Hundreds of businesses, governments, and organizations have now testified that they rely on the data produced by the long form census. It is useful and important information.
The intrusion of the census is minimal. It's a minor inconvenience at worst.
If the government wanted to eliminate the threat of imprisonment, they could have done that. They didn't. They opted, instead, to corrupt the data.
Yes, the long form census was eliminated, but it was replaced with a voluntary National Household Survey that will ask the same questions, but will be distributed to more households and yield less useful results, all at a greater cost to taxpayers. No gravy train has been overturned. Your alleged "entitled statisticians" can breathe easy, their "perpetual employment" is not at risk.
The data that we rely on to intelligently run a country is, however.
Oracle see Java as probably the most important part of the Sun acquisition and it's logical they would want to protect it from fracturing as Sun did with MS in the early years
If they don't want to see Java fracture, they should stop wasting everyone's time with JavaME -- it's been a decade now and no one has ever done anything useful with it -- and embrace whatever's in Android as the official mobile Java solution.
If you don't like the way Google runs the Market, you're free to install Android applications from any other source instead.
This is a powerful capability, but personally, I trust Google (for now) to use it responsibly. If their actions prove me wrong, I'll just stop getting my apps from them.
He may laugh on stage, but he probably cries himself to sleep at night. Google has made greater headway with Android in the last couple of years than Microsoft ever made in a decade of Windows Mobile.
Ugh. Both articles are pure innuendo. For example:
Technical Glitches
The biggest challenge for Google may be to improve its software and ensure that it can adapt to the mobile market, said Maribel Lopez, an analyst at Lopez Research LLC in San Francisco. Google is on its fourth revision of Android in the past year, in part because of software glitches and missing features, she said.
Golly! Missing features and glitches...that sounds really bad! But wait, aren't all new revisions of software always to add new features and fix bugs? Seriously, in the four revisions over the last year, Android has far surpassed the firmly established competition in just about every respect. I don't know if I've ever seen such a rate of innovation in a platform before.
Thought they're written to sound alarming, there's nothing surprising about anything in either of these articles. We already knew that Google's doing all the development in the core platform, so why should we be concerned that they are the ones making the decisions about its direction? We already knew that Android is designed and licensed to allow pieces of the system to be replaced by OEMs and users, so why should we be concerned that they're doing that?
"We do believe we have a moral responsibility to keep porn off the iPhone."
Wow, that's quite a responsiblity. Presumably they'll be removing the browser from the next iPhone, since that's currently a pretty easy way to get porn on the iPhone.
I wonder if he's ever going to go after Grindr? My bet is no way. Apple does not want to lose the gays.
Wait, are you saying that WebOS won't kill apps when memory gets tight? Does your Pre have a hard drive in there for swap?
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Huh? I can touch type just fine on my netbook (an IdeaPad S10e). They keys are almost full size, and the feel is great. I've experienced worse with some desktop keyboards. The screwy placement of the right shift key (to the right of the up arrow) took some time to get used to, but I that's not a problem with any other netbook, as far as I know.
Now if we could just convince some OEMs to replace the horrible little touch pads with trackpoints or touch screens, we'd be in business.
"The Liberals are whores to the American media companies. The Conservatives SHOULD have been rational about this but they got in bed with the same people who will TURN ON THEM EVERY ELECTION. The Media companies are ultimately Liberal stooges."
Huh? The American media ignores Canada pretty much all the time. Occasionally they'll do a story on waiting lists and why socialized medicine is such a horrible idea. The private Canadian media largely supported the Conservatives in the last election. Both national newspapers, The Globe and Mail and The National Post, endorsed Mr. Harper. And who can forget CTV's last-minute hatchet job on Mr. Dion, which was ruled a violation of industry ethical standards by the CBSC and earned Mike Duffy an appointment as a Conservative senator?
Also, I don't hang my hat on being straight - do you really need to point out that you're gay in your xbox profile? I mean... really?
