It's certainly not flawless. It's major flaw is that it lacks a way to finish it, and thus requires external termination, every time.
Yes that's right. A 2 line program that you don't think has a flaw does indeed have one. That's how much of a truism the meme "All software has flaws" is.
If you reduced the line count by 50%, it'd remove that flaw. But it would have no worthwhile functionality.
It's not media hype that the Tea Party are a rag-tag of easily manipulated right wingers, financed by money from the Koch Brothers, and propagandised by Fox News.
Amongst their ranks we have see racists, evangelicals and all sorts of others. A real mixed bag. But being easily manipulated is their main thing in common.
Get out there and talk to people - talk to people who believe different things than you do! You'll find that very few people on either side of the political spectrum are crazy or stupid, but that they just don't care about stuff like "creation vs evolution", it's not important to them, one way or the other, and so you can craft a poll question that will produce whatever results you desire.
Going out and talking to people around you gets anecdotes biased towards your own location and social group. It doesn't get you data.
Whilst there are dangers of polls being biased in various ways, that's a fraction of the way your suggested method is guaranteed to be biased.
You should learn the difference between a trend and noise. Your cherry picked 17 years is noise. Noise is by definition unpredictable. The trend is predictable. And the trend WAS predicted correctly as being upwards.
Climate is weather over a LONG period of time. 30 years being the usual minimum. 17 years is not a climate trend. It's noise.
You of course will never accept this because your beliefs are political, not scientific.
And for every update that cost a little you will have to pay.
There are no updates that cost a little. All App Store updates are free. By giving people who have trial or pirated versions of iWork a registered App Store version, they have ensured that those people will never pay for those applications.
Here's the real reason for pirates getting the update: Apple used to ship iWork in a shrink wrap on optical media. And it had no DRM. Pirate versions are therefore identical to purchased versions. It would be impossible to let legitimate customers have updates and yet keep them from pirates.
Not sure why they aren't denying updates to trial users. But perhaps they just didn't think it was worth checking. By bundling iWork with new machines, they've almost made is a no cost app suite anyway.
No User account is needed. On any pre-Mavericks OS, in the App Store "Updates" tab, Mavericks will be listed as an update. Selecting it to update needs no App Store account. Same with any free OS update.
However, it may have taken a few hours after the release for the update to appear there, If instead you went into App Store listings and found Mavericks that way, and installed it from there, then an account ID would have been requested.
Bottom line: we do not have a good orbit for this rock yet, and as observations get better the chance of an impact will certainly drop.
This makes no sense. If "the chance of an impact will certainly drop", one might as well lower the quoted chance now.
In fact, if the quoted chance is the best we have right now, there's roughly a 99.99998% chance that the quoted probability will reduce over time. And a 0.00002% chance that it will increase. That's not certain, it's just probable.
The Travelling Salesman problem is one of the classic examples of an NP-Complete problem. And the number of potentially mini-bus carrying road segments in a city is non-trivial. So it would take a long time.
But there are plenty of path-finding algorithms that don't do an exhaustive search, and yet do a good job in short time scales. As used by Sat-Nav systems. So it's not a big problem.
A largely circular (actually a question mark) HQ for the BBC TV service, had a significant amount to do with the golden age of British TV. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_TV_Centre
That makes me think a interesting, non-linear HQ can be good for Apple.
And I guess they can keep the name "Infinite Loop"!
Since Linux has virtually zero market share on the desktop, presumably that's not included in your everywhere? Unless you mean that virtually zero is bigger than zero.
In mobile, there's only one company with bigger market share than Apple, and that's Samsung. And not by that much.
But what you always forget is that market share is not the objective of rational companies. It's PROFIT. Sometimes market share is a way to achieve that. But only sometimes. Apple takes the vast majority of the mobile and PC industry profits without needing the biggest market share.
In markets where Linux is used a lot, it's because people can exploit it without paying for it. It's not the best, but it is by far the cheapest. It's great for companies that are in the race to the bottom, and the meagre profits there are down there.
Spot the mistake in your link: "According to IDC, Apple shipped 14.6 million iPads in the second quarter of 2013, a 14% drop from the 17 million tablets it shipped in Q2 2013."
Ah the dangers of linking to secondary sources.
Of course the bigger problem is that they are making a meal of a single quarter. A quarter in which Apple did not release an iPad. When in the year ago quarter they had. Any conclusion of slipping market share is thus bunk. Apple's sales always have peaked in the quarter when they release a new product. And it's served them very well indeed.
Is it better than all the other smoke detectors on the market? Yes certainly. Does that make it worth paying $129 for? Apparently not for you. And not for me either. But for enough people to make it a worthwhile product, yes.
Why express disbelief when some company releases a product that's not personally for you?
