Who's going to reject Scotland, anyway? Scotland, like California, sends in more tax money than they get back, and they're sitting on huge oil reserves in the North Sea. Or are you afraid your family is going to lose it's feudal estate with it's captive population of serfs?
Charlie Stross recently posted a very good take on this: This is a permanent change.
East and West Germany might disagree.
Any voter should consider the probable situation twenty or fourty years from now, not whatever happens in a year or two.
They're probably looking off at finally getting free from feudalism. Half the land in the country is owned by less than 500 families, which they lease out to the serfs, I mean renters, for a profit.
An 18 year old sitting on a gold mine - like when LeBron James and his mom went out and got some new cars before he ever got his first paycheck with the Cavs. Scotland has great drilling opportunities in the North Sea; it's one reason why Cameron has been fighting so hard to keep the Scots in the family.
Which is like Microsoft threatening to offshore parts of their business if their workers get too uppity. Scotland is going to remain on the British Pound, so the banks are working on FUD for the time being.
For starters, to finally get out from under the yoke of feudalism. No, I'm not kidding. 432 families own half the land in Scotland, which they then rent out to the peasants, I mean proles, I mean for a profit. Any time the Scots try and do something about it, it goes nowhere fast in parliament.
The political side would make more sense if Scotland was greatly different than UK culturally and had a significant short-term history of English subjugation.
Aside from the above, why is Scotland's desire for independence any different than Canada's? Or Australia's? Being a part of the UK was never a choice of the Scottish people.
The economics make less sense -- Scotland has been economically integrated with the larger UK for a long time.
The economically questionable part is not ditching the British Pound at the same time they're ditching the British Crown. Having a sovereign government without a sovereign currency can be extremely risky - just ask Greece or Ireland. Scotland should fare better, though, because of drilling opportunities in the North Sea.
Yeah, well iPhone fans used to mock large screen Android devices.
You mean they stated a product preference, like people who wanted a smaller Samsung phone than the Galaxy 5 because they didn't want a screen that big.
There's simple no reasoning with enthralled fanatics.
Or....they see no reason why they should pay for Shitdoze 8 on a replacement system when they can upgrade to Windows 7 using the DVD they bought a couple years before.
Not everyone is going to run out and get a refund for their Windows installation - this about making sure that those who want to, can.
Thanks for the RIAA fatwah. Hosting and/or downloading files from peer-to-peer networks is not inherently illegal, not matter what your religious dogma says.
The users were hosting the files on a public peer-to-peer network where you essentially advertise to the world you've downloaded the file and are making it available to the world. Since both those acts are illegal
It's a shame, because I'd love a mini tower with at least three drive bays, built in CD burner
So build one. Hackintosh sites have been around for years, some givingmonthly CPU/motherboard guides, and Apple has never gone on the warpath to shut them down. So long as you don't try and sell your Hackintosh commercially, they wont give a shit. If you have some moral problem with that, just buy one of their Dr. Dre headphones that are 95% profit if you want to give them some money.
Then people need stop claiming it's free like they're doing in this thread.
More like: the Stallmanites need to get over their obsession of forcing the other 99.99999999999999999999% of the world to adopt their redefinition of an old word.
The trading of totally irrelevant statements for flopping! There was no ad hominem, just as there was no claim that Apple invented phones or MP3 players. Now, do you have an actual response to the actual topic, Apple being ahead or behind on raw technical features.
Quite a bit? Is a centimeter's difference going to amount to:
"a hidden strategy of increasing the phone sizes of new iphones to deliberately make them unwieldy, and create a problem which can be "solved" with a smart-watch? ie, more crap to sell."
Since they both (Apple and the other fitness bands) require the phone to work, the answer is really yes, for all intents and purposes
By that line of reasoning, there's not much point in having a smartphone as you can get text messages on your vintage Nokia and check your email/facebook when you get home. If the smartwatch was a truly independent device, then we'd have all these complaints plus the extra cost and extra size for batteries and 4G support.
Off the top of my head, a smartwatch, over the Polaris would:
Let your wife check messages/notifications in the rain while leaving her phone safely in her purse or pocket. Discretely check messages/notifications in a meeting without the rudeness of digging out her phone. Receive silent signals to turn left or right on a jog or bike ride from tactile feedback.
I have no use for a 16 passenger van. I don't complain at GM or Ford for making 16 passenger vans, I just don't buy one.
Wake me up when a smartwatch is a standalone device that does everything my Nexus 5 does now with decent battery life and an affordable pricetag. We're making progress, sure, but nowhere near primetime.
Wake me up when a smartphone has all the capabilities of a 32 core server with 256 gigabytes of RAM and a trio of 4k displays.
Some great science can be done on very low budgets, even by high school students. However, Space X was not and never could be the product of a high school science fair. Nor could the Human Genome project.
Remove public funding, and science will indeed to back to hobbyist, 18th Century style....where the only people who can afford to do expensive science are the idle rich. I don't know about you, but I'd rather not trade thousands of universities and colleges doing science involving millions of students and faculty for a few hundred Bill Gates dabbling in their backyard.
And we can tell you're a Hateboi. I don't have a use for a 5.5" phone, it's too big....but I go didn't around whining that the Galaxy (and now the 6 Plus) was a crappy product because it didn't meet my personal preferences.
Not interesting as the iPhone 6 will be available in the same 4.7" form factor as the iPhone 5. The bigger screens, like the watches, are just there for people who want them.
