Look at the record of drones in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
You mean the ones that performed more strategically and killed fewer collateral targets than any wars before them... EVER?
Operators actually call the victims "bug splat"
Yea, its called disconnecting, and they are trained to do so. Its the only way a morale and just person can spend their days killing people. You don't want the guys who can do it all day long and call it what it is doing it, those people are dangerous and enjoy murder so they will do things that shouldn't be done.
On the other hand, most of the people doing these things are geeks just like you and me, well... not like you, these guys have spines
Anyway, they are taught to behave that way so they can actually sleep at night, but hey, don't let your total lack of understanding of all things military stand in your way of judging people because you saw some highly edited video generated by a man with an agenda the size of greater Asia.
In the 1920s, there were some who argued that aerial bombing would be more humane because they could be far more precise than field artillery, hitting only the target that you want to hit. Look how well that worked out.
Pretty well. We have laser and image recognition guidance systems that can't take out an individual pickup truck or go through the window of a house before destroying basically only the single house...
You've got it all figured out in your own little head... of course thats only because you have this ridiculously narrow view point thats entirely clouded by the fact that you think YOUR party is superior and too ignorant to realize you're just a stupid as all the morons who are going to vote for Trump.
You are still voting for a team, and not the president. Likewise, so is the rest of the general public who has no real understanding of how the government actually works and think that choosing the president is a matter of your favorite color or team mascot.
99.9999 of the voting public votes for their favorite team, they don't know shit about the candidates other than the crap spewed in the media recently. With that in mind, Trump's got a good shot.
We're fucked if he wins, but the same is true for sanders and billary, so it really doesn't matter much
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Now would you fucking fire timothy for fucks sake, he's god damn worthless in every way.
Contracts? Business Requirements? Customers? They aren't run by idiots like you who are too stupid to realize you are the customer and Google isn't doing this for you, its doing this for its customers.
Google loses money making this change, why SHOULD they do it, other than you think flash ads are a bad thing. (HINT: They aren't, flash ads are great because you can just not enable flash and you have no ads. You can not do that with non-flash ads, can you?)
Do you think the lack of ad blocking software that works for shit with the HTML 5 tricks might have something to do with Google suddenly wanting to not allow Flash... just a few years after they made a selling point of their browser doing flash and other browsers/mobile platforms not doing it?
Nothing Google does is 'for the people' unless you mean advertisers when you say people.
Make no mistake, though, Docker is the way of the future and will put a lot of people in this forum out of a job.
Yea, you're not really a grey beard if you make stupid statements like that.
Adding another layer of virtualization to our existing stack with several layers already in it isn't going to magically make things better.
In the last 10 years I've seen the same web server go from running on bare metal to running under 4 layers of hypervisor by the time you get to the docker container... and you know what... now that server farm takes 3 times as many people to run because you still need the apache guys... and you still need the linux guys... but now you need the docker guys, the vmware guys, and somebody who can coordinate the whole fucking mess.
So lets look at this we went from:
Hardware -> Linux -> AppVM running Apache (1 layer of address translation, the AppVM/Linux kernel boundary)
to
Hardware -> Linux -> KVM -> Linux -> Docker -> Linux -> AppVM running Apache (thats 5 layers of translation... Yes, thats REALLY what most people using Docker will do)
Yea, thats definitely going to put people out of work... its easy to understand.
Docker is another example of people doing something because they figured out how to do it, not because they actually should do it. Worse still, Docker is a solution to the fact that Linux is a mess from a file system perspective where everyone just dumps all their bins, system or 3rd party all in the same directories, all together. And then they make fun of Windows like System32 is different than/usr/lib on any given Linux box. System or app config files... ALL of them are in/etc... WTF? You know theres this/usr/local idea right? You know that you can put libs in the same directory as the application and then you don't have to run a VM to get the same sort of separation right? I mean seriously, you can't call yourself a grey beard and say Docker is good at the same time, you just admit you have no fucking clue how to be an admin or how docker works.
And you're conflating it with systemd? Do you not have any idea what either one of them are?
