I expect Apple sees more revenue from a product such as the iPhone, either through AT&T kickbacks (assuming they still get those) or through purchases of more apps due to the larger hardware feature set.
iPod Touch users, though, basically just have an iPod with a pretty interface and a small subset of other features. I assume some work was required to compile and test the subset of 3.0 that will work with the iPod Touch hardware, and they want to extract as much profit from that effort as possible.
I'll think about paying for it when it releases. It will likely depend on whether or not my wife has a job again, not on the actual cost.
In the almost seven years since I graduated from college, I've never been sent overseas for work. I have been sent exciting places like Indianapolis.
I volunteered to work for a few days while on a personal vacation to Japan. While my company didn't pay for my hotel or my flight (my wife's company and frequent-flier miles did, respectively), I *was* paid for working those two days, and I got a fascinating look at a starkly different corporate life. I consider that a valuable part of the cultural experience I received. And it didn't hurt my career.
Every minority must now have their own special power, rather than everyone having equal power. -_- Our founding fathers would cry if they were alive today to see how far we've fallen from the path of justice and equality.
You mean the people that gave the vote only to white, rich, land-owning men would be upset at how special rights are more important than equal rights for all citizens?
Hmm, what's the relative cost of using the zombies for a day, then disabling them and alerting the owners, or letting the zombies remaining in the botnet for the next few years?
Recognizing a scary object is not the same thing as remembering that a scary object might appear at a certain interval. If you're cat remembered that you took it to the vet on March 10, 2008, too, and it hid in the garage yesterday for that reason, then you'd have a scientific breakthrough.
The difference is that with a paper ballot system, there is an accurate paper trail. You can't just toss out an entire block of ballots without someone finding them in the trash with a paper ballot system.
What if a flood or fire control system destroys a box containing, say, 10 ballots. Under what circumstances should the original electronic votes, who can no longer be aligned to a paper trail, be counted? What if it is unsure if they were electronically counted, or if perhaps some other random 10 ballots were the ones not counted the first time? Should the entire election be redone if the margin of victory was less than 10 votes?
Sure. But then if "corporations" do something bad, that costs money to fix, you need to walk right through the corporation and wring the money from the people responsible for creating the problem, namely the executives and the board.
Selling karaoke CDs to DJs is not the same thing as selling CDs to consumers. It's a different market. Those DJs are using the items whose copyright they infringed to earn a profit, through public performance of the work.
As such, you and those in your industry will have a much easier time tracking down and winning suits against them. Good luck with that.
Meanwhile, don't the venues where the "KJs" perform have to have the music public performance stickers on their doors or face big fines? Why don't you hook up with that group and have them spot check not only the stickers but that the music being publicly performed is a licensed copy?
And? Why is their technical design allowed to screw the customer? If I had such a cap, I would expect my provider to refuse and reject "uploaded" calls that exceeded my cap. It would be the fault of the roaming provider for giving me service in excess of my cap.
I'm quite certain, given the lucrative market that roaming would continue to be (up to the caps), that a technological solution that preauthorized charges would be devised quite quickly.
Damn that's a lot of aggregate sites. Do they represent a suitably broad swath of all topics, or do they only cover certain niches. Who filters them to get the signal-to-noise ratio down further? And do the aggregate-aggregates only cover special topics or have some other bias?
The broadcast networks and their local affiliates simply don't deliver the depth and breadth of quality journalism that the variety of local newspapers can produce, at least in cities that still have a paper with an investigative journalism team.
Someone else later in these comments writes:
As of last june CBS had 0 people in Iraq, FOX and CNN have 2. No American television network has a full-time correspondent in Afghanistan. Reuters has 100people in Iraq (inc staff). I'm sure AP has a similar number.
So you can see who pays for the journalists. All the members of the AP and Reuters (which includes the networks, but also includes thousands of papers that share the cost).
Don't you wonder why broadcast networks are demanding license fees from cable and satellite operators that retransmit their signals?
With something like 80% of households subscribing to pay television*, CBS is getting paid by their viewers.
* I read something like this in a story about ESPN getting the college football championship. I apologize for using an inaccurate statistic if it's off.
That's not the kind of news that needs real reporting. Any yahoo with a camera can take pretty pictures to put on TV, or, sometimes, take insightful pictures to put on TV.
Bloggers aren't out digging into court archives to find patterns of abuse, like the Philadelphia Inquirer did while looking at the judges that accepted kickbacks in exchange for sending a higher-than-normal rate of kids in their courts to private boot camps.
Bloggers comment on those types of stories. They don't research those types of stories, at least not very often.
And that's the real problem. We don't have a New Media today. Not yet. What we have is a temporary middle-state:
1. Old media (old print media, to a large extent) does investigative journalism, but isn't paid for it. 2. "New" media takes the original story, shares it, comments on it, and runs with it.
