Its actually very similar to Windows now. Every single infected machine that ends up on my desk was because of some wallpaper/cursor pack/toolbar app that ran amuck because it was actually malware.
Users really need to get into the habit of not downloading frivolous apps. If you want a cool wallpaper - download the picture and use the included gallery to crop the picture the way you want it.
Yet this happened to Apple (according to Steve Jobs interview with Walt Mossberg at All Things D) - there was an app that shipped that was reporting prototype OS versions back to a marketing company - and it was an approved application.
I'm not defending it personally - I think health care in this country is a joke. In fact I'm trying to show how we do in fact pay a hidden tax that most of us are blissfully unaware of.
Health care really can't be all that affordable in this country when you have ceo's making almost a billion dollars in wages every year on making us feel better.
Think about it this way - you probably pay a certain amount for health care benefits. Typically HR calls this the employee share. Find out how much your employer pays per month (not your share, but in total). You should be pleasantly surprised that its almost 2 grand - mine is and I pay around 250 a month (my share).
I personally rather have the 2 grand and get taxed at 30-40 percent.
So no - healthcare payments aren't a tax per-se, but its why many "liberals" here in the US say that we pay more than any European country and get less favorable results.
One is a retired Dentist (ran his own practice for a number of years before selling it to a family member), another is a doctor at a local hospital and the other runs his own business - a mortuary of all things.
As a motorcyclist this was absolutely frightening - he probably didn't know that marked car was behind him until he turned around (try riding a bike sometime - that immediate rear of you is sometimes hard to see). He said in an interview with ABC-2 that he was kinda freaked out that he was being robbed or someone wanted to steal his bike.
I counted - it was a good 5 seconds until the guy opened the door with the gun in hand and identified himself as a cop - much longer if you consider he pulled along side the biker (a bad sign typically especially in a state that forbids lane splitting) with no emergency lights on.
Only in America too - seriously - buy a scanner - there's a US version (that cannot tune 800 MHz freq's) and the everyone else version. Same with ham radio equipment - my Icom 706 is a special revision only sold in the US that cannot tune cell frequencies - never mind its incapable of decoding any of that stuff anyhow.
Also - not that I was a big fan of the Kin, they really shouldn't have let it die in a fire like they did 48 days after launch for largely petty political reasons. When you ship a product - you stand by that product and make it the best possible no matter what.
The reason why is because doing anything else makes customers lose trust in your brand. Example - plenty of people probably can't imagine getting a Windows 7 phone at this point for fear they'll drop it as well or it won't be supported after 2 months.
Yeah one could argue they shouldn't have released it, but they did green light it and should have dealt with it better.
Apple's demo videos seem faked. I have a friend with a Droid X and another with an Eris (I personally have a Nexus One - which is very similar to the Eris) - both of which seem to have negligible signal loss no matter how I hold them (at first using their video as a reference). Eris dropped a whopping 6 db signal when I held both hands around the bottom of the phone - and I have really sweaty hands most of the time. There really is no way to just hold the phone like normal or even abnormal and go from full signal to zero.
The Droid-X actually has two antennas - one at the top and bottom - holding both had similar effect.
I've only been able to handle one iPhone 4 - and just touching the two antennas on the gap for me (again sweaty hands) causes reasonably large signal loss (I really don't know because unlike Android the iPhone doesn't have an actual s-meter buried anywhere it seems).
Having been there (still have a bunch of Amiga's - that I never use anymore sadly - including an A4000 with a Phase 5 233 MHz PPC board and video toaster/flyer) I don't think it was a marketing issue until the early to mid 90's when Commodore started to face serious problems.
In the early days of the Amiga I recall 4 or 5 magazines, one official one, TV ads, ads in 3rd party magazines (I remember vividly seeing ads for the machines in various video/multimedia trade journals). IDG - with Amigaworld shows you how big it was really - this is the same company that publishes Macworld and Infoworld to this day (and consequently I knew the writing was on the wall when one of the editors for Amigaworld - now writes for Macworld).
I think the problem was a bit more deep sadly - one of mindshare more than anything. When I started working in video part time with a friend - this was in 91-92 when the A4000 came to market many of our colleagues used to think it was hilarious we took the machines seriously. Never mind we were the first shop in town to do editing via disk, (5.25" Quantum SCSI disks:)), and the only shop in town that could do 3D graphics for a long time (long before the flyer we used the DPS Personal Animation Recorder - it rocked). The 3d animations from the demo reel we worked on back then still looks pretty nice today (despite being only on VHS). It was a serious computer developed by some really smart and talented software and hardware engineers, but people didn't see it that way.
At the local computer club most ms-dos/mac users used to decry Amiga users with statements like who needs multi-tasking (the claim back then was "I'm far more productive doing one task at a time thank you very much"), and oh all those wonderful animations and graphics/sound we could do too with the right hardware.
Sadly Amiga met the same fate as NEXT, SGI, Apollo and almost Apple (yes if Steve didn't come back - they would be a topic in some history book right now).
Also I should mention - out of all the companies who have bought Amiga - Commodore was the only company to actually release marketable hardware and advertise said hardware. I think while they mismanaged their entire business down the toilet - they certainly did a much better job than most have (managing the Amiga that is).
