That would be a great plan if the bulk of Apple's sales came from hipsters.
Purely from a numbers perspective, this is clearly not the case. While it might look like there are hipsters everywhere, their population is small. (I guess they're far too busy looking for bands you haven't heard of that they can claim to like - it's a constant search, since as soon as he tells you the band name you've then heard of them and they are no longer cool).
Seriously though, underestimating your "enemy" (and really, that's a silly way to look at it) is not the way to beat them.
Nothing, but it's also not wrong or illegal or morally wrong to point it out either.
The gate swings both ways.
Some of the Apple haters on here are just embarrassing, and are doing more to hurt their "cause" than help it. I mean, it's their choice to define themselves by hating a company, but much of the vitriol is getting silly. I may not be a personal fan of Android (although I have used some good Android handsets and can see why people like it) I'm not frothing about how Samsung and Google are some sort of Machiavellian evil for making things that people want to buy.
I think a lot of it stems from a feeling of sour grapes, that in the era of declining Microsoft dominance they were sure that "their" time (of Linux! On the Desktop!) would come, and that instead of year on year growth for Linux desktop/laptop marketshare, the eroded Windows share went to Apple instead, and then the entry into the phone market (predicted to be a *massive failure*) and the re-ignition of the tablet market (again, predicted to be a massive flop) was just rubbing salt in the wounds.
Certainly, Apple is no angel and has done some stupid things, but in the mind of an Apple Hater - defining themselves by their assured belief that Apple can Only Do Evil(tm), they forget many of the positive things Apple has done for the industry and consumers at large since its return from the brink of death.
I'll sometimes put "Posted from my iPhone" when writing forum posts from Ubuntu. It's fun to watch haters rage and froth as their neckbeards chafe. It's especially funny when I get flamed for it even when the user agent string contradicts the faux sig. (yes, yes, I know you can spoof a string.... just like you can spoof a sig)
Interesting your choice of the word "ban" there. Not simply "refused to include in iOS on performance grounds".
They didn't "ban" it from their other major platform where they were also simultaneously pushing HTML5 - the desktop.
They stated from the outset that Flash was a dog for performance, especially on mobile devices. Adobe belatedly agreed with them. Everyone's happy.
Also, how are they "trying hard to make it impossible to run Mac OS X on any non-Apple device"? The install DVD is non-encryted, with no serial number, no activation, no hidden partitions that make it difficult to burn or image, and a simple text file in the image that says "please don't steal OS X" that you can remove, allowing a bootable installer to be made for a Hackintosh.
The downloadable 10.7 installer is a simple package with a disk image (again, unencrypted, with no serial, no activation).
I'm not sure how they could make it *easier* let alone "trying hard to make it impossible" as you claim. If you are having trouble, I suggest that computers might not be for you. There are some crayons over there and some paper.
There's a subtle difference, though, between claiming it's *only* the Chinese and "other Third World countries" that do such things though while implicitly holding up the USA as some sort of yardstick to aspire to, as suggested by the OP.
It's casual racism.
I'm not disputing the fact that there are Chinese companies cutting corners or otherwise doing things cheaply to save a buck, but it's not the exclusive domain of "anyone who's not us" (we'll leave aside the outdated 'third' world country comment).
So, by the metric we're using, all US companies do their best to fuck over their workers, lobby to keep service staff under minimum wage and keep laws around to be able to hire and fire at will so that no one can accumulate any holiday pay, and like Union Carbide are all totally fine setting up shop in other countries and poisoning them then denying anything ever happened. They can just kill 3000 local residents in India with one of the most unsafe chemical plants ever constructed and when a large incident occurs you just abandon it (I mean, why clean it up?! This is America! We have Mexicans to clean shit up after us!) leaving a site with open pools of mercury lying around, and with all manner of persistent organic solvents seeping into the ground water.
Yup, sounds pretty typical of an American company to me. They're still dodging responsibility to this day.
Of course, when you have a habit of determining that it's cheaper to pay the legal costs of anyone who sues you when their family members burn to death rather than fixing your shoddy American-made product, no wonder nothing good is made in America any more.
Oh dear, you lose the argument by default since we can't hear you from the Naughty Step.
Either way, the implication was that iOS had a monopoly in the DoD, presumably on cellphones which is so far right of the truth I think Glenn Beck is frantically scribbling it down for his next book.
Translation: I cannot refute your points or the reality you have presented so I'm just going to go right wing radio host and shout over you until you go away.
This has been predicted over and over again - pretty much since the launch of the original iPad.
