No, that's the problem. The box ISN'T different. The box, the packaging, the cable, the power supply ALL look quite similar. The entirety of the package sold to the consumer looks too close to the iPad (according to Apple). It's not just the stupid rounded rectangle.
Because it's a glaring missed opportunity in iOS devices. I don't want to mix my personal and work contacts/calendars/email, but in iOS there is little separating them. Give me a work profile and a personal profile. At least good old Nokia/Symbian was smart enough to have this 5-6 years ago starting with their first generation smartphones, although the data is not partitioned or encrypted. But at least it was easy to keep work stuff separate from personal stuff on the smartphone. Why Apple continues to be blind to this I'll never understand.
At Apple, work is play. Play is work. There is no difference.
Besides doing it that way is complicated. And Lord, we don't need complicated.
His views on economics are painfully wrong, though.
I think you can make an argument that all views about economics are wrong. I've yet to see any economic 'theory' make any wholesale sense. I've tried numerous times to read various economic books but after the first couple of chapters my brain feels like it got slapped around in a logic blender and my eyes defocus and my head asplodes.
That's because iCloud is a superset of MobileMe. MobileMe is being phased out.
And here is what REALLY frosts me about Apple. You are correct - but Apple is saying fuck all about exactly how this works or doesn't. Yes, you need iOS 5 to run iCloud (stupid, but their call). Will Apple say anything specific about whether or not you can use MobileMe (which, after all, is supported for another year) on iOS 5 and if so, exactly what are the issues (if any). They do this ALL OF THE TIME. Really weak answers to anything substantive. It's as if, for everyone other than the developers at Apple, if it doesn't 'Just Work' they get all confused and tell you to delete something and reboot (sounds vaguely familiar somehow). Or they just stare at you over the phone in wonderment.
Wandering through the angst and tears of lost souls on the various forums, if Apple has actually mentioned this, it sure is well hidden. I think Apple pistol whipped themselves (again) with the rollout. No significant support. Not enough capacity. Lame.
Well, actually working would be a start. Apple has a fairly undistinguished history at "cloud" stuff. And, from the wailing and whining throughout the forums today, they are 0 for 3 (iTools, MobileMe, iCloud). Maybe a couple of close foul balls, but they're not going to win this game the way they are going.
OT - anybody know if MobileMe actually WORKS on an iOS 5 device? Looks like a short popup into the third base seats.
I don't understand why we don't just build pyramids, but with radioactive waste instead of dead pharaohs. They've proven that they can last for 4500 years and counting. You can build them almost wherever you want (subject to only to fault lines, nearby human populations, and proximity to radioactive waste generation).
That's not a bad idea. Lots of jobs. Above ground so we can see it. Use part of the high level waste to make an RTG, use the electricity to power giant billboards and use the billboard rental fee to pay off the whole thing.
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Obama's looking worse and worse with every day that passes.
What would Romney do?
Really, while I am profoundly disappointed in Obama's tenure, I doubt a Republican president would have done anything different. Even Ron Paul would do the same.
" scientific evidence to argue both for and against a nuclear waste repository there " false. The evidence shows it's reasonably safe. The opposition keeps making up strawmen to make it seem like the data was gather incorrectly.
You just agreed with demonbug. "Reasonable" is a word that can be used to push both sides of the argument. Reasonably safe also means reasonably unsafe - it depends on your acceptance of risk.
The exact arguments can be made for most medical procedures, especially screening tests, like the current controversy surrounding prostate and breast cancer screening. In fact, if you took demonbug's paragraph, substituted PSA, prostate cancer and urologists in the appropriate places, you would have a pretty good explanation of the current controversy.
It might have a shiny button on top, but underneath it all are still ASCII text files, steeped in the panicked cold sweat of a million UNIX hackers looking for a quick fix.
Which is the power and the failing of things like Time Machine. When it fails for a computer illiterate person, it can fail hard (just look at the Apple support forums). Often the fix is pretty simple, edit a preference file, rebuild an index. Of course, if my mom understood 'edit a preference file' she wouldn't need Time Machine, she could just use rsync.
