if we're trying to *predict* a future event without any prior data to forecast upon, then it's merely a form of legalized gambling.
and seriously......"Goobles"? They have to chose a name that sounds like one coming from a semi-dictator regime (Putin)? Whatever happened to "Googo" (like euro) or "Ginar" (like dinar) or "Ganc" (like franc) or even "Grona" (like krona) ?
yea, one is run by business-oriented people who have calculated they can rake a 75% profit margin ($35K - $20K) from anyone too rich (Mitt), and one is run the everyday people (they even allow you to collect signatures in lieu of the actual filing fee)...
if it wasn't for colbert, nearly no one would know the drastic differences in the filing process for South Carolina (except those employed by the campaigns)...
"There is a big difference between 1,000,000 people and 1,000,000 Americans."
True, but the proportion of American members on the group must be huge relative to non-Americans... after all, Colbert is an American comedian, not an international joker (tom cruise comes to mind)
if a kernel is componentized and modular (yes, even in Linux's monolithic sense), then you can simply compile different parts of it - the basic for desktops, a shrink version for mobile devices, and extra capabilities for servers and big iron. Forking a kernel is essentially creating a new OS, since it's a huge mess trying to constant reconcile new codes across forks....
just look at the gazillion variations of BSD. Why can't we have an OS that's secure (OpenBSD), high performing (FreeBSD), and multi-architectural (NetBSD) at the same time?
Choice is one thing. Having choices is healthy for competition. But too many choices will simply dilute their power to compete against big companies.
Look at the floppy-replacement. There was Iomega Zip/JaZ, SyQuest EZ-135, LS-120, Caleb UHD144, Castlewood Orb, Sony HiFD....and guess what? everyone lost, and all replaced by CD-R and CD-RW.
Even Unix's own fragmentation left few survivors. IBM AIX and Sun Solaris being the major ones. Even HP is half-heartedly supporting HP/UX.
even if SCO emerges from Chp 11 with a nice updated product line, they've already lost their credibility, good will, and confidence of customers. Who wants to buy anything from a company who might ending up suing you for no particular reason?
There are tons of good Unix and Linux distributors out there... no reason to choose SCO anymore.
You want free and good? Linux and BSD. You want enterprise level? IBM and Sun. You want Windows-based? Dell and HP. You wanna convert your entire revenue stream into attorney fees billed at $400/hr? Take SCO.
corporate greed has shown repeatedly that lowered taxation will only go to increasing the bottom line instead of lowering consumer prices. same for all the outsourcing and offshoring. Did prices come down? No. Did profit margins improve? Yes.
The same argument can be applied for merchants complaining about credit card merchant fees from Visa and Mastercard networks. Stores that don't accept cards aren't necessarily cheaper than those who accept cards for *identical* products.
Also, the argument that "market will play itself out" only goes so far. Look at subprime mortgages. It's the unregulated part of the market (since it's not bound to Freddie Mac or Fannie Mae guidelines), and look what happened. Greed trumped logic with only a few winners (the mortgage brokers) and lots of losers (the foreclosed homeowners, the banks who bought the MBS/ABS/CDOs, the lenders, etc). Ditto for the Savings and Loans Crisis of the 70s and 80s.
And with globalization, the "embedded taxation" doesn't fix the entire supply chain, which can easily be taxed at multiple locales and territories that utilize a different taxation model.
on an unrelated note regarding your signature, if we follow FairTax's advice and levy a 23% sales tax, that would ruin ruin tourism for all that we know, unless we're offering tax-rebates for all the tourists.
why would someone from Europe come here and pay 23% sales tax for the exact same product (pricing-unified globally) while they can get it in next-door Canada for merely ~8-10% sales tax? Heck, even european VAT is lower.
Huge sales tax is only effective if the government needs to control sales volume. Say gasoline in european or automobiles in asia.
but isn't it also true that gadget manufacturers can claim that you've void the warranty if you open the case? if the unlocking of the iPhone requires soldering the chips and the board, then Apple can easily deny warranty on those grounds ?
HP even prevents third-party ink by patenting the chip that's attached to the ink cartridges.
i guess if apple really wants it, it *can* be done, but since apple care most about its consumer image, it might not go so far. after all, only SCO doesn't care what others think (and look what that got them into)
Apple actually wants people to unlock the phone. If we assume that customers who unlock the phone for T-Mobile would not subscribe to AT&T ever, then Apple should consider it an extra phone sale (close to 50% profit margin on the hardware) instead of a lost revenue stream (shared with AT&T).
