I was thinking of drugs as pharmaceuticals. I don't think though that all drugs are victimless.
Meth, cocaine, heroin... incredibly addictive substances that really fuck with people's brains in the short to medium term. Tobacco might be highly addictive and destructive in the long term, but a pack of smokes isn't likely to drive you to break into someone's house and steal their valuables to pay for your habit.
Great, but what's their source? I have a million articles saying candy is a cure for cancer. They're all sourced out of my ass, but I have a lot of them!
If you make a claim, you back it up. I can't seem to find where Justina is losing her goddamned hair.
I think though, this is the result of the bungling OPK and even a bit before him Jorma Ollila, where the company wasn't focused on putting out great products but rather became concerned with infighting and territorial control. The whole place was dysfunctional from the inside out.
The thing about being anal retentive about preserving the data is that you don't want to be the jerk who ruined a priceless warhol artifact by having an incredibly unlucky day.
Yeah, Tim Cook's clearly biased towards Apple, and it could very well be him just blowing smoke up our asses. However, it does offer an alternative explanation to what's going on.
I only linked to MacWorld to show that no, I wasn't pulling that quote out of my bum. Had that been *analysis* or any sort of qualitative commentary, sure.
I personally think that iPads don't sell like iPhones. you're not going to upgrade every year or two years. What's likelier is that you'll hold on to one until it breaks irreparably. The only reason why i got a retina iPad was that the screen on my iPad 2 got shattered. I have no desire to upgrade unless iOS 8 doesn't run on it, and even then...
Cook cited one reason for the decline: He said that last year the company started the second quarter with a backlog of iPad mini orders; fulfilling those goosed the quarter's sales. This year, he said, the company has been able to keep supply and demand in better balance.
Yes. That is the very definition of niche. We're talking about a tiny fraction of a single percent of users who would ever care about the amount of latency in a sound card. Hell, the number who even know what the word latency means is probably in the low single digits.
That's why they cost upwards of 400 bucks a piece for really nice ones.
Still doesn't mean that there isn't a need for the port. Plus it integrates with MDP, so it's not like you're losing a port. You're gaining functionality!
Wish that the USB IF didn't axe using the USB socket for it though.
Which 99.9% of users do not care about at all so long as their device works. Only engineers and geeks like (I presume) you and me give a shit about the overhead. It simply does not matter as long as it works. To use an analogy, sending a file via email entails a vast amount of overhead compared with FTP. Nobody cares. They send the file via email because it works and costs them less (in time mostly). Same here. Almost nobody cares how much overhead USB has. They care whether their data gets from point A to point B when they need it there.
No one cares how much overhead USB has, but I'm pretty sure someone would care why the performance of their USB->HDMI adapter sucks so badly. or their USB video capture, or their USB whatever.
You mean like audio engineers, DJs, musicians, et al?
It's not like anyone wants to do HDMI video capture or connecting stupid fast RAID disks, or connecting blah blah blah.
In the abstract, yes, they do the same thing.
In practice, USB has a crapload of overhead that makes it cheap to produce. Maybe some day we'll come up with a bus that has DMA, no overhead, cheap and easy to use. But now is not that day.
We like to think of doors as simple and easy to understand. That's why this example was picked. Imagine all of the other little things that we take for granted and it all stacks up.
Not to say that storing patient data or doing complex modeling or whatever isn't tough. But, it's an insight in the game development process.
Adding? It's already there. It's PCI express lanes exposed to the world. Belkin sells a doodad that has usb 3.0 and other goodies in a thunderbolt breakout box.
Interoperability between thunderbolt and usb was the plan, actually. Until the USB IF nixed that plan. Apple saved the day with mini display port, which is free because VESA demands it to be so.
USB 3.1 and Thunderbolt are not mutually exclusive.
