I haven't printed anything for myself in 3 or 4 years, so no loss, but... there are ways to print from the iPad to local printers, admittedly they are hacks and are rather crappy, but it can be done if you still like killing trees for shits and giggles.
Are you going to enjoy being locked out of the web? There are tons of flash games out there, tons of flash movies, etc. What benefit are you getting to accept it?
What benefit? I think you said it yourself. I don't have to deal with flash crap. I've yet to see anything done in flash that I actually wanted. You may feel differently, but I could give a shit.
The web I browse doesnt' get bothered by a lack of flash ads (which is all the games amount to as well anyway)
Are you going to be broke paying for applications?
No, I have a job and live within my means. I do get more enjoyment out of most of the apps I pay for than the half assed broken or incomplete 'free' replacements I'm sure you'd offer up.
Of course there are a fuckton of 0 cost apps for the iPhone and iPad, but you're just going to ignore that I guess.
What about storage? The average person is going to have GB worth of movies, music, documents, photos, etc. Flash memory is -expensive-. Also, how are you going to transfer things to the iPad? And backups? What about durability? If a component of a PC fails, its easily replaced. Nothing is truly "fatal" if you have the money.
I stream them down as I need them. I don't need to carry 18 movies with me, one or two will do. If 16 or 32G of music and photos isn't enough for you to have between being near something to sync with than I'm guessing you can't provide me one example of a device that has batteries that will last long enough to play a few gigs of music or show a couple gigs of photos in a slideshow with a reasonable timeout unless you're looking at some incredibly high res MRI images or something else that totally wouldn't fit on the display.
Backups happen at sync, automatically, you clearly have no idea how it works so why are you pretending you do? If my iPhone/iPad fails, I buy a new one, resync and move on. At most I've lost 3 days worth of... well nothing really, after you've established your contacts, use IMAP or Exchange based email, everything thats volitale is backuped automatically or is stored elsewhere anyway and only cached locally.
The iPad makes a passable secondary "computer" but as a primary computer? I'm better off with my 7 inch EEE 701...
You might be, I wouldn't. Your EEE PC won't last as long on batteries. It might 'run' other apps, but it does so poorly that I wouldn't be able to stand it, so its effectively got no advantage to me there. You don't want an iPad, fine. You aren't a normal every day computer user though so stop pretending your requirements are the same as everyone elses.
You're trying to make a comparison between a device you use and one you have no idea about. End result? Your comparison (or accurately, contrast) of the two devices is completely uninformed.
... considering you'd be more effective with a fire (which the iPad can create thanks to having a batter) than the wireless nature of any device you listed.
Of course... the iPad also has wifi so its as good as a wifi router by any measurement you're trying to make up.
And why would anyone that needs a computer do that?
You're argument is basically something like telling someone who owns a car and rides the bus/rail to spend the next year only riding the bus/rail and see how happy they are.
Of course its going to not fit for some people, but there are certainly plenty of people that would be more than happy to just right the train.
I'm recently married, last night we had dinner with the inlaws. The inlaws had several friends over for a night of drinks, bullshitting, and general socializing under the spring time stars out back.
Most of these people couldn't make it to the wedding which was out of country... so they wanted to see pictures... or at least pretended they did.
First thought was grab the sister in laws' laptop. Okay, got it... password protected... call her up to get the password as she was out with friends and she says... 'Just grab my iPad, its probably far easier since the photos are already on there'.
So my wife gets the sisters iPad... you know what we did? Viewed the photos, watched some youtube videos of the shakeweight exercise device and its parodies (funny stuff) and a few people updated their facebook page while we passed it around and laughed our asses off.
It was, in fact, the most perfect device I've seen for what we used it for. No one had touched one before that moment, though my wife and I have iPhones. Of the other 6 people there, no one asked 'how does this work' or even took a second to figure it out, they just used it right from the start.
By the time we left, pretty much every one there thought 'we should get one of those, thats awesome for just doing basic stuff we do most of the time.
