Use your brain a little bit. Just because some other device X has all of these features for a price under the iPhone, that has very little to do with the ADDED cost of ADDING these features to the current design. Sure you CAN argue that designing it from the ground up can be cheaper, but tacking these on as an afterthought adds more cost, like it or not.
Think of it like code. You designed your app one way, adding x, y, and z features to a codebase that never anticipated doing such could very well be more expensive than rewriting the code to take these features into account.
I am not an expert in electricity by no means, but I have a fundamental understanding of it (or so I think). Energy is energy. With no resistance (don't overlook this point), light traveling via laser or via electrons flowing over a wire, the speed would be the same. Now, in reality, there IS resistance... there is always a "friction" or resistance (ohm) when energy is passing over a wire. In a vacuum, a laser will move as fast as energy can possibly travel. At least on paper.
This is like the crazy patent claims Microsoft made against Linux (what was that? 184 alleged patents? More?) Examples would be nice.
I know this is SORT OF off topic, and I am by no means on Microsoft's side in their Patent-War-On-Linux, but I CAN give you an example (albeit stupid):
Microsoft's patent on Long File Names on FAT/FAT32. Like it or not, it is there. To make matters worse, the Official Microsoft spec has bunches of code snippets that it seems a lot of developers never care to rewrite. They even stick to the same variable names/structures that are within the spec. Now I am not saying this constitutes patent infringement, but it gets harder to say you aren't violating someones software patent when you are using the same variable names/structures/code snippets from a spec describing said patented code.
I don't think it is a real issue. How often are you going to be moving a completely different 1TB onto the drive? Right now, especially here on Slashdot, handfuls of us already have 1TB NAS enclosures. They run over USB 2.0 just fine, if only because we don't fill the thing up and/or empty it at every usage... it is a gradual add/delete, just like any other general storage device ever used.
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Then the problem is a technical one, not a logical one. You propose that the idea will never be secure because we currently can't do it that way... that is must be done some other way. Just focus on what you need to actually be doing make it possible, not assume that it can't ever be done and you are stuck with nasty obscurities.
Of course that is the case, but I fear that we are too far gone at this point. After all, when the circumstances are that God isn't playing fair, WHO ARE YOU GOING TELL?
If any of you are travelers, you KNOW how bad it has gotten. Going through security, they scan over your license to see if you have been cutting your cocaine with it. They pass you through a device that blows air all over you to "smell" any drugs on you (smoke a joint before going through. YOU WILL GET SEARCHED). Obviously they tell you these procedures are to find bombs and make sure you are who you say you are. They really just want to push their "War on Drugs" agenda on you and take all of the nice little things you have.
The real issue here is the morality of the fee. Those who are pirates download content worth significantly more than $5. This fee would be no problem to a person who downloads hundreds of songs per month, but a technologically impaired senior who wants to communicate with his children who live in another state/country will also have to pay.
In the early days of the IBM PC it was more-or-less assumed that Digital Research's CP/M-86, based on their successful CP/M for the earlier 8080 and Z80 processors, would be the operating system for the IBM PC. There is a story that IBM executives went to visit the headquarters of Digital Research, only to be told that owner Gary Kildall was flying his plane or otherwise unavailable. IBM then spoke with Bill Gates of the small company Microsoft, who had never written an operating system. Gates found an existing operating system similar to CP/M but different enough not to be an illegal copy, QDOS, and bought it for USD$50,000 from its creators, Seattle Computer Products.
Are you seriously comparing Samba 3.0 to NT4? When was the first Samba 3 release? Toward the end of 2003? And when did NT4 debut? Mid 1996 (these are setup as questions because I am going off partly memory and half a google search)? Hell, the last service pack for NT4 appears to be two years before Samba 3 was ever seen.
Your argument sort of held water in the first half, but the last bit was an obvious spin to help the data conform to your views.
Similarly the argument that it took $30,000 worth of equipment and a 'team of experts' is retarded because the same might probably have been said about DVD encryption till an adolescent did it in his bedroom with his home computer and enough caffeine.
Not only that, but let's say the President of the United States has a pacemaker... $30000 is pittance for someone who wants him dead.
You sound like management. Let us twist the roles around a bit and see if your argument holds any water.
