Add to this that as a species we desperately need land for food cultivation. We don't have enough right now, even with advanced farming techniques, to feed everyone.
This is utter nonsense. There is enough food for everyone, people in developing countries are starving because their dictators are diverting that food to fuel their petty armies.
We live with a finite set of resources at the bottom of a massive gravity well isolated by millions of miles of hard vacuum from anything else at all. We are consuming many of those resources at an unsustainable rate. If we don't want to end up like the people of Easter Island, we'd better not take any of it for granted.
Its a good point, but at the end of the day we are still drowning in resources, and are likely to remain so even if developing countries reach a developed country standard of living. Yes, oil will run out, but it won't drop off a cliff - oil companies have a very good idea of how much is left in remaining fields. It will peter out slowly and other resources will come onstream. Take a good look for example at the European supergrid concept, which postulate most or all of European energy use coming from renewable resources. There is no reason why the US or Africa, China or India could not follow suit in a similar fashion.
There is already more than enough food to supply the world's population several times over, starvation is a political issue, and as for mineral resources we've barely tapped into the barest skin of the crust. Ultimately we shouldn't have to though, since there are more easily accessible asteroid resources with trillions of tons of whatever minerals we need just floating around out there; by the time we need them, we'll easily be able to reach them.
Summary: Marx and Engels were very largely correct, and their characterisation of history as a history of class division and class struggle has largely been bourne out. And anyone who can't look at the world (and especially the USA) today and see that this class division between bourgeoisie and proletariat continues very much as they described is a fool.
Marx and Engels were the fools, their economic theories aren't even vaguely mathematically consistent, but simply hadwave it all away in a blur of populist "down with the evil rich people". That might fly in 19th century Russia my friend but we have a large and growing middle class these days, and even the very poor have almost barriers to advancing themselves should they so desire. Everybody loves a rags to riches story.
Your brainsick communist manifesto guarantees the likes of Stalin or Mao, because sooner or later someone says NO, and the hive mind you envision would need to stamp hard on those that want to hold onto their own personal possessions. Meanwhile, it does make a good living for a few semi charismatic demagogues - are socialst parties still demanding a standard 10% of income in return for membership?
Works fine for me. I think they point was that the developers felt there was no question of it being refused, but the arbitrariness of the procedure means they are still hanging in the twilight, not refused or accepted.
So fragmentation will ALWAYS be an android issue until they say "here is our reference hardware platform(s) -- you must use of these three sets of features when building hardware."
To an extent that's already happening. Phone goliath Nokia among others are setting up an alternative to appstore:
Twenty-four mobile network operators have formed the Wholesale Applications Community to avoid fragmenting the apps market and to give developers one point of entry to all the members, the GSM Association announced on Monday.
The operators will now start working on uniting their existing developer communities, so developers will be able to go to one place to get their applications distributed instead of having to go through multiple application approval processes.
The community will also start working on a common development standard that should be ready within the next 12 months. The standard will be independent of phone type and operating system, according to the members.
That will allow them to better compete against Apple's App Store or Google's Android Market, which have independent and competing approvals processes tied to their phone or operating system.
"Developers are going to have a lot more access to a lot more customers," said Alex Sinclair, chief technology and strategy officer of the GSMA, at a news conference at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
The Wholesale Applications Community members include: AT&T, China Mobile, Deutsche Telekom, NTT DoCoMo, Orange, Telefónica, Telenor Group, Sprint, Verizon Wireless and Vodafone. Together the operators in the group have about 3 billion subscribers, the GSMA said.
The group has the full backing of the GSMA and the list of supporters will grow in the coming days. "There are several people who are annoyed they couldn't get their name on the list in time," said Sinclair.
Apple is not among those clamoring to be added to the list, but if the company wants to join the group, "it will be welcome," he said.
Just like many phone manufacturers, operators have seen the success of Apple's App Store and want a piece of the pie. Some, including Orange, Verizon and Vodafone, have already launched their own application stores.
Mobile phone manufacturers LG Electronics, Samsung and Sony Ericsson have also voiced their support for the apps community.
The Wholesale Applications Community faces a number of obstacles, according to analysts at CCS Insight.
"Operators are trying to regain control of apps, but have a poor track record with this type of industry consortium," they said in a research note.
"Big challenges remain overcoming inconsistency between standards bodies like JIL and Bondi," the analysts continued, referring to the Joint Innovation Lab created by a group of mobile operators including Vodafone, China Mobile, Softbank and Verizon Wireless, which also has the support of phone manufacturers LG Electronics, Research in Motion, Samsung Electronics and Sharp.
There is no competition between the Wholesale Applications Community and JIL, as all members of JIL are also members of the community, according to Sinclair.
