"Denying press credentials to any legitimate news organization, which is Gizmodo sure as hell is..." Yeah, and so is Faux News.... Gizmodo a legitimate news organization. Ha!
There have been off shore transaction processors for years. No really 'new opportunities' in this, but I'm sure more people in the US will use them than do now.
Read the way the law is written (at present) closely - If you send the IRS a 1099-K or 1099-misc, you also have to send a copy to the company or person. It's that way with 1099-misc now. You have to send the IRS the original and the person/company a copy. I've sent out a lot of 1099's over the years and it is definitely a requirement that both get a copy.
Mama always told me "Don't sit so close to the TV. It'll ruin your eyes." Since the 1980's I've sat in front of a computer monitor for hours on end (I even have my 'monitor glasses' fixed at 1.5 to 2.5 feet).;)
As an aside: If they do not try to take / get data, we lose in that future events will have no information to help. Any time someone says that getting data is useless, they're too stupid to be involved in any way. Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen was/is wrong to say something as stupid as "...it would be a waste of time and resources trying to figure out a number...". It may not help now, but it may in the future. To think that this will never happen again is silly. Data will also prove useful in modeling in the future.
It's pointless in all objective respects to YOU. Using your logic: An iPhone is pointless to me (using your logic). All I need is a simple cell phone for phone calls. My cell phone doesn't even do text messaging. And I have no desire to surf the web (or do work or anything else) on a cell phone. An iPod is pointless to me (using your logic). I'm not interested in a portable music device. A netbook is pointless to me. I don't want something that small and cheap. I have a nice Compaq/HP 15" laptop that I use for testing and travel. I mainly use a 24" iMac on my desk, flanked by a PC laptop on my left and a MacBook on my right and a cheapo tower PC on the desk behind me. But - in my view (using my logic), even though I have no use for an iPhone (for example) personally I can see the point of an iPhone and why people like them. And you call it a computer. Technically it is (it contains computer chips, but so does my car and I don't complain about my car not being able to run linux or MS Office, or use vi or whatever), but I think a better term for it is it is an appliance, just like an xbox or wii. And it's not a tablet, either. It's not meant to be a tablet. You compare apples and oranges and won't be happy until that apple is more like an orange. You make pointless comparisons of the iPad to things that have nothing to do with the intended functions/purpose and intended market niche of the iPad.
I agree, but then again... If sales of the iPad continue as they are, it appears to be filling a very big niche. Techies are a relatively small niche. Apple wants to sell to a large niche so they designed for the large niche, not the small techie niche. Larger target niche, more sales, and, as we all know.... = PROFIT!
SNIP --> it's just engineered to be something pointless. The term I'd use is "white elephant": it's unique, expensive, and disappointing once the novelty wears off.
All you can really say is that it is pointless to you alone. You can't speak for other people (even though you apparently think you can/do). You are a very small % of the total population. I don't have an iPad, I don't have a need for one and I have no plans to buy one, but I can easily see their point and their market target.
You're right. I agree 100%. Apple *will* make a metric a**load more money selling to novices than advanced users because there are so many more novices. So many people bash Apple for not being big in the corporate world. From the iPod to the iPhone (and so far it looks like the iPad is a hit) it's one success after another because Apple is aiming for the consumer market which is much bigger than the corporate market, and Apple is giving the consumers what they want, and what they can easily use.
Why, oh why, are you comparing an iPad to a netbook? It's not a netbook and it's not meant to be. If you need what a netbook offers, buy a netbook. I don't have a need for, or want, either myself. As to flash, I use flashblock and *love* it. If I did have a need for an iPad, that flashblock is 'built in' (ahem) would be a plus for me.
You are essentially complaining about a device which clearly isn't suitable for your intended use. My advice: Don't buy one. BTW - I use Firefox with flashblock for a reason. If a web page needs flash to work, I don't go back. And please, don't start on about all the 'great' flash games or how you can't play the Farm game on Facebook without Flash or something... Personally I don't have any use for an iPad. It doesn't do what I need a computer for. The iPad is not suitable for my intended use, so I have no plans to buy one. I don't have any use for a netbook either. Netbooks, as well, are not suitable for my intended use and I have no need or desire to buy a netbook. But - You won't find me here bitching about all the inadequacies of netbooks.
I still anxiously look forward to a time when no generation is left alive that grew up without a computer in the home.
Why do you want us old people to be dead soon? You *must* be young. I'm 60. I grew up when there was no such thing as a personal computer. Heck a family was lucky if it had a typewriter. I cut my teeth programming with punch cards. You kids have it *so* easy today that you have absolutely no idea. And for you to say you: "...anxiously look forward to a time when no generation is left alive that grew up without a computer in the home..." is pretty silly. Are us old people holding back the world? My son, you'll be old one day if you're lucky. I suggest that you start preparing.
