Your explanation for anything slightly peculiar is aliens, isn't it? You lose your keys, it's aliens. A picture falls off the wall, it's aliens. That time we used up a whole bog roll in a day, you thought that was aliens as well.
There is a huge difference between an overconfident bomb disposal technician making a mistake when handling decades old abandoned munitions and active use of chemical weapons.
For starters, when you are actively screwing around with something the fact that it was assembled decades before is irrelevant to it's current threat. Current attempts to thwart a triggering mechanism generates risk of detonation whether said explosive was assembled days before or decades before. Both can explode in an instant killing whomever happens to be within the blast radius.
In the case of chemical weapons, months after an attack someone a few villages away can drink the water from their local well, contract a horrible disease and die.
The Synopsis was a little lacking in detail. Namely, the gear configuration for the legs on this adolescent insect allowed it to jump faster and further than it would normally be able to do safely. Through use of the gear configuration, it allowed the adolescent insect to develop it's nervous system to adapt to acceleration to 400g while it's muscular structure and carapace developed, at which point the years are shed.
Basically, these are training wheels, not that they are inherently better.
What is interesting is that the gear design is quite different than what we humans have created, and allows for highly effective forward momentum with minimal energy expenditure at the expense of reverse.
Or, Apple gave AMC an account to upload content (as they do every other iTunes Content Distributor whether they be app, music, movie or tv) and AMC did it under the guise of Season 5 is 8 episodes. Just because AMC is covering their asses as SciFi did on many occasions in the past does not mean that Apple is at fault.
Basically, it is the same as the DVD and Bluray copies sold as Season 5 during a mid-season break only to have 5.1 after the season truly ends. Or do you blame Best Buy for those too?
This one does look kind of cool, especially like the whole 'it is a phone' thing.
I already do most of my stuff on the Nexus 7 anyways, so tethering between the two and still having a device to take phone calls on would actually be pretty great.
Do you honestly think that a company whose mantra is "Don't Be Evil" would have received a memo regarding "No Good English"?
Only those who are "up to no good" have reason to know about "No Good English".
No Good English is a dialect of the English language spoken by those who have previously been associated with the US Penal system.
It is named for it's ability to disguise conversation from those in a position of authority as to allow for those who understand it to speak with others without the intent of their communications being used against them.
Except (at least 6 months ago) Amazon's DRM was very easy to get around. All you needed was a plugin for Calibre and you were set.
Still, it seems that even with this guy's physical contraption it is still easier to copy an ebook than it is to copy the physical alternative.
I mean, even the route that he took, he could still just set the Kindle on top of a photo copier and duplicate the pages that way.
The key thing that was lost in the digital book revolution is the ability to lend.
How else are you supposed to get ahead if not by standing on the shoulders of others?
The handicapped parking spaces... maybe he actually had the plates but never bothered to get them installed on his car (or any other plate for that matter). He was dying after all.
And finally, if Apple kept all that charitable giving alive, where would their unprecedented cash horde be?
The reason why the Surface failed wasn't because its software sucked...
It was a marketing failure to differentiate the product, releasing the inferior product that couldn't do what people expected it to under the guise of "but it runs windows".
It was a marketing failure to refer to the product as being "better" than an iPad or Android tablet because it had twice the memory, when it had *equal* usable memory, and there's not a damn thing that you can do to recover the unusable memory.
It was a marketing failure to create a dance video for a product with zero brand recognition rather than actually saying *something* about it.
It was a packaging failure as Marketing talked up the awesome keyboards and why it makes the product far better than the competition, but you didn't actually get one without increasing the cost $130 or more than everything else on the market.
It was a design failure in the sense that the product that *could* do what you wanted was twice as thick and heavy as the nearest competitor.
The software was actually pretty well designed for the hardware, it's just that the software tried to be forced on the rest of the market as well, in places where it didn't make sense. That in turn hurt the Windows brand.
If their first offering wasn't called a Surface (a meaningless name) but instead the Xbox Tablet, the response would have likely been quite different as it looks and behaves like an Xbox and doesn't have the same connotation as "it runs Windows, so all my programs will work, and I won't have to learn anything new". That in turn further hurt the Windows brand.
The Surface brand become synonymous with the Zune, Vista, and a number of other Microsoft failures despite being a reasonable product, but not the product that you expected it to be.
Just because it is a sacred commandment to "go forth and multiply" does not mean that our religion has any part in the rampant overpopulation of our planet.
(Bonus points if you can say it with a strait face.)
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Your explanation for anything slightly peculiar is aliens, isn't it? You lose your keys, it's aliens. A picture falls off the wall, it's aliens. That time we used up a whole bog roll in a day, you thought that was aliens as well.
A Model S weighs *only* 611 pounds more than my Infiniti M37. Add 145lbs of gas, and the delta is quite a bit closer.
No, but you have made clear that you don't have a clue what source code is.
There is a huge difference between an overconfident bomb disposal technician making a mistake when handling decades old abandoned munitions and active use of chemical weapons.
