You know, I tried it for a while. For me, it's just way too much effort. I don't have teen age friend who like to hijack my Facebook statuses. Or the nuclear launch codes.
No, most geeks trade fractions of their lives for money. A very, very small set of geeks actually benefit from the IP system, and most of that benefit is a relatively small fraction of the benefit which is gained by early investors with actual cash.
Geeks are pissed because other people are making money off of the stuff they - or those like them - do without actually putting in much of the actual brain power to pull it off. It's not surprising at all, actually.
Seriously - we spend so much time in our cars, why not a head unit from apple? For the kind of coin they ask, they could probably get a HD big enough to sync at least 2-3 iDevices to the unit (one way) so that your phone/pod/touch could be the link between your home system and the unit, though a video/interface pass-through via the super-secret connector handshake would probably be enough.
Since wifi sync is on the way, let your car sync to your home pc wirelessly. Add a sim slot, and now your head unit is an iPad-like device with it's own connection. Last.FM or Pandora or (yeah, you guessed it) iCloud natively on a head unit. Mapping apps are already made for iOS. You could probably get away without a physical media drive (aka CD/DVD), but they're not hard to incorporate. They'll ignore optional external memory, of course, but a generic a or a/v in would be a nice bone to throw to those not fully Steveified yet.
I would expect that their UI would be a shitload better than the $2000 Kenwood/Eclipse/Panny crap that's on the market.
Yes, but an Apple TV is something special. You expect the experience to be fabulous and Steveish. As pretty and minimalist as the AppleTV box is, it's still a separate box. And Steve hates boxes and wires.
I don't think it will happen, but it could. And if it does, it will chain you that much tighter to the iEcoSystem.
No, but they can probably shut down the garage, barring all entry and exit, until such a search is completed. It has the same effect - preventing access to your property/data, even though it is almost certainly not involved in the crime.
Well, that's only partially true - why do people bother RAIDing discs together instead of just burning their music and movies out to DVD or BR discs? It's more convenient.
Up until a year and a half ago (actually, closer to two now), my phone had a uSD card slot. You know how often the memory got upgraded/swapped? Each time I bought a new phone. And, at that point, I was in for $100 for whatever the largest card was at the time (which, interestingly, was always half of what I could have gotten in an iPhone as native). Having a 50GB music collection spread over 3-4 uSD cards isn't exactly my idea if fun (and 12-16 at the "sweet spot" for memory cost is even worse).
And though, in theory, I could carry far more movies on a handful of uSD cards than I can put on my 64GB iPad ($529, including 3G radio), it would cost me a bundle, and I'd have to keep up with them - unless there were a way to install/store multiple cards in another tablet.
Heck, even today you can't buy a uSD card with the capacity of an iPad (64GB is not actually been released).
No matter how many women you have working in parallel, you cannot make a baby in less than 9 months. $60B means nothing when you make one-of-a-kind items which need fab plants operational right now. Apple may have the cash to build what they need, but there's a lot of strategy around planning a 2-3 year fab plant construction and staffing schedule without cmopletely alienating your current vendors.
It wouldn't matter. Once you realize that all the cool apps aren't written for WP7, it would be game over anyway. It's why I have an iPhone right now and not an Android phone; ditto on the tablet front. When I was ready to get into the market, Android was so fantastically far behind there was no sense. That has changed, and I may (I say may) consider switching, but now I'm to the point where my phone does what I need it to, and I'm not sure I'm willing to spend the time and effort to learn yet another OS/ecosystem. That may sound lazy, but I'm a busy person (despite my being on/.) and fussing with my phone OS seems so, well, 2006.
There is. There have been several dangerous passengers on board airlines in the past decade, and all of them have been unknowingly waved by security. The passengers on the airline, however, have subdued every one of them.
Note: there has never been an instance of a large bottle of Johnson's Baby Shampoo, or anything resembling it, used to blow up an airplane.
He's an Android user, and he carries around a pouch with 250 4GB uSD cards. Actually, I'm pretty sure he's using the same Crown Royal pouch he used to use for his D&D dice.
Have you read the biographies* of some of the founders? Many were upper class citizens who were merchant class and were not angry at "freedoms" lost, but rather the profits lost by the taxes imposed by the King. Freedom was a half-truth about not wanting someone else limiting their profits, and sounding good to the masses.
