I was refering to Apple developing Macs, not people developing using their Macs. Sales are completely irrelevant for a not-profit-driven company like Apple. Jobs' goal was to create products he liked, not becoming rich. That was only a side effect. Dell and Lenovo users don't care about innovative design or an outstanding user experience. Apple users do (well, the ones buying them themselves).
I haven't looked it up, but I think the last Mac-related talk by him was the Back to the Mac show, where he talked about how the cool stuff from iOS will be integrated into Mac OS X 10.7. Everything after that and many things before that were done by somebody else.
Yes, I should clarify that Apple as the Mac developer is dead in my eyes, not the whole company. Apple the lifestyle gadget developer is doing great and will be here to haunt Free Software advocates for a looong time.
Dell and Lenovo have a different target market, and thus can act differently and still survive. Yes, Apple must match a different standard.
So all of Apple's updates to their computer lines have been driven by hardware changes. As opposed to Dell or Lenovo who have made massive changes in their product lines every six months. Oh wait, no that doesn't happen. Every manufacturer in the computer industry seems to making minor changes every year yet Apple is dead because of it and not anyone else. Right.
Well, if Apple has become just another hardware manufacturer like Dell or Lenovo, they are indeed dead. What set them apart was the constant innovation and thinking about ways to improve their products by reinventing them.
So did Steve Jobs. That's why there are no focus groups at Apple. No market research.
No: consumers ask their friends. Their friends are Slashdot readers. They know full-well what a phone Market dominated by Microsoft would look like, they know how Microsoft has behaved. Repeatedly. And they are not going to recommend a MS phone to anyone: friends don't screw friends. They all know it's just about protecting the desktop market, and the moment that MS has achieved that objective they'll screw the user.
Then why is the iPhone that successful? Apple is considered worse than Microsoft by many, also on Slashdot. The only thing that kept Apple in check is its minuscule market share, but that advantage is eroding away fast.
Carriers know full well what happens to companies who partner with Microsoft. And so do device manufacturers. I guess some companies (cough, Nokia, cough), like the idea of handing their future to Microsoft, but it turns out that most think that's a bad idea.
The Nokia CEO is a former Microsoft drone. A friend of mine works at Microsoft, and from what he tells me, they get a weekly brain washing there. Microsoft is the only solution, it offers something for every need, everything is great, what Microsoft doesn't offer doesn't exist, etc.
Which might also explain Charlie Kindel's article.
And in this future of yours how do you think people will develop for iOS devices?
I definitely can see Xcode for iOS at some (not that far away) point in the future. You just need an external keyboard, and programming should be fine.
If [Microsoft] had made an app store [...] and had made the interface so that everything wasn't buried 3 dialogs deep ON A PHONE!!!, they would have won the marketplace.
My other reply here already answers that question.
If you need proof, think about the last update of the Mac hardware line that was not driven by the hardware department (like Thunderbolt or faster CPUs/graphics cards). I'd say that it was the first MacBook Air in 2008, about four years ago. Since then, nothing noteworthy has happened in that area.
Have you read their quarterly earnings? While Macs are not making the majority of Apple's revenue or profit anymore, Macs have been making record revenue, sales, and profit especially laptops.
I'm not 100% sure about the current leadership at Apple (= whether the bean counters are taking over), but Steve Jobs didn't care about earnings. He saw the future in iOS only, and ignored the Mac completely, once the iPhone was out and a huge success. The main point of starting the iOS project was that he saw the personal computing era coming to an end soon.
Every iMac is a monitor and computer in one. The rumors may be true in another sense is that the next generation of iMacs will double as TVs but Apple isn't making stand alone TVs. Who knows?
Well, the Mac platform is pretty much dead, Apple bets everything on iOS at the moment. I don't think whatever they want to use as a TV platform will be anything Mac-based. AppleTV already runs iOS btw.
Of course, it might be an iMac-like system running iOS...
The tea party is becoming a third one. OWS could be the fourth.
