Yeah, ignoring 20% of your customer base is always good business practice. What a great idea to ignore hundreds of millions of users solely because of their choice of browser. That extra 15 minutes it takes to make a website work with IE really will save you in the long run. Any programmer that can't make a website work on IE isn't worth their salt.
I know the day that free web content and services dry up because there are no more ad revenue streams, the same people complaining stupidly against ads will want to complain about how the web is now hidden behind pay walls. The irony is that most of you won't be able to voice your opinion because you will refuse to pay to access Slashdot.
Actually, I think many of us might value when that day arrives.
I can just imagine people lining up in front of all glass encased Baby Gap's full of iBabies with that new "pod" smell...and around the corner a dumpster full of last years models.
Another example of a great theory, but nothing practical. So you can hide from microwaves on a single plane of existence, meh. This is almost as bad as putting on a tinfoil hat.
I think that Top Gear's attempt at invisibility is more practical:
In under two months the tide has turned and there has been so much negative criticism of Apple. Its funny really that the same news sites/reporters/bloggers that raved about Apple just a few months ago are starting to forecast their demise.
I am not saying Apple is going to go bankrupt or anything, but the bubble is bursting as consumers and critics start to realize that Apple is no longer innovating, but instead recycling ideas and spending more time in litigation then innovation. The recent story about HTC and Apple burying their hatchets and instead focusing on innovation seems to suggest Apple is trying to change the perception they have become nothing more then a company that can only compete in the courtrooms rather then on the store shelves.
Of course it was inevitable for Samsung to retaliate against Apple.
However it does make sense for Samsung to increase their costs, even if they are not trying to be petty. Apple has significantly reduced the number of other components previously obtained from Samsung, so Samsung isn't going to volume discount components to a company that is shrinking their business relationship. If you want to buy 80% of your components from one company, you are going to get nice discounts, but if you reduce it to 10% of total components then you are going to be charged more, period.
Tim Cook is a fuck up, period. In just over a year he has crippled Apple and turned them against consumers. It would be very surprising if he doesn't step down sometime in early 2013. 2013 is going to be a very different year for Apple then 2012.
I laugh every year about remembrance day controversies. In Canada there was a big stink this year about how school children should be allowed to opt out of remembrance ceremonies held at school. Someone gets arrested for burning a poppy.
Last I checked these men and women fought for our freedoms. While burning a poppy, speaking negatively about veterans, or skipping remembrance ceremonies because you rather sleep in makes you a dick, these men and women fought for the right and freedom to be a dick. Forcing someone to behave a certain way, or forcing people to participate in a ceremony is counter-intuitive to what veterans have fought for.
Freedom is not a give in, but people being dicks is a certainty.
You know because you can't have a incredibly amazing keynote without the sheer massive amounts of wonderfully delightful hyperbole. Also if there is not a presentation pattern that involves people in dark clothing in front of white backgrounds raving about the most mundane things then the book is utterly useless.
I think the first hosted services company that actually takes someone's intellectual property like a book and publishes it themselves will be about the last thing that hosted services company does.
While I agree there are issues such as no legal warrant is necessary to access hosted cloud content, most companies like Google, Microsoft and Amazon are going to make damn sure they do not piss off corporate entities by doing something stupid like stealing their intellectual property through their cloud services.
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Some human males do the same thing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RuPaul
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Gaga
Yeah, ignoring 20% of your customer base is always good business practice. What a great idea to ignore hundreds of millions of users solely because of their choice of browser. That extra 15 minutes it takes to make a website work with IE really will save you in the long run. Any programmer that can't make a website work on IE isn't worth their salt.
Then ISP's can throttle traffic to WiFi 1000% more effectively.
Even when they are bad they are still good.
I know the day that free web content and services dry up because there are no more ad revenue streams, the same people complaining stupidly against ads will want to complain about how the web is now hidden behind pay walls. The irony is that most of you won't be able to voice your opinion because you will refuse to pay to access Slashdot.
Actually, I think many of us might value when that day arrives.
When a country is trillions in debt its all just fictional amounts of money anyways.
Is just a slightly more arrogant software developer.
Because that would require Apple to spend money and Apple only likes to make money.
Kudos to Foundation Series reference, too bad Hollywood hasn't tapped into his literary arsenal.
I can just imagine people lining up in front of all glass encased Baby Gap's full of iBabies with that new "pod" smell...and around the corner a dumpster full of last years models.
Release a new product already.
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Another example of a great theory, but nothing practical. So you can hide from microwaves on a single plane of existence, meh. This is almost as bad as putting on a tinfoil hat.
I think that Top Gear's attempt at invisibility is more practical:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TVMpS7Z-5U
Susy dealt a heavy blow at the Large Hadron Collider If you can't laugh at that statement then you are dead.
That's where they hang out.
You should go to jail for the sheer stupidity of BUYING pirated content in the 21st century.
I can safely say intelligence did not peak 2000 years ago.
Would it be an Earth worth living in? What's the point of saving it if there is nothing to do.
In under two months the tide has turned and there has been so much negative criticism of Apple. Its funny really that the same news sites/reporters/bloggers that raved about Apple just a few months ago are starting to forecast their demise.
I am not saying Apple is going to go bankrupt or anything, but the bubble is bursting as consumers and critics start to realize that Apple is no longer innovating, but instead recycling ideas and spending more time in litigation then innovation. The recent story about HTC and Apple burying their hatchets and instead focusing on innovation seems to suggest Apple is trying to change the perception they have become nothing more then a company that can only compete in the courtrooms rather then on the store shelves.
Of course it was inevitable for Samsung to retaliate against Apple.
However it does make sense for Samsung to increase their costs, even if they are not trying to be petty. Apple has significantly reduced the number of other components previously obtained from Samsung, so Samsung isn't going to volume discount components to a company that is shrinking their business relationship. If you want to buy 80% of your components from one company, you are going to get nice discounts, but if you reduce it to 10% of total components then you are going to be charged more, period.
Tim Cook is a fuck up, period. In just over a year he has crippled Apple and turned them against consumers. It would be very surprising if he doesn't step down sometime in early 2013. 2013 is going to be a very different year for Apple then 2012.
I laugh every year about remembrance day controversies. In Canada there was a big stink this year about how school children should be allowed to opt out of remembrance ceremonies held at school. Someone gets arrested for burning a poppy.
Last I checked these men and women fought for our freedoms. While burning a poppy, speaking negatively about veterans, or skipping remembrance ceremonies because you rather sleep in makes you a dick, these men and women fought for the right and freedom to be a dick. Forcing someone to behave a certain way, or forcing people to participate in a ceremony is counter-intuitive to what veterans have fought for.
Freedom is not a give in, but people being dicks is a certainty.
"Scientists discover a treasure trove of ocean life that could find cures for cancer and .... ah shit too late, we destroyed it already".
considering the average age of the men in the Supreme Court of Canada is 62.
You know because you can't have a incredibly amazing keynote without the sheer massive amounts of wonderfully delightful hyperbole. Also if there is not a presentation pattern that involves people in dark clothing in front of white backgrounds raving about the most mundane things then the book is utterly useless.
A lot of Cadillacs end up driving themselves, usually to disastrous results, considering the average age of a Cadillac driver is like 112.
I think the first hosted services company that actually takes someone's intellectual property like a book and publishes it themselves will be about the last thing that hosted services company does.
While I agree there are issues such as no legal warrant is necessary to access hosted cloud content, most companies like Google, Microsoft and Amazon are going to make damn sure they do not piss off corporate entities by doing something stupid like stealing their intellectual property through their cloud services.