By what record can you judge Obama as better than McCain? Obama had no record, no writings, no published papers, no scholastic records - a man with really no background at all other than a few "autobiographical" books published.
Why is it so hard for someone to just finally release an ipad competitor that at least tries to match the specs? 7 inches is barely above smartphone level.
I have an Android tablet (M721 with Android 2.1) with a 7" screen. It's plenty big for just about anything, and it actually fits in cargo pockets and little sleeves on a backpack. Unlike the much-too-large iPad. I can hold it in one hand without a problem, it's light and not so big that the weight is cantilevered out there.
Sometimes things CAN be too big (although that's not what she said...)
Sadly, the "Troll" is right. I voted for Obama, and either he doesn't know what he's saying (very possible), or he's lost his mind.
Or perhaps he knows EXACTLY what he wants - a totalitarian State where you work for the State, the State pays you, and the State gets to know everything it wants about anything without repercussion.
Think about it: we've lost 2.5 million private employment jobs, but added 500,000 Government jobs. Two of the largest companies in the nation are majority owned by the Government. Many of the largest financial institutions are owned by the Government. Not a single privacy or legal issue that so many attacked the Bush Administration on (renditions, Gitmo) has been overturned or reversed. Obama wants the right to decide an assassination list in secret, even if it contains US citizens who were not tried in court. And now wants unfettered access to anything and everything you communicate.
No, there is a third option: he lied through his teeth to get elected and is now carrying out his dream of a totalitarian State with Obama and friends at the top of the pyramid.
Jobs is correct, IOS owns the mobile smart phone market.
Really? When did iOS smartphones outstrip Symbian or RIM? And I guess Android passing iOS for new smartphone sales never happened, either...
iOS barely made it to 3rd place, and is now starting to slip down to 4th, probably to be firmly entrenched there sometime early next year, as Android moves into 2nd behind Symbian.
There's a few stretches of 312 outside of Worden that have to be at least 8 miles long, completely straight and flat... Not as bad as the Dakotas, but still rather straight and monotonous!
No, we wouldn't. 60%+ of the cost of Government is born by 25% of the people. Not the other 75%, or corporations, or duties or tariffs or other fees - the income and SS taxes of just 25% of the people. Can you claim you pay more than your fair share?
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Yes, you will. You say they need to pay more. So how about saying how much more? Is it 75%? 80%? Should every dollar about $10,000 per month be subject to a 100% tax? How much more is enough?
Well that sucks... I guess I'll need to return all the money I've made in China, running a WFOE in China, as a US citizen. Too bad that only the politically connected can make lots of money, because I have no political friends in China, especially my hometown of Shanghai.
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But first, realize that the top 25% of income earners pay 60% of ALL Federal revenue. With just their income and social security taxes alone (not estate, capital gains, or other taxes). They're already paying 6 out of 10 of every dollar the Federal Government receives.
Sure the workers at FoxConn aren't making $6.00/hr like a US worker who mops the floors, but what they are paid is a very fair wage for the region where they live.
If it was just $6/hr a lot more companies would stay here. When I shuttered my manufacturing company in the US, in 2007, my janitor (a college student working part-time 2 days a week for 4 hours a day) was $8/hr minimum wage. And $0.61 for SS/FICA. And $1.55 per hour for L&I because they'd clean the bathroom in the shop. And $1.22 for unemployment insurance. And $160 per year for city (Lynnwood) tax. And on and on...
That $6/hour job ended up costing closer to double that amount. You simply cannot be competitive on a world-wide level when you're paying floor-moppers that kind of money, or paying forklift drivers $20/hour.
Or maybe it's the insane regulations we add on our businesses, like forcing completely renovating all bathrooms and doors to be 100% ADA compliant before you have any disabled people working for you. Or forcing any insurance policy you carry to include neo-natal and pregnancy coverage, even when all your employees are unmarried men.
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Both were just a few of the reasons I shut down my manufacturing business in Lynnwood, WA and moved it to China. Lower labor wasn't the issue; paying nearly $5/hour per employee for L&I and UI insurance (never had a claim on either in the entire 9 years my business was in the US), and having thousands of dollars of nuisance fees and regulations made the difference.
DNLA playback is what is important, here. Now you can store - and play back (wirelessly, if the phone is so equipped) - HD video from your phone. That's what you need the resolution for. External display playback.
