She has some very good points though. It's funny to watch the videos with all the male characters having strategic butt coverings, but not female characters. I know lots of female gamers now so the sophomoric "I like to look at female butts" rationales for over sexualized female characters. \\
People overreact though, "raawr, she wants to change my game very slightly!" And GG had some very repulsive actors in it, they don't know how to debate so they decide to send threats.
And yet Labview is used in mission critical manufacturing areas. The code is unmaintainable but inevitably the original author leaves and the company is stuck with something no one understands. So you have manufacturing groups that seem to panic whenever someone suggests modifications.
Updates every 10 months if they are mandatory, is still too rapid. Remember when we could go a year or two without a major update that completely changed the UI or broke your plug ins?
Stability. It's a nice thing to have. But Firefox is adding NEW features every release, features that no one asked for. So instead of 6 to 8 weeks between security or bug fix releases, we have 6-8 weeks of major releases with 1 to 2 weeks in between for hot fixes.
Of course, if you are from the viewpoint that the customers are the advertising industry then perhaps you are right, they are being given everything they want.
No, there's a security exchange between the CPU and the touch sensor, and by replacing one it needs to have a new exchange only customers and third party repair have not been told how to do this (possibly needing validation with Apple back office servers).
In the past they would just put up a big ugly screen and warn you that the Windows copy is not genuine (warn or accuse, either way). It still gave you time to copy your files off if you needed to.
No, if Android did this there would be hell to pay. Android fans do not have the same cultish behavior like Apple fans.
To me none of this looks like a security feature. That fingerprint scanner is not necessary to the operation of the phone. It was working just fine before the upgrade, and is bricked afterwords. They could have just disabled the scanner and instead require the back up PIN only; or provide a big prominent warning every time you turn it on (enough to back up your files). But because they didn't do this so it looks like punishment for using the competition.
And the sensors do go bad. People have reported this problem even if all they did was drop the phone but then found nothing wrong with it except some scrapes, and who never took it in for third party repairs.
A valid security risk maybe. But is that cause to brick the phone? The angry customer shows up with a bricked phone and the Geniuses say "you should be thanking us, now how would you like to pay for your replacement?"
No, that's what the fans may claim, but Apple lost of a lot of fans when their phones bricked. Authorized service centers are not everywhere, and they're very expensive and they don't let competition become authorized. The security aspect is just their retro excuse for bad behavior. People have had their phones bricked even if the only thing that happened was that it was dropped but they kept using it without any repairs until the upgrade broke their phone.
It had all been working great so far, until the latest change. Did Apple think to warn everyone in big letters before hand? Or more likely they were seeking to punish people. They could have just put up a message after the upgrade to warn about possible insecurities in the fingerprint sensor and recommend using a PIN instead. But no, they bricked their phones and pissed off their customers. Apple recommends fixing the error with a visit to an Apple Store, but people say that the Apple stores say the only fix is to buy a new phone.
Apple's excuse explains the security thing, but it makes no mention of bricking the phone and instead implies that only that part will fail to work rather than the entire phone.
What next, if this is really about "security" can we expect them to brick the phone in the future if they detect a possible intrusion? Because repairing the touch sensor is only a tiny hint about possible intrusion. Whoops, password was incorrect twice in a row, time to brick it. Phone was rooted, time to brick it. Phone is being used in a location that the owner hasn't been to before, possibly stolen, time to brick it. All those cases are ludicrous and so is bricking a phone because someone decided to use a better/cheaper repair place.
Most modern phones require external power now. Even the cordless phones will have a base station that needs to be plugged in. If you really want back up service in an outtage it might be handy to have an older phone in storage.
But literally the *same* wires inside the house have been used for pre-rotary dialing as well as DSL. Though of course DSL speeds depend a lot on quality of wires outside the home.
The phone lines are also broadband in a sense. The DSL doesn't have to travel far, just up to the closest phone company station. So they don't have to stay within the narrower band used by voice but can use most of the bandwidth of the twisted pair. Thus it's "broad" band, or at least "broader" band relative to POTS. Of course you have to worry about other problems as well than just the band width, the old telephone wires have lots of junctions and branches even within a house and so it has to deal with reflections. And sometimes there may not be twisted pair inside the home but parallel wires instead.
Today many people define broadband in terms of speed and because basic ADSL is so much slower than high end ISP offerings it's possible to forget that it's also broadband. Such as how many people interchangeably use "bandwidth" to mean end-to-end speed even though that's not accurate. Of course what "broad" means can vary.
Reminds me of when the US set up a government in Iraq, everyone in that government full of hope that state building would work but before things started breaking apart. Almost the very first thing they did was try to set up a new set of IP laws. The electricity wasn't even working and yet they thought that copyright and patents were more important.
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She has some very good points though. It's funny to watch the videos with all the male characters having strategic butt coverings, but not female characters. I know lots of female gamers now so the sophomoric "I like to look at female butts" rationales for over sexualized female characters. \\
People overreact though, "raawr, she wants to change my game very slightly!" And GG had some very repulsive actors in it, they don't know how to debate so they decide to send threats.
