Maybe I'm an isolated case, but I hardly watch TV (Netflix-aholic) and this did not show up on news.google.com yesterday - or at least I did not see it. Besides that, this is not time-sensitive news.
Agree with your sentiment, but Guinness is part of Diageo, one of the world's largest spirits companies.
Also, luxury chocolate and wine/champagne are examples of Veblen goods. This probably won't happen in any significant portion of the smart phone market.
Krispy Kreme is barely profitable.
Apple doesn't need to make shitty free phones, but they also can't let their market share slip to Blackberry levels, lest they lose developers. Right now developers still target Apple first, and they probably need to keep it that way. If the ad-supported model ever becomes wildly profitable, then Apple should probably worry - but for now, people who penny-pinch on their phone probably aren't going to buy many apps.
Right - that is my expectation... that any creature with basic mammal anatomy would adapt in a similar way to a similar stimulus. So, in your example, raccoons are in the same order as dogs, bears, seals, and weasels... and yet they have hands similar to primates. Meanwhile, koalas are a marsupial and yet they have a different adaptation for grasping. Then again, bats are closer relatives to us than either of them!
Let me know when I can get streamed data, files, images and video over a voice call.
And what do you do with all of this data on the phone? Crunch it? Files? What kind of files? Why would I want these files on my phone?
You need to pay more attention to context. I specified that I use an Android phone because you quoted figures from an app store that doesn't have Android applications.
Which is why I posted a link to Android stats that are EVEN WORSE.
I have the fact that I use my phone for work
Bully for you. Do you need it for work? If not, it's a toy. If so, you are one of the rare ones.
You're the one who asserted that an insignificantly small number of people use their phones for work without anything to back it up
Except, you know, two sets of data. I didn't send them to you on a video call on your phone, so maybe that's the problem. But mostly, even though I work in a professional setting with engineers, executives, and salespeople, I rarely see anyone using their phone to do something they weren't already doing when flip phones were the rage. 10 years ago all of the executives had v360s on their hip and they did the exact same job. When someone needed them, they called or texted. Now they fuck around in meetings on their smart phone instead of their laptop, but they are still mostly toys.
I don't forget it. Blackberry became a hit because executives love to get email on the go. Sure, some people genuinely need a phone to get email on the go. Those people probably aren't content with an on-screen keyboard. Those people probably number approximately what Blackberry keyboard's marketshare is (somewhere south of 3%).
Even then, most of those people really don't need email on their phone - they just like to obsess. We used to call them "Crackberries" for a reason.
Chat, email and video conferencing are quite comfortable on my phone.
Chat and video conferencing are real-time interaction that can be done with a phone call. Email is only time sensitive if you choose to make it so by letting people know that you check it from your pocket.
Basically you made a generalised statement that you fabricated and you still haven't proven anything.
If one of my life's goals were to prove to you, an anonymous coward with nothing to back up his opinion, that smart phones are mostly used for entertainment, I'd be a sad man indeed.
I can't imagine it is enjoyable to do work on your phone, but whatever floats your boat.
Citation needed.
OK, wise guy. On the Apple App store: Most Popular Categories 1 - Games (153749 active) 2 - Education (95235 active) 3 - Entertainment (74938 active) 4 - Lifestyle (70709 active) 5 - Business (60931 active)
Out of just the top 5 categories, business only accounts for around 13% of the apps, and that includes things like word processors and contact managers that are nice to have on the phone, but not really critical.
I don't doubt that lots of people (myself included) check their work email from their phone. Other than letting me be slightly more obsessive, that is still not really a business case for the phone. Pre-smartphone, I got along just fine with a flip phone and texts. Before that, call forwarding. Like everyone else, I hammer on it in meetings - but again, I can't really make a business case for it. It's a toy.
Who cares what it "does"? It's still most likely a toy. The number of people who actually need to get work done on their phone is insignificantly small, and I pity them because it must be pretty unpleasant. It's great for checking Facebook on the shitter and obsessively checking email - I'm as guilty as anyone else of that - but let's not pretend it is anything but fun.
they all start with some common underlying mamallian hearing genes and then they tweak them to develop echolocation.
I guess that's less surprising a result to me than when things like koala thumbs happen. The front paws are kind of like our hands, except that the opposable split happened at the index finger so that they have two "thumbs". In the rear, the split happened at the same place, but then the two "thumbs" fused together, creating a new single "thumb" that is completely different from ours. If they had developed thumbs in the same way that we did, it would have surprised me less.
I don't wear much jewelry (just my wedding ring), but I can appreciate some bling. You don't really need a $600 toy computer in your pocket, either, but if it makes you happy then why not?
