1) Paying to get into a luncheon or other event in a large hall where the Prime Minister will make a public speech. (=£50,000 - the top level on the website menu)
2) Paying to have dinner at the same table as the Prime Minister in number 10, where you can ask questions on "virtually any topic", and what the prime minister says is confidential. (=£250,000 price and package only revealed by Tory party official when he thinks he's off the record.)
The former doesn't buy you influence and insider knowledge at the top level. The latter does.
The mini-SIM is too big. You can get several components in the space occupied by the useless plastic surrounding the active part of the mini-SIM. Given everyone wants maximum functionality out of a very small device, that matters.
That's be 2mm and 11g difference. The arithmentic isn't that hard.
2mm is 21% difference. A fifth. That is significant.
And in fact 2mm is about what you'd expect from removing the plastic casing from around the battery which would be needed if it was a replaceable battery. It's a direct design trade-off. Most people never replace a cell-phone battery. So if you remove the rarely used facility to make an easy change, you save 2 mm thickness and a little weight.
If Steve Jobs defined the Apple philosophy, how come he got fired in the mid-80s? It appears his philosophy was NOT the dominant one of the Apple II era
By the time Sculley pushed Jobs out, the Apple III had been out for 5 years, and cancelled. The Lisa (named after Jobs daughter) was out, and Jobs' Macintosh was shipping. This was long after the Apple II era. Although they did keep shipping small numbers of Apple IIs until the early 90s.
Scully was hired in 83 and Jobs was pushed out in 85. It's in that time period that the philosophy changed to Scully's. But from the formation od the company in 1976, till at least 1983, it was Jobs's philosophy thta led the company. And then again after Jobs returned in 97.
Bullshit. The HTC is larger because it has a bigger screen. It's just as thin as the iPhone4.
HTC Sensation thickness: 11.3 mm (0.44 in) - weight 148g. iPhone 4 thickness: 9.3 mm (0.37 in) - weight 137g.
Source wikipedia.
Now, who's is the bullshit? Why was the person telling the truth modded down to -1 and your arrogant but incorrect assertion modded up to 5? That's the pro-Android bias on Slashdot for you. Facts don't matter.
I just bought two HTC Sensation smartphones (one for wife), and replacing the battery in this this is dead-easy: just press in the little button on the bottom, peel back the case, and the battery comes right out, plus the SD card if you want to swap for a larger one. Those old arguments Apple had about having to make cases not-easily-openable to be thin are bullshit; these phones are just as slim as the iPhone4.
HTC Sensation thickness: 11.3 mm (0.44 in) - weight 148g. iPhone 4 thickness: 9.3 mm (0.37 in) - weight 137g.
Maybe because I've only ever gotten the message from Apple devices.
Which demonstrates the proportion of people using iPhones and Android phones as smartphones. Most Android sales are to people who just want a new phone and walk out the store with whatever the salesman pushes them. They'll never get used for browsing, email and apps.
I'm not the OP. But I'd say you're the one who's over-stretching his word power. There wasn't any kind of dichotomy in the post you replied to let alone a false one.
As a citizen, I expect to have the freedom to purchase a product with a 3 month warranty, if that's what I chose.
A peculiarly American atitude. Of course you never choose the 3 month warranty. The manufacturer or retailer does.
America is effectively a corporate state. You get a democratic choice between two parties that both bow down to (and are financed by) the corporations. News and current affairs are also dominated by that corporate interest.
So effective have they been that a majority of Americans, such as yourself, actually argue for the corporate interest as if it is what is best for themselves. Even when it clearly isn't.
Not all Americans are sheep like that. Americans that have travelled the world often start to see the world as it really is, and that throws up the true nature of the US in high contrast.
He only talks about Apple because he doesn't care about Chinese workers. His hatred is nothing more than a free software advocate playing out his software ideology.
Yes because you have to accept a certain amount of your workforce committing suicide....*eye roll* You have people committing suicide - that tells you something is wrong.
And there's one more person that doesn't understand statistics... or mental health issues...
You have people living in crammed "dorms" and working 12 hour shifts. Are so such a heartless bastard to ignore this conditions. Apple is only saving 20% but still getting 70% to 80% markup.
...and believes whatever he wants to believe, regardless of what the truth is.
Foxconn doesn't have slaves, they can leave their job just as anyone in the west could. They have people queueing up outside the factory gates wanting jobs, because by Chinese standards they are good jobs.
