Hmm. I thought Apple was against the whole concept of users being able to insert sd cards in their trendy white appliances. I guess Jobs really is dead.
Hmm... I must be imagining the SD card slot on my 4 year old MacBook Pro, then.
Lest we forget: "Security researchers have discovered that Apple's iPhone keeps track of where you go – and saves every detail of it to a secret file on the device which is then copied to the owner's computer when the two are synchronised."
And would this information have been discovered if we couldn't root the phone and pry amongst its (virtual) innards? (that was a serious question, I don't know).
Yes. Because it was discovered not on the phone but on the backup created on the desktop computer. It's just a file with GPS coordinates. Rooting had nothing to do with finding that file.
"Reining", not "reigning". Think horses, not kings.
Dude, I wish I had mod points right now! I think you just "Wooshed" the whole crowd...
I find that amazingly unlikely, considering how many people here have seen the movie at least 10 times. I actually thought about posting something very like the GP, but figured it had been done already, and I was right.
Brilliant!
Not brilliance. Genius!
No. Companies are allowed to keep reasonable financial reserves, but the billions that Apple and other companies keep are anything but reasonable reserves, and are unprecedented. This was worked out decades ago, but they stopped enforcing it.
Amen to this. Apple is currently engaged in the largest stock buy-back in history, $60 billion so far.
In essence, with its immense cash reserves, which instead of tangibly building the business in some way, or increasing the compensation of its foreign workforce, or making its product more affordable, it is benefiting those holding tons of stock options (the execs), who will only pay low, low capital gains taxes on the wealth being transferred to them risk free.
Apple has been progressively building its business for over a decade. They don't do massive acquisitions because they understand that the company's culture remaining undiluted is the key to its success.
Since Apple has been using Foxconn for assembly, Foxconn has increased line worker pay considerably, sometimes at Apple's specific request.
Apple's products are by definition very affordable by dint of their massive sales. If people are buying their devices numbering in the hundreds of millions, they're by definition affordable in a general sense. Apple isn't a charity. They aren't bound to give away shit at a level that you, in particular, deem adequate.
Stock options are not a risk free compensation. That you think so is laughable. They also can't cash out on those options immediately or they'll have to pay the full US income tax rate on them. They're used to make sure that executives have a vested interest in the fortunes of the company they work for in the longer term.
From TFA
"Our study is the first to investigate dietary nicotine and risk of developing Parkinson's disease," said Dr. Searles Nielsen. "Similar to the many studies that indicate tobacco use might reduce risk of Parkinson's, our findings also suggest a protective effect from nicotine, or perhaps a similar but less toxic chemical in peppers and tobacco."
Tobacco and solanaceae plants have in common a lot of chemicals, including multiple alkaloids like atropine. Potato plants fall into the same family, as do all chili pepper plants. While this is an interesting study, it does NOT confirm that nicotine is the chemical in solanaceae that is protective against Parkinson's disease, even before you take into account that this was only a retrospective study.
On the other hand, art does not exist in a vacuum and I really do have a hard time separating Card's homophobic views from his works; especially since, in retrospect they do creep into his books at least occasionally.
Just out of curiosity, where do you see this? For full disclose, I enjoy the works of plenty of artists, actors, and musicians whose personal views I find abhorrent. I enjoy Card's books (Enchantment is one of my favorite novels), and I'll leave it at that.
It's been quite some time since I've read many of Card's books, but if I recall the extended Ender universe has non-evil and non-stereotypical gay characters. The Earthfall books had at least one gay character who was good. One of the characters in that series (a scientist) even explained that homosexuality had to do with conditions in the womb and wasn't a choice (it's been a long time since I've read this, so I could be slightly off).
I've never read it, but Card's book Songmaster apparently deals with homosexuality to a large extent. I remember a friend of mine called it the "gayest" book he had ever read (she meant that in a positive way).
Where do you see Card's negativity towards homosexuality?
I'm not the GP poster, but I recall several times in the Bean stories where Card talks about how marriage is supposed to be between a man and a woman.
Exactly. It may be a fine movie, but I don't want any portion of my ticket price to be funding anti-gay hate speech, period.
Tolerance goes both ways. It is far too easy to claim the high road and seek to prevent those with different viewpoints from being heard. It is another thing entirely to stand and defend a persons right to freedom of speech when you don't like their message. If you can't acknowledge his right to speak his mind, then you are no better than he is.
There is a big difference between a person acknowledging his right to speak his mind and buying the megaphone for him to speak it loudly.
American company? I'm not so sure about that. Every apple product I have has "Made in China" on it.
I guess Dell isn't an American company either, then.
Very true. My old communications device was the most secure and I've yet to find something that rivals it. It was impossible to spoof, clone, or manipulate and all my data was secure. Sure it was hard to make long-distance calls, because finding large spools of string is difficult, but the fidelity of those tin cans was soooo pure. Plus, they never got any malware, not even once.
Unfortunately, you're very vulnerable to a can-in-the-middle attack.
I'm not the only one who thought that? whew. I wonder if its a flaw in the picture?
No. It's a flaw in the shape of his bald head.
Anything that you need you hands free to do.
Running fibre through an aircraft? you can look at the design and pathway and still run fiber.
A doctor could have your vital view able without looking up from the surgery. A Juggler could get an audience count while still tossing 9 torches around.
You can get info on someone without taking your eyes off them. I can look at a recipe while having both hands covered in oil. If it was just like a smart phone, but you don't need to actually take out your smartphone to do anything, wouldn't that have value?
Surgeons don't pay attention to a patient's vital signs. Nor would you want him/her distracted with trying to keep track of those things while cutting you open. That's what you're paying an anesthesiologist for.
"I say we take off; nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure." - Corporal Hicks, in "Aliens"
