I can find cheaper alternatives for hosting, bandwidth, and payment processing just fine. FastSpring takes something like 6%, and hosting is a few hundred a year.
What I can't buy (at least not inexpensively) is putting apps in front of a Mac audience so they even know they exist. Despite having everything in place to sell apps for a smaller cut, I'm pretty sure I'll still use the Apple store in addition to existing infrastructure.
So take it up with The Open Group, lay off the ad hominem attacks on those that reply, and possibly save yourself the down-modding.
So far all you've effectively said is "no, it's not!" with "dumbass" tacked on to the end. At least the "rubes" have a certification group to back them up.
FTC should be involved whenever (paying) consumers are being held back by artificial means.
I think you misunderstand what purpose the FTC serves.
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It's why auto mechanics drop $40k on a Snap-on/Mac setup.
And it's why I'm happy to spend the money on Macs today. If a stint as a pro auto mechanic taught me anything, it's not to go cheap on your tools. Yeah, Craftsman may have the same lifetime warranty as Snap-On, may still turn a 10mm bolt, but when you're using that wrench a dozen or more times a day Snap-On doesn't look so expensive. There are differences that don't show up on a spec sheet.
I've since given up turning wrenches for a living and make my living with computers as my primary tool. I can save some pennies and get a laptop that I'll use because I have to, or spend more and get a Macbook Pro that is the first laptop that I actually enjoy using. Same with my 27" i7 iMac. I like good tools. Whipping out spec sheets and telling me how you could build "the same thing" for less isn't going to sell me. Because in the end, what you're really saying is, "I want what's cheapest". That's fine if I'm buying a set of coffee mugs. Not so fine when we're talking about what I use to make my living.
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How about Apple filing suit against Psystar for creating Mac compatibles? Apple might as well sue Dell and Intel for making Mac Compatibles.
That might be, except for the fact that "creating Mac compatibles" wasn't Apple's complaint with Psystar.
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I think you need to go back and look up what "monopoly" means. Sure, it's a cool word to throw around on/. because it triggers responses (hell, I'm responding), and might even get you modded up. But words have meanings, and there's a _Princess Bride_ quote I'm holding back on.
Besides, it wasn't that long ago that running Windows on a Mac wasn't even a consideration, hacks or not. So one does not need imagine at all.
Oddly enough, yes, I did. But only because I look up the TLD when I see those funky domain names. I remember a time when one couldn't use a country-specific TLD unless the site was actually being run from that country, so I'm curious when I see them. del.icio.us, of course, is perfectly fine as it's a US site. But I did wonder about bit.ly when I first saw it. I seriously doubted that they were running a site out of Libya, so won't they eventually run into trouble? "Hmm, guess not", after they'd been running for a while.
All I'm proposing is that if a country has a useful tld (and ly is useful as an English suffix), and shows itself to be intolerant of worldwide usage of that domain, then take it away.
Three wolves and a sheep voted and have decided it's mutton for dinner, have they? For starters, Libya doesn't have to tolerate worldwide usage of that domain. It's for sites based in Libya. That's what country-specific TLDs are for. When I surf to britishshoes.co.uk, I expect that the online shopkeeper is in somewhere in the UK, not in his Mom's basement in Omaha. I think you miss the key point, and that being the purpose of country-specific TLDs. They're not just so you can come up with clever spellings.
Metaphorically, you are talking about taking their land. You advocate changing the treaty so that it works in your favor. I don't know whether to make a comparison of US treatment of American Indians, or to go with abuse of eminent domain.
"About a week after I met him, we were talking, and I made some kind of Jon Stewart/Stephen Colbert reference," Gerela said. "He asked me what I was talking about, and when I told him it was from a TV show, he just went off, saying how the last show he watched was some episode of Cheers,..."
I don't have cable or satellite either, but I know perfectly well who these two men are. It has nothing to do with having cable, I suspect is has everything to do with "look at me, I'm above popular culture".
Ping certainly seems as if it had to hit a deadline. First off, how the heck to turn it on? Had I not known to go looking for it, it might have been a while before I even noticed it. No, it's not in the help file. You can imagine how far "man ping" got me.
"We suggest you follow...Lady Gaga"?! WTF, Apple? I've got Genius turned on, do I really strike you as a Lady Gaga kind of guy? From the looks of it, though, they're just spitting out the few early artists that are on Ping.
I'll go look for people to follow. You know, like Last.fm where I can find those with similar tastes. Nope, if that functionality is there I've yet to find it. After 30 minutes of poking around, I couldn't find anyone to follow just because, well, there doesn't seem to be a way except typing random names.
