Look, I know this is going to be difficult for Germany and there are great designs for better safer reactors etc.pp.
But the real problem is not reactor design, it's the storage of the goddam nuclear waste!
That problem has not been solved (and is inherently unsolvable, some say).
Also, nuclear power is another example of "socialize the losses, privatize the profit", as the utilities can never be held accountable for losses from radioactive disaster - it's the state who has to pay. The sums set aside by the companies themselves are ridiculous.
The reactors themselves are usually built with subsidies (because it's so expensive) and the deconstruction is also assumed to be paid by the taxpayer.
Don't you see the irony?
Such a competition would be very similar to the Apple AppStore (closed (source), strict vetting etc.). All the things people who positively use Android in favor of iOS hate about iOS.
With such a competition, Google would essentially open a "Google Approved" sort-of AppStore themselves.
(Correct me, but AFAIK, Google does not do any kind of vetting for their Android Market other than for basic malware or copyright violation).
The Apple AppStore is just what you suggest: it's a competition, where the best titles win. But for a competition, there must be judges.
Google says, the users are the judges.
Apple says: "We are in charge".
It depends on how many consumers the are in total.
Not really.
See the smart-phone market.
Apple reaps most of the profit of the entire mobile phone-market with a miniscule overall market-share (from producing two different phones (provided the 3GS is still in production) in two different colors and two different sizes of storage-space (and recently with two different kinds of carrier-chips)).
Apple doesn't have direct competitors for their products, only indirect competitors (Android-phones, Android tablets, Windows-PCs).
But these indirect competitors all compete against each other and basically within one single criterion: the price.
In the end, Android might actually "win" - but few companies will be able to afford "winning" on market-share alone - even less so, when your competition takes all your profit.
IBM somehow realized this some years ago (before everybody else) and got rid of its PC-business.
Now Acer has split off the table and smart-phone unit.
Do you think there's a pattern?
*snort* No one considers the Air a netbook. If netbooks are famous for anything, it's cheap and small.
You forgot: overall crappy build-quality and cheap appearance.
Which the MacBookAir certainly isn't.
You are right - the MBA isn't a Netbook as people know it. It really competes in the ultra-portable notebook segment, where it is actually competitively priced.
But that's probably the reason why it sells so well and why, if I'm ever going to buy a SFF-notebook, it's going to be a MBA.
It's a valid question - he could have used it to to explain the reasoning to the general public.
But no, he walks away, similar to a child that covers the eyes with its hands, claiming that because it can't see you, you can't see it either.
Seriously, with an attitude like this ("If I walk away, the problem ceases to exist"), it's no surprise the company outlook is not great.
I even give him the benefit of the doubt that it's a decision he was and is not happy with (I watched the interview and while I'm an avid consumer of "Lie To Me", I cannot say if the negative/reserved body-language he has is because he hates the interviewer or the subject or the fact that a business-decision he didn't like had to be done for the sake of the shareholders).
Anything would have been less of a PR nightmare than just walking out.
Maybe a couple of dozens per year.
If something goes wrong, e.g. there's a mismatch in names on the csr with what is in whois, all sorts of problems arise.
The chaos in the processes is just mind-boggling sometimes.
I'm glad we have our own CA and can self-sign.
As said, these companies have just been lucky enough to be in the right spot at the right time to have their root-CAs int the browsers.
Interestingly, at least Microsoft has a page detailing the requirements for the CA, should it wish to be part of that list: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc751157.aspx
This is only true if you are an iOS Registered Developer which is easy to set up but will cost you $US99 per year. Personally I find this a small price to pay since XCode itself is free whereas compilers used to cost hundreds of dollars, but it annoys other people.
True. But in this world - how can you not annoy some people?
The truth is that by this - admittedly draconian - system, Apple got rid of all the spam and virus problems that dominate the Windows-platform.
In the long run, this will help to cut down spam-levels globally, as people replace PCs with iPads and iPhones.
AFAIK, you can upload any app you want to your iPhone, even without vetting it through Apple Inc.
