Which sucks immensely if you've got stuff hosted on a server these spooks have access to, you're someone like Airbus and an intelligence connected company such as Boeing wants your stuff. I know that the Boeing example didn't happen on the internet but it's an example of US taxpayers footing the bill for private industrial espionage that was proven in court around a decade ago. Don't think that being a US company will make you immune from a rival that has intelligence connections.
Well the Airbus affair has been public knowledge for years. Hopefully Airbus only made that mistake once. Prism is nothing more than a logical evolution of the ECHELON system and anybody who was surprised by finding out about it should reexamine their world view. That being said, nobody has the kind of access to the Internet backbone that the USA has and few have the economic resources to build the kind of surveillance systems the Americans have even if they did have access to the key points that 90% of all internet traffic flows through like the US does. So I'd say the USA's intelligence services have a very distinct advantage over other the intelligence services of other nations. Still, look on the bright side, perhaps this will lead to the decline of the Google and Facebook monopolies as consumers demand alternatives and finally bring about Linux's long awaited year on the desktop as governments around the world are finally forced to realise that 'Microsoft patch tuesday' actually seems to be 'NSA vulnerabilities-we-no-longer-need update tuesday'. Perhaps the rest of the world should organise a boycott of all US based online service providers and businesses that rely on the Internet? I wonder what reactions that would trigger?
Last time I checked the average Apple buyer was more susceptible to "upgrade mania". Except that, in fact, they don't get the top-of-the-line hardware they were expecting. And that at a premium.
Buying a phone is about more than performance and top-of-the-line hardware. I have yet to experience Apple orphaning a product before the warranty period expires, I have seen Android device vendors do that. I'll gladly buy an iPhone with hardware that's 6 months out of date because my previous experience with Apple has taught me that I'll get at least 3 if not 4 years of guaranteed OS updates and like most of the other 'Apple fanboys' I know, I actually intend to use the phone for 3-4 years before upgrading. My experience with Android vendors is decidedly mixed and ranges from: 'drag their feet for 3-8 months before finally releasing Android OS updates' to 'orphan their new Android device 6-8 months after launch'.
If the attorney general determines that a specific ruling can't be declassified without endangering national security, he can declassify a summary of it. If even that isn't possible, then the AG would need to explain specifically why the opinion needs to be kept secret.
And such explanations would probably look something like this: "Opinion number M-9458985 needs to be kept secret because [blacked-out] which is a very serious allegation that has been confirmed by [blacked-out] and [blacked-out] as well as the following independent intelligence sources: [blacked-out]. If this opinion were to be made public it could easily have the following horrible consequences: [blacked-out]"
The iPhone 4 was already obsolete when it came out, as the specs were on par with competing phones that had been released for months already (like, you guessed it, the Desire).
How can something be obsolete after a few months if it's expected to be around for years?
That's how people wit performance mania think, the cheesy car analogy would be: If you buy a Mercedes today and BMW comes out with a model tomorrow that has 16 more horsepowers your Mercedes is hopelessly obsolete and you have to upgrade ASAP.
If he'd root his device he could still use modern Android on it, at least version 4 or higher.
Try doing that with your iPhone when Apple bitchslaps you and drop iOS support for it.
Considering what these smartphones cost you'd think one could expect 4 years of OS updates without having to root/jailbreak the device. Say what you will about Apple and it's walled garden, they don't orphan devices often. With the iPhone line they have provided 3-4 years of OS updates. My mum uses an iPhone 3GS bought in 2009 that is only now, 4 years later, being dropped from Apple's official OS update list.
are SSDs mature enough (and cheap enough) to support business-sized workloads? Or are they still best suited for laptops and mobile devices?
I don't see maturity as a problem. If there is money to be made drive manufacturers will throw enough engineering and computer science talent at the task of solving the teething troubles. What interests me is that if SSDs mount a major invasion of server-rooms and data-centers worldwide it also means that we will now finally start to see SSD pricing drop like rock. Cheap high capacity external SSD drives, I can't wait. If we are lucky this will also popularize Thunderbolt with PC motherboard makers since that's where you start seeing some real performance advantages, i.e. when the time it takes to make a backup of your laptop/desktop system to an external drive drops by half or more compared to USB 3.0.
I really have trouble understanding your mindset and others like you that believe it is A-OK for someone to illegally acquire commercial software (or movies or music or books) and sell it. These "resellers" are not taking expensive software and giving it away in the spirit of communal sharing, they are taking that software and selling it to make a profit for themselves. They made no contributions to the development of the software, they have no stake in the company that hires staff and takes financial risk to produce said software. These people are parasites. It is disheartening that you believe it is worthwhile to defend them.
