The new, more obtrusive, more bandwidth hogging ads are coming. Next will be the increase in frequency and length of ads. Then the exodus will start. Then there will probably be a site-wide remake or relaunch to try and get people interested. By then a new social networking site will be getting hype and half their user will already have an account on it as well. Then they stop using their Facebook account and start referring people to the other site who contact them on FB. Then Facebook becomes another ghost ship of abandoned profiles like MySpace.
Might i suggest you take a trip to the "ethnic foods" section of you local supermarket?
All the supermarket chains were I live carry Mexican Coke (made with real sugar) with the other beverages from South of the Border in the Hispanic foods area. It comes in the original green glass bottles. One even has them available chilled in the bottled soda section so I can get a cold one whenever I want. They run about a dollar a 12 oz bottle. I don't drink as much soda as I used to as a kid so I just keep a few of them in the fridge at home and don't even buy American Coca-cola now.
Two failures in three OS launches is going to be a lot more difficult for the shareholders to get over.
They seem to be taking it all in stride right now. Either that or they're just super apathetic. I have yet to hear of any mass shareholder clamoring for Ballmer's head on a plate, which is what they should be doing after all this.
They purchased Fireworks that contained black powder.
But that won't stop the morons in Congress from trying to make black powder something that requires a background check.
And folks like these two chuck-heads will continue to buy fireworks and be completely unaffected by the background checks.
Coming soon! Background checks to buy fireworks. That would be a sadly ironic turn of events. People like to toss out the "terrorists have won" line, but here Security Theater will literally keep us from celebrating our freedom.
Wait, products must solve a tangible problem in order to catch on? Well shit, that sucks for twitter, facebook, AND the tablet market.
The tangible problem there was the Internet was becoming a more and more trendy communication medium but there are a lot of people too stupid or lazy to learn how to use email clients or maintain a personal computer. A tablet solves the hardware side by giving them a portable, easy to transport device and apps give them prepackaged software that generally does not suffer the same issues PC software does because the hardware it's built for is more limited.
How about we just attach a giant magnet to the back of space craft similar to what you'd see behind the rear or front tires of an RV to pick up road debris before it punctures the tires.
Ignoring that lots of the things that puncture tires will not react to magnets to begin with, how does the magnet being mounted behind the tires stop things from reaching them?
The cable company got sold a few years back, but it's historically been bad enough to make you wish TWC/Cox/Comcast would take over.
As someone also in Lawrence and who has worked for two of those three companies you mention as an Internet support rep I can tell you, no, you DON'T want Time-Warner or Cox to take over this area.
My main complaint as a Sunflower/Knology subscriber is the caps, but having one of the big three take over would just mean a jump in prices, and I bet they would leave the caps in place since they were there before just like Knology did -- their other markets don't have them, only Lawrence because we had them to start with so they knew we were already used to them.
Considering the mediocre level of his wi-fi mesh ISP business, I actually think getting bought out by Google is part of his business plan for this new fiber service.
Many consumer product installment payment contracts have similar accelerated payment clauses which can be triggered by loss or damage to the product, changes in borrowers financial status (miss a payment and it all comes due, for example), etc.
What does that have to do with canceling an unrelated service? There is no loss or damage to the phone, there is no change in the phone owner's financial status.
The problem here is without the "it's all due if you cancel service" clause T-Mobile would be leaving themselves open to abuse of the 0% APR financing. AT&T out of stock on the new iPhone 5S? Just go to T-Mobile and sign up with them with their $20/mo payment plan, then cancel the service after you get your phone and have AT&T activate it on their network. See how it would work? In addition to T-Mobile not gaining a new regular customer, which the payment plan is supposed to attract, they're now providing upgraded phone financing to a competitor and have one less iPhone to sell to a real T-Mobile subscriber.
java does auto update for years now on Windows. what is your point?
No it doesn't.
It checks for available updates on its own. It can even download update installer executables on its own. It does not actually update anything on the computer until you manually click "Install", etc.
If Java needs updating this often it should be able to do it silently the same way Chrome and Firefox update themselves.
Well I can certainly understand by Barnes & Noble would have trouble seeing the marketability of a an e-reader one has to use a pickup truck to transport.
And since I doubt it was a color e-ink display, even as a small billboard it wouldn't be popular.
I've decided that must be the only reason they haven't created an auto-update system for Java. I mean, my AV software can update its own definitions, my web browser can update itself, yet I still have to click the stupid message every time Oracle farts.
My mom has been complaining about it too. The frequency of these updates are encouraging people to ignore them or turn them off like the classic boy who cried "Wolf!".
