There is what, a 99.9999999999999% chance that Boeing is selected, and will promptly game the setup to gobble most of the cash. They will provide extremely well-written reports as to why they need more cash in order to deliver the results that are requested.
NASA has been steadily losing government funds since the Apollo program ended. I think the lucritiveness of government funding for commercial spaceflight is probably a myth. I have a feeling the government subsidies are going to be token payments and tax breaks, not amounting to much more than a negligible portion of the total budget for any individual spaceflight endeavor. The rest of the budget will have to come from investors, who no doubt turn around and pass the savings on to the customers.
Well... there's the solution right there to dirtbag deadbeat clients. Work on retainer. I don't know why more business isn't done this way, as though only attorneys are smart enough to insist upon it so much that it becomes convention. If enough developers begin insisting on retainer before one line of webcode is writen, then it becomes standard.
Another idea would be to insist on using credit card companies for payment... and billing becomes a quick and easy electronic transaction: credit card given, work begins, once code is delivered and approved, put through your transaction and get paid immediately.
I can't explain it... and while the science is well understood, in practice it seems to work better than any science can explain, as time and again it has been shown that if you eject the core and fire a few photon torpedos at it, destroying it spectacularly in close proximity to your ship, somehow, even though there really is no shock wave in the vacuum of space to transfer the momentum needed, and even though your WARP drive and main propulsion is now busted, it somehow allows your ship to escape a gravity-well and be on its merry way.
Honest Question here - do you really believe that the best way to foster free and open discussion is to severely limit the people that can participate?
Well, that is the idea behind representational democracy, and I happen to think it works... uh... well enough. Do you honestly believe that true ideal democracy, Classical-style, is a viable alternative? We have the technology today to actually make it happen even in a society as large as the United States, giving every citizen the ability to have one vote on any consideration on the floor. While a nice idea... I'm not sure it would really work out... I think it would suffer the same deficits that representation democracy suffers from, only on a massive scale, and the rights violations and slipups would also in turn be massive SNAFUs.
the object of the game is to gain enough karma points that you can troll at will with impunity
I've never been good at games, but I was lucky enough to somehow eternally have excellent karma, regardless of the mod points I have or haven't been awarded. I must say, it is awesome. Though I try not to abuse the privilege, I was recently just awarded my first +3 Troll... didn't last too long, but it felt great.
Anyway, welcome to my world.
Consider this: wtf does it matter what other people think? Why are you so sure that you really even know what other people think?
Just sayin'.... there are more important things to be concerned about, socially and personally, than feeding your indignation at what you believe other people think based on published polls. I honestly don't believe you're even really concerned. If you're actually experiencing torches and pitchforks of townsfolk coming to get you and your mysterious and blasphemous "science," that's one thing. But otherwise, if things really are the same as you remember them being, more or less, your whole life... then just go back to your PS3, your command line or your electron microscope... I'm sure it will all be ok.
funny how you put that... I chortled so vehemently at the irony that I had to wipe my eyes with a Kleenex ®, then realizing I did it too, coughed up on my shirt and had to take it to get cleaned in a Laundromat (tm)
The original village is a centuries-old village of 900 and a UNESCO heritage site that survives on tourism.... In a country famous for pirated products....
This copyright protection is going too far... its absurd.... centruries-old... when does original architect's copyright run out, exactly!?
inadvertently spilled the beans. Minmetals staff had been taking photos and gathering data while mingling with tourists, raising suspicions among villagers.
Bullshit. Why would someone taking pictures or doing any kind of observations whatsoever raise suspicion in a heritage site that survives on tourism? I think letting the town know wasn't exactly "inadvertant," but likely overt.
