Reality Distortion Field: Company sells defective product, then sells accessory to fix defect. On Slashdot this is okay as long as said company is Apple.
The iPhone is a neat toy, not for getting actual work done. Maybe that's why Slashdotters don't like it that much. It's a phone whose primary market is spoiled teenagers.
"Apple didn't say you couldn't put sex or political cartoons on the device."
Great. So where can I download these apps to my iPhone? (without voiding the warranty)
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Apple graciously allows you to distribute your app to 100 people. Of course you still pay $99/year for the privilege.
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It's not about Apple refusing to distribute it. It's about Apple preventing anyone else from distributing it on their own. It's as if I bought a Dell PC and every app I installed had to be pre-approved by and sold through Dell. Of course the solution is to not buy an iPhone.
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"And everyone else was a HELL of a lot worse before they came along"
How so? Plenty of phones before the iPhone allowed you to install apps without the approval of the manufacturer or provider.
This is intentional; everyone will have to pay a fee to some "association" in order to use the language. Negotiation with individual copyright holders isn't required in that case.
Yep, completely ignored. And filters usually apply only to brand-new or not-logged-in users; administrators are not specifically exempted. Also, most filters aren't set to "Disallow"; they either ask the user to confirm the edit, or just make a note in the edit summary and filter log.
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But the summary didn't disparage all Apple users, just the fanboys.
Reality Distortion Field: Company sells defective product, then sells accessory to fix defect. On Slashdot this is okay as long as said company is Apple.
Under this system, of course Bittorrent would end up being classified as a "bad application".
Perhaps the royalty scales with the size of the buffer.
"THE NEW ENEMY"
Never mind, forgot open =/ open source
What's to stop it from running on a rooted Android phone?
So this company is going to make a ton selling support contracts for their games?
You can't make money selling games when they're all given away for free.
The iPhone is a neat toy, not for getting actual work done. Maybe that's why Slashdotters don't like it that much. It's a phone whose primary market is spoiled teenagers.
That Apple logo costs a lot of money. That's why it matters.
Of course you pay far out the ass for that "privilege".
Spot on. The iPhone is marketed as a toy, not a business tool. Why would people expect anything different? Get a Blackberry.
So I have two choices:
1. Have Apple record my location 24/7 and sell that data
2. Disable GPS completely
"Apple didn't say you couldn't put sex or political cartoons on the device."
Great. So where can I download these apps to my iPhone? (without voiding the warranty)
Apple graciously allows you to distribute your app to 100 people. Of course you still pay $99/year for the privilege.
It's not about Apple refusing to distribute it. It's about Apple preventing anyone else from distributing it on their own. It's as if I bought a Dell PC and every app I installed had to be pre-approved by and sold through Dell. Of course the solution is to not buy an iPhone.
"And everyone else was a HELL of a lot worse before they came along"
How so? Plenty of phones before the iPhone allowed you to install apps without the approval of the manufacturer or provider.
Getting criminals off the street doesn't make people safer? Also, cameras speed up police response.
Surveillance of a public place =/ surveillance of private communications.
So people without money to spend don't use J2EE. Big deal.
This is intentional; everyone will have to pay a fee to some "association" in order to use the language. Negotiation with individual copyright holders isn't required in that case.
What was "the right thing" that Wikipedia was doing back then and isn't doing now?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Edit_filter/False_positives
Yep, completely ignored. And filters usually apply only to brand-new or not-logged-in users; administrators are not specifically exempted. Also, most filters aren't set to "Disallow"; they either ask the user to confirm the edit, or just make a note in the edit summary and filter log.
People have been blacklisted from using Twinkle after misusing it. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:AzaToth/morebits.js ("twinkleBlacklistedUsers" near end of page)