Do you think that could be related to the fact that everyone you meet already assumes you're straight by default? Perhaps if, throughout your life, you'd had to deal with buddies telling you to "check out his package", bosses inviting you to "bring your husband" to work events, and relatives asking you "if you've met that special guy yet", you'd have the urge to be a bit more vocal about your heterosexuality.
Just gave it a try on my Wii. The interface is pretty nice. But it still uses the browser, and the big issue is the suckiness of the ancient Flash plug-in. The video is extremely jittery, so even with the nicer interface, I still don't think it's worth using.
It's kind of surprising to me that they'd invest this effort, but not bother to try to fix the big issue. I'd think a custom application, like the one on iPhone, would be a much better solution.
Civil rights? Any man in this country has as much right to marry a woman of a different race as I do-zero. Giving people with inter-race preferences the right to marry another of a different race is giving them rights that currently do not exist--even for white people. There is nothing in common between true civil rights and interracial marriage.
VG Chartz puts PS2 at 23,360,082 after 101 weeks. Now, I know people disagree about the accuracy of various numbers, but if you're saying that's low by a factor of 2.15, at least offer a source.
Your analysis would probably be quite devastating to Nintendo were it not for the actual fact that, even excluding the Wii Sports pack-in, Wii software sales are running about neck-in-neck with 360 (147.3 million vs. 154.5 million, according to VG Chartz), in spite of the 1-year lead enjoyed by the 360. And they're already about double that of PS3 (77.5 million).
It's true that Nintendo's software sales do lag their hardware sales compared to the 360 (but not compared to the PS3). Wii's hardware sales passed those of the 360 almost a year ago, while the software totals are just now lining up. But the trends are clear enough, and we can see that Wii will continue to dominate hardware sales (and with a healthy profit on every sale, at that!) and will win in software as well.
You don't need a ridiculous number of games to dominate sales. You just need enough really good ones to motivate a huge installed base to buy them. That's what Nintendo is doing. You can see it as Mario Kart Wii and Wii Fit sit comfortably in the top 10 week in and week out, six and 10 months after release respectively. The top 10 Wii games (again, excluding Wii Sports pack-ins) have sold 70.8 million to the 360's 45.2 million and the PS3's paltry 28.6 million. The idea that the typical Wii owner doesn't buy games is simply incorrect.
I'm a person who enjoys playing video games, but I have a demanding job, a partner, friends, social commitments, and other activities to fill my time. I bought a Wii and I have bought a handful of games, and I enjoy them. I will never buy as many games in a year as a hardcore gamer. But the secret is that there are way more people like me out there...Nintendo has got us this generation, and that's why they'll win.
Just so you know, Wii has about 145% of the sales that PS2 did at this point in its lifetime. That's an extra 10 million units in two years, or about 400,000 a month.
By the end of this year, the gap will be more like 15 million units.
So Bell does all the heavy lifting and the little guys come in and ride their coat tails. Seems fair enough to me. It's not like it's a free ride. The ISPs are paying Bell a regulated rate for the use of their infrastructure. If their users use more bandwidth, the ISP pays for it. If the price being paid to Bell is not fair, then Bell just needs to demonstrate that to the CRTC.
In an ideal world, there would be free competition, but that's not the situation we find ourselves in. Why? Because Bell has a huge advantage as a result of the network that it built, over the last century or so, while operating a government-granted long-distance monopoly, and with much direct government assistance.
I mean, they've been charging the same ludicrously low rate for years all the while increasing the available bandwidth and a small percentage of people abuse it and take more than their fair share. Why is this a problem? If you take too much - you have to pay extra, otherwise expect to be throttled back. If ISPs customers use more bandwidth, the ISPs pay for it. It's up to them, not Bell, to decide how to pass that cost along to their customers.
Where do you get this ridiculous notion that no one is paying for this bandwidth?
