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Major technology nerds that never go outside and their eyes are square because of all the screens they watch. They also have no friends and get beat up alot.
Jock 1: Look at that tehgeek over there!
Jock 2: Yea! Lets go steal his laptop!
Jock 2: Yea! Lets go steal his laptop!
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on February 3, 2013 - 6:36 AM
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School district administrators have had to make some tough financial choices in the past few years. But those difficulties pale in comparison to what's ahead, thanks to the state's tax cap and a struggling economy. That looming financial disaster demands that districts look at what was once considered the impossible – consolidations.
Civic leader Kevin Gaughan has done the research that shows that Erie County, with a population of about 900,000, has 27 school districts, and 17 of those districts have fewer than 3,000 students each. That compares to similar counties elsewhere that manage with an average of just nine school districts. Moreover, Erie County's 27 school districts sustained a loss of 25,000 students from 2001 to 2010, with no sign that trend will be reversed.
Gaughan wants to see an extension of the right of referendum by petition to give residents a chance to decide that school consolidation is a better future than draconian cuts in education.
In that vein, four school districts in Cheektowaga – Cheektowaga Central, Cleveland Hill, Maryvale and Cheektowaga-Sloan – are pursuing a state efficiency grant that would allow them to examine a possible merger. District representatives have discussed the matter with Town of Cheektowaga leaders in addition to state officials.
At a forum last week, members of the four Cheektowaga school boards discussed the issues they face. The session was moderated by Rick Timbs, executive director of the Statewide School Finance Consortium, who said: "I've watched Western New York enter a malaise for 40 years, and it's accelerating now."
He said consolidation might not save the districts much money, but it could allow them to combine resources, enhance programs and facilities, stabilize property taxes and attract better teachers. That seems like plenty of reason to take a long look at consolidation.
A day later, West Seneca Central School Board members met to review the recommendation to close East Elementary School and reconfigure East Middle School to accommodate students in grades five through eight.
While parents expressed opposition to the plan, Superintendent Mark J. Crawford told them state aid is dropping as enrollment has declined from about 15,500 students 40 years ago to about 6,800.
This sort of frank talk will be required as school officials grapple with the legacy costs of lifetime health care and pension packages for retirees. Add in the cap on property tax increases and districts are finding themselves caught in a perfect financial storm.
So why, then, continue to sustain a system of 27 school districts, along with two Boards of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES) in Erie County?
Maintaining all those districts while costs skyrocket and enrollment drops is not sustainable.
Half of school superintendents statewide who responded to a recent financial survey said they think their district will be insolvent within four years. The picture will only worsen as districts fall deeper into a financial hole.
Some districts are already sharing administrative services. A couple of years ago, the Akron Central School District began sharing its transportation supervisor with Clarence Central. The Grand Island and Kenmore-Town of Tonawanda school districts followed suit. And Ken-Ton has one shared program supervisor.
These are but a few examples of shared services. Such sharing is helpful, but will it be enough? Some states, including Maryland and Virginia, have countywide school districts, a model that reduces the number of high-paid administrators.
One countywide district is asking too much here. But now is the time for districts with similar populations and educational goals to talk seriously about sharing services, and ultimately involve residents in a discussion about consolidating.
As Gaughan said, the reality here is that every year, every school district is taking more and more money from fewer and fewer people to educate fewer and fewer students. That's a business model for failure.

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on February 22, 2013 - 12:19 AM
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INDIANAPOLIS — While General Manager Buddy Nix and Assistant GM Doug Whaley are busy interviewing prospects, team President Russ Brandon is spending the NFL Scouting Combine conducting meetings of his own.
Brandon and Jim Overdorf, the team's senior vice president of football administration, are busy meeting with the agents of the Bills' 12 unrestricted free agents.
"We have a pretty good pool of free agents that will be coming up on March 12, so Jim and I have a lot of work to do," Brandon said. "It's an opportunity for us to get a pretty good understanding of where they're coming from, what their focus is on moving forward, and have very open and frank dialogue on both sides. And it also gives you an opportunity, if you're making some progress, to sit down later that day or the next day and continue that dialogue. It'll go fast and furious over the next three days."
Last year at this time, the Bills laid out most of the groundwork in a deal with receiver Stevie Johnson. This year, they've got high-profile free agents Jairus Byrd and Andy Levitre at the top of their list. Brandon confirmed the Bills will meet with Eugene Parker and David Dunn, the representatives for Byrd and Levitre, respectively, while they're here.
Byrd has several times been mentioned as a prime candidate for the team's franchise tag, but Brandon said that would be a last resort.
"It's an asset that's available to you if needed," Brandon said, without mentioning Byrd by name. "Obviously, there's a variety of reasons that you don't want to use it. You prefer not to from a cap-management standpoint, but we'll see how that goes.
"It's a tool that's there as collectively bargained, but from our standpoint, we're focused on trying to get long-term deals done."
Bills General Manager Buddy Nix specified cornerback Leodis McKelvin as the next unrestricted free agent the team is focused on, indicating McKelvin would be the starting right cornerback based on the current roster.
"It's important for us to keep all three of those guys," Nix said, "and I'm throwing Leodis in there and Levitre and, of course, Jairus Byrd."
While a scintillating return man, McKelvin has been a disappointment as a cornerback, especially considering the Bills drafted him 11th overall in 2008. He was the first cornerback off the draft board, taken ahead of Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie (16th), Aqib Talib (20th) and Mike Jenkins (25th).
McKelvin started three games as a rookie and suffered a broken leg in his second season. He didn't become a regular starter until 2010.
He started only six games in 2011 and four games this season after Aaron Williams got hurt in Week Nine.
Tight end Scott Chandler suffered the same knee injury in December that fellow Bills tight end Mike Caussin did in 2011.
Both injuries occurred in Week 16. Caussin was unable to play a game last season.
Given that, the Bills have a major need at tight end for 2013. Chandler, who scored six touchdowns each of the past two seasons, might not be able to contribute.
"See, I worry about that," Nix said. "It's normally seven to nine to 10 months recovery.
"You figure it up, and we start camp at seven months for Scott. Even if the doctor said, 'You're strong enough to do it,' you don't know confidence-wise how long it'll take him to get back to 100 percent.
"I don't want to get caught without" a tight end.
The Bills have Lee Smith on their roster as a blocking tight end. Caussin and Derek Buttles, an undrafted rookie last year, also are on the roster. Joe Sawyer is on the practice squad.
