Um, just because something looks pre-written, doesn't mean it is. I've actually heard my 10 year old nephew say things that prompted me to look around for a teleprompter because it sounded like it was written by a PR flunky. But apparently, that's just the way he talks. Sometimes you're right, but the mere fact that someone sounds like an ad doesn't necessarily mean they are.
I cannot believe the blind moronic stupidity in this comment. While we're at it, let's just reinstate slavery too. After all, what else can we do with all the poor people that can't afford to buy water from whatever rich individuals or companies bought their local lake.
Earth does NOT belong to anyone. Not the rich, not the poor, not the governments. You cannot sell lakes, or oceans, or mountains.
You sir, are a selfish ass. And Ron Paul is a nutjob that will destroy your entire country to further his own selfish agenda.
Bullshit. It's the GPL that prohibits BSD code being included with GPL code. BSD has nothing that prohibits GPL code from being included with BSD code.
There's no way in hell they'll touch the Lync branding (it's an Office product. "Microsoft Office Skype Server" would just sound shit, y'know?) If anything, Skype for Business (which exists already btw) will disappear and Lync will become the "recommended" option. I can't see either happening though.
Oh for fucks sake, it was nothing to do with Microsoft, and more to do with Skype wanting everyone to switch to Skype Connect (which may or may not be a shittier solution. I make no comment as to the superiority of either choice).
I'm curious, do you really have problems with their software?
Perhaps I'm strange since I only use it as an alternative to Ventrilo, but aside from it wanting to "always run" the sound quality is fantastic and it allows free* conference calls. I've only been using it for a few days but I can see why my friends started using it while my computer was down for a few months.
My complaints are, if anything, very minor. Nothing functionally, just "I wouldn't do it that way" sort of things.
* For definitions of free that don't involve video. Bonus points for wanting to share your screen with multiple people, since that's only possible with a Mac. And a "premium" subscription.
I'd have to say though, I don't think they'd risk it going to court where a precedent could be set saying they are responsible even if a jailbroken phone breaks - they'd rather just fix the odd one here and there and still have that sabre to rattle at the weak-willed, surely?
Except that you're wrong, because before iTunes (the store) we were happily buying pretty much all the music we could buy after iTunes showed up (not limited at all) and the file format was perfectly fine (because frankly, you choosing not to use Windows Media Player is your problem).
I'd also like to point out that the Wikipedia page actually says the most expensive is New Zealand, which - oh wow - is where I am;). (Although I should note that Australia is most screwed because after currency conversion, they're paying the most at USD $2.35 a track). Incidentally, the vast majority of songs on the store are at the maximum pricing tier. I've never seen a song at the $1.79 tier.
If the country isn't already colonized, then it didn't really belong to anyone. If you colonize an already occupied country however, be prepared to listen to whining and pay out compo for the next 10 centuries.
Emailing support? Really? So if I find a Ford on the side of the road, and it looks like something I've never seen before (maybe it's a prototype?!?) I should flick an email to the local Ford dealership saying "oh hi I found a prototype of yours" (disregarding that the dealership is probably a third party company connected only by name with Ford), rather than going to the Ford R&D five minutes walk away and showing them? And I'd be completely in the clear when said dealership says "huh?"
(And you're simplifying it quite a bit at that -- Gizmodo told Steve they would return the phone if Apple would publicly claim it as their property, which Apple was not willing to do).
Nor should they have been expected to. Acknowledging it is your property, yes. Even providing evidence, yes. However, it's taking it too far to demand something you can stick up on your blog as proof that you exclusively had a real highly valuable prototype in order to bring in more ad revenue. Gizmodo should have been taken to the cleaners.
The last time I tried deleting iTunes, OS X (Lion) told me it was a system component and I wasn't allowed to. Off to Terminal to "sudo rm -rf/Applications/iTunes.app/" I went.
Yes actually, it was legally. Could people from other countries buy it too? Well no, but then people from other countries can't buy off the iTunes store either - it looks global but it really isn't, you can only buy stuff available on YOUR local store, and that likely isn't everything. And as an aside, the DRM may have been Windows Media, but it was very liberal and you could always with no real effort transcode it into MP3s. And yes, Apple's price is twice as high as other music was here. From $1.39 to $2.39 is a pretty massive price increase, all thanks to iTunes.
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IBM doesn't manufacture computers, they sold that to Lenovo a LONG time ago. IBM still makes Servers, but that's about all there.
They probably checked and picked the better source. The Register's article is at least twice as long, while having the same information and more.
Yes, and those Russian mob blackmail trojans tend to extort less money out of you than Symantec's monthly up-sells too.
Copyright != Patent.
Um, just because something looks pre-written, doesn't mean it is. I've actually heard my 10 year old nephew say things that prompted me to look around for a teleprompter because it sounded like it was written by a PR flunky. But apparently, that's just the way he talks. Sometimes you're right, but the mere fact that someone sounds like an ad doesn't necessarily mean they are.
