If there is a more gullible group of people than audiophiles, I haven't met them.
Then Let me introduce you to the New Age community. They have just as much money, and easily equal the gullibility of audiophiles. (I'm sure there is a lot of crossover though...)
Maybe this is the problem. Should a religion be used to influence politics, as many movements are. You know what they say about politics (state) and religion. Look at what politics does to business, namely the slave trade.
This gave me an idea that goes a long way toward solving the RIAA and MPAA lawsuit abuses, while still protecting the rights holders.
Simply eliminate all John/Jane doe lawsuits, period.
Obviously we're trading anecdotes here, but I've yet to encounter a business iPhone.
I work with a 35 employee Photo Studio / Equipment retailer they are 100% iPhone users. I don't guess I know what you mean by "Business" iPhone, but by my definition those phones are all "business" iPhones. The manage communications, scheduling, billing, etceteras on their phones, communication with the corporate servers, the production system for the service bureau, and the sales and delivery systems. I can't imagine what else they'd need the iPhone to do to get labeled as a "business" class phone, or what the Blackberry would do that the iPhone fails at.
I install Ubuntu, Suse and Fedora on university machines on a daily basis. There is no massive discerning difference between these distributions that makes one much easier for 3d drivers than the other. All three have package repos for proprietary drivers and are as easy to set up.
I find it difficult to believe that you install three different distros on a single entities machines on a daily basis.
Why would anyone do that? Why create such an IT headache by intentionally deploying three separate distros on apparently a huge number of machines, or why continually re-install three differnt distros on the same machines when it's obviously not working (if it were, you wouldn't have to re-install so often).
The biggest news here is that the head of the Microsoft empire is, apparently, an incoherent raving loon. RTFA. Wow. Just wow.
Whilst I appreciate that you Read the Article, as so few will; I feel compelled to comment that you must be new to this whole tech world thing to think Balmer being a raving loon, is new or big news.
but a company that can convince people they need a product that does the same thing as other gadgets they already own has to be doing something right.
FTFY.
And yes, Slashdot, this is just my opinion. Sorry if it angers you.
If you get modded down for that remark it's because you've stated the obvious, but failed to understand it. "Creating a Market" == "Convincing people they need something" regardless of if they have a different gadget that does the same thing or not, Creating a new market always means you have to convince the customer that they need your new thing, because it's better, different, and uniquely qualified to make the customer happier than if they didn't buy the new thing.
What sets Apple apart seems to be that it's found a formulae that works. And I don't know if anyone else seems to be aware of this on Slashdot, but it's not only the fanbois that are selling their stuff, its the bashbois too: By "protesting so much" they are keeping Apple in the news, and in front of the world.
To be honest, they're better off buying HTC, or releasing their own version of an Android tablet. They're far less likely to fuck it up if they do that,
I disagree - in my opinion, they'd "Buy HTC" - move all the hardware to Windows mobile, and HTC will just be a memory.
Are all of them really thinking of switching to iPhone? That's hard to believe.
Is it?
Yes, the idea that everyone that bought an android phone, and then decided to get something else will go exclusively to an iPhone is incredibly hard to believe. Simply because some percentage of those users will avoid the iPhone just because it's popular, and they want to go a different way for that reason alone - if my roommate, for example, decides to give up her G1 (with android installed on it, as it is right now) and move to a non-andriod platform, I can assure you there is no chance in hell she'll get an iPhone, on general principles, because she thinks someone will steal her geek card if she does.
No, He's right, if you are SCUBA diving, then you are diving ambient pressure ( the suit being Wet, armored, dry, semi-dry or Chartreuse is irrelevant), and have to concern yourself with gas loading, oxygen toxicity and all those various issues that divers breathing high pressure gas have to concern themselves with.
You also could be diving a rebreather, which come with the same set of pressure considerations that SCUBA does, but uses a different set of equipment. I've heard instructors differentiate rebreathers from "SCUBA" but historically speaking both can be referred to as SCUBA.
On the other hand, If you are diving an atmospheric suit, like a Newt Suit, or a GEM, then you are not diving SCUBA. SCUBA refers to a level of apparatus that falls far short of an atmospheric suit (and Far, Far Cheaper)
Long ago I proposed a pay-per-view spectacular. Pasty faced pudgy sysadmins from around the world get air dropped onto an island studded with cameras and stocked with spammers and 419 scammers... Viewers can then vote online which sysadmins get which weapons. (Please gentle viewer, let me have the M1)
I'm going for a Barrett and a tall hill or tree, this will be fun. Although I would still be partial to a rocket launcher with rockets that have painted on Smiley faces on the nose....
I understand where you are coming from, but I don't know where you are.
I'm in the US, and the idea that the government will build something at or below budget is absurd. Plus, in the US, the government actually builds very little, projects are usually awarded to contractors on based on cheapest bid against spec. This is another reason not to have it a government project: we want the best, not the cheapest, to build nuclear reactors. So, private contractors with a lot of oversight, which is what makes these projects take so long.
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No more effective than the FBI/INTERPOL warning on a video.
If there is a more gullible group of people than audiophiles, I haven't met them.
Then Let me introduce you to the New Age community. They have just as much money, and easily equal the gullibility of audiophiles. (I'm sure there is a lot of crossover though...)
Maybe this is the problem. Should a religion be used to influence politics, as many movements are. You know what they say about politics (state) and religion. Look at what politics does to business, namely the slave trade.
We could call this a Big Movement - BM for short.
...... Because it was such a great success elsewhere.
I was almost worried that this post would go without discussion of the infamous Grindr app.
