While this sounds almost sensible it also kinda sounds like complete hogwash.
Definitely not hogwash. There are issues of alloy contamination from the cutting tools, oxygen contamination, carbon contamination, and some others. Not necessarily insurmountable problems but not trivial ones either.
What if the cops find a safe in your house that they cannot open without destroying the contents. Could you be compelled to open it, or be held in contempt for failure to do so (in the USA)?
IANAL but my understanding is that they cannot force you to reveal information you reasonably believe might be used to incriminate you and that cannot be obtained in another way. This would include passwords or safe combinations. They can force you to provide biometric identifiers or produce physical objects like keys though. This falls under the 5th amendment to the Constitution against self incrimination. However they can confiscate the safe and if they have the ability to crack the safe without your assistance they can do so provided they have an appropriate warrant.
Here in the Netherlands, IIRC one cannot be compelled to assist in opening a locked safe except in cases where the search warrant is for a matter regarding taxes
That's a gigantic loophole right there which would be abused in a nanosecond if it were an option here. My guess is that it is abused in the Netherlands too but that's conjecture on my part.
However there are proposals to change the law to the effect that a suspect must assist in opening locked safes, unlocking locked phones, or decrypting files, in special cases like terrorism or (of course) child pornography.
So two problems with that. 1) How do you tell the difference between someone who has forgotten the password and someone pretending to forget? Kind of unfair to send someone to jail for being forgetful. 2) Do you seriously think that law enforcement won't simply use those exceptions to bypass any legal protections the accused might have?
Wouldn't this be akin to a warrant for searching your house?
Not really, no. And they can search your house without your cooperation. Under current law they cannot force you to divulge knowledge that could lead to you being incriminated. This currently includes passwords. The line in the sand they have drawn currently is that they can force you to provide biometrics but they cannot force you to reveal a password. In other words they can make you produce something you have or something you are but not something you know. Not sure I agree with that but at least its a clear procedure.
You can't really say "I lost my house keys"
Sure you can. It's even better if its actually true though in either case you might have some time sitting behind bars if they think you are being obstructive. But they don't need your keys to search your house and as long as you don't guard the door with your person or otherwise actively interfere with the investigation then they can do what they need to do. If the police can break into your phone then that is probably permitted by law if they have a warrant. But you should be under no legal obligation to provide them assistance in obtaining information that might be used against you.
I'd also wager that the people who really built those companies and continue to drive them are a) mostly male, b) mostly white, and c) couldn't give much of a shit about a picture of a big titted chick riding a bulldog (or heavens, they might actually like it).
Probably true. Doesn't mean it is right or that it should be condoned. It also probably means that those companies have some messed up cultural problems that they are still dealing with to this day because being talented does not also mean you aren't an asshat. Ask Harvey Weinstein.
I've found that SJW claims about a company's diversity "needs" rarely have any intersection with recognizing the company's previous success track. If it's success has truly come from hiring 51% women or x% transgender, they'd already be doing it and wouldn't have to keep being told.
You are effectively arguing that people won't be racists or sexists when money is on the table and that is demonstrably not true. Color me unimpressed with your reasoning. Our country has centuries of racial and gender bias which we are still dealing with and which denies opportunities daily to deserving people.
The reason diversity matters is that talented people don't come in a particular gender or skin color. If you are actually hiring the best people, chances are that your company is going to look pretty diverse. But people routinely do not hire the best people - they hire the people they are most comfortable with and who by and large look the most like themselves. When all these people are white, male, and privileged then this tends to become a problem for society as well as for that company.
... about a Picasso/Graffiti original depicting a busty comic girl and a cartoon dog, then you should probably leave.
Why? Why should someone have to leave because someone else at the company wants to behave like an unsupervised teenager on a bender? How about just taking down a picture that any sensible adult will see the problem with? Seriously, you don't get why having such a picture posted prominently is unprofessional when it has NOTHING to do with the actual business of the company? Pro tip: If your business isn't art or fashion, then pictures of busty women posted prominently is almost certainly going to be perceived badly by self respecting professional women as well as men with a sense of decency and respect for women. I have a daughter and a wife and they shouldn't have to put up with crap like that at work. A business isn't supposed to operate like a fraternity house.
I bet dollars to donuts that the stuff that brought Google or Facebook ahead wasn't built by the people who would do binge drinking contests at work.
Yes it was. Companies aren't built by engineers alone no matter how much we might wish it to be so nor are engineers above such behavior. 20 seconds on google can find you innumerable examples. Many of these companies were built by young 20-somethings with limited guidance on professional behavior and they behaved like young 20-somethings often do - which is to say like an unsupervised child. There is a reason these company almost always have to bring in an experienced professional to be "the adult in the room".
This nonsense is usually done by marketing or community management.
I'm sure you wish that were actually true. Back here in the real world, engineers party and are often sexist pigs just as often as those in any other profession. Being a talented engineer or any other type of profession is not incompatible with been a juvenile asshat and if you've been around for more than a minute you'll have met quite a few of them.
The stuff that brings these companies ahead are built by people who come in, solve the problem, collect their salary and then leave again.
I think you don't have a lot of experience with real world staffing or you could not possibly believe this. Talk to any HR professional and you'll quickly find out that talent for solving engineering problems has poor correlation with decent behavior. The tone for how a company behaves is set at the top and if the top management is permissive with sketchy behavior then that is what you are going to get. See Uber if you need an example. People can get a lot of quality work done and still find time to be an asshat.
I"m not sure it would be even viable to use on a phone tho....? Too little real estate IMHO on a phone, and you'd not use it on a desktop, so to me, make sense tablet only.
For a lot of applications sure, but if it isn't enabled to work on the iPhone how will we ever know? Nobody will design software for it if the hardware isn't available. Right now it isn't even possible to try.