The tea party knows very well that it wouldn't stand a chance without the republican frame that carries them. OWS is leader-less and thus does not fit into the traditional party system, which is strictly hierarchical. All they can do is revolutionize the political system -- violently or non-violently -- or die (many members of it quite literally).
Not quite. Almost all of the military spending goes to producing the same products over and over again, a process contributing nothing to tech knowledge (and thus, science). As George Orwell explained in 1984, totalitarian states like big military, since it grabs a large portion of the state wealth while not improving the society's wellbeing (bombs cost money to produce, but all they can do is blow up). People that struggle to stay alive are obedient people.
Not even mentioning that there are no discernible differences between the policies of the only two parties: both are pro-big business, pro-military and pro-police state.
What do they want to do with them? They had a 30" Cinema Display once, but that was replaced by a 27" display. Looking at the market, it seems that the 30" displays aren't accepted, maybe they're too large for most desks. Why should there be a market for 32" or 37"?
If Android gets too popular, Apple only needs to do a few things if Android tables get too popular.
1. Open the app store doors a bit more. (This isn't technical they just need to change their rules to allow more apps in the do things they are currently rejecting)
2. Allow Android comparability. Android Apps are Java Based. Apple can put in a java interpreter and run Android apps. (So to the buyer... This things runs Android and iOS apps while this only runs Android... I guess I will pick the first one)
3. Marketing bombardment. Apple has the money, they can market the heck out of their products.
While I'm pretty sure 1 & 3 are very likely, no way in hell will they do 2. Mac OS X hasn't seen WINE-style Windows compatibility (except through third parties), despite the dominance of Windows. Jobs primary objective was not to gain market dominance or become filthy rich, but to produce great products (per his own definition, which is not shared by many technically-minded people), the other two were just a side effect. Even though he's gone now, he made sure the top positions at Apple (especially Jonathan Ive) are filled with people who share this attitude.
He attempted to delete the information by zero-filling the disk. The same password issue stems from being the default on the operating system (Mac OS X). I guess the forensics contractor reversed the hash from the login information and retrieved the password that way. This requires some serious computing power for the password used.
Maybe it's the usual journalist dumbing-down, but the forensics info doesn't add up:
Then, on or around Jan. 31, someone attempted to erase the drive by doing what’s called a “zerofill” — a process of overwriting data with zeroes. Whoever initiated the process chose an option for overwriting the data 35 times — a high-security option that results in thorough deletion — but that operation was canceled. Later, the operation was initiated again, but the person chose the option to overwrite the information only once — a much less secure and less thorough option.
So it's "only" zero-filled.
Mark Johnson, a digital forensics contractor for ManTech International who works for the Army’s Computer Crime Investigative Unit, examined an image of Manning’s personal MacBook Pro...
How is that contractor able to decode the original data from a zero-filled disk from a mere image?
True, but at what cost? I was talking about workstations, not servers. You can get an external drive for backups for about $80-$150, good luck with RAID6 in that price range.
The failure rate for hard drives has been quite well known for some time now: it is precisely 100% +/- 0.0%.
Truly, it is not a matter of IF a given hard drive will fail, it is a matter of WHEN.
That means that having a mirrored pair as a minimum -- even on a home machine -- is not an optional frill, it is a necessity.
Uh, RAID is a very bad idea, unless you need 100% uptime (like on a server with hot swap). Broken drives can introduce data errors into the stream, which are eventually duplicated onto the other drive(s) as well. When the file system breaks due to this or some software bug, the file system on all disks is broken. For home use, the much better option is to use the second drive for frequent backups, ideally automated (so you can't forget to do it). The plus side is that the backup drive can be an external drive connected via USB/FireWire/eSATA/Thunderbolt, further decreasing the chance of blowing up both disks at once.
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I was refering to Apple developing Macs, not people developing using their Macs. Sales are completely irrelevant for a not-profit-driven company like Apple. Jobs' goal was to create products he liked, not becoming rich. That was only a side effect. Dell and Lenovo users don't care about innovative design or an outstanding user experience. Apple users do (well, the ones buying them themselves).
