It takes a lot of bandwidth to pull all of your data from your handset to the Microsoft "DeathStar" in Redmond and massage it for resale to the highest bidders.
If you doubt it, check what really being transmitted by isolating the phone in a Faraday cage.
Your ass (along with all your corporate info and all of your personal info,) is being collated for sale.
The interest on 50 mil would be enough to keep a party going until everybody needed shots, or to be shot, from doing all the shots.
The "industry" kept 50 mil in case they were caught selling other people's IP.
Never mind the "making available" crap.
They've been caught with their pants down around their ankles, in "Flagrante elicto", with the victim bludgeoned unconscious on the bloody floor.
Throw out ALL of the attempts to extort since they obviously think there are two sets of laws, only one of which applies to them. Let THAT one be the the one where they can collect.
the "pipeline" to nowhere and get your product out to a store who might give you proper shelf placement, but that costs more.
Marketing a software product is a tough and expensive process which you must master, far beyond writing an app.
All of the software I have developed, since 1976, was used by enterprises and governments and was very, very expensive (as was I,) but development was a drop in the bucket compared to the "externalities."
Apps developed for multi-platform OSs for internet delivery get rid of "production, packaging, shipping, marketing (but not advertising, PR and promotion,) handling of recall/unsold product, A/R, and instead use the internet to cut costs by orders of magnitude.
Before the iPhone, there wasn't a consistent UI and putting everything behind a glass front and having a phone OS mediate everything, (rather than letting the application control the device.)
That means you were either a professional developer blessed in having contact to the OS developers, who were much less imaginative than the Apple staff, or you were a user playing Tetris on the phone.
Really, if you think it stinks, then it stinks to you...
It may not be adequate in functionality, optionality or operation for you, and I admit I use AudioHijack Pro to capture sound bites and clips, but for the most part it delivers what I need.
I don't begrudge you your Achos stuff, or whatever you're using, but its not quite as seamless as using Apple OS X 10.6.5 stuff.
It definitely does NOT take me 20 minutes to spend my money at the iTMS. (The downloads come in at about 20mb/s in NYC. May I suggest you get a better performing ISP.:-)
I use VLC, QuickTime, WindowsMedia, whatever, and my old 2.66 Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro is quite capable of keeping up with whatever I throw at it, even in 1080p.
Apple is definitely a maker of good CONSUMER grade stuff.
I am using 320GB drives because of the reliability problems you cite.
I have some bigger drives, (750GB and 1TB drives for unimportant stuff,) but my old LaCie 320GB drives (with a redundant set of mirrors) are my work-horses.
Back in my day, we had 5MB (you read right 5 MEGAbyte,) hard drives... and we were HAPPY. Back in them days we were glad for the price of a cup of tea; a cup of cold tea; without milk; or sugar... or tea.
Okay some people has 5MB removable platters (remember Digital Computer Corporation [DEC] and Wang MINI computers?) and my old man's shop had some IBM 3330 Winchester removable hard drives (capable of storing 50 megabytes,) but he worked for corporate big-wigs who were running billion dollar corporations.
I remember buying my own 5MB hard drive for my Mac 512k in 1986, slapping a meg and a half of RAN and being over tho moon about it.
Back in them days, we didn't take things for granted.
I remember writing an op-ed piece for PC Computing complaining about the need to back these humongous drives up and the fact that none of the drive manufacturers were making their clients aware of that.
Nowadays, I just buy a bunch of drives with bigger platters.
Backups are just multiple redundant copies.
Hard drives are just things I use to take snapshots of what is in my multiple GBs or RAM. (I know some folks with multiple terabytes of RAM!)
Its that, after an initial period of letting people rip, mix and burn their existing content for their iPods, they were able to launch the iTunes Music Store (iTMS) which now serves up music, movies, TV shows, books, apps and podcasts and do it for cheap or for free.
Apple is just grafting other software services onto the iTMS and they're keeping iron clad control over the user experience on the hardware.
Well, lets see, do they make mistakes by letting terrorists on board?
Nah, the system, not the people, has pretty much taken care of that by making it extremely inconvenient for a passenger to carry squat.
Do they make mistakes by abusing their alleged power? (I know that most TSA agents are about as useful as using Saran Wrap® as a condom.) BINGO!
The TSA just has the power to f*ck up your day.*
That's IT!
Its all theater, a charade to distract you from the guy who just drove up to the end of the runway with a truck mounted SAM (possibly a Chinese HongQi, possibly a Russian S-300, possibly a US Tomahawk, from LOTS of resellers.)
Hell, if your going on a suicide mission, you definitely want to get your score and then go like "Rambo".
You have NO IDEA of the kind of armament can be bought.
