So yeah, it is all over compressed, similar sounding 120 beat per minute 4 chord stuff. I don't even think the music has chord changes in the songs anymore.
Yes, and the crackpot list is long. Just look at Louis De Broglie, the prince of quantum. His thesis was first laughed at and dismissed by the greats like Bohr. It was't until it was handed to Einstein and he read it, realizing it was brilliant, that it ever was accepted. De Broglie had to fight hard against the accepted orthodoxy in the accepted model, but it turns out, he moved the ball forward.
Once again, anything not immediately accepted by the esteemed academic echo chamber is looked at is being crazy. It never hurts to re-explore and think different. This reminds of the Rupert Sheldrake's banned TED talk, https://youtu.be/JKHUaNAxsTg As Sheldrake states, "free inquiry is the very lifeblood of scientific endeavor"
I applaud a person willing to "rethink" what we think we already know.
I think Mark Twain said it best, "It ain't what you don't know that gets you in trouble, it is was you know for sure and you're wrong about, that's what gets you in trouble."
COMCAST is trending back to $20/share where it will be a good buy. With the repeal of Net Neutrality, they will be back with a vengeance. Nothing stopped them before from overcharging and nothing will stop them from making us pay to be in the Internet fast lane, even though we the taxpayers paid to build their networks and rural America is still dark.
So you might as well buy their stock at $20 and make some money on the comeback since that is all you will ever get out of them, other than a high monthly Internet service bill.
I agree knock AliBaba or AliExpress offline for a month and see the impact it has on the government and policy. There is an old Chinese saying, "Do not offend the majority."
Domain fronting is a case of "just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should." Domain-Fronting was a good idea with a huge potential for abuse.
VPNs and TOR are the answer to getting around blocks. While you are at it, switch your DNS to 1.1.1.1
The real answer to our problem is to kick China and Russia off the Internet until they learn how to behave.
It's time to find out what Ajit knew and when he knew it. I wonder if he is nervous.. Did Ajit know about these contracts? We he a reference for investors? Was he a willing party to the fraud? Was the connection to the FCC leveraged in the fraud? So many questions and inquiring minds want to know.
Seriously, does anyone even read the paper anymore? I read the abstract and possibly the method.
At the end of the day, it is just an academic echo chamber where every paper references each other and none of it is very earth shattering. You should read the dissertations that don't make it into journals, those are really sad. For example, "Analysis of Socioeconomic Status and Student Achievement", or in other words, "Poor kids don't get good grades.", most papers could classified as Ric Romero papers where the outcome is obvious or in some cases statistically insignificant such that more papers need to be written with new experimental methods.
But for those of your writing papers, I leave you with my favorite research design song. https://youtu.be/Hxbz656Euyw
Something I learned working in technology, "Do not confuse incompetence with malice."
Just because something breaks doesn't mean it is malicious move. It could be a lack of testing or just plain incompetence not realizing there existed thousands of 3rd party iPhone 8 screen repairs done. I don't think Apple intentionally wants to upset this many premium customers.
Are you kidding? I still have my Windows phone, it is called Windows 10. They dropped the phone hardware and moved the "live tiles" to their Desktop OS. However, I have to do all of my text messaging through Google Hangouts. It's a strange phone.
It all depends, are you testing thinking and code fluency or are you testing for IDE automaticity?
I would suspect that through the programming course, the students have already written several programs using the IDE and turned those on to demonstrate their skills.
The paper exam shows their thinking, familiarity, code fluency, and code grammar and syntax proficiency.
As one who writes code, I still think about it on paper before I type it into the computer, especially when writing algorithms. Planing on paper really reduces bugs and logic problems because it doesn't require technology. If you just sit down and start coding, it is easy to go down rabbit holes of "why doesn't this work" vs. thinking about the problem.
To me it is similar to writing an outline before writing a paper. You know where you are going and how you plan to get there, Sometimes if I am really pressed for time I will just write comments for the code blocks and use that as my plan, then go and fill in the code blocks.
Alternately, should English exams be given on paper or should students use an IDE like Microsoft Word?
