Capitalist idea? The capitalist idea would be that they should *freely* compete with each other. You don't have to lobby to compete. You have to lobby when you need some sort of permission or you are seeking some sort of protection from the government; i.e., constraining the market in some way. I don't advocate a totally unregulated market. However, to say that lobbying is a capitalist idea is rather odd. Well, maybe not - I guess in the event of total state control, you don't have lobbying because you don't have the company in the first place, just the state.
Sorry, it's a Micro$oft/M$ story. Brains turn off, because everyone knows they can't do anything good. Why waste brainpower.;)
Seriously, I was going to say the same thing. Almost 50% LIKE Windows 8 better than Windows 7 before it's even released? Man, that's huge. Being used to something causes people to forego all kinds of things.
It's all how you spin it, I suppose. Politics in tech discussions.:(
This breaks down when you *aren't* far away from major, major cities (1 million plus), aren't far away from commuter towns (30k)... and can't get anything but Satellite or line of sight wireless. I am in this situation. It takes me 5 minutes, more or less, to get to town. I am within range of the circuit. The problem? There's a load coil in the line. Good for phones, bad for DSL. That's really the only thing stopping me from having way cheaper roughly 1.5mbps DSL.
This also breaks down when you pay lots of money *in the middle of the city.*
IMO, the basic, fundamental problem is that, because of the nature of the service - like electricity - we have monopolies with basically no competition. You either get DSL or Cable, pretty much... unless you're in one of the few fiber areas. That doesn't exactly generate much competition - one DSL company, one cable company. It's difficult to maintain a market-driven good-for-consumer-pricing environment when there's only one player, maybe two.
And then we get into caps and speed and all that, and it gets worse.;)
Recently...
iPhone 4 at Verizon store: $200.
iPhone 4s at Verizon store: $250, forget which
Galaxy S3 at Verizon store: $200
Who pays the same as any other comparable smartphone? Unless, of course, "comparable" means "same priced, regardless of technical differences":)
Currently...
iPhone 5 16gb at verizonwireless.com: $200, $300 for 32gb
Galaxy S3 16gb at verizonwireless.com: $200, $250 for 32gb
So, Apple charges $100 for an additional 16gb. Samsung charges $50. $50 is pretty expensive even, IMO.
"In short, we would all probably be a lot better off if all sweeteners were switch to 100% fructose, whether the source is corn or something else."
Except that fructose is harder on your intestines, and it's not recommended that you have a whole lot of fructose. On paper, it can look better, and can even be recommended for diabetics... but just because it looks better based on a couple of considerations doesn't mean it actually is better. There are a lot of people that actually have problems with excess fructose that are totally fine with sucrose - fructose absorption.
Basically, we can look at some stats on foods... but how exactly our intestines deal with the food is still somewhat mysterious. Ever heard of "IBS?" A lot of people get diagnosed with that. Nobody really knows what causes it. We still don't even really know why people develop intestinal issues with certain foods (including fructose). Pretending that we know more than we do is generally not good, especially with we start shifting the variety of foods towards one spectrum (e.g., very high fructose). It's bad enough that we eat as much sugar as we do, but shifting all that sugar to *one* type of sugar...
How is this different? If the courts rule that iMessage does actually violate this patent... then wouldn't all of those devices you listed, in fact, violate it? Just as Apple was seeking injunctions against Samsung devices that they claimed infringed.
Until software patents are simply gone... then this would be the correct response, I think. "Okay, Apple, if you want to start suing based on these silly patents, we'll sue you, too."
Who started it *does* matter. Bully picks a fight in school? I would not stand there and be beaten to pulp. I would fight back. It *does* matter who started it, because actions based on unprovoked aggression vs. those same actions in self defense are significantly different.
Your post leads me to believe that we should require *more* testing, not less. If we don't understand the full biological implications of what we eat (I agree) then I should assume that the presence of foreign proteins in my food is a liability, by default, not okay. Since we don't fully understand how food and our body interplay, how things are or aren't metabolized and why, then maybe we shouldn't introduce foreign proteins on purpose into vast swaths of the national food chain and just hope that it doesn't cause unforeseen problems. Perhaps we should be more cautious, not less?
