Smart move from Apple - even if it was to replace a previous dumb move.
Apple can do fine living in isolation developing hardware enclosures and user interfaces, but the world of AI is much bigger than Apple and it's where the majority of progress in the computing world is going to happen now.
I'm happy Apple has realised this. Apple vs "the rest of the world" in developing AI was not going to end well for them.
I think it's time to let the 2005 Sony BMG rootkit on a music CD scandal go. 10 years is l good time to hold them accountable, but I don't think you should hold Sony hardware division accountable for Sony BMG's bad action for the rest of existence.
So getting somewhat off-topic, Scott Adams' argument appears to be:
Some people call Trump Hitler - when he's not (which I 100% agree with Scott on that one)
The DNC have spent a lot of effort spinning opinion against Trump.
Because of that, clearly the arguments against Trump are an illusion that's shared with most anti-trumpers
My counter argument would be:
Comparing him to Hitler isn't the only argument against Trump. There are many others which I believe are valid.
GOP have been smearing her for her political lifetime where as the DNC have only been smearing Trump since it was clear he was going to win the Primary.
Plenty of people call Hillary corrupt devil politician in ways way over the top.
Still I agree, Slashdot could have done without this story.
Pretty sure the instant -1 is due to the subject being "We're going to nuke Russia" which is obviously mass hyperbole, and that "Because Hillary and the DNC was embarrassed when trying to commit crimes." without any discussion of what crimes the DNC apparently had exposed by the hack.
The OP did give an opinion, but added nothing to the discussion.
It's the case in Australia if you believe this document from some well respected government scientific institutions (see the second page under Recent Trends) http://www.climateinstitute.or...
I can't speak for other countries.
When Netflix pays for stealth marketing, do you think they want a headline "Netflix goes down, people discover real life"?
You think they're secretly paying Slashdot or msmarsh for that?
Because this wasn't a surprise Apple just dumped on people, this was a well established by the open Swift community.
The core language itself has only really had minor tweaks, how the standard Apple libraries are referenced is what's caused the major change (e.g. not so much the language was horrible in v2 but awkward naming conventions from bridging the Objective-C way of doing things) as well as some naming changes for Swift standard libraries.
Presumably if they went with Swift it was for an iOS/OSX project where Objective-C was the alternative. I find I'm much more productive in Swift than Obj-C, and time spent migrating Swift 2 to 3 for me is dwarfed by the time I saved using Swift.
So to answer your question: If the upgrade doesn't take long he should take a pay cut because: this wasn't a surprise that jumped on them, this was a well known and documented set of upcoming changes that shouldn't take much time to implement - especially given the (not always perfect) migration tools provided.
If the OP wants to say that everyone else is wrong all the time and get a pay raise when he's proven right then he should get a pay cut if he's proven wrong.
> Ask anyone who has ever works with classified material. They would be in jail, for a long time, if they had done just once what Clinton did with great regularity.
Really, because Condolezza Rice and Colin Powel are still at large:
The difference between weather and climate is basically time.
The hottest year on record is just the last data point of an increasing temperature over time http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gist...
Granted I would like to see a story of "This is the warmest 10 years" or 20, but that kind of news doesn't trigger the newspapers (well not until the numbers are nice and round when we hit 2020)
And there still might be some merit in pointing out this bit of weather since it's the hottest it's been for the last 100+ years. You don't want to over focus at a single data point but if that data point is an outlier it deserves some attention.
Fair call, but remember that the little shits of every generation since the internet got up to the same kind of shit - causing destruction and stress for the sake of impacting the world.
Everyone grows out of it, but then new kids grow into it.
Wash, rinse, repeat.
Hey axewolf,
"The fact that it is WIDELY subsidized by the government implies the 'necessity'."
Eh? The government also subsidizes the arts and sports.
"Why is it more important to sacrifice your instincts, the substance of your being, that which led to the formation of your body, for momentary respite from pressures from society?"
Eh? Where's the sacrifice? Women can choose to have children when they have a financial and relationship stability. I'm going to take a wild guess and assume you're a man who doesn't need to worry about the personal implications of having a baby without the previous two things in place.
