Or is it a hedge against a rush of demand with supply failing causing clients to go to other sources than Dell?
Imagine you've got 1000000 computers and 2000000 sticks of 512MB RAM. Then comes Vista. That's an oversimplification, but I believe it's also quite valid. It would be better to stagger the upgrades than lose clients to other vendors that might have the supplies to serve demands faster.
In the absence of "god", let's say, the political leaders who are trying to justify a war will appeal to "glory", or "pride". It's interchangeable. It's an excuse. Just because there is an absence of "god" in someone's rhetoric doesn't mean that something else will take it's place
The Soviet Union and most of it's offshoots appealed to atheism as an official stance on religion (or the rejection of), and it never stopped the government of the USSR from stepping on the people. A couple of the offshots of the Soviets; North Korea and the regieme in Cambodia were both of the same mind, but instead of appealing to "god" for righteous justification, they all appealed to glory or greatness.
So where's the logic that godlessness is supposed to bring?
It's best for one to avoid the behavior they find abhorrent in their rivals and enemies, but amazingly it's something I see Humanists doing all the time; emulating the exact fundamentalist behavior they decry.
It still advocates a religious decision to your voting choices. I know I know, "atheism isn't a religion", but the idea is that someone's religion, or lack thereof would sway your choice, rather than the actual political agenda.
Religion is a bad yardstick for a leader, regardless of what it is (or if it is at all).
Also, making the assumption that an Atheist is less likely to be bigoted than a non-Atheist is at best quaintly ironic, and at worst purely ignorant.
You said it in a nutshell. Our interface is awful. It's not the 3D universe that's the problem (since we live in one, we know it's entirely practical), but that we're using a 2D interface to interact with it.
I'm hoping that the Wii will inspire some alternate interfaces to trickle down and become popular in PC culture.
Quite honestly; see my URL for details. I've got a Powerbook and an Ubuntu desktop, and it's taking all of my willpower to not switch to Ubuntu right now.
That's nice... Now I wish someone could explain to me why, if Dell is selling 37.3 million PCs, that Apple would want to homogenize their product to look just like Dell's since Dell seems to have that market pretty much covered.
This article is pretty much telling any niche computer manufacturer that they should give up and just sell Dells. You can bunch Alienware into that category, and your local retailer, and Joe Bob who builds PCs from white-boxes down the street.
It's dumb, because they're proposing that to compete with Dell, they should offer the exact same product Dell ships, which is what Apple customers are absolutely not looking for. Apple customers buy Apple because they do not want to buy Dell. Why would Apple give up that advantage?
And finally, it's not like Apple is treading water here. Steve doesn't need business advice from "pundits" that don't seem to understand what a product is.
I don't know what sort of Mesh he envisions here, but I doubt a vital e-commerce site will be running off of some guy's pen in China... Datacenters fill the role of redundancy and reliability. When you (or your customers) need to be able to access a computer system at any time, under almost any condition, a rag tag group of computers scattered everywhere simply will not do.
He can lament all he wants, the truth of it is the percentage of kids that have access to computers in the first place is much higher, and the number of computer literate kids that will come out of that expore to completely replace and out-do us will also be much higher.
I don't think the antiquification of DOS, and of all things, BASIC, is going to have some negative effect.
We'll always have to suffer the hand-wringing from a generation getting older, and I'll always roll my eyes about it.
Cause and consequence does not mean that any type of balance will be settled. You imply that they should "deserve" to be exposed, which is not true, and is not a matter of cause and concequence.
The action itself can be seen as cause and concequence, but deserving of public exposure these people were not.
And that's why the douchebag that pulled this off is going to get sued into the dirt, because the law (at least in America) has accounted for this type of crap.
Well, he was free to speak, and now he's going to get sued into the ground by other people who have the freedom to do so under the law. A perfect comeuppance for this intellectual narcissist.
He pretty much followed up with "uh huh, it's like, so real!" And then there was silence again.
I could make it real too if I manipulated all the variables in my favor, including not actually using Apple hardware or software to perform an exploit.
But, like, wouldn't you have to be somewhat complicit in this for it to be effective? Google would have to offer the software, then you'd have to download it, assumably knowing that it would be activating your mic, then you'd have to provide it with data.
So, if you have so little control over your PC, and your ability to NOT install software, that you allow this to happen, how is it an invasion, and not an invitation?
An invitation of exposure, rather than an invasion of privacy.
I should have had my editorial staff proof-read my draft before submitting my off-the-cuff remarks. But hey, sharp eye there champ, you can spot spelling errors, and then you can point them out!
I have found this amazing security flaw in OSX. If you take a specially crafted driver, and you use a specially crafted peice of hardware and insert it into the system you want to compramise, you can then compramise it remotely!
