Those same sweatshops make almost every electronic device you use. They make your garbage disposal, your TV, the gizmos in you car, your clothes, light bulbs, etc, etc. Singling out Apple for being a public company that uses "sweatshops" is a non starter as an argument.
Problem for who? I'm not trolling, but seriously ask yourself what exactly is the problem? Is it a problem for people are for the most part completely computer illiterate and just want to get a few games on their device? I don't think so. I've watched my mom and my stepfather try to figure out how to set up their iPhone and iPod with iTunes and it was a challenge for them. iTunes may be bloated and slow, but one thing it is is easy. There is no way they would be able to manage with an Android device. The iPhone app store is locked down. If that is a problem for you, then don't use it. I can assure you that it's not a problem for a large number of people.
Based on a cursory look at some of the software I use that is in the App Store, it's still available on the publisher's sites for sale as well. The bigger issue is how long developers want to create code that runs on 10.5 and lower. Not much longer I think, but I don't think the App Store has a whole lot to do with that.
That argument doesn't hold up. I haven't purchased software on physical media for Mac, Windows or Linux for many years before the App Store was rivulet of thought in Steve Job's head.
This is actually one of the things I really like about Apple. They regularly prune they dead wood from the eco system and force users to upgrade to use the new stuff, rather than trying to support features on 5 year old OSes and new OS at the same time, which generally leads to lowest common denominator support. I have found in general that changes Apple has made, PPC to Intel, removing PPC support from the OS (SL) has made the eco system better. If they still had support in the OS for PPC, and they made the new applications work on 10.4, etc, then the overall expedience would suffer. Want to use the App Store? Upgrade. Running on a 5 year old PPC based mac and like it? No one says you have to upgrade it, but the new stuff isn't going to work. Simple.
This all makes sense now. This is the real reason California, and likely other states will criminalize using bogus demographic information in your profile. If you do so you are depriving Goldman Sachs of their rightful revenue from selling your personal info, therefore you have defrauded or harmed the corporation. I mean, it's not like Goldman Sachs owns any congress critters or would ever contribute to completely fucking up an economy only to have the government write them a big check for their efforts.
Ballmer has a hard-on for Apple and Google. Instead of focusing on their core business which is providing servers and office automation to businesses they are chasing Apple and google with WP7, chasing the iPad, the iPod, Google search, and the Sony playstation. Arguably they've been successful at the latter, the others not at all.
Look at WP7 vs Windows Mobile 6.5. WM6x is in dire need of an overhaul. WP7 cannot replace it in a business environment at this point. We use windows mobile powered devices for out warehouse management apps. The replacement for ActiveSync, Windows Mobile Device Center, is worse than AcviecSync (if you can believe that) and is more consumer focused than business focused. WP7 is not designed for business apps - there is a huge opportunity for Google to invade the embedded business app space.
Ballmer needs to cease his juvenile, masturbation fantasies of crushing Jobs and Schmidt and get back to focusing on their core business.
They only do that for businesses, and only if your company has a support contract. They are not sending some one to Average Joe's house to fix the Studio laptop that he didn't purchase a service contract on.
Not only would it undo brand damage, but actually improve it.
Apple would demonstrate to be on their customers' side for once.
While I'm sure you can cherry pick stories about how Apple has fucked some customers (all based on the customer's point of view, because Apple doesn't discuss such things publicly) I can provide personal evidence to the contrary, such as when they replaced my bluetooth earpiece no questions asked without a receipt.
Apple has independently measured customer satisfaction ratings that generally greatly exceeds their competition. Simply repeating the slashdot mantra of apple sucks doesn't make it so.
I'd have to agree, and as it turns out Southwest is one of the few profitable airlines. When I have to fly I try Southwest first, then Jet Blue. If I can get their on either of those I drive or I don't go. Actually these days with all the shit going on at the airport if it's too far to drive I don't go.
Is Facebook harmed or defrauded if I put bogus info in my profile to avoid having my personal info sucked into a vast online repository? Since corporations are basically people under current law, if I violate a site's TOS to protect my privacy one can logically draw a line to the ultimate absurd extreme of the corporation claiming harm. Of course I haven't read the law but this is California we're talking about where good intentions rarely interface with logic.
Would publish their full name, real address, data of birth, etc on a social media site, but on some sites that info is mandatory. I wonder how much the law was influenced by companies that collect user info as part of their business? Accurate info is, I would assume, more valuable than the crap I put in my profiles...
