The privacy of every member of society that is never coming back once lost is far more important than the very minor inconvenience to you of learning to bring your ID card to work.
That's a bit over the top--especially considering most systems use the finger print record IN CONJUNCTION with the ID card. For the DoD you have to insert your ID card into the reader, then supply your finger print. On the more secure systems, we then have to apply a password, and even a PIN on other areas.
I would assume that if I were using a school computer that I waived any and all rights to privacy. Why don't people just assume that using any public computer is an automatic consent to monitoring?
Like I said, I know plenty of scientists that can't even run a spreadsheet formula like, =SUM(cell:range), let alone write lines of code.
My car analogy is a race car driver doesn't need to know how to build a race car, only how to drive one. I imagine scientists are the same way. They use technology to crunch numbers, but don't know how the numbers are crunched (nor should they, as long as it is a peer-reviewed/industry accepted method).
My bet is there is a simple explanation...namely that scientists outside of computer science are too busy in their respective fields to know anything about code, or even care. The egocentric Slashdot-worldview strikes at the heart of logic yet again.
According to the other guy, though, you don't get a choice, which I find laughable. It's a computer with an OS that connects to the Internet, therefore there will always be more choices than we can ever pick from.
They can't be done for cheaper than Flash, though, which is the only thing the bean counters that pay me care about.
To achieve similar levels of professionalism and quality in a training product (what I do for a living) using non-Flash tools would cost too much money and take too much time because it requires too much technical talent.
Flash looks good, accomplishes the goal in less time, and for less money. Doesn't mean it's technically better, only that it does what it's supposed to for less time and money.
What about developing content? Right now I use Flash to develop.swf that just works. What would I use to develop content and what would the output be if I wanted to make our training work in HTML5 and not use Flash?
These are questions that the people with the money have. They won't switch away from Flash or.swf any time soon.
As somebody with OSX.3 on a 10-year old G3 with only a gig of ram and stock video card, I can tell you Flash videos run just fine. This tiresome meme needs to go away.
I heard a story on NPR about the poor voice quality on cell phones. I thought it was a bandwidth issue, when in reality it's a simply a "good enough, so why spend more money on it" issue.
This reminds me of when Carmack got all excited about gaming on a Mac...that turned out so well for Apple's gaming options (boot into Windows, play game developed for Windows).
they do not provide any venue for installing applications on one's iPhone apart from the App Store,
Yes because Apple should spend billions of dollars in developing hundreds of different ways for customers to get their products SO THAT ONE RANDOM SLASHDOT NERD can get his the way he wants.
At my software company, we're not in the business of giving free advertising to our competitors by mentioning them as our competitors in our documentation or our user manuals.
I would posit that removing the name of your competition from the liner notes of your product would be the epitome of competitive behavior, not anti-competitive.
Neckbeards...nice! Hey, if a guy can post a stupid thing about Starbucks, John Mayer and Apple to start this thread off, then I say neckbeards and slashtards are legit.
On a serious note, I've been watching slashdot for a couple of years now and have never (even though I try) been able to understand the "drm-whining neckbeards" and their free-tard mentality--and I have a pretty open mind--and I work at a software company. I've decided to finally chalk them up with the Ron Paul retards...they have their passion, but I'll never understand why they are so interested in shooting down mine.
You made his point nicely by not giving a single good example of what's bad about iTunes. Background services? What are those to the average user? The interface is slow and clunky? Compared to what? I can shuffle through a thousand album covers in full screen mode as fast as my mouse will let me. Songs change instantly...what is slow? I can burn a CD in a couple of minutes...please tell me, what is slow?
I'll give you an example of a good example of what is slow: iTunes and iPods have become slower than they used to be for syncing and transferring songs. I don't know why and I don't care why, I just know they do. I used to be able to sync my library (or add new songs to the library at a rate of about 3-4 songs per second. It now takes a couple seconds per song. Although this doesn't sound that bad, multiply it by a few hundred songs, and it is annoying. I probably could streamline the process by turning off album art and gapless playback and the thing that evens the sound on every song, but I'm a typical user and either don't have time, or don't care enough.
yes, but there are reports that an entire family was "wiped out" because the Prius they were in accelerated out of control to 130 mph...I don't think a Prius will go 130 (but haven't checked). And anyone who can't figure out how to stop an accelerating car before it gets to 130 mph probably shouldn't be allowed to operate it in the first place.
