Sure the N70 gets comparable talk time at twice the thickness to the iphone. I used to have an N70, the battery in it is huge in comparison to what is in the iPhone.
You may not agree with the reasons given and believe it is for marketing reasons, but this means you think Mr. Jobs is directly and purposefully trying to deceive the buying public when he said they were waiting for more efficient 3g chipsets. Why would he lie about such a thing if it were so easily disproved? He would risk his entire "believability capital" on such a silly thing? This is highly unlikely as it is such a trivial thing for one to risk their reputation on, yet your "feeling" over rides any attempt at being logical about the real reason.
BTW there have been a few new 3g chipsets "released" recently that are much more power efficient, hence the newest rumours of a 3g iphone coming soon. There wasn't really a push to lower power requirements in 3g chipsets until Apple made a stink about it, notice how they stayed pretty close in power requirements over the previous three years until this event.
I know it's funny to pick, but Huntsville is a very different city than the rest of the state, because of the ties to aerospace and the military. One must also remember that after WW2 Alabama was considered a safe place to tuck away the former Nazi rocket scientists because of the local "social climate".
'It's also impossible for the true damages to be calculated, according to the brief, because it's unknown how many other users accessed the files in the KaZaA share in question and committed further acts of copyright infringement.'"
Given that the fair market value of a song has been established at $.99 it sure seems like the DoJ is making a directly contradictory statement. They are saying that even though it is impossible for one to know how many accesses there were it's okay to go ahead and assume that number was over nine thousand. Didn't know the DoJ should be out there supporting assumptions... oh well.
How many of the true slashdot long term readers, posters and contributors have had his experiences? While he may never have such artful tales to tell like the one time where Bill Joy asked me what my favourite text editor was (without me knowing who he was, thank goodness for knowing emacs was shit even back then) he has many tales that involve that whole scary black box of hollywood and the sycophants involved. More importantly he can spin a good tale about being a modern day grown up geek in America with kids. Where's the harm in enjoying that?
Slashdot is as much about being a place for geeks as it is about rehashing the geeky news on a daily basis. Here's to you Goatboy (from Y irc circa 92? 93?) for continuing to be who you are even with far too many people watching and caring.
staffers from Hewlett-Packard Co. conducting a review of the center's HP AlphaServer system running on Virtual Memory System and testing its performance.
The theory of e-ink is that you want something that lasts for endless hours so that you don't have to recharge it. In return, you'll be willing to accept page turning delays, type lagging, strange user interfaces, no backlighting, and a monochrome display.
Well you are leaving out the other major selling point of E-Ink it looks fabulous. The resolution and dot pitch of E-Ink displays were simply amazing compared to anything else just two years ago. Unfortunately for the backers conventional displays have really upped their pixel density greatly. E-Ink still looks better, *far* better than mid range small LCDs but they won't for much longer. E-Ink has always had a huge disadvantage, much like HDTV, that it has to be seen in person to understand the real difference.
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On Amazon's side I get it. Locked in customers, paying a premium for a device they are already eating the entire hardware cost on. The Kindle is a pure Nintendo play (which is great for a business). Profit on hardware, profit on software, even profit on content the user already owns.
On the consumer side though, what is the compelling sell through? E-Ink? Perhaps except the Libre has grown up and is now in generation three on US/Japanese shores and Sony actually finally learned from their mistakes and made putting user generated/owned content on the device an easy process. The Kindle doesn't even compare well with the more expensive offerings as they are all colour and offer full PDF viewing.
How did this thing get to market? The hardware is silly it is so outdated with regards to style. The software is crippled from the go. Believe it or not heavy users of books *are* price conscious. They will not appreciate being taken for a ride. This whole package reads like some silly dot.com plan and given that Amazon says they have spent three years on it, shows how much they just don't get it. This thing has sat insulated inside Amazon as some hidden away project without regards to the changing market. The Kindle would have been *great* three years okay... questionable at this time last year, but now? Hubris.
I do look forward to picking one up next year though for $80 with some reverse engineered software though.
20% of gamers migrate to a new and more demanding OS in less than one year and this is supposed to be bad news for Vista?
Well yes, considering PC gamers are early adopters and spend far more on software/hardware than any other part of the consumer PC segment; It's not a very high rate of conversation.
