> At the moment it's a tie between Firefox and Chrome on that front. > I normally run both Firefox and Chrome because both of them will > die after some number of days of heavy tab usage (100+ tabs).
Oh good, I thought it was just me. When Safari gets past 100 tabs (I read a lot of sites with a lot of links (like Slashdot), open new tabs, shrink them, and then MAYBE I get around to reading them someday) it starts to bog down badly. After many days or a few weeks, it can get to the point where it runs fine for a while, but if I come back to it after another intensive task (Photoshop, watching a video, etc.) it'll just grind and grind and grind on the disk. It might take 5-10 minutes to recover. (Then I break down, take some time, and close tabs.) I was wondering if I should switch. Glad to hear I don't have to.:-)
> So, if Apple were to have won all her lawsuits, we'd have no > HTC phones, no Samsung phones or tablets and no Motorolla > phones being sold in the US.
Some sued first, some sued second; some of those are offensive, some are defensive; some suits are worthy and some are full of shit. But you can't lay all the blame at Apple's feet. Apple wasn't even the first to sue. Or the second, or third--some of those suits among the other companies go back to before the iPhone was even out. EVERYONE is doing the same thing Apple is doing. Doesn't make it right, but again, you can't lay this all at Apple's feet. EVERYONE wants to be the only player in this game.
If ten people agree to a fight to the death, do you get mad at the winner for killing the others?
Has anyone, ever, been, for example, shot by someone wearing a shirt that said "I'm going to shoot you" on it? Or seen robbers wearing "I'm going to rob you" shirts?
When I was a little kid 30 years ago, I always thought the Halloween costumes of the day were dumb -- Darth Vader DOES NOT HAVE A PICTURE OF HIMSELF ON HIS CHEST. Same thing here.
> I'm going to say that most people 45+ don't know what ZOMG > means. Therefore, seeing something that says "Gonna Kill US > All ZOMG" would be a bit unnerving."
Really? People who have lived that long tend to be SOMEWHAT smart. Furthermore, they have DECADES of experience seeing boys and men of all ages in wacky shirts. If a 45 year old saw someone in a shirt that said "blah blah blah Gonna Kill US All blah blah blah" do you REALLY think their first thought would be "Oh my dear sweet white God in heaven, he's announcing his plans to harm me!", or do you think they'd go "Huh? Must be some video game or rock thing I don't know about."
A 45 year old was a teenager when the Dead Kennedys were in their prime. You think they've forgotten subversive shirts?
Most probably wouldn't even try to read the letters. Those that did, wouldn't care.
> a person should do whatever they please, as they wish, just as advertisers do.
This. A thousand times this.
People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small... They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you.
You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity.
Fuck that... Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.
You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don't owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don't even start asking for theirs.
> The internet activation will generally fail after the first time, but the phone > system works well - and if they do wind up making you talk to a real person, > I have never had one of those reps refuse to help.
LOL. I <3 Apple and Linux. You can go to a log cabin with one piece of installation media, no activation code, and 20 computers, and have 20 fully-functioning machines the next day.
Yes, because while riding from days-away-from-bankruptcy to most-valuable-company-in-the-world, nobody in the company learned ANYTING and they are DOOMED to repeat history. Uh-huh.
It was in 2003 when he was revamping his forums. He sent out an email to members that was similar to what he posted here but slightly different, including what you're describing:
If you post something and it gets deleted, we'll use a cookie to actually continue to show you your own post. We just don't show it to anyone else in the world. 9 times out of 10, you won't even know your post has been deleted. If you delete cookies or go to another computer, you may catch us, but most of the time people don't even notice that their post was removed.
Aha! I knew I had it. Way back when, he was revamping his community, and he, briefly, made it so you had to sign up to get an email to hear when it would be launched. I still have that email. It is entitled "Building Communities with Software" but it differs slightly from this. According to Google there is exactly one copy of the original email on the WWW and here it is.
If you post something and it gets deleted, we'll use a cookie to actually continue to show you your own post. We just don't show it to anyone else in the world. 9 times out of 10, you won't even know your post has been deleted. If you delete cookies or go to another computer, you may catch us, but most of the time people don't even notice that their post was removed.
