Yes, but to run that pirated software you have to jailbreak. The most recent stats on jail breaking I could find are these from 2009 suggesting 8,43% of iPhone users jailbreak (most articles seem to assume around 10% jailbreak.) Assuming ALL of these users install pirated software, a big assumption, that still leaves the platform with less than 10% piracy.
I still use the "view" menu, even though there's a button for it and it's in the context menu (force of habit I guess), the favorites menu to quickly jump to folders and less frequently the "tools" menu for mapping network drives. I'm just one of these people who thinks MS should've stopped messing with the Windows UI around Windows 2000. Anyway it's not my problem until my workplace starts upgrading away from XP.
"Huge" menu seriously ? Menu's done wrong can be a nightmare, like Word's menu pré-ribbon especially the automatically collapsing kind. Finder's menu is pretty nice.
Yes I figured you could minimize it. That doesn't help when you need a function accessed through the ribbon. It's like having a drawer full of crap that you have to root through when you need a particular tool, everything looks nice and neat when it's closed but then you need something and the pain starts.
El Reg is a rag, a fun rag but a rag nonetheless. There's been a spate of articles lately attacking Apple's enterprise readiness because of bugs (in a month old OS.) I wonder if that's because they are being used more in enterprise and it's becoming more of a problem or someone's just worried that they might get some traction in business ?
That's the way Woz tells it, so he's not going to call his own house "Steve's house", and it's as close to a primary source you're going to get:-) You can choose not to believe it, that's sort of my point though: when you've got your mind made up to the point you're dismissing the people who were actually there you might want to examine your bias.
"As a child, Jobs preferred doing things by himself. He swam competitively, but was not interested in team sports or other group activities. He showed an early interest in electronics and gadgetry. He spent a lot of time working in the garage workshop of a neighbor who worked at Hewlett-Packard, an electronics manufacturer.
Jobs also enrolled in the Hewlett-Packard Explorer Club. There he saw engineers demonstrate new products, and he saw his first computer at the age of twelve. He was very impressed, and knew right away that he wanted to work with computers.
While in high school Jobs attended lectures at the Hewlett-Packard plant. On one occasion he boldly asked William Hewlett, the president, for some parts he needed to complete a class project. Hewlett was so impressed he gave Jobs the parts, and offered him a summer internship at Hewlett-Packard."
Steven Fry once said (in Paperweight I think) that if we really wanted to stop people using "swear words" we should just use the words for their intended meaning instead of trying to cover our embaressment by using ridiculous flowery language. Eg. just say fuck instead of "making love", say shit instead of "going to the bathroom", etc. The words only have power because we avoid using them.
Android tablets are just now showing up to the fight, so claims that they "own" the pad market are just boasts from a fighter who hasn't yet entered the ring against their adversary..
It's more like Columbus claiming the new world for Spain, sure long term they eventually lost but they made obscene amounts of money at first and their influence can be seen to this day.
You know nothing of the man, read a biography of his. Start with iCon, which was pulled from the Apple stores, just so you know you're not reading an "approved version." The guy was an electronics geek, good but good enough to recognize he was no Wozniak. The whole reason he and Woz hung out is because he was into electronics. He's a good business man too but that's not all he is.
"I read an article in Esquire Magazine [...] entitled "Secrets of the Blue Box--fiction" by Ron Rosenblum. Halfway through the article I had to call my best friend, Steve Jobs, and read parts of this long article to him. [...] The next day was Sunday. Steve and I drove to SLAC (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, the same place the Homebrew Computer Club would meet 4 years later) because they always left a door or two unlocked and nobody thought anything about a couple of strangers reading books and magazines in their technical library. Finally we found a book that had the exact same frequencies that had been mentioned in the Esquire article. Now we had the complete list. We went back to Steve's house and built two, somewhat unstable, multivabrator oscillators. We could see the instability on a frequency counter, but we were in a hurry. We would set one oscillator to 700 Hz and the other to 900 Hz (for a "1") and record it on a tape recorder. "
It's a message to the outside world more than anything else: Apple and Cook saying "We think this job is long term and we're going to make profit doing it together." Sort of a mutual vote of confidence to calm any anxiety outsiders might have.
i dont know if its 'stupidity', but i would call it 'ignorance' and 'lack of education'.
thats what allows best buy to scam so many and defraud so many. and it is wrong.
That's elitism. Even more than that it's willfully closing your eyes to facts and going for the easy answer. It's all to common in the geek world (or the real world for that matter) and it's holding people back : - Linux doesn't succeed on the desktop because people aren't educated enough to use a "real OS" - the iPod was popular because people are ignorant - MP3.com went under because people are ignorant and corrupt -... Tiresome. You get those same kinds of reactions if you debate anarchists or libertarians. "If only everyone were as smart as me, the world would be a better place."
