The only people you could be guaranteed weren't developers were those for whom it was no problem at all, and even then probably only a percentage of that. Loaded poll! They even admit it in the article...
There are people are going to be philosophically opposed to the way Apple does business, and for those people they should buy other products. To mislead people into thinking the way you do, as some religious people mislead people into thinking latex condoms provide no protection, is the lowest form of immorality. One's beliefs should not depend on everyone agreeing with you. I have no problem not buying MS products because they are too expensive, and even if 80% of the world disagrees, it does not matter. I don't do it.
Ah no, there are real problems with it though. The guidelines are vague and feedback is sporadic if its there at all. Apple could do a lot better in terms of laying out the ground rules.
1) Flash support. This is purely a practical objection (suspending my philosophical objections). This is a neat toy for having around the house. It is the #1 way my kids browse. There are a lot of child oriented sites that need flash ( my younger kids love pbskids.org ).
Also, farmville. Can't wait until people figure out they can't play that on their ipad.
In only one major area did unhappy campers dominate: A majority aren’t pleased with Apple’s App Store approval process.
If a majority are unhappy with the approval process, then the majority are app developers, with a vested interest in seeing the ipad succeed. This survey is meaningless. Lets check back in twelve months after the marketing spin has worn off and see how people in general are feeling then. For myself, I can't wait for full colour, full motion e-ink in a DRM free package. That will be sweet, and if apple rolls it out, more power to them.
Don't think "us" western people are particularly better at doing the stuff that really matters. Everywhere around the world there will be people enjoying the good company of others.
Why is it that whenever there's a story about China, someone feels the need to jump in and say "b-b-but the west..." This "west" you speak of is a vast and extremely varied tapestry of different cultures spread across the entire globe, numbering a good many more people than are in China, so you can't go making sweeping statements about what they are good at or otherwise, especially if its a subtext for "rich white people laughing at poor foreigners".
For all the cultures in "the west", I don't know of a single one that hires people to stand around and look prosperous as a general trend, so this is an interesting cultural artifact, probably unique to China at least, and is worthy of attention as such.
No they won't, the people with the shekels will decide how this thing ends, as always. And thats not some greedy corporation my friend, that's you and me.
I genuinely see no advantages of the tablet shape in any case, unless maybe you work in inventory or something and you can hang it from your belt by a strap. I mean how do you carry it without the screen being scratched? Also keyboards are not additional complications, they are NECCESSARY to prevent greasy and/or fat fingers getting on the monitor and blocking what the monitor is meant to do. Its been tried before and failed, for good reasons, and once the Apple marketing spin fades away, so will the ipad.
I fully expect this to be modded down for no greater reason than some sucker wants to justify his purchase. Meh.
Further, the more you are a free-thinker, anti/non-social or otherwise a non-conformist the less you are likely to accept this natural order and not only cry out against the injustice of the powerful but wonder why the rest of the people around you don't. And I suspect that most/.ers fall into some variation of this category.
Bah, rebels are just the leaders of the future. All cries for rebellion are cries for power, so where does that leave the non-conformist/Leader divide?
This is a load of bullshit. A lobster in Thailand costs the equivalent of $20 US, thats as much as most people make in three weeks in Thailand.
Because, they have PS3s just like you. They have flat screen HDTVs just like you. They have cars, one or two per house hold just like you. Their girls sport Louis Vuitton items, just like the American girl who saves up three or four paychecks to get one herself. They go to clubs, parks and museums, rock concerts and other outings just like you.
No, they really fucking don't. How did this get modded up? The Chinese market isn't just useless because of the vast poverty of the overwhelming majority of its citizens, you can't even sell to them, without partnering up with the party *cough* a local business, and one of the rules of entering the Chinese market is that you have to hand over whatever technological IP you might have. Still on the plus side, trade unions are starting to take hold there after the Foxconn mess, and they will be forced to compete fairly on the international market with the value of their currency. Alternately they can try to sell to Chinese people instead of rich Americans and find out rather rapidly about how keeping most of your workforce at subsistence levels means you're cutting your own nose off to spite your face.
I'd be interested to see if they could translate the movement into mobility, using it to move around. A few more iterations and you might conceivably have flapping bird wings that work, or something that could inch its way under a door before reforming into something else. I'd say this is almost more interesting than the fact of forming multiple shapes.
Pumped storage is quite an expensive way to do electricity generation; there are considerable inherent losses in the system due to things like friction in pumps.
90%+ efficiencies are not uncommon in the field. If you want to see inefficiences, try drilling a hole though the earth's crust at semi random locations to tap and process fossil fuels.
Eh so what would you have the rest of the world do, let them sit and stew in their own poverty? These systems would not just provide financing but also reliable electrical power to large regions of the African continent. Also that "resource curse" does not hold true for countries like Norway and Saudi Arabia, which reduced poverty by half in 2007, offers free education and healthcare to all citizens, and a low interest or no interest loan for housing. Its certainly not a paradise, but its a lot better off than it would have been.
