"Indeed. The GOP will look at this study and react with incredulity, then decry the researchers as biased, and the study itself as a waste of money and time."
They already have. From TechDirt: "However, as soon as it was published, the MPAA and RIAA apparently went ballistic and hit the phones hard, demanding that the RSC take down the report. They succeeded. Even though the report had been fully vetted and approved by the RSC, executive director Paul S. Teller has now retracted it."
It would be more attractive to developers if Android users didn't side load "free" applications like they're on crack. Profit margins for Android apps suck big time. I mean, they really suck. In fact, they suck so bad that they'd put a Las Vegas hoo... ah... never mind.
"All this hoopla about going from the current rate 35% to Clinton era rates 39% for millionares being the end of America as we know it just does not seem to compute."
True. In fact I just read that 8 of the 10 richest counties in America voted for President Obama. And did so knowing full and well that he wants to raise taxes on the 1%.
That signals to me that the majority of citizens in their tax bracket consider a tax hike completely and entirely acceptable, and that they're more than willing to pay their fair share.
I think the big money against any tax increases comes from those who don't live on the money, but rather see money as power. Like the Kochs or Adelson, they have far more money than they can ever use, but they violently dislike losing any of it and the power they can wield with it.
Clinton based those remarks on the supposed intelligence that Iraq had chemical and biological WMDs. And a nuclear program.
According to evidence gathered, that would be some, none, and no.
Iraq was a sore point with the Bush family, and after 9/11 Jr. saw a chance to stick it to Saddam. And open up the oil fields and rights for his buddies. And inject a little "stimulus" money into the economy. (War economies run hotter than peace economies.) Something needed after the Internet bubble burst.
There was no one, single reason as to why we invaded Iraq. And one could wonder whether or not another president would have made the same call.
But with "Dubya" as president, with his history and oil connections, it was inevitable.
Umm... did you see that Apple's stock price is back up after their announcement with China Telecom?
Incidentally, "Google" isn't winning there. Half of the "Android" tablets are Kindles, where Amazon has forked Android, slapped on a new interface, and stripped it of all of Google's apps and Play access. And get back to me after Christmas regarding tablet sales. Speaking of which...
"Asked if they'd rather receive a PC or a tablet as a holiday gift, 59% of respondents in a PriceGrabber survey opted for the tablet, the price comparison shopping site said."
"When asked which tablet or tablets they wanted, 63% of respondents said they want an iPad 3 or an iPad 4, while 24% said they're hoping for an iPad mini. However, it's not all about Apple. Twenty-two percent of those surveyed said they would like a Samsung Galaxy Note Tab while 20% said they are hoping for an Amazon Kindle Fire HD, according to PriceGrabber."
" So the MS tablet was more expensive and more cumbersome and did not do more than a laptop did. It was no wonder it was a flop."
The tablet failed under MS because they saw it as just another platform for "Windows Everywhere". Because it ran Windows and Windows applications it needed an expensive Intel processor, RAM, storage, fans, and so on. Add it all up, and MS's "vision" of a table was a big, heavy, clunky device with 3 hours of battery life.
"The Android phone app ecosystem was far behind the iOS phone ecosystem until the Android marketshare started too large for it to be ignored, and now they are effectively equivalent."
Tell that to all of the Android developers who make 75% less on Android applications that they do on their iOS apps.
It doesn't matter how large the base is if the jerks won't open their wallets and pay for applications.
That's fine for a simple webpage, but backing up the HTML won't work if the site is dynamic (e.g. database-driven). Any site with registrations, forums, logins, processes, searches, and so on, can't be simply be replicated and run everywhere.
Being good at programming but lacking in everything else? You think that's admirable?
Further, you don't just "program". You use programming to solve real world problems in math and science and economics and statistics. The people who make the big bucks programming have backgrounds in AI, math (Wall Street quants figuring derivatives), or are working on NP-complete-type problems for trucking and shipping industries.
In short, the best programmers are expert programmers who are also experts in other fields of study.
Close. There was a time when print shops were everywhere. Remember PIP (Postal Instant Press)? They were more commonplace than Kinkos was a decade ago.
Print, today, is dying out. Shops have closed left and right, and it's cheap to do major runs in China and ship them back to the states.
"Actually, I would argue that someone who at 16 knows what they want to do, and considers the rest of high school so unbearable and pointless as to be a waste of the next two years of their life, and isn't smart enough to test out of the rest of high school and graduate early should just drop out."
I disagree. High school is minimal education. Further, I can't really think of something that someone is going to "know that they want to do" that isn't going to require additional education or training.
I don't care if you think you're going to be a rock star, or just start a business walking horses, you're going to need English, math, communications skills, business skills, marketing skills, and more,
Without a background in English, math, science, history, economics, and so on, you're not educated. You don't have the skills or the knowledge needed to properly function in today's society. At best, you're a pluggable part, and at worst you're an easily lead sheep.