It's also the difference between Apple and elitist geeks : Apple: Let's make a portable touch screen computer everyone can use, people will be lining up to stuff money in our pockets. 1337: If it was hard to write it should be hard to use, haha. If people really wanted to use it they'd read the friggin' manual.
the objection to the iPod is somewhere along those lines. the main thing it did was integrate with iTunes ---- well, we had this site called mp3.com way, way before itunes,, and it got shut down by legal and corporate assholes for no good reason, based on the fraudulent legal system that doesn't allow you to claim that you own the music that you rightly bought and payed for (but somehow allows record industry executives to claim the own music that they stole and robbed from the artists who created it).
Jobs was somehow able to convince the corrupt music industry executives to let him send content over the internet. That's what the Ipod was about. Great for him... but many geeks view that as a consequence of his ability to schmooze and do smoke-filled-room negotiations... not as any kind of product innovation.
80's Jobs couldn't have done these deals (the arrogant sob), it took him 20 years to become experienced enough to cut these kind of deals (and running a successful media company himself for a decade probably didn't hurt either.) But yeah look down on him because he succeeded where others fail because failing makes you a tragic hero and succeeding just means you sold out.
How anyone can seriously say the iPod wasn't a very good mp3 player amazes me, you can argue over innovative but man was it ever good. It's not everyone's cup of tea of course, but nothing pleases everyone. People tend to romanticize pre-iPod mp3 players I think. Back in the day I was the kind of idiot that ripped his cd's to ogg files (what was I thinking?) to play on my Cowon iAudio M3. A nice player, but my experience became just so much better after I started using iTunes/iPod. It became about the music instead of the technicalities of bitrates, managing folder hierarchies, etc.
Something might not be better simply because it is more popular but at some point you have to wonder: what is more likely that those >100 million people who bought iPods are idiots or that you might be wrong ? It's all just geek hipsterism: "Hah look at those sheeple, don't they know they should be ripping chiptunes to ogg then playing them on an mp3 player running Linux. So stupid."
People do like being able to install software that was not vetted by their computers' manufacturer, they like being able to copy files without hitting toll booths or speed bumps, they like being able to get uncensored entertainment. People have enjoyed those freedoms for many years with their PCs, and I do not think most of them will be willing to give those freedoms up.
While I agree that that is worth fighting for, I have yet to hear a non-geek iPad/iPhone user complain about only being to get software from the AppStore. Maybe that'll change in future as they become more aware, but right now most people simply don't care.
Personal computers were successful precisely because they are not managed by a large company -- they are owned, operated, and controlled by their users./p>
They were successful because they were manufactured cheaply and in great quantities by clone makers which they could do because clean room BIOS reimplentations were deemed legal and Microsoft didn't have an exclusive contract with IBM for DOS. User freedom had little to do with it.
My Tab10.1 is just a severely under-powered laptop/tablet-pc. In very short order we'll have 10hour batteries and 1.5 pound weight in an x86 machine just like we have with tablets. And then everyone will just go back to using full computers again.
When that happens Apple will just load OSX with all the iPad-like features they are putting in there now and tell app developers to flip a switch to make their apps a universal ARM/x86 binary. That's the advantage they have from keeping tight control over how the API is used. They have explored different scenari's to cover this from a tablet that slides into a pc-like docking enclosure, to an iMac that switches between touch and normal modes. The tablet will evolve.
No they haven't given up their PC's, yet. But I know lots of people who have consoles for gaming and a PC just for IM, Facebook, email and the web. Give those people a console + an iPad and they'll never need anything else. They don't like to mess with computers because to them messing with them = breaking stuff. As tablets become more powerful and more people get them PC's will start to lose their edge. Then, like it or not, accustomed to the new user-friendliness regular people will increasingly start to ask why can't my PC just work, or be instant-on, or never crash, etc. just like my tablet can ? You and I will always have classic workstation PC's, and maybe in a corporate setting too but regular consumers will not miss them.
This is not a new thing. It has happened with cars where people went from practically building their own to only gearheads really messing with the engine, or with radio's where people used to have to know how to change lamps,etc. Why would computers be any different ?
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Mods, this is not offtopic. It's a reference to the theme song of the science fiction comedy Red Dwarf. Consider your geek cards revoked.
Might I suggest :
perl -MCPAN -e 'install ACME::Humor'
Yes, but to run that pirated software you have to jailbreak. The most recent stats on jail breaking I could find are these from 2009 suggesting 8,43% of iPhone users jailbreak (most articles seem to assume around 10% jailbreak.) Assuming ALL of these users install pirated software, a big assumption, that still leaves the platform with less than 10% piracy.
