The numbers are from IDC, so they might not be very accurate. According to IDC, Samsung sold 2,391,000 tablets worldwide in Q2 2012, but according to Samsung's court documents in the Apple case, it sold 37,000 tablets relevant to the court case. It could be that almost all of their sales were international and/or not-relevant (such as Windows tablets), but it is hard to reconcile those numbers nonetheless. The most likely explanation is that IDC really sucks at estimating tablet sales. Maybe they are dramatically better at phones?
I would feel safer if we got rid of the TSA and just had one or two fully decked out marines on board each flight. Would be cheaper too...
Even that would be a complete waste of money. After 9/11 passengers know that if the plane gets hijacked they will likely die. The passengers and crew will now prevent a hijacking just as a Marine would. The other easy to imagine threat is that someone tries to blow up the plane. In that case a Marine isn't going to be much help. We would be better off devoting the money to intelligence and investigation.
Good , now also block those annoying facebook invite emails and I'm a happy camper
You can click a link at the bottom of the invite to stop receiving them. If it bothers you that much, this seems like a pretty "low cost" way of eliminating the problem.
Treat each medium separately, and instead of pointing out advantages one has over the other and pushing for those to be mapped into each domain, KEEP THEM SEPARATE. It's an e-book. It's digital, can be copied for zero cost, etc. etc. Don't whine about not being able to share it with a friend. Yes, that's an advantage of the physical book. But it isn't a physical book, it's an e-book. So why try to create a system to match physical books?
In my opinion, the problem is price. If we stop trying to treat e-books as real books, then we shouldn't have to pay real book prices. I would be fine with either of these scenarios, but would probably prefer the second...
a) Keep trying to treat e-books as real books. Let people lend and re-sell them. Keep prices where they are now, usually somewhere between a hardcover and paperback.
b) Treat an e-book as a DRMed digital object. No lending or resale. Also recognize that it is nearly zero marginal cost to produce, and bring the price way down. Maybe somewhere around $1 per book.
...assuming you're the golden boy that gets all the attention.
Otherwise you end up just like the losers that are hidden in the far corner of Best Buy. The App Store model is sort of a lottery and lottery's [sic] are for suckers.
Lotteries are for suckers if they have a negative expected payoff. You wouldn't be a sucker for taking a "heads you pay $1, tails you win $100" lottery. You've done nothing to argue that the app store has a negative expected payoff.
We all know Apple bans Flash because it would allow third party apps that don't have to forfeit 30% of revenue to Apple. Plain and simple. All other explanations are just someone's absurd mental gymnastics to justify Apple's stupid and shortsighted iPhone OS policies.
I don't really buy this argument as the sole explanation for Apple not supporting Flash on mobile devices. Mobile Safari supports enough of HTML 5 that you can re-create most of the flash apps that you suggest would eat into Apple's profit. There are a lot of iPhone specific web apps that give a lot of functionality. Sure, not as much as building a native app, but you won't get the same functionality as native apps with Flash either.
... I hate their mice and their keyboards. They both have always sucked.
Not all of their keyboards have sucked. I still think the Apple Extended II is one of the best keyboards ever made. I have several backup keyboards squirreled away in case the one I'm using breaks.
I think it will be great for playing go. I can place stones on my iphone pretty well and a 9.7" screen can only be better. Plus my main problem with playing on the computer right now is that I don't want to sit at my desk for hours at a time. With the iPad it would be easy to get up and move about the house while I play.
I just wish KGS would open up the protocol and let third parties create clients. I may switch to IGS in order to play online with the iPad.
Also looking forward to a version of SmartGo for the iPad.
Even if not phython, what does Fortran have over modern compiled languages, for example?
Lots of libraries for numerical work. Fortunately many of them are being ported to Python modules so you can get the speed/convenience advantage and work in a modern language at the same time.
3.3 GB really isn't that much. I would mainly use the Kindle DX for reading academic papers in PDF format. I have only recently started organizing them on my computer, and so far I'm over 700MB. That is only two semesters' worth.
