I'm the owner of a computer repair company and head IT manager at another part time.
Part time self employed is not CEO of a company, let alone a successful one.
But I suspect even "self employed" is overreaching. I suspect I'd be guessing right if I said that you occasionally charge people for sorting out their tech problems. And the taxman doesn't get to hear about it because it's in cash. And lets face it, it's chump change - there's no shortage of moonlighting computer fixers.
But if it's more than that, I apologise. It's still not running a real company. Or you wouldn't be doing something else part time.
You're not a scientist of any sort, as your level of maths is way too low to even get admittance to an undergraduate degree programme in a scientific field.
We both know that. We only have your posturing that's preventing you climbing down.
I've already pointed out the error of your Uncle Bob countdown belief.
Ah, but you see, asteroids, like coins, can have memories when selection is involved. There are a few asteroids that sooner or later are going to hit us. They follow certain rules, and it isn't a question of if, but simply of when. Their "memory" is basically the laws of physics.
If the maths of probability as beyond you, then clearly chaos is too. As is the fact that "pre-determination" is philosophy, not science.
Whether you, me or uncle Bob KNOWS the time is irrelevant. As long as there is a time it will hit, each day will bring us inexorably closer to that time, and each day will have a higher likelihood of being "the" day.
You obviously believe this. And you're wrong. There is no SINGULAR event with a count down. There may never be a hit again. Or there may be a million hits tomorrow. Whether or not you believe it's predetermined and unknown, or purely random makes no difference. There is no countdown to a singular event. Simply a probability that an event may happen in a day.
You could learn all about probability and statistics on the Khan Academy website. That would be a better use of your time than setting common myths up for me to knock down.
You are essentially claiming that asteroid hits are random events in the same way that coin tosses are.
They are. You're probably confused because it occurs to you that the asteroids and planets are in particular points in space, with particular velocities, and follow the rules of physics.
What you're missing is that this also applies to the coins.
The date for the impact is well known and pre determined. It is just not known by us.
Then who is it "well known" by? The aliens that have been abducting you?
I don't think they should have used the taser. But I note two things.
1) We don't know what was happening when the taser was first used, as the video doesn't start early enough.
2) At the point she was on the floor she was not intended to be free to leave, as she was being arrested. She was either struggling, or resisting the second hand being put into the cuffs or both - resisting arrest.
Refusing to sell a person thousands of dollars of [any product] for no good reason is not reasonable
Not only is it reasonable, more importantly it's the law. A store does not have a duty to sell you anything. And they do have the right to ask you to leave the store.
Your blind hatred of Apple is overcoming your rationality.
You're missing the point. The police tastered this person because she did something perfectly legal, which is to say, buy iPhones.
Wrong. She was tazered because she resisted arrest. She was arrested because she refused to leave the mall. She was asked to leave the mall because she refused to leave the store. She was asked to leave the store because she was creating a ruckus because they wouldn't sell her more than 2 iPhones.
The tech news here is that demand for the iPhone 5 still vastly outstrips supply 3 months after launch. Apple can't make them fast enough to satisfy demand.
I don't believe for one second it was lack of understanding. There was on policeman dealing with her for 15 minutes before the second arrived and the resisting arrest/tazering incident happened.
You don't have to understand the language to know when a policeman guides you to the door, you have to leave. To resist for 15 minutes, she was being more than stubborn.
I still don't think she should have been tazered though.
No, but the police can zap you with electricity for peacefully spending your own money.
Don't argue like a child.
1) She wanted to purchase multiple iPhones. There is a limit of two iPhones per person. When the staff recognised that she'd already purchased at least 2, they refused to serve her.
2) She then behaved inappropriately inside the store, including but not limited to videoing other customers purtchasing iPhones. She was asked to leave as is the right of a store.
3) She refused to leave. At which point the police were called.
4) She refused to co-operate with the police officer asking her to leave for a further 15 minutes. At some point the request to leave the store had escalated to a request to leave the mall as a result of the non-cooperation.
5) A second police officer arrived, and still not cooperating, she was arrested. She actively resisted arrest, and was tazered as a result to get her to comply.
I don't think 2 male policemen should be tazering an unarmed middle aged woman that is resisting arrest. However on every other point it was the woman behaving unreasonably and forcing the escalation.
