That Apple has to be aware that their action would have that impact and that they didn't tell folks (e.g., they hid it) negates that their intention may have been 100% legitimate.
Their intention can be 100% legitimate but they were aware of the issue and how people would react e.g., this topic has been the popular press for years..
Air bags have reactive chemicals in them to help them deploy.. Govt. & manufacturers are not intentionally putting harmful reactive chemicals into cars - their intent is to rapidly deploy the air bag, and to do so safely. The intent is 100% legit but they know that harm may be caused.
They are not intentionally trying to hurt, harm or kill children but they aware that air bags designed for adults could harm small children. *its not their intent* but it COULD happen.. so that's WHY among other steps they put in warning labels.
Most engineering has trade-off including reliability, price and safety -- Apple may well have made the best choice - but since they would also know that the phones would perform worse and worse -- that they didn't discuss or recommend replacing the battery implicitly indicates that they knew and where happy about folks buying a new phone when there was an option far cheaper available.
It totally depends on the plan.. and the terms, etc. I leased an LG G4 from Sprint for 26 months. A 24 month lease plus two extra months that I kept on making the payment..
My total cost was $100.72 including the fair market buyout of $22.72
I got a $15 credit every month I payed on the lease including the two months I payed after the lease expired.
I recently tried to lease the Essential phone from Sprint. The terms were totally different: - no fair market buyout - A smaller credit only good for 18 months
THe bottom line if i kept the Essential phone for 24 months it would end up costing me $465 far cheaper than the selling price of $699 but more than 4 x more expensive than my LG G4.
PS If you keep your phone in a very strong case and at the end of the lease you can turn-in your phone with zero damage -- you don't have to worry about the buyout. I don't like smart phone cases and so I do worry that I can't actually turn in the phone "and walk away."
You an do a power wash of the chromebook... before and/or after.. but we should assume that State actors have access to items stored in the Cloud... and accessing them while over seas (or at least out of the country) prob. makes it easier for them to access the data.
I think they may be getting the same lesson the Music industry learned.
The product is expensive, the work to make it more expensive than it has to be, and many consumers would like to pick and choose which teams and sports they watch rather than buy a large mixed bundle of sports.
The music industry (for example) worked to make their product expensive -- you had to buy multiple songs.. not just the one you wanted.
The major ESPN channels are bundled into the almost all cable TV packages -- making them (those packages) very expensive -- for those who don't watch sports; this is also hiding the real cost(s) of sports from those who do enjoy watching them.
As more and more folks cut the cord, ESPN is going to lose out nearly every time.. and I'm sure that is a large % of the reported drop.
Even YouTube which is a "live" TV bundle coming to market, is including ESPN. Often companies that have sports properties like ABC, "require" cable TV companies into include their sports channels in most bundles -- giving them high subscriber numbers and gaining revenue from nearly every cable TV home.
The MSO - Multi System Operators -- have insisted that this bundling makes it cable TV cheaper for everyone -- it can't possibly help folks who don't watch sports.
While I know some sports fans who like and love nearly every type and kind of sport, not every fan loves every sport.
Since today any of the sport leagues can easily offer direct to consumer programming -- networks that offer sports programming, are really only provided 1 limited function -- ad sales. Having multiple companies bid for sports programming has certainly helped drive up the price over the last 30+ years.
I would think however, a direct to consumer model, that perhaps includes little or no advertising as well as other offerings that are contain large amounts of advertising... would in the long run get the most value for the teams and owners.
TV production from remote locations in teh 1950's was fairly hard. It's not super simple today but it is far easier and teams and leagues would be better off producing their own content and then selling the programming direct to consumers.
By GDP is a reasonable standard.. although in terms of labeling values, I would say he is the President of the Country with the Worlds Largest Economy.. vs. Democracy. But GDP is a fine standard.
