Oddly, even the poorest US citizen has access to food, shelter, and far better health care than you do. So really your little diatribe falls a little flat.
Bull. You need to drive around the country side and take a look. Most of rural America looks no better than rural Mexico. Fortunately for our society we have centers of non-third-world trailer park dwellers known as "cities" and with these we still hold a little clout with the rest of the world.
Agreed. I tire of the "the market will sort itself out" garbage of the Libertarian movement. The market inherits all the societal inequities around it, thus being a completely unfair market that most certainly will not "sort itself out". It will only perpetuate the inequities of society.
Jesus (appropriate on Easter Sunday) let it rest already.
Obviously many apps for the iPhone REQUIRE location information because that's the whole point of the app. Of course users want location services to be turned on when they are doing things like checking a map, browsing for restaurants, using real estate apps, etc. I also like my images to be geo-tagged. It's a feature I want. If you feel differently, then click the "don't allow" button when prompted.
It's hyper-sensitive replies like yours that give us Mac users a bad name in the community. I'm not trolling anything, because I'm an avid Mac user and Apple supporter. I prefer the walled-garden approach because it allows stuff to just work and prevents all the headaches associated with the free-for-all mentality of the PC market.
Telling me that OSX allows for any third party apps and open source stuff is kind of like trying to convince the Pope he's catholic.
Christ. What a waste of time. A self selecting young, predominantly urban, affluent, middle class, college educated demographic is generally more liberal than the rest of the population? Well, I for one, am shocked.
Oh so THIS is the reason so many people lash out at Apple users anytime we mention something nice about Apple products. They don't like the fact we are affluent and educated. And here it was I thought they just didn't like Macbooks and iPads.
By the way, not everyone who is liberal is in their 20s. They grow up (and for the most part remain liberal because of that pesky "college educated" tag they'll carry forever).
OSX's walled garden (good or bad) approach extends far beyond the hip and young crowd. I'm in my early 40s and nearly all my friends are Mac users. This is not due to us being young and hip, rather us being white-collar working professionals with disposable income.
Reminds me of the study about 10? years ago that concluded Mac users are more intelligent than PC users. Of course, there's no causation, and it's more likely that Mac using is just an extension of ones socio-economic success and exposure during the higher education process, but it 'sounds' flamebaity, eve though I don't think it is. I'm far too liberal and open minded to fall for such short sighted analysis, after all.
There are several after-market styluses available. A pencil is far superior to a keyboard for taking notes (and I type 100wpm), because you aren't constrained to linear lines of text.
When material presented via different mediums, humans only remember 3% of stuff that is delivered via audio only. It doesn't matter what kind of learner you are either, it's 3%. But audio WITH key visuals increases retention to the 80th percentile.
The "audio vs. visual" learner is a myth. We are all visual learners, except Stevie Wonder.
Sorry, the tradeoff of "safety" versus being able to play my iTunes collection at work over the cloud is not even close.
What is unsafe about putting my music in the cloud so I can hear it anywhere I go? Am I going to be stalked and murdered based on my music profile? Will the feds access information about me to use against me in trumped up charges?
I fail to see any risk of uploading my music to a cloud service. Some data is really not all that insidious, ya know.
I'm a minority, but as an iDevice user, I would love to pay $15-ish / month to "rent" music, just for music exploration alone. I'd probably end up buying way more music than I do now (are you listening Apple and Music Industry) if I were able to discover music I like from renting. Radio stations suck at discovering new music because by definition, they make music not new (by playing the same pop-tripe over and over again). I've heard enough Katie Perry to know I won't be buying her next album, but I never even heard of Biffy Clyro, but heard one song and bought their entire discography after that.
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Oddly, even the poorest US citizen has access to food, shelter, and far better health care than you do. So really your little diatribe falls a little flat.
Bull. You need to drive around the country side and take a look. Most of rural America looks no better than rural Mexico. Fortunately for our society we have centers of non-third-world trailer park dwellers known as "cities" and with these we still hold a little clout with the rest of the world.
Keep government out of my pot and off my land, but use government to ban abortions and gay rights!
Yep, you lot are conflicted all right.
Agreed. I tire of the "the market will sort itself out" garbage of the Libertarian movement. The market inherits all the societal inequities around it, thus being a completely unfair market that most certainly will not "sort itself out". It will only perpetuate the inequities of society.
There is nothing racist about stating something like "blacks commit more crimes than X", as long as it is factually true.
Your post makes me glad to be a (hetero) Mac user. It makes me happy to think I'm nothing like the complete waste of cells that you seem to be.
