There's been no progress of any kind since Jobs died. None. They've simply continued standard processor/memory upgrade paths, something that *anybody* could preside over. There's been plenty of regression to go along with the lack of progress, though. Missing ports on computers, stupid touch bar, a pencil, changed up power supply, etc.
Apple is coasting on products that were invented long before Cook arrived. If Jobs were still alive they would have hit a $1T market cap a year or two ago. They likely never will hit that.
You do know it's still very popular, right? If you want to work with it a lot of vertical market software companies are desperately trying to get away from it.
1. Private prison companies (along with prison guard unions) lobby the various state governments for harsher penalties for victimless crimes like drug use and prostitution and such.
2. I was just reading recently where private prisons are also able to harass inmates and get them to do something stupid so that their "time off for good behavior" is reduced, resulting in a longer sentence and thus more revenue for the prison.
They're incentivized to keep non-violent people longer, so that's what they're going to try to do.
Going back to this would fix - overnight - the issue with criminal police officers. It would bring its own set of problems to work through, but it would totally fix the problem of prosecutors going light or refusing to prosecute criminals working in the justice system.
I've been saying this for years now. Tim Cook actually is a decent COO and should be paid perhaps $200K/year in such a role (what he's worth to the company). *Anybody* can do what he's doing, which is to keep the company doing what it's doing. I hate to say that, but Jobs did something very different, which was the actual CEO's job. Cook is not a CEO.
I'm glad the Mini is still around, but my fear is that Cook's idea is to remove all the ports and sell a box that has a power cord and a power switch.
Fines and penalties aren't always about pure monetary gain. They are a means of punishment for wrongdoing and a way to dissuade others from engaging in the same behavior. Absent payment as a penalty, I suppose we could take the board of directors of a company found in violation of the GPL and have them shot.
Agreed. And in some of the cases the offender needs to be taught a lesson as they were flagrantly disregarding the GPL even after being warned repeatedly.
I have no problem "going light" on someone who makes an honest mistake, but there are a lot of dishonest nonmistakes that need to be handled a little heavier.
Is there even a college degree for HR? I mean, I could see a one semester class or something, but I always assumed HR people were the English majors who sucked at selling insurance.
It's too quiet. How can pedestrians keep being absorbed in their smartphones if you can't hear traffic anymore over the music you're playing on your headphones?
Natural selection will fix that within a couple of generations.
The actual driver behind it is crony "drug-testing" companies that make money hand over fist with the testing. Conservatives act as their "useful idiots".
If they wanted to make a real impact on society they would require drug testing for all public employees - especially in law enforcement.
It quite well is when society is paying for your healthcare. Of course, they always have the option of jumping on a plane and flying to America where they'll get the same or better care - at a price.
I agree, but with a few caveats. But, mainly, the issue is that those of us using the computers are the people creating the apps that drive iphone sales. We need to be happy. The main purpose of macs at this point is running xcode and turning out apps. So it makes sense to make them useful to power users.
For about 15 years they made machines that were good for power users as well as normal users - everybody was happy. No need to screw that up.
This is exactly the issue - change for the sake of change. There was literally no reason to change the power adapter. None. Removing USB ports? Stupid. It almost certainly still uses USB internally for the camera, keyboard, and trackpad, so it's not like the hardware isn't there. The function keys? This might possibly have been a step forward - at least it has the potential to be better. But internal testing should have revealed it to be annoying rather than more useful.
When they removed the floppy drive I thought it was the right move - same with optical storage drives. It's just too early for external drives and their core market (design and creative professionals) are the ones who are most likely to use external hard drives. As I said, I'll always need them. I have 7+ TB of music on Amazon S3 now, I'm dealing with datasets that are just too big to move around online (we have to ship drives to Amazon for imports).
Here's exactly what Cook learned from Jobs: "not enough".
I'm simply disgusted with the changes to the latest macbook pros. I'm using a mid-2015 right now and I would have upgraded already if there were any actual "upgrades" available. Each model newer than mine is a downgrade in various ways - fewer ports, stupid touch bar thing replacing the function keys and escape key (I'm a vi user - ugh!), different power adapter (WTF?!?!?), etc. In addition to these literal downgrades there are no real upgrades to be had. I have 16GB of memory, I think they might have 32 now but, geeze, come on. Drive space? Not only do I have to pay out the ass for a flash drive, I can't easily connect external hard drives now since the ports are screwed up.
Just, stupid.
Apple led the way back when it made sense - getting rid of floppies (the time was right), getting rid of DVD drive (the time was right). But this is no longer leadership, it's just stupidity. People are still going to use external drives for some time - people like will likely use them indefinitely. I use a laptop with an external monitor (in my case a 49" UHD TV) - I need extra ports.
