"The problems with Africa can't be solved with donations. They can only be solved with armed revolutions."
The question is, once you do that, how are you going to solve the armed revolutions.
In general there is no business reason for Apple to support any format, operating system, or standard which is *below* them in market share, since admitting that any technology which is not the incumbent in a space exists is tantamount to admitting that that technology has merit, and hence implying that Apple's products are not the only technology on the market with real merit, which is overwhelmingly Apple's marketing message. Therefore:
* Apple's consumer marketing materials don't even admit the existence of any other OS than OS X or Windows.
* Apple doesn't support any codecs (or containers - take that, semantic nazis!) which aren't Apple-designed or have 90% market share.
* The iPod does not work with anything other than iTunes. iTunes does not work with anything other than the iPod. But iTunes rips CDs, since everyone has CDs. If everyone had a (non-locked-down) iRiver, iTunes would sync with the iRiver... and on the other hand:
* TextEdit supports OpenDocument (which is at least an admission of the fact that the format is stronger than iWork)
* Unlike the consumer marketing materials, marketing copy for Apple's servers keeps mentioning integration with Linux, superiority to Linux, food fights gotten into with Linux..
Apparently backspace-happy users get lots of spurious words added to their user dictionary which can't be removed without erasing the entire dictionary.
You can see this in the Ars Technica review where they're typing away and the iPhone suggests "ARs" as a correction for "are" for some weird reason.
The end result is that it's quite easy to fear the autocorrection instead of trust it. (Oh shit, I have to watch how I use the keyboard, or I'll screw up my user dictionary!)
Actually, it's because Quebec places onerous restrictions on any sort of contests within its borders: lots of ugly paperwork (such as filing ALL ADVERTISEMENTS 30 days in advance with the government), and a tax measuring TEN PERCENT of the value of the prize. So no one ever goes to the trouble except Quebec lotto companies.
All of this is designed to protect the residents from fraudulent sweepstakes, but ends up protecting them from sweepstakes of any sort.
Just google "Quebec sweepstakes" to find out.
Morons trusting the legendary untrustworthiness of Babelfish for official work spark minor diplomatic row, try to blame the entire thing on the computer.
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It is going to be converted into an easily hackable form. There are literally dozens of various ideas over how to modify the source floating around the mailing lists already, and most of them involve allowing the user to actually look at the underlying game mechanics.
Apple should buy Adobe, Adobe should buy Apple, Apple should liquidate itself, Dell should buy Apple, Time Warner should buy the whole thing and market it under the AOL brand..
Large companies don't just go around buying each other whenever it seems like a good idea.
Remember how the 37signals guy said that "you're not on a fucking plane, and if you are it doesn't fucking matter", take some fucking time off from work? Then he went on to say, as usual, that web apps would take over the world?
Well, he's fucking wrong.
There's already a myriad of KGB lurkers on forums where the Russian intelligentsia tends to congregate, spreading FUD about emigration. Stuff like:
* People who emigrated from Russia are idiots/unpatriotic/actually want to go back.
* It's awesome in Russia compared to America. America sucks. Why do you not go back, dude? (Perhaps it does, but Russia sucks even more.)
I'm guessing it has some effectiveness in getting people to reconsider emigrating, since they're bothering with it.
I can just picture Dan, in his set of Care Bear PJs, up at night with his warm fuzzy Linux laptop, using it to write furious diatribes about the freetards as Fake Steve.
They could coat it with the same material as the glass coating on the labels of my stack of CD-Rs, which (ironically) resist any attempt to label them with any writing implement known to man.
It's not my fucking blog entry! It's some other guy's! Yes he is sort of a genius! No he is not me! In fact, he probably makes ten times as much as I do!
Seriously, why would you assume that a link to some guy's blog entry is self-promotion?
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They'd probably forgotten completely that they had an Idea Pool when they decided to make the Brainstorm.
Far too often, companies consider business ethics to == "not doing things that will get the company into trouble."
"MIGHT I INSTRUCT YOU TO INTEREST ME IN YOUR WARES? SOMETHING INNOVATIVE, PERHAPS? HOW ABOUT A FUDGEPOP UP THE NOSE? HOW INNOVATIVE!!"
"Actually, I serve traditional ice cream here. You know - in a dish or on a cone or whatever..."
"NOW JUST HOW IS THAT INNOVATIVE? Hmmm?"
