All Apple has to do is wait until June 30th. When word that iPhones can't be restocked fast enough to meet demand, European carriers will be contacting Steve Jobs' office willing to deal.
Carriers aren't in the business to resell phones. Phones are just the means they use to sel their service.
European carries want you to buy their 3G connection and video capabilities.
Every sold iPhone means one more customer who won't buy their 3G service. And incidentally, because of the price of this device, it's exactly the people who'd buy 3G who'd buy the iPhone.
iPhone means bad business for European carriers, this is why they don't want to have anything to do with it.
His point about only counting the correct answers is rather silly. In a test where each question is either right or wrong, counting the wrong answers into the score does not add any information (you can tell how many are wrong if you know how many are right).
You're wrong. There are three ways you can handle a question: answer correctly, answer wrongly, not answer.
The fact that tests count only correct answers means the subtle difference between not answering, and answering incorrectly is lost.
Take for an example two extreme situations (just for illustration). Bob and Jack have 50% correct answers. Bob has the rest 50% in wrong answers, and Jack has the rest of the 50% unanswered.
In essence Bob got half of his questions wrong, which in a true/false test is the statistical expectancy if you're just guessing randomly. He could be a monkey clicking a button for all we know.
Jack answered questions only correctly, and left those he didn't know unanswered. Thus, he has some knowledge on the subject, as he didn't guess, or guessed very little.
if anything testing has become FAR FAR too easy, people pass CS courses and come out the otherside only to have a vague notion of how a computer works.
I won't claim his post is correct or not, but he claims the technology behind such tests is wrong and lets less educated people pass through with guessing, whle more educated people try to pass without guessing and fail.
People see the tests produce poor selection, and make the tests harder and harder in attempt to remedy this (but they won't since it's the technology of a test that's wrong).
Then you come here and support his opinion 1:1 by claiming tests are too easy (i.e. should be harder) and idiots pass through.
From my limited experience with them... the sony phones are the only ones who's music player actually is intuitive and works like a music player, rather than just some app they stuck on a phone. On that particular issue, I'd say they are standing on pretty good ground.
Yup, I've tried plenty of phones, and Sony Ericsson always delivers a great product. These new phones look amazing. Their cameras have also being surprisingly good in the past. Nokia N92 had a 2MP camera justl ike the K750i, but K750i delivered far better picture and focus, in a much smaller phone (which is also a great music phone).
And as a side note, something amusing from the article: "This is the closest thing to an iPhone killer we've seen so far. "...
Stupid journalists. iPhone isn't even out, and they've already found the "iPhone killer"... I'm sensing a disaster closing in, involving the words "extremely", "high", "expectations", "unable" and "meet".
That's what you get in an industry built upon speculation and where fractions of a second can be the difference between loss and profit.
If it wasn't for all the interests and lobbies, we'd see a real-time system that trades for ex. once a day at market close or open. By realtime I mean the trade happens at the actual moment it's made, not just logged and then carried out en masse later on, just clearing the differences.
And I always wondered: what the hell's with shorting and margin trade. Why is this shit allowed at all. You can't do anything with such a model but speculate, taking money from people who produced it and randomly spreading it to a bunch of speculators.
I agree. Imagine that realdolls [www.realdolls] are actually a scientific project from aliens, equipped with cameras and wireless transmitters, for the sake of studying human replication behaviour.
Realdolls is what we, humans, can produce. I'm sure that a Tuatara also can't build a realistic model of itself with great success. But we're kinda more intelligent than them and I'd say we could fool a lizard, if we try hard enough.
There's no information what would a scientific project from aliens would do to test highly evolved human subjects, but if I had to shoot in the dark about this one, I'd go for biological units built from altered human DNA. That's fool ya, wouldn't it?
These guys are suspicious to me. They make feautre movie CGI animation, statues, robots, clothing lines, steampunk guns, paintings, magazines and comic books.
I'm telling you, it's all a huge scam, an experiment to push us and see at what point we realize it's all a reality game. Right? Right!?
The whole "Google is big brother" thing is overdone. 99% of logging is just statistical.
Very funny. Statistical would imply they can't tie info back to you. When your mail, history, ip, browsing and search habits are all recorded in your exact account, it's not statistical. It's a disaster.
Google can pull all this crap out since they're so trusted by the large masses. Companies are pushed to behaving good by customers not trusting them. Google just didn't get enough of that throughout the years, and here's the result.
