While it was a great monologue, it's obviously false. You'd think that since the movie was filmed in Sydney, someone would have thought "let's see... consuming every natural resource... multiplying out of control... humans are rabbits?"
I propose Timster's Law: in every argument about the iPod, someone will eventually resort to bringing up a product that is not available, either because it was discontinued or hasn't been released.
I also suggest that once this has occurred, the discussion should cease (much like a Godwin). My hope is that such a rule would put an end to the pointless arguments over the device. People buy the iPod because they like it, and they pay for it themselves; why is this a problem?
I don't know about everyone else, but I use an iPod to personally annoy you.
And because all of the alternatives with a screen equivalent to the one on the iPhone are nearly an inch think, and I don't want to carry a purse. There's also that.
And who developed the NeXT machine? A team working under Steve Jobs! And NeXT went on to become Apple in the famous reverse takeover.
The fact that Apple (of all companies) has a way, way better claim makes the Microsoft claim seem even more ridiculous. This guy is so far away from reality that I can almost hear all of Microsoft's competitors giggling.
Let's see... new account, singing the RIAA party line on Apple... nah, I'm not going to call you a shill, there's practically no evidence.
Generalizing the market like that is hilarious. Apple's iPod competes with other products that can match it for every single feature, and many of these products have sold very well. Whereas there is no effective competition for cartel music. You can't generalize music, of all things, into the "entertainment" category, any more than the iPod could be generalized into the "electronics" category.
To be honest, it's not that hard to max out an iPod legally without paying $15,000.
If you buy a lot of classical or used CDs, encode at a higher bitrate, and maybe throw on a couple TV shows you can run out of space at quite a heavy discount. Besides, lots of people have been collecting music legally for decades. Buy four albums a month for 30 years, and you'll have nearly 1,500 CDs containing perhaps 15,000 songs. Some serious music fans would scream if you tried to restrict them to four albums a month.
You've confused the English syllable with the Japanese mora. Your first line there has about 8, your second line at least fifteen, and the third maybe 6.
In English 5-7-5 syllables can make the haiku too long, especially when you use bloated syllables like "sense".
Perhaps because every single Apple product has competitors attacking it from all sides, so their profit margin is being determined fairly by an open market. Whereas the music industry has established a cartel that prevents real competition.
Some phones have a flashing LED sticking out the side, but this is far from the norm. Even those don't usually flash the LED more than once every five seconds or so, which means you have to stare at it for a bit to notice. Which (in my opinion) is more trouble than simply tapping the wake button.
Auto-checking of email is only enabled if you specifically turn it on. If you have that turned off, the phone won't check email unless you go into the mail application.
Simple as that... this guy turned out automatic mail checking and was shocked, SHOCKED that the phone automatically checked mail.
Every brick-style cell phone I have ever seen has a "locked" mode, where the screen is not on and there is no indication that the device is operating. The iPhone can be easily turned off (actually off) whenever it is necessary to do so.
Chemistry is Physics without all the crap about gravity. Which is why chemists are able to get real work done while physicists have spent the last 100 years on little more than the problem of how to get gravity right.
It's not as steep as it looks. Consider the market; most people Apple is targeting have a cell phone (but not a smartphone) and probably don't have a cell phone plan with data service. Making use of an iPhone (without hacking) requires a $20/month data plan from AT&T, which you commit to for two years. Some of this money is probably kicked back to Apple from AT&T.
That makes the total cost of an iPhone (again, to most of the target market) about $1080 before the change and $880 after. So the price drop is more like 20% than 33%. People are making a mistake to focus on the price drop as "drastic" unless they seriously believe that the potential increase in sales won't make up for the 20% drop in revenue.
As for the early adopters... look, if Apple will just improve the stability of Safari on the thing, we'll be happy enough. After a few days of complaining of course.
Er, well, there are two ways to use gmail on an iPhone; through the Web browser and through the built-in email app via POP3. The POP3 support is not always so great, partly since POP3 sucks, but it does work right most of the time as long as you don't use POP3 from any other device.
On the other hand, using the Web page is not always so great, since the gmail interface is all over the place and not exactly well-optimized for the iPhone's smaller display. It did work last I checked but the built-in email client works better for me.
The iPod Touch doesn't seem to have the email client, so you'd be stuck with the Web interface. Maybe Google will come out with a lighter version of the page to make things easier on those people. For all I know they have one already.
"Abort, Retry, Fail" was the most common message because it was shown for hard errors, including when a device was not ready, especially when a floppy disk was not inserted in a drive. Since floppy disks were often empty this message was seen frequently. If you changed the current drive to an empty floppy drive this message would appear and it was extremely unclear how to get out. "Retry" was obviously useless, but "Abort" didn't work because of a misdesign that prevented the disk change command from being aborted. You had to "Fail" and then you got a prompt like "Current drive is no longer valid>" which was also sort of unclear, but you could change the current drive from there.