Then, if you're on the command line, there's the question of what it's named. The question is easily asked and answered:
apt-cache search marks great app
Before you complain about not knowing the magic incantations, remember you're the one who raised the command line. It's easier to search for packages in the GUI tools that all modern distributions provide.
Mac and Windows just work so much easier for installing software. Go to author's site, download 1 file, and double click. At this point if it's Windows you have a few dialogs to click through, or if Mac, even easier, just drag the application to your Applications folder. Always the latest, always the same, always easy. I believe all you've said is the obvious: if the author provides a packaged version of their software for your operating system, it is very easy to install it. That is true for Windows, Mac OS, and every modern Linux distribution. Fortunately, distributions like Debian and Fedora package thousands of pieces of software themselves, without requiring any effort from the original authors.
If a piece of software is overlooked by a distribution and the author wants to package it themselves, they can. They can provide a package and it will be just as easy to install as any other package on the targeted distribution. If they provide a repository, then it will be automatically kept up to date along with the rest of the system.
The reality is that package management on modern Linux distributions is far superior to Windows and Mac OS.
Read the transcripts. Novell sent Sun a letter before they open sourced Solaris to warn them that their license from SCO was invalid. Now they're asking the court to rule that this is the case, and Judge Kimball has given every indication that he's willing to do so.
I imagine that the folks at Sun have been pretty nervous since last August. Imagine, paying millions of dollars to put your product in exactly the position you've been (erroneously) proclaiming your competition is in. Not smart.
You want someone to explain a joke? Sadly, it's not a joke. It's on the record in Kitzmiller v. Dover, and contributed to the creationist/ID defeat in that case.
The first intelligent design textbook, Of Pandas and People started its life as a creationist textbook. The evidence presented in court shows that its "evolution" to ID consisted of little more than a find/replace operation, which immediately followed the Supreme Court's 1987 ruling against creation science in Edwards v. Aguillard.
"Cdesign proponentsists", jokingly referred to as the intermediate species, was actually the product of a sloppy replace in this effort. It really is irrefutable evidence of the origin and intent of the Intelligent Design movement.
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It's hard to know which unsubstantiated rumour you're referring to.
Hundreds of businesses, governments, and organizations have now testified that they rely on the data produced by the long form census. It is useful and important information.
The intrusion of the census is minimal. It's a minor inconvenience at worst.
If the government wanted to eliminate the threat of imprisonment, they could have done that. They didn't. They opted, instead, to corrupt the data.
Your spin bears no resemblance to reality.
Yes, the long form census was eliminated, but it was replaced with a voluntary National Household Survey that will ask the same questions, but will be distributed to more households and yield less useful results, all at a greater cost to taxpayers. No gravy train has been overturned. Your alleged "entitled statisticians" can breathe easy, their "perpetual employment" is not at risk.
The data that we rely on to intelligently run a country is, however.
Oracle see Java as probably the most important part of the Sun acquisition and it's logical they would want to protect it from fracturing as Sun did with MS in the early years
If they don't want to see Java fracture, they should stop wasting everyone's time with JavaME -- it's been a decade now and no one has ever done anything useful with it -- and embrace whatever's in Android as the official mobile Java solution.
The writing's on the wall.
How about *because* it's working so well for Google?
I presume Microsoft would like to charge something for their operating system?
If you don't like the way Google runs the Market, you're free to install Android applications from any other source instead.
This is a powerful capability, but personally, I trust Google (for now) to use it responsibly. If their actions prove me wrong, I'll just stop getting my apps from them.
He may laugh on stage, but he probably cries himself to sleep at night. Google has made greater headway with Android in the last couple of years than Microsoft ever made in a decade of Windows Mobile.
Actually, it only implies Steve Jobs is aware that the US is not the only country in the world.