Pragmatism is what you might be suffering a case of.:)
After being in any industry long enough you develop a tough skin for things that go wrong and learn to plan accordingly. More importantly this body of experience allows you to not be stressed when the shit hits the fan, you've conquered worse messes than this in the past. Most pessimists who act out aren't showing the world their negative attitude, they are showing their fear at being unable or unprepared to handle a situation.
"Children today are lazy, lack respect and have no faith" - Rough translation of Mesopotamian saying.
What really goads me lately is this massive latching on by the current mainstream press that Work/Life balance is some evil concept. It's as though striving to have a life outside your work simply isn't tolerable. Don't these tools who feed this party line when writing the articles want a life as well?
We are entering a time of extreme excess for the bulk of humanity in 1st world nations, it's okay if we all want to slow down some and enjoy this new world we have. Frankly if we all really worked as hard as people did thirty or fourty years ago we'd either run out of work or resources quickly. This is why we need to continue to push an information economy because its central resource is people something we still have plenty of (for now).
I'm amazed when talking to people on the East Coast and they mock West Coast things like Work/Life balance with derision and a wave of the hand. Unless you *really* enjoy your job above all else, what's wrong with wanting it to have less importance in your life? For most of us, work, is a means to an end. This is your only life, enjoy it! Take a vacation! Get drunk/high! Have sex! Do whatever makes you happy as long as it doesn't directly impede the joy of others.
I doubt they have thought that far ahead. Given Microsoft's practices in things like this, they saw an easy, "legal", way to push forward a vote to benefit themselves. Whoever was tasked at Microsoft on making this vote worked exerted much effort to make sure these new members voted on this one issue. The paper stuffers probably were completely ignorant of what they were signing up for other than towing a line maybe with the promise of deep discounts or a "great licensing" deal waiting the in the wings.
Microsoft has demonstrated repeatedly they lack foresight, which says a lot about how crappy the rest of the computing industry is, given their complete dominance of it.
In this case the desktop version is pretty much the ultimate version. The server version of OSX is and has always been much more like the difference between Win2KWS and Win2kServer. Server comes with a bunch of utilities, features and a gui configurator that even power desktop users wouldn't need. They could in theory just sell only OSX and then a Server Utility Pack as a seperate product and it would be the same thing.
This is just bad interview technique. When I first started having to interview people with no guidelines this is the same sort of drivel I'd push. Everyone else was doing it this way so it seemed right. However having been through many more interviews now on both sides it's easily apparent how bad that earlier process was. An interview these days is as much making sure the person will fit in as it is measuring their skill set. It's no good if you are amazingly talented and a perfect fit for the role if your presence there will drag down the work of your four co-workers. Google is notorious for trying to get people of a certain fitness, if it works for them, yay! Be thankful that you were able to get out during the interview process.
Anyone giving interviews: Ask the person to solve problems unrelated to their field. Put them in moch situations, how do they cope? Joke, share a story, do they open up? Relate a negative aspect if your current work environment and see how they react to it. Non-manual labor can require extensive employee collaboration, make sure everything clicks.
Having deployed NavTeq products before on extremely high traffic websites I feel safe in saying they are shit.
Because of NDAs and such I don't feel too comfortable outlining faults in detail, but to get an idea how much they just don't get it, ask them about building a high availability cluster and marvel at the design they suggest (as it is the only one their server products support; here's a hint it isn't HA). They are well behind everyone, including Microsoft on the product side of this. Their data is the only value they have.
Anyone who has used any of their products can tell you that without the mapping data, they are absolute crap. Their server platforms are all garbage lagging badly behind everyone else in the industry with no hopes of every catching up. However, while their data side is quite solid it's not a position one can live on forever. Road/Map data doesn't change that often and it is possible for anyone else to recreate it given the time and resources. If I was sitting up high at NavTeq I'd be patting myself on the back for this deal.
Nokia continues to show they have no idea about how or what to acquire.
In most of these patents for such "click" actions you will notice it is the actually click itself which is the trigger. Obviously it is the ACT of the contact, the click, which is the mechanical nature of this patent. Therefore any system which wants to get around such a click system would only come into motion, when the finger is removed from the mouse button. We are no longer keying the mechanical action off the click, but rather the abscense of contact. Since the patent system has a lower threshold for innovative mechanical interactions we should all be good to go.
By all means rip open your iPhone and make any modifications to the hardware you want.
Car anologies never work and the failure your in yours is you forget to take into account any modern car has a computer and until someone reverse engineers the protection applied many upgrades you "have a right to install" won't work, or work effectively. Apple doesn't have some mystical way to fix your experience. If your phone is hacked and the way you want it, don't install their updates.
