I admit I came to this video with the same reservations but there was some stuff in there that got me exited: sharing tabs with other users by drag-n-drop, even better: doing the same with other devices and multiple simultaneous profiles, which for some reason they buried somewhere in the middle.
So why does linux have several desktop environments, some spartan and some very configurable ? Do some of those groups need their geek licenses revoked too ? Better not tell the people who prefer Fluxbox over KDE.
I'll laugh my ass off, though, if the iPhone comes to Verizon and it drops calls constantly. If it doesn't, I'll be pissed that, for some reason, every other phone manufacturer can handle weaker coverage but Apple can't.
FWIW I live in europe and have an iPhone which I've used on several networks (and countries) and it performs the same or better as the other phones I've had (last phone was a SE-550.) YMMV, sample size of one and all that.
I remember the good old days when Android fans made fun of the iPhone because some people did a jailbreak to install software, now those same people have to jailbreak their phones to be able to uninstall some software. Oh the irony.
>>>When the idiots don't realize the Communists fought against the Nazis.
There's no stronger fight than brother against brother. They were originally partners (prior to 1920s) and only split later on
Not true. The SA (brownshirts) in the early nazi party, being recruted mostly from the working class, where in favor of social reform but they sent out street brawlers to beat up communists and disrupt communist gatherings (in fact they were partly formed out of anti-communist militias battling communist putsch attempts.) They were also later put aside when the nazis were firmly in power. There was the infamous non-agression pact with Stalin of course but that didn't keep both countries from secretly preparing for war with each other.
The only difference between the National Socialists and the Communists is that the Natsi Party wanted to keep companies privatized. The Communist Party did not. In all other aspects they are almost identical - strong centralized power. - Elimination of undesirable populations. - Rise of a cult figure (Mussolini and Stalin respectively). Control of the media to spread propaganda. 5 or 10 year economic plans.
And on and on and on
You have a point when comparing Stalinism (which you are describing as opposed to communism) to Naziism which seems logical because they were both dictatorships. There have also been a lot of capitalist dictatorships that have shared all those traits.
No, iPhone consumers don't want to look at the phone in store. Mostly they don't even care what it does, they just want an iPhone.
With tens of millions of the things out there odds are they've played with a friends' iPhone, no need to go to a store to do that. It's not really an unknown entity; everyone who wants one knows what it looks like and what it does.
It's too bad that Apple didn't snag them first. Maybe then iPhones would actually be able to make phone calls.
It's too bad that Apple didn't snag them first. Maybe then iPhones would actually be able to make phone calls.
Too bad for Motorola that they didn't rise to the challenge when Apple partnered up with them to integrate iTunes with mobile phones. They got handed a golden ticket and produced a turd like the "ROKR."
No shit : "Ricky Bess spends eight hours a day in front of a computer near Orlando, Fla., viewing some of the worst depravities harbored on the Internet. He has seen photographs of graphic gang killings, animal abuse and twisted forms of pornography"
That are the shocking examples they come up with ? Check, check and check. I'm going to flag some pictures of cute wittle puppy dogs and kittens so these delicate little flowers get a break.
Yes, let's make grand sweeping generalizations about people based on what products they buy. FYI some of Apple's greatest supporters are extremely critical of the company just not to the point of irrationality like some self professed "critical minds." Case in point Erica Sadun, who literally wrote the book on the iPhone, has been very outspoken about the reception issue as have many others. The same has been true about any number of issues in the past. Of course to see that you need to see beyond Slashdot groupthink and its anti-Apple and pro-Apple trolls (trolls trolling trolls trolling trolls...)
They don't need to do a recall yet. All iphone 4s are still within the 30 day return period and Apple is reportedly waiving the restocking fee. iPhone 4 users whose problems are such they cannot live with them can return their phone immediately. I also think they can't handle a recall right now, the iPhone 4 is sold out everywhere (it's insane, here in Belgium people are selling 16Gb iPhone 4s for EUR 1000 and up) and still people are ordering. Maybe they'll do a stealth fix and do a recall of the early models later when things cool down.
It helps when people set the tone correctly. By attacking people in the summary like this article and a lot of others do you're signaling to both sides this discussion isn't going to be civil. What would would happen if you posted a random Linux article and ended it with "... but as we all know Linux users are a bunch of basement dwelling nerds" you think ? Ridiculously skewed moderation (most often anti-Apple) in Apple threads doesn't help either.
