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DreadKnight: benkay, anyway, associating psychologically something (digital in this case) with food is strange, which I don't like regarding Apple
benkay: <DreadKnight> <benkay> if these people inhabited a space i would commission nukes and glass them <-- I hate words with multiple meanings, because they tend to complicate things, so I really hate Apple for having that name, should be illegal imo *sigh*
DreadKnight: <benkay> if these people inhabited a space i would commission nukes and glass them <-- I hate words with multiple meanings, because they tend to complicate things, so I really hate Apple for having that name, should be illegal imo *sigh*
DreadKnight: Newton's falling apple was likely just a nice story to make people visualize things :P
DreadKnight: so how come big companies like Apple and such don't buy back all the shares? I can think of a few possible reasons but maybe I'm missing something important...
mike_c: well, they are suing apple now right?
decimation: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/07/25/bose_sues_beats_apple/ remember the dumbass beats acquisition? yeah it was still dumb
assbot: Apple Responds, Contributes Little | Jonathan Zdziarski's Domain
asciilifeform: nubbins`: does kristy get an 'apple corer' ?
bitstein: "Companies such as Facebook, Apple, Yahoo, EBay and Amazon have already begun implementing bitcoin transactions in their business models, in addition to Wallstreet, political candidates, and the music community."
decimation: you can buy on digikey for ~$20 as i recall, but I"m sure apple paid much less
decimation: because apple has neither the room on their board or the inclination to deliver studio quality audio
assbot: iPhone 5 headphone volume too low | Apple Support Communities
decimation: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4388969?start=195&tstart=0
decimation: if you want apple stuff, you have to think of it as a subscription plan
benkay: <BingoBoingo> If apple really does kaizen why no 9" B&W machines with over 9000 dpi monitors? // troll better
benkay: <decimation> apple doesn't "improve", they just go an buy 5 years supply of a part // neglecting the chassis and the irreplaceable battery...
BingoBoingo: If apple really does kaizen why no 9" B&W machines with over 9000 dpi monitors?
decimation: apple doesn't "improve", they just go an buy 5 years supply of a part
gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=nfi | Apple touch icon Download the Free App! 1. nfi. No Fucking Idea. The manager has NFI of the work that goes on around here... by KGB July 10, 2002. 2114 678.
assbot: BitPremier — Apple II Plus - Vintage 1979 Collectible
BingoBoingo: What the fuck, 28 BTC and no guarentee it works? https://www.bitpremier.com/7-collectibles/545-apple-ii-plus-back-in-1979-yes-for-sale
mircea_popescu: like who, apple ?
asciilifeform: re: apple batteries: they come out. you just need a hot air blower.
mircea_popescu: chetty i wonder what the apple no-sex-at-work policy is like.
chetty: apple has this thing about sealing everything
pankkake: I've seen cars with apple logos
asciilifeform: phun phact. apple hardware used to (still does?) come with a set of logo stickers. so that one could uglify anything - normal laptop, car, etc.
pankkake: > laptop full of ugly sticks, but carefully does not cover apple logo
pankkake: it does it the apple way; announce an annoucment, gets twice the coverage
mircea_popescu: suppose there's an apple tree and a potato. now, you ask me how is a pomme better than a pomme du terre. nfi man, i just know they're opposite.
gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=drat | Apple touch icon Download the Free App! 1. drat. What cute people say when they are pissed off. "Oh Drat i lost my wallet". by spanky spangler September 07,  ...
mircea_popescu: much like apple.
mircea_popescu: "He developed an antagonistic relationship with his tutor, Patrick Blackett, who was only a few years his senior. While on vacation, as recalled by his friend Francis Fergusson, Oppenheimer once confessed that he had left an apple doused with noxious chemicals on Blackett's desk. While Ferguson's account is the only detailed version of this event, Oppenheimer's parents were alerted by the university authorities who con
BingoBoingo: This prolly goes back to the Serpent's argument to Eve about the Apple.
ThickAsThieves: what if i want http://seeds. to point a picture of apple seeds? what record for that?
Namworld: Apple stock at 100? Was there a split or did it drop a lot? I think it was around 500-800 not long ago.
[]bot: Bet created: "Apple stock to close at over $100 in 2014" http://bitbet.us/bet/956/
asciilifeform: it was made to torture sinners in an apple-themed hell
davout: "i'm just eating an apple like god intended"
assbot: Reddit asks. Reddit gets. /hashtag/sneakpeak?src=hash /hashtag/bitcoin?src=hash iOS /Apple coming soon http://t.co/pmdlO4KAyb
mircea_popescu: artifexd try bitcoin-apple ? :D
decimation: it's the original apple
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I envy you that Sympolics ended on a high note and Apple outlived its masterpiece the SE/30.
