I think it's finally time to delete my Slashdot account. It's crazy that a post with falsehoods, unsubstantiated claims, and simplistic emotionally potent anti-materialistic views gets modded up like this. Whatever happened to intelligent rational discussions based in facts? Not this counterfeiter apologist bullshit. Fraud is wrong and that's the bottom line.
my experience has been that knock-offs are roughly the same quality as most brand name consumer goods
Tell that to the companies that get warranty request from people who have bought the knock-offs. Then tell that to the poor consumers who thought they bought a legitimate product that should be under warranty.
You don't know anything about the current state of affairs. The counterfeiters are not selling things made in the same factories, nor from the same materials, nor from the same designs. About the only thing that is the same is the labels and trademarks. The products are "fake" in every sense of the word. They're only made to resemble the product so that a sale can be made. When it's online they use pictures of the actual products but send out something that resembles but is not the product. If they were coming from the same factories that would be theft, not fraudulent counterfeits. I'm fairly sure the factories are not that incompetent, they'd know when inventory went missing. That's not the problem -- the problem is fraud.
I agree that the problem is with the legal framework and enforcement, but quality is still the difference. A fake product is fake! Just because it looks similar doesn't make it the same. That's a crazy notion.
Quality is no longer the differentiation though - price is.
You couldn't be more wrong! I've had a family member buy counterfeit UGG boots and the difference in quality, craftsmanship, and materials is laughable. On the one hand you have a boot that is made from lamb skin, its durable, water proof and most of all it has a warranty from the manufacture. But the other was made from cotton, was already falling apart, was not water proof by any stretch of the imagination. Worst of all it had exact copies of the UGG Australia labels, do you think UGG Australia should have to provide warranty services for counterfeit boots?!? This isn't about perceived value. There is real value in brand products and you'd be a fool to think otherwise. Sure you can buy a PC that looks like an Apple, but it isn't an Apple! If someone puts an Apple sticker on a PC and sells it as an Apple, that's FRAUD! The difference isn't a trick by the brand to get you to buy it. The brand is there so you know it's a legit product. That's the difference.
Exactly counterfeit goods are a big deal for companies and consumers. There is a need to prevent these counterfeiters from tricking consumers, but SOPA is not the solution. Just do a google search for "cheap uggs" the first result is a warning from UGG Australia about counterfeiters and the second result is a counterfeiter selling "fake" uggs. Unfortunately this does need to be stopped! However, I can't think of a way that would not compromise the Internet and civil liberties, etc.
Also, most smart phones can be dropped or even accidentally put in water with the same survival rate as your dumb phone.
And unless you are constantly drunk, what does it matter? Or some super uncoordinated clumsy person -- gee, I hope they don't let you drive a car.
I've never dropped my phones. I had an HTC back before the iPhone, then an original iPhone and now a iPhone 4. I use minimal cases and never ever drop them. Not once have I broke a phone. All of them are still 100% functional.
I agree with this. 99% of the time I don't need the phone functionality. I'd prefer to communicate via txt message. I have a smart phone because it's a general purpose communication device (web, email, SMS, Facebook, phone, etc) a media consumption device (web, music, videos, Hulu, Netflix, Spotify, books), it is also a camera, a programmable remote control, an alarm clock, a flashlight, a notepad, a todo list, and a guitar amp stack. And, YES I use it for all of those things. It saves me from having to own single purpose devices that I _really_ don't need and would otherwise have to carry everywhere.
Chrome's marketing is downright deceptive. After running a test on speedtest.net you'd be presented with a ad for Chrome that read something like: "Internet speed not what you expected? Try a faster browser." That's, in my opinion, a lie. Google isn't the saint we thought it was. It's a fucking advertising company. That's worse than any operating system or office suite company that was once the market leader.
You probably confusing the Mac OS X 10.7.2 update with iTunes, yes that requires a reboot, but then you should have run software update again to get iTunes. It sounded more like you updated to 10.7.2 and then went on some kind of deleting rampage removing iTunes and kernel extensions, etc. Basically YOU fucked your system. And you wonder why your iPhone froze?!?
iTunes does not require a reboot! iTunes is an 87.9 MB download from software update. You can restart your phone by "pressing and holding the Sleep/Wake button and the Home button at the same time for at least 10 seconds, until the Apple logo appears."
