Apple's legal barrel is too hot. You can only engage a certain number of fronts in a certain number of courts and countries. And at a certain point if you win TOO many patent battles, you trigger anti-trust attention. It's not inconsistent, it's realpolitik.
Aboard the Beagle, Darwin visited Tenerife, the Cape Verde Islands, the Brazilian coast, Argentina, Uruguay, Tierra del Fuego, Chile, the Galapagos Archipelago, Tahiti, New Zealand, Tasmania and the Keeling Islands... He'd miss a lot of committee meetings.
The display (monitor), input (keyboard) and sound have all increased in the relative value added. I think processor speed is not irrelevant, but it is less relevant to flat/touch screens, keyboard/voice recognition, and sound quality. The displays have never followed Moore's law, which is probably why they now glue them indelibly to the chip in tablets, so you have to replace them when the chip does go.
Samsung is the biggest investment competitor to Intel in the chip market, right? [ http://tinyurl.com/samsungintel ] What does Apple need Intel for, give the guys at Samsung a call. What could go wrong?
If Facebook was actually serious, he would have gotten a Non-Disclosure Agreement by now, as FB has way too much exposure to insider trading shenanigan penalties. I assume if he's seeking advice on slashdot, he has either already blown it or is prematurely bragging to a girlfriend.
I can picture the Taliban watching the back of their heads on a screen, like in the Mel Brooks film. "Prepare to fast forward!" http://tinyurl.com/cqbwm5y
If I'm not mistaken, Red Cross, CARE, Oxfam, etc. do this, in fact I'm not sure who doesn't. (Mommy, I'm tired of Bronco Bama and Mitt Romney on Slashdot.)
However, society is functioning on Alternating Current, not Direct Current. We need negativity. Dialectic, argument, karma, resistance to oppression, corrective action, all work a little better when you can harness a little negativity.
So the other USA born Red Sox players should give up Pedro, Papi, Manny, etc., accept a losing team, and earn less money. Got it. Kind of like how integration of the leagues cost the jobs of all those white baseball players, rather than created bigger and better teams, larger audiences, and made everyone in baseball more money. It was a big sacrifice to bring on Jackie Robinson, Henry Aaron, Willie Mays, hurt the league...
I'm an employer, and I'm puzzled that people don't understand that bringing the MOST TALENTED people into the company raises the salaries of EVERYONE in the company. If a baseball team refuses to sign up Dominicans, do the other players make more money? NO. Getting the best people is in the best interest of the the whole league. As for taking jobs away, the USA has 8 percent unemployment, and 15% of job applicants are worthless or even harmful to the company (and therefore to the wages of the other 85%). 100% employment is the equivalent of letting EVERYONE play on your baseball team, putting 70 year olds in the batting order.
THEORY 1: From parents word of mouth, to church (organized sermons), to printing press, to larger printing presses, to internet. See growth of world literacy http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:World_illiteracy_1970-2010.svg&page=1 Literacy allows ideas to travel like invasive species, wiping out stupidity. Some virulent strains of stupidity still survive, and the Youtubization (audio and video) phenomena may make other forms of communication to trump literacy. But for the period of the study, IQ or test taking ability would be expected to increase as literacy increases.
THEORY 2: As Jesus said to his disciple "Psst, walk on the rocks". If you are using the same test for intelligence, word is going to get around how to pass that test. We don't know what kind of native intelligence is getting lost in "illiterate tribes" as the succeeding generations become literate rather than stick to old ways. Evolution vs. Diversity... The extinction of languages makes it difficult to tell whether the surviving languages are testing for their own genes.
I'd go with theory 1. But it's possible that IQ tests may just be measuring the rate of growth of a western IQ invasive species which tests it's own strain of DNA. If Whales had fingers and became the dominant species and flooded the land masses, drowning land mammals, they'd measure something different and find a statistical improvement in use of Whale intelligence.
Voice recognition is less and less of a joke every year. If they don't achieve it, then keyboards will remain more important than vertical-ness, and the laptops will outlive the pads fads. If they do achieve 99.9% voice (and I'm blown away at how good my Android voice recognition is compared to a few years ago), then I doubt vertical-ness will matter. Who would have predicted the longevity of QWERTY? QWERTY will probably die when China passes USA in device demand, which is very soon, because the Chinese characters have no loyalty to QWERTY.
