And just because some gay author has a knee-jerk reaction about his book being labeled adult does not a systematic oppression make.
Hasn't the world had enough hysterical nonsense trumped up without documented evidence? (I'd ask that question of it was Mac users complaining or members of the NRA.)
A friend of mine has a son who is a major department head at Amazon, and he's gay. So I have to point out this is not a witch hunt against gays. So get off that argument or you'll lose credibility. If you don't like adult materials being put behind a wall, then boycott them. But you better boycott eBay and a lot of other places too.
Being a journalist, I'm against censorship. And yet I also have to point out people have no right to tell any store what they can and can't sell. Amazon is not alone. So, check things out or you're as big a hypocrite as you claim Amazon is.
Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like. People think it's this veneer - that the designers are handed this box and told, âMake it look good!â(TM) Thatâ(TM)s not what we think design is. Itâ(TM)s not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works. â" Steve Jobs
NetFlix is nuts not to go with Quicktime and h.264, or some of the new web technologies that don't require any plug-ins at all in HTML 5, CSS animation, etc.
Silverlight is a joke, will never become ubiquitous, and will NEVER replace flash, let along become a modern standard.
At what point does this end though? You can't own a fact.
It's currently raining in NY (c) AP 2009?
You obviously don't understand the issue. They are not trying to copyright facts, but the expression of those facts, which is, in fact, copyrightable. A photograph would fit this description. And it's clear a photograph can be, and should be, copyrighted. As long as this is a capitalistic country, the ability to make money from one's own efforts must be protected.
How do we know trillions of big bangs and eventual collapses haven't occurred> More than trillions? Nobody would be around to notice until life appeared. So, as Stephen Hawking has said, the way the universe is has nothing to do with our perception of it (anthropic principle a modern version of Plato's cave?), but has everything to do with we're here because this particular universe happened to be the one that came into existence that did support life?
A scientist friend at the Salk Institute and I have talked about string theory over and over and we simply find it an absurd idea that has no connection to reality. It's a thought experiment that hasn't yielded a real explanation for anything. So anything derived from string theory is going to be flawed as well.
The fact that you can come up with an explanation for a universe that doesn't require a creator is no more proof than waving a book in the air and declaring it the infallible word of God because the book itself says so.
Woz is an economist now? Read his autobiography. Language of a 10 year old.
A smart one, no doubt, but the guy knows how to put circuits together. It certainly doesn't qualify him to comment on economics any more than the Bush Administration can comment on separation of powers.
When they were setting up their 3G network in Europe 10 years ago, they had the same problem.
But it's guaranteed/. readers will, like Pavlov's dog, use all the old memes to vent their spleens about their hatred for all things Apple, and Apple users. Talk about the cultists being predictable, they can't hold a candle to/. readers and their army of straw men.
I give our video people my photos all the time. Photographs (mine are 16.7 megapixel) have much higher resolution. They use FinalCut Pro which allows for seamless inclusion of photos in the workflow.
This isn't a new idea. Good to see it becoming more common.
Talk about old news. This is to protect people so that applications can't locate them via GPS. Imagine if anyone could track you!
So, not only is this old news that has already been answered, it's a Chicken Little story to begin with.
Apple can do fine without Jobs. At least for several years. Their pipeline is deep with coming products for one thing. Not only that, Jobs has had plenty of time to prepare Apple for his departure - and apparently he has a long time to go - no thanks to the breathless press and tech rumor mongers.
This is really getting old with people repeating nonsense memes that have no connection to reality.
Tim Cook can run the company just fine. Jonathan Ivy isn't going anywhere. Where else is he going to find a place that users his designs so well? There is no other place to go. Everyone thinks Jobs is the brains behind all of Apple's designs, but he's mostly the foil for Ivy's ideas. Those ideas won't stop coming when Jobs leaves. Ivy's long list of awards for his work are proof of that.
How does one define having schadenfreude that is exercised before the event for which it is being enjoyed?
