The other big difference is the time it takes for the email client and web browser to load up, and emails will still download while the tablet is asleep.
I use it when I want to get information quickly. I can get to my emails or to a website in less than a second from picking it up, whereas with a laptop it takes maybe 20-30 seconds if it is on standby, or a couple of minutes if it is switched off. Yes you can do these things on a phone, but the bigger screen does make a difference. If I see an email that requires a reply of more than a few words, then I will get out my laptop or go over to the desktop to compose the reply on a proper keyboard.
I agree there is no reason to upgrade everytime there is a new model. I'm quite happy with my iPad 2. If I was buying one today, then I would buy the iPad 4 or possibly one of Google's offerings as they are better, and will last longer before they become obsolete, but as it stands, Apple will probably release the iPad 6 before I consider replacing my existing slab.
If you sell bitcoins that you mined yourself, that would be more likely income tax than capital gains. Obviously it depends which country you are in, but if you take raw materials and turn them into bitcoins, that to me seems no different from taking raw materials and turning them into loaves of bread to sell to people.
No, there was absolutely no possibility that this device could work as a bomb detector. He got some plastic things from a toy shop, made a few changes to it. Total cost of device to him was about £5. He sold it for something like £10,000
And if you violate the membership agreement, what can they do about it? Ask you to leave the premises immediately? But that's what you are trying to do anyway. Revoke your membership? Yes, they can certainly do that.
I'm guessing the mobile phone companies. Porn is already banned on mobile internet, so they have the infrastructure to do it. At the moment if I am on O2, porn is illegal (unless I prove I'm over 18 and opt in to receiving it) over the 2.1GHz 3G network, but if I go 0.3GHz up the dial to their public wifi network, which my phone will do any time it is at a train station, pub, McDonalds etc that has O2 wifi, then I can get all the porn I want.
Not quite. When the money supply increases at a faster rate than the value of the economy, (or decreases at a slower rate than the decline in the economy) then you get inflation.
That's a software issue, not a hardware issue. Money transfer by phone is already very popular in places like Africa and it is often done on dumb phones.
I don't really agree with that. It depends on your business of course. There are many small ebay traders who's business wouldn't exist if there was no internet. They sell a niche product that doesn't have a huge amount of demand, but having access to the whole world gives them the scale they need to make it a viable business.
Then there are local service businesses. If you are a restaurant, it is a good idea to be on google local search so people can find you, and a brochure website with details of opening hours, what you do, and how much it costs can be useful.
There is one company that makes huge amounts of money from small businesses. It is called e-bay, and it is successful because it gives these small comapnies access to a global marketplace. It works for manufacturing and retail where the companies send stuff in the post in exchange for money, but not so much for service businesses.
Their latest 10-Q filing shows $6.6bn in "other current assets", and $5.1bn in "other assets". Prepayments to suppliers will be included in there - "other current assets" if it is in respect of components to be supplied within the next year, or "other assets" if the components are to be supplied after more than one year.
Problem is, you can't turn the Bitcoins back into electricity. Gold coins can be melted down and used to make jewelery and to plate electrical contacts. That's where the intrinsic value comes from.
HMRC won't accept US Dollar bills as payment of my tax bill, but if I pay $ into their bank account, they will accept it as payment of tax at whatever rate Citibank deems them to be worth in British Pounds at the time. That's not the point though. The fact that the IRS and the tax authorities of a few other countries that use the US Dollar as their currency means that American tax-payers will accept my Dollars in exchange for goods and services.
US Dollars can be used to pay your tax bill if you live in the US or a few other countries that use it as their currency. That is where the value comes from.
OK, it contains a fork of the Linux kernel. Nevertheless, it still does not contain much if any code from the GNU operating system. That has all been replaced with Android stuff, which isn't a fork of GNU, it is completely different software that does completely different things.
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They do actually offer their own VOIP service, which charges the same rates for calls as their POTS service.
The other big difference is the time it takes for the email client and web browser to load up, and emails will still download while the tablet is asleep.
Before The Times went behind a paywall, it was making about £1 per reader per year from advertising revenue. It had 10s of millions of readers.
