Yep, good set of quotes there - Lovins has spun off 5 for profit companies dealing with conservation of energy and energy efficiency - cheap clean abundant energy would definitely be "nothing short of disastrous" for them. Paul Erlich is a conservationist concerned about overpopulation and related effects - another obvious concern that deals with not the argument against clean cheap energy, but more what the population will do to the rest of the environment with it. While could be considered part of the "greens", they have significantly different interests and views on the "free" energy question that have little to do with being against a cheap clean abundant energy source in and of itself.
I understood what you said and largely agree with you, my apologies, I wasn't clear. My opinion is that for an entity like RIM to survive at anything approaching their current size, they need a whole lot more than a niche - they need something profitable with some scale to it. Granted, your "elderly" concept has a large potential market, but generally their income level is lower, so you need to make seriously inexpensive product to make any money off of it.
Can't help but think that RIM's current situation is a lot like what Apple faced with Copland back in the mid-90s. After several years of trying to build their own next-gen system they gave up and purchased NeXT, which we now know as OS X. After numerous OS delays and corporate near-death experiences they finally launched OS X Public Beta in 2000.
What saved Apple from bankruptcy was the iMac.
What saved Apple from bankruptcy was MS's $150M investment, which allowed Apple enough running room to bring out the products that turned the company around. Granted MS's investment at the time was more an attempt to keep the major (and only) secondary player around to point to during their antitrust trial and say "We are not a monopoly! There's Apple" than anything else.
At the least, you deserve a funny mod. I'll wager that Yugo's will become fashionable again probably about the same time as parachute pants return as the hot fad item. But that doesn't detract from the current situation that they need to market the equivalent of Yugo's at a Lexus price to make a decent profit. (Sorry, that car analogy is now dead) The supply/demand curve just doesn't favor their desired pricing model and won't as long as those highly subsidized desirable phones are available for pennies more.
I chose Lexus (Toyota) because it was something other than the usual Mercedes/BMW statement, and I didn't feel the need to go to extremes. On the statement about "crappy", I think I'd rather have a "crappy" Lexus (since that's a small subset of Toyota's vehicles, and Toyota does have some truly crappy cars) than a "good" US car. Less maintenance, less trouble, and a longer good driving life.
No, it's not the end of the handset industry, nor are they in trouble. It's an industry that 80+% of the users toss their perfectly good handset every 18-24 months because their contracts generally make it worthwhile to do so. Just try to get a decent contract with a reasonable monthly fee that's lower than getting the same contract with a brand new shiny phone attached. However, just because you make a handset doesn't mean people will buy it, especially if that handset comes at virtually the same price or within easy disposable income range of the top of the line handsets. Why would you buy a Yugo if for $10 more you can own a Lexus?
It's that Fox News thing again. Tell me again which party ramrodded everything they voted on without a single veto and virtually no dissenting vote when they were in the super majority? Which party couldn't agree on a bill supporting their major plank when they held the majority? And then which party emphatically votes "no" on anything the other party proposes? (See - I'm not telling you what it's about - I'm asking questions. A key distinction between Republicans and those that have critical thinking ability) I doubt you'd realize you brought 1984 into being, since you'd be the first to sign up for the enforcement arm in the Ministry of Truth.
It's crap like this that makes me personally wish we could get rid of the DOE and privatize all schools with vouchers. It is complete BS that people have to put up with public education rather than have a choice of where they can send their kids. If they want some religious nut job school then send them to what ever anti-evolution school they want to send them to. If I want to send my kids to a school that actually thinks for them selves and not some spoon feed crap from the Government then I want to be able to do just that.
Vouchers are the only legitimate way to fund schools with tax dollars. Anything less is nothing more than a legal entity to funnel money to bureaucrats in the name of "the public good."
You're quite and entirely incorrect. It's crap like this that leads to supposedly fictional states like those described in 1984.
Yes. You see there are parts of Texas where wind farming might actually be profitable someday. So of course the greens went right to work finding a mascot to rally around to stop any such notion. Cue the Dune Sagebrush Lizard.
With progressives it is never what they say in public that should be considered, but what they say when they don't think anyone else is listening to some boring CSPAN crap. It isn't about alternative energy, it is about forcing people to use LESS energy, period. So a successful 'alternative' source is just as bad a coal from their perspective.
You really have been watching too much Fox News. I think some critical thinking might help you out, but I doubt it'd take. Green energy doesn't care about how much energy you use, but the environmental impact of what you use. If you could use all the energy you wanted but have zero environmental impact, I'm pretty sure the greens would care less about how much you use.
Nowhere else do you find such an intolerant monoculture as the tenured elite in their ivory towers.
Really? You must have gone to a very special school. In mine, there was a great diversity of opinion bordering on the ludicrous in some cases among the tenured, and several had what would amount to openly declared wars between them if they were nation-states. Then again, they taught me to think critically and analytically, precisely because of the varied viewpoints among them. The students certainly weren't single minded either.
If other references are found that can indicate a better location, shouldn't there be a possibility of still finding the remnants today using one of the new sets of instruments available? I'm assuming without better information (date, approximate location in the sky) it'd be more like searching for a needle in a freshly mown hayfield, but even given the current information, it should be able to restrict the search to a single band across the sky.