> Every Android device is constantly tracked by > Google. You can see this on Google Maps...check > out the accuracy and detail of the traffic overlay.
Fun fact: "Some phones, such as the T-Mobile myTouch 3G and the Palm Pre, come with Google Maps and traffic crowdsourcing pre-installed (the iPhone Maps application, however, does not support traffic crowdsourcing)."
The problem with QR codes is you don't know what you're gonna get until you scan it. It could potentially be bad. (Not even viruses or buffer overflows -- could just be something that translates to goatse.cx.) Also, you don't know what the payoff is -- you scan, look, and go "Oh, it's just nike.com"
The problem with text is typing it in is a pain. The good thing about text is you can tell right away if it's something you want or not.
SO WHY DON'T WE JUST COME UP WITH A STANDARD SIZE AND SHAPE GLYPH WITH TEXT INSIDE AND USE O.C.R.?!?!?
It'd be as simple as taking that square-with-three-smaller-squares QR shape and filling it with OCR-A.
And there are cheaper music players than iPods, and cheaper laptops than MacBooks, and yet somehow Apple has turned into the biggest company on the planet than isn't a bank or oil concern. Apple is selling more and more computers, phones, and tablets year over year, every year. (The only thing that's going down is their iPod sales because everyone's buying iPhones instead.) The whole market is growing--people are buying tablets who never bought computers, and cell phones are literally going to hit the points where 99% of the PLANET owns one. (Did you know their iPhone business--something that didn't even exist five years ago--is bigger than the entirety of Microsoft?)
Apple is not a niche, small-volume luxury company like Rolex. You're comparing a multi-hundred dollar, multi-feature device to a multi-thousand dollar, single-function device--of course Rolex is going to have orders of magnitude less volume.
I always laugh when posts like yours get high "Insightful" mods. You're cherry-picking all these little facts here and there while ignoring the hundred-billion-dollar elephant in the room.
> How will Apple, with all their expensive stores on > expensive real estate, and a business built on > huge markups, deal with that?
Also: you really think all these companies with razor-thin margins are going to thrive in Apple's place? You can ask Dell how well that strategy worked for them long-term. And have you ever used a generic tablet? I have, and they all suck in every way you can imagine. Apple's resources give them the ability to make things people actually want.
I'm not saying Apple will reign forever, but it will take them a LONG time to fall.
> The SIG716 is not an "assault rifle" and you > won't be "mowing" anything down with it.
Anti-gun writers all seem to secretly have huge hard-ons for guns, which is why every story they write sounds like they're trying to put together a script for a Michael Bay movie.
Slashdot Mirror
"Guy prefers something; blogs about it" is front-page news now? Even more so, "Guy prefers old thing he's grown used to over many years"?
Personally, I like OS X the most. I'm sure we could find other people who think Windows XP, 7, or 8 are the best. What was the point of this again?
> At the moment it's a tie between Firefox and Chrome on that front.
> I normally run both Firefox and Chrome because both of them will
> die after some number of days of heavy tab usage (100+ tabs).
Oh good, I thought it was just me. When Safari gets past 100 tabs (I read a lot of sites with a lot of links (like Slashdot), open new tabs, shrink them, and then MAYBE I get around to reading them someday) it starts to bog down badly. After many days or a few weeks, it can get to the point where it runs fine for a while, but if I come back to it after another intensive task (Photoshop, watching a video, etc.) it'll just grind and grind and grind on the disk. It might take 5-10 minutes to recover. (Then I break down, take some time, and close tabs.) I was wondering if I should switch. Glad to hear I don't have to. :-)
Slashdot has just about hit the point of "A common household item can kill you! We'll tell you which one, at 11."
"Google has created a potentially lifesaving website. Here's some guy's blog post about it."
... seeing as how they led the race to the bottom.
The story of HP is just sad. A truly great company, ground down by a series of clueless leaders.
"When the iPhone debuted, it was widely criticized for having no buttons/keys. Now people think the iPhone's design is 'obvious.' "
- Dan Frakes
> So, if Apple were to have won all her lawsuits, we'd have no
> HTC phones, no Samsung phones or tablets and no Motorolla
> phones being sold in the US.