Funnier even, they seem to use their "goodness" as an argument here as well: the fact they fight back in court to protect that data isn't helpful. What would be helpful is that data is never collected in a way it can be abused, if god knows what happens (cracked server, loss in court, new law, insider leaking info etc etc)
"Sony is dying because of the way they've been treating their customers lately. By attacking one of the few companies more hated than them, they're trying to re-direct some of their bad karma."
Shame. Looks like the end of your post got cut off, so I'll paste it here to avoid confusion:
"</sarcasm> LOLzers! Hahaha! I'm kidding rite, you don't real think I thought that sereously! OMGWTFBBQ hehehe! ROFLMAO"
Sony's not dying..? You mean to tell Sony and Microsoft execs aren't sitting here whole day defending their "hated" companies from pissed off slashdotters?!
Dude, you were modded troll and overrated? What the hell did you expect! You just the equivalent of walking to a bunch of girls screaming "Those jeans make your ass fat!"
How could groupthink see through a slogan? It's hard, man! A slogan must be unbrekable, it's like a law. Like Moore's law. Wait, Moore's law isn't really a law too? Screw that, I chose to believe otherwise.
Microsoft is evil since Bill Gates looks like a geek. Google has color balls and funny logos on holidays, Steve Jobs talks and looks cool. While Steve Ballmer is fat and screams "developers, developers" running around as a monkey.
And since the world is ultimately very very simple to a Slashdotter, no further context to anything happening in IT is needed. Why should I think hard about whether Google is right or not in this particular case? Just recall the rules of thumb: Steve Ballmer is a loser, and Google has color balls and "do not evil" slogan.
Final judgement: Microsoft are the bad guys, Google are the good guys. Feed me the next news article, I'm hungry to try that again!
1. Google doesn't care if the search tool is bundled or not, they just want MS to expose some why to turn the thing off. Having both indexing tools running at the same time hinders performance more then having just one run. Given that you can't disable Vista's most people will opt for disabling Google's. Hence anti-competitive.
2. It's similar to IE & Netscape because the end user / OEM can't remove IE from a machine and replace it with an alternative.
3. Everything else you said? Google toolbar is off topic (for what it's worth I'm sick of applications trying to install it too). Also if Google makes any headway with their talks with Microsoft Vista will actually have less bloat then before as the file indexing service can be disabled.
*I* can turn off indexing in XP/Vista. Are Google more stupid than me?... Or is Google tyring to sue their way back into business?
Yea.. oh shit, Windows has 90% market share, anything they do kills some competition! Anti-trust blah blah!
Well figure that out: anything Microsoft improves in Windows will kill some business.
You're running a site that let's people download YouTube videos? YouTube adds a simple "download" button: it kills your business. Should you sue YouTube, "hey YouTube owns majority market share on video views, dump that download button". NO, you morons. It's their right to improve their product.
It's not fair, it's just how things are. Stand up, clean the wound, rethink your stategy.
"Wild West" seemed specious, but "Police state" is a very dangerous way to describe simple "law and order."
Oh it's a a very fine way. I like interestingly sounding names.
You see, the phase after Police State is revolution, death and rebirth.
Societies and industries are like people. They're young and free, then adult and productive, old and stubborn, controlling, then they die, but their kids are there to replace them. And every generation does better than the previous one, that's all that matters,
Two steps forward, one step back, two steps forward, one step back...
BTW, have you noticed how RIAA/MPAA/TV industry tries to sue their way into business lately? Legislation must solve everything for them. They are in very late Police State phase. Soon they'll die and be reborn. Hm, I wonder where would TV be reborn. And I see apps like Joost and it's clear.
I'd argue that the problem with technology issues and regulation, is that it's almost unheard of for an industry expert in them, to also become a judge. What we need is for people who actually understand the issues to be the ones deciding, not politicians.
I understand your analogy, but isn't it a bit specious? Did you ever fear being gunned down like a dog while running your shell account?;^)
Yes, we all fear. Isn't it obvious:
"Don't forget your anti-virus, anti-malware, anti-phishing!" "Do you know of a good spam filter? "You need a good firewall, I recommend XYZ!" "Internet Explorer isn't secure, get Firefox" "You absolutely need to be always patched with the latest fixes?" "I have all my ports closed but 80 and 443, even on those I'm having special rules setup." "Drive-By Downloads: definition" "Spammers attack back anti-spam site with DoS attack"
Does it sound like the Internet is a safe and happy place?