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Who's going to reject Scotland, anyway? Scotland, like California, sends in more tax money than they get back, and they're sitting on huge oil reserves in the North Sea. Or are you afraid your family is going to lose it's feudal estate with it's captive population of serfs?
East and West Germany might disagree.
They're probably looking off at finally getting free from feudalism. Half the land in the country is owned by less than 500 families, which they lease out to the serfs, I mean renters, for a profit.
An 18 year old sitting on a gold mine - like when LeBron James and his mom went out and got some new cars before he ever got his first paycheck with the Cavs. Scotland has great drilling opportunities in the North Sea; it's one reason why Cameron has been fighting so hard to keep the Scots in the family.
Which is like Microsoft threatening to offshore parts of their business if their workers get too uppity. Scotland is going to remain on the British Pound, so the banks are working on FUD for the time being.
For starters, to finally get out from under the yoke of feudalism. No, I'm not kidding. 432 families own half the land in Scotland, which they then rent out to the peasants, I mean proles, I mean for a profit. Any time the Scots try and do something about it, it goes nowhere fast in parliament.
Aside from the above, why is Scotland's desire for independence any different than Canada's? Or Australia's? Being a part of the UK was never a choice of the Scottish people.
The economically questionable part is not ditching the British Pound at the same time they're ditching the British Crown. Having a sovereign government without a sovereign currency can be extremely risky - just ask Greece or Ireland. Scotland should fare better, though, because of drilling opportunities in the North Sea.
So you're trolling? Cases protect the screen from scratches when you accidentally drop the phone, fragility has nothing to do with it.
You mean the self-centered elitist pricks who want all the benefits of living in an advanced society while paying for none of its costs.
So it's not the size of a ham sandwich by the time you put the case on. Slimmer phone = slimmer overall size when you slap a case on it.
You mean they stated a product preference, like people who wanted a smaller Samsung phone than the Galaxy 5 because they didn't want a screen that big.
Indeed, Fandroid.
Or....they see no reason why they should pay for Shitdoze 8 on a replacement system when they can upgrade to Windows 7 using the DVD they bought a couple years before.
Not everyone is going to run out and get a refund for their Windows installation - this about making sure that those who want to, can.
Thanks for the RIAA fatwah. Hosting and/or downloading files from peer-to-peer networks is not inherently illegal, not matter what your religious dogma says.
0 for 2, but thanks for the RIAA boilerplate.
Pay $800 for an Android that does the same thing as a 25 year old PDA.
Which you demonstrate by....complaining about what other people use.
So build one. Hackintosh sites have been around for years, some giving monthly CPU/motherboard guides, and Apple has never gone on the warpath to shut them down. So long as you don't try and sell your Hackintosh commercially, they wont give a shit. If you have some moral problem with that, just buy one of their Dr. Dre headphones that are 95% profit if you want to give them some money.
More like: the Stallmanites need to get over their obsession of forcing the other 99.99999999999999999999% of the world to adopt their redefinition of an old word.
It means having market dominance that is a detriment to the consumer.
No.
Most people are not software geeks. Most people do not dream of spending their weekends downloading a Linux ISO and installing it on their computers.
You could write the same article comparing an Android to a 20 year old Newton.
The trading of totally irrelevant statements for flopping! There was no ad hominem, just as there was no claim that Apple invented phones or MP3 players. Now, do you have an actual response to the actual topic, Apple being ahead or behind on raw technical features .
2002, the year after it's first release, is "eventually"?
Quite a bit? Is a centimeter's difference going to amount to:
"a hidden strategy of increasing the phone sizes of new iphones to deliberately make them unwieldy, and create a problem which can be "solved" with a smart-watch? ie, more crap to sell."
By that line of reasoning, there's not much point in having a smartphone as you can get text messages on your vintage Nokia and check your email/facebook when you get home. If the smartwatch was a truly independent device, then we'd have all these complaints plus the extra cost and extra size for batteries and 4G support.
Off the top of my head, a smartwatch, over the Polaris would:
Let your wife check messages/notifications in the rain while leaving her phone safely in her purse or pocket.
Discretely check messages/notifications in a meeting without the rudeness of digging out her phone.
Receive silent signals to turn left or right on a jog or bike ride from tactile feedback.
I have no use for a 16 passenger van. I don't complain at GM or Ford for making 16 passenger vans, I just don't buy one.
Wake me up when a smartphone has all the capabilities of a 32 core server with 256 gigabytes of RAM and a trio of 4k displays.
/rolls eyes
Some great science can be done on very low budgets, even by high school students. However, Space X was not and never could be the product of a high school science fair. Nor could the Human Genome project.
Remove public funding, and science will indeed to back to hobbyist, 18th Century style....where the only people who can afford to do expensive science are the idle rich. I don't know about you, but I'd rather not trade thousands of universities and colleges doing science involving millions of students and faculty for a few hundred Bill Gates dabbling in their backyard.
And we can tell you're a Hateboi. I don't have a use for a 5.5" phone, it's too big....but I go didn't around whining that the Galaxy (and now the 6 Plus) was a crappy product because it didn't meet my personal preferences.
I just didn't buy one. Try it sometime.
Not interesting as the iPhone 6 will be available in the same 4.7" form factor as the iPhone 5. The bigger screens, like the watches, are just there for people who want them.