Whenever someone tells me "I've aleady spent $200 getting someone to fix my computer and I dont want to spend any more".
I reply with "I've already spent 2 hours fixing peoples computers for free and I dont want to spend any more".
Either the requests stop or they wise up, BTW I also work for beer, that's kind of a given for an Australian, beer is the unofficial currency and you typically get 2 AUD to 1 DAB (Decent Australian Beer).
If the lawyer is struck by lightning, every other Christian would hold that up as proof of God's existence, but if the lawyer isn't struck by lightning, not one single Christian would regard that as disproof of God's existence. I always found that aspect of the religious mind strange.
I Dont.
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. This is one of the few logical things about Christians.
Now it's the refusal of religious people to accept how remote the possibility of God's existence is and how they are wasting my time trying to convert me that vexes me.
That's not even the end of the story. Don't forget that a growing number of prisons in the United States are being privatized. There have already been cases of judges who have been convicted for imposing harsh sentences without appropriate judicial review, because they were accepting kick-backs from the prison industrial complex.
My country started out as a penal colony which became free, your country started out in the name of freedom and is slowly becoming a penal colony. Oh the irony.
BTW, for the record. The majority of people "transported" were petty criminals and political subversives, from a time where just displaying an Irish flag could get you sent to a lovely new colony (thus Irish names are quite common for us). All the hardened criminals were kept in England because at the end of one's sentence, one was given a parcel of land and permitted to work it, not exactly something you do with a serial murderer.
I would suggest it isn't so much an "American" trait as it is a convenient news tactic in America. People naturally want answers to questions. The neater and tighter the answer, the more readily it is accepted by the masses, which, of course, means that the news makes more money because they are more trusted.
So, what you're saying is that people will more easily believe a big lie then a small one.
Simplicity is a hallmark of human (not just American) thinking - this takes different forms in different cultures. The main Western logical process is distinct from Eastern varieties but simplicity within the given culture is the tendency.
I disagree, in many western cultures there is an attitude against just "accepting" the "truth" (smiles and nods). Hence the saying "truth is stranger then fiction". This is why we have such insane laws around misrepresenting the truth in media. As for eastern culture, well define simple. A Thai girl seems to operate on simple things, if she's hungry, she eats, if she's tired, she sleeps but this all goes out the window when you try to understand the social dynamic, who is higher, lower, indebted, honoured, distrusted, and try doing this without speaking Thai (oh the joys of tonal language). It may look simple on the outside, until a Thai girl spends three hours explaining what happened in a 10 minute conversation with one of her friends. Even in the west we have quite complex social systems (games people play in the office, sociopaths, even just finding a girl friend)
The thinking that humans crave simplicity is flawed as we tend to fill our lives with complexity be it a complex social systems, complex technologies, complex learning or many other complex systems. If we had a primal drive for simplicity, we'd have never left the trees.
Don't get me wrong, this is not a yank bash, I think American society is as nuanced as most societies, maybe a bit more open then say Thai or Japanese but just as complex. But your news channels tend to be full of crap and not indicative of your society as a whole, more a product of a bad subset of Americans.
Furthermore, justice AND revenge both do not mandate prison and/or being subject to physical or sexual abuse. There are many things that can be done in BOTH cases besides the obvious one. Prisons cost too much money and have too much lobbying pressure to maintain or grow the punishment/revenge system we have today.
Having pedophile tattooed on your forehead should be enough...
That's even worse, you've removed any semblance of justice and just said, let the community take revenge. Revenge != Justice in case anyone has not figured that out. Revenge does not, nor should never factor into justice.
The difference between vigilante justice and mob rule is entirely cosmetic.
Now prisons are a good idea when done right. You've commuted a crime and now you are being removed from society until such a time where society deems you fit to re-enter. However the US has screwed this one up. Lock up the pot smokers whilst killers go free because the prisons are overcrowded. A lot of offences that are punished with jail time should not be, removing prisons will not fix this issue as the prisons are not the issue.
Actually, if the iDevices are considered not innovative because of taking existing ideas and putting marketing spin on them, then so is VMWare since virtualization and hypervisors are simply consumer-polished versions of old school 1970s mainframe tech from IBM.
So, an installable, 64-bit hypervisor was available in the 1970's.
