By that criteria, all nations under any rule has complete freedom of speech. Sorry to go Godwin on you, but even in Nazi Germany, the Jews were "free to wear Hitler Sucks" t-shirts. They just had to accept that they were not free from the consequences of getting gassed for it.
nationality is simply a concept that exists solely on paper and cannot be discerned from just looking at someone.
It is amazing how many people don't recognize this. People who should know better consistently get race and nationality confused. It is particularly ironic when people do it in a rant complaining about racism.
I have always thought that since corporations are fictitious entity created by the government and that their very existence is an extension of government powers, they should be under the same restrictions that the government is concerning human rights.
The same could be said for talking on a phone. Any activity that you do repetitively will become second nature. Of course, we all understand your point that other peoples unnecessary activities while driving makes them baby killers, and your unnecessary activities while driving just shows how good of a driver you are.
Particularly given that the vast majority of people will be shifting mental focus irrelevant of whether they have a phone on them or not. They will be thinking about the shopping, the stop light, the hot chick in the car next to them, where their kids are going after school, etc.. etc... etc...
I was expecting that link to point to a $50k unit since you implied that someone might balk at the price. You are right. $1300 is borderline consumer level pricing and the company may just spend more in labor discussing whether to buy than they would in the actual cost of the unit.
Men are legally financially responsible for any child they generate if the woman chooses to press the point. In many states, women can dump their kids off at any number of places and be 100% clear of any responsibility for them. Women can choose to get an abortion and avoid further responsibility as well. Men do not have that option.
You must have missed the last 3 decades. Our culture has already changed.
The keyboard is the best for quantity of data. (Which is not necessarily 'efficiency')
The Mouse is the best for precision.
The touch screen is the best for quick, infrequent, imprecise input.
If I sit down to my desk with a cup of coffee and want to bring up my morning news, reaching out and touching the screen is going to be less effort than sitting down, grabbing the mouse, giving it a little twirl to find the mouse, then clicking on the news link. Just as you find the home row keys before you start typing, you have a short calibration period before using the mouse.
That's not true. There are plenty of places that touching a big screen will be the most natural way to interact with a computer. Just as highlighting and right clicking to copy text is the most comfortable way to copy text sometimes, and in other instances, you copy text with a control-c, there will be tasks that sometimes will be easier to do by touching the screen, even if it isn't always the best way. Multiple desktops is a perfect example. In some cases, using an icon on the desktop is the best way to switch screens. Sometimes using hot keys is the best way to switch screens. Other times, being able to sweep your finger across the screen would be best.
It won't get any less tiring holding my arm horizontally either.
This statement shows that you don't understand where a touch screen would improve input for you. Complaining about your arm getting tired from holding it out for a touch screen makes no more sense than complaining about your wrist getting tired from trying to click on all of the letters for all of the emails you are writing.
You may be paying lip service to your "faith", but it is naive to think that every other Catholic on the planet is faking their beliefs just because you are. You also seem to be confused into thinking that only Catholics believe that holy water is magic.
Keyboards AND Mice are certainly not the SINGLE best way to interact. Keyboards are one way, mice are a second way. Having a third way to interact does not mean you have to give up the first two. We have found that there are some tasks that work better with the keyboard than the mouse, and others that work better with the mouse than the keyboard. There are other tasks that will work better with a touch interface. I am not sold on Metro, but touch screens on the desktop have already taken too long to get here. We will all be happier when touch is an expected feature of a monitor.
You and all of the other people here that are condoning holy water are playing the "It's not magic, it's a miracle" game in trying to position holy water as 'not a magic item'. The very fact that you feel the need to declare that holy water isn't "Magic" is an admission that you are fully aware that belief that it IS magic is common. Being 'Holy' is by it's very nature a claim of a supernatural state, and thus "Magic".
That would be impressive. It would be almost as impressive as you living without the need to purposely harm other subjugated species on this planet for you betterment.
There shouldn't be any major obstacles to any of those once a video stream can be injected. We are already fully capable of transmitting video from a shoecam or back of the headcam to a receiver placed at the face.
