Blame that on John Major, breaking up the rail system and selling all the money-making parts off for pennies on the pound to private industry, then rolling up all the complex and expensive stuff into Railtrack.
An ideal way to privatise profit and nationalise risk.
BR needed modernisation badly, but privatisation was not it the answer there - at least not the way it was done.
Switch off location services, don't use iCloud (a claim that can be put to any cloud service, not just Apple's).
It also doesn't say "continuously monitor" - you're just trying to use weasel words to make it sound worse. What it talks about is occasionally collecting anonymous location data to improve it's location-aware apps.
If this is your example of "Liberal media bias" (the D cosponsor being elevated to the position of sponsor while the real R sponsor is not mentioned at all) then... yeah! Such a liberal conspiracy! It's like the USSR propaganda machine! Something must be done!
Not when you consider all iOS devices (iPad, iPod Touch, iPhone), but either way it's unsurprising when you consider the smartphone market alone - there are multiple vendors of Android handsets spanning the gamut from really cheap and nasty right up to top quality handsets like the Galaxy S II. Not surprising at all that the android marketshare in the smartphone sector is very high - not only are there more vendors, they are targeting a wider section of the market to start with.
What it *doesn't* mean, (and no 'fancy math' required) is that Apple's sales are dropping off, as many commenters on/. seem to believe is the case - this is evident not only because Apple's install base is also growing, and by simply looking at a top 10 handset chart by sales number - Apple has spots 1, 2 and 3, Samsung has the next two spots, and HTC has two I believe. Apple are making phones as fast as they can sell them, and have just had another bumper quarter.
Both Android and iOS are doing well at the expense of companies like RIM - the fact that one is strong does not mean the other isn't. It's very good for the industry as it drives competition, quality and consumer benefits through improvements in both platforms.
Sort of. Plants generate oxygen as a byproduct of Photosystem II - the catalytic splitting of water to produce protons and electrons that are then used as energy by the plant. They don't directly convert CO2 into O2.
It's one of the big goals of chemistry right now - we don't actually know how PSII works in full (we know quite a lot, but not everything). Being able to replicate it even at half or less efficiency will be a gigantic step forwards since splitting water is a pretty energy intensive process.
I did, yet somehow Apple's choice to not include it on iOS originally is still somehow some evil decision. It always amuses me how strongly pro open source/open standard/free software/. is, right up until it clashes with something Apple does - you think they'd support Apple's choice to push HTML5 over Flash, but no - suddenly Flash became a super important "missing feature".
I was just making a joke about the Xoom shipping with the two supposed "vital, missing features from the iPad" (SD card slot and Flash) not working, with promised future updates to fix them.
The fact that Flash was dead-ended on mobile devices shortly after just cut the list of "reasons to get a Xoom" down even further.
So now it's about "Android devices" and not specifically the Xoom, as the original comment was talking about.
Sure, if you want to try to move the goalposts on the argument to make Apple out to be the bad guy go for it.
I was talking about the hypocrisy of dismissing iOS arguments because of jailbreaking while simultaneously trumping his rooted Xoom. I wasn't talking about generic Android devices. His argument, as it stands, was hypocritical.
But, whatever you need to do to make yourself feel superior.
So the fact that the iPhone holds the top three sales spots in the US (1. iPhone 4S, 2. iPhone 4 (8GB), 3. iPhone 3GS) is "not selling as well"? Curious.
The iPhone marketing is also not claiming to be "worth more dollars" - it is simply marketing how great the iPhone is to use. It makes no comparisons to other platforms.
Does it ship with a working SD card slot? Or working Flash?
Might want to look to those before worrying about rooting it.
The parent also says "I have rooted", with the implication that it did not start out that way. Since he owns the device, I'm going to go with his assessment of how it came out of the box. He also logged in.
Wait, so the fact that they sell a 2560 x 1440 27" IPS panel for the same price as Dell and don't offer a cheaper monitor is somehow proof that they overprice things?
Your neckbeard must be chafing with that much Apple hate, to be able to twist the logic so acutely.
If you don't think the 27" panel is worth it, then... buy something else. The monitor port on your Mac is not proprietary (and even on old school Macs with the brief-but-ill-fated ADC, there was a DVI port alongside).
So, explain to me how "I don't have a choice" in monitors because Apple doesn't sell anything other than the 27" panel. Are Apple the only vendors of LCD screens? I'm confused.
If Apple builds an actual, big-screen TV, it'll probably be $3,000+. Their current 27" monitor is $1,000.
This will not compete with the Google TV box, or TV's with Google TV built-in. It's for a different group of people.
Is the fact that their 27" monitor is $1000 meant to be some sort of "proof" of overpricing?
