That's irrelevant. If they can drive 3000km in one 33hr trip (spread over 4 days), there is plenty of time for charging the batteries, therefore, it's reasonable to assume that you'll always start with nearly full batteries.
Clearly everyone missed the sarcasm of my initial response, so I'll be blunt.
"jigga" is a stupid pronunciation so I refuse to acknowledge it as valid. I don't need any evidence, it's an opinion and nothing more.
However, if you want evidence, according to the wikipedia link, "According to the American writer Kevin Self, a German committee member of the International Electrotechnical Commission proposed giga as a prefix for 109 in the 1920s, drawing on a verse by the humorous poet Christian Morgenstern that appeared in the third (1908) edition of Galgenlieder (Gallows Songs). This suggests that a hard German [] was originally intended as the pronunciation."
Someone already corrected my about french, spanish, and italian with the following vowel. I had forgotten about it, but I did know it.
"jigga" is still not an acceptable pronunciation, unless you're using it for humorous effect. I don't care what source you cite, it's not an acceptable pronunciation, and never will be.:)
Good point. Obviously, I overlooked that. Thanks for the correction/reminder.
Still, "jigga" as pronounced in "Back to the Future" is not an accepted pronunciation, unless you're using it for humorous effect. In those languages, the first g would be soft, and the second hard, but that's not the same as starting with an english "j"
And that does not counter my (rather tongue in cheek) statement that "jigga" is not an accepted pronunciation or that english is the primary (possibly the only) language that might pronounce the two g's differently.
"jigga" is an accepted pronunctiation of the "giga" prefix.
No. No, it's not. Only in english (possibly in a few other languages) could you possibly pronounce the two g's differently, and even then it's relatively uncommon and usually derives from combining roots from two different original languages, or from a deliberate construction for the purpose of creating distinctness.
Perhaps if you used a little common sense, you would realize that your argument is useless.
This suit is about the physical similarities of the iPad and the Galaxy Tab 10, in essence, about the looks of the design. That Samsung's lawyers couldn't quickly and reliably determine which was which at 10 ft (3m), show one of two things: Either the Galaxy Tab does look so much like an iPad as to be confusing, or Samsung's lawyers are guilty of gross negligence. This case is about the looks of the two products, and if their lawyers didn't compare the two enough to be able to distinguish the differences between them, then they were negligent. If they did compare them and still couldn't tell the difference at 10ft, then Apple has a valid case.
Perhaps more important than using GPS for clock synchronization is using GPS to calculate the distance between the two points. Since the two earth stations are co-moving objects at nearly identical relativistic velocities (the motion of the milky way through space, and the motion of the solar system around the milky way dwarf any differences in velocity due to the rotation of the earth and latitude or altitude of the two locations), and the motion of the GPS satellite is also dwarfed by those factors, so time synchronization should not be sufficient to explain the measurements. However, the motion of the earth through space would effect any distance calculations based upon GPS time synchronization, and that is sufficient to explain the discrepancy in the measurements.
Need a parody ad, with all the MS store employees pressed up against the inside window of their store, looking out across the hallway to the packed Apple store.
Never had an issue with Compaq (pre-merger), but I've never liked HP computers, and wouldn't touch a Packard Bell. After the HP/CPQ merger, I switched to Dell or clones I spec'd for PCs. I mostly use a Mac, but I make my living developing for and supporting PCs, so I've bought (or recommended purchase of) hundreds, installed and supported thousands of PCs from at least a dozen manufacturers, plus brand-x clones. So, I agree with the "pack" part of your rule, can't agree with the "paq" part.
Uh, no. The iPhone 4S has two Cellular antenna's, the iPhone 4 (and most other phones with Wi-Fi) had a cellular antenna and a Wi-Fi antenna. The 4S uses diversity reception and transmission for cellular communication. You might want to read what he wrote and get your fact straight before bashing him.
They'll learn as much about my ideas by reading my blog of googling my name as they will digging through my social media posts. That's a lot easier and would cost a lot less.
It's a percentage because they have some liability for every transaction, just like credit/debit cards do. Their transaction costs are fixed, but their financial liability isn't. They also lose money on small transactions.
See the impact of current generation LTE chipsets on battery life. Combined with the very low deployment of LTE and the fact that actual LTE speeds are only marginally better than HSPA+, including LTE would have been a huge mistake. The phone would have to be larger to make room for the LTE chipset, larger and heavier to allow room for a larger battery, more expensive for both of those reasons, and being larger, would have required new case designs, dock designs, etc. All for little or no difference in download speed for a very small percentage of customers. That would be bad engineering and bad marketing. Next year, the situation may be different, but LTE is not ready for mass market mobile devices this year.
