some are rich because they got lucky and some are rich cus daddy was lucky. But that makes them no less deserving of wealth than you.
Wait, you think a guy who is handed a fortune from daddy is no less deserving than somebody who actually did something to deserve the wealth other than be born to somebody who was already wealthy?
How many millions (billions?) of tax dollars is Google not paying that could be used to reduce each of our personal income tax burdens? Couldn't this one company's taxes, if collected at higher than 2%, cover tens of thousands of individual's tax share? How is this good for society?
"Fragmented" is an unfortunate byproduct of "open". Jobs' point is accurate, but I don't think it pulls much weight with people who want an "open" platform--in spite of being "fragmented".
The "fragmented" line plays well with Apple loyalists, because it's everything they hate about non-Apple products.
Neither side is wrong, and yes Steve might sound like a jack ass, but some of us actually like the walled garden/just works approach.
If somebody reads stuff about you and looks at your pictures because you willingly put them out for viewing, then that is not spying. In my field, we call this "open source" intelligence. Think of it as open source spying if you must. Or, I dunno, don't put stuff on the Internet if you don't want the governments looking at it.
I've never used a Tivo (let alone seen one), but I find it un-possible that it takes more clicks than the craptactular Scientific Atlanta DVRs provided by Time Warner.
This proposed model is a perfect example of why the free market is better. Just take a look at ANY Scientific Atlanta DVR that many cable companies provide. What a monumental P.O.S from a user interface, responsiveness and straight up reliability view point. A little competition and we'd have world class cable boxes with world class UIs and dvrs.
The menu options and recording/search features couldn't be made any worse even if you hired the worst Microsoft UI engineers (all the ones that have been let go in the history of Microsoft).
Example. Push the menu button while watching a show you recorded and the default next action is stop this show and delete. So if you hit the menu button twice (because the piece of shit is so unresponsive you don't think it took the first click), it stops your show and erases it. Thanks. Great design. How about, I dunno, NOT defaulting to DELETE when you push the menu button--especially when you are in the middle of watching it!!!
Netflix doesn't carry nearly enough stuff on-demand, and they don't carry live events (sports, music, politics, news, etc.)
I use Netflix to watch tv series I missed (currently in Top Gear Season 11 after having lived in England from 2007-2009 and not seeing that show since I moved back to the US).
I have coworkers who live upwards of 110 miles away for the "cost of living". Then they fill their car up with gas every other day for $40 and spend 20 hours a week in their cars (away from home).
Some things just aren't worth it.
Also, with a higher cost of living often comes a higher quality of living. That's very true for Austin, TX. A great city, but go 50 miles in any direction and you are in a bad place.
I was wondering about that. I missed the last several years of F1 but watched every race of the last season they were allowed to advertise cigarettes. But I figured they would have replaced it with something else by now.
All of their samples (except the brick one) use solid/high contrast surfaces that are somewhat evenly lit. Still kind of cool though, but they should have waited until it's more mature to impress us old timer motion graphics guys.
I've noticed a steep drop-off of sponsorship in F1 in the past few years. The Ferrari, for example, has a solid red shell behind the cockpit, where it used to be littered with ads.
Hard economic times will do the same thing as this German video tool.
I'm incredibly bright (have an advanced degree!) and I don't secure my phone with a PIN. Having to punch in 4 numbers 100 times a day is a much bigger hassle than the rare chance somebody steals my phone and is able to do anything with it before I remotely wipe it.
The scary Facebook lack of privacy is highly exaggerated. I've had my number listed on my profile page for over two years now. I don't do anything out of the ordinary other than keep my info private to my friends only. Amazingly, nothing bad has happened because I listed a phone number on my page that I actually want people to have.
If the author of this hyperbole really wants to be heard, maybe he should work on his people skills.
His paranoia has blurred his understanding of English. I am not "stupid" because I use the same password on multiple websites or I have my browser save my password--the word I prefer is "practical", or "lazy", or "why the hell do I even need a password to login to this shitty page?"
I have not "lost control" if I give my wife my password to my Amazon account.
And "passwords are forgotten frequently"? You think? Because guys like this want us to use ridiculously complex and different passwords for every aspect of our digital existences.
People like this guy need to get some perspective and understand the risk/password-complexity trade-off. Not being able to access my own stuff is a form of security risk.
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some are rich because they got lucky and some are rich cus daddy was lucky. But that makes them no less deserving of wealth than you.
Wait, you think a guy who is handed a fortune from daddy is no less deserving than somebody who actually did something to deserve the wealth other than be born to somebody who was already wealthy?
Odd, that.
How many millions (billions?) of tax dollars is Google not paying that could be used to reduce each of our personal income tax burdens? Couldn't this one company's taxes, if collected at higher than 2%, cover tens of thousands of individual's tax share? How is this good for society?
I can think of exactly zero hick towns that are nicer than Echo Park in L.A.
And I like sorting out all the different phone options.
