...Solaris? Might resonate better both with Earth based phenomenon and certain book with a certain fictional place;) (and its depictions in recent movie)
Actually, I seem to remember reading that North Korea launched/is launching 3G network. Yes, certainly only in areas frequented by their social "elite" and turists...but those are places that "matter".
You miss something. You're trying to compare it to an active screen. Compare it to a book (or, in its current state, cheap daily newspaper...which is still helluva better for reading...and not much else)
What are you even trying to say? "Sure, history supports your view, but I will STILL claim the youth is destroying our world and support it by looking at slices of history when society took a nosedive!" ?...
BTW, key word in your link is "perceived". So called Dark Ages were a period of great progress and remodelling of society (which, like it or not, pave ground for later pace of development). And period at the end of Rome era can fall somewhat under stagnation... (but I also wouldn't claim that)
Though most of them could be recompressed to much smaller size, with quality loss of course, but...even with batch recompression it should be acceptable. Especially for a portable device.
Hm, gives me an idea...human-accepted versions for all (most) images/videos/audio files used in articles, "this file has good enough quality to accuratelly present its contents. Specifically for size and bandwith constrained situations.
For example: weren't unbounded Higgs bosons last present in large numbers close to the time of rapid cosmic inflation / far greater dominance of dark energy?
Though one can ask (and I know too little of advanced physics to seriously contemplate the answer):
can unboound Higgs boson influence the Universe differently?
PS. Anyway, we don't have a reason to worry; LHC is just about putting in a controlled environment, with lots of detectors, collisions that are happening all the time. And aren't really that close to really energetic ones.
I don't think there is an "industry standard" definition. For me that's a phone with basically all the capabilities of, say, fullblown PC. Feature phones don't count, because while their functionality can be somehow extended (j2me), those apps generally don't integrate well (of course there are borderline cases, like Sony Ericsson phones that can run several j2me apps and, having usually the most advanced j2me implementation at the time, can sorta offer better integration; or iPhone for that matter, with limited multitasking)
That also means the trend you're talking about can't be preciselly described as "yesterday's smartphones becoming today's feature phones", IMHO. There is something as "good enough" functionality. A PC that's 10 years old doesn't stop being a PC. A netbook can do basically all of the things some high-end Macbook Pro can. Future cheap Android & Symbian phones will do basically all of the things some high-end phone will. And they will also be vastly more popular than the latter.
I don't think anybody at Symbian was ever seriously upset. Heck, they even didn't chose to change the name depsite several occasions... (major new versions, Symbian Foundation)
It's just not particularly funny. At most Beavis and Butthead type humor.
Uhm, Symbian is used pretty much only by Nokia. Yes, there are other players, by their share is miniscule.
It likely has become no.1 thanks to what you hint at - low prices. I think people often got Symbian phone without really realising its capabilities, OS, even that it's a smartphone. Now that Nokia and Android devices makers start to push with even lower prices, into segment dominated now by feature phones, this will be how they grow, big time. They don't even have to steal marketshare from each other...
The summary talks about the market in which Symbian dominates. That means it isn't US-centric. On the scale of the world iTunes isn't that strong.
Also, why do you all forget about another possibility - that Android (and Symbian, and...) will grow mainly thanks to people moving en masse from feature phones to smartphones? You know, the latter are a very small part of the whole picture now. That will cheange when they will get cheaper. Symbian goes there. Android goes there. Other players...not so much. And Apple almost certainly doesn't want to (their mistake, will be just like with Macs vs. PCs in the 80's & 90's...)
Since the article apparently talks about whole world picture (otherwise it wouldn't count Symbian as dominating the place) - iPod, worldwide, was just one of many mp3 players; and not very attractive/popular due to price. For some time it doesn't stand a chance against ordinary mobile phones, from which people usually listen to music on the go now.
When will you people stop this "Sybian joke"? Not only the toy is quite a niche/local product, generally not getting into the picture (mind?) when somebody hears the name "Symbian", but also...was this EVER funny?
Wrong, some funcionalities require certification, not all apps per se (and it's actually quite trival to work around; at least on typical unlocked phone available in Europe, don't know how it is in the US...)
