I agree that such things are junk patents and I'm certainly not going to try defend "slide to open" or most of the crap that Apple is claiming to invent.
My point was that it's difficult to win the market by building a better product when someone else can come along and copy it and sell it cheaper, making it more difficult for you to "win" the market.
But I'll actually turn your question around. Is your argument that Samsung's Galaxy Nexus is a better product than Apple's iPhone and that Apple should devote it's time to building something better than the Samsung Nexus rather than trying to keep the better product away from consumers? I'd be curious to hear how you think Samsung's Galaxy Nexus is a better product. I won't necessarily disagree with you, but I'd be curious to hear a reasonable argument as to what makes the Galaxy Nexus better than the iPhone--something that Apple should be trying to catch up with.
Actually, an Internal hard-drive (like the HyperDrive voided the warranty. An External Hard Drive did not void the warranty--I had a Bernoulli Box attached to my Macintosh 128K via the "high speed external bus" (ie, serial port). As long as the hard drive had it's own power supply, there was no issue. But if it used the external hard-drive connector for power, it would void it.
Reminds me of a story from way way way back. Supposedly, part of the copy-protection scheme for Lotus 1-2-3 for DOS contained an invisible file named SATAN.666. Again, an invisible file that no one would ever see.
When PC Week or some other magazine mentioned this in an article, various churches who used the product were quite upset. I believe Lotus sent the complainers new versions of the software with the file removed.
I know, personally, I had one of those dialog boxes that a user should never see which had a "Shit" button. The only user that I ever heard of seeing it, unfortunately, was Jean Louis Gassee when we were doing a demo at Apple.
Depends on which direction you're coming from. If you're coming from the PC world, you may be right--why would I want a tablet that can't run the applications I already own?
Conversely, if you're coming from the Windows Phone world and you're looking for something that will run the applications you own (but with a bigger screen, etc.)...
Apple Stores sell mostly Apple equipment. Yes, you have some third-party software and hardware, but for the most part, it's Apple gear. Compare this to Best Buy which entirely reselling someone else's equipment.
Also, Best Buy sells a much larger variety of items then your typical Apple Store. Apple Stores sell Macs, iPads, iPods, Time Capsules, etc. Best Buy sells all of those as well as competing hardware from other companies, televisions, DVDs, CDs, dishwashers, washing machines, vacuum cleaners, home audio, car audio, etc.
It's kind of like saying, "Hey, Bang & Olufson stores make money."
However, I'm not sure I agree with you. You can say, "Gosh, the sun may have caused it!" And you might even be right. The point I make is that what you have is conjecture. You could just as easily say that space aliens caused the little ice age with their freeze rays--after all, space aliens are odd creatures and you can't predict them so there's no way you could know that they didn't cause it. Therefore, it's reasonable to reject all studies that don't include counts of UFO sitings.
One of the differences between the law and science is evidence. Here in the US, for example, to convict a person you must convince a jury that the person is guilty "beyond a reasonable doubt." Thus, the prosecution will come up with their theory of what happened the the defense will attempt to poke holes in it in order to create "reasonable doubt" in the minds of the jurors. They don't have to create another theory and support it with evidence. All they have to do is convince people that the prosecution got it wrong.
You bring up a good point about solar output. But by saying that you reject any study that treats the sun's output as a one-dimensional number, you're being more a lawyer than a scientist. You're right that the model may not be completely accurate. The question is, is it accurate enough--does the output of the model show the effects that we have in the records. If so, then it's a possible explanation. Solar output may also be the cause. However, we don't have precise readings for solar output during this time, so the best we can do is "guess."
Those guesses have some backing--we've never seen solar output above or below a certain amount. The sun has cycles where it tends to be higher in some years than in other years. So we use numbers in those ranges and based upon the cycles we have seen. But could there have been some change in the cycles during that time? Sure, it's possible. But that theory--without evidence--is just as valid as space aliens with freeze rays.
That's what I meant about "And your evidence for this is." Is there a reason to believe that solar output was dramatically less during this time? All we have for information is what hit the Earth--and that could have been affected by volcanic ash, as the study suggests.