But here, I'll extend the analogy even further and explain the reasons: every single industry/society in the history so far is moving in cycles:
1. First cycle is early adopters, accidentally stumbling upon something new, people who use and develop something for the hell of it, without the general public realizing what it may be useful for (Columbus accidentally stumbling upon USA and thinking it's India)
2. Free phase: great for innovation, since the entry level is ridiculously low, anyone gets a chance, but there's no stability, no control, and that limits the use of previously mentioned innovation (wild west phase).
3. Police State phase: everything is legislated, entry level is high, but there's stability, so that you can rely upon the inventions of phase "2". There's still some innovation going on, but people rely on stability a lot more.
So there we go. Things that happen in the wild west phase don't keep repeating forever. There won't be a new Google every few years, for example, just like there won't be new Microsoft any time soon. Search engine has been invented and working well enough already, we'll mostly see legislation and increase in stability in this area. Innovation will happen elsewhere.
In the great Slashdot spirit of car analogies, I'll also ask you to imagine road without legislation. Sure, if this was the case, we'd have most problems with technology: much more intelligent, sturdier cars, cars that can take huge impact and the passengers will survive.
But they'll also cost a lot more in money and time to maintain and be sure the next time you crash you won't be dead, since it'll be perfectly legal to drive drunk zig-zag accross the road.
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All Apple has to do is wait until June 30th. When word that iPhones can't be restocked fast enough to meet demand, European carriers will be contacting Steve Jobs' office willing to deal.
Carriers aren't in the business to resell phones. Phones are just the means they use to sel their service.
European carries want you to buy their 3G connection and video capabilities.
Every sold iPhone means one more customer who won't buy their 3G service. And incidentally, because of the price of this device, it's exactly the people who'd buy 3G who'd buy the iPhone.
iPhone means bad business for European carriers, this is why they don't want to have anything to do with it.
His point about only counting the correct answers is rather silly. In a test where each question is either right or wrong, counting the wrong answers into the score does not add any information (you can tell how many are wrong if you know how many are right).
You're wrong. There are three ways you can handle a question: answer correctly, answer wrongly, not answer.
The fact that tests count only correct answers means the subtle difference between not answering, and answering incorrectly is lost.
Take for an example two extreme situations (just for illustration). Bob and Jack have 50% correct answers. Bob has the rest 50% in wrong answers, and Jack has the rest of the 50% unanswered.
In essence Bob got half of his questions wrong, which in a true/false test is the statistical expectancy if you're just guessing randomly. He could be a monkey clicking a button for all we know.
Jack answered questions only correctly, and left those he didn't know unanswered. Thus, he has some knowledge on the subject, as he didn't guess, or guessed very little.
I'd hire Jack.
if anything testing has become FAR FAR too easy, people pass CS courses and come out the otherside only to have a vague notion of how a computer works.
I won't claim his post is correct or not, but he claims the technology behind such tests is wrong and lets less educated people pass through with guessing, whle more educated people try to pass without guessing and fail.
People see the tests produce poor selection, and make the tests harder and harder in attempt to remedy this (but they won't since it's the technology of a test that's wrong).
Then you come here and support his opinion 1:1 by claiming tests are too easy (i.e. should be harder) and idiots pass through.
Ironic, isn't it.
From my limited experience with them... the sony phones are the only ones who's music player actually is intuitive and works like a music player, rather than just some app they stuck on a phone. On that particular issue, I'd say they are standing on pretty good ground.
Yup, I've tried plenty of phones, and Sony Ericsson always delivers a great product. These new phones look amazing. Their cameras have also being surprisingly good in the past. Nokia N92 had a 2MP camera justl ike the K750i, but K750i delivered far better picture and focus, in a much smaller phone (which is also a great music phone).
And as a side note, something amusing from the article: "This is the closest thing to an iPhone killer we've seen so far. "...
Stupid journalists. iPhone isn't even out, and they've already found the "iPhone killer"... I'm sensing a disaster closing in, involving the words "extremely", "high", "expectations", "unable" and "meet".
That's what you get in an industry built upon speculation and where fractions of a second can be the difference between loss and profit.
If it wasn't for all the interests and lobbies, we'd see a real-time system that trades for ex. once a day at market close or open. By realtime I mean the trade happens at the actual moment it's made, not just logged and then carried out en masse later on, just clearing the differences.
