I think that policy is a holdover from 5-10 years ago, when you could expect about 25% of all LCDs to have at least one stuck sub-pixel. It just wasn't feasible for most companies back then to accept returns for displays with only one or two stuck pixels.
If Apple only has a small share (what, 10%?) of the market and faces numerous strong competitors, how on earth can they be monopolistic or damage the marketplace? All they can do is hurt themselves.
I think that when people try associating Apple with a monopoly, they're really just looking for an excuse to project their own ideas of what Apple should be or should do. Why don't you go start your own company if their business strategy bothers you so much?
"Parents have a great responsibility to their children, but as we all know, many irresponsible and incapable people have children."
Those same irresponsible and incapable parents are the ones who vote in the same schmucks every year who trash the education system and make sure the lowest common denominator (the kids of the irresponsible and incapable parents) pass without learning anything. See: No Child Left Behind
"If it was anything other than Flash, and anyone other than Apple I'm sure more people would be outraged."
So everyone's outraged at Sony and Nintendo for their locked-down PS3, PSP, and Wii development platforms? Everyone's enraged at Microsoft for their locked-down Xbox platform and completely off-limits Zune platform?
People are only enraged at Apple because Apple is fun to hate with its newfound popularity and success.
I came up with an idea for choosing random ballots to fill legislature seats and other political positions, with voters allowed to write absolutely anyone on the ballot, including themselves. Over time, the results would be a much better statistical match to people's actual preferences and reflect the diversity of opinions better than the current majoritarian approach. Popular parties would still be more likely to win seats, but the notion of wasting one's vote would no longer interfere with decision-making, since every single seat would in theory be decided by a (someone's) single vote.
I always wondered about themselves. If an agent of the copyright holder is actually offering you a seeded download, then by definition you are licensed to download it.
I don't recall ever reading a single news item at The Times. I do follow links to The Guardian and The Independent quite frequently, and even to the BBC occasionally. Go thou quietly into the night, Times, for thou shalt not be missed.
Humans can already see some ultraviolet. The only problem is that our lenses filter out the UV part of the spectrum. In WW2, however, elderly people who had had cataract surgery were used to read UV signal lights that normal people would not be able to see.
"Pharmaceutical prices are unregulated, allowing excessive profiteering."
They're reverse-regulated thanks to a government monopolies that shuts out competitors. Eliminate or drastically reduce drug patent terms, and I guarantee competition and Wal-Mart will drive prices to a fraction their current height.
"Hospitals are allowed to operate for profit. WTF?"
Why the hell would anyone open a hospital and equip it with the latest equipment and best doctors, if he couldn't earn a profit from it?
Today, you potentially ruined a man's life even though he did nothing wrong and hurt nobody. You are an asshole. A grade-A, goose-stepping, "just following orders" asshole. It's because of people like you who facilitate tyranny and hide behind flimsy excuses that our world sucks as much as it does.
"The same thing will happen with TabletPCs. If the form factor takes off, most of the netbook manufacturers will rebuild their devices without a keyboard. "
You talk as if the tablet PC is a new emerging category. It's not. It's a failed category that's been around forever, relegated to niche markets like hospitals because it's too clumsy for anything else.
If the iPad succeeds (and I think it will), it will because it's a new device that shares little in common with the moribund tablet PC.
I recently did an evaluation for a translation agency on the state of current machine translation services. Since I translate Japanese to English for a living, that was the pair I was testing.
Long story short, of the five services I tried that do Japanese-English MT, Google came out the worst. Yes, the worst. Mind you, all of them were terrible. None could produce grammatical English sentences, and most couldn't even translate basic things like Japanese dates properly.
If you deliberately make something far more poisonous than it needs to be precisely because you expect someone to drink it and want them to suffer a horrible death as a result, then it's absolutely a heinous crime, and anyone going along with it should have been tried as murderers.
I'm with you. I've chosen not to board the Blu-Ray train/bag-o'-hurt, and I haven't bought a DVD in years The media oligopoly has clearly shown they despise me and don't want me as a customer, though they lust after the contents of my wallet and would rob me on the subway if they ever had a chance. Screw them.
Internet + FrontRow + iMac 27 is all I need for media now.
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I think that policy is a holdover from 5-10 years ago, when you could expect about 25% of all LCDs to have at least one stuck sub-pixel. It just wasn't feasible for most companies back then to accept returns for displays with only one or two stuck pixels.
Web apps designed in HTML5 can indeed work when you're offline. However, you're definitely right about being at the mercy of the website.
That sounds dangerously close to "sexing your kin", which is, I believe, illegal in nearly every state except Alabama.
