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Comment Re:Trust us with your payments (Score 1) 730

by SSG Bryan on Friday September 12, 2014 @02:20PM (#47891993) Attached to: Apple Announces Smartwatch, Bigger iPhones, Mobile Payments

No

The whole point of the system is for Apple to get a really, really small slice of every transaction that their iPhone users conduct. Take every CC transaction you have made in the past year & multiply it by every iPhone users. That is a lot of fucking money.

Submission + - iPhone 5 Scorns Standards Promise To European Commission (computerworlduk.com)

Submitted by

WebMink

on Friday September 14, 2012 @12:20PM

WebMink writes: "Back in 2009, Apple signed an agreement aimed at reducing electronic waste resulting from mobile phone accessories. But this week's launch of the iPhone 5 shows them reneging on that commitment. Instead of including a micro-USB connector on the iPhone, as they agreed to do along with the rest of the phone industry, they created yet another proprietary connector. At a stroke, they have junked earlier iPhone accessories, forced a new industry in Apple-only accessories to arise and broken their promise to the EC. It's a huge missed opportunity both for their customers and for the environment."

An Interview With C++ Creator Bjarne Stroustrup 509

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday January 11, 2011 @03:25PM from the add-an-extra-plus dept.

DevTool writes "Bjarne Stroustrup talks about the imminent C++0x standard and the forthcoming features it brings, the difficulties of standardizing programming languages in general, the calculated risks that the standards committee can afford to take with new features, and even his own New Year's resolutions."

Comment Re:more boring stuff (Score 1) 827

by SSG Bryan on Wednesday October 20, 2010 @03:52PM (#33965326) Attached to: Apple Announces iLife '11, FaceTime Mac, Lion, Mac App Store, MacBook Air

3x the price of a netbook. - Apple care means it will last 3 times as long as a netbook

3X more useful - for me, the full size keyboard makes it worth it.

3x less likely to break like a netbook. - I bought one last year, it is already falling apart.

It is now time to replace the Macbook Pro.

Comment Re:Slow graphics on Macs? (Score 1) 313

by SSG Bryan on Monday August 23, 2010 @01:09PM (#33343646) Attached to: Steam Prompts OS X Graphics Update

Get shot in the leg sometime. Take a hit anywhere from any military caliber rifle & you are out of the fight.

Comment Re:What about the presumption of innocence? (Score 1) 1590

by SSG Bryan on Wednesday April 28, 2010 @06:13PM (#32022790) Attached to: Arizona "Papers, Please" Law May Hit Tech Workers

And just who do you think will be doing all of the manual labor in AZ?

Businesses in the SW love immigrant labor. Helps keep the cost of wages down.

I suspect you would be very, very comfortable as a member of the STASSI....

Comment Re:Mis-set expectations (Score 1) 789

by SSG Bryan on Tuesday June 09, 2009 @04:15PM (#28270909) Attached to: iPhone Users Angry Over AT&T Upgrade Policy

That is because most of the whiners didn't buy a 2G phone. They were too busy whining about the cost of the phone.

Comment Re:So long Music Industry... (Score 1) 401

by SSG Bryan on Friday November 30, 2007 @02:48PM (#21535947) Attached to: Media Research Exec Says Music Industry Is On Its Last Legs

But iTunes and the other digital stores suck because the selection is so damned limited.

I listen to rock & roll & I have a more extensive collection of music than the iTunes store because they only carry what is currently in print.

What I haven't figured out is why doesn't the labels REALLY roll out their whole damned catalog to digital distribution. There is a lot of music I would like to buy, but I can't get because it is either out of print or it isn't available in the US.

Submission + - Music Industry on Last Legs says Exec

Submitted by

Ponca City, We Love You

on Friday November 30, 2007 @09:42AM

Ponca City, We Love You writes: "For years, the major record labels have fought a pitched battle against the MP3 format and although major labels like EMI and the Universal Music Group have embraced the MP3 format in recent months, a story from the Mercury News says early returns from those moves indicate they've had little impact on the industry's fortunes — for better or for worse. "These are ailing businesses on their last legs," said Eric Garland, chief executive of BigChampagne, a market research company focused on digital media. The question of copy protection on song downloads "matters a whole lot less to them than it once did." The industry has a bigger problem. Consumers used to buy CDs for $10 or $15 a pop. Increasingly, they're buying songs at about $1 apiece instead. So, even if transactions continue to increase, the industry is seeing far less money each time consumers buy and it's having a difficult time making up the difference. By potentially encouraging more music sales, moving to MP3s may be one piece of the answer to the industry's problem but it's not the only one. Instead, the industry's going to have to explore other ideas, including advertising-supported music, promotional relationships and subscriptions."

Steve Jobs thinks Objective C is Perfect? 784

Posted by Hemos on Monday December 26, 2005 @01:00PM from the good-or-bad dept.

josht writes "Nitesh Dhanjani has posted an e-mail thread between Steve Jobs and himself. Dhanjani argues "I'd like to see Apple developers gain more choice. With every iteration of OSX, there seems to be so much effort put into innovation of desktop components, but the development environment is age old." I agree with Dhanjani. What has Apple done recently to wow the developers, and make it fun to code Cocoa components? I've looked into the Objective C and Xcode environment but compared to Microsoft's .NET solutions, it doesn't impress me at all. I think Apple can do a lot better. Steve Jobs disagrees. What do the readers think about Objective C and Xcode?"

Does New Development For Mac OS X Make Sense? 394

Posted by Cliff on Tuesday June 07, 2005 @06:31PM from the despite-change-development-goes-on dept.

DLWormwood wonders: "As a long time Mac developer, originally as a hobbyist and then a professional, I'm feeling pessimistic about the future of the platform now that Apple is embracing Intel and abandoning the few remaining 'Mac' technologies (like the PowerPC and OpenTransport) left to the platform. With the high likelihood that these new Macs will offer a full speed version of Virtual PC and (what I think is) the almost assurance that some clever hacker will make 'X for x86' run on commodity hardware, I'm doubting the willingness of most IT and development houses to even give the Carbon and Cocoa APIs a first glance. (If it wasn't for the poor past performance of VPC, I would not have gotten my first Mac programming job.) Can anybody with a more optimistic view think of a scenario where a modern development house will do Mac development in an age where the help desk will just say either 'switch boot to Windows/Linux' or 'run Virtual PC?'"

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