Well, you happen to be a member of a society with a set social order. The government is responsibile for maintaining that social order. Allowing you to discriminate for whatever reason cause problems in the social order. For instance, say government allows you and others to discriminate based on race. It is a whole grouping of people that are now excluded from economy. If you know anything about the 1960's, discrimination like that causes a lot of unrest. The laws are there so that people can seek legal redress and not be compel to cause havoc. Basically, discrimination laws are there to maintian balance in society. You seem to argue for a lasse faire approach but history dictates that that approach is rifed with social problems.
"THIS IS APPPPLE!!!" Apple's decision to lock out the platform is equally as intelligent as that movie. They are fanatic about the iPhone only being used as a phone, iPod, internet device (only what Apple decides and nothing more). The Book of Jobs forbids anyone to use it to log into a Cisco VPN, authenticate with Active Directory, log their credit card purchases, play a game or any other nonsense. This is the most efficient route to take a novel product and run it into the ground. Third party apps can only add value to the device thus helping Apple to meet its goal. Oh, well. I guess they have a special place for it in the Apple museum right next to the G4 Cube. If they try this on their computer line, I will have to change my sig.
You have too much time on your hands. Why not simulate the abacus while your at it?! I study physics and I have not need for an slide rule. Matlab rules them all and everthing else is obsolete. I can't sit around all day doing mundane calculations. However, from my observations a tutor, calculators are being utilize too much in high school and the students suffer for it. It is one thing using technology to be productive and it is completely another thing to outsource thinking from your brain. Give them the slide rules, let them earn the calculators!
First, the editorial makes a good point, but the Vista is going to be abandonware. The general public naivete on the burgeoning Information Age creates a monopoly for Microsoft. With commanding control of the market, Microsoft can basically dictate the features and pricing on the consumer instead the other way around. The editorial really should have advise the consumer not buy Microsoft, period. Obviously, not everyone can abandon Microsoft, but those able to switch to another OS can erode the monopoly to the point Microsoft starts to listen again. Read the sig for further suggestions.
A program to keep a check book and sync with Quicken. I can throw the paper one away.
Cisco VPN?
Active Directory support- lot of institutions including academic ones use it. I would like to connect to wireless there!
Games?
What part of convergence do they not understand? I can probably buy the iPhone but I won't because it is too limited! Apple can either let developers in and make more money or spend lots of money keeping hackers out. Get out of bed with AT&T while you are at it.
That is an important fact that wasn't mentioned once. Apple has taken its business strategy lateral instead of vertical. Intead of trying to climb the ladder that is the stale desktop market. They are jumping to ladder that have sprung up right along side the desktop market. Consumer devices respresents a sizeable growth oportunity that rivals the desktop market. Apple is growing faster than Dell because of it. Again, we are bantering about yet another redundant foray into why Apple isn't trying to takeover the desktop market. The fact that a reputable paper like the New York Times is chiming is not so much for analyzing Apple's missed opportunity but to highlight a continued frustration with Microsoft. Does anyone believe that Microsoft was truly responding to the needs of its consumer with Vista? High system requirements help OEMs. DRM serves sontent providers. UAC is an annoying nuisance that is self-serving shift of the blame to the consumer for security lapses. Where is the consumer to turn for an alternative? Linux? They are give it away for free from thousands of different sources and yet it is stuck with a fraction of the desktops. Whatever merits it has, apparently, consumers are not willing to trust with their computing needs. The only alternative is Apple with Mac OSX. Unfortunately, Apple Computer has long been replaced by Apple, Inc.
I must not understand the full dynamics of how a broadcasting company makes money. I thought those annoying interruptions to my favorite show that try to sell burgers that will make me fat and cars I cannot afford were the one that paid for my favorite show to be made. Then, when I saw my favorite show on FX, TBS, or SCIFI and again was annoyed by a new set of interruptions that include selling me pills to enhance my johnson, burgers that will kill me, and a cartoon fox that is trying to con me out of what little money I have. I mistakenly thought that those also paid that broadcasting company and add to its profits on my favorite show. But, low and behold, that poor broadcasting company is still not making enough and must charge me more when I want to watch my favorite show from iTunes. Is it Steve Carrell that gumming up the works? He is not that funny. Just fire his ass and keep the stupid shows on iTunes! The days when I watch your shows on your schedule with your selection of annoying interruptions are coming to a close. Listen to Apple, I will not pay 4.99 for BSG. Season 3 started off strong but the only thing positive about the season finale was the remake of "Along came the watchtower".
