"iPhone?? Competition was out within months, which means other manufacturers were already working on it."
Yes, because Google CEO Eric Schmidt was on Apple's board, saw the iPhone, and then rushed back to Google and told the engineers to stop work on their Blackberry clone.
But your memory is a bit faulty. The first iPhone was unveiled by Apple CEO Steve Jobs on January 9, 2007, and released on June 29, 2007. The very first Google Android phone, the G1, was released October 22nd, 2008. I guess well over a year (or nearly two years, depending upon your viewpoint), could be be considered "within months."
Even a different LENGTH of cable would have different performance characteristics. This allows different lengths and even materials to be used. With the right chips on board, you could, potentially, plug a fibre Thunderbolt cable into a wire-based computer or peripheral.
The 30-year old Avid timeline interface and the new FCPX magnetic storyline (coupled with some of the missing features) are probably different enough that, no, you can't just read in a previous project. Without a half-zillion available tracks, you won't get an exact one-to-one conversion.
FCPX is a clean break with the past. Some will deal with it. Others will cry and complain about how things aren't the way they used to be and that they need to learn something new. Some will run to other platforms, each with their own problems and issues. (And cause equal chaos and disruption to their precious workflows in the process.)
Some will do the sensible thing and stick with their current toolset until FCPX has what they need. After all, FCP7 works just as well today as it did last week. No one is forcing Walter or any of the other guys to convert today. Their "tool" is still working. All Apple needs to do is maintain FCP7 until FCPX gets up to speed and third-parties get drivers and codecs available for video cards and cameras like the RED.
And some will dive in and create some amazing video with it. Personally, I can't wait.
"They just copied an existing design used in many household electric devices."
Okay. Just out of curiosity, would you care to point me to a half dozen or so? I've bought and used "many" household electric devices, and I've yet to own a single one that used a bi-directional magnetic power connector.
"...and when I went on vacation to a pacific island I was utterly lost and couldn't find north and felt oddly disoriented until I had an idea of where I was on the island by looking at maps."
Apparently residents of Joplin, MO, are having problems navigating after part of the town was level by tornados. They removed all of the landmarks people used to find their way around, leaving nothing but rubble and flat fields.
So why isn't this technology in the public domain? The basic research was done at Standford, and IIRC they get about $1.5 billion in federal research grants...
Are you stupid, ignorant, or just both? Where did I say we should "shut down" our industries? Where did I say we should "shut off" oil imports?
What I implied is that we as a nation should make an aggressive change in policy and setup plans to dramatically REDUCE oil imports in the years to come. GM is making electric vehicles now. Ford is making hybrids now. We've already begun to shift from buying oversized SUVs and buying smaller, more efficient vehicles. We're already starting to shutter old coal fired power plants and replace them with modern, efficient, and renewable alternatives.
Virgin is buying new engines for its planes that will increase fuel efficiency AND save them $1.6 million a year per plane. UP is looking at hybrid locomotives in order to again reduce fuel costs and REDUCE shipping expenses. And so on.
According to you, none of these businesses have taken Econ 101. Not to mention the minor fact that if we spend money to save money, the money we spend is income for some other manufacturer or service down the line. It doesn't just "disappear/" And the money businesses save can be also be used to save, and even increase jobs.
Stop with the FUD and the "ten times as much" crap. We can do it. We are doing it.
And I guarantee you one thing: If we don't do it faster, and sooner, then in the very near future as oil supplies shrink and gas prices skyrocket once again, you WILL be paying ten times as much for the food and goods you buy.
Devastate [with an a, not i] what economies? Destroy what industries?
Either the climate guys are right, and changing our ways will save us trillions; or they're wrong, and changing our ways will save us trillions in oil imports over the next decade, dramatically reduce pollution and ecological damage from coal mining and oil production and gas fracking, reduce our need to spend so much on Defense, and not incidentally, reduce our need to send our kids off to die every time the Middle East hiccups.
Or... we can do nothing. In which case we're still spending trillions on oil imports, still causing ecological disasters, still spending a trillion or so a year on "defense", and still sending our kids off to die. Oh, and we also run the risk of spending trillions more to deal with climate change effects, flooding, drought, and so on.
I suspect that the best solution is simply to use Dropbox. Files are encrypted on the server, and only certain individuals can access the keys. It also has the widest installed base, and the best mobile app support of any service out there. (Thousands of apps can save, print, or retrieve information from Dropbox.)
I use it, with some sets of folders stored as encrypted disk images, and some files that I need to reference across platforms "printed" and stored as encrypted PDFs with multiple passwords.
