Last Christmas it was only 700,000 units per day - and it was the holidays. June was but 3 months ago, and it was only 900,000 then. Now it's the off season and 1.3 million per day. With a ramp to holiday volumes we could see a 3x year over year increase. I would say that Android is still seeing considerable growth.
Just Android's increase in sales per day over the last three months is the entire market for the wildly successful iPhone. Nearly 100% increase in just nine months, from an immense base. This sort of growth is supposed to not even be possible. At some point sheer volume dominance kicks in, and the thing becomes hard (but not impossible) to displace.
I don't know what you think good growth is, but if this ain't it everybody else in the smartphone industry is toast.
I like ICS just fine on my Transformer I bought on launch day, but Gingerbread works just fine on my 2 year old phone. At renewal time I'll get a phone with JellyBean. In the meantime, all the apps I like work great on both.
Humans could have no greater nor swifter impact on the CO2 balance than the evolution of white-rot fungus. That fungus ended the carboniferous era by evolving a species that could metabolize cellulose. Before then dead trees just sat until they could become coal. When this fungus evolved though, it quickly encompassed the Earth and consumed all of the cellulose available to the depths it could reach, releasing untold billions of tons of C02 and methane into the air before it ran out of readily available cellulose to consume. And that's why coal seams have well-defined borders. White-rot fungus is also why there will be no more coal. Life has found a way to prevent it.
A reasonable court would find that representatives of the copyright holder publishing the material under the YouTube terms is a license grant. But a court had to weigh in on this anyway, and Google had to pay lawyers money to say "but they said....".
Censorship is such a bad thing that here in the US it is one of the powers explicitly prohibited the government. "Congress shall make no law..." And yet apparently now we allow the courts to permit private corporations to require other private corporations to censor the Democratic National Convention, based on Congress' implementation of the Copyright clause and so get our censorship third hand but still enforced by the government - and we let that go. Interesting. It appears that Hollywood has "fixed" the First Amendment "glitch".
We are not going to respond to this in the reasonable, measured way that I think we should.
With how well samsung's own devices are selling they may just want those part production capacities for their own high-margin products instead of the slim margins Apple pays for parts.
We think these things are important because we've tried the different options and benefit from our own experience. Your marketerbabble isn't going to sway us now that we've seen and felt the benefits. It may sway the ignorant to buy your Windows Phones, but those folk are becoming passing rare.
It's silly season. There's going to be a lot of this on both sides. It's unsavory, but unfortunately it does work for some fraction of the electorate, enough so that both sides must play this stupid game no matter how much they hate it.
I regret it as much as you do.
As an ambivalent agnostic pantheistic solistic Christian Buddhist (exploratory Jew and Mormon) I have to still confess that Muslim nations have a considerable history of contributions to science and math. To encourage this aspect of their tradition above their current predisposition for religious extremism seems a good thing since they're proud of this heritage too and not willing to give it up even for the bomb vest.
In case you're wondering what that description of my religion is: I don't know if you exist or I do, if I'm making the universe up by myself or in concert with others, but just in case I am not: Jesus had some good lessons, but "know yourself and let go" is cool too. Keep one day a week (pick one!) to not make iPhones, and lay off the liquor and caffeine unless you're in the company of the forever forgiven incapable of sin.
Labelling NASA missions as pork is how we deprecate them between administrations so as to prevent them from providing too much progress. Every prior administration's NASA budget is pork. And in4-8 years this one will be too.
Apple and Microsoft have a patent cross-license deal since 1997. Microsoft agreed to not copy Apple's UI in the deal (which involved a lawsuit about Microsoft Windows copying the Apple UI). That's why Windows Phones don't look like iPhones, and it's why Microsoft is losing in mobile. Apple screwed them on this one, a rare case of the devil overestimating his bargaining power. It's also why despite rampant patent lawsuits Apple isn't suing Microsoft, or vice versa. They have a mutual "all patents" license and for the purposes of mobile patents are on the same team.
