Obviously you felt the need to come to slashdot and go to the Apple article and comment on it. I suspect you are actually just envious of Apple and Steve Jobs.
You really need professional help for your inferiority complex.
Congress should change the laws so that these papers don't become public. FCC regulations should not be allowed interfere with Apple product release secrecy. I hope Steve has called our new house speaker and put this issue into her "first 100 hours" agenda.
Ummm what do you think Steve meant by "revolutionary mobile phone" or when he said "the killer app is making calls". That puts it squarely up against regualar mobile phones doesnt it. This device is clearly aimed at non business consumers who would not be typical blackberry or treo users. They are clearly aiming to change people's behavior and expectations. I think this device will appeal to some people who don't like current smartphones and also to some people that do.
There will be people who won't buy an iPhone for various reasons: EDGE is too slow - I'd buy it if it had EVDO. 8GB is too little storage - I would buy it if it had 80GB like my current iPod. I can't use it with my company's uber-secure VPN, double encrypted email. It doesn't run MS-Outlook. At $499, It is too expensive. I hate Cingular. Switch it over to [XYZ Carrier] and I'd buy one. My company has banned phones with cameras. It doesn't come with a free blowjob from a model every day for the rest of my life.
What's the name of that handwriting recoginition program that runs under OSX again? Inkwell.
And all morning I've had thoughts dancing in my head about buffer overruns embedded into perhaps an MP3 or a picture used to execute some code to disable the security on one of these things.
It plays music. We've already got things that play music. Including phones.
Who gives a flying fuck about this product? This is about as newsworthy as a new marshmallow shape in my lucky charms. If it is so banal, why are you posting about it? Why even visit a slashdot discussion about it? I don't see you on Breakfast Cereal Blog gassing on about how non-important the new marshmallow in Lucky Charms is, so obviously there is a difference.
Given the absurd numbers of rumours which abounded over the past few months, what is this "secret" of which you speak? No one posted a picture of the phone online. The rumors were all over the place as to what the phone would be. The rumors were even iffy about whether it would be announced at MacWorld.
Of course, any game based on something as horrific as the Columbine shooting is at best bad taste, at worst shameless exploitation of the event to get in the press, and people should rightfully be angry, and the game should be pulled out.
But for some reason I fail to understand, there are dozens of games glorifying PacMan, or simulating large scale eating of dots. Millions have died from binge eating, and hundred of thousands died from obesity and continue to do so. Yet nobody finds reasons to be upset when you incarnate a mindless yellow eating machine in a game. It's all perfectly normal to them.
My grandfather died from eating thousands of marshmallows; I never knew him. He was fighting for the "good guys" (fluffy-puff marshmallows), but that didn't prevent my dad from crying often when he thought about him. Eating simulation games make me just as angry as this stupid Columbine RPG, and people who get their pants in a knot over the Columbine game then go play the virtual bulimic ten minutes later make me sick, because they're biased, politically correct idiots with short memories...
A new "AirPort Extreme Base Station" is listed in their store, shipping in February. £119. Have a look. The write up on the Apple site for the new base station says something to the effect that "almost all new Macs support 802.11n". I just bought a MacBook Pro yesterday. Does it support 802.11n? Which models support 802.11n?
You miss the point. The point of a stylus is less than 1/4 inch. My fingertip is an inch or so. WHich one do you think is easier to do fine manipulation with? I can type with a stylus on a pretty small screen, I can't even get my finger to hit 1 button at a time. You need something laptop sized to make fingers viable. Buy a stylus, then. Steve Jobs isn't going to hurt you if you do.
I love how everyone is claiming that Apple has captured the cell/pda market today. The truth is, there aren't any businesses larger than 10 people (hint: the majority of the mobile communication market) going near this anytime soon without better integration. Yahoo! Mail and IMAP/POP polling aren't going to cut it for e-mail notification, and I doubt Apple's going to support Exchange's Direct Push or BlackBerry's Enterprise Server anytime soon. They already support Exchange's Direct Push (in Mail). Plus, they came right out and said this phone works with Exchange. Also, this phone runs MacOS X, so my guess is that it runs a version of Mail optimized for the smaller screen.
Thanks for taking so long with the 620. And for dragging your feet with the 603 . Oh - and the higher frequency G4s? Thanks for taking so long with that.
I agree. Having it limited to 8GB of storage means that whatever music I don't have with me will be exactly what I want to hear (because my subconscious mind is a sadistic fuck, that's why.)
You can be certain that the OS X that runs on the iPhone is a distant relative of the OS X that runs on the desktop. The two OS probably have as much as common as say, Windows XP and Windows Mobile. Think fork. What makes you think this?? Just because Microsoft adopts a strategy doesn't mean Apple has to.