China doesn't yet have general standards of living as good as western countries do. In 20-30 years they will have. It doesn't happen overnight. It didn't happen overnight for the west.
Those employees who live in Foxconns worker camps and jump off buildings are probably just depressed that one day they would have to retire.
Ah yes, the older lie. Foxconn employs almost a million people. When you have that many people in a group, some of them will commit suicide. We measure the extent to which that happens by "the suicide rate". The fact is that the suicide rate at those factories is significantly lower than the general suicide rate of Chinese people.
i.e. Foxconn employees are LESS likely to comit suicide than your average chinese person.
There's a strong desire amongst many in America to believe anything bad about china, and a stronger one amongst many on slashdot to believe anything bad that can be somehow associated with Apple. So bad things about Foxconn are something that lots of people want to believe. The fact that they tend to be lies and distortions doesn't seem to put these people off at all.
People tend to have a stronger to will to believe what they want to believe than to find out what's really true.
People in the past (and present) have had adverse emotional reactions to their white daughters or sisters dating 'coloreds'. Does that mitigate the guilt when that man lynches the black for that offense?
You're equating not wanting to have a picture of yourself and your lover splashed across the tabloids with racism. That's a very short straw you're clutching. In fact less of a straw, more of a lead weight.
The thing is, a "herd of photographers" is an annoyance, just like, say, a herd of mosquitos would be. Now, everyone would rather avoid a herd of mosquitos; but if you do so in a manner that obviously endangers yourself and others, and it ends badly, the fault lies with you, not the mosquitos, no matter how disgusting their bloodsucking parasitic nature might be.
The problem with your post, the other posts arguing the fact, and indeed the insurance and legal systems generally is the false notion of finding a single person who's "fault" it is. An event, such as the ones we label an "accident" very often has multiple contributory causes, and other things that might have prevented the event, if only...
Once again, the paparazzi were a contributory cause to the death of Lady Diana. Which isn't the same as saying it was their (sole) fault. Her death may not have happened it only they had not been there or didn't pursue her.
Nothing to do with fault; nothing to do with selectively labelling people "adults" regardless of their age; nothing to do with "personal responsibility", or any other such products of a human sense of morality. Just the facts and logic.
Simply because someone selling you a faulty alarm clock directly resulted in you waking late the next morning doesn't mean that they are a factor in you speeding on your way to work,
Yes they are.
at least not in the "partially responsible for" sense.
And then you're back to morality and apportioning a single person to be at fault again.
As despicable as some of the paparazzi can be, they did not contribute to the speed.
Yes they did. The driver was trying to get away from the paparazzi. That's why he was driving at an excessive speed. Alcohol will have given him more confidence, porrer judgement and lesser ability to drive. But the cause of the speed was the chasing paparazzi.
They weren't endangering her safety by taking pictures, and even if they were, speeding off would not have been the correct response.
The "correct response" isn't in question here. Just whether the paps contributed to the death of Diana, and it did.
If OJ proved nothing else, he proved that being chased does not put any obligation on you to drive fast.
OJ didn't manage to avoid photographs being taken, so he proved no such thing.
Because people often have an adverse emotional reaction to a herd of photographers persuing them. Heck you are reacting emotionally to the story, adding in "rich gits" as if that made any difference to the facts of what happened.
Because what you said is idiotic and doesn't merit contradiction.
Careful! With that much pomposity you might explode.
How can a motorcycle force an armored Mercedes around?
I didn't say it did. If you payed any attention to the story, you'd know that the driver was attempting to get away from the paps, and that, compounded by being drunk was the reason for his excessive speed. The paps persuit was one of the contributory factors whether you want it to be that way or not.
Slashdot's karma system gives points for good performance. This innovation is about giving points for tasks that have not yet been done. Different concept.
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That protection is not necessarily absolute.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2003/nov/24/mondaymediasection6
Because there is a big difference between:
1) Paying to get into a luncheon or other event in a large hall where the Prime Minister will make a public speech. (=£50,000 - the top level on the website menu)
2) Paying to have dinner at the same table as the Prime Minister in number 10, where you can ask questions on "virtually any topic", and what the prime minister says is confidential. (=£250,000 price and package only revealed by Tory party official when he thinks he's off the record.)
The former doesn't buy you influence and insider knowledge at the top level. The latter does.
The mini-SIM is too big. You can get several components in the space occupied by the useless plastic surrounding the active part of the mini-SIM. Given everyone wants maximum functionality out of a very small device, that matters.