Thunderbolt is lower level. If I want low latency high quality audio card, I'm not plugging it into USB. If I want a mouse or a thumb drive, i'm not plugging it into Thunderbolt.
can AMD even beat ARM? If they licensed ARM and made an SOC based on their Radeon chips, could they compete in that space? My worry is that the margins in that space are so tight I don't think AMD can even try.
Being queer in Texas also means no gay marriage, which I have in New York, nor do I expect it soon.
Texas also made sodomy illegal until 2003, and that's only because the courts said banning gay sex was illegal.
So I think you misunderstood me.
Austin does have a vibrant gay community, but, while Rick "Secessionist" Perry is in office, gay laws and the treatment of gay people makes it inhospitable to me.
That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying that whatever you do with the data, whether sync it to a PC or smart phone and use an application or web interface to interact with the data, or if it has a display, it's all UI.
But this kind of thinking is what leads things to stagnate.
I'd rather see a bunch of companies put out a bunch of failed things to iterate over ideas. Wearables might be the future, if someone can crack that nut. I don't think having a smart phone UI shrunk down to a watch is ideal. It didn't work when they squeezed desktop UIs to mobile and tablet spaces.
Pebble's work is compelling, if poorly implemented.
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I was thinking of drugs as pharmaceuticals. I don't think though that all drugs are victimless.
Meth, cocaine, heroin... incredibly addictive substances that really fuck with people's brains in the short to medium term. Tobacco might be highly addictive and destructive in the long term, but a pack of smokes isn't likely to drive you to break into someone's house and steal their valuables to pay for your habit.
I was pointing out that I could name a few reasons off the top of my head why authorities control drugs the way they do.
I agree, question authority. But there are stupid questions, and often too, stupid answers.
There are some things that should be pretty goddamned self evident as being good ideas. Child labor, safe food and drugs, etc.
Why do we need prescriptions to buy drugs?
Drug resistance, drug abuse, personal danger taking some drugs with out any sort of warning or medical intervention?
That's not true, necessarily. It's difficult, but doable.
Source.
For instance, you can do muscle, blood and urinary tests.
Great, but what's their source? I have a million articles saying candy is a cure for cancer. They're all sourced out of my ass, but I have a lot of them!
If you make a claim, you back it up. I can't seem to find where Justina is losing her goddamned hair.
It's worse than you think
I think though, this is the result of the bungling OPK and even a bit before him Jorma Ollila, where the company wasn't focused on putting out great products but rather became concerned with infighting and territorial control. The whole place was dysfunctional from the inside out.
There's something inherently so deeply Warhol about doing just that.
I had a failing drive that would eat disks.
The thing about being anal retentive about preserving the data is that you don't want to be the jerk who ruined a priceless warhol artifact by having an incredibly unlucky day.
Yeah, Tim Cook's clearly biased towards Apple, and it could very well be him just blowing smoke up our asses. However, it does offer an alternative explanation to what's going on.
I only linked to MacWorld to show that no, I wasn't pulling that quote out of my bum. Had that been *analysis* or any sort of qualitative commentary, sure.
I personally think that iPads don't sell like iPhones. you're not going to upgrade every year or two years. What's likelier is that you'll hold on to one until it breaks irreparably. The only reason why i got a retina iPad was that the screen on my iPad 2 got shattered. I have no desire to upgrade unless iOS 8 doesn't run on it, and even then...
Cook cited one reason for the decline: He said that last year the company started the second quarter with a backlog of iPad mini orders; fulfilling those goosed the quarter's sales. This year, he said, the company has been able to keep supply and demand in better balance.
http://www.macworld.com/articl...
Overall sales were excellent though.
Yes. That is the very definition of niche. We're talking about a tiny fraction of a single percent of users who would ever care about the amount of latency in a sound card. Hell, the number who even know what the word latency means is probably in the low single digits.
That's why they cost upwards of 400 bucks a piece for really nice ones.
Still doesn't mean that there isn't a need for the port. Plus it integrates with MDP, so it's not like you're losing a port. You're gaining functionality!
Wish that the USB IF didn't axe using the USB socket for it though.
