Hooray! Thousands of renewable trees have been spared to make way for thousands of expensive, fragile, electricity-sucking devices made from toxic materials!
2) They save time with the vote counting.
Woot! We can get the wrong answer instantly! No longer will I have to sit paralyzed for days while my town tabulates the winner of School Board Seat 6!
3) They restrict access to the balloting to just a few people. Instead of all of those vote counters putting their hands all over a mass of paper ballots, there are just a handful of people who operate and service the machines and then report the results.
Good news everybody! Now only a few people you'll never see and can never question have control over our laws! Now we don't need to recruit someone from every single precinct into our conspiracy!
4) They generate new jobs for technical people as the machines become obsolete every 3 or 4 years and are replaced by the new models.
Fantastic! No longer will the government need to distribute The People's money to actual people! Now we can send that money directly to the corporations who benefit most from our laws, skipping those pesky middlemen "consumers" who might not spend it in the right places!
With all these upsides, it's no wonder recent polls found 103% of those surveyed prefer electronic voting!
Do Apple users actually keep up to date with OS X revisions? I'd guess about half of them do. Most of the other half stay up-to-date with the minor revisions (10.4.x) for free using Software Update.
Is "Leopard" more like a service pack or a whole new OS or somewhere in-between? It's a "whole new OS" like Vista is a whole new OS relative to XP.
And what's the downside to not upgrading? Applications aren't tied to new OS X versions, are they? Same as with Vista. You get various OS improvements, most are low level. Slowly apps will come out that require those features. Five years from now it'll be the minimum required version, etc...
As an aside to the Americans who think this is an example of EU socialism bashing a successful American company, consider this: what would your government do if Apple had different stores for each state, each with varying music and pricing?
You mean, like the various oil companies that run their gas stations with zone pricing, selling the exact same product with different prices, sometimes only blocks away from each other, at whatever price they feel that neighborhood will bear?
Yeah, I'm sure us Americans would totally freak out over that.
We want to know where Apple's headed. What form will the Intel servers take? We don't want to find out the DAY they ship. Will they use multiple cores? How many? Which architectures? Will they finally have redundant power supplies? How many drive bays will they have? How many expansion slots, and what kind of expansion?
Why is this useful information? Before the product ships, do you want to depend on those answers? What prevents you from evaluating the product once it actually ships?
I understand the geek-cred issue of wanting to know about the New Hotness before it ships, but honestly, there will ALWAYS be a New Hotness next year. What good is evaluating a product that doesn't exist yet?
Compare and contrast Disk Utility on an older Apple Macintosh product (i.e. PPC) v. a new Intel Mac, you'll find one is 'ownership enabled' and the other is not.
Whoa, come back to Earth please. "Ignore Ownership" for volumes on Mac OS is about honoring UNIX file permissions on removable drives. It doesn't have anything to do with TPM, and that checkbox has been in the "Get Info" window for volumes in the Finder since 10.2 I believe.
For example, you generally don't want to honor filesystem permissions on a CD. They have UIDs that probably don't make sense on other machines.
National ID cards make it hard for people to impersonate you, and that's a good thing.
Bzzzzt, WRONG!
ID Cards make it EASIER for people to impersonate you, because they allow otherwise intelligent humans to defer their ordinary judgement to a simple object. Forge a card and you forge an identity without the cumbersome process of developing a real history or involving co-conspirators.
Noone hears what most of us were telling to Mac users for the past 20 years... Nothing will teach them better than leaving them alone until it bites them in the ass.
It'll have to be the mother of all ass-bitings to make up for 20 years of Mac users gloating about no viruses. It'll wipe that smug smile right off their faces. Hell, maybe this hypothetical future virus will even erase all the extra productivity those jerks have enjoyed for those 20 years, with their easy to use, fully functional computers. It's been 20 years, it'll happen Any Day Now, right?
Forget the whole city... Put free WiFi on the mass transit first. Start with the SFO airport. Set it up like Columbus, Ohio did for CMH. Then do BART, CalTrain, and Muni. Get all those working, and THEN do the whole City.
I know some UPS software offers this (though I'm not sure what the state of Mac-compatibility is), but Apple could surely do a better, more thorough job.
Funny you should say that.
