The only way one could say that the meme does not have legs today is if one ignores the prices of desktop computers or dismisses Apple entirely.
Also the starting point is about 1983, before the introduction of the Mac. By the time you added the printer adapter, monitor and other required gear, the//e cost more than a PC compatible when the Mac was introduced. The prices for Apples did not drop as they did for the competitors.
Please don't accuse me of an anti-Apple Bias, I bought a//e back in '82 and I and typing this on my fourth Apple laptop running OS X. The dozen or so computers I owned in the interim (1986 - 2002) were PC compatibles because they were both less costly and offered greater value than anything Apple offered.
Based on what you say, someone from Japan would see the Google Street view and avert their eyes in accordance with their cultural norms. It seems to me that she only would need to fear perverts from other countries.
Only if you want to assure that at least one intelligent comment is made. Conservatives and liberals alike generally only want to hear or read what they already know, no matter how wrong it may be.
Additionally, or perhaps instead of, the app violates Apple's policy on one trick ponies that offer no additional functionality such as internet radios that only receive from one source. In this case, the app allows the user to access information that the user may access using Safari and Twitter. That makes it redundant, and therefore Apple's policy is to remove it. There is nothing to see here folks, please move along.
The FCC's ability to regulate the Internet has been in doubt since an appeals court in April said the agency lacked authority to stop Comcast from blocking bandwidth-hogging applications. Anything the FCC is likely to come up with will probably not keep the playing field level.
All that is required are laws which appropriately punish ISP's when they fail to deliver the bandwidth that they have represented to the consumer. The FCC should not be involved since this is a consumer issue.
Pro-Troll puts a chip in its fish lures that 'duplicates the electrical nerve discharge of a wounded bait fish,' prompting other fish to bite it.
Hmmm, I seem to remember hearing about this gimmick and also hearing that it varies in effectiveness with the bigger fish being a little bit more responsive (although I wish someone would bust out some statistics so I know this isn't snake oil).
It isn't snake oil. Snake oil is far more effective as a lure enhancer.
If Apple is consistent with their previous roll outs, they will release this to everyone later, once they have had a chance to debug the code and make it work the way a publisher would want. And it won't be because of the uproar here. Apple does not promise to roll out later since they are prohibited from making certain types of forward looking statements.
Net neutrality will give and take according to the whims of those who claim the moral high ground and the term. It will be as effective at promoting true neutrality as our wars on drugs and poverty in their respective realms. The current opponents of what most/.ers think would be neutral will eventually embrace the term and subvert its meaning.
Parochial? No it is simply pandering. How could Time remain relevant when the American public recognized the person of the year only twice in a decade?
You are not looking at the appropriate document by your own admission. The applicable document would be the Kentucky Constitution, Section 5:
No preference shall ever be given by law to any religious sect, society or denomination; nor to any particular creed, mode of worship or system of ecclesiastical polity; nor shall any person be compelled to attend any place of worship, to contribute to the erection or maintenance of any such place, or to the salary or support of any minister of religion; nor shall any man be compelled to send his child to any school to which he may be conscientiously opposed; and the civil rights, privileges or capacities of no person shall be taken away, or in anywise diminished or enlarged, on account of his belief or disbelief of any religious tenet, dogma or teaching. No human authority shall, in any case whatever, control or interfere with the rights of conscience.
It strikes me that that statement "... nor shall any man be compelled... to contribute to the erection or maintenance of any such place..." applies. If the state feels this does not apply then I hope that the KKK, Hells Angels, various Islamic extremist groups and every other hate group set up their annual conventions there and apply for the same tourist relief.
Before the 20th century, polio infections were rarely seen in infants before six months of age, most cases occurring in children six months to four years of age. Poorer sanitation of the time resulted in a constant exposure to the virus, which enhanced a natural immunity within the population. In developed countries during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, improvements were made in community sanitation, including better sewage disposal and clean water supplies. These changes drastically increased the proportion of children and adults at risk of paralytic polio infection, by reducing childhood exposure and immunity to the disease.
