The leaks work so well because Apple is a hot, popular company. They don't, by themselves, make Apple a hot, popular company.
Actually, I think it is a chicken/egg issue. At this point, the kind of leaking that happens is partly responsible for building the chic, hot, popular. People generally want to be in the "in crowd", and Part of the whole "leak" mentality is build momentum before a product is released.
The leaks accomplish this "in-crowd" mentality, especially when it is accompanied by pictures of people waiting in line at the local Apple store for days, for the latest coolness a few months later when said coolness is released.
Apple has MASTERED this like no other company. Nobody waits in line for the lastest "Dell" or "HP". Why? Because they aren't "cool", and all of the products they release are in fact part of the YAD (yet another device).
Other companies get this kind of response once, or twice a decade. Apple achieves this on a regular and consistant basis.
Apple is cool, because people think it is. People think it is cool, because on a regular basis, they release things that people want because Apple is cool.
You seem to be ignorant of how Arab Palestinians are treated in Israel.
You mean, better than a Jew in a Muslim state? Or even Palestinians in other Arab States?
Oh, wait, Jews aren't often allowed into say Saudi Arabia, are they. And Palestinian problem would simply go away if we pushed the Israelis into... the ocean.
The myopic view of people like yourself seems to indicate that the problem is squarely upon the shoulders of Israel, who have tried, repeatedly, for a peace solution, and whenever it has gotten to close, Palestinians back out.
Of course, you're better than them stinking Jews, who hate and kill indiscriminately, and those poor Palistinians who blow up busses, marketplaces, launch rockets into civilian spaces randomly are only doing it because they are treated so badly by the Israelis. If those poor Palestinians only were treated better, they'd stop bombing civilians.
Here is a good view of what Palestinians do with productive land turned over to them by Israel
Apparently the crop growing people need one of these devices to help figure out how to best insulate their house and lower the cost of heat lamps needed for their "hydroponic tomatoes".
We should be helping these industrious entrepreneurs any way we can to help the environment, and lower their operating costs.
The cost of one of these devices would be paid for with energy savings alone, as there would be nearly no heat escaping.
If what you are saying is true, that it uses the same encryption key for all devices, that would have to be by "Design", or worse, negligence. I seriously doubt that the engineers for this thing thought one key to rule them all would be acceptable, which leaves us with "Design".
However, I'm reminded of the old addage, "Any sufficient level of incompetence is indistinguishable from malice".
My view is that sufficient levels of incompetence should be treated exactly like malice. And in this case the company(companies?) should be held responsible on a criminal level. Criminally incompetent, or Fraud.
Anyone want to place a bet on how long before companies are accused of "gaming" the financial reporting system with their press releases?
Inevitable. Most of the Financial world is overstated swings in outlooks, leading to crazy stock price gains and losses.
I have a very simple solution to daily manipulation of financial manipulation. A sliding scale of capital gains taxes, based solely upon how long one owns the financial instrument they are trading.
10 years capital gains tax free.
Or something like that. The problems with our current market are due either directly or indirectly to short term outlooks to income generation, ie next quarters profit/loss statements.
Holding a stock or bond long term is almost insane these days. YET that is the purpose of stocks / bonds, long term financing.
I actually find, Engineers to be the most "well rounded" of disciplines. WHY? Because they have to incorporate all sorts of other disciplines into whatever they design and build.
Additionally, they tend to always be learning. And not just about Engineering, but across a very broad scope.
You can have a conversation with an Engineer about anything from Physics, to Ecology, to religion, to even art and design. And you'll find that most of them are able to have a conversation in many many different fields.
Liberal Studies? Not so much. Any topic that ends up with any sort of REAL math or science is quickly met with fierce dogmatic statements made mostly in ignorance. Want to talk about Global Warming, its causes or even the scandal and you're met with a fierceness that matches any number of religious zealots. And the funniest thing is, they tend to claim to have "open minds".
But hey, that is just my observation in my college town. Liberal Arts = boring people who think they are enlightened, and everyone who doesn't agree with them are stupid.
Several years ago I spent an entire week inside of a ceiling dragging serial cables and feeding them down into walls.
Dude, hate to tell you this, but you're dating yourself pretty badly. It wasn't "few" years ago, it was most likely a dozen or more.