I've just now been looking into note taking with iPad pro and apple pencil....these look promising:
I've been keeping an eye on this for a long time. Been disappointed to date but I guess I'm the eternal optimist.
From what I see on YouTube reviews, both of these seem quite powerful, you can have hand written text transformed to type, you can insert pictures, videos, sound, some allow you to record say a lecture and the audio is timed out to the writing and stuff you do on the note...etc.
They keep trying to do the handwriting conversion thing and I think that is largely a waste of time. If I want to have a typeface I'll bust out a keyboard - there are bigger fish to fry. That said having the software do some OCR on the notes and make it searchable is clearly useful. Inserting pictures and video is nice but a second or third order consideration. First they have to make it a better version of a piece of paper + a filing cabinet. What matters most is the the workflow around actually writing, saving, editing and sharing documents and nobody seems to have nailed this bit yet. The file formats matter. Being able to print documents matters. Being able to incorporate your notes into other applications (like word or photoshop) matters. Being able to organize your notes in an efficient and rational manner matters. Most important is that the interface has to be amazingly seamless and easy to use. Remember it has to be better than paper + a filing cabinet. I realize it's not the easiest problem to solve but I'm not even sure anyone is really thinking of it in the right context.
A big part of soccer is that there should be minimal interruptions so that the team that is well coordinated with the most fit players are going to have an advantage.
Soccer isn't a game of who can outrun the other guy. Sometimes conditioning plays a role but other factors generally determine the outcome - ball handling, teamwork, game tactics, etc. At the World Cup level there aren't going to be massive differences in conditioning. Everyone playing is a well conditioned professional.
The extra time needed to review calls gives the players a chance for a breather as well as consult/plan going forwards.
Fine but that's not adequate justification for permitting bad refereeing to occur and the conditions of the game remain the same for both teams. If you are the better team you should be able to win under a variety of circumstances. Sometimes games are going to be less fluid than at other times. Deal with it and find a way to win.
I don't know if video refereeing "ruins" the game (I'm not enough of a fan to have a strong opinion) but I'm sure purists would.
Generally anyone who could be described as a "purist" in regards to a game with arbitrary rules is going to hate anything that changes the game even when it demonstrably makes it better. I coach several teams and I run into this all the time. No video refereeing does not ruin the game as a general proposition in any sport.
I don't think an iPad has the same performance of my PC for rendering videos longer than a short clip.
It probably doesn't but so what? You also can't use your big desktop PC in a coffee shop or on a photo shoot in the field. Professional photographers actually have a need to be able to do work away from the home office routinely. Not every job you do is going to be rendering Toy Story 12. There are plenty of video tasks where an iPad is more than sufficient. A sports photographer in the field needs to be able to edit and post pictures and short videos quickly and they aren't going to carry around a PC with a huge video card and a giant monitor.
An iPad might not be useful to YOU for Photoshop work but that doesn't mean it isn't useful to an awful lot of other people.
On the trade war, it's important to be clear about who the participants in the war are and what their role is. It's not the US vs. China; it's the US government against the Chinese government, with the Chinese government playing the game with the assets of the Chinese nation.
It's governments playing games with OUR money. Both sides.
This is a bit like invading Russia. It's a truism that invading Russia is a bad idea; like most truisms it's only true some of the time. Sure there are historical examples of disastrous invasions, but there are just as many examples of successful invasions.
Name one successful invasion of Russia in the last 250 years.
A trade war with the PRC isn't an intrinsically bad idea; it's a matter of timing.
As a general proposition it's a terrible idea. At the end of the day the only result is going to be a lot of economic hardship for people like you and me on both sides of the ocean and elsewhere. The only time a trade war is a "good" idea is when one country is threatening a vital resource or asset. The US government should be more concerned with helping build up US business rather than trying to tear down Chinese ones.
A trade war with the PRC isn't an intrinsically bad idea; it's a matter of timing.
I disagree but let's assume that is true for the sake of argument. How would you know the time is right? You probably wouldn't. So basically it is huge gamble with no likely winner but a near certainty of economic hardship. And let's assume we wage a trade war all in against China. What does "victory" look like? What is the goal of these tariffs? What specific concessions is Trump trying to get from China? You'll notice that he has picked a fight without deciding on a victory condition. Anyone who starts a fight without a very specific goal for the end game is an idiot. Doubly so for someone fighting with other people's money.
I can't imagine using Photoshop without a keyboard and mouse
I can. Innumerable tasks are easier with a stylus than a kb/mouse. Anything where fine motor skills are required tends to be easier, particularly drawing or writing or editing. There are exceptions in both directions of course but you're probably just used to doing things a certain way and haven't explored the alternatives.
or not being able to access my files from my file server.
It's doable and it's basically a requirement for any sort of professional work flow.
Video rendering on the iPad will probably suck donkey balls.
Strange comment since people take and edit videos on an iPad all the time. Horse for courses of course and obviously it's not the right tool for every job but I could see it being very practical for a lot of use cases.
That's what the Apple Pencil is for....using that combined with and iPad Pro, works quite well, no perceptible lag, high res screen...its quite easy to work on.
True. Unfortunately Apple treats the Apple Pencil as an afterthought instead of an important usability device. Very little software really takes full advantage of it. There still isn't a quality note taking application (yes I've looked). Annotate documents? Don't make me laugh. They basically treat it as a toy for the 3 artists who actually do art on an iPad. It doesn't work well with any serious productivity applications nor does that seem likely to change. Plus the design of the Apple Pencil sucks. Round so it rolls off tables and there is no thought given to storage when not in use. There is no slot to put the thing in on the device itself. Plus it doesn't work across Apple's product line. I should be able to use it on every iPad, iPhone and Mac but Apple can't be bothered.
You also have combination with finger presses and gestures to simulate keyboard shortcuts and the like.
Ugh.. KMN. More arbitrary combinations of movements to memorize. No thanks.