The only known defences are to ride somewhere else (which frequently means you can't actually get to the grocery store)
The more forward looking parts of the world are gradually creating networks of cycle paths. The one's that are merely painted lanes on the highway add little to safety. But the ones that take part of the sidewalk are good, and the entirely separate ones are great.
Canal tow-paths and conversions of old abandoned railways are especially nice.
Not really. They'd painted themselves into a corner. Until 2009, their big annual event was the Keynote at the January MacWorld show. And they have to had to have at least one big product to announce each time.
The article says that because of the engineering efforts that were going into iPhone, there wasn't anything else but the Apple TV to announce. What it doesn't mention is that the AppleTV wasn't even an option because it had already been previewed at the previous WWDC.
This is why they don't do the MacWorld keynote anymore. So they can pick their own dates for launches and previews.
Courts have to maintain the principle of innocent until proven guilty. The rest of us have no duty to. When the evidence is overwhelming, as in this case, where he requested an undercover agent do the hit, then paid the hit fee having been shown faked photos, then it would be stupid for us to maintain the pretence that there is reasonable doubt that he's guilty.
Bill will prevent a new CEO that "remakes" the company via massive layoffs to save costs - which has never once worked to "turn around" a software company, but no one ever seems to learn that.
Ahem...
"[Steve Jobs] product cuts resulted in the layoffs of over 3000 employees during Jobsâ(TM)s first year as iCEO. But those cuts, while painful at first, allowed Apple to focus on creating a handful of good products instead of dozens of mediocre ones." http://www.macworld.com/article/2009941/steve-jobss-seven-key-decisions.html
So, Samsung is guilty, and yet you are attacking Apple because they haven't been proved innocent. Despite not the slightest suggestion that Apple have done any such thing.
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How do you quit it, without externally killing it?
It's actually the classic illustration of a fundamental flaw. The infinite loop. The loop with no way out.
So no it's certainly not perfect. It's actually a demo of a bug.
It's certainly not flawless. It's major flaw is that it lacks a way to finish it, and thus requires external termination, every time.
Yes that's right. A 2 line program that you don't think has a flaw does indeed have one. That's how much of a truism the meme "All software has flaws" is.
If you reduced the line count by 50%, it'd remove that flaw. But it would have no worthwhile functionality.
You'd better believe the stuff that ships with my food production systems is FLAWLESS.
I don't believe it for a moment. Send it to me and I'd certainly find flaws in it.
I believe you have a big ego though.
It's not media hype that the Tea Party are a rag-tag of easily manipulated right wingers, financed by money from the Koch Brothers, and propagandised by Fox News.
Amongst their ranks we have see racists, evangelicals and all sorts of others. A real mixed bag. But being easily manipulated is their main thing in common.
Get out there and talk to people - talk to people who believe different things than you do! You'll find that very few people on either side of the political spectrum are crazy or stupid, but that they just don't care about stuff like "creation vs evolution", it's not important to them, one way or the other, and so you can craft a poll question that will produce whatever results you desire.
Going out and talking to people around you gets anecdotes biased towards your own location and social group. It doesn't get you data.
Whilst there are dangers of polls being biased in various ways, that's a fraction of the way your suggested method is guaranteed to be biased.
You should learn the difference between a trend and noise. Your cherry picked 17 years is noise.
Noise is by definition unpredictable. The trend is predictable. And the trend WAS predicted correctly as being upwards.
Climate is weather over a LONG period of time. 30 years being the usual minimum. 17 years is not a climate trend. It's noise.
You of course will never accept this because your beliefs are political, not scientific.
There Ain't No Such Thing As A Zero-Emission Lunch.
No one's saying there is. Simply a lower emission and sustainable one.
Whatever your views on green issues, you can't avoid the fact that fossil fuels are finite. Something has to give in the future decades.
For ease of reference, the eight states are:
California, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island and Vermont
No, they still cost as new installs from the App Store. They are only free with new machines, or as updates from older versions.
And for every update that cost a little you will have to pay.
There are no updates that cost a little. All App Store updates are free. By giving people who have trial or pirated versions of iWork a registered App Store version, they have ensured that those people will never pay for those applications.
Here's the real reason for pirates getting the update: Apple used to ship iWork in a shrink wrap on optical media. And it had no DRM. Pirate versions are therefore identical to purchased versions. It would be impossible to let legitimate customers have updates and yet keep them from pirates.
Not sure why they aren't denying updates to trial users. But perhaps they just didn't think it was worth checking. By bundling iWork with new machines, they've almost made is a no cost app suite anyway.
No User account is needed. On any pre-Mavericks OS, in the App Store "Updates" tab, Mavericks will be listed as an update. Selecting it to update needs no App Store account. Same with any free OS update.
