Here is video of an older iPhone and os making exact same blue screen/restart. Seems to take different actions to trigger, but not sure this is a new bug. From the comments sounds like it wasn't too uncommon either..
I think pretty much any opinion on the primary question already been offered. However I would add that whether or not you feel that your needs are challenging and/or require great programmers, a great programmer may very well be worth every penny they cost you and more. Take a look at the daily wtf or other similar sites to see the huge cost a mediocre programmer can be to a company even in very simple applications. Even a minor change to a system can be done well or done poorly, and too many items done poorly can be a catastrophe.
You might not be doing mission critical projects, but when generating a TPS report coversheet brings your network to its knees because some mediocre programmer doesn't know or care what she's doing, it sucks and it costs money.
Seriously, isn't Apple supposed to do all my thinking for me? Why the hell should I have to use my brain and think critically about what software I install on a computer I own is doing? I pay Apple to do that for me. This is bullshit.
I want a surface (pro) tablet because my users want tablets but like millions of businesses, mine is run using software that cannot execute on iOS or Android and porting everything would suck or be impossible at this time. The surface pro solves a very real problem for my IT dept. We have deployed hundreds and receive positive feedback constantly.
The non pro surface, on the other hand, is of no interest.
Totally agree that putting GPS and the internet into a phone is pretty great. However... the iPhone wasn't the first device to do this, not even close to the first device that did this. I had multiple Windows Mobile devices, a Nokia, and an HP/Compaq device that *all* did all those things long before the iPhone was released, as in years before. Hell, the original iPhone didn't even have apps, yet I was installing my own programs on my WinMobile phone long before the iPhone came out.
You can argue that the devices prior to the year the iPhone came out kind of sucked at doing all those things, and I would absolutely agree. But they did exist and they did perform all of the functions the iPhone could and more. To give Jobs so much credit for simply improving on those things some seems pretty wrong (and most of the improvement attributed to the iPhone was actually made possible due to *other companies* improvements in technologies like mobile CPUs and batteries that occurred that same year, which is the real reason why "after the iPhone came out everybody made similar phones").
"No one would argue that Steve Jobs made important contributions to modern computing"
I certainly wouldn't, though I think you meant the opposite? Lots of people do seem think that S. Jobs made some sort of contribution to computing, although I've never heard a convincing reason why.
although your comment is essentially irrelevant to tfa, I agree completely. I am consistently impressed with my surface pro. best portable computer I've ever owned, by a good measure.
As a taxpayer, I found it outrageous that public funds are being spent on locked down, proprietary equipment when excellent and more affordable devices using open standards are available.
Schools can buy a device that is only made by a single manufacturer and subject to that single companies whims as far as it's future, or they can buy any of dozens of compatible devices made by lots of different companies. They can either be stuck with whatever features and design a single company implements on their single model, or they can have a wide variety of choices and pick what best fits a student's needs.
ipad in schools reminds me of the huge waste my high school's computer lab was. A room full of Macs, purchased by some ignorant administrator. All of the students were taught how to use an operating system and application software that they *never saw again* because it simply isn't used in the real world. Instead of preparing the students for the business world they were just wasting everyone's time.
I agree it's questionable, but giving 30 people some cash to start a new business is hard to do (who gets the cash? why?) and it requires actually having the $20 million, whereas giving some big company a $20 million discount on taxes due is quite a bit easier. You also have to look at the time factor.. $20 million off taxes one year in exchange for creating 30 jobs for how many years? at some point it becomes well worth it, maybe 10 or 20 years though.
Agreed, once I found Modern Mix, I liked Win8 a whole lot more. Now I get the nice new stuff in Win8 and my machine is still pretty much normal, as in the interface doesn't get in my way or annoy me at all. It sucks that such functionality is not built in though.
Seriously... you know what you're getting into when you develop for Apple's locked down ecosystem, and if you did not realize your survival there will forever be at the mercy of your corporate overlord's whims, you are to oblivious to succeed anyway.
I know a lot of people consider patents "broken" for one reason or another, and here is yet another example where it seems the patent should never have been granted in the first place, let alone been something Apple could use to bully other companies.