"The truth has a well-known liberal bias", as they saying goes...
Jesus (appropriate on Easter Sunday) let it rest already.
Obviously many apps for the iPhone REQUIRE location information because that's the whole point of the app. Of course users want location services to be turned on when they are doing things like checking a map, browsing for restaurants, using real estate apps, etc. I also like my images to be geo-tagged. It's a feature I want. If you feel differently, then click the "don't allow" button when prompted.
Next non-story, please.
It's hyper-sensitive replies like yours that give us Mac users a bad name in the community. I'm not trolling anything, because I'm an avid Mac user and Apple supporter. I prefer the walled-garden approach because it allows stuff to just work and prevents all the headaches associated with the free-for-all mentality of the PC market.
Telling me that OSX allows for any third party apps and open source stuff is kind of like trying to convince the Pope he's catholic.
Given the average weight of a wal-mart shopper is about 450 lbs., this is a perfect business model. Bring the ho-hos to the "mass"es.
If valuing the "most common solution" makes one conservative, than I'm a raging liberal earth hugging hippy.
And here I thought Apple fans were the "sheeple".
Seriously, anyone who buys anything based on its popularity is everything that is wrong with capitalism.
Christ. What a waste of time. A self selecting young, predominantly urban, affluent, middle class, college educated demographic is generally more liberal than the rest of the population? Well, I for one, am shocked.
Oh so THIS is the reason so many people lash out at Apple users anytime we mention something nice about Apple products. They don't like the fact we are affluent and educated. And here it was I thought they just didn't like Macbooks and iPads.
By the way, not everyone who is liberal is in their 20s. They grow up (and for the most part remain liberal because of that pesky "college educated" tag they'll carry forever).
OSX's walled garden (good or bad) approach extends far beyond the hip and young crowd. I'm in my early 40s and nearly all my friends are Mac users. This is not due to us being young and hip, rather us being white-collar working professionals with disposable income.
Reminds me of the study about 10? years ago that concluded Mac users are more intelligent than PC users. Of course, there's no causation, and it's more likely that Mac using is just an extension of ones socio-economic success and exposure during the higher education process, but it 'sounds' flamebaity, eve though I don't think it is. I'm far too liberal and open minded to fall for such short sighted analysis, after all.
What's next, Fox News viewers are more conservative than PBS viewers?
woah, cool.
There are several after-market styluses available. A pencil is far superior to a keyboard for taking notes (and I type 100wpm), because you aren't constrained to linear lines of text.
When material presented via different mediums, humans only remember 3% of stuff that is delivered via audio only. It doesn't matter what kind of learner you are either, it's 3%. But audio WITH key visuals increases retention to the 80th percentile.
The "audio vs. visual" learner is a myth. We are all visual learners, except Stevie Wonder.
Detroit isn't in Minnesota (for my moron friends who think education is purely a State's issue).
For someone without an Internet connected device, you sure did just post a lot to the Internet.
And if I decided to limit my time on line, I certainly wouldn't be wasting it on the deaf ears of slashdot.
Makes sense, although count on those phones being plenty expensive
Have you SEEN our defense budget? Do you see any of these "smaller government" morons clamoring for a smaller defense budget?
Cost will not be an issue.
What's wrong with Palantir? More importantly, how would random slashdot guy know anything about such an insignificant company?
I'm sure they'll let you store as much as you want....as long as you bought it from the iTunes store. That wouldn't be an unfair demand, would it?
Sorry, the tradeoff of "safety" versus being able to play my iTunes collection at work over the cloud is not even close.
What is unsafe about putting my music in the cloud so I can hear it anywhere I go? Am I going to be stalked and murdered based on my music profile? Will the feds access information about me to use against me in trumped up charges?
I fail to see any risk of uploading my music to a cloud service. Some data is really not all that insidious, ya know.
It's not even vapor ware yet, it's speculation by people who supposedly are in the know about Apple and Google.
I can make a claim I know something about Apple, but if it's a stupid claim, then I'm to fault, not Apple.
I'm a minority, but as an iDevice user, I would love to pay $15-ish / month to "rent" music, just for music exploration alone. I'd probably end up buying way more music than I do now (are you listening Apple and Music Industry) if I were able to discover music I like from renting. Radio stations suck at discovering new music because by definition, they make music not new (by playing the same pop-tripe over and over again). I've heard enough Katie Perry to know I won't be buying her next album, but I never even heard of Biffy Clyro, but heard one song and bought their entire discography after that.