Yea, I'm ranting. People who think Docker is good are idiots, typically developers trying to be sys admins, or 'DevOps' as they call it... and they're clueless and don't understand wtf they are doing. Its not Dockers fault. 'Zones' are something Solaris has had for years, and they weren't new when Solaris did it. Mainframes have had the concept since the 70s. The problem devs who don't know when and where to use them are just throwing them all over the place
Because they will use their monopoly in the local areas to make it prohibitively expensive for anyone else to compete against them. They've already been caught throttling other providers and not themselves, again trying to push customers to their service by adding additional pains and costs to other services.
They'll make it very expensive to use Netflix, far more than is in any way justifiable, in order to drive you towards their own over priced services.
They don't get the privilege of doing so because the government granted them the monopoly. For fucks sake they didn't even pay to build out their own god damn networks, we got charged and taxed extra on our bills for fucking years for that shit.
Pull your head out of your ass, its not their network its fucking ours. Its our money that paid for it via government taxes and fees. Its our land that their lines lay in and travel over. Verizon/TWC/Comcast and the other major providers should just be dissolved and the networks become public utility. Even the fucking government wouldn't make it worse for us in this case.
And all 3 of you that use it or care already know about python3 support, and the entire rest of the Internet doesn't give a fuck.
I know this because I have github projects that aren't working at all with more pull requests and forks than you have and I didn't do any spam advertising on slashdot for them.
Slashdot is not a ad platform for your little pet project to reimplement (poorly) something that has been done properly at least 10 times already and done poorly like your hundreds of times.
Yea... 'keeps running into' == all 2 of the times its happened...
If you aren't surprised then you have the same problem I was originally referring to, you have your head too far up Musks ask to have an opinion in this matter.
How do I know you have your head too far up Musk's ass?
You're sitting here saying that someone is a asshole because they complained that an event started 2 hours late... and that Musk himself showed up an hour late! You should have been there though, you'd probably fit right in with all the whacky nut jobs chanting and cheering like it was a sporting event and Musk was their home team.
Stop worshipping Musk and you'll have a different opinion on the event.
Why do you assume he was actually rude to the company and that the company wasn't rude to him?
He had a shitty experience and complained about it in one of the few ways that gets attention. Then Musk basically rage quit on him because he didn't like that someone was complaining.
Complaining != rude customer But Shitty service == Shitty service
I think you guys might just be a little to up Elon Musks ass to have clear judgement on this one. From everything I can see, Musk is being a much larger douche than Alsop. Musk is just a man, Tesla isn't special, untwist your panties and settle the fuck down
Tesla did not meet expectations, pretty big ones I might add, for the event. This isn't some random blogger just ranting, this IS A PAYING customer, or was a paying customer until Musk's little rage quit at him.
This is pretty typical Musk, he acts like a 2 year old when he doesn't get his way... actually, thats incorrect, my two year old at least takes himself to the corner when he has a rage quit moment.
There mere fact is; it's not legal for a company to disable counterfeit devices without authorization. Doing so is basically the same thing as vandalism.
It is illegal to use FTDI's VID and PID on a chip that FTDI doesn't authorize it on because doing so means you are not authorized to use USB technologies because you've broken one of the requirements of the USB license agreement.
So before you start walking down that bullshit line of 'omg FTDI is breaking the law' get your ass back to the people WHO ARE BREAKING THE LAW, you know, the criminals with the knock off chips claiming to be someone elses?
Whether you think they're in the right or not; current interpretation of laws do not.
Don't you mean YOUR interpretation doesn't?
People would take you seriously if you weren't trying to blame the victim.
While your post isn't a troll, its still sad that you don't seem to understand who actually caused the problem.
This is someone who has just stolen the FTDI designs and fab'd them. They could have avoided this whole thing by simply making the USB side respond to the standard USB serial interface spec (whatever its called I don't remember) but they didn't even bother to do that when they were stealing/cloning, they just stole the designs and fabbed copies directly.
What apple products aren't reliable and prove it statistically with comparisons to other like products that are clearly FAR superior, or at least enough to justify that smug 'tude of yours
modability
Who cares? Statistically, to prove your point... who cares? Because if 10 people out of a billion care when they are aware of the options, its you thats the idiot for thinking its important. Do you whine and bitch that your TV isn't modular? Do you get upset that you can't replace the compressor on your fridge with any model you want from Walmart? You have no argument here other than your a geek whining that your unpopular feature isn't their focal point.
usability
What apple products aren't usable and prove it, because they pretty much took the 'smart phone' industry from ass backwards unusable for even geeks to usable for EVERY ONE AND THIER GRANDMOTHER. Android STILL hasn't gotten it right.
