If an E Ink Kindle or Nook is better for reading books, and a smartphone or iPad is better for watching movies or listening to music, what space is there for the Fire?
A $200 device that will do both.
You assume that the device can do the work equally well, or at least reasonably good, than both the iPad and the Kindle/Nook, which is not be the case given the current reviews. There's a reason that specialists get paid way more than "jack of all trades"-type peoples - they're better at what they do.
Like Shakespeare, this was better in the original klingon.
You joke, but I think it could make for an excellent movie thriller. Put Liam Neeson in it, add some conspiracy theories, women, and spy secrets and you have your next james bond/jason bourne character (except less action, more intrigue). As far as opera goes, though, we'll see. I was never a fan of the genre.
This is a fundamental property of capitalism: when a corporation gets lucky it can dominate the market so strongly that when it gets unlucky it gets bailed out by the tax payers.
I'd mod you as -1 troll for this, but I think it would be more effective to post a reply. Simply put, you are utterly and entirely wrong and misinformed about what capitalism is and is not. The fact they are getting bailed out by the government implies, at best, government (that is, political) meddling with the market. At worst, it's indicative of systemic political corruption designed to protect the wealthy and powerful corporations, neither which is any part of capitalism. In fact, in a real capitalist system they would have failed, which is why they needed the bailout in the first place and that would have been the end of it. The fact that you confuse government involvement in the market as part of capitalism means either you are extremely naive, utterly dense or just plain trolling
Khan Academy announced this morning that it has raised $5 million from the O’Sullivan Foundation (a foundation created by Irish engineer and investor Sean O’Sullivan). The money is earmarked for several initiatives: expanding the Khan Academy faculty, creating a content management system so that others can use the program’s learning analytics system, and building an actual brick-and-mortar school, beginning with a summer camp program.
Judge Adams issued a statement asserting that his daughter released the tape to retaliate against him for withdrawing his financial support.
Oh, so he abuses his children and then also doesn't support them financially, sounds like a real winner!
For proper context, assuming he is telling the truth (you never know), he withdrew his support for her - both financial and a freakin Mercedes to drive - after she said she was going to drop out of community college. And don't forget, she's 23, not 13. To be honest I would have done the same (beating excluded, of course).
The problem with FOSS is that everyone wants the benefits, but no one wants to be part of it. And then you complain when they don't do it the way you like it.
That's not entirely true. I'm, for the most part, a FOSS user and I love the benefits it provides. Yet, while I want to be part of it and contribute (and i know i cant be the only one), I don't. why? I don't have neither the resources, nor the required skill set to do it. I'm definitely not rich, so hiring someone to make the mods for me is out of the question. And being a PhD student, having the time to make said implementations is out of the question, let alone learning the required languages and skills necessary to pull it off. So, i resort to the next best option: complain
WASHINGTON — Fulfilling a long-held campaign promise, President Barack Obama announced Friday that he will pull all U.S. troops out of Iraq by the end of the year, as conditioned by the Status of Forces Agreement with the country. "As a candidate for president, I pledged to bring the war in Iraq to a responsible end," Obama said. "So today I can report that, as promised, the rest of our troops in Iraq will come home by the end of the year."
Now for Afghanistan...
Well, let's see: we'll have a rapid increase in population from lagging deaths, increased fertility rates, so i'd say overpopulation will become a huge problem (Malthus, anyone?). We'd need to rapidly update our infrastructure to deal with such issues, completely overhaul our planning and laws to deal with such issues, whether it be social security and welfare policies to retirement planning, to incarceration.
Then, of course, there could be the psychological issue - we've seen this before: the guy becomes old and all his loved ones die as time progresses (Interview with the vampire, twilight - hey, don't judge - etc...). how would one cope with losing his friends/loved ones how either could not afford or would not want such medication? Not to mention humans have not been designed to live that long, so that merits the question: how long until you get sick of life? would you want to extend your life to a point where suicide might be a better option, rather than living another 30 years?
Sorry, but I'm not sure how i can see this working out for the better
Suggest you just sit there and wait till life gets easier.