That's not to belittle the loss or injury of people who's car might have caused them to lose control and crash, however.
Oh also, it doesn't cost more to make something smaller (shoes or clothes, for example). A company can charge more because it will be in higher demand (most likely, if it's an electronic device).
You will pay less for a Ford than an Acura, but you'll get better service with an Acura.
You have fallen for the, "lets put an Acura badge on this Honda and sell it for $10k more to suckers in America" tactic. There is no such thing as Acura in the rest of the world.
The best "service" I've ever gotten was from a Ford dealership (for service on my Mazda). The types of cars they sell at the dealership have nothing to do with their service business model.
That's a bit of a straw man. It's generally Macs that are considered to be overpriced; The iPhone is about evenly priced with competitive models.
If I had a nickel for every slashdot post bemoaning the cost of an iPod or iPhone compared to all the supposedly better tech and lower priced alternatives, I'd have a lot of nickels.
For example, in your post alone, I fully expect somebody to come on and explain the life cycle cost differences of the iPhone on AT&T versus the Droid on Verizon. Even more ludicrous, I imagine somebody will come here to tell us all that a comparable Zune HD actually costs...wait for it...$10 less than an iPod!!!
I hope soon is later than sooner. Personally I'll NEVER use the HD video camera function on a digital SLR camera--and those functions are more closely related than some of the things people want their devices to do.
I bought a PS3 to play video games (because I got tired of having to upgrade my PC). I don't expect my phone, toaster, radio, car, coffee maker, dishwasher, or anything else to play video games, when I have a perfectly good device already.
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The privacy of every member of society that is never coming back once lost is far more important than the very minor inconvenience to you of learning to bring your ID card to work.
That's a bit over the top--especially considering most systems use the finger print record IN CONJUNCTION with the ID card. For the DoD you have to insert your ID card into the reader, then supply your finger print. On the more secure systems, we then have to apply a password, and even a PIN on other areas.
This is why fingerprints should be usernames, not passwords.
That's why they are on our (government) systems.
You have to supply your fingerprints for all federal jobs. Your choice is to get a non-federal work-study job.
I would assume that if I were using a school computer that I waived any and all rights to privacy. Why don't people just assume that using any public computer is an automatic consent to monitoring?
Like I said, I know plenty of scientists that can't even run a spreadsheet formula like, =SUM(cell:range), let alone write lines of code.
My car analogy is a race car driver doesn't need to know how to build a race car, only how to drive one. I imagine scientists are the same way. They use technology to crunch numbers, but don't know how the numbers are crunched (nor should they, as long as it is a peer-reviewed/industry accepted method).
My bet is there is a simple explanation...namely that scientists outside of computer science are too busy in their respective fields to know anything about code, or even care. The egocentric Slashdot-worldview strikes at the heart of logic yet again.
According to the other guy, though, you don't get a choice, which I find laughable. It's a computer with an OS that connects to the Internet, therefore there will always be more choices than we can ever pick from.
No, Apple has always been a "we have good taste, therefore other people who have good taste will like our products" company.
Of course good taste is relative, but my point is still valid.
They can't be done for cheaper than Flash, though, which is the only thing the bean counters that pay me care about.
To achieve similar levels of professionalism and quality in a training product (what I do for a living) using non-Flash tools would cost too much money and take too much time because it requires too much technical talent.
Flash looks good, accomplishes the goal in less time, and for less money. Doesn't mean it's technically better, only that it does what it's supposed to for less time and money.
What about developing content? Right now I use Flash to develop .swf that just works. What would I use to develop content and what would the output be if I wanted to make our training work in HTML5 and not use Flash?
These are questions that the people with the money have. They won't switch away from Flash or .swf any time soon.
As somebody with OSX.3 on a 10-year old G3 with only a gig of ram and stock video card, I can tell you Flash videos run just fine. This tiresome meme needs to go away.