It was always "Oh, the iPad was released for $500 less than everyone was guessing, but it's still way overprice! Just you wait for the cheaper, better, faster Android tablets.... any day now.... next month.... just a few more months! The Xoom is coming and it will destroy the iPad, I mean it will have Flash and an SD card slot, and there's no way it will cost more than an iPad and ship with both of those 'key' features broken... Oh, the iPad 2 is out now... well, what did you expect, honeycomb was never designed for tablets properly, even though we have been crowing about how it was going to be the answer to the 'inferior' iPad... just you wait for Ice Cream Sandwich...."
In short, I've heard it all before. The Eee Pad Transformer is good I guess, and at $400 is cheaper than the iPad but so far not much headway. I really hope there are a few really competitive Android tablets to rival the iPad as there have been handsets to rival the iPhone - the competition is good for everyone. So far though, not seeing it.
Just replace the first word with "posts on slashdot claiming to represent what Apple fans think".
You Apple bashers twist yourself up into such knots over stuff like this, like little raging dynamos.
I think it's more likely that Google picked the name because as geeks themselves, Majel Barrett is well known as the "voice of the computer" and it's a nod to her, and to Star Trek. Sort of like the way the first Shuttle was named Enterprise, or how HAL 9000 is just one letter transposed from IBM.
Of course they could, but that's not the point. It's a trivial thing to have exact timekeeping, but that is not the desired outcome here and it's why the Ref has discretion. No one is under any illusion that it's "high school level" technology to keep accurate game time.
The reason that info is not displayed is because the Ref doesn't actually have the exact figure - it is down to his discretion when to blow the whistle. He has a guideline, of course, but ultimately it is up the the primary referee to call time.
I'm not sure you understand what that word means. At least, if you believe that they really are a monopoly then those market share figures for Android must be made up. I mean, I know it's hard to imagine anyone buying an Android phone, but I suspect the figures are accurate;)
DISCLAIMER: The last sentence is A JOKE (except the part about the numbers not lying).
No, not all popular products are good, but it's pretty easy to determine the relative quality of a MacBook Air - it's a physical product that many, many people have reviewed and used across the whole gamut of computer users and it gets consistently high marks.
You can try and handwave away that positive experience of many, many people by claiming it's all down to popularity, but it's somewhat wide of the mark.
Personally, I do not care for them, but I can appreciate that it is a very good compact laptop/subnotebook.
That's not true. I have a Lion system right here and it's not an option.
You can have Software Update fetch updates in the background automatically and let you know when they are downloaded, but it *absolutely does not* install them automatically. You *must* authenticate with an admin account first.
You can turn off background downloading too, it's merely a convenience factor.
Just look at Apple - the company with the most worth in the whole world - selling software that was built upon FreeBSD.
And not contributing anything back to the community. Should Apple fall one day or just discontinue its BSD-based products, all their achievements will be lost. On the other hand, when a big GPL vendor falls or discontinues a product, anybody can come in and keep it alive from the last public release.
WOW.
I knew slashdot had blinkers on, but I'm not sure how you can say "Apple does not contribute anything back to the [open source] community" with a straight face.
You may not like them, they may have some silly legal decisions, and a mobile OS that is competing with Android, but my goodness, you need to look up some actual facts.
Yes, but 3.9% of however many dollars it is is *literally* less than the "confirmed" 49% that is being alleged.
That "confirmed" "fact" got +4 insightful.
Five seconds on Google clearly shows otherwise. That's all my point is. It could be $5, it could be $5,000,000 dollars, it could be $50,000,000. The point is, it's not 49% of their gross take.
I have a 2006 iMac with the 128Mb X1600 in it and I didn't think it would even run as a slideshow. It plays things like Half Life 2 and Team Fortress ok, but the age of those games helps somewhat. I would expect it to have a stroke running Skyrim.
It's actually people inside the car who you put at risk by not belting up, assuming you have passengers. Firstly you're an unrestrained mass that goes flying around the car in the event of in impact thus potentially causing injury to fellow occupants, but far more serious is the extension of that on unbelted back seat passengers who slam into the seat in front and deliver fatal internal injuries to the occupant of that seat (for example, the driver). These unbelted passengers often survive if they manage to subsequently avoid being thrown from the car or sustaining their own sever injuries when striking the seat.
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That would be a great plan if the bulk of Apple's sales came from hipsters.
Purely from a numbers perspective, this is clearly not the case. While it might look like there are hipsters everywhere, their population is small. (I guess they're far too busy looking for bands you haven't heard of that they can claim to like - it's a constant search, since as soon as he tells you the band name you've then heard of them and they are no longer cool).
Seriously though, underestimating your "enemy" (and really, that's a silly way to look at it) is not the way to beat them.
