>> This is what happens when you let a bunch of random self absorbed schmucks think what they are doing is actually important to the world.
All your arguments can easily be applied to xkcd community as well.
>> While I'll use wikipedia as a starting reference point but lets face it, if you use Wikipedia as any sort of authoritative reference, you're an idiot. I say this because every person I know that uses wikipedia as a reference is in fact an idiot.
Add to the list all the idiots who speak for everybody and state the very obvious every time they open the mouth.
It's very convenient to paint all of them with the same brush because that makes Apple look as bad as others, not more. While the fact is, this whole saga is started by apple and others had to get dragged into it.
Everybody was fine with each other until the jesus Jobs rolled in in his limo and started flinging shit on everybody.
Oh yes, one bad experience and everything else other than apple is bad. Classic!
What's wrong with age old simple USB mount drag and drop? But please go ahead and tell me how ipod is way better by requiring itunes and other shit that comes with it.
You know that H1B holders also mostly do have other ids (like state ids or driving license), right? But according to this law, it wont be sufficient for them.
I sure hope you are part of minority, because this law is nothing but a redneck reaction in disguise of a law.
And the award goes to..... mgblst.......... who has just proved none of the Linux distros, none of the Android phones or RIM phones has ever used a a battery. It seems only Apple products use batteries!
Or, in literature, a technique of indicating, as through character or plot development, an intention or attitude opposite to that which is actually or ostensibly stated. In other word, something like a contradiction. Which is probably how the GP used it.
>> Do you know how many Junior's we see that apply who have very questionable photos on their FaceBook pages that get pulled up by a simple Google search?
Were they showing anything illegal?
Can it be proven by looking at those pictures that the person was not capable of doing the work you wanted to hire him for?
Somebody's ability of performing a particular task has nothing to do with his inability to align to all the groupthinks.
Flamebait? This is the most sensible comment on this discussion! Gawker is Fox News of the gadget blogs. They thrive on nothing but popular opinion - see them sucking Ballmer's dick (like they do now with Jobs') if tomorrow the public opinion turns hugely favorable to Microsoft.
>> I'd be more scared of Apple, assuming this is just about money and not jail time. Also, of course, the relevant employees are all vulnerable to criminal charges. I would especially hate to see company turn a profit while the "little people" go to jail or go broke.
Well said. But I am loving this story for multiple dose of Irony. The biggest bunch of Apple fanbois out there (who defended Apple no matter what in all the lawsuits and other sill legal stuff the company has been pulling over others) got their panties in a bunch by none other than Apple.
Gizmodo are not your regular Apple fanbois - they have history of banning people from commenting anything anti-apple. They are the biggest hype machine out there - and for sole reason of pageviews. It would be greatly satisfying to see how (if at all) their apple coverage changes after this. They will have to literally sit down and decide if ass-pounding-jailtme-for-few-small-employees is worth the pageviews they are getting.
Why FB has to be a replacement of real social life interaction? Oh, you mean, the day you sign up for FB, you will physically be unable to engage in any real social behavior?
I am on FB - but that's just so that I don't have to remember who is married to whom and all that. In fact, if you want, you can engage in more real social life with help of FB or any similar sites. One example - It's common to see Flickr users to arrange meet-ups.
I do not have problem Apple bundling their OS with their hardware. I have problem with Apple preventing others from doing whatever they want with their _own_ hardware they have _purchased_ from Apple. There is a big difference, and I wonder how you fail to notice it.
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>> This is what happens when you let a bunch of random self absorbed schmucks think what they are doing is actually important to the world.
All your arguments can easily be applied to xkcd community as well.
>> While I'll use wikipedia as a starting reference point but lets face it, if you use Wikipedia as any sort of authoritative reference, you're an idiot. I say this because every person I know that uses wikipedia as a reference is in fact an idiot.
Add to the list all the idiots who speak for everybody and state the very obvious every time they open the mouth.
None of above has anything to do with mobile technology. You are high on apple kool-aid.
It's very convenient to paint all of them with the same brush because that makes Apple look as bad as others, not more. While the fact is, this whole saga is started by apple and others had to get dragged into it.
Everybody was fine with each other until the jesus Jobs rolled in in his limo and started flinging shit on everybody.
