Given the amount it's likely to be used, I can't understand the size of the place. Just how many people do they expect to be queueing at the check-in desk brandishing their $200,000 tickets?
Presumably, the vastness is to allow the entire roster of passengers plus crew for a single day to play a little 5-a-side soccer before they take off. Providing they can find a couple of janitors to make up the numbers.
(from TFA): "The Voyager technology is so outmoded," said Tidbinbilla's spokesman, Glen Nagle, "we have had to maintain heritage equipment to talk to them."
Please enlighten me on any other reason a person would post an ad hominem attack as an AC.
I hardly see the need since you've just repeated the same "this is my opinion, and that's all that matters" bullshit as before. Substantiation may not be your thing, but clearly hypocrisy is.
The AC posted as AC intentionally, most likely because he/she/it is concerned that their credibility is already too crappy to be listened to...
Seriously, I don't know how you have the nerve to use words like "unsubstantiated" when your ability to read the minds of other posters, and second-guess their intentions seems all the substantiation you need for your own views.
What pisses me off about the whole thing is this is the usual "everyone's copying Apple" bullshit that gets trotted out whenever someone releases a product which might be considered competition or fulfils a similar role to an Apple product.
Because Apple were categorically the first company ever to release a pocket device with a touchscreen. History starts with them. The whole world of PDAs with network capabilities, picture viewers, mp3 players, web browsing capabilities didn't really happen. Companies like Palm who made small touchscreen devices, looked into the future, predicted the iPhone and copied the concept years before Apple did it first.
And I say that as a Mac Pro owner. Love their computers. Love their gear. Hate their fanbase.
The British BC is usually wrong about the US legal system and even more off about Constitutional matters.
And your evidence is... Oh wait, you don't have any, because you just made that up.
IMO the legal right of Apple or AT&T to stop someone selling unlocking software will probably become a moot point, simply because if a company can do it, eventually some cracker somewhere will create a freely distributable version and release it onto p2p. Once that happens the only thing can Apple can do is update the firmware, which I would guess they have every right to do if they choose to.
In a nutshell, I think that allowing it to be unlocked would be beneficial to Apple's sales, but perhaps may cause (possible legal) problems in their relationship with AT&T.
They aren't selling below cost to kill a competitor, it's just that they've chosen to lose money on the consoles in order to make money selling games. That's nothing more than Sony and Nintendo have been doing for years.
I'm amazed the debate has managed to last this long without someone pointing out that Nintendo don't do this, and as far as I know, never have with their consoles. The 'profit on every console sold' manta is one of the fundamental pillars of their business. I thought pretty much everyone knew that one.
You are posting in support of people who believe ad-blocking is a crime and you completely miss the point I'm trying to make.
"You miss my point" - the enduring cry of people who don't want to accept that their previous point was inaccurate. I understood your point perfectly well. Unfortunately, instead of listening to mine, you decided to get on your high horse and try to suggest I was some kind of mouthpiece for the advertising industry.
Whether we like it or not, advertising revenue supports large swathes of the internet, television, print and other media, which would likely cease to exist without advertising revenue. I don't like ads any more than anyone else, but I generally put up with them (unless they are excessive) because without them, several of my favorite sites probably wouldn't exist.
Please don't force the rest of us to conform to your views.
Excuse me? "Forcing you"... Ahh... ok - I get it. You're just joking. Anyone who could consider my previous comment, forcing you to conform to my view must either be joking, or an idiot. And while you're at it, cut the condescending crap about giving away code. Believe it or not, you're not the only one who does that - except some of us don't expect to brag about it, or use it as some kind of justification for our unrealistic view of the world.
With that in mind, let me fix the wording of your statement:
Does it kill you *that* much to have to use the stuff that came preinstalled on your computer? Like it or not, the retail computer market is largely driven by 3rd party app support, and a lot of retail computer vendors would either disappear or be less comprehensive if they didn't have the incentive in place to keep providing low-cost computers.
Be careful what you are asking for, you might get it.
No.
Let's be absolutely clear here. You fundamentally changed the wording of my statement to fit your own view, on an entirely different issue to the one I raised. And then had the audacity to suggest that I am "asking for it".
You can hide those inline ads with some CSS tricks in Firefox. I made a journal post when an awful Intel sponsorship thing appeared on slashdot with details of how to hide that.
Does it kill you *that* much to have to view an ad now and again. Like it or not, the internet is largely driven by ad revenue, and a lot of interesting sites would either disappear or be less comprehensive if they didn't have the incentive in place to keep providing content. People do actually have to earn a living sometimes - it's not immoral, and I'm sure most of us have actually been guilty of earning money in the past too (yeah we're all going straight to hell).
It always strikes me, that when the effort involved in blocking ads (figuring out CSS tricks in Firefox) outweighs the split second it takes for your brain to distinguish the 'legit' content from the commercial content, the purpose of blocking ads this way is somewhat self-defeating.
Personally I too saw that Intel sponsorship on Slashdot a while back. In fact, I dare say I saw it quite frequently. And though it may shock you to hear this, I survived without my life being ruined.
how would this backfire if the book is going to sell millions anyway?
Well it'll piss off a lot of fans (not that I'm one personally) when some prick decides to do a 'drive-by spoilering' outside a bookstore on launch night so that he can video it for youtube.
[blockquote]I mean... Harry Potter is Luke Skywalker's father?![/blockquote]
Don't joke. The way with the ridiculous bullshit Lucas writes these days, you might have given away the plot of the TV series.
Just a correction to your signature: "Piracy is ethically no different than finding a few nice items on the street that you weren't planning to buy for yourself, making an exact replica of those items, and taking the replicas with you, leaving the original items unharmed."
