Without Office on the Mac in 1995, the decision to buy a Mac in a business environment would have been much harder for businesses to needed to share documents with Office users (which was just about everyone back then).
True, but you could say the same thing for Adobe, yet we don't see comments about how "Adobe saved Apple in the nineties". That and Microsoft makes a few hundred million from Mac Office sales, so it would have been silly to cut a cash cow, as well as a deterrence against anti-trust action from the DOJ.
As of mid-2005, however, fewer than 50 deaths had been directly attributed to radiation from the disaster
Bolded a word you might have skipped over. Because a woman getting breast cancer that wouldn't have, or a man dying of prostate cancer 20 years earlier than he would have without the radation aren't indirect deaths from radiation.
And even if you are able to make the perfect reactor design, there are still the fatal flaws of human greed,corruption and hubris.
I strongly suggest if you believe as you seem to that you get 10 of your bestest buddies together and shut down and/or destroy a coal-fired power plant nearby.
Not likely if you adopt conservative claptrap like "Nanny State".
But I just can't stand it when they make laws that restrict actual freedom for lots of people, just to appease the "what about the children" pearl-clutchers.
That's not a "liberal Nanny State", that's cultural puritanism in action. Which is inherently conservative.
There is a difference between semi-permanent missile defense structures in an aggressive country that knows it might be attacked, and temporary missile launchers installed just in case a threat might emerge out of thin air.
And there's a term for noting such "differences": rationalizing hypocrisy, as few countries have been as consistently aggressive over the last 100 years as Britain and the United States.
The childish jabs at Iraq/Bush etc are stale, try another angle. Now for the screw karma because I am so tired of lame shit.
And what if someone invaded your home based on lies, killed a hundred thousand people, and made hundreds of thousands more refugees? There was a population equivalent of 911 every week in Iraq. For years some Iraqi women were in mourning robes, because by the time came to remove them someone else in their family was killed.
No, not exactly. Unless you are referring to some past conversation which only took place inside your head.
You are wrong here. The incident where the NYC cops used the pepper spray on the girls was during an operation where they were trying to keep people on the sidewalk and off of the street with orange snowfence - the "barricades".
According to the same police commissioner responsible for cracking down on the protests when he's not busy spying on hundreds of people for suspicion of not being Muslim. I don't trust the words of authoritarians, but you probably guessed that by now.
So law enforcement tools should be chosen not based on effectiveness of the technique, but on how hypocritical the method might sound to Uberbah? I'm going to disagree with you there. If a guy is using a weapon in a crime I have no problem with the police also using a weapon in a crime - no matter how ironic it might seem to you.
LOL, are you even trying here? Of course you're a transparent hypocrite if you use audio cannons to enforce your "noise ordinances".
So I'll believe you why? Your assertion has no basis.
A hell of a lot more than yours. The most heavily militarized police force in the country with a massive (and illegal) spy operation formed with the CIA does not have any tear gas in it's arsenal? They spy on people not living in New York state, much less NYC, but have no tear gas at all. You becha.
So you went from not being aware of the decision at all until I mentioned it to constitutional law expert? The amazing thing is, you clearly didn't even read about the case before spouting off again. It was a small march of Jehovah's Witnesses marching down a public sidewalk... much smaller in scale than the OWS protests. It is DIRECTLY applicable, which is why I pointed you in that direction. A UNANIMOUS supreme court decision that has stood up for 70 years vs. your completely uninformed legal opinion.
So you're a mind reader now? What are you doing on Slashdot instead of making millions on Vegas? Actually you might want to skip Vegas. And the hand waving.
Of coooorse requiring a permit to engage in peaceable assembly is an abridgement of your right to peaceably assemble, and no I don't give a shit whether Cox was 9-0 or 5-4. The Supreme Court has a long history of chipping away out our rights by making all kinds of "reasonable" allowances for federal, state and local governments - one of their recent gems is giving warrantless searches a pass if the cops say they think they hear you destroying evidence - that's just one ruling out of many. Except there is no such "reasonable" exception to the 1st Amendment any more than there are "reasonable" exceptions to the 4th Amendment for the Drug War. No, that doesn't mean that you can yell "fire" in a theater, it just means that:
although the government cannot regulate the contents of speech, it can place reasonable time, place, and manner restrictions on speech for the public safety. Also, that every parade or procession on public streets had to have a license and organizers had to pay a fee.
is an obvious farce.
