Because the ability to destroy vast amounts of data all over the world in an instant is rather new and makes the prosecution of white-collar crime much, much harder?
And because sending ninjas in to steal the hard drives of 300,000,000 people and attempt data recovery is hardly an efficient way to "spy" on citizens?
And because in the real world, the governments you have to worry about don't give a damn about evidence or legal process?
I read it as a remote access tool that installs as a trojan.
In other words, it relies on social engineering to get the user to run it in the first place, but after being installed it gives control of the system to an attacker.
You know what's even worse? Designer sunglasses. You practically never see stars wearing dollar store glasses, and you can guarantee that during the film they'll zoom in so damn close those fancy specs fill half the theater. It's obviously product placement!
Seriously, though, Apple computers have three things going for them:
They're attractive.
They're popular among people who work in the film and TV industries.
They have very prominent logos.
Is it surprising that the same screen characters who look unusually attractive, drive classy cars, wear tailored designer clothing, and live in huge apartments with trendy furniture, also have expensive computers?
Is it surprising that the computers used by the producers, directors, editors and crew end up on screen?
Is it surprising that a prominent glowing logo tends to get noticed? If Ford put big glowing logos on the sides of their cars, would we call it "product placement" when they started showing up in movies?
There's definitely too much blatant product placement out there, and I'm as annoyed as much as anyone when the camera zooms in on a logo or an actor prattles about a product's features or recites a sales slogan... But just because you saw somebody using a Mac instead of a Dell doesn't mean there was a deal made in a smoke-filled room.
That doesn't sound much like trolling to me, if you consider that Apple (more specifically Steve Jobs) refuses to allow USB 3.0 or even SATA 6GB/s.
Either way... my new PC absolutely WILL have USB 3.0 and SATA 6GB/s. Enjoy your iStuff. I'll enjoy top transfer speeds.;)
These MacBook Pros have SATA 6Gb/s controllers. And "Thunderbolt" is several times faster than USB 3.0.
If it makes you feel better, though, feel free to pretend Macs still use UATA-33 and USB 1.1. I've heard that painting racing stripes on your Dell and going "vroom vroom!" as you use it also helps.
The president can block the passage of legislation (though it will hurt his reputation with congress). The president can not, of his own volition, repeal legislation.
Therefore it is perfectly reasonable to blame one president who passed laws, but not another president who failed to repeal them.
Ah, the megahertz myth. Geekbench is a popular CPU/memory benchmark for the Mac, and homebuilt "Macs" with your i7 960 perform roughly as well as the new MacBook Pros.
And the 960 is a 130W TDP chip. Unless you happen to enjoy second degree burns, I'd suggest not calling your machine a "laptop".
I hardly think it would take 30 years. Thanks to TV, movies, and books, practically every person alive today has probably been expecting to converse with computers since they were a kid.
If someone invented a Jetsons-esque flying car tomorrow, I'm sure people would describe the experience as "scary". For about a week. Then they'd wonder how they ever lived without them.
Have they tested this in non-laboratory conditions? The idea of transmitters being placed such that they perfectly cancel each other out sounds great, but what happens when you add in nearby objects that reflect RF?
IMHO, Microsoft worst offense in storage is drive letters, which provide no information about either the type and structure of the underlying disks or the data they contain, and have caused untold headaches from applications (and the OS itself) being reliant on paths that are arbitrarily assigned, subject to change, and often out of the user's control.
Admittedly, Microsoft didn't invent the system, but the fact that drive letters still exist in 2011 is entirely their fault.
Is there any reason why phones cannot drive a metal spike into their user's brain?
The answer to both our questions is: From a engineering point of view, no. From a usability standpoint...yes.
Actually, I think I'd rather have the metal spike in my brain than have to tell people "Hey, I'm going to have to call you back in a little while. I've got that file with the stuff you needed, but I don't have the program to open it on this OS. I'll have to try rebooting into the others and see where I put it. Then I'll have to try to copy the info into another app which saves files that an app on this OS can read, since I've got my email accounts and everything here. It shouldn't take more than twenty minutes. Bye!"
The first floating-gate in the stack is leaky, thus requiring refreshing about as often as DRAM (16 milliseconds). But by increasing the voltage its data value can be transferred to the second floating-gate, which acts more like a traditional flash memory, offering long-term nonvolatile storage.
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I've got a typical 100 sheet writing pad. With pen, it weighs just over 1.1 lb. Maybe what you really need is this.
Yeah, it's not like you can make a chip faster without increasing its clock speed.
To be fair, the fact that they bought first-generation products proves that they secretly enjoy suffering and inevitable alienation.
Because the ability to destroy vast amounts of data all over the world in an instant is rather new and makes the prosecution of white-collar crime much, much harder?
And because sending ninjas in to steal the hard drives of 300,000,000 people and attempt data recovery is hardly an efficient way to
"spy" on citizens?
And because in the real world, the governments you have to worry about don't give a damn about evidence or legal process?
