A niche device that won't achieve more than 10% market share?
Seriously, who has an iPad and isn't already bored with the thing? I mean, don't get me wrong, it is a great portable web browser. It is the physical manifestation of what the web browser was born to be. But revolutionary? Changing how people consume books and media? Hardly! It's a boring tool right out of Star Trek. And I'd still rather use a real computer, because there is this ancient technology called the keyboard that is far more effective for entering text.
But still, it is very good when you want something to read and don't particularly care about the fuzzy text. I use the iPad once about every three days. I leave it on the stand outside my bathroom.
No, they don't. Otherwise they'd be holding funerals for miscarriages. (And yes, I know that some of them *are* that crazy.) They simply find it a convenient reason to be outraged that people don't ascribe to their religious dogma.
Is it not censorship when a news organization cuts a story because it offends a sponsor?
This notion that only governments can be censors is a relatively recent invention, and is a form of newspeak to enable censors in all other walks of life.
The post I replied to referred to unemployment benefits, made necessary because the economy tanked after the real estate bubble popped.
That you and several others assume I'm talking about bailing out stupid people with ARMs (when a slightly more logical misunderstanding would be to assume I was talking about the bank bailouts) says volumes about how your resentment is being misdirected on the poor for political ends.
I quit World of Warcraft over this. I've never played Modern Warfare, nor do I care who made it, but it is obvious that Activision wants to milk its franchises until there is nothing left but dessicated corpses, and fuck anyone who stands in their way.
Considering how many cell phone users there are, this market is potentially larger than that of desktop computers. There is nothing non-traditional about it. These devices are computers that use the Internet. The only difference is that telecommunications companies have an undue influence over them, and now Apple jealously wants that same kind of control.
Success is dependent on hard decisions and hard work, not billions of dollars.
No it isn't. It is dependent on accomplishing goals, and doing better than your competitors.
If you think not failing stupidly easy multiple choice tests, or not getting fired because your students are not failing stupidly easy multiple choice tests is success, well, yeah, you're part of the problem.
There is no shortage, only a culture that is unwilling to pay scientists and engineers the same wages that are available in medicine, law, and finance.
If you want scientists, give kids an incentive to become scientists. You can only trick them with dog and pony shows like manned space "exploration" for so long.
lol, a Symbian phone. I was hating on Symbian when you people were gushing about the fruity colors of your iMacs.
It's funny how it always comes down to us versus the world in the mind of a fanboy. Like the Republican, their worldview is a fantasy, a heroic Randian struggle against the zombie horde of socialists with poor fashion sense. Only socialism in this context is demanding that hardware be controlled by its owner, and not by the manufacturer at the behest of publishing cartels.
The Republicans sold their souls with the "Southern Strategy", and look where it got us. Jobs sold us out with censorship and DRM. When *that* empire starts to crumble, I wonder what the Apple version of the Teabagger will be?
There are an awful lot of similarities between Republicans and Apple fanboys. They're both submissive, they're both religious in their single-minded devotion. They both believe you must sacrifice freedom for security.
they can be expected to have a certain set of knowledge and familiarity
Which is exactly the point I was making in opposition to the person I replied to. As I have said elsewhere, people find the iPad "intuitive" because they've been using an iPhone for three years. They found the iPhone "intuitive" because they've been using smartphones for ten yeas. They found smartphones "intuitive" because they've been using computers for twenty years.
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And they stole it from Reddit.
But I'm sure Jellybagel doesn't care, because whining about an obvious joke is fucking retarded.
If it is fearmongering, then why is it illegal?
Yeah, they've covered less than a thousandth of a percent of the galaxy, that's certainly an adequate sample size.
O RLY?
> The iPad is surprisingly similar to the Mac.
A niche device that won't achieve more than 10% market share?
Seriously, who has an iPad and isn't already bored with the thing? I mean, don't get me wrong, it is a great portable web browser. It is the physical manifestation of what the web browser was born to be. But revolutionary? Changing how people consume books and media? Hardly! It's a boring tool right out of Star Trek. And I'd still rather use a real computer, because there is this ancient technology called the keyboard that is far more effective for entering text.
