And the lack of 3G and a pricy wireless plan is a problem because...?
Personally not paying for a built-in phone with yet another wireless plan when WiFi and tethering options abound strikes me as a great idea to keep the price down. If 3G was a necessity then the iPod Touch never got the memo. Your typical 3G iPad w/AT&T service is a $1000 tablet very quickly. Compare that to $199, or even $199 + $79, and Amazon fills a niche totally ignored by Apple.
The main problem with Groupon is the "deals" suck so badly for businesses that once they've burned through all good will in a region the only way to keep generating revenue is to expand into another.
I would actually be embarrassed to use a GroupOn coupon, knowing how much it was shafting the business in the process. They get what -- 25% -- of their normal price, while GroupOn keeps another 25% for themselves in the half-off price? I truly feel sorry for the businesses who have been convinced to go this route.
The barriers to entry in these fields are so low I can't figure these absurd valuations of social media - people on the internet are not just fickle, they're extreme fickle - since there's nothing really to hold them anywhere, not much of a stake.
You don't understand the true value of the Information that can be harvested out of a site like Facebook who requires (to the extent possible) the use of your proper IRL information. A big pile of that is worth a lot!
This is all virtual land in cyberspace. Value it as you dare. Both the MySpace debacle and the Dot Com Boom/Bust are still near enough in most people's memories (and investment portfolios) to sing the song, "Won't be fooled again."
Global warming is causing an increase in wild yeast's ability to ferment the parrot's fruit diet.
Will you Climate Change people just put a sock in it? I am so sick and tired of Every Damn Thing today being a product of a very discredited Global Warming Theory.
I've seen it myself in the rainforests of coastal Australia and it's not some wild theory there - it just happens that way and everybody knows it. And that was years ago. Why it is being presented here as some great mystery remaining to be solved is the mystery itself.
Of course, if the government wants to give a $1 million grant and a lot of good grain alcohol to study it first-hand, sign me up.
*) Protesters themselves...oy. Whatever it is they are protesting, they are an embarrassment to their cause. I've chatted to a few, and had a few come over for drinks, and uh...Well, it's exactly what you'd expect, well-meaning but clueless younger people who are looking for attention and "feeling of doing something".
*) There is serious "victim mentality" among protesters - such as "media is suppressing coverage" (no, its just not important enough - the protest is much smaller than an average union rally).
This sound a lot more reasoned and objective than the original poster's quoted comments. +2 INFORMATIVE.
Sunday marked a change of events as high-ranking NYPD officers exhibited brutal, unprovoked aggression on the peaceful group, reportedly arresting at least 80 people.
Any time I read crap like that (way too many inflammatory adjectives) I know that I'm not getting the straight scoop from this "unbiased" source.
The real reason to tie into Facebook is that FB is the leader in DEMANDING that you put in your REAL information. They delete your accounts if they catch you doing otherwise. Only Paypal is worse. FB gets away with it - for now - in ways Spotify could never manage on their own. This tie-in makes identifying you for every possible making money opportunity is as high is it is possible to be on the Internet.
Have you ever noticed that when a business says that "We're doing this in order to make it easier for our customers," that it never is that at all?
Its about time we hear about great advancement in fuel efficiency for planes...now maybe we can start seeing cheaper fares
I would expect that the best we can hope for is that fares won't rise as rapidly as they would have otherwise.
Now if we can get the EPA to butt out of CO2 regulation, which was never any of their business in the first place, we might still be able to fly in 5 years.
Now of the incredibly pro-union biased NLRB will just butt out of Boeing's legitimate business, Boeing might be able to get the second, third, fourth... planes out the door as well.
I was wondering exactly about this today given what I'd been observing these last few days. Facebook seems to have no limits to their outrageous behavior, opt-in only changes, and arrogant privacy busting tactics. It's like it's being run by some over-privileged college kid who moved out of home and now thinks that he can do anything he wants...Oh wait...
Of course, because Zuckerberg is a huge liberal and Democratic party supporter this administration isn't going to do a d@mn thing about it.
While good it is not all there is to it. SSDs benefit from the same process shrinking as CPUs and GPUs do.
For fun I created a this table which predicts what processes will be available in the future based on numbers from Wikipedia. They are all in nanometer, and should not be trusted for anything beyond 2011:)
And just how well does this extra level of complication recover from every kind of unexpected system shut down/BSOD/you name it in the consumer PC world?
I'm not in favor of new regulations, but I'd support this one. Quite simple: BIG TEXT overrules small text. If you say UNLIMITED DATA with or without an asterisk, even if the small text says 2GB or 5GB or any GB cap, it doesn't apply. Simple as that.
Is this retroactive to all existing customers? That wasn't clear. If so, that sux like illegal bait and switch scams sux.