However, it may have taken a few hours after the release for the update to appear there, If instead you went into App Store listings and found Mavericks that way, and installed it from there, then an account ID would have been requested.
Bottom line: we do not have a good orbit for this rock yet, and as observations get better the chance of an impact will certainly drop.
This makes no sense. If "the chance of an impact will certainly drop", one might as well lower the quoted chance now.
In fact, if the quoted chance is the best we have right now, there's roughly a 99.99998% chance that the quoted probability will reduce over time. And a 0.00002% chance that it will increase. That's not certain, it's just probable.
The Travelling Salesman problem is one of the classic examples of an NP-Complete problem. And the number of potentially mini-bus carrying road segments in a city is non-trivial. So it would take a long time.
But there are plenty of path-finding algorithms that don't do an exhaustive search, and yet do a good job in short time scales. As used by Sat-Nav systems. So it's not a big problem.
A largely circular (actually a question mark) HQ for the BBC TV service, had a significant amount to do with the golden age of British TV.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_TV_Centre
That makes me think a interesting, non-linear HQ can be good for Apple.
And I guess they can keep the name "Infinite Loop"!
Since Linux has virtually zero market share on the desktop, presumably that's not included in your everywhere? Unless you mean that virtually zero is bigger than zero.
In mobile, there's only one company with bigger market share than Apple, and that's Samsung. And not by that much.
But what you always forget is that market share is not the objective of rational companies. It's PROFIT. Sometimes market share is a way to achieve that. But only sometimes. Apple takes the vast majority of the mobile and PC industry profits without needing the biggest market share.
In markets where Linux is used a lot, it's because people can exploit it without paying for it. It's not the best, but it is by far the cheapest. It's great for companies that are in the race to the bottom, and the meagre profits there are down there.
Spot the mistake in your link:
"According to IDC, Apple shipped 14.6 million iPads in the second quarter of 2013, a 14% drop from the 17 million tablets it shipped in Q2 2013."
Ah the dangers of linking to secondary sources.
Of course the bigger problem is that they are making a meal of a single quarter. A quarter in which Apple did not release an iPad. When in the year ago quarter they had. Any conclusion of slipping market share is thus bunk. Apple's sales always have peaked in the quarter when they release a new product. And it's served them very well indeed.
Is it better than all the other smoke detectors on the market? Yes certainly. Does that make it worth paying $129 for? Apparently not for you. And not for me either. But for enough people to make it a worthwhile product, yes.
Why express disbelief when some company releases a product that's not personally for you?
It's not an either/or.
Great now load up 200 dollars of groceries on your bike(either one) and tell me how safe you are on your ride home.
Order them on the internet and they get delivered.
Alternatively, use a taxi when you go shopping. It costs far less to take a taxi once a week than to keep your own car.
The only known defences are to ride somewhere else (which frequently means you can't actually get to the grocery store)
The more forward looking parts of the world are gradually creating networks of cycle paths. The one's that are merely painted lanes on the highway add little to safety. But the ones that take part of the sidewalk are good, and the entirely separate ones are great.
Canal tow-paths and conversions of old abandoned railways are especially nice.
Couldn't they just wait till it actually worked?
Not really. They'd painted themselves into a corner. Until 2009, their big annual event was the Keynote at the January MacWorld show. And they have to had to have at least one big product to announce each time.
The article says that because of the engineering efforts that were going into iPhone, there wasn't anything else but the Apple TV to announce. What it doesn't mention is that the AppleTV wasn't even an option because it had already been previewed at the previous WWDC.
This is why they don't do the MacWorld keynote anymore. So they can pick their own dates for launches and previews.
Courts have to maintain the principle of innocent until proven guilty. The rest of us have no duty to. When the evidence is overwhelming, as in this case, where he requested an undercover agent do the hit, then paid the hit fee having been shown faked photos, then it would be stupid for us to maintain the pretence that there is reasonable doubt that he's guilty.
Bill will prevent a new CEO that "remakes" the company via massive layoffs to save costs - which has never once worked to "turn around" a software company, but no one ever seems to learn that.
Ahem...
"[Steve Jobs] product cuts resulted in the layoffs of over 3000 employees during Jobsâ(TM)s first year as iCEO. But those cuts, while painful at first, allowed Apple to focus on creating a handful of good products instead of dozens of mediocre ones."
http://www.macworld.com/article/2009941/steve-jobss-seven-key-decisions.html
So, Samsung is guilty, and yet you are attacking Apple because they haven't been proved innocent. Despite not the slightest suggestion that Apple have done any such thing.
Samsung apologist much?
What is the point of a 64-bit phone?
In the case of AR64, it is significantly faster.