Why do people like you feel the need to reach way back to 'totalitarians (Nazis, Soviets etc.)' to make your point when there is a living, breathing (barely, it's been reported) totalitarian doing the very same thing today within small crafts' reach of the US in Cuba?
There's a fresh vivid example of that stuff right down south who you should cite to make your point stronger, and not just another example of diddling with Godwin's Law.
There was no pre/post-WWII dividing line in US Politics. Possibly pre/post New Deal, but that wasn't the same thing, just the same time period. (even though many people who credit Roosevelt's 'New Deal' for bringing the economy back fail to recognize that the revival of a war economy was as much or more of a factor)
(The real dividing line in US Politics was the Civil War, when the 'boys from Washington' took over much of the States' powers.)
If it's an animated depiction of Tony the Tiger having sex with children, a bunch of people would be all over anybody who tried to file pedophilia charges against you. It's 'free speech' to depict child porn as long as it's simulated and/or just moving bitmaps. It becomes pedophilia only when there were real children involved.
The owners of the Tony the Tiger trademark, on the other hand....
It's all very similar to the videos of the rubber 'Tux the Penguin' figure that was included in the Corel Linux retail boxes back when that product was on store shelves. All kinds of people recognized the value of 'Tux' as a buttplug and that video appeared on the 'net. Corel didn't sue the producer of the video. In fact, it helped remove the existing copies of Corel Linux off the retail shelves, even though by then people had figured out how bad Corel Linux was.
There's still a Ford Motor company, although we can hope that within the next few centuries, it will be more common for people to automatically think Ford as in Prefect.
What you say has some credence. However, most GM vehicles are still designed by a bunch of knuckleheads in Detroit, no matter where the designs are implemented.
That makes a big difference, and is why the big bloated Detroit iron is in trouble in the long run.
Sure, but it's my understanding that unless you transfer your music files to it using the proprietary iTunes application, it recognizes them as files and won't play them as music.
Somebody can jump in and correct me if I'm wrong. My non-Apple iPod doesn't work that way (see sig)
If Apple ever produced an iPhone it's pretty likely that they'd include a plane mode right from the start which disables the phone aspect.
Hmmm, you just perked up my mind with that comment. Is there some sort of 'plane mode' signal or protocol out there now that disables cell phones? Is it something built into airplanes? Do you have a schematic diagram of it and/or a source for the module or chip that emits the signal?
I have always had this liking for airplanes and if I could carry a little bit of '747' in my pocket that also put the cellphones of anybody in hearing range into this 'plane mode' it would be most excellent.
And all in all, this is probably why we haven't seen a phone from Apple yet...they know all about these issues and won't release something until they have it reasonably figured out...
Robust battery compartment design, particularly for 'standard' batteries where the customer will be putting in random batteries of many different brands, is one the most difficult and costly parts of good 'portable device' design. Probably a big part of the reason Apple sells so many sealed-unit unreplacable-battery devices is that they really aren't good enough to handle such a design. Plus, Jobs would be there in the design lab screaming at the design team for even trying a universal battery-compartment design, when Apple customers will always and only buy Apple(tm) brand iBatteries at the Apple Store anyway.
I know with a simply free phone I picked up from Cingular last year, I've now replaced my Palm...
You mean you can run the code you hack with Code Warrior on that free phone, or that the few limited applets that came by default on your Palm, which are all you ever used on it, are replicated on the closed-architecture phone?
Me, I like the fact that my PDA is classic, stand alone, and I'll never have to pay an access fee to keep it alive. All it consumes is AAA batteries (and only two of those every three months or so). And the 'important' apps for it are stuff I bought as shareware back in the 90's and can run forever, or are little things I write myself.
You know, not having your head physically connected to the trunk part of your body that the garment your pocket is build into wraps around (whew!) would suck even more.
Hold on. You say that like it's a bad thing. Personally, I feel that anybody who wants a custom ringtone should have to pay a visit to one single corporate office building in Hoboken, New Jersey, and bring with them $70.86 in cash (exact change required) to acquire a ring tone different from a benign default. And at that building, they should have to stand in a long line and endure the company of dozens of the same kind of repulsive person as themself while waiting to pay.
It's gotten so I am tempted these days to come up with some sort of a PIC microcontroller design that I can build into a cheap toy cellphone that will play back really repulsive and/or offensive 'ringtones.' So I can echo back a 'mating call' of sorts to the repulsive noises real phones are making. Maybe something that samples and blatts back a bad echo of the phone ring just 'experienced'
That or a cellphone jammer; built into a device that a 'laughing man' ringtone as it snips the wireless wire on tard-the-jabbermouth.
but every other thing is either a software issue or an industrial design issue. Guess what two things Apple kicks ass at?
