Without free BSD unix Steve Jobs would not have a second act, Apple wouldn't be enjoying its 2nd success and without free liver Steve Jobs wouldn't have a second Life.
Its not about closed Apple software. Apple can't support an open system and deliver insanely great products. Great products are about what is missing i.e. chaos, cults, diversions, forks, etc...
Disenfranchisement or the stealing of an election by suppressing the people's right to vote is a real problem.
Here in California less than 1M voter's vote-count takes control of the 4th largest economy in the world, the Governorship. If the number of voters can be suppressed by running an exhausting number of polls - the cost to gain political control is fixed at a much lower price.
Electronic polling offers at a much lower threshold the ease of voter participation and exercise of citizen's political power. Voting online has security problems exactly like voting any other way but it does fix the very real problem of ease of use.
Yup! iPhone on ATT sucked sooo baad I could no longer understand the voice traffic over thier network on the thing. Locked into contract, they had the gall to change my contract date when I opted-out of iPhone service so I'm bound longer than I would have, had I stuck it out with the iPhone contract. In San Diego, I live next to the I-5 corridor so network availability is testable. Never,ever does ATT fail to provide ringtone. QoS degrades during calls and commute time is predictably sketchy. Dropped calls follow a QoS degradation and occur with bars showing on the handset.
Call quality ranges from iffy to " pin drop" clarity. The majority of calls exhibit a kind of compression algorythm artifact that clips dead air, trips leading enunciation of words and drops portions of words. There is a difference between QoS between brands of phones. QoS is relative in this matrix of phone, network, time of day mixture. Best call clarity has twice yielded "pin drop" clarity one long distance and one local call. Both "pin drop" calls occurred well after midnight. So the network is capable of delivering incredible service.
I am a longtime mobile user from 1982-present. I have little issues with data service technically. The iPhone UI is a level above the competition in terms of richness of experience.
I have a Blackberry and consider it to be a more business reliable provider of communications than the iPhone which has nothing to say about ATT and everything about iPhone's version of "push" email service.
I've experienced 3 geniuses each who represent the range of character between brilliant and dangerous. One CIA-type speaks 14 languages and programs in as many. He holds the keys to the Federal money transfer codebase, wears a pager 24/7 and understands national security. Another founded Greenpeace before it had a name and proceeded to develop the rest of the planet despite the costs (think AIG). The last hacker programmer, groks boardlevel to crypto, easily bored.
In all cases the outcomes are the same, parallel development, modularity and never allow access to the whole crown jewels. Anything less is stupid, irresponsible and risks the crown.
Digital payments processing should "just work" capturing transaction informations and validating exchanges without selling private behaviors to the highest bidder (including participants) and unwind in accountable fashions
The US banking system is forced by law to process payments by "cheque" or "credit card" period. Every transaction ultimately passes down one of these two legislated payment paths.
Without new legislation for digital transactions that establishes digital protocol, it perverts commerce into this circus of new product actors that are only entertaining instead of simply working. Hence, the money grab of the gatekeepers.
OPEN is simply "un-supportable". NeXT taught Steve Jobs ' just because you can, doesn't mean you should'. Support is a very real line item on the balance sheet. Not everything is supportable... financially, technically or morally in production. Apple must choose product success roadmap.
There is no story here against CheckFree. CheckFree, Inc. guarantee every transaction over its payments processing engines. This company is prima-facia evidence how best to implement and use network technologies for individuals to control their own money.
It has stood behind my every transaction made over the last nine years without failure. The exploit is interesting man in the middle attack but nothing new in Internetland.