You just have to use Xcode to build and maybe the Enterprise Deployment Kit.
You need to know what you do, though - but if you don't, you have no business to install anything outside of the iTMS Appstore anyway.
They might be diffcult to backport...
Especially the Safari stuff.
I imagine, there are more reasons other than pushing users into buying an iPhone4.
Not that this is a good or valid excuse....
The ISOs have been up for a couple of days...
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ah - does anyone remember the days when Slashdot, in need for a "scoop", would make a release-announcement the moment the ISOs were hitting the main FTP site?
A couple of comments down the original story, JKH would make an angry comment and insist that slashdot stop that practice....
And this why Android will eventually displace IOS as the mobile operating system of choice, those vendors who choose to sell only for Android will be at least 30% less expensive.
Just like PC market-share is increasing every year, because PCs are at least 30% cheaper than Macs?;-)
I don't own an iPad and buying an eBook for my iPhone never seemed too attractive.
Is there actually an iBookstore equivalent on Android?
I think "mobile operating system of choice" may be misleading. Apple will simply continue to siphon-off the top-profits from the market and leave the rest to whomever wants to fight for it.
The crooks just realized that the largest casino is located on the East Coast.
And instead of having to deal with the mob afterwards, they just have angry pensioners and some low-life pension-funds who are basically tooth-less when they can't bribe or strong-arm somebody into what they want him to do.
I worked for a bank auditing company for a while, and installing anything (or any administrative work) was a pure PITA. There was a mandatory "four eyes" principle in effect. Logging in without a second person (every admin login caused a text message to go to all admins, just in case you're wondering whether nobody did it "stealthily") was grounds for instant firing. You would grab a fellow admin (or, if nobody was around, anyone who could "supervise"), fill out a form that you and him are going to log
Jesus Christ.
Did they get anything done at all?
What if there was an emergency-type situation that required a "FFS! GET IT DONE NOW!!!11" type of action?
In theory, with the right tools, with properly maintained servers and a good test and stage-environment, this is the way to go.
In practice, I fear this is going to cause a lot of delays that ultimately leads to the outsourcing of the IT department (users are not satisfied, management thinks it's too expensive and unproductive...).
In Germany, you usually have a 3 or even 6 months notice time - i.e. if you're "fired", the contract goes for another 3 oder 6 months.
Not counting any labour court involvements. If the employer makde a mistake, they either have to give the job back to the employee or buy themselves out of the contract with a ridiculous severance payment....
That would be a very long vacation.
That said, people are put on paid vacation if their job requires a lot of "loyalty" and the employer thinks that the person in question doesn't offer that anymore , after being dismissed....
But you can really only fire people on-the-spot if they are grossly negligent (or if they are only contractors - but they give a contractor the "keys to the kingdom" anyway?
The worst is: people I know, uploading *my* data to Facebook to sync their addressbook against.
I don't even have a f*cking facebook account and can do nothing against it.
We will all pay dearly for this.
But what you describe looks like an ISO layer 8 + 9 problem to me. People and organizations that somehow want "more modern" software but do not want to change their workflows.
Such a project is almost guarranteed to fail IMO.
What if you only send one fax?
It's the equivalent of a post-card protest, IMO.
What few companies seem to realize is that everything can be now "crowd-sourced" in ways never thought to be possible in the past, given enough publicity.
It's only now that this fact is getting a bit more lime-light.
For the obvious reason that it's the cheapest option. Unfortunately.
I'm actually speechless that people on this forum basically claim "I can't see it, it's out on the ocean anyway - so why care?".
Is it only a problem when you can see it?
Though, our planet is in safe hands, it seems.
That's the "I'm feeling lucky" google-fed generation. If it's not on the first page in google results, go and ask in a forum. Though, that's actually old-school, sort-of - people tend to ask in their twitter feed nowadays...
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...why do people insist on buying the family's newspapers and watching their tv-channels?
But the real problem is not reactor design, it's the storage of the goddam nuclear waste!
That problem has not been solved (and is inherently unsolvable, some say).