Pre-schadenfreude?
Prognostischadenfreude?
You really don't know what you're talking about. Steve Jobs gives credit to his employees at every single public event he has a chance to.
Sure he's tough. Some of my best bosses were tough. People get lazy if they're coddled.
Compare Apple to any other company and you'll see that there are reasons people work there and why they won't work anywhere else. They obviously don't have any problem getting people to apply for the jobs they have open. They don't have thousands and thousands of engineers to begin with.
That's Microsoft's problem. Too many people doing too little different work. As the old saying goes, a camel is a horse designed by a committee. (I won't bother saying what the "horse" is in this context.)
Yeah, that greedy Apple had the nerve to charge $1 per port for their intellectual property. That sure made Firewire drives LOTS more expensive! Holy smokes, how did hard drive makers survive?
And then they finally popularized USB with the iMac, forcing peripheral makers to finally use something besides PS2 connectors for, mice, ancient connectors for printers, etc. PC makers had USB first, but few companies made USB peripherals until about six months after the iMac came out. Why? Because they didn't need to. Apple took the other ports off the iMac and forced them to make USB peripherals. And that was when Apple was in bad shape!
Later, USB 2 was marketed as fast as Firewire, even though in reality it's much slower than Firewire 400, let alone 800. Leave it to those who don't develop technology to market their products as better rather than actually MAKE them better.
Yep, Apple is worse than Microsoft. Ignore that Apple's Server OS has unlimited client licenses. That they use lots of open source software and have contributed significantly to open source through Webkit, Bonjour, etc. They're just as greedy as Microsoft. Uh huh.
There is no such thing as fair use as a right. It's a principle applied to copyright law as interpreted by courts.
The problem is too many people think they can just take other people's work and call it fair use. The Drudge report's activities preclude any reasonable person saying that their use of AP reports, which news organizations pay multiple tens of thousands of dollars a year to use, is fair use. Snippets yes - a paragraph or two - but no more should be considered fair use.
Of course, there's the issue of whether Drudge is a news organization, or a propaganda mouthpiece for the right. Or just a Fleet Street style gossip rag.
No, but it's well known that fusion doesn't create the same toxic waste as fission reactions. The radiation that might be generated because of the fusion is containable in the structure it's operating in. But there is no long-term waste that lasts for thousands of years. That's why fusion is such a holy grail, and why so many frauds want to trade on the name.
Fusion that doesn't require stable plasma? Sounds like another "cold fusion" to me. Besides, what dope thinks fusion causes dangerous radiation to begin with?
I had a conversation with Edward Teller back in '96 or '97 about the feasibility of commercial fusion reactors. He didn't think technology would give us a commercially viable reactor until about 2025. There are too many problems to overcome in the meantime.
And I'll go with the word of a man who actually did something in the area of theoretical physics rather than some person with all sorts of wild claims and who writes ludicrous books like "The Big Bang Never Happened." All he proves is there are suckers born every minute!
This NOT new idea that people keep alluding to but never get to actually calling it was it was at first is the "digital hub." Steve Jobs introduced it at MacWorld quite a few years ago. Probably the 2002 MacWorld if I remember correctly. That was right after the introduction of the iPod.
I remember it clearly not because of what Jobs said, but because Bill Gates pretended to introduce, the very next at CES, the concept of... yep, you guessed it... the "digital hub." Like everyone in the room had no idea Steve Jobs talked it up exactly one week before that. I laughed pretty hard at that one. Of course, a few months later, Paul Thurrott (or was it Rob Enderle?) tried to pretend like Steve Jobs copied Gates. Typical MS astroturfers.
But as for Forrester, the author really shows how clueless they are. Alarm clocks? Like that hasn't already been done to death in iPod accessories by ever unimaginative gadget-maker out there? Shoot, I had the same alarm clock I bought my first day of grad school in 2004. They just don't turn over enough to justify the Apple treatment.