3 more iPads were purchased today, just because of that. Now I won't deny that everyone there has money to spare so its a bit biased towards gadgets, but I've never in my life seen normal people pick up a tech toy, play with it for a few hours and then run out and buy one as soon as they could. My wife and I won't buy one because its basically a larger iPhone sans phone so its not that useful to us over all, we just use our normal computers when the phones won't cut it.
The point to all this is, this style of device with this level of easy of use and 'just works', which by that I mean people 'just get how it works, instantly', its going to change the game for a lot of people.
Will it always be the leader of the pack? Who knows, but right now it most certainly is a very well liked and sought after appliance.
While slashdot may think the only type of 'computer' is a completely open, no cost for software, get anything you want type of device is the only way to go... the rest of the world doesn't really care about any of those things.
Nope, most slashdotters that refuse to even look at it won't buy it, but no one gives a shit about that statistically irrelevant portion of the population. Not Jobs. Not Bill or Ballmer. Not Me. Not anyone who has more important things to do then rant about needing an open computer.
Is it perfect? Of course not, but it does appear to be GREAT for certain circumstances. Something better will come along and build off whats learned from the iPad, just like the iPad came along from what was learned from the iPhone, and the iPhone came along from lessons learned by other previous devices.
People can rant about Steve, Apple, and all things related, but only the truly ignorant will ignore what its doing for the world of computing appliances.
Software patents literally make these open source projects illegal.
No, not in any way does it make them illegal. It is perfectly acceptable if you are licensed to use the h264 codec for you to use an OSS implementation.
Stop talking shit about things you don't freaking understand.
I can use any h264 implementation I want as I'm licensed to use h264.
Because it would violate patents in many countries, unless you stripped out all of the infringing codecs, including h.264.
Why exactly does it violate a patent?
It is possible for someone other than the patent holder to use patented tech you know?
That'd handle the legal issue, too.
No it wouldn't, it would simply shift it somewhere else. Of course you really don't understand patents in the first place so theres not much of a point in trying to convince you.
Well, it would make all that bitching about which codecs to standardize on a non-issue for a start.
What? How does pawning it off to something else change the fact that it still needs to be standardized so everyone knows that a specific type of media in a specific format will be viewable/playable.
It's a browser, why should it know how to play audio, video, decode images, display fonts, or lord knows what other things will come along - 3D support next?
Because these are things that people WANT the browser to do. If the need/want for 3D text becomes big, then yes, it should be part of the standard. Why even have a standard for HTML if its not going to actually be a standard?
Pass it to the OS or build against external libraries and let something else figure that out.
Uhm, thats what should happen regardless. IE doesn't know how to decode JPEGs, GIFs, and PNGs, but Windows does, and it uses those libraries to do so. Safari can't decode h264 on its own in OSX, its linked to the system libraries. Making it standard in a browser doesn't preclude it from being done by a third party. Theres no rule in the standard that says the browser has to implement all these features in its own code, just that the standard says 'these things are available and they should work like this'. How its actually done is irreleveant.
The whole point is so that everyones browser behaves the same so you don't have to make custom hacks for every retarded browser implementation. Have you not been around for the past 10 years of dealing with customizations to make the various browsers actually work somewhat the same?
If you want to use it as a digital dash, don't. ATMegas can't reliably run at fast enough serial rates to pump out the data fast enough for a real dash display. With all the stuff you want to display you'll end up at 5-10 updates a second, which just sucks.
If you just want to futz around and see whats there before digging in, its fine.
Realistically though, you can get a ODB-II to RS232 protocol converter for $40 or so, which is probably about $10 more than you paid for your arduino and it'll work far better.
Look for an ELM327 based converter. If you look hard enough you can find them dirt cheap. I paid $100 for mine and that was more than twice what I found them for when I started looking in depth.
Unless you have the parts laying around already, by the time you get the parts, housing and chips needed you've already spent more than buying a premade ELM327 based scanner from someplace.
