I was about to go over all the reasons why you are at fault, but when you showed that you don't even really understand your DUNS number, I quit. Your credit rating is irrelevant. Its main purpose is verifying you are who you claim to be and have the basic ability to keep your information accurate. Apple is hardly the only company who uses the DUNS number this way.
You got rejected because you don't have your house or your development skills in order.
If you don't ever plan to develop anything for Apple, why are you so concerned with backlash.
You make it obvious that you're not being truthful on multiple levels.
I work at a company with 2 developers who publish to the app store, one other person and myself.
Between the company I work for and my personal account, I have 14 apps on the app store with my name on them in one way or another.
I have never even had to explain something to Apple before they would allow my apps through.
The other developer I work with has never had an app go through without being rejected either by myself (when I was in charge of the company account) or Apple (after I got sick of explaining that Apple would reject her apps to her and my boss, and having to argue over the 'cant you just submit it and see?!' mentality they have).
Its not even a little bit hard, its a matter of knowing what you are doing. Every rejection I've EVER SEEN either in my company or out has been obvious to me from the start. The closest to 'unfair' was an app the used the word Beta in its name, but as I told the other developer, in the submission notes they should explain the usage of the word Beta in the context of the app, its a financial term, and explaining it would avoid the up front rejection that you get when the reviewer takes its initial quick glance and throws it out for using a word that isn't allowed. The App Store guidelines and docs tell you clearly to do this if you are going to use something that might be confusing to the reviewers. Wasted 2 weeks of real time because the developer didn't want to spend 30 minutes reading the submission guidelines. That same developer has had the app rejected again recently for hiding things that the reviewer must review before letting the app go up.
There are well over half a million apps on the app store, they don't give a shit about you if you don't bother to read the rules and guidelines. They don't need you.
Read the docs, follow them, its not hard, it just requires you to actually RTFM and not try to sneak around them because you think you know better, you don't. If you did, you'd be talking with someone at Apple directly because you're multi-billion dollar company would have the clout to do so.
They have their rules, if you don't like it, don't develop for it. Go write android apps, that takes no talent and you'll get paid appropriately for your efforts, nothing.
Apple has no problem dealing with corporate accounts for the App Store in multiple ways from shared payment methods to site licenses for corp accounts if the developer wants to work that way.
Just because you have no idea what you're talking about doesn't mean there isn't a method in place to deal with the problem.
On what planet is wood less susceptible to thermal distortion than... well any metal, or resin or well most other materials I can come up with that would be suitable?
How about ambient moisture changes? Wood warps over time, even various plywood types depending on which side gets more airflow/heat/whatever.
Sigh, I wouldn't worry too much about him burning the place down if he doesn't even grasp the basic materials he's working with I'm not too concerned with him creating a functioning system.
And as for fire... you guys do realize that laser CNC machines cut wood all the time without fire... right? It puts its own fires out as the steam coming out of the wood destroys any hope of an active fire. Have you ever started a fire with a magnifying glass on a 2 by 4? No, no you haven't. You might ignite other more flammable materials and use those to light the 2x4, but the energy isnt' there otherwise.
So basically what you want to do is cause someone else to start a competing site so they can use the data in thier own way without being bound by you're silly selfishness?
Putting up barriers to getting the data is a good way to become irrelevant.
YOU WANT COMMERCIAL USE. Commercial users (some, not all) will commit changes back to the main site just so they don't have to maintain their own distinct database for that purpose. Ask OSM.
If you disallow others, they'll just start their own collection systems. Sure, you''l have more data at the start, but if everyone finds someone elses database easier to use, they'll use it instead and it'll grow past your copy-hindered version eventually. Of course, then you don't get to be the site everyone goes to anymore.
I've seen signs disappear because someone ran over them.
I've seen signs disappear because kids stole them.
I've seen trees grow around signs and obstruct the view of the signs.
These are DoT issues that should resolved ASAP, but until then it might be useful to know that the 45mph limit dropped to 25 suddenly due to being very near a school for the blind and oh, by the way, the untrimmed bushes grew over the sign. No locals bother to report it because they know the speed limit. My out of town behind on the other hand has no clue because the sign is behind a tree and I don't know I need to report it!
This isn't a sign for telling you where you can avoid speed traps or something, this is a site simply republishing public data in an electronic format.
You don't pay Lexis-Nexis for the data, you pay them to FIND the data you're looking for. They can claim they own it all day long, doesn't make it actually true.
You'll only be THE clearing house if you are the best source. Second, it's public data, stop trying to own it, you can't, it's not yours to own in the first place.
