Perhaps they only increase the rate of equipment failure by 1 or 2%. That wouldn't lead to aircraft remains scattered across the US (though it may lead to more delayed flights as parts are replaced, etc.)
We don't know whether the presence of ragweed near an airport causes a significant increase in the rate of accidents. We also don't have any anecdotal evidence that it does. There's no basis for research - yet. But if a couple anecdotes start to circulate, it may actually point to something that deserves research.
Also, in this case, the GP has a point. It may actually make more sense to trust the anecdotal evidence than do a rigorous study, because of the cost of a rigorous study: the mild inconveniences of keep mobile phones off mid-air is a very small cost, so even if a full study reveals ultimately there is no basis for restricting their use in flight, it makes more sense to keep the ban than to pay for the study.
The more than needs to be said is, "the anecdotal evidence justifies a continued caution about the use of these devices, and provides a basis for following up with real research."
The people who are going to get hurt are those whose personal information has been released, and who may suffer identity theft or worse as a result. Again, like Hitler vs Stalin, it's the millions of people who got caught in the middle who suffer.
Android is Google's best bet: I see more of a future for Android netbooks, and a lot more for the tablets, than for ChromeOS. I am not a betting type by nature, but I would bet good money that 2012 will be the last year that a netbook ships with ChromeOS. They'll take what works and stick it into Android's built-in browser.
Ultimately, this should have been a bid for a category of "high-end cloud-user." The average user has moved on from netbooks to tablets, or simply smartphones. Like I said, they solved a problem that meant more 4 years ago than it does now.
I think, too, your presumption about the "average user" is a little incorrect (it is clear that Google does little research into user profiles or markets) - generally, most users have one or two activities which actually require rich apps, even if that is only 10% of their computing activity. Whether it is writing, or sound editing, or photo editing, or numerical analysis, or what have you, there needs to be a middle-to-high end solution in the cloud for at least one thing per user-type. For image processing, we are doing alright by the middle. For the rest, not so much.
As for the last point, the problem is as much the attitude, which won't be fixed (soon), as the immediate issue. That attitude (hey, it's free - don't complain, we're going to break it a lot - but trust us anyway) has created recurrent problems for consumers in the Google eco-system. I hate fandoms in general, but I am closer to being a Google "fan" than any other kind of fan (I admire Google's corporate culture of research, Apple's respect for the discourse of design, and Microsoft's understanding of use case and its practices of testing, as well as the direction it is taking with Kinect research) - yet I think Microsoft's Live Office gets this right.
Google is dominated by engineers, not designers. That is why the work on the interesting parts of problems that mattered four years ago, instead of the essential parts of problems that matter now.
I say this as someone who was on the CR-48 pilot. The reason is not Chrome OS itself: the problem is that cloud-only is impossible for anything serious. One hits a wall in which no web-app suffices to do what needs be done.
For me, the Google eco-system's permanent beta cripples it and ensures the longevity of its competitors. The issues for me? After all these years, there is no bibliography / citation management system for Google Docs that works in the cloud (at least nothing that could work with a Chromebook.) And, you can't define styles in Google docs. The absence of offline mode - the deprecation of Gears without implementing a replacement - was another disaster.
Google's strategy has been to create disruptive technologies, but that's no longer enough. A good anecdote to describe Google's failure to fully deliver is what happened to the founders of Foursquare: after having designed Dodgeball and getting acquired by Google, the were left high-and-dry, their technology more or lest left on a shelf. They got fed up and left, and created what should have been a strong Google product. Google tried to play catch up with Latitude, but it flopped, like all the other half-assed, unfinished products that wind up in its portfolio.
There is a lot Google does right, but it simply can't deliver a full working environment. Fundamental problems in its product management culture will have to be resolved before anything on the scale of a Chrome OS will work.
Yet, generally, the societies that offer the fewest social services to their citizenry are often the ones with the highest corruption, while social democratic governments in Europe seem to have a lot less of this kind of thing. I think you're the one fluent in cloaca-speak.
Need I point out: this story is about locally-funded, locally-controlled police. Not federal officers.
The goons are busy protecting private property and the wealthy who own them. Absent the government, they'd skip the middle man and simply hire goons to get rid of people they find disagreeable with a lot more impunity.
"Government" is a discrete collection of programs, not a mass noun.
You can get an Android phone for free (plus contract) - you can get one pay-as-you-go. They won't run all the apps (well) that a top-of-the-line one will, but you have the choice to make the trade-off. You don't like Verizon's terms, but want a smartphone? You have a lot more options in Android-land than elsewhere. And, if you have the chops, you can get a phone that lets you install a community-created mod, too.
But the openness allows carriers and manufacturers to compete over a price-point spread that the iPhone doesn't. This is key to its popularity. Especially during a recession.
The US is too big to be a democracy in any meaningful sense. If the level of representation we have now was in effect during the early years of the country, they would have had a total of two representatives.
