In the case of the ISS, If the person isn't there alone, he or she would probably be bundled into one of the escape pods and sent down to earth where treatment would be available. Which wouldn't take very long.
That's a huge difference between Amundsen and the ISS - they can' get back from the ISS, but you can't get back from Amundsen in winter.
My understanding is that even during summer, it's not unusual for a planned flight to be scrubbed due to weather changes, even when everything's loaded and ready to go. Sometimes multiple times.
The stroke happened at the end of August. The acute phase when immediate treatment would be really helpful is *long* past. The time between now and when it becomes safe to fly is a minor matter compared to the importance of being treated in the hours after the stroke.
Plus, if the early production runs turn out to have any problems, it's better for those runs to have been relatively small. Get them into the hands of the early buyers, then if any problems arise, fix them. In the meantime, you don't have a huge inventory of defective devices in warehouses or out in the customer's hands.
Basically, there's no real upside for Apple, and not much upside for the customers except not having to wait a few weeks.
"If you had justed fscking looked at LINUX then (A.) We would have this tech ages ago and (B.) you would realised that this 'Steve Invention' was already under your nose, moron!*."
I ordered a 4S to replace my 3GS. That's a worthy upgrade.
About the only thing that would make me bitter, if an iPhone 5 were released in the next six months, would be if it was essentially equivalent to a drone from Iain Bainks' Culture novels: flying around, genius intelligence, 'effector fields' to manipulate objects in the environment, oh, and knife missiles.
Yeah, if I missed a shot to have my own Skaffen-Amtiskaw, I'd be pissed. But that's not going to happen.
"Apple was heavily rumored to have hired people to stand in line during the first releases of the iPhone to increase the hype."
If I recall correctly, the iPhone release day had lots of Apple stores doing a big to-do, with clapping Apple Store employees out front and everything. (Being vaguely cult-like, frankly, and I'm about as dedicated a Mac/iOS user as you'll find.)
I suspect the nugget of truth in this rumor is based on a misunderstanding of those store employees, by someone who thought they were buyers in line.
Channel stuffing isn't when the phones go from the factory in Shanghai directly to the buyer via FedEx. There's no channel being stuffed there. FedEx isn't the channel. The channel is retailers and distributors.
Channel stuffing would be dumping truckloads of iPhones on Best Buy and Radio Shack and AT&T and Verizon stores, in quantities far exceeding any known demand.
The iPhone 4S has all the internal updates that were expected of the supposed 'iPhone 5', so they are no reason to be disappointed.
All that's missing is some kind of change in the shape of the phone. But, as a practical matter, that would just mean that there would be a shortage of accessories compatible with the new shape. Which is annoying. Instead, the iPhone 4S buyer can use any of the accessories and cases and docks made for the iPhone 4.
*Lots* of people, like me, have an iPhone 3GS, and the 4S is an ample upgrade from that.
I bought it a few months before the iPhone 4 came out, so I wasn't eligible to upgrade to the 4. But I'm eligible now, so I'm getting a new phone. Not sure what I'll do with the GS. Maybe I'll get the battery replaced and keep it as a spare. Or as an old-hardware test platform for apps. Maybe I'll recycle it. Or give it away.
The point of the article is that nobody has managed to put out a tablet that is seen as comparable in functionality and quality, while beating the iPad in price, and selling enough to be more than a rounding error on iPad sales.
To be fair, I think the $99 entitles you to two developer tech support 'incidents' over the year. In other words, if you have trouble writing your app, or the frameworks are acting weird, you can get help from developers at Apple, which otherwise would cost additional money.
That's probably most useful if you're pushing the envelope and hitting edge cases, but it's nice to have.
" It just doesn't make sense that the 3G providers would allow a very low one-time fee for effectively unlimited data usage."
It isn't a one-time fee. That's why when you email a document to your kindle, Amazon tacks on a small charge that varies depending on the size of the file.
Amazon undoubtedly gets billed for all the 3G time, and pays it. They eat the cost for store browsing and downloads because that's key to the device. They seem to believe 3G Wikipedia access is valuable enough to pay for that, too. Paying for general web browsing via 3G may have been viable when the devices cost $200-$400 and relatively few people had them, but not at $100, and not at the sales volumes that are likely at the current low price.
I'm pretty sure the "experimental" and "prototype" were meant to signal to the user that the experience was crap, webpages might not work correctly, and they shouldn't expect it to render web pages like their computer's browser would.
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Don't forget a way to keep the hangar above the snow pack.
In the case of the ISS, If the person isn't there alone, he or she would probably be bundled into one of the escape pods and sent down to earth where treatment would be available. Which wouldn't take very long.
That's a huge difference between Amundsen and the ISS - they can' get back from the ISS, but you can't get back from Amundsen in winter.
My understanding is that even during summer, it's not unusual for a planned flight to be scrubbed due to weather changes, even when everything's loaded and ready to go. Sometimes multiple times.
