I call bullshit. The number of technically savvy users that are going to benefit from self service is infinitesimally small, relative to the overall user population. Apple isn't going to lose much revenue from those users... in fact, probably no loss of revenue at all, since those people are generally smart enough and resourceful enough to find the tool they need on the internet. People always complain about the higher cost of Apple products, but when Apple tries to do something about it what happens??? People complain...
But I'm sure you're right. It's all part of Apple's evil plan... their stupid, but evil plan...
I'm going to say something and I know it's a generalization. In fact, it is specifically a generalization. Just know that I am not talking about you, specifically - I'm talking about people, in general... other people.
People are idiots...
There. I said it.
I have a friends that work at Apple and they tell me stories... You would be surprised about how often someone shows up at the genius bar wanting warranty service on some Apple device that they disassembled themselves, presumably looking for that tell-tale loose wire, and failed to correctly reassemble. Quite often, Apple is justified in not honoring the warranty in those situations, but the users are generally unhappy and not very understanding of this policy.
So it makes sense to me for Apple to use some unusual screws to discourage those idiots (remember, I'm not talking about you) from senselessly endangering their Apple products.
Anyone who is savvy enough to actually fix one of these devices is probably savvy enough to look on-line for the special tool that they need... or manufacture their own.
So remember, Apple isn't doing this to get your money. They're doing this to protect the idiots from themselves...
The users have a reasonable expectation of privacy (in spite of AT&Ts carelessness). He willfully violated the users' rights to privacy. Capturing email addresses and ID numbers also likely falls under the category of identity theft.
if anything Sarah Palin should be schooled on password security and disciplined for sharing sensitive information over yahoo...
I had a neighbor that was robbed. However, like many crooks, these guys were none too smart and got caught. They tried to defend their actions by claiming that the victim had left a window unlocked and therefore deserved to get robbed...
Most of the wordplay on Jeopardy is actually fairly trivial and often not vital to a heuristic search. A human may have to understand the wordplay to recall the answer, but Watson is free to follow multiple search paths simultaneously and pick the best match. Watson solves the problem differently. Make no mistake about it, there's no understanding going on in Watson.
Have you ever actually seen state-of-the-art natural language processing? Expert systems? Search engine heuristics? Parallel processing? Knowledge-bases?
Couple these state-of-the-art technologies with very fast hardware and you get impressive results... but only kinda impressive.
I could be wrong. Maybe I'll be blown away... but probably not.
I'm on my 3rd Samsung Mythic phone. It has only a virtual keyboard. My first two phones lost their calibration between where I touched and where the phone thought I touched. I couldn't even get to the calibration tool to try and reset. Pulling the battery didn't fix it. Doing a master reset didn't fix it. I had to replace the devices. Sometimes there's a very fine line between a keyboard and an inert piece of glass.
Why would we assume that Microsoft and Intel would part company? ARM out-performs Intel in terms of power consumption, but Intel out-performs ARM in terms of processing power. While it seems that Intel may wind up with a smaller portion of pie, the need for desktop computers will continue for a long time. I don't think we will be seeing these competing options "pushing the two technology giants to go their separate ways" in the near future.
I find this claim highly dubious, but I'm willing to listen to your evidence.
... there are many others who develop for Microsoft in fact everyone is free to create whatever they want; from porn games to autocad.
This is true of Apple software as well. Don't confuse the app store distribution model with the entire application space.
You're right. The iPad was not designed for users like you. Neither is your vmware netbook designed for users like me. I'm a different level of power user who needs unix and the full power of a computing platform that a netbook simply can't muster... Different strokes for different folks.
Well, I don't know if Mac application prices are going to fall radically, but the business model for applications will change radically, which may 'allow' prices to come down. The app store model ensures that users of software closely correlates with purchasers of software. In the current environment a developer has to assume that some (high) percentage of users did not actually purchase the software. Therefore the purchase price for legitimate copies is necessarily higher.
the future founder of chip juggernaut Intel, predicted that computer processing power would double roughly every 18 months. Or maybe he said 12 months
What Gordon Moore actually said was that complexity would double every year. Moore was also relating cost at that time, but cost doesn't actually scale well, so most people don't include cost in modern interpretations of Moore's Law.
For circuit complexity, Moore's Law (with the 18 month amendment) seems to still hold true. However, we are fast approaching some physical limits that may cause the doubling period to increase.
