So, I take it the US has decided to lock in its technological gains from these last two decades, and will be out of the race for the next 40 years? Because that is what this is saying.
Remind me how ISPs in other countries offer faster speeds, for less? And this is supposed to be an improvement?
Hmm. How about encrypted ballots? You get an encrypted value (upong voting) which, if you and your friends are bothered that there has been some voting irregularities, can be used to decrypt the actual vote. And each one is unique.
And there are a fair number people I know who are way smarter than myself; I suppose you imagined I'd put myself on a pedestal, and your intent was to knock me off it.
"not their interest." -> And I believe that this is the heart of your misunderstanding. You believe, wrongly, that acquiring basic technical literacy is akin to a hobby, like gardening or trainspotting. It is not. As for Mac OS X computers acting as vectors for infecting other machines on a corporate network, there is some evidence to support that claim.
Because sending the episode to Australian broadcasters, via this new fangled thing called the internet, would take longer than an hour, and certainly would not be available for immediate viewing.
See, this is the problem with people applying MicroEcon's market segmentation when they don't understand economics.
Dude, using a computer is like driving a car, or performing CPR, or riding a bicycle, or learning how to swim. You do it once, you get it over with, you move on with life.
Now, it's true that I do not know your family; I do not know what would prevent them from learning what is considered an essential skill to life (I struggle with my own family). However, I might offer that it's because of learned helplessness, that because you are always there, that they've never felt the need to learn.
Perhaps we need to impress upon them that tech support is not our vocation. It's simply a favor, and not one that may be asked of us incessantly.
Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day; Teach a man to fish, you feed him for life; If you offer to teach a man to fish, but he says he much prefers you do the fishing for him, while he does the eating...well, you swiftly realize what kind of relationship you have there.
Yes, sadly, we are this *holds up index finger & thumb, presses the two tightly together* close to finally segmenting Apple users from the rest of the technological universe; and when that is done, nothing of value will be lost.
Now if only we could convince them that they need Apple's latest invention, the iBrain, complete with 6PB of storage space (for all those memories you want to keep), and the iWallet (more of it 'Just Works,' now with automatic withdrawals to any vendor who can guess your pet's nickname), we will never have to hear from them again.
"Most Apple customers don't want to waste their time fixing/hacking computers." -> Yes, they are too busy trying to figure out how those 'Velcro' straps on their shoes work.
And with Apple computers now acting as vectors to infect other machines on corporate networks, we will see how long the VP from Marketing lasts after he's responsible for a $400 million in theft. Probably blame IT too.
Yes. In fact, we here this from the same crowd that used AOL (another walled garden). People who believe that ignorance is a strength.
Seriously, it takes less than a week of learning to know how to do 90% of the normal tasks with a computer. And yet these people are fighting it, for what reasons no one can figure out. Might as well as for a car with one button (no steering wheel, no pedals, no dials).
Which is why we need a large manufacturer who is willing to do OEM / System Builder designs. Sell us the shell for the laptop, the motherboard, and the screen, and we'll do the rest.
Agreed. I've seen trans-coded video these days, with hideously high video encoding rates and the latest video codecs, and I wonder how they manage to screw it up so completely.
It takes only an afternoon to learn how to trans-code a video to a certain bit-rate or size with minimal or no artifacts. How are they doing this, then? I want to know.
It's like getting a Porsche (any Porsche) to do 0-100 in 30 seconds, consistently.
Indeed. So, they should switch models -> if everyone is using the razor-blade model for printers, try selling it upfront. If only as a way to differentiate yourself from your competitors.
Hardly. The PC industry is re-equipping. Everyone has been calling for the death of the PC, the same way they've been calling for the Year of Linux on the Desktop (which we all know will not happen until someone bits the bullet, and designs a wm that outglitzes Mac OS X / Windows), and it hasn't happen.
Indeed. Don't know what they think everyone else is hearing with that statement, but it sounds like "We nerfed the R&D division, we are content to be also-rans perpetually, don't expect any change / possible future gains, and we are going to try and make up for these mistakes by launching a Blitzkrieg sales and marketing campaign, until we run out of inventory / finish coasting on the product designs that former executives somehow managed to figure out. Then we are going to run like hell when everyone realizes that the game plan is *no game plan.*"
In other words, no vision from the people up top.