I play wow, and I do interviews for potential hires - and even I would roll my eyes at someone listing World of Warcraft as work experience. Why? Because its not even remotely professional. That and your resume has to be read by HR ladies who most likely don't play, and would honestly think of playing video games as childish.
Now if I asked what your hobbies are and you mentioned it - I think that would be a valid place to talk about it:).
Companies actually do this (its akin to sub-contracting development or manufacturing work to India/China) - and unlike World of Warcraft its completely legal!
There are actually plenty of high end guilds that raid no more than 2 hours a day 2-3 days a week. In my time playing wow - I found that the mark of a good raiding guild is one that is prepared in game and mentally ready for the task at hand, not one that spends tons of time on a particular task. Now - 90% of the people who play WoW have no gumption to learn how to play and expect to be carried from boss to boss (or in real life - task to task) - much like real life. Good raiding guilds analyze combat logs to find out their weaknesses in a particular fight and work with players to improve those weaknesses.
There's a project management take-away from this - good competent people (including management) can get far more done in less time than people just soaking up paychecks, and good companies will work with their employees to make sure they have the skills needed to complete a task.
None of the raid bosses in WoW are all that hard if *everyone* knows what they are doing, but they are nightmarish if you have one single person who doesn't.
Acrobat halts executable code as well - with its trust manager. These exploits are bugs, and Foxit was actually vulnerable to the most recent PDF bug that Acrobat was - Adobe just took two weeks longer to fix it (but then they had 25+ more languages they had to test the patch on).
The problem with T-Mobile and AT&T is lack of coverage - where Verizon actually has coverage. There are still to this day huge swaths of space here in Oregon (example - along the coast) where if you are a T-Mobile or AT&T customer you have zero service.
My friends with Verizon/Sprint do have service in these areas - and its 3G too. I guess that's why they figure they can screw people over.
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Interestingly enough - the Amazon mp3 app comes with the stock Nexus One rom ;).
Its actually very similar to Windows now. Every single infected machine that ends up on my desk was because of some wallpaper/cursor pack/toolbar app that ran amuck because it was actually malware.
Users really need to get into the habit of not downloading frivolous apps. If you want a cool wallpaper - download the picture and use the included gallery to crop the picture the way you want it.
Yet this happened to Apple (according to Steve Jobs interview with Walt Mossberg at All Things D) - there was an app that shipped that was reporting prototype OS versions back to a marketing company - and it was an approved application.
Ahh ok :).
I'm not defending it personally - I think health care in this country is a joke. In fact I'm trying to show how we do in fact pay a hidden tax that most of us are blissfully unaware of.
Health care really can't be all that affordable in this country when you have ceo's making almost a billion dollars in wages every year on making us feel better.
Still you fit into the article - 3000$ for 6 ipads (assuming the base model with no accessories) is about twice what I make in a month :(.
Think about it this way - you probably pay a certain amount for health care benefits. Typically HR calls this the employee share. Find out how much your employer pays per month (not your share, but in total). You should be pleasantly surprised that its almost 2 grand - mine is and I pay around 250 a month (my share).
I personally rather have the 2 grand and get taxed at 30-40 percent.
So no - healthcare payments aren't a tax per-se, but its why many "liberals" here in the US say that we pay more than any European country and get less favorable results.
Where am I supposed to go? Its not like other countries are all that friendly to immigrants wanting jobs.
One is a retired Dentist (ran his own practice for a number of years before selling it to a family member), another is a doctor at a local hospital and the other runs his own business - a mortuary of all things.
As a motorcyclist this was absolutely frightening - he probably didn't know that marked car was behind him until he turned around (try riding a bike sometime - that immediate rear of you is sometimes hard to see). He said in an interview with ABC-2 that he was kinda freaked out that he was being robbed or someone wanted to steal his bike.
I counted - it was a good 5 seconds until the guy opened the door with the gun in hand and identified himself as a cop - much longer if you consider he pulled along side the biker (a bad sign typically especially in a state that forbids lane splitting) with no emergency lights on.
They would matter to you if you were trying to market a new phone.
Well maybe "google phone" is the right phrase - since most of them have the Google logo on them (on the back).
Only in America too - seriously - buy a scanner - there's a US version (that cannot tune 800 MHz freq's) and the everyone else version. Same with ham radio equipment - my Icom 706 is a special revision only sold in the US that cannot tune cell frequencies - never mind its incapable of decoding any of that stuff anyhow.
Also - not that I was a big fan of the Kin, they really shouldn't have let it die in a fire like they did 48 days after launch for largely petty political reasons. When you ship a product - you stand by that product and make it the best possible no matter what.
The reason why is because doing anything else makes customers lose trust in your brand. Example - plenty of people probably can't imagine getting a Windows 7 phone at this point for fear they'll drop it as well or it won't be supported after 2 months.
Yeah one could argue they shouldn't have released it, but they did green light it and should have dealt with it better.
