As a consumer and developer, it's nice to know the platform I'm using will be well-supported and targeted - and that comes predominantly from being a ubiquitous, high-market-share platform. How's it going with the N900? Niche products end up hurting the consumer.
So, my answer was correct (Samsung outsells Apple by a healthy margin), but because Apple makes more money (i.e.: harvests more cash from the customers), it's all good. Got it.
Fanboi should read something other than MacNews... Samsung has been outselling Apple for quite a while, and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. Your unreferenced claim is, in fact, incorrect - Apple has sold more iPhones (all models) than Samsung GALAXY phones. Not all Samsung smartphones. Samsung has led the smartphone sales for over a year and is predicted to continue to do so for the next 5 years.
Everyone's heard of Dell. Only geeks MAY have heard of Raspberry or Sheeva. You don't have to be the first to a market to dominate or change a market - just the one who markets the best.
Pardon me, perhaps you are not aware of District of Columbia v. Heller where the Supreme Court found the 2nd Amendment is expressly ABOUT personal ownership of firearms. So how about you STFU until you learn something about the issue, rather than a knee-jerk response...
Great! Start a Constitutional Amendment petition to remove the 2nd Amendment. Short of that, trying to eliminate firearms via any other way is strictly unconstitutional.
If you actually KNEW Shanghai, you'd know Pudong is huge. Living in Pudong is like living in New York. There is Manhattan, and there is Queens. Na Ma Tou Lu isn't a rich area, and a 2800 RMB apartment is pretty darn middle class for Shanghai. Of course, you probably don't know that, since such information can't be found in Wikipedia for an anon coward to "act the part"...
Of course... You couldn't find such a better counter-example. It's like talking about Manhattan and generalize for the whole of USA. In other words, your experience is not the one of Chinese people. Now, such post by some rich guys coming in the most rich parts of Shanghai for 6 months, then believing they know everything, bothers me. Try to go in more rural parts for few years, then we talk again.
Rich parts? Na Ma Tou Lu isn't very rich, and my 2800 RMB per month apartment isn't out of the ordinary at all. I'm the sole lao wai in the complex, and have yet to see another one at the nearest Lotus (down on Shangnan Lu) or Carrefour. Far from a "rich guy", I'm living in a place like many middle-class Shanghainese.
Or maybe when I was living in Minhang district, out by Qibao town, I was considered "regular"?
Was there for most of December (man it was cold, even got thick rain and snow - but nothing stuck), returned back to the States just in time for CES. Using a VPN works pretty darn well - my SONOS system was happily streaming MOG for me, and I watched more than a few movies on Netflix.
Ever lived in Shanghai? It is huge - but it's famous for bad telecom/infrastructure. Partly because much of it is so old, and partly because it's been growing so fast. My friends and coworkers in Beijing, Tianjin, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Xiamen, and Ningbo all have similar experiences with Internet. Cheap, pretty fast, and with a VPN no problems getting what you want from the US.
I typically get 4-8 concurrent tunnels running, and have no problems getting speed to the US. I don't think I've ever pushed the streams from the US, but I've done three MOG streams (3 SONOS players), a Netflix HD stream, and some general browsing from the US all at the same time. Never had a problem with bandwidth...
Actually, yes I live in mainland China, and have done so for 6-7 months a year for the last 7 years. The 50 Mbps fiber I have for my apartment in Shanghai (Lujiazui district) provides nearly that via my VPN back to the US so I can stream several channels of MOG as well as Netflix. It's pretty darn good. Is it always 50 Mbps? Nope. But then again, my other place (Santa Barbara, served by Cox Internet) rarely can provide what it advertises as well.
As another expat spending inordinate amounts of time in Shanghai, the Internet available (50 Mbps fiber for me) is a lot better than the options I have in my other home in Santa Barbara. And whilst China does block access to some foreign (US) sites, and many US sites (Hulu, Netflix, Pandora, MOG, etc) block me, my nice little low-cost VPN perforates through all that stuff without a hitch.
I agree with your skepticism. I think the bigger question is what's the politburo is trying to accomplish as a whole--not just with the internet. I think what people have to understand is that every company in China is owned by the communist government--whether covertly or overtly, just look at who founded Huawei for an example (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren_Zhengfei).
