It's just that if at some point you want them to follow through on their end of the deal... Well, then you're obviously a cheating, swindling bastard bilking them out of their money. [...] Moral hazard is part of the insurance business- hire some people who are better at math so you can price your insurance product accordingly.
Sure, I agree. And they do price accordingly. They do price accordingly, they do screw you when claiming, they do whine when it's claim time and we don't have to listen to it, sure, sure, sure.
But still -- the deal is NOT that you break your device when a new model comes out. When all is said and done: we can say it's morally reprehensible.
We're talking about an insurance company here - insurance companies will do and say anything and everything to get out of paying a claim.
Amen. Last december, I got hit by a car while cycling. The driver didn't look left and right before pulling up and destroyed my bike. When I didn't hear from his insurance, I called and then called again two weeks later. They "lost" the original claim with his signature. Oh really?... How convenient.
I learned the lesson long ago, and make a dossier including photo copies of everything I send to companies. So in the end, I did get the money for repairing the bike.
Amen. I've got an iPhone 3G which is running slower and slower, even after restoring to factory defaults. It's a known problem too, judging by the number of people posting in the forums. Of course, when you call with your complaint, you'll enter a useless road of drones that ask you to restore it, contradict you and say nothing's wrong, threaten you that sending in your device will take two months, etc. etc. I can see why people would get frustrated and upset and eventually kill the POS.
[ Please people, don't reply with good advice, I'm not asking for it. ]
FlashBlock is a great compromise. [...] You'll be surprised how well it works.
What I was surprised about, is after installation: the number of times that the little Flash icon appears. I was like "huh? This page didn't have Flash content before, right?". So I clicked the Flash icon to see what was actually happening and -- nothing happened. Apparently, a number of sites use Flash just as a very tiny, uneraseable way to track users. Regardless of Private Browsing. Mind you, it wasn't a porn site, just a huge eBay-like site in a particular North-West European country.
Apple has a long history of failure when it comes to power adapters.
I love it that they extend their design philosophy to the smallest details, thus include the power adapter.
That said, it's one part where the risks for shocks and fire are the highest. The link to the Apple forum where one woman reported a blackened bed sheet really blew my mind. That whole house could've burned down and there are indications that it's just not incidental...
Your story is equally appalling. If you have a big box of fried power adapters, how can they refuse to admit a problem with a straight face? The price you mentioned, $75, has been raised to $79 for a MacBook power adapter. Often I tell people to get a fake Chinese MagSafe adapter -- the chance of it having a lower quality is really low, and the price is less than half of what Apple will charge you if you show them their defective power adapters...
I recommend you visit Microsoft and have a look at their "Windows" operating system. [...] Overall, it is kind of a poorly reinvented UNIX, but I think you might just like it.
I've seen some people use it, then they told me you had to pay for it. I was flabbergasted -- why would anyone pay for an operating system?
they won't have to field support calls related to email problems.
I think they do have to.
I don't think the college kids get a support number from Google. If they did, I still wouldn't trust Google to give decent support after the Nexus One debacle.
I'd really like to see the penalty for cheating to be an immediate failure in the course, if not expulsion.
I think jaywalking should be punished with a shot to the head, delivered in the local football stadium.
Seriously, haven't you done anything stupid in college? This zero-tolerance mentality is starting to sound like "eye for an eye", and we know what Ghandi said about that.
This DLL does so because it's a rootkit, and it wants to fly under the radar. When you change this DLL that other DLL is now calling into invalid code.
But the problem here is this other DLL is bad. It isn't a problem in MS' DLL at all. And how is MS to prevent this, are they to somehow figure out every other DLL in your system that could try to call into this DLL using surreptitious means?
I like Windows, sure, but really MS is still to blame here. If they had not made XP accounts have administrative rights by default, this situation would have a much smaller chance of success.
But no, they had to make it "user-friendly" and now that people got trojans via a buggy Internet Explorer, MS says, "it's not our fault"? Sorry, I don't buy it.
Question, considering that it's so difficult to develop and distribute enterprise applications for the iPhone
That's not what he's saying. He's just saying that he has encountered the situation where he'd like an app distribution for enterprises, but the business didn't qualify (you need >500 employees to get iPhone app enterprise distribution software).
What I mean is, that right now if you want to do enterprise iPhone development, you have to have an employee base of 500 people. Seems fair enough at first... But the trouble is, although you can have a normal developer account and distribute applications via AdHoc to your employees - where the limit is 100 separate devices.
That sounds like an unusual situation to me.
