Google reference devices ARE cheap Chinese shit. Just because they make the die-cast case in the USA and also screw the device together here, does not mean it is made in the USA. Most of the thing is made by Foxconn.
It may be difficult for you to accept this, but many Americans are against a lot of what our government does in the name of our safety and interests. I know that foreign stereotypes of Americans are well-ingrained and constantly reinforced by the foreign media, but you could exercise your critical thinking organ a bit here.
Copying Apple was the best plan Samsung even devised. Not only is it a really cute move, but it has paid off in the market. The only problem is that Samsung makes about a nickel on each phone it sells.
Fuck you AC. You know you're full of shit when you say there are a lot of people who like the direction that GNOME is going. The Internet disagrees with you.
That's my point in a nutshell. If you could name one, it'd be merely a very unpopular tablet UI. If you could name five, independent of sales figures, it'd be a legitimate tablet UI. I you could name three that sold five milon or more, it'd be a very popular tablet UI.
I think this is one of the many problems over at the Gnome super secret headquarters - they are fully deluded. They have a couple thousand groupies standing in a hall of mirrors, shouting into an echo machine, so it looks like there are billion of them, and the Gnome developers and UI designers live in this fantasy world.
I think it's time for Gnome to have a feature and UI freeze, for perhaps a year or two, and concentrate on fixing bugs in all the various subsystems. Every new release focuses on new features, but there are numerous bugs in Gnome from five or more years ago!
Take Apple as an example. Their UI has undergone little change since OS 10.4 (minor tweaks excluded) and they have concentrated on improving the underlying stuff. This could be a methodology that Gnome might take to heart.
Instead, the Gnome developers and design team will continue to sparkle a phone / tablet friendly UI on top of a desktop system, with the unrealistic goal of making legacy software work on a touch UI with a simple recompile. Sally buggers.
I don't think anybody actually buys ram or hard drives from Apple. Of course it's a ripoff. However, Dell charges $375 for a 1.5 TB 7200RPM drive upgrade from the pathetic 250 GB 5400 RPM models that come stock on their high-end (!) Precision models.
The issue is that new stations are being added to hot areas of the globe, and locally hot areas, and that data is then compared to earlier data from reporting stations that are not in such hot spots, with the purpose of creating a story of global warming.
If you throw out the CRUd and calculate the global average temperatures using well known, long term fixed stations, you will see that we are in a decade+ long cooling trend right now.
If they put these stations up in the middle of parking lots and under air conditioning vents, and never ever compared the data they receive from these questionable weather stations with older data, you might have a point.
No, throw away the data from stations that are clearly positioned to give a 10-15 degree warmer reading than the nearest known good station. Throw out the stations that are placed directly under hot air exhaust vents and throw out the stations that are in the middle of asphalt parking lots.
Another fun deception is gridding. Just look at one great example - Chile. All the reporting stations are high up in the dessert, where the climate is extremely hot much of the year, without exception. They do not take one single reading from the much cooler coastal areas. This is how they intend to trick dumb people like yourself.
That's a terrible idea. Developers are having a hard enough time keeping their software running on 600 different devices using the relatively friendly Java ripoff that Google offers - writing them in something like C or C++ would be 10 times worse.
That blog post is huge and mostly consists of hot air. The salient points could be boiled down to three medium-length paragraphs.
What is interesting, though, is to see how far from the mark the author has strayed. Sure, Apple didn't invent this or that. What Apple does better than anybody else is taking existing concepts, sanding the edges off, and combining them into one solid product. Other companies, Nokia included, look at a list of features as a set of unique bullet points instead of an integrated whole.
And despite his claims, the USA is now, and always has been, the world leader in production of software. Software is what differentiates smartphones, as much as the physical design does. Without quality software, that is can offer feature parity with Apple in a closely integrated, user friendly way, Nokia and for that matter Android will be relegated to the "free with plan" bin.
Unmitigated pieces of shit with a paltry selection of apps, most of which are buggy or ill thought out, combined with ridiculous marketing and no actual buy-in outside Redmond.
Well if you go by the CRUd then yes, the "instrumental data" shows the hottest years on record. If you throw away the preposterous gridding bullshit, and the ridiculous NCDC sensors that appear to be mainly situated under hot air exhaust vents and in the middle of asphalt parking lots, you arrive at a much lower average temperature.
It's pretty clear that massive fudging of data has been done, especially when you look at the Climategate leaks and other bullshit artistry from scientists who should be, ideally, shot for perpetrating a gigantic fraud on the public.
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Google reference devices ARE cheap Chinese shit. Just because they make the die-cast case in the USA and also screw the device together here, does not mean it is made in the USA. Most of the thing is made by Foxconn.
Maybe we aren't gigantic pussies in the USA and value our freedom a bit more than you do?
Besides you have a much greater rate of knife crime in Australia.
You are both wise and brave, and your choice of responding as AC proves this.
