Just dropping? What about getting pissed off and throwing it across the room. Or what about drunken stoopers where you drop it in the toilet! hasn't happened to me, but many a friend. cell phones now can dry and and be usable, but what about ones with a disk drive?
Why? Because it is PURE profit right now, if everyone is charging the same, they all can milk users while they can. One day it will be competitive, right now they all "agree" to keep prices high to rip off users. Do you really think SMS messages cost the $.20 they do to send? of course not. $.01 would be expensive still.
It will have a screen in the future and it will eventually have a FM tuner (it is built into the chip).
Apple scaled out the features with the first iPod (touch wheel, screens, ect) and they will with the shuffle as well. You will get the people that bought the first gen to dump out money for the better ones as they come out as well.
Until they have a screen that can figure out what i am looking at and want to "click". Small things like that are as bad as the "eraser" and touchpad mice.
They will fight it tooth and nail just like the RIAA. They don't see the way the market is going, end up fighting until they are forced to adopt it.
The most interested is the porn industry. They WANT you to spread their videos. RIAA & MPAA & whatever the tv show makers are called don't get it. It is what people want, just not what they want. They will eventually, they could make a fortune now, but no, it is easier to fight the whole way for them.
It is about convenience for most people, i don't mind using iTunes because i don't feel like searching the net 20 minutes if there is a song i MUST have.
i didn't say it wouldn't be cool to have, it just wouldn't be a big marketing tool. yeah i'd prob play around with it if i did have a tivo and the ability to do so.
The average (99%) of users have no reason to need that. It is just icing on the cake for dorks who want to play with it. Granted it may be fun to do, but realistically, it can't be a big selling point.
he is the single largest donator in the world, he pushes causes, gives insane amounts of money to AIDS research. he is a good person as much as many will have distain for his business practices.
or not taking the security concerns seriously. If you are saving peoples Social Security Numbers and CC Numbers then you should be encrypting that data. Venture to guess how many places actually encrypt that in a database?
But then again i would say most larger places do take these steps. More often than not I won't buy from somewhere I am unsure of or if they are not in the http://www.bbb.org/. Plus, how many people know how to always use SSL when sending sensitive stuff? I would venture my grandparents and mother have no idea.
On a side not to the last statement, i would like to say, office depot does NOT use SSL for their secure communications when you order something from in store.
Brian: Yeah, uh, about your pamphlet, uh, I'm not seeing anything about German history between 1939 and 1945. There's just a big gap.
German Tour Guide: Everyone was on vacation! On your left is Munich's first city hall erected in 15--
Brian: Wait, wait. What are you talking about? Germany invaded Poland in 1939 and-- German Tour Guide: We were invited! Punch was served!
Brian: You can't just ignore those years. Thomas Mann fled to America because of Nazism's stranglehold on Germany.
German Tour Guide: Nope. Nope. He left to manage a Dairy Queen.
Brian: A Dairy Queen? That's preposterous.
German Tour Guide: I will hear no more insinuations about the German people! Nothing bad happened!
One of my mothers friends is starting a plant that converts tires into Oil. The process takes old tires and removes the oil from them, basically oil from the rubber and oil they pick up from driving on the road. I forget if it is a qt per tire or something goofy like that.
On a serious note, this is no worse than the gutenburg project trying to digitize books, it should be an effort undertaken to make books more easiliy accessable. Not everyone can lug around 20 books, why not use a portable device to read! It is progression, you saw the church throwing a fit when Gutenburg invented the printing press because they couldn't control people anymore. Same deal, hundreds of years later.
Companies act like it is a cripling cost, but what $60/month for cable, when customers will use this feature if you have it, it will even draw people to your store. Giving it away for free should bring them more people one would think.
but then again starbucks has such a big customer base that those people don't care what they pay for WiFi as long as they get their mocacappachino that costs $8
Malpractice suits aren't really frivilous. They are very very hard to prove and most lawyers will make you pony up the money if you go to trial incase you lose. Most lawyers won't even touch malpractice suits that aren't open and shut. They are expensive to both sides so both sides don't jump into them. And malpractice only occurs when you go outside the realm of standards of care.
90% of cases in court right now are criminal and divorces, by far they are not clogging our court systems. I do agree with health care costs being out of touch wiht everything else though. Simply allowing insurace companies to compete (which you can only sell insurance in one state) and removeing "necessary care items" (states mandate what insurance companies need to have in policies) would reduce a lot of cost
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1.6 "mustang" will be named java 6.0, for whatever reason.
i just assume they will never go to 2.x, but continue on with 1.x up until forever.
the whole "java 2.0", "java 5.0" is stupid to begin with.
who can save us from these "scientists" that are bent on terrorizing the world with black holes
jeez! you can't throw it all at a user a once! the only way is to scale out those big features incrimentally.
They run up to the booth yelling "lightning bolt lightning bolt lightning bolt lightning bolt lightning bolt"
than the current stupid flicks such as "The Pacifier"
No wonder culture is in the dumps.
Just dropping? What about getting pissed off and throwing it across the room. Or what about drunken stoopers where you drop it in the toilet! hasn't happened to me, but many a friend. cell phones now can dry and and be usable, but what about ones with a disk drive?