[about to date myself] last time I had to snake a serial cable over any distance was close to 20 years ago. And I didn't use the Ethernet Cable that already existed, was the boss was too cheap to buy a Shiva Net Serial Device.
It isn't just Bush and Harper. It is most government officials. Just because you agree with the current (or do you?) administration (or opposition) doesn't mean they are any better. In fact, I would suggest that as stupid as you think Bush is, many people think the same thing of Reid, Pelosi and Obama.
They are all bozos. I actually think it is a requirement for the job, and reflection of the population.
Actually, HE is an enemy of the state, IMHO. He is not for the people, he is for non-person entities (Corporations), who in the name of robbing from the public, has all but bankrupted our country. Well that and two Nation Building enterprises. How about building OUR nation, and Screw the Afgans and Iraqis.
Time to bring our boys (and girls) home, from everywhere over seas. Close all foreign soil bases. And time to open up OUR resources so we don't have to pay shitloads of money to petty dictators for their oil.
Lets start re-building America. The world hates us, so let them. Let them see what the world is like without the USA backing up their stupid views with our blood and our money.
Not isolationism, reality. Let us deal with others with the USA first in mind. Being the "friendly neighbor" hasn't done us any good lately.
My Foreign Policy Statement if I were President: Leave us alone, and we'll leave you alone. Mess with us, and we'll send everything we have, pillage your natural resources and leave you a mess to clean up. Or you can play nice and we'll play nice with you. Your choice, choose wisely.
THE other option is to have a FULLY REGULATED socialist system, where the rich party members can buy justice and individuals cannot even buy shit, because the state/party has regulations.
I'd rather live in a FREE Capitalist system, where I have the opportunity to succeed than a socialistic system where success is punished, and sloth is rewarded.
Yeah, some people don't want others to succeed because they think it is "unfair", so they take it upon themselves to regulate success.
You can thank Jobs for bringing attention on a massive scale to FreeBSD project, enough to garner the attention of the open source community to send developers to it.
Or do you think all those developers went to FreeBSD and the OpenDarwin project because FreeBSD was cool on its own merits???
If it wasn't for Jobs, FreeBSD (and OpenDarwin) would have been Yet Another UNIX, languishing in the marketplace.
Of course, Apple sucks for pulling the rug out from underneath the developers, but that is another story.
I don't mix the two up. Apple needs to be praised, and chided for OpenDarwin. Praised for Opening the source, and chided for shutting the project down.
It is faster than fastest HDD. And getting faster.
And RAM is not fast enough for Processors either, which is why we have L1, L2, L3 and L4 cache.
We're just increasing the speed of memory in stages. SSD are just another form of RAM, why not call it what it is? Why not plan to use it for what it is?
I would be just happy having a chance for anyone other than the writers having a chance to peak at said bill, before it is rushed to vote by people who don't know what is in the bill any more than I do.
How about a two week public review period before voting on it, so that many eyes have a chance to spot the flaws before irrevocably being instituted as law.
But hey, I don't expect anything different from a bunch of drunk, check kiting, womanizing, failures who can't run anything, but feels entitled to run everyone else's life, while exempting themselves from all the crap they expect everyone else to live by.
I do believe those are carry overs from Magnetic Media. There is no need for it to be that way (I think).
My point, was more or less, that we'll need to RETHINK how we define things. SSD will become more of an extension of the Operating Space we call "RAM". Much like we now have RAM, L2, L3, and L4 cache (and even maybe RAID Cache) are now.
I think, and this is just my opinion at this point, that we'll start to name memory by nearness to the Core(s), and SSD will join that space.
I'm not sure we need block level devices any longer. It will require re-thinking much of how we view things no doubt, but I think it is inevitable at this point.
Slashdot Mirror
LOL Funny.
Actually, I think it is a chicken/egg issue. At this point, the kind of leaking that happens is partly responsible for building the chic, hot, popular. People generally want to be in the "in crowd", and Part of the whole "leak" mentality is build momentum before a product is released.
The leaks accomplish this "in-crowd" mentality, especially when it is accompanied by pictures of people waiting in line at the local Apple store for days, for the latest coolness a few months later when said coolness is released.
Apple has MASTERED this like no other company. Nobody waits in line for the lastest "Dell" or "HP". Why? Because they aren't "cool", and all of the products they release are in fact part of the YAD (yet another device).