If I'm a terrorist and I have a truck loaded with explosives, I don't think I'm going to drive said truck onto a military base and try to blow up a radar system. You have to match capability with intent.
There are plenty of high profile targets to choose from, without hitting a hardened military installation. And as I've mentioned earlier, anyone with the capability AND the reason to do anything about the radar installation already has access to satellite imagery that far surpasses that of Maps.
Ditto. Anyone with the reason and the capability to do anything about the radar installation already has access to satellite imagery that far surpasses that of Maps.
"... certainly weren't using the PC's predecessor(s)..."
So true. It's not as if average people ever used timeshared terminals, microfilm and fiche, or dealt with reams of computer printouts...
You can quibble all you want, but the fact remains that the modern tablet is still in its infancy both in terms of use cases and in terms of market penetration.
MS had a large, clunky laptop without a keyboard that ran for a couple of hours per charge, and that depended upon mobile users trying interact with a OS and applications written for the desktop.
It has as much relation to modern tablet designs as a CRT-based Osborne does to a MacBook Air.
"...but there's little you can do in an office that doesn't demand a PC."
Today. I wrote about this not too long ago, and think people miss the point regarding the "post-PC" world. It's not, you see, that tablets are going to replace existing methods of doing existing work on existing computers.
It's that more and more existing methods and jobs and tools are going to be restructured and modified and rethought so they can be done on tablets and pads and other mobile devices. Instead of sitting at a desk plugging in data, that data will be scanned and entered into tablets the field. Instead of sitting at a desk reading reports, you're going to be sitting in a conference room or in a cab or train or plane reading reports.
And it's a self-reinforcing cycle. More and more sites and apps will be created and modified for tablets, which makes them even more useful, which induces more people to convert sites and build apps, which makes tablets and mobile devices even more useful, and on, and on.
Keep in mind it's early days. I mean the first iPad shipped just over two years ago, in 2010. Where was the desktop personal PC at that age?
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"Indeed. The GOP will look at this study and react with incredulity, then decry the researchers as biased, and the study itself as a waste of money and time."
They already have. From TechDirt: "However, as soon as it was published, the MPAA and RIAA apparently went ballistic and hit the phones hard, demanding that the RSC take down the report. They succeeded. Even though the report had been fully vetted and approved by the RSC, executive director Paul S. Teller has now retracted it."
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121117/16492521084/that-was-fast-hollywood-already-browbeat-republicans-into-retracting-report-copyright-reform.shtml
It would be more attractive to developers if Android users didn't side load "free" applications like they're on crack. Profit margins for Android apps suck big time. I mean, they really suck. In fact, they suck so bad that they'd put a Las Vegas hoo... ah... never mind.
"All this hoopla about going from the current rate 35% to Clinton era rates 39% for millionares being the end of America as we know it just does not seem to compute."
True. In fact I just read that 8 of the 10 richest counties in America voted for President Obama. And did so knowing full and well that he wants to raise taxes on the 1%.
That signals to me that the majority of citizens in their tax bracket consider a tax hike completely and entirely acceptable, and that they're more than willing to pay their fair share.
I think the big money against any tax increases comes from those who don't live on the money, but rather see money as power. Like the Kochs or Adelson, they have far more money than they can ever use, but they violently dislike losing any of it and the power they can wield with it.
Clinton based those remarks on the supposed intelligence that Iraq had chemical and biological WMDs. And a nuclear program.
According to evidence gathered, that would be some, none, and no.
Iraq was a sore point with the Bush family, and after 9/11 Jr. saw a chance to stick it to Saddam. And open up the oil fields and rights for his buddies. And inject a little "stimulus" money into the economy. (War economies run hotter than peace economies.) Something needed after the Internet bubble burst.
There was no one, single reason as to why we invaded Iraq. And one could wonder whether or not another president would have made the same call.
But with "Dubya" as president, with his history and oil connections, it was inevitable.
For that matter, I've seen plenty of auto dealers doing car demos and handing out flyers in malls. They don't sell them there.
Umm... did you see that Apple's stock price is back up after their announcement with China Telecom?
Incidentally, "Google" isn't winning there. Half of the "Android" tablets are Kindles, where Amazon has forked Android, slapped on a new interface, and stripped it of all of Google's apps and Play access. And get back to me after Christmas regarding tablet sales. Speaking of which...
"Asked if they'd rather receive a PC or a tablet as a holiday gift, 59% of respondents in a PriceGrabber survey opted for the tablet, the price comparison shopping site said."
"When asked which tablet or tablets they wanted, 63% of respondents said they want an iPad 3 or an iPad 4, while 24% said they're hoping for an iPad mini. However, it's not all about Apple. Twenty-two percent of those surveyed said they would like a Samsung Galaxy Note Tab while 20% said they are hoping for an Amazon Kindle Fire HD, according to PriceGrabber."
" So the MS tablet was more expensive and more cumbersome and did not do more than a laptop did. It was no wonder it was a flop."
