Well, that's one way to make money - gratuitous changes which you charge to fix.
Riiiiiight, except Apple priced themselves out of it so they won't "make money" for long. It won't be long before MUCH cheaper 3rd party ones show up for a fraction of the cost. Not all are the best quality but if you even go to 1/2 the price, you can get a really decent one of anything that they've made in the past.
This is going to cause some serious backlash. People might just dress up as rioting Foxconn workers and do the same thing to Apple stores. You just don't do something like this when the iphone 5 is in as deep of shit as they're in with the maps, lens problem, attempted anti-green manufacturing, human rights violations, and protesting manufacturers. It's like "yay, let's all have fun and be funny" amongst all that. Prepare for the retaliatory shit storm. Take a look at their youtube thumbs up to thumbs down ratio if you think I'm exaggerating.
So if there's X amount of cars and in 5 years there's X * 1.05 cars because of new drivers and a population increase, eventually they need more physical space to drive on. So obviously the solution isn't to kill either side, it's to find both new construction AND repairs.
Then they'd have to make anything unhealthy illegal to seem fair and then it's welcome to the nanny state. I still think the sugary drinks and certain cooking oil laws were sort of questionable. The end doesn't quite justify the means necessarily. By the way, this will never stand up in court but "employees cannot come to work smelling of smoke" would easily stand up in court. Basically the same thing unless someone uses chewing tobacco or a hookah or something.
Apple made $23 billion on iPhones. For that kind of profit margin, they could afford to pay me to assemble all of them let alone a respectable factory in America.
These kinds of comments make me sad. Obviously, the apple product have no appeal for you.
Um....no. I just don't like their level of control over ipods with itunes, hardware repairs with ipads and iphones, pricing and vendors, etc. I also don't like the mix of US history record levels of profit and human rights violations. Obviously you don't care about that though. Can we just take all the mod points away from Apple fanboys PLEASE?! Oh wait, metamodding will do that, lol.
Aha, have about 10% (computers) of the market and then still threatening vendors about not lowering prices below MSRP, not letting anyone use a different program than itunes with their ipod, etc. Then to complete the pretend monopoly, release a huge marketing campaign convincing people that they're the biggest, best option out there and it's the top level product ever made so they must have it.
And also, fuck you, stupid immature little teenager. Get off slashdot.
Human rights violations and the polar opposite of open standards and open business practices in their app store and itunes? Maybe those reasons don't matter to you though.
Nobody would have the balls to do that in my 100,000 person city because we have 4 ISPs that I know about, more likely 10. As far as physical lines, there's 1 coax and 1 telephone line owner so that's at least 2 truly separate ISPs. As soon as AT&T institutes a cap, everyone switches to Time Warner and vice versa. But if it was just AT&T, they're capping you.
This story came out just in time for newegg to jack up the price on the average SSD $10-15! Even their "sales" are crap right now. I got my last Vertex 4, Intel 330, Agility 4, and Crucial M4 all for $70-85 and now they're all $95-110! But still, a good and reliable 120-128GB SSD is almost exactly the same price as a good and reliable 500GB Seagate spinning hard drive. Out of the last 10 custom builds at my shop, zero have had spinning drives as the main drive because nobody needed more than that amount of space.
Stricter quality control requirements with the iPhone 5?! So the purple flare really does come standard? And Foxconn doesn't make the maps app but if they did, it might be more accurate, lol. I don't have numbers on iphone failure rates but if the 4s was worse than previous versions as reliability, I could see them cracking the whip (probably literally) on version 5 production. I know that from 2007 to 2009 the macbook quality dropped from 2nd place to 6th so it does seem likely. If you're curious, an ASUS, MSI, Toshiba, Sony, and Samsung are all now more reliable than a macbook, and at most 1/2 the price.
"If a civilization wants to hide, it's certainly possible to hide,' says Wright, 'but it requires massive amounts of deliberate engineering across an entire civilization."
Or technology we don't know about. In fact, that really blows apart this entire project. On Stargate Atlantis, aliens invented ZPM - zero point module that creates a sort of mini-singularity with no gravity that generates energy. The way humans right now would harvest energy from a star would be a lot different than a million year old civilization so this is a gigantic waste of time and money.
I can't believe how misled Apple customers and fanboys are. They just see the device and get obsessed with that "I'm better than all my friends" marketing campaign that Apple pushed for years. Apple propped up their egos and now Steve Jobs in a god apparently.
