One thing lost in all this... you always hear about companies caught flat footed, and then not seeing replacement technology coming and smacking them in the face. Apple is one of the few companies that build out the tech that will eventually replace them.
iPod was worth millions/billions, lets build a phone that will replace all MP3 players. Hell, even intra-line.... they killed the Mini (our fave hard drive player) then introduced the flash based Nano, then the iPod touch. There's sure to be a large amount of cannibalization up and down the iPod touch, iPad Mini, Ipad, iPhone 6, 6+ line. Hey, we'll sell you whatever, as long as it has an apple logo on it.
I see the watch as a toe in the water of a phone screen replacement. Maybe you use the watch all day. Maybe you use the phone.
So now Apple already has a hedge. So you're saying people may buy one, and have a high margin watch on their arm? Hey, we have one with an Apple logo on it. Or you say, people want to stick to their phone? Hey, we have one with an Apple logo on it, (surprisingly high margin compared to the industry).
It's a hedge. A very interesting hedge with a brand new UI (I'm a fanboy for any new UI interaction - taptic engine + Force touch kind of makes me say WOW, i'm a UI geek like that).
Maybe it will be a Newton (don't think so, it's already way past Newton numbers). Maybe it will be an Apple TV, nice, good numbers for any company besides one the size of Apple. Or maybe it will be iPad. But Apple should be congratulated for taking the risk, for having enough foresight to see possible competitors and neither ignore nor buy them, but create them. And it has the cash to let this one percolate a bit.
I have no idea if A-M does this (i don't have an account there.... ) but a common thing is to keep charging credit cards for no reason. And if you fight the charge, well sure you and your wife just fill out this affidavit to A-M.com, i'm sure she'd be happy to fight the charges with you.
We just had kids... twins. $DEITY bless my wife, she's still jealous after 10 years of marriage (anniversary today), have no idea why, i'm not worth being jealous about:)
Anyways, i tell her often, don't worry, I just don't have time to cheat on you:)
Always disabling Java is the recommended course of action.
Java and Flash on the web are technologies that have come and gone. Now that HTML5 video is prevalent, I'm much more likely to get pwn3d by a zero day than I am to find anything in either Java or Flash that I'd actually miss.
Lawyer jokes aside, this is a field that has expensive training, accreditation requirements (Bar Exam), and even for some folks allows you to have a title (I have a lawyer friend that tacked on Esq. to his name). The fact that they can be replaced even for a decent subset of their job doesn't make me feel happy for long term employment hopes.
I'm glad that we've gotten past the "complexity of a billion distros" and settled down to.. uhmmm, a billion Ubuntu distros. And yes, I know they're all downstream of Debian...
ACA was a step in the right direction if you ideologically favor government control of healthcare
Thats one way of looking at it. But what if I see healthcare as a totally different type of market that anything else. That it's not a true market with info and choice. There's also insurance as not really being a market, and moral hazard every place. The side effect is - it takes someone outside of the market to regulate this and create something. In this case, that outside force is the government. Government control is not an ideology, but necessary because of special mechanics, It doesn't have to be an explicit goal to be necessary.. Remember, before Obama took it over,the conservative Heritage Foundation invented what is now the ACA,
and it did help some people without healthcare, but it would have been cheaper to just buy those people healthcare
A lot of people wanted this, but this wasn't going to fly politically. It took procedural tricks, and a rush job, to get this through the senate without procedural filibustering squashing it.
Today, on Krugman, he mentions back when we did bail Texas out
From the Economist, a fairly conservative magazine, we have this map of net state-federal transfers. Illinois,New York, and California all pay more in fed taxes than they get back. Oddly De la Ware (sorry, just had to spell it that way) has the highest net payment vs recieved payments. But those blue states you like to skewer did pay more than they got. No bailouts. (And texas' bailout was well before the window surveyed). The bottom half of the chart, the states that received the most net bailout, lean a bit red (though not exclusively - Maine's in there too).