I find it easier and more sane, if Windows is necessary, to run linux or BSD on the iron, and install Windows to a virtual machine while network isolated, no updates, no patches, no AV, though install all necessary applications that are otherwise actually useful, Office stuff, whathaveyou, have a mounted shared folder from the VM on the actual real HD for documents, and then zip the machine before plugging in the net cable. After every use, nuke the VM, unzip a new instance, a freshly clean install in a min. or so... If there's any concern about what's in the shared doc folder, set up a cron on the *nix side to scan it once in while... or just gmail the documents folder to yourself and let Google disinfect it... but otherwise never update the WinVM, never scan it, never let your processor do anything that isn't actually work. Wash, rinse, repeat... I just never could get the hang of Tuesdays. Though your idea is neat too... presumably you get some nice bug fixes I won't... but my way takes less steps and is far more secure... theoretically, of course. Also, I bet anything my unpatched unupdated system is much much faster and more responsive, even virtualized, than your fully patched, updated, and periodically virus scanned system is running on your bare iron. Not ideal for gaming... but this would work in any office environment well, once tweeked so office-types don't keep stumbling out of the VM and into the real system, and with a cron nuking the machine every night (or every hour) when they logout.
We've apparently been talking about different things. I've been talking.... you've been talking about....:-)
And vernacular, specifically rat7307's unfortunate choice of words. But at the end of the day, rat7307 is an insignifcant commenter on an insignificant technology news outlet. Your own comments are far less prejudicial, less insensitive, and our trolling is far more popular than any dismissive statements made by the above. Nice smiley. =^..^=
There are two points that I keep wanting to make but I am easily distracted.
What matters is how many people use that platform, and therefore have access to that app.
First of all, this is complete hogwash, and I know you're smart enough to see that... unless your saying that popularity itself is a self-perpetuating and important driving sales bullet point. Why would it matter how many people use a platform, nowadays? Because the platform that is important, it turns out, is neither Android nor iOS, but the WWW... the Cloud, as it were (and I just puked a little in my mouth as I typed that word).
Ask yourself what kind of car you drive, and how popular it is, and whether it matters or not how many drive the exact same car, and if that was a factor you took into consideration when you made your purchase. It doesn't matter, unless you're driving something that runs on a fuel that just isn't available conveniently, because regardless, if its a car, no matter if its one of a kind, it still drives on... you guess it, the road.Once upon a time I suppose it did matter that Windows outsold Mac's 20 to 1, and that the platforms were entirely incompatible, on one hand due to incompatible file systems, yet mostly due to the efforts of Microsoft to keep them that way (using tactics similar to the ones they continue use to thwart linux adopters even today), and in spite of Apple's efforts to conform to commercial standards to keep the competing platforms transparent to what actually mattered, the transportability of documents. The platforms we are discussing are not application centric... they are data centric... and the data no longer cares which platform is parsing it.
The second point, which is really my originally intended point, is that to refer to platforms using terms like "minority" and "majority" is tremendously prejudicial... and frankly, bizarre. No one speaks of technology like this. The OP flamebaited me successfully, and you have been trolling me... rather impressively, I might add.
To go further, the OP's statement is also suspect, and we can now turn this around a bit. What is the Android music player that is more popular than and that is outselling the iPod? Which Android tablet is more popular than and is outselling the iPad? Which Windows laptop is more popular than and outselling the MacBook line? (Have you been on a college campus lately?)
I might be willing to concede that Apple has probably peaked in innovation... I don't see where they can go from here... but it is so far ahead of the competition in innovation that the competition is, embarrassingly, over-reaching in an attempt to stay relevant, regardless of marketshare or popularity that includes aging machines over ten years old. No one cares, when making a new computer purchase, how many aging Win2K or XP desktops are still gathering dust under who knows how many cubicles. In the same regard, no one cares how many System 7 Macintoshes are still running. This isn't a factor and shouldn't be a factor when deciding which smartphone platform they're going to purchase because they prefer one maps application better than the other. Furthermore, Android smartphones interface with MacOS X just as easily as iPhones interface with Windows. The platform, unlike the OP, is unbiased with regards to the data. Therefore, it is a falacious notion that the popularity of one platform in regards to another is an important consideration when making a purchase.
