solarein
About
- Username
- solarein
- Joined
- Visits
- 0
- Last Active
- -
- Roles
- member
- Badges
- 0
- Posts
- 143
Reactions
Comments
-
Quote: Originally Posted by jfanning I haven't said it was fair, I said if you disagree with it, don't sign it. With a mobile contract you have the choice, you can choose to accept it, or refuse it, no one is forcing you to accept it. Now, I …
-
Quote: Originally Posted by jfanning Are you telling me that you are forced to accept the terms of a mobile contract? No you are not, the mobile companies present their contract covering services, pricing, and conditions, from this you have the …
-
Quote: Originally Posted by Hiro The power to walk without signing is pretty profound. Once someone locks themselves into a specific position the negotiating power necessarily goes down commensurately. So if you only want an iPhone, you …
-
Quote: Originally Posted by jfanning Why should contracts be illegal? Contracts are two way, they are there for both parties, you should be reading them before signing them, if you don't like it, don't sign it, you weren't forced to sign it. If…
-
Quote: Originally Posted by hill60 Is it? I'm lying in bed with a MacBook an iPad will easily do what I'm doing now only it will be more comfortable. I see lots of people struggling with 17' laptops and 10" netbooks. I don't want to stru…
-
Quote: Originally Posted by Tofino i think the success of the iPhone already proves your myth busting argument to be wrong. Quite the contrary, for many people who adopted the iPhone, it was a phone that did much much more than what their old …
-
Quote: Originally Posted by DoctorBenway Actually, I'd prefer a designer not know every little piece of crap that goes on behind the scenes - that's the DEVELOPERS JOB (seriously - after all the complaints about devs-playing-designers - you hones…
-
Quote: Originally Posted by DoctorBenway Have you ever seen a decent UI from Google? EVER? Here's what one of their designers who left for Twitter thought of Google's design crew - compare this to all we've heard about Ive and the rest who spend …
-
The timeline is interesting. Apple unveiled the iPhone in January 2007. According to CNN development of the iPhone took 30 months, so development started around May 2004. Google was involved in the development of the iPhone early on. But exactly …
-
Quote: Originally Posted by grking with all due respect, you need to read what was written, and this is not the first time you have projected your feelings on to what I have written, and not responded to what I actually wrote. First, you do unde…
-
Quote: Originally Posted by vinea The whole point is that anyone that chooses to use an OSI approved open source license is not likely to ever be "rabidly anti-open source" because anyone rabidly anti-open source would pick...dum dum dum...a prop…
-
Quote: Originally Posted by vinea GPL is viral and it is a problem. Saying someone that choose Apache over GPL is rabidly anti-open source is being a class 1 freetard. Congrats on the promotion. How about you learn to read? Where did I say t…
-
Quote: Originally Posted by samab This is what OPEN SOURCE is all about. You can take the source code, fork the whole thing, strip out things you don't want and add other proprietary stuff on top of that. If you want to blame somebody, you …
-
Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism If there is no rival that sounds like a great opportunity to enter the market and undercut the competiton. In regards to eBooks there is already a Kindle app for the iPad will presumably work on the iPad. If …
-
Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism This reminds of "1984". Oceania/Apple once allied with Google/Eurasia and warred with Microsoft/Eastasia, but is now allied with Eastasia and warring with Eurasia. I don't know what you are talking about. …
-
Quote: Originally Posted by newbee I wish that Gazoobee and all other "experts" who absolutely know for a fact what a digital book should sell for would keep their uniformed opinion to themselves. As usual the market place will decide what the fi…