You know, if it was just a one off that's one thing. But if Apple is *consistently* winning against Samsung across different countries around the world.... they maybe... just MAYBE.... there's more to this than just some box with rounded corners.
Not that I don't agree that it just stifles innovation and competition, I'm just saying that maybe Samsung really did get caught with it's hand in the cookie jar.
I have this vague distant memory of when comics were celebrated for bursting with imagination and exploring all sorts of important social issues (racism, sexism, various other isms). With complex twisting plots
While movies, by their nature, can't get that intricate, studios seem to think that people want nothing more than brainless Bay-esque explosion festivals. Then once in a while they accidentally spit out something like Avengers (Can't comment on batman since I haven't seen it yet) where they have something resembling a plot and depth of characters. Yet can't bring themselves to accept that people are tired of the same old Hollywood cliches and want something genuinely new and interesting. Something that tugs on your emotions and somehow pulls you in so deeply that you actually care about the characters as if they were actual living beings.
Here's a hint hollywood... I saw Avengers SOLELY because it was written and directed by Joss Whedon. It is the first movie I have seen in theatre in years, and it's the first movie I have EVER seen where I can honestly say that I would happily fork over money to watch it in theatre again. Why? Because despite Avengers being another comic regurgitation, he still managed to do the above.
Then you clearly haven't made any effort at looking up Microsoft's history.
The only difference between Microsoft and Apple is that Apple is taking it's battles head on. Microsoft prefered to do things like illegal distribution contracts (eg: if you sell a competitors products, you can't sell ours), subverting standards bodies (eg: the OOXML fiasco), etc.
Unfortunately, since it's not (yet) possible to build such these using robotic labour, that means we're screwed from the start. I agree. The technology is good. Pretty much every single screw-up that has happened has been due to a PEBKAC error.
You know, it would be a lot easier to refute anti nuclear fears as being overly paranoid if we stopped giving them reasons to be just that. The situation would be have been under much better control and (slightly) less of a PR disaster if they would just stop with the lies.
Really? Ok, I'll revise my statement then. Canadian credit cards are all but guaranteed to have the chip. Almost every card I have seen recently uses it.
You haven't seen any credit cards with the little smartcard chip in it? If you've had any cards replaced in the last few years (at least in north america), then it's guaranteed that you'd have a smartcard chip.
With all the news coverage that Facebook has gotten regarding privacy and the lack thereof, only the truly clueless and stupid could possibly think that there's some kind of expectation of privacy while using facebook in any capacity at all.
Hell, even my mother is nervous about using facebook, and if she was any less technically literate than she is already, she wouldn't have a computer at all.
Wow, it seems I struck a nerve with all the Microsoft fanbois. Not only have I been modded troll, but I've got several comments who clearly haven't even bothered to read what I wrote.
FACT A) Microsoft *admits* that the gadget platform is fundamentally flawed. FACT B) Microsoft has provided an optional patch for you to disable it entirely if you don't want it.
One person says that the disabling of the feature is temporary. There is no citation for this, and this is NOT corroborated in the news articles.
What Microsoft has done is, is abandoned a core feature they advertised as part of their OS. You can either disable it entirely, or you can leave it and live with the security risks. They sold us a product that was not fit for purpose, and now they're going nyah nyah.
I'm sorry fanbois, if you can't deal with the truth, that's YOUR problem. Shooting the messenger doesn't change the fact Microsoft dropped the ball so badly they don't even want to pick it back up again.
Instead of fixing or tweaking Gadgets and the sidebar to work better, they just strip it out entirely. They've basically given you the choice between having a useful but flawed system, or nothing at all. I have a couple of extremely useful gadgets installed, and don't want to see them go away. Better yet, I'd like to see something like Apple's Dashboard, which you will sorta get with the new Windows 8 start screen, but it's still annoying.
I didn't realize that Microsoft has been poaching execs from Sony. At least they're not forcing it down people's throats like Sony does with their PS3 firmwares.
Funky, it looks like Moses used the same glyphs as used in the Ultima series. Does this mean he was the original Avatar? Where's Lord British when you need him?
For those of us that actually value our backs and need to haul their computers everywhere they go, that is a MASSIVE difference.
