your speculation that it is lower, while interesting, does not equal proof. Your guessing that half of iphone users are on the new version because they bought new devices.. An idea that is completely baseless. And you provide no evidence to support it in any way.
So how about some facts.
Here's a link to a page, from an iOS/Android app developer, showing iOS users upgrading to the latest version. Within 2 weeks, 60%+ are using the very latest version (5.1.0), and 85% are using 5.0.0, 5.0.1, or 5.1.0. http://david-smith.org/blog/2012/03/10/ios-5-dot-1-upgrade-stats/
I keep reading that 80% of iOS users are on the latest release, and it seems too high to me that 80% of users would upgrade.
I have an iPhone, and I don't have a hard time believing 80% of users would update.
1) iTunes, which they are already using, automatically checks for updates, and tells you when one is available, and asks you if you want to install it. IIRC, if you decline the update, it will repeatedly ask you to install the update every time you open iTunes. You can disable updates, but that is not the default.. so it would require action from the user.
2) if you choose not to install it, it won't be long (a few months) before you will start seeing messages like "this app requires at least iOS vX.X.X", and you won't be able to install new apps on your phone or update the apps you already have installed.
So although you could choose not to upgrade, it is very easy to update, and if you install new apps (or update your apps), then the updates are pretty much required.
you don't have to... but the menu is pretty long.. so unless you want to search through a huge list (the width of your screen), then it's faster and easier to just type it.
If you want a shorter menu, then just uninstall some of the default crap... then you won't have to type.
The guy isn't claiming any sort of conspiracy theory:
He said medical evidence suggested Turing died from inhaling cyanide rather than drinking or ingesting it. He said police reported a strong smell of cyanide coming from Turing's lab, where he used it in amateur experiments.
Found something else interesting too: A lot of PadMappers links are to PadLister, a competitor for Craigslist. The about page says:
PadLister is the side of PadMapper that serves landlords and brokers. It aims to make it easier and less painful to find great tenants for your rental vacancies. It does this in a few ways.
So not only are they displaying craigslist listings on a frame to keep visitors on the padmapper site, they are also a competitor.
I take part of my post back.. they do show the listing in a frame.. so if they had Craigslist's listing on there, it should be clear they are from craigslist
Did you try using the two sites. HousingMaps has a link to craigslist on the front page, and when you click on a listing, it goes to craigslist.
PadMapper has no links to craigslist, and when you click on a listing, they display the listing on their own site without (as far as I can tell) even a mention of where it came from.
Go to a site, scrape everything and present it as your own? Enjoy the C&D.
I agree with everything you said except the second sentence ("It is not a double edged sword").
Even if the positives of free-trade outweigh the negatives, there ARE downsides to free-trade, and trying to paint it as perfect is disingenuous.
When this country is producing a good and another (cheaper, developing) country learns to produce it, industries here are destroyed, workers are displaced, and it does create structural unemployment.
This is a negative by anyones standards.
We think the movement to other goods is positive for the US economy, so we accept that downside.
Let's not pretend it doesn't exist.. ignoring it does not make it go away.
The grade school system is terrible and needs improvement. Luckily they do not run the university system. The US consistently has more top universities than any other country.
Yes, you're completely right. You're making them more like us--creating more shared values between us... but it's those values that give America its competitive edge. So if they adopt them, they will be more friendly toward us, but also more competitive with us. It's a double-edged sword.
each seat filled by a foreign student is one less domestic student in that seat and robs the US of future domestic production
Are you kidding me? Foreign students are doing more than just getting an education here... they are learning the American way. They're being exposed to our values, life-style, religions, government institutions, free-market economy, etc, etc, etc.
Some of those foreigners will one day run their country (or be near the top), and they will have more American values than if they did not attend. You're creating a potential ally, or at least someone who is likely to be more friendly to the US.