For starters, when you are actively screwing around with something the fact that it was assembled decades before is irrelevant to it's current threat. Current attempts to thwart a triggering mechanism generates risk of detonation whether said explosive was assembled days before or decades before. Both can explode in an instant killing whomever happens to be within the blast radius.
In the case of chemical weapons, months after an attack someone a few villages away can drink the water from their local well, contract a horrible disease and die.
Chemical weapons still kill weeks or more after they have been deployed. Bullets and Explosives only kill in that instant.
Then how does Apple, Microsoft and a legion of third party developers write their software if not in source code? Magic?
The Synopsis was a little lacking in detail. Namely, the gear configuration for the legs on this adolescent insect allowed it to jump faster and further than it would normally be able to do safely. Through use of the gear configuration, it allowed the adolescent insect to develop it's nervous system to adapt to acceleration to 400g while it's muscular structure and carapace developed, at which point the years are shed. Basically, these are training wheels, not that they are inherently better. What is interesting is that the gear design is quite different than what we humans have created, and allows for highly effective forward momentum with minimal energy expenditure at the expense of reverse.
When XTO provides 36% of all taxes paid in Lycoming County, they are probably willing to look the other way.
Or, Apple gave AMC an account to upload content (as they do every other iTunes Content Distributor whether they be app, music, movie or tv) and AMC did it under the guise of Season 5 is 8 episodes. Just because AMC is covering their asses as SciFi did on many occasions in the past does not mean that Apple is at fault. Basically, it is the same as the DVD and Bluray copies sold as Season 5 during a mid-season break only to have 5.1 after the season truly ends. Or do you blame Best Buy for those too?
This one does look kind of cool, especially like the whole 'it is a phone' thing. I already do most of my stuff on the Nexus 7 anyways, so tethering between the two and still having a device to take phone calls on would actually be pretty great.
The universe is doomed! Doomed!
Do you honestly think that a company whose mantra is "Don't Be Evil" would have received a memo regarding "No Good English"?
Only those who are "up to no good" have reason to know about "No Good English".
No Good English is a dialect of the English language spoken by those who have previously been associated with the US Penal system.
It is named for it's ability to disguise conversation from those in a position of authority as to allow for those who understand it to speak with others without the intent of their communications being used against them.
Except (at least 6 months ago) Amazon's DRM was very easy to get around. All you needed was a plugin for Calibre and you were set. Still, it seems that even with this guy's physical contraption it is still easier to copy an ebook than it is to copy the physical alternative. I mean, even the route that he took, he could still just set the Kindle on top of a photo copier and duplicate the pages that way. The key thing that was lost in the digital book revolution is the ability to lend.
Holy Department of Redundancy Department, Batman!
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Think about it...
How else are you supposed to get ahead if not by standing on the shoulders of others?
The handicapped parking spaces... maybe he actually had the plates but never bothered to get them installed on his car (or any other plate for that matter). He was dying after all.
And finally, if Apple kept all that charitable giving alive, where would their unprecedented cash horde be?
Perhaps I need a job in PR or Politics.
To say that Oracle 12 or MySQL 5 compete with FileMaker is to say that a laser guided cruise missile competes with a termite.
I see your Lion and raise you an Oneiric Ocelot!
Oh, you counter with a Mountain Lion... Tremble before my Precise Pangolin.
I know, but I want the girl that I marry to have... a certain... special... ...something...
Yep, damn his using of numbers to convey iterations of his code. Bastard!
We lose money on every sale, but boy do we make up for it in volume!
Wait, we don't do that either???
The reason why the Surface failed wasn't because its software sucked...
It was a marketing failure to differentiate the product, releasing the inferior product that couldn't do what people expected it to under the guise of "but it runs windows".
It was a marketing failure to refer to the product as being "better" than an iPad or Android tablet because it had twice the memory, when it had *equal* usable memory, and there's not a damn thing that you can do to recover the unusable memory.
It was a marketing failure to create a dance video for a product with zero brand recognition rather than actually saying *something* about it.
It was a packaging failure as Marketing talked up the awesome keyboards and why it makes the product far better than the competition, but you didn't actually get one without increasing the cost $130 or more than everything else on the market.
It was a design failure in the sense that the product that *could* do what you wanted was twice as thick and heavy as the nearest competitor.
The software was actually pretty well designed for the hardware, it's just that the software tried to be forced on the rest of the market as well, in places where it didn't make sense. That in turn hurt the Windows brand.
If their first offering wasn't called a Surface (a meaningless name) but instead the Xbox Tablet, the response would have likely been quite different as it looks and behaves like an Xbox and doesn't have the same connotation as "it runs Windows, so all my programs will work, and I won't have to learn anything new". That in turn further hurt the Windows brand.
The Surface brand become synonymous with the Zune, Vista, and a number of other Microsoft failures despite being a reasonable product, but not the product that you expected it to be.
But I don't want any of that -- I'd rather-- I'd rather... just... ...sing!
Just because it is a sacred commandment to "go forth and multiply" does not mean that our religion has any part in the rampant overpopulation of our planet.
(Bonus points if you can say it with a strait face.)