I've been wondering exactly what is he getting up to there at Me Inc? The site is shitty in both presentation and content. He hasn't discovered how to correctly size images. In lieu of actual substance, it's mostly about telling us that smart phones are the future, and that Me's ostensibly non-imaginary products can be used to develop applications for smart phones. I see some of these things are available on iTunes Store, and not exactly a roaring success. The self-stated raison d'etre for Me Inc. can be summed up as follows:
"We are leaders in helping you more effectively through our advanced . . Our engineering team can help you and integrate your with and interwebs.
If by "entrepreneur" he means fucking useless, then yes, his LinkedIn title is pretty accurately summing him up. He lists his time with SCO on his profile, which I suppose he either considers a good thing, or he realises that he can't hide from his decade spent turning a healthy tech company in to a pile of shit, while making himself the most unemployable man since Charles Manson gave himself a forehead tattoo.
This world would be a better place if McBride were to go out back and end it with a revolver, but the main contribution to the good of humanity would be in the commercial transaction created when he bought the gun and a bullet. He's pretty irrelevant now, so his passing would mean little.
The apple users, lovers, people who owned Powermacs... said on forums, in editorial print magazines, and just about everywhere else "No, Apple's not going to Intel"... and gave a myriad of practical reasons (they thought) why it wouldn't occur. What that means in context is everyone who says "OS X is never going to be iOS" and "OS X will always be what it is today..." etc... are more than likely incorrect in their predictions.
Heh, a possible tl;dr coming your way.
Ah, I get you. Still, it doesn't follow that they're probably incorrect, and this whole lock-down thing is pretty subjective. I agree that the battery thing could be a pain, and 12 years ago I'd have thought it crazy if my PowerBook G3 came that way. No way I'd be getting much work done if I had to rely on a single battery, but these days battery life is way better. Still, when this thing gets old, I'm going to have to send the entire thing off. That part could be pain. So far the locking-down works for me. I don't mind my iPhone being the way it is. I'd be jumping to a different system though if all apps had to come via the app store (which I doubt will ever happen on Mac), or if they decided to ditch the Unix command line (which I'm honestly surprised is still there). Not being able to upgrade the RAM in the Retina machines doesn't bother me too much, as I'd tend to max out RAM, or get pretty close. Being unable to monkey around the drive is a pain, but the form factor kind of makes that tricky anyway. Trade-offs.
The OS X in to iOS thing you mentioned is possible, but I wouldn't go so far as to assume it'll happen. In the end, we'll vote with our feet if they take away something too important. As an old time, you'll probably remember the earlier transitions, and the concerns. m68k to PowerPC, and then PowerPC to Intel. OS 9 to OS X - that was a big shift, albeit sweetened by having a Unix that didn't require farting around with pdisk and tweaking to enjoy luxuries like audio CD playback and functional power management on portables. Ditching ADB, SCSI and serial ports - that left me replacing a few peripherals. New machines lacking optical drives.
I don't believe OS X will become iOS. I do see more iOS features coming to OS X, which has generally been good for me. Notification centre is great, and the trackpad gestures have done a lot to improve my productivity - even the reverse scrolling, after so many years of working the other way around, seems just so intuitive.
The way I see it now is that I can experiment far more than ever before. I have a decent IDE freely available (MPW was good in its day, but all but discarded once I picked-up Code Warrior). Automator is a great tool, particularly when you get in to writing services. I have a proper suit of Unix commands available to me, and plenty more via MacPorts/Fink. I run PostgreSQL and PHP on here for development, which is something I doubt would ever have come to classic Mac OS. Now with the move to Intel I have far more options for natively booting other operating systems, or virtualised in Fusion, Parallels and the open source options.
We need to find a way to generate electricity from cognitive dissonance. Guys like this live in luxury that Jesus couldn't have imagined, and likely would have rejected, yet they claim to be following the teachings of this itinerant rabbi who preached against materialism. The massive quantities of cognitive dissonance required to swallow this bullshit must be harnessed for some good!
