Gen2 apple TVs are selling for above original price on Craigslist. Having an easily hackable (I run XBMC on mine) low power (no fan noise) is still a draw, even though it's 720P only (it does an on the fly re-encode to 720P for 1080p, but that tends to slow video).
People always think Apple is marketing marketing marketing. They look at specs and see "hey, this has better specs than the apple equiv, yet people buy the apple, therefore the sales are from marketing". Apple products just work. You plug it in, it works. "It works" is not going to be a check on any checklist. But people value it, as seen by the fact that Apple products can charge margin and people will pay that margin.
Remember that at one time, Apple was in shambles. They were dropping market share like crazy. There was no halo effect from their success, cause there was no success. Eventually they built good enough products that people wanted them.
He means in the 'dictating policy and direction' way.
People here forget the concept of Opportunity Cost. Everything costs you some resource: Time, money, brain nurons, carbohydrate energy in your blood, at least something.
I use a simple text editor because I don't want to learn Emacs. I don't decry the tyranny of Emacs, of the evilness that is Stallman locking me into a particular set of key sequences. Oh my deity! Stallman is dictating policy and direction for my text editor!! I just say "I don't want to spend my energy there".
Everything pushes you to a direction. Microsoft does. JavaScript does. ECMAscript does. C does. C++ does. Scheme does. If you're worried that the direction Microsoft pushes you leads to a bad path, fine. But don't kid yourself that by choosing something else that you're no longer being pushed.
"Not Invented Here Syndrome" is a pretty prominent anti-pattern.
Hmm, NIH syndrome, and people say Apple copies everything. Interesting.
Anyways, using people-other-than-Google's maps doesn't get around one of the core problems Apple was trying to solve: giving valuable data to competitors. Location data is critical (why do you think Google threw Lattitude in there?) for upcoming ad and service sales.
Also, if so many people use maps as a critical service (proven by the uproar over the change) it makes sense for Apple to control a core service in it's operating system. Do you use Chrome? There were other browsers before Chrome. But browsing is a core service for Google, and they couldn't let the browsing experience out of their control. So they made their own. Not NIH syndrome, just being able to control core critical services.
The Windows command line Power Shell is arguably more powerful than most UNIX shells. It's a much cooler object oriented shell. Don't think we're looking at Command Prompt anymore.
For the great majority of users, Office stopped progressing over a decade ago
I'm a geek, been a programmer since I was a kid. And I could live with Office 97 just fine. In fact, I could live with Office 95 if it supported wheel mice.
It's not that Office hasn't progressed, but that my needs haven't. Give me a simple Word app I can write a report in.
I remember that when Microsoft bound IE to the OS back in Win95, IE is now everywhere. That Windows Explorer window? Now subject to IE attacks. That HTML pane in Outlook? Now subject to IE attacks. That help window in SomeGame 2.0? Now subject to IE attacks.
I'm not sure how true this is now, but a guess is that it's still much this way.
Also, there are rules on how many people can own shares before you start to act and more importantly, report, like a public company.
Facebook had reached the point where they started to bump into these regulations. So, they either do a bunch of paperwork, and stay private, or do a bunch of paperwork and make a few billion. They actually delayed the IPO for a while, until they couldn't really wait.
The mistake was the pricing. They priced too high. They had the "lets not leave any money on the table" thing in their head too much to placate the people who were selling and running, and didn't think of the long term knock on the company if the Facebook bubble deflated. They should have priced at 15-18, which still gives them a pretty high P/E ratio.
Let's remember that in the entire history of this country, we've been invaded once (by our Mother Country), attacked once (at Pearl Harbor)
We've been Invaded twice - the Japanese invaded and held Attu and Kiska.
We also had the 1995 WTC bombing, that just didn't work. That, and we've also had many more terrorist attacks against US soil (I'm purposely not counting the Cole and Beirut bombings). We just know of the ones that made news.
Otherwise, I agree with the rest of your post. It will be a constant vigil though - people get scared and overreact, and other people will manipulate that fear for their own purposes and personal gain. A constant vigil against human nature. We won't win, just can make things a little less bad for the rest of us.
Being cold and analytical here about primary effects (I know there would be tremendous deaths and human suffering) if it happened within the next year or so, this would probably put the world into a worldwide recession or depression. The American economy is recovering, but very weakly. Europe is on the skids, and China is slowing fast. If Japan's economy was broken for any extended length of time, it would easily push us over the brink into a worldwide skid, causing tremendous secondary human suffering all around the world.
