Why is Google+ not it? I use it, all it needs is people to move. That is a problem every site will face with the masses too ignorant and/or lazy to leave Facebook. The only thing Google+ is missing is the ability to post on other peoples walls but putting a + before their name on your own wall accomplishes the same thing.
Google+ is amazing but for whatever reason, people just refuse to leave Facebook because they don't give a rats ass about their privacy. Hell most people don't even grasp what privacy is and are happy to post all their drunken frat pics to the public for future employers to see.
If you want people to get over to something like Google+ then you need to do it yourself also. You can't sit on your ass and wait for other people to start using it. Be vocal, post on Facebook publicly the problems with it, and show them the options.
Also, it's rather sad how Sen. Leahy has changed his views 180 degrees in recent years. Back in the times of Reagan he was at the forefront of making sure that CIA and NSA don't overstep their bounds. Nowadays it's like a completely different person.
That's because he used the CIA and NSA against Reagan. Now that his guy is in office it's free reign to do whatever is in his evil little heart. Been like this for 4 years, welcome to the new America.
I'm afraid Arch is dying. I used to love it back when it made sense but they've abandoned what made Arch great. They killed their own installer, moved to systemd by default and are still huge gnome3-shell fanboys despite all the backlash on it.
Its a shame, Arch has/had some of the best documentation out there. It's also the most up-to-date distro out there which I really appreciated. I'll miss Arch and hope they go to a more sane system soon.
"By extension, the same holds true for porn, pirated videos and music, etc., right? So, would you feel comfortable being judged by the online company you keep?"
Definitely. Most of the people whose company I enjoy favor a liberal interpretation of the authority of copyright and prefer adult-oriented content to PG and lighter fare. They speak ill of their government when it is justified (and sometimes when it is not) and accept that the four boxes of liberty are all unfortunate necessities. And they believe that even suspected terrorists who worship the wrong deity are endowed by their creator with the rights documented in the Declaration, Constitution, and Bill of Rights.
I rather like that sort of person, and hope that the world sees me as one of them. I think people who are not proud to fit that description tend to lie somewhere between pretentious and dull, and are detrimental to our advancement as a productive, open, honest, and self-aware society.
Definitely. Most of the people whose company I enjoy favor a conservative interpretation of the authority of copyright and prefer family-oriented content to XXX and lighter fare. They speak positively of their government when it is justified (and sometimes when it is not) and accept that the four branches of liberty are all fortunate inheritances from our forward thinking founders. And they believe that self proclaimed terrorists who twist and contort their religion into a religion of hate instead of peace and wage a holy war on the West deserve to be rebuffed in the most forceful manner necessary.
I rather like that sort of person, and hope that the world sees me as one of them. I think people who are not proud to fit that description tend to lie somewhere between naive and immature, and are detrimental to our advancement as a productive, open, honest, and self-aware society. However many of my close friends also fit this description and it doesn't affect my relationships with them because life is about more than politics, regardless of what the sitting President of the United States says.
No my OS is days old:) I use Linux. I'm sorry you spent do much on you hardware. As for evidence...I'm glad you mention that. Did you notice that Android hit 25 Billion Apps downloads before Apple. Did you notice Apple crying then they got caught pants down for forming a illegal cartel, because Amazon are better at selling books. Apple has there day, but Amazon/Google have stores now. Apples market share dropped from 23% to 15%....but ignoring your love for Apple...there are simply better music players out there.
You're a whiny one aren't you? Spent too much on my hardware? I spent 1k on an ultrabook. How is that too much? Have you not seen the prices? Apple is not only competitive on this front, they are the leaders.
Marketshare dropped 23 to 15%? You'll need to provide evidence to that instead of just running your mouth off like you have been. Additionally, I have no love for apple. I rather like my MacBook Air, too bad you're stuck in your pitty party with sub par hardware and craptastic software. I bet you're one of those "Year of linux on the desktop!" trolls aren't you? With an attitude like yours I can see why you can't afford a decent computer, no one will hire you.
It neither works as a music player, or device management...it never did.
