Gateway did this, and it seemed obviously stupid at the time. You go to their store, find what you want, and then go home and wait for them to ship it to you.
At least Apple is not operating illegally (monopoly abuse), perjuring themselves in federal court (Bill Gates lying under oath), blatantly stealing other's technology after pretending to want to implement it (Stacker), threatening others with death unless they fall in line (killing Word on Mac unless Apple kills Quicktime...) and so on. I attended a SPA meeting where Mr. Ballmer stood up and told all of the major software publishers in the world that Microsoft would take over any business worth more than $4 Million/year, and that all future software would be just plug-ins for Office. All while shipping shit for software.
Apple isn't there yet.
All Apple *really* does that pisses off the/. crowd is the "walled garden" thing. If it weren't for that, all this hate would not exist. This site was full of Apple love up until that point.
Isn't that the point? This is confusing: " no difference from the CD "... "someone needs to offer CD quality downloads..." .
The point for "Mastered for iTunes" is not to make it different from the CD, it's to make the compressed, lossy AAC file as close to the CD as possible. It sounds like they've done that.
Well, it's a bit anecdotal, but I happened to live near March AFB during that Libyan bomb run, and my neighbor was a KC-10 pilot. He told me that KC-10's flew out of March, loitered on the route the F-111's and other planes took on that run, refueled them on the way to Libya, loitered some more, refueled them on the way out of Libya, and then flew back to March.
iPads are not tied to a contract, ever. You can opt to buy 3G connectivity on a month-by-month basis, so even that has no contract. For use in the home, that is obviously not required.
Ya know, I've done it both ways. You're making up a bunch of crap with your list of things to do for paperless. There is no metadata to do - the scan results in a searchable pdf, and the tools like Yojimbo and Evernote make it easy. Scan it, drop it into Yojimbo, done.
Really, are you just a crotchety old man refusing to let go of his buggy whip?
Once again, it's not so much about not having the paper in a drawer or box or file cabinet - it's about being able to find what you need without searching through said drawers or boxes or file cabinets.
And, it's incredibly easy. Load into scanner, up to 15 pages at a time, push button, drag file to Yojimbo, done. Oh, one more step - shred.
Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500 totally rocks. I bought that refurbished for $250. Add in Yojimbo or Evernote and you'll be set. We've gone paperless in our office and at home, and this machine is the heart of that. We scan everything and shred it.
It's nice not having the paper around, but the BIG thing is not having to find it - it's always at your fingertips, searchable by document content or via the keywords in Evernote or Yojimbo.
iOS has Pages, Keynote and Numbers. It has a full suite of email, calendar and reminder services. It may not look and feel like Microsoft Office, but the functionality is there for 95% of us. Some would say it's a *good* thing!
You seem to feel that everything made in China is the same as everything else made in China. This is obviously untrue. I do think Target is reaching a bit, but it is in their vendor's best interest to help Target increase sales. Whether it's worth a discount or not is a good question. One could make the argument that these suppliers need Target to showroom their products or they will lose share to other vendors.
Actually, that's just the opinions of slash readers. Target explicitly said they wanted unique, special products that made them stand out from the commodity market. Failing that, they want their vendors to give them prices which allow them to compete with the online stores. Check out TFA, it is very informative.
Well, that's what happens when you're selling commodities. What else did you expect? You want to command higher prices, then you need to sell exclusive products that can't be found anywhere else.
Isn't that what this article says Target is trying to do?
Did you know they spent more than $1 BILLION on that server farm in North Carolina? And they're getting ready to double it's capacity? And it took them almost two years to bring it on line. You can't just roll into Best Buy, buy some stuff, turn it on and be all set.
It's not the education funding that matters. It's how important education is to society, parents, and our children's peers. Nowadays, it's not "cool" to be smart or do well in school. It just doesn't matter to them, and no amount of funding will change that.