Any priest with more than two pairs of shoes is missing the point.
The Apple faithful said "Never going to Intel!" and it happened. So, hyperbole or not, Apple is closing off their once semi-open OS so they can maintain control over the "experience."
Let me get this straight. By Apple faithful, I presume you're referring to users - not the company itself. If I'm wrong there, who was it who said this? With that presumption, I'd like to parse what you wrote.
You claim that Apple is going to do x because their fans in the past said that Apple would not do y, yet Apple did do y. What?
Because most people are not busy tricking their way to the top. Also, complete honesty is definitely not the best policy. I'd hire educators who understand that honesty and deception operate on a scale, and that dishonesty isn't necessarily the worst choice. Teaching children that honesty is pointless is idiotic and suggests that the educator is damaged or otherwise mentally ill. An ethical school would not allow such a person to teach.
Yeah, I did similar when I returned to studying, and was able to obtain credit by demonstrating sufficient knowledge in areas. They should have their senior officer look in to that.
Sorry, but is this really a Ask Slashdot-worthy story?
Nope. Ask Slashdot traditionally is about interesting questions that are not easily answered by searching or reading company websites. These stories are examples of good postings:
This story is little better than posting the question "ne1 no where i can buy diablo iii cheap?" What metrix007 is asking for here, which you kindly did, is for someone to Google for him/her.
This is why we have search engines, and why carriers post tarifs on their sites.
Which fallacy is mine? You've a pretty clear no true Scotsman there, and a strawman in the way you characterize all leaders as being just in it for the power and money. Do you accept some of these "leaders" actually hold the beliefs they purport to hold? Sure beliefs tend to dovetail nicely with personal wishes, needs and psychoses, and the same is true of "followers". The world is far for nuanced than you think it to be. Maybe L Ron Hubbard and Joseph Smith, who almost certainly began as conscious frauds, themselves became "followers" of their own crazy schemes. Power and constant reinforcement from followers does odd things to a mind.
Another issue is that you've set yourself up as the arbiter of definitions for ideologies that are quite varied. Both Fred Phelps and my girlfriend are Christians. Her liberal Christianity is more in the tradition practiced by the majority in the west, while the craziness of Phelps is grounded in Calvinism. Is Phelps a wanker? Yes. Is he a Christian? Yes, and his positions are very well supported by scripture.
It is not the religion and never has been, it is it's pretend adherents who abuse religion for their own political, greed and lust based advantage basically the credo of Ayn Rand and Objectivism.
I agree with the rest of your post, but this reeks of the No True Scotsman fallacy. I don't want to pick on religion here, so I'll use the word "ideology" to group together religions, political movements and philosophies.
While ideology can indeed be vehicles for a despot's agenda, it does not follow that "true belief" can't lead to pretty terrible results! If we look at terrorists, are none of them driven by ideology? Are all Islamic terrorists not true believers, or perhaps they're abusing their religion or misinterpreting it? No, that's nonsense. Obviously some are using religion as a vehicle for another agenda, such as the various paramilitaries in Northern Ireland who seem to spend more time engaging in petty disputes and crime than in their stated mission. How about central American Marxist extremists who take to the jungle, to fight the government, and kidnap women for rape? I don't blame Marxism for that, but I do blame Islam when I see people doing what its holy books tell them to do. Are misogyny and homophobia abuse of Christianity? No, because it's a supportable interpretation of Biblical texts, and I blame Christianity when its used to defend such appalling stances.
Contradiction is part and parcel of most ideologies - Paul Ryan is not unusual. How is it that many Christians lead lives of luxury, contrary to the example set by Jesus and his disciples? It'd be reasonable to argue that amassing wealth and possessions is just as contradictory to the teachings of Jesus as objectivism is. Why do women play such an important role in the ministry of Jesus, and in the early church, yet later-on are shoved back in to the kitchen? Why are the majority of Catholic women using birth control? Why are some protestant denominations allowing homosexuals to minister, and why does any Christian church permit women to minister to men? Why does extreme socialism tend to resemble feudalism? To finish on an amusing note, how does the claimed rationalism egoism of Objectivism jibe with the "monkey see monkey do" behaviour of some of her followers, and how does its disdain for statism marry-up with Rand ruling the cult of Objectivism like a mad monarch?
