1) I have no bumpers on my car, you insensitive clod! 2) I drive a yellow car, you insensitive clod!
(Actually, my car doesn't have bumpers, but it isn't yellow. That said, the current make/model of my car does come in yellow and I think it looks really good. I'm considering buying one...)
I'm reminded of a statistic I read years ago that said, when polled, 80% of all drivers consider themselves to be above average in regards to their skill. Which means at least 30% of them are wrong.
I prefer stick shifts, myself, and I also prefer convertibles. This means that I am unable to use a cellphone when driving because (a) it's tough to hold the wheel, hold the phone, and shift and (b) it's usually too loud to hear anybody anyway.
Let's assume 509,600 Android tablets and non-phone devices were sold in that quarter, just to round Android's numbers up to 61 million. Let's also assume that Apple didn't sell a single iPod nano or iPod shuffle in Q3--that all iPod sales are iPod touches.
According to Apple, they sold 11.12 million iPads and 6.62 million iPods. Now, again, if we assume that all those iPods were iPod touches, we come up with 17.74 million. If we add that to the number of iPhones sold, we come come up 35,035,300. This causes Apple's market share to jump from 16.6% to 26.2% and puts Android at 45.7%. iOS is still a ways off.
While I agree somewhat, I'd also point out that "popular" does not mean good.
Besides the whole Microsoft Windows argument, McDonald's hamburgers are the most popular. The most watched television series is still "Baywatch." And I believe the best selling beer in the world is Budweiser.
Or, as I like to say, "Eat Shit: 10,000,000 flies can't be wrong."
First, truckers have a Commercial Drivers License. You can't just walk in to a trucking company with your Class C license and get a job as truck driver. No, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to get a Commercial Drivers License, but it isn't all that easy to get one, either. Which means you've received more training than your typical driver.
Second, cops love to bust truckers. And, at least here in California, a Commercial Drivers License usually means that fines are doubled. You're a professional driver, right? You have less excuse than others when you do something wrong.
Third, an accident usually means the end of your truck driving job because the insurance for the company just goes too high.
Truckers are generally much safer drivers. Between the training and the consequences of a mistake, they'll err on the side of caution. And that means they'll put down the CB radio if it becomes a distraction.
I know, I loved Smokey and the Bandit as much as the next guy. But it's a movie. It isn't real.
Not to mention we already went through this in the states with them over 20+ years ago. Anybody remember "look and feel"? because that is pretty much EXACTLY what we are talking about here.
While I agree, keep in mind that Apple lost those cases not so much because Apple was in the wrong but because Apple had actually granted rights to Microsoft to use the "look-and-feel" in Windows (Apple claimed that Windows 2.0 used things that Apple had not granted a license to, but the judge found otherwise).
If I buy a phone from AT&T with a 2 year contract and jail-break it, I still have a two year commitment with AT&T for service.
And, you being the honest person that you are, would continue to pay that contract even though you no longer use the phone on the AT&T network.
You're a wonderful human being.
Me, being a far more evil person, would immediately stop paying my contract once I jail-broke my phone. What are they going to do? Slash my credit rating? Meanwhile, AT&T is still out the cost of my phone.
So, the other day, I'm watching a football game when this ad comes up. Oddly enough, a quick Google didn't find it. But it's for NFL Network. Essentially, we see this person go through his week keeping up with the latest doings in the NFL on various devices (PCs, Television, Laptop, Phone, and Tablet). The tablet looked like an iPad--except that it was longer (the iPad is more square than this was.)
So I immediately said, "Hm. Must be a Samsung tablet."
It was pretty easy for me to spot that this wasn't an iPad because the shape was different than the iPad.
If that's true, why can I buy 100,000 battery cradles, camera add ons, cases, credit card readers [...]
Battery Cradles? Maybe it's because Android phones usually have removable batteries? Camera Add-Ons? Because Apple made crappy cameras up until the iPhone 4S? Credit Card Readers? Here's one that's available for both.
I don't have to go trough security checks that involve taking off my shoes, my belt and stand in line like cattle I don't have to opt out of an x-ray machine to be groped by a security guard (they are reasonably professional, but given a choice I'd rather not be patted down) I can bring some frigging liquids with me if I feel the need to. A whole industry seems to have formed around manufacturing small plastic bottles (only the ones that cost $7 a pop are actually usable, too)
Keep in mind that they'll probably have some pretty impressive security on a bullet train. So you may not get these benefits.