Better accept that Symbian stays - it still has almost half of whole smartphone market, and Nokia seem to be starting to push it into mainstream (true mainstream, occupied by S40 / feature phones now). Also...it might not be that bad, Symbian^3 or 4 will supposedly rely on Qt.
There was a time when similar things could be said about Macs. But ultimatelly other companies betting on more open solution catched up and overtook them.
I suspect Apple might make similar errors with iPhone / iPhone OS...
Such words strike me as somewhat more than "just like to bring up gods all the time". Actually quite scary if they really meant it. The alternative is they were used to gather support of particular people; which also doesn't speak highly of them.
I have a hard time accepting those particular words were used as comma or vocative, which is a very often occurence here, also in style of "just like to bring up gods all the time", and quite unharmful.
Again, you simply don't realise what I have to put up with here (bells was just an example that is reliably daily, highly visible/objective and very clearly against some law; also I wouldn't be surprised if you didn't know how loud a bell weighting a tonne can be, especially if you try to sleep nearby, so I'll put it this way: I lived for a year under approach route to an airport; the only plane that managed to be louder (or even near that loud, actually) than the bells I'm talking about, from comparable distance, was some NATO Boeing 707 with "ancient" engines that for some reason was landing there; and did you miss that I ended up hungry few times?). If you really want stark highlights...if here I won't baptise my child it will be probably ostracised, beaten in school. It will be percieved as worse. While I pay taxes for every day of my work, clergy is not accountable when it comes to them. I don't mean that they have tax brakes, no - they don't have to document their income (at the same time enjoying the benefits of being formally a company). Do you already wonder how much of it comes from money laundering? Why only one religious group has free time on TV, can put a city to a grindhalt by their outdoors activities on streets? (again, with alcohol in public place) Heck, why their media are being ignored while repeatedly braking the rule "no commercial content on social broadcasters"?. Why religion was put into calculations for overall school score?! (and don't think for a second this subject is "study of religions") And so on... Everything braking some specific law or in clear disagreement with constitution.
I'm really surpised that beeing ostracised just for different beliefs doesn't sound an alarm in any US-citisen (I'm even starting to suspect you're trolling...). OTOH the ONLY thing I do is, sometimes, web post here and there and some IM (strictly with circle of my close buddies, some of them religious) - I don't even argue in RL...I simply don't particularly hide (now) with what I think if the topic arises. But - oh yeah, that's now "thought/pen violence".
If you still want to claim I'm a hypocrite, please point where, exactly. And, again, when it will settle in your mind that I am a victim. I won't go here into all the BS that happened to me in my early years, but know this: small portion of it was directly tied to religion, and also most of it was a behavior routinelly legitimised, through twisted worship of authority, any authority, by local religious preachers/etc. (sometimes with a touch of "blame the victim!" approach, which you seem to be also slightly doing...) Only ridiculously small portion of them would actually help, in accordance with what they preach. That is why I am against organised religion as a social/memetic construct (!!!); if left unchecked they too often tend to degenerate to such pitiful state, even if significant portion of its worshippers are "good people of faith".
And as for language barrier - I was trying to coin the opposite to "smth left unchecked". And no, you won't let people practice and believe anything, don't kid yourself. You're doing that, in principle, only when it doesn't interfere in other people's lives, or more generally when it doesn't include anything illegal (Scientology was under trial few times also in the US, for "external" activities...). For an extreme example: what would happen in the US with a religion/group that preaches murder? Well...perhaps nothing, it's possible your legal system protects them also, I don't know. But more importantly: what if members of that group start to commit murders? Will it be ignored, will they be left to do what they are doing just for self-proclaiming themselves religious? That's of course an extreme and fictional example, but...9/11? Or were you against prosecuting those few catholic priests that raped some kids in the US? Sometimes there are cases like this here too. And they are never prosecuted (even without any formal settlement/etc.), shielded from effec
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...Solaris? Might resonate better both with Earth based phenomenon and certain book with a certain fictional place ;) (and its depictions in recent movie)
Actually, I seem to remember reading that North Korea launched/is launching 3G network. Yes, certainly only in areas frequented by their social "elite" and turists...but those are places that "matter".
Plus technophobes largely won't be updating this anyway, probably.