Don't forget that the ballot itself was illegal. The election rules were to have a simple ballot where each row of punch holes corresponds to a page of candidates.
Oddly enough for the election of the governor's brother, the ballot was coincidentally changed to a butterfly page where they alternated candidates on the two pages. On this ballot, the governor's brother somehow managed to be first, then lets have the most likely threat be third hole, but second on the page, so any confusion between second and third goes to a fringe candidate who happened to be on the other page of the (again, illegal) butterfly ballot. All this is theoretical right? I mean people wouldn't make those mistakes? Hmm, Pat Buchanan was the second punch hole, but what you may have punched if you wanted Gore. Buchanan somehow managed strong support in heavily Jewish districts, even though he is thought by many to be anti-semitic.
So, the design was the one most likely to siphon votes from the Democrat and give the state to his brother. This is never mentioned when they talk about 2000, and I never heard it mentioned at all in the Supreme Court decision. So Scalia not only didn't care about the 9 lawyers deciding the Presidency, he didn't care about the effect an illegal ballot to help the governor's brother had on democracy either.
BTW1: autocorrect corrected Scalia to scaliness. Somewhat appropriate, BTW2: Nobody has mentioned about JEBush on one hand swearing to uphold the laws of his state, and on the other hand allowing to exist an illegal ballot to help his brother to win his state.
My odd little brain has been thinking what if there's a drone that attacks you terminator style? How would the find who the drone owner is?
We've seen software bots go out and get illegal stuff, what if we have a hardware bot doing the same? Hmm, the tool to make a harmful autonomous bot are out there; regulation won't help much at this stage.
I hate push polling. "what would you feel once you learned that Obama ate babies to keep his hair color?" "what would you feel once you found out that Bush is actually a lizard person".
I'd add a small caveat that these are 3 reasons why Windows people get upgrades. I have a Mac, and I upgrade it all the time, mostly to get the security updates. I wait a couple weeks for the big nasty bugs to get settled, then I update my machines.
My wife, not technical at all, bitches that she needs to close her tabs in Chrome, that's about the impact she sees. I updated her mom's laptop, VERY tech-phobic, was upgraded two major releases (Lion to Mavericks, skipping Mountain Lion completely) and the biggest impact for her was that her desktop pic changed. Imagine how much impact there were for most people going from 7 => 8. Im sure there were people bitching about a bit more than desktop backgrounds.
Not perfect, but Apple seems to have the upgrade thing pretty smooth by this point. Windows is trying to go from the "big impact to bottom line, Windows 95 gets us people waiting in line at stores" to something more even.
I do realize you just forgot the Sarcasm tag here... but in The Freaking Article it says there are two versions. A free one, tagged Vanilla, and the $10 Collabora one has support.
Besides that, Libre is more Free as in Speech than Free as in Beer.
To those that joke about this, imagine you have a bot car that hits someone? or is programmed to cause harm? a robotic car can drive to canada and back, who is responsible for contents?
On Another Site, someone asked (relatively recently) how to run a web browser on windows 3.1... on industrial computer controlling a bandsaw. At this point, Win 3.1 and any IE that could run on it would be not updateable. So let's allow our bandsaw controller to be pwn3d.
I agree with everything you say, as far as justification for why it was a (Confederate) Federal Statute but nobody argued "states rights unless it crumbles under the weight of traveling state to state, then States Rights is really a synonym for Federal in some cases". We already had the "we respect property rights if you cross state borders", witness the Dredd Scott decision.
States Rights is still just as hollow of a phrase, used to justify whatever we feel like doing today.
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One thing lost in all this... you always hear about companies caught flat footed, and then not seeing replacement technology coming and smacking them in the face. Apple is one of the few companies that build out the tech that will eventually replace them.
iPod was worth millions/billions, lets build a phone that will replace all MP3 players. Hell, even intra-line.... they killed the Mini (our fave hard drive player) then introduced the flash based Nano, then the iPod touch. There's sure to be a large amount of cannibalization up and down the iPod touch, iPad Mini, Ipad, iPhone 6, 6+ line. Hey, we'll sell you whatever, as long as it has an apple logo on it.
