Show me where Apple have crossed the ethical lines ?
- using what practically amounts to slave labor at Foxconn
You mean just like every other major manufacturer? The Foxconn jobs are highly desired, anyway.
- dodging taxes by claiming residence in ireland
Don't most major US companies hold a lot of assets in overseas subsidies?
- suing everyone and their moms with bullshit claims and patents
You mean just like every other major manufacturer? If you're arguing that the patent system should be reformed, I totally agree with that. Until that time, shouldn't they play the game?
- false advertising (it should be named the Idiot Bar, not the Genius Bar)
If you say so.
- overpricing all their stuff
Well then their sales will suffer, right? Oh... wait...
- suing everyone making compatible hardware into bankruptcy
What is "compatible hardware" in this case? Are you talking about the 1990s clones?
- putting in a clause into OSX's license prohibiting using it on anything but official Apple hardware
This is a moot point now, as there is no distribution of the OS other than the Apple store. It's been an "upgrade" market for the OS rather than a "purchase" market for a long time.
By any traditional definition of "workstation" it is not one. It is no more a workstation than the Mini is. Both need additional products to make them functional as such.
I don't think that this change is different, in spirit, from some of the changes that Apple has pushed in the past. Apple tends to jettison things that it thinks are no longer relevant to the future, e.g. SCSI, ADB, Serial ports, etc. When Apple went USB-only on the original iMac, it was a controversial move, because there wasn't much in the way of a USB device market at that point in time. Fast forward a year or so, and there were more USB devices than you could shake a mouse at. I see the Mac Pro "sneak peek" as a warning shot across the bow of the peripheral manufacturers. If manufacturers get on board with Thunderbolt, it's a pretty interesting future, I think.
My workflow already uses a combination of a fast boot/swap drive, FW800 and NAS for storage, so that won't change much with a new Mac Pro, other than needing a TB->FW adaptor somewhere (at a cost of $29 from Apple.) I'm a firm believer in the concept of storage living outside of my "compute core." I've changed computers with barely a hitch because my data lived somewhere else.
Many PCIe cards will already work in an expansion chassis. Many will not. I believe this is mostly a driver issue, other than the rare card that needs more bandwidth than Thunderbolt provides. If you are someone who needs that third (or fifth) high speed graphics card, the new Mac Pro is not for you. But realistically, what percentage of the potential market for this sort of machine is in that segment? I imagine that most PCIe cards will be made to work in an expansion chassis, or a Thunderbolt alternative will appear.
That said, I'm stuck waiting for MOTU to come up with a Thunderbolt solution for their PCI line (e.g. 2408mk3, HD192). Their adaptor card, the PCIe-424, does NOT work in an expansion chassis. If MOTU doesn't come up with a solution for using their PCI line, the ripple effect of me moving to a new Mac Pro would involve replacing audio interfaces, and my digital mixer. The follow-on costs would probably end up being more than the MacPro. I'm optimistic that MOTU, like most manufacturers will get its act together regarding Thunderbolt.
Summing up, if Apple & Intel are successful in their gamble to push the world towards Thunderbolt, in a year or so, we'll think that compute cores like the Mac Pro are the natural order. We'll wonder what all the fuss was about. Isn't this the way computers have always been?
It's important to note that a "war on jailbreaking" is really a "war on exploits."
I don't see how you can be against Apple trying to get rid of every exploit that it knows about. All these jailbreaks are really exploits that could be used to install bad things. You could argue that Apple should provide a way to install alternate firmware, but that's another discussion. (and one that will not get very far, I think)
iTunes as a method to manage things is a joke. App organization is particularly weak.
Buying apps through iTunes is silly: why not use the web? At the very least the browser built into iTunes should be made more robust. You should be able to do browsery things like change the font size, bookmark, etc.
Photo syncing is a mess. In fact the whole backup/sync distinction is too confusing.
The find file function lets you launch an app, but doesn't tell you where the app lives.
USB hubs should be supported so that more than one thing can be connected to an iOS device.
I could go on, but it might seem like I'm ranting.
It doesn't address any of the actual privacy concerns, it just says that the current implementation of Google Glass is crappy at actually invading your privacy.
Too true. Here is Apple, following Warren Buffet's advice, and the Slashdot crowd dumps on them for not knowing what to do with their money. Slashdot isn't what it used to be, and it never was.
It depends upon what you mean with the word "created." They certainly changed the face of computing, mobile music players, smart phones, and tablets. All of these categories existed before Apple got into the market, but once Apple decides on an approach, other companies seem to try and do things in a similar way.
"No Shirts, no shoes, no Niggers." was a code from the past as well. It's illegal.
Growing up on the west coast, in something of a beach town, I never knew about that code. I have seen restaurants using it to try to keep hippies, beach bums, and surfers out of their establishment, though. Even though I fit the rough description, I understood that if I wanted to utilize an establishment, I had to play by their rules. I generally chose other establishments.
They do not have unlimited right to impose rules, especially private property open to the public.