You pretty much picked the reason they are popular... and then try to spin it like they don't know what they are doing in those areas.
You sound like you're jealous and upset that you aren't getting your way. Maybe you should just buy an iPhone and stop pretending you're going to mod it anyway or that you really do have some super special reason to run random apps from random websites other than some piss poor excuse like some bullshit principal that you really don't have but is a good excuse to be obnoxious.
mdsolar, is that you? Your post is pretty clearly irrationally biased to be about things you like.
Nothing tesla is doing is world changing. They haven't invented anything new really, just compiled stuff others have done.
NASA made SpaceX what it is, not Elon Musk. Musk has used fame and notoriety to get SpaceX to where it is today and thats GREAT! But they haven't really invented anything special about rockets. They're just reusing information that NASA (and other space agencies) have learned over the last 70 or so years.
Same with Tesla, though I don't know enough about SolarCity to comment I can safely presume its the same. All they are doing is putting fame on existing technologies and combining things in a meaningful way to make something that was done before them better/more appealing... hey... wait a minute... THATS EXACTLY WHAT APPLE DOES.
Gets better.
BASF. We don't make the things you use. We make the things you use BETTER.
I.E. neither of these companies are doing anything special in and of themselves, but they are making people aware of them and being popular is what people remember.
I mean for fucks sake, you mention Edison and NOT Tesla... you're guilty of remembering the popular guy with a massive company and fortune that claimed to invent everything (Edison) instead of the less popular guy who actually built the shit that (Tesla) you're crediting to the first guy.
You're proving that the exact opposite is true.
And for fucks sake, get a clue, the batteries every tesla uses when it rolls off the fucking assembly floor are more damaging to the environment then the entire production run of a 'gas guzzler' and everything it will do to the environment during its entire fucking life time. The CO2 isn't going to kill you, chemical poisoning will get you years before that, but go ahead and keep being ignorant and trendy.
The odds are exactly the same as they were before she did so.
They are odds. They are not impossibilities, they are improbabilities and regardless of how improbably something is, its still possible otherwise you wouldn't be discussing probabilities.
The chances of this happen are not 'improbably' at all even. For every 100 tries, 3 will happen this way, given the probability statistics we have (yours here). If you know that you're going to repeat this task 1000 times, then you will probably have 30 occurrences of the event happening. The probability of this is 97%... funny how it just reversed isn't it?
The problem when you try to talk about how improbably something is, is that you talk about it in a vacuum. You don't live in a vacuum, you live in an infinite expanding universe.
So you see, this is going to occur. Its going to occur a lot. Sometimes it may even occur to someone that seems to be some sort of [un]holy alignment for that sort of luck.
Worse still, the universe is freaking deterministic, so luck and probability aren't involved! That coin flip and the outcome of the election has been decided since the dawn of time when existence began! Wrap your head around that one and talking about probability will sound silly.
Why? For purpose? To save $175? Cause if so your cutting off your nose to spite your ignorant face.
You do realize the paint on each sign (EACH) probably costs more than that.
And with the OSS font you get? A shitty font because people who are good at spending the many long hours of work required to make good fonts DONT FUCKING DO IT FOR FREE.
You guys get all uppity about stupid shit. If the fact that some designer at some company had to buy the font before the could make signs is irrelevant. Force the graphics artist to deal with some half assed font package in order to get your OSS font is going to cost you more up front.
You guys do realize that cities and states outsource this shit right? There are a small collection of companies that design these signs for the government as needed. So again, it's bought once and used in hundreds of places. And you'll spend more time and money arguing about which every font YOU think is best than just buying the shitty thing.
Before you promote something OSS there has to be at least one instance of that type of object that doesn't suck, and as far as fonts are concerned, OSS is absolute shit.
When you have to do research and development... and your chinese counter parts don't have to do anything other than run the fab process, you're going to have a non-trivial time lowering your price past those who are stealing your designs.
It passed WHQL because it works perfectly when using proper hardware, that it is intended for, that follows the USB spec appropriately.
There is no WHQL requirement that your driver perform properly with other hardware which violates the USB spec (using FTDI's VID/PIDs is an obvious violation of the spec).
You're trying to claim that its FTDI's responsibility to make other shitty hardware work right with their driver, which is absolutely nut job.