Did you seriously just blame the Arduino for screwing up when your sister clearly had no actual idea what she was doing or understanding of the components she was using? The Arduino may be under powered, but thats not why her project failed. To put it bluntly her own ignorance is why it failed. She got in WAY over her head and should have just went to Radio Shack and bought the device that she wanted rather than trying to hack something together in a field that she clearly does not have knowledge in.
Thats like blaming Toyota cause you got drunk and drove into a bridge piling. Yea, you can do it, but it just reflects on your own ignorance, not the manufacture.
Seriously.... FIX THE FUCKING PIN SPACING YOU ASSHOLES.
I know thats going to kill what little karma I have, but for fucks sake the pin spacing the digital pins with that nice little nonstandard gap is freaking obnoxious to all hell and back making it practically impossible to use with say.... a normal freaking prototyping board.
Yes, it will break shield compatibility but it'll make it work with all sorts of other non-Arduino boards and moving forward the damn shields will be fixed too.
No, I didn't use enough cuss words and caps in this post. Someone should be strung up for taking a nice little prototyping board and fucking it up. Douche.
GV has spam prevention built in and its pretty damn good once you enable it. I WAS getting a bunch of calls via GV... then turned it on and now I get pretty much none.
The news aggregators in general have provided us with higher quality news where the newspapers themselves have failed. Aggregators take into account who is clicking what to weight what they have. The end result is that in general the move viewed articles get top billing.
Serious questions from someone who just returned a Nexus 7 due to it not meeting my expectations. I have not owned but used several iPads and do own an iPhone.
Do you not notice the lag in the display and the awkwardness of the on screen keyboard? I bought the Nexus7 because I read about Project Butter (making the UI buttery smooth) and thought that since it was a high priority for 4.x they would have worked it out but it is still horribly laggy and often made me wonder if I had clicked a link in chrome or if I had missed the link because nothing would happen for a moment. I also found the blue glow at the end of the scroll area to be practically unnoticable and not enough of an indication for me to realize that I was at the end. Many times I thought it was just lagging again. This bit is probably due to being used to the iOS way of doing things, but it seemed far too little to be an effective indicator for the end of a scrollable area.
I know I sound like an Apple fanboy:( but do you really think it is THAT GREAT or are you just a Android fan? It seems to me that even with the 4.1.2 update it was considerably less smooth than what I'm used to in iOS to the point of being obnoxious. You don't notice?
I'm honestly asking as I'm trying to determine if my expectations are just unacceptably high, I have a hard time thinking they are since at least iOS devices meet my expectations. I'm of the opinion that 4.x Android devices with suffcient processing power would blow the pants off Windows CE/WindowsMobile before iOS, but since the release of iOS they just seem like another ME TOO that isn't as good as the real thing.
I accept due to Androids nature that there will be plenty of 'ME TOO' devices, but I really expected something with the Nexus brand to be top of the line and it just isn't too me.
Photoshop and Premiere are easily replaced by FAR cheaper items unless your doing some medical imaging or something movie related that requires a premiere specific plugin. I don't know about the DTP side any more, I know Adobe ruled that arena years ago, but they also ruled with PS and Priemere back then too, now not so much.
Does it run on a case sensitive file system yet? Serious question, its one of three things that I know that don't. It, Steam and World of Warcraft. Steam is the only one I've bothered to get working, WoW I've never actually played so its no big loss and Adobe is out of my price range outside of work so I don't care about it either, I just use Pixelmator instead of photoshop and don't do shit with movies so iMovie works in Premiere's place, though I wish I could get something a little better but not Final Cut price range.
On the contrary, we feel that creators deserve compensation for their efforts. Yes, many people do pirate and pay nothing. Many would pay something if it was possible, but often it is not, and that's the fault of industry.
Show me any high ranking item on TPB that you can't buy. I'm not going to wait around while you try, I don't want to grow old and die, but I challenge you to find something on TPB that you can't buy legally fairly easy.
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I was about to go over all the reasons why you are at fault, but when you showed that you don't even really understand your DUNS number, I quit. Your credit rating is irrelevant. Its main purpose is verifying you are who you claim to be and have the basic ability to keep your information accurate. Apple is hardly the only company who uses the DUNS number this way.
You got rejected because you don't have your house or your development skills in order.
If you don't ever plan to develop anything for Apple, why are you so concerned with backlash.
You make it obvious that you're not being truthful on multiple levels.
I work at a company with 2 developers who publish to the app store, one other person and myself.
Between the company I work for and my personal account, I have 14 apps on the app store with my name on them in one way or another.
I have never even had to explain something to Apple before they would allow my apps through.