In the end, playing around with it got me not very much further than when I started. I'm sure it will evolve into something useful in the future, but for now reaching any kind of useful mass may be chicken-and-egg.
Granted, iTunes runs better on my Macs than similarly spec'ed Windows machines. But it's an absolute pig on the entertainment center Mac Mini. 512MB, 2.0Ghz Core2Duo, mid-2009. I know, I know, a stick of RAM would do wonders for poor thing, but every other entertainment-oriented app runs okay.
That, and it's still not exactly blazing on the 2009 Core2Duo Macbook. Zippy on the i7 iMac, though.
It certainly speaks to./'s need for "edit post" capabilities if you truly know the difference. But no, I'll pass on reading the rest of the thread to see how you spin your way out of it. Because the real "butt hurt" lies with the one that can't abide someone using a different platform. People like Apple's stuff, and apparently think it does what they need, don't let it ruin your day.
but apparently people think that my own personal opinion is wrong since they keep bothering my inbox with slashdot replies.
When you start out with statements based in ignorance, willful or otherwise ("no-flash at all"), and then try a bait-and-switch when you're called on it ("were we talking about Macs? No, no, iPhones"), expect a few replies in your inbox.
Wish I still had that mod point that expired yesterday so I could counteract the idiot that modded this "troll". I neither agree nor disagree, but this hardly qualifies as trolling.
Maybe my sarcasm detector needs calibration, but with a million kitten videos on YouTube, are we supposed to care how much bandwidth this guy consumes? On an individual level, it could be set up to be similar to running a torrent client.
A visitor from the US, who is the target audience for the rally? No, you should know from about ten years old: on one end of the mall. From the middle, or either end, one should be able to figure it out. I did the first time I visited.
On the outside chance you're not just being a smartass (and fair enough even if you are): http://www.apple.com/accessibility/iphone/vision.html "You can activate your iPhone and enable VoiceOver without sighted assistance using iTunes with a compatible screen reader like VoiceOver included in Mac OS X..."
Mac OS has 10% of the market for reasons that have little to do with high-end gaming. It's anecdotal, but when I dropped over two grand on an i7 iMac, I wasn't buying it to play games (though I have run through Portal and some of HL2 on it). I knew the graphics card was weak, but web browsers don't care, and neither does a development environment. Nor does your average Farmville player, I'll venture to say. Want to play Crysis? Yeah, don't buy a Mac.
And Flash? You're seriously raising that issue? Flash sucks on any platform you choose, it just sucks less on Windows. Hardly a checkbox on a self-respecting geek's purchase feature list, I hope.
Who the hell modded this insightful? If there's a laptop using i7-860 CPUs (just using the example of what's in my own machine), I've not seen them. I don't think the Intel 5 series chipset goes in laptops, either. But, yeah, the ATI 4850 in the late '09 iMacs is the mobile version.
Kind of curious why this got modded Troll myself, as it's certainly close, if not right on the mark. Why would a recorded music association throw child porn into the argument? Because fewer folks give two shits (or never cared in the first place) about the poor, defenseless RIAA but certainly wouldn't want to be caught defending child porn.
Well, what can be done, and what the practical implementation turns out to be are often two different things. Probation officers typically have way too many cases, so I'm guessing they stay on top of the hard ones, and candy thieves are under a less intense spotlight.
One person I know of who got popped for a license that was suspended several years earlier had to make one visit to an officer, and called in once a month after, never speaking face-to-face with a court officer after the initial visit. Otherwise upstanding, business owner, had nothing else on the record since the suspension, they probably didn't feel the need for the extra hassle.
A few others I've known who were convicted of more serious crimes said it would almost be easier to do the time since it's a lot harder to screw up that way. In summary, it would appear that probation is something of a sliding scale.
There's also always the threat hanging over your head that if you get arrested again, you go back and finish your sentence. So there's some built-in incentive to stay out of trouble.
...but a violation of your probationary agreement for drinking at all? Seems like thats crossing the line in to what you can do behind your own closed doors.
Probation does not mean that you get to do whatever you want behind closed doors. In fact, as far as the system is concerned, you don't have closed doors (a probation officer can visit any time they like, and come in for a look around). During one's probation, one is still under the supervision of the system, and they dictate whatever they like. Don't like it? Do the time.
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I can find cheaper alternatives for hosting, bandwidth, and payment processing just fine. FastSpring takes something like 6%, and hosting is a few hundred a year.
What I can't buy (at least not inexpensively) is putting apps in front of a Mac audience so they even know they exist. Despite having everything in place to sell apps for a smaller cut, I'm pretty sure I'll still use the Apple store in addition to existing infrastructure.