Stop buying cheap ass knock off crap.and you won't have this problem. How else do you stop people from producing knock off parts? You aren't going to stop them other than making them not work right? You aren't. People will stop buying from shitty vendors who sells these knock offs and eventually it will feed back and end.
Or... FTDI can care that someone like you, who has never given them a dime, since you're using shitty knock off hardware, complains about them and complains that you won't use them.
HINT: YOU AREN'T USING THEM NOW. THEY AREN'T LOSING ANYTHING BY YOUR SILLY CLAIMS THAT YOU WON'T BUY THEM.
You're an idiot, much like the others who think that FTDI can out price the cloners.
Or maybe you just want to engineer a product no one wants to buy.
Nothing in your post is an engineering decision. Everything you mention is product design, which the engineers are then tasked with building.
Your one of those guys who can't understand why there is no successful company in the universe ran by engineers, aren't you?
Engineers will build something fucking awesome, but it will not be anything anyone but an engineer wants to own, and then it will be limited to a tiny select group with tastes exactly like the original engineer
If Apple builds suck shitty products... Explain the situation that exists to make them the single most popular device maker on the planet. Look at your post, your just ranting because Apple won't sell you the EXACT model you want, not because of any actual engineering issue. You want a fat phone with a week long battery life? Great, no one else does. You want a big powerful desktop... Then you go buy an entry level all in one desktop.
You know, the more I retread your post and think about it... It's really that your just too stupid to buy the product you want and keep trying to showhorn Apple into your life where it doesn't belong.
Sounds like your the shitty engineer, you can't even work out your own personal specs and requirements properly, you don't really have the credibility to make the argument your trying to make
So your really telling us is that your an over paid idiot.
My exposure to Apple can confirm part of your experience.
The other part you left out however is that they behave that way towards consultants that are trying to do something WAY beyond your skill level.
I.e. They aren't really condescending so make as your completely unqualified for what you claimed you could do.
Another hint: it's not just Apple that works that way, it's most successful companies.
Now stop making yourself look stupid and go back to ripping off companies that don't know any better rather than whining because Apple saw through smoke and mirrors bluff and called you on it.
Absolutely. Yes, it can be a pain to store physical media. Yes, it can be a pain when media formats change over time. Yes, it can be a pain when one makes the wrong choice when new competing formats come out and the one chosen ends up being the loser.
Or you could rip it to a lossless format and then none of that matters and you can put it on any physical media you want without degradation of the original. This is what normal people do to turn that physical media into digital media, maybe you've heard of it?
On the other hand all of the media that I own, across vinyl, cassette tape, compact disc, VHS, Laserdisc, DVD, and Blu-Ray can be played at any time and so long as my machines continue to work, will always be playable, and given that I still find good used machines for all of these formats I don't expect to be in the situation of not being able to find a functional player in my lifetime.
Actually, no, they won't. They already are probably not playing the same as when you bought them. Yes, even your blu-ray and DVDs probably already have bitrot that you just haven't noticed.
All of those things degrade over time. Your VHS and Cassettes were shit long ago. DVD and Blu-Ray will have a few more years before the bitrot starts to make them have errors, and your vinyl is absolutely fucked if you leave it in a car with the windows rolled up on pretty much any sunny day anywhere on the planet, including inside the antarctic and arctic circles!
Every copy of them you make is different than the original, and degraded along the way. Let me guess, you think that makes them sound better because you're an audiophile? And you know how its supposed to sound with your Monster brand HDMI cable thanks to its superior signal quality for those digital bits.
Both you and the person you're responding to are making silly arguments that aren't even actually true justifying the fact that you're holding onto degraded and living in a fantasy world where that doesn't happen because... well. cause you said so?
Your post points out all these 'benefits' to your physical media... and every single one of them is exactly the opposite of reality.
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Look at the record of drones in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
You mean the ones that performed more strategically and killed fewer collateral targets than any wars before them ... EVER?
Operators actually call the victims "bug splat"
Yea, its called disconnecting, and they are trained to do so. Its the only way a morale and just person can spend their days killing people. You don't want the guys who can do it all day long and call it what it is doing it, those people are dangerous and enjoy murder so they will do things that shouldn't be done.
