Why do we keep covering these obvious causation vs correlation studies. Heck this one looks like it was crafted in reverse just to tarnish low carb diets. They get 2 minute blurbs on news stations and you never hear from them again. Ridiculous.
Almost everyone I know who eats low carb does so for a reason. They are fat, prone to be fat, diabetic, celiacs, or some other health problem that made them switch to low carb in the first place. Otherwise healthy people generally don't choose low carb without a health problem first.
they're just a company that very often comes up with some good ideas
OK, I will grant you that that point is a lie. Apple did have a record of coming up with good ideas until pencil-pusher Tim Cook arrived, now they only have pencil pusher ideas and squeeze more milk out of aging camp follower ideas.
"I will grant you that that point is a lie?!?"
WTF?!? That sentence is a completely self-negating non-sequitur!
The problem with not having a hardware parallel port is some new and modern things still require them:( My pals new plasma cutter requires a hardware parallel port [cant' use a usb to parallel dongle] I've installed a couple laser cutters that still require them as well. Pain in the ass having to also order a PCI Express Dual Profile Parallel Adapter Card because most modern PCs not only do not have a parallel port but also don't have PCI ports.
Well, the plasma cutter company needs to hire a new embedded designer and stop using the same controller that someone designed in 1989. Maybe the planet will get lucky and the CPU/microcontroller that that ancient controller uses will go obsolete, and they'll be FORCED to design a new controller. MAYBE then, they can put in a USB port!!!
From the late 1940s to about 2005, Ampex DID "do shit", they WERE undeniably relevant, as every utterance and every image that was recorded on magnetic tape from that SIX DECADE time period owes its very existence to the pioneering research spearheaded and financed by singer Bing Crosby and perfected by the scientists at Ampex; but unfortunately for them, recording tape has all but been replaced by other forms of storage media. But if you were more than 12 years old, you'd understand why people believe that their contribution to technological history deserves to be remembered.
Not only that, not only the vast legacy of classic songs recorded on 406 and 456 tape, but computers used tape as backing store until the 80s. Digital audio was only viable because of their videotape systems - it was the only medium we had with enough capacity and bandwidth to make it work. And while we have since moved on to better things, none of this would have happened without the intermediate step that Ampex made possible.
I rather doubt we'd have an internet to discuss and argue on without Ampex.
I quite agree.
Heck, DAT tapes and DLP Cartridges (what a joke THE DLP tapes were!) were used as Computer Backups WELL into the 1990s!
Apple has a long history of trying to prevent choice and innovation. They forced DR to lobotomize GEM, threatened Microsoft for the best part of a decade to prevent them from producing a decent UI for Windows (you really don't want to know what Windows was like pre-95), and until the late nineties was notorious for avoiding open technologies, even when there was no serious advantage to its own. While things warmed again under Jobs, the latter went ballistic over Google's Android despite the iPhone itself being a blatant copy of an LG design.
They're not the good guys, they're just a company that very often comes up with some good ideas.
Every single bit of that is a lie.
Sorry, every bit of that is bang on, I saw it all with my own eyes. And that's just the tip of it. Being charitable to Apple if anything, maybe that is a mistake.
You do realize, of course, that your "citations" add up to a big "Because I said so.", right?
Don't be disingenuous.
I'm not. Don't be deliberately obtuse.
I will say this for you: you have that arrogance thing down pat. You have that newspeak thing down pat. You are the reason people hate Apple, you are a fine ambassador. Carry on.
So much blathering, and yet STILL not a SINGLE CITATION!
We'd still be setting 9600,N,8,1 for our Printers and using Parallel Ports for our Scanners if we lived in YOUR world.
No, if we lived in your world we'd have replaced parallel and serial ports with IrDA, rather than waiting for USB, Ethernet, and Wi-fi to come along.
You are literally arguing for change for the sake of change, without any regard to whether something is actually an improvement or not. Do you work for Twitter perhaps?
