You have to support 2 (or 3) different phone screens and 2 tablet screens.
No, you have to support two different phone screens, one tablet screen, and two DPI settings. The DPI settings are fairly trivial, and just require you to provide double-resolution images.
If you accept the idea that products like Prime's RTOS are OS's, then the resulting Intel calculator did, in fact have an OS
This does not follow. An RTOS is indeed an OS, and I work with RTOSes every day, but an RTOS is still a piece of software that has a definition, and you can run an processor without an RTOS. I would assume most very simple calculators do run without even an RTOS. There is certainly nothing about the 4004 in your example that would force it to run an RTOS. It can, and did, run just fine without an OS, RTOS or not.
Once you are refused you have no way of knowing why or how to fix it.
Actually, once you are rejected, usually you get a pretty straightforward explanation of why, and how to fix it. You just don't hear of those. You hear about the tiny fraction where something went wrong.
Of course not. Different lenses flare under different conditions. You could just as likely find a situation where the 4S flares terribly while the 5 doesn't.
More like, stupid human, don't shoot into the sun.
No lens can handle this without flaring. The type, colour and position of the flare will vary between different lenses, but none will handle this without flare.
Tell you what, put a Dell D340, a MacBook Air, and some "ultrabooks" next to each other, and then come back and tell me which of these actually look like each other.
Well, the problem is that Google only bothered to take that second look after he ran out of options for communicating with them, and had to complain to the entire internet and shame them into acting.
If he hadn't managed to get a big audience for his complaining, he'd still be locked out.
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How about the high cost of counting ballots by hand?
What high costs? You volunteer to do it.
And one more time: they are not a safeguard against fraud.
Having multiple volunteer workers from all sides of the political spectrum is.
You don't use a machine, and you don't hire people. You take multiple volunteers who count in public.
If Apple wanted to do that, they could do it right away. It has nothing whatsoever to do with what processor they use.
They also haven't done that, even though they could.
The only problem I really see is them forcing you to buy an ARM version of certain Apps and an Intel version separately.
If anything, the App Store forces the opposite.
Sure takes big balls to ask other people to take the risk for you, while you make the money.
The point is that you do not separately have to support high-DPI screens on the iPhone and on the iPad. There are less combinations than you implied.
You have to support 2 (or 3) different phone screens and 2 tablet screens.
No, you have to support two different phone screens, one tablet screen, and two DPI settings. The DPI settings are fairly trivial, and just require you to provide double-resolution images.
Of course they are going to play up the danger of fake drugs, that's in their own best interests. That doesn't mean fake drugs don't exist.
How do you even know this pharmacy is "legitimate"? Do you even know they are not just shipping you placebos?
If you accept the idea that products like Prime's RTOS are OS's, then the resulting Intel calculator did, in fact have an OS
This does not follow. An RTOS is indeed an OS, and I work with RTOSes every day, but an RTOS is still a piece of software that has a definition, and you can run an processor without an RTOS. I would assume most very simple calculators do run without even an RTOS. There is certainly nothing about the 4004 in your example that would force it to run an RTOS. It can, and did, run just fine without an OS, RTOS or not.
Some of us are more accepting in our definitions.
So what is this definition of yours, then?
Once you are refused you have no way of knowing why or how to fix it.
Actually, once you are rejected, usually you get a pretty straightforward explanation of why, and how to fix it. You just don't hear of those. You hear about the tiny fraction where something went wrong.
And how exactly do you propose this should work?
You are missing the part where Do Not Track is voluntary on the part of the advertisers.
They can just ignore it. It's not a feature you can just turn on that will magically disable tracking. It only works if the advertisers agree to it.
They might go along with it if not too many people use it. They will probably not go along with it if it is on by default.
Of course not. Different lenses flare under different conditions. You could just as likely find a situation where the 4S flares terribly while the 5 doesn't.
What is so special about a purple flare? That's a pretty usual colour for flares.
None of which has anything to do with the fact that pretty much all the computers called "ultrabooks" are clones of the MacBook Air.
If you return your phone because the camera lens flares, you must be returning a lot of phones.
More like, stupid human, don't shoot into the sun.
No lens can handle this without flaring. The type, colour and position of the flare will vary between different lenses, but none will handle this without flare.
If you don't want flare, don't shoot into the sun.
This is a pretty basic principle for all lenses everywhere. It is not at all specific to the iPhone 5 lens.
Sure, they have been trying to sell "something like" that for a long time.
But now they are selling MacBook Air clones, specifically.
Tell you what, put a Dell D340, a MacBook Air, and some "ultrabooks" next to each other, and then come back and tell me which of these actually look like each other.
It's what happens when marketing people want to say "MacBook Air clone".
It "means something" to go to 1.0 after over a decade of development, and after being in production use in innumerable places?
It means what, exactly?
Well, the problem is that Google only bothered to take that second look after he ran out of options for communicating with them, and had to complain to the entire internet and shame them into acting.
If he hadn't managed to get a big audience for his complaining, he'd still be locked out.