A bad design, or a good design for generating income for Apple repair shops?
A bad design for that purpose as well since it's a time consuming operation to get to the parts and it would be difficult to get the consumer to accept the full cost of the time. It was probably done at a loss with something else taking up the slack, and with warranty claims it's a losing prospect. A design example for aesthetics that gets rolled out a lot was an early plastic kettle. It won awards, but it vented steam around the handle which burnt people, it couldn't take the heat over the long term so lasted less than a thousand uses, and the elements could not be replaced. To me that's a failure. To a marketeer it's success. I think that's a short term view because the people I acquired the eMacs from (a 17 inch internal CRT model) have not used Apple computers in the years since, which sounds like a failure to me.
You are very naive if you think those who work directly for the executive branch drafted those free trade agreements. All Bill, Barack or Bush did was say "looks good" to agreements that were effectively drafted by the same people over multiple administrations.
No the professor is correct to being this up becuase she's addressing, and educating, the next generation of designers. It's something the kids should be aware of. It's the same as when undergraduates complained to me about materials science practicals and how they should not have to do them because they were studying electrical engineering - if they don't know shit about physical properties how are they going to design something that doesn't fall into a pile of parts as soon as it gets bumped? When they get a job they can't depend on being part of a team that will cover major weaknesses in their education. Design is more than looking good and performing a function. For example, some of the Apple computers (eg. eMac) looked nice but the procedure to change the hard disk or CDROM/DVD drive required almost complete disassembly and removal of more than 24 screws - a bad design.
Nope. I don't know anyone over 50 who knows how to build or repair a steam engine
As an aside, the day before yesterday I was reading a current news article about the people involved in preparing a couple of steam locomotives and some rolling stock for a 4000km+ trip that's happening this year. One of those locomotives was actually built as late as 1956. While that's almost at the industrial scale there are a quite a few steam locomotives around the world that do short trips for tourists (as distinct from the long trip, spaced over months, for tourists above) as well as things like steam powered tugs and other historical ships/boats.
So while I agree with you I thought I'd mention it, also partly to balance the snarky dismissal from another poster who didn't appear to have read beyond your mention of a steam engine.
My uncle says that about people under 60 and he's mostly right. One example is that even tradespeople are acting this way. The amount of waste from building sites is staggering. While previously offcuts were saved for when short bits were needed, or were joined together, now the materials are much cheaper than the time cost of sorting or joining.
A puff piece on criminals with malware? Don't pay these scum because even if it does work they'll add you to a list of soft targets to hit for more cash again. It's worth putting up with a bit of pain and treat it as a learning experience about offline backups instead of feeding such parsites. I though this place had hit rock bottom with bitcoin worship but now these compliments for malware extortionists?
the difference wouldn't have got you to Hawaii and back.
However it could - thus an utterly ridiculous level of price gouging. So you are looking for the word "shouldn't" instead of "wouldn't". The price should not have been that high, but Apple (and many others) decided the market could bear it so they pumped up the price.
The USA is a very fine thing (better than Rome is so many ways) but a historian will look back at all the egotistical comparisons to Rome and laugh - it's just too different. While Australia is indeed acting like a client kingdom to the USA, it does similar things any time someone important from China, Japan or the UK notices it.
Yes it is strange, but some people are actually going to the effort of paying for a VPN then paying for a streaming service and they are still getting labelled as "pirates" as if they had taken the easy way out and just used bittorrent.
Yes I get the point of "rent" with all the restrictions, but file that in the same container as much of Hollywood's products being "culture".
in some cases it is cheaper to buy a plane ticket to another country, purchase the item and fly back to Australia with it than buy it here.
The above poster is not joking. When the "titanium" Mac came out a newspaper did a cost breakdown to show it, and that was when a flight from Sydney to Hawaii was relatively much more expensive than today Apple fanboys please hold your fire, MS and others do the same price gouging screwovers - especially annoying when the software is distributed as download so there is no real answer as to why there is a 50-100% markup.
