What I find deplorable is how the US propagadizes about supporting Democratic regimes, but when the Palestinians elected Hamas to power, we refused to have any dealings with them. Talk about fucking hypocritical (spoken as a lifelong US citizen).
Regarding the whole "Can you hear me now?" marketing... I find it especially telling that Verizon put the mute on the guy when the market started getting annoyed with him. It pretty much showed they pay attention to the market. What they don't do is let the manufacturers drive them. Palm basically screwed them with a bunch of bad Treo's of the 700 series - I've gone through 6 of them. And I got a free upgrade to a 650 when my Kyocera 6035 died. That 650p lasted nearly 4.5 years.
I'd say hold out and give the pre a shot. A iPod in a tiny RAZR sized package. I liked mine while I had it, but I didn't like the Sprint service at all, so I took it back. Two more months and we get to find out if Verizon is getting the Pre. If not, it's probably off to Android-land I go.
It won't happen as long as A) They stay locked to AT&T B) They don't make a CDMA version.
Though I have an iPod touch (Carrying around 64GB of mp3's and videos is just too damn sweet), I'm locked out of getting an iPhone because I *REFUSE* to trade my awesome Verizon service for crappy AT&T service. I've been a Verizon customer for nearly 13 years. No. Fraking. Way.
So no, it's not poised to dominate the cellphone market. It's a great piece of competition, and it's driving the market, but dominate? No. Not even close.
Only to shareholders, not to Garmin itself (except many of the Garmin shareholders are Garmin boardmembers/employees so have a vested interest in keeping the stock high).
Losing 100% of your stock value does not affect your fundamentals income/expense (it may in the long term, but overnight, no).
Or have I just been misunderstanding how the market works for my entire adult life?
Once I sell you a share in my company, you can't then come to me and make me buy it back from you.
See, here's the beauty about becoming a public company. I sell you shares in my company. But I never have to promise to buy them back. Garmin could lose its ENTIRE market value overnight, and it will have a non-impact on its fundamentals. It'll also make it a great steal for me at $.01 par value.:-)
HAAA!!! I knew it! My GPS has some sort of scenic-route feature built in. I was trying to get to Big-Trees State Park in California a couple weeks ago, and when I missed a turn, my Nuvi tried to take me down a 3 mile dirt track through some ranchers spread. WTF?
GPS receivers can be had from Mouser.com for $30. Those devices will always be available to the persons who want specialty GPS devices (whole integrated solutions can be had from sparkfun for less than $100). The tom-tom/nagivon/Nuvi market is going to be GONE in ten years as every car comes GPS built-in (probably driven by tax/toll/insurance requirements).
I used to work for one of those big commercial software farms that released the main product every 6 months. It got to be a clusterfuck. It's just not sustainable past a certain point. Ubuntu is maturing, someday Canonical too will feel the pressure, and you'll drop back to releases once per year. I think that's acceptable, some time to put in decent features, and yet leave yourself enough QA and bugfixing time.
I have. I somehow got one SUSE 9.3 YAST repository confused on with a 9.1 installation, and some major change to Gnome borked the entire setup. A quick purge of / (but not/home/data) and an upgrade to OpenSUSE 10, and I was back in business.
And I have a/apps for those applications I build myself (self-contained apache usually, with nothing in/usr or/etc)
Why is LTO so fracking expensive? I've never seen a more out-of-whack market for tape capacity vs. disk-size. $4500 for an LTO-4 from Dell. Insane. Nevermind the $50/tape per unit charge. I almost *AM* better off using hard drives as disposable media.
I could get 45 TB of external storage for backing up my 1TB of data for that price. Insanity.
$1000 for LTO4 I could understand. $1500 might be the top-end of what I pay (as a SOHO).. $4500 is a non-starter.
Except Microsoft has a VERY huge investment in their Redmond offices... moving out of Washington would probably cost Microsoft much more than $1 billion in back taxes.
It's called astroturfing, and it's annoying, and I don't do it. Either contribute to the site you're a member of, or don't. I fucking hate bloggers... ugh.
