How did this get insightful? I thought we were supposed to be the smart ones on slashdot. At least compared to the so called "sheeple" that buy Apple products.
Apple, assuming it started to sell TVs, would not have a monopoly on selling TV sets, or even on media centre type devices. For proof of this, just... walk into any shop that sells TVs, or google "purchase a TV".
Goodness, it's like there's a blind spot of ignorance that arises whenever the word "Apple" is mentioned, and/. neckbeards start frothing at the mouth to mod up anything that criticises Apple.
Because with a Universal Healthcare system, even with the "edge cases" of people who don't pay taxes and yet get treated for expensive diseases like cancer, it *still works out cheaper for everyone* because of the massive economy of scale advantage of the system.
Even with Joe "unemployed but with lung cancer" Sixpack getting treatment "for free" (since he is not paying in), *you personally* are still better off, and you get all the same benefits as he does (ie, the same standard of care you get in the US right now, just for less money)
By the person themselves - that's what he was saying. For the cost of the shitty insurance in the USA, the same money in Germany pays for coverage that costs thousands and thousands more in the US, and you get it partially refunded every quarter if you don;t use it.
That's because *everyone pays into the same pot so the cost goes down for everyone*. This is what the anti-universal healthcare people seem to miss (or deliberately ignore).
I have lived in the UK (I'm British) and in the US. If you think the poorest American (or even a modestly paid American, say one working in retail for minimum wage) has anything *like* the quality of healthcare that is available to *everyone* in the UK then you are delusional.
Just because Glenn Beck told you that does not make it true.
Because the economies of scale work to your advantage in a system that is essentially insurance. Even with the added "downside" of extra bureaucracy and inefficiency brought in by government (and that should obviously be minimised as much as possible) it is *still* cheaper to have universal healthcare compared to the way the US handles things. There is a reason that the per-capita GDP spending by the US on healthcare is *twice* what it is by the UK, and we have a pretty bloated system that needs trimming and reorgnisation.
The vast majority of the developed world noticed that it was a total no-brainer to provide universal healthcare for its citizens: not only is it cheaper (by a lot), it also results in healthier citizens across a broader spectrum of the population (ie, poor people too) - and healthy people are more productive. It also massively increases the uptake of preventative care, which is another factor in keeping costs down.
I haven't tried one since 10.2, so any info I personally have is way out of date (I'm not the OP). I too, struggle on with the idiosyncrasies of the Finder. I'd have been overjoyed if WWDC this year said "we totally rewrote Finder from scratch".
Plug in the SD card reader into the dock connector. You have SD function!
(unlike the Xoom, which has an SD slot that *doesn't work*).
It's a little bit hilarious that the supposed "major missing feature" on the iPad and iPad 2 - the lack of SD card functionality - works better on the iPad than it does on the Xoom.
So now you're talking about 100k? Which is it? 200k or 100k?
The article also mentions that it's a competitive salary for the job they do (note they're not simply sitting in the tower in shorts working on their tans).
So really your argument isn't about public sector workers, it's that you think professional life guards are paid too much.
No, not that at all - you talk about "lifeguards" as if it's all of them - the 200k (in total benefits, not base salary or pension) is for only two chiefs (as per your link), and is not the norm. Of the 13 employees, the two bosses earned 200k in combined salary, benefits and overtime.
I do not see how this invalidates my point that you don;t live in reality, and are simply posting as an anti-public-employee troll. Has it occurred to you that they actually *earned* their pay? And that "200k" is not simply "a lifeguard" as your troll post attempts to suggest (also note that your own cite specifically mentions this much further down from the headline).
The anti-union, anti-middle-class, anti-public-worker propaganda train has done a bang up job convincing people that unions and public workers live the life of riley smoking hand rolled cigars with their feet up while the hard working private workers are struggling to buy spam. It's just not so, and a single case of two lifeguard battalion chiefs with combined benefits that total 200k each won't change that. Especially trying to pass them off as "life guards" to cover their actual roles.
It really wasn't worth the effort to type all that since you're clearly trolling, but bravo! You managed to get me to engage. You win Mr Troll.
I am a scientist. You should be sceptical of all science - that's how science *works*.
