Stick to law, not biology Mr. Seringhaus (and honestly, I'm not too hot on you entering law). The genetic fingerprint works OK for identifying the guilty person out of several suspects, but it does not work if you have everyone on a database. If the chance of two unrelated people having the same fingerprint is (and I don't know the actual number) one in ten million and if you have every American in a database then given a DNA sample you'll get thirty people, twenty nine of which will be dragged into court through no fault of their own. Put simply, this is a profoundly stupid idea.
The reason for 'why Microsoft' is that they have a monopoly on the operating systems market, and there are special laws governing monopolies. The reason for 'why browsers' is that web browsers is an area the EU has deemed that Microsoft is abusing its monopoly.
Obviously this is anecdotal, but the fans on my Macbook pro often spin up playing full screen flash video, but never while playing video in Quicktime. But even if HTML5 performs no better than Flash currently, HTML5 still wins because it doesn't rely on Adobe to issue security and performance updates.
The first two are valid, but the last is bullshit. Of course Apple wanted copy and paste on the iPhone, but to implement it and have it work crappy is worse than not implementing it at all. It may be acceptable in a niche device, but it would compromise user experience. And Apple really cares about user experience.
That's different. Chimeras are the result of the cells of two individuals combining into one organism. Chimeras are unlikely to be intersex as one cell line will form the sexual organs. Intersex refers to individuals with ambiguous sexual characteristics, and can be caused by several factors. Neither of these can result in gyandromorphism in humans.
FYI, I'm not American. In the UK all contracts have limits on the number of texts you can send or charge 10p per text on pay as you go. I think Canada uses a similar model to the US, and the situation in Europe is similar to the UK. Given that SMS messaging does not consume any extra resources anything over 1p a message is pretty steep. And most packages include free data, so you might as well use it. That and SMS messages can sometimes disappear into the ether, to be received hours after they were sent.
You are wrong. Any format can be supported by third partys. And I'm assuming the developers of PDF apps for the iPhone will have already adjusted them for use on the iPad.
What do you mean? Mail on iPhone supports PDF and there are also plenty of third party apps which do. Luckily, you don't need to use Adobe's shit to read PDFs.
Just as it took till 3.0 for Apple to introduce copy and paste, it will take them till 4.0 to introduce multitasking for exactly the same reason. They want to do it right. Copy and paste on the iPhone is intuitive and easy, but they didn't figure out how to do it in such a great way immediately. Rest assured, Apple won't do multitasking like Android, you won't need a task manager. Whatever form it takes, Apple will err on the side of making it limiting but easy to use.
That's exactly the way it works in the UK (at least England and Wales). NICE's threshold is £30,000 per QALY, although there is leeway for more expensive 'end-of-life' treatments.
You don't have to learn how to do an emergency stop? In the British driving test you will need to perform an emergency stop to pass 50% of the time (hence you need to learn how to do it). If I had never practiced emergency stops I'm not sure if I'd appreciate just how hard you need to step on the brakes to get the shortest possible stopping distance.
The kind of cancer drugs that NICE (the body which decides which treatments are covered by the NHS in England and Wales) rejects are not exactly 'life saving'. The most recent examples tend to extend life by a few months, but are extremely expensive. NICE uses a formula to calculate whether a treatment is value for money, and they actually made an exemption for life prolonging cancer drugs to allow some of the more expensive ones to be used. Make no mistake, NICE does not reject cancer curing treatments.
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Stick to law, not biology Mr. Seringhaus (and honestly, I'm not too hot on you entering law). The genetic fingerprint works OK for identifying the guilty person out of several suspects, but it does not work if you have everyone on a database. If the chance of two unrelated people having the same fingerprint is (and I don't know the actual number) one in ten million and if you have every American in a database then given a DNA sample you'll get thirty people, twenty nine of which will be dragged into court through no fault of their own. Put simply, this is a profoundly stupid idea.