Yes, eGPU has been working for years, however you could't hot-detach, switch always required a shutdown/boot. If this supports hot-swap and works with a laptop, it will be welcomed by developers.
It depends how you look at it. Time might be the illusion and the only thing that has ever existed is "now".
Some maintain..
Time is a concept, a relationship between two or more motions of objects. It is not a physical thing. Only "Now" really exists (due to dynamic interactions between objects). The "Past" & "Future" are only concepts in our brains. There is no time "dimension".
Actually, this comment is the perspective of a materialist and this may or may not be true. I just read a very 'hard to read' but fascinating book, consider the following:
Minds are closely connected to fields that extend beyond brains in space, and also extend beyond brains in time, linked to the past by morphic resonance and to virtual futures through attractors.
Thought questions:
When you look at the sky, do you think the sky you are seeing is inside your skull, and that your skull is beyond the sky?
Have you ever felt someone was looking at you from behind or have ever made someone turnaround by staring at him?
Do you believe that all your conscious life and all your bodily experience is inside your brain?
In quantum physics, electrons are described by wave equations that include all the electrons future possibilities, which or not material. Do you think that the possibilities among which you choose are more material than those of electrons?
Summary
Our minds are extended in every act of perception, reaching even as far as the stars. Vision involves a two way process: the inward movement of light into the eyes, and the outward projection of images. What we see around us is in our minds but not in our brains. When we look at something, it as if our mind reaches out and touches it. This may help to explain the sense of being stared at. Most people say they have felt someone looking at them from behind, and claim to have made people turnaround by looking at them. The ability to detect stares seems to be real, as shown in many scientific tests, and even seems to work through closed circuit television. Minds are extended beyond brains not only in space but also in time, and connect us to our own pasts through memory into virtual futures, among which we choose.
I just confirmed that iTunes is not going away. iTunes music revenue is still growing as of Q3 2017 at a clip of 20%. 99 cents for a track is pretty reasonable. So iTunes is profitable and growing. iTunes LP (whatever that is) is going away, I think this is the interactive content and cute liner notes that typically come with CDs. YouTube is currently the go to place for extra content and as a heavy iTunes user, I did't know iTunes LP existed, so it must be hidden well.
The base model of the noise cancelling headphones will only filter some noise. If you want premium noise filtration with Apple lossless silence encoding TM, you have to buy the Pro model.
Teaching people by showing them errors or bad code doesn't move the needle very much. In technical subjects I prefer to used researched based teaching strategies. Put attendees into groups, give them bad code examples, and have them find the errors or ways in which the example could be improved. Then have a discussion about it and guide them all to a common understanding. If you show someone a bad example or give comments for improvement, it typically goes in one ear and out the other, if they find the errors themselves, according to research they are less likely to make those errors again.
Hire the best people. Have them drop their egos at the door. Put them in a room to solve a problem and you will get an optimal, well though out, creative solution.
"The Smartest Person in the Room, Is the Room."
Hire a diverse, mediocre team. Put them in a room and have them drop their egos at the door. You will get a sub-optimal solution because they struggle.
Top Performers attract Top Performers. Low Performers attract Low Performers.
If I need a surgical team, I want the best. If I need a life saving ER team, I want the best. If I need a legal defense team, I want the best. If I need an oncologist team, I want the best. If I need someone to do work on my car, I want the best team. If I need someone to manage my finances, I want the best team. If I need to build a BFR (Falcon Heavy) and launch aTesla roadster into space, I need the best team to figure it out. If I need to write mission critical code, I want the best team.
"The Best" can mean a lot of things to a lot of different people and be ranked in a variety of ways. To me the best is people who are really good at what they do, can work with other really good people to craft amazing solutions, and care more about good products and outcomes than their own ego.
People aren't afraid. The news media needs to make us afraid so we consume their product.
How often have you heard this just before a cut to 5 minutes of commercials on the local news,
"There is a common household item in your house which could be endangering you and your family, stay tuned to find out what and where they are.."