The average (the "norms") seem to make quick judgements and associations regarding the mentally ill, whether this means mild depression, or OCD, or full blown mania. First and formost, it is seen as insult. "Crazy" used to be cool... now its somehow on the same level as "homeless." Then it is somehow inexplicably associated with violence. Next, crime, then sexual devience, and finally, pedophelia. It matters not that evidence shows that, on one point listed, the violent are almost never mentally ill, and the mentally ill are almost never violent. About 1% of any population is inherently violent, and this is true among the mentally ill as well, 1%. Yet when an average person learns that another is mentally ill, they immediate begin to fear them and treat them with mistrust, only serving to exacerbate the condition of the individual suffering mental illness by ostracizing them.
People in general place far too much significance on what they believe is going on in another individual's mind, forgetting that there is no way to know, and also forgetting that mental illness is not crime nor indiciative of a criminal mind. The criminal, by the vast majority, are all sane. We, as a society, need to move back towards responsibility of action, not continue to gravitate towards the notion of thought-crimes. Judge a person by what they do, not by wild, unprovably notions of what or how they think.
One wonders just how long these ridiculous fossils from the Revolution are going to live. As generations grow older and are replaced by younger generations, you'd think that tolerance would increase and these childish attempts to control an individual's thought would pass away along with the intolerant. When this finally does happen, when the Chinese citizens are finally as free as those in the Western world... we're really going to see something. Speaking as an ugly american, Chinese individuals that make it to the West are almost always tremendously impressive, cognitively.
I dunno. I respect life and so forth, but once my pet are dead, or i am dead, who cares ?
The civilized care. It is how we treat the dead that separates us from all other animals (except maybe elephants and whales, who have been known to show grief at the loss of companions). The dead don't care, of course, but extreme callousness when handling or speaking of the dead is a manifestation of the lowest character of which humans are capable. If one doesn't respect death, one also doesn't respect life.
You can spin it how you like, but iOS is the only viable competing platform against Android, and without it, Android would suck. Competition is a good thing and forces innovation. MacOS and linux are the only viable desktop platforms competing against Windows. It should make a difference that Apple is a single company (and the largest in the world now), and Android is not. Let's compare Apple's to apple's, shall we? Let's take a look at the actual market... how are iPhone4S sales doing compared to the Samsung Galaxy Nexus sales? Or the HTC One X? Or the Motorola Droid Razr Maxx? How are the Apple MacBook Pro's doing against any particular HP, Samsung, Lenovo, Sony, Acer, Asus, Dell, or Toshiba laptop? I realize that you wish to compare all of Apple's competition TOGETHER against Apple's offerings... but it really isn't all that useful. Its not saying much when you say iOS is falling behind Android when there are many Android phone manufacturers and only a single iOS platform manufactuer. rat7307's statement, and your defense, may technically be correct, but anyone with an IQ over potato can see that isn't saying much, isn't really what's important or even remotely interesting.
You read into my comments things that aren't there, just as you over-extrapolate the meaning of sales figures.
Not quite. You are defending rat7307's myopic and dismissive statement that: "At the end of the day if it's only available on iOS and Mac then it's essentially on a minority of devices on what is now a minority platform." It's rat7607's statement that I am reading into as myopic and dismissive, and only by association, your defense of it.
A ribbon 6km long and 2km wide, with a great big lagoon in the middle... I'd say any island you can walk entirely around three or four times a day at a leisurely pace is pretty small.
Except that Kiribati wasn't Kirinati and wasn't even a nation until 1979; until then it was yet another British colony (not unlike the US, until 1776). Why would the pre-WWII US Navy care to stimulate the economy of a British colony? Then again... why did the US wage a nuclear war against this same British colony after WWII?
Why on earth would the US Navy spend taxpayer dollars for this expedition? Unless they have too much money and don't know what to do with it all - which is quite plausible considering the proportion of budget allocated to the military. Meh!
