Al Gore Mentions 'New iPhones' for Next Month

[Swift]

An observation

It really does amaze me, a, that this is news that is parsed so finely. Apple assertions are read like tea leaves. Why? Because the lack of information flow makes us sit up and try to figure it out.

The other is the knee-jerk conservative foolishness that breaks out even among people you'd think would be more sophisticated that Sarah Palin et al. To state the truth: Al Gore won the 2000 election, and b, he's right about global warming. I guess the sight of him must make some people start screaming denials right at the top.

You're stupid.

 

[Kissaragi]

Let me be the first to say.... Excelsior!

 

[Swift]

Created.. Invented.. Same difference. But what does it matter really, because according to Algore we will all be dead due to global warming in a few years anyhow.

Actually, no. Only if we behave like jackasses about it. Oh, looking at you, I guess we're sunk.

 

[palmerc2]

aghhh, I haven't thought about this idiot in at least a few weeks. why'd you have to go and put his name in my head??? thanks, thanks a lot.

 

[Swift]

Only if you are blinded by politics. Creating something is helping to bring it in to existence, inventing is coming up with something in your mind. They are not synonyms.

The point is, his remark was awkward but his accomplishments in this regard were not. It took legislation to privatize the DARPA project. His partner in that, across the aisle, which he's said many times, was presidential washout and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich. I guess Newt might say something that some malicious idiot misrepresented as saying he "invented" the Internet, and that the story could become a politically-fueled meme in the summer of 2012, but it won't be.

He should have had a phrase for what he did. Oh, and by the way he never said "invent." You can, if you care, watch the youtube. Only in the Washington Post or the NY Times did he use that word, which is, of course, wrong. The Washington "boys on the bus" were irrational and petty, as they often are during our elections. And if you're a winger, there's no reason to correct them, ha, ha -- except inaccurate news stories damage us all.

 

[daxomni]

Why is this fool on the front page? Is he not one of the least credible politicians ever invented (by Al Gore)? I think MacRumors' credibility just plummeted. EDIT: I can't believe people actually vote this down! Do people actually think his word has any meaning? Do you think he really created the internet or something?

Al Gore is on the front page because he's a member of the board and he just signaled official confirmation of a new/updated iPhone arriving soon. That would seem rather obvious but I guess it bears repeating. While we're on the topic I'd like for you to explain what exactly makes Al Gore a fool in your view?

 

[jbow]

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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.

He is a fool. I don't suffer fools easily and some fools, like Algore, are just smarmy. He is one of the most idiotic people I have ever seen. His sense of entitlement is sickening and he is one of the stupidest people I have ever seen. Ignorance can be cured with education, stupid cannot be fixed. He simply makes my skin crawl, I would feel like I needed a bath if he touched me... he is absoultely grotesque and the idea of doing business with a company he is involved with repulses me...
However, as I said before, the i-pad/i-phone are the only options if you want to do any sort of mobile music production. I have a DAW on my computer and a good interface for home recording but it would be nice to use a smart phone/tablet as a fun toy while sitting in traffic or a waiting room. Perhaps, now that Google owns Motorola, the XOOM will catch up... time will tell.

Al Gore really creeps me out.

Julien

 

[notabadname]

Why not..
Al Gore didn't say "I invented the internet"

He did say " We created the internet".

No, he said. "I took the initiative in creating the internet". Exact quote. No "we" - "I".

Al Gore claiming to have personally taken the initiative in creating the internet is no different than saying passage of the Air Commerce Act in 1926 created commercial aviation or flying, or that creation of the FCC was the initiative for creating radio.

Yes, he was a major proponent of the internet. But he was a proponent of the work of countless predecessors that started work on and defined the concept and benefits of the internet 20 years before his time. It is totally disingenuous to make a statement such as "I took the initiative in creating the internet" (and that is the precise quote). To "take the initiative" generally means to be the first to take action, or to do something first. Al Gore majored in Government, not electrical engineering or similar sciences.

 

[Epic Xbox Revie]

If there's a 16 and 32, that's "new iPhones."

There's no story here.

 

[trunten]

I feel better about having two monitors, a pc, a laptop and a desk lamp all on at the same time now. It's obviously great for the environment.

 

[Snoudel]

I feel better about having two monitors, a pc, a laptop and a desk lamp all on at the same time now. It's obviously great for the environment.

Lol umadbro? Solar energy, duh.

 

[nadaclue]

A) Al Gore is an incredibly brilliant person.

Ha Ha, are you talking about the same Al Gore who once said "a Zebra can't change it's spots" while attacking Bush, (Zebra's don't have spots), or while campaigning made the comment that he had "trouble turning on a computer, let alone using one." Or saying $1 Trillion dollars was equivalant to a million billion dollars, or......... I could go on.

 

[Brandon0448]

Manbearpig is real.

