I don't buy antibacterial soaps for this exact reason. Germs are my friends; they help my immune system. I'm sure I run into antibacterial soap in restaurants, etc, but that's a lot less than having it at home.
Apple does not want to see a repeat of the 1980's with Microsoft. They are suing because they believe that Google, Samsung, etc truly stole their ideas to make phones. The court will decide whether that's true or not. Apple makes tons more money than anyone else in mobile phones, so that's probably not the motivator.
Obviously, Steve meant market research for future products. The article describes a survey of existing customers, and I've gotten them before. While this plays a part in product development, they don't use focus groups. It's one of those things where, if Apple asked outside people (not customers), "what do you want in a phone," they'd end-up with a terrible product. Instead, they make the phone they, themselves want to use. As they've stated in their conference calls, they only enter markets where they think they can improve things. One example is student information systems. They sold PowerSchool to Pierson, exiting that market because they felt they couldn't do a killer product there. It's so obvious how they work; the only mystery is what future products will be. They keep those under wraps because, if they decide to scrap it or change it dramatically, there won't be a Microsoft-CES-announcement-style embarrassment. As the Samsung court documents show, they have hundreds of iterations of products that never see the light of day.
> Few will question anymore that Apple is a dark force of DRM and lockin
I would question this; Apple has fought for consumers and against DRM. Apple is super consumer-friendly and they listen to their customers. Microsoft == computing dark ages.
"iTunes Plus downloads are songs and music videos available in our highest quality 256 kbps AAC audio encoding (twice the audio quality of protected music purchases), and without digital rights management (DRM)."
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1711
Microsoft is quickly losing influence; I don't think their secure boot stuff is going to be that big of a deal. I would say they have a chance with Windows Server, but 2012 has Metro, so I think they'll be declining on all sides now. They don't seem to care about what people actually want; they just want to push some new thing.
Personally, I never liked Windows, but with Metro even on Server, I'll be seriously pushing Linux at work.
I've always been disappointed in my math skills; I barely passed calc II. After a lot of Khan videos (and a better attitude), I could derive my own trig identities. I'm sure a lot of people can do that in their sleep, but for me, it was a big deal. Khan really brought math down to earth and made it obtainable to me. I think a lot of people who've written themselves off as bad at math would be surprised how far they can go with a good teacher.
It seems like, unless Dell, HP, etc take Linux seriously by putting it on their machines and advertising it on the front-page of their stores, Steam will meet the same fate. Lots of companies have tried porting games to Linux, but I don't think anyone is buying.
"The fact that 41.4 percent of apps were shown to track a user's location unbeknownst to them."
...because iOS always asks on the first location look-up and it always shows the arrow/gps icon in the upper right. Also, you can shut off GPS app-by-app or for all in the prefs. If apps are somehow going around Apple's only way to access the GPS, they wouldn't be approved; this is impossible. Obviously, if BitDefender's app can tell that easily, Apple's screening process would detect a private API GPS call, and flag the app. A few falling through the cracks is one thing, but 41.1% is some type of sensationalism or scare-mongering (i.e. a lie). The only possibility of any truth is that "bad" apps send-out the wifi base station name or IP address and get a general location from that. They're not accessing the GPS without permission.
It would almost seem, from a completely neutral viewpoint, that just allowing illegals to become citizens would be a win all around.
I like everything you say but this. I think it's a great idea, but the fact that these people are willing to do something illegal disturbs me. Granted, these people are *far* from drug lords and there's a big difference between violent crime and just hiding-out so you can make money and send it home. Still, I wonder how far some may be willing to go if they're willing to take one step in an illegal direction. Those willing to go farther may be a small fringe group, and those breaking the law maybe happy to shed and forget the "illegal" part of their immigrant title and get on with life.
Personally, I'd like to see more manufacturing move to Mexico, out of China. That way, they can come to the US if they want to, but Mexico would have a better economy and working there would be a good option, too.
I used to have three Samsung 2343BWx (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824001317) monitors (2048x1152). My main issue was that with anything higher than 1920, you need dual-link everything. That means a simple HDMI-DVI or DisplayPort-DVI adapter won't work; you need a $100 active adapter, which plugs into USB for power. Aside from being expensive, you need to restart them every so often, because they stop working. I downgraded to 1920 monitors, and I got rid of the adapters. Everything is much simpler now.
Depending on the way you asked the question, Siri already told that joke. Maybe they added a few more phrasings, but that joke has been in there for a while, possibly since day one.
Judging from Apple's personality, their motivation is probably that they don't want to support their OS on third-party hardware. They don't want to have to answer support questions for a grandmother who's grandson set-up a hackintosh for her. Hardware sales should be a reason as well, but they probably don't want people to get a bad taste for OS X and swear to never buy a Mac. Hence Apple Stores, etc.
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.apple.com/fr/hotnews/thoughtsonmusic/
Also, iTunes has been DRM-free since 2009.
The forced metro Start screen is in Server 2012, too. Game over, Microsoft.
Since the previous article is, "Apple Is Now the Most Valuable Company In History," I'll go with yes.
I don't buy antibacterial soaps for this exact reason. Germs are my friends; they help my immune system. I'm sure I run into antibacterial soap in restaurants, etc, but that's a lot less than having it at home.
Apple does not want to see a repeat of the 1980's with Microsoft. They are suing because they believe that Google, Samsung, etc truly stole their ideas to make phones. The court will decide whether that's true or not. Apple makes tons more money than anyone else in mobile phones, so that's probably not the motivator.
