And yet another reason for an armed populace.
Ahh, yes. He talks about poor men with guns realizing that the environment has to be protected - and you reply that's a reason why the "populace" aka "the rich" needs to be armed. Yeah, I get your argument all too well.
Not to mention that nobody talks about positive effects of global warming...
Bullshit - people like you always talk about what they think could be positive effects of Global Warming. It's that they always also ignore any negative effects.
Around 90% of them would actually mean it (you'd have thought that sociopaths would be a lower percentage of the population of parents than the general population, but apparently not).
Why would you think that? Having children is a sociopathic act when we're overpopulated.
Having no children is also sociopathic - because there would be no next generation of a society.
The problem is the trend, starting from the early 1800s, is actually quite steady, even though population growth (and co2 emissions) has grown exponentially.
...even before humans had any significant CO2 output.
And that is why "We are only talking about a small effect during the 19th century because the increases in greenhouse gases were small compared to the very rapid changes that we see today," RTFA
Even if you don't buy Apple products, you're still effected by their business decisions. For instance, many laptop manufacturers stopped making a 17" laptop after Apple discontinued the 17" Macbook Pro.
Actually, none did 17" before Apple started doing so, so what would you have lost if they didn't introduce it in the first place?
"...and then those crazy ports started showing up on PCs."
For the record, PCs had USB ports in "1996," 2 years before the iMac. An update to Windows 95 added USB support.
For the record: most PCs didn't have USB when the iMac came out. To be fair, those with an Intel mobo had them on the mobo, but usually without external ports. And we all remember that all those USB peripherals had translucent blue cases not because of zhe iMac, but because it went nicely with the BSOD Windows liked to give when you used them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjZQGRATlwA
Cook is making his mark by highlighting the importance of social efforts: LGBT rights, philanthropy, corporate diversity, renewable energy and improving manufacturing conditions abroad.
I thought Apple was first and foremost a technology company?
So?
Anyway, how exactly is he "highlighting" that? Most of what he talks about has nothing to do with it.
Apple's not blameless and have plenty of business nastiness in them. No one gets as old as they are and remain idealists.
Then it sounds like Apple's infamous "reality distorting" marketing department is no longer just selling products, but has taken on the role of public relations as well.
Considering you believe only Apple does it - yeah, the RDF sure as hell works on you.
That is not actually a problem. Because if they actually knew what terror-suspects look like, they could get them by other means.
Yeah, when I was young, these things were hanging in most public places - facial recognizing terrorists was everybody's duty back then. Hey, they even caught a few.
A type is of facial recognition system is already deployed in quite few major airports in the uk, but for the most part it used by the airports themselves and not tied into a government database:
Heck, they've been doing that in casinos for a decade now - to catch card counters and other dangerous criminals. We can't have governments actually preventing harmless terrorist attacks that way - that goes too far.
Where I live, it seems cameras have at least convinced crooks to put on ski-masks before they rob a bank teller or a convenience store.
Are you implying that where you lived, before there were security cameras people didn't put on a mask before they robbed a bank? What did they do, shoot all the witnesses? Was it better back then?
Oh I understand perfectly there is a compromise to make between having a large display and a small phone.
That doesn't make the small phone more readable. A larger phone with more pixels can't be less readable than a smaller phone with less pixels.
Yeah, but a bigger phone with less pixels isn't more readable. And that's what the first big screen phones had that came out at the same time the iPhone 4: less pixels on their much bigger screens. Take the Dell Streak for example: 480x800 pixels on a 5" screen vs. 640x960 pixels on the iPhone 4's 3.5" screen, came out the same month. Same thing with the Samsung Galaxy S 5.0 that came out half a year later and the Lenovo LePad that came out over a year later.
Everything is made in China. If people didn't want Chinese crap, Walmart wouldn't still be in business.
You can't judge all products made in a country alike. Not all products from America are as shoddy as "America" - heck, not even most beers are. For that matter, actual beer from Budweis (aka Budjovice) tastes nothing like it, but that is beyond the point.
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Double Irish with a Dutch Sandwich has existed as a tax strategy, founded by Apple and approved by Ireland, since the late 1980s.
Can you give any evidence not based on the claims made (without evidence) by the New York Times?
I was talking about sharia law.
The only one who can't have his photo taken due to Sharia law is the Prophet Mohammed.
Question: What kind of idiot would buy an Android-powered phone which isn't a Nexus phone?
About 99% of Android buyers. Because for various reasons Google doesn't really want to sell more Nexuses, Nexii or what ever more than one Google Nexus is called.
You really think that $mega_software_co gives two shits about a half-ass, wanna-be tech site like Slashdot?
They have been known to do so. Why is Apple any different?
Well, Apple keeps doing many things different than other companies. A lot ofanalysts and journalists keep complaining about it, yet Apple is successful either despite or because of it. Eg they don't go to any of the computer, entertainment and mobile phone trade fairs. When everybody got out of retail, they started the Apple Stores. And they don't give out Technology roadmaps.
So "Everybody else does it so $this_guy has to do it too" is a particular bad argument in the case of Apple.
People don't heat the Earth just by propagating.
Having no children is also sociopathic - because there would be no next generation of a society.
That would be true only if you couldn't count on other people having children.
You mean the people you just called sociopathic because they have children. Good one.