VMWare produces and releases quite a bit of new technology, even if the idea is quite old. They are innovative because the technology is significantly advanced from that of their peers and their peers aren't catching up any time soon (Hyper V is a horrible thing to work with, maybe Xen but I've never worked in depth with that).
On the other hand, Apple does not make significant improvements on existing technology, they just claim to. As we've seen with Android and even Blackberry phones, Apple's peers have no problems keeping up with or even eclipsing Apple's technology.
So... as a hint... if you want to copy Apple... good for you, no problem with that I'm all for it
I do, I need Ubuntu to take the place of my Windows machines, up until 10.04 you were doing well. Apple cannot do this, so copying Apple will not fulfil the functions I and 97% of the market require of Ubuntu.
4 fingers to get the most out of it, I'm not jerking off here, I'm using a touch screen... what kind of gestures am I making with 4 fingers?
2 player game. Possibly even a four player game. There are a bunch of four fingered gestures I can think of, scrunching, spreading fingers, moving two fingers up and keeping the others stationary and that's just with the one hand with both hands (yes, some people use both hands when operating their PC's) you have at least a dozen gestures I can think of off the top of my head. But then again I think the whole touch screen thing is a gimmick and the Keyboard and Mouse will continue to reign supreme.
because the reason multitouch is working so well elsewhere is because it can be made really complicated and hard to troubleshoot and debug.
I dont know how you got that out of
Rather than single, magic gestures, we're making it possible for basic gestures to be chained, or composed, into more sophisticated "sentences"
I got, we will allow multiple simple tasks to be chained together to perform multiple tasks in succession.
You are clearly of the "Apple" school of thinking where "Simple" means "Remove functionality". Most of the world doesn't work like this, making something "simple" means "a series of easy to follow steps in a logical order" or simply not requiring specialist knowledge. You can make very complex tasks quite simple by breaking them down into smaller tasks in a logical order. Soratherthenwritinganentiresentanceinonegiantword we use spaces to break it up and create an easy to read, making a complex task simple by breaking it up.
You'd have to make an argument that the Afghan state presents a clear and present danger to Sweden. Just imagine - a mostly tribal society, who scarcely make $500 per year per person, massing a military force and successfully overpowering the Swedish defence forces.
"I challenge you to name another tech company that innovates like Apple--with game-changing technologies like the iPod, iTunes, iPhone, and iPad."
VMWare. It's owned 80% by EMC, which is a behomoth and totally innovation free. Yet VMWare puts out a lot of very innovative products.
That's not fair, VMWare actually makes decent products that have changed the industry (installable bare metal hypervisor). Where as all Apple did was take existing ideas and put an enormous amount of marketing spin on them (I'd argue the Ipod was a massive step backwards from the Nomad and we're all suffering under Itunes and low quality audio hardware).
But almost all big companies innovate, it's just lost in the enormous amount of BAU that goes on. Anyone who works in any established business knows that the amount of time you spend keeping existing customers happy increases in proportion to company growth. This does not reduce the amount of R&D that goes on, just the percentage of R&D to prod work. I suppose Boeing and Airbus are good examples of innovators, but that's mainly because innovation is their primary marketing tool (Airbus A3xx uses 5% less fuel then the last gen, Boeing B7x7 has 5% greater MTOW then the last gen and so forth).
Where do you get the idea that it's a common belief that Apple invented these things? I don't know a single person who believes Apple invented any of those things.
I do know a few people like this unfortunately, but I've exercised them from my life.
After that the most common reason people buy an Iphone is because it's cool. After that it's cheap (last years Iphone on a $50 p/m 2 yr contract) and they're loving the 3G and all it's slowness under the new IOS.
If you could get rid of all the religious wackos who use homeschooling as a way to indoctrinate their kids without having them exposed to the outside world, there would be a lot less stigma on the homeschooled crowd.
That would eliminate the need for homeschooling.
The only times you need homeschooling is when there is no school within an hour or two's distance (Australia's answer to this is the School of the Air radio service) or when a "parent" (I use this word loosely in this context) wants to "protect" their child from "harmful" ideas like atheism, science or divergent political POV's.
The second category tends to make up the vast majority of homeschooling, the first category tends to use resources provided to them (like the school of the air).