In vast majority of Kindle market area free web/wikipedia access isn't available.
You miss something. You're trying to compare it to an active screen. Compare it to a book (or, in its current state, cheap daily newspaper...which is still helluva better for reading...and not much else)
What are you even trying to say? "Sure, history supports your view, but I will STILL claim the youth is destroying our world and support it by looking at slices of history when society took a nosedive!" ?...
BTW, key word in your link is "perceived". So called Dark Ages were a period of great progress and remodelling of society (which, like it or not, pave ground for later pace of development). And period at the end of Rome era can fall somewhat under stagnation... (but I also wouldn't claim that)
Though most of them could be recompressed to much smaller size, with quality loss of course, but...even with batch recompression it should be acceptable. Especially for a portable device.
Hm, gives me an idea...human-accepted versions for all (most) images/videos/audio files used in articles, "this file has good enough quality to accuratelly present its contents. Specifically for size and bandwith constrained situations.
As countless of such laments throughout recorded history have shown, worries about intellectual demise of the youth are greatly overblown.
For example: weren't unbounded Higgs bosons last present in large numbers close to the time of rapid cosmic inflation / far greater dominance of dark energy?
Though one can ask (and I know too little of advanced physics to seriously contemplate the answer):
can unboound Higgs boson influence the Universe differently?
PS. Anyway, we don't have a reason to worry; LHC is just about putting in a controlled environment, with lots of detectors, collisions that are happening all the time. And aren't really that close to really energetic ones.
I don't think there is an "industry standard" definition. For me that's a phone with basically all the capabilities of, say, fullblown PC. Feature phones don't count, because while their functionality can be somehow extended (j2me), those apps generally don't integrate well (of course there are borderline cases, like Sony Ericsson phones that can run several j2me apps and, having usually the most advanced j2me implementation at the time, can sorta offer better integration; or iPhone for that matter, with limited multitasking)
That also means the trend you're talking about can't be preciselly described as "yesterday's smartphones becoming today's feature phones", IMHO. There is something as "good enough" functionality. A PC that's 10 years old doesn't stop being a PC. A netbook can do basically all of the things some high-end Macbook Pro can. Future cheap Android & Symbian phones will do basically all of the things some high-end phone will. And they will also be vastly more popular than the latter.
Outside the US, a.k.a. "rest of the world".
I don't think anybody at Symbian was ever seriously upset. Heck, they even didn't chose to change the name depsite several occasions... (major new versions, Symbian Foundation)
It's just not particularly funny. At most Beavis and Butthead type humor.
Uhm, Symbian is used pretty much only by Nokia. Yes, there are other players, by their share is miniscule.
It likely has become no.1 thanks to what you hint at - low prices. I think people often got Symbian phone without really realising its capabilities, OS, even that it's a smartphone. Now that Nokia and Android devices makers start to push with even lower prices, into segment dominated now by feature phones, this will be how they grow, big time. They don't even have to steal marketshare from each other...
The summary talks about the market in which Symbian dominates. That means it isn't US-centric. On the scale of the world iTunes isn't that strong.
Also, why do you all forget about another possibility - that Android (and Symbian, and...) will grow mainly thanks to people moving en masse from feature phones to smartphones? You know, the latter are a very small part of the whole picture now. That will cheange when they will get cheaper. Symbian goes there. Android goes there. Other players...not so much. And Apple almost certainly doesn't want to (their mistake, will be just like with Macs vs. PCs in the 80's & 90's...)
Since the article apparently talks about whole world picture (otherwise it wouldn't count Symbian as dominating the place) - iPod, worldwide, was just one of many mp3 players; and not very attractive/popular due to price. For some time it doesn't stand a chance against ordinary mobile phones, from which people usually listen to music on the go now.
Upcoming Android phone from Sony Ericsson shows quite some amount of UI customisation; it's not the only one from what I remember.
When will you people stop this "Sybian joke"? Not only the toy is quite a niche/local product, generally not getting into the picture (mind?) when somebody hears the name "Symbian", but also...was this EVER funny?
Wrong, some funcionalities require certification, not all apps per se (and it's actually quite trival to work around; at least on typical unlocked phone available in Europe, don't know how it is in the US...)
