WP7 is killing them! They've doubled their sales, while Android and iOS are essentially stagnant (and hope for them increasing their % of sales is dim, because there's not really anywhere to go up from "all of it").
Time for MS to hold another goofy funeral for the iPhone. Last time it was pretty dead -- windows phone nearly killed it -- but this time it really looks like it's just dead. If it weren't for old people, no one would be buying iphones. WP7 has killed it with it's slam-dunk future popularity. Probably. Slam-dunk, this time.
>> It's the latest stage in the international patent conflict that's been raging over mobile devices, which has included the recent Samsung victory over Apple in an Australian court and a defeat for Samsung in a Dutch court.
Sounds like a game of RISK. I hope they're not spending any more to decide these battles than the cost of a few dice! I trust that since it's all just a pointless game played for fun, that there won't be any real consequences for people in the countries that these companies are fighting over.
We need some angry nerds now!!! We need to launch them at the walls of these walled gardens and break them down! We need to squash these greedy pigs who are ruining everything for us!
Well in the US freedom of the press is protected as part of free speech. Also, such a law would be unnecessary in the US because people who say the wrong thing are rapists and can be put in jail forever for that.
Doubleplusone boring! RobinEggs wants to wait till it's too late, before we do anything about it. Let the government surround you and hold a gun to your head, but they're not doing anything wrong until they pull the trigger!
What a great scam! Expect insurance to cover any litigious liabilities, and then sue the insurance! If they lose the case against the insurance company, will they go after the insurance company again to cover the costs of the first case? Just repeat forever.
Man, the recording industry lives by their own rules of common sense and decency (or lack thereof).
You're proposing they do the opposite of crying wolf, and keep quiet when there is imminent danger.
"I don't want to alarm you, but there's a wolf nearby. I wouldn't worry though... if you move slowly sometime soon, you should be able to get far enough away within 30 minutes." (5 minutes later, while being eaten): "Why didn't you warn me that the wolf was only 5 minutes away, not 30?!" "Well, at least this way you had a decent, calm, slow pace when you were killed."
It's not "almost all China". That's completely retarded. It's not the rate that CO2 output is increasing that is the problem, it's the level of CO2 output. China only recently surpassed US in level. Worse than that though, it's not just a yearly output that's the problem, but decades worth of output, because CO2 stays around in the atmosphere for a very long time.
Check out this chart from a recent slashdot story: http://planet3.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/cdiac.gif Compare the area under the graph of the US relative to the area under China. It's more appropriate to say "It's almost all US" at this point. China, having produced less CO2 in the past decades but now producing more, has only just started to catch up. It's got a long way to go.
That said, with the US not slowing down and China racing to catch up, if their rate of production keeps up then things are going to get a lot worse a lot faster. However you spin it, rate of CO2 production by the US is not sustainable, whether they're producing most of the world's CO2, or (worst case) if their dangerously high levels are only a small fraction of it. In the latter case, in the future the US would be making things generally worse, while China might be rapidly endangering the planet, but that hasn't yet happened and it still wouldn't make the problem "almost all China".
Water vapor, actually. Myst, which is a mythical island, is a land in which one uses special books written by an artisan and explorer named Atrus to travel to several worlds known as "Ages".
I like Unity. It's definitely not perfect. Agreed it's not usually easy to find everything.
After using OSX for a year for work (and for everything else as it became my primary computer), and then having to go back to Win7, I couldn't stand it. Navigating nested menus as implemented in windows, is simply unpleasant.
I missed OSX but remained cheap, so I quickly switched to Ubuntu 10.10. 11.10 is even "less windowsy", and I'm loving not navigating nested menus in everyday use.
After getting used to OSX, win7 feels like garbage. Apple is in a class well above MS when it comes to usability. A lot of "all the changes" we're seeing are improvements, and they're not complete yet. After you get used to something new, the "old" that you were previously used to can often seem really bad once you're no longer using it.
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GP's probably sore that the other guy got all 10000 tokens.
Nice curtains, maybe?
Yeah, That will outsell Android, with its robots.
Maybe they could make it brown?
WP7 is killing them! They've doubled their sales, while Android and iOS are essentially stagnant (and hope for them increasing their % of sales is dim, because there's not really anywhere to go up from "all of it").
Time for MS to hold another goofy funeral for the iPhone.
Last time it was pretty dead -- windows phone nearly killed it -- but this time it really looks like it's just dead. If it weren't for old people, no one would be buying iphones. WP7 has killed it with it's slam-dunk future popularity. Probably. Slam-dunk, this time.
