apple made its mark in by being on the cutting edge of all 3
what was in the 1990s?
cell phones. but cell phones weren't in the mass consumption computer world. yet
nothing else. pcs and laptops really did not change from 1990 to 2000 (they got faster, more powerful, more capacity, but their use and design did not change). all apple could do is make some edgy cases:
when apple innovates a *large step* that everyone lusts after, which they've done well for awhile, apple rules
but when innovation is more iterative, *small steps*, what happens outside the walled garden is much more cutthroat and much more capable of producing something novel that people want
there's also the issue that what was once state of the art extremely rapidly becomes just another commodity, it's brutal. and apple sits at the cutting edge of this game, and has to carefully stay there
as long as it can surf that wave, apple will continue to do well. but the moment large innovative steps become out of reach due to technology coming up short on the bleeding edge, then apple stumbles, and their market passes outside of the walled garden into the realm of the commodities
what amazes me is apple played its game in the 1980s. then in the 1990s apple began dying because there were no great leaps to achieve. it kind of eked out an existence on the edge as a fetish item. when the 2000s and 2010s came along, apple picked up the same game it played in the 1980s with a number of technological and design breakthroughs. which is a rather impressive achievement, to seize that position twice
but the 2020s are coming, and if apple can't find that must have next leap, apple goes the way it did in the 1990s
no steve jobs this time around though to save it in the 2030s
unless their actual product in the 2030s is "steve jobs himself cloned for your desktop"
you're a moron on the topic of economics currently. objectively so, not a baseless insult. you believe suppliers bear no blame for the state of markets., what a crackpot
your argument is mostly historical. it is common and normal to call syrians arabs. they fall under the umbrella due to language, and, increasingly, simple ethnicity
although you are correct that ethnic and sectarian pride means this can be a touchy subject, and that i shouldn't use the blanket term that all syrians be called arab, because there are significant minority populations who are most definitely not arab
but as an aside, ethnic jingoism and a sense of superiority based on sect is the source of most of the problems in the middle east
therefore: yeah, we get it, it's touchy. but: fuck your touchiness. syrians and others in the middle east are murdering people because of this topic. which is fucking retarded and exactly why the middle east is the way it is
so, based on your comment, i'll respect your request and not use the term arab to describe all syrians from now on. thank you for the clarification
but the more important point is that syrians themselves stop fucking murdering each other on the same fucking topic: respect
"TIL Steve Wozniak put a fake bomb in a locker during high school and spent the night in a juvenile detention center where he taught prisoners how to disconnect the ceiling fan wires and connect them to bars so it would shock people on touch"
there are bad outliers that need to be cleaned up. absolutely. better laws, more aggressive removal of bad apples, better policies and tactics to prevent tragedies
but my point here is ridicule the (objectively speaking, not a baseless insult) socially retarded morons who are actually on a crusade against the existence of law enforcement itself, and think law enforcement mostly hurts people
you know, evil, evil job destroying regulations. because a guy having a job on an oil field is more important than his grandkid able to grow food crops
what's that? companies write their own regulations through congresscritters?
in which case you clean up your government, remove the corruption. which is unfortunately legal in the usa. so you vote for the guys who are actually going to do something about that rather than the professional prostitutes who talk about tax cuts for "job creators" (aka, their rich friends who park their money in an offshore banking accounts, rather than a tax cut for the middle class and poor, who immediately spend their cash, actually growing the economy)
i still want to know about where the retard i replied to is from, so i may google and find the easy top 10 examples of recent police and prosecutorial abuse from that country, since it exists everywhere
we're not talking about genocide here, we're talking about a plea bargain with a slimeball criminal. and the asshole i replied to acts like someone is jailing gandhi. this person is obviously a hysterical moron who has no sense of proportion, and i want to prove it to them by shoving far worse recent cases from their own country in their face
you're a fat pasty socially underdeveloped fuck in your parents basement drinking soda by the gallon and with greasy pieces of chips on your unwashed t shirt
you do realize that crime and criminals actually exist, right? you only imagine the existence of plea bargains as used against innocent people? what the fuck?
