There are very few modern single "men of vision" and Steve Jobs is particularly underwhelming; Apple has a great knack for marketing and jumping in when the technology is just right. Look at the sciences, for instance, there are no contemporary Einsteins or da Vincis. There's too much complexity which is why everything is done in teams, from scientific endeavors to video games. Steve Jobs is largely a figure head.
A lot of Apple's so-called genius is really just obvious stuff limited by technological and physiological constraints; swipe-to-unlock isn't genius, it's the simplest motion to intentionally unlock a device a human can do without any additional technology or parts. In an alternate universe without Apple products we'd still be swiping to unlock, just like we'd still be performing wiping motions on our asses after defecation to clean them even if the first person to do that was never born.
Strange comment since even the newest version of iOS was largely an attempt to play catch-up with Android, since Android has more features to begin with.
Apple devices are largely for those that don't want to or need to do as much as more "nerdier" solutions, similar in a way that a Fischer-Price toy is more appropriate for a toddler than a real cell phone.
It's a nice-looking yacht, to say the least, but it just doesn't offer the kind of functionality you'd expect in a full-fledged modern yacht, especially one for the yachting enthusiast. Really, it's like a large-scale Fischer-Price yacht, to tell the truth.
Wow, that is one wild way to skew the facts, do you think anyone is going to forget how China economy is pretty different than the Wests to begin with?
>The problem though, is Mitt Romney's "good-ole American capitalism" is part of why so many people are out of work right now. Bain Capital's entire business is buying up businesses, dismantling them, and selling them for parts to pay off debts incurred in said purchases. How is this good for the USA?
Sooooo... what explains the worse unemployment rates in much further-left Europe?
Oh please, I know what this legislation is. Just because you put the enforcement on the supplier side and not the consumer side doesn't change much functionally speaking. It's still controlling the population with your own fantasies. You want me to claim that outlawing abortions or restricting what abortion clinics can do isn't limiting women's health choices? I won't, but your line of argument would lead there.
I'm not conservative... But I have to say, I recall a LOT of liberals flaming conservatives for implying that laws such as these would ever be passed in health care related arguments... Looks like the right was on the money about that for once.
So I'm guessing you think every anti-religion atheist also thinks building churches should be illegal? That's the same line of logic your assuming there. I'm not a libertarian but I'm amazed at how intellectually dishonest people are in politics, and people gang up on libertarians in particular because I think libertarians just make them really, really angry--the permissiveness of libertarians combined with the lack of economic control liberals want seems to inflame everybody.
Progressive out of one side of their mouth: "Let's get money out of politics!" Out of the other: "Donation amount shows how much people are serious about you want want you elected!"
Corporations respond to people and their wallets--why do you people always try to portray corporations as a Sidley Whiplash figure and not an organization composed of real people that responds to the needs or desires of real people? Because it's not simple enough?
And what a quagmire to prove someone really is dead. Small startups would have a bitch of a time with that. Thanks, crusading do-gooders, for fighting for the dignity of people that no longer even exist!
The left needs to focus on issues instead of this ridiculous nonsense that masquerades as a problem or issue we need to deal with. It's not, it's all just riding on irrational sentiment.
I know all that. My very point was that it doesn't matter if Obama was a constitutional scholar--that doesn't mean it didn't come from the president directly. Why do you think I'm questioning this fact? You might as well say an ethics professor of philosophy can't or won't do unethical things.
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But still, PC gaming is dying. I know this because I have a game coming out on the XBox360 that I'd like you to buy.
There are very few modern single "men of vision" and Steve Jobs is particularly underwhelming; Apple has a great knack for marketing and jumping in when the technology is just right. Look at the sciences, for instance, there are no contemporary Einsteins or da Vincis. There's too much complexity which is why everything is done in teams, from scientific endeavors to video games. Steve Jobs is largely a figure head.
A lot of Apple's so-called genius is really just obvious stuff limited by technological and physiological constraints; swipe-to-unlock isn't genius, it's the simplest motion to intentionally unlock a device a human can do without any additional technology or parts. In an alternate universe without Apple products we'd still be swiping to unlock, just like we'd still be performing wiping motions on our asses after defecation to clean them even if the first person to do that was never born.
