I was thinking the same thing when I reead his post. I absoultely refuse to buy Apple products because I know Apple intentionally releases products before they are ready because they know they can get away with it.
I wonder if this were Microsoft rather than Apple trying to inflict the US legal system on a foreign country in this manner, would the person who submitted this article have a different reaction and would the reaction of Slashdotters be more hostile?
Ordering cable channels a la carter provides a tempting opportunity for the cable providers and their content-provider cohorts to bleed us to death with fees.
I can imagine it now.
"Yeah, I'd like the MTV 14 Channel"
"That will be $2, sir....in addition to the $10 activation fee"
"$10 activiation fee ?!? What the hell is that?"
"Sir, this is a fee we assess to cover the cost of processing your transaction, as we have to send the truck out to your house"
"Why can't you just flip a switch at the computer?"
"Sir, our systems don't work that way."
"Well forget my order. In fact, I want to drop MTV 2 that I'm currently getting"
"No problem sir. That will be a $10 deactiviation fee"
then I think they are playing with fire, because it can easily be alleged that they are violating other constitutional rights such as rights to privacy and protection from unreasonable search.
You see, if they want to make bogus charges, we can too.
P.S. IANACLBIDSAAHELN
(I am not a constitutional lawyer but i did stay at a Holiday Express Last Night)
Doug Glanville is now my favorite baseball player. And even though I'm a big Yankee fan, I gotta admit that I admire Schilling as well. I've always thought his obsession with computers was very cool.
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Let's be real. Google will not be selling PCs anytime soon with a "Goog" OS. Applications determine the success of any OS. And right now, Microsoft can run millions of apps.
Let's take it easy with the Google Is Taking Over the World stuff. Let them perfect search first. And they certainly have not won that battle yet.
Once again, Apple screws up and the customers are left holding the bag.
Not only that, but Apple apologists are out in force again dismissing the severity of the problem or Apple's increasingly shoddy engineering and customer service.
Apple knows that as long as it can sell its kool-aid to the hardcore fans, it really doesn't have to compete. It can keep on charging above market rate goods that take advantage of an idea that no longer exists:
As the differences in the two architectures become more commonly known, Halfhill said that he believed a single version of a software program could be written to support both architectures, by avoiding all but the instructions used by both processor families
Why can't Slashdot editors learn how to...well, edit ?
This is another example of a space exploration project that should be shelved until the problems on Earth are dealt with.
A mission to Mercury can wait two or three hundred years. Mercury isn't going anywhere
The problems on Earth aren't going anywhere either. I'm a firm believer that spending more money on Space Exploration will eventually help solve earth problems, or give us an escape plan.
Pass laws barring outsourcing to India or any other country incapable of protecting private data.
India is riding high on outsourced jobs and must heed the concerns of the nations employing thousands of Indian citizens. If it doesn't, I'm sure another country would be willing to take those jobs.
I don't gamble so I don't know what the rules are for games like roulette, but wouldn't it be considered cheating to use some external, undeclared device to give yourself an advantage.
I mean we can sit here and pedantically parse the definition of cheating, but clearly what the individuals referenced in this story did was unethical at the very least and possibly criminal.
If they didn't feel it was cheating they should have stated very clearly what they were doing and put the onus on the casino to prove that it was against the rules.
Speaking of the search for intelligent life, does anyone remember when intelligent discussion used to occur here on Slashdot?'
I wonder if Allen can throw some money to finding intelligent discussion in a web forum, since it seems to have been reduced to people rushing to throw out what they perceive to be funny quips, or a rush to acquire moderation points.
I don't remember Russia doing any fighting at Normandy.
Make no mistake about it, without Russia or America fighting, Europe would be a much different place today. Neither could have defeated Germany by itself, certainly not by 1945.
If you haven't learned anything from Bush's Presidency, you should know this one thing:
If the U.S. get's what's coming to it, so shall you.
That's the only thing that I like about Bush. If America gets nuked, many other nations will also get nuked. WW2 will look like a picnic in comparison to the earth scorching that will go on.
If you think for a second that you will be unaffected and you'll be able to go on posting on Slashdot, you're sadly mistaken.
You'll either be dead or well on you way to a grisly death.
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Outside of work I play hard
I've never met a dot-head that played hard at anything, or had anything remotely resembling a personality.
The only cool Indians I know are ABCD's.
a. More controversial is the introduction of a new and elegant foreach construct.
b. VB has a foreach construct.
c. Therefore, VB is elegant ?
I was thinking the same thing when I reead his post. I absoultely refuse to buy Apple products because I know Apple intentionally releases products before they are ready because they know they can get away with it.
I wonder if this were Microsoft rather than Apple trying to inflict the US legal system on a foreign country in this manner, would the person who submitted this article have a different reaction and would the reaction of Slashdotters be more hostile?
Ordering cable channels a la carter provides a tempting opportunity for the cable providers and their content-provider cohorts to bleed us to death with fees.
