Does anybody on Slashdot actually travel? Prices in general of most goods are _way_ cheaper in the US than in Europe or Japan (I haven't been to South Korea). US taxes are relatively low. Why do I care if a cell phone bill is a few hundred bucks a year more? And then people miss the point that cell infrastructure scales both with population and with physical area. Someone has to pay for that.
This is absolutely stupid. Why would I carry around the size and weight of a 120W charger if my laptop only needs a 50W charger? Power bricks scale with output power both due to the ratings of the components inside and thermal requirements.
There is a reason - cost. You can't have it both ways, where you want the price of the cheaper product, but the features of the more expensive one. I'm sure Dell could work around the patent, as most companies do, but it doesn't mean they want to pay for the connector.
Let's say one iPhone makes apple $300. And let's say that one song makes Apple 30 cents, with the rest going to the RIAA. Do you think a typical user buys 1000 songs or buys an iPhone?
It wouldn't be awesome because West Coast cities have 3rd rate public transit within the cities, and therefore do not offer any real value over flying. I wish people would stop worrying about high speed rail from San Francisco to Bakersfield and instead focus on fixing the crap that is BART, Caltrain, and Muni. That would have much more of a real impact given finite resources.
How much do you want to bet this guy has cable tv? At that point he's choosing between a shitty job and shitty TV. The problem is that people no longer are able to separate wants and needs.
You illustrated in your own post why this doesn't work. Companies leave, there is no job, and suddenly the people are worse off. You haven't been to China if you think you need $10000 as a living wage.
Please educate me then where the USB3 flash drive is more practical than eSATA, fibre channel, or iSCSI, and where it would add up to a significant amount of time. I guess if your job involves sneaker netting files all day.
If your time was worth so much, you wouldn't be using a USB3 flash drive in the first place, you'd be using a fibre channel SAN or something like that.
Are you kidding me? Thunderbolt is a 10Gbps PCI/E link. You could, in principle, have an Infiniband dongle connect to it. Or USB 3, if you really wanted. If anybody but Apple were pushing this, all the Slashdotters would be geeking out over things they could do like beowulf clusters with low latency/high bandwidth interconnect. But since Apple is pushing this (non-apple) technology, the haters dislike it.
Are people so idiotic to think malware could be removed with any assurance, or that Apple would want to warranty its removal? Once malware is installed, the machine, the drive needs to be wiped from a clean machine and restored from a backup prior to the installation of malware. I bet that that's all Apple would sign up to do too.
Think about what you would have if you used the standard SIM, a regular (full size) SD card slot (or, for that matter, Compact Flash), removable batteries in a AA form factor, a mini (not micro) USB connector, and you designed a phone. You would have Junk. Of course, the right solution is to do away with SIM itself, but the carriers are too scared of that.
No, Apple's policies are biased against middlemen, not content creators. This guy didn't really have a real idea, let alone a brilliant one, and therefore failed. Real developers seem to be doing just fine.
iPads read ePubs, and the iBookstore format is ePub. Nothing stops people from selling ePubs to users, including iPad users on the web (e.g., look at O'Reilly). This guy locked himself in because he didn't doesn't actually have a real business - he wants to be an alternate middleman where Apple carries all of his costs.
Everyone I know who makes more than a 100k is getting slaughtered on taxes (50+% with state tax). There's this myth that somehow the little guy is the one paying all the tax, but it's simply not true. Example: If you make 100k, you can't contribute to an IRA at all. Example: if you make 100k, student loan interest isn't deductible.
The solution is to eliminate all the deductions (including the abominable mortgage interest deduction, whereby renters subsidize homebuyers) and be done with it.
Or tax them based upon the amount of gas they use, since that actually determines the damage to the environment. Couldn't you just increase that if your goal is to raise revenue through taxes?
Exactly. We will never know how many people were figured out and executed or worse. Worse yet is the impact to our ability to gather human intelligence. People on Slashdot live in basements. The real world isn't all about free information. Secrets won World War II for the Allies.
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Does anybody on Slashdot actually travel? Prices in general of most goods are _way_ cheaper in the US than in Europe or Japan (I haven't been to South Korea). US taxes are relatively low. Why do I care if a cell phone bill is a few hundred bucks a year more?
And then people miss the point that cell infrastructure scales both with population and with physical area. Someone has to pay for that.
