Apple probably had no intent to make an "iTablet" until this hysteria started. They have the unique position where they can probe their market effortlessly just by consumer speculation.
"I wonder what an Apple tablet computer would be like..."
"Yeah, that would be cool, an Apple tablet"
"THERE'S AN APPLE TABLET COMING OUT!?"
"Dude I bet they'll call it the iTablet!"
"No, iBoard or something would be way more Different"
"No no no, they're calling it the iSlate, this dude told me, he's like, on the inside and shit!"
"Oh, man, I can't wait until the iSlate comes out!"
Apple: "We neither admit nor refuse the possibility of an Apple crafted tablet PC, but trust us, if we did it it would be super awesome."
"OMG APPLE SAYS THEY'RE COMING OUT WITH AN APPLE TABLET SEE YOU IN CUPERTINO!"
What possible gain could anyone else have from this information?
*shrug* A loyal PRC citizen wanting to do the "right thing" or someone who'd like to sell the information for money to the Chinese government or someone else who might need leverage in negotiation with the Chinese government.
I know speculating is really fun and I've seen some pretty handy suggestions of what the iWhatever might look like, everything from a big iPhone to something far more exotic. It is a bit ridiculous, though, that so many people are so damned excited over something I don't think has even been admitted to be "in the works" and really is just One More Thing.
Most companies don't even get half the rave over revolutionary creations that Apple does before the shit's even revolutionary.
Better than thieves, I'd compare them to child extortionists. They seduce young musicians with dreams of fame and money, make promises they'll never keep, then they bleed them dry of their efforts then cast them away when they are too frail too lift a finger. All the while, these people are kept illusioned that it is all to their benefit so that they never have the opportunity to learn a lesson from the experience.
The cocaine off of strippers' asses isn't recreation, it's medicinal.
Just because you have no experienced it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Death is fairly permanent and unchanging and oblivion is as perfect an existence as I can imagine.
Welcome to the year 2000 (er, 2010) and meet your new friend Information Anxiety. I'm 30 years old and I feel it. I constantly feel like I need to keep up with news, this and that, hobbies and interests that are fueled by easy access to information on the internet, social networking, friends, internet friends, real life friends that I only really see on the internet these days. Now compound all of that into a teenager's mind along with high school pressures, school work, trying to find themselves, hormones and being awkward, the opposite sex (or even harder yet, maybe the same sex), etc.
100 years ago, our main concerns were food, shelter, and family. These are second thoughts for many these days. I recently quit social networking for half a year and it was one of the best things I've ever done for myself.
I stopped watching TV (not that I desperately wrench my head away when one comes on) when I was in my early teens, right after I got dial-up. I just felt so comfortable choosing what I experienced instead of having it hand-picked for my demographic.
That was the problem, though... life isn't about anyone choosing, it's about whatever comes.
I don't think the problem is what teenagers have to worry about in any era... being a teenager is just hard by incidence of evolution. All the changes happening at once and it never really ends until decades later.
I would like to see how teenagers thrive in paradise without any fears and only the barest of vital responsibilities.
The absorbent rubber will also reduce the tactile sensation of pushing the button, so a person will use more pressure to push the button though it will feel the same to them.
If you are coming (as a man, and as a hint for slashdot's girls), stimulating the area between your balls and asshole makes your orgasm a lot more powerful. It's even possible to come just by stimulating that area, without touching your dick (I've done it).
Also, as a practical matter, I find many people who whine about open source really just want to not pay for software, but won't admit that is their main motivation easily.
Honestly that's what started it for me... I could barely afford to put a computer together but was EXTREMELY interested in them since I'd grown up my whole life with one around. There was always someone around willing to give me a copy of 98/ME/2000/whatever, but I'd heard about this "lunix" thing and that is was free.
It wasn't until years after I'd tried Caldera/Red Hat/Mandriva that I really gave a shit about F/OSS, but I really have grown into it. It's a little elitist, but I see a genuine respect for F/OSS as very mature and intelligent.
Clinging onto proprietary software for monetary gain seems so... near-sighted.
Calling CoS "whiny hypocrites" is like calling an error in code that is responsible for the deaths of people, corruption in government and illusioning people into throwing away their money and lives a "bug".
I usually wear cargo pants and can fit my Wind in the big pockets on the legs that, you know, I never use for anything else, kind of defeating the purpose of cargo pants.
I can not see in any way how taking something apart and putting it back together repeatedly, occasionally ending up with extra pieces would effect the reliability of any product.
I find it pretty clever the way they make something so effectively cheap yet powerful, but I do get a little worried every time I take my Wind apart to do something crazy with it when I'm lifting the motherboard out.
Still, I've taken it apart and put it together about 12 times now and it's still working perfectly fine.
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She did the right thing, though. If she had given up in court at 50k, the next person might have to start over in the millions.
Their conspiracy has reached deeper than I suspected... perhaps, even now, the words I type are carefully crafted by their influences.
Oh, shit, I hope Sony has heard about this!
Apple probably had no intent to make an "iTablet" until this hysteria started. They have the unique position where they can probe their market effortlessly just by consumer speculation.
"I wonder what an Apple tablet computer would be like..."
"Yeah, that would be cool, an Apple tablet"
"THERE'S AN APPLE TABLET COMING OUT!?"
"Dude I bet they'll call it the iTablet!"