Sure sucks to be Bodega, though.
So take it up with The Open Group, lay off the ad hominem attacks on those that reply, and possibly save yourself the down-modding.
So far all you've effectively said is "no, it's not!" with "dumbass" tacked on to the end. At least the "rubes" have a certification group to back them up.
FTC should be involved whenever (paying) consumers are being held back by artificial means.
I think you misunderstand what purpose the FTC serves.
It's why auto mechanics drop $40k on a Snap-on/Mac setup.
And it's why I'm happy to spend the money on Macs today. If a stint as a pro auto mechanic taught me anything, it's not to go cheap on your tools. Yeah, Craftsman may have the same lifetime warranty as Snap-On, may still turn a 10mm bolt, but when you're using that wrench a dozen or more times a day Snap-On doesn't look so expensive. There are differences that don't show up on a spec sheet.
I've since given up turning wrenches for a living and make my living with computers as my primary tool. I can save some pennies and get a laptop that I'll use because I have to, or spend more and get a Macbook Pro that is the first laptop that I actually enjoy using. Same with my 27" i7 iMac. I like good tools. Whipping out spec sheets and telling me how you could build "the same thing" for less isn't going to sell me. Because in the end, what you're really saying is, "I want what's cheapest". That's fine if I'm buying a set of coffee mugs. Not so fine when we're talking about what I use to make my living.
How about Apple filing suit against Psystar for creating Mac compatibles? Apple might as well sue Dell and Intel for making Mac Compatibles.
That might be, except for the fact that "creating Mac compatibles" wasn't Apple's complaint with Psystar.
I think you need to go back and look up what "monopoly" means. Sure, it's a cool word to throw around on /. because it triggers responses (hell, I'm responding), and might even get you modded up. But words have meanings, and there's a _Princess Bride_ quote I'm holding back on.
Besides, it wasn't that long ago that running Windows on a Mac wasn't even a consideration, hacks or not. So one does not need imagine at all.
Did anybody know Libya owned .ly before this?
Oddly enough, yes, I did. But only because I look up the TLD when I see those funky domain names. I remember a time when one couldn't use a country-specific TLD unless the site was actually being run from that country, so I'm curious when I see them. del.icio.us, of course, is perfectly fine as it's a US site. But I did wonder about bit.ly when I first saw it. I seriously doubted that they were running a site out of Libya, so won't they eventually run into trouble? "Hmm, guess not", after they'd been running for a while.
All I'm proposing is that if a country has a useful tld (and ly is useful as an English suffix), and shows itself to be intolerant of worldwide usage of that domain, then take it away.
Three wolves and a sheep voted and have decided it's mutton for dinner, have they? For starters, Libya doesn't have to tolerate worldwide usage of that domain. It's for sites based in Libya. That's what country-specific TLDs are for. When I surf to britishshoes.co.uk, I expect that the online shopkeeper is in somewhere in the UK, not in his Mom's basement in Omaha. I think you miss the key point, and that being the purpose of country-specific TLDs. They're not just so you can come up with clever spellings.
Metaphorically, you are talking about taking their land. You advocate changing the treaty so that it works in your favor. I don't know whether to make a comparison of US treatment of American Indians, or to go with abuse of eminent domain.
Oh, I think I've read about you: http://www.theonion.com/articles/area-man-constantly-mentioning-he-doesnt-own-a-tel,429/
"About a week after I met him, we were talking, and I made some kind of Jon Stewart/Stephen Colbert reference," Gerela said. "He asked me what I was talking about, and when I told him it was from a TV show, he just went off, saying how the last show he watched was some episode of Cheers,..."
I don't have cable or satellite either, but I know perfectly well who these two men are. It has nothing to do with having cable, I suspect is has everything to do with "look at me, I'm above popular culture".
Ping certainly seems as if it had to hit a deadline. First off, how the heck to turn it on? Had I not known to go looking for it, it might have been a while before I even noticed it. No, it's not in the help file. You can imagine how far "man ping" got me.
"We suggest you follow...Lady Gaga"?! WTF, Apple? I've got Genius turned on, do I really strike you as a Lady Gaga kind of guy? From the looks of it, though, they're just spitting out the few early artists that are on Ping.
I'll go look for people to follow. You know, like Last.fm where I can find those with similar tastes. Nope, if that functionality is there I've yet to find it. After 30 minutes of poking around, I couldn't find anyone to follow just because, well, there doesn't seem to be a way except typing random names.
