My Compac iPaq 5555 had touch screen and grid of icons (which look rather outdated compared to what Android OS has, I have to note) long before iPhone.
Jump from pocket PC to phone that is also a pocket PC was obvious to me, back in 2005, when my iPaq died and I couldn't find a good replacement.
A (bit outdated) joke:every 4.5 billion years physicists of the Earth gather to launch Large Hadron Collider.
On a side note:
"The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is comprehensible" said Einstein.
I never fully got why it was a big deal, but I'm pretty sure "comprehensible" in this sentence is about describing it in math.
See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unreasonable_Effectiveness_of_Mathematics_in_the_Natural_Sciences
Driving to long distances with an electric car would need "swap stations" where you'd replace your empty battery with charged ones.
If electric cars will become popular, we'd need to build lots of more power plants.
Both qualify as "building infrastructure" in my books.
Also check how far they are with fuel cells in Japan:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_highway_(Japan)#Japanese_hydrogen_powered_cars
The best criticism of Rosenhanäs experiment that I've heared so far:
If I were to drink a quart of blood and, concealing what I had done, come to the emergency room of any hospital vomiting blood, the behaviour of the staff would be quite predictable. If they labelled and treated me as having a peptic ulcer, I doubt I could argue convincingly that medical science does not know how to diagnose that condition.
You can't fake symptoms and then complain that diagnostics sucks.
Experiment would be legit if they'd faked improvements in a way matching symptoms.
Uh, oh, I don't know about "better" but a couple of month ago my Galaxy Tablet 10.1 upgraded from 3.x to 4.x, that's about 2 years after it was released.
And the most important part is: it has become FASTER.
On the contrary, Apple users that I know complained that it has become slower after an OS upgrade. Which, evil tongues say, is to actually FORCE people to upgrade the firmware.
It tortures before it kills.
It is also inherently non-discriminate.
Why did they remove Other OS? Because:
a) IBM was pissed about US Defence buying PS3's instead of its servers
b) OtherOS was the main reason console was hacked into oblivion (which, one could argue, also degrades legit user experience due to cheaters, console becoming less attractive to the developers etc)
Compare that to competitor's actions and reasons behind them. The reason that you'd need XBox Live Gold to USE A FREAKING BROWSER or watch youtube movies.
Sony's competitor tried to fruck us, the customers in a number of ways, only part of that was reversed (thanks to Sony not following the suit and customers canceling pre-orders)
You also get "bluetooth extender" for your controller.
Besides dualshock is a better controller, with Vita they had to make compromises (big screen in the middle, should fit in a pocket etc)
If all you want is off TV play, Sony PSP could do it for ages.
You can also hook a controller to it, and it would transmit your commands to your main console over the network.
A bunch of my (kidless
I don't see OtherOS removal as a problem, sorry, call me selfish, but I'm way more concerned about attempt by its competitor, to enforce digital only games.
There was hardly anyone who was affected by this. Those who bought device for Other OS didn't need to upgrade the firmware, those who bought it for games, couldn't care less about Other OS.
Kerry has openly talked (in London) about Assad's giving up chemical weapons would stop the attack.
Could be, could be...
But I doubt it is a coincidence that whenever there is a conflict with some 30 year old regime, Mr Putin is always on the dictators side.
Ya'll hear about the geometer who went to the beach to catch some rays and became a tangent ?