Newspapers typically use the most inflammatory headlines and publish "hit pieces" filled with weasel words like allegedly.
The news wants us to need them so they rachet up everything to dare I say, "fake news level 11" just to keep people tuned into the noise. There is no nuance and there is little in-depth reporting. Their question is how can we scare/shock viewers into listening to us. The most valuable commodity in America is your attention.
I believe America as a whole is becoming weary with the talking head that cried wolf, and is tuning them out.
However, America is a too violent, too many killings, too much gun violence, too many school shootings. Unfortunately, because of the scary story of the day, we can't stop and have intelligent, reasoned discussions on how to fix some of the real problems.
The cloud already does this (Amazon Web Services) and AT&T has charging for the byte down to a science in cellphone land. The really is the one thing AT&T Excels at, generating bills.
A huge one time hit every 4-5 years or a reasonable yearly/monthy fee.
This new subscription model is probably good for everyone since most American's can't budget and companies need to know where their next dollar is coming from so they can afford development teams to make new fancy software features.
Personally, I am not subscribing to anything at the moment and am using old software like CS 5.5 or one time purchases like Apple Final Cut and Logic. However, if I need to do a project, I may subscribe to Adobe for a couple of months to rent the new software.
Overal, while distasteful, I think subscriptions reduce piracy and help companies with forecasting of revenue streams. It cuts both ways, you can't have new shiny features without paying developers and if you can't figure out your revenue, you are less likely to hire developers.
Everything on planet freaking earth has firmware in it now and guess what compiler makes the smallest binaries that can talk to hardware?
Yes, that's right C.
Python can talk to C, but you aren't going to write firmware or low level interrupt handling code (like reading IR pulses) or monitoring an I2C bus.
Java is C's fat lazy son that lives in the basement and consumes all available resources can do things eventually, if you give him enough resources, time, and be able to tolerate the odor.
As long as computer architecture remains constant, C will be king. It's fast, small, and get's sh*t done now. Plus once you write it in C, you can call it from any other modern programming language like Python, Java, Objective-C, Swift, etc...
I went to a graduation party of a graduating Aerospace engineer last weekend and his advice was learn C, learn simulation and solving software like Mathematica, learn how to work in teams, and be multidiscipline in career focus for great success. He graduated from Perdue.
None of the existing Thunderbolt devices with of the MiniDisplay port type work with the new MacBook Pro. Thunderbolt 2 will work with USB-C ports with a handy dandy $50 dongle. I know it would be a huge inconvenience for Apple to include some standard ports like a display port , HDMI port, and USB port. When I go shopping at Best Buy or even the Apple Store I just can't seem to find the USB-C/Thunderbolt 3 peripherals. Even the iPhone X is USB and not USB-C.
Yes, you can't even plug the new iPhone into the new MacBookPro without an adapter.
So there is your answer Mr. Smartypants. Yes, the MacBook Pro has Thunderbolt 3, but none of the Thunderbolt 2 or Display Port devices work without dongles.
Seriously, the iPhone 7&8 are more of the same minus a headphone jack and two new expensive and easy to lose bluetooth devices that need charging called airpods. The new MacBook Pro is a step backward without any USB ports and a near useless touch bar. The new iMac is actually pretty sweet but at $5K+ I will be editing video on a Hackintosh. The new iPad Pro is pretty sweet but the price point is premium along with some Pro iPad Apps requiring a subscription instead of a one time purchase. The"Pro" gives away the fact that you are consumer with extra money. I am not sure what is up with the MacPro (2012 Diaper Genie) edition, but that is another innovation I can live without. The Apple watch is a solution in search of a problem, plus it gives you one more thing to charge each day.
Until something new and amazing comes out, I will stick with the iPhone 6s (with headphone jack), MacBookPro 2013 (with USB ports and magsafe charger), and iPod 4th Gen (upgraded to 128GB of flash memory).
