Google's framework is entirely geared towards that supporting that sort of innovation, whereas Apples products are decidedly not.
Hmmm... I bet Apple has the capability to open their systems (to approximate Google's) in a matter of days if market forces made it attractive or necessary. Currently, Apple is doing just fine as it is.
I wouldn't be surprised if modern society is messing with the evolution of humans compared to most other species in the past. Modern medicine may SAVE people that "should have" died and not passed on their genes. For better or worse, this is different than what happens outside of human society.
I guess I thought that evolution was more universal than that, and less purely flesh-based. Messing with evolution is itself part of evolution; you cannot act outside of it. It's the natural progression of everything: our increasing intelligence, our technology development, our propensities toward bravery or love or fear or hate. Evolution is a process, not a law, sentient being or alien force; it is unceasing and occurs all around us. Even if technology advances to the point where we become cyborgs that live for a thousand years on distant planets, it will all be part of human evolution.
It's difficult to see how a geneticist could actually make such an absurd statement.
Probably because he is a geneticist, and not a historian or sociologist or reproductive health physician. In most countries -- even this country, in the not-so-distant past -- people married and had children in their teens and early 20s. "In 1796, life expectancy hovered around 24 years" -- allegedly not much more than Neolithic people. So if human evolution has progressed for millions of years through men and women procreating in their 20s, how can Professor Jones suggest (with a straight face) that evolution requires older men?
It's unlikely that you take photographs of every mundane aspect of your life. Some people do it, sure, but those aren't the pictures they want to put into photo albums, flash on their iPods, or hang on their walls. Selective history already plays a role in how we take and keep pictures, so this is just a natural progression of that: keep that photograph, but make it happier.
The Soviet Communists were experts at this. But in Soviet Russia, photos erase you!
What about something like CrashPlan, JungleDisk, or even Mozy? I haven't used these, but am seriously considering adding one of them to my existing backup system. CrashPlan lets you decide who hosts your data (them, a friend with free disk space, whatever); JungleDisk relies on Amazon's S3 service, and Mozy is its own thing...
Err... hard to call the Windows generalization "bullshit" given all the backlash against Vista -- the word "hate" may be very applicable. Your standard off-the-street computer users can't figure out Windows, much less the more technologically-complex Linux. (Unless you're arguing that installing/using Linux requires fewer computer skills than Windows...?) And while plenty of people are dissatisfied with Apple, the company still has some of the highest customer service and satisfaction ratings in the computer industry. (Admittedly, that is a low target to shoot for.)
Humanity has done nothing but harm this world and prevent our growth and a species. It is responsible for countless deaths, unimaginable amounts of lost culture, history, knowledge, and continues to drag us down until we are in yet another dark ages.
There, fixed that for you.
Religion really has little to do with it. Take a look at the great genocides of history. In retrospect to them, it's pretty clear that whatever religious beliefs someone might have professed, it took a back seat to their personal, political or power-hungry aspirations. Often enough, such leaders were athiests...
Bottom line: The Linkup is blaming Nirvanix (a third-party service provider) which is, of course, blaming The Linkup. FTA:
Nirvanix says it has not deleted any customer data, and promises that its Storage Delivery Network is immune to the problem that plagued The Linkup. At The Linkup, a "system administrator ran a script that misidentified active account data and disassociated physical files from their owners," Nirvanix says. "This led to files being marked offline in the old Streamload/MediaMax file system when they shouldn't have been." Iverson, meanwhile, claims it was a Nirvanix engineer who caused the data loss.
Summary: "He did it." "No, he did it." "No, it was him!" "You did it FIRST!" "Idiot!" "Moron!" "Jackass!" ** customers shoot them both **
Recently came across a couple of boxes of old-skool Mac SCSI peripherals -- hard drives, scanners, 100mb magneto-optical disks and drives, 650mb CD burners (can't handle the 700mb discs), cabling of all kinds. Who uses this stuff anymore?
I think the built-in Wacom tablet is the differentiator, plus the extra processing power.
I used to have a 17" PowerBook; I "needed" the screen real estate because I was traveling a lot and doing Final Cut work. But it was huge. We used to joke that you could grill paninis or steam your dress pants on the keyboard (just press down on the lid). And don't let your 12" iBook get too close, or every time the 17-incher turned on Expose, it would suck in windows from the iBook... it was just LARGE.
Visa Debit, which is the only option from almost every bank in America.
Very minor comment, but... I've never had a Visa debit card. The last 5 banks I've been with, from various places I've lived in the U.S. Northeast, have all had MasterCard debit cards.
Keys fell from your keyboard but you are still seriously recommending that people buy from Apple ? Are you joking ?
Let's see... as a former IT guy, I've worked on thousands of computers over the last 20 years. A few dozen have had a key or two break/snap off (typically a well-worn one like a space bar, command key, letter "s", etc.). Probably five or six of those were Apple systems; the rest were mostly a mix of Dell, Sony, and Toshiba. Seems perfectly reasonable that it would happen now and then, even to the best of hardware.
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Hmmm... I bet Apple has the capability to open their systems (to approximate Google's) in a matter of days if market forces made it attractive or necessary. Currently, Apple is doing just fine as it is.
I guess I thought that evolution was more universal than that, and less purely flesh-based. Messing with evolution is itself part of evolution; you cannot act outside of it. It's the natural progression of everything: our increasing intelligence, our technology development, our propensities toward bravery or love or fear or hate. Evolution is a process, not a law, sentient being or alien force; it is unceasing and occurs all around us. Even if technology advances to the point where we become cyborgs that live for a thousand years on distant planets, it will all be part of human evolution.
