If there's an inquiry, it'll be internal and kept secret.
The article points out that this already happened. The bigger part of the story is, not only did they improperly arrest him, but when his lawyer made a discovery request for the tapes of the arrest they claimed they were deleted until he dug through a system spec included in a purchasing report and pointed out that they were in fact not deletable in the way they claimed. Now he gets to raise holy hell about the arrest AND the failed cover up of the tapes.
It's a question of intent. If you have aspirations of building a community, it's worth your time to make those features yourself, and figure out how to advertise. If, on the other hand, you just want to reach as many people as possible, "Like on Facebook" allows you to hook into their network and prompt people to share your stuff with others. I don't see myself needing it, but as free advertising goes it's pretty slick.
Well, yes, only from people inside the same company as you. And not because they have a big sinister plan that they're hiding, but just because they don't want to tell you you're not getting the project on the date they originally promised.
Oh please. They've made plenty of noise about how this is "the future of computing", and how it can do everything a regular laptop can do only better. Not that I would expect any less... it's just marketing. Only they don't get to do that, and then turn around and say that the ridiculous amount of restrictions they also place on it should be ignored when you look at the capabilities of the device.
Is Apple supposed to make it easy for you to do anything you want with the device?
If they want to sell it as a computer, yes, yes they are. It's an implicit part of the definition that the rest of the world has been working with for decades.
Asian religions in general lack the fixed rules found in western moral systems. The ancient "Art of War" text is pretty much about using manipulation and deceit to win wars without even doing battle. This kind of cunning is prized in Chinese culture. It also results in less physical conflict.
Not just that, but there also seems to be some cultural component that makes it a lot less okay to be wrong. I've heard from people in several different fields that it's difficult to work with Asian contractors or company branches because the managers there will tend to try to hide problems and upcoming delays until it blows up in their face, where people with a more "western" mindset would want to be told early.
How the hell is this modded informative? The guy didn't leak any financial data. This is the equivalent of moving out of a leased storefront and the next tenant contact Visa and saying, "Hey, I'm still here, could you pretty please send me a copy of all the records again?" and them doing it just because the address is the same.
Not according to the FTC, as quoted in the very thread to which you're replying...
However, for unauthorized transfers involving only your debit card number (not the loss of the card), you are liable only for transfers that occur after 60 days following the mailing of your bank statement containing the unauthorized use and before you report the loss.
According to them you have up to 60 days to report from the time they mail you the statement containing the fraudulent withdrawal before you start losing your own money.
Yet the fact that you don't primarily run Windows on it argues otherwise.
I'm more interested in playing with the Mac OS as a toy than I am in having a functional laptop. If I needed it to be useful I would wipe it and run Windows or Ubuntu. I keep meaning to learn Objective-C programming someday.
My Macbook crashes or locks up waaaaay more frequently than my Windows desktop, and yet the Macbook has not faded into obscurity. Apple makes beautiful, high quality hardware (for which you pay a premium), and mediocre software at best.
You don't need phone service, although you do need a phone line. However, aside from ClearWire which is only available in cities as far as I know, and satellite which has retarded amounts of lag, you need wiring for pretty much any internet service.
People are very quick to dismiss the reflective screen as "just another feature", but it's really not. It's the core of the Kindle use case, which is to replace lots of heavy, hard to find books with one light, access-to-every-book-ever device, and as such it can get away with a lot of feature gap from traditional systems. Despite the fact that it runs Linux, it's not typically thought of as a computer.
The iPad, on the other hand, is trying very hard to replace at least the netbook class, if not the laptop class, of actual computers. It has to invite the comparison to more powerful devices or it won't get taken seriously. Problem is, since the OS is pretty restrictive and locked down, and the input mechanism is clumsy at best, there are a whole lot of niche market users for computers that won't be happy with the iPad.
Full disclaimer, I have not owned, nor do I plan to own a Kindle or any other e-book reader, but the number of people who do and swear by the interface as a more pleasant reading experience seem to indicate there's some value there. I'm enough of a die-hard that I prefer physical books anyway, but if I was forced to choose a replacement I'd probably be sentimental enough to prefer an experience that has enough respect for the history of books to not glow while I'm reading it.
I dunno... I have no interest in owning a BMW (I'd actually prefer not to own a car in the first place, but can't get away with it yet), and I still have to laugh every time I see one of these on the street, invariably with some chubby bald guy driving it.
Some less than totally honest stores actually charge more per unit for multiples or larger containers counting on exactly this behavior. It's especially bad with things where the small and large are something like 3.7 oz and 16.2 oz, and people are forced to do math to figure out which one is cheaper.
Good thing that completely fails when any modern TV is essentially an oversized computer monitor. I've got a cheap little windows box with a wireless keyboard with a built in trackball in the corner, and I've never had a problem playing any content. Honestly, I'm a little amazed at the idea that people could have a hard time doing things on their TV that they can do on their computer.
Don't get me wrong, I agree with you completely that the current setup is flawed. I don't own any ebooks for exactly the reason you describe. All I'm saying is, the space seems perfect for a rental service like Netflix or the Zune "full access" music service, and I'm surprised that nobody's put one together yet.
Well, inherently longer than a movie, for example, for which the rental model works quite well. The only problem with libraries is limited supply since they operate on physical items (or ridiculous approximations of physical items imposed by the publishers, even when eBooks don't have to be limited).
