1) I'm Scottish 2) I live in New Zealand 3) "danke", "ja","nein" & "ich liebe dich" are the only words of German I know. Can I still move there?:) 4) I was being ironic and making a point which you obvious missed. Maybe it's the mountains, you always get poor reception up there.
I was about to start throwing my weight around in here, moderating up/down, but then I realised I could face legal consequences for endorsing anyones views.:-/
It's not really a legal issue but the very sad case of a mother unwilling to let go of her child and what remains of the child's life. I'm a father and I think I'd probably struggle to let go of anything of a life that I had created, loved and cared for. A virtual online persona, in this case, has become the bedroom of the deceased that the mother wants to lock, preserve and occasionally visit when the grieving gets tough. If, like someone else commented, she had the password for the account she's almost certainly already been through it looking for answers. Some very good insightful comments on here from others about needing to protect the privacy of the living who were friends. Still my heart goes out to the family.
Apps are the scourge of software engineering and developers. There's little or no value in spending significant time working on them, certainly not as an indie. If you want to teach App dev then focus it on game development with the outcome of a job in an industry that makes about the only money there is in apps. Otherwise fix the broken attitude of the smart phone endowed public to not expect, or demand, everything for free. Grudging handing over the small change they'd happily give a busker or beggar on the streets in exchange for hard work and something they want and will use.
Legislation only removes objects, even virtual and intangible, from the law abiding public. Not from those outside the law who will carry on doing what they do. Manchester was someone outside of the law and this crackdown does nothing, yet again, to prevent re-occurance. Government's cause terrorism, who in turn target the public for voting them in. You end up feeling like the pig in the middle between both extremists (legislative & violent).
If you really -must- use your laptop en-route to the US from Europe then Iceland Air, with a little stop over in Keflavik, should at least give you screen time for the 1st half of the journey. Plus you can go take a dip in the blue lagoon in between flights.:)
This is just another nail in the coffin for US airlines. I stopped flying via the US (NZ - UK) due to the un-necessary harassment travellers have to endure just changing flights in the US, let alone entering the country. I fly via Dubai with Emirates.
I've been wearing an automatic Swiss watch for years now. It's needing a service though, when I take it off before bed it's dead in the morning. I write Apps and I thought I'd buy a 2nd hand Apple Watch to try it out and see if I could do anything with my own Apps on it. Wasn't convinced when it first came out but now that you can pick up a series 1 for 1/4 of it's price new it's not too risky to try, i could punt it on again. So I got a stainless steel 42mm S1 for under $200 The battery on this used watch lasts a whole day easily, I take it off and put it on the charger when I go to bed. Better than the Swiss watch. The health monitoring is neat, I like that it reminds you stand up, take a breath and move my ass if I've been sitting coding too long. I feel like I can leave the phone and I don't carry it around as much. Phone calls aren't missed, I like that I can answer them on my wrist. It's the little things about it that I've come to appreciate that my very nice Swiss automatic doesn't do. Cooking dinner, I set a timer so I can leave the kitchen and that tap on the wrist when I need to return is really handy. Logging into PayPal, which I do a lot for work, I have 2 step verification and the Symantec VIP app on the watch is so much quicker than using the phone. The smart watch isn't a smart phone and never will be. It's probably not for everyone but anyone who hasn't tried it probably shouldn't critique it until they've tried it. It's one of those things that until you've tried it and had one for at least a month you probably won't get the point of it. I just can't see myself going back to the Swiss automatic.
I like making things and I have an appreciation for Artisans. Bread, coffee, hand made stuff from wood, pottery etc. What I see in Apple is a company that's taken the Artisan approach to details and aesthetics in their products and delivered it on a massive scale. If we hadn't had Apple and Jobs we'd still be buying IT equipment encased in ugly cheap plastics with the focus on MHz/Ghz and other meaningless numbers.
Tablets, from my family and my own perspective as well as what I'm reading in the media, seem to have peaked and are now in decline. Yes? No? I've bought ebooks and I like that I can get any book instantly. That's it though, that's the only benefit it has. I still prefer printed hard copy, which you can share, donate, re-sell and throw at anything displeasing. Perhaps so much of our life and possessions has become intangibly digital that many of us still want some things we can physically own and touch.
The only thing keeping him out of the US, and entrenched in NZ, is by being able to pay role a never ending cycle of court appeals. That gets expensive. Really expensive. Only this week I was thinking "haven't heard from Dotcom for a while, I wonder when he's going to launch his next venture to keep his legal fees being paid?" Well there you go, he's done it again...