I haven't looked it up, but I think the last Mac-related talk by him was the Back to the Mac show, where he talked about how the cool stuff from iOS will be integrated into Mac OS X 10.7. Everything after that and many things before that were done by somebody else.
Yes, I should clarify that Apple as the Mac developer is dead in my eyes, not the whole company. Apple the lifestyle gadget developer is doing great and will be here to haunt Free Software advocates for a looong time.
Dell and Lenovo have a different target market, and thus can act differently and still survive. Yes, Apple must match a different standard.
So all of Apple's updates to their computer lines have been driven by hardware changes. As opposed to Dell or Lenovo who have made massive changes in their product lines every six months. Oh wait, no that doesn't happen. Every manufacturer in the computer industry seems to making minor changes every year yet Apple is dead because of it and not anyone else. Right.
Well, if Apple has become just another hardware manufacturer like Dell or Lenovo, they are indeed dead. What set them apart was the constant innovation and thinking about ways to improve their products by reinventing them.
Firstly, he thinks that consumers are stupid
So did Steve Jobs. That's why there are no focus groups at Apple. No market research.
No: consumers ask their friends. Their friends are Slashdot readers. They know full-well what a phone Market dominated by Microsoft would look like, they know how Microsoft has behaved. Repeatedly. And they are not going to recommend a MS phone to anyone: friends don't screw friends. They all know it's just about protecting the desktop market, and the moment that MS has achieved that objective they'll screw the user.
Then why is the iPhone that successful? Apple is considered worse than Microsoft by many, also on Slashdot. The only thing that kept Apple in check is its minuscule market share, but that advantage is eroding away fast.
Carriers know full well what happens to companies who partner with Microsoft. And so do device manufacturers. I guess some companies (cough, Nokia, cough), like the idea of handing their future to Microsoft, but it turns out that most think that's a bad idea.
The Nokia CEO is a former Microsoft drone. A friend of mine works at Microsoft, and from what he tells me, they get a weekly brain washing there. Microsoft is the only solution, it offers something for every need, everything is great, what Microsoft doesn't offer doesn't exist, etc.
Which might also explain Charlie Kindel's article.
And in this future of yours how do you think people will develop for iOS devices?
I definitely can see Xcode for iOS at some (not that far away) point in the future. You just need an external keyboard, and programming should be fine.
If [Microsoft] had made an app store [...] and had made the interface so that everything wasn't buried 3 dialogs deep ON A PHONE!!!, they would have won the marketplace.
But then they wouldn't be Microsoft :)
My other reply here already answers that question.
If you need proof, think about the last update of the Mac hardware line that was not driven by the hardware department (like Thunderbolt or faster CPUs/graphics cards). I'd say that it was the first MacBook Air in 2008, about four years ago. Since then, nothing noteworthy has happened in that area.
Have you read their quarterly earnings? While Macs are not making the majority of Apple's revenue or profit anymore, Macs have been making record revenue, sales, and profit especially laptops.
I'm not 100% sure about the current leadership at Apple (= whether the bean counters are taking over), but Steve Jobs didn't care about earnings. He saw the future in iOS only, and ignored the Mac completely, once the iPhone was out and a huge success. The main point of starting the iOS project was that he saw the personal computing era coming to an end soon.
OWS could fit in the democratic party.
No way the companies would allow that to happen. OWS stands for everything they (and thus, the two existing parties) are trying to prevent.
By staying away from ballot boxes, they will have no non-violent way of getting their ideas go through.
I agree.
Every iMac is a monitor and computer in one. The rumors may be true in another sense is that the next generation of iMacs will double as TVs but Apple isn't making stand alone TVs. Who knows?
Well, the Mac platform is pretty much dead, Apple bets everything on iOS at the moment. I don't think whatever they want to use as a TV platform will be anything Mac-based. AppleTV already runs iOS btw.
Of course, it might be an iMac-like system running iOS...
The tea party is becoming a third one. OWS could be the fourth.
