"but what you're essentially saying is that Apple is the only company that can be trusted with both DRM and keeping prices down."
Seeing as how Apple has advocated (strongly) the 99 cent price point, and removing DRM entirely, I think that's a pretty good synopsis.
"Apple has shown in the past that it is willing to abuse it's DRM laws,"
Huh? And since when does Apple have DRM "laws"?
I'd love to just by.mp3's (or unprotected AAC or FLAC or Apple Lossless or whatever). For the few tracks/albums I do buy online, iTMS is the best available alternative. (Plays for Sure? Yeah right.)
Your mouse gestures work great in Opera, don't they? Well and good. You like that feature, and it's available for you to use. That's not the same thing as REQUIRING them in order to make the OS work.
What OS task cannot be accomplished with a one button mouse?
You can go all whizzy about the inattainability of perfection, but I'm an engineer, not a philosopher. The one-button behavior of mac OS X is bulletproof. It never doesn't work.
Why? Because a whole lot of computer users don't understand right clicking, and those that do can very easily check a box in System Preferences. Or plug in a mouse.
Because it can be very expensive to prove that you haven't done anything wrong. (Never mind that even outside the context of a lawsuit, it's extremely difficult to prove a negative.)
To me, that's the fundamental disconnect that the biblical creationists miss.
If you read Genesis, it's not a bad allegory for cosmology, if your audience is a bunch of nomadic sheepherders. My only problem is when the people who wish we were all still nomadic sheepherders try to insist that our understanding is not allowed to progress any further than the instructive myths and legends from 6000 years ago.
That's not to say that myths and legends don't have value...I find enormous value in them. They're just not historical facts.
As Galileo said, the Bible is not a book about how the heavens go, it is a book about how to go to Heaven. If you're into that sort of thing.
"you would see *differences* equal to wings and fangs at the end of that time."
Why? I'd be pretty confident that these two peoples would have different tools for working in their own environment. Why would they evolve wings and fangs? Why do second-generation Asian americans usually grow taller than their parents? (Hint...it's not microwalking.)
If we exclude progressively more advanced tool adaptations from our biological understanding of evolution, I would imagine that human evolution has been slowing down over the last several thousand years (a time period that is, of course, insignificant on the scale of evolutionary theory).
"Speciation is the process by which macroevolution takes place."
That's like saying "Getting from San Francisco to Paris is the process by which macrowalking takes place." Speciation is a descriptor of the process, not the process itself.
"Ergo, we have a problem finding qualified applicants."
Wow. That's some really interesting reasoning.
So, if I go to the grocery store and examine eight melons (huh...melons...) and select the best melon to take home and eat, does that mean I'm having a problem finding melons?
You might very well be having a hard time finding applicants who are willing to work for you for a wage you're willing to pay. But that's not what Bill's saying, is it?
The way it's set up now, everybody is a law breaker. That is by design. So, no, I don't get that exercised about aiding and abetting law breakers, particularly ones who are breaking a very silly set of laws that are set up to maintain them as a permanent underclass.
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I don't even know where to begin, so I'm not gonna. Have a nice day!
"but what you're essentially saying is that Apple is the only company that can be trusted with both DRM and keeping prices down."
.mp3's (or unprotected AAC or FLAC or Apple Lossless or whatever). For the few tracks/albums I do buy online, iTMS is the best available alternative. (Plays for Sure? Yeah right.)
Seeing as how Apple has advocated (strongly) the 99 cent price point, and removing DRM entirely, I think that's a pretty good synopsis.
"Apple has shown in the past that it is willing to abuse it's DRM laws,"
Huh? And since when does Apple have DRM "laws"?
I'd love to just by
Mercedes and BMW both have electronic limiters that restrict most of their cars to 155mph.
"My favorite Opera mouse gesture"
And Opera is a component of MacOS X...how?
Your mouse gestures work great in Opera, don't they? Well and good. You like that feature, and it's available for you to use. That's not the same thing as REQUIRING them in order to make the OS work.
"There is a comfortable couch, available at no cost, begging to be used. Use it, even if you have to rearrange the furniture a little."