You don't think USB was an improvement of RS-232 Ports for the majority of regular users?
IrDA was shit. I did build it into one product; but it was pretty much the only thing that would have worked.
But if you were more than 12 years old, you'd understand why people believe that their contribution to technological history deserves to be remembered.
WTF does that have to do with the stupid sign? If their contributions to technology were significant then they will stand on their own merits. We don't need a billboard to remind us of that fact long after the company has faded from relevance and memory. There are better ways to remind ourselves of our heritage than preserving irrelevant street signs.
If your mobile OS isn't spying on you, your apps are. It's their revenue generator, and you won't avoid it without paying some other way.
Not that paying for services and avoiding the intrusive spying wouldn't be good, but sooner or later demand for revenue growth will force them to spy again. And then offer you privacy-for-pay. And more pay. Repeat.
If you're talking about Apple, their "revenue generator" is Device and App Sales.
Who cares? Are we supposed to hold on to everything, forever, because it tickles some neurons of your memory from 40 years ago? Again, WTF cares? They're dead, not relevant, didn't mean shit, didn't do shit, good riddance. What are we gonna do next, reminisce at all those CBS outdoor billboards next? Ooooohhh, there's another one! Remember when it had the advert for Captain Morgan on it last year? Sigh... those were the days.:(
From the late 1940s to about 2005, Ampex DID "do shit", they WERE undeniably relevant, as every utterance and every image that was recorded on magnetic tape from that SIX DECADE time period owes its very existence to the pioneering research spearheaded and financed by singer Bing Crosby and perfected by the scientists at Ampex; but unfortunately for them, recording tape has all but been replaced by other forms of storage media. But if you were more than 12 years old, you'd understand why people believe that their contribution to technological history deserves to be remembered.
Headphones are not obsolete; just the wire between your head and the music.
No they aren't, just because some company is too lazy or incompetent to incorporate it into their 'design philosophy' does not make it obsolete.
In an age where every wireless signal can be hacked, it is quite ironic that they are trying to abandon the 'wire'. Good headphones can last a decade, when the non replaceable battery starts to decline in three years you just throw them out? Stupid.
Good headphones can last a decade; but their cables rarely do.
Why is this bad thing? Do you like the look and feel of an iPhone but don't like iOS, now you have an option. They were obviously very deliberate in creating a phone they thought would attract iPhone fans. Maybe it's because it doesn't cost more since there's no Apple logo on it that people are upset.
Every damn SUV out there looks the same now. No one complains when calls Kia shameless when they make their SUVs look like Lexus.
It might attract SOME iPhone fans... Until they start using it.
To be fair, phones didn't start looking like the iPhone until the iPhone came out. Check out what the first Android phone looked like (the HTC Dream) that came out a bit after the release of the iPhone, then check out the second model that came out a year later (The MyTouch 3G) They dropped the keyboard *real* fast after the iPhone came out.
WHY are we STILL having this argument?
It has been proven time and again that EVERYONE copied the first iPhone.
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Why do we keep covering these obvious causation vs correlation studies. Heck this one looks like it was crafted in reverse just to tarnish low carb diets. They get 2 minute blurbs on news stations and you never hear from them again. Ridiculous.
Follow the Funding...
Almost everyone I know who eats low carb does so for a reason. They are fat, prone to be fat, diabetic, celiacs, or some other health problem that made them switch to low carb in the first place. Otherwise healthy people generally don't choose low carb without a health problem first.
Exactly.
I read a report this week that sticking long term low carb diets may trigger diabetes also.
Who to believe? I guess I should just outdoors and do some physical activity instead of stuffing my face with food while reading slashdot!
Was that "study" perchance funded by the corn growers lobby?
they're just a company that very often comes up with some good ideas
OK, I will grant you that that point is a lie. Apple did have a record of coming up with good ideas until pencil-pusher Tim Cook arrived, now they only have pencil pusher ideas and squeeze more milk out of aging camp follower ideas.
"I will grant you that that point is a lie?!?"