The parents who sued Facebook up to Germany's highest court had their deceased daughter's login data, so she probably didn't mind them looking at her account.
Mere possession of a login does not equal consent by the owner of the login for others to use it. Doesn't matter if the people are parents or not though if she was a minor the rules might be different to account for that circumstance. In any case for consent to be clear there would have to be other documentation proving consent such as a will or other written correspondence.
German inheritance law, and I'm sure that of other countries as well, states that everything a deceased person owned should be transferred to the legal heirs, including letters or diaries.
The question is (obviously) how to legally treat Facebook content created by an individual. It's reasonable to treat it in a manner similar to a diary or other letters but the legal framework around this is still being worked out. There are a lot of nuanced details that have to be thought through by lawmakers and courts before we'll have a final answer.
There are literally centuries of case law on how to handle privacy and copy rights in personal letters and similar communications. Your question has been answered many, many times.
Yeah the problem is that all this online stuff adds a bunch of new wrinkles to the problem that have not yet been fully litigated and the laws surrounding it are still being worked out. In many cases the old rules should work just fine but not in every case. There are important differences and as a society we need to think through which of these difference matter. Facebook is at the forefront of this problem. You can say the contents of a Facebook account are functionally similar to a diary but are they really? The answer to that isn't actually obvious and we need to think it through. Personal letters on paper have certain immutable characteristics that sometimes don't apply to electronic communications and vice-versa. You can't simply assume that old regulations, case-law, and statutes will seamlessly apply without alteration.
No, you let them know your position when it is useful to let them know your position. You keep it a secret when that is more useful. There are times for each approach. If you are trying to deter an aggressor from attacking in the first place you don't keep it a secret that attacking you would be a bad idea. A deterrence kept a secret isn't a deterrence at all.
You are quite right that many times it is useful to not show your full capabilities. But sometimes it is more valuable to let some information be known.
The Chinese are bluffing because of the trade war and trying to spread FUD. They're screwed and they know it.
Screwed? Not likely. Only delusional idiots like our president actually believe that a pointless trade war will benefit the US and hurt China. It's going to hurt both sides without any likely upside to anyone. And this has literally nothing to do with that unless you think the trade war is going to turn into a shooting war. Pray that doesn't come to pass.
Why would China brag about this new advanced technology, telling the world that a "quantum radar" is indeed possible?
Let's assume this technology actually exists and works more or less as indicated. If you have a technology to plan to use as a deterrent, there is no point in keeping it a secret from the people you are trying to deter. A credible threat forces the other party to adjust their behavior. Keeping a weapon secret that you plant to user for deterrence is likely to be counterproductive.
Now let's say that they don't have this technology and are bluffing. If they can get the other party to react to a non-existent threat then that has value as well. Of course the downside is if your bluff gets called. Say what you want about the US military but they are pretty good at what they do and getting them to bite on this if it isn't true is going to be challenging.
I believe you're very confused. Right now in this country the ones preaching tolerance are on the left and they're the most intolerant people on earth.
Oh bullshit. The left aren't the ones making travel bans for muslims. They aren't the ones ostracizing LGBT people. They aren't the ones advocating for police brutality. They aren't the ones trying to disenfranchise minorities from voting. They aren't the ones pushing against womens rights to control their reproductive systems. You think the left is intolerant? Compared to the right they are ridiculously tolerant of others. To the point of being politically ineffective at times. Sure some on the left are absolutely guilty of not practicing what they preach but compared to the right it's not even a competition when it comes to intolerance.
Here's a clue for you. When over 90% of black people and the majority of other minorities vote for the left it's because they think (correctly) that the right is actively working against them.
They want you fired, silenced, and punished if you don't agree with everything they are for.
Sure and the right never does that. Tell you what, go ahead and tell a conservative christian that you are gay and that jesus is a lie and see what happens to you.
Yes it is though you can make an argument that they are simply reaping what they've sown. This administration has been, ahem... less than tolerant of others, so it's somewhat ironic that they would get upset when it happens back at them. I'm not saying the behavior was right or should be condoned but I do admit to a bit of schadenfreude when I heard about it. To paraphrase Chris Rock, I'm not saying it's right but I understand...
If there is someone in a restaurant that you don't like, take a deep breath, suppress your penchant for political belligerence, and mind your own business.
That is the appropriate and civil behavior. It would be nice if our current president and his cronies would return the favor.
This functionality you dream of will not work unless users know it will be available on every device they have and for every document.
Yeah you are right that its a tough problem. But if anyone is in a position to make it happen it is Apple since they control their entire product stack. I think they could get 99% of the way there with Apple cooperating with Microsoft, Google, and a few other firms. If the most important apps and platforms have the capability and it's made available to others as some sort of an open framework then I think it could happen. Apple is ideally positioned to make this happen. Google might be able to do it too but it would be harder and more likely to fragment.
It wouldn't necessarily need to be integrated into every application immediately. It would be enough to begin with to have a REALLY good note taking and sketch app based on an open set of software and standards that everyone else could build into their products going forward. I would buy an iPad Pro tomorrow if you could assure me that it had a super well designed note taking application. How to best integrate this into annotating documents and existing applications would take some time anyway so no point in trying to eat the elephant all at once. Instead concentrate on making it an open framework that is easy to tie into.
Someone like myself would want it to be cross-platform as well--or else it is not ubiquitous.
I would prefer cross platform as well and frankly I think it would be hard to pull off if it wasn't. Apple would pretty much have to cooperate with at least Microsoft and that puts it on at least two of the three main platforms. If they can get Google on board as well then I think they could definitely make it happen.
The key to the whole thing is just having the software written with a mind towards what people actually would do with it. Right now they start with some technology and see what they can make with it rather than starting with user needs and figuring out of to make technology support that.
A hypothetical "A12" or whatever would probably cost a lot less to Apple, allowing them to reduce the cost of their Macs by a few hundred dollars or so.
