Because most shipments get stolen at customs or by the post service personnel. It sucks but even for Mexico is hard to buy parts in USA. Is easier, cheaper, faster an sometimes even more reliable to ask someone that is on a trip to USA than buy online.
Exactly. Everybody talks now about iPhone and iPad because those two products became a money printing machine for Apple, but the original iMac and the eMac were astounding products at its time. After all, the eMac became a consumer product by popular demand, not because Apple expected it to be sold outside the education market.
Still, what Google trough Motorola is trying to do is to pull a Rambus over wireless networking technology. Thats as low they can get. If Microsoft's case is meritless then it should be discarded, but Google nor Samsung, or the holding managing Nortel patents shouldn't use standard essential patents in this way. What's next? HP should have many networking patents of their own, and from their purchases of DEC and Palm. Shall we pay to HP every time we purchase a printer with a NIC?
The visceral reaction to Android by Jobs was due the fact that Google's Smichdt was on Apple's board at the time of the initial development of the iPhone and it was really hard not to say that he was more of a corporate spy than a honest board member from a partner company, at least from Jobs POV. Who wouldn't be pissed of because being backstabbed by a person you trusted?
If I were in this company's shoes I would negotiate with Apple a way to offer at least a partial refund to my customers. That would be a sincere apology.
Only if the device can be jailbroken you can use pirated software in it. If you are using the most recent version of the OS at this time you simply can't do it, what more do you expect them to do? All the jailbreaks are basically methods to break the security model of the OS.
Aside from that, any working adult would understand the feeling of lord Vader at the end of the movie. Fortunately, most of us don't have enough knowledge of the Force to choke to death the people that p**s us off.
I agree. I think that unless ARM or the chip design team of Apple had shown to Apple's board something like the Core series that Otellini displayed to Steve Jobs the idea of dropping Intel CPUs for the OS X devices is insane.
Didn't Intel started to offer foundry services? If Apple makes Intel an offer they can't reject Apple could start to offer their products using chips one process node behind Intel but one process node ahead of their competitors. The increases in battery life and speed could make them like the Microsoft-Intel combo of the 1990's, and still being able to charge a good premium in their products. See thunderbolt for an example of Apple-Intel collaboration.
Because the USA's economy at this time sucks for almost everyone regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation or age and that is a big drawback for any incumbent and his party in any barely functioning democracy. That's why I think republicans had the election in the bag, but by pandering too much to their extreme right wing they ended losing. See
The problem for Republicans was that they instead of using Clinton's "It's the economy stupid!" to get the election in the bag they conceded all the racial minorities votes to the Democrats, they created a handicap for themselves of 20-30% of the electorate. On top of that, they alienated women, that are the majority of population, regardless of race, they alienated religious moderates that are a majority of Americans and with their hate against gays they alienated not only the LGBT community, but also the young population that have friends in that community. The Republicans played this election to lose.
On the other hand, maybe the strong criticism in a high profile website like Slashdot will hopefully make them improve their behavior. Their design is a bit childish, but some of the ergonomic requirements of a gamer apply for anyone that spends a long time at a desktop PC.
The problem with Lego an all similar construction toys with small kids is fixed by having a line of toys catering to young kids, with pieces with a size large enough that not even an adult could swallow.
That was last year. Still, I think that what are hurting them the most are the high prices of energy and the strong yen. The yen is around 20% more expensive than 2 years ago. No matter how much they try to restructure they can't offer competitive prices against Korean or Taiwanese offers.
Well, Sharp has a very nice patent portfolio, so that could be valuable to Apple. Sharp used to manufacture very nice phones. On a side note, for what I saw in Japan Apple is seen in the same light that many Japanese corporations, so that wouldn't be really a problem. After all, Sony had a stupid moron of American origin* for too much time at its helm and that almost destroyed their company, too. But, I think that what is causing now more troubles to Japanese corporations are the high prices on energy since they still have most of their nuclear energy power stations stopped and the very strong yen. A strong currency with high energy prices is a combination that would cripple any corporation that depends on exports.
