That's only ONE of the problems dark matter addresses. The others are conveniently not mentioned by dark matter alternatives, because the alternatives do not address them well.
"It's why I will never trust my personal files on the likes of Dropbox and other backup services."
That's silly. Just recognize them for what they are. If someone at Dropbox wants to take the risk of snooping through the figures I made for my last paper, well, I hope they found it worth the risk. My tax return? It's pretty boring, and entirely predictable, so probably. Something actually sensitive? It would be encrypted on my hard drive anyway, so sure.
The real problem is that ordinary users are the ones who stand to get hurt because they're not using personal encryption enough.
Yes, I think that's the point. In an actual capitalistic system the aristocracy tends to suffer because there's lots of social mobility. Dynasties come and go. The problem is, dynasties don't like that, and it doesn't last. As part of society gains money (and power), they change the system to protect their wealth, making it less capitalistic. Pure capitalism is self defeating. The only way you can reap the benefits of capitalism long term in a practical system seems to be to have a mixed economy, set up BEFORE you end up with a super wealthy elite in charge of everything. Or after, via some kind of popular uprising.
Depends on the business model. Lots of companies do low volume runs of cheap knockoff crap and either stiff the retailers on the returns, make enough on the non-returned ones to pay for the effort, or miscalculate and go bankrupt.
Just because the device is faster on specs doesn't mean it's *faster*.
But you're right, the real reason is probably because the manufacturers pair cheap touch elements with cheap screens because their customers (the guys who put their name on the tablet) are run by the usual spreadsheet jockeys who pick a display unit out of a catalog based on it's price. Cheap unit for budget tablets. More expensive unit for more expensive tablets.
"Second, even when one considers only applications, PCs are still walled off. This isn't through cryptographic lockdown but by a mental set among users against connecting them to the same kind of display commonly used with a video game console."
Sorry, that's the kind of changing-the-definition-so-I'm-not-wrong that's why people laugh at philosophers.
And that fake designer bag could have better stitching. But it doesn't. Same reason.
The companies making cheapo tablets are in it to make cheapo tablets. I don't think they're so worried about end user experience.
Also, as other posters have pointed out, some of what you might be interpreting as a poor touch screen might actually be poor UI performance due to a slow processor.
There are already a bunch of alternative app stores for the Mac, and there were long before Apple came up with theirs. There's no particular reason why Apple should link to them from their own store, and lots of reasons why they shouldn't. Who makes the Apple link list and who doesn't? Is Apple actually endorsing these other sources?
The iOS store is different. Remember what cell phones were like when the store debuted. The app store was considerably LESS restrictive than most of what had gone before. Android even more so.
Cell phones are opening up, not closing down. And PCs are staying open.
You're not being a snob, you're being an idiot. An iMac is a computer that runs a UNIX (or Windows, or Linux) that supports the world's major office software. It's a favourite (well, probably second place to the Macbook Pro) of researchers, including computer security and HPC researchers.
iChat is possibly the world's most popular Jabber client.
Sorry, the indies love the App Store. They get exposure right up with the big boys without the multi million dollar ad budgets.
What the walled garden DOES exclude is civil disobedience. But then, there are no PC walled gardens, so this whole discussion is theoretical. There are important differences between cell phones and PCs. And cell phones have been getting MORE open, not less.
The mark of a good code cracker is to be able to look at a bunch of numbers and/or letters and recognize patterns. This one was x86 byte code, which is, IMHO, a nice break from english language letter frequencies.
ARM has pretty slow double precision floating point (unless you use the vector processor). ARM is much more comparable clock for clock to current x86 processors in integer and logic performance. I.e. general computing.
It's probably a combination of the sucky graphics performance of the Tegra 3 and possibly a not particularly well optimized browser on the tablet. Plus the browser may not be overly well optimized for multiple cores.
Northern Alberta. About 56 degrees north. Our halloween costumes had to be able to take -40. They'd plow the streets, the big ones pretty quickly, the little ones not so much. Salt isn't really cost effective when it's that cold, so you can't melt the snow. If you want it to go somewhere, you have to move it.
Of course, most of my friends lived down country roads the residents were responsible for plowing themselves.
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That's only ONE of the problems dark matter addresses. The others are conveniently not mentioned by dark matter alternatives, because the alternatives do not address them well.
You want to fire the ones who told the truth?
Remember, this was a survey. 26% admitted they snooped. The other 74% denied it.
"It's why I will never trust my personal files on the likes of Dropbox and other backup services."
That's silly. Just recognize them for what they are. If someone at Dropbox wants to take the risk of snooping through the figures I made for my last paper, well, I hope they found it worth the risk. My tax return? It's pretty boring, and entirely predictable, so probably. Something actually sensitive? It would be encrypted on my hard drive anyway, so sure.
