I am curious (and a bit too lazy right now to look it up) but doesn't the money we deposit with credit unions still end up in the "evil banks"' hands? Isn't all so much interwoven that you will never be able to avoid giving your indirect support to the big players in the financial industry?
Yes, credit unions are linked into some of the same financial institutions banks use. That's unavoidable. The big difference is that banks are ultimately responsible to their shareholders, which are largely not the same people as their customers. Conversely, credit unions are ultimately accountable to their members, which by definition is the exact same thing as their customers. It makes a big difference in how you're treated.
In hindsight, it's easy to say the iPhone is just another smartphone, but at the time it was introduced, it was nothing like any phone that came before it. Yes, its individual features -- touch screen, icons, internal antenna, multitouch UI, etc., all existed -- but until the iPhone came along, they had not been put together quite like this before (To use the hackneyed "car" metaphor: wheels, internal combustion engines and axles predate the automobile, but this doesn't mean the car was nothing new when it came along).
Just look at marketing materials from the major carriers in 2006 -- flip phones and candy bars were the typical (practically only) form factors available before the iPhone was revealed in January 2007. It took very little time for all that to change, but when it comes right down to it -- there was nothing akin to the modern smartphone before the iPhone.
It's pretty silly to suggest today's wide array of multi-touch handheld computers have nothing to do with its design and success.
This is truth. Apple broke open the smartphone market in a huge way. The features themselves weren't innovative, but the way they were combined and brought to market sure as hell was. They did the same thing with the tablet market when most people, myself included, thought tablets were a stupid idea. Job's particular brand of genius was bringing the right product to the the right market at the right time. This is a very difficult thing to do even once, not to mention repeatably.
All that being said, Jobs did as much to hurt innovation as he did to help. He was no saint and the way he's being deified in the press is disturbing.
There's plenty to gripe about, but I don't see anyone stepping forward to distill the message and create an agenda. Change won't happen without leadership and I don't see any at the protests.
This won't go over well, but personally I'm barely paying attention to all this aimless protesting. I'll be more interested when they are able to articulate some specific desired changes. Or even their goals.
Why are they picking on Google instead of someplace like, for instance, Koch Industries? Or News Corp? Or any of the other big companies pulling the infamous Double Dutch accounting tricks?
Cisco's CEO has been quite open about this practice, and his desire to bring it back into the US instead of leaving it offshore. It has to make sense, though; only an idiot would pay taxes they don't have to.
That was the longest description of bundling I've ever read. It's a pretty common practice used by fast food chains, service providers, manufacturers, etc.
The laws of the United States as written by Congress, not the states, just as you have written "...arising under this Constitution, the Laws of the United States." The state court systems are sovereign and separate. The court can rule whatever it wants, but the states are under no obligation to follow what the court rules.
Where there is conflict between federal and state law, federal law takes precedence. Last time there was a disagreement about that we had this thing called the Civil War.
Note: it would be great if you include in your answers some idea about their currency â" if you're in China right now, say, or if you were there more than a year ago.
I can do this.
I was in China more than a year ago, seven years ago to be exact. Their currency was the Chinese Yuan.
You're welcome.
Except in Hong Kong, where it is the Hong Kong Dollar (HKD), and Macau, where it is the Macau Pataca (MOP). The Yuan, used everywhere on the mainland, is referred to as RMB on the exchanges.
DO NOT TAKE YOUR OWN AMERICAN CELL PHONE. I've had 3 colleagues have theirs either confiscated or taken to be "searched" (If it was being "searched" they got it back on their way out of the country, if it was confiscated it was gone for good.)
Cellphones are dirt cheap there and so are sims with unlimited data plans and a crap ton of minutes. For 30 bucks you can usually have a decent flip phone and a month of service. Service for me was 7$ a month after that.
Be careful what you browse on the internet and what you say on the phone.
I've had no problems bringing multiple cell phones in and out of China on multiple occasions (and I echo the advice of bringing an unlocked GSM phone and buying a SIM card locally). What the hell are your colleagues doing to get their phones confiscated? Just like us, _everyone_ traveling in China is carrying a phone.
