It's a small grenade - don't have to do much at all but be near them. The blast radius is a good 10-15 meters, and the shock wave of a grenade is considerably faster than 1000 fps. So if you can blow up within 1-3 meters of your desired location, you've pretty much killed anyone at that location, and for another 15 meters around.
In fact, if you eliminated all DOD spending - took it to zero - you'd simply cut the deficit in half, leaving it at $700 billion (higher than any time in the past, save the last two deficits).
Yes, choice sucks... There should only be one possible option for all situations, because if it doesn't work for you then it won't work for anyone else.
Yes, I ran (and still run) Windows Mobile pre-iPhone, but I used SPB Mobile Shell - a UI replacement that puts iOS and Android to shame. Better than TouchFLO or any of the others as well. Of course, the OS - WinMo - allows you to replace the UI and that's a huge improvement. If anything, iOS ripped a lot of the concepts of SPB Mobile Shell and TouchFLO - both out well before iOS ever released. But then, SPB and HTC didn't call it magical, so I guess that's the problem...
You lose your keys when they're in your hand, don't you?
About that derangement syndrome, I fear for many it also extends to anyone of an alternate political bent; I believe there is empirical data quoted right here to indicate as much.
And what if a person considers President Obama, or Vice President Biden, or Speaker Pelosi to be whackos? Does that mean the Democrat Party is totally out there, too?
South Korea would probably be the exception; I know when I go there I see a LOT of Samsung phones - understandably so. In Japan, you'll see quite a few Sony Ericsson. But in the rest of Asia you'll see a LOT of Nokia with a fair mount of Samsung and Sony's mixed in. And iPhones and iPods are few and far between.
So does that make my HTC Touch Pro2 not a smart phone? No one really develops for WinMo 6.5, I think there's fewer apps available for my phone than in the OVI store. Yet my phone can do things that iOS and Android devices simply cannot do...
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I think your definition of smartphone/dumbphone territory needs a little work...
Dumb comment in TFA - they surely make more on an iPhone than an iPod. Also, Apple had to produce the iPhone - other phone manufacturers were including music players and that would have hit iPod sales.
Other manufacturers have been including music players in their phones for most of the last 10 years. The number one music play in Asia is a Nokia phone. Ride a subway in China, South Korea, or Japan and you'll see it for yourself. Dedicated music players are dead. Apple's iPods are a dying product because the rest of the market already moved past them; Apple just decided to do what every other manufacturer was already doing - replacing a music player with a phone - but declare it magical and innovative and revolutionary and their adoring writers in the media - and their vocal minority of Macolytes - gladly repeated the company line, and it became accepted common knowledge.
If you are still not convinced, go down to your local OfficeMax and spend some time with a droid tablet or try to edit AVCHD Video on WIndows 7 PC.
I'd love to see how well that iPhone or iPod or iPad plays one of the thousands of lossess WMA and FLAC audio files I have. I mean, if I can't consume the media, why the heck should I even worry about editing it?
The products really aren't that "revolutionary", and certainly not magical. In fact, they're pretty ordinary. What separates Apple from the rest (and a lot of people's money) is the cult-like status they've built amongst a small but big-spending segment of the population. You HAVE to have the latest because it's the greatest thing that will ever be and ever has been. Until the next version comes out in which case the previous version is worthless. And they trade on that and a cult-like image; remember when multitasking and copy-and-paste were simply not needed on smartphones and tablets, until Apple finally figured out how to do it and then it because a must-have feature? Cognitive dissonance is the key here. Function over form. Groupthink and belonging.
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Consider the AppleCare approach; for $269 I can get 3 years of mail-in service, or having to take my Macbook to their store, and leave it with them for weeks on end to get fixed. Somehow that is considered better and more convenient than what Dell, HP, and most others offer - $199 for a technician to come to ME with replacement parts, to fix it the next day, at my convenience. Paying more for less service is desired, and I think it's because Apple has built the reputation of their stores as shrines to all things Apple. It's like a mini-pilgrimage and you should feel grateful for the opportunity to let the priests of Apple pray and heal your iDevice.
