In an Apple survey I requested them that they should add a eSATA port for the iMac and Macbook Pro line since they ship with very good applications for content creation, especially video but even Firewire 800 is very slow compared to eSATA. Now, if someone develops an eSATA adapter for the new Light Peak/Thunderbolt port I will begin to consider upgrading my late 2009 iMac i7 or my Macbook Pro to the new versions.
Wireless syncing is almost completely pointless since you will need an access point at least 802.11n with very few devices connected to sync more than 12 Gb and you could obviate it with Air Play anyway. The lack of a standard USB A port is understandable since it will be used mostly to connect USB keys to it that will eat into the battery life and Apple's profits. Also, it will lead to confusion and in-satisfaction for many consumers since they will expect that their USB device, whatever it is, will work if it can get connected to their new device. Personally, I consider the inclusion of cameras feature creep since it forces you to think that one side of the device is "up" and be aware of the cameras when with the current iPad "up" is whatever side is up at the moment you hold it in your hands.
Of course they will trash today Apple after the bad joke of iFixit's iPhone Liberation Kit. They need this to help their Google score and certainly it is working. They are not the only one web site for macbook repair but is the most known, the guys at http://www.powerbookmedic.com/ for example haven't done any of iFixit's theatrical gestures buy they are fine, they don't have has many guides like iFixit but over time they will grow to be a good competitor.
Well, is hard to believe that the same people that show such contempt for human life or dignity around the world will show respect for the lives of american peons.
No, science is not about being open minded. It is about following the evidence, creating explanations that are verifiable, testable and make predictions.
What part of evolution is testable, verifiable and makes predictions?
I don't know about you, but every time I get a cold I have a hard but unpleasant evidence of evolution at work.
If the internal or external temperature gets below 15C* then the lock allows you to bypass it and start the car, but it will make the directional lights blink with an specific code every minute until the internal temp goes up and it can make the test on the driver. If this device becomes standard equipment it could be very cheap; I think that it could have one mode in which it is activated/deactivated voluntarily by the car's owner, and another in which it is activated by a court order.
Of course it was not easy, but now they have shown a new path for malware authors so even if they couldn't develop something has advanced -yet- they could do something bad enough to do limited damage. I picked the example of Windows since in the damn EULA says that it not should be used on critical places like control systems or life support systems, but that doesn't stopped anybody to try to do it. For common tasks of course that is reasonable to use common software, but in cases were the reliability of the software and hardware is literally a matter of life and death then you need to keep that combination has simple and reliable has possible.
Yup, but, to be fair, even in state's companies you get people to make the same mistakes since by law in most cases, you have to buy from the lowest bidder or you have corrupt people in decision making posts, but this is another history. The point that I was trying to make was that is more important to implement a reliable standard for these control systems that could make them fail more gracefully in case that they get compromised than what we have today, very powerful, flexible and cheap gear but relatively easy to hijack. In the old days you needed to have physical access to every device to change its parameters or re-calibrate it, now, you can do it from the Ethernet network using a vanilla laptop or see the state of the system using any Java enabled device, for example, APC's Netbotz software and hardware.
I remember that several years ago, the SCADA system for a power plant in Mexico was running in a very specific version of Solaris or IRIX, with equipment running in a proprietary network so only by the difference in hardware and software it was made safer, but far more expensive than what is in the market today. What is necessary now is an standard that provides the balance between convenience and safety in those systems from ISO or IEEE, not demagogic laws from any country's congress.
If Stuxnet gets imitated by script kiddies or black hats, they could damage seriously infrastructure like the Hoover dam in the example in TFA. Another example, they could target the systems that control burners in power plants. Even if they cannot manage to produce enough damage to put the power plant off line, they could cause enough damage to produce a generalized decrement across all the power plants of a given operator or builder and hitting the consumers with higher energy prices and a sharp increase in pollution. The repairs in those burners take at least a pair of weeks to get fixed and need to take the units off-line. The cascade effect of this could in the end produce roving, prolonged blackouts with the economic damage that they entail. A smart terrorist wet dream. This is the kind of risk that they should be targeting even if they end helping a bit the iranians or north koreans when more and more control systems get migrated to unfit systems to the task running Windows.
