I also suggest another reason that we aren't going to see a mass migration to PC's is that more people are buying laptops, netbooks and even iPads, so they are not going to have the hardware to run the latest and greatest. Even where the hardware is capable, who is going to want to be banging their laptop keyboards playing some of there games.
And what happened to the old iPhones. Did Apple forcibly take them off the previous owners or just magically disappear. Or did the owners perhaps sell them on or give them away? I have definitely given away an older iPhone, and I suspect that when you replace and iPhone 3G in good working order with an iPhone 4, you are likely to sell on your iPhone 3G or give it away.
That's only somewhat true. Up until the last version, iOS upgrades were $9.99. Whether that remains true going forward remains to be seen. If it does, you can almost assuredly thank Google for it. And if not, well, calling it free as long as you never want to upgrade isn't what I would call a complete truth.
You can definitely thank Sarbanes-Oxley for that. The reason Apple had to charge for iOS upgrades was because of SOX rules. SOX rules have been changed, and Apple has stopped charging for upgrades. That is the reason folks who had not upgraded previously can upgrade to the latest and greatest, as long as they have the right sort of hardware. Thanking Google for that is disingenuous. Many, if not most Android upgrades are not available for the handsets. Manufacturers have to release the updates themselves, and they don't. In Apple's ecosystem, most people do upgrade to the latest they can because Apple generally makes the updates to their devices available. When Google updates Android, HTC, Motorola, Sony Ericsson etc have to release their own upgrades and sometimes they don't do so.
As long as recordings are authentic and complete, I am more willing to take my chances with someone recording me, than to be in a he say she say situation without evidence. Sometimes recording someone without them realising it is the only way to get an honest answer out of them. 2 party consent basically makes it impossible to obtain a recording without involving the law, and this is probably only possible if there is a crime suspected, or some sort of criminal investigation going on with a warrant. And only the police, i.e. the government, are allowed this.
Now that's just not true. One thing iPods do well is battery time. An iPhone can do 3 days with minimal use (including a fair amount of music playing, which doesn't drain the battery much) and you really expect me to believe an iPod can't do a whole day on a single charge. There is something major wrong with your iPod.
We are talking about the display here, not about how the images are created and rendered. The screen has a specific number of dots one way and then the other. I do not know of any display that can render stuff the way you seem to think it should. Actually, I do, the old crt technology was probably able to, but we are not going to see a crt tablet any time soon.
Are you suggesting Apple should not make progress because some people might feel the stuff they have already bought is going to be made to look old. It's not like the iPads that people have will disappear in a puff of smoke and they will be compelled to buy new ones. They can choose to buy a new one if they wish, at which point they can sell on or give away their old ones, and whichever way, more people will have new iPads to use.
I think that is true of journaling filesystems true, IIRC. They never write to the same place as where the file currently is in case something bad happens whilst they are writing. This is why some secure delete tools do not work properly on journaling FS's. To securely erase an SSD, I would imagine you could just zero the entire drive.
What do you "independent problems". 3 problems on the same machine can point to one individual doing a crappy job on one machine. Not independent. Now if we were to do a thorough test, like buy a thousand machines, and find systematic problems with them, then it becomes a real QA issue.
Most people are in a helpless position when something goes wrong. For instance, most people are helpless when they see or are involved in a car accident. They have to wait on professionals to sort out their problems. Likewise, if your car breaks down, you are more likely to be completely helpless until a qualified mechanic gets there to help you out. And life goes on. Why should everyone have to become a computer expert to be able to send emails. The cost/benefit ratio does not support everyone running their own email, and/or backup. Seriously, you are better off insuring yourself against the possibility. Much less hassle, and you know exactly how the worst case scenario is resolved, you with bags of cash!
Um, no. In a deflationary environment, people put off making purchases because they hope to buy in the future, when prices are lower. Sort of like waiting until black Friday to buy stuff! So they would logically buy the cheaper stuff and save their money which will be more valuable in the future. So there, I have given you a theory that is equally plausible.
People who consumer generally tend to produce. They just don't produce what they consume. It's called specialisation. If consumption is a disease, then you, as the producer, are the cause. People can't consume when nothing is produced.
I don't think he is racist. And not because I support him, because I don't. I think he is using race to further an agenda, which in my book makes him worse than a racist.
I think he is making the point that because the West has adopted a moral code of looking for the high ground, they have a big disadvantage when it comes to seeking local cooperation in Iraq. People don't want to die. Cooperating with Americans gets you killed. Perhaps Americans needed to find a way to make life really dangerous for the bad guys, like keep Saddam's old army structures which in all likelihood had a built in opposition to the likes of Al Qaeda. The Iraqis could be more ruthless, whilst the US watches over them and works behind the scenes to protect the general public. This also gives legitimacy to the local armed forces in the eyes of the locals, and win win. The most boneheaded move the 'coalition' pulled was to disband the army.