I asked a friend; he said the line between this one data point and his preconceived notions shows a definite trend.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precedent
I read it as a remote access tool that installs as a trojan.
In other words, it relies on social engineering to get the user to run it in the first place, but after being installed it gives control of the system to an attacker.
You know what's even worse? Designer sunglasses. You practically never see stars wearing dollar store glasses, and you can guarantee that during the film they'll zoom in so damn close those fancy specs fill half the theater. It's obviously product placement!
Seriously, though, Apple computers have three things going for them:
Is it surprising that the same screen characters who look unusually attractive, drive classy cars, wear tailored designer clothing, and live in huge apartments with trendy furniture, also have expensive computers?
Is it surprising that the computers used by the producers, directors, editors and crew end up on screen?
Is it surprising that a prominent glowing logo tends to get noticed? If Ford put big glowing logos on the sides of their cars, would we call it "product placement" when they started showing up in movies?
There's definitely too much blatant product placement out there, and I'm as annoyed as much as anyone when the camera zooms in on a logo or an actor prattles about a product's features or recites a sales slogan... But just because you saw somebody using a Mac instead of a Dell doesn't mean there was a deal made in a smoke-filled room.
Simple: Launch a nuclear missile in the same orbit as Earth but in the opposite direction. Wait six months.
That doesn't sound much like trolling to me, if you consider that Apple (more specifically Steve Jobs) refuses to allow USB 3.0 or even SATA 6GB/s.
Either way... my new PC absolutely WILL have USB 3.0 and SATA 6GB/s. Enjoy your iStuff. I'll enjoy top transfer speeds. ;)
These MacBook Pros have SATA 6Gb/s controllers. And "Thunderbolt" is several times faster than USB 3.0.
If it makes you feel better, though, feel free to pretend Macs still use UATA-33 and USB 1.1. I've heard that painting racing stripes on your Dell and going "vroom vroom!" as you use it also helps.
The president can block the passage of legislation (though it will hurt his reputation with congress). The president can not, of his own volition, repeal legislation.
Therefore it is perfectly reasonable to blame one president who passed laws, but not another president who failed to repeal them.
Ah, the megahertz myth. Geekbench is a popular CPU/memory benchmark for the Mac, and homebuilt "Macs" with your i7 960 perform roughly as well as the new MacBook Pros.
And the 960 is a 130W TDP chip. Unless you happen to enjoy second degree burns, I'd suggest not calling your machine a "laptop".
I hardly think it would take 30 years. Thanks to TV, movies, and books, practically every person alive today has probably been expecting to converse with computers since they were a kid.
If someone invented a Jetsons-esque flying car tomorrow, I'm sure people would describe the experience as "scary". For about a week. Then they'd wonder how they ever lived without them.
what diameter is the beam? volume/sec more important IMO
I dunno, if it slices a jet/tank/ICBM/ship in half I'm probably not going to care too much about the size of the gap.
Have they tested this in non-laboratory conditions? The idea of transmitters being placed such that they perfectly cancel each other out sounds great, but what happens when you add in nearby objects that reflect RF?
Who needs the Internet? He'll just call up the leaders of the free world and demand ONE MILLION DOLLARS!
IMHO, Microsoft worst offense in storage is drive letters, which provide no information about either the type and structure of the underlying disks or the data they contain, and have caused untold headaches from applications (and the OS itself) being reliant on paths that are arbitrarily assigned, subject to change, and often out of the user's control.
Admittedly, Microsoft didn't invent the system, but the fact that drive letters still exist in 2011 is entirely their fault.
Is there any reason why phones cannot drive a metal spike into their user's brain?
The answer to both our questions is: From a engineering point of view, no. From a usability standpoint...yes.
Actually, I think I'd rather have the metal spike in my brain than have to tell people "Hey, I'm going to have to call you back in a little while. I've got that file with the stuff you needed, but I don't have the program to open it on this OS. I'll have to try rebooting into the others and see where I put it. Then I'll have to try to copy the info into another app which saves files that an app on this OS can read, since I've got my email accounts and everything here. It shouldn't take more than twenty minutes. Bye!"
Early cell phones were expensive to buy, expensive to operate, and very unreliable. Which is why investing the cheap, reliable COCOT paid off so well.
I tell stores "you don't need my zip code" when they ask.
Please, please tell me you wave your hand as you say that.
So I guess you could call this an...
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Yeah, imagine the repercussions if China were to ever give the rest of the world access to Chinese news.
A galaxy is a massive, gravitationally bound system consisting of at least one Stephen Colbert.
The first floating-gate in the stack is leaky, thus requiring refreshing about as often as DRAM (16 milliseconds). But by increasing the voltage its data value can be transferred to the second floating-gate, which acts more like a traditional flash memory, offering long-term nonvolatile storage.
And if you'd RTFA, you'd see that this plugin has nothing to do with "blocking cookies". In fact, it does entirely the opposite.