Why doesn't Microsoft forbid Firefox and OO.org teams from using Windows SDK?
Kaspersky's not blocked from using the SDK, he can use the same one all other developers are using and can use the same APIs. He could even call private APIs and run his software on his own device, it would just mean he couldn't sell it through the appstore.
Just because the iPhone has similar functionality built in doesn't mean 3rd party vendors shouldn't be able to compete. I happen to be writing this comment with Firefox on a machine that came with IE already....
Apple doesn't want to give developers access to the API's to do things like remote wipe. So they either block everyone from doing it or they make an exception for certain vendors. Apple isn't very big on making exceptions for any external company, even Google gets the choice of doing it the Apple way or hitting the highway. Nobody seems to mind in this case except the anti-virus cartel who are seeing their core market melt way now Windows is becoming secure and they don't have a foothold in this decade's growth market, mobile devices.
p.s. If all it took was a placebo, don't you think the CPAP machine would have worked? Or any of the other treatments, for that matter? I suppose you could argue that specific placebos work better than non-specific placebos, but then you've opened up a can of worms, and I don't think you mean to go there.
The placebo effect is a strange thing. Maybe it's the fact that real medicine often has severe side-effects while the placebo doesn't. Maybe it's because in chronic illnesses doctors make up a treatment plan of several options, preparing the patient for a treatment's failure. Maybe the problem was psychological and you actually managed to talk him through it. Maybe it was all just a coincidence.
Or maybe your miracle box works, your "quantum energy filter" based on SECRET KNOWLEDGE revealed by the sleeping prophet. Done any good double blind studies lately ?
And because this is Apple in question, fanboys would just join in thinking throwing babies into an industrial tree shedder makes them look super cool.
And the haters would come out and say "I don't want to throw babies into a shredder, I want to to shred kittens. Why won't Apple let me do this, WRYYYY ? OMG Apple is teh suxxorz."
You're confused. This isn't about tethering something through iPad. This is about tethering iPad (the model without 3G) through iPhone. It's something that you can do with any cheapo netbook and any cheapo phone (not even smartphone).
Great, enjoy your netbook and cheapo phone. "Problem" solved! That was easy.
This is Apple we're talking about. It just works. Unless of course it doesn't, in which case you didn't need to do it anyway. Think different!
Yeah but this is the company that famously said "There is no step 3.". The process needs to be simple and automatic to fit in with Apple's idea of what these devices should be like. Pairing 2 devices isn't (yet) and so they don't do it (yet.) Add to that that the iPhone itself currently doesn't support WiFi tethering, only tethering through USB and Bluetooth, and the chances of being able to do this when the iPad came out were always going to be low.
First I helped the client deal with some old emotional traumas. A few weeks later I supplied the Radial Appliance. He uses it every night - if he wakes up at 1am (sometimes the dog wakes him up), he'll move, re-attach the wires, and go right back to sleep.
That's a looong walk you took to arrive at peddling your placebo.
But isn't that because the US was originally founded by European Christians who believed that they were more serious about their religion than their peers?
Some of the earliest settlers (colonist period) perhaps but how many of the total number of migrants were puritans as opposed to economic migrants ? When you look at the early US history the attitude towards religion seems to be very enlightened. The current insanity to me seems to coincide with the latter stages of the american imperialist period (post-JFK) and it has been written into the official mythology and rites of power.
With respect to new drugs: why fight your body? Seriously. I've also found that as an *alert* night type person you can easily make a killing.
It limits your career options for one and also tends to interfere with normal family life (being on 2 different schedules) which might become more problematic as the kids grow older.
Sounds like me. I sleep from morning to afternoon and I get a "concentration boost" between around 23:00-01:00, I can only assume "normal" people get that around noon. Even when I force myself to live normal hours I still find myself "waking" around 23:00 even if I've been slogging through the day dog tired. It's been this way for as long as I can remember, my mother used to call me the family night watchman. I've tried to adapt my life as you have, working a job as sysadmin that allows me to work shifts which is nice in the evening and night shifts and pure hell in the morning shift.
Lately I've wondered if maybe some of the nootropic drugs might be able to help normalize my rhythm but I'm reluctant to start popping pills unless absolutely necessary.
I remember years ago reading Wikipedia articles that were written by experts in the relevant field. Much of their work was destroyed as people went through asking for citations to third-party sources--and since most of the relevant citations would have to come from print material only available at large university libraries, rather than seek out original sources various contributors eventually whittled those articles down to nothing.
That's a real dilemma though. Do you accept on faith that un-cited information from an anonymous source because it looks right ? Complete nonsense can be made to sound good. Or do you accept only a more limited set of information for which you can at least validate the sources so you have a fighting chance ? The only optimal solution would be to offer both with the article with citations being the preferred one but that adds unwanted complexity and cost.
Personally I think your expert friends should have just linked their sources from the get-go. Linking is what the web was built on in the first place for pete's sake.
