I run multiple tabs in multiple windows on Firefox on my work PC running XP that I keep open all week. I only shutdown on Friday evenings. I haven't had a problem since 3.6. I use adblock, noscript and WOT and I'm currently on 5.0. What version are you running? Maybe it's something else going on.
Android's API includes a number of functions for causing various hardware malfunctions. They are designed for use by the carriers. The carriers occasionally invoke them in order to increase their sales. Apple & RIM lock their phones down. The carriers can't mess with them, so they don't accrue these benefits. Sound good?
So if you find your partner in the arms of an IT vendor, is it your fault or your partner's? Maybe you've just grown apart or become complacent? Can counseling save this relationship? Do we need to see Dr. Phil?
The other groups in the business are not my customers. They are my partners. If I were a consultant, ASP, cloud provider, or other vendor, my interests would be in making money for my company, not doing what is best for my customer. Sometimes the interests of the customer and the vendor coincide, but often they do not. A lot of vendors rake in tons of money doing whatever is asked of them with little or no regard for how bad it is or will be for their customer. That may please some clueless manager who is trying to look good, but it's not good for our employer. As a partner I have to care about our common employer. I have to be willing to push back when they want to do something stupid - something that is against the best interests of our company. That's in part what I'm paid to do. That's why we have an IT department.
That being said, I'm not advocating being a surly, snotty pain in the ass - a Mordac. We have to work to understand the requirements and challenges of our partners and help all of us through them. It's like a marriage. It takes work.
I am an old person (58) and I don't find an iPad any more difficult than any computer. I pop on the reading glasses and go. Now, I'm a life long techie, so I'm not the best judge of the intuitiveness of the interface; however, my non-techie wife, her friends and siblings (all late fifties and early sixties), her father and step-mother (80's) all seem to find the iPad to be very intuitive and easy to use. They all had real problems with Macs and Windows PCs - I know because I'm tech support - but once they got iPads they've taken off. I'm amazed. I can't explain it, but I'm not the interface genius Johnny Ives is. Frankly, these non-techie geezers find the iPad to be more intuitive than I do. That's in part because I'm so comfortable with a keyboard and mouse and they are not. Its baggage I bring to the table in terms of expectations of how things should work. They are unfettered because they never "got" the PC interface (Mac or Windows) that well in the first place. I'm finding all this to be fascinating.
The iPhone, as I wrote, does not need the PC anymore so you are talking about synching the PC and a Mac or just a PC. You didn't have much from Apple in the way of support for this before iCloud and the introduction of iCloud doesn't remove any capabilities that you had before. So, you aren't going to get the latest and greatest new stuff because you are still running a 10 year old operating system that is out of support. What's the big deal? What did you lose? Get used to the fact that after some point, new stuff won't support every ancient OS or platform that exists. You didn't have iCloud before and you won't have it in the future without an upgrade, but your iTunes still works and still synchs with your iThings just as it did before. Besides, I was responding to the concern about Granny and her old PC. I take it you are not Granny.
With iCloud and iOS5, Grannie can buy an iPad and toss the PC she never learned how to use or manage. iOS5 will use iCloud instead of depending on an iTunes client running on a Mac or Windows PC.
Successful as a CEO is increasing the value of the company. Successful as an investor is increasing your personal net worth. Jobs is a more successful CEO. Gates was more successful at personal enrichment as an investor. To me it seems that Gates sees money as the marker of success while Jobs is more interested in "creating cool things".
True, but you can get it all free if you shop around. I use USAA Federal Savings Bank and I don't pay to use anybody's ATM. There are no fees for the account either. I've seen other internet banks offering the same or similar deal. Often a regular direct deposit from a paycheck or social security or whatever is required.
Apple is first and foremost a hardware company that uses software and services to give it a competitive advantage selling hardware. Canonical is a services company that uses open source software to advance its services business. App stores, clouds and streaming are not unique to Apple or central to its business.
Right. I was going to post separately complaining about how software and business concept patents are a bigger impediment to innovation. Your comment throws them all together as an IP problem and I agree with you.
You don't have much experience with iPad and iPhone apps, do you? First of all there are a number of apps that only run on the iPad and secondly, quality apps that have been optimized for the iPad - which includes those that have code for both the phone and the pad - work much differently. I've evaluated about 120 serious iPad applications now for my company and a larger number of iPhone apps. Screen size and form factor does matter. An iPhone app that just zooms to fill an iPad screen doesn't take advantage of the larger screen. On an iPad you typically see side menus (in landscape) and other handy navigation features. There is more and more useful multi-media content included in the news apps. I have apps that I can use to design or decorate houses and apartments, do mind maps, UML, spreadsheets (serious ones), documents, etc., analytics, graphics and data visualization and more. None of these apps make sense on phone form factor. You can't put enough content and UI on the screen at one time to satisfy anyone. With a 9 or 10 inch screen you can.
