The one part of that that makes any rational sense is the bit about the UK wanting a non-US GPS system but you have the reasoning all wrong. The UK wants a non-US system because if they are tied into the US system the US can charge anything for it. Sure the US hasn't charged yet AFAIK but they could do the future.
There's also the military applications. While we're allies and all the EU might want to perform military actions independent of NATO and then it doesn't help to be tied to a US system.
"Lamenting the time you restored your iPhone and lost that beloved VLC app because it's no longer available on the App Store? Cheer up, there's an iCloud for that. The service allows you to re-download any app you've previously purchased on any of your iOS devices -- including killed apps."
cisions as having no Save As... option in first-party applications, and justifies it because there's an improved workaround for that problem in this version.
My guess is that Apple is trying to break people's habit of using "save as" to create different work-in-progress versions of a document (my primary use for "save as") because they want you to use Lions' Versions for that. Duplicate actually makes more logical sense to me but it still screws with 20 years of habits.
I don't think there's a retail price yet, is there ? If Apple move onto a yearly release cycle then prices should go down accordingly (hopefully.) After all they don't charge for major iOS versions either.
That's my nr 1 request, just give me the old (pre-Lion) scrollbars back. Although looking at the screenshots they've at least improved the bastard things by providing dedicated areas for them again instead of popping them over content like in Lion. It is seriously annoying.
Those with the broadest shoulders should bear the heaviest burden, I agree with that. However, when do you cross the line and become a neo-colonist company telling people how they should organize their country ? Secondly Apple are doing more as indicated in the article, so how much is enough ? The broadest shoulders should bear the heaviest burden but you can't become Atlas and start carrying the burden of the world.
Firstly it's worth noting here that we might not even have HTML 5 if it wasn't for Apple, which was part of the consortium that ">pushed for its development. And the last 2 links have little to nothing to do with the topic at hand of audio video encoding. Secondly CODECS might not be hardwired but they are implemented in hardware, as h264 is, which becomes a major issue on mobile devices and that's where the majority of HTML5's growth is. Ogg/Vorbis was never going to win out over h.264 because none of the hardware companies, none of the software companies and none of the content companies were going to make money of off it (or get some MAD ammo by cross-licensing) and thus none of those had any incentive to use it, promote it and make it more efficient by embedding it in their hardware. A battle which was long over by the time HTML 5 was finally ready by the way. So it comes down to making either a philosophical choice, which would have hobbled devices like smartphones for the foreseeable future, or to go for a technology with a broad base of support (as opposed to the handful of opposing parties your articles quote.) Apple has always been pragmatic in these kinds of choices. If the pragmatic choice would've been Ogg/Vorbis they would've made it, as Apple have shown in the past by their willingness to build on open source technology where it makes sense.
or beating up a worker to control the news, is hardly what I'd call "do[ing] better".
That was an action taken by Foxconn. You can't hold Apple responsible for the actions of all its suppliers. The economics dictate Apple goes to China, just like all its competitors, it chooses the best of a bad bunch (Foxconn) for its supplier, then it tries to improve matters by pushing for better inspections and monitoring than its competitors. How's that not doing better ?
Citation needed. Apple hadn't even released the iPod when Ogg/Vorbis first came on the scene. Firefox wasn't even released until 2004, who would've used this open web CODEC, Internet Explorer ? Sounds like a case of blameapple-itis. BTW, I ripped all of my CD's to Ogg/Vorbis to play on my iAudio back in the day, then I got an iPod and I haven't looked back since. Step 1: make stuff not suck, step 2: make it open. When OSS stops skipping step 1 then I'll get interested again.
Except Apple are actually doing better than others and are getting punished for it :
"Labor Activist Li Qiang wants you to know that the iPhone 4 in his pocket is not an endorsement of Apple’s policies, just an acknowledgement that the company is doing a better job of monitoring factory conditions than its peers. The founder of leading advocacy group China Labor Watch (CLW) told us that, though the Cupertino company does more-thorough inspections than competitors, it is responsible for poor working conditions at its suppliers’ factories and needs to invest some of its record-breaking profits in improving them."
That's dangerous. Why do better if you're going to be taking heat for it anyway ?
"Though he [Labour activist Li Qiang] believes that Apple has done a better job of inspecting its factories than others, Li maintains that the public is right to put more pressure on Tim Cook’s company than its competitors who have the same problems. Because Apple makes the most profit, he reasons, it also bears the most responsibility for fixing a broken system."
