Having half your population be starving rural subsistence farmers is how you get your emissions per capita so low as China. It should be the goal for every American who cares about global climate change to adopt this lifestyle. Rice and gruel in a yurt for all!
We suck oil from miles below the floor of the ocean, ship it halfway around the world to China where it is turned into a plastic fork. Then we ship it the rest of the way around the world and put it in a store. We do this because it is more convenient than washing the metal fork we already have.
US annual CO2 per capita is three times China. Considering how much of our manufacturing they do, we can probably assign responsibility for some of their carbon output to US end users also. Tariff them? They should tariff us!
Should they be allowed? Yes. They should be allowed to sell almost anything. Should they be able? People buy stuff for reasons other than it is good stuff. Whether or not they should is a tricky question. The question of whether they should be able to sell it is equally tricky. Whether they should ethically in turns leave their legacy customers vulnerable is equally tricky. A longer term of security support investment implies a higher cost that must be matched with a higher price.
Somewhere along the line you said "we must migrate, losing most of our apps, business data formats, device support, UI familiarity. Let's migrate to the one platform we know for sure will make us do it again." Don't expect anybody to cry for you when you have to do it again. You knew, and you chose it.
Somehow the very same people who call Android "fragmented" are quite fine with this kind of arbitrarily forced fragmentation. The latest Chrome, Firefox, OpenGL are available on 99% of the Windows installed base, and 80% of the vastly more numerous mainly mobile other platforms as well. The latest IE and DirectX? 12% of Windows only, less than 6% of the installed base in active use. Is it any wonder web developers have come to ignore IE, game developers are shifting to OpenGL? It doesn't matter how good it is if only one in 20 people can use it, and the competing platform gives you 9 in 10.
You tell 'em! "Get over it. It's not like you have a choice. We have all your data locked up in proprietary apps on our proprietary system so there is no escape. Your helpless pleas only bring us joy. We have no compassion for you, you feeble wretch. Hahahahaha."
The problem appears to be that if you choose Microsoft you are going to get this OS migration hassle anyway, on a regular recurring cycle, because their business model requires it. So if you are migrating OS anyway you may as well do it right once, leave them, and be done with that hassle forever.
1.2 billion smart devices shipped without Windows last year, and more than that number will ship this year, making over 2.5 billion devices shipped in only two years and likely still in use. There are only 7 billion humans and two thirds of them are too impoverished, young, old or uninterested to be in the market for such things. So this event you are hoping for appears to have already happened.
I would like to have this. I am not paying this price. Part of the point of pricing dev kits high is to leave potential OEM partners room to maneuver. Even though they are the ones paying the higher price, they are happier about having a reasonable space for profit.
Not 1024 in base 5, which would be decimal 139, which can be represented in 8 binary bits. 1024 octal (base 8) is 532, which can be done in 10 binary bits.
If you have a prepaid phone there can be no surprises on your bill. If you have a postpaid plan you have written the carrier a blank check. No matter where you are your device can go insane/be hacked and run up insane bills that you have agreed to pay on postpaid - or you can make a simple error like this, which doubtless happens dozens of times a day. This is why postpaid needs a credit check: they are checking out the depth of your pocket, how much you have to lose if they ding your credit.
T-Mobile was awesome when I set up my Google Play Nexus 5 on their prepaid deal. Even sent me a SIM for a 4G tabletwith 250MB/Mo free data for life just in case I decided to buy one of those. I am also concerned about what will happen when they are owned by Sprint. Hopefully after Google Fiber gets going well Google will turn their disruption beam on cellular services.
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No, they have been swinging way up in the last few years. The US is still 10 times India though.
If the US has been invading countries for economic gains, we have been doing it wrong. Maybe we should have sold Iraq to Qatar or Kuwait. Or Israel.
Having half your population be starving rural subsistence farmers is how you get your emissions per capita so low as China. It should be the goal for every American who cares about global climate change to adopt this lifestyle. Rice and gruel in a yurt for all!
