The almost near instant removal of the 500px app last week which went above and beyond Apple's supposed guidelines is more proof that the company does not apply it's rules equally to all companies.
Why the hell has this been modded troll?
The 500px app WAS suddenly removed last week on the grounds that there is nudity and that it might have the potential get into the hands of children If you have the app installed then you are probably a member of the website AND have an interest in photography, therefore you are well aware of the nudity.
If the standards by which these rejections are being made are based on potential, then Apple is being hypocritical and biased.
I'm sure it's pure coincidence that nobody downloaded the Android version of the app until news broke that Apple had banned the iOS app after some "users" had complained about child porn showing up. One could almost suspect a viral marketing campaign.
Just like the banning of the "drone attack" app had generated much more publicity than its approval would have.
Apple ends their business relationship with this manufacturer.
Does the company fold because Apple was their main client, everyone loses their jobs? or Does the company fire all the underage workers for failing to pass inspection? or Something else?
I'm assuming the families of these kids put them to work out of necessity, so what happens to these kids and their families now?
Pingzhou electron becomes the largest global sub-contractor of TDK who is the world-famous electronic industry brand, it products occupy global market share of 13 %, and the products are wildly used on scopes of mobile phone, computer hard disk, automobile, digital camera, air-conditioner etc. In Y2006, Pingzhou electron started to develop own brand in new and high-tech markets according to Real Faith Group reform strategy, start with R&D, production and sales for LED driver, packing and assembling, and have gained matured markets. At present, the LED driver had already been applied to the Egongji tunnel Guangwu highway, Linjiang tunnel Pearl River New City Guangzhou, Wulongshan tunnel Guizhou, Dongmiaochong tunnel Guihuang highway, Caoyuan tunnel Quansan highway Fujian etc. Packing load products had been selected as A grade supply by TDK Japan.
Pingzhou electron is always adhere to the "innovation for breakthrough and innovation for development" company spirit. Established a strong R&D team, cooperated with colleges on manufacture, learning and research, obtained many inventions, utility model patents, became a high-tech enterprises in Guangdong. Pingzhou electron had gained the ISO9001 and ISO/TS16949 quality management system, ISO14001 environment management system, OHSAS18001 career safety management system, IECQ-QC080000 without harmful substances management system, and CE certification of EU.
Looking for the future, Pingzhou electron will uphold "become a competitive well-known enterprise" as the target, adhere to "green manufacture, green products" the environment-protecting concept, will be devoted to develop green technology, with practical action to contribute to the community and society, to gain enterprise lasting business.
This is an interesting story considering that in Cali, employee non-compete contracts are not enforceable.
In effect, the result of such "no poaching" agreements was to have the same affect as the non-compete contract with the employee. Employees would be restrained from changing jobs and going to a competitor. Give them class status. This seems like a problem for the Cali courts to figure out.
Nice interpretation, too bad it has nothing top do with the facts - "don't poach" doesn't mean "don't hire".
Well, let's see what John Gruber says about Walter Isaacson:
I think Isaacson viewed Jobs’s RDF as something very much akin to the Jedi mind trick — something that worked against most people, but not those with strong minds. That might even be true. But I think Isaacson was so concerned with himself being “resistant” that he chose to treat much of what Jobs told him as false.
Again, skepticism is good. But rather than do the research to verify Jobs’s version of events, to learn the facts so as to be able to dispute Jobs himself, he simply turned to sources he did trust, like Hertzfeld and Gates. But Gates is an odd choice to trust, because he clearly has a conflict of interest. His company competed against Jobs’s, and at a personal level, he is Jobs’s only rival in terms of historical stature in the industry.
What happens then, repeatedly, is that Jobs tells Isaacson something that is true, but Isaacson doesn’t believe it, and he then quotes someone else, like Bill Gates, saying something that is false to refute it, and Isaacson lets that remark stand as fact.
IOW, your source is someone who believed everything about Jobs if it didn't come from Jobs.
And to paraphrase Gruber's closing statement: Sure, Jobs was an asshole. But this thread is full of assholes, and they are all pissed that nobody cares about what they think.
Interesting. I would then wonder whether or not wifi useage on the devices are used, just out of curiosity sake. But that sounds like a reasonable response.
