Yeah! And everyone should STFU unless this idiot can run DOS on iPhone and Android, and his phone should also use vacuum tubes and should be powered by coal fired steam!
Maybe you should pipe down until your views are shared by at least a fraction of 1% of the rest of the world?
"personally I consider you to be an ambulance chasing jerk."
Then you obviously don't know who you were talking to nor how respected his fight has been by most readers on Slashdot.
I don't think State of Fear was a dishonest attack and it definitely didn't hide behind fiction. The end of the book clearly points out what his point was from the perspective of climate change, fear mongering, and the fallacy of our understanding of how the world works. He cites references throughout the book and he was very up front about his doubts on the "science" behind the global warming hysteria.
I think you might fall into the camp of people he described in the book . . as one who will not tolerate a dissenting opinion.
I disagree. They are intuitive. Ask my wife who has to get help on any type of user interface. She figured it all out herself. Ask my kids age 6 and 8, they figured it out too. Maybe not every single aspect of the UI is intuitive, but overall the vast majority of it is.
"I saw the screenshots before they were scrubbed and saw nothing that was illegal."
I saw the screenshots before they were scrubbed and saw personal email being used for government business. That is not a joke, it is illegal.
"Search for "Obama William ayers" HERE if you are too lazy to do your own research."
First, if I was too lazy to do my own research then I probably wouldn't Google it, would I? Second, I did just Google it and found this story ( http://blog.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/2008/02/obamas_weatherman_connection.html ) which rightly points out that the attempt to tie Obama to terrorism is BS. Did YOU do any research or just repeat the crap handed out by the Republican party? He doesn't have any "ties" to any known terrorists unless your definition of "ties" is they both lived on the same planet.
"You have not shown that Palin is a lying cooked politician."
If she used personal email to do government business then she broke the law. She's not stupid, she could have used her government email address but she didn't? Why? I have a business of my own with an email address associated with it and personal email account and I never mix the two. What would be the point? The only reason to do that on her part would be to avoid having some government related emails archived. She did something illegal and for dubious reasons and therefore she's definitely already on the road to corruption if she's not already there.
Obama did nothing illegal but you're condemning him. Palin did something illegal and you're letting her off the hook. How convenient.
Re: #6 I don't think other mobile phones using Java is necessarily a valid argument for it. Other mobile phones have crappy UIs too, should the iPhone be forced to follow suit?
Re: #10 You don't need to copy any software to any computer to transfer files to/from the iPhone. A computer that supports FTP and a free downloaded app on the iPhone (plus a wireless network) and it works fine.
"iPhone is all about DRM. . . . When Microsoft does the same thing everybody here starts screaming, but when Apple does the same thing it is suddenly ok?"
The iPhone is all about DRM? What does that mean? That they built it to implement DRM? That doesn't even makes sense. As for the second sentence, when MS blocks software it is wrong and when Apple does it they are wrong too. Their recent rejection of several apps that "duplicate functionality" is wrong and they need to change their stance.
Typical. You choose to ignore the truth. Palin lied about using email for government business. It is not only lying it's a violation of the law and the only reason to use email that way is to avoid disclosure. She's already acting and thinking like a crooked politician.
And what are these "ties to a known terrorist". Did you get that from Fox News?
Either way, you're willing to accept a lying crooked politician in Palin. Why is that? Rather than choosing a candidate who is honest and honorable you're choosing between different levels of crap (assuming your argument about terrorists is real, which I doubt). Instead why don't you pick a good candidate instead of the lesser of two shitty ones. Seems like common sense, but common sense goes out the door with politics, doesn't it:? . . . Typical indeed!
Kind of a slanted BS listed to some degree if you ask me.
In #6 you bitch because you can't install a Java app. I could point out that YOUR phone probably won't install and run an app written in a language YOUR phone doesn't understand either, but that would approach common sense so I won't do it.
In #10 you complain that you have to install special software? Wasn't your whiny complaint in #6 that you couldn't install some software and now you're complaining that there IS a solution to do something that can be done by installing software? Seems you're taking both sides of the argument (or whatever one is convenient for you anyway).
Now, to get back to the topic of the article, if Apple is blocking apps that may compete with their own then it is BS and they should stop.
