If it's pissing you submissive whiners off so much, then isn't it, you know, doing something? Why get mad over nothing?
You're going to pull a tendon, straining so hard to spin this like it was the Republicans standing up for something and Democrats storming away in a pissy huff.
In other worse, We're not going to sell you what you want to buy, we're going to sell you what we want to sell.
Apple joins the ranks of the telecommunications companies, of the music industry, of Microsoft, in employing that thinking.
Rationalize it all you want, but it is obvious there is demand in the market that Apple is refusing to meet. And while the brand-submissives whine about people "copying" the iPhone, others are more than willing to fill that gap.
"it's about more than just buying a commodity...it's getting a pleasant experience along with it, from end-to-end."
Last I checked, the iPhone doesn't give happy endings. I must be using it wrong.
Get over it, they're not all floor-tapping Republicans. The origin of homophobia is the same as that of sexism, it is rooted in dominance-submission hierarchies, status insecurity and traditional roles for women. Just look at how less sophisticated cultures practice homosexuality and it is obvious.
Gays are like the cylons of masculinity. Homophobes have contempt for men who take the roles women, but the knowledge that these men are often superior to them, blend in with them, and therefore often have power over them is terrifying.
The problem with your analogy is that no one has a hissy fit when Jews decide to stop having Jewish babies, and just have babies instead.
Well, maybe a few Jews do. The ones who are very much like your bogeymen, the same people who would demand violence against those who seek to remove the Y chromosome from society. Patriarchy and racism go together like peas and carrots. The fear of the loss of dominance is a reckless and powerful motivator.
And you know they exist. You might be one yourself. To use the word "feminazi" without irony is the rhetorical equivalent of yelling "fascist" to anyone in uniform. It is, as they say, a shibboleth of sorts.
What is this bizarre obsession with screen pixel dimensions? Non-scalable interfaces are so 2002, and the misuse of "VGA" makes baby Jeebus cry.
BTW, non-Treo Palm devices are also 480x320, and have been for years. Nokia devices come in all manner of screen sizes. Several current BlackBerry models do 320x240, and there are several full "VGA" Windows Mobile devices. There is also the increasingly common 800x480, such as on the Nokia N800. And don't forget Android, which will probably run on anything.
The only pervasive groupthink on Slashdot is whining about groupthink.
Suspicion of authority should be the default mindset of every human being. It is no more groupthink to despise those who would deny you critical information than it is to despise murderers and thieves. It's as much human nature as the desire of tyrants to attempt it in the first place.
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And don't forget about their Eclipse-based Carbide IDE.
"Republic" means "not a monarchy". You people keep trotting out that false dichotomy, when a direct democracy, in all its inefficient mob-rule glory, is the purest republic imaginable.
Are you suggesting that we should respect every issue raised by hysterical zealots? Because that is what he is rationalizing. Think of this way - Jack Thompson on Prozac is still a calm, crazy loon.
I'm just sad that nobody is approaching this from a neutral point of view and actually doing some objective journalism on this topic. Perhaps objectivity is no longer possible in this debate...
Because the objective journalist recognizes this as a manufactured controversy and a boring non-story.
And if gratuitousness is pornography, then Fox News is hard-core pornography.
Before anyone else responds, recognize that the parent post is a troll. An imaginary "middle ground", whining about objectivity, and a non-sequitar about the pixel density of video games... this is called framing, and it's a setup to make you defensive.
New stuff that is exactly like the old stuff, and does nothing but kill time while they work on the next expansion, which is the only part that actually advances the plot.
And if they're in a better position to implement these newly discovered legal responsibilities, it would give them a significant advantage over their larger competitors when the government expects them to do the same.
3. At various other times, Ritz issued a variety of commands, including host -l, helo, and vrfy. The afore-mentioned commands are not commonly known to the average computer user.
4. Ritz frequently accomplished his access to Sierra's computers by concealing his identity via proxies and by accessing the servers via a Unix operating system and using a shell accounts, among other methods. He also disguised himself as a mail server.
