Times have changed.
That "Sent from by BlackBerry" at the bottom of an email was a sign of status. It said to the recipient "This guy is busy and important".
The similar "Sent from my iPhone" message today reads like an apology.
I blame HP.
In the hands of a competent company, and with some better hardware, WebOS could have killed Apple.
BlackBerry was wise to steal so many of their good ideas. The PlayBook and Z10 are a pleasure to use, due in no small part to the innovations pioneered by WebOS.
Before Apple, they had one of the best mobile browsers. Today, it's the best on the market. Apple's browser, in contrast, is now years behind everyone else.
"The problem wasn't that we stopped listening to customers, [...] We believed we knew better what customers needed long term than they did."
Sounds an awful lot like Apple as well...
Really, Apple today looks an awful lot like RIM in 2008 -- except that they're doing even less. Apple has taken 'resting on their laurels' to a whole new level.
Can you predict what will happen to Apple over the next few years? I have a pretty good idea.
That was a bit more powerful in the context of the personal computer revolution.
Today, it sounds empty. A bit more like "Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life, or do you want to come with me an sell premium personal electronics?"
Ignoring the rest of the URL, which clearly does not point to a
Further, why would the few Macs users, having downloaded such a file, blindly execute its contents?
Really, the only people who could possibly be in danger from such a link would necessarily be both a Mac users and unimaginably incompetent.
Understanding a sentence emergently in terms of fuzzy concepts that are an internal and internally created symbol of what's "going on", not just using a dictionary and CYC [wikipedia.org]-like rules to figure it out, seems like a useful building block
Yeah, that's not what's happening at all.
it may pick up the other meaning
In a manner of speaking. The actual meaning of the words is completely irrelevant.
Hear, hear!
Some people are sensitive to light. I have the brightness on my phone turned almost all the way down. People ask me why the screen is so dim, but it looks awful bright to me.
Oddly enough, the iPhone has the best accessibility solution for blind and visual impaired users on the market.
I don't know how that happened either. It must have been an oversight.
rather than for those smart enough to see through it?
Pure hubris.
Intelligence has absolutely nothing to do with it. Neither on the believes side (you'll find brilliant religious people not only throughout history, but in the present day) nor on the atheist side (look no farther than slashdot for some of the thickest atheists the internet has ever seen.)
so gullible that they fall for supernaturalist nonsense
There are religions that lack supernatural components, you know. Perhaps you don't?
I think that's his point.
Of course even here on slashdot, we will get modded down because "you can't attack religion"
What on earth are you talking about? Slashdot users are all but universally Atheist. The bulk of them aren't terribly competent, of course, but that's the kind that guarantee up mods for saying simple thinks like "religious people are dumb" or "ghosts don't exist".
Now, if you REALLY want to hit that +5, make a "scientific" claim that appeals to Atheists but has no actual scientific foundation or that is outside the scope of science. For example, you could say "Science has disproved the god hypothesis" and the scientifically illiterate majority of Slashdot users will immediate mod your post up.
Failing that, just repeat empty rhetoric that you heard from the less-than-competent during the Dover trial. That appears to be your approach:
Teaching religion and god is tantamount to child abuse.
Time to stop walking on egg shells when some one says something bad about religion.
It's sad, really.
RT was Microsoft's attempt at playing Apple and getting total control over (and a keen 30% of) the market for Windows software. It will kill RT.
What Blamer doesn't realizes is that people won't put up with that sort of nonsense from any company except for Apple. They are the only exception.
Had they allowed anyone to develop and distribute RT software, it might have had a fighting chance.
Thank you!
It's true. Most people don't care about the OS. They're buying a tablet for internet and games.
Still, even for those of us that do care, I'd happily buy a competitively priced tablet from Microsoft if it ran whatever Windows software I wanted -- and had a real stylus.
If they can get something like the Surface Pro 2 down to around $300-$400, which is really only a matter of time, I don't see why they couldn't grab a good share. Add a few other players with their own hardware and I can see Microsoft really taking over the tablet market.
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