There's a law on journalists, yes, but leaking trade secrets is not journalism, any more than taking pictures with a telephoto lense of Britney Spears in her bathroom, and publishing them in the National Enquirer, is "journalism".
Spank spank, AC. You lose.
Dear God. Please save us from the Apple Shills.
Dear god save us from the Apple-is-the-antichrist buttboys.
If you really worked for their tech support, you'd know that your Mini was covered by a one year warranty, and could have easily sent it in. Even more easily if you still knew some people who worked in their support area.
MS *created* their own document format (.doc). It's theirs to use. No other company has the RIGHT to inherently have their products work with it.
Big, obvious difference: Microsoft has a functional monopoly on operating systems and office software, whereas Apple has no such monopoly on music players.
The evil is the EXACT SAME!
They couldn't be farther apart, actually, so your "point" is moot.
We see the same drives, opticals, memory, psus, graphics cards as in our Dell boxes.
Not on the majority of their machines, you wont. Dell is infamous for using the supplier-of-the-day to slop together a box of parts. Even their Optiplex line, which is supposed to minimize hardware changes, has left people out in the cold from time to time.
Seriously - I really don't understand why the Apple Fans are defending Apple on this one. Apple crossed the line of reasonableness here, defending them means you've crossed the line from fan to shill.
And what line did they cross, exactly? Apple knows for a fact that trade secrets were violated and that Think Secret willfully published those secrets. Why the hell should they spend a great deal of time and a great deal of money doing an internal investigation when a simple subpoena can accomplish this task in short order. What ethical or legal obligation requires Apple to take the path of least resistance last? Until you or the EFF can answer this question, this is nothing more than a red herring and the ones jumping all over Apple are the ones being completely unreasonable.
Another thing I would note is, how many of the companies on this list turn a consistent profit, who aren't named Dell or Apple. HP may sell more machines than Apple, but seem to loose many millions every quarter.
How would they NOT have been? Do you think that Gore seriously would have gone before Congress and the U.N., going to war on false pretenses (and do you think he would have gotten away with it?) If Kerry was happy to jump into a river to save one of his men in Vietnam at the risk of getting shot, do you think he'd sit around chewing his nails for days while a hurricane whiped out a city?
The Democrats are just as evil and anti-freedom as the Republicans.
Nonsense. The Democrats aren't the ones pushing for endless detentions of American citizens without charges.
FWIW, I voted Badnarik in 2004.
Ah yes, Libertarians, the only ones who could possibly screw the government up even more than Republicans. But at least they'd try and balance the budget.
They cost so much because phone companies and the record industry are greedy, greedy bastards. And other than that, unless you are using iTMS songs as ringtones, it's really not Apple's responsibility if your tones are properly licensed or not.
...master of none. You'd probably have more space for flash storage if they had forgone the camera or the bluetooth connectivity. Either you have lower less capable modules or it's put together rather cheaply...one reason I avoid mp3 players with voice recording and FM playback shoehorned on.
But this will get better as stuff gets more and more minaturized. In 5 years we might have phones with five megapixel cameras and 20 gigs of storage. I also wonder how the U.S. phone industry will criple them.
I guess Gates is shooting for immortality...putting a piece of himself into every copy of Windows. What a crappy existance, though...I'd rather be a bra.
Only the games that don't depend on it. GTA does not depend on screwing and killing hookers to be a good game. If it's good, it's good, and if it's bad, its bad. T&A does not make a game one or the other.
How many people would buy more than double the games?
Easy: make the games more episodic. I'll use the origional Half-Life as an example. Say the game had been divided into three parts: the first deals with your initial struggle just to survive, and trying to find a way out of a collapsing base. The second could have been trying to save your scientist friends from the marines and aliens, and the third chapter would involve going to the aliens homeworld.
Same thing could work with GTA: San Andreas. First chapter: your home city of Los Santos. Then the sticks and San Fierro, and finally Las Venturas and the return home.
This could be very beneficial to the game companies for several reasons. First, $20 for a chapter is much more of an impulse buy than $50 for a full game, and by the time they're done, they've made another $10 off the game. Secondly, it would give companies more time to get bugs worked out of games, and we could get higher quality releases. Rather than having to get all the quirks worked out of a 50 hour game, they could concentrate on the first 16 hours, then have a couple of months to work on the next 16, and so on.
