I REALLY don't see what is so complicated about Nokia's strategy but nobody seems to get it...
For f**k's sake Engadget seems to be the only website who reporting correctly about this, and it is Nokia related (like their nemesis) !
Symbian^3 is an evolution of Symbian S60 5th ed, even though a lot has been changed on the graphical point of view, it is supposed to be full featured stable and light and it is aimed at low-mid range smartphones in the end. Symbian ^3 will roll on Nokia N8 in July-Aug 2010 and offer some bad ass value !
Meego is their High End OS. It will roll on Nokia N9 in late 2010.
I really don't see what's complicated, and I really don't see how what you report is news : it was announced countless times by Nokia. If this is about making this official at least stop acting all surprised !
I realize you're probably trolling, but I'll answer anyway. FaceTime is a bit more than 'just SIP'. SIP just gets the session started. This will be an open sourcing of the core technology stack required to use FaceTime.
H.264 and AAC, its ISO/MPEG video and audio codecs (just like iChat).
H.264 and AAC are ISO and a MPEG-LA property and are NOT Open-source.
The fact that some piece of software became a "standard" ( ISO or whatever) just means that the company that owns it lobbied effectively. Doesn't mean it is open source.
You seem very able to copy paste definition and very less able to see the difference between standard and Open source which totally puzzles me.
On a unrelated note : it is not because Skype is proprietary and aims at world domination through VOIP that Apple is less...
Apple open sourced the framework like you say because they heavily patented some of the elements you present as standards and they plan to make the money (and keep the control) with this.
I'm not taking a pro Skype stance here, but clearly right now, Skype is more open and more open source than Apple (on the VOIP software front).
BTW : regarding this
Hopefully Apple has the muscle to standardize all of these technologies into a functional (read: easy to use) bundle that all of the phone manufacturers will jump onto.
it is precisely because Apple has so much power Skype has not that one should pay more attention to what twisted way to get control Apple is trying to take : they might succeed !
Please... a country where Senators and representatives can be bought by a company is not a democracy.
Democracy is not a political system ! A republic is a political system ! Democracy is an ideal : the ideal of the power of the people by the poeple for the people.
It's like peace or liberty.
The challenge is how to get as close as possible and keep getting closer all the time and it is very hard because as simple as it sounds in theory (it can be summed up by one single sentence) it actually relies on a subtil balance of power and nobody has the right formula.
so you can keep up masturbating about how California is the greatest democracy of all time OR you could A) accept that it really is not
B) Try to understand why.
Complete bullshit.
A) You only take into account the income tax which is patently biased and childish.
As you see on the graph it represent less than half the Federal budget.
B) You don't take into account the indirect income the 46% of people make by simply creating ressources into the country.
C) You actually think only US citizen pay taxes (or at least that's what is understandable from your 46% crap)
D) You have a moronic and self-centred paranoia and need to see a psychiatrist before you end up hurting yourself or someone else.
Ok let me explain myself here : you certainly are part of the harassed masses (your 54%) who actually make enough money to pay taxes, meaning you live well, even probably very well. While you might think that this is all thanks to your limitless courage and superior intelligence it is not. The facts that you are indeed richER than average is thanks to whatever qualities you may think you have (I don't really care but I accept to recognize them as is)
BUT the actual richness you have is mostly due to the work of millions of others, your fellow Americans and some hundreds of thousand of chinese who manufactured 90% pf everything you owned and without these people you and your smart ass would be attempting miserably to catch rabbits and harvest fruits while wiping your ass with your bare hands.
So stop masturbating yourself over the fact that you are a efficient element of this society and therefore you deserve the right to be rich while most people are miserably poor. it's not because your are rich thanks to your "smartness" that it is fair.
You don't know that a monarchy can be a democracy and your are actually arguing that "smart" people should vote ?
England, for instance, is probably much closer to a real democracy than any republic I know of.
Same goes for Sweden and Holland.
You mistake republic and democracy which is criminal in a argument about democracy imo.
for instance China is a republic !
