"The ROKR E1 design is definately[sic.] not up to the "shit your pants" standard that Apple has worked hard to acheive[sic.]."
Then you will be happy to hear that apple's next product announcement will be the iDiaper for grown men that shit their pants during product announcements. It will obviously come in apple's signature white. Unfortunately someone will shit themselves at this announcement, but apple figured that this can be the last time that it will be a problem.
I disagree. Apple makes money on the iTMS. I will now post the same amount of proof as you did to prove my point.... Ok done. Thus proving that apple makes money on the iTMS. Case closed on that one.
I'd post more links of other non-imported goods, but it doesn't sound like you actually care. Instead you would rather troll than look into solutions. It sure is a lot easier to complain about the way the world is than to actually fix anything. Am I a know it all? Nope. Am I a know more than you? Yep.
"Sound like their website is not configured to keep people from stealing their images.
So why aren't they suing the image thieves?
that's right, google's got deep pockets."
Two words. "Free Advertising". If you sue joe dumbass on the internet, you don't get much free advertising. If you sue google, quite the hot corporation at the moment, you will get a bunch of free advertising. Plus you might get some money if you win.
Exactly! That way the open source community has only one company to beg to add ogg to their players instead of many. I'm pretty sure the next generation of ipods will totally support ogg too. I can't wait till apple crushes them all and I can start the online petition.
ps- if you need sarcasm tags around that to notice the sarcasm then you need help or you are helplessly addicted to tags(in which case you might still want to think about getting help).
"the data does indicate the US is moving towards a meritocracy, where the competent, educated and motivated rise and rule over others through their command of capital."
What data! Our president spent 7 years in college and did coke. And he got elected to a second term. There's my data. Where's yours. Since you are obviously an educated person you can obviously post your data here. Otherwise by your own account you will plunge to the bottom of the social classes for failing to be competent, educated, and motivated.
Oh and if you say something to the effect of "this is the general trend I've witnessed at work" then you should also post as an addition that you actually have no data and are merely posting generalizations. However if you do have actual scientific evidence to support your claim then I will be surprised and ecstatic at the direction of this country.
Of course finding someplace like this near you would actually take some time. For people like you who are too busy to look, you are correct. There is only one choice, and it is walmart.
And google's jabber won't accept connections from other jabber servers making it a closed network. Think aim only running an open protocol. This just means that gaim doesn't have to reverse engineer anything. It's still not open to the jabber community.
I set up a jabber server to try and see if I could talk to my gmail IM. Took me forever and it looks like the google talk won't let you connect from an outside jabber server. I found people talking about opening the googletalk servers here:
" Who do you think makes more money, Apple, or some random software company? Thats right."
Well which one? Adobe? Microsoft? Or were you referring to the guy that made the program to bid 3 seconds before my ebay auction expires? It is possible to make more money in software than hardware.
"Also, if they switch, then they start over with a marketshare of 0%, and have to fight against Windows brand recognition, and against the people that depend on certain parts or apps in windows. Not cool."
The ipod & itunes are increasing apple's brand recognition. As for fighting Microsoft, apple doesn't have to destroy Microsoft in order to succeed. Apple has less than 5% of the computer market. If they sold 5% of the computers after the switch they would be doing great for apple. As for starting out with 0% marketshare, I'm sure those who currently have a mac will completely forget apple when they see a dell running Microsoft.
Well you have some vague and unscientific evidence supporting your claim. As a slashdot reader this is enough for me to form my opinion. I'll go ahead and agree with you.
I think the point of the poster is not that apple should be stripped of the right to sue, but rather why they chose that route for their company. Knowing that OS X on generic hardware would happen, apple is presented with some different options. Some of which are:
-implement a rigorous technical lockdown of the software to the hardware (perhaps some software registration scheme)
-Think differently and open source the whole thing and don't care about it(crossing my fingers for this one)
-sue the bastards
There are a bunch of other things apple could have done too. Knowing that it would happen, why would apple decide to go down the path of creating OS X on x86 and then sue. Apple's plan was to take a similar strategy to the RIAA (sue the bastards). Some of us are in disbelief that apple would decide to go this route. Although apple being a corporation I am not that shocked.
What he should have said is that the statement is bad reporting. Saying "KDE is certainly more popular than Gnome among Linux users, and most would agree that it's by far the better of the two desktops." means that most linux users feel that kde is far better than gnome. I have not seen any serious studies that came to this conclusion. It's about as baseless as your statement:
"Practically every poll shows KDE has far more users." You fell victim to the same problem as the original article. Just like the original article if you site a trustworthy source and I will agree.
If the governor of the state/commonwealth, Mark Warner, can say "For years, Virginia's veterans have been calling for a second care facility in the state," then I can call Virginia a state too.
Obviously the citizens of Virginia don't care much whether their state is called a state or a commonwealth, especially since they are granted the same rights in the federal government whether they choose commonwealth or state as a designation.
So if somebody on slashdot wants to say "citizens of my state", and is referring to Virginia, I won't care.
That is why it's called the United Commonwealths of America. Land of the brave and home of the UCA Citizens. The 50 stars on the UCA flag represent the 50 commonwealths. I live in the California Commonwealth. Our commonwealth capitol is Sacramento. Our commonwealth state bird is the quail....