If the Java system could update itself they'd lose the opportunity to trick people into not unchecking the Ask Toobar, McAfee Security Scan, etc shovel-ware. And as people get frustrated with the constant updates they get sloppier about what they're clicking as they go though them.
If you're 14 years old you're too young to vote, so Congressman Rogers doesn't care what you think. And he assumes none of the people who are able to vote feel the same way you do.
Not providing email greatly lowers support costs because you don't have to help noobs through how to configure mail clients, getting blamed when their Outlook Express eats their old email, getting complaints about spam, etc. Plus you don't have to field hundreds of support calls when you bungle up moving the services on the back end, like here.
Couldn't you just set up both accounts in your mail client and just drag and drop the messages between the different sets of folders to upload them to the new account? I'm sure I've done something similar once before.
Funny enough, isn't being a loner supposed to be one to those traits that leads to people being knee-jerk profiled the next Unabomber or school massacre perpetrator? Apparently the ATF is busy compiling a database of all the wrong people if what the DHS has told us in the past has any truth to it.
It's the squeaky wheel that makes the noise. In the days of the internet, a handful of dissatisfied people can make lots of noise, meanwhile people who are happy just get on with enjoying what they have.
And the point here is people have an optical disc with 25-40 mbps encoded AVC video on it and can't watch it on their nice monitor they also have because Apple, with all it's billions in the bank and and army of smart people is still finding the process of supporting blu-ray drives on their computers "a bad of hurt".
The point is people are having to pay up to $6.25 per gigabyte for flash memory if they want more then the base 16 GB in their iPhone, because Apple doesn't want to add a card slot to the device. Apple being the one who profits off this omission is a coincidence, of course.
You made a list of things that you want. I don't want any of them. Your list isn't a list of what "people" want, it's a list of what you want. Even if there are some people out there who share some of your desires.
This might actually be a meaningful argument, where it not for the fact I don't own an iPhone and the only Mac I have is an iBook G4. I personally don't benefit from Apple accepting blu-ray drives or expandable memory on their handhelds. My main computer is a home-built tower running Windows 8, and I use a stand-alone player for my blu-ray discs, even though it connects to the same Samsung monitor my computer does.
You really think people don't appreciate being able to increase the storage on their cell phone or tablet without having to buy a whole new device?
I don't want it. The whole design of the iOS UI is that you don't have to think about files and where they are stored. Your memory card would spoil that, and make the UI worse, just as the Android UI is worse in part for that reason.
Why should you have to deal with it at all? The OS could just as easily display internal and external memory as a single set of files and manage them in the background. It could give you a simple preference to list what order you want memory caches filled. I'm not talking about a card you hot-swap. I'm just talking about there being a slot to expand the memory outside what the device ships with, something many other manufacturers don't seem to have a problem doing.
1. To implement Blu-ray there are all sorts of secure video and audio paths you have to implement.
Yeah... HDCP. Something Apple has had to support in OSX since they started selling HD video on iTunes (otherwise the studios would have never agreed to let them carry high-def movies from them).
2. If Apple cared that much about protecting its measly video sales from iTunes, why would they go out of their way to support Hulu and Netflix on the AppleTV?
Feel free to post a source for the "measley" comment. Apple traditionally doesn't separate the revenue figures for individual products and the iTunes Store combined revenue was $6.3 billion for 2011.
The reason they support them is because Netflix, and to a lesser extent Hulu, are must-have features on a streaming device. In 2011 Neflix became the largest online movie provider by passing the previous largest provider -- Apple (yes, the same year Apple made that $6.3 billion in iTunes content).
Compare feature sets on different brands of blu-ray players, Roku, etc. Even the lowest-end devices support at least Netflix streaming even if they don't support every streaming service and DLNA sharing like the upper tier players do. Apple would have sold hardly anything without those services being present on their box, because lots of Apple die-hards are Netflix users (Apple has no subscription all-you-can-watch video service, remember?). If the Apple TV didn't have Netflix those people would have still need a second set-top box (or third if you want to count the cable converter) and that device would have likely been a BD player or Roku, the devices AppleTV is in competition with, regardless of what Apple wants to say about it just being a "hobby" for them.
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The new, more obtrusive, more bandwidth hogging ads are coming.
Next will be the increase in frequency and length of ads.
Then the exodus will start.
Then there will probably be a site-wide remake or relaunch to try and get people interested.
By then a new social networking site will be getting hype and half their user will already have an account on it as well.
Then they stop using their Facebook account and start referring people to the other site who contact them on FB.