As to storing "incriminating" information... is the guy an idiot or something? Who would store anything incriminating on an internet service, public or private, encrypted or not?
"... all that's left is to update your server periodically..."
Look, you can't have your cake and eat it too. Either someone else hosts the service, does the maintenance, and as such has physical access, or you use your own server, in which you have to do maintenance.
As I wrote above, in order to sync the iTunes library you have to break the application directory sandbox rule. It's clearly specified, and to do so in a major no-no, and an automatic fail.
The rule is clear, and spelled out up front. It's not Apple's fault the guy decided to spend his nights and weekends writing an app that HAD to break the rules in order to function.
In order to sync the iTunes library you have to break the application directory sandbox rule. It's clearly specified, and to do so in a major no-no, and an automatic fail.
That's enough. I, personally, submitted a feedback request to Apple FOUR YEARS AGO requesting Wireless Synchronization for my very first iPhone. Not to mention that practically every Apple and iPhone and industry tech blogger known to man have ALSO requested the same exact feature for years now. Google it.
Or do you think they watch Cydia, but don't read their own mail nor follow industry bloggers and journalists?
Second, as has been said, the logo is an obvious mashup of the Apple logo for iSync and the AirPort WiFi logo. iSync is eight years old. AirPort (and the WiFi application logo) are TWELVE years old. So who copied whom, here?
Third, Apple's logo is for the feature, not an app. WiFI sync is baked into the OS.
Finally, Apple rejected his app not due to some conspiracy, but because in order to sync the iTunes library you have to break the application directory sandboxing rule, and that's an automatic fail. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200.
There are 93,000 commercial flights per day worldwide. That's 33.9 MILLION per year. Extrapolated, that's 339 million in the last decade. As far as we know, we haven't lost a single plane to cell phone or computer interference.
Now, your odds of being struck and killed by lighting in any given year are a mere 2,320,000 to 1. If we had lost ONE place to electrical interference, you're still 15 times more likely to be killed by lighting than by taking a single flight. You're 15,000 times more likely to die from a fall in the shower.
Hell, the odds of being on the plane with a drunken pilot are a mere 117-to-1.
You can't eliminate all risk. But there's chance, and then there's probability and statistics, and statistics say that it's a non-issue.
According to BTS statistics, there were approximately 9,500,000 revenue departures in 2009, or about 26,000 per day... in the US alone. That doesn't count private flights, which tend to TRIPLE the numbers involved.
Given that dozens of people ignore the rules or forget to turn off devices on each and every flight... the law of large numbers would say otherwise....
And yet pilots are beginning to carry iPads onto the flight deck to cut down on 50-lb flight bags, and airlines are stuffing planes full of seatback LCD screens and onboard WiFi systems.
Parent is right. We test this a thousand times each and every day, on every flight. Have we had ONE serious incident? Lost ONE single plane attributed to a consumer electronics device? No and no.
Silverlight was Microsoft's answer to Flash, back when it looked like Adobe would take home the rich media prize. Then Apple boot stomped Adobe in the guts, declared support for HTML5, and the Flash gravy train jumped the rails.
With even Adobe admitting that future products need to support HTML5, Silverlight is now an answer to a question that no one is asking. In a few years, Microsoft will quietly toss it into the basement, along with all of the other misfit toys they no longer want or need.
Oh, well. Maybe it can play with Bob and Clippy....
"....nothing it would need to retrieve from Apple."
Look up A-GPS. That's Assisted GPS. That uses cell tower information and wifi hotspot information to give the GPS system a "known" starting point, which allows for a faster location lock. If your phone sends a list of "visible" cell tower IDs to Apple, it can return a LARGER list of cell tower IDs (your current, perhaps partial set, plus those surrounding them) ALONG with their exact GPS coordinates.
Given a partial list of towers and signal strengths and the exact timen, AGPS can do a rough triangulation and GPS location, figure out what birds are in the sky, and reference them to give you a quick, fast GPS lock. Why the larger set?
Well, it is a "mobile" phone, is it not? You do drive around and go places, do you not? You do user Google maps and GPS apps and all that, right?
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"iPhone?? Competition was out within months, which means other manufacturers were already working on it."
Yes, because Google CEO Eric Schmidt was on Apple's board, saw the iPhone, and then rushed back to Google and told the engineers to stop work on their Blackberry clone.
But your memory is a bit faulty. The first iPhone was unveiled by Apple CEO Steve Jobs on January 9, 2007, and released on June 29, 2007. The very first Google Android phone, the G1, was released October 22nd, 2008. I guess well over a year (or nearly two years, depending upon your viewpoint), could be be considered "within months."
".... they trick billions of people into thinking that they do with "marketing"."
