My favorite part about Apple's virus/malware policy is how, when someone would publicly point out a security flaw, Apple would proceed to demonize and harangue them in an attempt to ruin that person's reputation... then quietly include a fix for the aforementioned flaw in their next OS update, never once admitting that there was a legitimate issue.
In reality, Apple credits everybody (first) reporting an issue to them in the documentation of the security updates. Well, maybe not if they acted like complete asshats - is that what happened to you?
How the hell is this insightful? With the original CRT iMac going forward, you could take any third party USB mouse, plug it in and have your two or more mouse buttons.
And before that, you could do it with a third party multi-button ADB mouse.
I was a systems administrator at a large datacenter, and am currently a support engineer for a major company, yet she makes 30% more than I do. I'm also good at my job.
I smell bullshit.
An Apple Store Genius not only has to be knowledgeable about technology, they also have to have good communication skills. And be, well, "presentable".
Well. It all depends. It all depends on whether or not you buy into all of the propaganda fanboys like to spout about their brand being like BMW.
That is why the comparison was being drawn with Tiffany and not Walmart.
If Apple is really like GM or Walmart, then the crap pay is not really out of place.
Funny you bring up Tiffany's. The sales people there not only have to pay for their business clothing (they of course have to wear) themselves, they also have to buy all the jewelry they wear at Tiffany's - and they do have to wear some too.
I dont mind a walled garden, as I would rather not have a device that can be infected with Adware/Trojans/Viruses!
Given that iOS is not immune to remote exploits (c.f. Jailbreakme) you are not immune to those problems.
And yet there haven't been any known exploits in the wild apart from the already mentioned remote jailbreaks - but there were dozens of malware apps at Google's whatever-they-call-their-app-store-now. And that's not counting the back-of-a-van-app-stores - the only that doesn't seem to be affected seems to be Amazon's store - itself a walled garden. Or barbed wire fenced, as far as the developers go.
The pen I used to fill out my grocery loyalty card form is probably a "device", so I've been violating this recently issued patent since the 90s, or something like that.
Every mail in rebate form that asks for excessive personal data, etc, etc.
So what you are saying is that your pen is actually the smarter of you two, doing all the work.
Apple has a patent to fool bots that aggregate people's data.
Interesting how even this can be spun to something negative.
The negative part is I've been doing this since the very early 90s, offline and online, and now its patented, so I guess I owe APPL every time I do this, or I can't do it anymore?
"The invention claimed is:
1. A device-implemented method, comprising: cloning, by a device..." - are you a device?
"So for every $9.99 book I sell I, the author, pay 30% to Amazon for the right to sell on Amazon AND $2.58 for them to deliver the DIGITAL GOOD to your device. It is free for the reader, but the author, not amazon, pays for delivery."
Sales engineering. They did what any other company could've done with a laptop at a 2300 dollar price point. The marvel is apple social engineering their way into people's wallets.
Errm. Sony VAIO 13.1" Z Series Laptop - $2999.99
"Amazing Full HD 1080p display"
Oddly enough, just about everyone who has actually seen Apple's screen was impressed. Maybe there is more to it than just the pixel count (even when not ignoring spatial resolution).
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My favorite part about Apple's virus/malware policy is how, when someone would publicly point out a security flaw, Apple would proceed to demonize and harangue them in an attempt to ruin that person's reputation... then quietly include a fix for the aforementioned flaw in their next OS update, never once admitting that there was a legitimate issue.
In reality, Apple credits everybody (first) reporting an issue to them in the documentation of the security updates. Well, maybe not if they acted like complete asshats - is that what happened to you?
How the hell is this insightful? With the original CRT iMac going forward, you could take any third party USB mouse, plug it in and have your two or more mouse buttons.
And before that, you could do it with a third party multi-button ADB mouse.
I was a systems administrator at a large datacenter, and am currently a support engineer for a major company, yet she makes 30% more than I do. I'm also good at my job.
I smell bullshit.
An Apple Store Genius not only has to be knowledgeable about technology, they also have to have good communication skills. And be, well, "presentable".
Not in New York City they're not, and that is what the New York Times is talking about.
Actually, no they are not. Not one mention of New York in the article.
Well. It all depends. It all depends on whether or not you buy into all of the propaganda fanboys like to spout about their brand being like BMW.
That is why the comparison was being drawn with Tiffany and not Walmart.
