If they are doing cash grabs from American companies, they are doing a very crappy jobs at it. The amount of cash from American companies is tiny compared to European companies being held responsible for anti-competitive practices.
If your completely idiotic conspiracy theory was to hold water, one would expect American companies to make up a significant portion of the companies fined for anti-competitive practices in the EU.
Oh yes, the EU dos indeed have authority over google.com. If Google wants to keep doing business in the EU, one of the most profitable areas in the world, they will have to comply with EU rules and regulations.
Google has a web search monopoly. You don't need 100% market share to be a monopoly according to law. Nor is being a monopoly illegal in itself. Abusing that monopoly is illegal.
Nokia would probably say that mobile networks are often slow and crappy. Even with an unlimited data plan, you'll get much faster speeds by using a compression proxy.
You do realize that it's impossible for Opera Mini to work without a proxy, and the only reason it works on dumbphones is that the rendering engine is on a server? Spyware? No, just a thin client on the phone which lets even old and crappy phones show modern web pages
The Wii was an exercise equipment fad? Huh? The best selling game that wasn't bundled was Mario Kart. New Super Mario Bros. sold more than 25 million copies.
And fad? It sold well from the very start, and for several years!
Angry Bird is no competition. The top selling games on the Wii completely destroyed it. And that was despite being way more expensive.
And you don't think Angry Birds is gathering dust? LOL.
How well is any console doing when it's obsolete? The Wii sold insanely well, but the market was on the down turn. Then Nintendo stopped making games people want to play and moved on to the Wii U.
The Wii U is nothing like the Wii. The Wii was made for the mainstream market, while the Wii U, by Nintendo's own admission, aims for the hardcore gamer. That's why it fails. The games are not appealing to the mass-market.
The Wii was always easy to do homebrew on. In fact, it got harder as the console matured and Nintendo figured out new ways to block homebrew. So you are wrong about that, too.
The fact is that it's all about the games. Wii had several games that appealed to a mainstream audience, and sold very well as a result.
No, iPod, iPhone and iPad were not console killers. If they had been, the Wii would have never sold as insanely well as it did.
The console killer is crappy games. Look at the Wii again. They made games people wanted to play, so the consoles flew off the shelves. As soon as they stopped making mainstream games, Nintendo went down the drain.
The iDevices can never compete with dedicated gaming systems because they lack the dedicated gaming controls. But some games may work well on touch screens, and that's where they can sell a lot. But the biggest sellers on Wii/DS completely destroy any iDevice game, ever, in sales.
I'm not an activist. I'm not a member of any environmental organizations nor do I bother to save electricity or gas or anything like that. However, I do not reject the science unlike you.
Because you, on the other hand, are obviously a denialist activist, and you are actively spreading denialist lies.
Everything else that AGW activists talk about, the doomsday scenarios, the positive feedback, the flooding, the mass extinction, are either conjecture with no hard evidence, or actually contradict scientific fact. That is what I found when reading a couple of hundred scientific papers on the subject over the last few years. What have you read?
The positive feedback is a known fact. The increase in sea level as well. I don't know what you mean by "doomsday scenarios" or "mass extinction" so I'll ignore that as yet more denialist nonsense.
You have obviously not read any scientific papers. You simply wouldn't understand them. And your claims about "doomsday scenarios" proves you didn't actually read anything.
Most of those thousands of scientists agree with scientific theories that they have not themselves worked on, so if they are mistaken in their beliefs, it doesn't require cheating, lying, or a conspiracy.
Um, no, those tousands of scientists are actively publishing relevant research.
Having said that, if you look at other areas of science (where it's easier to check), you do find that scientific errors, statistical biases, and deliberate cheating are extremely widespread and probably affect the majority of scientific publications and results.
But few are as scrutinized as climate science due to the big money with an interest in burying the facts.
In the end, there is strong scientific evidence "for AGW", but that is a narrow and technical result that does not support in any way the political and economic actions that AGW activists say we must take.
You are confused, and fail to tell the difference between scientific research and political action.
people like Lynas and you label anybody who disagrees with their political agenda or policy proposals a "climate change denier" and caricature their position as anti-science.
No, not at all. When someone is called a denier it's because he's denying the science. It is not about disagreement, but about who's denying the scientific facts. Of course a denier doesn't like to be called a denier, but a denier is what he is.
In contrast, an actual skeptic would look at the actual evidence. They would not insist that those thousands of scientists that agree that AGW is real are all cheating, lying, and part of some huge conspiracy.
Maybe it was full of errors, but it isn't now. And any new mapping service is inevitably going to be compared to Google Maps. People expect that level of maturity. No excuses are acceptable, particularly not from Apple.
Ok, so motion controls work well to control driving games. Poor consoles that don't have motion controls... oh, wait!
Now, a driving game might work well on a portable device where you tilt it to control the car (or does it really? Doesn't the constant turning of the screen become a problem), but what about FPS games? Platformers? Most games require actual buttons, because playing them on a touchscreen is extremely frustrating.
So even if you did find an example of a gaming type that works somewhat on a button-less device, you still have all the other types of games that don't.
