The fact that you have couple of saner states does not cancel out the majority of population.
Also, I'm sorry to break it to you but USA stopped being an attractive option or destination for most smart white folk at least 5 years ago. Sure, you still get all the asian and middle-east and mexicans hoping to get a H1b one day, but it's a far off from it being coveted universally.
As for the SW/HW companies of the world - fair enough, significant proportion of R&D indeed happens in the US, but at least in the IT sector that actually is on a light decline. Historically this oddity can be very easily explained by access to capital required for investments of this scale. And plenty of local customers happy to part with their money indiscriminately.
You forgot to mention that 650's come with 1/4" plug (adaptor to 3.5mm included) and will NOT be driven reasonably by almost anything consumer grade (mines are driven by custom built 22)? Frankly even 280's will probably be a night and day revelation. Just be prepared that if going into headphones to get the most of them you probably need to budget for another cost of headphone for a good headphone amp (interestingly the guideline prices are pretty even).
Still beats spending 5k+ just to hear the bass without distortion on speakers.
I don't think the earthquakes and tsunamis have changed much in the past 40 years. The possible nuclear meltdown safeguards certainly have changed by now, but the modelling of how likely such an earthquake would be to affect the site is almost guaranteed to have been the same exactly up to few days after it happened (takes time to react and update the models).
Uhm... Technically every single nuclear plant ever build has had a lifespan declared. Interestingly enough around 30-40 years seems to be the industry norm.
What happens though is that as soon as the limit approaches operator takes a look at the safety record "has it blown up yet?", declares the plant safe for a decade or so more and asks government for licence extension. Government takes a sniff around, does some quick math ("should I factor in the decommissioning quite yet or can it wait for the next guy to handle?") and says okay.
So, to summarise - absolutely nothing has changed with this statement. Any plant not in danger of imminent collapse will be declared safe and continue operating (and as far as I'm concerned - that's a good thing).
Uhm... no, you don't use "expert users whose professional lives revolved around it" and "FrontPage." in the same sentence, paragraph or report from insane asylum. You just don't do that.
Notable fact - around 2005-2006 there actually were a few CPU designs that were created to run native java bytecode. Then Nokia S60 hotspot implementation showed up that quickly proved that sticking to known platforms and optimising in software is way more cost effective.
As for java on mobile phones - funny fact, but I have had some good results writing j2me applications that actually outperform the native UI by a good margin. Motorola razr (& derivatives) and early symbian phones were particularly criminal when it came to responsiveness of native UI - and yet, despite shitty memory bandwidth and limited heap would happily do 20+ frames per second with relatively complex j2me code.
The biggest crime iPhone has committed against communicating with the people is making the hands free mode so easily accessible. Number of times I've had people to get the fuck off speaker mode so that I could actually talk with them is starting to irritate me.
No, really. Designing a mobile application is a tad more complex than just throwing together a few storyboards. And those apps that do fine just by somebody throwing together a few storyboards are simply not worth having.
Well, apart from the fact that they are sneakily becoming an off site communications platform, have payments transactional volume reminiscent of paypal some 4 years ago (this one I'm guessing based on zynga reported revenues), have released couple of completely flopped 'facebook' phones already (Reminds of Motorola ROKR anyone?) and have free access agreements with quite a few mobile operators around.
In short? A politicians (postulated) wet dream of equality for all over last few decades with corresponding onsets of affirmative action and good sprinkling of PC has pretty much destroyed last two generations. So yeah, we are all equally dumb now.
And then there's the old quote at the end of the cold war (can't quite find who said that now though): "We are going to do to you most cruel thing possible - take away your enemy".
It's all about the fact that casual purchase on iOS takes... 20 seconds? Casual purchase on Android takes... 20 minutes? I've timed them.
And sometimes I'm a casual user. Anybody who has any experience on what mobile apps industry used to look like 10 years ago* (and don't be mistaken - there was one and really powerful one) simply cannot ignore the simplicity Apple ecosystem has brought to table.
*Remember Siemens SL45? That little thing with J2ME and MP3...
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okay, never played with perl (I know, I know) - it takes line of input and swaps two blocks around first found ':' character?
The fact that you have couple of saner states does not cancel out the majority of population.
Also, I'm sorry to break it to you but USA stopped being an attractive option or destination for most smart white folk at least 5 years ago. Sure, you still get all the asian and middle-east and mexicans hoping to get a H1b one day, but it's a far off from it being coveted universally.