True, and at a certain point the casual contributor no longer has anything to add and the very knowledgeable have to move in for any contributions to made and move the article from "just ok" to "good" and beyond. It's very unlikely because of demographics a good all-rounder with a lot of knowledge of a topic will move in and create an article from scratch. The casuals are more likely to get there first.
Because 90% of Wikipedia is dead. People drive-by now and then and drop in a sentence or fix a spelling error, but for the most part nobody is editing the articles unless it's a politically contentious topic.
Oh come on. 90% of articles probably concern topics that are either "finished" or are part of a domain in which scholarship is currently very slow moving. Once an article on a particular deceased author is written for example it shouldn't be updated unless some new insights are gained at some point. Likewise for some scientists and theories which have been superseded or are well established. Knowledge doesn't "bit-rot".
It's technically possibly to develop an app to do this, like MyFi (for jailbroken phones.) It is strictly Verboten though. I can see why too, imagine an iphone app that lets you send/receive mp3's to/from nearby iPhone users. The music industry's worst nightmare.
Then so is the UK (making the assumption you're from there based on username) which has its fair share of witch hunts organized by the tabloids (Jade Goody, the anti-vaccination insanity, the pediatrician assaulted by confused pedophile hunters, etc...) In fact it might be more totalitarian since the Chinese incidents aren't guided by a central authority like the UK ones but are grass roots initiatives.
It's discussed in TFA: a corrupt local official was hunted down for attempting to pull a small girl into a bathroom, actual eyewitnesses were not sure the situation was so clear cut. The whole reason we have courts is because mob "justice" is rarely that.
The difference being the Chinese are motivated by a sense of moral justice (at least on the surface) instead of a nihilistic quest for lulz. Frankly I like the 4chan way better, seems more honest. It's also interesting that similar behavior has spontaneously developed in 2 parts of the world with a very different culture, it may indicate the way future internet-centric societies will further develop. Oh dear god IS "4chan the Future of Human Consciousness?"
You might want to look at the bigger picture. The mobile world is at war and no punches are being pulled, Apple is just the most high profile combatant. (Not that I agree with the lawsuits.)
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Why doesn't Microsoft forbid Firefox and OO.org teams from using Windows SDK?
Kaspersky's not blocked from using the SDK, he can use the same one all other developers are using and can use the same APIs. He could even call private APIs and run his software on his own device, it would just mean he couldn't sell it through the appstore.
Why? Kaspersky has some of the best products.
Eugene, is that you ?
Just because the iPhone has similar functionality built in doesn't mean 3rd party vendors shouldn't be able to compete. I happen to be writing this comment with Firefox on a machine that came with IE already....
Apple doesn't want to give developers access to the API's to do things like remote wipe. So they either block everyone from doing it or they make an exception for certain vendors. Apple isn't very big on making exceptions for any external company, even Google gets the choice of doing it the Apple way or hitting the highway. Nobody seems to mind in this case except the anti-virus cartel who are seeing their core market melt way now Windows is becoming secure and they don't have a foothold in this decade's growth market, mobile devices.
p.s. If all it took was a placebo, don't you think the CPAP machine would have worked? Or any of the other treatments, for that matter? I suppose you could argue that specific placebos work better than non-specific placebos, but then you've opened up a can of worms, and I don't think you mean to go there.
The placebo effect is a strange thing. Maybe it's the fact that real medicine often has severe side-effects while the placebo doesn't. Maybe it's because in chronic illnesses doctors make up a treatment plan of several options, preparing the patient for a treatment's failure. Maybe the problem was psychological and you actually managed to talk him through it. Maybe it was all just a coincidence.
Or maybe your miracle box works, your "quantum energy filter" based on SECRET KNOWLEDGE revealed by the sleeping prophet. Done any good double blind studies lately ?
And because this is Apple in question, fanboys would just join in thinking throwing babies into an industrial tree shedder makes them look super cool.
And the haters would come out and say "I don't want to throw babies into a shredder, I want to to shred kittens. Why won't Apple let me do this, WRYYYY ? OMG Apple is teh suxxorz."
You're confused. This isn't about tethering something through iPad. This is about tethering iPad (the model without 3G) through iPhone. It's something that you can do with any cheapo netbook and any cheapo phone (not even smartphone).
Great, enjoy your netbook and cheapo phone. "Problem" solved!
That was easy.
Steve Jobs could through a baby into a industrial tree shredder and you would still defend him.
In his defense the baby was being kind of a dick.
Yeah we don't know what was that baby's problem.
I heard it was a crack baby, so it's an act of mercy.
Logic ? Don't bother, it's the daily Two Minutes Apple Hate.
This is Apple we're talking about. It just works. Unless of course it doesn't, in which case you didn't need to do it anyway. Think different!
Yeah but this is the company that famously said "There is no step 3.". The process needs to be simple and automatic to fit in with Apple's idea of what these devices should be like. Pairing 2 devices isn't (yet) and so they don't do it (yet.) Add to that that the iPhone itself currently doesn't support WiFi tethering, only tethering through USB and Bluetooth, and the chances of being able to do this when the iPad came out were always going to be low.
