Yes, I suppose the day of expecting anything to last longer than a year is probably a thing of the past. And yeah, I suppose the folks who already own multiple Apple products are coerced into buying the next generation Apple products seeing they are already experiencing "vendor lock in" to a degree. Good point. I never could stomach Apple's draconian practices, which is probably why my last Apple purchase was a long time ago. Watch their famous "1984" commercial now - they have come a long way since then.
Sounds like an accuracy issue rather than a hygiene issue. Are you honestly saying you can't use a urinal without pissing on your jeans? Because I use urinals all the time without that ever happening.
They may start caring when they want to change the battery and find out the only way to do so is have Apple charge them to do it. Would you buy a car that can ONLY be serviced by the dealership, and if you bring in your older car, they weld the hood shut to make sure? I wouldn't, but I guess that is why I don't own any iPhones/iPods/iPads.
You also never hear someone calling their friends to "Come over for dinner. We're having shit." either, do you? Given the choice I would take the raw corn over shit, reinforcing my original point.
I know that, but these are screws and the tool to remove them, not registered security keys. (And anyone who thinks standard keys stamped "DO NOT DUPLICATE" will not be duplicated simply because of that, I have made copies of those types of keys at about half a dozen different hardware stores/locksmiths. One place actually wanted to charge an additional fee for duplicating those keys!)
X Files was still great entertainment (with the exception of the last season without Mulder) - especially if you realize not everything on television is real. Of course X Files came out when I was already in my 20s, so I didn't have the same issues you did. But out of curiosity, what bs are you referring to that fucked you up for years? The show may have stretched the truth a bit, but I can't recall anything I would put it that category.
You may be able to patent the screws, but I doubt you could patent the removal tool so much that no third party could manufacture them. (Apple once again showing their brilliant "security through obscurity" ideals.) I can guarantee that within months there will be multiple companies manufacturing these pentalobe screwdrivers, and selling them publicly to anyone. So congratulations Apple, you are pissing off your loyal customers to gain a small time frame when the tool is hard to come by. And switching out existing customers standard screws if they bring in their phones for any type of service? Tsk tsk. That is pretty underhanded.
OR, an even more obvious answer, it could be a third-party service that is only affecting a very low percentage of phone users. Just because it is a MS phone doesn't instantly mean it is time to don the tinfoil hats. MS is into making money, not "destroying people's lives through software" as the groupthink at Slashdot sometimes assumes. (Unless there is serious profit in destroying lives, but so far that isn't the case.)
Maybe or maybe not, but there is generally a nugget of truth even in broad generalizations like this. People didn't just start saying it becasue it sounded cool.
I have never understood the need to spend a sizable down payment (or in your case the entire cost) of a house to drink and dance for one evening. You did the smart thing by buying something that has immediate value, and will likely increase in value over time. People who spend thousands and thousands of dollars on a wedding are not being frugal, and could probably have done it much cheaper if they had planned better, or been more practical about what they "need to have" at their wedding. $2000 for flowers? You know they are all going to be dead in less than a week, right? Instead of having the reception at a hotel or such, rent out your own building and bring your own food, booze, and bartenders. That is what a friend of mine did last summer, and her wedding cost less than $2500 - and they had great food (prepared by other friends that are caterers), drinks (served by friends as well), and live music at a pavilion in a public park. It was great fun, and not expensive. Something similar at a hotel with the hotel providing all the same things would have been around $15,000 - with crappier food, drinks, and music. Hit up your friends who have the skills for things you want (photographer, DJ, bands, caterers, bartenders, florists, etc.) at your wedding. You would be surprised at the pool of talent right in front of you, and most people are willing to offer their services as a wedding present.
Yep, I remember. I believe the motto was "Nobody ever gets fired for buying IBM". Just like Microsoft now - expensive, but usually works with all your other stuff with the least amount of hassle.
And for years we had been told the sun revolves around the earth. What exactly is your point? Or was it a friend of a friend who told you this - in that case you know it HAS to be true!
But honestly seeing computer viruses started showing up in 1986 and McAfee Associates wasn't even incorporated until 1992, I think your source may have been pulling your leg a little.
No Coke, Pepsi. Sculley was the President of PepsiCo. He was hired becasue of his marketing experience in the "Great Cola Wars". (His #2 company was trying to go after the #1 company in the field. Sound familiar at all?) And yes - marketing is marketing - the product isn't really that relevant. Knowledge of your own product does not make you a great businessman, knowledge of how the business world works as a whole is what does.