Also, nuclear power is another example of "socialize the losses, privatize the profit", as the utilities can never be held accountable for losses from radioactive disaster - it's the state who has to pay. The sums set aside by the companies themselves are ridiculous.
The reactors themselves are usually built with subsidies (because it's so expensive) and the deconstruction is also assumed to be paid by the taxpayer.
Such a competition would be very similar to the Apple AppStore (closed (source), strict vetting etc.). All the things people who positively use Android in favor of iOS hate about iOS.
With such a competition, Google would essentially open a "Google Approved" sort-of AppStore themselves.
(Correct me, but AFAIK, Google does not do any kind of vetting for their Android Market other than for basic malware or copyright violation).
The Apple AppStore is just what you suggest: it's a competition, where the best titles win. But for a competition, there must be judges.
Google says, the users are the judges.
Apple says: "We are in charge".
Be smart, have it as some sort of competition with voting, judges, I dunno make some semi interactive system work.
You mean, like the Apple AppStore?
The developers of those would certainly find this "amusing".
Also, few good apps actually come out of such efforts in the end. Maybe 5 of 500.
See Windows Phone....
It depends on how many consumers the are in total.
Not really.
See the smart-phone market. Apple reaps most of the profit of the entire mobile phone-market with a miniscule overall market-share (from producing two different phones (provided the 3GS is still in production) in two different colors and two different sizes of storage-space (and recently with two different kinds of carrier-chips)). Apple doesn't have direct competitors for their products, only indirect competitors (Android-phones, Android tablets, Windows-PCs). But these indirect competitors all compete against each other and basically within one single criterion: the price.
In the end, Android might actually "win" - but few companies will be able to afford "winning" on market-share alone - even less so, when your competition takes all your profit.
IBM somehow realized this some years ago (before everybody else) and got rid of its PC-business. Now Acer has split off the table and smart-phone unit. Do you think there's a pattern?
*snort* No one considers the Air a netbook. If netbooks are famous for anything, it's cheap and small.
You forgot: overall crappy build-quality and cheap appearance.
Which the MacBookAir certainly isn't. You are right - the MBA isn't a Netbook as people know it. It really competes in the ultra-portable notebook segment, where it is actually competitively priced. But that's probably the reason why it sells so well and why, if I'm ever going to buy a SFF-notebook, it's going to be a MBA.
Claiming "cosi fan tutte"?
It's a valid question - he could have used it to to explain the reasoning to the general public.
But no, he walks away, similar to a child that covers the eyes with its hands, claiming that because it can't see you, you can't see it either.
Seriously, with an attitude like this ("If I walk away, the problem ceases to exist"), it's no surprise the company outlook is not great.
I even give him the benefit of the doubt that it's a decision he was and is not happy with (I watched the interview and while I'm an avid consumer of "Lie To Me", I cannot say if the negative/reserved body-language he has is because he hates the interviewer or the subject or the fact that a business-decision he didn't like had to be done for the sake of the shareholders).
Anything would have been less of a PR nightmare than just walking out.
If something goes wrong, e.g. there's a mismatch in names on the csr with what is in whois, all sorts of problems arise.
The chaos in the processes is just mind-boggling sometimes.
I'm glad we have our own CA and can self-sign.
As said, these companies have just been lucky enough to be in the right spot at the right time to have their root-CAs int the browsers.
Interestingly, at least Microsoft has a page detailing the requirements for the CA, should it wish to be part of that list:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc751157.aspx
How does it work for Firefox?
This is only true if you are an iOS Registered Developer which is easy to set up but will cost you $US99 per year. Personally I find this a small price to pay since XCode itself is free whereas compilers used to cost hundreds of dollars, but it annoys other people.
True. But in this world - how can you not annoy some people?
The truth is that by this - admittedly draconian - system, Apple got rid of all the spam and virus problems that dominate the Windows-platform.
In the long run, this will help to cut down spam-levels globally, as people replace PCs with iPads and iPhones.