I would't ask if I knew what you thought. Just to be clear: I think they're all relatively amusing stories, as in fiction.
My goal in this discussion is to point out the silly things evolutionists( or the christian haters ) believe.
Well, start pointing something out. So far you've not pointed out a single thing except a few false assumptions. "christian haters: would be one false assumption, I have no problem with true christians that actually follow the bible - no where in the bible does it advocate a church, clergy, nuns nor attempting to ramrod mythological tales as "fact" to humankind. It is really annoying when said tales are in direct conflict with scientific evidence. I get some of the sensation of what Galileo must have felt at the time when confronted by some of these folks.
My parting shot: Winnie the Pooh is not speculative science fiction.
However, it's factually equivalent or more relevant when compared to religious texts. Trees grow, honey bees make honey, stuffed animals come to life and talk - what's not real there? (FYI, just in case your reality distortion field prohibits you from seeing the humor, that last clause was meant in jest for those that don't have an axe to grind, and for those that take offense... well, that kind of proves my point.)
Not really - they could allow one posting a day of this crap, not 3 or 4 in one story. That way, no censoring is happening, they could even allow the repeating posters see their posts, but the rest of us could block it. Or perhaps we could have "spam" blocked entirely, per a keyword or catch phrase we'd like to block. I don't care, it'd just be easier without having to wade through spam crap.
Not quite - you still had to eat and sleep. 2 years of grad school wound up running roughly 22K. For comparison: a year's salary for the average grad had dropped to around 25-30K provided you could find a job, much like today; and housing in a "cheap" neighborhood started at over $30K near the school, and $90K where I started working. These would be 40+ year old houses, new I didn't bother looking at.
BTW, this was a well funded public school - I was lucky - tuition went up 5 fold while I was there, and has since doubled a few more times. $3 a semester hour was pretty awesome, but also somewhat unrealistic. equivalent public schools elsewhere or private were 5-50 times more expensive. So the correction happened while I was there.
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Yep, good set of quotes there - Lovins has spun off 5 for profit companies dealing with conservation of energy and energy efficiency - cheap clean abundant energy would definitely be "nothing short of disastrous" for them. Paul Erlich is a conservationist concerned about overpopulation and related effects - another obvious concern that deals with not the argument against clean cheap energy, but more what the population will do to the rest of the environment with it. While could be considered part of the "greens", they have significantly different interests and views on the "free" energy question that have little to do with being against a cheap clean abundant energy source in and of itself.
He sewed his eyes shut because he's afraid to see...
Two cellphone manufacturers enter!
RIM takes one on the chin, and is down for the count!
Don't confound me with that science talk!!!!
I understood what you said and largely agree with you, my apologies, I wasn't clear. My opinion is that for an entity like RIM to survive at anything approaching their current size, they need a whole lot more than a niche - they need something profitable with some scale to it. Granted, your "elderly" concept has a large potential market, but generally their income level is lower, so you need to make seriously inexpensive product to make any money off of it.
What saved Apple from bankruptcy was the iMac.
What saved Apple from bankruptcy was MS's $150M investment, which allowed Apple enough running room to bring out the products that turned the company around. Granted MS's investment at the time was more an attempt to keep the major (and only) secondary player around to point to during their antitrust trial and say "We are not a monopoly! There's Apple" than anything else.
At the least, you deserve a funny mod. I'll wager that Yugo's will become fashionable again probably about the same time as parachute pants return as the hot fad item. But that doesn't detract from the current situation that they need to market the equivalent of Yugo's at a Lexus price to make a decent profit. (Sorry, that car analogy is now dead) The supply/demand curve just doesn't favor their desired pricing model and won't as long as those highly subsidized desirable phones are available for pennies more.
I chose Lexus (Toyota) because it was something other than the usual Mercedes/BMW statement, and I didn't feel the need to go to extremes. On the statement about "crappy", I think I'd rather have a "crappy" Lexus (since that's a small subset of Toyota's vehicles, and Toyota does have some truly crappy cars) than a "good" US car. Less maintenance, less trouble, and a longer good driving life.
No, it's not the end of the handset industry, nor are they in trouble. It's an industry that 80+% of the users toss their perfectly good handset every 18-24 months because their contracts generally make it worthwhile to do so. Just try to get a decent contract with a reasonable monthly fee that's lower than getting the same contract with a brand new shiny phone attached. However, just because you make a handset doesn't mean people will buy it, especially if that handset comes at virtually the same price or within easy disposable income range of the top of the line handsets. Why would you buy a Yugo if for $10 more you can own a Lexus?
They clearly don't have much faith in their faith if they fear that something as simple as thinking would put it in danger.
There's a saying I really enjoyed that went along the lines of: "A church with a lightning rod displays a significant lack of conviction"
So how well do schools teach critical thinking, anyways?
How do you measure how well a schoolkid has been taught critical thinking?
Well, does your kid come home and ask why the sky's blue, or does he say "because God made it blue?"
