You know I can't count the number of times I sat before an "enterprise" java application and thought to myself "I wish these people were making the software that runs on my phone !" Yeah they're REAL programmers not nansy pansy "designers" like those iPhone types.
They've been especially uninnovative since the return of Jobs though, as their main business strategy has been entering rapidly growing markets and doing the same as everyone else, but more expensive and with less features..
Typical geek. "How can this iPod/iPhone be better ? It has less features !" Would the average person have been able to get work done on the PARC machine ? Probably not, but they could on the mac. Some people actually care that it's nicely designed, that the feature that are included work in thoroughly logical and planned out manner, that it's easier to use and yes it even looks nice. THAT is Apple's strength.
But I agree, they are evil, though they've only really been evil since they got their first big taste of success with the iPod and have slid into crazy evil.
Sensationalist nonsense. Apple are no different than any other company out there including Google with the exception that they make products that are head and shoulders above all of the other drek out there (for the time being.)
I guess I don't really help out with stopping the stereotype though. I often answer with "FM Principal" (F*cking Magic) when I fix something and don't know what exactly the fix was
Ah, the Proximity Of Genius effect ("hey it suddenly works now you're here") and it's dark-side equivalent the Gabriel Effect.
The worst thing is "Jurassic Parc" is on his list but he counted Nedry (the fat nerd who locked out the system) but not the little girl in that infamous 'I know UNIX' scene. Pretty bogus.
I think even the "realistic" parts of the portrayal are accidental. I mean a white male of professional age in a setting with lots of computer equipment isn't exactly a stretch. It's probably the opposite: most hackers fit into the most boring stereotype known to man.
It's the same everywhere. Here in Belgium the boards of banks are loaded with past and current politicians just to make sure they know where their bread is buttered. The only exception may be China where even top officials are afraid of the partyvan (coincidentally the only place where banks are still lending money in significant amounts because politicians told them so.)
Yeah how hard can it be, it's not rocket sc... oh wait.
Seriously, I'm all for a new Apollo program but we're talking about an area in which even the leading experts sometimes get it devastatingly wrong with catastrophic results. It's going to take more than a volunteer effort.
Wow, they are lobbying to able to shut down cell phone service and internet access when the companies (supposedly under attack) are "unwilling" to do so. I'm glad I'm not a conspiracy theorist or I would be under the table right now wearing my tinfoil hat. To me it sounds more like a South American regime worried about a coup than the "home of the free."
No what the guy is saying is this : "We wanted to shut you up and our lawyers told us we could so we sued but it didn't work out. Sorry we thought we could win our suit to censor you, we were misinformed."
I don't care if his lawyers told him they shit rainbows and glitter, he hired thugs to shut up someone for writing about his product. Even if the asshole thought he could win it he shouldn't have done it.
Burglars could destroy them for kicks while tearing through your stuff looking for valuables or you could happen to have them in a bag because you took them to some fiends and they swipe the bag, or you left them in the car and they take the car.
newer models prevent you from sliding in your card, instead feeding it in automatically in small movements.
Was trying to find a source because I couldn't remember where I had heard this and found :
"The card reader firmware is modified to change the way a card is read. On insertion of the card, it is moved back and forth, at different speeds, while the card reader is reading the information. This process will stop skimmers that require simple motion in order to read the card."
So unfortunately it looks like it will only work if the reader is correctly outfitted.
The card reader manufacturers need to step up and protect customers. I hear in that here in europe the newer models prevent you from sliding in your card, instead feeding it in automatically in small movements. This should prevent the skimmer from having a clean "swipe" of the card and the machine then uses the chip on the card to get the data it needs. You could try manually emulating that behaviour (pushing in/out in little bits), though I don't know if it will work.
So I ask myself, what if my copy of my copy of my copy is corrupt? I'm screwed. What if I have something in an unsupported format that I can't find any support for? I'm screwed.
What if you lose all those paper pictures and negatives in a fire, a flood, lose the book when moving, get burgled,... ?
What if I have a photo at 320x240 resolution and I want to make a 8x10 photo of it and put it on my wall? I'm screwed.
Tell that to all people who had polaroid camera's.
Many of the laws that overly stymie information flow (DMCA etc.), I think, are just a knee jerk reaction in the way printing presses were suppressed, and controlled until everyone realised the benefits of having them opened up.
Barbarians have always burned down libraries. No reason to think they'd stop doing that just because they wear ties these days.
How much of it is really worth saving? Except The Goatse image and a good RickRoll video I mean...
And do we want to save everything ? We've never been as close as we are now to a society with perfect recall, we'd be nearly there now if it wasn't for copyrights. What happens to culture when things don't get to fade away and be rediscovered or reinvented in a different form, a perpetual remix culture ? Interesting times.
