But it's clear now [Microsoft is] in decline. They've lost their edge, their focus... their ability to innovate.
When did they ever innovate? With the exception of "fast user switching," I can't think of anything they did first or better.
Microsoft has always been about coasting on their market dominance in the workplace (Windows and Office) that, in turn, spills over to many home users who need software that's compatible with their work (or who simply don't know any better). If they've got money rolling in from those sources without innovating, why would they spend (waste) money on R&D?
They were coasting on Windows XP for over a decade. It wasn't until Apple starting to pose a threat with Mac OS X that they got off their collective asses and released the OS-X-wannabe of Vista (that was a failure) and Windows 7 (that they finally got right). Similar story with the Zune, Windows phones, and now tablets.
Religion is there because it makes you feel good...
that is a tremendously powerful force in a shitty world.
It should make any sane person feel terrible. As Hitchens says: you'd be under a celestial dictator that sees your every action, reads your every thought, and judges you. At least in a regime such as North Korea, death is an escape.
As for a shitty world: without a god, if the world is shitty, then that's just the unfortunate way it is; with a god, it's exactly the same, but there's now a callous god who allows all the shit to happen.
[W]hat are journals doing for us these days, [sic] that cannot be done online?
A paper cited in a journal will be there indefinitely. One can always get a hold of the original paper
even for papers written decades ago.
Can you guarantee that the URL for a paper that is available only online will still work in 10 years? How about 50?
No it doesn't. There is no state law regarding nudity. That said, counties or cities can enact their own local laws about it.
For example, the famous "naked guy" of Berkeley wandered around town for quite a while until the city council finally got fed up and enacted such a law.
San Francisco is at least one city that has no local law about nudity. You can be nude anywhere in public in San Francisco (except in a park due to a even more local SF Parks Dept. regulation, oddly). There's the famous Bay to Breakers race where entire groups of people do the race nude, not to mention there's public nudity for the Pride and Folsom events. There are even guys who regularly stroll the Castro and the Wharf areas nude.
Actually, the city did recently enact a local law about nudity in that if you sit down while nude, you need to sit on something like a towel. You couldn't very well have such a law if there were a blanket prohibition on nudity.
My wife had no control of her life in her childhood. She could control her appearance. She became anorexic to give fulfill her need for a sense of control in her life.
Banning the ads would help reduce the draw of that manifestation of the need for control.
No offense, but being in that messed-up of a home environment and additionally that messed-up in terms of a need of control would manifest in some other way if anorexia were off the table.
Because of bandwidth overallocation, it's impossible for a company which promises unlimited bandwidth to actually deliver it to all its customers.
Just curious: heard anything about Sprint's unlimited data plan and whether Sprint customers are being throttled? If Sprint is, in fact, doing it, why can't AT&T?
(Sprint was my first wireless carrier way back with my Kyocera 6035. I hated them and couldn't wait until my contract was up and can't see myself going back. Hence, I have no recent experience with them.)
I have no idea how they are now, but back in the '90s when I worked for Bell Labs, they had a policy where if you improved efficiency to the point where you eliminated your job, you were guaranteed a new one.
Paris and Berlin have both train systems that run late, and night trains, while San Francisco's train system stops around 11 pm (then buses run sparsely after that).
Most of San Francisco's system (Muni) stops around 1am, actually. They do shut down the Metro (rail) then, but it is replaced by surface bus "Owl" service from 1-5am. BART (a separate, bay-area-wide system) stops around midnight.
[S]he used to have an iphone [sic], and loved it, but got a little tired of seeing the same thing every day and wanted to try something new....
Wow, that's got to be the stupidest reason I've ever heard. She had something that worked well for her (presumably, assuming she'd only love something that did), loved the phone, but got tired of it?
I feel sorry for whomever her significant other is, was, or will be.
I wish more Christian bashing atheists would move to islamic Countries.
Funny how alleged followers of Christ always seem to hold such views.
Would Jesus condone the beating of anyone?
Such comments are a prime example of the kind of Christians that should be bashed by atheists.
All religions are a psychological disorder.
If they had their way, this is the kind of "justice" that they want: the worst penalty they can get away with, using the full power of the state, and no effective appeal. In both cases, tyranny is the desired result.
This is the religious right in the US wants. (To be fair, it's what any religious adherents want.)
[T]here's more money in iOS for sure. I wouldn't dispute that.
What about the actual development? For Android, you have far more software/hardware combinations to code/test for than you do for iOS. Not only is developing for Android less money, but it costs more in terms of developer time.
The OS isn't software as you're thinking of it, but there most certainly is a set of design standards for a car that everyone follows more or less, and as such these cars are compatible with the rest of the world.
I know it isn't that way today which is why I posed CarOS as a hypothetical situation. And I do literally mean an OS for cars in the same sense that we have other OSs today. An OS that non-auto-employees could write their own apps for and upload them to your car. If it helps, just pretend there's a car that actually runs Android. You'd have the same fragmented situation for cars that you have for phones. That was my point.
You never see [fragmentation] applied to any other area, such as Automobiles, where there is even more diversity and choice.
First, for some things, possibly including automobiles,
more choice isn't always a good thing.
Second, "fragmentation" is
much more of a problem for developers and not consumers.