One of the smartest approaches ever was Montana before the Feds forced them to adopt a speed limit on the freeways. It was left to the discretion of the officer observing you about what was a safe speed. There are stretches in MT - just like NV - where you could tie your steering wheel down and take a 30 minute nap and not miss a thing! Any law or politician willing to consider freedom and flexibility in speed limits is a good thing, in my book!
It's not about being the smartest, or the best educated, or the greatest designer/engineer. It's about being wise, open-minded, deliberative, charismatic, and decisive. The best managers I've worked for all acknowledged their technological inferiority to the team (the guys who actually did the work), were able to push and drive people to work towards a consensus answer, then employed their passion and charisma to get buy-in from everyone else - and maintain enthusiasm of all parties.
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Leaders are advocates and champions of the team, not the technology or the budget.
Exactly. And - per the reason the patent system was set up - it allows you to more easily find the art to create the invention. You can find the original patent, which is supposed to be enough documentation to teach someone skilled in the art how to build the invention.
And it's not even limited to the iPhone - most people still use MS Office, despite how many competitors again? Despite the free OpenOffice?
Note that you can write extensions and add-ins for MS Office in any language you like, including Java or Flash if you felt so inclined. Not so much for the iPhone...
In this case, Microsoft doesn't CARE what language you - the developer - uses, just as long as you support their platform (Office). Microsoft assumes you'll support their platform first because of it's dominant marketshare, marketshare that Microsoft will continue to keep and build by focusing on making a great product and making it extensible and customizable by users and 3rd party developers.
Apple wants you to support their platform, but rather than focusing on marketshare to keep you as a developer, they will force you to use their tools and pay extra money and sell through their sales channel only. They put much more emphasis on controlling and regulating you, the developer, rather than maintaining their 2nd place position in smartphones in the US that they once held (note they are now 3rd place, and falling rapidly).
Microsoft - judging from the actions with Office - treats you as a potential partner and courts you with marketshare and flexibility, so you choose to not go elsewhere. Apple treats you as a revenue stream that may go rogue and tries to lock you down so you cannot go elsewhere.
Have you also thought, that the same control also keeps the phone fairly free of malware?
Hmmm... There was the massive PDF hole that rooted your phone, the SMS-text-message virus, the Ikee worm, a hotspot app disguised as a flashlight app (and sold in the App Store), and a few others. How's that compare to the Android platform? Pretty poorly, all things considered...
Seems that control isn't helping at all, in terms of security.
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By what record can you judge Obama as better than McCain? Obama had no record, no writings, no published papers, no scholastic records - a man with really no background at all other than a few "autobiographical" books published.
You must LOVE Microsoft then, given their higher revenue, higher profit, higher profit margin, and higher percent ownership of their markets...
Why is it so hard for someone to just finally release an ipad competitor that at least tries to match the specs? 7 inches is barely above smartphone level.
I have an Android tablet (M721 with Android 2.1) with a 7" screen. It's plenty big for just about anything, and it actually fits in cargo pockets and little sleeves on a backpack. Unlike the much-too-large iPad. I can hold it in one hand without a problem, it's light and not so big that the weight is cantilevered out there.
Sometimes things CAN be too big (although that's not what she said...)
Sadly, the "Troll" is right. I voted for Obama, and either he doesn't know what he's saying (very possible), or he's lost his mind.
Or perhaps he knows EXACTLY what he wants - a totalitarian State where you work for the State, the State pays you, and the State gets to know everything it wants about anything without repercussion.
Think about it: we've lost 2.5 million private employment jobs, but added 500,000 Government jobs. Two of the largest companies in the nation are majority owned by the Government. Many of the largest financial institutions are owned by the Government. Not a single privacy or legal issue that so many attacked the Bush Administration on (renditions, Gitmo) has been overturned or reversed. Obama wants the right to decide an assassination list in secret, even if it contains US citizens who were not tried in court. And now wants unfettered access to anything and everything you communicate.
No, there is a third option: he lied through his teeth to get elected and is now carrying out his dream of a totalitarian State with Obama and friends at the top of the pyramid.
Jobs is correct, IOS owns the mobile smart phone market.
Really? When did iOS smartphones outstrip Symbian or RIM? And I guess Android passing iOS for new smartphone sales never happened, either...
iOS barely made it to 3rd place, and is now starting to slip down to 4th, probably to be firmly entrenched there sometime early next year, as Android moves into 2nd behind Symbian.
And you know that... How?
There's a few stretches of 312 outside of Worden that have to be at least 8 miles long, completely straight and flat... Not as bad as the Dakotas, but still rather straight and monotonous!
