Apple gets X (10?) % of the monthly subscription from AT&T. Also, they book the iPhone revenue as a service, spread over each month for 2 years.
So yes, Apple looses money when people don't get an AT&T contract compared to those who do.
No, its not! Drugs are illegal, music is not. Distributing drugs is illegal, and distributing music without paying the copyright owner is illegal.
Its because of analogies like yours, that people think that ANY file sharing is illegal.
If you must use an analogy, at least use one that is correct AND appropriate to your audience,/.
"This is like the car dealer calling the cops because someone vandalized the cars on his lot"
Whether he owned all the cars on the lot or "parked" them there without the car owner's permissions, I don't care. The vandals should still be held responsible.
Who cares about how it is implemented, if the end user has no way of telling if it is secure or not? You can't require the user to check the source code to verify the implementation of how the information is posted.
Movies with realistic technology would be boring to most people.
I would argue the counterpart when it comes to realistic physics. When HL2 came out, I spent more time playing with the physics engine than with anything else. Why? Because it was more realistic than anything else I could do before.
As I kid, I always got in trouble when I shot at things with my slingshot. In HL2, I could blow things up without any (or little) consequences. I would say the same thing is true for movies.
I guess movies have to use exaggerated effects to compensate for the lack of user involvement. After all, if I can't get involved myself and am limited to observing only, then it better be something I don't see anywhere else.
Sports are a good example where physics are still true, and people watch it for the physics (and people's mastery thereof. Think of the x-games, American football, F1 and/or Nascar or any other sport. They all involve gravity, trajectories, momentum, acceleration, shock/impact, friction, and so on.
Arrest all NIC designers, engineers, network stack developers, IT managers,... on suspicion of conspiring to cause the problem.
Change to Wifi because that can't have NIC faults.
C'mon folk... help me out here! Print each package to be sent over the network, use the USPS first class mail to send it to the right destination on time, and hire a bunch of undocumented immigrants to enter the data again.
I'm sure they already have a nice database to use to find prospects that could do the data entry!
Fine, you get your point with the copiers. What about the CD-burners so? What about a recordable audio tape? I only added the copier to demonstrate that there is always SOME degree of legitimate use.
No person shall manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof, that . . . is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing protection afforded by a technological measure that effectively protects a right of a copyright owner under this title in a work or a portion thereof;
So why are photo copiers still legal? And CD-burners? Why is a mod-chip different from those other two?
(Windows is) a cold, unforgiving place where nothing is sacred, users turn like rabid wolves on any company that makes even the smallest error, and no prisoners are taken
If the people are willing to live with Microsoft's products, I'm sure they will be more than happy with those of Apple as well, and quality doesn't seem to be the most important factor today.
Funny, I'm running a D610 and I keep getting shocks from it when I walk up to it (not if I sit). But only always on the front left corner. And although they are static shocks, they are much more powerful than what I'm used to from other objects around the house.
What you are saying fits for companies who's products are the software. However, a lot of companies out there employ a lot of programmers that develop customized applications for that business which are never meant to be sold. Often those include HR, Finance, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, or Commercial activities.
When you run a business, you want to pursue your competitive advantage. That can be lower price, better technology, better service, or a few other areas. If you do that, you want to maximize your money on the areas that will help you in your area of advantage, and minimize it in the others. So if IT helps your companies competitive advantage, you should have a lot of funding for a lot of smart people. If it is not, you should find the cheapest way possible to do what's necessary.
If you look at a company like Google/IBM/SAP/Oracle its obvious that their product requires smart IT people, and those companies should invest a lot in them. But the same applies for Toyota, because IT can simplify and LEAN processes that other professions can't.
Compare that to a retail store, restaurant chain, or a cement plant. It's not that common to have IT play the critical X to help your company achieve that competitive advantage, and that's where you find all those managers that are looking for IT folks that are cheap and can get done what's necessary. As a result, you don't always see top of the line quality. I claim this is by choice, not by coincidence.
I have noticed that within the last couple of months, Google has blurred out several large chemical plants (in one of which, I used to work at the time). So its not just nuclear and military, but any other sensitive targets, it appears.
As someone who sits in the plant every day and knows a tiny bit about the materials used, I must say it didn't take long for the initial disgust at Google censoring to be overruled by the whatever so little increase in security. A lot of those places already do a lot to keep people from taking pictures in and around the plants, only makes sense to prevent satellite and flyover pictures from showing up on the web, too.
Ok, what if one person looses 9 out of 10, and the other looses 0 out of 10. If you then leave out the "up to" you woul be screaming "But not EVERYBODY"...
For some people, every glass is just half full, and no matter what you do, they complain. Too bad not up to 9 out of 10 of their complaints just get lost somehow!
Given, Microsoft has a lot of legacy technology and platforms that give them an edge moving forward. But you cannot ignore the other part of the momentum this technology carries with it. All the bugs, limiting architectures, and requirements for legacy support makes it harder to go into a new direction.
My prediction is that the more the environment changes, the bigger an advantage the newer players gain over the large, legacy companies that build their company on incremental products, like Microsoft does with Windows.