Back in reality, he was a rude, overcontrolling guy and that showed in his products. They control EVERYTHING like tech nazis and abuse a pretend monopoly whether it exists or not for every product they make. They treat everyone from their customers to their app writers like crap, block out anyone making competing products, control pricing of their products with nonstop threats to vendors, etc. They're a terrible company and Steve Jobs is responsible for them operating that way. Apple fans need to wake up to reality and see that and STOP BUYING APPLE PRODUCTS!
Not to be pedantic, but that is an impressive way to misspell 'messureents'.
And yet they calculated the speed of light modified by the expansion of available space to travel through at a potentially non-static rate. I'm sure they didn't make a mistake there either, lol. Okay, here's my amateur astronomer opposition theory: the rest of the universe is gone! IT'S JUST GONE! But we're still receiving light from when it was there. Prove me wrong, lol. See, anyone can make anything up that's unprovable with modern technology.
Wow, they missed the bus on that one! Why not invest in bitcoins instead? lol. Ohhhhh, you might be able to mine bitcoins with a quantum computer. That's tricky, lol.
Btw nobody tell them that although the chip runs on magic (paraphrased), the speed of data in or out depends on the bus speed of the board it's in. So that really limits the ability to use it to its full potential.
Their help pages? THEIR HELP PAGES? How about they just change their policy on collecting as much data as they can from their users and then selling it to anyone anywhere ever or governments, in which case it's free and more extensive.
Did anyone else read that as MPG? I read the whole summary and was like "REALY??!!!!?!?!!?!?!!" Anyway, this is a 2-stage car that uses a jet engine to get past 200MPH-ish and then a rocket engine to get to 1000+. That really is the right way to do it, as rocket dragsters on drag strips tend to steer badly due to slight takeoff jumps and pushes in a direction other than straight.
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Well, that's one way to make money - gratuitous changes which you charge to fix.
Riiiiiight, except Apple priced themselves out of it so they won't "make money" for long. It won't be long before MUCH cheaper 3rd party ones show up for a fraction of the cost. Not all are the best quality but if you even go to 1/2 the price, you can get a really decent one of anything that they've made in the past.
I was going to say bird flu but that sounds much more plausible.
This is going to cause some serious backlash. People might just dress up as rioting Foxconn workers and do the same thing to Apple stores. You just don't do something like this when the iphone 5 is in as deep of shit as they're in with the maps, lens problem, attempted anti-green manufacturing, human rights violations, and protesting manufacturers. It's like "yay, let's all have fun and be funny" amongst all that. Prepare for the retaliatory shit storm. Take a look at their youtube thumbs up to thumbs down ratio if you think I'm exaggerating.
Hey, the New Zealand intelligence infrastructure takes cheating at Modern Warfare 3 very seriously! (see Kim's wikipedia page)
So if there's X amount of cars and in 5 years there's X * 1.05 cars because of new drivers and a population increase, eventually they need more physical space to drive on. So obviously the solution isn't to kill either side, it's to find both new construction AND repairs.
Then they'd have to make anything unhealthy illegal to seem fair and then it's welcome to the nanny state. I still think the sugary drinks and certain cooking oil laws were sort of questionable. The end doesn't quite justify the means necessarily. By the way, this will never stand up in court but "employees cannot come to work smelling of smoke" would easily stand up in court. Basically the same thing unless someone uses chewing tobacco or a hookah or something.
That or a dislike button on facebook that simulates punching you in the chest if your post is disliked, lol.
1. sit on your ass
2. mine bitcoins
3. USD-based banks are DESTROYED! lol.
I heard that's how it works, lol.
Apple made $23 billion on iPhones. For that kind of profit margin, they could afford to pay me to assemble all of them let alone a respectable factory in America.
These kinds of comments make me sad. Obviously, the apple product have no appeal for you.
Um....no. I just don't like their level of control over ipods with itunes, hardware repairs with ipads and iphones, pricing and vendors, etc. I also don't like the mix of US history record levels of profit and human rights violations. Obviously you don't care about that though. Can we just take all the mod points away from Apple fanboys PLEASE?! Oh wait, metamodding will do that, lol.
Damn right it was. At least there are sane people that recognize actual logic, actual facts, and actual truth.
Aha, have about 10% (computers) of the market and then still threatening vendors about not lowering prices below MSRP, not letting anyone use a different program than itunes with their ipod, etc. Then to complete the pretend monopoly, release a huge marketing campaign convincing people that they're the biggest, best option out there and it's the top level product ever made so they must have it.
