OP is comparing an entire platform, with a multitude of devices, to a single device. If you want the comparison to make sense, then it's Android vs iOS, so you have to include iPads, iPod Touches, iPhone 3GS, etc. And when you do this, and it's not like I care, but iOS wipes the floor with Android.
It is, but not for the reasons you think. This is a clear violation of the 4th Amendment. If the pool cannot be seen from the street, then flying a plane overhead has been sussed out by SCOTUS as violating a citizens right to be secure in their homes. It constitutes an illegal search, and any evidence gained must be disgarded as fruits if the poisonous tree.
I'll believe it when Jon Bon Jovi announces that he's found the Higgs Boson.
I don't much care for Jovi either, however, he's an extremely talented guy. Probably a musical genius. And he's a decent actor now too (if you didn't notice, morons can not act). No shit. Maybe not as sky high IQ as someone like David Burn or Thomas Dolby, but Jovi is no slouch with music (ignoring the releases of his band). Einstein would have loved to jam with him.
I believe Verizon charges a one time fee on installation of the router, about $125 (which is about retail for that router, no?). This may be why some customers believe they own the router, because that fee looks like they bought it. But it's a service fee, Verizon owns the routers.
And what's messed up about the fine print is that Verizon explicitly forbids any servers, of any kind, connecting through the router. I predict, even if the OP's router is indeed his equipment, that he very likely has some server attached to it. Go ahead and complain, fool. Verizon will say "sorry for the mixup... oh, and I see you have a server... no more internet service for you!"
Not if the router is leased rather than owned. Since that's the way most internet companies work, I'm going to bet it's leased, and there's a clause in the contract that lets them access it for security purposes.
I must concur. Verizon charges a one time fee to install their routers... something like $125. The customer can be easily confused into thinking they now own the router as there are no further subsequent charges for the router, or if there are, they are not exactly explicitly described in detail on the bill.
Agreed. Jerry Garcia, Shakespeare, and the young Nietzsche (as in Birth of Tragedy of the the Spirit of Music, early work) are all three spinning in their graves.
The Cydia App Store has also been around for a while, serving the jailbroken iPhone market. Of course there is not a huge number of apps on it, but there are also lots of free apps in the Cydia repository.
Yeah, but Cydia is only for users that can handle the truth. Not everyone can bear that burden.
But I wonder what the deal is with Oracle being so over-eager to plaster their company name all over the place.
It means that the marketing/branding people in the company carry more clout than anyone with actual product knowledge. This is certainly not unique to Oracle, with most large publicly-traded companies worrying more about their "brand" than the product.
Actually, in the tech space, Sun pioneered this "Marketing Swallows the Co." business strategy in the 90's, which was pretty much their downfall (going from expensive servers that never break, to cheaper materials, and a machine that wears out just like Dell or something). Perhaps Oracle caught it from Sun.
How about we abandon this particular archaic method of evaluating students, and instead evaluate teachers? How about we just leave kids in a class for as long as it takes to learn the material, and abandon grades altogether?: either you know the material and pass, or you don't and remain in the class until you do. A failing grade says almost as much about a teacher as the little bit it says about a student. But somehow, a grade, a single letter, quite impossibly speaks volumes to some people. Others are more pragmatic: it's meaningless, but can be used to manipulate peoples beliefs.
700 volunteers, used 11,000 times.... that's 16 times per volunteer. I kind of wish the police used this instead of tasers. Maybe they should change the name from heat gun to tickle gun.
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well, you are sort of mixed up on the facts, and the feel for what Jobs really did. This isn't stricktly true, but, what it seems like is Steve recognized early that the hardware would soon be secondary to software, and that there were no modern operating systems that could do what he wanted. So he left (yeah, he was fired, but it seems like) to develop Apple's next gen OS. It took him 10 years of frankensteining other OS's (freebsd & mach) and coaxing developers to redecorate (fantastic APIs and dev tools, webkit, other great software tech), and when he had a mature, modern OS, he returned, slapped on a new paint job and an emulation layer, and with the OS as a giant tow line, pulled the company out of the technology bog and speculatively bubbled 90's. If he intended it from the beginning, he's a smart guy. If not, he's a lucky bastard.
Light-years? idk about that... certainly up for debate over which os had which better qualities. 2 things stick out in my mind... there were Amiga video toasters still in use in 2000, and in 1989 when first released, though few were aware, the Mac SE/30 could take 128MB RAM and run A/UX. Just imagine blowing 20 grand (or so) on RAM to max out your already expensive (but not overpriced for the time) Mac. OK... toaster more impressive depending on what side of entertainment you might fall.