However, as the GP points out, 'being sceptical' does not mean simply disagreeing and arguing your point with made up evidence or ignorance of the facts which is almost always the case with politically sensitive science issues (climate change, stem cell research, nuclear energy etc).
Radiative forcing is one of the first things to go into climate models; nowhere does it say 'ignore the huge nuclear furnace' since it's pretty much.... where the vast bulk of the energy comes from. To suggest that articles like this are what drive skeptics is just not really accurate. Skeptics are going to be doubting the results for any number of specific reasons, not just due to solar cycles.
Sure they can fly anywhere, but they can't *land* anywhere. That bomb on your hypothetical runway can make resupply into an area very difficult, for at least as long as it takes to repair the runway.
Well they can't win, can they? Everyone is yelling at them for having a locked phone, then they release an unlocked one in the US (in the rest of the world this is a non-story - welcome to the 21st century USA) and now a large portion of this thread is talking about how no one would possibly want that.
Nonsense - my carrier (ie, not in the US) will quite happily unlock an iPhone. That Apple would prevent it is just not accurate, unless they have some strange carrier-specific terms in the US. Given that it was AT&T doing the strong arming in that initial contract, perhaps that is the case. I get the sense that if they told you that it was down to Apple, their collective nose is now growing.
There are definitely some odd bugs still in Chrome regarding layout, since I use it side by side with Safari and they both share the same Webkit core (not literally on the machine, but both are webkit - you see what I mean), and I sometimes run across oddities in Chrome that necessitate me jumping over to Safari where they work fine.
It's mostly layout related issues, especially with printing pages, but with regular web layout too.
That's funny that you think that. What about the other parts of my being that use Linux and Windows? How does that affect my life?
My mentality is "use the right tool for the job" and "use whatever works for you". For my home machine that's a iMac running OS X.
However, I've also been on slashdot for a long time and am fed up of the way it has fallen into little more than a kneejerk paranoid rant site - not just on Apple, but on all sorts of things (smart electricity grid, US healthcare, climate change, green issues in general, almost anything relating to a large corporation).
My "brand cyborgism" is not to attempt to force other people yo use the same OS as I do, but to simply add a dissenting voice to demonstrably false information, or to answer questions that I know the answer to. Because I don;t trash Apple at every opportunity, and try to correct blatant lies about them that nets me the "fanboi" moniker.
I don't trash other operating systems, or call the people that use them second-class citizens or morons, or "sheeple", or that they were "100% conned by the marketing" - like I said, pick the tool that works for you. I'm not going to call you a lesser person because you chose a different computer, or that you think OS X and/or iOS is not for you. Where I will come up against you (the general you), is when lies and hyperbole is spread as fact. Daring to correct that makes me a "mindless, worshipping fanboi", but I suppose that's what happens when you go against the groupthink and don't just blindly agree with the nonsense.
I'm also not totally without criticism for Apple themselves - if you look back over my post history you will see that. There are plenty of things I don;t like about Apple and OS X and iOS specifically, but on slashdot if you use OS X that means you automatically love everything about it and you become a slave to Apple. That's the rule.
This also extends to any perceived criticism of anything seen to be Apple's "enemy", like Android. I've been called an astroturfing shill for talking about some really poor Android handsets that I personally tested out, claiming that they are doing nothing but damaging the image, while in the same post talking about other handsets I'd used (Android ones) that were amazing and had features and performance that I wish the iPhone had (the swiping text mode especially) but because there was a critical segment of my post, I can only be a shill out to trash Android.
Opinion and "debate" on slashdot has become so wildly partisan that I'm surprised Diebold hasn;t offered to build us voting machines.
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How did this get insightful? I thought we were supposed to be the smart ones on slashdot. At least compared to the so called "sheeple" that buy Apple products.
Apple, assuming it started to sell TVs, would not have a monopoly on selling TV sets, or even on media centre type devices. For proof of this, just... walk into any shop that sells TVs, or google "purchase a TV".
Goodness, it's like there's a blind spot of ignorance that arises whenever the word "Apple" is mentioned, and /. neckbeards start frothing at the mouth to mod up anything that criticises Apple.
Who says it has to be visible light? Water droplets are no opaque in all regions of the spectrum.
The benefits of a tunable laser mean you can reduce the absorption and dispersion effects, but obviously not eliminate them.
