The iPhone is the coolest and best designed closed-off brick of the year. Nay, the decade.
Such a great device with so much potential, it's just a shame. And I really don't even blame Apple. It's this country's telecomm industry that's broken.
As late as the 1980's some asshole decided to prove that King did not deserve his PhD
Seems to me that the issue is sufficiently documented. Why exactly do you use the term "assholes" in this context? Because they dared question something?
I don't think it makes a difference either way. MLK would have been the same person whether he plagiarized his thesis work or not. But at least there was an "asshole" who bothered to find out the truth, uncomfortable as it might be. I don't see that as being a "smear campaign" as you seem to imply.
Conversely, Microsoft disallows you to use terms like Linux anywhere in your XBox Live profile
*sniff*, I do love the smell of a good meme in the morning. I guess all that FUD is working!
Ask Steve Jobs off the record about Bill Gates some time.
You mean the guy that sued his clone makers out of existence, won't let me run the OS I bought on any hardware I want and won't let me buy an iPod with legal tender cash so he can fight the evil people who are trying to let me use *my* $400 device as I see fit? Yeah, I'm sure he'll tell me how Bill Gates will do anything for money.
I swore to myself that I'd never use Netflix because of the fact that they invented the pop-under along with the assholes at X10. This is bad news. But I still think they're better than NF, even with the 5-exchange limit... namely because Netflix gives me exactly zero in-store exchanges for the same online subscription price.
Their website sucks (while Netflix's is fantastic), but they still have a larger catalog. I've never had any throttling problems at all. I hope they don't go under. I have something like 600 movies in my queue and no way in hell to pull it out without some nasty screen scraping...
While appreciate that there's a judge that won't hold a website like WP that relies on third-party contributions, I find it ironic that Angela Beesley has been trying to delete her own biographic entry six times in the last two and a half years:
There are other examples of this throughout WP. Jim Wales' personal intervention to ensure that his bio did not use the term "pornography" when describing what Bomis was is one. I hope to heck that WP never allows the "higher ups" to trump the system, especially if they are being dragged to court for upholding their right to publish information about other people.
The irony of your funny moderation just kills me, considering you were absolutely serious when you wrote this. Especially the part about "smooth and lossless".
I don't know anybody who purchased a Mac because he or she thought it was somehow immune to all forms of malware.
That's interesting, because that's exactly how Steve is selling his warez. I take it you haven't seen the onbnoxious "Hi I'm a Mac" ads where the "PC" is nervous because he thinks he's "infected with something" while the Mac smiles smugly? I bet that smile won't be so radiant in a few more years.
The only thing increased by Windows is the rage of stuff you need to buy.
Hyperbole much? I purchase software whenever I see a value-to-cost-to-time ratio that makes sense. I think "bits in a box" are perfectly OK if they provide a valid service. For example, I bought a simple $14.50 shareware sync app instead of spending eight hours trying to figure out how Unison works. This is called choice.
Can I accomplish the same things with Unison? I'm sure I could. Do I want to climb the learning curve just to sync a couple of folders to my USB flash drive every couple of days? Nope. I paid $15 instead. Oh noes, my human rights are being violated. I don't know how that furthers "M$ domination", but whatever. You are clearly out of touch with how and why people use computers.
BTW, that "quality applications that are cost free and easily modified to suit any particular purpose" comes across as bogus and sponsored, and it makes you sound like Microsoft marketing. That's irony for you.
I'd suggest he bash Microsoft more next time. Nothing gets the moderation juices flowing like combining fascism and Microsoft in the same post. Paragraph, even. OMG. PONIES.
Well, it seems to work for a lot of people. You didn't actually expect we could have an intelligent discussion about a relevant topic here, eh?
Hi twitter. Couldn't post more than two times in your own journal so you had to fall back on the old sockpuppet, eh? Isn't it amazing that you're already at negative karma yet you keep getting modded down?. I didn't think that was even possible.
Your little rants are amusing, as always. I guess there's nothing else for someone like you to do but to just go down babbling about how it's all a big pack of lies and offer up some more salacious dogma, spin and FUD for popular consumption.
Apple has greater marketshare than Vista.
ROFL! I'm sure you were just about to post a source for that. I'd love to see it.
