It clearly states that this is a report of what someone reported. Someone, which is redacted, claimed to see something and the FBI wrote it down. That's what police forces do.
At no point does the FBI say what your summary said.
Thank you. You prove my point. No info on the great things they're doing today. Only the great things they did at 6 years old.
William James Sidis (1898–1944) set a record in 1909 by becoming the youngest person to enroll at Harvard College, at 11 years old.
Later life (1921–1944) He only took work running adding machines or other fairly menial tasks. taught small circles of interested friends his version of American history. He worked in New York City and became estranged from his parents.
March Tian Boedihardjo (born 1998), passed the A-level math exam at the age of nine years and three months
Lists no accomplishments post childhood.
Sufiah Yusof (born 1984) a Malaysian girl, gained entry into St. Hilda's College, Oxford University, in 1997, to study mathematics at 12 years old.
In March 2008, a reporter working undercover for the News of the World found her advertising as a prostitute under the name Shilpa Lee, quoting a rate of £130 an hour. One of her friends described her change of fortunes as "desperately heartbreaking", adding that "her gift [for mathematics] really has been a curse".
Some of these kinds of problems are well documented as something that occasionally someone with autism or something similar just "see" and work with naturally.
So there should be no trouble with providing some of this documentation to support your point.
It's a feature designed to make you take your eyes off the screen. How exactly does that help? If you have to take your eyes off the screen you're doing something wrong.
>Air traffic control is ALWAYS in English. Yeah yeah yeah cultural imperialism cry me a river. Everyone must understand everyone, or planes slam >into each other.
It's not cultural imperialism. Last I checked the States not only invented the airplane and the airline industry but also have the most operations per day. No one else can make a claim for language.
Sure it's a solution but numerous other manufactures produce devices that meet your requirements at a lower cost. There's nothing that makes a mac the best or only solution in your story.
I'm not pretending anything. I honestly view them as white elephants. Other than fashion or ignorance the only reason I can see for purchasing them is someone else is paying. I'm not denying the shiny factor. I just can't see getting one machine when you can get two better machines for the same price. Especially one machine that you're not allowed to open and modify.
I don't feel it's disingenuous to call it a shopping program when it asks you to set up a store account during set up and you have to opt-out of the shopping portion. If the shopping portion didn't exist unless you opted in you might have a point.
You ignored my whole point about being closed. Why exactly must I use itunes to load music? I see it's use as an organizational tool but sometimes you just want to copy a couple mp3 and not have to go through the whole process. Especially if you're no where near your itunes home base. The problem is that it's authoritative. I have one ipod that I can never update because it's orphaned. Any attempt to connect it to itunes results in itunes trying to completely wipe it before it will do anything with it.
"It's also interesting that you categorise[sic] them as a media company when the bulk of their profits (the vast, vast bulk) come from hardware sales."
That's a very disingenuous statement. The majority of their profits do come from hardware. But what type of hardware? It comes from media hardware not computing hardware. Itunes, iphone, ipod greatly surpasses mac revenue. It's akin saying Target is the world's largest restaurant company. They serve prepared food in their department stores and they have revenue four times as large as the largest restaurant company.
"Note the words "supposedly" and the fact that that statement is not a quote from Apple, so "Apple" does not disagree with me. At least not officially."
Someone is quoting Apple's bug database. That would make it hearsay. Where's evidence to support your position? Please provide Apple's statement that it's a bug and will be fixed.
That's not true. The OtherOS feature only existed as a legal move. Game consoles have a higher EU import tariff than computers do. The OtherOS feature was an attempt to have the PS3 classified as a computer. When the legal gambit failed Sony removed the feature to simplify the code base.
Sony had a very specific reason for removing the OtherOS option.
They took away OtherOS because they lost the EU import case. Once the EU ruled that PS3s were not computers and subject to higher import tariffs supporting OtherOS became an expense they didn't want to pay.
I wasn't aware of this trend. Let me clarify my position. Macs are over priced. From an economic stand point I have no idea why anyone would purchase one.
