Users will eventually expect the green bar on every site where they might do business.
I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you, but it is also possible that so many legit businesses will fail to get these, that people will expect them only for the largest corporations. In other words, people will get so used to seeing a yellow bar or whatever color they choose, that they'll start ignoring it.
Another option is to use a payment processor who's big enough to afford one of these and make it clear to customers that the financial part of the transaction will be carried on through the payment processor's site. If there aren't enough payment processing businesses, this will spark them.
Or maybe you are right and this will kill internet commerce. I certainly hope not as I'm on the verge of opening a small online myself.
I've seen goatse and tubgirl. They're icky. They aren't mentally scarring. Anyone who could be scarred by those things is so feeble minded and unsuited for the things that might be seen in life, that he/she should be provided a padded room and a care provider.
Unfortunately Apple is keeping one of the worst aspects of most current cellphones--the closed systems--for selfish reaons.
I was pretty excited about the iphone. It looked like a pocket computer with phone capabilities to me. But this news makes it just a high priced gizmo. It would be nice to be able to stick a shell in there and ssh into other machines. Or drop in a checkbook app. Or an encrypted notepad for the ever expanding password list. Being able to install software that you want would turn it into an extremely useful portable computing device and well worth the $600 price tag to me.
As you say though, closing off those choices turns it yet another expensive phone, albeit w/ a slick UI. Frankly, I want a tiny useable computer which doubles as a phone -- not a phone which mimics some aspects of a computer. I wish Apple understood that.
As the first post said, Apple shot themselves in the face with that limitation. No way in hell I'd pay $600 for a device crippled to prevent 3d party apps. Note, I write this with the recognition that I'm also pretty much an apple fanboy (I have 4 apple laptops of various makes and models, plus two pre-g3 machines that still work -- though their only use is for show-n-tell time when company come over).
Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't all new phones have GPS in them so the government can keep track of you or at least know where you are when you dial 911? If the hardware is in the phone, Apple or someone else will write software to let you get to it.
I'm not put off by the iphone price. It seems more like a computer with communications capabilities than a phone with computery-type stuff slapped all over it. I say this even though I'm one of those people who complains about gizmodic phones and lauds my ancient Timeport 270c (I paid $180). Sadly, my Timeport is on its last legs -- the screen fails from time to time and just this week, buttons 8 and 9 quit working.
I'm also one of those people who happens to like PDAs. Back around 2000 (I think), I spent $500 on a Handspring Visor Prism (their first color model). Anyway, the PDA is also in its death throes -- the battery holds no charge. Note: I alread replaced the batery once a little over a year ago -- it's about $40 for another battery and probably not worth it.
Anyway, I spent $680 on a PDA and a phone. If the iphone is all its cracked up to be, and really is more a pocket computer with phone capabiities, I would be in their market. If however it turns out to be yet another phone with pda capabilities like every other POS on the market, then I won't be. Anyway, it may well be that this market research is flawed because they are looking at it from the phone point of view.
If we would turn our attention to really hammering down on the employers that hire illegals...
then we'll be paying $6/lb for carrots. The inflationary pressure would literally starve millions of people born here and the welfare costs would skyrocket. Taxes would rise and at the same time, people wouldn't really make more because whatever it is that we still produce here really wouldn't be worth more on the world market. We need illegals.
The whole immigration thing is a tool that the left and right the use for whatever goofy purposes they can dream up.
I have an old g3 clamshell (I got the computer for rescuing the data - then fixed it up out of curriosity) so as you can imagine, it isn't a screamer. It has 10.4 and I use it as a wireless bridge to the living room for a voip phone device, dashboard performs great as a phone book, and it connects to the stereo to play music. I wouldn't want to sit there and use two programs at once on it, but for those limited purposes, it runs like champ.
Realistically, when a new 1gb card is under $50 in the stores (and a quick froogle search showed some generics around $20), just how much is my 64mb Smartmedia card worth? How about my 16mb Compact Flash? The authors of the article spent about $70 on cards, and a bit more than $40 on exorbitant ebay shipping charges -- that's about $11 each. For that price, it isn't worth the effort to try selling these antiquated cards.
However he had been promising a better position for almost two years...Then a person in that position quit, making it easier for me to move to that slot but they hired someone else from outside the team. Then my boss quit. I now see he was just stringing me along to make sure he didn't lose head-count.
Your logic makes no sense. It sounds more like he was overruled from higher up and decided he couldn't work under such circumstances.