D is designed with lessons learned from practical C++ usage rather than from a theoretical perspective.... Imperative programming in D is almost identical to C. Functions, data, statements, declarations and expressions work just as in C, and the C runtime library can be accessed directly.... Explicit memory management is possible using the overloaded operators new and delete, and by simply calling C's malloc and free directly.... C's application binary interface (ABI) is supported as well as all of C's fundamental and derived types, enabling direct access to existing C code and libraries.
And the GDC compiler is just a front-end for GCC
So the language isn't as different from C/C++ as Ruby.
It's all a big guessing game anyway. FICO does not release the actual formula, and even though you can see the score from TransUnion/Experian/Equifax, the banks do not use the score from those agencies. They calculate it themselves, and they can use a different weighting in the formula.
Also, FICO is not the only scoring company. VantageScore, NextGen, BEACON, and EMPIRICA.. to name a few.. and your bank can use any of those for your account.
So even if you know your credit score... you don't really know your credit score.
hard inquiries affect your score by 1 to 5 points. FICO also groups inquires -- so if you shop for a mortgage during a period of a month or so, all of those will be grouped together (and will affect your score the same as 1 inquiry)
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what is confusing about that?
I'm not going through your entire post.. this is really the crux of your argument...
If Apple sells 10 units in year 1, they sell 20 the next year--not 11. And in year 3 they sell 40--not 13 or 14.
You are right about that part.. but in that scenario, how many devices are being actively used? Is it 40, 60, or 70?
You can't tell me that.. because you don't know how long each device is being used before the consumer buys a new device.
And that is why your argument doesn't hold together, and why your figures are guesswork at best.
your speculation that it is lower, while interesting, does not equal proof. Your guessing that half of iphone users are on the new version because they bought new devices.. An idea that is completely baseless. And you provide no evidence to support it in any way.
So how about some facts.
Here's a link to a page, from an iOS/Android app developer, showing iOS users upgrading to the latest version. Within 2 weeks, 60%+ are using the very latest version (5.1.0), and 85% are using 5.0.0, 5.0.1, or 5.1.0.
http://david-smith.org/blog/2012/03/10/ios-5-dot-1-upgrade-stats/
I keep reading that 80% of iOS users are on the latest release, and it seems too high to me that 80% of users would upgrade.
I have an iPhone, and I don't have a hard time believing 80% of users would update.
1) iTunes, which they are already using, automatically checks for updates, and tells you when one is available, and asks you if you want to install it. IIRC, if you decline the update, it will repeatedly ask you to install the update every time you open iTunes. You can disable updates, but that is not the default.. so it would require action from the user.
2) if you choose not to install it, it won't be long (a few months) before you will start seeing messages like "this app requires at least iOS vX.X.X", and you won't be able to install new apps on your phone or update the apps you already have installed.
So although you could choose not to upgrade, it is very easy to update, and if you install new apps (or update your apps), then the updates are pretty much required.
you don't have to... but the menu is pretty long.. so unless you want to search through a huge list (the width of your screen), then it's faster and easier to just type it.
If you want a shorter menu, then just uninstall some of the default crap... then you won't have to type.
IIRC in the apps menu, type "terminal" into the search bar
So you have to have the previous version to upgrade... what is the problem? Doesn't everyone do this?
Off hand: Adobe, Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian all require the immediate previous version to upgrade.
Honestly, I didn't even know you could upgrade Windows from a version older than the previous version.
Buying an open source company is buying their copyrights
^ This... plus.. you have to read between the lines of what red hat is saying.
If a project has a large community, it is because they have a lot of users.
Red Hat sells support.
A large community == users to sell support to.
The guy isn't claiming any sort of conspiracy theory:
He said medical evidence suggested Turing died from inhaling cyanide rather than drinking or ingesting it. He said police reported a strong smell of cyanide coming from Turing's lab, where he used it in amateur experiments.
Parent should be modded funny. CmdrTaco was the curator of everything slashdot is.
It's only been a mere 58 years. Now is the time to look into this.
Found something else interesting too: A lot of PadMappers links are to PadLister, a competitor for Craigslist. The about page says:
PadLister is the side of PadMapper that serves landlords and brokers. It aims to make it easier and less painful to find great tenants for your rental vacancies. It does this in a few ways.