A) which is why i didn't buy the G5 (I have a G4) I didn't think it would last more than 1 or 2 market cycles
B) modular design is a long term commitment by all parties
C) which is why I believe that as long as folks make Smart TV they are doing consumers a huge disfavor... People can keep "screens" for 5, 10, 15+ years or more.. and the "smart" features will hit "the wall" before then. So I'm sure the TV companies will be happy if we replace or screens sooner, than later.
BUT that is why consumers must demand modules for our TVs. Of course we can always connect out-board CPUs via HDMI ports, but every component should modular. We should be able to replace CPUs, add new tuners, add new ports, etc.
Really looks great.. wish there was a ChromeOS* vers. but Ubuntu would work just fine.
I run *Ubuntu under CROUTON when using ChromeOS... which for me is the best of all worlds.. a secure, simple OS for 90% of what I need, and Ubuntu for nearly everything else.
First with Crouton you can work with many Unix distributions, but if you wipe / install Linux clearly you can work with any one you want.
Second, if you really want Linux and wish to use it 50, 70 or 80 or 99% of the time, you should prob. install Linux.
I've used Ubuntu since 2009 as primary desktop until 2015 (July) when I purchased a Chromebook Pixel -- I use that device as my primary desktop, and use Crouton running Ubuntu when there is something I can't do in Chrome OS like run Audacity, record in Skype, etc.
14.04 LTS Unity with touch works very well.
I'm currently using Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS but not w/ Unity - it doesn't work as well but is reliable.
Now that I have access to Android Apps I now have fewer reasons to run Ubuntu.
ChromeOS + Linux (via Crouton) + Android Apps = is really an amazingly powerful system. ChromeOS is fairly secure, Android Apps offer a lot of flexibility and Ubuntu/Linus can do mostly everything else.
It says that Twitter announced "Tuesday that it had suspended Geofeedia's commercial access to Twitter data."
Does that mean it still has non-commercial (e.g., NOT for resale)? Just saying they seem like the sort who might use the non-commercial feed for commercial purposes..
Based on the work I did in 1985 at Bell Labs as part of my assignment to create documentation requirements for the Acorn Network Control System -- Good documentation should have at least 4 parts. Each particular user persona would use the 4 parts in different ways. Part of the documentation would appeal to potential customers, novice users, intermediate users, users with limited but deep domain expertise, users who previously had fluency with the product but who lost that fluency due to lack of use.
#1 The first in additional to typical table of contents found in each manual there should be a documentation MAP, that combines all of the various documentation and training for a specific product into a visual map; typically this is done with a task orientation. Much like a web page site map, this will allow a potential readers with a wide range of user cases to find the right document or the correct chapter, section, and should include online training, videos, Etc.
#2 A quick reference guide which I think most users would be familiar with. This instruction is typically very linear, and walks at a high level users through the major steps for the most typical cases.
#3 A "cook book" best for coding applications but has broad application to most technologies. Each section of this manual details how to perform a particular task, in it's entirety; e.g., a recipe. Recipes should cover a range of users types (novice, intermediate, expert, or with specific previous domain expertise). A non-coding example would be: Recipe for setting up a mix minus recording using the Behringer Xenyx 1202fx mixer; the ingredients would include all cables, software, Etc. used in the recipe.
#4 A complete and full reference guide. Again typically found in manuals but often (today) the ONLY section of the manual. Each sub-section is a full and complete deep dive on each part, instruction, or option. This is typically used by experts. It can be used by those who are using the cookbook to look for recipe options and substitutions. It can also be used by potential customers to see if a particular use case is supported.
I prefer Google Docs to Word.. for most tasks.. it is "lighter" weight but I find that easier to use. If find the UI similar enough to pop back and forth as needed.
I would recommend Google docs, assuming there isn't any crazy formating involved.
#1) It is a single document so you don't have to worry about the naming of it.. #2) Google Docs has a built in ver. control, in that you can roll backwards to early version of the document, and you can see who is editing, changing etc. (assuming everyone has their own password).
It's low tech, easy to use, and the only education is to keep on using the same file name.
Josh's article last year was wrong on a few levels. This article is wrong as well. What's important to understand is the price you pay depends upon "how many channels you buy, how frequently you buy, and when & where you watch, etc."
