I actually didn't expect quite so cynical a rip-off of early adopters. Are you saying you did? You must be referring to the $100 rebate for all early adopters, and the $200 rebate for not-so-early adopters. Man oh man, what a ripoff that was! It sure made Apple liars to drop prices while taking care of their customers! If every company acted that way, imagine the consequences... Zune owners would be able to play old tracks that they bought from Microsoft rather than being screwed and abused and Chevy owners would get a check in the mail every time the dealer knocked down prices.
God! That would really damage their credibility!/snark
Sorry, but the price cut thing already damaged their credibility. Right, this is because Apple said that they weren't going to drop the price, right? No? Ahhh, but Apple never said that. So, by doing something expected, albeit sooner than expected, how did they damage their credibility? Oh, they didn't? Thank you.
you modify it at your own risk. simple as that. I don't think anyone disagrees.
If i were apple i would do the same thing. keep my options open. Hmm... did you read my post? By saying, "we can't open it because it would destroy AT&T's network," the one thing Apple did not do is keep their options open. If they were to release the SDK now, people would ask about that supposed issue with AT&T's network.
apple NEVER said that the iphone would be for developers or 3rd party apps Right. Newsflash: Apple said that the public will never be able to develop for the iPhone, because it would break AT&T's network. Now, they can't open it up without being caught in a lie. To reiterate, Apple said that the public will never be able to develop for the iPhone, because it would break AT&T's network. Now, they can't open it up without being caught in a lie. Please, for God's sake please read before replying.
Give us insane amounts of money. No, you can't THAT with an Xbox. We are going to bill you so hard you'll wish you were never born. No, you can't do THAT with an Xbox either We'll drop the price right away just to rub in what a stupid amount of money first adopters forked over No, no NO! stop trying to use your Xbox in any way we haven't sanctioned
Doctor:
Notice how the subject keeps coming back for more and thanking us for it? The next update will cause the console to shock the user at random times. We will see how THAT gets spun into an innovative feature that the users thank us for.
[insert evil laugh here]
[Why are people incapable of making the easiest of comparisons? Are they stupid, or just dumb? Apple is going for the console model, you frickin retards. If you don't like it, by a WinCe shitbrick.]
The simple reason that the iphone software is being significantly modified with every update now. Why didn't Apple just say that? Why lie? The rationale they've offered so far suggests that Apple does not plan to open the iPhone at any point in time as doing otherwise would damage their credibility.
He gets to wake up in the morning, hug his kids and then go into work and spend all day trying to figure out the right combination of security defaults that will (a) let people go out and do stuff while (b) protecting them from their own "I'm a average Windows user" level of abject stupidity. WARNING: This operation may or may not be vital and normal and correct / extremely dangerous and certain to result in fraud. Cancel/Allow?
Indeed, this guy takes his job seriously and is proud of the fact that he has never copped out nor abdicated his responsibilities. We should also respect him for his excellent & highly informative work on theoretical physics titled This Exercise Left To The Reader.
What you end up with is audio drivers slowing down network performance I chalked that up to incompetency - either their scheduler is badly horked or their kernel forgot how to service heavy interrupt load. Whatever they want to be to whomever, they aren't going to be anything to anyone for long if their OS fundamentals are that appallingly, shockingly, unbelievably fuck-raped (which they are). However, Microsoft does clearly have issues such as you describe.
It's not just that they have too much on their plate - they don't have a fork or a plate or even proper food. They have a stampeding herd of wildebeest smashing their headquarters to bits. Nobody knows which direction is up or even the names of their own children - their total regression even claimed their ability to multiply! Java ripoffs? A new bullshit indirection layer sitting on a pile of rotting, substandard hackery dating back to the early nineties? Total IE7 incompatibility with their own previous standard-mauling browsers? Who the what the which where the fuckup do you want to go today? But wait, it gets worse!
The adults long ago left for Google, along with the smart money. Microsoft is the Saudi Arabia of software companies: universally understood to be savage, backward, violent cultists rich and successful only because they happen to be standing on valuable but rapidly diminishing assets, reviled by all behind their backs and afforded courtesy only by the ignorant, the fearful and the sycophantic. Sure, the money is rolling in the front door - and then straight into the furnace.
I'm sure we all agree that their best product was edlin - or perhaps visual paper tape altair-basic. They should have quit while they were ahead.
What those who want activist courts fear is rule by the people. I am sorry, but that assertion discredits you completely. In fact, I felt compelled to verify the existence of this 'Bill of Rights' you refer to.
Allowing another 9/11 carries a high risk; which makes an otherwise unreasonable search _more_ reasonable. Probable cause twists with the risk of not searching. No. Case law directly contradicts this naive assertion:
United States v. Most, 876 F.2d 191, 197-98 (D.C. Cir. 1989) (finding reasonable expectation of privacy in contents of plastic bag left with grocery store clerk)
United States v. Barry, 853 F.2d 1479, 1481-83 (8th Cir. 1988) (finding reasonable expectation of privacy in locked suitcase stored at airport baggage counter)
United States v. Presler, 610 F.2d 1206, 1213-14 (4th Cir. 1979) (finding reasonable expectation of privacy in locked briefcases stored with defendant's friend for safekeeping).