People who think that an iPad is a bigger iPod touch are too clueless to be allowed to work in IT, unfortunately a number of them seem to be working in desktop services. Android tablets seriously need apps like what is available on the iPad if they are to compete. Without the apps, no one cares about the operating system or the hardware.
I remember a number of conversations about color displays from 1982 and 1983 when I was in the PC industry. The nerds and geeks, like me, pointed how much sharper the green screen monitors were. They had much higher resolutions and could display more information faster. Who needed color when we gray scales could just as clearly convey the same information in a pie or bar chart. Color displays, who needs them? You only get 320x200 pixels (versus 800x600) and they're expensive. On a per pixel basis they were an order of magnitude more expensive. Just a fad.
The business types were all enamored with the color though and insisted on it. Especially the people in sales and marketing, idiots. It's a fad, just wait and see.
BTW, isn't Microsoft the company that thought 640k was more than you'd ever need?
The TV content providers are objecting to cable companies streaming their shows to iPads and other "non TV" devices in the home, even though they are being paid for that content. I don't understand their argument, but their logic is unmistakable; they want more money, more money, more money. I hope Amazon wins this thing on very broad grounds. I don't mind paying for content, but once and only once and for any device I own.
Buggywhip manufacturers can't stop S&M! S&M is the wave (or whip) of the future. They can litigate if they wish, but if we choose to repurpose our buggywhips in the privacy of our own homes, they can't stop us. I'll pirate a buggywhip if I have to. I can get one through bitetorment.
So how is the simple act of establishing a person's identity make for a police state? Establishing identity can protect the innocent from false charges or the inconvenience (or trauma) of a bad arrest. Everything that has power whether it is technology or sex or parental or religious authority or anything else, even Slashdot, can be used for good or for evil. If you hyperventilate about every new tool and leap to the conclusion that it will be used for evil then you will never have time to enjoy the short life you have been given. Take a chill pill.
It is the job of police to work among civilians. The military tries to stay away from them. Law abiding citizens are not the enemy, but criminals are. They are enemies of the citizens. If the police can more effectively identify the enemy mingling with the citizens then they can remove the enemy and the threat they pose to the citizen. A tool that helps police be effective while minimizing the inconvenience to law abiding citizens, such as not hauling them to the station because of who they look like, sounds good to me.
How often does an officer just happen to spot someone and recall that they look like a career criminal murderer/child rapist with well-established alias and fake ID who doesn't even take basic steps to disguise himself?
Often. People with disguises are often more recognizable than they realize. Think cutting your hair and wearing a hat makes you unrecognizable?
The officer's job is to deal with crimes in process or to execute arrest warrants. The latter happens by having a good idea of the whereabouts of a suspected criminal and going to arrest him, not by fortuitously spotting him in the street...
Wrong. You concept of police work is other worldly, to put it mildly. First of all, there would be an arrest warrant out in my scenario, but police are charged with seeking out and finding suspects even when no formal arrest warrant has been issued. Police are also supposed to prevent crime. Cops aren't there just to clean up the mess after the fact. In fact, that is often seems the case is a major source of citizen frustration. Police are supposed to detect and investigate crimes as well. Do you know why they have titles like "detective" and "inspector"?
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I run multiple tabs in multiple windows on Firefox on my work PC running XP that I keep open all week. I only shutdown on Friday evenings. I haven't had a problem since 3.6. I use adblock, noscript and WOT and I'm currently on 5.0. What version are you running? Maybe it's something else going on.
Android's API includes a number of functions for causing various hardware malfunctions. They are designed for use by the carriers. The carriers occasionally invoke them in order to increase their sales. Apple & RIM lock their phones down. The carriers can't mess with them, so they don't accrue these benefits. Sound good?
So if you find your partner in the arms of an IT vendor, is it your fault or your partner's? Maybe you've just grown apart or become complacent? Can counseling save this relationship? Do we need to see Dr. Phil?
That being said, I'm not advocating being a surly, snotty pain in the ass - a Mordac. We have to work to understand the requirements and challenges of our partners and help all of us through them. It's like a marriage. It takes work.
I am an old person (58) and I don't find an iPad any more difficult than any computer. I pop on the reading glasses and go. Now, I'm a life long techie, so I'm not the best judge of the intuitiveness of the interface; however, my non-techie wife, her friends and siblings (all late fifties and early sixties), her father and step-mother (80's) all seem to find the iPad to be very intuitive and easy to use. They all had real problems with Macs and Windows PCs - I know because I'm tech support - but once they got iPads they've taken off. I'm amazed. I can't explain it, but I'm not the interface genius Johnny Ives is. Frankly, these non-techie geezers find the iPad to be more intuitive than I do. That's in part because I'm so comfortable with a keyboard and mouse and they are not. Its baggage I bring to the table in terms of expectations of how things should work. They are unfettered because they never "got" the PC interface (Mac or Windows) that well in the first place. I'm finding all this to be fascinating.