Monopolies themselves are not illegal but abusing them is.
The reason for 'why Microsoft' is that they have a monopoly on the operating systems market, and there are special laws governing monopolies. The reason for 'why browsers' is that web browsers is an area the EU has deemed that Microsoft is abusing its monopoly.
Obviously this is anecdotal, but the fans on my Macbook pro often spin up playing full screen flash video, but never while playing video in Quicktime. But even if HTML5 performs no better than Flash currently, HTML5 still wins because it doesn't rely on Adobe to issue security and performance updates.
Yes.
It's not inferior for web pages though is it? From what I've heard the Kindle's web browser is rubbish.
So you're reading Slashdot on one right now?
The first two are valid, but the last is bullshit. Of course Apple wanted copy and paste on the iPhone, but to implement it and have it work crappy is worse than not implementing it at all. It may be acceptable in a niche device, but it would compromise user experience. And Apple really cares about user experience.
That's different. Chimeras are the result of the cells of two individuals combining into one organism. Chimeras are unlikely to be intersex as one cell line will form the sexual organs. Intersex refers to individuals with ambiguous sexual characteristics, and can be caused by several factors. Neither of these can result in gyandromorphism in humans.
Would you be saying that if it were Microsoft instead of Mozilla?
I'm aware of that. But text messaging certainly has the appearance of industry wide price fixing.
Honestly, I have no idea what you're talking about.
FYI, I'm not American. In the UK all contracts have limits on the number of texts you can send or charge 10p per text on pay as you go. I think Canada uses a similar model to the US, and the situation in Europe is similar to the UK. Given that SMS messaging does not consume any extra resources anything over 1p a message is pretty steep. And most packages include free data, so you might as well use it. That and SMS messages can sometimes disappear into the ether, to be received hours after they were sent.
And how is copy and paste normally implemented? Keyboard shortcuts or mouse. Neither of those are present on the iPhone.
You are wrong. Any format can be supported by third partys. And I'm assuming the developers of PDF apps for the iPhone will have already adjusted them for use on the iPad.
There is a third party task killer for Android. I'm presuming demand for it stems from phones being slowed down by too many apps running.
What do you mean? Mail on iPhone supports PDF and there are also plenty of third party apps which do. Luckily, you don't need to use Adobe's shit to read PDFs.
Maybe because you don't want to use an antiquated protocol designed as an afterthought which carriers (in many countries) charge a fortune to use?
Just as it took till 3.0 for Apple to introduce copy and paste, it will take them till 4.0 to introduce multitasking for exactly the same reason. They want to do it right. Copy and paste on the iPhone is intuitive and easy, but they didn't figure out how to do it in such a great way immediately. Rest assured, Apple won't do multitasking like Android, you won't need a task manager. Whatever form it takes, Apple will err on the side of making it limiting but easy to use.
Yes, but generally smartphones with an on-screen keyboard have a display twice as big.
Please explain where Twitter's revenue comes from.
That's exactly the way it works in the UK (at least England and Wales). NICE's threshold is £30,000 per QALY, although there is leeway for more expensive 'end-of-life' treatments.
Did you not pick up on the distinction between cancer curing and life prolonging treatments? The GGP referred to cancer survival rates.
You don't have to learn how to do an emergency stop? In the British driving test you will need to perform an emergency stop to pass 50% of the time (hence you need to learn how to do it). If I had never practiced emergency stops I'm not sure if I'd appreciate just how hard you need to step on the brakes to get the shortest possible stopping distance.
The kind of cancer drugs that NICE (the body which decides which treatments are covered by the NHS in England and Wales) rejects are not exactly 'life saving'. The most recent examples tend to extend life by a few months, but are extremely expensive. NICE uses a formula to calculate whether a treatment is value for money, and they actually made an exemption for life prolonging cancer drugs to allow some of the more expensive ones to be used. Make no mistake, NICE does not reject cancer curing treatments.