It's simply that commenting in such a manner (using absolute, hateful, denigrating terms) on the internet is not productive. Not At All. Used in this way it's not even sport. It's not even a taunt, it's just blindness.
1. Apple's computer unit sales have increased more than any other PC manufacturer in the past few years. 2. Apple's margins on their computers is the highest in the industry 3. Apple's profit on computer sales is very high 4. Apple's profit on phone sales is higher than many other vendors COMBINED 5. Apple's been in the smart phone business 3 years and has managed to sweep a segment into majority play 6. Apple's iPad, out for almost one quarter, is seen to be eating into low end, very low margin products from other vendors (cough::netbooks::/cough)
I don't believe there is all that much trouble on Apple's product pricing. True there will always be pressure to reduce prices, thereby reducing margins. However, Apple have decided to sale above that fray and have proven thus far successful.
What if this is a way to give away Mac OS X for use on DIY hardware?
I see what you did there. You made an unlikely assumption about how this patent would be used and then you turned it into an advertisement for open source. Well done. I hate Apple and Steve Jobs (smug bastard) vehemently but even I recognized that to be a highly contrived scenario and illogical statement.
You lost me on "hate" and "smug bastard" and later on in your post "crApple"... this kind of talk is nonsense and whatever else you said sounded like the other end of a phone call in a Charlie Brown cartoon.
Listen, USA spends more than how many nations combined on "defense" ?
It's time to END THE MADNESS now. Call your senators, representatives, neighbors, priests, doctors, whoever you think may have a pulse and explain why we should cut our defense spending today.
America's infrastructure is crumbling, the top 1% are laughing, the rest of us are in trouble.
CNET is a traffic baiting site. Just as bad as Techcrunch. Now I see CR is in the same league as well.
Yes there is a problem. But yaws, CR has made this problem much more about them, and their site getting massive traffic rather than an honest viewpoint. Why drag it out in blog pouts? Why not just rate the phone and be done?
Except the stock price IS NOT FALLING! Not when your wrote or comment, nor now. What planetary equitt market are you tracking? http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:AAPL It is down less than 2% from the 11th... Sure it took a small bump but this won't hurt the bottom line. Plus if they have to give away bumpers (and I think they should) who cares, they have about 30billion in reserve. And frankly, even if the drop were a sustained 5%, which it is not, that still doesn't faze me too much in a market where the swings are +/-10% in a day! This has been a much crappier time to be an investor, but holding AAPL has been a real base in my portfolio allowing it to grow while the broad market tanks.
I agree that AAPL the company have mishandled this, though I do not think the hysteria is warranted, nor does the problem cause a problem for a large percentage.
Not if you turn up the brightness and of course read it at an angle which diminishes the reflection off of the glass! I find it highly readable and use it often on lunch in the sun or in my backyard. So, not particularly bad for outside use, in fact it's QUITE readable outside in full sunlight.
At what point does the market require another iPhone to compete with the iPhone? That's nonsense. There are tons and tons of iPhone competitors.
This is a non-starter and headline grabber from whatever agencies are talking.
However, the interoperability bit can be about what? Apple disallowing Flash, really? Your raison d'etre as a European agency is to get Apple to allow Flash on the iPHone? I don't see it.
What other interoperability aspects are there to force Apple on? You must allow toolkit X, Y, or Z to deploy applications on your platform? I can see an argument for this (personally I'm good with Apple's position, it's clean and right headed) but again, really? Supposing they are going to go after game consoles next?
True, your comment is much more valuable than the other poster's reply who happened to be modded up.
The upshot in my experience and humble opinion is once we lose flash for the 90% that it is not necessary for the web becomes freer. Flash as a platform will potentially still be interesting for games and applications, but not for menus, websites in general, video, ads, or typography (god I hate ppl who use this).
Links? Isn't that what POT is for (plain old text)? Or did you mean a lynx clone written in Flash?
There are provisions in the raw video standards h.264 for one, for captioning. I presume this might suffice for subtitles too. I can't speak to the veracity of any of the solutions however... Haven't seen it in flash, tends to be part of the video file, least that is how it is done in MPEG2 IIRC.
