Right now, I don't have cable service or satellite, because they won't just sell me what I want. I have no interest in the sports channels, home shopping, bible-thumpers, most of the rest of the dreck they want to pile on. The first vendor who will just sell me HBO, Showtime, Cinemax, the major networks, and the history channel will get my business, and I suspect they'd get a lot of other people too.
And what about those who are opposed to health care?
Well, they're idiots of course, but I would no more use police power to require them to see a real doctor than I would tolerate the cops forcing me to go see a chiropractor or any other kind of quack. Freedom means that some people will make bad choices, and that's their prerogative.
A couple of billion years ago, you'd be right, but the heat inside the earth today is sustained by radioactive decay. There's also some heating due to tidal effects as the planet gets tugged on by the sun and moon as it rotates. Heat from solar radiation doesn't really penetrate, but the warmer the ocean and the atmosphere are, the less heat escapes from the interior.
It's worth pointing out the difference between sales to end-users and channel stuffing. I for one do not believe that a million units of the Zune have gotten into the hands of the public.
What this legislation shows more than anything else is that the Massachusetts legislature subscribes to the idea that anything that's good to do should be mandatory, and enforced with the threat of violence if you decline to comply.
Apple's work on the Mach kernel for ARM isn't under the GPL, it's under the BSD license. The graphics libraries are their own, and KHTML is available under it's own license. The FSF is trying to pull a Greenpeace-style publicity-grab here.
I can't imagine caring what someone who still adheres to marxism after the body counts of the twentieth century has to say about anyone else's intelligence.
You have to ask what sort of numbers it would take to justify the hype expressed in the share price.
You've barely seen the effect that the phone will have on Apple's share price. Look at Nokia's market cap: that's what the phone can add to Apple's valuation.
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This is going to vanish under an avalanche of litigation.
-jcr
Right now, I don't have cable service or satellite, because they won't just sell me what I want. I have no interest in the sports channels, home shopping, bible-thumpers, most of the rest of the dreck they want to pile on. The first vendor who will just sell me HBO, Showtime, Cinemax, the major networks, and the history channel will get my business, and I suspect they'd get a lot of other people too.
-jcr
and the following day, Apple jumped nearly six dollars.
-jcr
And what about those who are opposed to health care?
Well, they're idiots of course, but I would no more use police power to require them to see a real doctor than I would tolerate the cops forcing me to go see a chiropractor or any other kind of quack. Freedom means that some people will make bad choices, and that's their prerogative.
-jcr
A couple of billion years ago, you'd be right, but the heat inside the earth today is sustained by radioactive decay. There's also some heating due to tidal effects as the planet gets tugged on by the sun and moon as it rotates. Heat from solar radiation doesn't really penetrate, but the warmer the ocean and the atmosphere are, the less heat escapes from the interior.
-jcr
It's worth pointing out the difference between sales to end-users and channel stuffing. I for one do not believe that a million units of the Zune have gotten into the hands of the public.
-jcr
What this legislation shows more than anything else is that the Massachusetts legislature subscribes to the idea that anything that's good to do should be mandatory, and enforced with the threat of violence if you decline to comply.
-jcr
Crowther, not Cruther.
That was (and still is) a very fine game, too.
-jcr
Spacewar is all anyone needs. You kids today...
-jcr
I ripped my entire CD collection I own into WMP
Sucker.
-jcr
Apple's work on the Mach kernel for ARM isn't under the GPL, it's under the BSD license. The graphics libraries are their own, and KHTML is available under it's own license. The FSF is trying to pull a Greenpeace-style publicity-grab here.
-jcr
You have that reversed. The MPEG-4 file format allows the use of many different codecs. AAC is a codec.
-jcr
what is a capitalist?
Anyone you don't like, apparently.
no more intelligence than a parrot.
I can't imagine caring what someone who still adheres to marxism after the body counts of the twentieth century has to say about anyone else's intelligence.
-jcr
Mao and Stalin were as capitalist
That is what's known as a baldfaced lie.
No dishonesty on my part
The whites of your eyes have turned brown.
-jcr
I don't know what the licenses are for AAC offhand, but the H.264 license is extremely cheap. It's around a nickel per codec.
-jcr
Wow, time warp. I haven't seen a Mac 8600 or a 486/66 in about a decade. Where are you, in a barn next to a Model T and a steam tractor?
-jcr
Jesus, are you just going to jump down my throat for everything I say? Take a fucking pill and chill out.
-jcr
TFA says it took 36 hours, but he's all sorted out.
-jcr
Apple doesn't have 1800 stores, they have around 180.
-jcr
What I'd be interested to know is out of that 2%, how many had the phones working in an hour, how many had to wait a day, etc.
-jcr
But you said they'd already sold a million units
Look back in the thread. I said they may have done so already, and if not then that they'd hit that mark by the end of the week.
But now you're saying it's "a day or so".
A day or so until the announcement. Try reading before you flame.
-jcr
Well, turning off bluetooth would certainly improve battery life.
I'm curious: did you leave it at that, or demand that they repair or replace the phone they'd damaged?
-jcr
You have to ask what sort of numbers it would take to justify the hype expressed in the share price.
You've barely seen the effect that the phone will have on Apple's share price. Look at Nokia's market cap: that's what the phone can add to Apple's valuation.
-jcr
utterly zero evidence
I look forward to you eating your words in a day or so, when Apple announces the millionth sale of an iPhone.
-jcr
They did quite a bit of testing, actually. That's why we're not getting reports of tens of thousands of people having problems.
-jcr