The iPhone's UDID identifies my iPhone, not me so I don't see the problem. Some developers just want to see how many devices apps are installed and in active use on.
my android phone lasts 3 days if i don't run games or listen to music. also, i can recharge it on any USB port in the world, a compatible cable (micro USB) is dirt cheap.
and i only have to carry one device.
Uh, the iPhone/iPod touch charges on USB. A micro USB cable is still not a standard USB cable so there is no real difference. Just carry the the dock connector to USB cable with you and you can charge on any plane with a USB port in the seat back or on any USB port you find on a computer. I find it hard to believe that you cannot carry a USB to dock cable with you. It takes up about the same space as any other USB cable other than the dock connector end being a bit bigger.
The iPhone has the advantage of being compatible all around the world including in Japan. Many android phones do not work in Japan because they generally do not support as many frequencies.
What is a smartphone? Do these smartphones you talk about have similar characteristics as modern smartphones running iOS or Android? Do they have an app store?
I used to buy a lot more music on iTunes when it was 99 cents but now, with variable pricing, virtually all songs on the Canadian iTunes are 1.29 CAD each so I have stopped buying so much.
The record companies need to stop running their businesses like they are some big movie studio and start finding ways to save money so that they can offer music for less and offer artists less money upfront but more royalties for each song sold electronically.
The old model of upfront contracts will not work anymore in this new digital world.
Just because many of have at some point installed the Silverlight plugin, that does not translate into a lot of sites with Silverlight or a lot of continuing traffic to such sights. I tried out silverlight out of curiosity on my mac just visiting the demo sites but I have yet to run into a site using it since then. Flash is also something that I only run into as ads and google finance. I hate flash only sites.
My freedoms have nothing to do with software. Software is not the centre of my universe despite the fact that I work as a software developer on the windows platform. I can choose to write software for multiple platforms and I find it laughable that the FSF keeps on talking about freedom when the GPL is full of restrictions and requirements. BSD is true freedom because freedom applies to "PEOPLE" and gives people the right to do whatever the hell they want with the code. Inanimate things like software and code only exist because some person created them. Code does not have rights, people do.
If someone wants to bring up Android as an example of openness, I would quickly point out that it is only open to the carriers and that hackers rooting android phones are doing nothing that they could not do with a jailbroken iOS device. The end user on most Android phones is restricted in what he/she can do on it without rooting the device which is basically the same as jailbreaking an iPhone.
Think of those times when you were in a hurry and you were stuck behind some someone who enters in the wrong pin or chooses the wrong bank account type when they were buying items that cost less than 20 bucks. What if there was a network error? Had they used cash, you would have been out of there long before they finally got the transaction to work.
2. Cash is accepted everywhere.
Not every place accepts Visa or Mastercard and a lot of places do not accept Amex. Some places do not accept debit cards for logistical reasons (ferries, planes and many taxis). Cash is generally accepted everywhere.
3. Cash does not carry a per transaction fee when traveling in a foreign country.
Most credit cards charge a fee per transaction on top of their poor currency exchange fees which is why I take cash with me when I travel to Europe, the States or Japan. In fact, Japan is still very much a cash based society outside of their PASMO/SUICIA system for convenience stores and trains/transit. Don't expect your North American credit or debit card to work over there.
4. Cash is easily transferable between people.
You can lend/give cash to anyone but you cannot do the same with a credit/debit card.
It also costs me money to take out cash, but I don't get an extra fee for using a credit/check/debit card. Seems like a no-brainer to me. I use my check card for everything and check my balance daily to make sure I enough money. And I even call myself an adult.
If it costs you money to take out cash, maybe you should consider a different bank. It costs me nothing to use one of my bank's ATMs to get cash and it costs me nothing to make purchases with my debit card but I consider it bad form to use my debit card on a purchase of less than 20 bucks.
Don't buy any thing that you cannot afford. Use cash to pay for everything you can. I hate people who use plastic be it credit cards or debit cards for individual purchase of less than 10 dollars. If you cannot have at least 10 bucks in your wallet at all times then you do not deserve to call yourself an adult.
It often takes more time to use a debit card than using cash especially when the store's machines are acting up. Also consider that it costs a store money per transaction so you are actually being a jerk if you use our debit card for small purchases.
