Israel too. Outside of the conflict with Arab neighbors, refugees and the like, there is little violent crime despite every 18 year old walking around with a semi-automatic rifle -- by law.
The US use of nuclear weaponry arguably saved way more lives than were ended in the actual bombings.
Besides, I don't see how anyone could argue the US did not have the moral high-ground in ending a war they most definitely did not start in the simplest, quickest way possible.
I would require that anyone who votes on my behalf make their vote known to me. That is a far cry from everyone else knowing how I voted for myself. It is simply a matter of accountability. Anyone working or voting on someone else's behalf should always be accountable to those he represents.
More seriously, though, we already produce way more than we consume, even taking account obesity figures for US citizens. I don't think the US itself would have a problem with food, though we may not like it.
Unlike the poster earlier in this thread, I am not sure enough of specific numbers to even guess, but I do know that the number of players of MMORPGs today dwarfs the number from 10 years ago by at least one order of magnitude. And the vast majority of those are (ex-)WoW players.
That seems to be enough evidence to me that the GP is right in that WoW's system is the most appealing.
I'm appalled that you actually care that Apple made an arbitrary decision that you don't agree with. Oh wait. I'm not. I just think you're an idiot.
Every corporation makes decisions like this from time to time. If you're going to use this as a criterion, you're not going to be doing much shopping anymore.
All the app developer needs to do is resubmit. That's the appeals process. Any real developer for the iPhone already knows this.
Anyone who assumes that liking the iPhone means that one is interested in making a fashion statement is an unmitigated asshole and really should be killed to remove such filth from the world. Really. Debate on the merits of the product in question. Don't make up silly and stupid shit about people you've never met just to satisfy your overblown ego.
And shits like you can't understand that sheer number of functions doesn't make for a good product. If the iPhone has the functions required and it has a user-interface far superior to other phones there is little reason other than cost and service availability to not get one.
I do not have an iPhone. I don't have a cellular phone at all, of any model.
I do have an iPod Touch, and I love it. It works as a music player and I have several useful applications, including one I wrote myself. I really don't give a crap what anyone else thinks about it.
Actually, my complaint is the opposite. I cannot count how many times I've done the following:
Highlight url in xterm
Click in address bar of Firefox
Say, "Damn it!"
Delete contents of address bar
highlight url in xterm...
In Windows, the equivalent is highlight, hit enter, click, paste. Works the same way every time. Not because getting things into the clipboard is identical in every program, but because the console works one way, all GUI programs work one way and nothing is automatically placed into the clipboard without asking. It's no longer 1985, when the only purpose for highlighting text is to copy it. In an xterm, it is understandable because the text is not editable via the GUI metaphor. The same holds true in a Windows console app, where copying is done differently.
But there is no reason for Firefox to do this auto-copy. It completely breaks the principle of least surprise and it makes me do twice as much work to get around it. It's supposed to be a time saver. It shouldn't be quicker to type the damn url in my self.
To me, Linux won't be ready on the desktop until I can be sure what will happen when I highlight some text. It won't be ready until there are sane semantics for the clip/pasteboard that are obvious and consistent across 100% of the applications I run. It won't be ready until I can copy a URL and paste it in Mozilla's address bar without having to carefully click and hold backspace/delete to remove the current URL before pasting.
From a simple usability stand-point, Linux is utterly wrong and brain-dead. I use copy+paste all the time and in Linux it's just too painful.
If I choose to obtain a digital copy of a work I would never pay for, I am not actually depriving the creator of anything. It doesn't matter why I would choose not to pay. It might be because I am cheap, poor or lazy. It might be because I find something about the creator or publisher to be morally objectionable (like say, abuse of copyright). As such, I find no moral objection to obtaining an illegal copy, often made illegal through a law I find morally objectionable.
Indeed. I've written one app for the iPhone/iPod Touch and I would still say I'm mostly ignorant where ObjC/Cocoa are considered. And yet I'd never say it was hard to write.
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Israel too. Outside of the conflict with Arab neighbors, refugees and the like, there is little violent crime despite every 18 year old walking around with a semi-automatic rifle -- by law.
The US use of nuclear weaponry arguably saved way more lives than were ended in the actual bombings.
Besides, I don't see how anyone could argue the US did not have the moral high-ground in ending a war they most definitely did not start in the simplest, quickest way possible.
Rationality says you're an utter moron. And stupid too.
