Seriously, does anyone else see future security holes in this?
Security holes aside for a moment, I see a bigger problem: if MS integrates the local file search with their MSN web-based search, inside Longhorn, that would be an excellent way to shoehorn MSN's search in front of people and away from Google.
Most users will just click on the 'Web search' option in this hypothetical little box rather than go over to Google, if they are convinced that it does the same thing.
However if they leave it as-is, with all the ads and such, I think its a nonstarter.
Considering that they want us to believe the following:
USB 1.1 = "full speed"
USB 2 = "high speed"
.. would it not follow that USB 2 is 'slower', by (new) definition?
I hear "high speed" as "very fast", and "full speed" as "fast as possible." But then again what do I know, clearly the group that made the change is more sensible.;)
Not only that, iMacs that came out three years ago have USB 2 now. They had it before it was invented... scratch that, they had it Before It Was Even Thought Of.
Think Different indeed.
What's really brutal is that we're talking a few cents difference for the part in question. Apple actually has been using USB.0 chips in the later PowerMacs just because USB 1.1 chips have become scarce.
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Arg, I despair of Sladhot. This 'insightful'? it's nothing more than Arsian Battlefront drek.
You don't like Macs, that's fine. Just peachy.
Now take a look around: you are at apple.slashdot.org. Constructive criticism is more than welcome; incessant, whiny, myopic PC quackery IS NOT. So just fuck off with your red herrings and your half-baked arguments.
I'd de-construct your feeble potshots but I just can't be bothered.
(To others - sorry for the flamebait, I just hate posts like these.)
The rest of everything else, with respect to this "story" is fluff. I don't give a crap what Jobs thinks of it. I don't care what Bezos has to say about the issue. And I certainly don't give a fuck what Dean (the creator) has to say about the matter.
Then by that token we certainly shouldn't give a fuck about some troll who wants to yell about how much he doesn't give a fuck. Fair enough?
You've stated why it sucks to be around them - not on one. Still a valid comment of course. Although I couldn't help thinking, when you typed this:
First off, they don't have anything to make them visible in the evening hours (reflectors/lights). Combine that with being totally quiet and you have an accident waiting to happen.
So... like a pedestrian? No reflectors, relatively silent, etc. Sure people don't go zooming around at 15 KmH - usually - but that's more attributable to an Asshat Segway Driver, rather than inherent suckage, don't you think?
As for the 'large footprint' its certainly no larger than a mountain bike (handlebars) so I conside that a nonstarter.
Maybe its not the greatest thing ever (I don't know, never seen one in person), but for a brand new product that is not a ripoff I think its doing pretty well.
Yeah, I agree. It gets pretty tiresome. I like the Segway - not enought to buy one - but I do wish them luck in surviving and innovating long enough to come up with something I do want to buy. Dean Kamen is a brilliant guy and I hope he's successful with the Segway long-term.
Partly, explained Tim, because giving our code to someone else would be a great risk. Not a good reason, in Jobs's view, because the code could easily be reverse-engineered. No it couldn't, said Tim. Could, said Jobs.
That was pretty funny to me. Is this a guy who's been bitten by the reverse-engineering phenomenon before, do you think?
And people wonder why Apple gets testy about Aqua themes... I'd be testy to, if I was the victim of one of the biggest UI ripoffs in history. (I'm not sayin' he's right.. I'm just sayin'.)
I think he can be an arrogant prick, but I actually agree with pretty much everything he said in the exerpt.
Look at the questions: Why does the design does not excite in any revolutionary way? Why are you building your own factory? These are issues that plague the Segway today. Also his suggestion for Stanford was a good one, it would have possibly forestalled some of the knee-jerk reaction seen in places like San Francisco.
Also, comments like the grocery store example were pretty insightful. That is exactly the kidn of thing that the Segway was supposed to help with.
There is a difference between 'servant leadership' as you put it, and demanding excellence and accountability from people. I've dealt with people like Jobs before - maybe not to his extent - but they only want people to be on the ball. Frankly I kind of admire that quality a bit; too many people are afraid to just confront and ask when necessary.
There is a pretty specifc reason that you send out work estimates that start when the order is signed-off on, as the submitter did.
I work in web design, and clients notoriously - almost universally - drag their feet on getting assets that you need into your hands. Very, very common problem. These kinds of jobs often revolve around a pretty firm delivery date. The idea behind 'clock-starts-when-you-say-go' is that the client is almost always to blame for making things late, and also that they are a wild card, you have very little control over. They, in turn, are being pressured from above in their jobs, this is the chain.