What right did an unelected despot have to tell them not to?
Ooo, caught in a double standard are we?
Huh? No I'm not. Look, we can branch into a comparison of those two wars if you would like, but you're getting off-topic.
No, I'm making obvious commentary on selective retentiveness. No one is making a 1:1 comparison between OWS and Egypt any more than anyone makes a 1:1 comparison between Vietnam and Afghanistan. If someone starts talking about Bloomberg's death squads, then go ahead and knock yourself out.
Yup, nowhere except America manages to so completely miss the point of unions.
I find your lack of self-awareness disturbing.
To get the job, you must be a member of the union. If you are not, then you must join immediately.
Obviously, because if the workers want to enjoy the pay and benefits won by the union, they should become dues paying members of said union. Obviously. If you worked hard at negotiating yourself a raise yet someone off the street piggybacked off your efforts without lifting a finger on their own, you'd be pissed.
Also obviously, if some of your union members have to do a lot of work outside office hours to support the union, they deserve to be compensated for that effort. So you have union dues.
Which is why right wingers have passed "Right to Work for Less" laws around the country, which allow workers to have the same pay and benefits as union members without doing any of the negotiating or making any of the sacrifices.
There is only one union that represents people in your position.
No more or less than any other country. Sometimes you have more than one union, sometimes you don't.
Only employees can be union officials
Only if your union votes that that be the case. And who doesn't want their union rep to either have had skin in the game or experience doing the same job you are?
and anyone who gets elected without being open to bribes finds that they no longer have a job and must therefore resign
Ah, there it is. The Hatorade. Why not go on about tomatoes and a union boss that's been dead for nearly 40 years while you're at it? Or, maybe give the "Buz Unionzzz are Corrupt!!!!" shtick a rest until Unions are responsible for trillions in bank fraud and have totally co-opted every western government the way FIRE has.
One is just that they like to pretend they are better than other companies
Uh...because they are? You might call their inspections of Foxconn facilities and efforts to improve worker's conditions weak sauce - and they probably are - but it's more than anyone else is doing. And Apple hasn't offshored most of their customer support (or threatened remaining workers to STFU or see their jobs to to India) like most of their competitors.
Well Apple has quite high margins.
So do Intel and Microsoft. All gigantic companies with more money than god in between their couch cushions, yet neither gets so much as a fraction of a percentage of the flack that Apple gets.
Not trying to paint Apple is the Big Baddie here or anything, just saying there is a reason they get more shit.
Because a large number of haters want to give them shit. Otherwise they wouldn't be directing 100% of the blame at 15% of the problem.
Then you haven't even been reading my posts, as I most certainly have been responding to your points - 10 blockquotes in the last post alone.
So which ones, exactly, do you think I've been sidestepping? Go ahead and rattle em off....and then I'll do the same. I don't think you really addressed the PM of Israel celebrating a bombing of a government building in the 40's. Or Israel starting Operation Cast Lead which killed hundreds and left Gaza in ruins, when even if the IDF admits that Hamas had stopped firing rockets that the IDF admits aren't a real military threat. Or why the native Arabs weren't perfectly justified in resisting a nation being carved out of their land for an immigrant population. Or Israel starting the 1967 war. And so on....
And I never even mentioned the speech you linked to. I was simply referring to their training, arming and funding of several groups that certainly have Israels death on their public agenda.
Oh, next time I'll try to read your mind more clearly as to which piece of anti-Iranian propaganda you're referring to. And what about Israel's multiple acts of war upon Iran, like assassinating their nuclear scientists or funding of the terrorist group MEK?
How do you wireless display mirroring from your laptop, desktop or tablet computer to your XBMC box? Do you know many people who do "why can't Product A match this random item from a billeted list from Product B" when say, buying a vehicle?
