To err is human. If they've seen the error of their ways, then I would reconsider them. They would need to do more than say "I'm sorry" though... They'd need to actively work against the copyright regime they helped create. 1997 NET Act made copyright infringement without profit motive a criminal offense. That's a first and is due in no small part to Metallica. They helped create a whole new class of "criminal" and they have to atone for that mistake. If they only post their music, they can keep it... If they post the music, along with an open letter to Congress requesting the radical alteration and/or repeal of recent copyright legislation like the NET Act or the DMCA, then I would consider spending my money with them.
No? How about forged packet Comcast? No again? What about exposing most of the internet to id theft and cross site scripting Barefruit? Not a very thorough list, is it?
Nineteen-hundred-and-froze-to-death being one example, the total environmental collapse of mesoamerica and the middle east, the sudden shift that made Europe more habitable and helped lead to the Rennaisance
*SIGH* Not one event you cited was climate related!
The renaissance was only possible because of a population explosion that happened around the end of the medieval warm period. That happened because of a little invention call crop rotation. Human ingenuity... the warm weather was simply a bonus.
Be careful saying that. You're likely to get yourself harassed, blacklisted, and shunned for such politically incorrect remarks.
Oh noes!1 I'll be shunned by the cult of global warming. The unspeakable horror!
Have you looked at the ice core data lately? Have a look at T minus 70000 years. Go ahead... try to rationalize this fact with your "warming is bad" religion.
#3 Consistency. So much of our modern society is based an the extremly mild conditions the earth has experienced over the last 20,000 years.
The only thing consistent about the last 20000 years is warming. While you're there, take note of T minus 70000 years. ROCK BOTTOM temperatures. The problem with global warming is that it won't last forever.
And yet they're selling like crazy. I guess you have an alternate personal definition of "getting it right" since using the normal English one makes your post a lie.
I guess your idea of success is being, at best, a niche player. Apple hasn't even managed to outsell Nokia's single most expensive model... the N95 ($750). So when they decide to stop spitting in their customers' faces with app signing requirements and they stop raping developers with that 30% revenue cut, you give us a call on that iPhone, 'kay sport?
The next big thing? You mean like a touchscreen ipod/phone/mobile computer? Yea that would be awesome. Apple should make one of those!!
Apple wasn't the first with an MP3 player, they just happened to be the first to get it right. Unfortunately, they aren't "getting it right" with the iPhone. The sad part is that the only thing keeping them from doing so is their policy toward their customers with carrier locking and app signing requirements.
You can tell that Apple is still the same company they have always been when they are patenting functionality that is already on most modern cell phones and is noticably absent from the iPhone.
You aren't alone. It would be more surprising if you were.
But I don't see how you can say that Apple has failed with the iPhone. I don't think making millions of dollars
Apple made millions of dollars selling G4 cubes too.
selling a popular product is failure.
You forgot to read the part about how they aren't so popular... I mean, that's the entire point of the article here and the article I linked to in business week. I'd link you to another article about how they cut their Q2 iPhone shipments from China in half, but you obviously aren't reading any of them so that would be wasted effort.
I'd like to take a moment to say: I told them so!
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What they really say is: "Damn, we shoudn't have been THAT greedy."
What I find interesting is.. oh wow, only 50 posts in the first 90 minutes? Where are the fanboys now? Seven months ago, when I predicted with prefect accuracy that Apple would fail, you couldn't get them to STFU. They were gaa gaa over the iPhad, and now look... They are nowhere to be found. Fair weather fanboys as always. Those fanboys aren't real Mac fans. They don't care if Apple is delivering great products. They buy Apple as a status symbol.
Apple has failed. Apple failed for reasons I outlined months... almost a year ago. I predicted it before the phone even launched. Apple is selling a locked product that is defective by design. Worse, Apple is spitting in the face of the Mac developers who are truly the most hardcore mac fans out there. That's bad business.
The usual lament about mod points. Well said. Exactly right. There is no justification for this tax. How about cutting spending instead. The government is way bigger than it needs to be.