I'm just going to let your comment go, and thank you for giving me an opportunity to expand on my comment without a self-reply, you ignorant twit.
It's easier to get treatment for an impacted molar or abdominal abscess in Tijuana than it is 12 miles north in San Diego, if you don't have coverage.
The AMA rate-limits the acceptance of doctors to preserve their premium position in society, regardless of merit. Implied in this is that some must suffer a lack of care to keep the price up. This is not capitalism, since the means of production are limited by some method not relating to demand. If 10 million people presented themselves tomorrow to be tested, all well qualified physicians well schooled in the art and with experience, the AMA would turn almost all of them back to preserve their position as the gatekeeper of medicine and preserve the scarcity of care to preserve the quality of life of their members.
The insurance industry has become a block to the provision of care so successful that a man with ready cash can't get treatment or medicine. This is not capitalism, this is extortion since the benefits of production are blocked by a group with a monopolistic goal that benefits from some large fraction of the people being denied care and suffering great harm or death thereby. The consequences of denial of care, not the benefits of provision of care is the profit engine here. This is not capitalism as the market is not free to respond to changes in demand, and "choose this or die" isn't really part of the capitalism ethos.
We cannot be rid of the suffering without being rid of this system. The system needs to preserve the negative consequences of lack of care to maintain the benefits of quality of life for its maintainers. And that means that some of us must needlessly die to make the lack of insurance or care sufficiently dire to make us pay for the insurance. Or we need to break the system entirely.
I'm for breaking the system entirely and providing a federal "medic corps" of well-educated physicians deeply in student debt to the federal government and rate-limited by the AMA who can work off their debt by providing basic care to all who come with need at a fair wage and some debt forgiveness. Once the debt is paid, these physicians can proceed to the other game having had the benefit of this experience. Perhaps paying the premium rate for a few senior diagnosticians to supervise them. Also by eliminating the AMA privilege of certifying physicians since they've obviously abused the position in a way that is a threat to public health.
There is precedent, as the US Army did create many surgeons during WWII and the Korean War who became some of the great surgeons of the modern era through sheer experience - and these surgeons were mostly college kids at first with little training and no experience.
The alternative is to let our "capitalist" medical system deprive many of us of care entirely. And that's not OK - and it's not capitalism either.
My joke is sad but all good jokes are. We laugh because we dare not cry. Of course there's a grain of truth in it. Otherwise it wouldn't be funny. (It has somehow avoided funny moderation though. Maybe the sadness of it is leaking through).
So while on one hand the political ping-pong game over NASA has resulted in billions of dollars in waste and squandered the talents of our best and brightest, on the other hand it has prevented us from spending hundreds of billions on bad ideas.
The problem is that we've avoided almost all ideas, both good and bad from being followed through. Research might be considered wasteful sometimes, in the sense that oil exploration drills many holes - many of which are dry. But to drill all holes halfway to where the expected oil is before moving your rig to the next site is to guarantee that you'll find no profit except by accident. There's a difference between giving up on a dry hole after you've drilled it, and giving up on all holes after you've drilled them halfway.
Partisanship is great for space policy, as it makes many more space policies than can be implemented, and replication of policies is the point of policy - it is a lifeform unto itself, a parasite on the body politick. It is not so great for space exploration or discovery or science, since we go halfway to everywhere and turn back. But for policy, it's great. We've never had more laws and policies about space than we do right now, and that trend is unlikely to reverse.
The pragmatist in me thinks commercial space corporations need to hurry up and get big enough to graft along with big boys so they can get a place at the troughs of power, and we can get space exploration moving again.
Maybe sooner than you think. And this wallowing at the trough does cost the taxpayer. Not that I mind that. One of the key purposes of government seems to be to deplete the surplus productivity and prevent dangerous excess idleness thereby. The problem with wasting tax money on space research is that left unmolested those darned engineers will actually invent things that improve the average productivity and thereby make the idleness problem worse! Which is why it's important to reorganize them periodically to prevent them from making too much progress. Much better to have people building roads into the wilderness. Roads erode away.
