Ah, the classic "it's not censorship if it's not the government" argument.
The problem is that if all the major sources of entertainment and news choose to censor themselves then you still end up with a situation that's just as bad as government censorship, it's just the reasons for censorship that are different (money + fear instead of ideology).
Actually, with the Reiser case a lot of people on slashdot and other places weren't rooting for him, most "pro-Reiser" comments seemed to be of the "I suppose it's possible that he's innocent because......and I sure hope that's the case" variety.
And this is hardly the Reiser case, this guy was innocent, the police lied about the footage and audio recordings, Reiser murdered his wife and eventually confessed.
As for the Terry Childs case, that's a pretty infected issue that's hardly over yet. My personal impression is that Childs was following the rules to the letter even though it should've been obvious that he was putting himself in a bad place...
This isn't a bad idea, we'll have FTL travel and cities on Mars by next year if we can just convince the military industrial complex that there's a bunch turr'ist aliens out there.
I'm sure there's plenty of porn out there that's perfectly legal to transfer to a mobile device. Hell, format shifting from a DVD is likely to be legal in most countries (although for some reason I'm assuming it's a felony in the US).
For about ten minutes before customers realized that they could still get porn using Safari and that iTunes gladly lets them transfer their porn videos to the iPhone.
Well, some of us make sure to "forget" large chunks of our collections in our parents' garage every time we move (just make sure there's a gap of a few days between moving out from your old place and moving in to your new place, your parents will happily let you put your stuff in the garage "over the weekend"). And despite this sneaky move I still have a 10 m^2 storage room connected to my apartment that's a deathtrap due to all the stuff I've piled in there.
The only problem with my storage method is that I occasionally spend a few hours going through the pile I have at home only to realize that I left the Indigo^2 workstations in my parents' garage and I'll have to ask them to ship one to me.
People who seriously feel that way are the reason I'm in favor of a UN trade embargo against the US for whatever cooked up reason they could possibly come up with, just to see how "little or no relevance" the rest of the world really has to the US...
(I'm not saying you actually feel this way but there are definitely loudmouthed idiots screaming shit like this any time they get the opportunity)
The main issue with (X)HTML is that it's not meant to be used for application user interfaces. This shows partly in the types of "widgets" (form elements basically) available and in the severely lacking layout possibilities.
Building basic user interfaces for various business web apps is probably the most frustrating part of web development, and the frustration coming dealing with building user interfaces using HTML, CSS and Javascript is definitely a major contributing factor.
As for monopoly on their own store... yep. Remember the Microsoft bundling mess? Taking one thing you have a monopoly on and using it to get an advantage somewhere else is not allowed.
Here's the thing, Apple doesn't have a monopoly on the smartphone market like Microsoft had (and has) on the desktop operating system market. You can't have a monopoly on your on products and services. Apple doesn't have a monopoly on integrated software downloads and purchases for smartphones, it would be impossible for them to have this without having a monopoly on the smartphone market.
Actually, that just proves that the early american colonists clearly did not understand the concept of solidarity. You also need to factor in that if someone is already starving it's a lot harder to make them work hard to supply for others. This is actually one of several major flaws with going from capitalism to communism via a revolution, I can't recall if Marx mentioned it but his contemporaries definitely did. The suggested alternative was to wait until there was an abundance of food and other resources before attempting communism, but so far every attempt at communism has involved the "speed things along with a bloody revolution" method.
Ah yes, us swedes can play that game as well: "Nordöstersjökustartilleriflygspaningssimulatoranläggningsmaterielunderhållsuppföljningssystemdiskussionsinläggsförberedelsearbeten".
If I were you I'd be more worried about other sources of "secondhand vapors", like car exhaust, than I would be of accidentally inhaling a little nicotine.
How many CEOs do you know who would choose the same amount of productivity for less employee time (maybe less employee cost), over more productivity? Growth is the only metric that counts, it seems.
A handful might go for it but the majority would probably wave their arms around and rant about the end of civilization as we know it rather than admit that it might work...
How may workers do you know who would campaign for a four-day week at the same pay over a five-day week for more pay?
Probably a lot, I actually had a discussion about this with some friends a while back and pretty much everyone present claimed they would rather get paid what they're getting paid now and work less than get paid more while working the same number of hours they do now.