From a fashion stand point I totally understand why they sell. No comment there and as with anything based purely on taste you can't judge what someone does or doesn't like.
"This iOS bug will be fixed" Apple disagrees with you.
Apple is no longer a computer company. They're a media company. They're more similar to the music industry/Hollywood/mainstream news/movie studio than they are to a software or hardware company. Apple came up with a new way to sell old stuff. Like any media company they strive for lock in and closed formats/distribution channels to protect revenue streams. Why can't you put music on an ipod without their shopping program?
This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone. They're using a 300 year old business model.
Well other than one being an error on the producer side and one being an error on the consumer side and one being complete made up nonsense . . . . not really sure what you're point is.
You find android and Linux too hard to understand and bought a mac. Nothing wrong with that. However that doesn't change the fact that apple are control freaks and macs are overpriced in terms of hardware. Both these are facts that people should be aware of and factor into their decision making process.
Remember your spending habits matter more than your vote in most capitalist countries.
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It doesn't need to be. Before this is was leaps and bounds above PSN. After this is will be leaps and bounds above PSN.
The PSN is embarrassingly feature poor.
Wow. Your summary is a flat out lie.
It clearly states that this is a report of what someone reported. Someone, which is redacted, claimed to see something and the FBI wrote it down. That's what police forces do.
At no point does the FBI say what your summary said.
He would be an exception case. Check out the people listed below. It's a laundry list of train wrecks.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_child_prodigies
Thank you. You prove my point. No info on the great things they're doing today. Only the great things they did at 6 years old.
William James Sidis (1898–1944) set a record in 1909 by becoming the youngest person to enroll at Harvard College, at 11 years old.
Later life (1921–1944)
He only took work running adding machines or other fairly menial tasks.
taught small circles of interested friends his version of American history.
He worked in New York City and became estranged from his parents.
March Tian Boedihardjo (born 1998), passed the A-level math exam at the age of nine years and three months
Lists no accomplishments post childhood.
Sufiah Yusof (born 1984) a Malaysian girl, gained entry into St. Hilda's College, Oxford University, in 1997, to study mathematics at 12 years old.
In March 2008, a reporter working undercover for the News of the World found her advertising as a prostitute under the name Shilpa Lee, quoting a rate of £130 an hour. One of her friends described her change of fortunes as "desperately heartbreaking", adding that "her gift [for mathematics] really has been a curse".
Why exactly shouldn't the person making their claim have to prove it?
Why should we trust overly broad statements that claim something is widespread?
If these things are true then it's trivial for the author to backup the assert.
Which IQ determination method was used on Mozart?
Give it 5-20 years. You're feel better after he burns him self out.
You always hear about child prodigies but you never hear about successful middle age people who were child prodigies.
Some of these kinds of problems are well documented as something that occasionally someone with autism or something similar just "see" and work with naturally.
So there should be no trouble with providing some of this documentation to support your point.
Re G19 LCD. No it doesn't. It can't.
It's a feature designed to make you take your eyes off the screen. How exactly does that help? If you have to take your eyes off the screen you're doing something wrong.
No that's how patents work. In the States there used to be a prototype requirement. If you couldn't make it you couldn't patent it.
Then they removed it.
Then patent trolls appeared.
What was the last merger they denied?
How is loss of a very expensive fighter and the loss of an even more expensive pilot "the least of their problems?"
That's a very serious problem.
>Air traffic control is ALWAYS in English. Yeah yeah yeah cultural imperialism cry me a river. Everyone must understand everyone, or planes slam >into each other.
It's not cultural imperialism. Last I checked the States not only invented the airplane and the airline industry but also have the most operations per day. No one else can make a claim for language.
And the quote where Apple says this is a bug and will be fixed?
Sure it's a solution but numerous other manufactures produce devices that meet your requirements at a lower cost. There's nothing that makes a mac the best or only solution in your story.
I'm not pretending anything. I honestly view them as white elephants. Other than fashion or ignorance the only reason I can see for purchasing them is someone else is paying. I'm not denying the shiny factor. I just can't see getting one machine when you can get two better machines for the same price. Especially one machine that you're not allowed to open and modify.