I heard a story on NPR about the poor voice quality on cell phones. I thought it was a bandwidth issue, when in reality it's a simply a "good enough, so why spend more money on it" issue.
This reminds me of when Carmack got all excited about gaming on a Mac...that turned out so well for Apple's gaming options (boot into Windows, play game developed for Windows).
they do not provide any venue for installing applications on one's iPhone apart from the App Store,
Yes because Apple should spend billions of dollars in developing hundreds of different ways for customers to get their products SO THAT ONE RANDOM SLASHDOT NERD can get his the way he wants.
At my software company, we're not in the business of giving free advertising to our competitors by mentioning them as our competitors in our documentation or our user manuals.
I would posit that removing the name of your competition from the liner notes of your product would be the epitome of competitive behavior, not anti-competitive.
Neckbeards...nice! Hey, if a guy can post a stupid thing about Starbucks, John Mayer and Apple to start this thread off, then I say neckbeards and slashtards are legit.
On a serious note, I've been watching slashdot for a couple of years now and have never (even though I try) been able to understand the "drm-whining neckbeards" and their free-tard mentality--and I have a pretty open mind--and I work at a software company. I've decided to finally chalk them up with the Ron Paul retards...they have their passion, but I'll never understand why they are so interested in shooting down mine.
You made his point nicely by not giving a single good example of what's bad about iTunes. Background services? What are those to the average user? The interface is slow and clunky? Compared to what? I can shuffle through a thousand album covers in full screen mode as fast as my mouse will let me. Songs change instantly...what is slow? I can burn a CD in a couple of minutes...please tell me, what is slow?
I'll give you an example of a good example of what is slow: iTunes and iPods have become slower than they used to be for syncing and transferring songs. I don't know why and I don't care why, I just know they do. I used to be able to sync my library (or add new songs to the library at a rate of about 3-4 songs per second. It now takes a couple seconds per song. Although this doesn't sound that bad, multiply it by a few hundred songs, and it is annoying. I probably could streamline the process by turning off album art and gapless playback and the thing that evens the sound on every song, but I'm a typical user and either don't have time, or don't care enough.
Um, the brake pedal is on the left. It usually shuts the cruise control off. If that fails, brakes generally tend to slow a car down.
yes, but there are reports that an entire family was "wiped out" because the Prius they were in accelerated out of control to 130 mph...I don't think a Prius will go 130 (but haven't checked). And anyone who can't figure out how to stop an accelerating car before it gets to 130 mph probably shouldn't be allowed to operate it in the first place.
That's not to belittle the loss or injury of people who's car might have caused them to lose control and crash, however.
Decades? This whole thing will be an after thought with the next big celebrity breakup.
Oh also, it doesn't cost more to make something smaller (shoes or clothes, for example). A company can charge more because it will be in higher demand (most likely, if it's an electronic device).
You will pay less for a Ford than an Acura, but you'll get better service with an Acura.
You have fallen for the, "lets put an Acura badge on this Honda and sell it for $10k more to suckers in America" tactic. There is no such thing as Acura in the rest of the world.
The best "service" I've ever gotten was from a Ford dealership (for service on my Mazda). The types of cars they sell at the dealership have nothing to do with their service business model.
That's a bit of a straw man. It's generally Macs that are considered to be overpriced; The iPhone is about evenly priced with competitive models.
If I had a nickel for every slashdot post bemoaning the cost of an iPod or iPhone compared to all the supposedly better tech and lower priced alternatives, I'd have a lot of nickels.
For example, in your post alone, I fully expect somebody to come on and explain the life cycle cost differences of the iPhone on AT&T versus the Droid on Verizon. Even more ludicrous, I imagine somebody will come here to tell us all that a comparable Zune HD actually costs...wait for it...$10 less than an iPod!!!
I hope soon is later than sooner. Personally I'll NEVER use the HD video camera function on a digital SLR camera--and those functions are more closely related than some of the things people want their devices to do.
I bought a PS3 to play video games (because I got tired of having to upgrade my PC). I don't expect my phone, toaster, radio, car, coffee maker, dishwasher, or anything else to play video games, when I have a perfectly good device already.
The same reason there are no good water-heating phones or no good toaster phones.