So, I really sympathise. Essentially your Account Managers (or whichever term they go by), in capitulating to this unreasonable demand, have agreed for you in proxy to be fucked in the ass. And it'll turn out badly too; no one wants to work under those conditions and it will reflect in the work. Which will likely make the scenario worse in the end.
I can't think of a good solution for you, guy. It's tricky, with todays wintry economic climate blah blah etc. But know this, you are not wrong, and they are. Definitely. The client was wrong first and now your employer has hopped the fence with them, and the two of them are staring at all you poor coders (or whatever) stuck on the other side of that fence.
I'm sure its illegal (the overtime for salaried workers), but is it illegal in any practical way? I mean, is it realistically fightable? I doubt it.
I expect that people who discover the Mirror TV at their hotels (because this is not a feature the participating hotels will bother to advertise) will be given a feedback card to send to Philips as they leave, and a majority will be returned with the box for "I don't know whether it works well because didn't feel like using it." marked.
Well, fair enough, but I expect people to simply turn the TV part off if they geet creeped out. Easy, no?
They will use it as a TV when they are plopped on the couch. They will use it as a mirror before they go out the door. Don't see a conflict here.
Oh and by the way, your logic is a little skewed; the guy who doesn't bother to use the TV/Mirror 'cause he doesn't feel like it' sure as hell isn't going to fill out a bloody registration form stating he doesn't feel like it. I mean, c'mon.
The submitter learned a Dvorak keyboard to combat RSI? What's with that?
Somebody correct me if I'm wrong (I can certainly count on that around here...) but I thought it was pretty widely accepted that the Dvorak keyboard being faster or better is a myth.
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Alright, a quick Google reveals that this is not commonly accepted. The defense is pretty shaky thought ("the Navy wouldn't do that.")
Anyways, repetitive movements are what cause the (quetionable) RSI condition, and I don't see how changing the keyboard layout would help, short of something more radical like one of those Logitech/MS 'natural' keyboards... and I don't believe Dvorak is inherently any faster than Qwerty; when comparing two people who know both very well, the typing speeds are probably the same.
You'd do much better to lower your keyboard to take the strain off your wrists. Most people keep their keyboards too high.
Don't try to fuck it up and send us back to Captain Horndog's Big-Tits-Big-Guns-Even-Bigger-Tits Bonanza just because pop culture hasn't gone from zero to Philosophy Major in 3.6 seconds.
That is an excellent point and one I'm surprised hasn't been made more frequently.
It sort of amazes me, how people have been whining for years about the lack of intelligent discourse in action movies. Finally we get something that, while possibly on the level of freshman philosophy (possibly; I don't agree), is certainly a damn sight more thoughtful and provoking than any Bruckheimer-fuelled tripe.
BTW, there is another Die Hard planned, and the tentative title is... Die Hard 4: Die Hardest. So you're not far off.
And I don't mean a tiny little bug; I predict a veritable cornucopia of showstopping bugs that will send prepress people reeling.
Quark, as a company, have been sitting on their collective asses for a very long time. The cash cow that Quark has become made them complacent. I remember a running joke amongst my print industry friends, being that a new version of Quark was basically a rotation of the splash screen.
And don't even make me bring up Metropolis, which joins others of its ilk in the historical dustbin of software that was so fucking great, the chatter around it literally transmogrified into pure greed and killed it in the end. Quark did that. (okay, so I did bring it up.)
So, I was thinking, now that the long delay is over, what happens if there's some kind of massive bug in Quark 6? People have been waiting so long for this thing that it had better be totally bulletproof... which of course it won't.
Quark has a history of shoddy work, draconion copy-protection methods (still shipped floppies to Mac users well after Apple stopped shipping floopy-capable Macs... everyone I know uses the Disc Copy trick and knows it by heart for installing Quark), and all sorts of stupid web-based initiatives in their print product.
No, I think there will be bugs, and Quark won't fix them (certainly not right away). I can see it already with Acrobat incompatibilities - and Adobe has a vested interest in screwing Quark now. Acrobat combined with Quark was the killer combo a couple of years ago, let's see how they play with InDesign in the water. Add in OS X and its just bound to happen... maybe I'm off-base saying such a thing, but I bet I'm right.
1. The offense of persistently instigating lawsuits, typically groundless ones.
2. An unlawful breach of duty on the part of a ship's master or crew resulting in injury to the ship's owner.
3. Sale or purchase of positions in church or state.
While I realize the poster was referring to #1 I think a case could be made for #3 as well...