Another argument is that sooner or later the men with guns are going to realize that the environment has to be protected. And then they will find that you muck up the numbers, and will have to be removed from the equation in order to make them come out correctly. Buh-bye!
Yikes! That's a wake up call right there. Always envisioned right-wing reactionary militants as the catalyzing agent for population reduction wars. Just goes to show that any authoritarian agents with power-centric ideologies they value above the sanctity of human life are dangerous as fuck.
And yet another reason for an armed populace.
Ahh, yes. He talks about poor men with guns realizing that the environment has to be protected - and you reply that's a reason why the "populace" aka "the rich" needs to be armed. Yeah, I get your argument all too well.
Not to mention that nobody talks about positive effects of global warming...
Bullshit - people like you always talk about what they think could be positive effects of Global Warming. It's that they always also ignore any negative effects.
Around 90% of them would actually mean it (you'd have thought that sociopaths would be a lower percentage of the population of parents than the general population, but apparently not).
Why would you think that? Having children is a sociopathic act when we're overpopulated.
Having no children is also sociopathic - because there would be no next generation of a society.
I shudder to think how they would otherwise determine which devices are the most reliable.
The device that finishes recursion first?
The problem is the trend, starting from the early 1800s, is actually quite steady, even though population growth (and co2 emissions) has grown exponentially.
http://www.woodfortrees.org/pl...
https://ourworldindata.org/wp-...
This smells like the thorny attribution problem.
Ugh. Just because you can calculate a "linear trend" doesn't mean the actual trend is linear. You can also calculate a "linear trend" for population.
...even before humans had any significant CO2 output.
And that is why "We are only talking about a small effect during the 19th century because the increases in greenhouse gases were small compared to the very rapid changes that we see today," RTFA
I notice none of the items in that list include "paying more taxes."
How is financing the US military-industrial complex and the wars on everything socially responsible?
Even if you don't buy Apple products, you're still effected by their business decisions. For instance, many laptop manufacturers stopped making a 17" laptop after Apple discontinued the 17" Macbook Pro.
Actually, none did 17" before Apple started doing so, so what would you have lost if they didn't introduce it in the first place?
"...and then those crazy ports started showing up on PCs." For the record, PCs had USB ports in "1996," 2 years before the iMac. An update to Windows 95 added USB support.
For the record: most PCs didn't have USB when the iMac came out. To be fair, those with an Intel mobo had them on the mobo, but usually without external ports. And we all remember that all those USB peripherals had translucent blue cases not because of zhe iMac, but because it went nicely with the BSOD Windows liked to give when you used them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjZQGRATlwA
Cook is making his mark by highlighting the importance of social efforts: LGBT rights, philanthropy, corporate diversity, renewable energy and improving manufacturing conditions abroad.
I thought Apple was first and foremost a technology company?
So?
Anyway, how exactly is he "highlighting" that? Most of what he talks about has nothing to do with it.
Apple's not blameless and have plenty of business nastiness in them. No one gets as old as they are and remain idealists.
Then it sounds like Apple's infamous "reality distorting" marketing department is no longer just selling products, but has taken on the role of public relations as well.
Considering you believe only Apple does it - yeah, the RDF sure as hell works on you.
The same people proposing the facial recognition very recently rejected proposals to ban Burqas.
Actually De Maizière was the one speaking out for the ban the loudest.
But please don't let facts get in the way of your "Lügenpresse" rants.Are you on that picture by chance?
That's why I wear a hoodie everywhere I go.
Watch out to not look black, or nobody will recognize your face after you've been shot into it in self defence.
That is not actually a problem. Because if they actually knew what terror-suspects look like, they could get them by other means.
Yeah, when I was young, these things were hanging in most public places - facial recognizing terrorists was everybody's duty back then. Hey, they even caught a few.
A type is of facial recognition system is already deployed in quite few major airports in the uk, but for the most part it used by the airports themselves and not tied into a government database:
Heck, they've been doing that in casinos for a decade now - to catch card counters and other dangerous criminals. We can't have governments actually preventing harmless terrorist attacks that way - that goes too far.
Where I live, it seems cameras have at least convinced crooks to put on ski-masks before they rob a bank teller or a convenience store.
Are you implying that where you lived, before there were security cameras people didn't put on a mask before they robbed a bank? What did they do, shoot all the witnesses? Was it better back then?
What if your service provider, out of their good will, provides the TLAs with all your communications data?
What the fuck does that have to do with 'privacy *in public*'?
Oh I understand perfectly there is a compromise to make between having a large display and a small phone. That doesn't make the small phone more readable. A larger phone with more pixels can't be less readable than a smaller phone with less pixels.
Yeah, but a bigger phone with less pixels isn't more readable. And that's what the first big screen phones had that came out at the same time the iPhone 4: less pixels on their much bigger screens. Take the Dell Streak for example: 480x800 pixels on a 5" screen vs. 640x960 pixels on the iPhone 4's 3.5" screen, came out the same month. Same thing with the Samsung Galaxy S 5.0 that came out half a year later and the Lenovo LePad that came out over a year later.
Everything is made in China. If people didn't want Chinese crap, Walmart wouldn't still be in business.
You can't judge all products made in a country alike. Not all products from America are as shoddy as "America" - heck, not even most beers are. For that matter, actual beer from Budweis (aka Budjovice) tastes nothing like it, but that is beyond the point.