Its ideals are simply unreachable given the scale and nature of what this country has become. It may be possible to create new ideals, but we are still a bit too comfortable. And that is why corporations are able to pull the kind of nonsense that the story describes above: because as long people can buy shiny things using their inflated purchasing power at a Walmart, they'll give it all a pass. They give Gitmo a pass, they give the war on drugs a pass. Really, the government can do anything it wants to a minority of people as long as the majority are fat and happy, without answering for it.
The openness appeals not so much to the consumers, but to the manufacturers and carriers, who can then offer Android-based products at a wide range of price points.
Incorrect. The data shows that there isn't a significant difference in happiness between those who do and do not have children. Which means either that there's no correlation, or that people are generally making the right choices for themselves for the most part.
An Android fan doesn't need to defend this: it has almost nothing to do with Android as an actual OS. A Google fan might have more 'splainin' to do, but that would hardly be the first time that Google fell short of the image that is often created of it, or made compromises to get deals done.
An Apple fan can talk little solace in any of this. Apple's ecosystem remains far more controlled and un-open.
Me? I'm sad that there are fans at all. People treat brands and corporations as if they were churchs and sports teams, combined. It's pathetic: part of the process by which humanity has become re-infantilized, dependent, trapped in permanent childhood.
The tragedy is that the French Socialist Party was willing to put up with someone who's a rapist - with one Socialist leader telling her own daughter not to report a sexual assault by home - in order to have a stronger candidate against Sarkozy. If this came from nowhere, you'd have a point, but the warning signs about this guy were all over the place.
That is utter nonsense. There are many regional cuisines in America, some of which are quite healthy, and many of which are identified globally as part of the "American" table. That the real cuisines are regional rather than national is not peculiar to America, either: "Italian" food is a collection of many regional cuisines, as well.
I liked everything about Heavy Rain except the horrible voice acting. I had to play it in French, which I don't understand, with English subtitles, to make it bearable.
Nostalgia is about mortality. Those of us who remember those times also are aware that we were 20 years younger then. Technology may develop indefinitely, but we will pass on. Those technologies of the past bring us back, ultimately, to a time 20 years farther away from our own deaths.
He had a lot more credibility in the 1990s. Since then, he has flip-flopped and boomeranged on so many issues, the people who admired him as the tech-savvy alternative to the older conservatives have generally abandoned him. His personal history makes him unelectable, especially against a President whose personal life is beyond reproach, and whose commitment to his family is respected even by his opponents.
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When driving, for example, it is next to impossible to resist answering the phone when it rings.
Very not-true, unless you were raised by B.F. Skinner in a Nokia lab.
Perhaps they only increase the rate of equipment failure by 1 or 2%. That wouldn't lead to aircraft remains scattered across the US (though it may lead to more delayed flights as parts are replaced, etc.)
We don't know whether the presence of ragweed near an airport causes a significant increase in the rate of accidents. We also don't have any anecdotal evidence that it does. There's no basis for research - yet. But if a couple anecdotes start to circulate, it may actually point to something that deserves research.
Also, in this case, the GP has a point. It may actually make more sense to trust the anecdotal evidence than do a rigorous study, because of the cost of a rigorous study: the mild inconveniences of keep mobile phones off mid-air is a very small cost, so even if a full study reveals ultimately there is no basis for restricting their use in flight, it makes more sense to keep the ban than to pay for the study.
Anecdotal evidence can motivate scientific research. And in most fields, almost always does.
The more than needs to be said is, "the anecdotal evidence justifies a continued caution about the use of these devices, and provides a basis for following up with real research."
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The people who are going to get hurt are those whose personal information has been released, and who may suffer identity theft or worse as a result. Again, like Hitler vs Stalin, it's the millions of people who got caught in the middle who suffer.
Android is Google's best bet: I see more of a future for Android netbooks, and a lot more for the tablets, than for ChromeOS. I am not a betting type by nature, but I would bet good money that 2012 will be the last year that a netbook ships with ChromeOS. They'll take what works and stick it into Android's built-in browser.
Ultimately, this should have been a bid for a category of "high-end cloud-user." The average user has moved on from netbooks to tablets, or simply smartphones. Like I said, they solved a problem that meant more 4 years ago than it does now.
I think, too, your presumption about the "average user" is a little incorrect (it is clear that Google does little research into user profiles or markets) - generally, most users have one or two activities which actually require rich apps, even if that is only 10% of their computing activity. Whether it is writing, or sound editing, or photo editing, or numerical analysis, or what have you, there needs to be a middle-to-high end solution in the cloud for at least one thing per user-type. For image processing, we are doing alright by the middle. For the rest, not so much.
As for the last point, the problem is as much the attitude, which won't be fixed (soon), as the immediate issue. That attitude (hey, it's free - don't complain, we're going to break it a lot - but trust us anyway) has created recurrent problems for consumers in the Google eco-system. I hate fandoms in general, but I am closer to being a Google "fan" than any other kind of fan (I admire Google's corporate culture of research, Apple's respect for the discourse of design, and Microsoft's understanding of use case and its practices of testing, as well as the direction it is taking with Kinect research) - yet I think Microsoft's Live Office gets this right.