Planetscape and Fallout had the advantage of being much more original. I love both games and I'm surely more of a Fallout fanboy than a baldur's gate fanboy but Baldur's Gate achieved near perfection in the classic AD&D universe and I think they deserve credit for that. (Except Throne of Baal which was a total mess IMHO)
Great times for MMO was 2000-2005.
GREAT FREE MMORPG with very nice background stories, original content and RP community.
Now it's a bunch of 13 years old US and chinese teenager wanking and insulting each other. Not that free bashing hasn't been part of what makes a mmorpg fun but what's free bashing between 10 000 000 people who don't know each other ? What used to make mmorpg great was the human sized communities like in T4c and UO.
I think you made his point. His point being someone would come and gibber about how he played [insert Interplay games found on wikipedia] for hours back when he was young.
OTOH you chose Baldur's Gate as a symbolic Interplay masterpiece so you cannot be that bad. I love you. No actually I love Baldur's Gate but call it collateral damage.
You mistake the law for justice and vice versa.
the law doesn't work, the law is, the Justice works to apply the law.
And the law protects the weak versus the strong. Justice on the other hand, well that's a completely different matter...
Depending on how your country is a good democracy and a state of law...
OK now you're just really acting stupid.
You purposely mistake ignorance of the law and ignorance in a "logical" demonstration of why they are the same...
So either your thoughs are so unclear you can't produce anything but crap OR you think people reading you are just so dumb they'll buy it.
I'm gonna go with the first one, as the law would because you're presumed innocent until proven guilty.
Yes the law states that nobody shall ignore the law. It's not about making excuses it's just about plain "common sense" for once ! if the law did not state that then it would have no use. Each and every dispute would turn into a "did he know about that law" argument and it would be a mess.
Now OTOH ignorance is certainly a good excuse :
Mr X you are suing BigCo for sucking your blood dry after selling a contract in which they bonded you to give them each and every penny you would ever make for the rest of your life in a legal language so inextricable that we are still trying to figure out exactly what they meant in the first place.
BigCo says you signed it so you should pay.
Mr X hear says it's not his fault he signed it because the nice guy from BigCo who spent 2 afternoons explaining it to him convinced him it was a good move
What does the law say ? Mr X was actually led to believe it was a good move and then fucked up the ass, and the law protects citizen against scams by asking BigCo to provide its customers with contracts that are understandable (or at least can be understood by a lawyer)
So what exactly does the law do ? it protects Mr X from its own ignorance. It's legal ignorance in this particular matter, meaning Mr X is, like 99% of the population incapable of fully understanding of the ramifications and implications of a complex contract, but it could be other ignorance, for instance the law protects smokers from big Tabacco by making cigarette manufacturers put warning labels on the cigarette packs.
The law is about protecting the weak from the excesses of the strong, and most of the time the strong is the one that knows and the weak the one that doesn't.
Yes because you think you're so smart...
Truth is your fields of expertise are likely not infinite and even if you are an expert in a number of subjects, which is possible, I would dare to say you're not in ALL the subjects.
For instance could you get scammed over the quality of what you wear ? or what you eat ? Do you move around with a chemical lab that allows you to check the composition of the food you eat ?
No, of course not, that's why the law protects you from being fed low cost toxic waste (well tries to protect at least...)
The same goes for complex information systems and new technology. People aren't necessarily aware of all the risks and consequences of their actions. It's not a good thing but you can't really do shit about it, except make people smarter and better informed but that's hardly a mean of action, it's a goal.
Saying : this is not a problem people just need to get smart is stupid, hence you're not smart if you say it because you don't have any understanding of how democracy works and where is your best interest in the long term. Getting people smarter and more knowledgeable is a goal, a very hard one to reach, so Genius if you have any idea on how to do that please enlighten us, but meanwhile stop thinking you're so smart just because you know about GPS and social network implications.
Yeah right PV cells !
Totally cool to power all the lights of the world... on a sunny day !
I'm actually preaching against my own parish since I work as an engineer for a company that does PV installs on industrial and commercial sites.
