There must have been some Apple fanboys on the jury. If you've never met one, they make radical muslims seem tame and unpassionate by comparison because they prop up their entire ego and self esteem on Apple's marketing manta that Apple products make you better than everyone else. If they're told Apple isn't good, they act very similarly to every monkey or gorilla attack you've ever seen on CNN.
I've been telling them that since Premiere CS4 was released, lol. But seriously, they've had this attitude since like 2000. Their marketing was all about elitism and being better than your friends. Once they paired with Starbucks on some deals, it was almost comically obvious. They turned paying too much into a fashion statement.
Then they did everything they could to act like they had a monopoly even though they had like 5% of the market. They'd bully competitors, over control hardware pricing and availability, lock in prices and threaten vendors who sell lower, etc. They had special RAM made that only fit their systems, sued Psystar, etc. They had the reputation of being the platform for graphics and video editing but like I said, CS4 ended that damn quick. CUDA on a wimpy GT440 = 8x faster rendering than dual 8-core Xeons. Unfortunately, almost no Nvidia cards come in a mac. That doesn't stop them from pretending they're still for video editing though. Now in Photoshop Elements 10 and CS6, they have severe compatibility and font problems so it's pretty much over for them on that front. It'll take years to undo their propaganda that they're the best though. I do usually convince people with actual charts, or just reference their awful human rights violations and unfair business practices.
They've had so many macbook hardware problems lately and back in 07 they had severe overheating problems with their initial core2 duo systems because Steve Jobs is too important to have fans blowing out of his devices.
Then there's the way that they run the App store like nazis and iTunes quite similarly. You think you bought that song? Oh hell no! And you can't redownload it either. So everyone, do everything you can to tell everyone you can that Apple sucks and it will turn into another Vista. All the positive marketing in the world couldn't stop tech experts from giving people the real story and ruining their business.
Let's take newegg.com for an example. If a device or part shows up as one of the top ranked and people buy it and it doesn't work properly, every single one of them is going to go review it poorly. It's called pushback. That's why fake reviews only give you a boost in sales for a couple weeks. After that, they're drowned in actual reviews that are pretty pissed off.
The best air-powered card in the world can get something like 20 miles to a tank. If this one is claiming it's 100+, it's lying. That means running the onboard compressor a lot. That means horrible fuel to movement ratios because of one added layer between engine and moving. They're going to be loud, fuel guzzling pieces of crap.
So in addition to non-x86 architecture, no DVD drive, my giant fingers instead of a keyboard and mouse, they made the screen impossible tiny and hard to read for the majority of adults. Wow, it's like they've never asked a single question to a single customer ever.
People stupid enough to not disable it are the type that also install MyWebSearch and Freeze and Maps Galaxy and I'd name more but I probably already set off your protection program with this post lol. So that actually fits perfectly, as it sounds like it may warn people about rogue co-installers on "free" games and registry utilities and crap.
They've had about a decade and a half to get within range of broadband. By now, 19 million people need to move if they want internet. I know a family that my parents are friends with who moved the Arizona and a year later moved back here to Wisconsin because it was too hot. That was the only reason. I think those 19 million people are right there with them on the intelligence scale.
Then they'd have to let banks sue their customers for their complete stupidity causing their money to be stolen. Fall for some bullshit phishing scam promising to make you rich instantly? You're liable. So I'm all for it, lol.
Well right now, yeah. There is obviously the possibility for human-like reasoning and ultra-complex calculations on the same level as a human. Buy yeah, it's not recognizing anything. "Recognizing" would require knowing what it is, the world is, the mirror is, everything else is, what existing means, etc.
...violates the Federal Communications Commission's network neutrality rules for wireless networks
Since when has a net neutrality law ever passed? I'm pretty sure it would have been on slashdot if it did, lol. No wonder they said "rule" since I can't imagine what law they'd be referring to. I'm not even sure what rule they're referring to. AT&T is just being assholes.
I guess they forgot to factor in the fact that higher infection rates might indicate worse healthcare, worse pollution levels, worse overall sanitation, a climate more friendly to pathogens, and a generally more cancer-inducing set of circumstances before they drew a line straight from cats to cancer. Wow, slashdot makes me feel like a better than average paid, professional, career scientist every day:-P
Actually "the" reason is so Mastercard could skim off a couple percent from it as a currency conversion fee. I run credit cards so trust me, someone pays me in Euros and I get totally screwed. It's like 4%+.
