I fully get irony. I don't get why people make up words to try to be cool rather than utilize our perfectly good existing language. Also, the rumor is a large part of the core OS team has indeed left Apple due to their increased focus on consumer electronics, which apparently does not sit well with the Bay Area Unix veterans (I can't imagine why). So, while they will not "end" MacOS, it's already becoming a locked-down operating system like you're already used to on your phone, designed to vertically integrate the software and media publishing distribution and retail. Thus they've taken all the years of hard work making Unix and the internet this open and free information exchange and then taking it's stability and using it to enslave the users into consuming copies of bits for real money.
Yeah, I think they overused the breathless adjectives there--far more than to my taste. This isn't news. Apple doesn't control the parts market by any means--they just don't ship that many units.
However, they could have said something like "Apple vertically integrates its part suppliers while trying to predict hardware trends by going all-in on the manufacturing side. This means when they guess right, they have an advantage over the rest of the market because they have already reserved capacity. When they guess wrong, they still have to make the devices because they've already paid for the parts" and I'd be happier. Journalists aren't supposed to add breathless adjectives. Your job is to be as neutral as possible. It seems every Apple story does it's best to give you goosepimples--c'mon guys, we know who you're working for.
And don't forget that Microsoft was selling 500 million copies of something, not 10 million. Pft, the tablet market is small. It's a toy. And maybe useful for delivery drivers. Watch it fade away again. Smart phones, that's where it's at, and no one is going to win that game, it'll just be divided up amongst the players. Microsoft/Nokia and Blackberry for business customers, Apple for "creative" professionals and Android for the cheapskates and hackers.
What I really DON'T like is when journalists make subjective statements like "Apple has succeeded in defining what a tablet should be" out to be some type of fact. Really, that's what a tablet should be? I'd say they've only really succeeded in showing what the MARKETING for a tablet should be (e.g. a big phone, not a small, general purpose computer). I'd argue that they didn't really invent much but just packaged it right. Sure, there's something to be said for that, but to somehow say that it's any different than Kraft Macaroni and Cheese versus the store brand is to totally miss the point. It's classic monopolistic competition. Of course Apple saturated the consumer market with something but the problem is the business market is much larger (in dollars) and they missed that. And they don't care. I'm just not interested in toys. I find that the majority of these Apple kissing "journalists" (who likely get a kickback, and if they don't are idiots;) also are huge fans of board games and fantasy books. Let me know when it can actually do work.
If programming languages are indeed religions, as the gp posted, then Ruby is the equivalent of mindless evangelical Christianity. Everybody's doing it man, you don't have to do anything but use Ruby on Rails and you'll be saved. PFT! But I guess people have to learn on their own. If that works for you, great, but I'm not going to hire you for my team where we typically use 5-6 different languages a day, none of which are anything like Ruby, and which Ruby fails to prepare you for.
Yeah, Ruby is not what I would do either. Ruby is dying fast. While I'm not a huge Python fan, it's not a bad language. If you're on the UX side you should look at learning HTML5 and javascript libraries like jQuery and javascriptMVC. In my opinion the content management side of the business is going to be where we all end up long term, with most "programming" being telling the CMS what to do and what modules to route documents to. So learning some standards like CMIS, OData, GData, and some big document management systems like Alfresco will get you much further than "building web applications". As much as the designers would like to brainwash you that it's all about the UI (and designers are very good communicators so they can), the reality is that UI is a solved problem. At Fortune 1000 companies, you're not going to see much "programming" in the end user stuff. In general, it's middleware. Your career will be much longer if you learn about the data side, and not at a programmer's level but at an analyst level. The number of analysts will be 100 times the number of programmers in 10 years.
The message is a thinly veiled right wing astroturf. You really think anyone would want to flood people out of their houses? I think it's great that the Corps has modified 75 year old flow doctrine to account for new science about wildlife that we depend upon for food, and new science about how the flooding actually helps farmers by creating new fertile areas. Sure, they probably need to upgrade these old systems to account for the new science but to base your entire argument on the fact that the last 75 years of science does not mesh with your "religious" belief that we should scorch the Earth as much as possible before you're all "raptured"... well... I don't know what to say about that.