What Google SHOULD do with Motorola is pick a low target range for Motorola market share. Something like 3-5%. They should build these phones to showcase the best of Android, and then price the phones so that they capture market share within their target range. This way, they never become a threat to the other manufacturers, but at the same time, they push the other manufacturers to improve their offerings. If the other manufacturers decide to rest on their laurels, and don't improve the quality of their phones, Google could sell their phones as a massive premium. Thus racking in extra profit without killing third party hardware support.
Google should be looking at Motorola as a marketing and research department. If they lose money on the division, they treat it as pure advertising. If they break even, it is free advertising. If they start making money via high margins, they should plow the money back into Android development to grow the ecosystem. This way, Google wins. Motorola wins. All of the other Android phone manufacturers win. Users win.
As for the Nexus line, I don't know what Google's criteria is, but they should be making either the Nexus label, or another [Pure Android] label that has the criteria that the phone is pure Android with no modifications, no more than one version of the OS back, and an unlocked boot loader. Let any manufacturer label their phone with the pure android label as long as it meets that criteria. This is what a lot of us are buying the Nexus Line for, but it has never been formalized as such. This would allow Google to put pressure on the carriers by giving the consumer a clear label to know what to buy. The geeks often are making the recommendations. If we could just tell people "Make sure that whatever you buy has a [Pure Android] label", it would go a long way to getting rid of the carrier and 3rd party manufacturer software screwups.
Maybe the bar is lower for Apple. It could be that your SDK is the best available on Apple, but is not even close to what is available on Android. It could also be that your SDK is the best on both platforms, but the cost difference between your app, and the next best app on Android makes your app too expensive for that platform. There are lots of reasons you might be selling your SDK on one platform and not the other, but any way you spin it, there are enough users on both platforms that lack of users is not the reason.
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By that criteria, all nations under any rule has complete freedom of speech. Sorry to go Godwin on you, but even in Nazi Germany, the Jews were "free to wear Hitler Sucks" t-shirts. They just had to accept that they were not free from the consequences of getting gassed for it.
nationality is simply a concept that exists solely on paper and cannot be discerned from just looking at someone.
It is amazing how many people don't recognize this. People who should know better consistently get race and nationality confused. It is particularly ironic when people do it in a rant complaining about racism.
So, we can all agree that comparing Delta Airlines employees to rapists is a fair comparison then?
I have always thought that since corporations are fictitious entity created by the government and that their very existence is an extension of government powers, they should be under the same restrictions that the government is concerning human rights.
The same could be said for talking on a phone. Any activity that you do repetitively will become second nature. Of course, we all understand your point that other peoples unnecessary activities while driving makes them baby killers, and your unnecessary activities while driving just shows how good of a driver you are.
Particularly given that the vast majority of people will be shifting mental focus irrelevant of whether they have a phone on them or not. They will be thinking about the shopping, the stop light, the hot chick in the car next to them, where their kids are going after school, etc.. etc... etc...
I was expecting that link to point to a $50k unit since you implied that someone might balk at the price. You are right. $1300 is borderline consumer level pricing and the company may just spend more in labor discussing whether to buy than they would in the actual cost of the unit.
A need to call the company is WAY over the top in DRM.
That is what I think they should do here. It would solve WAY more problems than it creates.
Men are legally financially responsible for any child they generate if the woman chooses to press the point. In many states, women can dump their kids off at any number of places and be 100% clear of any responsibility for them. Women can choose to get an abortion and avoid further responsibility as well. Men do not have that option.
You must have missed the last 3 decades. Our culture has already changed.
But would you rather be born out of the violent rape of your mother than not be born at all?
Would that be when Apple decides that they it invented it?
The keyboard is the best for quantity of data. (Which is not necessarily 'efficiency')
The Mouse is the best for precision.
The touch screen is the best for quick, infrequent, imprecise input.
If I sit down to my desk with a cup of coffee and want to bring up my morning news, reaching out and touching the screen is going to be less effort than sitting down, grabbing the mouse, giving it a little twirl to find the mouse, then clicking on the news link. Just as you find the home row keys before you start typing, you have a short calibration period before using the mouse.
