Is it any wonder that iPhone sales are falling behind Android sales?
1) There is more than one phone using the Android OS compared to the iPhone's offering of two storage options (Reaches more pockets) 2) In the US, most Android phones are on networks other than AT&T (Not the most favored of cellphone networks in the US) 3) There is a new iPhone due out in the next few months (anyone who's in the know will be holding off until June 17th?)
I'm not saying that the iPhone is better than the Droid, but now might not be the right time to be judging it's popularity
I can't remember the last time I went out of my way to look up a movie trailer to see if I wanted to see the movie. It HAS happened, but not nearly on the same scale.
When you go to a movie the other movie demos are forced upon you. You rarely look up movie demos because you rarely need to, game demos are an at-will experience.
I don't go to the theaters that often, so If I want to see a trailer, it will be online more than during the wait for the main feature to appear.
I find it funny that the one organization in this world that stands up to Microsoft's monopolization of the computing world, will only support a format that they (EU) required Microsoft to retail their OS with optional support for. "Windows XP N" anyone?
I know that the artists usually make more money playing their music live than hawking it on recorded media, but those people who are responsible for the putting the music on the CD or into a downoadable form won't get any revenue from the live performances, you know, the engineers and such (screw the fat cats in their offices).
If artists can get their music to sound how they imagine it, or tweaked to a form which the majority of their expected audience would want to listen to them, they wouldn't sell.
Most people who insult in jest tend to add a smiley to indicate the emotion that the message was intended to carry, as tone of voice doesn't relate that well with text;-)
Not all/.ers are language or network nerds, some specialize elsewhere, so they wouldn't know about Python being an interpreted language.
I wish nerds would for once break away from the "Duh, everybody should know that!" attitude when faced with those with little or no experience of any subject.
I think that the Canadians might be offended by that remark, LOL, I am English living in the US, sorry about refering you as a Brit.
A quick trip to Wikipedia & I stand corrected over N-acetyl-para-amino-phenol. Whilst the chemical name of Aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid) is more widely known, Paracetamol or Acetaminophen doesn't readily bandy it's true identity around, it was a while before I realised that they were the same. (It was a US news article concerning OD'ing on the drug which brought it to my attention).
headache tablets (or sometimes I call them paracetamol)..., , Spot the Brit;-) for those on the west side of "the pond", paracetamol is the British (European) equivalent of Tylenol, oops, sorry Acetaminophen.
Also, john, do you 'Hoover' your floors, or just Vacuum them?
So Apple may or may have not incorporated ideas in Leopard which might have originated on a Microsoft Platform, So Microsoft most probably have incorporated ideas in their operating systems which originated on Apple OSes.
What about the biggest technology copycat scandal of the last 100+ years, how many improvements to automotive engineering have been touted as revolutionary by one manufacturer had been previously instituted by lesser known manufacturer?
It is in every businesses interest to introduce features to their product which have proven popular by their competitors.
T-Mobile does not own the network that it uses for wireless communications.
I'm not sure whose network it uses, but this scenario is very similar to one that my wife experienced a couple of months back. She was recieving text messages from a video rental store that she was late returning videos, but she / we don't have an account there. By chance, when she called the store to complain, the person who had been late returning walked in to the store. It turns out that he had recently purchased a Virgin Mobile cell phone (which leases bandwidth from Sprint / Nextel), and we have Sprint phones.
When she contacted Sprint customer service (and much to her surprise got a real American), he comfirmed that this is an issue, and credited our account for the services the Virgin Mobile customer subscribed to and some more for her inconvience.
Quote: Wikipedia One gold farming operation in Chongqing in central China with 23 gold farmers was reported to pay its employees the equivalent of about 75 U.S. dollars per month,
I feel that morally it is right for the BPI to require that files made from hard copies to be restricted to be played in a limited number for devices, as there must be a way to prevent the "ripped" tracks from being played by the rest of the world if there are freely distributed by someone who doesn't get the meaning of "fair use". There also must be a way to prevent those tracks from being re-burned to CD's
Also having one program (or DRM system) to add the restriction would make tracking those who ignore fair use principles easier than having a governmental department having to wade through 1,000 and 1 media player algorhythms to find out who was the source of the ripped file.
Didn't Sony do this with the PS2, Create some excuse to call their latest game / entertainment system a computer, to avoid taxation.
The first versions of the PS2 was bundled with the programming language "Yabasic" making the unit programmable by the user, therefore a computer.
Last time I checked, (2 mins ago), Avast! Home doesn't have a commandline interface, that function is provided by a separate program in the Professional edition.