I think you overestimate the SEALs ability, or underestimate the ability of Mugabe's protection service, or both. And this creates a power vacuum too, and we know what happens when there is a power vacuum in a country (see Iraq). Unfortunately, getting rid of Mugabe is only half the battle.
The sanctions were supposed to help get the people get rid of Mugabe, but unfortunately, Mugabe just blames the US and Britain for the sanctions. So the argument is won with the less enlightened.
The biggest reason a revolution is hard in Zimbabwe is that Zimbabwe is by and large a rural country, and rural in the African context generally means uninformed, not well educated and poor. Plus the folks in the rural areas saw the brunt of the civil war in the fight against the previous minority regime, and they were genuinely happy that Mugabe 'won' back then. So you have an inbuilt advantage for him electorally. The opposition basically cleans out the towns, but it's so much easier to rig elections when you don't have to fudge every vote. So the guy is damned hard to get rid of!
I read somewhere where someone was arguing that there are 2 English languages, the spoken and the written, and that they may as well be completely different languages. A lot of people for whom English is their first language cannot write it properly. Non native speakers seem to do better, and perhaps that has to do with the fact that they learn both at the same time.
Good for Nokia is not a value judgement. And phones are not thrown away. They are sold off to someone else to reuse.
Keeping your phone for too long means Nokia doesn't get to sell you another one, therefore, you are not the type of customer they are looking for.
There goes that false dichotomy again. It isn't rail lines or food. They are doing both. No amount of train building rationing will make food magically grow faster. Train builders are usually not very good farmers. And what country is this that is building high speed rail whilst its citizens starve?
Um, no. The solution is to manage the population down gently. Japan is pretty much falling off a cliff population wise. That is not a good thing because the population becomes too imbalanced. You cannot have too many older, non productive needing care without creating serious problems. It would be all "good" if people were perfectly healthy and productive until they were aged 90, then just dropped dead. However, people become a net drain on society at some point, and it's usually OK if there are more than enough young workers to do their bit, and help the elderly, and have an overall positive outcome. But a population drop like the one Japan will face is pretty catastrophic, and has so many really bad implications.
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The radio in the 3GS cannot do it. It's quite well known.
I also suggest another reason that we aren't going to see a mass migration to PC's is that more people are buying laptops, netbooks and even iPads, so they are not going to have the hardware to run the latest and greatest. Even where the hardware is capable, who is going to want to be banging their laptop keyboards playing some of there games.
Gran Turismo is a simulator. How much controller configuration do you do on a car for example?
And what happened to the old iPhones. Did Apple forcibly take them off the previous owners or just magically disappear. Or did the owners perhaps sell them on or give them away? I have definitely given away an older iPhone, and I suspect that when you replace and iPhone 3G in good working order with an iPhone 4, you are likely to sell on your iPhone 3G or give it away.
That's only somewhat true. Up until the last version, iOS upgrades were $9.99. Whether that remains true going forward remains to be seen. If it does, you can almost assuredly thank Google for it. And if not, well, calling it free as long as you never want to upgrade isn't what I would call a complete truth.
You can definitely thank Sarbanes-Oxley for that. The reason Apple had to charge for iOS upgrades was because of SOX rules. SOX rules have been changed, and Apple has stopped charging for upgrades. That is the reason folks who had not upgraded previously can upgrade to the latest and greatest, as long as they have the right sort of hardware. Thanking Google for that is disingenuous. Many, if not most Android upgrades are not available for the handsets. Manufacturers have to release the updates themselves, and they don't. In Apple's ecosystem, most people do upgrade to the latest they can because Apple generally makes the updates to their devices available. When Google updates Android, HTC, Motorola, Sony Ericsson etc have to release their own upgrades and sometimes they don't do so.
As long as recordings are authentic and complete, I am more willing to take my chances with someone recording me, than to be in a he say she say situation without evidence. Sometimes recording someone without them realising it is the only way to get an honest answer out of them. 2 party consent basically makes it impossible to obtain a recording without involving the law, and this is probably only possible if there is a crime suspected, or some sort of criminal investigation going on with a warrant. And only the police, i.e. the government, are allowed this.
You do realise that TFA is about the Mac App Store right? Not the iOS App Store!
You can still get Opera the old fashioned way.
Now that's just not true. One thing iPods do well is battery time. An iPhone can do 3 days with minimal use (including a fair amount of music playing, which doesn't drain the battery much) and you really expect me to believe an iPod can't do a whole day on a single charge. There is something major wrong with your iPod.
We are talking about the display here, not about how the images are created and rendered. The screen has a specific number of dots one way and then the other. I do not know of any display that can render stuff the way you seem to think it should. Actually, I do, the old crt technology was probably able to, but we are not going to see a crt tablet any time soon.