Strange, I work with dozens of people that use it for those purposes every day. Melodramatic much?
iTunes does just fine, sorry your hardware and OS are old and outdated and things lag but on my Macbook Air iTunes runs just as fast as any other app on my machine. Granted, Ping was stupid but its gone now. As to the rest of your rant, whatever. Millions of people use it successfully every single day, purchasing billions of songs and movies every year. The evidence is very much against you.
Not to play the UID game but it looks like I've probably been here a tad bit longer than you. I remember the glory days of MS bashing and the reasons for bashing were very different. People hated Windows because it crashed 200 times a day and any 8 year old with a DOS prompt could essentially "root" your box. MS also practiced extremely agressive anti-trust behavior.
Apple does none of the above. They just sue the piss out of competitors and act like arrogant jerks every chance they get. I'm not going to pass moral judgement on which of the two is worse but the reasons for the bashing are different and far more people here like Apple than they did MS in days long past.
I myself use Apple computers almost exclusively, even though I hate the company.
I worked for Apple a couple years ago. While my experience was generally positive, I can say without hesitation that Apple denies everything until it is absolutely not possible to deny it anymore. Then they turn their back and walk away.
The arrogance at Apple at anything above a director level is astounding. I remember when the Mac Malware stuff first hit and little old ladies were getting gay pron popping up on their screen. Apple's officlal policy was that it wasn't their problem and no Applecare reps were allowed to even confirm the problem existed or help get rid of it. It took over a month for them to release a software update to scan and remove it and even after that they wouldn't publicly take responsibility for Safari automatically opening "safe" files.
They know they believe in an Omnipotent God. They have no need to defend Him. (...) That tells me all I need to know about the "equivalence" between Islam and Christianity.
Yeah, because at no point in history Christianity has killed people because of blasphemy and heresy.</sarcasm>
If any, it only says about their relative grade of maturity as somewhat civilized religions, and the long due need for a renaissance in Islam. Which won't happen if people trying to make it happen get ridiculed over and over.
Actually you'll find most of those Christian "wars" weren't in the name of God or Jesus. The vast majority of them were simply about power and the ones using Christianity as a rallying cry. The same can be said of Buddhism.
Waging wars in Jesus's name is strictly forbidden in scripture. It only takes a brief read through the gospels to see it plainly. When someone claims to be acting in the name of God and their actions are violent, they are called out on it pretty quickly. Christian cultures also tend to be self correcting. While Christians have done some bad things, this is pretty much to be expected because Christians are sinners like everyone else. However, Christians also make good efforts to stop sin, such as abolishing slavery. In this way, Christians self correct. No one claims Christians are perfect, in fact it's a tenet of the religion that they make mistakes. Islam thus far hasn't shown any of these characteristics.
I work in an organization that has tools (PC's running multimillion dollar fabrication tools) that still run DOS/Win2k and XP. The company spent millions of dollars on these things 10-15 years ago. They work fine. The company will not buy new ones just because the OS on it is old. At the time they were purchased, Microsoft was the only game in town for this type of work. No one else even came close. Many of the web apps rolled out at the time (remember this was 10+ years ago) were optimized for IE6 or earlier. This was when IE held 80%+ of the marketshare. It was a smart decision at the time.
Since then the economy has been in constant turmoil, first 9/11 then the dot come crash and now over the last 5 years the horrendous economic policy of the last two administrations and the longest spate of unemployment above 8% in this nations history. The company will not spend what is needed to upgrade these tools and therefore IT must continue to support and maintain them.
Your fantasy world where we can just up and switch things is just that, fantasy. Just because you can upgrade your desktop computer for a few hundred bucks doesn't mean Big Businesses can spend the billions of dollars needed to do so.
I can't think of a bigger insult than "socialist." Being a taker is probably about the worst thing you can be. Maybe you should try building wealth instead of stealing it?
This "story" is just one big ass troll isn't it? Seriously, bunch of socialist shrinks deem people who believe contrary to them are crazy. This isn't news.
