Asimov was on a TV show where the host asked him about his earlier prediction that the world would only have five computers. Asimov asked that the question be cut, where the confused newscaster pointed out it was a live show. So Asimov walked out of the interview.
Well to be fair, 99.7% of Bittorrent Traffic is illegal. I don't remember Linux distributions using bittorrent for years, and who gives a care about a homemade cartoon? Even if it is theoretically possible to use bittorrent for non-illegal purposes, in common speech it's safe to conflate bittorrent with piracy.
If you're going to just totally make up numbers on the spot, why not something a little more realistic? The idea that they're spending billions/year on antii-Google ads is completely ludicrous. Consider that MS totalled $1.6 billion worldwide in advertising last year, and that your example of an anti-Google ad is some small web page nobody has ever heard of and probably cost $47 to make. If they spent billions on anti-Google ads, we probably would have seen or heard one of them sometime in the past year.
Furthermore, characterizing all their online operations as merely a quest to compete with Google is incorrect. Surely they would have a web presence even if they were best friends with Google.
Friends and family plans are generally substantially cheaper than buying your own phone and paying off-contract, you have to go through a provider to do that of course.
In the US, all the major carriers and a great number of smaller ones will let you use an unlocked phone off-contract, and no it's not the same price.
Even after years of failiures, RIM remains Canada's largest company that wasn't a national/regional bank or involved in sell off Canada's natural resources. Canada just doesn't have a business culture that allows for innovation or giving customers what they want.
It's amazing the way you can tell where these Chinese people are from, and what they plan on doing with their merchandise after they purchase it. Almost like you don't, and you're just making things up.
People use 3 or 4 year old phones? Be honest, how often do you still see Apple 3GSs, or that era of phones? Plus, they kind of suck compared to recent releases.
And people are switching in mass to non-contract phones? Maybe on Slashdot, I have one myself, but I just do not think this is true. T-Mobile is probably the biggest name for that, and even they don't make it central to their business, and plus they're not doing good business.
People are spooked at GMO, just as people are spooked at lots of stupid things. The answer to mass hysteria isn't to play along with it. People don't want to consume MSG or artificial sweeteners, even though these are well studied to have no effect on our health. Fat is terrible and we should eat as little as possible to be healthy, only it's the building block of human hormones, many nutrients need fat to be absorbed, and meta-studies don't show any relation between cardiovascular health and getting too much saturated fat. People need to eat vitamins, even though it's been very well established they are (slightly) detrimental to our health.
But the basic premise of agriculture conflicts with a diverse ecosystem. Farmers could plant a jungle, but their yield would be far lower & subsequently costs would be a lot more, I doubt it would be possible to sustain 7 billion people that way.
And all that to prevent using GMO crops, which are totally harmless to our health.
The largest Canadian corporation (Royal Bank of Canada) would be the 36th largest corporation in the US (by Capitalization). RIM is still the largest Canadian corporation that really has an international presence; everything larger than RIM it is either a national/regional bank or is in the work of selling off Canada's natural resources. Maybe it's true that Canadian Obamacare and the like make it more difficult for Canadian companies to sustain growth.
France doesn't make #1 box office out of New Wave art movies, just as all Chinese movies aren't Wong Kar Wai. Top France box office for 2013 (Les Profs is a comedy about lazy professors who turn a school around, Boule & Bill is a cartoon about the adventures of a kid and his dog) 1 Iron Man 3 Disney $38,962,258 4/24 2 Django Unchained n/a $37,297,979 1/16 3 Les profs UGC $32,482,020 4/17 4 Fast & Furious 6 UPI $24,998,379 5/22 5 Despicable Me 2 UPI $24,248,821 6/26 6 The Croods PPI $21,103,008 4/10 7 Hotel Transylvania Sony $20,554,672 2/13 8 Man of Steel Warner Bros. $19,295,449 6/19 9 The Hangover Part III Warner Bros. $16,412,846 5/29 10 Boule & Bill
They already do that. It's routine for action movies to not do particularly well, but make up the profits on overseas markets. Movies that are more explosions and less culture-specific are going to do better in Paris or Beijing.
Yep. I had to go to Italy once for a business trip, at first I was all excited for Italian food. But it's not even as good as what you'd get at Olive Garden, and I got sooo sick of it every day. By the end I was pretty much living off Big Macs.
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The demonstration is that Intel has chips running on extremely low power, which honestly is kind of cool.
Using a potato clock to power it was a bit of showmanship that the article submitter turned into the main focus.
Isn't humanoid robots an international thing? If anything, maybe Japanese.
Asimov was on a TV show where the host asked him about his earlier prediction that the world would only have five computers. Asimov asked that the question be cut, where the confused newscaster pointed out it was a live show. So Asimov walked out of the interview.
EU price includes VAT, US price doesn't include sales tax, which evens it somewhat.
