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Al Gore Mentions 'New iPhones' for Next Month
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Aside from it not being Solitare as has already been pointed out, he hasn't held public office for years - so how exactly would he be "wasting tax payer's money"?
Thanks for posting that and clearing things up, nowhere in there does he say he "invented" the internet.
His comments about the internet were in reference to providing funding to the guys who were developing and improving the internet. And call me crazy, but I think that's a good thing.
http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp
So where's the quote? So far the only response has been a video in which he does not say it.
If it doesn't make a difference, then why do those who criticize him insist on wording that he never actually said?
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D) Santa Claus really exists!
Seriously, law makers pass laws to get tax money.
DoogH said:
D) Santa Claus really exists!
Seriously, law makers pass laws to get tax money.
Did YOU look up DARPAnet? It was part of the department of defense, therefore government funded.
So make up your mind, the government does do some good things or it doesn't?
Gore first held national office in 1977 (US house). You were using the internet and email before that?
the first page is seriously the funnies page I have ever read on macrumors. I wish he would give the keynote on the iPhone,
"Using the built in WiFi you can connect to the internet! A Series of Tubes!"
"Using the built in WiFi you can connect to the internet! A Series of Tubes!"
Umm, maybe it is plural since Apple plans to sell millions and not just one!
Al Gore works for apple?
I love MacRumors
One would think that a board member of a company which is quite secretive about upcoming products and release dates would have learned to keep such knowledge to himself.
So, getting paid hundreds of thousands each year for being on the board doesn't mean he works for them? Interesting concept!
I am so depressed now....
Certainly I expect no pity but I thought I would at least make my feelings known.
My plans were to replace my wife and my Blackberry phones (AT&T) next month with two new i-phones and buy an i-pad 2 for music apps. As some may know the i-pad is the only tablet and the i-phone the only smart phone that youcan use for digital recording. IK Multimedia makes some fine interfaces for them. The problem with Android and Honeycomb is somewhere in the input and it causes high latency (the time between what you play goes into the phone and returns to your ear). With the i-pad/i-phone you can do it without noticable lag time... not with the others... so I was all set to buy 2 i-phones and an i-pad 2... then today I hear that Al Gore is on the Apple board of directors.
Al Gore is so disgusting to me that I am not sure if I can, in good conscience, buy Apple products.
Sometimes ignorance is bliss. Why would Apple have this moron on their board?
Yeah, I know... no one cares (Apple is not going to miss my purchase, it is like a drop in the ocean... but it matters to me). I guess shoud get over it but I am "old school" and I CARE who profits from my spending. I can overlook a lot but I don't know if I can overlook this.
Someone tell me how to set this aside. I don't want to think about Al Gore making one cent off me when I look at my phones and tablet... I know that it sounds trivial... but as a potential customer, it matters to me.
Does anyone care or have any words of wisdom for me? I don't need the wise cracks... but I can handle them if you feel the need.
You may not understand, but this is a problem for me. I really want two i-phones and an i-pad2...
Perhaps I should not take things so seriously but I do.
Help me out if you can.
Julien
Certainly I expect no pity but I thought I would at least make my feelings known.
My plans were to replace my wife and my Blackberry phones (AT&T) next month with two new i-phones and buy an i-pad 2 for music apps. As some may know the i-pad is the only tablet and the i-phone the only smart phone that youcan use for digital recording. IK Multimedia makes some fine interfaces for them. The problem with Android and Honeycomb is somewhere in the input and it causes high latency (the time between what you play goes into the phone and returns to your ear). With the i-pad/i-phone you can do it without noticable lag time... not with the others... so I was all set to buy 2 i-phones and an i-pad 2... then today I hear that Al Gore is on the Apple board of directors.
Al Gore is so disgusting to me that I am not sure if I can, in good conscience, buy Apple products.
Sometimes ignorance is bliss. Why would Apple have this moron on their board?
Yeah, I know... no one cares (Apple is not going to miss my purchase, it is like a drop in the ocean... but it matters to me). I guess shoud get over it but I am "old school" and I CARE who profits from my spending. I can overlook a lot but I don't know if I can overlook this.
Someone tell me how to set this aside. I don't want to think about Al Gore making one cent off me when I look at my phones and tablet... I know that it sounds trivial... but as a potential customer, it matters to me.
Does anyone care or have any words of wisdom for me? I don't need the wise cracks... but I can handle them if you feel the need.
You may not understand, but this is a problem for me. I really want two i-phones and an i-pad2...
Perhaps I should not take things so seriously but I do.
Help me out if you can.
Julien
Yeah, initiative and invent are different words. They do not mean the same thing. I know people get confused because they both start with "in", but some one saying:
"I took the initiative in creating the internet."
is not the same thing as saying:
"I invented the Internet."
What's getting released is a corporate secret
So one of three things is happening:
1. Gore is guessing like the rest of us
2. Gore was authorized by the company to make that statement based on inside knowledge
3. Gore just blew his fiduciary duty as a board member by exposing corporate secrets
So one of three things is happening:
1. Gore is guessing like the rest of us
2. Gore was authorized by the company to make that statement based on inside knowledge
3. Gore just blew his fiduciary duty as a board member by exposing corporate secrets
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Good god, what did Al Gore do to you? Kill your first born child? Anything less and you're seriously over reacting.
jbow said:
Good god, what did Al Gore do to you? Kill your first born child? Anything less and you're seriously over reacting.
Didn't you know? He drew it all out on a paper napkin during one of the Apple Board Meeting dinners. Then seeing that the text was too small to read, he drew out the plan for an iPad.
Actually the quote was:
"We've been informed by Toby Shapshak, the editor of Stuff Magazine in South Africa that is attending the conference, that his quote was specifically: "Not to mention the new iPhones coming out next month. That was a plug."
Shapshak says that the statement was definitely plural, although it wasn't clear whether that meant two different models, as the statement was not clarified in any way by Gore."
Which is does not mean that he knows anything, only that he's not to talk about it. I understand this as, he's not to talk about rumored/unreleased products.
I have a lot against Gore, but complaints over the Internet comment are baseless. In context, he was taking about how he was about the only one in Congress who grasped the future potential of the Internet, and pushed hearings and laws to make the Internet as we know it today happen. He may have not been the smartest on the details, IIRC pronouncing a router as "rooter," but he grasped the larger concept and pushed it.
To me that almost, but not quite, makes up for his Big Brother efforts to force a government backdoor to private encryption.
Nope, increasing taxes and increase spending on unionized construction and education is what creates jobs. It also supposedly helps one to get re-elected.
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Oh no, That's not a Macbook.
That is one of Al Gore's Inventions. The iElbow-rest. I need one of those.