Which 99.9% of users do not care about at all so long as their device works. Only engineers and geeks like (I presume) you and me give a shit about the overhead. It simply does not matter as long as it works. To use an analogy, sending a file via email entails a vast amount of overhead compared with FTP. Nobody cares. They send the file via email because it works and costs them less (in time mostly). Same here. Almost nobody cares how much overhead USB has. They care whether their data gets from point A to point B when they need it there.
No one cares how much overhead USB has, but I'm pretty sure someone would care why the performance of their USB->HDMI adapter sucks so badly. or their USB video capture, or their USB whatever.
You and the 5 other people that care about that.
You mean like audio engineers, DJs, musicians, et al?
It's not like anyone wants to do HDMI video capture or connecting stupid fast RAID disks, or connecting blah blah blah.
In the abstract, yes, they do the same thing.
In practice, USB has a crapload of overhead that makes it cheap to produce. Maybe some day we'll come up with a bus that has DMA, no overhead, cheap and easy to use. But now is not that day.
It's a microcosm of a bigger problem.
We like to think of doors as simple and easy to understand. That's why this example was picked. Imagine all of the other little things that we take for granted and it all stacks up.
Not to say that storing patient data or doing complex modeling or whatever isn't tough. But, it's an insight in the game development process.
Adding? It's already there. It's PCI express lanes exposed to the world. Belkin sells a doodad that has usb 3.0 and other goodies in a thunderbolt breakout box.
Interoperability between thunderbolt and usb was the plan, actually. Until the USB IF nixed that plan. Apple saved the day with mini display port, which is free because VESA demands it to be so.
USB 3.1 and Thunderbolt are not mutually exclusive.
Thunderbolt is lower level. If I want low latency high quality audio card, I'm not plugging it into USB. If I want a mouse or a thumb drive, i'm not plugging it into Thunderbolt.
They're two different use cases.
Addendum I. Monster cables is specifically banned from ever producing said cables for ever
Where do I sign up?!
Also, while you're asking for things, might want to ask for a decent plug shape too.
History of AIM.
can't wait, in ten years, everyone can talk about the fights and struggles to get Facebook, iOS, Android, et al. out the door.
Gotta be some epic stories in there somewhere.
Yes, because gutting a service's revenue stream should always be seen as a sign of goodwill on the part of a developer right?
can AMD even beat ARM? If they licensed ARM and made an SOC based on their Radeon chips, could they compete in that space? My worry is that the margins in that space are so tight I don't think AMD can even try.
Being queer in Texas also means no gay marriage, which I have in New York, nor do I expect it soon.
Texas also made sodomy illegal until 2003, and that's only because the courts said banning gay sex was illegal.
So I think you misunderstood me.
Austin does have a vibrant gay community, but, while Rick "Secessionist" Perry is in office, gay laws and the treatment of gay people makes it inhospitable to me.
That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying that whatever you do with the data, whether sync it to a PC or smart phone and use an application or web interface to interact with the data, or if it has a display, it's all UI.
So UI and UX people need to be cognizant of that.
Blinking LED saying "battery low" or "New notification?" That's UI.
No visible face is still a UI. A UI that's controlled via a website or smartphone is still a UI.
A band with a battery and a crapload of sensors with no way to get the data off of it is useless.
Until they stop voting for crazy pants in state office, I don't want to live in Texas.
Being queer in Austin still means being queer in texas. Something I just don't want to worry about or deal with.
Nevada's becoming way more queer friendly, and has all of the open sky goodness of Texas. Plus hookers and blackjack.
Sounds like the standard Samsung business plan.
But this kind of thinking is what leads things to stagnate.
I'd rather see a bunch of companies put out a bunch of failed things to iterate over ideas. Wearables might be the future, if someone can crack that nut. I don't think having a smart phone UI shrunk down to a watch is ideal. It didn't work when they squeezed desktop UIs to mobile and tablet spaces.
Pebble's work is compelling, if poorly implemented.