seriously, i think they're doing it to cut google off at the pass. apple doesn't need to have ads in an OS. jobs would never have that. their computers don't come with crapware. everything is clean & elegant. or tries to be at least. putting ads in the OS would go against everything Apple's design principles are founded on. since apple sells the hardware, they want the OS to work and have no incentive to make their own ad-based OS. it makes no sense whatsoever. they probably got the hint from M$'s announcement of an ad-based office & went for it to prevent an ad-based OS from seeing light of day.

why is this modded troll? i don't see anything inflammatory about what this guy is saying.

this is actually informative scientific news. don't see why it's in the Idle section.

i agree with you. my main argument is a correlation to guns.

conservatives say, 'guns don't kill people; people kill people (with guns)." and i agree.

but by that logic, i say 'drugs don't kill people; people choose to ruin their own lives with them'

so if they want guns to be legal drugs should also be legal.

i agree though. both 'teams' are hypocritical when it comes to actual freedom.

curious about your use of the word 'insert'. :-x

imagine a Beowulf cluster of these! go ahead.. mod me down.. :(

i actually prefer to listen to the local guy giving me information. i trust that he's not underestimating my intelligence so i don't underestimate his. -there's depth to that concept.

i figure he's going to clue me in on a situation exactly as you've described. i also love going to new places and asking the locals what the best places to eat at or hang out at, for the very same reasons.

a few years ago i went to hawaii & was so glad we stayed in a woman's private house in lanakai, instead of all the big chain hotels near waikiki. the woman was very professional and helpful, like a concierge. she was an amazing cook. the rooms were impeccably appointed in terms of both amenities as well as interior design. the cost was cheaper. also the local food was much cheaper and delicious compared to the crap in the tourist trap area. all my cousins paid much more than we did and had nothing but complaints about traffic, the restaurants, the hotels, prices, etc. while we enjoyed so much more piece of mind and an authentic travel experience

but it was due to the openness of mind of not following the beaten path and trusting the experience and consideration of a local person who lived in the area.

i agree with you that local knowledge will trump GPS every time as there is just some information that is not (at least not yet) possible for the GPS to know.

i never thought i'd need a GPS until i ended up getting one as part of a new head unit in my car. once i got it only then have i realized the value and convenience. hell i don't like the american male voice so i changed it to the french chick voice. i understand what she's saying but even if i didn't, the fact that i HEAR a voice tells me when i should make a turn or start paying attention. this is extremely useful when driving AT NIGHT. holy crap. not having to read unlit street signs in the dark...

because of this, not only does one find one's destination with minimal struggle but in doing so this promotes SAFE DRIVING as one can focus on the road completely during those stretches of driving when no turns are necessary to pay attention to.

and when it IS time to find the next direction, using the symbols and easily legible words or listening to spoken commands is much safer than reading some hand-scrawled piece of paper sitting in the seat next to you that may or may not have fallen to the floor under the seat while driving.

also with my GPS i drive like a normal human being. i drive like i know where i'm going! no stopping and slowing down to read street signs so i'm less of an asshole to other cars behind or next to me.

furthermore, sometimes somebody's verbal directions just suck. i don't know how many times i've had people give me the crappiest route, or screwed up the street name ('make a right on oleander.' 'what? there's no fucking oleander here... there was an ORCHARD though, about 5 miles back!')

also many systems DO come with traffic information or alternate routing functionalities. maybe in the future there will be ways to upload situations to the GPS such as road closings or special events or comments about a rough area, etc. however the real trick would be to implement something like that that can't be easily abused.

other examples of this on a larger scale i have witnessed in my home town with both circuit city and starbuck's. there was a huge circuit city put in. the building was built from the ground up, brand new.. and 2 months after the grand opening the company filed for bankruptcy and closed the location. grand opening, grand closing!

same with starbuck's, who overspent while the economy was doing ok & foolishly planned for more locations to open (some literally within visibilty of one another) & as soon as the shit hit the fan their revenues dropped, hurt by drastically weakened demand as well as competition from places like mc donald's who offered alternatives for much lower prices. they erected a massive monstrosity of a starbuck's location by my house that looked more like a fire station than anything. the place took longer to build than it was ever open. whoops. :-x

Unaware of what year it was, Joe wandered the streets desperate for help. But the English language had deteriorated into a hybrid of hillbilly, valleygirl, inner-city slang and various grunts. Joe was able to understand them, but when he spoke in an ordinary voice he sounded pompous and faggy to them.

well of course if they sold the better version for $200 & it was more available you'd probably not be able to get $400 for your old one anymore. :-p the amount of money you can get for your phone is due to supply & demand. so if they increase supply, then you won't get as much.

where is the obsolescence? of course the new phone will be faster, more capacity, etc.. but how is it obsolete? will it not do the same things it did before? will it not work on the same network etc? and to the contrary, with OS 3.0, it will do more than it did before! how is that 'planned obsolescence'?

people with 3G phones aren't early adopters. the 3G was the second generation & the first generation had been out a year. also, just because apple comes out with a new phone every year, while the contract is for 2 years, that is not 'getting the shaft'. for one, anyone who got the phone agreed to sign up for 2 years, and they were getting that specific phone. just because a new phone is out, that doesn't mean the old phone works any worse than it did the day before the new phone came out.

as a matter of fact, the 3G will only GAIN features when the 3G S comes out, as the new OS 3.0 will come out as well, being installable on the regular 3G.

furthermore, not much has changed. ok, capacity, the camera, and the processor speed. some people don't use all the capacity of the storage anyways. or the camera. and processor speed, honestly i think is negligible. i'll still be happy with my 3G.

hell, it can be argued that my 3G will do more than some 3G S's, as i have mine jailbroken, and can tether it via Netshare. and pay nothing extra for that feature, to apple, nor to AT&T.

the problem is that to tax businesses exclusively like that will make certain high-dollar items more unaffordable. it will hurt those businesses. high-dollar does NOT mean luxury necessarily nor does it necessarily make it high-profit. those are common misconceptions.

A) = not a bad idea. i'm really trying to find a situation that could be negatively affected by this & i'm just not finding one. i see it as beneficial in a way. not just from the 'fuck taxes altogether' point of view, but in the sense that people who actually work aren't punished for being good citizens as they are when people who don't work have the advantage of not having to pay taxes while they do. B) competition. or affordability. there's a misconception with the argument that businesses don't pay taxes. while it is true that businesses just pass along the tax expenses to customers, it still hurts the business because it makes the products unaffordable to the consumer. especially in certain niche industries.