Apple used to do that all the time back in the day, before they started doing well. They used to sell shares of ARM to keep themselves afloat. In fact, there's an article about it, so I don't have to rely on my faulty memory.
There is an incentive to declare your container overweight, because there is a weight limit for each container. Two containers is more expensive than one, obviously. So you are incentivized to pack your stuff as tightly as possible.
However, there's a limit to how overweight your container can be. The container can hold around 28,000 kg. Its interior dimensions, however, are pretty fixed. How dense can you pack your goods? If you've done any shipping, you know that while you can pack stuff in, there's a point where you'll damage your goods. That's even more applicable for heavy goods, like industrial equipment.
Do they actually use software to place containers? My limited exposure to a container yard says no. They load the boxes on there, and well, where it goes is where it goes.
If it really was due to being overweight, how much overweight would each container have to be to cause the ship to snap in half?
It's like that with most things written by reporters - if you know enough about what they're writing, you realize that they're sort of wrong. And you start to wonder how much other stuff is wrong.
What do the aid organizations value? Do they want a sustainable shelter that's designed for people to live in for a decade, or do they want a cheap crappy solution?
I suppose it depends on who the organizations service. Does it serve the refugees or the conscience of the donors?
The biggest fear is that a group of people who are clueless about what actual customers want and never talk to anyone outside their small circle believe that they know more about what customers want than people that actually talk to customers.
One argument against IMEI blacklisting is that for it to be effective you need a single registry that all the carriers in the world subscribe to. In addition, it won't work very well if a CSR can just toggle the flag to let the phone on the network.
Let's put it this way: I just bought an iPhone unlock for $1.99 USD that worked fine. This isn't supposed to be possible, given the current AT&T unlock process.
Moving the lock to the phone, though, has its own problems, namely, the thief doesn't know the phone is locked until after it's stolen. What are they going to do, mail it back?
Which is why I said they promised they wouldn't do that last join! Because you know, that would be a violation of your rights. We would never do that, even to test to see if the metadata is accurate. Because that would be mostly against the law. Sort of, I mean, unless we actually listen to the call we're not violating anything.
Metadata isn't data - it's data about your data. So it's not really subject to protection, because it's not what you're doing, it's information about what you're doing. It's not an illegal search, because we just want to know about what you're doing, not what you're actually doing. OK?
It's not like we're listening in on your calls, we're just watching to whom and when you call. I mean, it's not like we're doing a database join to find out who's on the other end of the call. That would be an invasion of your privacy. It's just their phone number, IMEI, network identifier, and the start/end geopoints. That's OK. I mean if your parents were at home they could see your phone bill and see who you called too. So we're like your parents that way. We would't give that data to another agency either. Well, unless they asked for it. But they probably won't do that.
So you see, you really have nothing to worry about. It's not a violation of your rights, it's a strengthening of your rights. Because like other government agencies, we only have your best interests at heart. Well other agencies that aren't the IRS. But you know what I mean.
If you "mind" something, it generally means that you attempt to avoid it when possible.
Statement #1: I don't mind people with excessive body odor, which is why I hang out when them so much. Statement #2: I put up with people with excessive body odor because they work near me.
When you think of, say, amazon streaming, netflix, Apple Fairplay, do you think statement #1 or #2 applies?
When it comes to DRM, neither one applies, because the public doesn't give a shit about DRM. People want to consume content for as little as possible.
As someone else pointed out, people are still renting Blu-Ray and DVDs.
The general success of iTunes shows that consumers don't really mind DRM as long as it's not intrusive. Going DRM free was great, and DRM still exists for movies/TV shows on iTunes...and for most downloadable movies, etc. Audible still uses DRM as well, and they're not slowing down any.
At some point Apple's going to have to increase the device count on what's left of the Fairplay infrastructure...but until then, whatever's left of Fairplay really is fine.
As a note, what the OP wants already exists: it's called Kindle for XXX, and it's not a pain at all, from what I've been told by kindle users.
Occam's Razor is a cheap parlor trick used by the mentally lazy to dismiss, well, everything.
If you said "billions and billions of random events occurred to create anti-entropic self-organizing entities" people would say "well, Occam's Razor says no." And yet here we are.