"No, iBoard or something would be way more Different"
"No no no, they're calling it the iSlate, this dude told me, he's like, on the inside and shit!"
"Oh, man, I can't wait until the iSlate comes out!"
Apple: "We neither admit nor refuse the possibility of an Apple crafted tablet PC, but trust us, if we did it it would be super awesome."
"OMG APPLE SAYS THEY'RE COMING OUT WITH AN APPLE TABLET SEE YOU IN CUPERTINO!"
What possible gain could anyone else have from this information?
*shrug* A loyal PRC citizen wanting to do the "right thing" or someone who'd like to sell the information for money to the Chinese government or someone else who might need leverage in negotiation with the Chinese government.
And I'd like to keep it that way.
You should know as well as anyone else that this was inevitable and it's actually just remarkable that it took as long as it did.
The problem you face isn't cheating itself or direct-memory access; what you need are people you can trust to play with fairly.
I know speculating is really fun and I've seen some pretty handy suggestions of what the iWhatever might look like, everything from a big iPhone to something far more exotic. It is a bit ridiculous, though, that so many people are so damned excited over something I don't think has even been admitted to be "in the works" and really is just One More Thing.
Most companies don't even get half the rave over revolutionary creations that Apple does before the shit's even revolutionary.
Better than thieves, I'd compare them to child extortionists. They seduce young musicians with dreams of fame and money, make promises they'll never keep, then they bleed them dry of their efforts then cast them away when they are too frail too lift a finger. All the while, these people are kept illusioned that it is all to their benefit so that they never have the opportunity to learn a lesson from the experience.
The cocaine off of strippers' asses isn't recreation, it's medicinal.
Just because you have no experienced it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Death is fairly permanent and unchanging and oblivion is as perfect an existence as I can imagine.
Welcome to the year 2000 (er, 2010) and meet your new friend Information Anxiety. I'm 30 years old and I feel it. I constantly feel like I need to keep up with news, this and that, hobbies and interests that are fueled by easy access to information on the internet, social networking, friends, internet friends, real life friends that I only really see on the internet these days. Now compound all of that into a teenager's mind along with high school pressures, school work, trying to find themselves, hormones and being awkward, the opposite sex (or even harder yet, maybe the same sex), etc.
100 years ago, our main concerns were food, shelter, and family. These are second thoughts for many these days. I recently quit social networking for half a year and it was one of the best things I've ever done for myself.
I stopped watching TV (not that I desperately wrench my head away when one comes on) when I was in my early teens, right after I got dial-up. I just felt so comfortable choosing what I experienced instead of having it hand-picked for my demographic.
That was the problem, though... life isn't about anyone choosing, it's about whatever comes.
I don't think the problem is what teenagers have to worry about in any era... being a teenager is just hard by incidence of evolution. All the changes happening at once and it never really ends until decades later.
I would like to see how teenagers thrive in paradise without any fears and only the barest of vital responsibilities.
The absorbent rubber will also reduce the tactile sensation of pushing the button, so a person will use more pressure to push the button though it will feel the same to them.
If you are coming (as a man, and as a hint for slashdot's girls), stimulating the area between your balls and asshole makes your orgasm a lot more powerful. It's even possible to come just by stimulating that area, without touching your dick (I've done it).
TMI
So you already knew?
All life started from chaotic collisions of molecules...
3) 3 people means cutting the pizza into slices divisible by 3, which is harder.
I always slice pizza into six pieces.
Of course, 8 pieces is more mathematically convenient...
"Should I have sex for the first time, unprotected with my boyfriend to celebrate our one month relationship tonight?"
"Can't help you, don't want to go to jail."
Also, as a practical matter, I find many people who whine about open source really just want to not pay for software, but won't admit that is their main motivation easily.
Honestly that's what started it for me... I could barely afford to put a computer together but was EXTREMELY interested in them since I'd grown up my whole life with one around. There was always someone around willing to give me a copy of 98/ME/2000/whatever, but I'd heard about this "lunix" thing and that is was free.
It wasn't until years after I'd tried Caldera/Red Hat/Mandriva that I really gave a shit about F/OSS, but I really have grown into it. It's a little elitist, but I see a genuine respect for F/OSS as very mature and intelligent.
Clinging onto proprietary software for monetary gain seems so... near-sighted.
Knowledge is power. Google has focused on knowing, so now they have the power.
I hate Microsoft more than anyone, but... I really don't see an issue or any hypocrisy here.
Calling CoS "whiny hypocrites" is like calling an error in code that is responsible for the deaths of people, corruption in government and illusioning people into throwing away their money and lives a "bug".
Oh, sorry about that, I capitalized the "I" and "GTFO" and "O" in "Oh". I also used one too many commas. I'm new at this, please forgive me.
Oh, hay guyz I juss got a tweet saying we need to chillax and GTFO sall cool tho cuz they let us kno on twit
Oh, snap! I am so embarrassed now!
I usually wear cargo pants and can fit my Wind in the big pockets on the legs that, you know, I never use for anything else, kind of defeating the purpose of cargo pants.
I can not see in any way how taking something apart and putting it back together repeatedly, occasionally ending up with extra pieces would effect the reliability of any product.
I find it pretty clever the way they make something so effectively cheap yet powerful, but I do get a little worried every time I take my Wind apart to do something crazy with it when I'm lifting the motherboard out.
Still, I've taken it apart and put it together about 12 times now and it's still working perfectly fine.