What is this "marketing" of which you speak? Where does one learn such an arcane thing?
We too would like to trick people into repeatedly buying millions of our products solely through the use of marketing...
Signed,
Jim Balsillie, Mike Lazaridis, RIM
Stephen Elop, Nokia
Steve Balmer, Microsoft
Léo Apotheker, HP
Michael Dell, Dell
Even a different LENGTH of cable would have different performance characteristics. This allows different lengths and even materials to be used. With the right chips on board, you could, potentially, plug a fibre Thunderbolt cable into a wire-based computer or peripheral.
I said, "All Apple needs to do..." As in something they NEED TO DO. Try reading for comprehension before jumping down someone's throat...
The 30-year old Avid timeline interface and the new FCPX magnetic storyline (coupled with some of the missing features) are probably different enough that, no, you can't just read in a previous project. Without a half-zillion available tracks, you won't get an exact one-to-one conversion.
FCPX is a clean break with the past. Some will deal with it. Others will cry and complain about how things aren't the way they used to be and that they need to learn something new. Some will run to other platforms, each with their own problems and issues. (And cause equal chaos and disruption to their precious workflows in the process.)
Some will do the sensible thing and stick with their current toolset until FCPX has what they need. After all, FCP7 works just as well today as it did last week. No one is forcing Walter or any of the other guys to convert today. Their "tool" is still working. All Apple needs to do is maintain FCP7 until FCPX gets up to speed and third-parties get drivers and codecs available for video cards and cameras like the RED.
And some will dive in and create some amazing video with it. Personally, I can't wait.
"They just copied an existing design used in many household electric devices."
Okay. Just out of curiosity, would you care to point me to a half dozen or so? I've bought and used "many" household electric devices, and I've yet to own a single one that used a bi-directional magnetic power connector.
"...and when I went on vacation to a pacific island I was utterly lost and couldn't find north and felt oddly disoriented until I had an idea of where I was on the island by looking at maps."
Apparently residents of Joplin, MO, are having problems navigating after part of the town was level by tornados. They removed all of the landmarks people used to find their way around, leaving nothing but rubble and flat fields.
So why isn't this technology in the public domain? The basic research was done at Standford, and IIRC they get about $1.5 billion in federal research grants...
"The drivers are there, the kernel is there... and you will be able to do everything you want with it..."
Yeah. It will be like all of those people who're still writing apps for Android version 1.0 and Windows CE.
A link to the actual paper, with references....
http://www.pharmamyths.net/files/Biosocieties_2011_Myths_of_High_Drug_Research_Costs.pdf
Are you stupid, ignorant, or just both? Where did I say we should "shut down" our industries? Where did I say we should "shut off" oil imports?
What I implied is that we as a nation should make an aggressive change in policy and setup plans to dramatically REDUCE oil imports in the years to come. GM is making electric vehicles now. Ford is making hybrids now. We've already begun to shift from buying oversized SUVs and buying smaller, more efficient vehicles. We're already starting to shutter old coal fired power plants and replace them with modern, efficient, and renewable alternatives.
Virgin is buying new engines for its planes that will increase fuel efficiency AND save them $1.6 million a year per plane. UP is looking at hybrid locomotives in order to again reduce fuel costs and REDUCE shipping expenses. And so on.
According to you, none of these businesses have taken Econ 101. Not to mention the minor fact that if we spend money to save money, the money we spend is income for some other manufacturer or service down the line. It doesn't just "disappear/" And the money businesses save can be also be used to save, and even increase jobs.
Stop with the FUD and the "ten times as much" crap. We can do it. We are doing it.
And I guarantee you one thing: If we don't do it faster, and sooner, then in the very near future as oil supplies shrink and gas prices skyrocket once again, you WILL be paying ten times as much for the food and goods you buy.
Try running that through your Econ class...
Devastate [with an a, not i] what economies? Destroy what industries?
Either the climate guys are right, and changing our ways will save us trillions; or they're wrong, and changing our ways will save us trillions in oil imports over the next decade, dramatically reduce pollution and ecological damage from coal mining and oil production and gas fracking, reduce our need to spend so much on Defense, and not incidentally, reduce our need to send our kids off to die every time the Middle East hiccups.
Or... we can do nothing. In which case we're still spending trillions on oil imports, still causing ecological disasters, still spending a trillion or so a year on "defense", and still sending our kids off to die. Oh, and we also run the risk of spending trillions more to deal with climate change effects, flooding, drought, and so on.
Oh, what to do? What to do???
