Or alternately, companies which are wildly successful need to be able to do responsible things which may affect their bottom line without fearing shareholder revolts. My feeling is that Apple should move production to the states for at least some of its products. Even if that means lower margins, it'll be better for (at least our) economy. Hell, my feeling is that they could even move everything back here and lose a billion dollars a year on it. They'd still be able to keep powering forward for another 80 years at that rate...
It's not about the coral, really. Heck, whenever people are talking about saving anything in the environment, that's really just a means to an end.
See, the thing is, if the coral all die off, the theory is that there will be, so to speak, an unfortunate series of events. And that series of events has a small but non-zero chance of causing a mass die off of the human population.
So what we're buying with this effort is hope, however vain, of our survival.
Oh, and last, but not least, it's not exactly "natural selection" if it's caused by careless poisoning by one species. I'd even accept "natural selection" for animals that we've hunted to extinction for food purposes. But if we're killing off coral with pollution and indirectly via our role in global warming, then shrugging your shoulders and saying "natural selection" is disingenuous.
Of course, if the human race kills itself off first and the coral renews itself, I'd accept that as natural selection. I have a feeling that large chunks of our population are due up for a Darwin Award.
I do believe that this is the only place outside of Apple's marketing material where I've seen someone write this product's official name, "iPod touch", rather than "iPod Touch", or worse, "iTouch". Good on you.
Oh, and when I say, "Apple's marketing material", I'm including Gruber's web site.
I take exception to this. I'm one of the masses and I have nothing to do with the niche extremists of ANY religion who take stands like this and still expect to become licensed professionals. Religion, in this case, is not an opiate, nor is it for the masses. Instead it's a meth-like upper for the extreme few.
Or to be fair, maybe $4.99 for 90 minutes which you could keep around for 30 days, unless you started using them. Once you used the first minute, then you had 24 hours before the remaining 90 minutes expired.
"Better made" is a value created out of multiple vectors; I'm sure that some Mercedes fan out there could argue with you. Additionally, it probably depends on the model. If you shows about third world countries, you might see some nice new Toyota Land Cruisers bumping over some rough terrain, but in the really hard-core locations, you're more likely to see a 40-year-old Mercedes utility truck that's made it through all sorts of crap and is still, say, dragging medical supplies to the remotest of remote tribes.
Well, the parallel I've posted before is between high end restaurants like Chez Panisse and MacDonald's. People who hate Apple just for Apple's sake seem impervious to such illustrations, so I decided to take out the middle steps and compare the iPad directly to the cheeseburger. But really, the same logic applies. Whenever I see people going bat-shit about how Apple users are just cultists, I think about just how good a good meal can be, and how much I'm willing to pay for it over the low-end feed some people stuff in their maws.
See, that's more like it. I'm thinking SMS and maybe alert banners at the top 100 web sites (Facebook, Twitter, CNN, Amazon, Apple, Google, YouTube, Wikipedea, Craigslist, Yahoo, Wordpress, Tumblr, you get the idea). And maybe also partner with big video streaming sites (Netflix, Hulu) so that even people viewing full-screen video through Roku-type boxes will get some sort of warning.
Heck, I'd suggest that with the top 50 sites + SMS, you'd probably deliver out to a wider portion of the public than you would with a TV/radio based service these days.
You know what else will outsell the iPad? MacDonalds cheeseburgers! You may think that's a silly comparison, but I think the iPad has a lot to learn from MacD's.
The cheeseburger is tasty and delicious. The iPad is decidedly not.
If I drop a cheeseburger and it breaks, it only costs me $1.69 to replace it. The iPad? $500 and up!
I can put *any condiments I want* on my cheeseburger. The only apps I'm officially allowed to put on an iPad are dictated by the Apple store.
I can literally tear my cheeseburger in two and share it with a friend. The iPad is a one-user device.
The best thing about an iPad? I can stack well over a dozen cheeseburgers on it.
I was at my computer, with several browser windows and a couple of email clients open. My cell phone was right next to me. When the time came, my Outlook reminder popped up and told me it was time for lunch.
Too bad these notifications don't reach those of us who don't rely on antiquated broadcast media.
Don't forget their other secret weapon: design products that people want to buy, with a focus on the consumer rather than channel partners who tend to make short-sighted decisions which hurt everyone in the chain.
I'm not so sure that kinetic mismatch statement is true anymore. Last time I was in Europe--five years ago--everywhere I went I saw large numbers of SUVs. This includes Germany, Italy and London. Maybe not to the same level as in the states, but definitely more than I'd seen five years before that. Even if the trend has slowed down, I'm guessing there's plenty of opportunity for kinetic mismatch.
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Or alternately, companies which are wildly successful need to be able to do responsible things which may affect their bottom line without fearing shareholder revolts. My feeling is that Apple should move production to the states for at least some of its products. Even if that means lower margins, it'll be better for (at least our) economy. Hell, my feeling is that they could even move everything back here and lose a billion dollars a year on it. They'd still be able to keep powering forward for another 80 years at that rate...
I'd say that there are likely far more moderates than extremists. We just notice the extremists more.
Don't forget "The First Immortal", sequel to "The Truth Machine".