What I'm annoyed with is that Apple really hasn't gone the extra distance to make the thing *really* bullet proof. The system should be able to restore itself to some useful state without dropping into terminal or resetting the drive.
It should be treated as marine salvage. I'm no expert at marine salvage law, so I don't know what that entails, but the fact that it took place on the moon should make no difference.
You don't see a difference between the surface of the moon and the surface of earth's ocean?
You think they weighed the rocks? They had a pretty good idea of how much material they could lift / throw away. The astronauts had a pretty idea of those limitations seeing as they were involved with the mission and it's various arcana for years. Mitchell knew he would get away with it. He wasn't going to jeopardize the mission.
Mitchell was a funny guy, not the typical astronaut (if there really was a 'typical' astronaut). He was big into paranormal stuff / UFOs. This sort of thing is pretty much in character for him.
And the previous posts about Deke Slayton knowing all about every little bit that got brought back on the Apollo trips isn't quite correct. Yes, astronauts were typically diligent about declaring patches / mementos and such. No, they weren't good at being very thorough in their listing. A bunch of little stuff went up and back and is off the books. Problem is that it's hard to prove provenance if someone just tells you "it went to the moon". The big advantage that the listed stuff had was somebody at NASA actually thought it went to the moon and wrote it down somewhere. Basically a bit of bragging rights, not much else.
Generally I don't support HP, tho I was very impressed with the Green packaging a friends new printer came with.. no plastic wrappers, instead it all was packaged in a re-usable shopping totebag and accessory pouch.
The design of which they probably outsourced to some 'green' marketing company. Nothing wrong with it - but it's hardly why we held HP in such esteem.
Like that electric toy robot they found in some street, I forget the details but the police were called because some kid left his toy robot in the street and they got the bomb squad out there to detonate it.
This idea basically says Uncle Sam doesn't have any folks trolling the dark side of the Internet yet, where folks from all over freely share all sorts of amazing shit. They still don't get it. The dark side is where a lot of really interesting data warehouse technologies come from, years later. Most of these geeks aren't into it to do crime - it's just where the algorithm action is.
Not sure how you can come to that conclusion. If the US three letter agencies have a presence in the "dark side" of the Internet, it's not as if they're going to post it on 4Chan. Sometimes you let people get away with things in order not to compromise sources.
From the standpoint of a mere mortal, a dumb poster on Slashdot, we'll never know.
Nope. The various tribes have been after each other for some 6000 years. One of the earliest archeological sites in Israel is the fortress at Jericho, about 5800 years old IIRC. If it's not the Palestinians and the Israelis, it's the Hebrews and somebody else or somebody else entirely. The region is a fascinating study on mankind's inability to get along with itself.
When nuclear weapons were new, each branch of the military tried to become the 'nuclear' arm by introducing new weapons systems and trying to impress politicos with how they should be the ones with the budget and prestige. We don't need multiple branches of cybersecurity forces, we need one branch that can handle it all. Time to dump the military romanticism of the 18th century that divides our military into earth/water/air/fire/heart and reorg. Hell, maybe we even need another side to the Pentagon for cyberwarfare.
Perhaps not. If you have ONE system that gets compromised and the whole shooting match is compromised. This way, the system is so screwed up that it takes years to figure out who's on first.
They are most certainly not teaching about a 'demon possessed Steve Jobs". If you would bother to read the voluminous eulogies on Mr. Jobs, you would see that he is about to be Sainted.
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No, that's the problem. The box ISN'T different. The box, the packaging, the cable, the power supply ALL look quite similar. The entirety of the package sold to the consumer looks too close to the iPad (according to Apple). It's not just the stupid rounded rectangle.
Just goes to show, no good dead goes unpunished.
Zombie joke?
Ah Mr. Koch. Glad to see you've joined the Slashdot community. Are you David or Charles?