Rumor has it she was on some secret mission for Roosevelt to take pictures of a Japanese stronghold to prove the Japanese had violated some treaty. I'd like to know what secret mission John F. Kennedy, Jr. was on to warrant the U.S. Navy locating his submerged plane and recovering his and his wife's bodies within a mere 5 days.
Nope. Chuck Yeager is the most famous pilot ever. And people still know who he is.
At about 800,000 hits, the internets say Han Solo is far more famous with nearly twice that at 15,800,000... Yeager is only about as famous as Lando Calrissian, who was, contrary to popular belief, not only a fair pilot, but just the one to lead this crazy attack
No, she was shot down at Hull Island, captured and interrogated by the Japanese military, and taken to Japan. That's probably Cutter John's wheelchair:
Having blown off course and crashed.... Cutter was captured by a Soviet submarine and held as a spy. Opus developed amnesia during the incident and found his way back to the Bloom Boardinghouse, and told everyone what had happened once his memory returned. Eventually Cutter was traded for Bill the Cat, who had apparently been moonlighting as a spy. He appeared much less often after that. "Cutter John's" true name is Cutter Jeff. He prefers to be called Cutter John, though.
Yes, I see your point. Apple's product can continue ad infinitum flying off the shelves in a fashion only known in the food industry, while continuing to be a minority, regardless of the millions upon millions of users... still an inconsequential minority that isn't worth considering, because the majority platform, which includes systems dating back to the millenium, is still a majority... and the more established platform is always the only one worth considering, even if its sales are embarrasingly slow.
Yes, I understood. But he's completely missing the larger picture. His comment is dismissive and I think either it's flamebait or astoundingly myopic ("at the end of the day... minority of devices... minority platform"). Apple may be technically still in the minority, but at the end of every week, Apple's inventory has been entirely sold out.
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Not really.
There is what, a 99.9999999999999% chance that Boeing is selected, and will promptly game the setup to gobble most of the cash. They will provide extremely well-written reports as to why they need more cash in order to deliver the results that are requested.
NASA has been steadily losing government funds since the Apollo program ended. I think the lucritiveness of government funding for commercial spaceflight is probably a myth. I have a feeling the government subsidies are going to be token payments and tax breaks, not amounting to much more than a negligible portion of the total budget for any individual spaceflight endeavor. The rest of the budget will have to come from investors, who no doubt turn around and pass the savings on to the customers.
They pay monthly retainer fees
Well... there's the solution right there to dirtbag deadbeat clients. Work on retainer. I don't know why more business isn't done this way, as though only attorneys are smart enough to insist upon it so much that it becomes convention. If enough developers begin insisting on retainer before one line of webcode is writen, then it becomes standard.
Another idea would be to insist on using credit card companies for payment... and billing becomes a quick and easy electronic transaction: credit card given, work begins, once code is delivered and approved, put through your transaction and get paid immediately.
But how would core ejection affect this?
I can't explain it... and while the science is well understood, in practice it seems to work better than any science can explain, as time and again it has been shown that if you eject the core and fire a few photon torpedos at it, destroying it spectacularly in close proximity to your ship, somehow, even though there really is no shock wave in the vacuum of space to transfer the momentum needed, and even though your WARP drive and main propulsion is now busted, it somehow allows your ship to escape a gravity-well and be on its merry way.
Honest Question here - do you really believe that the best way to foster free and open discussion is to severely limit the people that can participate?