I've invested a ton in Apple hardware over the last 10 years, but when I have to buy another computer it's probably going to be running Linux. I have to keep a Mac or Windows machine around for Photoshop and such.
digging up oil, transporting it, refining it, transporting it again at least once, and then burning it is a lot more dirty than batteries. Battery costs are dropping all the time, year on year. here's a link to explain lithium "mining" and the myths on the web about it... https://cleantechnica.com/2016... Perhaps you need to research it before saying "I'm sure mining for lithium is dirty business and manufacturing probably is", guesswork or myth believing is not a substitute for researching
I'm not comparing anything, just pointing out that mining *anything* is dirty business. It just is. I grew up around coal mines.
The issue isn't so much the mining, though, and that's the point. Everything shown in that article is contained, and that's the key. The issue with oil and coal isn't the mining part, although that's certainly dirty. The issue is that when you burn them - which is typically how you extract the energy content - the waste products go into the atmosphere and are uncontained. That is the problem.
You're apparently too dense to understand that I'm very pro-electric. My entire point above is trying to teach a libtard how to properly argue for something without barfing up something stupid about the Koch brothers. We're on the same side of this issue, so it behooves me to teach the libtard how to actually explain something rather than "duh, Koch brothers".
And Waze, which is part of Google. When people come out with big announcements like this, I have to wonder if they're either 1) stupid or 2) just trying to sucker some VCs out of cash.
Then it's going to turn out that manufacturing and remanufacturing batteries en masse is a dirty and expensive business
It seems the Koch brothers propaganda and smear tactics are working well on some people.
Just as the Soros propaganda and smear tactics are working well on you.
Lithium batteries are very expensive to produce and almost certainly really dirty. It doesn't matter. This is like the tradeoff with nuclear power - it has a nasty waste but we're not pumping that waste into the atmosphere and it's pretty easy to contain. I'm sure mining for lithium is dirty business and manufacturing probably is, too, but that's waste that can be contained.
At least learn how to speak about these subjects intelligently instead of invoking your favorite bogeyman.
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There's been no progress of any kind since Jobs died. None. They've simply continued standard processor/memory upgrade paths, something that *anybody* could preside over. There's been plenty of regression to go along with the lack of progress, though. Missing ports on computers, stupid touch bar, a pencil, changed up power supply, etc.
Apple is coasting on products that were invented long before Cook arrived. If Jobs were still alive they would have hit a $1T market cap a year or two ago. They likely never will hit that.
So, 20 years ago when smart phones didnâ(TM)t exist, was it a huge problem then? Because, if not, it canâ(TM)t be a huge problem now.
You do know it's still very popular, right? If you want to work with it a lot of vertical market software companies are desperately trying to get away from it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Look for products based on "universe" or "unidata" or "unibase".
Just to explain the private prison issue:
1. Private prison companies (along with prison guard unions) lobby the various state governments for harsher penalties for victimless crimes like drug use and prostitution and such.
2. I was just reading recently where private prisons are also able to harass inmates and get them to do something stupid so that their "time off for good behavior" is reduced, resulting in a longer sentence and thus more revenue for the prison.
They're incentivized to keep non-violent people longer, so that's what they're going to try to do.
Also note that when the 5th amendment was written *anybody* could bring a matter before a grand jury and obtain an indictment:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Going back to this would fix - overnight - the issue with criminal police officers. It would bring its own set of problems to work through, but it would totally fix the problem of prosecutors going light or refusing to prosecute criminals working in the justice system.
I've been saying this for years now. Tim Cook actually is a decent COO and should be paid perhaps $200K/year in such a role (what he's worth to the company). *Anybody* can do what he's doing, which is to keep the company doing what it's doing. I hate to say that, but Jobs did something very different, which was the actual CEO's job. Cook is not a CEO.
I'm glad the Mini is still around, but my fear is that Cook's idea is to remove all the ports and sell a box that has a power cord and a power switch.
Fines and penalties aren't always about pure monetary gain. They are a means of punishment for wrongdoing and a way to dissuade others from engaging in the same behavior. Absent payment as a penalty, I suppose we could take the board of directors of a company found in violation of the GPL and have them shot.
Agreed. And in some of the cases the offender needs to be taught a lesson as they were flagrantly disregarding the GPL even after being warned repeatedly.
I have no problem "going light" on someone who makes an honest mistake, but there are a lot of dishonest nonmistakes that need to be handled a little heavier.
Ironically, psychology is another "insurance sales" major.
Is there even a college degree for HR? I mean, I could see a one semester class or something, but I always assumed HR people were the English majors who sucked at selling insurance.
It's too quiet. How can pedestrians keep being absorbed in their smartphones if you can't hear traffic anymore over the music you're playing on your headphones?
Natural selection will fix that within a couple of generations.
The actual driver behind it is crony "drug-testing" companies that make money hand over fist with the testing. Conservatives act as their "useful idiots".
If they wanted to make a real impact on society they would require drug testing for all public employees - especially in law enforcement.
It's not society's job to do it for you
It quite well is when society is paying for your healthcare. Of course, they always have the option of jumping on a plane and flying to America where they'll get the same or better care - at a price.
