The leaks don't help Apple. There was a time when rumor websites were very very accurate. The problem with that is that when product announcements were actually made, there was no news value to them. By stopping the leaks, Apple saved themselves a ton of money on advertising by generating millions of dollars worth of free press.
The cost of losing some bloggers is nothing compared to that. From Apple's point of view, stopping the leaks is absolutely the right thing to do.
I have never had the good luck to be able to see my very favorite rock band in concert. I have been a huge fan on them for about 20 years. However, I moved to New York a few months ago and next Thursday night I get to go see them play a concert in NYC.
The ticket cost me $13 online. The parking will probably cost more than that:-)
By having a broken machine, Kroger gets no job applicants. That way they can lobby congress to let them hire more immigrants who will work for less because "no american will take the job".
Uh. No. They don't. In fact, I recently talked to Microsoft about their ZeroConf story. Right now they are saying that Universal Plug and Play will be replaced by a Web Services - Discovery thing that is coming out with Vista.
So, right now, you are better off building Bonjour into your products. You can negnotiate a license to distribute Bonjour with your app from Apple.
Let me clarify my comment. What I mean is that the Mac is really the one platform where things are supposed to be easy and elegant to use. Not that they *always* are, but having been a Mac developer for eleven years, I can tell you that the "culture" of Mac programmers is to assume that the user does not have expert knowledge of computers and to SERVE that person. Not educate them. Not disrespect them or talk down to them. But to make your software simple and pleasant to use for everyone including your 60 year old grandmother. Most of the good Mac programmers that I have met have this kind of an attitute about their work. Even Mac programmers who work at Microsoft.
I think it also comes from the fact that the Mac platform has always strived to be very high quality in this way - and that's the thing that keeps it going and keeps us employed.
Linux is more of a "by geeks for geeks" approach which is OK, but not in my opinion something I would feel comfortable putting in front of my mother (for example).
Right now, I'm typing this on my work steup which is a PowerMac G5 that is hooked to an Avocent KVM switch with 2 PowerPC Mac Minis and one Intel Mac Mini.
At home, I have a PowerBook and the family has an Intel Mac Mini that we share.
He's been wishing for/predicting Apple will die for about 18 years now.
When the Mac was first introduced, he was the guy who stated that the graphical user interface was "stupid" and "toy like".
Every article he writes is basically a suggestion for Apple to commit suicide. He actually wrote an article saying that if you used an iBook you were gay.
Here's my suggestion to Dvorak. If you want to be more competitive as a writer, start taking cyanide pills immediately.
Not only that, but if Ford gave their cars away for free, think of all the media attention they would get. The most interesting story in the auto business would be Ford vs. building your own car from parts found in a junk yard. General Motors, Toyota, et al. would still sell more cars than Ford could give away for free because people are more familiar with those brands, but they would suffer because they would get lots less media attention.
I had no idea that Kevin Mitnick was convicted of a crime called "Fraudster".
Judge: "Kevin Mitnick, the jury has declared you guilty of being a Fraudster. Do you have anything to say before sentance is passed?"
Kevin: "Yes. The name for this crime is totally badass. In light of that, I think a suspended sentance is in order. Also, can I call you Judgey-wudgey?"
Theres no reason for them to log my visits to Amazon.com.
The administration wants to know what books you might be reading. They might be subversive. Maybe you bought a book on how to use solar power, so they need to put you in jail.
You wouldn't leave your kids alone with free access to guns or alcohol.
My parents owned guns and had a liquor cabinet when I was a kid and I was a latch key kid. (I also never touched the gun or the alcohol.)
I don't leave my children alone very often, but we have left her for brief periods when we had to attend a parent teacher conference, when my wife and I wanted to go for a walk, and when I had to take my wife to the emergency room and my daughter was on her way home from school (she let herself in - she is 10). When doing that, we had some wine and beer in the house. And we weren't worried about it either. (And our daughter didn't touch the booze.)
Images are non-rivalarous - you can make as many copies as you want. Thus if a kiddie-porn-pervert is, on average, satisified with 1000 photos and videos, then all it takes is the SAME 1000 photos and videos to satisfy 1 or 1,000,000 kiddie-porn-perverts. No new demand is created.
