Granted, you can use a Mac with out ever opening iTunes and you can just delete it from the applications folder if you so choose and nothing will break.
Whatever faults iTunes may have (and there are surely plenty) I would be mightily annoyed if I had to download iTunes separately on a fresh OS install / new computer.
I was visiting the USA (California is nice this time of year) last week and I had to sign little pieces of paper with my name to buy things with my credit card. Apparently none of the stores and restaurants have chip and pin terminals. You can't prevent even the most basic fraud if any guy with a card reader can make a copy of your magstripe and clone your card. What's worse, in the restaurant they actually walked off with my card, instead of bringing a wireless terminal to my table for me to enter my PIN.
Yup.
You good people are about 5 years behind the times. WTF happened?
Welcome to America, where we like to pretend that we're exceptional while being largely behind the rest of the civilized world in almost every area. I think it's because of money in politics myself, but others will perhaps have other theories.
They want your phone to bypass the Visa/Mastercard duopoly, that adds ~3% to to everything you buy. The problem is that they haven't come up with a good alternative.
Cash is by far and away the fastest form of payment. Having to wait for the EFTPOS terminal to contact the bank takes far longer than getting change from the cashier.
Do you live in the boonies or something? Every transaction approval I've had for the last 15 years has been nearly instantaneous.
Since it's built on existing systems and protocols, Samsung would do well to just copy it.
This acquisition is actually quite telling. The fact that they're not blindly copying Apple this time is a strong indication of exactly how incompetent Samsung is. To replicate ApplePay, Samsung would need not only the technology (not really that hard to replicate, and they already have most if not all of it) but also the savvy to navigate the world of finance and negotiate with multiple entities in that industry. LoopPay, being solely a technology-based solution, sidesteps all of that. Note in this case that's not an advantage, since magstripes are nearing extinction. Realistically, Samsung should have known better. Perhaps they're just desperate to say "Me too!".
So what you're saying is that you are inserting your own personal bias into a process where you are supposed to be making objective purchasing decisions on behalf of a school district.
When you lose all servo assist you just have to stamp hard on the pedal the old fashioned way. It is mechanically connected to the brake callipers and no amount of messing with the ignition switch is going to change that.
A motor vehicle operator will not even notice loss of power steering at highway speeds. In fact at anything higher than 10-15 MPH, power steering loss is practically undetectable from an operator standpoint.
Even if that were true (and I have some personal anecdotes that suggest that it is not) the alleged improvement in steering at highway speeds is greatly offset by the fact that you are now traveling at highway speeds with brakes that are nearly nonfunctional.
These apple cars will be real unpopular after about the third software version upgrade when they can only do 20 miles/hr and need to be traded in for something thinner.
And what, exactly, are you imagining will be responsible for this alleged slowdown of said car?
As a VW owner, the nicest way I can frame my response is this. What in the HOLY FUCK is "accessory position"?
Note that I'm not exactly defending US made cars here. Being a US citizen and general car fan, however, I am nonetheless familiar with them. And your statements here are so mind-numbingly stupid that they deserve a response, if only to make everyone aware of what a holy fucking idiot you are.
The only kind of ignition switch I ever actually used has only off, on, and start.
"Accessory" is an ignition-switch mode in which things like the radio can be powered without the car engine or related subsystems (e.g. fuel pump) being powered. It is useful for sitting in your car after you've arrived at your destination, listening to the radio or waiting for someone to arrive. But then, you probably knew that, and wanted to impress us all with your vastly superior European-ness. Emphasis on pean-ness.
If the car is running down the road and I turn the key to off, no steering lock engages.
Reading comprehension fail. Go back and re-read the post you responded to. He did not say steering lock. He said power steering.
Yeah, the power assisted steering and vacuum assisted brakes revert to manual.
Have you ever actually driven a car where one of the power-assisted systems has failed? I have. I can assure you that it does not "revert to manual". Failed power steering and power brake systems are typically MUCH MUCH harder to operate than pure manual systems, and require enormous effort to control.
You have to use a little more force. BIG FUCKING DEAL. Any driver who can't deal with the loss pf power steering and power brakes at highway speed is a helpless twit and a Darwin candidate.
Since you seem to think it's not a big deal, please try the experiment for yourself. Get on the freeway, accelerate to 65 or 70mph (sorry, let me translate that to pean-ness: somewhere above 105kph) and then turn off the engine. Report back how it went. Go on, we'll wait.
Why would any tech person want to go to a marketing-department-run shithole like Apple?
This statement speaks volumes about exactly how much you do not know (or simply choose to ignore) about Apple. The notion that Apple is a marketing-driven company is so far off the mark as to be laughable.
