150,000 other people I hadn't met died that day too, but nobody gave a shit about them.
Yeah, but those 150,000 people didn't co-found Apple, they didn't midwife the birth of the Macintosh or the iPod or iPhone or the iPad; they didn't resurrect Apple from the dead; they didn't get rid of those damnable buttons; they didn't change the world.
Let's face it, some people actually do more than others. It's nice when those folks' passings are mourned.
Having been a long time/. reader, I know that the conclusion is supposed to be that it's all Steve Job's fault, but I'm having a hard time reaching that conclusion from the stated premises. Therefore, I conclude that the premises are wrong.
LOL. Maybe if there was one or two transactions, you might argue entrapment. Sixty-two transactions suggest he was not an innocent victim.
Not to mention, according to the Jerusalem Post, Court filings show Doxer e-mailed the Israeli consulate in Boston to offer assistance, saying that he is a Jewish American who wants "to help our homeland and our war against our enemies," therefore, it is likely that Doxer thought he was helping Israel.
The idea didn't originate with the Feds, it originated with Doxer.
I always thought Akamai was an Israeli company. I guess it's an "American company" co-founded by an Israeli.
According to the Jerusalem Post, Doxer e-mailed the Israeli consulate in Boston to offer assistance, saying that he is a Jewish American who wants "to help our homeland and our war against our enemies," therefore, it is likely that Doxer thought he was helping Israel.
The poor schmuck probably just thought he was carrying out company policy and making a quick buck on the side.
Now that people can do art and music without being lined against a wall and shot (like in Mao's time), people there are more interested in education and developing their economy as opposed to military gains.
Was that meant to be a joke? Countries fight wars precisely when they are rich. I can't think of any countries that have started wars when they were poorer than their opponents. That's a recipe for quick defeat and cultural extinction. I'm not saying it was never tried; I'm just saying the ones who tried it haven't left any descendant, so we'll never know.
Why did everyone who hates glossy screens buy them and then bitch about it instead of just buying the matte screen and crooning? There was a time when almost every manufacturer offered glossy AND matte screen options. If 75% of the purchasers had been buying the matte screens, glossy would have gone the way of the dodo. Obviously, that was not what happened. Manufacturers did not perversely ignore 75% of the market, lose money hand over fist, yet insist on the glossy standard.
So, basically, you don't like the fact that the Slashdot Consensus pans any well designed, customer oriented, easy to use device and invents nonsense conspiracy theories with no basis in fact to support its hatred of anything non-Google or non-Linux.
This way they have at least some chance of someone technically competent at Google solving the issue for them.
Chance of someone technically competent working for Google--close to 100%
Chance of someone at Google giving a shit about your lost email--close to 0%
After all, if you get screwed by their FREE software, what are you going to do, stop paying for it? There is a certain right to complain and entitlement to customer service that comes along with writing a check that just isn't present when you mooch freebies.
What idiot trusts his important data to free beta software? Hey, guys, if you don't like getting a rear-ender from gmail, demand a refund. BWAHHAHHAHHAHHAHAHAH!
Yeah, yeah, I know, Google took the "beta" off sometime ago, apparently prematurely. This is the whole problem I have with Google products. They all seem rushed and buggy, "beta" tag or not. For instance, their calendar program was a constant source of grief for us, so we finally just gave up on it.
Knowing your SSN should be no more helpful to a fraudster than knowing your full name or hair color.
You realize that your use of the phrase "should be" in that sentence betrays the fact that in the real world it nevertheless is, right? This is mainly due to the prevalence of bad security practices.
Though I hope they have changed the practice, Huntington National Bank, a large regional bank in my area only required the name and social security number of the account holder to assign the PIN for the account. They did not verify the identity of the person requesting the information because they could only assign the PIN via a web-based or an automated telephone system.
But let's be honest for a minute, shall we. Why should a nearly $200B company whose sole claim to fame is developing clever algorithms to collect, sort, store, and return information not be able to come up with a simple, non-privacy-invading, method to uniquely identify under-age entrants to their contest? I bet had Google just posted a question here on Slashdot, their fanboys would have fallen all over one another to provide a simple, elegant solution to their ascended masters for free.
I'm not a Microsoft fan, but, shit man, if MS had done this, it would be lambasted in all the tech press and would be crucified on here.
Read the guy's name. The head of the super-secret cyber attack force is named "Gabi Ashkenazi" i.e. a European Jew who talks too much. Right. Reminds me of that "Under the Bleachers" by Seymour Butts joke.
Clearly, Finland has been invaded by the Japanese, hence the faux-Jap name "Nokia." If Finland were still independent, their flagship phone company would have a cool Finnish name like "Torvalds" and the OS would be names something like "Linux."
It has been killing them, that's why they were a niche product for decades and are only now starting to become mainstream, and we are starting to see a reversal of that trend in fact, sending Apple right back to the niche market. Learn to read.
