How many phones does Samsung and Google sell every time there is a new Android phone?
They never release actual sales figures like Apple does. They only speak in vague hand-wavy terms about the great success of each release. In fact, Apple is actually the only manufacturer of phones or tablets who releases actual sales figures. (Samsung has occasionally released "shipped" numbers sometime between stuffing the channel and starting to take the returns...)
What some vids don't show is that Bart kept following and harassing him multiple times before the punch. Buzz would walk somewhere else to avoid him, and Bart would soon follow, sticking the Bible in his face and taunting him. If you didn't see the whole thing, it may look like Buzz was unreasonable. It shows that video evidence can strip out context if not complete.
There is actually more to the story than even that. Very soon after it happened, the little fuck sent out his video, in which he challenges Aldrin to swear to the truth of the moon landing, and BOOM, Aldrin punches him. But there were bystanders who also recorded the incident, and all their videos had the little fuck yelling "YOU'R A LIAR AND A COWARD AND", and BOOM, Aldrin punches him. In other words, the little fuck actually edited the video and changed what he was saying in a pathetic attempt to make Aldrin look bad.
In addition to all the above, how does "a photograph" show fluttering?
Well, there's actually video; the conspiracy dumbass either misspoke when he called it a photograph, or he's actually seen a still photo with wrinkles in the flag and assumed it was fluttering. Either way, there's video, and the flag is obviously not "fluttering in the breeze" in any normal way--in fact, if you know what a standing wave looks like, that's exactly what it's doing in the video...
And there is tension and torsion in the metal frame that holds up the flag, because with (as you mention) no breeze, they needed something else to hold it out. Because of the tension and torsion, the supporting arm vibrated a little at first, like a spring, and that makes waves in the flag material.
In fact, if you've ever done the high-school physics experiment where you generate a standing wave in a tray of water... If you compare the motion of the flag in the video to a flag fluttering in the breeze vs a standing wave, it's blindingly obvious that what you're watching in the video of the flag on the moon is a standing wave. The two motions are quite different and easy to tell apart.
But, smart VCs can impost their own requirements on the project and its management, can monitor all aspects closely and typically can decide to either continue support or cut off funding.
And yet, what we're talking about happens anyway, which is my point;-)
Those that are slowly falling behind on their targets can remain in denial until, poof, the money's all gone. I mean, that's just human nature.
I'd just like to point out that before KickStarter, this exact thing happened all the time, even though angel investors and VCs were far more involved in monitoring the companies they invested in than kickstarter could ever be. So yes, it will happen with KickStarter, no question.
The iPhone is just an underpowered palm computer with touch interface instead of keyboard/mouse of a laptop. Is the portability premium so high, or the case so shiny, that we have to pay 2 times the cost of a powerful laptop while getting computing power/memory of a 5 year old laptop?
No, the cost of miniaturized components is higher. And that's not even counting your gross exaggeration, the iPhone is 2 times the cost of a crappy barely-functional laptop, NOT a "powerful" laptop.
Apple's continued refusal to add a MicroSD slot is just more of their way of ripping off their customers.
Or, it's just more of keeping things simple. Not requiring users to keep track of what's where, nor which flavor of memory can used to store apps, nor what will disappear when the card is pulled out to replace it and what will remain.
I don't *want* to use a MicroSD card in my phone. (This, coming from a guy who just built his own ZFS-based 28TB server at home...)
If your service is good and it's what people want, you will survive. If it isn't, and people go elsewhere... too damned bad. If I was dealing with a company, and their competitor made them stop providing me service, there is no way in hell I'd go with the competitor, since they effectively blocked me from getting the service I do want.
True story from small town Colorado: the tiny local cable service wasn't great, somebody with a satellite TV franchise got the bright idea to buy out the cable company and shut it down. And went out of business because no one would sign up for his satellite service after he pulled that stunt. (Didn't help that someone else got a franchise for the *other* satellite service and could market himself as "not the asshole who shut down cable service!)
The only way to make the U2 album go away is to go to your Mac or PC and hide all of your "iTunes in the Cloud" purchases, or to use iTunes to manually hide each track from your purchased items list.
Incorrect. In iTunes there's a prominent "X" displayed on the upper right corner of the album. Click it. The album is gone.
Even that isn't such a big deal, since it is so easy to clone the whole pool to another one.
And that right there, I think, sums up nicely the limitation with ZFS re expansion. ZFS is not intended for users whole can't buy a pile of new disks in order to expand, users who want to expand by adding a single disk are just not its intended audience.
