Apple isn't the only company that does product placement, but they are by far the most common computer company that does it. Most others rarely, if ever, do it. The only recent example I can think of for another one is Dell in V for Vendetta.
Well, first of all, MS and Dell both have major presences in a lot of movies and TV, big and small, from Marvel through the new Tomorrow People. Second Apple logos are often blocked out *because* they didn't license, they just used the product because it was aesthetically pleasing. Third there are whole movies devoted to basically being car company product placement. The Need for Speed movie was basically a dressed up Ford ad.
But lastly, Coke is easily the most placed product. It's everywhere
Interesting to think about actually. Using your 2 examples I would bet that MS has a much larger Janitorial and Maintenance/Physical plant staff directly on the payroll, many of whom likely make less than the average Starbucks employee
I find having a bank account very handy for handling my money. Banks do contribute to society.
Bear in mind that investment banks and savings banks used to have huge firewalls between them, so that the one you find useful wasn't the one taking huge risks (it is, or was, also the smaller banks that typically extend credit to local businesses, not the huge investment banks)
The beta sinkhole swallowed 8 ACs first, however one was a rare GNAA troll and due to it's recent scarcity slashdot is allowing their removal. The sinkhole is remarkable in that it has left the surrounding stories intact while decimating comments, although that assessment may change according to Soulskill
It is a good place to observe things like pack dynamics for one thing, in an easily controlled, relatively closed but still natural environment. The same with the pred/prey dynamics. Just because not everything observed is generalizable doesn't mean none of the data are.
The reason for the attribution to malice, I think, is a general distrust of Dice as a newcomer to/. ownership (a worry they may not get the culture and may just want the brand) combined with the sweeping nature of the changes and the general experience a lot have in the tech industry with the all the former directly preceding the destruction of something great. People are worried that a place that really has been a haven for intelligent and technical discussion as well as one for geeks in general is being threatened. We view the place as ours more so than most sites any here comment on, and that's because slashdot's nature is and always has been different - and so, when it's threatened, people lash out. You need to rebuild trust with the users, need to show that Dice *can* be trusted to respond to the users, or they will lose the most valuable asset of slashdot - it's hordes. The brand is valuable to be sure, but this is a crowd that will make sure that that brand is burned before they allow it to be turned generic, as, I think, the recent spate of comments showed.
I, and I'm sure many here, do appreciate your taking the time to respond and consider, but I also think to actually win some trust the beta has to be slowed, and has to become more in line with what the users expect from/., not any old website.
(and I just sacrificed the 10 or so mod points I spent in this thread to post this)
I mean the post that timothy had on hearing us is approaching the level of some of the most highly commented discussions on/., and it's going to keep growing. Maybe the editors can show that to their Dice overlords and get them to back the hell off of the aggressive monetizing Beta is and refocus on a way of compromising while still keeping the damn community and not tanking the awesome place that has been/. for so very long
I feel like the beta is being pushed simply because it's new, and they're ignoring that it's not *better*. I've seen this before: after enough money's been invested in something a company will move forward with it whether it is actually good or not simply to avoid admitting they were wrong and the New Thing needs work.
I hope Dice doesn't keep pushing this without substantial changes. Outside of outraging their user base it will cost them in destroying/.'s brand and following - what they definitely paid more for than whatever they've thrown at the beta dev.
I'm willing to burn my not-inconsiderable karma on this, the beta really destroys the flow of what I actually come here for - the discussion! If it becomes mandatory it'll kill a site that has been my favorite place on the web for a long, long time
My recommendation to you is to stop going to websites without a professional art director. You are hurting your eyes if you do that, and any site that doesn't treat art direction seriously doesn't have useful content anyways, since layout itself is content.
Part of the appeal of the 54g was its relatively cheap cost for a nicely hackable router (I have serveral of the first gen ones lying around, the ones from before they got downgraded and the old version rebranded as the "gl" with a higher price tag), $300 kinda kills its usefulness
...Shocking! I'm positive the emergency contacts for the lab blew their fuse when they heard. Nothing like getting such negative reports to ground you in the harsh reality of life's load.
I don't usually reply to ACs, but on the off-chance you read this I'l point that a) I said it wasn't complete info, and that Apple was unlikely doing it to help NSA spying, not that it wasn't an annoying inconvenience that I think Apple was doing for profit and b) for geeks traveling to such places there are 2 (well, 3) solutions, 1 of which I even mentioned in the comment you just replied to saying I didn't.