That's not true. There are plenty of places that touching a big screen will be the most natural way to interact with a computer. Just as highlighting and right clicking to copy text is the most comfortable way to copy text sometimes, and in other instances, you copy text with a control-c, there will be tasks that sometimes will be easier to do by touching the screen, even if it isn't always the best way. Multiple desktops is a perfect example. In some cases, using an icon on the desktop is the best way to switch screens. Sometimes using hot keys is the best way to switch screens. Other times, being able to sweep your finger across the screen would be best.
It won't get any less tiring holding my arm horizontally either.
This statement shows that you don't understand where a touch screen would improve input for you. Complaining about your arm getting tired from holding it out for a touch screen makes no more sense than complaining about your wrist getting tired from trying to click on all of the letters for all of the emails you are writing.
You may be paying lip service to your "faith", but it is naive to think that every other Catholic on the planet is faking their beliefs just because you are. You also seem to be confused into thinking that only Catholics believe that holy water is magic.
Keyboards AND Mice are certainly not the SINGLE best way to interact. Keyboards are one way, mice are a second way. Having a third way to interact does not mean you have to give up the first two. We have found that there are some tasks that work better with the keyboard than the mouse, and others that work better with the mouse than the keyboard. There are other tasks that will work better with a touch interface. I am not sold on Metro, but touch screens on the desktop have already taken too long to get here. We will all be happier when touch is an expected feature of a monitor.
Nah. The transformation just happens during reincarnation.
You and all of the other people here that are condoning holy water are playing the "It's not magic, it's a miracle" game in trying to position holy water as 'not a magic item'. The very fact that you feel the need to declare that holy water isn't "Magic" is an admission that you are fully aware that belief that it IS magic is common. Being 'Holy' is by it's very nature a claim of a supernatural state, and thus "Magic".
Almost as laughable as the idea that the UK would storm the Ecuadorian Embassy to capture him?
That would be impressive. It would be almost as impressive as you living without the need to purposely harm other subjugated species on this planet for you betterment.
There shouldn't be any major obstacles to any of those once a video stream can be injected. We are already fully capable of transmitting video from a shoecam or back of the headcam to a receiver placed at the face.
What Google SHOULD do with Motorola is pick a low target range for Motorola market share. Something like 3-5%. They should build these phones to showcase the best of Android, and then price the phones so that they capture market share within their target range. This way, they never become a threat to the other manufacturers, but at the same time, they push the other manufacturers to improve their offerings. If the other manufacturers decide to rest on their laurels, and don't improve the quality of their phones, Google could sell their phones as a massive premium. Thus racking in extra profit without killing third party hardware support.
Google should be looking at Motorola as a marketing and research department. If they lose money on the division, they treat it as pure advertising. If they break even, it is free advertising. If they start making money via high margins, they should plow the money back into Android development to grow the ecosystem. This way, Google wins. Motorola wins. All of the other Android phone manufacturers win. Users win.
As for the Nexus line, I don't know what Google's criteria is, but they should be making either the Nexus label, or another [Pure Android] label that has the criteria that the phone is pure Android with no modifications, no more than one version of the OS back, and an unlocked boot loader. Let any manufacturer label their phone with the pure android label as long as it meets that criteria. This is what a lot of us are buying the Nexus Line for, but it has never been formalized as such. This would allow Google to put pressure on the carriers by giving the consumer a clear label to know what to buy. The geeks often are making the recommendations. If we could just tell people "Make sure that whatever you buy has a [Pure Android] label", it would go a long way to getting rid of the carrier and 3rd party manufacturer software screwups.
You've been reading "inspirational" quotes on Facebook again haven't you? I'm pretty sure I saw the one about puppies on there.
Maybe the bar is lower for Apple. It could be that your SDK is the best available on Apple, but is not even close to what is available on Android. It could also be that your SDK is the best on both platforms, but the cost difference between your app, and the next best app on Android makes your app too expensive for that platform. There are lots of reasons you might be selling your SDK on one platform and not the other, but any way you spin it, there are enough users on both platforms that lack of users is not the reason.