Unless you believe in God given rights, every right is simply something the government guarantees to you.
Society over time decides what it feels everyone should be entitled to - and entitled is not a four letter word.
We started with Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. Since then we added a few, everyone can vote, everyone can work, speech, etc.
As society changes more things become "rights" - ie. things we as a society feel all of us would benefit by having - like education, healthcare, living wage.
The internet is widely integrated into all walks of life in all industrialized nations. I won't list the benefits it brings, since Anonymous Cowards want to prove that dial up is "good enough" and you can live without it even.
The point is, rights are not about things you can't live without, rights are about those things we as a society believe everyone should have.
I don't understand, they were pretty upfront with what they had and what they want to try to do. Seems to me that is kind of the point of Crowd Funding, when you can't get real investors.
Seriously, everyone seems to want guarantees about everything - lighten up people, if you want to have a guaranteed return by Treasury Bonds...
Thats the truth, did you see the $80B award to develop the next long range bomber - I figure that is just a down payment, considering how much we have wasted on the F-35 so far.
It seems there is a constant flow of articles here and around the web that spout off about things to COULD happen, or COULD change life as we know it, or COULD have a profound effect.
Amazing the amount of stupid wrong statements that are made about over weight people. I know it is easy to think of the ages old "calories in - calories out" adage, but that has been proven wrong in so many studies it is not worth even talking about any more.
More important is WHAT you eat, not how much, and exciting recent studies that have been confirmed in numerous countries show that there is a direct relationship between bowl bacteria and weight gains/losses. The current theory is that there is a hormone that "regulates" your weight much the way a thermostat does, by maintaining a set point. If you gain too much weight, because of a material unbalance in your bowls the set point can ratchet up, but it is almost impossible to adjust it back down.
The new studies of bowl bacteria have all shown a direct connection to this set point and by balancing the bacteria from over weight people by transplants from skinny people the over weight people will lose weight with little or no change in diet.
Of course your theory is so much cooler since you can blame 100,000,000 people for being lazy over eaters with no will power, instead of facing the truth.
Oh wait, this is Slashdot, sorry, I thought you would care, my bad...
"but then people can choose which states to live in",
Yeah, because no one is locked into a bad mortgage, or a bad job, or a healthcare issue that precludes moving from where they are being treated or, well, it doesn't matter. As long as YOU can move when and where you want to.
Standards are NOT the problem, the problem is the money to be made managing education, selling tests, and books. Like everything we allow "business" to run, it runs wild putting profits above all else.
It's good to see the first three posts are neutral to positive toward Apple. But, it won't last.
Just another article written specifically to say, "Apple does it wrong, and needs to do what I think they should do, so their non-customers will be as happy as their customers".
Apple is releasing Swift to open source, and is going to provide the language to Linux, so only windows will need to be ported off the open source code.
No, I think progressives believe that people that invest $100,000,000 into a campaign, expect to receive some "consideration" for their investment.
I expect you on the other hand believe that the person contributing $100,000,000 is doing it out of the kindness of their heart and a sense of patriotic duty and would never consider asking for any favors in return...
Nope, you are wrong, there is an excellent reason to have 8K displays - to sell them. The exact same reason we have always sold on spec's. Most people buy based on "mostest". Because, well they are told it is best...
I am not sure how you define glory, Apple is a business, it's sole purpose is to make money. It is one of the most successful companies in history - financially, and continues to grow profits in an industry that is constantly losing money.
You post sounds a lot like Wall Street after Apple Announced the most profitable quarter in their history and Wall Street yawned and Apple stock lost $20billion dollars. Because it wasn't enough to constantly grown faster than any other company in the industry, they had to meet Wall Street "predictions" or they were a failure.
1. Apple has replied to various questions and you can lay your hand/arm/e.bow on the screen and continue using the Pencil.
2. The system is NOT the standard Capacitive touch screen, but is a system designed specifically for the pencil and has much higher resolution (double?) and much higher input rates (double?) so, it can react faster and with resolution down to the pixel on a retina display.
Geeks through the ages have always predicted failure after failure of products because the products were not "good" enough, or as good as something the geeks wanted. For years computers sold almost exclusively on spec's. But the best personally computers early on were Atari and Amiga and commodore, yet, none of them are still around to any significant degree.
TVs sell on specs, game consoles sell on spec's, gaming PCs sell on specs. Everyone loves to brag about the "best". But, look at all the AAA games and they allow you to throttle down to low level PCS - because, only a very small market exists at the "real" gamers level. In all the years Xbox has been selling it is estimated that it has only sold about 75 million copies, many (most?) of those are now in closets. Same with Playstation and Nintendo. In just seven or eight years iPhone has sold 700 million devices - ten times as many. The iPhone sucks, the iPhone doesn't compete with the competition, etc. But, it keeps on selling. Early in the iPhones life it pushed ALL other digital camera's off the boards on photo websites - it sucked as a camera, but people used it. Apple TV SUCKS as a desktop box, no ability to records, or schedule viewing and until recently only 720p resolution, and yet, it keeps on selling.
