That's because he who pays the piper calls the tune. I'm sure you didn't miss the part of the article that states that China holds $789.6 billion in US Treasuries. Whatever moral authority the US had has been traded for cold hard cash. Debt truly is equivalent to slavery in some ways. Governments have to ignore some of their transgressions in order to have access to their cash, and corporations ignore them because they want to market to their large populace. Since you can't trust either to take a stand for morality and ethics that just leaves the rest of us. If you don't like how China conducts itself in these matters stop rewarding them. Don't buy products made there. It won't be easy to do, but it's about the only concrete thing individuals can do about it.
NASA is hardly representative of all of humanity. Just because the US is standing down from manned space exploration (for the moment...) doesn't mean that others won't step up. Humanity will just have more Captain Sulus and Picards than Kirks.
Oh no! Steve Jobs is ill! Fumbling his new tablet proves it! He'll be dead inside of a week!
As a previous poster said, let's wait and see for ourselves.
Flamebait? Seriously? Just mentioning divisive figures by name is not reason enough to make a post inflammatory. Oh well, moderation is an imperfect process...
Why is it always "war"? You know, it's just possible that the market for mobile phones is large enough to support many different vendors. Apple has consistently shown that they're happy with just a portion of the markets they play in--provided it's the most lucrative end of that market. The iPod is more an anomaly than the norm in terms of how Apple approaches its various markets. Google and Apple stand to gain more here if they continue to cooperate than if they become all out adversaries.
Proud to be human. Americans of course qualify too. But many countries are offering aid, even though the American media devotes little time to that fact. Check out the pictures in this CBC story for a brief sampling. http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/01/15/haiti-earthquake.html
I beg to differ with part of your claim. All parts of the US are not equally prepared for an earthquake. A large earthquake on the New Madrid fault anywhere near St. Louis or Memphis will likely result in mass casualties, in spite of efforts in recent years to improve building standards. Those old, historic and largely brick downtown sections will be most vulnerable. And let's face it, it's not the number of casualties that trigger the charitable response anyway, although that's a contributing factor. It's the ongoing suffering of the survivors. Not that ongoing suffering did much for the hearts of many Americans in light of hurricane Katrina. When I hear the comments of idiots like Pat Robertson and Rush Limbaugh I have to wonder why the Haiti and New Orleans disasters are different from, say, the Indian Ocean tsunami in how much we're supposed to care or how much as a nation we should give...
Is it possible that the manufacturer of the camera used in the iPhone pays royalties to Kodak already? Wouldn't that indemnify them? Or is Kodak allowed to collect royalties all along the chain?
Like almost all US airlines have done. Of course Ms. Huyer will then complain that everyone will be getting snacks but her...
(not to make like of nut allergies, which really can be deadly. But a "nut free zone" in an enclosed space with recirculated air? Just switch to pretzels and be done with it.)
It amazes me that the US system is singled out, when in reality all of the developed countries have equally Byzantine immigration policies. Unless you're a refugee legal immigration is not easy. This is by design and suits the purposes of the citizens (or at least the governments) of those respective countries. Otherwise they would find the political will to change it.
and not need it, than to need one and have no plan. If all they're talking about is brainstorming, let them do it. It costs very little in the grand scheme of things to sit and consider your options.
Good luck legislating this. When Microsoft can pay Verizon $500 million to install a Bing search icon on their phones there's bound to be lots of push back and lobbying efforts to make sure this does not happen. Truly "neutral" search will never be a reality unless there's some movement to disclose back room deals such as this. But that can't happen, at least not easily. And I'm not sure if it should.
At some point consumers of services have to be smart enough to look out for themselves. The government won't be able to legislate away all risk.
It's not hard, just expensive. Unlike the Chinese we actually have to pay market rates to compensate people for the right of way for the rails. Seizing private property and forcing the owners to accept a pittance in return just won't work in the U.S.
Not all AT&T phone reps are equally versed in what's going on, as Consumerist later admits on their site. AT&T will sell you the iPhone in their stores throughout NYC. They won't sell you the phone online within NYC. Apparently this is because of fraudulent resales as people order the phones online, take delivery and then ship them overseas. Skipping out on the contracts in the process, as they never intended to honor them in the first place.
I wonder why NYC has more of a problem with this than other locations. Large transient international population I suppose...
Sure, they'll have super strength and big muscles. Only to find that their skeletons can't handle the strain, and they end up breaking their arms, legs and ripping tendons with every step.