Again, gotta call bullshit on that. OSX and iOS are exactly what is making Apple "mainstream." In fact, Apple is defining the cutting edge again. What is the reversal of the trend? Apple has had record-breaking quarter after record-breaking quarter. You need to learn to read numbers. Don't just make up nonsense. Cite us to some reference for whatever downturn you are seeing that no one else sees.
Such as printers, scanners, graphics cards, to name just a few.
Do you even have access to a Mac? I have no problems with printers, scanners, or graphics cards. Again, cite us to some reference that supports your contentions.
Yes, but see, for Google-bots, less of everything is a feature in and of itself. If it has half the screen, half the battery life, and half the apps, then it must be twice as good because that very lack of everything is part of its "way more features." Plus you can always just return your Galaxy Tab like everyone else and go buy and iPad. That's also a feature.
Google World is kind of like Bizzaro World, but everything there is a screwed up version of something from Apple.
The problem with Apple, even with Jobs at the helm at this point, is that people are starting to realize how limited the Apple OS's are.
Yeah, Unix is the suckzor. It has no power. It's very limited. Good luck selling that on here. You'll have better luck selling your surveys.
That's both a good and a bad thing for Apple, but it's going to stunt their growth going forward unless they do something drastic.
Yep, it's been killing Apple so far. Much more of this "growth stunting" and Apple will be the only tech company left in the world. Poor Apple. If only the had you running the company, they might be able to move products and turn a profit on them.
Disillusioned by the "It just works" line of BS that Apple built a reputation around, they are finding just as many problems and incompatibilities as in the PC world
Such as...? Sorry, dude, I'm calling bullshit on your entire post. But, I gotta give you props for the exercise in creative writing.
Don't be absurd. This price is not high. It's LOW. Too low, in fact. Google fanboys will flock to this product. They will beg to spend their money on it. They will bow down and lick the boots of Google, do a goat.se, and beg to have Google suck their cash and souls straight out their their gaping anuses. They want their product to win, win, win. Who cares if it is an inferior, over-priced, me-too kludge. But, hey, it'll run Flash, right?
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Let's make a couple of assumptions and see where they lead.
1) The Earth is heating up.
2) The heating is bad for human life.
3) Actions that can be taken by humans can reverse, or at least retard, this trend.
Now, given these assumptions, regardless of whether human action is causing the heating or not, should we take action to reverse or retard the trend?
If the answer is "yes," it becomes an engineering problem. If the answer is "no," we do nothing a let the bad consequences come.
Yeah, but those 150,000 people didn't co-found Apple, they didn't midwife the birth of the Macintosh or the iPod or iPhone or the iPad; they didn't resurrect Apple from the dead; they didn't get rid of those damnable buttons; they didn't change the world.
Let's face it, some people actually do more than others. It's nice when those folks' passings are mourned.
Clearly, the premises of the article are wrong.
P1: Flash sucks.
P2: Adobe has an outdated business model.
P3: Developers are abandoning Flash.
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C: It's all Steve Jobs's fault.
Having been a long time /. reader, I know that the conclusion is supposed to be that it's all Steve Job's fault, but I'm having a hard time reaching that conclusion from the stated premises. Therefore, I conclude that the premises are wrong.
LOL. Maybe if there was one or two transactions, you might argue entrapment. Sixty-two transactions suggest he was not an innocent victim.
Not to mention, according to the Jerusalem Post, Court filings show Doxer e-mailed the Israeli consulate in Boston to offer assistance, saying that he is a Jewish American who wants "to help our homeland and our war against our enemies," therefore, it is likely that Doxer thought he was helping Israel.
The idea didn't originate with the Feds, it originated with Doxer.
I always thought Akamai was an Israeli company. I guess it's an "American company" co-founded by an Israeli.
According to the Jerusalem Post, Doxer e-mailed the Israeli consulate in Boston to offer assistance, saying that he is a Jewish American who wants "to help our homeland and our war against our enemies," therefore, it is likely that Doxer thought he was helping Israel.
The poor schmuck probably just thought he was carrying out company policy and making a quick buck on the side.
The "walled garden" is the least of your problems.
I really need a crippled and vulnerable mobile phone. Oh, Damn you Apple! Damn you Steve Jobs! You are so petty and narrow minded.
I have trouble accessing certain features of Google programs in the latest version of Chrome. How is this announcement newsworthy?
Now that people can do art and music without being lined against a wall and shot (like in Mao's time), people there are more interested in education and developing their economy as opposed to military gains.
Was that meant to be a joke? Countries fight wars precisely when they are rich. I can't think of any countries that have started wars when they were poorer than their opponents. That's a recipe for quick defeat and cultural extinction. I'm not saying it was never tried; I'm just saying the ones who tried it haven't left any descendant, so we'll never know.
You must be new to gaming to have missed such classics as "Ultimatum," "Fortress America," "Arab Israeli Wars," etc.
Why did everyone who hates glossy screens buy them and then bitch about it instead of just buying the matte screen and crooning? There was a time when almost every manufacturer offered glossy AND matte screen options. If 75% of the purchasers had been buying the matte screens, glossy would have gone the way of the dodo. Obviously, that was not what happened. Manufacturers did not perversely ignore 75% of the market, lose money hand over fist, yet insist on the glossy standard.
