Microsoft, Google, Apple -- what do they have in common? All are based in the same country. Anyone have a list of French or German companies fined? Didn't think so......
Have to get the money to pay bailouts from somewhere.
What will really happen is that after a while they will bring all the problems to you. "He can solve it. Why should I do the work?" Be careful what you wish for. And don't resent them for doing it.
I just retired after 40 years of being like you. It never gets old. But you do!
Apple is one of the most successful companies in the world -- right now. But everyone with a soap box seems to think they know better than Apple management how the company should be run. If they are really that smart go start your own company and beat Apple at it's own game.
The key organization quoted in the article has gone on record as saying the article is false and misleading. BSR Open Letter to NYT
"The narrative you present is an inaccurate picture of the work we have done with Apple, of the role Apple played in the worker hotline project, and of BSR’s views of Apple."
Move along. Nothing to be seen here. Just another news hack selling papers.
How many of those 25k affiliates "forgot" to include their affiliate income?.......
So anyone who has a different opinion from yours is a law breaker? Or is that what you do when you think you can get away with it?
Amazon's position has been tested all the way to the Supreme Court. Amazon is in the right and CA is trying to do something the Constitution prohibits. Nuff Said!
How about a culture where attempting to stigmatize people for your own gain is looked on as bad? Or one where openness and freedom of speech is looked upon as helpful?
Does anyone with more than a room temperature IQ think the "bad guys" don't know the satellite orbits?
OS X doesn't fail. It is either Java or Flash that gets the system in trouble. You may have noticed that the Pwn2Own contest is run against stock systems. Now that flash and java are not on the system when it ships lets see who fails first.
And just as a side note the person who crashes OS X first is an Apple hater. If he was a windows hater I wonder which system would go down first......
Even with that OS X passes the first day of testing. So does windows. It is only when they can get to the keyboard and send the browser to a website that the system gets in trouble.
Death threats sounds like a good way for him to try and save face. I doubt if anyone actually threatened his life. That would be stupid and these people seem to be anything BUT stupid. I can imagine a lot of heckling and embarrassment during the talk. For someone with his ego that might seem worse than death!
So the company lies/misstates/whatever to make the core businesses look better and prop up the stock. And the, by some coincidence, monkey boy sells a billion or two of stock.
Oracle uses Java for supporting it's bread and butter database. The Universal Installer is written in Java as are a number of other tools. It would cost Oracle millions of dollars to rewrite these tools if they killed Java. They could still kill Java but it it would not be an easy decision for them to make.
0.23 is the numbering system the developers use. If there were a marketing department this would be MythTV Revision 3.0GS+ or some other stupid name to make people buy it. But even so the internal 0.23 attached to the build would probably stay the same.
By the standard set when the US government broke up Standard Oil (60-65% market share and shrinking at trial), Apple has sufficient market share in the portable music player market to be considered a monopoly (70%+).
How about using a more recent standard? Like Microsoft having over 90% of the OS and Office markets and NOT BEING BROKEN UP!
What is really looks like is they want to design Apple only chips for phones and PCs to kill the clone market. Put a special chip on the mother board and have OS X refuse to boot if it isn't there. Same for phones. If other people want to use generic ARM chips - great. Make money from the competition. Sounds like good business to me.
No one is going to sort through millions of pointless memos about employee picnics and birthday party announcements on the off chance that there's something potentially valuable to someone somewhere.
Want to bet? Oh, that's right you already are betting. If no one goes through your copier data you win -- nothing. If someone finds a password or credit card number you lose -- big time.
So nothing to gain and everything to lose. Sounds like wiping the copier disk is a "must do"!
I live in Massachusetts. If you pay your proper bribes you can do just about anything in the area of gambling. Slot machines, poker games, dice tables. My next door neighbor used to have a high stakes poker game every week. One of the players was the chief of police. There is an ethnic club in the next town that has slot machines, lotteries, poker games. They pay their bribes and no one bothers them.
What the politicians don't like about internet gambling is there is no way to collect the bribes.
Each carrier will want to approve the apps that are sold to its customers. So each app will need 24 approvals. Some will get 24 thumbs up. But I imagine most will be banned by one carrier or another for political reasons.
By the time this is done it will make Apple's approval process look attractive.
Slashdot Mirror
Just because you use comcast's pipes doesn't mean you have to use their DNS.
8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 are the addresses to use for DNS
Submission claims they "lose money"
They might make less money but they NEVER lose.
Only the customers lose money.
Is it just me or does everyone hate their cell carrier?
Anyone see what is wrong with this?
...... Dell's Pro Support is reasonably good,..........
The major problem I have had with Dell is ........ giving lower-quality support ......
Microsoft, Google, Apple -- what do they have in common?
All are based in the same country.
Anyone have a list of French or German companies fined?
Didn't think so......
Have to get the money to pay bailouts from somewhere.
What will really happen is that after a while they will bring all the problems to you.
"He can solve it. Why should I do the work?"
Be careful what you wish for. And don't resent them for doing it.
