"Why do developers put up with this kind of draconian control by a third party over their own apps?"
Because iFart apps make people millionaires. Because some teenager can whip up a limited app that looks cool and fills a very specific niche and generate hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The is an absolute shitload of money to be made with apps on the iphone and shitloads of people are making that money.
1. Projected deaths were artificially inflated to justify the use of nukes. 2. Racist Americans assumed Japanese soldiers to be fanatical killing machines. 3. US and Japan already were prepared to sign a capitulation treaty that was an equivalent of one that ended up being signed after the bombing. 4. US already had a very successful firebombing campaign targeted at civilian population.
And last but not least:
5. US military is widely celebrated as a bunch of extraordinary cowards who go to war only after being convinced that they will kill their enemies without endangering themselves. Said bunch of cowards always acts surprised and terrified when their invincible warriors end up dead or captured, and proclaims that it only happens because their enemies are immoral war criminals.
1) Yeah, a house to house fight inflated "projected" deaths. 2) Oh, I think kamikaze pilots did a better job. 3) Then why didn't they sign it before the first nuke? Or just after the first nuke? 4) And they still didn't surrender. 5) "go to war only after being convinced that they will kill their enemies without endangering themselves." YOU GOD DAMN RIGHT MORON. You ever been in combat? I didn't think so. I have and trust me, the LAST FUCKING THING you want when fighting for your life is a fair fight. You life has obviously never been in danger.
"It's not hard to see parallels in the CIA and US military's use of interrogation techniques in Bush's War on Terror, the effects of labeling one race as "the enemy", the crack down on free speech, or the use of suicide bombers in Iraq."
It's hard not to see them when the show is written that way.
Interesting wording... you're still here, but who exactly are you 'defending' us FROM?
Communism? Soviet Union for 50 years and then Russia? China?
Believe me, few things would make me happier than pulling our troops out of Europe and Asia, but it will never happen. Nor, no matter what percentage of their populace says, do their governments want us to.
If you pull out your military now, we promise we won't start any more wars, and we're quite sure we'll be fine without you here 'defending' us.
Not worried about you starting wars. Worried about you being steamrolled like Georgia.
Honestly, if the US pulled out of Europe and Asia, how long do you think South Korea, Ukraine, Poland, Georgia, Taiwan, UAE, and another dozen European counties would stay sovereign?
Apparently you have forgotten NATO as well.
Don't get me wrong, most countries are pretty thankful for some of the things the US has done in the past (e.g. the Berlin airlift that you mentioned), but it's a bit much to expect eternal and undying gratitude for just those few events
First of all, I don't want, nor am I the person to accept your "undying gratitude" for those few events like saving and returning your country. No idea how we got on this point, but my point was that we are still in Germany, South Korea, Japan after those wars and those countries are prospering specifically because of what we did after the wars that we didn't start.
, especially since the "rebuilding" you did was mostly because you bombed the cities to oblivion first (think of it this way: if yo hadn't bombed it, you wouldn't have had to pay to fix it...)
Well, someone had to stop that nasty Jew killing habit of Germany.
If you think that America didn't stop the spread of Communism throughout Europe and Asia, except GB (maybe), then you are fooling yourself.
Under Bush we all got "Stimulus checks" redistribution of wealth
Oh, and President Bush sent checks to taxpayers where Obama's plan is to send checks to everyone. Since almost 50% of the people receiving the checks DON'T pay Federal income tax, it would be welfare.
Under Bush we all got "Stimulus checks" redistribution of wealth, we "nationalized banks", we "nationalized insurance companies", we "nationalized brokerage houses", and we gave trillions in welfare to Iraq...
Stimulus checks that weren't from a tax hike and from a President that specifically didn't say that he wanted to spread the wealth.
"Nationalized banks" that have SEVERE penalties for the banks if they don't pay back the loan within a few years.
"Nationalized insurance companies" unfortunately, yes. But that had to be done.