"As for Palin lying... even if she did lie, I don't care."
You have just summed up politics perfectly. You're hanging on to some propaganda about terrorists and yet you're perfectly happy to forgive lying for YOUR candidate. Feel free to vote for 4 more years of constitutional erosion and government by deception. Common sense has left the room.
There isn't much talk about laying a portion of blame on John Q Public because of his stupid mortgage he took out because he will already be punished when his house is taken away from him in foreclosure. The average person in this IS being punished. The companies that knowingly offered risky loans are NOT. Big business gets a bailout, John Q Public is cast into the street. I don't think we need to spend extra time talking about the consumer's responsibility in this fiasco because the consumer is the one party to the whole affair that WILL be punished. That's why we're talking about big business' escape from responsibility, because the businesses are getting away with it scott-free.
Your argument is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of the phrase "Mac clones will kill Apple". It's not the competition that would kill Apple, but rather the implementation of OS X on shoddy hardware configurations that will kill Apple's reputation for a solid, stable OS (when implemented correctly). It's public perception that is driving the huge increase in sales of Mac products. More people are starting to believe they are better than the alternatives and sales are accelerating. If competitors kill Apple's public perception then that effectively kills the company.
You win the Seinfeld script award for this one. The one thing funnier than Jerry making fun of his own show in that episode is using that section of dialogue to make fun of Vista.
Excellent point. Using Seinfeld only targets the demographic of people who are most likely to use Windows anyway. The young generation (Microsoft's future, or lack of it) only know Seinfeld by name and don't hold him or his show in such high esteem as those in the 30+ bracket. Since the kids are the ones MS is losing, and the kids are the ones who will be teaching and converting their parents to new technologies, it's the kids MS should be shooting for if they're going to put their big focus on any one bracket.
Thanks for the info, that's good to know. I'm considering an iPhone but not getting SMS (I'd use it, but not at $30 for a family plan) so I'd like to have it locked out if possible.
Amen to that brother!! Can everyone not post any more stories about how Linux is so great because it's free (even though it's effectively unusable by most consumers) or how the Linux kernal has been compiled to run on my fingernail clippers? I mean this would definitely leave more room for important issues like how Slashdotters are so wise that they know that God is just a myth, how development language A is better than development language B, or how people someone's Nokia phone can SSH into their toaster!
It's the sum of the parts that's greater than the individual pieces. I don't see how it's behind the curve in terms of functionality. There may be a piece here or there that is could be better, but the interface is so superior that it's really the first truly functional phone that is easy and a joy to use. I don't see the iPhone as behind the curve at all, and I think even other manufacturers realize this because they're all trying to mimic the iPhone and create an iPhone killer before the iPhone even dominates in market share. The iPhone is already seen as the one to beat by everyone. I won't say it's perfect or that it has the absolute best of every hardware feature, but the good mix of hardware features combined with an interface that blows everyone else away makes it the best phone I have ever seen or used.
I still don't see the restricted argument. Just because it doesn't do what you want doesn't make it restricted. I'd like it to dispense $20 bills, it doesn't do it, it must be restricted. Maybe it's your unrealistic expectations that should be examined. You still haven't told me why it's restricted. How is it restricted? No concrete examples?
I guess this proves it's possible to read whatever you want into anything. I didn't see their "naughty" comment as a value judgement at all, but rather an attempt at humorous open recognition of the jailbreak market and a segue into the fact that this is an app that will only be distributed via the App Store.
While you're condemning value judgements maybe you can take a minute and condemn your own. Your cheesy implication that the makers of iCall don't have a respect for freedom is about the most ridiculous conclusion I've ever seen.
"Someone who has some amount of respect for freedom wouldn't buy an iPhone in the first place!"
Wow, I see you're taking advantage of your freedom to make ridiculous statements that don't make an ounce of sense.
I don't think this requires a new phone number. I also don't think the billing/charging limitations kill it at all. What are you basing these statements on?
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Yeah! And everyone should STFU unless this idiot can run DOS on iPhone and Android, and his phone should also use vacuum tubes and should be powered by coal fired steam!
Maybe you should pipe down until your views are shared by at least a fraction of 1% of the rest of the world?
"personally I consider you to be an ambulance chasing jerk." Then you obviously don't know who you were talking to nor how respected his fight has been by most readers on Slashdot.