But the British East India Company eventually became so powerful that it raised private armies, waged war, seized territories including most of India, and had to be shut down by the crown. Remember that successful corporate operations in space means that a commercial entity is going to be manipulating vast amounts of mass and energy directly overhead - in a manner that might exceed any terrestrial government's power to shut it down. Be careful what you wish for. You might get it.
They do. There is considerable expansion in Canadian datacenters right now, and I believe Greenland too. Latencies can be an issue, but for some things like compute clouds it's not a concern. Ambient cooling is making big strides, as is datacenter thermal energy recovery. If you throw off heat it's possible to use it for other industrial uses, to heat human spaces, to melt the ice on streets and sidewalks and so on.
Come on. That's just funny money anyway. Nobody seriously believes that debt will ever be paid, do they? Even now we have candidates for national office crowing about how they're each going to reduce the tax burden that doesn't even come close to covering running expenses.
Not really. You can do a lot with LH2/LO2 if you have enough of it on orbit to boost a LEO craft out beyond cislunar space. Planetary Resources has the start of a plan, big-money backing, and they're cash-flow positive. I think they've got good odds of kickstarting something interesting.
Every new administration we get to keep things fresh by having an entirely new space policy. The incoming administration gets to label the prior efforts a billion-dollar boondoggle and ashcan it, putting their unique stamp on a whole new paradigm that can achieve new heights of replicating prior work until it, too, is ashcanned by the next administration before too much progress is made.
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Last Christmas it was only 700,000 units per day - and it was the holidays. June was but 3 months ago, and it was only 900,000 then. Now it's the off season and 1.3 million per day. With a ramp to holiday volumes we could see a 3x year over year increase. I would say that Android is still seeing considerable growth.
Just Android's increase in sales per day over the last three months is the entire market for the wildly successful iPhone. Nearly 100% increase in just nine months, from an immense base. This sort of growth is supposed to not even be possible. At some point sheer volume dominance kicks in, and the thing becomes hard (but not impossible) to displace.
I don't know what you think good growth is, but if this ain't it everybody else in the smartphone industry is toast.
I like ICS just fine on my Transformer I bought on launch day, but Gingerbread works just fine on my 2 year old phone. At renewal time I'll get a phone with JellyBean. In the meantime, all the apps I like work great on both.
1.3 million Android activations a day. I guess we like it this way.
The number of developers they can release it to before every detail is out is approximately one.
Humans could have no greater nor swifter impact on the CO2 balance than the evolution of white-rot fungus. That fungus ended the carboniferous era by evolving a species that could metabolize cellulose. Before then dead trees just sat until they could become coal. When this fungus evolved though, it quickly encompassed the Earth and consumed all of the cellulose available to the depths it could reach, releasing untold billions of tons of C02 and methane into the air before it ran out of readily available cellulose to consume. And that's why coal seams have well-defined borders. White-rot fungus is also why there will be no more coal. Life has found a way to prevent it.
Alas, no mod points. +1 in spirit anyway.
A reasonable court would find that representatives of the copyright holder publishing the material under the YouTube terms is a license grant. But a court had to weigh in on this anyway, and Google had to pay lawyers money to say "but they said....".
Actually, Viacom sued google for distributing on youtube content uploaded by their own employees, both from their own offices and the employees homes.
Censorship is such a bad thing that here in the US it is one of the powers explicitly prohibited the government. "Congress shall make no law..." And yet apparently now we allow the courts to permit private corporations to require other private corporations to censor the Democratic National Convention, based on Congress' implementation of the Copyright clause and so get our censorship third hand but still enforced by the government - and we let that go. Interesting. It appears that Hollywood has "fixed" the First Amendment "glitch".