The republican plan has been to starve the beast with irresponsible tax cuts (mainly benefiting the wealthy) to create deficits, ultimately forcing a reduction in the size of government. In other words, save America from big government by bankrupting it. Well, we're now $9,400,000,000,000 in debt... so,... thanks guys....
And I can't decide which party is worse.
Neither, they're both getting re-elected. Anyone fool enough to vote for an "electable" candidate are the ones who are truly to blame.
After all the DMCA was put in place under Clinton's watch, no? Are we going to have corporate welfare like that *and* all kinds of fucking ridiculous new taxes.
The DMCA was drafted by Orin Hatch (R). Besides, the DMCA was nickel and dime... If you want corporate welfare, Clinton rolled back depression era law (Glass Steagall) that prevented certain conflicts of interest. The direct result of that action was the implosion of the whole damned economy(!) less than two years later with Enron, Arthur Anderson, WorldCom and the like. Ironic that the Democrat would repeal the New Deal and the Republican cowboy would be charged with reinstating it... Well, that didn't exactly happen, we got Sarbanes-Oxley instead. That's used mainly to justify $20 fees for an iPhad upgrade.
If this passes I will definitely be ordering more computer parts from Canada. Canadian internet retailers are going to love this.
Then you'll also be contributing to the massive $700,000,000,000 annual trade deficit. Not that it will do you any good. The tax is already owed. If you don't pay sales tax, you owe use tax. The law says you're a tax cheat if you don't. If the money goes out of the country to retailers they can't reach, they'll just get it at the source. Visa/MasterCard will be all too happy to comply.
On my reports some individual users are targeted with between 1500 and 2000 SPAM messages a day. There storage quotas would probably be exceeded over night from SPAM alone.
Yeah, because 2000 email messages is what? 4 MB of text, maybe. A 1TB hard drive will set you back about $250 at Target. $250 to hold a quarter million users' spam. OH GAWD, that's Sofa King expensive. A tenth of a penny per user. Wow. Where will your organization ever come up with that kind of cash!?!
In the meantime, I have three different email accounts that people have to CC to in order for me to get all my email. They practically need a fscking template to send email because a$$hole admins keep blocking their messages or mine enroute. Good job jerks. You've ruined email.
They remove some nifty-new application that they just added, all of a sudden the battery life goes back to normal. Amazing.
Without nifty applications, you might as well have a $30 go phone. Even that $30 phone has a solution to your iPhone's battery problem... a battery door. Apple defends their defective policy toward developers with their defective iPhone design. Brilliant.
The winner got to keep the unit AND 10,000. So OBVIOUSLY they should crack the easiest unit, flip it on ebay, and then buy whatever they actually want, while pocketing the remaining 8-9 grand...
$10000 will buy any laptop you want. You don't need to flip anything. Besides, why flip it when that's the computer he and everyone else wanted? Your argument is totally irrational. d(^_~)
The winner, Charlie Miller, gets to keep the laptop
In other words, the first to hack it gets it! Who wants a Vaio or a Fujitsu anyway? Given a choice between the three, I'm sure everybody wanted the MacBook Air. Naturally, the only machine getting the pounding is going to be the first to crack.
So... the moral of this story? Never underestimate the ability of an Apple fan to rationalize how the Mac could be the first to fail, yet still be the finest computer in the competition. d(^_~) [Thumbs up!]
I don't get why China gets as many breaks as they do
Because they hold over $1.4 trillion dollars in US debt? Because they could crush our economy by unloading that paper and their dollar reserves on the open market? Because the US is still going to China to beg for handouts because we can't balance our budget? Because their population of men available for military service exceeds that of the entire United States? And possibly, because our leadership, world famous as staunch defenders of civil rights themselves, really doesn't give a shit about Chinese human rights abuses?
Apple software is sneaky, aggressive, and not to be trusted.
I installed Leopard and it took over my entire system! Worse, if I try to uninstall OS X, my powerbook would be so non-functional, it would need to be booted from a disk!!! Can you believe that crap?