*I have recently had to read/quiz my daughter on biographies she's reading for school. As I read through them, all I could think was - damn, these guy were really modern age Republicans, with little regard for anything but their business bottom line. Things change very little, save the names we give them.
It's where IBM was before microsoft came around. It's just like where Apple has been going for the past decade.
Hate to break it to you, but to be ridiculously successful, you have to be ruthless in the pursuit of the win. There is no taking a knee on the one yard line when you're up by 28 points in the 4th quarter - you punch the ball down their throats and then come back with an on side kick. That's business.
You greatly overestimate the population's ability to retain an idea. None of the politicians care - they will either be exempted or have the money to pay for the tickets and don't care - besides THEY would never vote for that kind of draconian enforcement (though local cash strapped governments will). There's no profit in fighting this (quite the contrary), so there will be no media campaign to keep it in the spotlight.
No, just as the debt/deficit is the big thing now (but the 8T we owed in 2006 was not even on the radar) - the only things people will think about are what the talking heads on the cable news channels say.
By the time is become obvious that you're trending upward, it may be too late to trade a portion of you fees for any significant stake. On the other hand, you may want to consider buying in. If money is tight at the company, and they could use an extra $100-200k, you might have a shot.
Have you noticed that the Swiss mountains are kind of a signature thing for them - are you willing to account for tourism losses in your cost-per-kWh calculations? Viewshed from the top of the Swiss alps is pretty broad. Plus, it means isntalling and servicing them from those physically remote, but visually omnipresent locations.
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It can go to at least 10 digits on the iPhone. It's a royal pain in the ass, but you can do it.
You know, I tried it for a while. For me, it's just way too much effort. I don't have teen age friend who like to hijack my Facebook statuses. Or the nuclear launch codes.
Damn it, now I'm going to have to change all of my PINs.
No, most geeks trade fractions of their lives for money. A very, very small set of geeks actually benefit from the IP system, and most of that benefit is a relatively small fraction of the benefit which is gained by early investors with actual cash.
Geeks are pissed because other people are making money off of the stuff they - or those like them - do without actually putting in much of the actual brain power to pull it off. It's not surprising at all, actually.
Seriously - we spend so much time in our cars, why not a head unit from apple? For the kind of coin they ask, they could probably get a HD big enough to sync at least 2-3 iDevices to the unit (one way) so that your phone/pod/touch could be the link between your home system and the unit, though a video/interface pass-through via the super-secret connector handshake would probably be enough.
Since wifi sync is on the way, let your car sync to your home pc wirelessly. Add a sim slot, and now your head unit is an iPad-like device with it's own connection. Last.FM or Pandora or (yeah, you guessed it) iCloud natively on a head unit. Mapping apps are already made for iOS. You could probably get away without a physical media drive (aka CD/DVD), but they're not hard to incorporate. They'll ignore optional external memory, of course, but a generic a or a/v in would be a nice bone to throw to those not fully Steveified yet.
I would expect that their UI would be a shitload better than the $2000 Kenwood/Eclipse/Panny crap that's on the market.
Really - I want a damned Apple head unit. Now.
Yes, but an Apple TV is something special. You expect the experience to be fabulous and Steveish. As pretty and minimalist as the AppleTV box is, it's still a separate box. And Steve hates boxes and wires.
I don't think it will happen, but it could. And if it does, it will chain you that much tighter to the iEcoSystem.
No, but they can probably shut down the garage, barring all entry and exit, until such a search is completed. It has the same effect - preventing access to your property/data, even though it is almost certainly not involved in the crime.
You know, I thought about that, but I look really silly trying to put an iPad two my ear when I try to make a phone call.
Verizon treats is customers better than AT&T? Is that one of those "double all of the volunteer's wages" jokes? Face it, they both suck rocks.
It's just like being on an old dialup line, except that back when we all used dialup, websites weren't the MB/page fat-asses they are today.
Well, that's only partially true - why do people bother RAIDing discs together instead of just burning their music and movies out to DVD or BR discs? It's more convenient.