But she certainly wasn't tazered for spending her own money.
And that's one of the reasons Apple didn't accept Googles terms in the negotiation to renew the build-in Google Maps app. Why the hell would Apple want such a dialog on a built in app.
On Sunday you receive the following information: Uncle Bob will be dropping by this week.
Unlike the coin or the asteroids or the lottery, Uncle Bob DOES have a memory, and he has specified a window in which he will appear. (dependent events vs independent events, and time constrained rather than probabilistic.)
That you don't realise this isn't even the same class of problem shows you have even less understanding of prob and stats than was clear before.
You use statistics the same way Creationists use it, not understanding the simple process of "selection".
Selection? Related to the problem of asteroid hit probability? You *are* a moron.
The game show/door problem is the classic Monty Hall problem. It DOES involve selection. Unlike asteroid hits. Again showing you don't understand the class of problem.
If there is an event that is inevitable within a certain time frame, each day it doesn't happen chances are it will increase the following day.
Repeating again, because you are a moron, asteroid strikes are not that kind of problem. There is no particular time frame in which a strike is inevitable. (And furthermore, unlike the problems you brought up, there is no limit to the number of strikes in any particular time frame.) Asteroid strikes are a pure probability per unit time problem.
Again, this reflects on your pro-gun arguments, in that for example you are unable to differentiate between stiffness of gun control legislation stats, and guns per person stats.
You try to pretend you are more intelligent than you are by googling and copy/pasting. It doesn't work. You have to actually understand the stuff Google finds.
Have you never heard the maxim it's better for people to think you;re stupid, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt? You're parading your ignorance like you were walking around with your pants round your ankles.
Apart from the search difference, that side by side short makes it clear how much more ugly Google Maps are than Apple Maps. Both the UI and the map display.
Honestly, I don't get why they didn't support or help Google from the start.
They did. Apple was more then happy to work with Google the search, maps and video company. To the extent that they even had a Google exec on the Apple board of directors. (Eric Schmidt). Google was represented on the original iPhone by search, youTube and maps app. A positoin no other company had. And one could have expected that relationshop to grow through later revisions of iOS.
What stopped it was Google developing copy-cat phone OS of their own. It's a bad idea to de dependant on a competitor in the very same market. And so bit by bit, Google is being phased out of the OS and default application set.
For much the same reason, Apple is clearly moving towards eliminating Samsung components in their hardware.
and now Google has swept in to save the day with their own branded application instead...
But it doesn't ship with the device, so their customers aren't confronted with Google branding, unless and until they choose to download it.
Furthermore, if and when Apple Maps data is improved to be as good or better than Google Maps, people getting new devices won't choose to download Google Maps, as Apple Maps will already be there.
and Google gets to remind Apple who is more powerful.
Fundamentally it's all about profit, and how to achieve it. And Apple makes about 20 times the profit of Google. Your perception of power is weird, irrelevant and probably mistaken.
No one said Google was the villain. No one has to be a villain. 2 companies simply failed to reach a mutually acceptable agreement. That doesn't make either of them wrong.
This is the first time Apple has had to swallow its pride and admit that something they made failed
You're some way out of date with the news. Tim Cook sent out the letter admitting their mistakes with Apple Maps back on the 28th September, a mere 11 days after Apple Maps was released.
And contrary to your claim, it's not the first time Apple have admitted their mistakes. For example Steve Jobs admitted they messed up with the launch of MobileMe.
It's not that Apple don't admit their mistakes when they make them. It's that they don't often make serious mistakes.
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I'm the owner of a computer repair company and head IT manager at another part time.
Part time self employed is not CEO of a company, let alone a successful one.
But I suspect even "self employed" is overreaching. I suspect I'd be guessing right if I said that you occasionally charge people for sorting out their tech problems. And the taxman doesn't get to hear about it because it's in cash. And lets face it, it's chump change - there's no shortage of moonlighting computer fixers.
But if it's more than that, I apologise. It's still not running a real company. Or you wouldn't be doing something else part time.
we, as in "earth scientists"
You're not a scientist of any sort, as your level of maths is way too low to even get admittance to an undergraduate degree programme in a scientific field.
We both know that. We only have your posturing that's preventing you climbing down.
I've already pointed out the error of your Uncle Bob countdown belief.
