Anything that helps prevent someone from getting a Mobile Phone contract is a blessing. I pay $35/mo. for more data that I ever use and unlimited voice and messages, and that's from a big mainstream outfit called Virgin Mobile.
I've had my most enjoyable Pokemon play on a GameBoy Advance SP with Pokeman Emerald. They've really never put out a Pokemon game as good as Emerald ever since. The extra stuff that came after Emerald (aside from the additional Pokemon) is mostly just croft. (No, I am not interested in different clothing for my human player in Pokemon.) Watch out for counterfeit Emerald carts; they don't have the entire game, they just ripped part of it.
Android phones are not driven in obsolescence by a team at Apple who urges developers to move onto the new API as soon as possible. So the App Store doesn't stop having current apps for Android phones for much, much longer than with Apple. Look at the number of current-version apps you can still get to run on a KitKat phone, and compare that to the apps you can get for a 3G iOS device today.
When you buy an iOS product you are buying from a company determined to make it obsolete within a year or two of you buying it.
If a phone is available in the store at full retail, the clock for EOL has not started ticking. Now, we know that a true fanboy lines up to buy the phone at launch, and for Apple, those are the people who it's important to keep squealing with glee.
I had a 3 Gen iPod Touch 'go out of support' for new iOS versions less than a year after I bought it. I shouldn't be penalized that way for buying an Apple product late in the period when it is being foisted off on the market as 'current.' Incidentally that iPod is probably the last Apple hardware I will ever buy. There were two iPods that I bought before it.
You left out the pathetic and inept detris running under the other party's banner, to say nothing of the entire Washington incumbency presently in place.
I have an original copy of the NextStep installer media for PA Risc. It's so sad, I would really rather have a copy for X86 or even POWER. But mine is probably very rare now for collectors.
What was the Corvalis Group going to do? Keep making really nice but rather expensive, calculators for an ever dwindling market? It's not a sustainable product line that could scale today to be anything but a nostalgia product. Besides which, the HP calculators have a high enough build quality that if you really need one you can track one down used for a price that is about the same as you'd pay, inflation adjusted, for a new one. There's nothing new to be added. Your HP-41, 48, or 15 is out there to acquire if you need it, for the few who want one.
Excel is not a Lotus 1-2-3 clone. There were numerous Lotus clones on the market. I owned the one called 'Twin' for awhile. Excel was a complete new spreadsheet.
Incidentally, Visicalc was what everybody copied. That was the first spreadsheet.
IE was initially based on licensed code from NCSA Mosaic. Netscape is the company that 'hired away' the developers of Mosaic from their publicly funded jobs at NCSA (an academic institution) and privatized Mosaic.
Visual Studio was a continuation and adaptation of Visual Basic, which was a fairly successful early way of 'graphically' developing Windows applications. Manually making Windows applications with the SDK and classic Microsoft C was really difficult. And there were numerous of other IDEs around, not just Borland's Turbo IDEs.
But whatever. It's important not to let history be rewritten, but this is kinda off topic.
Apple with their desktop OS were very very late in having anything but a joke of a multitasking system. They had to buy in an OS from outside the company to get real preemptive multitasking. The old Mac-OS was a joke. It isn't in their culture at Apple to do that kind of stuff.
Once the Judicial system starts routinely tossing out the stupidest most general patents, there will be a precedent by which patents are measured, no matter how many wallpaper patents are issued. Eventually, people paying the fees to be issued patents will wise up and demand that the Patent Office stop milling patents to collect fees from them.
At least that's the best case scenario I can dream up. It neuters the out of control Patent Office without any messy 'Patent Reform' needed.
And at this point, who gives a shit about gays beside closeted people?
Well, some of the most creepy, objectifying straight men worry intensely about gay men. They think the gay men are looking at them the way they look at women. That's probably very frightening.
Cars don't suffer anything close to the damage that a person does in a human-car collision. I suppose pedestrians could start carrying wrecking bars for those near collision incidences. Or syringes full of brake fluid, which can really dress up a car that passes you too closely (it quickly dissolves paint.) I've known militant bicyclists who carry gear to damage a car that doesn't respect their space.
The second amendment is about arming bears. And outside some National Parks, there isn't much bear-human interaction by people who don't understand how dangerous an armed bear is. So it's mostly a non-issue.
The scientific-technological elite, as opposed to the scientific-technological masses, are hanging out in their labs and offices. They have tenure at elite academies, in research facilities, and at corporations.
The people working 80-100 hours in fear are the masses. Same as always.
and if the Apple is noticeably more pleasant to use that may be a good deal.
That's a major supposition. And people have to pay that dollar-a-day up front, which believe it or not is a burden for, say 95 or so percent of the world.
I also didn't say it was to make the buyers feel good. It's to make them feel superior, and kind of elite. It's not that much to spend for that feeling, of course. I never implied a iPhone was that big of a burden for people who also buy Coach purses and the latest fashion clothing.
So all we need to do is shut down and depopulate all the big cities! Pol-Pot apparently had it right. Now all we have to do is flex the massive muscles of the state and fix everything.
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Yet somehow you can mow down people with a car in the streets in a drunken stupor and it's all good and fine.
Where did you get that idea? Provide evidence of a broad legal precedent, not an anecdotal example.
Slashdot is no bastion of feminism; it's quite the opposite
Slashdot is also no bastion of numismatism. I seldom, if ever, hear the coin collectors speaking out on issues important to them here.
So you want to moderate the discussion yet also express strong opinions within it? Fuck you. That's corrosive to the Slashdot discussion format.
Also, cherry-picking a few horror cases is a propaganda technique. Nice try, though.