I'm not going to justify the higher price per se but just toss out some examples. I'm not too sure of situations in which technology ever made anything cheaper. In this case you get to download that copy over and over again for life (or at least as long as Amazon is alive). You get to store it in the cloud or on a small device instead of storing it on massive shelves through out a room of your house. You also get updates to that title if corrections are made in the future.
Did HD make TV cheaper? It didn't for me. Did increaed fuel efficiancy in cars make the car or the gasoline cheaper? Nope. The fact is, whenever something like this develops the people who develop it see dollar signs. That's just the way of the world. I'd like for technology to make things cheaper but at least in the short run that's not the case.
Do you realize that the agency model was designed to allow for publishers to set the prices thereby removing the power from the distributor/seller and to disrupt Amazon's monopoly?
So instead of Amazon having a monopoly the publishers get one. Your logic fails. Having a monopoly isn't illegal either. Abusing that monopoly is. Amazon never attempted to stop others from selling anything.
What are you willing to pay? I personally buy books from Amazon all the time for Kindle, even though I have a Nexus 7 now. Amazon offers the best prices out of everyone I've checked. I won't pay more than 9.99$ for a book and thusfar haven't needed too as all the books I want are that price or lower. Not true of Google Play however where I'd prefer to be buying books. Many of the same books on Google Play are 3-5$ more than Amazon.
I think on average I spend about 4-6$ on a book and I do that about once or twice a week. What's reasonable to you? I hear a lot of people complain about the pricing but as far as I can tell it's only the really big name titles being priced in the 12-15$ range. If people would stop paying that they'd reduce the prices.
So I've tried hard not to throw my hat in the ring on all this crap between Apple and Samsung. Basically what it comes down to is two things. Google has worked hard to move away fromt he iOS look and feel every since Froyo because they new it was a hotbed and because Steve Jobs was moderately correct in calling out the vendors in their attempts to make Android look like iOS.
The war between these two isn't about functionality it's about aesthetics. Samsung makes their UI very iOS'ish. I bought an Epic 4G from Sprint last year and even I noticed it. This was purely Samsung though, most other vendors veered away from this, especially Motorola who used Motoblur instead.
Apple is all about aesthetics. So when Samsung, who had prior knowledge of and access to Apples plans as one of their close suppliers, started "copying" the look and feel, naturally Apple got pissed off. I'm ok with Apple kicking them in the balls over that. I'd feel the same way knowing the history of Samsung and their complete lack of originality in the marketplace.
However, this has shown some serious problems with patents. It never should have gone this far. Maybe i'm wrong but I've never seen Ford sue Chevy over the size and shape of their trucks. They all have similar features because they are friggin obvious. Enough is enough with this crap. I've sworn both companies off and will never buy anything from either of them again. I'm going strictly Nexus (non-Samsung Nexus that is) with Android from now on. When my Macbook Air is EOL I'll be looking into other solutions.
I'm done supporting this. I thoroughly believe it's only gotten this far and become this bad because the media love a fight and because Samsung is incapable of making money based on their own products aesthetics. Samsung has Apple envy and Apple has an inferiority complex. Fuck'em both.
It hasn't been "rolled into the cost of the hardware." Proof please. The software is a giveaway to help sell the hardware, the area they actually make money.
The fucking operating system is non-serialized. I can give it to a hundred people and Apple would never know because frankly, they don't give a shit. Quit trying to rationalize a defenseless and baseless lie. The OS is free with the hardware and 20$ FOR A FULL VERSION OF THE OS when you wish to upgrade. Get the fuck over it.
That's too bad, 'cause, like most people, I was looking forward to buying overpriced hardware bundled with an expensive operating system and then just running free open source software on it instead.
OS X is 20$. I'd hardly call that "an expensive operating system"
You're clearly blinded by your own irrational hatred.
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Because "Google" is so much better? "Yahoo!" was a great name? Get the fuck over yourself. Friggin prima donna
Why is Google+ not it? I use it, all it needs is people to move. That is a problem every site will face with the masses too ignorant and/or lazy to leave Facebook. The only thing Google+ is missing is the ability to post on other peoples walls but putting a + before their name on your own wall accomplishes the same thing.