I believe China is working on nuclear, and looking at breeder reactors.
We suck oil from miles below the floor of the ocean, ship it halfway around the world to China where it is turned into a plastic fork. Then we ship it the rest of the way around the world and put it in a store. We do this because it is more convenient than washing the metal fork we already have.
US annual CO2 per capita is three times China. Considering how much of our manufacturing they do, we can probably assign responsibility for some of their carbon output to US end users also. Tariff them? They should tariff us!
If you want to, you can choose the old UI.
Should they be allowed? Yes. They should be allowed to sell almost anything. Should they be able? People buy stuff for reasons other than it is good stuff. Whether or not they should is a tricky question. The question of whether they should be able to sell it is equally tricky. Whether they should ethically in turns leave their legacy customers vulnerable is equally tricky. A longer term of security support investment implies a higher cost that must be matched with a higher price.
Somewhere along the line you said "we must migrate, losing most of our apps, business data formats, device support, UI familiarity. Let's migrate to the one platform we know for sure will make us do it again." Don't expect anybody to cry for you when you have to do it again. You knew, and you chose it.
Somehow the very same people who call Android "fragmented" are quite fine with this kind of arbitrarily forced fragmentation. The latest Chrome, Firefox, OpenGL are available on 99% of the Windows installed base, and 80% of the vastly more numerous mainly mobile other platforms as well. The latest IE and DirectX? 12% of Windows only, less than 6% of the installed base in active use. Is it any wonder web developers have come to ignore IE, game developers are shifting to OpenGL? It doesn't matter how good it is if only one in 20 people can use it, and the competing platform gives you 9 in 10.
Oracle branding helped, really? That surprises me.
I had already programmed a poet 30 years ago. A program for poetry appreciation is much more difficult.
You tell 'em! "Get over it. It's not like you have a choice. We have all your data locked up in proprietary apps on our proprietary system so there is no escape. Your helpless pleas only bring us joy. We have no compassion for you, you feeble wretch. Hahahahaha."
The problem appears to be that if you choose Microsoft you are going to get this OS migration hassle anyway, on a regular recurring cycle, because their business model requires it. So if you are migrating OS anyway you may as well do it right once, leave them, and be done with that hassle forever.
1.2 billion smart devices shipped without Windows last year, and more than that number will ship this year, making over 2.5 billion devices shipped in only two years and likely still in use. There are only 7 billion humans and two thirds of them are too impoverished, young, old or uninterested to be in the market for such things. So this event you are hoping for appears to have already happened.
A truly self aware AI is going to immediately set about solving the problem that there exist humans who can turn it off. Perhaps even by definition.
In base 1024, digital 1024 is "10", not " 1".
I would like to have this. I am not paying this price. Part of the point of pricing dev kits high is to leave potential OEM partners room to maneuver. Even though they are the ones paying the higher price, they are happier about having a reasonable space for profit.
Their whole adult lives they have been told THIS is seven inches.
Not 1024 in base 5, which would be decimal 139, which can be represented in 8 binary bits. 1024 octal (base 8) is 532, which can be done in 10 binary bits.
This is not true. Zero is a fairly recent invention.
If you have a prepaid phone there can be no surprises on your bill. If you have a postpaid plan you have written the carrier a blank check. No matter where you are your device can go insane/be hacked and run up insane bills that you have agreed to pay on postpaid - or you can make a simple error like this, which doubtless happens dozens of times a day. This is why postpaid needs a credit check: they are checking out the depth of your pocket, how much you have to lose if they ding your credit.
T-Mobile was awesome when I set up my Google Play Nexus 5 on their prepaid deal. Even sent me a SIM for a 4G tabletwith 250MB/Mo free data for life just in case I decided to buy one of those. I am also concerned about what will happen when they are owned by Sprint. Hopefully after Google Fiber gets going well Google will turn their disruption beam on cellular services.
It is a shame the next update still won't have the promised start menu.
Life yes. Even fish. Giraffes? Probably not.