No, it's pretty standard for a tech company. Car companies aren't just automobile makers anymore. Software/hardware is becoming the key differentiator in that market place as there's nothing else remaining to differentiate product on. Stock market valuations of 40x or 50x revenue are based on future value not present value. We've been seeing this for decades on the NASDAQ. Also just because you sell 10x more product it doesn't necessarily mean your profit, and bottom line, is going to be better either. The smart phone market is a good example of this.
"..he has recently created a new fast charging solid-state battery.." So be honest, who's the real inventor here? You or Maria?
Not putting down your contribution, if it is Maria, as I'm sure your experience in the challenges of going from theory to consumer ready product, bringing a new battery to market, will be invaluable. I'm sure you had mentors too. I've got 2 daughters (& 4 sons), I'd like to think that our civilisation is progressing enough to the point where gender doesn't preclude recognition for achievements.
If Australia is quickly becoming the first cashless society then the leading technology in enabling this will be extremely powerful. Australian banks, and more recently retailers, fighting to take control back from Apple of their wireless payment system can now be seen in a different light.
I seem to remember Apple getting mauled in the media for refusing to allow flash on their new iPhone platform So much so that Jobs wrote a open public letter to explain his reasons: Thoughts on Flash Steve Jobs - April, 2010 In the context of the time, it was both brave (yes, I said it) and correct. Why is anyone still hanging onto this legacy of a bygone technology era?
Of course it's exaggerated. See my other comment below. The NZ Herald, and it's minions, is an anti-Apple propaganda machine. It's comparable to the UK's Daily Mail (it even re-publishes DM's articles). Trash journalism.
I've lived in NZ for a number of years now and I used to read the NZ Herald, Stuff.co.nz and other publications in this group. To say they are anti-Apple partisan is an understatement. It's just hateful bile, and industrial propaganda. Any comments I posted under their articles were being either blocked or deleted if I said anything pro-Apple or contradicted their anti-Apple editorial.
Apple is a US company. Yes it sells into NZ and the NZ government collects the standard 15% on all Apple's sales. I'm at a loss to understand why sales of $4.2B should be taxed for anything else but sales tax?
If NZ wants more money then they should look at imposing import tax on electronic goods. Singling out a single company isn't right.
You are confused about what swiss watches are for.
Hint: If a girl can't tell your knockoff from a real Rolex in a dark bar, it's serving its purpose. Apple watches don't address this. Get one that knocks off a better watch. ($3000? Who is that supposed to impress?).
You're hanging with the wrong sort of women my anonymous friend. Can you tell a real girl from a fake in a dark bar I now wonder?;)
Agreed. Swatch are a watch maker, not a software company. I see a parallel in that between Nokia and Apple. Nokia were a mobile phone manufacturer, not a software company. This announcement to me smacks of management going through the motions so that they don't look as bad as Nokia did when their market share diminishes.
I recently stuck a toe in the smart watch waters by buying a 2nd hand Apple Watch S1. Got a stainless steel model for 1/4 of it's price new a year ago. I was not convinced of the need for a smart watch, which seemed like a gimmick, and it was bought out of curiosity more than anything. 3 Weeks into wearing it and I can't remember were I put my beautiful $3,000 Swiss automatic. It's in a drawer somewhere. I'm hooked, totally and utterly. Even 2nd hand it looks as good as new and it's battery life is superb. I expect the healthy 2nd hand Apple Watch market will do a fair bit of damage to the Swiss economy.
Or that this news story gave them the excuse, or just cause, to do what they've been wanting to do for a long time. Apple must have been too afraid of upsetting any of the large publishers to have let it go on for so long. It smacks more of opportunistic timing than of being reactionary.
If you publish on iTunes App store, as I do, you'll know that releasing a new version has the knock on effect of lowering your installs due to 2 things that happen on each new release: 1) iTunes App's have 2 ratings. An all time rating and a current version rating which goes to 0 on updates causing your app to lose popularity with installers. 2) iTunes keyword ranking is affected by current rating, not significantly, but enough to drop you a few places and 1/2 your installs until (1) improves again. The App store is stagnating because of this. I see too many rivals who update every year or two. It creates complacency. "Hot push" would have been for security reasons, which I'm all for. It does also have a nice side effect of preventing ratings gaming. Apple's rumoured to be making App ratings more like Google Play in iOS 10.3. I do hope so.