Not to pooh-pooh this study, but dolphins and bats aren't as far apart as say, bats and moths. If a fish or reptile converged with a mammal that would be more "unbelievable". I think we're in "Oh, cool," territory more than "WHAT????"
I think lengthening the school day, providing meals, and having teachers move up along with the kids through the grades would help. We should probably think about changing the way schools are funded to make it more equitable - my district spends over $18,000 per student, while nearby Philadelphia only spends around $11,000... that's a big gap, considering the Philly kids probably need more instruction time. It doesn't excuse a 10% passing rate, and until recently the state had been pumping tons of money into that district... but still, more funding at the state level and less at the local level is probably warranted. If the Feds get involved at all, I'd hope it's only in the form of block grants to poor states.
I generally agree, though I think you are being a bit naive in terms of the student population you are working with. I think your approach works fine with generally well-mannered kids, but there are schools with 10% pass rates on their standardized exams as well. I think that there are probably very different approaches needed for those different student populations. At one school, a 50% pass rate would be a huge victory and at the other grounds for burning the administration at the stake.
That's fine and all, but the K was still out-radiating the Cs 40:1. That just means that there is a TON more potassium in the fish. Which is good, because cesium is toxic, even in non-radioactive form. Since you are swallowing the fish, I'm not sure that it matters whether you get beta or gamma radiation - especially at the low doses we are talking about here.
It isn't useless. A careful person could remove the keys every time they finish with the application. The application is simply a way to guarantee that your communication will not be intercepted, limiting what you need to worry about to the endpoints.
Wouldn't an American general and his friends speak English? This looks like fake to me. The language seems unnatural for a native speaker. Some examples:
"Hope to see you soon again." "Thanks God, they are alive. I hope they got a kind of present or some cash." "I saw it either and got afraid very much." "I see their faces when in sleep. What did Tony say you about this?"
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Maybe I'm an isolated case, but I hardly watch TV (Netflix-aholic) and this did not show up on news.google.com yesterday - or at least I did not see it. Besides that, this is not time-sensitive news.
Agree with your sentiment, but Guinness is part of Diageo, one of the world's largest spirits companies.
Also, luxury chocolate and wine/champagne are examples of Veblen goods. This probably won't happen in any significant portion of the smart phone market.
Krispy Kreme is barely profitable.
Apple doesn't need to make shitty free phones, but they also can't let their market share slip to Blackberry levels, lest they lose developers. Right now developers still target Apple first, and they probably need to keep it that way. If the ad-supported model ever becomes wildly profitable, then Apple should probably worry - but for now, people who penny-pinch on their phone probably aren't going to buy many apps.
Sigh. Found it.
And, I mean, let's get our higher profile victims up there first. Where's asteroid Anne Frank?
So now they only attract, what, 300,000 people?
Thanks, that's a really cool link. Now if they do a genetic analysis and find the DNA also converging, wouldn't that be something?
Crap I meant to say that koalas and possums are marsupials.
Right - that is my expectation... that any creature with basic mammal anatomy would adapt in a similar way to a similar stimulus. So, in your example, raccoons are in the same order as dogs, bears, seals, and weasels... and yet they have hands similar to primates. Meanwhile, koalas are a marsupial and yet they have a different adaptation for grasping. Then again, bats are closer relatives to us than either of them!
Let me know when I can get streamed data, files, images and video over a voice call.
And what do you do with all of this data on the phone? Crunch it? Files? What kind of files? Why would I want these files on my phone?
You need to pay more attention to context. I specified that I use an Android phone because you quoted figures from an app store that doesn't have Android applications.
Which is why I posted a link to Android stats that are EVEN WORSE.
I have the fact that I use my phone for work
Bully for you. Do you need it for work? If not, it's a toy. If so, you are one of the rare ones.
You're the one who asserted that an insignificantly small number of people use their phones for work without anything to back it up
Except, you know, two sets of data. I didn't send them to you on a video call on your phone, so maybe that's the problem. But mostly, even though I work in a professional setting with engineers, executives, and salespeople, I rarely see anyone using their phone to do something they weren't already doing when flip phones were the rage. 10 years ago all of the executives had v360s on their hip and they did the exact same job. When someone needed them, they called or texted. Now they fuck around in meetings on their smart phone instead of their laptop, but they are still mostly toys.
I don't forget it. Blackberry became a hit because executives love to get email on the go. Sure, some people genuinely need a phone to get email on the go. Those people probably aren't content with an on-screen keyboard. Those people probably number approximately what Blackberry keyboard's marketshare is (somewhere south of 3%).