Dealer: "We have a great deal for this 2011 Prius, gets 45 mpg..." Buyer: "But does it fit 12 passengers plus luggage?" Dealer: "Oh no, for that you want a passenger van. This E-350 for example..." Buyer:"That tows a maximum of 10,000 pounds. How about 15,000?" Dealer:"Then you need a dualie pickup. This F-series is rated for 17,500 lbs..." Buyer:"But does it get 45 mpg like the Prius?" Dealer:"?!?"
If an Apple product doesn't do what you want, Jobs would have been the first one to tell you to go right ahead and buy whatever it is that does do what you want. Nobody's holding a gun to your head.
It would be significantly harder than a simple Control 4 script with XBMC.
LOL, "simple". The vast majority of the population has never heard of XBMC and would have no idea how to install it. But if XBMC is simple for you, then you'll simply install it ***ON*** your Apple TV. So....WYP again?
Just the same as oppressive dress codes and micromanagement of our time logging at your typical office, those rules are in place because some jerkass had to take advantage of the lax rules to the point that the bosses *had* to put a stop to it.
Or, more likely, they're being authoritarian douchebag assholes because they can, and because no one feels like stopping them. Like how OBL is dead and you have a greater chance of dying from a fall in your bathtub than from a terrorist attack, yet not only have we not gotten rid of the Patriot Act, we've got even worse laws now (NDAA) and a spiffy new NSA domestic spy center going up in the Southwest.
Nope, not confused. Just commenting on the notion that using Apple products is somehow "harder" than using anyone else's products, or how it will signal their decline....
What is wrong is to build something based in part on concepts, ideas and hard work of hundreds (thousands) of others who came before and then claim you own those concepts and ideas and now everyone must pay. That's the way the world works today but that doesn't make it right.
And your examples would be.....? I wasn't aware Apple had laid claim to the concept of personal computers, mp3 players, tablets, smartphones, etc etc etc....
At a recent COMDEX, Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated: "If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving twenty-five dollar cars that got 1000 miles to the gallon." In response to Bill's comments, General Motors issued a press release stating: If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics:
1. For no reason whatsoever your car would crash twice a day. 2. Every time they repainted the lines on the road you would have to buy a new car. 3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason, and you would just accept this, restart and drive on. 4. Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn, would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine. 5. Only one person at a time could use the car, unless you bought "Car95" or "CarNT." But then you would have to buy more seats. 6. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, reliable, five times as fast, and twice as easy to drive, but would only run on five per cent of the roads. 7. The oil, water temperature and alternator warning lights would be replaced by a single "general car default" warning light. 8. New seats would force everyone to have the same size butt. 9. The airbag system would say "Are you sure?" before going off. 10. Occasionally for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key, and grab hold of the radio antenna. 11. GM would require all car buyers to also purchase a deluxe set of Rand McNally road maps (now a GM subsidiary), even though they neither need them nor want them. Attempting to delete this option would immediately cause the car's performance to diminish by 50% or more. Moreover, GM would become a target for investigation by the Justice Department. 12. Everytime GM introduced a new model car buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car. 13. You'd press the "start" button to shut off the engine.
The problem with the Apple way is that you have to do it the Apple way or it becomes much more difficult than the alternatives
As opposed to the 'Microsoft Way' or the 'Google Way' or the 'Blackberry Way' I supposed? I guess that explains why Apple is now dead last in both smartphones and tablets (and dropped out of mp3 players entirely) after building early leads....
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Good link, thanks.
Right. Just like use of OS X has dropped to nothing since Boot Camp came out and you can install Windows natively.......
Uh......you know those games you buy "anywhere" were approved by Nintendo/Sony/Microsoft, right?
Sorry, nitpick fail, fail fail fail.
Not so much.
True, but you could say the same thing for Adobe, yet we don't see comments about how "Adobe saved Apple in the nineties". That and Microsoft makes a few hundred million from Mac Office sales, so it would have been silly to cut a cash cow, as well as a deterrence against anti-trust action from the DOJ.
Microsoft's role is somewhat overblown. The 150 million from MS was to settle a lawsuit and represented 7.5% of Apple's cash reserves at the time.
Bolded a word you might have skipped over. Because a woman getting breast cancer that wouldn't have, or a man dying of prostate cancer 20 years earlier than he would have without the radation aren't indirect deaths from radiation.