I use it when I want to get information quickly. I can get to my emails or to a website in less than a second from picking it up, whereas with a laptop it takes maybe 20-30 seconds if it is on standby, or a couple of minutes if it is switched off. Yes you can do these things on a phone, but the bigger screen does make a difference. If I see an email that requires a reply of more than a few words, then I will get out my laptop or go over to the desktop to compose the reply on a proper keyboard.
I agree there is no reason to upgrade everytime there is a new model. I'm quite happy with my iPad 2. If I was buying one today, then I would buy the iPad 4 or possibly one of Google's offerings as they are better, and will last longer before they become obsolete, but as it stands, Apple will probably release the iPad 6 before I consider replacing my existing slab.
If you sell bitcoins that you mined yourself, that would be more likely income tax than capital gains. Obviously it depends which country you are in, but if you take raw materials and turn them into bitcoins, that to me seems no different from taking raw materials and turning them into loaves of bread to sell to people.
No, there was absolutely no possibility that this device could work as a bomb detector. He got some plastic things from a toy shop, made a few changes to it. Total cost of device to him was about £5. He sold it for something like £10,000
And if you violate the membership agreement, what can they do about it? Ask you to leave the premises immediately? But that's what you are trying to do anyway. Revoke your membership? Yes, they can certainly do that.
And whats wrong with books.amazon.com, or amazon.com/books ?
Well I quite frequently use .uk websites, but your point is still valid.
I mean illegal as in the government told them to voluntarily agree to do the filtering.
I'm guessing the mobile phone companies. Porn is already banned on mobile internet, so they have the infrastructure to do it. At the moment if I am on O2, porn is illegal (unless I prove I'm over 18 and opt in to receiving it) over the 2.1GHz 3G network, but if I go 0.3GHz up the dial to their public wifi network, which my phone will do any time it is at a train station, pub, McDonalds etc that has O2 wifi, then I can get all the porn I want.
Not quite. When the money supply increases at a faster rate than the value of the economy, (or decreases at a slower rate than the decline in the economy) then you get inflation.
Ireland, Cyprus and Malta are also RHD.
European cars have gas on the right, brake in the middle, and clutch on the left.
My evidence: In the UK, you can't file your tax return without it.
That's a software issue, not a hardware issue. Money transfer by phone is already very popular in places like Africa and it is often done on dumb phones.
I don't really agree with that. It depends on your business of course. There are many small ebay traders who's business wouldn't exist if there was no internet. They sell a niche product that doesn't have a huge amount of demand, but having access to the whole world gives them the scale they need to make it a viable business.
Then there are local service businesses. If you are a restaurant, it is a good idea to be on google local search so people can find you, and a brochure website with details of opening hours, what you do, and how much it costs can be useful.
There is one company that makes huge amounts of money from small businesses. It is called e-bay, and it is successful because it gives these small comapnies access to a global marketplace. It works for manufacturing and retail where the companies send stuff in the post in exchange for money, but not so much for service businesses.
Except it is not 50c every few minutes. In some cases it is £69.99 ($99.99 at Apple exchange rates) every few minutes.
Their latest 10-Q filing shows $6.6bn in "other current assets", and $5.1bn in "other assets". Prepayments to suppliers will be included in there - "other current assets" if it is in respect of components to be supplied within the next year, or "other assets" if the components are to be supplied after more than one year.
Problem is, you can't turn the Bitcoins back into electricity. Gold coins can be melted down and used to make jewelery and to plate electrical contacts. That's where the intrinsic value comes from.
HMRC won't accept US Dollar bills as payment of my tax bill, but if I pay $ into their bank account, they will accept it as payment of tax at whatever rate Citibank deems them to be worth in British Pounds at the time. That's not the point though. The fact that the IRS and the tax authorities of a few other countries that use the US Dollar as their currency means that American tax-payers will accept my Dollars in exchange for goods and services.
US Dollars can be used to pay your tax bill if you live in the US or a few other countries that use it as their currency. That is where the value comes from.
OK, it contains a fork of the Linux kernel. Nevertheless, it still does not contain much if any code from the GNU operating system. That has all been replaced with Android stuff, which isn't a fork of GNU, it is completely different software that does completely different things.
They were pretty late to the game, but they do support IMAP.
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/mobile/mail/imap-01.html