Google+ is amazing but for whatever reason, people just refuse to leave Facebook because they don't give a rats ass about their privacy. Hell most people don't even grasp what privacy is and are happy to post all their drunken frat pics to the public for future employers to see.
If you want people to get over to something like Google+ then you need to do it yourself also. You can't sit on your ass and wait for other people to start using it. Be vocal, post on Facebook publicly the problems with it, and show them the options.
Also, it's rather sad how Sen. Leahy has changed his views 180 degrees in recent years. Back in the times of Reagan he was at the forefront of making sure that CIA and NSA don't overstep their bounds. Nowadays it's like a completely different person.
That's because he used the CIA and NSA against Reagan. Now that his guy is in office it's free reign to do whatever is in his evil little heart. Been like this for 4 years, welcome to the new America.
I'm afraid Arch is dying. I used to love it back when it made sense but they've abandoned what made Arch great. They killed their own installer, moved to systemd by default and are still huge gnome3-shell fanboys despite all the backlash on it.
Its a shame, Arch has/had some of the best documentation out there. It's also the most up-to-date distro out there which I really appreciated. I'll miss Arch and hope they go to a more sane system soon.
"By extension, the same holds true for porn, pirated videos and music, etc., right? So, would you feel comfortable being judged by the online company you keep?"
Definitely. Most of the people whose company I enjoy favor a liberal interpretation of the authority of copyright and prefer adult-oriented content to PG and lighter fare. They speak ill of their government when it is justified (and sometimes when it is not) and accept that the four boxes of liberty are all unfortunate necessities. And they believe that even suspected terrorists who worship the wrong deity are endowed by their creator with the rights documented in the Declaration, Constitution, and Bill of Rights.
I rather like that sort of person, and hope that the world sees me as one of them. I think people who are not proud to fit that description tend to lie somewhere between pretentious and dull, and are detrimental to our advancement as a productive, open, honest, and self-aware society.
Definitely. Most of the people whose company I enjoy favor a conservative interpretation of the authority of copyright and prefer family-oriented content to XXX and lighter fare. They speak positively of their government when it is justified (and sometimes when it is not) and accept that the four branches of liberty are all fortunate inheritances from our forward thinking founders. And they believe that self proclaimed terrorists who twist and contort their religion into a religion of hate instead of peace and wage a holy war on the West deserve to be rebuffed in the most forceful manner necessary.
I rather like that sort of person, and hope that the world sees me as one of them. I think people who are not proud to fit that description tend to lie somewhere between naive and immature, and are detrimental to our advancement as a productive, open, honest, and self-aware society. However many of my close friends also fit this description and it doesn't affect my relationships with them because life is about more than politics, regardless of what the sitting President of the United States says.
These are third quarter sales. If I'm not mistaken the iPhone 5 was a fourth quarter release.
No my OS is days old :) I use Linux. I'm sorry you spent do much on you hardware. As for evidence...I'm glad you mention that. Did you notice that Android hit 25 Billion Apps downloads before Apple. Did you notice Apple crying then they got caught pants down for forming a illegal cartel, because Amazon are better at selling books. Apple has there day, but Amazon/Google have stores now. Apples market share dropped from 23% to 15%. ...but ignoring your love for Apple...there are simply better music players out there.
You're a whiny one aren't you? Spent too much on my hardware? I spent 1k on an ultrabook. How is that too much? Have you not seen the prices? Apple is not only competitive on this front, they are the leaders.
Marketshare dropped 23 to 15%? You'll need to provide evidence to that instead of just running your mouth off like you have been. Additionally, I have no love for apple. I rather like my MacBook Air, too bad you're stuck in your pitty party with sub par hardware and craptastic software. I bet you're one of those "Year of linux on the desktop!" trolls aren't you? With an attitude like yours I can see why you can't afford a decent computer, no one will hire you.
It neither works as a music player, or device management...it never did.
