Okay, but that doesn't change the fact that per the wiki link in the GP, Franklin admitted to copying the code, and on the Franklin machine there were byte strings referencing developers at Apple, as well as trademarks like "Applesoft"
They didn't even attempt to reverse engineer. They dumped the Apple ROM and started burning their own chips. You can't do that.
Especially since that non-voting stock purchase was made as part of a settlement over the outright theft of code from QuickTime for the original Windows Media codecs. Should that one have gone to trial, Apple would have gotten FAR more than a paltry $300M.
Yeah, heaven forbid that Apple actually gets to sell their own designs that they put money into creating. You do realize that the Franklin unit was a complete dupe of the Apple II, right? Right down to stealing the copyrighted software in the ROM?
Yeah, because resigning as CEO is all about getting more and more raw power.
Maybe he was running Apple because he enjoyed it, and thought he was "making a difference" ? No, it's got to be the selfish evil power-hoarding motives.
Then please, at least learn the other schools in your conference before you talk shit. You look like an idiot, when it's the Ducks that are supposed to look like idiots!
Medical advances come slowly, and methodically. You don't just end up with open heart surgery one day, it takes years, and thousands of procedures to proclaim it "routine". How many millions of people are alive today because of that used-to-be experimental procedure?
Unfortunately, all the people actually running for office carrying that Tea Party tag have to run to the right on social issues in order to get nominated by the Republican Party; to say nothing of being electable in a general election.
Good thing I bought all that shotgun ammo. Any un-brained corpses walking around (or posting on my FaceTubes!) is getting 2.75 inches of 01 Buckshot to the face!
Can you expand the storage by 128GB with an SD card on the IPad[2]? No Do most people in the target market care? No. Are you in the target market? No.
Can you plug HDMI and USB into the IPad[2]? No Can you plug HDMI into the iPad[2] with an available dongle? Yes. Was the previous quoted question a half-truth? Yes.
Does the IPad[2] have a user replaceable battery if yours dies, and you don't want the downtime of a standard replacement/fix? No I've got no argument with that. Does the IPad[2] have a 1280x800 or better screen? No Or that.
Can you get an IPad2 for $550, with 16GB of storage? No You're right. Can you get an iPad2 for $499, with 16GB of storage? Yes.
Does the IPad[2] have more apps? Yes -- Does it's apps contain a wider range of functionality? No Are subjective statements subjective? Yes. Can you get a large range of apps to give you most of the fun/functionality you need on an IPad[2], for free? No Are subjective statements still subjective? Still yes. Have either of us tried every single app available for the iPad in order to make an objective statement regarding app availability, pricing, and functionality? No.
Does the IPad[2] have flash? No Might this be regarded by some people as a feature, rather than a missing feature? Yes.
I agree with a lot of what you're saying, and I think they've actually accelerated their approach to the end by recycling so much content from previous "eras" of the game. We're running the same damn dungeons we were running 4 years ago, except they've been updated to current spec and balance.
These were old a couple months after they were introduced, and they're ancient now. Then, Blizzard has made it so that if you don't have a raid that clears the entirety of the one current-tier raid instance every week, you have to run the retread dungeons ad nauseum to make your "valor point" quota for the week, so that you don't fall behind in gear.
That bullshit grinds people down after a short time, and they stop playing.
1. Summertime in the northern hemisphere. People go do stuff when the weather isn't terrible 2. The current state of the game. This entire expansion has been a rerun of content that was already in the game, with a little extra material thrown in. You can either do the same PvP arena grind that hasn't changed in a couple years other than new class abilities and scaled gear; or you can run the same two heroics over and over, which are retreads of instances they released years ago; or you can do the one current-level raid. THAT'S IT.
3. They've become lazy in their development. You could see it starting with the last expansion when they recycled Naxxramas and Onyxia from the original game. Now Blizzard has taken to recycling 5-man dungeons, and taking 10-man raids and turning them into recycled 5-man dungeons. New content keeps MMOs alive. Retread content gets people looking for the unsubscribe button.
They've managed to obsolete all the content in their game by having ridiculous scaling. The only reason to go into any raid instance other than Firelands is for tourism. The only reason to do the ~11 5-man dungeons made available in this expansion is if you don't have the gear necessary to get into the two retread troll instances, so you can grind them over and over again until you get to your weekly cap on "valor points."
The game has no content for someone that doesn't like endlessly repeating the same crap, or endlessly repeating the same crap on a different class. Hardly surprising that they lost ~8% of their subscribers in 6 months.