But I do know that classic Christianity is largely based on the old testament Hebrew text that is very clear about stewardship of the land. The middle east was once a forest and once civilization came to be, the extraction of resources turned the area into a desert. The people of the time, 2000-5000 years ago already saw this and that's why a lot of the text is about maintaining a balance with nature in agriculture. We could all end up with nothing! The modern day extractionist movement (which has a religious support from evangelical Christians) almost seems like it's been formented by the mineral (oil) and timber and organized agriculture industries (and the consumerist retailers, such as Walmart), by their heavy investment in evangenical churches. It's a known fact of history that many corporate mining and logging camps (or even whole towns) would bring in a minister for the residents (in the early 20th century before the trusts were busted up). But the fact that these ministers actually worked for the company and may have been spreading corporatist dogma is not well explored.
So basically, the 10 or 100 people who own the majority of stock in the major oil companies, timber companies, organized agriculture and Walmart have helped to *create a new religion* (and religious army of employees and consumers) based around the fact that what they are doing is right, to defend against the good science that is increasingly telling the world what they are doing is wrong. So they can gain control of more of the economy. And this is a fact. I'm not a left wing nut. This is actually what's happening.
Check out a list ranking U.S. cities by natural disaster risk. I heard Tucson, AZ is one of the least risky places in the US. Thus there are a lot of document storage facilities for things like banks, insurance companies, etc. Oregon is also known as being very safe. But they do have earthquakes and volcanoes in some places.
Well, it's probably only feasible with some type of virtualization. There's been a lot of work done on this in Java, mostly for parallel computing, but it's certainly possible to move a running Java process to another JVM on another computer. With mobile devices we now have the "why" so I think this will happen fairly soon. But it's kindof a hack. There's been work on global address space operating systems, such as Phantom OS, which has a single global address space. If you further abstracted that to be a single space across a cluster (or between a mobile and desktop set of devices) you could just basically move the process to a new address space. Obviously you have to connect it up to the new peripherals and network, so it's not just peaches and cream.
With plan9 and the compute nodes, the idea is that processes are always considered remote, there is no local, so it just makes it transparent by default. And then to connect up the peripherals, they have a file for that as well. So it makes it easy to think about and program, but probably not as efficient as a global address space.
Finally, stuff like IPv6 and service orientated architechures make this stuff more an exercise in networking than memory management. With IPv6 or an even larger network address space (maybe 256 bit), every process (in the world) could have it's own network interface and IP. Then you could just essentially move the whole thing, including the network endpoint, between devices. This could be done with a micro virtualization framework such that each process has a self-contained operating system. Of course, you're getting dangerously back around the circle to what Java does already;)
If plan9 would come to fruition then that's actually easy to implement. Since processes are files you could just zip it's little memory space over to a new compute node while it's running.
No, this is bad because we're talking about the Internet, which really should be governed by a law Higher Than The U.S. Government (which doesn't really exist, yes), not one lower. The issue is that there's no real way to determine if a person is in an area legal or not for the gambling. Furthermore, would it be legal if the computer actually "playing" the game is in a legal state and the "player" is logged in via terminal services? Or is it based on residency? What if a person is a resident of Nevada but is on vacation in Utah? Can they use it? So, what you'd effectively do is create a giant morass of state laws that would basically allow lawyers to extract huge sums of money from legal gambling operations. The lawyers want every thing as messy as possible, because then they profit. That being said, people want to gamble, but there is a reason it's been outlawed most places. The house always wins. It's a scam. The house extracts money from the patrons. Sure, a certain amount of it is then used to employ service employees but largely the money goes straight to the shareholders. But so what? If we want to gamble we should have a right to stupidly give our money away. But if you're a libertarian, you should be far more worried about stuff like the drug war which really costs the country a lot and provides very little benefit. It actually harms us by increasing crime. With gambling, it's not federally regulated, people go to Vegas or the indian casino when they want and lose their money and come home. I think that's good enough right now. Let's get the stupid drug laws repealed first and with those billions we save we can invent a new system for regulating gambling.
Yes, and it should swing back gradually once the capabilties of 64 bit addressing and terabytes of RAM far outstrip advances in networking. Especially in America, where WAN is so expensive and so slow.