I am not arguing against you regarding price, but I am pointing out that aesthetics such as weight DO have a value. In fact, they have MORE value than the raw specs.
Consider that the average user isn't doing more than web browsing, email, word processing, etc. An i7 and a high end graphics chip is NOT going to help that. Having an OS that lets you doing the tasks you want to do easily, in a form factor that won't make your back sore, is going to have infinitely more value.
Apple understands this. And that is why Apple is flying off the shelves even when everyone else is biting their fingernails to the quick.
I feel I should point out one big difference with Apple support. They actually give it to you on a silver platter.
I spent most of my life thinking the usual negative things about apple (proprietary crap, only stupid people use them, etc). Then I hit a stretch of bad luck and took a job doing Apple technical support because I needed money.
After doing that for about a year and a bit, I'm now an Apple convert. Even after we had to stop taking the mind-control drugs (j/k) I discovered that Apple really puts a lot of pressure on the staff to give customers the best possible experience. I discovered that OS X gives me almost the full commercial power of Windows (being able to use most major applications) while also giving me the flexibility and command line power of linux/unix.
Furthermore, I found that for the most part stuff really does just work. To the point where when something does screw up (because no system is flawless and never will be), I flip out because it's so unexpected. My experience with OS X has been indescribably better than it ever was with Windows. Suspend/Resume is no longer a crap shoot. I feel like the OS is getting out of my way so I can get things done. This requires less training and less maintenance.
So Apple gives you a product that is of overall better quality than most of the crap on the PC market, and offers a top notch support system that feels like it's run by engineers instead of bean counters.
Apple may generally be more expensive than the comparative PC, but only if your own stress levels and piece of mind have no value at all.
What an amazing pile of horseshit. Who created the the DHS in the first place? Bush. Who set the US on this path to begin with? Bush.
The US was on the road to being a fascist country long before Obama, so spare everyone the pathetic "See!? It's all the damn liberals fault!" bullshit. Did you know that by the time Clinton was kicked out, the US was on the verge of becoming financially stable and was gaining respect in the eyes of the rest of the world? Then he got a blowjob from an intern, got fired, and then Bush came in and in one fell swoop he took the first US surplus in years and turned it into the biggest deficit in US history, started several unnecessary wars, and calcified the country into a big mass of xenophobic hysteria.
What bothers me most is that Obama campaigned on the promise of undoing the damage Bush caused but once elected, he decided that he liked having such power and chose to stay the course instead.
Instead of smugly burying yourself in your little mudpool of myopic pseudo-conservative (and I stress pseudo-conservative because there is nothing conservative about it...) nonsense, maybe you should try looking at the reality of it:
The Democrats are not liberal, and haven't been for a long time. The Republicans are not conservative, and haven't been for a long time. Both the Democrats and the Republicans have become (with a few exceptions) become corrupt bastards that are joyously marching the US into a fascist state.
There are really only two options... either turns computers into centrally managed appliances, completely restricting a user's ability to do what they want with them, or set up a computer use licensing system akin to a drivers license, and you need to be able to pass a test for basic competence before being allowed to purchase one.
Well gee... they have better things to do than worry about internet security? Well *I* have better things to do than worry about cleaning up after their incompetence and lack of responsibility.
Being hit by malware sucks. But being hit by malware because you actively refuse to take even basic precautions... well, you deserve anything that happens to you. It's like willingly walking into the middle of a warzone and then complaining because you got shot.
I don't think they even care about martyrdom at this point. To me this all seems like simple revenge. Based on how the US has behaved for the past decade, it seems to me like they've changed from being a superpower to a petulant spoiled child.
Of course, they may always have been this way, it's just now gotten so embarrassingly obvious that it can't be ignored anymore.
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" If Apple was a serious competitor, they would be able to compete on value and price"
You're joking, right?
You know, if it was just a one off that's one thing. But if Apple is *consistently* winning against Samsung across different countries around the world.... they maybe... just MAYBE.... there's more to this than just some box with rounded corners.
Not that I don't agree that it just stifles innovation and competition, I'm just saying that maybe Samsung really did get caught with it's hand in the cookie jar.