It may be difficult for you to accept this, but many Americans are against a lot of what our government does in the name of our safety and interests. I know that foreign stereotypes of Americans are well-ingrained and constantly reinforced by the foreign media, but you could exercise your critical thinking organ a bit here.
You can watch a video of Jobs programming a database application in Nextstep in the 80s.
We got one here boys!
Opera runs on the iPad.
ZFS!
Copying Apple was the best plan Samsung even devised. Not only is it a really cute move, but it has paid off in the market. The only problem is that Samsung makes about a nickel on each phone it sells.
Filibusters are great because most laws are awful. The more deadlocked that Congress gets the better it is for the rest of us.
His reaction after the failure was most unprofessional and ridiculous.
You forgot to reply as AC.
Fuck you AC. You know you're full of shit when you say there are a lot of people who like the direction that GNOME is going. The Internet disagrees with you.
That's my point in a nutshell. If you could name one, it'd be merely a very unpopular tablet UI. If you could name five, independent of sales figures, it'd be a legitimate tablet UI. I you could name three that sold five milon or more, it'd be a very popular tablet UI.
I think this is one of the many problems over at the Gnome super secret headquarters - they are fully deluded. They have a couple thousand groupies standing in a hall of mirrors, shouting into an echo machine, so it looks like there are billion of them, and the Gnome developers and UI designers live in this fantasy world.
I find it quite a stretch to say that Gnome is a popular tablet environment.
Quick, name five tablets using Gnome. Or, name three that have sold more than five million units.
I think it's time for Gnome to have a feature and UI freeze, for perhaps a year or two, and concentrate on fixing bugs in all the various subsystems. Every new release focuses on new features, but there are numerous bugs in Gnome from five or more years ago!
Take Apple as an example. Their UI has undergone little change since OS 10.4 (minor tweaks excluded) and they have concentrated on improving the underlying stuff. This could be a methodology that Gnome might take to heart.
Instead, the Gnome developers and design team will continue to sparkle a phone / tablet friendly UI on top of a desktop system, with the unrealistic goal of making legacy software work on a touch UI with a simple recompile. Sally buggers.
I don't think anybody actually buys ram or hard drives from Apple. Of course it's a ripoff. However, Dell charges $375 for a 1.5 TB 7200RPM drive upgrade from the pathetic 250 GB 5400 RPM models that come stock on their high-end (!) Precision models.
Thankfully there are no disclosure requirements for medical research, so we don't have to worry about who funded these studies.
The issue is that new stations are being added to hot areas of the globe, and locally hot areas, and that data is then compared to earlier data from reporting stations that are not in such hot spots, with the purpose of creating a story of global warming.
If you throw out the CRUd and calculate the global average temperatures using well known, long term fixed stations, you will see that we are in a decade+ long cooling trend right now.
If they put these stations up in the middle of parking lots and under air conditioning vents, and never ever compared the data they receive from these questionable weather stations with older data, you might have a point.
No, throw away the data from stations that are clearly positioned to give a 10-15 degree warmer reading than the nearest known good station. Throw out the stations that are placed directly under hot air exhaust vents and throw out the stations that are in the middle of asphalt parking lots.
Another fun deception is gridding. Just look at one great example - Chile. All the reporting stations are high up in the dessert, where the climate is extremely hot much of the year, without exception. They do not take one single reading from the much cooler coastal areas. This is how they intend to trick dumb people like yourself.
Ah the old M torpedo executive plan. Worked great on HP, I must say.
That's a terrible idea. Developers are having a hard enough time keeping their software running on 600 different devices using the relatively friendly Java ripoff that Google offers - writing them in something like C or C++ would be 10 times worse.
That blog post is huge and mostly consists of hot air. The salient points could be boiled down to three medium-length paragraphs.
What is interesting, though, is to see how far from the mark the author has strayed. Sure, Apple didn't invent this or that. What Apple does better than anybody else is taking existing concepts, sanding the edges off, and combining them into one solid product. Other companies, Nokia included, look at a list of features as a set of unique bullet points instead of an integrated whole.
And despite his claims, the USA is now, and always has been, the world leader in production of software. Software is what differentiates smartphones, as much as the physical design does. Without quality software, that is can offer feature parity with Apple in a closely integrated, user friendly way, Nokia and for that matter Android will be relegated to the "free with plan" bin.
Unmitigated pieces of shit with a paltry selection of apps, most of which are buggy or ill thought out, combined with ridiculous marketing and no actual buy-in outside Redmond.
Well if you go by the CRUd then yes, the "instrumental data" shows the hottest years on record. If you throw away the preposterous gridding bullshit, and the ridiculous NCDC sensors that appear to be mainly situated under hot air exhaust vents and in the middle of asphalt parking lots, you arrive at a much lower average temperature.
It's pretty clear that massive fudging of data has been done, especially when you look at the Climategate leaks and other bullshit artistry from scientists who should be, ideally, shot for perpetrating a gigantic fraud on the public.