Then Facebook becomes another ghost ship of abandoned profiles like MySpace.
I don't know... some of these puns are pretty sharp.
Might i suggest you take a trip to the "ethnic foods" section of you local supermarket?
All the supermarket chains were I live carry Mexican Coke (made with real sugar) with the other beverages from South of the Border in the Hispanic foods area. It comes in the original green glass bottles. One even has them available chilled in the bottled soda section so I can get a cold one whenever I want. They run about a dollar a 12 oz bottle. I don't drink as much soda as I used to as a kid so I just keep a few of them in the fridge at home and don't even buy American Coca-cola now.
Two failures in three OS launches is going to be a lot more difficult for the shareholders to get over.
They seem to be taking it all in stride right now. Either that or they're just super apathetic. I have yet to hear of any mass shareholder clamoring for Ballmer's head on a plate, which is what they should be doing after all this.
They purchased Fireworks that contained black powder.
But that won't stop the morons in Congress from trying to make black powder something that requires a background check.
And folks like these two chuck-heads will continue to buy fireworks and be completely unaffected by the background checks.
Coming soon! Background checks to buy fireworks.
That would be a sadly ironic turn of events. People like to toss out the "terrorists have won" line, but here Security Theater will literally keep us from celebrating our freedom.
Wait, products must solve a tangible problem in order to catch on? Well shit, that sucks for twitter, facebook, AND the tablet market.
The tangible problem there was the Internet was becoming a more and more trendy communication medium but there are a lot of people too stupid or lazy to learn how to use email clients or maintain a personal computer. A tablet solves the hardware side by giving them a portable, easy to transport device and apps give them prepackaged software that generally does not suffer the same issues PC software does because the hardware it's built for is more limited.
Shows how much people like honey if you ask me.
And you could export even the DRM titles as mp3, to burn them on CDs.
No, you have that backwards. You could burn them to CD directly from iTunes, and then rerip them to MP3.
Snakes... on a plane-wreck!
How about we just attach a giant magnet to the back of space craft similar to what you'd see behind the rear or front tires of an RV to pick up road debris before it punctures the tires.
Ignoring that lots of the things that puncture tires will not react to magnets to begin with, how does the magnet being mounted behind the tires stop things from reaching them?
There'll be plenty of pillow talk, that's for sure.
You can buy a Roku for much cheaper.
Or an apple tv.
Or get a blu-ray player for less than either of those two devices and have something that plays your physical discs in addition to streaming services.
The cable company got sold a few years back, but it's historically been bad enough to make you wish TWC/Cox/Comcast would take over.
As someone also in Lawrence and who has worked for two of those three companies you mention as an Internet support rep I can tell you, no, you DON'T want Time-Warner or Cox to take over this area.
My main complaint as a Sunflower/Knology subscriber is the caps, but having one of the big three take over would just mean a jump in prices, and I bet they would leave the caps in place since they were there before just like Knology did -- their other markets don't have them, only Lawrence because we had them to start with so they knew we were already used to them.
Lawrence resident here.
Considering the mediocre level of his wi-fi mesh ISP business, I actually think getting bought out by Google is part of his business plan for this new fiber service.
Many consumer product installment payment contracts have similar accelerated payment clauses which can be triggered by loss or damage to the product, changes in borrowers financial status (miss a payment and it all comes due, for example), etc.
What does that have to do with canceling an unrelated service? There is no loss or damage to the phone, there is no change in the phone owner's financial status.
The problem here is without the "it's all due if you cancel service" clause T-Mobile would be leaving themselves open to abuse of the 0% APR financing. AT&T out of stock on the new iPhone 5S? Just go to T-Mobile and sign up with them with their $20/mo payment plan, then cancel the service after you get your phone and have AT&T activate it on their network. See how it would work? In addition to T-Mobile not gaining a new regular customer, which the payment plan is supposed to attract, they're now providing upgraded phone financing to a competitor and have one less iPhone to sell to a real T-Mobile subscriber.
java does auto update for years now on Windows. what is your point?
No it doesn't.
It checks for available updates on its own.
It can even download update installer executables on its own.
It does not actually update anything on the computer until you manually click "Install", etc.
If Java needs updating this often it should be able to do it silently the same way Chrome and Firefox update themselves.
Well I can certainly understand by Barnes & Noble would have trouble seeing the marketability of a an e-reader one has to use a pickup truck to transport.
And since I doubt it was a color e-ink display, even as a small billboard it wouldn't be popular.
I've decided that must be the only reason they haven't created an auto-update system for Java. I mean, my AV software can update its own definitions, my web browser can update itself, yet I still have to click the stupid message every time Oracle farts.