I have this vague distant memory of when comics were celebrated for bursting with imagination and exploring all sorts of important social issues (racism, sexism, various other isms). With complex twisting plots
While movies, by their nature, can't get that intricate, studios seem to think that people want nothing more than brainless Bay-esque explosion festivals. Then once in a while they accidentally spit out something like Avengers (Can't comment on batman since I haven't seen it yet) where they have something resembling a plot and depth of characters. Yet can't bring themselves to accept that people are tired of the same old Hollywood cliches and want something genuinely new and interesting. Something that tugs on your emotions and somehow pulls you in so deeply that you actually care about the characters as if they were actual living beings.
Here's a hint hollywood... I saw Avengers SOLELY because it was written and directed by Joss Whedon. It is the first movie I have seen in theatre in years, and it's the first movie I have EVER seen where I can honestly say that I would happily fork over money to watch it in theatre again. Why? Because despite Avengers being another comic regurgitation, he still managed to do the above.
Can we have that back again? Please?
Then you clearly haven't made any effort at looking up Microsoft's history.
The only difference between Microsoft and Apple is that Apple is taking it's battles head on. Microsoft prefered to do things like illegal distribution contracts (eg: if you sell a competitors products, you can't sell ours), subverting standards bodies (eg: the OOXML fiasco), etc.
Unfortunately, since it's not (yet) possible to build such these using robotic labour, that means we're screwed from the start. I agree. The technology is good. Pretty much every single screw-up that has happened has been due to a PEBKAC error.
You know, it would be a lot easier to refute anti nuclear fears as being overly paranoid if we stopped giving them reasons to be just that. The situation would be have been under much better control and (slightly) less of a PR disaster if they would just stop with the lies.
Darn it! Where's the "Whoa... far out dude!" moderation option when you need it?
Considering that this is far from the first blatantly fraudulent transaction that GS has performed, why has the gov't not clamped down hard on them?
Oh wait, NM. Forgot about the campaign contributions.
A pox on those chickens, I say! A pox!
Really? Ok, I'll revise my statement then. Canadian credit cards are all but guaranteed to have the chip. Almost every card I have seen recently uses it.
You haven't seen any credit cards with the little smartcard chip in it? If you've had any cards replaced in the last few years (at least in north america), then it's guaranteed that you'd have a smartcard chip.
With all the news coverage that Facebook has gotten regarding privacy and the lack thereof, only the truly clueless and stupid could possibly think that there's some kind of expectation of privacy while using facebook in any capacity at all.
Hell, even my mother is nervous about using facebook, and if she was any less technically literate than she is already, she wouldn't have a computer at all.
Oh, you mean RIMing?
Wow, it seems I struck a nerve with all the Microsoft fanbois. Not only have I been modded troll, but I've got several comments who clearly haven't even bothered to read what I wrote.
FACT A) Microsoft *admits* that the gadget platform is fundamentally flawed.
FACT B) Microsoft has provided an optional patch for you to disable it entirely if you don't want it.
One person says that the disabling of the feature is temporary. There is no citation for this, and this is NOT corroborated in the news articles.
What Microsoft has done is, is abandoned a core feature they advertised as part of their OS. You can either disable it entirely, or you can leave it and live with the security risks. They sold us a product that was not fit for purpose, and now they're going nyah nyah.
I'm sorry fanbois, if you can't deal with the truth, that's YOUR problem. Shooting the messenger doesn't change the fact Microsoft dropped the ball so badly they don't even want to pick it back up again.
Instead of fixing or tweaking Gadgets and the sidebar to work better, they just strip it out entirely. They've basically given you the choice between having a useful but flawed system, or nothing at all. I have a couple of extremely useful gadgets installed, and don't want to see them go away. Better yet, I'd like to see something like Apple's Dashboard, which you will sorta get with the new Windows 8 start screen, but it's still annoying.
I didn't realize that Microsoft has been poaching execs from Sony. At least they're not forcing it down people's throats like Sony does with their PS3 firmwares.
Funky, it looks like Moses used the same glyphs as used in the Ultima series. Does this mean he was the original Avatar? Where's Lord British when you need him?