Apple got rid of the great Steve a long while back. Now all they have is the good Steve. Apple has survived with and without Jobs before, and I am sure they will survive when Jobs is no longer with Apple anymore. Will it be the same company? Not so sure about that, time will tell. I am pretty sure the "Apple Formula"* can be carried on with or without Jobs though.
*Take existing technology, put it in a very pretty box, market the hell out of it. Repeat.
But what about all the jobs creating, installing, maintaining, and operating the smart meters? You are in favor of putting all of those people out of work to employ lowly meter maids?
Accomplishments != intelligence. You can be very dumb and very accomplished. It isn't common, but it happens. I don't care what she accomplished or accomplishes, I can tell you with 100% certainty that I am not dumber than she is. I also have little doubt she could not have accomplished anything without a lot of smarter people making decisions for her. I would also like to point out that I still am at my job, and didn't quit halfway through, so I consider myself more accomplished in my employment record.
In my experience when you can get the same exact thing and the choices are: 1) Free or 2) Pay - very few people pick option #2. Especially with addons like Skip Screen that fully automate the waiting and then clicking when the timer counts down part of the download. I doubt Rapidshare is the huge cash cow you imagine it to be. 1 ad per 100MB download is not a huge revenue stream, and I would guess they have some serious hardware costs.
Yes becasue if it were really that simple, don't you think they would be doing it already? They aren't idiots, if it took you 2 minutes to come up with that (and it would take pirates 2 seconds to circumvent any of your ideas) they have thought of it too and decided it wasn't feasible. The argument "you can stop this without an inordinate amount of work" is so damn silly. That would be akin to asking Google to please remove every single porn link they currently serve up. The 2 reasons neither will happen is becasue it is technically almost impossible, and people want to be able to download that content. If they aren't doing it on Rapidshare, they will be doing it somewhere else. Notice how after they shut fown Napster, somehow the P2P file sharing managed to continue?
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Yes, I suppose the day of expecting anything to last longer than a year is probably a thing of the past. And yeah, I suppose the folks who already own multiple Apple products are coerced into buying the next generation Apple products seeing they are already experiencing "vendor lock in" to a degree. Good point. I never could stomach Apple's draconian practices, which is probably why my last Apple purchase was a long time ago. Watch their famous "1984" commercial now - they have come a long way since then.
Sounds like an accuracy issue rather than a hygiene issue. Are you honestly saying you can't use a urinal without pissing on your jeans? Because I use urinals all the time without that ever happening.
They may start caring when they want to change the battery and find out the only way to do so is have Apple charge them to do it. Would you buy a car that can ONLY be serviced by the dealership, and if you bring in your older car, they weld the hood shut to make sure? I wouldn't, but I guess that is why I don't own any iPhones/iPods/iPads.
I don't, and I won't.
You also never hear someone calling their friends to "Come over for dinner. We're having shit." either, do you? Given the choice I would take the raw corn over shit, reinforcing my original point.
I know that, but these are screws and the tool to remove them, not registered security keys. (And anyone who thinks standard keys stamped "DO NOT DUPLICATE" will not be duplicated simply because of that, I have made copies of those types of keys at about half a dozen different hardware stores/locksmiths. One place actually wanted to charge an additional fee for duplicating those keys!)
X Files was still great entertainment (with the exception of the last season without Mulder) - especially if you realize not everything on television is real. Of course X Files came out when I was already in my 20s, so I didn't have the same issues you did. But out of curiosity, what bs are you referring to that fucked you up for years? The show may have stretched the truth a bit, but I can't recall anything I would put it that category.
You may be able to patent the screws, but I doubt you could patent the removal tool so much that no third party could manufacture them. (Apple once again showing their brilliant "security through obscurity" ideals.) I can guarantee that within months there will be multiple companies manufacturing these pentalobe screwdrivers, and selling them publicly to anyone. So congratulations Apple, you are pissing off your loyal customers to gain a small time frame when the tool is hard to come by. And switching out existing customers standard screws if they bring in their phones for any type of service? Tsk tsk. That is pretty underhanded.
Which still makes it thousands of magnitudes better than American Idol, America's Got Talent, Dancing with the Stars, etc.
Can you even patent a shape?