WTF?!? That sentence is a completely self-negating non-sequitur!
So much blathering, and yet STILL not a SINGLE CITATION!
Google them yourself you pompous ass. Every one of OPs original points is a matter of public record.
Google what, exactly?
By the way if you want to plug a plasma cutter on Mac Pro, iMac Pro or Macbookpro...
...or about 95% of the pre-built computers in the world produced in the past 20 years...
Your point being?
The problem with not having a hardware parallel port is some new and modern things still require them :( My pals new plasma cutter requires a hardware parallel port [cant' use a usb to parallel dongle] I've installed a couple laser cutters that still require them as well. Pain in the ass having to also order a PCI Express Dual Profile Parallel Adapter Card because most modern PCs not only do not have a parallel port but also don't have PCI ports.
Well, the plasma cutter company needs to hire a new embedded designer and stop using the same controller that someone designed in 1989. Maybe the planet will get lucky and the CPU/microcontroller that that ancient controller uses will go obsolete, and they'll be FORCED to design a new controller. MAYBE then, they can put in a USB port!!!
But with apple ; pay $150 and get $10 worth of performance.
Not according to only every review I've read.
Actually, a faster horse sounds awesome. And Henry Ford was a Nazi, so who gives a fuck what he thinks?
Henry Ford was CERTAINLY an Anti-Semite and a Nazi Sympathizer; but as far as an actual Nazi, sorry, no.
And he was also an industrial visionary; so...?
Apple copied everything good from Xerox Parc.
No, they PAID for the privilege. Essentially, a "Licensing" deal.
And they MUCH improved upon Xerox' clumsy first attempts at a workable GUI.
Here: Get your history straight, and stop embarrassing yourself in public:
https://www.mac-history.net/co...
What's that? You're breaking up again. Are you on Bluetooth?
Man, I freaking hate it when people call me using a bluetooth earpiece.
You mean a CRAPPY Bluetooth earpiece.
Like everything else, if you pay $10 for it, expect $10 worth of performance.
From the late 1940s to about 2005, Ampex DID "do shit", they WERE undeniably relevant, as every utterance and every image that was recorded on magnetic tape from that SIX DECADE time period owes its very existence to the pioneering research spearheaded and financed by singer Bing Crosby and perfected by the scientists at Ampex; but unfortunately for them, recording tape has all but been replaced by other forms of storage media. But if you were more than 12 years old, you'd understand why people believe that their contribution to technological history deserves to be remembered.
Not only that, not only the vast legacy of classic songs recorded on 406 and 456 tape, but computers used tape as backing store until the 80s. Digital audio was only viable because of their videotape systems - it was the only medium we had with enough capacity and bandwidth to make it work. And while we have since moved on to better things, none of this would have happened without the intermediate step that Ampex made possible.
I rather doubt we'd have an internet to discuss and argue on without Ampex.
I quite agree.
Heck, DAT tapes and DLP Cartridges (what a joke THE DLP tapes were!) were used as Computer Backups WELL into the 1990s!
Some people just don't get it.
Apple has a long history of trying to prevent choice and innovation. They forced DR to lobotomize GEM, threatened Microsoft for the best part of a decade to prevent them from producing a decent UI for Windows (you really don't want to know what Windows was like pre-95), and until the late nineties was notorious for avoiding open technologies, even when there was no serious advantage to its own. While things warmed again under Jobs, the latter went ballistic over Google's Android despite the iPhone itself being a blatant copy of an LG design.
They're not the good guys, they're just a company that very often comes up with some good ideas.
Every single bit of that is a lie.
Sorry, every bit of that is bang on, I saw it all with my own eyes. And that's just the tip of it. Being charitable to Apple if anything, maybe that is a mistake.
You do realize, of course, that your "citations" add up to a big "Because I said so.", right?
Don't be disingenuous.
I'm not. Don't be deliberately obtuse.