If Apple only has a small share (what, 10%?) of the market and faces numerous strong competitors, how on earth can they be monopolistic or damage the marketplace? All they can do is hurt themselves.
I think that when people try associating Apple with a monopoly, they're really just looking for an excuse to project their own ideas of what Apple should be or should do. Why don't you go start your own company if their business strategy bothers you so much?
"Parents have a great responsibility to their children, but as we all know, many irresponsible and incapable people have children."
Those same irresponsible and incapable parents are the ones who vote in the same schmucks every year who trash the education system and make sure the lowest common denominator (the kids of the irresponsible and incapable parents) pass without learning anything. See: No Child Left Behind
"If it was anything other than Flash, and anyone other than Apple I'm sure more people would be outraged."
So everyone's outraged at Sony and Nintendo for their locked-down PS3, PSP, and Wii development platforms? Everyone's enraged at Microsoft for their locked-down Xbox platform and completely off-limits Zune platform?
People are only enraged at Apple because Apple is fun to hate with its newfound popularity and success.
Spending trillions of dollars killing brown people gives your politicians bigger hard-ons.
DWI doesn't mean drinking and driving.
Is that a joke? Most people in the US are in prison for victimless (political) crimes like inhaling smoke.
The weakness of Flash is that it's like Java. You write once and the content will suck anywhere with a Flash plugin.
I came up with an idea for choosing random ballots to fill legislature seats and other political positions, with voters allowed to write absolutely anyone on the ballot, including themselves. Over time, the results would be a much better statistical match to people's actual preferences and reflect the diversity of opinions better than the current majoritarian approach. Popular parties would still be more likely to win seats, but the notion of wasting one's vote would no longer interfere with decision-making, since every single seat would in theory be decided by a (someone's) single vote.
I always wondered about themselves. If an agent of the copyright holder is actually offering you a seeded download, then by definition you are licensed to download it.
"Vas te faire foutre"
I don't recall ever reading a single news item at The Times. I do follow links to The Guardian and The Independent quite frequently, and even to the BBC occasionally. Go thou quietly into the night, Times, for thou shalt not be missed.
Humans can already see some ultraviolet. The only problem is that our lenses filter out the UV part of the spectrum. In WW2, however, elderly people who had had cataract surgery were used to read UV signal lights that normal people would not be able to see.
"Pharmaceutical prices are unregulated, allowing excessive profiteering."
They're reverse-regulated thanks to a government monopolies that shuts out competitors. Eliminate or drastically reduce drug patent terms, and I guarantee competition and Wal-Mart will drive prices to a fraction their current height.
"Hospitals are allowed to operate for profit. WTF?"
Why the hell would anyone open a hospital and equip it with the latest equipment and best doctors, if he couldn't earn a profit from it?
Agreed. Just fit the aliens up with Facebook, Twitter, and email, and let them interact with whomever they want.
Dear Juror "Elbow Spur",
Today, you potentially ruined a man's life even though he did nothing wrong and hurt nobody. You are an asshole. A grade-A, goose-stepping, "just following orders" asshole. It's because of people like you who facilitate tyranny and hide behind flimsy excuses that our world sucks as much as it does.
I would propose Japan as the leader in this category.
"The same thing will happen with TabletPCs. If the form factor takes off, most of the netbook manufacturers will rebuild their devices without a keyboard. "
You talk as if the tablet PC is a new emerging category. It's not. It's a failed category that's been around forever, relegated to niche markets like hospitals because it's too clumsy for anything else.
If the iPad succeeds (and I think it will), it will because it's a new device that shares little in common with the moribund tablet PC.
I recently did an evaluation for a translation agency on the state of current machine translation services. Since I translate Japanese to English for a living, that was the pair I was testing.
Long story short, of the five services I tried that do Japanese-English MT, Google came out the worst. Yes, the worst. Mind you, all of them were terrible. None could produce grammatical English sentences, and most couldn't even translate basic things like Japanese dates properly.
Britain is destroying itself much more quickly than a bombing campaign ever could.
If you deliberately make something far more poisonous than it needs to be precisely because you expect someone to drink it and want them to suffer a horrible death as a result, then it's absolutely a heinous crime, and anyone going along with it should have been tried as murderers.
I'm with you. I've chosen not to board the Blu-Ray train/bag-o'-hurt, and I haven't bought a DVD in years The media oligopoly has clearly shown they despise me and don't want me as a customer, though they lust after the contents of my wallet and would rob me on the subway if they ever had a chance. Screw them.
Internet + FrontRow + iMac 27 is all I need for media now.
You seem to have no idea what "free market" means.