I am an environmentalist, green, pro-recycling, green energy, save the planet, save the animals guy, but I want *nothing* to do with Greenpeace whatsoever.
I would expect any environmentalist with a clue to shun Greenpeace.
Yes, it is. It discredits the environmental movement. Greenpeace is a collection of publicity whores, who suck up contributions that could otherwise be doing some good in the world.
Are you sure of that? Last I heard, you could still introduce evidence against the character of the deceased in pursuing a justifiable homicide defense in Texas.
I'm not sure. I know some countries have laws against inducement to suicide, I'd have to ask an attorney whether any US states do.
Seems to me that justice would have been better served here if someone had just beaten the crap out of Lori Drew, and gotten acquitted for it due to extenuating circumstances.
Well, put it this way. If I tell you I'm a doctor and that you're terminally ill and that you'll die in horrible pain pretty soon, and based upon that believe you shoot yourself in the head, it's a suicide but it was induced by deception.
The issue here is that she was probably charged under the wrong statute. I think any jury could have justly convicted her as an accessory to murder, at least. If you lie to someone and convince them to off themselves by doing so, there's got to be an existing charge that doesn't depend on whether a computer was involved in the process.
If Apple got into that product category, I would expect it to be a smaller Mac rather than a larger iPhone. If you check out the teardown pictures of the MacBook Air, you'll see that the motherboard in that machine is very small, certainly small enough for a netbook-type product.
I'm not sure I'd go for the form factor myself, but I could see a Mac about the size of a checkbook with a high-DPI display like the iPhone being a popular item. A 1920 x 1080 OLED display around 6x3 inches could be pretty cool. Two gigs of DRAM and 20 gigs of flash RAM, and you'd have a rather capable machine.
Oh, and since you're apparently too thick to understand how the iPhone changed the game, I'll spell it out for you:
1) It's the first smart phone with a decent user interface. That's why it's the fastest-selling smart phone yet. 2) It's easy for third parties to write apps for it that match Apple's visual quality and ease of use, since they can work with the same development environment that Apple does. 3) It's the first mobile phone platform where it's possible for a developer to directly reach a critical mass of end-users and go profitable, instead of having to land a deal with one of the carriers.
I put it to you: why are there so many apps for it already? Why are people who've never considered offering an app on a mobile phone before supporting the iPhone? Why was there this level of interest out of the gate?
Now, maybe you want to deny it, but the fact is that the iPhone changed the game.
I predict that these guys are going to see the lion's share of their business coming from iPhone users. With their program, you don't have to sell a deal to any particular sponsor.
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Agreed. Those should go on the chopping block, too.
-jcr
Even more accurately called the Franks, Dodd, Reid recession.
They were accessories, but the Fed is the main culprit.
-jcr
NASA Spending is .5% of overall government spending
Well, you know what they say. A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking real money.
produces a heck of a lot more for this country than other programs do.
Damning with faint praise.
-jcr
The last thing NASA needs is a funding cut in the middle of development!
Sorry, but "what NASA needs" is a rather lower priority than getting a lid on government spending.
-jcr
I am an environmentalist, green, pro-recycling, green energy, save the planet, save the animals guy, but I want *nothing* to do with Greenpeace whatsoever.
I would expect any environmentalist with a clue to shun Greenpeace.
-jcr
Greenpeace's strategy isn't really bad.
Yes, it is. It discredits the environmental movement. Greenpeace is a collection of publicity whores, who suck up contributions that could otherwise be doing some good in the world.
-jcr
In the Pelosi-Obama-Reid recession
it would be rather more accurate to describe it as the Greenspan-Bernanke depression.
-jcr
Are you sure of that? Last I heard, you could still introduce evidence against the character of the deceased in pursuing a justifiable homicide defense in Texas.
-jcr
Still...is that against the law??
I'm not sure. I know some countries have laws against inducement to suicide, I'd have to ask an attorney whether any US states do.
Seems to me that justice would have been better served here if someone had just beaten the crap out of Lori Drew, and gotten acquitted for it due to extenuating circumstances.
-jcr
Well, put it this way. If I tell you I'm a doctor and that you're terminally ill and that you'll die in horrible pain pretty soon, and based upon that believe you shoot yourself in the head, it's a suicide but it was induced by deception.
-jcr
The issue here is that she was probably charged under the wrong statute. I think any jury could have justly convicted her as an accessory to murder, at least. If you lie to someone and convince them to off themselves by doing so, there's got to be an existing charge that doesn't depend on whether a computer was involved in the process.
-jcr
Very interesting, thanks.
-jcr
This memristor technology sounds like it could be an ideal device for implementing neural nets. Anyone working on that, I wonder?
-jcr
I doubt your eye could perceive the extra detail at a sensible viewing distance anyway.
YMMV, but I can see the difference between pages printed at 600 DPI and 1200 DPI pretty easily.
-jcr
If anything they looked up and fed to the media wasn't a public record, then Joe should be consulting an attorney.
-jcr
If Apple got into that product category, I would expect it to be a smaller Mac rather than a larger iPhone. If you check out the teardown pictures of the MacBook Air, you'll see that the motherboard in that machine is very small, certainly small enough for a netbook-type product.
I'm not sure I'd go for the form factor myself, but I could see a Mac about the size of a checkbook with a high-DPI display like the iPhone being a popular item. A 1920 x 1080 OLED display around 6x3 inches could be pretty cool. Two gigs of DRAM and 20 gigs of flash RAM, and you'd have a rather capable machine.
-jcr
Oh, and since you're apparently too thick to understand how the iPhone changed the game, I'll spell it out for you:
1) It's the first smart phone with a decent user interface. That's why it's the fastest-selling smart phone yet.
2) It's easy for third parties to write apps for it that match Apple's visual quality and ease of use, since they can work with the same development environment that Apple does.
3) It's the first mobile phone platform where it's possible for a developer to directly reach a critical mass of end-users and go profitable, instead of having to land a deal with one of the carriers.
I put it to you: why are there so many apps for it already? Why are people who've never considered offering an app on a mobile phone before supporting the iPhone? Why was there this level of interest out of the gate?
Now, maybe you want to deny it, but the fact is that the iPhone changed the game.
-jcr
Hahahaahahahahahahahaha!
Let's see.. Where have I seen that reaction before?
-jcr
I guess you think once Apple releases anything, the competitor's version becomes pointless?
No, only when they release a game-changer like the iPhone.
BTW, do you have to expend some effort to maintain this snotty git character of yours, or is it just your everyday personality?
-jcr
Again, you've utterly missed the point
Nope, I got your point, and I dismissed it with an analogy. Try to keep up, will you?
Android is something that the free software crowd is all emotional about, but once the iPhone SDK came out, Android became pointless.
-jcr
The spread of the platform will make it far more attractive to developers
Sure it will, right around the time that Linux takes over the desktop.
-jcr
The man doesn't respect it, so he shouldn't be a member of the bar, let alone living on the public payroll.
-jcr
Strange how they don't have any issues at all publishing altered photos from Hezbollah
Actually, they do have an issue with it, and they're very embarrassed about getting suckered by the perps. That's why they're so touchy about it now.
-jcr
MS offers an excellent platform for MS to make money on. Third party developers, not so much.
-jcr
An emerging revenue model is advergaming.
I predict that these guys are going to see the lion's share of their business coming from iPhone users. With their program, you don't have to sell a deal to any particular sponsor.
-jcr