So, I agree that patents are broken and easily/often abused. Now, what is the "fix"? Should the patent office be held to task for granting these things when obvious prior art exists? Or should the barrier for going after a supposed patent infringement be raised? Or should patent violation rewards be reduced to where pursuing supposed violations is only profitable in extreme cases? Or something else I can't think of at the moment?
How do we change the world so that companies like Apple cannot do this anymore?
some people like to stand out in a crowd rather than blending in
By getting the most widely used smartphone platform?
With hundreds of different devices in all shapes and sizes, yes. Much easier than "thinking different" on a platform that allows one manufacturer who releases one model.
there are plenty of reasons besides tinkering that Android is vastly more popular than iOS. In fact such activity is relatively rare on the Android platform, after all it is the most widely used smartphone platform in the world so it has certainly found favor far beyond some group of techies.
Some examples of reasons that people are choosing Android:
some people like to have a variety of choices in what their phone looks like some people prefer a more powerful environment some people like to stand out in a crowd rather than blending in some people prefer not to allow a massive corporation to censor the content and applications they are allowed to use etc...
I think we just don't think of "private data" as being the same thing. My name, physical address and email address are just not something I worry about. Name and physical are public record, email (in my case) is my first name @ my full name.com
I'm also old enough to remember when *every* magazine had all of their subscriber's name and address, as they needed this to deliver the magazine. Lots of magazines have had mine over the years and overall things turned out pretty well.
I do worry about things like my correspondence and my location. These are obviously not already public record and it's not hard to imagine bad things occurring if they were.
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Here is video of an older iPhone and os making exact same blue screen/restart.
Seems to take different actions to trigger, but not sure this is a new bug.
From the comments sounds like it wasn't too uncommon either..
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KjyQLlEHomQ
Apple just released a 64bit processor, and now AMD is copying it TEN YEARS ago?!?
Can the industry please do something original and quit just following wherever Apple leads it?
I think pretty much any opinion on the primary question already been offered. However I would add that whether or not you feel that your needs are challenging and/or require great programmers, a great programmer may very well be worth every penny they cost you and more.
Take a look at the daily wtf or other similar sites to see the huge cost a mediocre programmer can be to a company even in very simple applications. Even a minor change to a system can be done well or done poorly, and too many items done poorly can be a catastrophe.
You might not be doing mission critical projects, but when generating a TPS report coversheet brings your network to its knees because some mediocre programmer doesn't know or care what she's doing, it sucks and it costs money.
1. Us government creates Tor.
2. Us government can audit Tor traffic.
Who exactly is surprised by this??
Seriously, isn't Apple supposed to do all my thinking for me? Why the hell should I have to use my brain and think critically about what software I install on a computer I own is doing? I pay Apple to do that for me. This is bullshit.
I'll bite..
I want a surface (pro) tablet because my users want tablets but like millions of businesses, mine is run using software that cannot execute on iOS or Android and porting everything would suck or be impossible at this time. The surface pro solves a very real problem for my IT dept. We have deployed hundreds and receive positive feedback constantly.
The non pro surface, on the other hand, is of no interest.
Totally agree that putting GPS and the internet into a phone is pretty great. However... the iPhone wasn't the first device to do this, not even close to the first device that did this. I had multiple Windows Mobile devices, a Nokia, and an HP/Compaq device that *all* did all those things long before the iPhone was released, as in years before. Hell, the original iPhone didn't even have apps, yet I was installing my own programs on my WinMobile phone long before the iPhone came out.
You can argue that the devices prior to the year the iPhone came out kind of sucked at doing all those things, and I would absolutely agree. But they did exist and they did perform all of the functions the iPhone could and more. To give Jobs so much credit for simply improving on those things some seems pretty wrong (and most of the improvement attributed to the iPhone was actually made possible due to *other companies* improvements in technologies like mobile CPUs and batteries that occurred that same year, which is the real reason why "after the iPhone came out everybody made similar phones").
"No one would argue that Steve Jobs made important contributions to modern computing"
I certainly wouldn't, though I think you meant the opposite? Lots of people do seem think that S. Jobs made some sort of contribution to computing, although I've never heard a convincing reason why.