Canada fared better because we had regulations that discouraged sub-prime mortgages
I was merely responding to what appeared to be a call for regulation because the OP did not like the idea of a particular company being successful rather than there being an immediate need for regulation.
Are you advocating more regulation? Wasn't the sub prime meltdown the result of too much regulation in the wrong area? Instead of regulating prudence, the government basically forced banks to support untenable inner city mortgages which should have never been approved in the first place.
Canada fared better because we had regulations that discouraged sub-prime mortgages and did not force banks to give out loans to people who were high risk.
In this day in age planes should be drones by now with a "pilot" only being called to duty in an emergency. Otherwise he could be helping out with the flight crew as more of an "engineer" making sure everything is working smoothly.
Of course that probably would not go over too well with the "unions" but that is to be expected.
It's not about the performance, it's about the UI. iTunes sucks on Macs, and Mac users (who generally have higher standards than Windows users) are probably the people who are most aware of its suckiness. Windows users are used to things being difficult, astonishing, arcane, and unreliable. MacOS users expect things to Just Work, not for their iPod to randomly delete a bunch of songs from itself after the user merely tries to copy something from his computer to the iPod.
In your opinion, the UI sucks. Guess what? I'm a mac user at home and developer on windows at work. The iTunes UI is fine in my opinion. I don't see a problem with it. A lot of what the OP said is true. Windows does have a poor model for multitasking and resource management. It is particularly poor at managing virtual memory compared with unix OSes like OS X and unix-like ones like Linux.
But it's also reliant on people continuing to use their paid service (as an aside, I tried to install iTunes recently when I was having issues with WMP not fetching me the album art and meta data, only to learn iTunes would only give me that functionality if I first gave them my credit card details, even though I had no intention of buying music on iTunes and just wanted it to manage my collection - needless to say I uninstalled immediately). If the popularity of said service ever wanes, are people going to stick with their social networking aspects or choose the flavour of the day free replacement? Not to mention if they limit functionality here, as elsewhere, to paying customers they'll stunt their growth rate.
That is a very interesting work of fiction. You don't need an iTunes account to fetch album art and you don't need to supply any payment method information let alone credit cards to sign up for an account and download the free songs/videos of the week along with free apps for iOS devices.
You need authorization to make, sell, offer to sell, or use any patented invention. If a manufacturer has a license to use a patent for a specific thing (say home use), and you have that manufactured thing, then you automatically have authorization to use that thing for it's intended purpose (patent exhaustion). If you buy the thing and use it for a different purpose (say commercial use), which the manufacturer had no license for, then you have no license. It does not matter if you were a party to the agreement (the manufacturer does need to inform you that the product is only licensed for certain use), because in the absence of specific authorization you have no authorization.
Sorry but no I do not. I need a license to encode and distribute the video either by download or physical media for profit. I do not need a license to operate the camera and produce my own "copyright" original works. If I am purchasing commercial quality encoder then I would end up paying a "commercial" license for that product. End of story. The company that created the camera already paid the license for the encoder on the device and I most likely will not be taking the raw video and distributing it but will use another "licensed" product to create the final consumable product.
If that is not good enough for the MPEGLA then they can eat shit and die because they have no right to profit from my "copyrighted" intellectual property.
I think by this you mean "most tolerant of male bad behaviour." This is not a feminist definition of "best". In terms of overall national achievement, I think the French might want to make some claims.
Collect your balls on your way out. I assume that you keep them in a sack around your neck. Do you realize that feminism has nothing to do with seeking equality and is really misandry? If you are a male and you support feminism then you are a traitor to your gender and you really do not love women either but rather fear them.
I guess it's their shitty engineering that makes my computer so stable and operational.
Yeah. Yesterday, I plugged a Mac laptop into a projector. Apparently the Mac needs to reboot after detecting new hardware or something--so it immediately rebooted without prompting, notifying, or even asking me to save. Apple is so awesomely user-friendly. That must be their engineering commitment to build a stable and operational computer.
Anyways--while the mac was busy rebooting, I plugged my linux laptop in. It immediately started working.
That's an interesting story.. what's that I smell? It smells like bullshit. Are you sure that it wasn't your "linux" laptop dual-booted into windows?