Apple supports the standard USB UPS profile. So if you buy a $30 UPS at Frys with a USB port on it, and plug it into a Mac, no software is required.
The Mac just uses the same power manager software it uses for a PowerBook. You even get the little battery icon in the menu bar if you like.
Surely you heard the story about the Apple employee who installed Mac OS X Server on an iPod to test it and burned up his iPod hard drive over a weekend?
Seriously, under constant use, the iPod hard drives' life spans are measured in tens of hours
This is bullshit, and all sorts of other Apple employees are quite pissed at ASOT for repeating it.
There are reasons Apple doesn't want employees ad-libbing like ASOT does, and this sort of best-intentions misinformation is a perfect example.
As an Apple emplyee myself, I have little doubt that ASOT works for Apple. I also know how working here gives one a ton more insight into what the company is up to. But that doesn't make people an authority in every area of the business, and seeing that ASOT appears to have no self-restraint, it'll be no surprise when he finds himself in a noose of his own creation.
Journalism used to mean researched stories, informing the reader. It seems that 99% of blog content is heresay. And professional journalists are joining the party, reducing their stories to simple "he said, she said" puff pieces.
Journalists receive special protection in exchange for informing and educating society. If they don't uphold their side of the deal, I don't see why they should retain special privileges.
The Newton concept lead to Palm and then to PocketPC
This is a skewed view of things. For one thing Psion had handheld PDAs out there since 1984. Diary, text editor, contact database. All there. And the whole touch sensitive tablet concept was straight out of Star Trek (I'm not kidding here!). Even if the Newton hadn't existed the basic design for the Palm had pretty well already been specified.
Conceptually, the idea existed before the Newton, but your dismissal also misses the fact that Palm was created by a lot of ex-Newton engineers.
PalmOS bears an uncanny resemblance to Mac OS System 6.
I sold all of my TiVo stock two weeks ago because of this issue. Overraction? Maybe, but I've owned a TiVo for five years now, and while I still think of it as the best consumer AV purchase I ever made, they just don't seem to understand how to compete against the generic DVRs.
The scheduling info is what people are PAYING them a PREMIUM for! And then they send an email to their customers saying "hey, we know the data is wrong, so you should adjust it manually."
Hello! Anyone home at TiVo!?
They sent me a service notice last year saying that if I have a season pass for "Friends", I should make sure to check it because the finale would be on a different night, or run long, or something. But I don't have a season pass for friends, and THE BOX KNOWS THAT.
It's sad. They created the coolest device ever. And then they seem to have totally forgotten what they were trying to accomplish. They're letting the networks destroy the things that make them better than a random-access VCR.
If chosing a DVR comes down to "Unit A, with a bunch of little problems, or Unit B, with a bunch of different little problems", then people will pick the cheaper box.
TiVo's big advantage is the season pass. The AUTOMATIC SCHEDULING SEASON PASS. They should be focusing on getting scheduling perfect where every other DVR is a stupid VCR with a HD instead of tape.
And finally, one last example of how they're blowing it. If you _do_ adjust your recordings to go, say, 1 minute long, then the next program doesn't record 1 minute short, it doesn't record AT ALL (unless you have a 2nd tuner available).
Sigh.
And the really sad thing is there isn't anything better out there yet.
He then goes on to say it would take 100 years and 1 trillion dollars.
Heck, we're going to spend 1 trillion dollars in Iraq after just 5 years at the rate we're going. I know which boondogle I'd rather have seen us (the USA) blow the cash on....
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What's the difference between intended almost-manslaughter and manslaughter?
With the latter, you're dead.
Dunno about you, but I'd consider that a pretty big difference.
-pmb
Hooray! Thousands of renewable trees have been spared to make way for thousands of expensive, fragile, electricity-sucking devices made from toxic materials!
2) They save time with the vote counting.
Woot! We can get the wrong answer instantly! No longer will I have to sit paralyzed for days while my town tabulates the winner of School Board Seat 6!
3) They restrict access to the balloting to just a few people. Instead of all of those vote counters putting their hands all over a mass of paper ballots, there are just a handful of people who operate and service the machines and then report the results.
Good news everybody! Now only a few people you'll never see and can never question have control over our laws! Now we don't need to recruit someone from every single precinct into our conspiracy!