Strange, I work with dozens of people that use it for those purposes every day. Melodramatic much?
iTunes does just fine, sorry your hardware and OS are old and outdated and things lag but on my Macbook Air iTunes runs just as fast as any other app on my machine. Granted, Ping was stupid but its gone now. As to the rest of your rant, whatever. Millions of people use it successfully every single day, purchasing billions of songs and movies every year. The evidence is very much against you.
Not to play the UID game but it looks like I've probably been here a tad bit longer than you. I remember the glory days of MS bashing and the reasons for bashing were very different. People hated Windows because it crashed 200 times a day and any 8 year old with a DOS prompt could essentially "root" your box. MS also practiced extremely agressive anti-trust behavior.
Apple does none of the above. They just sue the piss out of competitors and act like arrogant jerks every chance they get. I'm not going to pass moral judgement on which of the two is worse but the reasons for the bashing are different and far more people here like Apple than they did MS in days long past.
I myself use Apple computers almost exclusively, even though I hate the company.
I worked for Apple a couple years ago. While my experience was generally positive, I can say without hesitation that Apple denies everything until it is absolutely not possible to deny it anymore. Then they turn their back and walk away.
The arrogance at Apple at anything above a director level is astounding. I remember when the Mac Malware stuff first hit and little old ladies were getting gay pron popping up on their screen. Apple's officlal policy was that it wasn't their problem and no Applecare reps were allowed to even confirm the problem existed or help get rid of it. It took over a month for them to release a software update to scan and remove it and even after that they wouldn't publicly take responsibility for Safari automatically opening "safe" files.
Apple is their own worst enemy in this regard.
Only if the government does it. The contracts you sign up on likely cover this. Not that anyone reads them.
I know right? It's not like there is a free compatibility pack or anything
Yeah, because at no point in history Christianity has killed people because of blasphemy and heresy.</sarcasm>
If any, it only says about their relative grade of maturity as somewhat civilized religions, and the long due need for a renaissance in Islam. Which won't happen if people trying to make it happen get ridiculed over and over.
Actually you'll find most of those Christian "wars" weren't in the name of God or Jesus. The vast majority of them were simply about power and the ones using Christianity as a rallying cry. The same can be said of Buddhism.
Waging wars in Jesus's name is strictly forbidden in scripture. It only takes a brief read through the gospels to see it plainly. When someone claims to be acting in the name of God and their actions are violent, they are called out on it pretty quickly. Christian cultures also tend to be self correcting. While Christians have done some bad things, this is pretty much to be expected because Christians are sinners like everyone else. However, Christians also make good efforts to stop sin, such as abolishing slavery. In this way, Christians self correct. No one claims Christians are perfect, in fact it's a tenet of the religion that they make mistakes. Islam thus far hasn't shown any of these characteristics.
I work in an organization that has tools (PC's running multimillion dollar fabrication tools) that still run DOS/Win2k and XP. The company spent millions of dollars on these things 10-15 years ago. They work fine. The company will not buy new ones just because the OS on it is old. At the time they were purchased, Microsoft was the only game in town for this type of work. No one else even came close. Many of the web apps rolled out at the time (remember this was 10+ years ago) were optimized for IE6 or earlier. This was when IE held 80%+ of the marketshare. It was a smart decision at the time.
Since then the economy has been in constant turmoil, first 9/11 then the dot come crash and now over the last 5 years the horrendous economic policy of the last two administrations and the longest spate of unemployment above 8% in this nations history. The company will not spend what is needed to upgrade these tools and therefore IT must continue to support and maintain them.
Your fantasy world where we can just up and switch things is just that, fantasy. Just because you can upgrade your desktop computer for a few hundred bucks doesn't mean Big Businesses can spend the billions of dollars needed to do so.
Your ignorance is showing
I can't think of a bigger insult than "socialist." Being a taker is probably about the worst thing you can be. Maybe you should try building wealth instead of stealing it?
Cigarettes won't set off gasoline. You need an open flame. A cigarette will just get put out when dipped in liquid fuel.
This "story" is just one big ass troll isn't it? Seriously, bunch of socialist shrinks deem people who believe contrary to them are crazy. This isn't news.