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He was running an unreleased beta of the world wide web.... He's that 1337
Thus proving that Linux is actually a virus.
Then you will be happy to hear that apple's next product announcement will be the iDiaper for grown men that shit their pants during product announcements. It will obviously come in apple's signature white. Unfortunately someone will shit themselves at this announcement, but apple figured that this can be the last time that it will be a problem.
I disagree. Apple makes money on the iTMS. I will now post the same amount of proof as you did to prove my point.... Ok done. Thus proving that apple makes money on the iTMS. Case closed on that one.
Can someone mod this funny?
I'd post more links of other non-imported goods, but it doesn't sound like you actually care. Instead you would rather troll than look into solutions. It sure is a lot easier to complain about the way the world is than to actually fix anything. Am I a know it all? Nope. Am I a know more than you? Yep.
So why aren't they suing the image thieves?
that's right, google's got deep pockets."
Two words. "Free Advertising". If you sue joe dumbass on the internet, you don't get much free advertising. If you sue google, quite the hot corporation at the moment, you will get a bunch of free advertising. Plus you might get some money if you win.
ps- if you need sarcasm tags around that to notice the sarcasm then you need help or you are helplessly addicted to tags(in which case you might still want to think about getting help).
What data! Our president spent 7 years in college and did coke. And he got elected to a second term. There's my data. Where's yours. Since you are obviously an educated person you can obviously post your data here. Otherwise by your own account you will plunge to the bottom of the social classes for failing to be competent, educated, and motivated.
Oh and if you say something to the effect of "this is the general trend I've witnessed at work" then you should also post as an addition that you actually have no data and are merely posting generalizations. However if you do have actual scientific evidence to support your claim then I will be surprised and ecstatic at the direction of this country.
If you looked you would find places like this: http://www.sosfromtexas.com/about.html
Of course finding someplace like this near you would actually take some time. For people like you who are too busy to look, you are correct. There is only one choice, and it is walmart.
more US cotton (Texas actually) http://www.texasorganic.com/
Capitalism is the only the system we have. Along with the best system we have I guess you could say it's also the worst system we have too.
http://www.google.com/talk/developer.html#service_ 4 makes it look like a post launch bump.
http://www.google.com/talk/developer.html#service_ 4
And google's jabber won't accept connections from other jabber servers making it a closed network. Think aim only running an open protocol. This just means that gaim doesn't have to reverse engineer anything. It's still not open to the jabber community.
http://groups.google.com/group/google-talk-open
I'm going to recommend that people post on it to request that google open their network to the full jabber community instead of keeping it locked up.
I guess Instead of afraid I'm just mad. I vow to never buy things advertised on billboards.
Well which one? Adobe? Microsoft? Or were you referring to the guy that made the program to bid 3 seconds before my ebay auction expires? It is possible to make more money in software than hardware.
"Also, if they switch, then they start over with a marketshare of 0%, and have to fight against Windows brand recognition, and against the people that depend on certain parts or apps in windows. Not cool."
The ipod & itunes are increasing apple's brand recognition. As for fighting Microsoft, apple doesn't have to destroy Microsoft in order to succeed. Apple has less than 5% of the computer market. If they sold 5% of the computers after the switch they would be doing great for apple. As for starting out with 0% marketshare, I'm sure those who currently have a mac will completely forget apple when they see a dell running Microsoft.
Yes but does it run Linux?
Well you have some vague and unscientific evidence supporting your claim. As a slashdot reader this is enough for me to form my opinion. I'll go ahead and agree with you.
-implement a rigorous technical lockdown of the software to the hardware (perhaps some software registration scheme)
-Think differently and open source the whole thing and don't care about it(crossing my fingers for this one)
-sue the bastards
There are a bunch of other things apple could have done too. Knowing that it would happen, why would apple decide to go down the path of creating OS X on x86 and then sue. Apple's plan was to take a similar strategy to the RIAA (sue the bastards). Some of us are in disbelief that apple would decide to go this route. Although apple being a corporation I am not that shocked.
I guess the only thing to say then is that you are a sexist.
"Practically every poll shows KDE has far more users." You fell victim to the same problem as the original article. Just like the original article if you site a trustworthy source and I will agree.
Just look at their website:g overnment_1046/index.html
http://www.virginia.gov/cmsportal/government_881/
The top left says commonwealth of Virginia and the text says "state government branches".
If the governor of the state/commonwealth, Mark Warner, can say "For years, Virginia's veterans have been calling for a second care facility in the state," then I can call Virginia a state too. Obviously the citizens of Virginia don't care much whether their state is called a state or a commonwealth, especially since they are granted the same rights in the federal government whether they choose commonwealth or state as a designation.
So if somebody on slashdot wants to say "citizens of my state", and is referring to Virginia, I won't care.
That is why it's called the United Commonwealths of America. Land of the brave and home of the UCA Citizens. The 50 stars on the UCA flag represent the 50 commonwealths. I live in the California Commonwealth. Our commonwealth capitol is Sacramento. Our commonwealth state bird is the quail....
I've got a map of the Unites STATES of America. You know, that collection of 50 STATES of which people are citizens of. Here, have a map.