Option 1)You can run your own server (as I mentioned above). That doesn't have to on the internet, it could be local on your laptop.
Option 2 has a few possibilities, basically in all cases allowing access to SyncServices. You can
a)Not upgrade to 10.9
b)if you need 10.9 for work or are on a new machine run an older version of the OS in a VM or
c)run windows in a vm or
d)run the windows version of iTunes and whatever app you want to sync contacts with in WINE (this particular option may not always work depending on the apps and how well the current version of iTunes plays with WINE of course)
They removed the sync for contacts and calendar, the rest is still locally synced. You can sync those 2 to any cloud provider, including rolling your own caldav server, not just Apple's, it just defaults to Apple's. It was an annoying move, but ascribing a motive beyond "we really would like people to use iCloud more because it ties them to continuing to use Apple products" isn't really supported by the facts (especially since the framework, SyncServices, had been declared deprecated since 10.7, so it wasn't exactly unexpected)
Nothing is ever that simple and any attempt to boil something so vast down to a single word, no matter how far reaching, is naive. Religions exists because of various human needs, and people believe because of various needs. It can enrich lives or impoverish them. It can motivate, or demotivate. It can create and destroy. Help and Harm. Like anything manmade it can be used for peace, and for war.
Terrible acts done in the name of religion are symptoms of deeper, more intertwined problems in how we relate to one another, terrible teachings symptomatic of human needs for order, control, and normalcy. Absence of religion would not simply make the world a better place on it's own, something else would take the place, both good and bad, that religion serves . "If god did not exist it would be necessary to invent him"
Slashdot Mirror
There is a big difference between "will void the warranty" and "not allowed".
/there's a reason that one of my "work on my car" shirts says "I void warranties" on it
Apple isn't the only company that does product placement, but they are by far the most common computer company that does it. Most others rarely, if ever, do it. The only recent example I can think of for another one is Dell in V for Vendetta.
Well, first of all, MS and Dell both have major presences in a lot of movies and TV, big and small, from Marvel through the new Tomorrow People. Second Apple logos are often blocked out *because* they didn't license, they just used the product because it was aesthetically pleasing. Third there are whole movies devoted to basically being car company product placement. The Need for Speed movie was basically a dressed up Ford ad.
But lastly, Coke is easily the most placed product. It's everywhere
Because if it tasted like Chicken I see a much better economic investment in a future Jurassic Park than as a tourist trap!
Interesting to think about actually. Using your 2 examples I would bet that MS has a much larger Janitorial and Maintenance/Physical plant staff directly on the payroll, many of whom likely make less than the average Starbucks employee
I find having a bank account very handy for handling my money. Banks do contribute to society.
Bear in mind that investment banks and savings banks used to have huge firewalls between them, so that the one you find useful wasn't the one taking huge risks (it is, or was, also the smaller banks that typically extend credit to local businesses, not the huge investment banks)
AMD dammit, AMD ::sigh::
What else would you use an amd card for?
For anything you want? They even come with HW documentation these days. Also, Linus. ;-)
It comes with Linus? Is there a super efficient NVIDIA invented process that bundles a small piece of him on die in place of a core in every chip?
The beta sinkhole swallowed 8 ACs first, however one was a rare GNAA troll and due to it's recent scarcity slashdot is allowing their removal. The sinkhole is remarkable in that it has left the surrounding stories intact while decimating comments, although that assessment may change according to Soulskill
It is a good place to observe things like pack dynamics for one thing, in an easily controlled, relatively closed but still natural environment. The same with the pred/prey dynamics. Just because not everything observed is generalizable doesn't mean none of the data are.
I feel like there could be designed an app for a lot of that that would automate it easily, maybe even integrate with something like hopstop
You can still see how many times it's been modded, just click on the score and it'll give you the breakdown
Actually I seem to get them every other week almost now, actually been surprised with the frequency... odd, that
The reason for the attribution to malice, I think, is a general distrust of Dice as a newcomer to /. ownership (a worry they may not get the culture and may just want the brand) combined with the sweeping nature of the changes and the general experience a lot have in the tech industry with the all the former directly preceding the destruction of something great. People are worried that a place that really has been a haven for intelligent and technical discussion as well as one for geeks in general is being threatened. We view the place as ours more so than most sites any here comment on, and that's because slashdot's nature is and always has been different - and so, when it's threatened, people lash out. You need to rebuild trust with the users, need to show that Dice *can* be trusted to respond to the users, or they will lose the most valuable asset of slashdot - it's hordes. The brand is valuable to be sure, but this is a crowd that will make sure that that brand is burned before they allow it to be turned generic, as, I think, the recent spate of comments showed.