If Apple wants to innovate try this:
1. Create a phone that only needs to be charged once per week. 2. Create Modular laptop called the Phat Book Pro that can be tweaked for the pro user, just make it fat on the bottom and that is where option hardware can live (extra battery, I/O ports, more storage, etc....) 3. Reassign Johnny Ives to cafeteria lunch menu management at the new HQ and stop making everything so flat. Flat is cool to a point where I lose all useful ports. 4. Make your products serviceable and upgradable. If we are going to pay double for your stuff, we want to cascade it to the next person on the family pecking order and being able to max out RAM, CPU, and Storage before the handoff is very nice. 5. Maybe get really crazy and combine the iPad with the MacBookPro. Maybe even make them complimentary products like the iPad could be a portable second screen or integrated touch surface/drawing pad. 6. If you are going to take all the ports and buttons off of the phone, it better be waterproof to 50ft.
Instead we get... 1. Magsafe power adapter... Gone 2. Headphone jack... Gone 3. USB 1,2,3 ports... Gone 4. Thunderbolt... Gone 5. Firewire... Gone 6. RAM... soldering in, not upgradable 7. SSD/M.2 storage.. soldered in, not upgradable 8. CPUs.. soldered in, not upgradable 9. Expensive iPhones with useless new features and missing old features. 10. Bring back the iPod clickwheel and 8-Track Tapes, and get off my lawn.
If you really want to get rid of the app, here is how to enable/disable SIP.
Apple is trying to clean things up under the covers. They have a new modern filesystem (APFS) added SIP back in El Cap which was a solid security move. I realize things have been a bit shaky lately, but I blame on moving 12,000 people into the new spaceship campus . I am surprised all the developers haven't quit.
As the space ship establishes a new workplace morphology, things will get better. Maybe the ex-NSA'ers will head to Apple and bolster security even more.
Slashdot Mirror
If you haven't seen it:Sir Mashalot: Mind-Blowing SIX Song Country Mashup, or 6 #1 country songs separated at birth.
https://youtu.be/FY8SwIvxj8o?l...
So yeah, it is all over compressed, similar sounding 120 beat per minute 4 chord stuff. I don't even think the music has chord changes in the songs anymore.
Yes, and the crackpot list is long. Just look at Louis De Broglie, the prince of quantum. His thesis was first laughed at and dismissed by the greats like Bohr. It was't until it was handed to Einstein and he read it, realizing it was brilliant, that it ever was accepted. De Broglie had to fight hard against the accepted orthodoxy in the accepted model, but it turns out, he moved the ball forward.
https://www.encyclopedia.com/p...
Once again, anything not immediately accepted by the esteemed academic echo chamber is looked at is being crazy.
It never hurts to re-explore and think different. This reminds of the Rupert Sheldrake's banned TED talk, https://youtu.be/JKHUaNAxsTg
As Sheldrake states, "free inquiry is the very lifeblood of scientific endeavor"
I applaud a person willing to "rethink" what we think we already know.
I think Mark Twain said it best, "It ain't what you don't know that gets you in trouble, it is was you know for sure and you're wrong about, that's what gets you in trouble."
COMCAST is trending back to $20/share where it will be a good buy. With the repeal of Net Neutrality, they will be back with a vengeance. Nothing stopped them before from overcharging and nothing will stop them from making us pay to be in the Internet fast lane, even though we the taxpayers paid to build their networks and rural America is still dark.
So you might as well buy their stock at $20 and make some money on the comeback since that is all you will ever get out of them, other than a high monthly Internet service bill.
I agree knock AliBaba or AliExpress offline for a month and see the impact it has on the government and policy.
There is an old Chinese saying, "Do not offend the majority."
Domain fronting is a case of "just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should."
Domain-Fronting was a good idea with a huge potential for abuse.
VPNs and TOR are the answer to getting around blocks. While you are at it, switch your DNS to 1.1.1.1
The real answer to our problem is to kick China and Russia off the Internet until they learn how to behave.
It's time to find out what Ajit knew and when he knew it. I wonder if he is nervous.. Did Ajit know about these contracts? We he a reference for investors? Was he a willing party to the fraud? Was the connection to the FCC leveraged in the fraud? So many questions and inquiring minds want to know.