Take Airport Express. Apple has encrypted all the music that goes from your Mac to the Airport Express... thus making it impossible for anyone other than Apple to take advantage of the audio capabilities of Airport Express in their applications.
I understand how it would be nice to stream other content to an airport express, but I wonder if it isn't simply companies being unmotivated to support the APE. There is for example airfoil which will stream non-itunes to the APE. Perhaps it's a trick though, like redirecting a stream through iTunes somehow and thus avoiding the issue of directly communicating the APE?
This is an agreement for mutual legal assistance, and is a framework for submitting legal requests and subpoenas for information about an individual via established legal channels, as well as guidelines information to which US authorities are entitled from EU air carriers.
Sort of like how telephone calls can be monitored only if certain procedures are followed... oh wait...
It's because in Linux, you have to go back to the 1980's, when you had to memorize esoteric commands in order to get your computer to do what any 4 year old can do now in Windows with a mouse.
Such as? Most windows users don't get very far past the preinstalled browser, email app, chat client, and solitaire games. How is any modern linux distro, if it was preinstalled, any more difficult? I'm trying to think of anything I need to do but can do only in the CLI -- and I can't. Granted, if you know a little about the CLI, you can be more efficient -- but the gui config stuff is all there.
Except I'm hoping for the transhumanist utopia of the future. I don't want the humans to win and Laura is such an uberbitch, way too melodramatic and cruel -- I hope like Moses she buys the farm before the promised land.
I agree with you -- the boxing episode was barely watchable and I was sorely tempted to use the FF button (I watched the iTunes version). Lately, it seems more and more like a soap opera set in space. Now, the whiny BS might be appropriate background material (it is reasonable to think that conflict would result over relationships) and it probably deserves some play (you know, they need to throw in some chick stuff), but it shouldn't be the front matter in sci-fi. The last thing I want to see is something like "The Lightdays of Our Lives".
We found an 1940's church, and behind the pulpit was a blank wall space that was very close to 16:9 above the chair-rail; to make a long story short, we bought the church, made a home out of it, and we ended up with a display surface that is quite large.
I'm beginning to suspect that DNF is a sort of subversive but brilliant form of promotion. It means that every time vaporware is mentioned, so is 3D Realms. This keeps the company name in the public mind and makes people interested in whatever they do make -- interested like gawkers at a bloody accident but interested nonetheless.
It's my belief that procrastination comes from a fear of failure (perhaps your anxiety is from that fear).
I don't agree. I have no fear of failure about my ability to move a stack of dirty dishes from the sink (or more accurately, from the computer desk) to the dishwasher, turn the machine on, and distribute the clean dishes to their correct spots once completed. Only rarely do I break something and even then, it isn't like it's fine China -- just shrug it off and toss it out. What causes me to procrastinate is boredom.
I don't know how it could get more trivial to burn an ISO. I'm currently using a Gnome desktop and all I do is insert CD, right click on the ISO I want to burn, and choose burn to disk from the context menu. Anyway, I consider my time valuable. That's why I use Linux.
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Don't worry, this is ball lightening, not ball lighting.
I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you, but it is also possible that so many legit businesses will fail to get these, that people will expect them only for the largest corporations. In other words, people will get so used to seeing a yellow bar or whatever color they choose, that they'll start ignoring it.
Another option is to use a payment processor who's big enough to afford one of these and make it clear to customers that the financial part of the transaction will be carried on through the payment processor's site. If there aren't enough payment processing businesses, this will spark them.
Or maybe you are right and this will kill internet commerce. I certainly hope not as I'm on the verge of opening a small online myself.
I've seen goatse and tubgirl. They're icky. They aren't mentally scarring. Anyone who could be scarred by those things is so feeble minded and unsuited for the things that might be seen in life, that he/she should be provided a padded room and a care provider.
I can't be certain, but somehow I doubt the bible says anything specific about vasectomies. Condoms probably don't get much play either though.
He has no fear -- he'll be raptured.
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As you say though, closing off those choices turns it yet another expensive phone, albeit w/ a slick UI. Frankly, I want a tiny useable computer which doubles as a phone -- not a phone which mimics some aspects of a computer. I wish Apple understood that.
As the first post said, Apple shot themselves in the face with that limitation. No way in hell I'd pay $600 for a device crippled to prevent 3d party apps. Note, I write this with the recognition that I'm also pretty much an apple fanboy (I have 4 apple laptops of various makes and models, plus two pre-g3 machines that still work -- though their only use is for show-n-tell time when company come over).