Are you suggesting that MS should get applauded for copying a 5 year feature and completely slowing down year old hardware in the process. Real innovation there! Apple gets praise for a:) coming up with it in 2001 and b:) implementing smoothly it on PowerPC G3 hardware and 32 meg of VRAM ATI radeon 9200. It is called bloat when you require 512 MB RAM, 128 MB VRAM, and 1 GHZ processor to do the same!
Did Bill Gates come with that himself? I could bear to watch it till the end! Good thing, he didn't play the rapper in it. Today, Microsoft marketing is the worst but this ad shows that it has at least gotten better.
"Do onto to others as you would want done onto you" It is funny how useful that ancient logic is this modern world. In lieu of corporate policy or legal framework, use that to guide your ethics as you lord over the company's computers.
I wondering what happen to all those malware writers. Dear God, I was afraid I would have to change my sig!!! Something like, "You don't have to be smart to use Windows, you just have to be smart enough to install it" Oh the freakin' horror! I shudder to type to type such a sig. Although, this one sounds more appropriate after RTFA, "You can't be dumb to use Windows, you just have to be dumb enough to install it"
So, this study explains why Bush did not understand why this argument is wrong.
All terrorist are Muslim.
All Iraqi's are Muslim
Therefore, all Iraqis are terrorists
Now, I chose to leave out little bits like Sunni or Shia, some Iraqis are Christian, yadda yadda yadda. I didn't want to overload the brains of conservatives that read Slashdot.
It is the bonus Apple gets for not developing an iPhone for competing US networks. Apple like Motorola or Nokia could develop other iPhones to work with Verizon and Sprint now that the cat is out of the bag. Apple would expand the iPhone base and reach it 10 million faster but AT&T wants exclusive right for now to capitalize on the buzz. So, they cut Apple in on the revenue to make up for Apple's lost sales.
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Dude, don't scare me!!!
Sometimes a good defense is a good offense
Well, you happen to be a member of a society with a set social order. The government is responsibile for maintaining that social order. Allowing you to discriminate for whatever reason cause problems in the social order. For instance, say government allows you and others to discriminate based on race. It is a whole grouping of people that are now excluded from economy. If you know anything about the 1960's, discrimination like that causes a lot of unrest. The laws are there so that people can seek legal redress and not be compel to cause havoc. Basically, discrimination laws are there to maintian balance in society. You seem to argue for a lasse faire approach but history dictates that that approach is rifed with social problems.
I would be afraid if dell made a $200 laptop. They can't keep a $1,000 laptop from exploding. Can you make a laptop any shittier?
"THIS IS APPPPLE!!!" Apple's decision to lock out the platform is equally as intelligent as that movie. They are fanatic about the iPhone only being used as a phone, iPod, internet device (only what Apple decides and nothing more). The Book of Jobs forbids anyone to use it to log into a Cisco VPN, authenticate with Active Directory, log their credit card purchases, play a game or any other nonsense. This is the most efficient route to take a novel product and run it into the ground. Third party apps can only add value to the device thus helping Apple to meet its goal. Oh, well. I guess they have a special place for it in the Apple museum right next to the G4 Cube. If they try this on their computer line, I will have to change my sig.
Maryland! You must be thinking of Detroit.
You didn't see the Get Smart trailers. Steven Carell
You have too much time on your hands. Why not simulate the abacus while your at it?! I study physics and I have not need for an slide rule. Matlab rules them all and everthing else is obsolete. I can't sit around all day doing mundane calculations. However, from my observations a tutor, calculators are being utilize too much in high school and the students suffer for it. It is one thing using technology to be productive and it is completely another thing to outsource thinking from your brain. Give them the slide rules, let them earn the calculators!
First, the editorial makes a good point, but the Vista is going to be abandonware. The general public naivete on the burgeoning Information Age creates a monopoly for Microsoft. With commanding control of the market, Microsoft can basically dictate the features and pricing on the consumer instead the other way around. The editorial really should have advise the consumer not buy Microsoft, period. Obviously, not everyone can abandon Microsoft, but those able to switch to another OS can erode the monopoly to the point Microsoft starts to listen again. Read the sig for further suggestions.
the likelihood of a geek guy getting with a geek girl
An event that happens once every 15 years. Thank God, it is not more.
A program to keep a check book and sync with Quicken. I can throw the paper one away.
Cisco VPN?
Active Directory support- lot of institutions including academic ones use it. I would like to connect to wireless there!
Games?
What part of convergence do they not understand? I can probably buy the iPhone but I won't because it is too limited! Apple can either let developers in and make more money or spend lots of money keeping hackers out. Get out of bed with AT&T while you are at it.