Basically, you're saying. I have a business with less than 500 employees. But I need to distribute an iPhone app to more than 100 employees. What kind of business is that? Suppose you're creating an app for sales people. I cannot think of a situation where the sales dept. consists of more than 20% of the workforce.
One thing that would be great is if Apple would customize their computers for their corporate and government clients, since all of our Macs have to be modified to remove cameras, WiFi, etc.
This is actually done by opening all devices and removing the hardware? Thus voiding the warranty? You guys cannot handle that through S/W?
In 13 million lines of Mac OS X kernel code. It's mostly an all-or-nothing proposition.
-- Terry
No, it's not. A major chunk of the code is in drivers. Thus, you could first push a version out of the door that only supports XServe (rack mounted servers) or Apple TV. That's dividing and thus lowering risks.
Serious pressure on software vendors to make sure their app doesn't need admin rights to run on a Windows box would be a nice step.
Serious pressure is not going to cut it. We need real, authentic pressure on top executives of software companies. That means looking up their names and addresses, and finding out if they have a pet or not. A poodle or some such. Then a team of open-source ninja's should capture the poodle of the executive and put a video on 4chan, clearly stating what we want from them. "No admin rights or the poodle gets it".
Big question for me is whether or not you can turn off image loading.
My feeling is that the network speed is not the problem, but rather the iPhone rendering speed is. Safari on the iPhone, plus a heavy JavaScript page, means waiting for me. Graphics, not so much.
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It's just that if at some point you want them to follow through on their end of the deal... Well, then you're obviously a cheating, swindling bastard bilking them out of their money. [...] Moral hazard is part of the insurance business- hire some people who are better at math so you can price your insurance product accordingly.
Sure, I agree. And they do price accordingly. They do price accordingly, they do screw you when claiming, they do whine when it's claim time and we don't have to listen to it, sure, sure, sure.
But still -- the deal is NOT that you break your device when a new model comes out. When all is said and done: we can say it's morally reprehensible.
Four in six claims? Least it's not as bad as two in three.
Duh. They rounded it off.
Nitpick.
We're talking about an insurance company here - insurance companies will do and say anything and everything to get out of paying a claim.
Amen. Last december, I got hit by a car while cycling. The driver didn't look left and right before pulling up and destroyed my bike. When I didn't hear from his insurance, I called and then called again two weeks later. They "lost" the original claim with his signature. Oh really?... How convenient.
I learned the lesson long ago, and make a dossier including photo copies of everything I send to companies. So in the end, I did get the money for repairing the bike.
Amen. I've got an iPhone 3G which is running slower and slower, even after restoring to factory defaults. It's a known problem too, judging by the number of people posting in the forums. Of course, when you call with your complaint, you'll enter a useless road of drones that ask you to restore it, contradict you and say nothing's wrong, threaten you that sending in your device will take two months, etc. etc. I can see why people would get frustrated and upset and eventually kill the POS.
[ Please people, don't reply with good advice, I'm not asking for it. ]
FlashBlock is a great compromise. [...] You'll be surprised how well it works.
What I was surprised about, is after installation: the number of times that the little Flash icon appears. I was like "huh? This page didn't have Flash content before, right?". So I clicked the Flash icon to see what was actually happening and -- nothing happened. Apparently, a number of sites use Flash just as a very tiny, uneraseable way to track users. Regardless of Private Browsing. Mind you, it wasn't a porn site, just a huge eBay-like site in a particular North-West European country.
Apple has a long history of failure when it comes to power adapters.
I love it that they extend their design philosophy to the smallest details, thus include the power adapter.
That said, it's one part where the risks for shocks and fire are the highest. The link to the Apple forum where one woman reported a blackened bed sheet really blew my mind. That whole house could've burned down and there are indications that it's just not incidental...
Your story is equally appalling. If you have a big box of fried power adapters, how can they refuse to admit a problem with a straight face? The price you mentioned, $75, has been raised to $79 for a MacBook power adapter. Often I tell people to get a fake Chinese MagSafe adapter -- the chance of it having a lower quality is really low, and the price is less than half of what Apple will charge you if you show them their defective power adapters...
The list is very nice when looking over a decade-plus period, but for the most recent fuck-ups, I often check out the AppleDefects wiki. My number one interest at the moment is the power adapter for the MacBook laptops (MagSafe). This baby has been fraying, melting and even burning holes in bed sheets.
That is an absolute deal breaker. Mac OS X (and increasingly third party software) makes extensive use of that metadata in extended attributes.
If you just use it to hide your porn for your boss or your significant other, that's not a real objection.
I recommend you visit Microsoft and have a look at their "Windows" operating system. [...] Overall, it is kind of a poorly reinvented UNIX, but I think you might just like it.
