Apple used to be cool when they were creative, and encouraged creativity. It was you and Apple fighting the battle against entropy.
Ever since the iLine, and Steve Jobs turning from a benevolent genius to a narcissistic, goose stepping lunatic, the scene has changed to apple being creative, and you can too, just as long as you're creative in the "Apple" sanctioned way.
When it comes to the iSheep, (read as the great unwashed, non-technological masses), taht's exactly what they want. They want to be "creative" by proxy. They get to taste genius, and all they ahve to do is spend daddy's money.
Unfotunately, the creative types don't need restrictions. Yeah sure, being creative with IBM used to be like trudging through the mud, and at the time comparatively, using MacOS would feel like ice skating in comparison. But now, you MUST do what Apple says, or you're toast. Dumbing down of interfaces to conform to the masses is merely one facet of it. The uberban of Flash is another. And by the way, think what you like about flash, but the bottom line is that you're having your technology choices dictated to by a company.
For all these reasons, I have left apple. I refuse to buy an Apple product anymore because I am smart enough to make my own choices, and unfortunately, the solid brick that is Apple is *almost* what I want, but since I can't customise it at all, it is *entirely* not what I need.
Good luck with the mass market Apple, but I am not the only professional who's sick and tired of being corralled into your line. The bitten apple used to be a sign of the rebels; A homage to the greatest rebel Computer Scientist in history, Alan Turing, who had cracked the enigma codes through the sheer might of his intellect, who was then crushed by the same English government he had saved, as unfortunately he was gay. Being faced with the choice of imprisonment or chemical castration, he chose the third route of committing suicide. As he adored the fable of Snow White, he dipped an apple in poison, and took a bite.
THIS was once the spirit of Apple Inc. Shame on you for losing your way.
I do agree with what you say, but add funding. Or better said, move some funding out of the wars into the space program. But of course you can't do that, because it's making certain few rich at the cost of the country.
So, NASA. When's the next space shuttle rolling out the hangar door?
Do you guys even have anything to do with space anymore, or are you guys turning into a space gaming company?
Really, when I was a kid, I dreamed of going into space, and always thought it would be NASA that would pave the way forward. Instead, the US is spending their taxpayer's dollars on war, fake money on Wall Street, fake money in housing and more pork in Washington.
I really hope that the American spirit that the world admired rises up and quashes the plastique fantastique culture that is so pervasive in American culture today. And no, I'm not an American, I'm a European. Contrary to popular belief, we don't hate the American Spirit. We just hate the American perversion that's trying to kill it.
It is interesting to think that education by vending machine is turning out to be so successful. I can understand how degrees by coursework can benefit from this. It will be interesting if universities with real brands will ever allow master or doctorates to be via online study. When I did my post grad degree, I saw my supervisor for an hour every week, and I know I was lucky at that. I had a friend who was doing his PhD which saw his supervisor for a grand total of 20 hours during his entire research project. He basically just was included as a name in the research papers, and copied in on any and all email correspondence. Even thought is becoming ever more automated these days.
Keep on drinking the Kool-Aid then chum. It starts with the anonymous herd, and ends with the individual when they become interesting. How much do you think your soon to be ex-wife's divorce lawyer would like to pay to get you fully profiled and sniff out any dirt on you? Of course it can be done via conventional means, it's just much quicker and more efficient online.
Of course they'll tell you that. In fact, haven't you realised? You ARE their intellectual property. All you iSheep, Twits and FacePalmers. Go on, put your private life on teh intertubes for all to see. Check in with FourSquare to become the mayor of burger king to get a 10% discount on your next piece of crap for lunch, and watch your insurance company make a silent note. Write on your wall about your cool new Nike Football shoes, and watch targeted advertising appear to you for other football related products.
As an RIA and web developer, let me tell you what would need to happen for me to start developing in HTML5.
1. Every browser would need to implement the W3C standards as laid out. It's madness to go back to the days where you had to write the same code block in several different flavours, not only to support different browsers, but different VERSIONS of browsers. Wake up kiddies, a lot of corporates are still on IE6.
2. When we have the full IDE toolset for HTML5 that we have for flash, and the frameworks to support fast development. If you do not produce value to the business through leveraging tools, you are working for sweatshop wages at the same cost to the business. Who uses a hammer to commerically build a wooden fence when you have nail guns?
3. When HTML5 *really* has the same feature set and grunt that AS3/MXML has. And I don't mean fantasy proof of concept, but only under these conditions, if you install the latest browser version, stand on one hand and wiggle your ears feature sets. Furthermore, the grunt has to be there. All HTML5 exmples I've seen have taken longer to develop than their AS3 counterparts, and run like a dog in comparison.
Please, if I'm wrong, and all this stuff is here, give me the links, and I'm gone baby. I'm now a HTML5 developer, or whatever language you want to throw in its stead. The fact of the matter is that Flash/Flex is the fastest enterprise RIA development tool that can consume any endpoint you can possibly imagine to throw at it, whilst providing a snappy front end that's lightning fast to develop.
