instead of an iphone or one of the Galaxy phones?
do they do anything that iOS or Android does not?
Well, you cannot get your meeting schedules synced to your BMW without a Blackberry.
But with 10, I think RIM is losing one important selling point - the physical keyboard. -snip-.
No, RIM is releasing models with both all-touch and physical keyboards.
I'd be more interested in finding out how many of those are even legit.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57562905-94/blackberry-app-world-said-to-hawk-pirated-android-apps/
That's not a platform issue, it's an asshattery issue. You can also find tens of thousands of apps that are repackaged iOS/Android apps on iOS/Android - with few or no changes.
Like any other platform, they can't reasonably go to check each app submission against every known platform and verify the credentials of the developer match up - it's not realistic which is why none of the others do it.
RIM has made it very easy for any legitimate app developer to file a claim and have an app taken down - and responds to such complaints much more quickly than its rivals based on actual results.
Quite relevant because what matters is the true count of useful applications - not the filler. By your reckoning (1:1000) that means RIM has 15 useful applications for BB10. Nothing to brag about. I've got 4 times that many very useful iOS apps on the devices I own and I've just scratched the surface. Android using friends of mine have dozens of useful apps on theirs.
More specifically it means that they have 15 useful applications *from this portathon*. I suspect the number to be higher - as it's fairly easy to port opengl games and html5 apps, outside of android apps.
They've already said they'll have over 70k apps at launch - it's not like this one-weekend event is their only effort to get applications on the platform. Unofficial estimates put them over 100k. That'll mean ~100 useful apps (if we stick with 1:1000) -- whhich is, frankly, on par with other platforms.
They've also previously said that they have 90% of the most popular 600 android and ios apps, and 18 of the top 20 apps .
He chose to take his own life. It was his decision. I don't agree with it, and I don't endorse it as a reasonable choice, but it was his decision.
Indeed. A selfish decision, but his decision - one that he made in freedom. He was also free to choose to live.
He had freedom before he killed himself. Now he's dead - no more choices left. That's not freedom. That's dead.
So far, the only information found is ultimately sourced back to his uncle - no other confirmation.
Then we have this from his last blog entry:
Thus Master Wayne is left without solutions. Out of options, it’s no wonder the series ends with his staged suicide.
Not saying this is fake, just that I'd like to see something from an official source .
Except that they have provided access, to several governments.
They have provided access to consumer data to (presumably) every government that wants it, the same as any other carrier does.
They don't have the ability to provide access to BES-encrypted data. They themselves don't have access - it's encrypted with a private key specific to each instance of BES.
If you're using BES, it's all encrypted - it goes through RIM's servers, but RIM can't read it.
Hence the big kerfuffle about governments insisting on access to BES data, and RIM's refusal to give it -- they literally can't.
Consumer email/BIS access is a different story. RIM does have access to that, and presumably government as well (similar to what any other provider gives).
Anonymous, however, has no vested interest either way in the lives, well-being and reputations of those in Steubenville Ohio - or their football team (which, if you read the NYT article, seems to be the main concern of many in the town)
No? You're sure of that? Are you sure of the opposite - they don't have an axe to grind with any of the people involved?
Because it seems to me, given the inclusive nature of Anonymous - that is, the membership requirement consists of saying you're in Anonymous - we really don't know what their motives are. Could be they're from across the country and really have no involvement - or it could be they're from across the street and doctored up some evidence.
I met my wife online (in a chat channel...). If internet dating tools had been prevalent then,a nd if we had used them... we never would have turned up as a compatible match.
Sometimes it's the things that you disagree on that make you a good match, as well as the things that you agree on. I suspect that only a narcissistic few would be truly fulfilled with someone who had the exact same way of thinking, likes, dislikes, etc as themselves.
You have a valid point, but you decided to devolve into random insults and sarcasm while making it. A shame.
To play a bit of devil's advocate here: could not the nurse make the exact same argument? The patient's right to be protected ends when it involves injecting a substance into the caregiver. Especially when you consider that if the same caregiver is following proper hygiene for someone in his or her position, chances of infection are already minimal -- even if they got the flu, and even if they actually came into work while infected with the flu.
Not saying that I agree with the nurses' decisions here, but certainly I can understand them from that perspective.
Without the middle-man:
http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html
On the surface, there are *minor* visual similarities. Having used both I'm fairly comfortable saying that RIM didn't draw inspiration from MS here. It actually is an evolution of what they had in their playbook OS - released almost 2 years ago now.
Also, Monsanto paid top dollar for him to reconsider his opinions!
I'd like to believe he's telling the truth, but it's so rare - and he's now glossing over actual potential problems with GM foods, which is another flag.
Of course it's only those Chinese and Russians that can influence the weather though, and hell an upstanding US company would never do such a thing would they?
See, there you go, losing what credibility you may have had. Couldn't just be that they saw an opportunity and took it, could it?
It would be great if you provided some actual citations for the studies you referenced.
All that aside, I too am suspicious of turnarounds in opinion like this - it's very rare that a person can admit that he was wrong on such a scale.
All seems condemned in the long run to approximate a state akin to Gaussian noise. -- James Martin
