At what point did iTunes customers stop being your customers? At what point did you decide to screw over your customers because they dared buy a competitor's product in a DIFFERENT MARKET than iTunes?
I don't understand the irrational spread of the idea that iTunes and iPods are somehow the same product. Yes, they work together and yes, Apple included a syncing feature in iTunes for the iPod, however, iTunes is FIRST a music library/digital goods store, it's second a syncing program. Your customers shouldn't be required to purchase a separate piece of hardware to take advantage of a feature that is in no way proprietary and solely doesn't work with other things because Apple said so.
Digital download-only games for the PSP are cheaper than UMD games. UMD games also available for download are again, cheaper. They're not $10, but they're significantly cheaper. Also, they're tied to your PSN login name, not your system. You can play the games on other systems as long as you can log in. If you can't log in, then I believe it has to be the system you purchased it on or at least one thats been logged in with your name before. I've transferred games from various PSP's and to and from a PS3 (game played on both systems) before.
Do you think Apple wants a bunch of calls from Pre users? Do you think there aren't a whole lot of them who don't know or don't care that Apple isn't responsible for it? All the users will know is that Apple purposely broke a certain functionality of their phone on purpose. That'll be awesome for Apple's PR team.
There's absolutely no trademark issue. Trademarks are for consumer protection. Its to stop people from assuming your product is somehow related to another. The user will never assume its an Apple device as they know full well its a Palm device. Only the machine will be confused.
I'm more upset that he got a patent for changing the shapes from square to a triangle. This doesn't show any real creativity to even constitute a design patent. Its like a themed keyboard. Like if someone decided to make a keyboard using various shapes just for style. I doubt that could be patented either.
The IP addresses were banned because they continually broke the terms of service for the site. If you constantly break the rules, expect to be punished. I don't understand how you find this somehow to be prejudice? Its prejudice against people who break the rules constantly, I suppose...
They're not being persecuted for their beliefs at all. It has absolutely nothing to do with that. In fact, I'm guessing you're comprehension is on par with Miscavige. His comparison is absolutely flawed so much that I have to wonder if he's either that stupid or if he knows its bad but just hopes that dropping the term Nazis will make people overlook the enormous gaping logical flaw in his argument.
Religous beliefs do NOT give you the right to blatantly break the rules of a website. If you somehow think thats the case, then I don't know what that makes you.
It says its not designed to search the web. This doesn't imply that its database must be stored locally. It can have a live internet connection, but only be talking to the database. I'd imagine the database is quite large.
I've destroyed X when I tried upgrading Ubuntu (i think it was from gutsy to intrepid). Unfortunately, I'm relatively new to Linux and couldn't get anything useful from the forums to fix it and I had no clue how to do it on my own, so I had to do a complete reinstall as well.
Civil engineers can be outside in the field a LOT. I got a degree in comp eng, but my roommate went civil engineering. He's been outside in mudboots under bridges taking measurements, etc. Whilst its true you can get promoted enough with a civil eng degree to the point where you don't have to go outside, the same can be said for chem eng.
Until the desire for efficient power use outweighs the desire (or even need) for faster, more powerful data centers, there will always be a need for cooling systems. When it gets to a point where people want efficiency (or need efficiency), then you'll see data centers that don't require as much power.
You can't realistically develop towards maximizing efficiency AND power. At a certain point, you have to sacrifice a little bit of one for the other. To maximize both would require too much time in development and you'll fall behind in the competition. Being one generation (or more) will kill most, though the efficiency niche market will still hold you up, just not all that well.
Well, I've always called the box/tower/etc the "computer". I've never included monitor in my definition of computer. If I tell someone to reboot their computer, I don't expect them to fuss with the monitor. If you open up the computer, again, you're not referring to the monitor. So I think "computer" or "personal computer" is a sufficient enough terminology for the box itself. If you can build your own computer or if you can take apart a computer, I don't expect you to be able to take apart a monitor.
We don't have the time to educate the person on the phone about the correct terminology. If we need them to do something to get it to work, we'll say whatever we need to say to get them to do what we need to do. I told a woman to hit the power button on the computer and she asked where it was. I told her its the big black box that the monitor and keyboard and everything is hooked up to. Imagine my surprise when she said there were two of them. I asked her to describe the other box and it ended up this was the UPS. I just told her to hit the big button the box you occasionally put CDs into. I then asked her to take out a USB dongle that I described as "the size of her thumb and it's blinking green on the end"... she then proceeded to unplug the ethernet. Sometimes their knowledge is so lacking that you can't use the technical terms and you start trying to explain it in the most simple terms possible. I think its the fact that we don't always take the time to correct them and just keep going so we get the job done that leads to the proliferation of the problem.