It's not about the texts. Archaeologists learn a lot from trash :
"The unusable or unwanted remnants of everyday life end up in the garbage. By studying what people have thrown away, archaeologists can learn a great deal about a culture. This is true not only of prehistoric peoples who left no written record about their lives, but also of people today. Archaeologist Bill Rathje studies the garbage of Americans. He has learned many things about the relationships of human behavior and trash disposal, information useful in studying people of the past and the present. Rathje has found that people will often tell an interviewer what they believe is appropriate behavior, but their garbage tells another story. For instance, people frequently say they eat lots of fruits and vegetables, yet their garbage shows they do not. Another example is that people say they recycle more than they actually do (Rathje 1984, p. 27)."
Which is why I'm in two minds about this. Placebos are effective in a number of cases, and belief in the effectiveness of the placebo has been shown to increase this. If giving people a glass of water and telling them that it's magic pixie juice boosts their immune system and avoids the need to give them antibiotics, why not do that?
The dilemma of the white lie. Ultimately it's a question of personal moral philosophy but I think it demeans the person being told the lie in this case. It also undermines the authority of the medical practitioner if you can't trust them not to lie to you "in your best interest."
Do you think the "crApp Factories" of the world ONLY produce bikini apps?
That's not what I said. I said most of the bikini apps were produced by these idiots, not that they only produce those kinds of apps. These bikini apps are the easiest to ban though.
And where do you get your 99%-1% statistic, anyway?
It's an approximation of the relative amount of time I spend shaking my head in disbelief while browsing the App Store.
At least the other parishioners who were defending Apple had the decency to come up with rational arguments, but this is just beyond the pale.
My bad, next time I'll just fire off an invective-filled missive comparing somebodies opinions to religious zealotry.
Exactly. There are app sweatshops like this guy who has already been banned for gaming the system :
"In less than 9 months, Khalid Shaikh and his 26-employee team (most of which are in Pakistan) have published 943 applications [...] That’s roughly 5 apps a day, every day, for 250 days"
And they churn out crap like what Apple is now banning (emphasis mine) :
"They include “Top Sexy Ladies: Audrina Patridge,” which (from what we gather; again, we cannot test these apps because they are not up anymore) is an app that takes 5 pictures of The Hills star from online and puts them on your phone. Yes, it costs $4.99. There are hundreds of others like this, including Top Sexy Men apps and various news update apps"
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You know I can't count the number of times I sat before an "enterprise" java application and thought to myself "I wish these people were making the software that runs on my phone !" Yeah they're REAL programmers not nansy pansy "designers" like those iPhone types.
They've been especially uninnovative since the return of Jobs though, as their main business strategy has been entering rapidly growing markets and doing the same as everyone else, but more expensive and with less features..
Typical geek. "How can this iPod/iPhone be better ? It has less features !" Would the average person have been able to get work done on the PARC machine ? Probably not, but they could on the mac. Some people actually care that it's nicely designed, that the feature that are included work in thoroughly logical and planned out manner, that it's easier to use and yes it even looks nice. THAT is Apple's strength.
But I agree, they are evil, though they've only really been evil since they got their first big taste of success with the iPod and have slid into crazy evil.
Sensationalist nonsense. Apple are no different than any other company out there including Google with the exception that they make products that are head and shoulders above all of the other drek out there (for the time being.)
I guess I don't really help out with stopping the stereotype though. I often answer with "FM Principal" (F*cking Magic) when I fix something and don't know what exactly the fix was
Ah, the Proximity Of Genius effect ("hey it suddenly works now you're here") and it's dark-side equivalent the Gabriel Effect.
All tech involved was just a small step removed from the real thing.
Except it also has the most overused and silly computer-related tropes ever in it : the logicbomb.
The worst thing is "Jurassic Parc" is on his list but he counted Nedry (the fat nerd who locked out the system) but not the little girl in that infamous 'I know UNIX' scene. Pretty bogus.
I think even the "realistic" parts of the portrayal are accidental. I mean a white male of professional age in a setting with lots of computer equipment isn't exactly a stretch. It's probably the opposite: most hackers fit into the most boring stereotype known to man.
It's the same everywhere. Here in Belgium the boards of banks are loaded with past and current politicians just to make sure they know where their bread is buttered. The only exception may be China where even top officials are afraid of the partyvan (coincidentally the only place where banks are still lending money in significant amounts because politicians told them so.)
Did anyone else read this as "shushing" his server?
ssh; unzip; touch; strip; finger; expand; head; find; mount; yes; more; yes; ping; halt; make clean; sleep
I'm afraid there's at least one reason neighbouring Estonia is better.
Don't forget the hardest material known to man fuckyeahsmium.
Yeah how hard can it be, it's not rocket sc... oh wait.
Seriously, I'm all for a new Apollo program but we're talking about an area in which even the leading experts sometimes get it devastatingly wrong with catastrophic results. It's going to take more than a volunteer effort.
Wow, they are lobbying to able to shut down cell phone service and internet access when the companies (supposedly under attack) are "unwilling" to do so. I'm glad I'm not a conspiracy theorist or I would be under the table right now wearing my tinfoil hat. To me it sounds more like a South American regime worried about a coup than the "home of the free."