Performance is commonly associated with Moore's Law (as you mention), However, performance is a function of clock speed, architecture, algorithm, and a host of other parameters and certainly does not follow Moore's Law... It never really has, even though people still like to think it does... or should...
"Jailtime for jailbreaking" makes a clever headline, but this is not what the guy was accused of nor what he pleaded guilty to. Thanks for wasting my time...
Everything that exists on this planet was the output from stars. Therefore, everything on Earth came from outer space, including it's water. The only question is when did the water arrive relative to the majority of the other star debris.
That is "stealthy"... or rather, would be... I don't find mDNSResponder.exe installed either... However, Googling, I see that it's the key to iTunes library sharing functionality, which I deselected/disabled in my initial configuration, so maybe that's why it never got installed.
Nevertheless, I'm not a big fan of stealth installs, which a lot of software does. That's why I keep a regular watch on my installed programs and services, especially after I add something intentionally, to make sure I didn't add something unintentionally.
Many years ago, when I was at a major university, I was taking a class where nearly everyone in the class had copies of old exams and cheated on every test. I was offered copies of the exams, but I refused to cheat. Because of the skewed curve, I was getting a low C in the class. I complained to the professor and told him that I thought I knew the material better than anyone else in the class. He defended his testing strategy, but said "to prove me wrong" he would devise a new test, using a different methodology for the final.
The scores were posted. I scored a 90 (minus 10 points for a sign error). The next highest score was 80. The rest of the class scored below 50. So I went to the professor and asked if he was going to adjust my grade for the semester. He said no. Instead, since everyone else in the class had done so poorly, he felt the test was badly structured and had decided to weight it so that it had muted impact.
I was furious, so I went to the dean, who agreed to investigate the matter. I figured that would be the end of it, but in fact the dean called me back to his office, informed me that my grade had been appropriately adjusted, and that the professor had been invited to focus on his research and would no longer be teaching at the university...
My point is not my happy ending, but that in some cases the professors, even in light of overwhelming evidence of cheating, refuse to admit that it's going on and may even encourage it by covering it up.
The keyword in number two is "unintentionally". Happy accidents do happen, but they rarely go unrecognized and once recognized they should be reconciled. If recognized but not reconciled then you can't say it was unintentional and therefore I have to agree that number two seems unlikely.
Any CPU debug mode worthy of the name should be able to violate OS security six ways from Sunday...
Any security model worthy of the name would be agnostic to whether the CPU was in user mode or debug mode. While there is always the risk of a bug or a security hole, I can assure you that anything that goes into the chip goes in under the scrutiny of the security model. I know of many instances where some debug or test feature was not implemented because there was some potential threat to the security model.
Microsoft is billing it as the smartphone that is so smart you don't have to fumble with it while you go about your daily routine. The problem is that this is not an intuitive use model for most people, so I think there's a lot of "wait-and-see" going on. If the OS actually delivers on that promise, it might catch on with some people... but frankly, I think most people with smartphones actually like to be distracted from their daily hum-drum.
No. I said the Holocaust was not caused by religious ideals. Hitler was motivated by power, racism, and economic envy. He used religion and fear as tools to help motivate others to his cause.
Do you think most Germans wanted to oppress, torture, and murder Jews because of religious differences? No, they hated the Jews because the Jews had a lot of financial power and control in pre-Nazi Germany.
You are confused. The members of Al-Qaeda are motivated by their devotion to Osama Bin Laden, not to Islam. In fact, their actions are in direct contradiction to Islamic beliefs.
If you believe someone can become a suicide terrorist without religion...
One man's terrorist is another man's war hero. More people commit "suicide" for political beliefs than do for religious ones. Duty is a powerful motivator.
People are predominantly motivated by greed and power. Making something a religious cause is, more often than not, just a way to get buy-in from the masses... an afterthought, not the primary motivation.
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Or alternately, that intellectuals aren't breeding enough... Darwin is rolling over in his grave...
I call bullshit. The number of technically savvy users that are going to benefit from self service is infinitesimally small, relative to the overall user population. Apple isn't going to lose much revenue from those users... in fact, probably no loss of revenue at all, since those people are generally smart enough and resourceful enough to find the tool they need on the internet. People always complain about the higher cost of Apple products, but when Apple tries to do something about it what happens??? People complain...