Better accept that Symbian stays - it still has almost half of whole smartphone market, and Nokia seem to be starting to push it into mainstream (true mainstream, occupied by S40 / feature phones now). Also...it might not be that bad, Symbian^3 or 4 will supposedly rely on Qt.
There was a time when similar things could be said about Macs. But ultimatelly other companies betting on more open solution catched up and overtook them.
I suspect Apple might make similar errors with iPhone / iPhone OS...
As another poster wrote, everything is affected by this delay. If there would be "0 seconds" delay, the feed would arrive in the past.
This is at most a green wackos problem, not technical one. We've been using RTGs when there's not enough solar power for a long time.
Your own timezones? You mean those defined by the "time distance" to Greenwich time?
Look, it's a very simple concept - don't use local variables that are usefull only to you when communicating.
Such words strike me as somewhat more than "just like to bring up gods all the time". Actually quite scary if they really meant it. The alternative is they were used to gather support of particular people; which also doesn't speak highly of them.
I have a hard time accepting those particular words were used as comma or vocative, which is a very often occurence here, also in style of "just like to bring up gods all the time", and quite unharmful.
Again, you simply don't realise what I have to put up with here (bells was just an example that is reliably daily, highly visible/objective and very clearly against some law; also I wouldn't be surprised if you didn't know how loud a bell weighting a tonne can be, especially if you try to sleep nearby, so I'll put it this way: I lived for a year under approach route to an airport; the only plane that managed to be louder (or even near that loud, actually) than the bells I'm talking about, from comparable distance, was some NATO Boeing 707 with "ancient" engines that for some reason was landing there; and did you miss that I ended up hungry few times?). If you really want stark highlights...if here I won't baptise my child it will be probably ostracised, beaten in school. It will be percieved as worse. While I pay taxes for every day of my work, clergy is not accountable when it comes to them. I don't mean that they have tax brakes, no - they don't have to document their income (at the same time enjoying the benefits of being formally a company). Do you already wonder how much of it comes from money laundering? Why only one religious group has free time on TV, can put a city to a grindhalt by their outdoors activities on streets? (again, with alcohol in public place) Heck, why their media are being ignored while repeatedly braking the rule "no commercial content on social broadcasters"?. Why religion was put into calculations for overall school score?! (and don't think for a second this subject is "study of religions") And so on... Everything braking some specific law or in clear disagreement with constitution.
I'm really surpised that beeing ostracised just for different beliefs doesn't sound an alarm in any US-citisen (I'm even starting to suspect you're trolling...). OTOH the ONLY thing I do is, sometimes, web post here and there and some IM (strictly with circle of my close buddies, some of them religious) - I don't even argue in RL...I simply don't particularly hide (now) with what I think if the topic arises. But - oh yeah, that's now "thought/pen violence".
If you still want to claim I'm a hypocrite, please point where, exactly. And, again, when it will settle in your mind that I am a victim. I won't go here into all the BS that happened to me in my early years, but know this: small portion of it was directly tied to religion, and also most of it was a behavior routinelly legitimised, through twisted worship of authority, any authority, by local religious preachers/etc. (sometimes with a touch of "blame the victim!" approach, which you seem to be also slightly doing...) Only ridiculously small portion of them would actually help, in accordance with what they preach. That is why I am against organised religion as a social/memetic construct (!!!); if left unchecked they too often tend to degenerate to such pitiful state, even if significant portion of its worshippers are "good people of faith".
And as for language barrier - I was trying to coin the opposite to "smth left unchecked". And no, you won't let people practice and believe anything, don't kid yourself. You're doing that, in principle, only when it doesn't interfere in other people's lives, or more generally when it doesn't include anything illegal (Scientology was under trial few times also in the US, for "external" activities...). For an extreme example: what would happen in the US with a religion/group that preaches murder? Well...perhaps nothing, it's possible your legal system protects them also, I don't know. But more importantly: what if members of that group start to commit murders? Will it be ignored, will they be left to do what they are doing just for self-proclaiming themselves religious? That's of course an extreme and fictional example, but...9/11? Or were you against prosecuting those few catholic priests that raped some kids in the US? Sometimes there are cases like this here too. And they are never prosecuted (even without any formal settlement/etc.), shielded from effec