I still have my spaceorb. I could smoke any of my friends with it in Descent 3 - no one with a keyboard or mouse could compete (and I'm a pretty mediocre gamer). It just went to show how powerful that full 3d six axis motion control was. Too bad it was dumped out of the marketplace, and missed the USB revolution.:-/
I'm making my first West Coast trip next week. It was originally supposed to be a weekend in Yellowstone, but I decided instead to fly into Seattle and drive down to San Francisco via the Pacific Coast Highway, taking pictures and sleeping under the stars, and take an extra week of days to do it.
I've seen plenty of comments to the effect - make this community wiki and i won't vote to close your subjective question.
And I think the mentality is simply to prevent someone from earning 895 rep from something that's highly engaging. It's hypocritical.
I've written replies to a dozen questions that I thought were well thought out and subjective, only to have them closed by overzealous admins. And the constant "move to SuperUser/UserFault", while sometimes appropriate, sometimes isn't.
I'm not calling anyone out on abuse, but it's a (herd) pattern of behavior I'm starting to see more and more of over the past 6 months.
If you've a subjective question, and it's not community wiki, your probability of being closed is near 100%.
I would agree with you - I'd like that vision to come to fruition, and 6 months ago, that was pretty much true.
It's not anymore. People get threatened to turn their subjective questions into objective ones, or make them community wikis, and it's so someone doesn't get 10,000 rep for a really insightful debate, which is how half these 30,000 rep people got their rep in the first place.
It's more of the Wikipedia-moderator-effect - I have the power, and you don't, and I'm keeping you there because I'm now the overlord of the moderation system.
It's annoying, and it's motivating me to not contributing anymore, just as experts-exchange registration and paywalls motivated me to stop contributing there 6 years ago.
Slashdot Mirror
With the possible exception of HR45, this is a troll, an urban legend, and roundly debunked in numerous locations on the net. HAND. :-)
What I find deplorable is how the US propagadizes about supporting Democratic regimes, but when the Palestinians elected Hamas to power, we refused to have any dealings with them. Talk about fucking hypocritical (spoken as a lifelong US citizen).
Regarding the whole "Can you hear me now?" marketing... I find it especially telling that Verizon put the mute on the guy when the market started getting annoyed with him. It pretty much showed they pay attention to the market. What they don't do is let the manufacturers drive them. Palm basically screwed them with a bunch of bad Treo's of the 700 series - I've gone through 6 of them. And I got a free upgrade to a 650 when my Kyocera 6035 died. That 650p lasted nearly 4.5 years.
I'd say hold out and give the pre a shot. A iPod in a tiny RAZR sized package. I liked mine while I had it, but I didn't like the Sprint service at all, so I took it back. Two more months and we get to find out if Verizon is getting the Pre. If not, it's probably off to Android-land I go.
It won't happen as long as
A) They stay locked to AT&T
B) They don't make a CDMA version.
Though I have an iPod touch (Carrying around 64GB of mp3's and videos is just too damn sweet), I'm locked out of getting an iPhone because I *REFUSE* to trade my awesome Verizon service for crappy AT&T service. I've been a Verizon customer for nearly 13 years. No. Fraking. Way.
So no, it's not poised to dominate the cellphone market. It's a great piece of competition, and it's driving the market, but dominate? No. Not even close.
In 2000, car radios with decent anti-shock ratings were still expensive.
Only to shareholders, not to Garmin itself (except many of the Garmin shareholders are Garmin boardmembers/employees so have a vested interest in keeping the stock high).
Losing 100% of your stock value does not affect your fundamentals income/expense (it may in the long term, but overnight, no).
Or have I just been misunderstanding how the market works for my entire adult life?
Once I sell you a share in my company, you can't then come to me and make me buy it back from you.
See, here's the beauty about becoming a public company. I sell you shares in my company. But I never have to promise to buy them back. Garmin could lose its ENTIRE market value overnight, and it will have a non-impact on its fundamentals. It'll also make it a great steal for me at $.01 par value. :-)
HAAA!!! I knew it! My GPS has some sort of scenic-route feature built in. I was trying to get to Big-Trees State Park in California a couple weeks ago, and when I missed a turn, my Nuvi tried to take me down a 3 mile dirt track through some ranchers spread. WTF?
A contact list does not a "PDA" make.
Does not the Palm Pre actually have a GPS receiver in it?
GPS receivers can be had from Mouser.com for $30. Those devices will always be available to the persons who want specialty GPS devices (whole integrated solutions can be had from sparkfun for less than $100). The tom-tom/nagivon/Nuvi market is going to be GONE in ten years as every car comes GPS built-in (probably driven by tax/toll/insurance requirements).