>> Considering that Apple has done this once already, I'd place money on them to do it again if they have to
Wait, what? Apple has already reinvented mobile technology? I think you need to a bit easy on that apple kool-aid.
Adobe/flash fanboys? When did that happen?
It's okay not to know something.
It's NOT okay to defend not knowing it because you are too lazy to spend a minute looking for it.
My bet is - not from the same Apple shop you are buying your yellow ones.
And of course, it is truth because Steve Wonderful Jobs says is so, right?
Oh yes, one bad experience and everything else other than apple is bad. Classic!
What's wrong with age old simple USB mount drag and drop? But please go ahead and tell me how ipod is way better by requiring itunes and other shit that comes with it.
And here comes Apple apologists. You know what, fuck you, fuck steve jobs and fuck my karma.
You know that H1B holders also mostly do have other ids (like state ids or driving license), right? But according to this law, it wont be sufficient for them.
I sure hope you are part of minority, because this law is nothing but a redneck reaction in disguise of a law.
And the award goes to..... mgblst.......... who has just proved none of the Linux distros, none of the Android phones or RIM phones has ever used a a battery. It seems only Apple products use batteries!
Please enlighten me my lord, because I have simply failed at that.
>> You can't easily upgrade an OS out from under itself.
WTF? Then OTA updates for Android and RIM must be some ground-breaking innovations!!
Or, in literature, a technique of indicating, as through character or plot development, an intention or attitude opposite to that which is actually or ostensibly stated. In other word, something like a contradiction. Which is probably how the GP used it.
>> Do you know how many Junior's we see that apply who have very questionable photos on their FaceBook pages that get pulled up by a simple Google search?
Were they showing anything illegal?
Can it be proven by looking at those pictures that the person was not capable of doing the work you wanted to hire him for?
Somebody's ability of performing a particular task has nothing to do with his inability to align to all the groupthinks.
>> Unless Bing starts behaving like Apple and delivering what I don't even know I want yet, I don't see it heading much anywhere.
WTF? No wonder apple users are called "sheeple".
Flamebait? This is the most sensible comment on this discussion! Gawker is Fox News of the gadget blogs. They thrive on nothing but popular opinion - see them sucking Ballmer's dick (like they do now with Jobs') if tomorrow the public opinion turns hugely favorable to Microsoft.
>> I'd be more scared of Apple, assuming this is just about money and not jail time. Also, of course, the relevant employees are all vulnerable to criminal charges. I would especially hate to see company turn a profit while the "little people" go to jail or go broke.
Well said. But I am loving this story for multiple dose of Irony. The biggest bunch of Apple fanbois out there (who defended Apple no matter what in all the lawsuits and other sill legal stuff the company has been pulling over others) got their panties in a bunch by none other than Apple.
Gizmodo are not your regular Apple fanbois - they have history of banning people from commenting anything anti-apple. They are the biggest hype machine out there - and for sole reason of pageviews. It would be greatly satisfying to see how (if at all) their apple coverage changes after this. They will have to literally sit down and decide if ass-pounding-jailtme-for-few-small-employees is worth the pageviews they are getting.
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Why FB has to be a replacement of real social life interaction? Oh, you mean, the day you sign up for FB, you will physically be unable to engage in any real social behavior?
I am on FB - but that's just so that I don't have to remember who is married to whom and all that. In fact, if you want, you can engage in more real social life with help of FB or any similar sites. One example - It's common to see Flickr users to arrange meet-ups.
It's not always A OR B.
I do not have problem Apple bundling their OS with their hardware. I have problem with Apple preventing others from doing whatever they want with their _own_ hardware they have _purchased_ from Apple. There is a big difference, and I wonder how you fail to notice it.
Wow. Some apple fanboi definitely is spending up all the mod points in serial-killing my posts! WIN!!
Just because MS is convicted of monopoly does not mean others are not anti-comparative, and by others, I mean Apple.
>>I'm getting tired of people constantly bringing up this argument. Listen carefully: MS is a monopoly. Apple isn't.
I am getting tired of people constantly bringing up this argument. Listen: Apple is anti-competitive, more than MS even with it's so called monopoly.