You could accept rocks, food, bartering, Eve Online currently, magical spells (but not on ebay lol) and nintendo 64 games as payment and your company is still a joke if you don't take credit cards. There's a thrift store next to my computer repair store that attempted to not take credit cards for 2 months. He lost so many sales and had so many pissed off customers, he had to find a processor. Speaking of processors, ask any merchant services sales rep what they think of how Visa and Mastercard control everything, set all the prices, and repeatedly try to totally screw them.
Oh good, another Apple fanboy. Yes, because the ipad is so portable and convenient when you have 2 things to carry and 2 batteries to worry about. I bet I could find a mouse too.
As for the other comment by the person above you, you don't buy a printer based on your tablets. Oh no, we have an ipad! Let's get rid of our $27,000 laser printer and get an Apple-approved one. Once again, ipads are not for business environments. They're too small, slow, don't work with Windows software, are gigantic security nightmares, are too easy to break, and cost too much. That's reality. All the Apple fanboy posts in the world will not change reality.
What planet are you from? Seriously? Alternatives to Windows are in direct, close competition since there's not a whole lot of them and since Apple is ungodly expensive and Linux is free, LINUX IS ON APPLE'S RADAR! Can the admins just start deleting the accounts of Apple fanboys so we can actually have a discussion here instead of one-sided whining and biased bullshit?
This is not by any means they first story I've read about people getting an ipad for work and then finding it they can't make it do everything they want because Apple controls everything. It's not even mods or SD cards or custom software, it's that there's no mouse and keyboard or printing support (as far as I know) or apps to do things you need in the one and only app store. I've had several customers tell me that as they're buying a laptop from me. I've had vendors use an ipad to send me a PDF form to fill out and it's all screwed up with finger-checkmarks in the wrong place, wrong dates because the font was too small to read in that section, etc.
If you want to do real work, get a real computer. It's kinda sad that Apple hates on Linux then actually released a product that's less functional, less flexible, and less compatible with other software than Linux. Hey, whatever helps lol.
Too bad everyone's not using 1 thoroughly monopolozed...I mean centralized Apple store. Then instead of virus infested counterfeit apps, they'd only have to deal with Apple secret police kidnapping apps randomly out of the store for no reason, insane overpricing/insane profit margins, psychotic Apple geniuses (see story a couple down from this one:-P ) and human rights violations.
And yet I made a bunch of money mining bitcoins with a high powered dual GPU system. Wow, I sure got taken! Like 99% of other bitcoin enthusiasts, I read every last detail about how the system works, potential problems, and thoroughly protected my wallet file on cold storage (not attached to my PC). And oh look, I made money. Stupid, careless people get their money stolen whether it's BTC or USD. Don't use sketchy exchanges. Don't leave your wallet file live and then download 50 illegal software packages with viruses. Don't use the same password on a forum as the exchange. This is security basics, people, it's not a problem with bitcoins. By the way, I've never heard of a Ponzi scheme that doesn't have any central authority running it. That's a new one, lol.
How does Mastercard have control over the global flow of money? It's saying stupid things like this for why people mock bitcoin and its supporters.
How do they not?! If you use your card in another country, the can charge whatever fees they want. If they don't like Africa, they jack up the fees. They can charge merchants whatever they want to accept the card too. If they haven't made the profit they want, they pass it along to the merchant. If they don't want money going to Wikileaks, they simply pull the plug. If they don't like what a certain vendor does, they just say they had too many instances of chargebacks and don't process for them anymore. They can basically do anything they want with international commerce. That's why bitcoins were invented.
Just to be clear, I do think BTC is an extremely stupid idea and isn't practical and is too easily stolen. The theory is sound, the reasoning is sound, but the execution is idiotic. Bitcoins will work great...just as soon as nobody's computer ever catches a virus. If it catches, a virus will instantly grab your wallet file. Now it can be encrypted but still. Weak password = your money in their pocket. Why convince people to pay a fake FBI fine or say their computer has a virus and they need to buy some software or pretend to be Dell support and charge $200 to fix a non existant problem when they can simply swipe your digital wallet. BUT that doesn't mean Bitcoin doesn't work at the moment and it certainly doesn't mean that I didn't make a good bit of money of them so far.
Some of the Geniuses emailing in have asked that I note that the above is the exception to the rule. They say they love their job, treat it with respect, and would never engage in this kind of monkey business.
I think they mean to say Apple PR reps. That's such a canned statement, I can't even believe they posted it. The update directly above that reads: "Multiple former and current Geniuses have written in to corroborate the events alleged in this article. More to come!"