PV is good, but PV requires the same power in Nuclear/thermal electricity to balance the load on the network when the weather is bad.
This means that botht the costs and the carbone footprint of PV is actually rather high compared to Nuclear fission for instance.
OK, let's say they did lie, which is also what I believe.
Either you want to start a criminal investigation, in which case knock yourself out, or maybe we could focus on what's interesting, i.e. what does that event implies as to how Apple and its policies are perceived by their dealers and their customers.
On one hand you see that some customers apparently bought the scam, and that even those who didn't really buy it had a reasonable doubt, at least enough not to make a scandal and just buy the damn iPad with no accessories or reporting to the police. This tells us that Apple put them through so much crazy shit they would actually think it is believable that Apple enforces a racket policy.
On the other hand we see that dealers are becoming S.MA.R.T. This is how it goes : for the last 5 years all the dealers of the world who wanted to sell Apple branded product HAD TO promote they pro-actively in a way that would put them in a favourable position regarding their competition.
As an example of that I call the CRAZY 20 meters long stand in the FNAC next to my place. It's the same in every store that sells Consumer Electronics in France and I don't see why it would be different in other countries.
My point is just that part of Apple's business plan is that they have a very positive image that CE dealers want so they sold that positive image for in return free advertising IN STORE, which btw is GENIUS. So all I'm saying is Apple relies a lot on its dealers to promote their product, even though those dealers sell products from HP, Dell, Sony, Samsung, Archos, whatever... and this is one thing that gave and still gives them a real crazy competitive advantage.
So what happened while CE dealers were advertising for Apple ? Well Apple made a hell of a lot of money and enforced crazy policies, but CE dealers not so much.
Conclusion : Maybe, and that's just my analysis, some CE dealers are a bit tired of compensating all the shit Apple's been putting them through and they want a share of the cake. And maybe this guy just found the solution : Apple is not going to stay "Cool" forever so now might be a good moment to make so real cash out of gullible CE illiterate before all this goes to waste.
You failed to understand a very critical point : all those technologies are at the beginning of the research (even though they may be 50 years old) there is not a single plant somewhere nearly as big as the JET or such which have proven those technologies valid.
ITER is not a proof of concept you would make in a laboratory, it's an almost full scale industrial developmental plant !
Actually what's done there is just reducing the half-life and activity level of the waste.
But that's not even the problem, "recycling" or treating Nuclear waste costs tons of money AND a lot of energy. So much energy that it was basically planned at the beginning to use Nuclear fusion reactor to power the recycling plants for the fission waste we would have accumulated.
Don't be fooled it is frightening.
Nuclear fusion is pretty much a potential infinite source of clean electrical energy and we have 2 options to try to master plasma confinement long enough to harvest that energy. One is investigated with ITER and the other is the inertial confinement. I don't think anyone has the authority to tell whether one or the other is more likely to be successful because it's very new and to test it you actually have to build huge tokamak reactors that cost billions and it has not been done before. So as Pascal I'll assume it's a 50/50 draw. Now put that piece of news back in context : humanity is maybe about to give up on half its chances to secure a clean source of energy for the forseable future.
I read the comment and I sense some crazy persons out here are almost ready to immolate the guy who reportedly "stole" the prototype in a bar.
Now just a little fictional tale I would like to share with you, it's kinda of a gamebook or a choose your own adventure book if you will.
You in a bar, with a friends drinking beers. You had a couple of pints and a couple of nerd arguments about [insert geeky topics] when all of a sudden you see the obnoxious guy with 2 chicks and 3 grammes of alcohol in each arm leaving the bar, forgetting something on the table. So you go over there to see and you SEE and Hold in your hand a prototype iPhone 4G.
Now tell me : what do you do ?
Shall you call upon the aforementioned drunk idiot to hand him over his prototype while both of you pray to steve ?
Or shall you keep it and intend to toy with it up until it is remotely locked ?
Quick think fast, the guy is moving away and it could get locked any time soon !