If Google shows that Oracle can push them around with patent intimidation, it's on for young and old. It's only a matter of time until someone at MS figures out that Mono can be a cash generation tool via lawsuits.
46 billion AUD = 20 billion Euro about.
Its allot of money but ITS WORTH IT
I think of it as a loan, (of tax $) so I amortise it over it's expected life time, the copper network has been in place for 40 years, 20 for the internet. So we can reasonably expect this network to last 20-30 years which reduces the cost to 2.3 Billion a year at most.
Plus we get the boon of increased commerce when a 10 Mbit fibre line reduces in cost from it's current A$1500 per month.
And yet, places like Germany in which they make MORE per hour, work less, have similar productivity are getting jobs there. Hmmm. I wonder why? Because the companies are about where they work at?
The thing is, places like Germany can provide a highly educated, motivated work force with a strong work ethic, this means industries requiring a highly educated workforce will want to set up there. Despite labour being cheaper in China skilled labour is cheaper in Germany. So chip fabs, aircraft manufacturing, precision engineering (such as shipbuilding) tends to focus around the west and richer Asian nations like Korea. As much as the libertards and protectionists like to whine, we just cant pump out cheap crap as fast or as cheaply as china, but they cannot build supertankers or wide body jet aircraft so we should focus on the industries we can support.
Um, you do realize it was the record labels that made Apple implement that convoluted synch process involving iTunes, right? They didn't want portable music players being used as sneakernets for piracy.
Um, you do realise that the Creative MP3 players that pre-dated the Ipod had MSC capabilities.
That story is bollocks and I'm sorry you got sold on it. The Itunes integration was built into the Ipod from the word go because it was meant to be Mac only.
the labels would still be suing the crap out of anyone who tried to sell music
Now they are just suing the crap out of anyone who, well anyone. Dead gramdma's, 7 yr old kids you're all a target.
My dumb phone goes about a week between charges with moderate use... as a phone.
I normally dont answer AC's but...
Your consumer phone does not need to power a ARM v7 processor, 3.7" capacitive touch screen and maintain a semi-regular data connection. I used to have a Nokia 6500 Classic (still do, it's great for travelling), that thing went a week between charges because it had a 1.8" low power screen, now it lasts about 3 days because it's old (batteries degrade relatively quickly). A Nokia 6110 would use even less power, well because it requires even less power.
Why not have a cell/text-only processor and allow the other functions to go to sleep?
The majority of the functions in a modern smart phone do go to sleep but the power required just to idle the proc's and RAM required by smartphones is significantly greater than that of a consumer phone. But display is the killer, display will be taking up most of your battery and this thing does go to sleep after x number of seconds (or when I press the "main screen off" button).
The only way you can effectively do what your are suggesting is to have another OS with another, weaker processor which will run whilst the main OS is shutdown as the main OS (Android, IOS) requires a powerful processor just to run. This will be costly, add to the weight of the phone and the display will still be a battery hog.
Perhaps I am mistaken - how long do these smart phones last on standby only?
Right now, I regularly get 48 Hours out of my Milestone on the weekends. If I turned off data, kicked it back to 2G (you said calls and messages only) I could probably double that amount but then again I wouldn't be using it at all as I rarely receive voice calls and have given up on SMS in favour of Gmail/Email (A$0.25 per SMS vs A$0.02 per MB and I can get a few emails out in 1 MB).
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Alcohol content is too low.
Whenever someone tells me "I've aleady spent $200 getting someone to fix my computer and I dont want to spend any more".
I reply with "I've already spent 2 hours fixing peoples computers for free and I dont want to spend any more".
Either the requests stop or they wise up, BTW I also work for beer, that's kind of a given for an Australian, beer is the unofficial currency and you typically get 2 AUD to 1 DAB (Decent Australian Beer).
I Dont.
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. This is one of the few logical things about Christians.
Now it's the refusal of religious people to accept how remote the possibility of God's existence is and how they are wasting my time trying to convert me that vexes me.
Oh and how churches get tax free status.
Lawyer sues god.
Billy Connelly sues Lawyer
A non-existent god will never answer your prayers. But on the other hand he'll never make things worse either so I guess you have a point.
Mac users only comprise 3, maybe 4% of global users.
My country started out as a penal colony which became free, your country started out in the name of freedom and is slowly becoming a penal colony. Oh the irony.