I still use the "view" menu, even though there's a button for it and it's in the context menu (force of habit I guess), the favorites menu to quickly jump to folders and less frequently the "tools" menu for mapping network drives. I'm just one of these people who thinks MS should've stopped messing with the Windows UI around Windows 2000. Anyway it's not my problem until my workplace starts upgrading away from XP.
I hate some menus, like the bs autocollapsing Office 2003 era ones, they're the best we have when done right though.
"Huge" menu seriously ? Menu's done wrong can be a nightmare, like Word's menu pré-ribbon especially the automatically collapsing kind. Finder's menu is pretty nice.
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I'll use regular expressions.” Now they have two problems.
- Jamie Zawinski
Yes I figured you could minimize it. That doesn't help when you need a function accessed through the ribbon. It's like having a drawer full of crap that you have to root through when you need a particular tool, everything looks nice and neat when it's closed but then you need something and the pain starts.
You call that mess minimal ? Compare this screenshot of the Windows 8 explorer to the OSX Lion Finder, now that's no nonsense minimalism.
I think. Who knows. The article is awful.
El Reg is a rag, a fun rag but a rag nonetheless. There's been a spate of articles lately attacking Apple's enterprise readiness because of bugs (in a month old OS.) I wonder if that's because they are being used more in enterprise and it's becoming more of a problem or someone's just worried that they might get some traction in business ?
Infoseek was pretty good, actually. The big thing about Google was more about its minimalist, ad-free search results.
And the "cached page" thing where they highlight the search terms. That's a time saver, and I think Google were the first to do that.
will be sued the second they stick their heads out cause someone holds a patent of a fucking text entry box
Only if they start their business in the US.
That's the way Woz tells it, so he's not going to call his own house "Steve's house", and it's as close to a primary source you're going to get :-) You can choose not to believe it, that's sort of my point though: when you've got your mind made up to the point you're dismissing the people who were actually there you might want to examine your bias.
Here's another source :
"As a child, Jobs preferred doing things by himself. He swam competitively, but was not interested in team sports or other group activities. He showed an early interest in electronics and gadgetry. He spent a lot of time working in the garage workshop of a neighbor who worked at Hewlett-Packard, an electronics manufacturer.
Jobs also enrolled in the Hewlett-Packard Explorer Club. There he saw engineers demonstrate new products, and he saw his first computer at the age of twelve. He was very impressed, and knew right away that he wanted to work with computers.
While in high school Jobs attended lectures at the Hewlett-Packard plant. On one occasion he boldly asked William Hewlett, the president, for some parts he needed to complete a class project. Hewlett was so impressed he gave Jobs the parts, and offered him a summer internship at Hewlett-Packard."
Why not go decimal time instead ?
Twitter (twat; past tense of tweet)..
No. There are at least 2 towns called Twatt though.
Steven Fry once said (in Paperweight I think) that if we really wanted to stop people using "swear words" we should just use the words for their intended meaning instead of trying to cover our embaressment by using ridiculous flowery language. Eg. just say fuck instead of "making love", say shit instead of "going to the bathroom", etc. The words only have power because we avoid using them.
Android tablets are just now showing up to the fight, so claims that they "own" the pad market are just boasts from a fighter who hasn't yet entered the ring against their adversary..
It's more like Columbus claiming the new world for Spain, sure long term they eventually lost but they made obscene amounts of money at first and their influence can be seen to this day.
You know nothing of the man, read a biography of his. Start with iCon, which was pulled from the Apple stores, just so you know you're not reading an "approved version." The guy was an electronics geek, good but good enough to recognize he was no Wozniak. The whole reason he and Woz hung out is because he was into electronics. He's a good business man too but that's not all he is.
Read how Woz describes the birth of the blue box :
"I read an article in Esquire Magazine [...] entitled "Secrets of the Blue Box--fiction" by Ron Rosenblum. Halfway through the article I had to call my best friend, Steve Jobs, and read parts of this long article to him.
[...]
The next day was Sunday. Steve and I drove to SLAC (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, the same place the Homebrew Computer Club would meet 4 years later) because they always left a door or two unlocked and nobody thought anything about a couple of strangers reading books and magazines in their technical library. Finally we found a book that had the exact same frequencies that had been mentioned in the Esquire article. Now we had the complete list.
We went back to Steve's house and built two, somewhat unstable, multivabrator oscillators. We could see the instability on a frequency counter, but we were in a hurry. We would set one oscillator to 700 Hz and the other to 900 Hz (for a "1") and record it on a tape recorder. "
It's a message to the outside world more than anything else: Apple and Cook saying "We think this job is long term and we're going to make profit doing it together." Sort of a mutual vote of confidence to calm any anxiety outsiders might have.
i dont know if its 'stupidity', but i would call it 'ignorance' and 'lack of education'.
thats what allows best buy to scam so many and defraud so many. and it is wrong.