I cannot believe the blind moronic stupidity in this comment. While we're at it, let's just reinstate slavery too. After all, what else can we do with all the poor people that can't afford to buy water from whatever rich individuals or companies bought their local lake.
Earth does NOT belong to anyone. Not the rich, not the poor, not the governments. You cannot sell lakes, or oceans, or mountains.
You sir, are a selfish ass. And Ron Paul is a nutjob that will destroy your entire country to further his own selfish agenda.
Bullshit. It's the GPL that prohibits BSD code being included with GPL code. BSD has nothing that prohibits GPL code from being included with BSD code.
There's no way in hell they'll touch the Lync branding (it's an Office product. "Microsoft Office Skype Server" would just sound shit, y'know?) If anything, Skype for Business (which exists already btw) will disappear and Lync will become the "recommended" option. I can't see either happening though.
Oh for fucks sake, it was nothing to do with Microsoft, and more to do with Skype wanting everyone to switch to Skype Connect (which may or may not be a shittier solution. I make no comment as to the superiority of either choice).
I'm curious, do you really have problems with their software?
Perhaps I'm strange since I only use it as an alternative to Ventrilo, but aside from it wanting to "always run" the sound quality is fantastic and it allows free* conference calls. I've only been using it for a few days but I can see why my friends started using it while my computer was down for a few months.
My complaints are, if anything, very minor. Nothing functionally, just "I wouldn't do it that way" sort of things.
* For definitions of free that don't involve video. Bonus points for wanting to share your screen with multiple people, since that's only possible with a Mac. And a "premium" subscription.
Apparently Apple believes people buy tablets from 10 feet away.
The SIM card. Where I come from, activation only happens with CDMA phones, and we no longer have a CDMA network - we're all 3G up in here.
Or, a better idea, they could just not have activation. Like every other phone in existence.
Yes, I'll take a cheque.
Verisign controls .com and .net. Frankly, no registrar can do anything to prevent Verisign shutting down your domain.
I'd have to say though, I don't think they'd risk it going to court where a precedent could be set saying they are responsible even if a jailbroken phone breaks - they'd rather just fix the odd one here and there and still have that sabre to rattle at the weak-willed, surely?
Except that you're wrong, because before iTunes (the store) we were happily buying pretty much all the music we could buy after iTunes showed up (not limited at all) and the file format was perfectly fine (because frankly, you choosing not to use Windows Media Player is your problem).
I'd also like to point out that the Wikipedia page actually says the most expensive is New Zealand, which - oh wow - is where I am ;). (Although I should note that Australia is most screwed because after currency conversion, they're paying the most at USD $2.35 a track). Incidentally, the vast majority of songs on the store are at the maximum pricing tier. I've never seen a song at the $1.79 tier.
If the country isn't already colonized, then it didn't really belong to anyone. If you colonize an already occupied country however, be prepared to listen to whining and pay out compo for the next 10 centuries.
Emailing support? Really? So if I find a Ford on the side of the road, and it looks like something I've never seen before (maybe it's a prototype?!?) I should flick an email to the local Ford dealership saying "oh hi I found a prototype of yours" (disregarding that the dealership is probably a third party company connected only by name with Ford), rather than going to the Ford R&D five minutes walk away and showing them? And I'd be completely in the clear when said dealership says "huh?"
Gotcha.
(And you're simplifying it quite a bit at that -- Gizmodo told Steve they would return the phone if Apple would publicly claim it as their property, which Apple was not willing to do).
Nor should they have been expected to. Acknowledging it is your property, yes. Even providing evidence, yes. However, it's taking it too far to demand something you can stick up on your blog as proof that you exclusively had a real highly valuable prototype in order to bring in more ad revenue. Gizmodo should have been taken to the cleaners.
The last time I tried deleting iTunes, OS X (Lion) told me it was a system component and I wasn't allowed to. Off to Terminal to "sudo rm -rf /Applications/iTunes.app/" I went.
Not really all that intuitive to be honest, there's no hint what to do, and I had no idea until someone looked it up on Youtube for me.
Under Magnusson-Moss, wouldn't they have to prove the jailbreaking caused the phone to break?
Um, every song DOES cost $2.39. They USED TO cost $1.39, before iTunes showed up.
And back in those days, you could just use Windows Media Player on the Mac.
Yes actually, it was legally. Could people from other countries buy it too? Well no, but then people from other countries can't buy off the iTunes store either - it looks global but it really isn't, you can only buy stuff available on YOUR local store, and that likely isn't everything. And as an aside, the DRM may have been Windows Media, but it was very liberal and you could always with no real effort transcode it into MP3s. And yes, Apple's price is twice as high as other music was here. From $1.39 to $2.39 is a pretty massive price increase, all thanks to iTunes.
Except that it passes through Customs, who no doubt have the authority to withhold your delivery until you pay tax/duty on it.