"It's pretty disturbing that you get modded up for saying things so incredibly..."
From this point on you just went on a wild insulting rambling. The doctor's and government officials aren't deciding anything for anyone here. They're giving medical advice and allowing people to choose birth control. The doctor's aren't prescribing birth control and laughing about how they made women better workers.
Anyway, I know there's no actual point replying to you, in fact so far every reply I've seen to a post of yours just makes you madder and act more paranoid delusional. Just wanted the post you replied to to have some backup.
Yeah, to be fair to your point, I don't think Facebook is really hurting when it comes to disk space.
The delete does sound more like a strong-arm tactic than a - we need to do this to keep things manageable - tactic.
Well to achieve the same effect as that now you could just download a disgusting image and send it as an attachment. Messages would automatically show it.
Thanks for the info.
I know Facebook isn't the most altruistic business by any stretch, but I never understood the massive hate for breaking messages out into a message app, and similarly for this.
A separate app for messages makes a lot of sense, especially when it comes to notification settings, updates and local storage. All these apps are dollar amount free, and I feel their separation is for a cleaner technical experience rather than anything nefarious.
I completely respect people who don't want to use Facebook for privacy or other reasons, but I don't feel this is a smoking gun of them hating their users or even mistreating them.
So can someone explain if the following is true as it's my understanding:
* Facebook can be configured to automatically sync photos from your mobile device.
* That makes it super quick to share a photo. (and probably gives Facebook access to all your photos without user intervention)
* Now Facebook will discard the server side copy of photos that you never shared or put into an album unless you install moments?
Sorry if I've got my facts wrong, though it's so hard to work out the actual facts when 99% of discussion is Facebook bashing rather than fact discussing.
(No fan of Facebook policies here myself, just annoyed at how hard it is to work out what's going on outside of "Facebook = evil")
True, but as you alluded to, who knows what laws of physics govern the reality of the parent universe?
It could even be a tiny universe where lost energy is easily reflected, assuming conservation of energy is even a thing.
Or maybe one day we'll just stop when the parent universe breaks.
(If we are in a simulation or the "true reality" I don't think it makes much difference, it's fun to think about tho)
I know they're not perfect, but the majority of Apple updates just work and don't revamp the complete user experience.
There are two parts to this problem:
* Aggressive updates that almost try to trick you (Apple at least doesn't do the tricking part)
* Updates that break things
Hey axewolf.
Here's an example of politicians being all "I will tell you what the solution is, you guys can work out the details" when the solution is bad or unworkable because no experts were consulted https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
These people are very smart at business, good at making deals. That doesn't mean they're smart at tech or give enough respect to experts.
As someone who works in tech who often consults with business people, I've seen this behaviour a lot. Often I can influence the situation enough, many times I can't.
By all means, I'm not saying that politicians have not been largely corrupted, and many prefer power over benefiting the common man, that doesn't mean that every bad decision is due to a malicious plot. This was just some people ignorant of the facts, who were too proud to be convinced otherwise, when they thought "Terrorists use encryption - we need to make it so we can counter terrorist encryption".
Whoah there buddy.
I'm going to agree with the OP.
The government on the whole is ignorant about tech. They're very "I'm an ideas man" kind of people, which is code for, "I can say stuff without having to think the consequences through".
They think you can open up encryption safely without the "bad guys" getting to it, and they also think that law enforcement is on whole the "good guys".
Counter point : You are a HUGE Part of the problem because you make everybody resisting well meaning but ultimately stupid legislation look like tin foil hat wearers causing our objections to be dismissed outright.
Counter counter point : Ignorance or shadow war - we both want these kind of people out of office. Don't go on a massive personal attack on somebody who would ally with you against this kind of stuff.
I read the article, I didn't see where it said that.
It was concerned with the level of spying on people during a deeply personal time.
The same way if atheists targeted people in churches with anti-religious adverts.
Slashdot Mirror
Smart move from Apple - even if it was to replace a previous dumb move.
Apple can do fine living in isolation developing hardware enclosures and user interfaces, but the world of AI is much bigger than Apple and it's where the majority of progress in the computing world is going to happen now.