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The article points out that this already happened. The bigger part of the story is, not only did they improperly arrest him, but when his lawyer made a discovery request for the tapes of the arrest they claimed they were deleted until he dug through a system spec included in a purchasing report and pointed out that they were in fact not deletable in the way they claimed. Now he gets to raise holy hell about the arrest AND the failed cover up of the tapes.
It's a question of intent. If you have aspirations of building a community, it's worth your time to make those features yourself, and figure out how to advertise. If, on the other hand, you just want to reach as many people as possible, "Like on Facebook" allows you to hook into their network and prompt people to share your stuff with others. I don't see myself needing it, but as free advertising goes it's pretty slick.
What?
My source is Steve Jobs' words and attitude during the Macworld announcement. I'm totally with you on what it actually is, by the way.
Well, yes, only from people inside the same company as you. And not because they have a big sinister plan that they're hiding, but just because they don't want to tell you you're not getting the project on the date they originally promised.
Oh please. They've made plenty of noise about how this is "the future of computing", and how it can do everything a regular laptop can do only better. Not that I would expect any less... it's just marketing. Only they don't get to do that, and then turn around and say that the ridiculous amount of restrictions they also place on it should be ignored when you look at the capabilities of the device.
If they want to sell it as a computer, yes, yes they are. It's an implicit part of the definition that the rest of the world has been working with for decades.
Not just that, but there also seems to be some cultural component that makes it a lot less okay to be wrong. I've heard from people in several different fields that it's difficult to work with Asian contractors or company branches because the managers there will tend to try to hide problems and upcoming delays until it blows up in their face, where people with a more "western" mindset would want to be told early.
How the hell is this modded informative? The guy didn't leak any financial data. This is the equivalent of moving out of a leased storefront and the next tenant contact Visa and saying, "Hey, I'm still here, could you pretty please send me a copy of all the records again?" and them doing it just because the address is the same.
According to them you have up to 60 days to report from the time they mail you the statement containing the fraudulent withdrawal before you start losing your own money.
Because I was curious, and have more money than common sense?
I'm more interested in playing with the Mac OS as a toy than I am in having a functional laptop. If I needed it to be useful I would wipe it and run Windows or Ubuntu. I keep meaning to learn Objective-C programming someday.
My Macbook crashes or locks up waaaaay more frequently than my Windows desktop, and yet the Macbook has not faded into obscurity. Apple makes beautiful, high quality hardware (for which you pay a premium), and mediocre software at best.
I also was using them as an example of the opposite of what you think I'm claiming.
You don't need phone service, although you do need a phone line. However, aside from ClearWire which is only available in cities as far as I know, and satellite which has retarded amounts of lag, you need wiring for pretty much any internet service.
Speakeasy. You're welcome.
If you bothered to read past the first sentence of the summary, you'd notice that Android is mentioned as already being supported.
People are very quick to dismiss the reflective screen as "just another feature", but it's really not. It's the core of the Kindle use case, which is to replace lots of heavy, hard to find books with one light, access-to-every-book-ever device, and as such it can get away with a lot of feature gap from traditional systems. Despite the fact that it runs Linux, it's not typically thought of as a computer.
The iPad, on the other hand, is trying very hard to replace at least the netbook class, if not the laptop class, of actual computers. It has to invite the comparison to more powerful devices or it won't get taken seriously. Problem is, since the OS is pretty restrictive and locked down, and the input mechanism is clumsy at best, there are a whole lot of niche market users for computers that won't be happy with the iPad.
Full disclaimer, I have not owned, nor do I plan to own a Kindle or any other e-book reader, but the number of people who do and swear by the interface as a more pleasant reading experience seem to indicate there's some value there. I'm enough of a die-hard that I prefer physical books anyway, but if I was forced to choose a replacement I'd probably be sentimental enough to prefer an experience that has enough respect for the history of books to not glow while I'm reading it.
Didn't they just release a dev kit a month or two back?
Sounds pretty close... in the last screenshot of the "article" you can clearly see that the project has separate directories for each platform.
I dunno... I have no interest in owning a BMW (I'd actually prefer not to own a car in the first place, but can't get away with it yet), and I still have to laugh every time I see one of these on the street, invariably with some chubby bald guy driving it.
Some less than totally honest stores actually charge more per unit for multiples or larger containers counting on exactly this behavior. It's especially bad with things where the small and large are something like 3.7 oz and 16.2 oz, and people are forced to do math to figure out which one is cheaper.
Good thing that completely fails when any modern TV is essentially an oversized computer monitor. I've got a cheap little windows box with a wireless keyboard with a built in trackball in the corner, and I've never had a problem playing any content. Honestly, I'm a little amazed at the idea that people could have a hard time doing things on their TV that they can do on their computer.
Don't get me wrong, I agree with you completely that the current setup is flawed. I don't own any ebooks for exactly the reason you describe. All I'm saying is, the space seems perfect for a rental service like Netflix or the Zune "full access" music service, and I'm surprised that nobody's put one together yet.
Well, inherently longer than a movie, for example, for which the rental model works quite well. The only problem with libraries is limited supply since they operate on physical items (or ridiculous approximations of physical items imposed by the publishers, even when eBooks don't have to be limited).