The iPhone had the benefit of AT&T's subsidized purchase plan. Were the iPad to be selling at the $199 that people were paying out of pocket, I'm sure that people would be buying them at a much brisker pace.
Probably because he doesn't have a laptop. I personally have a netbook and a desktop. I take my netbook with me because trying to lug around a hundred pounds worth of computer and two monitors just isn't realistic. But, my netbook fulfills the subset of functions that my desktop does in a more portable fashion. The iPad really wouldn't cut it for me. While I'm sure it would be great, it's just not a suitable replacement for a laptop, let alone a netbook.
Unless you're restricting your tasks to books, web and browsing, but not really writing, email.
Umm, Iraq wasn't involved in 9/11 nor was there any credible evidence that Saddam was able to attack us in the US. Perhaps you might explain to the rest of us how that makes us safer. And while you're at it, you might consider explaining how the mission in Afghanistan is protecting us more than the alternative of cruise missiles to training camps would.
What we have done is dedicated a huge amount of resources to nebulous goals in parts of the world of little strategic value, without defining the victory conditions or making credible back up plans for the instance where we need to engage in combat elsewhere in the world. There may be something I'm missing here, but Sun Tzu was right on when he indicated that fighting wars far away for prolonged periods is a serious indicator of failure.
This is largely the same problem we had in Vietnam and Korea, where there was a secondary war going on, which we weren't particularly involved in, which kept our troops in the crossfire. Such wars rarely if ever go well, and the lack of interest in the higher levels of the DoD and Federal government to commit resources we don't have to the mission at hand does not indicate that we're likely to make a meaningful positive difference.
That's shocking, who wouldn't like to have virtual strip searches, specious claims that they're on some sort of mythical no fly list or be hassled because they look vaguely middle eastern?
We've lost sight of the fact that the money we're flushing down the toilet on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and TSA bullshit could be much better spent on other things. Such as crime prevention programs, education and making various corporations live up to necessary safety standards. More people have died in the last 9 years in non-terrorist plane crashes than in terrorist cause plane crashes. While that doesn't suggest that we can rest on our laurels, what it does suggest is that perhaps the money would be better spent in other ways. Fixing real problems rather than pushing them elsewhere. Especially efforts that blatantly violate the US constitution.
Possible side effects? It's already been established for quite some times that these genes can and do spread beyond just the plants they're modifying. The question isn't whether there'll be side effects, the question is what will the side effects be and what's the damage going to be.
Theoretically it could be helpful, but doubtful. Usually side effects end up causing trouble.
That they suggest that Cisco will back the equipment when in reality nobody will. And in practice it's pretty much never really identical. Just looks like it and acts like it in the short term. Before the typically shoddy components break or destabilize and you're left with a mess and no warranty or way of getting your money back.
As far as I know they generally don't do a proper search at present. At least not of patents. Because doing so runs the risk of making it a willful infringement even if at the time it didn't appear that the item in question infringes.
There's also the problem of Nintendo expecting people to buy new copies of games they've already purchased because there's a new console out that doesn't support the old copies. When they've chosen to add additional content to the older games it hasn't been so bad, but expecting people to shell out for a new copy of content they already own is just disgusting.
Oddly enough, in this case the Politician would be on the right side. Wall street firms make most of their money by swindling. Excessive fees, buying/selling with knowledge of the future price, trading off market and sweet heart deals are rampant. It is oddly ironic that you still get the same idiots that decry anti-trust actions as being jealous of success when the success itself is based upon gaming the system in ways that aren't available to the general public and are indeed grossly anti-competitive.
It works until you tire of the game and want to sell it or somebody happens to break into your account and they disable it without compensation. Steam's just as bad as the rest of them, at least with other schemes you're just out one game if things go wrong, with steam you could very well be out all your games.
Eh, and technically anything that's not obscured by a tree, cloud or something else can be seen from space. The US' spy satellites can see things down to the size of about a grapefruit, and probably smaller now, so that would make most beaver dams visible from space with current technology.