I'm happy Apple has realised this. Apple vs "the rest of the world" in developing AI was not going to end well for them.
Man, a lot of people losing their minds due to your post for some undefinable reason.
Anyway, thanks for the post, was informative.
I think it's time to let the 2005 Sony BMG rootkit on a music CD scandal go. 10 years is l good time to hold them accountable, but I don't think you should hold Sony hardware division accountable for Sony BMG's bad action for the rest of existence.
So getting somewhat off-topic, Scott Adams' argument appears to be:
Some people call Trump Hitler - when he's not (which I 100% agree with Scott on that one)
The DNC have spent a lot of effort spinning opinion against Trump.
Because of that, clearly the arguments against Trump are an illusion that's shared with most anti-trumpers
My counter argument would be:
Comparing him to Hitler isn't the only argument against Trump. There are many others which I believe are valid.
GOP have been smearing her for her political lifetime where as the DNC have only been smearing Trump since it was clear he was going to win the Primary.
Plenty of people call Hillary corrupt devil politician in ways way over the top.
Still I agree, Slashdot could have done without this story.
Pretty sure the instant -1 is due to the subject being "We're going to nuke Russia" which is obviously mass hyperbole, and that "Because Hillary and the DNC was embarrassed when trying to commit crimes." without any discussion of what crimes the DNC apparently had exposed by the hack.
The OP did give an opinion, but added nothing to the discussion.
It's the case in Australia if you believe this document from some well respected government scientific institutions (see the second page under Recent Trends)
http://www.climateinstitute.or...
I can't speak for other countries.
When Netflix pays for stealth marketing, do you think they want a headline "Netflix goes down, people discover real life"?
You think they're secretly paying Slashdot or msmarsh for that?
As far as I can tell it's off by default.
http://www.macrumors.com/2016/...
Don't worry, Apple's arrogance is large... but finite.
Because this wasn't a surprise Apple just dumped on people, this was a well established by the open Swift community.
The core language itself has only really had minor tweaks, how the standard Apple libraries are referenced is what's caused the major change (e.g. not so much the language was horrible in v2 but awkward naming conventions from bridging the Objective-C way of doing things) as well as some naming changes for Swift standard libraries.
Presumably if they went with Swift it was for an iOS/OSX project where Objective-C was the alternative. I find I'm much more productive in Swift than Obj-C, and time spent migrating Swift 2 to 3 for me is dwarfed by the time I saved using Swift.
So to answer your question: If the upgrade doesn't take long he should take a pay cut because: this wasn't a surprise that jumped on them, this was a well known and documented set of upcoming changes that shouldn't take much time to implement - especially given the (not always perfect) migration tools provided.
If the OP wants to say that everyone else is wrong all the time and get a pay raise when he's proven right then he should get a pay cut if he's proven wrong.
And if it takes them under a day to migrate to Swift 3 will you ask for a pay cut?
And thank goodness they do that.
Otherwise we'd be on OS 9x on PowerPC.
> Ask anyone who has ever works with classified material. They would be in jail, for a long time, if they had done just once what Clinton did with great regularity.
Really, because Condolezza Rice and Colin Powel are still at large:
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics...
The difference between weather and climate is basically time.
The hottest year on record is just the last data point of an increasing temperature over time http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gist...
Granted I would like to see a story of "This is the warmest 10 years" or 20, but that kind of news doesn't trigger the newspapers (well not until the numbers are nice and round when we hit 2020)
And there still might be some merit in pointing out this bit of weather since it's the hottest it's been for the last 100+ years. You don't want to over focus at a single data point but if that data point is an outlier it deserves some attention.
Fair call, but remember that the little shits of every generation since the internet got up to the same kind of shit - causing destruction and stress for the sake of impacting the world.
Everyone grows out of it, but then new kids grow into it.
Wash, rinse, repeat.
Hey axewolf,
"The fact that it is WIDELY subsidized by the government implies the 'necessity'."
Eh? The government also subsidizes the arts and sports.
"Why is it more important to sacrifice your instincts, the substance of your being, that which led to the formation of your body, for momentary respite from pressures from society?"
