Self-insure it. An insurance company pays out much less money than it takes in. It has to be that way or it wouldn't be a worthwhile business. Thus the chances are that you will get less out than you put in. It's a form of gambling, and the odds are even worse than the casino.
So, if it's a risk that won't cripple you financially if it happens, it's not worth insuring. You have to insure the car, and you probably want to insure the house, because that would be crippling if it burned down. But for something where the risk is only a few hundred dollars or less, insurance isn't worth it.
You could literally self insure, by putting the amount they would otherwise have spent on insurance in a separate account. From which you withdraw money when a bad thing happens. But it probably is better just just do it in the old-fashioned way, and just always have enough money saved up "for a rainy day".
Lots of inventions and innovations were attributed to the Apollo project that were nothing to do with it. It was a good marketing tactic in the 1960s/70s to say that something was developed from the space program, was "space-age" etc.
I'm not going to check out each of the ones you list, but just to take the first, Wikipedia shows the first LED being created in 1927. And whilst the first practical LED component came along in 1962, one year into the Apollo program, it makes no mention of them being created by or funded by NASA.
It seems like a typical example. It was an innovation during the time of the Apollo program, so some people have claimed it as a result of the space program, and worse, imply that it wouldn't have been invented anyway.
I don't doubt that someday something will do what PCs do better than PCs do it, and at that point we will see a post-pc world.
You're missing the point. It's not about replacing the PC with a single device. It's that the PC will (and in a way already has become) a minority device, vastly outweighed numbers and in time spent using them by ubiquitous computing in many other sorts of device. And whilst the term post-pc wasn't coined until recently, that concept was the topic of Donald Norman's book "The Invisible Computer" published back in 1999.
People feel entitled to infringe copyright as a form of civil disobedience against criminal cartels who bribe corrupt politicians to instigate corrupt persecutions such as the campaign against the Pirate Bay, and to illegally extend copyright indefinitely.
Generally speaking no. People infringe copyright because they'd rather not pay for music and movies if they can get away with getting them for free. They don't have the quasi-moral justification you suggest.
The difference is, when you are deported you have the right to go to any country you want to.
I don't know anywhere where you have such a right. If you're being deported, the authorities put you on a plane, it's not your choice what plane you get on. Generally they'll send you back to the country you came from. But if they don't know where that is, they'll send you back to your native country.
The burden of proof that you did the defaming lies on the plaintiff. But truth (vertitas) is a defence, and thus the burden to bring it to the court lies with the accused, not the plaintiff.
If people want a new phone, they'll buy a new phone, whereas they would most likely re-use any chargers/cables that they'd already bought.
Do any phones actually ship without chargers? I took a look at the Samsung Galaxy SIII as an example, as that seems to bt eht flavour of the month Android phone. Sure enough it ships with a charger.
What about Google's flagship Nexus series? Yep, the latest one still ships with a charger.
Really, the people who are criticising Apple on waste grounds are full of shit.
PCs still move nearly 4x as many units every quarter.
Now consider that sales of Apple's tablets are a fraction of their sales of smartphones. And Apple aren't even the largest smartphone manufacturer. Smartphones vastly outsell PCs, and have done for some time.
i.e. Non-PC general purpose computers already vastly outsell PC computers.
You obviously haven't acquainted yourself with a recent iOS device, because for most of that I thought you were actually describing iOS. The things you list are NOT deficiencies of iOS. It can do most of that - there will be exceptions, because you're specifically describing Android feature, but equally there are features of iPhone that don't exist in Android.
So most people is the street don't currently have even an iPhone 4S, but when they're given the chance to play with it they realise t's better in some ways that the phone they do have.
The very last guy on the tape says he does currently have an iPhone 4S. But hey, you video people all day long and you're bound to find saying something that isn't true. Either because they are trying to impress, or because they just don't actually know the right answer.
You want me to show you a YouTube video showing that Americans don't know where Australia is?
it still means you can't use an Apple charger to charge any other device
No it doesn't. As for most of the last decade, the Apple Charger has a USB port on it. It'll charge anything that charges via USB. Anything that'll plug into a PC USB port for example.
Yes, well thankfully being a commissioner doesn't actually allow you to do whatever you damn well please. Apple's adapter solution is specifically allowed for in the MOU.
Do you honestly think Apple's little dongle you must pay for is according to the spirit of that directive?
Given that it explicitly allows companies to satisfy the directive with an adapter, yes. Did you honestly believe anyone would believe you'd read the directive?
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I'm not sure if you are familiar with what garbage collection actually does....
Given that what he said was correct, I suspect he does. And I suspect you aren't aware of the difference between GC and ARC.
Hmm... that got modded redundant, yet it said something that no-one else had said. Another coward that mods down things he doesn't want to hear.
Self-insure it. An insurance company pays out much less money than it takes in. It has to be that way or it wouldn't be a worthwhile business. Thus the chances are that you will get less out than you put in. It's a form of gambling, and the odds are even worse than the casino.
So, if it's a risk that won't cripple you financially if it happens, it's not worth insuring. You have to insure the car, and you probably want to insure the house, because that would be crippling if it burned down. But for something where the risk is only a few hundred dollars or less, insurance isn't worth it.