In the end, playing around with it got me not very much further than when I started. I'm sure it will evolve into something useful in the future, but for now reaching any kind of useful mass may be chicken-and-egg.
Granted, iTunes runs better on my Macs than similarly spec'ed Windows machines. But it's an absolute pig on the entertainment center Mac Mini. 512MB, 2.0Ghz Core2Duo, mid-2009. I know, I know, a stick of RAM would do wonders for poor thing, but every other entertainment-oriented app runs okay.
That, and it's still not exactly blazing on the 2009 Core2Duo Macbook. Zippy on the i7 iMac, though.
It certainly speaks to ./'s need for "edit post" capabilities if you truly know the difference. But no, I'll pass on reading the rest of the thread to see how you spin your way out of it. Because the real "butt hurt" lies with the one that can't abide someone using a different platform. People like Apple's stuff, and apparently think it does what they need, don't let it ruin your day.
but apparently people think that my own personal opinion is wrong since they keep bothering my inbox with slashdot replies.
When you start out with statements based in ignorance, willful or otherwise ("no-flash at all"), and then try a bait-and-switch when you're called on it ("were we talking about Macs? No, no, iPhones"), expect a few replies in your inbox.
But you weren't talking about iOS devices, were you? Or can you not tell the difference between a mobile device and a computer running a desktop OS?
As for Flash itself on iOS devices, I truly don't care.
Wish I still had that mod point that expired yesterday so I could counteract the idiot that modded this "troll". I neither agree nor disagree, but this hardly qualifies as trolling.
Maybe my sarcasm detector needs calibration, but with a million kitten videos on YouTube, are we supposed to care how much bandwidth this guy consumes? On an individual level, it could be set up to be similar to running a torrent client.
A visitor from the US, who is the target audience for the rally? No, you should know from about ten years old: on one end of the mall. From the middle, or either end, one should be able to figure it out. I did the first time I visited.
You're just calling it in, aren't you? BT Braille devices will connect to an iPhone.
On the outside chance you're not just being a smartass (and fair enough even if you are): http://www.apple.com/accessibility/iphone/vision.html ..."
"You can activate your iPhone and enable VoiceOver without sighted assistance using iTunes with a compatible screen reader like VoiceOver included in Mac OS X
General rules applied to specific examples? Nice try. Go turn on VoiceOver and get back to us about how much Apple dislikes blind people.
Mac OS has 10% of the market for reasons that have little to do with high-end gaming. It's anecdotal, but when I dropped over two grand on an i7 iMac, I wasn't buying it to play games (though I have run through Portal and some of HL2 on it). I knew the graphics card was weak, but web browsers don't care, and neither does a development environment. Nor does your average Farmville player, I'll venture to say. Want to play Crysis? Yeah, don't buy a Mac.
And Flash? You're seriously raising that issue? Flash sucks on any platform you choose, it just sucks less on Windows. Hardly a checkbox on a self-respecting geek's purchase feature list, I hope.
Who the hell modded this insightful? If there's a laptop using i7-860 CPUs (just using the example of what's in my own machine), I've not seen them. I don't think the Intel 5 series chipset goes in laptops, either. But, yeah, the ATI 4850 in the late '09 iMacs is the mobile version.
Kind of curious why this got modded Troll myself, as it's certainly close, if not right on the mark. Why would a recorded music association throw child porn into the argument? Because fewer folks give two shits (or never cared in the first place) about the poor, defenseless RIAA but certainly wouldn't want to be caught defending child porn.
Well, what can be done, and what the practical implementation turns out to be are often two different things. Probation officers typically have way too many cases, so I'm guessing they stay on top of the hard ones, and candy thieves are under a less intense spotlight.
One person I know of who got popped for a license that was suspended several years earlier had to make one visit to an officer, and called in once a month after, never speaking face-to-face with a court officer after the initial visit. Otherwise upstanding, business owner, had nothing else on the record since the suspension, they probably didn't feel the need for the extra hassle.
A few others I've known who were convicted of more serious crimes said it would almost be easier to do the time since it's a lot harder to screw up that way. In summary, it would appear that probation is something of a sliding scale.
There's also always the threat hanging over your head that if you get arrested again, you go back and finish your sentence. So there's some built-in incentive to stay out of trouble.
...but a violation of your probationary agreement for drinking at all? Seems like thats crossing the line in to what you can do behind your own closed doors.
Probation does not mean that you get to do whatever you want behind closed doors. In fact, as far as the system is concerned, you don't have closed doors (a probation officer can visit any time they like, and come in for a look around). During one's probation, one is still under the supervision of the system, and they dictate whatever they like. Don't like it? Do the time.