Ok, here is a business reason. Apple normally releases their iPhones annually following the following pattern. Flagship phone the first year, an upgrade the next year. iPhone - iPhone 3G - iPhone 4 - iPhone 4s - iPhone 5 - iPhone 5s... So for their customers Apple would like them to upgrade their next phone to an other iPhone. However some people like getting the new fancy cool model while others want the upgrade version. So based on their habits that leaves them a 2 year window for someone to consider upgrading. Now if one of the customers is on a 4 year phone cycle. They Get the iPhone 4, then the 6 then the 8 (or the X). Now in this window if their phone breaks, or dies. Say between keynotes. Lets say my iPhone 6 wouldn't work properly say back in June of 2017. Then I would be faced with a problem of what should I do for an upgrade.
the iPhone 7 is now the lagging phone, Samsung Note 8 was recently released, plus an assortment of superior phone from other companies. I may consider it worth it to upgrade to an Android phone, at the cost of my paid for apps.
Being the battery is one of the biggest wildcard (as Samsung Note 7 users know) which makes it difficult for them to last the duration. Apple decided to slow down the phones with poor battery to keep the phone working, as least until their planed upgrade time.
For most mistakes made in a professional setting, it is usually a failure in the process vs a mistake of the individual. Having been the person who had hit the go button to kick off a colossal failure. I can tell you it could happen to anyone. I have gotten approvals and did every step I was suppose to do. However the process had shortcuts because no one wanted to deal with the full complexity or waste their departments resources on looking at it. So they had blanketed approved the data where I was the one who hit the start button. I didn't get into any trouble, but I had documented all the approvals. However I was the first on the list to be questioned. So I can feel for the guy who is under the public pressure for pushing the button to send.
There was a rush to get the iPhone X and iOS 11 out before the Christmas rush. I expect Apple put all its focus on the hardware to prevent something gates, to make sure the hardware was of the highest quality it could get. But that meant the Software was rushed and not properly focused.
"True chronic pain sufferers are not prescribed PRN" That is bit of a generalization (a Very DANGEROUS generalization)
True chronic pain suffers have different types of pains, and different pain regimes. Being that these are controlled substances, doctors would like to give patients safer alternatives for "normal" pain days. These drugs do not cure Chronic Pain, but makes its bearable for that day. However Chronic Pain isn't a one size fits all diagnosis it is very different for people.
It isn't the emoticons but the context they are used. A wink could be a sign of approval or a flirt. Often when things get to the court emotions are normal quite high, so the emotional state of the conversation is important. The not-amused emoji Could be used to explain displeasure of an unwanted advancement, or just not finding that particular comment funny. Or it could be used as a serious face to tell them it needs to be done.
This is often complex in a business environment where the Boss is granted power over their employees, however keeping things fun and relaxed is often a good way to get good productivity, however this could also go under the disguise the the using their Power to manipulate and hurt people, hidden under the mask of looking like a joke.
Meds Per Person: 22800000.0/2900.0 = 7862.07 Meds Per Person/Year: 7862.07/10.0 = 786.21 Meds Per Person/Day: 786.21/365 = 2.15
Now it is unlikely that the Town is all on these Meds and 2 of these meds a day is very high. I have family suffering from constant pain, and they only use these once a week, in case of extreme pain (And unlike the media, these meds do work), to bring the pain to a manageable level.
However my main point is the news shoving people with big scary numbers, to really prove a point, but while there is still a problem, the real numbers are not as obvious as the article is lead to believe, as this is over 10 years. Not one big shipment.
Possible there may had some problem with the Memory (something not-unheard of) where the memory segment that is taking the counter for the clock wasn't getting updated all the time. print c 0 let c = c + 1 print c 0 let c = c + 1 print c 1
Or when it counted the frames it had a floating point error.
Are they training for a new type of job? Are they starting their own business? Are they going back to school for education? Is the company promoting those jobs being replaced and using them for something else? Are they moving to a different location?
