Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe Seagate absorbed Miniscribe by way of Maxtor. I wouldn't be so sure that 'shipping bricks' isn't in their patent portfolio.
Since most/. folks weren't even alive back then, let me recap a few of Miniscribe's business tactics:
- Set up off-the-books companies to which they "sold" drives that were simply stored in warehouses.
- Claimed the sale of drives which had not yet been delivered to customers. Their outside auditors called them out on the fact that they couldn't claim the income from drives that were still on the boat from China, and made them restate earnings. When it all fell apart, the criminal investigation discovered that the drives had never even existed to begin witth.
- Took returned dead disk drives, tossed them onto a pile in the office which was nicknamed the "dog pile", and when the pile got big enough, packed them up and shipped them out as new orders.
So no, Seagate is nothing at all like Miniscribe;-)
Thing is, a number of people have indicated that they have used third-party cables and those have solved the issue.
So it's obviously that the skin-effect electrons are out of phase with the ones in the middle, or that the wire is in the cable backward because, as everybody knows, the electrons flow through wire more easily in the same direction in which the wire was extruded. And that, of course, is why Monster brand charging cables would solve the problems;-)
By all rights he should be in jail. We can argue all day about the trade-offs between privacy and security, but one thing is simply not arguable--it is the responsibility of Congress to debate this issues and decide on policies and limits in our name. What he did was to try to subvert that.
It is NOT rare. 90% of teachers are competent and conscientious. But about 1 in 10 needs to go, and 1 in 10 is not "rare".
I remember reading a few years ago two simple facts about the teachers in the Denver public schools: number of teachers on staff, number of teachers fired in a typical year. They were just so obviously out of whack: there is simply no fucking way that in a large organization there are only 1 in 1,000 employees who need to be fired!
Did they really assume that a drop in people searching for Facebook equates to a drop in people using Facebook? Why not just a drop in new users trying to find Facebook???
I never understood why California didn't exercise as much, if not more, power?
In many states, textbooks are selected at the level of the local school district. In Texas, they are selected at the state level for all school districts.
So while they are not public in that they can pick and choose who they let in...
Depends. In Colorado, they cannot pick and choose whom they let in--just like the public schools. This is generally done in order to prevent racial/ethnic segregation, but your post makes me realize another advantage: it may help prevent charter schools that cater to the lunatic fringe.
I find publicly the mormons or catholics may not say anything, but in their cannon its quite clear the earth is only a couple thousand years old.
That is not at all true of the Catholics. The pope (prior, not current) weighed in on the subject to say that the theory of evolution is not in any way in conflict with Catholic teachings or beliefs. That church accepts that the "7 days" of creation is essentially a literal metaphor, and the evolution could well be the mechanism their God set in motion in order to create the species.
Mormons, I don't know about. But considering that their entire religious beliefs were literally pulled out of a hat...
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been.
Absolutely. Having been born and raised in the "Bible Belt" I can attest first-hand to how very proud some people are of their ignorance and lack of education.
In other words I am confused or I am correct? That's an odd opinion.:-)
I assumed you were correct that your MacBook will not run the latest OS, but I was sure the reason you gave did not match the Mac you described and therefore could not be correct. However, I may have been wrong about that. The Mac you describe has a 64-bit processor--I thought it also had 64-bit EFI and 64-bit drivers, but I tried to find a reference for that, and found conflicting information, including an Apple article which at least implies that it does not, which is as close to the final word on the subject as I could find.
The CPU is a Core Duo and is 64-bit capable...
The Core Duo was 32-bit. The Core 2 Duo was 64-bit. Your Mac has a Core 2 Duo, not a Core Duo;-)
I don't know what the vast majority of Android users are doing, but it certainly isn't contributing to the ecosystem.
One theory that has come up recently (based on actual evidence) is that shit-tons of crappy $99 tablet knock-offs, along with even usb TV dongles, are being reported as Android sales.
So while I do believe that outside the US, Android phones outsell Apple by a substantial margin, it's nowhere near 3x.