Gad Zukes!
This is almost as good as the Debian exploit I found last year. I found that if you built a specially crafted PC, and then installed a specially crafted version of Debian, it would prompt you to set the root password during the install, leaving the system open to compramise by the person installing the OS.
I'm not being my regular Apple fanboy self here; Consider that these are the first generation of a major architectural change. I'm not buying a MacBook -because- of this alone. My 12" PowerBook will do me fine for the next two years at least.
I'd even give MS the benefit of the doubt if they were in the same position (and I'm giving them LOTS of slack on Vista, even when I raz them).
Backfired?[1] I think the intended effect was spot-on accomplished. I don't think Stephen Colbert cares if a Wikipedia admin "banned" him (oh nooooo, whatever will he do??!!)
The point he was trying to make, and made, directly, is that while Wikipedia is neat, it's not the last stop for any information by a long shot. It's closer to a bulletin board than a real encyclopedia. He did it as a jest, but it wouldn't be past beleif to imagine other -real life- opinion show A-Holes from directing their drooling masses at these resources to change the facts on command.
Hell it's probably already happened.
If anything he's demonstrated a potential vulnerability in our collective record. We all knew it was there waiting to be exploited en-masse, and he just pointed it out. There are also more notable people on the subject who agree with him.
It's not the genre that's dead, if it can even be classified as a genre, it's the lame knock-offs that are very dead dead dead.
Thus far, frankly, every time I've heard a game industry insider declare a genre "dead" it's because they can't figure out how to release a game that isn't completely ripped off from a more popular version.
True Crime: New York City was a great example of this. A wonderfully rendered New York, like, stellar. But... bad cars, a fake CJ is the protagonist, "big star" voice acting that is uninspired, and some of the degrading hoops you have to jump through to get through the story give me a headache just thinking about them.
Contrast this with San Andreas, which is BIG, but by no means an amazing rendering of any city (although it's still very cool). The storyline is all over the place, but that adds to the charm. The voice acting is really fun, even CJ is a blast to listen to, the missions are batass crazy and the replay value is endless.
By all technical merits, True Crime New York City is the better game, but it's really not at all, because the "play" part of the game isn't all there.
As others stated it should indeed be opt-in. Although if it's "global", that being everyone in the US, or specific states could be alerted all at once, it'd be mighty convenient to issue terror alerts to blue states (or red states, depending on who's in power) right as people are going to the polls.
"Stay away! Terror! Don't vote!"
I'll give them the benefit of the doubt for the moment, it's far too early to judge just how bad the final user experience is going to be. They haven't really pefected all the mindfucks yet.
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Or is it a hedge against a rush of demand with supply failing causing clients to go to other sources than Dell? Imagine you've got 1000000 computers and 2000000 sticks of 512MB RAM. Then comes Vista. That's an oversimplification, but I believe it's also quite valid. It would be better to stagger the upgrades than lose clients to other vendors that might have the supplies to serve demands faster.
Floating mass of sh*t bigger than the moon that isn't on fire, but that is orbiting some floating mass of sh*t that is, in fact, on fire.
The Soviet Union and most of it's offshoots appealed to atheism as an official stance on religion (or the rejection of), and it never stopped the government of the USSR from stepping on the people. A couple of the offshots of the Soviets; North Korea and the regieme in Cambodia were both of the same mind, but instead of appealing to "god" for righteous justification, they all appealed to glory or greatness.
So where's the logic that godlessness is supposed to bring?
It's best for one to avoid the behavior they find abhorrent in their rivals and enemies, but amazingly it's something I see Humanists doing all the time; emulating the exact fundamentalist behavior they decry.
It still advocates a religious decision to your voting choices. I know I know, "atheism isn't a religion", but the idea is that someone's religion, or lack thereof would sway your choice, rather than the actual political agenda. Religion is a bad yardstick for a leader, regardless of what it is (or if it is at all). Also, making the assumption that an Atheist is less likely to be bigoted than a non-Atheist is at best quaintly ironic, and at worst purely ignorant.
You said it in a nutshell. Our interface is awful. It's not the 3D universe that's the problem (since we live in one, we know it's entirely practical), but that we're using a 2D interface to interact with it. I'm hoping that the Wii will inspire some alternate interfaces to trickle down and become popular in PC culture.
And as far as any possible splinter goes, this will separate the wheat from the chaff in both directions. It may be painful, but good will come of it.
Quite honestly; see my URL for details. I've got a Powerbook and an Ubuntu desktop, and it's taking all of my willpower to not switch to Ubuntu right now.