Nothing, but it's also not wrong or illegal or morally wrong to point it out either.
The gate swings both ways.
Some of the Apple haters on here are just embarrassing, and are doing more to hurt their "cause" than help it. I mean, it's their choice to define themselves by hating a company, but much of the vitriol is getting silly. I may not be a personal fan of Android (although I have used some good Android handsets and can see why people like it) I'm not frothing about how Samsung and Google are some sort of Machiavellian evil for making things that people want to buy.
I think a lot of it stems from a feeling of sour grapes, that in the era of declining Microsoft dominance they were sure that "their" time (of Linux! On the Desktop!) would come, and that instead of year on year growth for Linux desktop/laptop marketshare, the eroded Windows share went to Apple instead, and then the entry into the phone market (predicted to be a *massive failure*) and the re-ignition of the tablet market (again, predicted to be a massive flop) was just rubbing salt in the wounds.
Certainly, Apple is no angel and has done some stupid things, but in the mind of an Apple Hater - defining themselves by their assured belief that Apple can Only Do Evil(tm), they forget many of the positive things Apple has done for the industry and consumers at large since its return from the brink of death.
No wonder you didn't log in.
Can't tell if trolling or just moronic. Well played sir.
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I'll sometimes put "Posted from my iPhone" when writing forum posts from Ubuntu. It's fun to watch haters rage and froth as their neckbeards chafe. It's especially funny when I get flamed for it even when the user agent string contradicts the faux sig. (yes, yes, I know you can spoof a string.... just like you can spoof a sig)
Interesting your choice of the word "ban" there. Not simply "refused to include in iOS on performance grounds".
They didn't "ban" it from their other major platform where they were also simultaneously pushing HTML5 - the desktop.
They stated from the outset that Flash was a dog for performance, especially on mobile devices. Adobe belatedly agreed with them. Everyone's happy.
Also, how are they "trying hard to make it impossible to run Mac OS X on any non-Apple device"? The install DVD is non-encryted, with no serial number, no activation, no hidden partitions that make it difficult to burn or image, and a simple text file in the image that says "please don't steal OS X" that you can remove, allowing a bootable installer to be made for a Hackintosh.
The downloadable 10.7 installer is a simple package with a disk image (again, unencrypted, with no serial, no activation).
I'm not sure how they could make it *easier* let alone "trying hard to make it impossible" as you claim. If you are having trouble, I suggest that computers might not be for you. There are some crayons over there and some paper.
There's a subtle difference, though, between claiming it's *only* the Chinese and "other Third World countries" that do such things though while implicitly holding up the USA as some sort of yardstick to aspire to, as suggested by the OP.
It's casual racism.
I'm not disputing the fact that there are Chinese companies cutting corners or otherwise doing things cheaply to save a buck, but it's not the exclusive domain of "anyone who's not us" (we'll leave aside the outdated 'third' world country comment).
So, by the metric we're using, all US companies do their best to fuck over their workers, lobby to keep service staff under minimum wage and keep laws around to be able to hire and fire at will so that no one can accumulate any holiday pay, and like Union Carbide are all totally fine setting up shop in other countries and poisoning them then denying anything ever happened. They can just kill 3000 local residents in India with one of the most unsafe chemical plants ever constructed and when a large incident occurs you just abandon it (I mean, why clean it up?! This is America! We have Mexicans to clean shit up after us!) leaving a site with open pools of mercury lying around, and with all manner of persistent organic solvents seeping into the ground water.
Yup, sounds pretty typical of an American company to me. They're still dodging responsibility to this day.
Of course, when you have a habit of determining that it's cheaper to pay the legal costs of anyone who sues you when their family members burn to death rather than fixing your shoddy American-made product, no wonder nothing good is made in America any more.
See, I can do it too!
So you're saying to expect to be modded down for your dinner party racism?
You called it, I guess.
Oh dear, you lose the argument by default since we can't hear you from the Naughty Step.
Either way, the implication was that iOS had a monopoly in the DoD, presumably on cellphones which is so far right of the truth I think Glenn Beck is frantically scribbling it down for his next book.
The rest of the post is bullshit.
Translation: I cannot refute your points or the reality you have presented so I'm just going to go right wing radio host and shout over you until you go away.
I know! They were also insistent that the mass of Hydrogen was 1 and that Pi was exactly 22/7. Shocking!
Better handsets?
Like what? The Galaxy S is nice I suppose, but that pretty much *is* an iPhone ;)
*ducks*
This has been predicted over and over again - pretty much since the launch of the original iPad.