1st., you are overpaying why you buy local channels; they are free "over the air" but they are allowed to charge when a cable company transmits via their cable -- today a digital antenna works well for most and certainly anyone who is price sensitive.
2nd., we are just left with the cable TV shows and "Premium channels" -- and in this context Josh's article is right IF your family is large and/or you consume a lot of programs of different types a bundle that includes everything can be cost effective.
3rd., if we remove the cost of local TV and assume you just want to watch specific channels than Josh's calculations are certainly wrong. The question becomes when you want to watch a "new" channel or a show on an ad hoc basis -- should you subscribe to an entire bundle to get one network, or a whole network to get 1 or 2 shows?
4th., another reason Josh's calculations are clearly wrong is the time and place value of information; do you need to watch a show as a "first run" or can you wait until later and watching it on a web site like Netflix or Amazon Prime?
5th., If you limit your intake to specific networks or shows (through Google Play, Apple iTunes, NetFlix) you costs can be much lower ala carte.
You are saying that NK has a lack of powerful computer skills.. do you actually have a factual basis for that? They send many students outside for training and education, and there are reports that they do indeed have a cyber war unit. They used to kidnap Japanese people for information, surely they could get their hands on some Pcs running linux. http://www.zdnet.com/article/n...
Kester1964, you are being silly.. and I do like humor including your humor..
I am sure you think I'm being flippant with my "terroristic remark" but given that IANAL, my reading of the law says to me, that it is clear that FTDI is being terroristic. That may not have been the intent of the law.. but I believe it applies.
Let's start with 18 U.S. Code 2332b [cornell.edu] - (B) Acts of terrorism transcending national boundaries which states, "creates a substantial risk of serious bodily injury to any other person by destroying or damaging any structure, conveyance, or other real or personal property within the United States or by attempting or conspiring to destroy or damage any structure, conveyance, or other real or personal property within the United States;"
And the penalty --> "(E) for destroying or damaging any structure, conveyance, or other real or personal property, by imprisonment for not more than 25 years;"
I appreciate the very thoughtful response.. I understand (and agree) conceptually that the user is buying a counterfeit good(s); but in practical terms, in real terms the users isn't. They are buying a computer, or board, etc.; if they checked to see if it was legit (the chips within) it would appear to be legit (yes perhaps the definition of counterfeit).
You are implying that this only happens to people with "bad/cheap" brands.. ZD is reporting, "The chip is extremely common on a wide variety of devices and there is no way of knowing at this time which devices have cloned chips -- and the tainted supply chain could hit anyone."
I'm clearly saying that FTDI's wanton destruction of private and government property is terroristic in nature and that it will effect major users, home users, etc. Unlike many "debates" on the Internet, we will soon know which of us is right (or wrong) or in which ways we are right and wrong.. as I suspect the reporting on this will only continue to increase. We also also see if FTDI un-does their "silent" upgrade.
I'm also saying there isn't any valid legal reason for them to have taken this course of action; if they are taking action it should be with the makers of the devices; their upgrade could have been informational (for example). "Your computer contains counterfeit parts... Please contact us..." It's also not like this was a needed upgrade that by happenstance caused this problem.. it was deliberate, willful and served no urgent nor addressed any exigent circumstances.
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Does the study control for Baby Boomers who were retiring on schedule or early?
That Apple has to be aware that their action would have that impact and that they didn't tell folks (e.g., they hid it) negates that their intention may have been 100% legitimate.
Their intention can be 100% legitimate but they were aware of the issue and how people would react e.g., this topic has been the popular press for years..
Air bags have reactive chemicals in them to help them deploy.. Govt. & manufacturers are not intentionally putting harmful reactive chemicals into cars - their intent is to rapidly deploy the air bag, and to do so safely. The intent is 100% legit but they know that harm may be caused.
They are not intentionally trying to hurt, harm or kill children but they aware that air bags designed for adults could harm small children. *its not their intent* but it COULD happen.. so that's WHY among other steps they put in warning labels.