Is the same in Latin America. The second easiest way to be a popular politician here is to be anti-american, since almost every brutal dictatorship here with the exception of Castro's Cuba was supported by the american government. In Mexico, my country, we had the choice between a very moderate leftist and a supposed christian democrat in the 2006 elections. The US National Endowment for Democracy bought the leadership of the tree mayor parties to keep the status quo, the mass media and the Church illegally supported the campaign of our current president, and now we have the most dangerous city in the world, the economy in the gutters and vast swats of the country under the rule of mafia bosses, meanwhile our christian fundamentalist in several state's legislatures have forbade by law any abortion, even miscarriages -good luck with that- or abortions necessary to save the pregnant woman's life; the US got the devil they know, but got a war in their southern frontier and an even worst problem with illegal immigrants that will get absolutely out of control if the mexican state collapses, that is the most likely scenario. Blowback all over again.
The Coca Cola Company was fined for contracting death squads in Colombia to kill union leaders and Indonesian sweatshops use armed guards to keep workers in check. The process of capture of state by corporations that we have witnessed in the last years in most western countries clearly demonstrates grandparent point. Government officers now work for the benefit of large corporations, not for the benefit of their countrymen.
I like Windows 7 Professional, is what I run in my assembled gaming rigs/BOINC nodes. Original, OEM copies despite being each one more expensive than my family packs of OS X Leopard and Snow Leopard put together or the video cards in those Windows machines. I'm from Mexico, and here is really strange that people pays for any Microsoft software, even on enterprise use, in fact, here you get an odd look in the best case an called an stupid idiot in the worst for buying a Windows license; but I believe that in Microsoft's Windows 7 and Apple's case, they deserve a chunk of my hard earned money in exchange for their products. Is the honest thing to do. I hate many of the Microsoft business practices in the same vein that I hate many of the ugly stuff that does the american government in my country and Latin America, but I don't hate Microsoft or americans.
So only an idiot will open it if not being necessary, if the product fails under warranty simply is better, cheaper and faster to go to an authorized service provider and get a shinny new iPhone 4. I understand curiosity, but this is not like a huge change for Apple consumer products. Since the original G3 iMac many products from Apple are really hard to disassemble, I have in my workshop table a clam iBook from 1999 that needs a new hard drive, you have to follow 19 or 20 steps in a precise order to change the hard drive, is almost a full disassembly of the computer.
Well, the main difference is that the iPod earned his place thanks to being better than the competition from the consumer POV, and Microsoft earned their dominant position thanks to the network effect and predatory contracts with OEMs.
Now, having so many devices designed with the iPod in mind, the iPod have the network effect in its favor despite the drawbacks that could arise against it.
Arguing about smart phones like they are equal to freedom. They are expensive devices that 99% of worlds population can't afford. Running water, shelter, basic health care, public education, rule of law and political freedoms are far more important than this stupid debate about Apple and Android.
By far the one company that is hated now in/. is Apple, this non story being a perfect example of that. Google is currently the most irrationally loved company here, despite having made stupid and dangerous mistakes like opening all your contacts to the world in their botched attempt at competing against Facebook or the recent WebM/h.264 debate. I suppose that Cmdrtaco and many slashdotters couldn't get over the fact that they were absolutely wrong in the iPod's case.
I doubt that this is done for adding several more hundred dollars in to their bank account. Kyle Wiens is just making a viral campaign to shell his "iPhone liberation kit" and improving the ranking of his web site in search engines, all the while he is the one screwing some suckers.
Trojans will cease to be a significant concern when most users look and install software from OS X App Store. We can discuss about the freedom implications of it, but from a security viewpoint it is a welcome improvement on OS X.
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In an Apple survey I requested them that they should add a eSATA port for the iMac and Macbook Pro line since they ship with very good applications for content creation, especially video but even Firewire 800 is very slow compared to eSATA. Now, if someone develops an eSATA adapter for the new Light Peak/Thunderbolt port I will begin to consider upgrading my late 2009 iMac i7 or my Macbook Pro to the new versions.