It's difficult to see how a geneticist could actually make such an absurd statement.
Probably because he is a geneticist, and not a historian or sociologist or reproductive health physician. In most countries -- even this country, in the not-so-distant past -- people married and had children in their teens and early 20s. "In 1796, life expectancy hovered around 24 years" -- allegedly not much more than Neolithic people. So if human evolution has progressed for millions of years through men and women procreating in their 20s, how can Professor Jones suggest (with a straight face) that evolution requires older men?
Maybe he's just trying to get laid.
Um... did you click on the link? The recordings are accompanied by a slideshow of historical images.
Man: "Look, I found eight million customer records on here!"
Bank tech: "That's weird, we always stored ten million records in those databases..."
Man: "Huh, no idea what happened to those other two million." (hides batch of CDs) "I can't believe you guys sold 8 million customer records on eBay!"
I have a little pile of cash set aside ready to cram furiously into my computer's floppy drive as soon as it's released.
I suggest you take some of that money and upgrade to a newer computer...
I can't tell whether to mod you funny, or if you have some brown matter mixed into your grey amtter.
Lots of people were born on January 1, even somewhat famous folks such as Paul Revere, J.D. Salinger and Barry Goldwater.
Wouldn't a more reasonable comparison included laptops from HP, Lenovo, Sony, Toshiba etc?
The assumption is that Dell is representative of the industry. I think most people would agree with that assumption.
The guy compared a Dell XPS with a 17" screen to a Macbook Pro with a 15.4 inch screen and then lauded the mac for being smaller and lighter.
Some quick math: the Apple has a screen that is 10% smaller, but overall it weighs 50% less. Sounds like a valid thing to laud.
You're trolling, of course, but FWIW: these guys seem to indicate that "overpriced" is a misconception (and they're hardly Apple fanboys).
It's unlikely that you take photographs of every mundane aspect of your life. Some people do it, sure, but those aren't the pictures they want to put into photo albums, flash on their iPods, or hang on their walls. Selective history already plays a role in how we take and keep pictures, so this is just a natural progression of that: keep that photograph, but make it happier.
The Soviet Communists were experts at this. But in Soviet Russia, photos erase you!
What about something like CrashPlan, JungleDisk, or even Mozy? I haven't used these, but am seriously considering adding one of them to my existing backup system. CrashPlan lets you decide who hosts your data (them, a friend with free disk space, whatever); JungleDisk relies on Amazon's S3 service, and Mozy is its own thing...
Clearly, you're getting all of the original poster's spam!
Err... hard to call the Windows generalization "bullshit" given all the backlash against Vista -- the word "hate" may be very applicable. Your standard off-the-street computer users can't figure out Windows, much less the more technologically-complex Linux. (Unless you're arguing that installing/using Linux requires fewer computer skills than Windows...?) And while plenty of people are dissatisfied with Apple, the company still has some of the highest customer service and satisfaction ratings in the computer industry. (Admittedly, that is a low target to shoot for.)
They tried a mass of politician neurons first, but the robot kept speeding directly for the wall.
There, fixed that for you.
Religion really has little to do with it. Take a look at the great genocides of history. In retrospect to them, it's pretty clear that whatever religious beliefs someone might have professed, it took a back seat to their personal, political or power-hungry aspirations. Often enough, such leaders were athiests...
Funniest thing I've read in ages. Thanks.
Chessboxing is next, of course.
This version may be easier to read.
Bottom line: The Linkup is blaming Nirvanix (a third-party service provider) which is, of course, blaming The Linkup. FTA:
Summary: "He did it." "No, he did it." "No, it was him!" "You did it FIRST!" "Idiot!" "Moron!" "Jackass!" ** customers shoot them both **
Recently came across a couple of boxes of old-skool Mac SCSI peripherals -- hard drives, scanners, 100mb magneto-optical disks and drives, 650mb CD burners (can't handle the 700mb discs), cabling of all kinds. Who uses this stuff anymore?
I think the built-in Wacom tablet is the differentiator, plus the extra processing power.
I used to have a 17" PowerBook; I "needed" the screen real estate because I was traveling a lot and doing Final Cut work. But it was huge. We used to joke that you could grill paninis or steam your dress pants on the keyboard (just press down on the lid). And don't let your 12" iBook get too close, or every time the 17-incher turned on Expose, it would suck in windows from the iBook... it was just LARGE.
For some reason it is sticking out in my mind as "Vilified by Visa"...
Visa Debit, which is the only option from almost every bank in America.
Very minor comment, but... I've never had a Visa debit card. The last 5 banks I've been with, from various places I've lived in the U.S. Northeast, have all had MasterCard debit cards.
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Game over? Sounds more like "Gentlemen, start your engines."
True.
I did not say it was NOT profitable for Apple. I merely said it was worth it for the customer. Clearly it's worth it for Apple too.
Keys fell from your keyboard but you are still seriously recommending that people buy from Apple ? Are you joking ?
Let's see... as a former IT guy, I've worked on thousands of computers over the last 20 years. A few dozen have had a key or two break/snap off (typically a well-worn one like a space bar, command key, letter "s", etc.). Probably five or six of those were Apple systems; the rest were mostly a mix of Dell, Sony, and Toshiba. Seems perfectly reasonable that it would happen now and then, even to the best of hardware.