Also, if there is no limit in downloading data to the phone itself, and the phone can link to other devices by WiFi, Bluetooth, and/or USB cable, what if you have one app that downloads data to your phone memory card, and a second app running asynchronously reads that memory card and moves data out to other local devices. And the process can be reversed to send data from other devices through this NVRAM buffer out to the Internet. Functionally equivalent to tethering, but not tethering as defined by the phone company who says that you can download unlimited data to your phone itself? Yes it shows how ridiculous these artificial restrictions are, but I'll bet (IANAL) that it would hold up in court because it only downloads data to the phone. What you do with that data afterwards is completely up to you.
I am truly amazed at just how much Big Brother that the (formerly, and once fiercely) independent Australians are willing to put up with. Virtually no private ownership of guns any more. Non-opt out Internet filtering. Now P2P traffic monitoring. How long before they regulate out of existence the Aussie equivalent of the pit bull - the legendary Australian Cattle Dog?
Call it what it is: either Larrabee 2 or Son of Larrabee. Trying to hide it behind a new name doesn't change the underlying idea behind it, or it's failures so far. And telling us that Larrabee 3.0 (Grandson of Larrabee) will be the one that really works smacks of Microsoft software.
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And the lack of 3G and a pricy wireless plan is a problem because...?
Personally not paying for a built-in phone with yet another wireless plan when WiFi and tethering options abound strikes me as a great idea to keep the price down. If 3G was a necessity then the iPod Touch never got the memo. Your typical 3G iPad w/AT&T service is a $1000 tablet very quickly. Compare that to $199, or even $199 + $79, and Amazon fills a niche totally ignored by Apple.
The main problem with Groupon is the "deals" suck so badly for businesses that once they've burned through all good will in a region the only way to keep generating revenue is to expand into another.
I would actually be embarrassed to use a GroupOn coupon, knowing how much it was shafting the business in the process. They get what -- 25% -- of their normal price, while GroupOn keeps another 25% for themselves in the half-off price? I truly feel sorry for the businesses who have been convinced to go this route.
The barriers to entry in these fields are so low I can't figure these absurd valuations of social media - people on the internet are not just fickle, they're extreme fickle - since there's nothing really to hold them anywhere, not much of a stake.
You don't understand the true value of the Information that can be harvested out of a site like Facebook who requires (to the extent possible) the use of your proper IRL information. A big pile of that is worth a lot!
At least maybe Mark Zuckerberg won't be such an arrogant asshat a year from now.
This is all virtual land in cyberspace. Value it as you dare. Both the MySpace debacle and the Dot Com Boom/Bust are still near enough in most people's memories (and investment portfolios) to sing the song, "Won't be fooled again."
Global warming is causing an increase in wild yeast's ability to ferment the parrot's fruit diet.
Will you Climate Change people just put a sock in it? I am so sick and tired of Every Damn Thing today being a product of a very discredited Global Warming Theory.
I've seen it myself in the rainforests of coastal Australia and it's not some wild theory there - it just happens that way and everybody knows it. And that was years ago. Why it is being presented here as some great mystery remaining to be solved is the mystery itself.
Of course, if the government wants to give a $1 million grant and a lot of good grain alcohol to study it first-hand, sign me up.
Here's the gist:
*) Protesters themselves...oy. Whatever it is they are protesting, they are an embarrassment to their cause. I've chatted to a few, and had a few come over for drinks, and uh...Well, it's exactly what you'd expect, well-meaning but clueless younger people who are looking for attention and "feeling of doing something".
*) There is serious "victim mentality" among protesters - such as "media is suppressing coverage" (no, its just not important enough - the protest is much smaller than an average union rally).
This sound a lot more reasoned and objective than the original poster's quoted comments. +2 INFORMATIVE.
Any time I read crap like that (way too many inflammatory adjectives) I know that I'm not getting the straight scoop from this "unbiased" source.
The real reason to tie into Facebook is that FB is the leader in DEMANDING that you put in your REAL information. They delete your accounts if they catch you doing otherwise. Only Paypal is worse. FB gets away with it - for now - in ways Spotify could never manage on their own. This tie-in makes identifying you for every possible making money opportunity is as high is it is possible to be on the Internet.
Have you ever noticed that when a business says that "We're doing this in order to make it easier for our customers," that it never is that at all?
Its about time we hear about great advancement in fuel efficiency for planes...now maybe we can start seeing cheaper fares
I would expect that the best we can hope for is that fares won't rise as rapidly as they would have otherwise.
Now if we can get the EPA to butt out of CO2 regulation, which was never any of their business in the first place, we might still be able to fly in 5 years.
Now of the incredibly pro-union biased NLRB will just butt out of Boeing's legitimate business, Boeing might be able to get the second, third, fourth... planes out the door as well.
Could he find the business model and/or ethics of Groupon questionable?
Foundation anyone?
How about Paycheck?.
I was wondering exactly about this today given what I'd been observing these last few days. Facebook seems to have no limits to their outrageous behavior, opt-in only changes, and arrogant privacy busting tactics. It's like it's being run by some over-privileged college kid who moved out of home and now thinks that he can do anything he wants...Oh wait...