Other companies get this kind of response once, or twice a decade. Apple achieves this on a regular and consistant basis.
Apple is cool, because people think it is. People think it is cool, because on a regular basis, they release things that people want because Apple is cool.
It is cool to be Apple.
You mean, better than a Jew in a Muslim state? Or even Palestinians in other Arab States?
Oh, wait, Jews aren't often allowed into say Saudi Arabia, are they. And Palestinian problem would simply go away if we pushed the Israelis into ... the ocean.
The myopic view of people like yourself seems to indicate that the problem is squarely upon the shoulders of Israel, who have tried, repeatedly, for a peace solution, and whenever it has gotten to close, Palestinians back out.
Of course, you're better than them stinking Jews, who hate and kill indiscriminately, and those poor Palistinians who blow up busses, marketplaces, launch rockets into civilian spaces randomly are only doing it because they are treated so badly by the Israelis. If those poor Palestinians only were treated better, they'd stop bombing civilians.
Here is a good view of what Palestinians do with productive land turned over to them by Israel
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/23045_A_Tunnel_in_a_Greenhouse
Apparently the crop growing people need one of these devices to help figure out how to best insulate their house and lower the cost of heat lamps needed for their "hydroponic tomatoes".
We should be helping these industrious entrepreneurs any way we can to help the environment, and lower their operating costs.
The cost of one of these devices would be paid for with energy savings alone, as there would be nearly no heat escaping.
Just my $.02
If what you are saying is true, that it uses the same encryption key for all devices, that would have to be by "Design", or worse, negligence. I seriously doubt that the engineers for this thing thought one key to rule them all would be acceptable, which leaves us with "Design".
However, I'm reminded of the old addage, "Any sufficient level of incompetence is indistinguishable from malice".
My view is that sufficient levels of incompetence should be treated exactly like malice. And in this case the company(companies?) should be held responsible on a criminal level. Criminally incompetent, or Fraud.
Why don't we have a corporate death penalty?
I figure that one will be done by Wes Craven.
Then we'll see a sequal to Spinal Tap in 11D.
Personally, I'm waiting for the sequel to Debbie Does Dallas in .... 44DD
Inevitable. Most of the Financial world is overstated swings in outlooks, leading to crazy stock price gains and losses.
I have a very simple solution to daily manipulation of financial manipulation. A sliding scale of capital gains taxes, based solely upon how long one owns the financial instrument they are trading.
10 years capital gains tax free.
Or something like that. The problems with our current market are due either directly or indirectly to short term outlooks to income generation, ie next quarters profit/loss statements.
Holding a stock or bond long term is almost insane these days. YET that is the purpose of stocks / bonds, long term financing.
That is my solution.
And often the old problems are replaced with a whole new batch, which might even be worse than the first set.
Also, killing people is generally frowned upon around these parts.
Yes, the BOFH is my hero.
Okay, this is the second post today that is making me feel old. Scratch that, VERY old. THANKS for ruining my New Year :-P
Shhhhhh, It will be our little secret.
Dang I Feel old today
First define Terrorist and Terrorist act. Then Name one "American Terrorist".
And for every "Religious" terrorist you find, I'll name a leftwing terrorist of equal or greater threat.
Unibomber, ELF, PETA, Earth First.
Sorry, but your bias is showing. But it isn't terrorism when you agree with the acts now is it?
I'm not saying there aren't any "right wing religious terrorists", far from it. What I'm saying is your view is politically skewed by your biases.
I actually find, Engineers to be the most "well rounded" of disciplines. WHY? Because they have to incorporate all sorts of other disciplines into whatever they design and build.
Additionally, they tend to always be learning. And not just about Engineering, but across a very broad scope.
You can have a conversation with an Engineer about anything from Physics, to Ecology, to religion, to even art and design. And you'll find that most of them are able to have a conversation in many many different fields.
Liberal Studies? Not so much. Any topic that ends up with any sort of REAL math or science is quickly met with fierce dogmatic statements made mostly in ignorance. Want to talk about Global Warming, its causes or even the scandal and you're met with a fierceness that matches any number of religious zealots. And the funniest thing is, they tend to claim to have "open minds".
But hey, that is just my observation in my college town. Liberal Arts = boring people who think they are enlightened, and everyone who doesn't agree with them are stupid.