And even if you are able to make the perfect reactor design, there are still the fatal flaws of human greed, corruption and hubris.
Argumentum absurdum. Yawn.
Not likely if you adopt conservative claptrap like "Nanny State".
That's not a "liberal Nanny State", that's cultural puritanism in action. Which is inherently conservative.
You seem to have selective ignorance.
Fixed your Islamophobic BS for you.
And there's a term for noting such "differences": rationalizing hypocrisy, as few countries have been as consistently aggressive over the last 100 years as Britain and the United States.
And what if someone invaded your home based on lies, killed a hundred thousand people, and made hundreds of thousands more refugees? There was a population equivalent of 911 every week in Iraq. For years some Iraqi women were in mourning robes, because by the time came to remove them someone else in their family was killed.
What would *you* do in their place?
No, not exactly. Unless you are referring to some past conversation which only took place inside your head.
According to the same police commissioner responsible for cracking down on the protests when he's not busy spying on hundreds of people for suspicion of not being Muslim. I don't trust the words of authoritarians, but you probably guessed that by now.
LOL, are you even trying here? Of course you're a transparent hypocrite if you use audio cannons to enforce your "noise ordinances".
A hell of a lot more than yours. The most heavily militarized police force in the country with a massive (and illegal) spy operation formed with the CIA does not have any tear gas in it's arsenal? They spy on people not living in New York state, much less NYC, but have no tear gas at all. You becha.
So you're a mind reader now? What are you doing on Slashdot instead of making millions on Vegas? Actually you might want to skip Vegas. And the hand waving.
Of coooorse requiring a permit to engage in peaceable assembly is an abridgement of your right to peaceably assemble, and no I don't give a shit whether Cox was 9-0 or 5-4. The Supreme Court has a long history of chipping away out our rights by making all kinds of "reasonable" allowances for federal, state and local governments - one of their recent gems is giving warrantless searches a pass if the cops say they think they hear you destroying evidence - that's just one ruling out of many. Except there is no such "reasonable" exception to the 1st Amendment any more than there are "reasonable" exceptions to the 4th Amendment for the Drug War. No, that doesn't mean that you can yell "fire" in a theater, it just means that:
is an obvious farce.
Ooo, caught in a double standard are we?
No, I'm making obvious commentary on selective retentiveness. No one is making a 1:1 comparison between OWS and Egypt any more than anyone makes a 1:1 comparison between Vietnam and Afghanistan. If someone starts talking about Bloomberg's death squads, then go ahead and knock yourself out.
I find your lack of self-awareness disturbing.
Obviously, because if the workers want to enjoy the pay and benefits won by the union, they should become dues paying members of said union. Obviously. If you worked hard at negotiating yourself a raise yet someone off the street piggybacked off your efforts without lifting a finger on their own, you'd be pissed.
Also obviously, if some of your union members have to do a lot of work outside office hours to support the union, they deserve to be compensated for that effort. So you have union dues.
Which is why right wingers have passed "Right to Work for Less" laws around the country, which allow workers to have the same pay and benefits as union members without doing any of the negotiating or making any of the sacrifices.
No more or less than any other country. Sometimes you have more than one union, sometimes you don't.
Only if your union votes that that be the case. And who doesn't want their union rep to either have had skin in the game or experience doing the same job you are?
Ah, there it is. The Hatorade. Why not go on about tomatoes and a union boss that's been dead for nearly 40 years while you're at it? Or, maybe give the "Buz Unionzzz are Corrupt!!!!" shtick a rest until Unions are responsible for trillions in bank fraud and have totally co-opted every western government the way FIRE has.
Uh...because they are? You might call their inspections of Foxconn facilities and efforts to improve worker's conditions weak sauce - and they probably are - but it's more than anyone else is doing. And Apple hasn't offshored most of their customer support (or threatened remaining workers to STFU or see their jobs to to India) like most of their competitors.
So do Intel and Microsoft. All gigantic companies with more money than god in between their couch cushions, yet neither gets so much as a fraction of a percentage of the flack that Apple gets.
Because a large number of haters want to give them shit. Otherwise they wouldn't be directing 100% of the blame at 15% of the problem.
