Yes and no...Shenzhen itself may be not a place you'd visit, but it's right next to Hong Kong and Macau, both of which are (to me) top tourist cities. One could easily make Shenzhen a day trip from either city. There's even a commuter train between Hong Kong & Shenzhen.
Actually Microsoft developed OSes for mobile devices very early, with Windows CE coming out in 1996. I remember is 2003 or so, owning Dell PDA that aside from not having a phone and having a clunkier interface, let me browse the web and do much of what a cell phone does (personally I used it to browse the web, watch movies, listen to music, and Skype), in a cell phone like package. It was a niche product for years, and obviously Microsoft didn't quite develop it the right way. But saying that Microsoft never seriously approached the mobile devices market because they only want a product they dominate is simply not true.
Microsoft also pushed tablet computing hard for a long time, even though it never caught on. Again, they didn't do it right, but it wasn't for a lack of sustained trying.
Wow, they make her look serious! But get this, she's a woman! Like, not a man!!!! How would it even be possible for her to have smarts or savvy?
I mean, sure she has a double major from Stanford and went to graduate school at MIT, and then worked her way up in a male-dominated technology company...but if you look at pictures of her, it's clear from these pictures that she is a woman!
I think this just shows how major corporations are faulty, when instead of choosing basement dwellers, the board of directors of a major corporations actually chose a successful, well-educated woman to lead instead, when the "promotional photos" of her clearly shows that she is a woman.
So what? There's a lot of drek out there, fortunately it's easy to ignore what you don't care about. Like if I were to go to a bookstore, 90% of the books would hold no interest to me, and I will likely ever read.1% of the books. That doesn't mean I give up on books.
Also, cars should be banned, it's a waste of gas! Also, Amazon should be banned, everything gets shipped in plastic and cardboard! Also, TV dinners should be banned- you just end up throwing away the tray! Also, milk should be banned, every year people throw away millions of cartons!
You have this false dichotomy where if snake-oil salesmanship bothers you, you must be in favor of evil corporation Monsanto.
In reality, they are two different issues. Snake Oil and BS homeopathy and all the nonsense perpetuated by Whole Foods is basically lying to make money, and your opinion of Monsanto is a completely different issue.
For instance, there are many organic growers who don't believe GMOs are poison, or the various other ideas from the homeopathy line of thought.
Wow, an online-only newspaper caught an instance of the MPAA being somewhat hypocritical, I'm sure that'll change everything! Hoo-wah, I'm going out to buy me some stocks in the company that makes Green Screens!
I mostly agree that individuals don't really change history, but that would be a rather somber tone for a class given to bright-eyed college freshmen about how they can change the world...
Conversely, you don't know what scientists do, do you?
They don't write down neat ideas in single page essays that get no scientific review. Maybe you could say he was an inventor?
It was a neat idea, but Clarke wasn't the first person to come up with the idea, nor was his short essay widely disseminated, nor did it influence the actual development of geosynchronous orbits.
Arthur C Clarke was not what most people would think of as a scientist (a job leading scientific research for a university or company or so forth). Nor did his scientific speculations revolve around applying the scientific method, which is a good description of what a scientist does in a very broad sense.
You forgot the "build a time machine back to 2002" step. There are hundred of Chinese factories pumping out cell phone hardware, it's all very efficient and basically zero-margin, Nokia isn't going to be able to be any better at it. And if they are any better at it, by the next week every other factory will be doing the same thing. Cell phone companies make profit by momentum, by advertising, and by stupid gimmicky shit that mostly just differentiates their products.
Well I live in California. Just moved to a new house where the internet in 50MB/s and cost me $40, I'm happy with that. I think there's similar deals anywhere in CA except maybe weird forest towns in the far north, in which case it's reasonable that infrastructure be usable but lower quality, the same way forest towns get winding roads instead of 8-lane freeways. I think US Broadband complaints come from people living in exurbs in flyover states.
In the same way Pac Man for the Atari 2600 was. It may have been more fun to play the game than watch TV, but nobody would sit back on their couch and watch an entire run of "Let's Play Bioshock Infinite."
There's smartphones cheaper than $50 in other countries?
It's so easy to import to the US, that I have to believe the only cheaper smartphones out there are the ones that are such utter crap they wouldn't pass UL testing. A lot of cheap smartphones are slightly cheaper in the US than in China. Of course there's less interest in the ultra-cheap market in 1st world nations, but it's still really easy to buy a $50 smartphone in the US.
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Yes and no...Shenzhen itself may be not a place you'd visit, but it's right next to Hong Kong and Macau, both of which are (to me) top tourist cities. One could easily make Shenzhen a day trip from either city. There's even a commuter train between Hong Kong & Shenzhen.
Actually Microsoft developed OSes for mobile devices very early, with Windows CE coming out in 1996. I remember is 2003 or so, owning Dell PDA that aside from not having a phone and having a clunkier interface, let me browse the web and do much of what a cell phone does (personally I used it to browse the web, watch movies, listen to music, and Skype), in a cell phone like package. It was a niche product for years, and obviously Microsoft didn't quite develop it the right way. But saying that Microsoft never seriously approached the mobile devices market because they only want a product they dominate is simply not true.