The notable tight ends who could be free agents are Jared Cook (Tennessee Titans), Martellus Bennett (New York Giants), Brandon Myers (Oakland Raiders), Fred Davis (Washington Redskins), Dustin Keller (New York Jets) and Anthony Fasano (Miami Dolphins).
Nix gave this year's tight end draft class a positive grade.
"I think it's good," he said. "I think there's more tight ends draftable than probably I've seen in two or three years."
Brandon said season-ticket sales are pacing ahead of last year's rate, when the team had 43,267 season-ticket holders, but that he understands if people are skeptical.
"It'll be interesting to see where it all plays out, but there has been a good level of excitement tied into what we've done," he said. "There's also a little bit of a wait-and-see attitude I understand as well. But I think people are generally pretty excited about coach Doug Marrone and the staff he's put in place."
Brandon left no doubt that Assistant General Manager Doug Whaley's position with the team is secure.
As for when the current general manager, 73-year-old Buddy Nix, will turn the reins over to Whaley, Brandon insists no time frame has been set.
"I know that's also a popular question, but there's no timetable for that. Doug Whaley's not going anywhere," Brandon said. "He's our assistant GM. He's in charge of all personnel. Doug, he's locked in to Buffalo for the foreseeable future. There's no transition timetable or plan. Buddy and I will meet on that when it's appropriate, but we haven't discussed that at all."
The NFL released its tentative round-by-round draft order Thursday, with the exception of compensatory selections, which will be announced next month.
The Bills own six picks — one each in the first six rounds. Buffalo traded its seventh-round pick to Seattle for quarterback Tarvaris Jackson.
The Bills pick eighth overall in the first round and hold four of the top 102 selections in the draft.
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Harpist Claire Jones & percussionist Chris MarshallThe C2 Duo: Claire Jones, former Official Harpist to HRH Prince Charles, and her husband, composer and percussionist Chris Marshall, give a concert co-presented with the American Harp Society.04/27/2014Time: 4:00 pmCalvary United Methodist Church, 971 Beech Ave., Pittsburgh, PAwebsite | map
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Harriet Miller, pianoA listener-friendly recital program featuring works by Bach, Chopin, Rachmaninoff, Debussy and Scriabin, and dance pieces by Bartok and Ginastera. Miller, a pianist at First Lutheran, is organist/music director at Christ United Methodist Church in Moxham. Free and open to the public. 04/27/2014Time: 2:00 pmLocation: First Lutheran Church, 415 Vine St, Johnstown, PAwebsite
Music of MozartAs part the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra's Mozart Festival, the PSO and Chamber Music Pittsburgh co-present an all-Mozart concert including selections for Violin and Piano completed by Harvard scholar and Classical period keyboard expert Robert Levin, performing with Noah Bendix-Balgley, newly-appointed First Concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic. Mr. Levin and PSO members also perform the Piano Quartet in G minor, K. 478, and Clarinet Quintet in A major, K. 581.04/29/2014Time: 7:30 pmCarnegie Music Hall, 4400 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, PAwebsite | map
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Blythe SpiritFollowing a seance with the quirky Madame Arcati, Charles Condomine finds that his late wife Elvira is back and determined to have him to herself–much to the dismay of his current wife! Blithe Spirit playfully mocks the traditions of love and marriage while thumbing its nose at the Grim Reaper. Alan Stanford directs.05/01/2014 - 05/17/2014Time: variousStephen Foster Memorial Pittsburgh, PAwebsite | map
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A place occupied mostly by a rowdy crowd of "niggas"
Aye bruh, I went to the gucci concert last night.. It was niggaland in there
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nigga land is whenever you and your boy are hanging or chillin y'all are on nigga land bc you do what the hell you want and y'all think it's awesom!! me and my nigga are always on nigga land when we with eachother even in the halls at school!! we niggas for life
me and my nigga are always on nigga land i don't matter where we are in the mall, school hell even at a funeral we on nigga land!!
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on May 16, 2013 - 8:57 PM
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NIAGARA FALLS – When the president of a Niagara Falls engine parts manufacturer opened his office door at about 1:30 a.m. March 26, he encountered two men who said they were delivering a pizza.
But Sandro Viola hadn't ordered a pizza, and when he said so, one of the men pulled a handgun and fired three shots, one of which struck Viola in the right shoulder.
Thursday, the owner of another Falls company appeared in Niagara County Court, charged with shooting Viola in the culmination of a long dispute over a machinery sale.
Timothy C. DePetris, 44, of Crestview Drive, Town of Niagara, the owner of Electro-Dyn Choke Corp., pleaded not guilty to attempted murder and assault and weapons charges.
Prosecutors and even his own defense attorney say DePetris' problems appear to go deeper than a business dispute.
At the time of his arrest, he had been living at the Seneca Niagara Casino & Hotel, where he had racked up huge losses, and he was driving around the city with two loaded guns.
"He's probably lost over $1 million at the casino," defense attorney E. Earl Key said.
Deputy District Attorney Doreen M. Hoffmann said DePetris was arrested four days after the shooting, riding in a car with a loaded handgun in a homemade holster around his neck and an automatic rifle beside him.
Hoffmann said that the rifle was loaded with 31 bullets and that DePetris allegedly had 16 other ammunition magazines, six of them taped together in pairs for faster reloading.
"He has the ability to cause some serious damage to the community. He was driving around Niagara Falls with a fully automatic rifle and 200 rounds of ammunition. With one pull of the trigger, he could have taken out a lot of people," the prosecutor told County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas, who ordered DePetris held without bail.
Viola, 56, was released from Erie County Medical Center on the day of the shooting. A receptionist at Viola's company, Integrated Controls USA, said Viola would not comment on the case.
Hoffmann told Farkas that for more than two months, DePetris "sat and brewed some anger" over a business deal with Integrated Controls. Apparently, the prosecutor said, DePetris was convinced he had been underpaid in a sale of machinery.
She said that last Jan. 15, DePetris allegedly went to Viola's home. Viola wasn't there, but DePetris grilled an adult daughter with questions that so flustered the woman that she filed a police report. Integrated Controls, according to its website, makes parts such as thermostats, coolant temperature sensors and temperature switches for auto, boat, heavy equipment and industrial engines in its Hyde Park Boulevard plant.
Electro-Dyn, whose phones have been disconnected, made engine blowers and fans, electronic coils and transformers and was located on 19th Street.
Information disclosed in court showed that DePetris allegedly had serious financial problems.