It seems to me that they are quite capable of making new products and contributing new ideas, so why do they not do so? Why are there repeated examples of this sort of blatant copying? Can anyone clue me in here?
Because invention and innovation take time and actually cost money. Cheaply copying something is, well, cheap and makes money very quickly.
They're streaming this speech, and historically China has not blocked this domain. So, provided there are curious Chinese citizens who are aware of the visit they have a way to hear directly what was said.
Several airports on the list also offer free wi-fi. (Charlotte, NC; Orlando, FL; and I think Pittsburgh, PA come to mind) I just assumed that in these airports Google is picking up the cost of providing the service for the duration of their promotion. But good on PDX to hold the line and stick to their principles. Having flown through there a lot myself I can say firsthand that it's a darned good airport.
In the coming Robot Apocalypse (tm) I was planning to flee to a snowier clime, knowing full well that my bipedal and wheeled adversaries would not be able to easily pursue me. Indeed, I had visions of blasting the mechanical horrors with my trusty shotgun as they slipped, tumbled and performed various pratfalls, or otherwise became bogged down in the glorious white stuff. I counted on them becoming flustered and immobile, rather like a Dalek faced with a steep flight of stairs. But no! You had to go and teach them how to ski. Next you'll likely make them with self-deploying and self waxing skis. And doom the entire human race to robot servitude.
At best a successful product "killer" merely fractures the market. It doesn't really do anything to eliminate the dominant product. If there were ever a truly successful iPod "killer", iPhone "killer", Microsoft Office "killer", or whatever there would still be plenty of people who used and enjoyed the market leader. And plenty of second place vendors would be quite happy with their slice of the marketplace even if they didn't manage to commit market leader product homicide.
Something tells me Apple is quite happy and successful with their slice of the PC market. As I suspect SanDisk is with their slice of the personal music player market. Barnes and Noble could do well in this market without displacing the Kindle, just as Pepsi does well without surpassing Coke.
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That's because he who pays the piper calls the tune. I'm sure you didn't miss the part of the article that states that China holds $789.6 billion in US Treasuries. Whatever moral authority the US had has been traded for cold hard cash. Debt truly is equivalent to slavery in some ways. Governments have to ignore some of their transgressions in order to have access to their cash, and corporations ignore them because they want to market to their large populace. Since you can't trust either to take a stand for morality and ethics that just leaves the rest of us. If you don't like how China conducts itself in these matters stop rewarding them. Don't buy products made there. It won't be easy to do, but it's about the only concrete thing individuals can do about it.
NASA is hardly representative of all of humanity. Just because the US is standing down from manned space exploration (for the moment...) doesn't mean that others won't step up. Humanity will just have more Captain Sulus and Picards than Kirks.
Oh no! Steve Jobs is ill! Fumbling his new tablet proves it! He'll be dead inside of a week! As a previous poster said, let's wait and see for ourselves.
Of course someone named "Sandbags" would advocate "sandboxing" apps. Like a good pusher how else could you corner the market? ;-)
Flamebait? Seriously? Just mentioning divisive figures by name is not reason enough to make a post inflammatory. Oh well, moderation is an imperfect process...
Why is it always "war"? You know, it's just possible that the market for mobile phones is large enough to support many different vendors. Apple has consistently shown that they're happy with just a portion of the markets they play in--provided it's the most lucrative end of that market. The iPod is more an anomaly than the norm in terms of how Apple approaches its various markets. Google and Apple stand to gain more here if they continue to cooperate than if they become all out adversaries.
Proud to be human. Americans of course qualify too. But many countries are offering aid, even though the American media devotes little time to that fact. Check out the pictures in this CBC story for a brief sampling. http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/01/15/haiti-earthquake.html
I beg to differ with part of your claim. All parts of the US are not equally prepared for an earthquake. A large earthquake on the New Madrid fault anywhere near St. Louis or Memphis will likely result in mass casualties, in spite of efforts in recent years to improve building standards. Those old, historic and largely brick downtown sections will be most vulnerable. And let's face it, it's not the number of casualties that trigger the charitable response anyway, although that's a contributing factor. It's the ongoing suffering of the survivors. Not that ongoing suffering did much for the hearts of many Americans in light of hurricane Katrina. When I hear the comments of idiots like Pat Robertson and Rush Limbaugh I have to wonder why the Haiti and New Orleans disasters are different from, say, the Indian Ocean tsunami in how much we're supposed to care or how much as a nation we should give...
