Have you ever seen a single movie that followed the book more than rudimentarily?
No Country for Old Men (for the most part) and Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Swedish version moreso than the US version). How about the first Harry Potter movie?
Actually, it's illegal to enter an intersection unless you can get all the way through the intersection. These sort of "urban legend" driving rules are part of the reason we Americans are the worst drivers on the planet.
People who run red lights suck. I have been driving for 25 years and I've never run a single red light (to the extent that I've never entered an intersection when the light was already red.
IF, these things are meant to give tickets to people who are IN the intersection when the light changes, then that is just stupid.
And who cares if it improves safety or not? People who do stupid shit should pay. People who park in no parking zones should get tickets, regardless if it has any impact to public safety or not.
I don't think you can blame years of crappy devices on their manufacturers not being Apple.
We can't? This is what sets Apple apart. It's sort of what they're known for. Other companies plod along with crappy devices, then Apple comes along and makes a crappy device not crappy.
No, what they did was convince millions of customers that ease-of-use is more important to most people than the false dichotomy of "control" over their own phones.
The two aren't mutually exclusive. I have to buy stuff from the iTunes Store, granted, but the rest of the phone is fully in my control. It's not like I have to submit a ticket to Apple to request a phone call, or log into their servers to use an app I've already purchased and installed.
Where you see lack-of-control (logging into iTunes with an AppleID), others see a feature of having all your apps, music, photos, whatever on any device you own. Wipe your phone on accident? Log into your AppleID and it's all back in minutes. Own an iPad and a couple of iPhones? Buy an app once in the Store and it shows up on all of your devices in seconds.
Software and hardware are all about tradeoffs. What Apple does, and what irks slash dotters, is they get the balance correct for the vast majority of users. Since slash dotters are nothing but a loud minority, there will always be an acrimonious relationship between them and consumer-friendly products.
More like Apple takes half-baked and poorly executed ideas and executes them excellently.
And call it "lifestyle accessories" if you want, but I can't think of what else you could call a music player or a computer. They accessorize my lifestyle very nicely. It would hard to be a computer geek without a computer, for starters.
While I agree with your sentiment, hiring human factors engineers, in my experience, only leads to more-yet-friendlier Windows-like environments. I was in a grad program, and all it did was reinforce best-practices for desktop-metaphor based operating systems. Disappointing indeed.
Yes, his reply was far more measured than his initial post...or...more likely, I read a bevy of over-the-top IT control freak posts yesterday, and this one was lumped in together in my head.
The response is much clearer and I wish more IT people were as rational.
I've seen this story before. NASCAR infamously has been trying to integrate technology, yet they can't track the speed or position of any of the 42 cars on the track at a specific moment in time...they rely on 100 year old radio wave transponder technology and timing loops. "Math" consists of dividing the length of the track by the time to complete one lap to determine a car's speed. "Telemetry" consists of how far the throttle is depressed (um all the way usually) and how far to the left the wheel has been turned.
How do they wipe "any backups" of your iPhone when you have an iCloud account or you save the backup to a personal device not on their network, or use disk encryption?
There's a continuum of security and usability that is akin to the continuum of alcoholism and prohibition...problem is, your post is so far out there, it is off the scale somewhere beyond prohibition, going full circle and coming back towards alcoholism.
I went from a Dell Shitbox environment to a Mac environment. A 500 employee company that seemingly prided itself on buying the cheapest, crappiest Dell products available to a 5,000 employee company where I have a MacBook Pro (2011), Mac Pro (older one, but still nice), 27" iMac (2010) and two cinema displays....and I'm just one developer...they understand that happy employees are productive, and more importantly productive employees are happy. \
Moral of the Story: It's hard to be happy with a Dell Shitbox.
My coworkers aren't idiots and I have a wife, not a girlfriend, so I guess the lifecycle of my iDevices is longer than most.
My phone data plan isn't charged when I use the company campus-wide WiFi signal. My iPad doesn't have a data plan.
And yes, my company would reimburse me for data usage I incurred while away from the company WiFi network. It's called an expense voucher...most major companies will do that for you.
I'm perfectly fine with invisible support an no privacy. Productivity at the price of privacy is fine with most of us. If I wanted privacy, I wouldn't be such an advocate for us bringing our own gear to work. I know it's a cliche, but since I really don't have anything to be afraid of in my personal life, I don't mind it mingling with my professional life on one portable computer. Part of that trust stems from knowing I don't do anything illegal/stupid like run a meth lab ingredients macro and the other part stems from my trust that my employer is very cool and only cares about results, and not personality quirks.
Wow, thank you for solidifying our stereotypes about IT people.
Let's start with your thumb drive example...what use is a thumb drive if you can't use it? Yeah, yeah, I know that's over simplified, but seriously...anything a computer CAN do, you IT types try your hardest to not allow it.