plea bargains are like a wrench. you use a wrench to tighten a bolt. you don't use it to hit a nail or open a window. if some dipshit prosecutor uses a wrench for what a wrench is not intended for, this is an argument against that dipshit prosecutor. it's not an argument against the existence of the fucking wrench!
you fucking social retards, where do you come from?
every single fucking step of law enforcement and criminal prosecution is ripe for abuse. from the time of initial contact between police and suspect, to sentencing by the judge, and every step in between, is rife for thousands of kinds of abuse. and we hear about the abuses and the tragedies daily
and yet, it is better than no justice system at all, by many of orders of magnitude
do you imagine bad intent only exists in the justice system and law enforcement? do you know what a society is like that does not try to combat crime? i'll give you a hint: that society ceases to exist. show me a rich happy society without a functioning law enforcement apparatus. go ahead, i'm waiting
you focus on fixing the problems in the justice system: the structurally moronic policies, the bad apples, you protect against how stupid mistakes can result in horrible accidents
but what you don't fucking do is whine about the existence of the fucking justice system! what is with you social retards?
genuinely, objectively, not as a simple empty insult, you are a socially underdeveloped moron, if you don't recognize the value and importance of law enforcement and prosecution of the inevitable criminals in general society. of which plea bargains are a perfectly legitimate, useful, and vital tool. to say otherwise only reveals you to be incredibly fucking stupid about basic human nature and the world you live in and what happens when society doesn't enforce the basics of how to treat each other. without enforcement, some people will continually treat others far worse than any fucked up law enforcement dept, that's for damn fucking sure. oh you say a law enforcement can do different kinds of worse abuse? then clean it up you fucking moron, don't argue against the existence of law enforcement and prosecution, and the vital tools they need, like plea bargains! jesus fucking christ
in your thinking and your words you focus on the moronic laws, bad actors, and royal fuckups
that's a tiny subset of the what law enforcement is
if you don't understand that, stop talking about what you don't understand. really. you care. but you're a fucking retard on this topic
you don't need to cite that the earth is round or that water is wet. if you don't understand that most of police work is necessary and done competently, even with all the fucking tragedies and maliciousness and accidents, then you're just a stupid socially deficient idiot. most of law enforcement work is actually cleaning up after criminals and fuck ups. really, that's the obvious fucking truth you sheltered ignorant. google the fucking basics of a topic yourself, fucktard
the news covers it when a cop shoots an unarmed man. and that cop should go to jail for a long time
but the news doesn't cover the 100,000 other instances of law enforcement work that actually makes society and your life better
objectively speaking, not as a baseless insult, you are a moron on this topic
people robbing your house just want your stuff. there is no hannibal lecter around every corner ready to vivisection you, this is moronic fantasy
even if wide awake, with a gun in my hand, i'd rather him just take my tv and go file a report, as you describe
rather than deal with cleaning up the fucking mess of a guy's brains off my wall and the red tape, or risking my death because i'm a moron who thinks real life is like the movies and that my chance of escalating the conflict to mortal threat always turns out 100% my side. my gun will never jam, i'm always a perfect shot, i never mistake an intruder for my kid coming in through the window because he forgot his keys, etc. my life and my loved ones are worth more than some stupid shit i can replace
the simple statistical fact is that owning a gun increases the risk of death and injury to you and your loved ones. you *may* save your tv from being stolen. oh yippie. not fucking worth risking death, unless you are a moron, or more exactly, an immature little weakling with a feeling of inadequacy in life
china is building airstrips on islands right now it stole from the philippines in the last year
russia last year annexed crimea and is occupying ukraine, and vivisectioned georgia in 2008
please describe similar american actions in latin and central america
you can't. they don't exist
america has been quite retarded in its middle eastern adventures, but no neighbor of the usa is in danger of being invaded and absorbed into the usa against its will
yes, the cops may falsely charge and falsely imprison an innocent person
i also understands the cops may charge and imprison an actual criminal
i am also fairly certain the latter happens a lot more often than the former
and when the former happens, we should work on making sure laws and policies aren't stupid, that bad apples in the system are punished and removed, and that less mistakes happen. and we should appeal bad convictions and overturn them. how's that sound to you?
