Windows failed to advance for a long time while other alternatives DID progress.
not really fair to say. windows has say 90% ownership of desktop PCs. going from 90-95% is much harder than going from 5-10% (if you are comparing it to apple / linux). you could pick up 5% by appealing to don't like microsoft's chosen stock symbol.
That's because if a company isn't growing, it's stagnant or shrinking.
first, growing at a smaller rate != stagnant / shrinking. MSFT is still growing.
second, no company can maintain increasing growth rates forever. that's for more immature companies that are exploiting a new market, as MSFT was doing in the dawn of the PC era, and apple is doing now in the dawn of the smart phone era.
MSFT owns say 90% of PCs. moving from say 90% to 95% is *much* harder than say moving from 5% to 10%. you expect slower growth when the company in question already dominates the market.
IPhone apps do not have access to email or text messages or the data in any other app except through a very well defined API that requires user confirmation in virtually all instances of data sharing.
yes, just like android in fact.
if an android app is doing any of those things, it's because the user granted it permission to do so.
if the apps have access to sensitive information, it's because the app requested the information and the user granted it. every android app must declare the set of permissions it requires, and that list is presented to the user *before* they install the app.
also, as other posters have pointed out, the fact that an app has access to sensitive data does not mean it exposed the data.
And to see the penalty of death be imposed on somebody who hasn't done something so wrong as murder, is very much out of the norm.
define "norm"? from the wikipedia page,
According to information published by Amnesty International in 2010, 95 countries had abolished capital punishment altogether, 9 had done so for all offences except under special circumstances, and 35 had not used it for at least 10 years or were under a moratorium. The other 58 retained the death penalty in active use.
so the "norm" is to not allow capital punishment.
countries that exercise the death penalty, for any reason, are the outliers. the real distinction is capital punishment or no, not the circumstances under which it is allowed.
Who tells you that might be happening if you have an Android phone?
wrong.
on android, and app must explicitly declare the services it needs to access in its manifest, and those permission are shown to to the user before they install the app. that includes permission to obtain the user's location.
A great example of this is the notable lack of GPS chips in laptops. The fact that I have to type in my starting address on Google Maps on my $1,500 MacBook Air serves as a constant reminder that PC innovation has plateaued
hate to point out the obvious, but a $1500 macbook pro doesn't have a GPS chip because GPS doesn't work inside, and most folks aren't walking around outside using google maps on the laptops.
Likewise, if you have a "humanist" who doesn't believe in the power of God (intellectually) but knows Jesus' teachings and gives away his wealth to the poor and takes in orphans to care for them, is Jesus his Lord?
not sure, but he's going to hell that's for sure (so says the bible).
i'm still waiting for punishment / condemnation of this lawyer by his empoyer, or whatever. if he keeps his job, you might say that the society he lives in is condoning his opinion, even if they do not explicitly endorse it.
also, where are the islamic groups crying out against this man? are there any?
That attitude means society never has to look at itself to see if it is creating conditions that cause people to kill, rape, or commit treason, let alone do anything about any such conditions.
yet society continues to evolve even though almost every society has had death penalties of some sort in the past and many still do today.
Not to mention, any time that a death penalty is suggested for anything less than homicide, there's something terribly wrong with the picture.
you know there are a lot of people that believe that a death penalty is never appropriate? some of those people may have feelings about you that are similar to the way you feel about the pakistani lawyer's opinion.
yes of course we all need to act and react based on our version of morality, but there's a difference between saying "they are wrong" and saying something like "i don't agree, and am going to act on my own beliefs."
pen = phone keyboard pad of paper == phone storage
in this case the employer owns the pen and the paper.
if your employer owned the pad of paper, then yes they probably do have the right to see what was written. we don't really need to use an analogy for that... i have papers in my office. my employer has the right to rifle through them if they want. it's their property, their writing pad. i'd never write personally sensitive information in my work notepad, and i shouldn't write personally sensitive texts on my work phone.