Third, "fragmentation" doesn't apply to things like automobiles because they don't run a common OS that developers write apps for. "Fragmentation" is referring to the fragmentation of the OS, not the hardware choices.
Can you imagine if there were something like CarOS that all automakers used, but tweaked the hell out of for their own cars? It would be just as "fragmented" a market and as much of a pain to write apps for.
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True, but there's still no explanation for why particles have the particular mass that they do.
When did they ever innovate? With the exception of "fast user switching," I can't think of anything they did first or better.
Microsoft has always been about coasting on their market dominance in the workplace (Windows and Office) that, in turn, spills over to many home users who need software that's compatible with their work (or who simply don't know any better). If they've got money rolling in from those sources without innovating, why would they spend (waste) money on R&D?
They were coasting on Windows XP for over a decade. It wasn't until Apple starting to pose a threat with Mac OS X that they got off their collective asses and released the OS-X-wannabe of Vista (that was a failure) and Windows 7 (that they finally got right). Similar story with the Zune, Windows phones, and now tablets.
So? They tie breast implants to their owners. Given that, it seems a bit lax not to do it for guns.
It should make any sane person feel terrible. As Hitchens says: you'd be under a celestial dictator that sees your every action, reads your every thought, and judges you. At least in a regime such as North Korea, death is an escape.
As for a shitty world: without a god, if the world is shitty, then that's just the unfortunate way it is; with a god, it's exactly the same, but there's now a callous god who allows all the shit to happen.
A paper cited in a journal will be there indefinitely. One can always get a hold of the original paper even for papers written decades ago. Can you guarantee that the URL for a paper that is available only online will still work in 10 years? How about 50?
Please give examples why.
They can't do that because the US simply can't match what Foxconn can do in China.
No it doesn't. There is no state law regarding nudity. That said, counties or cities can enact their own local laws about it.
For example, the famous "naked guy" of Berkeley wandered around town for quite a while until the city council finally got fed up and enacted such a law.
San Francisco is at least one city that has no local law about nudity. You can be nude anywhere in public in San Francisco (except in a park due to a even more local SF Parks Dept. regulation, oddly). There's the famous Bay to Breakers race where entire groups of people do the race nude, not to mention there's public nudity for the Pride and Folsom events. There are even guys who regularly stroll the Castro and the Wharf areas nude.
Actually, the city did recently enact a local law about nudity in that if you sit down while nude, you need to sit on something like a towel. You couldn't very well have such a law if there were a blanket prohibition on nudity.
Aren't these living creatures related?
No offense, but being in that messed-up of a home environment and additionally that messed-up in terms of a need of control would manifest in some other way if anorexia were off the table.
According to the guy, raw sewage dumps directly into the nearby river -- seriously? He says, "There's where a lot of crap comes out of hospital."
Why yes... there is.
It's even crazier than that. It's not symbolic. They really believe that the wafer really becomes the body of Christ.
Just curious: heard anything about Sprint's unlimited data plan and whether Sprint customers are being throttled? If Sprint is, in fact, doing it, why can't AT&T?
(Sprint was my first wireless carrier way back with my Kyocera 6035. I hated them and couldn't wait until my contract was up and can't see myself going back. Hence, I have no recent experience with them.)
I have no idea how they are now, but back in the '90s when I worked for Bell Labs, they had a policy where if you improved efficiency to the point where you eliminated your job, you were guaranteed a new one.
Most of San Francisco's system (Muni) stops around 1am, actually. They do shut down the Metro (rail) then, but it is replaced by surface bus "Owl" service from 1-5am. BART (a separate, bay-area-wide system) stops around midnight.
Wow, that's got to be the stupidest reason I've ever heard. She had something that worked well for her (presumably, assuming she'd only love something that did), loved the phone, but got tired of it?
I feel sorry for whomever her significant other is, was, or will be.
Funny how alleged followers of Christ always seem to hold such views. Would Jesus condone the beating of anyone? Such comments are a prime example of the kind of Christians that should be bashed by atheists. All religions are a psychological disorder.
This is the religious right in the US wants. (To be fair, it's what any religious adherents want.)
It seemed to have worked with Japan (and it wasn't even everyone).
These seems pretty cool for kids of all ages: Cubelets.
What about the actual development? For Android, you have far more software/hardware combinations to code/test for than you do for iOS. Not only is developing for Android less money, but it costs more in terms of developer time.
I know it isn't that way today which is why I posed CarOS as a hypothetical situation. And I do literally mean an OS for cars in the same sense that we have other OSs today. An OS that non-auto-employees could write their own apps for and upload them to your car. If it helps, just pretend there's a car that actually runs Android. You'd have the same fragmented situation for cars that you have for phones. That was my point.
First, for some things, possibly including automobiles, more choice isn't always a good thing. Second, "fragmentation" is much more of a problem for developers and not consumers. Third, "fragmentation" doesn't apply to things like automobiles because they don't run a common OS that developers write apps for. "Fragmentation" is referring to the fragmentation of the OS, not the hardware choices.
Can you imagine if there were something like CarOS that all automakers used, but tweaked the hell out of for their own cars? It would be just as "fragmented" a market and as much of a pain to write apps for.
Given that you are, what do you think of this? (Seriously.)