Basically Apple is picking off the most profitable customers, and it's 1/3 to 1/2 not some small share, while Samsung is soaking up the rest of the market with a volume approach. And remember, together they're taking more than 100% of the total profits, because the other players all together are losing money...
So no, Apple is not going anywhere, is not losing. Microsoft, Blackberry, Nokia, HTC, et all are failing.
My 2008 Macbook only recently became unable to run the current version of the Xcode development environment, its the last of the non-64 bit machines not supported by Mountain Lion or Mavericks.
The last MacBook that was non-64-bit stopped shipping in November 2006. The last MacBook Pro that was non-64-bit stopped shipping in October 2006.
If it doesn't support Mountain Lion, that wouldn't be all that recent either...
Your post certainly does not seem like the kind of troll that we see around here from people pretending to own Apple gear, but it sure seems confused... (Perhaps your MacBook is 64-bit, but one of the ones that doesn't have the GPU support that Apple requires for Mountain Lion?)
Will the never ending garbage ever cease? The truth is he might have not felt qualified, but he was admitted to the CS program at MIT, one of the few elite CS departments that really means you are at least +1SD above average IQ, and quite likely +2SD or +3SD.
Yes, when I was there most of us had graduated in the top 1% of their high school classes. This year, 25% of entering freshmen had perfect scores on the math portion of the SAT. (Think about that, a 799 would drop you to the 75th percentile.)
Anyway, my real point: I, my classmates, every interaction with a TA that I observed, and every interaction with a professor (except for 1 chauvinist pig whom we got into deep shit by going to the department head about his bullshit), always assumed that the (few) women in our classes knew what they were doing. We didn't talk down to them, we didn't grill them when they offered an opinion, we didn't doubt their answers.
The old joke that "there are no girls at MIT, just guys who worked their balls off in high school" appears sexist on the surface, but it's really not, it's really an acknowledgement that we're all the same in that way;-)
But on the other you'd have a company arguing that they have a right to *notify* a "competitor" when they believe their commercial rights have been violated -- and, strictly speaking, don't they?
What if they know good and damned well that their patents are trivial and could never survive a challenge? That is what introduces the fraud aspect.
Have some weak low-quality patents, and try to, through the power of wishful thinking, extend them to cover a much broader set of techniques, then go and sue a big company with deep pockets. (Remember, this used to work, reference the suit against RIM for instance.)
As a Canadian, it seems that the only policy the Republicans have is "vote no to anything Obama or any Democrat proposes". We don't care that Obama won the presidential election, we will thwart the will of the people for our rich masters.
Yes. And I'm speaking as a conservative. (One who is still pissed that he's now voted for 3 tax-and-spend democratic presidential candidates in a row, because the loony republican alternatives made him want to throw up.)
Still like to have more then 1 port in side the system and 1TB max is not really that much and the 256 GB base is a joke for an pro system.
I'm pretty sure the assumption is that everyone in the target market for this machine will want external RAID, so the internal is really only for the OS & swap & apps and small files.
As for 1TB being "not really that much", please point me to a source of SSDs larger than 1TB. Uh, yeah, I thought so;-)
While I agree that some disreputable pharmacies were using Google Adwords to sell dangerous drugs without a prescription...
Even worse than dangerous drugs, some were selling counterfeit drugs. Now, those were Indian outfits, not Canadian ones. But the FDA kind of views them the same, outside the U.S. dodging regulations so therefore no quality control.
1) An asshole spokesman for Brick accuses customers of knowingly taking advantage of them, outright claiming that customers knew the discount was an error.
2) The spokesman continues on to say that they're "doing exactly what the customer wanted us to do" by "honoring" the correct price.
3) A spokesman for the local government says what Brick is doing is illegal.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe Seagate absorbed Miniscribe by way of Maxtor. I wouldn't be so sure that 'shipping bricks' isn't in their patent portfolio.
Since most /. folks weren't even alive back then, let me recap a few of Miniscribe's business tactics:
- Set up off-the-books companies to which they "sold" drives that were simply stored in warehouses.