And also, fuck you, stupid immature little teenager. Get off slashdot.
Human rights violations and the polar opposite of open standards and open business practices in their app store and itunes? Maybe those reasons don't matter to you though.
People who are stupid and cheap catch the majority of malware?! WHAT?! That's a new concept in the technology world apparently, lol.
Nobody would have the balls to do that in my 100,000 person city because we have 4 ISPs that I know about, more likely 10. As far as physical lines, there's 1 coax and 1 telephone line owner so that's at least 2 truly separate ISPs. As soon as AT&T institutes a cap, everyone switches to Time Warner and vice versa. But if it was just AT&T, they're capping you.
This story came out just in time for newegg to jack up the price on the average SSD $10-15! Even their "sales" are crap right now. I got my last Vertex 4, Intel 330, Agility 4, and Crucial M4 all for $70-85 and now they're all $95-110! But still, a good and reliable 120-128GB SSD is almost exactly the same price as a good and reliable 500GB Seagate spinning hard drive. Out of the last 10 custom builds at my shop, zero have had spinning drives as the main drive because nobody needed more than that amount of space.
Stricter quality control requirements with the iPhone 5?! So the purple flare really does come standard? And Foxconn doesn't make the maps app but if they did, it might be more accurate, lol. I don't have numbers on iphone failure rates but if the 4s was worse than previous versions as reliability, I could see them cracking the whip (probably literally) on version 5 production. I know that from 2007 to 2009 the macbook quality dropped from 2nd place to 6th so it does seem likely. If you're curious, an ASUS, MSI, Toshiba, Sony, and Samsung are all now more reliable than a macbook, and at most 1/2 the price.
"If a civilization wants to hide, it's certainly possible to hide,' says Wright, 'but it requires massive amounts of deliberate engineering across an entire civilization."
Or technology we don't know about. In fact, that really blows apart this entire project. On Stargate Atlantis, aliens invented ZPM - zero point module that creates a sort of mini-singularity with no gravity that generates energy. The way humans right now would harvest energy from a star would be a lot different than a million year old civilization so this is a gigantic waste of time and money.
*pours maple syrup all over this post* Party time! Let's all have a maple syrup slashdot party, lol.
I can't believe how misled Apple customers and fanboys are. They just see the device and get obsessed with that "I'm better than all my friends" marketing campaign that Apple pushed for years. Apple propped up their egos and now Steve Jobs in a god apparently.
Back in reality, he was a rude, overcontrolling guy and that showed in his products. They control EVERYTHING like tech nazis and abuse a pretend monopoly whether it exists or not for every product they make. They treat everyone from their customers to their app writers like crap, block out anyone making competing products, control pricing of their products with nonstop threats to vendors, etc. They're a terrible company and Steve Jobs is responsible for them operating that way. Apple fans need to wake up to reality and see that and STOP BUYING APPLE PRODUCTS!
Not to be pedantic, but that is an impressive way to misspell 'messureents'.
And yet they calculated the speed of light modified by the expansion of available space to travel through at a potentially non-static rate. I'm sure they didn't make a mistake there either, lol. Okay, here's my amateur astronomer opposition theory: the rest of the universe is gone! IT'S JUST GONE! But we're still receiving light from when it was there. Prove me wrong, lol. See, anyone can make anything up that's unprovable with modern technology.
Wow, they missed the bus on that one! Why not invest in bitcoins instead? lol. Ohhhhh, you might be able to mine bitcoins with a quantum computer. That's tricky, lol.
Btw nobody tell them that although the chip runs on magic (paraphrased), the speed of data in or out depends on the bus speed of the board it's in. So that really limits the ability to use it to its full potential.
Someone should tell everyone in that list that web advertising doesn't work. That does sort of invalidate the entire thing.
Their help pages? THEIR HELP PAGES? How about they just change their policy on collecting as much data as they can from their users and then selling it to anyone anywhere ever or governments, in which case it's free and more extensive.
Did anyone else read that as MPG? I read the whole summary and was like "REALY??!!!!?!?!!?!?!!" Anyway, this is a 2-stage car that uses a jet engine to get past 200MPH-ish and then a rocket engine to get to 1000+. That really is the right way to do it, as rocket dragsters on drag strips tend to steer badly due to slight takeoff jumps and pushes in a direction other than straight.