I don't feel it's disingenuous to call it a shopping program when it asks you to set up a store account during set up and you have to opt-out of the shopping portion. If the shopping portion didn't exist unless you opted in you might have a point.
You ignored my whole point about being closed. Why exactly must I use itunes to load music? I see it's use as an organizational tool but sometimes you just want to copy a couple mp3 and not have to go through the whole process. Especially if you're no where near your itunes home base. The problem is that it's authoritative. I have one ipod that I can never update because it's orphaned. Any attempt to connect it to itunes results in itunes trying to completely wipe it before it will do anything with it.
"It's also interesting that you categorise[sic] them as a media company when the bulk of their profits (the vast, vast bulk) come from hardware sales."
That's a very disingenuous statement. The majority of their profits do come from hardware. But what type of hardware? It comes from media hardware not computing hardware. Itunes, iphone, ipod greatly surpasses mac revenue. It's akin saying Target is the world's largest restaurant company. They serve prepared food in their department stores and they have revenue four times as large as the largest restaurant company.
"Note the words "supposedly" and the fact that that statement is not a quote from Apple, so "Apple" does not disagree with me. At least not officially."
Someone is quoting Apple's bug database. That would make it hearsay. Where's evidence to support your position? Please provide Apple's statement that it's a bug and will be fixed.
If you lock someone in a room but hide the key in the room they will eventually find it and let themselves out.
That's not true. The OtherOS feature only existed as a legal move. Game consoles have a higher EU import tariff than computers do. The OtherOS feature was an attempt to have the PS3 classified as a computer. When the legal gambit failed Sony removed the feature to simplify the code base.
Sony had a very specific reason for removing the OtherOS option.
They took away OtherOS because they lost the EU import case. Once the EU ruled that PS3s were not computers and subject to higher import tariffs supporting OtherOS became an expense they didn't want to pay.
I wasn't aware of this trend. Let me clarify my position. Macs are over priced. From an economic stand point I have no idea why anyone would purchase one.
From a fashion stand point I totally understand why they sell. No comment there and as with anything based purely on taste you can't judge what someone does or doesn't like.
"This iOS bug will be fixed" Apple disagrees with you.
"Apple is aware of the issues, which are currently filed as bugs. But according to Matt Asay, who is vice president of business development for mobile Web framework maker Strobe, Apple supposedly has no plans to fix them. Instead, they are marked "not to be fixed by exec order," suggesting that a higher up at Apple is preventing engineers from fixing the problems."
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/03/confirmed-some-web-apps-not-seeing-ios-43-javascript-speedup.ars
http://twitter.com/#!/mjasay/status/47786214966837248
Apple is no longer a computer company. They're a media company. They're more similar to the music industry/Hollywood/mainstream news/movie studio than they are to a software or hardware company. Apple came up with a new way to sell old stuff. Like any media company they strive for lock in and closed formats/distribution channels to protect revenue streams. Why can't you put music on an ipod without their shopping program?
This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone. They're using a 300 year old business model.
Well other than one being an error on the producer side and one being an error on the consumer side and one being complete made up nonsense . . . . not really sure what you're point is.
You find android and Linux too hard to understand and bought a mac. Nothing wrong with that. However that doesn't change the fact that apple are control freaks and macs are overpriced in terms of hardware. Both these are facts that people should be aware of and factor into their decision making process.
Remember your spending habits matter more than your vote in most capitalist countries.
That's nice. Are you going to address the point made?
Also true.
I agree. Everything you say also applies to the PS to PS2 transition. Yet both sold in record amounts.
Better graphics and better processing power have sold consoles for decades and will continue to for decades more.
Chronic is not capable of saying that.
How does Chronic know that Apple forgot?
Is anyone surprised? This is what happens when you decide to use a closed system.
The customer always pays. Apple forces apps into the app store so Apple can get their 30%. The devs pass that cost on to the customer.
Add in a higher than average up front cost for the device. iOS users need to speak out on this. Stop paying more for less!