No part of a story about the world being created some 6 thousand years ago by a magical sky wizard adds up to dinosaurs that were around millions and billions of years ago.
Let's get to actual factual debate, where people stop citing a thousands of year old book as fact, and use it as an excuse to not follow law. Theology is about study of religion, that doesn't mean its' accepted. Usually studying it enough shows you that religion is almost entirely bullshit. If you didn't learn that, then I question if you studied theology at all, as it is about the study and criticism of, not acceptance of.
You don't see any part of the bible covering the part where christians were murdering those who refused to convert, now do ya? Considering it's happened what, 2, 3 times in history?
70%? I wouldn't even gamble on it being reliable information outside of it's use as a ping. 1 Kilometer can be a small range or a huge range depending on population density and whether urban vs rural.
You can get ESPN and MSNBC online. Do you not know what google is? Do you know how to search? A search for "watch MSNBC online" and "watch ESPN online" showed up in the first and/or first few results.
Granted, this probably won't run on linux due to codecs, but it will run otherwise.
The only reason to sign up for cable is because it makes the internet price cheaper. Powerusers/etc just stream internet tv back to their regular TV. What's the point of the cable TV plan? To watch more advertisements and not be able to choose when to watch the show you want to watch?
What? Do you know what would happen if they said that? Every special interest group in the world would have google censor everything that exists.
This isn't an algorithm they created, this is essentially their end product. So of course they should not be liable for what comes out of that. What they should be doing however, is trying to find a way to watch for abuses, but that is not really something that is their job, and more something they should do simply to improve quality of the results.
what device? Maybe a flat panel on a wall with a wireless keyboard controlling the PC it's added to? Cept that you can actually run normal computer apps with that, choose your OS, use discs, modify the device, etc.
If there's a reason tablets will fade, it will definitely have to do with having a reduced feature set and/or just general lack of market demand.
People are still in the "X company is amazing!" category when it comes to buying electronics instead of researching it logically anyway. The people who research logically will find that while a tablet has uses, most of the time it basically doesn't do anything that a laptop or smartphone couldn't already.
OEM's are already competing, and have been competing. Openness has only upsides in the long term, and the only threat is a supposed patent threat which has not been proven in a single court case including the android vs oracle case.
Your comment makes no sense at all, and is a sidetrack to the issue.
If we add up all the iphones and all the android phones, the answer is simple and straightforward: android is selling more, and the market has spoken. It doesn't matter if iphone creates 7 models or 100. It's still a "who sells the most of the major brand", and that has been answered. It's not MS, it's not apple, it's google.
Here's what tells me you're full of shit, everything you say is apple-centric. There is no single price point with android, and you fail to even notice that there are tablets under $300.
Just because tablets are generally useless and people don't get what it is for, doesn't mean that magically apps aren't taking advantage due to the resolution. Your hilarity of "oh, but ipad apps for ipad are different" only points out that you actually have to program them differently for ipad, and can't actually run the same thing as iphone. That's quite a giant flaw there. Android apps don't HAVE to be "THIS IS FOR TABLET BUY US MORONS" like apple, because the apps actually can already be designed for the tablet without having to be "Tablet exclusive" which is a bad fucking idea.
Might want to take the head out of your ass, because if battery life, application size, and multitouch are your feature list you might want to just get a cellphone. Cellphones are about $120 for the feature list of a tablet of the kind you mention.
yup, and wait for it....wait for it...you don't need honeycomb to be able do exactly that, which shows that the whole article is shoddy journalism at best.
Apple's double pixel trick is a horrible thing to do, in all honesty. There are better ways to do it. the whole article means nothing though, as it's not google that dictates that developers program their apps for 3.0 among other things such as the apps not needing to be programmed for honeycomb ever, even.
rabid fanboy glasses? hahah. sure, whatever. Let's put another label on things while our head is in our ass, shall we?
I just don't see an actual logical value to consoles, and knew that someone would pull this "Wah pc's are more expensive" shit right from the getgo. I was just reafirming the point of "historical".
yeah, there is a whole lot of "this could have been better prepared for".
Or you can look at reality, that both a: they were doing a decent job, and b: this was far above what they planned for. I remembered reading the "max tidal wave estimate" and this having gone double that.
I'm not saying to avoid best policies, they are there for a reason, but it would seem to presume that if they were far from the best policies thing the power company would be fined heavily by the government, and they're not.
