The USA uses a different voltage and frequency from most of the planet. Back all your data online, copy it onto USB devices and sell as much as possible. Unless you are being posted to a desert island, you will be able to buy replacements when you arrive. This will save you transport costs.
Because if you patent stuff that makes sure that it is not used. Consider the car and oil industries. They are reputed to have patented all sorts of things to stop them. This is why we have not had any alternatives to fuel guzzling junkhepas until very recently.
Everything else had been patented.
If you want something to catch on, think "IBM Compatible" or WWW. Neither of those 2 ideas were patented and they seem to have been pretty widely adopten and further developed.
If Apple does something, it, by definition, is original. They cannot be copying. If you accuse them of it, you obviously do not know what the word means.
If you are a competitor, you are copying their stuff. If you say you are not because you were using the idea 10 years before Apple did, you still do not correctly understand the word.
Copying means doing anything that may affect their profits - nothing else. You could make a sperical phone with 32 hexagonal buttons, a crescent shaped screen, had a UI based on Lcars and Apple would still sue you if it was faster, cheaper and easier to use and outsold them.
I am known by my middle name. This quite common in Scotland at least. Both my brothers do the same.
The only time I get asked for by my first name, I know it is the bank. I was once told that I risked being accused of money laundering not following what they considered "normal" practice.
When Google Plus came out, its insistence that people use their "real names" was something that got a lot of criticism. It also had people saying that because of this, they would be staying with Facebook. Will they be leaving FB for Diaspora now?
Broadcasting my ID across a roomful of strangers to make it simpler for spooks and bureaucrats to keep an eye on me does not improve my life easier in any way that appeals to me.
I have no wish to make it harder for them though. That would be masochistic and just mean.
Unfortunately, it's not yourselves you will have to convince
If being inferior made no difference, why not go the whole hog and do away with all education once children can read, write and do basic arithmetic?
This would make the conservatives happy because they could keep more of your money.
At least we've still got our guns (perhaps for not much longer, mind you).
I think that your 40 times greater chance of getting shot does not make you better off. I learned to use firearms in uniform and did not notice civilians with guns making the world a freer place. The fact that most people around me do not have guns makes me more free.
Do you really think that you could stand up against your government that way? I do not think you are remotely correct.
I don't think you are any better off than me in the UK or anyone else in this part of the world.. Your 1776 revolutionaries must be turning in their graves...
I am sure that it is a nice phone.
It may even outperform top end androids more than a couple of years old. I want to hear comparisons.
It may even use the version of 4G used by over 4% of humanity.
Apples market share will go up for a while as all their enthusiasts get the new "must have" device.
Then it will carry on falling and the 68% of smartphone users using Android increases and the 17% using iPhones will carry on falling.
why?
A couple of reasons but the biggest one is price. For those of us who pay nearly as much as iPhone users it is a bit more tortuous....
There is no ********* way I want to be mistaken for a brain dead, idiot who feels that having a #shiny iDevice will help me reach my aspirations in lifestyle or just becoming one of the "beautiful people"
It's a flaming smartphone, not a passport to a changed lifestyle!
It's not a replacement, it's an augmentation. Check email anywhere. Have your calendar everywhere. Take e-notes in meetings, directly in the documents in question, rather than scribbling on paper and either editing them into the document later or discarding them after essentially memorizing the content.
That sounds like things my phone is good at. Those tasks are content consumption, not creation.
Then are they saying that if a tomato is not "organic" it is not a living organism?
Perhaps some of those cows roaming the range that are famously pumped up with antibiotics and hormones are actually came into existence by being hewn out of rock?
Chemistry aside, it is a silly word. Cows, tomatoes and all these things are organic whether they are covered in insecticide, mangled by Monsanto or anything else. We need a better way of describing them.
They are insightfully pointing out that many of the things the US food industry does to food would bee deemed to have rendered the food "unfit for human consumption" in much of the rest of the world.
This is insightful to many people on/. because they are in the USA and are not fully conversant with what the rest of the world thinks or feels.
Most people here, however, do know what "rest of the world" means, This is seen as automatically giving them a left-wing bias.
"See, I told you organic food wasn't always more nutritious!"
Like everyone else here says, there are not many serious claims that it is.
1) Organic food has a bit of a wishy-washy definition;
A particularly stupid one for anyone who has studied organic chemistry. I have pointed many stupids towards looking up the meaning. Wikipedia has a good one. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_chemistry
2) Where the definitions exist, they are farming methods;
No it is to do with carbon, hydrocarbons and so on. This stupid name is a problem.
3) Some people prefer to support those particular farming methods;
Once you divorce it from that stupid name. If I eat something not "organically grown", it still contains all those organic compounds. It is also prone to containing a lot of other crap and leaving even more garbage in the environment.
4) And those methods often produce tastier food.