Hoffmann said DePetris was a member of the Chairman's Club, the high-rolling VIP club at Seneca Niagara Casino. According to the casino's website, it takes $136,000 in wagers in six months to qualify, though that can vary.
Hoffmann said that before DePetris' arrest, he was living at the casino-hotel. Because of the weapons charges from March 30, he couldn't go home because to do so might cause his wife to lose her license to operate a day care center. "As for living at the casino, that's why he has no money," Key said. Key told Farkas that DePetris has no prior criminal record, but Hoffmann said he has been arrested and charged with passing bad checks in the Town of Niagara, and she said a felony bad-check case against him is about to be presented to a Niagara County grand jury.
DePetris was never arrested in the Viola shooting. After his arrest on the gun-possession charges, Hoffmann presented evidence in the shooting to a grand jury, which issued the indictment.
DePetris is charged with attempted murder, first-degree assault, first-degree criminal use of a firearm, three counts of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon, six counts of third-degree criminal possession of a weapon and one count of second-degree criminal trespass, the last charge stemming from the Jan. 15 visit to Viola's home.
DePetris is to return to court June 4, when Key is to report whether the defendant can afford to hire him.
No charges have been filed against the man who allegedly accompanied DePetris to Integrated Controls, pretending to be a pizza deliveryman. Asked whether he had testified against DePetris before the grand jury, a move that could bring him immunity from prosecution, Hoffmann declined to answer.
Key said DePetris was a passenger, not the driver, of the car that police stopped March 30, yet the driver wasn't charged with weapons possession. Hoffmann said that was because DePetris allegedly admitted the guns were his.
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The act of inserting ice cubes into a girls vagina, then fucking her with the ice cubes inside her
Guy #1: Dude, me and my girlfriend went ice fishing
Guy #2: Oh really?
Guy #1: Yeah man, the ice gave me the weirdest boner
Guy #2: Oh really?
Guy #1: Yeah man, the ice gave me the weirdest boner
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An excuse men use to get away from their woman. In Ice Fishing, men go up north; ride snowmobiles, shoot stuff, and most importantly get incredibly intoxicated. There is usually little or no actual ice fishing taking place.
Man 1: I'm so sick of my bitch right now man.
Man 2: Screw that lets go ice fishing.
Man 2: Screw that lets go ice fishing.
po Tek 9 Децембар 22, 2008
The act of taking a fork or other utensil and fishing ice cubes to eat out of one's drink
Ardy needed a fork at the restaurant so that she could go ice fishing in her glass of water.
po gbdriver80 Јун 18, 2013
Putting multiple ice cubes into a women's vagina then fucking her
Women: "Put ice cubes in my pussy then fuck me"
Man: " Isn't that ice fishing"
Man: " Isn't that ice fishing"
po Master Ice Fisher Јун 13, 2013
To go diamond shopping.
Female #1: "You know my man be taking me ice fishing at the mall this weekend....don't hate!"
Female #2 : "Lucky bitch!, my man ain't never take me ice fishing."
Female #2 : "Lucky bitch!, my man ain't never take me ice fishing."
po Funky K Dog Август 26, 2011
Colby and Angela enjoy ice fishing in the public pool.
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she was o.k., though it was kinda like ice fishing.
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NRA official only speaks for the manufacturer
February 9, 2013
Editor: The latest figures say that 86 percent of current National Rifle Association members support an assault weapons ban and universal background checks....
What and your other liberal radical friends should move out west to callyforny where the rest of your weirdo lefties have same opinions. You're in WV and no clown like Obama or Manchin is going to take our guns away here. Get over it. Keep dreaming about your world full of other nutballs like yourselves but it's just another fantasy of the left lunatics.
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Clueless liberals who love posting gun owners names/addresses in newspapers suddenly don't like the idea of putting signs in their own neighborhoods informing the public that their neighborhood is a "gun-free" zone. WHy is that liberals? Afraid of something besides law abiding gun owners? LOL. Liberalism is a brain malfunctioning disease. It causes folks to stop thinking or using common sense thus brain cells die a slow death by misuse or lack of use. Hypocrites on the left become more and more clear day by day. How hilarious these deceivers are to hear and watch. It's like past 5 years we've been watching a very bad cartoon with all the remarkably ignorant lefties falling over themselves to create a 'utopia' where they actually think they can have everything and won't end up having to pay for it all. Welcome to Obama's next agenda; HUMONGOUS Quadruple Taxation. LOL. They are about to 'feel' what socialism is. Wake up call is too late for you unsuspecting unthinking deceived
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Typical response from purebull, PURE B.S.! You claim to be smart,at least you think so, yet you cant even read a poll, any poll, all the polls say the same thing, 86% of current NRA members support an assault weapons ban, and you are the only bald-faced liar I know, I too have been an NRA member most of my life and I support the assault weapons ban, closing the "gun show' loophole and strengthening the universal background check. anyone who hunts with an assault weapon is a stupid ******* anyway, and wouldn't count in an intelligent, balanced disscussion, because they would fail a mental hygeine check and probably would fail a criminal check as well. you are a fear mongerer and keep spouting the same lies as the rest of the right-wing nuts. they dont want to take all guns away, just the useless, man killer ones. why is that so hard to understand? Do you know what 20 bullet-riddled first graders must have looked like? How could you be so blind?
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LISBON — The Lisbon school board is considering hosting a public forum to seek public input on its anti-bullying policy and whether they think a problem exists in the schools....
Grimm said anything they do to address the issue should include an educational component.
Hahahahahahaaaaaaaaahahahha, cough, cough, ahhhhaahhahahahahahh....that is so funny!
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(noun)- the "toe" created by a maxi pad showing through stretch pants, or other tight pants.
Wow that girl had a brutal padded toe. or Why was that girl wearing stretch pants and a maxi pad with such an amazing, spellbinding padded toe?
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Well, that didn't take long -- earlier today, Intel made its
I/O technology official and Apple
launched new MacBook Pros that support the 10Gbps interface. Now, LaCie has
its "Little Big Disk" which supports Thunderbolt.
LaCie has been working with Thunderbolt for the past year,
and showcased a storage prototype with 700MB/sec transfer speeds (all while
daisy-chained between a computer and monitor) at IDF 2010. Now, the production
Little Big Disk is ready to go and supports two channels with 10Gb/sec of data
flowing both ways per channel (all within a single cable).