Perhaps you were using the 60 day trial last time you set the schedule?
They hated selling iPods, they had to sell them to compete with the big boys (BB & CC), Apple never sent them enough, out of 1400+ Nano's on order, Apple only send them about 50 at a time. In fact the emphasis was more on the Toshiba GigaBeat range of MP3 players.
In fact to anybody who knows what the want, the iPod isn't the best unit out there, in fact it is extremely restrictive in the purchased music category, whereas WM Plays for sure devices have a myriad of choices for sources of music stores.
If you are saying that Apple make a mint out of the iPod, well that may be true.
If you are saying that the retailer makes money out of the iPod, then you are sorely mistaken. Up until Jan 2006, I worked for a retailer which sold iPods from the Shuffle thru to 60GB 5G, and the difference between what that company paid for the 30GB 5G & what it was allowed to sell it for (UMRP don't ya know) what $15, yes fifteen dollars.
Your story is very similar to mine, except I never got any further programming than Atari ST GFA BASIC.
After being introduced to computers, by a Commodore PET at my primary school, I bugged the heck out of my parents to get me a computer, but we were very poor but my Grand-dad chipped in with my parents to get me the ZX81. I woke up about 2am Chrstmas morning and found it in a sack on my bed, I was so excited, I stayed awake all night. I got a DKTronics Keyboard (real heavy duty keys), & the 16K ram pack. I also remember that a company also made a graphics pack which was supposed to display colour.
I learnt to use most of the system variables of the ZX81, and typed in programs from the magazine 'Computer & Video Games'.
I then progressed to the ZX Spectrum+ (for some reason, my mum wouldn't let me have the series A or B because of the rubber keys), again typing programs in from magazines, often saving up for weeks for games, even tho' they were only £6 (did I say I was poor?), even my dad got into the act, he loved typing in programs from magazines. I had the Kempston Joystick interface which outputted the joysticks actions thru' IN 31. I also remember getting my folks to play hell with WH Smiths after they wouldn't refund my money for a game which I had returned twice because it wouldn't load (only to find out later that I had knocked the tone switch on my tape deck )
I upgraded to the ZX Spectrum +2 for the 128K (WOW) of memory, the Yamaha 3-channel audio chip, Sinclair Interface 2 joystick ports and the built in tape deck, but returned that to DIXONS (UK store akin to Circuit City) after the play key bust close to the end of the 1 year warranty that is standard in the UK, and took store credit (after a 2 month delay in getting it repaired) towards an Amstrad CPC464 (not sure if it was released in the US) and taught myself how to create a new screen mode which gave me 40 characters per line with 4 colours on screen (standard 40 char/line was monochrome with a choice of background and foreground colours).
I then progressed to the Atari STFM 520K, which I sent away to be upgraded to 1MB, which I learnt to program using GFA Basic. I even created a CD/Vinyl/ Cassette tape database for a friend. I tried to learn C but I found my self a fish out of water there and eventually gave up.
I got a Amiga 600 shortly before software started to dry up for it, and returned to my Atari as I had a vast software library for it.
I got my 1st PC in 1996,(Pentium MMX 166 MHz, 8 MB RAM) which I upgraded with a SCSI 2x CD Writer, another 8MB RAM, & eventually a 3DFX graphics card.
I've been building my PC's ever since (with the exclusion of my laptop).
If anything has come out of my interest in computers is that whilst I don't yet have enough knowledge to get myself certified in the field on computers (A+ or others), what I do know is usually enough to keep my family and their friends away from those $50 per hour (yes, I'm in the US now) computer repair shops.
I was in Britain when the disaster occured and watched it from a BBC news report. I don't know whether the reporter stated that they had died whilst still airborne, but it was generally recognized as such.
However, I was certain that they would have still been alive. The underside of all shuttles are designed to withstand the heat of re-entry, which should have been as hot or hotter than the heat of the explosion (http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=explosio n's definition of an explosion) which forced the shuttle away from the fuel tank and booster rockets.
But, I also believed that the cockpit should have survived the impact into the water, and the crew died whilst waiting (concious or not) for NASA to get over their shock and send a Search & Rescue crew out to them.
If one thing is to be learned from Challenger & Columbia, is that the crew quarters should be designed to separate in times of dire emergency, and be equipped to fall to Earth in the same manner as the crew quarters on a manned rocket mission
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Is it any wonder that iPhone sales are falling behind Android sales?