On the other hand, most of the people doing these things are geeks just like you and me, well ... not like you, these guys have spines
Anyway, they are taught to behave that way so they can actually sleep at night, but hey, don't let your total lack of understanding of all things military stand in your way of judging people because you saw some highly edited video generated by a man with an agenda the size of greater Asia.
In the 1920s, there were some who argued that aerial bombing would be more humane because they could be far more precise than field artillery, hitting only the target that you want to hit. Look how well that worked out.
Pretty well. We have laser and image recognition guidance systems that can't take out an individual pickup truck or go through the window of a house before destroying basically only the single house ...
I'd say they were right.
Thats probably a violation of the slashdot contract with Forbes.
Also amusing is that this article doesn't show the link next to the headline ...
I'd blame the new owners, but this is another timothy story, so you just have to assume its because he's a fucking idiot.
Thats cute, you think you know how people vote.
You've got it all figured out in your own little head ... of course thats only because you have this ridiculously narrow view point thats entirely clouded by the fact that you think YOUR party is superior and too ignorant to realize you're just a stupid as all the morons who are going to vote for Trump.
You are still voting for a team, and not the president. Likewise, so is the rest of the general public who has no real understanding of how the government actually works and think that choosing the president is a matter of your favorite color or team mascot.
99.9999 of the voting public votes for their favorite team, they don't know shit about the candidates other than the crap spewed in the media recently. With that in mind, Trump's got a good shot.
We're fucked if he wins, but the same is true for sanders and billary, so it really doesn't matter much
Now would you fucking fire timothy for fucks sake, he's god damn worthless in every way.
Contracts? Business Requirements? Customers? They aren't run by idiots like you who are too stupid to realize you are the customer and Google isn't doing this for you, its doing this for its customers.
Google loses money making this change, why SHOULD they do it, other than you think flash ads are a bad thing. (HINT: They aren't, flash ads are great because you can just not enable flash and you have no ads. You can not do that with non-flash ads, can you?)
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Why do you think Google is doing it?
Do you think the lack of ad blocking software that works for shit with the HTML 5 tricks might have something to do with Google suddenly wanting to not allow Flash ... just a few years after they made a selling point of their browser doing flash and other browsers/mobile platforms not doing it?
Nothing Google does is 'for the people' unless you mean advertisers when you say people.
Seriously ... one of the most corrupt countries on the planet puts into effect a law to enforce net neutrality and prevent subversion ...
And we (USA) can't ... W ... T ... F ...
Make no mistake, though, Docker is the way of the future and will put a lot of people in this forum out of a job.
Yea, you're not really a grey beard if you make stupid statements like that.
Adding another layer of virtualization to our existing stack with several layers already in it isn't going to magically make things better.
In the last 10 years I've seen the same web server go from running on bare metal to running under 4 layers of hypervisor by the time you get to the docker container ... and you know what ... now that server farm takes 3 times as many people to run because you still need the apache guys ... and you still need the linux guys ... but now you need the docker guys, the vmware guys, and somebody who can coordinate the whole fucking mess.
So lets look at this we went from:
Hardware -> Linux -> AppVM running Apache (1 layer of address translation, the AppVM/Linux kernel boundary)
to
Hardware -> Linux -> KVM -> Linux -> Docker -> Linux -> AppVM running Apache (thats 5 layers of translation ... Yes, thats REALLY what most people using Docker will do)
Yea, thats definitely going to put people out of work ... its easy to understand.
Docker is another example of people doing something because they figured out how to do it, not because they actually should do it. Worse still, Docker is a solution to the fact that Linux is a mess from a file system perspective where everyone just dumps all their bins, system or 3rd party all in the same directories, all together. And then they make fun of Windows like System32 is different than /usr/lib on any given Linux box. System or app config files ... ALL of them are in /etc ... WTF? You know theres this /usr/local idea right? You know that you can put libs in the same directory as the application and then you don't have to run a VM to get the same sort of separation right? I mean seriously, you can't call yourself a grey beard and say Docker is good at the same time, you just admit you have no fucking clue how to be an admin or how docker works.
And you're conflating it with systemd? Do you not have any idea what either one of them are?