I'm sure they've always been worried. Mt. Fuji has been part of Japanese culture for centuries. There is not one single equivalent of national focus in the US. I doubt if its been ignored. Especially since there's been 16 eruptions in recorded history.
But you're not Japanese, so you wouldn't know about their work, just as much as i think the typical Japanese wouldn't know much about San Andreas fault prep here.
Because in the USA, the federal government doesn't have the right to make it public.
It did. Originally all tax returns were public. Not saying whether they should or shouldn't be public, just saying they had the right before, and they then chose not to.
For all the people complaining about making private things public:
1) At one time in the US, tax returns were public information. When the IRS was new, everyone's info was published to show that everyone paid their share. I'm not saying we need to force people back to this precedent, but just saying that there is a a precedent.
2) The precedent of Presidential Candidates releasing tax returns for 10 years was started by... George Romney, Willard M. Romney's dad. His reasoning was that any one year could be a fluke, but 10 years would show a pattern. Again, not saying they should have broken in and taken his taxes, but the precedent was set.
The people should be prosecuted. They've broken the law and should face consequences. But anyone rising up in anger against the unprecedented nature of this needs to look at precedents.
I've heard rumors that the new phones won't support BES natively, but be part of a new overall BES architecture. Where the "new" BES will be a management console for the "old" BES that you all know and love, and a VPN like service for the new phones/playbook.
IMHO this will help kill BB. The one solid thing you could count on was BES, now you're adding complexity with multiple BES servers, multiple UIs, and hoping it all gels together while you're trying to keep your head above water. That, and the consumer market is shut out as people with Galaxy S3s and iPhone 5s are locked up on 2 year contracts.
Just also note that the government did not prevent him from boarding. Even though the TSA was the target of his rant, they let him through. It was a civilian that made the final call
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
No law kicked him off the plane. The first Amendment mentions nothing of pinheaded pilots.
The concept of a human, say vs. a lump of human cells (please read The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, it's pretty interesting) usually includes the concept of consciousness, which for most babies doesn't occur at birth. Obviously a baby is alive, and has feelings and such, but consciousness as humans understand it doesn't appear to exist. A very interesting possibility is that consciousness is thinking, and you need language to think. There was a RadioLab Episode where they interviewed deaf people after they learned Sign Language, and they claimed an altered consciousness before they knew language, as if it was a void before.
That said, my wife has a very good friend who claims to have memories in utero, and of her own birth. I have no reason to doubt her. So there are at least a few counterarguments to the GP claim.
I'm in a devils' advocate mood today... I don't particularly like Adobe (nor do I hate them particularly), and I think reader is a bloated piece of crap.
But Reader changed not because Adobe has a PDF agenda to rule the world, but because Adobe economically needed it to change. To make money, gain market share, whatever.
A ratchet is a simple tool, one whose expectations won't change. But software (and cars) are much more fluid. Your ratchets may work on your 1950's car, but you won't like driving it. Engines are better now, tires are better, handling is better. You'll hate the boaty-ness of your 50's era driving, the gallons-per-mile you pay for driving it, the lack of safety features, the lack of DVD player dropping from the roofline for your kid in the back seat. I wonder simply how many safety regulations that would prohibit a "new" 50's tech car being sold. Adobe finds it difficult to get money out of a non-bloated Reader the same as any car company would go out of business if it sold nothing but 50's tech in cars.
What Adobe should have done is let some group without a profit motive - or a need to bloat it to hell - take over development. Such groups do exist - Apache being the best example. Adobe wants PDF to both be a universal utility, and a tool to bind you exclusively to Adobe. Those goals conflict.
I had Reader on my Mac because I had to cryptographically sign something. Is there something out there that does both forms and cryptographic signing?
Also, I forgot about Reader until something asked me to update it. I promptly deleted it, but where did the updater spawn from? Id love to remove all adobe code from my machine.
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Most contracts have a penalty for early termination, any news on one?
Gen2 apple TVs are selling for above original price on Craigslist. Having an easily hackable (I run XBMC on mine) low power (no fan noise) is still a draw, even though it's 720P only (it does an on the fly re-encode to 720P for 1080p, but that tends to slow video).