Speaking as a former mechanic, fuck you very much. OBD II codes serve to provide you a place to look, nothing more.
As a DIY mechanic, I agree 100%. The last 9 times out of 10 I've got a trouble code via ODB-II it has been completely wrong.
When I finally learned to ignore the code and diagnose the engine I got far better at fixing the car on the first try. The onboard computer makes a guess based on the data its being fed. The problem is usually that the data is freaking wrong, which is whats causing the problem. So you're asking a computer to make an informed judgement about whats going on with bad information. If it could do so, you'd never take it to the shop since it could just infer the right answer anyway.
If the don't use h264 they are at more risk from the MPEG-LA suing them than if they do use it.
They aren't going to sue them for properly licensing and using the h264 codec, the assertion that its a 'ticking time bomb' is fucking retarded.
The time bomb would be using some other codec with no one behind it to provide protection from such lawsuits because it infringes on something like h264s pool of patents.
no consideration for the underlying issues at all and is generally a bad idea.
What you mean is... you're pissy that not everyone wants to fight your battles for you. Get over it, some of us are done playing these silly little games and just want to move on to more important things.
Software patents literally make these open source projects illegal
You know, I keep seeing this said over and over again, and I've been letting it go, but I can't anymore...
A PATENT DOESN'T MEAN ITS ILLEGAL TO IMPLEMENT IT.
It doesn't mean you can't make it open source.
All a patent does is grant someone a right to exclusive use... IF THEY WANT IT TO BE USED EXCLUSIVELY BY THEMSELVES OR LICENSE IT TO OTHERS.
Having a patent doesnt do anything by itself, it gives the holder of the patent specific options.
It is not illegal to make an OSS h264 codec, you just simply need the license authority to allow you to do so.
You people really need to get a freaking clue before you go ranting about things you don't understand.
Let me ask you, how many people has the MPEG-LA sued over h264... there are OSS implementations... how many of them have been sued? I can count to one higher on my dick, so just stop with the retarded bullshit you're pulling out of your ass.
Whats absolutely ludicrous is how completely ignorant of reality you and the rest of the 'ZOMG PATENT!%!@!@!@' twits are. You know what the biggest problem for patents in OSS is? Ignorant OSS zealots without a clue.
I suppose the fact that Novell, Redhat and Canonical all are patent holders just slipped your fucking mind too right? There are most certainly patented features in the Linux kernel, and it doesn't fucking matter because the patent holders are OK WITH THAT. It actually means that no one else can stop Linux from using those ideas. Patents help OSS too, just like software licensing.
I get that you don't like patents, but what you need to get is a god damn clue about what patents do, how they do it, and why they exist. You clearly don't know any of those 3 things. You're just another one of those people that rant about things they don't understand. Like the twits who rant about software licensing followed up immediately by telling everyone how GPL is gods gift to the world. Pure ignorance and stupidity.
With a notebook I'm not limited by stupid design decisions
The netbook IS A STUPID DESIGN DECISION. Its too small, has shitty battery life, only does a limited set of things and does those pretty poorly. It doesn't restrict what you can install, but it certainly restricts what you can do. Just because you can install an app doesn't mean it will actually run well enough to be useful. Photoshop is a perfect example of exactly what not to run on your netbook, thanks.
However, when I can get a laptop with a UI that I've been using for most of my adult life... Why change? The iPad runs expensive applications, a laptop runs free applications.
Because it sucks? You've obviously never had 5 minutes with the device you're trying to tear down. Show me a netbook with a good UI... the screens are smaller than a damn iPad for fucks sake and they try to run desktop OSes. If you think thats a good UI then you're in a different world than I and we'll never come to any reasonable agreement.
No one wants real applications! After all, programs are -terrible- to run. No one wants an alternate browser! No one wants copy/paste! No one wants multi-tasking!
