I was referring to the ibtimes.com article linked in the summary, where a good portion of the article talks about how Apple's margins are "low" compared to the $199 retail price. For a comparison, look at Canada's Apple Store website: http://store.apple.com/ca/
It's not fair to assume that the consumer is already being shafted and thus discount the base cost. I'm using an unlocked iPhone without data plan for about $15/month but it doesn't make sense to say that, for only $25/month more, I can get a subsidized AT&T iPhone.
Do these people still not know how cellphones are priced? A 8GB iPhone 3GS is about $530, and prices for the iPhone 4 are expected to be $600 to $700. The $199 price quoted in TFA is only after you agree to a ~$2000 contract.
Sounds a bit like Google Sky for Android: You just hold the phone up against the night sky, and it labels the stars in the sky based on your location (via GPS!) and time (sync'd with the cell network). Should you need to find something, the screen will tell you which way to turn.
Or maybe you didn't have the gift of exploiting your "giftedness". Some people start a business or invent things or go into research. Maybe it's not that the world didn't know what to do with gifted people, but that these "gifted" people didn't figure out what to do with themselves.
Or blame the world. I'm sure that falls under some high-brow philosophical school of thinking.
That can be a dangerous way of thinking. Suppose that several years ago, you designed a system that relied on the MD5 algorithm for life-critical security on several fronts. After all, since there were no techniques at the time to compromise MD5, you didn't believe it could be done so it was perfectly safe.
Fast forward to 2005. MD5 is broken. Updating your system to use SHA1 is either impossible or would take far too long. Hackers exploit your high-profile system. Santa Claus falls down your chimney.
It's because that we expect that anybody can create new artistic works, so if a particular song you want is under copyright, then you can always create a new one.
On the other hand, patents can be critical to industrial and technological progress, and nobody would tell you to simply make your own transistor to work around the original patent.
When artistic copyrights start severely holding society back, then this will change. Until then, when was the last time society was severely hurt by a work being under copyright?
This isn't an issue of entitlement because nobody will ever agree who's entitled to earn what.
You'd be surprised at how much you can do in a tiny amount of memory, and even cheap cellphones have a relatively huge amount of memory. Virus writers who know enough to exploit cellphones could code rings around your average cellphone app programmer. Just take a moment and compare your average cellphone's processing power to nineties-era computers and you'll see that memory-usage is the last thing a cellphone-virus writer needs to worry about.
Start firefox with the "-ProfileManager" argument and delete your profile. Clearing your profile usually fixes all of your Firefox preferences and settings issues.
Or, find your profile folder and delete it.
Easy way to infiltrate their intelligence network: Just stand outside the Chinese government buildings selling pirated copies of Windows with rootkits.
How many people pay for Windows? These scenarios are common:
"When I need Windows, I just grab my friend's Windows disc with a volume license." "When I need Windows, I just buy it for $5 with my University ID." "When I need Windows, I just borrow my friend's bootleg copy that he got in Asia." "When I need Windows, I get the pre-cracked version from The Pirate Bay."
How many people really know the real cost of a full license of the various versions of Windows Vista?
You should read up on how TrueCrypt stores hidden volumes.
If you create a standard TrueCrypt container file (often *.tc) of 4GB and give it a hidden volume of 1GB, when you go to mount the regular volume it will still appear as 4GB. TrueCrypt itself does not know if there's a hidden volume there. Corruption of your hidden volume is *very* possible, unless you explicitly tell TrueCrypt "yes, I do have a hidden volume that shouldn't be overwritten, and here's its password." The hidden volume looks like random free space.
Reverse-engineer the toddler's word-image processing algorithm, and reimplement it on a computer. Supposedly, if you have enough different simple test cases, you can just do some analysis and figure out how the toddlers do it. I believe "????" and "PROFIT" go in there somewhere.
Straw man. The AC, while inflammatory, made no assertion of Christianity's superiority, nor any mention of other religions. Pointing out Christianity's history does not legitimately shut down his argument.
What isn't radiation? The light emitting from your LCD monitor is a form of radiation. The FM radio that you receive via your tooth fillings is radiation.
The idea that radiation=cancer is a gross oversimplification that means nothing. This isn't nuclear waste being attached to your brain (yet).
Should we no longer require manufacturers to print the country of origin on products? No more "Made in China," "Printed in Canada" labels? Some people would rather buy from suppliers from the same country as them. We could abolish these labels, that way people won't avoid a product because of country prejudice. So what if Chinese-made products tend to have a higher rate of defect? The gov't has decided that they are fine.
If people don't want to buy cloned meat, then so be it. That's just another factor in capitalism. Consumers should at least be able to know. Obscurity isn't much of a solution.
In FIRST, the best teams are usually the ones that have the big-name sponsors (Motorola, GM, Delphi, etc.), meaning a lot more equipment, money, and professional mentors. Whether this is causal is uncertain, but the correlation seems to be there.
As for the advertising, even Wikipedia needs to earn it's keep. To be honest I really really object to trying to read an encyclopedia entry and being told that the WikiMedia conference is going to be on a certain date, taking up 1/4 of my screen at the top of the page, or that I need to donate to the cause. Fuck that. I want to turn that damn advert off. I don't care about it. But, it's essential to keep the site going. You can't complain about it, because without impressing it onto people that they need to pay for the upkeep of the service, they won't. Click "Hide this Message."
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I was referring to the ibtimes.com article linked in the summary, where a good portion of the article talks about how Apple's margins are "low" compared to the $199 retail price. For a comparison, look at Canada's Apple Store website: http://store.apple.com/ca/
It's not fair to assume that the consumer is already being shafted and thus discount the base cost. I'm using an unlocked iPhone without data plan for about $15/month but it doesn't make sense to say that, for only $25/month more, I can get a subsidized AT&T iPhone.