Not because it may use bandwidth, but because the quality is so low. Yes, it seems the program works alright, but the flow of the program is terrible. The translations are awful and changing settings is annoying. A note at the bottom says that any changes requires a program restart, but after EVERY change, a message pops up saying you need to restart it. There are help windows within the program, but all the screenshots are in japanese.
There is no fucking thing that McDonald can do to a piece of beef or chicken (while still keeping it edible at all) to stop it from having the exact same 20 aminoacids that your body uses or needs.
Actually, there is something they can do to that beef or chicken to remove a lot of the nutritional value in it. They can cook it. Hate to break it to you, but thats also what happens when you cook the beef at home too. Thats the whole basis of a raw food diet. Cooking removes a majority of the nutrients in the food you eat simply by destroying the various nutrients in there. Did you think cooking just warmed it up? No, it physically changes the actual composition of the meat. Why do you think it turns brown? Cooked meat does *not* have the same nutritional value as raw meat. It has *much* less.
In any case though, I agree with your general point that there's not much difference between "types" of calories. A calorie is just a unit of heat. More specifically, its the amount of heat that it takes to raise the temperature of 1 gram(? double check that mass if you'd like cause i'm not sure) of water by 1 degree Celsius at STP. So, if you burned 100 calories of Coca Cola, thats how much heat is given off (or at least approximated since theoretical and physical results never match up). Also, in the US a Calorie is different than a calorie. A Calorie is a kilocalorie. This is why you'll see most foreign foods say kcal instead of cal because they don't try to hide it. You need 2000 kilocalories in your diet, not 2000 calories.
Just paying 1 SEK will cause extra fees for the firm once the 1000 free transactions for the account has been used up. After that, it costs 2 SEK to process the 1 SEK payment. Therefore, they lose 1 SEK every time you pay 1 SEK. The 'false payment' is a double whammy, but not required.
BlackBerry phones are *arguably* better. Some people swear by them while most iPhone users will tell you their the worst things in the world. Personally, while I own an iPhone 3G, I'm somewhat jealous of my friends' Storms (2 friends and my brother have Storms). The Storm is probably the most similar one in functionality to the iPhone, though Bold, Curve, and Pearl all get pretty good reviews as well.
Its still there. In fact, its called, "The Downward Fucking Spiral." Not sure if this name change occurred before or after this debacle as I generally use the actual songs I have on the iPhone itself to listen to the music other than the podcasts. Though I've recommended the app to folks who haven't really heard his music and told them its a good way to hear a lot of it very easily for free and completely legally.
That all depends on how you define minimal performance of the vehicle. Would you see the vehicle is in 100% working condition without the airbag? No, you wouldn't, therefore its implied that the airbag is indeed part of its performance. The same applies to the pump. From the description, the application sounds like it'd work without the pump, its just an added feature to the actual design of the touchscreen, however, its not required in theory. Therefore, the application would most likely still work even if they break. Would you say its in 100% working condition, no you wouldn't, but could it still serve its purpose as a touch screen? Most definitely.
The pumps are just an extra feature just like an airbag. There's no difference at all. So, true to your words, you weren't being pedantic at all.
Its worth isn't in how "cool" it is but if it makes using touch screens on vehicle dashboards safer to use. The airbag was just another component to fail, but they install them anyway.
Fox News anchors *hosted* some of the larger ones. They also helped find and setup others. To say that doesn't qualify as orchestrating anything is downright ridiculous.
As the stories that get posted are submitted on a voted on by users, he's right in asking why he posted it. He has no control over what the users choose. He's just stating he's surprised that people found this to be important because as a lot of people have stated, this is a non-story.
Its not as difficult as you'd expect. Here's some simple requirements: 1) Not genetically altered by mankind 2) Parents are human 3) Conceived traditionally or by any of the means that have been approved in section bloopitybloop.
You don't have to categorize by that genes they have, just classify them by where they came from. Its much easier.
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At what point did iTunes customers stop being your customers? At what point did you decide to screw over your customers because they dared buy a competitor's product in a DIFFERENT MARKET than iTunes?