Or even better, put the capacitors, throttle, and motor one hardened modular package. Some type of coupling on it to connect to the transmission. Scheduled maintenance will remove the entire package to be serviced in the far East for far less than your mechanic charges, replacing with a fresh pack. Batteries and/or generation equipment would be a separate module. All the modules could have standard sizes. Your car could get efficiency upgrades when new modules come out. The competition between companies would essentially be what it already is, interior and exterior styling. This is the future model of the car business and whoever can do it first and best will win.
Couldn't you just put some sort of microcontroller in with the caps so they only discharge if they are getting a code signal? Certainly you'd need some relays or big ass FETs or SCRs inside but you'd need those anyway for your "throttle", why not just put it in with the power source in one package? Then there's no worries about the emergency responders, car wrecks, etc. because you can just stick it all in a hardened package and just have a few connectors to the rest of the car. Obviously the body panels idea isn't super great if not well thought through..
I always like to replace the word Anonymous in these stories with the phrase "The Internet".
E.g. "I can only hope that The Internet exceeds their expectations. Right now, it looks like they think The Internet is a threat they can crush. I dearly hope that it isn't. My government should be quaking in its boots at the thought of angering a significant minority of those it governs. 'Government by consent of the governed.' has meant far too little for far too long."
Right, and underneath it all there's the same text pipes, showing what's actually happening. *sigh*, Kids today. That being said, the shell is just an interpretation of the machine code, with different memory values mapped to strings, so what's one more map if someone wants it.
Everyone knows it's going to be Apple vs. Everyone soon. I predict a massive dilution in shareholder value coming! They have nothing in their hand and they know it. It's a classic case of luck, and they deserve it to a certain extent. But they are not going to continue getting lucky like iPod+iPhone. I mean, that's like rolling 10 7's in a row.
The most interesting part of this bill however is not who it targets but rather who it does not. The bill would make wireless companies exempt from the requirement to store user data.
Let's see, if I wanted to spy on people without them knowing, would I want them sending signals down twisted pair or broadcasting them in all directions?;)
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Not to mention Apple stores getting mentioned as well............. it's all marketing, nothing to see here.
I fully get irony. I don't get why people make up words to try to be cool rather than utilize our perfectly good existing language. Also, the rumor is a large part of the core OS team has indeed left Apple due to their increased focus on consumer electronics, which apparently does not sit well with the Bay Area Unix veterans (I can't imagine why). So, while they will not "end" MacOS, it's already becoming a locked-down operating system like you're already used to on your phone, designed to vertically integrate the software and media publishing distribution and retail. Thus they've taken all the years of hard work making Unix and the internet this open and free information exchange and then taking it's stability and using it to enslave the users into consuming copies of bits for real money.
Yeah, I think they overused the breathless adjectives there--far more than to my taste. This isn't news. Apple doesn't control the parts market by any means--they just don't ship that many units.
However, they could have said something like "Apple vertically integrates its part suppliers while trying to predict hardware trends by going all-in on the manufacturing side. This means when they guess right, they have an advantage over the rest of the market because they have already reserved capacity. When they guess wrong, they still have to make the devices because they've already paid for the parts" and I'd be happier. Journalists aren't supposed to add breathless adjectives. Your job is to be as neutral as possible. It seems every Apple story does it's best to give you goosepimples--c'mon guys, we know who you're working for.
And don't forget that Microsoft was selling 500 million copies of something, not 10 million. Pft, the tablet market is small. It's a toy. And maybe useful for delivery drivers. Watch it fade away again. Smart phones, that's where it's at, and no one is going to win that game, it'll just be divided up amongst the players. Microsoft/Nokia and Blackberry for business customers, Apple for "creative" professionals and Android for the cheapskates and hackers.
Anyone who uses a made up word like "protip" is not a pro and is not giving you a good tip.
What I really DON'T like is when journalists make subjective statements like "Apple has succeeded in defining what a tablet should be" out to be some type of fact. Really, that's what a tablet should be? I'd say they've only really succeeded in showing what the MARKETING for a tablet should be (e.g. a big phone, not a small, general purpose computer). I'd argue that they didn't really invent much but just packaged it right. Sure, there's something to be said for that, but to somehow say that it's any different than Kraft Macaroni and Cheese versus the store brand is to totally miss the point. It's classic monopolistic competition. Of course Apple saturated the consumer market with something but the problem is the business market is much larger (in dollars) and they missed that. And they don't care. I'm just not interested in toys. I find that the majority of these Apple kissing "journalists" (who likely get a kickback, and if they don't are idiots;) also are huge fans of board games and fantasy books. Let me know when it can actually do work.