Because it's a glaring missed opportunity in iOS devices. I don't want to mix my personal and work contacts/calendars/email, but in iOS there is little separating them. Give me a work profile and a personal profile. At least good old Nokia/Symbian was smart enough to have this 5-6 years ago starting with their first generation smartphones, although the data is not partitioned or encrypted. But at least it was easy to keep work stuff separate from personal stuff on the smartphone. Why Apple continues to be blind to this I'll never understand.
At Apple, work is play. Play is work. There is no difference.
Besides doing it that way is complicated. And Lord, we don't need complicated.
Although, thinking about it a bit further, a bunch of drones in the air and the aforesaid flight of politicians are pretty similar concepts.
Carry on!
A "feet of drones" is the proper collective noun only when they're on the ground. In the air they're known as a "bungle".
Prior Art!
A 'bungle' is a large group of politicians in flight from reality.
You will see Cain in 2012.
Then there will be Hell to pay.
His views on economics are painfully wrong, though.
I think you can make an argument that all views about economics are wrong. I've yet to see any economic 'theory' make any wholesale sense. I've tried numerous times to read various economic books but after the first couple of chapters my brain feels like it got slapped around in a logic blender and my eyes defocus and my head asplodes.
Thanks again...
Thank you. Could you explain 'mica functionalized' a bit? Hooked to something? Google wasn't particularly useful.
(This is why I deal with the noise on Slashdot. Sometimes the signal gets through).
That's because iCloud is a superset of MobileMe. MobileMe is being phased out.
And here is what REALLY frosts me about Apple. You are correct - but Apple is saying fuck all about exactly how this works or doesn't. Yes, you need iOS 5 to run iCloud (stupid, but their call). Will Apple say anything specific about whether or not you can use MobileMe (which, after all, is supported for another year) on iOS 5 and if so, exactly what are the issues (if any). They do this ALL OF THE TIME. Really weak answers to anything substantive. It's as if, for everyone other than the developers at Apple, if it doesn't 'Just Work' they get all confused and tell you to delete something and reboot (sounds vaguely familiar somehow). Or they just stare at you over the phone in wonderment.
Wandering through the angst and tears of lost souls on the various forums, if Apple has actually mentioned this, it sure is well hidden. I think Apple pistol whipped themselves (again) with the rollout. No significant support. Not enough capacity. Lame.
Wow. Tough crowd. What does it take to whelm you?
Well, actually working would be a start. Apple has a fairly undistinguished history at "cloud" stuff. And, from the wailing and whining throughout the forums today, they are 0 for 3 (iTools, MobileMe, iCloud). Maybe a couple of close foul balls, but they're not going to win this game the way they are going.
OT - anybody know if MobileMe actually WORKS on an iOS 5 device? Looks like a short popup into the third base seats.
I don't understand why we don't just build pyramids, but with radioactive waste instead of dead pharaohs. They've proven that they can last for 4500 years and counting. You can build them almost wherever you want (subject to only to fault lines, nearby human populations, and proximity to radioactive waste generation).
That's not a bad idea. Lots of jobs. Above ground so we can see it. Use part of the high level waste to make an RTG, use the electricity to power giant billboards and use the billboard rental fee to pay off the whole thing.
Your ideas intrigue me and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Obama's looking worse and worse with every day that passes.
What would Romney do?
Really, while I am profoundly disappointed in Obama's tenure, I doubt a Republican president would have done anything different. Even Ron Paul would do the same.
" scientific evidence to argue both for and against a nuclear waste repository there "
false. The evidence shows it's reasonably safe. The opposition keeps making up strawmen to make it seem like the data was gather incorrectly.
You just agreed with demonbug. "Reasonable" is a word that can be used to push both sides of the argument. Reasonably safe also means reasonably unsafe - it depends on your acceptance of risk.
The exact arguments can be made for most medical procedures, especially screening tests, like the current controversy surrounding prostate and breast cancer screening. In fact, if you took demonbug's paragraph, substituted PSA, prostate cancer and urologists in the appropriate places, you would have a pretty good explanation of the current controversy.
It might have a shiny button on top, but underneath it all are still ASCII text files, steeped in the panicked cold sweat of a million UNIX hackers looking for a quick fix.