1. Giving up on writing their own 'next generation OS' and buying in something from NeXT? 2. Products so 'bling' in design and appearance that the 'appeal' of each design wears off in just about the time period Apple designates as an 'upgrade cycle'?
The original Mac was going to be a failure because nobody wanted locked-up proprietary boxes with no CLI or expansion capabilities
The original Mac was a failure. It had pretty much no apps except the Apple accessories, not enough memory to be much use for anything and was very unexpandable. It was somewhat of a 'concept device' used to get mindshare. It wasn't really until the Mac Plus that there was any real hope for the Mac as a personal computer, and not until the SE that the Mac could be called a real computer with a commercial future.
Apple lived on the revenues from Apple ][ sales for a long, long time after the introduction of the Mac before it was anything but a curiousity people would look at but not buy.
I think you mean one that will only sync contacts with OS X, or with a single Windows App that features a big brushed chrome frame around it and doesn't 'obey' any of the Windows interface conventions.
Also, it will sync your contacts only one-way. You can sync them into the phone from your old phone's contact list, but have to stick to Apple from that point on or manually enter them all on your new non-Apple phone.
Also, it will have a battery that either dies one week out of warranty and is not replacable, or will self-ignite.
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Why do people like you feel the need to reach way back to 'totalitarians (Nazis, Soviets etc.)' to make your point when there is a living, breathing (barely, it's been reported) totalitarian doing the very same thing today within small crafts' reach of the US in Cuba?
There's a fresh vivid example of that stuff right down south who you should cite to make your point stronger, and not just another example of diddling with Godwin's Law.
Actually, it just makes nutty single-issue fanatics look ill-humored.
The parent comment above illustrates this.
So where's the 'Optimized for CyberDog' logo on that page you linked, then? Huh? Huh?!?
There was no pre/post-WWII dividing line in US Politics. Possibly pre/post New Deal, but that wasn't the same thing, just the same time period. (even though many people who credit Roosevelt's 'New Deal' for bringing the economy back fail to recognize that the revival of a war economy was as much or more of a factor)
(The real dividing line in US Politics was the Civil War, when the 'boys from Washington' took over much of the States' powers.)
If it's an animated depiction of Tony the Tiger having sex with children, a bunch of people would be all over anybody who tried to file pedophilia charges against you. It's 'free speech' to depict child porn as long as it's simulated and/or just moving bitmaps. It becomes pedophilia only when there were real children involved.
The owners of the Tony the Tiger trademark, on the other hand....
It's all very similar to the videos of the rubber 'Tux the Penguin' figure that was included in the Corel Linux retail boxes back when that product was on store shelves. All kinds of people recognized the value of 'Tux' as a buttplug and that video appeared on the 'net. Corel didn't sue the producer of the video. In fact, it helped remove the existing copies of Corel Linux off the retail shelves, even though by then people had figured out how bad Corel Linux was.
It's an apple.slashdot.org story.
That's the marketing side of Slashdot, didn't you know?
There's still a Ford Motor company, although we can hope that within the next few centuries, it will be more common for people to automatically think Ford as in Prefect.
What you say has some credence. However, most GM vehicles are still designed by a bunch of knuckleheads in Detroit, no matter where the designs are implemented.
That makes a big difference, and is why the big bloated Detroit iron is in trouble in the long run.
At the minimum it provides more fuel for anti-trust action against Apple for nearly owning the market with their proprietary design.
Except, wait, they're sticking this in Ford vehicles. Never mind.
At the moment I actually do have a pair of gloves stored in my glove compartment.
What happens with MS comes out with it's iPod killer?
Largely irrelevant, as Toyota has already come out with their Ford killer, making the point moot.
You're correct. The Toyota Yaris may be a suitable design for today, but cars of the future need to be much smaller and use less gasoline.
Sure, but it's my understanding that unless you transfer your music files to it using the proprietary iTunes application, it recognizes them as files and won't play them as music.
Somebody can jump in and correct me if I'm wrong. My non-Apple iPod doesn't work that way (see sig)
Is a 'Dead Geek Icon' something I can have on the screen of my PeeCee and when I click it a geek somewhere dies?
Or is this 'Icon' in the correct sense: a small framed work of art from eastern Europe somehow associated with a dead geek?
Actually, the rumors are that NeXT bought Apple. They were certainly 'on the selling block' in a lot of peoples' minds at the time.
