> How is it (or rather smart phones in general) not? It's at least as world changing as the internet itself. > Being able to access nearly any piece of human knowledge whether I'm standing in line at the grocery store or out camping > in the woods is pretty fucking amazing to me.
Sure, we didn't have that 10 years ago with the PDA rage, right? And you weren't able to do that 30 years ago? Think harder;-)
According to your logic, wouldn't it have been MUCH simpler to hack the 'unsecure windoze boxen' first, and thus securing the 15 grand? That would have been enough to buy a low end macbook anyway. Face the fact, Apple just took over Microsoft as the fastest-to-root platform, and no apologist or applevangelist can change that.
Let's say Apple has a 100% sales increase, from 5k units a week to 10k. And PC sales go down from 60k weekly to 55k. The PC then still gains market share to Apple in the overall personal computer market (unless each of these units is a replacement for an existing system)
I just read the same in another thread. Let's say I sell 1 million oranges a week, and you sell 10 apples a week. Next week, you sell 50 apples, and I sell 1 million and 50 oranges. You have just had a 500% sales growth! Meanwhile my growth was negligable. Still, our absolute increase was the same and the market share hasn't changed. Now go google for "Reality Distortion Field".
"People who don't know any better. On Windows systems sometimes the system gets so that there's a bit of corrupted memory that prevents a program from running correctly if the computer isn't completely shut off and let to sit for a few seconds before being turned back on."
Shouldn't you call that a hardware issue? Smells like a troll..
> Sun had their SunRay systems where you could seamlessly move your entire desktop session, including open apps > and work in progress, from one desktop computer to another, and even transfer phone calls seamlessly between > phones as you moved, say from your office phone to a conference room phone. Imagine being able to do that,
Wow! oh wait... we already have RDP and a PBX in the office.. Steve, is that you distorting my reality again?
I just love downloading pirated stuff. I might not even use it but will burn a DVD anyway. I pay extra for every empty dvd, cd or harddrive. this money goes to right holders organisations, wether they pay out to the actual right holdres is not my concern. This effectively pays for my pirating, which is not even illegal in my country due to relaxed fair use regulations.
So MAFIAA, RIAA, and other malafidous organisations can kis my sweet behind.
Let me start with congratulating you on your excellent communication skills. Bravo! I guess calling people retarded and their written words stupid is something you picked up from your manager at the local Wendy's. Perhaps you have been hiding under a rock (or behind the grill) for the last decade or so, but you are apparently in need of explanation of the term 'casual gamer'. This is a gamer who plays every once in a while, on simple games like Bejeweled or Angry Birds. This is in contrast to the hardcode gamer, who playes mmos or fps like WoW or COD on a semi-daily basis. These people like to overclock, mod and what more. This is the group of people I think of when I refer to 'gamers', and the group who spends the largest part of their income on video games - this would traditionallty be a target group for Apple, were tey to enter the gaming market.. And apparently you have never owned a Wii, which definitely makes you a subject expert. Now go get me that free refill you promised me.
Apple is not a gamer company. iOS games are only used casually, and Apple hardware scores badly in the cost vs performance tradeoff. Gamers want to be able to tweak their hardware and Apple is not likely to allow this. So for casual games, Apple won't be able to compete with the Wii on the low end, and won't be willing or able to provide high end gaming gear to the hardcore gaming crowd. So this is like Rolls Royce selling bikes - won't work. Combined with the expected resignation of Apple's Glorious Leader Kim Il Steve, this will only improve odds for people going short on Apple.
These guys use botnets, proxies, vpn tunnels, whatever it needs to obfuscate their origins. Don't be surprised if the feds come knocking on the HBGary owner's door, claiming the IP address traces back to his home PC.
We're so lucky that Slashdot doesn't seem to be biased in any way, and we can trust their reporting summaries and selected stories as completely neutral. *hides*
> If you murder a US citizen in Germany, the US will prosecute you for that murder
I call BS. The US does not have jurisdiction. They won't even be able to gather evidence which will stand up in court. AFAIK, the only one able to prosecute will be the German government.
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Thankfully, copyright infringement is not a criminal category yet.
Haven't you read the front page?
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/03/16/1441221/White-House-Wants-New-Copyright-Law-Crackdown
And how is that different from, say, an iPaq or a Palm in the 90's? People forget way to soon ...
> How is it (or rather smart phones in general) not? It's at least as world changing as the internet itself.
> Being able to access nearly any piece of human knowledge whether I'm standing in line at the grocery store or out camping
> in the woods is pretty fucking amazing to me.
Sure, we didn't have that 10 years ago with the PDA rage, right? And you weren't able to do that 30 years ago? Think harder ;-)
If you are insisting on being able to do this, moving to a country with more freedom is always an option.
there are enough Apple fanboi assholes on Slashdot that it actually makes people who used to think Macs were OK hate them out of principal.