- Claimed the sale of drives which had not yet been delivered to customers. Their outside auditors called them out on the fact that they couldn't claim the income from drives that were still on the boat from China, and made them restate earnings. When it all fell apart, the criminal investigation discovered that the drives had never even existed to begin witth.
- Took returned dead disk drives, tossed them onto a pile in the office which was nicknamed the "dog pile", and when the pile got big enough, packed them up and shipped them out as new orders.
So no, Seagate is nothing at all like Miniscribe ;-)
Thing is, a number of people have indicated that they have used third-party cables and those have solved the issue.
So it's obviously that the skin-effect electrons are out of phase with the ones in the middle, or that the wire is in the cable backward because, as everybody knows, the electrons flow through wire more easily in the same direction in which the wire was extruded. And that, of course, is why Monster brand charging cables would solve the problems ;-)
By all rights clapper should be removed.
By all rights he should be in jail. We can argue all day about the trade-offs between privacy and security, but one thing is simply not arguable--it is the responsibility of Congress to debate this issues and decide on policies and limits in our name. What he did was to try to subvert that.
It is NOT rare. 90% of teachers are competent and conscientious. But about 1 in 10 needs to go, and 1 in 10 is not "rare".
I remember reading a few years ago two simple facts about the teachers in the Denver public schools: number of teachers on staff, number of teachers fired in a typical year. They were just so obviously out of whack: there is simply no fucking way that in a large organization there are only 1 in 1,000 employees who need to be fired!
Sadly there is no blink tag support in Blink
Which is why we all need to band together and start a class-action lawsuit over this blatantly fraudulent promotional tactic ;-)
Did they really assume that a drop in people searching for Facebook equates to a drop in people using Facebook? Why not just a drop in new users trying to find Facebook???
Storing energy is quite difficult and ineeficient.
While it is expensive, it is no longer very inefficient.
I never understood why California didn't exercise as much, if not more, power?
In many states, textbooks are selected at the level of the local school district. In Texas, they are selected at the state level for all school districts.
So while they are not public in that they can pick and choose who they let in...
Depends. In Colorado, they cannot pick and choose whom they let in--just like the public schools. This is generally done in order to prevent racial/ethnic segregation, but your post makes me realize another advantage: it may help prevent charter schools that cater to the lunatic fringe.
I'm intrigued as to where you think other systems of belief come from...
Burning bush, voice from the heavens, yadda, yadda ;-)
I find publicly the mormons or catholics may not say anything, but in their cannon its quite clear the earth is only a couple thousand years old.
That is not at all true of the Catholics. The pope (prior, not current) weighed in on the subject to say that the theory of evolution is not in any way in conflict with Catholic teachings or beliefs. That church accepts that the "7 days" of creation is essentially a literal metaphor, and the evolution could well be the mechanism their God set in motion in order to create the species.
Mormons, I don't know about. But considering that their entire religious beliefs were literally pulled out of a hat...
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been.
Absolutely. Having been born and raised in the "Bible Belt" I can attest first-hand to how very proud some people are of their ignorance and lack of education.
In other words I am confused or I am correct? That's an odd opinion. :-)
I assumed you were correct that your MacBook will not run the latest OS, but I was sure the reason you gave did not match the Mac you described and therefore could not be correct. However, I may have been wrong about that. The Mac you describe has a 64-bit processor--I thought it also had 64-bit EFI and 64-bit drivers, but I tried to find a reference for that, and found conflicting information, including an Apple article which at least implies that it does not, which is as close to the final word on the subject as I could find.
The CPU is a Core Duo and is 64-bit capable...
The Core Duo was 32-bit. The Core 2 Duo was 64-bit. Your Mac has a Core 2 Duo, not a Core Duo ;-)
I don't know what the vast majority of Android users are doing, but it certainly isn't contributing to the ecosystem.
One theory that has come up recently (based on actual evidence) is that shit-tons of crappy $99 tablet knock-offs, along with even usb TV dongles, are being reported as Android sales.
So while I do believe that outside the US, Android phones outsell Apple by a substantial margin, it's nowhere near 3x.