Video cards have a useful gaming life of about 3 years, if you actually get a good unit (read: good units of today are in the $200 range, not in the $600 range).
Those plants cost billions of dollars, are incredibly expensive and hard to build (and time consuming and parts of limited supply), and you're even remotely surprised they don't try to salvage them? You do realize that if they just "shut off all plants" when the crisis started Japan would be essentially without power permanently, right? Sure, the nuclear aspects would be safe, but they would be permanently shutdown. Multiple years of investments and infrastructure gone.
Hell, forget capitalism and realize that there are indeed things that happen in this scenario outside of just the nuclear plant, such as "who else is going to provide power now?" (if enough are shut down).
Ars almost adds a whole lot of misinformation, and I would not suggest reading Ars if you want actual factual information that is unbiased and/or factual. Microsoft writer makes an op-ed rallying against android? say it ain't so! etc.
Groklaw, on the other hand, actually provides relative analysis and makes sense of the legal shit that would otherwise be skipped as TLDR or just generally not make sense.
All consoles do indeed do shit like this. Why do you think you're still buying games on disc, why do you think the prices are going up? Even with inflation prices should be far far lower by now, by an order of magnitude.
If you want to play the same games, get a PC, which you can actually use for shit other than gaming, without paying a premium on everything that exists. For the price of a PS3 you get an easy 3 years of use as a gaming system, it's incredibly easy to download games for free (a more realistic price), and you can actually use it however you want.
While I understand the console appeal, understand that when you buy a console for $300 you effectively are buying a box. While they have some functionality, it's not even close to the most modest PC stuff.
That's detached from reality? Using anything which Microsoft has a blessing or protection of is always a risk. That hasn't changed from 2002 or now, for that matter.
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Really? Astroturfing? Could you troll any more?
Showing facts when people show misinformation is only called astroturfing by people who don't like facts.
No part of a story about the world being created some 6 thousand years ago by a magical sky wizard adds up to dinosaurs that were around millions and billions of years ago.
Let's get to actual factual debate, where people stop citing a thousands of year old book as fact, and use it as an excuse to not follow law. Theology is about study of religion, that doesn't mean its' accepted. Usually studying it enough shows you that religion is almost entirely bullshit. If you didn't learn that, then I question if you studied theology at all, as it is about the study and criticism of, not acceptance of.
You don't see any part of the bible covering the part where christians were murdering those who refused to convert, now do ya? Considering it's happened what, 2, 3 times in history?
70%? I wouldn't even gamble on it being reliable information outside of it's use as a ping. 1 Kilometer can be a small range or a huge range depending on population density and whether urban vs rural.
which is why judges have law clerks.
They already have this generally available for whatever happens to be needed.
You can get ESPN and MSNBC online. Do you not know what google is? Do you know how to search? A search for "watch MSNBC online" and "watch ESPN online" showed up in the first and/or first few results.
Granted, this probably won't run on linux due to codecs, but it will run otherwise.
The only reason to sign up for cable is because it makes the internet price cheaper. Powerusers/etc just stream internet tv back to their regular TV. What's the point of the cable TV plan? To watch more advertisements and not be able to choose when to watch the show you want to watch?
What? Do you know what would happen if they said that? Every special interest group in the world would have google censor everything that exists.
This isn't an algorithm they created, this is essentially their end product. So of course they should not be liable for what comes out of that. What they should be doing however, is trying to find a way to watch for abuses, but that is not really something that is their job, and more something they should do simply to improve quality of the results.
what device? Maybe a flat panel on a wall with a wireless keyboard controlling the PC it's added to? Cept that you can actually run normal computer apps with that, choose your OS, use discs, modify the device, etc.
entirely secret?
Have you ever even heard of open source?
Granted, there are things they don't open source, but they do release a lot.
If there's a reason tablets will fade, it will definitely have to do with having a reduced feature set and/or just general lack of market demand.
People are still in the "X company is amazing!" category when it comes to buying electronics instead of researching it logically anyway. The people who research logically will find that while a tablet has uses, most of the time it basically doesn't do anything that a laptop or smartphone couldn't already.
Really, the fragmentation argument? The phones have been insanely profitable to OEM, have you looked at samsung and other companies profits reported? HTC is laughing all the way to the bank..