Ahem? http://www.reddit.com/r/apple/search?q=wishlist&restrict_sr=on&sort=relevance&t=all
Strange comment since even the newest version of iOS was largely an attempt to play catch-up with Android, since Android has more features to begin with.
Apple devices are largely for those that don't want to or need to do as much as more "nerdier" solutions, similar in a way that a Fischer-Price toy is more appropriate for a toddler than a real cell phone.
Hahahahaha, I like you.
It's a nice-looking yacht, to say the least, but it just doesn't offer the kind of functionality you'd expect in a full-fledged modern yacht, especially one for the yachting enthusiast. Really, it's like a large-scale Fischer-Price yacht, to tell the truth.
Curiously enough, I doubt anyone else today did either! Thank you for bringing this highly salient point to our attention!
Wow, that is one wild way to skew the facts, do you think anyone is going to forget how China economy is pretty different than the Wests to begin with?
>The problem though, is Mitt Romney's "good-ole American capitalism" is part of why so many people are out of work right now. Bain Capital's entire business is buying up businesses, dismantling them, and selling them for parts to pay off debts incurred in said purchases. How is this good for the USA?
Sooooo... what explains the worse unemployment rates in much further-left Europe?
It's clear he was speaking in general terms and you actually bolster his argument by pointing out that not one, but several, appear there.
Seriously, can you believe the shit progressives come up with? I bet he really believes what he said about taxi cabs over Manhattan.
Oh please, I know what this legislation is. Just because you put the enforcement on the supplier side and not the consumer side doesn't change much functionally speaking. It's still controlling the population with your own fantasies. You want me to claim that outlawing abortions or restricting what abortion clinics can do isn't limiting women's health choices? I won't, but your line of argument would lead there.
Yet its the left here on slashdot defending it...
Wouldn't that be even more of a reason to ban those activities then?
Yes, banning certain sizes of soft drinks is just like your mommy taking care of you when you have a boo boo.
Politicians do it better than anyone--let's ban them. And cosmetics, too.
I don't stand a snowballs chance? I cut soda out of my diet completely. Hmm.
Hahaha, I'm scared of the fact that you think anything about this is reasonable. I'm guessing you're not "pro-choice?"
I'm not conservative... But I have to say, I recall a LOT of liberals flaming conservatives for implying that laws such as these would ever be passed in health care related arguments... Looks like the right was on the money about that for once.
So I'm guessing you think every anti-religion atheist also thinks building churches should be illegal? That's the same line of logic your assuming there. I'm not a libertarian but I'm amazed at how intellectually dishonest people are in politics, and people gang up on libertarians in particular because I think libertarians just make them really, really angry--the permissiveness of libertarians combined with the lack of economic control liberals want seems to inflame everybody.
Progressive out of one side of their mouth:
"Let's get money out of politics!"
Out of the other:
"Donation amount shows how much people are serious about you want want you elected!"
Man, wait until you see the socialists, or even just mere progressives.
I'm not a libertarian, and I'm wondering who voted up this bullshit flamebait comment.
I'm ethnically Polish and the Polish American Congress doesn't speak for me. What good Polish jokes do you know?
Corporations respond to people and their wallets--why do you people always try to portray corporations as a Sidley Whiplash figure and not an organization composed of real people that responds to the needs or desires of real people? Because it's not simple enough?
And what a quagmire to prove someone really is dead. Small startups would have a bitch of a time with that. Thanks, crusading do-gooders, for fighting for the dignity of people that no longer even exist!
The left needs to focus on issues instead of this ridiculous nonsense that masquerades as a problem or issue we need to deal with. It's not, it's all just riding on irrational sentiment.
I know all that. My very point was that it doesn't matter if Obama was a constitutional scholar--that doesn't mean it didn't come from the president directly. Why do you think I'm questioning this fact? You might as well say an ethics professor of philosophy can't or won't do unethical things.