Also, unlocking the phone might void the warranty, saving Apple even more costs down the road.
While Apple might not have the legal grounds to prevent unlocking the phones, they can make the unlockers' lives a living hell. Most phones never require a firmware upgrade once they're released (and thus are feature-fixed). But the iPhone prides itself on bug-fixes and new features available via firmware upgrade. Apple probably have the rights to refuse to firmware-upgrade any unlocked phones.
Or perhaps Apple can force iTunes to refuse even syncing with unlocked phones, thus making loading music/pictures/videos a huge pain. But why would Apple want that? Any device that can access iTunes Music Store is like free money for Apple.
My bets will be if anyone is upset over the locked phones, it should be AT&T and not Apple.
Do you think ANY carrier will officially carry a device/smartphone that will run Skype and bypass one of their most profitable service (international long distance)? Without any carrier support, Apple's market share will be so tiny. Look at all those great Dopods and HTCs and Nokia N95's market share in US?
Point 2 : Gaming
Cell phone gaming is not really practical. Look at how the N-Gage bombed. The iPhone has no keys (except Home), so any game designed for it will be purely touch-based. Tell me how many types of games can be designed for touching and swiping fingers?
Point 3 : SDK
From the end-user's perspective, the last thing they care is SDK, and the last thing they want are SDKs allowing developers to release poor-tested un-sandboxed software into their smartphones that causes it to crash 5 times a day. The iPod rarely allowed developers (other than those few games), and did that stop the iPod from being the most successful mp3 player?
it's not even segregation....the First Nations (Canada) or Native Indians (USA) choose to have their reservations 'cuz they can collect all the gambling income they can.
Another reason why others don't feel the need to integrate them into society... because they're forcefully choosing isolation.
I feel that they're having double standards....one hand they want full racial equality....on another, they want to govern their reservations and have this "i dont belong to your state/province" attitude...
"bridge failing during a traffic jam" is a bad analogy.
do highways planners create interstate highways for regular traffic patterns (4-lanes each way), or try to accomodate for peak summer travel period and end up with excess capacity for the rest of the year?
if any road should be able to handle peak loads smoothly, then Lincoln Tunnel needs to be 10-lanes each way.
load-balancing using Google as a backup-solution isn't a business plan. Do you see NYSE or Nasdaq contract out to Google if there are huge moves in the market ? Do you see Visa and Mastercard contract out to Google if everyone is swiping during winter shopping season ?
*every* year on tax filing deadline, either there's a super long line at the Post Office, or the e-filing sites are overloaded. can't people file a bit earlier? even a week ago would've been much better.
the earlier you get your refund, the more interest it can accrue in your savings account as opposed to an interest-free loan to Uncle Sam...
no webserver is expected to survive if you way overload it. you can't really blame Intuit/Turbotax on this one.
i live in manhattan, and everytime i drop by a starbucks in a *younger* part of town (e.g. East Village, Chelsea), i see approx 40-60% of those laptops are Macs
i think the bigger problem with market share is with those who refuse to learn a Mac because they're too accustomed to using Windows their entire life.... like my mom. for her birthday, i tried to convince her to learn MacOS, but she insisted on a VAIO
then of course there are those people who need Windows to play Warcraft more hours than sleeping..... =)
by far the world's users who are willing to pay premiums for nice phones reside outside USA. go with verizon, and u'll limit yourself to handful of CDMA countries. go with cingular, and u'll open up nearly every country in europe and asia.
people in USA are too used to these "$49 RAZR" deals that they can't possible imagine paying $499 for the iPhone. european and asian users will. now if we can get Apple to strike deals with SK Telecom or NTT DoCoMo, then u're all set.
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yea, Gmail, Orkut, Picasa, and YouTube dont start with "Goo" either =)
"*Porn might be one of the few genres that DON'T benefit from high-definition."
hehhe totally true.... the last night we need is a 1920 horizontal pixels showcasing every bit of facial defects and skin blemishes of these "artists"
esp with the proliferation broadband, people can already stream and download DVD-quality videos.
if we're trying to *predict* a future event without any prior data to forecast upon, then it's merely a form of legalized gambling.
and seriously......"Goobles"? They have to chose a name that sounds like one coming from a semi-dictator regime (Putin)? Whatever happened to "Googo" (like euro) or "Ginar" (like dinar) or "Ganc" (like franc) or even "Grona" (like krona) ?
yea, one is run by business-oriented people who have calculated they can rake a 75% profit margin ($35K - $20K) from anyone too rich (Mitt), and one is run the everyday people (they even allow you to collect signatures in lieu of the actual filing fee) ...
if it wasn't for colbert, nearly no one would know the drastic differences in the filing process for South Carolina (except those employed by the campaigns)...
