IMO the NeXT workstations, though clearly based on the Xerox office computer from the 1970s, was far more deserving awe than anything Apple released during the 1980s, including both the Macintosh and the Lisa.
But that wasn't for the masses (actually, given the price tag for awfully underpowered bare models during the 1980s, I don't think that even Macs were as realistic as people like to remember).
According to the recent Jobs bio NeXT was actually prohibited by Apple from building a consumer grade machine as part of a settlement between Apple and NeXT after Jobs pilfered a lot of people.
Hold your horses. It's just common sense to monitor big fluctuations in usage because it could indicate problems whether it be cheaters or a leak or some other problem on the network. This is the same reason sysadmins record historic stats for cpu/disk/network/whatever usage. And when something does shift you better investigate it, it's nothing nefarious just good stewardship.
It's probably easy to find cheaters because people get greedy. Since power companies have a pretty good idea of the historic energy use for a certain location all they need to do is watch for big shifts in electricity consumption.
Obviously since they will use the touchscreen to display information they are trying to morph them into "information kiosks" which also provide a public payphone. Doesn't sound like an awful idea, especially in a city that attracts as many tourists as N.Y.
Not really "new" it's been that way forever. It's basically like that Kurt Vonnegut quote : "Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way."
The article states the microcell also uses GPS for timing : "GPS is used both for radio timing and for determining the position of the box." So that might not work.
Hypothesis: a tentative explanation for an observation, phenomenon, or scientific problem that can be tested by further investigation. It's perfectly valid to have as a hypothesis that the man's guilty. Of course when it comes to proving it you need to presume he's not and then prove it beyond a reasonable doubt.
He didn't make any points, he just posted beliefs.
"Guess what? I'm still against that legislation. I believe a private business should have the right to allow a perfectly legal activity occur within their premises. The Free Market will solve this problem - if enough people only patron at businesses that do not allow smoking, the pro-smoke places will go bankrupt."
I believe the Free Market would solve this also. If 2 year warranties were that important, individuals would buy competitor products that have 2 year warranties. I do not believe in more laws and regulation for the sake of more laws and regulation."
Post some actual proof or arguments and I'll debate you or him. Until then my default position for anyone arguing their position from pure belief, whether it's a belief in some god or the mystical "free market", is scorn.
I look forward to all the articles that will be posted on Slashdot on how desktop Linux is now officially dead and will be completely replaced by other operating systems that do support Flash. Worked for Android, right ?
If you don't know what it is, you won't be interested. Sawfish was once the default window manager of Gnome, so some die hard Linux fans might be interested.
Like in sports you need rules to make a game fair and beautiful. The difficult part is having enough rules to make for an interesting game but not so much that you stifle it and make it uninteresting. Personally, I think the game as played in the US leaves too many injured on the field.
From Apple's perspective, it's a good thing. It keeps sales turnover high.
Like car companies, they only want the products lasting long enough that customers won't be upset at having to buy new ones when their old ones fail. Two years seems to be the tipping point for consumer electronics (cell phones, computers, tablets, etc.). If they could make their products fall apart the day after the warranty ends without pissing off the customers, they'd do it in a heartbeat.
Having a thriving second hand market, which necessitates gear that lasts for longer than 2 years, is also a good thing for Apple. It supplies the low(er) price range customers (who Apple doesn't cater to directly) with Apple products which may lead to them buying the more expensive kind in the future, the money people get from reselling their device goes back into Apple's pockets when they upgrade and it enlarges the market for apps and add-ons which is a boon for Apple. Besides one of the key characteristics Apple's brand is identified with these days is quality (translated into high customer satisfaction), I don't think they would be willing to "cheapen" their brand by making low quality stuff (or at least not make that mistake again.)
A true believer. Praise Rand. Just remember: if you believe hard enough, anything can come true (copyright Disney) and if it doesn't you just didn't have enough faith in the market. Halleluiah.
