These people have made fools of all who applauded them in the past
No they haven't. People applauded him because he was brilliant onstage giving physics lectures, not because they thought his sex life was exemplary. Nobody is perfect, and I'm sure we most of us have secrets that we wouldn't want anyone to know about. His were just worse. His physics lectures are still as good as they were yesterday.
A government, like any other entity, has a tendency to grow and expand its powers and perimeter. The problem is that the government also makes the laws, which makes it the worst and most dangerous of all entities, because if it doesn't have the absolute powers it's pretty damn close.
Let's say you remove the executable flag on the GZIP binary, but leave me with read access to said binary. You think I won't be able to run GZIP on your box with a guest account and a writable home directory? (let's assume I can't bring in some other binary of my own, I just have access to your system)
The original answer was to a post that claimed to have a filesystem "non-executable", which pretty much means nothing. Also, a socket does not reside on a file system (at least not a regular one). At last, a shell with UID=0 *can* be executed by at least one user. The original claim was for a "non-executable" filesystem.
The claim that was answered to implied that you can store any binary (say, gzip) on a "non-executable" filesystem and that would prevent users from ever running it. Which is moronic.
Hopefully, it won't run out. Prices will raise as we get to more complex-to-extract fossil fuels, leading the way for another type of energy production to emerge.
I have upgraded my 4S to 8.1 and really, while it is a little slower here and there, it's perfectly useable. Why do you say it's at its death door? Mine runs just fine and I plan to use it for another year at least.
Their focus group isn't working professional any longer, its fashion sensible teens and facebookers.
I have plenty of coworkers on MacBook Airs and they look happy about it. Furthermore, all those people work in IT. My wife is a MacBook Air user and she looks happy as well. She's a teacher and does everything on Mac.
You *wish* for Apple to cater only to hipsters because it fits your distorted view of Apple, but really, it's not the case.
Are you high? Your world most certainly doesn't look like mine. My Wife is a MacBook Air user and let me tell you: I've never seen a laptop that good from a hardware standpoint. By a pretty wide margin. Light, strong, extra thin with an entire day battery life. The software she doesn't care all that much about. She basically needs MSOffice and the rest is bonus.
I'm a linux user, my kids Windows users. There is stuff for everyone. And nobody is afraid to leave anything.
While I'm not denying reality - global warming is happening - I'm questioning the models proposed by the scientists. Let them come up with a model that doesn't completely fall apart 10 years later. So far, all models produced before 2000 have proven to *not* forecast the reality of things.
I'm not saying those guys are charlatans, but if they try to convince me that the sea level will rise by 2m in 100 years I'll laugh, and pretty hard at that. Nobody is actually able to predict anything beyond a couple of years, so 100 years is well beyond their best effort so far.
Granted the climate is an extraordinarily complex thing to model and so to predict. What exactly are going to be the consequences of the global warming is yet a thing to discover.
Now, this doesn't mean that we should do nothing about it and wait & see. But shouting all over that in XX years, YY will change by ZZ is in my view discrediting the cause for the simple reason that those claims have always proved to be just plain wrong. So far.
iPhone 6+: 90 lbs. force to deform -> 30% less force iPhone 6: 70 lbs. force to deform -> 46% less force
A reduction in resistance to deformation of nearly one third to one half over previous models and they are supposedly "not as bendy as believed"? WTF? That's a recall class problem in my book.
Is it? So if I design a phone that can withstand 1 ton, then I am not allowed to ship any phone that withstand less than that or it's a recall? Man, come on. If the thing is too weak for regular use, it's case for a recall. If not, it's not a case for a recall. Nothing to do with "is it weaker than the latest model".
Please read my statement once again. I never said Apple was perfect and that nobody ever had to complain. Plus, I was talking about iOS. You know, context and all...
The iPad2 has an A5 1GHz vs the iPhone 4S having an A5 at 800MHz. They both have 512MB of RAM. So no, the iPad2 isn't inferior to the iPhone 4S, it is actually faster.
I have an iPhone 4S since october 2011. I installed iOS8 last week and everything is fine. No slowdowns that I noticed yet. Apparently, it takes 2 more seconds to boot, but I don't really care as I reboot it less than once a week.