"The last thing we wanted was a Jack versus JIL situation," he said.
The groups hope to converge their various specifications within 12 months, he said.
These are some seriously big names, big enough to knock it out of the park if they wanted to.
If your app brings something new and useful to an iPad/iPhone - then you should be just fine, assuming you followed the rules and didn't use off-limits APIs or something to build it.
You just got through saying that some rules were unwritten, now you're saying they should follow these unwritten rules? How? Also you're saying that something like wireless itunes synching wouldn't be useful? Mind you apple has no shortage of apps, over 300,000 of them last time I checked, so it can't be that arbitrary; however knocking something off that was previously accepted is just prima donna behaviour.
There were "apps" for phones being sold from websites long before there was an app store, or android. I think something like 44% of phones use Symbian OS and the big industry players (Nokia etc) are meeting to agree upon an open standard to compete with Apple.
I find your assertions interesting, and would be gratified if you could supply a few links to support both the earlier origin hypothesis and the closed ranks of anthropologists. Not criticising, I'm genuinely interested.
How is it that one of their other recipes features the heavy use of chocolate, which as far as I'm aware should have been unknown to Midas and company?
That just means they are incompetent missionaries on top of everything else. I note you ignored the mention of the church and AIDs not to mention population control. Anyway shouldn't be spamming Amazon referrer links in your comments as per usual?
To outright dismiss even the possibility of Someone greater than what our finite human brain can fathom, to me is small minded.
Yeah, your problem arises when some nimrod pops up when people are in trouble claiming to be a personal representative of said Someone, holding up the dubiously historical documents of a desert sun worshipping religion as definitive evidence of said claim.
Yeah, I've seen these religious organisations in action in third world countries up close and personal, and here's the deal: join our religion and believe what we read to you out of this book, and you'll get bread. If you won't do that you can die in the street for all we care.
Not to mention the vast damage being done by the Catholic church's ban on contraception in third world countries.
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Add to this that as a species we desperately need land for food cultivation. We don't have enough right now, even with advanced farming techniques, to feed everyone.
This is utter nonsense. There is enough food for everyone, people in developing countries are starving because their dictators are diverting that food to fuel their petty armies.
We live with a finite set of resources at the bottom of a massive gravity well isolated by millions of miles of hard vacuum from anything else at all. We are consuming many of those resources at an unsustainable rate. If we don't want to end up like the people of Easter Island, we'd better not take any of it for granted.
Its a good point, but at the end of the day we are still drowning in resources, and are likely to remain so even if developing countries reach a developed country standard of living. Yes, oil will run out, but it won't drop off a cliff - oil companies have a very good idea of how much is left in remaining fields. It will peter out slowly and other resources will come onstream. Take a good look for example at the European supergrid concept, which postulate most or all of European energy use coming from renewable resources. There is no reason why the US or Africa, China or India could not follow suit in a similar fashion.
There is already more than enough food to supply the world's population several times over, starvation is a political issue, and as for mineral resources we've barely tapped into the barest skin of the crust. Ultimately we shouldn't have to though, since there are more easily accessible asteroid resources with trillions of tons of whatever minerals we need just floating around out there; by the time we need them, we'll easily be able to reach them.
Summary: Marx and Engels were very largely correct, and their characterisation of history as a history of class division and class struggle has largely been bourne out. And anyone who can't look at the world (and especially the USA) today and see that this class division between bourgeoisie and proletariat continues very much as they described is a fool.
Marx and Engels were the fools, their economic theories aren't even vaguely mathematically consistent, but simply hadwave it all away in a blur of populist "down with the evil rich people". That might fly in 19th century Russia my friend but we have a large and growing middle class these days, and even the very poor have almost barriers to advancing themselves should they so desire. Everybody loves a rags to riches story.
Your brainsick communist manifesto guarantees the likes of Stalin or Mao, because sooner or later someone says NO, and the hive mind you envision would need to stamp hard on those that want to hold onto their own personal possessions. Meanwhile, it does make a good living for a few semi charismatic demagogues - are socialst parties still demanding a standard 10% of income in return for membership?
Correction, not Nokia, but 3 billion customers is hard to argue with.
Works fine for me. I think they point was that the developers felt there was no question of it being refused, but the arbitrariness of the procedure means they are still hanging in the twilight, not refused or accepted.
It amuses me to no end
Is that you, Lo Pan?
So fragmentation will ALWAYS be an android issue until they say "here is our reference hardware platform(s) -- you must use of these three sets of features when building hardware."
To an extent that's already happening. Phone goliath Nokia among others are setting up an alternative to appstore:
Twenty-four mobile network operators have formed the Wholesale Applications Community to avoid fragmenting the apps market and to give developers one point of entry to all the members, the GSM Association announced on Monday.
