Re: You wonder why..
You know for a response that funny you should really have put your name to it :)
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Its not the share, its the profit!
Yes Toyota may sell more cars than Ferrari, but for Farrari their small volumes are at high procs, that allows them to do RnD and make a profit.
Leave the mass market to thos that want it, as long as the company survives and thrives, who gives a damn.
In comparing Android v Apple, you are comparing multipe competitors against one company, I think you will find that Apple is the biggest singl smart phone vendor and the most profitable at the smae time|!, and unlike the andriod base who can switch from maker to maker when the contracts end, Apples customers stay with them.
I start with a zx81 from school and then went onto a a 48K speccie, the amount of Quickshot joysticks I broke playing daley thompsons decatholon, or Kick off or international karate ... damn good days :) Sniff.. now I program ASP.NET and try not to fall asleep at the keyboard :(
One thing I loved was the C64 V Spectrum wars, they were legendary,
blah blah blah blah using that analogy we should close down the NHS becuase it kills a couple of hundred people thoough mistakes every year.
Its your kind of liberal stupidity, that means that the filth running around the streets of England, can shoot a 5 year old and paralse her and know the most they get is 14 years and their walking, and that will probally be less!
In turkey, when rival football fans attack each other they stab their rivals in the buttocks, not becuase their gay, but becuase if you do that its classed as a minor assault, anywhere else and you do serious time.
Murder you should get the rope, ned of story, its only expensive becuase of the lawyers, China seems to have no problem , dealing with the death sentence quickly.
It make not stop all crime , but you can be damn sure people think twice before comitting one! and as someone pointed out you dont hear a lot of people stupid enough to try smuggling drugs into sinapore!
Because BAE are the biggest bunch of Lying gits on the face of the planet, how exactly does adding a couple of eletricals catapaults and amending the deck to allow the launch add up to £1.8 Billion? Get a grip , its an old trick used to ge6t out of doing work you don't want to do. You give a figure so stupidly high it puts off the customer
Are you still going ?
The E3 sentry has a radome on top of the plane, Thats the best airborne early warning platform in service, It gets blocked by the body ??? seriously thats was an argument!
Name one other country that uses helicopter AEW , there are not lots, there are 4 in total, and the only think they have in common is that their carriers are too small to launch proper Haqwyeye type aircraft.
The choppers can fly as fast, as high, handle as many targets as the aircraft , due to their small size , its FACT
Are you still going ?? The Hawyeyes can be refuelled normally, have a larger crew and can carry a more powerful radar.
Endurance again are you kidding, seriously look at the figures! DO you work for BAE or something?
as for the Voyagers, yeah 14,000 KM but they have to be where the fighters can reach them, to refuel, which means that they will also be near the targets, which is why the US navy has its own tankers and fighters carry buddy stores.
Altiude means you can look over the horizon, which means you have more time to see your attackers, spped means that you have greater chance of getting away to safety if attackers get to close!
Apart from the RAF heard of any other country using AWACS choppers, and the Osprey has enough trouble as it is without trying to put radar next to to massive titling damn proppellers!
I'm sorry is this a wind up ??? The B Model IS NOT The preferred option of most countries and will never by, especially at $155Million a piece are you on crack or something ? Its a white4 elephant even before it enters service!
The Merlin AWACS is in no way comparable to a Hawkeye in either range, speed or endurance, I suggest you actually :
Merlin Performance :
Never exceed speed: 309 km/h (167 knots, 192 mph)
Cruise speed: 278 km/h (150 knots, 278 km/h)
Range: 1,389 km (750 nmi,[136] 863 mi)
Endurance: 5 hours
Service ceiling: 4,575 m (15,000 ft)
E-2 Hawkeye Performance :
Maximum speed: 350 knots (648 km/h)
Cruise speed: 256 knots (474 km/h)
Ferry range: 1,462 nmi (2,708 km)
Endurance: 6 hr
Service ceiling: 34,700 ft (10,576 m)
And as for relying on land base tankers to support your sea borne aircraft, Jesus words fail me, I suppose your expecting an airbase to always be near for them to operate from??
I suggest you refrain from commentating on a subject you obviously know nothing about!.
The original account was @BorisJohnson but was changed to @MayorOfLondon when he won! and last time I checked , you dont actually have to spend money to work a twitter account or have I misssed something?
Maybe people trying to deflect attension from Ken being seen as a massive hypocrite over his tax affairs, and a massive liar?
THey produce the best design tablet, back it up with superb software and sell the suckers faster than they can make em.
Apples figures are usual bang on becuase they sell some , and to use it you have to connect to itunes which registers the new device so pretty accurate.
and dude you don't get 100bn in cash by faking figures , that way leads to joliet in the states!
They kick ass and dont even need to bother taking names!
Yes re-reading the story again, he's paid her to make a film about him, so its his property unless , they had a contract stating that she retained copyright.
Looks like she's tried to pull the same stusnt wedding photograhers do, i'e get paid take pictures and retain the copyright to those pictures which is complete balls in my opinion , you get paid to do something , then you dont own it, however if you create it yourself without someone else paying you to do it , then you own it.
That he paid for someone to make a film about him , and therefore it is his work, as in "work for hire" practice.
The only way this steele person could have copyright is if she suggested h to him that she make a film about him, in which case it would be her copyright.
Amazon is bad for Authors in that they have destroyed outlets that distributed a range of books, what happens then is that when you have the book distribution industry sewn up as your the only game in town , you can then tell the publishers , that you either get a discount, or they dont get listed.
Seriously you are so naive , you had to have someone tell you this???
No Apple is saying that no, samsung is not allowed to copy our phones , just becuase their toccos sold like crap, and using the 3G patents as a stick to allow them to access to our designs, so that they can produce them at minimal cost and bankrupt yet another western company arent happening either!
The problem is that when they got lowwer priced phone sthan apple, with bigger scrren and free OS and different designs, and still could not beat tem, they decided to just plain old copy them. Even samsung lawywers when asked to decidee which was wiched two a number of attempts before guessing correctly.
The galaxy II is a copy palin and simple. I mean you can tell straight away that an HTC Android phoone looks nothing like an iPhone, even the HTC HD2 which is the most iPHone like , can be distinguised easily.
I'm not going to get into the slanging match as to whose death is more important, I will leave that to the fanbois..
All i know is this, as time passes the greats are moving on, one by one, and with each passing , it leaves the world that , a bit more dreay a place.
I remember the 70 and 80 when all this stuff was new, and before the lawyers got involved , and the net was just a gleam in berner lee's eye. Spectrum/C64/Amstrad/BBC micro slanging matches , Elite.. those were truly the golden years :)
RIP