Apple's demo videos seem faked. I have a friend with a Droid X and another with an Eris (I personally have a Nexus One - which is very similar to the Eris) - both of which seem to have negligible signal loss no matter how I hold them (at first using their video as a reference). Eris dropped a whopping 6 db signal when I held both hands around the bottom of the phone - and I have really sweaty hands most of the time. There really is no way to just hold the phone like normal or even abnormal and go from full signal to zero.
The Droid-X actually has two antennas - one at the top and bottom - holding both had similar effect.
I've only been able to handle one iPhone 4 - and just touching the two antennas on the gap for me (again sweaty hands) causes reasonably large signal loss (I really don't know because unlike Android the iPhone doesn't have an actual s-meter buried anywhere it seems).
Amiga certianly didn't lack for software. Most of those killer titles: Cinema 4D, and Lightwave - still exist today on Windows/Mac.
Having been there (still have a bunch of Amiga's - that I never use anymore sadly - including an A4000 with a Phase 5 233 MHz PPC board and video toaster/flyer) I don't think it was a marketing issue until the early to mid 90's when Commodore started to face serious problems.
In the early days of the Amiga I recall 4 or 5 magazines, one official one, TV ads, ads in 3rd party magazines (I remember vividly seeing ads for the machines in various video/multimedia trade journals). IDG - with Amigaworld shows you how big it was really - this is the same company that publishes Macworld and Infoworld to this day (and consequently I knew the writing was on the wall when one of the editors for Amigaworld - now writes for Macworld).
I think the problem was a bit more deep sadly - one of mindshare more than anything. When I started working in video part time with a friend - this was in 91-92 when the A4000 came to market many of our colleagues used to think it was hilarious we took the machines seriously. Never mind we were the first shop in town to do editing via disk, (5.25" Quantum SCSI disks :)), and the only shop in town that could do 3D graphics for a long time (long before the flyer we used the DPS Personal Animation Recorder - it rocked). The 3d animations from the demo reel we worked on back then still looks pretty nice today (despite being only on VHS). It was a serious computer developed by some really smart and talented software and hardware engineers, but people didn't see it that way.
At the local computer club most ms-dos/mac users used to decry Amiga users with statements like who needs multi-tasking (the claim back then was "I'm far more productive doing one task at a time thank you very much"), and oh all those wonderful animations and graphics/sound we could do too with the right hardware.
Sadly Amiga met the same fate as NEXT, SGI, Apollo and almost Apple (yes if Steve didn't come back - they would be a topic in some history book right now).
Also I should mention - out of all the companies who have bought Amiga - Commodore was the only company to actually release marketable hardware and advertise said hardware. I think while they mismanaged their entire business down the toilet - they certainly did a much better job than most have (managing the Amiga that is).
Because it was a 30,000 dollar car, and I can but a ton of gas for 15,000 dollars.
Also - my 04 Civic Coupe gets 45+ miles per gallon the freeway.
When I went to the highlands of Scotland (quite rural) GPS was extremely handy ;).
I play wow, and I do interviews for potential hires - and even I would roll my eyes at someone listing World of Warcraft as work experience. Why? Because its not even remotely professional. That and your resume has to be read by HR ladies who most likely don't play, and would honestly think of playing video games as childish.
Now if I asked what your hobbies are and you mentioned it - I think that would be a valid place to talk about it :).
Good example on how this would probably pan out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUKUHjBhb2Q
Companies actually do this (its akin to sub-contracting development or manufacturing work to India/China) - and unlike World of Warcraft its completely legal!
There are actually plenty of high end guilds that raid no more than 2 hours a day 2-3 days a week. In my time playing wow - I found that the mark of a good raiding guild is one that is prepared in game and mentally ready for the task at hand, not one that spends tons of time on a particular task. Now - 90% of the people who play WoW have no gumption to learn how to play and expect to be carried from boss to boss (or in real life - task to task) - much like real life. Good raiding guilds analyze combat logs to find out their weaknesses in a particular fight and work with players to improve those weaknesses.
There's a project management take-away from this - good competent people (including management) can get far more done in less time than people just soaking up paychecks, and good companies will work with their employees to make sure they have the skills needed to complete a task.
None of the raid bosses in WoW are all that hard if *everyone* knows what they are doing, but they are nightmarish if you have one single person who doesn't.
You know what I don't understand - Apple's videos of the Eris show them knocking the signal completely out just by holding it differently.
Try this with a real Eris - you won't be able to reproduce this effect no matter how hard you try (and I've spent a fair amount of time trying too).
I do think at this point the whole iPhone 4 issue has been blown out of proportion, but I think those demos are faked.
Acrobat halts executable code as well - with its trust manager. These exploits are bugs, and Foxit was actually vulnerable to the most recent PDF bug that Acrobat was - Adobe just took two weeks longer to fix it (but then they had 25+ more languages they had to test the patch on).
The problem with T-Mobile and AT&T is lack of coverage - where Verizon actually has coverage. There are still to this day huge swaths of space here in Oregon (example - along the coast) where if you are a T-Mobile or AT&T customer you have zero service.
My friends with Verizon/Sprint do have service in these areas - and its 3G too. I guess that's why they figure they can screw people over.