I'm sorry, but no one at any company I've worked at ever got "overjoyed", downloaded Open Office and proceeded to install it in a corporate XP or Vista image on which they usually don't even have administrative rights. Your "real" jobs must have been at mom and pop shops with no control over what software goes into their machines. I bet that's loads of fun.
stapler management and paperclip accounting
That's cute. Never worked with one of those, but I'm sure you have.
The problem for "you" is that Microsoft is the one who has 400 million or so installs of the dominant de facto office suite in the planet. "You" can either try to get them to play nice with you by applying pressure intelligently, or you can organize an exciting jihad to stick it to them. In a make-believe world where companies choose technology based on, well, technical merits and openness, the second approach will usually work. In the real world though, the former option would have been a better idea. But when you have well-paid shills like Rob Weir (courtesy of IBM) and his co-religionists who rarely take a break from hating Microsoft (except for lame attempts at making fun of Microsoft) it's difficult to get away from the join-us-or-die approach. It just feels so right, I guess.
I'm going OT here but seriously, Weir is just the cat's meow. Every single time Microsoft has challenged his hyperbolic rants and outright lies he's essentially ignored them or just penned some more. He thinks the OpenDocument Foundation is an irrelevant fly-by-night fanboy club (which I guess is possible), but he has no problem quoting obscure African groups and his groupie bloggers to prop up his "Microsoft is evil and Office sucks and remember, IBM had nothing to do with this post" arguments. If the man spent 1/10th as much time writing some code or documentation as he does bitching about the Office toolbar buttons, ODF would have conquered the world by now.
With people like that at the helm it's not difficult to see why a document format controlled by a single company and an elite group of testy technorati has gotten to where it is now. Not that I think OOXML is a particularly good idea, but at least there's someone out there with the balls to point out that the emperor is buck naked. I guess they better get ready for the DoS attacks, hate mail and death threats.
but it's not me it's the news you M$ Fanboys don't like to hear.
No, it's actually you. There are a lot of people that have the same views of Microsoft as you do here, yet you're the one with the negative karma. Your sockpuppet account keeps getting upmodded for posting the same useless invective. The difference there is that people haven't wised up to the fact that it's the same person. Thus, you are being modded down, not your opinions. But I guess you're just too stupid to realize that. It's so much more convenient to hilariously blame Microsoft.
This time, it's a 9% drop in Vista sales.
A drop in a number that according to you should not even exist to begin with, at least according to your funny "failure log". I wonder what's wrong?
Got something useful to say about that?
Microsoft sold 28 million licenses of Windows Vista last month. Their stock is up 10% and they're beating all Street expectations. Do you have something useful to say about that? I reckon not.
The system is broken. Under the current wireless carrier model, it would be the same under any carrier, at least in the US. Complain to the government. Calling it "greed" is stupid. Buy a $100 unlocked phone from LG and get a SIM card from T-Mobile or whatever. It's not like you ceased to have choices when Apple got into the market.
If the producer is making significant profits, it's not the correct price.
Wrong. You know why? Because this is not bread, or baby formula or bottled water or heating oil. It's a fucking gadget. People obviously didn't have a problem with the price when they whipped out their credit cards by the hundreds of thousands and lapped these things up like candy because they wanted to be "hip". It's a cell phone. What's the difference if you suddenly figure out that Apple has a 75% markup on the thing? Or 400%? You obviously don't care, since you already agreed the price was fair by purchasing one.
If Steve Jobs' core talent consisted on taking a crap and putting it in an off-white plastic case with shiny lights and selling it for $2,500 a pop, who are you to complain? On the contrary, more power to him and the chumps who get bilked because they want to be fashionable.
Apple is taking advantage of a system that's broken, but they didn't break it to begin with. I suggest you contact your congressman and senator and tell them to pry open the wireless spectrum and open up the market like they did with the previous land line monopoly.
I'm not a big fan of Apple or their products, and I would never boy an iPhone. But if someone wants to push out a phone into the broken US wireless market, they have no choice but to do it the way they did it. Steve Jobs is not the culprit here, it's the government. With a fair playing field this "outrageous" situation of a company making "too much money" wouldn't exist in the first place.