Do these people still not know how cellphones are priced? A 8GB iPhone 3GS is about $530, and prices for the iPhone 4 are expected to be $600 to $700. The $199 price quoted in TFA is only after you agree to a ~$2000 contract.
Sounds a bit like Google Sky for Android: You just hold the phone up against the night sky, and it labels the stars in the sky based on your location (via GPS!) and time (sync'd with the cell network). Should you need to find something, the screen will tell you which way to turn.
http://www.google.com/sky/skymap.html
Or maybe you didn't have the gift of exploiting your "giftedness". Some people start a business or invent things or go into research. Maybe it's not that the world didn't know what to do with gifted people, but that these "gifted" people didn't figure out what to do with themselves.
Or blame the world. I'm sure that falls under some high-brow philosophical school of thinking.
That can be a dangerous way of thinking. Suppose that several years ago, you designed a system that relied on the MD5 algorithm for life-critical security on several fronts. After all, since there were no techniques at the time to compromise MD5, you didn't believe it could be done so it was perfectly safe.
Fast forward to 2005. MD5 is broken. Updating your system to use SHA1 is either impossible or would take far too long. Hackers exploit your high-profile system. Santa Claus falls down your chimney.
It's because that we expect that anybody can create new artistic works, so if a particular song you want is under copyright, then you can always create a new one. On the other hand, patents can be critical to industrial and technological progress, and nobody would tell you to simply make your own transistor to work around the original patent. When artistic copyrights start severely holding society back, then this will change. Until then, when was the last time society was severely hurt by a work being under copyright? This isn't an issue of entitlement because nobody will ever agree who's entitled to earn what.
Just name it the ReadsForSure.
You'd be surprised at how much you can do in a tiny amount of memory, and even cheap cellphones have a relatively huge amount of memory. Virus writers who know enough to exploit cellphones could code rings around your average cellphone app programmer. Just take a moment and compare your average cellphone's processing power to nineties-era computers and you'll see that memory-usage is the last thing a cellphone-virus writer needs to worry about.
Congratulations for first post consistency.
Before it's repeated...
"It was designed by the famous Roman programmer Linicus Torivicus."
"Netcraft confirms it... Antikythera Mechanisms are dying!"
"Somewhat hard, given that it predates Beowulf by at least 600 years."
"Correct. Back then, they were called Hydra clusters, for obvious reasons."
"The Antikythera mechanism is *not* user friendly, and until it is Antikythera will stay with >1% marketshare..."
Start firefox with the "-ProfileManager" argument and delete your profile. Clearing your profile usually fixes all of your Firefox preferences and settings issues. Or, find your profile folder and delete it.
Easy way to infiltrate their intelligence network: Just stand outside the Chinese government buildings selling pirated copies of Windows with rootkits.
I thought we went over how explorer != iexplore.
Try running "explorer google.com" and see what happens.
How many people pay for Windows? These scenarios are common:
"When I need Windows, I just grab my friend's Windows disc with a volume license."
"When I need Windows, I just buy it for $5 with my University ID."
"When I need Windows, I just borrow my friend's bootleg copy that he got in Asia."
"When I need Windows, I get the pre-cracked version from The Pirate Bay."
How many people really know the real cost of a full license of the various versions of Windows Vista?
You should read up on how TrueCrypt stores hidden volumes.
If you create a standard TrueCrypt container file (often *.tc) of 4GB and give it a hidden volume of 1GB, when you go to mount the regular volume it will still appear as 4GB. TrueCrypt itself does not know if there's a hidden volume there. Corruption of your hidden volume is *very* possible, unless you explicitly tell TrueCrypt "yes, I do have a hidden volume that shouldn't be overwritten, and here's its password." The hidden volume looks like random free space.
Reverse-engineer the toddler's word-image processing algorithm, and reimplement it on a computer. Supposedly, if you have enough different simple test cases, you can just do some analysis and figure out how the toddlers do it.
I believe "????" and "PROFIT" go in there somewhere.
Straw man. The AC, while inflammatory, made no assertion of Christianity's superiority, nor any mention of other religions. Pointing out Christianity's history does not legitimately shut down his argument.
Oh, and don't feed the trolls.
What isn't radiation? The light emitting from your LCD monitor is a form of radiation. The FM radio that you receive via your tooth fillings is radiation.
The idea that radiation=cancer is a gross oversimplification that means nothing. This isn't nuclear waste being attached to your brain (yet).
Should we no longer require manufacturers to print the country of origin on products? No more "Made in China," "Printed in Canada" labels? Some people would rather buy from suppliers from the same country as them. We could abolish these labels, that way people won't avoid a product because of country prejudice. So what if Chinese-made products tend to have a higher rate of defect? The gov't has decided that they are fine.
If people don't want to buy cloned meat, then so be it. That's just another factor in capitalism. Consumers should at least be able to know. Obscurity isn't much of a solution.
Good thing we'll always have high quality thoughtful deep comments to read on Slashdot.
In FIRST, the best teams are usually the ones that have the big-name sponsors (Motorola, GM, Delphi, etc.), meaning a lot more equipment, money, and professional mentors. Whether this is causal is uncertain, but the correlation seems to be there.
Wikipedia discourages sub-pixel hinting, such as Cleartype, on screenshots. The rationale for that applies to math formulae too.
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Double-check The Register's credibility by looking it up on Wikipedia.
I'm sure there's a logical fallacy somewhere...