Ah, but you see, asteroids, like coins, can have memories when selection is involved. There are a few asteroids that sooner or later are going to hit us. They follow certain rules, and it isn't a question of if, but simply of when. Their "memory" is basically the laws of physics.
If the maths of probability as beyond you, then clearly chaos is too. As is the fact that "pre-determination" is philosophy, not science.
Whether you, me or uncle Bob KNOWS the time is irrelevant. As long as there is a time it will hit, each day will bring us inexorably closer to that time, and each day will have a higher likelihood of being "the" day.
You obviously believe this. And you're wrong. There is no SINGULAR event with a count down. There may never be a hit again. Or there may be a million hits tomorrow. Whether or not you believe it's predetermined and unknown, or purely random makes no difference. There is no countdown to a singular event. Simply a probability that an event may happen in a day.
You could learn all about probability and statistics on the Khan Academy website. That would be a better use of your time than setting common myths up for me to knock down.
You are essentially claiming that asteroid hits are random events in the same way that coin tosses are.
They are. You're probably confused because it occurs to you that the asteroids and planets are in particular points in space, with particular velocities, and follow the rules of physics.
What you're missing is that this also applies to the coins.
The date for the impact is well known and pre determined. It is just not known by us.
Then who is it "well known" by? The aliens that have been abducting you?
I don't think they should have used the taser. But I note two things.
1) We don't know what was happening when the taser was first used, as the video doesn't start early enough.
2) At the point she was on the floor she was not intended to be free to leave, as she was being arrested. She was either struggling, or resisting the second hand being put into the cuffs or both - resisting arrest.
They can certainly subdue a 80lb middle aged woman. But it's not zero risk. Cops are often kicked and/or bitten by women resisting arrest.
No she wasn't. She's bought (at least) two iPhones on a previous day. But on the day she was tasered, her attempt to purchase phones was refused.
Refusing to sell a person thousands of dollars of [any product] for no good reason is not reasonable
Not only is it reasonable, more importantly it's the law. A store does not have a duty to sell you anything. And they do have the right to ask you to leave the store.
Your blind hatred of Apple is overcoming your rationality.
Revel in your ignorance of math. Or go take a math class. Your choice.
Sadly that's been true for years. No further proof was required.
Of course she could. And I think she should be restrained without tasers.
However, lets not pretend it's without risk of injury to the policemen. Policemen are kicked and bitten by women resisting arrest every day.
You're missing the point. The police tastered this person because she did something perfectly legal, which is to say, buy iPhones.
Wrong. She was tazered because she resisted arrest. She was arrested because she refused to leave the mall. She was asked to leave the mall because she refused to leave the store. She was asked to leave the store because she was creating a ruckus because they wouldn't sell her more than 2 iPhones.
All of this escalation was the woman's fault.
The tech news here is that demand for the iPhone 5 still vastly outstrips supply 3 months after launch. Apple can't make them fast enough to satisfy demand.
I don't believe for one second it was lack of understanding. There was on policeman dealing with her for 15 minutes before the second arrived and the resisting arrest/tazering incident happened.
You don't have to understand the language to know when a policeman guides you to the door, you have to leave. To resist for 15 minutes, she was being more than stubborn.
I still don't think she should have been tazered though.
No, but the police can zap you with electricity for peacefully spending your own money.
Don't argue like a child.
1) She wanted to purchase multiple iPhones. There is a limit of two iPhones per person. When the staff recognised that she'd already purchased at least 2, they refused to serve her.
2) She then behaved inappropriately inside the store, including but not limited to videoing other customers purtchasing iPhones. She was asked to leave as is the right of a store.
3) She refused to leave. At which point the police were called.
4) She refused to co-operate with the police officer asking her to leave for a further 15 minutes. At some point the request to leave the store had escalated to a request to leave the mall as a result of the non-cooperation.
5) A second police officer arrived, and still not cooperating, she was arrested. She actively resisted arrest, and was tazered as a result to get her to comply.
I don't think 2 male policemen should be tazering an unarmed middle aged woman that is resisting arrest. However on every other point it was the woman behaving unreasonably and forcing the escalation.
But she certainly wasn't tazered for spending her own money.
And that's one of the reasons Apple didn't accept Googles terms in the negotiation to renew the build-in Google Maps app. Why the hell would Apple want such a dialog on a built in app.