The Court rejects the test for "authorization" articulated by defendant's expert, Lawrence Baldwin. To find all access "authorized" which is successful would essentially turn the computer crime laws of this country upside down. Any backer could allege that any form of access was authorized because he was able to penetrate the system, regardless of whether the commands utilized were well-formed.
Oh noes! The judge is being alarmist and populist! (Whining about alarmism and populism ought to be the new Godwin. It only marks the speaker as a tool.)
That the defendant dug his own hole is immaterial to the actual controversy. If he were only being punished for ignoring an injunction, no one would care. No, the plaintiff is a spammer and is misrepresenting the nature of computer security to a stupid, compliant judge to seek vengeance.
How fast do you think they'd reverse their argument if someone sued them for pumping unauthorized spam to users on a mail server?
Isn't it cute, how this guy wants to pass off Apple products as status symbols, but also implies that most of the people who buy them are heavily into debt. And with the M3 reference, it's like he wants to identify with the wealthy, but wants to sneer at every other yuppie with the same purchasing power.
Computers are not status symbols. And that "more money than sense" group is no where near large enough to account for anything. Apple products are not in the same category as gold teeth and spinning rims.
Heh, as most of the graduate students I have known are in the field of computer graphics, my immediate reaction was "WTF? You damn well know they're going to want their Pixar movies in hi-def!"
I plan on buying a standalone player when the prices go from "for the love of god, please buy our players" to "help us throw away our useless inventory", and keep it unused until my Xbox player fails. And after that, I imagine it won't matter, since we'll all have fiber to the curb and storage will be priced by the terabyte.
I had no idea that bandwidth was a commons. All this time I was under the delusion that it was something that could be metered to the bit. I guess the internet it is more like the ocean than a series of tubes. That must be where the term surfing comes from.
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As Dell has a history of bombing with handhelds
So does Apple, fool.
Andrew Keen, is that you?
I think some kids are on your lawn, you'd better go scare them off.
If it's pissing you submissive whiners off so much, then isn't it, you know, doing something? Why get mad over nothing?
You're going to pull a tendon, straining so hard to spin this like it was the Republicans standing up for something and Democrats storming away in a pissy huff.
Indeed, all opinions are equally valid and deserve consideration. The liberals are hypocrites for preaching cultural relativism but not practicing it.
Yes, we've heard of the Goa'uld and the Ori and the Replicators. It's just a television show. Leave the basement once in a while.
Of course the NSA wants to offer WiFi at Starbucks. Dangerous radicals often meet at coffee shops.
We need legislation banning video games. We must protect us from ourselves!
Then why include Huckabee?
In other worse, We're not going to sell you what you want to buy, we're going to sell you what we want to sell.
Apple joins the ranks of the telecommunications companies, of the music industry, of Microsoft, in employing that thinking.
Rationalize it all you want, but it is obvious there is demand in the market that Apple is refusing to meet. And while the brand-submissives whine about people "copying" the iPhone, others are more than willing to fill that gap.
"it's about more than just buying a commodity...it's getting a pleasant experience along with it, from end-to-end."
Last I checked, the iPhone doesn't give happy endings. I must be using it wrong.
Get over it, they're not all floor-tapping Republicans. The origin of homophobia is the same as that of sexism, it is rooted in dominance-submission hierarchies, status insecurity and traditional roles for women. Just look at how less sophisticated cultures practice homosexuality and it is obvious.
Gays are like the cylons of masculinity. Homophobes have contempt for men who take the roles women, but the knowledge that these men are often superior to them, blend in with them, and therefore often have power over them is terrifying.
The problem with your analogy is that no one has a hissy fit when Jews decide to stop having Jewish babies, and just have babies instead.
Well, maybe a few Jews do. The ones who are very much like your bogeymen, the same people who would demand violence against those who seek to remove the Y chromosome from society. Patriarchy and racism go together like peas and carrots. The fear of the loss of dominance is a reckless and powerful motivator.