Did you know that the Internets are not free? The wires, the airwaves, the electrons, the content, the everything in it are all controlled by proprietary organizations that want YOU to give up your rights.
We at the FIF (Free Internet Foundation) want that to change. So next week, we will boycott the Internet until it's free. That's right, until every part of the Internet is free (and that's free as in unencumbered, not free as in beer) we will refuse to use it.
The boycott starts 6/1! Mark your paper calendars everyone! The revolution starts soon!
Well, you may dispute the origin of the study, but they have data and the original one does not.
If this was real science, which one would you believe, the one with data and a methodology that you can criticize, or the one that pulls random numbers out of their ass for political gain?
Instead of having it on thecloud exclusively, why not use a local PC as a local cache and sync back to the cloud when needed? The downside is you need to make your system more robust, since people can obviously hack on the local PC data.
But if the data is really all prerendered stuff, then why not?
Simple:
If they don't have a local PC, then use the cloud. If they have a local PC, then use that as the primary tier and sync back to the cloud. If they need access to that data from another location, tunnel to the local PC if required.
You have to design around sync problems (what happens if the PC is off and the game starts, then the PC gets turned on, etc.). That's a pain to develop, but it'll also be better for the user.
I can't believe that someone with such a low ID still spouts this kind of crap. It's fucking 2013. If you don't understand why Apple does what it does by now, you might as well suck on a tailpipe. If you have a tesla, lick the plug.
In any case, you should get out of the tech industry. Apple's rationale is perfectly well known, so an oldfag bitching about it is intentional obtuseness.
How much time did it take to go through the laptop intercepts every day? Is your house in Belize for sale? Have you tried the Fish & Chips at the Frying Scotsman?
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Apple used to do that all the time back in the day, before they started doing well. They used to sell shares of ARM to keep themselves afloat. In fact, there's an article about it, so I don't have to rely on my faulty memory.
http://www.cultofmac.com/97055/this-is-how-arm-saved-apple-from-going-bust-1990s/
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Maybe it's dumb-ass developers like this one who jerk off with technology instead of writing things that customers actually want?
There is an incentive to declare your container overweight, because there is a weight limit for each container. Two containers is more expensive than one, obviously. So you are incentivized to pack your stuff as tightly as possible.
However, there's a limit to how overweight your container can be. The container can hold around 28,000 kg. Its interior dimensions, however, are pretty fixed. How dense can you pack your goods? If you've done any shipping, you know that while you can pack stuff in, there's a point where you'll damage your goods. That's even more applicable for heavy goods, like industrial equipment.
Do they actually use software to place containers? My limited exposure to a container yard says no. They load the boxes on there, and well, where it goes is where it goes.
If it really was due to being overweight, how much overweight would each container have to be to cause the ship to snap in half?
It's like that with most things written by reporters - if you know enough about what they're writing, you realize that they're sort of wrong. And you start to wonder how much other stuff is wrong.
But - but - cobol is supposed to be self-documenting!
Married employees with kids and a mortgage don't have as much leeway to indulge their conscience.
Sad, but true.
What do the aid organizations value? Do they want a sustainable shelter that's designed for people to live in for a decade, or do they want a cheap crappy solution?
I suppose it depends on who the organizations service. Does it serve the refugees or the conscience of the donors?
The biggest fear is that a group of people who are clueless about what actual customers want and never talk to anyone outside their small circle believe that they know more about what customers want than people that actually talk to customers.
Are we talking about China?
Nobody wants your software. So you might as well release it totally unencumbered.
One argument against IMEI blacklisting is that for it to be effective you need a single registry that all the carriers in the world subscribe to. In addition, it won't work very well if a CSR can just toggle the flag to let the phone on the network.
Let's put it this way: I just bought an iPhone unlock for $1.99 USD that worked fine. This isn't supposed to be possible, given the current AT&T unlock process.
Moving the lock to the phone, though, has its own problems, namely, the thief doesn't know the phone is locked until after it's stolen. What are they going to do, mail it back?
Which is why I said they promised they wouldn't do that last join! Because you know, that would be a violation of your rights. We would never do that, even to test to see if the metadata is accurate. Because that would be mostly against the law. Sort of, I mean, unless we actually listen to the call we're not violating anything.