We have excuses for why your electricity bill will be higher next year, new ways to manipulate the stock prices of utility companies, and more reasons why we won't be going green this year. Coming up at 10:00.
You have to be naive, to be under some kind of illusion that this wouldn't happen.
Naivete and denial are not the same. As for the corporations, neither term applies - if it makes the bottom line look better in the next two quarters, it is a no-brainer. These no-brain decisions have become the staple of American business.
I think everyone knows that two or three years from now Android will be the clear winner.
And everyone knows that it will be irrelevant within six years. There is never a winner in these types of battles, there are losers and there is whoever is currently on top.
With the current proliferation of 3g connected eReaders and other internet connected devices we might see cell phones become (almost) voice only devices with the other connected functions handled on other devices. Isn't the iPhone really an MP3 Player with wireless telephony built-in? The next "killer app" will determine what we want in our pocket in five years, and chances are good that it won't be on Android when so much more money can be made by monopolizing it.
a gratuitous description of the copyright violator as a mother of four, grandmother, unemployed welder or other descriptors designed to illicit sympathy. Who cares! This type of description might be relevant if the perpetrator is an IT professional or involved in music business. It serves no purpose other than to vilify the victim of the crime. From s business perspective, under the existing laws, the recording company would be failing to act responsibly if they did not as they do. If the laws are bad and we need to make our legislators change them.
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The only way one could say that the meme does not have legs today is if one ignores the prices of desktop computers or dismisses Apple entirely.
Also the starting point is about 1983, before the introduction of the Mac. By the time you added the printer adapter, monitor and other required gear, the //e cost more than a PC compatible when the Mac was introduced. The prices for Apples did not drop as they did for the competitors.
Please don't accuse me of an anti-Apple Bias, I bought a //e back in '82 and I and typing this on my fourth Apple laptop running OS X. The dozen or so computers I owned in the interim (1986 - 2002) were PC compatibles because they were both less costly and offered greater value than anything Apple offered.
Based on what you say, someone from Japan would see the Google Street view and avert their eyes in accordance with their cultural norms. It seems to me that she only would need to fear perverts from other countries.
Do I need to say this on every Wikileaks thread?
Only if you want to assure that at least one intelligent comment is made. Conservatives and liberals alike generally only want to hear or read what they already know, no matter how wrong it may be.
Additionally, or perhaps instead of, the app violates Apple's policy on one trick ponies that offer no additional functionality such as internet radios that only receive from one source. In this case, the app allows the user to access information that the user may access using Safari and Twitter. That makes it redundant, and therefore Apple's policy is to remove it. There is nothing to see here folks, please move along.
The FCC's ability to regulate the Internet has been in doubt since an appeals court in April said the agency lacked authority to stop Comcast from blocking bandwidth-hogging applications. Anything the FCC is likely to come up with will probably not keep the playing field level.
Because the Bible says six days! Infidel!
... But sex? ... no one ever does that.
Coming from Microsoft it is largely true.
All that is required are laws which appropriately punish ISP's when they fail to deliver the bandwidth that they have represented to the consumer. The FCC should not be involved since this is a consumer issue.
Yep. Either way, the concept is neat but pointless. In 50 or 100 years, no one is going to have the ancient tech necessary to read this
With the trends in the education system the average person will be equally unable to decode the name and text etched into the gravestone.
Pro-Troll puts a chip in its fish lures that 'duplicates the electrical nerve discharge of a wounded bait fish,' prompting other fish to bite it.
Hmmm, I seem to remember hearing about this gimmick and also hearing that it varies in effectiveness with the bigger fish being a little bit more responsive (although I wish someone would bust out some statistics so I know this isn't snake oil).
It isn't snake oil. Snake oil is far more effective as a lure enhancer.
