except that similarly, many of the crap that is touted from america as innovation gets done years ago somewhere else, but noone sees worth touting and advertising as innovation isnt it.
there were those who were drumming that because of patent system america was the center of innovation bleh bleh.
see - eye controlled mouse from swedish yesterday, electromagnetic suspension from dutch today. not some 'trendy web 2.0y stolen/meshed up bullshit' 'innovation' like we always get from america.
which market ? desktop computers is a bigger market than servers ? the minimum server lease is $50/month. that is even entry level server. linux dominates server market from entry level to load balanced clusters to ddos protected single servers in prices 800/mo to thousands of dollars (4 figure) a month and over. linux also dominates in the cloud.
really. the war is over server side. server = linux so far.
but its natural for a lot of corporate types in non i.t. corporations or corporations with their own infrastructure to not know about this - you need to be in web hosting business in order to know it first hand.
mp3 still exists, not because RIAA wasnt a threat and tried everything to stop it - it was because people just didnt let them do it and kept using that format regardless of what RIAA was trying to do.
dont jump in with 'content for free' bullshit everytime you think there is some room to make an ayn randist argument.
Apparently, we are not going to see a repeat of the Android ambush of the smartphone market where the combined, price, savvy marketing, and modulated supply releases of the iPhone created so much aspirational demand in the market that buyers simply surged at the chance to buy what was perceived to be an equivalent product at lower prices.
what does that even begin to mean ?
the summary explains that the apple tablets are selling more (not to mention with a vague term like 'capturing the margin' -> what margin) because apple is pushing its sales much harder with stores, 'knowledgeable assistants' generating demand by persuading the customer to buy the tablet and so on.
basically, APPLE is selling its tablets. not tablets selling themselves because they are what they are. so, this entire piece is based on building an argument over an aggressive sales method ?
'apparently, we are not going to see' -> no nothing is apparent. the only thing apparent is, that you produced an argument out of nowhere.
2. Chernobyl. Despite being the worst nuclear plant disaster, finding cancer after the original accident has been difficult. It's been mostly estimation using statistical analysis.
maybe it has been difficult for private think-thanks in usa, but it hasnt been difficult here around the black sea. the cancer rate around black sea among youth has skyrocketed and still much higher than normal.
i dont know why you people pull that 'chernobyl didnt cause much problem' bullshit from. people are dying here for decades.
the fact here is, there being unexplained phenomenon. and, explanations like 'swamp gas' 'weather balloon' 'mass hallucination' are not valid. this is the point.
the explanation for that may be x, may be y, however, there isnt any explanation yet. so, we are identifying this phenomenon as unidentified FLYING OBJECT.
unidentified object may be terrestrial. they may be alien. the only thing we know is, they are not scheduled flights, or military flights, or move in the limits of what our known aerospace industry can produce. these may be some technology that is secretly used by military, while being kept away from public use. that's also a possibility. however, we dont know it yet.
in another sidenote, if, that's the case - that various militaries/governments of the world have developed much more capable craft using different technologies and they are keeping them secret - it would explain the current hush-hush and repression around ufo talk, ufo cases. because, if it came out that militaries/governments had had developed such technology that is way over capabilities of the current technology available for civilian use for long time, heads would roll.
Really. this 'probability jargon' is starting to annoy me. you found 3000 times the normal radiation in seawater around the plant, and STILL 'maybe' ?
this overemphasized 'keep public calm' attitude of government and the annoying enthusiasm of main stream media outlets like cnn to drop the fukushima incident off headlines is really annoying me.
European energy commissioner said 'biggest disaster of the century' over chernobyl, yet, talking heads in mainstream media almost trying to convince people that radiation is good for their health. Despite EPA found 1000 times allowable radiation in groundwater in massachusetts.
whaddya gonna do. as long as 'lobby' concept is around, and news generation and distribution stays corporate, these kind of stuff will happen. just prevent interested industries profiting, screw the rest...
how much fukushima will cause, is yet to be see. however i already remember eu commissioner saying it was already bigger than chernobyl back a week or two ago. as for what the reach of the incident could be - chernobyl reached as far as scandinavia. it was limited in south by north anatolian mountains. but, in japan, these reactors face open ocean, winds, and currents of pacific.
for an explanation to be mundane in that regard, multiples of 10,000 people everywhere around the world should be frequently experiencing such mundane incidents now and throughout history.
but it did ? the pc gaming market, is the market that everything revolves around -> from wow to crysis.
yes, there is a closed ecosystem of consoles, but, these had been pretty much built over the ancient gaming consoles of late 70s. the companies so far kept quite a hold on their own turf -> but that's because no 'open initiative' like google did with android came forward : there was no need to - anyone needing open, customizable or more powerful, went pc gaming already.
that aside, if you count in piracy and modding into console thing, the 'openness' would come out much more clearly.
