The problem with your hypothesis is that not all advertisements are lies. Some are lies. Some are true, and some are totally irrelevant to the product at hand. Assuming that they are all lies are just as bad as assuming they are all true. It doesn't show critical thinking. You are just as influenced as anyone else.
You know that isn't a good thing, right? I personally can't imagine going through life, and not remembering the things that happen around me. How many important events that are not commercials have you forgotten because you have a serious memory problem. I guess you wouldn't know seeing as you can't remember things.
I have yet to hear a single person claim that Y2K was not an actual crisis. I have heard people say it wasn't going to be the literal end of the world, but no one says it wouldn't have been a huge problem. On the other hand, there does seem to be a large number of people that cannot accept the fact that everyone knows it was a problem diverted.
No, it wouldn't. With a bus, when the engine breaks down, the whole school is down until the vehicle can be fixed. With a cargo container, it can be put on the back of a truck, and if that truck breaks down, you can move it to another truck. The chances of the vehicle part breaking is dramatically higher than the rest of the setup. All putting it in a bus would do is lock the container to a particular vehicle.
Yes, we likely would. 99% of the people fall into one of three categories. "Not getting every vaccine makes you an ignorant murderer!", "Getting any vaccine is the same as injecting 'differently abledness' into your child", and "I don't know, I just do whatever the pediatrician tells me."
The percentage of the population that looks at a vaccine and judges whether the risk outweighs the reward for that particular vaccine is tiny.
If you feel like you are going to die after eating a meal at McDonalds, you have a serious health problem, and should seek medical treatment immediately.
Android now has APIs for game controllers. I would be happy to buy an Android based console that had HDMI out, and perhaps a WiiMote type controller to handle touch.
I think they are using Wall Street math when they say the popularity of PCs are waning. It isn't that the numbers are going down. It is that there is no longer double digit growth of the industry. My house is a perfect example. In our 3 person home, we have 8 PCs that are used on a regular basis. How many more can we possibly have a use for? We don't replace them nearly as often as we used to either. Instead of a yearly upgrade cycle, our upgrades range between 3 and 5 years depending on which system we are talking about. From a Wall Street perspective, that is a dramatic drop in year over year sales. It doesn't change the fact that we have twice as many computers in our home than toilets.
To be fair, I am counting laptops in with the PCs I am counting, but the point still stands.
Perhaps they want to push other devices off the network by making them redundant. Why support a stand alone hotspot when most of the phones support the feature?
Commodore never sold a single Amiga with a PPC processor. They did sell Amiga's with x86 processors on board though. Dos could be run inside of a window on the Amiga with the proper setup.
As others said, preemptive multitasking was one of the reasons that Amiga was so far ahead. The other piece was that it had separate audio and video processors. Today, PCs and Macs both have multitasking and dedicated Video and audio processors. As much as I love the Amiga, the PC caught up to it with Windows95 + Voodoo + Soundblaster.
True. Programming is not science. It is a 'Trade'. I tell people this all the time. My job is very much the same as a plumber or electrician. We take a plan that depending on the size of the job is either created by an architect, or is just a spec described by the customer. We figure out how hook things together so that the data (as opposed to electricity or water) flows properly from one point to another. How we specifically do it is largely up to us, as long the inputs and outputs function as expected. We then cover our work with a nice looking cover (just as plumbers/electricians do with sheetrock) and make sure the UI functions as expected. If we hacked it together, no one is likely to notice until some kind of maintenance needs to be done.
The piece that seems to be missed, is that what everyone here is worried about just means that Siri isn't all that "magical" if it narrows what you are exposed to. If it really fulfilled it's promise, it should EXPAND what you are exposed to.
You do realize that LA has more cars on it's freeways than rural Nebraska right? Explain to me how a six lane highway get congested if there are only two cars that drive on it in a 24 hour period. Then explain to me how a one lane highway can have 35 million cars drive on it without congestion.
You sound like the guy that claims he isn't religious but acknowledges that God created the universe and Jesus was his magic son who bore our sins away.
The Mac has never really been a success in the general market. It has always been a niche product. Mac's market share is closer to desktop Linux's market share than it is to Windows.
You touch on a point that seems to keep being missed. The iPHONE wasn't even a revolutionary product for Apple. It was a phone put into Apples PDA, the iPod. The trend of merging phones and PDAs was well along the way long before the iPhone. The iPhone's look and feel is just the obvious extension of Apple selling a PDA. The PDA without a phone market was a dead end niche, so they either had to accept that their current market was dead, or add an obvious and simple feature to their PDA.
The evolution of the smart phone is a long series of shades of gray. Apple just feels that their shade of gray is the definitive shade of gray, and everyone else's is either to light to be called gray, or is just a darker shade of their gray.
They don't really. The iPhone was missing a good deal of functionality that was obvious from the day it was released. What Apple does well is convincing people their flaws are not flaws but awesome design choices and if you disagree, you must be "holding it wrong". They don't polish the device so much as their marketing strategy.
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The "NINJA" (No Income No Job Application) loan were an open admission that fraud was going on.
The problem with your hypothesis is that not all advertisements are lies. Some are lies. Some are true, and some are totally irrelevant to the product at hand. Assuming that they are all lies are just as bad as assuming they are all true. It doesn't show critical thinking. You are just as influenced as anyone else.