Instead of modding down this obvious AC flamebait from twitter (don't waste points on ACs), or his main account (which is already at negative karma), instead just mod down posts he makes with his sockpuppetaccount. That way you'll stop him from trolling and gaming Slashdot.
The math is not wrong. Apple gets $831 from each iPhone. That doesn't mean it profits $831
Then perhaps the obvious flamebait headline should have been crafted to reflect that simple fact. But in the age of one-liner evangelism, Apple Makes $831 Revenue (Though Not Really Profit, Mind You) On Each AT&T Phone Although That's Pretty Much Irrelevant To Everything, We're Just In It For the AdSense Revenue just doesn't work.
I'm having trouble trying to understand the mindset of people who think $831 or $8,311 represents "greed". If the market will bear it, that's the correct price. Otherwise Apple would have sold 1,000 iPhones instead of 100,000 or however many they've shipped so far.
That's not fair. The difference between twitter and a Jehova's witness is that one of them is a fanatic that tries to get you to switch to their religion by any means necessary, including trying to scare you with everlasting damnation if you don't.
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Such a great device with so much potential, it's just a shame. And I really don't even blame Apple. It's this country's telecomm industry that's broken.
Thanks for the rec, I'll check them out.
Seems to me that the issue is sufficiently documented. Why exactly do you use the term "assholes" in this context? Because they dared question something?
I don't think it makes a difference either way. MLK would have been the same person whether he plagiarized his thesis work or not. But at least there was an "asshole" who bothered to find out the truth, uncomfortable as it might be. I don't see that as being a "smear campaign" as you seem to imply.
Ah-HAH! So that's why Microsoft had it's best Q1 in eight years and the stock is up 10%. It all makes sense now.
Let me guess - you get your news about Microsoft from Slashdot?
Where were you in the early days of the pop-under craze? You couldn't open a friggin' web page without having a window open with a Netflix or X10 ad.
*sniff*, I do love the smell of a good meme in the morning. I guess all that FUD is working!
You mean the guy that sued his clone makers out of existence, won't let me run the OS I bought on any hardware I want and won't let me buy an iPod with legal tender cash so he can fight the evil people who are trying to let me use *my* $400 device as I see fit? Yeah, I'm sure he'll tell me how Bill Gates will do anything for money.
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Their website sucks (while Netflix's is fantastic), but they still have a larger catalog. I've never had any throttling problems at all. I hope they don't go under. I have something like 600 movies in my queue and no way in hell to pull it out without some nasty screen scraping...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/Angela_Beesley
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Angela_Beesley_(2nd_nomination)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Angela_Beesley_(3rd_nomination)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Angela_Beesley_(4th_nomination)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Angela_Beesley_(5th_nomination)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Angela_Beesley_(6th_nomination)
There are other examples of this throughout WP. Jim Wales' personal intervention to ensure that his bio did not use the term "pornography" when describing what Bomis was is one. I hope to heck that WP never allows the "higher ups" to trump the system, especially if they are being dragged to court for upholding their right to publish information about other people.
The irony of your funny moderation just kills me, considering you were absolutely serious when you wrote this. Especially the part about "smooth and lossless".
Judging from the amount of money I make per year and how much I love to do what I do, I'd say that's a big no.
That's interesting, because that's exactly how Steve is selling his warez. I take it you haven't seen the onbnoxious "Hi I'm a Mac" ads where the "PC" is nervous because he thinks he's "infected with something" while the Mac smiles smugly? I bet that smile won't be so radiant in a few more years.
Hyperbole much? I purchase software whenever I see a value-to-cost-to-time ratio that makes sense. I think "bits in a box" are perfectly OK if they provide a valid service. For example, I bought a simple $14.50 shareware sync app instead of spending eight hours trying to figure out how Unison works. This is called choice.
Can I accomplish the same things with Unison? I'm sure I could. Do I want to climb the learning curve just to sync a couple of folders to my USB flash drive every couple of days? Nope. I paid $15 instead. Oh noes, my human rights are being violated. I don't know how that furthers "M$ domination", but whatever. You are clearly out of touch with how and why people use computers.
BTW, that "quality applications that are cost free and easily modified to suit any particular purpose" comes across as bogus and sponsored, and it makes you sound like Microsoft marketing. That's irony for you.