Probably most people don't realise that full sized SIMs were credit card sized.
Thank FSM someone is finally thinking of the children!
That's be 2mm and 11g difference. The arithmentic isn't that hard.
2mm is 21% difference. A fifth. That is significant.
And in fact 2mm is about what you'd expect from removing the plastic casing from around the battery which would be needed if it was a replaceable battery. It's a direct design trade-off. Most people never replace a cell-phone battery. So if you remove the rarely used facility to make an easy change, you save 2 mm thickness and a little weight.
Ooh, now do a comparison of the Samsung Epic 4G (which also has a user replacable battery) and let us know the results!
Sure.
Samsung Epic 4G thickness: 14 mm (0.55 in) - weight 155g.
HTC Sensation thickness: 11.3 mm (0.44 in) - weight 148g.
iPhone 4 thickness: 9.3 mm (0.37 in) - weight 137g.
It's fatter and heavier than either of the previously mentioned.
hint: Apple doesn't make the lightest phone. Apple doesn't make the thinnest phone. Apple doesn't make the most powerful phone.
Well I didn't say it did. But it's thinner and lighter than either of the suggestions so far.
If Steve Jobs defined the Apple philosophy, how come he got fired in the mid-80s? It appears his philosophy was NOT the dominant one of the Apple II era
By the time Sculley pushed Jobs out, the Apple III had been out for 5 years, and cancelled. The Lisa (named after Jobs daughter) was out, and Jobs' Macintosh was shipping. This was long after the Apple II era. Although they did keep shipping small numbers of Apple IIs until the early 90s.
Scully was hired in 83 and Jobs was pushed out in 85. It's in that time period that the philosophy changed to Scully's. But from the formation od the company in 1976, till at least 1983, it was Jobs's philosophy thta led the company. And then again after Jobs returned in 97.
Not because the Android users don't use it for mail, but because they're not status seeking snobs.
Or perhaps they're just embarrassed.
Bullshit. The HTC is larger because it has a bigger screen. It's just as thin as the iPhone4.
HTC Sensation thickness: 11.3 mm (0.44 in) - weight 148g.
iPhone 4 thickness: 9.3 mm (0.37 in) - weight 137g.
Source wikipedia.
Now, who's is the bullshit? Why was the person telling the truth modded down to -1 and your arrogant but incorrect assertion modded up to 5? That's the pro-Android bias on Slashdot for you. Facts don't matter.
I just bought two HTC Sensation smartphones (one for wife), and replacing the battery in this this is dead-easy: just press in the little button on the bottom, peel back the case, and the battery comes right out, plus the SD card if you want to swap for a larger one. Those old arguments Apple had about having to make cases not-easily-openable to be thin are bullshit; these phones are just as slim as the iPhone4.
HTC Sensation thickness: 11.3 mm (0.44 in) - weight 148g.
iPhone 4 thickness: 9.3 mm (0.37 in) - weight 137g.
The awkward facts don't agree with your rant.
Apple was Jobs idea from the start. He persuaded Woz to join him in a startup, and he was the one who defined the company philosophy. Not Woz.
Maybe because I've only ever gotten the message from Apple devices.
Which demonstrates the proportion of people using iPhones and Android phones as smartphones. Most Android sales are to people who just want a new phone and walk out the store with whatever the salesman pushes them. They'll never get used for browsing, email and apps.
False Dichotomy. Look it up.
I'm not the OP. But I'd say you're the one who's over-stretching his word power. There wasn't any kind of dichotomy in the post you replied to let alone a false one.
As a citizen, I expect to have the freedom to purchase a product with a 3 month warranty, if that's what I chose.
A peculiarly American atitude. Of course you never choose the 3 month warranty. The manufacturer or retailer does.
America is effectively a corporate state. You get a democratic choice between two parties that both bow down to (and are financed by) the corporations. News and current affairs are also dominated by that corporate interest.
So effective have they been that a majority of Americans, such as yourself, actually argue for the corporate interest as if it is what is best for themselves. Even when it clearly isn't.
Not all Americans are sheep like that. Americans that have travelled the world often start to see the world as it really is, and that throws up the true nature of the US in high contrast.
He only talks about Apple because he doesn't care about Chinese workers. His hatred is nothing more than a free software advocate playing out his software ideology.
Yes because you have to accept a certain amount of your workforce committing suicide....*eye roll* You have people committing suicide - that tells you something is wrong.
