I can't wait for a true '3rd option' (not apple and not android) to come on the market. I don't enjoy or trust either of the two existing choices.
What, WindowsPhone isn't good enough to qualify as that "3rd option"? Seriously, you can still get a blackberry, WinPhone or just a plain ol dumb phone that tethers really well (my TMO plan has free tethering) and run an iPod touch or equivalent.
When you need That Part on a Sunday afternoon, you're not going to get it from Digi-Key or Mouser.
Are you serious? It's a friggin hobby. You can wait a couple of days, hell, probably a couple of weeks without any real impact.
Sure, you can sell cables at outrageous markups, but honestly, those could be done without for a couple of nights unless you're an addict. It's very hard to compete with an online seller where the user can search, call, and/or chat with the vendor, and likely get it shipped the same or next day, with express delivery.
Retail does best when users don't know what they want, or want to be talked through their purchase (i.e., big ticket items do very well), but for people who know what they want, and don't need (or even want) to talk to someone to make a purchase, online is preferable.
I'm surprised they lasted this long - in fact, i remember seeing
To me, that would be amazing. Alas, I can dream.
As long as the FIRE (finance, insurance, real-estate) economy rewards those who collect rents (literally and figuratively) over those who work to produce profit, we'll have these issues - the cost of having retail presence is not going down, and looks like it won't, absent another financial crisis when the government refuses to bail out the banks.
I think it's more realistic that poor security measures will be set in place, thereby making it easy for malicious crackers to disable peoples phones remotely.
s/malicious crackers/the security state/
Well, disregard that, they're essentially the same thing.
1. Take some issue and blow it out of proportion
2. Get a pet legislator (preferably in an easily corruptible state) to introduce legislation mandating some feature or restriction
3. Introduce similar bills in the Federal space to "harmonize" the legal framework
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4. Suppression capabilities fully operational.
"It costs money to develop and keep a game running, just like those fancy decorations and free drinks at a casino; whales, like gambling addicts, subsidize fun for everyone else.'"
Except video game players are more accurately described, than even casino players, as whales.
This is what Zynga reported years ago (before the bloom went off their rose) [1] - this entire economy seems
The developer always has the opportunity to make the activity close itself if you don't grant it the right permissions. (In fact, this is what applications do by default in modded ROMs and in Android 4.3 with App Ops because they don't catch SecurityException.) So again, the beef is between you and the developer. You could always get applications from F-Droid, where all applications are distributed under a free software license. Then you can load an application's source code into Android SDK and compile out the feature that you insist on not using.
No my beef is with Google/Android's weakness at letting users control their apps, I'll keep using my iPhone, thanks. While you look down on iOS users, you feel free to jump through all those wonderful hoops to lick the developer's boots or maybe I'll look down at you instead for simply rolling over and taking what the developers offer instead of taking control of your own device.
Contrasted with what, Apple?
I gave actual examples of why I find Apple's privacy model better than Google's. Can you rebut that, or are you just going to go on about "Apple owning the user".
Android isn't secure, true, but at least it isn't always owned the moment you get it, though Google does try.
Thus, the malware targets the devices that are most secure, from the perspective of those on the attack.
This just shows have zero understanding of basic economics. The lower hanging fruit is always the best bet unless you can justify that the more difficult is indeed far more profitable. And guess what - iPhone users are more valuable to advertisers and developers [1]... yet have only 1% of the malware. Nice try at sophistry.
Access to my contact list in exchange for information on astronomy?!
That's why Android has a system-wide Back button. If you disagree with the permissions that an application requests, tap Back instead of Install, and take it up with the application's publisher.
And that kind of attitude is why Android's privacy model is flawed. This puts the control of your options at the whim of the developer. Instead *you* should be able to disable the camera, or disallow access to your GPS for any given app. If I find out after the fact that I don't want an app to have access to that information, I shouldn't have to uninstall the whole app. Example: weather apps almost always (reasonably) ask for my location info. I deny them, because, I have all my locations already entered. They don't need to know where I've been, but I still like to get the forecast on my phone.
Wrong business model: concentrate on the product.
No, Blackberry got beat there, too, by Apple. You could just as well say "frozen OJ" is "concentrating on product". What matters isn't how hard you work, but what you're working on, and whether it has appeal.
Android being "open" and given away free to manufacturers and carriers wouldn't be worth a shit without their mimicking a successful design and adopting the iPhone look and feel. In 2006, Android devices being specced looked like a Blackberry copy, in 2008, they pivoted to become iPhone imitations.
Snow Leopard is also the last version of the OS to support executing PowerPC binaries under the Rosetta engine, and some people keep it around for that reason. (Example: it's the last version of MacOS that will still play the MacOS version of Diablo 2, which, while complied for OS X, was never compiled for Intel processors.)
If someone is still using Snow Leopard for software purposes, it's probably best done in a VM now. Lots of new features and performance in Lion and later assuming you have at least a 5 year old machine or later.
However, it is more likely Nissan is more concerned by the 2015 and 2016 model year Teslas which are in the 45,000 and 30,000 dollar range.
Where are you getting this information? I'd love to get a lower-end Tesla for cheaper...
BTW, we did finally find a Nissan dealer that had a good attitude about the LEAF and we are satisfied customers.
Just as an aside, why didn't you buy a Tesla Model S? Lack of availability? Cost? Interested, as I'm in this stage where I'm considering my EV options.
I don't see the Tesla as competing with the Leaf. The Leaf basically competes with the Volt. It's biggest problem is range. The Leaf suits only a narrow market who either has a very short commute or a relatively short commute with charging at their destination.
There's nothing wrong with that, but it does mean there's necessarily a small audience for it.
The Leaf competes with the Tesla in the sense that if it had better range (say 150% more at the cost of maybe $10k more), I'm sure there'd be much more folks considering it.
As someone who's been eyeing the electrics (love the Rav4 EV, just not the range), I'd rather save $20-30k and still avoid the gas stations and my high monthly gas bill as I'd pretty much use this car only for commuting.
You would think teachers would love this technology because it would allow them to focus their instruction time on concepts their students have not mastered
I'm pretty sure most folks who rail against this are of the very valid opinion that the books and tests themselves are not indicative of intelligence or success (other than by making it so because those who fail are made to think they're failures).
If the test is bad, metrics pointing out how badly some classes or students do on the test are besides the point.
The endgame is to privatize school - and push us back into the medieval times when only the rich could afford good schools (Which don't participate in this kind of joke of assessment), and the rest of the schools had little to no funding because they're pressured to constantly improve scores while the public is pressured to "lower spending" so we can spend our taxes on bridges to nowhere or the next big war (which really puts all that money into the military industrial complex)
Make headway at work. Continue to let things deteriorate at home.