Who's exactly going to say no in the decision chain ? The vendors wine and dine the managers because they all got lots of stuff to push: Sun the hardware, EMC the storage, IBM the hardware, storage and backup solution, Oracle the database and analysis tools, etc. The manager wants to justify his position and this stuff sounds nice and science-fictiony and "pro-active" and really, really expensive so you know its good. The IT guys get an increased budget, lots of new shiny toys to play with and a couple of problems to solve along the way to make it interesting. Nobody loses.
It's not IT's job to come up with the business case either, that's the business analysts' job.
Just so you know, Blizzard already has my real name if they want to sell it. No redundant forum changes necessary. They have my credit card number too!
Remove the tinfoil hat or at least think about what you're saying instead of just throwing out paranoid gibberish.
In Europe privacy laws prohibit them from disclosing private information they got as part of a contract to any third party. The US may or may not have a similar law. So no they cannot already sell your details or at least not all their customers details. Opt-in forums would allow them to circumvent that since customers would voluntarily join and agree to the terms that allow this.
Yeah it's all about the users. Nothing at all to do with tying pseudonyms to real names so they can be data mined and the info sold to the highest bidder to market more crap at them while paying for the privilege. No sirree.
Well, capitalism encourages all people/companies to maximize profit, AFAIK its a legal obligation of listed companies.
Consumers want stuff cheap, owners want more profit, workers want higher wages, it all drives companies to take risks.
"Capitalism" as we have it now at least. It wasn't always seen like this. Adam Smith himself wrote: "But the rate of profit does not, like rent and wages, rise with the prosperity, and fall with the declension of the society. On the contrary, it is naturally low in rich, and high in poor countries, and it is always highest in the countries which are going fastest to ruin." and "Our merchants and master-manufacturers complain much of the bad effects of high wages in raising the price of their goods both at home and abroad. They say nothing concerning the bad effects of high profits."
Truth is workers also want a sense of purpose and pride in their work, consumers also want safe, responsibly made products and business owners hate to fire people. Problem is our businesses are run by committees of profit seekers whose goals are completely divorced from the long term goals of any healthy business. This is not capitalism; it's an unhealthy dead end deviation like Stalinism was to socialism.
there is nothing wrong with gigantic margins: in those cases where function is just right, or perhaps there is excellence, what is wrong with selling for as much as people are wililng to pay?
Gigantic margins are an indication that the free market isn't working because there should be other players appearing on the market to offer the same service at a still profitable but more affordable rate until an equilibrium is reached where the goods/service is both profitable and competitively priced. And leave off the objectivist ranting calling labourers "parasites", it's insulting.
FWIW I think the USB Competition Pro is OK too. It's got those annoying extra buttons near the shaft (don't mess with a classic!) but is otherwise fine. Hey if it can survive me playing Speedball II on it, it's ok by me.
If he wants to play emulated C64 or Amiga games that's what he'll want. Those were the sticks we used in those days. In fact microswitch joysticks were a godsend after years of crappy rubber contact pad sticks most companies made previously.
The public pushes companies to make extreme profits and turn a blind eye to their methods until something goes wrong.
The public ? Most people I talk to don't mind companies turning a healthy profit as long as it isn't an exorbitant one earned on the back of workers or by cutting corners but I've yet to hear people push companies to make ever more profits. When you do hear analysts push for ever increasing profits it's usually attributed to some vague entity like "the market" or "investors" which are code for the wealthy few as far as I'm concerned.
At least in a dictatorship when the new guy takes over the last bunch are shot. Wish we'd do that with some of our corrupt officials. And in western style democracy the same people pulling on the (purse) strings of the politicians are often involved in controlling the flow of information, they just look more impartial because they can put a new guy in from time to time.
Are you saying then spent none? Becuase I followed the timeline and they already had like 5 different things to try within days of it happening. The problem is they should not have been forced to drill so deeply in the first place. Drilling in shallower water is MUCH safer although more politically incorrect.
The same measures they took in 1979 when an oil rig exploded in the gulf. Let's face it 30 years of technological progress and they have done nothing to stem the negative effects of their actions.
I mean seriously, what did this guy do or fail to do?
Lead and instill a culture of safety and accountability in a company with a history of dangerous cost cutting.
Like that makes him an exception among his peers. You could say the same of the vast majority of CEO's out there. Luckily only a small number of these silver spoon fuckwits can cause disasters of this magnitude though.
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I admit I came to this video with the same reservations but there was some stuff in there that got me exited: sharing tabs with other users by drag-n-drop, even better: doing the same with other devices and multiple simultaneous profiles, which for some reason they buried somewhere in the middle.