Still better than using Android. Because Apple is making money off of selling the device not ads or services, they are actually de-incentivized from abusing that info because it could drive away their customers and as a consequence they've got a pretty good track record on not giving away your info. Google's whole raison d'être on the other hand is actually gathering that info, correlating it with info from all of their other services and then using it to target you. Plus they've been known to make a run around privacy protections.
How many other failed Linux distros had the same poster hanging in their offices ? It's great to hear Red Hat is doing well for themselves but it's not like there's a vibrant market out there for Linux. Few companies are left standing, and most of those are struggling, Novell, Mandriva,... Even the successful Red Hat at 1 billion in revenue is making a 14th of what Sun was doing just before they were acquired. In that sense Gates was right: Linux hasn't turned out to be the competitor that would sweep everything away in its path like optimists at the time predicted. Instead there's one company left standing enjoying moderate success, nothing Microsoft has to worry about.
Because there are cheap Android phones that less well off people can afford, where as Apple phones are only available to people with a higher level of disposable income.
The 3GS is free with a contract. It doesn't get much cheaper than that.
Being raped by Apple doesn't count.
Rape jokes, eh ? You must be real popular with the ladies.
Firstly the article you linked is about ads served in the browser, I was talking about ad-supported apps. On Android apps are (I understand) predominantly ad-supported, while on iOS they are the exception rather than the rule. As to iAd, it's just not so popular when compared to competing sevices like Admob. Its ads do tend to be bigger (the few I've seen focus on video, like traditional tv ads) but I'd be very surprised if Apple wasn't caching these and downloading them in advance while connected to WiFi or syncing.
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IMO the NeXT workstations, though clearly based on the Xerox office computer from the 1970s, was far more deserving awe than anything Apple released during the 1980s, including both the Macintosh and the Lisa.
But that wasn't for the masses (actually, given the price tag for awfully underpowered bare models during the 1980s, I don't think that even Macs were as realistic as people like to remember).
According to the recent Jobs bio NeXT was actually prohibited by Apple from building a consumer grade machine as part of a settlement between Apple and NeXT after Jobs pilfered a lot of people.
Hold your horses. It's just common sense to monitor big fluctuations in usage because it could indicate problems whether it be cheaters or a leak or some other problem on the network. This is the same reason sysadmins record historic stats for cpu/disk/network/whatever usage. And when something does shift you better investigate it, it's nothing nefarious just good stewardship.
It's probably easy to find cheaters because people get greedy. Since power companies have a pretty good idea of the historic energy use for a certain location all they need to do is watch for big shifts in electricity consumption.
Almost.
Obviously since they will use the touchscreen to display information they are trying to morph them into "information kiosks" which also provide a public payphone. Doesn't sound like an awful idea, especially in a city that attracts as many tourists as N.Y.
About 11 years ago, on September 11 2001? Well, it wasn't an apartment complex as such, but it was definitely a fighter (commandeered) jet.
It's not a crash if you "land" exactly where you planned to. Well I guess technically it is but only in the way suicide is technically murder.
Dutch plural would be "Unixen" and that's a Germanic language too.
Not really "new" it's been that way forever. It's basically like that Kurt Vonnegut quote : "Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way."
The Troll moderation has got to be the single most abused and misused moderation available.
No that would be "overrated" aka the "I disagree" mod.
Yo dog I see you like Slashdotting so we put some Javascript in yo Slashdot so you can get Slashdotted while you Slashdot.
The article states the microcell also uses GPS for timing : "GPS is used both for radio timing and for determining the position of the box." So that might not work.
Hypothesis: a tentative explanation for an observation, phenomenon, or scientific problem that can be tested by further investigation.
It's perfectly valid to have as a hypothesis that the man's guilty. Of course when it comes to proving it you need to presume he's not and then prove it beyond a reasonable doubt.
Poe's law in effect.
He didn't make any points, he just posted beliefs.
