Probably more correctly, iphone users use apps and not mobile safari for a lot of normal web tasks. Movies, News, Social Networking, Media, Navagation... these are all done by apps.
From your link, their reasoning is flawed, as I've seen elsewhere. For instance, "For the US, the recently revised NASA GISS Annual Mean temperatures show 6 of the 10 warmest years were from the 1920s to the 1950s and only 4 since 1990."
That means nothing. Global Warming means GLOBAL Warming. The US is allowed to have higher temps from time to time. If you look at the GLOBAL trend, it is getting hotter.
Cameras and identification everywhere won't prevent you or your family from being killed. They might make it easier to catch who did, but it won't make you safer.
China would, and probably will, manually block Google.hk. But it'll be fairly embarrassing that it's legal in some parts of their country but not others.
It's hard to say. Mario 64 is/was the definitive game that showed that 3D games could work. For the time it was spectacular and a great deal of the 3D platformer game conventions we take for granted today came from Mario. So, it's a great game but it's been a long time since it came out and time ages 3D poorly. So, how good are you at playing older tech?
PS The goal of the game is to get the stars and save peach;)
One reason is a flat tax, just as sales tax, has a more significant impact on the poor. If the tax rate is 10% and you make $100 a weak, the difference between 100 and 90 is pretty significant. If you make 10,000 a weak, the different between 9000 and 10,000 is far less significant. So, a flat tax is "fair" but only from a certain set of principles.
Access, while perhaps not "so great/must have" doesn't really have a viable alternative on any other platform. There are a few projects, but as yet no contenders.
It's true, but much like people who "love the feel of a good book in their hands" we are probably the last generation who will agree with that statement much like I'm sure you rather use a calculator than a slide rule despite that a slide rule "feels" a lot better and gives a better grasp of the math than a calculator.
Well, this is something Apple does that has its pros and cons. As you noted, it "forces" the user to upgrade, but how long has Microsoft suffered in OS sludge to support software going back decades. Apple has a history of cutting out the old to focus on the today. It allows them and their OS to be leaner and optimize for the people who are running it on current hardware. 10.6 is a perfect example of this, smaller, faster and optimize for the products they are selling today and in the future. True, they cut off a perhaps sizable group who haven't refreshed for years and years, but they do so with an eye to the future both for their bottom lines (they are a hardware company too) and for their customers.
Too, there's the deal with having a sort of "gaming console" mentality. Developers know the minimum specs for the platform they are developing on.
Anyway, this post is getting long. In the end, you're right, they are cutting you off. But forced obsolescence has its pros too.
Yeah, I think a solution to this is if you bring a suit against someone and lose, you pay court costs. Might keep some folks from filling, but would also deal a pretty handy blow to frivolity.
Not that I don't agree but your example doesn't take into account that now its fairly trivial to copy that sheet music and distribute it to thousands if not millions at no cost to the distributor in time or money.
GATTACA always bothered me since you don't see Vincent's success, only that he was lucky enough to trick the system. Despite the movie's message, in the end he wasn't fit enough to go, his heart wasn't strong enough as shown in the treadmill scene, and his eyesight was a serious liability. I always had to wonder at the end of the movie when he's going into space if his heart gave out in the second month, or he lost a contact or some other thing that they tried to screen for that cost the success of the mission and potentially the lives of the other members of the crew.
I know the message the movie was giving, and in terms of his relationship with what's her face it seemed to be more poignant, but I couldn't help think that his actions were all hubris and were a huge risk to the mission and its crew.
The teachers most likely will also lack the know how to fix linux should some student have a problem during class. Macs may come with a dollar overhead, but they also have a lower administration cost in terms of time if not money.
No, I'm right there with you. There are paging plans, google for pagers, but they are the same cost as cell plans, pretty absurd.
SMS could fill that niche, but with providers raping folks on charges it's not really there as yet, e.g. you don't want to send a text to someone as you might be costing them a dime or more.
Maybe what cellphones need is a pager mode? They might in some sort of "do not disturb" mode, then users immediately go to the leave or message or send a page note?
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Probably more correctly, iphone users use apps and not mobile safari for a lot of normal web tasks. Movies, News, Social Networking, Media, Navagation... these are all done by apps.
Actually, it's not even copyright violation. You can't copyright a game, only it's art/text/etc. See Monopoly/Scrabble.