I'm not aware enough of any problem a flash container for video provides for translations. Really? Translations of what?
I did not spin nor skew anything at all. Those reasons happen to be real mate. If you think otherwise then i have to ask, have you spent any time on YouTube lately? Your snark makes it seem as if you are the one holding an axe.
You missed the point -- there aren't fewer "real impressions".
The page loads normally, giving the same number of "impressions" and then a user invokes the Reader if content appropriate is available.
I am still looking at how it detects content deemed appropriate to display the Reader availability. Maybe by word count... On some of my sites' landing pages a block of intro text is deemed Reader worthy.
The reader is only invoked after the precious page view, and ad-load (provided one isn't blocking ads in their hosts file -- many regular ad blockers extensions simply disappear the ads, not block them). SO how is an ad-based web site affected? Maybe by increased readership because now their articles which are in shitty typography to begin with and are littered with blinking ads are now actually readable!?
What Apple has done is neither unfair or harmful to web sites. Period.
I also use InstaPaper or use the print format to read an article free of all the crap and poor typography.
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I've not met the man.
In his presentations he seems quite confident about the Designs and products he presents, this is certain.
Yeah whatever.
It's simply that commenting in such a manner (using absolute, hateful, denigrating terms) on the internet is not productive. Not At All. Used in this way it's not even sport. It's not even a taunt, it's just blindness.
I aim to point it out where possible.
Facts:
1. Apple's computer unit sales have increased more than any other PC manufacturer in the past few years.
2. Apple's margins on their computers is the highest in the industry
3. Apple's profit on computer sales is very high
4. Apple's profit on phone sales is higher than many other vendors COMBINED
5. Apple's been in the smart phone business 3 years and has managed to sweep a segment into majority play
6. Apple's iPad, out for almost one quarter, is seen to be eating into low end, very low margin products from other vendors (cough::netbooks::/cough)
I don't believe there is all that much trouble on Apple's product pricing. True there will always be pressure to reduce prices, thereby reducing margins. However, Apple have decided to sale above that fray and have proven thus far successful.
What if this is a way to give away Mac OS X for use on DIY hardware?
I see what you did there. You made an unlikely assumption about how this patent would be used and then you turned it into an advertisement for open source. Well done. I hate Apple and Steve Jobs (smug bastard) vehemently but even I recognized that to be a highly contrived scenario and illogical statement.
You lost me on "hate" and "smug bastard" and later on in your post "crApple" ... this kind of talk is nonsense and whatever else you said sounded like the other end of a phone call in a Charlie Brown cartoon.
But why is this news? I mean, go figure, a company gives it's own employees a device it makes in house. Does this warrant discussion at /.?
Maybe we'll all fly for free on jets that drag a giant banner ad across the sky!
They seem to have it figuredout:
http://www.pegasus.com/log/pacific-cup-2010/facetime/
Haha, I got labeled a troll on slashdot for speaking the truth about defense spending in the US, on a story questioning the size of defense!
Wonderful.
Listen, USA spends more than how many nations combined on "defense" ?
It's time to END THE MADNESS now. Call your senators, representatives, neighbors, priests, doctors, whoever you think may have a pulse and explain why we should cut our defense spending today.
America's infrastructure is crumbling, the top 1% are laughing, the rest of us are in trouble.
I hold AAPL (but not GOOG) and here is why:
http://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&chdv=1&chvs=Logarithmic&chdeh=1&chfdeh=0&chdet=1279310400000&chddm=492269&chls=IntervalBasedLine&cmpto=NASDAQ:GOOG&cmptdms=0&q=NASDAQ:AAPL&ntsp=0
This investor does not require an apology for the investment has paid off handsomely.
You must not own an iPhone 4?
Seriously, get a life. I know this is /. but come on, lose the hate or you will die very young.
My natural grip causes it to all feel like a weak spot.
Oh wait, this thread is about the iPhone. Sorry.
CNET is a traffic baiting site. Just as bad as Techcrunch. Now I see CR is in the same league as well.