Because with a Universal Healthcare system, even with the "edge cases" of people who don't pay taxes and yet get treated for expensive diseases like cancer, it *still works out cheaper for everyone* because of the massive economy of scale advantage of the system.
Even with Joe "unemployed but with lung cancer" Sixpack getting treatment "for free" (since he is not paying in), *you personally* are still better off, and you get all the same benefits as he does (ie, the same standard of care you get in the US right now, just for less money)
By the person themselves - that's what he was saying. For the cost of the shitty insurance in the USA, the same money in Germany pays for coverage that costs thousands and thousands more in the US, and you get it partially refunded every quarter if you don;t use it.
That's because *everyone pays into the same pot so the cost goes down for everyone*. This is what the anti-universal healthcare people seem to miss (or deliberately ignore).
You're talking out of your arse.
I have lived in the UK (I'm British) and in the US. If you think the poorest American (or even a modestly paid American, say one working in retail for minimum wage) has anything *like* the quality of healthcare that is available to *everyone* in the UK then you are delusional.
Just because Glenn Beck told you that does not make it true.
Because the economies of scale work to your advantage in a system that is essentially insurance. Even with the added "downside" of extra bureaucracy and inefficiency brought in by government (and that should obviously be minimised as much as possible) it is *still* cheaper to have universal healthcare compared to the way the US handles things. There is a reason that the per-capita GDP spending by the US on healthcare is *twice* what it is by the UK, and we have a pretty bloated system that needs trimming and reorgnisation.
The vast majority of the developed world noticed that it was a total no-brainer to provide universal healthcare for its citizens: not only is it cheaper (by a lot), it also results in healthier citizens across a broader spectrum of the population (ie, poor people too) - and healthy people are more productive. It also massively increases the uptake of preventative care, which is another factor in keeping costs down.
I haven't tried one since 10.2, so any info I personally have is way out of date (I'm not the OP). I too, struggle on with the idiosyncrasies of the Finder. I'd have been overjoyed if WWDC this year said "we totally rewrote Finder from scratch".
What are you smoking and where can I get it?
This has *nothing* do do with Apple, or any update mechanism supplied by Apple. This is entirely down to Skype alone.
Seriously, when you Anti-Apple trolls come out, you just barge things like "facts" right out of the way!
Cool story bro.
Plug in the SD card reader into the dock connector. You have SD function!
(unlike the Xoom, which has an SD slot that *doesn't work*).
It's a little bit hilarious that the supposed "major missing feature" on the iPad and iPad 2 - the lack of SD card functionality - works better on the iPad than it does on the Xoom.
So now you're talking about 100k? Which is it? 200k or 100k?
The article also mentions that it's a competitive salary for the job they do (note they're not simply sitting in the tower in shorts working on their tans).
So really your argument isn't about public sector workers, it's that you think professional life guards are paid too much.
No, not that at all - you talk about "lifeguards" as if it's all of them - the 200k (in total benefits, not base salary or pension) is for only two chiefs (as per your link), and is not the norm. Of the 13 employees, the two bosses earned 200k in combined salary, benefits and overtime.
I do not see how this invalidates my point that you don;t live in reality, and are simply posting as an anti-public-employee troll. Has it occurred to you that they actually *earned* their pay? And that "200k" is not simply "a lifeguard" as your troll post attempts to suggest (also note that your own cite specifically mentions this much further down from the headline).
The anti-union, anti-middle-class, anti-public-worker propaganda train has done a bang up job convincing people that unions and public workers live the life of riley smoking hand rolled cigars with their feet up while the hard working private workers are struggling to buy spam. It's just not so, and a single case of two lifeguard battalion chiefs with combined benefits that total 200k each won't change that. Especially trying to pass them off as "life guards" to cover their actual roles.
It really wasn't worth the effort to type all that since you're clearly trolling, but bravo! You managed to get me to engage. You win Mr Troll.
The fact you were waiting around and checking back on me for a snarky reply proves my point that you're trolling.
You just got impatient and showed your hand.
It was better the first time before the "fixing".
I am a scientist. You should be sceptical of all science - that's how science *works*.