BTW, for the record. The majority of people "transported" were petty criminals and political subversives, from a time where just displaying an Irish flag could get you sent to a lovely new colony (thus Irish names are quite common for us). All the hardened criminals were kept in England because at the end of one's sentence, one was given a parcel of land and permitted to work it, not exactly something you do with a serial murderer.
So, what you're saying is that people will more easily believe a big lie then a small one.
I disagree, in many western cultures there is an attitude against just "accepting" the "truth" (smiles and nods). Hence the saying "truth is stranger then fiction". This is why we have such insane laws around misrepresenting the truth in media. As for eastern culture, well define simple. A Thai girl seems to operate on simple things, if she's hungry, she eats, if she's tired, she sleeps but this all goes out the window when you try to understand the social dynamic, who is higher, lower, indebted, honoured, distrusted, and try doing this without speaking Thai (oh the joys of tonal language). It may look simple on the outside, until a Thai girl spends three hours explaining what happened in a 10 minute conversation with one of her friends. Even in the west we have quite complex social systems (games people play in the office, sociopaths, even just finding a girl friend)
The thinking that humans crave simplicity is flawed as we tend to fill our lives with complexity be it a complex social systems, complex technologies, complex learning or many other complex systems. If we had a primal drive for simplicity, we'd have never left the trees.
Don't get me wrong, this is not a yank bash, I think American society is as nuanced as most societies, maybe a bit more open then say Thai or Japanese but just as complex. But your news channels tend to be full of crap and not indicative of your society as a whole, more a product of a bad subset of Americans.
That's even worse, you've removed any semblance of justice and just said, let the community take revenge. Revenge != Justice in case anyone has not figured that out. Revenge does not, nor should never factor into justice.
The difference between vigilante justice and mob rule is entirely cosmetic.
Now prisons are a good idea when done right. You've commuted a crime and now you are being removed from society until such a time where society deems you fit to re-enter. However the US has screwed this one up. Lock up the pot smokers whilst killers go free because the prisons are overcrowded. A lot of offences that are punished with jail time should not be, removing prisons will not fix this issue as the prisons are not the issue.
So, an installable, 64-bit hypervisor was available in the 1970's.
VMWare produces and releases quite a bit of new technology, even if the idea is quite old. They are innovative because the technology is significantly advanced from that of their peers and their peers aren't catching up any time soon (Hyper V is a horrible thing to work with, maybe Xen but I've never worked in depth with that).
On the other hand, Apple does not make significant improvements on existing technology, they just claim to. As we've seen with Android and even Blackberry phones, Apple's peers have no problems keeping up with or even eclipsing Apple's technology.
I do, I need Ubuntu to take the place of my Windows machines, up until 10.04 you were doing well. Apple cannot do this, so copying Apple will not fulfil the functions I and 97% of the market require of Ubuntu.
2 player game. Possibly even a four player game. There are a bunch of four fingered gestures I can think of, scrunching, spreading fingers, moving two fingers up and keeping the others stationary and that's just with the one hand with both hands (yes, some people use both hands when operating their PC's) you have at least a dozen gestures I can think of off the top of my head. But then again I think the whole touch screen thing is a gimmick and the Keyboard and Mouse will continue to reign supreme.
I dont know how you got that out of
I got, we will allow multiple simple tasks to be chained together to perform multiple tasks in succession.
You are clearly of the "Apple" school of thinking where "Simple" means "Remove functionality". Most of the world doesn't work like this, making something "simple" means "a series of easy to follow steps in a logical order" or simply not requiring specialist knowledge. You can make very complex tasks quite simple by breaking them down into smaller tasks in a logical order. Soratherthenwritinganentiresentanceinonegiantword we use spaces to break it up and create an easy to read, making a complex task simple by breaking it up.
The GP did also state that it must "install PERFECTLY".
Oh wait... He didn't specify that it needs to run acceptably.
As you were.
Last time I checked, Windows does not support that gesture, which is why I tend to use Ubuntu wherever possible.
However the last time I gave Windows the "Dead Rat" gesture, a voice said "welcome Mr Balmer".
Correction, there's never going to be anything new until they stop getting money for the same old stuff.
Seriously, Star Wars is 32 years old. The copyright should have expired a decade ago.
This occurs, Sweden remains neutral.