I see the watch as a toe in the water of a phone screen replacement. Maybe you use the watch all day. Maybe you use the phone.
So now Apple already has a hedge. So you're saying people may buy one, and have a high margin watch on their arm? Hey, we have one with an Apple logo on it. Or you say, people want to stick to their phone? Hey, we have one with an Apple logo on it, (surprisingly high margin compared to the industry).
It's a hedge. A very interesting hedge with a brand new UI (I'm a fanboy for any new UI interaction - taptic engine + Force touch kind of makes me say WOW, i'm a UI geek like that).
Maybe it will be a Newton (don't think so, it's already way past Newton numbers). Maybe it will be an Apple TV, nice, good numbers for any company besides one the size of Apple. Or maybe it will be iPad. But Apple should be congratulated for taking the risk, for having enough foresight to see possible competitors and neither ignore nor buy them, but create them. And it has the cash to let this one percolate a bit.
The level of clownitude is high in this one. Either part would require firing. Both together require firing from a cannon.
I have no idea if A-M does this (i don't have an account there.... ) but a common thing is to keep charging credit cards for no reason. And if you fight the charge, well sure you and your wife just fill out this affidavit to A-M.com, i'm sure she'd be happy to fight the charges with you.
We just had kids... twins. $DEITY bless my wife, she's still jealous after 10 years of marriage (anniversary today), have no idea why, i'm not worth being jealous about :)
Anyways, i tell her often, don't worry, I just don't have time to cheat on you :)
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-- Jason Kidd.
So you're gonna spin around and get dizzy and still accomplish nothing
-- Me
"Disintegration is the greatest album ever!!"
-- kyle.. or was it stan?
I re-read your comment with the accent of Ricardo Mantalban in my head; it was much improved.
FTFY
Always disabling Java is the recommended course of action.
Java and Flash on the web are technologies that have come and gone. Now that HTML5 video is prevalent, I'm much more likely to get pwn3d by a zero day than I am to find anything in either Java or Flash that I'd actually miss.
Lawyer jokes aside, this is a field that has expensive training, accreditation requirements (Bar Exam), and even for some folks allows you to have a title (I have a lawyer friend that tacked on Esq. to his name). The fact that they can be replaced even for a decent subset of their job doesn't make me feel happy for long term employment hopes.
Mint, Cubuntu, kubuntu...
I'm glad that we've gotten past the "complexity of a billion distros" and settled down to.. uhmmm, a billion Ubuntu distros. And yes, I know they're all downstream of Debian...
Not sure how we'd get normal people to choose.
Thats one way of looking at it. But what if I see healthcare as a totally different type of market that anything else. That it's not a true market with info and choice. There's also insurance as not really being a market, and moral hazard every place. The side effect is - it takes someone outside of the market to regulate this and create something. In this case, that outside force is the government. Government control is not an ideology, but necessary because of special mechanics, It doesn't have to be an explicit goal to be necessary.. Remember, before Obama took it over,the conservative Heritage Foundation invented what is now the ACA,
A lot of people wanted this, but this wasn't going to fly politically. It took procedural tricks, and a rush job, to get this through the senate without procedural filibustering squashing it.
Today, on Krugman, he mentions back when we did bail Texas out
From the Economist, a fairly conservative magazine, we have this map of net state-federal transfers. Illinois,New York, and California all pay more in fed taxes than they get back. Oddly De la Ware (sorry, just had to spell it that way) has the highest net payment vs recieved payments. But those blue states you like to skewer did pay more than they got. No bailouts. (And texas' bailout was well before the window surveyed). The bottom half of the chart, the states that received the most net bailout, lean a bit red (though not exclusively - Maine's in there too).
Don't forget that the ballot itself was illegal. The election rules were to have a simple ballot where each row of punch holes corresponds to a page of candidates.