I really doubt that MS would cease selling Windows to Levono because Levono choose to sell some computers with blank hard drives.
Actually, if I remember this correctly, Microsoft's (old) contracts with PC Makers required them to give Microsoft money for every PC sold regardless of whether Microsoft software was installed or not.
So you didn't save any money if you, for some reason, asked for computers without Microsoft's DOS.
It's the handing out of contraception or sexual literature to elementary school kids. It's explaining to first graders that it is OK to explore your sexuality.
I think I'd want to see a citation on the first grader thing. It wouldn't surprise me if it's true, don't get me wrong, but I'd want to see where a government agency is calling for this rather than a group calling for a government agency to consider this.
The other part? Well, it depends on your definition of "elementary school."
The "elementary school" I went to was K-6. And it probably wouldn't have been a big deal to give the 6th graders some info on this--people were definitely dating in 6th grade and they would have been considered "elementary school students." I don't remember a whole lot going on in 5th grade--I think we'd decided that girls didn't have cooties, but we weren't really sure we wanted to associate with them. 4th grade, probably not--though I had a massive crush on our 4th grade TA, Miss Skinner (and I was heartbroken when she brought her boyfriend in one day). Before that? Girls definitely had cooties and you did not want to associate with them.
Meanwhile, the neighboring school district's "elementary school" was K-5. Junior high was grades 6-8. Our school district actually paired up with them for grades 7-8.
So it sort of depends on what "elementary school" grades you're talking about.
Or how about we ask the person who is currently keeping it alive whether or not she wants to take on this task?
You're right--she might not agree with what your God tells her to do. That would be bad for...her immortal soul. Dear God, Won't Somebody Think About the Immortal Souls?!
Oh that's cute! You think a government bureau will do what their name says, even with no oversight.
Oh that's cute! You think businesses will just oversee themselves and do the right thing.
So let me get this straight: Basically, you're concerned with who will be overseeing the overseers? What about who will be overseeing the overseeing of the overseers? Or who will be overseeing the overseeing of the overseeing of the overseers?
But we won't do it till we spend a lot more time on earth doing the grunt work (engineering and thinking) instead of spending billions on half baked manned missions to nowhere worthwhile.
While I agree to a point, you actually have to eventually do these things in order to see how they work.
Consider Apollo. We didn't just fire up the ol' Saturn V and head to the Moon. You're right that there was lots of design and testing done on Earth. But eventually we flew Apollo 7 in orbit around Earth in order to test the CSM. We flew around the Moon on Apollo 8 to test those procedures (as well as beat them Rooskis to the Moon). Apollo 9 tested the LEM and the extraction procedures in Earth orbit and Apollo 10 tested them in Lunar orbit (as an aside, I have to admit that if I was on the Apollo 10 mission and everything was working out, I'd be tempted to yell "Fuck you, Neil!" into my radio and land on the Moon. What's NASA gonna do?) Not to mention the various unmanned launches before Apollo 7.
Were all those "half-baked" missions of the Apollo program a waste? Are you saying we should have just shot astronauts at the Moon until one of them made it?
VPN support was completely inconsistent. There were no options for 10.4; 10.5 had no built in client, but could use Cisco VPN; 10.6 had a built in client and could use the Cisco client; and 10.7 had built in client but could NOT use the cisco client (due to awful 32-bit compatibility).
So how many versions of Windows did you support?
Let's see...Mac OS X 10.4 was released in 2005. On the Windows side, that would be Windows XP SP2. So I assume you had a mix of machines running everything from Windows XP SP2 to Windows 7, right?
From the sounds of it, you also had a mix of 32-bit and 64-bit machines on the Mac side. Did you have this same thing with the Windows machines?
From the sounds of it, people who want the N9 are buying the N9. They walk into the shop and say, "Sell me a Nokia N9. dammit!" (or something similar).
