Further, I can't believe that they would confiscate nail clippers and bottles of mouthwash larger than 6 oz. at the gate, but let you bring on an electronic device that you bought at Radio Shack that can cause the avionics to fly you right into a mountain.
Because the iPad is meant to replace a full-blown PC, right? I mean, Apple still sells something called a Mac, right? Why would they do that if the iPad completely replaced it?
If you live in the Pacific Northwest, there's a good chance that your house *is* built to at least some earthquake code. My house was built in 1960, has metal tie plates, and is bolted to the foundation, and not as a retrofit.
This isn't exactly new knowledge that earthquakes happen close to active volcanos, you know.
"That cloud ought to be accessible by anybody's computer and through any sort of information sitting out on the Web, as long as it has an Adobe logo on it."
"Ummm.... You do know that consumers around the world have already paid for it don't you. Now it's the colluding companies turn."
Because they would never fold this new expense into higher prices on future products. Nope, no for-profit entity would EVER do that.
You don't seem to get it. We (customers) paid for it before, and we (customers) will pay for this now too. The cartel won't pay a cent in the long term that they don't pass on to us.
"This is not a zero sum game, if they raise prices they will either lose business to competitors who didn't raise prices or lower demand. That's how the free market works."
Unless the market has a bunch of proven price fixers that produce 98% of the market's goods...
The real problem is the amount of the fine is *nothing* in comparison to what they got from it. They froze out competition, practically killed off competing products and standards, and have to pay $44M each.
Oh no! Not $44M! That's like... two days of revenue! That's just unfair punishment for a scam that went on for YEARS.
While I completely agree with what you posted, I do have one question: were you actually expecting journalistic integrity from some half-ass "security consultant" who's job primarily consists of yelling OMG THE SKY IS FALLING OMG OMG OMG as loud as they can, to as many people as possible?
This isn't the Washington Post or CNN.com - it's some useless d-bag who's trying to make a name for himself writing on a blog.
Well, if you define "the market" as only people who want a smartphone, who are also fluent programmers with the time for a code review of every damn thing they want to do with their device.
"It comes down to if you cannot see the source don't trust it" is an idealistic scenario that will never happen in the real world, on a device that the manufacturer actually wants to profit from.
Don't forget that it would be an option to bill BP for that physics package, rather than pay someone to disassemble it under the New START treaty. Win - Win!
Yeah, God forbid that Apple would want one of their most important developers to stop using an API that was added to the platform specifically to make an easier transition from an operating system that no one has used in over 5 years to the current one.
Carbon was never meant to be a permanent API - it was meant for developers to start using with Mac OS 8.x, so that their code would run natively on Mac OS X when it started shipping, years later.
Yes, Apple did kind of a dick move when they suddenly cancelled Carbon64 after making it available for testing, but at some point the transitional API needs to go away after the transition is complete. The transition has been complete for quite some time, and Carbon apps are becoming more and more of a PITA with every point release of Mac OS X. For God's sake, some of them still write resource forks...
Blocking Flash on the desktop for years previous to Apple's new 'we don't like Flash so Flash isn't allowed to play in our sandbox' philosophy all of a sudden makes me an Apple fanboy? Are you sure that Apple isn't a MachineShedFred fanboy for following my lead?
There are plenty of people that hated flash LONG before Apple started stomping on it in public, and with very good reasons. Your reasoning is like saying that everyone who doesn't burn tires in their back yard is a tree hugging hippie.
It's perfectly reasonable and possible to hate Flash, and yet not be an Apple 'fanboy'.
Love Canal disaster in Niagra Falls (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Canal)
Valley of the Drums in Kentucky (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valley_of_the_Drums)
Portland Harbor superfund site (http://www.oregonbusiness.com/articles/78-january-2010/2765-supermess)
DOE Hanford (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanford_Site#Environmental_concerns) Nothing like several TBq of radiation being released into the Columbia River on a daily basis for 40 years, with a nice govt. cover-up...
"Bunker busting" bombs do what they do by using kinetic force to plow through lots of ground or concrete before exploding. As the density of the ocean is much more than air, and the thing you want to blow up is much deeper than your average bunker, getting the same amount of kinetic force on target isn't really possible in the timeframe allowed.
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Further, I can't believe that they would confiscate nail clippers and bottles of mouthwash larger than 6 oz. at the gate, but let you bring on an electronic device that you bought at Radio Shack that can cause the avionics to fly you right into a mountain.
Video / speech might be slow, but when it's this broad doing the talking, I'm still gonna watch it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgpzUo_kbFY
So you're saying that USDOT is run by klingons?!
So, this means Criminals should just use a Rand-McNally book instead, and shave a year off their potential sentence. Good law.
You can see Mount Hood, and Mount St. Helens both from the north runway at PDX as well as the parking structure.