Are you trying to prove how retarded an uninformed you are? Have you owned a smart device that can actually multitask like you want? Tell me good sir, how long did your battery last running multiple background applications? What? You can't respond because you're battery died before you could finish reading my post? yea, thats what I thought.
Sorry Steve, I don't understand your opposition to common sense.
Let me correct that for you:
Sorry Steve, I have never owned a mobile device so I have no idea what I'm talking about but I'm going to shout about common sense and other things like I have a clue.
I'm not going to get an iPad because there are cheaper devices that do a -ton- more.
And you've never used one, clearly. The only people who rant like this are the ones with no experience. Anyone with any experience in devices like this has far better reasons to like/dislike the i* devices. You're just an uninformed ranter without a clue. The fact that you think a netbook is better than an iPad tells me its highly unlikely you've used either, ever.
It would be like trading in your 10 year old car for a new one that looks cool and is comfortable, but is completely autopiloted, and only lets you out at certain stops.
A bad analogy but...
The problem is you don't see how much better that would actually make the world. Just like in computers, most people can't drive for shit, they don't give a flying fuck about paying enough attention to be safe and would much rather be doing something else during that time... which they'll do anyway like rambling on the phone or texting.
The end result is a shitty experience for everyone. Those driving, those getting hit by shitty drivers, and those of us that do no how to drive but have to find our way around the ignorant fucks on their cell phones texting.
I hate to break it to you because you likely fall into this group since you can't recognize it, but most people don't have the mental capacity to drive OR operate a computer safely. Not letting them do so is far more intelligent than giving them the choice and killing people in the process.
Whats worse is that now people are doing both... poorly, and deadly.
I broke the sapphire face of my iPhone last May. I've been waiting till now to buy a new one as I figured I'd just skip the 3GS generation and get whats next.
I've been waiting over a year already because... just like car manufactures release new models every year, so does Apple.
The same thing happens with MacBooks. I waitted until the new models came out so I could get fresh hardware.
They are really predictable so the lost sales argument is just dumb.
Everyone thats going to wait already knows they are going to release a new model with new features and a new OS.
FreeBSD based FreeNAS on cheap ass hardware owns it and requires about the same amount of setup. Its just slightly noisier but capable of about 10-20x the disk space.
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Yep. Special cable as I recall but I've watched my sister in law plug her camera into hers and dump it directly.
I could rip apart the rest of your points but you're just uninformed and a zealot so it'll do nothing but make me look like an Apple zealot.
You win. Don't buy an iPad.
I haven't printed anything for myself in 3 or 4 years, so no loss, but ... there are ways to print from the iPad to local printers, admittedly they are hacks and are rather crappy, but it can be done if you still like killing trees for shits and giggles.
What benefit? I think you said it yourself. I don't have to deal with flash crap. I've yet to see anything done in flash that I actually wanted. You may feel differently, but I could give a shit.
The web I browse doesnt' get bothered by a lack of flash ads (which is all the games amount to as well anyway)
No, I have a job and live within my means. I do get more enjoyment out of most of the apps I pay for than the half assed broken or incomplete 'free' replacements I'm sure you'd offer up.
Of course there are a fuckton of 0 cost apps for the iPhone and iPad, but you're just going to ignore that I guess.
I stream them down as I need them. I don't need to carry 18 movies with me, one or two will do. If 16 or 32G of music and photos isn't enough for you to have between being near something to sync with than I'm guessing you can't provide me one example of a device that has batteries that will last long enough to play a few gigs of music or show a couple gigs of photos in a slideshow with a reasonable timeout unless you're looking at some incredibly high res MRI images or something else that totally wouldn't fit on the display.
Backups happen at sync, automatically, you clearly have no idea how it works so why are you pretending you do? If my iPhone/iPad fails, I buy a new one, resync and move on. At most I've lost 3 days worth of ... well nothing really, after you've established your contacts, use IMAP or Exchange based email, everything thats volitale is backuped automatically or is stored elsewhere anyway and only cached locally.