Nope, I listen to the quarterly conference calls.
Fortunately for me, I said this, "While this plays a part in product development, they don't use focus groups."
Obviously, Steve meant market research for future products. The article describes a survey of existing customers, and I've gotten them before. While this plays a part in product development, they don't use focus groups. It's one of those things where, if Apple asked outside people (not customers), "what do you want in a phone," they'd end-up with a terrible product. Instead, they make the phone they, themselves want to use. As they've stated in their conference calls, they only enter markets where they think they can improve things. One example is student information systems. They sold PowerSchool to Pierson, exiting that market because they felt they couldn't do a killer product there. It's so obvious how they work; the only mystery is what future products will be. They keep those under wraps because, if they decide to scrap it or change it dramatically, there won't be a Microsoft-CES-announcement-style embarrassment. As the Samsung court documents show, they have hundreds of iterations of products that never see the light of day.
> Few will question anymore that Apple is a dark force of DRM and lockin
I would question this; Apple has fought for consumers and against DRM. Apple is super consumer-friendly and they listen to their customers. Microsoft == computing dark ages.
"iTunes Plus downloads are songs and music videos available in our highest quality 256 kbps AAC audio encoding (twice the audio quality of protected music purchases), and without digital rights management (DRM)." http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1711
Done.
...the Olympics (and all sports) existed for the sole purpose of preempting my favorite TV shows.
Microsoft is quickly losing influence; I don't think their secure boot stuff is going to be that big of a deal. I would say they have a chance with Windows Server, but 2012 has Metro, so I think they'll be declining on all sides now. They don't seem to care about what people actually want; they just want to push some new thing.
Personally, I never liked Windows, but with Metro even on Server, I'll be seriously pushing Linux at work.
I've always been disappointed in my math skills; I barely passed calc II. After a lot of Khan videos (and a better attitude), I could derive my own trig identities. I'm sure a lot of people can do that in their sleep, but for me, it was a big deal. Khan really brought math down to earth and made it obtainable to me. I think a lot of people who've written themselves off as bad at math would be surprised how far they can go with a good teacher.
It seems like, unless Dell, HP, etc take Linux seriously by putting it on their machines and advertising it on the front-page of their stores, Steam will meet the same fate. Lots of companies have tried porting games to Linux, but I don't think anyone is buying.
http://www.lokigames.com/
http://www.tuxgames.com/
Microsoft keeps trying to get people to switch to Linux; maybe, Metro will finally push some over the edge.
If apps are somehow going around Apple's only way to access the GPS, they wouldn't be approved
Assumption:
very likely for doing things it shouldn't be doing
I think I'll stick with my definition.
"The fact that 41.4 percent of apps were shown to track a user's location unbeknownst to them."
...because iOS always asks on the first location look-up and it always shows the arrow/gps icon in the upper right. Also, you can shut off GPS app-by-app or for all in the prefs. If apps are somehow going around Apple's only way to access the GPS, they wouldn't be approved; this is impossible. Obviously, if BitDefender's app can tell that easily, Apple's screening process would detect a private API GPS call, and flag the app. A few falling through the cracks is one thing, but 41.1% is some type of sensationalism or scare-mongering (i.e. a lie). The only possibility of any truth is that "bad" apps send-out the wifi base station name or IP address and get a general location from that. They're not accessing the GPS without permission.
"there is some hope that Apple may acknowledge the problem and fix it"
Who writes this? If there is an issue, obviously, they will fix it.
It would almost seem, from a completely neutral viewpoint, that just allowing illegals to become citizens would be a win all around.
I like everything you say but this. I think it's a great idea, but the fact that these people are willing to do something illegal disturbs me. Granted, these people are *far* from drug lords and there's a big difference between violent crime and just hiding-out so you can make money and send it home. Still, I wonder how far some may be willing to go if they're willing to take one step in an illegal direction. Those willing to go farther may be a small fringe group, and those breaking the law maybe happy to shed and forget the "illegal" part of their immigrant title and get on with life.
Personally, I'd like to see more manufacturing move to Mexico, out of China. That way, they can come to the US if they want to, but Mexico would have a better economy and working there would be a good option, too.
I used to have three Samsung 2343BWx (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824001317) monitors (2048x1152). My main issue was that with anything higher than 1920, you need dual-link everything. That means a simple HDMI-DVI or DisplayPort-DVI adapter won't work; you need a $100 active adapter, which plugs into USB for power. Aside from being expensive, you need to restart them every so often, because they stop working. I downgraded to 1920 monitors, and I got rid of the adapters. Everything is much simpler now.
Great post! I'd mod it up if I had any points; I'm a big fan if thinking ahead.
Depending on the way you asked the question, Siri already told that joke. Maybe they added a few more phrasings, but that joke has been in there for a while, possibly since day one.
Yeah, BSD with Mach kernel. The only thing proprietary is the Aqua UI; you get full CLI/shell and you can run X. I've used it myself.
Judging from Apple's personality, their motivation is probably that they don't want to support their OS on third-party hardware. They don't want to have to answer support questions for a grandmother who's grandson set-up a hackintosh for her. Hardware sales should be a reason as well, but they probably don't want people to get a bad taste for OS X and swear to never buy a Mac. Hence Apple Stores, etc.
http://opensource.apple.com/
Driving While Radioactive. I'm so sick of prejudice.
We help my daughter every night with her homework.
My wife is a teacher; she says that parents are the most important aspect. The ones who care have well-behaved, easy-to-teach kids. Good job!