I very much appreciated that ability with Synology's "Hybrid" RAID while I was using that device, but in the end I'll gladly trade it for ZFS's attention to data integrity.
Hey, I'm the guy who got modded +5 funny for replying to the 8/10TB disk announcement with "of course they did, I ordered 6TB drives 2 hours ago". Well, I switched my home NAS over to ZFS last month. So, yay for me, for once I'm ahead in at least some minimal sense or other!
Seriously though, I have found ZFS to be a damned good solution so far. (FYI, CentOS, Core i5, 4GB, 6x4TB with 2-disk parity, 2 eSATA -> port multipliers...) I really don't think I will ever deploy hardware RAID again.
One correction, the RAM overhead is only intense if you use deduplication.
One different perspective, it doesn't like hardware RAID, and neither should anybody else at this point. (Yeah, I still have hardware RAID in the field.) With ZFS, you will never have the experience of the replacement RAID controller having a different firmware version and not recognizing your disks. With ZFS, you will never get data corruption from a "write hole". With ZFS, it's actually documented as to wtf the RAID is doing in terms of disk layout.
One nitpick, expandability does kind of suck compared to some other RAID schemes, but most RAID levels you CANNOT just "easily toss a new disk in there and expand"--that ability is limited in most RAID schemes. ZFS is in the middle, more easily expandable than some, but definitely not as good as the easiest.
They are expecting cost savings due to not paying Oracle licenses, so that strongly implies that there will no longer have any data to be queried in Oracle.
Maybe. Or maybe they are reducing their Oracle licensing costs to the minimum actually needed. Or maybe they will move the more traditionally-structured kinds of data to PostgreSQL in a later update.
The NoSQL solution they are moving to, Riak, is a key-value store that can to full text searches. It is very unlikely to scale when performing full text searches of millions of very long text documents.
Agreed. Where I do not completely agree with you is that the devs responsible for the NHS system are clueless enough to rush into an ill-advised transition that will not scale to their needs. I suspect that they're well aware of both the advantages and disadvantages of the software they just adopted, and will in fact NOT try to use it inappropriately.
And that's totally ignoring how it becomes damn near impossible effectively query NoSQL databases. Sorry, writing complex queries in some imperative subset of JavaScript is totally the wrong way of doing things. Intentionally not learning SQL takes more effort than learning how to use it!
Maybe you missed the key phrase in the summary: "non-clinical information". In other words, the structured data that needs to be queried is still in Oracle, or at least that's how I read it.
And the bluetooth headphone that speaks caller ID means that a watch device where your wrist has to stay easily bareable just seems stupid, because you already (should) have the headphone. Right?
No, actually I don't have a headset. If I were on the phone more, I probably would. But in my case, I need to be available for emergencies, but I'm not really on the phone much at all during the day.
In that sense, I realize that I may be very unusual, thus your point is a good one when talking about the general market.
Seriously, if you feel you must have your phone with you while actually on the slope, then you don't understand the concept of "time off". If your clients feel they are so important that not getting back to them in an hour or two will cost you their business, then you are even worse off than someone living paycheck to paycheck.
Seriously, the fact that I can ski Wed - Fri nearly every week all season long, is great;-)
Seriously, the fact that they don't even need to know what my schedule is, is great;-)
Seriously, I've taken on some important obligations wrt supporting systems that are important to patient care, and I really need to be available during normal working hours. As far as my clients thinking they're so important, well, it's me that thinks that, not them;-)
I don't know about that. I see the argument, but, the whole "I'll just pull my phone out of my pocket" argument seems to me like it might only be accurate 90% of the time, for nearly everybody. So, how many people will buy it for that 10% of the time?
For instance, when I'm skiing mid-week but staying available for work such that clients don't even know... When my phone rings, just pulling it out of my pocket to check who's calling is actually kind of a pain in the ass--depending on temp and what gloves I'm wearing, sneaking a peek at my wrist is potentially much easier, and depending on what accessories come out, who knows, I might even be able to arrange to have it somewhere even easier to check...
Similar arguments might apply to running, cycling, rowing, etc.
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Samsung sold 5 million Galaxy 5S phones...
An analyst estimates that Samsung sold 5M in the first month; Samsung does not actually release sales numbers.
How many phones does Samsung and Google sell every time there is a new Android phone?
They never release actual sales figures like Apple does. They only speak in vague hand-wavy terms about the great success of each release. In fact, Apple is actually the only manufacturer of phones or tablets who releases actual sales figures. (Samsung has occasionally released "shipped" numbers sometime between stuffing the channel and starting to take the returns...)