I suspect that the best solution is simply to use Dropbox. Files are encrypted on the server, and only certain individuals can access the keys. It also has the widest installed base, and the best mobile app support of any service out there. (Thousands of apps can save, print, or retrieve information from Dropbox.)
I use it, with some sets of folders stored as encrypted disk images, and some files that I need to reference across platforms "printed" and stored as encrypted PDFs with multiple passwords.
As to storing "incriminating" information... is the guy an idiot or something? Who would store anything incriminating on an internet service, public or private, encrypted or not?
"... all that's left is to update your server periodically..."
Look, you can't have your cake and eat it too. Either someone else hosts the service, does the maintenance, and as such has physical access, or you use your own server, in which you have to do maintenance.
Death Star idea needs a link... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zr04FBKPS9E&feature=BFa&list=FLGTYt5qcNJOY&index=5
The Death Star was my idea too!
As I wrote above, in order to sync the iTunes library you have to break the application directory sandbox rule. It's clearly specified, and to do so in a major no-no, and an automatic fail.
The rule is clear, and spelled out up front. It's not Apple's fault the guy decided to spend his nights and weekends writing an app that HAD to break the rules in order to function.
In order to sync the iTunes library you have to break the application directory sandbox rule. It's clearly specified, and to do so in a major no-no, and an automatic fail.
That's enough. I, personally, submitted a feedback request to Apple FOUR YEARS AGO requesting Wireless Synchronization for my very first iPhone. Not to mention that practically every Apple and iPhone and industry tech blogger known to man have ALSO requested the same exact feature for years now. Google it.
Or do you think they watch Cydia, but don't read their own mail nor follow industry bloggers and journalists?
Second, as has been said, the logo is an obvious mashup of the Apple logo for iSync and the AirPort WiFi logo. iSync is eight years old. AirPort (and the WiFi application logo) are TWELVE years old. So who copied whom, here?
Third, Apple's logo is for the feature, not an app. WiFI sync is baked into the OS.
Finally, Apple rejected his app not due to some conspiracy, but because in order to sync the iTunes library you have to break the application directory sandboxing rule, and that's an automatic fail. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200.
There are 93,000 commercial flights per day worldwide. That's 33.9 MILLION per year. Extrapolated, that's 339 million in the last decade. As far as we know, we haven't lost a single plane to cell phone or computer interference.
Now, your odds of being struck and killed by lighting in any given year are a mere 2,320,000 to 1. If we had lost ONE place to electrical interference, you're still 15 times more likely to be killed by lighting than by taking a single flight. You're 15,000 times more likely to die from a fall in the shower.
Hell, the odds of being on the plane with a drunken pilot are a mere 117-to-1.
You can't eliminate all risk. But there's chance, and then there's probability and statistics, and statistics say that it's a non-issue.
According to BTS statistics, there were approximately 9,500,000 revenue departures in 2009, or about 26,000 per day... in the US alone. That doesn't count private flights, which tend to TRIPLE the numbers involved.
Given that dozens of people ignore the rules or forget to turn off devices on each and every flight... the law of large numbers would say otherwise....
And yet pilots are beginning to carry iPads onto the flight deck to cut down on 50-lb flight bags, and airlines are stuffing planes full of seatback LCD screens and onboard WiFi systems.
Parent is right. We test this a thousand times each and every day, on every flight. Have we had ONE serious incident? Lost ONE single plane attributed to a consumer electronics device? No and no.
Silverlight was Microsoft's answer to Flash, back when it looked like Adobe would take home the rich media prize. Then Apple boot stomped Adobe in the guts, declared support for HTML5, and the Flash gravy train jumped the rails.
With even Adobe admitting that future products need to support HTML5, Silverlight is now an answer to a question that no one is asking. In a few years, Microsoft will quietly toss it into the basement, along with all of the other misfit toys they no longer want or need.
Oh, well. Maybe it can play with Bob and Clippy....
"....nothing it would need to retrieve from Apple."
Look up A-GPS. That's Assisted GPS. That uses cell tower information and wifi hotspot information to give the GPS system a "known" starting point, which allows for a faster location lock. If your phone sends a list of "visible" cell tower IDs to Apple, it can return a LARGER list of cell tower IDs (your current, perhaps partial set, plus those surrounding them) ALONG with their exact GPS coordinates.
Given a partial list of towers and signal strengths and the exact timen, AGPS can do a rough triangulation and GPS location, figure out what birds are in the sky, and reference them to give you a quick, fast GPS lock. Why the larger set?
Well, it is a "mobile" phone, is it not? You do drive around and go places, do you not? You do user Google maps and GPS apps and all that, right?
""Only download apps from trusted sources, such as reputable app markets."
You mean like Google's Android App Market?