I defend them when the accusers claim that their retail value is $200,000 dollars a copy and the penalty for copying some CDs is 12 years. Rapists and murderers rarely get 12 years. If you can't see that the motivation behind this is pure greed - as opposed to actual justice - then I pity you.
That price tag has less to do with any real belief that a CD is worth 200 grand a copy and a lot more to do with the unshakable American belief in the effectiveness of the brand of 'come down on them like a ton-o-bricks' justice that has filled your jails with hoards of people doing rediculously long mandatory minimum sentences for things that are misdemeanours in most other countries.
Like iOS, they get to set the price to move the goods around.
I'm pretty sure that you can just 'sideload' through the Strait of Magellan if you feel like it.
It's not like they're closing the Panama Canal once the Chinese build this. The new canal costs too much, people will just keep going through the old canal (tough luck for those who invested in ships too large to go through the old canal, but doing all those thousands of km through the end of South America isn't less expensive either).
I don't think the significance of this development is so much commercial as it is geo-political. Not that long ago, if the Soviets had done this, it would have caused a major shit-storm. This is a subtle but deliberate and clever provocation on part of the Chinese since they are effectively invading what the USA has regarded as it's 'sphere of influence' for about 200 years without firing carrying a single gun but still doing something of considerable military significance. I'm not sure what the PRC is trying to achieve here but between the recent hacker attacks, this and a whole lot of other pinpricks the PRC is poking a sleeping Grizzly with a stick. I'll actually be surprised if this won't eventually lead to some sort of US counter-provocation. Traditionally this would have taken the form of a couple of US carrier group steaming through the Taiwan Strait with full brouhaha and unofficial orders to Navy pilots to deliberately interpret the limits of PRC airspace rather loosely. This would then have been followed by the US congress approving a massive package of arms sales to Taiwan. Who the hell knows, perhaps approval of F-35 stealth fighter sales to Taiwan has been deliberately kept in reserve for just such an occasion?
You probably shouldn't spend money on a cylindrical Mac Pro.
That way you won't have to be angry about them.
You must be new here. Every Apple related story posted here draws several times more people who log on just to tell each other how much they hate Apple and how they would never buy an Apple product because they all suck than it draws in Apple Fanboys extolling said products virtue. Any Apple Fanboy that shows his face here gets shredded, it's like throwing a child into a shark pond. The purpose of Apple and Microsoft stores on/. is mostly to goad the hater crowd into boosting click-through rates....
Ah, yes, Mavericks. A place where when things crash, people die.
I shudder to think how every other big wave spot's name will be co-opted by Apple.
Right, and cupcakes, donuts, eclairs, froyo, gingerbreads, honeycombs, ice-cream sandwiches and jellybeans make you fat and give you diabetes... I shudder to think which unhealthy snack will be co-opted by Google next (although I will concede that Android 'Donut' is a slightly better choice than Android 'Carrot'). Oh, and don't even get me stated on Canonical's Gusty Gibbons, Natty Narwhals and Saucy Salamanders.
The debate about Nazi and where they sit gets skewed. Hilter found much that he shared and created the Nazi party from the German Workers party. He aligned himself with the socialists, until he was famously able to turn to them and stated in Parliament 'And now I don't need you any more'.
Politics is circular, not so much left or right. If middle ground sits at the tp of the circle, offering a level of moderate landscaping, other hardline doctrines slide down the circle, and meet at the bottom, which is where you'll actually find Nazi'ism and communisim and other foul totalitarian and political ideals on near common ground.
I laugh at leftists who persist in trying to find a big enough gap away from Nazi'ism. Socialism IS linked to nazi'ism both in history and idealogy. Hilter nationalised industry. He made enrolled people into the state, and he grew the fucking shit from the German workers party. He carried out a class war - many aspects of his bullshit came directly from socialism.It is true that parts of his evil craven idealogy were not socialist in nature, but parts of it were.
I agree that at both ends of the spectrum, you'll find a strange similar evil to achieve control in a totalitarian aspect share a commonality. Its why you'll find at rally's the right wing hardliners carry stanley knives and the hard left scum carry claw hammers. Neither side believes in open democracy.
In the 30's in Germany - it fell to gangs of brown shirts, or communists, and as the violence and loss of control escalated, the rule of law and democracy was lost. Democracy is not to be decided by small bands of thuggery precahing their twisted idealism as a new religion.