Efficiencies including automation has a net economic increase. Now this is being a big old average, so these people who got replaced will lose out, which some support services should kick in, as to lessen the effect.
The scanner on most laptops requires a swipe action, That prevents a single fingerprint to stick on the scanner. You have a better chance getting it from a door knob. Because other methods you normally will get get the tips of your fingers, vs the meat of you fingers the scanner takes.
Could his Computer be a hair faster, or the timer a bit slower? I mean it is a 2600, not quite a Real Time system. If the CPU was clocked up (even by accident) 1/20th of a second, difference is possible.
Because it allows the company to put more money in resources that make more money. Lets say you have a Lemonade stand. That sold Lemonade, and Cookies. Every glass of Lemonade makes a profit of $0.50 Every cookie makes a profit of $0.25
You find that Customers will buy a glass of Lemonade or a Cookie but rarely both. So lets say on average you make $75.00 a day on that one stand.
Now your line at your stand is very long, so there are people leaving the line or just not waiting. You need to have an other stand, but you do not have the money to make a new stand and man it. So you sell your cookie recipe and rights to it for the cost of making a new stand plus some extra for an other employee.
So now you can sell twice as much Lemonade as before, even at the expense of not having cookie sales. You end up with more money. Because you will now make $100.00 a day for each stand, with 2 stands you make $200.00 a day.
So by selling off a profitable item and reinvesting its money, you now have 2.5 times the profit.
Bio-Metrics often require a targeted attack, meaning you need to know who you are copying. So someone will need to say I want this persons account, has to go threw steps to get their fingerprint, replicate it, go to the physical device and use it. Most companies even ones that value security see this as a good trade-off. Especially compared to passwords, where while in theory are safer, in practice people will hide their password underneath the keyboard (or worse on some file share), or make it too simple. So a random person such as a cleaner could find the password and use them to get in. Also once they have the password they can normally get in outside the office and remotely.
Just because mythbusters did it, they have access to a lot of resources, and are able to cut out failures.
It isn't being blind, but unable to different people by just their face. They will still see an attractive face, or an ugly face. But they have a hard time matching it to a person. For many of these people they are other factors that help them cope, hence why many go diagnoses. Things like Skin Color, Hair Color, general shape of the head, racial features. Other body features, the sound of their voice, their mannerisms... I know for myself I am not diagnosed with this (I havn't been tested), but I am usually really bad with faces, the same actor can play multiple parts and I wouldn't realize it, or sometime I think a different actor is playing a part. However I can still see details in the face, and find it attractive or not, it isn't that it is a blur, but unable to match such features to the correct person.
Nearly all products sold are an attempt to cash in. However there are further questions to be asked. I still think this is a flop product. I haven't seen much interest in Apple Smart Speakers in general. And this has failed to impress because I am unable to find any real advantage compared to others, for the cost. But why is it so much more. Apple doesn't normally just grossly over price their products, it is usually on par with other devices with similar specs.
My only theory, is that your data isn't being sold like on Amazon and Google. So the cost of the device includes the full cost of the device, and you are not selling your privacy for it.
If you are attacking it with a bat, or soldering a bridge, then yes. But most attacks are done with Software nowadays. That means access to the main memory and bus is key, and more complex information that goes on will increase the chances of a problem.
I am not sure why it is funny. But Trumps only policy is what seems to Trump up Trump. He isn't a conservative or liberal, he is Trump who just wants himself to look good. He will stick with the people who likes him and complements him, and will betray anyone who makes him seem less then he thinks he is.
This makes him easily manipulative. I have worked with personalities like this in the past, just as long as you weather the temper-tantrums, you can get the person to do whatever you want.
A government monopoly means that you have some say in what goes on in a democracy. Vs. a Corporate monopoly where your only action is to not purchase it, and being a monopoly you will not have competing products to choose from.