"Abort, Retry, Ignore, Fail" was seen less often as it was used for "soft" errors, such as a data error or a write error. Not that these didn't happen plenty on '80s and '90s PC hardware -- that stuff was crap!
I don't think I ever saw a message without "Fail" as an option but it could have been possible. Especially for non-MS DOS.
The version is the "United States" Constitution. Article I (The Legislative Branch) section 8 (Powers of Congress):
"To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries"
This text was written by the original authors of the Constitution for the express purpose of empowering Congress to create a copyright system and a patent system. Of course, it doesn't give details about that system. Without this clause in the Constitution, copyright law could very well be overturned on First Amendment grounds.
I must say, I'm intrigued by your ideas and wish to subscribe to your newsletter. Honestly, this stuff is great.
By the way, my experience is that wi-fi doesn't work well under Windows generally. For once I don't think this is Microsoft's fault, exactly, as the problem seemed to be mostly awful drivers with labyrinthine custom configuration programs.
I can! It's a new funding model, necessary for the continued existence of giant software factories like Microsoft. The upside is that you no longer have to figure out ways to persuade your customers to buy the new version of your software, which has become more and more difficult (how many features can you add to a word processing app, anyway?)
The upside to the customer is not so easy to find, unless you consider the possibility that with all this hypothetical easy money flowing in, Microsoft would be able to make a better product.
My transgendered friend suggests using the new gender and name universally, even when referencing events prior to the change. You might do the same thing for someone whose name changed in marriage ("Mrs. Smith used to have a cat before she was married" seems like a reasonable enough statement).
Alas, I'm very poor at remembering to do it this way -- probably because she moved away from the state long before the change, and I've only seen her on rare occasions since... leaving me with stronger memories of her as a guy.
When you post a joke, you take the risk that it's not funny. When you post it as an FP the risk doubles, since an unfunny joke as FP just looks like a grab for attention.
Moderation isn't a comment on anyone's personal worth, hygiene, or penis size. If you laughed at the joke, good for you, but I'm not surprised if most mods consider it a dumb pun. Complaining about moderation is just about the most pointless thing possible, second only to responding to such complaints.
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While it was a great monologue, it's obviously false. You'd think that since the movie was filmed in Sydney, someone would have thought "let's see... consuming every natural resource... multiplying out of control... humans are rabbits?"
I propose Timster's Law: in every argument about the iPod, someone will eventually resort to bringing up a product that is not available, either because it was discontinued or hasn't been released.
I also suggest that once this has occurred, the discussion should cease (much like a Godwin). My hope is that such a rule would put an end to the pointless arguments over the device. People buy the iPod because they like it, and they pay for it themselves; why is this a problem?
I don't know about everyone else, but I use an iPod to personally annoy you.
And because all of the alternatives with a screen equivalent to the one on the iPhone are nearly an inch think, and I don't want to carry a purse. There's also that.
And who developed the NeXT machine? A team working under Steve Jobs! And NeXT went on to become Apple in the famous reverse takeover.
The fact that Apple (of all companies) has a way, way better claim makes the Microsoft claim seem even more ridiculous. This guy is so far away from reality that I can almost hear all of Microsoft's competitors giggling.
It's not used frequently anywhere, not anymore. But 100 years ago people lit their houses and streets with gas lamps.
Er, that's "gas" as in methane. You can imagine that gas light was not so great.
Let's see... new account, singing the RIAA party line on Apple... nah, I'm not going to call you a shill, there's practically no evidence.
Generalizing the market like that is hilarious. Apple's iPod competes with other products that can match it for every single feature, and many of these products have sold very well. Whereas there is no effective competition for cartel music. You can't generalize music, of all things, into the "entertainment" category, any more than the iPod could be generalized into the "electronics" category.
To be honest, it's not that hard to max out an iPod legally without paying $15,000.
If you buy a lot of classical or used CDs, encode at a higher bitrate, and maybe throw on a couple TV shows you can run out of space at quite a heavy discount. Besides, lots of people have been collecting music legally for decades. Buy four albums a month for 30 years, and you'll have nearly 1,500 CDs containing perhaps 15,000 songs. Some serious music fans would scream if you tried to restrict them to four albums a month.
You've confused the English syllable with the Japanese mora. Your first line there has about 8, your second line at least fifteen, and the third maybe 6.
In English 5-7-5 syllables can make the haiku too long, especially when you use bloated syllables like "sense".
Perhaps because every single Apple product has competitors attacking it from all sides, so their profit margin is being determined fairly by an open market. Whereas the music industry has established a cartel that prevents real competition.
Some phones have a flashing LED sticking out the side, but this is far from the norm. Even those don't usually flash the LED more than once every five seconds or so, which means you have to stare at it for a bit to notice. Which (in my opinion) is more trouble than simply tapping the wake button.
Auto-checking of email is only enabled if you specifically turn it on. If you have that turned off, the phone won't check email unless you go into the mail application.