History is a slut. I, for one, thank you for remembering the salient facts. It's unfortunate, but one popular book and one researcher that repeats an inserted "legend" or something as fact and... there goes what really happened (can't help... drifting off)
I think Mac OS X is the ultimate product bootstrap. The real trouble at Apple when Jobs left was the future of the operating system. History is going to believe, once it's watered down, that Steve realized this, realized what a monumental task it was, and left Apple for this purpose. NeXT took Mach, which is free, cutting edge stuff, and grafted FreeBSD, which is free, wonderful solid amazing OS, and created something different that does the same thing as most modern operating systems.... what's so great about Mac OS X? Under NeXT, APIs and developer environments were created... enticing developers. NeXT will just appear to be a developer stage for an Apple product, and there are other (usually failed) examples in Apple's history of creating products this way. Mac OS X isn't simply FreeBSD??Mach... it's that, with all the other technologies and software Apple has built, and third party devs have created.
Most users (no slashdotters) probably confuse their operating system with their user interface. They think Mac OS X is Finder, and Dock, and Desktop, menus, windows, the pointer, etc. And it's so much more than that. Oh.... it's FreeBSD/Mach, too, the backend... but, yeah, but.... that's just the skeleton, the frame upon which all the really great things about Mac OS X are extended from, built onto, tucked away into, and decorated.
So it's in the filling in the gaps... and the way Jobs with NeXT, away from Apple, shaped an incredibly essential piece of technology for Apple (i.e., a fully modern, scalable and proprietary operating system). And Apple now boldly cannibalizes Mac OS X developers now to fix software in other products. "Their" OS is now so resilient, or at least the user base is satisfied enough with it, that development can slow to a crawl on the most essential part of a computer to a typical user, without the sky falling.
Jobs (and an army of devs) created a really nice piece of tech for Apple, a product that they give away with their hardware, a product that sells their hardware, that is nimble enough for platform jumping whims without developers caring anymore.
I have some negative Apple moderators stalking me, so no one will ever see this but, I think Mac OS X, Snow Leopard, as much as it annoys me, is underrated running on Mac hw. Linux is sweet for it's purpose and I believe will do more cycle per cycle, but takes babysitting; Windows is... incomprehensible to me now (who's it for now exactly?). But Mac OS X can be quickly customized to do almost anything, which is why old macs running old Mac OS X can still be very useful in audio, print, and on the LAN.
For the last few years, and for a precious few more, I think a Churchillized view of consumer OS's is applicable: Apple's Mac OS X is the worst computer operating system there is for almost anything, collectively, anyone would want to do, except for all the others.
Jjust adecdotal, but my core 2 duo (slowest new MBP) runs handbrake dozens and dozens of times faster than my 2003 g4 PowerBook 1Ghz. Sometimes, it transcodes about a hundred more fps. I knew it was time for a new machine.
You are incorrect in believing that Apple could release a computer called "Kleenex." They would be sued, and lose in court, even though facial tissues have no integrated circuits.
Yes it is. The way trademarks work is if you don't defend them, you lose them. Apple is compelled to fight to protect their trademark. And they can't lose this, so I predict it won't make it to court. The AU co. will save face by changing the name. It's an exceptionally small concession. Call it the 'Pood' and Apple has no issue.
You seem to ignore the fact that had iPod never existed, iPood would have been titled something else. It is obvious that the namers intended a little funny by naming it after the iPod, which means they are taking liberties with the trademark. This appears to be infringement to me, and Apple jealously protects their trademarks. Yes, this is silly, but for Apple, it's necessary.
Cudos to your SCOTUS case knowledge. On the face of it, it seems to go against common sense, that something that isn't sold could be considered commerce. The great thing about cases is they can be overturned. For instance, a mother's milk, under these conditions, would have a detrimental effect on the economy... maybe 90 million new mothers... all skirting their responsibility by not paying commerce taxes on the milk they produce feed their babies. Yes, absurd.
Frankly, this Court, by changing the very intention and meaning of the Founders concerning the 2nd (no longer means you have a right to a gun to protect me, the 2nd now means self-defense, something it never meant before 2 years ago, no mention of self-defense in the Constitution), has ceased to impress me. The Majority now appear to be conservative stooges. sry, off topic and just MHO.
Well, that's part of it. But guess what? If you don't sell it, it isn't commerce. That's the part were it is most definitely under the perrvue of the States. A federal law banning an individual from growing their own pot, for themselves, cannot last. They can tax it, like fuel (you can make your own, but it's still taxed), but, again, if not for sale, not commece.
