No, this is because of Apple. The EU said "voluntary standard or we legislate" and the device manufacturers agreed a voluntary standard that had too many loopholes, so the EU kept its promise and legislated.
That will be interesting. Apple has been pretty adamant about having proprietary connectors, and with their new "smart cables", seem to be trying their darndest to kill the third party market. I don't believe we'll ever see an iphone or ipod with a micro-usb data/charging port. As someone else suggested, Apple may make an adapter available, but it'll be a separate cable with a female micro-USB that plugs into the proprietary cable, at extra cost, "smart" so it can't be produced by a third party.
I understand. Mere word substitution wouldn't do it. It'd have to be something more complicated, with a new, perhaps variable syntax, and a vocabulary where words mean completely different things in slightly different usages.
And make it sound like slang for some additional camouflage. And include meaningful sounds that would normally be considered background noise. Hmm.
Nope. They're requiring a micro-USB connector on the phone itself. All phone chargers and their connecting wires will be required to interoperate with it.
That was my understanding also. And Apple will get an exception.
Manufacturers can still keep their bottom line by making cables and connectors so bad they have to be replaced even more often than before. As a matter of fact, I think that already happened.
True, but I suspect this creates a market in reasonably constructed cables and connectors that last longer. And because the connectors and voltages are standard, one could buy premium chargers from a third party and throw away the junk that comes with the phone.
Although, come to think of it, that doesn't help with the waste, much.
Exactly how much "depth of understanding in electronic devices" does it take to look at a demo in a store before buying (or in this case, downloading) something new??
To do that, not a lot. To understand that you should do that, perhaps more.
I understand what you're saying about there being more appeal with someone you know. It's why men's magazines used to write about the girl, show something of her life, to gain that feeling of connection.
In this case, if it wasn't about control, it seems likely that he would have saved the photos, gradually collected more, and beat the weasel quietly while paging through them. When he moved on to extortion, it stopped being about seeing someone he knew with her clothes off, and became about the feeling of power from making her do stuff.
Not everyone is a geek. There are millions of users out there that don't have the depth of understanding in electronic devices to make those kinds of decisions. When your community is largely made up of geeks, it's easy to forget this.
Well, maybe these billions and billions of motion-sick people... shouldn't have upgraded?
Would have been nice to know ahead of time. When friends ask if they should upgrade, I point them to the articles regarding motion sickness, and the warning that you can't go back once you upgrade. But that doesn't help the huge mass of people who upgraded before the problem was noticed.
What kind of company Apple has become will be clearly delineated by their reaction to this. They could release a patch that allows you to easily shut off the animations (not just "reduce"). Or, they could deny the problem and tell people you're looking at it wrong. It'll be interesting to see which response they choose.
Sigh. very well, I'll do your footwork for you. I recommend reading a newspaper once in awhile. Or you could have googled "she's rich. she's eating at a restaurant" and got several hits from that.
I really REALLY don't want to take my hands off the keyboard to do some stupid-ass gesture. It's a waste of time and breaks my flow of thought. I begrudge even reaching for the mouse. Now they want to add a third set of inputs?
This sounds like an idea that came from marketing, requiring overriding the ergonomic group when they violently objected. It's a "feature" that gives the salescreatures something to play with at trade shows.
This was *not* about seeing naked girls. As we all know, there is more highly detailed porn on the internet than one person could experience in a lifetime. (Probably. I haven't, like, taken an inventory. But evidence indicates this is the case.)
This was about control. It was very specifically about the feeling of control experienced when forcing someone to do an act they find disgusting.
He wasn't trying to see his victims naked. He could have seen tens of thousands of girls naked for free on the internet. He was very specifically attempting to gain control over his victims, to make them do something that revolted them.
I wonder how his lawyer is going to try to spin this.
Wow, just the other day, a woman mugged an elderly lady in a restaurant, and when caught insisted the mugging was justified because "the lady was rich. She was eating at a restaurant". It's amazing what mental gyrations people will go through to justify actions that the rest of us are pretty sure are wrong.
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No, this is because of Apple. The EU said "voluntary standard or we legislate" and the device manufacturers agreed a voluntary standard that had too many loopholes, so the EU kept its promise and legislated.
That will be interesting. Apple has been pretty adamant about having proprietary connectors, and with their new "smart cables", seem to be trying their darndest to kill the third party market. I don't believe we'll ever see an iphone or ipod with a micro-usb data/charging port. As someone else suggested, Apple may make an adapter available, but it'll be a separate cable with a female micro-USB that plugs into the proprietary cable, at extra cost, "smart" so it can't be produced by a third party.