I hope at least some of you will think about it twice now before virtually sentencing the poor bastard to death.
NOBODY STOLE THE DAMN PHONE !
Some Apple punkass lost it and steve just can't get over it !
Please stop the misinformation here, somebody !
It's like that extortion non-sense ! How is Gizmodo supposed to extort money from Apple ?
I mean you do realize Blackmail is a crime right ?
Now what sounds more reasonnable:
A) Gizmodo after making all the buzz they wanted with a prototype iPhone 4G just decided hey why not blackmail Steve Jobs and get millions from Apple ? After all it's not like we are a legitimate news company who will have difficulties laundering money we got from blackmailing another company.
We are basically Mafia so...
B) Steve Jobs as usual got carried away by his incredibly oversized ego and made up some fucked up story to cover the iPhone 4G. Oh no wait he didn't have to make up a story BECAUSE HE NEVER SAID HE HAD BEEN blackmailed !
That's just some shit Apple fanboys have been tossing here and there and that was repeated up until it became true to some morons !
Jefferson wasn't head of a bankrupted state. The private debt wasn't over 150% of the GDP. Globalization had not started yet. Chinese were nice people. There were no global issues like global warming.
When the world changes, so does the need for a political system, for everything is political and there is no perfect political system, there are just some that fit better some situation.
yeah yeah yeah blabla.
I'm not even going to start lecturing you on basic economics so just listen and take this from people who know : Europeans who are screwed to the bones.
When you share a money ($) you HAVE TO share your fiscal policies.
Without that it's what you have in europe right now which is a desperate need for more centralized power in Brussels to actually be able to make a decision.
Were you to actually lessen the federal government powers, you would in fact just strengthen other federal agencies like the FED.
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Dude, to go to England we take the train. It lasts less than 20 minutes.
And don't make fun of this : my Grad School participate. Else I might cry.
I REALLY don't see what is so complicated about Nokia's strategy but nobody seems to get it...
For f**k's sake Engadget seems to be the only website who reporting correctly about this, and it is Nokia related (like their nemesis) !
Symbian^3 is an evolution of Symbian S60 5th ed, even though a lot has been changed on the graphical point of view, it is supposed to be full featured stable and light and it is aimed at low-mid range smartphones in the end. Symbian ^3 will roll on Nokia N8 in July-Aug 2010 and offer some bad ass value !
Meego is their High End OS. It will roll on Nokia N9 in late 2010.
I really don't see what's complicated, and I really don't see how what you report is news : it was announced countless times by Nokia. If this is about making this official at least stop acting all surprised !
Matthieu Almaric but we got your point.
I realize you're probably trolling, but I'll answer anyway. FaceTime is a bit more than 'just SIP'. SIP just gets the session started. This will be an open sourcing of the core technology stack required to use FaceTime.
H.264 and AAC are ISO and a MPEG-LA property and are NOT Open-source.
The fact that some piece of software became a "standard" ( ISO or whatever) just means that the company that owns it lobbied effectively. Doesn't mean it is open source.
You seem very able to copy paste definition and very less able to see the difference between standard and Open source which totally puzzles me.
On a unrelated note : it is not because Skype is proprietary and aims at world domination through VOIP that Apple is less...
Apple open sourced the framework like you say because they heavily patented some of the elements you present as standards and they plan to make the money (and keep the control) with this.
I'm not taking a pro Skype stance here, but clearly right now, Skype is more open and more open source than Apple (on the VOIP software front).
BTW : regarding this
Hopefully Apple has the muscle to standardize all of these technologies into a functional (read: easy to use) bundle that all of the phone manufacturers will jump onto.
it is precisely because Apple has so much power Skype has not that one should pay more attention to what twisted way to get control Apple is trying to take : they might succeed !
I have since changed my stance: In the end it's much easier to defend existing liberties that it is to regain ones already lost.
If you successfully convince people of this you will have done a lot for mankind sir.
But let's face it you're not the first to try...
Please... a country where Senators and representatives can be bought by a company is not a democracy.