Well, it seems to work for a lot of people. You didn't actually expect we could have an intelligent discussion about a relevant topic here, eh?
Your little rants are amusing, as always. I guess there's nothing else for someone like you to do but to just go down babbling about how it's all a big pack of lies and offer up some more salacious dogma, spin and FUD for popular consumption.
ROFL! I'm sure you were just about to post a source for that. I'd love to see it.
That's cute. Never worked with one of those, but I'm sure you have.
No offense, but you've clearly never had a real job at a real company. Your views are commendable, but flawed.
I'm going OT here but seriously, Weir is just the cat's meow. Every single time Microsoft has challenged his hyperbolic rants and outright lies he's essentially ignored them or just penned some more. He thinks the OpenDocument Foundation is an irrelevant fly-by-night fanboy club (which I guess is possible), but he has no problem quoting obscure African groups and his groupie bloggers to prop up his "Microsoft is evil and Office sucks and remember, IBM had nothing to do with this post" arguments. If the man spent 1/10th as much time writing some code or documentation as he does bitching about the Office toolbar buttons, ODF would have conquered the world by now.
With people like that at the helm it's not difficult to see why a document format controlled by a single company and an elite group of testy technorati has gotten to where it is now. Not that I think OOXML is a particularly good idea, but at least there's someone out there with the balls to point out that the emperor is buck naked. I guess they better get ready for the DoS attacks, hate mail and death threats.
No, it's actually you. There are a lot of people that have the same views of Microsoft as you do here, yet you're the one with the negative karma. Your sockpuppet account keeps getting upmodded for posting the same useless invective. The difference there is that people haven't wised up to the fact that it's the same person. Thus, you are being modded down, not your opinions. But I guess you're just too stupid to realize that. It's so much more convenient to hilariously blame Microsoft.
A drop in a number that according to you should not even exist to begin with, at least according to your funny "failure log". I wonder what's wrong?
Microsoft sold 28 million licenses of Windows Vista last month. Their stock is up 10% and they're beating all Street expectations. Do you have something useful to say about that? I reckon not.
The system is broken. Under the current wireless carrier model, it would be the same under any carrier, at least in the US. Complain to the government. Calling it "greed" is stupid. Buy a $100 unlocked phone from LG and get a SIM card from T-Mobile or whatever. It's not like you ceased to have choices when Apple got into the market.
Wrong. You know why? Because this is not bread, or baby formula or bottled water or heating oil. It's a fucking gadget. People obviously didn't have a problem with the price when they whipped out their credit cards by the hundreds of thousands and lapped these things up like candy because they wanted to be "hip". It's a cell phone. What's the difference if you suddenly figure out that Apple has a 75% markup on the thing? Or 400%? You obviously don't care, since you already agreed the price was fair by purchasing one.
If Steve Jobs' core talent consisted on taking a crap and putting it in an off-white plastic case with shiny lights and selling it for $2,500 a pop, who are you to complain? On the contrary, more power to him and the chumps who get bilked because they want to be fashionable.
I'm not a big fan of Apple or their products, and I would never boy an iPhone. But if someone wants to push out a phone into the broken US wireless market, they have no choice but to do it the way they did it. Steve Jobs is not the culprit here, it's the government. With a fair playing field this "outrageous" situation of a company making "too much money" wouldn't exist in the first place.
Instead of modding down this obvious AC flamebait from twitter (don't waste points on ACs), or his main account (which is already at negative karma), instead just mod down posts he makes with his sockpuppet account. That way you'll stop him from trolling and gaming Slashdot.
Then perhaps the obvious flamebait headline should have been crafted to reflect that simple fact. But in the age of one-liner evangelism, Apple Makes $831 Revenue (Though Not Really Profit, Mind You) On Each AT&T Phone Although That's Pretty Much Irrelevant To Everything, We're Just In It For the AdSense Revenue just doesn't work.
I'm having trouble trying to understand the mindset of people who think $831 or $8,311 represents "greed". If the market will bear it, that's the correct price. Otherwise Apple would have sold 1,000 iPhones instead of 100,000 or however many they've shipped so far.
Oh wait...