Somewhere there is a balance. If the phone is agreed to be available for personal use then they really have no business monitoring that aspect of it.
would you rather have your employer tell you
1. never use this phone for any personal communication, if you do you will be fired 2. you can use this phone for personal communication, but it is subject to inspection
#1 is protection for dummies that can't or don't want to understand the "subject to inspection" part. #2 gives you the freedom to make decisions like "i'm going to have a 2 hour boring conversation with my grandma, i'll burn minutes on my work phone for that", and "i'm planning my next big coke party, better use my personal phone for that."
Other then that, I really could care less if someone spends half their day on Facebook. It's not my job to make sure that other people are working...
you might care if you like your job, because if someone is on facebook all day it's $ out the window, which means less profit, fewer raises, and maybe even layoffs.
Even if you're careful you can get caught out by a "goatse" type link on slashdot, or once even on a supplier's technical support forum.
the only time you'd get fired for an occasional infraction is if they are looking for a reason to fire you. if you are a valued employee, they aren't going to let you go because they see a single porno image in your weblog every few weeks.
Why would I want to pay for a second phone I don't need?
if you care about your employer reading your texts, then you do need it. your employer pays for your plan so you can be contacted when necessary not so you can use it personally. if you want to use those unlimited minutes for personal use, go ahead, but the plan still belongs to your employer so don't expect privacy.
it sorts of like if you had an office, and decided to make use of it for personal activities on the weekend. after all, the lease is paid up so it's not costing your employer anything for you to use the office then. would you expect that anything you do in your office on the weekends, while you are technically "off the clock" to remain private? no, it's still your employer's office.
it's aim is to discover h-congruous planets. kepler doesn't detect the planet, it detects the planet's transit across it's sun. it can find earth-sized planets in this way. they can estimate the size based on change in apparent magnitude.
also, based on the frequency of transit (kepler makes long-term observations of candidate planets) it can estimate the distance from the star, and based on the type / size of the star, it can figure out if the planet is in the "habitable zone" for C-based life, as we understand it anyway.
And finally, if you have half a brain and any work ethic at all, and stay out of trouble, it's not hard to work your way up to higher-paying positions
and finally, if they have half a brain and any work ethic at all, and stay out of trouble, any PhD can take their skills to industry and get a six+ figure job.
considering most gaming happens over the internet, the bottleneck is your broadband, not your LAN. also, considering latency is a bigger factor in most games, you probably won't see a difference.
that being said, if it didn't ship with N people would be screaming. N is standard on any new device these days.
Let's not kid ourselves - the real reason those gifted enough to excel shy away from science is that this path is not conducive to having a life.
is working at walmart for minimum wage and not having enough money to pay your bills or afford health care conducive to having a life? could it be emotionally crushing?
cry me a river.
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I'm moving to Mexico, where I can fly the American flag and light off fireworks on the 4th of July without getting harassed by some dipshit politically correct cocksucker.
good, make sure and move to a barren desert too, as we don't appreciate having to spend our tax $ to put out the fires your start with and pay for the damages caused by your fireworks.
why would / should a "research" grant provide you with "extra" money?
get out in the real world much? if not, you should try working at mcdonalds or walmart, where you will make the same or less $ but have to slave physically all day long for it. couple that with zero long term prospects from the experience, and i'd say you are getting one hell of a deal. you're basically getting supported by the government / your university so you can have your six or more figures when you finish up.
okay i agree. but based on your issues, i'd suggest they revise their restrictions to read: "student must have a laptop that has adjustable resolution and can connect to a wireless network."
If they instead opted for a Windows laptop it would be nearly impossible to standardize
it's not like they will be writing device drivers or hooking up exotic peripherals. they need a browser, email, IM, and maybe an IDE. they'll need to standardize on those anyway, but windows wouldn't make it any harder.
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Windows failed to advance for a long time while other alternatives DID progress.
not really fair to say. windows has say 90% ownership of desktop PCs. going from 90-95% is much harder than going from 5-10% (if you are comparing it to apple / linux). you could pick up 5% by appealing to don't like microsoft's chosen stock symbol.