I've seen some people use it, then they told me you had to pay for it. I was flabbergasted -- why would anyone pay for an operating system?
they won't have to field support calls related to email problems.
I think they do have to.
I don't think the college kids get a support number from Google. If they did, I still wouldn't trust Google to give decent support after the Nexus One debacle.
ThinkingInBinary says:
I'd really like to see the penalty for cheating to be an immediate failure in the course, if not expulsion.
I think jaywalking should be punished with a shot to the head, delivered in the local football stadium.
Seriously, haven't you done anything stupid in college? This zero-tolerance mentality is starting to sound like "eye for an eye", and we know what Ghandi said about that.
Dear god, anything but a copy and paste programmer. We had one here and the results and the results are devastating
So, did they let you keep working there, anyway?
Dear god, anything but a copy and paste programmer. We had one here and the results and the results are devastating
So, did they let you keep working there, anyway?
This DLL does so because it's a rootkit, and it wants to fly under the radar. When you change this DLL that other DLL is now calling into invalid code.
But the problem here is this other DLL is bad. It isn't a problem in MS' DLL at all. And how is MS to prevent this, are they to somehow figure out every other DLL in your system that could try to call into this DLL using surreptitious means?
I like Windows, sure, but really MS is still to blame here. If they had not made XP accounts have administrative rights by default, this situation would have a much smaller chance of success.
But no, they had to make it "user-friendly" and now that people got trojans via a buggy Internet Explorer, MS says, "it's not our fault"? Sorry, I don't buy it.
Question, considering that it's so difficult to develop and distribute enterprise applications for the iPhone
That's not what he's saying. He's just saying that he has encountered the situation where he'd like an app distribution for enterprises, but the business didn't qualify (you need >500 employees to get iPhone app enterprise distribution software).
OP is a very vague post.
What I mean is, that right now if you want to do enterprise iPhone development, you have to have an employee base of 500 people. Seems fair enough at first...
But the trouble is, although you can have a normal developer account and distribute applications via AdHoc to your employees - where the limit is 100 separate devices.
That sounds like an unusual situation to me.
Basically, you're saying. I have a business with less than 500 employees. But I need to distribute an iPhone app to more than 100 employees. What kind of business is that? Suppose you're creating an app for sales people. I cannot think of a situation where the sales dept. consists of more than 20% of the workforce.
am also still running Outlook under virtualization; enterprise messaging on the Mac is currently not very good
Why not use MS Entourage?
One thing that would be great is if Apple would customize their computers for their corporate and government clients, since all of our Macs have to be modified to remove cameras, WiFi, etc.
This is actually done by opening all devices and removing the hardware? Thus voiding the warranty?
You guys cannot handle that through S/W?
These days you've got malware that is a trojan and a virus and a worm, which will zombie your machine.
At the risk of sounding like a Linux/Apple fanboy, "I couldn't care less".
Being a dick isn't illegal, sleeping with your wife's sister isn't illegal, being selfish isn't illegal
But mix these three ingredients together and you'll have a wonderful time!
Try replacing critical sectioning with data locks
In 13 million lines of Mac OS X kernel code. It's mostly an all-or-nothing proposition.
-- Terry
No, it's not. A major chunk of the code is in drivers. Thus, you could first push a version out of the door that only supports XServe (rack mounted servers) or Apple TV. That's dividing and thus lowering risks.
Serious pressure on software vendors to make sure their app doesn't need admin rights to run on a Windows box would be a nice step.
Serious pressure is not going to cut it. We need real, authentic pressure on top executives of software companies. That means looking up their names and addresses, and finding out if they have a pet or not. A poodle or some such. Then a team of open-source ninja's should capture the poodle of the executive and put a video on 4chan, clearly stating what we want from them. "No admin rights or the poodle gets it".
Big question for me is whether or not you can turn off image loading.
My feeling is that the network speed is not the problem, but rather the iPhone rendering speed is. Safari on the iPhone, plus a heavy JavaScript page, means waiting for me. Graphics, not so much.
Another solution: put a brick through the TV and have an actual conversation with the person you claim to love.
That's a typical reaction one would expect from an Emacs user.
*ducks* *runs*
Wi-Fi would need some porting of the Linux b43 driver.
Wouldn't that actually be quite a bit of effort? WiFi drivers don't seem to me to be the pinnacle of elegant and concise driver programming.
The whole idea of Apple's capacitive touch screens was the lack of a stylus.
For the few that would want a stylus, they are available from lots of suppliers for a couple of bucks:
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.29399