That said, you make a good point. While "economy" train travel is far from luxurious (I took Amtrak "coach" from Vermont to South Carolina back when I was 18, spending about 2 days in an airline-seat), it wasn't horrible. I used to take the train from New York City to Baltimore back when I was young and in love and I remember it being much more spacious than an equivalent airline seat.
I'd imagine one issue with airlines is that an airplane can only take n people. If more than n people want to ride that airplane, the price for a seat has to go up. Conversely, I'd imagine it costs less to attach another passenger car to the train and take another 50 people than it would to have a second flight.
I'm not sure I get it. If you get vaccinated and I don't and I catch some nasty disease, how am I going to pass it on your vaccinated self? I'm only going to pass it on to those who don't get vaccinated, right?
T-Mobile hasn't had a new BlackBerry phone in a very, very, long time (as another example).
Actually, a month or so back I was in a T-Mobile store (checking out inexpensive pay-as-you-go service for my jailbroken and unlocked iPhone) and they had the latest Blackberry with the touch screen. I don't know the model (don't care about Blackberry phones) but they are certainly getting the latest phones.
Part of the reason for not having the iPhone is that Apple doesn't want to devote the time or effort to supporting T-Mobile's 3G spectrum. My iPhone 3GS works fine with T-Mobile, except that I can't get 3G.
Yeah, it's easy to say, "Something is wrong." But when you hear about, say, $2 million in Government employees scamming on their travel reimbursement forms, will you say, "Well, I'm not willing to pay for people to find and stop this, so I guess we'll just let it slide?"
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1) I have no bumpers on my car, you insensitive clod!
2) I drive a yellow car, you insensitive clod!
(Actually, my car doesn't have bumpers, but it isn't yellow. That said, the current make/model of my car does come in yellow and I think it looks really good. I'm considering buying one...)
I'm reminded of a statistic I read years ago that said, when polled, 80% of all drivers consider themselves to be above average in regards to their skill. Which means at least 30% of them are wrong.
I prefer stick shifts, myself, and I also prefer convertibles. This means that I am unable to use a cellphone when driving because (a) it's tough to hold the wheel, hold the phone, and shift and (b) it's usually too loud to hear anybody anyway.
I'd go as far as saying that a pencil is more dangerous than every single one of them.
Agreed. Which is why we should ban them from our classrooms.
(Note that the above link is not serious. On the other hand, if you read the reasons, these reasons have been used in plenty of other cases...)
That's actually what US Navy Submarines do, also--"oceanic research."
Megapixels don't matter, it's about the lens, the aperture, the--wait! Doesn't the iPhone have an 8MP camera?
Oh, this thing completely sucks, then. :^D
Well, first, we're talking about the smartphone market, so we shouldn't include them. But, second, it really doesn't change things that much.
If we look at shipments for Q3 2011, we see 60,490,400 Android phones shipped versus 17,295,300 iPhones shipped. Now, let's start with some assumptions for entertainment value.
Let's assume 509,600 Android tablets and non-phone devices were sold in that quarter, just to round Android's numbers up to 61 million. Let's also assume that Apple didn't sell a single iPod nano or iPod shuffle in Q3--that all iPod sales are iPod touches.
According to Apple, they sold 11.12 million iPads and 6.62 million iPods. Now, again, if we assume that all those iPods were iPod touches, we come up with 17.74 million. If we add that to the number of iPhones sold, we come come up 35,035,300. This causes Apple's market share to jump from 16.6% to 26.2% and puts Android at 45.7%. iOS is still a ways off.
While I agree somewhat, I'd also point out that "popular" does not mean good.
Besides the whole Microsoft Windows argument, McDonald's hamburgers are the most popular. The most watched television series is still "Baywatch." And I believe the best selling beer in the world is Budweiser.
Or, as I like to say, "Eat Shit: 10,000,000 flies can't be wrong."
A few things to keep in mind about truckers:
First, truckers have a Commercial Drivers License. You can't just walk in to a trucking company with your Class C license and get a job as truck driver. No, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to get a Commercial Drivers License, but it isn't all that easy to get one, either. Which means you've received more training than your typical driver.
Second, cops love to bust truckers. And, at least here in California, a Commercial Drivers License usually means that fines are doubled. You're a professional driver, right? You have less excuse than others when you do something wrong.
Third, an accident usually means the end of your truck driving job because the insurance for the company just goes too high.
Truckers are generally much safer drivers. Between the training and the consequences of a mistake, they'll err on the side of caution. And that means they'll put down the CB radio if it becomes a distraction.
