"That would sit better with me than the Apple "We fucking own you" approach that requires you to physical hack the product you just "bought.""
Yeah, here's the thing:
YOU are not the target audience for the iPod/iPad/iPhone.
YOU are have never been the target audience for the iPod/iPad/iPhone.
YOU will never be the target audience for the iPod/iPad/iPhone.
The reason that the iPod/iPad/iPhone are such phenomenal best sellers is that the vast majority of people BUYING the iPod/iPad/iPhone, don't care a fat rat's ass about hacking their iPod/iPad/iPhone.
They just want it to work. They just want a seamless, one click method to get files from the iTunes Store or the App Store onto their iPod/iPad/iPhone.
What you think is immaterial to them. What IS material to them is that it just works.
So, do continue to vent your spleen here at/., where you'll find a ready and enthusiastic audience.
Keep in mind that you are, essentially, pissing into the wind.
All that's going to happen is that you wind up with a facefull of your own piss and Steve Jobs makes another few hundred million dollars.
The only "problem" is that the power button on the keyboard doesn't work to turn on the Mac. It'll shut it down OK, it just won't start it up.
There appears to be a small 'button' battery inside the interface. I suspect that if I replaced it with a fresh battery, the power button would suddenly be able to boot the Mac.
As the computer is under the desk and close at hand, it's no big deal to hit the power button on the front when needed.
Other than that, the ADB/USB interface has been a flawless performer for me.
The only other 'problem' is that the ADB socket is a bit loose, however, a strip of duct tape around the ADB plug and iMate fixed that.
Worked fine under Tiger for me, and works fine under Leopard (10.5.8).
First boot after installing Leopard, I had to hit a couple of keys for the OS to recognize the keyboard. After that, every Leopard update has recognized the keyboard right off.
I'm getting a 2 year old white plastic MacBook from a friend later this year. After I install OS 10.6, I'm going to see if the iMate/Extended combo will work under Intel/Snow Leopard. I'm thinking "yes".
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It WORKS!
Touché!
... that has to get Ballmer's sweat stains out of the furniture in that meeting room!
If we assume a Bergenholm inertialess drive , we can be at Jupiter in SECONDS!
...Protecting you from "Open Sores" since day one!
"It's an interesting question though, should people really be able to kill a child to save themselves a bit of money?"
Is there any doubt as to how a Randroid would answer?
No. Didn't think so.
Actually, there is another difference.
One looks like it went through a garbage disposal and the other didn't!
THAT'S how you do concern trolling, here on Slashdot.
Alas, there is no -5 "EPIC FAIL" moderation for trolls like yourself.
Botnets, worldwide botnets.
What kind of boxes are on on botnets?
Compaq, HP, Dell and Sony, true!
Gateway, Packard Bell, maybe even Asus, too.
Are boxes, found on botnets.
All running Windows. FOO!
"How's that hopey-changey thing working out for you?"
Pretty well, actually!
How's that insane racist, homophobic, anti-Islam hatemongering Teabagger faction screwing the GOP six ways from Sunday working out for you?
(Yes, it's off topic. Yes, it needed saying. Don't like it? Move to Canada and file criminal charges.)
...with cheating.
Surely it couldn't have anything to do with something SO old fashioned and outdated as the Honor Code.
"no member of the Caltech community shall take unfair advantage of any other member of the community."
Caltech Honor Code Handbook(pdf)
Ah, yes. Gratuitous obscenity and insults.
Could you be any more the typical Slashdot user?
I think not.
And how much is an Android phone vs. the iPhone?
Particularly a subsidized by the carrier Android phone?
Thanks for playing. Vanna has some lovely parting gifts for you.
"That would sit better with me than the Apple "We fucking own you" approach that requires you to physical hack the product you just "bought.""
Yeah, here's the thing:
YOU are not the target audience for the iPod/iPad/iPhone.
YOU are have never been the target audience for the iPod/iPad/iPhone.
YOU will never be the target audience for the iPod/iPad/iPhone.
The reason that the iPod/iPad/iPhone are such phenomenal best sellers is that the vast majority of people BUYING the iPod/iPad/iPhone, don't care a fat rat's ass about hacking their iPod/iPad/iPhone.
They just want it to work. They just want a seamless, one click method to get files from the iTunes Store or the App Store onto their iPod/iPad/iPhone.
What you think is immaterial to them. What IS material to them is that it just works.
So, do continue to vent your spleen here at /., where you'll find a ready and enthusiastic audience.
Keep in mind that you are, essentially, pissing into the wind.
All that's going to happen is that you wind up with a facefull of your own piss and Steve Jobs makes another few hundred million dollars.
kthnxbai!
"Re:well done (Score:2, Informative)
by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday September 09, @10:02AM (#33520938)
This is called Dhimmitude...
Muslims tend to enforce Dhimitude on to non-muslims with violence.
I for one will not greet our new 'Dhimmitude Demanding' Mohammedan Overlords!
link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhimmitude
Razgorov Prikazka "
Plus, it's "I, for one, welcome our new (insert name here) overlords!"
Sheesh! It's just as easy to get these things right.
"Whack"?
Is there a duck in here?
HP Forever! Not just a slogan, a reality.
My HP-45 calculator is still going strong!
http://img.skitch.com/20100830-3s3d9tu936f4wim7neihyej3f.jpg
It's faster to use the real calculator that it is to call up a calculator app on the Mac.
Thank you for proving the validity of my supposition.
Now run along and 'go Galt' or whatever it is you Randroids do when you get cranky.
There's a good little Objectivist.
You read a LOT of Ayn Rand when you were a young, lonely and impressionable teenager, didn't you?
...except, maybe, Pinky.
Because no country has yet tried to do it.
"We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things.
Not because they are easy, but because THEY ARE HARD!"
Man, talk about pie in the sky! Who does he think he's kidding?
I'm using the Griffin iMate(?)
The only "problem" is that the power button on the keyboard doesn't work to turn on the Mac. It'll shut it down OK, it just won't start it up.
There appears to be a small 'button' battery inside the interface. I suspect that if I replaced it with a fresh battery, the power button would suddenly be able to boot the Mac.
As the computer is under the desk and close at hand, it's no big deal to hit the power button on the front when needed.
Other than that, the ADB/USB interface has been a flawless performer for me.
The only other 'problem' is that the ADB socket is a bit loose, however, a strip of duct tape around the ADB plug and iMate fixed that.
FYI, the iMate is discontinued, but can be found on eBay. Also, Griffin claims that it won't work with Tiger .
Worked fine under Tiger for me, and works fine under Leopard (10.5.8).
First boot after installing Leopard, I had to hit a couple of keys for the OS to recognize the keyboard. After that, every Leopard update has recognized the keyboard right off.
I'm getting a 2 year old white plastic MacBook from a friend later this year. After I install OS 10.6, I'm going to see if the iMate/Extended combo will work under Intel/Snow Leopard. I'm thinking "yes".
"I will, however, agree about the keyboards. I don't like them, which is why I plug my beloved Model-M keyboard into my Mac."
Using a 20+ year old Apple Extended Keyboard on my dual processor G5.
The best 2 dollars I ever spent at Goodwill was buying this keyboard.
I feel the same way about it as you do your Model-M.
The important thing is that those underpants are HIS underpants! Purchased by the efforts of his own labor, and not via a government handout!
Ayn Rand would be PROUD of his underpants. PROUND, I say!
<generic libertarian twaddle shouter>
Man! That's just BEGGING to be cut off at the ankles.