Palm employees have every right to speak to Apple employees when those Apple employees are not on the clock. Why should calling an Apple employee be any different than calling any any person?
So what you are saying is that Rubinstein not only named a couple of Apple employees to "not"-poach, but actually took with him the private information to contact them?
How does google associate with Intel? Each have their own issues, but that's like lumping Apple in with MS. They all have done questionable things without easy answers, but only 3 of those 4 have actually done ethically questionable things.
Off the top of my mind: paying most of the cost of advertisement for stores selling their products - if and only if they don't advertise anything using AMD.
why the hell should be still be fucking with Cuba?
Because they agreed to allow the USSR to put NUCLEAR fucking MISSILES on their island, aimed at us, and it's basically the same government in power today.
Even the USSR was trading with just about anyone in Western-Europe, despite either their own or US Nukes aimed at them from there. And even Turkey didn't get the Cold War shoulder, despite the stationing of US nukes there that was the reason for stationing nukes in Cuba in the first place (which BTW where "coincidently" removed just a few months after the end of the Cuba crisis).
Not to mention that the embargo started before the nukes and was the actual reason that Cuba became depended on the USSR in the first place.
1)To get votes from the Cuban community from Miami.
US politicians are scared of the Miami Cubans. They are more feared than the Mafia at its height. If I was POTUS for a day I would round-up all the Cubans in Miami and deliver them to the Cuban Government with the label 'terrorist'.
and then apple had the nerve to charge you $.30 per song to undrm it?
Erm, first of all, they charged you $.30 per song to upgrade to a higher quality version that happened to be DRM free.
But let's pretend for a moment that they did - who ever offered an upgrade to DRM free music - or video, or programs; free or paid? Who but Apple ever gave their customers that? Or for a higher quality version of the media? Who?
Actually, others who dropped DRM, dropped the right to play the media you already paid for.
Imagine if botnets were put to benevolent uses, like distributed computing projects. Seriously forget credit card data - nobody has any money these days. Process some folding at home and collect some Nobels.
Yeah, sure. Drain some million Chinese guys phone battery, so somebody else can get a Nobel Prize.
By simple geometry. If you observe the star 6 months apart, you get a trianble with a base of 2AU, which is enough accurately triangulate the distance of stars up to a some 100 ly away.
This was exactly the method used 2 decade ago.
Not this new guy used a very indirect way (measuring the brightness we see the star, guessing its real brightness by looking at spectra and then deciding how far away it must have been), gets a 30% different number and claims his, indirect and error-laden, way is yielding the more correct of the results.
So, by your own words, Polaris is too far away to use triangulation. Yet, you insist that's the correct method for finding it's distance. Then end off by calling the guy names.
Depends on what he means by "accurately". Certainly not the "off by 25%" the new guy is claiming.
So, my answer was correct (Samsung outsells Apple by a healthy margin), but because Samsung needs 20 times as many products to do so, most of which sell so little they lose money, it's all good. Got it.
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The almost near instant removal of the 500px app last week which went above and beyond Apple's supposed guidelines is more proof that the company does not apply it's rules equally to all companies.
Why the hell has this been modded troll?
The 500px app WAS suddenly removed last week on the grounds that there is nudity and that it might have the potential get into the hands of children If you have the app installed then you are probably a member of the website AND have an interest in photography, therefore you are well aware of the nudity.
If the standards by which these rejections are being made are based on potential, then Apple is being hypocritical and biased.
I'm sure it's pure coincidence that nobody downloaded the Android version of the app until news broke that Apple had banned the iOS app after some "users" had complained about child porn showing up. One could almost suspect a viral marketing campaign.
Just like the banning of the "drone attack" app had generated much more publicity than its approval would have.
And that "Jump" was from an audit of the second year Apple did the study, 2011.
Actually, they've been doing the report annually since 2007.
OK, why is the angle on this story not "Apple caught using child labor"? It was the last time this story happened.
Because it was Apple that caught the company employing children as well as the labor agency supplying them and who reported them to the authorities.
Oh, and they did this a year ago.
Apple ends their business relationship with this manufacturer.
Does the company fold because Apple was their main client, everyone loses their jobs?
or
Does the company fire all the underage workers for failing to pass inspection?
or
Something else?
I'm assuming the families of these kids put them to work out of necessity, so what happens to these kids and their families now?