However, as the GP points out, 'being sceptical' does not mean simply disagreeing and arguing your point with made up evidence or ignorance of the facts which is almost always the case with politically sensitive science issues (climate change, stem cell research, nuclear energy etc).
It's clear you know nothing about science. If you are a scientist, how's the hot tub on that new boat?
Radiative forcing is one of the first things to go into climate models; nowhere does it say 'ignore the huge nuclear furnace' since it's pretty much.... where the vast bulk of the energy comes from. To suggest that articles like this are what drive skeptics is just not really accurate. Skeptics are going to be doubting the results for any number of specific reasons, not just due to solar cycles.
So I can take my car on a plane for a cross-US trip? Cool. What's the baggage excess on that?
Sure they can fly anywhere, but they can't *land* anywhere. That bomb on your hypothetical runway can make resupply into an area very difficult, for at least as long as it takes to repair the runway.
Well they can't win, can they? Everyone is yelling at them for having a locked phone, then they release an unlocked one in the US (in the rest of the world this is a non-story - welcome to the 21st century USA) and now a large portion of this thread is talking about how no one would possibly want that.
Nonsense - my carrier (ie, not in the US) will quite happily unlock an iPhone. That Apple would prevent it is just not accurate, unless they have some strange carrier-specific terms in the US. Given that it was AT&T doing the strong arming in that initial contract, perhaps that is the case. I get the sense that if they told you that it was down to Apple, their collective nose is now growing.
There are definitely some odd bugs still in Chrome regarding layout, since I use it side by side with Safari and they both share the same Webkit core (not literally on the machine, but both are webkit - you see what I mean), and I sometimes run across oddities in Chrome that necessitate me jumping over to Safari where they work fine.
It's mostly layout related issues, especially with printing pages, but with regular web layout too.
Why isn't the parent post modded +5 funny?
It's clearly an obvious troll with no connection to reality.
Well, it precisely tracks the *actual* device location rather than random sources of EM around it, so no ;-)
It also sends that data out, unlike iOS, so maybe it's more like Android - can you opt out on the Leaf?
(note non-seriousness and winky smiley, just to be 100% crystal clear to any hot button mods).
That's funny that you think that. What about the other parts of my being that use Linux and Windows? How does that affect my life?
My mentality is "use the right tool for the job" and "use whatever works for you". For my home machine that's a iMac running OS X.
However, I've also been on slashdot for a long time and am fed up of the way it has fallen into little more than a kneejerk paranoid rant site - not just on Apple, but on all sorts of things (smart electricity grid, US healthcare, climate change, green issues in general, almost anything relating to a large corporation).
My "brand cyborgism" is not to attempt to force other people yo use the same OS as I do, but to simply add a dissenting voice to demonstrably false information, or to answer questions that I know the answer to. Because I don;t trash Apple at every opportunity, and try to correct blatant lies about them that nets me the "fanboi" moniker.
I don't trash other operating systems, or call the people that use them second-class citizens or morons, or "sheeple", or that they were "100% conned by the marketing" - like I said, pick the tool that works for you. I'm not going to call you a lesser person because you chose a different computer, or that you think OS X and/or iOS is not for you. Where I will come up against you (the general you), is when lies and hyperbole is spread as fact. Daring to correct that makes me a "mindless, worshipping fanboi", but I suppose that's what happens when you go against the groupthink and don't just blindly agree with the nonsense.
I'm also not totally without criticism for Apple themselves - if you look back over my post history you will see that. There are plenty of things I don;t like about Apple and OS X and iOS specifically, but on slashdot if you use OS X that means you automatically love everything about it and you become a slave to Apple. That's the rule.
This also extends to any perceived criticism of anything seen to be Apple's "enemy", like Android. I've been called an astroturfing shill for talking about some really poor Android handsets that I personally tested out, claiming that they are doing nothing but damaging the image, while in the same post talking about other handsets I'd used (Android ones) that were amazing and had features and performance that I wish the iPhone had (the swiping text mode especially) but because there was a critical segment of my post, I can only be a shill out to trash Android.
Opinion and "debate" on slashdot has become so wildly partisan that I'm surprised Diebold hasn;t offered to build us voting machines.
Yes, but you're a mindless Apple-basher, so what else are you really going to see? It cuts both ways. It's like the reverse RDF.