Really? Every company? I guess the company I own - of which I am the sole registered owner, and the only person on the bank accounts - is somehow State owned. It's no more State owned than my company in the US, meaning it's my private property until the Government decides I'm either doing something they don't like, or am doing it too successfully and need "their assistance" to make it better. But for now - it's 100% privately held by a foreign national. And there's no problem with that.
I live in Shanghai half time, and have 50 Mbps fiber to my apartment. And the VPN router I brought over from the US not only keeps prying eyes off my pipe, it lets me consume Hulu, Youtube, Netflix, and music streaming sources without an issue. Fiber's readily available in most of the bigger cities already, this is a pretty small step forward.
I am sure, then, you will absolutely push to have all hands eliminated - cut off. Since not only can they wield those evil, murderous guns but also kill twice as many people as rifles. If you are so upset about these "assault" rifles, then you must be positively frothing at the mouth over the wanton carnage from those unregistered, unlicensed fists!
From what I understand, the legal gun ownership is taken from certain type of gun, not solely from owning a gun. Tell me why do you need an assault rifle to hunt? Maybe you have no skill in using a gun to shoot a deer and kill it in 1 shot?
Why are we even talking about assault rifles? You're twice as likely to be killed by a hammer or club as by ANY kind of rifle ("assault" or regular hunting). Hand guns are the source of 99.9%+ of all gun related homicides, but you just ignore that fact - like most of the "worried powers that be" do - and piggyback on a tragedy for your own personal agenda. Facts be damned - this is an "opportunity" to grab a few guns even if they mean nothing because in some mindsets all guns are evil and should be eliminated.
Get a grip - "assault" rifles are a non-issue, and your politicizing a tragedy is despicable.
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As a consumer and developer, it's nice to know the platform I'm using will be well-supported and targeted - and that comes predominantly from being a ubiquitous, high-market-share platform. How's it going with the N900? Niche products end up hurting the consumer.
So, my answer was correct (Samsung outsells Apple by a healthy margin), but because Apple makes more money (i.e.: harvests more cash from the customers), it's all good. Got it.
Fanboi should read something other than MacNews... Samsung has been outselling Apple for quite a while, and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. Your unreferenced claim is, in fact, incorrect - Apple has sold more iPhones (all models) than Samsung GALAXY phones. Not all Samsung smartphones. Samsung has led the smartphone sales for over a year and is predicted to continue to do so for the next 5 years.
Everyone's heard of Dell. Only geeks MAY have heard of Raspberry or Sheeva. You don't have to be the first to a market to dominate or change a market - just the one who markets the best.
Thank you, at least one person got it! The rest of the pedantic wankers in this thread can go back to counting lines of code... :)
I'm sorry, which standards would those be?
Pardon me, perhaps you are not aware of District of Columbia v. Heller where the Supreme Court found the 2nd Amendment is expressly ABOUT personal ownership of firearms. So how about you STFU until you learn something about the issue, rather than a knee-jerk response...
Great! Start a Constitutional Amendment petition to remove the 2nd Amendment. Short of that, trying to eliminate firearms via any other way is strictly unconstitutional.
Heller says otherwise. Perhaps YOU need to learn more about your rights than what the President wishes to spoon-feed you...
Hmmm... My lever action has a fixed magazine, and it's been fired more than 11 times...
I've got a Garand, you insensitive clod!
We need to wake up and realize that guns are a privilege not a right.
The 2nd Amendment says otherwise. Unless you want to claim all other amendments are just privileges and not rights?
If you knew Shanghai, you'd know that Na Ma Tou Road is on the SW border of Lujiazui. My nearest metro stop is Gaoke Xi Lu on line 7.
If you actually KNEW Shanghai, you'd know Pudong is huge. Living in Pudong is like living in New York. There is Manhattan, and there is Queens. Na Ma Tou Lu isn't a rich area, and a 2800 RMB apartment is pretty darn middle class for Shanghai. Of course, you probably don't know that, since such information can't be found in Wikipedia for an anon coward to "act the part"...
Of course... You couldn't find such a better counter-example. It's like talking about Manhattan and generalize for the whole of USA. In other words, your experience is not the one of Chinese people. Now, such post by some rich guys coming in the most rich parts of Shanghai for 6 months, then believing they know everything, bothers me. Try to go in more rural parts for few years, then we talk again.