 

[vrDrew]

So, getting paid hundreds of thousands each year for being on the board doesn't mean he works for them? Interesting concept!

The vast majority of Apple's Outside Directors (ie. those who don't have a day-to-day job working for the company) Board Compensation comes in the form of Stock Options. If the company doesn't do well, they don't do well.

The CASH compensation for an Outside Director of Apple was about $55,000 in 2008, or about $11,000 for each of the five meetings they attended that year. The Stock Options for that year added up to several hundreds of thousands each, putting Apple towards the top of compensation for Tech. firms.

Whether Al Gore's "iPhones coming out next month" is based on inside information or not is something known only to the people on the Board. If he inadvertently let a cat out of the bag, then I'm sure he'll hear about it from the people concerned.

Then again, I think more than a few people with absolutely zero connection with Apple could have made a similar prediction.

 

[iStig]

He is a fool. I don't suffer fools easily and some fools, like Algore, are just smarmy. He is one of the most idiotic people I have ever seen. His sense of entitlement is sickening and he is one of the stupidest people I have ever seen. Ignorance can be cured with education, stupid cannot be fixed. He simply makes my skin crawl, I would feel like I needed a bath if he touched me... he is absoultely grotesque and the idea of doing business with a company he is involved with repulses me...
However, as I said before, the i-pad/i-phone are the only options if you want to do any sort of mobile music production. I have a DAW on my computer and a good interface for home recording but it would be nice to use a smart phone/tablet as a fun toy while sitting in traffic or a waiting room. Perhaps, now that Google owns Motorola, the XOOM will catch up... time will tell.

Al Gore really creeps me out.

Julien

Well, that was quite the vitriolic rant. Now, can you provide any rational information, the kind that is free of emotional content, as to why you disapprove of Al Gore and/or his policies?

 

[GS17]

Why not..


Al Gore didn't say "I invented the internet"

He did say " We created the internet".

And if you are old enough you would know the internet as you know it became a reality because of legislation introduced by the Clinton/Gore administration.

That's true! Clinton needed a fast way to satisfy his cravings for cankle p0rn!

 

[gflinch]

I'll bet that Apple board directors have a non-disclosure agreement in place for information they hear about company product and other plans. Apparently Mr. Gore doesn't care to honor his confidentiality agreements.

As a stockholder, I think he should be sued to leaking insider information without authorization ;-)

But that's not gonna happen.

Whaadda you expect from a politician, like him or not he is what he is.

 

[Peterg2]

Why not..


Al Gore didn't say "I invented the internet"

He did say " We created the internet".

And if you are old enough you would know the internet as you know it became a reality because of legislation introduced by the Clinton/Gore administration.

Edit: redundant post

 

[potatis]

is that a bunch of pirated cd-r's I spot on his desk?

 

[gflinch]

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

Wow, dude, you can replace your wife at a AT&T store? What contract do I sign for that? Hmm.. replace her with what though... Ah, I guess I'll keep her, AT&T sucks anyhow.

 

[alphaod]

"Don't mention this product"

Magazine prints about the product and the editor even puts his name on it.

 

[xxgilxx]

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"I'm serial"

 

[AppleScruff1]

Since Al invented the internet, he must have inside info on the iPhone.

 

[vitzr]

To state the truth: Al Gore won the 2000 election, and he's right about global warming.

As an avid private pilot, let me reveal the hypocrisy practiced by Al Gore.

The vanquished vice president has led the charge towards carbon neutrality and has brought some of his Hollywood friends along with him. But there's more to the story. Something that Al Gore doesn't advertise. When it comes to carbon emissions, Al Gore has a dirty little secret.

Take for instance your typical commercial jet, a Boeing 737, well, it seats a maximum of 189 people, it burns 800 gallons of fuel per hour and emits 16,880 pounds of carbon dioxide per hour in the air.

Now take a Gulfstream 400, the very Jet that Al Gore uses on average of 18 times per year.

It's one of the more common brands of private jet. It seats a maximum of only 19 people, it burns 415 gallons of fuel an hour and emits 8,785 pounds of carbon dioxide per hour.

That means per passenger a Boeing 737 emits 89 pounds of carbon dioxide an hour while Gulfstream and similar private jets emit 462 pounds of carbon dioxide per passenger per hour.

In short, flying in a private jet does more than FOUR TIMES the Carbon Emission Damage to the environment than flying a regular commercial jet.

So if you were worried about your quote-unquote "carbon footprint" on the environment, and if you are concerned about carbon neutrality, the last thing that you should be doing is flying on private jets.

Yeah Al is really worried alright...

 

[divinox]

I'm a scientist! Cerealz too. Molec. Bio.

Me three. Non-molec. non-bio! U jelly? :- )

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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.

then again, isnt it still common to hear "root 66", or is that just something i've made up in my head?