I think you are wrong. In "GENERAL TALKING PICTURES CORP. V. WESTERN ELEC. CO., 304 U. S. 175 (1938)" the SCOTUS found that a patent holder CAN authorize a manufacturer to only manufacture for a particular market (home use vs commercial), and that any subsequent purchasers only get the same authorization that the manufacturer had. For example, if MPEG-LA authorized Canon to use MPEG patents in consumer cameras only, and you bought one of those cameras and used it for commercial use, you are infringing the patent.
Would you care to say how, I, as a hypothetical consumer using a purchased good for commercial use would be infringing on a patent by use of said good when I was not a party to the original patent license? I'm not a party to the license agreement therefor it does not apply to me as an end purchaser and owner of the final product.
If I were to encode the final video product in MPEG 2 or MPEG 4 and attempt to sell it then I would require a commercial license but not for using a camera.
Violate one of his patents by using your browsers to highlight some disguised goat.cx links, Rick Astley videos and annoying sites with a million pop up windows with background music and send them to Paul Allen and his lawyers.
Information is what is occurring and data in the interpretation of the phenomenon. That is why you can have two observers both with "DATA" to back up their finding coming to a different conclusion. Data is not an absolute.
..Alzheimer is consequence of too much religious brain-wash?
As far as my grandmas go, going to the church too much does fry your neurons!
No, it is a consequence of too much internet brainwashing. You anti-religious trolls all sound the same. Do you go through a training course somewhere?
And yet we sighted people still can't connect a bluetooth keyboard.
You have been able to connect a bluetooth keyboard to an iPad since launch and you can even attach a USB keyboard if you want via the camera connection dongle. No jailbreak needed.
With iOS 4.x, you can connect a bluetooth keyboard to your iPhone.
If you want to prevent your employees from using facebook and similar sites, make it a firewall rule that redirects to a page clearly stating that it is blocked and be done with it. Also be sure to publish a clear acceptable use policy.
However, it is a violation of the rights of privacy for a prospective employer or existing employer to check out the facebook sites of either current or prospective employees.
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The iPhone's UDID identifies my iPhone, not me so I don't see the problem. Some developers just want to see how many devices apps are installed and in active use on.
my android phone lasts 3 days if i don't run games or listen to music. also, i can recharge it on any USB port in the world, a compatible cable (micro USB) is dirt cheap.
and i only have to carry one device.
Uh, the iPhone/iPod touch charges on USB. A micro USB cable is still not a standard USB cable so there is no real difference. Just carry the the dock connector to USB cable with you and you can charge on any plane with a USB port in the seat back or on any USB port you find on a computer. I find it hard to believe that you cannot carry a USB to dock cable with you. It takes up about the same space as any other USB cable other than the dock connector end being a bit bigger.
The iPhone has the advantage of being compatible all around the world including in Japan. Many android phones do not work in Japan because they generally do not support as many frequencies.
Yes, Symbian "only" has 44% of the worldwide market share of smartphones. http://www.asymco.com/2010/08/02/android-global-share-rises-to-16-of-smartphones-in-q1/
What is a smartphone? Do these smartphones you talk about have similar characteristics as modern smartphones running iOS or Android? Do they have an app store?
I used to buy a lot more music on iTunes when it was 99 cents but now, with variable pricing, virtually all songs on the Canadian iTunes are 1.29 CAD each so I have stopped buying so much.
The record companies need to stop running their businesses like they are some big movie studio and start finding ways to save money so that they can offer music for less and offer artists less money upfront but more royalties for each song sold electronically.
The old model of upfront contracts will not work anymore in this new digital world.
Just because many of have at some point installed the Silverlight plugin, that does not translate into a lot of sites with Silverlight or a lot of continuing traffic to such sights. I tried out silverlight out of curiosity on my mac just visiting the demo sites but I have yet to run into a site using it since then. Flash is also something that I only run into as ads and google finance. I hate flash only sites.
The iPad is iBad for your freedoms.
My freedoms have nothing to do with software. Software is not the centre of my universe despite the fact that I work as a software developer on the windows platform. I can choose to write software for multiple platforms and I find it laughable that the FSF keeps on talking about freedom when the GPL is full of restrictions and requirements. BSD is true freedom because freedom applies to "PEOPLE" and gives people the right to do whatever the hell they want with the code. Inanimate things like software and code only exist because some person created them. Code does not have rights, people do.