No a better analogy than both would be like if I took my car to a filling station
Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't all new phones have GPS in them so the government can keep track of you or at least know where you are when you dial 911? If the hardware is in the phone, Apple or someone else will write software to let you get to it.
I'm not put off by the iphone price. It seems more like a computer with communications capabilities than a phone with computery-type stuff slapped all over it. I say this even though I'm one of those people who complains about gizmodic phones and lauds my ancient Timeport 270c (I paid $180). Sadly, my Timeport is on its last legs -- the screen fails from time to time and just this week, buttons 8 and 9 quit working.
I'm also one of those people who happens to like PDAs. Back around 2000 (I think), I spent $500 on a Handspring Visor Prism (their first color model). Anyway, the PDA is also in its death throes -- the battery holds no charge. Note: I alread replaced the batery once a little over a year ago -- it's about $40 for another battery and probably not worth it.
Anyway, I spent $680 on a PDA and a phone. If the iphone is all its cracked up to be, and really is more a pocket computer with phone capabiities, I would be in their market. If however it turns out to be yet another phone with pda capabilities like every other POS on the market, then I won't be. Anyway, it may well be that this market research is flawed because they are looking at it from the phone point of view.
The whole immigration thing is a tool that the left and right the use for whatever goofy purposes they can dream up.
I have an old g3 clamshell (I got the computer for rescuing the data - then fixed it up out of curriosity) so as you can imagine, it isn't a screamer. It has 10.4 and I use it as a wireless bridge to the living room for a voip phone device, dashboard performs great as a phone book, and it connects to the stereo to play music. I wouldn't want to sit there and use two programs at once on it, but for those limited purposes, it runs like champ.
Realistically, when a new 1gb card is under $50 in the stores (and a quick froogle search showed some generics around $20), just how much is my 64mb Smartmedia card worth? How about my 16mb Compact Flash? The authors of the article spent about $70 on cards, and a bit more than $40 on exorbitant ebay shipping charges -- that's about $11 each. For that price, it isn't worth the effort to try selling these antiquated cards.
Your logic makes no sense. It sounds more like he was overruled from higher up and decided he couldn't work under such circumstances.
I understand how it would be nice to stream other content to an airport express, but I wonder if it isn't simply companies being unmotivated to support the APE. There is for example airfoil which will stream non-itunes to the APE. Perhaps it's a trick though, like redirecting a stream through iTunes somehow and thus avoiding the issue of directly communicating the APE?
Sort of like how telephone calls can be monitored only if certain procedures are followed
Such as? Most windows users don't get very far past the preinstalled browser, email app, chat client, and solitaire games. How is any modern linux distro, if it was preinstalled, any more difficult? I'm trying to think of anything I need to do but can do only in the CLI -- and I can't. Granted, if you know a little about the CLI, you can be more efficient -- but the gui config stuff is all there.
Except I'm hoping for the transhumanist utopia of the future. I don't want the humans to win and Laura is such an uberbitch, way too melodramatic and cruel -- I hope like Moses she buys the farm before the promised land.
I agree with you -- the boxing episode was barely watchable and I was sorely tempted to use the FF button (I watched the iTunes version). Lately, it seems more and more like a soap opera set in space. Now, the whiny BS might be appropriate background material (it is reasonable to think that conflict would result over relationships) and it probably deserves some play (you know, they need to throw in some chick stuff), but it shouldn't be the front matter in sci-fi. The last thing I want to see is something like "The Lightdays of Our Lives".
Church theater? "Pass the Ammo" is a must see.
I'm beginning to suspect that DNF is a sort of subversive but brilliant form of promotion. It means that every time vaporware is mentioned, so is 3D Realms. This keeps the company name in the public mind and makes people interested in whatever they do make -- interested like gawkers at a bloody accident but interested nonetheless.
I don't agree. I have no fear of failure about my ability to move a stack of dirty dishes from the sink (or more accurately, from the computer desk) to the dishwasher, turn the machine on, and distribute the clean dishes to their correct spots once completed. Only rarely do I break something and even then, it isn't like it's fine China -- just shrug it off and toss it out. What causes me to procrastinate is boredom.
I hereby present you with the "Analogy of the Year Award". Embedded Walmart -- that's awesome.
If your hands are warm and dry, no worries. If however your hands are clammy ....
I don't know how it could get more trivial to burn an ISO. I'm currently using a Gnome desktop and all I do is insert CD, right click on the ISO I want to burn, and choose burn to disk from the context menu. Anyway, I consider my time valuable. That's why I use Linux.