People always think Apple is marketing marketing marketing. They look at specs and see "hey, this has better specs than the apple equiv, yet people buy the apple, therefore the sales are from marketing". Apple products just work. You plug it in, it works. "It works" is not going to be a check on any checklist. But people value it, as seen by the fact that Apple products can charge margin and people will pay that margin.
Remember that at one time, Apple was in shambles. They were dropping market share like crazy. There was no halo effect from their success, cause there was no success. Eventually they built good enough products that people wanted them.
He means in the 'dictating policy and direction' way.
People here forget the concept of Opportunity Cost. Everything costs you some resource: Time, money, brain nurons, carbohydrate energy in your blood, at least something.
I use a simple text editor because I don't want to learn Emacs. I don't decry the tyranny of Emacs, of the evilness that is Stallman locking me into a particular set of key sequences. Oh my deity! Stallman is dictating policy and direction for my text editor!! I just say "I don't want to spend my energy there".
Everything pushes you to a direction. Microsoft does. JavaScript does. ECMAscript does. C does. C++ does. Scheme does. If you're worried that the direction Microsoft pushes you leads to a bad path, fine. But don't kid yourself that by choosing something else that you're no longer being pushed.
Hmm, NIH syndrome, and people say Apple copies everything. Interesting.
Anyways, using people-other-than-Google's maps doesn't get around one of the core problems Apple was trying to solve: giving valuable data to competitors. Location data is critical (why do you think Google threw Lattitude in there?) for upcoming ad and service sales.
Also, if so many people use maps as a critical service (proven by the uproar over the change) it makes sense for Apple to control a core service in it's operating system. Do you use Chrome? There were other browsers before Chrome. But browsing is a core service for Google, and they couldn't let the browsing experience out of their control. So they made their own. Not NIH syndrome, just being able to control core critical services.
The Windows command line Power Shell is arguably more powerful than most UNIX shells. It's a much cooler object oriented shell. Don't think we're looking at Command Prompt anymore.
I'm a geek, been a programmer since I was a kid. And I could live with Office 97 just fine. In fact, I could live with Office 95 if it supported wheel mice.
It's not that Office hasn't progressed, but that my needs haven't. Give me a simple Word app I can write a report in.
Even if you believed the patent was valid, then banning Macs? Instead of telling them to delete Messages?
I think the Don't Be Evil is long gone, lost in parts from the Google Plus push, the cozying up to carriers where Apple dared to push back.
I remember that when Microsoft bound IE to the OS back in Win95, IE is now everywhere. That Windows Explorer window? Now subject to IE attacks. That HTML pane in Outlook? Now subject to IE attacks. That help window in SomeGame 2.0? Now subject to IE attacks.
I'm not sure how true this is now, but a guess is that it's still much this way.
And no comments from anyone at Google and Acer...
It would seem a bit hypocritical to say "don't run against our ABI" after their line of defense was "ABIs are so generic" in the Java/Dalvik case.
Also, there are rules on how many people can own shares before you start to act and more importantly, report, like a public company.
Facebook had reached the point where they started to bump into these regulations. So, they either do a bunch of paperwork, and stay private, or do a bunch of paperwork and make a few billion. They actually delayed the IPO for a while, until they couldn't really wait.
The mistake was the pricing. They priced too high. They had the "lets not leave any money on the table" thing in their head too much to placate the people who were selling and running, and didn't think of the long term knock on the company if the Facebook bubble deflated. They should have priced at 15-18, which still gives them a pretty high P/E ratio.
Wow, an IUMA reference.... anyone for URouLette?
We've been Invaded twice - the Japanese invaded and held Attu and Kiska.
We also had the 1995 WTC bombing, that just didn't work. That, and we've also had many more terrorist attacks against US soil (I'm purposely not counting the Cole and Beirut bombings). We just know of the ones that made news.
Otherwise, I agree with the rest of your post. It will be a constant vigil though - people get scared and overreact, and other people will manipulate that fear for their own purposes and personal gain. A constant vigil against human nature. We won't win, just can make things a little less bad for the rest of us.
Being cold and analytical here about primary effects (I know there would be tremendous deaths and human suffering) if it happened within the next year or so, this would probably put the world into a worldwide recession or depression. The American economy is recovering, but very weakly. Europe is on the skids, and China is slowing fast. If Japan's economy was broken for any extended length of time, it would easily push us over the brink into a worldwide skid, causing tremendous secondary human suffering all around the world.