Well, that is the idea behind representational democracy, and I happen to think it works... uh... well enough. Do you honestly believe that true ideal democracy, Classical-style, is a viable alternative? We have the technology today to actually make it happen even in a society as large as the United States, giving every citizen the ability to have one vote on any consideration on the floor. While a nice idea... I'm not sure it would really work out... I think it would suffer the same deficits that representation democracy suffers from, only on a massive scale, and the rights violations and slipups would also in turn be massive SNAFUs.
the object of the game is to gain enough karma points that you can troll at will with impunity
I've never been good at games, but I was lucky enough to somehow eternally have excellent karma, regardless of the mod points I have or haven't been awarded. I must say, it is awesome. Though I try not to abuse the privilege, I was recently just awarded my first +3 Troll... didn't last too long, but it felt great. Anyway, welcome to my world.
Consider this: wtf does it matter what other people think? Why are you so sure that you really even know what other people think?
Just sayin'.... there are more important things to be concerned about, socially and personally, than feeding your indignation at what you believe other people think based on published polls. I honestly don't believe you're even really concerned. If you're actually experiencing torches and pitchforks of townsfolk coming to get you and your mysterious and blasphemous "science," that's one thing. But otherwise, if things really are the same as you remember them being, more or less, your whole life... then just go back to your PS3, your command line or your electron microscope... I'm sure it will all be ok.
...be reduced to a Xerox machine.
funny how you put that... I chortled so vehemently at the irony that I had to wipe my eyes with a Kleenex ®, then realizing I did it too, coughed up on my shirt and had to take it to get cleaned in a Laundromat (tm)
the chinese will pirate anything.
This copyright protection is going too far... its absurd.... centruries-old... when does original architect's copyright run out, exactly!?
Bullshit. Why would someone taking pictures or doing any kind of observations whatsoever raise suspicion in a heritage site that survives on tourism? I think letting the town know wasn't exactly "inadvertant," but likely overt.
I find it easier and more sane, if Windows is necessary, to run linux or BSD on the iron, and install Windows to a virtual machine while network isolated, no updates, no patches, no AV, though install all necessary applications that are otherwise actually useful, Office stuff, whathaveyou, have a mounted shared folder from the VM on the actual real HD for documents, and then zip the machine before plugging in the net cable. After every use, nuke the VM, unzip a new instance, a freshly clean install in a min. or so... If there's any concern about what's in the shared doc folder, set up a cron on the *nix side to scan it once in while... or just gmail the documents folder to yourself and let Google disinfect it... but otherwise never update the WinVM, never scan it, never let your processor do anything that isn't actually work. Wash, rinse, repeat... I just never could get the hang of Tuesdays. Though your idea is neat too... presumably you get some nice bug fixes I won't... but my way takes less steps and is far more secure... theoretically, of course. Also, I bet anything my unpatched unupdated system is much much faster and more responsive, even virtualized, than your fully patched, updated, and periodically virus scanned system is running on your bare iron. Not ideal for gaming... but this would work in any office environment well, once tweeked so office-types don't keep stumbling out of the VM and into the real system, and with a cron nuking the machine every night (or every hour) when they logout.
We've apparently been talking about different things. I've been talking.... you've been talking about .... :-)
And vernacular, specifically rat7307's unfortunate choice of words. But at the end of the day, rat7307 is an insignifcant commenter on an insignificant technology news outlet. Your own comments are far less prejudicial, less insensitive, and our trolling is far more popular than any dismissive statements made by the above. Nice smiley. =^..^=
There are two points that I keep wanting to make but I am easily distracted.
What matters is how many people use that platform, and therefore have access to that app.
First of all, this is complete hogwash, and I know you're smart enough to see that... unless your saying that popularity itself is a self-perpetuating and important driving sales bullet point. Why would it matter how many people use a platform, nowadays? Because the platform that is important, it turns out, is neither Android nor iOS, but the WWW... the Cloud, as it were (and I just puked a little in my mouth as I typed that word).