I bought one to replace my wife's, guess what? shitty Dell laptop that kept bluescreening even after repeated clean installs of windows. I plugged the mini in back in September installed some software and turned it on. In 3 months I've rebooted it one time, and that's because I had to because of a weird microsoft office install problem. Expensive? yes. Reliable as hell and trouble free. yes. Worth the extra couple hundred bucks. Also, it runs very cool even with the internal power supply. We're going to replace it with an iMac at come point and I'm going to swap out the HD with a SSD and plug it into the TV. In my personal experience the only hardware as or more reliable than the Macs I've had are the IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad and comparable desktop machines. Reliable is not a word I'd use to describe Dells overall. I have had numerous dells over the years, and I currently have 4 in my possession. The 2 laptops are highly unreliable, but the 2 older desktops seem to be solid. I just purchased a poweredge server that I had to RMA because it had some weird problem where the network card would disconnect from the network randomly. It did this under both Windows 2008 R2 and RedHat...
Well, I just watched Tron Legacy in 3D last night, and I was aggressively underwhelmed by the effect, and distracted by the distortion caused by the glasses. Just because it's 60 years old doesn't mean it's mature. 3D is still IMNSHO a novelty. It has potential, but is a long way off from what I've seen personally. I have zero interest in wearing special glasses to watch movies in my home regardless of how much marketing Sony, Samsung, etc. shove my way.
It can be used as persuasive authority in other courts; the fact that the 7th circuit made this holding strengthens similar arguments elsewhere. And not sure what you mean by DoJ.
The DoJ under any administration seems to want to do what the administration wants it to do regardless of law.
I've got an iPhone and a Mac, and not one byte of my data is stored anywhere near Google's or Apple's servers. I see no indications that I will be forced to store my data on Apple's servers anytime in the future. I'm sure I will be able to, but I'm currently confident that I will have the choice. On the other hand the copy of MS Office I just installed REQUIRED me to register the software on line with Microsoft...
My immediate suggestion would be to put down the kool-aid
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Those same sweatshops make almost every electronic device you use. They make your garbage disposal, your TV, the gizmos in you car, your clothes, light bulbs, etc, etc. Singling out Apple for being a public company that uses "sweatshops" is a non starter as an argument.
Problem for who? I'm not trolling, but seriously ask yourself what exactly is the problem? Is it a problem for people are for the most part completely computer illiterate and just want to get a few games on their device? I don't think so. I've watched my mom and my stepfather try to figure out how to set up their iPhone and iPod with iTunes and it was a challenge for them. iTunes may be bloated and slow, but one thing it is is easy. There is no way they would be able to manage with an Android device. The iPhone app store is locked down. If that is a problem for you, then don't use it. I can assure you that it's not a problem for a large number of people.
Most "American cheese" isn't really, legally speaking, cheese.
I say this as an American that loves cheese
I wonder if there is a market for selling 4-digit UIDs?
I propose raising .887 trillion dollars and giving it to corrupt business people.
Based on a cursory look at some of the software I use that is in the App Store, it's still available on the publisher's sites for sale as well. The bigger issue is how long developers want to create code that runs on 10.5 and lower. Not much longer I think, but I don't think the App Store has a whole lot to do with that.
That argument doesn't hold up. I haven't purchased software on physical media for Mac, Windows or Linux for many years before the App Store was rivulet of thought in Steve Job's head.
This is actually one of the things I really like about Apple. They regularly prune they dead wood from the eco system and force users to upgrade to use the new stuff, rather than trying to support features on 5 year old OSes and new OS at the same time, which generally leads to lowest common denominator support. I have found in general that changes Apple has made, PPC to Intel, removing PPC support from the OS (SL) has made the eco system better. If they still had support in the OS for PPC, and they made the new applications work on 10.4, etc, then the overall expedience would suffer. Want to use the App Store? Upgrade. Running on a 5 year old PPC based mac and like it? No one says you have to upgrade it, but the new stuff isn't going to work. Simple.
Of course they're not perfect, thus Quicktime.
just remember that even though they'll likely lose a bit on each transaction, they'll make it up on volume!
This all makes sense now. This is the real reason California, and likely other states will criminalize using bogus demographic information in your profile. If you do so you are depriving Goldman Sachs of their rightful revenue from selling your personal info, therefore you have defrauded or harmed the corporation. I mean, it's not like Goldman Sachs owns any congress critters or would ever contribute to completely fucking up an economy only to have the government write them a big check for their efforts.
or 1,000 logic blocks? Are they equivalent? Aren't FPGAs common and generally contain multiple logic blocks?