Conceivably. But, Netflix DVD envelopes don't comply with postal regulations. As a result they don't go through the same machines because they don't fit. The USPS has to hand process them at points because of that.
I think the bigger issue for Gamefly is why it takes the USPS a full week to ship things from southern California or Texas to Washington. I'd almost certainly still be a subscriber if it didn't take them so long to ship things here. Surprisingly it seemed to take a lot less time shipping it back.
Eh, the point is that if you're only truncating it once at the end, you're probably fine. Very few applications really need that level of precision. However, the truncation or rounding that can happen in the middle is what you're really worried about.
Admittedly you don't always have the option of leaving the truncation to the end, such as doing that CS assignment about calculating trig functions out to a large number of digits.
They aren't. Apple requires that you not sell the books for less anywhere else. Which means that you're effectively having to decide as to whether to change your price or pull out completely from Apple's store. It's not just an Apple insists that you charge more at their store.
You're making some questionable assumptions. Of course ARM is barely at 1ghz and doesn't have the various performance enhancements that the x86 processor family does, they've been focused on embedded devices and now some netbooks. ARM also lacks the legacy kludge that the x86 chips have as well. At some point there's going to have to be some revision of the processor to get rid of the stuff that hasn't been useful in 20 years.
But more than that, if there is an actual market for ARM based servers, all the things people've cited in other posts here can be remedied. And remedied more quickly than they were for the x86 given the understanding that hardware engineers have now about the challenges of doing it.
I'd be shocked if this doesn't come through with both Google and MS expressing some interest in it.
You mean, just like they took away your freedom to speed and use misconfigured scales to cheat customers? Prior to the government saying that's illegal people were free to do that as well. At some point there is a valid reason for the government getting involved. In this case it's silly and unlikely to have a meaningful impact on anything.
There isn't any. The more accurate statement is 'software should be free' but if 'you want me to work on it consistently for larger periods of time you'll have to pay me.'
It's not hard for people to find a half hour here and there to work on a project, but it becomes really difficult to find hours every week to do so without being paid. There are exceptions, but not many, and certainly not enough to support the ecosystem.
So, what do you call the thing I'm on during the 98% of the time that I'm not on any of those sites? I spend maybe a half hour there a week, if not less. I don't even have a Facebook account for reasons related to privacy.
From where I stand, there's a huge internet that's formed outside those 3 sites.
No, it doesn't. And I wish that people would quit claiming that it does. The minimum wage laws have little if any effect on the number of jobs or the standard of living.
In the US, the minimum wage is set so incredibly low that it's more or less below the cost of living in many areas. Around here, I'm making nearly $13 an hour and I have a hard time finding a place to live that doesn't eat up half my take home. Here in WA, we've got the highest minimum wage in the nation, and it's still below the cost of living in parts of the state.
What does have an effect on jobs though are things like work place safety standards and currency manipulation.
Because Aero is wasteful and decadent, a lot of people prefer not to waste the resources on it. I know that's why my Windows XP computer is still running without any of the effects.
Perhaps you could enlighten me as to where you can buy a non-milestone Droid that's completely unlocked. Because as far as I know you can't do it. Also given the lack of a sim card you're stuck with Verizon service. Something that the Nexus one doesn't do to you. You might have to give up 3g to switch between AT&T and T-Mobile for instance, but the phone still works if with slower data transfer.
As for 802.11n, the Nexus one has the chip, in fact you can enable it if you install a firmware with the driver. Google just hasn't released the driver yet.
Also, I'm not sure what you're implying about Android 2.1, the Nexus one already has that.
In general you don't recoup the price, the carriers usually make out like bandits on the deal. Unless you haven't got the cash to pay up front, you shouldn't get the subsidized phone. At very least you have the ability to walk away from the carrier at any point. You might be stuck with edge instead of 3g for the data, but you can take your money elsewhere.
Actually, these days, AT&T requires a data plan for all smart phones on their network. In fact if you don't get one, even without a contract, they'll automatically add on to your package. You might be able to get data completely turned off, but typically you do have to pay for the plan like it or not.