"trillions in welfare to iraq" Uh, no. Billions to Iraq sure. But you realize that were are in a war right? You do understand that we still are defending Japan and Germany right? You understand we paid for the Berlin airlift right? You understand we rebuilt the entire Axis' economy after we defeated them, right? Or would you have preferred we had let them fail?
Oh, and don't forget that Obama threatened to bankrupt our nation's most plentiful supply of power; coal.
Apple knows they can't win this, but they have to establish a track record.
IIRC, the classic example is that you own a lot of land. Your neighbor parks his dump truck on a part of your land that you don't use and you don't see. After several years, you want to develop that land. Since you allowed his to park there for years he can argue that he has your permission.
Check your math on a Terrabyte being 1,000 Megabytes.
Also, check your math on the 100 hard drives as well. Add in the infrastructure for those hard drives, spares for RAID arrays, the network infrastructure to handle that data across all of the computers, and the computer hardware to be able to handle that much data for editing. After all, I doubt they are just copying files across a USB cable.
Slashdot Mirror
"Now we can have cards with OLED displays that can show a message delived by you in person, via a video! Quite cool, I think."
Message inside card "I was going to buy you a present as well, but I couldn't afford it after this card."
as possible.
Come on now. Isn't there a single person developing for linux with any taste or style?
I know I'll get modded down for this comment, but aesthetics do matter and linux looks like it was designed for engineers by engineers.
Whatever RAM that was on the pad would be soldered.
"Why do developers put up with this kind of draconian control by a third party over their own apps?"
Because iFart apps make people millionaires. Because some teenager can whip up a limited app that looks cool and fills a very specific niche and generate hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The is an absolute shitload of money to be made with apps on the iphone and shitloads of people are making that money.
steer my eyes straight to their racks.
"Software evolves faster and cheaper than hardware."
Here's what really happened:
Nope.
Here is what really happened:
Microsoft called Netflix and said "We'll pay you a ton of cash if you use our software"
I want to apologize for calling you "moron."
1. Projected deaths were artificially inflated to justify the use of nukes.
2. Racist Americans assumed Japanese soldiers to be fanatical killing machines.
3. US and Japan already were prepared to sign a capitulation treaty that was an equivalent of one that ended up being signed after the bombing.
4. US already had a very successful firebombing campaign targeted at civilian population.
And last but not least:
5. US military is widely celebrated as a bunch of extraordinary cowards who go to war only after being convinced that they will kill their enemies without endangering themselves. Said bunch of cowards always acts surprised and terrified when their invincible warriors end up dead or captured, and proclaims that it only happens because their enemies are immoral war criminals.
1) Yeah, a house to house fight inflated "projected" deaths.
2) Oh, I think kamikaze pilots did a better job.
3) Then why didn't they sign it before the first nuke? Or just after the first nuke?
4) And they still didn't surrender.
5) "go to war only after being convinced that they will kill their enemies without endangering themselves." YOU GOD DAMN RIGHT MORON. You ever been in combat? I didn't think so. I have and trust me, the LAST FUCKING THING you want when fighting for your life is a fair fight. You life has obviously never been in danger.
Al Jazeera is a normal, reputable news source
Yeah, you lost all credibility there.
Sure, if you're a soldier fighting in a standard 'symmetric' war.
Nope. Any any war, asymmetrical or not, the objective is to kill them and inflict social pain until they decide to stop.
"who says sci-fi is too preachy?
Oh, and Muslim isn't a race, fucktard."
Where are my +1 mod points when I need them?
"It's not hard to see parallels in the CIA and US military's use of interrogation techniques in Bush's War on Terror, the effects of labeling one race as "the enemy", the crack down on free speech, or the use of suicide bombers in Iraq."
It's hard not to see them when the show is written that way.
Interesting wording... you're still here, but who exactly are you 'defending' us FROM?
Communism? Soviet Union for 50 years and then Russia? China?