And there's one more person that doesn't understand statistics... or mental health issues...
You have people living in crammed "dorms" and working 12 hour shifts. Are so such a heartless bastard to ignore this conditions. Apple is only saving 20% but still getting 70% to 80% markup.
...and believes whatever he wants to believe, regardless of what the truth is.
Foxconn doesn't have slaves, they can leave their job just as anyone in the west could. They have people queueing up outside the factory gates wanting jobs, because by Chinese standards they are good jobs.
China doesn't yet have general standards of living as good as western countries do. In 20-30 years they will have. It doesn't happen overnight. It didn't happen overnight for the west.
Those employees who live in Foxconns worker camps and jump off buildings are probably just depressed that one day they would have to retire.
Ah yes, the older lie. Foxconn employs almost a million people. When you have that many people in a group, some of them will commit suicide. We measure the extent to which that happens by "the suicide rate". The fact is that the suicide rate at those factories is significantly lower than the general suicide rate of Chinese people.
i.e. Foxconn employees are LESS likely to comit suicide than your average chinese person.
There's a strong desire amongst many in America to believe anything bad about china, and a stronger one amongst many on slashdot to believe anything bad that can be somehow associated with Apple. So bad things about Foxconn are something that lots of people want to believe. The fact that they tend to be lies and distortions doesn't seem to put these people off at all.
People tend to have a stronger to will to believe what they want to believe than to find out what's really true.
People in the past (and present) have had adverse emotional reactions to their white daughters or sisters dating 'coloreds'. Does that mitigate the guilt when that man lynches the black for that offense?
You're equating not wanting to have a picture of yourself and your lover splashed across the tabloids with racism. That's a very short straw you're clutching. In fact less of a straw, more of a lead weight.
They're both scum. Those who supply it and those who demand it.
The thing is, a "herd of photographers" is an annoyance, just like, say, a herd of mosquitos would be. Now, everyone would rather avoid a herd of mosquitos; but if you do so in a manner that obviously endangers yourself and others, and it ends badly, the fault lies with you, not the mosquitos, no matter how disgusting their bloodsucking parasitic nature might be.
The problem with your post, the other posts arguing the fact, and indeed the insurance and legal systems generally is the false notion of finding a single person who's "fault" it is. An event, such as the ones we label an "accident" very often has multiple contributory causes, and other things that might have prevented the event, if only...
Once again, the paparazzi were a contributory cause to the death of Lady Diana. Which isn't the same as saying it was their (sole) fault. Her death may not have happened it only they had not been there or didn't pursue her.
Nothing to do with fault; nothing to do with selectively labelling people "adults" regardless of their age; nothing to do with "personal responsibility", or any other such products of a human sense of morality. Just the facts and logic.
Simply because someone selling you a faulty alarm clock directly resulted in you waking late the next morning doesn't mean that they are a factor in you speeding on your way to work,
Yes they are.
at least not in the "partially responsible for" sense.
And then you're back to morality and apportioning a single person to be at fault again.
As despicable as some of the paparazzi can be, they did not contribute to the speed.
Yes they did. The driver was trying to get away from the paparazzi. That's why he was driving at an excessive speed. Alcohol will have given him more confidence, porrer judgement and lesser ability to drive. But the cause of the speed was the chasing paparazzi.
They weren't endangering her safety by taking pictures, and even if they were, speeding off would not have been the correct response.
The "correct response" isn't in question here. Just whether the paps contributed to the death of Diana, and it did.
If OJ proved nothing else, he proved that being chased does not put any obligation on you to drive fast.
OJ didn't manage to avoid photographs being taken, so he proved no such thing.
Why was he trying to get away?
Because people often have an adverse emotional reaction to a herd of photographers persuing them. Heck you are reacting emotionally to the story, adding in "rich gits" as if that made any difference to the facts of what happened.
The fact is the paparazzi pursuing was a factor.
Because what you said is idiotic and doesn't merit contradiction.
Careful! With that much pomposity you might explode.
How can a motorcycle force an armored Mercedes around?
I didn't say it did. If you payed any attention to the story, you'd know that the driver was attempting to get away from the paps, and that, compounded by being drunk was the reason for his excessive speed. The paps persuit was one of the contributory factors whether you want it to be that way or not.
Slashdot's karma system gives points for good performance. This innovation is about giving points for tasks that have not yet been done. Different concept.
And advertising is COMPLETELY different.