And if you try to use the stamp to pay a medical bill it will come back ""returned to sender." Letters to your guru or the guy who runs the juice bar will go through. And obviously the stamps expire after six months.
You're confusing 'the public' with a cult-like following of people who love waiting in line at the Apple store for each new version. It's like a social reunion for them. All their friends are in the line with them, etc.
The way I read it is that Apple is scrambling to find a reason for anybody to want an iWatch. So they're looking at medical applications as a possible reason people would buy one.
The problem is, 'killer apps' aren't usually designed in by hardware vendors. They happen more serendipitously. Maybe Apple will get luck. But this venture looks like an act of grasping for something, anything, to get a market for some next-gen product.
The first computer I ever programmed on, in High School, was a Hewlett Packard minicomputer. We never got within miles of it, of course, all we could touch were the ASR-33 teletypes we dialed into it with.
Later on, they went into the 'computing hardware' business small-time, with PCs.
Thank goodness the Instruments division got away from HP before the company went to total shit.
I sort of ignore Flash. It's nice that it's there on my Galaxy Tab and my cellphone, for the occasional times when needed for a website, but it's easy to ignore for the most part.
There are still a lot of shitty little web games that use Flash, but mostly that stuff is being replaced now with game apps on tablets.
Apple's designs are sort of like the Pentium Pro processor. It was hellaciously overpriced by Intel, so they said 'what the hell' and put about $60 worth of gold (at today's prices) into the case, for no real reason.
PPro processors are high grade gold ore today. Old Apple mobile stuff won't be worth anything when a decade old, of course. It could be crushed and used as pavement filler, I suppose.
I could definitely see Apple selling dashboards for cars. That would be about it, though.
And the dashboards would kinda suck, and only be available for medium-expensive cars (not really expensive cars, nor the affordable cars made 'for the rest of us.')
If you had to place Apple in an 'automotive' brand bracket, they're about Buick class.
Apple can't even design a robust compartment for a removable battery in small devices. They skirt around it with the iDevices by not having a removable battery; the battery compartment for the Newton was an absolute disaster. Case design for battery compartments is really challenging. When I worked for a medical device company and our main product used a generic 9V 'transistor' battery, battery contact issues were one of the main return issues.
I keep up with the Tesla news very closely, and that guy is on a mission, and its primary goal is not money. He REALLY wants to rid the world of CO2 emissions as much as possible, and he'll do anything to see that goal is met.
So here in Indiana, if I owned a Tesla I would somehow be prevented from charging my Tesla with coal-derived electricity? There isn't much non-coal electricity around here, sadly.
You can count on the medical device manufacturers to insure that remains the case. There is a buddy-buddy relationship between the premier Medical Device manufacturers to keep the cost of entry into the market high enough to keep out competition. Small start-ups definitely need not apply.
If 'like with like' means a tablet, then no. There is no non-Apple tablet at the store I visited yesterday that was more than half the median price of the iPads also in that store. And there was a good selection of non-Apple tablets.
Big pharma and the big medical device makers conspire to keep the regulatory overhead high. There is a buddy-buddy relationship between the companies and the FDA. They love being the only ones rich enough to innovate
It's the way that Android doesn't make me feel like I belong to a Scientologist-level cult. I tried iOS for quite awhile. An iPod Touch used to be the best handheld wifi connectivity device. Now you can buy any mid-level Android cellphone and use it like a quasi-iPod Touch. You can buy a Virgin Mobile smartphone for $40 these days, slot in a 32GB SD card and have a heck of a device, without ever paying for any celltime with Virgin Mobile. It's the iPod Touch killer. Best of all: no iTunes.
Also, I find that it's pretty easy with an Android phone to go into the Application Manager and disable the most onerous Google bits. I turn off Google Plus, Gmail, the Play Store video/audio/ebooks clients, Google's Chat and Wallet, etc. The functionality to disable these binary chunks is right in the configuration settings. You can't recover the storage space they consume, but you can clear out any updates and data files, and shut off lots of the functionality that communicates back to the Googleplex.
Classifying somebody as a 'troll' is a way of dismissing them without taking anything they say seriously. It's a safe way to ignore people who have an opinion that it would be dangerous to think about.
Historically, in the USSR, political dissidents were treated as insane people. Many people were 'committed' and put in sanitariums or gulags because they were opponents of the Communists. It isn't much different, except for degree, from how people are branded 'trolls' online.
Yes, there are actual 'trolls' out there. For instance, every comment thread on most political websites has a few people posting extreme views just to discredit the website, i.e. people posting as racist/nazis. Said people probably then head back to their 'progressive' forums feeling satisfied that they've done some 'good work' for the cause.
If you only walk on your right knuckle, you just spin in place. Same as with the left knuckle, of course, for anybody who wants to read too much into it.
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We were all hoping for a more proactive solution.
We can hope for an Ellison stamp soon. It's too late for the 2009 Obama Half Dollar, though.
And if you try to use the stamp to pay a medical bill it will come back ""returned to sender." Letters to your guru or the guy who runs the juice bar will go through. And obviously the stamps expire after six months.
Also, no lawyers get anything. So it's an outrage.