You are wrong but right about everything in your post. What makes the excellent post right is the snapshot in time from which it is taken. This cellular market has been a hog trough in the US. Jobs is about push these behemoths over in their sleep, like cows. iPhone is about building bridges. Apple will use iPhone to bridge the service gap the behemoths have so long ignored, unlike EU cellular markets. Turn the marketplace upside down and you have smartphones now at the top and cheap handhelds at the bottom of the pyramid, reversed. To do that trick, the iPhone will bridge people's "eye candy" to their "connected" needs. What once was the purveiw of the big phone company, iPhone will empower the user to take ownership. Voicemail control at the phone. Calendar control at the phone. Email control at the phone. Pretty soon CORPS realize that the device is more than a pretty (inter)face, but eliminates entire departments in the org. iPhone==5FTE (fulltime equiv). Business will do a "let's roll" and sweep into the category for the savings it can bring to the org. I've had it with my Crackberry. Its old clunky and causes me to lose calls and mail because of my inability to work the wheel thingie when I'm in a hurry. I was there at the moment Apple chose to "go after" Napster's market. The rest is history... Be happy you get to witness another moment in history!
SLC is one of those homogenous communities where 60% of state of Utah population lives. This proves a test bed for wild hared ideas from marketing to engineering and public acceptance.
Its also one of those places where the government is available at an affordable cost to approach schemes like this one where anywhere else it would have an EIR, DOE and USC regs to begin an introduction.
is what you get when you run the new compression backwards!
This reminds me of the cryptographer paid to crypto-compress datastreams into musical notation. The work laid the foundation to real time packet sniffing of the Internet
That allegation was in-play... yes. Except Jobs doesn't play hardball day-to-day only to let his archrival walk away unharmed if Steve had Microsoft's red handed code in his possession. I didn't buy it then, Don't buy it now. It may have been true.
Steve got what he needed more than anything else in the World at that moment. It put him back in the driver's seat with credibility and license to cross-market his product into the Microsoft pie. Apple couldn't do that without Word, Excel, etc...
Bill G. had a big problem with anti-trust litigation. Apple was his best defence. His company needed for Apple to succeed more than risking copy-waste code blocks from Apple to keep one piece of software competitive.
We would need an insider to salt the truth on this one. Neither of us has the inside scoop.
As long as there are window dresser's and make-up artists we'll continue to see XHTML-type evolutions. Missing are the journalists, librarians, ethnographers, anthropologists, etc... who could actually massage *content* into higher order contexts rather than reaching for new formats, colors, bells and whistles.
Academia and official accreditation sources will never capture the rich information stream of sources without people contributing from a Wiki (many:1). A single-source of authority paradigm is dead in today's parallel Worlds evolving faster than Moore's Law will sustain.
Information which was gathered mere months ago, may be outdated and disproven today. Academian's cannot reflect that fast a data-set change and hold the keys to Society's knowledge. Knowledge is the collective intelligence of organized information captured in juxtaposition with accepted wisdom of the present.
We all contribute, we all gain - there are no Master's of the Universe: we are the Universe...
MIPS in the 90's was just raw technology. They had numbers without a following. Their instruction set was unique requiring specialized code optimizations.
Dream on... Job's was running away from the the cult of Mac people in developing NeXTstep. He agreed AUX worked and set out to do AUX one better. Apple were about to piss themselves into obscurity if not for one staffer's temerity to call Apple and tell them what NeXTSTEP was doing that Copland et. al. would never do anytime soon.
Bill Gates $150M and committment to Office on the Mac.
Microsoft needed Apple not to fail because 5% marketshare was all the evidence Bill Gates needed as proof that Windows was not a monopoly. For $150M, Bill got the room he needed to breathe out from under Anti-Trust and seeded further MS product, even if he lost a window sale or two. It was his cost of staying in business, without the US Gov't breaking Microsoft into separate operating units.
Steve Jobs got serious credibility on the Street, with businesses really nervous about being stuck with Mac's going out of business. Bill G. stopped all that bleed, angst and hesitation in the sales pipeline for Apple Computer Inc.
Apple isn't stupid - to re-invent a better mouse trap. US cellular providers have had this completely piece of shit Oligopoly which panders ring tones and features as service. If Apple brings i* (whatever) its going to disrupt the marketplace, abstract a layer above the network (owned by Apple - think iTMS) and broker the transaction for fee.