But I'm sure you're right. It's all part of Apple's evil plan... their stupid, but evil plan...
I'm going to say something and I know it's a generalization. In fact, it is specifically a generalization. Just know that I am not talking about you, specifically - I'm talking about people, in general... other people.
People are idiots...
There. I said it.
I have a friends that work at Apple and they tell me stories... You would be surprised about how often someone shows up at the genius bar wanting warranty service on some Apple device that they disassembled themselves, presumably looking for that tell-tale loose wire, and failed to correctly reassemble. Quite often, Apple is justified in not honoring the warranty in those situations, but the users are generally unhappy and not very understanding of this policy.
So it makes sense to me for Apple to use some unusual screws to discourage those idiots (remember, I'm not talking about you) from senselessly endangering their Apple products.
Anyone who is savvy enough to actually fix one of these devices is probably savvy enough to look on-line for the special tool that they need... or manufacture their own.
So remember, Apple isn't doing this to get your money. They're doing this to protect the idiots from themselves...
But companies that use such programs spend more on such things as learning to use them and making them work with other software"
Not like MS Office products that are infinitely simple, intuitive, and play nicely with all other software...
The users have a reasonable expectation of privacy (in spite of AT&Ts carelessness). He willfully violated the users' rights to privacy. Capturing email addresses and ID numbers also likely falls under the category of identity theft.
if anything Sarah Palin should be schooled on password security and disciplined for sharing sensitive information over yahoo...
I had a neighbor that was robbed. However, like many crooks, these guys were none too smart and got caught. They tried to defend their actions by claiming that the victim had left a window unlocked and therefore deserved to get robbed...
Your argument sounds a lot like that...
Yes, I've watched Jeopardy - many times.
Most of the wordplay on Jeopardy is actually fairly trivial and often not vital to a heuristic search. A human may have to understand the wordplay to recall the answer, but Watson is free to follow multiple search paths simultaneously and pick the best match. Watson solves the problem differently. Make no mistake about it, there's no understanding going on in Watson.
Have you ever actually seen state-of-the-art natural language processing? Expert systems? Search engine heuristics? Parallel processing? Knowledge-bases?
Couple these state-of-the-art technologies with very fast hardware and you get impressive results... but only kinda impressive.
I could be wrong. Maybe I'll be blown away... but probably not.
A supercomputer is faster/better at recalling facts from it's database than humans can from memory? Who woulda thunk it?
I'm on my 3rd Samsung Mythic phone. It has only a virtual keyboard. My first two phones lost their calibration between where I touched and where the phone thought I touched. I couldn't even get to the calibration tool to try and reset. Pulling the battery didn't fix it. Doing a master reset didn't fix it. I had to replace the devices. Sometimes there's a very fine line between a keyboard and an inert piece of glass.
Why would we assume that Microsoft and Intel would part company? ARM out-performs Intel in terms of power consumption, but Intel out-performs ARM in terms of processing power. While it seems that Intel may wind up with a smaller portion of pie, the need for desktop computers will continue for a long time. I don't think we will be seeing these competing options "pushing the two technology giants to go their separate ways" in the near future.
they where earlier on cloud software...
For instance?
earlier with virtualization...
I find this claim highly dubious, but I'm willing to listen to your evidence.
... there are many others who develop for Microsoft in fact everyone is free to create whatever they want; from porn games to autocad.
This is true of Apple software as well. Don't confuse the app store distribution model with the entire application space.
You're right. The iPad was not designed for users like you. Neither is your vmware netbook designed for users like me. I'm a different level of power user who needs unix and the full power of a computing platform that a netbook simply can't muster... Different strokes for different folks.
...hilarious isnt it
More than you know.
Well, I don't know if Mac application prices are going to fall radically, but the business model for applications will change radically, which may 'allow' prices to come down. The app store model ensures that users of software closely correlates with purchasers of software. In the current environment a developer has to assume that some (high) percentage of users did not actually purchase the software. Therefore the purchase price for legitimate copies is necessarily higher.
the future founder of chip juggernaut Intel, predicted that computer processing power would double roughly every 18 months. Or maybe he said 12 months
What Gordon Moore actually said was that complexity would double every year. Moore was also relating cost at that time, but cost doesn't actually scale well, so most people don't include cost in modern interpretations of Moore's Law.