One thing you will not be able to do is hit Facebook or the Apple app store. I used a PPTP connection to work around this issue.
They made best handsets. the voice quality, both incoming and outgoing, are still spectacular. not found in any other device. sad that stuff peripheral to actual phone call quality is determining the fate of a handset maker.
Quality of hardware and user experience mattered to Apple, that's why they aren't bankrupt 10 years ago and a subject of pub trivia.
You seem to be implying that Apple also has excellent voice quality. This strikes me as funny because we usually ridicule anyone breaking up on a conference call by asking them if they're using an iPhone.
Presumably they're only selling what they believe their infrastructure can support. If the data bandwidth required were two or three times their capacity model and they didn't have funding or spectrum to increase capacity, not only are they screwed, but so are all their customers.
We can't have it both ways. Either a few pay for tethering and large data usage, or we all pay for tethering and large data usage whether we need/want it or not. What everyone seems to want is all you can eat data with unlimited tethering but at the same price or even less than they currently pay. That will not happen.
Everything I used that worked in FF7 still works for me in FF8. Even one that hasn't been updated since FF6.
After installing the Add-on Compatibility Reporter, your incompatible extensions will become enabled for you to test whether they still work with the version of Firefox or Thunderbird that you're using. If you notice that one of your add-ons doesn't seem to be working the same way it did in previous versions of the application, just open the Add-ons Manager and click Compatibility next to that add-on to send a report to Mozilla.
Even if your add-ons all work fine, if they're marked incompatible, please let us know that they work fine by submitting a success report so we can encourage the add-on developer to update their compatibility information.
We'll collect all of the reports and let add-on developers know what users are having problems with, or if their add-ons seem to work just fine in future versions of the product.
They arrested a homeless guy as a nefarious hacker. I guess he has such mad skillz he just thinks about the hack and it happens even if he doesn't have an internet connection, running water, or a bathroom.
"Homeless" just means he doesn't own a home or rent an apartment. It doesn't mean he sleeps in a gutter or shelter. Julian Assange likely fits this definition.
Cisco and HP are toe-to-toe right now, but Meg and John Chambers are close personal friends. I'm interested to see how that might evolve, if she really does become the HP CEO.
...and thus, a second rate citizen in google's eyes. To be clear, once I started PAYING for a google service, I lost functionality with a fuzzy promise date of "soon" ( for the past 6 months ).
I don't think I'll be jumping on board this particular bandwagon, thanks.
Complaining that beta-quality software isn't available on paid production systems seems a little odd.
Have you seen the fact that apple makes 2/3rds of all profits taken from.global smartphone sales? They couldn't care less about android's market share when the android phone makers are fighting for meager scraps.
I wouldn't characterize it this way at all. If you have 2/3 of the profits, you want 3/4. If you have 3/4, you want 4/5. And so on. I seriously doubt that Apple doesn't care about Android.
I was shocked and dismayed when I heard the news last night about Steve Jobs leaving Apple. Mostly because I bought their stock last week.
This, however, is far more impactful to me on a personal level. I can't remember exactly when I created my account, but it has been with me a long, long time. Slashdot has been an almost daily fixture of my adult life.
Thanks for creating and sharing your chunk of the ether with us, and my very best wishes in whatever it is you decide to do.
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I am curious (and a bit too lazy right now to look it up) but doesn't the money we deposit with credit unions still end up in the "evil banks"' hands? Isn't all so much interwoven that you will never be able to avoid giving your indirect support to the big players in the financial industry?
Yes, credit unions are linked into some of the same financial institutions banks use. That's unavoidable. The big difference is that banks are ultimately responsible to their shareholders, which are largely not the same people as their customers. Conversely, credit unions are ultimately accountable to their members, which by definition is the exact same thing as their customers. It makes a big difference in how you're treated.
"the" Democratic Underground? No, it's just Democratic Underground, or DU.
-1 Overly Pedantic. Even for Slashdot.