Don't worry about them. http://www.gd-realfaith.com/en/displayproduct.html?proID=100990419
Pingzhou electron becomes the largest global sub-contractor of TDK who is the world-famous electronic industry brand, it products occupy global market share of 13 %, and the products are wildly used on scopes of mobile phone, computer hard disk, automobile, digital camera, air-conditioner etc. In Y2006, Pingzhou electron started to develop own brand in new and high-tech markets according to Real Faith Group reform strategy, start with R&D, production and sales for LED driver, packing and assembling, and have gained matured markets. At present, the LED driver had already been applied to the Egongji tunnel Guangwu highway, Linjiang tunnel Pearl River New City Guangzhou, Wulongshan tunnel Guizhou, Dongmiaochong tunnel Guihuang highway, Caoyuan tunnel Quansan highway Fujian etc. Packing load products had been selected as A grade supply by TDK Japan.
Pingzhou electron is always adhere to the "innovation for breakthrough and innovation for development" company spirit. Established a strong R&D team, cooperated with colleges on manufacture, learning and research, obtained many inventions, utility model patents, became a high-tech enterprises in Guangdong. Pingzhou electron had gained the ISO9001 and ISO/TS16949 quality management system, ISO14001 environment management system, OHSAS18001 career safety management system, IECQ-QC080000 without harmful substances management system, and CE certification of EU.
Looking for the future, Pingzhou electron will uphold "become a competitive well-known enterprise" as the target, adhere to "green manufacture, green products" the environment-protecting concept, will be devoted to develop green technology, with practical action to contribute to the community and society, to gain enterprise lasting business.
Looks like the kids' jobs will be safe.
Yeah, sure, it was taken from So"zi"alist.
And V wasn't taken from Vendetta, but from Moron.
This is an interesting story considering that in Cali, employee non-compete contracts are not enforceable.
In effect, the result of such "no poaching" agreements was to have the same affect as the non-compete contract with the employee. Employees would be restrained from changing jobs and going to a competitor. Give them class status. This seems like a problem for the Cali courts to figure out.
Nice interpretation, too bad it has nothing top do with the facts - "don't poach" doesn't mean "don't hire".
You didn't need to wait until after his death. There are plenty of people out there who knew this, ex-employees and partners all have spoken up..
Yeah, but we obviously had to wait till after his death for these stories to appear: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2231063/Steve-Jobs-Strangers-swap-stories-running-Apple-genius-town.html http://forbesindia.com/article/recliner/untold-stories-about-steve-jobs/34039/2
Well lets see, reputable website?
Check!
Reputable Source?
Walter Isaacson Check!
Who is Walter Isaacoson?
Well, let's see what John Gruber says about Walter Isaacson:
I think Isaacson viewed Jobs’s RDF as something very much akin to the Jedi mind trick — something that worked against most people, but not those with strong minds. That might even be true. But I think Isaacson was so concerned with himself being “resistant” that he chose to treat much of what Jobs told him as false.
Again, skepticism is good. But rather than do the research to verify Jobs’s version of events, to learn the facts so as to be able to dispute Jobs himself, he simply turned to sources he did trust, like Hertzfeld and Gates. But Gates is an odd choice to trust, because he clearly has a conflict of interest. His company competed against Jobs’s, and at a personal level, he is Jobs’s only rival in terms of historical stature in the industry.
What happens then, repeatedly, is that Jobs tells Isaacson something that is true, but Isaacson doesn’t believe it, and he then quotes someone else, like Bill Gates, saying something that is false to refute it, and Isaacson lets that remark stand as fact.
IOW, your source is someone who believed everything about Jobs if it didn't come from Jobs.
And to paraphrase Gruber's closing statement: Sure, Jobs was an asshole. But this thread is full of assholes, and they are all pissed that nobody cares about what they think.
Interesting. I would then wonder whether or not wifi useage on the devices are used, just out of curiosity sake. But that sounds like a reasonable response.
iPhone Owners Twice as Likely to Use Wi-Fi As Android Owners
Nearly 70% of American Android users can’t figure out how to connect to a WiFi network
Define poaching.
Palm employees have every right to speak to Apple employees when those Apple employees are not on the clock. Why should calling an Apple employee be any different than calling any any person?