*not to be called an attack on Americans. Stupidity, sadly, is shared among people of all ages and nations.
In my experience, the cabin crew at United/Continental is nice, the counter people at Houston is even nicer, but the sales people, at least here in Mexico, deserve to be sent to the most Taliban infested places of Afghanistan or Pakistan dressed like christian preachers wrapped in the USA's flag, or sent to New York's ground 0 with T-shirts praising Osama bin Laden. What I disliked was that the plane wasn't that clean and the ticket price was 2 times more expensive than the first time I traveled with them that route despite the fact oil was 15% cheaper and USD was only 10% up; but even more disgusting was how they tried to weasel out to not provide service to a friend that cancelled his trip to Japan due the march's 11th 2011 quake and tsunami.
Aside from that, legally accepted euthanasia protects the family and the deceased to make the proper insurance claims. All life insurance policies become void in case of suicide, but in case of legal euthanasia they should apply.
Carlos Slim is the richest man in the world thanks that he bought the state's telephone monopoly business for less than 10% of its real value, and he kept that monopoly for more than 15 years. The key to understand Mexico's history of economic failures in the last 30 years instead of the enormous success of the south koreans that 30 years ago had the same level of development of Mexico is that here our crony capitalists are lazy beyond belief, and the concentration of wealth simply is killing our internal market. Think of us like what will happened to the USA if they never had the Glass-Steingall and antimonopoly laws ever enacted.
On a weird defense of Apple's lawyers, I must say than here in Mexico you can get legally get away with the murder of your own daughter* if you know the right people, so is not a stretch that they expected that the judge would have behaved accordingly to the customs, not the law. My mom's house was legally stolen by an ex-judge, so I know first hand what kind of scumbags are in our judiciary. I would rater deal with the "justice" of the Sinaloa drug cartel than any cop or judge any given day. Our impunity rate nationwide in murder is 99%
Well, the Zen Rinzai was in the old times the Zen school that followed the Japanese Imperial Court, many samurai and the japanese state men, so I'm inclined to believe that they have a more permissive view of war than the other branches. One of the principles of Zen are simplicity, for Zen you can define the whole universe in terms of the shapes of a circle, a square and a triangle, you could say that they had an intuitive grasp of analytical geometry. We can agree or disagree about Jobs personal traits but clearly, in relation to consumer electronics, the simple design of Apple products certainly is loaded with Zen philosophy. I was told about Jobs by the Abbot of the Daisen-in temple in Kyoto last summer, Mr. Sooen Ozeki, and he again talks about Jobs in his last book, quoting Jobs speech at Stanford like an example of Zen thought.
He addressed the World Economic Forum in Davos at the height of the financial crisis in 2009 to tell gathered heads of state and business leaders it was time to give up greed in favor of "enlightened altruism." His other works include "Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill" and several collections of photographs of the landscape, people and spiritual masters of the Himalayas. Ricard donates all proceeds of his books to 110 humanitarian projects which have built schools for 21,000 children and provide healthcare for 100,000 patients a year.
I think this guy has done far, far more than his fair share to bring happiness to others, much more than what 99.99 % of the rest of humankind will ever do.
The nice thing about Buddhism is that the most philosophical branches are almost devoid of religious thought but full useful guidelines for life. Amazingly, for example, for applying Zen concepts to popular electronics is that at the Zen Rinzai school Steve Jobs is considered a Zen master.
At least this is not in the level of the fictional world of Sword Arts Online where the player is the one who dies. Still, a serious level of a bug and lack of security in the xBox 360 software.
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Because most shipments get stolen at customs or by the post service personnel. It sucks but even for Mexico is hard to buy parts in USA. Is easier, cheaper, faster an sometimes even more reliable to ask someone that is on a trip to USA than buy online.