You mean like Monster and Apple cables?
I'm pretty sure I do not mean that.
I understand. Mere word substitution wouldn't do it. It'd have to be something more complicated, with a new, perhaps variable syntax, and a vocabulary where words mean completely different things in slightly different usages.
And make it sound like slang for some additional camouflage. And include meaningful sounds that would normally be considered background noise. Hmm.
Apparently not.
Whatever you do, don't tell him we're going to bring him back to maintain those Python scripts he wrote in 2005.
I would submit that an adapter *is* getting an exception, *plus* Apple gets to sell an additional cable to users in Europe.
So, what now? "You're looking at it wrong"?
Nope. They're requiring a micro-USB connector on the phone itself. All phone chargers and their connecting wires will be required to interoperate with it.
That was my understanding also. And Apple will get an exception.
Manufacturers can still keep their bottom line by making cables and connectors so bad they have to be replaced even more often than before. As a matter of fact, I think that already happened.
True, but I suspect this creates a market in reasonably constructed cables and connectors that last longer. And because the connectors and voltages are standard, one could buy premium chargers from a third party and throw away the junk that comes with the phone.
Although, come to think of it, that doesn't help with the waste, much.
Exactly how much "depth of understanding in electronic devices" does it take to look at a demo in a store before buying (or in this case, downloading) something new??
To do that, not a lot. To understand that you should do that, perhaps more.
I understand what you're saying about there being more appeal with someone you know. It's why men's magazines used to write about the girl, show something of her life, to gain that feeling of connection.
In this case, if it wasn't about control, it seems likely that he would have saved the photos, gradually collected more, and beat the weasel quietly while paging through them. When he moved on to extortion, it stopped being about seeing someone he knew with her clothes off, and became about the feeling of power from making her do stuff.
Not everyone is a geek. There are millions of users out there that don't have the depth of understanding in electronic devices to make those kinds of decisions. When your community is largely made up of geeks, it's easy to forget this.
That's right. Steve Jobs personally designed the iPhone antenna.
I'm pretty sure that even in the Jobs days, Apple had more than one manager.
Well, maybe these billions and billions of motion-sick people... shouldn't have upgraded?
Would have been nice to know ahead of time. When friends ask if they should upgrade, I point them to the articles regarding motion sickness, and the warning that you can't go back once you upgrade. But that doesn't help the huge mass of people who upgraded before the problem was noticed.
What kind of company Apple has become will be clearly delineated by their reaction to this. They could release a patch that allows you to easily shut off the animations (not just "reduce"). Or, they could deny the problem and tell people you're looking at it wrong. It'll be interesting to see which response they choose.
> Research fail on Apple's part. Hubris or stupidity? Both?
Jobs isn't around anymore.
> Probably because of Apple's extremely annoying policy that you cannot downgrade iOS anymore a couple of days after they release a new version.
I wonder if Apple's stance will ultimately be "just use it, you'll get used to it". We've heard that stance from another manufacturer recently.
Reading. Try it.
Sigh. very well, I'll do your footwork for you. I recommend reading a newspaper once in awhile. Or you could have googled "she's rich. she's eating at a restaurant" and got several hits from that.
I really REALLY don't want to take my hands off the keyboard to do some stupid-ass gesture. It's a waste of time and breaks my flow of thought. I begrudge even reaching for the mouse. Now they want to add a third set of inputs?
This sounds like an idea that came from marketing, requiring overriding the ergonomic group when they violently objected. It's a "feature" that gives the salescreatures something to play with at trade shows.
Agreed. Get out of the way, don't call attention to one's self, take steps to protect one's family, and wait it out. I think that's about it.
This was *not* about seeing naked girls. As we all know, there is more highly detailed porn on the internet than one person could experience in a lifetime. (Probably. I haven't, like, taken an inventory. But evidence indicates this is the case.)
This was about control. It was very specifically about the feeling of control experienced when forcing someone to do an act they find disgusting.
He wasn't trying to see his victims naked. He could have seen tens of thousands of girls naked for free on the internet. He was very specifically attempting to gain control over his victims, to make them do something that revolted them.
I wonder how his lawyer is going to try to spin this.
Wow, just the other day, a woman mugged an elderly lady in a restaurant, and when caught insisted the mugging was justified because "the lady was rich. She was eating at a restaurant". It's amazing what mental gyrations people will go through to justify actions that the rest of us are pretty sure are wrong.
In fairness, I think it was his family that was expressing regret. As well they might.