Supposedly the real reason isn't some conspiracy of lawyers and evil bureaucrats but that Americans aren't as eager to jump on the latest and greatest as they are in parts of Asia. Dense countries like Singapore, Hong Kong, and Japan have a more flexible mom & pop system of small electronics stores and a population that is eager to dump the device they have for the flavor of the month. In the US you have much larger and less flexible chains that prefer products with proven potential and a population that prefers low prices over technical innovation so we hold onto them longer. Bleeding edge enthusiasts may dispute this (they are overrepresented on slashdot) but the population in general in the US follows this trend.
According to this article other reasons include our not using GSM as a standard system, our fragmented carrier market, and our low demand for text messaging and other functions that we can already do on PCs (i.e. web browse).
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If Firefox users are a small part of the browser population (according to them) and only some of them block ads, then doesn't it stand to reason that they would be a small burden to a website? I don't see how blocking them has any sort of "tremendous financial rewards".
Since the website seems to be slashdotted I'd say they'd be better off blocking people coming from Slashdot.
Seeing as it uses lasers strong enough to generate plasma I'd say that unless you were in the habit of wearing laser safety glasses you wouldn't be looking at much of anything anymore.
Welcome to MTV World of Warcraft! Get ready as we put 5 wild and wacky characters in the same instance! The slutty dark elf, the playa rogue, the bigoted dwarf, the impulsive and cah-razy skateboarding fighter, and the drama queen mage. We'll have cameras following their every move as they get into wild and sexy hottub parties, tearful confessions, and drunken brawls with orcs.
And if that flops we'll have Battlefield 1942 Survivor!
I think the photons were traveling normally, it's just that the rest of the universe suddenly moved backwards relative to them. That is obviously the simplest answer.
Yah!? Well in my day we couldn't call for pizza delivery. We had to write a letter and wait 3 days for it. We didn't have parent's basements to use either, instead we dug a pit in the backyard and sat in it with a plywood sheet covering us and we liked it!
Did you read the link?
By February 2000, a quality control official for Powers said in an e-mail that the company was losing business in Asia because of the problems and that "we are very close to be forced . . . to quarantine the product."
"I don't have to tell you of the serious consequences both in terms of direct sales and in loss of face and reputation," the e-mail said.
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Quantum computers are a real possibility. They just cease to exist if you try to observe them.
Unfortunately you'll only get job offers from the Russian mafia and Rumanian criminal hackers.
"You better start commenting your code and indenting or you might have an 'accident'."
"GODZILLA!" [crowd of Japanese pedestrians running in terror]
By the way, adding fiber is a good way to unclog your pipes.
Green computing!
You could use it for camping. Run it outside via an extension cord and sit around the CPU warming your hands over it while singing "Kumbaya".
According to this article other reasons include our not using GSM as a standard system, our fragmented carrier market, and our low demand for text messaging and other functions that we can already do on PCs (i.e. web browse).
Wow, my friends and I just get together to see a band or eat.
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Yummm, rosin flavor! Hard to blow bubbles with.
It was found in a brand new Topps baseball card pack. Topps said "Most of the gum we package with our cards is about 5000-6000 years old."
Isn't spam delivered via sewer pipes already?
Hey, at least I'm an artist. I drew Binky the Clown and sent it in and they said so!
If Firefox users are a small part of the browser population (according to them) and only some of them block ads, then doesn't it stand to reason that they would be a small burden to a website? I don't see how blocking them has any sort of "tremendous financial rewards".
Since the website seems to be slashdotted I'd say they'd be better off blocking people coming from Slashdot.
I'll be damned if I forget all of those very expensive years in college. I had alcohol for that.
Sure it just wasn't due to a pair of men in black?
I always thought it was like flash memory. Now I'll have to keep thinking about old memories or I'll lose all the good ones. ;)
I'm still waiting for my dilithium crystal powered car.
Seeing as it uses lasers strong enough to generate plasma I'd say that unless you were in the habit of wearing laser safety glasses you wouldn't be looking at much of anything anymore.
Welcome to MTV World of Warcraft! Get ready as we put 5 wild and wacky characters in the same instance! The slutty dark elf, the playa rogue, the bigoted dwarf, the impulsive and cah-razy skateboarding fighter, and the drama queen mage. We'll have cameras following their every move as they get into wild and sexy hottub parties, tearful confessions, and drunken brawls with orcs.
And if that flops we'll have Battlefield 1942 Survivor!
"We're good to return without repairs? Ummm...tell you what, just drop me off at the ISS and I'll wait for the next shuttle, ok?"
I think the photons were traveling normally, it's just that the rest of the universe suddenly moved backwards relative to them. That is obviously the simplest answer.
This is proof of the power of peer review.
Yah!? Well in my day we couldn't call for pizza delivery. We had to write a letter and wait 3 days for it. We didn't have parent's basements to use either, instead we dug a pit in the backyard and sat in it with a plywood sheet covering us and we liked it!
I dunno, it sort of saddens me to think of all of those bacteria having to go to tiny little AA meetings.