Exactly. Everybody talks now about iPhone and iPad because those two products became a money printing machine for Apple, but the original iMac and the eMac were astounding products at its time. After all, the eMac became a consumer product by popular demand, not because Apple expected it to be sold outside the education market.
Still, what Google trough Motorola is trying to do is to pull a Rambus over wireless networking technology. Thats as low they can get. If Microsoft's case is meritless then it should be discarded, but Google nor Samsung, or the holding managing Nortel patents shouldn't use standard essential patents in this way. What's next? HP should have many networking patents of their own, and from their purchases of DEC and Palm. Shall we pay to HP every time we purchase a printer with a NIC?
The visceral reaction to Android by Jobs was due the fact that Google's Smichdt was on Apple's board at the time of the initial development of the iPhone and it was really hard not to say that he was more of a corporate spy than a honest board member from a partner company, at least from Jobs POV. Who wouldn't be pissed of because being backstabbed by a person you trusted?
If I were in this company's shoes I would negotiate with Apple a way to offer at least a partial refund to my customers. That would be a sincere apology.
Only if the device can be jailbroken you can use pirated software in it. If you are using the most recent version of the OS at this time you simply can't do it, what more do you expect them to do? All the jailbreaks are basically methods to break the security model of the OS.
Aside from that, any working adult would understand the feeling of lord Vader at the end of the movie. Fortunately, most of us don't have enough knowledge of the Force to choke to death the people that p**s us off.
I agree. I think that unless ARM or the chip design team of Apple had shown to Apple's board something like the Core series that Otellini displayed to Steve Jobs the idea of dropping Intel CPUs for the OS X devices is insane.
Didn't Intel started to offer foundry services? If Apple makes Intel an offer they can't reject Apple could start to offer their products using chips one process node behind Intel but one process node ahead of their competitors. The increases in battery life and speed could make them like the Microsoft-Intel combo of the 1990's, and still being able to charge a good premium in their products. See thunderbolt for an example of Apple-Intel collaboration.
Because the USA's economy at this time sucks for almost everyone regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation or age and that is a big drawback for any incumbent and his party in any barely functioning democracy. That's why I think republicans had the election in the bag, but by pandering too much to their extreme right wing they ended losing. See
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/11/07/us/politics/obamas-diverse-base-of-support.html?ref=politics
http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/11/poll-latino-vote-devastated-gop-even-worse-than-exits-showed.php?ref=fpa
From the NYT I'm impressed with the strong push toward democrats by young voters in Arizona.
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The problem for Republicans was that they instead of using Clinton's "It's the economy stupid!" to get the election in the bag they conceded all the racial minorities votes to the Democrats, they created a handicap for themselves of 20-30% of the electorate. On top of that, they alienated women, that are the majority of population, regardless of race, they alienated religious moderates that are a majority of Americans and with their hate against gays they alienated not only the LGBT community, but also the young population that have friends in that community. The Republicans played this election to lose.
On the other hand, maybe the strong criticism in a high profile website like Slashdot will hopefully make them improve their behavior. Their design is a bit childish, but some of the ergonomic requirements of a gamer apply for anyone that spends a long time at a desktop PC.
Thank you for a good laugh :). A pathetic attempt at ad hominem from The Examiner.
The problem with Lego an all similar construction toys with small kids is fixed by having a line of toys catering to young kids, with pieces with a size large enough that not even an adult could swallow.
That was last year. Still, I think that what are hurting them the most are the high prices of energy and the strong yen. The yen is around 20% more expensive than 2 years ago. No matter how much they try to restructure they can't offer competitive prices against Korean or Taiwanese offers.
JVC stands for Japan Victor Corporation.
Well, Sharp has a very nice patent portfolio, so that could be valuable to Apple. Sharp used to manufacture very nice phones. On a side note, for what I saw in Japan Apple is seen in the same light that many Japanese corporations, so that wouldn't be really a problem. After all, Sony had a stupid moron of American origin* for too much time at its helm and that almost destroyed their company, too. But, I think that what is causing now more troubles to Japanese corporations are the high prices on energy since they still have most of their nuclear energy power stations stopped and the very strong yen. A strong currency with high energy prices is a combination that would cripple any corporation that depends on exports.