No what the guy is saying is this : "We wanted to shut you up and our lawyers told us we could so we sued but it didn't work out. Sorry we thought we could win our suit to censor you, we were misinformed."
I don't care if his lawyers told him they shit rainbows and glitter, he hired thugs to shut up someone for writing about his product. Even if the asshole thought he could win it he shouldn't have done it.
Burglars could destroy them for kicks while tearing through your stuff looking for valuables or you could happen to have them in a bag because you took them to some fiends and they swipe the bag, or you left them in the car and they take the car.
newer models prevent you from sliding in your card, instead feeding it in automatically in small movements.
Was trying to find a source because I couldn't remember where I had heard this and found :
"The card reader firmware is modified to change the way a card is read. On insertion of the card, it is moved back and forth, at different speeds, while the card reader is reading the information. This process will stop skimmers that require simple motion in order to read the card."
So unfortunately it looks like it will only work if the reader is correctly outfitted.
The card reader manufacturers need to step up and protect customers. I hear in that here in europe the newer models prevent you from sliding in your card, instead feeding it in automatically in small movements. This should prevent the skimmer from having a clean "swipe" of the card and the machine then uses the chip on the card to get the data it needs. You could try manually emulating that behaviour (pushing in/out in little bits), though I don't know if it will work.
So I ask myself, what if my copy of my copy of my copy is corrupt? I'm screwed. What if I have something in an unsupported format that I can't find any support for? I'm screwed.
What if you lose all those paper pictures and negatives in a fire, a flood, lose the book when moving, get burgled, ... ?
What if I have a photo at 320x240 resolution and I want to make a 8x10 photo of it and put it on my wall? I'm screwed.
Tell that to all people who had polaroid camera's.
Many of the laws that overly stymie information flow (DMCA etc.), I think, are just a knee jerk reaction in the way printing presses were suppressed, and controlled until everyone realised the benefits of having them opened up.
Barbarians have always burned down libraries. No reason to think they'd stop doing that just because they wear ties these days.
How much of it is really worth saving? Except The Goatse image and a good RickRoll video I mean...
And do we want to save everything ? We've never been as close as we are now to a society with perfect recall, we'd be nearly there now if it wasn't for copyrights. What happens to culture when things don't get to fade away and be rediscovered or reinvented in a different form, a perpetual remix culture ? Interesting times.
It's not about the texts. Archaeologists learn a lot from trash :
"The unusable or unwanted remnants of everyday life end up in the garbage. By studying what people have thrown away, archaeologists can learn a great deal about a culture. This is true not only of prehistoric peoples who left no written record about their lives, but also of people today. Archaeologist Bill Rathje studies the garbage of Americans. He has learned many things about the relationships of human behavior and trash disposal, information useful in studying people of the past and the present. Rathje has found that people will often tell an interviewer what they believe is appropriate behavior, but their garbage tells another story. For instance, people frequently say they eat lots of fruits and vegetables, yet their garbage shows they do not. Another example is that people say they recycle more than they actually do (Rathje 1984, p. 27)."
Which is why I'm in two minds about this. Placebos are effective in a number of cases, and belief in the effectiveness of the placebo has been shown to increase this. If giving people a glass of water and telling them that it's magic pixie juice boosts their immune system and avoids the need to give them antibiotics, why not do that?
The dilemma of the white lie. Ultimately it's a question of personal moral philosophy but I think it demeans the person being told the lie in this case. It also undermines the authority of the medical practitioner if you can't trust them not to lie to you "in your best interest."
Since we're talking about Apple here, I imagine the "Top Sexy Men" app was pretty popular.
Oh snap!
Do you think the "crApp Factories" of the world ONLY produce bikini apps?
That's not what I said. I said most of the bikini apps were produced by these idiots, not that they only produce those kinds of apps. These bikini apps are the easiest to ban though.
And where do you get your 99%-1% statistic, anyway?
It's an approximation of the relative amount of time I spend shaking my head in disbelief while browsing the App Store.
At least the other parishioners who were defending Apple had the decency to come up with rational arguments, but this is just beyond the pale.
My bad, next time I'll just fire off an invective-filled missive comparing somebodies opinions to religious zealotry.
Exactly. There are app sweatshops like this guy who has already been banned for gaming the system :
"In less than 9 months, Khalid Shaikh and his 26-employee team (most of which are in Pakistan) have published 943 applications [...] That’s roughly 5 apps a day, every day, for 250 days"
And they churn out crap like what Apple is now banning (emphasis mine) :
"They include “Top Sexy Ladies: Audrina Patridge,” which (from what we gather; again, we cannot test these apps because they are not up anymore) is an app that takes 5 pictures of The Hills star from online and puts them on your phone. Yes, it costs $4.99. There are hundreds of others like this, including Top Sexy Men apps and various news update apps"