"Although there are those who think the systems debate has been decided in favour of systems, the exceedingly loud protests on message boards, forums, and the posts I wrote over the past two weeks would indicate otherwise.
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Yaz
Well that sounds truthy, but I don't buy it especially since you're obviously a Mac nut (your email is mac.com). I'm hitting 40 and my big fingers and crappy eyes have a tough time navigating my 4.3" screen so the almost 6" my Note 3 has, is an outstanding upgrade. Could the possibility be that people want more phone choices than one? Nah, must be because droids are that shitty.
I have at least seven different e-mail addresses on different domains, including gmail.com. Does that also qualify me to be a Google nut?
Android phones (particularly on the high end) are big for exactly the reasons I described. They were big because of technical issues making them small. But if as a by-product that means a phone that works for the fat-fingered four-eyed brigade, well, I have no problems with that. But it's somewhat silly to be overly proud of the fact that you carry around a large phone, when the reasons why it's large are due to technical limitations for it being small. That would be akin to claiming your portable record player is way superior to an iPod because it's bigger. This is still a technology site, isn't it? (I know -- hard to tell sometimes these days).
Oh, and FWIW, I don't own or carry a phone of any kind, so I don't have a horse in the race either way. I'm glad you found the right phone for you, but I wouldn't go around bragging about your phone being generally better just because it's bigger, particularly when the truth of the matter is it's primarily bigger as it requires more hardware to overcome software issues.
Yaz
We had a growth bubble. Most corporations depend on endless growth to be healthy. When they stop growing, they start dying. When the PC market maxed out, both AMD and Intel suddenly had no idea where they were going next.
When the new Intel processors come out on the new process and we get to see how low they can get power consumption, we'll see if Intel is going to continue to kick ass in the next iteration, which is going to have to be mobile.
It is just not legal to record so you can not use it for civil court cases
Well, it isn't. Making it illegal to record people's behavior in public is a license to behave badly.
0ne of the costs is for licensing is administration of the testing & licensing itself, as well as any oversight, inspections, etc.
Germany already has inspections, and the driver already pays for the inspections. If the problem is inadequate inspection, send the vehicle for more inspections. This is not a cost to the people, because the driver already pays the cost. If there is no significant additional licensing, there is no significant additional licensing cost.
Some cities build taxi pickup lanes and other infrastructure to facilitate the service in specific areas.
Yes, and those costs are seen as a benefit to the city, because they ease congestion.
Taxis are commercial services and part of their fees are used to maintain roads and public facilities they use more heavily than private drivers.
They use them more frequently, but they don't use them any more heavily. If you were taxing vehicles based on the damage they do to the road, buses and trucks would pay basically all the taxes, and passenger vehicles would pay basically none.
They are also required to provide equal access and maintain a certain percentage of handicap accessible vehicles available at all times.
The former is an issue, but cabbies are well-known to choose their fares racially in many countries, why wouldn't they do the same in Germany? It's very difficult to prove. As for accessibility, the market will provide if competition is permitted. The only reason to have such a requirement is that licensed taxis were collectively granted a monopoly on transport for hire, and this restriction on competition in the market prevents market forces from working.
They also have to carry the proper insurance because if they skirted the law on this point, the rest of us would end up paying.
This is solved easily enough with laws requiring more insurance for hire vehicles, and doesn't require a taxi permit system.
Patents are still useful for small businesses because it provides protection against someone else coming along and patenting your product after the fact.
Not really. They grant patents which conflict with existing patents all the time, and you still need to be able to take a suit to court to prove that the subsequent patent should not have been granted, which means you still need millions of dollars in your legal fund.
That's the best response to his post you got?
It's the only necessary response.
His response tried to clarify that for you and the other readers and to respond to your fallacy, the No True Scotsman:
Actually, USDA took over the name "organic" by force without consulting those who coined the term. You're using a pretty pathetic determining factor, sheep.
most of the First World countries are going to immediately join forces to invade and permanently occupy Russia
Why do you think that? I have the strong feeling most of the first world looks at this like a bag of poo that's on fire. No one really wants to do anything with it but pretend it's not there.
This will be the second time my credit card gets replaced this year.
The third time in 3 years.
I've tried to order stuff online and been forced to call in because the retailer subscribes to a service that considers me a 10/10 fraud risk.
And not because of anything I've ever done or any charges that have shown up on my bill.
Apple PR again. In light of good press from Microsoft and android simply having more apps. IOS is falling behind in both quality and quantity. Posted from a 5.5" phone
Let's try to remember for a moment why Andriod phones were bigger in the first place.
Andriod apps written against Davlik are garbage collected, however the garbage collection process on a phone with the typical quantity of phone memory requires a) frequent collection runs, and b) causes pauses. In order to alleviate this effect, Andriod device manufacturers started popping multi-core CPUs into their devices, simply to be able to handle garbage collection in the background, and make their devices appear closer to real-time performance and reduce UI "hiccoughs". Particularly early versions of these processors were more power hungry, requiring a larger battery to meet the same per-charge runtime as the iPhone. This required a larger overall package.
As such, the Andriod phones aren't larger because larger is better. They're larger because they couldn't compete with the iPhone in terms of performance or battery life if they were the same size.
Keep that in mind the next time you want to brag about your giant phone
Yaz
I so wish I had posted a few years ago when I first thought that SpaceX should land on a barge or ship instead of land.
You know, if you can land the craft on land, how is this much different from landing it on a platform?
I mean, the game Lunar Lander is how old? The idea of using retro-rockets to slow your descent onto where you're landing is literally decades old, and was probably shown in early sci-fi shows.
I'm having a hard time understanding how this patent could possibly be adding anything new.
As usual, I hear about the patent system and think "yeah, right, and the monkeys who approve patents get paid for being morons."
Hell, I should think landing a helicopter on a ship or a barge is pretty much all you need to invalidate this. Or Flash Gordon. Or any number of things which have been showing a tail-first landing for the last 50+ years.
Big deal, that flat surface is now a floating platform
I appreciate the atheist rant, and I think you'd be surprised to find most Catholics share in it. Including the Pope. oh, not the God doesn't exist bullshit, but especially the Jesus showing up in Church (which he does every day for Catholics) stuff, which most Protestants would be incredibly shocked by if they understood it.
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