So what you are saying is that Rubinstein not only named a couple of Apple employees to "not"-poach, but actually took with him the private information to contact them?
How does google associate with Intel? Each have their own issues, but that's like lumping Apple in with MS. They all have done questionable things without easy answers, but only 3 of those 4 have actually done ethically questionable things.
Off the top of my mind: paying most of the cost of advertisement for stores selling their products - if and only if they don't advertise anything using AMD.
It's still surprising when ..
people like you act all pissed when Palm can see the engineering talent manifested in Apple 's products that you are incapable of.
Wrong again: the term "Nazi" was coined after the already familiar term "Sozi", a pejorative abbreviation for socialists.
So the fact that both terms are based on pronouncing the first two syllables in German somehow proves wrong what I said - namely exactly that?
If you really want to see a place that is screwed with nearly 100% food imports, think Vegas.
Funny you mention Vegas, being the other Mafia controlled city besides "free" Havana.
why the hell should be still be fucking with Cuba?
Because they agreed to allow the USSR to put NUCLEAR fucking MISSILES on their island, aimed at us, and it's basically the same government in power today.
Even the USSR was trading with just about anyone in Western-Europe, despite either their own or US Nukes aimed at them from there. And even Turkey didn't get the Cold War shoulder, despite the stationing of US nukes there that was the reason for stationing nukes in Cuba in the first place (which BTW where "coincidently" removed just a few months after the end of the Cuba crisis).
Not to mention that the embargo started before the nukes and was the actual reason that Cuba became depended on the USSR in the first place.
1)To get votes from the Cuban community from Miami.
US politicians are scared of the Miami Cubans. They are more feared than the Mafia at its height. If I was POTUS for a day I would round-up all the Cubans in Miami and deliver them to the Cuban Government with the label 'terrorist'.
Hey, at least send out those that actually are terrorists. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Posada_Carriles
Google probably didn't think they were worth it.
The thing that would have killed iTunes wasn't even worth $80M to Google? Okay, is it just me, or doest the argument not make a lot of sense?
..what can kill and what can heal them
Jobs can't be healed
Way to prove Apple isn't Jobs.
and then apple had the nerve to charge you $.30 per song to undrm it?
Erm, first of all, they charged you $.30 per song to upgrade to a higher quality version that happened to be DRM free.
But let's pretend for a moment that they did - who ever offered an upgrade to DRM free music - or video, or programs; free or paid? Who but Apple ever gave their customers that? Or for a higher quality version of the media? Who?
Actually, others who dropped DRM, dropped the right to play the media you already paid for.
Imagine if botnets were put to benevolent uses, like distributed computing projects. Seriously forget credit card data - nobody has any money these days. Process some folding at home and collect some Nobels.
Yeah, sure. Drain some million Chinese guys phone battery, so somebody else can get a Nobel Prize.
http://www.zdnet.com/new-android-malware-infects-100000-chinese-smartphones-7000000497/
Not in Google Play at all.
Considering those are all Chines phones, that's not really surprising. Most "Android" phones sold in China don't have access to Google Play.
Which is the real problem here: Google has walled them out of their garden and forces them to go to even unsafer places.
By simple geometry. If you observe the star 6 months apart, you get a trianble with a base of 2AU, which is enough accurately triangulate the distance of stars up to a some 100 ly away.
This was exactly the method used 2 decade ago.
Not this new guy used a very indirect way (measuring the brightness we see the star, guessing its real brightness by looking at spectra and then deciding how far away it must have been), gets a 30% different number and claims his, indirect and error-laden, way is yielding the more correct of the results.
So, by your own words, Polaris is too far away to use triangulation. Yet, you insist that's the correct method for finding it's distance. Then end off by calling the guy names.
Depends on what he means by "accurately". Certainly not the "off by 25%" the new guy is claiming.
As far as I know, everybody uses Parsecs. 1 pc = 648000 / PI * 149597870700 m ~= 3.0856775814913676 * 10^16 m.
There are those who argue that Imperial Parsecs measure time.
So, my answer was correct (Samsung outsells Apple by a healthy margin), but because Samsung needs 20 times as many products to do so, most of which sell so little they lose money, it's all good. Got it.
FTFY
Judging how a company performs by how few projects it axes is laughable.
That's probably why nobody did.