Ask yourself what kind of car you drive, and how popular it is, and whether it matters or not how many drive the exact same car, and if that was a factor you took into consideration when you made your purchase. It doesn't matter, unless you're driving something that runs on a fuel that just isn't available conveniently, because regardless, if its a car, no matter if its one of a kind, it still drives on... you guess it, the road.Once upon a time I suppose it did matter that Windows outsold Mac's 20 to 1, and that the platforms were entirely incompatible, on one hand due to incompatible file systems, yet mostly due to the efforts of Microsoft to keep them that way (using tactics similar to the ones they continue use to thwart linux adopters even today), and in spite of Apple's efforts to conform to commercial standards to keep the competing platforms transparent to what actually mattered, the transportability of documents. The platforms we are discussing are not application centric... they are data centric... and the data no longer cares which platform is parsing it.
The second point, which is really my originally intended point, is that to refer to platforms using terms like "minority" and "majority" is tremendously prejudicial... and frankly, bizarre. No one speaks of technology like this. The OP flamebaited me successfully, and you have been trolling me... rather impressively, I might add.
To go further, the OP's statement is also suspect, and we can now turn this around a bit. What is the Android music player that is more popular than and that is outselling the iPod? Which Android tablet is more popular than and is outselling the iPad? Which Windows laptop is more popular than and outselling the MacBook line? (Have you been on a college campus lately?)
I might be willing to concede that Apple has probably peaked in innovation... I don't see where they can go from here... but it is so far ahead of the competition in innovation that the competition is, embarrassingly, over-reaching in an attempt to stay relevant, regardless of marketshare or popularity that includes aging machines over ten years old. No one cares, when making a new computer purchase, how many aging Win2K or XP desktops are still gathering dust under who knows how many cubicles. In the same regard, no one cares how many System 7 Macintoshes are still running. This isn't a factor and shouldn't be a factor when deciding which smartphone platform they're going to purchase because they prefer one maps application better than the other. Furthermore, Android smartphones interface with MacOS X just as easily as iPhones interface with Windows. The platform, unlike the OP, is unbiased with regards to the data. Therefore, it is a falacious notion that the popularity of one platform in regards to another is an important consideration when making a purchase.
The average (the "norms") seem to make quick judgements and associations regarding the mentally ill, whether this means mild depression, or OCD, or full blown mania. First and formost, it is seen as insult. "Crazy" used to be cool... now its somehow on the same level as "homeless." Then it is somehow inexplicably associated with violence. Next, crime, then sexual devience, and finally, pedophelia. It matters not that evidence shows that, on one point listed, the violent are almost never mentally ill, and the mentally ill are almost never violent. About 1% of any population is inherently violent, and this is true among the mentally ill as well, 1%. Yet when an average person learns that another is mentally ill, they immediate begin to fear them and treat them with mistrust, only serving to exacerbate the condition of the individual suffering mental illness by ostracizing them.
People in general place far too much significance on what they believe is going on in another individual's mind, forgetting that there is no way to know, and also forgetting that mental illness is not crime nor indiciative of a criminal mind. The criminal, by the vast majority, are all sane. We, as a society, need to move back towards responsibility of action, not continue to gravitate towards the notion of thought-crimes. Judge a person by what they do, not by wild, unprovably notions of what or how they think.
Come on China, it has been 23 years
One wonders just how long these ridiculous fossils from the Revolution are going to live. As generations grow older and are replaced by younger generations, you'd think that tolerance would increase and these childish attempts to control an individual's thought would pass away along with the intolerant. When this finally does happen, when the Chinese citizens are finally as free as those in the Western world... we're really going to see something. Speaking as an ugly american, Chinese individuals that make it to the West are almost always tremendously impressive, cognitively.
I see the search for civilization continues...
I dunno. I respect life and so forth, but once my pet are dead, or i am dead, who cares ?
The civilized care. It is how we treat the dead that separates us from all other animals (except maybe elephants and whales, who have been known to show grief at the loss of companions). The dead don't care, of course, but extreme callousness when handling or speaking of the dead is a manifestation of the lowest character of which humans are capable. If one doesn't respect death, one also doesn't respect life.