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The iPhone had the benefit of AT&T's subsidized purchase plan. Were the iPad to be selling at the $199 that people were paying out of pocket, I'm sure that people would be buying them at a much brisker pace.
Probably because he doesn't have a laptop. I personally have a netbook and a desktop. I take my netbook with me because trying to lug around a hundred pounds worth of computer and two monitors just isn't realistic. But, my netbook fulfills the subset of functions that my desktop does in a more portable fashion. The iPad really wouldn't cut it for me. While I'm sure it would be great, it's just not a suitable replacement for a laptop, let alone a netbook.
Unless you're restricting your tasks to books, web and browsing, but not really writing, email.
Umm, Iraq wasn't involved in 9/11 nor was there any credible evidence that Saddam was able to attack us in the US. Perhaps you might explain to the rest of us how that makes us safer. And while you're at it, you might consider explaining how the mission in Afghanistan is protecting us more than the alternative of cruise missiles to training camps would.
What we have done is dedicated a huge amount of resources to nebulous goals in parts of the world of little strategic value, without defining the victory conditions or making credible back up plans for the instance where we need to engage in combat elsewhere in the world. There may be something I'm missing here, but Sun Tzu was right on when he indicated that fighting wars far away for prolonged periods is a serious indicator of failure.
This is largely the same problem we had in Vietnam and Korea, where there was a secondary war going on, which we weren't particularly involved in, which kept our troops in the crossfire. Such wars rarely if ever go well, and the lack of interest in the higher levels of the DoD and Federal government to commit resources we don't have to the mission at hand does not indicate that we're likely to make a meaningful positive difference.
That's shocking, who wouldn't like to have virtual strip searches, specious claims that they're on some sort of mythical no fly list or be hassled because they look vaguely middle eastern?
We've lost sight of the fact that the money we're flushing down the toilet on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and TSA bullshit could be much better spent on other things. Such as crime prevention programs, education and making various corporations live up to necessary safety standards. More people have died in the last 9 years in non-terrorist plane crashes than in terrorist cause plane crashes. While that doesn't suggest that we can rest on our laurels, what it does suggest is that perhaps the money would be better spent in other ways. Fixing real problems rather than pushing them elsewhere. Especially efforts that blatantly violate the US constitution.
Possible side effects? It's already been established for quite some times that these genes can and do spread beyond just the plants they're modifying. The question isn't whether there'll be side effects, the question is what will the side effects be and what's the damage going to be.
Theoretically it could be helpful, but doubtful. Usually side effects end up causing trouble.
That they suggest that Cisco will back the equipment when in reality nobody will. And in practice it's pretty much never really identical. Just looks like it and acts like it in the short term. Before the typically shoddy components break or destabilize and you're left with a mess and no warranty or way of getting your money back.
As far as I know they generally don't do a proper search at present. At least not of patents. Because doing so runs the risk of making it a willful infringement even if at the time it didn't appear that the item in question infringes.
There's also the problem of Nintendo expecting people to buy new copies of games they've already purchased because there's a new console out that doesn't support the old copies. When they've chosen to add additional content to the older games it hasn't been so bad, but expecting people to shell out for a new copy of content they already own is just disgusting.
Oddly enough, in this case the Politician would be on the right side. Wall street firms make most of their money by swindling. Excessive fees, buying/selling with knowledge of the future price, trading off market and sweet heart deals are rampant. It is oddly ironic that you still get the same idiots that decry anti-trust actions as being jealous of success when the success itself is based upon gaming the system in ways that aren't available to the general public and are indeed grossly anti-competitive.
It works until you tire of the game and want to sell it or somebody happens to break into your account and they disable it without compensation. Steam's just as bad as the rest of them, at least with other schemes you're just out one game if things go wrong, with steam you could very well be out all your games.
I thought they got popular because they're cheap and easily portable.
You mean as opposed to know where the conservatives in media just make stuff up and get to do so with impunity?
Eh, and technically anything that's not obscured by a tree, cloud or something else can be seen from space. The US' spy satellites can see things down to the size of about a grapefruit, and probably smaller now, so that would make most beaver dams visible from space with current technology.