It's a 2560 x 1440 IPS 27" panel with LED backlight - those are expensive. Dell sells a similar one... and it's also almost $1000 (you can get discounts on it I believe - in fact, I just looked on Dell's site, they've marked it down from $999 with a "$150 instant saving" whatever that is [why not just lower the price?]).
If you think Apple's 27" panel is way overpriced, you clearly haven't looked at the specs.
I guess this is in response to the supposed Apple TV (as in, the physical device with a screen rather than the little streaming box they currently have) that Apple is allegedly working on, and Google sees the chance for some collateral sales when the inevitable marketing tsunami from Apple arrives.
Nothing wrong with that I think, but it's going to live or die on content. As someone has already pointed out, the TV (and TV peripheral - DVR/online box/streaming device) market is hard to get into so you need a compelling reason for people to want to get your particular device.
Out of interest, which Android phone is outselling the iPhone?
What features is it falling behind in, given that it is a single vendor that releases every 18 months instead of a more granular market with multiple vendors releasing at different times.
Seriously, if you dismiss jailbreaking out of hand for the iPad and yet claim in the same breath that your "rooted" Xoom does a heck of a lot more, then you're letting your bias show.
Now, whether you should buy an iPad (or a Xoom) in the first place if several things you need are only accessible through jailbreaking is another matter entirely, but you cannot have your cake and eat it.
Say all you need is one point-of-sale application that works on Windows, and it ran on an old computer that recently broke, and a cheap computer will run it adequately. So of course you'd buy a cheap POS computer to replace your old POS computer.
A copy of Windows 7 can be picked up for £60 (£90 something for 7 Pro)
Oh true that £60 price was for an OEM copy, how odd that Amazon sells OEM copies to consumers. The "legit" retail price is £90 for 7 Home Premium.
And my POS was not shorthand for point of sale - it was piece of shit. Probably a little harsh (I'm sure budget machines are not *that* bad, but most of them are pretty shoddy). Like I say, there will always be a market for "as cheap as possible".
A copy of Windows 7 can be picked up for £60 (£90 something for 7 Pro), so while you can certainly buy computers for a couple of hundred quid, those looking at a Mac aren't going to do so - the numbers are suggesting people are looking beyond a race to the bottom.
There will always be the bargain basement PCs, but the numbers show that Apple is selling more and more OS X machines every year (far too many to be "just rabid fanboys upgrading every year" as has often been claimed) - they're genuinely and consistently growing their install base. The fact that you can run Windows in a VM is certainly no hinderance to that.
Ah, I forgot to cast my mind back more than a decade! My bad.
Also, the "objective" reporting of the SFgate article from 13 years ago begins with this:
Twenty years after Steve Jobs ripped off Xerox PARC's graphical user interface technology, Apple Computer's ever-interim CEO can't believe someone would have the nerve to knock off his iMac.
Apparently giving a company stock options in exchange for their technology is "ripping off" now.
I recently "ripped off" a store when I went in there and stole some groceries. All I did was give them money and just walked out with them.
Still, you got me. A 13 year old story about the original iMac still counts
Compared to the US system which supposedly has that as a benefit, the UK system (which is far from perfect) is still *much* better off - we spend half the GDP per capita on healthcare compared to the US, and we cover everyone.
I'm not saying that it's a utopian system like Star Trek, but universal healthcare brings down the cost for everyone, to the benefit of everyone, while providing excellent care. The only "downside" is that it requires a population to be altruistic - in that the "some people can freeload or live unhealthy lifestyles and who should I pay for them!!" can be difficult for some people to get past. The key, of course, is that by participating in such a system, even ignoring the "freeloaders" you are *better off personally* through reduced costs. Covering the less fortunate is a happy side effect/necessary evil (depending on which side of the spectrum you sit).
Of course, you're still free to pursue private insurance if you don't feel the state is doing enough.
Remember when he was held up as a textbook example of the types of people who would "not survive" under a universal healthcare system?
Until, of course, he pointed out that not only was he born in Britain under such a system, but that he owes his life to it many times over.
The retractions on those stories (those who even bothered to correct them) were amusing.
I still think his most significant contribution to mankind is teaming up with Pink Floyd;) What's a PhD when you can be a rock star? (Brian Cox and Brian May, quiet you!)
erm he didn't team up with pink floyd bud, he teamed up with Roger Waters on the Radio Kaos concept album... close but no cigar:P
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Blame that on John Major, breaking up the rail system and selling all the money-making parts off for pennies on the pound to private industry, then rolling up all the complex and expensive stuff into Railtrack.
An ideal way to privatise profit and nationalise risk.
BR needed modernisation badly, but privatisation was not it the answer there - at least not the way it was done.
So, turn off those features.
Switch off location services, don't use iCloud (a claim that can be put to any cloud service, not just Apple's).
It also doesn't say "continuously monitor" - you're just trying to use weasel words to make it sound worse. What it talks about is occasionally collecting anonymous location data to improve it's location-aware apps.