No. Ones that make me feel better anyway. Being happier about what they are eating can make people enjoy their food more.
The most "organic" thing you can do is not have children. Because we have reached the population point where it is very hard to use non-intensive farming methods.
This makes dodos highly organic. I had never considered dinosaurs environmentally friendly before. I think it would bet quite environmentally friendly to have 1 or 2 children as is now common in the west. Having none will lead us to become extinct. I see no point in that...
True, but if you are going to contribute AC this is a specific statement that you are not willing to stand by your opinions so perhaps we cannot trust your future intentions either...
Apple feels that some things will threaten their high profits. To compete by making products as good as the S3 would lower them.
The alternative is to practice legal scammery (a nice word). Lawyers cost less than having to improve your products and keep improving them. Lawyers can be dispensed with once they have convinced the courts that they invented everything.
I have a GS2 and will not consider an Apple product when the contract expires. This is not because they make rubbish. Their product is pretty average even if their current offering is inferior to what I have. Maybe the next one will be better than everything else. I will not pay money towards destroying the competitive market and nobody with knowledge of technology or economics should either.
We should all refuse to recognise the concept ot the "Grey Market".
We should just ask the following questions...
Did you buy it or steal it?
Was it legally bought all through the supply chain or was it stolen?
Has it been misused or damaged?
If it is away from where you bought it, did you know that you have to pay shipping for warranty actions?
If it has been stolen, this is a police matter. Otherwise, it is legal. This is black and white...
Apple is known for making very good use of ideas, combining them in new ways, persuading people that already existing ideas were actually invented by them and then suing other people because they might dare to compete with them in the supposed "free market".
1. Aspiration.
Some people aspire to being considered part of certain groups and feel that the caché of carrying such devices will help this.
2. Fashion
When all the "right people" seem to have iShiny devices, they will be copied. Similarly to 1.
3. Rumour
There are rumours that insist that iDevices are more reliable, easier to use, even better value for your money.
4. Price
Some people genuinely believe that paying more for something makes it better than something that costs less, even if there are no other improvements.
5. Condideration
Some people have considered the matter and examined the matter and genuinely believe Apple makes better phones & tablets.
6. Stupidity
Some people have not thought about it and think it looks pretty.
7. Gullibility
Some people believe advertisements.
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The USA uses a different voltage and frequency from most of the planet. Back all your data online, copy it onto USB devices and sell as much as possible. Unless you are being posted to a desert island, you will be able to buy replacements when you arrive. This will save you transport costs.
You took a US car away from North America? Why?
Because if you patent stuff that makes sure that it is not used. Consider the car and oil industries. They are reputed to have patented all sorts of things to stop them. This is why we have not had any alternatives to fuel guzzling junkhepas until very recently.
Everything else had been patented.
If you want something to catch on, think "IBM Compatible" or WWW. Neither of those 2 ideas were patented and they seem to have been pretty widely adopten and further developed.
If Apple does something, it, by definition, is original. They cannot be copying. If you accuse them of it, you obviously do not know what the word means.
If you are a competitor, you are copying their stuff. If you say you are not because you were using the idea 10 years before Apple did, you still do not correctly understand the word.
Copying means doing anything that may affect their profits - nothing else. You could make a sperical phone with 32 hexagonal buttons, a crescent shaped screen, had a UI based on Lcars and Apple would still sue you if it was faster, cheaper and easier to use and outsold them.
I am known by my middle name. This quite common in Scotland at least. Both my brothers do the same.
The only time I get asked for by my first name, I know it is the bank. I was once told that I risked being accused of money laundering not following what they considered "normal" practice.
When Google Plus came out, its insistence that people use their "real names" was something that got a lot of criticism. It also had people saying that because of this, they would be staying with Facebook. Will they be leaving FB for Diaspora now?
I have no wish to make it harder for them though. That would be masochistic and just mean.
It will be yet another reason to not have an iPhone.
Unfortunately, it's not yourselves you will have to convince
If being inferior made no difference, why not go the whole hog and do away with all education once children can read, write and do basic arithmetic?
This would make the conservatives happy because they could keep more of your money.
At least we've still got our guns (perhaps for not much longer, mind you).
I think that your 40 times greater chance of getting shot does not make you better off. I learned to use firearms in uniform and did not notice civilians with guns making the world a freer place. The fact that most people around me do not have guns makes me more free.
Do you really think that you could stand up against your government that way? I do not think you are remotely correct.
Constitutional republic?
I don't think you are any better off than me in the UK or anyone else in this part of the world.. Your 1776 revolutionaries must be turning in their graves...
I am sure that it is a nice phone.
It may even outperform top end androids more than a couple of years old. I want to hear comparisons.
It may even use the version of 4G used by over 4% of humanity.
Apples market share will go up for a while as all their enthusiasts get the new "must have" device.