An SDHC slot is really a no brainer on this device.
I doubt that content companies will enthusiastically move to a physical media that is not fragile. People have to buy replacement CDs, DVDs and now Blu-ray discs all the time because the physical media is so prone to damage.
There are plenty of alternatives that are sturdier, but the content companies will lose money if people only have to buy one copy.
Isn't that the bigger problem? Instead of spending more and more money to hide this number (or blame companies who lose such data), intelligent people should be asking why this number should be private.
Exactly. I wish the govt would just announce that on January 1, 2009 they will put up a website that publicly reveals everyone's SSN. Banks and other institutions have until then to work out some other means of authentication.
From my understanding, nothing is preventing you from getting it unlocked. The official carriers are subsidizing the hardware and to recover that cost, they require you sign into a service contract. Once you have the phone you can use it however you like. You're paying for the service, but you don't have to use it. You can probably even pay a cancellation fee and get out of it. Either way, the carrier recovers the hardware subsidy.
You are correct that expected value calculations play an important part in analyzing games, but that doesn't mean you are using game theory. You could set this up in an equivalent game, but it would be overkill and not provide any additional insight beyond what you already said.
Basic arithmetic plays an important part of the calculus, but that doesn't mean I say I'm doing calc every time I count the change in my pocket.
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The numbers are from IDC, so they might not be very accurate. According to IDC, Samsung sold 2,391,000 tablets worldwide in Q2 2012, but according to Samsung's court documents in the Apple case, it sold 37,000 tablets relevant to the court case. It could be that almost all of their sales were international and/or not-relevant (such as Windows tablets), but it is hard to reconcile those numbers nonetheless. The most likely explanation is that IDC really sucks at estimating tablet sales. Maybe they are dramatically better at phones?
Source: http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/08/10/apple-sold-5-7-million-tablets-in-the-u-s-last-quarter-court-documents-show-samsung-sold-37000/
I would feel safer if we got rid of the TSA and just had one or two fully decked out marines on board each flight. Would be cheaper too...
Even that would be a complete waste of money. After 9/11 passengers know that if the plane gets hijacked they will likely die. The passengers and crew will now prevent a hijacking just as a Marine would. The other easy to imagine threat is that someone tries to blow up the plane. In that case a Marine isn't going to be much help. We would be better off devoting the money to intelligence and investigation.
Good , now also block those annoying facebook invite emails and I'm a happy camper
You can click a link at the bottom of the invite to stop receiving them. If it bothers you that much, this seems like a pretty "low cost" way of eliminating the problem.
Treat each medium separately, and instead of pointing out advantages one has over the other and pushing for those to be mapped into each domain, KEEP THEM SEPARATE. It's an e-book. It's digital, can be copied for zero cost, etc. etc. Don't whine about not being able to share it with a friend. Yes, that's an advantage of the physical book. But it isn't a physical book, it's an e-book. So why try to create a system to match physical books?
In my opinion, the problem is price. If we stop trying to treat e-books as real books, then we shouldn't have to pay real book prices. I would be fine with either of these scenarios, but would probably prefer the second...
a) Keep trying to treat e-books as real books. Let people lend and re-sell them. Keep prices where they are now, usually somewhere between a hardcover and paperback.
b) Treat an e-book as a DRMed digital object. No lending or resale. Also recognize that it is nearly zero marginal cost to produce, and bring the price way down. Maybe somewhere around $1 per book.
...assuming you're the golden boy that gets all the attention.
Otherwise you end up just like the losers that are hidden in the far corner of Best Buy. The App Store model is sort of a lottery and lottery's [sic] are for suckers.
Lotteries are for suckers if they have a negative expected payoff. You wouldn't be a sucker for taking a "heads you pay $1, tails you win $100" lottery. You've done nothing to argue that the app store has a negative expected payoff.
Will it let you install your own applications on it however you like?
No?