Remembering that the cold war was won by bankrupting the CCCP it makes me wonder if, assuming the rumours are true about Trump's strings being pulled by Putin, that their game plan is to destroy the American economy or weaken it. Everything I've read about what Trumps has done, said or plans to do comes with a nasty long term economic cost. Any other country would give their new borns to attract the worlds best minds to a "Bay Area", hot pot of technology star ups and world leaders. Sure there's going to be plenty of abused H1B's but there's also going to be a heap of well deserved work visas which -smart- people won't be so keen on accepting in this current administration. Cutting foreign aid, building walls, things that please those deluded enough to vote him in which will have a long term economic impact on the US and well as weakening it's world influence and power. America's strength, which has given it world domination, has been it's economy and that's largely been driven by it's technology. Pick a handful of American technological achievements and you'll find a large portion of them were created by immigrants not home born "presidential material". Wake up America, your fucking yourself. Badly.
This shit can't be good for the US economy. Tourism and airlines will be most affected. I live in NZ but I'm from the UK. I used to live in SF Bay and have friends there. So when flying home to the UK for a visit I would fly via SFO. Not anymore. Even flying through the US without going into the country is like an Orwellian nightmare. So I fly Emirates via Dubai. It's a damn shame as used to think of California as a 2nd home and loved visiting there. I can't be alone in my boycotting. The saddest thing is that modern America starting to look more and more like the old USSR.
I moved to NZ from Scotland 3 years ago, I live on a little 10 acre "lifestyle block" on the north island. Coming from N.Europe it's weird seeing things like hedgehogs running around here. Brought here by the europeans who wanted to terra form NZ into something almost recognisable as the place the left behind. They brought just about everything from the British Isles, except the fox (thankfully).
I recently came across a nest of hedgehogs in my barn and I did some online research as I think I might have made the mother abandon the nest by discovering it. Found Hedgehogrescue NZ
Now coming from Scotland I know that there was an attempt to eradicate them from the Hebrides as they were eating the native bird eggs. So why would Kiwi's (NZ-ers) want to save Hedgehogs if the goal is to make NZ more like it was where the Kiwi bird can roam free and re-establish on the mainlands?
I'll go further, what about the domestic cat? If you get rid of the all the mice (& rats) what does the (large) population of wild domestic cats live off? Wild pigs too? I could go on...
I'm all for the eradication of the NZ mosquitos.:)
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1) I'm Scottish :)
2) I live in New Zealand
3) "danke", "ja","nein" & "ich liebe dich" are the only words of German I know. Can I still move there?
4) I was being ironic and making a point which you obvious missed. Maybe it's the mountains, you always get poor reception up there.
I was about to start throwing my weight around in here, moderating up/down, but then I realised I could face legal consequences for endorsing anyones views. :-/
It's not really a legal issue but the very sad case of a mother unwilling to let go of her child and what remains of the child's life.
I'm a father and I think I'd probably struggle to let go of anything of a life that I had created, loved and cared for.
A virtual online persona, in this case, has become the bedroom of the deceased that the mother wants to lock, preserve and occasionally visit when the grieving gets tough.
If, like someone else commented, she had the password for the account she's almost certainly already been through it looking for answers.
Some very good insightful comments on here from others about needing to protect the privacy of the living who were friends.
Still my heart goes out to the family.
Apps are the scourge of software engineering and developers.
There's little or no value in spending significant time working on them, certainly not as an indie.
If you want to teach App dev then focus it on game development with the outcome of a job in an industry that makes about the only money there is in apps.
Otherwise fix the broken attitude of the smart phone endowed public to not expect, or demand, everything for free.
Grudging handing over the small change they'd happily give a busker or beggar on the streets in exchange for hard work and something they want and will use.
Legislation only removes objects, even virtual and intangible, from the law abiding public.
Not from those outside the law who will carry on doing what they do.
Manchester was someone outside of the law and this crackdown does nothing, yet again, to prevent re-occurance.
Government's cause terrorism, who in turn target the public for voting them in.
You end up feeling like the pig in the middle between both extremists (legislative & violent).
...while everyone else is breaking out. :)
Because, living in exile, I miss the BBC.
If you really -must- use your laptop en-route to the US from Europe then Iceland Air, with a little stop over in Keflavik, should at least give you screen time for the 1st half of the journey. Plus you can go take a dip in the blue lagoon in between flights. :)
This is just another nail in the coffin for US airlines.
I stopped flying via the US (NZ - UK) due to the un-necessary harassment travellers have to endure just changing flights in the US, let alone entering the country.
I fly via Dubai with Emirates.
I've been wearing an automatic Swiss watch for years now. It's needing a service though, when I take it off before bed it's dead in the morning.
I write Apps and I thought I'd buy a 2nd hand Apple Watch to try it out and see if I could do anything with my own Apps on it.