Yea, I'm ranting. People who think Docker is good are idiots, typically developers trying to be sys admins, or 'DevOps' as they call it ... and they're clueless and don't understand wtf they are doing. Its not Dockers fault. 'Zones' are something Solaris has had for years, and they weren't new when Solaris did it. Mainframes have had the concept since the 70s. The problem devs who don't know when and where to use them are just throwing them all over the place
Because they will use their monopoly in the local areas to make it prohibitively expensive for anyone else to compete against them. They've already been caught throttling other providers and not themselves, again trying to push customers to their service by adding additional pains and costs to other services.
They'll make it very expensive to use Netflix, far more than is in any way justifiable, in order to drive you towards their own over priced services.
They don't get the privilege of doing so because the government granted them the monopoly. For fucks sake they didn't even pay to build out their own god damn networks, we got charged and taxed extra on our bills for fucking years for that shit.
Pull your head out of your ass, its not their network its fucking ours. Its our money that paid for it via government taxes and fees. Its our land that their lines lay in and travel over. Verizon/TWC/Comcast and the other major providers should just be dissolved and the networks become public utility. Even the fucking government wouldn't make it worse for us in this case.
Should have dropped the In and used ; instead
Too bad the new new slashdot is just more and more timothy.
Why do they continue to let this moron post stories?
And all 3 of you that use it or care already know about python3 support, and the entire rest of the Internet doesn't give a fuck.
I know this because I have github projects that aren't working at all with more pull requests and forks than you have and I didn't do any spam advertising on slashdot for them.
Slashdot is not a ad platform for your little pet project to reimplement (poorly) something that has been done properly at least 10 times already and done poorly like your hundreds of times.
Yea ... 'keeps running into' == all 2 of the times its happened ...
If you aren't surprised then you have the same problem I was originally referring to, you have your head too far up Musks ask to have an opinion in this matter.
How do I know you have your head too far up Musk's ass?
You're sitting here saying that someone is a asshole because they complained that an event started 2 hours late ... and that Musk himself showed up an hour late! You should have been there though, you'd probably fit right in with all the whacky nut jobs chanting and cheering like it was a sporting event and Musk was their home team.
Stop worshipping Musk and you'll have a different opinion on the event.
Why do you assume he was actually rude to the company and that the company wasn't rude to him?
He had a shitty experience and complained about it in one of the few ways that gets attention. Then Musk basically rage quit on him because he didn't like that someone was complaining.
Complaining != rude customer
But
Shitty service == Shitty service
I think you guys might just be a little to up Elon Musks ass to have clear judgement on this one. From everything I can see, Musk is being a much larger douche than Alsop. Musk is just a man, Tesla isn't special, untwist your panties and settle the fuck down
Tesla did not meet expectations, pretty big ones I might add, for the event. This isn't some random blogger just ranting, this IS A PAYING customer, or was a paying customer until Musk's little rage quit at him.
This is pretty typical Musk, he acts like a 2 year old when he doesn't get his way ... actually, thats incorrect, my two year old at least takes himself to the corner when he has a rage quit moment.
There mere fact is; it's not legal for a company to disable counterfeit devices without authorization. Doing so is basically the same thing as vandalism.
It is illegal to use FTDI's VID and PID on a chip that FTDI doesn't authorize it on because doing so means you are not authorized to use USB technologies because you've broken one of the requirements of the USB license agreement.
So before you start walking down that bullshit line of 'omg FTDI is breaking the law' get your ass back to the people WHO ARE BREAKING THE LAW, you know, the criminals with the knock off chips claiming to be someone elses?
Whether you think they're in the right or not; current interpretation of laws do not.
Don't you mean YOUR interpretation doesn't?
People would take you seriously if you weren't trying to blame the victim.
While your post isn't a troll, its still sad that you don't seem to understand who actually caused the problem.
This is someone who has just stolen the FTDI designs and fab'd them. They could have avoided this whole thing by simply making the USB side respond to the standard USB serial interface spec (whatever its called I don't remember) but they didn't even bother to do that when they were stealing/cloning, they just stole the designs and fabbed copies directly.
reliability
What apple products aren't reliable and prove it statistically with comparisons to other like products that are clearly FAR superior, or at least enough to justify that smug 'tude of yours
modability
Who cares? Statistically, to prove your point ... who cares? Because if 10 people out of a billion care when they are aware of the options, its you thats the idiot for thinking its important. Do you whine and bitch that your TV isn't modular? Do you get upset that you can't replace the compressor on your fridge with any model you want from Walmart? You have no argument here other than your a geek whining that your unpopular feature isn't their focal point.
usability
What apple products aren't usable and prove it, because they pretty much took the 'smart phone' industry from ass backwards unusable for even geeks to usable for EVERY ONE AND THIER GRANDMOTHER. Android STILL hasn't gotten it right.