For the most part it is. For some crazy reason we moved to integrated systems, back in the 1990's. I think it was because the OS started to support software drivers, so devices can be made much more cheaply, because things like controller boards, or supporting an open protocol can be skipped. A modem is just a DtoA and AtoD converter, which could had been made cheaply. However the expensive part of them was the Hayes AT command processing, which boosted its cost way up. However if you have the driver handle the stuff, you can release a cheap modem (which could probably double as a sound card) This came at a cost of security though. Integrated means your OS which sees all that is going on. And any security flaw can effect everything.
Today we are getting more attention in security, also the price for components are getting cheaper and smaller too. So it seems that we are going back to this method. Perhaps we may get to a point where these things can be on a removable socket again too, so we can upgrade and repair again.
In terms of security centralized devices are the bane of security. Decentralized components that do one thing and does them well helps security, by making each process easy to code and manage without conflicting with other actions. If your fingerprint scan will need to be handled by the main CPU. that means your fingerprint data is going down the main CPU Bus, which is possibly visible by other applications and hacks. Vs. in essence its own little computer in the computer to do the work and send back a good or bad bit. Outside what the rest of the computer is dealing with. All the extra data in the processing is not accessible from the rest of the computer. This in general makes things much safer.
China is an economic competitor to the US. Being roughly the same geographic size, but a population 10x the amount of the United States. The fact that China hasn't killed us economically isn't due to anything the U.S. has done, but a failure in China to fully use its resources. Now China is the supplier using Intels chips. When Intel told them first, it allows them to do something about it. Telling the US Government will just cause yelling, screaming and hearing, but not actual work towards solving the problems.
The US Contracts using Intel knows that Intel works with Chinese firms, so in reality that isn't an issue, We are not at war with China, we are Competing with them. That is a big difference. In Healthy Competition, you can have good relations and work together on a lot of things, while competing hard against others. Think how Samsung is selling components to Apple. Samsung isn't sabotaging their products that they give to apple, They are meeting the specs that Apple had demanded, they are Apples best partner, while at the same time their Apple's biggest competitor on the phone market.
We need adult level interaction for these type of problems, not childish tantrums when things don't go our way.
I never got into the smart speaker technology anyways. I just never liked talking to machines. But in general for tech involving apple I see the following. Haters: They judge how apple does on all the things it doesn't do well. The things it does do well are just not important. Lovers: They judge on what Apple does on things it does do well. The things it fails are are just not that important.
Both sides are just giving an emotional reaction to the product. You can be an Apple Sheep and Love all things apple however that isn't any more idiotic then being an Apple Troll who hates everything with that Apple Logo on it.
(You can replace "Apple" with other brands, and the point is still the same, however currently Apple is sparking a lot of emotion)
Well the goal is to keep the kids occupied in the morning to keep them out of their hair while they can get the morning stuff done. Back in the olden days, we would use this time to have the kids, bring in firewood, feed the animals, take care of the younger kids, all the stuff that today would be considered abuse, and unsafe child conditions.
Also there is value in knowing about trade offs. If you are going to watch further or go pee, you can't have it both ways. Did the kid refuse to try to pee before the show started? That is useful lessons for growing up. Then there is just the risk of the kid playing their favorite part over and over again often playing the funny part and skipping the educational parts.
When you are are going to be active in the child viewing habits, giving them more access is great, however if you need to be passive (passive parenting has values too) at times, a more locked down safe viewing may be better.
It is easier than debugging and fixing the problem.
Like with a lot of home projects, our line for good enough is much lower then if we were to get it professionally done.
Normally with software development. 5% of the time is to get the product to do the job the specs says it needs to do. the other 95% Is to get it to run reliably, deal with crazy user inputs, be flexible enough to maintain, get the UI to look nice...
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Ok, here is a business reason.
Apple normally releases their iPhones annually following the following pattern.
Flagship phone the first year, an upgrade the next year. iPhone - iPhone 3G - iPhone 4 - iPhone 4s - iPhone 5 - iPhone 5s...