*not to be called an attack on Americans. Stupidity, sadly, is shared among people of all ages and nations.
In my experience, the cabin crew at United/Continental is nice, the counter people at Houston is even nicer, but the sales people, at least here in Mexico, deserve to be sent to the most Taliban infested places of Afghanistan or Pakistan dressed like christian preachers wrapped in the USA's flag, or sent to New York's ground 0 with T-shirts praising Osama bin Laden. What I disliked was that the plane wasn't that clean and the ticket price was 2 times more expensive than the first time I traveled with them that route despite the fact oil was 15% cheaper and USD was only 10% up; but even more disgusting was how they tried to weasel out to not provide service to a friend that cancelled his trip to Japan due the march's 11th 2011 quake and tsunami.
My wife absolutely loves this product. She feels a bit guilty that she didn't bought more for her and our artist friends.
Aside from that, legally accepted euthanasia protects the family and the deceased to make the proper insurance claims. All life insurance policies become void in case of suicide, but in case of legal euthanasia they should apply.
Carlos Slim is the richest man in the world thanks that he bought the state's telephone monopoly business for less than 10% of its real value, and he kept that monopoly for more than 15 years. The key to understand Mexico's history of economic failures in the last 30 years instead of the enormous success of the south koreans that 30 years ago had the same level of development of Mexico is that here our crony capitalists are lazy beyond belief, and the concentration of wealth simply is killing our internal market. Think of us like what will happened to the USA if they never had the Glass-Steingall and antimonopoly laws ever enacted.
On a weird defense of Apple's lawyers, I must say than here in Mexico you can get legally get away with the murder of your own daughter* if you know the right people, so is not a stretch that they expected that the judge would have behaved accordingly to the customs, not the law. My mom's house was legally stolen by an ex-judge, so I know first hand what kind of scumbags are in our judiciary. I would rater deal with the "justice" of the Sinaloa drug cartel than any cop or judge any given day. Our impunity rate nationwide in murder is 99%
Well, the Zen Rinzai was in the old times the Zen school that followed the Japanese Imperial Court, many samurai and the japanese state men, so I'm inclined to believe that they have a more permissive view of war than the other branches. One of the principles of Zen are simplicity, for Zen you can define the whole universe in terms of the shapes of a circle, a square and a triangle, you could say that they had an intuitive grasp of analytical geometry. We can agree or disagree about Jobs personal traits but clearly, in relation to consumer electronics, the simple design of Apple products certainly is loaded with Zen philosophy. I was told about Jobs by the Abbot of the Daisen-in temple in Kyoto last summer, Mr. Sooen Ozeki, and he again talks about Jobs in his last book, quoting Jobs speech at Stanford like an example of Zen thought.
Best Regards
If you had read TFA:
He addressed the World Economic Forum in Davos at the height of the financial crisis in 2009 to tell gathered heads of state and business leaders it was time to give up greed in favor of "enlightened altruism."
His other works include "Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill" and several collections of photographs of the landscape, people and spiritual masters of the Himalayas.
Ricard donates all proceeds of his books to 110 humanitarian projects which have built schools for 21,000 children and provide healthcare for 100,000 patients a year.
I think this guy has done far, far more than his fair share to bring happiness to others, much more than what 99.99 % of the rest of humankind will ever do.
The nice thing about Buddhism is that the most philosophical branches are almost devoid of religious thought but full useful guidelines for life. Amazingly, for example, for applying Zen concepts to popular electronics is that at the Zen Rinzai school Steve Jobs is considered a Zen master.
At least this is not in the level of the fictional world of Sword Arts Online where the player is the one who dies. Still, a serious level of a bug and lack of security in the xBox 360 software.