I again refer you to Hitler's kill list, how many right wingers and social conservatives did he line up against a wall? A few, but the vast majority of his victims were the 'liberals'/socialists' (which in Fox News parlance is synonymous with 'left wing' which in turn seems to be only two steps up from being a child molester) and people he deemed to be racially inferior. Hitler as a general rule seems to have gotten along very well with the moneyed classes even though he and his party were not ideologically devoted to private ownership and thus the Nazis did not engage in large scale nationalisation of industry in Germany. Dornier, Messerschmitt and Mercedes to name a few major German industrial corporations were not nationalised, Junkers on the other hand was 'nationalised' because its founder Prof. Hugo Junkers was a liberal who tolerated leftist practices like 'workers councils' among his employees. It is an interesting irony that the word 'Junkers' is pretty much synonymous with 'Stuka' which in turn is synonymous with 'terror' and yet it is the name of one of the few industrialists in Germany who saw Hitler for what he was and had enough spine to tell the little git to go f**k him self. To be fair to German conservatives quite a few of them loathed Hitler every bit as much as the left wing, the point is that most of them either supported him or went with the flow in when he gained power. Nationalisation seems to have been reserved for war vital industrial corporations whose leaders/owners were regime critical and who had the guts to stand by their convictions.
"hard right racist fascists like the BNP" = right wing "a party like the national socialists" = left wing so you're arguing that neither left nor right oriented parties should ever get access to these tools when in power. May I add the center?
I think he's implying that extreme parties of either persuasion would use the laws to enforce their ideology. Any group that believes that they are right to the exclusion of all other viewpoints is a danger and should be feared in power.
If you want to rephrase/salvage what this Fox News watching right wing drone was trying to express, it would be more accurate to say that totalitarian tendencies exists on both sides of the political spectrum. What he actually was implying, i.e. that the Nazis were left wing movement is a load of steaming horse manure. You only have to take a look at which elements of the political spectrum the Nazis preferred to murder: Communists, anarchists, social democrats, liberals, Christians that opposed his persecution of minorities and actually practiced christian core values like compassion, non-violence (and if you get right down to it some of the core teachings of Jesus Christ were pretty left wing: "Again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God." [Matthew 19:24], "But many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first." [Matthew 19:30], it was later generations who turned Christ into a M16 carrying faith warrior). There were precious few right wing social conservatives and hard line nationalists that the Nazis lined up against a wall or sent to the gas chamber. The usual default justification for the Nazis being 'left wing' is that their movement had the word 'socialist' in its name. If that is true then by the same logic the Democratic People's Republic of North-Korea must be a fully functioning democracy with free elections and all the civil liberties that implies.
Who cares if they can't sell their old, dull junk?
Nobody any more - only out of touch wanna-be desperates and old people still use iPhones
I'll try to ignore the juvenile condescension dripping off that post and try to stay factual. Millions of people who do not fit your description still buy the iPhone, the iPhone 4 is Apple's entry level phone and entry level devices are kind of important for enticing new customers. The problem (for Samsung) is that firstly, this will be appealed and secondly, the iPhone 4 is about to be succeeded as the entry level model by the unaffected 4S and possibly the rumoured low cost iPhone model. So for Samsung this is mostly a propaganda victory whose magnitude depends on how much the Samsung PR department and Samsung/Google's army of fanboys can inflate it's importance
I found the article linked to in the summary to be a bit confused, there is a somewhat better analysis available here
U.S. Patent No. 7,706,348 concerns an “apparatus and method for encoding/decoding transport format combination indicator in CDMA mobile communication system” (an allegedly UMTS-essential patent). Newer iPhones and iPads coming with Qualcomm QCOM +0.84% baseband chips (starting with the iPhone 4S) are definitely not affected, limiting the potential impact of this decision on Apple’s revenues — basically, Apple would have to make the iPhone 4S its entry-level iPhone model and discontinue U.S. sales of older iPhones (and the “new iPad 4G”, the third-generation iPad, its entry-level model for iPads with cellular connectivity; WiFi iPads are not affected at all). Formally the decision also relates only to the AT&T versions of those older products, but Samsung reserved the right to allege infringement by Apple products running on other networks (unless they come with Qualcomm baseband chips).”
Put the Applications folder in the dock. Install new apps, shows up in folder. One click access to EVERY application. No stupid separate Start Menu folder which may or may not contain an alias to some apps.
Or just press [Command]+[Space] and type away... On Windows 7 IIRC you hit [WinKey] to get the start button and type away. I never use the mouse to launch apps.