Conceivably. But, Netflix DVD envelopes don't comply with postal regulations. As a result they don't go through the same machines because they don't fit. The USPS has to hand process them at points because of that.
I think the bigger issue for Gamefly is why it takes the USPS a full week to ship things from southern California or Texas to Washington. I'd almost certainly still be a subscriber if it didn't take them so long to ship things here. Surprisingly it seemed to take a lot less time shipping it back.
Eh, the point is that if you're only truncating it once at the end, you're probably fine. Very few applications really need that level of precision. However, the truncation or rounding that can happen in the middle is what you're really worried about.
Admittedly you don't always have the option of leaving the truncation to the end, such as doing that CS assignment about calculating trig functions out to a large number of digits.
They aren't. Apple requires that you not sell the books for less anywhere else. Which means that you're effectively having to decide as to whether to change your price or pull out completely from Apple's store. It's not just an Apple insists that you charge more at their store.
You're making some questionable assumptions. Of course ARM is barely at 1ghz and doesn't have the various performance enhancements that the x86 processor family does, they've been focused on embedded devices and now some netbooks. ARM also lacks the legacy kludge that the x86 chips have as well. At some point there's going to have to be some revision of the processor to get rid of the stuff that hasn't been useful in 20 years.
But more than that, if there is an actual market for ARM based servers, all the things people've cited in other posts here can be remedied. And remedied more quickly than they were for the x86 given the understanding that hardware engineers have now about the challenges of doing it.
I'd be shocked if this doesn't come through with both Google and MS expressing some interest in it.
You mean, just like they took away your freedom to speed and use misconfigured scales to cheat customers? Prior to the government saying that's illegal people were free to do that as well. At some point there is a valid reason for the government getting involved. In this case it's silly and unlikely to have a meaningful impact on anything.
There isn't any. The more accurate statement is 'software should be free' but if 'you want me to work on it consistently for larger periods of time you'll have to pay me.'
It's not hard for people to find a half hour here and there to work on a project, but it becomes really difficult to find hours every week to do so without being paid. There are exceptions, but not many, and certainly not enough to support the ecosystem.
So, what do you call the thing I'm on during the 98% of the time that I'm not on any of those sites? I spend maybe a half hour there a week, if not less. I don't even have a Facebook account for reasons related to privacy.
From where I stand, there's a huge internet that's formed outside those 3 sites.
No, it doesn't. And I wish that people would quit claiming that it does. The minimum wage laws have little if any effect on the number of jobs or the standard of living.
In the US, the minimum wage is set so incredibly low that it's more or less below the cost of living in many areas. Around here, I'm making nearly $13 an hour and I have a hard time finding a place to live that doesn't eat up half my take home. Here in WA, we've got the highest minimum wage in the nation, and it's still below the cost of living in parts of the state.
What does have an effect on jobs though are things like work place safety standards and currency manipulation.
Because Aero is wasteful and decadent, a lot of people prefer not to waste the resources on it. I know that's why my Windows XP computer is still running without any of the effects.
Perhaps you could enlighten me as to where you can buy a non-milestone Droid that's completely unlocked. Because as far as I know you can't do it. Also given the lack of a sim card you're stuck with Verizon service. Something that the Nexus one doesn't do to you. You might have to give up 3g to switch between AT&T and T-Mobile for instance, but the phone still works if with slower data transfer.
As for 802.11n, the Nexus one has the chip, in fact you can enable it if you install a firmware with the driver. Google just hasn't released the driver yet.
Also, I'm not sure what you're implying about Android 2.1, the Nexus one already has that.
In general you don't recoup the price, the carriers usually make out like bandits on the deal. Unless you haven't got the cash to pay up front, you shouldn't get the subsidized phone. At very least you have the ability to walk away from the carrier at any point. You might be stuck with edge instead of 3g for the data, but you can take your money elsewhere.
Actually, these days, AT&T requires a data plan for all smart phones on their network. In fact if you don't get one, even without a contract, they'll automatically add on to your package. You might be able to get data completely turned off, but typically you do have to pay for the plan like it or not.