An improperly structured program, will behave however the compiler felt like making it behave when it turned your lines of gibberish posing as code into machine instructions that actually manipulate registers and memory spaces.
This misses an important point that (apparently) needs stating: complex and/or deep nesting makes code more difficult to understand by programmers (perhaps even the one that wrote the code in the first place). A simple goto-based assertion macro goes a long way toward linearizing the flow of code such that it is simple to understand. If the compiler has trouble with that, then the guy that wrote the compiler needs to try harder.
If you worked for me, and you wrote garbage like that, I would give you a verbal warning and show you how to do it correctly. If you did it again, I would give you a documented written warning. The third time, I would fire you.
This kind of rhetoric doesn't exactly lead to meaningful discussion, and it indicates I will probably be unable to sway you with reason or logic. Thus, I'll simply state that you're a pedantic idiot who appears to be more interested in stupid ideals than practical solutions.
but apple and microsoft in this case were in the bad because of their initial suits. no one liked them, so you really couldn't blame samsung and motorola using the only ammo they got.
Legally speaking, Apple and Microsoft were well within their rights. Whether people liked the lawsuits or not is irrelevant. And yes, we *can* blame Motorola and Samsung for using that "ammo", because doing so was clearly a violation of the well-understood FRAND principles.
At this point, the only proper "fix" I can see is for Google to keep doing what they're doing. Keep improving Android, building and improve their collection of must-have apps, try to maintain a market of unlocked Android Nexus/One/GPE phones, and keep some pressure on the OEMs to get with the program.
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Ok, then how about getting a Mac without iTunes?
You're grasping at straws. That's a really, really bad comparison. Nobody pays Apple to include iTunes in MacOS installs.
Im shocked. You didn't think about iTunes?
Granted, you can use a Mac with out ever opening iTunes and you can just delete it from the applications folder if you so choose and nothing will break.
Whatever faults iTunes may have (and there are surely plenty) I would be mightily annoyed if I had to download iTunes separately on a fresh OS install / new computer.
No, and I don't really care. I don't use their products that much.
So what you're saying is that you have no fucking idea what you're talking about. Got it.
Too bad that fruit company has among its practice of bundling bloatware along its software users want to install.
If you could be so kind as to elaborate, I would be extremely grateful.
(Which is to say that I think you're completely full of shit and would really like you to back up your allegations).
It's almost like he was more interested in publicity than in actually shipping a product.
I was visiting the USA (California is nice this time of year) last week and I had to sign little pieces of paper with my name to buy things with my credit card. Apparently none of the stores and restaurants have chip and pin terminals. You can't prevent even the most basic fraud if any guy with a card reader can make a copy of your magstripe and clone your card. What's worse, in the restaurant they actually walked off with my card, instead of bringing a wireless terminal to my table for me to enter my PIN.
Yup.
You good people are about 5 years behind the times. WTF happened?
Welcome to America, where we like to pretend that we're exceptional while being largely behind the rest of the civilized world in almost every area. I think it's because of money in politics myself, but others will perhaps have other theories.
2. They don't solve any problems.
Please explain how "rampant fraud" is not a problem.
I still don't see a need to make my charge card two orders of magnitude more complicated
You will the next time your credit card is compromised.
They want your phone to bypass the Visa/Mastercard duopoly, that adds ~3% to to everything you buy. The problem is that they haven't come up with a good alternative.
Who is "they"?
So Apple and now Google show up with a scheme to bypass the CC companies and divert the entire percentage to their accounts.
Your starting premise is flat-out wrong. Everything that follows from it is therefore gibberish.
Cash is by far and away the fastest form of payment. Having to wait for the EFTPOS terminal to contact the bank takes far longer than getting change from the cashier.
Do you live in the boonies or something? Every transaction approval I've had for the last 15 years has been nearly instantaneous.
The intent of loading this tool was to help enhance our users’ shopping experience.
The belief that the "shopping experience" of their users needed "enhancing" speaks loudly as to exactly how little Lenovo understands.
Since it's built on existing systems and protocols, Samsung would do well to just copy it.
This acquisition is actually quite telling. The fact that they're not blindly copying Apple this time is a strong indication of exactly how incompetent Samsung is. To replicate ApplePay, Samsung would need not only the technology (not really that hard to replicate, and they already have most if not all of it) but also the savvy to navigate the world of finance and negotiate with multiple entities in that industry. LoopPay, being solely a technology-based solution, sidesteps all of that. Note in this case that's not an advantage, since magstripes are nearing extinction. Realistically, Samsung should have known better. Perhaps they're just desperate to say "Me too!".
Not only were there hoops, but Google considered them loopholes and slowly shut them out.