A solar-powered passenger airliner with a 1000-seat capacity and 300 mph speed
Not possible, with any materials. Not enough solar radiation would hit the surface of even a huge 1000 seat plane to get it airborne, much less reach 300mph, even if we could capture and convert 100% of the energy in that solar radiation (which itself would violate thermodynamics). The Solar Impulse holds most of the current records for manned solar powered flight, and it hasn't broken 100mph. It has hit 78mph (average only 25mph), and it'a 1 person plane with a 210ft wingspan.
So, how about getting him interested in working on something that's physically and thermodynamically plausible instead.
Here, let me answer for you. You couldn't in WinCE 3.0, or 4.0, nor in Windows Mobile 5.0, or 6.0.
Windows Mobile didn't support copy & paste via a touchscreen until v6.1, which was announced on April 1, 2008, and first appeared on phones in June 2008. Nowhere near your date of 2000
So, I stand corrected, MS did implement it on a touchscreen before Apple. One year before. WinMo 6.1 came out right before iOS 2 shipped with the iPhone 2. iOS 3 didn't ship until June 2009 with cut/copy/paste.
They also missed something key about the cell phone market (in the US anyway). You don't need a major upgrade every year because most of last year's buyers are in the middle of a 2 year contract. The majority of buyers for this year's model are people with a 2+ year old model (Apple's or a competitor's). The 4S doesn't have to be a big upgrade over the 4 because iPhone 4 buyers aren't the big market for the 4S, it's iPhone 2/3G/3GS and owners of non-Apple phones that will buy most of the 4S phones.
Still, the 4S is a big upgrade over the 4. Single core A4 to dual core A5, double the RAM, faster GPU, better battery life, faster HSPA+ upload/download speeds, CDMA + GSM worldwide compatibility, and an improved camera (both sensor and optics). Not exactly a minor upgrade, despite what the pundits and critics claim.
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That's irrelevant. If they can drive 3000km in one 33hr trip (spread over 4 days), there is plenty of time for charging the batteries, therefore, it's reasonable to assume that you'll always start with nearly full batteries.
Touche'
Clearly everyone missed the sarcasm of my initial response, so I'll be blunt.
"jigga" is a stupid pronunciation so I refuse to acknowledge it as valid. I don't need any evidence, it's an opinion and nothing more.
However, if you want evidence, according to the wikipedia link, "According to the American writer Kevin Self, a German committee member of the International Electrotechnical Commission proposed giga as a prefix for 109 in the 1920s, drawing on a verse by the humorous poet Christian Morgenstern that appeared in the third (1908) edition of Galgenlieder (Gallows Songs). This suggests that a hard German [] was originally intended as the pronunciation."
No, I'm going the "jigga" is a stupid pronunciation route, so I refuse to acknowledge it as valid.
Someone already corrected my about french, spanish, and italian with the following vowel. I had forgotten about it, but I did know it.
"jigga" is still not an acceptable pronunciation, unless you're using it for humorous effect. I don't care what source you cite, it's not an acceptable pronunciation, and never will be. :)
Uh, no. If their phones notify them when they receive a message, there is no need to constantly check even during an outage.
Good point. Obviously, I overlooked that. Thanks for the correction/reminder.
Still, "jigga" as pronounced in "Back to the Future" is not an accepted pronunciation, unless you're using it for humorous effect. In those languages, the first g would be soft, and the second hard, but that's not the same as starting with an english "j"
And that does not counter my (rather tongue in cheek) statement that "jigga" is not an accepted pronunciation or that english is the primary (possibly the only) language that might pronounce the two g's differently.
And how to you pronounce that root in greek?
Which would not result in "jigga", but in two soft g's.
"jigga" is an accepted pronunctiation of the "giga" prefix.
No. No, it's not. Only in english (possibly in a few other languages) could you possibly pronounce the two g's differently, and even then it's relatively uncommon and usually derives from combining roots from two different original languages, or from a deliberate construction for the purpose of creating distinctness.
Perhaps if you used a little common sense, you would realize that your argument is useless.
This suit is about the physical similarities of the iPad and the Galaxy Tab 10, in essence, about the looks of the design. That Samsung's lawyers couldn't quickly and reliably determine which was which at 10 ft (3m), show one of two things: Either the Galaxy Tab does look so much like an iPad as to be confusing, or Samsung's lawyers are guilty of gross negligence. This case is about the looks of the two products, and if their lawyers didn't compare the two enough to be able to distinguish the differences between them, then they were negligent. If they did compare them and still couldn't tell the difference at 10ft, then Apple has a valid case.
