"The App Store is not lacking for quantity of titles."
This is a load. Most apps in the App Store were thrown together so some mid-level exec could pump up their bonus by claiming they have a title complete. Almost every one I have downloaded has quirks and crashes. Worst, they are all excruciatingly slow. In most cases they are just duplicating functionality of an existing website anyways, but much much slower. Check Wikipedia App vs Wikipedia on Safari. This happened because everyone had to start from scratch and learn a new language and API. Let people use the best tool that they are familiar with to make good apps and you will see much less crap.
On the other hand if it was more open, people would think of ways of using it for things that nobody else even dreamed of. The iPad is is chisled into stone, you only get to use it exactly like they want you to. It is impossible for you to improve it or reimagine it. If the IIe didn't have slots where would it have ended up in the revolution.
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After hearing only one side of the story she declared that SCO was toast, that's not fair.
You can't have a mix of communism and capitalism, everone must agree for communism to work. That's not democracy. In practice, communism has only existed under totalitarianism where you get killed or jailed if you disagree.
The Chinese people don't get a choice. They have a totalitarian government, if they disagree with the part line, they get jailed. At least they are not getting killed for disagreeing like under Pol Pot or Stalin. Okay, Tienanmen is the exception but that word just got this post censored.
It should be easy to point out vandalism. Instead it is difficult and hackneyed. As long as this is the case, I am not going to go through the trouble when I find it.
If you asked scientists when the Clean Air Act was created if they thought CO2 was pollution there would have been a 100% "consensus" that it was not. The EPA is currently trying to redefine the word pollution so that they can create new energy taxes without having to worry about an inconvenient vote on the issue.
PCs became wildly popular in business because people did not have to wait for some stodgy IT department to apply resources to write an equally stodgy centralized solution. Thin Clients failed because of the stodge factor. The essence of a PC is freedom from centralization. The Cloud is just another Thin Client.
If they filter out all the Twitter spam it could be "full of info"
Twitter Trends is useless with all the people who put trending words in a tweet just to get their tinyurl hidden malware links looked at.
I have worked for two places where they had a big SharePoint rollout and everyone was told to build their department site. After a few months most all gave up because it didn't do much more than a file server and took more work to maintain. I had an idea for a webpart but gave up because I couldn't test it locally. I would guess there are a lot more like this in userspace.
My iPhone took 20 seconds to load this page over a five bar cell connection. This is excruciatingly slow, almost unusable. The web apps that just serve up web content (wikipedia, news etc) seem slower than their web counterparts when all they are doing is getting content. How can this be that nobody is getting the square zero concept that speed is an essential usability element.
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The price has nothing to do with the cost, it is entirely based on what people will pay.
Lottery tickets have a return of about 50 cents on the dollar whether you buy $1 or $2 or $100
The internet started out sales tax free for three reasons; 1) It was too hard to figure out where someone was from 2) It was a very small percentage 3) It promoted growth (Note that parsing the Constitution is not one of them) These three reasons are gone now. Get over it and start paying your fair share.
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"The App Store is not lacking for quantity of titles." This is a load. Most apps in the App Store were thrown together so some mid-level exec could pump up their bonus by claiming they have a title complete. Almost every one I have downloaded has quirks and crashes. Worst, they are all excruciatingly slow. In most cases they are just duplicating functionality of an existing website anyways, but much much slower. Check Wikipedia App vs Wikipedia on Safari. This happened because everyone had to start from scratch and learn a new language and API. Let people use the best tool that they are familiar with to make good apps and you will see much less crap.
On the other hand if it was more open, people would think of ways of using it for things that nobody else even dreamed of. The iPad is is chisled into stone, you only get to use it exactly like they want you to. It is impossible for you to improve it or reimagine it. If the IIe didn't have slots where would it have ended up in the revolution.
After hearing only one side of the story she declared that SCO was toast, that's not fair.
You can't have a mix of communism and capitalism, everone must agree for communism to work. That's not democracy. In practice, communism has only existed under totalitarianism where you get killed or jailed if you disagree.
The Chinese people don't get a choice. They have a totalitarian government, if they disagree with the part line, they get jailed. At least they are not getting killed for disagreeing like under Pol Pot or Stalin. Okay, Tienanmen is the exception but that word just got this post censored.
Apparently, it is not possible to promote free software without bashing commercial software.
Wind is economical only with heavy tax subsidies. Anything is economical if you get some other poor sorry bastard to pay for it.
It should be easy to point out vandalism. Instead it is difficult and hackneyed. As long as this is the case, I am not going to go through the trouble when I find it.
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One of the first things you learn in statistics is that MTBF is a useless measure of reliability.
Laws were meant to catch and punish people who harm one another. Only their concience will prevent it.
For communism to work, everyone has to agree. In practice, it has only temporarily succeeded when tyrants kill or jail everyone who disagrees.
If you asked scientists when the Clean Air Act was created if they thought CO2 was pollution there would have been a 100% "consensus" that it was not. The EPA is currently trying to redefine the word pollution so that they can create new energy taxes without having to worry about an inconvenient vote on the issue.
I suppose you have not seen the ads in newspapers and on TV?
PCs became wildly popular in business because people did not have to wait for some stodgy IT department to apply resources to write an equally stodgy centralized solution. Thin Clients failed because of the stodge factor. The essence of a PC is freedom from centralization. The Cloud is just another Thin Client.
Single instruction: 10 GOTO
Take your million and watch as all Google search results point to your competitors
I cannot stand the smell of perfumed soap. When I wash my hands I do not want to end up smelling lik a Tijuana whorehouse.
If they filter out all the Twitter spam it could be "full of info" Twitter Trends is useless with all the people who put trending words in a tweet just to get their tinyurl hidden malware links looked at.
I have worked for two places where they had a big SharePoint rollout and everyone was told to build their department site. After a few months most all gave up because it didn't do much more than a file server and took more work to maintain. I had an idea for a webpart but gave up because I couldn't test it locally. I would guess there are a lot more like this in userspace.
My iPhone took 20 seconds to load this page over a five bar cell connection. This is excruciatingly slow, almost unusable. The web apps that just serve up web content (wikipedia, news etc) seem slower than their web counterparts when all they are doing is getting content. How can this be that nobody is getting the square zero concept that speed is an essential usability element. (another 30 seconds to load the comment preview)
The price has nothing to do with the cost, it is entirely based on what people will pay. Lottery tickets have a return of about 50 cents on the dollar whether you buy $1 or $2 or $100
Why are there no names that look like they are from India? I thought we outhoused all our IT to them.
Just wait until mechanics start taking these out and playing with them on the workbench.
The internet started out sales tax free for three reasons; 1) It was too hard to figure out where someone was from 2) It was a very small percentage 3) It promoted growth (Note that parsing the Constitution is not one of them) These three reasons are gone now. Get over it and start paying your fair share.