Conversely, somebody walks into the shop and says, "Hi! I'm thinking of buying a smartphone and I hear good things about the Nokia Lumia 900." the salesperson says, "You don't want that! You want the Motorola RAZR! It's lighter, faster, has a bigger screen, and I get a SPIF for each one that I sell--oops! Did I say that out loud?"
Apollo 12 astronauts traveled 2km. Apollo 14 astronauts traveled 3.3km. Apollo 15 astronauts traveled 27.9km. Apollo 16 astronauts traveled 27km. Apollo 17 astronauts traveled 35km. Total distance: 95.2km.
Let me preface this by saying that I believe we landed on the Moon. That said, did anyone fire lasers at those sites before the landings to prove that there wasn't something there that reflected lasers? And, even if they did, all that really proves is that we landed laser reflectors at that site.
Unless the Surveyor Program was also fake, we had established that we could land things on the Moon. So I imagine it wouldn't be impossible to land a laser reflector.
As an aside, this is one of those things you don't hear about from the hoaxers. Okay, so the moon landings were fake. What about the non-landing missions? Apollo 7 orbited the Earth. Was that fake? Apollo 8 orbited the Moon. Was the fake? Apollo 10 took a Lunar Module all the way to the Moon and flew it around. Was that fake?
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I agree that such things are junk patents and I'm certainly not going to try defend "slide to open" or most of the crap that Apple is claiming to invent.
My point was that it's difficult to win the market by building a better product when someone else can come along and copy it and sell it cheaper, making it more difficult for you to "win" the market.
But I'll actually turn your question around. Is your argument that Samsung's Galaxy Nexus is a better product than Apple's iPhone and that Apple should devote it's time to building something better than the Samsung Nexus rather than trying to keep the better product away from consumers? I'd be curious to hear how you think Samsung's Galaxy Nexus is a better product. I won't necessarily disagree with you, but I'd be curious to hear a reasonable argument as to what makes the Galaxy Nexus better than the iPhone--something that Apple should be trying to catch up with.
Exactly. They have hire people to carry those data-packets around.
No. The alternative is that they win the market BY BUILDING A BETTER PRODUCT.
One could argue that what's the use in building a better product if someone else can come along and copy what you did and sell it for less?
Building a better product isn't cheap.
Actually, an Internal hard-drive (like the HyperDrive voided the warranty. An External Hard Drive did not void the warranty--I had a Bernoulli Box attached to my Macintosh 128K via the "high speed external bus" (ie, serial port). As long as the hard drive had it's own power supply, there was no issue. But if it used the external hard-drive connector for power, it would void it.
Reminds me of a story from way way way back. Supposedly, part of the copy-protection scheme for Lotus 1-2-3 for DOS contained an invisible file named SATAN.666. Again, an invisible file that no one would ever see.
When PC Week or some other magazine mentioned this in an article, various churches who used the product were quite upset. I believe Lotus sent the complainers new versions of the software with the file removed.
I know, personally, I had one of those dialog boxes that a user should never see which had a "Shit" button. The only user that I ever heard of seeing it, unfortunately, was Jean Louis Gassee when we were doing a demo at Apple.
What the fuck happened to the Anonymous I used to know? Where's the spirit? Where's the guts, huh? This could be the greatest night of our lives, but you're gonna let it be the worst. "Ooh, we're afraid to go with you! we might get in trouble!" Well just kiss my ass from now on! Not me! I'm not gonna take this. MPAA, they're dead, man! CIA, dead! Mexican Mafia...
Depends on which direction you're coming from. If you're coming from the PC world, you may be right--why would I want a tablet that can't run the applications I already own?
Conversely, if you're coming from the Windows Phone world and you're looking for something that will run the applications you own (but with a bigger screen, etc.)...
I'm not sure this is a valid comparison.
Apple Stores sell mostly Apple equipment. Yes, you have some third-party software and hardware, but for the most part, it's Apple gear. Compare this to Best Buy which entirely reselling someone else's equipment.
Also, Best Buy sells a much larger variety of items then your typical Apple Store. Apple Stores sell Macs, iPads, iPods, Time Capsules, etc. Best Buy sells all of those as well as competing hardware from other companies, televisions, DVDs, CDs, dishwashers, washing machines, vacuum cleaners, home audio, car audio, etc.