Even then, most of those people really don't need email on their phone - they just like to obsess. We used to call them "Crackberries" for a reason.
Chat, email and video conferencing are quite comfortable on my phone.
Chat and video conferencing are real-time interaction that can be done with a phone call. Email is only time sensitive if you choose to make it so by letting people know that you check it from your pocket.
Firstly, I use an Android smartphone.
And you believe that it is less of a toy because? Android is in worse shape, with business apps being the 10th most popular category.
Basically you made a generalised statement that you fabricated and you still haven't proven anything.
If one of my life's goals were to prove to you, an anonymous coward with nothing to back up his opinion, that smart phones are mostly used for entertainment, I'd be a sad man indeed.
I can't imagine it is enjoyable to do work on your phone, but whatever floats your boat.
Citation needed.
OK, wise guy. On the Apple App store:
Most Popular Categories
1 - Games (153749 active)
2 - Education (95235 active)
3 - Entertainment (74938 active)
4 - Lifestyle (70709 active)
5 - Business (60931 active)
Out of just the top 5 categories, business only accounts for around 13% of the apps, and that includes things like word processors and contact managers that are nice to have on the phone, but not really critical.
I don't doubt that lots of people (myself included) check their work email from their phone. Other than letting me be slightly more obsessive, that is still not really a business case for the phone. Pre-smartphone, I got along just fine with a flip phone and texts. Before that, call forwarding. Like everyone else, I hammer on it in meetings - but again, I can't really make a business case for it. It's a toy.
Yes, if dolphins and sharks show convergent DNA, that would be really cool.
Who cares what it "does"? It's still most likely a toy. The number of people who actually need to get work done on their phone is insignificantly small, and I pity them because it must be pretty unpleasant. It's great for checking Facebook on the shitter and obsessively checking email - I'm as guilty as anyone else of that - but let's not pretend it is anything but fun.
they all start with some common underlying mamallian hearing genes and then they tweak them to develop echolocation.
I guess that's less surprising a result to me than when things like koala thumbs happen. The front paws are kind of like our hands, except that the opposable split happened at the index finger so that they have two "thumbs". In the rear, the split happened at the same place, but then the two "thumbs" fused together, creating a new single "thumb" that is completely different from ours. If they had developed thumbs in the same way that we did, it would have surprised me less.
I don't wear much jewelry (just my wedding ring), but I can appreciate some bling. You don't really need a $600 toy computer in your pocket, either, but if it makes you happy then why not?
Not to pooh-pooh this study, but dolphins and bats aren't as far apart as say, bats and moths. If a fish or reptile converged with a mammal that would be more "unbelievable". I think we're in "Oh, cool," territory more than "WHAT????"
I think lengthening the school day, providing meals, and having teachers move up along with the kids through the grades would help. We should probably think about changing the way schools are funded to make it more equitable - my district spends over $18,000 per student, while nearby Philadelphia only spends around $11,000... that's a big gap, considering the Philly kids probably need more instruction time. It doesn't excuse a 10% passing rate, and until recently the state had been pumping tons of money into that district... but still, more funding at the state level and less at the local level is probably warranted. If the Feds get involved at all, I'd hope it's only in the form of block grants to poor states.
I generally agree, though I think you are being a bit naive in terms of the student population you are working with. I think your approach works fine with generally well-mannered kids, but there are schools with 10% pass rates on their standardized exams as well. I think that there are probably very different approaches needed for those different student populations. At one school, a 50% pass rate would be a huge victory and at the other grounds for burning the administration at the stake.
That's fine and all, but the K was still out-radiating the Cs 40:1. That just means that there is a TON more potassium in the fish. Which is good, because cesium is toxic, even in non-radioactive form. Since you are swallowing the fish, I'm not sure that it matters whether you get beta or gamma radiation - especially at the low doses we are talking about here.
It isn't useless. A careful person could remove the keys every time they finish with the application. The application is simply a way to guarantee that your communication will not be intercepted, limiting what you need to worry about to the endpoints.
it's hovering menacingly right over you.
That's the FSM.
Yeah, try that defense :)
As a side note, I certainly hope you aren't looking for logic in copyright law!
Alternately, you could argue that the track listing on a CD is simply a list of facts - like a recipe or ingredients list.
Wouldn't an American general and his friends speak English? This looks like fake to me. The language seems unnatural for a native speaker. Some examples:
"Hope to see you soon again."
"Thanks God, they are alive. I hope they got a kind of present or some cash."
"I saw it either and got afraid very much."
"I see their faces when in sleep. What did Tony say you about this?"