Yes, you will. You say they need to pay more. So how about saying how much more? Is it 75%? 80%? Should every dollar about $10,000 per month be subject to a 100% tax? How much more is enough?
What do you think is a decent wage in China? What are meaningful safety standards?
Well that sucks... I guess I'll need to return all the money I've made in China, running a WFOE in China, as a US citizen. Too bad that only the politically connected can make lots of money, because I have no political friends in China, especially my hometown of Shanghai.
But first, realize that the top 25% of income earners pay 60% of ALL Federal revenue. With just their income and social security taxes alone (not estate, capital gains, or other taxes). They're already paying 6 out of 10 of every dollar the Federal Government receives.
How much more should they pay?
Sure the workers at FoxConn aren't making $6.00/hr like a US worker who mops the floors, but what they are paid is a very fair wage for the region where they live.
If it was just $6/hr a lot more companies would stay here. When I shuttered my manufacturing company in the US, in 2007, my janitor (a college student working part-time 2 days a week for 4 hours a day) was $8/hr minimum wage. And $0.61 for SS/FICA. And $1.55 per hour for L&I because they'd clean the bathroom in the shop. And $1.22 for unemployment insurance. And $160 per year for city (Lynnwood) tax. And on and on...
That $6/hour job ended up costing closer to double that amount. You simply cannot be competitive on a world-wide level when you're paying floor-moppers that kind of money, or paying forklift drivers $20/hour.
Both were just a few of the reasons I shut down my manufacturing business in Lynnwood, WA and moved it to China. Lower labor wasn't the issue; paying nearly $5/hour per employee for L&I and UI insurance (never had a claim on either in the entire 9 years my business was in the US), and having thousands of dollars of nuisance fees and regulations made the difference.
DNLA playback is what is important, here. Now you can store - and play back (wirelessly, if the phone is so equipped) - HD video from your phone. That's what you need the resolution for. External display playback.
One of the smartest approaches ever was Montana before the Feds forced them to adopt a speed limit on the freeways. It was left to the discretion of the officer observing you about what was a safe speed. There are stretches in MT - just like NV - where you could tie your steering wheel down and take a 30 minute nap and not miss a thing! Any law or politician willing to consider freedom and flexibility in speed limits is a good thing, in my book!
Only "communism"?
Capitalism makes no pretense about the equality of results, unlike Communism.
All people are equal, just some are more equal than others!
90 MPH is pretty much the standard anyway. Seems to work rather fine with cars flying along at 90+ and trucks chugging up the passes at 30 MPH.
Leaders are advocates and champions of the team, not the technology or the budget.
That would be a shit load.
Metric or Imperial?
Depends.
That would be a shit load.
Exactly. And - per the reason the patent system was set up - it allows you to more easily find the art to create the invention. You can find the original patent, which is supposed to be enough documentation to teach someone skilled in the art how to build the invention.
I'll wait until Netcraft confirms it, and Dvorak denies it...
And it's not even limited to the iPhone - most people still use MS Office, despite how many competitors again? Despite the free OpenOffice?
Note that you can write extensions and add-ins for MS Office in any language you like, including Java or Flash if you felt so inclined. Not so much for the iPhone...
In this case, Microsoft doesn't CARE what language you - the developer - uses, just as long as you support their platform (Office). Microsoft assumes you'll support their platform first because of it's dominant marketshare, marketshare that Microsoft will continue to keep and build by focusing on making a great product and making it extensible and customizable by users and 3rd party developers.
Apple wants you to support their platform, but rather than focusing on marketshare to keep you as a developer, they will force you to use their tools and pay extra money and sell through their sales channel only. They put much more emphasis on controlling and regulating you, the developer, rather than maintaining their 2nd place position in smartphones in the US that they once held (note they are now 3rd place, and falling rapidly).
Microsoft - judging from the actions with Office - treats you as a potential partner and courts you with marketshare and flexibility, so you choose to not go elsewhere. Apple treats you as a revenue stream that may go rogue and tries to lock you down so you cannot go elsewhere.
Have you also thought, that the same control also keeps the phone fairly free of malware?
Hmmm... There was the massive PDF hole that rooted your phone, the SMS-text-message virus, the Ikee worm, a hotspot app disguised as a flashlight app (and sold in the App Store), and a few others. How's that compare to the Android platform? Pretty poorly, all things considered...
Seems that control isn't helping at all, in terms of security.