Yeah, Apple is suing everyone... and everyone is suing Apple, and everyone else is also suing everyone else. (This one has nice labels.)
Some sued first, some sued second; some of those are offensive, some are defensive; some suits are worthy and some are full of shit. But you can't lay all the blame at Apple's feet. Apple wasn't even the first to sue. Or the second, or third--some of those suits among the other companies go back to before the iPhone was even out. EVERYONE is doing the same thing Apple is doing. Doesn't make it right, but again, you can't lay this all at Apple's feet. EVERYONE wants to be the only player in this game.
If ten people agree to a fight to the death, do you get mad at the winner for killing the others?
Has anyone, ever, been, for example, shot by someone wearing a shirt that said "I'm going to shoot you" on it? Or seen robbers wearing "I'm going to rob you" shirts?
When I was a little kid 30 years ago, I always thought the Halloween costumes of the day were dumb -- Darth Vader DOES NOT HAVE A PICTURE OF HIMSELF ON HIS CHEST. Same thing here.
> I'm going to say that most people 45+ don't know what ZOMG
> means. Therefore, seeing something that says "Gonna Kill US
> All ZOMG" would be a bit unnerving."
Really? People who have lived that long tend to be SOMEWHAT smart. Furthermore, they have DECADES of experience seeing boys and men of all ages in wacky shirts. If a 45 year old saw someone in a shirt that said "blah blah blah Gonna Kill US All blah blah blah" do you REALLY think their first thought would be "Oh my dear sweet white God in heaven, he's announcing his plans to harm me!", or do you think they'd go "Huh? Must be some video game or rock thing I don't know about."
A 45 year old was a teenager when the Dead Kennedys were in their prime. You think they've forgotten subversive shirts?
Most probably wouldn't even try to read the letters. Those that did, wouldn't care.
> a person should do whatever they please, as they wish, just as advertisers do.
This. A thousand times this.
People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small... They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you.
You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity.
Fuck that... Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.
You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don't owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don't even start asking for theirs.
- Banksy (and others)
Apple Stores are run by humans, subject to human nature. Film at 11.
Coming up next: sky is blue, water is wet.
> The internet activation will generally fail after the first time, but the phone
> system works well - and if they do wind up making you talk to a real person,
> I have never had one of those reps refuse to help.
LOL. I <3 Apple and Linux. You can go to a log cabin with one piece of installation media, no activation code, and 20 computers, and have 20 fully-functioning machines the next day.
Yes, because while riding from days-away-from-bankruptcy to most-valuable-company-in-the-world, nobody in the company learned ANYTING and they are DOOMED to repeat history. Uh-huh.
It was in 2003 when he was revamping his forums. He sent out an email to members that was similar to what he posted here but slightly different, including what you're describing:
If you post something and it gets deleted, we'll use a cookie to actually continue to show you your own post. We just don't show it to anyone else in the world. 9 times out of 10, you won't even know your post has been deleted. If you delete cookies or go to another computer, you may catch us, but most of the time people don't even notice that their post was removed.
It was Joel first. I, too, remember reading about it many years ago. (Jeff's post is just a year old.) Here's a mention of it from 2004:
http://joi.ito.com/weblog/2004/12/20/happy-trolls.html
(See comment #2)
[later]
Aha! I knew I had it. Way back when, he was revamping his community, and he, briefly, made it so you had to sign up to get an email to hear when it would be launched. I still have that email. It is entitled "Building Communities with Software" but it differs slightly from this. According to Google there is exactly one copy of the original email on the WWW and here it is.
If you post something and it gets deleted, we'll use a cookie to actually continue to show you your own post. We just don't show it to anyone else in the world. 9 times out of 10, you won't even know your post has been deleted. If you delete cookies or go to another computer, you may catch us, but most of the time people don't even notice that their post was removed.
> Every Android device is constantly tracked by
> Google. You can see this on Google Maps...check
> out the accuracy and detail of the traffic overlay.