Good call. I assumed it was a Google Translator translation error.
So, basically, you don't like the fact that the Slashdot Consensus pans any well designed, customer oriented, easy to use device and invents nonsense conspiracy theories with no basis in fact to support its hatred of anything non-Google or non-Linux.
Are you new here? This...is...Slashdot!
This way they have at least some chance of someone technically competent at Google solving the issue for them.
Chance of someone technically competent working for Google--close to 100%
Chance of someone at Google giving a shit about your lost email--close to 0%
After all, if you get screwed by their FREE software, what are you going to do, stop paying for it? There is a certain right to complain and entitlement to customer service that comes along with writing a check that just isn't present when you mooch freebies.
What idiot trusts his important data to free beta software? Hey, guys, if you don't like getting a rear-ender from gmail, demand a refund. BWAHHAHHAHHAHHAHAHAH!
Yeah, yeah, I know, Google took the "beta" off sometime ago, apparently prematurely. This is the whole problem I have with Google products. They all seem rushed and buggy, "beta" tag or not. For instance, their calendar program was a constant source of grief for us, so we finally just gave up on it.
Knowing your SSN should be no more helpful to a fraudster than knowing your full name or hair color.
You realize that your use of the phrase "should be" in that sentence betrays the fact that in the real world it nevertheless is, right? This is mainly due to the prevalence of bad security practices.
Though I hope they have changed the practice, Huntington National Bank, a large regional bank in my area only required the name and social security number of the account holder to assign the PIN for the account. They did not verify the identity of the person requesting the information because they could only assign the PIN via a web-based or an automated telephone system.
But let's be honest for a minute, shall we. Why should a nearly $200B company whose sole claim to fame is developing clever algorithms to collect, sort, store, and return information not be able to come up with a simple, non-privacy-invading, method to uniquely identify under-age entrants to their contest? I bet had Google just posted a question here on Slashdot, their fanboys would have fallen all over one another to provide a simple, elegant solution to their ascended masters for free.
I'm not a Microsoft fan, but, shit man, if MS had done this, it would be lambasted in all the tech press and would be crucified on here.
Good point. Mod this man up!
Read the guy's name. The head of the super-secret cyber attack force is named "Gabi Ashkenazi" i.e. a European Jew who talks too much. Right. Reminds me of that "Under the Bleachers" by Seymour Butts joke.
Clearly, Finland has been invaded by the Japanese, hence the faux-Jap name "Nokia." If Finland were still independent, their flagship phone company would have a cool Finnish name like "Torvalds" and the OS would be names something like "Linux."
Did David Koresh save his urine in jars? I thought it was Gandhi who drank his own urine.
It has been killing them, that's why they were a niche product for decades and are only now starting to become mainstream, and we are starting to see a reversal of that trend in fact, sending Apple right back to the niche market. Learn to read.
Again, gotta call bullshit on that. OSX and iOS are exactly what is making Apple "mainstream." In fact, Apple is defining the cutting edge again. What is the reversal of the trend? Apple has had record-breaking quarter after record-breaking quarter. You need to learn to read numbers. Don't just make up nonsense. Cite us to some reference for whatever downturn you are seeing that no one else sees.
Such as printers, scanners, graphics cards, to name just a few.
Do you even have access to a Mac? I have no problems with printers, scanners, or graphics cards. Again, cite us to some reference that supports your contentions.
Yes, but see, for Google-bots, less of everything is a feature in and of itself. If it has half the screen, half the battery life, and half the apps, then it must be twice as good because that very lack of everything is part of its "way more features." Plus you can always just return your Galaxy Tab like everyone else and go buy and iPad. That's also a feature.
Google World is kind of like Bizzaro World, but everything there is a screwed up version of something from Apple.
The problem with Apple, even with Jobs at the helm at this point, is that people are starting to realize how limited the Apple OS's are.
Yeah, Unix is the suckzor. It has no power. It's very limited. Good luck selling that on here. You'll have better luck selling your surveys.
That's both a good and a bad thing for Apple, but it's going to stunt their growth going forward unless they do something drastic.
Yep, it's been killing Apple so far. Much more of this "growth stunting" and Apple will be the only tech company left in the world. Poor Apple. If only the had you running the company, they might be able to move products and turn a profit on them.
Disillusioned by the "It just works" line of BS that Apple built a reputation around, they are finding just as many problems and incompatibilities as in the PC world
Such as...? Sorry, dude, I'm calling bullshit on your entire post. But, I gotta give you props for the exercise in creative writing.
Don't be absurd. This price is not high. It's LOW. Too low, in fact. Google fanboys will flock to this product. They will beg to spend their money on it. They will bow down and lick the boots of Google, do a goat.se, and beg to have Google suck their cash and souls straight out their their gaping anuses. They want their product to win, win, win. Who cares if it is an inferior, over-priced, me-too kludge. But, hey, it'll run Flash, right?