So our "new" media of today is temporary at best. What happens when their sources go away?
1. ?????? 2. "New" New Media comments on Things That Can Be Caught On a Phone Cam and nothing else gets done.
What if a future communication method allows electronics to monitor the speech or conscious thought centers of a person's brain, and transmit them to another person's brain.
Your generic law might be generic enough to be used not only to intercept ongoing communication, but to simply extract data from the person's mind. (Bring them in for questioning, hook them up, ask them questions, intercept their responses that they choose to not vocalize.)
Anyone can get in trouble with the Thought Police.
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So basically, the reason many laws aren't generic is because their are far, far too many ramifications for broad, all-encompassing laws. No one, including politicians, are thoughtful or predictive enough to imagine all the possibilities when writing such laws. I'd rather have very specific laws written for very specific circumstances, than have laws that can be applied in any and every situation.
Oh they get it. They get that you'll either pay a lot more for cable to see the same shows on your television, or you won't pay for them at all and aren't worth their time (other than the time and effort they expand to make your ability to watch for free inconvenient).
I have my iPod touch plugged into my computer right now. I don't sync it at work, I didn't let it set up a driver, and I'm just hanging it there to charge.
It charged just fine in about an hour. I don't see the problem. It's not that much different than an iPhone.
Disclosure: I have a garden in my backyard and I enjoy growing food in it. I don't, however, delude myself into thinking that it's anything other than a hobby -- one that is not economically sound (in the sense that I can buy the finished products much cheaper than I can grow them myself). Since I have to bring in soil, water and fertilizer, I'd be lucky if the whole thing was carbon neutral.
On the other hand, other people started profitable gardens in their back yard, able to feed themselves plus dozens of other families. Later, they moved out to 20 acres of farmland, but they started and grew out of a traditional (if larger than average) urban backyard.
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What if the natural competitive ones mutate to eat anything?
I don't think there's bluetooth in the iPod touch.
Maybe the budget was for six arms?
I expect Apple sees more revenue from a product such as the iPhone, either through AT&T kickbacks (assuming they still get those) or through purchases of more apps due to the larger hardware feature set.
iPod Touch users, though, basically just have an iPod with a pretty interface and a small subset of other features. I assume some work was required to compile and test the subset of 3.0 that will work with the iPod Touch hardware, and they want to extract as much profit from that effort as possible.
I'll think about paying for it when it releases. It will likely depend on whether or not my wife has a job again, not on the actual cost.
Mr. Rogers saved a lot more kids than he potentially messed up. Don't dis' on the man.
In the almost seven years since I graduated from college, I've never been sent overseas for work. I have been sent exciting places like Indianapolis.
I volunteered to work for a few days while on a personal vacation to Japan. While my company didn't pay for my hotel or my flight (my wife's company and frequent-flier miles did, respectively), I *was* paid for working those two days, and I got a fascinating look at a starkly different corporate life. I consider that a valuable part of the cultural experience I received. And it didn't hurt my career.
Every minority must now have their own special power, rather than everyone having equal power. -_- Our founding fathers would cry if they were alive today to see how far we've fallen from the path of justice and equality.
You mean the people that gave the vote only to white, rich, land-owning men would be upset at how special rights are more important than equal rights for all citizens?
When was that carbon last in the atmosphere? If the answer is "within the past two years" then it doesn't make things worse.
If the answer is "fifty-seven million years ago" then there may be a problem.
Hmm, what's the relative cost of using the zombies for a day, then disabling them and alerting the owners, or letting the zombies remaining in the botnet for the next few years?
Recognizing a scary object is not the same thing as remembering that a scary object might appear at a certain interval. If you're cat remembered that you took it to the vet on March 10, 2008, too, and it hid in the garage yesterday for that reason, then you'd have a scientific breakthrough.
Depends on the wish.
"I wish I could triangulate my position on the planet surface to within 3 meters with only a handheld telemetry device."
"I wish for a mass extinction of species on the planet and a sudden solution to global warming."
The difference is that with a paper ballot system, there is an accurate paper trail. You can't just toss out an entire block of ballots without someone finding them in the trash with a paper ballot system.
What if a flood or fire control system destroys a box containing, say, 10 ballots. Under what circumstances should the original electronic votes, who can no longer be aligned to a paper trail, be counted? What if it is unsure if they were electronically counted, or if perhaps some other random 10 ballots were the ones not counted the first time? Should the entire election be redone if the margin of victory was less than 10 votes?
Anyone remember being able to have multiple queues on your (shared) account with someone? Thrown out, in the name of "efficiency" to much booing.
They reverted that decision after the public outcry. We still have multiple queues on our account.