Yeah the UN has an amazing record of stoping genocide world wide. I feel safer already.
Why? Because it is PURE profit right now, if everyone is charging the same, they all can milk users while they can. One day it will be competitive, right now they all "agree" to keep prices high to rip off users. Do you really think SMS messages cost the $.20 they do to send? of course not. $.01 would be expensive still.
Period.
It will have a screen in the future and it will eventually have a FM tuner (it is built into the chip).
Apple scaled out the features with the first iPod (touch wheel, screens, ect) and they will with the shuffle as well. You will get the people that bought the first gen to dump out money for the better ones as they come out as well.
Until they have a screen that can figure out what i am looking at and want to "click". Small things like that are as bad as the "eraser" and touchpad mice.
They will fight it tooth and nail just like the RIAA. They don't see the way the market is going, end up fighting until they are forced to adopt it.
The most interested is the porn industry. They WANT you to spread their videos. RIAA & MPAA & whatever the tv show makers are called don't get it. It is what people want, just not what they want. They will eventually, they could make a fortune now, but no, it is easier to fight the whole way for them.
It is about convenience for most people, i don't mind using iTunes because i don't feel like searching the net 20 minutes if there is a song i MUST have.
i didn't say it wouldn't be cool to have, it just wouldn't be a big marketing tool. yeah i'd prob play around with it if i did have a tivo and the ability to do so.
The average (99%) of users have no reason to need that. It is just icing on the cake for dorks who want to play with it. Granted it may be fun to do, but realistically, it can't be a big selling point.
he is the single largest donator in the world, he pushes causes, gives insane amounts of money to AIDS research. he is a good person as much as many will have distain for his business practices.
Apple has the best selling philosophy:
Sell version 1 w/ minimal features
get everyone hooked
release version two with extensive features
profit
look at the shuffle, the chip has the ability to recieve FM, they will add a screen and FM tuner in 1-2 versions to bump sales up. brilliant.
And not let spyware type stuff get added to it. Lets hope their "addon" framework is a bit better than IE's "addon" framework.
I mean, $2-3 a PIECE? who the hell pays that? I am quite content with the standard ringer on my LG. It is a damn phone!
or not taking the security concerns seriously. If you are saving peoples Social Security Numbers and CC Numbers then you should be encrypting that data. Venture to guess how many places actually encrypt that in a database?
But then again i would say most larger places do take these steps. More often than not I won't buy from somewhere I am unsure of or if they are not in the http://www.bbb.org/. Plus, how many people know how to always use SSL when sending sensitive stuff? I would venture my grandparents and mother have no idea.
On a side not to the last statement, i would like to say, office depot does NOT use SSL for their secure communications when you order something from in store.
Brian: Yeah, uh, about your pamphlet, uh, I'm not seeing anything about German history between 1939 and 1945. There's just a big gap.
German Tour Guide: Everyone was on vacation! On your left is Munich's first city hall erected in 15--
Brian: Wait, wait. What are you talking about? Germany invaded Poland in 1939 and--
German Tour Guide: We were invited! Punch was served!
Brian: You can't just ignore those years. Thomas Mann fled to America because of Nazism's stranglehold on Germany.
German Tour Guide: Nope. Nope. He left to manage a Dairy Queen.
Brian: A Dairy Queen? That's preposterous.
German Tour Guide: I will hear no more insinuations about the German people! Nothing bad happened!
The BEST self help book goes to: Depression for Dummies
The title is comedy gold
One of my mothers friends is starting a plant that converts tires into Oil. The process takes old tires and removes the oil from them, basically oil from the rubber and oil they pick up from driving on the road. I forget if it is a qt per tire or something goofy like that.
They are out there, we need to find them.
No, France now STFU!
On a serious note, this is no worse than the gutenburg project trying to digitize books, it should be an effort undertaken to make books more easiliy accessable. Not everyone can lug around 20 books, why not use a portable device to read! It is progression, you saw the church throwing a fit when Gutenburg invented the printing press because they couldn't control people anymore. Same deal, hundreds of years later.
You are correct, the USA is falling behind in http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0 F16FB38590C708CDDAC0894DC404482
Companies act like it is a cripling cost, but what $60/month for cable, when customers will use this feature if you have it, it will even draw people to your store. Giving it away for free should bring them more people one would think.
but then again starbucks has such a big customer base that those people don't care what they pay for WiFi as long as they get their mocacappachino that costs $8
Malpractice suits aren't really frivilous. They are very very hard to prove and most lawyers will make you pony up the money if you go to trial incase you lose. Most lawyers won't even touch malpractice suits that aren't open and shut. They are expensive to both sides so both sides don't jump into them. And malpractice only occurs when you go outside the realm of standards of care.
90% of cases in court right now are criminal and divorces, by far they are not clogging our court systems. I do agree with health care costs being out of touch wiht everything else though. Simply allowing insurace companies to compete (which you can only sell insurance in one state) and removeing "necessary care items" (states mandate what insurance companies need to have in policies) would reduce a lot of cost