Let's say that instead of cooperate-entity-x, we are talking about construction-company-y. The IT staff is now in-house security. Most of what the company does is demolish old buildings and clear mountain sides for new highways. SURE, the workers (IE users) need to play with explosives. Now, especially in this business, that isn't necessarily a bad thing. What is a bad thing is that they keep bringing all sorts of explosives that no one else necessarily has any experience with... even the person that brought it in. Now, BEST CASE scenario is that no one gets blown up... but what are the chances that SOMETHING at SOME POINT will go off creating massive destruction? Pretty good.
Apparently the "I can't get to wikipedia." sentence confused you. Fortunately, I can remote into my work machine and see it from there, but there seems to be something wrong with my ISP's DNS resolution for wikipedia (yes, OpenDNS, blah blah blah, no there isn't any malware, diggity diggity).
I do believe it was the Diamond Rio PMP300 was first. I remember my order being on hold because of the lawsuit. I can't get to wikipedia. Anyone have insight?
I can't agree with you. If my dog runs away, and I can't find him, and I didn't really like him anyway, meh... who cares. Also, if dog won't quit farting and has a bad cough, for a pittance, I can send that bugger to a wormy grave. Now, imagine doing these with a little girl...
Actually, it is Visual Basic doing the legwork. It got a bad name, but it can call DLL functions just like the rest of em. This solution is unique in that it is actually using Excel function evaluation (Which is VB powered too) to do the calculations.
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Use your brain a little bit. Just because some other device X has all of these features for a price under the iPhone, that has very little to do with the ADDED cost of ADDING these features to the current design. Sure you CAN argue that designing it from the ground up can be cheaper, but tacking these on as an afterthought adds more cost, like it or not.
Think of it like code. You designed your app one way, adding x, y, and z features to a codebase that never anticipated doing such could very well be more expensive than rewriting the code to take these features into account.
Welcome to the real world.
Why the original iphone didn't get all these features I'll never know
Cost. The thing is already $400-$500. Imagine if you added all of those "features"...
Apparently, Joeboo can't either :(
I am not an expert in electricity by no means, but I have a fundamental understanding of it (or so I think). Energy is energy. With no resistance (don't overlook this point), light traveling via laser or via electrons flowing over a wire, the speed would be the same. Now, in reality, there IS resistance... there is always a "friction" or resistance (ohm) when energy is passing over a wire. In a vacuum, a laser will move as fast as energy can possibly travel. At least on paper.
This is like the crazy patent claims Microsoft made against Linux (what was that? 184 alleged patents? More?) Examples would be nice.
I know this is SORT OF off topic, and I am by no means on Microsoft's side in their Patent-War-On-Linux, but I CAN give you an example (albeit stupid):
Microsoft's patent on Long File Names on FAT/FAT32. Like it or not, it is there. To make matters worse, the Official Microsoft spec has bunches of code snippets that it seems a lot of developers never care to rewrite. They even stick to the same variable names/structures that are within the spec. Now I am not saying this constitutes patent infringement, but it gets harder to say you aren't violating someones software patent when you are using the same variable names/structures/code snippets from a spec describing said patented code.
I don't know how you can write, but not read. It turns any USB storage device into NAS.
I didn't think I would have to explain this, here of all places...
http://www.amazon.com/Linksys-Storage-Link-Drives-NSLU2/dp/B0001FSCZO
I don't think it is a real issue. How often are you going to be moving a completely different 1TB onto the drive? Right now, especially here on Slashdot, handfuls of us already have 1TB NAS enclosures. They run over USB 2.0 just fine, if only because we don't fill the thing up and/or empty it at every usage... it is a gradual add/delete, just like any other general storage device ever used.
What do you think is better... PHP and MySQL?
Probably.
Then the problem is a technical one, not a logical one. You propose that the idea will never be secure because we currently can't do it that way... that is must be done some other way. Just focus on what you need to actually be doing make it possible, not assume that it can't ever be done and you are stuck with nasty obscurities.
Not entirely. If the entire (and I mean everything) was encrypted with a unique hash calculated by your print, I think it would work.