It's not a a radically different philosophy. Kids who are interested in computers will get one (or more) that they can do what they want to with. If they're not interested in computers it won't matter. Some kids learn to play guitar and have no use for computers, for example. Heck, I'm 60 and learned programming back in the punch card days. I was into ham radio as a kid so computers (when they came along) were (and are still) neat to me. One brother hated electronics (he's a dentist and still hates electronics and he hates computers). None of the 5 of us were particularly bored when we were kids and there wasn't such a thing as a personal computer. The fact that an iPad is not a full fledged computer (I personally have no use for one) has nothing to do with childhood development and personalities. Don't get me wrong. When my daughter was 2 years old in 1990 I bought her a PC (I had a Mac but her mother wanted me to get a PC, since she used one at work, so they could both use it). I wanted my daughter to have that advantage. I bought games for her to play, spelling games and stuff like that. At the same time, back in those days you bought the base computer. If you wanted more than a beep you had to buy a sound card. The sound card would work with some software, but not with other software. I won't go on about the 'PC Hell' (and expense), but she's now 21 and can use just about any computer, but she doesn't particularly like them. She was never interested in programming, and I didn't push her into it. She did have her Tae kwon do blue belt or brown belt (I forget which off hand) at age 8 (she started at age 4 but then at age 8 she decided that wasn't fun anymore, quit and took up learning to play the violin). She's 21 now and finishing up college on a baseball scholarship. Each of us chooses our own path and an iPad just isn't an issue.
You, too are simply a sheep in a flock. You're just on the other side of the fence from the Apple lovers. Yes, *you* think everyone is stupid but you. Now - Where have I heard *that* before? Got any Apple stock? I didn't think so.
Gizmodo knew exactly what they were doing. They were revealing trade secrets. For a tech site like Gizmodo to even begin to claim they didn't know they were revealing proprietary information doesn't pass the laugh test.
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Cincinnati Bell's Fuse serves northern KY as well, so you don't really know which state it is in.
Golly, Apple is the only company out there that has pushed an update "...in secret...", so let's bash Apple. Tee hee heee!
Specifically, what Mac infections have you found and had to reformat the drive to remove?
"Denying press credentials to any legitimate news organization, which is Gizmodo sure as hell is..." Yeah, and so is Faux News.... Gizmodo a legitimate news organization. Ha!
There have been off shore transaction processors for years. No really 'new opportunities' in this, but I'm sure more people in the US will use them than do now.
Read the way the law is written (at present) closely - If you send the IRS a 1099-K or 1099-misc, you also have to send a copy to the company or person. It's that way with 1099-misc now. You have to send the IRS the original and the person/company a copy. I've sent out a lot of 1099's over the years and it is definitely a requirement that both get a copy.
Mama always told me "Don't sit so close to the TV. It'll ruin your eyes." Since the 1980's I've sat in front of a computer monitor for hours on end (I even have my 'monitor glasses' fixed at 1.5 to 2.5 feet). ;)
I never knew that many people still read Wired... ;)
As an aside: If they do not try to take / get data, we lose in that future events will have no information to help. Any time someone says that getting data is useless, they're too stupid to be involved in any way. Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen was/is wrong to say something as stupid as "...it would be a waste of time and resources trying to figure out a number...". It may not help now, but it may in the future. To think that this will never happen again is silly. Data will also prove useful in modeling in the future.
Yes.
Not to mention, a big market segment could care less about flash. I use flashblock in Firefox for a reason.
Ah, yes. Time will tell. Apple has had, and, like *every* company, will have in the future, products that fail.
It's pointless in all objective respects to YOU. Using your logic: An iPhone is pointless to me (using your logic). All I need is a simple cell phone for phone calls. My cell phone doesn't even do text messaging. And I have no desire to surf the web (or do work or anything else) on a cell phone. An iPod is pointless to me (using your logic). I'm not interested in a portable music device. A netbook is pointless to me. I don't want something that small and cheap. I have a nice Compaq/HP 15" laptop that I use for testing and travel. I mainly use a 24" iMac on my desk, flanked by a PC laptop on my left and a MacBook on my right and a cheapo tower PC on the desk behind me. But - in my view (using my logic), even though I have no use for an iPhone (for example) personally I can see the point of an iPhone and why people like them. And you call it a computer. Technically it is (it contains computer chips, but so does my car and I don't complain about my car not being able to run linux or MS Office, or use vi or whatever), but I think a better term for it is it is an appliance, just like an xbox or wii. And it's not a tablet, either. It's not meant to be a tablet. You compare apples and oranges and won't be happy until that apple is more like an orange. You make pointless comparisons of the iPad to things that have nothing to do with the intended functions/purpose and intended market niche of the iPad.