I can imagine it now.
"Yeah, I'd like the MTV 14 Channel"
"That will be $2, sir....in addition to the $10 activation fee"
"$10 activiation fee ?!? What the hell is that?"
"Sir, this is a fee we assess to cover the cost of processing your transaction, as we have to send the truck out to your house"
"Why can't you just flip a switch at the computer?"
"Sir, our systems don't work that way."
"Well forget my order. In fact, I want to drop MTV 2 that I'm currently getting"
"No problem sir. That will be a $10 deactiviation fee"
then I think they are playing with fire, because it can easily be alleged that they are violating other constitutional rights such as rights to privacy and protection from unreasonable search.
You see, if they want to make bogus charges, we can too.
P.S. IANACLBIDSAAHELN
(I am not a constitutional lawyer but i did stay at a Holiday Express Last Night)
Doug Glanville is now my favorite baseball player. And even though I'm a big Yankee fan, I gotta admit that I admire Schilling as well. I've always thought his obsession with computers was very cool.
Let's be real. Google will not be selling PCs anytime soon with a "Goog" OS. Applications determine the success of any OS. And right now, Microsoft can run millions of apps.
Let's take it easy with the Google Is Taking Over the World stuff. Let them perfect search first. And they certainly have not won that battle yet.
Once again, Apple screws up and the customers are left holding the bag.
Not only that, but Apple apologists are out in force again dismissing the severity of the problem or Apple's increasingly shoddy engineering and customer service.
Apple knows that as long as it can sell its kool-aid to the hardcore fans, it really doesn't have to compete. It can keep on charging above market rate goods that take advantage of an idea that no longer exists:
Superiority because it's Apple.
As the differences in the two architectures become more commonly known, Halfhill said that he believed a single version of a software program could be written to support both architectures, by avoiding all but the instructions used by both processor families
Why can't Slashdot editors learn how to...well, edit ?
This is another example of a space exploration project that should be shelved until the problems on Earth are dealt with.
A mission to Mercury can wait two or three hundred years. Mercury isn't going anywhere
The problems on Earth aren't going anywhere either. I'm a firm believer that spending more money on Space Exploration will eventually help solve earth problems, or give us an escape plan.
Does KDE have a VBA like language that allows you to script programs using a standard, common IDE ?
If not, it will never succeed in Corporate World.
Are we that juvenile that we admire anything technical, regardless of its use, or in this case, misuse?
You people need to grow up.
Only to an idiot.
Let me guess. You're white, fat and chew tobacco.
We have a new little Australia to play with
Do we really want a new Australia? Another bunch of people obsessing over whether they're liked.
"You like me, right mate? Because I'm funloving and like to surf, right?"
Let's bomb the place now before it's too late.
I've always wanted my own sleastack.
When they open up DB2, then they'll get my attention. Collaboration on processor design is not new at all.
What's the US going to do to get the Indian?
Pass laws barring outsourcing to India or any other country incapable of protecting private data.
India is riding high on outsourced jobs and must heed the concerns of the nations employing thousands of Indian citizens. If it doesn't, I'm sure another country would be willing to take those jobs.
Cheating involves breaking the rules of the game.
I don't gamble so I don't know what the rules are for games like roulette, but wouldn't it be considered cheating to use some external, undeclared device to give yourself an advantage.
I mean we can sit here and pedantically parse the definition of cheating, but clearly what the individuals referenced in this story did was unethical at the very least and possibly criminal.
If they didn't feel it was cheating they should have stated very clearly what they were doing and put the onus on the casino to prove that it was against the rules.
Had one when I was a kid.
Wait a minute. Adults still visit Slashdot ?
Wow! I thought we had chased them off in the great Hot Grits War of 2002 !
Just do what a lot of us do: Level the playing field by only burning games that you download or burn. Never ever pay for a videogame.
Speaking of the search for intelligent life, does anyone remember when intelligent discussion used to occur here on Slashdot?'
I wonder if Allen can throw some money to finding intelligent discussion in a web forum, since it seems to have been reduced to people rushing to throw out what they perceive to be funny quips, or a rush to acquire moderation points.
Slashdot, you used to be great. What happened?
I don't remember Russia doing any fighting at Normandy.
Make no mistake about it, without Russia or America fighting, Europe would be a much different place today. Neither could have defeated Germany by itself, certainly not by 1945.
It didn't sound hostile to me at all. I think you're the one who needs to "chill".
I hope you get what's coming to you.
If you haven't learned anything from Bush's Presidency, you should know this one thing:
If the U.S. get's what's coming to it, so shall you.
That's the only thing that I like about Bush. If America gets nuked, many other nations will also get nuked. WW2 will look like a picnic in comparison to the earth scorching that will go on.
If you think for a second that you will be unaffected and you'll be able to go on posting on Slashdot, you're sadly mistaken.
You'll either be dead or well on you way to a grisly death.