"An anonymous reader" - gee, somebody who won't give us his name is worried that world wide readable (and Googleable) court documents may not contain full names (in addition to all kinds of other private information) anymore.
"Researchers, reporters, geeks, and most teenagers would still be able to figure out who's who" - so? They will also figure out my email-address from the blurb on top of this post - but a SPAMer will have a harder time writing a script to do it.
There are also countless iPhones that don't work correctly, but their users don't really know this. They expect a crappy phone experience, dropped calls, etc.
Why would they expect this, unless they experienced the same with other phones? And if they did, why would the iPhone "not work correctly" while the other phones would?
no it actually just means you're a reasonable person instead of a showey douchebag obsessed with image and you use something real like products and operating systems that work like creative players and linux.
So if any Mac user opposed Steve Jobs, you'd look like a complete idiot?
"From the article, that translates to 0.001 percent of all first generation Nanos"
Not quite... to be completely accurate, it's 14 out of all the first generation Nanos in Japan. Article says "There have been similar incidents in the United States" and I'd guess other countries if it's happening.
"The company received very few reports of such incidents -- less than 0.001 percent of first-generation iPod nano units, it said. They have all been traced to a single battery supplier."
If there are less than 1.4 million 1st gen Nanos in Japan, then probably the affected batch wasn't spread uniformly across the globe.
IBM used to have a monopoly on the PC platform (correct me if I'm wrong: defined as Intel instruction set & PCI bus)... I don't see how Psystar isn't totally within their rights here.
Errm, yeah, thanks for your expert opinion on computer architecture and legal matters.
I suspect when Democrats get in power that won't change.
Of course it won't; the show's liberal beliefs won't let it. The show will simply drop in popularity as making fun of out-of-power Republicans won't be as funny. The new big political satire show (which probably has yet to be created) will make fun of the Democrats.
It already exists, it's called "The O'Reilly Factor" - funny as hell, totally over the top.
Well, it's called the "White House Correspondents' Association", not the "Republican White House Correspondents' Association". Maybe that's why there where people there laughing. The media, like reality, is supposed to have a liberal bias.
"Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem."
--Ronald Reagan
Reagan has all these great libertarian quotes.. but he shrunk the size of government NOT AT ALL. Even if he really believed what he was talking bout, he didn't really fix any problems.
Thomas Frank's Indictment Of Conservatism: Conservative politicians complain that big government does not work, writes Frank - then they get elected and prove it.
No, Nokia users are just so used to it that they don't complain - Apple users are not used to the pain like you guys are.
Interesting however that the second hit is an Apple Knowledgebase article where they don't ignore a problem like they are supposed - bad Apple, bad! Where is the first hit where Nokia admits their phones may at some point actually lock-up? And no, "discussion.nokia.tld" does not count.
o, before Apple: no mainstream DRM store, after Apple: the dominant music store uses DRM.
More like: before Apple, all music stores selling more than 10 songs a week use DRMed WMA, after Apple: the dominant music store sells millions of songs, many of them not DRMed.
The "I'm cheap" may be accurate, but the idea that you'd "rather spend your time" messing around with a computer just to make it usable is absurd. That's like saying "I'd rather buy a cheap house with a leaky roof, fix my roof and repair the water damage inside than purchase a house without a leaky roof and not have to worry about it." If you weren't cheap, and you could afford it (and you were sane), you wouldn't buy the house with the leaky roof.
I'd rather use the computer to do something productive or entertaining rather than waste my time getting it to work the way I want it to.
(Note, I'm not commenting on Macs vs. PCs here, just the idea that one would "rather spend their time" getting something to work rather than actually using it).
The amount of growth, on the other hand, is anyone one's guess and if they miss a "target" their stock price may get tanked.
Apple's stock price regularly tanks - Bloger writes he saw Jobs cough, Apple stock dives; Apple reports better numbers then expected, Apple stock tanks.
But even then: say I bought all of Apple's stock. If I relied on dividend alone, it would take me 53 years to make a profit on my investment. The only way I could profit in the short term is by trading the shares. It's devolved from a long-term profit projection into a pyramid scheme, IMO.
Congratulations, you now have a basic understand of how the stock market has always worked. It's all make-believe with no basis in reality.
And I do mean all of the stock market, not just Apple stock.
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"Researchers, reporters, geeks, and most teenagers would still be able to figure out who's who" - so? They will also figure out my email-address from the blurb on top of this post - but a SPAMer will have a harder time writing a script to do it.
Doesn't defective by design imply a DRM story? I didn't see any indication that the 3g connectivity problems had anything to do with DRM...
Hey, not even the tag "DRM" implies a DRM story anymore. Or is this this story about DRM?
There are also countless iPhones that don't work correctly, but their users don't really know this. They expect a crappy phone experience, dropped calls, etc.
Why would they expect this, unless they experienced the same with other phones? And if they did, why would the iPhone "not work correctly" while the other phones would?
Windows XP: it Just Works(tm).
The word you were looking for is "barely".
I know using my touch at the same time it's plugged in charging the whole back plate gets warm.