Cross-breeding by inserting genes from completely different plant species? Is that normal? Or, for example, inserting essentially a pesticide protein into the food? I don't think that can be done using the "natural" cross-breeding techniques.
They must have been pretty ignorant. How do you go into a store wanting an APPLE iPad and leaving with a SAMSUNG GALAXY TAB. It doesn't have the same name. It's not made by the same company. It's a different price. It doesn't have that little single circle button. It doesn't have the Apple logo.
A lot of jobs *cannot* be telecommuted to. In fact, I'd venture to say that *most* people can't telecommute to their jobs... only white-collar computer jobs. Construction, menial, farm/agriculture, and in-person services can't... which, I dare say, probably accounts for more jobs than white-collar/tech jobs.
That said, our internet infrastructure has problems. I'm 10 minutes from 35,000 pop town and 20 minutes from 1,000,000 town and the best I can get is satellite or line of sight wireless.
I do. He works mostly on the phone (or used to) and talks a lot to customers. He is on the phone enough that he preferred not to hold it all the time, so he used a bluetooth headset. He's also on conference calls a lot, etc.
You mean to say that people who take their computer to coffee shops (which is kind of a trendy and somewhat expensive habit) use expensive computers? I'm shocked.
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Capitalist idea? The capitalist idea would be that they should *freely* compete with each other. You don't have to lobby to compete. You have to lobby when you need some sort of permission or you are seeking some sort of protection from the government; i.e., constraining the market in some way. I don't advocate a totally unregulated market. However, to say that lobbying is a capitalist idea is rather odd. Well, maybe not - I guess in the event of total state control, you don't have lobbying because you don't have the company in the first place, just the state.
Let's use our brains
Sorry, it's a Micro$oft/M$ story. Brains turn off, because everyone knows they can't do anything good. Why waste brainpower. ;)
Seriously, I was going to say the same thing. Almost 50% LIKE Windows 8 better than Windows 7 before it's even released? Man, that's huge. Being used to something causes people to forego all kinds of things.
It's all how you spin it, I suppose. Politics in tech discussions. :(
The computer will always drive the same, humans are not the reliable.
Oh? Computers, which run humanly written software, never have problems, bugs, glitches, etc.?
That said ... I do agree that a computer would be way more consistent than a human. But I would hesitate to say "always."
Both technologies are great examples of the FAILURE OF CAPITALISM in an unregulated and greed driven free market system.
Unregulated? You mean aside from the FCC?
If it's so *unregulated,* why does so much money go from telecoms to congress in the form of lobbying?
This breaks down when you *aren't* far away from major, major cities (1 million plus), aren't far away from commuter towns (30k)... and can't get anything but Satellite or line of sight wireless. I am in this situation. It takes me 5 minutes, more or less, to get to town. I am within range of the circuit. The problem? There's a load coil in the line. Good for phones, bad for DSL. That's really the only thing stopping me from having way cheaper roughly 1.5mbps DSL.
This also breaks down when you pay lots of money *in the middle of the city.*
IMO, the basic, fundamental problem is that, because of the nature of the service - like electricity - we have monopolies with basically no competition. You either get DSL or Cable, pretty much... unless you're in one of the few fiber areas. That doesn't exactly generate much competition - one DSL company, one cable company. It's difficult to maintain a market-driven good-for-consumer-pricing environment when there's only one player, maybe two.
And then we get into caps and speed and all that, and it gets worse. ;)
man-made diamonds became feasible
Well, that's because the chunk of rock doesn't mean as much if it's not unnaturally expensively priced, obviously.
Recently... :)
iPhone 4 at Verizon store: $200.
iPhone 4s at Verizon store: $250, forget which
Galaxy S3 at Verizon store: $200
Who pays the same as any other comparable smartphone? Unless, of course, "comparable" means "same priced, regardless of technical differences"
Currently...
iPhone 5 16gb at verizonwireless.com: $200, $300 for 32gb
Galaxy S3 16gb at verizonwireless.com: $200, $250 for 32gb
So, Apple charges $100 for an additional 16gb. Samsung charges $50. $50 is pretty expensive even, IMO.