You may do a better job than other, but you've got deeper pockets so prepare to be punished.
"“Foxconn is not good,” Li told the New York Times. ”But if we compare all industries, electronics, textile, toys, Foxconn is one of the best.”"
They're not even attacking the right supplier, just the one that's connected with the most high profile name so they can get their mug in the papers.
I would say the guy has reality, vengeance, and anger issues that rivals that of women I've let into my life.
Yet here you are raving and ranting because Jobs either "didn't acknowledge" your pet projects, whatever that's supposed to mean, or because of imagined slights against them. Sounds you might have some issues of your own.
Tons and tons of people have used a bit of hash and LSD in their past, but few will admit it to their employers if they work in the professional world.
Some of my favorite parts of the Jobs' bio is where he throws people out because they haven't done LSD and are thus too square to work at Apple. Just nice to see the normal situation reversed.
Some of those failures did end up being the next big thing. Lisa became the Mac, NeXT OS became OSX, the cube was part of a new of thinking that (re)valued design in computers. Jobs did have flight of fancy though, like his state of the art factories where he obsessed over how to make the process beautiful. Ironically abandoning those white elephants and going to China like everyone else is now a major point of criticism for Apple.
iOS does not have a FIPS 140-2 certified encryption module associated with it, meaning that viewing non-public government data on their e-mail system would be a contract violation at worst and might expose them to criminal liability. Aren't these guys basically government contractors?
"Mocana Corporation, a company that focuses on securing non-PC connected devices, today announced that it has earned the government's first FIPS 140-2 level one validation for an encryption product running on the Apple iPhone or iPad. "
I think the only reason we are so aware of privacy in the modern world is because so many organizations are actively trying to exploit it. 100 years ago it simply wasn't practical to try to maintain large card catalogues of everyone in a country unless you really needed to, due to the expense. Now its trivial, and there are plenty of businesses and government organizations that are quite happy to have greater profitability/control over our lives.
Cite me an example where you have lost control over your life. So people profit over the information that you, and all of us, broadcast about ourselves all the time, so what ?
I have a FB account I admit. I should delete my account (if that's actually possible, I am sure FB will keep the data anyways). I access it a few times a year mostly when my wife tells me there is something posted on my wall that I should read. I detest the centralization of personal information and even more so the active data mining of it.
I agree with TFA, its an elaborate man in the middle attack designed to do as much as it can to reduce our privacy and exploit it for the purpose of making money.
No it's just a formalized way to capture the information you were leaking about yourself anyway by offering a service that's actually useful to most people. If you don't like it you should drop out.
"Actually the world you see now is probably the most privacy conscious that has ever existed."
Losing your privacy raises your consciousness.
I am glad that "I have nothing to hide (TM)" but I worry when I hear things like the two Brits who were sent back home from the US after our ever vigilant and effective Border Patrol found that they had Tweeted something like "destroy america and dig up marilyn monroe" which is apparently some kind of slang for "party hard". In our Brave New World, everything you say and do is recorded and can be held against you by those without a sense of humor.
50 years ago they would've been sent home because some didn't like the look of their face or invented some kind of communist sympathies. The problem in case of the TSA isn't privacy but the lack of due process, the fact that they had the power to invent a stupid reason to send these people home. I'm not defending invasion of privacy but I do think that in a lot of cases the loss of privacy is vastly overstated and in fact the very existence of privacy is a very recent thing (there are still plenty of small towns where everyone knows everything about everyone else.)
When I look at your earlier post, most of the examples you cite actually aren't invasions of privacy. The bank knows about your transactions but it only becomes an invasion of privacy when it applies that knowledge to other unrelated domains. The store films you, but that's not an invasion of privacy if the tapes are destroyed in 48 hours as they should be, but rather used to identify you for some other purpose. Facebook isn't invading your privacy because you are the one posting your information, information most people are positively eager to broadcast.
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As far as I can tell dot matrix printers are now employed mostly in the production of popular music.
The one part of that that makes any rational sense is the bit about the UK wanting a non-US GPS system but you have the reasoning all wrong. The UK wants a non-US system because if they are tied into the US system the US can charge anything for it. Sure the US hasn't charged yet AFAIK but they could do the future.