Anyone who thinks they will patch a phone to relock a SIM/phone to a specific carrier is living in a fantasy land, this is Apple, the sue happy monkeys of the computer world. Their legal team would kill this idea before it made it out of the first draft meeting.
You guys are tilting way too hard at those windmills.
The iPhone is basically a useless device out of the box.... really? REALLY? It doesn't do exactly what it says it will out of the box?
My iphone is loaded down with apps and I won't install any updates that remove this ability, but the phone as purchased did *everything* it said it would and was far from "useless out of the box." That kind of hyperbole only serves to invalidate any good points you may have.
Mr. Jobs, can you tell us why it's your job to do that? You sell hardware. We are the customer.
People often get this wrong on Apple, like them or not, they don't sell hardware... or really software (much). Apple sells you a solution, an experience, a total package. Their focus and developments are all based on expected hardware and software components being in a certain order or place to ensure they can provide a specific experience to the end user.
In this case the contracts with the carriers probably have explicit clauses saying they will fight to combat unlocks in the same way they fix their aac every quarter or so to try and appease the music companies.
Last year I setup a dual box zimbra system to replace some rather high traffic imap servers that served ~1200 users with 550+ concurrent during periods of heavy load, with a *lot* of incoming and outgoing mail peppered full of attachments. I was pretty skeptical at first about how the system would hold up, but not only was it solid, in many ways it was much faster than the previous system, especially with the mailboxes that were huge in size.
Solid backups, good inegration with third party software, easy extension and a solid upgrade in place system makes for a great product. It didn't hurt that their techs were responsive and actually knew about all the software (much of it OSS) that their product was based on. I'm suprised that is Yahoo though, figured it would be Apple to turn into their enterprise mail platform.
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Sure the N70 gets comparable talk time at twice the thickness to the iphone. I used to have an N70, the battery in it is huge in comparison to what is in the iPhone.
You may not agree with the reasons given and believe it is for marketing reasons, but this means you think Mr. Jobs is directly and purposefully trying to deceive the buying public when he said they were waiting for more efficient 3g chipsets. Why would he lie about such a thing if it were so easily disproved? He would risk his entire "believability capital" on such a silly thing? This is highly unlikely as it is such a trivial thing for one to risk their reputation on, yet your "feeling" over rides any attempt at being logical about the real reason.
BTW there have been a few new 3g chipsets "released" recently that are much more power efficient, hence the newest rumours of a 3g iphone coming soon. There wasn't really a push to lower power requirements in 3g chipsets until Apple made a stink about it, notice how they stayed pretty close in power requirements over the previous three years until this event.
I know it's funny to pick, but Huntsville is a very different city than the rest of the state, because of the ties to aerospace and the military. One must also remember that after WW2 Alabama was considered a safe place to tuck away the former Nazi rocket scientists because of the local "social climate".
'It's also impossible for the true damages to be calculated, according to the brief, because it's unknown how many other users accessed the files in the KaZaA share in question and committed further acts of copyright infringement.'"
Given that the fair market value of a song has been established at $.99 it sure seems like the DoJ is making a directly contradictory statement. They are saying that even though it is impossible for one to know how many accesses there were it's okay to go ahead and assume that number was over nine thousand. Didn't know the DoJ should be out there supporting assumptions... oh well.
I don't know, because he is one of us?
How many of the true slashdot long term readers, posters and contributors have had his experiences? While he may never have such artful tales to tell like the one time where Bill Joy asked me what my favourite text editor was (without me knowing who he was, thank goodness for knowing emacs was shit even back then) he has many tales that involve that whole scary black box of hollywood and the sycophants involved. More importantly he can spin a good tale about being a modern day grown up geek in America with kids. Where's the harm in enjoying that?
Slashdot is as much about being a place for geeks as it is about rehashing the geeky news on a daily basis. Here's to you Goatboy (from Y irc circa 92? 93?) for continuing to be who you are even with far too many people watching and caring.
staffers from Hewlett-Packard Co. conducting a review of the center's HP AlphaServer system running on Virtual Memory System and testing its performance.
We hardly knew ye.
The theory of e-ink is that you want something that lasts for endless hours so that you don't have to recharge it. In return, you'll be willing to accept page turning delays, type lagging, strange user interfaces, no backlighting, and a monochrome display.