That's elitism. Even more than that it's willfully closing your eyes to facts and going for the easy answer. It's all to common in the geek world (or the real world for that matter) and it's holding people back : ...
- Linux doesn't succeed on the desktop because people aren't educated enough to use a "real OS"
- the iPod was popular because people are ignorant
- MP3.com went under because people are ignorant and corrupt
-
Tiresome. You get those same kinds of reactions if you debate anarchists or libertarians. "If only everyone were as smart as me, the world would be a better place."
It's also the difference between Apple and elitist geeks :
Apple: Let's make a portable touch screen computer everyone can use, people will be lining up to stuff money in our pockets.
1337: If it was hard to write it should be hard to use, haha. If people really wanted to use it they'd read the friggin' manual.
the objection to the iPod is somewhere along those lines. the main thing it did was integrate with iTunes ---- well, we had this site called mp3.com way, way before itunes,, and it got shut down by legal and corporate assholes for no good reason, based on the fraudulent legal system that doesn't allow you to claim that you own the music that you rightly bought and payed for (but somehow allows record industry executives to claim the own music that they stole and robbed from the artists who created it).
Jobs was somehow able to convince the corrupt music industry executives to let him send content over the internet. That's what the Ipod was about. Great for him... but many geeks view that as a consequence of his ability to schmooze and do smoke-filled-room negotiations... not as any kind of product innovation.
80's Jobs couldn't have done these deals (the arrogant sob), it took him 20 years to become experienced enough to cut these kind of deals (and running a successful media company himself for a decade probably didn't hurt either.) But yeah look down on him because he succeeded where others fail because failing makes you a tragic hero and succeeding just means you sold out.
How anyone can seriously say the iPod wasn't a very good mp3 player amazes me, you can argue over innovative but man was it ever good. It's not everyone's cup of tea of course, but nothing pleases everyone. People tend to romanticize pre-iPod mp3 players I think. Back in the day I was the kind of idiot that ripped his cd's to ogg files (what was I thinking?) to play on my Cowon iAudio M3. A nice player, but my experience became just so much better after I started using iTunes/iPod. It became about the music instead of the technicalities of bitrates, managing folder hierarchies, etc.
What's it for? No surprise, domestic spying.
Well the butler always did it, this way they'll have proof.
Something might not be better simply because it is more popular but at some point you have to wonder: what is more likely that those >100 million people who bought iPods are idiots or that you might be wrong ? It's all just geek hipsterism: "Hah look at those sheeple, don't they know they should be ripping chiptunes to ogg then playing them on an mp3 player running Linux. So stupid."
People do like being able to install software that was not vetted by their computers' manufacturer, they like being able to copy files without hitting toll booths or speed bumps, they like being able to get uncensored entertainment. People have enjoyed those freedoms for many years with their PCs, and I do not think most of them will be willing to give those freedoms up.
While I agree that that is worth fighting for, I have yet to hear a non-geek iPad/iPhone user complain about only being to get software from the AppStore. Maybe that'll change in future as they become more aware, but right now most people simply don't care.
Personal computers were successful precisely because they are not managed by a large company -- they are owned, operated, and controlled by their users./p>
They were successful because they were manufactured cheaply and in great quantities by clone makers which they could do because clean room BIOS reimplentations were deemed legal and Microsoft didn't have an exclusive contract with IBM for DOS. User freedom had little to do with it.
My Tab10.1 is just a severely under-powered laptop/tablet-pc. In very short order we'll have 10hour batteries and 1.5 pound weight in an x86 machine just like we have with tablets. And then everyone will just go back to using full computers again.
When that happens Apple will just load OSX with all the iPad-like features they are putting in there now and tell app developers to flip a switch to make their apps a universal ARM/x86 binary. That's the advantage they have from keeping tight control over how the API is used. They have explored different scenari's to cover this from a tablet that slides into a pc-like docking enclosure, to an iMac that switches between touch and normal modes. The tablet will evolve.
No they haven't given up their PC's, yet. But I know lots of people who have consoles for gaming and a PC just for IM, Facebook, email and the web. Give those people a console + an iPad and they'll never need anything else. They don't like to mess with computers because to them messing with them = breaking stuff. As tablets become more powerful and more people get them PC's will start to lose their edge. Then, like it or not, accustomed to the new user-friendliness regular people will increasingly start to ask why can't my PC just work, or be instant-on, or never crash, etc. just like my tablet can ? You and I will always have classic workstation PC's, and maybe in a corporate setting too but regular consumers will not miss them.
This is not a new thing. It has happened with cars where people went from practically building their own to only gearheads really messing with the engine, or with radio's where people used to have to know how to change lamps,etc. Why would computers be any different ?