what we certainly should not do is imagine that all of law enforcement is only defined by the bad outliers, because that would be fucking moronic
we need law enforcement. and we need to clean up law enforcement. what we don't need is a fucking crusade against the existence of law enforcement like a complete social retard
and there is a system in place that uses that report to find your stolen stuff, which is why you're filing a report, right?
and that system is called...
hint: it's the same one being shat on by anonymous internet tough guy social retards in this thread, that they would all run to crying like babies, without a second thought to their socially retarded posturing in this thread with cheetos dust on their unwashed t shirts in their parent's basement
...I built a lovely tactical shotgun, but maybe the 45 is closer at the time. If I'm feeling really cocky..
you have a really awesome fantasy life
i like that part where you never sleep, never leave the gun on the toilet when you take pee, and stay up all night wide awake with eyes in the back of your head tightly gripping your piece
you are never taken by surprise or have any weaknesses. that's impressive
even though every fucking criminal everywhere for all time, from muggers, rapists, home intruders, etc. depend upon the element of surprise
but of course, when you wake up with a gun is pointed at your head, you can reach for yours and pull your trigger before he pulls his, right?
another small hint for the heavily armed mouth breathing moron: what it means to be an adult is to leave childish socially retarded fantasies behind and recognize you aren't invincible. a boy scout hero complex doesn't make up for the cold hard facts of the reality of the world you live in
they're stealing islands from filipinos and vietnamese, and mountains from indians. americans do many fucking stupid things, but they're not a traditional imperial power like russia or china: digesting and absorbing neighbors
if you disagree with me, ask any canadian mexican or caribbean how worried they are about the usa coming in and taking their land
then ask china and russia's neighbors how they feel about their wonderful large neighbors, old imperial powers who have been encroaching on, splitting up, and destroying smaller neighbors for centuries
look at my sig. i'm no friend of stupid ip laws and aaron's death was a horrible tragedy
but you need to be able to keep track of one subject matter at a time. swartz's case was about prosecutorial overreach and retarded laws endorsed by congresscritters owned by corporations
the scumbag in this story has absolutely nothing to do with swartz. not in intent, not in action, not in prosecution
it doesn't help the side of what is good and right to not even know what the fuck you are talking about. you can't change the system if your position is "bad things happening! everywhere all the time it's all the same and interchangeable!"
no, moron. know what the fuck you are talking about and be able to stay on target and topic. or you just reduce yourself to a useless blathering fool who hurts your cause by making those who care about this cause look to be nothing more than social retards
which, unfortunately as the comments in this thread shows, there are a lot of around here
internet tough guys. fat social retards eating cheetos in their parent's basement trying out the swagger and language of street drug dealers. hilarious
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the 90s was also a period of no massive change
the 1980s saw the rise of the pc
the 2000s saw the mp3 player and the smartphone
apple made its mark in by being on the cutting edge of all 3
what was in the 1990s?