It was always "Oh, the iPad was released for $500 less than everyone was guessing, but it's still way overprice! Just you wait for the cheaper, better, faster Android tablets.... any day now.... next month.... just a few more months! The Xoom is coming and it will destroy the iPad, I mean it will have Flash and an SD card slot, and there's no way it will cost more than an iPad and ship with both of those 'key' features broken... Oh, the iPad 2 is out now... well, what did you expect, honeycomb was never designed for tablets properly, even though we have been crowing about how it was going to be the answer to the 'inferior' iPad... just you wait for Ice Cream Sandwich...."
In short, I've heard it all before. The Eee Pad Transformer is good I guess, and at $400 is cheaper than the iPad but so far not much headway. I really hope there are a few really competitive Android tablets to rival the iPad as there have been handsets to rival the iPhone - the competition is good for everyone. So far though, not seeing it.
If you can't stop in time then you're driving too fast for the road conditions, regardless of the timing on the light.
I think your sig is very telling here.
Just replace the first word with "posts on slashdot claiming to represent what Apple fans think".
You Apple bashers twist yourself up into such knots over stuff like this, like little raging dynamos.
I think it's more likely that Google picked the name because as geeks themselves, Majel Barrett is well known as the "voice of the computer" and it's a nod to her, and to Star Trek. Sort of like the way the first Shuttle was named Enterprise, or how HAL 9000 is just one letter transposed from IBM.
Of course they could, but that's not the point. It's a trivial thing to have exact timekeeping, but that is not the desired outcome here and it's why the Ref has discretion. No one is under any illusion that it's "high school level" technology to keep accurate game time.
The reason that info is not displayed is because the Ref doesn't actually have the exact figure - it is down to his discretion when to blow the whistle. He has a guideline, of course, but ultimately it is up the the primary referee to call time.
The latter of those reasons, yes.
The former isn't really in any doubt on slashdot - I mean, I have the audacity to say positive things on /., that's pretty douchey.
Monopoly?
I'm not sure you understand what that word means. At least, if you believe that they really are a monopoly then those market share figures for Android must be made up. I mean, I know it's hard to imagine anyone buying an Android phone, but I suspect the figures are accurate ;)
DISCLAIMER: The last sentence is A JOKE (except the part about the numbers not lying).
No, not all popular products are good, but it's pretty easy to determine the relative quality of a MacBook Air - it's a physical product that many, many people have reviewed and used across the whole gamut of computer users and it gets consistently high marks.
You can try and handwave away that positive experience of many, many people by claiming it's all down to popularity, but it's somewhat wide of the mark.
Personally, I do not care for them, but I can appreciate that it is a very good compact laptop/subnotebook.
That's not true. I have a Lion system right here and it's not an option.
You can have Software Update fetch updates in the background automatically and let you know when they are downloaded, but it *absolutely does not* install them automatically. You *must* authenticate with an admin account first.
You can turn off background downloading too, it's merely a convenience factor.
Just look at Apple - the company with the most worth in the whole world - selling software that was built upon FreeBSD.
And not contributing anything back to the community. Should Apple fall one day or just discontinue its BSD-based products, all their achievements will be lost. On the other hand, when a big GPL vendor falls or discontinues a product, anybody can come in and keep it alive from the last public release.
WOW.
I knew slashdot had blinkers on, but I'm not sure how you can say "Apple does not contribute anything back to the [open source] community" with a straight face.
You may not like them, they may have some silly legal decisions, and a mobile OS that is competing with Android, but my goodness, you need to look up some actual facts.
Yes, but 3.9% of however many dollars it is is *literally* less than the "confirmed" 49% that is being alleged.
That "confirmed" "fact" got +4 insightful.
Five seconds on Google clearly shows otherwise. That's all my point is. It could be $5, it could be $5,000,000 dollars, it could be $50,000,000. The point is, it's not 49% of their gross take.
+4 insightful?
It must be the Christmas eggnog.
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*shakes head sadly*
How does Skyrim perform on that hardware?
I have a 2006 iMac with the 128Mb X1600 in it and I didn't think it would even run as a slideshow. It plays things like Half Life 2 and Team Fortress ok, but the age of those games helps somewhat. I would expect it to have a stroke running Skyrim.
It's actually people inside the car who you put at risk by not belting up, assuming you have passengers. Firstly you're an unrestrained mass that goes flying around the car in the event of in impact thus potentially causing injury to fellow occupants, but far more serious is the extension of that on unbelted back seat passengers who slam into the seat in front and deliver fatal internal injuries to the occupant of that seat (for example, the driver). These unbelted passengers often survive if they manage to subsequently avoid being thrown from the car or sustaining their own sever injuries when striking the seat.