IBM should buy SCO and dismantle them just for spite How do you dismantle a company that consists of a box at Mailboxes, etc., some attorney's on retainer, Darl, and two hookers in a motel room?
And they all died anyway which nicely shows why given the non suicidal hijackers of pre-9/11 passangers were encouraged to not fight back. True, but... they did prevent the plane from being used to destroy a building (i.e. they saved a lot of other people's lives) and had they known at the beginning what was going on, they probably would have prevented the hijackers to get into the cockpit in the first place.
I can see why we would want to prevent explosives, but I fail to see why banning guns actually helps us. If the passengers aboard the planes on 9/11 had guns, the attacks could not have happened. The presence of guns by average citizens is often a deterent to certain types of crime. While you could argue that gun ownership does sometimes deter crimes you're really making a stretch when you say that guns on a plane would have stopped the attacks on 9/11. The terrorists had superior training in combat and weapons and would have merely massacred all the passengers on the plane before taking the cockpit. Firearms on aircraft would be a BAD thing except in the hands of fully trained air marshals.
John
I don't care how much training you have: crazy arab gets a box cutter, I get a.45 == I win.
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Obviously you felt the need to come to slashdot and go to the Apple article and comment on it. I suspect you are actually just envious of Apple and Steve Jobs.
You really need professional help for your inferiority complex.
Congress should change the laws so that these papers don't become public. FCC regulations should not be allowed interfere with Apple product release secrecy. I hope Steve has called our new house speaker and put this issue into her "first 100 hours" agenda.
There will be people who won't buy an iPhone for various reasons:
EDGE is too slow - I'd buy it if it had EVDO.
8GB is too little storage - I would buy it if it had 80GB like my current iPod.
I can't use it with my company's uber-secure VPN, double encrypted email.
It doesn't run MS-Outlook.
At $499, It is too expensive.
I hate Cingular. Switch it over to [XYZ Carrier] and I'd buy one.
My company has banned phones with cameras.
It doesn't come with a free blowjob from a model every day for the rest of my life.
and so on...
Duds currently has a phone with no service - he dials 911 every time he wants to order a pizza.
Operator: "911 - what is the nature of your emergency"
Duds: "I'm starving to death; send over a pizza!"
Operator: "You again!!"
And all morning I've had thoughts dancing in my head about buffer overruns embedded into perhaps an MP3 or a picture used to execute some code to disable the security on one of these things.
This device is very un-like the Newton. It is idiotic to call it the Newton. (And I love the Newton.)
It plays music. We've already got things that play music. Including phones.
Who gives a flying fuck about this product? This is about as newsworthy as a new marshmallow shape in my lucky charms. If it is so banal, why are you posting about it? Why even visit a slashdot discussion about it? I don't see you on Breakfast Cereal Blog gassing on about how non-important the new marshmallow in Lucky Charms is, so obviously there is a difference.
I'd say they did pretty good.
They are such hypocrits. They pretend to be guerillas, but act like gorillas.
Of course, any game based on something as horrific as the Columbine shooting is at best bad taste, at worst shameless exploitation of the event to get in the press, and people should rightfully be angry, and the game should be pulled out.
But for some reason I fail to understand, there are dozens of games glorifying PacMan, or simulating large scale eating of dots. Millions have died from binge eating, and hundred of thousands died from obesity and continue to do so. Yet nobody finds reasons to be upset when you incarnate a mindless yellow eating machine in a game. It's all perfectly normal to them.
My grandfather died from eating thousands of marshmallows; I never knew him. He was fighting for the "good guys" (fluffy-puff marshmallows), but that didn't prevent my dad from crying often when he thought about him. Eating simulation games make me just as angry as this stupid Columbine RPG, and people who get their pants in a knot over the Columbine game then go play the virtual bulimic ten minutes later make me sick, because they're biased, politically correct idiots with short memories...
Anyone notice that the background on Apple's website has changed to black?
What do you hold the stylus with??? In his mouth. Duh!
Thanks for taking so long with the 620. And for dragging your feet with the 603 . Oh - and the higher frequency G4s? Thanks for taking so long with that.
Hope your margins are more than RAZR thin!
Signed,
Apple, Inc. Sniff
I agree. Having it limited to 8GB of storage means that whatever music I don't have with me will be exactly what I want to hear (because my subconscious mind is a sadistic fuck, that's why.)
Everyone remembers the Lisa, but no one can afford one.
Would this method have detected our civilization in the 1800s? 1910? 1930? 1950?
What exactly is it detecting? FM radio? Television? Radar? Emissions from cars? Would it detect a working telegraph?
Which will come first?
Effective DRM
An end to Spam
or the release of Duke Nukem Forever?
John
I don't care how much training you have: crazy arab gets a box cutter, I get a