Here's a more mature discussion. When I say it should be transparent, I'm talking about how I shouldn't have to call the "help desk" a couple times a month to reset my password because the Active Directory locked me out for no reason. I know you IT types think we users are just dumb and lock ourselves out at random (and to be fair, I'm sure a good many do), but when I call and say, "I tried to log on this morning and the first time I entered my password it tells me my account has been locked and I need to contact IT support". That is not transparent.
Another example would be that I have some work-related/work-created materials on network A and it needs to be on network B...but since you've disabled my USB ports, and you won't give me credentials to be on network B, now I have to put in an IT ticket and wait days to do something I could do myself in 5 seconds that posed very little risk (malware via thumb drive).
But anyway, those days are behind me. I work in an environment that is a free-for-all/download what you need (from vetted sources, hosted by our IT folks, so no legal shenanigans). Maybe it's because it's an OS X environment, or maybe it's because we don't have network accounts, but we are much more productive than any sort of hyper-controlled IT environment I've worked in before, but with the slight loss of the convenience of a roaming profile.
I'm not sure I came here for a fight about security. I'm not sure what I posted was incendiary, but I should have guessed the IT types would come crawling out of their server farm to tell us users how stupid we are.
Actually, your expert commentary goes against my anecdote. I left a company overburdened with red tape and security policies. They went from 500 employees to under 200 now, mostly due to the inability to actually meet contractual obligations due to regressive IT policies. Furthermore, talent like myself just went to other companies with more forward-looking policies that will ensure longer business stability. One of which is the ability to use our own gear, the other being no ridiculously complex security policies that don't let yo do simple things like fill out a timecard while traveling. When you CAN'T do your job without having to file an IT ticket then wait several days for resolution, you can't be productive. No IT policy should be so restrictive.
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The phone feature is the least used feature on my smart phone. So yes, I need a smart phone.
That made my day.
Have you ever seen a single movie that followed the book more than rudimentarily?
No Country for Old Men (for the most part) and Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Swedish version moreso than the US version). How about the first Harry Potter movie?
Jesus. The LOTR trilogy is the greatest movie making achievement of ALL TIME.
My bias detector just broke.
There may be more than a half-dozen British actors out there, but there are THOUSANDS of American actors, yet Hollywood keeps casting the same people.
Besides, I think Freeman is a perfect fit. He looks like Frodo, so it makes sense.
LOTR was criticized for cutting out the songs. Maybe this is Jackson's attempt to battle his insecurity against criticism.
If he gets a semi-hot actress, she will have all kinds of parts that didn't happen.
So, based on Jackson's previous work, there's going to be parts that didn't happen.
just don't add a bunch a shit that never happened.
We've established this is a Jackson movie, so that's not gonna happen.
Which is why it is illegal in most states to enter an intersection that isn't clear all the way through.
Actually, it's illegal to enter an intersection unless you can get all the way through the intersection. These sort of "urban legend" driving rules are part of the reason we Americans are the worst drivers on the planet.
To fine the hell out of bad drivers who may or may not be putting other people in danger...I prefer to err on the side of caution.
People who run red lights suck. I have been driving for 25 years and I've never run a single red light (to the extent that I've never entered an intersection when the light was already red.
IF, these things are meant to give tickets to people who are IN the intersection when the light changes, then that is just stupid.
And who cares if it improves safety or not? People who do stupid shit should pay. People who park in no parking zones should get tickets, regardless if it has any impact to public safety or not.
I don't think you can blame years of crappy devices on their manufacturers not being Apple.
We can't? This is what sets Apple apart. It's sort of what they're known for. Other companies plod along with crappy devices, then Apple comes along and makes a crappy device not crappy.
No, what they did was convince millions of customers that ease-of-use is more important to most people than the false dichotomy of "control" over their own phones.
The two aren't mutually exclusive. I have to buy stuff from the iTunes Store, granted, but the rest of the phone is fully in my control. It's not like I have to submit a ticket to Apple to request a phone call, or log into their servers to use an app I've already purchased and installed.
Where you see lack-of-control (logging into iTunes with an AppleID), others see a feature of having all your apps, music, photos, whatever on any device you own. Wipe your phone on accident? Log into your AppleID and it's all back in minutes. Own an iPad and a couple of iPhones? Buy an app once in the Store and it shows up on all of your devices in seconds.
Software and hardware are all about tradeoffs. What Apple does, and what irks slash dotters, is they get the balance correct for the vast majority of users. Since slash dotters are nothing but a loud minority, there will always be an acrimonious relationship between them and consumer-friendly products.
Except Dalvik VM is free software, MS JVM is not.
Therefore, aliens?
FTFY.