We are not going to respond to this in the reasonable, measured way that I think we should.
To be fair it's not as if there are as many good apps to store on the internal memory anyway.
With how well samsung's own devices are selling they may just want those part production capacities for their own high-margin products instead of the slim margins Apple pays for parts.
We think these things are important because we've tried the different options and benefit from our own experience. Your marketerbabble isn't going to sway us now that we've seen and felt the benefits. It may sway the ignorant to buy your Windows Phones, but those folk are becoming passing rare.
What is it with this fauxbama shit?
It's silly season. There's going to be a lot of this on both sides. It's unsavory, but unfortunately it does work for some fraction of the electorate, enough so that both sides must play this stupid game no matter how much they hate it. I regret it as much as you do.
As an ambivalent agnostic pantheistic solistic Christian Buddhist (exploratory Jew and Mormon) I have to still confess that Muslim nations have a considerable history of contributions to science and math. To encourage this aspect of their tradition above their current predisposition for religious extremism seems a good thing since they're proud of this heritage too and not willing to give it up even for the bomb vest.
In case you're wondering what that description of my religion is: I don't know if you exist or I do, if I'm making the universe up by myself or in concert with others, but just in case I am not: Jesus had some good lessons, but "know yourself and let go" is cool too. Keep one day a week (pick one!) to not make iPhones, and lay off the liquor and caffeine unless you're in the company of the forever forgiven incapable of sin.
Did I do that right? Did I forget somebody?
Labelling NASA missions as pork is how we deprecate them between administrations so as to prevent them from providing too much progress. Every prior administration's NASA budget is pork. And in4-8 years this one will be too.
For 2011, yes. For the 2013 launch date, no.
Apple and Microsoft have a patent cross-license deal since 1997. Microsoft agreed to not copy Apple's UI in the deal (which involved a lawsuit about Microsoft Windows copying the Apple UI). That's why Windows Phones don't look like iPhones, and it's why Microsoft is losing in mobile. Apple screwed them on this one, a rare case of the devil overestimating his bargaining power. It's also why despite rampant patent lawsuits Apple isn't suing Microsoft, or vice versa. They have a mutual "all patents" license and for the purposes of mobile patents are on the same team.
I'm just going to let your comment go, and thank you for giving me an opportunity to expand on my comment without a self-reply, you ignorant twit.
It's easier to get treatment for an impacted molar or abdominal abscess in Tijuana than it is 12 miles north in San Diego, if you don't have coverage.
The AMA rate-limits the acceptance of doctors to preserve their premium position in society, regardless of merit. Implied in this is that some must suffer a lack of care to keep the price up. This is not capitalism, since the means of production are limited by some method not relating to demand. If 10 million people presented themselves tomorrow to be tested, all well qualified physicians well schooled in the art and with experience, the AMA would turn almost all of them back to preserve their position as the gatekeeper of medicine and preserve the scarcity of care to preserve the quality of life of their members.
The insurance industry has become a block to the provision of care so successful that a man with ready cash can't get treatment or medicine. This is not capitalism, this is extortion since the benefits of production are blocked by a group with a monopolistic goal that benefits from some large fraction of the people being denied care and suffering great harm or death thereby. The consequences of denial of care, not the benefits of provision of care is the profit engine here. This is not capitalism as the market is not free to respond to changes in demand, and "choose this or die" isn't really part of the capitalism ethos.
We cannot be rid of the suffering without being rid of this system. The system needs to preserve the negative consequences of lack of care to maintain the benefits of quality of life for its maintainers. And that means that some of us must needlessly die to make the lack of insurance or care sufficiently dire to make us pay for the insurance. Or we need to break the system entirely.