I don't think State of Fear was a dishonest attack and it definitely didn't hide behind fiction. The end of the book clearly points out what his point was from the perspective of climate change, fear mongering, and the fallacy of our understanding of how the world works. He cites references throughout the book and he was very up front about his doubts on the "science" behind the global warming hysteria.
I think you might fall into the camp of people he described in the book . . as one who will not tolerate a dissenting opinion.
I disagree. They are intuitive. Ask my wife who has to get help on any type of user interface. She figured it all out herself. Ask my kids age 6 and 8, they figured it out too. Maybe not every single aspect of the UI is intuitive, but overall the vast majority of it is.
HAHAHAHA! A spot on critique of the Apple hater.
"I saw the screenshots before they were scrubbed and saw nothing that was illegal."
I saw the screenshots before they were scrubbed and saw personal email being used for government business. That is not a joke, it is illegal.
"Search for "Obama William ayers" HERE if you are too lazy to do your own research."
First, if I was too lazy to do my own research then I probably wouldn't Google it, would I? Second, I did just Google it and found this story ( http://blog.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/2008/02/obamas_weatherman_connection.html ) which rightly points out that the attempt to tie Obama to terrorism is BS. Did YOU do any research or just repeat the crap handed out by the Republican party? He doesn't have any "ties" to any known terrorists unless your definition of "ties" is they both lived on the same planet.
"You have not shown that Palin is a lying cooked politician."
If she used personal email to do government business then she broke the law. She's not stupid, she could have used her government email address but she didn't? Why? I have a business of my own with an email address associated with it and personal email account and I never mix the two. What would be the point? The only reason to do that on her part would be to avoid having some government related emails archived. She did something illegal and for dubious reasons and therefore she's definitely already on the road to corruption if she's not already there.
Obama did nothing illegal but you're condemning him. Palin did something illegal and you're letting her off the hook. How convenient.
Re: #6
I don't think other mobile phones using Java is necessarily a valid argument for it. Other mobile phones have crappy UIs too, should the iPhone be forced to follow suit?
Re: #10
You don't need to copy any software to any computer to transfer files to/from the iPhone. A computer that supports FTP and a free downloaded app on the iPhone (plus a wireless network) and it works fine.
"iPhone is all about DRM. . . . When Microsoft does the same thing everybody here starts screaming, but when Apple does the same thing it is suddenly ok?"
The iPhone is all about DRM? What does that mean? That they built it to implement DRM? That doesn't even makes sense. As for the second sentence, when MS blocks software it is wrong and when Apple does it they are wrong too. Their recent rejection of several apps that "duplicate functionality" is wrong and they need to change their stance.
Ha, exactly! Apparently BOTH parties are tied to terrorism. Maybe we could vote 3rd party. . . . .how about LP.org?
Good comment though. It's almost like you were channeling the Daily Show.
At what point are you going to put up the evidence for the terrorist claims you made? I'm waiting on pins and needles. . .
Typical. You choose to ignore the truth. Palin lied about using email for government business. It is not only lying it's a violation of the law and the only reason to use email that way is to avoid disclosure. She's already acting and thinking like a crooked politician.
And what are these "ties to a known terrorist". Did you get that from Fox News?
Either way, you're willing to accept a lying crooked politician in Palin. Why is that? Rather than choosing a candidate who is honest and honorable you're choosing between different levels of crap (assuming your argument about terrorists is real, which I doubt). Instead why don't you pick a good candidate instead of the lesser of two shitty ones. Seems like common sense, but common sense goes out the door with politics, doesn't it:? . . . Typical indeed!
Kind of a slanted BS listed to some degree if you ask me.
In #6 you bitch because you can't install a Java app. I could point out that YOUR phone probably won't install and run an app written in a language YOUR phone doesn't understand either, but that would approach common sense so I won't do it.
In #10 you complain that you have to install special software? Wasn't your whiny complaint in #6 that you couldn't install some software and now you're complaining that there IS a solution to do something that can be done by installing software? Seems you're taking both sides of the argument (or whatever one is convenient for you anyway).
Now, to get back to the topic of the article, if Apple is blocking apps that may compete with their own then it is BS and they should stop.