"Thunderbolt technology is a breakthrough in I/O
technology and represents the future of mobile computing. Soon you will be able
to carry workstation-class power and functionality in compact devices,"
said Philippe Spruch, Chairman and General Manager, LaCie. "LaCie is
excited to be one of the first to deliver Thunderbolt technology with the LaCie
Little Big Disk."
The Little Big Disk weighs in a svelte 1.5 pounds and comes
equipped with two 250GB Intel 510 Series solid state drives (which haven't even
been officially announced yet).
to VR Zone, the Intel 510 Series
SSDs have maximum read speeds of 470MB/sec and maximum writes of 315MB/sec.
Interestingly, the SSDs are still built in 34nm NAND flash technology. The drives
will be available in 120GB ($280) and 250GB ($580) capacities when they are
officially launched on March 1.
As for LaCie's Little Big Disk, it will be available later
this summer at an undisclosed price.
quote: "Ever noticed how many pros (pro photographers, film editors and directors, pro graphic designers, journalists, professors) use a Mac? Ever wondered why?"I wonder this every day. A lot are just old fogeys that haven't touched windows since 3.1 and have no clue that in many cases the Adobe Creative suite works better on a PC. (In fact photoshop became 64 bit on the PC one version before the mac). Some are locked into the mac platform because of shady deals. (After apple bought logic, all logic users had to switch to mac). For others it's compatibility (until everyone switches to opentype fonts you can't use mac fonts on a PC). Mainly it's just arrogance and cluelessness.
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When you eat something that causes you to make pleasurable sounds out loud, exactly like the ones that you make when you have a orgasm.
"Oh my god, mmmmm, Oh my god, mmmmm, oh fuck".
"Are you ok"?
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to experiance an orgasmic-like reaction to the tasting of food!
(laura eats charles's curry) "woah charles! like total mouthgasm!"
po Charles Sterling Април 7, 2006
When one eats something that causes sensation in one's mouth unlike any other, rising to a height of orgasm in the mouth.
When the syrupy eggs touched my mouth, I couldn't believe the sensation I was experiencing. The mouthgasm was inevitable.
po DPC MARRY ME Јануар 24, 2009
when food is so good it feels like your having an orgasm in your mouth.
Ashley: Omg, did you taste the chicken patty at lunch today?
Tina: Yes, it was soo good i was having a mouthgasm.
Tina: Yes, it was soo good i was having a mouthgasm.
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When something tastes extremely unbeliveably good.
That grilled cheese was so good it was like a mouth gasm.
po uno531 Јул 10, 2008
An orgasm-like experience resulting from eating wonderful food.
"Dude, that steak just gave me a total mouthgasm."
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The physical and emotional sensation experienced during peak flavor sensation, usually resulting from stimulation by eating something wonderful, and usually accompanied by a moan of pleasure.
"I took a bite of that desert and it gave me a mouthgasm."
"Oh man, that mouthgasm was so intense I may have to go rub one out!"
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quote: Well, actually the single reason that kept our 100+ PC/server purchase go C2D was the lack of any competitive IGP platform.
Simply put, Intel does NOT have a competitive solution to RS485/SB600 or GF6150/NVS210 AMD flagships. And no, X3000 does NOT cut it.
We REQUIRE not only performance but also compatibility and issue-less drivers. Only ATI/AMD and NVIDIA can offer that at this time.
Also I would not put RS690 so high on the list of priorities as any bussiness or EDU organization shouls go purely to Intel SIP or AMD CSIP based solutions.
IMO until Q3 RS690 will be mostly retail thingie and AMD is pretty good is still having supply issues so anything to bring demand sky-high is bad as of now. At the end of Q1 it would be welcome, but not sooner.
quote: In both of your X3000 links, the X3000 system is using a faster CPU than the comparison system. You can't make any judgement based on that.


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The 14-year-old was arrested. No one was hurt.
A 9mm handgun fell out of his pants at the Edward C. Merle Institute of Environmental Technology, in the 1600 block of East Sixth Street, police said.
Officers said the school was locked down while police dogs combed the area.
It was another student who informed school administrators that the teen was armed.
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After seeing Diana Son's play "Stop Kiss" in London, Russell Stiles carried a copy of the script with him for several years in search of a local venue. Enter stage right: The Church in the Middle of the Block.
"Beautiful" and "intimate," Stiles said of the space at the former Second United Brethren Church, Altoona, which was turned into a creative space for the arts and home to its resident theater company, Things Unseen Theatre.
Stiles, a teacher at Hollidaysburg Area High School, is directing "Stop Kiss," which will open at 8 p.m. Friday.
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Courtney Sherkel of Altoona (left), portraying Callie, acts with Haley Hawk of Hollidaysburg, portraying Sara, in the opening scene of "Stop Kiss." The play is a production of the Things Unseen Theatre group.
The play, which was first performed in 1998, according to the Asian American Theatre website, is about two women from different worlds meeting in New York City, Stiles said. After a growing attraction, main characters Callie and Sara, who both have boyfriends, fall in love. After their first kiss, they are brutally attacked.
The play is arranged like a television drama, said Courtney Sherkel, 26, of Altoona, a second-grade teacher, who plays Callie. It goes back and forth between life before and after the attack, Stiles said.
Valerie Stratton, production manager and the theater's co-artistic director along with Jody Hesley, said that after the attack, Callie becomes the comatose Sara's caretaker, and she accepts the role with open arms. Stratton said one of the messages of the play is to accept those we love through life's ups and downs.
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What: "Stop Kiss," a play by Diana Son
Where: The Church in the Middle of the Block, 217 Fifth Ave.
When: 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and Feb. 1 and 2; 1 p.m. Feb. 1.
Tickets: $12, and $10 for students and seniors. Available at Thompson Pharmacies and at the door.
Details: The play uses strong language that some may find offensive. For information, call 934-3504 or 515-0056 or visit www.things
Haley Hawk of Hollidaysburg, 30, a former student of Stiles and a dentist, plays Sara. She said her character led a passive life for several years, but then started doing what she wanted for once. The character encourages Callie to do likewise.
Sherkel said she once lived in New York City, and based her portrayal of the character on the people she lived and worked with there.
Stiles feels fortunate to direct Hawk and Sherkel. He said he thought of them for the parts.
"It makes my job so easy," Stiles said. "Normally, I'm teaching. Here, I'm watching great actors work at their craft."
A show with an "amazing script" and "incredible actors" is a rarity, and Stiles is grateful for his involvement.
The play is not about lesbians or gay people "per se," but about commitment to another person, Stiles said.