Now some kind of wireless infrastructure from alarm clocks, to garage door openers, to starting coffee in the morning and watering the lawn, waking the kids, and topping off the charge to the electric car - and plays each person's choice of music and starts the shower at the right temperature, then puts an order in at the Danish Bakery for some almond bear claws - now that would be something Apple might be able to innovate so that it's easy to do from your iPhone. But did this dope at Forrester say that? Nope.
The truth usually surfaces? That's a half glass full way of looking at it.
But people still perpetuate the nonsense that Gore claimed he invented the Internet. People still claim the Swift Boat Veterans were right.
It's like people couldn't care less about the truth, as long as their own personal favorite wins, regardless of the long-term cost for lying. The Internet only makes it worse by turning the lies on us like a fire hose. How are people to sort out the truth?
But you're right, in theory that's how it works. As Waltern Lippman said, "The theory of a free press is that truth will emerge from free discussion, not that it will be presented perfectly and instantly in any one account." Unfortunately people love to use the "one account" to "prove" the object of their hatred deserves it.
Robert is a friend of mine. Has been for almost 20 years. And I can confirm this is real as far as he is concerned, and he's done his best to confirm its veractiy. It's not a fake. And such accusations without proof are libelous (being in written form), no doubt based on jealousy, not to mention is basically irrational.
Yeah, just read the above post and you can see irrational hatred is everywhere, has always been there and regardless of whether it's deserved or not, people with axes to grind will always tilt at windmills.
Of course! I forgot about webhits. Dice® The Career Hub for Tech Insiders® needs to pay so Slashdot can continue to thrive. (Or Small Dog Electronics the Apple Specialist - how contextually appropriate - which popped up when I did a preview.)
My bad.
The main difference between Apple and other companies is who they design products for. Most companies try to identify a market segment, work out what people in that segment want to buy, and then produce a product for that market. In other words, making products for the least common denominator. Apple makes products that everyone at Apple likes, but end up only making it out the door if Steve Jobs likes it. That's different than making them for Steve Jobs. All the people at the top have input, but in the end Jobs approves is. A subtle difference to be sure. As people point out, some things don't succeed. The Cube, the iPod Hifi, etc. But most of the time things are moderate to screaming successes.
But the result is a company that uncannily makes products that people, without an axe to grind, can appreciate for being better than the average product.
When I look at he PC ecosystem, the phrase that comes to mind is, "A camel is a horse designed by a committee." Thank goodness the committee at Apple is small!
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And just because some gay author has a knee-jerk reaction about his book being labeled adult does not a systematic oppression make. Hasn't the world had enough hysterical nonsense trumped up without documented evidence? (I'd ask that question of it was Mac users complaining or members of the NRA.)
A friend of mine has a son who is a major department head at Amazon, and he's gay. So I have to point out this is not a witch hunt against gays. So get off that argument or you'll lose credibility. If you don't like adult materials being put behind a wall, then boycott them. But you better boycott eBay and a lot of other places too. Being a journalist, I'm against censorship. And yet I also have to point out people have no right to tell any store what they can and can't sell. Amazon is not alone. So, check things out or you're as big a hypocrite as you claim Amazon is.
Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like. People think it's this veneer - that the designers are handed this box and told, âMake it look good!â(TM) Thatâ(TM)s not what we think design is. Itâ(TM)s not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works. â" Steve Jobs
NetFlix is nuts not to go with Quicktime and h.264, or some of the new web technologies that don't require any plug-ins at all in HTML 5, CSS animation, etc. Silverlight is a joke, will never become ubiquitous, and will NEVER replace flash, let along become a modern standard.
At what point does this end though? You can't own a fact.
It's currently raining in NY (c) AP 2009?
You obviously don't understand the issue. They are not trying to copyright facts, but the expression of those facts, which is, in fact, copyrightable. A photograph would fit this description. And it's clear a photograph can be, and should be, copyrighted. As long as this is a capitalistic country, the ability to make money from one's own efforts must be protected.