If you had almost a billion and a half people (1,400,000,000) would you want to take the chance on unwanted pregnancies (erections, dilations, you know f*cking,) because even a rounding error on the condom testing machine means a whole lot more mouths to feed.
That's because the Chinese leadership is unimaginative and keeps thinking of sex as "man on top woman on the bottom", missionary-style pump-and-shoot, plain vanilla sex.
If they actually went to most of these sites, they'd discover that there's a lot more orifices to explore and a lot more ways to get everybody off than that boring ol' missionary position s*t.
WEN Jiabao and HU Jintao are two of the most tight-assed people so desperately in need of blow-jobs in the history of the planet.
While I greatly enjoyed the August issues of the magazine (they were all about languages) and I still have the 1981 August issue on Smalltalk, dead trees are so last millennium.
We have much richer offerings available over the internet.
I predict a six month run before another bankruptcy.
just like them (a died in the wool, brain-dead Republican,) but the TSA was created by Bush so they'll give it a pass. (After all, private jets or charters from small private airports aren't subject to searches.)
It can get the security alert level via RSS or by polling a page on the DHS site and display the level in black on a background of the appropriate color.
I could white the C program to do all kinds of klaxon sounds if it ever changes. (Fat fucking chance.)
The bank DOESN'T sit on checks. They send the imprint (300dpi scan) and the information transcribed into a fixed format record to the check clearing house (its a branch [usually Chicago] of the Federal reserve who make billions of dollars off of the "float" so they DON'T ever let it linger.)
Banks make YOU wait x business days because they can.
The check has usually cleared within a single business day.
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It takes a lot of bandwidth to pull all of your data from your handset to the Microsoft "DeathStar" in Redmond and massage it for resale to the highest bidders.
If you doubt it, check what really being transmitted by isolating the phone in a Faraday cage.
Your ass (along with all your corporate info and all of your personal info,) is being collated for sale.
You bought Microsoft phones? Suckers...
The interest on 50 mil would be enough to keep a party going until everybody needed shots, or to be shot, from doing all the shots.
The "industry" kept 50 mil in case they were caught selling other people's IP.
Never mind the "making available" crap.
They've been caught with their pants down around their ankles, in "Flagrante elicto", with the victim bludgeoned unconscious on the bloody floor.
Throw out ALL of the attempts to extort since they obviously think there are two sets of laws, only one of which applies to them. Let THAT one be the the one where they can collect.
Okay. Its green with jealousy (or envy.)
Or someone just got sick after drinking Chartreuse.
the "pipeline" to nowhere and get your product out to a store who might give you proper shelf placement, but that costs more.
Marketing a software product is a tough and expensive process which you must master, far beyond writing an app.
All of the software I have developed, since 1976, was used by enterprises and governments and was very, very expensive (as was I,) but development was a drop in the bucket compared to the "externalities."
Apps developed for multi-platform OSs for internet delivery get rid of "production, packaging, shipping, marketing (but not advertising, PR and promotion,) handling of recall/unsold product, A/R, and instead use the internet to cut costs by orders of magnitude.
Before the iPhone, there wasn't a consistent UI and putting everything behind a glass front and having a phone OS mediate everything, (rather than letting the application control the device.)
That means you were either a professional developer blessed in having contact to the OS developers, who were much less imaginative than the Apple staff, or you were a user playing Tetris on the phone.
but the store didn't have a glass window at the front.
And it didn't have a street (web) address as visible as "going to the app store to pick up a GPS and an SQL app, for under $x.xx."
Now it does.
for the carriers to do bugger all except charge.
Need I remind you of what the state of the market was before Apple introduced the iPhone?
There were NO APPS!
Really, if you think it stinks, then it stinks to you...
It may not be adequate in functionality, optionality or operation for you, and I admit I use AudioHijack Pro to capture sound bites and clips, but for the most part it delivers what I need.
I don't begrudge you your Achos stuff, or whatever you're using, but its not quite as seamless as using Apple OS X 10.6.5 stuff.
It definitely does NOT take me 20 minutes to spend my money at the iTMS. (The downloads come in at about 20mb/s in NYC. May I suggest you get a better performing ISP. :-)
I use VLC, QuickTime, WindowsMedia, whatever, and my old 2.66 Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro is quite capable of keeping up with whatever I throw at it, even in 1080p.
Apple is definitely a maker of good CONSUMER grade stuff.
Its a question of the choices one makes.
I am using 320GB drives because of the reliability problems you cite.
I have some bigger drives, (750GB and 1TB drives for unimportant stuff,) but my old LaCie 320GB drives (with a redundant set of mirrors) are my work-horses.
I do incremental back ups hourly.
I burn copies and store them off site weekly.