It's not about the coral, really. Heck, whenever people are talking about saving anything in the environment, that's really just a means to an end.
See, the thing is, if the coral all die off, the theory is that there will be, so to speak, an unfortunate series of events. And that series of events has a small but non-zero chance of causing a mass die off of the human population.
So what we're buying with this effort is hope, however vain, of our survival.
Oh, and last, but not least, it's not exactly "natural selection" if it's caused by careless poisoning by one species. I'd even accept "natural selection" for animals that we've hunted to extinction for food purposes. But if we're killing off coral with pollution and indirectly via our role in global warming, then shrugging your shoulders and saying "natural selection" is disingenuous.
Of course, if the human race kills itself off first and the coral renews itself, I'd accept that as natural selection. I have a feeling that large chunks of our population are due up for a Darwin Award.
I do believe that this is the only place outside of Apple's marketing material where I've seen someone write this product's official name, "iPod touch", rather than "iPod Touch", or worse, "iTouch". Good on you.
Oh, and when I say, "Apple's marketing material", I'm including Gruber's web site.
...appear to have a huge OCD display.
I take exception to this. I'm one of the masses and I have nothing to do with the niche extremists of ANY religion who take stands like this and still expect to become licensed professionals. Religion, in this case, is not an opiate, nor is it for the masses. Instead it's a meth-like upper for the extreme few.
...it's "mysterious ways".
...I heard you like Java in your script so I wrote you a JVM in Javascript so you can run Java while you're scripting.
Joking aside, this is not going to help the amount of confusion people have with regards to Java not being the same as Javascript *at all*.
DAMN! I was JUST about to write this. Glad I expanded your post.
Or to be fair, maybe $4.99 for 90 minutes which you could keep around for 30 days, unless you started using them. Once you used the first minute, then you had 24 hours before the remaining 90 minutes expired.
Of course, if its fees had been structured like its other services it might have been free or $25/year.
Wish I could mod you funny.
"Better made" is a value created out of multiple vectors; I'm sure that some Mercedes fan out there could argue with you. Additionally, it probably depends on the model. If you shows about third world countries, you might see some nice new Toyota Land Cruisers bumping over some rough terrain, but in the really hard-core locations, you're more likely to see a 40-year-old Mercedes utility truck that's made it through all sorts of crap and is still, say, dragging medical supplies to the remotest of remote tribes.
Well, the parallel I've posted before is between high end restaurants like Chez Panisse and MacDonald's. People who hate Apple just for Apple's sake seem impervious to such illustrations, so I decided to take out the middle steps and compare the iPad directly to the cheeseburger. But really, the same logic applies. Whenever I see people going bat-shit about how Apple users are just cultists, I think about just how good a good meal can be, and how much I'm willing to pay for it over the low-end feed some people stuff in their maws.
See, that's more like it. I'm thinking SMS and maybe alert banners at the top 100 web sites (Facebook, Twitter, CNN, Amazon, Apple, Google, YouTube, Wikipedea, Craigslist, Yahoo, Wordpress, Tumblr, you get the idea). And maybe also partner with big video streaming sites (Netflix, Hulu) so that even people viewing full-screen video through Roku-type boxes will get some sort of warning.
Heck, I'd suggest that with the top 50 sites + SMS, you'd probably deliver out to a wider portion of the public than you would with a TV/radio based service these days.
Seriously. And maybe have Twitter and Facebook and similar systems with significant reach partner with the Gov't to display breaking important news.
You know what else will outsell the iPad? MacDonalds cheeseburgers! You may think that's a silly comparison, but I think the iPad has a lot to learn from MacD's.
The cheeseburger is tasty and delicious. The iPad is decidedly not.
If I drop a cheeseburger and it breaks, it only costs me $1.69 to replace it. The iPad? $500 and up!
I can put *any condiments I want* on my cheeseburger. The only apps I'm officially allowed to put on an iPad are dictated by the Apple store.
I can literally tear my cheeseburger in two and share it with a friend. The iPad is a one-user device.
The best thing about an iPad? I can stack well over a dozen cheeseburgers on it.
LOL. I wonder how many babies were born out of the War of the Worlds radio thing.
I was at my computer, with several browser windows and a couple of email clients open. My cell phone was right next to me. When the time came, my Outlook reminder popped up and told me it was time for lunch.
Too bad these notifications don't reach those of us who don't rely on antiquated broadcast media.
Imagine roller skates that look like regular shoes, with millions of these things spread over what looks like a flat sole of the shoe.
+1 for you, my friend.
They somehow manage to do without it on iOS devices. Perhaps a desktop application is coming for Mac OS/Windows/Linux.
Don't forget their other secret weapon: design products that people want to buy, with a focus on the consumer rather than channel partners who tend to make short-sighted decisions which hurt everyone in the chain.
I'm not so sure that kinetic mismatch statement is true anymore. Last time I was in Europe--five years ago--everywhere I went I saw large numbers of SUVs. This includes Germany, Italy and London. Maybe not to the same level as in the states, but definitely more than I'd seen five years before that. Even if the trend has slowed down, I'm guessing there's plenty of opportunity for kinetic mismatch.