Speaking NOT as a fanboy, but as a gadget fan:
In hindsight, it's easy to say the iPhone is just another smartphone, but at the time it was introduced, it was nothing like any phone that came before it. Yes, its individual features -- touch screen, icons, internal antenna, multitouch UI, etc., all existed -- but until the iPhone came along, they had not been put together quite like this before (To use the hackneyed "car" metaphor: wheels, internal combustion engines and axles predate the automobile, but this doesn't mean the car was nothing new when it came along).
Just look at marketing materials from the major carriers in 2006 -- flip phones and candy bars were the typical (practically only) form factors available before the iPhone was revealed in January 2007. It took very little time for all that to change, but when it comes right down to it -- there was nothing akin to the modern smartphone before the iPhone.
It's pretty silly to suggest today's wide array of multi-touch handheld computers have nothing to do with its design and success.
This is truth. Apple broke open the smartphone market in a huge way. The features themselves weren't innovative, but the way they were combined and brought to market sure as hell was. They did the same thing with the tablet market when most people, myself included, thought tablets were a stupid idea. Job's particular brand of genius was bringing the right product to the the right market at the right time. This is a very difficult thing to do even once, not to mention repeatably.
All that being said, Jobs did as much to hurt innovation as he did to help. He was no saint and the way he's being deified in the press is disturbing.
There's plenty to gripe about, but I don't see anyone stepping forward to distill the message and create an agenda. Change won't happen without leadership and I don't see any at the protests.
This won't go over well, but personally I'm barely paying attention to all this aimless protesting. I'll be more interested when they are able to articulate some specific desired changes. Or even their goals.
Every time you fail to pay use tax on an Internet purchase, you are practicing tax evasion. This is illegal.
I'm from a state without a sales tax, you insensitive clod!
Then you aren't failing to pay use tax. Lucky.
Why are they picking on Google instead of someplace like, for instance, Koch Industries? Or News Corp? Or any of the other big companies pulling the infamous Double Dutch accounting tricks?
Cisco's CEO has been quite open about this practice, and his desire to bring it back into the US instead of leaving it offshore. It has to make sense, though; only an idiot would pay taxes they don't have to.
More importantly, it's evasion when you do it, but avoidance when your corporate overlords do.
Every time you fail to pay use tax on an Internet purchase, you are practicing tax evasion. This is illegal.
Every time you claim every possible deduction to reduce your taxable income, you are practicing tax avoidance. This is legal.
Do you get it now?
I understand that. I was making a statement of fact, not one of ideology.
ESR was also basically of the same opinion. Except he sugar coats the whole thing, to be politically correct.
Tact is unfortunately overrated.
Tact is what prevents RMS from being taken seriously.
That was the longest description of bundling I've ever read. It's a pretty common practice used by fast food chains, service providers, manufacturers, etc.
The laws of the United States as written by Congress, not the states, just as you have written "...arising under this Constitution, the Laws of the United States." The state court systems are sovereign and separate. The court can rule whatever it wants, but the states are under no obligation to follow what the court rules.
Where there is conflict between federal and state law, federal law takes precedence. Last time there was a disagreement about that we had this thing called the Civil War.
I'm familiar with the current default Ubuntu desktop. I stand by my statement.
Why on earth would you want it to work the same way Win2k did? So that the decade-old interface will remind you of the Linux desktop?
Note: it would be great if you include in your answers some idea about their currency â" if you're in China right now, say, or if you were there more than a year ago.
I can do this.
I was in China more than a year ago, seven years ago to be exact. Their currency was the Chinese Yuan.
You're welcome.
Except in Hong Kong, where it is the Hong Kong Dollar (HKD), and Macau, where it is the Macau Pataca (MOP). The Yuan, used everywhere on the mainland, is referred to as RMB on the exchanges.
DO NOT TAKE YOUR OWN AMERICAN CELL PHONE. I've had 3 colleagues have theirs either confiscated or taken to be "searched" (If it was being "searched" they got it back on their way out of the country, if it was confiscated it was gone for good.)