How do we know trillions of big bangs and eventual collapses haven't occurred> More than trillions? Nobody would be around to notice until life appeared. So, as Stephen Hawking has said, the way the universe is has nothing to do with our perception of it (anthropic principle a modern version of Plato's cave?), but has everything to do with we're here because this particular universe happened to be the one that came into existence that did support life? A scientist friend at the Salk Institute and I have talked about string theory over and over and we simply find it an absurd idea that has no connection to reality. It's a thought experiment that hasn't yielded a real explanation for anything. So anything derived from string theory is going to be flawed as well. The fact that you can come up with an explanation for a universe that doesn't require a creator is no more proof than waving a book in the air and declaring it the infallible word of God because the book itself says so.
Woz is an economist now? Read his autobiography. Language of a 10 year old. A smart one, no doubt, but the guy knows how to put circuits together. It certainly doesn't qualify him to comment on economics any more than the Bush Administration can comment on separation of powers.
When they were setting up their 3G network in Europe 10 years ago, they had the same problem. But it's guaranteed /. readers will, like Pavlov's dog, use all the old memes to vent their spleens about their hatred for all things Apple, and Apple users. Talk about the cultists being predictable, they can't hold a candle to /. readers and their army of straw men.
I give our video people my photos all the time. Photographs (mine are 16.7 megapixel) have much higher resolution. They use FinalCut Pro which allows for seamless inclusion of photos in the workflow. This isn't a new idea. Good to see it becoming more common.
Talk about old news. This is to protect people so that applications can't locate them via GPS. Imagine if anyone could track you! So, not only is this old news that has already been answered, it's a Chicken Little story to begin with.
Apple can do fine without Jobs. At least for several years. Their pipeline is deep with coming products for one thing. Not only that, Jobs has had plenty of time to prepare Apple for his departure - and apparently he has a long time to go - no thanks to the breathless press and tech rumor mongers. This is really getting old with people repeating nonsense memes that have no connection to reality. Tim Cook can run the company just fine. Jonathan Ivy isn't going anywhere. Where else is he going to find a place that users his designs so well? There is no other place to go. Everyone thinks Jobs is the brains behind all of Apple's designs, but he's mostly the foil for Ivy's ideas. Those ideas won't stop coming when Jobs leaves. Ivy's long list of awards for his work are proof of that. How does one define having schadenfreude that is exercised before the event for which it is being enjoyed? Pre-schadenfreude? Prognostischadenfreude?
Sure he's tough. Some of my best bosses were tough. People get lazy if they're coddled.
Compare Apple to any other company and you'll see that there are reasons people work there and why they won't work anywhere else. They obviously don't have any problem getting people to apply for the jobs they have open. They don't have thousands and thousands of engineers to begin with.
That's Microsoft's problem. Too many people doing too little different work. As the old saying goes, a camel is a horse designed by a committee. (I won't bother saying what the "horse" is in this context.)
So I suppose a bumper sticker saying "Somewhere in Texas, a village is missing its idiot," might cause problems around über-conservative San Diego?
And then they finally popularized USB with the iMac, forcing peripheral makers to finally use something besides PS2 connectors for, mice, ancient connectors for printers, etc. PC makers had USB first, but few companies made USB peripherals until about six months after the iMac came out. Why? Because they didn't need to. Apple took the other ports off the iMac and forced them to make USB peripherals. And that was when Apple was in bad shape!
Later, USB 2 was marketed as fast as Firewire, even though in reality it's much slower than Firewire 400, let alone 800. Leave it to those who don't develop technology to market their products as better rather than actually MAKE them better.
Yep, Apple is worse than Microsoft. Ignore that Apple's Server OS has unlimited client licenses. That they use lots of open source software and have contributed significantly to open source through Webkit, Bonjour, etc. They're just as greedy as Microsoft. Uh huh.