Of course that is the case, but I fear that we are too far gone at this point. After all, when the circumstances are that God isn't playing fair, WHO ARE YOU GOING TELL?
If any of you are travelers, you KNOW how bad it has gotten. Going through security, they scan over your license to see if you have been cutting your cocaine with it. They pass you through a device that blows air all over you to "smell" any drugs on you (smoke a joint before going through. YOU WILL GET SEARCHED). Obviously they tell you these procedures are to find bombs and make sure you are who you say you are. They really just want to push their "War on Drugs" agenda on you and take all of the nice little things you have.
The real issue here is the morality of the fee. Those who are pirates download content worth significantly more than $5. This fee would be no problem to a person who downloads hundreds of songs per month, but a technologically impaired senior who wants to communicate with his children who live in another state/country will also have to pay.
So... it's like school tax.
IMPOSTOR! YOU ARE NO GEEK!
Seriously, do you have no idea the story behind MS-DOS? Microsoft sold it to IBM before Microsoft EVEN HAD IT.
To quote Wikipedia:
In the early days of the IBM PC it was more-or-less assumed that Digital Research's CP/M-86, based on their successful CP/M for the earlier 8080 and Z80 processors, would be the operating system for the IBM PC. There is a story that IBM executives went to visit the headquarters of Digital Research, only to be told that owner Gary Kildall was flying his plane or otherwise unavailable. IBM then spoke with Bill Gates of the small company Microsoft, who had never written an operating system. Gates found an existing operating system similar to CP/M but different enough not to be an illegal copy, QDOS, and bought it for USD$50,000 from its creators, Seattle Computer Products.
Are you seriously comparing Samba 3.0 to NT4? When was the first Samba 3 release? Toward the end of 2003? And when did NT4 debut? Mid 1996 (these are setup as questions because I am going off partly memory and half a google search)? Hell, the last service pack for NT4 appears to be two years before Samba 3 was ever seen.
Your argument sort of held water in the first half, but the last bit was an obvious spin to help the data conform to your views.
Similarly the argument that it took $30,000 worth of equipment and a 'team of experts' is retarded because the same might probably have been said about DVD encryption till an adolescent did it in his bedroom with his home computer and enough caffeine.
Not only that, but let's say the President of the United States has a pacemaker... $30000 is pittance for someone who wants him dead.
You sound like management. Let us twist the roles around a bit and see if your argument holds any water.
Let's say that instead of cooperate-entity-x, we are talking about construction-company-y. The IT staff is now in-house security. Most of what the company does is demolish old buildings and clear mountain sides for new highways. SURE, the workers (IE users) need to play with explosives. Now, especially in this business, that isn't necessarily a bad thing. What is a bad thing is that they keep bringing all sorts of explosives that no one else necessarily has any experience with... even the person that brought it in. Now, BEST CASE scenario is that no one gets blown up... but what are the chances that SOMETHING at SOME POINT will go off creating massive destruction? Pretty good.
Hey man. I have never drank water and I AM DEAD, you insensitive clod!
wait...
Apparently the "I can't get to wikipedia." sentence confused you. Fortunately, I can remote into my work machine and see it from there, but there seems to be something wrong with my ISP's DNS resolution for wikipedia (yes, OpenDNS, blah blah blah, no there isn't any malware, diggity diggity).
I do believe it was the Diamond Rio PMP300 was first. I remember my order being on hold because of the lawsuit. I can't get to wikipedia. Anyone have insight?
I can't agree with you. If my dog runs away, and I can't find him, and I didn't really like him anyway, meh... who cares. Also, if dog won't quit farting and has a bad cough, for a pittance, I can send that bugger to a wormy grave. Now, imagine doing these with a little girl...
Who pays $60 for a DVD player when you can get one for $30?
It also doesn't help that Silverlight is BARELY just making it onto peoples machines and they are already releasing betas of Silverlight 2.0
You can't expect people to jump onboard if your product is a moving target. No one wants to be left in the dust.
Or FORTRAN.NET Ultimate Enterprise Team Edition
Actually, it is Visual Basic doing the legwork. It got a bad name, but it can call DLL functions just like the rest of em. This solution is unique in that it is actually using Excel function evaluation (Which is VB powered too) to do the calculations.