So for their customers Apple would like them to upgrade their next phone to an other iPhone. However some people like getting the new fancy cool model while others want the upgrade version. So based on their habits that leaves them a 2 year window for someone to consider upgrading.
Now if one of the customers is on a 4 year phone cycle. They Get the iPhone 4, then the 6 then the 8 (or the X). Now in this window if their phone breaks, or dies. Say between keynotes. Lets say my iPhone 6 wouldn't work properly say back in June of 2017. Then I would be faced with a problem of what should I do for an upgrade.
the iPhone 7 is now the lagging phone, Samsung Note 8 was recently released, plus an assortment of superior phone from other companies. I may consider it worth it to upgrade to an Android phone, at the cost of my paid for apps.
Being the battery is one of the biggest wildcard (as Samsung Note 7 users know) which makes it difficult for them to last the duration. Apple decided to slow down the phones with poor battery to keep the phone working, as least until their planed upgrade time.
For most mistakes made in a professional setting, it is usually a failure in the process vs a mistake of the individual.
Having been the person who had hit the go button to kick off a colossal failure. I can tell you it could happen to anyone. I have gotten approvals and did every step I was suppose to do. However the process had shortcuts because no one wanted to deal with the full complexity or waste their departments resources on looking at it. So they had blanketed approved the data where I was the one who hit the start button.
I didn't get into any trouble, but I had documented all the approvals. However I was the first on the list to be questioned. So I can feel for the guy who is under the public pressure for pushing the button to send.
There was a rush to get the iPhone X and iOS 11 out before the Christmas rush. I expect Apple put all its focus on the hardware to prevent something gates, to make sure the hardware was of the highest quality it could get. But that meant the Software was rushed and not properly focused.
"True chronic pain sufferers are not prescribed PRN"
That is bit of a generalization (a Very DANGEROUS generalization)
True chronic pain suffers have different types of pains, and different pain regimes. Being that these are controlled substances, doctors would like to give patients safer alternatives for "normal" pain days. These drugs do not cure Chronic Pain, but makes its bearable for that day. However Chronic Pain isn't a one size fits all diagnosis it is very different for people.
It isn't the emoticons but the context they are used. A wink could be a sign of approval or a flirt. Often when things get to the court emotions are normal quite high, so the emotional state of the conversation is important. The not-amused emoji Could be used to explain displeasure of an unwanted advancement, or just not finding that particular comment funny. Or it could be used as a serious face to tell them it needs to be done.
This is often complex in a business environment where the Boss is granted power over their employees, however keeping things fun and relaxed is often a good way to get good productivity, however this could also go under the disguise the the using their Power to manipulate and hurt people, hidden under the mask of looking like a joke.
Meds Per Person: 22800000.0/2900.0 = 7862.07
Meds Per Person/Year: 7862.07/10.0 = 786.21
Meds Per Person/Day: 786.21/365 = 2.15
Now it is unlikely that the Town is all on these Meds and 2 of these meds a day is very high. I have family suffering from constant pain, and they only use these once a week, in case of extreme pain (And unlike the media, these meds do work), to bring the pain to a manageable level.
However my main point is the news shoving people with big scary numbers, to really prove a point, but while there is still a problem, the real numbers are not as obvious as the article is lead to believe, as this is over 10 years. Not one big shipment.
Possible there may had some problem with the Memory (something not-unheard of) where the memory segment that is taking the counter for the clock wasn't getting updated all the time.
print c
0
let c = c + 1
print c
0
let c = c + 1
print c
1
Or when it counted the frames it had a floating point error.
Are they training for a new type of job?
Are they starting their own business?
Are they going back to school for education?
Is the company promoting those jobs being replaced and using them for something else?
Are they moving to a different location?
Efficiencies including automation has a net economic increase. Now this is being a big old average, so these people who got replaced will lose out, which some support services should kick in, as to lessen the effect.
Lets be fair here. My post shouldn't had been Modded +5 Insightful.