More like Apple takes half-baked and poorly executed ideas and executes them excellently.
And call it "lifestyle accessories" if you want, but I can't think of what else you could call a music player or a computer. They accessorize my lifestyle very nicely. It would hard to be a computer geek without a computer, for starters.
While I agree with your sentiment, hiring human factors engineers, in my experience, only leads to more-yet-friendlier Windows-like environments. I was in a grad program, and all it did was reinforce best-practices for desktop-metaphor based operating systems. Disappointing indeed.
Yes, his reply was far more measured than his initial post...or...more likely, I read a bevy of over-the-top IT control freak posts yesterday, and this one was lumped in together in my head.
The response is much clearer and I wish more IT people were as rational.
I've seen this story before. NASCAR infamously has been trying to integrate technology, yet they can't track the speed or position of any of the 42 cars on the track at a specific moment in time...they rely on 100 year old radio wave transponder technology and timing loops. "Math" consists of dividing the length of the track by the time to complete one lap to determine a car's speed. "Telemetry" consists of how far the throttle is depressed (um all the way usually) and how far to the left the wheel has been turned.
How do they wipe "any backups" of your iPhone when you have an iCloud account or you save the backup to a personal device not on their network, or use disk encryption?
Woah, easy there...you should get out more.
There's a continuum of security and usability that is akin to the continuum of alcoholism and prohibition...problem is, your post is so far out there, it is off the scale somewhere beyond prohibition, going full circle and coming back towards alcoholism.
I went from a Dell Shitbox environment to a Mac environment. A 500 employee company that seemingly prided itself on buying the cheapest, crappiest Dell products available to a 5,000 employee company where I have a MacBook Pro (2011), Mac Pro (older one, but still nice), 27" iMac (2010) and two cinema displays....and I'm just one developer...they understand that happy employees are productive, and more importantly productive employees are happy. \
Moral of the Story: It's hard to be happy with a Dell Shitbox.
My coworkers aren't idiots and I have a wife, not a girlfriend, so I guess the lifecycle of my iDevices is longer than most.
My phone data plan isn't charged when I use the company campus-wide WiFi signal. My iPad doesn't have a data plan.
And yes, my company would reimburse me for data usage I incurred while away from the company WiFi network. It's called an expense voucher...most major companies will do that for you.
I'm perfectly fine with invisible support an no privacy. Productivity at the price of privacy is fine with most of us. If I wanted privacy, I wouldn't be such an advocate for us bringing our own gear to work. I know it's a cliche, but since I really don't have anything to be afraid of in my personal life, I don't mind it mingling with my professional life on one portable computer. Part of that trust stems from knowing I don't do anything illegal/stupid like run a meth lab ingredients macro and the other part stems from my trust that my employer is very cool and only cares about results, and not personality quirks.
Wow, thank you for solidifying our stereotypes about IT people.
Let's start with your thumb drive example...what use is a thumb drive if you can't use it? Yeah, yeah, I know that's over simplified, but seriously...anything a computer CAN do, you IT types try your hardest to not allow it.
Here's a more mature discussion. When I say it should be transparent, I'm talking about how I shouldn't have to call the "help desk" a couple times a month to reset my password because the Active Directory locked me out for no reason. I know you IT types think we users are just dumb and lock ourselves out at random (and to be fair, I'm sure a good many do), but when I call and say, "I tried to log on this morning and the first time I entered my password it tells me my account has been locked and I need to contact IT support". That is not transparent.
Another example would be that I have some work-related/work-created materials on network A and it needs to be on network B...but since you've disabled my USB ports, and you won't give me credentials to be on network B, now I have to put in an IT ticket and wait days to do something I could do myself in 5 seconds that posed very little risk (malware via thumb drive).
But anyway, those days are behind me. I work in an environment that is a free-for-all/download what you need (from vetted sources, hosted by our IT folks, so no legal shenanigans). Maybe it's because it's an OS X environment, or maybe it's because we don't have network accounts, but we are much more productive than any sort of hyper-controlled IT environment I've worked in before, but with the slight loss of the convenience of a roaming profile.
I'm not sure I came here for a fight about security. I'm not sure what I posted was incendiary, but I should have guessed the IT types would come crawling out of their server farm to tell us users how stupid we are.
Actually, your expert commentary goes against my anecdote. I left a company overburdened with red tape and security policies. They went from 500 employees to under 200 now, mostly due to the inability to actually meet contractual obligations due to regressive IT policies. Furthermore, talent like myself just went to other companies with more forward-looking policies that will ensure longer business stability. One of which is the ability to use our own gear, the other being no ridiculously complex security policies that don't let yo do simple things like fill out a timecard while traveling. When you CAN'T do your job without having to file an IT ticket then wait several days for resolution, you can't be productive. No IT policy should be so restrictive.