"As for Palin lying... even if she did lie, I don't care."
You have just summed up politics perfectly. You're hanging on to some propaganda about terrorists and yet you're perfectly happy to forgive lying for YOUR candidate. Feel free to vote for 4 more years of constitutional erosion and government by deception. Common sense has left the room.
LP.org
"For those who aren't sheep"
There isn't much talk about laying a portion of blame on John Q Public because of his stupid mortgage he took out because he will already be punished when his house is taken away from him in foreclosure. The average person in this IS being punished. The companies that knowingly offered risky loans are NOT. Big business gets a bailout, John Q Public is cast into the street. I don't think we need to spend extra time talking about the consumer's responsibility in this fiasco because the consumer is the one party to the whole affair that WILL be punished. That's why we're talking about big business' escape from responsibility, because the businesses are getting away with it scott-free.
Shut up with the fanboi crap already. Look at yourself for a second. You an anti fanboi fanboi. You've become what you supposedly despise.
Physician heal thyself. . .
Your argument is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of the phrase "Mac clones will kill Apple". It's not the competition that would kill Apple, but rather the implementation of OS X on shoddy hardware configurations that will kill Apple's reputation for a solid, stable OS (when implemented correctly). It's public perception that is driving the huge increase in sales of Mac products. More people are starting to believe they are better than the alternatives and sales are accelerating. If competitors kill Apple's public perception then that effectively kills the company.
You win the Seinfeld script award for this one. The one thing funnier than Jerry making fun of his own show in that episode is using that section of dialogue to make fun of Vista.
Excellent point. Using Seinfeld only targets the demographic of people who are most likely to use Windows anyway. The young generation (Microsoft's future, or lack of it) only know Seinfeld by name and don't hold him or his show in such high esteem as those in the 30+ bracket. Since the kids are the ones MS is losing, and the kids are the ones who will be teaching and converting their parents to new technologies, it's the kids MS should be shooting for if they're going to put their big focus on any one bracket.
Thanks for the info, that's good to know. I'm considering an iPhone but not getting SMS (I'd use it, but not at $30 for a family plan) so I'd like to have it locked out if possible.
How can you turn it off?
Amen to that brother!! Can everyone not post any more stories about how Linux is so great because it's free (even though it's effectively unusable by most consumers) or how the Linux kernal has been compiled to run on my fingernail clippers? I mean this would definitely leave more room for important issues like how Slashdotters are so wise that they know that God is just a myth, how development language A is better than development language B, or how people someone's Nokia phone can SSH into their toaster!
Sorry, it's interesting to me. I want to get an iPhone and avoid paying extra for SMS.
It's the sum of the parts that's greater than the individual pieces. I don't see how it's behind the curve in terms of functionality. There may be a piece here or there that is could be better, but the interface is so superior that it's really the first truly functional phone that is easy and a joy to use. I don't see the iPhone as behind the curve at all, and I think even other manufacturers realize this because they're all trying to mimic the iPhone and create an iPhone killer before the iPhone even dominates in market share. The iPhone is already seen as the one to beat by everyone. I won't say it's perfect or that it has the absolute best of every hardware feature, but the good mix of hardware features combined with an interface that blows everyone else away makes it the best phone I have ever seen or used.
I still don't see the restricted argument. Just because it doesn't do what you want doesn't make it restricted. I'd like it to dispense $20 bills, it doesn't do it, it must be restricted. Maybe it's your unrealistic expectations that should be examined. You still haven't told me why it's restricted. How is it restricted? No concrete examples?
I guess this proves it's possible to read whatever you want into anything. I didn't see their "naughty" comment as a value judgement at all, but rather an attempt at humorous open recognition of the jailbreak market and a segue into the fact that this is an app that will only be distributed via the App Store.
While you're condemning value judgements maybe you can take a minute and condemn your own. Your cheesy implication that the makers of iCall don't have a respect for freedom is about the most ridiculous conclusion I've ever seen.
"Someone who has some amount of respect for freedom wouldn't buy an iPhone in the first place!" Wow, I see you're taking advantage of your freedom to make ridiculous statements that don't make an ounce of sense.
I don't think this requires a new phone number. I also don't think the billing/charging limitations kill it at all. What are you basing these statements on?