Most engineering has trade-off including reliability, price and safety -- Apple may well have made the best choice - but since they would also know that the phones would perform worse and worse -- that they didn't discuss or recommend replacing the battery implicitly indicates that they knew and where happy about folks buying a new phone when there was an option far cheaper available.
180 GB is nice.. as caps go -- but it's still cap, that can be lowered, or additional fees can be added.
It's true but this has been well known in the security industry for years, if not decades..
It totally depends on the plan.. and the terms, etc.
I leased an LG G4 from Sprint for 26 months. A 24 month lease plus two extra months that I kept on making the payment..
My total cost was $100.72 including the fair market buyout of $22.72
I got a $15 credit every month I payed on the lease including the two months I payed after the lease expired.
I recently tried to lease the Essential phone from Sprint. The terms were totally different:
- no fair market buyout
- A smaller credit only good for 18 months
THe bottom line if i kept the Essential phone for 24 months it would end up costing me $465 far cheaper than the selling price of $699 but more than 4 x more expensive than my LG G4.
Here is my blog post about my LG G4 lease: http://www.talkingabouteveryth...
PS
If you keep your phone in a very strong case and at the end of the lease you can turn-in your phone with zero damage -- you don't have to worry about the buyout. I don't like smart phone cases and so I do worry that I can't actually turn in the phone "and walk away."
You an do a power wash of the chromebook... before and/or after.. but we should assume that State actors have access to items stored in the Cloud... and accessing them while over seas (or at least out of the country) prob. makes it easier for them to access the data.
I think they may be getting the same lesson the Music industry learned.
The product is expensive, the work to make it more expensive than it has to be, and many consumers would like to pick and choose which teams and sports they watch rather than buy a large mixed bundle of sports.
The music industry (for example) worked to make their product expensive -- you had to buy multiple songs.. not just the one you wanted.
The major ESPN channels are bundled into the almost all cable TV packages -- making them (those packages) very expensive -- for those who don't watch sports; this is also hiding the real cost(s) of sports from those who do enjoy watching them.
As more and more folks cut the cord, ESPN is going to lose out nearly every time.. and I'm sure that is a large % of the reported drop.
Even YouTube which is a "live" TV bundle coming to market, is including ESPN. Often companies that have sports properties like ABC, "require" cable TV companies into include their sports channels in most bundles -- giving them high subscriber numbers and gaining revenue from nearly every cable TV home.
The MSO - Multi System Operators -- have insisted that this bundling makes it cable TV cheaper for everyone -- it can't possibly help folks who don't watch sports.
While I know some sports fans who like and love nearly every type and kind of sport, not every fan loves every sport.
Since today any of the sport leagues can easily offer direct to consumer programming -- networks that offer sports programming, are really only provided 1 limited function -- ad sales. Having multiple companies bid for sports programming has certainly helped drive up the price over the last 30+ years.
I would think however, a direct to consumer model, that perhaps includes little or no advertising as well as other offerings that are contain large amounts of advertising... would in the long run get the most value for the teams and owners.
TV production from remote locations in teh 1950's was fairly hard. It's not super simple today but it is far easier and teams and leagues would be better off producing their own content and then selling the programming direct to consumers.
By GDP is a reasonable standard.. although in terms of labeling values, I would say he is the President of the Country with the Worlds Largest Economy.. vs. Democracy. But GDP is a fine standard.
I believe I was speaking to "Anonymous Coward on Friday January 20, 2017 @12:41PM (#53704327) " but maybe that is you?
When you said, "As the president of the largest democratic nation on Earth it matters for all people on Earth"
You are saying the US is a larger democracy than India because our landmass is larger?
Than the prior statement about the US being the word's largest democracy would have to be Russia or Canada, etc.
If its is by population is not by the US either.