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OP is comparing an entire platform, with a multitude of devices, to a single device. If you want the comparison to make sense, then it's Android vs iOS, so you have to include iPads, iPod Touches, iPhone 3GS, etc. And when you do this, and it's not like I care, but iOS wipes the floor with Android.
It is, but not for the reasons you think. This is a clear violation of the 4th Amendment. If the pool cannot be seen from the street, then flying a plane overhead has been sussed out by SCOTUS as violating a citizens right to be secure in their homes. It constitutes an illegal search, and any evidence gained must be disgarded as fruits if the poisonous tree.
I'll believe it when Jon Bon Jovi announces that he's found the Higgs Boson.
I don't much care for Jovi either, however, he's an extremely talented guy. Probably a musical genius. And he's a decent actor now too (if you didn't notice, morons can not act). No shit. Maybe not as sky high IQ as someone like David Burn or Thomas Dolby, but Jovi is no slouch with music (ignoring the releases of his band). Einstein would have loved to jam with him.
I believe Verizon charges a one time fee on installation of the router, about $125 (which is about retail for that router, no?). This may be why some customers believe they own the router, because that fee looks like they bought it. But it's a service fee, Verizon owns the routers.
And what's messed up about the fine print is that Verizon explicitly forbids any servers, of any kind, connecting through the router. I predict, even if the OP's router is indeed his equipment, that he very likely has some server attached to it. Go ahead and complain, fool. Verizon will say "sorry for the mixup... oh, and I see you have a server... no more internet service for you!"
Not if the router is leased rather than owned. Since that's the way most internet companies work, I'm going to bet it's leased, and there's a clause in the contract that lets them access it for security purposes.
I must concur. Verizon charges a one time fee to install their routers... something like $125. The customer can be easily confused into thinking they now own the router as there are no further subsequent charges for the router, or if there are, they are not exactly explicitly described in detail on the bill.
Agreed. Jerry Garcia, Shakespeare, and the young Nietzsche (as in Birth of Tragedy of the the Spirit of Music, early work) are all three spinning in their graves.
YMMV
The Cydia App Store has also been around for a while, serving the jailbroken iPhone market. Of course there is not a huge number of apps on it, but there are also lots of free apps in the Cydia repository.
Yeah, but Cydia is only for users that can handle the truth. Not everyone can bear that burden.
Let's not forget the Java Desktop System, which was a pretty slick gnome, even if it had nothing to do with Java.
But I wonder what the deal is with Oracle being so over-eager to plaster their company name all over the place.
It means that the marketing/branding people in the company carry more clout than anyone with actual product knowledge. This is certainly not unique to Oracle, with most large publicly-traded companies worrying more about their "brand" than the product.
Actually, in the tech space, Sun pioneered this "Marketing Swallows the Co." business strategy in the 90's, which was pretty much their downfall (going from expensive servers that never break, to cheaper materials, and a machine that wears out just like Dell or something). Perhaps Oracle caught it from Sun.
How about we abandon this particular archaic method of evaluating students, and instead evaluate teachers? How about we just leave kids in a class for as long as it takes to learn the material, and abandon grades altogether?: either you know the material and pass, or you don't and remain in the class until you do. A failing grade says almost as much about a teacher as the little bit it says about a student. But somehow, a grade, a single letter, quite impossibly speaks volumes to some people. Others are more pragmatic: it's meaningless, but can be used to manipulate peoples beliefs.
Then, obviously, you are unfamiliar with Adobe Flash and Artificial Intelligence, respectively. Just saying.
700 volunteers, used 11,000 times.... that's 16 times per volunteer. I kind of wish the police used this instead of tasers. Maybe they should change the name from heat gun to tickle gun.
well, you are sort of mixed up on the facts, and the feel for what Jobs really did. This isn't stricktly true, but, what it seems like is Steve recognized early that the hardware would soon be secondary to software, and that there were no modern operating systems that could do what he wanted. So he left (yeah, he was fired, but it seems like) to develop Apple's next gen OS. It took him 10 years of frankensteining other OS's (freebsd & mach) and coaxing developers to redecorate (fantastic APIs and dev tools, webkit, other great software tech), and when he had a mature, modern OS, he returned, slapped on a new paint job and an emulation layer, and with the OS as a giant tow line, pulled the company out of the technology bog and speculatively bubbled 90's. If he intended it from the beginning, he's a smart guy. If not, he's a lucky bastard.
Light-years? idk about that... certainly up for debate over which os had which better qualities. 2 things stick out in my mind... there were Amiga video toasters still in use in 2000, and in 1989 when first released, though few were aware, the Mac SE/30 could take 128MB RAM and run A/UX. Just imagine blowing 20 grand (or so) on RAM to max out your already expensive (but not overpriced for the time) Mac. OK... toaster more impressive depending on what side of entertainment you might fall.