The other developer I work with has never had an app go through without being rejected either by myself (when I was in charge of the company account) or Apple (after I got sick of explaining that Apple would reject her apps to her and my boss, and having to argue over the 'cant you just submit it and see?!' mentality they have).
Its not even a little bit hard, its a matter of knowing what you are doing. Every rejection I've EVER SEEN either in my company or out has been obvious to me from the start. The closest to 'unfair' was an app the used the word Beta in its name, but as I told the other developer, in the submission notes they should explain the usage of the word Beta in the context of the app, its a financial term, and explaining it would avoid the up front rejection that you get when the reviewer takes its initial quick glance and throws it out for using a word that isn't allowed. The App Store guidelines and docs tell you clearly to do this if you are going to use something that might be confusing to the reviewers. Wasted 2 weeks of real time because the developer didn't want to spend 30 minutes reading the submission guidelines. That same developer has had the app rejected again recently for hiding things that the reviewer must review before letting the app go up.
There are well over half a million apps on the app store, they don't give a shit about you if you don't bother to read the rules and guidelines. They don't need you.
Read the docs, follow them, its not hard, it just requires you to actually RTFM and not try to sneak around them because you think you know better, you don't. If you did, you'd be talking with someone at Apple directly because you're multi-billion dollar company would have the clout to do so.
They have their rules, if you don't like it, don't develop for it. Go write android apps, that takes no talent and you'll get paid appropriately for your efforts, nothing.
Apple has no problem dealing with corporate accounts for the App Store in multiple ways from shared payment methods to site licenses for corp accounts if the developer wants to work that way.
Just because you have no idea what you're talking about doesn't mean there isn't a method in place to deal with the problem.
On what planet is wood less susceptible to thermal distortion than ... well any metal, or resin or well most other materials I can come up with that would be suitable?
How about ambient moisture changes? Wood warps over time, even various plywood types depending on which side gets more airflow/heat/whatever.
Sigh, I wouldn't worry too much about him burning the place down if he doesn't even grasp the basic materials he's working with I'm not too concerned with him creating a functioning system.
And as for fire ... you guys do realize that laser CNC machines cut wood all the time without fire ... right? It puts its own fires out as the steam coming out of the wood destroys any hope of an active fire. Have you ever started a fire with a magnifying glass on a 2 by 4? No, no you haven't. You might ignite other more flammable materials and use those to light the 2x4, but the energy isnt' there otherwise.
So basically what you want to do is cause someone else to start a competing site so they can use the data in thier own way without being bound by you're silly selfishness?
Putting up barriers to getting the data is a good way to become irrelevant.
YOU WANT COMMERCIAL USE. Commercial users (some, not all) will commit changes back to the main site just so they don't have to maintain their own distinct database for that purpose. Ask OSM.
If you disallow others, they'll just start their own collection systems. Sure, you''l have more data at the start, but if everyone finds someone elses database easier to use, they'll use it instead and it'll grow past your copy-hindered version eventually. Of course, then you don't get to be the site everyone goes to anymore.
Extra alerts at the right times are useful.
I've seen signs disappear because someone ran over them.
I've seen signs disappear because kids stole them.
I've seen trees grow around signs and obstruct the view of the signs.
These are DoT issues that should resolved ASAP, but until then it might be useful to know that the 45mph limit dropped to 25 suddenly due to being very near a school for the blind and oh, by the way, the untrimmed bushes grew over the sign. No locals bother to report it because they know the speed limit. My out of town behind on the other hand has no clue because the sign is behind a tree and I don't know I need to report it!
This isn't a sign for telling you where you can avoid speed traps or something, this is a site simply republishing public data in an electronic format.
Facebook replaced because they were a better Myspace.
Everyone gets replaced eventually, you only lead while you actually have the best product or cheat.
You don't pay Lexis-Nexis for the data, you pay them to FIND the data you're looking for. They can claim they own it all day long, doesn't make it actually true.
You'll only be THE clearing house if you are the best source. Second, it's public data, stop trying to own it, you can't, it's not yours to own in the first place.
Did you seriously just blame the Arduino for screwing up when your sister clearly had no actual idea what she was doing or understanding of the components she was using? The Arduino may be under powered, but thats not why her project failed. To put it bluntly her own ignorance is why it failed. She got in WAY over her head and should have just went to Radio Shack and bought the device that she wanted rather than trying to hack something together in a field that she clearly does not have knowledge in.
Thats like blaming Toyota cause you got drunk and drove into a bridge piling. Yea, you can do it, but it just reflects on your own ignorance, not the manufacture.
Seriously .... FIX THE FUCKING PIN SPACING YOU ASSHOLES.