I am amazed by the lengths to which people on this site will go to rationalize Google's behavior. It's not the morality of advertising drugs that is at question here, it's the morality of knowingly allowing something which is illegal. If Page really knew (as the GOVERNMENT, not the conman, asserts) that they were accepting ads that explicitly stated "no prescription required" then he knowingly broke the law for profit. Plain and simple.
Whether it SHOULD be illegal has no bearing on the issue.
Microsoft DID save Apple, sorta, but not directly from that financial investment. What it got Apple was: 1) credibility. If Microsoft were investing in Apple, they're probably going to stick around and 2) Microsoft promised to make Office, which had been an on-again and off-again product in those later years, and the lack of Office was a huge barrier for a lot of folks at that time.
Apple actually had about a billion in cash at that time, so the $150MM was nice, but not crucial. It was the implied longevity that made the difference.
Well, according to the post-release interview, the iTunes store generated $1.7 billion during Q112, so that would be a pretty neat trick. They also state that Gross margin was 44.7%. Have you not noticed all the articles about how they buy up the supplies of everything, and all the other manufacturers are struggling to match Apple's prices?
First, the match part replaced bunch of crappy rips with their higher-quality stuff, and I'm not just talking about bit rates. A lot of rips out there just sound bad, and the ones I did from vinyl have the obligatory vinyl noise - the match is clean.
Second, I have way more music than fits on my iPhone. Having the stuff in the cloud solves that problem very nicely.
Third, it just works the way it should - stuff I buy or "acquire" on one device is automagically available on all of my other devices. Makes the notion of doing syncs - wirelessly or not - seem quaint.
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Except that statistics say that roughly 80% of Americans live within 16 miles of work http://askville.amazon.com/average-commuting-distance-americans/AnswerViewer.do?requestId=2554434. And the expected range is 40, not 30.
Gateway did this, and it seemed obviously stupid at the time. You go to their store, find what you want, and then go home and wait for them to ship it to you.
Interestingly, this very issue was discussed recently here Retail Chains To Strike Back Against Online Vendors
At least Apple is not operating illegally (monopoly abuse), perjuring themselves in federal court (Bill Gates lying under oath), blatantly stealing other's technology after pretending to want to implement it (Stacker), threatening others with death unless they fall in line (killing Word on Mac unless Apple kills Quicktime...) and so on. I attended a SPA meeting where Mr. Ballmer stood up and told all of the major software publishers in the world that Microsoft would take over any business worth more than $4 Million/year, and that all future software would be just plug-ins for Office. All while shipping shit for software.
/. crowd is the "walled garden" thing. If it weren't for that, all this hate would not exist. This site was full of Apple love up until that point.
Apple isn't there yet.
All Apple *really* does that pisses off the
Isn't that the point? This is confusing: " no difference from the CD " ... "someone needs to offer CD quality downloads..." .
The point for "Mastered for iTunes" is not to make it different from the CD, it's to make the compressed, lossy AAC file as close to the CD as possible. It sounds like they've done that.
Well, it's a bit anecdotal, but I happened to live near March AFB during that Libyan bomb run, and my neighbor was a KC-10 pilot. He told me that KC-10's flew out of March, loitered on the route the F-111's and other planes took on that run, refueled them on the way to Libya, loitered some more, refueled them on the way out of Libya, and then flew back to March.
The point is, no bases needed.
Regardless, this is neither a virus nor a worm. It's a trojan. You're supposed to know the difference.
iPads are not tied to a contract, ever. You can opt to buy 3G connectivity on a month-by-month basis, so even that has no contract. For use in the home, that is obviously not required.
You mean except for the A5 (or A6?) with a huge embedded hunk o' silicon that does fancy noise reduction http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-57371624-264/why-apples-a5-is-so-big-and-iphone-4-wont-get-siri/ ?
Because one should always do whatever one can to reduce suicides? Ya know, sometimes things are really what they appear to be.
Ya know, I've done it both ways. You're making up a bunch of crap with your list of things to do for paperless. There is no metadata to do - the scan results in a searchable pdf, and the tools like Yojimbo and Evernote make it easy. Scan it, drop it into Yojimbo, done. Really, are you just a crotchety old man refusing to let go of his buggy whip?