The stroke happened at the end of August. The acute phase when immediate treatment would be really helpful is *long* past. The time between now and when it becomes safe to fly is a minor matter compared to the importance of being treated in the hours after the stroke.
You go to Antarctica, you take your chances.
Maybe if they count cables.
Run Xcode, Cocoa, Instruments, etc.
There were months of shortages of the PS3 when it hit the US. And *again* in early 2010.
Plus, if the early production runs turn out to have any problems, it's better for those runs to have been relatively small. Get them into the hands of the early buyers, then if any problems arise, fix them. In the meantime, you don't have a huge inventory of defective devices in warehouses or out in the customer's hands.
Basically, there's no real upside for Apple, and not much upside for the customers except not having to wait a few weeks.
"If you had justed fscking looked at LINUX then (A.) We would have this tech ages ago and (B.) you would realised that this 'Steve Invention' was already under your nose, moron!*."
Yeah, right.
I ordered a 4S to replace my 3GS. That's a worthy upgrade.
About the only thing that would make me bitter, if an iPhone 5 were released in the next six months, would be if it was essentially equivalent to a drone from Iain Bainks' Culture novels: flying around, genius intelligence, 'effector fields' to manipulate objects in the environment, oh, and knife missiles.
Yeah, if I missed a shot to have my own Skaffen-Amtiskaw, I'd be pissed. But that's not going to happen.
"Apple was heavily rumored to have hired people to stand in line during the first releases of the iPhone to increase the hype."
If I recall correctly, the iPhone release day had lots of Apple stores doing a big to-do, with clapping Apple Store employees out front and everything. (Being vaguely cult-like, frankly, and I'm about as dedicated a Mac/iOS user as you'll find.)
I suspect the nugget of truth in this rumor is based on a misunderstanding of those store employees, by someone who thought they were buyers in line.
I just looked around the room, and saw no Chinese people. They must be a myth.
Channel stuffing isn't when the phones go from the factory in Shanghai directly to the buyer via FedEx. There's no channel being stuffed there. FedEx isn't the channel. The channel is retailers and distributors.
Channel stuffing would be dumping truckloads of iPhones on Best Buy and Radio Shack and AT&T and Verizon stores, in quantities far exceeding any known demand.
The iPhone 4S has all the internal updates that were expected of the supposed 'iPhone 5', so they are no reason to be disappointed.
All that's missing is some kind of change in the shape of the phone. But, as a practical matter, that would just mean that there would be a shortage of accessories compatible with the new shape. Which is annoying. Instead, the iPhone 4S buyer can use any of the accessories and cases and docks made for the iPhone 4.
*Lots* of people, like me, have an iPhone 3GS, and the 4S is an ample upgrade from that.
I bought it a few months before the iPhone 4 came out, so I wasn't eligible to upgrade to the 4. But I'm eligible now, so I'm getting a new phone. Not sure what I'll do with the GS. Maybe I'll get the battery replaced and keep it as a spare. Or as an old-hardware test platform for apps. Maybe I'll recycle it. Or give it away.
The point of the article is that nobody has managed to put out a tablet that is seen as comparable in functionality and quality, while beating the iPad in price, and selling enough to be more than a rounding error on iPad sales.
To be fair, I think the $99 entitles you to two developer tech support 'incidents' over the year. In other words, if you have trouble writing your app, or the frameworks are acting weird, you can get help from developers at Apple, which otherwise would cost additional money.
That's probably most useful if you're pushing the envelope and hitting edge cases, but it's nice to have.
" It just doesn't make sense that the 3G providers would allow a very low one-time fee for effectively unlimited data usage."
It isn't a one-time fee. That's why when you email a document to your kindle, Amazon tacks on a small charge that varies depending on the size of the file.
Amazon undoubtedly gets billed for all the 3G time, and pays it. They eat the cost for store browsing and downloads because that's key to the device. They seem to believe 3G Wikipedia access is valuable enough to pay for that, too. Paying for general web browsing via 3G may have been viable when the devices cost $200-$400 and relatively few people had them, but not at $100, and not at the sales volumes that are likely at the current low price.
What part of "the price has dropped from $400 to ~$120" did you miss?
It's absurd to criticize them for limiting the one feature that implies an ongoing, open-ended cost on Amazon's part, the free 3G.
You might have a point if the price had stayed high, rather than plummeting.
I'm pretty sure the "experimental" and "prototype" were meant to signal to the user that the experience was crap, webpages might not work correctly, and they shouldn't expect it to render web pages like their computer's browser would.
"Isn't the 3G connection free? Oh how weird that they want to keep that books / paid content only."
Especially given how little the device costs. It was different when it cost a few hundred dollars.
"You can get all your work done on a Chromebook (small-print: if you VNC to a computer with a hard drive.)"
So two years, then.
Conveniently, Apple doesn't use any crappy "authorization" or license keys on their OS.
No, I got your point. I'm not a freetard. Getting rid of copyright helps the powerful more than it helps the weak.