cell phones. but cell phones weren't in the mass consumption computer world. yet
nothing else. pcs and laptops really did not change from 1990 to 2000 (they got faster, more powerful, more capacity, but their use and design did not change). all apple could do is make some edgy cases:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
apple rules when massive technological and design change become in reach
when it is out of reach, apple sinks
when apple innovates a *large step* that everyone lusts after, which they've done well for awhile, apple rules
but when innovation is more iterative, *small steps*, what happens outside the walled garden is much more cutthroat and much more capable of producing something novel that people want
there's also the issue that what was once state of the art extremely rapidly becomes just another commodity, it's brutal. and apple sits at the cutting edge of this game, and has to carefully stay there
as long as it can surf that wave, apple will continue to do well. but the moment large innovative steps become out of reach due to technology coming up short on the bleeding edge, then apple stumbles, and their market passes outside of the walled garden into the realm of the commodities
what amazes me is apple played its game in the 1980s. then in the 1990s apple began dying because there were no great leaps to achieve. it kind of eked out an existence on the edge as a fetish item. when the 2000s and 2010s came along, apple picked up the same game it played in the 1980s with a number of technological and design breakthroughs. which is a rather impressive achievement, to seize that position twice
but the 2020s are coming, and if apple can't find that must have next leap, apple goes the way it did in the 1990s
no steve jobs this time around though to save it in the 2030s
unless their actual product in the 2030s is "steve jobs himself cloned for your desktop"
yes, suppliers never mess with the market or manipulate it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
you're a fucking economics genius
why don't you try educating yourselves on the basics of a topic, then acting like you have something valuable to add
let me help you start:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
http://www.americanhistoryusa....
want a couple dozen more examples from history?
you're a moron on the topic of economics currently. objectively so, not a baseless insult. you believe suppliers bear no blame for the state of markets., what a crackpot
it's the fault of supply AND demand
but keep talking retard, you're only convincing yourself of something other than the fucking obvious
your argument is mostly historical. it is common and normal to call syrians arabs. they fall under the umbrella due to language, and, increasingly, simple ethnicity
although you are correct that ethnic and sectarian pride means this can be a touchy subject, and that i shouldn't use the blanket term that all syrians be called arab, because there are significant minority populations who are most definitely not arab
but as an aside, ethnic jingoism and a sense of superiority based on sect is the source of most of the problems in the middle east
therefore: yeah, we get it, it's touchy. but: fuck your touchiness. syrians and others in the middle east are murdering people because of this topic. which is fucking retarded and exactly why the middle east is the way it is
so, based on your comment, i'll respect your request and not use the term arab to describe all syrians from now on. thank you for the clarification
but the more important point is that syrians themselves stop fucking murdering each other on the same fucking topic: respect
the woz comparison is better than you know:
https://www.reddit.com/r/today...
including this tidbit:
woz made an actual fake bomb intended to frighten. in today's day and age he would be locked up for life
ps: the comparison to jobs, even though less valid than woz, still has the slightly valuable point that jobs was an arab:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
the added poignancy right now being the way syrian refugees are being treated by racists and bigots in europe right now
it's actually nice to have those kind of problems instead of being railroaded by a hysterical bigoted and ignorant local police dept and school system
law enforcement mostly fights crime
you understand that right?
there are bad outliers that need to be cleaned up. absolutely. better laws, more aggressive removal of bad apples, better policies and tactics to prevent tragedies
but my point here is ridicule the (objectively speaking, not a baseless insult) socially retarded morons who are actually on a crusade against the existence of law enforcement itself, and think law enforcement mostly hurts people
if you need a study to prove that law enforcement mostly fights crime, you are, objectively speaking, a socially retarded moron
that's really amazing how you completely absolve the guy digging up and selling the oil of any responsibility
and without government you have far, far worse problems than all of the problems with government x100,000
if you don't understand that you are indeed, objectively speaking, a socially retarded quack
they have a vested interest in ignoring it
that's what you need *regulations* for
you know, evil, evil job destroying regulations. because a guy having a job on an oil field is more important than his grandkid able to grow food crops
what's that? companies write their own regulations through congresscritters?
