There are more Android devices to choose from. Choice is good for consumers, but means that individual models can't hit Apple's numbers.
That's generally true. Although the top-line Samsung models don't have a lot of competition, and it's legit to compare them to iPhones. But I'm not really trying to do that; I'm just pointing out that Samsung does not provide the numbers.
Uhm, a link to a 2-year old iPhone 5 says absolutely NOTHING about the iPhone 6. Care to try again???
It's amazing the iPhone sells, it's old technology outfitted with pointless style...
What exactly is old technology? Take a moment, think about your answer
Samsung sold 5 million Galaxy 5S phones...
An analyst estimates that Samsung sold 5M in the first month; Samsung does not actually release sales numbers.
How many phones does Samsung and Google sell every time there is a new Android phone?
They never release actual sales figures like Apple does. They only speak in vague hand-wavy terms about the great success of each release. In fact, Apple is actually the only manufacturer of phones or tablets who releases actual sales figures. (Samsung has occasionally released "shipped" numbers sometime between stuffing the channel and starting to take the returns...)
What some vids don't show is that Bart kept following and harassing him multiple times before the punch. Buzz would walk somewhere else to avoid him, and Bart would soon follow, sticking the Bible in his face and taunting him. If you didn't see the whole thing, it may look like Buzz was unreasonable. It shows that video evidence can strip out context if not complete.
There is actually more to the story than even that. Very soon after it happened, the little fuck sent out his video, in which he challenges Aldrin to swear to the truth of the moon landing, and BOOM, Aldrin punches him. But there were bystanders who also recorded the incident, and all their videos had the little fuck yelling "YOU'R A LIAR AND A COWARD AND", and BOOM, Aldrin punches him. In other words, the little fuck actually edited the video and changed what he was saying in a pathetic attempt to make Aldrin look bad.
...but I agree that there are numerous other bizarre factors that may point to conspiracy...
No, there are not. None whatsoever. All of the "other bizarre factors" are equally as ridiculous.
In addition to all the above, how does "a photograph" show fluttering?
Well, there's actually video; the conspiracy dumbass either misspoke when he called it a photograph, or he's actually seen a still photo with wrinkles in the flag and assumed it was fluttering. Either way, there's video, and the flag is obviously not "fluttering in the breeze" in any normal way--in fact, if you know what a standing wave looks like, that's exactly what it's doing in the video...
And there is tension and torsion in the metal frame that holds up the flag, because with (as you mention) no breeze, they needed something else to hold it out. Because of the tension and torsion, the supporting arm vibrated a little at first, like a spring, and that makes waves in the flag material.
In fact, if you've ever done the high-school physics experiment where you generate a standing wave in a tray of water... If you compare the motion of the flag in the video to a flag fluttering in the breeze vs a standing wave, it's blindingly obvious that what you're watching in the video of the flag on the moon is a standing wave. The two motions are quite different and easy to tell apart.
But, smart VCs can impost their own requirements on the project and its management, can monitor all aspects closely and typically can decide to either continue support or cut off funding.
And yet, what we're talking about happens anyway, which is my point
Those that are slowly falling behind on their targets can remain in denial until, poof, the money's all gone. I mean, that's just human nature.
I'd just like to point out that before KickStarter, this exact thing happened all the time, even though angel investors and VCs were far more involved in monitoring the companies they invested in than kickstarter could ever be. So yes, it will happen with KickStarter, no question.
Imagine the possibilities.
Oh, you mean like a karma score for submitters, which would influence the priority in the queue of their submissions. We can only dream
The iPhone is just an underpowered palm computer with touch interface instead of keyboard/mouse of a laptop. Is the portability premium so high, or the case so shiny, that we have to pay 2 times the cost of a powerful laptop while getting computing power/memory of a 5 year old laptop?
No, the cost of miniaturized components is higher. And that's not even counting your gross exaggeration, the iPhone is 2 times the cost of a crappy barely-functional laptop, NOT a "powerful" laptop.
Apple's continued refusal to add a MicroSD slot is just more of their way of ripping off their customers.
Or, it's just more of keeping things simple. Not requiring users to keep track of what's where, nor which flavor of memory can used to store apps, nor what will disappear when the card is pulled out to replace it and what will remain.
I don't *want* to use a MicroSD card in my phone. (This, coming from a guy who just built his own ZFS-based 28TB server at home...)
Encrypt locally and send the data encrypted to backup.
But then you cannot make the data available to the user through web-based apps...
One man's constant is another man's variable. -- A.J. Perlis