I agree, but then again... If sales of the iPad continue as they are, it appears to be filling a very big niche. Techies are a relatively small niche. Apple wants to sell to a large niche so they designed for the large niche, not the small techie niche. Larger target niche, more sales, and, as we all know .... = PROFIT!
SNIP --> it's just engineered to be something pointless. The term I'd use is "white elephant": it's unique, expensive, and disappointing once the novelty wears off.
All you can really say is that it is pointless to you alone. You can't speak for other people (even though you apparently think you can/do). You are a very small % of the total population. I don't have an iPad, I don't have a need for one and I have no plans to buy one, but I can easily see their point and their market target.
Get pants and shirts with bigger pockets.... ;)
You're right. I agree 100%. Apple *will* make a metric a**load more money selling to novices than advanced users because there are so many more novices. So many people bash Apple for not being big in the corporate world. From the iPod to the iPhone (and so far it looks like the iPad is a hit) it's one success after another because Apple is aiming for the consumer market which is much bigger than the corporate market, and Apple is giving the consumers what they want, and what they can easily use.
Why, oh why, are you comparing an iPad to a netbook? It's not a netbook and it's not meant to be. If you need what a netbook offers, buy a netbook. I don't have a need for, or want, either myself. As to flash, I use flashblock and *love* it. If I did have a need for an iPad, that flashblock is 'built in' (ahem) would be a plus for me.
You are essentially complaining about a device which clearly isn't suitable for your intended use. My advice: Don't buy one. BTW - I use Firefox with flashblock for a reason. If a web page needs flash to work, I don't go back. And please, don't start on about all the 'great' flash games or how you can't play the Farm game on Facebook without Flash or something... Personally I don't have any use for an iPad. It doesn't do what I need a computer for. The iPad is not suitable for my intended use, so I have no plans to buy one. I don't have any use for a netbook either. Netbooks, as well, are not suitable for my intended use and I have no need or desire to buy a netbook. But - You won't find me here bitching about all the inadequacies of netbooks.
I still anxiously look forward to a time when no generation is left alive that grew up without a computer in the home.
Why do you want us old people to be dead soon? You *must* be young. I'm 60. I grew up when there was no such thing as a personal computer. Heck a family was lucky if it had a typewriter. I cut my teeth programming with punch cards. You kids have it *so* easy today that you have absolutely no idea. And for you to say you: "...anxiously look forward to a time when no generation is left alive that grew up without a computer in the home..." is pretty silly. Are us old people holding back the world? My son, you'll be old one day if you're lucky. I suggest that you start preparing.
I don't have mod points today, but if I did I'd mod you up. You are right on.
It's not a a radically different philosophy. Kids who are interested in computers will get one (or more) that they can do what they want to with. If they're not interested in computers it won't matter. Some kids learn to play guitar and have no use for computers, for example. Heck, I'm 60 and learned programming back in the punch card days. I was into ham radio as a kid so computers (when they came along) were (and are still) neat to me. One brother hated electronics (he's a dentist and still hates electronics and he hates computers). None of the 5 of us were particularly bored when we were kids and there wasn't such a thing as a personal computer. The fact that an iPad is not a full fledged computer (I personally have no use for one) has nothing to do with childhood development and personalities. Don't get me wrong. When my daughter was 2 years old in 1990 I bought her a PC (I had a Mac but her mother wanted me to get a PC, since she used one at work, so they could both use it). I wanted my daughter to have that advantage. I bought games for her to play, spelling games and stuff like that. At the same time, back in those days you bought the base computer. If you wanted more than a beep you had to buy a sound card. The sound card would work with some software, but not with other software. I won't go on about the 'PC Hell' (and expense), but she's now 21 and can use just about any computer, but she doesn't particularly like them. She was never interested in programming, and I didn't push her into it. She did have her Tae kwon do blue belt or brown belt (I forget which off hand) at age 8 (she started at age 4 but then at age 8 she decided that wasn't fun anymore, quit and took up learning to play the violin). She's 21 now and finishing up college on a baseball scholarship. Each of us chooses our own path and an iPad just isn't an issue.
You, too are simply a sheep in a flock. You're just on the other side of the fence from the Apple lovers. Yes, *you* think everyone is stupid but you. Now - Where have I heard *that* before? Got any Apple stock? I didn't think so.
"Police Sieze PCs of Editor Who Posted iPhone Prototype Story" Spell-check, anyone?
You must be new here... ;)
Gizmodo knew exactly what they were doing. They were revealing trade secrets. For a tech site like Gizmodo to even begin to claim they didn't know they were revealing proprietary information doesn't pass the laugh test.