If someone wants to bring up Android as an example of openness, I would quickly point out that it is only open to the carriers and that hackers rooting android phones are doing nothing that they could not do with a jailbroken iOS device. The end user on most Android phones is restricted in what he/she can do on it without rooting the device which is basically the same as jailbreaking an iPhone.
1. CASH is always the same speed.
Think of those times when you were in a hurry and you were stuck behind some someone who enters in the wrong pin or chooses the wrong bank account type when they were buying items that cost less than 20 bucks. What if there was a network error? Had they used cash, you would have been out of there long before they finally got the transaction to work.
2. Cash is accepted everywhere.
Not every place accepts Visa or Mastercard and a lot of places do not accept Amex. Some places do not accept debit cards for logistical reasons (ferries, planes and many taxis). Cash is generally accepted everywhere.
3. Cash does not carry a per transaction fee when traveling in a foreign country.
Most credit cards charge a fee per transaction on top of their poor currency exchange fees which is why I take cash with me when I travel to Europe, the States or Japan. In fact, Japan is still very much a cash based society outside of their PASMO/SUICIA system for convenience stores and trains/transit. Don't expect your North American credit or debit card to work over there.
4. Cash is easily transferable between people.
You can lend/give cash to anyone but you cannot do the same with a credit/debit card.
It also costs me money to take out cash, but I don't get an extra fee for using a credit/check/debit card. Seems like a no-brainer to me. I use my check card for everything and check my balance daily to make sure I enough money. And I even call myself an adult.
If it costs you money to take out cash, maybe you should consider a different bank. It costs me nothing to use one of my bank's ATMs to get cash and it costs me nothing to make purchases with my debit card but I consider it bad form to use my debit card on a purchase of less than 20 bucks.
Don't buy any thing that you cannot afford. Use cash to pay for everything you can. I hate people who use plastic be it credit cards or debit cards for individual purchase of less than 10 dollars. If you cannot have at least 10 bucks in your wallet at all times then you do not deserve to call yourself an adult.
It often takes more time to use a debit card than using cash especially when the store's machines are acting up. Also consider that it costs a store money per transaction so you are actually being a jerk if you use our debit card for small purchases.
Are you advocating more regulation?
Canada fared better because we had regulations that discouraged sub-prime mortgages
I was merely responding to what appeared to be a call for regulation because the OP did not like the idea of a particular company being successful rather than there being an immediate need for regulation.
Just wondering.
Are you advocating more regulation? Wasn't the sub prime meltdown the result of too much regulation in the wrong area? Instead of regulating prudence, the government basically forced banks to support untenable inner city mortgages which should have never been approved in the first place.
Canada fared better because we had regulations that discouraged sub-prime mortgages and did not force banks to give out loans to people who were high risk.
In this day in age planes should be drones by now with a "pilot" only being called to duty in an emergency. Otherwise he could be helping out with the flight crew as more of an "engineer" making sure everything is working smoothly.
Of course that probably would not go over too well with the "unions" but that is to be expected.
It's not about the performance, it's about the UI. iTunes sucks on Macs, and Mac users (who generally have higher standards than Windows users) are probably the people who are most aware of its suckiness. Windows users are used to things being difficult, astonishing, arcane, and unreliable. MacOS users expect things to Just Work, not for their iPod to randomly delete a bunch of songs from itself after the user merely tries to copy something from his computer to the iPod.
In your opinion, the UI sucks. Guess what? I'm a mac user at home and developer on windows at work. The iTunes UI is fine in my opinion. I don't see a problem with it. A lot of what the OP said is true. Windows does have a poor model for multitasking and resource management. It is particularly poor at managing virtual memory compared with unix OSes like OS X and unix-like ones like Linux.
But it's also reliant on people continuing to use their paid service (as an aside, I tried to install iTunes recently when I was having issues with WMP not fetching me the album art and meta data, only to learn iTunes would only give me that functionality if I first gave them my credit card details, even though I had no intention of buying music on iTunes and just wanted it to manage my collection - needless to say I uninstalled immediately). If the popularity of said service ever wanes, are people going to stick with their social networking aspects or choose the flavour of the day free replacement? Not to mention if they limit functionality here, as elsewhere, to paying customers they'll stunt their growth rate.
That is a very interesting work of fiction. You don't need an iTunes account to fetch album art and you don't need to supply any payment method information let alone credit cards to sign up for an account and download the free songs/videos of the week along with free apps for iOS devices.