Simple as that... this guy turned out automatic mail checking and was shocked, SHOCKED that the phone automatically checked mail.
All you have to do to determine whether the device is off is press the wake button on the top. If it doesn't wake up, it's off.
Just like any other brick phone.
Every brick-style cell phone I have ever seen has a "locked" mode, where the screen is not on and there is no indication that the device is operating. The iPhone can be easily turned off (actually off) whenever it is necessary to do so.
The best part about this comment is the fact that the STP nuclear plant in south Texas is well-known for its gator-infested cooling pool.
Chemistry is Physics without all the crap about gravity. Which is why chemists are able to get real work done while physicists have spent the last 100 years on little more than the problem of how to get gravity right.
Yes, like that! Funny, I thought it only worked with WML. Of course Google would think to provide both.
It's not as steep as it looks. Consider the market; most people Apple is targeting have a cell phone (but not a smartphone) and probably don't have a cell phone plan with data service. Making use of an iPhone (without hacking) requires a $20/month data plan from AT&T, which you commit to for two years. Some of this money is probably kicked back to Apple from AT&T.
That makes the total cost of an iPhone (again, to most of the target market) about $1080 before the change and $880 after. So the price drop is more like 20% than 33%. People are making a mistake to focus on the price drop as "drastic" unless they seriously believe that the potential increase in sales won't make up for the 20% drop in revenue.
As for the early adopters... look, if Apple will just improve the stability of Safari on the thing, we'll be happy enough. After a few days of complaining of course.
Er, well, there are two ways to use gmail on an iPhone; through the Web browser and through the built-in email app via POP3. The POP3 support is not always so great, partly since POP3 sucks, but it does work right most of the time as long as you don't use POP3 from any other device.
On the other hand, using the Web page is not always so great, since the gmail interface is all over the place and not exactly well-optimized for the iPhone's smaller display. It did work last I checked but the built-in email client works better for me.
The iPod Touch doesn't seem to have the email client, so you'd be stuck with the Web interface. Maybe Google will come out with a lighter version of the page to make things easier on those people. For all I know they have one already.
Sheesh, newbies...
"Abort, Retry, Fail" was the most common message because it was shown for hard errors, including when a device was not ready, especially when a floppy disk was not inserted in a drive. Since floppy disks were often empty this message was seen frequently. If you changed the current drive to an empty floppy drive this message would appear and it was extremely unclear how to get out. "Retry" was obviously useless, but "Abort" didn't work because of a misdesign that prevented the disk change command from being aborted. You had to "Fail" and then you got a prompt like "Current drive is no longer valid>" which was also sort of unclear, but you could change the current drive from there.
"Abort, Retry, Ignore, Fail" was seen less often as it was used for "soft" errors, such as a data error or a write error. Not that these didn't happen plenty on '80s and '90s PC hardware -- that stuff was crap!
I don't think I ever saw a message without "Fail" as an option but it could have been possible. Especially for non-MS DOS.
The boiling frog analogy is terrible. See http://www.fastcompany.com/online/01/frog.html, with a quote from a Harvard biology professor:
"If you put a frog in boiling water, it won't jump out. It will die. If you put it in cold water, it will jump before it gets hot."
The version is the "United States" Constitution. Article I (The Legislative Branch) section 8 (Powers of Congress):
"To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries"
This text was written by the original authors of the Constitution for the express purpose of empowering Congress to create a copyright system and a patent system. Of course, it doesn't give details about that system. Without this clause in the Constitution, copyright law could very well be overturned on First Amendment grounds.
I must say, I'm intrigued by your ideas and wish to subscribe to your newsletter. Honestly, this stuff is great.
By the way, my experience is that wi-fi doesn't work well under Windows generally. For once I don't think this is Microsoft's fault, exactly, as the problem seemed to be mostly awful drivers with labyrinthine custom configuration programs.
I can! It's a new funding model, necessary for the continued existence of giant software factories like Microsoft. The upside is that you no longer have to figure out ways to persuade your customers to buy the new version of your software, which has become more and more difficult (how many features can you add to a word processing app, anyway?)
The upside to the customer is not so easy to find, unless you consider the possibility that with all this hypothetical easy money flowing in, Microsoft would be able to make a better product.
My transgendered friend suggests using the new gender and name universally, even when referencing events prior to the change. You might do the same thing for someone whose name changed in marriage ("Mrs. Smith used to have a cat before she was married" seems like a reasonable enough statement).
Alas, I'm very poor at remembering to do it this way -- probably because she moved away from the state long before the change, and I've only seen her on rare occasions since... leaving me with stronger memories of her as a guy.
When you post a joke, you take the risk that it's not funny. When you post it as an FP the risk doubles, since an unfunny joke as FP just looks like a grab for attention.
Moderation isn't a comment on anyone's personal worth, hygiene, or penis size. If you laughed at the joke, good for you, but I'm not surprised if most mods consider it a dumb pun. Complaining about moderation is just about the most pointless thing possible, second only to responding to such complaints.