Of course not, but both require a relative amount of extra work. Sand if just a great deal more. An example that someone would surely agree takes more energy to walk on is needed. Then by extrapolation the tiles take more emery too. Albeit less.
In Japan a 20 MW geothermal plant would cost $50 million. Let's say 4,000 MWs is a typical nuclear plant and that its cost is $6 billion. Japan would have to build 200 geothermal plants at a cost of $10 billion just to replace a single Fukushima Dai-ichi plant. That's $4 billion more than necessary. And it'd be even worse figuring in the cost of infrastructure to connect 200 power plants to the grid. Perhaps that's why nobody is talking about geothermal in Japan.
A. A person is justified in threatening or using both physical force and deadly physical force against another if and to the extent the person reasonably believes that physical force or deadly physical force is immediately necessary to prevent the other's commission of arson of an occupied structure under section 13-1704, burglary in the second or first degree under section 13-1507 or 13-1508, kidnapping under section 13-1304, manslaughter under section 13-1103, second or first degree murder under section 13-1104 or 13-1105, sexual conduct with a minor under section 13-1405, sexual assault under section 13-1406, child molestation under section 13-1410, armed robbery under section 13-1904 or aggravated assault under section 13-1204, subsection A, paragraphs 1 and 2.
Basically if someone is going to molest your children or sexual assault your wife you may kill them. And I believe that's the way it should be.
Honestly, those are terrible books. If nothing else the signal-to-noise ratio is extremely disproportionate. I mean there are nuggets of good information in the books, but a 1100+ page language tutorial is unnecessary. It would be a stretch to call the series programming books -- let alone "influential" programming books.
"Paste and Match Style" people! It's ironic that you'd suggest such a convoluted time-wasting method for striping formatting when there is a single simple command bound to a key sequence that accomplishes the task. Not only that but it will match the formatting, if any, you have set up into the document you're pasting into, which is what you want anyway.
In Firefox 4.0.1 it fails with "J is undefined" Here is the offending code: "";C=1;var a=window.applicationCache;if(z[n.APP_CACHING])z[n.APP_CACHING](C);a.swapCache();J.addEvent("KindleApp:AppCacheUpdate")}function d(){K="";C=1;E&&!E.getItem("cached")&&E.setItem("cached",1);if(z[n.APP_CACHING])z[n.APP_CACHING](C);N&&(N=!1,J.addEvent("KindleApp:AppCacheSuccess"))}function B(a,c,q){var s=J.startMetrics("Store::TOSOpen"),b=a?z[n.STORE_OPEN_STATUS]:z[u.STORE_OPEN_STATUS];F||(F=!0,KindleTOS.open(c,q).then(function(c){b&&b(!0);c?E.removeItem(w):(a||(h(),g()),t(),$("#"+k.KINDLE_READER_CONTAINER_ID).hide(),
In Firefox 5.0.1 it fails with "openDatabase is not defined" Here is the offending code: a.executeSql("DROP TABLE IF EXISTS annotationsCache;");a.executeSql("DROP TABLE IF EXISTS covers;");a.executeSql("DROP TABLE IF EXISTS metrics;")}var e=new jQuery.Deferred;a.dbHandle?a.dbHandle.transaction(d,c,b):e.resolve();return e.promise()}function m(a){var b=a.defaultSize;q!==void 0&&b>q*1E6&&(b=q*1E6);return openDatabase(a.shortName,a.version,a.displayName,b)}function x(a){function b(d){var e,q=[];for(e=0;e=0&&q.push(d[e]);c.resolve(q)}var c=new jQuery.Deferred;
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need a slideout keyboard
Not really.
Need a stylus
There are literally hundreds of stylus available for the iPhones. The Bamboo stylus is the best, btw.
bigger screen?...Smaller screen?
Just more trouble for developers.
Micro SD card?
Useless for 95% of users. Adds weight, bulk, and cost.
