Because Apple keeps moving the goal post. They will market a single feature of their new product that is above average (while most others are average). When other manufacturers will tout a better value for that feature, Apple will change the marketed feature and so on.
> If you don't believe any of the evidence on AGW, you're either ignorant or a denier. The evidence is overwhelming.
The evidence is that according to some measurement methodology, mean temperatures are higher now than they were decades before, by fractions of degrees. The other evidence is that, according to some measurement methodology, the relative proportion of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is higher that it was decades before.
Whether the augmentation of greenhouse gases is due to human activity, whether the augmentation of temperature is corellated to that of greenhouse gases, whether this augmentation of temparature will continue and whether it will have negative consequences is NOT evidence, but the results of statistical analysis, physical and computational models.
So while refusing to accept facts can be called denialism, being skeptical about theorical models and extrapolations should not. Labelling AGW critics as shills paid by big oil companies will not help the cause either - this tactics usually comes from conspiration nuts.
Maybe not - all these companies are using the commercial weapon of frivolous overbroad patents. They should be worried that a court has finally had the guts to start drawing the line as to which kind of patents are acceptable or not.
Remembering a few years ago, in the PC vs Mac debate, that PC fans argued that their platform was superior because there was much more software available. To what Mac fans replied that it was quality, not quantity that mattered, and that it was better, for a given application type, to have one good program rather than ten mediocre ones. Funny how the same arguments are reused when the tables have turned.
1980 : The forests are dying, acid rains : our countries are becoming deserts - we're all going to die 1990 : The ozone layer depletion : dangerous radiations will hit us . we're all going to die 2000 : Global warming : Poles will melt, huricanes will hit us - we're all going to die 2010 : ????
In Switzerland we have recently passed a law to protect animal rights. Theoretically, it is illegal now to buy a single aquarium fish, because it would be alone and depressed. Such animals have to be bought in couples.
The fact is, that the swiss parliament prefers passing law on non important matters, like animal rights or video games, that might receive a general agreement from the uninformed public, rather that being unpopular buy passing laws on more important but controvertial topics, like immigration, unemployment or social insurances.
If Jimbo is wrong 50% of the time, you can not assume that Jimbo being wrong implies that the "real" chances of your tire going flat are 100% and compute an average of 50.5%. It all depends on what is meant by Jimbo being "wrong". Any value between 0% and 100%, except 1%, for the "real" chances will prove Jimbo "wrong", so one could pick 0% or 1.1% to compute the average and get values very close to Jimbo's estimates.
In Switzerland, the largest cable operator (Cablecom) is slowly but steadily switching from analog to digital. The problem is that the analog channels, which are broadcast in "clear" on the cable are replaced by the same digital channels that are encrypted and require the mandatory rented Cablecom box to be watched. A consumer association challenged this up to the federal legislative body, requiring that the basic package be unencrypted (premium pay channels could remain encrypted) and that consumers can chose their decoder (current encryption is Nagra, so simply providing a decoding card instead of a box would be possible). Cablecom replied with completely bogus allegations that not using encryption would prevent it providing "interactive services" and make it "less competitive" because no encryption standard exists for cable. Unfortunately, the Parliament believed all this crap, hook and sink, and the petition was dismissed without much discussion.
When I bought my PMP 300, it was the first portable MP3 player to be sold in my town. The owner of the computer shop where I bought it asked me if I could open the package in the shop and let him try it, because it looked so innovative. My PMP 300 ist still working. I only had to fix the battery compartment door, because the tiny platic bit that held it shut broke quite early. I have used it for about 5 years, jogging approximately 40 kilometers per week, so it has supported more than 10'000 kms with me, through cold, heat, snow, rain and sweat. That has built some sentimental links... I can not say that much for the headphones, which I have had to change twice a year. After five years I switched to a Rio Psa Play (still working), and more recently to an iRiver T10 (because it is one of the last MP3 player to use AA batteries rather than AAAs). The switch from the PMP 300 was due to have more capacity and faster transfer rates, but the quality of the PMP 300 itself has more than satisfied me.
My guess is that, as children, these very senators have been exposed to violence in movies and have become quite insensitive. This caused them to vote for the bombing of several third world countries, condone torture on Guantanamo prisoners or support cruel punishments like the death penalty.
In their great wisdom, they now recognize how their perturbated childhood has misguided them to take very wrong decision as senators. They want to prevent the future leaders of this country to become the bloodthirsty warmongers they are now.
Actually, the 1541 was supposed to be at least 8x faster, but a bug in one of the chips was noticed only after a lot of them had been manufactured. In order not to increase costs, Commodore decided to keep these flawed chips and adapted the drive software to accomodate for the bug. This implied using very conservative timings, hence the slow drives.
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Shouldn't these be called Google Googles ?
Switzerland turned Franc into Euro this year and nobody told me ?
Check your facts. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_franc
Because Apple keeps moving the goal post. They will market a single feature of their new product that is above average (while most others are average). When other manufacturers will tout a better value for that feature, Apple will change the marketed feature and so on.
Why is it that everytime an article mentions a "cellular phone", /. editor needs to put the i*** word in the headline ?
> If you don't believe any of the evidence on AGW, you're either ignorant or a denier. The evidence is overwhelming.