United States v. Meulener, 351 F. Supp. 1284 (1972), the court held that the search of someone attempting to board an airplane is unconstitutional if they are not given the option of refusing to be searched and not boarding the airplane.
Based on the above, I wonder whether you pull stuff out of your ass often. I really do - you don't seem very good at it, so I'll give you the benefit of the doubt.
Would they pull your blog? If they do, they deserve to have it blow up in their face - no matter what the hell you're saying about preznit and his apparatchicks. Why do people think they have the right not to be offended? Why is that bullies are the first to cry to momma when call them out?
We refer to water that has been trapped for a long time as "fossil water." Was that water once a living organism? No, you fucking slashmonkey, it was not.
802.11n May Never Happen Due to Patent Concerns Well then, I for one hope that 802.11n happens because it is a good standard. Things that happen because of patents or that do not happen because of not-patents generally fail to please me!
why build a concentrated solar plant when you can just build a nuke plant? Think about it. Rather than burning a limited supply of fossil carbon from plants that grew millions of years ago, we'd be burning an even more limited supply of fossil heavy elements that were generated by supernovae billions of years ago. Few people seem to grasp this, but the earth does not magically generate uranium - in fact, dwindling supplies have increased its price ten-fold in the last decade alone.
Solar power and then fusion when it's ready would be a better idea. We could never hope to turn all the hydrogen on the planet into helium, although turning all of the accessible fissile uranium into gunk is, well, it has pretty much already happened.
Note: the natural progression of massive energy consumption fed by fission and fusion is irony.
She was wearing an electronic name badge. What about this do you not understand? Do you actually work for the TSA? It sure sounds like it. Now, please go die before I kill you with myelectronic name badge.
Apparently, bombs look like electronic name badges. I guess I'm pretty lucky not to be shot when I wear my defcon 15 badge.
As for all you Slashdotters saying that the girl was an idiot for wearing an electronic name badge: please go kill yourselves. Your stupidity is a grave insult to humans everywhere, and it would be tremendous for all of us if you would die immediately.
Article:
Currently, courts generally consider the value of the entire product when a small piece of the product infringes a patent, and the legislation would allow courts to base damages only on the value of the infringing piece... The legislation would also allow a new way to challenge patents after they've been granted. Patent troll:
Currently, courts don't murder you while you sleep, but this legislation would change that. The legislation would also kill your dog, shit on your face and destroy all innovation. Apple:
Wait, if someone stole our patented floe growler spinaclaptic interface, they would only have to compensate us fairly. This does not sound good. Quick, let's react!
There is no checking, period. I'm sorry, but for even the crappiest PC clones, you've been wrong since 1998. Even the worst commodity disk interfaces have had checking since then: UDMA uses a 16 bit CRC for data; SATA uses 32 bit CRC for commands as well. Most servers and workstations have had ECC memory for even longer. Furthermore, if you cared at all about your data, you already had end-to-end CRC/ECC.
Yeah, mainframes are neat, but they don't save you from end-to-end integrity checking unless you really don't give a damn about it in the first place, being the sort of person who wakes up every morning to a tall steaming glass of IBM koolaid...
Sneer all you like folks, but even the fundamentalist creationist types have a chance (small as it may be) [of] accidentally discovering something Read the article; it's reasonable and meticulous. Unlike the homeopathy advocates discussed, the author carefully avoids insulting others and instead spends his time directly addressing the topic at hand. Perhaps homeopathy would benefit from its advocates spending their time cautiously researching. Really, how much can we hope to learn from people so quick to accuse and so slow to understand?
no sir, it doesnt matter if a decent menu opens when you click a webpage, or it opens by turning and flashing and banging in some corner of the webpage whilst you were doing some other flashing and banging in another corner Keen example. Google maps would be far more useful if it were only static HTML, and it would benefit my company if our customer location / status mashup didn't work. Also, wikipedia is worthless garbage and we should stop using it for our internal docs.
I think it's because they are not used to combating well organized, well funded, international dirty trick campaigns, as evidenced by their vulnerability to such campaigns.
But I'm not actually a sitting member of the ISO, so what the fuck do I know?
If the ISO is perfectly at home with political pressure, why did it take the outrage of the entire community to make them relent after they succumbed to political pressure? I like how cynics think we should all sit back and do nothing - except for the members of the ISO, who now include an overwhelming number of Microsoft shills.
Please, don't piss up a rope while we're trying to wipe your ass.
Whatever the merit of his suggestions, the idea that ISO is new to high-pressure corporate gamesmanship and requires a condescending lecture from a titan of industry like "the CEO of Freecode" has to qualify as the laugh of the day. Alright, I guess we should sit back and wait until Microsoft decides to clean up the ISO. Brilliant, sir. You are very, very well informed and surely not just some nay saying slashdot cynic.
Holy crap you have no idea what you're talking about. Matlab is a high-level coding environment **not** a numerical method itself and is **not** itself a way to deal with numerical instabilities. And wtf is that about neural nets?! My god the OP is going to be laughing at this junk. "Hey I need to dig a hole, what tool should I use?" "A shovel."