I very much doubt there would be that much margin savings in an Apple designed chip. A Mac Mini only sells for a few hundred dollars so there clearly isn't that much margin in the CPU to be had. They still would have to have it manufactured and it's not clear that Intel's markups would be hugely higher than whatever fab Apple uses (presumably TSMC) especially since the volumes for Intel chips would be higher. Apple isn't really vertically integrating since they don't control the manufacturing and that is where the cost savings lie and I don't think Apple wants to actually do the manufacturing.
And even if there were savings I'm pretty dubious Apple would plan to pass them along to you and me unless they had to for competitive reasons.
It would also, I assume, require less power than Intel's CPU giving you either a laptop that runs for more hours, or a smaller laptop that requires a smaller battery (again costing less for both you and Apple).
Less power maybe but would they get the same performance? Performance is something that the X86 does rather well in spite of whatever other problems it has. Not to say it couldn't be matched but there isn't much evidence of that happening yet.
If there is some kind of Rosetta 2.0 in place that can run most x86 applications at more or less the same speed (at least from the user's point of view) then it would be stupid for Apple to not switch to their own ARM CPUs.
Pretty much by definition any sort of emulation will result in a performance hit. The real question is whether it is substantial. It wouldn't be Apple's first (or even second) rodeo with a chipset change but this sort of thing is always fraught.
Apple is on record about the new Mac Pro, which means there's about a 99.99% of it happening.
Oh it'll probably drop but the question is what then? Are they going to ignore it for the next 5-7 years like before or are they really going to make serious improvements to it on a regular basis? Given Apple's history with this product I'm pretty gun shy about it until they show some evidence they've changed their ways and actually take it seriously.
Here in Europe we have bank passes with NFC. Much handier than using a phone.
Also less secure and it's yet another thing to carry. I'm rarely not carrying my phone anyway so I'd rather not bulk out my wallet with unnecessary cards - and most of them should be unnecessary if we were doing things right. Probably 90% of the things in my wallet could easily be done via my phone with no loss in effectiveness and probably better security.
For #8, it's important for Americans to remember that they're not the only country in the world, and a great deal of why Apple Pay isn't accepted everywhere is because American payment infrastructure is woefully outdated and still apparently relies on signatures on pieces of paper in a great many instances.
The signature requirement is not a requirement anymore. And plenty of merchants have the technology but cannot be bothered to activate it or got to the trouble. Even some that do aren't actually aware that it works. I was in a Little Caeser's recently and they actually do accept ApplePay but there was no signage and none of the staff were aware it worked. Hell I see retailers all the time that don't even have their chip reader activated and still require the magnetic strip swipe.
Apple Pay is accepted anywhere that tap-to-pay works, so that means here in Canada that a huge and growing number of merchants accept it.
Sadly not true. There are quite a few major companies that are not willing to work with ApplePay even though there is no technological barrier to doing it. Walmart, lots of gas stations, Home Depot, Costco, Lowes, Target, and countless others don't take ApplePay. Maybe one out of 4 merchants I interact with actually can do ApplePay, and very few sit down restaurants. And they wonder why I do most of my shopping online now... (top tip for retailers: if you want me to visit your store I suggest taking the form of payment I prefer and making it easy to do business with you)
Apple Pay isn't really specifically some sort of tech magic that needs Apple specific merchant hardware to work, it just needs run-of-the-mill tap-to-pay terminals.
I'm afraid they need hardware that many of them haven't installed and even some that have just aren't willing to cooperate with Apple for various reasons.
Well, aside from note taking, listed above, what would you think you would use a digital stylus for if not for artistic apps, Procreate (drawing/painting), and Affinity Photo (photo and painting), and coming out now Affinity Designer.
Don't dismiss note taking. That is a HUGE killer app if done right. Literally every student could use it and probably most professionals too. Do you ever draw equations or sketches? Do you have a paper calendar? Do you ever hand write lists or notes? Meeting minutes? Typing is great but for some things there is no replacement for a pencil/stylus. Annotating documents is something I literally do every day on paper but there is no reason I couldn't do a lot of it digitally except that the applications for it SUCK. (seriously, they are absolutely awful and I've tried) I take notes in meetings and have to sketch schematics all the time. But Apple makes some cutsie little art apps that have a user base of about 3 people instead of trying to figure out how to get an iPad to be the primary tool of every student on the planet. Engineers should be carrying an iPad (or Android equivalent) to every meeting if Apple (or someone else) would just write the damn software to make it a useful tool for doing that.
Another problem with a stylus is that software developers tend to get confused and start treating it like a mouse instead of what it really is which is a drawing instrument. Notes are just a form of drawing and should be treated as such. When you treat a stylus functionally like a mouse you end up with a device that doesn't work well as a mouse or as a drawing instrument. A mouse is generally poor for drawing and a stylus is terrible for navigation. There is a reason artists use pencils and pens when learning to draw - it's a good tool for that. There is a reason we teach children to write (a form of drawing) with a pencil - it's a good tool for that.
I mean on a real computer, I use my wacom tablet and pen for these type things....so, I'm not sure what else a pen/stylus/tablet type functionality would be use for...?
That's because nobody has written the software needed to take full advantage of them. Wacom makes some great devices but without the software to use it for something more than digital art work and photoshop it's really underutilized. Engineering documentation and paperwork could actually benefit greatly from integration with a Wacom tablet and pen if done right.
There is one thing you a forgetting... this is also putting millions of animals out of a job!;)
Funny but the ironic bit is how that is the EXACT same argument people use when we replace jobs that involve handling or emitting chemicals that kill people. We can't stop mining coal despite it killing people because people might lose their jobs! We can't use autonomous vehicles because truck drivers might lose their jobs.
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While this sounds almost sensible it also kinda sounds like complete hogwash.