Another reason to come out with additional "content" (I hate that word, thank you Valve) after the release of the game is to attract gamers who might have passed up the game upon it's first release. Multiplayer mods such as Team Fortress or Counter-Strike are good examples of this. Or the "new" features might have been elements that were cut out of the origional release to meet a deadline, and are now just being put back in.
Let's make it simple: if games cost half what they cost today, I would buy more than double, in part because I would feel less monetary guilt for every purchase.
Yup. The next time you're in Wal-Mart, just check out the people flocking around the DVD bargin bin. Most of whome obviously weren't intending on buying movies when they came in. Who can pass up Baseketball or the odd Jackie Chan movie for $5.50 each? I wish I could force music industry execs to watch this in action; piracy would never have taken off to the degree that it has if every album were five bucks.
And a large chunk of that 95% are computers owned by businesses or the government, and aren't intended for games. Once you look at computers that are actually personal, that percentage is going to drop quite a bit.
The sequel...ha. I went to the movie knowing that every reviewer and his grandmother had panned this movie. In the beginning it seemed alright, and I was thinking the critics were full of crap...until Mila makes her entrance with the motorcycle. Then I thought, "no, the critics WERE right about this movie after all."
Just one problem with that: this is the US, not China. Censoring the press is not FEMA's job, disaster relief is. And people might not be complaining so much at the first if FEMA wasn't failing misearbly at the second.
or 2004 DNC (boston) where protestors were segregated to "free speech zones" locked behind a fence. under a freeway ramp. down the street from the convention center.
The difference is that the Democratic Party did this at a convention whereas for the Republicans, this kind of censorship/information control is standard policy on everything from "public" appearances by Bush (your either pro-Bush or not allowed) to photos of coffins returning from Iraq to a low power radio station in the Superdome.
First, from the very article you're quoting, the firefighters responding to the consolidated request for aid were very clearly told FEMA was looking for two-person community relations teams. Community relations, public relations, security, field medical assistance if necessary.
You idiot. That only happened AFTER they had been sitting in Atlanta hotel rooms for days! Here, I'll quote the article since you were too stupid to comprehend it:
Many of the firefighters, assembled from Utah and throughout the United States by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, thought they were going to be deployed as emergency workers. Instead, they have learned they are going to be community-relations officers for FEMA, shuffled throughout the Gulf Coast region to disseminate fliers and a phone number: 1-800-621-FEMA.So FEMA took these people highly trained in disaster relief, and then used them to hand out phone numbers and photo ops with the president.
You want a radio station catering to the evacuees run by people who literally believe things like the Bush administration is not only responsible for the poor response[1], but is actually responsible for the hurricane itself?
Wow are you full of shit. So because some poor, black people in NO are pissed off and have crazy conspiracy theories...you DON'T want them to be more informed? What the hell kind of sense does that make? And the sentance blaming Bush for Katrina DOES NOT EXIST in that editorial you linked to.
In an emergency housing situation, the infrastructure at the facility, the facility-wide loudspeaker system, and newsletters/handouts/flyers are *more* than enough to disseminate information.
Nonsense. Two of the consistent problems in NOLA have been lack of power and lack of communications. It's going to take a lot less power to run a small radio station than it will for the loudspeakers of the entire Superdome and convention center.
even though Texas and Houston have gone completely out of their way to assist in any way possible.
Because there are more refugees than Houston and Austin can handle? Or maybe it's the fact that refugees are tired of sleeping on astrotuf.
Oh, wait, let me guess: it's not a state and local municipal responsibility, it was somehow magically a federal one?
So let me get this straight: you conservatives go on and on about the inefficiencies of "big government", but rather than having mobile federal resources available for massive disasters, you'd rather each city and state be able to handle anything that comes at them? So I can assume that you have written your state legislature demanding that they increase your taxes so your state can handle a hurricane, earthquake, or terrorist nuclear attack all by itself with no help from the federal government?
Let me guess: you were one of the people who blame Clinton for Waco and Ruby Ridge in the same breath. When you know, Ruby Ridge happened before he took office.
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How is not allowing the press to even run not censorship? Moreso when radio is the purvey of the FCC, not FEMA.
Because its the law
There's a law on journalists, yes, but leaking trade secrets is not journalism, any more than taking pictures with a telephoto lense of Britney Spears in her bathroom, and publishing them in the National Enquirer, is "journalism".
Spank spank, AC. You lose.
Dear God. Please save us from the Apple Shills.
Dear god save us from the Apple-is-the-antichrist buttboys.