What some vids don't show is that Bart kept following and harassing him multiple times before the punch. Buzz would walk somewhere else to avoid him, and Bart would soon follow, sticking the Bible in his face and taunting him. If you didn't see the whole thing, it may look like Buzz was unreasonable. It shows that video evidence can strip out context if not complete.
There is actually more to the story than even that. Very soon after it happened, the little fuck sent out his video, in which he challenges Aldrin to swear to the truth of the moon landing, and BOOM, Aldrin punches him. But there were bystanders who also recorded the incident, and all their videos had the little fuck yelling "YOU'R A LIAR AND A COWARD AND", and BOOM, Aldrin punches him. In other words, the little fuck actually edited the video and changed what he was saying in a pathetic attempt to make Aldrin look bad.
...but I agree that there are numerous other bizarre factors that may point to conspiracy...
No, there are not. None whatsoever. All of the "other bizarre factors" are equally as ridiculous.
In addition to all the above, how does "a photograph" show fluttering?
Well, there's actually video; the conspiracy dumbass either misspoke when he called it a photograph, or he's actually seen a still photo with wrinkles in the flag and assumed it was fluttering. Either way, there's video, and the flag is obviously not "fluttering in the breeze" in any normal way--in fact, if you know what a standing wave looks like, that's exactly what it's doing in the video...
And there is tension and torsion in the metal frame that holds up the flag, because with (as you mention) no breeze, they needed something else to hold it out. Because of the tension and torsion, the supporting arm vibrated a little at first, like a spring, and that makes waves in the flag material.
In fact, if you've ever done the high-school physics experiment where you generate a standing wave in a tray of water... If you compare the motion of the flag in the video to a flag fluttering in the breeze vs a standing wave, it's blindingly obvious that what you're watching in the video of the flag on the moon is a standing wave. The two motions are quite different and easy to tell apart.
But, smart VCs can impost their own requirements on the project and its management, can monitor all aspects closely and typically can decide to either continue support or cut off funding.
And yet, what we're talking about happens anyway, which is my point ;-)
Those that are slowly falling behind on their targets can remain in denial until, poof, the money's all gone. I mean, that's just human nature.
I'd just like to point out that before KickStarter, this exact thing happened all the time, even though angel investors and VCs were far more involved in monitoring the companies they invested in than kickstarter could ever be. So yes, it will happen with KickStarter, no question.
Imagine the possibilities.
Oh, you mean like a karma score for submitters, which would influence the priority in the queue of their submissions. We can only dream ;-)
The iPhone is just an underpowered palm computer with touch interface instead of keyboard/mouse of a laptop. Is the portability premium so high, or the case so shiny, that we have to pay 2 times the cost of a powerful laptop while getting computing power/memory of a 5 year old laptop?
No, the cost of miniaturized components is higher. And that's not even counting your gross exaggeration, the iPhone is 2 times the cost of a crappy barely-functional laptop, NOT a "powerful" laptop.
Apple's continued refusal to add a MicroSD slot is just more of their way of ripping off their customers.
Or, it's just more of keeping things simple. Not requiring users to keep track of what's where, nor which flavor of memory can used to store apps, nor what will disappear when the card is pulled out to replace it and what will remain.
I don't *want* to use a MicroSD card in my phone. (This, coming from a guy who just built his own ZFS-based 28TB server at home...)
Encrypt locally and send the data encrypted to backup.
But then you cannot make the data available to the user through web-based apps...
So when was the antepenultimate blog post???
If your service is good and it's what people want, you will survive. If it isn't, and people go elsewhere ... too damned bad. If I was dealing with a company, and their competitor made them stop providing me service, there is no way in hell I'd go with the competitor, since they effectively blocked me from getting the service I do want.
True story from small town Colorado: the tiny local cable service wasn't great, somebody with a satellite TV franchise got the bright idea to buy out the cable company and shut it down. And went out of business because no one would sign up for his satellite service after he pulled that stunt. (Didn't help that someone else got a franchise for the *other* satellite service and could market himself as "not the asshole who shut down cable service!)
The only way to make the U2 album go away is to go to your Mac or PC and hide all of your "iTunes in the Cloud" purchases, or to use iTunes to manually hide each track from your purchased items list.
Incorrect. In iTunes there's a prominent "X" displayed on the upper right corner of the album. Click it. The album is gone.