I herby revoke your geek license.
So why does linux have several desktop environments, some spartan and some very configurable ? Do some of those groups need their geek licenses revoked too ? Better not tell the people who prefer Fluxbox over KDE.
I'll laugh my ass off, though, if the iPhone comes to Verizon and it drops calls constantly. If it doesn't, I'll be pissed that, for some reason, every other phone manufacturer can handle weaker coverage but Apple can't.
FWIW I live in europe and have an iPhone which I've used on several networks (and countries) and it performs the same or better as the other phones I've had (last phone was a SE-550.) YMMV, sample size of one and all that.
I prefer this one (Condescending Apple Press Conference - CollegeHumor.) "Gizmodo how's this; Can you hear me now ?" XD
I remember the good old days when Android fans made fun of the iPhone because some people did a jailbreak to install software, now those same people have to jailbreak their phones to be able to uninstall some software. Oh the irony.
It's open, just not to you. But doesn't feel so much better to be fucked over by a corporation that uses Open Source software ?
>>>When the idiots don't realize the Communists fought against the Nazis.
There's no stronger fight than brother against brother. They were originally partners (prior to 1920s) and only split later on
Not true. The SA (brownshirts) in the early nazi party, being recruted mostly from the working class, where in favor of social reform but they sent out street brawlers to beat up communists and disrupt communist gatherings (in fact they were partly formed out of anti-communist militias battling communist putsch attempts.) They were also later put aside when the nazis were firmly in power. There was the infamous non-agression pact with Stalin of course but that didn't keep both countries from secretly preparing for war with each other.
The only difference between the National Socialists and the Communists is that the Natsi Party wanted to keep companies privatized. The Communist Party did not. In all other aspects they are almost identical - strong centralized power. - Elimination of undesirable populations. - Rise of a cult figure (Mussolini and Stalin respectively). Control of the media to spread propaganda. 5 or 10 year economic plans.
And on and on and on
You have a point when comparing Stalinism (which you are describing as opposed to communism) to Naziism which seems logical because they were both dictatorships. There have also been a lot of capitalist dictatorships that have shared all those traits.
No, iPhone consumers don't want to look at the phone in store. Mostly they don't even care what it does, they just want an iPhone.
With tens of millions of the things out there odds are they've played with a friends' iPhone, no need to go to a store to do that. It's not really an unknown entity; everyone who wants one knows what it looks like and what it does.
It's too bad that Apple didn't snag them first. Maybe then iPhones would actually be able to make phone calls.
It's too bad that Apple didn't snag them first. Maybe then iPhones would actually be able to make phone calls.
Too bad for Motorola that they didn't rise to the challenge when Apple partnered up with them to integrate iTunes with mobile phones. They got handed a golden ticket and produced a turd like the "ROKR."
No shit : "Ricky Bess spends eight hours a day in front of a computer near Orlando, Fla., viewing some of the worst depravities harbored on the Internet. He has seen photographs of graphic gang killings, animal abuse and twisted forms of pornography"
That are the shocking examples they come up with ? Check, check and check.
I'm going to flag some pictures of cute wittle puppy dogs and kittens so these delicate little flowers get a break.
The truth should never be insulting...
"Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected" Ghandi
Yes, let's make grand sweeping generalizations about people based on what products they buy. FYI some of Apple's greatest supporters are extremely critical of the company just not to the point of irrationality like some self professed "critical minds." Case in point Erica Sadun, who literally wrote the book on the iPhone, has been very outspoken about the reception issue as have many others. The same has been true about any number of issues in the past. Of course to see that you need to see beyond Slashdot groupthink and its anti-Apple and pro-Apple trolls (trolls trolling trolls trolling trolls ...)
They don't need to do a recall yet. All iphone 4s are still within the 30 day return period and Apple is reportedly waiving the restocking fee. iPhone 4 users whose problems are such they cannot live with them can return their phone immediately. I also think they can't handle a recall right now, the iPhone 4 is sold out everywhere (it's insane, here in Belgium people are selling 16Gb iPhone 4s for EUR 1000 and up) and still people are ordering. Maybe they'll do a stealth fix and do a recall of the early models later when things cool down.
It helps when people set the tone correctly. By attacking people in the summary like this article and a lot of others do you're signaling to both sides this discussion isn't going to be civil. What would would happen if you posted a random Linux article and ended it with "... but as we all know Linux users are a bunch of basement dwelling nerds" you think ? Ridiculously skewed moderation (most often anti-Apple) in Apple threads doesn't help either.