Cellphones are dirt cheap there and so are sims with unlimited data plans and a crap ton of minutes. For 30 bucks you can usually have a decent flip phone and a month of service. Service for me was 7$ a month after that.
Be careful what you browse on the internet and what you say on the phone.
I've had no problems bringing multiple cell phones in and out of China on multiple occasions (and I echo the advice of bringing an unlocked GSM phone and buying a SIM card locally). What the hell are your colleagues doing to get their phones confiscated? Just like us, _everyone_ traveling in China is carrying a phone.
One thing you will not be able to do is hit Facebook or the Apple app store. I used a PPTP connection to work around this issue.
They made best handsets. the voice quality, both incoming and outgoing, are still spectacular. not found in any other device. sad that stuff peripheral to actual phone call quality is determining the fate of a handset maker.
Quality of hardware and user experience mattered to Apple, that's why they aren't bankrupt 10 years ago and a subject of pub trivia.
You seem to be implying that Apple also has excellent voice quality. This strikes me as funny because we usually ridicule anyone breaking up on a conference call by asking them if they're using an iPhone.
Presumably they're only selling what they believe their infrastructure can support. If the data bandwidth required were two or three times their capacity model and they didn't have funding or spectrum to increase capacity, not only are they screwed, but so are all their customers.
We can't have it both ways. Either a few pay for tethering and large data usage, or we all pay for tethering and large data usage whether we need/want it or not. What everyone seems to want is all you can eat data with unlimited tethering but at the same price or even less than they currently pay. That will not happen.
You probably went from stable FF6 to stable FF7.
This announcement is about the new beta version. Since FF7 is now stable, the new beta is FF8.
There's an extension for that.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/add-on-compatibility-reporter/?src=api
Everything I used that worked in FF7 still works for me in FF8. Even one that hasn't been updated since FF6.
After installing the Add-on Compatibility Reporter, your incompatible extensions will become enabled for you to test whether they still work with the version of Firefox or Thunderbird that you're using. If you notice that one of your add-ons doesn't seem to be working the same way it did in previous versions of the application, just open the Add-ons Manager and click Compatibility next to that add-on to send a report to Mozilla.
Even if your add-ons all work fine, if they're marked incompatible, please let us know that they work fine by submitting a success report so we can encourage the add-on developer to update their compatibility information.
We'll collect all of the reports and let add-on developers know what users are having problems with, or if their add-ons seem to work just fine in future versions of the product.
They arrested a homeless guy as a nefarious hacker. I guess he has such mad skillz he just thinks about the hack and it happens even if he doesn't have an internet connection, running water, or a bathroom.
"Homeless" just means he doesn't own a home or rent an apartment. It doesn't mean he sleeps in a gutter or shelter. Julian Assange likely fits this definition.
Cisco and HP are toe-to-toe right now, but Meg and John Chambers are close personal friends. I'm interested to see how that might evolve, if she really does become the HP CEO.
...and thus, a second rate citizen in google's eyes. To be clear, once I started PAYING for a google service, I lost functionality with a fuzzy promise date of "soon" ( for the past 6 months ).
I don't think I'll be jumping on board this particular bandwagon, thanks.
Complaining that beta-quality software isn't available on paid production systems seems a little odd.
Have you seen the fact that apple makes 2/3rds of all profits taken from.global smartphone sales? They couldn't care less about android's market share when the android phone makers are fighting for meager scraps.
I wouldn't characterize it this way at all. If you have 2/3 of the profits, you want 3/4. If you have 3/4, you want 4/5. And so on. I seriously doubt that Apple doesn't care about Android.
I was commenting on your analogy train wreck. But clearly you take everything as literally as possible.
I was shocked and dismayed when I heard the news last night about Steve Jobs leaving Apple. Mostly because I bought their stock last week.
This, however, is far more impactful to me on a personal level. I can't remember exactly when I created my account, but it has been with me a long, long time. Slashdot has been an almost daily fixture of my adult life.
Thanks for creating and sharing your chunk of the ether with us, and my very best wishes in whatever it is you decide to do.