That's because if a company isn't growing, it's stagnant or shrinking.
first, growing at a smaller rate != stagnant / shrinking. MSFT is still growing.
second, no company can maintain increasing growth rates forever. that's for more immature companies that are exploiting a new market, as MSFT was doing in the dawn of the PC era, and apple is doing now in the dawn of the smart phone era.
MSFT owns say 90% of PCs. moving from say 90% to 95% is *much* harder than say moving from 5% to 10%. you expect slower growth when the company in question already dominates the market.
IPhone apps do not have access to email or text messages or the data in any other app except through a very well defined API that requires user confirmation in virtually all instances of data sharing.
yes, just like android in fact.
if an android app is doing any of those things, it's because the user granted it permission to do so.
if the apps have access to sensitive information, it's because the app requested the information and the user granted it. every android app must declare the set of permissions it requires, and that list is presented to the user *before* they install the app.
also, as other posters have pointed out, the fact that an app has access to sensitive data does not mean it exposed the data.
And to see the penalty of death be imposed on somebody who hasn't done something so wrong as murder, is very much out of the norm.
define "norm"? from the wikipedia page,
According to information published by Amnesty International in 2010, 95 countries had abolished capital punishment altogether, 9 had done so for all offences except under special circumstances, and 35 had not used it for at least 10 years or were under a moratorium. The other 58 retained the death penalty in active use.
so the "norm" is to not allow capital punishment.
countries that exercise the death penalty, for any reason, are the outliers. the real distinction is capital punishment or no, not the circumstances under which it is allowed.
Who tells you that might be happening if you have an Android phone?
wrong.
on android, and app must explicitly declare the services it needs to access in its manifest, and those permission are shown to to the user before they install the app. that includes permission to obtain the user's location.
A great example of this is the notable lack of GPS chips in laptops. The fact that I have to type in my starting address on Google Maps on my $1,500 MacBook Air serves as a constant reminder that PC innovation has plateaued
hate to point out the obvious, but a $1500 macbook pro doesn't have a GPS chip because GPS doesn't work inside, and most folks aren't walking around outside using google maps on the laptops.
Likewise, if you have a "humanist" who doesn't believe in the power of God (intellectually) but knows Jesus' teachings and gives away his wealth to the poor and takes in orphans to care for them, is Jesus his Lord?
not sure, but he's going to hell that's for sure (so says the bible).
i'm still waiting for punishment / condemnation of this lawyer by his empoyer, or whatever. if he keeps his job, you might say that the society he lives in is condoning his opinion, even if they do not explicitly endorse it.
also, where are the islamic groups crying out against this man? are there any?
That attitude means society never has to look at itself to see if it is creating conditions that cause people to kill, rape, or commit treason, let alone do anything about any such conditions.
yet society continues to evolve even though almost every society has had death penalties of some sort in the past and many still do today.
Not to mention, any time that a death penalty is suggested for anything less than homicide, there's something terribly wrong with the picture.
you know there are a lot of people that believe that a death penalty is never appropriate? some of those people may have feelings about you that are similar to the way you feel about the pakistani lawyer's opinion.
yes of course we all need to act and react based on our version of morality, but there's a difference between saying "they are wrong" and saying something like "i don't agree, and am going to act on my own beliefs."
yay analogies :)
pen = phone keyboard
pad of paper == phone storage
in this case the employer owns the pen and the paper.
if your employer owned the pad of paper, then yes they probably do have the right to see what was written. we don't really need to use an analogy for that ... i have papers in my office. my employer has the right to rifle through them if they want. it's their property, their writing pad. i'd never write personally sensitive information in my work notepad, and i shouldn't write personally sensitive texts on my work phone.