Feel free to correct me though. In the meantime, you just can't put a dollar value on hypocrisy and blind nationalism... truly our nation's number one export.
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To err is human. If they've seen the error of their ways, then I would reconsider them. They would need to do more than say "I'm sorry" though... They'd need to actively work against the copyright regime they helped create. 1997 NET Act made copyright infringement without profit motive a criminal offense. That's a first and is due in no small part to Metallica. They helped create a whole new class of "criminal" and they have to atone for that mistake. If they only post their music, they can keep it... If they post the music, along with an open letter to Congress requesting the radical alteration and/or repeal of recent copyright legislation like the NET Act or the DMCA, then I would consider spending my money with them.
Mastercard is the one doing actual business with terrorists... why aren't THEY responsible for this "small" fee?
No? How about forged packet Comcast? No again? What about exposing most of the internet to id theft and cross site scripting Barefruit? Not a very thorough list, is it?
*SIGH* Not one event you cited was climate related!
1900? How is one year ever indicative of climate?
The collapse of the middle east and mesoamerica... Their cropland collapsed due to their irrigation practices...
The renaissance was only possible because of a population explosion that happened around the end of the medieval warm period. That happened because of a little invention call crop rotation. Human ingenuity... the warm weather was simply a bonus.
Be careful saying that. You're likely to get yourself harassed, blacklisted, and shunned for such politically incorrect remarks.Oh noes!1 I'll be shunned by the cult of global warming. The unspeakable horror!
Have you looked at the ice core data lately? Have a look at T minus 70000 years. Go ahead... try to rationalize this fact with your "warming is bad" religion.
The only thing consistent about the last 20000 years is warming. While you're there, take note of T minus 70000 years. ROCK BOTTOM temperatures. The problem with global warming is that it won't last forever.
I guess your idea of success is being, at best, a niche player. Apple hasn't even managed to outsell Nokia's single most expensive model... the N95 ($750). So when they decide to stop spitting in their customers' faces with app signing requirements and they stop raping developers with that 30% revenue cut, you give us a call on that iPhone, 'kay sport?
Apple wasn't the first with an MP3 player, they just happened to be the first to get it right. Unfortunately, they aren't "getting it right" with the iPhone. The sad part is that the only thing keeping them from doing so is their policy toward their customers with carrier locking and app signing requirements.
When Apple starts trolling with it, do cry about it. Until then, it isn't unusual for trolls to sue Apple over obvious shit just like this.
You aren't alone. It would be more surprising if you were.
But I don't see how you can say that Apple has failed with the iPhone. I don't think making millions of dollarsApple made millions of dollars selling G4 cubes too.
selling a popular product is failure.You forgot to read the part about how they aren't so popular... I mean, that's the entire point of the article here and the article I linked to in business week. I'd link you to another article about how they cut their Q2 iPhone shipments from China in half, but you obviously aren't reading any of them so that would be wasted effort.
Says who? O2/T-Mobile, or Apple... Apple is the one demanding a cut of the carriers' revenue. Hence, no carrier subsidized iPhones.
What I find interesting is.. oh wow, only 50 posts in the first 90 minutes? Where are the fanboys now? Seven months ago, when I predicted with prefect accuracy that Apple would fail, you couldn't get them to STFU. They were gaa gaa over the iPhad, and now look... They are nowhere to be found. Fair weather fanboys as always. Those fanboys aren't real Mac fans. They don't care if Apple is delivering great products. They buy Apple as a status symbol.
Apple has failed. Apple failed for reasons I outlined months... almost a year ago. I predicted it before the phone even launched. Apple is selling a locked product that is defective by design. Worse, Apple is spitting in the face of the Mac developers who are truly the most hardcore mac fans out there. That's bad business.
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If you aren't encrypted, it could occur at any hop along the way. The good news is end to end encryption solves all sorts of problems :-)
The republican plan has been to starve the beast with irresponsible tax cuts (mainly benefiting the wealthy) to create deficits, ultimately forcing a reduction in the size of government. In other words, save America from big government by bankrupting it. Well, we're now $9,400,000,000,000 in debt... so,... thanks guys....