For circuit complexity, Moore's Law (with the 18 month amendment) seems to still hold true. However, we are fast approaching some physical limits that may cause the doubling period to increase.
Performance is commonly associated with Moore's Law (as you mention), However, performance is a function of clock speed, architecture, algorithm, and a host of other parameters and certainly does not follow Moore's Law... It never really has, even though people still like to think it does... or should...
"Jailtime for jailbreaking" makes a clever headline, but this is not what the guy was accused of nor what he pleaded guilty to. Thanks for wasting my time...
Everything that exists on this planet was the output from stars. Therefore, everything on Earth came from outer space, including it's water. The only question is when did the water arrive relative to the majority of the other star debris.
That is "stealthy"... or rather, would be... I don't find mDNSResponder.exe installed either... However, Googling, I see that it's the key to iTunes library sharing functionality, which I deselected/disabled in my initial configuration, so maybe that's why it never got installed.
Nevertheless, I'm not a big fan of stealth installs, which a lot of software does. That's why I keep a regular watch on my installed programs and services, especially after I add something intentionally, to make sure I didn't add something unintentionally.
Under what conditions? Windows 7 only? I have QuickTime, Safari, and iTunes all installed under XP, but no Bonjour...
The death penalty is an excellent deterrent. Among those executed, I don't think there has been a single repeat offender...
Many years ago, when I was at a major university, I was taking a class where nearly everyone in the class had copies of old exams and cheated on every test. I was offered copies of the exams, but I refused to cheat. Because of the skewed curve, I was getting a low C in the class. I complained to the professor and told him that I thought I knew the material better than anyone else in the class. He defended his testing strategy, but said "to prove me wrong" he would devise a new test, using a different methodology for the final.
The scores were posted. I scored a 90 (minus 10 points for a sign error). The next highest score was 80. The rest of the class scored below 50. So I went to the professor and asked if he was going to adjust my grade for the semester. He said no. Instead, since everyone else in the class had done so poorly, he felt the test was badly structured and had decided to weight it so that it had muted impact.
I was furious, so I went to the dean, who agreed to investigate the matter. I figured that would be the end of it, but in fact the dean called me back to his office, informed me that my grade had been appropriately adjusted, and that the professor had been invited to focus on his research and would no longer be teaching at the university...
My point is not my happy ending, but that in some cases the professors, even in light of overwhelming evidence of cheating, refuse to admit that it's going on and may even encourage it by covering it up.
The keyword in number two is "unintentionally". Happy accidents do happen, but they rarely go unrecognized and once recognized they should be reconciled. If recognized but not reconciled then you can't say it was unintentional and therefore I have to agree that number two seems unlikely.
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Any CPU debug mode worthy of the name should be able to violate OS security six ways from Sunday...
Any security model worthy of the name would be agnostic to whether the CPU was in user mode or debug mode. While there is always the risk of a bug or a security hole, I can assure you that anything that goes into the chip goes in under the scrutiny of the security model. I know of many instances where some debug or test feature was not implemented because there was some potential threat to the security model.
Microsoft is billing it as the smartphone that is so smart you don't have to fumble with it while you go about your daily routine. The problem is that this is not an intuitive use model for most people, so I think there's a lot of "wait-and-see" going on. If the OS actually delivers on that promise, it might catch on with some people... but frankly, I think most people with smartphones actually like to be distracted from their daily hum-drum.
No. I said the Holocaust was not caused by religious ideals. Hitler was motivated by power, racism, and economic envy. He used religion and fear as tools to help motivate others to his cause.
Do you think most Germans wanted to oppress, torture, and murder Jews because of religious differences? No, they hated the Jews because the Jews had a lot of financial power and control in pre-Nazi Germany.
You are confused. The members of Al-Qaeda are motivated by their devotion to Osama Bin Laden, not to Islam. In fact, their actions are in direct contradiction to Islamic beliefs.
If you believe someone can become a suicide terrorist without religion...
One man's terrorist is another man's war hero. More people commit "suicide" for political beliefs than do for religious ones. Duty is a powerful motivator.
People are predominantly motivated by greed and power. Making something a religious cause is, more often than not, just a way to get buy-in from the masses... an afterthought, not the primary motivation.