Microsoft also pushed tablet computing hard for a long time, even though it never caught on. Again, they didn't do it right, but it wasn't for a lack of sustained trying.
Wow, they make her look serious! But get this, she's a woman! Like, not a man!!!! How would it even be possible for her to have smarts or savvy?
I mean, sure she has a double major from Stanford and went to graduate school at MIT, and then worked her way up in a male-dominated technology company...but if you look at pictures of her, it's clear from these pictures that she is a woman!
I think this just shows how major corporations are faulty, when instead of choosing basement dwellers, the board of directors of a major corporations actually chose a successful, well-educated woman to lead instead, when the "promotional photos" of her clearly shows that she is a woman.
How many roads must a man walk down?
So what? There's a lot of drek out there, fortunately it's easy to ignore what you don't care about. Like if I were to go to a bookstore, 90% of the books would hold no interest to me, and I will likely ever read .1% of the books. That doesn't mean I give up on books.
Also, cars should be banned, it's a waste of gas!
Also, Amazon should be banned, everything gets shipped in plastic and cardboard!
Also, TV dinners should be banned- you just end up throwing away the tray!
Also, milk should be banned, every year people throw away millions of cartons!
In the scale of things, it's a pretty miniscule amount of plastic.
Right, because this patent will give Keurig a monopoly. In a year or two the only way to get a cup of coffee will be buy a Keurig machine.
You have a six digit UID on Slashdot, and you've never heard of Ouya?
Do you at least know what Raspberry Pi or Bitcoins are?
You have this false dichotomy where if snake-oil salesmanship bothers you, you must be in favor of evil corporation Monsanto.
In reality, they are two different issues. Snake Oil and BS homeopathy and all the nonsense perpetuated by Whole Foods is basically lying to make money, and your opinion of Monsanto is a completely different issue.
For instance, there are many organic growers who don't believe GMOs are poison, or the various other ideas from the homeopathy line of thought.
If he didn't get into a car accident, then he was driving wrecklessly.
Be honest, blogs have less influence and lower journalistic standards than a dead-tree journal like the NY Times.
A real publication:
a) Wouldn't have been so partisan in favor of VFX companies
b) Wouldn't have overstated the importance of this revelation.
Frankly, this news article isn't even news. It's like somebody took a particularly idiotic anti-MPAA post from Slashdot and made it longer.
Wow, an online-only newspaper caught an instance of the MPAA being somewhat hypocritical, I'm sure that'll change everything! Hoo-wah, I'm going out to buy me some stocks in the company that makes Green Screens!
I mostly agree that individuals don't really change history, but that would be a rather somber tone for a class given to bright-eyed college freshmen about how they can change the world...
Conversely, you don't know what scientists do, do you?
They don't write down neat ideas in single page essays that get no scientific review. Maybe you could say he was an inventor?
It was a neat idea, but Clarke wasn't the first person to come up with the idea, nor was his short essay widely disseminated, nor did it influence the actual development of geosynchronous orbits.
Read biographies of people who actually changed the world, and discuss how they did it.
Stop confusing science fiction or science fiction-styled essays with futurism.
Arthur C Clarke was not what most people would think of as a scientist (a job leading scientific research for a university or company or so forth). Nor did his scientific speculations revolve around applying the scientific method, which is a good description of what a scientist does in a very broad sense.
Death Race was a classic, get the fuck off Slashdot.
You forgot the "build a time machine back to 2002" step. There are hundred of Chinese factories pumping out cell phone hardware, it's all very efficient and basically zero-margin, Nokia isn't going to be able to be any better at it. And if they are any better at it, by the next week every other factory will be doing the same thing. Cell phone companies make profit by momentum, by advertising, and by stupid gimmicky shit that mostly just differentiates their products.
Well I live in California. Just moved to a new house where the internet in 50MB/s and cost me $40, I'm happy with that. I think there's similar deals anywhere in CA except maybe weird forest towns in the far north, in which case it's reasonable that infrastructure be usable but lower quality, the same way forest towns get winding roads instead of 8-lane freeways. I think US Broadband complaints come from people living in exurbs in flyover states.
No, that makes no sense and is obviously not true. I think the reason is the difficulty of emulating a multi-chip hardware.
People are easily able to compare one system to another, even if they are physically two different systems. Of course.
Well to be fair that's also true of most drug addicts.
In the same way Pac Man for the Atari 2600 was. It may have been more fun to play the game than watch TV, but nobody would sit back on their couch and watch an entire run of "Let's Play Bioshock Infinite."
There's smartphones cheaper than $50 in other countries?
It's so easy to import to the US, that I have to believe the only cheaper smartphones out there are the ones that are such utter crap they wouldn't pass UL testing. A lot of cheap smartphones are slightly cheaper in the US than in China. Of course there's less interest in the ultra-cheap market in 1st world nations, but it's still really easy to buy a $50 smartphone in the US.
But your link isn't to a 521. Here is a Lumia 521 for $90 off Amazon