I can buy Wired at probably 15 places within a 10 minute bike ride of my house. In other words, nearly every magazine rack. The cover price? $5.99. Same as the US. A few cents better, actually, considering the exchange rate.
Oh, unless you're talking about the awesome subscription deals. But I haven't subscribed to a magazine since I was 14. I prefer to pick them up when there's something compelling I want to read.
If you had a valuable prototype (full of trade secrets) that was lost, and then knowingly sold to the press in a manner contrary to the law, by someone who know what it was and what it was worth, without any actual effort to return it to you (despite immediately tracking down the owner's profile on two social media sites), would you just sit back and say "c'est la vie!"
Nope. And if you did, you'd be a pretty shitty CEO.
Yes, it's Apple's employee's fault, and Apple's fault by extension, that it was lost. However, all the matters beyond that are still crimes, and worth investigation.
Think of it this way: If you left the keys to your car in your car, and it was stolen, yes, it would be your fault. The police would certainly lecture you out on that, and your insurance company would laugh at you... BUT, the police would still try to find your car for you, and prosecute the guy who stole it to the full extents of the law.
This STUPID FUCKING CELL PHONE is more important than the crimes going on in their area. If I were a victim of a violent crime in that area, I'd be throwing bags of dogshit at the cops and at the prosecutor.
So you're saying that a task force specifically set up to investigate computer related crimes, located in Silicon Valley (where computer crimes and espionage are serious), should better spend its time investigating violent crimes? Great idea. I'm sure they'll reassign all their personnel immediately.
News Flash: There's all kinds of different crimes, and all kinds of independent departments set up to handle them. Just because one is doing its job well, and another is doing its job shittily, isn't reason to get pissed at the one that's doing its job well. This is like cursing out parking enforcement for the same reason. "They can't solve other crimes! Why did I get a parking ticket!?"
Wrong: if there's no mass market for computers, they'll be as expensive as they were in the 1960s. No business ever made a profit by selling cheap products in low volume. When the only potential buyers of a general-purpose computer are large companies and "geeks", some of the former will just grudgingly pay the multi-million dollar price, but we'll be SOL.
I don't imagine it will be quite that bad, because basically the same guts will be going into the locked-down "appliances", but guess what: Tough shit. If you're a hobbyist, you have to be prepared to pay to get your custom stuff and specialty parts. Look at audiophiles. These maniacs spend tens of thousands of dollars on custom setups, while most people are happy with whatever they get at Best Buy... but there's still a thriving audiophile community.
As long as there's a demand, an alternative will always exist.
Steve Jobs is not holding a gun to your head, making you swipe your credit card to buy an iPad. But don't fault him on designing something uncomplicated that other people will gladly buy because it does what they want in a way that suits them.
I swear, we went through this shit before when the Mac debuted with a mouse and GUI. "It's for babies! What will we do? We're all doomed to a future of stupidity!" GUESS WHAT? Over 25 years later, you can still type in a command line if you want, even in Mac OS X.
I have never met a person that carries around spare phone batteries. Spare batteries aren't the issue. The issue is what to do when your battery life drops down to less than a day. You currently have to pay Apple $90 to get it replaced, pay some sketchy booth at a mall to do it, or try doing surgery on it yourself.
Larceny: like burglary, only you didn't break in, you walked in. "Along with motor vehicle theft, larcenies can include purse snatching, shoplifting, theft of any bicycle, fraud, embezzlement, identity theft, forgery, con games, etc"
Any bicycle? You mean there aren't some you can steal?
Just as Nimoy's in the news, so is Shatner. Right now people are pushing for William Shatner to be named the next Governor General of Canada (an appointed position), and there's a large Facebook group based on it. Even Leonard Nimoy wants him to get the job:
Nimoy, who was in Alberta for a comic convention, says the job would be perfect because Shatner has just been "sitting around twiddling his thumbs" recently.
He says the job would give Shatner a sense of "self worth" and allow him to "get out and do something."
Oh, I never said I didn't like our currency. (Well, the current $10 is kinda badly thought out.) I'm just worried about its design falling into a conservative-fueled, cliched jingoistic trap.
Canada's joining you Aussies with the plastic currency soon. Next year, I think, our money is making that transition. (Let's hope they don't make the design worse. Tories + Committees generally = Bad Design.)
The point is, since you're going to be looking at it for a while, replacing the big, grey slab of a UI with something more appealing to your eye. (Mind you, most people's eyes have horrid taste.)
"Flash performs badly on Apples because Apple wants it to perform badly."