Ugh. Both articles are pure innuendo. For example:
Golly! Missing features and glitches...that sounds really bad! But wait, aren't all new revisions of software always to add new features and fix bugs? Seriously, in the four revisions over the last year, Android has far surpassed the firmly established competition in just about every respect. I don't know if I've ever seen such a rate of innovation in a platform before.
Thought they're written to sound alarming, there's nothing surprising about anything in either of these articles. We already knew that Google's doing all the development in the core platform, so why should we be concerned that they are the ones making the decisions about its direction? We already knew that Android is designed and licensed to allow pieces of the system to be replaced by OEMs and users, so why should we be concerned that they're doing that?
Wow, that's quite a responsiblity. Presumably they'll be removing the browser from the next iPhone, since that's currently a pretty easy way to get porn on the iPhone.
I wonder if he's ever going to go after Grindr? My bet is no way. Apple does not want to lose the gays.
Heh. I remember people saying that about iPhone when it was just shy of 10% market share, too.
Wait, are you saying that WebOS won't kill apps when memory gets tight? Does your Pre have a hard drive in there for swap?
Huh? I can touch type just fine on my netbook (an IdeaPad S10e). They keys are almost full size, and the feel is great. I've experienced worse with some desktop keyboards. The screwy placement of the right shift key (to the right of the up arrow) took some time to get used to, but I that's not a problem with any other netbook, as far as I know.
Now if we could just convince some OEMs to replace the horrible little touch pads with trackpoints or touch screens, we'd be in business.
Doesn't this amount to paying companies a million dollars to *ask* Google not to crawl/index their sites?
Wow. Google would so be defeated. What ever could it do?
"The Liberals are whores to the American media companies. The Conservatives SHOULD have been rational about this but they got in bed with the same people who will TURN ON THEM EVERY ELECTION. The Media companies are ultimately Liberal stooges."
Huh? The American media ignores Canada pretty much all the time. Occasionally they'll do a story on waiting lists and why socialized medicine is such a horrible idea. The private Canadian media largely supported the Conservatives in the last election. Both national newspapers, The Globe and Mail and The National Post, endorsed Mr. Harper. And who can forget CTV's last-minute hatchet job on Mr. Dion, which was ruled a violation of industry ethical standards by the CBSC and earned Mike Duffy an appointment as a Conservative senator?
Also, I don't hang my hat on being straight - do you really need to point out that you're gay in your xbox profile? I mean... really?
Do you think that could be related to the fact that everyone you meet already assumes you're straight by default? Perhaps if, throughout your life, you'd had to deal with buddies telling you to "check out his package", bosses inviting you to "bring your husband" to work events, and relatives asking you "if you've met that special guy yet", you'd have the urge to be a bit more vocal about your heterosexuality.
Just gave it a try on my Wii. The interface is pretty nice. But it still uses the browser, and the big issue is the suckiness of the ancient Flash plug-in. The video is extremely jittery, so even with the nicer interface, I still don't think it's worth using.
It's kind of surprising to me that they'd invest this effort, but not bother to try to fix the big issue. I'd think a custom application, like the one on iPhone, would be a much better solution.
Or Adobe could suck less.
Civil rights? Any man in this country has as much right to marry a woman of a different race as I do-zero. Giving people with inter-race preferences the right to marry another of a different race is giving them rights that currently do not exist--even for white people. There is nothing in common between true civil rights and interracial marriage.
Do you feel dumb yet? You will in 40 years...
Where do you get that 50 million number?
VG Chartz puts PS2 at 23,360,082 after 101 weeks. Now, I know people disagree about the accuracy of various numbers, but if you're saying that's low by a factor of 2.15, at least offer a source.
Your analysis would probably be quite devastating to Nintendo were it not for the actual fact that, even excluding the Wii Sports pack-in, Wii software sales are running about neck-in-neck with 360 (147.3 million vs. 154.5 million, according to VG Chartz), in spite of the 1-year lead enjoyed by the 360. And they're already about double that of PS3 (77.5 million).
