Doesn't the existing Apple passcode with fingerprint solution solve this problem (I think Samsung is doing something like this, too)? It appears to me that the device is useless to anyone except the original owner, since it can't be unlocked, even after a wipe and a re-flash. The fingerprint makes the passcode not a burden to the owner.
What's really going on here is that Comcast (and the other cable companies) realize that some/most/all of their current subscriber base is eventually going to "cut the cable" and go with internet-based TV and free broadcast TV. It's easier than you think if you have an Apple TV or Roku or some such.
What Comcast is doing is trying to find a way to keep their revenue up when they're not hauling in boatloads on the Cable TV side of the ledger. When content providers are paying for bits, then Comcast has a revenue stream to replace the revenue lost when someone cuts their cable.
Exactly which monopoly position is Apple leveraging in an illegal way? You mean using their boatload of cash? That is certainly not illegal. They do not have a monopoly position in any business whatsoever, except possibly the iPod, which no longer matters and has nothing to do with TV, anyway.
You do know that the OS back then is a completely different base than OSX? That OSX is FreeBSD based and OS9 (the one back in the late 90's) was based on the original Mac OS from 1984? That there's no relationship AT ALL between the OS's? And so there is no relationship between what viruses may have occurred on Macs in the 90's and Macs of today?
I don't think/. counts for the simple reason that everyone here is negative. Nothing works, government is stupid, all corporations are evil*, religion is stupid, life is useless, abandon all hope and go get drunk. As Buffalo Springfield once said, "nobody's right if everybody's wrong".
In the Old Testament, the Jewish people, while wandering in the desert, after seeing the parting of the Red Sea and all the miracles Moses brought down on Egypt, continue to fall away from God. He even had an actual presence in their Temple, and would show up as a flaming column from time to time. Nonetheless, they would turn to idols and he'd have to "smite" them from time to time.
So, yes, even though literally in the presence of God, some people don't believe. Odd, that.
Apple's strategy is to test, test, test and then test the best they can, release multiple beta versions to developers for testing, take a very long time to release new versions, and then patch the missed bugs that show up as fast as they can. Pretty much the way any professional software house does business.
Or are you of the opinion that it's possible to release such a massive amount of code totally bug-free?
I know, everyone is thinking term limits will solve the problem. I think that's backwards: with term limits, you have a perpetual stream of newcomers coming into congress who haven't a clue what is going on but who are determined to "fix things". With short terms, you have congress critters spending an inordinate amount of their time, attention and money on getting reelected, and making political and strategic choices for the country with reelection as the goal rather than making the country better.
We can't get money out of politics, but we can lessen it's importance. Give 'em job security, I say.
Certainly touch support is significant (and is a rather obvious difference, no?) as is the small viewport, but these differences are not significant limitations and don't make it a "mobile browser". To me, the term "mobile browser" brings up the specter of the old browsers one typically found in phones before the iPhone, and it certainly isn't that. Aside from the size and touch issues, there are no major distinctions from the desktop version of Safari. Apple doesn't even bother to have a separate page of specs for the two browsers.
I have implemented two rather complicated web apps and Safari ran fine. Just make sure you don't depend on mouseovers and keep all of the element sizes dynamic (which you should do, anyway), and you're set.
I'm a little confused by your post and what you're trying to say. Are you saying the W8000 is equivalent to the D700? The top-end Mac Pro uses the Firepro D700, which is, indeed, $3,400 at retail, not the D500, so the gent bought a D700.
Interestingly, Apple is only charging $1,000 to upgrade from two $1,400 D500's you reference above to TWO D700's.
I don't think he was trying to make an "adequate" machine. One could argue that almost any computer is "adequate", depending on your goals. He was trying to make a comparably-specced machine using off the shelf components and really couldn't do it, and the closest he could come cost a LOT more than that Mac Pro.
For folks whose profession is the processing of high-end video and photos, time is of the essence, and there really is no such thing as "adequate". The faster the better, period.
I'm sorry, but part of your comment is just plain wrong. Firstly, Apple is not collecting your fingerprint, only something similar to a hash of the fingerprint's characteristics. Secondly, it isn't shared with anyone. Thirdly, the explicitly state in this article that your actual fingerprint can not be reverse engineered from the data the store on the phone.
In addition to this, the NYPD's stated reason for pushing the iPhone 5s is that it makes iPhone theft a thing of the past, which it clearly, demonstrably does. The link you posted saying NYPD is after the fingerprints is clearly, demonstrably false. Now, I'm sure you can find folks that say something different, but I can also show you pictures of Obama shaking hands with space aliens - you can find anything you like, but it doesn't make it true.
Finally, Apple (and Google) outright deny sharing data with the NSA.