Well to be fair, 99.7% of Bittorrent Traffic is illegal. I don't remember Linux distributions using bittorrent for years, and who gives a care about a homemade cartoon? Even if it is theoretically possible to use bittorrent for non-illegal purposes, in common speech it's safe to conflate bittorrent with piracy.
He's spending several billion dollars a year
If you're going to just totally make up numbers on the spot, why not something a little more realistic? The idea that they're spending billions/year on antii-Google ads is completely ludicrous. Consider that MS totalled $1.6 billion worldwide in advertising last year, and that your example of an anti-Google ad is some small web page nobody has ever heard of and probably cost $47 to make. If they spent billions on anti-Google ads, we probably would have seen or heard one of them sometime in the past year.
Furthermore, characterizing all their online operations as merely a quest to compete with Google is incorrect. Surely they would have a web presence even if they were best friends with Google.
Friends and family plans are generally substantially cheaper than buying your own phone and paying off-contract, you have to go through a provider to do that of course.
In the US, all the major carriers and a great number of smaller ones will let you use an unlocked phone off-contract, and no it's not the same price.
Even after years of failiures, RIM remains Canada's largest company that wasn't a national/regional bank or involved in sell off Canada's natural resources. Canada just doesn't have a business culture that allows for innovation or giving customers what they want.
High quality open source software? Like what?
Right, that'll keep a few dozen nerds (who wouldn't buy an MS product anyway) happy.
Every single person reading Slashdot understands what "slowing of Moore's Law" means. A few people just like complaining about it.
That's not true. Gamecube didn't have decent 3rd person titles either, and the N64 was pretty sparse.
It's amazing the way you can tell where these Chinese people are from, and what they plan on doing with their merchandise after they purchase it. Almost like you don't, and you're just making things up.
I have no idea what you're trying to say.
This is simply not true. Maybe 10 years ago everybody brought back stuff to import, sure.
People use 3 or 4 year old phones? Be honest, how often do you still see Apple 3GSs, or that era of phones? Plus, they kind of suck compared to recent releases.
And people are switching in mass to non-contract phones? Maybe on Slashdot, I have one myself, but I just do not think this is true. T-Mobile is probably the biggest name for that, and even they don't make it central to their business, and plus they're not doing good business.
People are spooked at GMO, just as people are spooked at lots of stupid things. The answer to mass hysteria isn't to play along with it. People don't want to consume MSG or artificial sweeteners, even though these are well studied to have no effect on our health. Fat is terrible and we should eat as little as possible to be healthy, only it's the building block of human hormones, many nutrients need fat to be absorbed, and meta-studies don't show any relation between cardiovascular health and getting too much saturated fat. People need to eat vitamins, even though it's been very well established they are (slightly) detrimental to our health.
But the basic premise of agriculture conflicts with a diverse ecosystem. Farmers could plant a jungle, but their yield would be far lower & subsequently costs would be a lot more, I doubt it would be possible to sustain 7 billion people that way.
And all that to prevent using GMO crops, which are totally harmless to our health.
The largest Canadian corporation (Royal Bank of Canada) would be the 36th largest corporation in the US (by Capitalization). RIM is still the largest Canadian corporation that really has an international presence; everything larger than RIM it is either a national/regional bank or is in the work of selling off Canada's natural resources. Maybe it's true that Canadian Obamacare and the like make it more difficult for Canadian companies to sustain growth.
If you think Wall Street is a ponzi scheme, you've defined the term so vaguely as to be meaningless.
Just say "I don't like bankers! Yucky!" if that's what you're getting at.
What? No.
France doesn't make #1 box office out of New Wave art movies, just as all Chinese movies aren't Wong Kar Wai. Top France box office for 2013 (Les Profs is a comedy about lazy professors who turn a school around, Boule & Bill is a cartoon about the adventures of a kid and his dog)
1 Iron Man 3 Disney $38,962,258 4/24
2 Django Unchained n/a $37,297,979 1/16
3 Les profs UGC $32,482,020 4/17
4 Fast & Furious 6 UPI $24,998,379 5/22
5 Despicable Me 2 UPI $24,248,821 6/26
6 The Croods PPI $21,103,008 4/10
7 Hotel Transylvania Sony $20,554,672 2/13
8 Man of Steel Warner Bros. $19,295,449 6/19
9 The Hangover Part III Warner Bros. $16,412,846 5/29
10 Boule & Bill
They already do that. It's routine for action movies to not do particularly well, but make up the profits on overseas markets. Movies that are more explosions and less culture-specific are going to do better in Paris or Beijing.
Yep. I had to go to Italy once for a business trip, at first I was all excited for Italian food. But it's not even as good as what you'd get at Olive Garden, and I got sooo sick of it every day. By the end I was pretty much living off Big Macs.
What do you mean? Absolutely nothing has actually happened, you can still use Google to get to VLC.