Jobs created the modern personal computer and the modern smartphone. Both of these changed the world.
(and, no, no one else created the modern personal computer.. before Apple, computers were nerdy industrial appliances, ESPECIALLY the Xerox machines. And please don't make the nerd mistake of conflating nerd culture with society in general)
Meanwhile, Elon Musk has yet to create something innovate.
Electric cars? lol, they were around 100+ years ago.
Space-X? You mean like all the rocket companies before his, and in particular, the government funded rocket companies like his?
Solar city? Has that made any useful impact?
Really kids, Elon Musk is a common industrialist. Everything he does is completely expected and completely boring. There is absolutely nothing surprising or risky in what Musk does. It's very straightforward, boring, and clearly obvious nerd-bait - Rockets! electric cars! Solar panels! what common nerd wouldn't go apeshit for that? Nothing he does is actually surprising. He works hard and invests in safe businesses, but guys like Jobs actually changed the world.
Rockets, electric cars, and solar panels are some of the most boring ideas you can think of today. They were done dozens of years ago. Today, they're just sheer boredom, only appealing to geeks with no sense of art or creativitiy. How much of a fucking nerd do you have to be to consider rocketry or electric cars to be interesting still?
How about coming up with something fucking new and interesting instead?
So, you can never compare anything Musk does with something like the iPhone, a complete game changer for society. Just look at its introductory keynote, and you'll see about 100 different ideas that the audience were completely surprised at, like momentum scroll and pinch-to-zoom. Do you even remember smartphones before that? they were garbage.
I'm mostly amused by the fact all you narcissistic libertarian nerds just hate the fact that a guy like him outwitted you at innovation. You dorks totally thought boring crap like electric cars and rockets matter, when the things that ACTUALLY matter are 'overlapping windows', 'pinch-to-zoom', and 'momentum scroll'.
It's as if you had NO idea what innovation actually means.
Hint: innovation isn't something you expect or predict.
Did you predict electric cars? If you did, that means it's not innovative.
That's only for published scientific research in certain peer-reviewed psychological journals - not even all journals.
And you don't need informed consent for marketing purposes at all. I can decide to experiment on anyone if I wish for my own amusement - I'll just walk around with a big red poster board and write down if it causes weird stares. That's for my own personal amusement.
But the real issue is people do not have the right to their own user experience in someone else's products.
You use Facebook? Great.. Facebook gets to control your experience with them, not you. That could mean they could change their website's colors from a calming blue to an angrier red. It's their product.
Sorry Mr. Google Employee, Android phones have a terrible, clunky user interface, and do nothing that iPhones can't do, with the bonus that they also have a better curation of apps in the app store.
The worst part about the Google system is that anyone can write an app for them, and it doesn't go through a professional editing process.
Google doesn't know that people pay big money so editors can filter out the junk for them. Nobody wants to enable a democratic system of app developers, since most developers are untalented and should not be in the business, regardless of what they think of themselves. We pay editors to tell them that these developers suck and should not be doing what they want to do. Maybe they should get into real-estate or something else instead.
Security questions do not work for public figures. Almost none of them will hold up to people whose whole lives are pointlessly documented.
Modern social media can also be used to identify personal information of regular people.
If you look at the anon-in.com logs where they operate, you can see hackers asking each other "What car is this?" with posts of random hot girls cars that they collected from Facebook or wherever. They then use this to break the iCloud security questions for said hot girls and get their nudes.
Also, you don't even need social media accounts to be targeted via social media. Just having friends that posts pics with your bits of identifying info is enough.
Your Email spools were publicly readable by anyone in your campus. Gopher never took off. Web sites didn't really start to get popular until about 1994, and before that you were stuck in alt.tasteless.jokes for any sort of lolz. You couldn't find anything about fashion online. It was only for academic purposes, which are unimportant.
It was only through the commercialization of the Internet through advertising that the Internet actually started to become useful.
Fixed-function devices are the only way to go - set it and forget it, man.
You don't have to hack them, you don't have to bother them. I've had mine for about 10 years now, to replace my old 1st-gen WRT54g, where I was doing stupid shit like trying to build an HTTP & media server into it, which was a conceptually flawed idea for an wireless-access-point.
You should never make devices more complicated than their physical requirements.
The problem a lot of people have is that they believe a device should do more, instead of less. This is the feature-creep that cause devices to be badly designed and complicated.
Apple has they user-experience model down in their Airport, where they say "Nope. Just use it for an WAP, not as a server." which was the correct decision.
Yet, the science around sales and marketing is far more useful than any physical science.