For those of us that actually value our backs and need to haul their computers everywhere they go, that is a MASSIVE difference.
I am not arguing against you regarding price, but I am pointing out that aesthetics such as weight DO have a value. In fact, they have MORE value than the raw specs.
Consider that the average user isn't doing more than web browsing, email, word processing, etc. An i7 and a high end graphics chip is NOT going to help that. Having an OS that lets you doing the tasks you want to do easily, in a form factor that won't make your back sore, is going to have infinitely more value.
Apple understands this. And that is why Apple is flying off the shelves even when everyone else is biting their fingernails to the quick.
I feel I should point out one big difference with Apple support. They actually give it to you on a silver platter.
I spent most of my life thinking the usual negative things about apple (proprietary crap, only stupid people use them, etc). Then I hit a stretch of bad luck and took a job doing Apple technical support because I needed money.
After doing that for about a year and a bit, I'm now an Apple convert. Even after we had to stop taking the mind-control drugs (j/k) I discovered that Apple really puts a lot of pressure on the staff to give customers the best possible experience. I discovered that OS X gives me almost the full commercial power of Windows (being able to use most major applications) while also giving me the flexibility and command line power of linux/unix.
Furthermore, I found that for the most part stuff really does just work. To the point where when something does screw up (because no system is flawless and never will be), I flip out because it's so unexpected. My experience with OS X has been indescribably better than it ever was with Windows. Suspend/Resume is no longer a crap shoot. I feel like the OS is getting out of my way so I can get things done. This requires less training and less maintenance.
So Apple gives you a product that is of overall better quality than most of the crap on the PC market, and offers a top notch support system that feels like it's run by engineers instead of bean counters.
Apple may generally be more expensive than the comparative PC, but only if your own stress levels and piece of mind have no value at all.
"As soon as we figure out how to buy it."
He did? I thought he was impeached... Oooooh, my bad. I missed the aquittal. FYI for anyone else reading:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_of_Bill_Clinton
What an amazing pile of horseshit. Who created the the DHS in the first place? Bush. Who set the US on this path to begin with? Bush.
The US was on the road to being a fascist country long before Obama, so spare everyone the pathetic "See!? It's all the damn liberals fault!" bullshit. Did you know that by the time Clinton was kicked out, the US was on the verge of becoming financially stable and was gaining respect in the eyes of the rest of the world? Then he got a blowjob from an intern, got fired, and then Bush came in and in one fell swoop he took the first US surplus in years and turned it into the biggest deficit in US history, started several unnecessary wars, and calcified the country into a big mass of xenophobic hysteria.
What bothers me most is that Obama campaigned on the promise of undoing the damage Bush caused but once elected, he decided that he liked having such power and chose to stay the course instead.
Instead of smugly burying yourself in your little mudpool of myopic pseudo-conservative (and I stress pseudo-conservative because there is nothing conservative about it...) nonsense, maybe you should try looking at the reality of it:
The Democrats are not liberal, and haven't been for a long time.
The Republicans are not conservative, and haven't been for a long time.
Both the Democrats and the Republicans have become (with a few exceptions) become corrupt bastards that are joyously marching the US into a fascist state.
There are really only two options... either turns computers into centrally managed appliances, completely restricting a user's ability to do what they want with them, or set up a computer use licensing system akin to a drivers license, and you need to be able to pass a test for basic competence before being allowed to purchase one.
Well gee... they have better things to do than worry about internet security? Well *I* have better things to do than worry about cleaning up after their incompetence and lack of responsibility.
Being hit by malware sucks. But being hit by malware because you actively refuse to take even basic precautions... well, you deserve anything that happens to you. It's like willingly walking into the middle of a warzone and then complaining because you got shot.
Until the following two lines have the same meaning, grammar will be important:
"I helped my Uncle Jack off a horse"
"I helped my Uncle jack off a horse"
I don't think they even care about martyrdom at this point. To me this all seems like simple revenge. Based on how the US has behaved for the past decade, it seems to me like they've changed from being a superpower to a petulant spoiled child.
Of course, they may always have been this way, it's just now gotten so embarrassingly obvious that it can't be ignored anymore.