Really? Flash has performed badly on Mac for YEARS. Well before this whole battle for the mobile space. Vocal community complaints to Adobe fell on dead ears, it seems. I guess because they figured Mac had such a small market share on the web that they didn't need to put in serious effort to make it better.
What has Apple previously had to gain from Flash sucking? Nothing. They had plenty to lose though: The appeal of the Mac. At this point Apple has just taken it for granted that Adobe has zero interest in making Flash work well on their platform, and has committed themselves to pushing forward the web without it.
Now they've got an extremely popular mobile platform, iPhone OS. It's the number one platform for browsing the web on a phone. Adobe's woken-up and thought "Damn! We need to get in on this!", but it's far too late. They can say "We can change! Give us a chance! You're the one being evil!" all they want, but Steve Jobs has made up his mind and is giving them the cold shoulder.
Think of it like your previously dull ex-girlfriend, whom you ignored too much while you played with other girls, suddenly getting hot. You want her back, but she knows better than to hook-up with your unfaithful ass again.
Personas are silly and superfluous, yes, but they do add some enjoyable colour to my screen. (As long as the theme itself is tasteful, which 95% are not.) I'm not one of those guys who has "Windows Classic" set as their desktop environment.
If this is just a minor addition to the browser, one that didn't absorb a huge amount of development resources from the overall project, I see no problem with adding it.
iPhone OS, which is OSX with all the stuff you don't need on a mobile device cut out, works quite well on the iPad with 256 MB.
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And without Jobs' attention and direction, Jonathan Ive may have just been some high-end industrial designer making expensive lamps and salt shakers for yuppies. (No offense to Ives, of course.)
This is now the ideal platform for comics. If content is moved to this format, you won't have to deal with horrible collectors if you want to read back issues.
No, that would be if the game stopped working around the time a sequel or new version was released. Let's say, your copy of Street Fighter 4 mysteriously died when Super Street Fighter 4 was released.
This is giving you something free, and trying to get you to pay for the full version.
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I can buy Wired at probably 15 places within a 10 minute bike ride of my house. In other words, nearly every magazine rack. The cover price? $5.99. Same as the US. A few cents better, actually, considering the exchange rate.
Oh, unless you're talking about the awesome subscription deals. But I haven't subscribed to a magazine since I was 14. I prefer to pick them up when there's something compelling I want to read.
Next test subject: Toucan Sam.
Microsoft has no connection whatsoever with their users and thats where their real problem lies.
How can you say that? Windows 7 was MY idea!
If you had a valuable prototype (full of trade secrets) that was lost, and then knowingly sold to the press in a manner contrary to the law, by someone who know what it was and what it was worth, without any actual effort to return it to you (despite immediately tracking down the owner's profile on two social media sites), would you just sit back and say "c'est la vie!"
Nope. And if you did, you'd be a pretty shitty CEO.
Yes, it's Apple's employee's fault, and Apple's fault by extension, that it was lost. However, all the matters beyond that are still crimes, and worth investigation.
Think of it this way: If you left the keys to your car in your car, and it was stolen, yes, it would be your fault. The police would certainly lecture you out on that, and your insurance company would laugh at you... BUT, the police would still try to find your car for you, and prosecute the guy who stole it to the full extents of the law.
This STUPID FUCKING CELL PHONE is more important than the crimes going on in their area. If I were a victim of a violent crime in that area, I'd be throwing bags of dogshit at the cops and at the prosecutor.
So you're saying that a task force specifically set up to investigate computer related crimes, located in Silicon Valley (where computer crimes and espionage are serious), should better spend its time investigating violent crimes? Great idea. I'm sure they'll reassign all their personnel immediately.
News Flash: There's all kinds of different crimes, and all kinds of independent departments set up to handle them. Just because one is doing its job well, and another is doing its job shittily, isn't reason to get pissed at the one that's doing its job well. This is like cursing out parking enforcement for the same reason. "They can't solve other crimes! Why did I get a parking ticket!?"
Wrong: if there's no mass market for computers, they'll be as expensive as they were in the 1960s. No business ever made a profit by selling cheap products in low volume. When the only potential buyers of a general-purpose computer are large companies and "geeks", some of the former will just grudgingly pay the multi-million dollar price, but we'll be SOL.
I don't imagine it will be quite that bad, because basically the same guts will be going into the locked-down "appliances", but guess what: Tough shit. If you're a hobbyist, you have to be prepared to pay to get your custom stuff and specialty parts. Look at audiophiles. These maniacs spend tens of thousands of dollars on custom setups, while most people are happy with whatever they get at Best Buy... but there's still a thriving audiophile community.