yes, that's called *regulatory capture*
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
in which case you clean up your government, remove the corruption. which is unfortunately legal in the usa. so you vote for the guys who are actually going to do something about that rather than the professional prostitutes who talk about tax cuts for "job creators" (aka, their rich friends who park their money in an offshore banking accounts, rather than a tax cut for the middle class and poor, who immediately spend their cash, actually growing the economy)
100% correct
i still want to know about where the retard i replied to is from, so i may google and find the easy top 10 examples of recent police and prosecutorial abuse from that country, since it exists everywhere
we're not talking about genocide here, we're talking about a plea bargain with a slimeball criminal. and the asshole i replied to acts like someone is jailing gandhi. this person is obviously a hysterical moron who has no sense of proportion, and i want to prove it to them by shoving far worse recent cases from their own country in their face
you're a fat pasty socially underdeveloped fuck in your parents basement drinking soda by the gallon and with greasy pieces of chips on your unwashed t shirt
i would bet real money on that
you do realize that crime and criminals actually exist, right? you only imagine the existence of plea bargains as used against innocent people? what the fuck?
plea bargains are like a wrench. you use a wrench to tighten a bolt. you don't use it to hit a nail or open a window. if some dipshit prosecutor uses a wrench for what a wrench is not intended for, this is an argument against that dipshit prosecutor. it's not an argument against the existence of the fucking wrench!
you fucking social retards, where do you come from?
every single fucking step of law enforcement and criminal prosecution is ripe for abuse. from the time of initial contact between police and suspect, to sentencing by the judge, and every step in between, is rife for thousands of kinds of abuse. and we hear about the abuses and the tragedies daily
and yet, it is better than no justice system at all, by many of orders of magnitude
do you imagine bad intent only exists in the justice system and law enforcement? do you know what a society is like that does not try to combat crime? i'll give you a hint: that society ceases to exist. show me a rich happy society without a functioning law enforcement apparatus. go ahead, i'm waiting
you focus on fixing the problems in the justice system: the structurally moronic policies, the bad apples, you protect against how stupid mistakes can result in horrible accidents
but what you don't fucking do is whine about the existence of the fucking justice system! what is with you social retards?
genuinely, objectively, not as a simple empty insult, you are a socially underdeveloped moron, if you don't recognize the value and importance of law enforcement and prosecution of the inevitable criminals in general society. of which plea bargains are a perfectly legitimate, useful, and vital tool. to say otherwise only reveals you to be incredibly fucking stupid about basic human nature and the world you live in and what happens when society doesn't enforce the basics of how to treat each other. without enforcement, some people will continually treat others far worse than any fucked up law enforcement dept, that's for damn fucking sure. oh you say a law enforcement can do different kinds of worse abuse? then clean it up you fucking moron, don't argue against the existence of law enforcement and prosecution, and the vital tools they need, like plea bargains! jesus fucking christ
in your thinking and your words you focus on the moronic laws, bad actors, and royal fuckups
that's a tiny subset of the what law enforcement is
if you don't understand that, stop talking about what you don't understand. really. you care. but you're a fucking retard on this topic
i stopped reading there
no citation needed you dumb useless fuck
you don't need to cite that the earth is round or that water is wet. if you don't understand that most of police work is necessary and done competently, even with all the fucking tragedies and maliciousness and accidents, then you're just a stupid socially deficient idiot. most of law enforcement work is actually cleaning up after criminals and fuck ups. really, that's the obvious fucking truth you sheltered ignorant. google the fucking basics of a topic yourself, fucktard
the news covers it when a cop shoots an unarmed man. and that cop should go to jail for a long time
but the news doesn't cover the 100,000 other instances of law enforcement work that actually makes society and your life better
objectively speaking, not as a baseless insult, you are a moron on this topic
people robbing your house just want your stuff. there is no hannibal lecter around every corner ready to vivisection you, this is moronic fantasy
even if wide awake, with a gun in my hand, i'd rather him just take my tv and go file a report, as you describe
rather than deal with cleaning up the fucking mess of a guy's brains off my wall and the red tape, or risking my death because i'm a moron who thinks real life is like the movies and that my chance of escalating the conflict to mortal threat always turns out 100% my side. my gun will never jam, i'm always a perfect shot, i never mistake an intruder for my kid coming in through the window because he forgot his keys, etc. my life and my loved ones are worth more than some stupid shit i can replace
