As usual droidbois are trying to negate all intelligent discussions with an ad-hominem name-calling fallback. And you called me an i fan simply because I had something non-negative to say about Apple. Nice. You know, I really should just ignore AC's.
You're response is kinda funny, anyway: you basically say it's just like an iPad except when it isn't.
I dunno. Maybe. Here is a nice shot of what "tablets" looked like before and after the iPad. Looks to me like no one thought of the simple, rounded-corner, black slate before the iPad. Maybe the idea to have a "device that has no controls except the touch screen itself" was the new idea.
Oh, I agree with all that.:) By the way, in general, new stuff is buried. Some high-tension stuff, routes that are a thousand miles, are still strung up on towers, but these are not the ones that fall down in storms. Another exception would be if you build a house miles out in the middle of nowhere all by yourself - you're likely to get your power on poles. Everything else new is going underground these days. It's been that way for quite a while, but there is still a lot of older stuff on poles.
Remember that these techniques "grew up" out of stringing telegraph lines across the continent. Doing it differently then would have been impossible, and hanging wires on poles just became the way these things were done out of habit and history.
Come on, they're not a "troll". Patent trolls are regularly regarded as companies that make no product, have never implemented their patent, and exist only to sue. Nokia clearly invented a lot of the basic stuff that makes cell phones work today, and many of the standards in existence use these patents.
This is a FRAND issue. Nokia is stating that Google is using technology covered in the standards, which require FRAND licenses, and which they have not acquired. They just need to step up and get them.
Further, as far as I can tell, Nokia has been one of the best-behaved FRAND licensors in the business.
Don't forget that the cost of wiring Holland, or even Europe, is a hell of a lot less than the cost of wiring the U.S.. That makes it a lot easier to plan ahead.:)
Because most Americans (most people?) are not willing to "pay it forward", to invest in the future. They have a hard time imagining that something that has not happened to them might happen in the future. "I've done this lots of times, nothing ever happens." All they want is the cheapest whatever. Hence Walmart.
Apparently, you've never heard of channel stuffing. No one is claiming they're not selling a lot of phones, only that they might not be selling quite as many as the ESTIMATES imply.
I think Apple's large margin on the iPhone comes from multiple things: 1) There are no "BOGO" offers for iPhones. Period. 2) According to reports, they buy larger quantities and pay ahead on so much that they get better prices than anyone else. 3) They are leveraging parts across multiple devices. For example, the A5 appears in both iPads and iPhones. 4) As demonstrated by Sprint's experience, an iPhone is required in order to be a successful carrier today, at least in the U.S. I'm sure that does allow Apple to charge the carriers more for their phones that others are able to do, at least on average.
The summary says correctly that Apple makes 80% of the profits, not 80% of the phones. Samsung appears to be shipping the most phones, although the only numbers available are estimates of SHIPPED phones, not phones sold to consumers. For some reason, Samsung refuses to release any numbers at all.
I wish people would stop conflating "immigration" with "illegal immigration". They're not the same - immigrants are the lifeblood and the roots of the US. Illegal immigration is a blight. They're different people. Folks - of all races and nationalities - that come here illegally generally are different than the people who jump through the hoops and do it legally. If they can make it in their own country they don't find the same need to break the law and come to the US.
Regardless, the very fact that they entered the country illegally is sufficient cause to want them to leave.
1) That the econonomic issues and technology around asteroid mining will always be as they are now - things will always be the way they are today.
2) The desire to have large families is entirely up to genetics and is unaffected by things like societal pressure, economics, and resource scarcity.
The nature of the things being discussed virtually guarantee that things will be different. Economic and resource scarcity will cause things to change, as always.
Actually, Intel manufactures CPUs in many countries, including the US. Wherever they are made, it is Intel's technology and know-how that makes it possible to make them there. No one in China could have created the fab without that. I'd say that 100% of the technology in those super computers was created outside of China. The ability to manufacture the latest Xeon is in no way related to the ability to design one.
Not knowing in this specific case, but subs in dry dock usually have their hatches stuffed with cables and pipes. The ship is not self-sustaining, so everything needed (like power and water) comes in through the hatches. They can't be shut easily.
Also, there is usually crew on board, particularly in the reactor spaces. They don't just leave the reactor "unwatched", even it if is shut down.
Closing the hatches and letting it burn itself out would be a lot like just giving up, too.
Which parts are off the shelf? The cases are Apple-specific. In fact, in the case of the aluminum 'Books, Apple owns the process and the machinery. Samsung makes the CPU, but they are just the foundry - Apple designs the circuitry.
Ya know, maybe they don't "invent" things. Whatever. One can say for sure that most of the industry tends to copy Apple's, er, um, 'not inventions'. What did smartphones look like before the iPhone? What did tablets look like before the iPad? Aren't all of the ultra books attempted copies of the Macbook Air? For sure, Intel uses the Air as the target.
