So it's a phone that is constantly yammering away with all other devices on the network to save things that you may or may not want saved?
And still has absolutely no ecosystem around it, which has already stifled one of the largest software companies in the world from having a successful line of phones running their own OS?
The shareholders put their money up as an investment, and there are no guarantees on stock investments. There are no guarantees on returns, at all.
If they like the stock going up, they must tolerate the stock going down. Those are the rules. And if the company is mismanaged and fails, the shareholders are the ones that installed the governance and executive management with their annual shareholder meeting voting, even if by proxy. The corporation is 100% owned by the shareholders, the shareholders get an ironclad liability shield as it sits, so the least they could do is take the on-the-books tax credit from losing their asses on owning part of a corporation that just fucked over 100+ million people, and their banks.
I'm not crying for the shareholders at all - if they couldn't live without that money, they should have put it somewhere safer. Or executed any oversight whatsoever on an organization that only exists as a clearinghouse for privileged information, to make sure that privileged information doesn't leak.
Most executives are largely paid with stock options, which are likely now worthless if they were not fully vested. Trust me, their attention has been captured.
Specific laws about data protection that could be applied in the case of gross negligence (which this was) would be icing on the cake though. In the wake of Enron, every publicly traded company takes Sarbanes Oxley quite seriously - something along the same lines for data security may be necessary before this all gets better.
Having your database in the cloud makes sense if your app servers are also in the cloud - that's where the heavy traffic comes from. Having the DB in the cloud just to say you do while all consumers of the data are not is just horrible design.
1. Wtf? 2. There are at least 25 states with a "Springfield" in them, some states having more than one if you include townships and villages. So what are you on about? 3. Oh look, another long-time Slashdot poster has acquired a troll fan. I'm sure you'll get him / her to cry any minute now.
Then, if something goes to crap, I can boot from the recovery volume (or the Internet by holding 'n' at boot) drop to a terminal and restore with:
asr restore --source/path/to/network/mount/backup.dmg --target/Volumes/Macintosh\ HD --erase --noverify
The backup will take a while, but the restore will only take a few minutes if needed. ASR (Apple Software Restore) is one of the best tools Apple has had in the OS for years that practically nobody knows about - you could even set it up to be a multicast image server and blast the same image to many Macs at once when combined with NetBoot and some clever scripting to do network adapter configuration and system setup.
The irony is that if these advertisements weren't so abusive to begin with, people wouldn't be nearly as annoyed with it and we wouldn't need to spend development time on making it go away. It's the same situation as an industry that self regulates in order to make it unnecessary for government to regulate them.
That is, until a bad actor comes along and forces the government's regulatory hand...
I used to use Firefox, and got fed up and switched to Chrome. Now I'm fed up with Chrome and it's unbelievable memory footprint, and I'm back to Firefox.
Why does every browser suck in different ways on OS X?
If you don't have a backup of some kind, then you are just waiting for a component failure / malware / file system problem to destroy all your data anyway.
Back up your fucking shit if it's so precious to you. And don't be an idiot.
or how about this: Make a fucking backup before you update the god damn operating system. You know, like you should have been doing for all operating system upgrades, ever, if you care about the contents of your system.
All my iPhones have lasted several years too. I still have an original iPhone kicking around here somewhere that will power up, and would still talk to AT&T's network if they hadn't turned off the 10 year old 2G radio technology it uses.
If they are flippers and they are paying $800k over ask, then they aren't very good at flipping houses. That's a shitload of value they're going to have to make up on the cheap in order to make any money at it.
I have a coworker that bought a home at the height of the credit squeeze in 2008 in San Bruno for $430,000 which is still a ridiculous price. He says a house down the street from his that is very comparable just sold for $1.2M - needless to say, he's looking to GTFO of the Bay Area now and do exactly what you suggest - move to somewhere that is still desirable but without the out of control cost of living and take the profits.
I guess I'm just wondering if they support the AptX codec yet, so it doesn't sound like trash on a cracker. OS X does, why the fuck doesn't iOS? I actually don't mind using Bluetooth audio with my Mac, because my headphones can decode AptX as well. I almost never use them with my phone unless I cable up.
This isn't even the first time they've done it. See: MacBookPro9 (non-retina old-school unibody case with optical slot) and MacBookPro10 (retina, current form factor) announced on the same day.
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So it's a phone that is constantly yammering away with all other devices on the network to save things that you may or may not want saved?
And still has absolutely no ecosystem around it, which has already stifled one of the largest software companies in the world from having a successful line of phones running their own OS?
Yeah, this sounds great.
Why would you want a phone that requires a college degree to operate?
Do you even think before you speak / type? A simple UI is a UI that actual people want to use.
The shareholders put their money up as an investment, and there are no guarantees on stock investments. There are no guarantees on returns, at all.
If they like the stock going up, they must tolerate the stock going down. Those are the rules. And if the company is mismanaged and fails, the shareholders are the ones that installed the governance and executive management with their annual shareholder meeting voting, even if by proxy. The corporation is 100% owned by the shareholders, the shareholders get an ironclad liability shield as it sits, so the least they could do is take the on-the-books tax credit from losing their asses on owning part of a corporation that just fucked over 100+ million people, and their banks.