This is absolutely stupid. Why would I carry around the size and weight of a 120W charger if my laptop only needs a 50W charger? Power bricks scale with output power both due to the ratings of the components inside and thermal requirements.
There is a reason - cost. You can't have it both ways, where you want the price of the cheaper product, but the features of the more expensive one. I'm sure Dell could work around the patent, as most companies do, but it doesn't mean they want to pay for the connector.
That concept works in tension, but not in shear/bending.
Let's say one iPhone makes apple $300. And let's say that one song makes Apple 30 cents, with the rest going to the RIAA. Do you think a typical user buys 1000 songs or buys an iPhone?
I bet that would change as soon as trains were popular.
It wouldn't be awesome because West Coast cities have 3rd rate public transit within the cities, and therefore do not offer any real value over flying.
I wish people would stop worrying about high speed rail from San Francisco to Bakersfield and instead focus on fixing the crap that is BART, Caltrain, and Muni. That would have much more of a real impact given finite resources.
How much do you want to bet this guy has cable tv? At that point he's choosing between a shitty job and shitty TV.
The problem is that people no longer are able to separate wants and needs.
No netbook, or even full laptop, can do what this can on an iPad:
http://www.foreflight.com/ipad
The only sort of comparable devices are thousands of dollars.
You illustrated in your own post why this doesn't work. Companies leave, there is no job, and suddenly the people are worse off.
You haven't been to China if you think you need $10000 as a living wage.
I'm guessing you don't work with lawyers regularly. Lawyers and "swift" don't really go together.
Please educate me then where the USB3 flash drive is more practical than eSATA, fibre channel, or iSCSI, and where it would add up to a significant amount of time. I guess if your job involves sneaker netting files all day.
If your time was worth so much, you wouldn't be using a USB3 flash drive in the first place, you'd be using a fibre channel SAN or something like that.
And why, exactly, do you care if the link is optical or not?
Are you kidding me? Thunderbolt is a 10Gbps PCI/E link. You could, in principle, have an Infiniband dongle connect to it. Or USB 3, if you really wanted.
If anybody but Apple were pushing this, all the Slashdotters would be geeking out over things they could do like beowulf clusters with low latency/high bandwidth interconnect. But since Apple is pushing this (non-apple) technology, the haters dislike it.
Are people so idiotic to think malware could be removed with any assurance, or that Apple would want to warranty its removal?
Once malware is installed, the machine, the drive needs to be wiped from a clean machine and restored from a backup prior to the installation of malware. I bet that that's all Apple would sign up to do too.
Think about what you would have if you used the standard SIM, a regular (full size) SD card slot (or, for that matter, Compact Flash), removable batteries in a AA form factor, a mini (not micro) USB connector, and you designed a phone.
You would have Junk.
Of course, the right solution is to do away with SIM itself, but the carriers are too scared of that.
The problem is that they don't want a car in the first place - they're taking a leisurely stroll down the beach and a bicycle is better.
Then don't DRM the ePub. Everything (iPad included) can read DRM free ePub.
No, Apple's policies are biased against middlemen, not content creators. This guy didn't really have a real idea, let alone a brilliant one, and therefore failed.
Real developers seem to be doing just fine.
iPads read ePubs, and the iBookstore format is ePub. Nothing stops people from selling ePubs to users, including iPad users on the web (e.g., look at O'Reilly). This guy locked himself in because he didn't doesn't actually have a real business - he wants to be an alternate middleman where Apple carries all of his costs.
Everyone I know who makes more than a 100k is getting slaughtered on taxes (50+% with state tax). There's this myth that somehow the little guy is the one paying all the tax, but it's simply not true.
Example: If you make 100k, you can't contribute to an IRA at all.
Example: if you make 100k, student loan interest isn't deductible.
The solution is to eliminate all the deductions (including the abominable mortgage interest deduction, whereby renters subsidize homebuyers) and be done with it.
No, a gas tax is the least effort intensive way to raise revenue here. It's already, done, so you just raise it. Problem solved.
Or tax them based upon the amount of gas they use, since that actually determines the damage to the environment. Couldn't you just increase that if your goal is to raise revenue through taxes?
Exactly.
We will never know how many people were figured out and executed or worse. Worse yet is the impact to our ability to gather human intelligence.
People on Slashdot live in basements. The real world isn't all about free information. Secrets won World War II for the Allies.