A) which is why i didn't buy the G5 (I have a G4) I didn't think it would last more than 1 or 2 market cycles
B) modular design is a long term commitment by all parties
C) which is why I believe that as long as folks make Smart TV they are doing consumers a huge disfavor... People can keep "screens" for 5, 10, 15+ years or more.. and the "smart" features will hit "the wall" before then. So I'm sure the TV companies will be happy if we replace or screens sooner, than later.
BUT that is why consumers must demand modules for our TVs. Of course we can always connect out-board CPUs via HDMI ports, but every component should modular. We should be able to replace CPUs, add new tuners, add new ports, etc.
Really looks great.. wish there was a ChromeOS* vers. but Ubuntu would work just fine.
I run *Ubuntu under CROUTON when using ChromeOS... which for me is the best of all worlds.. a secure, simple OS for 90% of what I need, and Ubuntu for nearly everything else.
First with Crouton you can work with many Unix distributions, but if you wipe / install Linux clearly you can work with any one you want.
Second, if you really want Linux and wish to use it 50, 70 or 80 or 99% of the time, you should prob. install Linux.
I've used Ubuntu since 2009 as primary desktop until 2015 (July) when I purchased a Chromebook Pixel -- I use that device as my primary desktop, and use Crouton running Ubuntu when there is something I can't do in Chrome OS like run Audacity, record in Skype, etc.
14.04 LTS Unity with touch works very well.
I'm currently using Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS but not w/ Unity - it doesn't work as well but is reliable.
Now that I have access to Android Apps I now have fewer reasons to run Ubuntu.
ChromeOS + Linux (via Crouton) + Android Apps = is really an amazingly powerful system. ChromeOS is fairly secure, Android Apps offer a lot of flexibility and Ubuntu/Linus can do mostly everything else.
As other have said it's the map update I rather not spend..
My built-in GPS works far more reliably... As the care ages, of course the UI ages as well...
Also I use phone GPS for real time traffic..
I think what would matter is over say a 5 year period how many of them they have...
That they have to balance old content vs. new content.... it is a real hard cost to license everything, always, forever.
But knowing in any given 5 or 10 year period that most of the good stuff is rotating through.. would be enough for me.
another approach is what percent of their customers want old content vs. newer, I like older but I watch about 95% new / 5% old...
It says that Twitter announced "Tuesday that it had suspended Geofeedia's commercial access to Twitter data."
Does that mean it still has non-commercial (e.g., NOT for resale)? Just saying they seem like the sort who might use the non-commercial feed for commercial purposes..
Based on the work I did in 1985 at Bell Labs as part of my assignment to create documentation requirements for the Acorn Network Control System -- Good documentation should have at least 4 parts. Each particular user persona would use the 4 parts in different ways. Part of the documentation would appeal to potential customers, novice users, intermediate users, users with limited but deep domain expertise, users who previously had fluency with the product but who lost that fluency due to lack of use.
#1 The first in additional to typical table of contents found in each manual there should be a documentation MAP, that combines all of the various documentation and training for a specific product into a visual map; typically this is done with a task orientation. Much like a web page site map, this will allow a potential readers with a wide range of user cases to find the right document or the correct chapter, section, and should include online training, videos, Etc.
#2 A quick reference guide which I think most users would be familiar with. This instruction is typically very linear, and walks at a high level users through the major steps for the most typical cases.
#3 A "cook book" best for coding applications but has broad application to most technologies. Each section of this manual details how to perform a particular task, in it's entirety; e.g., a recipe. Recipes should cover a range of users types (novice, intermediate, expert, or with specific previous domain expertise). A non-coding example would be: Recipe for setting up a mix minus recording using the Behringer Xenyx 1202fx mixer; the ingredients would include all cables, software, Etc. used in the recipe.
#4 A complete and full reference guide. Again typically found in manuals but often (today) the ONLY section of the manual. Each sub-section is a full and complete deep dive on each part, instruction, or option. This is typically used by experts. It can be used by those who are using the cookbook to look for recipe options and substitutions. It can also be used by potential customers to see if a particular use case is supported.