Then BUY SOMETHING ELSE.
As long as there's a demand, an alternative will always exist.
Steve Jobs is not holding a gun to your head, making you swipe your credit card to buy an iPad. But don't fault him on designing something uncomplicated that other people will gladly buy because it does what they want in a way that suits them.
I swear, we went through this shit before when the Mac debuted with a mouse and GUI. "It's for babies! What will we do? We're all doomed to a future of stupidity!" GUESS WHAT? Over 25 years later, you can still type in a command line if you want, even in Mac OS X.
I have never met a person that carries around spare phone batteries.
Spare batteries aren't the issue. The issue is what to do when your battery life drops down to less than a day. You currently have to pay Apple $90 to get it replaced, pay some sketchy booth at a mall to do it, or try doing surgery on it yourself.
Larceny: like burglary, only you didn't break in, you walked in. "Along with motor vehicle theft, larcenies can include purse snatching, shoplifting, theft of any bicycle, fraud, embezzlement, identity theft, forgery, con games, etc"
Any bicycle? You mean there aren't some you can steal?
Don't worry, there's always Twitter.
Just as Nimoy's in the news, so is Shatner. Right now people are pushing for William Shatner to be named the next Governor General of Canada (an appointed position), and there's a large Facebook group based on it. Even Leonard Nimoy wants him to get the job:
Oh, I never said I didn't like our currency. (Well, the current $10 is kinda badly thought out.) I'm just worried about its design falling into a conservative-fueled, cliched jingoistic trap.
But in todays "OMG SHINY PONIES!!!" game development environment...
Today's? Obviously you haven't been gaming for long. It's been like that as far as I can remember, just on different scales.
Canada's joining you Aussies with the plastic currency soon. Next year, I think, our money is making that transition. (Let's hope they don't make the design worse. Tories + Committees generally = Bad Design.)
...but it is probably something that I would keep switched off most of the time.
Whereas most people would switch it on and not think of it again, then angrily complain to Apple that their battery only lasts two hours.
The point is, since you're going to be looking at it for a while, replacing the big, grey slab of a UI with something more appealing to your eye. (Mind you, most people's eyes have horrid taste.)
"Flash performs badly on Apples because Apple wants it to perform badly."
Really? Flash has performed badly on Mac for YEARS. Well before this whole battle for the mobile space. Vocal community complaints to Adobe fell on dead ears, it seems. I guess because they figured Mac had such a small market share on the web that they didn't need to put in serious effort to make it better.
What has Apple previously had to gain from Flash sucking? Nothing. They had plenty to lose though: The appeal of the Mac. At this point Apple has just taken it for granted that Adobe has zero interest in making Flash work well on their platform, and has committed themselves to pushing forward the web without it.
Now they've got an extremely popular mobile platform, iPhone OS. It's the number one platform for browsing the web on a phone. Adobe's woken-up and thought "Damn! We need to get in on this!", but it's far too late. They can say "We can change! Give us a chance! You're the one being evil!" all they want, but Steve Jobs has made up his mind and is giving them the cold shoulder.
Think of it like your previously dull ex-girlfriend, whom you ignored too much while you played with other girls, suddenly getting hot. You want her back, but she knows better than to hook-up with your unfaithful ass again.
Personas are silly and superfluous, yes, but they do add some enjoyable colour to my screen. (As long as the theme itself is tasteful, which 95% are not.) I'm not one of those guys who has "Windows Classic" set as their desktop environment.
If this is just a minor addition to the browser, one that didn't absorb a huge amount of development resources from the overall project, I see no problem with adding it.
iPhone OS, which is OSX with all the stuff you don't need on a mobile device cut out, works quite well on the iPad with 256 MB.
And without Jobs' attention and direction, Jonathan Ive may have just been some high-end industrial designer making expensive lamps and salt shakers for yuppies. (No offense to Ives, of course.)
Also, your chances of getting mugged at Epcot are far less than in a Real Town. (Unless Mickey and Goofy follow you into a dark alley, that is.)
Now, I dislike Stephen Harper as much as anyone else, but he isn't quite Voldemort.
Or is he? Hmm...
This is now the ideal platform for comics. If content is moved to this format, you won't have to deal with horrible collectors if you want to read back issues.
No, that would be if the game stopped working around the time a sequel or new version was released. Let's say, your copy of Street Fighter 4 mysteriously died when Super Street Fighter 4 was released.
This is giving you something free, and trying to get you to pay for the full version.
Then you'd hate the suit I wear to work...
Don Cherry? Is that you?