And yet Labview is used in mission critical manufacturing areas. The code is unmaintainable but inevitably the original author leaves and the company is stuck with something no one understands. So you have manufacturing groups that seem to panic whenever someone suggests modifications.
Updates every 10 months if they are mandatory, is still too rapid. Remember when we could go a year or two without a major update that completely changed the UI or broke your plug ins?
Stability. It's a nice thing to have. But Firefox is adding NEW features every release, features that no one asked for. So instead of 6 to 8 weeks between security or bug fix releases, we have 6-8 weeks of major releases with 1 to 2 weeks in between for hot fixes.
Of course, if you are from the viewpoint that the customers are the advertising industry then perhaps you are right, they are being given everything they want.
Unless you're LARPing Doom...
Well, I think they've decided to finally be useful to developers.
Even the identical devices have unique keys generated for them.
Lightspeed Briefs: For the discrimination crotch.
Well, it should be illegal for companies we don't like. But legal for the company founded by our Lord and Savior, Steve Jobs.
No, there's a security exchange between the CPU and the touch sensor, and by replacing one it needs to have a new exchange only customers and third party repair have not been told how to do this (possibly needing validation with Apple back office servers).
In the past they would just put up a big ugly screen and warn you that the Windows copy is not genuine (warn or accuse, either way). It still gave you time to copy your files off if you needed to.
No, if Android did this there would be hell to pay. Android fans do not have the same cultish behavior like Apple fans.
To me none of this looks like a security feature. That fingerprint scanner is not necessary to the operation of the phone. It was working just fine before the upgrade, and is bricked afterwords. They could have just disabled the scanner and instead require the back up PIN only; or provide a big prominent warning every time you turn it on (enough to back up your files). But because they didn't do this so it looks like punishment for using the competition.
And the sensors do go bad. People have reported this problem even if all they did was drop the phone but then found nothing wrong with it except some scrapes, and who never took it in for third party repairs.
A valid security risk maybe. But is that cause to brick the phone? The angry customer shows up with a bricked phone and the Geniuses say "you should be thanking us, now how would you like to pay for your replacement?"
This is punishment for those users who don't upgrade every six months.
No, that's what the fans may claim, but Apple lost of a lot of fans when their phones bricked. Authorized service centers are not everywhere, and they're very expensive and they don't let competition become authorized. The security aspect is just their retro excuse for bad behavior. People have had their phones bricked even if the only thing that happened was that it was dropped but they kept using it without any repairs until the upgrade broke their phone.
It had all been working great so far, until the latest change. Did Apple think to warn everyone in big letters before hand? Or more likely they were seeking to punish people. They could have just put up a message after the upgrade to warn about possible insecurities in the fingerprint sensor and recommend using a PIN instead. But no, they bricked their phones and pissed off their customers. Apple recommends fixing the error with a visit to an Apple Store, but people say that the Apple stores say the only fix is to buy a new phone.
Apple's excuse explains the security thing, but it makes no mention of bricking the phone and instead implies that only that part will fail to work rather than the entire phone.
What next, if this is really about "security" can we expect them to brick the phone in the future if they detect a possible intrusion? Because repairing the touch sensor is only a tiny hint about possible intrusion. Whoops, password was incorrect twice in a row, time to brick it. Phone was rooted, time to brick it. Phone is being used in a location that the owner hasn't been to before, possibly stolen, time to brick it. All those cases are ludicrous and so is bricking a phone because someone decided to use a better/cheaper repair place.
Undoubtedly this was not done for security reasons, but to ensure their control over the phones and to make sure the "geniuses" keep their job.
Who can afford 70+ dollars a month on a phone?
Nicer user interface though I think. I never liked the plain old boring icon look of iPhone with no widgets or tiles.
Though his child, c++, has better connectivity.
And even if you get DSL you may not get the best DSL either. Older neighborhoods may be really bad in this regard.
Most modern phones require external power now. Even the cordless phones will have a base station that needs to be plugged in. If you really want back up service in an outtage it might be handy to have an older phone in storage.
But literally the *same* wires inside the house have been used for pre-rotary dialing as well as DSL. Though of course DSL speeds depend a lot on quality of wires outside the home.
The phone lines are also broadband in a sense. The DSL doesn't have to travel far, just up to the closest phone company station. So they don't have to stay within the narrower band used by voice but can use most of the bandwidth of the twisted pair. Thus it's "broad" band, or at least "broader" band relative to POTS. Of course you have to worry about other problems as well than just the band width, the old telephone wires have lots of junctions and branches even within a house and so it has to deal with reflections. And sometimes there may not be twisted pair inside the home but parallel wires instead.
Today many people define broadband in terms of speed and because basic ADSL is so much slower than high end ISP offerings it's possible to forget that it's also broadband. Such as how many people interchangeably use "bandwidth" to mean end-to-end speed even though that's not accurate. Of course what "broad" means can vary.
Reminds me of when the US set up a government in Iraq, everyone in that government full of hope that state building would work but before things started breaking apart. Almost the very first thing they did was try to set up a new set of IP laws. The electricity wasn't even working and yet they thought that copyright and patents were more important.