You know that isn't a good thing, right? I personally can't imagine going through life, and not remembering the things that happen around me. How many important events that are not commercials have you forgotten because you have a serious memory problem. I guess you wouldn't know seeing as you can't remember things.
I have yet to hear a single person claim that Y2K was not an actual crisis. I have heard people say it wasn't going to be the literal end of the world, but no one says it wouldn't have been a huge problem. On the other hand, there does seem to be a large number of people that cannot accept the fact that everyone knows it was a problem diverted.
No, it wouldn't. With a bus, when the engine breaks down, the whole school is down until the vehicle can be fixed. With a cargo container, it can be put on the back of a truck, and if that truck breaks down, you can move it to another truck. The chances of the vehicle part breaking is dramatically higher than the rest of the setup. All putting it in a bus would do is lock the container to a particular vehicle.
Yes, we likely would. 99% of the people fall into one of three categories. "Not getting every vaccine makes you an ignorant murderer!", "Getting any vaccine is the same as injecting 'differently abledness' into your child", and "I don't know, I just do whatever the pediatrician tells me."
The percentage of the population that looks at a vaccine and judges whether the risk outweighs the reward for that particular vaccine is tiny.
Not starving seems like a benefit to the bees.
If you feel like you are going to die after eating a meal at McDonalds, you have a serious health problem, and should seek medical treatment immediately.
Car pooling is a stupid idea. It doesn't work. Get over it.
Android now has APIs for game controllers. I would be happy to buy an Android based console that had HDMI out, and perhaps a WiiMote type controller to handle touch.
I think they are using Wall Street math when they say the popularity of PCs are waning. It isn't that the numbers are going down. It is that there is no longer double digit growth of the industry. My house is a perfect example. In our 3 person home, we have 8 PCs that are used on a regular basis. How many more can we possibly have a use for? We don't replace them nearly as often as we used to either. Instead of a yearly upgrade cycle, our upgrades range between 3 and 5 years depending on which system we are talking about. From a Wall Street perspective, that is a dramatic drop in year over year sales. It doesn't change the fact that we have twice as many computers in our home than toilets.
To be fair, I am counting laptops in with the PCs I am counting, but the point still stands.
Perhaps they want to push other devices off the network by making them redundant. Why support a stand alone hotspot when most of the phones support the feature?
Commodore never sold a single Amiga with a PPC processor. They did sell Amiga's with x86 processors on board though. Dos could be run inside of a window on the Amiga with the proper setup.
As others said, preemptive multitasking was one of the reasons that Amiga was so far ahead. The other piece was that it had separate audio and video processors. Today, PCs and Macs both have multitasking and dedicated Video and audio processors. As much as I love the Amiga, the PC caught up to it with Windows95 + Voodoo + Soundblaster.
True. Programming is not science. It is a 'Trade'. I tell people this all the time. My job is very much the same as a plumber or electrician. We take a plan that depending on the size of the job is either created by an architect, or is just a spec described by the customer. We figure out how hook things together so that the data (as opposed to electricity or water) flows properly from one point to another. How we specifically do it is largely up to us, as long the inputs and outputs function as expected. We then cover our work with a nice looking cover (just as plumbers/electricians do with sheetrock) and make sure the UI functions as expected. If we hacked it together, no one is likely to notice until some kind of maintenance needs to be done.
Planning to be a successful games developer is a little like planning to be a successful NBA player.
That doesn't help clear up your meaning.
I'm not sure it you are being serious or not.
The piece that seems to be missed, is that what everyone here is worried about just means that Siri isn't all that "magical" if it narrows what you are exposed to. If it really fulfilled it's promise, it should EXPAND what you are exposed to.
I like to be REALLY secure, so I ROT26 my data. For the really sensitive stuff, I'll even go so far as to ROT52 it.
Neither of those sentences make any sense in context of the discussion.
You do realize that LA has more cars on it's freeways than rural Nebraska right? Explain to me how a six lane highway get congested if there are only two cars that drive on it in a 24 hour period. Then explain to me how a one lane highway can have 35 million cars drive on it without congestion.
You sound like the guy that claims he isn't religious but acknowledges that God created the universe and Jesus was his magic son who bore our sins away.
The Mac has never really been a success in the general market. It has always been a niche product. Mac's market share is closer to desktop Linux's market share than it is to Windows.
You touch on a point that seems to keep being missed. The iPHONE wasn't even a revolutionary product for Apple. It was a phone put into Apples PDA, the iPod. The trend of merging phones and PDAs was well along the way long before the iPhone. The iPhone's look and feel is just the obvious extension of Apple selling a PDA. The PDA without a phone market was a dead end niche, so they either had to accept that their current market was dead, or add an obvious and simple feature to their PDA.
The evolution of the smart phone is a long series of shades of gray. Apple just feels that their shade of gray is the definitive shade of gray, and everyone else's is either to light to be called gray, or is just a darker shade of their gray.
They don't really. The iPhone was missing a good deal of functionality that was obvious from the day it was released. What Apple does well is convincing people their flaws are not flaws but awesome design choices and if you disagree, you must be "holding it wrong". They don't polish the device so much as their marketing strategy.