Posts by Armando 123

Apple, like Ford, buys parts from suppliers to make their products. If there were suppliers still in the US, they might use them.

True enough, but how many of those computers are old (ie, we're not spending any money on this box and will run it until it drops) or have minimal software. The people who own these are not buying software. So while most of the PCs are running Windows, the number of those PCs which will have new, paid-for software running on them is far lower.

Didn't the CIA and FBI do something like this years ago to trace leaks? You know, intentional misspellings to trace who might be the security risk.

Or that men are doing the housework these days and coal dust just makes it a NIGHTmare, luv.

Hey

Quit being so salty </obscure>

Hold on

"You mean other than adding support for more hardware (gps, cameras, motion sensors, magnetometers, etc), application and memory management tools ("running services", "battery use", etc), and access to a PHYSICAL keyboard (if the phone manufacturer so chooses)? Oh, how about proper multi-tasking, which Android had before iOS."

I can bet there are hundreds of examples of each of them as 'prior art'. Now, you may argue that the Android platform didn't have them, but if MS copying OS X isn't innovation then I can't say this is, either.

And I'm not saying Apple invented them, either. In fact, Apple's innovation generally isn't that they are the first to do something, but the first to do something in a way that resonates with the public ie the first to do it right. There is definite value in that; you'll notice there aren't a lot of Altairs and Osbornes around these days.

@Figgus

Come on, Obama is an ivy-leaguer, a lawyer, a socialist, worked on wall street, rose quickly through the second most corrupt political machine in the US, and wants to put more government on our backs and in our wallets. Obviously it must be race that makes people dislike him.

(Where the heck's my sarcasm icon?)

Well

In all truth, it was the US treasury, which is not only an institution but is staffed by people who belong in one.

And

NBA-like levels of dancing girls.

Fair point

That's a fair point about the hydrogen requiring power, but as long as both require energy from somewhere, I'd go with hydrogen. A lot of the infrastructure is in place or can be adapted (filling stations, etc), it takes quicker to get a full fuel/energy load, and those heavy batteries are a killer to mileage and performance.

Plus, the environmental impact of all that nickel mining and processing is ignored, but it creates some nasty byproducts that need to be dealt with.

Besides, if Al Gore believes in something, you can count on it being wrong.

I get what you're saying

But is there enough of a market for it to justify the cost? I know that amongst us of the geek/nerd mindset there is interest, but will enough of us buy it to justify the cost? Though I admit I don't have access to the numbers, I'm guessing it isn't.

Pennsylvannia does something like this

Or at least they did. On the toll road, if the time you took between entering and exiting the interstate gave you an average speed higher than the limit, you got a speeding ticket. I found this out when there were a bunch of cars sitting by the side of the highway right before the Breezewood/I-70 exit and asked the Pennsylvania native driving the car (at 53MPH) what was going on.

Well

The market has shown that they will EVENTUALLY buy Windows Whatever. For all the work that MS puts into each version of Windows, it takes a long time for people to adopt it. Granted, a lot of that is because they own the business desktop and people change those over slowly, but still, a lot of people spent a long time not upgrading to 7. Just as they spent a lot of time not moving to Vista and not moving to XP.

Even more prior

To quote Groucho Marx, "I'll go further than that, I'll get off at the depot". I seem to recall being able to do this (or something darn near like it) on a Newton. Which, help me out here, was a mobile device made by some company ... now who was it ...

@Ru

and c) people look for alternatives, making China's stash less valuable.

Uh

for the civ ii advisors under anarchy. Sorry, seemed obvious to me.

Not necessarily

Part of an ambassador's job is to look after the nation's interests in that country. Perhaps if there were something really significant and dangerous going on between the US and Australia -- like the threat of another Paul Hogan movie -- you might be right. As it is, ...

Hm...

I noticed this when I was in Europe. (And it's not like 1990 when I went to Eastern Europe with an extra suitcase packed with new Levi's. And my own toilet paper.)

"Levis - don't take the piss out of consumers are we won't figure out ways to stop you. We're not stupid."

Levi Strauss & Co do not make money if customers are unsatisfied; that can only happen longterm when there is an effective monopoly. Given how interventionist and tax-happy the nanny states of Europe can be, maybe it isn't LS&Co