So instead of Amazon having a monopoly the publishers [i.e., more than one] get one. Your logic fails.
Speaking of logic fails...
No, not if they are acting in collusion. Then they are essentially operating as a single entity to fix prices. My logic is quite reasonable.
I'm not going to justify the higher price per se but just toss out some examples. I'm not too sure of situations in which technology ever made anything cheaper. In this case you get to download that copy over and over again for life (or at least as long as Amazon is alive). You get to store it in the cloud or on a small device instead of storing it on massive shelves through out a room of your house. You also get updates to that title if corrections are made in the future.
Did HD make TV cheaper? It didn't for me. Did increaed fuel efficiancy in cars make the car or the gasoline cheaper? Nope. The fact is, whenever something like this develops the people who develop it see dollar signs. That's just the way of the world. I'd like for technology to make things cheaper but at least in the short run that's not the case.
Do you realize that the agency model was designed to allow for publishers to set the prices thereby removing the power from the distributor/seller and to disrupt Amazon's monopoly?
So instead of Amazon having a monopoly the publishers get one. Your logic fails. Having a monopoly isn't illegal either. Abusing that monopoly is. Amazon never attempted to stop others from selling anything.
What are you willing to pay? I personally buy books from Amazon all the time for Kindle, even though I have a Nexus 7 now. Amazon offers the best prices out of everyone I've checked. I won't pay more than 9.99$ for a book and thusfar haven't needed too as all the books I want are that price or lower. Not true of Google Play however where I'd prefer to be buying books. Many of the same books on Google Play are 3-5$ more than Amazon.
I think on average I spend about 4-6$ on a book and I do that about once or twice a week. What's reasonable to you? I hear a lot of people complain about the pricing but as far as I can tell it's only the really big name titles being priced in the 12-15$ range. If people would stop paying that they'd reduce the prices.
So I've tried hard not to throw my hat in the ring on all this crap between Apple and Samsung. Basically what it comes down to is two things. Google has worked hard to move away fromt he iOS look and feel every since Froyo because they new it was a hotbed and because Steve Jobs was moderately correct in calling out the vendors in their attempts to make Android look like iOS.
The war between these two isn't about functionality it's about aesthetics. Samsung makes their UI very iOS'ish. I bought an Epic 4G from Sprint last year and even I noticed it. This was purely Samsung though, most other vendors veered away from this, especially Motorola who used Motoblur instead.
Apple is all about aesthetics. So when Samsung, who had prior knowledge of and access to Apples plans as one of their close suppliers, started "copying" the look and feel, naturally Apple got pissed off. I'm ok with Apple kicking them in the balls over that. I'd feel the same way knowing the history of Samsung and their complete lack of originality in the marketplace.
However, this has shown some serious problems with patents. It never should have gone this far. Maybe i'm wrong but I've never seen Ford sue Chevy over the size and shape of their trucks. They all have similar features because they are friggin obvious. Enough is enough with this crap. I've sworn both companies off and will never buy anything from either of them again. I'm going strictly Nexus (non-Samsung Nexus that is) with Android from now on. When my Macbook Air is EOL I'll be looking into other solutions.
I'm done supporting this. I thoroughly believe it's only gotten this far and become this bad because the media love a fight and because Samsung is incapable of making money based on their own products aesthetics. Samsung has Apple envy and Apple has an inferiority complex. Fuck'em both.
It hasn't been "rolled into the cost of the hardware." Proof please. The software is a giveaway to help sell the hardware, the area they actually make money.
The fucking operating system is non-serialized. I can give it to a hundred people and Apple would never know because frankly, they don't give a shit. Quit trying to rationalize a defenseless and baseless lie. The OS is free with the hardware and 20$ FOR A FULL VERSION OF THE OS when you wish to upgrade. Get the fuck over it.
That's too bad, 'cause, like most people, I was looking forward to buying overpriced hardware bundled with an expensive operating system and then just running free open source software on it instead.
OS X is 20$. I'd hardly call that "an expensive operating system"
You're clearly blinded by your own irrational hatred.