MIT Random Paper Generator for computer science papers
https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/arc...
Mathgen for Math Papers
http://thatsmathematics.com/ma...
Seriously, does anyone even read the paper anymore? I read the abstract and possibly the method.
At the end of the day, it is just an academic echo chamber where every paper references each other and none of it is very earth shattering. You should read the dissertations that don't make it into journals, those are really sad. For example, "Analysis of Socioeconomic Status and Student Achievement", or in other words, "Poor kids don't get good grades.", most papers could classified as Ric Romero papers where the outcome is obvious or in some cases statistically insignificant such that more papers need to be written with new experimental methods.
But for those of your writing papers, I leave you with my favorite research design song.
https://youtu.be/Hxbz656Euyw
Something I learned working in technology, "Do not confuse incompetence with malice."
Just because something breaks doesn't mean it is malicious move. It could be a lack of testing or just plain incompetence not realizing there existed thousands of 3rd party iPhone 8 screen repairs done. I don't think Apple intentionally wants to upset this many premium customers.
Are you kidding? I still have my Windows phone, it is called Windows 10. They dropped the phone hardware and moved the "live tiles" to their Desktop OS. However, I have to do all of my text messaging through Google Hangouts. It's a strange phone.
It all depends, are you testing thinking and code fluency or are you testing for IDE automaticity?
I would suspect that through the programming course, the students have already written several programs using the IDE and turned those on to demonstrate their skills.
The paper exam shows their thinking, familiarity, code fluency, and code grammar and syntax proficiency.
As one who writes code, I still think about it on paper before I type it into the computer, especially when writing algorithms.
Planing on paper really reduces bugs and logic problems because it doesn't require technology. If you just sit down and start coding, it is easy to go down rabbit holes of "why doesn't this work" vs. thinking about the problem.
To me it is similar to writing an outline before writing a paper. You know where you are going and how you plan to get there, Sometimes if I am really pressed for time I will just write comments for the code blocks and use that as my plan, then go and fill in the code blocks.
Alternately, should English exams be given on paper or should students use an IDE like Microsoft Word?
Yes, eGPU has been working for years, however you could't hot-detach, switch always required a shutdown/boot.
If this supports hot-swap and works with a laptop, it will be welcomed by developers.
It depends how you look at it. Time might be the illusion and the only thing that has ever existed is "now".
Some maintain..
Time is a concept, a relationship between two or more motions of objects.
It is not a physical thing.
Only "Now" really exists (due to dynamic interactions between objects).
The "Past" & "Future" are only concepts in our brains. There is no time "dimension".
Actually, this comment is the perspective of a materialist and this may or may not be true. I just read a very 'hard to read' but fascinating book, consider the following:
Minds are closely connected to fields that extend beyond brains in space, and also extend beyond brains in time, linked to the past by morphic resonance and to virtual futures through attractors.
Thought questions:
When you look at the sky, do you think the sky you are seeing is inside your skull, and that your skull is beyond the sky?
Have you ever felt someone was looking at you from behind or have ever made someone turnaround by staring at him?
Do you believe that all your conscious life and all your bodily experience is inside your brain?
In quantum physics, electrons are described by wave equations that include all the electrons future possibilities, which or not material. Do you think that the possibilities among which you choose are more material than those of electrons?
Summary
Our minds are extended in every act of perception, reaching even as far as the stars. Vision involves a two way process: the inward movement of light into the eyes, and the outward projection of images. What we see around us is in our minds but not in our brains. When we look at something, it as if our mind reaches out and touches it. This may help to explain the sense of being stared at. Most people say they have felt someone looking at them from behind, and claim to have made people turnaround by looking at them. The ability to detect stares seems to be real, as shown in many scientific tests, and even seems to work through closed circuit television. Minds are extended beyond brains not only in space but also in time, and connect us to our own pasts through memory into virtual futures, among which we choose.