Well you are leaving out the other major selling point of E-Ink it looks fabulous. The resolution and dot pitch of E-Ink displays were simply amazing compared to anything else just two years ago. Unfortunately for the backers conventional displays have really upped their pixel density greatly. E-Ink still looks better, *far* better than mid range small LCDs but they won't for much longer. E-Ink has always had a huge disadvantage, much like HDTV, that it has to be seen in person to understand the real difference.
... consumer.
On Amazon's side I get it. Locked in customers, paying a premium for a device they are already eating the entire hardware cost on. The Kindle is a pure Nintendo play (which is great for a business). Profit on hardware, profit on software, even profit on content the user already owns.
On the consumer side though, what is the compelling sell through? E-Ink? Perhaps except the Libre has grown up and is now in generation three on US/Japanese shores and Sony actually finally learned from their mistakes and made putting user generated/owned content on the device an easy process. The Kindle doesn't even compare well with the more expensive offerings as they are all colour and offer full PDF viewing.
How did this thing get to market? The hardware is silly it is so outdated with regards to style. The software is crippled from the go. Believe it or not heavy users of books *are* price conscious. They will not appreciate being taken for a ride. This whole package reads like some silly dot.com plan and given that Amazon says they have spent three years on it, shows how much they just don't get it. This thing has sat insulated inside Amazon as some hidden away project without regards to the changing market. The Kindle would have been *great* three years okay... questionable at this time last year, but now? Hubris.
I do look forward to picking one up next year though for $80 with some reverse engineered software though.
20% of gamers migrate to a new and more demanding OS in less than one year and this is supposed to be bad news for Vista?
Well yes, considering PC gamers are early adopters and spend far more on software/hardware than any other part of the consumer PC segment; It's not a very high rate of conversation.
You have to actually work hard in this game.
Reread your own statement multiple times if you don't see the fault in it.
Working hard *at* a game is one thing, working hard *in* one is completely different.
Wow this post is amazingly insightful, in a technological way and makes me think you must spend a lot of time on the philosophies of writing!
Pragmatism is what you might be suffering a case of. :)
After being in any industry long enough you develop a tough skin for things that go wrong and learn to plan accordingly. More importantly this body of experience allows you to not be stressed when the shit hits the fan, you've conquered worse messes than this in the past. Most pessimists who act out aren't showing the world their negative attitude, they are showing their fear at being unable or unprepared to handle a situation.
"Children today are lazy, lack respect and have no faith" - Rough translation of Mesopotamian saying.
What really goads me lately is this massive latching on by the current mainstream press that Work/Life balance is some evil concept. It's as though striving to have a life outside your work simply isn't tolerable. Don't these tools who feed this party line when writing the articles want a life as well?
We are entering a time of extreme excess for the bulk of humanity in 1st world nations, it's okay if we all want to slow down some and enjoy this new world we have. Frankly if we all really worked as hard as people did thirty or fourty years ago we'd either run out of work or resources quickly. This is why we need to continue to push an information economy because its central resource is people something we still have plenty of (for now).
I'm amazed when talking to people on the East Coast and they mock West Coast things like Work/Life balance with derision and a wave of the hand. Unless you *really* enjoy your job above all else, what's wrong with wanting it to have less importance in your life? For most of us, work, is a means to an end. This is your only life, enjoy it! Take a vacation! Get drunk/high! Have sex! Do whatever makes you happy as long as it doesn't directly impede the joy of others.
They were most definitely "towing" something here.
I doubt they have thought that far ahead. Given Microsoft's practices in things like this, they saw an easy, "legal", way to push forward a vote to benefit themselves. Whoever was tasked at Microsoft on making this vote worked exerted much effort to make sure these new members voted on this one issue. The paper stuffers probably were completely ignorant of what they were signing up for other than towing a line maybe with the promise of deep discounts or a "great licensing" deal waiting the in the wings.
Microsoft has demonstrated repeatedly they lack foresight, which says a lot about how crappy the rest of the computing industry is, given their complete dominance of it.
In this case the desktop version is pretty much the ultimate version. The server version of OSX is and has always been much more like the difference between Win2KWS and Win2kServer. Server comes with a bunch of utilities, features and a gui configurator that even power desktop users wouldn't need. They could in theory just sell only OSX and then a Server Utility Pack as a seperate product and it would be the same thing.