But whether the smartphone market shapes up to be like the home computer market (where open won) or the set-top video gaming market (where closed won) hasn't entirely been decided
'hasnt been decided' ?
man. it is the way human social dynamics work - the easiest, most accommodating, most open gets adopted eventually. EVERYthing after this mobile thing will unfold in the exact same way.
Back during the days of PC vs others, situation was the same. there were those who had tight control, there were those who were more relaxed. and today, 'computer' is basically 'pc', and even everyone forgot that it was 'pc'. it passes as 'desktop computer' universally.
rim and apple lost, because of precisely why competitors to ibm pc lost.
and what do you base your assumption on ? what did 'not' happen after chernobyl ? or rather, what has happened but went, somehow, unreported in western media ? its been 30 years. cancer rate around black sea cost among young is still very high. it is unknown how the health of entire region had been affected. its probably because you are in the west, and dont know shit about these parts. we live here. the people still getting affected by it, losing their close ones, are our people. and the 6 times chernobyl you speak about, would be a whole different thing then your uninformed mind would be able to imagine.
man. are you fucking kidding me ? a scale 9 quake happened near a particular pinpoint location at which there were 6 major nuclear reactors. huge amounts of radiation already have been released into atmosphere. what will happen from this point on still uncertain. think - the quake could have been much closer to that location.
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except that similarly, many of the crap that is touted from america as innovation gets done years ago somewhere else, but noone sees worth touting and advertising as innovation isnt it.
there were those who were drumming that because of patent system america was the center of innovation bleh bleh.
see - eye controlled mouse from swedish yesterday, electromagnetic suspension from dutch today. not some 'trendy web 2.0y stolen/meshed up bullshit' 'innovation' like we always get from america.
Server = webserver in our time and age. the usage of webservers is incomparable to anything else in scale and numbers.
which market ? desktop computers is a bigger market than servers ? the minimum server lease is $50/month. that is even entry level server. linux dominates server market from entry level to load balanced clusters to ddos protected single servers in prices 800/mo to thousands of dollars (4 figure) a month and over. linux also dominates in the cloud.
really. the war is over server side. server = linux so far.
but its natural for a lot of corporate types in non i.t. corporations or corporations with their own infrastructure to not know about this - you need to be in web hosting business in order to know it first hand.
Count in the costs of the wear&tear, health issues that may come up due to telecommute, workplace stress or health conditions.
There are stronger tablets. if you used them, the "wow see how much mobility improved" effect the article is going for would be much more.
again, why ipad.
mp3 still exists, not because RIAA wasnt a threat and tried everything to stop it - it was because people just didnt let them do it and kept using that format regardless of what RIAA was trying to do.
dont jump in with 'content for free' bullshit everytime you think there is some room to make an ayn randist argument.
"to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone"
dont you like how lobbyist whoresons mesh in 'public' with NO context whatsoever to fool the ignorant masses.
Apparently, we are not going to see a repeat of the Android ambush of the smartphone market where the combined, price, savvy marketing, and modulated supply releases of the iPhone created so much aspirational demand in the market that buyers simply surged at the chance to buy what was perceived to be an equivalent product at lower prices.
what does that even begin to mean ?
the summary explains that the apple tablets are selling more (not to mention with a vague term like 'capturing the margin' -> what margin) because apple is pushing its sales much harder with stores, 'knowledgeable assistants' generating demand by persuading the customer to buy the tablet and so on.
basically, APPLE is selling its tablets. not tablets selling themselves because they are what they are. so, this entire piece is based on building an argument over an aggressive sales method ?
'apparently, we are not going to see' -> no nothing is apparent. the only thing apparent is, that you produced an argument out of nowhere.
lets cut to the chase -> are you accepting that current science is unable to explain that phenomenon ?