Dude, hate to tell you this, but you're dating yourself pretty badly. It wasn't "few" years ago, it was most likely a dozen or more.
[about to date myself] last time I had to snake a serial cable over any distance was close to 20 years ago. And I didn't use the Ethernet Cable that already existed, was the boss was too cheap to buy a Shiva Net Serial Device.
Serial, those were the days. 96008N1X
It isn't just Bush and Harper. It is most government officials. Just because you agree with the current (or do you?) administration (or opposition) doesn't mean they are any better. In fact, I would suggest that as stupid as you think Bush is, many people think the same thing of Reid, Pelosi and Obama.
They are all bozos. I actually think it is a requirement for the job, and reflection of the population.
Numbers are editorials in and of themselves. Speaking volumes where opinions would just add noise.
Now if we could only use this approach when dealing with other emotional issues, like every other "crisis" out there. Drugs, Poverty, Healthcare
Yes.
Actually, HE is an enemy of the state, IMHO. He is not for the people, he is for non-person entities (Corporations), who in the name of robbing from the public, has all but bankrupted our country. Well that and two Nation Building enterprises. How about building OUR nation, and Screw the Afgans and Iraqis.
Time to bring our boys (and girls) home, from everywhere over seas. Close all foreign soil bases. And time to open up OUR resources so we don't have to pay shitloads of money to petty dictators for their oil.
Lets start re-building America. The world hates us, so let them. Let them see what the world is like without the USA backing up their stupid views with our blood and our money.
Not isolationism, reality. Let us deal with others with the USA first in mind. Being the "friendly neighbor" hasn't done us any good lately.
My Foreign Policy Statement if I were President: Leave us alone, and we'll leave you alone. Mess with us, and we'll send everything we have, pillage your natural resources and leave you a mess to clean up. Or you can play nice and we'll play nice with you. Your choice, choose wisely.
Yemen would be rubble right now.
THE other option is to have a FULLY REGULATED socialist system, where the rich party members can buy justice and individuals cannot even buy shit, because the state/party has regulations.
I'd rather live in a FREE Capitalist system, where I have the opportunity to succeed than a socialistic system where success is punished, and sloth is rewarded.
Yeah, some people don't want others to succeed because they think it is "unfair", so they take it upon themselves to regulate success.
My view of Bernake, summed up in one word ...
Treason
Or:
You can thank Jobs for bringing attention on a massive scale to FreeBSD project, enough to garner the attention of the open source community to send developers to it.
Or do you think all those developers went to FreeBSD and the OpenDarwin project because FreeBSD was cool on its own merits???
If it wasn't for Jobs, FreeBSD (and OpenDarwin) would have been Yet Another UNIX, languishing in the marketplace.
Of course, Apple sucks for pulling the rug out from underneath the developers, but that is another story.
I don't mix the two up. Apple needs to be praised, and chided for OpenDarwin. Praised for Opening the source, and chided for shutting the project down.
It is faster than fastest HDD. And getting faster.
And RAM is not fast enough for Processors either, which is why we have L1, L2, L3 and L4 cache.
We're just increasing the speed of memory in stages. SSD are just another form of RAM, why not call it what it is? Why not plan to use it for what it is?
I would be just happy having a chance for anyone other than the writers having a chance to peak at said bill, before it is rushed to vote by people who don't know what is in the bill any more than I do.
How about a two week public review period before voting on it, so that many eyes have a chance to spot the flaws before irrevocably being instituted as law.
But hey, I don't expect anything different from a bunch of drunk, check kiting, womanizing, failures who can't run anything, but feels entitled to run everyone else's life, while exempting themselves from all the crap they expect everyone else to live by.
FYI, 64 bit = 16.8 million terabytes or 16 exabytes.
Source .. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/64-bit
How much data do you really have? (and no, your PORN collection doesn't count.
You must be gnu here.
I do believe those are carry overs from Magnetic Media. There is no need for it to be that way (I think).
My point, was more or less, that we'll need to RETHINK how we define things. SSD will become more of an extension of the Operating Space we call "RAM". Much like we now have RAM, L2, L3, and L4 cache (and even maybe RAID Cache) are now.
I think, and this is just my opinion at this point, that we'll start to name memory by nearness to the Core(s), and SSD will join that space.
I'm not sure we need block level devices any longer. It will require re-thinking much of how we view things no doubt, but I think it is inevitable at this point.