Sales and marketing is a basic function of all life. Animals broadcast themselves to find mates. You sell yourself when making social connections, as you are doing right now when you comment on these boards.
The knowledge within the article is going to be more rewarding to you than what you'll find in any physics journal.
It is only the most douchey, self-hating libertarian that feels they are above the role of sales and marketing that is fundamental to life. Those guys are complete losers, and completely happy about being losers. You'll find it a lot within outcast subcultures, such as nerds.
They do that because they understand that advertising and marketing represents a basic purpose of life.
Meanwhile, nerdy libertarians absolutely hate advertising themselves, because they think they're deserve social status without sales and marketing to go along with it.
The real world ramifications of the nerds hatred of sales and marketing including losing funding for the sciences, such as when the Superconducting Supercollider was canceled back in the 90's because scientists just couldn't kiss politician ass. They just simply couldn't do it.
If you nerds had any social IQ whatsoever, (instead of just sitting around being awesome by yourselves, because you're obviously so awesome!), you would be absolutely following articles like these.
They're in the business to find out your interests to sell ads.
Why is that a mysterious thing? This is the job of any media company: to find your weaknesses and manipulate you in order to sell you goods.
I don't understand why people have a problem with that? Sales and marketing is what society has been doing since life was invented. You brush your teeth in the morning to sell yourself to your personal audiences over the people that DON'T brush their teeth in the morning.
Everything that Google does is known and predictable. There is nothing wrong about what they do, and we should encourage them to find out your sales weaknesses in order to extract more money from you via the advertising they sell.
After all, you do the same personal sales and marketing for yourself. Everybody does sales and marketing. It's a fundamental life property, not just for humans, but all species.
We should encourage sales and marketing, over the objection of the libertarian douchebag princesses that are losing the attention-whoring war against professional marketers like Google.
It's always amusing when libertarian princesses cry about losing at attention-whoring.
If you're trying to start a business around apps, you better have a business plan in place, and that would typically include your marketing activities.
If you don't know the basics of even how to email thousands of media sites to get them to publicize and review your app, then you shouldn't be in the business.
The app store isn't broken. Your business plan is.
Yes, it is what it's about, but the narcissistic libertarian princesses that infest this site haven't figured out that other people have power and control over them.
These narcissistic libertarian princesses made the mistake of thinking they are the ultimate power.
Sorry narcissistic libertarian princesses, but you're not in control over your lives - other people have control over you.
Maybe in your next life, you'll learn to gain power in order to maintain some self control?
Meanwhile, we will continue to A/B test the shit out of you and manipulate you to your heart's content.
Are going to go apeshit when you find out people PAY MONEY for things like fashion magazines and Sunday newspapers, BECAUSE of the ads.
Also, you don't have to go to the CNN site if you don't like their ads. No one actually forced you to read CNN. It is their media property, they can do what they wish.
Your only role is to decide if you want to visit their media property or not.
You don't get to decide things you don't pay for. The people that pay for things gets to decide them.
If you ever feel the need to install an ad blocker, you're doing it wrong. The correct response is to NOT visit that site in the first place if you don't like their ads.
Again, please try not to make things convenient for you when you don't pay for it. You need to pay for things that you want your way. More people should be taught that.
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If you don't want hackers reading your email, you shouldn't use email!
Your email is on the cloud, and any hacker can access it! You only have yourself to blame if you use email!
Remember, what matters is that you feel superior to someone else.
Jobs created the modern personal computer and the modern smartphone. Both of these changed the world.
(and, no, no one else created the modern personal computer.. before Apple, computers were nerdy industrial appliances, ESPECIALLY the Xerox machines. And please don't make the nerd mistake of conflating nerd culture with society in general)
Meanwhile, Elon Musk has yet to create something innovate.
Electric cars? lol, they were around 100+ years ago.
Space-X? You mean like all the rocket companies before his, and in particular, the government funded rocket companies like his?
Solar city? Has that made any useful impact?
Really kids, Elon Musk is a common industrialist. Everything he does is completely expected and completely boring. There is absolutely nothing surprising or risky in what Musk does. It's very straightforward, boring, and clearly obvious nerd-bait - Rockets! electric cars! Solar panels! what common nerd wouldn't go apeshit for that? Nothing he does is actually surprising. He works hard and invests in safe businesses, but guys like Jobs actually changed the world.
Rockets, electric cars, and solar panels are some of the most boring ideas you can think of today. They were done dozens of years ago. Today, they're just sheer boredom, only appealing to geeks with no sense of art or creativitiy. How much of a fucking nerd do you have to be to consider rocketry or electric cars to be interesting still?