Up until a year and a half ago (actually, closer to two now), my phone had a uSD card slot. You know how often the memory got upgraded/swapped? Each time I bought a new phone. And, at that point, I was in for $100 for whatever the largest card was at the time (which, interestingly, was always half of what I could have gotten in an iPhone as native). Having a 50GB music collection spread over 3-4 uSD cards isn't exactly my idea if fun (and 12-16 at the "sweet spot" for memory cost is even worse).
And though, in theory, I could carry far more movies on a handful of uSD cards than I can put on my 64GB iPad ($529, including 3G radio), it would cost me a bundle, and I'd have to keep up with them - unless there were a way to install/store multiple cards in another tablet.
Heck, even today you can't buy a uSD card with the capacity of an iPad (64GB is not actually been released).
No matter how many women you have working in parallel, you cannot make a baby in less than 9 months. $60B means nothing when you make one-of-a-kind items which need fab plants operational right now. Apple may have the cash to build what they need, but there's a lot of strategy around planning a 2-3 year fab plant construction and staffing schedule without cmopletely alienating your current vendors.
But what happens when they start using these to carry children to school? Won't you think of the children!?!
Yeah, but can you do Axel F?
It wouldn't matter. Once you realize that all the cool apps aren't written for WP7, it would be game over anyway. It's why I have an iPhone right now and not an Android phone; ditto on the tablet front. When I was ready to get into the market, Android was so fantastically far behind there was no sense. That has changed, and I may (I say may) consider switching, but now I'm to the point where my phone does what I need it to, and I'm not sure I'm willing to spend the time and effort to learn yet another OS/ecosystem. That may sound lazy, but I'm a busy person (despite my being on /.) and fussing with my phone OS seems so, well, 2006.
Hey, don't look at us - you live right next door to those kooks in Alaska, we don't.
There is. There have been several dangerous passengers on board airlines in the past decade, and all of them have been unknowingly waved by security. The passengers on the airline, however, have subdued every one of them.
Note: there has never been an instance of a large bottle of Johnson's Baby Shampoo, or anything resembling it, used to blow up an airplane.
New Hampshire Airport passenger: Live free or die!
TSA employee: I accept your offer. Termination line is to your left, down the hall.
He's an Android user, and he carries around a pouch with 250 4GB uSD cards. Actually, I'm pretty sure he's using the same Crown Royal pouch he used to use for his D&D dice.
Funny, I grew up on raw milk. Then again, it was from my own farm. I don't drink raw now, but only because of convenience and cost.
Have you read the biographies* of some of the founders? Many were upper class citizens who were merchant class and were not angry at "freedoms" lost, but rather the profits lost by the taxes imposed by the King. Freedom was a half-truth about not wanting someone else limiting their profits, and sounding good to the masses.
*I have recently had to read/quiz my daughter on biographies she's reading for school. As I read through them, all I could think was - damn, these guy were really modern age Republicans, with little regard for anything but their business bottom line. Things change very little, save the names we give them.
You're right, it does! Is there a place on FB we can write to recommend the new name?
It's where IBM was before microsoft came around.
It's just like where Apple has been going for the past decade.
Hate to break it to you, but to be ridiculously successful, you have to be ruthless in the pursuit of the win. There is no taking a knee on the one yard line when you're up by 28 points in the 4th quarter - you punch the ball down their throats and then come back with an on side kick. That's business.
You greatly overestimate the population's ability to retain an idea. None of the politicians care - they will either be exempted or have the money to pay for the tickets and don't care - besides THEY would never vote for that kind of draconian enforcement (though local cash strapped governments will). There's no profit in fighting this (quite the contrary), so there will be no media campaign to keep it in the spotlight.
No, just as the debt/deficit is the big thing now (but the 8T we owed in 2006 was not even on the radar) - the only things people will think about are what the talking heads on the cable news channels say.
By the time is become obvious that you're trending upward, it may be too late to trade a portion of you fees for any significant stake. On the other hand, you may want to consider buying in. If money is tight at the company, and they could use an extra $100-200k, you might have a shot.
Have you noticed that the Swiss mountains are kind of a signature thing for them - are you willing to account for tourism losses in your cost-per-kWh calculations? Viewshed from the top of the Swiss alps is pretty broad. Plus, it means isntalling and servicing them from those physically remote, but visually omnipresent locations.