Yes there is a problem. But yaws, CR has made this problem much more about them, and their site getting massive traffic rather than an honest viewpoint. Why drag it out in blog pouts? Why not just rate the phone and be done?
Have you consulted CR for anything recently?
Straw man you coward! My experience is the exact opposite! From labs full of gear, to offices, and homes.
Except the stock price IS NOT FALLING! Not when your wrote or comment, nor now. What planetary equitt market are you tracking? http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:AAPL
It is down less than 2% from the 11th... Sure it took a small bump but this won't hurt the bottom line. Plus if they have to give away bumpers (and I think they should) who cares, they have about 30billion in reserve.
And frankly, even if the drop were a sustained 5%, which it is not, that still doesn't faze me too much in a market where the swings are +/-10% in a day! This has been a much crappier time to be an investor, but holding AAPL has been a real base in my portfolio allowing it to grow while the broad market tanks.
I agree that AAPL the company have mishandled this, though I do not think the hysteria is warranted, nor does the problem cause a problem for a large percentage.
The OP gets +5 for alliteration on the title!
+1 @Pieroxy is not a troll here. He's right.
Not if you turn up the brightness and of course read it at an angle which diminishes the reflection off of the glass! I find it highly readable and use it often on lunch in the sun or in my backyard. So, not particularly bad for outside use, in fact it's QUITE readable outside in full sunlight.
Home of the brave ... hahahahaha.
Good point.
At what point does the market require another iPhone to compete with the iPhone? That's nonsense. There are tons and tons of iPhone competitors.
This is a non-starter and headline grabber from whatever agencies are talking.
However, the interoperability bit can be about what? Apple disallowing Flash, really? Your raison d'etre as a European agency is to get Apple to allow Flash on the iPHone? I don't see it.
What other interoperability aspects are there to force Apple on? You must allow toolkit X, Y, or Z to deploy applications on your platform? I can see an argument for this (personally I'm good with Apple's position, it's clean and right headed) but again, really? Supposing they are going to go after game consoles next?
True, your comment is much more valuable than the other poster's reply who happened to be modded up.
The upshot in my experience and humble opinion is once we lose flash for the 90% that it is not necessary for the web becomes freer. Flash as a platform will potentially still be interesting for games and applications, but not for menus, websites in general, video, ads, or typography (god I hate ppl who use this).
In reverse for no particular reason.
Links? Isn't that what POT is for (plain old text)? Or did you mean a lynx clone written in Flash?
There are provisions in the raw video standards h.264 for one, for captioning. I presume this might suffice for subtitles too. I can't speak to the veracity of any of the solutions however... Haven't seen it in flash, tends to be part of the video file, least that is how it is done in MPEG2 IIRC.
I'm not aware enough of any problem a flash container for video provides for translations. Really? Translations of what?
I did not spin nor skew anything at all. Those reasons happen to be real mate. If you think otherwise then i have to ask, have you spent any time on YouTube lately? Your snark makes it seem as if you are the one holding an axe.
My interpretation?
Flash enables us to pre-roll ads, overlay ads, bumper ads, and sell more ads, and has a pretty strong DRM.
Flash lives because it lets us make more money off of your content! And allows big media to "protect" their "content".
You missed the point -- there aren't fewer "real impressions".
The page loads normally, giving the same number of "impressions" and then a user invokes the Reader if content appropriate is available.
I am still looking at how it detects content deemed appropriate to display the Reader availability. Maybe by word count ... On some of my sites' landing pages a block of intro text is deemed Reader worthy.
This simply is not true.
The reader is only invoked after the precious page view, and ad-load (provided one isn't blocking ads in their hosts file -- many regular ad blockers extensions simply disappear the ads, not block them). SO how is an ad-based web site affected? Maybe by increased readership because now their articles which are in shitty typography to begin with and are littered with blinking ads are now actually readable!?
What Apple has done is neither unfair or harmful to web sites. Period.
I also use InstaPaper or use the print format to read an article free of all the crap and poor typography.
IView Media Pro did it all, then MSFT bought them, named it Microsoft Expression Media, and just recently sold it to Phase One.
Who knows if that product will evert live again. At least phase One is always in the right field for this product.