I agree, Adobe would benefit by plugging security holes, but if you're actually serious about getting us devs to switch over, address these issues, and we're gone.
It's amazing how many people prevent having accidents in their car by removing the fuel in the first place. Do you no longer live in a house to prevent dying in a fire as well?
Sure. You can COPY my drivers licence at any stage. I have no problem with this, and it happens every time I rent a car. What I have a problem with is EMPTYING my bank accounts, or taking out LOANS in my name. Both induce a financial burden upon myself, and henceforth, is stealing. Whether it is you, or a third party committing the offence transitively, that is why it is called identity theft. Using someone's identity to fraudulently procure money, goods and services.
Sack a signficant portion of your workforce because you have to cut costs because your institution bought snake oil, and this is just the tip of the iceberg of what you get. I work for a bank (not BofA), and we're already seeing massive brain drain, and the bank I work for was just caught in the maelstrom. Definitely not saying to feel sorry for anyone, just don't be surprised, and start planning to deal with crap like this as the banks begin to become head cases.
Well, hopefully we'll have backed up enough knowledge off of electronic media before the big war begins. It won't be hard for us to reproduce a human, but reproducing a combustion engine will be a bit more difficult one or two generations down the line.
The really neat thing about living in the UK is the BBC. Just today I watched "Bang goes the Theory" on nuclear power. They didn't treat it with hysteria, and they put into perspective the death tolls from Chernobyl, and the Fukoshima reactor etc. They also pointed out that most active nuclear tech is from the 70's, and modern tech is safer still.
Hopefully, enough of the populace here in Britain will become more educated on the topic, and be able to make a rational decision. And hey, even if you don't want it, please, for the love of whatever, base it on scientific knowledge, and not the hysteria saying that you don't want those naughty neutrons in your backyard.
Well, there was Flash for this before Apple decided to play dirty on mobile. Even with all the problems flash has, they did a pretty good job keeping things universal. Thanks again apple for ruining that.
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Wonder how many FacePalms there were at FaceBook after this little verdict?
More like the cheque hasn't cleared yet.
Did anyone run the paper through the paper's algorithm? That would be interesting to do.
Apple used to be cool when they were creative, and encouraged creativity. It was you and Apple fighting the battle against entropy.
Ever since the iLine, and Steve Jobs turning from a benevolent genius to a narcissistic, goose stepping lunatic, the scene has changed to apple being creative, and you can too, just as long as you're creative in the "Apple" sanctioned way.
When it comes to the iSheep, (read as the great unwashed, non-technological masses), taht's exactly what they want. They want to be "creative" by proxy. They get to taste genius, and all they ahve to do is spend daddy's money.
Unfotunately, the creative types don't need restrictions. Yeah sure, being creative with IBM used to be like trudging through the mud, and at the time comparatively, using MacOS would feel like ice skating in comparison. But now, you MUST do what Apple says, or you're toast. Dumbing down of interfaces to conform to the masses is merely one facet of it. The uberban of Flash is another. And by the way, think what you like about flash, but the bottom line is that you're having your technology choices dictated to by a company.
For all these reasons, I have left apple. I refuse to buy an Apple product anymore because I am smart enough to make my own choices, and unfortunately, the solid brick that is Apple is *almost* what I want, but since I can't customise it at all, it is *entirely* not what I need.
Good luck with the mass market Apple, but I am not the only professional who's sick and tired of being corralled into your line. The bitten apple used to be a sign of the rebels; A homage to the greatest rebel Computer Scientist in history, Alan Turing, who had cracked the enigma codes through the sheer might of his intellect, who was then crushed by the same English government he had saved, as unfortunately he was gay. Being faced with the choice of imprisonment or chemical castration, he chose the third route of committing suicide. As he adored the fable of Snow White, he dipped an apple in poison, and took a bite.
THIS was once the spirit of Apple Inc. Shame on you for losing your way.
I do agree with what you say, but add funding. Or better said, move some funding out of the wars into the space program. But of course you can't do that, because it's making certain few rich at the cost of the country.
or does it look *exactly* like the Galaxy? *ducks*
How about turning them on? The one that works is a Samsung.
So, NASA. When's the next space shuttle rolling out the hangar door?
Do you guys even have anything to do with space anymore, or are you guys turning into a space gaming company?
Really, when I was a kid, I dreamed of going into space, and always thought it would be NASA that would pave the way forward. Instead, the US is spending their taxpayer's dollars on war, fake money on Wall Street, fake money in housing and more pork in Washington.
I really hope that the American spirit that the world admired rises up and quashes the plastique fantastique culture that is so pervasive in American culture today. And no, I'm not an American, I'm a European. Contrary to popular belief, we don't hate the American Spirit. We just hate the American perversion that's trying to kill it.