I don't understand the irrational spread of the idea that iTunes and iPods are somehow the same product. Yes, they work together and yes, Apple included a syncing feature in iTunes for the iPod, however, iTunes is FIRST a music library/digital goods store, it's second a syncing program. Your customers shouldn't be required to purchase a separate piece of hardware to take advantage of a feature that is in no way proprietary and solely doesn't work with other things because Apple said so.
Digital download-only games for the PSP are cheaper than UMD games. UMD games also available for download are again, cheaper. They're not $10, but they're significantly cheaper. Also, they're tied to your PSN login name, not your system. You can play the games on other systems as long as you can log in. If you can't log in, then I believe it has to be the system you purchased it on or at least one thats been logged in with your name before. I've transferred games from various PSP's and to and from a PS3 (game played on both systems) before.
Do you think Apple wants a bunch of calls from Pre users? Do you think there aren't a whole lot of them who don't know or don't care that Apple isn't responsible for it? All the users will know is that Apple purposely broke a certain functionality of their phone on purpose. That'll be awesome for Apple's PR team.
There's absolutely no trademark issue. Trademarks are for consumer protection. Its to stop people from assuming your product is somehow related to another. The user will never assume its an Apple device as they know full well its a Palm device. Only the machine will be confused.
I'm more upset that he got a patent for changing the shapes from square to a triangle. This doesn't show any real creativity to even constitute a design patent. Its like a themed keyboard. Like if someone decided to make a keyboard using various shapes just for style. I doubt that could be patented either.
Forget finding a different DA, just take the same DA from the Drews case. Then you don't even need to find one.
The IP addresses were banned because they continually broke the terms of service for the site. If you constantly break the rules, expect to be punished. I don't understand how you find this somehow to be prejudice? Its prejudice against people who break the rules constantly, I suppose...
They're not being persecuted for their beliefs at all. It has absolutely nothing to do with that. In fact, I'm guessing you're comprehension is on par with Miscavige. His comparison is absolutely flawed so much that I have to wonder if he's either that stupid or if he knows its bad but just hopes that dropping the term Nazis will make people overlook the enormous gaping logical flaw in his argument.
Religous beliefs do NOT give you the right to blatantly break the rules of a website. If you somehow think thats the case, then I don't know what that makes you.
What is the answer to life, the universe, and everything?
It says its not designed to search the web. This doesn't imply that its database must be stored locally. It can have a live internet connection, but only be talking to the database. I'd imagine the database is quite large.
I've destroyed X when I tried upgrading Ubuntu (i think it was from gutsy to intrepid). Unfortunately, I'm relatively new to Linux and couldn't get anything useful from the forums to fix it and I had no clue how to do it on my own, so I had to do a complete reinstall as well.
Civil engineers can be outside in the field a LOT. I got a degree in comp eng, but my roommate went civil engineering. He's been outside in mudboots under bridges taking measurements, etc. Whilst its true you can get promoted enough with a civil eng degree to the point where you don't have to go outside, the same can be said for chem eng.
Until the desire for efficient power use outweighs the desire (or even need) for faster, more powerful data centers, there will always be a need for cooling systems. When it gets to a point where people want efficiency (or need efficiency), then you'll see data centers that don't require as much power.
You can't realistically develop towards maximizing efficiency AND power. At a certain point, you have to sacrifice a little bit of one for the other. To maximize both would require too much time in development and you'll fall behind in the competition. Being one generation (or more) will kill most, though the efficiency niche market will still hold you up, just not all that well.
Well, I've always called the box/tower/etc the "computer". I've never included monitor in my definition of computer. If I tell someone to reboot their computer, I don't expect them to fuss with the monitor. If you open up the computer, again, you're not referring to the monitor. So I think "computer" or "personal computer" is a sufficient enough terminology for the box itself. If you can build your own computer or if you can take apart a computer, I don't expect you to be able to take apart a monitor.
We don't have the time to educate the person on the phone about the correct terminology. If we need them to do something to get it to work, we'll say whatever we need to say to get them to do what we need to do. I told a woman to hit the power button on the computer and she asked where it was. I told her its the big black box that the monitor and keyboard and everything is hooked up to. Imagine my surprise when she said there were two of them. I asked her to describe the other box and it ended up this was the UPS. I just told her to hit the big button the box you occasionally put CDs into. I then asked her to take out a USB dongle that I described as "the size of her thumb and it's blinking green on the end"... she then proceeded to unplug the ethernet. Sometimes their knowledge is so lacking that you can't use the technical terms and you start trying to explain it in the most simple terms possible. I think its the fact that we don't always take the time to correct them and just keep going so we get the job done that leads to the proliferation of the problem.