You might be, I wouldn't. Your EEE PC won't last as long on batteries. It might 'run' other apps, but it does so poorly that I wouldn't be able to stand it, so its effectively got no advantage to me there. You don't want an iPad, fine. You aren't a normal every day computer user though so stop pretending your requirements are the same as everyone elses.
You're trying to make a comparison between a device you use and one you have no idea about. End result? Your comparison (or accurately, contrast) of the two devices is completely uninformed.
... considering you'd be more effective with a fire (which the iPad can create thanks to having a batter) than the wireless nature of any device you listed.
Of course ... the iPad also has wifi so its as good as a wifi router by any measurement you're trying to make up.
And why would anyone that needs a computer do that?
You're argument is basically something like telling someone who owns a car and rides the bus/rail to spend the next year only riding the bus/rail and see how happy they are.
Of course its going to not fit for some people, but there are certainly plenty of people that would be more than happy to just right the train.
I'm recently married, last night we had dinner with the inlaws. The inlaws had several friends over for a night of drinks, bullshitting, and general socializing under the spring time stars out back.
Most of these people couldn't make it to the wedding which was out of country ... so they wanted to see pictures ... or at least pretended they did.
First thought was grab the sister in laws' laptop. Okay, got it ... password protected ... call her up to get the password as she was out with friends and she says ... 'Just grab my iPad, its probably far easier since the photos are already on there'.
So my wife gets the sisters iPad ... you know what we did? Viewed the photos, watched some youtube videos of the shakeweight exercise device and its parodies (funny stuff) and a few people updated their facebook page while we passed it around and laughed our asses off.
It was, in fact, the most perfect device I've seen for what we used it for. No one had touched one before that moment, though my wife and I have iPhones. Of the other 6 people there, no one asked 'how does this work' or even took a second to figure it out, they just used it right from the start.
By the time we left, pretty much every one there thought 'we should get one of those, thats awesome for just doing basic stuff we do most of the time.
3 more iPads were purchased today, just because of that. Now I won't deny that everyone there has money to spare so its a bit biased towards gadgets, but I've never in my life seen normal people pick up a tech toy, play with it for a few hours and then run out and buy one as soon as they could. My wife and I won't buy one because its basically a larger iPhone sans phone so its not that useful to us over all, we just use our normal computers when the phones won't cut it.
The point to all this is, this style of device with this level of easy of use and 'just works', which by that I mean people 'just get how it works, instantly', its going to change the game for a lot of people.
Will it always be the leader of the pack? Who knows, but right now it most certainly is a very well liked and sought after appliance.
While slashdot may think the only type of 'computer' is a completely open, no cost for software, get anything you want type of device is the only way to go ... the rest of the world doesn't really care about any of those things.
Nope, most slashdotters that refuse to even look at it won't buy it, but no one gives a shit about that statistically irrelevant portion of the population. Not Jobs. Not Bill or Ballmer. Not Me. Not anyone who has more important things to do then rant about needing an open computer.
Is it perfect? Of course not, but it does appear to be GREAT for certain circumstances. Something better will come along and build off whats learned from the iPad, just like the iPad came along from what was learned from the iPhone, and the iPhone came along from lessons learned by other previous devices.
People can rant about Steve, Apple, and all things related, but only the truly ignorant will ignore what its doing for the world of computing appliances.
No, not in any way does it make them illegal. It is perfectly acceptable if you are licensed to use the h264 codec for you to use an OSS implementation.
Stop talking shit about things you don't freaking understand.
I can use any h264 implementation I want as I'm licensed to use h264.
Why exactly does it violate a patent?
It is possible for someone other than the patent holder to use patented tech you know?
No it wouldn't, it would simply shift it somewhere else. Of course you really don't understand patents in the first place so theres not much of a point in trying to convince you.
What? How does pawning it off to something else change the fact that it still needs to be standardized so everyone knows that a specific type of media in a specific format will be viewable/playable.