Well, all of the ideas and "solutions" coming out of Metro and the Portland Office of Transportation involve rails and massive debt increases, with very little effect on actual problems. They always build these projects over the original budget and late according to the original schedule, and then after adjusting the budget and schedule, they claim it was on-time and on-budget. Next, they cancel the existing bus service that people actually used because there's a toy train within a mile, forcing people to go downtown to change trains or busses to go back to wherever they actually want to go. Then, because they did this all under the guise of "urban renewal" they give massive tax breaks to developers to create "transit-oriented developments" next to their toy trains, which people don't move into, or shop at.
Of course, this doesn't even touch on problems they create because of the short-sightedness and massive overestimation of results. For example, removal of the HOV lane on the Banfield Freeway when MAX opened, because they figured everyone would ride MAX rather than use the freeway. 25 years later, the Banfield is still a traffic jam, and the trains still have empty seats on them. I'll only touch on the "Westside Express Service" heavy rail commuter train, which carries maybe a hundred people from a suburb to a suburb, at a 9-figure price tag; with vehicles that were built by a bankrupt company that we can't even get parts from, and that Tri-Met had to finish building because the company went titsup before it could finish them.
This experiment failed over a decade ago, but they keep trying the same things again hoping for different results. This time, it involves half a billion dollars of debt for a new bridge over the Willamette River in downtown Portland, which cars and trucks won't even be able to use. Only trains, busses, bikes, and pedestrians. This, while a 1925-vintage bridge about 5 miles upriver rates a 1 on a 100 point scale of structural safety, and that bridge carries 30,000 people a day, with a weight restriction that prevents fire trucks (and the 94 bus trips that would cross the river on it daily) from using it. Oh, and now they're talking about a billion-dollar tunnel under the west hills to extend MAX down Barbur Boulevard.
Don't worry, the mayor has already said he's not running for re-election, so they can still sell tax-exempt muni bonds. Somebody else has to pay them back, so it's someone else's problem!
It's worth saying that all the planning the current morons down at city hall have been doing, isn't working. Maybe IBM can do better than the current policy of throwing millions of dollars at Gerding Edlen, Dike Dame, and Hoffman Construction to build condo towers nobody wants; complete with 3x over-budget arial trams that nobody uses in order to get OHSU to promise to create biotech jobs... which they did... in Florida.
IBM can't do much worse. Hell, everything will get better on spec when Mayor Adams and Councilman Leonard leave the chambers for good in 2012.
Knowing the decisions that the current mayor, the entire city council, and the "office of sustainability" have been making, their particular inputs are likely to produce some wildly inaccurate outputs.
These people don't have a clue what's actually going on, and just keep pushing the planner utopia down the citizens' throats. Things get put on ballots and voted down, they find ways of doing them anyway. All the while, throwing millions of dollars into the pockets of favorite developers and construction companies (Gerding Edlen Development, Hoffman Construction, Bechtel Corporation, etc.)
If this group of people had their way, Portland would be nothing but condo bunkers with zero offset spacing from the street, with cutesy bakeries and coffee shops on every ground floor, and people riding streetcars that you can beat to destination by walking.
They forgot that they actually need the big box stores in order to generate tax revenue. They forget that you need roads, for trucks to deliver stuff to buy / sell. They forget that you need an actual employer base in order to get out of double-digit unemployment.
Don't get me wrong, there's plenty about Portland to like. Unfortunately, it was all put in place by people that had real vision 30+ years ago. We lost one of those people this week - rest in peace, Senator Hatfield.
It's okay, Portland's fix for the commute from suburban home to central city workplace, is to scare all the workplaces out of the central city to the surrounding suburbs.
See: Intel, Nike, Columbia Sportswear, Adidas, Xerox / Tektronix, etc. All companies with large presence (if not headquartered) in the Portland Metro area, but almost zero presence within the city limits of Portland.
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Yo dawg, we heard you like censorship, so we censored your censors, so you can censor while you censor your censored censorship!
and UNWANTED by everyone that hasn't bought this tablet!! (and uncopied by any other maker!)
I'm glad that you're confident enough in your opinion that you can speak for 7+ billion people.
And people think that Apple is arrogant...
Okay, but that doesn't change the fact that per the wiki link in the GP, Franklin admitted to copying the code, and on the Franklin machine there were byte strings referencing developers at Apple, as well as trademarks like "Applesoft"
They didn't even attempt to reverse engineer. They dumped the Apple ROM and started burning their own chips. You can't do that.