Ballmer has a hard-on for Apple and Google. Instead of focusing on their core business which is providing servers and office automation to businesses they are chasing Apple and google with WP7, chasing the iPad, the iPod, Google search, and the Sony playstation. Arguably they've been successful at the latter, the others not at all.
Look at WP7 vs Windows Mobile 6.5. WM6x is in dire need of an overhaul. WP7 cannot replace it in a business environment at this point. We use windows mobile powered devices for out warehouse management apps. The replacement for ActiveSync, Windows Mobile Device Center, is worse than AcviecSync (if you can believe that) and is more consumer focused than business focused. WP7 is not designed for business apps - there is a huge opportunity for Google to invade the embedded business app space.
Ballmer needs to cease his juvenile, masturbation fantasies of crushing Jobs and Schmidt and get back to focusing on their core business.
They only do that for businesses, and only if your company has a support contract. They are not sending some one to Average Joe's house to fix the Studio laptop that he didn't purchase a service contract on.
Not only would it undo brand damage, but actually improve it. Apple would demonstrate to be on their customers' side for once.
While I'm sure you can cherry pick stories about how Apple has fucked some customers (all based on the customer's point of view, because Apple doesn't discuss such things publicly) I can provide personal evidence to the contrary, such as when they replaced my bluetooth earpiece no questions asked without a receipt.
Apple has independently measured customer satisfaction ratings that generally greatly exceeds their competition. Simply repeating the slashdot mantra of apple sucks doesn't make it so.
I just get up and go anyway - I've never had an attendant say anything to me heading to the head when the fasten seatbelt light is on.
I'd have to agree, and as it turns out Southwest is one of the few profitable airlines. When I have to fly I try Southwest first, then Jet Blue. If I can get their on either of those I drive or I don't go. Actually these days with all the shit going on at the airport if it's too far to drive I don't go.
Is Facebook harmed or defrauded if I put bogus info in my profile to avoid having my personal info sucked into a vast online repository? Since corporations are basically people under current law, if I violate a site's TOS to protect my privacy one can logically draw a line to the ultimate absurd extreme of the corporation claiming harm. Of course I haven't read the law but this is California we're talking about where good intentions rarely interface with logic.
Would publish their full name, real address, data of birth, etc on a social media site, but on some sites that info is mandatory. I wonder how much the law was influenced by companies that collect user info as part of their business? Accurate info is, I would assume, more valuable than the crap I put in my profiles...
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I bought one to replace my wife's, guess what? shitty Dell laptop that kept bluescreening even after repeated clean installs of windows. I plugged the mini in back in September installed some software and turned it on. In 3 months I've rebooted it one time, and that's because I had to because of a weird microsoft office install problem. Expensive? yes. Reliable as hell and trouble free. yes. Worth the extra couple hundred bucks. Also, it runs very cool even with the internal power supply. We're going to replace it with an iMac at come point and I'm going to swap out the HD with a SSD and plug it into the TV. In my personal experience the only hardware as or more reliable than the Macs I've had are the IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad and comparable desktop machines. Reliable is not a word I'd use to describe Dells overall. I have had numerous dells over the years, and I currently have 4 in my possession. The 2 laptops are highly unreliable, but the 2 older desktops seem to be solid. I just purchased a poweredge server that I had to RMA because it had some weird problem where the network card would disconnect from the network randomly. It did this under both Windows 2008 R2 and RedHat...
Well, I just watched Tron Legacy in 3D last night, and I was aggressively underwhelmed by the effect, and distracted by the distortion caused by the glasses. Just because it's 60 years old doesn't mean it's mature. 3D is still IMNSHO a novelty. It has potential, but is a long way off from what I've seen personally. I have zero interest in wearing special glasses to watch movies in my home regardless of how much marketing Sony, Samsung, etc. shove my way.
Well, I don't know about the 150MPH, but a place to put my shotgun and a 6-pack is a must.
It can be used as persuasive authority in other courts; the fact that the 7th circuit made this holding strengthens similar arguments elsewhere. And not sure what you mean by DoJ.
The DoJ under any administration seems to want to do what the administration wants it to do regardless of law.
Only one giving you a choice
Wild speculation on your part
I've got an iPhone and a Mac, and not one byte of my data is stored anywhere near Google's or Apple's servers. I see no indications that I will be forced to store my data on Apple's servers anytime in the future. I'm sure I will be able to, but I'm currently confident that I will have the choice. On the other hand the copy of MS Office I just installed REQUIRED me to register the software on line with Microsoft...
My immediate suggestion would be to put down the kool-aid
Engadget points out that the power connecters have different numbers of pins. I'd post a link if the fucked up javascript on this site would let me...