Democracy is not a political system ! A republic is a political system ! Democracy is an ideal : the ideal of the power of the people by the poeple for the people.
It's like peace or liberty.
The challenge is how to get as close as possible and keep getting closer all the time and it is very hard because as simple as it sounds in theory (it can be summed up by one single sentence) it actually relies on a subtil balance of power and nobody has the right formula.
so you can keep up masturbating about how California is the greatest democracy of all time OR you could A) accept that it really is not B) Try to understand why.
Complete bullshit.
A) You only take into account the income tax which is patently biased and childish.
As you see on the graph it represent less than half the Federal budget.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:U.S._Federal_Receipts_-_FY_2007.png
B) You don't take into account the indirect income the 46% of people make by simply creating ressources into the country.
C) You actually think only US citizen pay taxes (or at least that's what is understandable from your 46% crap)
D) You have a moronic and self-centred paranoia and need to see a psychiatrist before you end up hurting yourself or someone else.
Ok let me explain myself here : you certainly are part of the harassed masses (your 54%) who actually make enough money to pay taxes, meaning you live well, even probably very well. While you might think that this is all thanks to your limitless courage and superior intelligence it is not. The facts that you are indeed richER than average is thanks to whatever qualities you may think you have (I don't really care but I accept to recognize them as is)
BUT the actual richness you have is mostly due to the work of millions of others, your fellow Americans and some hundreds of thousand of chinese who manufactured 90% pf everything you owned and without these people you and your smart ass would be attempting miserably to catch rabbits and harvest fruits while wiping your ass with your bare hands.
So stop masturbating yourself over the fact that you are a efficient element of this society and therefore you deserve the right to be rich while most people are miserably poor. it's not because your are rich thanks to your "smartness" that it is fair.
You don't know that a monarchy can be a democracy and your are actually arguing that "smart" people should vote ? England, for instance, is probably much closer to a real democracy than any republic I know of.
Same goes for Sweden and Holland.
You mistake republic and democracy which is criminal in a argument about democracy imo.
for instance China is a republic !
Planetscape and Fallout had the advantage of being much more original. I love both games and I'm surely more of a Fallout fanboy than a baldur's gate fanboy but Baldur's Gate achieved near perfection in the classic AD&D universe and I think they deserve credit for that. (Except Throne of Baal which was a total mess IMHO)
Great times for MMO was 2000-2005.
GREAT FREE MMORPG with very nice background stories, original content and RP community.
Now it's a bunch of 13 years old US and chinese teenager wanking and insulting each other. Not that free bashing hasn't been part of what makes a mmorpg fun but what's free bashing between 10 000 000 people who don't know each other ? What used to make mmorpg great was the human sized communities like in T4c and UO.
I think you made his point. His point being someone would come and gibber about how he played [insert Interplay games found on wikipedia] for hours back when he was young.
OTOH you chose Baldur's Gate as a symbolic Interplay masterpiece so you cannot be that bad. I love you. No actually I love Baldur's Gate but call it collateral damage.
You mistake the law for justice and vice versa.
the law doesn't work, the law is, the Justice works to apply the law.
And the law protects the weak versus the strong. Justice on the other hand, well that's a completely different matter... Depending on how your country is a good democracy and a state of law...
OK now you're just really acting stupid.
You purposely mistake ignorance of the law and ignorance in a "logical" demonstration of why they are the same...
So either your thoughs are so unclear you can't produce anything but crap OR you think people reading you are just so dumb they'll buy it.
I'm gonna go with the first one, as the law would because you're presumed innocent until proven guilty.
Yes the law states that nobody shall ignore the law. It's not about making excuses it's just about plain "common sense" for once ! if the law did not state that then it would have no use. Each and every dispute would turn into a "did he know about that law" argument and it would be a mess.
Now OTOH ignorance is certainly a good excuse :
Mr X you are suing BigCo for sucking your blood dry after selling a contract in which they bonded you to give them each and every penny you would ever make for the rest of your life in a legal language so inextricable that we are still trying to figure out exactly what they meant in the first place.
