Doctor-patient confidentiality wouldn't prevent a doctor from taking action against libelous reviews - which are really the only kinds of negative reviews they should be concerned about. As said above, no one is likely to have a 100% approval rating, and the negative reviews are often more informative than the positive reviews - and non-credible negative reviews are generally easier to recognize.
If the reviews are demonstrably false and can cause harm to the doctor or his/her practice, then let it go to the courts. Otherwise, there's no need to even think about trying to regulate comments/reviews.
When you have willingly entered into a contract with a third party that agrees you will not say a thing, and you say it, and the third party brings a case against you in court. Then.
They're asking for a small percentage. At the moment. Depending on how much a given developer makes from an app, this could be a small amount, or it very well could be "THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS".
What if they decide to increase the percentage when they realize they're not making thousands from the majority of licensees? What if this makes other holders of dubious-at-best patents think that they're now entitled to a percentage of every developer's revenue too? It's a slippery slope for anyone - but especially an independent developer - to start down, and it's good to see such a strong response from Apple on their behalf.
B) Someone unethically copied my digital data. They didn't steal it, but I want you to prosecute them for... unethical copying!
Except they (the police/your local DA) wouldn't prosecute you for theft - and they might not even prosecute you at all, if it wasn't criminal copyright infringement. It's still copyright infringement though, a civil offense, so YOU could bring a case against them for that...but not theft.
Oh fuck. No wonder this is happening. He's "taken aback" because he's a douchenozzle with tenure. Oh yeah, and now IT has to deal not only with HIPAA but also FERPA data privacy regulations with the server he's kludged together without any care for security.
Just the kind of well-reasoned response that corporate America has come to expect from their local neckbeard in IT. And yet you guys still wonder why people try to end-run the system like this? Douchenozzle, indeed.*
*That said, this guy still shouldn't be plugging his own servers onto the network unsupervised.
There are just as many anti-Apple fanatics, if not more, than pro-Apple fanatics here. Just look at any article about anything Apple-related and the first 10-20 comments are usually something along the lines of "get ready for the fanboys to come running to Apple's defense." Except there's rarely this frothing-at-the-mouth blind loyalty that the comments predicted.
Sure, there are loudmouth jerks who shout to any and all that their preferred brand can do no wrong - but they're not exclusive to Apple. I'll leave it to others to explain why a faster processor or "better" specs don't necessarily translate into "better" products, for fear of being labeled a fanboy for it.
Because your attorney clearly and patiently explained the relevant facts to him while presenting your case?
Of course this is the real world and that isn't always how it works, but by and large judges and attorneys aren't the incompetent jackasses they're made out to be on Slashdot.
"Stupidly"? Wow. I wish I could run as stupid a business as Apple - then I could rest my stupid head on piles of money each night.
Speaking of stupid, you posted:
Why is this "wonky" reasoning? I exercise my "right" to whatever computer I want at whatever price I want all the time. It's called capitalism and open markets
That is most decidedly not how capitalism works. With capitalism, you can buy whatever computer you want, or you can buy a computer at whatever price you want (out of the range offered). You don't often get to choose both. About the only true statement you've made in this thread was that you have the right to not buy Apple products.
Kudos though - the way you replaced "Apple" with "Crapple" has made me sit down and really rethink my position on all of this.
It may go against the typical Slashdot mentality, but being closed hasn't hurt them at all since Steve's return. It seems as though the general public, and tech crowds in particular, have a hard time getting it when it comes to putting a finger on the thing(s) that make Apple successful. What you describe as unhealthy and unholy (talk about zealotry) have given Apple a reputation of excellence in user experience and now in consumer electronics. They're far from perfect, and yes they don't always offer checkbox-to-checkbox parity when it comes to features, but they're very good at figuring out the core functionality of a product or workflow and making it as easy and unobtrusive as possible - and users respond to that.
To say they're completely closed is not entirely true either - they do use, and contribute back to, open source projects. That they don't do it in exactly the way that a vocal percentage of posters here would want them to doesn't mean they're putting themselves in an unsuccessful position. If anything, Apple has demonstrated that they're willing and able to use whatever tools are most appropriate in delivering the kinds of products they want - and that a lot of other people want, too, judging by the sales numbers.
English is my first language, and unlike you I had no trouble parsing the sentence. There is a big difference in "calling on" someone to do something and "ordering" them.
