You forgot to mention what happens if your iDevices battery runs out? Not unlikely after 4 or 5 lectures, so will every college seat now provide you with USB power?
The average number of books required in three years of education (estimated lifetime of an iPad before the upgrade cycle is forced upon the user) is approx 40. An iPad is way more polluting than 40 books, especially if you factor in recharging power and defect replacements. I think the iPad packaging alone is equal to one textbook in terms of ecological footprint.
Amazing how educational institutions -- once the bastion of open standards and free technology - are now advocating a closed, vendor-locked platform just because they get some shinies. (iPad)
The suicide nets were a publicity stunt done to satisfy critics. As for the suicides themselves, China as a country has a suicide rate of 22 per 100,000 persons per year. Foxconn had 17 suicides among its 1 million workers in 2 years. Statistically, publicity seemed to be more of the problem than an actual spike in suicide rates.
Nice use of statistics. A more valid comparison would be against the suicide percentage for factory workers in that region.
Apple and its upper management get major tax breaks, under the reasoning that 'wealthy business owners get tax breaks because they provide the US economy with jobs'. Apple just read that wrong and assumed it was missing a capital.
2). WHY? PDF is an awful format for reading, especially on a device where the orientation can change. PDFs do not reflow text when the layout changes. And you can mark and annotate stuff on most other ebook formats just fine.
Because I can! I do not want to be restricted to a specific format or brand and when I buy a textbook I can still read it 40 years from now.
Copyright is designed to give authors a limited period to profit from their creation, after which it belongs to the public domain. It is ridiculous that someone can write a song consisting of three or four chords (which most songs are) or create a cartoon of a mouse and generate an income for a lifetime. Society has the right, even the duty to take ownership of the cultural expressions that define it.
Because we have open borders. People from former eastbloc states, who do not have any social welfare, come in and steal the copper. This must look like a harsh statement but the statistics do not lie; 90% of copper theft in Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium is performed by people from Poland, Romania, Bulgaria etc. (I know, missing reference)
That may all be, but it all strikes me as a sad story, as if she was pushed to get all kinds of certifications at a very young age just to glorify the family. Certified to fly usually means by the IAA, which has a minimum age of 18 for getting the certification, and minimum age of 15 to start logging flights towards that. Besides a lot of study, it concerns planning and thinking far ahead. Something 10 year olds aren't particularly suited for, for simple biological reasons. I just hope she had enough joy and time to play with other children in her life.
NO. It's like calling in your nephew to wipe your windshield every day, and before you know it he's installed a natural gas tank, changed all the wiring and completely re-modified the suspension because he feels it 'is better this way' and 'this is the way he works, so now it's easier for him to maintain the car'. Then he starts demanding lots of money for all the work he's done. And then, when you kicked him out the door, you find you are unable to start the car because he put in 'security measures'. That's how I understand the entitlement speech from the gp and it happens in IT all the time. Car analogies rock btw.
Why go through all that trouble? You pay the premium, immediately void the warranty, and run unsupported system software which will automatically be removed once you hook it up to iTunes.
That's why an iPad looks like a scaled-down flatscreen TV... And yes, Apple should have full rights to protect their greatest creative investment and one of the landmark inventions of the century: the rectangle with round squares! Next: the iWheel. It looks like an iPad. But it has no corners! Amazing!
Yes (the f) it is. Beginner All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. Learn to wiki. The fact that Basic has been matured into tools which use its syntax does not change the point for which it was developed,
Wait a second. Your argument is that the premium price is justified by more R&D, while calling me an 'occupier', apparently to frame me as someone with not enough money to be able to afford Apple products (proud owner of an apple Mac in 1985 btw). I refute your argument by showing you what is actually being done with the premium price (cash hoarding), while returning the ad hominem, and now I'm the troll? Some people...;-)
And in reply to your last post, I was taught in economics class that the greater the supply and demand, the smaller the individual profits. That is how a free market should work.
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How does the court know that this is not the case?
You forgot to mention what happens if your iDevices battery runs out? Not unlikely after 4 or 5 lectures, so will every college seat now provide you with USB power?
The average number of books required in three years of education (estimated lifetime of an iPad before the upgrade cycle is forced upon the user) is approx 40. An iPad is way more polluting than 40 books, especially if you factor in recharging power and defect replacements. I think the iPad packaging alone is equal to one textbook in terms of ecological footprint.