How about coming up with something fucking new and interesting instead?
So, you can never compare anything Musk does with something like the iPhone, a complete game changer for society. Just look at its introductory keynote, and you'll see about 100 different ideas that the audience were completely surprised at, like momentum scroll and pinch-to-zoom. Do you even remember smartphones before that? they were garbage.
I'm mostly amused by the fact all you narcissistic libertarian nerds just hate the fact that a guy like him outwitted you at innovation. You dorks totally thought boring crap like electric cars and rockets matter, when the things that ACTUALLY matter are 'overlapping windows', 'pinch-to-zoom', and 'momentum scroll'.
It's as if you had NO idea what innovation actually means.
Hint: innovation isn't something you expect or predict.
Did you predict electric cars? If you did, that means it's not innovative.
That's only for published scientific research in certain peer-reviewed psychological journals - not even all journals.
And you don't need informed consent for marketing purposes at all. I can decide to experiment on anyone if I wish for my own amusement - I'll just walk around with a big red poster board and write down if it causes weird stares. That's for my own personal amusement.
But the real issue is people do not have the right to their own user experience in someone else's products.
You use Facebook? Great.. Facebook gets to control your experience with them, not you. That could mean they could change their website's colors from a calming blue to an angrier red. It's their product.
Life isn't about doing what you want... it's about doing what other people tell you to do.
The world doesn't care about your individual freedom.. it only cares about what you can offer it.
We big-government socialists knew that, not sure why you libertarians didn't?
These days hipsters are all about their flip-phones.
Since when does Netflix/Amazon Prime/Hulu/ESPN/HBOGo allow you to store your videos locally?
Which is why less chips the better. No need to add a couple more chips in the stack always drawing some current if you don't need it.
And for phones, power reduction is the most important goal.
Additionally, who uses more than a few apps anyways? Most people just stick with their core group of apps they regularly use.
And, it's only 64 GB - 64 GB isn't 100 TB. 100TB would be a completely different use model from 16GB or 64 GB.
For example, movies are always streamed now - you don't store your Netflix movies locally. So you don't need a huge data library.
"Hey guys I'm too lazy to write code that's optimized for each platform! I know.. I'll make it crap on ALL platforms!"
You pussies need to start learning to write software for each and every platform. That's always better in the end.
No pain no gain, you pussy.
Right. Like i said, warrant's are only for permission - to read Lavabit's SSL private key - not development.
They didn't make him write new code. They just wanted the keys.
Again, you warrant don't cover development.
You can't get a warrant like that. That's like asking for a warrant to build a bridge.
Warrants are only for permission, not development.
This problem has already been faced by pro video editors. Use their tools to tag and archive videos, and be done with it.
You'll get over it.
lol @ the idea of anyone buying a Nexus.
Sorry Mr. Google Employee, Android phones have a terrible, clunky user interface, and do nothing that iPhones can't do, with the bonus that they also have a better curation of apps in the app store.
The worst part about the Google system is that anyone can write an app for them, and it doesn't go through a professional editing process.
Google doesn't know that people pay big money so editors can filter out the junk for them. Nobody wants to enable a democratic system of app developers, since most developers are untalented and should not be in the business, regardless of what they think of themselves. We pay editors to tell them that these developers suck and should not be doing what they want to do. Maybe they should get into real-estate or something else instead.
we have no idea if the other guy would have been better because idiots voted in another idiot for a second time even though he showed he was an idiot
We actually do know if the other guy would have been better or worse, because the other guy was a Republican.
And Republicans are horrible at economics, which would make him so much worse.
Their entire ideology is flawed, starting with the silly theory that government should be smaller.
Um, no.
Government should be bigger.
Security questions do not work for public figures. Almost none of them will hold up to people whose whole lives are pointlessly documented.
Modern social media can also be used to identify personal information of regular people.
If you look at the anon-in.com logs where they operate, you can see hackers asking each other "What car is this?" with posts of random hot girls cars that they collected from Facebook or wherever. They then use this to break the iCloud security questions for said hot girls and get their nudes.
Also, you don't even need social media accounts to be targeted via social media. Just having friends that posts pics with your bits of identifying info is enough.
Not sure what you're talking about?
20 years ago the internet was largely useless.
Your Email spools were publicly readable by anyone in your campus. Gopher never took off. Web sites didn't really start to get popular until about 1994, and before that you were stuck in alt.tasteless.jokes for any sort of lolz. You couldn't find anything about fashion online. It was only for academic purposes, which are unimportant.