"'Stop Kiss' is about loving and the consequences of loving - both wonderful and terrifying, both heartwarming and heartbreaking," he said. "Through humor and ordinary interactions, important questions are asked: When do we risk our personal safety for the sake of speaking our truth? What happens when our hearts are open to another person? Taking risks - both personal and emotional - is at the core of Diana Son's deceptively simple play."
Stiles has seen fear and prejudice at local high schools and colleges with results that are "hurtful and destructive."
"We discover through this story, that if you make a personal commitment, you also take a stand," he said, "and all because of a single kiss."
Sherkel wants the audience to leave with the idea that "love comes in many different forms," she said.
"At it's core, it's a love story. It's sweet and sad," Hawk said. "That's something everyone can relate to."
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House Republicans backed off their reckless idea of tying an increase in the federal debt limit to spending cuts and, in doing so, came up with a pretty good other idea: They want to cut off the paychecks in either chamber if it fails to approve a budget this year.
The House, controlled by Republicans, has passed budgets in each of the past two years. The Senate, controlled by Democrats, has failed to pass a budget in nearly four years.
We like this idea, just as we liked the idea of withholding paychecks from New York State legislators when they failed to adopt a budget by the April 1 deadline. One fundamental task of legislators is to approve a budget, and to do it on time. When they refuse to meet that obligation, they should be penalized.
That's far better than penalizing taxpayers, which is what Republicans were prepared to do by linking an increase in the debt limit to reductions in spending. Although there is an apparent connection between spending and debt, this linkage is false. Republicans were threatening to not repay debts they had helped to create, threatening the economy, the country's credit rating and its reputation as a reliable partner.
Their new plan – or, rather, their first new plan – was to raise the debt limit for three months while seeking to force Senate Democrats to produce a budget. Last week, Republicans took a different approach designed to help them avoid an intraparty fight over raising the debt limit. Instead of taking that straightforward approach, their new idea is simply to declare that the debt limit "shall not apply" from the date of passage until mid-May.
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It's a bad approach. Republicans should do what is necessary, and what members of both parties have done in the past: Raise the debt limit to pay what Washington has already spent. There's no value in pretending this is something it's not; indeed, it's deceitful. We spent the money; we must pay the debt. That ought to be a straightforward transaction.
At that point, Republicans will have the standing to debate future spending, looking for responsible ways to secure Medicare and Social Security while reducing costs wherever possible, including military spending. And since they are members of a government that cannot function without compromise, they should be prepared to do that.
And they should push the idea that members of either chamber will lose their paychecks if they don't produce a budget. Senate Democrats say they're planning to craft a budget this year, anyway, but a little insurance never hurt. If they really want to be bold, they can require both chambers to agree on a budget or forfeit pay. That ought to prompt some serious discussion.


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Both women gave moving speeches at the Ms. Foundation for Women gala, an event held at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York City Thursday night that doubled as a celebration of Gloria Steinem's 80th birthday.
Sidibe described how the Ms. magazine founder inspired her while growing up. "In the morning on the way out to the world, I passed by a portrait of my aunt and Gloria together. Side by side they stood ... both with their fists held high in the air. Powerful. Confident. And every day as I would leave the house ... I would give that photo a fist right back. And I'd march off into battle," she said.
That battle was the constant criticism of her weight, a challenge that the Oscar-nominated actress, 30, still faces.
"It's hard to get dressed up for award shows and red carpets when I know I will be made fun of because of my weight," Sidibe said.
But Sidibe has learned to use obstacles as an opportunity for growth.
"If I hadn't been told I was garbage, I wouldn't have learned how to show people I'm talented. And if everyone had always laughed at my jokes, I wouldn't have figured out how to be so funny. If they hadn't told me I was ugly, I never would have searched for my beauty. And if they hadn't tried to break me down, I wouldn't know that I'm unbreakable," she said.
Schumer, 32, said she also found strength through difficulty. For her, a degrading sexual experience in college was a catalyst for change.
"I became my own fairy godmother," she said of getting herself out of a bad situation.
"Now I feel strong and beautiful. I walk proudly down the streets of Manhattan," Schumer said. "The people I love, love me. I make the funniest people in the country laugh, and they are my friends ... I have fought my way through harsh criticism and death threats for speaking my mind. I am alive, like the strong women in this room before me. I am a hot-blooded fighter and I am fearless."
Like Sidibe, Schumer admits she still experiences setbacks to her confidence.
"But I did a morning radio last week, and a DJ asked, 'Have you gained weight? You seem chunkier to me. You should strike while the iron is hot, Amy.' And it's all gone. In an instant, it's all stripped away. ... I want to throw my hands in the air, after reading a mean Twitter comment, and say, 'All right! You got it. You figured me out. I'm not pretty, I'm not thin. I do not deserve to use my voice. I'll start wearing a burqa and start waiting tables at a pancake house. All my self-worth is based on what you can see.' But then I think, 'F–– that.' ... I am a woman with thoughts and questions and s–– to say. I say if I'm beautiful. I say if I'm strong. You will not determine my story – I will," she said.
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Sour Grapes department: former webOS investor bashes Android
0. phoneArena 15 Dec 2012, 05:54 posted on
Elevation Partners co-founder Roger McNamee is not enamored of Android which is not surprising considering his company was a big investor in Palm and while it does seem like a case of picking the wrong horse to bet on; one of McNamee's criticisms of Android is that while the OS has overtaken Apple in volume, the majority of profits in the industry go to Apple...
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1. Hammerfest (Posts: 383; Member since: 12 May 2012)
u mad bro?
23. loyals (Posts: 129; Member since: 10 Nov 2012)
there is a lot of truth which u r not seeing . apple did transform and rebuild markets like tablets with IPAD and proper operating system for a phone with IPHONE. but android is not innovating but following . all the tablets n phones are derived from iphones/ipads . there's a lot of news about google glasses but sony has made it before n showed many times from past 4-5 years n so again its not completely google's. so where's the new innovation from google? u should really ask yourself that then u have the right to call him that.
28. willard12 (Posts: 1693; Member since: 04 Jul 2012)
All ipads/iPhones are derived from other tablets and phones. Name one, just 1, thing created from Apple. Everything they are suing over they took/stole from another company. Scroll bounce and slide to unlock are copies. Pull down notifications and answering a call with a message are copies. Their biggest marketing campaigns the last two years come from Siri (bought from Nuance) and 3 year old panorama photos. How it works in this industry is simple....Android tries to implement facial unlock, Apple patents it.