Wow. I always thought they got that info from the DOT or something, who gets it from toll transponders. Then I did a search, and what do you know? You're right. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/08/bright-side-of-sitting-in-traffic.html
Fun fact: "Some phones, such as the T-Mobile myTouch 3G and the Palm Pre, come with Google Maps and traffic crowdsourcing pre-installed (the iPhone Maps application, however, does not support traffic crowdsourcing)."
See also their statement here: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_maps_gets_smarter_crowdsources_traffic_data.php
The problem with QR codes is you don't know what you're gonna get until you scan it. It could potentially be bad. (Not even viruses or buffer overflows -- could just be something that translates to goatse.cx.) Also, you don't know what the payoff is -- you scan, look, and go "Oh, it's just nike.com"
The problem with text is typing it in is a pain. The good thing about text is you can tell right away if it's something you want or not.
SO WHY DON'T WE JUST COME UP WITH A STANDARD SIZE AND SHAPE GLYPH WITH TEXT INSIDE AND USE O.C.R.?!?!?
It'd be as simple as taking that square-with-three-smaller-squares QR shape and filling it with OCR-A.
> Google, feeling particularly clever...
sed s/clever/obvious/
Apple may not be winning in market share, but they're KILLING IT in profits:
Apple captured 73% of phone industry profits and Samsung captured 26%. HTC took 1%. Everybody else lost money.
That was 3 months ago. (May 2012)
And there are cheaper music players than iPods, and cheaper laptops than MacBooks, and yet somehow Apple has turned into the biggest company on the planet than isn't a bank or oil concern. Apple is selling more and more computers, phones, and tablets year over year, every year. (The only thing that's going down is their iPod sales because everyone's buying iPhones instead.) The whole market is growing--people are buying tablets who never bought computers, and cell phones are literally going to hit the points where 99% of the PLANET owns one. (Did you know their iPhone business--something that didn't even exist five years ago--is bigger than the entirety of Microsoft?)
Apple is not a niche, small-volume luxury company like Rolex. You're comparing a multi-hundred dollar, multi-feature device to a multi-thousand dollar, single-function device--of course Rolex is going to have orders of magnitude less volume.
I always laugh when posts like yours get high "Insightful" mods. You're cherry-picking all these little facts here and there while ignoring the hundred-billion-dollar elephant in the room.
> How will Apple, with all their expensive stores on
> expensive real estate, and a business built on
> huge markups, deal with that?
LOL. Have you ever heard "you've got to spend money to make money"? Apple retail stores have the highest profit per square foot ratio of any retail chain by a HUGE margin. (Almost 2x higher than #2, Tiffany.) And it's been like that for five years.
Also: you really think all these companies with razor-thin margins are going to thrive in Apple's place? You can ask Dell how well that strategy worked for them long-term. And have you ever used a generic tablet? I have, and they all suck in every way you can imagine. Apple's resources give them the ability to make things people actually want.
I'm not saying Apple will reign forever, but it will take them a LONG time to fall.
7 is enough for Steve Miller.
There are currently 12 comments at +5 and only one talks about the software--the other 11 are about the license. Dropping down to +3 doesn't help any.
Can anyone else here weigh in on the technology itself?
Who wants to wait that long? Surface 3.11 for Workgroups is when I'll buy.
Ugh. Everyone is right, I'm an idiot. I mid-read the whole thing. I got as far as "First TB" and stopped, so yeah, I'm way off. Never mind me.
I thought that sounded pretty low, but then I just thought "meh, maybe Amazon is just so huge they can do that."
I know this has nothing to do with USB and maybe the OP has very good reasons for wanting it on USB. In any case...
Amazon S3 pricing:
First 1 TB / month: $0.125 per GB
Next 49 TB / month: $0.110 per GB
(1 x 0.125 + 23 x 0.11) * 12 = about $32 per year for 24 TB. That's a lot less than buying a bunch of hard drives.
It will suck. Just as every other tech blogger has been saying for months. NEXT!
> The SIG716 is not an "assault rifle" and you
> won't be "mowing" anything down with it.
Anti-gun writers all seem to secretly have huge hard-ons for guns, which is why every story they write sounds like they're trying to put together a script for a Michael Bay movie.