Prior to that I had an iPhone 3GS, updated always to the latest versioon. I've never had to complain about Apple's software upgrades, except on one occasion (I don't remember but I think it was iOS4). This was quite horrible in terms of performance and an update came a couple of weeks later and fixed most of it. Another update came two month later and fixed the rest.
YMMV, but all in all, Apple's support for old hardware is miles and light-years ahead of everyone else. Bar none.
He makes a fair point. The data stored at Apple does not generate revenue for Apple, at the contrary of Google - where your emails are scanned for content to target ads at your eyeballs.
Now, jumping from that to "We cannot do it even if we wanted to" is quite a leap forward. I'm not sure I trust that part of the statement.
Are you being obtuse on purpose? Probably... but I'll feed your nice troll one last time, by helping you compare a bag of crap with the latest album from U2, so that you will see that your comparison was overly excessive.
Probably more than 99% of the world population doesn't like a bag of crap. So the chance of pleasing someone by leaving one in their front porch is about less than 1%. Can you guess if the percentage of people that don't like the latest album from U2 is higher of lower than that?
In your view, the fact that people were given for free a piece of music is something they should rightfully complain about? Without us making fun of them?
I don't know about Android, but on iOS, you can be mislead to click on an in-app purchase, but then the very familiar dialog pops out and you KNOW you're about to spend money. No, my kids at least cannot be fooled by that. I've seen them ask me if they could do it, so no, they are not that easily fooled.
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These people have made fools of all who applauded them in the past
No they haven't. People applauded him because he was brilliant onstage giving physics lectures, not because they thought his sex life was exemplary. Nobody is perfect, and I'm sure we most of us have secrets that we wouldn't want anyone to know about. His were just worse. His physics lectures are still as good as they were yesterday.
A government, like any other entity, has a tendency to grow and expand its powers and perimeter. The problem is that the government also makes the laws, which makes it the worst and most dangerous of all entities, because if it doesn't have the absolute powers it's pretty damn close.
Let's say you remove the executable flag on the GZIP binary, but leave me with read access to said binary. You think I won't be able to run GZIP on your box with a guest account and a writable home directory? (let's assume I can't bring in some other binary of my own, I just have access to your system)
The original answer was to a post that claimed to have a filesystem "non-executable", which pretty much means nothing. Also, a socket does not reside on a file system (at least not a regular one). At last, a shell with UID=0 *can* be executed by at least one user. The original claim was for a "non-executable" filesystem.
The claim that was answered to implied that you can store any binary (say, gzip) on a "non-executable" filesystem and that would prevent users from ever running it. Which is moronic.
Context people, context.
Hopefully, it won't run out. Prices will raise as we get to more complex-to-extract fossil fuels, leading the way for another type of energy production to emerge.
I have upgraded my 4S to 8.1 and really, while it is a little slower here and there, it's perfectly useable. Why do you say it's at its death door? Mine runs just fine and I plan to use it for another year at least.
Let me guess, you're not an Apple user?
Their focus group isn't working professional any longer, its fashion sensible teens and facebookers.
I have plenty of coworkers on MacBook Airs and they look happy about it. Furthermore, all those people work in IT. My wife is a MacBook Air user and she looks happy as well. She's a teacher and does everything on Mac.
You *wish* for Apple to cater only to hipsters because it fits your distorted view of Apple, but really, it's not the case.
Are you high? Your world most certainly doesn't look like mine. My Wife is a MacBook Air user and let me tell you: I've never seen a laptop that good from a hardware standpoint. By a pretty wide margin. Light, strong, extra thin with an entire day battery life. The software she doesn't care all that much about. She basically needs MSOffice and the rest is bonus.
I'm a linux user, my kids Windows users. There is stuff for everyone. And nobody is afraid to leave anything.
Nice troll though.
While I'm not denying reality - global warming is happening - I'm questioning the models proposed by the scientists. Let them come up with a model that doesn't completely fall apart 10 years later. So far, all models produced before 2000 have proven to *not* forecast the reality of things.