Walk into any office of any reasonably sized company. Count the number of Macs. Now count the number of PCs. In my company for example the only Macs I see are when people bring their own. That's my definition of winning the PC war. Windows PCs are going nowhere, but a shift in consumer preferences could completely trash Apple's bottom line.
Winning the PC wars?? Do tablets and laptops count as PCs? And before you answer, keep in mind that tablets are expected to outstrip graybox sales this year or next. The bottom could just as easily fall out of the Windows PC market. My parents used to have one PC each, a desktop and a laptop. They now have an Android tablet each and replaced their two PCs with an iMac (mostly because that means free tech support from me). I see similar things happening all around me. Families who used to have up to 3-4 Windows PCs replace them with one PC and a mixture of iPads and Android Tablets. Tablets are eating away much of the growth in the PC market at the expense of Windows grayboxes and laptops.
Apple used to be a lot more reticent regarding future products. The fact that Mr. Cook is talking/hinting about future products is confirmation that Apple knows its best days are behind it. Mr. Cook is trying, unsuccessfully it appears, to regenerate the buzz around Apple.
Look, I get that you don't like Libre Office, but don't pretend the MS version is any paragon of stability. It just isn't.
Seriously... Every time I have to use MS office, it's a miserable experience. Not so much crash bugs as maddeningly inconsistent and hard-to-control formatting behavior, etc. Well, that and the insanely opaque user-interface...
I think the thing is that people get used to whatever software they use a lot (I don't use MS office a lot), and after a while instinctively work around its foibles and problems without really thinking abou tit. If they suddenly have to use some other software which has a different set of foibles and problems, it will seem like it's much buggier / more confusing, even if it isn't really.
I won't pretend to have much experience with the Windows version of MS Office, but I have used the OS X version for 7 years now. I can count the crashes I have experienced on the fingers of one hand and it's hard to believe the Windows version is segfault city for so reason.
Thing is... a lot of this is about performance. If they create, say, a fighter with the performance of the F-35, then it's a real problem.
Granted, I do remember there being (supposedly) faulty plans during the Cold War that we intentionally allowed the Soviets to get, and when they used it in their pipelines, there were some catastrophic accidents.
There were all sorts of games like that going on. For example that famous wiretapping coup the CIA/MI6 scored in Berlin. When this operation was eventually discovered by two East German telephone technicians the Soviet KGB was apparently pretty pissed off, something about them knowing about the tunnel and some other Soviet security service (GRU?) exposing it because of lack of inter-service cooperation. Turns out the Soviets already had a mole in that wiretapping project, George Blake. Although the CIA/MI6 claim to this day all the information they got was genuine, that assessment is based on cold war analysis with only limited access to Soviet sources. The KGB archives are still closed so it's entirely possible the Ivans were having a barrel of fun making fake phone calls to spread disinformation or that they simply deemed the information that the CIA/MI6 were gathering was of so little value they did not want to risk blowing Blake's cover by exposing the operation.
Another one of my favorites is a trio of German KGB recruits who borrowed a fully functional AIM-9 Sidewinder missile and drove the thing out of a NATO base in Germany. They stuck the thing into in the back of a Mercedes, only to discover it wouldn't fit so they bashed in the rear window, threw a blanket over the protruding missile and drove it through the German countryside. They then crated the thing up and sent it to Moscow via air freight (freight costs came to a grand total of $79.25) where there were smiles all around at the Vympel NPO missile design bureau. This missile became the basis of the second/third generation Soviet Air force heat seeking missiles (the K13M and its descendants IIRC).
It may not come easy to hear this for Americans, but fact is, China's owned the world for quite some time; the far far vast majority of everything you own and will use and own etc, comes from China. Everything depends on them. They're the ones with the power, not the US with their supposed big guns. Attacking China will just destroy everything about US, or just about any other first world nation.-
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There is ultimately only one form of authority: Might makes right.
It was on that authority that the United States was created: By winning a war of independance.
...and practically wiping out the aboriginals.
Which sucks immensely if you've got stuff hosted on a server these spooks have access to, you're someone like Airbus and an intelligence connected company such as Boeing wants your stuff. I know that the Boeing example didn't happen on the internet but it's an example of US taxpayers footing the bill for private industrial espionage that was proven in court around a decade ago. Don't think that being a US company will make you immune from a rival that has intelligence connections.