Not because it may use bandwidth, but because the quality is so low. Yes, it seems the program works alright, but the flow of the program is terrible. The translations are awful and changing settings is annoying. A note at the bottom says that any changes requires a program restart, but after EVERY change, a message pops up saying you need to restart it. There are help windows within the program, but all the screenshots are in japanese.
There is no fucking thing that McDonald can do to a piece of beef or chicken (while still keeping it edible at all) to stop it from having the exact same 20 aminoacids that your body uses or needs.
Actually, there is something they can do to that beef or chicken to remove a lot of the nutritional value in it. They can cook it. Hate to break it to you, but thats also what happens when you cook the beef at home too. Thats the whole basis of a raw food diet. Cooking removes a majority of the nutrients in the food you eat simply by destroying the various nutrients in there. Did you think cooking just warmed it up? No, it physically changes the actual composition of the meat. Why do you think it turns brown? Cooked meat does *not* have the same nutritional value as raw meat. It has *much* less.
In any case though, I agree with your general point that there's not much difference between "types" of calories. A calorie is just a unit of heat. More specifically, its the amount of heat that it takes to raise the temperature of 1 gram(? double check that mass if you'd like cause i'm not sure) of water by 1 degree Celsius at STP. So, if you burned 100 calories of Coca Cola, thats how much heat is given off (or at least approximated since theoretical and physical results never match up). Also, in the US a Calorie is different than a calorie. A Calorie is a kilocalorie. This is why you'll see most foreign foods say kcal instead of cal because they don't try to hide it. You need 2000 kilocalories in your diet, not 2000 calories.
Just paying 1 SEK will cause extra fees for the firm once the 1000 free transactions for the account has been used up. After that, it costs 2 SEK to process the 1 SEK payment. Therefore, they lose 1 SEK every time you pay 1 SEK. The 'false payment' is a double whammy, but not required.
BlackBerry phones are *arguably* better. Some people swear by them while most iPhone users will tell you their the worst things in the world. Personally, while I own an iPhone 3G, I'm somewhat jealous of my friends' Storms (2 friends and my brother have Storms). The Storm is probably the most similar one in functionality to the iPhone, though Bold, Curve, and Pearl all get pretty good reviews as well.
Its still there. In fact, its called, "The Downward Fucking Spiral." Not sure if this name change occurred before or after this debacle as I generally use the actual songs I have on the iPhone itself to listen to the music other than the podcasts. Though I've recommended the app to folks who haven't really heard his music and told them its a good way to hear a lot of it very easily for free and completely legally.
That all depends on how you define minimal performance of the vehicle. Would you see the vehicle is in 100% working condition without the airbag? No, you wouldn't, therefore its implied that the airbag is indeed part of its performance. The same applies to the pump. From the description, the application sounds like it'd work without the pump, its just an added feature to the actual design of the touchscreen, however, its not required in theory. Therefore, the application would most likely still work even if they break. Would you say its in 100% working condition, no you wouldn't, but could it still serve its purpose as a touch screen? Most definitely.
The pumps are just an extra feature just like an airbag. There's no difference at all. So, true to your words, you weren't being pedantic at all.
Its worth isn't in how "cool" it is but if it makes using touch screens on vehicle dashboards safer to use. The airbag was just another component to fail, but they install them anyway.
Fox News anchors *hosted* some of the larger ones. They also helped find and setup others. To say that doesn't qualify as orchestrating anything is downright ridiculous.
And Google deciding to stop offering free POP & IMAP that re-illustrates the point to an even better degree.
As the stories that get posted are submitted on a voted on by users, he's right in asking why he posted it. He has no control over what the users choose. He's just stating he's surprised that people found this to be important because as a lot of people have stated, this is a non-story.
Its not as difficult as you'd expect. Here's some simple requirements:
1) Not genetically altered by mankind
2) Parents are human
3) Conceived traditionally or by any of the means that have been approved in section bloopitybloop.
You don't have to categorize by that genes they have, just classify them by where they came from. Its much easier.