NFC
When it makes sense to add it to the iPhone, Apple will. Right now it's just a toy. I've never seen a place where I can use one in my town...
FM radio
Are you serious right now? I haven't listen to the radio in over 10 years...
Want to talk about some real issues? How about the fact that Android does't support low latency audio... it has been an open issue since 2009: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=3434
iPhone had low latency audio from day one.
I think it's finally time to delete my Slashdot account. It's crazy that a post with falsehoods, unsubstantiated claims, and simplistic emotionally potent anti-materialistic views gets modded up like this. Whatever happened to intelligent rational discussions based in facts? Not this counterfeiter apologist bullshit. Fraud is wrong and that's the bottom line.
I can not believe this has to be said but here it goes:
[authoritative citation needed]
Sorry, but the real handbags and boots have warranties. You don't know what you're talking about.
Now you're just splitting hairs and your argument has slipped to nitpicking.
my experience has been that knock-offs are roughly the same quality as most brand name consumer goods
Tell that to the companies that get warranty request from people who have bought the knock-offs. Then tell that to the poor consumers who thought they bought a legitimate product that should be under warranty.
From what I've read, the majority of counterfeit clothing comes from the same assembly line as the brand name stuff.
[citation needed]
You don't know anything about the current state of affairs. The counterfeiters are not selling things made in the same factories, nor from the same materials, nor from the same designs. About the only thing that is the same is the labels and trademarks. The products are "fake" in every sense of the word. They're only made to resemble the product so that a sale can be made. When it's online they use pictures of the actual products but send out something that resembles but is not the product. If they were coming from the same factories that would be theft, not fraudulent counterfeits. I'm fairly sure the factories are not that incompetent, they'd know when inventory went missing. That's not the problem -- the problem is fraud.
I agree that the problem is with the legal framework and enforcement, but quality is still the difference. A fake product is fake! Just because it looks similar doesn't make it the same. That's a crazy notion.
Quality is no longer the differentiation though - price is.
You couldn't be more wrong! I've had a family member buy counterfeit UGG boots and the difference in quality, craftsmanship, and materials is laughable. On the one hand you have a boot that is made from lamb skin, its durable, water proof and most of all it has a warranty from the manufacture. But the other was made from cotton, was already falling apart, was not water proof by any stretch of the imagination. Worst of all it had exact copies of the UGG Australia labels, do you think UGG Australia should have to provide warranty services for counterfeit boots?!? This isn't about perceived value. There is real value in brand products and you'd be a fool to think otherwise. Sure you can buy a PC that looks like an Apple, but it isn't an Apple! If someone puts an Apple sticker on a PC and sells it as an Apple, that's FRAUD! The difference isn't a trick by the brand to get you to buy it. The brand is there so you know it's a legit product. That's the difference.
Exactly counterfeit goods are a big deal for companies and consumers. There is a need to prevent these counterfeiters from tricking consumers, but SOPA is not the solution. Just do a google search for "cheap uggs" the first result is a warning from UGG Australia about counterfeiters and the second result is a counterfeiter selling "fake" uggs. Unfortunately this does need to be stopped! However, I can't think of a way that would not compromise the Internet and civil liberties, etc.
Also, most smart phones can be dropped or even accidentally put in water with the same survival rate as your dumb phone.
And unless you are constantly drunk, what does it matter? Or some super uncoordinated clumsy person -- gee, I hope they don't let you drive a car.
I've never dropped my phones. I had an HTC back before the iPhone, then an original iPhone and now a iPhone 4. I use minimal cases and never ever drop them. Not once have I broke a phone. All of them are still 100% functional.
But why not have the phone just in case? Plus the cellular data connection is convenient and SMS how most people communicate now.
I agree with this. 99% of the time I don't need the phone functionality. I'd prefer to communicate via txt message. I have a smart phone because it's a general purpose communication device (web, email, SMS, Facebook, phone, etc) a media consumption device (web, music, videos, Hulu, Netflix, Spotify, books), it is also a camera, a programmable remote control, an alarm clock, a flashlight, a notepad, a todo list, and a guitar amp stack. And, YES I use it for all of those things. It saves me from having to own single purpose devices that I _really_ don't need and would otherwise have to carry everywhere.
