P.S. You use Gentoo. You're not the target market for an iPad. You're also one of these Apple-haters who obsesses over Steve Jobs and thinks he can hear you if you mention him by name.
Steve Jobs didn't turn to Bill Gates and ask for $150 million in stocks. Microsoft was required to as part of a settlement deal after getting caught stealing Quicktime code and stuffing it into Video for Windows. The stocks were non-voting stocks and didn't contribute whatsoever to the iMac, iPod, iPhone, or iPad. The expenses of the research and development behind the iPhone alone probably dwarfs $150 million quite handily.
If Windows disappeared, we could still run Win32 programs using WINE. If Office disappeared, we could still use OpenOffice. It wouldn't be as chaotic as you think.
If Apple disappeared, the industry would be a lot more stagnant since they've been at the lead of nearly every trend since the original iMac. But Apple has never been interested in being everywhere. They're interested in being the best in a few areas.
it has more to do with catering to legacy companies who think that they can somehow combat piracy. In reality, costs go down significantly over time for ongoing software development, so even if a small subset of the folks pirating slowly convert over time you're only going to continue to make more and more money.
[citation needed]
Also, a lot of people disagree with paying for apps as that goes against the purpose and concept of free software (and associated benefits/gains).
Those people would be ideologues. If ideology is that important to them, they shouldn't be using Android anyway because it's not an open platform.
The apps didn't steal personal data and send it to some third-party server. Instead, people's accounts were hacked through phishing so that the apps could be voted up in the store. So no, Apple wouldn't have caught onto it during the approval process.
I really doubt it would have. Apple would have put the app through its testing process and discovered its attempt to send personal data to a third-party server.
The examples you give aren't the same as what is being discussed here. They didn't steal personal data.
So I guess extreme cold weather is blamed on global warming, and extreme hot weather is blamed on global warming. That's a convenient position to take. Obviously, wanting cleaner air is something you should want regardless, but the way fear is used to force taxes onto people or make them feel guilty for using technology is something I strongly disagree with. So, I agree with saving the planet up to the point that it begins to interfere with useful, necessary technology. Unfortunately, along with global warming comes a lot of anti-capitalist garbage from iPod-using urban hippies who think meat-eating is evil and feel the love at Bjork concerts. I'm being facetious, but you get the idea. There's way too much emotionalism infecting what should be a strictly scientific viewpoint.
Well, part of the news here is the comparison to Apple's heavily-controlled store model. Would this have happened on the iPhone? Would the app have even been approved?
I disagree. Kids' egos have been so coddled, from the removal of losing teams in sports games to passing everyone in a class so nobody feels bad for themselves, that they grow up with an unwarranted sense of entitlement and accomplishment. We have a lot of selfish, spoiled people today because of this crap, and the rest of us who actually work for things are supporting everyone else to a greater degree than ever before.
The principal's statement made sense to me--he's saying you can't just skate by in the real world but must put in effort. It's not hard to pass elementary school. At that level, it's all about basic effort. Flunking a kid who would have skated by is doing him or her a service, failing them so they can retake the course or retry the test.
Nobody's lives are being destroyed ("literally") by requiring them to pass in school. Your statement about living in caves makes no sense, because we had to be even less lazy back then, learning how to hunt and build shelters or starve to death. Your precious self-esteem mattered little.
Since Apple-haters have completely taken over Slashdot (look at the article openly insulting all iPad users), I'm curious when opinions will turn on Google. Snooping on WiFi networks and archiving their data wasn't enough, CEO Eric Schmidt telling people concerned about privacy that they have something to hide wasn't enough...will tracking your mouse cursor be the final straw? I'm genuinely curious what it will take to push Slashdotters against Google. It's not as if this is an open source company--their primary businesses, search and advertising, are as closed source and proprietary as Windows.
This article doesn't "confirm" anything. It just pats the back of Apple-haters like yourself for believing what you already believed. iPads are a new product, so naturally the people who own one right now are more likely to be wealthy, but that will change over time as more people adopt the platform.
I think some Slashdotters are still bitter that Apple took the thunder out of the late 90s/early 00s "Linux on the desktop" push. This story is completely juvenile. I can't help but wonder what kinds of stereotypical personalities a study of Linux users would reveal.
Why do ISPs not have the right to run their networks however they want? Internet access isn't a constitutional right. Please, please stop expanding government's role in absolutely everything.
What a bizarre comment. The chipophone was created for live chiptune performances. The intention wasn't to destroy anything or prove how special anyone is. The organ, which is a very common model produced in the seventies, is just the shell that happened to be used for this project. Your comments about restoration of history are all the more strange considering the whole point is to resurrect 8-bit synthesized instrumentation for live play.
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P.S. You use Gentoo. You're not the target market for an iPad. You're also one of these Apple-haters who obsesses over Steve Jobs and thinks he can hear you if you mention him by name.
A stylus? You've already lost.
Steve Jobs didn't turn to Bill Gates and ask for $150 million in stocks. Microsoft was required to as part of a settlement deal after getting caught stealing Quicktime code and stuffing it into Video for Windows. The stocks were non-voting stocks and didn't contribute whatsoever to the iMac, iPod, iPhone, or iPad. The expenses of the research and development behind the iPhone alone probably dwarfs $150 million quite handily.
