Seem quite simple, doesnt it? The fact that cattle, fish and shrimp feed in asia have huge amounts of antibiotics as a "preventive" measure to keep the animal from going sick, and the resistance the bacteria gain dealing in that sick field, and whatever trickles up the food chain doesnt seem to bother anyone, has long money is made. And nobody will care until it is too late. Big pharma also doesnt care, quite by the contrary the patents have long expired, and antibiotics are bought by the shovel, as soon as they stop working they will have then gov "fund" to further develop very expensive nanomeds. This seems like a stupid plot from a bad scifi movie.
Only in England? In Portugal we are also taught to brake the car on red lights or whenever if traffic forces us to stop (in here you have to use your judgement).
A puny 100 USD is not a justification to buy a far less inferior product. Apple is shooting itself in the foot not creating a plastic/less platform cheap alternative i.e. an android killer. The ones that wanted a superior product and to be stylish, that have the disposable income, would go to the metal version. An opportunity is being lost here, because as I once witnessed, the university/teen crowd with less income is going to android, because it is *cheaper*.
And yet you don't get it. Unless it is for the gimmick of paying far more for a phone tied for a contract for 2 years, it doesn't make sense to buy crap just to save only 100 USD. 100USD is nothing, specially considering it 1/6 of the price. There are actually people paying more in the black market for 5Ss bought in the US while they are not sold worldwide. The C is 5C doesnt stand for cheap, stands for crap. And not, I am not an Apple basher, I have an iPad, an SSD Macbook Pro, and an Apple TV.
You didn't get my point at all. If it were half price many people would buy it. Now, last generation tech AND a plastic, for a ridiculous 100 usd? That must be a joke.
The problem is not rather the 5C not being sold well because being of "plastic", but rather because it is brain-dead to expect people to pick up yesterdays technology for a meagre 100 dollars. They would do better using the manufacturing resources of the 5C to ramp up 5S production.
Apple C at 549 USD is hardly a commodity or a cheap model. Who can dispose of 549usd, can also spend 649USD. I personally think they are wasting money in a 2nd production line, unless they have plans to lower that price to half as soon as the novelty factor wears off.
Note, you don't need to generate a fingerprint, this are mathematical functions that should match unknown fingerprints to "known" individuals.
What can possibility we do with this valuable data? Give the data do the gov as many organisations did, or sell/give the data away to the USA in exchange for political favours as my f country did without asking or even so much telling us beforehand?
Are data privacy alien concepts to you? Are you joking with me? Do you work for a gov agency? What about constitutional rights of people who don't need/dont have/shouldnt have their finger prints taken unless they have criminal record?
Only the gov (in some countries) and law enfor stores the full fingerprints. You are parroting the classic excuse "only a few points or a mathematical representation". Bullocks. Your mathematical representation, in slashdot crowd parlance terms, in a reality an hash function that will map 99.xxx% of the time to a fingerprint, or maybe a couple of them at the worse of possibilities.
Only a five year old cant see that between the current generation and the previous, with *only* a 100 dollars difference, that is no cost, and people will skip it and buy the 5S. People arent that stupid. Actually, with such a small difference in price, it is idiotic to run two different production lines. Shame for apple, with a half price unit, they would still have the people who wants the latest and to be trendy, that would bought the 5S, and they would kill the rest of the mobile market with a *really* low cost device. A golden opportunity lost.
If you are using american operating systems (Windows, notably), and Israeli products (Checkpoint, NetApp), what are you expecting? That the Mossad and CIA won't take advantage of it? Seriously? Using Huawei too? Are you they so delusional, naive, or are they just covering the tracks of their own stupidity? China got it in the right direction with red flag Linux and Loongson.
vodafone in the mobile contracts/lower tier of Internet offerings also blocks voIP here in Portugal; at the end of the day this operations are just penny pinching.
But the thing is, I haven't thrown the that WinCE out of the window because it stopped working. I thrown it out of frustration for being a piece of junk.
Well, this just confirms what my friends that were unfortunate to buy one say I understand your friends, I used my Macbook at work one year,just to avoid windows, until they actually give MacBooks to my entire team.
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Seem quite simple, doesnt it? The fact that cattle, fish and shrimp feed in asia have huge amounts of antibiotics as a "preventive" measure to keep the animal from going sick, and the resistance the bacteria gain dealing in that sick field, and whatever trickles up the food chain doesnt seem to bother anyone, has long money is made. And nobody will care until it is too late. Big pharma also doesnt care, quite by the contrary the patents have long expired, and antibiotics are bought by the shovel, as soon as they stop working they will have then gov "fund" to further develop very expensive nanomeds. This seems like a stupid plot from a bad scifi movie.