I know thats going to kill what little karma I have, but for fucks sake the pin spacing the digital pins with that nice little nonstandard gap is freaking obnoxious to all hell and back making it practically impossible to use with say .... a normal freaking prototyping board.
Yes, it will break shield compatibility but it'll make it work with all sorts of other non-Arduino boards and moving forward the damn shields will be fixed too.
No, I didn't use enough cuss words and caps in this post. Someone should be strung up for taking a nice little prototyping board and fucking it up. Douche.
Its not that they can't be stopped its that no one is trying to stop them.
Its not like the phone company doesn't know who to bill for making calls, they can most certainly track down the caller if they wanted to.
If you can't run a secure asterisk box you aren't innocent, you are part of the problem.
Ignorance is never an excuse.
GV has spam prevention built in and its pretty damn good once you enable it. I WAS getting a bunch of calls via GV ... then turned it on and now I get pretty much none.
The FBI works in America. You want the CIA which works outside of America.
And your point is what exactly?
If you have a gun and leave it accessible in such a way that someone gets it and commits a murder, I hold you responsible as well.
If you are unable to run a secure asterisk box DON'T RUN ONE AT ALL.
You don't get to play admin when it suits you and then claim ignorance when it doesn't.
And they have a log of who made the purchase via their website or phone, to which they can turn it back over to the feds to come after you.
You have to communicate with them in order to frame them, thats trivial to trace.
The news aggregators in general have provided us with higher quality news where the newspapers themselves have failed. Aggregators take into account who is clicking what to weight what they have. The end result is that in general the move viewed articles get top billing.
Really? Because the REAL journalists, not retarded bloggers, don't need to eat and have a home?
Paying one way or another for services rendered is standard and entirely acceptable. Stop being such a fucking leech.
Serious questions from someone who just returned a Nexus 7 due to it not meeting my expectations. I have not owned but used several iPads and do own an iPhone.
Do you not notice the lag in the display and the awkwardness of the on screen keyboard? I bought the Nexus7 because I read about Project Butter (making the UI buttery smooth) and thought that since it was a high priority for 4.x they would have worked it out but it is still horribly laggy and often made me wonder if I had clicked a link in chrome or if I had missed the link because nothing would happen for a moment. I also found the blue glow at the end of the scroll area to be practically unnoticable and not enough of an indication for me to realize that I was at the end. Many times I thought it was just lagging again. This bit is probably due to being used to the iOS way of doing things, but it seemed far too little to be an effective indicator for the end of a scrollable area.
I know I sound like an Apple fanboy :( but do you really think it is THAT GREAT or are you just a Android fan? It seems to me that even with the 4.1.2 update it was considerably less smooth than what I'm used to in iOS to the point of being obnoxious. You don't notice?
I'm honestly asking as I'm trying to determine if my expectations are just unacceptably high, I have a hard time thinking they are since at least iOS devices meet my expectations. I'm of the opinion that 4.x Android devices with suffcient processing power would blow the pants off Windows CE/WindowsMobile before iOS, but since the release of iOS they just seem like another ME TOO that isn't as good as the real thing.
I accept due to Androids nature that there will be plenty of 'ME TOO' devices, but I really expected something with the Nexus brand to be top of the line and it just isn't too me.
Photoshop and Premiere are easily replaced by FAR cheaper items unless your doing some medical imaging or something movie related that requires a premiere specific plugin. I don't know about the DTP side any more, I know Adobe ruled that arena years ago, but they also ruled with PS and Priemere back then too, now not so much.
Serious question: Does Adobe still rule?
There isn't a non-mac laptop with specs that even compare to my current MacBook ... which I run Windows on most of the time.
Just because you can buy a cheapass laptop doesn't mean you can use it as a comparison.
Does it run on a case sensitive file system yet? Serious question, its one of three things that I know that don't. It, Steam and World of Warcraft. Steam is the only one I've bothered to get working, WoW I've never actually played so its no big loss and Adobe is out of my price range outside of work so I don't care about it either, I just use Pixelmator instead of photoshop and don't do shit with movies so iMovie works in Premiere's place, though I wish I could get something a little better but not Final Cut price range.
God your an obnoxious douche aren't you?
You really feel better now that some secretary is going to get spammed forever thanks to your ignorant stunt?
On the contrary, we feel that creators deserve compensation for their efforts. Yes, many people do pirate and pay nothing. Many would pay something if it was possible, but often it is not, and that's the fault of industry.
Show me any high ranking item on TPB that you can't buy. I'm not going to wait around while you try, I don't want to grow old and die, but I challenge you to find something on TPB that you can't buy legally fairly easy.