It is interesting to think that education by vending machine is turning out to be so successful. I can understand how degrees by coursework can benefit from this. It will be interesting if universities with real brands will ever allow master or doctorates to be via online study. When I did my post grad degree, I saw my supervisor for an hour every week, and I know I was lucky at that. I had a friend who was doing his PhD which saw his supervisor for a grand total of 20 hours during his entire research project. He basically just was included as a name in the research papers, and copied in on any and all email correspondence. Even thought is becoming ever more automated these days.
Keep on drinking the Kool-Aid then chum. It starts with the anonymous herd, and ends with the individual when they become interesting. How much do you think your soon to be ex-wife's divorce lawyer would like to pay to get you fully profiled and sniff out any dirt on you? Of course it can be done via conventional means, it's just much quicker and more efficient online.
Of course they'll tell you that. In fact, haven't you realised? You ARE their intellectual property. All you iSheep, Twits and FacePalmers. Go on, put your private life on teh intertubes for all to see. Check in with FourSquare to become the mayor of burger king to get a 10% discount on your next piece of crap for lunch, and watch your insurance company make a silent note. Write on your wall about your cool new Nike Football shoes, and watch targeted advertising appear to you for other football related products.
The herd is a goldmine, ripe for the picking.
If you're a parent, just be glad it's not cars.
"My polyester girl... so fine..."
Maybe some people don't like getting screwed?
As an RIA and web developer, let me tell you what would need to happen for me to start developing in HTML5.
1. Every browser would need to implement the W3C standards as laid out. It's madness to go back to the days where you had to write the same code block in several different flavours, not only to support different browsers, but different VERSIONS of browsers. Wake up kiddies, a lot of corporates are still on IE6.
2. When we have the full IDE toolset for HTML5 that we have for flash, and the frameworks to support fast development. If you do not produce value to the business through leveraging tools, you are working for sweatshop wages at the same cost to the business. Who uses a hammer to commerically build a wooden fence when you have nail guns?
3. When HTML5 *really* has the same feature set and grunt that AS3/MXML has. And I don't mean fantasy proof of concept, but only under these conditions, if you install the latest browser version, stand on one hand and wiggle your ears feature sets. Furthermore, the grunt has to be there. All HTML5 exmples I've seen have taken longer to develop than their AS3 counterparts, and run like a dog in comparison.
Please, if I'm wrong, and all this stuff is here, give me the links, and I'm gone baby. I'm now a HTML5 developer, or whatever language you want to throw in its stead. The fact of the matter is that Flash/Flex is the fastest enterprise RIA development tool that can consume any endpoint you can possibly imagine to throw at it, whilst providing a snappy front end that's lightning fast to develop.
I agree, Adobe would benefit by plugging security holes, but if you're actually serious about getting us devs to switch over, address these issues, and we're gone.
It's amazing how many people prevent having accidents in their car by removing the fuel in the first place. Do you no longer live in a house to prevent dying in a fire as well?
Sure. You can COPY my drivers licence at any stage. I have no problem with this, and it happens every time I rent a car. What I have a problem with is EMPTYING my bank accounts, or taking out LOANS in my name. Both induce a financial burden upon myself, and henceforth, is stealing. Whether it is you, or a third party committing the offence transitively, that is why it is called identity theft. Using someone's identity to fraudulently procure money, goods and services.
Gives a whole new definition to "Attractive home in desirable neighbourhood"
They can borrow it from the Chinese like everyone else.
Yes, but the Chinese are wary of Greeks bearing Gilts.
You sure they'll have the money for this after the ECB's given it all to Greece?
Sack a signficant portion of your workforce because you have to cut costs because your institution bought snake oil, and this is just the tip of the iceberg of what you get. I work for a bank (not BofA), and we're already seeing massive brain drain, and the bank I work for was just caught in the maelstrom. Definitely not saying to feel sorry for anyone, just don't be surprised, and start planning to deal with crap like this as the banks begin to become head cases.
Well, hopefully we'll have backed up enough knowledge off of electronic media before the big war begins. It won't be hard for us to reproduce a human, but reproducing a combustion engine will be a bit more difficult one or two generations down the line.
The really neat thing about living in the UK is the BBC. Just today I watched "Bang goes the Theory" on nuclear power. They didn't treat it with hysteria, and they put into perspective the death tolls from Chernobyl, and the Fukoshima reactor etc. They also pointed out that most active nuclear tech is from the 70's, and modern tech is safer still.
Hopefully, enough of the populace here in Britain will become more educated on the topic, and be able to make a rational decision. And hey, even if you don't want it, please, for the love of whatever, base it on scientific knowledge, and not the hysteria saying that you don't want those naughty neutrons in your backyard.
Well, there was Flash for this before Apple decided to play dirty on mobile. Even with all the problems flash has, they did a pretty good job keeping things universal. Thanks again apple for ruining that.
Well, if you had them behind 2^128 you'd have a trust certificate :P