I will say this for you: you have that arrogance thing down pat. You have that newspeak thing down pat. You are the reason people hate Apple, you are a fine ambassador. Carry on.
So much blathering, and yet STILL not a SINGLE CITATION!
Remarkable.
yes typically they last 9.5 years only.
Only if they just sit on the shelf.
No, if we lived in your world we'd have replaced parallel and serial ports with IrDA, rather than waiting for USB, Ethernet, and Wi-fi to come along.
You are literally arguing for change for the sake of change, without any regard to whether something is actually an improvement or not. Do you work for Twitter perhaps?
You don't think USB was an improvement of RS-232 Ports for the majority of regular users?
IrDA was shit. I did build it into one product; but it was pretty much the only thing that would have worked.
But if you were more than 12 years old, you'd understand why people believe that their contribution to technological history deserves to be remembered.
WTF does that have to do with the stupid sign? If their contributions to technology were significant then they will stand on their own merits. We don't need a billboard to remind us of that fact long after the company has faded from relevance and memory. There are better ways to remind ourselves of our heritage than preserving irrelevant street signs.
Name 3.
And app sales are driven by revenue, which they take a share of from the app sellers.
It's revenue all the way down.
...and of course Apple doesn't supply any services for that "share", right?
A jack makes a big difference.
An iPhone X has a jack.
And you are The Fake Fake Steve Jobs.
That doesn't even make sense.
If your mobile OS isn't spying on you, your apps are. It's their revenue generator, and you won't avoid it without paying some other way.
Not that paying for services and avoiding the intrusive spying wouldn't be good, but sooner or later demand for revenue growth will force them to spy again. And then offer you privacy-for-pay. And more pay. Repeat.
If you're talking about Apple, their "revenue generator" is Device and App Sales.
Who cares? Are we supposed to hold on to everything, forever, because it tickles some neurons of your memory from 40 years ago? Again, WTF cares? They're dead, not relevant, didn't mean shit, didn't do shit, good riddance. What are we gonna do next, reminisce at all those CBS outdoor billboards next? Ooooohhh, there's another one! Remember when it had the advert for Captain Morgan on it last year? Sigh... those were the days. :(
From the late 1940s to about 2005, Ampex DID "do shit", they WERE undeniably relevant, as every utterance and every image that was recorded on magnetic tape from that SIX DECADE time period owes its very existence to the pioneering research spearheaded and financed by singer Bing Crosby and perfected by the scientists at Ampex; but unfortunately for them, recording tape has all but been replaced by other forms of storage media. But if you were more than 12 years old, you'd understand why people believe that their contribution to technological history deserves to be remembered.
Headphones are not obsolete; just the wire between your head and the music.
No they aren't, just because some company is too lazy or incompetent to incorporate it into their 'design philosophy' does not make it obsolete.
In an age where every wireless signal can be hacked, it is quite ironic that they are trying to abandon the 'wire'. Good headphones can last a decade, when the non replaceable battery starts to decline in three years you just throw them out? Stupid.
Good headphones can last a decade; but their cables rarely do.
Why is this bad thing? Do you like the look and feel of an iPhone but don't like iOS, now you have an option. They were obviously very deliberate in creating a phone they thought would attract iPhone fans. Maybe it's because it doesn't cost more since there's no Apple logo on it that people are upset.
Every damn SUV out there looks the same now. No one complains when calls Kia shameless when they make their SUVs look like Lexus.
It might attract SOME iPhone fans... Until they start using it.
To be fair, phones didn't start looking like the iPhone until the iPhone came out. Check out what the first Android phone looked like (the HTC Dream) that came out a bit after the release of the iPhone, then check out the second model that came out a year later (The MyTouch 3G) They dropped the keyboard *real* fast after the iPhone came out.
WHY are we STILL having this argument?
It has been proven time and again that EVERYONE copied the first iPhone.
LG Prada came out before the iPhone.
Yeah, it was SHOWN about a MONTH before. Kinda fast for Apple to be copying it, eh?