That's nice... Now I wish someone could explain to me why, if Dell is selling 37.3 million PCs, that Apple would want to homogenize their product to look just like Dell's since Dell seems to have that market pretty much covered. This article is pretty much telling any niche computer manufacturer that they should give up and just sell Dells. You can bunch Alienware into that category, and your local retailer, and Joe Bob who builds PCs from white-boxes down the street. It's dumb, because they're proposing that to compete with Dell, they should offer the exact same product Dell ships, which is what Apple customers are absolutely not looking for. Apple customers buy Apple because they do not want to buy Dell. Why would Apple give up that advantage? And finally, it's not like Apple is treading water here. Steve doesn't need business advice from "pundits" that don't seem to understand what a product is.
(oh there goes my Karma)
I don't know what sort of Mesh he envisions here, but I doubt a vital e-commerce site will be running off of some guy's pen in China... Datacenters fill the role of redundancy and reliability. When you (or your customers) need to be able to access a computer system at any time, under almost any condition, a rag tag group of computers scattered everywhere simply will not do.
I don't think the antiquification of DOS, and of all things, BASIC, is going to have some negative effect.
We'll always have to suffer the hand-wringing from a generation getting older, and I'll always roll my eyes about it.
Cause and consequence does not mean that any type of balance will be settled. You imply that they should "deserve" to be exposed, which is not true, and is not a matter of cause and concequence. The action itself can be seen as cause and concequence, but deserving of public exposure these people were not. And that's why the douchebag that pulled this off is going to get sued into the dirt, because the law (at least in America) has accounted for this type of crap.
Ah, the Just World Theory... Yes, indeed.
Well, he was free to speak, and now he's going to get sued into the ground by other people who have the freedom to do so under the law. A perfect comeuppance for this intellectual narcissist.
He pretty much followed up with "uh huh, it's like, so real!" And then there was silence again. I could make it real too if I manipulated all the variables in my favor, including not actually using Apple hardware or software to perform an exploit.
But, like, wouldn't you have to be somewhat complicit in this for it to be effective? Google would have to offer the software, then you'd have to download it, assumably knowing that it would be activating your mic, then you'd have to provide it with data. So, if you have so little control over your PC, and your ability to NOT install software, that you allow this to happen, how is it an invasion, and not an invitation? An invitation of exposure, rather than an invasion of privacy.
(hehehe)
Gad Zukes!
This is almost as good as the Debian exploit I found last year. I found that if you built a specially crafted PC, and then installed a specially crafted version of Debian, it would prompt you to set the root password during the install, leaving the system open to compramise by the person installing the OS.
Next year's Black Hat conference, here I come!
I'm not being my regular Apple fanboy self here; Consider that these are the first generation of a major architectural change. I'm not buying a MacBook -because- of this alone. My 12" PowerBook will do me fine for the next two years at least. I'd even give MS the benefit of the doubt if they were in the same position (and I'm giving them LOTS of slack on Vista, even when I raz them).
NEWSFLASH: Hackers MAY set up websites and services to lure victims! Film at 11.
The point he was trying to make, and made, directly, is that while Wikipedia is neat, it's not the last stop for any information by a long shot. It's closer to a bulletin board than a real encyclopedia. He did it as a jest, but it wouldn't be past beleif to imagine other -real life- opinion show A-Holes from directing their drooling masses at these resources to change the facts on command.
Hell it's probably already happened.
If anything he's demonstrated a potential vulnerability in our collective record. We all knew it was there waiting to be exploited en-masse, and he just pointed it out. There are also more notable people on the subject who agree with him.
[1] And Jesus, fellas, what a smug headline.
This adds further realism to Charlie's Angels.
It's not the genre that's dead, if it can even be classified as a genre, it's the lame knock-offs that are very dead dead dead. Thus far, frankly, every time I've heard a game industry insider declare a genre "dead" it's because they can't figure out how to release a game that isn't completely ripped off from a more popular version. True Crime: New York City was a great example of this. A wonderfully rendered New York, like, stellar. But... bad cars, a fake CJ is the protagonist, "big star" voice acting that is uninspired, and some of the degrading hoops you have to jump through to get through the story give me a headache just thinking about them. Contrast this with San Andreas, which is BIG, but by no means an amazing rendering of any city (although it's still very cool). The storyline is all over the place, but that adds to the charm. The voice acting is really fun, even CJ is a blast to listen to, the missions are batass crazy and the replay value is endless. By all technical merits, True Crime New York City is the better game, but it's really not at all, because the "play" part of the game isn't all there.
As others stated it should indeed be opt-in. Although if it's "global", that being everyone in the US, or specific states could be alerted all at once, it'd be mighty convenient to issue terror alerts to blue states (or red states, depending on who's in power) right as people are going to the polls. "Stay away! Terror! Don't vote!"
I'll give them the benefit of the doubt for the moment, it's far too early to judge just how bad the final user experience is going to be. They haven't really pefected all the mindfucks yet.