I see what you did there
Amazing how educational institutions -- once the bastion of open standards and free technology - are now advocating a closed, vendor-locked platform just because they get some shinies. (iPad)
refusing to cooperate in full with the TSA could be seen as both treason and a breach of peace..
The suicide nets were a publicity stunt done to satisfy critics. As for the suicides themselves, China as a country has a suicide rate of 22 per 100,000 persons per year. Foxconn had 17 suicides among its 1 million workers in 2 years. Statistically, publicity seemed to be more of the problem than an actual spike in suicide rates.
Nice use of statistics. A more valid comparison would be against the suicide percentage for factory workers in that region.
Apple and its upper management get major tax breaks, under the reasoning that 'wealthy business owners get tax breaks because they provide the US economy with jobs'. Apple just read that wrong and assumed it was missing a capital.
But this is the way the prick in the turtleneck wanted it to be!
2). WHY? PDF is an awful format for reading, especially on a device where the orientation can change. PDFs do not reflow text when the layout changes. And you can mark and annotate stuff on most other ebook formats just fine.
Because I can! I do not want to be restricted to a specific format or brand and when I buy a textbook I can still read it 40 years from now.
Please tell me how to buy the iBook then from iTunes with my Android tablet, eh?
That $400 iPad maybe more expensive than a $30 textbook, but most students above elementary school carry 5-7 textbooks.
Nice try! The cheapest iPad starts at $499.
[tinfoil hat mode]So that's why they removed the 'Other OS' option! To keep them terrurists from obtaining them nukular weps![/tinfoil hat mode]
I'm fairly sure King made his speech for people to listen to it, not to make money.
I'm pretty sure musicians make music for people to listen to it, not to make money.
Copyright is designed to give authors a limited period to profit from their creation, after which it belongs to the public domain. It is ridiculous that someone can write a song consisting of three or four chords (which most songs are) or create a cartoon of a mouse and generate an income for a lifetime. Society has the right, even the duty to take ownership of the cultural expressions that define it.
Because we have open borders. People from former eastbloc states, who do not have any social welfare, come in and steal the copper. This must look like a harsh statement but the statistics do not lie; 90% of copper theft in Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium is performed by people from Poland, Romania, Bulgaria etc. (I know, missing reference)
That may all be, but it all strikes me as a sad story, as if she was pushed to get all kinds of certifications at a very young age just to glorify the family. Certified to fly usually means by the IAA, which has a minimum age of 18 for getting the certification, and minimum age of 15 to start logging flights towards that. Besides a lot of study, it concerns planning and thinking far ahead. Something 10 year olds aren't particularly suited for, for simple biological reasons.
I just hope she had enough joy and time to play with other children in her life.
would you board a plane which was piloted by an epileptic 10-year old? how is that even legal..
someone is missing a cultural reference ..
use an emulator? on iOS that is
NO. It's like calling in your nephew to wipe your windshield every day, and before you know it he's installed a natural gas tank, changed all the wiring and completely re-modified the suspension because he feels it 'is better this way' and 'this is the way he works, so now it's easier for him to maintain the car'. Then he starts demanding lots of money for all the work he's done. And then, when you kicked him out the door, you find you are unable to start the car because he put in 'security measures'. That's how I understand the entitlement speech from the gp and it happens in IT all the time. Car analogies rock btw.
Why go through all that trouble? You pay the premium, immediately void the warranty, and run unsupported system software which will automatically be removed once you hook it up to iTunes.
That's why an iPad looks like a scaled-down flatscreen TV ... And yes, Apple should have full rights to protect their greatest creative investment and one of the landmark inventions of the century: the rectangle with round squares! Next: the iWheel. It looks like an iPad. But it has no corners! Amazing!
Yes (the f) it is.
Beginner All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. Learn to wiki. The fact that Basic has been matured into tools which use its syntax does not change the point for which it was developed,
Wait a second. Your argument is that the premium price is justified by more R&D, while calling me an 'occupier', apparently to frame me as someone with not enough money to be able to afford Apple products (proud owner of an apple Mac in 1985 btw). I refute your argument by showing you what is actually being done with the premium price (cash hoarding), while returning the ad hominem, and now I'm the troll? Some people... ;-)
And in reply to your last post, I was taught in economics class that the greater the supply and demand, the smaller the individual profits. That is how a free market should work.