I thought we were talking about the peaceful protest at Google offices in London (RTFA), not comparing the protest over the 1988 movie with riots in the Middle East. I'm also surprised that your statement that "free speech only truly exists in the USA" has been modded up to 5.
I went and looked up "The Last Temptation of Christ" on Wikipedia. The 1988 Scorsese movie drew protests by 600 offended Christians in California. Adjusted for inflation, that's about 800 London Imams. And it wasn't on youtube. The point being that people claiming to represent all Muslims or all Christians don't deserve the ink. This is more about the disintegration of journalism than an attack on Islam or a serious threat to freedom of speech.
"The Last Temptation of Christ's eponymous final sequence depicts the crucified Jesus—tempted by what turns out to be Satan in the form of a beautiful, androgynous child—experiencing a dream or alternative reality where he comes down from the cross, marries Mary Magdalene (and later Mary and Martha), and lives out his life as a full mortal man...."
"Because of these radical departures from the gospel narratives—and especially a brief scene wherein Jesus and Mary Magdalene consummate their marriage—several Christian fundamentalist groups organized vocal protests and boycotts of the film prior to and upon its release. One protest, organized by a religious Californian radio station, gathered 600 protesters to picket the headquarters of Universal Studios' parent company MCA;[5] one of the protestors dressed as MCA's Chairman Lew Wasserman and pretended to drive nails through Jesus' hands into a wooden cross.[4] Bill Bright of Campus Crusade for Christ offered to buy the film's negative from Universal in order to destroy it.[5] The protests were effective in convincing several theater chains not to screen the film;[5] one of those chains, General Cinemas, later apologized to Scorsese for doing so.[4]
In some countries, including Turkey, Mexico, Chile, and Argentina, the film was banned or censored for several years. As of July 2010, the movie continues to be banned in Chile, the Philippines and Singapore.[6]
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Apple's legal barrel is too hot. You can only engage a certain number of fronts in a certain number of courts and countries. And at a certain point if you win TOO many patent battles, you trigger anti-trust attention. It's not inconsistent, it's realpolitik.
new meaning
Aboard the Beagle, Darwin visited Tenerife, the Cape Verde Islands, the Brazilian coast, Argentina, Uruguay, Tierra del Fuego, Chile, the Galapagos Archipelago, Tahiti, New Zealand, Tasmania and the Keeling Islands... He'd miss a lot of committee meetings.
SOME guys get to have TWO girlfriends...
The display (monitor), input (keyboard) and sound have all increased in the relative value added. I think processor speed is not irrelevant, but it is less relevant to flat/touch screens, keyboard/voice recognition, and sound quality. The displays have never followed Moore's law, which is probably why they now glue them indelibly to the chip in tablets, so you have to replace them when the chip does go.
Samsung is the biggest investment competitor to Intel in the chip market, right? [ http://tinyurl.com/samsungintel ] What does Apple need Intel for, give the guys at Samsung a call. What could go wrong?
If Facebook was actually serious, he would have gotten a Non-Disclosure Agreement by now, as FB has way too much exposure to insider trading shenanigan penalties. I assume if he's seeking advice on slashdot, he has either already blown it or is prematurely bragging to a girlfriend.
can you see me now?
I can picture the Taliban watching the back of their heads on a screen, like in the Mel Brooks film. "Prepare to fast forward!" http://tinyurl.com/cqbwm5y
If I'm not mistaken, Red Cross, CARE, Oxfam, etc. do this, in fact I'm not sure who doesn't. (Mommy, I'm tired of Bronco Bama and Mitt Romney on Slashdot.)
I kept putting off the robo call at my business, offering me help to maintain my company website listing on Google. What will I do now?
However, society is functioning on Alternating Current, not Direct Current. We need negativity. Dialectic, argument, karma, resistance to oppression, corrective action, all work a little better when you can harness a little negativity.
How can you all debate this study from Case Western! We have to do something!!!
So the other USA born Red Sox players should give up Pedro, Papi, Manny, etc., accept a losing team, and earn less money. Got it. Kind of like how integration of the leagues cost the jobs of all those white baseball players, rather than created bigger and better teams, larger audiences, and made everyone in baseball more money. It was a big sacrifice to bring on Jackie Robinson, Henry Aaron, Willie Mays, hurt the league...
Slashdot has summaries of articles, snippets, and links to other publications. Necessairement, nous aussi devons payer, n'est-ce pas?
They started in the Nile River Valley. We should have killed them before they evolved into other rich people.