The Stanford Prison Experiment is not a good example to cite. It was a highly unusual situation, and has been criticized for lack of controls and objective measurements.
Although automated, do you know if the operator's acceptance that the tool will be wrong in x percent of cases, or such an understanding to be reasonably expected, could constitute wilful action?
Rising production costs aren't a problem so long as the market itself will offset them, either through being willing to pay more, or through volume. Where it gets risky though is when a single project can represent so much risk that a company can be ruined by it, but then the rewards are pretty good if it pays off. To use movie examples, look at how much cash Avatar brought in, but then contrast that with John Carter. It's a risky business creating AAA content, and it's likely going to be the preserve of companies with very deep pockets. They're in this business because they can make money.
And yes, Final Fantasy definitely had a pretty minimal budget for dialogue, but I find that pretty consistent in anime. The quality of animation was a bit better though than the usual stuttering and repetitive style I'd associate with anime.
In 2010, the video gaming industry made 66 BILLION. Saganesque billions and billions and they can't turn a healthy enough profit?
66 billion? In their fevered minds this number can always be higher. Look at Paramount's Al Perry and his response to Louis CK pulling in over a million dollars in just a few days of offering his stand-up show video DRM-free. A success perhaps? No, could have made more money if he'd used DRM. Perry and his ilk are fundamentally wedded to preserving the existing business model, or replacing it with something so hopelessly draconian and self-defeating as to all but kill the very product they're trying to "monetize".
The region code thing pissed me off. Assuming that unlocking and ripping don't exist, they expect that if I were to relocate to the US that I'd dispose of my current collection and re-purchase versions that can be played on local hardware, and that purchasing a DVD while there on business would be impractical if the drive in my laptop permits only has a small number region code changes. If ripping I have to spend a fair chunk of time swapping discs and working around various DRM systems.
Hardly surprising then that torrents are popular. I can pull a movie via a torrent that'll play just fine on my devices, and won't include annoying un-skippable content (piracy warnings and Ben Fucking Stiller advertising his new film). iTunes would do it for me if the DRM was taken out, and I could transcode the files for other devices and systems. As it stands, torrents offer the best experience. It's not like the old days of watching a shitty cinema recording, made by some guy with a camcorder clenched between his buttocks, or ropey VHS rips. There's a lot high quality files out there.
Linux on the desktop is dead. It's linux on the "device" that has a chance. I know why Valve is pushing towards Linux because the Windows 8 App store will eat their lunch, but realistically nothing is going to change.
I'm not crediting the guys at Valve as being strategic geniuses, yet why would they use the non-existent market of Linux as a hedge against the MS app store crushing Steam? I imagine the MS app store would dent Steam's share, yet not decimate it. Will the app store offer the social features and matchmaking that Steam does? Also, Steam has a pretty good userbase, and generally good will among gamers. I don't think Steam on Windows is going away anytime soon. MS won't easily be able to tie developers to exclusive posting on their app store (either through contracts or by offering incentives) without raising some anti-trust issues, so it's not as if that's much of an option.
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I've been wondering exactly what is he getting up to there at Me Inc? The site is shitty in both presentation and content. He hasn't discovered how to correctly size images. In lieu of actual substance, it's mostly about telling us that smart phones are the future, and that Me's ostensibly non-imaginary products can be used to develop applications for smart phones. I see some of these things are available on iTunes Store, and not exactly a roaring success. The self-stated raison d'etre for Me Inc. can be summed up as follows:
"We are leaders in helping you more effectively through our advanced . . Our engineering team can help you and integrate your with and interwebs.