"Guess what? I'm still against that legislation. I believe a private business should have the right to allow a perfectly legal activity occur within their premises. The Free Market will solve this problem - if enough people only patron at businesses that do not allow smoking, the pro-smoke places will go bankrupt."
I believe the Free Market would solve this also. If 2 year warranties were that important, individuals would buy competitor products that have 2 year warranties. I do not believe in more laws and regulation for the sake of more laws and regulation."
Post some actual proof or arguments and I'll debate you or him. Until then my default position for anyone arguing their position from pure belief, whether it's a belief in some god or the mystical "free market", is scorn.
I look forward to all the articles that will be posted on Slashdot on how desktop Linux is now officially dead and will be completely replaced by other operating systems that do support Flash. Worked for Android, right ?
If you don't know what it is, you won't be interested. Sawfish was once the default window manager of Gnome, so some die hard Linux fans might be interested.
Like in sports you need rules to make a game fair and beautiful. The difficult part is having enough rules to make for an interesting game but not so much that you stifle it and make it uninteresting. Personally, I think the game as played in the US leaves too many injured on the field.
From Apple's perspective, it's a good thing. It keeps sales turnover high.
Like car companies, they only want the products lasting long enough that customers won't be upset at having to buy new ones when their old ones fail. Two years seems to be the tipping point for consumer electronics (cell phones, computers, tablets, etc.). If they could make their products fall apart the day after the warranty ends without pissing off the customers, they'd do it in a heartbeat.
Having a thriving second hand market, which necessitates gear that lasts for longer than 2 years, is also a good thing for Apple. It supplies the low(er) price range customers (who Apple doesn't cater to directly) with Apple products which may lead to them buying the more expensive kind in the future, the money people get from reselling their device goes back into Apple's pockets when they upgrade and it enlarges the market for apps and add-ons which is a boon for Apple. Besides one of the key characteristics Apple's brand is identified with these days is quality (translated into high customer satisfaction), I don't think they would be willing to "cheapen" their brand by making low quality stuff (or at least not make that mistake again.)
A true believer. Praise Rand. Just remember: if you believe hard enough, anything can come true (copyright Disney) and if it doesn't you just didn't have enough faith in the market. Halleluiah.
You can use any additional bags to fashion yourself a nice hat too.
You're trolling, right ? The people who give repressive regimes access to their servers ?
Still better than using Android. Because Apple is making money off of selling the device not ads or services, they are actually de-incentivized from abusing that info because it could drive away their customers and as a consequence they've got a pretty good track record on not giving away your info. Google's whole raison d'être on the other hand is actually gathering that info, correlating it with info from all of their other services and then using it to target you. Plus they've been known to make a run around privacy protections.
How many other failed Linux distros had the same poster hanging in their offices ? It's great to hear Red Hat is doing well for themselves but it's not like there's a vibrant market out there for Linux. Few companies are left standing, and most of those are struggling, Novell, Mandriva, ... Even the successful Red Hat at 1 billion in revenue is making a 14th of what Sun was doing just before they were acquired. In that sense Gates was right: Linux hasn't turned out to be the competitor that would sweep everything away in its path like optimists at the time predicted. Instead there's one company left standing enjoying moderate success, nothing Microsoft has to worry about.
Because there are cheap Android phones that less well off people can afford, where as Apple phones are only available to people with a higher level of disposable income.
The 3GS is free with a contract. It doesn't get much cheaper than that.
Being raped by Apple doesn't count.
Rape jokes, eh ? You must be real popular with the ladies.
Firstly the article you linked is about ads served in the browser, I was talking about ad-supported apps. On Android apps are (I understand) predominantly ad-supported, while on iOS they are the exception rather than the rule. As to iAd, it's just not so popular when compared to competing sevices like Admob. Its ads do tend to be bigger (the few I've seen focus on video, like traditional tv ads) but I'd be very surprised if Apple wasn't caching these and downloading them in advance while connected to WiFi or syncing.