Pity, as I am enjoying one of their laptops at the moment. Still need to work on updating those drivers, and the coolant system needs a little work (machine freezes if it gets too hot), but then, it's an i7...
Why not get the customers to sign a disclaimer that they would never buy from those companies that advertised on those channels, and as such, the blocking or absence of those ads could not count as any great loss of monetary value?
When you purchase a set of channels, you are not entering into any contract to faithfully sit through every commercial. Some people change the channel, some people get up and wash the dishes, some people don't watch them at all. In essence, the basis for commercials is a liar's contract -> the TV networks, in this case, are selling something (your attention, time, etc.) that they do not own, nor can guarantee. The duplicity of these agreements ranks up there with that of credit default swaps.
Still waiting for Virgin Mobile (runs on / is owned by Sprint) to offer femto-cells (so I can reroute cellphone signals over my FIOS connection).
"Hey Bob, do you think we should offer femto-cells to our customers, so they can place phone calls in areas where our network doesn't provide any coverage?" "Mark, I know what you're thinking, and no." "Why?" "Because, Mark, that's simply not how we do things at Virgin Mobile."
Indeed. MS should have just created a service for mapping a drive from your home machine, and been happy with that. If they wanted to pull a Google, they should have enabled multiple ways of doing that, so Macs and Linux boxen could share files with Windows machines via said service. I'm talking FTP, SFTP, and so forth. People like options, and it would take the techs a weekend to slap on quotas / throw up the services you wanted.
But now other services have wandered in. Dropbox and friends.
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So, I take it the US has decided to lock in its technological gains from these last two decades, and will be out of the race for the next 40 years? Because that is what this is saying.
Remind me how ISPs in other countries offer faster speeds, for less? And this is supposed to be an improvement?
Hmm. How about encrypted ballots? You get an encrypted value (upong voting) which, if you and your friends are bothered that there has been some voting irregularities, can be used to decrypt the actual vote. And each one is unique.
And there are a fair number people I know who are way smarter than myself; I suppose you imagined I'd put myself on a pedestal, and your intent was to knock me off it.
"not their interest." -> And I believe that this is the heart of your misunderstanding. You believe, wrongly, that acquiring basic technical literacy is akin to a hobby, like gardening or trainspotting. It is not. As for Mac OS X computers acting as vectors for infecting other machines on a corporate network, there is some evidence to support that claim.
Because sending the episode to Australian broadcasters, via this new fangled thing called the internet, would take longer than an hour, and certainly would not be available for immediate viewing.
See, this is the problem with people applying MicroEcon's market segmentation when they don't understand economics.
Dude, using a computer is like driving a car, or performing CPR, or riding a bicycle, or learning how to swim. You do it once, you get it over with, you move on with life.
Now, it's true that I do not know your family; I do not know what would prevent them from learning what is considered an essential skill to life (I struggle with my own family). However, I might offer that it's because of learned helplessness, that because you are always there, that they've never felt the need to learn.
Perhaps we need to impress upon them that tech support is not our vocation. It's simply a favor, and not one that may be asked of us incessantly.
Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day; Teach a man to fish, you feed him for life; If you offer to teach a man to fish, but he says he much prefers you do the fishing for him, while he does the eating...well, you swiftly realize what kind of relationship you have there.
Yes, sadly, we are this *holds up index finger & thumb, presses the two tightly together* close to finally segmenting Apple users from the rest of the technological universe; and when that is done, nothing of value will be lost.
Now if only we could convince them that they need Apple's latest invention, the iBrain, complete with 6PB of storage space (for all those memories you want to keep), and the iWallet (more of it 'Just Works,' now with automatic withdrawals to any vendor who can guess your pet's nickname), we will never have to hear from them again.
"Most Apple customers don't want to waste their time fixing/hacking computers." -> Yes, they are too busy trying to figure out how those 'Velcro' straps on their shoes work.
And with Apple computers now acting as vectors to infect other machines on corporate networks, we will see how long the VP from Marketing lasts after he's responsible for a $400 million in theft. Probably blame IT too.
Yes. In fact, we here this from the same crowd that used AOL (another walled garden). People who believe that ignorance is a strength.