Actually, if you were to give an alcoholic, a meth addict and an opiate addict free access to their drug of choice as well as food, shelter and other basic necessities chances are that ten years later the opiate addict would be the healthiest of the three, most likely he/she wouldn't just be a little healthier than the other two others either. Basically ethyl alcohol is poison, not in the war on drugs "drugs are bad, mmkay?" sense but actually poisonous. As for methamphetamine, well the lifestyle that comes with the drug doesn't exactly lend itself to leading a long and healthy life. As for opiate addicts, while it's likely they'd often forget about things like basic hygiene and eating and they might suffer from constipation it's not like just being high on opiates does anywhere near the damage to your body that alcohol or methamphetamine does.
Right you are, but clearly the bounds of reality vary between individuals
So find us a source that says a barcode scanner is able to cause burns that the lights in the store wouldn't cause. Go ahead, we'll be here waiting for you. And no, the deranged hobo down by the bus station doesn't count, the fact that his "house" is made of moldy pizza boxes and he's always ranting about the "gub'mint doin' 'schperments on mah brain!" should be a good indication of this.
That's what headphones are for. Amen to the large DJ sized headphones I have at work. It's a polite do-not-disturb sign to my coworkers.
Oh, to work somewhere where management hasn't decided that since customer services can't wear headphones then no one can wear headphones (yes, headphones is banned throughout the workplace including the cafeteria).
To this day I sometimes catch myself working on some interesting problem at home and putting in 30+ hours over three days when I've got some time off from work, because the problem is interesting and there's no one around to make it uninteresting by coming up with changes halfway through, demanding arbitrary things that have no place in the app and similar stupidity.
But when I'm at work building some glorified CRUDified spreadsheet in WEB_LANGUAGE_OF_CHOICE and I can't get two hours of coding in before the specs change or some PHB from another department feels like pointing out that the blue background color is a bit too blue for his tastes or whatever, well I sometimes end up taking a lot of little breaks just to clear my head enough to be able to function at all.
That's like saying Ben and Jerry's has a monopoly on Ben and Jerry's ice cream.
Operating Systems on Apple hardware?
They're the only commercial vendor specializing in that "market" but there are plenty of operating systems that will run on Apple hardware (since it's fairly generic anyway).
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Ah, the classic "it's not censorship if it's not the government" argument.
The problem is that if all the major sources of entertainment and news choose to censor themselves then you still end up with a situation that's just as bad as government censorship, it's just the reasons for censorship that are different (money + fear instead of ideology).
Actually, with the Reiser case a lot of people on slashdot and other places weren't rooting for him, most "pro-Reiser" comments seemed to be of the "I suppose it's possible that he's innocent because... ...and I sure hope that's the case" variety.
And this is hardly the Reiser case, this guy was innocent, the police lied about the footage and audio recordings, Reiser murdered his wife and eventually confessed.
As for the Terry Childs case, that's a pretty infected issue that's hardly over yet. My personal impression is that Childs was following the rules to the letter even though it should've been obvious that he was putting himself in a bad place...
This isn't a bad idea, we'll have FTL travel and cities on Mars by next year if we can just convince the military industrial complex that there's a bunch turr'ist aliens out there.
I'm sure there's plenty of porn out there that's perfectly legal to transfer to a mobile device. Hell, format shifting from a DVD is likely to be legal in most countries (although for some reason I'm assuming it's a felony in the US).
For about ten minutes before customers realized that they could still get porn using Safari and that iTunes gladly lets them transfer their porn videos to the iPhone.
Well, some of us make sure to "forget" large chunks of our collections in our parents' garage every time we move (just make sure there's a gap of a few days between moving out from your old place and moving in to your new place, your parents will happily let you put your stuff in the garage "over the weekend"). And despite this sneaky move I still have a 10 m^2 storage room connected to my apartment that's a deathtrap due to all the stuff I've piled in there.
The only problem with my storage method is that I occasionally spend a few hours going through the pile I have at home only to realize that I left the Indigo^2 workstations in my parents' garage and I'll have to ask them to ship one to me.
Don't forget that most of these machines are also printers, and most office workers print a lot more than they copy.
People who seriously feel that way are the reason I'm in favor of a UN trade embargo against the US for whatever cooked up reason they could possibly come up with, just to see how "little or no relevance" the rest of the world really has to the US...
(I'm not saying you actually feel this way but there are definitely loudmouthed idiots screaming shit like this any time they get the opportunity)
The main issue with (X)HTML is that it's not meant to be used for application user interfaces. This shows partly in the types of "widgets" (form elements basically) available and in the severely lacking layout possibilities.
Building basic user interfaces for various business web apps is probably the most frustrating part of web development, and the frustration coming dealing with building user interfaces using HTML, CSS and Javascript is definitely a major contributing factor.
As for monopoly on their own store... yep. Remember the Microsoft bundling mess? Taking one thing you have a monopoly on and using it to get an advantage somewhere else is not allowed.