Then it will carry on falling and the 68% of smartphone users using Android increases and the 17% using iPhones will carry on falling.
why?
A couple of reasons but the biggest one is price. For those of us who pay nearly as much as iPhone users it is a bit more tortuous....
There is no ********* way I want to be mistaken for a brain dead, idiot who feels that having a #shiny iDevice will help me reach my aspirations in lifestyle or just becoming one of the "beautiful people"
It's a flaming smartphone, not a passport to a changed lifestyle!
News Flash [Citation Required]
If you cannot provide one, this will prove that your information is the nonsense it sounds like.
It's not a replacement, it's an augmentation. Check email anywhere. Have your calendar everywhere. Take e-notes in meetings, directly in the documents in question, rather than scribbling on paper and either editing them into the document later or discarding them after essentially memorizing the content.
That sounds like things my phone is good at. Those tasks are content consumption, not creation.
Laptops
Then are they saying that if a tomato is not "organic" it is not a living organism?
Perhaps some of those cows roaming the range that are famously pumped up with antibiotics and hormones are actually came into existence by being hewn out of rock?
Chemistry aside, it is a silly word. Cows, tomatoes and all these things are organic whether they are covered in insecticide, mangled by Monsanto or anything else. We need a better way of describing them.
They are insightfully pointing out that many of the things the US food industry does to food would bee deemed to have rendered the food "unfit for human consumption" in much of the rest of the world.
This is insightful to many people on /. because they are in the USA and are not fully conversant with what the rest of the world thinks or feels.
Most people here, however, do know what "rest of the world" means, This is seen as automatically giving them a left-wing bias.
"See, I told you organic food wasn't always more nutritious!"
Like everyone else here says, there are not many serious claims that it is.
1) Organic food has a bit of a wishy-washy definition;
A particularly stupid one for anyone who has studied organic chemistry. I have pointed many stupids towards looking up the meaning. Wikipedia has a good one. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_chemistry
2) Where the definitions exist, they are farming methods;
No it is to do with carbon, hydrocarbons and so on. This stupid name is a problem.
3) Some people prefer to support those particular farming methods;
Once you divorce it from that stupid name. If I eat something not "organically grown", it still contains all those organic compounds. It is also prone to containing a lot of other crap and leaving even more garbage in the environment.
4) And those methods often produce tastier food.
No. Ones that make me feel better anyway. Being happier about what they are eating can make people enjoy their food more.
The most "organic" thing you can do is not have children. Because we have reached the population point where it is very hard to use non-intensive farming methods.
This makes dodos highly organic. I had never considered dinosaurs environmentally friendly before. I think it would bet quite environmentally friendly to have 1 or 2 children as is now common in the west. Having none will lead us to become extinct. I see no point in that...
I think this will help Google Nexus sales. I am not aware they come with built in adware.
True, but if you are going to contribute AC this is a specific statement that you are not willing to stand by your opinions so perhaps we cannot trust your future intentions either...
Apple feels that some things will threaten their high profits. To compete by making products as good as the S3 would lower them.
The alternative is to practice legal scammery (a nice word). Lawyers cost less than having to improve your products and keep improving them. Lawyers can be dispensed with once they have convinced the courts that they invented everything.
I have a GS2 and will not consider an Apple product when the contract expires. This is not because they make rubbish. Their product is pretty average even if their current offering is inferior to what I have. Maybe the next one will be better than everything else. I will not pay money towards destroying the competitive market and nobody with knowledge of technology or economics should either.
We should all refuse to recognise the concept ot the "Grey Market".
We should just ask the following questions...
Did you buy it or steal it?
Was it legally bought all through the supply chain or was it stolen?
Has it been misused or damaged?
If it is away from where you bought it, did you know that you have to pay shipping for warranty actions?
If it has been stolen, this is a police matter. Otherwise, it is legal. This is black and white...
Apple is not well known for innovation.
Apple is known for making very good use of ideas, combining them in new ways, persuading people that already existing ideas were actually invented by them and then suing other people because they might dare to compete with them in the supposed "free market".
Have a look at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFeC25BM9E0 for a better explanation.
Just frame him for rape like last time. Your masters are so stupid that they think we are that gullible - as you are.
1. Aspiration.
Some people aspire to being considered part of certain groups and feel that the caché of carrying such devices will help this.
2. Fashion
When all the "right people" seem to have iShiny devices, they will be copied. Similarly to 1.
3. Rumour
There are rumours that insist that iDevices are more reliable, easier to use, even better value for your money.
4. Price
Some people genuinely believe that paying more for something makes it better than something that costs less, even if there are no other improvements.
5. Condideration
Some people have considered the matter and examined the matter and genuinely believe Apple makes better phones & tablets.
6. Stupidity
Some people have not thought about it and think it looks pretty.
7. Gullibility
Some people believe advertisements.