And it's been stated before but I think it's worth mentioning again. By god, if cell phones are really capable of such chaos, why on earth do they allow them on the planes to begin with?
It doesn't just stop there, either. Have you looked in the back section of a modern mobile phone manual lately? It's like a laundry-list of freak accidents that could happen... and the fact that these events are mentioned at all means, sometime in the past, they probably did.
Here, I just grabbed the PDF for the T68i manual. Some salient points:
- Some cars do not allow the use of a handsfree kit, with external antenna, because it interferes with the car's electronics. Nice.
- "Mobile phones may affect the operation of some implanted cardiac pacemakers and other medically implanted equipment." They tell you to use the phone in "the ear opposite the pacemaker". Again, nice.
- They tell you not to use the phone when on, near, or looking at any aircraft of course.
- The phones can interfere with the blasting trigger used in demolition sites, as that is also a two-way radio. Ulp. I don't know about you guys but there's practically no chance I'd notice a 'two-way radio in use' sign while tooling along, talking on the phone.
- "Turn off your phone when in any area with a potentially explosive atmosphere... these areas can include fuel stations, below deck on boats, chemical storage facilities, and areas where the air contains chemicals or particles, such as grain, dust, or metal powders." The phones can generate sparks. Always keep that in mind.
And this of course doesn't count the problems they've fixed already... like how spare change in your pockets used to short the power leads on your phone, setting your pants on fire.
As for the plane thing, I doubt you would get reception in most circumstances (the 9-11 calls were sort of freakish). On the other hand I've noticed that they do not take any chances on planes; I had a stewardess tell me to turn off my MiniDisc player during takeoff. Protests to the effect of "it has no radio" fell on deaf ears.
I make this point to people constantly and it never seems to register. There's no way to measure subjective speed in a user on a given platform, of course. If there was, the OS itself would conceivably have a 'productivity' rating or some other such nonsense. But I do wish it was measurable just to prove the point.
As for that other clown who keeps saying stuff like 'cars never go fast enough', again, he's illustrating your point... but while poking you in the eye. Irritating.
Now, one could make a case for not 'switching', ever, based on this argument. The pain of relearning a new interface paradigm is great, for many... makes you wonder what the 'productivity' difference is between (to pick a not so random example) the various car dashboards. Simple, I know.... but how would you quantify the intangibles... I like Mac OS X myself, but again, the fact that I can do things like a cmd-tab between apps while performing a drag-and-drop operation is huge to me... but not measurable in any metric.
Ah, I'm getting incoherant. I'll just say Good Post and leave it at that.
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Security holes aside for a moment, I see a bigger problem: if MS integrates the local file search with their MSN web-based search, inside Longhorn, that would be an excellent way to shoehorn MSN's search in front of people and away from Google.
Most users will just click on the 'Web search' option in this hypothetical little box rather than go over to Google, if they are convinced that it does the same thing.
However if they leave it as-is, with all the ads and such, I think its a nonstarter.
When asked for comment, Steve Jobs said "Our next-generation OS is now based on UNIX Extremeâ©, an emerging standard."
USB 1.1 = "full speed"
USB 2 = "high speed"
I hear "high speed" as "very fast", and "full speed" as "fast as possible." But then again what do I know, clearly the group that made the change is more sensible. ;)
Think Different indeed.
What's really brutal is that we're talking a few cents difference for the part in question. Apple actually has been using USB .0 chips in the later PowerMacs just because USB 1.1 chips have become scarce.
You don't like Macs, that's fine. Just peachy.
Now take a look around: you are at apple.slashdot.org. Constructive criticism is more than welcome; incessant, whiny, myopic PC quackery IS NOT. So just fuck off with your red herrings and your half-baked arguments.
I'd de-construct your feeble potshots but I just can't be bothered.
(To others - sorry for the flamebait, I just hate posts like these.)
Dude I laughed for 10 minutes at your post. Bravo.
Then by that token we certainly shouldn't give a fuck about some troll who wants to yell about how much he doesn't give a fuck. Fair enough?
First off, they don't have anything to make them visible in the evening hours (reflectors/lights). Combine that with being totally quiet and you have an accident waiting to happen.
So... like a pedestrian? No reflectors, relatively silent, etc. Sure people don't go zooming around at 15 KmH - usually - but that's more attributable to an Asshat Segway Driver, rather than inherent suckage, don't you think?