Definitely not hogwash. There are issues of alloy contamination from the cutting tools, oxygen contamination, carbon contamination, and some others. Not necessarily insurmountable problems but not trivial ones either.
What if the cops find a safe in your house that they cannot open without destroying the contents. Could you be compelled to open it, or be held in contempt for failure to do so (in the USA)?
IANAL but my understanding is that they cannot force you to reveal information you reasonably believe might be used to incriminate you and that cannot be obtained in another way. This would include passwords or safe combinations. They can force you to provide biometric identifiers or produce physical objects like keys though. This falls under the 5th amendment to the Constitution against self incrimination. However they can confiscate the safe and if they have the ability to crack the safe without your assistance they can do so provided they have an appropriate warrant.
Here in the Netherlands, IIRC one cannot be compelled to assist in opening a locked safe except in cases where the search warrant is for a matter regarding taxes
That's a gigantic loophole right there which would be abused in a nanosecond if it were an option here. My guess is that it is abused in the Netherlands too but that's conjecture on my part.
However there are proposals to change the law to the effect that a suspect must assist in opening locked safes, unlocking locked phones, or decrypting files, in special cases like terrorism or (of course) child pornography.
So two problems with that. 1) How do you tell the difference between someone who has forgotten the password and someone pretending to forget? Kind of unfair to send someone to jail for being forgetful. 2) Do you seriously think that law enforcement won't simply use those exceptions to bypass any legal protections the accused might have?
Wouldn't this be akin to a warrant for searching your house?
Not really, no. And they can search your house without your cooperation. Under current law they cannot force you to divulge knowledge that could lead to you being incriminated. This currently includes passwords. The line in the sand they have drawn currently is that they can force you to provide biometrics but they cannot force you to reveal a password. In other words they can make you produce something you have or something you are but not something you know. Not sure I agree with that but at least its a clear procedure.
You can't really say "I lost my house keys"
Sure you can. It's even better if its actually true though in either case you might have some time sitting behind bars if they think you are being obstructive. But they don't need your keys to search your house and as long as you don't guard the door with your person or otherwise actively interfere with the investigation then they can do what they need to do. If the police can break into your phone then that is probably permitted by law if they have a warrant. But you should be under no legal obligation to provide them assistance in obtaining information that might be used against you.
I'd also wager that the people who really built those companies and continue to drive them are a) mostly male, b) mostly white, and c) couldn't give much of a shit about a picture of a big titted chick riding a bulldog (or heavens, they might actually like it).
Probably true. Doesn't mean it is right or that it should be condoned. It also probably means that those companies have some messed up cultural problems that they are still dealing with to this day because being talented does not also mean you aren't an asshat. Ask Harvey Weinstein.
I've found that SJW claims about a company's diversity "needs" rarely have any intersection with recognizing the company's previous success track. If it's success has truly come from hiring 51% women or x% transgender, they'd already be doing it and wouldn't have to keep being told.
You are effectively arguing that people won't be racists or sexists when money is on the table and that is demonstrably not true. Color me unimpressed with your reasoning. Our country has centuries of racial and gender bias which we are still dealing with and which denies opportunities daily to deserving people.
The reason diversity matters is that talented people don't come in a particular gender or skin color. If you are actually hiring the best people, chances are that your company is going to look pretty diverse. But people routinely do not hire the best people - they hire the people they are most comfortable with and who by and large look the most like themselves. When all these people are white, male, and privileged then this tends to become a problem for society as well as for that company.
... about a Picasso/Graffiti original depicting a busty comic girl and a cartoon dog, then you should probably leave.
Why? Why should someone have to leave because someone else at the company wants to behave like an unsupervised teenager on a bender? How about just taking down a picture that any sensible adult will see the problem with? Seriously, you don't get why having such a picture posted prominently is unprofessional when it has NOTHING to do with the actual business of the company? Pro tip: If your business isn't art or fashion, then pictures of busty women posted prominently is almost certainly going to be perceived badly by self respecting professional women as well as men with a sense of decency and respect for women. I have a daughter and a wife and they shouldn't have to put up with crap like that at work. A business isn't supposed to operate like a fraternity house.
I bet dollars to donuts that the stuff that brought Google or Facebook ahead wasn't built by the people who would do binge drinking contests at work.
Yes it was. Companies aren't built by engineers alone no matter how much we might wish it to be so nor are engineers above such behavior. 20 seconds on google can find you innumerable examples. Many of these companies were built by young 20-somethings with limited guidance on professional behavior and they behaved like young 20-somethings often do - which is to say like an unsupervised child. There is a reason these company almost always have to bring in an experienced professional to be "the adult in the room".
This nonsense is usually done by marketing or community management.
I'm sure you wish that were actually true. Back here in the real world, engineers party and are often sexist pigs just as often as those in any other profession. Being a talented engineer or any other type of profession is not incompatible with been a juvenile asshat and if you've been around for more than a minute you'll have met quite a few of them.
The stuff that brings these companies ahead are built by people who come in, solve the problem, collect their salary and then leave again.
I think you don't have a lot of experience with real world staffing or you could not possibly believe this. Talk to any HR professional and you'll quickly find out that talent for solving engineering problems has poor correlation with decent behavior. The tone for how a company behaves is set at the top and if the top management is permissive with sketchy behavior then that is what you are going to get. See Uber if you need an example. People can get a lot of quality work done and still find time to be an asshat.
I"m not sure it would be even viable to use on a phone tho....? Too little real estate IMHO on a phone, and you'd not use it on a desktop, so to me, make sense tablet only.
For a lot of applications sure, but if it isn't enabled to work on the iPhone how will we ever know? Nobody will design software for it if the hardware isn't available. Right now it isn't even possible to try.
I've just now been looking into note taking with iPad pro and apple pencil....these look promising:
I've been keeping an eye on this for a long time. Been disappointed to date but I guess I'm the eternal optimist.