Well the Airbus affair has been public knowledge for years. Hopefully Airbus only made that mistake once. Prism is nothing more than a logical evolution of the ECHELON system and anybody who was surprised by finding out about it should reexamine their world view. That being said, nobody has the kind of access to the Internet backbone that the USA has and few have the economic resources to build the kind of surveillance systems the Americans have even if they did have access to the key points that 90% of all internet traffic flows through like the US does. So I'd say the USA's intelligence services have a very distinct advantage over other the intelligence services of other nations. Still, look on the bright side, perhaps this will lead to the decline of the Google and Facebook monopolies as consumers demand alternatives and finally bring about Linux's long awaited year on the desktop as governments around the world are finally forced to realise that 'Microsoft patch tuesday' actually seems to be 'NSA vulnerabilities-we-no-longer-need update tuesday'. Perhaps the rest of the world should organise a boycott of all US based online service providers and businesses that rely on the Internet? I wonder what reactions that would trigger?
Last time I checked the average Apple buyer was more susceptible to "upgrade mania". Except that, in fact, they don't get the top-of-the-line hardware they were expecting. And that at a premium.
Buying a phone is about more than performance and top-of-the-line hardware. I have yet to experience Apple orphaning a product before the warranty period expires, I have seen Android device vendors do that. I'll gladly buy an iPhone with hardware that's 6 months out of date because my previous experience with Apple has taught me that I'll get at least 3 if not 4 years of guaranteed OS updates and like most of the other 'Apple fanboys' I know, I actually intend to use the phone for 3-4 years before upgrading. My experience with Android vendors is decidedly mixed and ranges from: 'drag their feet for 3-8 months before finally releasing Android OS updates' to 'orphan their new Android device 6-8 months after launch'.
If the attorney general determines that a specific ruling can't be declassified without endangering national security, he can declassify a summary of it. If even that isn't possible, then the AG would need to explain specifically why the opinion needs to be kept secret.
And such explanations would probably look something like this: "Opinion number M-9458985 needs to be kept secret because [blacked-out] which is a very serious allegation that has been confirmed by [blacked-out] and [blacked-out] as well as the following independent intelligence sources: [blacked-out]. If this opinion were to be made public it could easily have the following horrible consequences: [blacked-out]"
The iPhone 4 was already obsolete when it came out, as the specs were on par with competing phones that had been released for months already (like, you guessed it, the Desire).
How can something be obsolete after a few months if it's expected to be around for years?
That's how people wit performance mania think, the cheesy car analogy would be: If you buy a Mercedes today and BMW comes out with a model tomorrow that has 16 more horsepowers your Mercedes is hopelessly obsolete and you have to upgrade ASAP.
If he'd root his device he could still use modern Android on it, at least version 4 or higher.
Try doing that with your iPhone when Apple bitchslaps you and drop iOS support for it.
Considering what these smartphones cost you'd think one could expect 4 years of OS updates without having to root/jailbreak the device. Say what you will about Apple and it's walled garden, they don't orphan devices often. With the iPhone line they have provided 3-4 years of OS updates. My mum uses an iPhone 3GS bought in 2009 that is only now, 4 years later, being dropped from Apple's official OS update list.
are SSDs mature enough (and cheap enough) to support business-sized workloads? Or are they still best suited for laptops and mobile devices?
I don't see maturity as a problem. If there is money to be made drive manufacturers will throw enough engineering and computer science talent at the task of solving the teething troubles. What interests me is that if SSDs mount a major invasion of server-rooms and data-centers worldwide it also means that we will now finally start to see SSD pricing drop like rock. Cheap high capacity external SSD drives, I can't wait. If we are lucky this will also popularize Thunderbolt with PC motherboard makers since that's where you start seeing some real performance advantages, i.e. when the time it takes to make a backup of your laptop/desktop system to an external drive drops by half or more compared to USB 3.0.
I am so sick of this.
It's spelled "ridiculous", as in "ridicule".
Learn to engrish!
Grow a pair of balls and dispense your spelling nazi lectures under your username.
I really have trouble understanding your mindset and others like you that believe it is A-OK for someone to illegally acquire commercial software (or movies or music or books) and sell it. These "resellers" are not taking expensive software and giving it away in the spirit of communal sharing, they are taking that software and selling it to make a profit for themselves. They made no contributions to the development of the software, they have no stake in the company that hires staff and takes financial risk to produce said software. These people are parasites. It is disheartening that you believe it is worthwhile to defend them.