And I always wondered: what the hell's with shorting and margin trade. Why is this shit allowed at all. You can't do anything with such a model but speculate, taking money from people who produced it and randomly spreading it to a bunch of speculators.
Did anyone ever gave YOU a robot sex slave for free?
Yup, and she was a hot porn star, but when I said "I agree, but without cameras", and they gave up.
I agree. Imagine that realdolls [www.realdolls] are actually a scientific project from aliens, equipped with cameras and wireless transmitters, for the sake of studying human replication behaviour.
Realdolls is what we, humans, can produce. I'm sure that a Tuatara also can't build a realistic model of itself with great success. But we're kinda more intelligent than them and I'd say we could fool a lizard, if we try hard enough.
There's no information what would a scientific project from aliens would do to test highly evolved human subjects, but if I had to shoot in the dark about this one, I'd go for biological units built from altered human DNA. That's fool ya, wouldn't it?
Let me just say that endangered tuatara's taste delicious.
:P?
*ducks*
Just kidding. Spotted kiwi birds [wikipedia.org] and little blue penguins [wikipedia.org] taste much better.
All joking aside, we've got got a lot of truly unique wildlife here. I feel fortunate to have seen some of these, even if only at the zoo.
Zoo, huh. Is this the NZ for "restaurant"
These guys are suspicious to me. They make feautre movie CGI animation, statues, robots, clothing lines, steampunk guns, paintings, magazines and comic books.
:(
I'm telling you, it's all a huge scam, an experiment to push us and see at what point we realize it's all a reality game. Right? Right!?
I... I wanna work there
I'm not known for liking Microsoft, but check Photosynth:
Don't worry, we won't eat you alive even if you liked Microsoft. It's a damn company.
When did "puking" and "barfing" become scientific terms?
:P ?
Since when is Slashdot about science
The whole "Google is big brother" thing is overdone. 99% of logging is just statistical.
Very funny. Statistical would imply they can't tie info back to you. When your mail, history, ip, browsing and search habits are all recorded in your exact account, it's not statistical. It's a disaster.
Google can pull all this crap out since they're so trusted by the large masses. Companies are pushed to behaving good by customers not trusting them. Google just didn't get enough of that throughout the years, and here's the result.
Funnier even, they seem to use their "goodness" as an argument here as well: the fact they fight back in court to protect that data isn't helpful. What would be helpful is that data is never collected in a way it can be abused, if god knows what happens (cracked server, loss in court, new law, insider leaking info etc etc)
IAWTC.
WHAT..?
(^ that's not an acronym)
"Sony is dying because of the way they've been treating their customers lately.
By attacking one of the few companies more hated than them, they're trying to re-direct some of their bad karma."
Shame. Looks like the end of your post got cut off, so I'll paste it here to avoid confusion:
"</sarcasm> LOLzers! Hahaha! I'm kidding rite, you don't real think I thought that sereously! OMGWTFBBQ hehehe! ROFLMAO"
Sony's not dying..? You mean to tell Sony and Microsoft execs aren't sitting here whole day defending their "hated" companies from pissed off slashdotters?!
Outrageous claims.
Your post, enhanced via Slashdot vision TM
I dont know whats worse:
blah blah blah blah Microsoft blah blah blah blah blah !
blah blah blah Google blah blah blah blah blah blah !
Shoot, I'll go for the Microsoft one, it must be the worse one.
google is EVIL! [...] To hell with Google.
Dude, you were modded troll and overrated? What the hell did you expect! You just the equivalent of walking to a bunch of girls screaming "Those jeans make your ass fat!"
How could groupthink see through a slogan? It's hard, man! A slogan must be unbrekable, it's like a law. Like Moore's law. Wait, Moore's law isn't really a law too? Screw that, I chose to believe otherwise.
Microsoft is evil since Bill Gates looks like a geek. Google has color balls and funny logos on holidays, Steve Jobs talks and looks cool. While Steve Ballmer is fat and screams "developers, developers" running around as a monkey.
And since the world is ultimately very very simple to a Slashdotter, no further context to anything happening in IT is needed. Why should I think hard about whether Google is right or not in this particular case? Just recall the rules of thumb: Steve Ballmer is a loser, and Google has color balls and "do not evil" slogan.
Final judgement: Microsoft are the bad guys, Google are the good guys. Feed me the next news article, I'm hungry to try that again!
1. Google doesn't care if the search tool is bundled or not, they just want MS to expose some why to turn the thing off. Having both indexing tools running at the same time hinders performance more then having just one run. Given that you can't disable Vista's most people will opt for disabling Google's. Hence anti-competitive.