I prefer Google Docs to Word.. for most tasks.. it is "lighter" weight but I find that easier to use. If find the UI similar enough to pop back and forth as needed.
I would recommend Google docs, assuming there isn't any crazy formating involved.
#1) It is a single document so you don't have to worry about the naming of it..
#2) Google Docs has a built in ver. control, in that you can roll backwards to early version of the document, and you can see who is editing, changing etc. (assuming everyone has their own password).
It's low tech, easy to use, and the only education is to keep on using the same file name.
Josh's article last year was wrong on a few levels. This article is wrong as well. What's important to understand is the price you pay depends upon "how many channels you buy, how frequently you buy, and when & where you watch, etc."
1st., you are overpaying why you buy local channels; they are free "over the air" but they are allowed to charge when a cable company transmits via their cable -- today a digital antenna works well for most and certainly anyone who is price sensitive.
2nd., we are just left with the cable TV shows and "Premium channels" -- and in this context Josh's article is right IF your family is large and/or you consume a lot of programs of different types a bundle that includes everything can be cost effective.
3rd., if we remove the cost of local TV and assume you just want to watch specific channels than Josh's calculations are certainly wrong. The question becomes when you want to watch a "new" channel or a show on an ad hoc basis -- should you subscribe to an entire bundle to get one network, or a whole network to get 1 or 2 shows?
4th., another reason Josh's calculations are clearly wrong is the time and place value of information; do you need to watch a show as a "first run" or can you wait until later and watching it on a web site like Netflix or Amazon Prime?
5th., If you limit your intake to specific networks or shows (through Google Play, Apple iTunes, NetFlix) you costs can be much lower ala carte.
You are saying that NK has a lack of powerful computer skills.. do you actually have a factual basis for that? They send many students outside for training and education, and there are reports that they do indeed have a cyber war unit. They used to kidnap Japanese people for information, surely they could get their hands on some Pcs running linux.
http://www.zdnet.com/article/n...
Frame up yes.. but internal to NK... not external..
Dahamma,
FTDI has pulled the update.. http://www.ftdichipblog.com/?p...
Kester1964, you are being silly.. and I do like humor including your humor..
I am sure you think I'm being flippant with my "terroristic remark" but given that IANAL, my reading of the law says to me, that it is clear that FTDI is being terroristic. That may not have been the intent of the law.. but I believe it applies.
Let's start with 18 U.S. Code 2332b [cornell.edu] - (B) Acts of terrorism transcending national boundaries which states, "creates a substantial risk of serious bodily injury to any other person by destroying or damaging any structure, conveyance, or other real or personal property within the United States or by attempting or conspiring to destroy or damage any structure, conveyance, or other real or personal property within the United States;"
And the penalty --> "(E) for destroying or damaging any structure, conveyance, or other real or personal property, by imprisonment for not more than 25 years;"
Dahamma,
I appreciate the very thoughtful response.. I understand (and agree) conceptually that the user is buying a counterfeit good(s); but in practical terms, in real terms the users isn't. They are buying a computer, or board, etc.; if they checked to see if it was legit (the chips within) it would appear to be legit (yes perhaps the definition of counterfeit).
You are implying that this only happens to people with "bad/cheap" brands.. ZD is reporting, "The chip is extremely common on a wide variety of devices and there is no way of knowing at this time which devices have cloned chips -- and the tainted supply chain could hit anyone."
I'm clearly saying that FTDI's wanton destruction of private and government property is terroristic in nature and that it will effect major users, home users, etc. Unlike many "debates" on the Internet, we will soon know which of us is right (or wrong) or in which ways we are right and wrong.. as I suspect the reporting on this will only continue to increase. We also also see if FTDI un-does their "silent" upgrade.
I'm also saying there isn't any valid legal reason for them to have taken this course of action; if they are taking action it should be with the makers of the devices; their upgrade could have been informational (for example). "Your computer contains counterfeit parts... Please contact us..." It's also not like this was a needed upgrade that by happenstance caused this problem.. it was deliberate, willful and served no urgent nor addressed any exigent circumstances.