Last spring there weren't any Android pads on sale. For that matter, we could also be waiting for the amazing Microsoft Courier.
Wireless syncing is almost completely pointless since you will need an access point at least 802.11n with very few devices connected to sync more than 12 Gb and you could obviate it with Air Play anyway. The lack of a standard USB A port is understandable since it will be used mostly to connect USB keys to it that will eat into the battery life and Apple's profits. Also, it will lead to confusion and in-satisfaction for many consumers since they will expect that their USB device, whatever it is, will work if it can get connected to their new device. Personally, I consider the inclusion of cameras feature creep since it forces you to think that one side of the device is "up" and be aware of the cameras when with the current iPad "up" is whatever side is up at the moment you hold it in your hands.
Of course they will trash today Apple after the bad joke of iFixit's iPhone Liberation Kit. They need this to help their Google score and certainly it is working. They are not the only one web site for macbook repair but is the most known, the guys at http://www.powerbookmedic.com/ for example haven't done any of iFixit's theatrical gestures buy they are fine, they don't have has many guides like iFixit but over time they will grow to be a good competitor.
Well, is hard to believe that the same people that show such contempt for human life or dignity around the world will show respect for the lives of american peons.
I will be really surprised if an US Court doesn't come to a verdict favorable to US interests, independently of the letter of law.
No, science is not about being open minded. It is about following the evidence, creating explanations that are verifiable, testable and make predictions.
What part of evolution is testable, verifiable and makes predictions?
I don't know about you, but every time I get a cold I have a hard but unpleasant evidence of evolution at work.
If the internal or external temperature gets below 15C* then the lock allows you to bypass it and start the car, but it will make the directional lights blink with an specific code every minute until the internal temp goes up and it can make the test on the driver. If this device becomes standard equipment it could be very cheap; I think that it could have one mode in which it is activated/deactivated voluntarily by the car's owner, and another in which it is activated by a court order.
Thank you for the link!
Of course it was not easy, but now they have shown a new path for malware authors so even if they couldn't develop something has advanced -yet- they could do something bad enough to do limited damage. I picked the example of Windows since in the damn EULA says that it not should be used on critical places like control systems or life support systems, but that doesn't stopped anybody to try to do it. For common tasks of course that is reasonable to use common software, but in cases were the reliability of the software and hardware is literally a matter of life and death then you need to keep that combination has simple and reliable has possible.
Yup, but, to be fair, even in state's companies you get people to make the same mistakes since by law in most cases, you have to buy from the lowest bidder or you have corrupt people in decision making posts, but this is another history. The point that I was trying to make was that is more important to implement a reliable standard for these control systems that could make them fail more gracefully in case that they get compromised than what we have today, very powerful, flexible and cheap gear but relatively easy to hijack. In the old days you needed to have physical access to every device to change its parameters or re-calibrate it, now, you can do it from the Ethernet network using a vanilla laptop or see the state of the system using any Java enabled device, for example, APC's Netbotz software and hardware.
I remember that several years ago, the SCADA system for a power plant in Mexico was running in a very specific version of Solaris or IRIX, with equipment running in a proprietary network so only by the difference in hardware and software it was made safer, but far more expensive than what is in the market today. What is necessary now is an standard that provides the balance between convenience and safety in those systems from ISO or IEEE, not demagogic laws from any country's congress.
If Stuxnet gets imitated by script kiddies or black hats, they could damage seriously infrastructure like the Hoover dam in the example in TFA. Another example, they could target the systems that control burners in power plants. Even if they cannot manage to produce enough damage to put the power plant off line, they could cause enough damage to produce a generalized decrement across all the power plants of a given operator or builder and hitting the consumers with higher energy prices and a sharp increase in pollution. The repairs in those burners take at least a pair of weeks to get fixed and need to take the units off-line. The cascade effect of this could in the end produce roving, prolonged blackouts with the economic damage that they entail. A smart terrorist wet dream. This is the kind of risk that they should be targeting even if they end helping a bit the iranians or north koreans when more and more control systems get migrated to unfit systems to the task running Windows.
that's all.