You pretty much picked the reason they are popular ... and then try to spin it like they don't know what they are doing in those areas.
You sound like you're jealous and upset that you aren't getting your way. Maybe you should just buy an iPhone and stop pretending you're going to mod it anyway or that you really do have some super special reason to run random apps from random websites other than some piss poor excuse like some bullshit principal that you really don't have but is a good excuse to be obnoxious.
You're ridiculously transparent and petty.
mdsolar, is that you? Your post is pretty clearly irrationally biased to be about things you like.
Nothing tesla is doing is world changing. They haven't invented anything new really, just compiled stuff others have done.
NASA made SpaceX what it is, not Elon Musk. Musk has used fame and notoriety to get SpaceX to where it is today and thats GREAT! But they haven't really invented anything special about rockets. They're just reusing information that NASA (and other space agencies) have learned over the last 70 or so years.
Same with Tesla, though I don't know enough about SolarCity to comment I can safely presume its the same. All they are doing is putting fame on existing technologies and combining things in a meaningful way to make something that was done before them better/more appealing ... hey ... wait a minute ... THATS EXACTLY WHAT APPLE DOES.
Gets better.
BASF. We don't make the things you use. We make the things you use BETTER.
I.E. neither of these companies are doing anything special in and of themselves, but they are making people aware of them and being popular is what people remember.
I mean for fucks sake, you mention Edison and NOT Tesla ... you're guilty of remembering the popular guy with a massive company and fortune that claimed to invent everything (Edison) instead of the less popular guy who actually built the shit that (Tesla) you're crediting to the first guy.
You're proving that the exact opposite is true.
And for fucks sake, get a clue, the batteries every tesla uses when it rolls off the fucking assembly floor are more damaging to the environment then the entire production run of a 'gas guzzler' and everything it will do to the environment during its entire fucking life time. The CO2 isn't going to kill you, chemical poisoning will get you years before that, but go ahead and keep being ignorant and trendy.
The odds are exactly the same as they were before she did so.
They are odds. They are not impossibilities, they are improbabilities and regardless of how improbably something is, its still possible otherwise you wouldn't be discussing probabilities.
The chances of this happen are not 'improbably' at all even. For every 100 tries, 3 will happen this way, given the probability statistics we have (yours here). If you know that you're going to repeat this task 1000 times, then you will probably have 30 occurrences of the event happening. The probability of this is 97% ... funny how it just reversed isn't it?
The problem when you try to talk about how improbably something is, is that you talk about it in a vacuum. You don't live in a vacuum, you live in an infinite expanding universe.
So you see, this is going to occur. Its going to occur a lot. Sometimes it may even occur to someone that seems to be some sort of [un]holy alignment for that sort of luck.
Worse still, the universe is freaking deterministic, so luck and probability aren't involved! That coin flip and the outcome of the election has been decided since the dawn of time when existence began! Wrap your head around that one and talking about probability will sound silly.
That word does not mean what you think it does until you pretend it with the word "planned".
Planned obsolescence is different than just becoming obsolete naturally.
Why? For purpose? To save $175? Cause if so your cutting off your nose to spite your ignorant face.
You do realize the paint on each sign (EACH) probably costs more than that.
And with the OSS font you get? A shitty font because people who are good at spending the many long hours of work required to make good fonts DONT FUCKING DO IT FOR FREE.
You guys get all uppity about stupid shit. If the fact that some designer at some company had to buy the font before the could make signs is irrelevant. Force the graphics artist to deal with some half assed font package in order to get your OSS font is going to cost you more up front.
You guys do realize that cities and states outsource this shit right? There are a small collection of companies that design these signs for the government as needed. So again, it's bought once and used in hundreds of places. And you'll spend more time and money arguing about which every font YOU think is best than just buying the shitty thing.
Before you promote something OSS there has to be at least one instance of that type of object that doesn't suck, and as far as fonts are concerned, OSS is absolute shit.
Yea ... thats why it failed ... not because its a worthless device that tries too hard ... that had nothing at all to do with it, right?