From what I see on YouTube reviews, both of these seem quite powerful, you can have hand written text transformed to type, you can insert pictures, videos, sound, some allow you to record say a lecture and the audio is timed out to the writing and stuff you do on the note...etc.
They keep trying to do the handwriting conversion thing and I think that is largely a waste of time. If I want to have a typeface I'll bust out a keyboard - there are bigger fish to fry. That said having the software do some OCR on the notes and make it searchable is clearly useful. Inserting pictures and video is nice but a second or third order consideration. First they have to make it a better version of a piece of paper + a filing cabinet. What matters most is the the workflow around actually writing, saving, editing and sharing documents and nobody seems to have nailed this bit yet. The file formats matter. Being able to print documents matters. Being able to incorporate your notes into other applications (like word or photoshop) matters. Being able to organize your notes in an efficient and rational manner matters. Most important is that the interface has to be amazingly seamless and easy to use. Remember it has to be better than paper + a filing cabinet. I realize it's not the easiest problem to solve but I'm not even sure anyone is really thinking of it in the right context.
A big part of soccer is that there should be minimal interruptions so that the team that is well coordinated with the most fit players are going to have an advantage.
Soccer isn't a game of who can outrun the other guy. Sometimes conditioning plays a role but other factors generally determine the outcome - ball handling, teamwork, game tactics, etc. At the World Cup level there aren't going to be massive differences in conditioning. Everyone playing is a well conditioned professional.
The extra time needed to review calls gives the players a chance for a breather as well as consult/plan going forwards.
Fine but that's not adequate justification for permitting bad refereeing to occur and the conditions of the game remain the same for both teams. If you are the better team you should be able to win under a variety of circumstances. Sometimes games are going to be less fluid than at other times. Deal with it and find a way to win.
I don't know if video refereeing "ruins" the game (I'm not enough of a fan to have a strong opinion) but I'm sure purists would.
Generally anyone who could be described as a "purist" in regards to a game with arbitrary rules is going to hate anything that changes the game even when it demonstrably makes it better. I coach several teams and I run into this all the time. No video refereeing does not ruin the game as a general proposition in any sport.
I don't think an iPad has the same performance of my PC for rendering videos longer than a short clip.
It probably doesn't but so what? You also can't use your big desktop PC in a coffee shop or on a photo shoot in the field. Professional photographers actually have a need to be able to do work away from the home office routinely. Not every job you do is going to be rendering Toy Story 12. There are plenty of video tasks where an iPad is more than sufficient. A sports photographer in the field needs to be able to edit and post pictures and short videos quickly and they aren't going to carry around a PC with a huge video card and a giant monitor.
An iPad might not be useful to YOU for Photoshop work but that doesn't mean it isn't useful to an awful lot of other people.
On the trade war, it's important to be clear about who the participants in the war are and what their role is. It's not the US vs. China; it's the US government against the Chinese government, with the Chinese government playing the game with the assets of the Chinese nation.
It's governments playing games with OUR money. Both sides.
This is a bit like invading Russia. It's a truism that invading Russia is a bad idea; like most truisms it's only true some of the time. Sure there are historical examples of disastrous invasions, but there are just as many examples of successful invasions.
Name one successful invasion of Russia in the last 250 years.
A trade war with the PRC isn't an intrinsically bad idea; it's a matter of timing.
As a general proposition it's a terrible idea. At the end of the day the only result is going to be a lot of economic hardship for people like you and me on both sides of the ocean and elsewhere. The only time a trade war is a "good" idea is when one country is threatening a vital resource or asset. The US government should be more concerned with helping build up US business rather than trying to tear down Chinese ones.
A trade war with the PRC isn't an intrinsically bad idea; it's a matter of timing.
I disagree but let's assume that is true for the sake of argument. How would you know the time is right? You probably wouldn't. So basically it is huge gamble with no likely winner but a near certainty of economic hardship. And let's assume we wage a trade war all in against China. What does "victory" look like? What is the goal of these tariffs? What specific concessions is Trump trying to get from China? You'll notice that he has picked a fight without deciding on a victory condition. Anyone who starts a fight without a very specific goal for the end game is an idiot. Doubly so for someone fighting with other people's money.
I can't imagine using Photoshop without a keyboard and mouse
I can. Innumerable tasks are easier with a stylus than a kb/mouse. Anything where fine motor skills are required tends to be easier, particularly drawing or writing or editing. There are exceptions in both directions of course but you're probably just used to doing things a certain way and haven't explored the alternatives.
or not being able to access my files from my file server.
It's doable and it's basically a requirement for any sort of professional work flow.
Video rendering on the iPad will probably suck donkey balls.
Strange comment since people take and edit videos on an iPad all the time. Horse for courses of course and obviously it's not the right tool for every job but I could see it being very practical for a lot of use cases.
That's what the Apple Pencil is for....using that combined with and iPad Pro, works quite well, no perceptible lag, high res screen...its quite easy to work on.
True. Unfortunately Apple treats the Apple Pencil as an afterthought instead of an important usability device. Very little software really takes full advantage of it. There still isn't a quality note taking application (yes I've looked). Annotate documents? Don't make me laugh. They basically treat it as a toy for the 3 artists who actually do art on an iPad. It doesn't work well with any serious productivity applications nor does that seem likely to change. Plus the design of the Apple Pencil sucks. Round so it rolls off tables and there is no thought given to storage when not in use. There is no slot to put the thing in on the device itself. Plus it doesn't work across Apple's product line. I should be able to use it on every iPad, iPhone and Mac but Apple can't be bothered.
You also have combination with finger presses and gestures to simulate keyboard shortcuts and the like.
Ugh.. KMN. More arbitrary combinations of movements to memorize. No thanks.
Nice I suppose but as long as they require a subscription for the product I'm not interested.