Eventually, the fad will fade, the religion will implode and Apple will slink back down.
PS: really want to watch a Macolyte go nuts? Tell them for all that revenue, Microsoft still makes more profit, and has a higher profit margin...
Just stop think about that for a bit. I think it could be entirely possible for a new smartphone platform to "succeed", i.e. sell widely and turn a large profit, with a tiny app store selection -- if people found the core experience "cool" enough.
Precisely. See the biggest player in smartphones: Nokia. Tiny app store, yet they're the big player in the smartphone world.
Even better, I just got back from Shanghai. I got bumped to business class from Tokyo to PDX, and dinner was sirloin steak. Complete with steak knife with a 5" serrated blade, a 9" total length metal butter knife, and a full-size metal dinner fork. Just given to me for sitting in the front section.
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Who needs to smuggle on your own knife; buy a first class or business class ticket and get a nice, sharp, big knife given to you!
No, not at all! Four years ago, it was 50 deg F and cloudy here in Seattle. Now it's 20 deg F and we have snow on the ground. Clearly CO2 emissions have been reduced too much!
You could make it work with a controller AND a motion detector (Kinect, Move, etc) so that you can use the controller for weapons/maps, and body movements for ship control.
I just run a small Joomla website. Easy for me to pop in, squirt out a few paragraphs of "what I'm doing", upload a few photos, and publish the article. That way they can look at it, respond (a nice little moderated commenting module add-in), search, look at old posts, etc. Even have add-ins for SMS connectivity if you want to roll that way... Just browse to my site and it's all there - even easier than FB.
OK, what strawman are you trying to argue? That Libertarians oppose ALL Government? Is that your point? If so, you're sadly misinformed. We just want limited Government, not zero Government.
I can sue the corporation for damages I sustain because of their actions; I'd have a REALLY hard time suing the US Government for the damages already sustained due to the fiscal policies (and looming healthcare mandate that has already caused me to lose my insurance).
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The Government is immune from many actions you can take against other persons and corporations.
BTW, I have stood up to the Government (in particular, the IRS) and actually won. And when I was denied satisfaction (basically proved that the IRS committed negligence in their baseless charges of tax evasion and wrongful levy and liens) because I could not prove they acted in malice (a level not required for private/civil lawsuits).
Too bad too many people like yourself value "getting along" more than keeping your essential liberties...
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It's a small grenade - don't have to do much at all but be near them. The blast radius is a good 10-15 meters, and the shock wave of a grenade is considerably faster than 1000 fps. So if you can blow up within 1-3 meters of your desired location, you've pretty much killed anyone at that location, and for another 15 meters around.
In fact, if you eliminated all DOD spending - took it to zero - you'd simply cut the deficit in half, leaving it at $700 billion (higher than any time in the past, save the last two deficits).
Yes, choice sucks... There should only be one possible option for all situations, because if it doesn't work for you then it won't work for anyone else.
Yes, I ran (and still run) Windows Mobile pre-iPhone, but I used SPB Mobile Shell - a UI replacement that puts iOS and Android to shame. Better than TouchFLO or any of the others as well. Of course, the OS - WinMo - allows you to replace the UI and that's a huge improvement. If anything, iOS ripped a lot of the concepts of SPB Mobile Shell and TouchFLO - both out well before iOS ever released. But then, SPB and HTC didn't call it magical, so I guess that's the problem...
Truly epic, sir, truly epic - well done!
Really? You've seen enough rage against Bush to name/quote an invented disorder about it,
At the risk of Godwin-ing the discussion, Google is your friend.
You lose your keys when they're in your hand, don't you?
About that derangement syndrome, I fear for many it also extends to anyone of an alternate political bent; I believe there is empirical data quoted right here to indicate as much.
And what if a person considers President Obama, or Vice President Biden, or Speaker Pelosi to be whackos? Does that mean the Democrat Party is totally out there, too?
I'm sorry, who are you and why should I care?
Would labeling it "bottle deer urine" work as well, too?