This whole article is surprising. I would have thought it wasn't this store that was the worst but a multi-thousand way tie between all of them, the Foxconn factory, and their HQ:P
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There must have been some Apple fanboys on the jury. If you've never met one, they make radical muslims seem tame and unpassionate by comparison because they prop up their entire ego and self esteem on Apple's marketing manta that Apple products make you better than everyone else. If they're told Apple isn't good, they act very similarly to every monkey or gorilla attack you've ever seen on CNN.
I think they should ban whoever gave them that patent (and the rounded corners patent).
That can't possibly be true. They never would have shot themselves in the foot that blatantly.
I've been telling them that since Premiere CS4 was released, lol. But seriously, they've had this attitude since like 2000. Their marketing was all about elitism and being better than your friends. Once they paired with Starbucks on some deals, it was almost comically obvious. They turned paying too much into a fashion statement.
Then they did everything they could to act like they had a monopoly even though they had like 5% of the market. They'd bully competitors, over control hardware pricing and availability, lock in prices and threaten vendors who sell lower, etc. They had special RAM made that only fit their systems, sued Psystar, etc. They had the reputation of being the platform for graphics and video editing but like I said, CS4 ended that damn quick. CUDA on a wimpy GT440 = 8x faster rendering than dual 8-core Xeons. Unfortunately, almost no Nvidia cards come in a mac. That doesn't stop them from pretending they're still for video editing though. Now in Photoshop Elements 10 and CS6, they have severe compatibility and font problems so it's pretty much over for them on that front. It'll take years to undo their propaganda that they're the best though. I do usually convince people with actual charts, or just reference their awful human rights violations and unfair business practices.
They've had so many macbook hardware problems lately and back in 07 they had severe overheating problems with their initial core2 duo systems because Steve Jobs is too important to have fans blowing out of his devices.
Then there's the way that they run the App store like nazis and iTunes quite similarly. You think you bought that song? Oh hell no! And you can't redownload it either. So everyone, do everything you can to tell everyone you can that Apple sucks and it will turn into another Vista. All the positive marketing in the world couldn't stop tech experts from giving people the real story and ruining their business.
Let's take newegg.com for an example. If a device or part shows up as one of the top ranked and people buy it and it doesn't work properly, every single one of them is going to go review it poorly. It's called pushback. That's why fake reviews only give you a boost in sales for a couple weeks. After that, they're drowned in actual reviews that are pretty pissed off.
The best air-powered card in the world can get something like 20 miles to a tank. If this one is claiming it's 100+, it's lying. That means running the onboard compressor a lot. That means horrible fuel to movement ratios because of one added layer between engine and moving. They're going to be loud, fuel guzzling pieces of crap.
So in addition to non-x86 architecture, no DVD drive, my giant fingers instead of a keyboard and mouse, they made the screen impossible tiny and hard to read for the majority of adults. Wow, it's like they've never asked a single question to a single customer ever.
People stupid enough to not disable it are the type that also install MyWebSearch and Freeze and Maps Galaxy and I'd name more but I probably already set off your protection program with this post lol. So that actually fits perfectly, as it sounds like it may warn people about rogue co-installers on "free" games and registry utilities and crap.
They've had about a decade and a half to get within range of broadband. By now, 19 million people need to move if they want internet. I know a family that my parents are friends with who moved the Arizona and a year later moved back here to Wisconsin because it was too hot. That was the only reason. I think those 19 million people are right there with them on the intelligence scale.
If they're so adamant that their tiles aren't the worst UI decision in human history, might as well get married to it, lol.
Then they'd have to let banks sue their customers for their complete stupidity causing their money to be stolen. Fall for some bullshit phishing scam promising to make you rich instantly? You're liable. So I'm all for it, lol.
It isn't "self awareness" there is no true AI.
Well right now, yeah. There is obviously the possibility for human-like reasoning and ultra-complex calculations on the same level as a human. Buy yeah, it's not recognizing anything. "Recognizing" would require knowing what it is, the world is, the mirror is, everything else is, what existing means, etc.
You do know that plastics are made from scratch with petroleum, right?
Since when has a net neutrality law ever passed? I'm pretty sure it would have been on slashdot if it did, lol. No wonder they said "rule" since I can't imagine what law they'd be referring to. I'm not even sure what rule they're referring to. AT&T is just being assholes.
I guess they forgot to factor in the fact that higher infection rates might indicate worse healthcare, worse pollution levels, worse overall sanitation, a climate more friendly to pathogens, and a generally more cancer-inducing set of circumstances before they drew a line straight from cats to cancer. Wow, slashdot makes me feel like a better than average paid, professional, career scientist every day :-P
Actually "the" reason is so Mastercard could skim off a couple percent from it as a currency conversion fee. I run credit cards so trust me, someone pays me in Euros and I get totally screwed. It's like 4%+.