The point is, whatever you want to call it, Apple does seem to lead the industry (at least recently) and they probably do get a bit tired of seeing everyone make stuff that looks and feels like theirs.
You really believe that claptrap? It is an interesting observation of our times that someone would believe a state-owned outlet of a totalitarian government before they would believe the US media.
Greenpeace "assumed" that there was a rule of thumb power-used/cost-of-facility metric. Which they probably made up, but they came up with 1MW/$15 million. (Full report PDF here ) Now, not only is that number kinda smelly in and of itself, but they also include the entire $1 billion Apple is spending, which seems to include the cost of their big solar array and fuel cell farm. There could be all kinds of overhead costs in there that don't compare to other facilities, like putting in roads, plans for expansion, surveying, etc.
Apple's servers aren't any more efficient than anyone else's. It's just Greenpeace making stuff up.
Price fixing should be illegal, and it may be true that the publishers did collude to do so. The question is whether or not Apple participated in the price fixing.
I, too, have no love lost for the publishers, I was merely trying to state the facts. Given those facts, it seems odd to be suing Apple.
Before Apple started with the agency model, the "average" price for eBooks at Amazon was, indeed, lower than those prices today. Amazon was selling the books at a loss in order to sell more Kindles. This infuriated the book publishers, out of concern that Amazon was devaluating the book in general with prices that low. The book publishers had no control whatsoever over the retail price. Combined with Amazon's weight, the publishers had no choice but to just "suck it up".
Apple, on the other hand, needed to do something to break Amazon's lock on the eBook market, and to get the publishers to offer their material on the Apple store. So, they offered the publishers what they wanted, which is the agency model.
How this turns into collusion is beyond me, as Apple is not establishing the price of these books, nor did they convince the publishers to all agree on a price or any such thing. The DOJ's angle appears to be the "most favored nation" clause, which has the effect of making Apple's price the best price for a given title, but that seems pretty weak to me, as that does nothing to get the various publishers to sell their books at the same price as all of the other publishers. Even if it did, doing so is not collusion.
No, that is the well-vetted range in normal driving. You can find that data everywhere.
Secondly, the Volt is all about what happens when you exceed the battery's range. That's why there's an on-board generator. Even if you only got 80% of your commute on all-electric it would rock.
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You have no idea if this laser backscatter machine gives false positives.
As usual droidbois are trying to negate all intelligent discussions with an ad-hominem name-calling fallback. And you called me an i fan simply because I had something non-negative to say about Apple. Nice. You know, I really should just ignore AC's.
You're response is kinda funny, anyway: you basically say it's just like an iPad except when it isn't.
I dunno. Maybe. Here is a nice shot of what "tablets" looked like before and after the iPad. Looks to me like no one thought of the simple, rounded-corner, black slate before the iPad. Maybe the idea to have a "device that has no controls except the touch screen itself" was the new idea.
It means it moves to the bottom line as a loss, and is no longer an asset.
:Hoist: "May Steve Ballmer be the CEO for as long as it takes!" /drinks hearty ale
Oh, I agree with all that. :) By the way, in general, new stuff is buried. Some high-tension stuff, routes that are a thousand miles, are still strung up on towers, but these are not the ones that fall down in storms. Another exception would be if you build a house miles out in the middle of nowhere all by yourself - you're likely to get your power on poles. Everything else new is going underground these days. It's been that way for quite a while, but there is still a lot of older stuff on poles.
Remember that these techniques "grew up" out of stringing telegraph lines across the continent. Doing it differently then would have been impossible, and hanging wires on poles just became the way these things were done out of habit and history.
Come on, they're not a "troll". Patent trolls are regularly regarded as companies that make no product, have never implemented their patent, and exist only to sue. Nokia clearly invented a lot of the basic stuff that makes cell phones work today, and many of the standards in existence use these patents.
This is a FRAND issue. Nokia is stating that Google is using technology covered in the standards, which require FRAND licenses, and which they have not acquired. They just need to step up and get them.
Further, as far as I can tell, Nokia has been one of the best-behaved FRAND licensors in the business.
Don't forget that the cost of wiring Holland, or even Europe, is a hell of a lot less than the cost of wiring the U.S.. That makes it a lot easier to plan ahead. :)
Because most Americans (most people?) are not willing to "pay it forward", to invest in the future. They have a hard time imagining that something that has not happened to them might happen in the future. "I've done this lots of times, nothing ever happens." All they want is the cheapest whatever. Hence Walmart.
Apparently, you've never heard of channel stuffing. No one is claiming they're not selling a lot of phones, only that they might not be selling quite as many as the ESTIMATES imply.
I think Apple's large margin on the iPhone comes from multiple things: 1) There are no "BOGO" offers for iPhones. Period. 2) According to reports, they buy larger quantities and pay ahead on so much that they get better prices than anyone else. 3) They are leveraging parts across multiple devices. For example, the A5 appears in both iPads and iPhones. 4) As demonstrated by Sprint's experience, an iPhone is required in order to be a successful carrier today, at least in the U.S. I'm sure that does allow Apple to charge the carriers more for their phones that others are able to do, at least on average.