1) There is more than one phone using the Android OS compared to the iPhone's offering of two storage options (Reaches more pockets)
2) In the US, most Android phones are on networks other than AT&T (Not the most favored of cellphone networks in the US)
3) There is a new iPhone due out in the next few months (anyone who's in the know will be holding off until June 17th?)
I'm not saying that the iPhone is better than the Droid, but now might not be the right time to be judging it's popularity
I can't remember the last time I went out of my way to look up a movie trailer to see if I wanted to see the movie. It HAS happened, but not nearly on the same scale.
When you go to a movie the other movie demos are forced upon you. You rarely look up movie demos because you rarely need to, game demos are an at-will experience.
I don't go to the theaters that often, so If I want to see a trailer, it will be online more than during the wait for the main feature to appear.
OK Canada, you keep selling us cheap pharmaceuticals, We'll sell you cheap CDRs & iPods.
re the title: Does that mean that in order to keep my AIM name, it has to get sued? :p
I find it funny that the one organization in this world that stands up to Microsoft's monopolization of the computing world, will only support a format that they (EU) required Microsoft to retail their OS with optional support for. "Windows XP N" anyone?
a US debit card functions as a Credit card outside of the US & a UK debit card works perfectly as a credit outside of the United Kingdom.
I know, I use my Barclays Connect (Delta) card for many purchases online, & my wife has used her US bank's ATM card at UK sites.
P.S. I am living in the US.
I know that the artists usually make more money playing their music live than hawking it on recorded media, but those people who are responsible for the putting the music on the CD or into a downoadable form won't get any revenue from the live performances, you know, the engineers and such (screw the fat cats in their offices). If artists can get their music to sound how they imagine it, or tweaked to a form which the majority of their expected audience would want to listen to them, they wouldn't sell.
Most people who insult in jest tend to add a smiley to indicate the emotion that the message was intended to carry, as tone of voice doesn't relate that well with text ;-)
Not all /.ers are language or network nerds, some specialize elsewhere, so they wouldn't know about Python being an interpreted language.
I wish nerds would for once break away from the "Duh, everybody should know that!" attitude when faced with those with little or no experience of any subject.
I think that the Canadians might be offended by that remark, LOL, I am English living in the US, sorry about refering you as a Brit. A quick trip to Wikipedia & I stand corrected over N-acetyl-para-amino-phenol. Whilst the chemical name of Aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid) is more widely known, Paracetamol or Acetaminophen doesn't readily bandy it's true identity around, it was a while before I realised that they were the same. (It was a US news article concerning OD'ing on the drug which brought it to my attention).
Also, john, do you 'Hoover' your floors, or just Vacuum them?
So Apple may or may have not incorporated ideas in Leopard which might have originated on a Microsoft Platform, So Microsoft most probably have incorporated ideas in their operating systems which originated on Apple OSes.
What about the biggest technology copycat scandal of the last 100+ years, how many improvements to automotive engineering have been touted as revolutionary by one manufacturer had been previously instituted by lesser known manufacturer?
It is in every businesses interest to introduce features to their product which have proven popular by their competitors.
Anyone see the Mel Gibson movie?
I wonder if after the 1st long term test, the subject will begin to age rapidly.
T-Mobile does not own the network that it uses for wireless communications.
I'm not sure whose network it uses, but this scenario is very similar to one that my wife experienced a couple of months back. She was recieving text messages from a video rental store that she was late returning videos, but she / we don't have an account there. By chance, when she called the store to complain, the person who had been late returning walked in to the store. It turns out that he had recently purchased a Virgin Mobile cell phone (which leases bandwidth from Sprint / Nextel), and we have Sprint phones.
When she contacted Sprint customer service (and much to her surprise got a real American), he comfirmed that this is an issue, and credited our account for the services the Virgin Mobile customer subscribed to and some more for her inconvience.
Quote: Wikipedia
:)
One gold farming operation in Chongqing in central China with 23 gold farmers was reported to pay its employees the equivalent of about 75 U.S. dollars per month,
Wow! They more than Apple
I feel that morally it is right for the BPI to require that files made from hard copies to be restricted to be played in a limited number for devices, as there must be a way to prevent the "ripped" tracks from being played by the rest of the world if there are freely distributed by someone who doesn't get the meaning of "fair use". There also must be a way to prevent those tracks from being re-burned to CD's
Also having one program (or DRM system) to add the restriction would make tracking those who ignore fair use principles easier than having a governmental department having to wade through 1,000 and 1 media player algorhythms to find out who was the source of the ripped file.