Because these are things that people WANT the browser to do. If the need/want for 3D text becomes big, then yes, it should be part of the standard. Why even have a standard for HTML if its not going to actually be a standard?
Uhm, thats what should happen regardless. IE doesn't know how to decode JPEGs, GIFs, and PNGs, but Windows does, and it uses those libraries to do so. Safari can't decode h264 on its own in OSX, its linked to the system libraries. Making it standard in a browser doesn't preclude it from being done by a third party. Theres no rule in the standard that says the browser has to implement all these features in its own code, just that the standard says 'these things are available and they should work like this'. How its actually done is irreleveant.
The whole point is so that everyones browser behaves the same so you don't have to make custom hacks for every retarded browser implementation. Have you not been around for the past 10 years of dealing with customizations to make the various browsers actually work somewhat the same?
They are open, anyone can buy them.
Open does not mean 0 cost contrary to how its been warped by GPL zealots.
If you want to use it as a digital dash, don't. ATMegas can't reliably run at fast enough serial rates to pump out the data fast enough for a real dash display. With all the stuff you want to display you'll end up at 5-10 updates a second, which just sucks.
If you just want to futz around and see whats there before digging in, its fine.
Realistically though, you can get a ODB-II to RS232 protocol converter for $40 or so, which is probably about $10 more than you paid for your arduino and it'll work far better.
Look for an ELM327 based converter. If you look hard enough you can find them dirt cheap. I paid $100 for mine and that was more than twice what I found them for when I started looking in depth.
Unless you have the parts laying around already, by the time you get the parts, housing and chips needed you've already spent more than buying a premade ELM327 based scanner from someplace.
As a DIY mechanic, I agree 100%. The last 9 times out of 10 I've got a trouble code via ODB-II it has been completely wrong.
When I finally learned to ignore the code and diagnose the engine I got far better at fixing the car on the first try. The onboard computer makes a guess based on the data its being fed. The problem is usually that the data is freaking wrong, which is whats causing the problem. So you're asking a computer to make an informed judgement about whats going on with bad information. If it could do so, you'd never take it to the shop since it could just infer the right answer anyway.
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If the don't use h264 they are at more risk from the MPEG-LA suing them than if they do use it.
They aren't going to sue them for properly licensing and using the h264 codec, the assertion that its a 'ticking time bomb' is fucking retarded.
The time bomb would be using some other codec with no one behind it to provide protection from such lawsuits because it infringes on something like h264s pool of patents.
What you mean is ... you're pissy that not everyone wants to fight your battles for you. Get over it, some of us are done playing these silly little games and just want to move on to more important things.
Nothing will ever fix your paranoia, regardless of what browser they install.
Let me give you a hint about your privacy ... NO ONE GIVES A FUCK ABOUT YOU OR WHAT YOU BROWSE.
You know, I keep seeing this said over and over again, and I've been letting it go, but I can't anymore ...
A PATENT DOESN'T MEAN ITS ILLEGAL TO IMPLEMENT IT.
It doesn't mean you can't make it open source.
All a patent does is grant someone a right to exclusive use ... IF THEY WANT IT TO BE USED EXCLUSIVELY BY THEMSELVES OR LICENSE IT TO OTHERS.
Having a patent doesnt do anything by itself, it gives the holder of the patent specific options.
It is not illegal to make an OSS h264 codec, you just simply need the license authority to allow you to do so.
You people really need to get a freaking clue before you go ranting about things you don't understand.
Let me ask you, how many people has the MPEG-LA sued over h264 ... there are OSS implementations ... how many of them have been sued? I can count to one higher on my dick, so just stop with the retarded bullshit you're pulling out of your ass.
Whats absolutely ludicrous is how completely ignorant of reality you and the rest of the 'ZOMG PATENT!%!@!@!@' twits are. You know what the biggest problem for patents in OSS is? Ignorant OSS zealots without a clue.