STV leads to local politics always trumping national politics, since people don't vote for parties, they vote for the man that filled in the pot holes and fixed the fence. It turns every election into a local popularity contest. The party list system is used by the vast majority of countries that use PR, and for good reason.
A generation is thirty years, not a decade. The technology is right here right now, wind turbines, solar cells and HVDC lines, which make transmission losses negligible, so no, its not predicted to have sizeable transmission losses. Nuclear is fine as far as it goes, but its not the optimal long term solution in many cases.
That just adds another energy consuming step in the process, inefficient isn't the word for it. Wouldn't it make a lot more sense just to lay down a few HVDC lines and transition to electric vehicles? Minimised power losses and maximised returns.
The EP is actually not directly involved in ACTA negotiations, and has in fact expressed concern over the content of ACTA. The EU delegations that are negotiating the content of ACTA have bracketed text in the agreement that implicitly refers to three strikes laws.
Yes, its the EC thats more directly involved with ACTA, but it wouldn't be the first time the non elected EC had its dictats struck down by the EP, something we'll be seeing more of after Lisbon II. Nonetheless, to say these were contributed by EU countries is very much a stretch.
I think other posters hit the nail on the head when they say its more a representation of lobbying groups than countries.
Producing hydrogen seems appealing because it can be burned cleanly, either at a facility at the wind farm or at some other aggregating site at some other time or for some other purpose (heat, motor vehicle fuel, methane production, etc).
Hydrogen is a nightmare to store or transport and you run into serious losses when you convert for example wind energy to hydrogen. You'd have to build out an entire replica fossil fuel infrastructure in triplicate.
This entire post is basically wrong. Even ignoring the assumption that coal, gas, and nuclear power are zero cost for fuel and maintenance, look up the European supergrid concept for more information.
The current draft text of ACTA still includes language that permits "graduated response" or "three strikes" laws in a section that was contributed by EU countries.
The European parliament has several times explicitly removed the concept of the "three strikes" rule. Which countries are you referring to?
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Call it the golden rule - he who has the gold makes the rules.
The only people you could be guaranteed weren't developers were those for whom it was no problem at all, and even then probably only a percentage of that. Loaded poll! They even admit it in the article...
Lets hope they find out about that before they go back to their netbook then! :-D
There are people are going to be philosophically opposed to the way Apple does business, and for those people they should buy other products. To mislead people into thinking the way you do, as some religious people mislead people into thinking latex condoms provide no protection, is the lowest form of immorality. One's beliefs should not depend on everyone agreeing with you. I have no problem not buying MS products because they are too expensive, and even if 80% of the world disagrees, it does not matter. I don't do it.
Ah no, there are real problems with it though. The guidelines are vague and feedback is sporadic if its there at all. Apple could do a lot better in terms of laying out the ground rules.
1) Flash support. This is purely a practical objection (suspending my philosophical objections). This is a neat toy for having around the house. It is the #1 way my kids browse. There are a lot of child oriented sites that need flash ( my younger kids love pbskids.org ).
Also, farmville. Can't wait until people figure out they can't play that on their ipad.
No, from the article:
In only one major area did unhappy campers dominate: A majority aren’t pleased with Apple’s App Store approval process.
If a majority are unhappy with the approval process, then the majority are app developers, with a vested interest in seeing the ipad succeed. This survey is meaningless. Lets check back in twelve months after the marketing spin has worn off and see how people in general are feeling then. For myself, I can't wait for full colour, full motion e-ink in a DRM free package. That will be sweet, and if apple rolls it out, more power to them.
Don't think "us" western people are particularly better at doing the stuff that really matters. Everywhere around the world there will be people enjoying the good company of others.
Why is it that whenever there's a story about China, someone feels the need to jump in and say "b-b-but the west..." This "west" you speak of is a vast and extremely varied tapestry of different cultures spread across the entire globe, numbering a good many more people than are in China, so you can't go making sweeping statements about what they are good at or otherwise, especially if its a subtext for "rich white people laughing at poor foreigners".
For all the cultures in "the west", I don't know of a single one that hires people to stand around and look prosperous as a general trend, so this is an interesting cultural artifact, probably unique to China at least, and is worthy of attention as such.
They will determine how this thing ends.
No they won't, the people with the shekels will decide how this thing ends, as always. And thats not some greedy corporation my friend, that's you and me.
I genuinely see no advantages of the tablet shape in any case, unless maybe you work in inventory or something and you can hang it from your belt by a strap. I mean how do you carry it without the screen being scratched? Also keyboards are not additional complications, they are NECCESSARY to prevent greasy and/or fat fingers getting on the monitor and blocking what the monitor is meant to do. Its been tried before and failed, for good reasons, and once the Apple marketing spin fades away, so will the ipad.