If by "entrepreneur" he means fucking useless, then yes, his LinkedIn title is pretty accurately summing him up. He lists his time with SCO on his profile, which I suppose he either considers a good thing, or he realises that he can't hide from his decade spent turning a healthy tech company in to a pile of shit, while making himself the most unemployable man since Charles Manson gave himself a forehead tattoo.
This world would be a better place if McBride were to go out back and end it with a revolver, but the main contribution to the good of humanity would be in the commercial transaction created when he bought the gun and a bullet. He's pretty irrelevant now, so his passing would mean little.
until they started cutting needed features and/or flexibility for its sake. Gnome 3 is doing this along with windows 8, and osx.
Which features/flexibility have been cut from OS X for the sake of minimalism?
The apple users, lovers, people who owned Powermacs... said on forums, in editorial print magazines, and just about everywhere else "No, Apple's not going to Intel"... and gave a myriad of practical reasons (they thought) why it wouldn't occur. What that means in context is everyone who says "OS X is never going to be iOS" and "OS X will always be what it is today..." etc... are more than likely incorrect in their predictions.
Heh, a possible tl;dr coming your way.
Ah, I get you. Still, it doesn't follow that they're probably incorrect, and this whole lock-down thing is pretty subjective. I agree that the battery thing could be a pain, and 12 years ago I'd have thought it crazy if my PowerBook G3 came that way. No way I'd be getting much work done if I had to rely on a single battery, but these days battery life is way better. Still, when this thing gets old, I'm going to have to send the entire thing off. That part could be pain. So far the locking-down works for me. I don't mind my iPhone being the way it is. I'd be jumping to a different system though if all apps had to come via the app store (which I doubt will ever happen on Mac), or if they decided to ditch the Unix command line (which I'm honestly surprised is still there). Not being able to upgrade the RAM in the Retina machines doesn't bother me too much, as I'd tend to max out RAM, or get pretty close. Being unable to monkey around the drive is a pain, but the form factor kind of makes that tricky anyway. Trade-offs.
The OS X in to iOS thing you mentioned is possible, but I wouldn't go so far as to assume it'll happen. In the end, we'll vote with our feet if they take away something too important. As an old time, you'll probably remember the earlier transitions, and the concerns. m68k to PowerPC, and then PowerPC to Intel. OS 9 to OS X - that was a big shift, albeit sweetened by having a Unix that didn't require farting around with pdisk and tweaking to enjoy luxuries like audio CD playback and functional power management on portables. Ditching ADB, SCSI and serial ports - that left me replacing a few peripherals. New machines lacking optical drives.
I don't believe OS X will become iOS. I do see more iOS features coming to OS X, which has generally been good for me. Notification centre is great, and the trackpad gestures have done a lot to improve my productivity - even the reverse scrolling, after so many years of working the other way around, seems just so intuitive.
The way I see it now is that I can experiment far more than ever before. I have a decent IDE freely available (MPW was good in its day, but all but discarded once I picked-up Code Warrior). Automator is a great tool, particularly when you get in to writing services. I have a proper suit of Unix commands available to me, and plenty more via MacPorts/Fink. I run PostgreSQL and PHP on here for development, which is something I doubt would ever have come to classic Mac OS. Now with the move to Intel I have far more options for natively booting other operating systems, or virtualised in Fusion, Parallels and the open source options.
We need to find a way to generate electricity from cognitive dissonance. Guys like this live in luxury that Jesus couldn't have imagined, and likely would have rejected, yet they claim to be following the teachings of this itinerant rabbi who preached against materialism. The massive quantities of cognitive dissonance required to swallow this bullshit must be harnessed for some good!
Any priest with more than two pairs of shoes is missing the point.
The Apple faithful said "Never going to Intel!" and it happened. So, hyperbole or not, Apple is closing off their once semi-open OS so they can maintain control over the "experience."
Let me get this straight. By Apple faithful, I presume you're referring to users - not the company itself. If I'm wrong there, who was it who said this? With that presumption, I'd like to parse what you wrote.
You claim that Apple is going to do x because their fans in the past said that Apple would not do y, yet Apple did do y. What?