First I helped the client deal with some old emotional traumas. A few weeks later I supplied the Radial Appliance. He uses it every night - if he wakes up at 1am (sometimes the dog wakes him up), he'll move, re-attach the wires, and go right back to sleep.
That's a looong walk you took to arrive at peddling your placebo.
But isn't that because the US was originally founded by European Christians who believed that they were more serious about their religion than their peers?
Some of the earliest settlers (colonist period) perhaps but how many of the total number of migrants were puritans as opposed to economic migrants ? When you look at the early US history the attitude towards religion seems to be very enlightened. The current insanity to me seems to coincide with the latter stages of the american imperialist period (post-JFK) and it has been written into the official mythology and rites of power.
With respect to new drugs: why fight your body? Seriously. I've also found that as an *alert* night type person you can easily make a killing.
It limits your career options for one and also tends to interfere with normal family life (being on 2 different schedules) which might become more problematic as the kids grow older.
Sounds like me. I sleep from morning to afternoon and I get a "concentration boost" between around 23:00-01:00, I can only assume "normal" people get that around noon. Even when I force myself to live normal hours I still find myself "waking" around 23:00 even if I've been slogging through the day dog tired. It's been this way for as long as I can remember, my mother used to call me the family night watchman. I've tried to adapt my life as you have, working a job as sysadmin that allows me to work shifts which is nice in the evening and night shifts and pure hell in the morning shift.
Lately I've wondered if maybe some of the nootropic drugs might be able to help normalize my rhythm but I'm reluctant to start popping pills unless absolutely necessary.
"These lumivores reject the safety of darkness and appear to seek out light. Sickening !"
I remember years ago reading Wikipedia articles that were written by experts in the relevant field. Much of their work was destroyed as people went through asking for citations to third-party sources--and since most of the relevant citations would have to come from print material only available at large university libraries, rather than seek out original sources various contributors eventually whittled those articles down to nothing.
That's a real dilemma though. Do you accept on faith that un-cited information from an anonymous source because it looks right ? Complete nonsense can be made to sound good. Or do you accept only a more limited set of information for which you can at least validate the sources so you have a fighting chance ? The only optimal solution would be to offer both with the article with citations being the preferred one but that adds unwanted complexity and cost.
Personally I think your expert friends should have just linked their sources from the get-go. Linking is what the web was built on in the first place for pete's sake.
True, and at a certain point the casual contributor no longer has anything to add and the very knowledgeable have to move in for any contributions to made and move the article from "just ok" to "good" and beyond. It's very unlikely because of demographics a good all-rounder with a lot of knowledge of a topic will move in and create an article from scratch. The casuals are more likely to get there first.
Because 90% of Wikipedia is dead. People drive-by now and then and drop in a sentence or fix a spelling error, but for the most part nobody is editing the articles unless it's a politically contentious topic.
Oh come on. 90% of articles probably concern topics that are either "finished" or are part of a domain in which scholarship is currently very slow moving. Once an article on a particular deceased author is written for example it shouldn't be updated unless some new insights are gained at some point. Likewise for some scientists and theories which have been superseded or are well established. Knowledge doesn't "bit-rot".
If people keep this up we might have to start referring to the internet as the Information Superhighway again.
Yes, and? Saying all the ways that the UK or wherever is bad too doesn't excuse this.
Not at all, it just bugs me when people ignore the beam in their own eye. Change yourself, change the world.
It's technically possibly to develop an app to do this, like MyFi (for jailbroken phones.) It is strictly Verboten though. I can see why too, imagine an iphone app that lets you send/receive mp3's to/from nearby iPhone users. The music industry's worst nightmare.
This way a developer will think twice about doing such things, as it means their app could very well break come next update.
The amount of apps being banned for using private APIs disproves your argument.
Then so is the UK (making the assumption you're from there based on username) which has its fair share of witch hunts organized by the tabloids (Jade Goody, the anti-vaccination insanity, the pediatrician assaulted by confused pedophile hunters, etc...) In fact it might be more totalitarian since the Chinese incidents aren't guided by a central authority like the UK ones but are grass roots initiatives.
It's discussed in TFA: a corrupt local official was hunted down for attempting to pull a small girl into a bathroom, actual eyewitnesses were not sure the situation was so clear cut. The whole reason we have courts is because mob "justice" is rarely that.
The difference being the Chinese are motivated by a sense of moral justice (at least on the surface) instead of a nihilistic quest for lulz. Frankly I like the 4chan way better, seems more honest.
It's also interesting that similar behavior has spontaneously developed in 2 parts of the world with a very different culture, it may indicate the way future internet-centric societies will further develop. Oh dear god IS "4chan the Future of Human Consciousness?"
You might want to look at the bigger picture. The mobile world is at war and no punches are being pulled, Apple is just the most high profile combatant. (Not that I agree with the lawsuits.)