I fully expect this to be modded down for no greater reason than some sucker wants to justify his purchase. Meh.
Further, the more you are a free-thinker, anti/non-social or otherwise a non-conformist the less you are likely to accept this natural order and not only cry out against the injustice of the powerful but wonder why the rest of the people around you don't. And I suspect that most /.ers fall into some variation of this category.
Bah, rebels are just the leaders of the future. All cries for rebellion are cries for power, so where does that leave the non-conformist/Leader divide?
Boom, headshot. Mod this guy up to 10.
Because, they have PS3s just like you. They have flat screen HDTVs just like you. They have cars, one or two per house hold just like you. Their girls sport Louis Vuitton items, just like the American girl who saves up three or four paychecks to get one herself. They go to clubs, parks and museums, rock concerts and other outings just like you.
No, they really fucking don't. How did this get modded up? The Chinese market isn't just useless because of the vast poverty of the overwhelming majority of its citizens, you can't even sell to them, without partnering up with the party *cough* a local business, and one of the rules of entering the Chinese market is that you have to hand over whatever technological IP you might have. Still on the plus side, trade unions are starting to take hold there after the Foxconn mess, and they will be forced to compete fairly on the international market with the value of their currency. Alternately they can try to sell to Chinese people instead of rich Americans and find out rather rapidly about how keeping most of your workforce at subsistence levels means you're cutting your own nose off to spite your face.
I'd be interested to see if they could translate the movement into mobility, using it to move around. A few more iterations and you might conceivably have flapping bird wings that work, or something that could inch its way under a door before reforming into something else. I'd say this is almost more interesting than the fact of forming multiple shapes.
Pumped storage is quite an expensive way to do electricity generation; there are considerable inherent losses in the system due to things like friction in pumps.
90%+ efficiencies are not uncommon in the field. If you want to see inefficiences, try drilling a hole though the earth's crust at semi random locations to tap and process fossil fuels.
Battery capacity is doubling every 5-7 years.
Eh so what would you have the rest of the world do, let them sit and stew in their own poverty? These systems would not just provide financing but also reliable electrical power to large regions of the African continent. Also that "resource curse" does not hold true for countries like Norway and Saudi Arabia, which reduced poverty by half in 2007, offers free education and healthcare to all citizens, and a low interest or no interest loan for housing. Its certainly not a paradise, but its a lot better off than it would have been.
STV leads to local politics always trumping national politics, since people don't vote for parties, they vote for the man that filled in the pot holes and fixed the fence. It turns every election into a local popularity contest. The party list system is used by the vast majority of countries that use PR, and for good reason.
Don't allow Muslims to immigrate to advanced nations, and keep them in their own countries
Pfah. I got drunk with a bunch of Muslims last new years. Irish-ise the lot of them, that will sort it out.
A generation is thirty years, not a decade. The technology is right here right now, wind turbines, solar cells and HVDC lines, which make transmission losses negligible, so no, its not predicted to have sizeable transmission losses. Nuclear is fine as far as it goes, but its not the optimal long term solution in many cases.
That just adds another energy consuming step in the process, inefficient isn't the word for it. Wouldn't it make a lot more sense just to lay down a few HVDC lines and transition to electric vehicles? Minimised power losses and maximised returns.
The EP is actually not directly involved in ACTA negotiations, and has in fact expressed concern over the content of ACTA. The EU delegations that are negotiating the content of ACTA have bracketed text in the agreement that implicitly refers to three strikes laws.
Yes, its the EC thats more directly involved with ACTA, but it wouldn't be the first time the non elected EC had its dictats struck down by the EP, something we'll be seeing more of after Lisbon II. Nonetheless, to say these were contributed by EU countries is very much a stretch.
I think other posters hit the nail on the head when they say its more a representation of lobbying groups than countries.
Producing hydrogen seems appealing because it can be burned cleanly, either at a facility at the wind farm or at some other aggregating site at some other time or for some other purpose (heat, motor vehicle fuel, methane production, etc).
Hydrogen is a nightmare to store or transport and you run into serious losses when you convert for example wind energy to hydrogen. You'd have to build out an entire replica fossil fuel infrastructure in triplicate.
Wind power is extremely variable and can only be used to supplement the base load of a power generation system.
Sorry, this is utter bullshit. Look up the European supergrid concept, even if you don't want to look at hydro storage.
This entire post is basically wrong. Even ignoring the assumption that coal, gas, and nuclear power are zero cost for fuel and maintenance, look up the European supergrid concept for more information.
The current draft text of ACTA still includes language that permits "graduated response" or "three strikes" laws in a section that was contributed by EU countries.
The European parliament has several times explicitly removed the concept of the "three strikes" rule. Which countries are you referring to?