If you really worked for their tech support, you'd know that your Mini was covered by a one year warranty, and could have easily sent it in. Even more easily if you still knew some people who worked in their support area.
HAD. What was the last thing MS did that mattered, versus the last thing Apple did that mattered (iPod).
So Microsoft no longer has more than 90% marketshare in the OS and office software market? When did this happen?
It's Apple who won't let files from other music stores work on iPods.
Then buy other songs from other online stores for other players. Duh.
MS *created* their own document format (.doc). It's theirs to use. No other company has the RIGHT to inherently have their products work with it.
Big, obvious difference: Microsoft has a functional monopoly on operating systems and office software, whereas Apple has no such monopoly on music players.
The evil is the EXACT SAME!
They couldn't be farther apart, actually, so your "point" is moot.
We see the same drives, opticals, memory, psus, graphics cards as in our Dell boxes.
Not on the majority of their machines, you wont. Dell is infamous for using the supplier-of-the-day to slop together a box of parts. Even their Optiplex line, which is supposed to minimize hardware changes, has left people out in the cold from time to time.
Seriously - I really don't understand why the Apple Fans are defending Apple on this one. Apple crossed the line of reasonableness here, defending them means you've crossed the line from fan to shill.
And what line did they cross, exactly? Apple knows for a fact that trade secrets were violated and that Think Secret willfully published those secrets. Why the hell should they spend a great deal of time and a great deal of money doing an internal investigation when a simple subpoena can accomplish this task in short order. What ethical or legal obligation requires Apple to take the path of least resistance last? Until you or the EFF can answer this question, this is nothing more than a red herring and the ones jumping all over Apple are the ones being completely unreasonable.
Another thing I would note is, how many of the companies on this list turn a consistent profit, who aren't named Dell or Apple. HP may sell more machines than Apple, but seem to loose many millions every quarter.
Gore/Kerry were NEVER part of the solution.
How would they NOT have been? Do you think that Gore seriously would have gone before Congress and the U.N., going to war on false pretenses (and do you think he would have gotten away with it?) If Kerry was happy to jump into a river to save one of his men in Vietnam at the risk of getting shot, do you think he'd sit around chewing his nails for days while a hurricane whiped out a city?
The Democrats are just as evil and anti-freedom as the Republicans.
Nonsense. The Democrats aren't the ones pushing for endless detentions of American citizens without charges.
FWIW, I voted Badnarik in 2004.
Ah yes, Libertarians, the only ones who could possibly screw the government up even more than Republicans. But at least they'd try and balance the budget.
In your dreams.
Well, far be it from me to inject some reality, facts, or common sense into your fanboyism.
They cost so much because phone companies and the record industry are greedy, greedy bastards. And other than that, unless you are using iTMS songs as ringtones, it's really not Apple's responsibility if your tones are properly licensed or not.
Possibly. :) But what happens when you drop it? And the contols look like the cat's ass.
...master of none. You'd probably have more space for flash storage if they had forgone the camera or the bluetooth connectivity. Either you have lower less capable modules or it's put together rather cheaply...one reason I avoid mp3 players with voice recording and FM playback shoehorned on.
But this will get better as stuff gets more and more minaturized. In 5 years we might have phones with five megapixel cameras and 20 gigs of storage. I also wonder how the U.S. phone industry will criple them.
I guess Gates is shooting for immortality...putting a piece of himself into every copy of Windows. What a crappy existance, though...I'd rather be a bra.
But those are the games that are making money.
Only the games that don't depend on it. GTA does not depend on screwing and killing hookers to be a good game. If it's good, it's good, and if it's bad, its bad. T&A does not make a game one or the other.
How many people would buy more than double the games?
Easy: make the games more episodic. I'll use the origional Half-Life as an example. Say the game had been divided into three parts: the first deals with your initial struggle just to survive, and trying to find a way out of a collapsing base. The second could have been trying to save your scientist friends from the marines and aliens, and the third chapter would involve going to the aliens homeworld.
Same thing could work with GTA: San Andreas. First chapter: your home city of Los Santos. Then the sticks and San Fierro, and finally Las Venturas and the return home.
This could be very beneficial to the game companies for several reasons. First, $20 for a chapter is much more of an impulse buy than $50 for a full game, and by the time they're done, they've made another $10 off the game. Secondly, it would give companies more time to get bugs worked out of games, and we could get higher quality releases. Rather than having to get all the quirks worked out of a 50 hour game, they could concentrate on the first 16 hours, then have a couple of months to work on the next 16, and so on.