So not only are they displaying craigslist listings on a frame to keep visitors on the padmapper site, they are also a competitor.
I take part of my post back.. they do show the listing in a frame.. so if they had Craigslist's listing on there, it should be clear they are from craigslist
Did you try using the two sites. HousingMaps has a link to craigslist on the front page, and when you click on a listing, it goes to craigslist.
PadMapper has no links to craigslist, and when you click on a listing, they display the listing on their own site without (as far as I can tell) even a mention of where it came from.
Go to a site, scrape everything and present it as your own? Enjoy the C&D.
Seriously, it looks like PadMapper deserved it.
I'm really really confused by your comment. How can you have a UID that low AND think slashdot has standards?
I agree with everything you said except the second sentence ("It is not a double edged sword").
Even if the positives of free-trade outweigh the negatives, there ARE downsides to free-trade, and trying to paint it as perfect is disingenuous.
When this country is producing a good and another (cheaper, developing) country learns to produce it, industries here are destroyed, workers are displaced, and it does create structural unemployment.
This is a negative by anyones standards.
We think the movement to other goods is positive for the US economy, so we accept that downside.
Let's not pretend it doesn't exist.. ignoring it does not make it go away.
The grade school system is terrible and needs improvement. Luckily they do not run the university system. The US consistently has more top universities than any other country.
US News and World Report: http://www.usnews.com/education/worlds-best-universities-rankings/top-400-universities-in-the-world
ARWU (compiled by Shanghai Jiao Tong University): http://www.arwu.org/ARWU2010.jsp
QS World Rankings (compiled by a London corp): http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/world-university-rankings/2011
Yes, you're completely right. You're making them more like us--creating more shared values between us... but it's those values that give America its competitive edge. So if they adopt them, they will be more friendly toward us, but also more competitive with us. It's a double-edged sword.
each seat filled by a foreign student is one less domestic student in that seat and robs the US of future domestic production
Are you kidding me? Foreign students are doing more than just getting an education here... they are learning the American way. They're being exposed to our values, life-style, religions, government institutions, free-market economy, etc, etc, etc.
Some of those foreigners will one day run their country (or be near the top), and they will have more American values than if they did not attend. You're creating a potential ally, or at least someone who is likely to be more friendly to the US.
That is worth a lot.
that's stretching the differences a little too far.. D was designed as an improvement on c/c++, and the syntax is the same.
WIkipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D_(programming_language)
D is designed with lessons learned from practical C++ usage rather than from a theoretical perspective. ... ... ...
Imperative programming in D is almost identical to C. Functions, data, statements, declarations and expressions work just as in C, and the C runtime library can be accessed directly.
Explicit memory management is possible using the overloaded operators new and delete, and by simply calling C's malloc and free directly.
C's application binary interface (ABI) is supported as well as all of C's fundamental and derived types, enabling direct access to existing C code and libraries.
And the GDC compiler is just a front-end for GCC
So the language isn't as different from C/C++ as Ruby.
And thanks for the info. When my 5 minutes of research is wrong, I do like being corrected
Great work, professor. You got a whole team of chimpanzees doing that research for you or what?
OH NO!... do you think I was wrong ON THE INTERNET?!
^ I agree with this
It was nice of Google to send them a letter though..
It's all a big guessing game anyway. FICO does not release the actual formula, and even though you can see the score from TransUnion/Experian/Equifax, the banks do not use the score from those agencies. They calculate it themselves, and they can use a different weighting in the formula.
Also, FICO is not the only scoring company. VantageScore, NextGen, BEACON, and EMPIRICA.. to name a few.. and your bank can use any of those for your account.
So even if you know your credit score... you don't really know your credit score.
hard inquiries affect your score by 1 to 5 points. FICO also groups inquires -- so if you shop for a mortgage during a period of a month or so, all of those will be grouped together (and will affect your score the same as 1 inquiry)
http://www.bankrate.com/finance/credit-cards/how-credit-inquiries-affect-credit-score.aspx