I'm not saying those guys are charlatans, but if they try to convince me that the sea level will rise by 2m in 100 years I'll laugh, and pretty hard at that. Nobody is actually able to predict anything beyond a couple of years, so 100 years is well beyond their best effort so far.
Granted the climate is an extraordinarily complex thing to model and so to predict. What exactly are going to be the consequences of the global warming is yet a thing to discover.
Now, this doesn't mean that we should do nothing about it and wait & see. But shouting all over that in XX years, YY will change by ZZ is in my view discrediting the cause for the simple reason that those claims have always proved to be just plain wrong. So far.
So you've never heard of Jailbreak. Why bashing on Apple when you don't even know the first thing about it?
Wait, wait, wait...
iPhone 5: 130lbs. force to deform
iPhone 6+: 90 lbs. force to deform -> 30% less force
iPhone 6: 70 lbs. force to deform -> 46% less force
A reduction in resistance to deformation of nearly one third to one half over previous models and they are supposedly "not as bendy as believed"? WTF? That's a recall class problem in my book.
Is it? So if I design a phone that can withstand 1 ton, then I am not allowed to ship any phone that withstand less than that or it's a recall? Man, come on. If the thing is too weak for regular use, it's case for a recall. If not, it's not a case for a recall. Nothing to do with "is it weaker than the latest model".
Please read my statement once again. I never said Apple was perfect and that nobody ever had to complain. Plus, I was talking about iOS. You know, context and all...
The iPad2 has an A5 1GHz vs the iPhone 4S having an A5 at 800MHz. They both have 512MB of RAM. So no, the iPad2 isn't inferior to the iPhone 4S, it is actually faster.
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I have an iPhone 4S since october 2011. I installed iOS8 last week and everything is fine. No slowdowns that I noticed yet. Apparently, it takes 2 more seconds to boot, but I don't really care as I reboot it less than once a week.
Prior to that I had an iPhone 3GS, updated always to the latest versioon. I've never had to complain about Apple's software upgrades, except on one occasion (I don't remember but I think it was iOS4). This was quite horrible in terms of performance and an update came a couple of weeks later and fixed most of it. Another update came two month later and fixed the rest.
YMMV, but all in all, Apple's support for old hardware is miles and light-years ahead of everyone else. Bar none.
Of course the court could just order you to turn over your password.
Isn't there some self-incrimiation thingy that makes this impractical? Like, the court cannot ask you to incriminate yourself.
I'm not American, so I forgot the details.
It's pretty much the idea, which is terrible in my view. But then again, how else are you going to prevent bruteforce?
He makes a fair point. The data stored at Apple does not generate revenue for Apple, at the contrary of Google - where your emails are scanned for content to target ads at your eyeballs.
Now, jumping from that to "We cannot do it even if we wanted to" is quite a leap forward. I'm not sure I trust that part of the statement.
This is a no-contract phone, no strings attached. I subscribed to a contract after having bought the phone.
I just bought €50 phones for my kids. Android 4.4. There are plenty around where I am, so I don't really know what the fuss is all about.
Hey, since you're talking about contract, can you point us to it so we can see if:
- The users expectations is on par with what the user agreed to
- If there is a failure of the accepted usage contract.
Thanks.
Are you being obtuse on purpose? Probably... but I'll feed your nice troll one last time, by helping you compare a bag of crap with the latest album from U2, so that you will see that your comparison was overly excessive.
Probably more than 99% of the world population doesn't like a bag of crap. So the chance of pleasing someone by leaving one in their front porch is about less than 1%. Can you guess if the percentage of people that don't like the latest album from U2 is higher of lower than that?
You have roaming charges and let iTunes download everything automatically? And somehow it is Apple's fault?
In your view, the fact that people were given for free a piece of music is something they should rightfully complain about? Without us making fun of them?
Strange view you have there.
I don't know about Android, but on iOS, you can be mislead to click on an in-app purchase, but then the very familiar dialog pops out and you KNOW you're about to spend money. No, my kids at least cannot be fooled by that. I've seen them ask me if they could do it, so no, they are not that easily fooled.