It's kind of like saying, "Hey, Bang & Olufson stores make money."
Wow! Just for me. I feel so privileged! :^D
However, I'm not sure I agree with you. You can say, "Gosh, the sun may have caused it!" And you might even be right. The point I make is that what you have is conjecture. You could just as easily say that space aliens caused the little ice age with their freeze rays--after all, space aliens are odd creatures and you can't predict them so there's no way you could know that they didn't cause it. Therefore, it's reasonable to reject all studies that don't include counts of UFO sitings.
One of the differences between the law and science is evidence. Here in the US, for example, to convict a person you must convince a jury that the person is guilty "beyond a reasonable doubt." Thus, the prosecution will come up with their theory of what happened the the defense will attempt to poke holes in it in order to create "reasonable doubt" in the minds of the jurors. They don't have to create another theory and support it with evidence. All they have to do is convince people that the prosecution got it wrong.
You bring up a good point about solar output. But by saying that you reject any study that treats the sun's output as a one-dimensional number, you're being more a lawyer than a scientist. You're right that the model may not be completely accurate. The question is, is it accurate enough--does the output of the model show the effects that we have in the records. If so, then it's a possible explanation. Solar output may also be the cause. However, we don't have precise readings for solar output during this time, so the best we can do is "guess."
Those guesses have some backing--we've never seen solar output above or below a certain amount. The sun has cycles where it tends to be higher in some years than in other years. So we use numbers in those ranges and based upon the cycles we have seen. But could there have been some change in the cycles during that time? Sure, it's possible. But that theory--without evidence--is just as valid as space aliens with freeze rays.
That's what I meant about "And your evidence for this is." Is there a reason to believe that solar output was dramatically less during this time? All we have for information is what hit the Earth--and that could have been affected by volcanic ash, as the study suggests.
The sun's output did matter in the Little Ice Age.
And your evidence for this is...?
I really doubt that MS would cease selling Windows to Levono because Levono choose to sell some computers with blank hard drives.
Actually, if I remember this correctly, Microsoft's (old) contracts with PC Makers required them to give Microsoft money for every PC sold regardless of whether Microsoft software was installed or not.
So you didn't save any money if you, for some reason, asked for computers without Microsoft's DOS.
I'm not sure about the "more capable" part. Curiosity has no drill, unlike ExoMars.
We did not lose Vietnam! It was a tie!
It's the handing out of contraception or sexual literature to elementary school kids. It's explaining to first graders that it is OK to explore your sexuality.
I think I'd want to see a citation on the first grader thing. It wouldn't surprise me if it's true, don't get me wrong, but I'd want to see where a government agency is calling for this rather than a group calling for a government agency to consider this.
The other part? Well, it depends on your definition of "elementary school."
The "elementary school" I went to was K-6. And it probably wouldn't have been a big deal to give the 6th graders some info on this--people were definitely dating in 6th grade and they would have been considered "elementary school students." I don't remember a whole lot going on in 5th grade--I think we'd decided that girls didn't have cooties, but we weren't really sure we wanted to associate with them. 4th grade, probably not--though I had a massive crush on our 4th grade TA, Miss Skinner (and I was heartbroken when she brought her boyfriend in one day). Before that? Girls definitely had cooties and you did not want to associate with them.
Meanwhile, the neighboring school district's "elementary school" was K-5. Junior high was grades 6-8. Our school district actually paired up with them for grades 7-8.
So it sort of depends on what "elementary school" grades you're talking about.
Or, we could wait a few years and ask it.
Or how about we ask the person who is currently keeping it alive whether or not she wants to take on this task?
You're right--she might not agree with what your God tells her to do. That would be bad for...her immortal soul. Dear God, Won't Somebody Think About the Immortal Souls?!
Oh that's cute! You think a government bureau will do what their name says, even with no oversight.
Oh that's cute! You think businesses will just oversee themselves and do the right thing.