The iPhone, as I wrote, does not need the PC anymore so you are talking about synching the PC and a Mac or just a PC. You didn't have much from Apple in the way of support for this before iCloud and the introduction of iCloud doesn't remove any capabilities that you had before. So, you aren't going to get the latest and greatest new stuff because you are still running a 10 year old operating system that is out of support. What's the big deal? What did you lose? Get used to the fact that after some point, new stuff won't support every ancient OS or platform that exists. You didn't have iCloud before and you won't have it in the future without an upgrade, but your iTunes still works and still synchs with your iThings just as it did before. Besides, I was responding to the concern about Granny and her old PC. I take it you are not Granny.
You missed the point about iCloud. Why would you want it if you didn't have an iPad or iPhone?
With iCloud and iOS5, Grannie can buy an iPad and toss the PC she never learned how to use or manage. iOS5 will use iCloud instead of depending on an iTunes client running on a Mac or Windows PC.
Successful as a CEO is increasing the value of the company. Successful as an investor is increasing your personal net worth. Jobs is a more successful CEO. Gates was more successful at personal enrichment as an investor. To me it seems that Gates sees money as the marker of success while Jobs is more interested in "creating cool things".
And your text will be reviewed to determine its worthiness. Also, Apple keeps 30% of your words.
And you were trying to be what? Pedantic?
True, but you can get it all free if you shop around. I use USAA Federal Savings Bank and I don't pay to use anybody's ATM. There are no fees for the account either. I've seen other internet banks offering the same or similar deal. Often a regular direct deposit from a paycheck or social security or whatever is required.
You had a TV? You were lucky. All I had was a snow globe. You probably had an electronic calculator too, didn't you. Spoiled rich kid.
Osama had an iPhone and it kept track of his location. Good job, Steve!
Apple is first and foremost a hardware company that uses software and services to give it a competitive advantage selling hardware. Canonical is a services company that uses open source software to advance its services business. App stores, clouds and streaming are not unique to Apple or central to its business.
Right. I was going to post separately complaining about how software and business concept patents are a bigger impediment to innovation. Your comment throws them all together as an IP problem and I agree with you.
People who think that an iPad is a bigger iPod touch are too clueless to be allowed to work in IT, unfortunately a number of them seem to be working in desktop services. Android tablets seriously need apps like what is available on the iPad if they are to compete. Without the apps, no one cares about the operating system or the hardware.
The business types were all enamored with the color though and insisted on it. Especially the people in sales and marketing, idiots. It's a fad, just wait and see.
BTW, isn't Microsoft the company that thought 640k was more than you'd ever need?
The TV content providers are objecting to cable companies streaming their shows to iPads and other "non TV" devices in the home, even though they are being paid for that content. I don't understand their argument, but their logic is unmistakable; they want more money, more money, more money. I hope Amazon wins this thing on very broad grounds. I don't mind paying for content, but once and only once and for any device I own.
Buggywhip manufacturers can't stop S&M! S&M is the wave (or whip) of the future. They can litigate if they wish, but if we choose to repurpose our buggywhips in the privacy of our own homes, they can't stop us. I'll pirate a buggywhip if I have to. I can get one through bitetorment.
Linux? I heard that last year was the "year of the Linux desktop" or something.
Yes. Ten years ago the Mac OS was a dying niche. Now it's a thriving niche.
So how is the simple act of establishing a person's identity make for a police state? Establishing identity can protect the innocent from false charges or the inconvenience (or trauma) of a bad arrest. Everything that has power whether it is technology or sex or parental or religious authority or anything else, even Slashdot, can be used for good or for evil. If you hyperventilate about every new tool and leap to the conclusion that it will be used for evil then you will never have time to enjoy the short life you have been given. Take a chill pill.
It is the job of police to work among civilians. The military tries to stay away from them. Law abiding citizens are not the enemy, but criminals are. They are enemies of the citizens. If the police can more effectively identify the enemy mingling with the citizens then they can remove the enemy and the threat they pose to the citizen. A tool that helps police be effective while minimizing the inconvenience to law abiding citizens, such as not hauling them to the station because of who they look like, sounds good to me.
How often does an officer just happen to spot someone and recall that they look like a career criminal murderer/child rapist with well-established alias and fake ID who doesn't even take basic steps to disguise himself?
Often. People with disguises are often more recognizable than they realize. Think cutting your hair and wearing a hat makes you unrecognizable?
The officer's job is to deal with crimes in process or to execute arrest warrants. The latter happens by having a good idea of the whereabouts of a suspected criminal and going to arrest him, not by fortuitously spotting him in the street...
Wrong. You concept of police work is other worldly, to put it mildly. First of all, there would be an arrest warrant out in my scenario, but police are charged with seeking out and finding suspects even when no formal arrest warrant has been issued. Police are also supposed to prevent crime. Cops aren't there just to clean up the mess after the fact. In fact, that is often seems the case is a major source of citizen frustration. Police are supposed to detect and investigate crimes as well. Do you know why they have titles like "detective" and "inspector"?