South Korea would probably be the exception; I know when I go there I see a LOT of Samsung phones - understandably so. In Japan, you'll see quite a few Sony Ericsson. But in the rest of Asia you'll see a LOT of Nokia with a fair mount of Samsung and Sony's mixed in. And iPhones and iPods are few and far between.
What does Apple manufacture?
I think your definition of smartphone/dumbphone territory needs a little work...
Dumb comment in TFA - they surely make more on an iPhone than an iPod. Also, Apple had to produce the iPhone - other phone manufacturers were including music players and that would have hit iPod sales.
Other manufacturers have been including music players in their phones for most of the last 10 years. The number one music play in Asia is a Nokia phone. Ride a subway in China, South Korea, or Japan and you'll see it for yourself. Dedicated music players are dead. Apple's iPods are a dying product because the rest of the market already moved past them; Apple just decided to do what every other manufacturer was already doing - replacing a music player with a phone - but declare it magical and innovative and revolutionary and their adoring writers in the media - and their vocal minority of Macolytes - gladly repeated the company line, and it became accepted common knowledge.
If you are still not convinced, go down to your local OfficeMax and spend some time with a droid tablet or try to edit AVCHD Video on WIndows 7 PC.
I'd love to see how well that iPhone or iPod or iPad plays one of the thousands of lossess WMA and FLAC audio files I have. I mean, if I can't consume the media, why the heck should I even worry about editing it?
Consider the AppleCare approach; for $269 I can get 3 years of mail-in service, or having to take my Macbook to their store, and leave it with them for weeks on end to get fixed. Somehow that is considered better and more convenient than what Dell, HP, and most others offer - $199 for a technician to come to ME with replacement parts, to fix it the next day, at my convenience. Paying more for less service is desired, and I think it's because Apple has built the reputation of their stores as shrines to all things Apple. It's like a mini-pilgrimage and you should feel grateful for the opportunity to let the priests of Apple pray and heal your iDevice.
Eventually, the fad will fade, the religion will implode and Apple will slink back down.
PS: really want to watch a Macolyte go nuts? Tell them for all that revenue, Microsoft still makes more profit, and has a higher profit margin...
Just stop think about that for a bit. I think it could be entirely possible for a new smartphone platform to "succeed", i.e. sell widely and turn a large profit, with a tiny app store selection -- if people found the core experience "cool" enough.
Precisely. See the biggest player in smartphones: Nokia. Tiny app store, yet they're the big player in the smartphone world.
Who needs to smuggle on your own knife; buy a first class or business class ticket and get a nice, sharp, big knife given to you!
No, not at all! Four years ago, it was 50 deg F and cloudy here in Seattle. Now it's 20 deg F and we have snow on the ground. Clearly CO2 emissions have been reduced too much!
Please please PLEASE leave this open for hobbyists to download their own FPGA code. I could REALLY use a dedicated FFT or DSP for math crunching!
The graphics are there, and it could be combined with motion sensors as well...
You could make it work with a controller AND a motion detector (Kinect, Move, etc) so that you can use the controller for weapons/maps, and body movements for ship control.
I just run a small Joomla website. Easy for me to pop in, squirt out a few paragraphs of "what I'm doing", upload a few photos, and publish the article. That way they can look at it, respond (a nice little moderated commenting module add-in), search, look at old posts, etc. Even have add-ins for SMS connectivity if you want to roll that way... Just browse to my site and it's all there - even easier than FB.
By the way, I believe most Android devices that come out of China don't ship with Android Market so there you go.
All 4 Android tablets I've bought in Shanghai came with the Android Market preloaded. On the contrary, the rule seems to be access to the Market.
OK, what strawman are you trying to argue? That Libertarians oppose ALL Government? Is that your point? If so, you're sadly misinformed. We just want limited Government, not zero Government.
The Government is immune from many actions you can take against other persons and corporations.
BTW, I have stood up to the Government (in particular, the IRS) and actually won. And when I was denied satisfaction (basically proved that the IRS committed negligence in their baseless charges of tax evasion and wrongful levy and liens) because I could not prove they acted in malice (a level not required for private/civil lawsuits).
Too bad too many people like yourself value "getting along" more than keeping your essential liberties...