Perhaps more important than using GPS for clock synchronization is using GPS to calculate the distance between the two points. Since the two earth stations are co-moving objects at nearly identical relativistic velocities (the motion of the milky way through space, and the motion of the solar system around the milky way dwarf any differences in velocity due to the rotation of the earth and latitude or altitude of the two locations), and the motion of the GPS satellite is also dwarfed by those factors, so time synchronization should not be sufficient to explain the measurements. However, the motion of the earth through space would effect any distance calculations based upon GPS time synchronization, and that is sufficient to explain the discrepancy in the measurements.
Need a parody ad, with all the MS store employees pressed up against the inside window of their store, looking out across the hallway to the packed Apple store.
Never had an issue with Compaq (pre-merger), but I've never liked HP computers, and wouldn't touch a Packard Bell. After the HP/CPQ merger, I switched to Dell or clones I spec'd for PCs. I mostly use a Mac, but I make my living developing for and supporting PCs, so I've bought (or recommended purchase of) hundreds, installed and supported thousands of PCs from at least a dozen manufacturers, plus brand-x clones. So, I agree with the "pack" part of your rule, can't agree with the "paq" part.
Uh, no. The iPhone 4S has two Cellular antenna's, the iPhone 4 (and most other phones with Wi-Fi) had a cellular antenna and a Wi-Fi antenna. The 4S uses diversity reception and transmission for cellular communication. You might want to read what he wrote and get your fact straight before bashing him.
They'll learn as much about my ideas by reading my blog of googling my name as they will digging through my social media posts. That's a lot easier and would cost a lot less.
It's a percentage because they have some liability for every transaction, just like credit/debit cards do. Their transaction costs are fixed, but their financial liability isn't. They also lose money on small transactions.
See the impact of current generation LTE chipsets on battery life. Combined with the very low deployment of LTE and the fact that actual LTE speeds are only marginally better than HSPA+, including LTE would have been a huge mistake. The phone would have to be larger to make room for the LTE chipset, larger and heavier to allow room for a larger battery, more expensive for both of those reasons, and being larger, would have required new case designs, dock designs, etc. All for little or no difference in download speed for a very small percentage of customers. That would be bad engineering and bad marketing. Next year, the situation may be different, but LTE is not ready for mass market mobile devices this year.
A solar-powered passenger airliner with a 1000-seat capacity and 300 mph speed
Not possible, with any materials. Not enough solar radiation would hit the surface of even a huge 1000 seat plane to get it airborne, much less reach 300mph, even if we could capture and convert 100% of the energy in that solar radiation (which itself would violate thermodynamics). The Solar Impulse holds most of the current records for manned solar powered flight, and it hasn't broken 100mph. It has hit 78mph (average only 25mph), and it'a 1 person plane with a 210ft wingspan.
So, how about getting him interested in working on something that's physically and thermodynamically plausible instead.
Here, let me answer for you. You couldn't in WinCE 3.0, or 4.0, nor in Windows Mobile 5.0, or 6.0.
Windows Mobile didn't support copy & paste via a touchscreen until v6.1, which was announced on April 1, 2008, and first appeared on phones in June 2008. Nowhere near your date of 2000
So, I stand corrected, MS did implement it on a touchscreen before Apple. One year before. WinMo 6.1 came out right before iOS 2 shipped with the iPhone 2. iOS 3 didn't ship until June 2009 with cut/copy/paste.
Nevermind, I found the answer. Yes, once you upgraded to 6.1.
And how exactly did you cut and paste on it? Using the buttons, or using only the touch screen?
exactly who implemented copy and paste on a touch screen before Apple...
And could you cut and paste using only the touch screen on WinCE?
They also missed something key about the cell phone market (in the US anyway). You don't need a major upgrade every year because most of last year's buyers are in the middle of a 2 year contract. The majority of buyers for this year's model are people with a 2+ year old model (Apple's or a competitor's). The 4S doesn't have to be a big upgrade over the 4 because iPhone 4 buyers aren't the big market for the 4S, it's iPhone 2/3G/3GS and owners of non-Apple phones that will buy most of the 4S phones.
Still, the 4S is a big upgrade over the 4. Single core A4 to dual core A5, double the RAM, faster GPU, better battery life, faster HSPA+ upload/download speeds, CDMA + GSM worldwide compatibility, and an improved camera (both sensor and optics). Not exactly a minor upgrade, despite what the pundits and critics claim.