55. loyals (Posts: 129; Member since: 10 Nov 2012)
the faicial unlock is already been implemented by apple RnD long time back. so they patented it .so lets not divert the toptic to patents here. the thing is apple is the first successful tablet n it showed others that the market has scope so as usual others just made thiers and followed .
69. willard12 (Posts: 1693; Member since: 04 Jul 2012)
Good. So, you can't name even 1 thing created by Apple. I haven't seen facial unlock on any iOS device. Apple takes the ideas of others and makes them popular. They are able to do because Apple has it's on culture of "loyal" followers that will take anything they do and make it popular. This is how products that can't even transfer a file via Bluetooth, support a micro SD card, or use a widget can be seen by some as "innovative." IOS can't do things feature phones were doing 10 years ago and uses the same rows of icons it always has and you say "android does not innovate." I will refer you back to my previous challenge, name 1, just 1, any 1 thing created by apple. Thanks.
34. jroc74 (Posts: 6006; Member since: 30 Dec 2010)
If you can sit here and say Android is not innovating, Google is not innovating.....I dont think you know what innovation is.
45. XPERIA-KNIGHT (unregistered)
I litterally TRIED to listen to him and hear him out......but when i got to the part where he said
"Apple showed that a large company can not only innovate, it can transform and really rebuild markets."
I got disgusted and scrolled right on down here! Right then and there i knew he was no different from every other "blind" apple fan.....
Wow..........it really is amazing how powerful denial is
54. loyals (Posts: 129; Member since: 10 Nov 2012)
eh wait...do u remember the first tablet that came out and made revolution in tablet industry ?? u r living in cave or u r just blind android fan .APPLE gave scope to a entire market called tablets n it started it. thats y its always ipads and other tablets . atleast they reinvented n rebuild the dead platform that was author meant to say here. i can see u r a blind android fan thats y u r not seeing the truth . and name 1 , just 1 platform google recently build a new market or atleast rebuild.
pls dont say mobiles...the first mobile app for google was made by apple itself while they didnt even know how to make apps
63. jroc74 (Posts: 6006; Member since: 30 Dec 2010)
See, you make a mistake that many Apple fanboys do, not saying you are one....
A product doesnt have to sell alot or be popular to be innovative. Hybrid cars n trucks. Dont sell as much as others, but they are innovative. I never questioned the guy saying Apple transformeded and rebuilt the market. Thats true.
We were talking about innovation. And you claiming Google doesnt. Compare Apple Maps to Google Maps and then tell me again Google doesnt innovate.
Apple didnt start the tablet, smartphone market....they gave it a boost, jumped started it. You might have a case about the iPad, but not the smartphone. Before the iPhone, the 'it' smartphone to have was a Blackberry.
56. loyals (Posts: 129; Member since: 10 Nov 2012)
tell me what google has innovated in past 3 years. android idea itself is from apple when google was working with apple for iphone2g n impressed by the idea that mobiles should have proper operating system. what else bro?? google glasses is again from sony glasses....so please tell me if im miising any innvotions here
58. groupsacc (Posts: 232; Member since: 28 Feb 2012)
Android was bought and existed before iOS.
More to the point, it all depends on one's definition of innovation.
If you define innovation as merely stealing others ideas, then yes, Google and Apple are very innovative.
If you define innovation as inventing something completely new, then no; Google is just a search-engine based company trying to generate revenue from multiple platforms, and Apple is just a copy-and-paste company wrapping up products in nice glittering wraps.
There's no point arguing who's innovative and who's not, cus at the end of the day, our whole world is based on taking other's ideas and "evolutionising".
Had Google not bought Android, we wouldn't be seeing the Android as it is today.
Had Apple not seen Xerox Alto, there wouldn't be no McIntosh.
Had Benz not invented gasoline-powered automobiles, there wouldn't be no Ferraris.
The only reason why Droid fans do not respect Apple is because they hinder others innovations by initiating lawsuits using the very "innovation" they have stolen from others and improved upon.
62. jroc74 (Posts: 6006; Member since: 30 Dec 2010)
I already did in my first post in this article.....Google Now.
Google Now was more in house developed vs Siri. Then Siri had to get updated to offer a feature that Google Now had out the gate.
Like I said....if you dont think Google innovates....you dont know what innovation is. Remember, I never said Apple doesnt innovate. They do, IMO Apple just gets too much credit for too many things.
67. CheapSocks (Posts: 21; Member since: 07 Nov 2012)
google puts A LOT of effort into their products. Adding not just features, but enhances the the experience to a whole new level with each update. What has apple done since the release of ios? let's see, drop down notification, OOPS android had that first, multitasking, OOPS android first, panoram-OOPs, you get the point. And not only that, but android actually listens and accepts help from outside developers and letting them take charge every now and then.
25. sats.mine2k4 (banned) (Posts: 208; Member since: 10 Aug 2012)
No...Hez just too frustrated, unable to compete.. i think the right word for him is down and out...
48. .MISTER.H. (banned) (Posts: 11; Member since: 14 Dec 2012)
he's not mad, but he is mad! This guy has no knowledge and is talking jack, uneducated brainwashed cult!
2. jroc74 (Posts: 6006; Member since: 30 Dec 2010)
Odd comments about Apple and Android when the UI, OS of Android has changed alot vs iOS. Android doesnt do much? Compared to what, a PC? Cuz compared to iOS it does much more. Cant really say vs WP as I have never used WP. Hell, Google Now vs Siri was a no contest until Siri got updated to do similar to Google Now. Even then Google Now is leading the way.
Android is the PC in the PC vs Mac wars. Look how that turned out.
31. smartphone (Posts: 160; Member since: 21 Oct 2011)
Just replace Apple with Google and android with IOS and this man speaks the truth.
Apple had innovated some things but its no way leading in innovation department.
The only thing I admire of Apple is their one year smartphone cycle in others companies there's always a beast coming out next month and the temptation never ends.
3. MeoCao (unregistered)
I'm sure that this guy has invested heavily in Apple, so this is his money does the talking, not the man himself.
4. Jay..Apple4Ever (Posts: 16; Member since: 08 Dec 2012)
"I am really frustrated when I look at Microsoft or Yahoo or even Google, remarkably enough, because it feels to me they are not trying to innovate."
Lol? Yahoo & MS are trying but Apple and Google are killing the competition.
Not enough innovation? Have a look at google now.Blows everything else away.
"android doesn't do much" Yeah it doesn't do much because people like this are stuck in the garden and scared to look out gate to actually try something innovative.