Are you suggesting Apple should not make progress because some people might feel the stuff they have already bought is going to be made to look old. It's not like the iPads that people have will disappear in a puff of smoke and they will be compelled to buy new ones. They can choose to buy a new one if they wish, at which point they can sell on or give away their old ones, and whichever way, more people will have new iPads to use.
I think that is true of journaling filesystems true, IIRC. They never write to the same place as where the file currently is in case something bad happens whilst they are writing. This is why some secure delete tools do not work properly on journaling FS's. To securely erase an SSD, I would imagine you could just zero the entire drive.
What do you "independent problems". 3 problems on the same machine can point to one individual doing a crappy job on one machine. Not independent. Now if we were to do a thorough test, like buy a thousand machines, and find systematic problems with them, then it becomes a real QA issue.
Most people are in a helpless position when something goes wrong. For instance, most people are helpless when they see or are involved in a car accident. They have to wait on professionals to sort out their problems. Likewise, if your car breaks down, you are more likely to be completely helpless until a qualified mechanic gets there to help you out. And life goes on. Why should everyone have to become a computer expert to be able to send emails. The cost/benefit ratio does not support everyone running their own email, and/or backup. Seriously, you are better off insuring yourself against the possibility. Much less hassle, and you know exactly how the worst case scenario is resolved, you with bags of cash!
Happened to me too many times. I didn't log into my Hotmail, and it deleted everything after about a month. Quit hotmail and went gmail.
Um, no. In a deflationary environment, people put off making purchases because they hope to buy in the future, when prices are lower. Sort of like waiting until black Friday to buy stuff! So they would logically buy the cheaper stuff and save their money which will be more valuable in the future. So there, I have given you a theory that is equally plausible.
Yes, why don't we make a point about Macs by looking at computers sold in the 90s, because, you know, that is all that matters.
People who consumer generally tend to produce. They just don't produce what they consume. It's called specialisation. If consumption is a disease, then you, as the producer, are the cause. People can't consume when nothing is produced.
I don't think he is racist. And not because I support him, because I don't. I think he is using race to further an agenda, which in my book makes him worse than a racist.
I think he is making the point that because the West has adopted a moral code of looking for the high ground, they have a big disadvantage when it comes to seeking local cooperation in Iraq. People don't want to die. Cooperating with Americans gets you killed. Perhaps Americans needed to find a way to make life really dangerous for the bad guys, like keep Saddam's old army structures which in all likelihood had a built in opposition to the likes of Al Qaeda. The Iraqis could be more ruthless, whilst the US watches over them and works behind the scenes to protect the general public. This also gives legitimacy to the local armed forces in the eyes of the locals, and win win. The most boneheaded move the 'coalition' pulled was to disband the army.
I think you overestimate the SEALs ability, or underestimate the ability of Mugabe's protection service, or both. And this creates a power vacuum too, and we know what happens when there is a power vacuum in a country (see Iraq). Unfortunately, getting rid of Mugabe is only half the battle.
The sanctions were supposed to help get the people get rid of Mugabe, but unfortunately, Mugabe just blames the US and Britain for the sanctions. So the argument is won with the less enlightened.
The biggest reason a revolution is hard in Zimbabwe is that Zimbabwe is by and large a rural country, and rural in the African context generally means uninformed, not well educated and poor. Plus the folks in the rural areas saw the brunt of the civil war in the fight against the previous minority regime, and they were genuinely happy that Mugabe 'won' back then. So you have an inbuilt advantage for him electorally. The opposition basically cleans out the towns, but it's so much easier to rig elections when you don't have to fudge every vote. So the guy is damned hard to get rid of!
Amazon and the like are selling bits. How do they lose money on a sale?
I read somewhere where someone was arguing that there are 2 English languages, the spoken and the written, and that they may as well be completely different languages. A lot of people for whom English is their first language cannot write it properly. Non native speakers seem to do better, and perhaps that has to do with the fact that they learn both at the same time.
Good for Nokia is not a value judgement. And phones are not thrown away. They are sold off to someone else to reuse. Keeping your phone for too long means Nokia doesn't get to sell you another one, therefore, you are not the type of customer they are looking for.
There goes that false dichotomy again. It isn't rail lines or food. They are doing both. No amount of train building rationing will make food magically grow faster. Train builders are usually not very good farmers. And what country is this that is building high speed rail whilst its citizens starve?
Um, no. The solution is to manage the population down gently. Japan is pretty much falling off a cliff population wise. That is not a good thing because the population becomes too imbalanced. You cannot have too many older, non productive needing care without creating serious problems. It would be all "good" if people were perfectly healthy and productive until they were aged 90, then just dropped dead. However, people become a net drain on society at some point, and it's usually OK if there are more than enough young workers to do their bit, and help the elderly, and have an overall positive outcome. But a population drop like the one Japan will face is pretty catastrophic, and has so many really bad implications.