So let me get this straight: Basically, you're concerned with who will be overseeing the overseers? What about who will be overseeing the overseeing of the overseers? Or who will be overseeing the overseeing of the overseeing of the overseers?
And you want smaller government?
Good answer--didn't know that. I assume I would have if I had been on the Apollo 10 mission.
But we won't do it till we spend a lot more time on earth doing the grunt work (engineering and thinking) instead of spending billions on half baked manned missions to nowhere worthwhile.
While I agree to a point, you actually have to eventually do these things in order to see how they work.
Consider Apollo. We didn't just fire up the ol' Saturn V and head to the Moon. You're right that there was lots of design and testing done on Earth. But eventually we flew Apollo 7 in orbit around Earth in order to test the CSM. We flew around the Moon on Apollo 8 to test those procedures (as well as beat them Rooskis to the Moon). Apollo 9 tested the LEM and the extraction procedures in Earth orbit and Apollo 10 tested them in Lunar orbit (as an aside, I have to admit that if I was on the Apollo 10 mission and everything was working out, I'd be tempted to yell "Fuck you, Neil!" into my radio and land on the Moon. What's NASA gonna do?) Not to mention the various unmanned launches before Apollo 7.
Were all those "half-baked" missions of the Apollo program a waste? Are you saying we should have just shot astronauts at the Moon until one of them made it?
I dunno...this one looks kinda close.
Agreed! Just look at iCloud! It uses...uh...Windows Azure. In fact, Apple's spiffy new datacenter seems to have a combination of Mac OS X, IBM/AIX, Sun/Solaris, and Linux..
VPN support was completely inconsistent. There were no options for 10.4; 10.5 had no built in client, but could use Cisco VPN; 10.6 had a built in client and could use the Cisco client; and 10.7 had built in client but could NOT use the cisco client (due to awful 32-bit compatibility).
So how many versions of Windows did you support?
Let's see...Mac OS X 10.4 was released in 2005. On the Windows side, that would be Windows XP SP2. So I assume you had a mix of machines running everything from Windows XP SP2 to Windows 7, right?
From the sounds of it, you also had a mix of 32-bit and 64-bit machines on the Mac side. Did you have this same thing with the Windows machines?
Simple.
From the sounds of it, people who want the N9 are buying the N9. They walk into the shop and say, "Sell me a Nokia N9. dammit!" (or something similar).
Conversely, somebody walks into the shop and says, "Hi! I'm thinking of buying a smartphone and I hear good things about the Nokia Lumia 900." the salesperson says, "You don't want that! You want the Motorola RAZR! It's lighter, faster, has a bigger screen, and I get a SPIF for each one that I sell--oops! Did I say that out loud?"
The USSR sent several large ones, which explored more of the Moon than the astronauts did.
Lunokhod 1 traveled 10km. Lunokhod 2 traveled 37km. Total distance traveled: 47km.
Apollo 12 astronauts traveled 2km. Apollo 14 astronauts traveled 3.3km. Apollo 15 astronauts traveled 27.9km. Apollo 16 astronauts traveled 27km. Apollo 17 astronauts traveled 35km. Total distance: 95.2km.
Does it?
Let me preface this by saying that I believe we landed on the Moon. That said, did anyone fire lasers at those sites before the landings to prove that there wasn't something there that reflected lasers? And, even if they did, all that really proves is that we landed laser reflectors at that site.
Unless the Surveyor Program was also fake, we had established that we could land things on the Moon. So I imagine it wouldn't be impossible to land a laser reflector.
As an aside, this is one of those things you don't hear about from the hoaxers. Okay, so the moon landings were fake. What about the non-landing missions? Apollo 7 orbited the Earth. Was that fake? Apollo 8 orbited the Moon. Was the fake? Apollo 10 took a Lunar Module all the way to the Moon and flew it around. Was that fake?
I stand corrected. I went and watched the ad and, sure enough, it was approved by Mitt Romney, making it a political ad.
As you point out, though, this applies to candidates. I wonder about advertising produced by PACs.