I defend them when the accusers claim that their retail value is $200,000 dollars a copy and the penalty for copying some CDs is 12 years. Rapists and murderers rarely get 12 years. If you can't see that the motivation behind this is pure greed - as opposed to actual justice - then I pity you.
That price tag has less to do with any real belief that a CD is worth 200 grand a copy and a lot more to do with the unshakable American belief in the effectiveness of the brand of 'come down on them like a ton-o-bricks' justice that has filled your jails with hoards of people doing rediculously long mandatory minimum sentences for things that are misdemeanours in most other countries.
Like iOS, they get to set the price to move the goods around.
I'm pretty sure that you can just 'sideload' through the Strait of Magellan if you feel like it.
It's not like they're closing the Panama Canal once the Chinese build this. The new canal costs too much, people will just keep going through the old canal (tough luck for those who invested in ships too large to go through the old canal, but doing all those thousands of km through the end of South America isn't less expensive either).
I don't think the significance of this development is so much commercial as it is geo-political. Not that long ago, if the Soviets had done this, it would have caused a major shit-storm. This is a subtle but deliberate and clever provocation on part of the Chinese since they are effectively invading what the USA has regarded as it's 'sphere of influence' for about 200 years without firing carrying a single gun but still doing something of considerable military significance. I'm not sure what the PRC is trying to achieve here but between the recent hacker attacks, this and a whole lot of other pinpricks the PRC is poking a sleeping Grizzly with a stick. I'll actually be surprised if this won't eventually lead to some sort of US counter-provocation. Traditionally this would have taken the form of a couple of US carrier group steaming through the Taiwan Strait with full brouhaha and unofficial orders to Navy pilots to deliberately interpret the limits of PRC airspace rather loosely. This would then have been followed by the US congress approving a massive package of arms sales to Taiwan. Who the hell knows, perhaps approval of F-35 stealth fighter sales to Taiwan has been deliberately kept in reserve for just such an occasion?
I imagine people will get wise to that one real fast...
Are you sure? One born every minute...
Cavities. That's right, after Ginger Bread, Ice Cream Sandwich and Jelly Bean, Google gave us cavities.
LOL :-) I can see it now Google Android 5.0 'Caries'...
You know what I think?
You probably shouldn't spend money on a cylindrical Mac Pro.
That way you won't have to be angry about them.
You must be new here. Every Apple related story posted here draws several times more people who log on just to tell each other how much they hate Apple and how they would never buy an Apple product because they all suck than it draws in Apple Fanboys extolling said products virtue. Any Apple Fanboy that shows his face here gets shredded, it's like throwing a child into a shark pond. The purpose of Apple and Microsoft stores on /. is mostly to goad the hater crowd into boosting click-through rates....
Ah, yes, Mavericks. A place where when things crash, people die.
I shudder to think how every other big wave spot's name will be co-opted by Apple.
Right, and cupcakes, donuts, eclairs, froyo, gingerbreads, honeycombs, ice-cream sandwiches and jellybeans make you fat and give you diabetes... I shudder to think which unhealthy snack will be co-opted by Google next (although I will concede that Android 'Donut' is a slightly better choice than Android 'Carrot'). Oh, and don't even get me stated on Canonical's Gusty Gibbons, Natty Narwhals and Saucy Salamanders.
The debate about Nazi and where they sit gets skewed. Hilter found much that he shared and created the Nazi party from the German Workers party. He aligned himself with the socialists, until he was famously able to turn to them and stated in Parliament 'And now I don't need you any more'.
Politics is circular, not so much left or right. If middle ground sits at the tp of the circle, offering a level of moderate landscaping, other hardline doctrines slide down the circle, and meet at the bottom, which is where you'll actually find Nazi'ism and communisim and other foul totalitarian and political ideals on near common ground.
I laugh at leftists who persist in trying to find a big enough gap away from Nazi'ism. Socialism IS linked to nazi'ism both in history and idealogy. Hilter nationalised industry. He made enrolled people into the state, and he grew the fucking shit from the German workers party. He carried out a class war - many aspects of his bullshit came directly from socialism.It is true that parts of his evil craven idealogy were not socialist in nature, but parts of it were.
I agree that at both ends of the spectrum, you'll find a strange similar evil to achieve control in a totalitarian aspect share a commonality. Its why you'll find at rally's the right wing hardliners carry stanley knives and the hard left scum carry claw hammers. Neither side believes in open democracy.
In the 30's in Germany - it fell to gangs of brown shirts, or communists, and as the violence and loss of control escalated, the rule of law and democracy was lost. Democracy is not to be decided by small bands of thuggery precahing their twisted idealism as a new religion.