I'm not crying for the shareholders at all - if they couldn't live without that money, they should have put it somewhere safer. Or executed any oversight whatsoever on an organization that only exists as a clearinghouse for privileged information, to make sure that privileged information doesn't leak.
Most executives are largely paid with stock options, which are likely now worthless if they were not fully vested. Trust me, their attention has been captured.
Specific laws about data protection that could be applied in the case of gross negligence (which this was) would be icing on the cake though. In the wake of Enron, every publicly traded company takes Sarbanes Oxley quite seriously - something along the same lines for data security may be necessary before this all gets better.
Having your database in the cloud makes sense if your app servers are also in the cloud - that's where the heavy traffic comes from. Having the DB in the cloud just to say you do while all consumers of the data are not is just horrible design.
I'll pay a bit more to not have to deal with Oracle and their bullshit. K thx.
1. Wtf?
2. There are at least 25 states with a "Springfield" in them, some states having more than one if you include townships and villages. So what are you on about?
3. Oh look, another long-time Slashdot poster has acquired a troll fan. I'm sure you'll get him / her to cry any minute now.
I skip the hardware swapping (which you can't do on newer MacBooks anyway) and instead use this:
hdiutil create -srcfolder / -nocrossdev -format UDZO -o
asr imagescan --filechecksum --source
Then, if something goes to crap, I can boot from the recovery volume (or the Internet by holding 'n' at boot) drop to a terminal and restore with:
/path/to/network/mount/backup.dmg --target /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD --erase --noverify
asr restore --source
The backup will take a while, but the restore will only take a few minutes if needed. ASR (Apple Software Restore) is one of the best tools Apple has had in the OS for years that practically nobody knows about - you could even set it up to be a multicast image server and blast the same image to many Macs at once when combined with NetBoot and some clever scripting to do network adapter configuration and system setup.
The irony is that if these advertisements weren't so abusive to begin with, people wouldn't be nearly as annoyed with it and we wouldn't need to spend development time on making it go away. It's the same situation as an industry that self regulates in order to make it unnecessary for government to regulate them.
That is, until a bad actor comes along and forces the government's regulatory hand...
Their #1 competitor is Google, which gets a large majority of it's money from internet advertising.
Gee, I wonder who they could possibly be targeting with this move...
Maybe it's because it's on a 20+ year old file system. Now only if Apple would do something about that.
Oh, wait...
I used to use Firefox, and got fed up and switched to Chrome. Now I'm fed up with Chrome and it's unbelievable memory footprint, and I'm back to Firefox.
Why does every browser suck in different ways on OS X?
If you don't have a backup of some kind, then you are just waiting for a component failure / malware / file system problem to destroy all your data anyway.
Back up your fucking shit if it's so precious to you. And don't be an idiot.
or how about this: Make a fucking backup before you update the god damn operating system. You know, like you should have been doing for all operating system upgrades, ever, if you care about the contents of your system.
All my iPhones have lasted several years too. I still have an original iPhone kicking around here somewhere that will power up, and would still talk to AT&T's network if they hadn't turned off the 10 year old 2G radio technology it uses.
The plural of 'anecdote' is not 'data.'
If they are flippers and they are paying $800k over ask, then they aren't very good at flipping houses. That's a shitload of value they're going to have to make up on the cheap in order to make any money at it.
There's places in the Midwest that aren't horrible. They aren't all Cleveland and Detroit.
I have a coworker that bought a home at the height of the credit squeeze in 2008 in San Bruno for $430,000 which is still a ridiculous price. He says a house down the street from his that is very comparable just sold for $1.2M - needless to say, he's looking to GTFO of the Bay Area now and do exactly what you suggest - move to somewhere that is still desirable but without the out of control cost of living and take the profits.
which means there are 32 states with better debt-to-GDP. California is in the bottom half, which lends statistical weight to the GP post.
They were both 15" and there was a 13" - MacBookPro9,1 was the 15" non-retina, MacBookPro9,2 was the 13", MacBookPro10,1 was the 15" retina.
All three models released on 11 June 2012.
I guess I'm just wondering if they support the AptX codec yet, so it doesn't sound like trash on a cracker. OS X does, why the fuck doesn't iOS? I actually don't mind using Bluetooth audio with my Mac, because my headphones can decode AptX as well. I almost never use them with my phone unless I cable up.
The same thing that happened to Windows 9.
How about all the people commenting on this article bitching about the "new features" of the iPhone X that don't exist on the iPhone 8?
Better CPU and GPU than the iPhone 7.
This isn't even the first time they've done it. See: MacBookPro9 (non-retina old-school unibody case with optical slot) and MacBookPro10 (retina, current form factor) announced on the same day.
Don't worry, there's enough hipsters at Apple that I'm sure it's beard-tested. Probably mustache-wax tested too.