The credit card offers the service that got compromised. It's up to them to fix it and to pay the bill; they used to go with it because those things were not frequent. Now they started putting chips on the cards because the cost of fraud got too high.
I see a lot of comments about the constitution and what previous great historic figures said or wrote.
Sure a lot of it is still relevant today but some of it is not. Just like you can believe in god and evolution you should be able to believe that constitutions and laws can and should change. Carefully and only when most people agree.
Actually it should be when most educated people agree but that's idealist of me.
What format is that low-res? If its something fairly generic that would play on windows/mac/linux/ipod/psp then it would be OK for me. Somehow I doubt it works on psp and probably not on a few future devices too.
So I was at toys r us and wanted to get toy story 2(pixar/disney) and was surprised that it was not there since they had a pretty amazing selection of movies for kids. The employee told me they actually never had it and expect it may come out as a boxed set with #3 eventually. Until then I simply CANNOT buy it.
Did a little research and it was on amazon but the price is completely unrelated to other movies that are that old. Torrents are looking really tempting now.
I bought the clone wars season 1 set last week. Price was the same for DVD or blu-ray and I do have a blu-ray player in the PS3. I still ended up getting the DVD because I want to be able to move them to the PSP so my kid can watch them in the car.
I really don't mind paying for my movies, tv shows and music. I do regret that such a big part goes to the studio vs musicians but that's the way it is in every industry.
What I do mind is not being able to use what I have as I should.
I want to be able to move recorded shows from my PVR to my laptop/ipod/psp/whatever
I want to par a reasonable price for rent vs buy and cheaper for the electronic compressed version. Why would I pay 20$ for a compressed movie when I can get a DVD for often half that price and the DVD will be easy to rip to PSP so my kid can watch it in the car?
The data I care about are my photos, my word documents and the media I paid for that I only have in electronic format such as itunes songs.
All of this is on my laptop + on a disc a home + on a disk at work
It would bother me a little to lose all my historical gmail data but not the the point where I would pay to get a backup of it. I would not care at all if all my facebook data disappeared tomorrow.
Actually it only takes about $2K of labor to build all cars and trucks
That's probably true of most things/services. There is an amazing amount of "friction"(ie: added cost) from all levels of management, marketing, etc. Some of it is necessary, a lot of it is not. It's strange that the people you are 100% sure you need(engineers/builders) are often at the bottom of the salary food chain.
Right now I own a Nokia E71 phone that I can tether by bluetooth or usb without any additional software. I can also turn it into a wifi hotsot with 3rd party software and I do use that feature to "fake" an iphone from my ipod. As I understand it the iPhone can't run the wifi at the same time as 3G so this is never going to happen on the current hardware.... but the Symbian OS on my Nokia is terrible. It's like using windows 3.1 after having seen OS/2. It's a great phone but for anything else(email,music,web) I definitely reach for the ipod.
If my job did not require me to have internet access at a moment's notice I would get the iphone and solve my multi-device problem.
I was out of power for 27 days in Quebec's cold winter. I did not myself make kids at the time but there really was a baby boom in Quebec 9 months later.
...I don;t necessarily agree with Apple's decision here, but I don;t think they were morally wrong to make it.
Despite what law says a company is not a "moral" person. I think what they did is legal and I think it's not very nice to the few people using OSX on an Atom. Then again those people were cheating the system and Apple is in there for making $$$, not happy feelings.
Also there is the possibility that the change was not meant to break Atom but just happens to do it. Just because something works out for you does not mean that you intended it.
"It'd never go over in the more-educated United States."
This is the same United States where the majority of the population believes in angels and aliens, yes? And more to the point, a large number of people believe there's something to homeopathy?
Aliens? Really? I actually think that it makes more sense to believe in aliens than angels or homeopathy as long as you also believe that aliens are somewhere far away, not hidden here on earth.
Right, because we're so much smarter than the Iraqis. We have never had dumb/superstitious people in charge of our military.
With all the religion talk from both parties and the money that says "in god we trust" or something like that I would say that the whole USA is governed by superstition. Yes religion is superstition; being the most popular superstition does not make it any more real.
And just as in water witches maybe there is something we just can't see/test for/prove and that god indeed exists. But right now it's a superstition.
Ability/desire to take risks may be the top factor
Definitely. You can become a top programmer and earn a very good salary jsut by being bright. But to get rich you have to be willing to bet it all where other people won't.