That is an important fact that wasn't mentioned once. Apple has taken its business strategy lateral instead of vertical. Intead of trying to climb the ladder that is the stale desktop market. They are jumping to ladder that have sprung up right along side the desktop market. Consumer devices respresents a sizeable growth oportunity that rivals the desktop market. Apple is growing faster than Dell because of it. Again, we are bantering about yet another redundant foray into why Apple isn't trying to takeover the desktop market. The fact that a reputable paper like the New York Times is chiming is not so much for analyzing Apple's missed opportunity but to highlight a continued frustration with Microsoft. Does anyone believe that Microsoft was truly responding to the needs of its consumer with Vista? High system requirements help OEMs. DRM serves sontent providers. UAC is an annoying nuisance that is self-serving shift of the blame to the consumer for security lapses. Where is the consumer to turn for an alternative? Linux? They are give it away for free from thousands of different sources and yet it is stuck with a fraction of the desktops. Whatever merits it has, apparently, consumers are not willing to trust with their computing needs. The only alternative is Apple with Mac OSX. Unfortunately, Apple Computer has long been replaced by Apple, Inc.
Where do you draw the line between porn and art?
Where you start masterbating to it? That's my guess
I must not understand the full dynamics of how a broadcasting company makes money. I thought those annoying interruptions to my favorite show that try to sell burgers that will make me fat and cars I cannot afford were the one that paid for my favorite show to be made. Then, when I saw my favorite show on FX, TBS, or SCIFI and again was annoyed by a new set of interruptions that include selling me pills to enhance my johnson, burgers that will kill me, and a cartoon fox that is trying to con me out of what little money I have. I mistakenly thought that those also paid that broadcasting company and add to its profits on my favorite show. But, low and behold, that poor broadcasting company is still not making enough and must charge me more when I want to watch my favorite show from iTunes. Is it Steve Carrell that gumming up the works? He is not that funny. Just fire his ass and keep the stupid shows on iTunes! The days when I watch your shows on your schedule with your selection of annoying interruptions are coming to a close. Listen to Apple, I will not pay 4.99 for BSG. Season 3 started off strong but the only thing positive about the season finale was the remake of "Along came the watchtower".
Are you suggesting that MS should get applauded for copying a 5 year feature and completely slowing down year old hardware in the process. Real innovation there! Apple gets praise for a:) coming up with it in 2001 and b:) implementing smoothly it on PowerPC G3 hardware and 32 meg of VRAM ATI radeon 9200. It is called bloat when you require 512 MB RAM, 128 MB VRAM, and 1 GHZ processor to do the same!
Did Bill Gates come with that himself? I could bear to watch it till the end! Good thing, he didn't play the rapper in it. Today, Microsoft marketing is the worst but this ad shows that it has at least gotten better.
"Do onto to others as you would want done onto you" It is funny how useful that ancient logic is this modern world. In lieu of corporate policy or legal framework, use that to guide your ethics as you lord over the company's computers.
I wondering what happen to all those malware writers. Dear God, I was afraid I would have to change my sig!!! Something like, "You don't have to be smart to use Windows, you just have to be smart enough to install it" Oh the freakin' horror! I shudder to type to type such a sig. Although, this one sounds more appropriate after RTFA, "You can't be dumb to use Windows, you just have to be dumb enough to install it"
So, this study explains why Bush did not understand why this argument is wrong.
All terrorist are Muslim.
All Iraqi's are Muslim
Therefore, all Iraqis are terrorists
Now, I chose to leave out little bits like Sunni or Shia, some Iraqis are Christian, yadda yadda yadda. I didn't want to overload the brains of conservatives that read Slashdot.
I vote for using the 80 Gbyte hard drives as well. They should also release a developer kit so we can have a proper nano-Mac.
I feel sorry for those early adopters who paid $499 or $599. I am going to go now, I have to break the news to one.
The Gubernator is worth 800 million by himself. Microsoft would have to throw billions to buy him.
"Oh woe is me"
I got a PC and it is full of crapware
"Oh woe is me"
My computer is slow
"Oh woe is me"
I didn't get a intall CD
"Oh woe is me"
My computer is dead after one year. I have to go back and get me another one
"Oh woe is me"
Why don't just buy a from someone else
Because I like saying, "Oh woe is me"
Read the sig...
It is the bonus Apple gets for not developing an iPhone for competing US networks. Apple like Motorola or Nokia could develop other iPhones to work with Verizon and Sprint now that the cat is out of the bag. Apple would expand the iPhone base and reach it 10 million faster but AT&T wants exclusive right for now to capitalize on the buzz. So, they cut Apple in on the revenue to make up for Apple's lost sales.