The parents who sued Facebook up to Germany's highest court had their deceased daughter's login data, so she probably didn't mind them looking at her account.
Mere possession of a login does not equal consent by the owner of the login for others to use it. Doesn't matter if the people are parents or not though if she was a minor the rules might be different to account for that circumstance. In any case for consent to be clear there would have to be other documentation proving consent such as a will or other written correspondence.
German inheritance law, and I'm sure that of other countries as well, states that everything a deceased person owned should be transferred to the legal heirs, including letters or diaries.
The question is (obviously) how to legally treat Facebook content created by an individual. It's reasonable to treat it in a manner similar to a diary or other letters but the legal framework around this is still being worked out. There are a lot of nuanced details that have to be thought through by lawmakers and courts before we'll have a final answer.
There are literally centuries of case law on how to handle privacy and copy rights in personal letters and similar communications. Your question has been answered many, many times.
Yeah the problem is that all this online stuff adds a bunch of new wrinkles to the problem that have not yet been fully litigated and the laws surrounding it are still being worked out. In many cases the old rules should work just fine but not in every case. There are important differences and as a society we need to think through which of these difference matter. Facebook is at the forefront of this problem. You can say the contents of a Facebook account are functionally similar to a diary but are they really? The answer to that isn't actually obvious and we need to think it through. Personal letters on paper have certain immutable characteristics that sometimes don't apply to electronic communications and vice-versa. You can't simply assume that old regulations, case-law, and statutes will seamlessly apply without alteration.
You never let your enemy know your position.
No, you let them know your position when it is useful to let them know your position. You keep it a secret when that is more useful. There are times for each approach. If you are trying to deter an aggressor from attacking in the first place you don't keep it a secret that attacking you would be a bad idea. A deterrence kept a secret isn't a deterrence at all.
You are quite right that many times it is useful to not show your full capabilities. But sometimes it is more valuable to let some information be known.
The Chinese are bluffing because of the trade war and trying to spread FUD. They're screwed and they know it.
Screwed? Not likely. Only delusional idiots like our president actually believe that a pointless trade war will benefit the US and hurt China. It's going to hurt both sides without any likely upside to anyone. And this has literally nothing to do with that unless you think the trade war is going to turn into a shooting war. Pray that doesn't come to pass.
Why would China brag about this new advanced technology, telling the world that a "quantum radar" is indeed possible?
Let's assume this technology actually exists and works more or less as indicated. If you have a technology to plan to use as a deterrent, there is no point in keeping it a secret from the people you are trying to deter. A credible threat forces the other party to adjust their behavior. Keeping a weapon secret that you plant to user for deterrence is likely to be counterproductive.
Now let's say that they don't have this technology and are bluffing. If they can get the other party to react to a non-existent threat then that has value as well. Of course the downside is if your bluff gets called. Say what you want about the US military but they are pretty good at what they do and getting them to bite on this if it isn't true is going to be challenging.
I believe you're very confused. Right now in this country the ones preaching tolerance are on the left and they're the most intolerant people on earth.
Oh bullshit. The left aren't the ones making travel bans for muslims. They aren't the ones ostracizing LGBT people. They aren't the ones advocating for police brutality. They aren't the ones trying to disenfranchise minorities from voting. They aren't the ones pushing against womens rights to control their reproductive systems. You think the left is intolerant? Compared to the right they are ridiculously tolerant of others. To the point of being politically ineffective at times. Sure some on the left are absolutely guilty of not practicing what they preach but compared to the right it's not even a competition when it comes to intolerance.
Here's a clue for you. When over 90% of black people and the majority of other minorities vote for the left it's because they think (correctly) that the right is actively working against them.
They want you fired, silenced, and punished if you don't agree with everything they are for.
Sure and the right never does that. Tell you what, go ahead and tell a conservative christian that you are gay and that jesus is a lie and see what happens to you.
That's still a pretty nasty attitude.
Yes it is though you can make an argument that they are simply reaping what they've sown. This administration has been, ahem... less than tolerant of others, so it's somewhat ironic that they would get upset when it happens back at them. I'm not saying the behavior was right or should be condoned but I do admit to a bit of schadenfreude when I heard about it. To paraphrase Chris Rock, I'm not saying it's right but I understand...
If there is someone in a restaurant that you don't like, take a deep breath, suppress your penchant for political belligerence, and mind your own business.
That is the appropriate and civil behavior. It would be nice if our current president and his cronies would return the favor.
This functionality you dream of will not work unless users know it will be available on every device they have and for every document.
Yeah you are right that its a tough problem. But if anyone is in a position to make it happen it is Apple since they control their entire product stack. I think they could get 99% of the way there with Apple cooperating with Microsoft, Google, and a few other firms. If the most important apps and platforms have the capability and it's made available to others as some sort of an open framework then I think it could happen. Apple is ideally positioned to make this happen. Google might be able to do it too but it would be harder and more likely to fragment.
It wouldn't necessarily need to be integrated into every application immediately. It would be enough to begin with to have a REALLY good note taking and sketch app based on an open set of software and standards that everyone else could build into their products going forward. I would buy an iPad Pro tomorrow if you could assure me that it had a super well designed note taking application. How to best integrate this into annotating documents and existing applications would take some time anyway so no point in trying to eat the elephant all at once. Instead concentrate on making it an open framework that is easy to tie into.
Someone like myself would want it to be cross-platform as well--or else it is not ubiquitous.
I would prefer cross platform as well and frankly I think it would be hard to pull off if it wasn't. Apple would pretty much have to cooperate with at least Microsoft and that puts it on at least two of the three main platforms. If they can get Google on board as well then I think they could definitely make it happen.
The key to the whole thing is just having the software written with a mind towards what people actually would do with it. Right now they start with some technology and see what they can make with it rather than starting with user needs and figuring out of to make technology support that.