Society has been on a tear lately always looking to avoid personal responsibility and blame someone (or in this case, something else). For example,
--Kids aren't hyperactive or have too much energy. They have ADD and require Ritalin. --Why isn't my kid cut out to do Algebra in 2nd grade? It's not that he/she might have a disposition for the arts, but that I need to blame the school and the teachers.
Especially bad since in some cases they will blame a biological process and in other cases society. whatever they can blame it on without sticking to a single ideal.
We all know there are people out there who actually really think that way. We don't expect them to hang around on slashdot but maybe there are a few.
I have not owned many cars but enough to see good and bad floor mats designs. Chrysler daytona '87 was terrible. Nothing at all to hold the mats in place and even winter mats with "spikes" under to hold them to the carpet would frequently move around. Audi A4 2001 was great. Pin system that held really well and worked with both summer and winter mats. I can't see how they would move accidentally. Acura MDX 2005 is also great. Different pin system but holds just as well.
And if the floormat is not too blame surely braking should help enough to prevent accidents in most situations unless you were already going too fast and too close to someone. And then after the braking helps with the initial panic you can turn the ignition off or go for neutral.
You need to go slightly to the left or right or press something to get into reverse but pushing it straight all the way should land you on "N". Maybe some cars don't I have not driven all of them.
If you really want to run OSX then maybe you should get Mac hardware. OSX runs that great not just becaused it has a good foundation(BSD I believe) but also because it only needs to perform on a restricted variety of hardware.
If you are looking for free linux is there and it's pretty good now even for the average user.
If you are looking for maximum hardware compatibility the market leader is still windows
Apple is a hardware company that makes software to add value to the hardware it sells. OS X is just a happy accident and the realization that people are looking for whole solutions, not just the best pieces. Google is an ad company. Search results are one way to get eyes on the ads but they will use any other way(maps, email, social networking,...)
It's very hard to get real competition at any level in the whole computer/internet/OS/mobile markets. Internet is very geography dependent and most people can only choose from 2 providers who often do not seem to compete at all. Computers are now largely PC but still there is AMD and Intel and anyone else wanting to join would need serious OS support for the hardware to sell. The OS is largely windows but somehow linux and OSX still find a niche to play in. Smartphones are a mess. Tons of different OS, hard to find app stores/shareware, freeware, uselessware. I think that in the end Smartphones are going to be just one spectrum of the computerworld like a sub-subnotebook and will end up running linux, OSX or windows
As a consumer what you should really want is whatever makes you life better/easier as cheap as possible. And this is where Apple shines from its great integration of all layers of the solution(hardware, syncing, app store). Linux will shine from its low cost and easy portability. I quite frankly don't see why someone would want windows on its phone, I really can't see why you would want it on your laptop unless your software only works on windows.
Google throws a nice curve into all this from not being a company that should be involved in any of this except maybe the app store part. They obviously realized that smartphones are the laptop of the future just like laptops of today and the desktop of the past for a lot of people. They needed more control and decided to just grab the part they needed and outsource the hardware building part.
We'll see how all of this plays out but right now I can't imagine Samsung,Lg, Motorola and others not becoming predominantly linux based in the future and probably android based as long as google leaves it wide open. Nokia is going with Maemo but seems to want to keep symbian too. Apple still has the more polished solution and the best end to end control... they were even able to control distribution and part of the carrier network to get their visual voicemail working.
I predict that whoever gets the best app store(in quality and price, not quantity) will win in the long term. So it's up to Apple, Google and Nokia to make sure the good developers WANT to develop for them.
Most phones have that. It's the carrier that locks those features.
There is no technical reason why mp3 ringtones would be locked out. But US carriers will sell the phone as subsidized(binding you to a long term contract in the process) and then earn extra money on mp3 ringtones downloads which are sometimes as expensive as the full track from itunes.
Your choice. Buy an unlocked phone full price and then pay for service without a contract or Get into a contract and limitations on the phone software
The very worse I can see from what my bank lets me do on the web would be to transfer money from one of my accounts to another or maybe pay a utility bill for an exceedingly big amount. There is no way they can steal any money unless they can register as a bank approved billing and then pay themselves like I would be for the utility company.
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The school did not give birth to the student. There is no reason to monitor the student like a parent should.
I would hope spy cameras would not be used by any sane parents.
The credit card offers the service that got compromised. It's up to them to fix it and to pay the bill; they used to go with it because those things were not frequent. Now they started putting chips on the cards because the cost of fraud got too high.