There are many examples of a dress code being required in "public" establishments, e.g.: "no shirt, no shoes, no service" or "men must wear coats while dancing." I don't see this as being any different, but maybe if I was a glasshole myself there would be an augmented reality layer that would bolster my sense of entitlement.
You may have heard the aphorism: The plural of anecdote is not data..
You know what they say - "Aphorism is better than none." This is more than just random observation, though, For example this NY Times article says that the percentage of kids who walk to school was 41% in 1969 and is 13% in 2001. The main reason given is fear of child abduction, even though that is rare, and getting more so.
Kids who live far enough north will have to walk to school in the dark no matter what happens to daylight savings time. Kids are not gremlins, they can be fed/bathed after dark or before light.
Ahh the "think of the children" argument. I live in a relatively safe bedroom community near a major city. There's a grade school around the corner from me. I can say with some certitude that kids don't walk to school these days.
Why the hell couldn't they go with Micro-USB like everyone else?
Because they wanted to offer more functionality. For example, the Lightning / 30 pin adaptor has an audio DAC in it, to drive line level. You can argue that if they couldn't preserve this DAC internally, they shouldn't have made the iPhone so small, but wanting to enable extra functionality by having a very flexible I/O scheme, while making the phone very small, seems like a reasonable engineering tradeoff, to me.
1. If he does have the real document how will he prove it? I mean all Romney will need to say is Those are not my returns but a forgery made by some crazed radical liberal who is willing to lie and cheat to get his party to win.
The only way to prove they are not real is to release the real ones, or at least have some trusted third party review both. Of course this approach completely breaks down if they are real. And further, I don't know what a trusted third party would look like.
I went with an iPad, because of the "retina" screen, and because there were several music apps I wanted to run. I installed the Kindle app too, so I have a wide variety of ways to get content. Add the Good Reader app for better PDF handling, and it works very well for me.
Why do you think that a tablet/ebook-reader will be better than old-fashioned paper books?
For any sort of tech book, the ability to search is a big win. I've been buying tech books as ebooks for a while now, and I like them in that format.
Fiction I still read on paper.
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But this violates Hofstadter's Law
Show me where Apple have crossed the ethical lines ?
- using what practically amounts to slave labor at Foxconn
You mean just like every other major manufacturer? The Foxconn jobs are highly desired, anyway.
- dodging taxes by claiming residence in ireland
Don't most major US companies hold a lot of assets in overseas subsidies?
- suing everyone and their moms with bullshit claims and patents
You mean just like every other major manufacturer? If you're arguing that the patent system should be reformed, I totally agree with that. Until that time, shouldn't they play the game?
- false advertising (it should be named the Idiot Bar, not the Genius Bar)
If you say so.
- overpricing all their stuff
Well then their sales will suffer, right? Oh... wait...
- suing everyone making compatible hardware into bankruptcy
What is "compatible hardware" in this case? Are you talking about the 1990s clones?
- putting in a clause into OSX's license prohibiting using it on anything but official Apple hardware
This is a moot point now, as there is no distribution of the OS other than the Apple store. It's been an "upgrade" market for the OS rather than a "purchase" market for a long time.
If history is any guide, most people will wait for version 3.1, when it may become just good enough.
I'd love to know who is still buying Apple devices when Android gizmos do pretty much the same thing for a fraction of the cost.
The devil's in the details, in this case, the definition of "pretty much."
By any traditional definition of "workstation" it is not one. It is no more a workstation than the Mini is. Both need additional products to make them functional as such.
I don't think that this change is different, in spirit, from some of the changes that Apple has pushed in the past. Apple tends to jettison things that it thinks are no longer relevant to the future, e.g. SCSI, ADB, Serial ports, etc. When Apple went USB-only on the original iMac, it was a controversial move, because there wasn't much in the way of a USB device market at that point in time. Fast forward a year or so, and there were more USB devices than you could shake a mouse at. I see the Mac Pro "sneak peek" as a warning shot across the bow of the peripheral manufacturers. If manufacturers get on board with Thunderbolt, it's a pretty interesting future, I think.
My workflow already uses a combination of a fast boot/swap drive, FW800 and NAS for storage, so that won't change much with a new Mac Pro, other than needing a TB->FW adaptor somewhere (at a cost of $29 from Apple.) I'm a firm believer in the concept of storage living outside of my "compute core." I've changed computers with barely a hitch because my data lived somewhere else.
Many PCIe cards will already work in an expansion chassis. Many will not. I believe this is mostly a driver issue, other than the rare card that needs more bandwidth than Thunderbolt provides. If you are someone who needs that third (or fifth) high speed graphics card, the new Mac Pro is not for you. But realistically, what percentage of the potential market for this sort of machine is in that segment? I imagine that most PCIe cards will be made to work in an expansion chassis, or a Thunderbolt alternative will appear.
That said, I'm stuck waiting for MOTU to come up with a Thunderbolt solution for their PCI line (e.g. 2408mk3, HD192). Their adaptor card, the PCIe-424, does NOT work in an expansion chassis. If MOTU doesn't come up with a solution for using their PCI line, the ripple effect of me moving to a new Mac Pro would involve replacing audio interfaces, and my digital mixer. The follow-on costs would probably end up being more than the MacPro. I'm optimistic that MOTU, like most manufacturers will get its act together regarding Thunderbolt.