I again refer you to Hitler's kill list, how many right wingers and social conservatives did he line up against a wall? A few, but the vast majority of his victims were the 'liberals'/socialists' (which in Fox News parlance is synonymous with 'left wing' which in turn seems to be only two steps up from being a child molester) and people he deemed to be racially inferior. Hitler as a general rule seems to have gotten along very well with the moneyed classes even though he and his party were not ideologically devoted to private ownership and thus the Nazis did not engage in large scale nationalisation of industry in Germany. Dornier, Messerschmitt and Mercedes to name a few major German industrial corporations were not nationalised, Junkers on the other hand was 'nationalised' because its founder Prof. Hugo Junkers was a liberal who tolerated leftist practices like 'workers councils' among his employees. It is an interesting irony that the word 'Junkers' is pretty much synonymous with 'Stuka' which in turn is synonymous with 'terror' and yet it is the name of one of the few industrialists in Germany who saw Hitler for what he was and had enough spine to tell the little git to go f**k him self. To be fair to German conservatives quite a few of them loathed Hitler every bit as much as the left wing, the point is that most of them either supported him or went with the flow in when he gained power. Nationalisation seems to have been reserved for war vital industrial corporations whose leaders/owners were regime critical and who had the guts to stand by their convictions.
"hard right racist fascists like the BNP" = right wing
"a party like the national socialists" = left wing
so you're arguing that neither left nor right oriented parties should ever get access to these tools when in power. May I add the center?
I think he's implying that extreme parties of either persuasion would use the laws to enforce their ideology. Any group that believes that they are right to the exclusion of all other viewpoints is a danger and should be feared in power.
If you want to rephrase/salvage what this Fox News watching right wing drone was trying to express, it would be more accurate to say that totalitarian tendencies exists on both sides of the political spectrum. What he actually was implying, i.e. that the Nazis were left wing movement is a load of steaming horse manure. You only have to take a look at which elements of the political spectrum the Nazis preferred to murder: Communists, anarchists, social democrats, liberals, Christians that opposed his persecution of minorities and actually practiced christian core values like compassion, non-violence (and if you get right down to it some of the core teachings of Jesus Christ were pretty left wing: "Again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God." [Matthew 19:24], "But many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first." [Matthew 19:30], it was later generations who turned Christ into a M16 carrying faith warrior). There were precious few right wing social conservatives and hard line nationalists that the Nazis lined up against a wall or sent to the gas chamber. The usual default justification for the Nazis being 'left wing' is that their movement had the word 'socialist' in its name. If that is true then by the same logic the Democratic People's Republic of North-Korea must be a fully functioning democracy with free elections and all the civil liberties that implies.
Why?
Who cares if they can't sell their old, dull junk?
Nobody any more - only out of touch wanna-be desperates and old people still use iPhones
I'll try to ignore the juvenile condescension dripping off that post and try to stay factual. Millions of people who do not fit your description still buy the iPhone, the iPhone 4 is Apple's entry level phone and entry level devices are kind of important for enticing new customers. The problem (for Samsung) is that firstly, this will be appealed and secondly, the iPhone 4 is about to be succeeded as the entry level model by the unaffected 4S and possibly the rumoured low cost iPhone model. So for Samsung this is mostly a propaganda victory whose magnitude depends on how much the Samsung PR department and Samsung/Google's army of fanboys can inflate it's importance
I found the article linked to in the summary to be a bit confused, there is a somewhat better analysis available here
U.S. Patent No. 7,706,348 concerns an “apparatus and method for encoding/decoding transport format combination indicator in CDMA mobile communication system” (an allegedly UMTS-essential patent). Newer iPhones and iPads coming with Qualcomm QCOM +0.84% baseband chips (starting with the iPhone 4S) are definitely not affected, limiting the potential impact of this decision on Apple’s revenues — basically, Apple would have to make the iPhone 4S its entry-level iPhone model and discontinue U.S. sales of older iPhones (and the “new iPad 4G”, the third-generation iPad, its entry-level model for iPads with cellular connectivity; WiFi iPads are not affected at all). Formally the decision also relates only to the AT&T versions of those older products, but Samsung reserved the right to allege infringement by Apple products running on other networks (unless they come with Qualcomm baseband chips).”
I'm not saying that at all. Though I can see that if you take my 6 dot points 100% literally...
Religious fundamentalists tend to do that ;-)
Put the Applications folder in the dock. Install new apps, shows up in folder. One click access to EVERY application. No stupid separate Start Menu folder which may or may not contain an alias to some apps.