If programming languages are indeed religions, as the gp posted, then Ruby is the equivalent of mindless evangelical Christianity. Everybody's doing it man, you don't have to do anything but use Ruby on Rails and you'll be saved. PFT! But I guess people have to learn on their own. If that works for you, great, but I'm not going to hire you for my team where we typically use 5-6 different languages a day, none of which are anything like Ruby, and which Ruby fails to prepare you for.
Yeah, Ruby is not what I would do either. Ruby is dying fast. While I'm not a huge Python fan, it's not a bad language. If you're on the UX side you should look at learning HTML5 and javascript libraries like jQuery and javascriptMVC. In my opinion the content management side of the business is going to be where we all end up long term, with most "programming" being telling the CMS what to do and what modules to route documents to. So learning some standards like CMIS, OData, GData, and some big document management systems like Alfresco will get you much further than "building web applications". As much as the designers would like to brainwash you that it's all about the UI (and designers are very good communicators so they can), the reality is that UI is a solved problem. At Fortune 1000 companies, you're not going to see much "programming" in the end user stuff. In general, it's middleware. Your career will be much longer if you learn about the data side, and not at a programmer's level but at an analyst level. The number of analysts will be 100 times the number of programmers in 10 years.
The message is a thinly veiled right wing astroturf. You really think anyone would want to flood people out of their houses? I think it's great that the Corps has modified 75 year old flow doctrine to account for new science about wildlife that we depend upon for food, and new science about how the flooding actually helps farmers by creating new fertile areas. Sure, they probably need to upgrade these old systems to account for the new science but to base your entire argument on the fact that the last 75 years of science does not mesh with your "religious" belief that we should scorch the Earth as much as possible before you're all "raptured"... well... I don't know what to say about that.
But I do know that classic Christianity is largely based on the old testament Hebrew text that is very clear about stewardship of the land. The middle east was once a forest and once civilization came to be, the extraction of resources turned the area into a desert. The people of the time, 2000-5000 years ago already saw this and that's why a lot of the text is about maintaining a balance with nature in agriculture. We could all end up with nothing! The modern day extractionist movement (which has a religious support from evangelical Christians) almost seems like it's been formented by the mineral (oil) and timber and organized agriculture industries (and the consumerist retailers, such as Walmart), by their heavy investment in evangenical churches. It's a known fact of history that many corporate mining and logging camps (or even whole towns) would bring in a minister for the residents (in the early 20th century before the trusts were busted up). But the fact that these ministers actually worked for the company and may have been spreading corporatist dogma is not well explored.
So basically, the 10 or 100 people who own the majority of stock in the major oil companies, timber companies, organized agriculture and Walmart have helped to *create a new religion* (and religious army of employees and consumers) based around the fact that what they are doing is right, to defend against the good science that is increasingly telling the world what they are doing is wrong. So they can gain control of more of the economy. And this is a fact. I'm not a left wing nut. This is actually what's happening.
Right. I'm sure affected people will be getting a nice tax holiday and credit if the governors declare a state of emergency.
Check out a list ranking U.S. cities by natural disaster risk. I heard Tucson, AZ is one of the least risky places in the US. Thus there are a lot of document storage facilities for things like banks, insurance companies, etc. Oregon is also known as being very safe. But they do have earthquakes and volcanoes in some places.
Well, it's probably only feasible with some type of virtualization. There's been a lot of work done on this in Java, mostly for parallel computing, but it's certainly possible to move a running Java process to another JVM on another computer. With mobile devices we now have the "why" so I think this will happen fairly soon. But it's kindof a hack. There's been work on global address space operating systems, such as Phantom OS, which has a single global address space. If you further abstracted that to be a single space across a cluster (or between a mobile and desktop set of devices) you could just basically move the process to a new address space. Obviously you have to connect it up to the new peripherals and network, so it's not just peaches and cream.
With plan9 and the compute nodes, the idea is that processes are always considered remote, there is no local, so it just makes it transparent by default. And then to connect up the peripherals, they have a file for that as well. So it makes it easy to think about and program, but probably not as efficient as a global address space.