Somewhere there is a balance. If the phone is agreed to be available for personal use then they really have no business monitoring that aspect of it.
would you rather have your employer tell you
1. never use this phone for any personal communication, if you do you will be fired
2. you can use this phone for personal communication, but it is subject to inspection
#1 is protection for dummies that can't or don't want to understand the "subject to inspection" part. #2 gives you the freedom to make decisions like "i'm going to have a 2 hour boring conversation with my grandma, i'll burn minutes on my work phone for that", and "i'm planning my next big coke party, better use my personal phone for that."
i'd rather have #2.
Other then that, I really could care less if someone spends half their day on Facebook. It's not my job to make sure that other people are working...
you might care if you like your job, because if someone is on facebook all day it's $ out the window, which means less profit, fewer raises, and maybe even layoffs.
Even if you're careful you can get caught out by a "goatse" type link on slashdot, or once even on a supplier's technical support forum.
the only time you'd get fired for an occasional infraction is if they are looking for a reason to fire you. if you are a valued employee, they aren't going to let you go because they see a single porno image in your weblog every few weeks.
Why would I want to pay for a second phone I don't need?
if you care about your employer reading your texts, then you do need it. your employer pays for your plan so you can be contacted when necessary not so you can use it personally. if you want to use those unlimited minutes for personal use, go ahead, but the plan still belongs to your employer so don't expect privacy.
it sorts of like if you had an office, and decided to make use of it for personal activities on the weekend. after all, the lease is paid up so it's not costing your employer anything for you to use the office then. would you expect that anything you do in your office on the weekends, while you are technically "off the clock" to remain private? no, it's still your employer's office.
probably not, sorry. i happen to be reading "pandora's star" now and it was stuck in my head obviously.
yes but that's the thing about kepler,
it's aim is to discover h-congruous planets. kepler doesn't detect the planet, it detects the planet's transit across it's sun. it can find earth-sized planets in this way. they can estimate the size based on change in apparent magnitude.
also, based on the frequency of transit (kepler makes long-term observations of candidate planets) it can estimate the distance from the star, and based on the type / size of the star, it can figure out if the planet is in the "habitable zone" for C-based life, as we understand it anyway.
And finally, if you have half a brain and any work ethic at all, and stay out of trouble, it's not hard to work your way up to higher-paying positions
and finally, if they have half a brain and any work ethic at all, and stay out of trouble, any PhD can take their skills to industry and get a six+ figure job.
considering most gaming happens over the internet, the bottleneck is your broadband, not your LAN. also, considering latency is a bigger factor in most games, you probably won't see a difference.
that being said, if it didn't ship with N people would be screaming. N is standard on any new device these days.
Let's not kid ourselves - the real reason those gifted enough to excel shy away from science is that this path is not conducive to having a life.
is working at walmart for minimum wage and not having enough money to pay your bills or afford health care conducive to having a life? could it be emotionally crushing?
cry me a river.
I'm moving to Mexico, where I can fly the American flag and light off fireworks on the 4th of July without getting harassed by some dipshit politically correct cocksucker.
good, make sure and move to a barren desert too, as we don't appreciate having to spend our tax $ to put out the fires your start with and pay for the damages caused by your fireworks.
why would / should a "research" grant provide you with "extra" money?
get out in the real world much? if not, you should try working at mcdonalds or walmart, where you will make the same or less $ but have to slave physically all day long for it. couple that with zero long term prospects from the experience, and i'd say you are getting one hell of a deal. you're basically getting supported by the government / your university so you can have your six or more figures when you finish up.
okay i agree. but based on your issues, i'd suggest they revise their restrictions to read: "student must have a laptop that has adjustable resolution and can connect to a wireless network."
If they instead opted for a Windows laptop it would be nearly impossible to standardize
it's not like they will be writing device drivers or hooking up exotic peripherals. they need a browser, email, IM, and maybe an IDE. they'll need to standardize on those anyway, but windows wouldn't make it any harder.
Keeping a bunch of PC laptops free of viruses would be a nightmare for any public-school IT department.
except the laptops belong to the students and therefore are not the responsibility of the school in any case.