I think that even the one pic of him doing drugs if this happened was also a crime but most of all...
I think that installing this on the laptops and not telling anyone was the worse crime of all and was also immoral.
2GB cap? I guess you won't be renting movies over the Internet anytime soon; not more than one/month anyway. And go easy on that youtube.
I see a lot of comments about the constitution and what previous great historic figures said or wrote.
Sure a lot of it is still relevant today but some of it is not. Just like you can believe in god and evolution you should be able to believe that constitutions and laws can and should change. Carefully and only when most people agree.
Actually it should be when most educated people agree but that's idealist of me.
What format is that low-res? If its something fairly generic that would play on windows/mac/linux/ipod/psp then it would be OK for me. Somehow I doubt it works on psp and probably not on a few future devices too.
So I was at toys r us and wanted to get toy story 2(pixar/disney) and was surprised that it was not there since they had a pretty amazing selection of movies for kids. The employee told me they actually never had it and expect it may come out as a boxed set with #3 eventually. Until then I simply CANNOT buy it.
Did a little research and it was on amazon but the price is completely unrelated to other movies that are that old. Torrents are looking really tempting now.
I bought the clone wars season 1 set last week. Price was the same for DVD or blu-ray and I do have a blu-ray player in the PS3. I still ended up getting the DVD because I want to be able to move them to the PSP so my kid can watch them in the car.
I really don't mind paying for my movies, tv shows and music. I do regret that such a big part goes to the studio vs musicians but that's the way it is in every industry.
What I do mind is not being able to use what I have as I should.
I want to be able to move recorded shows from my PVR to my laptop/ipod/psp/whatever
I want to par a reasonable price for rent vs buy and cheaper for the electronic compressed version. Why would I pay 20$ for a compressed movie when I can get a DVD for often half that price and the DVD will be easy to rip to PSP so my kid can watch it in the car?
The data I care about are my photos, my word documents and the media I paid for that I only have in electronic format such as itunes songs.
All of this is on my laptop + on a disc a home + on a disk at work
It would bother me a little to lose all my historical gmail data but not the the point where I would pay to get a backup of it. I would not care at all if all my facebook data disappeared tomorrow.
Actually it only takes about $2K of labor to build all cars and trucks
That's probably true of most things/services. There is an amazing amount of "friction"(ie: added cost) from all levels of management, marketing, etc. Some of it is necessary, a lot of it is not. It's strange that the people you are 100% sure you need(engineers/builders) are often at the bottom of the salary food chain.
Right now I own a Nokia E71 phone that I can tether by bluetooth or usb without any additional software. I can also turn it into a wifi hotsot with 3rd party software and I do use that feature to "fake" an iphone from my ipod. As I understand it the iPhone can't run the wifi at the same time as 3G so this is never going to happen on the current hardware. ... but the Symbian OS on my Nokia is terrible. It's like using windows 3.1 after having seen OS/2. It's a great phone but for anything else(email,music,web) I definitely reach for the ipod.
If my job did not require me to have internet access at a moment's notice I would get the iphone and solve my multi-device problem.
I was out of power for 27 days in Quebec's cold winter. I did not myself make kids at the time but there really was a baby boom in Quebec 9 months later.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_Ice_Storm
...I don;t necessarily agree with Apple's decision here, but I don;t think they were morally wrong to make it.
Despite what law says a company is not a "moral" person. I think what they did is legal and I think it's not very nice to the few people using OSX on an Atom. Then again those people were cheating the system and Apple is in there for making $$$, not happy feelings.
Also there is the possibility that the change was not meant to break Atom but just happens to do it. Just because something works out for you does not mean that you intended it.
"It'd never go over in the more-educated United States."
This is the same United States where the majority of the population believes in angels and aliens, yes? And more to the point, a large number of people believe there's something to homeopathy?
Aliens? Really? I actually think that it makes more sense to believe in aliens than angels or homeopathy as long as you also believe that aliens are somewhere far away, not hidden here on earth.
Right, because we're so much smarter than the Iraqis. We have never had dumb/superstitious people in charge of our military.
With all the religion talk from both parties and the money that says "in god we trust" or something like that I would say that the whole USA is governed by superstition. Yes religion is superstition; being the most popular superstition does not make it any more real.
And just as in water witches maybe there is something we just can't see/test for/prove and that god indeed exists. But right now it's a superstition.
If the hours and work conditions were not so bad I'd want to be a paramedic. Drive an ambulance all day and make a real chance in people's lives.