As for the 'large footprint' its certainly no larger than a mountain bike (handlebars) so I conside that a nonstarter.
Yeah, I agree. It gets pretty tiresome. I like the Segway - not enought to buy one - but I do wish them luck in surviving and innovating long enough to come up with something I do want to buy. Dean Kamen is a brilliant guy and I hope he's successful with the Segway long-term.
Personally I'm waiting for the Chariot version.
Partly, explained Tim, because giving our code to someone else would be a great risk. Not a good reason, in Jobs's view, because the code could easily be reverse-engineered. No it couldn't, said Tim. Could, said Jobs.
That was pretty funny to me. Is this a guy who's been bitten by the reverse-engineering phenomenon before, do you think?
And people wonder why Apple gets testy about Aqua themes... I'd be testy to, if I was the victim of one of the biggest UI ripoffs in history. (I'm not sayin' he's right.. I'm just sayin'.)
I think he can be an arrogant prick, but I actually agree with pretty much everything he said in the exerpt.
Look at the questions: Why does the design does not excite in any revolutionary way? Why are you building your own factory? These are issues that plague the Segway today. Also his suggestion for Stanford was a good one, it would have possibly forestalled some of the knee-jerk reaction seen in places like San Francisco.
Also, comments like the grocery store example were pretty insightful. That is exactly the kidn of thing that the Segway was supposed to help with.
There is a difference between 'servant leadership' as you put it, and demanding excellence and accountability from people. I've dealt with people like Jobs before - maybe not to his extent - but they only want people to be on the ball. Frankly I kind of admire that quality a bit; too many people are afraid to just confront and ask when necessary.
Why you gotta lie to make friends? :)
I work in web design, and clients notoriously - almost universally - drag their feet on getting assets that you need into your hands. Very, very common problem. These kinds of jobs often revolve around a pretty firm delivery date. The idea behind 'clock-starts-when-you-say-go' is that the client is almost always to blame for making things late, and also that they are a wild card, you have very little control over. They, in turn, are being pressured from above in their jobs, this is the chain.
So, I really sympathise. Essentially your Account Managers (or whichever term they go by), in capitulating to this unreasonable demand, have agreed for you in proxy to be fucked in the ass. And it'll turn out badly too; no one wants to work under those conditions and it will reflect in the work. Which will likely make the scenario worse in the end.
I can't think of a good solution for you, guy. It's tricky, with todays wintry economic climate blah blah etc. But know this, you are not wrong, and they are. Definitely. The client was wrong first and now your employer has hopped the fence with them, and the two of them are staring at all you poor coders (or whatever) stuck on the other side of that fence.
I'm sure its illegal (the overtime for salaried workers), but is it illegal in any practical way? I mean, is it realistically fightable? I doubt it.
Some MP: "Does not!"
You may think I'm being facetious, but I'm actually just being concise. She literally doesn't say anything else.
Well, fair enough, but I expect people to simply turn the TV part off if they geet creeped out. Easy, no?
They will use it as a TV when they are plopped on the couch. They will use it as a mirror before they go out the door. Don't see a conflict here.
Oh and by the way, your logic is a little skewed; the guy who doesn't bother to use the TV/Mirror 'cause he doesn't feel like it' sure as hell isn't going to fill out a bloody registration form stating he doesn't feel like it. I mean, c'mon.
Somebody correct me if I'm wrong (I can certainly count on that around here...) but I thought it was pretty widely accepted that the Dvorak keyboard being faster or better is a myth.
Alright, a quick Google reveals that this is not commonly accepted. The defense is pretty shaky thought ("the Navy wouldn't do that.")
Anyways, repetitive movements are what cause the (quetionable) RSI condition, and I don't see how changing the keyboard layout would help, short of something more radical like one of those Logitech/MS 'natural' keyboards... and I don't believe Dvorak is inherently any faster than Qwerty; when comparing two people who know both very well, the typing speeds are probably the same.
You'd do much better to lower your keyboard to take the strain off your wrists. Most people keep their keyboards too high.
That is an excellent point and one I'm surprised hasn't been made more frequently.
It sort of amazes me, how people have been whining for years about the lack of intelligent discourse in action movies. Finally we get something that, while possibly on the level of freshman philosophy (possibly; I don't agree), is certainly a damn sight more thoughtful and provoking than any Bruckheimer-fuelled tripe.
BTW, there is another Die Hard planned, and the tentative title is... Die Hard 4: Die Hardest. So you're not far off.
Well guess what, Sherlock - its even easier to support NO computers! Sheesh.