The tea party knows very well that it wouldn't stand a chance without the republican frame that carries them. OWS is leader-less and thus does not fit into the traditional party system, which is strictly hierarchical. All they can do is revolutionize the political system -- violently or non-violently -- or die (many members of it quite literally).
Not quite. Almost all of the military spending goes to producing the same products over and over again, a process contributing nothing to tech knowledge (and thus, science). As George Orwell explained in 1984, totalitarian states like big military, since it grabs a large portion of the state wealth while not improving the society's wellbeing (bombs cost money to produce, but all they can do is blow up). People that struggle to stay alive are obedient people.
Not even mentioning that there are no discernible differences between the policies of the only two parties: both are pro-big business, pro-military and pro-police state.
What do they want to do with them? They had a 30" Cinema Display once, but that was replaced by a 27" display. Looking at the market, it seems that the 30" displays aren't accepted, maybe they're too large for most desks. Why should there be a market for 32" or 37"?
What happens when you have such muscle aches that you can't turn a key?
(Yes, this has happened to me after a day of carrying moving boxes.)
Maybe they want them to be available for calls about "house on fire"-type of emergencies.
If Android gets too popular, Apple only needs to do a few things if Android tables get too popular.
While I'm pretty sure 1 & 3 are very likely, no way in hell will they do 2. Mac OS X hasn't seen WINE-style Windows compatibility (except through third parties), despite the dominance of Windows. Jobs primary objective was not to gain market dominance or become filthy rich, but to produce great products (per his own definition, which is not shared by many technically-minded people), the other two were just a side effect. Even though he's gone now, he made sure the top positions at Apple (especially Jonathan Ive) are filled with people who share this attitude.
Get laptop, insert fuel cell. I'm sure that took billions in R&D.
Then why isn't this used in every notebook on the market already, when it would increase the charge from ~5h to one week?
Zero-filling the disk should write over the whole disk, not just parts of it. Why is there unallocated space with data?
He attempted to delete the information by zero-filling the disk. The same password issue stems from being the default on the operating system (Mac OS X). I guess the forensics contractor reversed the hash from the login information and retrieved the password that way. This requires some serious computing power for the password used.
I guess 11 digits can be considered mightily unsafe now. Obligatory xkcd reference.
Maybe it's the usual journalist dumbing-down, but the forensics info doesn't add up:
Then, on or around Jan. 31, someone attempted to erase the drive by doing what’s called a “zerofill” — a process of overwriting data with zeroes. Whoever initiated the process chose an option for overwriting the data 35 times — a high-security option that results in thorough deletion — but that operation was canceled. Later, the operation was initiated again, but the person chose the option to overwrite the information only once — a much less secure and less thorough option.
So it's "only" zero-filled.
Mark Johnson, a digital forensics contractor for ManTech International who works for the Army’s Computer Crime Investigative Unit, examined an image of Manning’s personal MacBook Pro...
How is that contractor able to decode the original data from a zero-filled disk from a mere image?
True, but at what cost? I was talking about workstations, not servers. You can get an external drive for backups for about $80-$150, good luck with RAID6 in that price range.
The failure rate for hard drives has been quite well known for some time now: it is precisely 100% +/- 0.0%.
Truly, it is not a matter of IF a given hard drive will fail, it is a matter of WHEN.
That means that having a mirrored pair as a minimum -- even on a home machine -- is not an optional frill, it is a necessity.
Uh, RAID is a very bad idea, unless you need 100% uptime (like on a server with hot swap). Broken drives can introduce data errors into the stream, which are eventually duplicated onto the other drive(s) as well. When the file system breaks due to this or some software bug, the file system on all disks is broken. For home use, the much better option is to use the second drive for frequent backups, ideally automated (so you can't forget to do it). The plus side is that the backup drive can be an external drive connected via USB/FireWire/eSATA/Thunderbolt, further decreasing the chance of blowing up both disks at once.
EA is the opposite of indie, pretty much the monster in the industry. Lookup spouses vs EA lawsuits.
That spouse letter is old. Nowadays, the other publishers have seen EA and realized what's possible to get away with, and are even worse than them.