Big news for everyone.
I'm sure they've always been worried. Mt. Fuji has been part of Japanese culture for centuries. There is not one single equivalent of national focus in the US. I doubt if its been ignored. Especially since there's been 16 eruptions in recorded history.
But you're not Japanese, so you wouldn't know about their work, just as much as i think the typical Japanese wouldn't know much about San Andreas fault prep here.
It did. Originally all tax returns were public. Not saying whether they should or shouldn't be public, just saying they had the right before, and they then chose not to.
For all the people complaining about making private things public:
1) At one time in the US, tax returns were public information. When the IRS was new, everyone's info was published to show that everyone paid their share. I'm not saying we need to force people back to this precedent, but just saying that there is a a precedent.
2) The precedent of Presidential Candidates releasing tax returns for 10 years was started by... George Romney, Willard M. Romney's dad. His reasoning was that any one year could be a fluke, but 10 years would show a pattern. Again, not saying they should have broken in and taken his taxes, but the precedent was set.
The people should be prosecuted. They've broken the law and should face consequences. But anyone rising up in anger against the unprecedented nature of this needs to look at precedents.
I've heard rumors that the new phones won't support BES natively, but be part of a new overall BES architecture. Where the "new" BES will be a management console for the "old" BES that you all know and love, and a VPN like service for the new phones/playbook.
IMHO this will help kill BB. The one solid thing you could count on was BES, now you're adding complexity with multiple BES servers, multiple UIs, and hoping it all gels together while you're trying to keep your head above water. That, and the consumer market is shut out as people with Galaxy S3s and iPhone 5s are locked up on 2 year contracts.
RIM is toast.
> Don't want to be videotaped? Don't go outside.
and hope they haven't pointed an IR camera at your house
But think of the poor strippers?
Oh wait, by the title of this post, you have....
Just also note that the government did not prevent him from boarding. Even though the TSA was the target of his rant, they let him through. It was a civilian that made the final call
No law kicked him off the plane. The first Amendment mentions nothing of pinheaded pilots.
Interesting! thanks.... Just picked up Clever Apes podcast (all episodes available on iTunes).
The concept of a human, say vs. a lump of human cells (please read The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, it's pretty interesting) usually includes the concept of consciousness, which for most babies doesn't occur at birth. Obviously a baby is alive, and has feelings and such, but consciousness as humans understand it doesn't appear to exist. A very interesting possibility is that consciousness is thinking, and you need language to think. There was a RadioLab Episode where they interviewed deaf people after they learned Sign Language, and they claimed an altered consciousness before they knew language, as if it was a void before.
That said, my wife has a very good friend who claims to have memories in utero, and of her own birth. I have no reason to doubt her. So there are at least a few counterarguments to the GP claim.
I'm aware of Preview, doesn't do cryptographic signing. Im asking if something does everything, Preview doesn't cut it.
I'm in a devils' advocate mood today... I don't particularly like Adobe (nor do I hate them particularly), and I think reader is a bloated piece of crap.
But Reader changed not because Adobe has a PDF agenda to rule the world, but because Adobe economically needed it to change. To make money, gain market share, whatever.
A ratchet is a simple tool, one whose expectations won't change. But software (and cars) are much more fluid. Your ratchets may work on your 1950's car, but you won't like driving it. Engines are better now, tires are better, handling is better. You'll hate the boaty-ness of your 50's era driving, the gallons-per-mile you pay for driving it, the lack of safety features, the lack of DVD player dropping from the roofline for your kid in the back seat. I wonder simply how many safety regulations that would prohibit a "new" 50's tech car being sold. Adobe finds it difficult to get money out of a non-bloated Reader the same as any car company would go out of business if it sold nothing but 50's tech in cars.
What Adobe should have done is let some group without a profit motive - or a need to bloat it to hell - take over development. Such groups do exist - Apache being the best example. Adobe wants PDF to both be a universal utility, and a tool to bind you exclusively to Adobe. Those goals conflict.
I had Reader on my Mac because I had to cryptographically sign something. Is there something out there that does both forms and cryptographic signing?
Also, I forgot about Reader until something asked me to update it. I promptly deleted it, but where did the updater spawn from? Id love to remove all adobe code from my machine.