How can human nature not affect anything humans are involved in.
That remark has got to be the most ridiculous I've read on slashdot in quite some time.
I would require that anyone who votes on my behalf make their vote known to me. That is a far cry from everyone else knowing how I voted for myself. It is simply a matter of accountability. Anyone working or voting on someone else's behalf should always be accountable to those he represents.
I'm not getting the downside.
More seriously, though, we already produce way more than we consume, even taking account obesity figures for US citizens. I don't think the US itself would have a problem with food, though we may not like it.
My Asterisk system is SIP-only.
Well, based on that criterion, we couldn't include everyone. Think about it. This may be a law from which Congress is naturally immune!
Apple has not once brought a fundamental change to user interfaces to the general public since the Lisa.
Unlike the poster earlier in this thread, I am not sure enough of specific numbers to even guess, but I do know that the number of players of MMORPGs today dwarfs the number from 10 years ago by at least one order of magnitude. And the vast majority of those are (ex-)WoW players.
That seems to be enough evidence to me that the GP is right in that WoW's system is the most appealing.
I have an iPod Touch and I am not limited any way on the apps I can install.
Why shouldn't they have the right?
You have a right to get around their limitations and they have a right to implement them.
I don't see how this is unfair or illegal in any way.
I really don't think anyone calling himself "Pope"-anything is going to give a rational opinion about anything.
And I bet your smugness vastly exceeds that of any other person on the planet.
It is censorship. I pretty much agree with the rest of your post though.
I'm appalled that you actually care that Apple made an arbitrary decision that you don't agree with. Oh wait. I'm not. I just think you're an idiot.
Every corporation makes decisions like this from time to time. If you're going to use this as a criterion, you're not going to be doing much shopping anymore.
All the app developer needs to do is resubmit. That's the appeals process. Any real developer for the iPhone already knows this.
Anyone who assumes that liking the iPhone means that one is interested in making a fashion statement is an unmitigated asshole and really should be killed to remove such filth from the world. Really. Debate on the merits of the product in question. Don't make up silly and stupid shit about people you've never met just to satisfy your overblown ego.
And shits like you can't understand that sheer number of functions doesn't make for a good product. If the iPhone has the functions required and it has a user-interface far superior to other phones there is little reason other than cost and service availability to not get one.
I do not have an iPhone. I don't have a cellular phone at all, of any model.
I do have an iPod Touch, and I love it. It works as a music player and I have several useful applications, including one I wrote myself. I really don't give a crap what anyone else thinks about it.
Actually, my complaint is the opposite. I cannot count how many times I've done the following:
In Windows, the equivalent is highlight, hit enter, click, paste. Works the same way every time. Not because getting things into the clipboard is identical in every program, but because the console works one way, all GUI programs work one way and nothing is automatically placed into the clipboard without asking. It's no longer 1985, when the only purpose for highlighting text is to copy it. In an xterm, it is understandable because the text is not editable via the GUI metaphor. The same holds true in a Windows console app, where copying is done differently.
But there is no reason for Firefox to do this auto-copy. It completely breaks the principle of least surprise and it makes me do twice as much work to get around it. It's supposed to be a time saver. It shouldn't be quicker to type the damn url in my self.
To me, Linux won't be ready on the desktop until I can be sure what will happen when I highlight some text. It won't be ready until there are sane semantics for the clip/pasteboard that are obvious and consistent across 100% of the applications I run. It won't be ready until I can copy a URL and paste it in Mozilla's address bar without having to carefully click and hold backspace/delete to remove the current URL before pasting.
From a simple usability stand-point, Linux is utterly wrong and brain-dead. I use copy+paste all the time and in Linux it's just too painful.
If I choose to obtain a digital copy of a work I would never pay for, I am not actually depriving the creator of anything. It doesn't matter why I would choose not to pay. It might be because I am cheap, poor or lazy. It might be because I find something about the creator or publisher to be morally objectionable (like say, abuse of copyright). As such, I find no moral objection to obtaining an illegal copy, often made illegal through a law I find morally objectionable.
I always set my browsers to default to about:blank for the home page and have never seen them reverted by any patch.
Non-sequiturs much?
When setting up an app on the App Store you can specify which countries it may be sold in.
Indeed. I've written one app for the iPhone/iPod Touch and I would still say I'm mostly ignorant where ObjC/Cocoa are considered. And yet I'd never say it was hard to write.