It was only through the commercialization of the Internet through advertising that the Internet actually started to become useful.
You're welcome.
I wouldn't trust anything unregulated... you shouldn't either!
Government is here to protect you from people like you.
Nobody is interested in a free version of Mac OS X.
And, anybody that wanted OS X would have bought Apple hardware anyways.
A cheap mac laptop is about $1000 (never mind the Mac Mini..). If you can't afford that, then you have much bigger problems than trying to run linux.
Perseids are great, but, as with all meteor showers, only looks good without a moon.
Apple's AirPort.
Fixed-function devices are the only way to go - set it and forget it, man.
You don't have to hack them, you don't have to bother them. I've had mine for about 10 years now, to replace my old 1st-gen WRT54g, where I was doing stupid shit like trying to build an HTTP & media server into it, which was a conceptually flawed idea for an wireless-access-point.
You should never make devices more complicated than their physical requirements.
The problem a lot of people have is that they believe a device should do more, instead of less. This is the feature-creep that cause devices to be badly designed and complicated.
Apple has they user-experience model down in their Airport, where they say "Nope. Just use it for an WAP, not as a server." which was the correct decision.
Yet, the science around sales and marketing is far more useful than any physical science.
Sales and marketing is a basic function of all life. Animals broadcast themselves to find mates. You sell yourself when making social connections, as you are doing right now when you comment on these boards.
The knowledge within the article is going to be more rewarding to you than what you'll find in any physics journal.
It is only the most douchey, self-hating libertarian that feels they are above the role of sales and marketing that is fundamental to life. Those guys are complete losers, and completely happy about being losers. You'll find it a lot within outcast subcultures, such as nerds.
Compare this to more socially dominant alpha groups, such as fashionistas, where they actually closely follow news reports on which supermodel received which advertising campaign.
They do that because they understand that advertising and marketing represents a basic purpose of life.
Meanwhile, nerdy libertarians absolutely hate advertising themselves, because they think they're deserve social status without sales and marketing to go along with it.
The real world ramifications of the nerds hatred of sales and marketing including losing funding for the sciences, such as when the Superconducting Supercollider was canceled back in the 90's because scientists just couldn't kiss politician ass. They just simply couldn't do it.
If you nerds had any social IQ whatsoever, (instead of just sitting around being awesome by yourselves, because you're obviously so awesome!), you would be absolutely following articles like these.
They're in the business to find out your interests to sell ads.
Why is that a mysterious thing? This is the job of any media company: to find your weaknesses and manipulate you in order to sell you goods.
I don't understand why people have a problem with that? Sales and marketing is what society has been doing since life was invented. You brush your teeth in the morning to sell yourself to your personal audiences over the people that DON'T brush their teeth in the morning.
Everything that Google does is known and predictable. There is nothing wrong about what they do, and we should encourage them to find out your sales weaknesses in order to extract more money from you via the advertising they sell.
After all, you do the same personal sales and marketing for yourself. Everybody does sales and marketing. It's a fundamental life property, not just for humans, but all species.
We should encourage sales and marketing, over the objection of the libertarian douchebag princesses that are losing the attention-whoring war against professional marketers like Google.
It's always amusing when libertarian princesses cry about losing at attention-whoring.
If you're trying to start a business around apps, you better have a business plan in place, and that would typically include your marketing activities.
If you don't know the basics of even how to email thousands of media sites to get them to publicize and review your app, then you shouldn't be in the business.
The app store isn't broken. Your business plan is.
Yes, it is what it's about, but the narcissistic libertarian princesses that infest this site haven't figured out that other people have power and control over them.
These narcissistic libertarian princesses made the mistake of thinking they are the ultimate power.
Sorry narcissistic libertarian princesses, but you're not in control over your lives - other people have control over you.
Maybe in your next life, you'll learn to gain power in order to maintain some self control?
Meanwhile, we will continue to A/B test the shit out of you and manipulate you to your heart's content.
Are going to go apeshit when you find out people PAY MONEY for things like fashion magazines and Sunday newspapers, BECAUSE of the ads.
Also, you don't have to go to the CNN site if you don't like their ads. No one actually forced you to read CNN. It is their media property, they can do what they wish.
Your only role is to decide if you want to visit their media property or not.
You don't get to decide things you don't pay for. The people that pay for things gets to decide them.
If you ever feel the need to install an ad blocker, you're doing it wrong. The correct response is to NOT visit that site in the first place if you don't like their ads.
Again, please try not to make things convenient for you when you don't pay for it. You need to pay for things that you want your way. More people should be taught that.