This post was apparently written for you.
Case in point, the source article is from Telegraph which is.....based in the UK.
Then you haven't even been reading my posts, as I most certainly have been responding to your points - 10 blockquotes in the last post alone.
So which ones, exactly, do you think I've been sidestepping? Go ahead and rattle em off....and then I'll do the same. I don't think you really addressed the PM of Israel celebrating a bombing of a government building in the 40's. Or Israel starting Operation Cast Lead which killed hundreds and left Gaza in ruins, when even if the IDF admits that Hamas had stopped firing rockets that the IDF admits aren't a real military threat. Or why the native Arabs weren't perfectly justified in resisting a nation being carved out of their land for an immigrant population. Or Israel starting the 1967 war. And so on....
Oh, next time I'll try to read your mind more clearly as to which piece of anti-Iranian propaganda you're referring to. And what about Israel's multiple acts of war upon Iran, like assassinating their nuclear scientists or funding of the terrorist group MEK?
How do you wireless display mirroring from your laptop, desktop or tablet computer to your XBMC box? Do you know many people who do "why can't Product A match this random item from a billeted list from Product B" when say, buying a vehicle?
Dealer: "We have a great deal for this 2011 Prius, gets 45 mpg..."
Buyer: "But does it fit 12 passengers plus luggage?"
Dealer: "Oh no, for that you want a passenger van. This E-350 for example..."
Buyer:"That tows a maximum of 10,000 pounds. How about 15,000?"
Dealer:"Then you need a dualie pickup. This F-series is rated for 17,500 lbs..."
Buyer:"But does it get 45 mpg like the Prius?"
Dealer:"?!?"
If an Apple product doesn't do what you want, Jobs would have been the first one to tell you to go right ahead and buy whatever it is that does do what you want. Nobody's holding a gun to your head.
LOL, "simple". The vast majority of the population has never heard of XBMC and would have no idea how to install it. But if XBMC is simple for you, then you'll simply install it ***ON*** your Apple TV. So....WYP again?
A non response + ad hom. Yawn.
Or, more likely, they're being authoritarian douchebag assholes because they can, and because no one feels like stopping them. Like how OBL is dead and you have a greater chance of dying from a fall in your bathtub than from a terrorist attack, yet not only have we not gotten rid of the Patriot Act, we've got even worse laws now (NDAA) and a spiffy new NSA domestic spy center going up in the Southwest.
Nope, not confused. Just commenting on the notion that using Apple products is somehow "harder" than using anyone else's products, or how it will signal their decline....
And your examples would be.....? I wasn't aware Apple had laid claim to the concept of personal computers, mp3 players, tablets, smartphones, etc etc etc....
If Microsoft made cars
At a recent COMDEX, Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated: "If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving twenty-five dollar cars that got 1000 miles to the gallon." In response to Bill's comments, General Motors issued a press release stating: If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics:
1. For no reason whatsoever your car would crash twice a day.
2. Every time they repainted the lines on the road you would have to buy a new car.
3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason, and you would just accept this, restart and drive on.
4. Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn, would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine.
5. Only one person at a time could use the car, unless you bought "Car95" or "CarNT." But then you would have to buy more seats.
6. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, reliable, five times as fast, and twice as easy to drive, but would only run on five per cent of the roads.
7. The oil, water temperature and alternator warning lights would be replaced by a single "general car default" warning light.
8. New seats would force everyone to have the same size butt.
9. The airbag system would say "Are you sure?" before going off.
10. Occasionally for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key, and grab hold of the radio antenna.
11. GM would require all car buyers to also purchase a deluxe set of Rand McNally road maps (now a GM subsidiary), even though they neither need them nor want them. Attempting to delete this option would immediately cause the car's performance to diminish by 50% or more. Moreover, GM would become a target for investigation by the Justice Department.
12. Everytime GM introduced a new model car buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car.
13. You'd press the "start" button to shut off the engine.
As opposed to the 'Microsoft Way' or the 'Google Way' or the 'Blackberry Way' I supposed? I guess that explains why Apple is now dead last in both smartphones and tablets (and dropped out of mp3 players entirely) after building early leads....