... Or is Google tyring to sue their way back into business?
2. It's similar to IE & Netscape because the end user / OEM can't remove IE from a machine and replace it with an alternative.
3. Everything else you said? Google toolbar is off topic (for what it's worth I'm sick of applications trying to install it too). Also if Google makes any headway with their talks with Microsoft Vista will actually have less bloat then before as the file indexing service can be disabled.
*I* can turn off indexing in XP/Vista. Are Google more stupid than me?
Yea.. oh shit, Windows has 90% market share, anything they do kills some competition! Anti-trust blah blah!
Well figure that out: anything Microsoft improves in Windows will kill some business.
You're running a site that let's people download YouTube videos? YouTube adds a simple "download" button: it kills your business. Should you sue YouTube, "hey YouTube owns majority market share on video views, dump that download button". NO, you morons. It's their right to improve their product.
It's not fair, it's just how things are. Stand up, clean the wound, rethink your stategy.
Police State phase
Holy crap.
"Wild West" seemed specious, but "Police state" is a very dangerous way to describe simple "law and order."
Oh it's a a very fine way. I like interestingly sounding names.
You see, the phase after Police State is revolution, death and rebirth.
Societies and industries are like people. They're young and free, then adult and productive, old and stubborn, controlling, then they die, but their kids are there to replace them. And every generation does better than the previous one, that's all that matters,
Two steps forward, one step back, two steps forward, one step back...
BTW, have you noticed how RIAA/MPAA/TV industry tries to sue their way into business lately? Legislation must solve everything for them. They are in very late Police State phase. Soon they'll die and be reborn. Hm, I wonder where would TV be reborn. And I see apps like Joost and it's clear.
commoditization of christ for easter
Yes, they're making mockery of Jesus by tying him randomly to Easter like thatg. What's Easter got to do with Jesus anyway.
It's about bunnies, people! Next thing, they'll tie him to Christmas as well. Idiots.
signed,
people with faith and maturity
Wait, I don't remember signing this!
I was being sarcastic.
I'd argue that the problem with technology issues and regulation, is that it's almost unheard of for an industry expert in them, to also become a judge. What we need is for people who actually understand the issues to be the ones deciding, not politicians.
Ministry of information technologies...?
"The new pattern lasted two days"
Sorry...
Well, it's more uptime than a Windows system.
That would clash with the fact I forgot where my power switch is.
I understand your analogy, but isn't it a bit specious? Did you ever fear being gunned down like a dog while running your shell account? ;^)
Yes, we all fear. Isn't it obvious:
"Don't forget your anti-virus, anti-malware, anti-phishing!"
"Do you know of a good spam filter?
"You need a good firewall, I recommend XYZ!"
"Internet Explorer isn't secure, get Firefox"
"You absolutely need to be always patched with the latest fixes?"
"I have all my ports closed but 80 and 443, even on those I'm having special rules setup."
"Drive-By Downloads: definition"
"Spammers attack back anti-spam site with DoS attack"
Does it sound like the Internet is a safe and happy place?
But here, I'll extend the analogy even further and explain the reasons: every single industry/society in the history so far is moving in cycles:
1. First cycle is early adopters, accidentally stumbling upon something new, people who use and develop something for the hell of it, without the general public realizing what it may be useful for (Columbus accidentally stumbling upon USA and thinking it's India)
2. Free phase: great for innovation, since the entry level is ridiculously low, anyone gets a chance, but there's no stability, no control, and that limits the use of previously mentioned innovation (wild west phase).
3. Police State phase: everything is legislated, entry level is high, but there's stability, so that you can rely upon the inventions of phase "2". There's still some innovation going on, but people rely on stability a lot more.
So there we go. Things that happen in the wild west phase don't keep repeating forever. There won't be a new Google every few years, for example, just like there won't be new Microsoft any time soon. Search engine has been invented and working well enough already, we'll mostly see legislation and increase in stability in this area. Innovation will happen elsewhere.
In the great Slashdot spirit of car analogies, I'll also ask you to imagine road without legislation. Sure, if this was the case, we'd have most problems with technology: much more intelligent, sturdier cars, cars that can take huge impact and the passengers will survive.
But they'll also cost a lot more in money and time to maintain and be sure the next time you crash you won't be dead, since it'll be perfectly legal to drive drunk zig-zag accross the road.