If this were true, then wouldn't it also be the case that there would eventually be no demand for new movies of any kind? Or rock bands, etc? If a young kid today just wanted to listen to music from the 60s and 70s and watch movies from the same era, would they not be able to listen to just as many movies/music as if they were listening to new music/movies?
I could start a newspaper that is just a reprint of a newspaper from 50 years ago. So, April 14th 2006, you get the paper from April 14th 1956. It could be like a vintage newspaper.
The reality is that (I think) people want recent media whether it is movies, music, pr0n, whatever. I don't see anything obvious that would make kiddie pr0n different in this regard.
Yes. Apparently some folks on slashdot have made jokes involving taking off every "sig" for great justice. The hilarity comes from the fact that "sig" rhymes with "zig" and they are making this pun from within their "sig". It was that joke which was a reference to the earlier joke from Zero Wing.
The US could easily just sign a guarentee that he would get a trial - so far they have refused. They have called the guy a terrorist. I can add one and one and I think he has a perfectly valid reason to think he would be on the one way trip to Cuba. If I were the british judge, I wouldn't hand him over unless the US agreed to give him a trial.
I believe it could happen to him. They would just have to label him a terrorist. I don't see anything far fetched about him going to Guantanamo and being held without trial.
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The leaks don't help Apple. There was a time when rumor websites were very very accurate. The problem with that is that when product announcements were actually made, there was no news value to them. By stopping the leaks, Apple saved themselves a ton of money on advertising by generating millions of dollars worth of free press.
The cost of losing some bloggers is nothing compared to that. From Apple's point of view, stopping the leaks is absolutely the right thing to do.
I have never had the good luck to be able to see my very favorite rock band in concert. I have been a huge fan on them for about 20 years. However, I moved to New York a few months ago and next Thursday night I get to go see them play a concert in NYC.
:-)
The ticket cost me $13 online. The parking will probably cost more than that
I am very excited.
By having a broken machine, Kroger gets no job applicants. That way they can lobby congress to let them hire more immigrants who will work for less because "no american will take the job".
Microsoft is replacing UPNP with a thing called WS-Discovery in Vista. So, lucky you if you used UPNP, you get to rewrite your app!
If you use Bonjour, you just replace the Bonjour library with this new one.
Uh. No. They don't. In fact, I recently talked to Microsoft about their ZeroConf story. Right now they are saying that Universal Plug and Play will be replaced by a Web Services - Discovery thing that is coming out with Vista.
So, right now, you are better off building Bonjour into your products. You can negnotiate a license to distribute Bonjour with your app from Apple.
There is a wide area version of Bonjour.
It is needed if you want to dynamically discover something (or be discovered) on your network using Bonjour.
Let me clarify my comment. What I mean is that the Mac is really the one platform where things are supposed to be easy and elegant to use. Not that they *always* are, but having been a Mac developer for eleven years, I can tell you that the "culture" of Mac programmers is to assume that the user does not have expert knowledge of computers and to SERVE that person. Not educate them. Not disrespect them or talk down to them. But to make your software simple and pleasant to use for everyone including your 60 year old grandmother. Most of the good Mac programmers that I have met have this kind of an attitute about their work. Even Mac programmers who work at Microsoft.
I think it also comes from the fact that the Mac platform has always strived to be very high quality in this way - and that's the thing that keeps it going and keeps us employed.
Linux is more of a "by geeks for geeks" approach which is OK, but not in my opinion something I would feel comfortable putting in front of my mother (for example).
Sooooo, soft_guy, do you use an iBook ?
Right now, I'm typing this on my work steup which is a PowerMac G5 that is hooked to an Avocent KVM switch with 2 PowerPC Mac Minis and one Intel Mac Mini.
At home, I have a PowerBook and the family has an Intel Mac Mini that we share.
My wife and daughter both have iBooks, though.
This is exactly why I think that while Linux may be fine for servers and for enthusiasts, it is not ready for prime time (i.e. end users).
If you want to learn about the inner workings of computers and be insulted by jerks, use Linux.
If you want to be taken for a ride, use Windows.
If you want to get actual work done, get a Mac.