The content owners likely have existing agreements in place with 'legacy' providers in each region (satelite/cable...) that prohibits them from licencing the content further.
Funny how "free trade" is not on this level. For instance Australia recently had to take on some of the onerous US copyright laws as part of a "free trade" deal yet the benefit of consumers being able to purchase copyrighted material directly from the USA is not only not happening, but the people who take extra steps to buy such items are labelled as "pirates". IMHO it's worth avoiding such vendors who have so much contempt for their customers as to insult them in such a way.
If it was luck, then how it could change over time?
Antibiotics for one thing. Less people have died from infection so something else has to make up that 100%. Hence a reduced proportion of deaths from TB etc and a higher preportion from cancer.
When science was starting to emerge as a discipline, several centuries ago, many scientists thought they could find truth by examining the world and the Bible
So? Some scientists are looking at owl feathers to understand how to make quieter aircraft. Those scientists are not going to start eating mice are they? Similarly metaphysics and physics are different areas. It should be obvious but the manipulative that want religion to be in control of everything - a very shallow and wide interpretation of the idea of religion - wish to pretend otherwise mainly in the pursuit of personal political power. Far too many people are falling for that shit.
It is likely to be true that modern science developed as a result of a montheistic society instead of one with many Gods, for the reason that there was the belief in only one set of rules for reality instead of several sets or changing ones. However that just laid down the social environment where science could thrive and is not part of science itself. Those English clergymen who were amoung those who disproved the flood fossil theory and showed the earth was far older than expected knew that they were doing geology as a sideline to their theological duties and did not confuse science and religion. Similar when Mendel laid the foundations for Darwin's theory, or the Vatican astronomer today.
Science is about finding out the rules of reality, not about who wrote them. Data not metadata. Physics for the first, metaphysics for the latter.
Probably. Truth seems to be far more incompetent than fiction. If I was a foreign spy I'd use vectors like that Star Trek set designer they let into the place, or showgirls, or whoever else those egotistical horse judges running the place let inside. Put a modern equivalent of the theremin bug into artwork just like the original theremin bug was put into a carved " Great Seal of the United States" (how's that for nasty style). Pander to their egos and suddenly competence has left the building. Remember that the most sensitive stuff is known by people who are there only because they were drinking buddies with the right person. The random IT guy who looks after their outlook folders on any given day probably has access to such secrets no matter what the procedure is supposed to be.
Nowhere does it say they actually have effective techniques for extracting the PSK from, say, a Diffie-Hellman exchange. Because.... well... pretty much, nobody can.
They don't need to. Compromising Cisco etc plus a pile of Telcos does the job. Ever wondered about those stupid "SSL accelerator" boxes that some places have been fooled into buying? Pretty fucking obvious way in there since people are granting access to their VPNs, bank accounts etc to the admins of those proxy boxes and most likely the vendors plus agencies that have been granted access. Personally I think such devices make zero sense other than as data harvesting tools and go against the entire point of SSL. Then there's the commercial VPN services, just one visit from somebody mentioning the PAT RIOT act (which has zero to do with patriotism - what a weasel naming trick) and that toy soldier can get it all.
Aussie is not derived from that. Ozzies is like calling Americans Yankiis, sounds right but nobody does it unless they are guessing at spelling. The "oz" thing came later, probably not until well after the movie.
With the extreme fundamentalist version at least he does what he's told to do.
My entire country was damned to hell for all eternity by a TV evangelist who was upset about a baggage security check at an airport. Apparently his God did what it was told. He probably lived long enough to get his scrotum squeezed by the TSA, so sorry about that citizens of the USA, looks like you are not only all damned for eternity by him but probably upside down in molten lead as well.
Of course it can't - just as hockey cannot prove the existence of football. There's just confusion because dumbed down religion wants to expand to take over every aspect of life and it sees descriptions of reality as competition. Thor Heyerdahl described his local Lutheren Pastors views in the 1930s as being along the lines of God creating life and Darwin described what he'd found out about God's plan. Nowhere near incompatible despite what Christianity-lite screeches. Science is physical while religion is spiritual. Somewhere along the way we've ended up with a pile of people that cannot tell the difference. It's done a lot of damage to societies, and not just in the middle east.