And you know they exist. You might be one yourself. To use the word "feminazi" without irony is the rhetorical equivalent of yelling "fascist" to anyone in uniform. It is, as they say, a shibboleth of sorts.
What is this bizarre obsession with screen pixel dimensions? Non-scalable interfaces are so 2002, and the misuse of "VGA" makes baby Jeebus cry.
BTW, non-Treo Palm devices are also 480x320, and have been for years. Nokia devices come in all manner of screen sizes. Several current BlackBerry models do 320x240, and there are several full "VGA" Windows Mobile devices. There is also the increasingly common 800x480, such as on the Nokia N800. And don't forget Android, which will probably run on anything.
The only pervasive groupthink on Slashdot is whining about groupthink.
Suspicion of authority should be the default mindset of every human being. It is no more groupthink to despise those who would deny you critical information than it is to despise murderers and thieves. It's as much human nature as the desire of tyrants to attempt it in the first place.
And don't forget about their Eclipse-based Carbide IDE.
"Republic" means "not a monarchy". You people keep trotting out that false dichotomy, when a direct democracy, in all its inefficient mob-rule glory, is the purest republic imaginable.
Are you suggesting that we should respect every issue raised by hysterical zealots? Because that is what he is rationalizing. Think of this way - Jack Thompson on Prozac is still a calm, crazy loon.
I'm just sad that nobody is approaching this from a neutral point of view and actually doing some objective journalism on this topic. Perhaps objectivity is no longer possible in this debate ...
Because the objective journalist recognizes this as a manufactured controversy and a boring non-story.
And if gratuitousness is pornography, then Fox News is hard-core pornography.
Before anyone else responds, recognize that the parent post is a troll. An imaginary "middle ground", whining about objectivity, and a non-sequitar about the pixel density of video games... this is called framing, and it's a setup to make you defensive.
New stuff that is exactly like the old stuff, and does nothing but kill time while they work on the next expansion, which is the only part that actually advances the plot.
"Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed"
Know who said that? Thomas fucking Jefferson, that's who. Maybe you've heard of him?
But you don't have to take it from a dead guy:
"Stop throwing the Constitution in my face. It's just a goddamned piece of paper!"
Truer words have never been spoken.
And if they're in a better position to implement these newly discovered legal responsibilities, it would give them a significant advantage over their larger competitors when the government expects them to do the same.
Oh noes! The judge is being alarmist and populist! (Whining about alarmism and populism ought to be the new Godwin. It only marks the speaker as a tool.)
That the defendant dug his own hole is immaterial to the actual controversy. If he were only being punished for ignoring an injunction, no one would care. No, the plaintiff is a spammer and is misrepresenting the nature of computer security to a stupid, compliant judge to seek vengeance.
How fast do you think they'd reverse their argument if someone sued them for pumping unauthorized spam to users on a mail server?
Isn't it cute, how this guy wants to pass off Apple products as status symbols, but also implies that most of the people who buy them are heavily into debt. And with the M3 reference, it's like he wants to identify with the wealthy, but wants to sneer at every other yuppie with the same purchasing power.
Computers are not status symbols. And that "more money than sense" group is no where near large enough to account for anything. Apple products are not in the same category as gold teeth and spinning rims.
Heh, as most of the graduate students I have known are in the field of computer graphics, my immediate reaction was "WTF? You damn well know they're going to want their Pixar movies in hi-def!"
I plan on buying a standalone player when the prices go from "for the love of god, please buy our players" to "help us throw away our useless inventory", and keep it unused until my Xbox player fails. And after that, I imagine it won't matter, since we'll all have fiber to the curb and storage will be priced by the terabyte.
I had no idea that bandwidth was a commons. All this time I was under the delusion that it was something that could be metered to the bit. I guess the internet it is more like the ocean than a series of tubes. That must be where the term surfing comes from.