I just retired after 40 years of being like you.
It never gets old. But you do!
Live long and prosper.
Apple is one of the most successful companies in the world -- right now.
But everyone with a soap box seems to think they know better than Apple management how the company should be run.
If they are really that smart go start your own company and beat Apple at it's own game.
The key organization quoted in the article has gone on record as saying the article is false and misleading.
BSR Open Letter to NYT
"The narrative you present is an inaccurate picture of the work we have done with Apple, of the role Apple played in the worker hotline project, and of BSR’s views of Apple."
Move along. Nothing to be seen here. Just another news hack selling papers.
I thought it was number 2 after the new Apple headquarters building.....Shows what I know......
How many of those 25k affiliates "forgot" to include their affiliate income?.......
So anyone who has a different opinion from yours is a law breaker?
Or is that what you do when you think you can get away with it?
Amazon's position has been tested all the way to the Supreme Court.
Amazon is in the right and CA is trying to do something the Constitution prohibits.
Nuff Said!
How about a culture where attempting to stigmatize people for your own gain is looked on as bad?
Or one where openness and freedom of speech is looked upon as helpful?
Does anyone with more than a room temperature IQ think the "bad guys" don't know the satellite orbits?
OS X doesn't fail. It is either Java or Flash that gets the system in trouble.
You may have noticed that the Pwn2Own contest is run against stock systems.
Now that flash and java are not on the system when it ships lets see who fails first.
And just as a side note the person who crashes OS X first is an Apple hater.
If he was a windows hater I wonder which system would go down first......
Even with that OS X passes the first day of testing. So does windows.
It is only when they can get to the keyboard and send the browser to a website that the system gets in trouble.
Death threats sounds like a good way for him to try and save face.
I doubt if anyone actually threatened his life. That would be stupid and these people seem to be anything BUT stupid.
I can imagine a lot of heckling and embarrassment during the talk.
For someone with his ego that might seem worse than death!
How is Apple worse?
When did they root kit your iPod or iPhone?
Who did they take to court for jail breaking?
The answer is they have not done either of these.
You are free to hate Apple or Sony or MSFT.
Just please be accurate when you rant.
Sounds like they have a bunch of people using the spiffy new Win 7 data eater!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12152517
So the company lies/misstates/whatever to make the core businesses look better and prop up the stock.
And the, by some coincidence, monkey boy sells a billion or two of stock.
Move along. Nothing to see here.........
'...unlawful where exactly? Iran or the US?
They were violating UN sanctions against Iran. So it should be unlawful in any civilized country.
That leaves Iran out......
In this day and age, chances are if you can call 911, even if you don't say anything, that they can use the devices GPS to find you. ....
Yes but what if they send the police or a fire engine instead of an ambulance?
Someone could die because the phone didn't work properly.
This needs to be fixed.
Oracle uses Java for supporting it's bread and butter database.
The Universal Installer is written in Java as are a number of other tools.
It would cost Oracle millions of dollars to rewrite these tools if they killed Java.
They could still kill Java but it it would not be an easy decision for them to make.
How about a histogram of when you and your SO are NOT at home. A little burglary anyone?
0.23 is the numbering system the developers use.
If there were a marketing department this would be MythTV Revision 3.0GS+ or some other stupid name to make people buy it.
But even so the internal 0.23 attached to the build would probably stay the same.
By the standard set when the US government broke up Standard Oil (60-65% market share and shrinking at trial), Apple has sufficient market share in the portable music player market to be considered a monopoly (70%+).
How about using a more recent standard? Like Microsoft having over 90% of the OS and Office markets and NOT BEING BROKEN UP!
What is really looks like is they want to design Apple only chips for phones and PCs to kill the clone market. Put a special chip on the mother board and have OS X refuse to boot if it isn't there. Same for phones. If other people want to use generic ARM chips - great. Make money from the competition. Sounds like good business to me.
No one is going to sort through millions of pointless memos about employee picnics and birthday party announcements on the off chance that there's something potentially valuable to someone somewhere.
Want to bet? Oh, that's right you already are betting. If no one goes through your copier data you win -- nothing. If someone finds a password or credit card number you lose -- big time.
So nothing to gain and everything to lose. Sounds like wiping the copier disk is a "must do"!
I live in Massachusetts.
If you pay your proper bribes you can do just about anything in the area of gambling. Slot machines, poker games, dice tables.
My next door neighbor used to have a high stakes poker game every week. One of the players was the chief of police.
There is an ethnic club in the next town that has slot machines, lotteries, poker games. They pay their bribes and no one bothers them.
What the politicians don't like about internet gambling is there is no way to collect the bribes.
The ALCU is probably looking for "due process of law".
Somehow I have trouble generating sympathy for anyone who gets hurt standing next to Osama or Im-a-dinner-jacket when they get taken out.
Each carrier will want to approve the apps that are sold to its customers.
So each app will need 24 approvals. Some will get 24 thumbs up. But I imagine most will be banned by one carrier or another for political reasons.
By the time this is done it will make Apple's approval process look attractive.