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A bad design for that purpose as well since it's a time consuming operation to get to the parts and it would be difficult to get the consumer to accept the full cost of the time. It was probably done at a loss with something else taking up the slack, and with warranty claims it's a losing prospect.
A design example for aesthetics that gets rolled out a lot was an early plastic kettle. It won awards, but it vented steam around the handle which burnt people, it couldn't take the heat over the long term so lasted less than a thousand uses, and the elements could not be replaced.
To me that's a failure. To a marketeer it's success. I think that's a short term view because the people I acquired the eMacs from (a 17 inch internal CRT model) have not used Apple computers in the years since, which sounds like a failure to me.
You are very naive if you think those who work directly for the executive branch drafted those free trade agreements. All Bill, Barack or Bush did was say "looks good" to agreements that were effectively drafted by the same people over multiple administrations.
No the professor is correct to being this up becuase she's addressing, and educating, the next generation of designers. It's something the kids should be aware of.
It's the same as when undergraduates complained to me about materials science practicals and how they should not have to do them because they were studying electrical engineering - if they don't know shit about physical properties how are they going to design something that doesn't fall into a pile of parts as soon as it gets bumped? When they get a job they can't depend on being part of a team that will cover major weaknesses in their education.
Design is more than looking good and performing a function. For example, some of the Apple computers (eg. eMac) looked nice but the procedure to change the hard disk or CDROM/DVD drive required almost complete disassembly and removal of more than 24 screws - a bad design.
As an aside, the day before yesterday I was reading a current news article about the people involved in preparing a couple of steam locomotives and some rolling stock for a 4000km+ trip that's happening this year. One of those locomotives was actually built as late as 1956. While that's almost at the industrial scale there are a quite a few steam locomotives around the world that do short trips for tourists (as distinct from the long trip, spaced over months, for tourists above) as well as things like steam powered tugs and other historical ships/boats.
So while I agree with you I thought I'd mention it, also partly to balance the snarky dismissal from another poster who didn't appear to have read beyond your mention of a steam engine.
I remember being with my dad for hours fixing stuff.
It's not IT or computer science so the ratio is not quite that bad.
My uncle says that about people under 60 and he's mostly right.
One example is that even tradespeople are acting this way. The amount of waste from building sites is staggering. While previously offcuts were saved for when short bits were needed, or were joined together, now the materials are much cheaper than the time cost of sorting or joining.
A puff piece on criminals with malware? Don't pay these scum because even if it does work they'll add you to a list of soft targets to hit for more cash again. It's worth putting up with a bit of pain and treat it as a learning experience about offline backups instead of feeding such parsites.
I though this place had hit rock bottom with bitcoin worship but now these compliments for malware extortionists?
However it could - thus an utterly ridiculous level of price gouging. So you are looking for the word "shouldn't" instead of "wouldn't". The price should not have been that high, but Apple (and many others) decided the market could bear it so they pumped up the price.
The US and Imperial Rome have almost diametrically opposed foregin policies despite both putting a lot of resources into legions.
The USA is a very fine thing (better than Rome is so many ways) but a historian will look back at all the egotistical comparisons to Rome and laugh - it's just too different. While Australia is indeed acting like a client kingdom to the USA, it does similar things any time someone important from China, Japan or the UK notices it.
Yes it is strange, but some people are actually going to the effort of paying for a VPN then paying for a streaming service and they are still getting labelled as "pirates" as if they had taken the easy way out and just used bittorrent.
Yes I get the point of "rent" with all the restrictions, but file that in the same container as much of Hollywood's products being "culture".
The above poster is not joking. When the "titanium" Mac came out a newspaper did a cost breakdown to show it, and that was when a flight from Sydney to Hawaii was relatively much more expensive than today
Apple fanboys please hold your fire, MS and others do the same price gouging screwovers - especially annoying when the software is distributed as download so there is no real answer as to why there is a 50-100% markup.