Wasn't convinced when it first came out but now that you can pick up a series 1 for 1/4 of it's price new it's not too risky to try, i could punt it on again.
So I got a stainless steel 42mm S1 for under $200
The battery on this used watch lasts a whole day easily, I take it off and put it on the charger when I go to bed. Better than the Swiss watch.
The health monitoring is neat, I like that it reminds you stand up, take a breath and move my ass if I've been sitting coding too long.
I feel like I can leave the phone and I don't carry it around as much. Phone calls aren't missed, I like that I can answer them on my wrist.
It's the little things about it that I've come to appreciate that my very nice Swiss automatic doesn't do.
Cooking dinner, I set a timer so I can leave the kitchen and that tap on the wrist when I need to return is really handy.
Logging into PayPal, which I do a lot for work, I have 2 step verification and the Symantec VIP app on the watch is so much quicker than using the phone.
The smart watch isn't a smart phone and never will be.
It's probably not for everyone but anyone who hasn't tried it probably shouldn't critique it until they've tried it.
It's one of those things that until you've tried it and had one for at least a month you probably won't get the point of it.
I just can't see myself going back to the Swiss automatic.
I like making things and I have an appreciation for Artisans. Bread, coffee, hand made stuff from wood, pottery etc.
What I see in Apple is a company that's taken the Artisan approach to details and aesthetics in their products and delivered it on a massive scale.
If we hadn't had Apple and Jobs we'd still be buying IT equipment encased in ugly cheap plastics with the focus on MHz/Ghz and other meaningless numbers.
Tablets, from my family and my own perspective as well as what I'm reading in the media, seem to have peaked and are now in decline.
Yes? No?
I've bought ebooks and I like that I can get any book instantly. That's it though, that's the only benefit it has.
I still prefer printed hard copy, which you can share, donate, re-sell and throw at anything displeasing.
Perhaps so much of our life and possessions has become intangibly digital that many of us still want some things we can physically own and touch.
The only thing keeping him out of the US, and entrenched in NZ, is by being able to pay role a never ending cycle of court appeals.
That gets expensive. Really expensive.
Only this week I was thinking "haven't heard from Dotcom for a while, I wonder when he's going to launch his next venture to keep his legal fees being paid?"
Well there you go, he's done it again...
No, it's pretty standard for a tech company. Car companies aren't just automobile makers anymore.
Software/hardware is becoming the key differentiator in that market place as there's nothing else remaining to differentiate product on.
Stock market valuations of 40x or 50x revenue are based on future value not present value.
We've been seeing this for decades on the NASDAQ.
Also just because you sell 10x more product it doesn't necessarily mean your profit, and bottom line, is going to be better either.
The smart phone market is a good example of this.
"..he has recently created a new fast charging solid-state battery.."
So be honest, who's the real inventor here?
You or Maria?
Not putting down your contribution, if it is Maria, as I'm sure your experience in the challenges of going from theory to consumer ready product, bringing a new battery to market, will be invaluable. I'm sure you had mentors too.
I've got 2 daughters (& 4 sons), I'd like to think that our civilisation is progressing enough to the point where gender doesn't preclude recognition for achievements.
If Australia is quickly becoming the first cashless society then the leading technology in enabling this will be extremely powerful.
Australian banks, and more recently retailers, fighting to take control back from Apple of their wireless payment system can now be seen in a different light.
I seem to remember Apple getting mauled in the media for refusing to allow flash on their new iPhone platform
So much so that Jobs wrote a open public letter to explain his reasons:
Thoughts on Flash Steve Jobs - April, 2010
In the context of the time, it was both brave (yes, I said it) and correct.
Why is anyone still hanging onto this legacy of a bygone technology era?
Of course it's exaggerated. See my other comment below.
The NZ Herald, and it's minions, is an anti-Apple propaganda machine.
It's comparable to the UK's Daily Mail (it even re-publishes DM's articles).
Trash journalism.
I've lived in NZ for a number of years now and I used to read the NZ Herald, Stuff.co.nz and other publications in this group.
To say they are anti-Apple partisan is an understatement. It's just hateful bile, and industrial propaganda.
Any comments I posted under their articles were being either blocked or deleted if I said anything pro-Apple or contradicted their anti-Apple editorial.
Apple is a US company. Yes it sells into NZ and the NZ government collects the standard 15% on all Apple's sales.
I'm at a loss to understand why sales of $4.2B should be taxed for anything else but sales tax?
If NZ wants more money then they should look at imposing import tax on electronic goods.
Singling out a single company isn't right.
You are confused about what swiss watches are for.