There is no such thing as fair use as a right. It's a principle applied to copyright law as interpreted by courts. The problem is too many people think they can just take other people's work and call it fair use. The Drudge report's activities preclude any reasonable person saying that their use of AP reports, which news organizations pay multiple tens of thousands of dollars a year to use, is fair use. Snippets yes - a paragraph or two - but no more should be considered fair use. Of course, there's the issue of whether Drudge is a news organization, or a propaganda mouthpiece for the right. Or just a Fleet Street style gossip rag.
No, that would be painful. You have to be pretty out of touch with reality to not know the long-term benefits of fusion over fission.
No, but it's well known that fusion doesn't create the same toxic waste as fission reactions. The radiation that might be generated because of the fusion is containable in the structure it's operating in. But there is no long-term waste that lasts for thousands of years. That's why fusion is such a holy grail, and why so many frauds want to trade on the name.
I had a conversation with Edward Teller back in '96 or '97 about the feasibility of commercial fusion reactors. He didn't think technology would give us a commercially viable reactor until about 2025. There are too many problems to overcome in the meantime.
And I'll go with the word of a man who actually did something in the area of theoretical physics rather than some person with all sorts of wild claims and who writes ludicrous books like "The Big Bang Never Happened." All he proves is there are suckers born every minute!
This NOT new idea that people keep alluding to but never get to actually calling it was it was at first is the "digital hub." Steve Jobs introduced it at MacWorld quite a few years ago. Probably the 2002 MacWorld if I remember correctly. That was right after the introduction of the iPod. I remember it clearly not because of what Jobs said, but because Bill Gates pretended to introduce, the very next at CES, the concept of... yep, you guessed it... the "digital hub." Like everyone in the room had no idea Steve Jobs talked it up exactly one week before that. I laughed pretty hard at that one. Of course, a few months later, Paul Thurrott (or was it Rob Enderle?) tried to pretend like Steve Jobs copied Gates. Typical MS astroturfers. But as for Forrester, the author really shows how clueless they are. Alarm clocks? Like that hasn't already been done to death in iPod accessories by ever unimaginative gadget-maker out there? Shoot, I had the same alarm clock I bought my first day of grad school in 2004. They just don't turn over enough to justify the Apple treatment. Now some kind of wireless infrastructure from alarm clocks, to garage door openers, to starting coffee in the morning and watering the lawn, waking the kids, and topping off the charge to the electric car - and plays each person's choice of music and starts the shower at the right temperature, then puts an order in at the Danish Bakery for some almond bear claws - now that would be something Apple might be able to innovate so that it's easy to do from your iPhone. But did this dope at Forrester say that? Nope.
Shakespeare is long out from under copyright. It's public domain.
The truth usually surfaces? That's a half glass full way of looking at it. But people still perpetuate the nonsense that Gore claimed he invented the Internet. People still claim the Swift Boat Veterans were right. It's like people couldn't care less about the truth, as long as their own personal favorite wins, regardless of the long-term cost for lying. The Internet only makes it worse by turning the lies on us like a fire hose. How are people to sort out the truth? But you're right, in theory that's how it works. As Waltern Lippman said, "The theory of a free press is that truth will emerge from free discussion, not that it will be presented perfectly and instantly in any one account." Unfortunately people love to use the "one account" to "prove" the object of their hatred deserves it.
Robert is a friend of mine. Has been for almost 20 years. And I can confirm this is real as far as he is concerned, and he's done his best to confirm its veractiy. It's not a fake. And such accusations without proof are libelous (being in written form), no doubt based on jealousy, not to mention is basically irrational.
Yeah, just read the above post and you can see irrational hatred is everywhere, has always been there and regardless of whether it's deserved or not, people with axes to grind will always tilt at windmills.
Of course! I forgot about webhits. Dice® The Career Hub for Tech Insiders® needs to pay so Slashdot can continue to thrive. (Or Small Dog Electronics the Apple Specialist - how contextually appropriate - which popped up when I did a preview.) My bad.