OK, but to bring your analogy back to point, there are people who think that Linux is a really, really ugly couch.
Plaid. With pet stains.
Ugh.
That moist "splat" sound was the point, hitting you in the forehead. Nice catch.
What OS task cannot be accomplished with a one button mouse?
You can go all whizzy about the inattainability of perfection, but I'm an engineer, not a philosopher. The one-button behavior of mac OS X is bulletproof. It never doesn't work.
Why? Because a whole lot of computer users don't understand right clicking, and those that do can very easily check a box in System Preferences. Or plug in a mouse.
That's why.
Because it can be very expensive to prove that you haven't done anything wrong. (Never mind that even outside the context of a lawsuit, it's extremely difficult to prove a negative.)
What's annoying about it? The ENTIRE OS is built on the assumption that the user has a one-button mouse. The ENTIRE OS works perfectly. Everything.
If you happen to find a multi-button mouse handy, it's easy to install one, or (with the newer hardware revs) turn the feature on on the trackpad.
You can keep whining about one-button mice, but this problem simply hasn't existed at any time in the last 10+ years.
"Two seperate populations, seperated (i.e. no interbreeding) over a million years will diverge to a large degree."
What led you think I was disputing that?
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Was that clear enough?
"The problem with Apple is that they do not consider the corporation to be a target audience."
Yeah, because everybody with an iPod cross-shops for XServe RAID systems.
News flash: The target audience for Apple's enterprise gear doesn't care about TV commercials.
No, you hoser. You couldn't fit a baby moose in a bottle of bear, ya nob.
Good thing I heard about this now. I was starting to consider a new phone service. Thanks for making my decision easier, T-Mobile!
To me, that's the fundamental disconnect that the biblical creationists miss.
If you read Genesis, it's not a bad allegory for cosmology, if your audience is a bunch of nomadic sheepherders. My only problem is when the people who wish we were all still nomadic sheepherders try to insist that our understanding is not allowed to progress any further than the instructive myths and legends from 6000 years ago.
That's not to say that myths and legends don't have value...I find enormous value in them. They're just not historical facts.
As Galileo said, the Bible is not a book about how the heavens go, it is a book about how to go to Heaven. If you're into that sort of thing.
Why would humans evolve a flying apparatus when they can build 747's?
"you would see *differences* equal to wings and fangs at the end of that time."
Why? I'd be pretty confident that these two peoples would have different tools for working in their own environment. Why would they evolve wings and fangs? Why do second-generation Asian americans usually grow taller than their parents? (Hint...it's not microwalking.)
If we exclude progressively more advanced tool adaptations from our biological understanding of evolution, I would imagine that human evolution has been slowing down over the last several thousand years (a time period that is, of course, insignificant on the scale of evolutionary theory).
"Speciation is the process by which macroevolution takes place."
That's like saying "Getting from San Francisco to Paris is the process by which macrowalking takes place." Speciation is a descriptor of the process, not the process itself.
Why do you think IT is different in that regard?
"Ergo, we have a problem finding qualified applicants."
Wow. That's some really interesting reasoning.
So, if I go to the grocery store and examine eight melons (huh...melons...) and select the best melon to take home and eat, does that mean I'm having a problem finding melons?
You might very well be having a hard time finding applicants who are willing to work for you for a wage you're willing to pay. But that's not what Bill's saying, is it?
Or maybe it is.
"with a product behind schedule?"
At the risk of belaboring your point...they work at Microsoft. Your constraint is redundant.
Well, since Jobs' stated objective is to capture 1% of the mobile phone market, it seems like he's right on track.
Next stupid non-story, please?
"I guess aiding and abetting law breakers..."
The way it's set up now, everybody is a law breaker. That is by design. So, no, I don't get that exercised about aiding and abetting law breakers, particularly ones who are breaking a very silly set of laws that are set up to maintain them as a permanent underclass.
How do you figure? The winner-take-all voting arrangement, which is the way that most places do it, entrenches a two-party system.
Gerrymandering makes it almost impossible to remove.