Yes we know. His name is Rupert.
Funny how "free trade" is not on this level. For instance Australia recently had to take on some of the onerous US copyright laws as part of a "free trade" deal yet the benefit of consumers being able to purchase copyrighted material directly from the USA is not only not happening, but the people who take extra steps to buy such items are labelled as "pirates".
IMHO it's worth avoiding such vendors who have so much contempt for their customers as to insult them in such a way.
Antibiotics for one thing.
Less people have died from infection so something else has to make up that 100%.
Hence a reduced proportion of deaths from TB etc and a higher preportion from cancer.
So? Some scientists are looking at owl feathers to understand how to make quieter aircraft. Those scientists are not going to start eating mice are they?
Similarly metaphysics and physics are different areas. It should be obvious but the manipulative that want religion to be in control of everything - a very shallow and wide interpretation of the idea of religion - wish to pretend otherwise mainly in the pursuit of personal political power. Far too many people are falling for that shit.
It is likely to be true that modern science developed as a result of a montheistic society instead of one with many Gods, for the reason that there was the belief in only one set of rules for reality instead of several sets or changing ones. However that just laid down the social environment where science could thrive and is not part of science itself. Those English clergymen who were amoung those who disproved the flood fossil theory and showed the earth was far older than expected knew that they were doing geology as a sideline to their theological duties and did not confuse science and religion. Similar when Mendel laid the foundations for Darwin's theory, or the Vatican astronomer today.
Science is about finding out the rules of reality, not about who wrote them. Data not metadata. Physics for the first, metaphysics for the latter.
That change should have happened in the 1980s in any place that cared what they have on disk.
A misspelling of "This Is Serious Mum".
Impersonation can be annoying with real world consequences depending on what the impersonator writes.
Probably. Truth seems to be far more incompetent than fiction.
If I was a foreign spy I'd use vectors like that Star Trek set designer they let into the place, or showgirls, or whoever else those egotistical horse judges running the place let inside. Put a modern equivalent of the theremin bug into artwork just like the original theremin bug was put into a carved " Great Seal of the United States" (how's that for nasty style). Pander to their egos and suddenly competence has left the building. Remember that the most sensitive stuff is known by people who are there only because they were drinking buddies with the right person. The random IT guy who looks after their outlook folders on any given day probably has access to such secrets no matter what the procedure is supposed to be.
They don't need to. Compromising Cisco etc plus a pile of Telcos does the job. Ever wondered about those stupid "SSL accelerator" boxes that some places have been fooled into buying? Pretty fucking obvious way in there since people are granting access to their VPNs, bank accounts etc to the admins of those proxy boxes and most likely the vendors plus agencies that have been granted access. Personally I think such devices make zero sense other than as data harvesting tools and go against the entire point of SSL.
Then there's the commercial VPN services, just one visit from somebody mentioning the PAT RIOT act (which has zero to do with patriotism - what a weasel naming trick) and that toy soldier can get it all.
Aussie is not derived from that. Ozzies is like calling Americans Yankiis, sounds right but nobody does it unless they are guessing at spelling. The "oz" thing came later, probably not until well after the movie.
With the extreme fundamentalist version at least he does what he's told to do.
My entire country was damned to hell for all eternity by a TV evangelist who was upset about a baggage security check at an airport. Apparently his God did what it was told.
He probably lived long enough to get his scrotum squeezed by the TSA, so sorry about that citizens of the USA, looks like you are not only all damned for eternity by him but probably upside down in molten lead as well.
Of course it can't - just as hockey cannot prove the existence of football.
There's just confusion because dumbed down religion wants to expand to take over every aspect of life and it sees descriptions of reality as competition.
Thor Heyerdahl described his local Lutheren Pastors views in the 1930s as being along the lines of God creating life and Darwin described what he'd found out about God's plan. Nowhere near incompatible despite what Christianity-lite screeches. Science is physical while religion is spiritual. Somewhere along the way we've ended up with a pile of people that cannot tell the difference. It's done a lot of damage to societies, and not just in the middle east.