- Plug a product get fined by the FTC.
- Adobe now has flash for the iPhone, kind of.
- Apple tablet summarized.
- Republicans trying to block net neutrality.
- Macs penetrated 12-percent of American homes.
- Psystar to sell Mac hack.
- PSP GO is now out.
- 25-percent of all websites are anonymously owned. An investigation will ensue.
- Toshiba to build over-priced LCD TV.
- Sprint has 10 more Wi-MAX cities.
- Top reasons the pad computer has failed.
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I am unbiased and regularly use and like all the three main OSs.
For the average non-tech person, Mac is best. In the past, there was the price consideration but with the Mac mini, that’s not much of an issue.
So, this news doesn’t surprise me at all.
Can anyone elaborate on this? I do infomercials for my affiliate program and I plug the products on my blog all the time?
Do I have to stop doing that?
go 1019.60 and holding steady.
How does the 25% of anonymous websites match up with the 90% or so of abandoned web sites?
Just asking.
A lot of web sites are put up by people who want to say something they are afraid they will be punished for saying.
As long as it isn’t illegal…
My wife has been trying to remove the security “features” from her Mac for some time. Her attitude is that it’s her Mac, and there should be no reason for her to have to log in to her own computer. Trying to remove the security stuff seems to be close to impossible, as lower levels of security keep asking for a password that doesn’t exist.
I wouldn’t be surprised if she asks me someday to install Vista on her Mac instead, as Vista’s security stuff can be eliminated at install if the user prefers. I assume that’s true of Win7 also.
I think all PC sales #s are messed up for the time being.
Since about spring, buyers have decided they would be crazy to not wait for a Windows 7 PC, or for the pressure of a new OS to bring about deep discounts on the current models.
Once all the manufacturers have W7 equipment out, I think there will be a major uptick in the PC market.
Remember you rabid mac-drones, 12% in the US DOES NOT mean 12% elsewhere.
Go to any more evolved country and you’ll find the number of people swayed by dodgy advertising and the apple reality distortion field much much lower.
Here’s some more Apple news:
Apple Sues Australian Grocery Store Over Logo
Australian supermarket Woolworths changed its logo last year. While it’s technically the letter ‘w’ Apple seems to think the fact that Woolworths made its new look like a peeling apple warrants legal action.
Net Neutrality is fine – there’s no good reason to have ISP’s throttle competitors. However, with bHo’s agenda, getting Government hooks into any of this is a very bad idea.
This board is conservative enough to get banned by bHo’s standards….
All praise to the zero….
>> Zybch said, on October 5th, 2009 at 8:23 pm
>> Remember you rabid mac-drones, 12% in the US DOES NOT mean 12% elsewhere.
>> Go to any more evolved country and you’ll find the number of people swayed by dodgy advertising and the apple reality distortion field much much lower.
Yes, it’s an issue of marketing but not like you think.
I’ve been to lots of countries (including “evolved” ones, whatever THAT means) and they don’t use Macs because Apple products aren’t seriously marketed there.
It isn’t because Windows is better. And it CERTAINLY isn’t because that country is more evolved.
But, when Apple products are available and marketed, like Dubai for instance, the shops seem pretty busy.
I, myself, have no bias and I think Apple computers are the best for non-techies — which is most people. They also have a (slight) edge for media professionals.
Linux also suffers because of lack of marketing in “evolved” countries. Obviously the highly tech-proficient use it but there are several flavors of Linux that non-techie users would be happy with, if only someone sold them on it.
The next workplace I manage will be Linux. The stability alone makes it the wise cost-effective choice. I can’t even guess the amount of money I’ve lost due to Windows’ bugs, hangs, upgrades, viruses and crashes.
But, for home where productivity isn’t an issue, I like XP. It hits that sweet-spot of ease and ability to be customized.
#4 “Her attitude is that it’s her Mac, and there should be no reason for her to have to log in to her own computer.”
It’s your house and your car(s). Why should you need a key to enter those or use them? I’m guessing it’s because that’s the only way to keep people from looting or riding off with it. Same for computers. As long as they’re too large to fit into one’s hip pocket or purse, where you might be reasonably sure nobody will steal it. You don’t need password protection.
But as long as it’s not chained to your wrist. And your wrists are made of hardened steel. Anybody can make off with your computer or wireless data device. And with your equally valuable financial info on them, thieves could wipe you out. Is it really so hard to grasp the need for data security? Or do you only use your Mac, PC or iPhone for amusements? Yeah, ya don’t need a password for an expensive toy.