Back in my day, we had 5MB (you read right 5 MEGAbyte,) hard drives ... and we were HAPPY. Back in them days we were glad for the price of a cup of tea; a cup of cold tea; without milk; or sugar ... or tea.
Okay some people has 5MB removable platters (remember Digital Computer Corporation [DEC] and Wang MINI computers?) and my old man's shop had some IBM 3330 Winchester removable hard drives (capable of storing 50 megabytes,) but he worked for corporate big-wigs who were running billion dollar corporations.
I remember buying my own 5MB hard drive for my Mac 512k in 1986, slapping a meg and a half of RAN and being over tho moon about it.
Back in them days, we didn't take things for granted.
I remember writing an op-ed piece for PC Computing complaining about the need to back these humongous drives up and the fact that none of the drive manufacturers were making their clients aware of that.
Nowadays, I just buy a bunch of drives with bigger platters.
Backups are just multiple redundant copies.
Hard drives are just things I use to take snapshots of what is in my multiple GBs or RAM. (I know some folks with multiple terabytes of RAM!)
What is behind Apple's success?
Its that, after an initial period of letting people rip, mix and burn their existing content for their iPods, they were able to launch the iTunes Music Store (iTMS) which now serves up music, movies, TV shows, books, apps and podcasts and do it for cheap or for free.
Apple is just grafting other software services onto the iTMS and they're keeping iron clad control over the user experience on the hardware.
Will anyone else?
Personally, I don't care.
Make us board the planes, trains, boats and buses naked.
We'd be safe then. (I can only stand so much honesty.)
Well, lets see, do they make mistakes by letting terrorists on board?
Nah, the system, not the people, has pretty much taken care of that by making it extremely inconvenient for a passenger to carry squat.
Do they make mistakes by abusing their alleged power? (I know that most TSA agents are about as useful as using Saran Wrap® as a condom.) BINGO!
The TSA just has the power to f*ck up your day.*
That's IT!
Its all theater, a charade to distract you from the guy who just drove up to the end of the runway with a truck mounted SAM (possibly a Chinese HongQi, possibly a Russian S-300, possibly a US Tomahawk, from LOTS of resellers.)
Hell, if your going on a suicide mission, you definitely want to get your score and then go like "Rambo".
You have NO IDEA of the kind of armament can be bought.
*) If you LET them.
If you had almost a billion and a half people (1,400,000,000) would you want to take the chance on unwanted pregnancies (erections, dilations, you know f*cking,) because even a rounding error on the condom testing machine means a whole lot more mouths to feed.
That's because the Chinese leadership is unimaginative and keeps thinking of sex as "man on top woman on the bottom", missionary-style pump-and-shoot, plain vanilla sex.
If they actually went to most of these sites, they'd discover that there's a lot more orifices to explore and a lot more ways to get everybody off than that boring ol' missionary position s*t.
WEN Jiabao and HU Jintao are two of the most tight-assed people so desperately in need of blow-jobs in the history of the planet.
of the new World Trade Tower right into one of the memorial pools, once its finally up.
THAT should show Bin Laden, eh?
and how much would it weigh if it was actually a dodecahedron with LEDs for facets?
No, its real U 238.
Gives my friends and I a real glow (in the dark!)
He'd be an involuntary "organ donor". You don't even have to sign a donor consent form...
Two soldiers take an arm each, stand there, and a third soldier blasts one shot from a Kalashnikov to the back of the head.
Then, they move onto the next, uh, donor, while the army medics harvest your organs.
This is just wrong.
Its going to be a product review rag and avoid computers except as object of idolatry.
Nobody needs this magazine and trees are going to die unnecessarily.
While I greatly enjoyed the August issues of the magazine (they were all about languages) and I still have the 1981 August issue on Smalltalk, dead trees are so last millennium.
We have much richer offerings available over the internet.
I predict a six month run before another bankruptcy.
"you can't stop them" FROM EXPRESSING "a point of view."
Opine away, but avoid doing violence to the language.
I agree with you though: "That's a good thing, not a bad one.""
just like them (a died in the wool, brain-dead Republican,) but the TSA was created by Bush so they'll give it a pass. (After all, private jets or charters from small private airports aren't subject to searches.)
That would be kick-ass.
It can get the security alert level via RSS or by polling a page on the DHS site and display the level in black on a background of the appropriate color.
I could white the C program to do all kinds of klaxon sounds if it ever changes. (Fat fucking chance.)
The bank DOESN'T sit on checks. They send the imprint (300dpi scan) and the information transcribed into a fixed format record to the check clearing house (its a branch [usually Chicago] of the Federal reserve who make billions of dollars off of the "float" so they DON'T ever let it linger.)
Banks make YOU wait x business days because they can.
The check has usually cleared within a single business day.