You're just digging yourself deeper.
On Sunday you receive the following information: Uncle Bob will be dropping by this week.
Unlike the coin or the asteroids or the lottery, Uncle Bob DOES have a memory, and he has specified a window in which he will appear. (dependent events vs independent events, and time constrained rather than probabilistic.)
That you don't realise this isn't even the same class of problem shows you have even less understanding of prob and stats than was clear before.
You use statistics the same way Creationists use it, not understanding the simple process of "selection".
Selection? Related to the problem of asteroid hit probability? You *are* a moron.
The game show/door problem is the classic Monty Hall problem. It DOES involve selection. Unlike asteroid hits. Again showing you don't understand the class of problem.
If there is an event that is inevitable within a certain time frame, each day it doesn't happen chances are it will increase the following day.
Repeating again, because you are a moron, asteroid strikes are not that kind of problem. There is no particular time frame in which a strike is inevitable. (And furthermore, unlike the problems you brought up, there is no limit to the number of strikes in any particular time frame.) Asteroid strikes are a pure probability per unit time problem.
Again, this reflects on your pro-gun arguments, in that for example you are unable to differentiate between stiffness of gun control legislation stats, and guns per person stats.
You try to pretend you are more intelligent than you are by googling and copy/pasting. It doesn't work. You have to actually understand the stuff Google finds.
Have you never heard the maxim it's better for people to think you;re stupid, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt? You're parading your ignorance like you were walking around with your pants round your ankles.
Google didn't get to where they are by saying "Meh, good enough"
Their years long "beta" label on many of their web services suggests that that's very much what they did.
I'd be more like "KILL APPLE! KICK THEM WHEN THEY'RE DOWN!" so that they can never recover.
Get back to us when you're CEO of a successful company, rather than a school bully.
Garmin don't have their own data. They license it from Navteq... which is a Nokia subsidiary.
Apple licensing it would mean moving from depending on one smartphone competitor to depending on another.
When you think Apple is being stupid, more often than not it's because you don't know what Apple knows.
Why would Apple want to degrade search results
Apart from the search difference, that side by side short makes it clear how much more ugly Google Maps are than Apple Maps. Both the UI and the map display.
Honestly, I don't get why they didn't support or help Google from the start.
They did. Apple was more then happy to work with Google the search, maps and video company. To the extent that they even had a Google exec on the Apple board of directors. (Eric Schmidt). Google was represented on the original iPhone by search, youTube and maps app. A positoin no other company had. And one could have expected that relationshop to grow through later revisions of iOS.
What stopped it was Google developing copy-cat phone OS of their own. It's a bad idea to de dependant on a competitor in the very same market. And so bit by bit, Google is being phased out of the OS and default application set.
For much the same reason, Apple is clearly moving towards eliminating Samsung components in their hardware.
and now Google has swept in to save the day with their own branded application instead...
But it doesn't ship with the device, so their customers aren't confronted with Google branding, unless and until they choose to download it.
Furthermore, if and when Apple Maps data is improved to be as good or better than Google Maps, people getting new devices won't choose to download Google Maps, as Apple Maps will already be there.
and Google gets to remind Apple who is more powerful.
Fundamentally it's all about profit, and how to achieve it. And Apple makes about 20 times the profit of Google. Your perception of power is weird, irrelevant and probably mistaken.
Why is Google the villain?
No one said Google was the villain. No one has to be a villain. 2 companies simply failed to reach a mutually acceptable agreement. That doesn't make either of them wrong.
This is the first time Apple has had to swallow its pride and admit that something they made failed
You're some way out of date with the news. Tim Cook sent out the letter admitting their mistakes with Apple Maps back on the 28th September, a mere 11 days after Apple Maps was released.
And contrary to your claim, it's not the first time Apple have admitted their mistakes. For example Steve Jobs admitted they messed up with the launch of MobileMe.
It's not that Apple don't admit their mistakes when they make them. It's that they don't often make serious mistakes.
Interestingly it's not even in the top 10 on the UK App Store.
Perhaps they are only recalculated periodically and it hasn't kicked in yet.
Either than, or other people in the UK have as good an experience of Apple Maps as I have. I couldn't find a single error around my area.
The former is probably more likely than the latter though.