I expect gaming on the new Apple TV will suck, it will not even be close to what a tricked out PC or console will be capable of doing - but, I predict that in 3 years it will OWN the new game market. Games by the big names will come out first on the Apple TV, then be release on PC's and consoles (if at all)...
Apple sucks, Apple is the devil, Apple is the new evil since M$ was cast out like IBM before it. But, Apple keeps growing, keeps owning more and more of the markets they go into, and most importantly, they make TONS of money doing it - unlike some other companies trying to compete with them. Sadly, that is the real meaning of "doing it right" - making money, not faster, bigger, or more FPS at higher resolution.
Based on Apples track record with the iPhone, if the new Apple TV sells, in 3 years it will be 20 times faster than today, it will support multi-screens and real time 3d at 4k resolution and 60 fps and will support most leading brands of joysticks and console controllers and have full 3d VR support builtin. It will support 7 channel surround sound or better, and it will still sell for around $200 (todays dollars) and AAA games on it will sell for around $20 with family sharing. And it will SUCK. In 3 years it will be releasing features geek have been getting for 2 years, and all we will hear about is how awful and behind the times AppleTV is, and no real gamers ever would be caught playing on it. Meanwhile, 700 million Apple phone users will be buying the AppleTV so they can "share" games between the phone when away from home and play on the TV when at home. Yeah, I know you can already do that with Android - and that is exactly my point. As much "Better" as android is, Apple still makes the most money doing it, and has an ever growing extremely loyal customer base. You can call them names, spend all your free time putting Apple customers down in forums across the internet, and Apple will be laughing all the way to the bank - being best means nothing if you file bankruptcy next year - that is life in the world we live in.
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Unless you believe in God given rights, every right is simply something the government guarantees to you.
Society over time decides what it feels everyone should be entitled to - and entitled is not a four letter word.
We started with Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. Since then we added a few, everyone can vote, everyone can work, speech, etc.
As society changes more things become "rights" - ie. things we as a society feel all of us would benefit by having - like education, healthcare, living wage.
The internet is widely integrated into all walks of life in all industrialized nations. I won't list the benefits it brings, since Anonymous Cowards want to prove that dial up is "good enough" and you can live without it even.
The point is, rights are not about things you can't live without, rights are about those things we as a society believe everyone should have.
I don't understand, they were pretty upfront with what they had and what they want to try to do. Seems to me that is kind of the point of Crowd Funding, when you can't get real investors.
Seriously, everyone seems to want guarantees about everything - lighten up people, if you want to have a guaranteed return by Treasury Bonds...
Thats the truth, did you see the $80B award to develop the next long range bomber - I figure that is just a down payment, considering how much we have wasted on the F-35 so far.
Good post, I normally do not read posts from Anonymous Coward, I am glad I read yours.
Sadly I have already used my moderator points today, so I am just saying thank you.
Next up is a reverse bid on a Multi-Purpose Fighter Jet, they are expect the winning bid to be between $5 and $10...
The perfect scam, we take your egg, perform some woogie that you can't see or verify, but trust us, it works.
It seems there is a constant flow of articles here and around the web that spout off about things to COULD happen, or COULD change life as we know it, or COULD have a profound effect.
Someone wake me when something WILL do something.
We need to rehash all the posts from almost 3 years ago?
I have been amazed for the past couple months at how tame the posts have been regarding Apple here.
I believe this is an attempt by apple to give Slashdotter's something to hate.
Amazing the amount of stupid wrong statements that are made about over weight people. I know it is easy to think of the ages old "calories in - calories out" adage, but that has been proven wrong in so many studies it is not worth even talking about any more.
More important is WHAT you eat, not how much, and exciting recent studies that have been confirmed in numerous countries show that there is a direct relationship between bowl bacteria and weight gains/losses. The current theory is that there is a hormone that "regulates" your weight much the way a thermostat does, by maintaining a set point. If you gain too much weight, because of a material unbalance in your bowls the set point can ratchet up, but it is almost impossible to adjust it back down.
The new studies of bowl bacteria have all shown a direct connection to this set point and by balancing the bacteria from over weight people by transplants from skinny people the over weight people will lose weight with little or no change in diet.
Of course your theory is so much cooler since you can blame 100,000,000 people for being lazy over eaters with no will power, instead of facing the truth.
Oh wait, this is Slashdot, sorry, I thought you would care, my bad...
"but then people can choose which states to live in",
Yeah, because no one is locked into a bad mortgage, or a bad job, or a healthcare issue that precludes moving from where they are being treated or, well, it doesn't matter. As long as YOU can move when and where you want to.
Standards are NOT the problem, the problem is the money to be made managing education, selling tests, and books. Like everything we allow "business" to run, it runs wild putting profits above all else.
Hi, my name is Frank and I am a Fanboys, and proud of it.