Believe me, few things would make me happier than pulling our troops out of Europe and Asia, but it will never happen. Nor, no matter what percentage of their populace says, do their governments want us to.
If you pull out your military now, we promise we won't start any more wars, and we're quite sure we'll be fine without you here 'defending' us.
Not worried about you starting wars. Worried about you being steamrolled like Georgia.
Honestly, if the US pulled out of Europe and Asia, how long do you think South Korea, Ukraine, Poland, Georgia, Taiwan, UAE, and another dozen European counties would stay sovereign?
Apparently you have forgotten NATO as well.
Don't get me wrong, most countries are pretty thankful for some of the things the US has done in the past (e.g. the Berlin airlift that you mentioned), but it's a bit much to expect eternal and undying gratitude for just those few events
First of all, I don't want, nor am I the person to accept your "undying gratitude" for those few events like saving and returning your country. No idea how we got on this point, but my point was that we are still in Germany, South Korea, Japan after those wars and those countries are prospering specifically because of what we did after the wars that we didn't start.
, especially since the "rebuilding" you did was mostly because you bombed the cities to oblivion first (think of it this way: if yo hadn't bombed it, you wouldn't have had to pay to fix it...)
Well, someone had to stop that nasty Jew killing habit of Germany.
If you think that America didn't stop the spread of Communism throughout Europe and Asia, except GB (maybe), then you are fooling yourself.
BTW, they started it.
Under Bush we all got "Stimulus checks" redistribution of wealth
Oh, and President Bush sent checks to taxpayers where Obama's plan is to send checks to everyone. Since almost 50% of the people receiving the checks DON'T pay Federal income tax, it would be welfare.
Under Bush we all got "Stimulus checks" redistribution of wealth, we "nationalized banks", we "nationalized insurance companies", we "nationalized brokerage houses", and we gave trillions in welfare to Iraq...
Stimulus checks that weren't from a tax hike and from a President that specifically didn't say that he wanted to spread the wealth.
"Nationalized banks" that have SEVERE penalties for the banks if they don't pay back the loan within a few years.
"Nationalized insurance companies" unfortunately, yes. But that had to be done.
"trillions in welfare to iraq" Uh, no. Billions to Iraq sure. But you realize that were are in a war right? You do understand that we still are defending Japan and Germany right? You understand we paid for the Berlin airlift right? You understand we rebuilt the entire Axis' economy after we defeated them, right? Or would you have preferred we had let them fail?
Oh, and don't forget that Obama threatened to bankrupt our nation's most plentiful supply of power; coal.
And if I have to crack a game to play it, I won't buy it. Treat me like a criminal, fine, I'll be one. Pirate bay it is...
So if someone sitting in a car sees you walking along the street and locks their door, does that mean you'll carjack them?
The people making that "head on" commercials are in deep trouble with this, though.
But you remembered the "head on" ad so it worked. :)
"To get the chips, a pair of nikes must be bought"
Actually, the sensor and plug can be purchased for $30. Or if you have a new iPod touch, you can just buy the sensor for $20.
Apple knows they can't win this, but they have to establish a track record.
IIRC, the classic example is that you own a lot of land. Your neighbor parks his dump truck on a part of your land that you don't use and you don't see. After several years, you want to develop that land. Since you allowed his to park there for years he can argue that he has your permission.
And if he's that broke, how the hell does afford a lawyer.
Lawyer takes a slice of the proceeds and nothing if he loses.
was trying to hold onto a man?
I'm just guessing here.
Check your math on a Terrabyte being 1,000 Megabytes.
Also, check your math on the 100 hard drives as well. Add in the infrastructure for those hard drives, spares for RAID arrays, the network infrastructure to handle that data across all of the computers, and the computer hardware to be able to handle that much data for editing. After all, I doubt they are just copying files across a USB cable.
returning false positives and thinking "WTF? He's back?"
Wu-Tang!
It still obstructs my view of Venus!
Yeah, but you can still see Uranus.
Funny every time.