I love apple just as much as the other guy but people who bash Android like this are clearly close minded
#Perhaps a hair cut & New prescription glasses for this guy..clearly blinded :D
5. wendygarett (unregistered)
Well that's true, besides Samsung, I don't see any other oem makes profit... They just playing the volume game... And that's dangerous in the future...
49. .MISTER.H. (banned) (Posts: 11; Member since: 14 Dec 2012)
Your avater represents a typical name for a Apple user!
50. Commentator (Posts: 3692; Member since: 16 Aug 2011)
7. noim1 (Posts: 297; Member since: 15 May 2012)
Every1 knows who the Father of android really is & that's Google...ppl will not say Samsung is Android...they can say Samsung is the big Android OEM right NOW....and thats it....we know what we USE .....
8. frydaexiii (Posts: 1444; Member since: 01 Dec 2011)
lol, Is it opposite day or is this guy just butthurt?
Also, Apple only rebuild markets because they have quite the substantial army of sheep to kick start the sales of every piece of crap they release. Sad to say, Samsung might be going that way too, but at least they're still pulling out new stuff everytime and not stalling like Apple is right now yet.
9. soshi (Posts: 154; Member since: 08 Mar 2012)
comment that really far from reality. maybe he always use apple map that make him not only lost in navigation but also in perception. google not innovate? seriously? Btw, idon't need his definition on innovation when all he can do is talking while google keep launching product that no one can think before
14. jroc74 (Posts: 6006; Member since: 30 Dec 2010)
He woulda been better off comparing Android to WebOS. Might have had a lil more credibilty, especially since a former WebOS guy now works for Google and worked on the UI changes in Android.
15. roscuthiii (Posts: 2217; Member since: 18 Jul 2010)
Looks like sour grapes makes for a bitter 'whine'.
18. Droid_X_Doug (Posts: 5993; Member since: 22 Dec 2010)
Yup, that was my thought as well. Just another 1%-er all pissed off because a bet he made didn't pan out. BTW, he knew the bet was risky going in. Can't stand the heat? Get out of the kitchen.
Motor scooter.... Hahaha!
16. predator93 (Posts: 122; Member since: 28 Aug 2012)
As a customer, if a company makes less profits its better. More people will buy an iphone or any other phone if its 100 - 200 dollars cheaper than what it is right now.
17. TheRetroReplay (Posts: 254; Member since: 20 Mar 2012)
That guy is an @$$
Android does more than iOS and has changed quite a bit over the years but I think he's got his head shoved too far up his rear end to see that Apple doesn't innovate, only steal other's ideas and sue.
19. droidboy (Posts: 50; Member since: 25 Nov 2012)
Bottom line the guy is an idiot. He is mad because android dethroned palm and webos when it comes to the war on apple. What an idiot... and to say android does not do much is a joke. My phone has a faster processor then my laptop. He should just go back to trying to stay in the lines when he colors.
32. tedkord (Posts: 11731; Member since: 17 Jun 2009)
I agree with must of what you say, but unless you have a very old laptop, your phone's processor is not faster. It may have a faster GHz cycle, but ARM processors are much less powerful than X86. They do less per clock cycle, but do it much more power efficiently.
53. droidboy (Posts: 50; Member since: 25 Nov 2012)
My laptop is not that old but its in no way a top of the line. It has a 1ghrz processor. I was just trying to make the point that smartphones esp android are innovative and powerful. To bad for web os.
39. Sailingmaster (Posts: 24; Member since: 26 Feb 2012)
He's drinking Drano or something. But, no one really dethroned Palm except for Palm. They were down and out. The Treo 755 looked too much like a Treo 600, while the iPhone was resculpting the Smartphone world; and Palm got the reputation for being old and clunky. It didn't really matter that the Palm Pre was a pretty good unit and that WebOS was very slick. They couldn't change public perception.
It didn't matter that the pundits all loved it. The public equated Palm with Old Lame Tired Junk. That combined with their total loss of the enterprise market to Blackberry in the years before spelled doom. If ol' Rog up there had gotten some serious marketing research, maybe he wouldn't sound quite so spiteful.
And for that matter, RIM is pretty much in the same boat for consumers. They might gain back some business/government market share, but it will take a miraculously successful launch to resurrect any interest from the consumer market. These days, BB means old junk to the average consumer.
20. tkvdog (Posts: 46; Member since: 11 Apr 2012)
mc winnie d bag
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22. masterchina (Posts: 55; Member since: 27 Sep 2011)
Wah, wah, wah all the way home!
26. networkdood (Posts: 6330; Member since: 31 Mar 2010)
Well, his firm did buy a 25% stake in Palm, in 2007...325 million - I am sure he recovered without too many problems. Android does not innovate? Well, I am not sure how much more innovation can be done - but there can be improvements to RAM usage, battery life, efficiency, etc. Android can only go up as it has almost limitless potential.
Maybe, now that the stock of APPLE has fallen some, he can buy some of APPLE's stock.
Apple did not innovate anything - it took existing ideas and combined them into a marketable solution to the consumer.
It is a shame that webOS is no longer on smartphones, but there are just only so much spaces out there for mobile OSes...in a few years another one will come along.
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"Android doesn't do much"
35. gmacattacks (Posts: 24; Member since: 07 Sep 2012)
He's just mad that Web OS Failed miserably
37. KFear (Posts: 143; Member since: 06 Feb 2012)
Android takes ALL of google's services and it puts itself in the middle as a means to each service. They are also free services and most of them work quite well. Palm failed to do this. Windows, Apple, and Google do this very well. "android doesn't do much." You're career isn't doing much!
46. PotDragon (banned) (Posts: 214; Member since: 22 Jul 2011)
Spoken like someone who never actually HAD a Palm Pre. I had a Pre & a Pre Plus. There is no question that WebOS blew away both android AND IOS. BTW....you must compare it to Eclair or Gingerbread as those were the versions back then. The 3gs or the ip4 was the iPhone.
Trouble Palm actually had? Complete crap hardware! The slide loosened after WAY TOO light usage making your voice transmit in fragments. I cannot tell you how many handsets i sent back for replacement. Too bad.
65. KFear (Posts: 143; Member since: 06 Feb 2012)
I work in wireless and I've had a webos device. Software wise, webos is innovative as hell but it still didn't offer nearly the intergration or the app market. The software had bugs too and tons of memory issues. I agree that the hardware was terrible. My technicians couldn't even mix most of the issues except for the power button having stopped. It did not blow the other experiences out of the water. None of my customers ever really said that. They wanted I phones because of the apps and intergration or android for customization. Webos was a fail in more regards than just hardware. Good idea though.