Well it's still an essentially useless toy then.
Care to elaborate? I find my iPhone very useful.
We all know Apple bans Flash because it would allow third party apps that don't have to forfeit 30% of revenue to Apple. Plain and simple. All other explanations are just someone's absurd mental gymnastics to justify Apple's stupid and shortsighted iPhone OS policies.
I don't really buy this argument as the sole explanation for Apple not supporting Flash on mobile devices. Mobile Safari supports enough of HTML 5 that you can re-create most of the flash apps that you suggest would eat into Apple's profit. There are a lot of iPhone specific web apps that give a lot of functionality. Sure, not as much as building a native app, but you won't get the same functionality as native apps with Flash either.
... I hate their mice and their keyboards. They both have always sucked.
Not all of their keyboards have sucked. I still think the Apple Extended II is one of the best keyboards ever made. I have several backup keyboards squirreled away in case the one I'm using breaks.
I think it will be great for playing go. I can place stones on my iphone pretty well and a 9.7" screen can only be better. Plus my main problem with playing on the computer right now is that I don't want to sit at my desk for hours at a time. With the iPad it would be easy to get up and move about the house while I play.
I just wish KGS would open up the protocol and let third parties create clients. I may switch to IGS in order to play online with the iPad.
Also looking forward to a version of SmartGo for the iPad.
Citation needed.
Even if not phython, what does Fortran have over modern compiled languages, for example?
Lots of libraries for numerical work. Fortunately many of them are being ported to Python modules so you can get the speed/convenience advantage and work in a modern language at the same time.
3.3 GB really isn't that much. I would mainly use the Kindle DX for reading academic papers in PDF format. I have only recently started organizing them on my computer, and so far I'm over 700MB. That is only two semesters' worth.
An SDHC slot is really a no brainer on this device.
Zotero might be useful.
It is "Jobs's health," not "Jobs' health." I am amazed at how many publications have gotten this wrong.
I wonder if the Octopus's name is Grigori and has a penchant for attacking women on the beach?
There's a link my brother sent me awhile back with a guy with an interesting theory about why there are more men than women in advanced sciences.
http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/women-in-science
The seeds of this idea comes from the "popular" cultural ideas that if your smart or educated, then your not "one of us"
So I guess your "one of us" then.
I doubt that content companies will enthusiastically move to a physical media that is not fragile. People have to buy replacement CDs, DVDs and now Blu-ray discs all the time because the physical media is so prone to damage.
There are plenty of alternatives that are sturdier, but the content companies will lose money if people only have to buy one copy.
Isn't that the bigger problem? Instead of spending more and more money to hide this number (or blame companies who lose such data), intelligent people should be asking why this number should be private.
Exactly. I wish the govt would just announce that on January 1, 2009 they will put up a website that publicly reveals everyone's SSN. Banks and other institutions have until then to work out some other means of authentication.
because it exposes the fact that today's Mac desktops are just commodity hardware with an extra $1,000 charge for an OS X dongle (TPM).
Are you sure about that?
Try to solve go.
From my understanding, nothing is preventing you from getting it unlocked. The official carriers are subsidizing the hardware and to recover that cost, they require you sign into a service contract. Once you have the phone you can use it however you like. You're paying for the service, but you don't have to use it. You can probably even pay a cancellation fee and get out of it. Either way, the carrier recovers the hardware subsidy.
Cactus
You are correct that expected value calculations play an important part in analyzing games, but that doesn't mean you are using game theory. You could set this up in an equivalent game, but it would be overkill and not provide any additional insight beyond what you already said.
Basic arithmetic plays an important part of the calculus, but that doesn't mean I say I'm doing calc every time I count the change in my pocket.
FYI, that is not game theory, it's just a simple expected value calculation.
Apple is a hardware company.
Apple is a hardware company. I think you are about six or seven years behind.
I hate to use marketing buzzwords, but repeat after me:
Apple is a total experience company.
Apple is a total experience company.