Only in England? In Portugal we are also taught to brake the car on red lights or whenever if traffic forces us to stop (in here you have to use your judgement).
A puny 100 USD is not a justification to buy a far less inferior product. Apple is shooting itself in the foot not creating a plastic/less platform cheap alternative i.e. an android killer. The ones that wanted a superior product and to be stylish, that have the disposable income, would go to the metal version. An opportunity is being lost here, because as I once witnessed, the university/teen crowd with less income is going to android, because it is *cheaper*.
Enter the cheap market with a phone only 1/6 cheaper? lol lol
Correction, no one cares.
And yet you don't get it. Unless it is for the gimmick of paying far more for a phone tied for a contract for 2 years, it doesn't make sense to buy crap just to save only 100 USD. 100USD is nothing, specially considering it 1/6 of the price. There are actually people paying more in the black market for 5Ss bought in the US while they are not sold worldwide. The C is 5C doesnt stand for cheap, stands for crap. And not, I am not an Apple basher, I have an iPad, an SSD Macbook Pro, and an Apple TV.
You didn't get my point at all. If it were half price many people would buy it. Now, last generation tech AND a plastic, for a ridiculous 100 usd? That must be a joke.
The problem is not rather the 5C not being sold well because being of "plastic", but rather because it is brain-dead to expect people to pick up yesterdays technology for a meagre 100 dollars. They would do better using the manufacturing resources of the 5C to ramp up 5S production.
You have to reboot it once.
What I want is something the size or a little larger than raspberry pi, with VT extensions, low power, to run a XEN host.
And dont forget, Windows servers. Cant they get the joke on it?
Apple C at 549 USD is hardly a commodity or a cheap model. Who can dispose of 549usd, can also spend 649USD. I personally think they are wasting money in a 2nd production line, unless they have plans to lower that price to half as soon as the novelty factor wears off.
Note, you don't need to generate a fingerprint, this are mathematical functions that should match unknown fingerprints to "known" individuals. What can possibility we do with this valuable data? Give the data do the gov as many organisations did, or sell/give the data away to the USA in exchange for political favours as my f country did without asking or even so much telling us beforehand? Are data privacy alien concepts to you? Are you joking with me? Do you work for a gov agency? What about constitutional rights of people who don't need/dont have/shouldnt have their finger prints taken unless they have criminal record?
Crow-sourcing of fingerprint collect, collect your own for the NSA to get yayyy ;-P
Only the gov (in some countries) and law enfor stores the full fingerprints. You are parroting the classic excuse "only a few points or a mathematical representation". Bullocks. Your mathematical representation, in slashdot crowd parlance terms, in a reality an hash function that will map 99.xxx% of the time to a fingerprint, or maybe a couple of them at the worse of possibilities.
Only a five year old cant see that between the current generation and the previous, with *only* a 100 dollars difference, that is no cost, and people will skip it and buy the 5S. People arent that stupid. Actually, with such a small difference in price, it is idiotic to run two different production lines. Shame for apple, with a half price unit, they would still have the people who wants the latest and to be trendy, that would bought the 5S, and they would kill the rest of the mobile market with a *really* low cost device. A golden opportunity lost.
If you are using american operating systems (Windows, notably), and Israeli products (Checkpoint, NetApp), what are you expecting? That the Mossad and CIA won't take advantage of it? Seriously? Using Huawei too? Are you they so delusional, naive, or are they just covering the tracks of their own stupidity? China got it in the right direction with red flag Linux and Loongson.
I personally think Nina Simone is a terrible example ;)
I wonder how many of them are hired, or resell them at a net profit in ebay as a novelty.
vodafone in the mobile contracts/lower tier of Internet offerings also blocks voIP here in Portugal; at the end of the day this operations are just penny pinching.
But the thing is, I haven't thrown the that WinCE out of the window because it stopped working. I thrown it out of frustration for being a piece of junk.
Do you realise tech-savvy people are the ones less likely to buy it, right?
Well, this just confirms what my friends that were unfortunate to buy one say I understand your friends, I used my Macbook at work one year,just to avoid windows, until they actually give MacBooks to my entire team.
Don't bother, slashdot is heavily throlled by MS shills and it shows.
I don't know what you are smoking, because it is a piece of junk. A beautiful piece of junk, but a piece of junk nonetheless.