That page will go over great on his next job interview. Even if you could overlook the fact he was incompetent as a product manager, would you want to hire someone so willing to air his dirty laundry in public?
Actually, it's BILL GATES that would never have apologized. Steve Jobs would probably not let it out the door in the first place, but if he had, an apology is far better than the kind of spin Gates would have tried to give it, as if its flaws were actually "features.". Microsoft would then release something they just bought that's better, and then "deprecate" the old one, forcing developers to switch just as they've found workarounds and tied themselves to the now-obsolete codebase.
That was my first take on it too-- and he's charging $50 for what is essentially a pinwheel with LEDs, that if made in China would come free in your Rice Crispys. It really needs some more interesting motion paths, and/or some interesting means of strobing the LEDs...
Wake me up when they get to a homebrew ultrasound imager, or something a little more interesting. Or at least a spectrometer that works off lazer burn at a distance and built into a portable point-and-shoot unit you can walk around with.
I seem to recall that cell phones work harder to establish a connection with a local tower when they're out of range and it wears down the battery faster-- I've noticed this effect myself. Best turn it off and save the battery charge instead of shielding it.
It seems like there's a simple solution to all of this-- make sure you never NEED to copy files FROM an iOS device.
1. Obtain music by buying it in either CD format or via less restrictive sources-- Amazon, perhaps...
2. Copy music TO your iOS device, using either iTunes or apps that facilitate transfers via web browser or FTP (no jailbreak needed).
3. Make sure you backup your original copies of the music for later copying or transfer of ownership or what-have-you
4. Problem solved
While I'm all for throwing a monkey wrench in Iran's nuclear program, having used techniques like this legitimizes and raises awareness of them to an extent, and I would suggest that the US may be far more vulnerable to such techniques in the long run. I do wonder if it was a good idea....
The difference since then is at that time you KNEW those who knew things about you personally. Now it's just a great big machine specifically designed to collect your information and you have no idea who the people are who weild the info or what really motivates them.
All ya gotta do is rotate credit cards with a trusted circle of friends. My accounts buying record is that of a right-wing communist fundamentalist lesbian. You should see what I get in the way of targeted advertising...
If these events cause mass flight from Microsoft products, the NSA or whoever wrote the darn thing might want to think twice before they go to Microsoft asking for any back doors or any other favors, I suspect Ballmer won't take too kindly to the idea of exploiting Windows in the name of national security if it takes a big ding out of their bottom line...
Tell that to all the people on the bus that die when the bus driver wrecks the bus because he/she is high. Or the on coming car that runs into the bus because the driver of the car is high. I doubt that the person taking the drugs would necessarily be the only one to die as a result of their actions.
By this logic, it should be illegal to not get enough sleep-- whether you drive or not, since you seem to be attempting to make a case for keeping drugs illegal whether or not you drive while using them.
By this logic, it should be OK for a Democratic administration to eavesdrop on Republican campaign planning conversations and vice versa, since unless they're doing "bad $#!t", they have nothing to hide...
Cable TV hit the market when I was a kid. There were two main selling points-- 1) more channels in rural markets than you could get over the air, and 2) NO ADS.
What happened?
READ MY LIPS-- subscription media companies, you have a choice. Either provide FREE content that is ad supported, OR paid content that is ad free. Period. There's no way I am going to pay you to spam me with ads. Your greed has no bounds, and it looks to be doing you in. I say good riddance. Other media sources have risen up to fill the vacuum you currently occupy in ad-free media.
In the meantime, I will continue to rent or buy DVD content that is not interrupted by ads.
If you're willing to go before the mid 80s, the IBM mainframe guys are just as much into their mainframes as the apple collectors are into their apples.
You got that right. I'd just about kill for a working 2741 terminal with an APL keyboard.
YOU admit you don't know and try to figure it out. But many people don't like to think about it-- they may not be so good at it. So instead they find someone or a simple idea they like and just get behind them, so they don't HAVE to think.
Seems to me this sort of thing leaves FB vunerable to the creation of massive amounts of bogus information. Might a flood of the right inputs overflow their databases with erroneous info on non-existent people, imaginary interests, etc. I started seeing those "you might be interested in" links to stuff, and just as a thougt experiment started having conversations with a friend full of nonsense words, thinking that it might be possible to fool Facebooks intelligence into thinking some of the nonsense are up and coming items of interest that it might start offering to others. One might be able to confuse it further by referring to legit websites but treating random phrases found on the site as if they were people's names, in order to get FB to think the website is referring to an individual when it's talking about something else-- "I'm going over to Crude Oil's house today. Crude has a new motorcycle I want to check out.". And now, every website talking about crude oil in existance can be used as further verification that a person named "Crude Oil" exists and is involved in lots of stuff...
Picketing has beem rendered largely ineffective by the advent of shopping malls and of course, the internet. You cannot picket on private property or on the streets, so at a mall the best you can do is picket at the entrance to the parking lot, which undermines the action because it is shared by all the stores in the mall.
You're doing fine. But you'll have to stop when you get to handguns. There's an idea, ban all metal objects except handguns, and then handguns will be incredibly easy to detect.
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That page will go over great on his next job interview. Even if you could overlook the fact he was incompetent as a product manager, would you want to hire someone so willing to air his dirty laundry in public?