The tablet failed under MS because they saw it as just another platform for "Windows Everywhere". Because it ran Windows and Windows applications it needed an expensive Intel processor, RAM, storage, fans, and so on. Add it all up, and MS's "vision" of a table was a big, heavy, clunky device with 3 hours of battery life.
"The Android phone app ecosystem was far behind the iOS phone ecosystem until the Android marketshare started too large for it to be ignored, and now they are effectively equivalent."
Tell that to all of the Android developers who make 75% less on Android applications that they do on their iOS apps.
It doesn't matter how large the base is if the jerks won't open their wallets and pay for applications.
That's fine for a simple webpage, but backing up the HTML won't work if the site is dynamic (e.g. database-driven). Any site with registrations, forums, logins, processes, searches, and so on, can't be simply be replicated and run everywhere.
"As much as I dislike Apple..."
Is this de rigueur now? Must every cool kid start by distancing themselves from the company that makes some of the most popular devices on the planet?
One Google search would tell you that AAC is a industry standard format. Plenty of devices play it.
Being good at programming but lacking in everything else? You think that's admirable?
Further, you don't just "program". You use programming to solve real world problems in math and science and economics and statistics. The people who make the big bucks programming have backgrounds in AI, math (Wall Street quants figuring derivatives), or are working on NP-complete-type problems for trucking and shipping industries.
In short, the best programmers are expert programmers who are also experts in other fields of study.
Close. There was a time when print shops were everywhere. Remember PIP (Postal Instant Press)? They were more commonplace than Kinkos was a decade ago.
Print, today, is dying out. Shops have closed left and right, and it's cheap to do major runs in China and ship them back to the states.
"Actually, I would argue that someone who at 16 knows what they want to do, and considers the rest of high school so unbearable and pointless as to be a waste of the next two years of their life, and isn't smart enough to test out of the rest of high school and graduate early should just drop out."
I disagree. High school is minimal education. Further, I can't really think of something that someone is going to "know that they want to do" that isn't going to require additional education or training.
I don't care if you think you're going to be a rock star, or just start a business walking horses, you're going to need English, math, communications skills, business skills, marketing skills, and more,
"It's good to be specialized."
Without a background in English, math, science, history, economics, and so on, you're not educated. You don't have the skills or the knowledge needed to properly function in today's society. At best, you're a pluggable part, and at worst you're an easily lead sheep.
"In the real world there's no talking hat that shouts out "Griffindore!" when placed on your head."
Nice. I've got to remember that one...
"... learning a real world job ..."
Uh huh. You mean a "current" real world job. I often wonder what happened to all of the kids in my class that took printing and typesetting....
If I'm a terrorist and I have a truck loaded with explosives, I don't think I'm going to drive said truck onto a military base and try to blow up a radar system. You have to match capability with intent.
There are plenty of high profile targets to choose from, without hitting a hardened military installation. And as I've mentioned earlier, anyone with the capability AND the reason to do anything about the radar installation already has access to satellite imagery that far surpasses that of Maps.
Ditto. Anyone with the reason and the capability to do anything about the radar installation already has access to satellite imagery that far surpasses that of Maps.
"... certainly weren't using the PC's predecessor(s) ..."
So true. It's not as if average people ever used timeshared terminals, microfilm and fiche, or dealt with reams of computer printouts...
You can quibble all you want, but the fact remains that the modern tablet is still in its infancy both in terms of use cases and in terms of market penetration.
MS had a large, clunky laptop without a keyboard that ran for a couple of hours per charge, and that depended upon mobile users trying interact with a OS and applications written for the desktop.
It has as much relation to modern tablet designs as a CRT-based Osborne does to a MacBook Air.
"...but there's little you can do in an office that doesn't demand a PC."
Today. I wrote about this not too long ago, and think people miss the point regarding the "post-PC" world. It's not, you see, that tablets are going to replace existing methods of doing existing work on existing computers.
It's that more and more existing methods and jobs and tools are going to be restructured and modified and rethought so they can be done on tablets and pads and other mobile devices. Instead of sitting at a desk plugging in data, that data will be scanned and entered into tablets the field. Instead of sitting at a desk reading reports, you're going to be sitting in a conference room or in a cab or train or plane reading reports.
And it's a self-reinforcing cycle. More and more sites and apps will be created and modified for tablets, which makes them even more useful, which induces more people to convert sites and build apps, which makes tablets and mobile devices even more useful, and on, and on.
Keep in mind it's early days. I mean the first iPad shipped just over two years ago, in 2010. Where was the desktop personal PC at that age?
http://www.isights.org/2012/04/ipads-in-business-time-to-stop-laughing.html
Among tech executives? Romney, of course. Much more likely to deregulate, support offshoring, and expand the H1-B visa pool.
Haven't had that pleasure, thanks.
Guess Tim Cook shouldn't have mentioned that the preferred way to connect to third-party speakers and other devices is Bluetooth.
Assuming, of course, you can find low-powered Bluetooth 4 devices out there....