If Apple was offering a competing proprietary product to play Flash media, I could (possibly) see an anti-trust case.... This isn't really the same thing as Netscape vs. Microsoft.
Even if they were it wouldn't be the same thing as MS vs Netscape. MS is the 900 lb gorilla of personal computing. Apple is a a small fish that happens to garner way way way outsized media attention for their market share.
Wow...I think something's wrong with Slashdot...it's regurgitating arguments from 1994.
I hear ya. I'm a 40-year-old married man, and I just picked up a PS3 on eBay for less than 200 bucks (with a 10% off coupon I had sitting around in my e-mail).
I play one game: the latest NCAA football from EA with my redneck buddies. My wife is happy now, because I don't have to always go sit with them across town to play them now.
But hey, it can stream all the stuff on my Mac from the other room, and now it can stream Netflix, too.
It's more than a game console, and always has been...it's about providing a mass interface to the cloud or whatever.
...by then, the end of the world will be at hand, and Apple will have won. The aliens will come to rescue us, and we'll all go to live on a planet where we communicate telepathically.
are pawns, owned by the other industries to create the necessary illusion that is America and that Americans have freedom.
The Media simply enable the US war machine to do what it does by giving it a pretext, a narrative, and preferably one that's easy to understand and talk about at the water cooler.
If the Media ever demand and find themselves in a position to fight for;a bigger slice of the pie, then watch out.
Maybe we can help that desperation arrive a little sooner.
I like to think that human democracy is safe as long as the Internet pirates and pornkings and garden-variety anarchists can compete on a level playing field with the average multinational corporation.
The Internet really is an intellectual Wild West...designed to survive a nuclear conflagration. Hope wins out.
There are places all over South Carolina where there used to be towns...big towns at the time, just gone with nothing but an historical marker. It's very interesting to think about the fact that even in the short history of this country, influential towns have simply been abandoned, and now, not even 250 years old, they're talking about razing whole cities.
We switched to a Cingular reseller, a 3-county cooperative, here in our town, keeping our Cingular numbers at the time. When it came time to switch back to AT&T to get the iPhone, it was going to take something like 5-6 weeks of paying for two numbers to keep the old Cingular number. Instant to transfer in from Verizon, but two months to keep the number the company itself had originally assigned.
... about cool. The other guys do. Apple's already there and moving forward. They're revolutionizing human communication. Again.
And while I may or may not have been smoking hoodah, I think Jobs has been working secretly behind the scenes on a new project, let's call it One More Thing.
Let me know when they start giving away iPhones. I want in on that.
...land by the interstate is real property, whereas a domain is just a made-up fiction of a property whose only real value is in its potential mindshare as a brand. That has to be valued.
Coming up with a great name only to find out some jackass is sitting on the domain waiting to charge you $5000 is pretty disappointing, though, and yeah, I'd like to do physical harm.
...since I got my iPhone at the end of December, I have used 287 MB down and 50-odd MB up on the cell network.
Most of what I do is on Wi-Fi, evidently. I've used it tethered in a few emergencies (I'm a journalist) and I'm fairly cavalier about downloading stuff. I guess I just happened to be doing it while on Wi-Fi without really thinking about it.
I would hate to have to think about it, though, and check. That would suck.
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...this one will do that in three days if that crimped riser pipe gives way. And how long are they saying it'll take to fix it? Months?
Best thing I've read all day.
I can't elect to install BeOS either...where do I file suit?
This is a stupid argument about a stupid lawsuit.
...there is a whole bunch of systems you can use for your work besides the Mac.
Fortunately for me, there is the Mac.
It would also kill a huge portion of Adobe's business.
If Apple was offering a competing proprietary product to play Flash media, I could (possibly) see an anti-trust case. ... This isn't really the same thing as Netscape vs. Microsoft.
Even if they were it wouldn't be the same thing as MS vs Netscape. MS is the 900 lb gorilla of personal computing. Apple is a a small fish that happens to garner way way way outsized media attention for their market share.
Wow...I think something's wrong with Slashdot...it's regurgitating arguments from 1994.
...this makes Apple look terrible, and it's AT&T's fault. The network can't handle the volume, which is generated by ACTUAL USE.
Apple needs to break away from its exclusivity with AT&T posthaste, because the iPhone will suffer from AT&T's network.
I hear ya. I'm a 40-year-old married man, and I just picked up a PS3 on eBay for less than 200 bucks (with a 10% off coupon I had sitting around in my e-mail).
I play one game: the latest NCAA football from EA with my redneck buddies. My wife is happy now, because I don't have to always go sit with them across town to play them now.
But hey, it can stream all the stuff on my Mac from the other room, and now it can stream Netflix, too.
It's more than a game console, and always has been...it's about providing a mass interface to the cloud or whatever.
...for these guys to switch over and become Religion professors.
...by then, the end of the world will be at hand, and Apple will have won. The aliens will come to rescue us, and we'll all go to live on a planet where we communicate telepathically.
are pawns, owned by the other industries to create the necessary illusion that is America and that Americans have freedom.
The Media simply enable the US war machine to do what it does by giving it a pretext, a narrative, and preferably one that's easy to understand and talk about at the water cooler.
If the Media ever demand and find themselves in a position to fight for;a bigger slice of the pie, then watch out.
Maybe we can help that desperation arrive a little sooner.
FIDONET!
...they write folk songs about things like that.
I like to think that human democracy is safe as long as the Internet pirates and pornkings and garden-variety anarchists can compete on a level playing field with the average multinational corporation.
The Internet really is an intellectual Wild West...designed to survive a nuclear conflagration. Hope wins out.
Landing site.
Rolled? Floated???
Occam's Razor.
They were simply transported there by the Ancients' extraterrestrial guides using their interstellar spacecraft.
...the only thing I've read better than this article today have been the Slashdot responses.
John Waters could make a masterpiece of it.
There are places all over South Carolina where there used to be towns...big towns at the time, just gone with nothing but an historical marker. It's very interesting to think about the fact that even in the short history of this country, influential towns have simply been abandoned, and now, not even 250 years old, they're talking about razing whole cities.
America is done.
Trade surplus?
You make MOVIES.
Insightful?
Jesus. What a load of tripe. You're a waste of hair.
Oh, and we need to quit having so many fucking babies.
We switched to a Cingular reseller, a 3-county cooperative, here in our town, keeping our Cingular numbers at the time. When it came time to switch back to AT&T to get the iPhone, it was going to take something like 5-6 weeks of paying for two numbers to keep the old Cingular number. Instant to transfer in from Verizon, but two months to keep the number the company itself had originally assigned.
... about cool. The other guys do. Apple's already there and moving forward. They're revolutionizing human communication. Again.
And while I may or may not have been smoking hoodah, I think Jobs has been working secretly behind the scenes on a new project, let's call it One More Thing.
Let me know when they start giving away iPhones. I want in on that.
...land by the interstate is real property, whereas a domain is just a made-up fiction of a property whose only real value is in its potential mindshare as a brand. That has to be valued.
Coming up with a great name only to find out some jackass is sitting on the domain waiting to charge you $5000 is pretty disappointing, though, and yeah, I'd like to do physical harm.
P.
...since I got my iPhone at the end of December, I have used 287 MB down and 50-odd MB up on the cell network.
Most of what I do is on Wi-Fi, evidently. I've used it tethered in a few emergencies (I'm a journalist) and I'm fairly cavalier about downloading stuff. I guess I just happened to be doing it while on Wi-Fi without really thinking about it.
I would hate to have to think about it, though, and check. That would suck.