A hypothetical "A12" or whatever would probably cost a lot less to Apple, allowing them to reduce the cost of their Macs by a few hundred dollars or so.
I very much doubt there would be that much margin savings in an Apple designed chip. A Mac Mini only sells for a few hundred dollars so there clearly isn't that much margin in the CPU to be had. They still would have to have it manufactured and it's not clear that Intel's markups would be hugely higher than whatever fab Apple uses (presumably TSMC) especially since the volumes for Intel chips would be higher. Apple isn't really vertically integrating since they don't control the manufacturing and that is where the cost savings lie and I don't think Apple wants to actually do the manufacturing.
And even if there were savings I'm pretty dubious Apple would plan to pass them along to you and me unless they had to for competitive reasons.
It would also, I assume, require less power than Intel's CPU giving you either a laptop that runs for more hours, or a smaller laptop that requires a smaller battery (again costing less for both you and Apple).
Less power maybe but would they get the same performance? Performance is something that the X86 does rather well in spite of whatever other problems it has. Not to say it couldn't be matched but there isn't much evidence of that happening yet.
If there is some kind of Rosetta 2.0 in place that can run most x86 applications at more or less the same speed (at least from the user's point of view) then it would be stupid for Apple to not switch to their own ARM CPUs.
Pretty much by definition any sort of emulation will result in a performance hit. The real question is whether it is substantial. It wouldn't be Apple's first (or even second) rodeo with a chipset change but this sort of thing is always fraught.
Apple is on record about the new Mac Pro, which means there's about a 99.99% of it happening.
Oh it'll probably drop but the question is what then? Are they going to ignore it for the next 5-7 years like before or are they really going to make serious improvements to it on a regular basis? Given Apple's history with this product I'm pretty gun shy about it until they show some evidence they've changed their ways and actually take it seriously.
Here in Europe we have bank passes with NFC. Much handier than using a phone.
Also less secure and it's yet another thing to carry. I'm rarely not carrying my phone anyway so I'd rather not bulk out my wallet with unnecessary cards - and most of them should be unnecessary if we were doing things right. Probably 90% of the things in my wallet could easily be done via my phone with no loss in effectiveness and probably better security.
For #8, it's important for Americans to remember that they're not the only country in the world, and a great deal of why Apple Pay isn't accepted everywhere is because American payment infrastructure is woefully outdated and still apparently relies on signatures on pieces of paper in a great many instances.
The signature requirement is not a requirement anymore. And plenty of merchants have the technology but cannot be bothered to activate it or got to the trouble. Even some that do aren't actually aware that it works. I was in a Little Caeser's recently and they actually do accept ApplePay but there was no signage and none of the staff were aware it worked. Hell I see retailers all the time that don't even have their chip reader activated and still require the magnetic strip swipe.
Apple Pay is accepted anywhere that tap-to-pay works, so that means here in Canada that a huge and growing number of merchants accept it.
Sadly not true. There are quite a few major companies that are not willing to work with ApplePay even though there is no technological barrier to doing it. Walmart, lots of gas stations, Home Depot, Costco, Lowes, Target, and countless others don't take ApplePay. Maybe one out of 4 merchants I interact with actually can do ApplePay, and very few sit down restaurants. And they wonder why I do most of my shopping online now... (top tip for retailers: if you want me to visit your store I suggest taking the form of payment I prefer and making it easy to do business with you)
Apple Pay isn't really specifically some sort of tech magic that needs Apple specific merchant hardware to work, it just needs run-of-the-mill tap-to-pay terminals.
I'm afraid they need hardware that many of them haven't installed and even some that have just aren't willing to cooperate with Apple for various reasons.
Well, aside from note taking, listed above, what would you think you would use a digital stylus for if not for artistic apps, Procreate (drawing/painting), and Affinity Photo (photo and painting), and coming out now Affinity Designer.
Don't dismiss note taking. That is a HUGE killer app if done right. Literally every student could use it and probably most professionals too. Do you ever draw equations or sketches? Do you have a paper calendar? Do you ever hand write lists or notes? Meeting minutes? Typing is great but for some things there is no replacement for a pencil/stylus. Annotating documents is something I literally do every day on paper but there is no reason I couldn't do a lot of it digitally except that the applications for it SUCK. (seriously, they are absolutely awful and I've tried) I take notes in meetings and have to sketch schematics all the time. But Apple makes some cutsie little art apps that have a user base of about 3 people instead of trying to figure out how to get an iPad to be the primary tool of every student on the planet. Engineers should be carrying an iPad (or Android equivalent) to every meeting if Apple (or someone else) would just write the damn software to make it a useful tool for doing that.
Another problem with a stylus is that software developers tend to get confused and start treating it like a mouse instead of what it really is which is a drawing instrument. Notes are just a form of drawing and should be treated as such. When you treat a stylus functionally like a mouse you end up with a device that doesn't work well as a mouse or as a drawing instrument. A mouse is generally poor for drawing and a stylus is terrible for navigation. There is a reason artists use pencils and pens when learning to draw - it's a good tool for that. There is a reason we teach children to write (a form of drawing) with a pencil - it's a good tool for that.
I mean on a real computer, I use my wacom tablet and pen for these type things....so, I'm not sure what else a pen/stylus/tablet type functionality would be use for...?
That's because nobody has written the software needed to take full advantage of them. Wacom makes some great devices but without the software to use it for something more than digital art work and photoshop it's really underutilized. Engineering documentation and paperwork could actually benefit greatly from integration with a Wacom tablet and pen if done right.
There is one thing you a forgetting... this is also putting millions of animals out of a job! ;)
Funny but the ironic bit is how that is the EXACT same argument people use when we replace jobs that involve handling or emitting chemicals that kill people. We can't stop mining coal despite it killing people because people might lose their jobs! We can't use autonomous vehicles because truck drivers might lose their jobs.