That's not fair, VMWare actually makes decent products that have changed the industry (installable bare metal hypervisor). Where as all Apple did was take existing ideas and put an enormous amount of marketing spin on them (I'd argue the Ipod was a massive step backwards from the Nomad and we're all suffering under Itunes and low quality audio hardware).
But almost all big companies innovate, it's just lost in the enormous amount of BAU that goes on. Anyone who works in any established business knows that the amount of time you spend keeping existing customers happy increases in proportion to company growth. This does not reduce the amount of R&D that goes on, just the percentage of R&D to prod work. I suppose Boeing and Airbus are good examples of innovators, but that's mainly because innovation is their primary marketing tool (Airbus A3xx uses 5% less fuel then the last gen, Boeing B7x7 has 5% greater MTOW then the last gen and so forth).
I do know a few people like this unfortunately, but I've exercised them from my life.
After that the most common reason people buy an Iphone is because it's cool. After that it's cheap (last years Iphone on a $50 p/m 2 yr contract) and they're loving the 3G and all it's slowness under the new IOS.
That would eliminate the need for homeschooling. The only times you need homeschooling is when there is no school within an hour or two's distance (Australia's answer to this is the School of the Air radio service) or when a "parent" (I use this word loosely in this context) wants to "protect" their child from "harmful" ideas like atheism, science or divergent political POV's.
The second category tends to make up the vast majority of homeschooling, the first category tends to use resources provided to them (like the school of the air).
Yet being the operative word.
If Google shows that Oracle can push them around with patent intimidation, it's on for young and old. It's only a matter of time until someone at MS figures out that Mono can be a cash generation tool via lawsuits.
I think of it as a loan, (of tax $) so I amortise it over it's expected life time, the copper network has been in place for 40 years, 20 for the internet. So we can reasonably expect this network to last 20-30 years which reduces the cost to 2.3 Billion a year at most.
Plus we get the boon of increased commerce when a 10 Mbit fibre line reduces in cost from it's current A$1500 per month.
The thing is, places like Germany can provide a highly educated, motivated work force with a strong work ethic, this means industries requiring a highly educated workforce will want to set up there. Despite labour being cheaper in China skilled labour is cheaper in Germany. So chip fabs, aircraft manufacturing, precision engineering (such as shipbuilding) tends to focus around the west and richer Asian nations like Korea. As much as the libertards and protectionists like to whine, we just cant pump out cheap crap as fast or as cheaply as china, but they cannot build supertankers or wide body jet aircraft so we should focus on the industries we can support.
Indiana Jones had one.
I know,
we can call it "CyanogenMod".
Um, you do realise that the Creative MP3 players that pre-dated the Ipod had MSC capabilities.
That story is bollocks and I'm sorry you got sold on it. The Itunes integration was built into the Ipod from the word go because it was meant to be Mac only.
Now they are just suing the crap out of anyone who, well anyone. Dead gramdma's, 7 yr old kids you're all a target.
Utter fanboy bollocks.
I normally dont answer AC's but...
Your consumer phone does not need to power a ARM v7 processor, 3.7" capacitive touch screen and maintain a semi-regular data connection. I used to have a Nokia 6500 Classic (still do, it's great for travelling), that thing went a week between charges because it had a 1.8" low power screen, now it lasts about 3 days because it's old (batteries degrade relatively quickly). A Nokia 6110 would use even less power, well because it requires even less power.
The majority of the functions in a modern smart phone do go to sleep but the power required just to idle the proc's and RAM required by smartphones is significantly greater than that of a consumer phone. But display is the killer, display will be taking up most of your battery and this thing does go to sleep after x number of seconds (or when I press the "main screen off" button). The only way you can effectively do what your are suggesting is to have another OS with another, weaker processor which will run whilst the main OS is shutdown as the main OS (Android, IOS) requires a powerful processor just to run. This will be costly, add to the weight of the phone and the display will still be a battery hog.
Right now, I regularly get 48 Hours out of my Milestone on the weekends. If I turned off data, kicked it back to 2G (you said calls and messages only) I could probably double that amount but then again I wouldn't be using it at all as I rarely receive voice calls and have given up on SMS in favour of Gmail/Email (A$0.25 per SMS vs A$0.02 per MB and I can get a few emails out in 1 MB).