Basically Apple is picking off the most profitable customers, and it's 1/3 to 1/2 not some small share, while Samsung is soaking up the rest of the market with a volume approach. And remember, together they're taking more than 100% of the total profits, because the other players all together are losing money...
So no, Apple is not going anywhere, is not losing. Microsoft, Blackberry, Nokia, HTC, et all are failing.
My 2008 Macbook only recently became unable to run the current version of the Xcode development environment, its the last of the non-64 bit machines not supported by Mountain Lion or Mavericks.
The last MacBook that was non-64-bit stopped shipping in November 2006. The last MacBook Pro that was non-64-bit stopped shipping in October 2006.
If it doesn't support Mountain Lion, that wouldn't be all that recent either...
Your post certainly does not seem like the kind of troll that we see around here from people pretending to own Apple gear, but it sure seems confused... (Perhaps your MacBook is 64-bit, but one of the ones that doesn't have the GPU support that Apple requires for Mountain Lion?)
Will the never ending garbage ever cease? The truth is he might have not felt qualified, but he was admitted to the CS program at MIT, one of the few elite CS departments that really means you are at least +1SD above average IQ, and quite likely +2SD or +3SD.
Yes, when I was there most of us had graduated in the top 1% of their high school classes. This year, 25% of entering freshmen had perfect scores on the math portion of the SAT. (Think about that, a 799 would drop you to the 75th percentile.)
Anyway, my real point: I, my classmates, every interaction with a TA that I observed, and every interaction with a professor (except for 1 chauvinist pig whom we got into deep shit by going to the department head about his bullshit), always assumed that the (few) women in our classes knew what they were doing. We didn't talk down to them, we didn't grill them when they offered an opinion, we didn't doubt their answers.
The old joke that "there are no girls at MIT, just guys who worked their balls off in high school" appears sexist on the surface, but it's really not, it's really an acknowledgement that we're all the same in that way ;-)
But on the other you'd have a company arguing that they have a right to *notify* a "competitor" when they believe their commercial rights have been violated -- and, strictly speaking, don't they?
What if they know good and damned well that their patents are trivial and could never survive a challenge? That is what introduces the fraud aspect.
Have some weak low-quality patents, and try to, through the power of wishful thinking, extend them to cover a much broader set of techniques, then go and sue a big company with deep pockets. (Remember, this used to work, reference the suit against RIM for instance.)
As a Canadian, it seems that the only policy the Republicans have is "vote no to anything Obama or any Democrat proposes". We don't care that Obama won the presidential election, we will thwart the will of the people for our rich masters.
Yes. And I'm speaking as a conservative. (One who is still pissed that he's now voted for 3 tax-and-spend democratic presidential candidates in a row, because the loony republican alternatives made him want to throw up.)
Seems fine to me. You must have mistaken it for iOS 7.
TFA refers to Apple's fuck-up with Mail.app gmail.
Still like to have more then 1 port in side the system and 1TB max is not really that much and the 256 GB base is a joke for an pro system.
I'm pretty sure the assumption is that everyone in the target market for this machine will want external RAID, so the internal is really only for the OS & swap & apps and small files.
As for 1TB being "not really that much", please point me to a source of SSDs larger than 1TB. Uh, yeah, I thought so ;-)
Most influential maybe in terms of politics, but technology? What was the technology he pioneered or employed?
Nothing. But his actions will have a huge influence on the future development and use of technology, thus it is reasonable to call him influential ;-)
While I agree that some disreputable pharmacies were using Google Adwords to sell dangerous drugs without a prescription...
Even worse than dangerous drugs, some were selling counterfeit drugs. Now, those were Indian outfits, not Canadian ones. But the FDA kind of views them the same, outside the U.S. dodging regulations so therefore no quality control.
Uhm, worse, what about people who rent rather than own? If you live in an apartment owned by someone else, do you have any rights???
Seriously.
1) An asshole spokesman for Brick accuses customers of knowingly taking advantage of them, outright claiming that customers knew the discount was an error.
2) The spokesman continues on to say that they're "doing exactly what the customer wanted us to do" by "honoring" the correct price.
3) A spokesman for the local government says what Brick is doing is illegal.