It sounded even more ridiculous yesterday. So from those two data points, let's plan a picnic.
Friday night entertainment
I'm an employer, and I'm puzzled that people don't understand that bringing the MOST TALENTED people into the company raises the salaries of EVERYONE in the company. If a baseball team refuses to sign up Dominicans, do the other players make more money? NO. Getting the best people is in the best interest of the the whole league. As for taking jobs away, the USA has 8 percent unemployment, and 15% of job applicants are worthless or even harmful to the company (and therefore to the wages of the other 85%). 100% employment is the equivalent of letting EVERYONE play on your baseball team, putting 70 year olds in the batting order.
THEORY 1: From parents word of mouth, to church (organized sermons), to printing press, to larger printing presses, to internet. See growth of world literacy http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:World_illiteracy_1970-2010.svg&page=1 Literacy allows ideas to travel like invasive species, wiping out stupidity. Some virulent strains of stupidity still survive, and the Youtubization (audio and video) phenomena may make other forms of communication to trump literacy. But for the period of the study, IQ or test taking ability would be expected to increase as literacy increases.
THEORY 2: As Jesus said to his disciple "Psst, walk on the rocks". If you are using the same test for intelligence, word is going to get around how to pass that test. We don't know what kind of native intelligence is getting lost in "illiterate tribes" as the succeeding generations become literate rather than stick to old ways. Evolution vs. Diversity... The extinction of languages makes it difficult to tell whether the surviving languages are testing for their own genes.
I'd go with theory 1. But it's possible that IQ tests may just be measuring the rate of growth of a western IQ invasive species which tests it's own strain of DNA. If Whales had fingers and became the dominant species and flooded the land masses, drowning land mammals, they'd measure something different and find a statistical improvement in use of Whale intelligence.
Voice recognition is less and less of a joke every year. If they don't achieve it, then keyboards will remain more important than vertical-ness, and the laptops will outlive the pads fads. If they do achieve 99.9% voice (and I'm blown away at how good my Android voice recognition is compared to a few years ago), then I doubt vertical-ness will matter. Who would have predicted the longevity of QWERTY? QWERTY will probably die when China passes USA in device demand, which is very soon, because the Chinese characters have no loyalty to QWERTY.
I thought we were talking about the peaceful protest at Google offices in London (RTFA), not comparing the protest over the 1988 movie with riots in the Middle East. I'm also surprised that your statement that "free speech only truly exists in the USA" has been modded up to 5.
...Our Aunties. They have been farting in our general direction far too long.
I went and looked up "The Last Temptation of Christ" on Wikipedia. The 1988 Scorsese movie drew protests by 600 offended Christians in California. Adjusted for inflation, that's about 800 London Imams. And it wasn't on youtube. The point being that people claiming to represent all Muslims or all Christians don't deserve the ink. This is more about the disintegration of journalism than an attack on Islam or a serious threat to freedom of speech.
"The Last Temptation of Christ's eponymous final sequence depicts the crucified Jesus—tempted by what turns out to be Satan in the form of a beautiful, androgynous child—experiencing a dream or alternative reality where he comes down from the cross, marries Mary Magdalene (and later Mary and Martha), and lives out his life as a full mortal man...."
"Because of these radical departures from the gospel narratives—and especially a brief scene wherein Jesus and Mary Magdalene consummate their marriage—several Christian fundamentalist groups organized vocal protests and boycotts of the film prior to and upon its release. One protest, organized by a religious Californian radio station, gathered 600 protesters to picket the headquarters of Universal Studios' parent company MCA;[5] one of the protestors dressed as MCA's Chairman Lew Wasserman and pretended to drive nails through Jesus' hands into a wooden cross.[4] Bill Bright of Campus Crusade for Christ offered to buy the film's negative from Universal in order to destroy it.[5] The protests were effective in convincing several theater chains not to screen the film;[5] one of those chains, General Cinemas, later apologized to Scorsese for doing so.[4]
In some countries, including Turkey, Mexico, Chile, and Argentina, the film was banned or censored for several years. As of July 2010, the movie continues to be banned in Chile, the Philippines and Singapore.[6]
My kids know three languages I2/3 of 3 kids have 3 fluent, the third has 2 fluent and is starting 3rd). But that's nothing compared to their geography. The Snap Maps game was awesome, I play it myself. http://www.coolmath-games.com/0-geography-map-snap-usa/map-snap-Africa.html