He's been wishing for/predicting Apple will die for about 18 years now.
When the Mac was first introduced, he was the guy who stated that the graphical user interface was "stupid" and "toy like".
Every article he writes is basically a suggestion for Apple to commit suicide. He actually wrote an article saying that if you used an iBook you were gay.
Here's my suggestion to Dvorak. If you want to be more competitive as a writer, start taking cyanide pills immediately.
Not only that, but if Ford gave their cars away for free, think of all the media attention they would get. The most interesting story in the auto business would be Ford vs. building your own car from parts found in a junk yard. General Motors, Toyota, et al. would still sell more cars than Ford could give away for free because people are more familiar with those brands, but they would suffer because they would get lots less media attention.
This has to be the best post I've read on Slashdot in the last 6 months.
It is very tiresome to see people change the subject like this because they can't supply a source or example when asked.
I'm starting to think the first person to do this in an argument should automatically lose. (Similar to mention of Nazis or Hitler.)
I had no idea that Kevin Mitnick was convicted of a crime called "Fraudster".
Judge: "Kevin Mitnick, the jury has declared you guilty of being a Fraudster. Do you have anything to say before sentance is passed?"
Kevin: "Yes. The name for this crime is totally badass. In light of that, I think a suspended sentance is in order. Also, can I call you Judgey-wudgey?"
Judge: "Sure, fraudster."
Not to mention the original quote is "For great justice, take off every Zig!" and not "Take off every Sig, for great justice!"
No, it is:
Captain: Take off every 'Zig' !!
Captain: You know what you doing.
Captain: Move 'Zig'.
Captain: For great justice.
(From Wikipedia.)
Theres no reason for them to log my visits to Amazon.com.
The administration wants to know what books you might be reading. They might be subversive. Maybe you bought a book on how to use solar power, so they need to put you in jail.
Maybe I'm more worried about a police state than about crime.
You wouldn't leave your kids alone with free access to guns or alcohol.
My parents owned guns and had a liquor cabinet when I was a kid and I was a latch key kid. (I also never touched the gun or the alcohol.)
I don't leave my children alone very often, but we have left her for brief periods when we had to attend a parent teacher conference, when my wife and I wanted to go for a walk, and when I had to take my wife to the emergency room and my daughter was on her way home from school (she let herself in - she is 10). When doing that, we had some wine and beer in the house. And we weren't worried about it either. (And our daughter didn't touch the booze.)
Images are non-rivalarous - you can make as many copies as you want. Thus if a kiddie-porn-pervert is, on average, satisified with 1000 photos and videos, then all it takes is the SAME 1000 photos and videos to satisfy 1 or 1,000,000 kiddie-porn-perverts. No new demand is created.
If this were true, then wouldn't it also be the case that there would eventually be no demand for new movies of any kind? Or rock bands, etc? If a young kid today just wanted to listen to music from the 60s and 70s and watch movies from the same era, would they not be able to listen to just as many movies/music as if they were listening to new music/movies?
I could start a newspaper that is just a reprint of a newspaper from 50 years ago. So, April 14th 2006, you get the paper from April 14th 1956. It could be like a vintage newspaper.
The reality is that (I think) people want recent media whether it is movies, music, pr0n, whatever. I don't see anything obvious that would make kiddie pr0n different in this regard.
Yes. Apparently some folks on slashdot have made jokes involving taking off every "sig" for great justice. The hilarity comes from the fact that "sig" rhymes with "zig" and they are making this pun from within their "sig". It was that joke which was a reference to the earlier joke from Zero Wing.
If they can do it to Jose Pilla who was a citizen, then they can do it to anyone.
The US could easily just sign a guarentee that he would get a trial - so far they have refused. They have called the guy a terrorist. I can add one and one and I think he has a perfectly valid reason to think he would be on the one way trip to Cuba. If I were the british judge, I wouldn't hand him over unless the US agreed to give him a trial.
You forgot Clowns Per Beetle - if you like circuses this is a critically important unit of measure.
Thank you for point this out! I love circuses!!
I believe it could happen to him. They would just have to label him a terrorist. I don't see anything far fetched about him going to Guantanamo and being held without trial.