When you have to do research and development ... and your chinese counter parts don't have to do anything other than run the fab process, you're going to have a non-trivial time lowering your price past those who are stealing your designs.
It passed WHQL because it works perfectly when using proper hardware, that it is intended for, that follows the USB spec appropriately.
There is no WHQL requirement that your driver perform properly with other hardware which violates the USB spec (using FTDI's VID/PIDs is an obvious violation of the spec).
You're trying to claim that its FTDI's responsibility to make other shitty hardware work right with their driver, which is absolutely nut job.
Stop buying cheap ass knock off crap.and you won't have this problem. How else do you stop people from producing knock off parts? You aren't going to stop them other than making them not work right? You aren't. People will stop buying from shitty vendors who sells these knock offs and eventually it will feed back and end.
Or ... FTDI can care that someone like you, who has never given them a dime, since you're using shitty knock off hardware, complains about them and complains that you won't use them.
HINT: YOU AREN'T USING THEM NOW. THEY AREN'T LOSING ANYTHING BY YOUR SILLY CLAIMS THAT YOU WON'T BUY THEM.
You're an idiot, much like the others who think that FTDI can out price the cloners.
Or maybe you just want to engineer a product no one wants to buy.
Nothing in your post is an engineering decision. Everything you mention is product design, which the engineers are then tasked with building.
Your one of those guys who can't understand why there is no successful company in the universe ran by engineers, aren't you?
Engineers will build something fucking awesome, but it will not be anything anyone but an engineer wants to own, and then it will be limited to a tiny select group with tastes exactly like the original engineer
If Apple builds suck shitty products ... Explain the situation that exists to make them the single most popular device maker on the planet. Look at your post, your just ranting because Apple won't sell you the EXACT model you want, not because of any actual engineering issue. You want a fat phone with a week long battery life? Great, no one else does. You want a big powerful desktop ... Then you go buy an entry level all in one desktop.
You know, the more I retread your post and think about it ... It's really that your just too stupid to buy the product you want and keep trying to showhorn Apple into your life where it doesn't belong.
Sounds like your the shitty engineer, you can't even work out your own personal specs and requirements properly, you don't really have the credibility to make the argument your trying to make
So your really telling us is that your an over paid idiot.
My exposure to Apple can confirm part of your experience.
The other part you left out however is that they behave that way towards consultants that are trying to do something WAY beyond your skill level.
I.e. They aren't really condescending so make as your completely unqualified for what you claimed you could do.
Another hint: it's not just Apple that works that way, it's most successful companies.
Now stop making yourself look stupid and go back to ripping off companies that don't know any better rather than whining because Apple saw through smoke and mirrors bluff and called you on it.
Absolutely. Yes, it can be a pain to store physical media. Yes, it can be a pain when media formats change over time. Yes, it can be a pain when one makes the wrong choice when new competing formats come out and the one chosen ends up being the loser.
Or you could rip it to a lossless format and then none of that matters and you can put it on any physical media you want without degradation of the original. This is what normal people do to turn that physical media into digital media, maybe you've heard of it?
On the other hand all of the media that I own, across vinyl, cassette tape, compact disc, VHS, Laserdisc, DVD, and Blu-Ray can be played at any time and so long as my machines continue to work, will always be playable, and given that I still find good used machines for all of these formats I don't expect to be in the situation of not being able to find a functional player in my lifetime.
Actually, no, they won't. They already are probably not playing the same as when you bought them. Yes, even your blu-ray and DVDs probably already have bitrot that you just haven't noticed.
All of those things degrade over time. Your VHS and Cassettes were shit long ago. DVD and Blu-Ray will have a few more years before the bitrot starts to make them have errors, and your vinyl is absolutely fucked if you leave it in a car with the windows rolled up on pretty much any sunny day anywhere on the planet, including inside the antarctic and arctic circles!
Every copy of them you make is different than the original, and degraded along the way. Let me guess, you think that makes them sound better because you're an audiophile? And you know how its supposed to sound with your Monster brand HDMI cable thanks to its superior signal quality for those digital bits.
Both you and the person you're responding to are making silly arguments that aren't even actually true justifying the fact that you're holding onto degraded and living in a fantasy world where that doesn't happen because ... well. cause you said so?
Your post points out all these 'benefits' to your physical media ... and every single one of them is exactly the opposite of reality.
Do you even own a cassette or mp3?