I have definitely always assumed that the characters on BBT would never watch the show.
With a cloth?
Besides, at this point, what difference does it make?
Anything that helps prevent someone from getting a Mobile Phone contract is a blessing. I pay $35/mo. for more data that I ever use and unlimited voice and messages, and that's from a big mainstream outfit called Virgin Mobile.
I've had my most enjoyable Pokemon play on a GameBoy Advance SP with Pokeman Emerald. They've really never put out a Pokemon game as good as Emerald ever since. The extra stuff that came after Emerald (aside from the additional Pokemon) is mostly just croft. (No, I am not interested in different clothing for my human player in Pokemon.) Watch out for counterfeit Emerald carts; they don't have the entire game, they just ripped part of it.
Android phones are not driven in obsolescence by a team at Apple who urges developers to move onto the new API as soon as possible. So the App Store doesn't stop having current apps for Android phones for much, much longer than with Apple. Look at the number of current-version apps you can still get to run on a KitKat phone, and compare that to the apps you can get for a 3G iOS device today.
When you buy an iOS product you are buying from a company determined to make it obsolete within a year or two of you buying it.
If a phone is available in the store at full retail, the clock for EOL has not started ticking. Now, we know that a true fanboy lines up to buy the phone at launch, and for Apple, those are the people who it's important to keep squealing with glee.
I had a 3 Gen iPod Touch 'go out of support' for new iOS versions less than a year after I bought it. I shouldn't be penalized that way for buying an Apple product late in the period when it is being foisted off on the market as 'current.' Incidentally that iPod is probably the last Apple hardware I will ever buy. There were two iPods that I bought before it.
I think, though, that Walmart treats their employees better than Amazon does.
To reprhase an old anti-MS quote:
"OSX ain't done, till no non-appstore programs will run."
You left out the pathetic and inept detris running under the other party's banner, to say nothing of the entire Washington incumbency presently in place.
Come now, be more inclusive.
I have an original copy of the NextStep installer media for PA Risc. It's so sad, I would really rather have a copy for X86 or even POWER. But mine is probably very rare now for collectors.
What was the Corvalis Group going to do? Keep making really nice but rather expensive, calculators for an ever dwindling market? It's not a sustainable product line that could scale today to be anything but a nostalgia product. Besides which, the HP calculators have a high enough build quality that if you really need one you can track one down used for a price that is about the same as you'd pay, inflation adjusted, for a new one. There's nothing new to be added. Your HP-41, 48, or 15 is out there to acquire if you need it, for the few who want one.
Excel is not a Lotus 1-2-3 clone. There were numerous Lotus clones on the market. I owned the one called 'Twin' for awhile. Excel was a complete new spreadsheet.
Incidentally, Visicalc was what everybody copied. That was the first spreadsheet.
IE was initially based on licensed code from NCSA Mosaic. Netscape is the company that 'hired away' the developers of Mosaic from their publicly funded jobs at NCSA (an academic institution) and privatized Mosaic.
Visual Studio was a continuation and adaptation of Visual Basic, which was a fairly successful early way of 'graphically' developing Windows applications. Manually making Windows applications with the SDK and classic Microsoft C was really difficult. And there were numerous of other IDEs around, not just Borland's Turbo IDEs.
But whatever. It's important not to let history be rewritten, but this is kinda off topic.
What do you mean 'even the iPhone'?
Apple with their desktop OS were very very late in having anything but a joke of a multitasking system. They had to buy in an OS from outside the company to get real preemptive multitasking. The old Mac-OS was a joke. It isn't in their culture at Apple to do that kind of stuff.
Once the Judicial system starts routinely tossing out the stupidest most general patents, there will be a precedent by which patents are measured, no matter how many wallpaper patents are issued. Eventually, people paying the fees to be issued patents will wise up and demand that the Patent Office stop milling patents to collect fees from them.
At least that's the best case scenario I can dream up. It neuters the out of control Patent Office without any messy 'Patent Reform' needed.
And at this point, who gives a shit about gays beside closeted people?
Well, some of the most creepy, objectifying straight men worry intensely about gay men. They think the gay men are looking at them the way they look at women. That's probably very frightening.
Cars don't suffer anything close to the damage that a person does in a human-car collision. I suppose pedestrians could start carrying wrecking bars for those near collision incidences. Or syringes full of brake fluid, which can really dress up a car that passes you too closely (it quickly dissolves paint.) I've known militant bicyclists who carry gear to damage a car that doesn't respect their space.
The second amendment is about arming bears. And outside some National Parks, there isn't much bear-human interaction by people who don't understand how dangerous an armed bear is. So it's mostly a non-issue.
The scientific-technological elite, as opposed to the scientific-technological masses, are hanging out in their labs and offices. They have tenure at elite academies, in research facilities, and at corporations.
The people working 80-100 hours in fear are the masses. Same as always.
and if the Apple is noticeably more pleasant to use that may be a good deal.
That's a major supposition. And people have to pay that dollar-a-day up front, which believe it or not is a burden for, say 95 or so percent of the world.
I also didn't say it was to make the buyers feel good. It's to make them feel superior, and kind of elite. It's not that much to spend for that feeling, of course. I never implied a iPhone was that big of a burden for people who also buy Coach purses and the latest fashion clothing.
It's a cult thing.
So all we need to do is shut down and depopulate all the big cities! Pol-Pot apparently had it right. Now all we have to do is flex the massive muscles of the state and fix everything.
Apple wants an elite customer base. They can't charge an insane markup to the whole market, only to a subset that thinks paying more makes them elite.
Couldn't it be that the lines are saturated because everyone is trying to get the new MacOS update at the same time?