You could literally self insure, by putting the amount they would otherwise have spent on insurance in a separate account. From which you withdraw money when a bad thing happens. But it probably is better just just do it in the old-fashioned way, and just always have enough money saved up "for a rainy day".
Lots of inventions and innovations were attributed to the Apollo project that were nothing to do with it. It was a good marketing tactic in the 1960s/70s to say that something was developed from the space program, was "space-age" etc.
I'm not going to check out each of the ones you list, but just to take the first, Wikipedia shows the first LED being created in 1927. And whilst the first practical LED component came along in 1962, one year into the Apollo program, it makes no mention of them being created by or funded by NASA.
It seems like a typical example. It was an innovation during the time of the Apollo program, so some people have claimed it as a result of the space program, and worse, imply that it wouldn't have been invented anyway.
The gap between rich and poor continues to rise, not fall. Which means that money doesn't trickle down. Money trickles up.
Now? They always were. If you didn't know that then that's your problem.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-PC_era
I don't doubt that someday something will do what PCs do better than PCs do it, and at that point we will see a post-pc world.
You're missing the point. It's not about replacing the PC with a single device. It's that the PC will (and in a way already has become) a minority device, vastly outweighed numbers and in time spent using them by ubiquitous computing in many other sorts of device. And whilst the term post-pc wasn't coined until recently, that concept was the topic of Donald Norman's book "The Invisible Computer" published back in 1999.
People feel entitled to infringe copyright as a form of civil disobedience against criminal cartels who bribe corrupt politicians to instigate corrupt persecutions such as the campaign against the Pirate Bay, and to illegally extend copyright indefinitely.
Generally speaking no. People infringe copyright because they'd rather not pay for music and movies if they can get away with getting them for free. They don't have the quasi-moral justification you suggest.
The difference is, when you are deported you have the right to go to any country you want to.
I don't know anywhere where you have such a right. If you're being deported, the authorities put you on a plane, it's not your choice what plane you get on. Generally they'll send you back to the country you came from. But if they don't know where that is, they'll send you back to your native country.
The burden of proof that you did the defaming lies on the plaintiff. But truth (vertitas) is a defence, and thus the burden to bring it to the court lies with the accused, not the plaintiff.
If people want a new phone, they'll buy a new phone, whereas they would most likely re-use any chargers/cables that they'd already bought.
Do any phones actually ship without chargers? I took a look at the Samsung Galaxy SIII as an example, as that seems to bt eht flavour of the month Android phone. Sure enough it ships with a charger.
What about Google's flagship Nexus series? Yep, the latest one still ships with a charger.
Really, the people who are criticising Apple on waste grounds are full of shit.
PCs still move nearly 4x as many units every quarter.
Now consider that sales of Apple's tablets are a fraction of their sales of smartphones. And Apple aren't even the largest smartphone manufacturer. Smartphones vastly outsell PCs, and have done for some time.
i.e. Non-PC general purpose computers already vastly outsell PC computers.
If they've bought a PC, they almost certainly already have Windows or OSX.
Unless these are the guys in shirts and ties that accost people on UW's Red Square every so often...
You'll be lucky if these guys are wearing deodorant and a clean shirt.
You obviously haven't acquainted yourself with a recent iOS device, because for most of that I thought you were actually describing iOS. The things you list are NOT deficiencies of iOS. It can do most of that - there will be exceptions, because you're specifically describing Android feature, but equally there are features of iPhone that don't exist in Android.
I see little evidence of that.
How about: Apple sold more units of it's tablet than ANY PC manufacturer sold of all their PCs lines added together last quarter.
Absolutely. And for those who haven't seen it, this line in thinking is put at it's best in this TED talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/sam_richards_a_radical_experiment_in_empathy.html
how does Apple win here but Samsung loses on something as ambiguous as design.
Pretty obviously because Samsung did copy from Apple. But Apple didn't copy from Samsung. Samsung's case was a meritless tit-for-tat lawsuit.
the world in general is decidedly not post PC.
Not yet, but it's certainly heading that way.
Don't be so easily trolled. That's an AC, and not necessarily an iPhone owner.
Lightning to Lightning may well be faster. Which may prove useful in the future as Lightning peripherals come along.
So most people is the street don't currently have even an iPhone 4S, but when they're given the chance to play with it they realise t's better in some ways that the phone they do have.
The very last guy on the tape says he does currently have an iPhone 4S. But hey, you video people all day long and you're bound to find saying something that isn't true. Either because they are trying to impress, or because they just don't actually know the right answer.
You want me to show you a YouTube video showing that Americans don't know where Australia is?
it still means you can't use an Apple charger to charge any other device
No it doesn't. As for most of the last decade, the Apple Charger has a USB port on it. It'll charge anything that charges via USB. Anything that'll plug into a PC USB port for example.
Yes, well thankfully being a commissioner doesn't actually allow you to do whatever you damn well please. Apple's adapter solution is specifically allowed for in the MOU.
And yet Apple have use the same proprietary connector for the last decade. Whilst all other manufacturers have gone through several different ones.
Who's the fool?
Do you honestly think Apple's little dongle you must pay for is according to the spirit of that directive?
Given that it explicitly allows companies to satisfy the directive with an adapter, yes. Did you honestly believe anyone would believe you'd read the directive?