The summary says correctly that Apple makes 80% of the profits, not 80% of the phones. Samsung appears to be shipping the most phones, although the only numbers available are estimates of SHIPPED phones, not phones sold to consumers. For some reason, Samsung refuses to release any numbers at all.
I wish people would stop conflating "immigration" with "illegal immigration". They're not the same - immigrants are the lifeblood and the roots of the US. Illegal immigration is a blight. They're different people. Folks - of all races and nationalities - that come here illegally generally are different than the people who jump through the hoops and do it legally. If they can make it in their own country they don't find the same need to break the law and come to the US.
Regardless, the very fact that they entered the country illegally is sufficient cause to want them to leave.
You are making two very common logical fallacies:
1) That the econonomic issues and technology around asteroid mining will always be as they are now - things will always be the way they are today.
2) The desire to have large families is entirely up to genetics and is unaffected by things like societal pressure, economics, and resource scarcity.
The nature of the things being discussed virtually guarantee that things will be different. Economic and resource scarcity will cause things to change, as always.
Actually, Intel manufactures CPUs in many countries, including the US. Wherever they are made, it is Intel's technology and know-how that makes it possible to make them there. No one in China could have created the fab without that. I'd say that 100% of the technology in those super computers was created outside of China. The ability to manufacture the latest Xeon is in no way related to the ability to design one.
Not knowing in this specific case, but subs in dry dock usually have their hatches stuffed with cables and pipes. The ship is not self-sustaining, so everything needed (like power and water) comes in through the hatches. They can't be shut easily.
Also, there is usually crew on board, particularly in the reactor spaces. They don't just leave the reactor "unwatched", even it if is shut down.
Closing the hatches and letting it burn itself out would be a lot like just giving up, too.
Really?? You think a company should be "forced" to sell something at a price determined by the government or the consumer? Really?
Which parts are off the shelf? The cases are Apple-specific. In fact, in the case of the aluminum 'Books, Apple owns the process and the machinery. Samsung makes the CPU, but they are just the foundry - Apple designs the circuitry.
Ya know, maybe they don't "invent" things. Whatever. One can say for sure that most of the industry tends to copy Apple's, er, um, 'not inventions'. What did smartphones look like before the iPhone? What did tablets look like before the iPad? Aren't all of the ultra books attempted copies of the Macbook Air? For sure, Intel uses the Air as the target .
The point is, whatever you want to call it, Apple does seem to lead the industry (at least recently) and they probably do get a bit tired of seeing everyone make stuff that looks and feels like theirs.
You really believe that claptrap? It is an interesting observation of our times that someone would believe a state-owned outlet of a totalitarian government before they would believe the US media.
Greenpeace "assumed" that there was a rule of thumb power-used/cost-of-facility metric. Which they probably made up, but they came up with 1MW/$15 million. (Full report PDF here ) Now, not only is that number kinda smelly in and of itself, but they also include the entire $1 billion Apple is spending, which seems to include the cost of their big solar array and fuel cell farm. There could be all kinds of overhead costs in there that don't compare to other facilities, like putting in roads, plans for expansion, surveying, etc.
Apple's servers aren't any more efficient than anyone else's. It's just Greenpeace making stuff up.
Actually, Android and iOS are in a virtual tie with Android at 47% and iOS at 43%. But, Android has been falling while iOS has been climbing.
Price fixing should be illegal, and it may be true that the publishers did collude to do so. The question is whether or not Apple participated in the price fixing.
I, too, have no love lost for the publishers, I was merely trying to state the facts. Given those facts, it seems odd to be suing Apple.
Before Apple started with the agency model, the "average" price for eBooks at Amazon was, indeed, lower than those prices today. Amazon was selling the books at a loss in order to sell more Kindles. This infuriated the book publishers, out of concern that Amazon was devaluating the book in general with prices that low. The book publishers had no control whatsoever over the retail price. Combined with Amazon's weight, the publishers had no choice but to just "suck it up".
Apple, on the other hand, needed to do something to break Amazon's lock on the eBook market, and to get the publishers to offer their material on the Apple store. So, they offered the publishers what they wanted, which is the agency model.
How this turns into collusion is beyond me, as Apple is not establishing the price of these books, nor did they convince the publishers to all agree on a price or any such thing. The DOJ's angle appears to be the "most favored nation" clause, which has the effect of making Apple's price the best price for a given title, but that seems pretty weak to me, as that does nothing to get the various publishers to sell their books at the same price as all of the other publishers. Even if it did, doing so is not collusion.
No, that is the well-vetted range in normal driving. You can find that data everywhere. Secondly, the Volt is all about what happens when you exceed the battery's range. That's why there's an on-board generator. Even if you only got 80% of your commute on all-electric it would rock.