Because most people are not busy tricking their way to the top. Also, complete honesty is definitely not the best policy. I'd hire educators who understand that honesty and deception operate on a scale, and that dishonesty isn't necessarily the worst choice. Teaching children that honesty is pointless is idiotic and suggests that the educator is damaged or otherwise mentally ill. An ethical school would not allow such a person to teach.
I can think only of the centurion and the slave. What leads you to a gay Christ?
Yeah, I did similar when I returned to studying, and was able to obtain credit by demonstrating sufficient knowledge in areas. They should have their senior officer look in to that.
Why should I give a shit about adademic dishonesty when fraud is what makes the world go around?
No-one is asking that you give a shit. Go watch a movie or something while we talk this over.
The peer review system could depress the number. How many users, when asked to review a paper, will take the time to look for plagiarism?
I suppose the same though could be asked of academia.
Sorry, but is this really a Ask Slashdot-worthy story?
Nope. Ask Slashdot traditionally is about interesting questions that are not easily answered by searching or reading company websites. These stories are examples of good postings:
http://ask.slashdot.org/story/12/08/15/0425230/ask-slashdot-worth-going-for-a-graduate-degree-in-the-middle-of-your-career
http://ask.slashdot.org/story/12/08/09/1549240/ask-slashdot-how-many-of-you-actually-use-math
This story is little better than posting the question "ne1 no where i can buy diablo iii cheap?" What metrix007 is asking for here, which you kindly did, is for someone to Google for him/her.
This is why we have search engines, and why carriers post tarifs on their sites.
To bolster their credentials among the faithful? I'd be surprised if the Vatican doesn't get in on the action.
Which fallacy is mine? You've a pretty clear no true Scotsman there, and a strawman in the way you characterize all leaders as being just in it for the power and money. Do you accept some of these "leaders" actually hold the beliefs they purport to hold? Sure beliefs tend to dovetail nicely with personal wishes, needs and psychoses, and the same is true of "followers". The world is far for nuanced than you think it to be. Maybe L Ron Hubbard and Joseph Smith, who almost certainly began as conscious frauds, themselves became "followers" of their own crazy schemes. Power and constant reinforcement from followers does odd things to a mind.
Another issue is that you've set yourself up as the arbiter of definitions for ideologies that are quite varied. Both Fred Phelps and my girlfriend are Christians. Her liberal Christianity is more in the tradition practiced by the majority in the west, while the craziness of Phelps is grounded in Calvinism. Is Phelps a wanker? Yes. Is he a Christian? Yes, and his positions are very well supported by scripture.
It is not the religion and never has been, it is it's pretend adherents who abuse religion for their own political, greed and lust based advantage basically the credo of Ayn Rand and Objectivism.
I agree with the rest of your post, but this reeks of the No True Scotsman fallacy. I don't want to pick on religion here, so I'll use the word "ideology" to group together religions, political movements and philosophies.
While ideology can indeed be vehicles for a despot's agenda, it does not follow that "true belief" can't lead to pretty terrible results! If we look at terrorists, are none of them driven by ideology? Are all Islamic terrorists not true believers, or perhaps they're abusing their religion or misinterpreting it? No, that's nonsense. Obviously some are using religion as a vehicle for another agenda, such as the various paramilitaries in Northern Ireland who seem to spend more time engaging in petty disputes and crime than in their stated mission. How about central American Marxist extremists who take to the jungle, to fight the government, and kidnap women for rape? I don't blame Marxism for that, but I do blame Islam when I see people doing what its holy books tell them to do. Are misogyny and homophobia abuse of Christianity? No, because it's a supportable interpretation of Biblical texts, and I blame Christianity when its used to defend such appalling stances.