Everything you do will be faster and more fun.
although your comment is essentially irrelevant to tfa, I agree completely. I am consistently impressed with my surface pro. best portable computer I've ever owned, by a good measure.
As a taxpayer, I found it outrageous that public funds are being spent on locked down, proprietary equipment when excellent and more affordable devices using open standards are available.
Schools can buy a device that is only made by a single manufacturer and subject to that single companies whims as far as it's future, or they can buy any of dozens of compatible devices made by lots of different companies. They can either be stuck with whatever features and design a single company implements on their single model, or they can have a wide variety of choices and pick what best fits a student's needs.
ipad in schools reminds me of the huge waste my high school's computer lab was. A room full of Macs, purchased by some ignorant administrator. All of the students were taught how to use an operating system and application software that they *never saw again* because it simply isn't used in the real world. Instead of preparing the students for the business world they were just wasting everyone's time.
I agree it's questionable, but giving 30 people some cash to start a new business is hard to do (who gets the cash? why?) and it requires actually having the $20 million, whereas giving some big company a $20 million discount on taxes due is quite a bit easier. You also have to look at the time factor.. $20 million off taxes one year in exchange for creating 30 jobs for how many years? at some point it becomes well worth it, maybe 10 or 20 years though.
..PCs will still be more economical, more powerful, more easily upgraded, and uglier.
Some things never seem to change.
Agreed, once I found Modern Mix, I liked Win8 a whole lot more.
Now I get the nice new stuff in Win8 and my machine is still pretty much normal, as in the interface doesn't get in my way or annoy me at all.
It sucks that such functionality is not built in though.
"With tablets outselling PCs"
What?
Tablets are *not* outselling PCs. Not even close.
There are some projections that by year 2015 they might surpass PCs, but that is mostly just speculation.
Me too. The CoCo was a great way to learn. Used to check the mailbox every day for a new Rainbow!
pesky plants and animals be gone.
if "work" includes being stupendously slow but technically functioning, sure, it might.
you do realize that a page file on a fast local disk is already a horrible compromise of speed for functionality, right?
Seriously... you know what you're getting into when you develop for Apple's locked down ecosystem, and if you did not realize your survival there will forever be at the mercy of your corporate overlord's whims, you are to oblivious to succeed anyway.
I know a lot of people consider patents "broken" for one reason or another, and here is yet another example where it seems the patent should never have been granted in the first place, let alone been something Apple could use to bully other companies.
So, I agree that patents are broken and easily/often abused. Now, what is the "fix"? Should the patent office be held to task for granting these things when obvious prior art exists? Or should the barrier for going after a supposed patent infringement be raised? Or should patent violation rewards be reduced to where pursuing supposed violations is only profitable in extreme cases? Or something else I can't think of at the moment?
How do we change the world so that companies like Apple cannot do this anymore?
Actually, you can do that with a Tandy Color Computer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42jBBrqn70w
History provides plenty of examples of evil men who acquired power and used it to get lots of things done.
What I don't understand is why Jobs' actions are acceptable to his fans.
some people like to stand out in a crowd rather than blending in
By getting the most widely used smartphone platform?
With hundreds of different devices in all shapes and sizes, yes. Much easier than "thinking different" on a platform that allows one manufacturer who releases one model.
there are plenty of reasons besides tinkering that Android is vastly more popular than iOS. In fact such activity is relatively rare on the Android platform, after all it is the most widely used smartphone platform in the world so it has certainly found favor far beyond some group of techies.
Some examples of reasons that people are choosing Android:
some people like to have a variety of choices in what their phone looks like
some people prefer a more powerful environment
some people like to stand out in a crowd rather than blending in
some people prefer not to allow a massive corporation to censor the content and applications they are allowed to use
etc...
I think we just don't think of "private data" as being the same thing. My name, physical address and email address are just not something I worry about. Name and physical are public record, email (in my case) is my first name @ my full name .com
I'm also old enough to remember when *every* magazine had all of their subscriber's name and address, as they needed this to deliver the magazine. Lots of magazines have had mine over the years and overall things turned out pretty well.
I do worry about things like my correspondence and my location. These are obviously not already public record and it's not hard to imagine bad things occurring if they were.