You're a really bad troll. Try harder.
He was talking about links to a "government bailout." Everyone knows Microsoft bought non-voting shares after getting caught stealing Quicktime code.
You know things are in a sorry state when Slashdotters don't even RTFA in their own posts!
If Windows disappeared, we could still run Win32 programs using WINE. If Office disappeared, we could still use OpenOffice. It wouldn't be as chaotic as you think.
If Apple disappeared, the industry would be a lot more stagnant since they've been at the lead of nearly every trend since the original iMac. But Apple has never been interested in being everywhere. They're interested in being the best in a few areas.
People said the same thing about IBM and Microsoft.
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Those people would be ideologues. If ideology is that important to them, they shouldn't be using Android anyway because it's not an open platform.
The apps didn't steal personal data and send it to some third-party server. Instead, people's accounts were hacked through phishing so that the apps could be voted up in the store. So no, Apple wouldn't have caught onto it during the approval process.
Anything else? You're not very good at this.
I really doubt it would have. Apple would have put the app through its testing process and discovered its attempt to send personal data to a third-party server.
The examples you give aren't the same as what is being discussed here. They didn't steal personal data.
So I guess extreme cold weather is blamed on global warming, and extreme hot weather is blamed on global warming. That's a convenient position to take. Obviously, wanting cleaner air is something you should want regardless, but the way fear is used to force taxes onto people or make them feel guilty for using technology is something I strongly disagree with. So, I agree with saving the planet up to the point that it begins to interfere with useful, necessary technology. Unfortunately, along with global warming comes a lot of anti-capitalist garbage from iPod-using urban hippies who think meat-eating is evil and feel the love at Bjork concerts. I'm being facetious, but you get the idea. There's way too much emotionalism infecting what should be a strictly scientific viewpoint.
George Carlin summed up the alarmist element of environmentalism pretty well. Earth couldn't care less about us. To sum up--"The planet's not fucked. WE are."
When there stops being data to the contrary, I guess.
Well, part of the news here is the comparison to Apple's heavily-controlled store model. Would this have happened on the iPhone? Would the app have even been approved?
Is desktop Linux for regular people or not? I'm confused.
So?
Ah, the classic slippery slope argument, wildly hyperbolizing stories on Slashdot since 1998.
I disagree. Kids' egos have been so coddled, from the removal of losing teams in sports games to passing everyone in a class so nobody feels bad for themselves, that they grow up with an unwarranted sense of entitlement and accomplishment. We have a lot of selfish, spoiled people today because of this crap, and the rest of us who actually work for things are supporting everyone else to a greater degree than ever before.
The principal's statement made sense to me--he's saying you can't just skate by in the real world but must put in effort. It's not hard to pass elementary school. At that level, it's all about basic effort. Flunking a kid who would have skated by is doing him or her a service, failing them so they can retake the course or retry the test.
Nobody's lives are being destroyed ("literally") by requiring them to pass in school. Your statement about living in caves makes no sense, because we had to be even less lazy back then, learning how to hunt and build shelters or starve to death. Your precious self-esteem mattered little.
Absolutely hilarious. My post, an honest opinion, gets marked down as Troll while the parent posts, obvious trolls themselves, are modded up.
You don't have to mod everything down just because you disagree with it, moderators. Sometimes you should just post a reply instead.
Since Apple-haters have completely taken over Slashdot (look at the article openly insulting all iPad users), I'm curious when opinions will turn on Google. Snooping on WiFi networks and archiving their data wasn't enough, CEO Eric Schmidt telling people concerned about privacy that they have something to hide wasn't enough...will tracking your mouse cursor be the final straw? I'm genuinely curious what it will take to push Slashdotters against Google. It's not as if this is an open source company--their primary businesses, search and advertising, are as closed source and proprietary as Windows.
This article doesn't "confirm" anything. It just pats the back of Apple-haters like yourself for believing what you already believed. iPads are a new product, so naturally the people who own one right now are more likely to be wealthy, but that will change over time as more people adopt the platform.
I think some Slashdotters are still bitter that Apple took the thunder out of the late 90s/early 00s "Linux on the desktop" push. This story is completely juvenile. I can't help but wonder what kinds of stereotypical personalities a study of Linux users would reveal.
Um, yes? OpenGL ES is the standard 3D API on mobile devices as well as the PS3. Even the Wii has an OpenGL-like API.
Once again, all inclinations to boycott the MPAA go out the window the moment the next summer flick comes out.
Why do ISPs not have the right to run their networks however they want? Internet access isn't a constitutional right. Please, please stop expanding government's role in absolutely everything.
What a bizarre comment. The chipophone was created for live chiptune performances. The intention wasn't to destroy anything or prove how special anyone is. The organ, which is a very common model produced in the seventies, is just the shell that happened to be used for this project. Your comments about restoration of history are all the more strange considering the whole point is to resurrect 8-bit synthesized instrumentation for live play.
Could be one of the lamest attempts at karma-whoring ever. I really have to salute you for barely putting any effort into that one.