If Apple is really like GM or Walmart, then the crap pay is not really out of place.
Funny you bring up Tiffany's. The sales people there not only have to pay for their business clothing (they of course have to wear) themselves, they also have to buy all the jewelry they wear at Tiffany's - and they do have to wear some too.
Not just SCSI, but from what I've heard a really buggy, incompatible implementation of SCSI.
And by "incompatible" you sure mean "could handle 8 devices unlike many PC SCSI cards that could only handle one".
Schumer is about as far from a tea party member as you can get...
His paranoid ramblings would fit right in.
Given that iOS is not immune to remote exploits (c.f. Jailbreakme) you are not immune to those problems.
And yet there haven't been any known exploits in the wild apart from the already mentioned remote jailbreaks - but there were dozens of malware apps at Google's whatever-they-call-their-app-store-now. And that's not counting the back-of-a-van-app-stores - the only that doesn't seem to be affected seems to be Amazon's store - itself a walled garden. Or barbed wire fenced, as far as the developers go.
People have been using aerial photography to make maps for decades. There is absolutely nothing special (nor "military grade") about them.
It's not Apple locking out GPL, its the GPL locking out the App Store.
How can something that "works much the same way as Apple's Siri" be an improvement, when Siri is supposedly just a lame copy of Android voice control?
Goes to show the power of markets when it comes to putting a value on things. Laughable.
Yeah, especially the market of "media pirates posting to Slashdot".
are you a device?
The pen I used to fill out my grocery loyalty card form is probably a "device", so I've been violating this recently issued patent since the 90s, or something like that.
Every mail in rebate form that asks for excessive personal data, etc, etc.
So what you are saying is that your pen is actually the smarter of you two, doing all the work.
Apple has a patent to fool bots that aggregate people's data.
Interesting how even this can be spun to something negative.
The negative part is I've been doing this since the very early 90s, offline and online, and now its patented, so I guess I owe APPL every time I do this, or I can't do it anymore?
"The invention claimed is: 1. A device-implemented method, comprising: cloning, by a device..." - are you a device?
I wished the patent said "tool".
If people will jailbreak phones so they can remove the carrier crapware, why wouldn't they just remove that feature as well?
Because the function will be baked into the OS and not in easily removed "non-removable" apps and image files like carrier branding?
"So for every $9.99 book I sell I, the author, pay 30% to Amazon for the right to sell on Amazon AND $2.58 for them to deliver the DIGITAL GOOD to your device. It is free for the reader, but the author, not amazon, pays for delivery."
Here is a data set that wasn't cherry picked.
host wattsupwiththat.com
wattsupwiththat.com is an alias for cherrypickeddata.com
Your link appears to back up my assertion. Did you have an argument to make?
You had assertions? What were those? Did they had anything to do with the fact that the iPad didn't look much like the picture frame at all?
when Apple stop being Mormons and you can buy Playboy!
Drrriiiiiing - well, at least you get the stories, that's more than you can get on Android.
30% is absurd. Amazon charges 15%, and I think even that's too high.
That's odd - all I can find is that they lowered their share from 70% to 30% in June 2010. Care to back up your claims?
Thirty percent (though not sure if that's on a continuing basis, regardless) is absurd.
And yet it's the same Amazon is asking, all allusions to the opposite aside (and before Apple came to the market they gave 30%).
To be fair to Apple, Samsung called a lot of this shit onto itself by so blatantly lifting design elements from the iPad.
Oh really?
What was your question exactly?.
Sales engineering. They did what any other company could've done with a laptop at a 2300 dollar price point. The marvel is apple social engineering their way into people's wallets.
Errm. Sony VAIO 13.1" Z Series Laptop - $2999.99 "Amazing Full HD 1080p display"
No shit. Strip out theings like ethernet pors to make it less functional. ie ... cut manufacturing costs. And toss in a fancy display. Marvel my ass.
Having seen one of these in person: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphic_display_resolutions#WQUXGA_.283840.C3.972400.29
I am not impressed.
Oddly enough, just about everyone who has actually seen Apple's screen was impressed. Maybe there is more to it than just the pixel count (even when not ignoring spatial resolution).
Maybe they don't have a shiny aluminum case, but all that matters for is show-off value anyway.
And rigidity and weight and thickness and recyclability.
But no the aluminum case is only there to be shiny.
If only it weren't matte.