The evidence is that according to some measurement methodology, mean temperatures are higher now than they were decades before, by fractions of degrees.
The other evidence is that, according to some measurement methodology, the relative proportion of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is higher that it was decades before.
Whether the augmentation of greenhouse gases is due to human activity, whether the augmentation of temperature is corellated to that of greenhouse gases, whether this augmentation of temparature will continue and whether it will have negative consequences is NOT evidence, but the results of statistical analysis, physical and computational models.
So while refusing to accept facts can be called denialism, being skeptical about theorical models and extrapolations should not. Labelling AGW critics as shills paid by big oil companies will not help the cause either - this tactics usually comes from conspiration nuts.
Does it increase disbelief or decrease belief ?
Actually, the speaking Laurel & Hardy movies were dubbed in French with a heavy american accent, which, in my option ruined the whole experience.
And the Swiss also refused joining the EU...
Maybe not - all these companies are using the commercial weapon of frivolous overbroad patents. They should be worried that a court has finally had the guts to start drawing the line as to which kind of patents are acceptable or not.
... time to switch to ... ... wait a minute... ... Visa, Inc is also in :-(
Remembering a few years ago, in the PC vs Mac debate, that PC fans argued that their platform was superior because there was much more software available. To what Mac fans replied that it was quality, not quantity that mattered, and that it was better, for a given application type, to have one good program rather than ten mediocre ones. Funny how the same arguments are reused when the tables have turned.
Doc Savage, who else ?
1980 : The forests are dying, acid rains : our countries are becoming deserts - we're all going to die
1990 : The ozone layer depletion : dangerous radiations will hit us . we're all going to die
2000 : Global warming : Poles will melt, huricanes will hit us - we're all going to die
2010 : ????
In Switzerland we have recently passed a law to protect animal rights. Theoretically, it is illegal now to buy a single aquarium fish, because it would be alone and depressed. Such animals have to be bought in couples.
The fact is, that the swiss parliament prefers passing law on non important matters, like animal rights or video games, that might receive a general agreement from the uninformed public, rather that being unpopular buy passing laws on more important but controvertial topics, like immigration, unemployment or social insurances.
the formidable marketing machine that apple uses to promote its products to the unwashed masses. Without this, Android will remain a geek's toy.
http://www.geocities.com/aberguerand/frmain.htm
Let's see how long it will last.
When (if) the experiment is a success, it will become a "US led experiment".
What is the command for removing Wikipedia from the Internet ?
They almost succeded with that years ago on Usenet by issuing the "RMGROUP alt.religion.scientology" command.
If Jimbo is wrong 50% of the time, you can not assume that Jimbo being wrong implies that the "real" chances of your tire going flat are 100% and compute an average of 50.5%. It all depends on what is meant by Jimbo being "wrong". Any value between 0% and 100%, except 1%, for the "real" chances will prove Jimbo "wrong", so one could pick 0% or 1.1% to compute the average and get values very close to Jimbo's estimates.
In Switzerland, the largest cable operator (Cablecom) is slowly but steadily switching from analog to digital. The problem is that the analog channels, which are broadcast in "clear" on the cable are replaced by the same digital channels that are encrypted and require the mandatory rented Cablecom box to be watched.
A consumer association challenged this up to the federal legislative body, requiring that the basic package be unencrypted (premium pay channels could remain encrypted) and that consumers can chose their decoder (current encryption is Nagra, so simply providing a decoding card instead of a box would be possible). Cablecom replied with completely bogus allegations that not using encryption would prevent it providing "interactive services" and make it "less competitive" because no encryption standard exists for cable.
Unfortunately, the Parliament believed all this crap, hook and sink, and the petition was dismissed without much discussion.
When I bought my PMP 300, it was the first portable MP3 player to be sold in my town. The owner of the computer shop where I bought it asked me if I could open the package in the shop and let him try it, because it looked so innovative.
My PMP 300 ist still working. I only had to fix the battery compartment door, because the tiny platic bit that held it shut broke quite early. I have used it for about 5 years, jogging approximately 40 kilometers per week, so it has supported more than 10'000 kms with me, through cold, heat, snow, rain and sweat. That has built some sentimental links... I can not say that much for the headphones, which I have had to change twice a year.
After five years I switched to a Rio Psa Play (still working), and more recently to an iRiver T10 (because it is one of the last MP3 player to use AA batteries rather than AAAs). The switch from the PMP 300 was due to have more capacity and faster transfer rates, but the quality of the PMP 300 itself has more than satisfied me.
My guess is that, as children, these very senators have been exposed to violence in movies and have become quite insensitive. This caused them to vote for the bombing of several third world countries, condone torture on Guantanamo prisoners or support cruel punishments like the death penalty.
In their great wisdom, they now recognize how their perturbated childhood has misguided them to take very wrong decision as senators. They want to prevent the future leaders of this country to become the bloodthirsty warmongers they are now.
We can only applause.
Actually, the 1541 was supposed to be at least 8x faster, but a bug in one of the chips was noticed only after a lot of them had been manufactured. In order not to increase costs, Commodore decided to keep these flawed chips and adapted the drive software to accomodate for the bug. This implied using very conservative timings, hence the slow drives.
Apple ? Why is this article put in the Apple section ? /. ?
Has "Apple" become another word for "music" at
Well, now he will have to sue SlashDot as well..