Lame copies are not a replacement for the real thing. This is the basic flaw in all of this nonsense and nonsense like it.
It makes absolutely no sense to attack the enthusiasts that have been keeping your brand alive for years. If you want to "cash in", then license the use of the original ROMs. You could even improve the emulation experience on the platforms you want better visibility on.
The economics of the situation already means that I can BUY some of these movies for less than streaming rental services want to charge me.
Many of the prices industry is trying to charge are simply out of touch with the reality of the market. Never mind pirates.
There's a glut of content out there and it's all got to compete with every thing else for a limited chunk of the nation's disposable cash. Every bad remake needs to compete with the original.
Starz just isn't something that has ever had a "premium" image for me. It's not something I would pay a separate fee for or buy an overpriced "package" to get.
> If you are doing a form of business with your tablet or phone, do you really want to operate in an environment where security is deliberately compromised?
That's a great argument to dump your iPhone for an Android.
The whole reason I had my iPhone jailbroken was because it was painful to use for work in it's stock configuration.
Although a copy of Unix under the control of the end user is far better than what most corporations do with their computing devices.
Clearly there are other factors at play here. It's not just about "hackability". All things being equal, a device that doesn't require iTunes and doesn't actively ban stuff like Flash will be more useful even to n00bs.
The sad part here is that "hackability" is nothing more than the ability to install whatever software you want.
Apple fanboys are trying to radically redefine the term "geek" or "hacker".
> Which is fine, really, considering that all you need for "keyboard and mouse" is just a bluetooth keyboard for the tablets.
Except that is not all that I need by a long stretch.
On a "pack light" trip to Europe, the iPad will be left behind because of it's limitations. Leaving the laptop behind is not an option because we may need to take advantage of a full web browser including flash. The iPad is convenient but redundant.
It's artificial limitations matter in the real world (or real web). It's being left home.
Just present the user interfaces to the user as you want them to be used.
Leave the rest of the system to those that care and would bother. If people are such rubes anyways, they simply aren't going to be able to find the sharp edges that they can cut themselves on. The whole prison lock down thing really isn't necessary.
Nonsense. This is an utter falsehood. Sun and Oracle's markets were by no stretch of the imagination "non overlapping".
You had the problems of excessive vertical integration as well as one direct rival swallowing another. This deal undermined the level of useful diversity in both the enterprise operating systems and RDBMS space. It also impacted a large number of other software projects and led to patent issues. It directly led to collateral damage in a seemingly unrelated market with patent litigation over Java.
The Sun-Oracle deal was nothing but anti-trust issues.
It's good that the other 10% were a bit more enlightened....also makes you wonder about how much people are held back by such internal forces versus external ones.
Been using fail2ban for YEARS to automatically detect and ban brute force ssh cracking attempts....before I knew about fail2ban, I had my own homegrown script that did the same thing. Was pretty easy to cook up too.
Sounds like the sort of thing that you might expect to happen and even guard against with things like fail2ban or a homegrown script that does the same thing.
You would also need to correctly guess a suitable user account too.
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They are also completely interchangeable after market parts.
It's what recordings that aren't available in the iTunes store come on.
You should take your own advice.
Lame copies are not a replacement for the real thing. This is the basic flaw in all of this nonsense and nonsense like it.
It makes absolutely no sense to attack the enthusiasts that have been keeping your brand alive for years. If you want to "cash in", then license the use of the original ROMs. You could even improve the emulation experience on the platforms you want better visibility on.
The economics of the situation already means that I can BUY some of these movies for less than streaming rental services want to charge me.
Many of the prices industry is trying to charge are simply out of touch with the reality of the market. Never mind pirates.
There's a glut of content out there and it's all got to compete with every thing else for a limited chunk of the nation's disposable cash. Every bad remake needs to compete with the original.
Starz just isn't something that has ever had a "premium" image for me. It's not something I would pay a separate fee for or buy an overpriced "package" to get.
Starz is just full of themselves.
They need to get over themselves.
People cut the cord to avoid their egomania.
A laptop and a tablet are about equal on the "packing light" scale.
All you ninnies trying to defend your brand at all costs are funny.
No it isn't. It isn't any more durable and isn't any more resistant to becoming obsolete.
This is just another case of confusing your personal property with certain body parts.