>> It's the latest stage in the international patent conflict that's been raging over mobile devices, which has included the recent Samsung victory over Apple in an Australian court and a defeat for Samsung in a Dutch court.
Sounds like a game of RISK. I hope they're not spending any more to decide these battles than the cost of a few dice! I trust that since it's all just a pointless game played for fun, that there won't be any real consequences for people in the countries that these companies are fighting over.
Occam's Razor requires us to believe
Or what? He'll cut us?
I dunno, if you capitalize it, Faraway Matter has a certain charm to it.
Could it maybe be red matter though?
We need some angry nerds now!!! We need to launch them at the walls of these walled gardens and break them down! We need to squash these greedy pigs who are ruining everything for us!
Want to start a war but need some help starting it? Send a paper airplane into future-enemy territory! With any luck, they'll take the next step.
That will make the backup a lot easier.
Yes.
There have been hacking instances somewhere in the world, in the past, probably. But this is the first one that's cyber.
Well in the US freedom of the press is protected as part of free speech.
Also, such a law would be unnecessary in the US because people who say the wrong thing are rapists and can be put in jail forever for that.
Doubleplusone boring! RobinEggs wants to wait till it's too late, before we do anything about it. Let the government surround you and hold a gun to your head, but they're not doing anything wrong until they pull the trigger!
It's the gift that keeps giving back.
Friends? Does that mean that the US shares biometric data on all US citizens with Afghanistan? Aw how adorable!
The US doesn't have friends. It has friendos.
You serious Clark?
It's when you're secure from terrorists, who for example might use radiation to endanger you while you're waiting around to get on a plane.
What a great scam!
Expect insurance to cover any litigious liabilities, and then sue the insurance!
If they lose the case against the insurance company, will they go after the insurance company again to cover the costs of the first case? Just repeat forever.
Man, the recording industry lives by their own rules of common sense and decency (or lack thereof).
You're proposing they do the opposite of crying wolf, and keep quiet when there is imminent danger.
"I don't want to alarm you, but there's a wolf nearby. I wouldn't worry though... if you move slowly sometime soon, you should be able to get far enough away within 30 minutes."
(5 minutes later, while being eaten): "Why didn't you warn me that the wolf was only 5 minutes away, not 30?!"
"Well, at least this way you had a decent, calm, slow pace when you were killed."
It's not "almost all China". That's completely retarded.
It's not the rate that CO2 output is increasing that is the problem, it's the level of CO2 output. China only recently surpassed US in level.
Worse than that though, it's not just a yearly output that's the problem, but decades worth of output, because CO2 stays around in the atmosphere for a very long time.
Check out this chart from a recent slashdot story: http://planet3.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/cdiac.gif
Compare the area under the graph of the US relative to the area under China.
It's more appropriate to say "It's almost all US" at this point. China, having produced less CO2 in the past decades but now producing more, has only just started to catch up. It's got a long way to go.
That said, with the US not slowing down and China racing to catch up, if their rate of production keeps up then things are going to get a lot worse a lot faster. However you spin it, rate of CO2 production by the US is not sustainable, whether they're producing most of the world's CO2, or (worst case) if their dangerously high levels are only a small fraction of it. In the latter case, in the future the US would be making things generally worse, while China might be rapidly endangering the planet, but that hasn't yet happened and it still wouldn't make the problem "almost all China".
Water vapor, actually. Myst, which is a mythical island, is a land in which one uses special books written by an artisan and explorer named Atrus to travel to several worlds known as "Ages".
I seem to recall something about how Microsoft is making more money from Android devices than they are from their own mobile hand-held devices.
I'm making more money selling lemonade on the street than ms is making from their phones. But then, I've sold a few glasses of lemonade.
I like Unity. It's definitely not perfect. Agreed it's not usually easy to find everything.
After using OSX for a year for work (and for everything else as it became my primary computer), and then having to go back to Win7, I couldn't stand it. Navigating nested menus as implemented in windows, is simply unpleasant.
I missed OSX but remained cheap, so I quickly switched to Ubuntu 10.10. 11.10 is even "less windowsy", and I'm loving not navigating nested menus in everyday use.
After getting used to OSX, win7 feels like garbage. Apple is in a class well above MS when it comes to usability. A lot of "all the changes" we're seeing are improvements, and they're not complete yet. After you get used to something new, the "old" that you were previously used to can often seem really bad once you're no longer using it.
Righthaven will go under.. and then re-emerge as a different LLC and keep right on trucking.
It will re-emerge as something named Goodharbor or Righteousdefenders or Correctangels or some other bullshit.