I used to work for one of those big commercial software farms that released the main product every 6 months. It got to be a clusterfuck. It's just not sustainable past a certain point. Ubuntu is maturing, someday Canonical too will feel the pressure, and you'll drop back to releases once per year. I think that's acceptable, some time to put in decent features, and yet leave yourself enough QA and bugfixing time.
I have. I somehow got one SUSE 9.3 YAST repository confused on with a 9.1 installation, and some major change to Gnome borked the entire setup. A quick purge of / (but not /home /data) and an upgrade to OpenSUSE 10, and I was back in business.
/apps for those applications I build myself (self-contained apache usually, with nothing in /usr or /etc)
And I have a
Why is LTO so fracking expensive? I've never seen a more out-of-whack market for tape capacity vs. disk-size. $4500 for an LTO-4 from Dell. Insane. Nevermind the $50/tape per unit charge. I almost *AM* better off using hard drives as disposable media.
I could get 45 TB of external storage for backing up my 1TB of data for that price. Insanity.
$1000 for LTO4 I could understand. $1500 might be the top-end of what I pay (as a SOHO).. $4500 is a non-starter.
Whenever I play T I always kill all the hostages... Usually gets me booted from the server sooner or later.
Except Microsoft has a VERY huge investment in their Redmond offices... moving out of Washington would probably cost Microsoft much more than $1 billion in back taxes.
It's called astroturfing, and it's annoying, and I don't do it. Either contribute to the site you're a member of, or don't. I fucking hate bloggers... ugh.
RE: No Saturn abort modes
:-)
What plan do you live on? Apollo absolutely had an on-launch abort capability.
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=1&ved=0CAwQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FApollo_abort_modes&ei=uNrgSpTHJtqutgea8bntDA&usg=AFQjCNHlUg79yJTq58OGwqbPC-AERMlXJA&sig2=xoBr6SYGsr9ZfaSgty98xQ
Ever see that giant pointy think sticking off the top of the Apollo capsule? Yeah, rocket assisted abort.
http://a.abcnews.com/images/GMA/ld_sr_01_080421_ssv.jpg
Atlas and Delta don't have the Pogoing problem Ares I does. Neither would Direct 2.0.
I still have my spaceorb. I could smoke any of my friends with it in Descent 3 - no one with a keyboard or mouse could compete (and I'm a pretty mediocre gamer). It just went to show how powerful that full 3d six axis motion control was. Too bad it was dumped out of the marketplace, and missed the USB revolution. :-/
I'm making my first West Coast trip next week. It was originally supposed to be a weekend in Yellowstone, but I decided instead to fly into Seattle and drive down to San Francisco via the Pacific Coast Highway, taking pictures and sleeping under the stars, and take an extra week of days to do it.
:-)
That's an American vacation.
I don't know... public canings seem to work for Singapore.
Why not? A few strands of single-mode fiber to the door, and you'll never have to run transport cable anywhere again.
Sorry, but you're only partially right.
I've seen plenty of comments to the effect - make this community wiki and i won't vote to close your subjective question.
And I think the mentality is simply to prevent someone from earning 895 rep from something that's highly engaging. It's hypocritical.
I've written replies to a dozen questions that I thought were well thought out and subjective, only to have them closed by overzealous admins. And the constant "move to SuperUser/UserFault", while sometimes appropriate, sometimes isn't.
I'm not calling anyone out on abuse, but it's a (herd) pattern of behavior I'm starting to see more and more of over the past 6 months.
If you've a subjective question, and it's not community wiki, your probability of being closed is near 100%.
No, it is a place for both.
</quote>
I would agree with you - I'd like that vision to come to fruition, and 6 months ago, that was pretty much true.
It's not anymore. People get threatened to turn their subjective questions into objective ones, or make them community wikis, and it's so someone doesn't get 10,000 rep for a really insightful debate, which is how half these 30,000 rep people got their rep in the first place.
It's more of the Wikipedia-moderator-effect - I have the power, and you don't, and I'm keeping you there because I'm now the overlord of the moderation system.
It's annoying, and it's motivating me to not contributing anymore, just as experts-exchange registration and paywalls motivated me to stop contributing there 6 years ago.