Summing up, if Apple & Intel are successful in their gamble to push the world towards Thunderbolt, in a year or so, we'll think that compute cores like the Mac Pro are the natural order. We'll wonder what all the fuss was about. Isn't this the way computers have always been?
It's important to note that a "war on jailbreaking" is really a "war on exploits."
I don't see how you can be against Apple trying to get rid of every exploit that it knows about. All these jailbreaks are really exploits that could be used to install bad things. You could argue that Apple should provide a way to install alternate firmware, but that's another discussion. (and one that will not get very far, I think)
iTunes as a method to manage things is a joke. App organization is particularly weak.
Buying apps through iTunes is silly: why not use the web? At the very least the browser built into iTunes should be made more robust. You should be able to do browsery things like change the font size, bookmark, etc.
Photo syncing is a mess. In fact the whole backup/sync distinction is too confusing.
The find file function lets you launch an app, but doesn't tell you where the app lives.
USB hubs should be supported so that more than one thing can be connected to an iOS device.
I could go on, but it might seem like I'm ranting.
It doesn't address any of the actual privacy concerns, it just says that the current implementation of Google Glass is crappy at actually invading your privacy.
Too true. Here is Apple, following Warren Buffet's advice, and the Slashdot crowd dumps on them for not knowing what to do with their money. Slashdot isn't what it used to be, and it never was.
It depends upon what you mean with the word "created." They certainly changed the face of computing, mobile music players, smart phones, and tablets. All of these categories existed before Apple got into the market, but once Apple decides on an approach, other companies seem to try and do things in a similar way.
"No Shirts, no shoes, no Niggers." was a code from the past as well. It's illegal.
Growing up on the west coast, in something of a beach town, I never knew about that code. I have seen restaurants using it to try to keep hippies, beach bums, and surfers out of their establishment, though. Even though I fit the rough description, I understood that if I wanted to utilize an establishment, I had to play by their rules. I generally chose other establishments.
They do not have unlimited right to impose rules, especially private property open to the public.
There are many examples of a dress code being required in "public" establishments, e.g.: "no shirt, no shoes, no service" or "men must wear coats while dancing." I don't see this as being any different, but maybe if I was a glasshole myself there would be an augmented reality layer that would bolster my sense of entitlement.
You may have heard the aphorism: The plural of anecdote is not data. .
You know what they say - "Aphorism is better than none." This is more than just random observation, though, For example this NY Times article says that the percentage of kids who walk to school was 41% in 1969 and is 13% in 2001. The main reason given is fear of child abduction, even though that is rare, and getting more so.
Kids who live far enough north will have to walk to school in the dark no matter what happens to daylight savings time. Kids are not gremlins, they can be fed/bathed after dark or before light.
Children walk to school early in the morning..
Ahh the "think of the children" argument. I live in a relatively safe bedroom community near a major city. There's a grade school around the corner from me. I can say with some certitude that kids don't walk to school these days.
No. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCPaint
Apple restricts what you can do and you are somehow happy about it?
Could you explain what Apple is doing to restrict OS X?
Enjoy your prison.
Enjoy your paranoia.
If you want low latency, high quality audio, you can't really use bluetooth or airplay, and the headphone jack is sub-optimal.
Why the hell couldn't they go with Micro-USB like everyone else?
Because they wanted to offer more functionality. For example, the Lightning / 30 pin adaptor has an audio DAC in it, to drive line level. You can argue that if they couldn't preserve this DAC internally, they shouldn't have made the iPhone so small, but wanting to enable extra functionality by having a very flexible I/O scheme, while making the phone very small, seems like a reasonable engineering tradeoff, to me.
I dont think there will be any actual planetary limits on crop production, just the matter of understading all of variables and how they interact.
Is the planet infinitely big?
Selective science is what people are all about these days. We'll pick and choose what we'll accept, let our children be taught.
Just like with the Bible. It's one of the most selectively followed tomes ever.
1. If he does have the real document how will he prove it? I mean all Romney will need to say is Those are not my returns but a forgery made by some crazed radical liberal who is willing to lie and cheat to get his party to win.
The only way to prove they are not real is to release the real ones, or at least have some trusted third party review both. Of course this approach completely breaks down if they are real. And further, I don't know what a trusted third party would look like.
I went with an iPad, because of the "retina" screen, and because there were several music apps I wanted to run. I installed the Kindle app too, so I have a wide variety of ways to get content. Add the Good Reader app for better PDF handling, and it works very well for me.
Why do you think that a tablet/ebook-reader will be better than old-fashioned paper books?
For any sort of tech book, the ability to search is a big win. I've been buying tech books as ebooks for a while now, and I like them in that format. Fiction I still read on paper.
I'm not sure you know what "theory" means, in a scientific context.
Alfred Bester didn't publish very much science fiction, but his novels are amazingly good, and the short stories are also wonderful.