Chrome's marketing is downright deceptive. After running a test on speedtest.net you'd be presented with a ad for Chrome that read something like: "Internet speed not what you expected? Try a faster browser." That's, in my opinion, a lie. Google isn't the saint we thought it was. It's a fucking advertising company. That's worse than any operating system or office suite company that was once the market leader.
Actually, Proxima Centauri is the nearest known star to the Sun. I guess I'm just splitting hairs though...
You probably confusing the Mac OS X 10.7.2 update with iTunes, yes that requires a reboot, but then you should have run software update again to get iTunes. It sounded more like you updated to 10.7.2 and then went on some kind of deleting rampage removing iTunes and kernel extensions, etc. Basically YOU fucked your system. And you wonder why your iPhone froze?!?
iTunes does not require a reboot! iTunes is an 87.9 MB download from software update. You can restart your phone by "pressing and holding the Sleep/Wake button and the Home button at the same time for at least 10 seconds, until the Apple logo appears."
Of course not, but both require a relative amount of extra work. Sand if just a great deal more. An example that someone would surely agree takes more energy to walk on is needed. Then by extrapolation the tiles take more emery too. Albeit less.
Have you ever walked in sand?
In Japan a 20 MW geothermal plant would cost $50 million. Let's say 4,000 MWs is a typical nuclear plant and that its cost is $6 billion. Japan would have to build 200 geothermal plants at a cost of $10 billion just to replace a single Fukushima Dai-ichi plant. That's $4 billion more than necessary. And it'd be even worse figuring in the cost of infrastructure to connect 200 power plants to the grid. Perhaps that's why nobody is talking about geothermal in Japan.
In Arizona you would not be going to jail.
Basically if someone is going to molest your children or sexual assault your wife you may kill them. And I believe that's the way it should be.
Honestly, those are terrible books. If nothing else the signal-to-noise ratio is extremely disproportionate. I mean there are nuggets of good information in the books, but a 1100+ page language tutorial is unnecessary. It would be a stretch to call the series programming books -- let alone "influential" programming books.
"Paste and Match Style" people! It's ironic that you'd suggest such a convoluted time-wasting method for striping formatting when there is a single simple command bound to a key sequence that accomplishes the task. Not only that but it will match the formatting, if any, you have set up into the document you're pasting into, which is what you want anyway.
In Firefox 4.0.1 it fails with "J is undefined" Here is the offending code: "";C=1;var a=window.applicationCache;if(z[n.APP_CACHING])z[n.APP_CACHING](C);a.swapCache();J.addEvent("KindleApp:AppCacheUpdate")}function d(){K="";C=1;E&&!E.getItem("cached")&&E.setItem("cached",1);if(z[n.APP_CACHING])z[n.APP_CACHING](C);N&&(N=!1,J.addEvent("KindleApp:AppCacheSuccess"))}function B(a,c,q){var s=J.startMetrics("Store::TOSOpen"),b=a?z[n.STORE_OPEN_STATUS]:z[u.STORE_OPEN_STATUS];F||(F=!0,KindleTOS.open(c,q).then(function(c){b&&b(!0);c?E.removeItem(w):(a||(h(),g()),t(),$("#"+k.KINDLE_READER_CONTAINER_ID).hide(),
In Firefox 5.0.1 it fails with "openDatabase is not defined" Here is the offending code: a.executeSql("DROP TABLE IF EXISTS annotationsCache;");a.executeSql("DROP TABLE IF EXISTS covers;");a.executeSql("DROP TABLE IF EXISTS metrics;")}var e=new jQuery.Deferred;a.dbHandle?a.dbHandle.transaction(d,c,b):e.resolve();return e.promise()}function m(a){var b=a.defaultSize;q!==void 0&&b>q*1E6&&(b=q*1E6);return openDatabase(a.shortName,a.version,a.displayName,b)}function x(a){function b(d){var e,q=[];for(e=0;e=0&&q.push(d[e]);c.resolve(q)}var c=new jQuery.Deferred;