jon_hendry

Assuming they've done any work?

Why do you say your entire philosophy?

No, but if you're not hiring low-paid positions, then clearly the people you're left hiring are going to be for high-pay positions.

Also, the number of >$150k positions went from 1% to 4%. Which is a pretty small proportion of total Federal employment.

Also, "since Obama took office" doesn't mean much, since Obama's first year in office was under Bush's last budget.

Finally, if you outsource or contract out lower-wage Federal jobs, it should be expected that the remaining employees will have a higher concentration of high-wage specialists.

I'm sure there are similar stories about early jazz artists, vaudeville acts, English music hall performers, etc.

More like a certain generation.

It's interesting that it's so close to the road. Is it in a gated community?

I want the giant-sized NeXT Cube-front wall hanging in picture 4 of the "Steve at the NeXT Factory" set.

Supposedly he kept using OpenStep on an Intel laptop after he returned to Apple. I suppose he switched once OS X was running on PowerBooks.

From the point of view of an iTunes user, the NC data center is irrelevant. It's a hidden implementation detail. The iTunes store could be running on a G4 Mac Cube under Steve Jobs' desk, for all it matters.

That certainly would never be forgotten.

NYC has big media companies and their CEOs, news media and their taping studios, and Wall Street.

North Carolina has a big building full of Apple's servers. (If it's even up and running yet.) You don't set the time for a press campaign based on a big building full of hardware.

And it's not an 'event'. I bet it's about streaming, and the PR effort will be based in New York (convenient for the big labels?), rather than in California.

But the iPod touch has some corners cut. No anti-oil coating on the screen, for one. It also retains the former body shape, not the flat-glass-on-both-sides iPhone 4 style.

Actually, America is arguably middle-of-the road, as far as this goes. Apple sells iOS devices into countries that are dramatically more censorious.

While Apple probably don't want an Apple Store in Tennessee shut down by some local sheriff on a distribution-of-porn-to-a-minor charge because of an App Store app, they also need to consider Malaysia, Singapore, India, UAE, etc. Even Australia, for that matter.

Also: App Store slander would probably be a bigger deal with regard to the UK.

True, but you can make this work a bit better by setting up bookmarks. If a book has a table of contents that links to the chapters, that would make it easy to set up bookmarks for each chapter, that can be accessed from the menu.

Also, unlike the iPad, if you get the kindle you can read your kindle books on a desktop computer using the appropriate kindle app.

Tip: If you're reading PDFs on a kindle, it can be useful to open them and crop out the margins. Preview.app on OS X will do it.

That's all.

He basically wants to ride on their coattails, and presumably sell a cheaper knockoff.

Which is, I think, rather sleazy.