Is the same in Latin America. The second easiest way to be a popular politician here is to be anti-american, since almost every brutal dictatorship here with the exception of Castro's Cuba was supported by the american government. In Mexico, my country, we had the choice between a very moderate leftist and a supposed christian democrat in the 2006 elections. The US National Endowment for Democracy bought the leadership of the tree mayor parties to keep the status quo, the mass media and the Church illegally supported the campaign of our current president, and now we have the most dangerous city in the world, the economy in the gutters and vast swats of the country under the rule of mafia bosses, meanwhile our christian fundamentalist in several state's legislatures have forbade by law any abortion, even miscarriages -good luck with that- or abortions necessary to save the pregnant woman's life; the US got the devil they know, but got a war in their southern frontier and an even worst problem with illegal immigrants that will get absolutely out of control if the mexican state collapses, that is the most likely scenario. Blowback all over again.
The Coca Cola Company was fined for contracting death squads in Colombia to kill union leaders and Indonesian sweatshops use armed guards to keep workers in check. The process of capture of state by corporations that we have witnessed in the last years in most western countries clearly demonstrates grandparent point. Government officers now work for the benefit of large corporations, not for the benefit of their countrymen.
and call it a day. An iPad that could be touch used combined with a pressure sensitive pen would be pure awesomeness.
I like Windows 7 Professional, is what I run in my assembled gaming rigs/BOINC nodes. Original, OEM copies despite being each one more expensive than my family packs of OS X Leopard and Snow Leopard put together or the video cards in those Windows machines. I'm from Mexico, and here is really strange that people pays for any Microsoft software, even on enterprise use, in fact, here you get an odd look in the best case an called an stupid idiot in the worst for buying a Windows license; but I believe that in Microsoft's Windows 7 and Apple's case, they deserve a chunk of my hard earned money in exchange for their products. Is the honest thing to do. I hate many of the Microsoft business practices in the same vein that I hate many of the ugly stuff that does the american government in my country and Latin America, but I don't hate Microsoft or americans.
Best Regards.
So only an idiot will open it if not being necessary, if the product fails under warranty simply is better, cheaper and faster to go to an authorized service provider and get a shinny new iPhone 4. I understand curiosity, but this is not like a huge change for Apple consumer products. Since the original G3 iMac many products from Apple are really hard to disassemble, I have in my workshop table a clam iBook from 1999 that needs a new hard drive, you have to follow 19 or 20 steps in a precise order to change the hard drive, is almost a full disassembly of the computer.
Notes have in its favor that you get paid to use it ;)
Well, the main difference is that the iPod earned his place thanks to being better than the competition from the consumer POV, and Microsoft earned their dominant position thanks to the network effect and predatory contracts with OEMs.
Now, having so many devices designed with the iPod in mind, the iPod have the network effect in its favor despite the drawbacks that could arise against it.
Arguing about smart phones like they are equal to freedom. They are expensive devices that 99% of worlds population can't afford. Running water, shelter, basic health care, public education, rule of law and political freedoms are far more important than this stupid debate about Apple and Android.
By far the one company that is hated now in /. is Apple, this non story being a perfect example of that. Google is currently the most irrationally loved company here, despite having made stupid and dangerous mistakes like opening all your contacts to the world in their botched attempt at competing against Facebook or the recent WebM/h.264 debate. I suppose that Cmdrtaco and many slashdotters couldn't get over the fact that they were absolutely wrong in the iPod's case.
I guess that you never have used Lotus Notes.
The horror, the horror.
too much to be an evil patented screw design, he?
I doubt that this is done for adding several more hundred dollars in to their bank account. Kyle Wiens is just making a viral campaign to shell his "iPhone liberation kit" and improving the ranking of his web site in search engines, all the while he is the one screwing some suckers.
Trojans will cease to be a significant concern when most users look and install software from OS X App Store. We can discuss about the freedom implications of it, but from a security viewpoint it is a welcome improvement on OS X.