Apple

[Powdered Toast Man]

http://www.balloon-juice.com/2010/04/22/steve-jobs-comes-out-of-the-calvinist-closet/

However, we do believe we have a moral responsibility to keep porn off the iPhone. Folks who want porn can buy and [sic] Android phone.

    "You know, there's a porn store for Android," Jobs said. "You can download nothing but porn. You can download porn, your kids can download porn. That's a place we don't want to go, so we're not going to go there."

Why didn't I get an Android!?

So... Just how badly do you want to be able to pay for that porn?

http://appadvice.com/appnn/2010/04/breaking-android-iphone/

Did you ever get an iphone?

No.

But can the android get you a girl?

Fuck. Me. In. The. Ass.

Done.

Also, the wife and I need to upgrade our home PC.  We're thinking of buying a laptop since all we really use the computer for is picture sharing on bookface and Shutterfly, the internet, bill paying, and the occasional Excel or Word file.  Any recommendations?

Is the iPad = laptop or netbook?  What the hell is the iPad, anyway...looks like a giant iPhone.  Pretty colors...WANT

[BH]

http://www.balloon-juice.com/2010/04/22/steve-jobs-comes-out-of-the-calvinist-closet/

However, we do believe we have a moral responsibility to keep porn off the iPhone. Folks who want porn can buy and [sic] Android phone.

    "You know, there's a porn store for Android," Jobs said. "You can download nothing but porn. You can download porn, your kids can download porn. That's a place we don't want to go, so we're not going to go there."

Why didn't I get an Android!?

So... Just how badly do you want to be able to pay for that porn?

http://appadvice.com/appnn/2010/04/breaking-android-iphone/

Did you ever get an iphone?

No.

But can the android get you a girl?

Fuck. Me. In. The. Ass.

Done.

Also, the wife and I need to upgrade our home PC.  We're thinking of buying a laptop since all we really use the computer for is picture sharing on bookface and Shutterfly, the internet, bill paying, and the occasional Excel or Word file.  Any recommendations?

Is the iPad = laptop or netbook?  What the hell is the iPad, anyway...looks like a giant iPhone.  Pretty colors...WANT

Do you want your pc to be mobile? or will it sit at home ?

[PenFoe]

http://www.balloon-juice.com/2010/04/22/steve-jobs-comes-out-of-the-calvinist-closet/

However, we do believe we have a moral responsibility to keep porn off the iPhone. Folks who want porn can buy and [sic] Android phone.

    "You know, there's a porn store for Android," Jobs said. "You can download nothing but porn. You can download porn, your kids can download porn. That's a place we don't want to go, so we're not going to go there."

Why didn't I get an Android!?

So... Just how badly do you want to be able to pay for that porn?

http://appadvice.com/appnn/2010/04/breaking-android-iphone/

Did you ever get an iphone?

No.

But can the android get you a girl?

Fuck. Me. In. The. Ass.

Done.

Also, the wife and I need to upgrade our home PC.  We're thinking of buying a laptop since all we really use the computer for is picture sharing on bookface and Shutterfly, the internet, bill paying, and the occasional Excel or Word file.  Any recommendations?

Is the iPad = laptop or netbook?  What the hell is the iPad, anyway...looks like a giant iPhone.  Pretty colors...WANT

You cant run Word or Excel on it, at least not yet.

It's fine for web, has some good apps and you can email.

[ChuckD]

http://www.balloon-juice.com/2010/04/22/steve-jobs-comes-out-of-the-calvinist-closet/

However, we do believe we have a moral responsibility to keep porn off the iPhone. Folks who want porn can buy and [sic] Android phone.

    "You know, there's a porn store for Android," Jobs said. "You can download nothing but porn. You can download porn, your kids can download porn. That's a place we don't want to go, so we're not going to go there."

Why didn't I get an Android!?

So... Just how badly do you want to be able to pay for that porn?

http://appadvice.com/appnn/2010/04/breaking-android-iphone/

Did you ever get an iphone?

No.

But can the android get you a girl?

Fuck. Me. In. The. Ass.

Done.

Also, the wife and I need to upgrade our home PC.  We're thinking of buying a laptop since all we really use the computer for is picture sharing on bookface and Shutterfly, the internet, bill paying, and the occasional Excel or Word file.  Any recommendations?

Is the iPad = laptop or netbook?  What the hell is the iPad, anyway...looks like a giant iPhone.  Pretty colors...WANT

You cant run Word or Excel on it, at least not yet.

It's fine for web, has some good apps and you can email.

True, but...