"There is a big difference between 1,000,000 people and 1,000,000 Americans."
True, but the proportion of American members on the group must be huge relative to non-Americans... after all, Colbert is an American comedian, not an international joker (tom cruise comes to mind)
ps : it's up to 1.2mil now
if a kernel is componentized and modular (yes, even in Linux's monolithic sense), then you can simply compile different parts of it - the basic for desktops, a shrink version for mobile devices, and extra capabilities for servers and big iron. Forking a kernel is essentially creating a new OS, since it's a huge mess trying to constant reconcile new codes across forks....
just look at the gazillion variations of BSD. Why can't we have an OS that's secure (OpenBSD), high performing (FreeBSD), and multi-architectural (NetBSD) at the same time?
Choice is one thing. Having choices is healthy for competition. But too many choices will simply dilute their power to compete against big companies.
Look at the floppy-replacement. There was Iomega Zip/JaZ, SyQuest EZ-135, LS-120, Caleb UHD144, Castlewood Orb, Sony HiFD....and guess what? everyone lost, and all replaced by CD-R and CD-RW.
Even Unix's own fragmentation left few survivors. IBM AIX and Sun Solaris being the major ones. Even HP is half-heartedly supporting HP/UX.
even if SCO emerges from Chp 11 with a nice updated product line, they've already lost their credibility, good will, and confidence of customers. Who wants to buy anything from a company who might ending up suing you for no particular reason?
There are tons of good Unix and Linux distributors out there... no reason to choose SCO anymore.
You want free and good? Linux and BSD. You want enterprise level? IBM and Sun. You want Windows-based? Dell and HP. You wanna convert your entire revenue stream into attorney fees billed at $400/hr? Take SCO.
>General Petraeus has a Ph.D. from Princeton. What are your academic credentials?
....
George W Bush has a Bachelors from Yale, and an MBA from Harvard....Alberto Gonzales has a JD from Harvard Law
so what's ur point ?
ps : i have a masters of computer science from cornell. where's urs ?
Thank goodness OS X unifies us One OS, Under Jobs
maybe you should go talk to General Betray Us and see how astute he is
corporate greed has shown repeatedly that lowered taxation will only go to increasing the bottom line instead of lowering consumer prices. same for all the outsourcing and offshoring. Did prices come down? No. Did profit margins improve? Yes.
The same argument can be applied for merchants complaining about credit card merchant fees from Visa and Mastercard networks. Stores that don't accept cards aren't necessarily cheaper than those who accept cards for *identical* products.
Also, the argument that "market will play itself out" only goes so far. Look at subprime mortgages. It's the unregulated part of the market (since it's not bound to Freddie Mac or Fannie Mae guidelines), and look what happened. Greed trumped logic with only a few winners (the mortgage brokers) and lots of losers (the foreclosed homeowners, the banks who bought the MBS/ABS/CDOs, the lenders, etc). Ditto for the Savings and Loans Crisis of the 70s and 80s.
And with globalization, the "embedded taxation" doesn't fix the entire supply chain, which can easily be taxed at multiple locales and territories that utilize a different taxation model.
on an unrelated note regarding your signature, if we follow FairTax's advice and levy a 23% sales tax, that would ruin ruin tourism for all that we know, unless we're offering tax-rebates for all the tourists.
why would someone from Europe come here and pay 23% sales tax for the exact same product (pricing-unified globally) while they can get it in next-door Canada for merely ~8-10% sales tax? Heck, even european VAT is lower.
Huge sales tax is only effective if the government needs to control sales volume. Say gasoline in european or automobiles in asia.
but isn't it also true that gadget manufacturers can claim that you've void the warranty if you open the case? if the unlocking of the iPhone requires soldering the chips and the board, then Apple can easily deny warranty on those grounds ?