... was the app I meant to mention. It was pronounced 'metropolis' and I just did a stream-of-consciousness thing there.
And I don't mean a tiny little bug; I predict a veritable cornucopia of showstopping bugs that will send prepress people reeling.
Quark, as a company, have been sitting on their collective asses for a very long time. The cash cow that Quark has become made them complacent. I remember a running joke amongst my print industry friends, being that a new version of Quark was basically a rotation of the splash screen.
And don't even make me bring up Metropolis, which joins others of its ilk in the historical dustbin of software that was so fucking great, the chatter around it literally transmogrified into pure greed and killed it in the end. Quark did that. (okay, so I did bring it up.)
So, I was thinking, now that the long delay is over, what happens if there's some kind of massive bug in Quark 6? People have been waiting so long for this thing that it had better be totally bulletproof... which of course it won't.
Quark has a history of shoddy work, draconion copy-protection methods (still shipped floppies to Mac users well after Apple stopped shipping floopy-capable Macs... everyone I know uses the Disc Copy trick and knows it by heart for installing Quark), and all sorts of stupid web-based initiatives in their print product.
No, I think there will be bugs, and Quark won't fix them (certainly not right away). I can see it already with Acrobat incompatibilities - and Adobe has a vested interest in screwing Quark now. Acrobat combined with Quark was the killer combo a couple of years ago, let's see how they play with InDesign in the water. Add in OS X and its just bound to happen... maybe I'm off-base saying such a thing, but I bet I'm right.
1. The offense of persistently instigating lawsuits, typically groundless ones.
2. An unlawful breach of duty on the part of a ship's master or crew resulting in injury to the ship's owner.
3. Sale or purchase of positions in church or state.
While I realize the poster was referring to #1 I think a case could be made for #3 as well...
My vocabulary word of the day today is barratry.
Hear, hear! Microsoft will not get any of my business until they stop the deceitful practice of "Sale or purchase of positions in church or state".
I hadn't thought of the Palladium angle, but I suspect you are very right about that. I guess I had better go find a used copy of VPC while I can.
It doesn't just stop there, either. Have you looked in the back section of a modern mobile phone manual lately? It's like a laundry-list of freak accidents that could happen... and the fact that these events are mentioned at all means, sometime in the past, they probably did.
Here, I just grabbed the PDF for the T68i manual. Some salient points:
- Some cars do not allow the use of a handsfree kit, with external antenna, because it interferes with the car's electronics. Nice.
- "Mobile phones may affect the operation of some implanted cardiac pacemakers and other medically implanted equipment." They tell you to use the phone in "the ear opposite the pacemaker". Again, nice.
- They tell you not to use the phone when on, near, or looking at any aircraft of course.
- The phones can interfere with the blasting trigger used in demolition sites, as that is also a two-way radio. Ulp. I don't know about you guys but there's practically no chance I'd notice a 'two-way radio in use' sign while tooling along, talking on the phone.
- "Turn off your phone when in any area with a potentially explosive atmosphere... these areas can include fuel stations, below deck on boats, chemical storage facilities, and areas where the air contains chemicals or particles, such as grain, dust, or metal powders." The phones can generate sparks. Always keep that in mind.
And this of course doesn't count the problems they've fixed already... like how spare change in your pockets used to short the power leads on your phone, setting your pants on fire. As for the plane thing, I doubt you would get reception in most circumstances (the 9-11 calls were sort of freakish). On the other hand I've noticed that they do not take any chances on planes; I had a stewardess tell me to turn off my MiniDisc player during takeoff. Protests to the effect of "it has no radio" fell on deaf ears.
I make this point to people constantly and it never seems to register. There's no way to measure subjective speed in a user on a given platform, of course. If there was, the OS itself would conceivably have a 'productivity' rating or some other such nonsense. But I do wish it was measurable just to prove the point.
As for that other clown who keeps saying stuff like 'cars never go fast enough', again, he's illustrating your point... but while poking you in the eye. Irritating.
Now, one could make a case for not 'switching', ever, based on this argument. The pain of relearning a new interface paradigm is great, for many... makes you wonder what the 'productivity' difference is between (to pick a not so random example) the various car dashboards. Simple, I know.... but how would you quantify the intangibles... I like Mac OS X myself, but again, the fact that I can do things like a cmd-tab between apps while performing a drag-and-drop operation is huge to me... but not measurable in any metric.
Ah, I'm getting incoherant. I'll just say Good Post and leave it at that.