But still, it is very good when you want something to read and don't particularly care about the fuzzy text. I use the iPad once about every three days. I leave it on the stand outside my bathroom.
They _really_ believe that abortion is murder
No, they don't. Otherwise they'd be holding funerals for miscarriages. (And yes, I know that some of them *are* that crazy.) They simply find it a convenient reason to be outraged that people don't ascribe to their religious dogma.
Is it not censorship when a news organization cuts a story because it offends a sponsor?
This notion that only governments can be censors is a relatively recent invention, and is a form of newspeak to enable censors in all other walks of life.
Censorship is only censorship when getting around it is inconvenient? Ridiculous and false.
The post I replied to referred to unemployment benefits, made necessary because the economy tanked after the real estate bubble popped.
That you and several others assume I'm talking about bailing out stupid people with ARMs (when a slightly more logical misunderstanding would be to assume I was talking about the bank bailouts) says volumes about how your resentment is being misdirected on the poor for political ends.
You realize that isn't really true, right? The semiconductor industry was booming just fine without NASA.
Sent from my Apollo Guidance Computer.
Yeah, go to hell victims of reckless real estate speculation, those aerospace contractors deserve that government cheese!
Some schools teach creationism. Some teach actual theology. Why should alien abduction be treated any differently? Teach the controversy!
You don't need 100% of a market to have a monopoly.
Ok, then, Apple has a monopoly.
Microsoft has a monopoly, Apple doesn't; that's the difference, and it's a difference that matters.
Apple's very existence demonstrates that Microsoft does not have a monopoly.
There was a country where people thought having total control over everything would be good. It was called the Soviet Union. It didn't last very long.
I quit World of Warcraft over this. I've never played Modern Warfare, nor do I care who made it, but it is obvious that Activision wants to milk its franchises until there is nothing left but dessicated corpses, and fuck anyone who stands in their way.
Considering how many cell phone users there are, this market is potentially larger than that of desktop computers. There is nothing non-traditional about it. These devices are computers that use the Internet. The only difference is that telecommunications companies have an undue influence over them, and now Apple jealously wants that same kind of control.
I don't know where you got those ideas -- certainly not from what I posted above.
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Except that his message is to throw more money at schools as if that will fix the problem.
Yeah. You'd think they'd have learned their lesson from the failure of capitalism. When will people learn, incentives don't work!
Elitism is private schools giving morons the same degree you earned because their parents can pay full tuition.
Success is dependent on hard decisions and hard work, not billions of dollars.
No it isn't. It is dependent on accomplishing goals, and doing better than your competitors.
If you think not failing stupidly easy multiple choice tests, or not getting fired because your students are not failing stupidly easy multiple choice tests is success, well, yeah, you're part of the problem.
There is no shortage, only a culture that is unwilling to pay scientists and engineers the same wages that are available in medicine, law, and finance.
If you want scientists, give kids an incentive to become scientists. You can only trick them with dog and pony shows like manned space "exploration" for so long.
lol, a Symbian phone. I was hating on Symbian when you people were gushing about the fruity colors of your iMacs.
It's funny how it always comes down to us versus the world in the mind of a fanboy. Like the Republican, their worldview is a fantasy, a heroic Randian struggle against the zombie horde of socialists with poor fashion sense. Only socialism in this context is demanding that hardware be controlled by its owner, and not by the manufacturer at the behest of publishing cartels.
The Republicans sold their souls with the "Southern Strategy", and look where it got us. Jobs sold us out with censorship and DRM. When *that* empire starts to crumble, I wonder what the Apple version of the Teabagger will be?
There are an awful lot of similarities between Republicans and Apple fanboys. They're both submissive, they're both religious in their single-minded devotion. They both believe you must sacrifice freedom for security.
they can be expected to have a certain set of knowledge and familiarity
Which is exactly the point I was making in opposition to the person I replied to. As I have said elsewhere, people find the iPad "intuitive" because they've been using an iPhone for three years. They found the iPhone "intuitive" because they've been using smartphones for ten yeas. They found smartphones "intuitive" because they've been using computers for twenty years.