[thehawk]

http://www.balloon-juice.com/2010/04/22/steve-jobs-comes-out-of-the-calvinist-closet/

However, we do believe we have a moral responsibility to keep porn off the iPhone. Folks who want porn can buy and [sic] Android phone.

    "You know, there's a porn store for Android," Jobs said. "You can download nothing but porn. You can download porn, your kids can download porn. That's a place we don't want to go, so we're not going to go there."

Why didn't I get an Android!?

So... Just how badly do you want to be able to pay for that porn?

http://appadvice.com/appnn/2010/04/breaking-android-iphone/

Did you ever get an iphone?

No.

But can the android get you a girl?

Fuck. Me. In. The. Ass.

Done.

Also, the wife and I need to upgrade our home PC.  We're thinking of buying a laptop since all we really use the computer for is picture sharing on bookface and Shutterfly, the internet, bill paying, and the occasional Excel or Word file.  Any recommendations?

Is the iPad = laptop or netbook?  What the hell is the iPad, anyway...looks like a giant iPhone.  Pretty colors...WANT

You cant run Word or Excel on it, at least not yet.

It's fine for web, has some good apps and you can email.

True, but...

Also, no Flash support, so you would want to make sure your photo web sites dont need it.  Pretty sure that an Ipad can open and modify Office docs using the apple spreadsheet and word processing programs also, but the iPad is more an adjunct to a computer than a replacement for one.

[Powdered Toast Man]

http://www.balloon-juice.com/2010/04/22/steve-jobs-comes-out-of-the-calvinist-closet/

However, we do believe we have a moral responsibility to keep porn off the iPhone. Folks who want porn can buy and [sic] Android phone.

    "You know, there's a porn store for Android," Jobs said. "You can download nothing but porn. You can download porn, your kids can download porn. That's a place we don't want to go, so we're not going to go there."

Why didn't I get an Android!?

So... Just how badly do you want to be able to pay for that porn?

http://appadvice.com/appnn/2010/04/breaking-android-iphone/

Did you ever get an iphone?

No.

But can the android get you a girl?

Fuck. Me. In. The. Ass.

Done.

Also, the wife and I need to upgrade our home PC.  We're thinking of buying a laptop since all we really use the computer for is picture sharing on bookface and Shutterfly, the internet, bill paying, and the occasional Excel or Word file.  Any recommendations?

Is the iPad = laptop or netbook?  What the hell is the iPad, anyway...looks like a giant iPhone.  Pretty colors...WANT

Do you want your pc to be mobile? or will it sit at home ?

We would love to be able to take it with us when visiting family or going on vacations.  It's just nice to have.  I don't do any gaming on it at all.  Just surfing the web.

Our sexratary just bought a Macbook and brought it to my desk.  It's pretty and shiny and smells new and has lights under the keyboard and the little icons bounce when you click them.  I like it...

[BH]

http://www.balloon-juice.com/2010/04/22/steve-jobs-comes-out-of-the-calvinist-closet/

However, we do believe we have a moral responsibility to keep porn off the iPhone. Folks who want porn can buy and [sic] Android phone.

   "You know, there's a porn store for Android," Jobs said. "You can download nothing but porn. You can download porn, your kids can download porn. That's a place we don't want to go, so we're not going to go there."

Why didn't I get an Android!?

So... Just how badly do you want to be able to pay for that porn?

http://appadvice.com/appnn/2010/04/breaking-android-iphone/

Did you ever get an iphone?

No.

But can the android get you a girl?

Fuck. Me. In. The. Ass.

Done.

Also, the wife and I need to upgrade our home PC.  We're thinking of buying a laptop since all we really use the computer for is picture sharing on bookface and Shutterfly, the internet, bill paying, and the occasional Excel or Word file.  Any recommendations?

Is the iPad = laptop or netbook?  What the hell is the iPad, anyway...looks like a giant iPhone.  Pretty colors...WANT

Do you want your pc to be mobile? or will it sit at home ?

We would love to be able to take it with us when visiting family or going on vacations.  It's just nice to have.  I don't do any gaming on it at all.  Just surfing the web.

Our sexratary just bought a Macbook and brought it to my desk.  It's pretty and shiny and smells new and has lights under the keyboard and the little icons bounce when you click them.  I like it...

I'm afraid to visit this site much, due to my fear of being addicted to it and buying way too much stuff, but a friend got a decent deal on a macbook pros on there.. it's a combination of ebay and a gambling site.

anyone try this site before? it looks crazy to me.. like a giant f'ng raffle... not sure how you could get a good deal in looking at the odds here.. but it looks fun.