Ironic that they're basing it on the non-existent gender wage gap. But, you know, "party of science" and all that.
Slashdot was *way* in the news on 12/25/1999 when we saved Hotmail.
https://slashdot.org/story/99/...
And how about when we spammed millionaire spammer Alan Ralsky in real life?
https://slashdot.org/story/02/...
That was surely one of the most beautiful moments here.
Yep. Now if they could just consistently get higher Google rankings than w3schools.
Some of them *did* learn. Ever heard of President Trump?
I agree, but with a few caveats. But, mainly, the issue is that those of us using the computers are the people creating the apps that drive iphone sales. We need to be happy. The main purpose of macs at this point is running xcode and turning out apps. So it makes sense to make them useful to power users.
For about 15 years they made machines that were good for power users as well as normal users - everybody was happy. No need to screw that up.
I suppose I could, but usually it's still a bit painful to do so.
This is exactly the issue - change for the sake of change. There was literally no reason to change the power adapter. None. Removing USB ports? Stupid. It almost certainly still uses USB internally for the camera, keyboard, and trackpad, so it's not like the hardware isn't there. The function keys? This might possibly have been a step forward - at least it has the potential to be better. But internal testing should have revealed it to be annoying rather than more useful.
When they removed the floppy drive I thought it was the right move - same with optical storage drives. It's just too early for external drives and their core market (design and creative professionals) are the ones who are most likely to use external hard drives. As I said, I'll always need them. I have 7+ TB of music on Amazon S3 now, I'm dealing with datasets that are just too big to move around online (we have to ship drives to Amazon for imports).
Here's exactly what Cook learned from Jobs: "not enough".
I'm simply disgusted with the changes to the latest macbook pros. I'm using a mid-2015 right now and I would have upgraded already if there were any actual "upgrades" available. Each model newer than mine is a downgrade in various ways - fewer ports, stupid touch bar thing replacing the function keys and escape key (I'm a vi user - ugh!), different power adapter (WTF?!?!?), etc. In addition to these literal downgrades there are no real upgrades to be had. I have 16GB of memory, I think they might have 32 now but, geeze, come on. Drive space? Not only do I have to pay out the ass for a flash drive, I can't easily connect external hard drives now since the ports are screwed up.
Just, stupid.
Apple led the way back when it made sense - getting rid of floppies (the time was right), getting rid of DVD drive (the time was right). But this is no longer leadership, it's just stupidity. People are still going to use external drives for some time - people like will likely use them indefinitely. I use a laptop with an external monitor (in my case a 49" UHD TV) - I need extra ports.
I've invested a ton in Apple hardware over the last 10 years, but when I have to buy another computer it's probably going to be running Linux. I have to keep a Mac or Windows machine around for Photoshop and such.
Holy shit. You think a link to a CNN poll proves something?
Holy. Shit.
It's not just contacts:
1. inbound/outbound phone #s
2. Location information (proximity)
3. IP address (connected to same wireless network)
There are plenty of tricks to determine that two people have been in close proximity when you can access data from their phone.
digging up oil, transporting it, refining it, transporting it again at least once, and then burning it is a lot more dirty than batteries. Battery costs are dropping all the time, year on year. here's a link to explain lithium "mining" and the myths on the web about it ... https://cleantechnica.com/2016... Perhaps you need to research it before saying "I'm sure mining for lithium is dirty business and manufacturing probably is", guesswork or myth believing is not a substitute for researching
I'm not comparing anything, just pointing out that mining *anything* is dirty business. It just is. I grew up around coal mines.
The issue isn't so much the mining, though, and that's the point. Everything shown in that article is contained, and that's the key. The issue with oil and coal isn't the mining part, although that's certainly dirty. The issue is that when you burn them - which is typically how you extract the energy content - the waste products go into the atmosphere and are uncontained. That is the problem.
You're apparently too dense to understand that I'm very pro-electric. My entire point above is trying to teach a libtard how to properly argue for something without barfing up something stupid about the Koch brothers. We're on the same side of this issue, so it behooves me to teach the libtard how to actually explain something rather than "duh, Koch brothers".
And Waze, which is part of Google. When people come out with big announcements like this, I have to wonder if they're either 1) stupid or 2) just trying to sucker some VCs out of cash.
Then it's going to turn out that manufacturing and remanufacturing batteries en masse is a dirty and expensive business
It seems the Koch brothers propaganda and smear tactics are working well on some people.
Just as the Soros propaganda and smear tactics are working well on you.
Lithium batteries are very expensive to produce and almost certainly really dirty. It doesn't matter. This is like the tradeoff with nuclear power - it has a nasty waste but we're not pumping that waste into the atmosphere and it's pretty easy to contain. I'm sure mining for lithium is dirty business and manufacturing probably is, too, but that's waste that can be contained.
At least learn how to speak about these subjects intelligently instead of invoking your favorite bogeyman.