Comic Books ^H^H Graphic Novels are important works of art and literature. The latest shiny fad from Apple is nothing but twaddle, which only fools and sheeple will waste their time on.
I'd mark this +1 if I were for certain it is sarcastic. But since I think you might be serious...
PC Tablets suck. Period. Full stop. You can't just take a desktop OS, slap it on some ruggedized screen and add a cheap stylus, without making wholesale interface changes and software paradigm shifts. That's why the PC crowd will never understand Apple's successes.
I think his second example is a clearer indication that this isn't tracking anything, other than a very large geographic location and an active phone account. You can't be in San Jose and Merced at the same time, especially if you never leave your house that is in neither place.
Microsoft ads are actually really good (minus the weird Seinfeld ones). The Windows Phone 7 ads interest me in the product...then they actually show the phone in action...
The problem is not their marketing, it's their product. Win 7 is a huge move in the right direction, and I'm a fan of Office 2010, but these are only successful because of the insanely low standards we've all grown to expect for anything from Microsoft.
Ooh look! Another "Apple is going to go out of business" sighting...I've been hearing this since 1988 and it's still not even remotely close to happening.
Differences in scope - WoW data is valuable, regardless of who the owner is,...An individual's Facebook data is not so valuable on a case-by-case basis.
Exactly. And this is why I scoff at the hyperbole of any and all Facebook + Privacy!! articles posted on slashdot.
I don't expect my stuff to be private on Facebook. The whole point of Facebook goes against the concept of privacy.
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Yes, not smoking means there's a good chance I'll avoid heart disease, because I eat right and am an avid distance runner. And I'm pretty sure "smoker/non-smoker" is part of your all-encompassing "lifestyle" category.
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Well, I just moved back to America from England. US influence is evidently creeping across the pond, as England and other Western European countries begin to battle their own obesity problems.
Granted nothing on the scale we have here in the US, but alarming nonetheless.
I think the bigger problem is the people hearing the message are themselves guilty of over-indulgence with sugar, so they don't want to believe it.
Take a look at the smoking argument portion of the thread above...any bets on which posts were made by smokers?
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The old "If you don't do X you can't criticize what they say!" By that logic, none of us can criticize the president since none of us are leaders of a nation.
Roger Ebert was a terrible actor, so he changed careers.
Even simpler is that a pound of something really bad for you, say a donut, has way more calories than a pound of asparagus. So it's not how MUCH we eat, it's how many calories are in what we eat. The "even simpler" part of my statement is that it's fairly obvious that a pound of something that has more calories than a pound of something else is probably due to the fact it has sugar in it.
This is highly unscientific, but I noticed in my two stints of living overseas, smaller food portion sizes and the relative lack of carbonated, sugary sodas are what keep Europeans thinner than us Americans (with the added benefit of helping me live healthier as well). Now that I'm back in the US, I simply don't drink soda, and anytime we eat out, my wife and I usually order one meal and split it in half (roughly equivalent to a European restaurant serving size).
I've never heard of people dying or having problems from ingesting a moderate amount of sugar,
You've never heard of type II diabetes?
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I think you inadvertently just gave your stamp-of-approval. See, by making it so inconvenient to smoke, only the most stubborn fools will continue to do so.
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Why were you going into bars and restaurants where people smoked, if you found it so unpleasant? There are more restaurants that do not allow smoking pretty much everywhere you go in the country.
Right, as if we had a choice?
There are more restaurants that do not allow smoking pretty much everywhere you go in the country. Before they banned restaurant/bar smoking here in Virginia, about 65% of all restaurants were already smoke-free.
Sorry to be so confrontational, but that's, well, a bunch of made up sounding BS. Either that, or we live in completely different worlds. There were ZERO bars and restaurants that banned smoking before city-wide ordinances banning smoking indoors took effect.
If your Virginia numbers are to be believed, it would follow that they were seeing the successes of other city business where smoking bans were in effect, and imposed their own bans on their own. They can't help it if their city isn't progressive enough to understand the benefits of promoting smoke free public conveyances.
Your claims are bogus. I'm a gigging musician and I've lived in cities before and after smoking bans went into effect. Austin, TX, for example, has enjoyed an even more robust nightlife since the smoking ban. The high end of occupancy increased from 230 to 307 people, on average AFTER the smoking ban went into effect (and save your correlation/causation argument).
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I can be obtuse too. Death is the leading cause of death. Heart disease causes death, and smoking causes heart disease. There's a good chance I'll never suffer heart disease if I don't smoke (since I'm a white collar guy toiling away in a cube farm all day, I don't have the industrial risks). Interestingly enough, smoking causes forms of cancer you most likely would never get without smoking as well (throat, mouth, lung, etc.)
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What is this strange obsession with more restrictive, controlled, and less flexible things that people seem to have?
It's called "ease-of-use", which Apple is pretty good at. It also works well for complex things like cars.
Worst. Comparison. Ever!
Comic Books ^H^H Graphic Novels are important works of art and literature. The latest shiny fad from Apple is nothing but twaddle, which only fools and sheeple will waste their time on.
I'd mark this +1 if I were for certain it is sarcastic. But since I think you might be serious...
Excellent points.
PC Tablets suck. Period. Full stop. You can't just take a desktop OS, slap it on some ruggedized screen and add a cheap stylus, without making wholesale interface changes and software paradigm shifts. That's why the PC crowd will never understand Apple's successes.
People who claim about Apple users are insecure.