[Dr. Nguyen Van Falk]

I'm afraid to visit this site much, due to my fear of being addicted to it and buying way too much stuff, but a friend got a decent deal on a macbook pros on there.. it's a combination of ebay and a gambling site.

anyone try this site before? it looks crazy to me.. like a giant f'ng raffle... not sure how you could get a good deal in looking at the odds here.. but it looks fun.

I've seen it described as more or less a dollar auction in action, through which incremental rational choices lead to an ultimately irrational outcome.

Here's a good summary...

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/12/profitable-until-deemed-illegal.html

I just watched an 8GB Apple iPod Touch sell on swoopo for $187.65. The final price means a total of 1,251 bids were placed for this item, costing bidders a grand total of $938.25.

So that $229 item ultimately sold for $1,125.90.

But that one final bidder got a great deal, right? Maybe. Even when you win, you can lose. Remember that each bid costs you 75 cents, while only increasing the price of the item 15 cents. If you bid too many times on an item -- or if you use the site's "helpful" automated BidButler service, which bids on your behalf -- you'll end up paying the purchase price in bids alone. For this item, if you bid more than 305 times, you've paid the purchase price -- and only raised the cost of the item by $45.75 total.

OK, so bidding a lot is a bad idea, so maybe we only bid one time, or a few times, and near the end of the auction? Great plan, except the auction is extended 15 seconds each and every time someone bids in those final seconds. There are absolute end dates for the auctions, but they're usually so far in the future that the auction will end through attrition long before they reach their end date. I've often wondered if eBay would implement this feature, as it would effectively end last second sniping, a huge problem for auction sites. Well, beyond the obvious problem with auctions, which is that the most optimistic person sets the price for everyone else.

There's something else at work here, though, and it's almost an exploit of human nature itself. Once you've bid on something a few times, you now have a vested financial interest in that product, a product someone else could end up winning, rendering your investment moot. This often leads to irrational decisionmaking -- something called the endowment effect, which has even been observed in chimpanzees. So instead of doing the rational thing and walking away from a bad investment, you pour more money in, sending good money after bad.

...

In short, swoopo is about as close to pure, distilled evil in a business plan as I've ever seen. They get paid for everything up front, and as they drop ship everything there's no inventory or overhead to worry about. It is almost brilliantly evil, in a sort of evil genius way. You can't stop people from endowment effect fueled bidding when they have the individual chance, however small it may be, to win a $2,000 television for $80 -- while collectively sending the house $10,000 or more.

It really is a brilliant scheme based on exploiting basic economic concepts.

[Saul Goodman]

http://www.balloon-juice.com/2010/04/22/steve-jobs-comes-out-of-the-calvinist-closet/

However, we do believe we have a moral responsibility to keep porn off the iPhone. Folks who want porn can buy and [sic] Android phone.

    “You know, there’s a porn store for Android,” Jobs said. “You can download nothing but porn. You can download porn, your kids can download porn. That’s a place we don’t want to go, so we’re not going to go there.”

Why didn't I get an Android!?

So... Just how badly do you want to be able to pay for that porn?

http://appadvice.com/appnn/2010/04/breaking-android-iphone/

Did you ever get an iphone?

No.

But can the android get you a girl?

Fuck. Me. In. The. Ass.

Done.

Also, the wife and I need to upgrade our home PC.  We're thinking of buying a laptop since all we really use the computer for is picture sharing on bookface and Shutterfly, the internet, bill paying, and the occasional Excel or Word file.  Any recommendations?

Is the iPad = laptop or netbook?  What the hell is the iPad, anyway...looks like a giant iPhone.  Pretty colors...WANT

Do you want your pc to be mobile? or will it sit at home ?

We would love to be able to take it with us when visiting family or going on vacations.  It's just nice to have.  I don't do any gaming on it at all.  Just surfing the web.

Our sexratary just bought a Macbook and brought it to my desk.  It's pretty and shiny and smells new and has lights under the keyboard and the little icons bounce when you click them.  I like it...

For just surfing the web and occasionally working on some documents (on Pages, Numbers, and Keynote) an iPad might be worth checking out.  It'll go anywhere, you can use it with a Bluetooth keyboard, it'll be nice to show pictures to the family you're visiting with it, and if you get the 3G + WiFi version, you'll have internet access almost wherever you go.  The cellular data plan is a really good deal: $15 for 250 MB per month, $30 for unlimited.  No contract.  You can start and stop at any time from the device itself.  It will warn you when you approach your limit, and offer to bump you up to unlimited to help save money.  It's set up so you can pay only for what you need.