BigCo says you signed it so you should pay.
Mr X hear says it's not his fault he signed it because the nice guy from BigCo who spent 2 afternoons explaining it to him convinced him it was a good move
What does the law say ? Mr X was actually led to believe it was a good move and then fucked up the ass, and the law protects citizen against scams by asking BigCo to provide its customers with contracts that are understandable (or at least can be understood by a lawyer)
So what exactly does the law do ? it protects Mr X from its own ignorance. It's legal ignorance in this particular matter, meaning Mr X is, like 99% of the population incapable of fully understanding of the ramifications and implications of a complex contract, but it could be other ignorance, for instance the law protects smokers from big Tabacco by making cigarette manufacturers put warning labels on the cigarette packs.
The law is about protecting the weak from the excesses of the strong, and most of the time the strong is the one that knows and the weak the one that doesn't.
Yes because you think you're so smart...
Truth is your fields of expertise are likely not infinite and even if you are an expert in a number of subjects, which is possible, I would dare to say you're not in ALL the subjects.
For instance could you get scammed over the quality of what you wear ? or what you eat ? Do you move around with a chemical lab that allows you to check the composition of the food you eat ?
No, of course not, that's why the law protects you from being fed low cost toxic waste (well tries to protect at least...)
The same goes for complex information systems and new technology. People aren't necessarily aware of all the risks and consequences of their actions. It's not a good thing but you can't really do shit about it, except make people smarter and better informed but that's hardly a mean of action, it's a goal.
Saying : this is not a problem people just need to get smart is stupid, hence you're not smart if you say it because you don't have any understanding of how democracy works and where is your best interest in the long term. Getting people smarter and more knowledgeable is a goal, a very hard one to reach, so Genius if you have any idea on how to do that please enlighten us, but meanwhile stop thinking you're so smart just because you know about GPS and social network implications.
HiPER is at the stage were magnetic confinement was 25 years ago... Can we loose another 25 years ? And what will happen then ?
Yeah right PV cells ! Totally cool to power all the lights of the world... on a sunny day ! I'm actually preaching against my own parish since I work as an engineer for a company that does PV installs on industrial and commercial sites. PV is good, but PV requires the same power in Nuclear/thermal electricity to balance the load on the network when the weather is bad. This means that botht the costs and the carbone footprint of PV is actually rather high compared to Nuclear fission for instance.
OK, let's say they did lie, which is also what I believe.
Either you want to start a criminal investigation, in which case knock yourself out, or maybe we could focus on what's interesting, i.e. what does that event implies as to how Apple and its policies are perceived by their dealers and their customers.
On one hand you see that some customers apparently bought the scam, and that even those who didn't really buy it had a reasonable doubt, at least enough not to make a scandal and just buy the damn iPad with no accessories or reporting to the police. This tells us that Apple put them through so much crazy shit they would actually think it is believable that Apple enforces a racket policy.
On the other hand we see that dealers are becoming S.MA.R.T. This is how it goes : for the last 5 years all the dealers of the world who wanted to sell Apple branded product HAD TO promote they pro-actively in a way that would put them in a favourable position regarding their competition.
As an example of that I call the CRAZY 20 meters long stand in the FNAC next to my place. It's the same in every store that sells Consumer Electronics in France and I don't see why it would be different in other countries.
My point is just that part of Apple's business plan is that they have a very positive image that CE dealers want so they sold that positive image for in return free advertising IN STORE, which btw is GENIUS. So all I'm saying is Apple relies a lot on its dealers to promote their product, even though those dealers sell products from HP, Dell, Sony, Samsung, Archos, whatever... and this is one thing that gave and still gives them a real crazy competitive advantage.
So what happened while CE dealers were advertising for Apple ? Well Apple made a hell of a lot of money and enforced crazy policies, but CE dealers not so much.