Sure. But then if "corporations" do something bad, that costs money to fix, you need to walk right through the corporation and wring the money from the people responsible for creating the problem, namely the executives and the board.
Selling karaoke CDs to DJs is not the same thing as selling CDs to consumers. It's a different market. Those DJs are using the items whose copyright they infringed to earn a profit, through public performance of the work.
As such, you and those in your industry will have a much easier time tracking down and winning suits against them. Good luck with that.
Meanwhile, don't the venues where the "KJs" perform have to have the music public performance stickers on their doors or face big fines? Why don't you hook up with that group and have them spot check not only the stickers but that the music being publicly performed is a licensed copy?
And? Why is their technical design allowed to screw the customer? If I had such a cap, I would expect my provider to refuse and reject "uploaded" calls that exceeded my cap. It would be the fault of the roaming provider for giving me service in excess of my cap.
I'm quite certain, given the lucrative market that roaming would continue to be (up to the caps), that a technological solution that preauthorized charges would be devised quite quickly.
Damn that's a lot of aggregate sites. Do they represent a suitably broad swath of all topics, or do they only cover certain niches. Who filters them to get the signal-to-noise ratio down further? And do the aggregate-aggregates only cover special topics or have some other bias?
The broadcast networks and their local affiliates simply don't deliver the depth and breadth of quality journalism that the variety of local newspapers can produce, at least in cities that still have a paper with an investigative journalism team.
Someone else later in these comments writes:
As of last june CBS had 0 people in Iraq, FOX and CNN have 2. No American television network has a full-time correspondent in Afghanistan. Reuters has 100people in Iraq (inc staff). I'm sure AP has a similar number.
So you can see who pays for the journalists. All the members of the AP and Reuters (which includes the networks, but also includes thousands of papers that share the cost).
Don't you wonder why broadcast networks are demanding license fees from cable and satellite operators that retransmit their signals?
With something like 80% of households subscribing to pay television*, CBS is getting paid by their viewers.
* I read something like this in a story about ESPN getting the college football championship. I apologize for using an inaccurate statistic if it's off.
That's not the kind of news that needs real reporting. Any yahoo with a camera can take pretty pictures to put on TV, or, sometimes, take insightful pictures to put on TV.
Bloggers aren't out digging into court archives to find patterns of abuse, like the Philadelphia Inquirer did while looking at the judges that accepted kickbacks in exchange for sending a higher-than-normal rate of kids in their courts to private boot camps.
Bloggers comment on those types of stories. They don't research those types of stories, at least not very often.
And that's the real problem. We don't have a New Media today. Not yet. What we have is a temporary middle-state:
1. Old media (old print media, to a large extent) does investigative journalism, but isn't paid for it.
2. "New" media takes the original story, shares it, comments on it, and runs with it.
So our "new" media of today is temporary at best. What happens when their sources go away?
1. ??????
2. "New" New Media comments on Things That Can Be Caught On a Phone Cam and nothing else gets done.
Ok so my pay goes down so you can keep these 4 worthless guys. I'm going to only do half the work I did before.
Correction... make that five worthless guys.
What if a future communication method allows electronics to monitor the speech or conscious thought centers of a person's brain, and transmit them to another person's brain.
Your generic law might be generic enough to be used not only to intercept ongoing communication, but to simply extract data from the person's mind. (Bring them in for questioning, hook them up, ask them questions, intercept their responses that they choose to not vocalize.)
Anyone can get in trouble with the Thought Police.
---
So basically, the reason many laws aren't generic is because their are far, far too many ramifications for broad, all-encompassing laws. No one, including politicians, are thoughtful or predictive enough to imagine all the possibilities when writing such laws. I'd rather have very specific laws written for very specific circumstances, than have laws that can be applied in any and every situation.
Oh they get it. They get that you'll either pay a lot more for cable to see the same shows on your television, or you won't pay for them at all and aren't worth their time (other than the time and effort they expand to make your ability to watch for free inconvenient).
I have my iPod touch plugged into my computer right now. I don't sync it at work, I didn't let it set up a driver, and I'm just hanging it there to charge.
It charged just fine in about an hour. I don't see the problem. It's not that much different than an iPhone.
Disclosure: I have a garden in my backyard and I enjoy growing food in it. I don't, however, delude myself into thinking that it's anything other than a hobby -- one that is not economically sound (in the sense that I can buy the finished products much cheaper than I can grow them myself). Since I have to bring in soil, water and fertilizer, I'd be lucky if the whole thing was carbon neutral.
On the other hand, other people started profitable gardens in their back yard, able to feed themselves plus dozens of other families. Later, they moved out to 20 acres of farmland, but they started and grew out of a traditional (if larger than average) urban backyard.