Ability/desire to take risks may be the top factor
Definitely. You can become a top programmer and earn a very good salary jsut by being bright. But to get rich you have to be willing to bet it all where other people won't.
Society has been on a tear lately always looking to avoid personal responsibility and blame someone (or in this case, something else). For example,
--Kids aren't hyperactive or have too much energy. They have ADD and require Ritalin.
--Why isn't my kid cut out to do Algebra in 2nd grade? It's not that he/she might have a disposition for the arts, but that I need to blame the school and the teachers.
Especially bad since in some cases they will blame a biological process and in other cases society. whatever they can blame it on without sticking to a single ideal.
We all know there are people out there who actually really think that way. We don't expect them to hang around on slashdot but maybe there are a few.
I have not owned many cars but enough to see good and bad floor mats designs.
Chrysler daytona '87 was terrible. Nothing at all to hold the mats in place and even winter mats with "spikes" under to hold them to the carpet would frequently move around.
Audi A4 2001 was great. Pin system that held really well and worked with both summer and winter mats. I can't see how they would move accidentally.
Acura MDX 2005 is also great. Different pin system but holds just as well.
And if the floormat is not too blame surely braking should help enough to prevent accidents in most situations unless you were already going too fast and too close to someone. And then after the braking helps with the initial panic you can turn the ignition off or go for neutral.
You need to go slightly to the left or right or press something to get into reverse but pushing it straight all the way should land you on "N". Maybe some cars don't I have not driven all of them.
If you really want to run OSX then maybe you should get Mac hardware. OSX runs that great not just becaused it has a good foundation(BSD I believe) but also because it only needs to perform on a restricted variety of hardware.
If you are looking for free linux is there and it's pretty good now even for the average user.
If you are looking for maximum hardware compatibility the market leader is still windows
..businesses.
Apple is a hardware company that makes software to add value to the hardware it sells. OS X is just a happy accident and the realization that people are looking for whole solutions, not just the best pieces. ...)
Google is an ad company. Search results are one way to get eyes on the ads but they will use any other way(maps, email, social networking,
It's very hard to get real competition at any level in the whole computer/internet/OS/mobile markets.
Internet is very geography dependent and most people can only choose from 2 providers who often do not seem to compete at all.
Computers are now largely PC but still there is AMD and Intel and anyone else wanting to join would need serious OS support for the hardware to sell.
The OS is largely windows but somehow linux and OSX still find a niche to play in.
Smartphones are a mess. Tons of different OS, hard to find app stores/shareware, freeware, uselessware. I think that in the end Smartphones are going to be just one spectrum of the computerworld like a sub-subnotebook and will end up running linux, OSX or windows
As a consumer what you should really want is whatever makes you life better/easier as cheap as possible. And this is where Apple shines from its great integration of all layers of the solution(hardware, syncing, app store). Linux will shine from its low cost and easy portability. I quite frankly don't see why someone would want windows on its phone, I really can't see why you would want it on your laptop unless your software only works on windows.
Google throws a nice curve into all this from not being a company that should be involved in any of this except maybe the app store part. They obviously realized that smartphones are the laptop of the future just like laptops of today and the desktop of the past for a lot of people. They needed more control and decided to just grab the part they needed and outsource the hardware building part.
We'll see how all of this plays out but right now I can't imagine Samsung,Lg, Motorola and others not becoming predominantly linux based in the future and probably android based as long as google leaves it wide open. Nokia is going with Maemo but seems to want to keep symbian too. Apple still has the more polished solution and the best end to end control... they were even able to control distribution and part of the carrier network to get their visual voicemail working.
I predict that whoever gets the best app store(in quality and price, not quantity) will win in the long term. So it's up to Apple, Google and Nokia to make sure the good developers WANT to develop for them.
Most phones have that. It's the carrier that locks those features.
There is no technical reason why mp3 ringtones would be locked out. But US carriers will sell the phone as subsidized(binding you to a long term contract in the process) and then earn extra money on mp3 ringtones downloads which are sometimes as expensive as the full track from itunes.
Your choice. Buy an unlocked phone full price and then pay for service without a contract
or
Get into a contract and limitations on the phone software
The very worse I can see from what my bank lets me do on the web would be to transfer money from one of my accounts to another or maybe pay a utility bill for an exceedingly big amount. There is no way they can steal any money unless they can register as a bank approved billing and then pay themselves like I would be for the utility company.