That might depend on how you define people. Nobody who takes themselves seriously is going to use an iPad as a phone in public.
Not planned, but given the choice of making an important phone call and looking like an idiot, or suffering some big disadvantage because that phone call cannot be made, most people would prefer looking like an idiot for five minutes.
Unhappy with the choices, grow some and run yourself because that is exactly what it will take. New people stepping up, so either become one or support one. Whether you win or lose doesn't matter as long as you shake up the system because you shake it enough it will collapse.
Actually there is one function a tablet is really good for and the only reason I am in the market for one. A better more interactive remote control for a big screen smart TV. The tablet provides the keypad, the track pad and the touch pad but as yet the interface between the two doesn't seem good enough yet.
Speaking of governments, an interesting thought by the the US Department of in-Justice (let's at least be honest with that, three tier justice system, poor - always guilty, middle class - pay through the nose but still guilty and rich - innocent or somebody else pays the penalty). When things are kept secret they become a "zone of lawlessness", so national security is evil because when the government keeps secrets that would affect the elections they become a "zone of lawlessness", well, I would most certainly have to agree with that. So I gather that they will now be focusing their efforts on where secrets do the greatest harm (wars for profit, collusion on tax havens, corrupt lobbyists), ha ha ha.
What this really is all about, governments of the day don't like your political choices, they can ban you from flying, subject to random gropings including strip searches (normally called sexual assault), block your employment, cancel contracts, block all digital financial transactions and, then still use search warrants to invade your home, steal stuff and trash the rest of your in the process, whilst threatening you life and possibly ending it. All made laughably easy by the simple expedient of selectively presenting the information they have gleaned about you, including times you lack a alibi (even when they know exactly where you were), false association of facts, selected out of context information and claiming random internet interactions with other suspects as conspiratorial interactions. Hell, they can even perversely hack you computer systems and then claim that all the information is true because of course no one could have hacked it and planted it all, even when their hacking code is released to the wild by them using it and then subsequently usurped by organised crime (thanks for that idiots) ?!?
According to the Hollywood accountants somewhere in the negative range and yet for some inexplicable reason they still keep functioning. Something to do with tax havens, sexually compliant starlets and perverted politicians but as yet taxation agencies from around the globe have still not managed to figure it all out after decades of trying. Apparently it is easier to gouge the rest of us at the tax office to pay for their subsidies and the free ride they get on the infrastructure we pay for, whilst they cheat us on the social services they should be paying for.
Just curious, how are larger companies going with algorithm libraries and variable naming rules to ensure maximum re usability of code (variables named by function rather than named by application). Any change, is most of it done from scratch, any fancy algorithm data bases with search functions based upon algorithm descriptors and software engineering. Also things like software language translators or the same algorithms stored in different languages. Any shift away from writing code to more assembling algorithms that can expanded or reduced and snapped together.
In point of fact if you are buying games from Steam, there are just so, so many of them, the only time to buy them is on discount or package deal. So buying a bundle of games during the specials season and then playing them for the rest of the year. This combined with F2P MMO really does provide all the gaming even the most intense gamer needs.
There is absolutely no excuse for buying games when they are not on special, as for the uPlay B$, well, don't buy any uPlay games at all, except those you buy, by accident on Steam discount. That one being Farcry with the B$ compulsory cut scenes which you can only get rid of by buying an expansion so screw Ubisoft (an interesting new scheme to kill re-playability, long annoying cut scenes which become intolerable upon replay, what will the asshats think of next).
If you are paying full retail, you should buy the box set at a retail store and screw over the publishers profit. Don't forget to return the game when they kill your licence and wait a year before buying it again at a steep discount with at least some of the bugs removed.
Providing the password to potential evidence that is encrypted is self-incrimination.
That's what you say, but it is clearly established that you are wrong. The only exception is a situation where your ability to give them the password incriminates you. Let's say someone got his head smashed in with a portable hard drive. The hard drive is encrypted. The contents of the hard drive is of no interest whatsoever, but if you are the one who has the password, then it is quite likely that you were the one who used the drive to kill someone. That's when giving the password is self-incrimination.
Solution: include a confession in your password itself. And then hope it was properly stored...
That wouldn't work, because it would just be a password, not a valid confession. You could use the GPS coordinates where you buried your murder victim; that might work.
The usual exception is when the fact that you know the password is evidence in itself. Let's say there is a hard drive with absolutely vile child porn. It's encrypted and password protected, but the encryption is weak. and has been cracked. All the porn has been found, but there is not the slightest evidence who put it there. If the police asked you for the password, then they cannot use it to find any data on the drive that they haven't got yet, but they can use the fact that you knew the password to nail you. So in that case, giving the the password would be self-incrimination.
But only 12% worldwide. Android rules the rest of the planet.
Is that a reflex answer? "Half the US smartphone buyers" absolutely forces you to post world wide market share? Don't you think that is evidence that you belong to the cult of Android?
Let's just say that what my post was about was that it is utter rubbish to claim that Apple brainwashed 50% of US smartphone buyers, just as it is utter rubbish to claim that Apple brainwashed 12% of world wide smartphone buyers.
Your statement that "Android rules the rest of the planet" is nonsense. There are many places in the world where the average person cannot afford an iPhone. So they buy the cheapest phone that they can afford. The cheap Android phone is a sign of poverty. It doesn't "rule" anything.
Contrast that with Android phones. They only promise support for 18 months, even on Nexus devices (though they MAY support them longer than that). There are dozens of phones that have fallen by the wayside.
I was told that in California, Apple was required to support (be able to repair) their devices for 7 years. I'd think that would apply to Android companies as well?
So now a "cult" is half of US smart phone buyers?
The people screaming that kind of nonsense are those who see how successful Apple is, who _should_ see why Apple is so successful (because there is no secret about this), and even though everything that Apple does to get that success is totally out in the open, they just don't get it.
So because they just can't figure out why a rational person would buy an Apple product, they come with their ridiculous interpretations that there must be a "cult", or that people must be "sheep", or that an iPhone is "fashion" (without trying to figure out _why_ it is fashion), or that Apple has brainwashed for example half the US smartphone buyers (how would Apple have done that? )
And some people don't think Apple is overpriced.
74 million phone buyers, 21 million tablet buyers, and 5.5 million computer buyers didn't think Apple products are overpriced. By definition, if you pay the money for a product willingly (not under duress) then it isn't overpriced.
Our civilization has been prevented from leaving the earth by our own silliness
Bullshit : energy and distance requirement belie this.
Look at the energy we have to expand to get out in LEO now. Even counting that and assuming you have a refuelling station , look at those requirement to go at 0.1%c speed and have enough fuel to brake. Even getting something like 0.1% C would be difficult. And at the distance we are speaking 0.1% c means thousand of years of travel. At such timescale, the GRB would still be able to wipe full quadrant out. Let us not get misty eyed, there is a lot of obstacle to going out there, and IMHO many people vastly underestimate the requirements. Technology helps us access more better energy source, and utilize that energy better, or make stronger material, but it does not remove the time length and energy requirements.
True, but it sure will alter it's attitude and orbit. A distributed system can always do more and will always be more durable, it can point in more than one direction at once, when a major target is not the focus and of course find many more major targets of interest. Should the focus be in orbit or should the real global focus be a permanent moon base, a real achievement for humanity and the required step to really reach further out. We could do it easy if we just dropped the focus on murdering each other with more and more advanced weaponry.
With your bare hands?!?