The lying and worshiping is all in your little insecure head, my friend.
Those are some awful analogies as well.
What if the person who is a wine snob is in a position to force toy to drink wine?
Name one example where Apple, with its 4% desktop market share, has been able to force anyone to use OSX?
I think his second example is a clearer indication that this isn't tracking anything, other than a very large geographic location and an active phone account. You can't be in San Jose and Merced at the same time, especially if you never leave your house that is in neither place.
Microsoft ads are actually really good (minus the weird Seinfeld ones). The Windows Phone 7 ads interest me in the product...then they actually show the phone in action...
The problem is not their marketing, it's their product. Win 7 is a huge move in the right direction, and I'm a fan of Office 2010, but these are only successful because of the insanely low standards we've all grown to expect for anything from Microsoft.
Windows Phones will surpass iPhones by 2015? Yeah, right. Windows phones will surpass iPhones at approximately the same time Zunes surpass iPods.
I've wanted to, but they are extremely rare in the wild.
Ooh look! Another "Apple is going to go out of business" sighting...I've been hearing this since 1988 and it's still not even remotely close to happening.
Say what you will, but considering that Bing got 10% market is rather impressive.
Bing is the default search engine of the default browser on 90% of computers. I would say 10% is pretty lame.
Differences in scope - WoW data is valuable, regardless of who the owner is, ...An individual's Facebook data is not so valuable on a case-by-case basis.
Exactly. And this is why I scoff at the hyperbole of any and all Facebook + Privacy!! articles posted on slashdot.
I don't expect my stuff to be private on Facebook. The whole point of Facebook goes against the concept of privacy.
Yes, not smoking means there's a good chance I'll avoid heart disease, because I eat right and am an avid distance runner. And I'm pretty sure "smoker/non-smoker" is part of your all-encompassing "lifestyle" category.
Well, I just moved back to America from England. US influence is evidently creeping across the pond, as England and other Western European countries begin to battle their own obesity problems.
Granted nothing on the scale we have here in the US, but alarming nonetheless.
Obligatory...you must be new here?
I think the bigger problem is the people hearing the message are themselves guilty of over-indulgence with sugar, so they don't want to believe it.
Take a look at the smoking argument portion of the thread above...any bets on which posts were made by smokers?
The old "If you don't do X you can't criticize what they say!" By that logic, none of us can criticize the president since none of us are leaders of a nation.
Roger Ebert was a terrible actor, so he changed careers.
Even simpler is that a pound of something really bad for you, say a donut, has way more calories than a pound of asparagus. So it's not how MUCH we eat, it's how many calories are in what we eat. The "even simpler" part of my statement is that it's fairly obvious that a pound of something that has more calories than a pound of something else is probably due to the fact it has sugar in it.
This is highly unscientific, but I noticed in my two stints of living overseas, smaller food portion sizes and the relative lack of carbonated, sugary sodas are what keep Europeans thinner than us Americans (with the added benefit of helping me live healthier as well). Now that I'm back in the US, I simply don't drink soda, and anytime we eat out, my wife and I usually order one meal and split it in half (roughly equivalent to a European restaurant serving size).
Just how many people posting replies here have actually, you know-- watched the hour long presentation created by Mr. Lustig all the way through?
I didn't even start it, so I guess that counts me out.
I've never heard of people dying or having problems from ingesting a moderate amount of sugar,
You've never heard of type II diabetes?
I think you inadvertently just gave your stamp-of-approval. See, by making it so inconvenient to smoke, only the most stubborn fools will continue to do so.
Why were you going into bars and restaurants where people smoked, if you found it so unpleasant? There are more restaurants that do not allow smoking pretty much everywhere you go in the country.
Right, as if we had a choice?
There are more restaurants that do not allow smoking pretty much everywhere you go in the country. Before they banned restaurant/bar smoking here in Virginia, about 65% of all restaurants were already smoke-free.
Sorry to be so confrontational, but that's, well, a bunch of made up sounding BS. Either that, or we live in completely different worlds. There were ZERO bars and restaurants that banned smoking before city-wide ordinances banning smoking indoors took effect.
If your Virginia numbers are to be believed, it would follow that they were seeing the successes of other city business where smoking bans were in effect, and imposed their own bans on their own. They can't help it if their city isn't progressive enough to understand the benefits of promoting smoke free public conveyances.
Your claims are bogus. I'm a gigging musician and I've lived in cities before and after smoking bans went into effect. Austin, TX, for example, has enjoyed an even more robust nightlife since the smoking ban. The high end of occupancy increased from 230 to 307 people, on average AFTER the smoking ban went into effect (and save your correlation/causation argument).
http://www.caee.utexas.edu/prof/Siegel/papers/conference/waring_2006_ets_article_HB_conference_submit.pdf
I can be obtuse too. Death is the leading cause of death. Heart disease causes death, and smoking causes heart disease. There's a good chance I'll never suffer heart disease if I don't smoke (since I'm a white collar guy toiling away in a cube farm all day, I don't have the industrial risks). Interestingly enough, smoking causes forms of cancer you most likely would never get without smoking as well (throat, mouth, lung, etc.)
Purely anecdotal, but my WoW account has been compromised probably 10 times in the past 3 years. My Facebook account has never been compromised.
Funny how vetting devs is considered a good thing in this article, but when Apple does it with the App store, it's called "lock in".
That's interesting, because almost no 'bad guys' see themselves as the bad guys.
And nobody in jail is guilty either.