You could accept rocks, food, bartering, Eve Online currently, magical spells (but not on ebay lol) and nintendo 64 games as payment and your company is still a joke if you don't take credit cards. There's a thrift store next to my computer repair store that attempted to not take credit cards for 2 months. He lost so many sales and had so many pissed off customers, he had to find a processor. Speaking of processors, ask any merchant services sales rep what they think of how Visa and Mastercard control everything, set all the prices, and repeatedly try to totally screw them.
MTGox -- this one. Look up their company history.
Oh good, another Apple fanboy. Yes, because the ipad is so portable and convenient when you have 2 things to carry and 2 batteries to worry about. I bet I could find a mouse too.
As for the other comment by the person above you, you don't buy a printer based on your tablets. Oh no, we have an ipad! Let's get rid of our $27,000 laser printer and get an Apple-approved one. Once again, ipads are not for business environments. They're too small, slow, don't work with Windows software, are gigantic security nightmares, are too easy to break, and cost too much. That's reality. All the Apple fanboy posts in the world will not change reality.
What planet are you from? Seriously? Alternatives to Windows are in direct, close competition since there's not a whole lot of them and since Apple is ungodly expensive and Linux is free, LINUX IS ON APPLE'S RADAR! Can the admins just start deleting the accounts of Apple fanboys so we can actually have a discussion here instead of one-sided whining and biased bullshit?
This is not by any means they first story I've read about people getting an ipad for work and then finding it they can't make it do everything they want because Apple controls everything. It's not even mods or SD cards or custom software, it's that there's no mouse and keyboard or printing support (as far as I know) or apps to do things you need in the one and only app store. I've had several customers tell me that as they're buying a laptop from me. I've had vendors use an ipad to send me a PDF form to fill out and it's all screwed up with finger-checkmarks in the wrong place, wrong dates because the font was too small to read in that section, etc.
If you want to do real work, get a real computer. It's kinda sad that Apple hates on Linux then actually released a product that's less functional, less flexible, and less compatible with other software than Linux. Hey, whatever helps lol.
Too bad everyone's not using 1 thoroughly monopolozed...I mean centralized Apple store. Then instead of virus infested counterfeit apps, they'd only have to deal with Apple secret police kidnapping apps randomly out of the store for no reason, insane overpricing/insane profit margins, psychotic Apple geniuses (see story a couple down from this one :-P ) and human rights violations.
And yet I made a bunch of money mining bitcoins with a high powered dual GPU system. Wow, I sure got taken! Like 99% of other bitcoin enthusiasts, I read every last detail about how the system works, potential problems, and thoroughly protected my wallet file on cold storage (not attached to my PC). And oh look, I made money. Stupid, careless people get their money stolen whether it's BTC or USD. Don't use sketchy exchanges. Don't leave your wallet file live and then download 50 illegal software packages with viruses. Don't use the same password on a forum as the exchange. This is security basics, people, it's not a problem with bitcoins. By the way, I've never heard of a Ponzi scheme that doesn't have any central authority running it. That's a new one, lol.
How does Mastercard have control over the global flow of money? It's saying stupid things like this for why people mock bitcoin and its supporters.
How do they not?! If you use your card in another country, the can charge whatever fees they want. If they don't like Africa, they jack up the fees. They can charge merchants whatever they want to accept the card too. If they haven't made the profit they want, they pass it along to the merchant. If they don't want money going to Wikileaks, they simply pull the plug. If they don't like what a certain vendor does, they just say they had too many instances of chargebacks and don't process for them anymore. They can basically do anything they want with international commerce. That's why bitcoins were invented.
Just to be clear, I do think BTC is an extremely stupid idea and isn't practical and is too easily stolen. The theory is sound, the reasoning is sound, but the execution is idiotic. Bitcoins will work great...just as soon as nobody's computer ever catches a virus. If it catches, a virus will instantly grab your wallet file. Now it can be encrypted but still. Weak password = your money in their pocket. Why convince people to pay a fake FBI fine or say their computer has a virus and they need to buy some software or pretend to be Dell support and charge $200 to fix a non existant problem when they can simply swipe your digital wallet. BUT that doesn't mean Bitcoin doesn't work at the moment and it certainly doesn't mean that I didn't make a good bit of money of them so far.
I think they mean to say Apple PR reps. That's such a canned statement, I can't even believe they posted it. The update directly above that reads: "Multiple former and current Geniuses have written in to corroborate the events alleged in this article. More to come!"
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This whole article is surprising. I would have thought it wasn't this store that was the worst but a multi-thousand way tie between all of them, the Foxconn factory, and their HQ