It's that Fox News thing again. Tell me again which party ramrodded everything they voted on without a single veto and virtually no dissenting vote when they were in the super majority? Which party couldn't agree on a bill supporting their major plank when they held the majority? And then which party emphatically votes "no" on anything the other party proposes? (See - I'm not telling you what it's about - I'm asking questions. A key distinction between Republicans and those that have critical thinking ability) I doubt you'd realize you brought 1984 into being, since you'd be the first to sign up for the enforcement arm in the Ministry of Truth.
It's crap like this that makes me personally wish we could get rid of the DOE and privatize all schools with vouchers. It is complete BS that people have to put up with public education rather than have a choice of where they can send their kids. If they want some religious nut job school then send them to what ever anti-evolution school they want to send them to. If I want to send my kids to a school that actually thinks for them selves and not some spoon feed crap from the Government then I want to be able to do just that.
Vouchers are the only legitimate way to fund schools with tax dollars. Anything less is nothing more than a legal entity to funnel money to bureaucrats in the name of "the public good."
You're quite and entirely incorrect. It's crap like this that leads to supposedly fictional states like those described in 1984.
Texas keep threatening to leave, but fuck, there still part of the states.
Bunch of lying cowards.
Heck, Perry even tried running for president. Of the US.
Yes. You see there are parts of Texas where wind farming might actually be profitable someday. So of course the greens went right to work finding a mascot to rally around to stop any such notion. Cue the Dune Sagebrush Lizard.
With progressives it is never what they say in public that should be considered, but what they say when they don't think anyone else is listening to some boring CSPAN crap. It isn't about alternative energy, it is about forcing people to use LESS energy, period. So a successful 'alternative' source is just as bad a coal from their perspective.
You really have been watching too much Fox News. I think some critical thinking might help you out, but I doubt it'd take. Green energy doesn't care about how much energy you use, but the environmental impact of what you use. If you could use all the energy you wanted but have zero environmental impact, I'm pretty sure the greens would care less about how much you use.
"I'm too busy to research this and form an educated opinion, but I do have time to tell everyone my uninformed opinion."
That explains your "Score:5, Informative". Good old Slashdot. I wonder why I even visit here anymore.
And yet you found the time to add an even more informative and insightful post about someone's signature.
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah....
Nowhere else do you find such an intolerant monoculture as the tenured elite in their ivory towers.
Really? You must have gone to a very special school. In mine, there was a great diversity of opinion bordering on the ludicrous in some cases among the tenured, and several had what would amount to openly declared wars between them if they were nation-states. Then again, they taught me to think critically and analytically, precisely because of the varied viewpoints among them. The students certainly weren't single minded either.
If other references are found that can indicate a better location, shouldn't there be a possibility of still finding the remnants today using one of the new sets of instruments available? I'm assuming without better information (date, approximate location in the sky) it'd be more like searching for a needle in a freshly mown hayfield, but even given the current information, it should be able to restrict the search to a single band across the sky.
you know as well as I.
I would't ask if I knew what you thought. Just to be clear: I think they're all relatively amusing stories, as in fiction.
My goal in this discussion is to point out the silly things evolutionists( or the christian haters ) believe.
Well, start pointing something out. So far you've not pointed out a single thing except a few false assumptions. "christian haters: would be one false assumption, I have no problem with true christians that actually follow the bible - no where in the bible does it advocate a church, clergy, nuns nor attempting to ramrod mythological tales as "fact" to humankind. It is really annoying when said tales are in direct conflict with scientific evidence. I get some of the sensation of what Galileo must have felt at the time when confronted by some of these folks.
My parting shot: Winnie the Pooh is not speculative science fiction.
However, it's factually equivalent or more relevant when compared to religious texts. Trees grow, honey bees make honey, stuffed animals come to life and talk - what's not real there? (FYI, just in case your reality distortion field prohibits you from seeing the humor, that last clause was meant in jest for those that don't have an axe to grind, and for those that take offense... well, that kind of proves my point.)
So tell us, how do you feel about the Spaghetti Monster? Or the Great Turtle? Or Uranus' testicles?
after a few years of deflation, is usually followed by massive inflation. The cycle has yet to be broken.
Not really - they could allow one posting a day of this crap, not 3 or 4 in one story. That way, no censoring is happening, they could even allow the repeating posters see their posts, but the rest of us could block it. Or perhaps we could have "spam" blocked entirely, per a keyword or catch phrase we'd like to block. I don't care, it'd just be easier without having to wade through spam crap.
well, one of the two appears to be. Time will tell, and not too much time either.
Not quite - you still had to eat and sleep. 2 years of grad school wound up running roughly 22K. For comparison: a year's salary for the average grad had dropped to around 25-30K provided you could find a job, much like today; and housing in a "cheap" neighborhood started at over $30K near the school, and $90K where I started working. These would be 40+ year old houses, new I didn't bother looking at.
BTW, this was a well funded public school - I was lucky - tuition went up 5 fold while I was there, and has since doubled a few more times. $3 a semester hour was pretty awesome, but also somewhat unrealistic. equivalent public schools elsewhere or private were 5-50 times more expensive. So the correction happened while I was there.
A religious person has use for a pedestal, the rest of us are fine as we are.