In fact, I DEMAND to have the choice.
Oh wait .. I did...
I didn't pick an iPhone.
That was a whole lot of ranting with an incredibly self-evident conclusion.
This is why I laugh at people who take so much time to rip something they aren't going to buy anyways.
"Fragmented" is an unfortunate byproduct of "open". Jobs' point is accurate, but I don't think it pulls much weight with people who want an "open" platform--in spite of being "fragmented".
The "fragmented" line plays well with Apple loyalists, because it's everything they hate about non-Apple products.
Neither side is wrong, and yes Steve might sound like a jack ass, but some of us actually like the walled garden/just works approach.
$1 million will last about a week on a program like this.
It will also buy 1/6th of a bionic man.
Why would government need a court order to view your information that you voluntarily make public?
If somebody reads stuff about you and looks at your pictures because you willingly put them out for viewing, then that is not spying. In my field, we call this "open source" intelligence. Think of it as open source spying if you must. Or, I dunno, don't put stuff on the Internet if you don't want the governments looking at it.
I've never used a Tivo (let alone seen one), but I find it un-possible that it takes more clicks than the craptactular Scientific Atlanta DVRs provided by Time Warner.
This proposed model is a perfect example of why the free market is better. Just take a look at ANY Scientific Atlanta DVR that many cable companies provide. What a monumental P.O.S from a user interface, responsiveness and straight up reliability view point. A little competition and we'd have world class cable boxes with world class UIs and dvrs.
The menu options and recording/search features couldn't be made any worse even if you hired the worst Microsoft UI engineers (all the ones that have been let go in the history of Microsoft).
Example. Push the menu button while watching a show you recorded and the default next action is stop this show and delete. So if you hit the menu button twice (because the piece of shit is so unresponsive you don't think it took the first click), it stops your show and erases it. Thanks. Great design. How about, I dunno, NOT defaulting to DELETE when you push the menu button--especially when you are in the middle of watching it!!!
Netflix doesn't carry nearly enough stuff on-demand, and they don't carry live events (sports, music, politics, news, etc.)
I use Netflix to watch tv series I missed (currently in Top Gear Season 11 after having lived in England from 2007-2009 and not seeing that show since I moved back to the US).
Justin Bieber?
I live 25 miles south of Austin....but I'm still "in" civilization. My coworkers live two or three large cities away, which makes no sense.
Not entirely true. If you get a hick out of their hick town early enough, they can see how badly their town sucked.
It's the people who never leave their hick towns that think their hick towns are so great.
Perspective...I has it.
I have coworkers who live upwards of 110 miles away for the "cost of living". Then they fill their car up with gas every other day for $40 and spend 20 hours a week in their cars (away from home).
Some things just aren't worth it.
Also, with a higher cost of living often comes a higher quality of living. That's very true for Austin, TX. A great city, but go 50 miles in any direction and you are in a bad place.
Here in Austin, at the University of Texas, none of those hot freshmen chicks aren't putting out because there's too much to do here!
I was wondering about that. I missed the last several years of F1 but watched every race of the last season they were allowed to advertise cigarettes. But I figured they would have replaced it with something else by now.
All of their samples (except the brick one) use solid/high contrast surfaces that are somewhat evenly lit. Still kind of cool though, but they should have waited until it's more mature to impress us old timer motion graphics guys.
I've noticed a steep drop-off of sponsorship in F1 in the past few years. The Ferrari, for example, has a solid red shell behind the cockpit, where it used to be littered with ads.
Hard economic times will do the same thing as this German video tool.
The Christian Coalition wants this for Super Bowl half time show boobs.
I want it to remove the entire half time show.
I'm incredibly bright (have an advanced degree!) and I don't secure my phone with a PIN. Having to punch in 4 numbers 100 times a day is a much bigger hassle than the rare chance somebody steals my phone and is able to do anything with it before I remotely wipe it.
The scary Facebook lack of privacy is highly exaggerated. I've had my number listed on my profile page for over two years now. I don't do anything out of the ordinary other than keep my info private to my friends only. Amazingly, nothing bad has happened because I listed a phone number on my page that I actually want people to have.
I shared my password with my wife once and she sold all my gear in the AH and mailed the proceeds to her alt.
After RTFAing, though, you are STUPID, and DANGEROUS if you use "childnameplusbirthyear" for your Farmville account.
If the author of this hyperbole really wants to be heard, maybe he should work on his people skills.
His paranoia has blurred his understanding of English. I am not "stupid" because I use the same password on multiple websites or I have my browser save my password--the word I prefer is "practical", or "lazy", or "why the hell do I even need a password to login to this shitty page?"
I have not "lost control" if I give my wife my password to my Amazon account.
And "passwords are forgotten frequently"? You think? Because guys like this want us to use ridiculously complex and different passwords for every aspect of our digital existences.
People like this guy need to get some perspective and understand the risk/password-complexity trade-off. Not being able to access my own stuff is a form of security risk.