Google is dominated by engineers, not designers. That is why the work on the interesting parts of problems that mattered four years ago, instead of the essential parts of problems that matter now.
I say this as someone who was on the CR-48 pilot. The reason is not Chrome OS itself: the problem is that cloud-only is impossible for anything serious. One hits a wall in which no web-app suffices to do what needs be done.
For me, the Google eco-system's permanent beta cripples it and ensures the longevity of its competitors. The issues for me? After all these years, there is no bibliography / citation management system for Google Docs that works in the cloud (at least nothing that could work with a Chromebook.) And, you can't define styles in Google docs. The absence of offline mode - the deprecation of Gears without implementing a replacement - was another disaster.
Google's strategy has been to create disruptive technologies, but that's no longer enough. A good anecdote to describe Google's failure to fully deliver is what happened to the founders of Foursquare: after having designed Dodgeball and getting acquired by Google, the were left high-and-dry, their technology more or lest left on a shelf. They got fed up and left, and created what should have been a strong Google product. Google tried to play catch up with Latitude, but it flopped, like all the other half-assed, unfinished products that wind up in its portfolio.
There is a lot Google does right, but it simply can't deliver a full working environment. Fundamental problems in its product management culture will have to be resolved before anything on the scale of a Chrome OS will work.
Yet, generally, the societies that offer the fewest social services to their citizenry are often the ones with the highest corruption, while social democratic governments in Europe seem to have a lot less of this kind of thing. I think you're the one fluent in cloaca-speak.
Need I point out: this story is about locally-funded, locally-controlled police. Not federal officers.
The goons are busy protecting private property and the wealthy who own them. Absent the government, they'd skip the middle man and simply hire goons to get rid of people they find disagreeable with a lot more impunity.
"Government" is a discrete collection of programs, not a mass noun.
You can get an Android phone for free (plus contract) - you can get one pay-as-you-go. They won't run all the apps (well) that a top-of-the-line one will, but you have the choice to make the trade-off. You don't like Verizon's terms, but want a smartphone? You have a lot more options in Android-land than elsewhere. And, if you have the chops, you can get a phone that lets you install a community-created mod, too.
But the openness allows carriers and manufacturers to compete over a price-point spread that the iPhone doesn't. This is key to its popularity. Especially during a recession.
The US is too big to be a democracy in any meaningful sense. If the level of representation we have now was in effect during the early years of the country, they would have had a total of two representatives.
Its ideals are simply unreachable given the scale and nature of what this country has become. It may be possible to create new ideals, but we are still a bit too comfortable. And that is why corporations are able to pull the kind of nonsense that the story describes above: because as long people can buy shiny things using their inflated purchasing power at a Walmart, they'll give it all a pass. They give Gitmo a pass, they give the war on drugs a pass. Really, the government can do anything it wants to a minority of people as long as the majority are fat and happy, without answering for it.
The openness appeals not so much to the consumers, but to the manufacturers and carriers, who can then offer Android-based products at a wide range of price points.
Incorrect. The data shows that there isn't a significant difference in happiness between those who do and do not have children. Which means either that there's no correlation, or that people are generally making the right choices for themselves for the most part.
An Android fan doesn't need to defend this: it has almost nothing to do with Android as an actual OS. A Google fan might have more 'splainin' to do, but that would hardly be the first time that Google fell short of the image that is often created of it, or made compromises to get deals done.
An Apple fan can talk little solace in any of this. Apple's ecosystem remains far more controlled and un-open.
Me? I'm sad that there are fans at all. People treat brands and corporations as if they were churchs and sports teams, combined. It's pathetic: part of the process by which humanity has become re-infantilized, dependent, trapped in permanent childhood.
The tragedy is that the French Socialist Party was willing to put up with someone who's a rapist - with one Socialist leader telling her own daughter not to report a sexual assault by home - in order to have a stronger candidate against Sarkozy. If this came from nowhere, you'd have a point, but the warning signs about this guy were all over the place.
That is utter nonsense. There are many regional cuisines in America, some of which are quite healthy, and many of which are identified globally as part of the "American" table. That the real cuisines are regional rather than national is not peculiar to America, either: "Italian" food is a collection of many regional cuisines, as well.
Perfect and Good don't always get along, but they can and do cooperate in their eternal struggle against Sucks.
I liked everything about Heavy Rain except the horrible voice acting. I had to play it in French, which I don't understand, with English subtitles, to make it bearable.
Nostalgia is about mortality. Those of us who remember those times also are aware that we were 20 years younger then. Technology may develop indefinitely, but we will pass on. Those technologies of the past bring us back, ultimately, to a time 20 years farther away from our own deaths.
He had a lot more credibility in the 1990s. Since then, he has flip-flopped and boomeranged on so many issues, the people who admired him as the tech-savvy alternative to the older conservatives have generally abandoned him. His personal history makes him unelectable, especially against a President whose personal life is beyond reproach, and whose commitment to his family is respected even by his opponents.
Um, so the 10 movies I've watched since the PSN outage on my PS3 were beamed into my head using telepathy?