Contradiction is part and parcel of most ideologies - Paul Ryan is not unusual. How is it that many Christians lead lives of luxury, contrary to the example set by Jesus and his disciples? It'd be reasonable to argue that amassing wealth and possessions is just as contradictory to the teachings of Jesus as objectivism is. Why do women play such an important role in the ministry of Jesus, and in the early church, yet later-on are shoved back in to the kitchen? Why are the majority of Catholic women using birth control? Why are some protestant denominations allowing homosexuals to minister, and why does any Christian church permit women to minister to men? Why does extreme socialism tend to resemble feudalism? To finish on an amusing note, how does the claimed rationalism egoism of Objectivism jibe with the "monkey see monkey do" behaviour of some of her followers, and how does its disdain for statism marry-up with Rand ruling the cult of Objectivism like a mad monarch?
It would be funny if someone posts the solution on Twitter and a swat team shows up at their house a few hours later.
Pretty unlikely, unless they happen to run a website being used to pirate movies and music. Mind you, admitting making a mix tape could be enough.
The Stanford Prison Experiment is not a good example to cite. It was a highly unusual situation, and has been criticized for lack of controls and objective measurements.
Doctors with guns?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baruch_Goldstein
True. Thanks - good reply.
Although automated, do you know if the operator's acceptance that the tool will be wrong in x percent of cases, or such an understanding to be reasonably expected, could constitute wilful action?
Here's an example in English:
"Are the Republican candidates all crazy?"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-16386176
Production costs have increased
Rising production costs aren't a problem so long as the market itself will offset them, either through being willing to pay more, or through volume. Where it gets risky though is when a single project can represent so much risk that a company can be ruined by it, but then the rewards are pretty good if it pays off. To use movie examples, look at how much cash Avatar brought in, but then contrast that with John Carter. It's a risky business creating AAA content, and it's likely going to be the preserve of companies with very deep pockets. They're in this business because they can make money.
And yes, Final Fantasy definitely had a pretty minimal budget for dialogue, but I find that pretty consistent in anime. The quality of animation was a bit better though than the usual stuttering and repetitive style I'd associate with anime.
In 2010, the video gaming industry made 66 BILLION. Saganesque billions and billions and they can't turn a healthy enough profit?
66 billion? In their fevered minds this number can always be higher. Look at Paramount's Al Perry and his response to Louis CK pulling in over a million dollars in just a few days of offering his stand-up show video DRM-free. A success perhaps? No, could have made more money if he'd used DRM. Perry and his ilk are fundamentally wedded to preserving the existing business model, or replacing it with something so hopelessly draconian and self-defeating as to all but kill the very product they're trying to "monetize".
And your point being?
The region code thing pissed me off. Assuming that unlocking and ripping don't exist, they expect that if I were to relocate to the US that I'd dispose of my current collection and re-purchase versions that can be played on local hardware, and that purchasing a DVD while there on business would be impractical if the drive in my laptop permits only has a small number region code changes. If ripping I have to spend a fair chunk of time swapping discs and working around various DRM systems.
Hardly surprising then that torrents are popular. I can pull a movie via a torrent that'll play just fine on my devices, and won't include annoying un-skippable content (piracy warnings and Ben Fucking Stiller advertising his new film). iTunes would do it for me if the DRM was taken out, and I could transcode the files for other devices and systems. As it stands, torrents offer the best experience. It's not like the old days of watching a shitty cinema recording, made by some guy with a camcorder clenched between his buttocks, or ropey VHS rips. There's a lot high quality files out there.
Linux on the desktop is dead. It's linux on the "device" that has a chance. I know why Valve is pushing towards Linux because the Windows 8 App store will eat their lunch, but realistically nothing is going to change.
I'm not crediting the guys at Valve as being strategic geniuses, yet why would they use the non-existent market of Linux as a hedge against the MS app store crushing Steam? I imagine the MS app store would dent Steam's share, yet not decimate it. Will the app store offer the social features and matchmaking that Steam does? Also, Steam has a pretty good userbase, and generally good will among gamers. I don't think Steam on Windows is going away anytime soon. MS won't easily be able to tie developers to exclusive posting on their app store (either through contracts or by offering incentives) without raising some anti-trust issues, so it's not as if that's much of an option.