2. Chernobyl. Despite being the worst nuclear plant disaster, finding cancer after the original accident has been difficult. It's been mostly estimation using statistical analysis.
maybe it has been difficult for private think-thanks in usa, but it hasnt been difficult here around the black sea. the cancer rate around black sea among youth has skyrocketed and still much higher than normal.
i dont know why you people pull that 'chernobyl didnt cause much problem' bullshit from. people are dying here for decades.
the fact here is, there being unexplained phenomenon. and, explanations like 'swamp gas' 'weather balloon' 'mass hallucination' are not valid. this is the point.
the explanation for that may be x, may be y, however, there isnt any explanation yet. so, we are identifying this phenomenon as unidentified FLYING OBJECT.
unidentified object may be terrestrial. they may be alien. the only thing we know is, they are not scheduled flights, or military flights, or move in the limits of what our known aerospace industry can produce. these may be some technology that is secretly used by military, while being kept away from public use. that's also a possibility. however, we dont know it yet.
in another sidenote, if, that's the case - that various militaries/governments of the world have developed much more capable craft using different technologies and they are keeping them secret - it would explain the current hush-hush and repression around ufo talk, ufo cases. because, if it came out that militaries/governments had had developed such technology that is way over capabilities of the current technology available for civilian use for long time, heads would roll.
you are trying to 'understand' ann coulter ?
http://www.spiderbomb.com/blog/?p=317
there are people who are going around and saying 'radiation is good for your health'. but more importantly, there ARE people believing them.
and ?
Really. this 'probability jargon' is starting to annoy me. you found 3000 times the normal radiation in seawater around the plant, and STILL 'maybe' ?
...
this overemphasized 'keep public calm' attitude of government and the annoying enthusiasm of main stream media outlets like cnn to drop the fukushima incident off headlines is really annoying me.
European energy commissioner said 'biggest disaster of the century' over chernobyl, yet, talking heads in mainstream media almost trying to convince people that radiation is good for their health. Despite EPA found 1000 times allowable radiation in groundwater in massachusetts.
whaddya gonna do. as long as 'lobby' concept is around, and news generation and distribution stays corporate, these kind of stuff will happen. just prevent interested industries profiting, screw the rest
how much fukushima will cause, is yet to be see. however i already remember eu commissioner saying it was already bigger than chernobyl back a week or two ago. as for what the reach of the incident could be - chernobyl reached as far as scandinavia. it was limited in south by north anatolian mountains. but, in japan, these reactors face open ocean, winds, and currents of pacific.
http://enenews.com/alert-epa-radioactive-iodine-131-levels-in-rainwater-exceed-maximum-contaminant-level-permitted-in-drinking-water
for an explanation to be mundane in that regard, multiples of 10,000 people everywhere around the world should be frequently experiencing such mundane incidents now and throughout history.
what contention
http://digitalinnovationgazette.com/blog/pc_vs_console/index.html
but it did ? the pc gaming market, is the market that everything revolves around -> from wow to crysis.
yes, there is a closed ecosystem of consoles, but, these had been pretty much built over the ancient gaming consoles of late 70s. the companies so far kept quite a hold on their own turf -> but that's because no 'open initiative' like google did with android came forward : there was no need to - anyone needing open, customizable or more powerful, went pc gaming already.
that aside, if you count in piracy and modding into console thing, the 'openness' would come out much more clearly.
But whether the smartphone market shapes up to be like the home computer market (where open won) or the set-top video gaming market (where closed won) hasn't entirely been decided
'hasnt been decided' ?
man. it is the way human social dynamics work - the easiest, most accommodating, most open gets adopted eventually. EVERYthing after this mobile thing will unfold in the exact same way.
Back during the days of PC vs others, situation was the same. there were those who had tight control, there were those who were more relaxed. and today, 'computer' is basically 'pc', and even everyone forgot that it was 'pc'. it passes as 'desktop computer' universally.
rim and apple lost, because of precisely why competitors to ibm pc lost.
and what do you base your assumption on ? what did 'not' happen after chernobyl ? or rather, what has happened but went, somehow, unreported in western media ? its been 30 years. cancer rate around black sea cost among young is still very high. it is unknown how the health of entire region had been affected. its probably because you are in the west, and dont know shit about these parts. we live here. the people still getting affected by it, losing their close ones, are our people. and the 6 times chernobyl you speak about, would be a whole different thing then your uninformed mind would be able to imagine.
man. are you fucking kidding me ? a scale 9 quake happened near a particular pinpoint location at which there were 6 major nuclear reactors. huge amounts of radiation already have been released into atmosphere. what will happen from this point on still uncertain. think - the quake could have been much closer to that location.