Especially since that non-voting stock purchase was made as part of a settlement over the outright theft of code from QuickTime for the original Windows Media codecs. Should that one have gone to trial, Apple would have gotten FAR more than a paltry $300M.
Yeah, heaven forbid that Apple actually gets to sell their own designs that they put money into creating. You do realize that the Franklin unit was a complete dupe of the Apple II, right? Right down to stealing the copyrighted software in the ROM?
Yeah, because resigning as CEO is all about getting more and more raw power.
Maybe he was running Apple because he enjoyed it, and thought he was "making a difference" ? No, it's got to be the selfish evil power-hoarding motives.
Then please, at least learn the other schools in your conference before you talk shit. You look like an idiot, when it's the Ducks that are supposed to look like idiots!
Just like a UW fan, they don't even know which other Pac-12 school to hate on.
Here's a hint. OSU = Beavers. UO = Ducks.*
*unless talking about the Ohio State Buckeyes and the University of Oklahoma Sooners.
Experimental procedures are experimental.
Medical advances come slowly, and methodically. You don't just end up with open heart surgery one day, it takes years, and thousands of procedures to proclaim it "routine". How many millions of people are alive today because of that used-to-be experimental procedure?
The jury is still out on if politicians are people, though.
Unfortunately, all the people actually running for office carrying that Tea Party tag have to run to the right on social issues in order to get nominated by the Republican Party; to say nothing of being electable in a general election.
OMG ZOMBIES!
Good thing I bought all that shotgun ammo. Any un-brained corpses walking around (or posting on my FaceTubes!) is getting 2.75 inches of 01 Buckshot to the face!
Can you expand the storage by 128GB with an SD card on the IPad[2]? No
Do most people in the target market care? No.
Are you in the target market? No.
Can you plug HDMI and USB into the IPad[2]? No
Can you plug HDMI into the iPad[2] with an available dongle? Yes.
Was the previous quoted question a half-truth? Yes.
Does the IPad[2] have a user replaceable battery if yours dies, and you don't want the downtime of a standard replacement/fix? No
I've got no argument with that.
Does the IPad[2] have a 1280x800 or better screen? No
Or that.
Can you get an IPad2 for $550, with 16GB of storage? No
You're right.
Can you get an iPad2 for $499, with 16GB of storage? Yes.
Does the IPad[2] have more apps? Yes
-- Does it's apps contain a wider range of functionality? No
Are subjective statements subjective? Yes.
Can you get a large range of apps to give you most of the fun/functionality you need on an IPad[2], for free? No
Are subjective statements still subjective? Still yes.
Have either of us tried every single app available for the iPad in order to make an objective statement regarding app availability, pricing, and functionality? No.
Does the IPad[2] have flash? No
Might this be regarded by some people as a feature, rather than a missing feature? Yes.
I agree with a lot of what you're saying, and I think they've actually accelerated their approach to the end by recycling so much content from previous "eras" of the game. We're running the same damn dungeons we were running 4 years ago, except they've been updated to current spec and balance.
These were old a couple months after they were introduced, and they're ancient now. Then, Blizzard has made it so that if you don't have a raid that clears the entirety of the one current-tier raid instance every week, you have to run the retread dungeons ad nauseum to make your "valor point" quota for the week, so that you don't fall behind in gear.
That bullshit grinds people down after a short time, and they stop playing.
Here they are in no particular order:
1. Summertime in the northern hemisphere. People go do stuff when the weather isn't terrible
2. The current state of the game. This entire expansion has been a rerun of content that was already in the game, with a little extra material thrown in. You can either do the same PvP arena grind that hasn't changed in a couple years other than new class abilities and scaled gear; or you can run the same two heroics over and over, which are retreads of instances they released years ago; or you can do the one current-level raid. THAT'S IT.
3. They've become lazy in their development. You could see it starting with the last expansion when they recycled Naxxramas and Onyxia from the original game. Now Blizzard has taken to recycling 5-man dungeons, and taking 10-man raids and turning them into recycled 5-man dungeons. New content keeps MMOs alive. Retread content gets people looking for the unsubscribe button.
They've managed to obsolete all the content in their game by having ridiculous scaling. The only reason to go into any raid instance other than Firelands is for tourism. The only reason to do the ~11 5-man dungeons made available in this expansion is if you don't have the gear necessary to get into the two retread troll instances, so you can grind them over and over again until you get to your weekly cap on "valor points."
The game has no content for someone that doesn't like endlessly repeating the same crap, or endlessly repeating the same crap on a different class. Hardly surprising that they lost ~8% of their subscribers in 6 months.