the simple statistical fact is that owning a gun increases the risk of death and injury to you and your loved ones. you *may* save your tv from being stolen. oh yippie. not fucking worth risking death, unless you are a moron, or more exactly, an immature little weakling with a feeling of inadequacy in life
this guy says it better than me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
china is building airstrips on islands right now it stole from the philippines in the last year
russia last year annexed crimea and is occupying ukraine, and vivisectioned georgia in 2008
please describe similar american actions in latin and central america
you can't. they don't exist
america has been quite retarded in its middle eastern adventures, but no neighbor of the usa is in danger of being invaded and absorbed into the usa against its will
if you did something wrong you deserved to be punished
i am pretty sure the punished themselves would rather be doing something constructive than rotting in a prison cell
would it be better for this convict to be in jail for the rest of his life? better for society? better for himself?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
yes, the cops may falsely charge and falsely imprison an innocent person
i also understands the cops may charge and imprison an actual criminal
i am also fairly certain the latter happens a lot more often than the former
and when the former happens, we should work on making sure laws and policies aren't stupid, that bad apples in the system are punished and removed, and that less mistakes happen. and we should appeal bad convictions and overturn them. how's that sound to you?
what we certainly should not do is imagine that all of law enforcement is only defined by the bad outliers, because that would be fucking moronic
we need law enforcement. and we need to clean up law enforcement. what we don't need is a fucking crusade against the existence of law enforcement like a complete social retard
oh you're going to file a report, ok
and there is a system in place that uses that report to find your stolen stuff, which is why you're filing a report, right?
and that system is called...
hint: it's the same one being shat on by anonymous internet tough guy social retards in this thread, that they would all run to crying like babies, without a second thought to their socially retarded posturing in this thread with cheetos dust on their unwashed t shirts in their parent's basement
you have a really awesome fantasy life
i like that part where you never sleep, never leave the gun on the toilet when you take pee, and stay up all night wide awake with eyes in the back of your head tightly gripping your piece
you are never taken by surprise or have any weaknesses. that's impressive
even though every fucking criminal everywhere for all time, from muggers, rapists, home intruders, etc. depend upon the element of surprise
but of course, when you wake up with a gun is pointed at your head, you can reach for yours and pull your trigger before he pulls his, right?
another small hint for the heavily armed mouth breathing moron: what it means to be an adult is to leave childish socially retarded fantasies behind and recognize you aren't invincible. a boy scout hero complex doesn't make up for the cold hard facts of the reality of the world you live in
they're stealing islands from filipinos and vietnamese, and mountains from indians. americans do many fucking stupid things, but they're not a traditional imperial power like russia or china: digesting and absorbing neighbors
if you disagree with me, ask any canadian mexican or caribbean how worried they are about the usa coming in and taking their land
then ask china and russia's neighbors how they feel about their wonderful large neighbors, old imperial powers who have been encroaching on, splitting up, and destroying smaller neighbors for centuries
look at my sig. i'm no friend of stupid ip laws and aaron's death was a horrible tragedy
but you need to be able to keep track of one subject matter at a time. swartz's case was about prosecutorial overreach and retarded laws endorsed by congresscritters owned by corporations
the scumbag in this story has absolutely nothing to do with swartz. not in intent, not in action, not in prosecution
it doesn't help the side of what is good and right to not even know what the fuck you are talking about. you can't change the system if your position is "bad things happening! everywhere all the time it's all the same and interchangeable!"
no, moron. know what the fuck you are talking about and be able to stay on target and topic. or you just reduce yourself to a useless blathering fool who hurts your cause by making those who care about this cause look to be nothing more than social retards
which, unfortunately as the comments in this thread shows, there are a lot of around here
internet tough guys. fat social retards eating cheetos in their parent's basement trying out the swagger and language of street drug dealers. hilarious
internet tough guys. fat social retards eating cheetos in their parent's basement trying out the swagger and language of street drug dealers. pathetic