I'm for breaking the system entirely and providing a federal "medic corps" of well-educated physicians deeply in student debt to the federal government and rate-limited by the AMA who can work off their debt by providing basic care to all who come with need at a fair wage and some debt forgiveness. Once the debt is paid, these physicians can proceed to the other game having had the benefit of this experience. Perhaps paying the premium rate for a few senior diagnosticians to supervise them. Also by eliminating the AMA privilege of certifying physicians since they've obviously abused the position in a way that is a threat to public health.
There is precedent, as the US Army did create many surgeons during WWII and the Korean War who became some of the great surgeons of the modern era through sheer experience - and these surgeons were mostly college kids at first with little training and no experience.
The alternative is to let our "capitalist" medical system deprive many of us of care entirely. And that's not OK - and it's not capitalism either.
My joke is sad but all good jokes are. We laugh because we dare not cry. Of course there's a grain of truth in it. Otherwise it wouldn't be funny. (It has somehow avoided funny moderation though. Maybe the sadness of it is leaking through).
So while on one hand the political ping-pong game over NASA has resulted in billions of dollars in waste and squandered the talents of our best and brightest, on the other hand it has prevented us from spending hundreds of billions on bad ideas.
The problem is that we've avoided almost all ideas, both good and bad from being followed through. Research might be considered wasteful sometimes, in the sense that oil exploration drills many holes - many of which are dry. But to drill all holes halfway to where the expected oil is before moving your rig to the next site is to guarantee that you'll find no profit except by accident. There's a difference between giving up on a dry hole after you've drilled it, and giving up on all holes after you've drilled them halfway.
Partisanship is great for space policy, as it makes many more space policies than can be implemented, and replication of policies is the point of policy - it is a lifeform unto itself, a parasite on the body politick. It is not so great for space exploration or discovery or science, since we go halfway to everywhere and turn back. But for policy, it's great. We've never had more laws and policies about space than we do right now, and that trend is unlikely to reverse.
The pragmatist in me thinks commercial space corporations need to hurry up and get big enough to graft along with big boys so they can get a place at the troughs of power, and we can get space exploration moving again.
Maybe sooner than you think. And this wallowing at the trough does cost the taxpayer. Not that I mind that. One of the key purposes of government seems to be to deplete the surplus productivity and prevent dangerous excess idleness thereby. The problem with wasting tax money on space research is that left unmolested those darned engineers will actually invent things that improve the average productivity and thereby make the idleness problem worse! Which is why it's important to reorganize them periodically to prevent them from making too much progress. Much better to have people building roads into the wilderness. Roads erode away.
But the British East India Company eventually became so powerful that it raised private armies, waged war, seized territories including most of India, and had to be shut down by the crown. Remember that successful corporate operations in space means that a commercial entity is going to be manipulating vast amounts of mass and energy directly overhead - in a manner that might exceed any terrestrial government's power to shut it down. Be careful what you wish for. You might get it.
I would not hold out the US health care system as representative of "capitalism".
They do. There is considerable expansion in Canadian datacenters right now, and I believe Greenland too. Latencies can be an issue, but for some things like compute clouds it's not a concern. Ambient cooling is making big strides, as is datacenter thermal energy recovery. If you throw off heat it's possible to use it for other industrial uses, to heat human spaces, to melt the ice on streets and sidewalks and so on.
A: Don't put it in.
Come on. That's just funny money anyway. Nobody seriously believes that debt will ever be paid, do they? Even now we have candidates for national office crowing about how they're each going to reduce the tax burden that doesn't even come close to covering running expenses.
Not really. You can do a lot with LH2/LO2 if you have enough of it on orbit to boost a LEO craft out beyond cislunar space. Planetary Resources has the start of a plan, big-money backing, and they're cash-flow positive. I think they've got good odds of kickstarting something interesting.
Every new administration we get to keep things fresh by having an entirely new space policy. The incoming administration gets to label the prior efforts a billion-dollar boondoggle and ashcan it, putting their unique stamp on a whole new paradigm that can achieve new heights of replicating prior work until it, too, is ashcanned by the next administration before too much progress is made.