I just confirmed that iTunes is not going away. iTunes music revenue is still growing as of Q3 2017 at a clip of 20%. 99 cents for a track is pretty reasonable. So iTunes is profitable and growing. iTunes LP (whatever that is) is going away, I think this is the interactive content and cute liner notes that typically come with CDs. YouTube is currently the go to place for extra content and as a heavy iTunes user, I did't know iTunes LP existed, so it must be hidden well.
The base model of the noise cancelling headphones will only filter some noise.
If you want premium noise filtration with Apple lossless silence encoding TM, you have to buy the Pro model.
Teaching people by showing them errors or bad code doesn't move the needle very much. In technical subjects I prefer to used researched based teaching strategies. Put attendees into groups, give them bad code examples, and have them find the errors or ways in which the example could be improved. Then have a discussion about it and guide them all to a common understanding. If you show someone a bad example or give comments for improvement, it typically goes in one ear and out the other, if they find the errors themselves, according to research they are less likely to make those errors again.
Take a read through this article, https://www.tieonline.com/arti...
From one of the most brilliant minds in education today.
This article doesn't make any sense.
How about this advice.
Hire the best people. Have them drop their egos at the door. Put them in a room to solve a problem and you will get an optimal, well though out, creative solution.
"The Smartest Person in the Room, Is the Room."
Hire a diverse, mediocre team. Put them in a room and have them drop their egos at the door. You will get a sub-optimal solution because they struggle.
Top Performers attract Top Performers. Low Performers attract Low Performers.
If I need a surgical team, I want the best.
If I need a life saving ER team, I want the best.
If I need a legal defense team, I want the best.
If I need an oncologist team, I want the best.
If I need someone to do work on my car, I want the best team.
If I need someone to manage my finances, I want the best team.
If I need to build a BFR (Falcon Heavy) and launch aTesla roadster into space, I need the best team to figure it out.
If I need to write mission critical code, I want the best team.
"The Best" can mean a lot of things to a lot of different people and be ranked in a variety of ways. To me the best is people who are really good at what they do, can work with other really good people to craft amazing solutions, and care more about good products and outcomes than their own ego.
"The Smartest Person in the Room, Is the Room."
People aren't afraid. The news media needs to make us afraid so we consume their product.
How often have you heard this just before a cut to 5 minutes of commercials on the local news,
"There is a common household item in your house which could be endangering you and your family, stay tuned to find out what and where they are.."
Newspapers typically use the most inflammatory headlines and publish "hit pieces" filled with weasel words like allegedly.
The news wants us to need them so they rachet up everything to dare I say, "fake news level 11" just to keep people tuned into the noise. There is no nuance and there is little in-depth reporting. Their question is how can we scare/shock viewers into listening to us. The most valuable commodity in America is your attention.
I believe America as a whole is becoming weary with the talking head that cried wolf, and is tuning them out.
However, America is a too violent, too many killings, too much gun violence, too many school shootings. Unfortunately, because of the scary story of the day, we can't stop and have intelligent, reasoned discussions on how to fix some of the real problems.
Just my opinion.
The cloud already does this (Amazon Web Services) and AT&T has charging for the byte down to a science in cellphone land. The really is the one thing AT&T Excels at, generating bills.
Would you rather have?
A huge one time hit every 4-5 years or a reasonable yearly/monthy fee.
This new subscription model is probably good for everyone since most American's can't budget and companies need to know where their next dollar is coming from so they can afford development teams to make new fancy software features.
Personally, I am not subscribing to anything at the moment and am using old software like CS 5.5 or one time purchases like Apple Final Cut and Logic. However, if I need to do a project, I may subscribe to Adobe for a couple of months to rent the new software.
Overal, while distasteful, I think subscriptions reduce piracy and help companies with forecasting of revenue streams. It cuts both ways, you can't have new shiny features without paying developers and if you can't figure out your revenue, you are less likely to hire developers.
Everything on planet freaking earth has firmware in it now and guess what compiler makes the smallest binaries that can talk to hardware?
Yes, that's right C.
Python can talk to C, but you aren't going to write firmware or low level interrupt handling code (like reading IR pulses) or monitoring an I2C bus.