Finally, stuff like IPv6 and service orientated architechures make this stuff more an exercise in networking than memory management. With IPv6 or an even larger network address space (maybe 256 bit), every process (in the world) could have it's own network interface and IP. Then you could just essentially move the whole thing, including the network endpoint, between devices. This could be done with a micro virtualization framework such that each process has a self-contained operating system. Of course, you're getting dangerously back around the circle to what Java does already ;)
If plan9 would come to fruition then that's actually easy to implement. Since processes are files you could just zip it's little memory space over to a new compute node while it's running.
No, this is bad because we're talking about the Internet, which really should be governed by a law Higher Than The U.S. Government (which doesn't really exist, yes), not one lower. The issue is that there's no real way to determine if a person is in an area legal or not for the gambling. Furthermore, would it be legal if the computer actually "playing" the game is in a legal state and the "player" is logged in via terminal services? Or is it based on residency? What if a person is a resident of Nevada but is on vacation in Utah? Can they use it? So, what you'd effectively do is create a giant morass of state laws that would basically allow lawyers to extract huge sums of money from legal gambling operations. The lawyers want every thing as messy as possible, because then they profit. That being said, people want to gamble, but there is a reason it's been outlawed most places. The house always wins. It's a scam. The house extracts money from the patrons. Sure, a certain amount of it is then used to employ service employees but largely the money goes straight to the shareholders. But so what? If we want to gamble we should have a right to stupidly give our money away. But if you're a libertarian, you should be far more worried about stuff like the drug war which really costs the country a lot and provides very little benefit. It actually harms us by increasing crime. With gambling, it's not federally regulated, people go to Vegas or the indian casino when they want and lose their money and come home. I think that's good enough right now. Let's get the stupid drug laws repealed first and with those billions we save we can invent a new system for regulating gambling.
Yes, and it should swing back gradually once the capabilties of 64 bit addressing and terabytes of RAM far outstrip advances in networking. Especially in America, where WAN is so expensive and so slow.
Yeah, it stinks. No one is going to fall for that crap.
You mean profit, of course, not revenue.
Or even better, put the capacitors, throttle, and motor one hardened modular package. Some type of coupling on it to connect to the transmission. Scheduled maintenance will remove the entire package to be serviced in the far East for far less than your mechanic charges, replacing with a fresh pack. Batteries and/or generation equipment would be a separate module. All the modules could have standard sizes. Your car could get efficiency upgrades when new modules come out. The competition between companies would essentially be what it already is, interior and exterior styling. This is the future model of the car business and whoever can do it first and best will win.
Couldn't you just put some sort of microcontroller in with the caps so they only discharge if they are getting a code signal? Certainly you'd need some relays or big ass FETs or SCRs inside but you'd need those anyway for your "throttle", why not just put it in with the power source in one package? Then there's no worries about the emergency responders, car wrecks, etc. because you can just stick it all in a hardened package and just have a few connectors to the rest of the car. Obviously the body panels idea isn't super great if not well thought through..
I always like to replace the word Anonymous in these stories with the phrase "The Internet".
E.g. "I can only hope that The Internet exceeds their expectations. Right now, it looks like they think The Internet is a threat they can crush. I dearly hope that it isn't. My government should be quaking in its boots at the thought of angering a significant minority of those it governs. 'Government by consent of the governed.' has meant far too little for far too long."
There, that sounds better.
That's a pretty negative comment. I forsee a future of peace on earth where we all have what we need thanks to Robots.
Right, and underneath it all there's the same text pipes, showing what's actually happening. *sigh*, Kids today. That being said, the shell is just an interpretation of the machine code, with different memory values mapped to strings, so what's one more map if someone wants it.
Everyone knows it's going to be Apple vs. Everyone soon. I predict a massive dilution in shareholder value coming! They have nothing in their hand and they know it. It's a classic case of luck, and they deserve it to a certain extent. But they are not going to continue getting lucky like iPod+iPhone. I mean, that's like rolling 10 7's in a row.
Dude, we know you're working for Facebook now, no sense posting as a Coward.
Well and this sentence:
The most interesting part of this bill however is not who it targets but rather who it does not. The bill would make wireless companies exempt from the requirement to store user data.
Let's see, if I wanted to spy on people without them knowing, would I want them sending signals down twisted pair or broadcasting them in all directions? ;)