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"I'd love to find a girl that likes to play video games, and would enjoy playing with them" Fixed your grammar for you
Apple gets X (10?) % of the monthly subscription from AT&T. Also, they book the iPhone revenue as a service, spread over each month for 2 years. So yes, Apple looses money when people don't get an AT&T contract compared to those who do.
No, its not! Drugs are illegal, music is not.
/.
Distributing drugs is illegal, and distributing music without paying the copyright owner is illegal.
Its because of analogies like yours, that people think that ANY file sharing is illegal.
If you must use an analogy, at least use one that is correct AND appropriate to your audience,
"This is like the car dealer calling the cops because someone vandalized the cars on his lot"
Whether he owned all the cars on the lot or "parked" them there without the car owner's permissions, I don't care. The vandals should still be held responsible.
Show me where I can buy the Iphone without contract
I second that! Where is the "Best of Slashdot" button when you need it?
Who cares about how it is implemented, if the end user has no way of telling if it is secure or not? You can't require the user to check the source code to verify the implementation of how the information is posted.
I would argue the counterpart when it comes to realistic physics. When HL2 came out, I spent more time playing with the physics engine than with anything else. Why? Because it was more realistic than anything else I could do before.
As I kid, I always got in trouble when I shot at things with my slingshot. In HL2, I could blow things up without any (or little) consequences. I would say the same thing is true for movies.
I guess movies have to use exaggerated effects to compensate for the lack of user involvement. After all, if I can't get involved myself and am limited to observing only, then it better be something I don't see anywhere else.
Sports are a good example where physics are still true, and people watch it for the physics (and people's mastery thereof. Think of the x-games, American football, F1 and/or Nascar or any other sport. They all involve gravity, trajectories, momentum, acceleration, shock/impact, friction, and so on.
I'm sure they already have a nice database to use to find prospects that could do the data entry!
Fine, you get your point with the copiers. What about the CD-burners so? What about a recordable audio tape? I only added the copier to demonstrate that there is always SOME degree of legitimate use.
If the people are willing to live with Microsoft's products, I'm sure they will be more than happy with those of Apple as well, and quality doesn't seem to be the most important factor today.
one text message every 4 to 5 minutes for 16 hours a day for 30 days!
I can't write one that fast, but then again, I didn't practice 6,807 times...
OMG its a Pink Poney!!!
I think the comparison fits quite well! Both ask the same number of pointless and stupid questions. Especially "are you sure?"
Only thing in favor for Vista is that it has an "off" button.
Btw, do you think Vista would understand my sig?
And if not, I'm still quite convinced she blows just as much!
Ok, which one is more likely:
SETI finding intelligent life?
or a GEEK getting married?
Funny, I'm running a D610 and I keep getting shocks from it when I walk up to it (not if I sit). But only always on the front left corner. And although they are static shocks, they are much more powerful than what I'm used to from other objects around the house.
What you are saying fits for companies who's products are the software. However, a lot of companies out there employ a lot of programmers that develop customized applications for that business which are never meant to be sold. Often those include HR, Finance, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, or Commercial activities.
When you run a business, you want to pursue your competitive advantage. That can be lower price, better technology, better service, or a few other areas. If you do that, you want to maximize your money on the areas that will help you in your area of advantage, and minimize it in the others. So if IT helps your companies competitive advantage, you should have a lot of funding for a lot of smart people. If it is not, you should find the cheapest way possible to do what's necessary.
If you look at a company like Google/IBM/SAP/Oracle its obvious that their product requires smart IT people, and those companies should invest a lot in them. But the same applies for Toyota, because IT can simplify and LEAN processes that other professions can't.
Compare that to a retail store, restaurant chain, or a cement plant. It's not that common to have IT play the critical X to help your company achieve that competitive advantage, and that's where you find all those managers that are looking for IT folks that are cheap and can get done what's necessary. As a result, you don't always see top of the line quality. I claim this is by choice, not by coincidence.
As someone who sits in the plant every day and knows a tiny bit about the materials used, I must say it didn't take long for the initial disgust at Google censoring to be overruled by the whatever so little increase in security. A lot of those places already do a lot to keep people from taking pictures in and around the plants, only makes sense to prevent satellite and flyover pictures from showing up on the web, too.
I didn't know they had bird flue back then.
Especially if you phrase it that way!
Ok, what if one person looses 9 out of 10, and the other looses 0 out of 10. If you then leave out the "up to" you woul be screaming "But not EVERYBODY"...
For some people, every glass is just half full, and no matter what you do, they complain. Too bad not up to 9 out of 10 of their complaints just get lost somehow!
Given, Microsoft has a lot of legacy technology and platforms that give them an edge moving forward. But you cannot ignore the other part of the momentum this technology carries with it. All the bugs, limiting architectures, and requirements for legacy support makes it harder to go into a new direction.
My prediction is that the more the environment changes, the bigger an advantage the newer players gain over the large, legacy companies that build their company on incremental products, like Microsoft does with Windows.