There was almost no chance that would happen......
This gave me an idea that goes a long way toward solving the RIAA and MPAA lawsuit abuses, while still protecting the rights holders. Simply eliminate all John/Jane doe lawsuits, period.
If you're gay - there really IS an app for that...... lol http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/grindr-gay-bi-curious-guy/id308956623?mt=8
THAT explains why so many iPhone haters are on Slashdot.....
I count ten lasers colliding.http://www.jedisaber.com/SW/wallpaper/death%20star%20firing.jpg
I count Zero Laser beams colliding, since laser beams don't react that way, those beams must be something else.. Plasma maybe?
Here we go again with people thinking that the paper paradigm applies to the digital world.
How on Earth do you return digital documents?
Well, you start with Jeff Goldblum, a Mac Laptop, and a cute countdown timer......
Obviously we're trading anecdotes here, but I've yet to encounter a business iPhone.
I work with a 35 employee Photo Studio / Equipment retailer they are 100% iPhone users. I don't guess I know what you mean by "Business" iPhone, but by my definition those phones are all "business" iPhones. The manage communications, scheduling, billing, etceteras on their phones, communication with the corporate servers, the production system for the service bureau, and the sales and delivery systems. I can't imagine what else they'd need the iPhone to do to get labeled as a "business" class phone, or what the Blackberry would do that the iPhone fails at.
I thought that blocking administrative access from WAN would have been enough.
I'm gonna get modded troll for this, but "Thinking" was not what you were doing.
You missed thinking in three key ways:
I install Ubuntu, Suse and Fedora on university machines on a daily basis. There is no massive discerning difference between these distributions that makes one much easier for 3d drivers than the other. All three have package repos for proprietary drivers and are as easy to set up.
I find it difficult to believe that you install three different distros on a single entities machines on a daily basis. Why would anyone do that? Why create such an IT headache by intentionally deploying three separate distros on apparently a huge number of machines, or why continually re-install three differnt distros on the same machines when it's obviously not working (if it were, you wouldn't have to re-install so often).
The biggest news here is that the head of the Microsoft empire is, apparently, an incoherent raving loon. RTFA. Wow. Just wow.
Whilst I appreciate that you Read the Article, as so few will; I feel compelled to comment that you must be new to this whole tech world thing to think Balmer being a raving loon, is new or big news.
but a company that can convince people they need a product that does the same thing as other gadgets they already own has to be doing something right.
FTFY.
And yes, Slashdot, this is just my opinion. Sorry if it angers you.
If you get modded down for that remark it's because you've stated the obvious, but failed to understand it. "Creating a Market" == "Convincing people they need something" regardless of if they have a different gadget that does the same thing or not, Creating a new market always means you have to convince the customer that they need your new thing, because it's better, different, and uniquely qualified to make the customer happier than if they didn't buy the new thing. What sets Apple apart seems to be that it's found a formulae that works. And I don't know if anyone else seems to be aware of this on Slashdot, but it's not only the fanbois that are selling their stuff, its the bashbois too: By "protesting so much" they are keeping Apple in the news, and in front of the world.
To be honest, they're better off buying HTC, or releasing their own version of an Android tablet. They're far less likely to fuck it up if they do that,
I disagree - in my opinion, they'd "Buy HTC" - move all the hardware to Windows mobile, and HTC will just be a memory.
ugh, double negatives make my head hurt.
They don't not make my head hurt, so it's endemic to slashdot, I suppose.
Are all of them really thinking of switching to iPhone? That's hard to believe.
Is it?
Yes, the idea that everyone that bought an android phone, and then decided to get something else will go exclusively to an iPhone is incredibly hard to believe. Simply because some percentage of those users will avoid the iPhone just because it's popular, and they want to go a different way for that reason alone - if my roommate, for example, decides to give up her G1 (with android installed on it, as it is right now) and move to a non-andriod platform, I can assure you there is no chance in hell she'll get an iPhone, on general principles, because she thinks someone will steal her geek card if she does.
A phone in the hand has the DBm of two in the bush. iPhone there for iAm.
None of the phones cited were designed to be stuck in your bush.
Here in the midwest you can get a cup of hot steamy sex for twenty bucks or even less.
And think of all the extra stuff you can get for your $20.00.
You also could be diving a rebreather, which come with the same set of pressure considerations that SCUBA does, but uses a different set of equipment. I've heard instructors differentiate rebreathers from "SCUBA" but historically speaking both can be referred to as SCUBA.
On the other hand, If you are diving an atmospheric suit, like a Newt Suit, or a GEM, then you are not diving SCUBA. SCUBA refers to a level of apparatus that falls far short of an atmospheric suit (and Far, Far Cheaper)
well, I do Admit I can't play Farmville on my D3h.....
who'd have thought
Long ago I proposed a pay-per-view spectacular. Pasty faced pudgy sysadmins from around the world get air dropped onto an island studded with cameras and stocked with spammers and 419 scammers... Viewers can then vote online which sysadmins get which weapons. (Please gentle viewer, let me have the M1)
I'm going for a Barrett and a tall hill or tree, this will be fun. Although I would still be partial to a rocket launcher with rockets that have painted on Smiley faces on the nose....
I understand where you are coming from, but I don't know where you are. I'm in the US, and the idea that the government will build something at or below budget is absurd. Plus, in the US, the government actually builds very little, projects are usually awarded to contractors on based on cheapest bid against spec. This is another reason not to have it a government project: we want the best, not the cheapest, to build nuclear reactors. So, private contractors with a lot of oversight, which is what makes these projects take so long.