Instead of (incorrectly) paraphrasing, I'll give you an actual cut-and-paste quote: "by developing a plan to require 50 hours of community service in middle school and high school and 100 hours of community service in college every year" (emphasis mine). The only requirement mentioned is directed at students, and it would seem - based on actually reading through the site instead of jumping to conclusions - that the plan is, at worst, partially voluntary, with the benefit of your community service earning you a $4,000 credit toward college tuition.
I'm not excusing them for anything, but you can hardly say they "owned' Congress the last 2 years. The Dems had the slimmest of majorities - and that's if you counted the independent who usually caucused with them - and they had a sitting president ready to veto anything they tried to push through that he didn't personally agree with.
That's fantastic. I wish I had heard this advice the day I ruptured my biceps and had to have surgery to have the muscle reattached. Pulling out a $15,000 wad of cash -- or even better, putting it all on a credit card -- would have been much more convenient than 10 -15 minutes of paperwork over the course of one year.
For your sake, I hope you're exceptionally wealthy and won't mind exorbitant hospital bills on the inevitable day you require some serious treatment. Most of us don't have that luxury.
I'm sure a lot of other people prefer smaller laptops too, and I'm not debating whether Apple should release a 12" Macbook Pro (personally, I'd like one myself). What I took issue with was your claim that 12" laptops are fine, but 15" ones are too big for studio work. That your friends have them and that you guarantee I'll see some on TV doesn't prove your statement.
I'm also "wondering how come" a mention of Quark on OS 9 has anything to do with this discussion...unless you're telling me that laptops running OS 9 are somehow the only ones small enough to fit comfortable inside a newspaper office?
If you're saying that studio space is at SUCH a premium that a difference of 2" on a laptop screen makes it too big, then I think these increasingly-hypothetical sound engineers of yours have bigger problems than the lack of a firewire port on new Macbooks.
The numbers say Firewire is better, but for my anecdotal $.02, a USB 2.0 external drive does just fine. I've got a 500BG drive holding my iTunes library connected by hi-speed USB2, and moving files over to it seems pretty snappy to me. Granted, I'm not using it for video production, but for the average household use I'd assume USB is acceptable.
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Doctor-patient confidentiality wouldn't prevent a doctor from taking action against libelous reviews - which are really the only kinds of negative reviews they should be concerned about. As said above, no one is likely to have a 100% approval rating, and the negative reviews are often more informative than the positive reviews - and non-credible negative reviews are generally easier to recognize. If the reviews are demonstrably false and can cause harm to the doctor or his/her practice, then let it go to the courts. Otherwise, there's no need to even think about trying to regulate comments/reviews.
When you have willingly entered into a contract with a third party that agrees you will not say a thing, and you say it, and the third party brings a case against you in court. Then.
They're asking for a small percentage. At the moment. Depending on how much a given developer makes from an app, this could be a small amount, or it very well could be "THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS".
What if they decide to increase the percentage when they realize they're not making thousands from the majority of licensees? What if this makes other holders of dubious-at-best patents think that they're now entitled to a percentage of every developer's revenue too? It's a slippery slope for anyone - but especially an independent developer - to start down, and it's good to see such a strong response from Apple on their behalf.
Except they (the police/your local DA) wouldn't prosecute you for theft - and they might not even prosecute you at all, if it wasn't criminal copyright infringement. It's still copyright infringement though, a civil offense, so YOU could bring a case against them for that...but not theft.
Get it?
Just the kind of well-reasoned response that corporate America has come to expect from their local neckbeard in IT. And yet you guys still wonder why people try to end-run the system like this? Douchenozzle, indeed.*
*That said, this guy still shouldn't be plugging his own servers onto the network unsupervised.
There are just as many anti-Apple fanatics, if not more, than pro-Apple fanatics here. Just look at any article about anything Apple-related and the first 10-20 comments are usually something along the lines of "get ready for the fanboys to come running to Apple's defense." Except there's rarely this frothing-at-the-mouth blind loyalty that the comments predicted.
Sure, there are loudmouth jerks who shout to any and all that their preferred brand can do no wrong - but they're not exclusive to Apple. I'll leave it to others to explain why a faster processor or "better" specs don't necessarily translate into "better" products, for fear of being labeled a fanboy for it.
So your alternative to locking him up at taxpayer expense is to hire round-the-clock surveillance at taxpayer expense?
Because your attorney clearly and patiently explained the relevant facts to him while presenting your case?
Of course this is the real world and that isn't always how it works, but by and large judges and attorneys aren't the incompetent jackasses they're made out to be on Slashdot.