You're confusing 'the public' with a cult-like following of people who love waiting in line at the Apple store for each new version. It's like a social reunion for them. All their friends are in the line with them, etc.
The way I read it is that Apple is scrambling to find a reason for anybody to want an iWatch. So they're looking at medical applications as a possible reason people would buy one.
The problem is, 'killer apps' aren't usually designed in by hardware vendors. They happen more serendipitously. Maybe Apple will get luck. But this venture looks like an act of grasping for something, anything, to get a market for some next-gen product.
The first computer I ever programmed on, in High School, was a Hewlett Packard minicomputer. We never got within miles of it, of course, all we could touch were the ASR-33 teletypes we dialed into it with.
Later on, they went into the 'computing hardware' business small-time, with PCs.
Thank goodness the Instruments division got away from HP before the company went to total shit.
Also: Steve Jobs' vision? Medical devices? Wouldn't he just say eat lots of fruit and meditate?
I sort of ignore Flash. It's nice that it's there on my Galaxy Tab and my cellphone, for the occasional times when needed for a website, but it's easy to ignore for the most part.
There are still a lot of shitty little web games that use Flash, but mostly that stuff is being replaced now with game apps on tablets.
Apple's designs are sort of like the Pentium Pro processor. It was hellaciously overpriced by Intel, so they said 'what the hell' and put about $60 worth of gold (at today's prices) into the case, for no real reason.
PPro processors are high grade gold ore today. Old Apple mobile stuff won't be worth anything when a decade old, of course. It could be crushed and used as pavement filler, I suppose.
I could definitely see Apple selling dashboards for cars. That would be about it, though.
And the dashboards would kinda suck, and only be available for medium-expensive cars (not really expensive cars, nor the affordable cars made 'for the rest of us.')
If you had to place Apple in an 'automotive' brand bracket, they're about Buick class.
And Android completely opened and available to the Open Source community.
Apple can't even design a robust compartment for a removable battery in small devices. They skirt around it with the iDevices by not having a removable battery; the battery compartment for the Newton was an absolute disaster. Case design for battery compartments is really challenging. When I worked for a medical device company and our main product used a generic 9V 'transistor' battery, battery contact issues were one of the main return issues.
I keep up with the Tesla news very closely, and that guy is on a mission, and its primary goal is not money. He REALLY wants to rid the world of CO2 emissions as much as possible, and he'll do anything to see that goal is met.
So here in Indiana, if I owned a Tesla I would somehow be prevented from charging my Tesla with coal-derived electricity? There isn't much non-coal electricity around here, sadly.
It would be fun to see Apple try. Samsung would be farting out apple fumes for weeks afterward.
Apple Haters? You sound like a cultist on the level of Scientology. Here's a clue: even Apple themselves are embarrassed by people like you.
You can count on the medical device manufacturers to insure that remains the case. There is a buddy-buddy relationship between the premier Medical Device manufacturers to keep the cost of entry into the market high enough to keep out competition. Small start-ups definitely need not apply.
If 'like with like' means a tablet, then no. There is no non-Apple tablet at the store I visited yesterday that was more than half the median price of the iPads also in that store. And there was a good selection of non-Apple tablets.
Big pharma and the big medical device makers conspire to keep the regulatory overhead high. There is a buddy-buddy relationship between the companies and the FDA. They love being the only ones rich enough to innovate
Nobody has to use Samsung Kies.
Most Android users don't even know it exists.
iTunes is no longer mandatory to use an iOS device, but it used to be. Kies is outright obscure.
It's the way that Android doesn't make me feel like I belong to a Scientologist-level cult. I tried iOS for quite awhile. An iPod Touch used to be the best handheld wifi connectivity device. Now you can buy any mid-level Android cellphone and use it like a quasi-iPod Touch. You can buy a Virgin Mobile smartphone for $40 these days, slot in a 32GB SD card and have a heck of a device, without ever paying for any celltime with Virgin Mobile. It's the iPod Touch killer. Best of all: no iTunes.
Also, I find that it's pretty easy with an Android phone to go into the Application Manager and disable the most onerous Google bits. I turn off Google Plus, Gmail, the Play Store video/audio/ebooks clients, Google's Chat and Wallet, etc. The functionality to disable these binary chunks is right in the configuration settings. You can't recover the storage space they consume, but you can clear out any updates and data files, and shut off lots of the functionality that communicates back to the Googleplex.
Classifying somebody as a 'troll' is a way of dismissing them without taking anything they say seriously. It's a safe way to ignore people who have an opinion that it would be dangerous to think about.
Historically, in the USSR, political dissidents were treated as insane people. Many people were 'committed' and put in sanitariums or gulags because they were opponents of the Communists. It isn't much different, except for degree, from how people are branded 'trolls' online.
Yes, there are actual 'trolls' out there. For instance, every comment thread on most political websites has a few people posting extreme views just to discredit the website, i.e. people posting as racist/nazis. Said people probably then head back to their 'progressive' forums feeling satisfied that they've done some 'good work' for the cause.
I'd like another helping of the turtle stew, please.
If you only walk on your right knuckle, you just spin in place. Same as with the left knuckle, of course, for anybody who wants to read too much into it.