> If you are doing a form of business with your tablet or phone, do you really want to operate in an environment where security is deliberately compromised?
That's a great argument to dump your iPhone for an Android.
The whole reason I had my iPhone jailbroken was because it was painful to use for work in it's stock configuration.
Although a copy of Unix under the control of the end user is far better than what most corporations do with their computing devices.
No.
You would like to believe this and you would like others to believe this but it's really not the case.
Apple is currently an over-hyped conspicuous consumption brand. A lot of iPhone, iPad, and MBA sales are due to that.
Fanboys even like to cultivate this idea by comparing Apple to the likes of BMW. (another conspicuous consumption brand)
Clearly there are other factors at play here. It's not just about "hackability". All things being equal, a device that doesn't require iTunes and doesn't actively ban stuff like Flash will be more useful even to n00bs.
The sad part here is that "hackability" is nothing more than the ability to install whatever software you want.
Apple fanboys are trying to radically redefine the term "geek" or "hacker".
> Which is fine, really, considering that all you need for "keyboard and mouse" is just a bluetooth keyboard for the tablets.
Except that is not all that I need by a long stretch.
On a "pack light" trip to Europe, the iPad will be left behind because of it's limitations. Leaving the laptop behind is not an option because we may need to take advantage of a full web browser including flash. The iPad is convenient but redundant.
It's artificial limitations matter in the real world (or real web). It's being left home.
Why not? It's just data. It's another file format.
If your GUI isn't brain dead, you won't even have to explain it to the end user.
It will "just work".
Do you think that DMG files confuse MacOS users?
The Mac isn't part of this discussion.
Can I program directly on an iDevice? No not really.
You can do so if you jailbreak the device but that is something that will be actively sabotaged by the hardware vendor.
"Personal" computers have always been directly programmable through assembler or basic or C.
They should "think harder" and more frequently.
Giving Microsoft brownie points for being a bunch of lame sandbaggers is just stupid.
It doesn't matter if it's a "purely developer feature".
This sort of idea is old news with Linux. It's old news for Unix in general where everything is a file anyways.
Also, this is the sort of thing that Apple uses to install software with.
So the idea that it's irrelevant to granny is just clueless anti-intellectual nonsense.
The garden doesn't even have to be walled.
Just present the user interfaces to the user as you want them to be used.
Leave the rest of the system to those that care and would bother. If people are such rubes anyways, they simply aren't going to be able to find the sharp edges that they can cut themselves on. The whole prison lock down thing really isn't necessary.
I remember Windows domination quite well.
That's a walk in the park compared to a platform where the likes of GEM, Linux, and GCC can never even get installed.
Nonsense. This is an utter falsehood. Sun and Oracle's markets were by no stretch of the imagination "non overlapping".
You had the problems of excessive vertical integration as well as one direct rival swallowing another. This deal undermined the level of useful diversity in both the enterprise operating systems and RDBMS space. It also impacted a large number of other software projects and led to patent issues. It directly led to collateral damage in a seemingly unrelated market with patent litigation over Java.
The Sun-Oracle deal was nothing but anti-trust issues.
It's good that the other 10% were a bit more enlightened. ...also makes you wonder about how much people are held back by such internal forces versus external ones.
It's trivial to prevent the "twisting" of Dr Kings work without turning the whole thing into a crass money grab.
In 1963 it would have been very hard to propagate an important bit of information if people can't make money on the prospect.
If this attitude had prevailed a couple hundred years earlier, MLK would have been petitioning the Queen.
Been using fail2ban for YEARS to automatically detect and ban brute force ssh cracking attempts. ...before I knew about fail2ban, I had my own homegrown script that did the same thing. Was pretty easy to cook up too.
Sounds like the sort of thing that you might expect to happen and even guard against with things like fail2ban or a homegrown script that does the same thing.
You would also need to correctly guess a suitable user account too.
It's not the fact that Apple is being followed, it's where Apple is trying to follow them.
Locked down systems.
80s style single vendor proprietary approach to just about everything.
Apple is the return of the Commodore 64 with Sony-only brand DVDs for good measure.
Yes. It is a bit of a stretch to call subsequent iphones any more than "hardware refreshes".
"Revolution" doesn't happen at that pace.