Oddly enough for the election of the governor's brother, the ballot was coincidentally changed to a butterfly page where they alternated candidates on the two pages. On this ballot, the governor's brother somehow managed to be first, then lets have the most likely threat be third hole, but second on the page, so any confusion between second and third goes to a fringe candidate who happened to be on the other page of the (again, illegal) butterfly ballot. All this is theoretical right? I mean people wouldn't make those mistakes? Hmm, Pat Buchanan was the second punch hole, but what you may have punched if you wanted Gore. Buchanan somehow managed strong support in heavily Jewish districts, even though he is thought by many to be anti-semitic.
So, the design was the one most likely to siphon votes from the Democrat and give the state to his brother. This is never mentioned when they talk about 2000, and I never heard it mentioned at all in the Supreme Court decision. So Scalia not only didn't care about the 9 lawyers deciding the Presidency, he didn't care about the effect an illegal ballot to help the governor's brother had on democracy either.
BTW1: autocorrect corrected Scalia to scaliness. Somewhat appropriate,
BTW2: Nobody has mentioned about JEBush on one hand swearing to uphold the laws of his state, and on the other hand allowing to exist an illegal ballot to help his brother to win his state.
I remember a bit of this from The Pentagon Wars, but I never knew the details. Thanks.
My odd little brain has been thinking what if there's a drone that attacks you terminator style? How would the find who the drone owner is?
We've seen software bots go out and get illegal stuff, what if we have a hardware bot doing the same? Hmm, the tool to make a harmful autonomous bot are out there; regulation won't help much at this stage.
I hate push polling. "what would you feel once you learned that Obama ate babies to keep his hair color?" "what would you feel once you found out that Bush is actually a lizard person".
I'd add a small caveat that these are 3 reasons why Windows people get upgrades. I have a Mac, and I upgrade it all the time, mostly to get the security updates. I wait a couple weeks for the big nasty bugs to get settled, then I update my machines.
My wife, not technical at all, bitches that she needs to close her tabs in Chrome, that's about the impact she sees. I updated her mom's laptop, VERY tech-phobic, was upgraded two major releases (Lion to Mavericks, skipping Mountain Lion completely) and the biggest impact for her was that her desktop pic changed. Imagine how much impact there were for most people going from 7 => 8. Im sure there were people bitching about a bit more than desktop backgrounds.
Not perfect, but Apple seems to have the upgrade thing pretty smooth by this point. Windows is trying to go from the "big impact to bottom line, Windows 95 gets us people waiting in line at stores" to something more even.
I do realize you just forgot the Sarcasm tag here... but in The Freaking Article it says there are two versions. A free one, tagged Vanilla, and the $10 Collabora one has support.
Besides that, Libre is more Free as in Speech than Free as in Beer.
what if a software bot could buy drugs AND a passport?
To those that joke about this, imagine you have a bot car that hits someone? or is programmed to cause harm? a robotic car can drive to canada and back, who is responsible for contents?
On Another Site, someone asked (relatively recently) how to run a web browser on windows 3.1... on industrial computer controlling a bandsaw. At this point, Win 3.1 and any IE that could run on it would be not updateable. So let's allow our bandsaw controller to be pwn3d.
People do stupid things.
Remember that target got nailed on the latter - POS systems accessed without any good firewall between networks.
But think of all the viruses that poor Word document needs to support
IIRC, it's also non-linear.
A 5,000lb car causes more than twice the wear of two 2,500lb cars.
Or it was an iTunes EULA and it took them an hour to click through 132 Next Page buttons...
Interesting.
I agree with everything you say, as far as justification for why it was a (Confederate) Federal Statute but nobody argued "states rights unless it crumbles under the weight of traveling state to state, then States Rights is really a synonym for Federal in some cases". We already had the "we respect property rights if you cross state borders", witness the Dredd Scott decision.
States Rights is still just as hollow of a phrase, used to justify whatever we feel like doing today.