Of course, because Zuckerberg is a huge liberal and Democratic party supporter this administration isn't going to do a d@mn thing about it.
This is just too funny for words to adequately express. Cluestick to Apple: Live by the patent lawsuit, die by the patent lawsuit.
For everyone else, I'd rather see you compete by your innovation and pricing, rather than by your lawyers.
While good it is not all there is to it. SSDs benefit from the same process shrinking as CPUs and GPUs do.
For fun I created a this table which predicts what processes will be available in the future based on numbers from Wikipedia. They are all in nanometer, and should not be trusted for anything beyond 2011 :)
1971: 9095.3066, 1972: 7865.412, 1973: 6801.8275, 1974: 5882.064, 1975: 5086.6737, 1976: 4398.8385, 1977: 3804.0144, 1978: 3289.6242, 1979: 2844.7913, 1980: 2460.1101, 1981: 2127.4467, 1982: 1839.767, 1983: 1590.9882, 1984: 1375.85, 1985: 1189.8034, 1986: 1028.9147, 1987: 889.7817, 1988: 769.4628, 1989: 665.4137, 1990: 575.4345, 1991: 497.6225, 1992: 430.3325, 1993: 372.1417, 1994: 321.8196, 1995: 278.3022, 1996: 240.6693, 1997: 208.1253, 1998: 179.982, 1999: 155.6443, 2000: 134.5976, 2001: 116.3969, 2002: 100.6574, 2003: 87.0462, 2004: 75.2755, 2005: 65.0965, 2006: 56.294, 2007: 48.6817, 2008: 42.0989, 2009: 36.4061, 2010: 31.4832, 2011: 27.2259, 2012: 23.5444, 2013: 20.3606, 2014: 17.6074, 2015: 15.2265, 2016: 13.1675, 2017: 11.387, 2018: 9.8472, 2019: 8.5156, 2020: 7.3641, 2021: 6.3683, 2022: 5.5072, 2023: 4.7625, 2024: 4.1185, 2025: 3.5616, 2026: 3.08, 2027: 2.6635, 2028: 2.3033, 2029: 1.9919, 2030: 1.7225, 2031: 1.4896, 2032: 1.2882, 2033: 1.114, 2034: 0.9633, 2035: 0.8331, 2036: 0.7204, 2037: 0.623, 2038: 0.5388, 2039: 0.4659, 2040: 0.4029, 2041: 0.3484, 2042: 0.3013, 2043: 0.2606, 2044: 0.2253, 2045: 0.1949, 2046: 0.1685, 2047: 0.1457, 2048: 0.126, 2049: 0.109, 2050: 0.0942, 2051: 0.0815, 2052: 0.0705, 2053: 0.0609, 2054: 0.0527, 2055: 0.0456, 2056: 0.0394, 2057: 0.0341
The point is that these numbers will help SSDs, too.
And you reach the atomic level when...?
And just how well does this extra level of complication recover from every kind of unexpected system shut down/BSOD/you name it in the consumer PC world?
Just the list of valid e-mail addresses and credit card info is next to priceless in the wrong hands...
One is left to wonder how long until some large enough criminal organization buys up this information at the bankruptcy auction.
I'm not in favor of new regulations, but I'd support this one. Quite simple: BIG TEXT overrules small text. If you say UNLIMITED DATA with or without an asterisk, even if the small text says 2GB or 5GB or any GB cap, it doesn't apply. Simple as that.
Is this retroactive to all existing customers? That wasn't clear. If so, that sux like illegal bait and switch scams sux.
Also, if there is no limit in downloading data to the phone itself, and the phone can link to other devices by WiFi, Bluetooth, and/or USB cable, what if you have one app that downloads data to your phone memory card, and a second app running asynchronously reads that memory card and moves data out to other local devices. And the process can be reversed to send data from other devices through this NVRAM buffer out to the Internet. Functionally equivalent to tethering, but not tethering as defined by the phone company who says that you can download unlimited data to your phone itself? Yes it shows how ridiculous these artificial restrictions are, but I'll bet (IANAL) that it would hold up in court because it only downloads data to the phone. What you do with that data afterwards is completely up to you.
I am truly amazed at just how much Big Brother that the (formerly, and once fiercely) independent Australians are willing to put up with. Virtually no private ownership of guns any more. Non-opt out Internet filtering. Now P2P traffic monitoring. How long before they regulate out of existence the Aussie equivalent of the pit bull - the legendary Australian Cattle Dog?
Does OpenDNS need to obey government seizure demands, or can they list whomever they want directed to whatever IP address they feel is correct?
Call it what it is: either Larrabee 2 or Son of Larrabee. Trying to hide it behind a new name doesn't change the underlying idea behind it, or it's failures so far. And telling us that Larrabee 3.0 (Grandson of Larrabee) will be the one that really works smacks of Microsoft software.
Does this mean that small animals one-tenth my size are easy to catch because they run so slowly too?