Really? You make it sound like people who download music, just stumble upon it by accident, and don't go searching for it. I'm no industry shill -far from it- but it seems your analogy has a big hole in it.
The iPhone already has.Mac integration, because iTunes already syncs it with Safari's bookmarks, email/contacts/calendars, and email settings. ITunes in turn, syncs with.Mac.
That's a new take on integration. It's good to see the reality distortion field is still functioning magnificently.
Let's take a real world example. A guy has sex with his girlfriend (which after all is a type of integration). She goes off and has sex with another guy (more integration). By your logic, therefore the two guys also integrate (which in our case means having sex). So, by definition, pretty much the entire male population are homosexual.
You add a 50 meter per second side thrust and in 20 seconds you're a kilometre to one side of it.What, spacegoing ships won't have a radar for 20 seconds worth of advanced warning of rocks?
Well if the previous poster is correct and 10% of C is 30,000km/s, you would need to be able to detect a golfball sized rock at a distance of 600,000 kilometres to make that kind of manoeuvre. And that's assuming there's just one of them, and that you can also detect exactly what direction and at what velocity the rock itself is travelling.
I'm sure at some point we might be able to do it, but speaking as a complete layman (and let's face it, everyone is living in the stone age compared to the kind of tech we're talking about here) I can't help wondering whether we'd be more successful developing some kind of frontal energy shield that just vaporizes everything in its path.
By attacking one of the few companies more hated than them, they're trying to re-direct some of their bad karma
One of these days, they're going to have to put some kind of disclaimer at the bottom of the page saying "the views represented on Slashdot, are not necessarily indicative of those held in the Real World(tm)"
He's a professional driver. He's paid to drive the car. That's all he does every day. When he drives the car into a wall, at regular race speed, without being put under undue pressure from any other driver on the track, he fucked up. That's all there is to it.
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Given the amount it's likely to be used, I can't understand the size of the place. Just how many people do they expect to be queueing at the check-in desk brandishing their $200,000 tickets?
Presumably, the vastness is to allow the entire roster of passengers plus crew for a single day to play a little 5-a-side soccer before they take off. Providing they can find a couple of janitors to make up the numbers.
Digg doesn't exist any more after their userbase said they would quit over the DVD encryption key fiasco. Kinda like Facebook. Oh wait...
And the right not to. Which so far they have upheld.
What pisses me off about the whole thing is this is the usual "everyone's copying Apple" bullshit that gets trotted out whenever someone releases a product which might be considered competition or fulfils a similar role to an Apple product.
Because Apple were categorically the first company ever to release a pocket device with a touchscreen. History starts with them. The whole world of PDAs with network capabilities, picture viewers, mp3 players, web browsing capabilities didn't really happen. Companies like Palm who made small touchscreen devices, looked into the future, predicted the iPhone and copied the concept years before Apple did it first.
And I say that as a Mac Pro owner. Love their computers. Love their gear. Hate their fanbase.
IMO the legal right of Apple or AT&T to stop someone selling unlocking software will probably become a moot point, simply because if a company can do it, eventually some cracker somewhere will create a freely distributable version and release it onto p2p. Once that happens the only thing can Apple can do is update the firmware, which I would guess they have every right to do if they choose to.
In a nutshell, I think that allowing it to be unlocked would be beneficial to Apple's sales, but perhaps may cause (possible legal) problems in their relationship with AT&T.
Which fantasy version of Tokyo were you visiting? They use the same memory sticks and USB cables in Japan as everyone else.
Whether we like it or not, advertising revenue supports large swathes of the internet, television, print and other media, which would likely cease to exist without advertising revenue. I don't like ads any more than anyone else, but I generally put up with them (unless they are excessive) because without them, several of my favorite sites probably wouldn't exist. Excuse me? "Forcing you"... Ahh... ok - I get it. You're just joking. Anyone who could consider my previous comment, forcing you to conform to my view must either be joking, or an idiot. And while you're at it, cut the condescending crap about giving away code. Believe it or not, you're not the only one who does that - except some of us don't expect to brag about it, or use it as some kind of justification for our unrealistic view of the world.
Let's be absolutely clear here. You fundamentally changed the wording of my statement to fit your own view, on an entirely different issue to the one I raised. And then had the audacity to suggest that I am "asking for it".
It always strikes me, that when the effort involved in blocking ads (figuring out CSS tricks in Firefox) outweighs the split second it takes for your brain to distinguish the 'legit' content from the commercial content, the purpose of blocking ads this way is somewhat self-defeating.
Personally I too saw that Intel sponsorship on Slashdot a while back. In fact, I dare say I saw it quite frequently. And though it may shock you to hear this, I survived without my life being ruined.
[blockquote]I mean... Harry Potter is Luke Skywalker's father?![/blockquote] Don't joke. The way with the ridiculous bullshit Lucas writes these days, you might have given away the plot of the TV series.
Let's take a real world example. A guy has sex with his girlfriend (which after all is a type of integration). She goes off and has sex with another guy (more integration). By your logic, therefore the two guys also integrate (which in our case means having sex). So, by definition, pretty much the entire male population are homosexual.
I'm sure at some point we might be able to do it, but speaking as a complete layman (and let's face it, everyone is living in the stone age compared to the kind of tech we're talking about here) I can't help wondering whether we'd be more successful developing some kind of frontal energy shield that just vaporizes everything in its path.
Sensitive much?
He's a professional driver. He's paid to drive the car. That's all he does every day. When he drives the car into a wall, at regular race speed, without being put under undue pressure from any other driver on the track, he fucked up. That's all there is to it.