I suppose the fact that Novell, Redhat and Canonical all are patent holders just slipped your fucking mind too right? There are most certainly patented features in the Linux kernel, and it doesn't fucking matter because the patent holders are OK WITH THAT. It actually means that no one else can stop Linux from using those ideas. Patents help OSS too, just like software licensing.
I get that you don't like patents, but what you need to get is a god damn clue about what patents do, how they do it, and why they exist. You clearly don't know any of those 3 things. You're just another one of those people that rant about things they don't understand. Like the twits who rant about software licensing followed up immediately by telling everyone how GPL is gods gift to the world. Pure ignorance and stupidity.
The netbook IS A STUPID DESIGN DECISION. Its too small, has shitty battery life, only does a limited set of things and does those pretty poorly. It doesn't restrict what you can install, but it certainly restricts what you can do. Just because you can install an app doesn't mean it will actually run well enough to be useful. Photoshop is a perfect example of exactly what not to run on your netbook, thanks.
Because it sucks? You've obviously never had 5 minutes with the device you're trying to tear down. Show me a netbook with a good UI ... the screens are smaller than a damn iPad for fucks sake and they try to run desktop OSes. If you think thats a good UI then you're in a different world than I and we'll never come to any reasonable agreement.
Are you trying to prove how retarded an uninformed you are? Have you owned a smart device that can actually multitask like you want? Tell me good sir, how long did your battery last running multiple background applications? What? You can't respond because you're battery died before you could finish reading my post? yea, thats what I thought.
Let me correct that for you:
Sorry Steve, I have never owned a mobile device so I have no idea what I'm talking about but I'm going to shout about common sense and other things like I have a clue.
And you've never used one, clearly. The only people who rant like this are the ones with no experience. Anyone with any experience in devices like this has far better reasons to like/dislike the i* devices. You're just an uninformed ranter without a clue. The fact that you think a netbook is better than an iPad tells me its highly unlikely you've used either, ever.
Show me one place where that is whats being advocated.
A bad analogy but ...
The problem is you don't see how much better that would actually make the world. Just like in computers, most people can't drive for shit, they don't give a flying fuck about paying enough attention to be safe and would much rather be doing something else during that time ... which they'll do anyway like rambling on the phone or texting.
The end result is a shitty experience for everyone. Those driving, those getting hit by shitty drivers, and those of us that do no how to drive but have to find our way around the ignorant fucks on their cell phones texting.
I hate to break it to you because you likely fall into this group since you can't recognize it, but most people don't have the mental capacity to drive OR operate a computer safely. Not letting them do so is far more intelligent than giving them the choice and killing people in the process.
Whats worse is that now people are doing both ... poorly, and deadly.
And none of you alerted the news media?
I'm guessing theres a hell of a lot more to these stories than you're giving us.
And you didn't call the media why?
Thats clearly not acceptable behavior from the police and you would be rather retarded for allowing them to get by with it.
You do realize you only have to wait a year to get the reduced rate, right? AT&T gives the discounted rate after 1 year of service on your contract.
I agree with everything but the lost sales part.
I broke the sapphire face of my iPhone last May. I've been waiting till now to buy a new one as I figured I'd just skip the 3GS generation and get whats next.
I've been waiting over a year already because ... just like car manufactures release new models every year, so does Apple.
The same thing happens with MacBooks. I waitted until the new models came out so I could get fresh hardware.
They are really predictable so the lost sales argument is just dumb.
Everyone thats going to wait already knows they are going to release a new model with new features and a new OS.
God you're an ignorant fuck.
So Apple doesn't have the right to have their property protected, but you do?
They don't get to have their property protected because people know a new one is coming?
Get a fucking grip moron.
They get the same protections you do, like it or not.
Don't get my wrong, you got ripped off.
FreeBSD based FreeNAS on cheap ass hardware owns it and requires about the same amount of setup. Its just slightly noisier but capable of about 10-20x the disk space.