The part of my dictionary with the definition of the verb "loose" disagrees with you.
"Stupidly"? Wow. I wish I could run as stupid a business as Apple - then I could rest my stupid head on piles of money each night.
Speaking of stupid, you posted:
That is most decidedly not how capitalism works. With capitalism, you can buy whatever computer you want, or you can buy a computer at whatever price you want (out of the range offered). You don't often get to choose both. About the only true statement you've made in this thread was that you have the right to not buy Apple products.
Kudos though - the way you replaced "Apple" with "Crapple" has made me sit down and really rethink my position on all of this.
For the average computer user, that is crazy.
It may go against the typical Slashdot mentality, but being closed hasn't hurt them at all since Steve's return. It seems as though the general public, and tech crowds in particular, have a hard time getting it when it comes to putting a finger on the thing(s) that make Apple successful. What you describe as unhealthy and unholy (talk about zealotry) have given Apple a reputation of excellence in user experience and now in consumer electronics. They're far from perfect, and yes they don't always offer checkbox-to-checkbox parity when it comes to features, but they're very good at figuring out the core functionality of a product or workflow and making it as easy and unobtrusive as possible - and users respond to that.
To say they're completely closed is not entirely true either - they do use, and contribute back to, open source projects. That they don't do it in exactly the way that a vocal percentage of posters here would want them to doesn't mean they're putting themselves in an unsuccessful position. If anything, Apple has demonstrated that they're willing and able to use whatever tools are most appropriate in delivering the kinds of products they want - and that a lot of other people want, too, judging by the sales numbers.
But...but...$5 billion or not, they were beleaguered! I read it several times on the internet, so it must be true.
The button labeled "change" next to "iTunes Music folder location" in the preferences nearly had you stumped??
And they did so without leaving any traces of any technology, primitive or advanced, on the entire planet - god, I hated that episode.
It's pretty clear that it won't require me to do community service, since I'm neither in high school or college...as it says RIGHT there.
English is my first language, and unlike you I had no trouble parsing the sentence. There is a big difference in "calling on" someone to do something and "ordering" them.
Instead of (incorrectly) paraphrasing, I'll give you an actual cut-and-paste quote: "by developing a plan to require 50 hours of community service in middle school and high school and 100 hours of community service in college every year" (emphasis mine). The only requirement mentioned is directed at students, and it would seem - based on actually reading through the site instead of jumping to conclusions - that the plan is, at worst, partially voluntary, with the benefit of your community service earning you a $4,000 credit toward college tuition.
Yes, participation in the plan requires 50 hours. Where does it say that participation in the plan is mandatory?
I'm not excusing them for anything, but you can hardly say they "owned' Congress the last 2 years. The Dems had the slimmest of majorities - and that's if you counted the independent who usually caucused with them - and they had a sitting president ready to veto anything they tried to push through that he didn't personally agree with.
I wouldn't call 220 more electoral votes and almost 10% higher popular vote in '96 a "photo finish."
That's fantastic. I wish I had heard this advice the day I ruptured my biceps and had to have surgery to have the muscle reattached. Pulling out a $15,000 wad of cash -- or even better, putting it all on a credit card -- would have been much more convenient than 10 -15 minutes of paperwork over the course of one year.
For your sake, I hope you're exceptionally wealthy and won't mind exorbitant hospital bills on the inevitable day you require some serious treatment. Most of us don't have that luxury.
I'm sure a lot of other people prefer smaller laptops too, and I'm not debating whether Apple should release a 12" Macbook Pro (personally, I'd like one myself). What I took issue with was your claim that 12" laptops are fine, but 15" ones are too big for studio work. That your friends have them and that you guarantee I'll see some on TV doesn't prove your statement.
I'm also "wondering how come" a mention of Quark on OS 9 has anything to do with this discussion...unless you're telling me that laptops running OS 9 are somehow the only ones small enough to fit comfortable inside a newspaper office?
If you're saying that studio space is at SUCH a premium that a difference of 2" on a laptop screen makes it too big, then I think these increasingly-hypothetical sound engineers of yours have bigger problems than the lack of a firewire port on new Macbooks.
The numbers say Firewire is better, but for my anecdotal $.02, a USB 2.0 external drive does just fine. I've got a 500BG drive holding my iTunes library connected by hi-speed USB2, and moving files over to it seems pretty snappy to me. Granted, I'm not using it for video production, but for the average household use I'd assume USB is acceptable.
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