Hint: If a girl can't tell your knockoff from a real Rolex in a dark bar, it's serving its purpose. Apple watches don't address this. Get one that knocks off a better watch. ($3000? Who is that supposed to impress?).
You're hanging with the wrong sort of women my anonymous friend. ;)
Can you tell a real girl from a fake in a dark bar I now wonder?
Agreed. Swatch are a watch maker, not a software company.
I see a parallel in that between Nokia and Apple. Nokia were a mobile phone manufacturer, not a software company.
This announcement to me smacks of management going through the motions so that they don't look as bad as Nokia did when their market share diminishes.
I recently stuck a toe in the smart watch waters by buying a 2nd hand Apple Watch S1.
Got a stainless steel model for 1/4 of it's price new a year ago.
I was not convinced of the need for a smart watch, which seemed like a gimmick, and it was bought out of curiosity more than anything.
3 Weeks into wearing it and I can't remember were I put my beautiful $3,000 Swiss automatic. It's in a drawer somewhere.
I'm hooked, totally and utterly.
Even 2nd hand it looks as good as new and it's battery life is superb.
I expect the healthy 2nd hand Apple Watch market will do a fair bit of damage to the Swiss economy.
Which may be a good thing in the long term as investing in Solar will become more of an economic necessity rather than a ecological statement.
Or that this news story gave them the excuse, or just cause, to do what they've been wanting to do for a long time.
Apple must have been too afraid of upsetting any of the large publishers to have let it go on for so long.
It smacks more of opportunistic timing than of being reactionary.
If you publish on iTunes App store, as I do, you'll know that releasing a new version has the knock on effect of lowering your installs due to 2 things that happen on each new release:
1) iTunes App's have 2 ratings. An all time rating and a current version rating which goes to 0 on updates causing your app to lose popularity with installers.
2) iTunes keyword ranking is affected by current rating, not significantly, but enough to drop you a few places and 1/2 your installs until (1) improves again.
The App store is stagnating because of this. I see too many rivals who update every year or two. It creates complacency.
"Hot push" would have been for security reasons, which I'm all for. It does also have a nice side effect of preventing ratings gaming.
Apple's rumoured to be making App ratings more like Google Play in iOS 10.3.
I do hope so.
Remembering that the cold war was won by bankrupting the CCCP it makes me wonder if, assuming the rumours are true about Trump's strings being pulled by Putin, that their game plan is to destroy the American economy or weaken it.
Everything I've read about what Trumps has done, said or plans to do comes with a nasty long term economic cost.
Any other country would give their new borns to attract the worlds best minds to a "Bay Area", hot pot of technology star ups and world leaders.
Sure there's going to be plenty of abused H1B's but there's also going to be a heap of well deserved work visas which -smart- people won't be so keen on accepting in this current administration.
Cutting foreign aid, building walls, things that please those deluded enough to vote him in which will have a long term economic impact on the US and well as weakening it's world influence and power.
America's strength, which has given it world domination, has been it's economy and that's largely been driven by it's technology.
Pick a handful of American technological achievements and you'll find a large portion of them were created by immigrants not home born "presidential material".
Wake up America, your fucking yourself. Badly.
This shit can't be good for the US economy. Tourism and airlines will be most affected.
I live in NZ but I'm from the UK. I used to live in SF Bay and have friends there. So when flying home to the UK for a visit I would fly via SFO.
Not anymore. Even flying through the US without going into the country is like an Orwellian nightmare.
So I fly Emirates via Dubai. It's a damn shame as used to think of California as a 2nd home and loved visiting there.
I can't be alone in my boycotting.
The saddest thing is that modern America starting to look more and more like the old USSR.
I moved to NZ from Scotland 3 years ago, I live on a little 10 acre "lifestyle block" on the north island.
Coming from N.Europe it's weird seeing things like hedgehogs running around here.
Brought here by the europeans who wanted to terra form NZ into something almost recognisable as the place the left behind.
They brought just about everything from the British Isles, except the fox (thankfully).
I recently came across a nest of hedgehogs in my barn and I did some online research as I think I might have made the mother abandon the nest by discovering it.
Found Hedgehogrescue NZ
Now coming from Scotland I know that there was an attempt to eradicate them from the Hebrides as they were eating the native bird eggs.
So why would Kiwi's (NZ-ers) want to save Hedgehogs if the goal is to make NZ more like it was where the Kiwi bird can roam free and re-establish on the mainlands?
I'll go further, what about the domestic cat? If you get rid of the all the mice (& rats) what does the (large) population of wild domestic cats live off?
Wild pigs too? I could go on...
I'm all for the eradication of the NZ mosquitos. :)