Because the iPad is meant to replace a full-blown PC, right? I mean, Apple still sells something called a Mac, right? Why would they do that if the iPad completely replaced it?
If you live in the Pacific Northwest, there's a good chance that your house *is* built to at least some earthquake code. My house was built in 1960, has metal tie plates, and is bolted to the foundation, and not as a retrofit.
This isn't exactly new knowledge that earthquakes happen close to active volcanos, you know.
"That cloud ought to be accessible by anybody's computer and through any sort of information sitting out on the Web, as long as it has an Adobe logo on it."
"Ummm.... You do know that consumers around the world have already paid for it don't you. Now it's the colluding companies turn."
Because they would never fold this new expense into higher prices on future products. Nope, no for-profit entity would EVER do that.
You don't seem to get it. We (customers) paid for it before, and we (customers) will pay for this now too. The cartel won't pay a cent in the long term that they don't pass on to us.
"This is not a zero sum game, if they raise prices they will either lose business to competitors who didn't raise prices or lower demand. That's how the free market works."
Unless the market has a bunch of proven price fixers that produce 98% of the market's goods...
The real problem is the amount of the fine is *nothing* in comparison to what they got from it. They froze out competition, practically killed off competing products and standards, and have to pay $44M each.
Oh no! Not $44M! That's like... two days of revenue! That's just unfair punishment for a scam that went on for YEARS.
Or, you'd eventually grant a monopoly to the one company that doesn't get caught.
Sounds to me like the natural evolution of a market.
You're assuming that the sending party is capable of thinking as rationally as you. Animals backed in corners, and all that.
While I completely agree with what you posted, I do have one question: were you actually expecting journalistic integrity from some half-ass "security consultant" who's job primarily consists of yelling OMG THE SKY IS FALLING OMG OMG OMG as loud as they can, to as many people as possible?
This isn't the Washington Post or CNN.com - it's some useless d-bag who's trying to make a name for himself writing on a blog.
Well, if you define "the market" as only people who want a smartphone, who are also fluent programmers with the time for a code review of every damn thing they want to do with their device.
"It comes down to if you cannot see the source don't trust it" is an idealistic scenario that will never happen in the real world, on a device that the manufacturer actually wants to profit from.
So you're saying that we should be looking for the freedom from freedoms from stuff?
Head detonation in 3... 2... 1...
Don't forget that it would be an option to bill BP for that physics package, rather than pay someone to disassemble it under the New START treaty. Win - Win!
Yeah, God forbid that Apple would want one of their most important developers to stop using an API that was added to the platform specifically to make an easier transition from an operating system that no one has used in over 5 years to the current one.
Carbon was never meant to be a permanent API - it was meant for developers to start using with Mac OS 8.x, so that their code would run natively on Mac OS X when it started shipping, years later.
Yes, Apple did kind of a dick move when they suddenly cancelled Carbon64 after making it available for testing, but at some point the transitional API needs to go away after the transition is complete. The transition has been complete for quite some time, and Carbon apps are becoming more and more of a PITA with every point release of Mac OS X. For God's sake, some of them still write resource forks...
So let me get this straight:
Blocking Flash on the desktop for years previous to Apple's new 'we don't like Flash so Flash isn't allowed to play in our sandbox' philosophy all of a sudden makes me an Apple fanboy? Are you sure that Apple isn't a MachineShedFred fanboy for following my lead?
There are plenty of people that hated flash LONG before Apple started stomping on it in public, and with very good reasons. Your reasoning is like saying that everyone who doesn't burn tires in their back yard is a tree hugging hippie.
It's perfectly reasonable and possible to hate Flash, and yet not be an Apple 'fanboy'.
So you went out of your way to format your Mac with a case-sensitive file system, and this is Valve's problem... how?
Or, according to the interview with Gabe Newell available on Rock, Paper, Shotgun:
Asked and answered.
Don't forget:
Love Canal disaster in Niagra Falls (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Canal)
Valley of the Drums in Kentucky (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valley_of_the_Drums)
Portland Harbor superfund site (http://www.oregonbusiness.com/articles/78-january-2010/2765-supermess)
DOE Hanford (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanford_Site#Environmental_concerns) Nothing like several TBq of radiation being released into the Columbia River on a daily basis for 40 years, with a nice govt. cover-up...
The EPA is hardly a giant waste of money.
Would you rather that they had tested it somewhere in the range of 40 - 70 times, just to get a more accurate sample?
We're talking aboutnuclear fucking weapons here.
Only if you define a highly eccentric orbital path that intersects with the object you're orbiting as an orbit...
"Bunker busting" bombs do what they do by using kinetic force to plow through lots of ground or concrete before exploding. As the density of the ocean is much more than air, and the thing you want to blow up is much deeper than your average bunker, getting the same amount of kinetic force on target isn't really possible in the timeframe allowed.