Perhaps Apple's problem lies with all the possible legal entanglements of selling porn in $DEITY knows how many jurisdictions and that they've figured that the profits from peddling porn are less than what they'd lose from people who don't want to shop in "that kind of store".
For all the whining about porn how much of yours do you pay for? How many people would pay for quality porn apps? How many picture-collection apps would be clogging up the App Store (do you recall when it was flooded by picture-collection apps that were cranked out at assembly line quantities and quality)?
A long time ago when getting prepared for hiking at Philmont someone told me "By the end of the day an ounce will feel like a pound."
At first, we laughed at the nuts who cut the handles down on their toothbrushes. After a week we wished we had done so as well.
A a few pounds difference may not be noticeable during your basement to kitchen table commute but for others ounces can make it more comfortable to carry.
How does Apple prevent you from getting it from the Google App store? I know people that own both Apple and Droid products and they aren't blocked from the Google app store just because they have an Apple device.
Might doesn't make right but it does make the rules.
Under a zero tolerance system even the target, who is out Gandhi-ing Gandhi in being absolutely passive, gets the book thrown at him.
If the bully is smart and or popular they'll have enough clout to avoid repercussions.
Star athlete picking on someone again? Well, we need to win that game so we'll look the other way, yet again. Now that little nerd who kept throwing himself into the jock's fists on the other hand...
Wasn't it started by using OtherOS to crack the system to which Sony then responded by removing it in an unforced update (if you didn't update you kept your precious OtherOS)?
To a certain extent, I support physical violence in schools. Without the pressure relief valves of fist fight levels of violence (thank you zero tolerance) it seems "worth it" to jump up to more injurious or lethal means for the bullied kid since they're going to get expelled if they punch or shoot the shoot the bully.
Also, bullies aren't as dumb as we like to think and as the aggressor they get to pick the circumstances so it's likely the bully can get off 'on a technicality' while their target ends up getting expelled.
Yes, kids should get punished for fighting in school, but there needs to be a continuum of punishment commensurate with the severity of the fight and not the binary system of zero tolerance. Then kids might figure out that violence may be a temporary solution but mutual toleration of people who don't like each other is the better long term solution.
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Is a good fertilizer. Don't mix it up with the good for nothing GPL.
Forget 90%. They have 100% market share on Apple HDD based portable music players!
Why narrow it down to HDD based portable music players? Why not include flash based ones? Or what that make your percentage less dramatic?
<Rabble>How dare Apple maintain a monopoly on Apple products that are entirely Apple hardware and Apple software!</Rabble>
I'd say that if Apple didn't exist /. would invent it just so that they could gripe about it.
Ahh "For FREEDOMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!! We must force retailer X to sell product Y!" I never thought it'd get old, but it is.
Perhaps Apple's problem lies with all the possible legal entanglements of selling porn in $DEITY knows how many jurisdictions and that they've figured that the profits from peddling porn are less than what they'd lose from people who don't want to shop in "that kind of store".
For all the whining about porn how much of yours do you pay for? How many people would pay for quality porn apps? How many picture-collection apps would be clogging up the App Store (do you recall when it was flooded by picture-collection apps that were cranked out at assembly line quantities and quality)?
A long time ago when getting prepared for hiking at Philmont someone told me "By the end of the day an ounce will feel like a pound."
At first, we laughed at the nuts who cut the handles down on their toothbrushes. After a week we wished we had done so as well.
A a few pounds difference may not be noticeable during your basement to kitchen table commute but for others ounces can make it more comfortable to carry.
How does Apple prevent you from getting it from the Google App store? I know people that own both Apple and Droid products and they aren't blocked from the Google app store just because they have an Apple device.
Isn't that elsewhere called "Android"?
Isn't deciding what to sell (and what not to sell) something that every retailer does on a daily basis?
Should every store that does not sell everything be expecting a law suit?
Sorry, but sympathy for those unable to wear body armor capable of stopping a .50 BMG AP round is not forthcoming.
At least you didn't mention there being more than one Highlander movie.
Actually I think congress would be smart enough now to see the merits of making Texas somebody else's problem.
That would explain God fearin' law abidin' Texas.
Might doesn't make right but it does make the rules.
Under a zero tolerance system even the target, who is out Gandhi-ing Gandhi in being absolutely passive, gets the book thrown at him.
If the bully is smart and or popular they'll have enough clout to avoid repercussions.
Star athlete picking on someone again? Well, we need to win that game so we'll look the other way, yet again. Now that little nerd who kept throwing himself into the jock's fists on the other hand...
"I'm normally against piracy, but Sony started this war."
All signs point to "Arrrrr".
Of course he'll stop buying games, he's hoisted the Jolly Roger matey. He's got his "justification" now, the modern Letters of Marque.
Wasn't it started by using OtherOS to crack the system to which Sony then responded by removing it in an unforced update (if you didn't update you kept your precious OtherOS)?
We're all kung-fu masters here.
To a certain extent, I support physical violence in schools. Without the pressure relief valves of fist fight levels of violence (thank you zero tolerance) it seems "worth it" to jump up to more injurious or lethal means for the bullied kid since they're going to get expelled if they punch or shoot the shoot the bully.
Also, bullies aren't as dumb as we like to think and as the aggressor they get to pick the circumstances so it's likely the bully can get off 'on a technicality' while their target ends up getting expelled.
Yes, kids should get punished for fighting in school, but there needs to be a continuum of punishment commensurate with the severity of the fight and not the binary system of zero tolerance. Then kids might figure out that violence may be a temporary solution but mutual toleration of people who don't like each other is the better long term solution.
"It's down to the parents."
There's as many parents as there are dodo birds. We have DNA donors now.
"foolishly impractical ... ideas."
This *is* /., where foolishly impractical will be on the desktop next year, for sure, this time.
And a pool is just a stupidly oversized bathtub. No difference in use cases.
Droidbois must be really compensating since they're the ones that go out of their way to show how superior Android is.
That's the beauty of Russia's style: take their gold, hire all the security you want, but one morning you'll find they Po'd in your cornflakes.
I would guess Russia has many ways of making it worthwhile to not release it. Probably very elemental ways, Au or Po.
If this is all WL had on BoA I can see why they didn't want to reveal it, the hype they built up was worth more to them than what was in the leak.
Coming soon, find out what color the sky is and what fire is like (and something sinister about water)!