It was somewhat offtopic.
The scanner on most laptops requires a swipe action, That prevents a single fingerprint to stick on the scanner. You have a better chance getting it from a door knob. Because other methods you normally will get get the tips of your fingers, vs the meat of you fingers the scanner takes.
Could his Computer be a hair faster, or the timer a bit slower?
I mean it is a 2600, not quite a Real Time system. If the CPU was clocked up (even by accident) 1/20th of a second, difference is possible.
Because it allows the company to put more money in resources that make more money.
Lets say you have a Lemonade stand.
That sold Lemonade, and Cookies.
Every glass of Lemonade makes a profit of $0.50
Every cookie makes a profit of $0.25
You find that Customers will buy a glass of Lemonade or a Cookie but rarely both.
So lets say on average you make $75.00 a day on that one stand.
Now your line at your stand is very long, so there are people leaving the line or just not waiting.
You need to have an other stand, but you do not have the money to make a new stand and man it.
So you sell your cookie recipe and rights to it for the cost of making a new stand plus some extra for an other employee.
So now you can sell twice as much Lemonade as before, even at the expense of not having cookie sales. You end up with more money.
Because you will now make $100.00 a day for each stand, with 2 stands you make $200.00 a day.
So by selling off a profitable item and reinvesting its money, you now have 2.5 times the profit.
Bio-Metrics often require a targeted attack, meaning you need to know who you are copying. So someone will need to say I want this persons account, has to go threw steps to get their fingerprint, replicate it, go to the physical device and use it. Most companies even ones that value security see this as a good trade-off. Especially compared to passwords, where while in theory are safer, in practice people will hide their password underneath the keyboard (or worse on some file share), or make it too simple. So a random person such as a cleaner could find the password and use them to get in. Also once they have the password they can normally get in outside the office and remotely.
Just because mythbusters did it, they have access to a lot of resources, and are able to cut out failures.
It isn't being blind, but unable to different people by just their face. They will still see an attractive face, or an ugly face. But they have a hard time matching it to a person. For many of these people they are other factors that help them cope, hence why many go diagnoses. Things like Skin Color, Hair Color, general shape of the head, racial features. Other body features, the sound of their voice, their mannerisms...
I know for myself I am not diagnosed with this (I havn't been tested), but I am usually really bad with faces, the same actor can play multiple parts and I wouldn't realize it, or sometime I think a different actor is playing a part. However I can still see details in the face, and find it attractive or not, it isn't that it is a blur, but unable to match such features to the correct person.
Nearly all products sold are an attempt to cash in. However there are further questions to be asked.
I still think this is a flop product. I haven't seen much interest in Apple Smart Speakers in general. And this has failed to impress because I am unable to find any real advantage compared to others, for the cost. But why is it so much more. Apple doesn't normally just grossly over price their products, it is usually on par with other devices with similar specs.
My only theory, is that your data isn't being sold like on Amazon and Google. So the cost of the device includes the full cost of the device, and you are not selling your privacy for it.
If you are attacking it with a bat, or soldering a bridge, then yes.
But most attacks are done with Software nowadays. That means access to the main memory and bus is key, and more complex information that goes on will increase the chances of a problem.
I am not sure why it is funny. But Trumps only policy is what seems to Trump up Trump. He isn't a conservative or liberal, he is Trump who just wants himself to look good. He will stick with the people who likes him and complements him, and will betray anyone who makes him seem less then he thinks he is.
This makes him easily manipulative. I have worked with personalities like this in the past, just as long as you weather the temper-tantrums, you can get the person to do whatever you want.
A government monopoly means that you have some say in what goes on in a democracy. Vs. a Corporate monopoly where your only action is to not purchase it, and being a monopoly you will not have competing products to choose from.