fluffypony: they should just pay for Apple people to work for them
fluffypony: yeah it's decidedly un-Apple
asciilifeform: ^ taken on an apple box dusted off for the occasion, purposefully
pankkake: didn't apple invent it already? autocorrect without asking you
cgcardona: Google, Apple, FG, just eat em all up
danielpbarron: <+mike_c> danielpbarron: you own any apple products? << ya; my iPhone is the first and last apple crap i'll ever buy
mike_c: danielpbarron: you own any apple products?
davout: asciilifeform: yes, designed by apple in california
mircea_popescu: by this rationale every competitor to apple deserves to be successful.
assbot: Apple - iOS 8 - Overview
artifexd: https://www.apple.com/ios/ios8/
davout: https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/coinjar-for-iphone/id725209873?mt=8
dub: just making an observation, we tend to run close to the front of tech trends over here and it struck me that apple are pretty much invisible outside of mobile
dub: does apple still exist? not even my hipster sister rolls macbook anymore
dub: apple only does stupid features so its unfair to pick on this
fluffypony: yeah I quite like Apple and I think that's a stupid feature to focus on
jurov: one has to be apple hater to find such "features" ridiculous?
adrrr: pankkake: mostly, there is apple haters :D
assbot: Apple OS X 10.10 Yosemite: The Top 6 New Features
adrrr: http://mashable.com/2014/06/03/apple-os-x-yosemite-top-features/?utm_cid=mash-com-Tw-main-link
fluffypony: I hear he's switching to Swift after watching the Apple demo on Monday
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: loosened the anus's of the various Apple Occultists << that might've been 'non-apple's mistake'
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I remember that time quite a while back when, maybe it was accident on your part, but you loosened the anus's of the various Apple Occultists with your hypercard post.
assbot: The Problem with Apple | Bingo Blog
BingoBoingo: moiety: When your phone call is over http://www.thedrinkingrecord.com/2014/06/03/the-problem-with-apple/ has Manul
BingoBoingo: fluffypony: Is it just me or did Apple just rip of Xfce for Yosemite?
kakobrekla: apple: Apps may facilitate transmission of approved virtual currencies provided that they do so in compliance with all state and federal laws for the territories in which the app functions
BingoBoingo: Damn, Apple announced iOs 8
benkay: python for apple
fluffypony: so it's .NET for Apple
assbot: Swift - Apple Developer
fluffypony: https://developer.apple.com/swift/
asciilifeform: fluffypony: one hint, in the past, was that apple clearly indicated a desire to see 'gcc' die in a fire
asciilifeform: artifexd: if headline is genuine, the only real surprise is that apple had not attempted this earlier.
asciilifeform: from apple's point of view - it isn't quite enough to have an effective vendor lock-in through obj. c and the mac api - it is necessary to breed programmers who can't even -think- on a competing platform.
fluffypony: Apple is releasing a new programming language
mircea_popescu: nubbins`: they see it as "bitcoin isn't ready for apple" << they're right, too. i don't have a mpoe-pr large enough to swat all the fucktarded us consumers thinking they'r eentitled to shit because their govt paid me taxes or something
nubbins`: they see it as "bitcoin isn't ready for apple"
nubbins`: but "apple isn't ready for bitcoin" isn't how apple sees it
fluffypony: can you imagine - someone will be like "someone broke into my phone with my pin code and stole my bitcoin, I'm going to sue apple"
nubbins`: consider that as far as feature implementation goes, apple is relatively conservative
nubbins`: "Today Apple makes an OS announcement --- I say we flood social media & news with questions about why they are anti-tech & anti Bitcoin"
benkay: i'm trying to take as little a dependency on the apple os as possible
BingoBoingo: Similar, but I haven't like an apple os since a/ux or OS 7.01
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: or the root easter eggs in apple's ios turdware
mircea_popescu: yes well. apple is not that. just a humble biz.
cgcardona: apple bought beatz. crazy
moiety: np decimation, sorry i didn't check seeif you could self up. i bet Apple is pissed ..and I wonder how much more Synaptics offered
decimation: WTF. So Apple is willing to offer $0.5 billion for an actual fabbed silicon company, while Google paid $3.2 billion for Nest, which had 50,000 overpriced (and underfeatured) thermostats shipped?
decimation: Apple had been in talks to acquire Renesas' entire 55% stake for an estimated 50 billion yen ($479 million).
assbot: iClarified - Apple News - Renesas to Sell Display Chip Business to Synaptics, Not Apple?
decimation: http://www.iclarified.com/41077/renesas-to-sell-display-chip-business-to-synaptics-not-apple
BingoBoingo: Vexual: From the last great Apple computers
chetty: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/10857715/iPhones-frozen-by-hackers-demanding-ransom.html
gribble: Bongwater - What If? - YouTube: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMKdVLQENSw>; iTunes - Music - Bongwater: <https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/bongwater/id153598278>; Box of Bongwater - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box_of_Bongwater>
asciilifeform: the hardest thing, it seems, for folks freshly cured of winblows or apple, is: learning to handle choice.