"The problems with Africa can't be solved with donations. They can only be solved with armed revolutions."
The question is, once you do that, how are you going to solve the armed revolutions.
Next you'll be telling me it's going to come bundled with Duke Nukem Forever. Wait..
In general there is no business reason for Apple to support any format, operating system, or standard which is *below* them in market share, since admitting that any technology which is not the incumbent in a space exists is tantamount to admitting that that technology has merit, and hence implying that Apple's products are not the only technology on the market with real merit, which is overwhelmingly Apple's marketing message. Therefore: * Apple's consumer marketing materials don't even admit the existence of any other OS than OS X or Windows. * Apple doesn't support any codecs (or containers - take that, semantic nazis!) which aren't Apple-designed or have 90% market share. * The iPod does not work with anything other than iTunes. iTunes does not work with anything other than the iPod. But iTunes rips CDs, since everyone has CDs. If everyone had a (non-locked-down) iRiver, iTunes would sync with the iRiver. .. and on the other hand:
* TextEdit supports OpenDocument (which is at least an admission of the fact that the format is stronger than iWork)
* Unlike the consumer marketing materials, marketing copy for Apple's servers keeps mentioning integration with Linux, superiority to Linux, food fights gotten into with Linux..
*cough*
Guess whose music the college kids are going to start pirating just because?
Apparently backspace-happy users get lots of spurious words added to their user dictionary which can't be removed without erasing the entire dictionary. You can see this in the Ars Technica review where they're typing away and the iPhone suggests "ARs" as a correction for "are" for some weird reason. The end result is that it's quite easy to fear the autocorrection instead of trust it. (Oh shit, I have to watch how I use the keyboard, or I'll screw up my user dictionary!)
Actually, it's because Quebec places onerous restrictions on any sort of contests within its borders: lots of ugly paperwork (such as filing ALL ADVERTISEMENTS 30 days in advance with the government), and a tax measuring TEN PERCENT of the value of the prize. So no one ever goes to the trouble except Quebec lotto companies. All of this is designed to protect the residents from fraudulent sweepstakes, but ends up protecting them from sweepstakes of any sort. Just google "Quebec sweepstakes" to find out.
Morons trusting the legendary untrustworthiness of Babelfish for official work spark minor diplomatic row, try to blame the entire thing on the computer.
It is going to be converted into an easily hackable form. There are literally dozens of various ideas over how to modify the source floating around the mailing lists already, and most of them involve allowing the user to actually look at the underlying game mechanics.
The funny thing is that Apple's statistics will lump you in the "unlocker" category.
It wouldn't make sense even if you *were* an MBA. Unless you were an MBA working for the cell phone company.
It will run around like crazy for two months and then its neck will suddenly snap, requiring a fiddly operation to get it running again.
Apple should buy Adobe, Adobe should buy Apple, Apple should liquidate itself, Dell should buy Apple, Time Warner should buy the whole thing and market it under the AOL brand.. Large companies don't just go around buying each other whenever it seems like a good idea.
Remember how the 37signals guy said that "you're not on a fucking plane, and if you are it doesn't fucking matter", take some fucking time off from work? Then he went on to say, as usual, that web apps would take over the world? Well, he's fucking wrong.
Not until laptops come with a vinyl drive.
600 MHz, fits in your pocket? That's a handheld supercomputer.
There's already a myriad of KGB lurkers on forums where the Russian intelligentsia tends to congregate, spreading FUD about emigration. Stuff like: * People who emigrated from Russia are idiots/unpatriotic/actually want to go back. * It's awesome in Russia compared to America. America sucks. Why do you not go back, dude? (Perhaps it does, but Russia sucks even more.) I'm guessing it has some effectiveness in getting people to reconsider emigrating, since they're bothering with it.
I can just picture Dan, in his set of Care Bear PJs, up at night with his warm fuzzy Linux laptop, using it to write furious diatribes about the freetards as Fake Steve.
Nuke yourself from orbit, then any further activity on your accounts can be positively identified as the workings of an identity thief.
They could coat it with the same material as the glass coating on the labels of my stack of CD-Rs, which (ironically) resist any attempt to label them with any writing implement known to man.
It's not my fucking blog entry! It's some other guy's! Yes he is sort of a genius! No he is not me! In fact, he probably makes ten times as much as I do! Seriously, why would you assume that a link to some guy's blog entry is self-promotion?