Java is C's fat lazy son that lives in the basement and consumes all available resources can do things eventually, if you give him enough resources, time, and be able to tolerate the odor.
As long as computer architecture remains constant, C will be king. It's fast, small, and get's sh*t done now. Plus once you write it in C, you can call it from any other modern programming language like Python, Java, Objective-C, Swift, etc ...
I went to a graduation party of a graduating Aerospace engineer last weekend and his advice was learn C, learn simulation and solving software like Mathematica, learn how to work in teams, and be multidiscipline in career focus for great success. He graduated from Perdue.
None of the existing Thunderbolt devices with of the MiniDisplay port type work with the new MacBook Pro. Thunderbolt 2 will work with USB-C ports with a handy dandy $50 dongle. I know it would be a huge inconvenience for Apple to include some standard ports like a display port , HDMI port, and USB port. When I go shopping at Best Buy or even the Apple Store I just can't seem to find the USB-C/Thunderbolt 3 peripherals. Even the iPhone X is USB and not USB-C.
Yes, you can't even plug the new iPhone into the new MacBookPro without an adapter.
So there is your answer Mr. Smartypants. Yes, the MacBook Pro has Thunderbolt 3, but none of the Thunderbolt 2 or Display Port devices work without dongles.
Seriously, the iPhone 7&8 are more of the same minus a headphone jack and two new expensive and easy to lose bluetooth devices that need charging called airpods.
The new MacBook Pro is a step backward without any USB ports and a near useless touch bar.
The new iMac is actually pretty sweet but at $5K+ I will be editing video on a Hackintosh.
The new iPad Pro is pretty sweet but the price point is premium along with some Pro iPad Apps requiring a subscription instead of a one time purchase. The"Pro" gives away the fact that you are consumer with extra money.
I am not sure what is up with the MacPro (2012 Diaper Genie) edition, but that is another innovation I can live without.
The Apple watch is a solution in search of a problem, plus it gives you one more thing to charge each day.
Until something new and amazing comes out, I will stick with the iPhone 6s (with headphone jack), MacBookPro 2013 (with USB ports and magsafe charger), and iPod 4th Gen (upgraded to 128GB of flash memory).
If Apple wants to innovate try this:
1. Create a phone that only needs to be charged once per week.
2. Create Modular laptop called the Phat Book Pro that can be tweaked for the pro user, just make it fat on the bottom and that is where option hardware can live (extra battery, I/O ports, more storage, etc....)
3. Reassign Johnny Ives to cafeteria lunch menu management at the new HQ and stop making everything so flat. Flat is cool to a point where I lose all useful ports.
4. Make your products serviceable and upgradable. If we are going to pay double for your stuff, we want to cascade it to the next person on the family pecking order and being able to max out RAM, CPU, and Storage before the handoff is very nice.
5. Maybe get really crazy and combine the iPad with the MacBookPro. Maybe even make them complimentary products like the iPad could be a portable second screen or integrated touch surface/drawing pad.
6. If you are going to take all the ports and buttons off of the phone, it better be waterproof to 50ft.
Instead we get... ... Gone ... Gone ... Gone ... Gone ... Gone ... soldering in, not upgradable .. soldered in, not upgradable .. soldered in, not upgradable
1. Magsafe power adapter
2. Headphone jack
3. USB 1,2,3 ports
4. Thunderbolt
5. Firewire
6. RAM
7. SSD/M.2 storage
8. CPUs
9. Expensive iPhones with useless new features and missing old features.
10. Bring back the iPod clickwheel and 8-Track Tapes, and get off my lawn.
SIP is there for your protection and the protection of OSX.
If you really want to get rid of the app, here is how to enable/disable SIP.
Apple is trying to clean things up under the covers. They have a new modern filesystem (APFS) added SIP back in El Cap which was a solid security move. I realize things have been a bit shaky lately, but I blame on moving 12,000 people into the new spaceship campus . I am surprised all the developers haven't quit.
As the space ship establishes a new workplace morphology, things will get better. Maybe the ex-NSA'ers will head to Apple and bolster security even more.