It's true that Nintendo's software sales do lag their hardware sales compared to the 360 (but not compared to the PS3). Wii's hardware sales passed those of the 360 almost a year ago, while the software totals are just now lining up. But the trends are clear enough, and we can see that Wii will continue to dominate hardware sales (and with a healthy profit on every sale, at that!) and will win in software as well.
You don't need a ridiculous number of games to dominate sales. You just need enough really good ones to motivate a huge installed base to buy them. That's what Nintendo is doing. You can see it as Mario Kart Wii and Wii Fit sit comfortably in the top 10 week in and week out, six and 10 months after release respectively. The top 10 Wii games (again, excluding Wii Sports pack-ins) have sold 70.8 million to the 360's 45.2 million and the PS3's paltry 28.6 million. The idea that the typical Wii owner doesn't buy games is simply incorrect.
I'm a person who enjoys playing video games, but I have a demanding job, a partner, friends, social commitments, and other activities to fill my time. I bought a Wii and I have bought a handful of games, and I enjoy them. I will never buy as many games in a year as a hardcore gamer. But the secret is that there are way more people like me out there...Nintendo has got us this generation, and that's why they'll win.
Just so you know, Wii has about 145% of the sales that PS2 did at this point in its lifetime. That's an extra 10 million units in two years, or about 400,000 a month.
By the end of this year, the gap will be more like 15 million units.
In an ideal world, there would be free competition, but that's not the situation we find ourselves in. Why? Because Bell has a huge advantage as a result of the network that it built, over the last century or so, while operating a government-granted long-distance monopoly, and with much direct government assistance. I mean, they've been charging the same ludicrously low rate for years all the while increasing the available bandwidth and a small percentage of people abuse it and take more than their fair share. Why is this a problem? If you take too much - you have to pay extra, otherwise expect to be throttled back. If ISPs customers use more bandwidth, the ISPs pay for it. It's up to them, not Bell, to decide how to pass that cost along to their customers.
Where do you get this ridiculous notion that no one is paying for this bandwidth?
apt-cache search marks great app
Before you complain about not knowing the magic incantations, remember you're the one who raised the command line. It's easier to search for packages in the GUI tools that all modern distributions provide. Mac and Windows just work so much easier for installing software. Go to author's site, download 1 file, and double click. At this point if it's Windows you have a few dialogs to click through, or if Mac, even easier, just drag the application to your Applications folder. Always the latest, always the same, always easy. I believe all you've said is the obvious: if the author provides a packaged version of their software for your operating system, it is very easy to install it. That is true for Windows, Mac OS, and every modern Linux distribution. Fortunately, distributions like Debian and Fedora package thousands of pieces of software themselves, without requiring any effort from the original authors.
If a piece of software is overlooked by a distribution and the author wants to package it themselves, they can. They can provide a package and it will be just as easy to install as any other package on the targeted distribution. If they provide a repository, then it will be automatically kept up to date along with the rest of the system.
The reality is that package management on modern Linux distributions is far superior to Windows and Mac OS.
Read the transcripts. Novell sent Sun a letter before they open sourced Solaris to warn them that their license from SCO was invalid. Now they're asking the court to rule that this is the case, and Judge Kimball has given every indication that he's willing to do so.
I imagine that the folks at Sun have been pretty nervous since last August. Imagine, paying millions of dollars to put your product in exactly the position you've been (erroneously) proclaiming your competition is in. Not smart.
The first intelligent design textbook, Of Pandas and People started its life as a creationist textbook. The evidence presented in court shows that its "evolution" to ID consisted of little more than a find/replace operation, which immediately followed the Supreme Court's 1987 ruling against creation science in Edwards v. Aguillard.
"Cdesign proponentsists", jokingly referred to as the intermediate species, was actually the product of a sloppy replace in this effort. It really is irrefutable evidence of the origin and intent of the Intelligent Design movement.