Someone stores his CD collection on his hard drive, then sells the "hard copies" for £3 ($4.50 - $5) a piece. :-)
Didn't Sony do this with the PS2, Create some excuse to call their latest game / entertainment system a computer, to avoid taxation. The first versions of the PS2 was bundled with the programming language "Yabasic" making the unit programmable by the user, therefore a computer.
And how many millions did the taxpayer spend to come to this shocking conclusion?
Last time I checked, (2 mins ago), Avast! Home doesn't have a commandline interface, that function is provided by a separate program in the Professional edition.
Perhaps you were using the 60 day trial last time you set the schedule?
They hated selling iPods, they had to sell them to compete with the big boys (BB & CC), Apple never sent them enough, out of 1400+ Nano's on order, Apple only send them about 50 at a time. In fact the emphasis was more on the Toshiba GigaBeat range of MP3 players. In fact to anybody who knows what the want, the iPod isn't the best unit out there, in fact it is extremely restrictive in the purchased music category, whereas WM Plays for sure devices have a myriad of choices for sources of music stores.
Didn't AOL get some stick for doing this in the last century? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_Problem
If you are saying that the retailer makes money out of the iPod, then you are sorely mistaken. Up until Jan 2006, I worked for a retailer which sold iPods from the Shuffle thru to 60GB 5G, and the difference between what that company paid for the 30GB 5G & what it was allowed to sell it for (UMRP don't ya know) what $15, yes fifteen dollars.
After being introduced to computers, by a Commodore PET at my primary school, I bugged the heck out of my parents to get me a computer, but we were very poor but my Grand-dad chipped in with my parents to get me the ZX81. I woke up about 2am Chrstmas morning and found it in a sack on my bed, I was so excited, I stayed awake all night. I got a DKTronics Keyboard (real heavy duty keys), & the 16K ram pack. I also remember that a company also made a graphics pack which was supposed to display colour.
I learnt to use most of the system variables of the ZX81, and typed in programs from the magazine 'Computer & Video Games'.
I then progressed to the ZX Spectrum+ (for some reason, my mum wouldn't let me have the series A or B because of the rubber keys), again typing programs in from magazines, often saving up for weeks for games, even tho' they were only £6 (did I say I was poor?), even my dad got into the act, he loved typing in programs from magazines. I had the Kempston Joystick interface which outputted the joysticks actions thru' IN 31. I also remember getting my folks to play hell with WH Smiths after they wouldn't refund my money for a game which I had returned twice because it wouldn't load (only to find out later that I had knocked the tone switch on my tape deck )
I upgraded to the ZX Spectrum +2 for the 128K (WOW) of memory, the Yamaha 3-channel audio chip, Sinclair Interface 2 joystick ports and the built in tape deck, but returned that to DIXONS (UK store akin to Circuit City) after the play key bust close to the end of the 1 year warranty that is standard in the UK, and took store credit (after a 2 month delay in getting it repaired) towards an Amstrad CPC464 (not sure if it was released in the US) and taught myself how to create a new screen mode which gave me 40 characters per line with 4 colours on screen (standard 40 char/line was monochrome with a choice of background and foreground colours).
I then progressed to the Atari STFM 520K, which I sent away to be upgraded to 1MB, which I learnt to program using GFA Basic. I even created a CD/Vinyl/ Cassette tape database for a friend. I tried to learn C but I found my self a fish out of water there and eventually gave up.
I got a Amiga 600 shortly before software started to dry up for it, and returned to my Atari as I had a vast software library for it.
I got my 1st PC in 1996 ,(Pentium MMX 166 MHz, 8 MB RAM) which I upgraded with a SCSI 2x CD Writer, another 8MB RAM, & eventually a 3DFX graphics card.
I've been building my PC's ever since (with the exclusion of my laptop).
If anything has come out of my interest in computers is that whilst I don't yet have enough knowledge to get myself certified in the field on computers (A+ or others), what I do know is usually enough to keep my family and their friends away from those $50 per hour (yes, I'm in the US now) computer repair shops.
However, I was certain that they would have still been alive. The underside of all shuttles are designed to withstand the heat of re-entry, which should have been as hot or hotter than the heat of the explosion (http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=explosio n's definition of an explosion) which forced the shuttle away from the fuel tank and booster rockets.
But, I also believed that the cockpit should have survived the impact into the water, and the crew died whilst waiting (concious or not) for NASA to get over their shock and send a Search & Rescue crew out to them.
If one thing is to be learned from Challenger & Columbia, is that the crew quarters should be designed to separate in times of dire emergency, and be equipped to fall to Earth in the same manner as the crew quarters on a manned rocket mission