For the most part it is. For some crazy reason we moved to integrated systems, back in the 1990's. I think it was because the OS started to support software drivers, so devices can be made much more cheaply, because things like controller boards, or supporting an open protocol can be skipped. A modem is just a DtoA and AtoD converter, which could had been made cheaply. However the expensive part of them was the Hayes AT command processing, which boosted its cost way up. However if you have the driver handle the stuff, you can release a cheap modem (which could probably double as a sound card)
This came at a cost of security though. Integrated means your OS which sees all that is going on. And any security flaw can effect everything.
Today we are getting more attention in security, also the price for components are getting cheaper and smaller too. So it seems that we are going back to this method. Perhaps we may get to a point where these things can be on a removable socket again too, so we can upgrade and repair again.
In terms of security centralized devices are the bane of security. Decentralized components that do one thing and does them well helps security, by making each process easy to code and manage without conflicting with other actions. If your fingerprint scan will need to be handled by the main CPU. that means your fingerprint data is going down the main CPU Bus, which is possibly visible by other applications and hacks. Vs. in essence its own little computer in the computer to do the work and send back a good or bad bit. Outside what the rest of the computer is dealing with. All the extra data in the processing is not accessible from the rest of the computer. This in general makes things much safer.
China is an economic competitor to the US. Being roughly the same geographic size, but a population 10x the amount of the United States. The fact that China hasn't killed us economically isn't due to anything the U.S. has done, but a failure in China to fully use its resources.
Now China is the supplier using Intels chips. When Intel told them first, it allows them to do something about it. Telling the US Government will just cause yelling, screaming and hearing, but not actual work towards solving the problems.
The US Contracts using Intel knows that Intel works with Chinese firms, so in reality that isn't an issue, We are not at war with China, we are Competing with them. That is a big difference. In Healthy Competition, you can have good relations and work together on a lot of things, while competing hard against others.
Think how Samsung is selling components to Apple. Samsung isn't sabotaging their products that they give to apple, They are meeting the specs that Apple had demanded, they are Apples best partner, while at the same time their Apple's biggest competitor on the phone market.
We need adult level interaction for these type of problems, not childish tantrums when things don't go our way.
I never got into the smart speaker technology anyways. I just never liked talking to machines.
But in general for tech involving apple I see the following.
Haters: They judge how apple does on all the things it doesn't do well. The things it does do well are just not important.
Lovers: They judge on what Apple does on things it does do well. The things it fails are are just not that important.
Both sides are just giving an emotional reaction to the product. You can be an Apple Sheep and Love all things apple however that isn't any more idiotic then being an Apple Troll who hates everything with that Apple Logo on it.
(You can replace "Apple" with other brands, and the point is still the same, however currently Apple is sparking a lot of emotion)
Consumer level multi-purpose OS's in single use devices is a bad idea.
This includes having ATM running, Windows 10, Windows Server 2012, Mac OS X, OS/2, Linux distributions like Ubuntu/Mint...
The Multi-purpose OS's has way too much stuff enabled by default. Allowing for possibilities of breaking in.
Well the goal is to keep the kids occupied in the morning to keep them out of their hair while they can get the morning stuff done. Back in the olden days, we would use this time to have the kids, bring in firewood, feed the animals, take care of the younger kids, all the stuff that today would be considered abuse, and unsafe child conditions.
Also there is value in knowing about trade offs. If you are going to watch further or go pee, you can't have it both ways. Did the kid refuse to try to pee before the show started? That is useful lessons for growing up. Then there is just the risk of the kid playing their favorite part over and over again often playing the funny part and skipping the educational parts.
When you are are going to be active in the child viewing habits, giving them more access is great, however if you need to be passive (passive parenting has values too) at times, a more locked down safe viewing may be better.
It is easier than debugging and fixing the problem.
Like with a lot of home projects, our line for good enough is much lower then if we were to get it professionally done.
Normally with software development.
5% of the time is to get the product to do the job the specs says it needs to do. the other 95% Is to get it to run reliably, deal with crazy user inputs, be flexible enough to maintain, get the UI to look nice...