The operators will now start working on uniting their existing developer communities, so developers will be able to go to one place to get their applications distributed instead of having to go through multiple application approval processes.
The community will also start working on a common development standard that should be ready within the next 12 months. The standard will be independent of phone type and operating system, according to the members.
That will allow them to better compete against Apple's App Store or Google's Android Market, which have independent and competing approvals processes tied to their phone or operating system.
"Developers are going to have a lot more access to a lot more customers," said Alex Sinclair, chief technology and strategy officer of the GSMA, at a news conference at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
The Wholesale Applications Community members include: AT&T, China Mobile, Deutsche Telekom, NTT DoCoMo, Orange, Telefónica, Telenor Group, Sprint, Verizon Wireless and Vodafone. Together the operators in the group have about 3 billion subscribers, the GSMA said.
The group has the full backing of the GSMA and the list of supporters will grow in the coming days. "There are several people who are annoyed they couldn't get their name on the list in time," said Sinclair.
Apple is not among those clamoring to be added to the list, but if the company wants to join the group, "it will be welcome," he said.
Just like many phone manufacturers, operators have seen the success of Apple's App Store and want a piece of the pie. Some, including Orange, Verizon and Vodafone, have already launched their own application stores.
Mobile phone manufacturers LG Electronics, Samsung and Sony Ericsson have also voiced their support for the apps community.
The Wholesale Applications Community faces a number of obstacles, according to analysts at CCS Insight.
"Operators are trying to regain control of apps, but have a poor track record with this type of industry consortium," they said in a research note.
"Big challenges remain overcoming inconsistency between standards bodies like JIL and Bondi," the analysts continued, referring to the Joint Innovation Lab created by a group of mobile operators including Vodafone, China Mobile, Softbank and Verizon Wireless, which also has the support of phone manufacturers LG Electronics, Research in Motion, Samsung Electronics and Sharp.
There is no competition between the Wholesale Applications Community and JIL, as all members of JIL are also members of the community, according to Sinclair.
"The last thing we wanted was a Jack versus JIL situation," he said. The groups hope to converge their various specifications within 12 months, he said.
These are some seriously big names, big enough to knock it out of the park if they wanted to.
If your app brings something new and useful to an iPad/iPhone - then you should be just fine, assuming you followed the rules and didn't use off-limits APIs or something to build it.
You just got through saying that some rules were unwritten, now you're saying they should follow these unwritten rules? How? Also you're saying that something like wireless itunes synching wouldn't be useful? Mind you apple has no shortage of apps, over 300,000 of them last time I checked, so it can't be that arbitrary; however knocking something off that was previously accepted is just prima donna behaviour.
One company spent half a million dollars developing and marketing an app, and haven't heard back from Apple on whether or not it would be approved yet.
There were "apps" for phones being sold from websites long before there was an app store, or android. I think something like 44% of phones use Symbian OS and the big industry players (Nokia etc) are meeting to agree upon an open standard to compete with Apple.
Why would it matter, anyway?
No matter what they tell you, it always matters.
This isn't the banned pron thread?
We're still talking about paper?
So out of curiosity, what are you talking about?
Oops, sorry I left out a bit at the end, "even to your mom".
/rimshot
As you can all clearly see, I work for NASA.
Its three inches wider and five inches longer (around forty percent either way). You can bet thats noticeable.
Mod parent up, 8.5 x 11 is NOT a universal size.
Not the beer, look at TFA... yes I know, this is slashdot...
/ begins flagellation
I find your assertions interesting, and would be gratified if you could supply a few links to support both the earlier origin hypothesis and the closed ranks of anthropologists. Not criticising, I'm genuinely interested.
How is it that one of their other recipes features the heavy use of chocolate, which as far as I'm aware should have been unknown to Midas and company?
That just means they are incompetent missionaries on top of everything else. I note you ignored the mention of the church and AIDs not to mention population control. Anyway shouldn't be spamming Amazon referrer links in your comments as per usual?
To outright dismiss even the possibility of Someone greater than what our finite human brain can fathom, to me is small minded.
Yeah, your problem arises when some nimrod pops up when people are in trouble claiming to be a personal representative of said Someone, holding up the dubiously historical documents of a desert sun worshipping religion as definitive evidence of said claim.
Yeah, I've seen these religious organisations in action in third world countries up close and personal, and here's the deal: join our religion and believe what we read to you out of this book, and you'll get bread. If you won't do that you can die in the street for all we care.
Not to mention the vast damage being done by the Catholic church's ban on contraception in third world countries.
Why is that marked troll, its factual.
If they are using bitorrent, that uploads while you download, so I guess thats that.