I know, I loved Smokey and the Bandit as much as the next guy. But it's a movie. It isn't real.
Not to mention we already went through this in the states with them over 20+ years ago. Anybody remember "look and feel"? because that is pretty much EXACTLY what we are talking about here.
While I agree, keep in mind that Apple lost those cases not so much because Apple was in the wrong but because Apple had actually granted rights to Microsoft to use the "look-and-feel" in Windows (Apple claimed that Windows 2.0 used things that Apple had not granted a license to, but the judge found otherwise).
There is no licensing here.
[...] you still have to pay them for their services [...]
Suppose I don't. Suppose I just stop paying?
If I buy a phone from AT&T with a 2 year contract and jail-break it, I still have a two year commitment with AT&T for service.
And, you being the honest person that you are, would continue to pay that contract even though you no longer use the phone on the AT&T network.
You're a wonderful human being.
Me, being a far more evil person, would immediately stop paying my contract once I jail-broke my phone. What are they going to do? Slash my credit rating? Meanwhile, AT&T is still out the cost of my phone.
"You're my little bacterium now..."
Actually, the "rectangular" one caught my eye.
So, the other day, I'm watching a football game when this ad comes up. Oddly enough, a quick Google didn't find it. But it's for NFL Network. Essentially, we see this person go through his week keeping up with the latest doings in the NFL on various devices (PCs, Television, Laptop, Phone, and Tablet). The tablet looked like an iPad--except that it was longer (the iPad is more square than this was.)
So I immediately said, "Hm. Must be a Samsung tablet."
It was pretty easy for me to spot that this wasn't an iPad because the shape was different than the iPad.
If that's true, why can I buy 100,000 battery cradles, camera add ons, cases, credit card readers [...]
Battery Cradles? Maybe it's because Android phones usually have removable batteries? Camera Add-Ons? Because Apple made crappy cameras up until the iPhone 4S? Credit Card Readers? Here's one that's available for both.
On a phone vs. phone basis, Apple is winning.
Except for last quarter.
Don't anthropomorphize nature. It really hates that.
Result: Males will find it difficult to find a mate, resulting in fewer mosquitoes all together.
Or, worse, you're going to end up with a bunch of horny male mosquitos humping your leg.
But couldn't the terr'ists use this to generate electricity in their caves?
I don't have to go trough security checks that involve taking off my shoes, my belt and stand in line like cattle
I don't have to opt out of an x-ray machine to be groped by a security guard (they are reasonably professional, but given a choice I'd rather not be patted down)
I can bring some frigging liquids with me if I feel the need to. A whole industry seems to have formed around manufacturing small plastic bottles (only the ones that cost $7 a pop are actually usable, too)
Keep in mind that they'll probably have some pretty impressive security on a bullet train. So you may not get these benefits.
That said, you make a good point. While "economy" train travel is far from luxurious (I took Amtrak "coach" from Vermont to South Carolina back when I was 18, spending about 2 days in an airline-seat), it wasn't horrible. I used to take the train from New York City to Baltimore back when I was young and in love and I remember it being much more spacious than an equivalent airline seat.
I'd imagine one issue with airlines is that an airplane can only take n people. If more than n people want to ride that airplane, the price for a seat has to go up. Conversely, I'd imagine it costs less to attach another passenger car to the train and take another 50 people than it would to have a second flight.
Actually, I could live with even a slow train. The reality is, if you take Amtrak out of LA to SF, you end up taking a bus up to Bakersfield.
...and then it runs over the Martian Bunny.
I'm not sure I get it. If you get vaccinated and I don't and I catch some nasty disease, how am I going to pass it on your vaccinated self? I'm only going to pass it on to those who don't get vaccinated, right?
T-Mobile hasn't had a new BlackBerry phone in a very, very, long time (as another example).
Actually, a month or so back I was in a T-Mobile store (checking out inexpensive pay-as-you-go service for my jailbroken and unlocked iPhone) and they had the latest Blackberry with the touch screen. I don't know the model (don't care about Blackberry phones) but they are certainly getting the latest phones.
Part of the reason for not having the iPhone is that Apple doesn't want to devote the time or effort to supporting T-Mobile's 3G spectrum. My iPhone 3GS works fine with T-Mobile, except that I can't get 3G.
The problem becomes, what do you do about it?
Yeah, it's easy to say, "Something is wrong." But when you hear about, say, $2 million in Government employees scamming on their travel reimbursement forms, will you say, "Well, I'm not willing to pay for people to find and stop this, so I guess we'll just let it slide?"