And I can't decide which party is worse.Neither, they're both getting re-elected. Anyone fool enough to vote for an "electable" candidate are the ones who are truly to blame.
After all the DMCA was put in place under Clinton's watch, no? Are we going to have corporate welfare like that *and* all kinds of fucking ridiculous new taxes.The DMCA was drafted by Orin Hatch (R). Besides, the DMCA was nickel and dime... If you want corporate welfare, Clinton rolled back depression era law (Glass Steagall) that prevented certain conflicts of interest. The direct result of that action was the implosion of the whole damned economy(!) less than two years later with Enron, Arthur Anderson, WorldCom and the like. Ironic that the Democrat would repeal the New Deal and the Republican cowboy would be charged with reinstating it... Well, that didn't exactly happen, we got Sarbanes-Oxley instead. That's used mainly to justify $20 fees for an iPhad upgrade.
If this passes I will definitely be ordering more computer parts from Canada. Canadian internet retailers are going to love this.Then you'll also be contributing to the massive $700,000,000,000 annual trade deficit. Not that it will do you any good. The tax is already owed. If you don't pay sales tax, you owe use tax. The law says you're a tax cheat if you don't. If the money goes out of the country to retailers they can't reach, they'll just get it at the source. Visa/MasterCard will be all too happy to comply.
You had me up until you got to that last sentence. More election year tripe. Woooo, the evil Democrats are going to tax my intarnets!!
Given that I have to check three email accounts to get my messages, I can safely say 30 seconds would be a fantasy paradise.
Yeah, because 2000 email messages is what? 4 MB of text, maybe. A 1TB hard drive will set you back about $250 at Target. $250 to hold a quarter million users' spam. OH GAWD, that's Sofa King expensive. A tenth of a penny per user. Wow. Where will your organization ever come up with that kind of cash!?!
In the meantime, I have three different email accounts that people have to CC to in order for me to get all my email. They practically need a fscking template to send email because a$$hole admins keep blocking their messages or mine enroute. Good job jerks. You've ruined email.
Without nifty applications, you might as well have a $30 go phone. Even that $30 phone has a solution to your iPhone's battery problem... a battery door. Apple defends their defective policy toward developers with their defective iPhone design. Brilliant.
$10000 will buy any laptop you want. You don't need to flip anything. Besides, why flip it when that's the computer he and everyone else wanted? Your argument is totally irrational. d(^_~)
IYou think that's cute, yet I'll bet you wonder why the world hates America.
In other words, the first to hack it gets it! Who wants a Vaio or a Fujitsu anyway? Given a choice between the three, I'm sure everybody wanted the MacBook Air. Naturally, the only machine getting the pounding is going to be the first to crack.
So... the moral of this story? Never underestimate the ability of an Apple fan to rationalize how the Mac could be the first to fail, yet still be the finest computer in the competition. d(^_~) [Thumbs up!]
Because they hold over $1.4 trillion dollars in US debt? Because they could crush our economy by unloading that paper and their dollar reserves on the open market? Because the US is still going to China to beg for handouts because we can't balance our budget? Because their population of men available for military service exceeds that of the entire United States? And possibly, because our leadership, world famous as staunch defenders of civil rights themselves, really doesn't give a shit about Chinese human rights abuses?
But what do I know? I'm just guessing here...
I installed Leopard and it took over my entire system! Worse, if I try to uninstall OS X, my powerbook would be so non-functional, it would need to be booted from a disk!!! Can you believe that crap?
Beware the silly string! You'll know what's about to happen when you see all those birthday candles!
IP is the principal export of the US? That's funny, because from what I've read, the number one export of the US is: 84--NUCLEAR REACTORS, BOILERS, MACHINERY ETC.; PARTS
Feel free to correct me though. In the meantime, you just can't put a dollar value on hypocrisy and blind nationalism... truly our nation's number one export.
In 2003, Universal had already announced it would be cutting prices to $12.98 per CD.