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10440. Wombat - 7/30/2012 3:13:39 PM There isn't an imminent threat...yet. I would have thought that our recent experience with "preventative" wars (Iraq), would make us reluctant to engage in another one in the Middle East at this time. 10441. iiibbb - 8/1/2012 12:36:07 PM Apple Samsung court battle should be on everyone's radar. It skirts the fringes of patent law. I am rooting for Samsung; but the presiding judge seems to favor Apple. I don't see the iPhone as that unique... well unique for a phone, but not for a PDA. 10442. arkymalarky - 8/1/2012 3:10:29 PM You're right. It's unique for its lack of crapware, and tho Stan's Samsung was a pos I liked my Motorola droid better than my iPhone. 10443. arkymalarky - 8/1/2012 3:13:12 PM I will stay iPhone tho, until google and Verizon quit stuffing as much shit as they can into their droids. At least iPhone lets you turn everything off without jail breaking.
And iPhone's keyboard sucks. The buttons are fine, but the rest is way worse than droid. 10444. arkymalarky - 8/1/2012 3:15:23 PM And don't even get me started on iPhones sucky gps. The update is supposed to improve that and Siri . Siri is a great idea, but it needs full access to the phone and to run without 3G. 10445. vonKreedon - 8/1/2012 3:46:21 PM I really like my WinPhone. 10446. iiibbb - 8/1/2012 4:42:07 PM Which product is superior is market question. I like my HTC droid in spite of the crapware (which has been quarantined without jailbraking -- I'm told this is an advantage of HTC's memory management). Apple is really nice on battery life.
However, that has little to do with deciding who should win this case. Apple is trying to say Samsung copied the "art" and function of the iPhone. They want to sue Samsung for billions because of the "large" screen and no buttons. I think it is ridiculous. The iPhone was a touchstone, but it only brought together a variety of PDA forms and functions and meshed them with a phone in a size/form that could finally be carried easily... and had one button (that's about the only thing I think makes iPhone unique). What did they invent that had not been implemented on other products before? All they did was bring existing tech together...
Everyone makes pepperoni pizza, some better than others, but it's still pepperoni pizza.
At any rate, I hardly think Apple deserves to win this case.
some of the best reporting can be found at Groklaw 10447. iiibbb - 8/1/2012 4:42:32 PM I think if Apple wins it's going to cost consumers a lot in the end. 10448. arkymalarky - 8/1/2012 4:57:28 PM The suit is a market move on their part, IMO. Samsung is kicking their asses. But they have to do some things to stay more like droids. Dependability and clean interface is important, but so are functions that they haven't incorporated that droids and their companies, especially Samsung, have. 10449. concerned - 8/3/2012 5:12:38 PM Ruh-Roh! July unemployment ticked up to 8.3%. This is a delicate balancing act for the MSM. If they talk up the economy too much, previously 'discouraged' workers might reenter the job market, kicking the unemployment rate yet higher, and making it more likely that their presidential candidate of choice loses. If they don't talk up the economy enough, people start looking for someone to blame, making it more likely that their presidential candidate of choice loses. 10450. alistairconnor - 8/10/2012 2:52:24 PM Hey, I know someone who likes their WinPhone!
(Oh. It's VonK. ;o)) 10451. vonKreedon - 8/10/2012 3:55:03 PM Yep, like my WinPhone a lot. I listen to NPR on it on my bus commute among other nice things about it. 10452. iiibbb - 10/8/2012 5:48:11 PM Arabs' real enemy 10453. Ms. No - 10/9/2012 6:44:29 PM What an excellent, brave article. I was also noticing that the comments on it were intelligent and reasoned --- a really nice view. 10454. robertjayb - 10/25/2012 4:39:08 PM Perfect Storm coming?
Sandy: a potential billion-dollar storm for the mid-Atlantic, New England, and Canada...
The latest set of 12Z (8 am EDT) model runs are in, and they portray an increased risk to the U.S. and Canadian East Coasts for early next week. The GFS model, which had been showing that Sandy would head to the northeast out to sea, now has changed its tune, and predicts that Sandy will double back and hit Maine on Tuesday evening.
The ECMWF model, which has been very consistent in its handling of Sandy, now has the storm hitting Delaware on Monday afternoon. These models are predicting that Sandy will get caught up by the trough approaching the Eastern U.S., which will inject a large amount of energy into the storm, converting it to a powerful subtropical storm with a central pressure below 960 mb and sustained winds of 60 - 70 mph. Winds of this strength would likely cause massive power outages, as trees still in leaf take out power lines.
Also of great concern are Sandy's rains. Given that ocean temperatures along the Northeast U.S. coast are about 5°F above average, there will be an unusually large amount of water vapor available to make heavy rain. If the trough of low pressure approaching the East Coast taps into the large reservoir of cold air over Canada and pulls down a significant amount of Arctic air, as predicted...
...the potential exists for the unusually moist air from Sandy to collide with this cold air from Canada and unleash the heaviest October rains ever recorded in the Northeast U.S.
. Another huge concern is storm surge flooding. Sandy is expected to have tropical storm-force winds that extend out more than 300 miles from the center, which will drive a much larger storm surge than its winds would ordinarily suggest. The full moon is on Monday, which means astronomical tides will be at their peak for the month, increasing potential storm surge flooding.
(Dr. Jeff Masters, Weather Underground...via Kos)
10455. robertjayb - 10/29/2012 7:45:25 PM Sandy advisory excerpt 11 a.m. EDT 10/29 via Miami Herald:
Landfall along or just south of the southern New Jersey coast is expected late this evening...at which time a turn to the west-northwest is expected. After moving inland over the mid-Atlantic states a decrease in forward speed is expected. By 48 hours...the Post-tropical cyclone is forecast to move northward and then northeastward. The official NHC forecast track is similar to the previous advisory track...and lies close to a blend of the consensus models... 10456. robertjayb - 10/29/2012 11:38:30 PM The Houston Chronicle's SciGuy writes informed and unhyped analysis on hurricanes and other weather matters. Here he is on the outlook for Sandy and with advice from a Gulf Coaster to an East Coaster:
SciGuy 10457. judithathome - 10/30/2012 12:19:26 AM This thing is scarier than any I've ever seen.... 10458. iiibbb - 10/30/2012 12:55:24 AM As a measure of storm potential. Presently "Mother-in-law's concern about when the baby is coming" > "Mother-in-law's concern about the coming storm apocalypse". 10459. thoughtful - 10/31/2012 2:30:02 PM Very sad...we lost a fireman in town during the storm....they responded to a call and a tree fell literally on him and the fire truck. He was a grade behind me in school. That's the problem with a small town...everyone knows everyone....
We are out of power and probably will be for a week. House about a mile from here had a huge pine tree come down and smash through the 2nd story of her home...no news if she was hurt or not. Most of the trees that are down are evergreens. When/if I get power back I'll post some more pics.
This picture says it all though.
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