Of course, you can get a netbook cheaper, but the build quality and performance isn't always the best.  Still, there are quality netbooks out there that could do the same thing and bring Flash support (although the App Store and more and more sites moving to HTML5 are starting to weaken that drawback).  There's also the big rumor that Hulu will launch its app sometime in May.  I'd suggest visiting an Apple Store and trying one out to see what you think.  Might also be worth waiting to see if Hulu comes around.  If you're a subscriber to MLB.tv, the dedicated iPad app could also be a selling point.

Basically, you'll have to decide if it's worth the premium to pay on top of a netbook or the low to mid-range of affordable notebook PCs.

[BH]

I'm afraid to visit this site much, due to my fear of being addicted to it and buying way too much stuff, but a friend got a decent deal on a macbook pros on there.. it's a combination of ebay and a gambling site.

anyone try this site before? it looks crazy to me.. like a giant f'ng raffle... not sure how you could get a good deal in looking at the odds here.. but it looks fun.

I've seen it described as more or less a dollar auction in action, through which incremental rational choices lead to an ultimately irrational outcome.

Here's a good summary...

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/12/profitable-until-deemed-illegal.html

I just watched an 8GB Apple iPod Touch sell on swoopo for $187.65. The final price means a total of 1,251 bids were placed for this item, costing bidders a grand total of $938.25.

So that $229 item ultimately sold for $1,125.90.

But that one final bidder got a great deal, right? Maybe. Even when you win, you can lose. Remember that each bid costs you 75 cents, while only increasing the price of the item 15 cents. If you bid too many times on an item -- or if you use the site's "helpful" automated BidButler service, which bids on your behalf -- you'll end up paying the purchase price in bids alone. For this item, if you bid more than 305 times, you've paid the purchase price -- and only raised the cost of the item by $45.75 total.

OK, so bidding a lot is a bad idea, so maybe we only bid one time, or a few times, and near the end of the auction? Great plan, except the auction is extended 15 seconds each and every time someone bids in those final seconds. There are absolute end dates for the auctions, but they're usually so far in the future that the auction will end through attrition long before they reach their end date. I've often wondered if eBay would implement this feature, as it would effectively end last second sniping, a huge problem for auction sites. Well, beyond the obvious problem with auctions, which is that the most optimistic person sets the price for everyone else.

There's something else at work here, though, and it's almost an exploit of human nature itself. Once you've bid on something a few times, you now have a vested financial interest in that product, a product someone else could end up winning, rendering your investment moot. This often leads to irrational decisionmaking -- something called the endowment effect, which has even been observed in chimpanzees. So instead of doing the rational thing and walking away from a bad investment, you pour more money in, sending good money after bad.

...

In short, swoopo is about as close to pure, distilled evil in a business plan as I've ever seen. They get paid for everything up front, and as they drop ship everything there's no inventory or overhead to worry about. It is almost brilliantly evil, in a sort of evil genius way. You can't stop people from endowment effect fueled bidding when they have the individual chance, however small it may be, to win a $2,000 television for $80 -- while collectively sending the house $10,000 or more.

It really is a brilliant scheme based on exploiting basic economic concepts.

They really move rapidly to Step 6 Profit ..

[Dr. Nguyen Van Falk]

...picture sharing on bookface and Shutterfly...

Kind of off-topic, but some unsolicited two cents...

I'm pretty sure Shutterfly (just like Snapfish, Kodak Gallery and various other photo sharing sites) doesn't allow full-resolution downloads of images you upload. Their business model is to lock you and the people you share your photos with into ordering prints through them. If anyone just wants to print them out themselves at home or do anything with them not offered through Shutterfly, it's either tough titties or time to bug you guys to email them the original pic separately.

My sister-in-law used to send pics of my nephew through Kodak Gallery and I found this lock-in pretty annoying. Now they just send new pics around as email attachments. Probably more of a hassle, and less elegant, but it gets the job done.

If it were me, I'd use Flickr. It allows you to share albums of photos, which can be viewed as slideshows, and you can enable full-res downloads if you so choose. I believe they even offer print fulfillment through corporate partner(s), but I've never used that so I'm not sure how it works.

(The trade-off with Flickr is that free accounts are limited to 100MB worth of uploads per month and they only display your 200 most recent uploads. For anything beyond that, you'll have to pony up $24.95 per year for a "Pro" account.)

[Dr. Nguyen Van Falk]

http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/

[Oleg]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/29/jon-stewart-slams-steve-j_n_556629.html

[Wheezer]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/29/jon-stewart-slams-steve-j_n_556629.html

He seems to have blown the Logan's Run reference.

[Dr. Nguyen Van Falk]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/29/jon-stewart-slams-steve-j_n_556629.html

Anyone else find Stewart's "meet me at camera three" bits generally tedious?