Is it possible that the manufacturer of the camera used in the iPhone pays royalties to Kodak already? Wouldn't that indemnify them? Or is Kodak allowed to collect royalties all along the chain?
Care to make a wager on who the biggest advertiser is in PC World? As always, follow the money. In this case north...
Like almost all US airlines have done. Of course Ms. Huyer will then complain that everyone will be getting snacks but her... (not to make like of nut allergies, which really can be deadly. But a "nut free zone" in an enclosed space with recirculated air? Just switch to pretzels and be done with it.)
Even better: My comment from May 11, 2009. http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1229739&cid=27917677 I guess I should have submitted it as a story.
It amazes me that the US system is singled out, when in reality all of the developed countries have equally Byzantine immigration policies. Unless you're a refugee legal immigration is not easy. This is by design and suits the purposes of the citizens (or at least the governments) of those respective countries. Otherwise they would find the political will to change it.
and not need it, than to need one and have no plan. If all they're talking about is brainstorming, let them do it. It costs very little in the grand scheme of things to sit and consider your options.
Good luck legislating this. When Microsoft can pay Verizon $500 million to install a Bing search icon on their phones there's bound to be lots of push back and lobbying efforts to make sure this does not happen. Truly "neutral" search will never be a reality unless there's some movement to disclose back room deals such as this. But that can't happen, at least not easily. And I'm not sure if it should.
At some point consumers of services have to be smart enough to look out for themselves. The government won't be able to legislate away all risk.
It's not hard, just expensive. Unlike the Chinese we actually have to pay market rates to compensate people for the right of way for the rails. Seizing private property and forcing the owners to accept a pittance in return just won't work in the U.S.
Not all AT&T phone reps are equally versed in what's going on, as Consumerist later admits on their site. AT&T will sell you the iPhone in their stores throughout NYC. They won't sell you the phone online within NYC. Apparently this is because of fraudulent resales as people order the phones online, take delivery and then ship them overseas. Skipping out on the contracts in the process, as they never intended to honor them in the first place.
I wonder why NYC has more of a problem with this than other locations. Large transient international population I suppose...
Sure, they'll have super strength and big muscles. Only to find that their skeletons can't handle the strain, and they end up breaking their arms, legs and ripping tendons with every step.
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It seems to me that they are quite capable of making new products and contributing new ideas, so why do they not do so? Why are there repeated examples of this sort of blatant copying? Can anyone clue me in here?
Because invention and innovation take time and actually cost money. Cheaply copying something is, well, cheap and makes money very quickly.
But if Apple allows it then they can sell anti-virus to people who don't need it. For instance, most iPhone users. That's what they really want.
They're streaming this speech, and historically China has not blocked this domain. So, provided there are curious Chinese citizens who are aware of the visit they have a way to hear directly what was said.
Several airports on the list also offer free wi-fi. (Charlotte, NC; Orlando, FL; and I think Pittsburgh, PA come to mind) I just assumed that in these airports Google is picking up the cost of providing the service for the duration of their promotion. But good on PDX to hold the line and stick to their principles. Having flown through there a lot myself I can say firsthand that it's a darned good airport.
Heck, many if not most of them worship one. Not to mention the unspeakable things they've done in his name...
http://www.zombiejesus.com/
In the coming Robot Apocalypse (tm) I was planning to flee to a snowier clime, knowing full well that my bipedal and wheeled adversaries would not be able to easily pursue me. Indeed, I had visions of blasting the mechanical horrors with my trusty shotgun as they slipped, tumbled and performed various pratfalls, or otherwise became bogged down in the glorious white stuff. I counted on them becoming flustered and immobile, rather like a Dalek faced with a steep flight of stairs. But no! You had to go and teach them how to ski. Next you'll likely make them with self-deploying and self waxing skis. And doom the entire human race to robot servitude.
Sloveeeennnniaaaaaaaaaa!
At best a successful product "killer" merely fractures the market. It doesn't really do anything to eliminate the dominant product. If there were ever a truly successful iPod "killer", iPhone "killer", Microsoft Office "killer", or whatever there would still be plenty of people who used and enjoyed the market leader. And plenty of second place vendors would be quite happy with their slice of the marketplace even if they didn't manage to commit market leader product homicide.
Something tells me Apple is quite happy and successful with their slice of the PC market. As I suspect SanDisk is with their slice of the personal music player market. Barnes and Noble could do well in this market without displacing the Kindle, just as Pepsi does well without surpassing Coke.