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Apple To Charge for Some iApps
randomErr writes "News.com has this story that according to sources familiar with the plans, Apple is expected to announce at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco Tuesday that consumers will have to pay for new versions of iDVD, iPhoto and iMovie. Previously, Apple had offered upgrades to its digital media, or 'i' applications, for free."
That iFIRSTPOST will cost you $1.
His new tax plan would give a rebate of 36% if you make over 300 thousand a year (and we wonder why the rich get richer and the poor get poorer).
Well, to accurately evaluate that 36% claim, we would also have to know what percentage those people were paying before the tax cut. If Bill is paying 5% of their salary, and Joe is paying 50% of his salary, then Joe will still be paying a larger share of the tax burden, even after a 36% tax decrease.
Plus, people seem to forget the fact that the top 10% of taxpayers still pay an overwhelming majority of the taxes. Believe it or not, it is possible for the "rich" to get a bigger tax cut than the "poor," and still end up paying a larger percentage of the overall tax burden. That "the rich get richer" claim just doesn't hold water.
For all the expense of the beach front mansion, it's clean and well designed and it makes you appreciate living. You pay a lot, but money that goes towards a livable environment where you children are well-educated is money well spent.
Then, there's the Windows suburbs. The people who design the houses there never think that people actually live in them. Yes, they're cheaper, but if you had to crawl through a three foot-high door every day and walk through hallways that are slanted 45 degrees and climb up ladders instead of stairs, you'd eventually go nuts. The only reason that people live in these houses is becase they're cheaper and because corporations tend to buy these messed-up dwellings for their employees.
You could go the Wal-Mart route, but that actually located in the worst slum in the city, Linux Alley. The houses (really shanteys) cost nothing, but the roofs are so full of holes it's almost like you're living under a sieve. If you complain that there is no heat or running water, the slumlord (linux developers) who charges nothing for the shantys will beat the crap out of you and then tell you that you should quit whining about what you are getting for free. Social services (UI designers) have repeatedly tried to come in and clean up the shantytowns, but they get chased away by the slumlord, who doesn't really consider the field of social worker to be a valid profession. Many of the occupants of Linux Alley are sub-human creatures (long time linux users) that pride themselves on living in substandard conditions. They don't mind dirt floors (badly designed interfaces) and the fact that they naturally grow fur with a coatings of waterproof oil (have lot of technical experience) means that they can bear a lot of cold nights and leaky roofs (confusing and ambiguous interfaces). These creatures claim that the slum lord is making stuff better and they point to the new pretty coats of paint that are on the cardboard wall. But the slumlord has never really had any experience making quality homes, so the most he really knows how to do is make pretty the top layer that's above all the other nasty layers of crud. When he's done painting, the shack is really not more livable then it was before.
The mac user would save a lot of money here, certainly, but that would be living like an animal, not a human being.
Why do the mac users put up with the crap of Apple mansions? Every other place in town treats them far, far worse.
Probably the best thing the people living in Apple mansions could do would be to bulldoze a good section of Linux Alley, chase out the slumlord, move the displaced sub-human creatures to wildlife preserves (server closets) where they can be with their own kind, and then build smaller, cheaper versions of linux mansions there.
In other words, make a linux distribution that encompasses mac ideals.
Ergonomica Auctorita Illico!