HP even prevents third-party ink by patenting the chip that's attached to the ink cartridges.
i guess if apple really wants it, it *can* be done, but since apple care most about its consumer image, it might not go so far. after all, only SCO doesn't care what others think (and look what that got them into)
Apple actually wants people to unlock the phone. If we assume that customers who unlock the phone for T-Mobile would not subscribe to AT&T ever, then Apple should consider it an extra phone sale (close to 50% profit margin on the hardware) instead of a lost revenue stream (shared with AT&T).
Also, unlocking the phone might void the warranty, saving Apple even more costs down the road.
While Apple might not have the legal grounds to prevent unlocking the phones, they can make the unlockers' lives a living hell. Most phones never require a firmware upgrade once they're released (and thus are feature-fixed). But the iPhone prides itself on bug-fixes and new features available via firmware upgrade. Apple probably have the rights to refuse to firmware-upgrade any unlocked phones.
Or perhaps Apple can force iTunes to refuse even syncing with unlocked phones, thus making loading music/pictures/videos a huge pain. But why would Apple want that? Any device that can access iTunes Music Store is like free money for Apple.
My bets will be if anyone is upset over the locked phones, it should be AT&T and not Apple.
HELL to the chief! finally any idiot steps down
his last day is also Mexican independence day..... coincidence? i think not
Point 1 : Skype
Do you think ANY carrier will officially carry a device/smartphone that will run Skype and bypass one of their most profitable service (international long distance)? Without any carrier support, Apple's market share will be so tiny. Look at all those great Dopods and HTCs and Nokia N95's market share in US?
Point 2 : Gaming
Cell phone gaming is not really practical. Look at how the N-Gage bombed. The iPhone has no keys (except Home), so any game designed for it will be purely touch-based. Tell me how many types of games can be designed for touching and swiping fingers?
Point 3 : SDK
From the end-user's perspective, the last thing they care is SDK, and the last thing they want are SDKs allowing developers to release poor-tested un-sandboxed software into their smartphones that causes it to crash 5 times a day. The iPod rarely allowed developers (other than those few games), and did that stop the iPod from being the most successful mp3 player?
it's not even segregation....the First Nations (Canada) or Native Indians (USA) choose to have their reservations 'cuz they can collect all the gambling income they can.
... because they're forcefully choosing isolation.
Another reason why others don't feel the need to integrate them into society
I feel that they're having double standards....one hand they want full racial equality....on another, they want to govern their reservations and have this "i dont belong to your state/province" attitude...
"bridge failing during a traffic jam" is a bad analogy.
do highways planners create interstate highways for regular traffic patterns (4-lanes each way), or try to accomodate for peak summer travel period and end up with excess capacity for the rest of the year?
if any road should be able to handle peak loads smoothly, then Lincoln Tunnel needs to be 10-lanes each way.
load-balancing using Google as a backup-solution isn't a business plan. Do you see NYSE or Nasdaq contract out to Google if there are huge moves in the market ? Do you see Visa and Mastercard contract out to Google if everyone is swiping during winter shopping season ?
*every* year on tax filing deadline, either there's a super long line at the Post Office, or the e-filing sites are overloaded. can't people file a bit earlier? even a week ago would've been much better.
the earlier you get your refund, the more interest it can accrue in your savings account as opposed to an interest-free loan to Uncle Sam...
no webserver is expected to survive if you way overload it. you can't really blame Intuit/Turbotax on this one.
i live in manhattan, and everytime i drop by a starbucks in a *younger* part of town (e.g. East Village, Chelsea), i see approx 40-60% of those laptops are Macs
.... like my mom. for her birthday, i tried to convince her to learn MacOS, but she insisted on a VAIO
i think the bigger problem with market share is with those who refuse to learn a Mac because they're too accustomed to using Windows their entire life
then of course there are those people who need Windows to play Warcraft more hours than sleeping..... =)
Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who deliver Ohio's electoral votes to the president decide everything.
The old NTT DoCoMo uses a japanese home made system known as PHS/PDC. The current FOMA generation is actually WCDMA.
KDDI/au service, on the other hand, is CDMA2000 EV-DO.
by far the world's users who are willing to pay premiums for nice phones reside outside USA. go with verizon, and u'll limit yourself to handful of CDMA countries. go with cingular, and u'll open up nearly every country in europe and asia.
people in USA are too used to these "$49 RAZR" deals that they can't possible imagine paying $499 for the iPhone. european and asian users will. now if we can get Apple to strike deals with SK Telecom or NTT DoCoMo, then u're all set.
go find me another FLASH player that offers 30GB+ before making that comment