Even that isn't such a big deal, since it is so easy to clone the whole pool to another one.
And that right there, I think, sums up nicely the limitation with ZFS re expansion. ZFS is not intended for users whole can't buy a pile of new disks in order to expand, users who want to expand by adding a single disk are just not its intended audience.
I very much appreciated that ability with Synology's "Hybrid" RAID while I was using that device, but in the end I'll gladly trade it for ZFS's attention to data integrity.
Hey, I'm the guy who got modded +5 funny for replying to the 8/10TB disk announcement with "of course they did, I ordered 6TB drives 2 hours ago". Well, I switched my home NAS over to ZFS last month. So, yay for me, for once I'm ahead in at least some minimal sense or other!
Seriously though, I have found ZFS to be a damned good solution so far. (FYI, CentOS, Core i5, 4GB, 6x4TB with 2-disk parity, 2 eSATA -> port multipliers...) I really don't think I will ever deploy hardware RAID again.
One correction, the RAM overhead is only intense if you use deduplication.
One different perspective, it doesn't like hardware RAID, and neither should anybody else at this point. (Yeah, I still have hardware RAID in the field.) With ZFS, you will never have the experience of the replacement RAID controller having a different firmware version and not recognizing your disks. With ZFS, you will never get data corruption from a "write hole". With ZFS, it's actually documented as to wtf the RAID is doing in terms of disk layout.
One nitpick, expandability does kind of suck compared to some other RAID schemes, but most RAID levels you CANNOT just "easily toss a new disk in there and expand"--that ability is limited in most RAID schemes. ZFS is in the middle, more easily expandable than some, but definitely not as good as the easiest.
They are expecting cost savings due to not paying Oracle licenses, so that strongly implies that there will no longer have any data to be queried in Oracle.
Maybe. Or maybe they are reducing their Oracle licensing costs to the minimum actually needed. Or maybe they will move the more traditionally-structured kinds of data to PostgreSQL in a later update.
The NoSQL solution they are moving to, Riak, is a key-value store that can to full text searches. It is very unlikely to scale when performing full text searches of millions of very long text documents.
Agreed. Where I do not completely agree with you is that the devs responsible for the NHS system are clueless enough to rush into an ill-advised transition that will not scale to their needs. I suspect that they're well aware of both the advantages and disadvantages of the software they just adopted, and will in fact NOT try to use it inappropriately.
NoSQL stands for Not Only SQL.
Bull. Fucking. Shit. It was always "No SQL".
And that's totally ignoring how it becomes damn near impossible effectively query NoSQL databases. Sorry, writing complex queries in some imperative subset of JavaScript is totally the wrong way of doing things. Intentionally not learning SQL takes more effort than learning how to use it!
Maybe you missed the key phrase in the summary: "non-clinical information". In other words, the structured data that needs to be queried is still in Oracle, or at least that's how I read it.
And the bluetooth headphone that speaks caller ID means that a watch device where your wrist has to stay easily bareable just seems stupid, because you already (should) have the headphone. Right?
No, actually I don't have a headset. If I were on the phone more, I probably would. But in my case, I need to be available for emergencies, but I'm not really on the phone much at all during the day.
In that sense, I realize that I may be very unusual, thus your point is a good one when talking about the general market.
I ordered 6TB drives 3 hours ago...
Seriously, if you feel you must have your phone with you while actually on the slope, then you don't understand the concept of "time off". If your clients feel they are so important that not getting back to them in an hour or two will cost you their business, then you are even worse off than someone living paycheck to paycheck.
Seriously, the fact that I can ski Wed - Fri nearly every week all season long, is great ;-)
Seriously, the fact that they don't even need to know what my schedule is, is great ;-)
Seriously, I've taken on some important obligations wrt supporting systems that are important to patient care, and I really need to be available during normal working hours. As far as my clients thinking they're so important, well, it's me that thinks that, not them ;-)
I don't know about that. I see the argument, but, the whole "I'll just pull my phone out of my pocket" argument seems to me like it might only be accurate 90% of the time, for nearly everybody. So, how many people will buy it for that 10% of the time?
For instance, when I'm skiing mid-week but staying available for work such that clients don't even know... When my phone rings, just pulling it out of my pocket to check who's calling is actually kind of a pain in the ass--depending on temp and what gloves I'm wearing, sneaking a peek at my wrist is potentially much easier, and depending on what accessories come out, who knows, I might even be able to arrange to have it somewhere even easier to check...
Similar arguments might apply to running, cycling, rowing, etc.