If Motorola had that kind of killshot in it's clip, don't you think they would have used it against Apple already?
Someone cracking your back isn't going to stop rampant uncontrolled cell division, you god damn idiot.
Go hand out some bent pens at a mall, and leave the real cures to actual researchers.
Boy, do I wish I had mod points right now. Thank you for bringing actual reason, facts, and experience to the discussion.
Well, all of the ideas and "solutions" coming out of Metro and the Portland Office of Transportation involve rails and massive debt increases, with very little effect on actual problems. They always build these projects over the original budget and late according to the original schedule, and then after adjusting the budget and schedule, they claim it was on-time and on-budget. Next, they cancel the existing bus service that people actually used because there's a toy train within a mile, forcing people to go downtown to change trains or busses to go back to wherever they actually want to go. Then, because they did this all under the guise of "urban renewal" they give massive tax breaks to developers to create "transit-oriented developments" next to their toy trains, which people don't move into, or shop at.
Of course, this doesn't even touch on problems they create because of the short-sightedness and massive overestimation of results. For example, removal of the HOV lane on the Banfield Freeway when MAX opened, because they figured everyone would ride MAX rather than use the freeway. 25 years later, the Banfield is still a traffic jam, and the trains still have empty seats on them. I'll only touch on the "Westside Express Service" heavy rail commuter train, which carries maybe a hundred people from a suburb to a suburb, at a 9-figure price tag; with vehicles that were built by a bankrupt company that we can't even get parts from, and that Tri-Met had to finish building because the company went titsup before it could finish them.
This experiment failed over a decade ago, but they keep trying the same things again hoping for different results. This time, it involves half a billion dollars of debt for a new bridge over the Willamette River in downtown Portland, which cars and trucks won't even be able to use. Only trains, busses, bikes, and pedestrians. This, while a 1925-vintage bridge about 5 miles upriver rates a 1 on a 100 point scale of structural safety, and that bridge carries 30,000 people a day, with a weight restriction that prevents fire trucks (and the 94 bus trips that would cross the river on it daily) from using it. Oh, and now they're talking about a billion-dollar tunnel under the west hills to extend MAX down Barbur Boulevard.
Don't worry, the mayor has already said he's not running for re-election, so they can still sell tax-exempt muni bonds. Somebody else has to pay them back, so it's someone else's problem!
It's worth saying that all the planning the current morons down at city hall have been doing, isn't working. Maybe IBM can do better than the current policy of throwing millions of dollars at Gerding Edlen, Dike Dame, and Hoffman Construction to build condo towers nobody wants; complete with 3x over-budget arial trams that nobody uses in order to get OHSU to promise to create biotech jobs... which they did... in Florida.
IBM can't do much worse. Hell, everything will get better on spec when Mayor Adams and Councilman Leonard leave the chambers for good in 2012.
Knowing the decisions that the current mayor, the entire city council, and the "office of sustainability" have been making, their particular inputs are likely to produce some wildly inaccurate outputs.
These people don't have a clue what's actually going on, and just keep pushing the planner utopia down the citizens' throats. Things get put on ballots and voted down, they find ways of doing them anyway. All the while, throwing millions of dollars into the pockets of favorite developers and construction companies (Gerding Edlen Development, Hoffman Construction, Bechtel Corporation, etc.)
If this group of people had their way, Portland would be nothing but condo bunkers with zero offset spacing from the street, with cutesy bakeries and coffee shops on every ground floor, and people riding streetcars that you can beat to destination by walking.
They forgot that they actually need the big box stores in order to generate tax revenue. They forget that you need roads, for trucks to deliver stuff to buy / sell. They forget that you need an actual employer base in order to get out of double-digit unemployment.
Don't get me wrong, there's plenty about Portland to like. Unfortunately, it was all put in place by people that had real vision 30+ years ago. We lost one of those people this week - rest in peace, Senator Hatfield.
It's okay, Portland's fix for the commute from suburban home to central city workplace, is to scare all the workplaces out of the central city to the surrounding suburbs.
See: Intel, Nike, Columbia Sportswear, Adidas, Xerox / Tektronix, etc. All companies with large presence (if not headquartered) in the Portland Metro area, but almost zero presence within the city limits of Portland.
They can't disable the disaster that is the current mayor. All they can do is wait him out.
- speaking as a former resident of Portland, who still owns property there.
Here's your fix:
Server Admin > AFP > Settings > Access
Authentication: Change from "Any Method" to "Kerberos"
That was hard.