Sounds to me like you are letting your feelings about that two hour commute channel into the rest of your 'geek device fetish' experience.
I only have a fourty minute commute. Much of the pain is alleviated by the device cited in my tagline.
Or are you stuck on a bus or a train somewhere?
If Apple ever produced an iPhone it's pretty likely that they'd include a plane mode right from the start which disables the phone aspect.
Hmmm, you just perked up my mind with that comment. Is there some sort of 'plane mode' signal or protocol out there now that disables cell phones? Is it something built into airplanes? Do you have a schematic diagram of it and/or a source for the module or chip that emits the signal?
I have always had this liking for airplanes and if I could carry a little bit of '747' in my pocket that also put the cellphones of anybody in hearing range into this 'plane mode' it would be most excellent.
I can think of one hell of a lot of gadgets more popular and indispensible than an iPod.
Heck, I can open a kitchen drawer and pull out a whole fistfull of them.
Now, if you confine your scope to electronic adolescent fetish items, you may have a point.
And all in all, this is probably why we haven't seen a phone from Apple yet...they know all about these issues and won't release something until they have it reasonably figured out...
Robust battery compartment design, particularly for 'standard' batteries where the customer will be putting in random batteries of many different brands, is one the most difficult and costly parts of good 'portable device' design. Probably a big part of the reason Apple sells so many sealed-unit unreplacable-battery devices is that they really aren't good enough to handle such a design. Plus, Jobs would be there in the design lab screaming at the design team for even trying a universal battery-compartment design, when Apple customers will always and only buy Apple(tm) brand iBatteries at the Apple Store anyway.
'Buncha Bozos' etc. etc.
I know with a simply free phone I picked up from Cingular last year, I've now replaced my Palm...
You mean you can run the code you hack with Code Warrior on that free phone, or that the few limited applets that came by default on your Palm, which are all you ever used on it, are replicated on the closed-architecture phone?
Me, I like the fact that my PDA is classic, stand alone, and I'll never have to pay an access fee to keep it alive.
All it consumes is AAA batteries (and only two of those every three months or so). And the 'important' apps for it are stuff I bought as shareware back in the 90's and can run forever, or are little things I write myself.
You know, not having your head physically connected to the trunk part of your body that the garment your pocket is build into wraps around (whew!) would suck even more.
to enforce monopolies on ringtones, wallpapers,
Hold on. You say that like it's a bad thing. Personally, I feel that anybody who wants a custom ringtone should have to pay a visit to one single corporate office building in Hoboken, New Jersey, and bring with them $70.86 in cash (exact change required) to acquire a ring tone different from a benign default. And at that building, they should have to stand in a long line and endure the company of dozens of the same kind of repulsive person as themself while waiting to pay.
It's gotten so I am tempted these days to come up with some sort of a PIC microcontroller design that I can build into a cheap toy cellphone that will play back really repulsive and/or offensive 'ringtones.' So I can echo back a 'mating call' of sorts to the repulsive noises real phones are making. Maybe something that samples and blatts back a bad echo of the phone ring just 'experienced'
That or a cellphone jammer; built into a device that a 'laughing man' ringtone as it snips the wireless wire on tard-the-jabbermouth.
but every other thing is either a software issue or an industrial design issue. Guess what two things Apple kicks ass at?
1. Giving up on writing their own 'next generation OS' and buying in something from NeXT?
2. Products so 'bling' in design and appearance that the 'appeal' of each design wears off in just about the time period Apple designates as an 'upgrade cycle'?
The original Mac was going to be a failure because nobody wanted locked-up proprietary boxes with no CLI or expansion capabilities
The original Mac was a failure. It had pretty much no apps except the Apple accessories, not enough memory to be much use for anything and was very unexpandable. It was somewhat of a 'concept device' used to get mindshare. It wasn't really until the Mac Plus that there was any real hope for the Mac as a personal computer, and not until the SE that the Mac could be called a real computer with a commercial future.
Apple lived on the revenues from Apple ][ sales for a long, long time after the introduction of the Mac before it was anything but a curiousity people would look at but not buy.
I think you mean one that will only sync contacts with OS X, or with a single Windows App that features a big brushed chrome frame around it and doesn't 'obey' any of the Windows interface conventions.
Also, it will sync your contacts only one-way. You can sync them into the phone from your old phone's contact list, but have to stick to Apple from that point on or manually enter them all on your new non-Apple phone.
Also, it will have a battery that either dies one week out of warranty and is not replacable, or will self-ignite.