You can continue to believe that they are sharing if you like, but stating that they have admitted they are sharing is incorrect.
I think you are correct that the current leadership has not yet proven that they can innovate in the way that Mr. Jobs did. That said, the iPhone 5s is really a nice step forward, real-world tests are showing that the A7 really is a lot faster, and the fingerprint thingy is winning a lot of accolades. And, they've sold a hell of a lot of them. Nonetheless, the stock price is actually a bit lower than before the 5c/5s announcement.
The truth is that the stock price for a lot of companies, and Apple in particular, does not reflect the financial success of that company or the company's products. Just compare Amazon's numbers to Apple's and you'll get what I mean. Stock prices today are more driven by bets on where that price will be in 15 minutes (or 15 milliseconds), not how well the company will be doing in a few years. As such, stock prices for high-tech companies are not a valid way to measure the company's success in the marketplace.
You know there is absolutely no evidence whatsoever except a lot of blogosphere bloviation that Apple is making a watch? And, even beyond that, if the ARE making a watch, we have no idea what features it will have? So, just exactly how do you know Apple is wasting their time on one?
It's not choosing sides. It's holding to our principles (apparently, the world's principles) and doing what we say we will do. It is only tangentially associated with the civil war/sectarian strife/whatever we call it today.
We're not "getting involved". We're not choosing sides. We're punishing Asan for using chemical weapons on his civilian population. There is no reason it needs to be more than that.
Yeah, ya gotta wonder that no one thought to take it out of gear or turn it off. There were actually two events similar to this one, but I can't find the other. It was also a case of a long conversation with 911 and no one thought of those then, either. I guess the 911 operators aren't trained to solve caller's problems.
Being an old geezer, I take a bit of exception to this. In addition, the fatal crash that started Toyota's problems had no old geezers.. You can listen to the rather horrifying 911 call here.
As an aside, agism is just as bad as sexism, racism, homophobism, etc. Oh, and by the way, you'll be one, too.
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Doesn't the existing Apple passcode with fingerprint solution solve this problem (I think Samsung is doing something like this, too)? It appears to me that the device is useless to anyone except the original owner, since it can't be unlocked, even after a wipe and a re-flash. The fingerprint makes the passcode not a burden to the owner.
Isn't that sufficient?
What's really going on here is that Comcast (and the other cable companies) realize that some/most/all of their current subscriber base is eventually going to "cut the cable" and go with internet-based TV and free broadcast TV. It's easier than you think if you have an Apple TV or Roku or some such.
What Comcast is doing is trying to find a way to keep their revenue up when they're not hauling in boatloads on the Cable TV side of the ledger. When content providers are paying for bits, then Comcast has a revenue stream to replace the revenue lost when someone cuts their cable.
Exactly which monopoly position is Apple leveraging in an illegal way? You mean using their boatload of cash? That is certainly not illegal. They do not have a monopoly position in any business whatsoever, except possibly the iPod, which no longer matters and has nothing to do with TV, anyway.
You do know that the OS back then is a completely different base than OSX? That OSX is FreeBSD based and OS9 (the one back in the late 90's) was based on the original Mac OS from 1984? That there's no relationship AT ALL between the OS's? And so there is no relationship between what viruses may have occurred on Macs in the 90's and Macs of today?
I don't think /. counts for the simple reason that everyone here is negative. Nothing works, government is stupid, all corporations are evil*, religion is stupid, life is useless, abandon all hope and go get drunk. As Buffalo Springfield once said, "nobody's right if everybody's wrong".
*except google
In the Old Testament, the Jewish people, while wandering in the desert, after seeing the parting of the Red Sea and all the miracles Moses brought down on Egypt, continue to fall away from God. He even had an actual presence in their Temple, and would show up as a flaming column from time to time. Nonetheless, they would turn to idols and he'd have to "smite" them from time to time.
So, yes, even though literally in the presence of God, some people don't believe. Odd, that.
Apple's strategy is to test, test, test and then test the best they can, release multiple beta versions to developers for testing, take a very long time to release new versions, and then patch the missed bugs that show up as fast as they can. Pretty much the way any professional software house does business.
Or are you of the opinion that it's possible to release such a massive amount of code totally bug-free?
It blew the door off. Any small hole in the cabin at 500+MPH is considered sufficient.
Are you really saying that because something has never happened we don't need to worry about it?? Really??? Do you buy insurance?
Looks like a real threat to me.
You know this how? Cite, please, specifically regarding the FISA court, not an episode of 24 Hours.
I know, everyone is thinking term limits will solve the problem. I think that's backwards: with term limits, you have a perpetual stream of newcomers coming into congress who haven't a clue what is going on but who are determined to "fix things". With short terms, you have congress critters spending an inordinate amount of their time, attention and money on getting reelected, and making political and strategic choices for the country with reelection as the goal rather than making the country better.