Metadata isn't data - it's data about your data. So it's not really subject to protection, because it's not what you're doing, it's information about what you're doing. It's not an illegal search, because we just want to know about what you're doing, not what you're actually doing. OK?
It's not like we're listening in on your calls, we're just watching to whom and when you call. I mean, it's not like we're doing a database join to find out who's on the other end of the call. That would be an invasion of your privacy. It's just their phone number, IMEI, network identifier, and the start/end geopoints. That's OK. I mean if your parents were at home they could see your phone bill and see who you called too. So we're like your parents that way. We would't give that data to another agency either. Well, unless they asked for it. But they probably won't do that.
So you see, you really have nothing to worry about. It's not a violation of your rights, it's a strengthening of your rights. Because like other government agencies, we only have your best interests at heart. Well other agencies that aren't the IRS. But you know what I mean.
If you "mind" something, it generally means that you attempt to avoid it when possible.
Statement #1: I don't mind people with excessive body odor, which is why I hang out when them so much.
Statement #2: I put up with people with excessive body odor because they work near me.
When you think of, say, amazon streaming, netflix, Apple Fairplay, do you think statement #1 or #2 applies?
When it comes to DRM, neither one applies, because the public doesn't give a shit about DRM. People want to consume content for as little as possible.
As someone else pointed out, people are still renting Blu-Ray and DVDs.
How does a freelance writer afford a $100k+ electric car?
The general success of iTunes shows that consumers don't really mind DRM as long as it's not intrusive. Going DRM free was great, and DRM still exists for movies/TV shows on iTunes...and for most downloadable movies, etc. Audible still uses DRM as well, and they're not slowing down any.
At some point Apple's going to have to increase the device count on what's left of the Fairplay infrastructure...but until then, whatever's left of Fairplay really is fine.
As a note, what the OP wants already exists: it's called Kindle for XXX, and it's not a pain at all, from what I've been told by kindle users.
Occam's Razor is a cheap parlor trick used by the mentally lazy to dismiss, well, everything.
If you said "billions and billions of random events occurred to create anti-entropic self-organizing entities" people would say "well, Occam's Razor says no." And yet here we are.
Did you know that the Internets are not free? The wires, the airwaves, the electrons, the content, the everything in it are all controlled by proprietary organizations that want YOU to give up your rights.
We at the FIF (Free Internet Foundation) want that to change. So next week, we will boycott the Internet until it's free. That's right, until every part of the Internet is free (and that's free as in unencumbered, not free as in beer) we will refuse to use it.
The boycott starts 6/1! Mark your paper calendars everyone! The revolution starts soon!
I learned to program by reverse engineering software protection schemes on Apple ][.
Well, you may dispute the origin of the study, but they have data and the original one does not.
If this was real science, which one would you believe, the one with data and a methodology that you can criticize, or the one that pulls random numbers out of their ass for political gain?
Instead of having it on thecloud exclusively, why not use a local PC as a local cache and sync back to the cloud when needed? The downside is you need to make your system more robust, since people can obviously hack on the local PC data.
But if the data is really all prerendered stuff, then why not?
Simple:
If they don't have a local PC, then use the cloud.
If they have a local PC, then use that as the primary tier and sync back to the cloud.
If they need access to that data from another location, tunnel to the local PC if required.
You have to design around sync problems (what happens if the PC is off and the game starts, then the PC gets turned on, etc.). That's a pain to develop, but it'll also be better for the user.
I can't believe that someone with such a low ID still spouts this kind of crap. It's fucking 2013. If you don't understand why Apple does what it does by now, you might as well suck on a tailpipe. If you have a tesla, lick the plug.
In any case, you should get out of the tech industry. Apple's rationale is perfectly well known, so an oldfag bitching about it is intentional obtuseness.
In real life, building material is re-used. In fact, it may be the only benefit of these structures for "the people".
The limestone casing of the pyramids? Gone. Various ruins around Europe? Once abandoned, people used them for building materials.
Not every old thing is worth saving.
I missed the question thread, but:
How much time did it take to go through the laptop intercepts every day?
Is your house in Belize for sale?
Have you tried the Fish & Chips at the Frying Scotsman?