/., not any old website.
I, and I'm sure many here, do appreciate your taking the time to respond and consider, but I also think to actually win some trust the beta has to be slowed, and has to become more in line with what the users expect from
(and I just sacrificed the 10 or so mod points I spent in this thread to post this)
I mean the post that timothy had on hearing us is approaching the level of some of the most highly commented discussions on /., and it's going to keep growing. Maybe the editors can show that to their Dice overlords and get them to back the hell off of the aggressive monetizing Beta is and refocus on a way of compromising while still keeping the damn community and not tanking the awesome place that has been /. for so very long
I feel like the beta is being pushed simply because it's new, and they're ignoring that it's not *better*. I've seen this before: after enough money's been invested in something a company will move forward with it whether it is actually good or not simply to avoid admitting they were wrong and the New Thing needs work.
/.'s brand and following - what they definitely paid more for than whatever they've thrown at the beta dev.
I hope Dice doesn't keep pushing this without substantial changes. Outside of outraging their user base it will cost them in destroying
I'm willing to burn my not-inconsiderable karma on this, the beta really destroys the flow of what I actually come here for - the discussion! If it becomes mandatory it'll kill a site that has been my favorite place on the web for a long, long time
My recommendation to you is to stop going to websites without a professional art director. You are hurting your eyes if you do that, and any site that doesn't treat art direction seriously doesn't have useful content anyways, since layout itself is content.
Like /.? :p
A serious vulnerability? The people using it of course, always the most serious vulnerability
Part of the appeal of the 54g was its relatively cheap cost for a nicely hackable router (I have serveral of the first gen ones lying around, the ones from before they got downgraded and the old version rebranded as the "gl" with a higher price tag), $300 kinda kills its usefulness
...Shocking! I'm positive the emergency contacts for the lab blew their fuse when they heard. Nothing like getting such negative reports to ground you in the harsh reality of life's load.
I don't usually reply to ACs, but on the off-chance you read this I'l point that a) I said it wasn't complete info, and that Apple was unlikely doing it to help NSA spying, not that it wasn't an annoying inconvenience that I think Apple was doing for profit and b) for geeks traveling to such places there are 2 (well, 3) solutions, 1 of which I even mentioned in the comment you just replied to saying I didn't.
Option 1)You can run your own server (as I mentioned above). That doesn't have to on the internet, it could be local on your laptop.
Option 2 has a few possibilities, basically in all cases allowing access to SyncServices. You can
a)Not upgrade to 10.9
b)if you need 10.9 for work or are on a new machine run an older version of the OS in a VM or
c)run windows in a vm or
d)run the windows version of iTunes and whatever app you want to sync contacts with in WINE (this particular option may not always work depending on the apps and how well the current version of iTunes plays with WINE of course)
Option 3)You can get a phone not made by Apple
They removed the sync for contacts and calendar, the rest is still locally synced. You can sync those 2 to any cloud provider, including rolling your own caldav server, not just Apple's, it just defaults to Apple's. It was an annoying move, but ascribing a motive beyond "we really would like people to use iCloud more because it ties them to continuing to use Apple products" isn't really supported by the facts (especially since the framework, SyncServices, had been declared deprecated since 10.7, so it wasn't exactly unexpected)
The GP most likely mixed up "Sent up the river" and "sold downriver"
A lens cover would not be compatible with the Apple Aesthetic (TM)
I have an external iSight from way back, it actually does have a close-able lens
Nothing is ever that simple and any attempt to boil something so vast down to a single word, no matter how far reaching, is naive. Religions exists because of various human needs, and people believe because of various needs. It can enrich lives or impoverish them. It can motivate, or demotivate. It can create and destroy. Help and Harm. Like anything manmade it can be used for peace, and for war.
Terrible acts done in the name of religion are symptoms of deeper, more intertwined problems in how we relate to one another, terrible teachings symptomatic of human needs for order, control, and normalcy. Absence of religion would not simply make the world a better place on it's own, something else would take the place, both good and bad, that religion serves . "If god did not exist it would be necessary to invent him"