There's also the military applications. While we're allies and all the EU might want to perform military actions independent of NATO and then it doesn't help to be tied to a US system.
Apple iCloud brings previously purchased apps back from the dead
"Lamenting the time you restored your iPhone and lost that beloved VLC app because it's no longer available on the App Store? Cheer up, there's an iCloud for that. The service allows you to re-download any app you've previously purchased on any of your iOS devices -- including killed apps."
VLC for iOS was a POS by the way.
He probably has some comic book reader installed with a lot of comics in it.
cisions as having no Save As... option in first-party applications, and justifies it because there's an improved workaround for that problem in this version.
My guess is that Apple is trying to break people's habit of using "save as" to create different work-in-progress versions of a document (my primary use for "save as") because they want you to use Lions' Versions for that. Duplicate actually makes more logical sense to me but it still screws with 20 years of habits.
They've been trying to get that to work for years now. Maybe in OS XI :-)
Been there, done that. Different strokes for different folks.
I don't think there's a retail price yet, is there ? If Apple move onto a yearly release cycle then prices should go down accordingly (hopefully.) After all they don't charge for major iOS versions either.
That's my nr 1 request, just give me the old (pre-Lion) scrollbars back. Although looking at the screenshots they've at least improved the bastard things by providing dedicated areas for them again instead of popping them over content like in Lion. It is seriously annoying.
Don't worry they're not screaming, that's just the air escaping as their atmosphere is boiled away.
Those with the broadest shoulders should bear the heaviest burden, I agree with that. However, when do you cross the line and become a neo-colonist company telling people how they should organize their country ? Secondly Apple are doing more as indicated in the article, so how much is enough ? The broadest shoulders should bear the heaviest burden but you can't become Atlas and start carrying the burden of the world.
Firstly it's worth noting here that we might not even have HTML 5 if it wasn't for Apple, which was part of the consortium that ">pushed for its development. And the last 2 links have little to nothing to do with the topic at hand of audio video encoding. Secondly CODECS might not be hardwired but they are implemented in hardware, as h264 is, which becomes a major issue on mobile devices and that's where the majority of HTML5's growth is. Ogg/Vorbis was never going to win out over h.264 because none of the hardware companies, none of the software companies and none of the content companies were going to make money of off it (or get some MAD ammo by cross-licensing) and thus none of those had any incentive to use it, promote it and make it more efficient by embedding it in their hardware. A battle which was long over by the time HTML 5 was finally ready by the way. So it comes down to making either a philosophical choice, which would have hobbled devices like smartphones for the foreseeable future, or to go for a technology with a broad base of support (as opposed to the handful of opposing parties your articles quote.) Apple has always been pragmatic in these kinds of choices. If the pragmatic choice would've been Ogg/Vorbis they would've made it, as Apple have shown in the past by their willingness to build on open source technology where it makes sense.
Bribing an activist with an iPhone 4
Where did you get that from ?
or beating up a worker to control the news, is hardly what I'd call "do[ing] better".
That was an action taken by Foxconn. You can't hold Apple responsible for the actions of all its suppliers. The economics dictate Apple goes to China, just like all its competitors, it chooses the best of a bad bunch (Foxconn) for its supplier, then it tries to improve matters by pushing for better inspections and monitoring than its competitors. How's that not doing better ?
Citation needed. Apple hadn't even released the iPod when Ogg/Vorbis first came on the scene. Firefox wasn't even released until 2004, who would've used this open web CODEC, Internet Explorer ? Sounds like a case of blameapple-itis.
BTW, I ripped all of my CD's to Ogg/Vorbis to play on my iAudio back in the day, then I got an iPod and I haven't looked back since. Step 1: make stuff not suck, step 2: make it open. When OSS stops skipping step 1 then I'll get interested again.
Except Apple are actually doing better than others and are getting punished for it :
"Labor Activist Li Qiang wants you to know that the iPhone 4 in his pocket is not an endorsement of Apple’s policies, just an acknowledgement that the company is doing a better job of monitoring factory conditions than its peers. The founder of leading advocacy group China Labor Watch (CLW) told us that, though the Cupertino company does more-thorough inspections than competitors, it is responsible for poor working conditions at its suppliers’ factories and needs to invest some of its record-breaking profits in improving them."
That's dangerous. Why do better if you're going to be taking heat for it anyway ?