As long as we are flaunting silly numbers that mean nothing, how about old internic handles?
cf21 here, last time they mattered they were up in the tens of thousands.
This isn't age discrimination.
This is just bad interview technique. When I first started having to interview people with no guidelines this is the same sort of drivel I'd push. Everyone else was doing it this way so it seemed right. However having been through many more interviews now on both sides it's easily apparent how bad that earlier process was. An interview these days is as much making sure the person will fit in as it is measuring their skill set. It's no good if you are amazingly talented and a perfect fit for the role if your presence there will drag down the work of your four co-workers. Google is notorious for trying to get people of a certain fitness, if it works for them, yay! Be thankful that you were able to get out during the interview process.
Anyone giving interviews: Ask the person to solve problems unrelated to their field. Put them in moch situations, how do they cope? Joke, share a story, do they open up? Relate a negative aspect if your current work environment and see how they react to it. Non-manual labor can require extensive employee collaboration, make sure everything clicks.
Having deployed NavTeq products before on extremely high traffic websites I feel safe in saying they are shit.
Because of NDAs and such I don't feel too comfortable outlining faults in detail, but to get an idea how much they just don't get it, ask them about building a high availability cluster and marvel at the design they suggest (as it is the only one their server products support; here's a hint it isn't HA). They are well behind everyone, including Microsoft on the product side of this. Their data is the only value they have.
Anyone who has used any of their products can tell you that without the mapping data, they are absolute crap. Their server platforms are all garbage lagging badly behind everyone else in the industry with no hopes of every catching up. However, while their data side is quite solid it's not a position one can live on forever. Road/Map data doesn't change that often and it is possible for anyone else to recreate it given the time and resources. If I was sitting up high at NavTeq I'd be patting myself on the back for this deal.
Nokia continues to show they have no idea about how or what to acquire.
In most of these patents for such "click" actions you will notice it is the actually click itself which is the trigger. Obviously it is the ACT of the contact, the click, which is the mechanical nature of this patent. Therefore any system which wants to get around such a click system would only come into motion, when the finger is removed from the mouse button. We are no longer keying the mechanical action off the click, but rather the abscense of contact. Since the patent system has a lower threshold for innovative mechanical interactions we should all be good to go.
By all means rip open your iPhone and make any modifications to the hardware you want.
Car anologies never work and the failure your in yours is you forget to take into account any modern car has a computer and until someone reverse engineers the protection applied many upgrades you "have a right to install" won't work, or work effectively. Apple doesn't have some mystical way to fix your experience. If your phone is hacked and the way you want it, don't install their updates.
Anyone who thinks they will patch a phone to relock a SIM/phone to a specific carrier is living in a fantasy land, this is Apple, the sue happy monkeys of the computer world. Their legal team would kill this idea before it made it out of the first draft meeting.
You guys are tilting way too hard at those windmills.
The iPhone is basically a useless device out of the box. ... really? REALLY? It doesn't do exactly what it says it will out of the box?
My iphone is loaded down with apps and I won't install any updates that remove this ability, but the phone as purchased did *everything* it said it would and was far from "useless out of the box." That kind of hyperbole only serves to invalidate any good points you may have.
Mr. Jobs, can you tell us why it's your job to do that? You sell hardware. We are the customer.
People often get this wrong on Apple, like them or not, they don't sell hardware... or really software (much). Apple sells you a solution, an experience, a total package. Their focus and developments are all based on expected hardware and software components being in a certain order or place to ensure they can provide a specific experience to the end user.
In this case the contracts with the carriers probably have explicit clauses saying they will fight to combat unlocks in the same way they fix their aac every quarter or so to try and appease the music companies.
Last year I setup a dual box zimbra system to replace some rather high traffic imap servers that served ~1200 users with 550+ concurrent during periods of heavy load, with a *lot* of incoming and outgoing mail peppered full of attachments. I was pretty skeptical at first about how the system would hold up, but not only was it solid, in many ways it was much faster than the previous system, especially with the mailboxes that were huge in size.
Solid backups, good inegration with third party software, easy extension and a solid upgrade in place system makes for a great product. It didn't hurt that their techs were responsive and actually knew about all the software (much of it OSS) that their product was based on. I'm suprised that is Yahoo though, figured it would be Apple to turn into their enterprise mail platform.
No you haven't, at least not in this thread.
Look boy, you've been called out and left wanting. I suggest you take your ball and go home now, it's getting embarrassing.