You might want to point out that that was released *after* the iPhone, but you go kid! On your truth crusade!
You know, that campaign would probably work better if you logged in.
Just sayin'
Or push up the perceived value of their assets for a potential buyer.
You didn't read the article, did you?
No, I know you didn't.
Google is hard, yo.
http://www.bgr.com/2012/01/06/iphone-4s-remains-best-seller-at-top-three-carriers-in-december/
Although the Galaxy S II did outsell the iPhone on T-mobile... because they don't sell the iPhone.
If this is your example of "Liberal media bias" (the D cosponsor being elevated to the position of sponsor while the real R sponsor is not mentioned at all) then... yeah! Such a liberal conspiracy! It's like the USSR propaganda machine! Something must be done!
Not when you consider all iOS devices (iPad, iPod Touch, iPhone), but either way it's unsurprising when you consider the smartphone market alone - there are multiple vendors of Android handsets spanning the gamut from really cheap and nasty right up to top quality handsets like the Galaxy S II. Not surprising at all that the android marketshare in the smartphone sector is very high - not only are there more vendors, they are targeting a wider section of the market to start with.
What it *doesn't* mean, (and no 'fancy math' required) is that Apple's sales are dropping off, as many commenters on /. seem to believe is the case - this is evident not only because Apple's install base is also growing, and by simply looking at a top 10 handset chart by sales number - Apple has spots 1, 2 and 3, Samsung has the next two spots, and HTC has two I believe. Apple are making phones as fast as they can sell them, and have just had another bumper quarter.
Both Android and iOS are doing well at the expense of companies like RIM - the fact that one is strong does not mean the other isn't. It's very good for the industry as it drives competition, quality and consumer benefits through improvements in both platforms.
Oxygen.
Plants respire just like animals do.
If there's no CO2 they might starve to death, but they won't suffocate. ;)
Sort of. Plants generate oxygen as a byproduct of Photosystem II - the catalytic splitting of water to produce protons and electrons that are then used as energy by the plant. They don't directly convert CO2 into O2.
It's one of the big goals of chemistry right now - we don't actually know how PSII works in full (we know quite a lot, but not everything). Being able to replicate it even at half or less efficiency will be a gigantic step forwards since splitting water is a pretty energy intensive process.
I did, yet somehow Apple's choice to not include it on iOS originally is still somehow some evil decision. It always amuses me how strongly pro open source/open standard/free software /. is, right up until it clashes with something Apple does - you think they'd support Apple's choice to push HTML5 over Flash, but no - suddenly Flash became a super important "missing feature".
I was just making a joke about the Xoom shipping with the two supposed "vital, missing features from the iPad" (SD card slot and Flash) not working, with promised future updates to fix them.
The fact that Flash was dead-ended on mobile devices shortly after just cut the list of "reasons to get a Xoom" down even further.
So now it's about "Android devices" and not specifically the Xoom, as the original comment was talking about.
Sure, if you want to try to move the goalposts on the argument to make Apple out to be the bad guy go for it.
I was talking about the hypocrisy of dismissing iOS arguments because of jailbreaking while simultaneously trumping his rooted Xoom. I wasn't talking about generic Android devices. His argument, as it stands, was hypocritical.
But, whatever you need to do to make yourself feel superior.
So the fact that the iPhone holds the top three sales spots in the US (1. iPhone 4S, 2. iPhone 4 (8GB), 3. iPhone 3GS) is "not selling as well"? Curious.
The iPhone marketing is also not claiming to be "worth more dollars" - it is simply marketing how great the iPhone is to use. It makes no comparisons to other platforms.
Does it ship with a working SD card slot? Or working Flash?
Might want to look to those before worrying about rooting it.
The parent also says "I have rooted", with the implication that it did not start out that way. Since he owns the device, I'm going to go with his assessment of how it came out of the box. He also logged in.
Wait, so the fact that they sell a 2560 x 1440 27" IPS panel for the same price as Dell and don't offer a cheaper monitor is somehow proof that they overprice things?
Your neckbeard must be chafing with that much Apple hate, to be able to twist the logic so acutely.
If you don't think the 27" panel is worth it, then... buy something else. The monitor port on your Mac is not proprietary (and even on old school Macs with the brief-but-ill-fated ADC, there was a DVI port alongside).
So, explain to me how "I don't have a choice" in monitors because Apple doesn't sell anything other than the 27" panel. Are Apple the only vendors of LCD screens? I'm confused.
If Apple builds an actual, big-screen TV, it'll probably be $3,000+. Their current 27" monitor is $1,000.
This will not compete with the Google TV box, or TV's with Google TV built-in. It's for a different group of people.
Is the fact that their 27" monitor is $1000 meant to be some sort of "proof" of overpricing?