Eh? Where's the sacrifice? Women can choose to have children when they have a financial and relationship stability. I'm going to take a wild guess and assume you're a man who doesn't need to worry about the personal implications of having a baby without the previous two things in place.
"It's pretty disturbing that you get modded up for saying things so incredibly..."
From this point on you just went on a wild insulting rambling. The doctor's and government officials aren't deciding anything for anyone here. They're giving medical advice and allowing people to choose birth control. The doctor's aren't prescribing birth control and laughing about how they made women better workers.
Anyway, I know there's no actual point replying to you, in fact so far every reply I've seen to a post of yours just makes you madder and act more paranoid delusional. Just wanted the post you replied to to have some backup.
Take it easy man.
Yeah, to be fair to your point, I don't think Facebook is really hurting when it comes to disk space.
The delete does sound more like a strong-arm tactic than a - we need to do this to keep things manageable - tactic.
Well to achieve the same effect as that now you could just download a disgusting image and send it as an attachment. Messages would automatically show it.
Thanks for the info.
I know Facebook isn't the most altruistic business by any stretch, but I never understood the massive hate for breaking messages out into a message app, and similarly for this.
A separate app for messages makes a lot of sense, especially when it comes to notification settings, updates and local storage. All these apps are dollar amount free, and I feel their separation is for a cleaner technical experience rather than anything nefarious.
I completely respect people who don't want to use Facebook for privacy or other reasons, but I don't feel this is a smoking gun of them hating their users or even mistreating them.
So can someone explain if the following is true as it's my understanding:
* Facebook can be configured to automatically sync photos from your mobile device.
* That makes it super quick to share a photo. (and probably gives Facebook access to all your photos without user intervention)
* Now Facebook will discard the server side copy of photos that you never shared or put into an album unless you install moments?
Sorry if I've got my facts wrong, though it's so hard to work out the actual facts when 99% of discussion is Facebook bashing rather than fact discussing.
(No fan of Facebook policies here myself, just annoyed at how hard it is to work out what's going on outside of "Facebook = evil")
True, but as you alluded to, who knows what laws of physics govern the reality of the parent universe?
It could even be a tiny universe where lost energy is easily reflected, assuming conservation of energy is even a thing.
Or maybe one day we'll just stop when the parent universe breaks.
(If we are in a simulation or the "true reality" I don't think it makes much difference, it's fun to think about tho)
Hey that's my line! (which granted I stole from that quote)
I know they're not perfect, but the majority of Apple updates just work and don't revamp the complete user experience.
There are two parts to this problem:
* Aggressive updates that almost try to trick you (Apple at least doesn't do the tricking part)
* Updates that break things
Hey axewolf.
Here's an example of politicians being all "I will tell you what the solution is, you guys can work out the details" when the solution is bad or unworkable because no experts were consulted https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
These people are very smart at business, good at making deals. That doesn't mean they're smart at tech or give enough respect to experts.
As someone who works in tech who often consults with business people, I've seen this behaviour a lot. Often I can influence the situation enough, many times I can't.
By all means, I'm not saying that politicians have not been largely corrupted, and many prefer power over benefiting the common man, that doesn't mean that every bad decision is due to a malicious plot. This was just some people ignorant of the facts, who were too proud to be convinced otherwise, when they thought "Terrorists use encryption - we need to make it so we can counter terrorist encryption".
Whoah there buddy.
I'm going to agree with the OP.
The government on the whole is ignorant about tech. They're very "I'm an ideas man" kind of people, which is code for, "I can say stuff without having to think the consequences through".
They think you can open up encryption safely without the "bad guys" getting to it, and they also think that law enforcement is on whole the "good guys".
Counter point : You are a HUGE Part of the problem because you make everybody resisting well meaning but ultimately stupid legislation look like tin foil hat wearers causing our objections to be dismissed outright.
Counter counter point : Ignorance or shadow war - we both want these kind of people out of office. Don't go on a massive personal attack on somebody who would ally with you against this kind of stuff.
I read the article, I didn't see where it said that. It was concerned with the level of spying on people during a deeply personal time. The same way if atheists targeted people in churches with anti-religious adverts.