4) They generate new jobs for technical people as the machines become obsolete every 3 or 4 years and are replaced by the new models.
Fantastic! No longer will the government need to distribute The People's money to actual people! Now we can send that money directly to the corporations who benefit most from our laws, skipping those pesky middlemen "consumers" who might not spend it in the right places!
With all these upsides, it's no wonder recent polls found 103% of those surveyed prefer electronic voting!
-pmb
Do Apple users actually keep up to date with OS X revisions?
I'd guess about half of them do. Most of the other half stay up-to-date with the minor revisions (10.4.x) for free using Software Update.
Is "Leopard" more like a service pack or a whole new OS or somewhere in-between?
It's a "whole new OS" like Vista is a whole new OS relative to XP.
And what's the downside to not upgrading? Applications aren't tied to new OS X versions, are they?
Same as with Vista. You get various OS improvements, most are low level. Slowly apps will come out that require those features. Five years from now it'll be the minimum required version, etc...
-pmb
But why should the theater owner be put in that position?
Because they're humans, and should be capable of deciding whether or not they should be dickheads.
All this zero-tolerance crap is going to end with most of us replaced by robots who will show us where zero-tolerance really gets us.
-pmb
As an aside to the Americans who think this is an example of EU socialism bashing a successful American company, consider this: what would your government do if Apple had different stores for each state, each with varying music and pricing?
You mean, like the various oil companies that run their gas stations with zone pricing, selling the exact same product with different prices, sometimes only blocks away from each other, at whatever price they feel that neighborhood will bear?
Yeah, I'm sure us Americans would totally freak out over that.
Leopard is still on schedule to ship in 1Q2007, as has been stated numerous times by Apple
;-)
Actually, Steve said "Spring 2007", not "Q1 2007".
Spring ends June 21st.
Sometimes, for no good reason, a photo that we had to have came down the wire with a filename that had a leading period.
So the bizarre IT setup here is using a leading '.' to make files invisible, right?
640k would still be good enough for anyone.
We want to know where Apple's headed. What form will the Intel servers take? We don't want to find out the DAY they ship. Will they use multiple cores? How many? Which architectures? Will they finally have redundant power supplies? How many drive bays will they have? How many expansion slots, and what kind of expansion?
Why is this useful information? Before the product ships, do you want to depend on those answers? What prevents you from evaluating the product once it actually ships?
I understand the geek-cred issue of wanting to know about the New Hotness before it ships, but honestly, there will ALWAYS be a New Hotness next year. What good is evaluating a product that doesn't exist yet?
Compare and contrast Disk Utility on an older Apple Macintosh product (i.e. PPC) v. a new Intel Mac, you'll find one is 'ownership enabled' and the other is not.
Whoa, come back to Earth please. "Ignore Ownership" for volumes on Mac OS is about honoring UNIX file permissions on removable drives. It doesn't have anything to do with TPM, and that checkbox has been in the "Get Info" window for volumes in the Finder since 10.2 I believe.
For example, you generally don't want to honor filesystem permissions on a CD. They have UIDs that probably don't make sense on other machines.
They bought Think Pascal from someone else too.
Find something short and attention grabbing and repeat ad nauseum and kids will pick it up.
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National ID cards make it hard for people to impersonate you, and that's a good thing.
Bzzzzt, WRONG!
ID Cards make it EASIER for people to impersonate you, because they allow otherwise intelligent humans to defer their ordinary judgement to a simple object. Forge a card and you forge an identity without the cumbersome process of developing a real history or involving co-conspirators.
Otherwise they probably threw in the extra 9 iPods just to make it more prohibitively expensive & hope that the winner can't claim the prize.
Maybe they threw in the extra 9 iPods so you could sell them on eBay to pay the taxes?
Or maybe they don't actually care either way.
Noone hears what most of us were telling to Mac users for the past 20 years... Nothing will teach them better than leaving them alone until it bites them in the ass.
It'll have to be the mother of all ass-bitings to make up for 20 years of Mac users gloating about no viruses. It'll wipe that smug smile right off their faces. Hell, maybe this hypothetical future virus will even erase all the extra productivity those jerks have enjoyed for those 20 years, with their easy to use, fully functional computers. It's been 20 years, it'll happen Any Day Now, right?
Or maybe not.