It's a 2560 x 1440 IPS 27" panel with LED backlight - those are expensive. Dell sells a similar one... and it's also almost $1000 (you can get discounts on it I believe - in fact, I just looked on Dell's site, they've marked it down from $999 with a "$150 instant saving" whatever that is [why not just lower the price?]).
If you think Apple's 27" panel is way overpriced, you clearly haven't looked at the specs.
I guess this is in response to the supposed Apple TV (as in, the physical device with a screen rather than the little streaming box they currently have) that Apple is allegedly working on, and Google sees the chance for some collateral sales when the inevitable marketing tsunami from Apple arrives.
Nothing wrong with that I think, but it's going to live or die on content. As someone has already pointed out, the TV (and TV peripheral - DVR/online box/streaming device) market is hard to get into so you need a compelling reason for people to want to get your particular device.
Out of interest, which Android phone is outselling the iPhone?
What features is it falling behind in, given that it is a single vendor that releases every 18 months instead of a more granular market with multiple vendors releasing at different times.
What's that word begging with H?
Hypothesis... no.
Hypnosis... no
Hypocrite! There it is.
Seriously, if you dismiss jailbreaking out of hand for the iPad and yet claim in the same breath that your "rooted" Xoom does a heck of a lot more, then you're letting your bias show.
Now, whether you should buy an iPad (or a Xoom) in the first place if several things you need are only accessible through jailbreaking is another matter entirely, but you cannot have your cake and eat it.
Sure, if you want to buy a cheap POS computer.
Say all you need is one point-of-sale application that works on Windows, and it ran on an old computer that recently broke, and a cheap computer will run it adequately. So of course you'd buy a cheap POS computer to replace your old POS computer.
A copy of Windows 7 can be picked up for £60 (£90 something for 7 Pro)
Is that OEM pricing? Because OEM Windows is not licensed for use on one's own computer, only for use on a computer that will be sold to an unrelated party.
Oh true that £60 price was for an OEM copy, how odd that Amazon sells OEM copies to consumers. The "legit" retail price is £90 for 7 Home Premium.
And my POS was not shorthand for point of sale - it was piece of shit. Probably a little harsh (I'm sure budget machines are not *that* bad, but most of them are pretty shoddy). Like I say, there will always be a market for "as cheap as possible".
Sure, if you want to buy a cheap POS computer.
A copy of Windows 7 can be picked up for £60 (£90 something for 7 Pro), so while you can certainly buy computers for a couple of hundred quid, those looking at a Mac aren't going to do so - the numbers are suggesting people are looking beyond a race to the bottom.
There will always be the bargain basement PCs, but the numbers show that Apple is selling more and more OS X machines every year (far too many to be "just rabid fanboys upgrading every year" as has often been claimed) - they're genuinely and consistently growing their install base. The fact that you can run Windows in a VM is certainly no hinderance to that.
Ah, I forgot to cast my mind back more than a decade! My bad.
Also, the "objective" reporting of the SFgate article from 13 years ago begins with this:
Twenty years after Steve Jobs ripped off Xerox PARC's graphical user interface technology, Apple Computer's ever-interim CEO can't believe someone would have the nerve to knock off his iMac.
Apparently giving a company stock options in exchange for their technology is "ripping off" now.
I recently "ripped off" a store when I went in there and stole some groceries. All I did was give them money and just walked out with them.
Still, you got me. A 13 year old story about the original iMac still counts
Compared to the US system which supposedly has that as a benefit, the UK system (which is far from perfect) is still *much* better off - we spend half the GDP per capita on healthcare compared to the US, and we cover everyone.
I'm not saying that it's a utopian system like Star Trek, but universal healthcare brings down the cost for everyone, to the benefit of everyone, while providing excellent care. The only "downside" is that it requires a population to be altruistic - in that the "some people can freeload or live unhealthy lifestyles and who should I pay for them!!" can be difficult for some people to get past. The key, of course, is that by participating in such a system, even ignoring the "freeloaders" you are *better off personally* through reduced costs. Covering the less fortunate is a happy side effect/necessary evil (depending on which side of the spectrum you sit).
Of course, you're still free to pursue private insurance if you don't feel the state is doing enough.
Remember when he was held up as a textbook example of the types of people who would "not survive" under a universal healthcare system?
Until, of course, he pointed out that not only was he born in Britain under such a system, but that he owes his life to it many times over.
The retractions on those stories (those who even bothered to correct them) were amusing.
I still think his most significant contribution to mankind is teaming up with Pink Floyd ;) What's a PhD when you can be a rock star? (Brian Cox and Brian May, quiet you!)
erm he didn't team up with pink floyd bud, he teamed up with Roger Waters on the Radio Kaos concept album... close but no cigar :P
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keep_Talking
Ok, so he was sampled, but that's the song I was thinking of.