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If they are doing cash grabs from American companies, they are doing a very crappy jobs at it. The amount of cash from American companies is tiny compared to European companies being held responsible for anti-competitive practices.
If your completely idiotic conspiracy theory was to hold water, one would expect American companies to make up a significant portion of the companies fined for anti-competitive practices in the EU.
Oh yes, the EU dos indeed have authority over google.com. If Google wants to keep doing business in the EU, one of the most profitable areas in the world, they will have to comply with EU rules and regulations.
Google has a web search monopoly. You don't need 100% market share to be a monopoly according to law. Nor is being a monopoly illegal in itself. Abusing that monopoly is illegal.
Nokia is betting everything on Windows Phone. That's the point. Windows Phone is selling pathetically bad.
Nokia would probably say that mobile networks are often slow and crappy. Even with an unlimited data plan, you'll get much faster speeds by using a compression proxy.
Maybe you should read up on what Opera is actually saying before jumping to conclusions.
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Did you actually look up what Opera is saying about it? Here you go.
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Presumably they have data access rules, so that only authorized personnel have access to the servers performing the compression.
It isn't broken. It's by design. Running the browser engine on a server is the only way old crappy phones can even run a browser.
You do realize that it's impossible for Opera Mini to work without a proxy, and the only reason it works on dumbphones is that the rendering engine is on a server? Spyware? No, just a thin client on the phone which lets even old and crappy phones show modern web pages
The Wii was an exercise equipment fad? Huh? The best selling game that wasn't bundled was Mario Kart. New Super Mario Bros. sold more than 25 million copies.
And fad? It sold well from the very start, and for several years!
Angry Bird is no competition. The top selling games on the Wii completely destroyed it. And that was despite being way more expensive.
And you don't think Angry Birds is gathering dust? LOL.
How well is any console doing when it's obsolete? The Wii sold insanely well, but the market was on the down turn. Then Nintendo stopped making games people want to play and moved on to the Wii U.
The Wii U is nothing like the Wii. The Wii was made for the mainstream market, while the Wii U, by Nintendo's own admission, aims for the hardcore gamer. That's why it fails. The games are not appealing to the mass-market.
The Wii was always easy to do homebrew on. In fact, it got harder as the console matured and Nintendo figured out new ways to block homebrew. So you are wrong about that, too.
The fact is that it's all about the games. Wii had several games that appealed to a mainstream audience, and sold very well as a result.
The Wii was cheaper and with far worse specs than the 360 and PS3. But what made it sell was the games. The GameCube did not sell well at all.
No, iPod, iPhone and iPad were not console killers. If they had been, the Wii would have never sold as insanely well as it did.
The console killer is crappy games. Look at the Wii again. They made games people wanted to play, so the consoles flew off the shelves. As soon as they stopped making mainstream games, Nintendo went down the drain.
The iDevices can never compete with dedicated gaming systems because they lack the dedicated gaming controls. But some games may work well on touch screens, and that's where they can sell a lot. But the biggest sellers on Wii/DS completely destroy any iDevice game, ever, in sales.
Nuclear submariners stay submerged for a year and a half at a time?
I'm not an activist. I'm not a member of any environmental organizations nor do I bother to save electricity or gas or anything like that. However, I do not reject the science unlike you.
Because you, on the other hand, are obviously a denialist activist, and you are actively spreading denialist lies.
The positive feedback is a known fact. The increase in sea level as well. I don't know what you mean by "doomsday scenarios" or "mass extinction" so I'll ignore that as yet more denialist nonsense.
You have obviously not read any scientific papers. You simply wouldn't understand them. And your claims about "doomsday scenarios" proves you didn't actually read anything.
Um, no, those tousands of scientists are actively publishing relevant research.
But few are as scrutinized as climate science due to the big money with an interest in burying the facts.
You are confused, and fail to tell the difference between scientific research and political action.
Sounds interesting. Got some reading material I could look at for more info?
No, not at all. When someone is called a denier it's because he's denying the science. It is not about disagreement, but about who's denying the scientific facts. Of course a denier doesn't like to be called a denier, but a denier is what he is.
In contrast, an actual skeptic would look at the actual evidence. They would not insist that those thousands of scientists that agree that AGW is real are all cheating, lying, and part of some huge conspiracy.
Video games? How so?
The point is that it is a fringe group. And it is. A bunch of asshole lunatics who deny science.
She's a self-proclaimed "skeptic." In other words, she is a denier. That's all I need to know. She's wrong.
Maybe it was full of errors, but it isn't now. And any new mapping service is inevitably going to be compared to Google Maps. People expect that level of maturity. No excuses are acceptable, particularly not from Apple.
Geeks don't determine console game sales.
Ok, so motion controls work well to control driving games. Poor consoles that don't have motion controls... oh, wait!
Now, a driving game might work well on a portable device where you tilt it to control the car (or does it really? Doesn't the constant turning of the screen become a problem), but what about FPS games? Platformers? Most games require actual buttons, because playing them on a touchscreen is extremely frustrating.
So even if you did find an example of a gaming type that works somewhat on a button-less device, you still have all the other types of games that don't.