When you think about it, all hoops are actually loopholes. [rimshot]
Apple doesn't really invent hardware components. They're more like lego fans who arrange existing hardware in to their own configurations.
Like most slashdot commenters, you appear all too eager to telegraph your complete and utter lack of knowledge to the world. Loudly.
So what you're saying is that you are inserting your own personal bias into a process where you are supposed to be making objective purchasing decisions on behalf of a school district.
When you lose all servo assist you just have to stamp hard on the pedal the old fashioned way. It is mechanically connected to the brake callipers and no amount of messing with the ignition switch is going to change that.
Very misleading.
Really, really hard. And that's the problem.
A motor vehicle operator will not even notice loss of power steering at highway speeds. In fact at anything higher than 10-15 MPH, power steering loss is practically undetectable from an operator standpoint.
Even if that were true (and I have some personal anecdotes that suggest that it is not) the alleged improvement in steering at highway speeds is greatly offset by the fact that you are now traveling at highway speeds with brakes that are nearly nonfunctional.
These apple cars will be real unpopular after about the third software version upgrade when they can only do 20 miles/hr and need to be traded in for something thinner.
And what, exactly, are you imagining will be responsible for this alleged slowdown of said car?
As a VW owner, the nicest way I can frame my response is this. What in the HOLY FUCK is "accessory position"?
Note that I'm not exactly defending US made cars here. Being a US citizen and general car fan, however, I am nonetheless familiar with them. And your statements here are so mind-numbingly stupid that they deserve a response, if only to make everyone aware of what a holy fucking idiot you are.
The only kind of ignition switch I ever actually used has only off, on, and start.
"Accessory" is an ignition-switch mode in which things like the radio can be powered without the car engine or related subsystems (e.g. fuel pump) being powered. It is useful for sitting in your car after you've arrived at your destination, listening to the radio or waiting for someone to arrive. But then, you probably knew that, and wanted to impress us all with your vastly superior European-ness. Emphasis on pean-ness.
If the car is running down the road and I turn the key to off, no steering lock engages.
Reading comprehension fail. Go back and re-read the post you responded to. He did not say steering lock. He said power steering.
Yeah, the power assisted steering and vacuum assisted brakes revert to manual.
Have you ever actually driven a car where one of the power-assisted systems has failed? I have. I can assure you that it does not "revert to manual". Failed power steering and power brake systems are typically MUCH MUCH harder to operate than pure manual systems, and require enormous effort to control.
You have to use a little more force. BIG FUCKING DEAL. Any driver who can't deal with the loss pf power steering and power brakes at highway speed is a helpless twit and a Darwin candidate.
Since you seem to think it's not a big deal, please try the experiment for yourself. Get on the freeway, accelerate to 65 or 70mph (sorry, let me translate that to pean-ness: somewhere above 105kph) and then turn off the engine. Report back how it went. Go on, we'll wait.
Why would any tech person want to go to a marketing-department-run shithole like Apple?
This statement speaks volumes about exactly how much you do not know (or simply choose to ignore) about Apple. The notion that Apple is a marketing-driven company is so far off the mark as to be laughable.
An improperly structured program, will behave however the compiler felt like making it behave when it turned your lines of gibberish posing as code into machine instructions that actually manipulate registers and memory spaces.
This misses an important point that (apparently) needs stating: complex and/or deep nesting makes code more difficult to understand by programmers (perhaps even the one that wrote the code in the first place). A simple goto-based assertion macro goes a long way toward linearizing the flow of code such that it is simple to understand. If the compiler has trouble with that, then the guy that wrote the compiler needs to try harder.
If you worked for me, and you wrote garbage like that, I would give you a verbal warning and show you how to do it correctly. If you did it again, I would give you a documented written warning. The third time, I would fire you.
This kind of rhetoric doesn't exactly lead to meaningful discussion, and it indicates I will probably be unable to sway you with reason or logic. Thus, I'll simply state that you're a pedantic idiot who appears to be more interested in stupid ideals than practical solutions.
but apple and microsoft in this case were in the bad because of their initial suits. no one liked them, so you really couldn't blame samsung and motorola using the only ammo they got.
Legally speaking, Apple and Microsoft were well within their rights. Whether people liked the lawsuits or not is irrelevant. And yes, we *can* blame Motorola and Samsung for using that "ammo", because doing so was clearly a violation of the well-understood FRAND principles.
At this point, the only proper "fix" I can see is for Google to keep doing what they're doing. Keep improving Android, building and improve their collection of must-have apps, try to maintain a market of unlocked Android Nexus/One/GPE phones, and keep some pressure on the OEMs to get with the program.
And sadly, you may very well be right.