I would add my anecdotal evidence to the "yolks are much more yellow" camp. Our chickens' eggs are much yellower.
Indeed. I discovered the keep-mug-moving trick while at work. It works! But people did think I was a bit odd[er].
"In short, we would all probably be a lot better off if all sweeteners were switch to 100% fructose, whether the source is corn or something else."
Except that fructose is harder on your intestines, and it's not recommended that you have a whole lot of fructose. On paper, it can look better, and can even be recommended for diabetics ... but just because it looks better based on a couple of considerations doesn't mean it actually is better. There are a lot of people that actually have problems with excess fructose that are totally fine with sucrose - fructose absorption.
Basically, we can look at some stats on foods... but how exactly our intestines deal with the food is still somewhat mysterious. Ever heard of "IBS?" A lot of people get diagnosed with that. Nobody really knows what causes it. We still don't even really know why people develop intestinal issues with certain foods (including fructose). Pretending that we know more than we do is generally not good, especially with we start shifting the variety of foods towards one spectrum (e.g., very high fructose). It's bad enough that we eat as much sugar as we do, but shifting all that sugar to *one* type of sugar...
Nokia actually tried to get an injunction for Apple devices?
How is this different? If the courts rule that iMessage does actually violate this patent... then wouldn't all of those devices you listed, in fact, violate it? Just as Apple was seeking injunctions against Samsung devices that they claimed infringed.
Until software patents are simply gone ... then this would be the correct response, I think. "Okay, Apple, if you want to start suing based on these silly patents, we'll sue you, too."
Who started it *does* matter. Bully picks a fight in school? I would not stand there and be beaten to pulp. I would fight back. It *does* matter who started it, because actions based on unprovoked aggression vs. those same actions in self defense are significantly different.
Your post leads me to believe that we should require *more* testing, not less. If we don't understand the full biological implications of what we eat (I agree) then I should assume that the presence of foreign proteins in my food is a liability, by default, not okay. Since we don't fully understand how food and our body interplay, how things are or aren't metabolized and why, then maybe we shouldn't introduce foreign proteins on purpose into vast swaths of the national food chain and just hope that it doesn't cause unforeseen problems. Perhaps we should be more cautious, not less?
Cross-breeding by inserting genes from completely different plant species? Is that normal? Or, for example, inserting essentially a pesticide protein into the food? I don't think that can be done using the "natural" cross-breeding techniques.
when they intended to buy the original.
They must have been pretty ignorant. How do you go into a store wanting an APPLE iPad and leaving with a SAMSUNG GALAXY TAB. It doesn't have the same name. It's not made by the same company. It's a different price. It doesn't have that little single circle button. It doesn't have the Apple logo.
I realize that. I'm saying that *most* people aren't in my situation. They need to be physically present. :)
A lot of jobs *cannot* be telecommuted to. In fact, I'd venture to say that *most* people can't telecommute to their jobs... only white-collar computer jobs. Construction, menial, farm/agriculture, and in-person services can't ... which, I dare say, probably accounts for more jobs than white-collar/tech jobs.
That said, our internet infrastructure has problems. I'm 10 minutes from 35,000 pop town and 20 minutes from 1,000,000 town and the best I can get is satellite or line of sight wireless.
Yes, they did, before the iPad. Check out the JooJoo tablet. Look familiar? It was introduced/announced *before* the iPad was.
I've seen two-page static websites based on joomla, and that's just ridiculous!
It was probably a selling point for a website designer.
I do. He works mostly on the phone (or used to) and talks a lot to customers. He is on the phone enough that he preferred not to hold it all the time, so he used a bluetooth headset. He's also on conference calls a lot, etc.
I haven't seen that one yet. hehe.
How does printing have anything to do with viewing them in software?
You mean to say that people who take their computer to coffee shops (which is kind of a trendy and somewhat expensive habit) use expensive computers? I'm shocked.
Sampling size matters. As does sample bias. :)
Ah, someone commented "It is mentioned in another article that it has an SD card slot and a USB port."
SD card slot raises it to at least 64+8gb.