Once again, it's not so much about not having the paper in a drawer or box or file cabinet - it's about being able to find what you need without searching through said drawers or boxes or file cabinets. And, it's incredibly easy. Load into scanner, up to 15 pages at a time, push button, drag file to Yojimbo, done. Oh, one more step - shred.
Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500 totally rocks. I bought that refurbished for $250. Add in Yojimbo or Evernote and you'll be set. We've gone paperless in our office and at home, and this machine is the heart of that. We scan everything and shred it.
It's nice not having the paper around, but the BIG thing is not having to find it - it's always at your fingertips, searchable by document content or via the keywords in Evernote or Yojimbo.
iOS has Pages, Keynote and Numbers. It has a full suite of email, calendar and reminder services. It may not look and feel like Microsoft Office, but the functionality is there for 95% of us. Some would say it's a *good* thing!
Really? Slashdot is going to argue over whether the military can figure out how to charge an iPad on a C-17? Really?
You seem to feel that everything made in China is the same as everything else made in China. This is obviously untrue. I do think Target is reaching a bit, but it is in their vendor's best interest to help Target increase sales. Whether it's worth a discount or not is a good question. One could make the argument that these suppliers need Target to showroom their products or they will lose share to other vendors.
Actually, that's just the opinions of slash readers. Target explicitly said they wanted unique, special products that made them stand out from the commodity market. Failing that, they want their vendors to give them prices which allow them to compete with the online stores. Check out TFA, it is very informative.
Well, that's what happens when you're selling commodities. What else did you expect? You want to command higher prices, then you need to sell exclusive products that can't be found anywhere else.
Isn't that what this article says Target is trying to do?
Did you know they spent more than $1 BILLION on that server farm in North Carolina? And they're getting ready to double it's capacity? And it took them almost two years to bring it on line. You can't just roll into Best Buy, buy some stuff, turn it on and be all set.
It's not the education funding that matters. It's how important education is to society, parents, and our children's peers. Nowadays, it's not "cool" to be smart or do well in school. It just doesn't matter to them, and no amount of funding will change that.
I am amazed by the lengths to which people on this site will go to rationalize Google's behavior. It's not the morality of advertising drugs that is at question here, it's the morality of knowingly allowing something which is illegal. If Page really knew (as the GOVERNMENT, not the conman, asserts) that they were accepting ads that explicitly stated "no prescription required" then he knowingly broke the law for profit. Plain and simple.
Whether it SHOULD be illegal has no bearing on the issue.
Microsoft DID save Apple, sorta, but not directly from that financial investment. What it got Apple was: 1) credibility. If Microsoft were investing in Apple, they're probably going to stick around and 2) Microsoft promised to make Office, which had been an on-again and off-again product in those later years, and the lack of Office was a huge barrier for a lot of folks at that time.
Apple actually had about a billion in cash at that time, so the $150MM was nice, but not crucial. It was the implied longevity that made the difference.
Great article here http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2012/01/supply-chains?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/appleandtheamericaneconomy about why it's just not possible to do it in the US anymore, no matter how much Apple might want to. In fact, it might not even make sense on the macro level.
Well, according to the post-release interview, the iTunes store generated $1.7 billion during Q112, so that would be a pretty neat trick. They also state that Gross margin was 44.7%. Have you not noticed all the articles about how they buy up the supplies of everything, and all the other manufacturers are struggling to match Apple's prices?
Cite please.
First, the match part replaced bunch of crappy rips with their higher-quality stuff, and I'm not just talking about bit rates. A lot of rips out there just sound bad, and the ones I did from vinyl have the obligatory vinyl noise - the match is clean.
Second, I have way more music than fits on my iPhone. Having the stuff in the cloud solves that problem very nicely.
Third, it just works the way it should - stuff I buy or "acquire" on one device is automagically available on all of my other devices. Makes the notion of doing syncs - wirelessly or not - seem quaint.