They should make just such a useless thing, only for people who don’t care what they lose.
The FTC is either going to apply this fine of theirs, disproportionately. Or not at all. And it’s really a total fraud, that they’ll do anything. But they want us to believe they are protecting us from bloggers who get paid to write glowing reviews about products they’re promoting, without admitting it. That’s the difference between regular advertising, and faking a blog review.
But isn’t that part of “Free Speech”? Lying, because you’re paid to lie? Hell, 99% of all Tv ads are lies, in some way. As if all those well muscled athletes really used some crappy gimmick to get their body. All steroids and free weights. None of them ever touched a Bowflex machine.
I wonder if the FTC fine would apply to those people who write glowing reviews of movies on IMDB.com, for pay? You’ve got to know that’s happening. Nobody is going to research and write at length about any movie, for free. Especially for scores of titles. Not just one or two of them. Who’s got that much free time? And how come they’ve never seen a film they don’t like? The odds are totally against them being unbiased, unpaid, amateur reviewers. They should all be required, by law, to identify themselves as paid reviewers. And who’s paying them. And not hide behind anonymous fake identities, and lie that they’re just any average, unpaid movie goer, writing about a few films they liked.
They and Amazon.com should be forced to fess up, clean up their act, and remove all the paid movie reviews from the “User Comments”. There’s a separate section just links to the professional reviews. We expect most of those to be biased. And possibly trust a few not to be. But ALL of the User Comments should be only from viewers, NOT being paid to write. Or have anything to gain from a movie’s success.
Too bad the SEC hasn’t got a similar (but stiffer) fine for those stock market analysts on Tv, who profited from giving positive ratings for stocks that were tanking. Or are part of some investment firm, that benefits from their biased analysis. But I guess it’s nearly impossible to find analysts who aren’t connected to some of the things they rate. The lie is that they pretend not to be biased, at all. Just appearing on Tv or radio, as a stock expert, whether they admit their bias or not, is a deception. Because viewers always assume these “experts” aren’t promoting a stock that they stand to gain from, by influencing its sales.
The Republicans are trying to block net neutrality, because the Telco lobby told them to. Republicans are the favored to block things that big corporations hate. And if the GOP wasn’t up to it, then the Democrats would have been lobbied to do it. Congressmen and Senators don’t know what Net Neutrality is, because they already get everything handed to them of a silver platter. Especially capless broadband. You can bet the Telcos don’t restrict their bandwidth, or usage.
So how would they understand the idea of data packets, from competing media sources, being given the same bandwidth as the Telco’s own media packets? Senator Stevens didn’t even know that his misplaced email had nothing to do with bandwidth. Some damn Telco lobbyist fed him that bull, to say. Net Neutrality means that Telcos and ISPs can’t slow down data packets from sites they’re in competition with. Or provide faster server throughput only for their own media, and that of their business partners. As customers, you pay for neutral throughput, because it’s not plainly stated by the ISP or major Telco, that any such preference to bandwidth is being given to sources the ISP has financial ties to. Bandwidth (or “tubes”) are neutral to all who wish to use them. You don’t sign up for a “slow for some sources, fast for others” plan. So it should be allowed to happen, just because we can’t easily discover it, or understand it. Internet access is a produce just like any other. And Youtube shouldn’t have to “ride in the back of the bus” while Bestbuy gets to ride up front.
Oops! Sorry. That was suppose to read “So it SHOULDN’T be allowed to happen, just…” IOW, the same ride for everyone and everything, on the information superhighway. No faster lanes for those the toll booth operators like. No preferred access, at the expensive of everyone else who paid for full access.
John, I have to disagree with you about tablets. First I disagree about what a tablet is. A tablet is a computer that can fit in your pocket, not 10′ screen with no keyboard. Second I think people DO want them. This is evidenced by the popularity of smart phones. There are 3 reasons that they are not more popular. Here’s my list, with no repeats.
1. They don’t do anything. Every tablet/pda/smartphone has tons of potential, but nobody wants potential, we want features.
2. They cost too much. People want a small price for a small device. $200 is the upper limit if you want universal adoption.
3. Battery life sucks.
One thing that people definitely like about tablet computing is the stylus interface, strangely all of the major manufacturers are moving to fingertip interfaces. I’m not sure what that’s about.
The Net plugged along all this time without “Net neutrality” -no reason to start now..
As for the name of the bill.
spend some time reading bills and you will soon learn that 99.9% of all bills actually do the opposite of it’s “marketing name” -save for the very rare 1 page bills.
with that in mind, maybe we should call it “the polarized bill” :p
-s