As for the SW/HW companies of the world - fair enough, significant proportion of R&D indeed happens in the US, but at least in the IT sector that actually is on a light decline. Historically this oddity can be very easily explained by access to capital required for investments of this scale. And plenty of local customers happy to part with their money indiscriminately.
Well, you are big on gay rights though, yes.
*shitty* audio equipment rebadged and charged double.
So, he listens to NS-10's and Beyers then?
Technically it's an enterprise by Monster (yes, the Cable Guys). They find a celebrity, promise them a share of profits and full steam ahead.
You forgot to mention that 650's come with 1/4" plug (adaptor to 3.5mm included) and will NOT be driven reasonably by almost anything consumer grade (mines are driven by custom built 22)? Frankly even 280's will probably be a night and day revelation. Just be prepared that if going into headphones to get the most of them you probably need to budget for another cost of headphone for a good headphone amp (interestingly the guideline prices are pretty even).
Still beats spending 5k+ just to hear the bass without distortion on speakers.
From TFA: Starting at $299???
Great, my Sennheiser 650s should be thrown into the bin then...
And what was your answer?
It's comments like this that suggest to me that I shouldn't have opted out of mod points.
Actually TEMPEST.
Uhm, wasn't the majority of titanium used for SR-71 imported from the good old USSR?
I don't think the earthquakes and tsunamis have changed much in the past 40 years. The possible nuclear meltdown safeguards certainly have changed by now, but the modelling of how likely such an earthquake would be to affect the site is almost guaranteed to have been the same exactly up to few days after it happened (takes time to react and update the models).
Uhm... Technically every single nuclear plant ever build has had a lifespan declared. Interestingly enough around 30-40 years seems to be the industry norm.
What happens though is that as soon as the limit approaches operator takes a look at the safety record "has it blown up yet?", declares the plant safe for a decade or so more and asks government for licence extension. Government takes a sniff around, does some quick math ("should I factor in the decommissioning quite yet or can it wait for the next guy to handle?") and says okay.
So, to summarise - absolutely nothing has changed with this statement. Any plant not in danger of imminent collapse will be declared safe and continue operating (and as far as I'm concerned - that's a good thing).
Uhm... no, you don't use "expert users whose professional lives revolved around it" and "FrontPage." in the same sentence, paragraph or report from insane asylum. You just don't do that.
Notable fact - around 2005-2006 there actually were a few CPU designs that were created to run native java bytecode. Then Nokia S60 hotspot implementation showed up that quickly proved that sticking to known platforms and optimising in software is way more cost effective.
As for java on mobile phones - funny fact, but I have had some good results writing j2me applications that actually outperform the native UI by a good margin. Motorola razr (& derivatives) and early symbian phones were particularly criminal when it came to responsiveness of native UI - and yet, despite shitty memory bandwidth and limited heap would happily do 20+ frames per second with relatively complex j2me code.
The biggest crime iPhone has committed against communicating with the people is making the hands free mode so easily accessible. Number of times I've had people to get the fuck off speaker mode so that I could actually talk with them is starting to irritate me.
Because App 'Inventor' is a pile of steamy crap?
No, really. Designing a mobile application is a tad more complex than just throwing together a few storyboards. And those apps that do fine just by somebody throwing together a few storyboards are simply not worth having.
The kind of chemicals expected to be on site should be sufficient deterrent for 99% of casual metal thieves.
Well, apart from the fact that they are sneakily becoming an off site communications platform, have payments transactional volume reminiscent of paypal some 4 years ago (this one I'm guessing based on zynga reported revenues), have released couple of completely flopped 'facebook' phones already (Reminds of Motorola ROKR anyone?) and have free access agreements with quite a few mobile operators around.
What is their core business again?
How many C99 compliant (Compliant, not supporting) compilers can you name out there?
And mine usually do!
slvewlrdhngr()
incrcmpnyprfts()
getmeabonus()
so?... Where is it?
In short? A politicians (postulated) wet dream of equality for all over last few decades with corresponding onsets of affirmative action and good sprinkling of PC has pretty much destroyed last two generations. So yeah, we are all equally dumb now.
And then there's the old quote at the end of the cold war (can't quite find who said that now though): "We are going to do to you most cruel thing possible - take away your enemy".
It's all about the fact that casual purchase on iOS takes ... 20 seconds? Casual purchase on Android takes ... 20 minutes? I've timed them.
And sometimes I'm a casual user. Anybody who has any experience on what mobile apps industry used to look like 10 years ago* (and don't be mistaken - there was one and really powerful one) simply cannot ignore the simplicity Apple ecosystem has brought to table.
*Remember Siemens SL45? That little thing with J2ME and MP3...