*glances at my popbox*
*sighs*
From your link, their reasoning is flawed, as I've seen elsewhere. For instance, "For the US, the recently revised NASA GISS Annual Mean temperatures show 6 of the 10 warmest years were from the 1920s to the 1950s and only 4 since 1990."
That means nothing. Global Warming means GLOBAL Warming. The US is allowed to have higher temps from time to time. If you look at the GLOBAL trend, it is getting hotter.
And 15K Fiber Channel drives.
Cameras and identification everywhere won't prevent you or your family from being killed. They might make it easier to catch who did, but it won't make you safer.
What does God need with a Starshi...err... Galaxy?
China would, and probably will, manually block Google.hk. But it'll be fairly embarrassing that it's legal in some parts of their country but not others.
Same country, different laws regarding censorship.
190lbs. Clearly.
It's hard to say. Mario 64 is/was the definitive game that showed that 3D games could work. For the time it was spectacular and a great deal of the 3D platformer game conventions we take for granted today came from Mario. So, it's a great game but it's been a long time since it came out and time ages 3D poorly. So, how good are you at playing older tech?
PS The goal of the game is to get the stars and save peach ;)
One reason is a flat tax, just as sales tax, has a more significant impact on the poor. If the tax rate is 10% and you make $100 a weak, the difference between 100 and 90 is pretty significant. If you make 10,000 a weak, the different between 9000 and 10,000 is far less significant. So, a flat tax is "fair" but only from a certain set of principles.
Access, while perhaps not "so great/must have" doesn't really have a viable alternative on any other platform. There are a few projects, but as yet no contenders.
And they're selling more of them than ever.
It's true, but much like people who "love the feel of a good book in their hands" we are probably the last generation who will agree with that statement much like I'm sure you rather use a calculator than a slide rule despite that a slide rule "feels" a lot better and gives a better grasp of the math than a calculator.
BoA does with their Safepass technology. You can buy a card authenticator for 20 bucks or use your cell phone which they send a code to.
Well, this is something Apple does that has its pros and cons. As you noted, it "forces" the user to upgrade, but how long has Microsoft suffered in OS sludge to support software going back decades. Apple has a history of cutting out the old to focus on the today. It allows them and their OS to be leaner and optimize for the people who are running it on current hardware. 10.6 is a perfect example of this, smaller, faster and optimize for the products they are selling today and in the future. True, they cut off a perhaps sizable group who haven't refreshed for years and years, but they do so with an eye to the future both for their bottom lines (they are a hardware company too) and for their customers.
Too, there's the deal with having a sort of "gaming console" mentality. Developers know the minimum specs for the platform they are developing on.
Anyway, this post is getting long. In the end, you're right, they are cutting you off. But forced obsolescence has its pros too.
Yeah, I think a solution to this is if you bring a suit against someone and lose, you pay court costs. Might keep some folks from filling, but would also deal a pretty handy blow to frivolity.
No joke. It's just a firmware upload.
Not that I don't agree but your example doesn't take into account that now its fairly trivial to copy that sheet music and distribute it to thousands if not millions at no cost to the distributor in time or money.
*begins to join in, slowly clapping*
GATTACA always bothered me since you don't see Vincent's success, only that he was lucky enough to trick the system. Despite the movie's message, in the end he wasn't fit enough to go, his heart wasn't strong enough as shown in the treadmill scene, and his eyesight was a serious liability. I always had to wonder at the end of the movie when he's going into space if his heart gave out in the second month, or he lost a contact or some other thing that they tried to screen for that cost the success of the mission and potentially the lives of the other members of the crew.
I know the message the movie was giving, and in terms of his relationship with what's her face it seemed to be more poignant, but I couldn't help think that his actions were all hubris and were a huge risk to the mission and its crew.
The teachers most likely will also lack the know how to fix linux should some student have a problem during class. Macs may come with a dollar overhead, but they also have a lower administration cost in terms of time if not money.
*looks for the "Disclaimer: I am employed by Sony" and finding none assumes it was a forgetful mistake and moves on*
No, I'm right there with you. There are paging plans, google for pagers, but they are the same cost as cell plans, pretty absurd.
SMS could fill that niche, but with providers raping folks on charges it's not really there as yet, e.g. you don't want to send a text to someone as you might be costing them a dime or more.
Maybe what cellphones need is a pager mode? They might in some sort of "do not disturb" mode, then users immediately go to the leave or message or send a page note?