/raises hand
Please read TFA again. The Apple machine was hacked in a few seconds. So much for your 'OSX is much safer' - End of story.
According to your logic, wouldn't it have been MUCH simpler to hack the 'unsecure windoze boxen' first, and thus securing the 15 grand? That would have been enough to buy a low end macbook anyway.
Face the fact, Apple just took over Microsoft as the fastest-to-root platform, and no apologist or applevangelist can change that.
Let's say Apple has a 100% sales increase, from 5k units a week to 10k. And PC sales go down from 60k weekly to 55k. The PC then still gains market share to Apple in the overall personal computer market (unless each of these units is a replacement for an existing system)
I just read the same in another thread. Let's say I sell 1 million oranges a week, and you sell 10 apples a week. Next week, you sell 50 apples, and I sell 1 million and 50 oranges. You have just had a 500% sales growth! Meanwhile my growth was negligable. Still, our absolute increase was the same and the market share hasn't changed.
Now go google for "Reality Distortion Field".
Yeah, because raiding a home is entirely justified if you cheat in a game!
"People who don't know any better. On Windows systems sometimes the system gets so that there's a bit of corrupted memory that prevents a program from running correctly if the computer isn't completely shut off and let to sit for a few seconds before being turned back on."
Shouldn't you call that a hardware issue? Smells like a troll ..
> Sun had their SunRay systems where you could seamlessly move your entire desktop session, including open apps
> and work in progress, from one desktop computer to another, and even transfer phone calls seamlessly between
> phones as you moved, say from your office phone to a conference room phone. Imagine being able to do that,
Wow! oh wait ... we already have RDP and a PBX in the office .. Steve, is that you distorting my reality again?
I just love downloading pirated stuff. I might not even use it but will burn a DVD anyway.
I pay extra for every empty dvd, cd or harddrive. this money goes to right holders organisations, wether they pay out to the actual right holdres is not my concern. This effectively pays for my pirating, which is not even illegal in my country due to relaxed fair use regulations.
So MAFIAA, RIAA, and other malafidous organisations can kis my sweet behind.
Let me start with congratulating you on your excellent communication skills. Bravo! I guess calling people retarded and their written words stupid is something you picked up from your manager at the local Wendy's.
Perhaps you have been hiding under a rock (or behind the grill) for the last decade or so, but you are apparently in need of explanation of the term 'casual gamer'. This is a gamer who plays every once in a while, on simple games like Bejeweled or Angry Birds. This is in contrast to the hardcode gamer, who playes mmos or fps like WoW or COD on a semi-daily basis. These people like to overclock, mod and what more. This is the group of people I think of when I refer to 'gamers', and the group who spends the largest part of their income on video games - this would traditionallty be a target group for Apple, were tey to enter the gaming market.. And apparently you have never owned a Wii, which definitely makes you a subject expert.
Now go get me that free refill you promised me.
Apple is not a gamer company. iOS games are only used casually, and Apple hardware scores badly in the cost vs performance tradeoff. Gamers want to be able to tweak their hardware and Apple is not likely to allow this. So for casual games, Apple won't be able to compete with the Wii on the low end, and won't be willing or able to provide high end gaming gear to the hardcore gaming crowd. So this is like Rolls Royce selling bikes - won't work. Combined with the expected resignation of Apple's Glorious Leader Kim Il Steve, this will only improve odds for people going short on Apple.
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These guys use botnets, proxies, vpn tunnels, whatever it needs to obfuscate their origins. Don't be surprised if the feds come knocking on the HBGary owner's door, claiming the IP address traces back to his home PC.
Newer games won't run unless you have the latest firmware version.
We're so lucky that Slashdot doesn't seem to be biased in any way, and we can trust their reporting summaries and selected stories as completely neutral. *hides*
> If you murder a US citizen in Germany, the US will prosecute you for that murder
I call BS. The US does not have jurisdiction. They won't even be able to gather
evidence which will stand up in court. AFAIK, the only one able to prosecute will be the German government.
Hmm, in that light, how can the US start a trial against a foreign citizen for espionage, when that act apparently didn't take place in the US?
So you think that it's a *good* thing that Apple is making so much profit on *your* overpriced hardware?
> "I pay about $80 per month for cable TV"
Sorry to go OT, but no way .. is it that much everywhere in the USA?? I pay around 11 euro (which is , what, 20 USD?)
Why are the cable rates so high??
Wondering which model this is, as to my knowledge all Android phones have been jailbroken one way or another..
It's not so difficult.
- Do you like to install iTunes on your pc? Get an iPhone.
- Do you want to see Ads? Get Android.
- Do you want to make sure everything always works on your phone (until the next version is available)? Get an iPhone.
- Do you want the latest and fastest cutting-edge hardware, be it with a lot of bugs? Get Android.
- Do you like Steve Jobs or hate Flash? Get an iPhone.
- Do you hate Steve Jobs or like Flash? Get Android.