Which is the power and the failing of things like Time Machine. When it fails for a computer illiterate person, it can fail hard (just look at the Apple support forums). Often the fix is pretty simple, edit a preference file, rebuild an index. Of course, if my mom understood 'edit a preference file' she wouldn't need Time Machine, she could just use rsync.
What I'm annoyed with is that Apple really hasn't gone the extra distance to make the thing *really* bullet proof. The system should be able to restore itself to some useful state without dropping into terminal or resetting the drive.
It should be treated as marine salvage. I'm no expert at marine salvage law, so I don't know what that entails, but the fact that it took place on the moon should make no difference.
You don't see a difference between the surface of the moon and the surface of earth's ocean?
You're in management, right?
You think they weighed the rocks? They had a pretty good idea of how much material they could lift / throw away. The astronauts had a pretty idea of those limitations seeing as they were involved with the mission and it's various arcana for years. Mitchell knew he would get away with it. He wasn't going to jeopardize the mission.
Mitchell was a funny guy, not the typical astronaut (if there really was a 'typical' astronaut). He was big into paranormal stuff / UFOs. This sort of thing is pretty much in character for him.
And the previous posts about Deke Slayton knowing all about every little bit that got brought back on the Apollo trips isn't quite correct. Yes, astronauts were typically diligent about declaring patches / mementos and such. No, they weren't good at being very thorough in their listing. A bunch of little stuff went up and back and is off the books. Problem is that it's hard to prove provenance if someone just tells you "it went to the moon". The big advantage that the listed stuff had was somebody at NASA actually thought it went to the moon and wrote it down somewhere. Basically a bit of bragging rights, not much else.
THIS, is the start of the Zombie Apocalypse!!!!
No, they were just up on the appropriate instructional videos. This is NASA.
Generally I don't support HP, tho I was very impressed with the Green packaging a friends new printer came with.. no plastic wrappers, instead it all was packaged in a re-usable shopping totebag and accessory pouch.
The design of which they probably outsourced to some 'green' marketing company. Nothing wrong with it - but it's hardly why we held HP in such esteem.
Like that electric toy robot they found in some street, I forget the details but the police were called because some kid left his toy robot in the street and they got the bomb squad out there to detonate it.
This one? Priceless.
This idea basically says Uncle Sam doesn't have any folks trolling the dark side of the Internet yet, where folks from all over freely share all sorts of amazing shit. They still don't get it. The dark side is where a lot of really interesting data warehouse technologies come from, years later. Most of these geeks aren't into it to do crime - it's just where the algorithm action is.
Not sure how you can come to that conclusion. If the US three letter agencies have a presence in the "dark side" of the Internet, it's not as if they're going to post it on 4Chan. Sometimes you let people get away with things in order not to compromise sources.
From the standpoint of a mere mortal, a dumb poster on Slashdot, we'll never know.
>Six thousand years of conflict
You mean 60: 60-years of conflict.
Nope. The various tribes have been after each other for some 6000 years. One of the earliest archeological sites in Israel is the fortress at Jericho, about 5800 years old IIRC. If it's not the Palestinians and the Israelis, it's the Hebrews and somebody else or somebody else entirely. The region is a fascinating study on mankind's inability to get along with itself.
When nuclear weapons were new, each branch of the military tried to become the 'nuclear' arm by introducing new weapons systems and trying to impress politicos with how they should be the ones with the budget and prestige. We don't need multiple branches of cybersecurity forces, we need one branch that can handle it all. Time to dump the military romanticism of the 18th century that divides our military into earth/water/air/fire/heart and reorg. Hell, maybe we even need another side to the Pentagon for cyberwarfare.
Perhaps not. If you have ONE system that gets compromised and the whole shooting match is compromised. This way, the system is so screwed up that it takes years to figure out who's on first.
They are most certainly not teaching about a 'demon possessed Steve Jobs". If you would bother to read the voluminous eulogies on Mr. Jobs, you would see that he is about to be Sainted.
Fair and Unbalanced!