Seriously, it takes less than a week of learning to know how to do 90% of the normal tasks with a computer. And yet these people are fighting it, for what reasons no one can figure out. Might as well as for a car with one button (no steering wheel, no pedals, no dials).
And I am seriously asking myself if I am in the right field. $15 billion for a privacy violation? Damn.
And anyone using floating-points for anything serious should be shot in this day and age.
Which is why we need a large manufacturer who is willing to do OEM / System Builder designs. Sell us the shell for the laptop, the motherboard, and the screen, and we'll do the rest.
I want a 160 Hz, 23-inch laptop screen.
Agreed. I've seen trans-coded video these days, with hideously high video encoding rates and the latest video codecs, and I wonder how they manage to screw it up so completely.
It takes only an afternoon to learn how to trans-code a video to a certain bit-rate or size with minimal or no artifacts. How are they doing this, then? I want to know.
It's like getting a Porsche (any Porsche) to do 0-100 in 30 seconds, consistently.
How about we upgrade human minds, instead?
Yeah, I don't know if you get to choose where, exactly, that inexactness comes into play.
For instance, you wouldn't want a vague answer as to the value of the integer 'i' in a for loop.
Indeed. So, they should switch models -> if everyone is using the razor-blade model for printers, try selling it upfront. If only as a way to differentiate yourself from your competitors.
Hardly. The PC industry is re-equipping. Everyone has been calling for the death of the PC, the same way they've been calling for the Year of Linux on the Desktop (which we all know will not happen until someone bits the bullet, and designs a wm that outglitzes Mac OS X / Windows), and it hasn't happen.
Indeed. Don't know what they think everyone else is hearing with that statement, but it sounds like "We nerfed the R&D division, we are content to be also-rans perpetually, don't expect any change / possible future gains, and we are going to try and make up for these mistakes by launching a Blitzkrieg sales and marketing campaign, until we run out of inventory / finish coasting on the product designs that former executives somehow managed to figure out. Then we are going to run like hell when everyone realizes that the game plan is *no game plan.*"
In other words, no vision from the people up top.
Pity, as I am enjoying one of their laptops at the moment. Still need to work on updating those drivers, and the coolant system needs a little work (machine freezes if it gets too hot), but then, it's an i7...
Bring back recess -> Problem solved.
Nonsense. After Hollywood drives itself into the ocean, it will be Will Wheaton who will bring cinema / television back into style.
And the first show he will bring back is a remake of Star Trek TNG, except this time he will be playing the part of the captain. ;-)
Citation needed.
Why not get the customers to sign a disclaimer that they would never buy from those companies that advertised on those channels, and as such, the blocking or absence of those ads could not count as any great loss of monetary value?
When you purchase a set of channels, you are not entering into any contract to faithfully sit through every commercial. Some people change the channel, some people get up and wash the dishes, some people don't watch them at all. In essence, the basis for commercials is a liar's contract -> the TV networks, in this case, are selling something (your attention, time, etc.) that they do not own, nor can guarantee. The duplicity of these agreements ranks up there with that of credit default swaps.
Still waiting for Virgin Mobile (runs on / is owned by Sprint) to offer femto-cells (so I can reroute cellphone signals over my FIOS connection).
"Hey Bob, do you think we should offer femto-cells to our customers, so they can place phone calls in areas where our network doesn't provide any coverage?"
"Mark, I know what you're thinking, and no."
"Why?"
"Because, Mark, that's simply not how we do things at Virgin Mobile."
This is beyond stupi-...I ask you, why do they exist?
How, how, do you go from an Unlimited plan to Limited plans? The price for bandwidth is constantly dropping. And upgrading towers is not THAT costly.
The Chairman / CEO lose some serious money in Vegas recently?
That all the cell-phone companies are getting into this recently, with the costs associated dropping, makes no sense. Collusion?
Lol. Then they would become corrupt, as everyone would bribe them for a patent with a longer protection period.
Indeed. MS should have just created a service for mapping a drive from your home machine, and been happy with that. If they wanted to pull a Google, they should have enabled multiple ways of doing that, so Macs and Linux boxen could share files with Windows machines via said service. I'm talking FTP, SFTP, and so forth. People like options, and it would take the techs a weekend to slap on quotas / throw up the services you wanted.
But now other services have wandered in. Dropbox and friends.