We can't get money out of politics, but we can lessen it's importance. Give 'em job security, I say.
Right, but do you notice you can't do that anymore?
Certainly touch support is significant (and is a rather obvious difference, no?) as is the small viewport, but these differences are not significant limitations and don't make it a "mobile browser". To me, the term "mobile browser" brings up the specter of the old browsers one typically found in phones before the iPhone, and it certainly isn't that. Aside from the size and touch issues, there are no major distinctions from the desktop version of Safari. Apple doesn't even bother to have a separate page of specs for the two browsers.
I have implemented two rather complicated web apps and Safari ran fine. Just make sure you don't depend on mouseovers and keep all of the element sizes dynamic (which you should do, anyway), and you're set.
TFA is a bit fact-challenged. Safari on the iPad is not a "mobile browser" and supports HTML5 (although it could do better).
I'm a little confused by your post and what you're trying to say. Are you saying the W8000 is equivalent to the D700? The top-end Mac Pro uses the Firepro D700, which is, indeed, $3,400 at retail, not the D500, so the gent bought a D700.
Interestingly, Apple is only charging $1,000 to upgrade from two $1,400 D500's you reference above to TWO D700's.
I don't think he was trying to make an "adequate" machine. One could argue that almost any computer is "adequate", depending on your goals. He was trying to make a comparably-specced machine using off the shelf components and really couldn't do it, and the closest he could come cost a LOT more than that Mac Pro.
For folks whose profession is the processing of high-end video and photos, time is of the essence, and there really is no such thing as "adequate". The faster the better, period.
This guy tried to make one DIY, and failed miserably.
I'm sorry, but part of your comment is just plain wrong. Firstly, Apple is not collecting your fingerprint, only something similar to a hash of the fingerprint's characteristics. Secondly, it isn't shared with anyone. Thirdly, the explicitly state in this article that your actual fingerprint can not be reverse engineered from the data the store on the phone.
In addition to this, the NYPD's stated reason for pushing the iPhone 5s is that it makes iPhone theft a thing of the past, which it clearly, demonstrably does. The link you posted saying NYPD is after the fingerprints is clearly, demonstrably false. Now, I'm sure you can find folks that say something different, but I can also show you pictures of Obama shaking hands with space aliens - you can find anything you like, but it doesn't make it true.
Finally, Apple (and Google) outright deny sharing data with the NSA.
You can continue to believe that they are sharing if you like, but stating that they have admitted they are sharing is incorrect.
I think you are correct that the current leadership has not yet proven that they can innovate in the way that Mr. Jobs did. That said, the iPhone 5s is really a nice step forward, real-world tests are showing that the A7 really is a lot faster, and the fingerprint thingy is winning a lot of accolades. And, they've sold a hell of a lot of them. Nonetheless, the stock price is actually a bit lower than before the 5c/5s announcement.
The truth is that the stock price for a lot of companies, and Apple in particular, does not reflect the financial success of that company or the company's products. Just compare Amazon's numbers to Apple's and you'll get what I mean. Stock prices today are more driven by bets on where that price will be in 15 minutes (or 15 milliseconds), not how well the company will be doing in a few years. As such, stock prices for high-tech companies are not a valid way to measure the company's success in the marketplace.
Really, last time I looked Apples market share was not only tiny, It too continues to slump. Linux continues to grow everywhere
O Rly? Maybe you should look more frequently? (sorry about linking to an Apple-friendly web site - no one else will post good news about Apple, eh?)
You know there is absolutely no evidence whatsoever except a lot of blogosphere bloviation that Apple is making a watch? And, even beyond that, if the ARE making a watch, we have no idea what features it will have? So, just exactly how do you know Apple is wasting their time on one?
It's not choosing sides. It's holding to our principles (apparently, the world's principles) and doing what we say we will do. It is only tangentially associated with the civil war/sectarian strife/whatever we call it today.
We're not "getting involved". We're not choosing sides. We're punishing Asan for using chemical weapons on his civilian population. There is no reason it needs to be more than that.
Yeah, ya gotta wonder that no one thought to take it out of gear or turn it off. There were actually two events similar to this one, but I can't find the other. It was also a case of a long conversation with 911 and no one thought of those then, either. I guess the 911 operators aren't trained to solve caller's problems.
Being an old geezer, I take a bit of exception to this. In addition, the fatal crash that started Toyota's problems had no old geezers.. You can listen to the rather horrifying 911 call here.
As an aside, agism is just as bad as sexism, racism, homophobism, etc. Oh, and by the way, you'll be one, too.