History is a slut. I, for one, thank you for remembering the salient facts. It's unfortunate, but one popular book and one researcher that repeats an inserted "legend" or something as fact and... there goes what really happened (can't help... drifting off)
I think Mac OS X is the ultimate product bootstrap. The real trouble at Apple when Jobs left was the future of the operating system. History is going to believe, once it's watered down, that Steve realized this, realized what a monumental task it was, and left Apple for this purpose. NeXT took Mach, which is free, cutting edge stuff, and grafted FreeBSD, which is free, wonderful solid amazing OS, and created something different that does the same thing as most modern operating systems.... what's so great about Mac OS X? Under NeXT, APIs and developer environments were created... enticing developers. NeXT will just appear to be a developer stage for an Apple product, and there are other (usually failed) examples in Apple's history of creating products this way. Mac OS X isn't simply FreeBSD??Mach... it's that, with all the other technologies and software Apple has built, and third party devs have created.
Most users (no slashdotters) probably confuse their operating system with their user interface. They think Mac OS X is Finder, and Dock, and Desktop, menus, windows, the pointer, etc. And it's so much more than that. Oh.... it's FreeBSD/Mach, too, the backend... but, yeah, but.... that's just the skeleton, the frame upon which all the really great things about Mac OS X are extended from, built onto, tucked away into, and decorated.
So it's in the filling in the gaps... and the way Jobs with NeXT, away from Apple, shaped an incredibly essential piece of technology for Apple (i.e., a fully modern, scalable and proprietary operating system). And Apple now boldly cannibalizes Mac OS X developers now to fix software in other products. "Their" OS is now so resilient, or at least the user base is satisfied enough with it, that development can slow to a crawl on the most essential part of a computer to a typical user, without the sky falling.
Jobs (and an army of devs) created a really nice piece of tech for Apple, a product that they give away with their hardware, a product that sells their hardware, that is nimble enough for platform jumping whims without developers caring anymore.
I have some negative Apple moderators stalking me, so no one will ever see this but, I think Mac OS X, Snow Leopard, as much as it annoys me, is underrated running on Mac hw. Linux is sweet for it's purpose and I believe will do more cycle per cycle, but takes babysitting; Windows is... incomprehensible to me now (who's it for now exactly?). But Mac OS X can be quickly customized to do almost anything, which is why old macs running old Mac OS X can still be very useful in audio, print, and on the LAN.
For the last few years, and for a precious few more, I think a Churchillized view of consumer OS's is applicable: Apple's Mac OS X is the worst computer operating system there is for almost anything, collectively, anyone would want to do, except for all the others.
Jjust adecdotal, but my core 2 duo (slowest new MBP) runs handbrake dozens and dozens of times faster than my 2003 g4 PowerBook 1Ghz. Sometimes, it transcodes about a hundred more fps. I knew it was time for a new machine.
and... let's not forget, Fujichrome was (is) less expensive, for the film and processing.
Long live VELVIA!
Indeed. I always felt Ektochrome had a more intense color saturation and was sharper than Kodachrome at the same iso. Long live Fuji Film!
You are incorrect in believing that Apple could release a computer called "Kleenex." They would be sued, and lose in court, even though facial tissues have no integrated circuits.
Yes it is. The way trademarks work is if you don't defend them, you lose them. Apple is compelled to fight to protect their trademark. And they can't lose this, so I predict it won't make it to court. The AU co. will save face by changing the name. It's an exceptionally small concession. Call it the 'Pood' and Apple has no issue.
You seem to ignore the fact that had iPod never existed, iPood would have been titled something else. It is obvious that the namers intended a little funny by naming it after the iPod, which means they are taking liberties with the trademark. This appears to be infringement to me, and Apple jealously protects their trademarks. Yes, this is silly, but for Apple, it's necessary.
Frankly, this Court, by changing the very intention and meaning of the Founders concerning the 2nd (no longer means you have a right to a gun to protect me, the 2nd now means self-defense, something it never meant before 2 years ago, no mention of self-defense in the Constitution), has ceased to impress me. The Majority now appear to be conservative stooges. sry, off topic and just MHO.
Well, that's part of it. But guess what? If you don't sell it, it isn't commerce. That's the part were it is most definitely under the perrvue of the States. A federal law banning an individual from growing their own pot, for themselves, cannot last. They can tax it, like fuel (you can make your own, but it's still taxed), but, again, if not for sale, not commece.