Who's exactly going to say no in the decision chain ? The vendors wine and dine the managers because they all got lots of stuff to push: Sun the hardware, EMC the storage, IBM the hardware, storage and backup solution, Oracle the database and analysis tools, etc. The manager wants to justify his position and this stuff sounds nice and science-fictiony and "pro-active" and really, really expensive so you know its good. The IT guys get an increased budget, lots of new shiny toys to play with and a couple of problems to solve along the way to make it interesting. Nobody loses.
It's not IT's job to come up with the business case either, that's the business analysts' job.
Just so you know, Blizzard already has my real name if they want to sell it. No redundant forum changes necessary. They have my credit card number too!
Remove the tinfoil hat or at least think about what you're saying instead of just throwing out paranoid gibberish.
In Europe privacy laws prohibit them from disclosing private information they got as part of a contract to any third party. The US may or may not have a similar law. So no they cannot already sell your details or at least not all their customers details. Opt-in forums would allow them to circumvent that since customers would voluntarily join and agree to the terms that allow this.
Yeah it's all about the users. Nothing at all to do with tying pseudonyms to real names so they can be data mined and the info sold to the highest bidder to market more crap at them while paying for the privilege. No sirree.
Well, capitalism encourages all people/companies to maximize profit, AFAIK its a legal obligation of listed companies.
Consumers want stuff cheap, owners want more profit, workers want higher wages, it all drives companies to take risks.
"Capitalism" as we have it now at least. It wasn't always seen like this. Adam Smith himself wrote: "But the rate of profit does not, like rent and wages, rise with the prosperity, and fall with the declension of the society. On the contrary, it is naturally low in rich, and high in poor countries, and it is always highest in the countries which are going fastest to ruin." and "Our merchants and master-manufacturers complain much of the bad effects of high wages in raising the price of their goods both at home and abroad. They say nothing concerning the bad effects of high profits."
Truth is workers also want a sense of purpose and pride in their work, consumers also want safe, responsibly made products and business owners hate to fire people. Problem is our businesses are run by committees of profit seekers whose goals are completely divorced from the long term goals of any healthy business. This is not capitalism; it's an unhealthy dead end deviation like Stalinism was to socialism.
there is nothing wrong with gigantic margins: in those cases where function is just right, or perhaps there is excellence, what is wrong with selling for as much as people are wililng to pay?
Gigantic margins are an indication that the free market isn't working because there should be other players appearing on the market to offer the same service at a still profitable but more affordable rate until an equilibrium is reached where the goods/service is both profitable and competitively priced. And leave off the objectivist ranting calling labourers "parasites", it's insulting.
FWIW I think the USB Competition Pro is OK too. It's got those annoying extra buttons near the shaft (don't mess with a classic!) but is otherwise fine. Hey if it can survive me playing Speedball II on it, it's ok by me.
If he wants to play emulated C64 or Amiga games that's what he'll want. Those were the sticks we used in those days. In fact microswitch joysticks were a godsend after years of crappy rubber contact pad sticks most companies made previously.
The public pushes companies to make extreme profits and turn a blind eye to their methods until something goes wrong.
The public ? Most people I talk to don't mind companies turning a healthy profit as long as it isn't an exorbitant one earned on the back of workers or by cutting corners but I've yet to hear people push companies to make ever more profits. When you do hear analysts push for ever increasing profits it's usually attributed to some vague entity like "the market" or "investors" which are code for the wealthy few as far as I'm concerned.
You're right about the consumer hypocrisy though.
At least in a dictatorship when the new guy takes over the last bunch are shot. Wish we'd do that with some of our corrupt officials. And in western style democracy the same people pulling on the (purse) strings of the politicians are often involved in controlling the flow of information, they just look more impartial because they can put a new guy in from time to time.
Are you saying then spent none? Becuase I followed the timeline and they already had like 5 different things to try within days of it happening. The problem is they should not have been forced to drill so deeply in the first place. Drilling in shallower water is MUCH safer although more politically incorrect.
The same measures they took in 1979 when an oil rig exploded in the gulf. Let's face it 30 years of technological progress and they have done nothing to stem the negative effects of their actions.
I mean seriously, what did this guy do or fail to do?
Lead and instill a culture of safety and accountability in a company with a history of dangerous cost cutting.
Like that makes him an exception among his peers. You could say the same of the vast majority of CEO's out there. Luckily only a small number of these silver spoon fuckwits can cause disasters of this magnitude though.