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God! That would really damage their credibility!
Give us insane amounts of money.
No, you can't THAT with an Xbox.
We are going to bill you so hard you'll wish you were never born.
No, you can't do THAT with an Xbox either
We'll drop the price right away just to rub in what a stupid amount of money first adopters forked over
No, no NO! stop trying to use your Xbox in any way we haven't sanctioned
Doctor:
Notice how the subject keeps coming back for more and thanking us for it? The next update will cause the console to shock the user at random times. We will see how THAT gets spun into an innovative feature that the users thank us for.
[insert evil laugh here]
[Why are people incapable of making the easiest of comparisons? Are they stupid, or just dumb? Apple is going for the console model, you frickin retards. If you don't like it, by a WinCe shitbrick.]
Indeed, this guy takes his job seriously and is proud of the fact that he has never copped out nor abdicated his responsibilities. We should also respect him for his excellent & highly informative work on theoretical physics titled This Exercise Left To The Reader.
It's not just that they have too much on their plate - they don't have a fork or a plate or even proper food. They have a stampeding herd of wildebeest smashing their headquarters to bits. Nobody knows which direction is up or even the names of their own children - their total regression even claimed their ability to multiply! Java ripoffs? A new bullshit indirection layer sitting on a pile of rotting, substandard hackery dating back to the early nineties? Total IE7 incompatibility with their own previous standard-mauling browsers? Who the what the which where the fuckup do you want to go today? But wait, it gets worse!
The adults long ago left for Google, along with the smart money. Microsoft is the Saudi Arabia of software companies: universally understood to be savage, backward, violent cultists rich and successful only because they happen to be standing on valuable but rapidly diminishing assets, reviled by all behind their backs and afforded courtesy only by the ignorant, the fearful and the sycophantic. Sure, the money is rolling in the front door - and then straight into the furnace.
I'm sure we all agree that their best product was edlin - or perhaps visual paper tape altair-basic. They should have quit while they were ahead.
United States v. Most, 876 F.2d 191, 197-98 (D.C. Cir. 1989) (finding reasonable expectation of privacy in contents of plastic bag left with grocery store clerk)
United States v. Barry, 853 F.2d 1479, 1481-83 (8th Cir. 1988) (finding reasonable expectation of privacy in locked suitcase stored at airport baggage counter)
United States v. Presler, 610 F.2d 1206, 1213-14 (4th Cir. 1979) (finding reasonable expectation of privacy in locked briefcases stored with defendant's friend for safekeeping).
United States v. Meulener, 351 F. Supp. 1284 (1972), the court held that the search of someone attempting to board an airplane is unconstitutional if they are not given the option of refusing to be searched and not boarding the airplane.
Based on the above, I wonder whether you pull stuff out of your ass often. I really do - you don't seem very good at it, so I'll give you the benefit of the doubt.
Would they pull your blog? If they do, they deserve to have it blow up in their face - no matter what the hell you're saying about preznit and his apparatchicks. Why do people think they have the right not to be offended? Why is that bullies are the first to cry to momma when call them out?
We're running out of capacity and not supply, then? Wow, thanks for clarifying.
But anyway, thanks for your thoughts.
We refer to water that has been trapped for a long time as "fossil water." Was that water once a living organism? No, you fucking slashmonkey, it was not.
Solar power and then fusion when it's ready would be a better idea. We could never hope to turn all the hydrogen on the planet into helium, although turning all of the accessible fissile uranium into gunk is, well, it has pretty much already happened.
Note: the natural progression of massive energy consumption fed by fission and fusion is irony.
She was wearing an electronic name badge similar to these.
Are with the TSA or something? Please, for God's sake please would you grow a brain ASAP? Thank you.
She was wearing an electronic name badge. What about this do you not understand? Do you actually work for the TSA? It sure sounds like it. Now, please go die before I kill you with my electronic name badge.
Apparently, bombs look like electronic name badges. I guess I'm pretty lucky not to be shot when I wear my defcon 15 badge.
As for all you Slashdotters saying that the girl was an idiot for wearing an electronic name badge: please go kill yourselves. Your stupidity is a grave insult to humans everywhere, and it would be tremendous for all of us if you would die immediately.
Yeah, mainframes are neat, but they don't save you from end-to-end integrity checking unless you really don't give a damn about it in the first place, being the sort of person who wakes up every morning to a tall steaming glass of IBM koolaid...
Thank you, thank you so much for your insights.
I think it's because they are not used to combating well organized, well funded, international dirty trick campaigns, as evidenced by their vulnerability to such campaigns.
But I'm not actually a sitting member of the ISO, so what the fuck do I know?
If the ISO is perfectly at home with political pressure, why did it take the outrage of the entire community to make them relent after they succumbed to political pressure? I like how cynics think we should all sit back and do nothing - except for the members of the ISO, who now include an overwhelming number of Microsoft shills.
Please, don't piss up a rope while we're trying to wipe your ass.
The ISO represents us all. So, what do you think of the situation?
"A shovel."