"Apple is advising owners of first-generation nanos to contact AppleCare for a replacement if their battery should overheat."
But thats what you get when you use the lowest cost components and charge a premium for the end device.
So Apple could have avoided the "explosions" if they had sold the Nanos cheaper?
no it actually just means you're a reasonable person instead of a showey douchebag obsessed with image and you use something real like products and operating systems that work like creative players and linux.
So if any Mac user opposed Steve Jobs, you'd look like a complete idiot?
"From the article, that translates to 0.001 percent of all first generation Nanos"
Not quite... to be completely accurate, it's 14 out of all the first generation Nanos in Japan. Article says "There have been similar incidents in the United States" and I'd guess other countries if it's happening.
"The company received very few reports of such incidents -- less than 0.001 percent of first-generation iPod nano units, it said. They have all been traced to a single battery supplier."
If there are less than 1.4 million 1st gen Nanos in Japan, then probably the affected batch wasn't spread uniformly across the globe.
Still, no matter how bad electronics go, they should not explode.
This trend at apple is a real disappointment
Since when is a Lithium Ion battery electronics? And since when do they only explode in Apple devices?
Hey, they may hide some in their SHOES.
http://www.localxxl.com/lokal_nachrichten/gallery/show/post_id/1087041
I note that criticism of Apple is often modded down here on /. - but starting with "I love Apple, but" seems a guaranteed way to avoid this.
Odd, I noted that "I really hate Apple users" seems to work much better.
IBM used to have a monopoly on the PC platform (correct me if I'm wrong: defined as Intel instruction set & PCI bus)... I don't see how Psystar isn't totally within their rights here.
Errm, yeah, thanks for your expert opinion on computer architecture and legal matters.
Why is it insightful to stereotype Mac users (or even specifically the fanboys) as whiny, shallow, pseudo-intellectual, metrosexual, idiotic, and gay?
Because it gives insight on how the poster subconsciously sees himself and then projects on his bogeyman.
Why not, so many Republicans have turned out to be deadly serious when they said hilarious things. And the more they smile, the more serious they are.
Of course it won't; the show's liberal beliefs won't let it. The show will simply drop in popularity as making fun of out-of-power Republicans won't be as funny. The new big political satire show (which probably has yet to be created) will make fun of the Democrats.
It already exists, it's called "The O'Reilly Factor" - funny as hell, totally over the top.
Well, it's called the "White House Correspondents' Association", not the "Republican White House Correspondents' Association". Maybe that's why there where people there laughing. The media, like reality, is supposed to have a liberal bias.
"Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem." --Ronald Reagan
Reagan has all these great libertarian quotes.. but he shrunk the size of government NOT AT ALL. Even if he really believed what he was talking bout, he didn't really fix any problems.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93253890
Thomas Frank's Indictment Of Conservatism: Conservative politicians complain that big government does not work, writes Frank - then they get elected and prove it.
No, Nokia users are just so used to it that they don't complain - Apple users are not used to the pain like you guys are.
Interesting however that the second hit is an Apple Knowledgebase article where they don't ignore a problem like they are supposed - bad Apple, bad! Where is the first hit where Nokia admits their phones may at some point actually lock-up? And no, "discussion.nokia.tld" does not count.
o, before Apple: no mainstream DRM store, after Apple: the dominant music store uses DRM.
More like: before Apple, all music stores selling more than 10 songs a week use DRMed WMA, after Apple: the dominant music store sells millions of songs, many of them not DRMed.
The "I'm cheap" may be accurate, but the idea that you'd "rather spend your time" messing around with a computer just to make it usable is absurd. That's like saying "I'd rather buy a cheap house with a leaky roof, fix my roof and repair the water damage inside than purchase a house without a leaky roof and not have to worry about it." If you weren't cheap, and you could afford it (and you were sane), you wouldn't buy the house with the leaky roof.
I'd rather use the computer to do something productive or entertaining rather than waste my time getting it to work the way I want it to. (Note, I'm not commenting on Macs vs. PCs here, just the idea that one would "rather spend their time" getting something to work rather than actually using it).
Mod parent up.
Yeah, because Googling for "Nokia lock-up" sure doesn't get any hits.
Revenue growth compared to 2006: AAPL +24.3%; IBM +8.1%
Actually, that's probably why Apple stock is so high - the big R is lurking just around the corner, and Apple still had a record quarter.
The amount of growth, on the other hand, is anyone one's guess and if they miss a "target" their stock price may get tanked.
Apple's stock price regularly tanks - Bloger writes he saw Jobs cough, Apple stock dives; Apple reports better numbers then expected, Apple stock tanks.
But even then: say I bought all of Apple's stock. If I relied on dividend alone, it would take me 53 years to make a profit on my investment. The only way I could profit in the short term is by trading the shares. It's devolved from a long-term profit projection into a pyramid scheme, IMO.
Congratulations, you now have a basic understand of how the stock market has always worked. It's all make-believe with no basis in reality. And I do mean all of the stock market, not just Apple stock.