Actually, it's BILL GATES that would never have apologized. Steve Jobs would probably not let it out the door in the first place, but if he had, an apology is far better than the kind of spin Gates would have tried to give it, as if its flaws were actually "features.". Microsoft would then release something they just bought that's better, and then "deprecate" the old one, forcing developers to switch just as they've found workarounds and tied themselves to the now-obsolete codebase.
That was my first take on it too-- and he's charging $50 for what is essentially a pinwheel with LEDs, that if made in China would come free in your Rice Crispys. It really needs some more interesting motion paths, and/or some interesting means of strobing the LEDs...
All they had to do is decompile Stuxnet. We also afforded them a certain legitimacy-- what's good for the goose and all that...
PERFECT. i'm having all my friends indicate that my name is phony, even though it's not.
Wake me up when they get to a homebrew ultrasound imager, or something a little more interesting. Or at least a spectrometer that works off lazer burn at a distance and built into a portable point-and-shoot unit you can walk around with.
RAM is cheap unless you're running in a VM on a growing farm where memory is already overcomitted.
Any one of those properties was worth more than $20M alone. Somebody just gave them away.
Seeing as how it's already been decided-- what's the point?
I seem to recall that cell phones work harder to establish a connection with a local tower when they're out of range and it wears down the battery faster-- I've noticed this effect myself. Best turn it off and save the battery charge instead of shielding it.
It seems like there's a simple solution to all of this-- make sure you never NEED to copy files FROM an iOS device.
1. Obtain music by buying it in either CD format or via less restrictive sources-- Amazon, perhaps...
2. Copy music TO your iOS device, using either iTunes or apps that facilitate transfers via web browser or FTP (no jailbreak needed).
3. Make sure you backup your original copies of the music for later copying or transfer of ownership or what-have-you
4. Problem solved
While I'm all for throwing a monkey wrench in Iran's nuclear program, having used techniques like this legitimizes and raises awareness of them to an extent, and I would suggest that the US may be far more vulnerable to such techniques in the long run. I do wonder if it was a good idea....
The difference since then is at that time you KNEW those who knew things about you personally. Now it's just a great big machine specifically designed to collect your information and you have no idea who the people are who weild the info or what really motivates them.
All ya gotta do is rotate credit cards with a trusted circle of friends. My accounts buying record is that of a right-wing communist fundamentalist lesbian. You should see what I get in the way of targeted advertising...
The problem is, the banks OWN the law. There's no point in expecting justice from THAT.
Hazmat cleanup is gonna cost 'em. Good luck with that...
If these events cause mass flight from Microsoft products, the NSA or whoever wrote the darn thing might want to think twice before they go to Microsoft asking for any back doors or any other favors, I suspect Ballmer won't take too kindly to the idea of exploiting Windows in the name of national security if it takes a big ding out of their bottom line...
Tell that to all the people on the bus that die when the bus driver wrecks the bus because he/she is high. Or the on coming car that runs into the bus because the driver of the car is high. I doubt that the person taking the drugs would necessarily be the only one to die as a result of their actions.
By this logic, it should be illegal to not get enough sleep-- whether you drive or not, since you seem to be attempting to make a case for keeping drugs illegal whether or not you drive while using them.
By this logic, it should be OK for a Democratic administration to eavesdrop on Republican campaign planning conversations and vice versa, since unless they're doing "bad $#!t", they have nothing to hide...
Cable TV hit the market when I was a kid. There were two main selling points-- 1) more channels in rural markets than you could get over the air, and 2) NO ADS.
What happened?
READ MY LIPS-- subscription media companies, you have a choice. Either provide FREE content that is ad supported, OR paid content that is ad free. Period. There's no way I am going to pay you to spam me with ads. Your greed has no bounds, and it looks to be doing you in. I say good riddance. Other media sources have risen up to fill the vacuum you currently occupy in ad-free media.
In the meantime, I will continue to rent or buy DVD content that is not interrupted by ads.
If you're willing to go before the mid 80s, the IBM mainframe guys are just as much into their mainframes as the apple collectors are into their apples.
You got that right. I'd just about kill for a working 2741 terminal with an APL keyboard.
YOU admit you don't know and try to figure it out. But many people don't like to think about it-- they may not be so good at it. So instead they find someone or a simple idea they like and just get behind them, so they don't HAVE to think.
Seems to me this sort of thing leaves FB vunerable to the creation of massive amounts of bogus information. Might a flood of the right inputs overflow their databases with erroneous info on non-existent people, imaginary interests, etc. I started seeing those "you might be interested in" links to stuff, and just as a thougt experiment started having conversations with a friend full of nonsense words, thinking that it might be possible to fool Facebooks intelligence into thinking some of the nonsense are up and coming items of interest that it might start offering to others. One might be able to confuse it further by referring to legit websites but treating random phrases found on the site as if they were people's names, in order to get FB to think the website is referring to an individual when it's talking about something else-- "I'm going over to Crude Oil's house today. Crude has a new motorcycle I want to check out.". And now, every website talking about crude oil in existance can be used as further verification that a person named "Crude Oil" exists and is involved in lots of stuff...
Picketing has beem rendered largely ineffective by the advent of shopping malls and of course, the internet. You cannot picket on private property or on the streets, so at a mall the best you can do is picket at the entrance to the parking lot, which undermines the action because it is shared by all the stores in the mall.
You're doing fine. But you'll have to stop when you get to handguns. There's an idea, ban all metal objects except handguns, and then handguns will be incredibly easy to detect.