You need authorization to make, sell, offer to sell, or use any patented invention. If a manufacturer has a license to use a patent for a specific thing (say home use), and you have that manufactured thing, then you automatically have authorization to use that thing for it's intended purpose (patent exhaustion). If you buy the thing and use it for a different purpose (say commercial use), which the manufacturer had no license for, then you have no license. It does not matter if you were a party to the agreement (the manufacturer does need to inform you that the product is only licensed for certain use), because in the absence of specific authorization you have no authorization.
Sorry but no I do not. I need a license to encode and distribute the video either by download or physical media for profit. I do not need a license to operate the camera and produce my own "copyright" original works. If I am purchasing commercial quality encoder then I would end up paying a "commercial" license for that product. End of story. The company that created the camera already paid the license for the encoder on the device and I most likely will not be taking the raw video and distributing it but will use another "licensed" product to create the final consumable product.
If that is not good enough for the MPEGLA then they can eat shit and die because they have no right to profit from my "copyrighted" intellectual property.
I think by this you mean "most tolerant of male bad behaviour." This is not a feminist definition of "best". In terms of overall national achievement, I think the French might want to make some claims.
Collect your balls on your way out. I assume that you keep them in a sack around your neck. Do you realize that feminism has nothing to do with seeking equality and is really misandry? If you are a male and you support feminism then you are a traitor to your gender and you really do not love women either but rather fear them.
I guess it's their shitty engineering that makes my computer so stable and operational.
Yeah. Yesterday, I plugged a Mac laptop into a projector. Apparently the Mac needs to reboot after detecting new hardware or something--so it immediately rebooted without prompting, notifying, or even asking me to save. Apple is so awesomely user-friendly. That must be their engineering commitment to build a stable and operational computer.
Anyways--while the mac was busy rebooting, I plugged my linux laptop in. It immediately started working.
That's an interesting story.. what's that I smell? It smells like bullshit. Are you sure that it wasn't your "linux" laptop dual-booted into windows?
I think you are wrong. In "GENERAL TALKING PICTURES CORP. V. WESTERN ELEC. CO., 304 U. S. 175 (1938)" the SCOTUS found that a patent holder CAN authorize a manufacturer to only manufacture for a particular market (home use vs commercial), and that any subsequent purchasers only get the same authorization that the manufacturer had. For example, if MPEG-LA authorized Canon to use MPEG patents in consumer cameras only, and you bought one of those cameras and used it for commercial use, you are infringing the patent.
Would you care to say how, I, as a hypothetical consumer using a purchased good for commercial use would be infringing on a patent by use of said good when I was not a party to the original patent license? I'm not a party to the license agreement therefor it does not apply to me as an end purchaser and owner of the final product.
If I were to encode the final video product in MPEG 2 or MPEG 4 and attempt to sell it then I would require a commercial license but not for using a camera.
Violate one of his patents by using your browsers to highlight some disguised goat.cx links, Rick Astley videos and annoying sites with a million pop up windows with background music and send them to Paul Allen and his lawyers.
Information is what is occurring and data in the interpretation of the phenomenon. That is why you can have two observers both with "DATA" to back up their finding coming to a different conclusion. Data is not an absolute.
The problem is that religious fanatics already got a hold of it and accept the results as fact without considering any further review.
Sort of like how the internet science fanboys believed in string theory, dark matter, dark energy etc... without any proof?
So what you are saying is that people like you hate religion so much because of brain damage you suffered at some point?
..Alzheimer is consequence of too much religious brain-wash?
As far as my grandmas go, going to the church too much does fry your neurons!
No, it is a consequence of too much internet brainwashing. You anti-religious trolls all sound the same. Do you go through a training course somewhere?
And yet we sighted people still can't connect a bluetooth keyboard.
You have been able to connect a bluetooth keyboard to an iPad since launch and you can even attach a USB keyboard if you want via the camera connection dongle. No jailbreak needed.
With iOS 4.x, you can connect a bluetooth keyboard to your iPhone.
If you want to prevent your employees from using facebook and similar sites, make it a firewall rule that redirects to a page clearly stating that it is blocked and be done with it. Also be sure to publish a clear acceptable use policy.
However, it is a violation of the rights of privacy for a prospective employer or existing employer to check out the facebook sites of either current or prospective employees.