OR, an even more obvious answer, it could be a third-party service that is only affecting a very low percentage of phone users. Just because it is a MS phone doesn't instantly mean it is time to don the tinfoil hats. MS is into making money, not "destroying people's lives through software" as the groupthink at Slashdot sometimes assumes. (Unless there is serious profit in destroying lives, but so far that isn't the case.)
Not insignificant to the 1 million having problems connecting I would guess...
Maybe or maybe not, but there is generally a nugget of truth even in broad generalizations like this. People didn't just start saying it becasue it sounded cool.
I have never understood the need to spend a sizable down payment (or in your case the entire cost) of a house to drink and dance for one evening. You did the smart thing by buying something that has immediate value, and will likely increase in value over time. People who spend thousands and thousands of dollars on a wedding are not being frugal, and could probably have done it much cheaper if they had planned better, or been more practical about what they "need to have" at their wedding. $2000 for flowers? You know they are all going to be dead in less than a week, right? Instead of having the reception at a hotel or such, rent out your own building and bring your own food, booze, and bartenders. That is what a friend of mine did last summer, and her wedding cost less than $2500 - and they had great food (prepared by other friends that are caterers), drinks (served by friends as well), and live music at a pavilion in a public park. It was great fun, and not expensive. Something similar at a hotel with the hotel providing all the same things would have been around $15,000 - with crappier food, drinks, and music. Hit up your friends who have the skills for things you want (photographer, DJ, bands, caterers, bartenders, florists, etc.) at your wedding. You would be surprised at the pool of talent right in front of you, and most people are willing to offer their services as a wedding present.
Yep, I remember. I believe the motto was "Nobody ever gets fired for buying IBM". Just like Microsoft now - expensive, but usually works with all your other stuff with the least amount of hassle.
And for years we had been told the sun revolves around the earth. What exactly is your point? Or was it a friend of a friend who told you this - in that case you know it HAS to be true!
But honestly seeing computer viruses started showing up in 1986 and McAfee Associates wasn't even incorporated until 1992, I think your source may have been pulling your leg a little.
Or maybe it is an AIDS-infected site. Practice safe surfing!
No Coke, Pepsi. Sculley was the President of PepsiCo. He was hired becasue of his marketing experience in the "Great Cola Wars". (His #2 company was trying to go after the #1 company in the field. Sound familiar at all?) And yes - marketing is marketing - the product isn't really that relevant. Knowledge of your own product does not make you a great businessman, knowledge of how the business world works as a whole is what does.
Or you could just cut to the chase and buy some mind altering drugs. A lot simpler really.
Apple got rid of the great Steve a long while back. Now all they have is the good Steve. Apple has survived with and without Jobs before, and I am sure they will survive when Jobs is no longer with Apple anymore. Will it be the same company? Not so sure about that, time will tell. I am pretty sure the "Apple Formula"* can be carried on with or without Jobs though.
*Take existing technology, put it in a very pretty box, market the hell out of it. Repeat.
But what about all the jobs creating, installing, maintaining, and operating the smart meters? You are in favor of putting all of those people out of work to employ lowly meter maids?
Accomplishments != intelligence. You can be very dumb and very accomplished. It isn't common, but it happens. I don't care what she accomplished or accomplishes, I can tell you with 100% certainty that I am not dumber than she is. I also have little doubt she could not have accomplished anything without a lot of smarter people making decisions for her. I would also like to point out that I still am at my job, and didn't quit halfway through, so I consider myself more accomplished in my employment record.
In my experience when you can get the same exact thing and the choices are: 1) Free or 2) Pay - very few people pick option #2. Especially with addons like Skip Screen that fully automate the waiting and then clicking when the timer counts down part of the download. I doubt Rapidshare is the huge cash cow you imagine it to be. 1 ad per 100MB download is not a huge revenue stream, and I would guess they have some serious hardware costs.
+1 Slack
Yes becasue if it were really that simple, don't you think they would be doing it already? They aren't idiots, if it took you 2 minutes to come up with that (and it would take pirates 2 seconds to circumvent any of your ideas) they have thought of it too and decided it wasn't feasible. The argument "you can stop this without an inordinate amount of work" is so damn silly. That would be akin to asking Google to please remove every single porn link they currently serve up. The 2 reasons neither will happen is becasue it is technically almost impossible, and people want to be able to download that content. If they aren't doing it on Rapidshare, they will be doing it somewhere else. Notice how after they shut fown Napster, somehow the P2P file sharing managed to continue?