Also on Slashdot if a computer costs $2000 or more, it's a big heavy-ass, power-guzzling, heat-spewing gaming rig that can run Crysis maxed out, with an unfit neckbearded geek sitting in front of it, not some artsy hipster's overpriced notebook.
Maybe they can sell some vinyl records and wacky old clothes in there too, and it will form a hipster singularity that will destroy any more hipsters who walk in!
Loyalty and image are Apple's Bread n' Butter. Even back in the '80s they advertised their products with celebrity endorsements rather than on technical merit. Today it's "if you don't have an iPhone...well, you don't have an iPhone! *smugface*" (cleverly satirized here)
The Japanese sure do like schoolgirls! I don't know if Swedish girls sleep with anyone, but I would advise against having sex with Swedish women, could land you in a lot of legal trouble...
The Apple fetishists are more than happy to see the reveal in slo-mo.
To me, Apple product announcements are like Hollywood movie trailers: There's no need to seek them out, they'll be shoved down your throat even if you try to avoid them.
I wasn't talking about the last time specifically, I meant in general, why GM gets bailed out when they're building a labor-intensive product in the country with the most expensive labor.
This is true. Facebook tracks you all over the place with their Like buttons and does who-knows-what with the data. They'll even get a little info on you if you have their scripts blocked, the tracking can work on a basic level using pure HTML.
The claim that they don't track users runs on CNN where all the Facebook users see it while the patent news runs on Slashdot, where the security experts who are already seen by their friends and family as tinfoil hatters see it. It's not illogical. It's a calculated lie.
The fact that Verizon's unhappy with the very weak net neutrality legislation that has loopholes big enough to drive an aircraft carrier through sideways tells me Verizon has some SERIOUSLY evil plans in store...
Handles like a pig compared to what? Supercars that cost more than twice as much?
And yeah it costs 3 times as much as an Elise because it's electric. That means it never needs gas, requires little to no engine maintenance and accelerates like a sportbike. Can't afford it? Don't buy it. Need to drive insane distances? Don't buy it.
It's like you're butthurt by the very fact that the car exists.
Corner like a pig? Even on the "eco tires" it will out-corner 99% of the cars out there. It's still just an Elise that weighs a little more than an S2000.
The big shiny $30k SUVs always yield to my little Suzuki Samurai. Exposed steel bars have that effect. Sure, run into me, you'll have to give up this year's vacation plans, and I'll just have to stop at the hardware store on the way home.
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If it tastes bad you're probably holding it wrong.
Also on Slashdot if a computer costs $2000 or more, it's a big heavy-ass, power-guzzling, heat-spewing gaming rig that can run Crysis maxed out, with an unfit neckbearded geek sitting in front of it, not some artsy hipster's overpriced notebook.
Maybe they can sell some vinyl records and wacky old clothes in there too, and it will form a hipster singularity that will destroy any more hipsters who walk in!
I hope the EPA will regulate the levels of smug inside those cafes.
Loyalty and image are Apple's Bread n' Butter. Even back in the '80s they advertised their products with celebrity endorsements rather than on technical merit. Today it's "if you don't have an iPhone...well, you don't have an iPhone! *smugface*" (cleverly satirized here)
That's technically impossible unless the Chinese government is blanketing large areas with GPS jammers.
Also it's impossible to detect the use of GPS. It's just a passive receiver like an FM radio.
What happened to South Korea being high-tech? I thought only their grandparents would be using CDMA by now.
The Japanese sure do like schoolgirls! I don't know if Swedish girls sleep with anyone, but I would advise against having sex with Swedish women, could land you in a lot of legal trouble...
The Apple fetishists are more than happy to see the reveal in slo-mo.
To me, Apple product announcements are like Hollywood movie trailers: There's no need to seek them out, they'll be shoved down your throat even if you try to avoid them.
At this time I cannot find one reference on this page to the Monty Python dead parrot skit. This is an outrage!
I wasn't talking about the last time specifically, I meant in general, why GM gets bailed out when they're building a labor-intensive product in the country with the most expensive labor.
Isn't that why GM was bailed out, to keep the industrial capacity in the US?
This is true. Facebook tracks you all over the place with their Like buttons and does who-knows-what with the data. They'll even get a little info on you if you have their scripts blocked, the tracking can work on a basic level using pure HTML.
That's the exact logic used by Apple fanboys to defend Apple's patents on using phones as audio bugs and remote-disabling cameras.
Sure, just like Apple's spying tech, they just patented it so the bad guys wouldn't be able to use it, see? ^_^
The claim that they don't track users runs on CNN where all the Facebook users see it while the patent news runs on Slashdot, where the security experts who are already seen by their friends and family as tinfoil hatters see it. It's not illogical. It's a calculated lie.
I'll put your book on my reading queue and buy the finished one if I like the first 3 chapters.
The fact that Verizon's unhappy with the very weak net neutrality legislation that has loopholes big enough to drive an aircraft carrier through sideways tells me Verizon has some SERIOUSLY evil plans in store...
Handles like a pig compared to what? Supercars that cost more than twice as much?
And yeah it costs 3 times as much as an Elise because it's electric. That means it never needs gas, requires little to no engine maintenance and accelerates like a sportbike. Can't afford it? Don't buy it. Need to drive insane distances? Don't buy it.
It's like you're butthurt by the very fact that the car exists.
The Formula One race cars (which trade some safety of street legal cars for extra speed)
They trade no safety. F1 cars are the world's safest cars. They trade affordability - ALL of it.
Corner like a pig? Even on the "eco tires" it will out-corner 99% of the cars out there. It's still just an Elise that weighs a little more than an S2000.
LOL mod parent Funny XD
What? None of that happened, they just faked the battery running flat.
Goddammit I just cleaned this laptop and now it's covered in spit!
The big shiny $30k SUVs always yield to my little Suzuki Samurai. Exposed steel bars have that effect. Sure, run into me, you'll have to give up this year's vacation plans, and I'll just have to stop at the hardware store on the way home.