71. gmacattacks (Posts: 24; Member since: 07 Sep 2012)
also tiny screens hahaha the hp veer was a complete joke in my opinion
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30. rusticguy (Posts: 2828; Member since: 11 Aug 2012)
Sounds badly Butthurt or has money invested in Apple :D
33. Shino (banned) (Posts: 196; Member since: 23 Jul 2012)
Hahaha! Phonearena, you just posted some really big s**t, again! A few days ago I praised one of your artcles and thought you started hired better educated people. And now this?! "Sour grapes"?! Who do you think you are?! How pathetic is to show how illiterate and immmature your team is, by puttind a title like this? You think you are smarter than a REAL expert, actually?! I don't think so. Really, really pathetic.
38. Sniggly (Posts: 7305; Member since: 05 Dec 2009)
That "real expert" threw a lot of money into what is now a dead OS. Clearly he knows so much what he's talking about.
64. jroc74 (Posts: 6006; Member since: 30 Dec 2010)
Compare that to Matias Duarte that left and joined the Android team about a year before Web OS devcies were killed off by HP.
This guy probably wishes he woulda let his money follow Duarte.
40. Kal-el (Posts: 93; Member since: 14 Dec 2012)
the only way to get haters to have something pretty awesome worth hating......Innovation? funny considering google voice/ vlingo were on android phones before apple could even Spell SIRI...Apple is a good chef taking pieces and ingredients from all other companies and just tweaking it a lil to claim their "OWN" recipe....kinda like makin a chocolate cookie and saying your version is better cuz you added more chocolate chips into it....doesn't take away from the fact that the idea from creator of the brilliant original cookie in the first place. Without ALL these other companies google/windows/palm etc....there wouldn't be apple....HELL more than 70% of parts of an iphone is made by other companies like sharp and samsung....The only "INNOVative" things apple creating is it's advertising into fooling people that their is the "best" phone and they invented it.
41. Whateverman (Posts: 3262; Member since: 17 May 2009)
This dude is a joke. He lost all credibility when he listed Google as one of the biggest patent trolls and then said, "Maybe Apple". Really dude? SMH.
42. parkwaydr (Posts: 572; Member since: 07 Sep 2011)
I guarantee had this guy invested in android and Google back then instead of palm, he'd be singing a different tune right about now, he's just mad he took a big chance with palm and it failed miserably. Which is sad, because web os is awesome. I really hope this new open web os thing pans out.
44. tedkord (Posts: 11731; Member since: 17 Jun 2009)
WebOS was awesome, but Palm paired it with garbage hardware. No one in their right mind thought it was going to take off once we got a look at the Pre and Pixi.
47. parkwaydr (Posts: 572; Member since: 07 Sep 2011)
Agree. With this new open web os I would love to see some new stuff. In fact, I think with Samsung dominating android at the moment, companies like HTC should put web os out. Could you imagine a droid DNA level device running web os?
43. snowgator (Posts: 3586; Member since: 19 Jan 2011)
Okay, I loves me some WebOS, and miss it. But we all know this: Without Android, there is no innovation or true explosion of mobile. Not to the degree it has in the short time it has. There is a reason WebOS failed, MS is scrambling to become a player, RIM is barely treading water and Apple is spending more time suing then releasing new devices: Google acquiring Android and kicking it up a notch changed the game. At first, smartphone was a business only device and the rest of the world was still paying by the minute for phone calls. The Smartphone revolution as a personal device was started by Apple, but it has been Android that made it available to everyone. And every function that devices have in them are available on Androids pretty much out of the box. This guy knows it.
51. remixfa (Posts: 14255; Member since: 19 Dec 2008)
durka durka to the guy in the article.
The run away craze with the Nexus4 proves that google is in no danger of losing "android" to "samsung".
He misses the cart before the horse. The beauty of Android unlike iOS or WebOS that its playdough.. it can be anything you want. And now its beautiful playdough that runs super smooth that can do anything you want.
Its not like bringing a motor scooter at the indie.. its like owning every car on the track except the lone iOS car.
Apple cant always "bring in all the profits" if Android is consistently eating world wide market share. If/when apple starts to become irrelevant (its happening now), its margins will shrink as it starts to have sales, prepaid, and free models (already starting to happen) to stay in the game at all. At that point either apples massive profits will drop (has started to happen) or it will continue to lose large swaths of market share to chase high margins (has also been happening). Its a lose-lose for apple as far as maintaining their current margins no matter how u cut it.
Apple will never go out of business and they will always have their loyal fans, but they will be re-relegated to "niche" product much like they always have been.
52. Edmund (Posts: 656; Member since: 13 Jul 2012)
He makes some very valid points
57. Fuego84 (Posts: 344; Member since: 13 May 2012)
Who cares if apple started markets or not. The reality is that the first product out there will always be out done by the competition. Why? Because the competition will examine that first device find out what's it missing and how they can improve it and Viola a better product is born being android. Sure not a lot of android devices out there make a premium feeling device but the android OS is always current where IOS is always late & outdated.
59. Bluesky02 (Posts: 1439; Member since: 05 Dec 2011)
Okay i agree that Apple transform and rebuild the markets. But they are not innovating anymore. I see same yearly upgraded product, with some hardware changes, apps and that's it. Samsung is innovating, next year Samsung is bringing Flexible displays. Nokia is always innovating, PureView Camera, Nokia City Lens, Optical Image Stabilization. In fact the company that has innovate the most is Nokia.
60. Droids-R-us (Posts: 33; Member since: 17 Sep 2012)
I cant believe what I have just read? 1, Android was created 1 year before IOS. 2, Apple do not innovate, they have taken ideas that already exist, made them better then patented them is if they invented them. Now they sue anyone who does the same. 3, Android does more than any other phone operating system that exists "It is completely open" No other phone lets you change the Launcher/font/icons/OS ETC, the list is nearly endless!. Motor scooter?? Android devices have the fastest processor and highest spec of any phone that exists. He is even criticizing Android for not being as greedy as Apple who screw every last penny they can form people, Example 100$/£ more for a bigger memory, patenting a rounded corner, suing ifone who patented their name years before apples iphone, copying the "Pad" from star trek then suing samsung for making a similar product. 4, people by iphones exactly because they don't do much, very simple to operate and learn, therefor stable. Has he ever even used an Android phone?????


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