It's good to see the first three posts are neutral to positive toward Apple. But, it won't last.
Just another article written specifically to say, "Apple does it wrong, and needs to do what I think they should do, so their non-customers will be as happy as their customers".
Apple is releasing Swift to open source, and is going to provide the language to Linux, so only windows will need to be ported off the open source code.
No, I think progressives believe that people that invest $100,000,000 into a campaign, expect to receive some "consideration" for their investment.
I expect you on the other hand believe that the person contributing $100,000,000 is doing it out of the kindness of their heart and a sense of patriotic duty and would never consider asking for any favors in return...
Nope, you are wrong, there is an excellent reason to have 8K displays - to sell them. The exact same reason we have always sold on spec's. Most people buy based on "mostest". Because, well they are told it is best...
Yes, because Amazon shouldn't be allowed to pursue making a profit in anyway that you might disagree with.
"get the industry past the limits of Moore's law"
I don't recall any limits specified.
Lets not forget we get to buy a new mother board every year also. Since the ONE chip socket is different.
To quit making my own IC's. I just perfected using mini ice cube trays to place the components into and pour in a potting ceramic. Works great!
I am not sure how you define glory, Apple is a business, it's sole purpose is to make money. It is one of the most successful companies in history - financially, and continues to grow profits in an industry that is constantly losing money.
You post sounds a lot like Wall Street after Apple Announced the most profitable quarter in their history and Wall Street yawned and Apple stock lost $20billion dollars. Because it wasn't enough to constantly grown faster than any other company in the industry, they had to meet Wall Street "predictions" or they were a failure.
"it's just a matter of convincing people it's better than sliced bread and Apple's good at that."
Or, here is a thought, maybe it isn't that people need to be convinced. Maybe it just is.
I expect there are a few million people not in the right mind, at least by the end of the year.
But, thank you for your positive contribution to the conversation. It is always a pleasure reading intelligent well thought out comments like yours.
1. Apple has replied to various questions and you can lay your hand/arm/e.bow on the screen and continue using the Pencil.
2. The system is NOT the standard Capacitive touch screen, but is a system designed specifically for the pencil and has much higher resolution (double?) and much higher input rates (double?) so, it can react faster and with resolution down to the pixel on a retina display.
Geeks through the ages have always predicted failure after failure of products because the products were not "good" enough, or as good as something the geeks wanted. For years computers sold almost exclusively on spec's. But the best personally computers early on were Atari and Amiga and commodore, yet, none of them are still around to any significant degree.
TVs sell on specs, game consoles sell on spec's, gaming PCs sell on specs. Everyone loves to brag about the "best". But, look at all the AAA games and they allow you to throttle down to low level PCS - because, only a very small market exists at the "real" gamers level. In all the years Xbox has been selling it is estimated that it has only sold about 75 million copies, many (most?) of those are now in closets. Same with Playstation and Nintendo. In just seven or eight years iPhone has sold 700 million devices - ten times as many. The iPhone sucks, the iPhone doesn't compete with the competition, etc. But, it keeps on selling. Early in the iPhones life it pushed ALL other digital camera's off the boards on photo websites - it sucked as a camera, but people used it. Apple TV SUCKS as a desktop box, no ability to records, or schedule viewing and until recently only 720p resolution, and yet, it keeps on selling.
I expect gaming on the new Apple TV will suck, it will not even be close to what a tricked out PC or console will be capable of doing - but, I predict that in 3 years it will OWN the new game market. Games by the big names will come out first on the Apple TV, then be release on PC's and consoles (if at all)...
Apple sucks, Apple is the devil, Apple is the new evil since M$ was cast out like IBM before it. But, Apple keeps growing, keeps owning more and more of the markets they go into, and most importantly, they make TONS of money doing it - unlike some other companies trying to compete with them. Sadly, that is the real meaning of "doing it right" - making money, not faster, bigger, or more FPS at higher resolution.
Based on Apples track record with the iPhone, if the new Apple TV sells, in 3 years it will be 20 times faster than today, it will support multi-screens and real time 3d at 4k resolution and 60 fps and will support most leading brands of joysticks and console controllers and have full 3d VR support builtin. It will support 7 channel surround sound or better, and it will still sell for around $200 (todays dollars) and AAA games on it will sell for around $20 with family sharing. And it will SUCK. In 3 years it will be releasing features geek have been getting for 2 years, and all we will hear about is how awful and behind the times AppleTV is, and no real gamers ever would be caught playing on it. Meanwhile, 700 million Apple phone users will be buying the AppleTV so they can "share" games between the phone when away from home and play on the TV when at home. Yeah, I know you can already do that with Android - and that is exactly my point. As much "Better" as android is, Apple still makes the most money doing it, and has an ever growing extremely loyal customer base. You can call them names, spend all your free time putting Apple customers down in forums across the internet, and Apple will be laughing all the way to the bank - being best means nothing if you file bankruptcy next year - that is life in the world we live in.