Rich parts? Na Ma Tou Lu isn't very rich, and my 2800 RMB per month apartment isn't out of the ordinary at all. I'm the sole lao wai in the complex, and have yet to see another one at the nearest Lotus (down on Shangnan Lu) or Carrefour. Far from a "rich guy", I'm living in a place like many middle-class Shanghainese.
Or maybe when I was living in Minhang district, out by Qibao town, I was considered "regular"?
Was there for most of December (man it was cold, even got thick rain and snow - but nothing stuck), returned back to the States just in time for CES. Using a VPN works pretty darn well - my SONOS system was happily streaming MOG for me, and I watched more than a few movies on Netflix.
Ever lived in Shanghai? It is huge - but it's famous for bad telecom/infrastructure. Partly because much of it is so old, and partly because it's been growing so fast. My friends and coworkers in Beijing, Tianjin, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Xiamen, and Ningbo all have similar experiences with Internet. Cheap, pretty fast, and with a VPN no problems getting what you want from the US.
I typically get 4-8 concurrent tunnels running, and have no problems getting speed to the US. I don't think I've ever pushed the streams from the US, but I've done three MOG streams (3 SONOS players), a Netflix HD stream, and some general browsing from the US all at the same time. Never had a problem with bandwidth...
It's actually in speaker manufacturing. I've bought and sold heavy equipment, as well as moved tools in and out of China. Not a problem at all.
Actually, yes I live in mainland China, and have done so for 6-7 months a year for the last 7 years. The 50 Mbps fiber I have for my apartment in Shanghai (Lujiazui district) provides nearly that via my VPN back to the US so I can stream several channels of MOG as well as Netflix. It's pretty darn good. Is it always 50 Mbps? Nope. But then again, my other place (Santa Barbara, served by Cox Internet) rarely can provide what it advertises as well.
As another expat spending inordinate amounts of time in Shanghai, the Internet available (50 Mbps fiber for me) is a lot better than the options I have in my other home in Santa Barbara. And whilst China does block access to some foreign (US) sites, and many US sites (Hulu, Netflix, Pandora, MOG, etc) block me, my nice little low-cost VPN perforates through all that stuff without a hitch.
I agree with your skepticism. I think the bigger question is what's the politburo is trying to accomplish as a whole--not just with the internet. I think what people have to understand is that every company in China is owned by the communist government--whether covertly or overtly, just look at who founded Huawei for an example (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren_Zhengfei).
Really? Every company? I guess the company I own - of which I am the sole registered owner, and the only person on the bank accounts - is somehow State owned. It's no more State owned than my company in the US, meaning it's my private property until the Government decides I'm either doing something they don't like, or am doing it too successfully and need "their assistance" to make it better. But for now - it's 100% privately held by a foreign national. And there's no problem with that.
I live in Shanghai half time, and have 50 Mbps fiber to my apartment. And the VPN router I brought over from the US not only keeps prying eyes off my pipe, it lets me consume Hulu, Youtube, Netflix, and music streaming sources without an issue. Fiber's readily available in most of the bigger cities already, this is a pretty small step forward.
I am sure, then, you will absolutely push to have all hands eliminated - cut off. Since not only can they wield those evil, murderous guns but also kill twice as many people as rifles. If you are so upset about these "assault" rifles, then you must be positively frothing at the mouth over the wanton carnage from those unregistered, unlicensed fists!
remove freely legal gun ownership
From what I understand, the legal gun ownership is taken from certain type of gun, not solely from owning a gun. Tell me why do you need an assault rifle to hunt? Maybe you have no skill in using a gun to shoot a deer and kill it in 1 shot?
Why are we even talking about assault rifles? You're twice as likely to be killed by a hammer or club as by ANY kind of rifle ("assault" or regular hunting). Hand guns are the source of 99.9%+ of all gun related homicides, but you just ignore that fact - like most of the "worried powers that be" do - and piggyback on a tragedy for your own personal agenda. Facts be damned - this is an "opportunity" to grab a few guns even if they mean nothing because in some mindsets all guns are evil and should be eliminated.
Get a grip - "assault" rifles are a non-issue, and your politicizing a tragedy is despicable.