If Apple is consistent with their previous roll outs, they will release this to everyone later, once they have had a chance to debug the code and make it work the way a publisher would want. And it won't be because of the uproar here. Apple does not promise to roll out later since they are prohibited from making certain types of forward looking statements.
Don't Americans notice the Republicans keep throwing wrenches into all the worthwhile legislation ...
The Democrats place their wrenches gently, but the effect is the same.
Net neutrality will give and take according to the whims of those who claim the moral high ground and the term. It will be as effective at promoting true neutrality as our wars on drugs and poverty in their respective realms. The current opponents of what most /.ers think would be neutral will eventually embrace the term and subvert its meaning.
Buying from a "big box" chain store is now altruistic? Wow, war really is peace.
In the USA, office employees are kept in a sort of shoe-box with a size that, for inexplicable reasons, is measured in feet. Those boxes have shrunk.
Fixed that for you.
Parochial? No it is simply pandering. How could Time remain relevant when the American public recognized the person of the year only twice in a decade?
No preference shall ever be given by law to any religious sect, society or denomination; nor to any particular creed, mode of worship or system of ecclesiastical polity; nor shall any person be compelled to attend any place of worship, to contribute to the erection or maintenance of any such place, or to the salary or support of any minister of religion; nor shall any man be compelled to send his child to any school to which he may be conscientiously opposed; and the civil rights, privileges or capacities of no person shall be taken away, or in anywise diminished or enlarged, on account of his belief or disbelief of any religious tenet, dogma or teaching. No human authority shall, in any case whatever, control or interfere with the rights of conscience.
It strikes me that that statement "... nor shall any man be compelled ... to contribute to the erection or maintenance of any such place ..." applies. If the state feels this does not apply then I hope that the KKK, Hells Angels, various Islamic extremist groups and every other hate group set up their annual conventions there and apply for the same tourist relief.
The article mentions Olympia and Mark, but there is no mention of Bill.
The mail doesn't say anything about not reading them, just not posting about them.
I guess they're saying "Don't leave any evidence that you read them"...
Actually it is more like, "Don't leave evidence that you are a blathering idiot who cannot exercise a modicum of self control."
No this definitely is not news!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polio
Before the 20th century, polio infections were rarely seen in infants before six months of age, most cases occurring in children six months to four years of age. Poorer sanitation of the time resulted in a constant exposure to the virus, which enhanced a natural immunity within the population. In developed countries during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, improvements were made in community sanitation, including better sewage disposal and clean water supplies. These changes drastically increased the proportion of children and adults at risk of paralytic polio infection, by reducing childhood exposure and immunity to the disease.
We have excuses for why your electricity bill will be higher next year, new ways to manipulate the stock prices of utility companies, and more reasons why we won't be going green this year. Coming up at 10:00.
Why not just stuff your tinfoil hat in your pants?
You have to be naive, to be under some kind of illusion that this wouldn't happen.
Naivete and denial are not the same. As for the corporations, neither term applies - if it makes the bottom line look better in the next two quarters, it is a no-brainer. These no-brain decisions have become the staple of American business.
I think everyone knows that two or three years from now Android will be the clear winner.
And everyone knows that it will be irrelevant within six years. There is never a winner in these types of battles, there are losers and there is whoever is currently on top.
With the current proliferation of 3g connected eReaders and other internet connected devices we might see cell phones become (almost) voice only devices with the other connected functions handled on other devices. Isn't the iPhone really an MP3 Player with wireless telephony built-in? The next "killer app" will determine what we want in our pocket in five years, and chances are good that it won't be on Android when so much more money can be made by monopolizing it.
a gratuitous description of the copyright violator as a mother of four, grandmother, unemployed welder or other descriptors designed to illicit sympathy. Who cares! This type of description might be relevant if the perpetrator is an IT professional or involved in music business. It serves no purpose other than to vilify the victim of the crime. From s business perspective, under the existing laws, the recording company would be failing to act responsibly if they did not as they do. If the laws are bad and we need to make our legislators change them.