The real problem is that ordinary users are the ones who stand to get hurt because they're not using personal encryption enough.
Yes, I think that's the point. In an actual capitalistic system the aristocracy tends to suffer because there's lots of social mobility. Dynasties come and go. The problem is, dynasties don't like that, and it doesn't last. As part of society gains money (and power), they change the system to protect their wealth, making it less capitalistic. Pure capitalism is self defeating. The only way you can reap the benefits of capitalism long term in a practical system seems to be to have a mixed economy, set up BEFORE you end up with a super wealthy elite in charge of everything. Or after, via some kind of popular uprising.
Depends on the business model. Lots of companies do low volume runs of cheap knockoff crap and either stiff the retailers on the returns, make enough on the non-returned ones to pay for the effort, or miscalculate and go bankrupt.
Just because the device is faster on specs doesn't mean it's *faster*.
But you're right, the real reason is probably because the manufacturers pair cheap touch elements with cheap screens because their customers (the guys who put their name on the tablet) are run by the usual spreadsheet jockeys who pick a display unit out of a catalog based on it's price. Cheap unit for budget tablets. More expensive unit for more expensive tablets.
"Second, even when one considers only applications, PCs are still walled off. This isn't through cryptographic lockdown but by a mental set among users against connecting them to the same kind of display commonly used with a video game console."
Sorry, that's the kind of changing-the-definition-so-I'm-not-wrong that's why people laugh at philosophers.
The US economy in the time when the US aristocracy arose was pretty laissez faire.
You're just being silly now. Oh right, you were before too.
And that fake designer bag could have better stitching. But it doesn't. Same reason.
The companies making cheapo tablets are in it to make cheapo tablets. I don't think they're so worried about end user experience.
Also, as other posters have pointed out, some of what you might be interpreting as a poor touch screen might actually be poor UI performance due to a slow processor.
Which is how it should be.
You "enable" it by setting the password. Sorta like any sane pre-installed Linux.
There are already a bunch of alternative app stores for the Mac, and there were long before Apple came up with theirs. There's no particular reason why Apple should link to them from their own store, and lots of reasons why they shouldn't. Who makes the Apple link list and who doesn't? Is Apple actually endorsing these other sources?
The iOS store is different. Remember what cell phones were like when the store debuted. The app store was considerably LESS restrictive than most of what had gone before. Android even more so.
Cell phones are opening up, not closing down. And PCs are staying open.
Then you have a far worse problem than how your computer works?
Yeah, except Apple didn't kill it. Amazon bought it and killed it because it competes with their DRMed offering.
Those three provide considerably more capability than the one they replace, and require considerably less technical expertise.
The PC in every home paradigm probably is doomed.
You're not being a snob, you're being an idiot. An iMac is a computer that runs a UNIX (or Windows, or Linux) that supports the world's major office software. It's a favourite (well, probably second place to the Macbook Pro) of researchers, including computer security and HPC researchers.
iChat is possibly the world's most popular Jabber client.
Sorry, the indies love the App Store. They get exposure right up with the big boys without the multi million dollar ad budgets.
What the walled garden DOES exclude is civil disobedience. But then, there are no PC walled gardens, so this whole discussion is theoretical. There are important differences between cell phones and PCs. And cell phones have been getting MORE open, not less.
Nor are there any PC walled gardens.
This "oh noes, my cell phone is locked down so my PC is going to be!" idea is so far completely unfounded.
"combined with some steganography"
Calling data contained in the comment field of a png steganography seems rather overly generous.
The mark of a good code cracker is to be able to look at a bunch of numbers and/or letters and recognize patterns. This one was x86 byte code, which is, IMHO, a nice break from english language letter frequencies.
ARM has pretty slow double precision floating point (unless you use the vector processor). ARM is much more comparable clock for clock to current x86 processors in integer and logic performance. I.e. general computing.
It's probably a combination of the sucky graphics performance of the Tegra 3 and possibly a not particularly well optimized browser on the tablet. Plus the browser may not be overly well optimized for multiple cores.
From the story yesterday the Tegra 3 doesn't even do that well on the tech-porn numbers. Not as well as it should, anyway.
The screens and touch input are usually integrated into a single package. Sure you could pair a good touch sensor with a cheap screen, but why?
$30 bulk component cost easily becomes $100+ by the time it gets to you.
And your Fourier transform algorithm to solve it faster is?
Northern Alberta. About 56 degrees north. Our halloween costumes had to be able to take -40. They'd plow the streets, the big ones pretty quickly, the little ones not so much. Salt isn't really cost effective when it's that cold, so you can't melt the snow. If you want it to go somewhere, you have to move it.
Of course, most of my friends lived down country roads the residents were responsible for plowing themselves.