OEM's are already competing, and have been competing. Openness has only upsides in the long term, and the only threat is a supposed patent threat which has not been proven in a single court case including the android vs oracle case.
Your comment makes no sense at all, and is a sidetrack to the issue.
If we add up all the iphones and all the android phones, the answer is simple and straightforward: android is selling more, and the market has spoken. It doesn't matter if iphone creates 7 models or 100. It's still a "who sells the most of the major brand", and that has been answered. It's not MS, it's not apple, it's google.
Here's what tells me you're full of shit, everything you say is apple-centric. There is no single price point with android, and you fail to even notice that there are tablets under $300.
Really?
Just because tablets are generally useless and people don't get what it is for, doesn't mean that magically apps aren't taking advantage due to the resolution. Your hilarity of "oh, but ipad apps for ipad are different" only points out that you actually have to program them differently for ipad, and can't actually run the same thing as iphone. That's quite a giant flaw there. Android apps don't HAVE to be "THIS IS FOR TABLET BUY US MORONS" like apple, because the apps actually can already be designed for the tablet without having to be "Tablet exclusive" which is a bad fucking idea.
Might want to take the head out of your ass, because if battery life, application size, and multitouch are your feature list you might want to just get a cellphone. Cellphones are about $120 for the feature list of a tablet of the kind you mention.
yup, and wait for it....wait for it...you don't need honeycomb to be able do exactly that, which shows that the whole article is shoddy journalism at best.
For the reality side, Microsoft has lost, as pointed out by groklaw.
Apple's double pixel trick is a horrible thing to do, in all honesty. There are better ways to do it. the whole article means nothing though, as it's not google that dictates that developers program their apps for 3.0 among other things such as the apps not needing to be programmed for honeycomb ever, even.
rabid fanboy glasses? hahah. sure, whatever. Let's put another label on things while our head is in our ass, shall we?
I just don't see an actual logical value to consoles, and knew that someone would pull this "Wah pc's are more expensive" shit right from the getgo. I was just reafirming the point of "historical".
yeah, there is a whole lot of "this could have been better prepared for".
Or you can look at reality, that both a: they were doing a decent job, and b: this was far above what they planned for. I remembered reading the "max tidal wave estimate" and this having gone double that.
I'm not saying to avoid best policies, they are there for a reason, but it would seem to presume that if they were far from the best policies thing the power company would be fined heavily by the government, and they're not.
Video cards have a useful gaming life of about 3 years, if you actually get a good unit (read: good units of today are in the $200 range, not in the $600 range).
Yes, it's historical. It's what it *USED* to be and not at all what it is today.
Those plants cost billions of dollars, are incredibly expensive and hard to build (and time consuming and parts of limited supply), and you're even remotely surprised they don't try to salvage them? You do realize that if they just "shut off all plants" when the crisis started Japan would be essentially without power permanently, right? Sure, the nuclear aspects would be safe, but they would be permanently shutdown. Multiple years of investments and infrastructure gone.
Hell, forget capitalism and realize that there are indeed things that happen in this scenario outside of just the nuclear plant, such as "who else is going to provide power now?" (if enough are shut down).
Here's the biggest point: at best, that article is an op-ed. It's quite a bit light (read: completely) on facts.
If google was "slow moving" by now, we wouldn't have android continuing to move forward among other products google has produced (and continues to).
Ars almost adds a whole lot of misinformation, and I would not suggest reading Ars if you want actual factual information that is unbiased and/or factual. Microsoft writer makes an op-ed rallying against android? say it ain't so! etc.
Groklaw, on the other hand, actually provides relative analysis and makes sense of the legal shit that would otherwise be skipped as TLDR or just generally not make sense.
All consoles do indeed do shit like this. Why do you think you're still buying games on disc, why do you think the prices are going up? Even with inflation prices should be far far lower by now, by an order of magnitude.
If you want to play the same games, get a PC, which you can actually use for shit other than gaming, without paying a premium on everything that exists. For the price of a PS3 you get an easy 3 years of use as a gaming system, it's incredibly easy to download games for free (a more realistic price), and you can actually use it however you want.
While I understand the console appeal, understand that when you buy a console for $300 you effectively are buying a box. While they have some functionality, it's not even close to the most modest PC stuff.
That's detached from reality? Using anything which Microsoft has a blessing or protection of is always a risk. That hasn't changed from 2002 or now, for that matter.