Another reason to come out with additional "content" (I hate that word, thank you Valve) after the release of the game is to attract gamers who might have passed up the game upon it's first release. Multiplayer mods such as Team Fortress or Counter-Strike are good examples of this. Or the "new" features might have been elements that were cut out of the origional release to meet a deadline, and are now just being put back in.
Let's make it simple: if games cost half what they cost today, I would buy more than double, in part because I would feel less monetary guilt for every purchase.
Yup. The next time you're in Wal-Mart, just check out the people flocking around the DVD bargin bin. Most of whome obviously weren't intending on buying movies when they came in. Who can pass up Baseketball or the odd Jackie Chan movie for $5.50 each? I wish I could force music industry execs to watch this in action; piracy would never have taken off to the degree that it has if every album were five bucks.
Again, so what? When 95% of computers run Windows
And a large chunk of that 95% are computers owned by businesses or the government, and aren't intended for games. Once you look at computers that are actually personal, that percentage is going to drop quite a bit.
The sequel...ha. I went to the movie knowing that every reviewer and his grandmother had panned this movie. In the beginning it seemed alright, and I was thinking the critics were full of crap...until Mila makes her entrance with the motorcycle. Then I thought, "no, the critics WERE right about this movie after all."
A horse, or maybe they just need to see a doctor.
It is about a chain of command.
Just one problem with that: this is the US, not China. Censoring the press is not FEMA's job, disaster relief is. And people might not be complaining so much at the first if FEMA wasn't failing misearbly at the second.
or 2004 DNC (boston) where protestors were segregated to "free speech zones" locked behind a fence. under a freeway ramp. down the street from the convention center.
The difference is that the Democratic Party did this at a convention whereas for the Republicans, this kind of censorship/information control is standard policy on everything from "public" appearances by Bush (your either pro-Bush or not allowed) to photos of coffins returning from Iraq to a low power radio station in the Superdome.
These people deserve privacy.
Then bloody ask them if you can take their picture! The way it is now, FEMA is making that choice for them. That's not privacy, that's censorship.
First, from the very article you're quoting, the firefighters responding to the consolidated request for aid were very clearly told FEMA was looking for two-person community relations teams. Community relations, public relations, security, field medical assistance if necessary.
You idiot. That only happened AFTER they had been sitting in Atlanta hotel rooms for days! Here, I'll quote the article since you were too stupid to comprehend it: Many of the firefighters, assembled from Utah and throughout the United States by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, thought they were going to be deployed as emergency workers. Instead, they have learned they are going to be community-relations officers for FEMA, shuffled throughout the Gulf Coast region to disseminate fliers and a phone number: 1-800-621-FEMA.So FEMA took these people highly trained in disaster relief, and then used them to hand out phone numbers and photo ops with the president.
You want a radio station catering to the evacuees run by people who literally believe things like the Bush administration is not only responsible for the poor response[1], but is actually responsible for the hurricane itself?
Wow are you full of shit. So because some poor, black people in NO are pissed off and have crazy conspiracy theories...you DON'T want them to be more informed? What the hell kind of sense does that make? And the sentance blaming Bush for Katrina DOES NOT EXIST in that editorial you linked to.
In an emergency housing situation, the infrastructure at the facility, the facility-wide loudspeaker system, and newsletters/handouts/flyers are *more* than enough to disseminate information.
Nonsense. Two of the consistent problems in NOLA have been lack of power and lack of communications. It's going to take a lot less power to run a small radio station than it will for the loudspeakers of the entire Superdome and convention center.
even though Texas and Houston have gone completely out of their way to assist in any way possible.
Because there are more refugees than Houston and Austin can handle? Or maybe it's the fact that refugees are tired of sleeping on astrotuf.
Oh, wait, let me guess: it's not a state and local municipal responsibility, it was somehow magically a federal one?
So let me get this straight: you conservatives go on and on about the inefficiencies of "big government", but rather than having mobile federal resources available for massive disasters, you'd rather each city and state be able to handle anything that comes at them? So I can assume that you have written your state legislature demanding that they increase your taxes so your state can handle a hurricane, earthquake, or terrorist nuclear attack all by itself with no help from the federal government?
Let me guess: you were one of the people who blame Clinton for Waco and Ruby Ridge in the same breath. When you know, Ruby Ridge happened before he took office.