This is why I despise Apple somewhat. If anyone hyped up a product and tried selling it to me with a monster markup, I'd be upset. Just because someone is telling me that something is the greatest thing since sliced bread does not mean I'm willing to pay extra because some smug peddler verbally masturbated some product on stage at a press release.
There's a big difference between "something that can be done" and "something that can be done for a profit"; the latter having considerably more motivation (and desirability) behind it.
Note that a good case-in-point for your argument is the first transistor made by Bell Labs in 1947. This transistor was large and crude by today's standards, but the fact that it *could* be done made it desirable to pursue the technology.
It's interesting/ironic how Apple's marketing tactics and fanbase are oddly similar to the non-hammer-throwing crowd in this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYecfV3ubP8
So someone else can give you enough strikes so you lose your service for a year? Depending on how they implement tracking of who downloads what, there is some huge opportunity for abuse in a targeted user attack; like a DoS on steroids.
I've owned a couple Seagate drives that are flaky (300GB to 500GB). We're talking about a hard lockup/BSOD, then "no discs detected." A short powerdown usually did the trick, and then the computer would work as usual.
On the contrary, I have some 5+ year old Western Digital drives that still work surprisingly well.
So true. Not everyone is equal, but that doesn't mean anyone is better. Everyone is good at something, and it's not good for society on a whole if everyone is corralled into one specific job.
This is true; learning on-the-job should not be undervalued. This is the traditional way in how trades were passed on, and it worked rather well.
On the flip-side, there are now some things that should be taught before entering the work force (take engineering, for example); you need a basic understanding of quantum mechanics before you can begin to comprehend the operation of a scanning tunneling microscope.
Maybe the proper approach is some sort of hybrid school/on-the-job-training approach (much as it is with some trades).
Yes, exactly. You have to think about what *you* as the 99.9% of the population use every day, and how much its value is to you. Given enough time after an apocalypse-like event, someone might trade a whole crate of gold for a 12 pack of 3-ply toilet paper.
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This is why I despise Apple somewhat. If anyone hyped up a product and tried selling it to me with a monster markup, I'd be upset. Just because someone is telling me that something is the greatest thing since sliced bread does not mean I'm willing to pay extra because some smug peddler verbally masturbated some product on stage at a press release.
I don't think it's so much "copying" as much as it is "supplying equal-intensity opposition when presented with unsubstantiated apple claims"
well put
I've used Linux for development, and I've used MacOS/X for development, and there really isn't that much difference between the two.
Except a substantial price difference for the hardware
There's a big difference between "something that can be done" and "something that can be done for a profit"; the latter having considerably more motivation (and desirability) behind it. Note that a good case-in-point for your argument is the first transistor made by Bell Labs in 1947. This transistor was large and crude by today's standards, but the fact that it *could* be done made it desirable to pursue the technology.
It's interesting/ironic how Apple's marketing tactics and fanbase are oddly similar to the non-hammer-throwing crowd in this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYecfV3ubP8
It's a great explanation!
and a robot RIAA
So someone else can give you enough strikes so you lose your service for a year? Depending on how they implement tracking of who downloads what, there is some huge opportunity for abuse in a targeted user attack; like a DoS on steroids.
I've owned a couple Seagate drives that are flaky (300GB to 500GB). We're talking about a hard lockup/BSOD, then "no discs detected." A short powerdown usually did the trick, and then the computer would work as usual.
On the contrary, I have some 5+ year old Western Digital drives that still work surprisingly well.
Jailbreaking is sort of contrary to "just works"
What they meant to say is that 220h = 144 in base-6.887363549594899...
So true. Not everyone is equal, but that doesn't mean anyone is better. Everyone is good at something, and it's not good for society on a whole if everyone is corralled into one specific job.
Except he forgot about this .
This is true; learning on-the-job should not be undervalued. This is the traditional way in how trades were passed on, and it worked rather well.
On the flip-side, there are now some things that should be taught before entering the work force (take engineering, for example); you need a basic understanding of quantum mechanics before you can begin to comprehend the operation of a scanning tunneling microscope.
Maybe the proper approach is some sort of hybrid school/on-the-job-training approach (much as it is with some trades).
No one is going to trust that thing to a high-school dropout with no experience.
Someone forgot to tell this guy that modern lumber harvesting is not a job that has no skill required. Like operating a crane, working a harvesting machine is an art. http://www.impactlab.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/logging-spider.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaporware
The design uses Duke Nukem Forever as an operating system..
Lynyrd Skynyrd: Stop that homeless person busking with "free bird" on his guitar! He never payed any royalties! Police officer: you're nicked!
Now that is a certified burn
Yes, exactly. You have to think about what *you* as the 99.9% of the population use every day, and how much its value is to you. Given enough time after an apocalypse-like event, someone might trade a whole crate of gold for a 12 pack of 3-ply toilet paper.
Perhaps the choice of payback of debt has to do with the best interest of the Euro (pressure from the EU members?)
Yes but why would we? Instead of a repair vehicle we would just send a new, faster, better probe.
One that can shoot the old one with a laser. We'll skip 3, 4, and 5,; calling it Voyager 6 to make everyone's jokes directly applicable.
"HULK SMASH" ?