Here's the thing, Apple doesn't have a monopoly on the smartphone market like Microsoft had (and has) on the desktop operating system market. You can't have a monopoly on your on products and services. Apple doesn't have a monopoly on integrated software downloads and purchases for smartphones, it would be impossible for them to have this without having a monopoly on the smartphone market.
From the last part to the first:
Thats a pretty direct translation, I'm not going to bother translating it into an english sentence...
Actually, that just proves that the early american colonists clearly did not understand the concept of solidarity. You also need to factor in that if someone is already starving it's a lot harder to make them work hard to supply for others. This is actually one of several major flaws with going from capitalism to communism via a revolution, I can't recall if Marx mentioned it but his contemporaries definitely did. The suggested alternative was to wait until there was an abundance of food and other resources before attempting communism, but so far every attempt at communism has involved the "speed things along with a bloody revolution" method.
Ah yes, us swedes can play that game as well: "Nordöstersjökustartilleriflygspaningssimulatoranläggningsmaterielunderhållsuppföljningssystemdiskussionsinläggsförberedelsearbeten".
If I were you I'd be more worried about other sources of "secondhand vapors", like car exhaust, than I would be of accidentally inhaling a little nicotine.
How many CEOs do you know who would choose the same amount of productivity for less employee time (maybe less employee cost), over more productivity? Growth is the only metric that counts, it seems.
A handful might go for it but the majority would probably wave their arms around and rant about the end of civilization as we know it rather than admit that it might work...
How may workers do you know who would campaign for a four-day week at the same pay over a five-day week for more pay?
Probably a lot, I actually had a discussion about this with some friends a while back and pretty much everyone present claimed they would rather get paid what they're getting paid now and work less than get paid more while working the same number of hours they do now.
Actually, if you were to give an alcoholic, a meth addict and an opiate addict free access to their drug of choice as well as food, shelter and other basic necessities chances are that ten years later the opiate addict would be the healthiest of the three, most likely he/she wouldn't just be a little healthier than the other two others either. Basically ethyl alcohol is poison, not in the war on drugs "drugs are bad, mmkay?" sense but actually poisonous. As for methamphetamine, well the lifestyle that comes with the drug doesn't exactly lend itself to leading a long and healthy life. As for opiate addicts, while it's likely they'd often forget about things like basic hygiene and eating and they might suffer from constipation it's not like just being high on opiates does anywhere near the damage to your body that alcohol or methamphetamine does.
Right you are, but clearly the bounds of reality vary between individuals
So find us a source that says a barcode scanner is able to cause burns that the lights in the store wouldn't cause. Go ahead, we'll be here waiting for you. And no, the deranged hobo down by the bus station doesn't count, the fact that his "house" is made of moldy pizza boxes and he's always ranting about the "gub'mint doin' 'schperments on mah brain!" should be a good indication of this.
Well obviously they have their phone headsets, they're just not allowed to have other headsets for listening to music when there are no calls.
...headphones are banned..."
That's what headphones are for. Amen to the large DJ sized headphones I have at work. It's a polite do-not-disturb sign to my coworkers.
Oh, to work somewhere where management hasn't decided that since customer services can't wear headphones then no one can wear headphones (yes, headphones is banned throughout the workplace including the cafeteria).
To this day I sometimes catch myself working on some interesting problem at home and putting in 30+ hours over three days when I've got some time off from work, because the problem is interesting and there's no one around to make it uninteresting by coming up with changes halfway through, demanding arbitrary things that have no place in the app and similar stupidity.
But when I'm at work building some glorified CRUDified spreadsheet in WEB_LANGUAGE_OF_CHOICE and I can't get two hours of coding in before the specs change or some PHB from another department feels like pointing out that the blue background color is a bit too blue for his tastes or whatever, well I sometimes end up taking a lot of little breaks just to clear my head enough to be able to function at all.
The not so normal part about that is that he wants a daughter...
I believe the later model Neo Geo cartridges were capable of storing around 90 megabytes.
MP3 players?
No, they don't have a monopoly on MP3 players.
Distribution of iPhone OS Apps?
That's like saying Ben and Jerry's has a monopoly on Ben and Jerry's ice cream.
Operating Systems on Apple hardware?
They're the only commercial vendor specializing in that "market" but there are plenty of operating systems that will run on Apple hardware (since it's fairly generic anyway).
... but once you hold a monopoly in a market and...
As others have asked thousands of times before when random people have screamed "Monopoly!" about Apple: What, Fucking, Monopoly?