Conclusion : Maybe, and that's just my analysis, some CE dealers are a bit tired of compensating all the shit Apple's been putting them through and they want a share of the cake. And maybe this guy just found the solution : Apple is not going to stay "Cool" forever so now might be a good moment to make so real cash out of gullible CE illiterate before all this goes to waste.
You failed to understand a very critical point : all those technologies are at the beginning of the research (even though they may be 50 years old) there is not a single plant somewhere nearly as big as the JET or such which have proven those technologies valid.
ITER is not a proof of concept you would make in a laboratory, it's an almost full scale industrial developmental plant !
Actually what's done there is just reducing the half-life and activity level of the waste.
But that's not even the problem, "recycling" or treating Nuclear waste costs tons of money AND a lot of energy. So much energy that it was basically planned at the beginning to use Nuclear fusion reactor to power the recycling plants for the fission waste we would have accumulated.
Don't be fooled it is frightening.
Nuclear fusion is pretty much a potential infinite source of clean electrical energy and we have 2 options to try to master plasma confinement long enough to harvest that energy. One is investigated with ITER and the other is the inertial confinement. I don't think anyone has the authority to tell whether one or the other is more likely to be successful because it's very new and to test it you actually have to build huge tokamak reactors that cost billions and it has not been done before.
So as Pascal I'll assume it's a 50/50 draw.
Now put that piece of news back in context : humanity is maybe about to give up on half its chances to secure a clean source of energy for the forseable future.
Does that make you scared ?
Nhuhu... I'm refering to the finders vs angry Apple fuckers case.
I read the comment and I sense some crazy persons out here are almost ready to immolate the guy who reportedly "stole" the prototype in a bar.
Now just a little fictional tale I would like to share with you, it's kinda of a gamebook or a choose your own adventure book if you will.
You in a bar, with a friends drinking beers. You had a couple of pints and a couple of nerd arguments about [insert geeky topics] when all of a sudden you see the obnoxious guy with 2 chicks and 3 grammes of alcohol in each arm leaving the bar, forgetting something on the table. So you go over there to see and you SEE and Hold in your hand a prototype iPhone 4G.
Now tell me : what do you do ?
Shall you call upon the aforementioned drunk idiot to hand him over his prototype while both of you pray to steve ?
Or shall you keep it and intend to toy with it up until it is remotely locked ?
Quick think fast, the guy is moving away and it could get locked any time soon !
I hope at least some of you will think about it twice now before virtually sentencing the poor bastard to death.
NOBODY STOLE THE DAMN PHONE ! Some Apple punkass lost it and steve just can't get over it ! Please stop the misinformation here, somebody ! It's like that extortion non-sense ! How is Gizmodo supposed to extort money from Apple ? I mean you do realize Blackmail is a crime right ?
:
Now what sounds more reasonnable
A) Gizmodo after making all the buzz they wanted with a prototype iPhone 4G just decided hey why not blackmail Steve Jobs and get millions from Apple ? After all it's not like we are a legitimate news company who will have difficulties laundering money we got from blackmailing another company. We are basically Mafia so...
B) Steve Jobs as usual got carried away by his incredibly oversized ego and made up some fucked up story to cover the iPhone 4G. Oh no wait he didn't have to make up a story BECAUSE HE NEVER SAID HE HAD BEEN blackmailed ! That's just some shit Apple fanboys have been tossing here and there and that was repeated up until it became true to some morons !
Jefferson wasn't head of a bankrupted state. The private debt wasn't over 150% of the GDP. Globalization had not started yet. Chinese were nice people. There were no global issues like global warming.
When the world changes, so does the need for a political system, for everything is political and there is no perfect political system, there are just some that fit better some situation.
yeah yeah yeah blabla. I'm not even going to start lecturing you on basic economics so just listen and take this from people who know : Europeans who are screwed to the bones.
When you share a money ($) you HAVE TO share your fiscal policies.
Without that it's what you have in europe right now which is a desperate need for more centralized power in Brussels to actually be able to make a decision.
Were you to actually lessen the federal government powers, you would in fact just strengthen other federal agencies like the FED.