You can spin it how you like, but iOS is the only viable competing platform against Android, and without it, Android would suck. Competition is a good thing and forces innovation. MacOS and linux are the only viable desktop platforms competing against Windows. It should make a difference that Apple is a single company (and the largest in the world now), and Android is not. Let's compare Apple's to apple's, shall we? Let's take a look at the actual market... how are iPhone4S sales doing compared to the Samsung Galaxy Nexus sales? Or the HTC One X? Or the Motorola Droid Razr Maxx? How are the Apple MacBook Pro's doing against any particular HP, Samsung, Lenovo, Sony, Acer, Asus, Dell, or Toshiba laptop? I realize that you wish to compare all of Apple's competition TOGETHER against Apple's offerings... but it really isn't all that useful. Its not saying much when you say iOS is falling behind Android when there are many Android phone manufacturers and only a single iOS platform manufactuer. rat7307's statement, and your defense, may technically be correct, but anyone with an IQ over potato can see that isn't saying much, isn't really what's important or even remotely interesting.
You read into my comments things that aren't there, just as you over-extrapolate the meaning of sales figures.
Not quite. You are defending rat7307's myopic and dismissive statement that: "At the end of the day if it's only available on iOS and Mac then it's essentially on a minority of devices on what is now a minority platform." It's rat7607's statement that I am reading into as myopic and dismissive, and only by association, your defense of it.
The island is not that small
A ribbon 6km long and 2km wide, with a great big lagoon in the middle... I'd say any island you can walk entirely around three or four times a day at a leisurely pace is pretty small.
Except that Kiribati wasn't Kirinati and wasn't even a nation until 1979; until then it was yet another British colony (not unlike the US, until 1776). Why would the pre-WWII US Navy care to stimulate the economy of a British colony? Then again... why did the US wage a nuclear war against this same British colony after WWII?
Why on earth would the US Navy spend taxpayer dollars for this expedition? Unless they have too much money and don't know what to do with it all - which is quite plausible considering the proportion of budget allocated to the military. Meh!
Rumor has it she was on some secret mission for Roosevelt to take pictures of a Japanese stronghold to prove the Japanese had violated some treaty. I'd like to know what secret mission John F. Kennedy, Jr. was on to warrant the U.S. Navy locating his submerged plane and recovering his and his wife's bodies within a mere 5 days.
She is the most famous pilot ever
Nope. Chuck Yeager is the most famous pilot ever. And people still know who he is.
At about 800,000 hits, the internets say Han Solo is far more famous with nearly twice that at 15,800,000... Yeager is only about as famous as Lando Calrissian, who was, contrary to popular belief, not only a fair pilot, but just the one to lead this crazy attack
No, she was shot down at Hull Island, captured and interrogated by the Japanese military, and taken to Japan. That's probably Cutter John's wheelchair:
Having blown off course and crashed.... Cutter was captured by a Soviet submarine and held as a spy. Opus developed amnesia during the incident and found his way back to the Bloom Boardinghouse, and told everyone what had happened once his memory returned. Eventually Cutter was traded for Bill the Cat, who had apparently been moonlighting as a spy. He appeared much less often after that. "Cutter John's" true name is Cutter Jeff. He prefers to be called Cutter John, though.
LOL
Exceptionally well argued, sir. Certainly, you are a master of rhetorical persuasion.
Yes, I see your point. Apple's product can continue ad infinitum flying off the shelves in a fashion only known in the food industry, while continuing to be a minority, regardless of the millions upon millions of users... still an inconsequential minority that isn't worth considering, because the majority platform, which includes systems dating back to the millenium, is still a majority... and the more established platform is always the only one worth considering, even if its sales are embarrasingly slow.
/sarcasm
Yes, I understood. But he's completely missing the larger picture. His comment is dismissive and I think either it's flamebait or astoundingly myopic ("at the end of the day... minority of devices... minority platform"). Apple may be technically still in the minority, but at the end of every week, Apple's inventory has been entirely sold out.