Or just press [Command]+[Space] and type away... On Windows 7 IIRC you hit [WinKey] to get the start button and type away. I never use the mouse to launch apps.
Walk into any office of any reasonably sized company. Count the number of Macs. Now count the number of PCs. In my company for example the only Macs I see are when people bring their own. That's my definition of winning the PC war. Windows PCs are going nowhere, but a shift in consumer preferences could completely trash Apple's bottom line.
Winning the PC wars?? Do tablets and laptops count as PCs? And before you answer, keep in mind that tablets are expected to outstrip graybox sales this year or next. The bottom could just as easily fall out of the Windows PC market. My parents used to have one PC each, a desktop and a laptop. They now have an Android tablet each and replaced their two PCs with an iMac (mostly because that means free tech support from me). I see similar things happening all around me. Families who used to have up to 3-4 Windows PCs replace them with one PC and a mixture of iPads and Android Tablets. Tablets are eating away much of the growth in the PC market at the expense of Windows grayboxes and laptops.
Apple used to be a lot more reticent regarding future products. The fact that Mr. Cook is talking/hinting about future products is confirmation that Apple knows its best days are behind it. Mr. Cook is trying, unsuccessfully it appears, to regenerate the buzz around Apple.
Yeah, maybe it's time to shut Apple down and give the money back to the shareholders.
Look, I get that you don't like Libre Office, but don't pretend the MS version is any paragon of stability. It just isn't.
Seriously... Every time I have to use MS office, it's a miserable experience. Not so much crash bugs as maddeningly inconsistent and hard-to-control formatting behavior, etc. Well, that and the insanely opaque user-interface...
I think the thing is that people get used to whatever software they use a lot (I don't use MS office a lot), and after a while instinctively work around its foibles and problems without really thinking abou tit. If they suddenly have to use some other software which has a different set of foibles and problems, it will seem like it's much buggier / more confusing, even if it isn't really.
I won't pretend to have much experience with the Windows version of MS Office, but I have used the OS X version for 7 years now. I can count the crashes I have experienced on the fingers of one hand and it's hard to believe the Windows version is segfault city for so reason.
Thing is... a lot of this is about performance. If they create, say, a fighter with the performance of the F-35, then it's a real problem.
Granted, I do remember there being (supposedly) faulty plans during the Cold War that we intentionally allowed the Soviets to get, and when they used it in their pipelines, there were some catastrophic accidents.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberian_pipeline_sabotage
There were all sorts of games like that going on. For example that famous wiretapping coup the CIA/MI6 scored in Berlin. When this operation was eventually discovered by two East German telephone technicians the Soviet KGB was apparently pretty pissed off, something about them knowing about the tunnel and some other Soviet security service (GRU?) exposing it because of lack of inter-service cooperation. Turns out the Soviets already had a mole in that wiretapping project, George Blake. Although the CIA/MI6 claim to this day all the information they got was genuine, that assessment is based on cold war analysis with only limited access to Soviet sources. The KGB archives are still closed so it's entirely possible the Ivans were having a barrel of fun making fake phone calls to spread disinformation or that they simply deemed the information that the CIA/MI6 were gathering was of so little value they did not want to risk blowing Blake's cover by exposing the operation.
Another one of my favorites is a trio of German KGB recruits who borrowed a fully functional AIM-9 Sidewinder missile and drove the thing out of a NATO base in Germany. They stuck the thing into in the back of a Mercedes, only to discover it wouldn't fit so they bashed in the rear window, threw a blanket over the protruding missile and drove it through the German countryside. They then crated the thing up and sent it to Moscow via air freight (freight costs came to a grand total of $79.25) where there were smiles all around at the Vympel NPO missile design bureau. This missile became the basis of the second/third generation Soviet Air force heat seeking missiles (the K13M and its descendants IIRC).
Good times...
Chinese manufacturers made up for less than 1% of auto sales in Australia last year.
I'm not denying you can buy Chinese cars overseas; my point was that the "average" consumer won't be driving a Made in China car in the West.
That's what they used to say about Japanese and Korean cars.
It may not come easy to hear this for Americans, but fact is, China's owned the world for quite some time; the far far vast majority of everything you own and will use and own etc, comes from China. Everything depends on them. They're the ones with the power, not the US with their supposed big guns. Attacking China will just destroy everything about US, or just about any other first world nation.-
How doe the fact that only 2.7%
Because Glenn Beck said so in one of his monologues on Fox New?