AFAIK, you can upload any app you want to your iPhone, even without vetting it through Apple Inc. You just have to use Xcode to build and maybe the Enterprise Deployment Kit. You need to know what you do, though - but if you don't, you have no business to install anything outside of the iTMS Appstore anyway.
They might be diffcult to backport... Especially the Safari stuff. I imagine, there are more reasons other than pushing users into buying an iPhone4. Not that this is a good or valid excuse....
A couple of comments down the original story, JKH would make an angry comment and insist that slashdot stop that practice....
Those were the days ....
;-)
And this why Android will eventually displace IOS as the mobile operating system of choice, those vendors who choose to sell only for Android will be at least 30% less expensive.
Just like PC market-share is increasing every year, because PCs are at least 30% cheaper than Macs? ;-)
I don't own an iPad and buying an eBook for my iPhone never seemed too attractive.
Is there actually an iBookstore equivalent on Android?
I think "mobile operating system of choice" may be misleading. Apple will simply continue to siphon-off the top-profits from the market and leave the rest to whomever wants to fight for it.
The crooks just realized that the largest casino is located on the East Coast. And instead of having to deal with the mob afterwards, they just have angry pensioners and some low-life pension-funds who are basically tooth-less when they can't bribe or strong-arm somebody into what they want him to do.
I worked for a bank auditing company for a while, and installing anything (or any administrative work) was a pure PITA. There was a mandatory "four eyes" principle in effect. Logging in without a second person (every admin login caused a text message to go to all admins, just in case you're wondering whether nobody did it "stealthily") was grounds for instant firing. You would grab a fellow admin (or, if nobody was around, anyone who could "supervise"), fill out a form that you and him are going to log
Jesus Christ.
Did they get anything done at all?
What if there was an emergency-type situation that required a "FFS! GET IT DONE NOW!!!11" type of action?
In theory, with the right tools, with properly maintained servers and a good test and stage-environment, this is the way to go.
In practice, I fear this is going to cause a lot of delays that ultimately leads to the outsourcing of the IT department (users are not satisfied, management thinks it's too expensive and unproductive...).
In Germany, you usually have a 3 or even 6 months notice time - i.e. if you're "fired", the contract goes for another 3 oder 6 months.
Not counting any labour court involvements. If the employer makde a mistake, they either have to give the job back to the employee or buy themselves out of the contract with a ridiculous severance payment....
That would be a very long vacation.
That said, people are put on paid vacation if their job requires a lot of "loyalty" and the employer thinks that the person in question doesn't offer that anymore , after being dismissed....
But you can really only fire people on-the-spot if they are grossly negligent (or if they are only contractors - but they give a contractor the "keys to the kingdom" anyway?
The worst is: people I know, uploading *my* data to Facebook to sync their addressbook against. I don't even have a f*cking facebook account and can do nothing against it. We will all pay dearly for this.
But what you describe looks like an ISO layer 8 + 9 problem to me. People and organizations that somehow want "more modern" software but do not want to change their workflows. Such a project is almost guarranteed to fail IMO.
As said In some comment above: with projects like these, it's all about problems at ISO-layer 8 + 9. the software is usually your least concern.
As if anybody really cared about Zimbabwe. Mugabe didn't exactly fall out of the blue sky last year.
What if you only send one fax? It's the equivalent of a post-card protest, IMO. What few companies seem to realize is that everything can be now "crowd-sourced" in ways never thought to be possible in the past, given enough publicity. It's only now that this fact is getting a bit more lime-light.
In fact, I'm glad the App-Store isn't full of single-picture "porn"-apps - would be unusable in a short timeframe.
For the obvious reason that it's the cheapest option. Unfortunately.
I'm actually speechless that people on this forum basically claim "I can't see it, it's out on the ocean anyway - so why care?".
Is it only a problem when you can see it?
Though, our planet is in safe hands, it seems.
http://ejbca.sf.net/
In it's easiest form (everything on one host), it should be easy enough to implement.
That's the "I'm feeling lucky" google-fed generation.
If it's not on the first page in google results, go and ask in a forum.
Though, that's actually old-school, sort-of - people tend to ask in their twitter feed nowadays...