"Though he [Labour activist Li Qiang] believes that Apple has done a better job of inspecting its factories than others, Li maintains that the public is right to put more pressure on Tim Cook’s company than its competitors who have the same problems. Because Apple makes the most profit, he reasons, it also bears the most responsibility for fixing a broken system."
You may do a better job than other, but you've got deeper pockets so prepare to be punished.
"“Foxconn is not good,” Li told the New York Times. ”But if we compare all industries, electronics, textile, toys, Foxconn is one of the best.”"
They're not even attacking the right supplier, just the one that's connected with the most high profile name so they can get their mug in the papers.
OMG the Mars rover footage is all FAKE. I can tell by some of the pixels.
I would say the guy has reality, vengeance, and anger issues that rivals that of women I've let into my life.
Yet here you are raving and ranting because Jobs either "didn't acknowledge" your pet projects, whatever that's supposed to mean, or because of imagined slights against them. Sounds you might have some issues of your own.
Well there is some precedent.
Tons and tons of people have used a bit of hash and LSD in their past, but few will admit it to their employers if they work in the professional world.
Some of my favorite parts of the Jobs' bio is where he throws people out because they haven't done LSD and are thus too square to work at Apple. Just nice to see the normal situation reversed.
Some of those failures did end up being the next big thing. Lisa became the Mac, NeXT OS became OSX, the cube was part of a new of thinking that (re)valued design in computers. Jobs did have flight of fancy though, like his state of the art factories where he obsessed over how to make the process beautiful. Ironically abandoning those white elephants and going to China like everyone else is now a major point of criticism for Apple.
OK, I see an AC beat me to that. That'll teach me to ignore them.
iOS does not have a FIPS 140-2 certified encryption module associated with it, meaning that viewing non-public government data on their e-mail system would be a contract violation at worst and might expose them to criminal liability. Aren't these guys basically government contractors?
Insightful ? After 5 minutes of Googling :
"Mocana Corporation, a company that focuses on securing non-PC connected devices, today announced that it has earned the government's first FIPS 140-2 level one validation for an encryption product running on the Apple iPhone or iPad. "
I think the only reason we are so aware of privacy in the modern world is because so many organizations are actively trying to exploit it. 100 years ago it simply wasn't practical to try to maintain large card catalogues of everyone in a country unless you really needed to, due to the expense. Now its trivial, and there are plenty of businesses and government organizations that are quite happy to have greater profitability/control over our lives.
Cite me an example where you have lost control over your life. So people profit over the information that you, and all of us, broadcast about ourselves all the time, so what ?
I have a FB account I admit. I should delete my account (if that's actually possible, I am sure FB will keep the data anyways). I access it a few times a year mostly when my wife tells me there is something posted on my wall that I should read. I detest the centralization of personal information and even more so the active data mining of it.
I agree with TFA, its an elaborate man in the middle attack designed to do as much as it can to reduce our privacy and exploit it for the purpose of making money.
No it's just a formalized way to capture the information you were leaking about yourself anyway by offering a service that's actually useful to most people. If you don't like it you should drop out.
"Actually the world you see now is probably the most privacy conscious that has ever existed."
Losing your privacy raises your consciousness.
I am glad that "I have nothing to hide (TM)" but I worry when I hear things like the two Brits who were sent back home from the US after our ever vigilant and effective Border Patrol found that they had Tweeted something like "destroy america and dig up marilyn monroe" which is apparently some kind of slang for "party hard". In our Brave New World, everything you say and do is recorded and can be held against you by those without a sense of humor.
50 years ago they would've been sent home because some didn't like the look of their face or invented some kind of communist sympathies. The problem in case of the TSA isn't privacy but the lack of due process, the fact that they had the power to invent a stupid reason to send these people home. I'm not defending invasion of privacy but I do think that in a lot of cases the loss of privacy is vastly overstated and in fact the very existence of privacy is a very recent thing (there are still plenty of small towns where everyone knows everything about everyone else.)
When I look at your earlier post, most of the examples you cite actually aren't invasions of privacy. The bank knows about your transactions but it only becomes an invasion of privacy when it applies that knowledge to other unrelated domains. The store films you, but that's not an invasion of privacy if the tapes are destroyed in 48 hours as they should be, but rather used to identify you for some other purpose. Facebook isn't invading your privacy because you are the one posting your information, information most people are positively eager to broadcast.