My mom has been complaining about it too. The frequency of these updates are encouraging people to ignore them or turn them off like the classic boy who cried "Wolf!".
If the Java system could update itself they'd lose the opportunity to trick people into not unchecking the Ask Toobar, McAfee Security Scan, etc shovel-ware. And as people get frustrated with the constant updates they get sloppier about what they're clicking as they go though them.
But what does it matter how old I am?
If you're 14 years old you're too young to vote, so Congressman Rogers doesn't care what you think.
And he assumes none of the people who are able to vote feel the same way you do.
Some Google employee obviously got told to shove their smartphone up their ass, and got ideas.
I don't think you quite understand what google.com/patents is.
Not providing email greatly lowers support costs because you don't have to help noobs through how to configure mail clients, getting blamed when their Outlook Express eats their old email, getting complaints about spam, etc. Plus you don't have to field hundreds of support calls when you bungle up moving the services on the back end, like here.
Couldn't you just set up both accounts in your mail client and just drag and drop the messages between the different sets of folders to upload them to the new account? I'm sure I've done something similar once before.
I don't have friends.
Funny enough, isn't being a loner supposed to be one to those traits that leads to people being knee-jerk profiled the next Unabomber or school massacre perpetrator? Apparently the ATF is busy compiling a database of all the wrong people if what the DHS has told us in the past has any truth to it.
It's the squeaky wheel that makes the noise. In the days of the internet, a handful of dissatisfied people can make lots of noise, meanwhile people who are happy just get on with enjoying what they have.
And the point here is people have an optical disc with 25-40 mbps encoded AVC video on it and can't watch it on their nice monitor they also have because Apple, with all it's billions in the bank and and army of smart people is still finding the process of supporting blu-ray drives on their computers "a bad of hurt".
The point is people are having to pay up to $6.25 per gigabyte for flash memory if they want more then the base 16 GB in their iPhone, because Apple doesn't want to add a card slot to the device. Apple being the one who profits off this omission is a coincidence, of course.
You made a list of things that you want. I don't want any of them. Your list isn't a list of what "people" want, it's a list of what you want. Even if there are some people out there who share some of your desires.
This might actually be a meaningful argument, where it not for the fact I don't own an iPhone and the only Mac I have is an iBook G4. I personally don't benefit from Apple accepting blu-ray drives or expandable memory on their handhelds. My main computer is a home-built tower running Windows 8, and I use a stand-alone player for my blu-ray discs, even though it connects to the same Samsung monitor my computer does.
You really think people don't appreciate being able to increase the storage on their cell phone or tablet without having to buy a whole new device?
I don't want it. The whole design of the iOS UI is that you don't have to think about files and where they are stored. Your memory card would spoil that, and make the UI worse, just as the Android UI is worse in part for that reason.
Why should you have to deal with it at all? The OS could just as easily display internal and external memory as a single set of files and manage them in the background. It could give you a simple preference to list what order you want memory caches filled. I'm not talking about a card you hot-swap. I'm just talking about there being a slot to expand the memory outside what the device ships with, something many other manufacturers don't seem to have a problem doing.
1. To implement Blu-ray there are all sorts of secure video and audio paths you have to implement.
Yeah... HDCP.
Something Apple has had to support in OSX since they started selling HD video on iTunes (otherwise the studios would have never agreed to let them carry high-def movies from them).
2. If Apple cared that much about protecting its measly video sales from iTunes, why would they go out of their way to support Hulu and Netflix on the AppleTV?
Feel free to post a source for the "measley" comment. Apple traditionally doesn't separate the revenue figures for individual products and the iTunes Store combined revenue was $6.3 billion for 2011.
The reason they support them is because Netflix, and to a lesser extent Hulu, are must-have features on a streaming device. In 2011 Neflix became the largest online movie provider by passing the previous largest provider -- Apple (yes, the same year Apple made that $6.3 billion in iTunes content).
Compare feature sets on different brands of blu-ray players, Roku, etc. Even the lowest-end devices support at least Netflix streaming even if they don't support every streaming service and DLNA sharing like the upper tier players do. Apple would have sold hardly anything without those services being present on their box, because lots of Apple die-hards are Netflix users (Apple has no subscription all-you-can-watch video service, remember?). If the Apple TV didn't have Netflix those people would have still need a second set-top box (or third if you want to count the cable converter) and that device would have likely been a BD player or Roku, the devices AppleTV is in competition with, regardless of what Apple wants to say about it just being a "hobby" for them.