Forget the whole city... Put free WiFi on the mass transit first. Start with the SFO airport. Set it up like Columbus, Ohio did for CMH. Then do BART, CalTrain, and Muni. Get all those working, and THEN do the whole City.
I'd have purchased a Powerbook this year. Gets pushed off until Intel is inside.
"I was going to buy a computer this year, but I heard there will be a better one in two years, so I'm going to wait."
Am I the only one who think that's the silliest decision ever?
I know some UPS software offers this (though I'm not sure what the state of Mac-compatibility is), but Apple could surely do a better, more thorough job.
Funny you should say that.
Apple supports the standard USB UPS profile. So if you buy a $30 UPS at Frys with a USB port on it, and plug it into a Mac, no software is required.
The Mac just uses the same power manager software it uses for a PowerBook. You even get the little battery icon in the menu bar if you like.
-pmb
Surely you heard the story about the Apple employee who installed Mac OS X Server on an iPod to test it and burned up his iPod hard drive over a weekend?
Yeah, and I've also heard the story of the guy who strapped a JATO to his car and smashed into a mountain.
Seriously, under constant use, the iPod hard drives' life spans are measured in tens of hours
This is bullshit, and all sorts of other Apple employees are quite pissed at ASOT for repeating it.
There are reasons Apple doesn't want employees ad-libbing like ASOT does, and this sort of best-intentions misinformation is a perfect example.
As an Apple emplyee myself, I have little doubt that ASOT works for Apple. I also know how working here gives one a ton more insight into what the company is up to. But that doesn't make people an authority in every area of the business, and seeing that ASOT appears to have no self-restraint, it'll be no surprise when he finds himself in a noose of his own creation.
Yes, they should. And all laws should be enforced equally, and we should end world hunger. What's your point?
Even journalism isn't journalism anymore!
Journalism used to mean researched stories, informing the reader. It seems that 99% of blog content is heresay. And professional journalists are joining the party, reducing their stories to simple "he said, she said" puff pieces.
Journalists receive special protection in exchange for informing and educating society. If they don't uphold their side of the deal, I don't see why they should retain special privileges.
This is a skewed view of things. For one thing Psion had handheld PDAs out there since 1984. Diary, text editor, contact database. All there. And the whole touch sensitive tablet concept was straight out of Star Trek (I'm not kidding here!). Even if the Newton hadn't existed the basic design for the Palm had pretty well already been specified.
Conceptually, the idea existed before the Newton, but your dismissal also misses the fact that Palm was created by a lot of ex-Newton engineers.
PalmOS bears an uncanny resemblance to Mac OS System 6.
I sold all of my TiVo stock two weeks ago because of this issue. Overraction? Maybe, but I've owned a TiVo for five years now, and while I still think of it as the best consumer AV purchase I ever made, they just don't seem to understand how to compete against the generic DVRs.
The scheduling info is what people are PAYING them a PREMIUM for! And then they send an email to their customers saying "hey, we know the data is wrong, so you should adjust it manually."
Hello! Anyone home at TiVo!?
They sent me a service notice last year saying that if I have a season pass for "Friends", I should make sure to check it because the finale would be on a different night, or run long, or something. But I don't have a season pass for friends, and THE BOX KNOWS THAT.
It's sad. They created the coolest device ever. And then they seem to have totally forgotten what they were trying to accomplish. They're letting the networks destroy the things that make them better than a random-access VCR.
If chosing a DVR comes down to "Unit A, with a bunch of little problems, or Unit B, with a bunch of different little problems", then people will pick the cheaper box.
TiVo's big advantage is the season pass. The AUTOMATIC SCHEDULING SEASON PASS. They should be focusing on getting scheduling perfect where every other DVR is a stupid VCR with a HD instead of tape.
And finally, one last example of how they're blowing it. If you _do_ adjust your recordings to go, say, 1 minute long, then the next program doesn't record 1 minute short, it doesn't record AT ALL (unless you have a 2nd tuner available).
Sigh.
And the really sad thing is there isn't anything better out there yet.
He then goes on to say it would take 100 years and 1 trillion dollars.
Heck, we're going to spend 1 trillion dollars in Iraq after just 5 years at the rate we're going. I know which boondogle I'd rather have seen us (the USA) blow the cash on....