I would guess this Apple device is going to know how to "connect", "inter-connect" and "cross connect". European carriers have rolled out extremely valuable properties leveraged off "text" capabilities of phones. Apple will bring it... you will benefit and the phone will be just a vehicle like the pod is just form-factor in the scheme.
Wheat was manually cross-cloned into a hybrid over 10,000 years ago from grasses that produced only 2 seeds in Mesopotamia. Today wheat, the staple of the World, contains a large head of seeds that withstands machine harvest and is much, much more potent than its forebear grasses. Hybrid grasses enabled Hunter and Gatherers to store their food supply and specialize their skills. This single event ushered in Agriculture and enabled the Modern Era of Man.
Today hybrid grasses (wheat, barley, rye, oat) are second most common ingredient in the modern diet behind sugar. The protein in wheat, gluten, is partially indigestable by man. Every person on this planet is unable to fully digest these non-natural grasses. For 1% of the population, gluten is a toxin which causes adverse immune response to foreign substance in the body.
Cloned-food is Post Modern version of Hunter Gatherer's hybrid breeding efforts. Its not that cloning is inherently un-natural, hence, un-healthy. What starts-out as begign technolgy with the best intentions improves the product over time. Fatter, flavorful (beef, here) products become concentrated sources of protein that Neanderthal Man physiology is unable to handle safely.
Physiology has not caught-up with technology in foods we eat. Medicine cannot treat Diabetics, Celiacs, etc... for allergies to foods which cause disease. Food allergy only treatment is to completely avoid food that makes them sick.
Until Modern Man arrives on this Planet, FDA and gov'ts around the World sould be duty bound to protect the heritage of the World's food supply should evolution choose not to release Human ver.3.0.
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Without free BSD unix Steve Jobs would not have a second act, Apple wouldn't be enjoying its 2nd success and without free liver Steve Jobs wouldn't have a second Life.
Its not about closed Apple software. Apple can't support an open system and deliver insanely great products. Great products are about what is missing i.e. chaos, cults, diversions, forks, etc...
Vote online fixes the real problem!!!
Disenfranchisement or the stealing of an election by suppressing the people's right to vote is a real problem.
Here in California less than 1M voter's vote-count takes control of the 4th largest economy in the world, the Governorship. If the number of voters can be suppressed by running an exhausting number of polls - the cost to gain political control is fixed at a much lower price.
Electronic polling offers at a much lower threshold the ease of voter participation and exercise of citizen's political power. Voting online has security problems exactly like voting any other way but it does fix the very real problem of ease of use.
"...what's good for GM is good for America" and we know how that one turned out.
Microsoft has cast itself in GM-speak as TBTF (too big to fail)
Microsoft has just failed and completely in Mr. Ballmer's eloquent statement of patriotic honesty.
Swallow your principles
Principles aren't worth the paper they're written
Principles are external to the self.
Follow your convictions.
Convictions are internalized values
Convictions define you
Money just keeps score
Take it to win another day
You get what you want by design only from Apple.
Programmable silicon...
WiFi is the long pole in the tent. WiFi is free will == freedom.
Apple abstracts function over infrastructure. Infrastructure fade to black.
Apple disintermediates networks ala iTunes disintermediates Music
Its eyeballs, who has'em and can deliver everything that follows
Google's Gmail interface is one side of a P2P.
Cloud metaphors in place of FUD, blue smoke and mirrors for purposes which remain, well, clouded.
Sun = Poorly run company with great products
Oracle = Masterfully run company with shitty products
mod +1
Yup! iPhone on ATT sucked sooo baad I could no longer understand the voice traffic over thier network on the thing. Locked into contract, they had the gall to change my contract date when I opted-out of iPhone service so I'm bound longer than I would have, had I stuck it out with the iPhone contract. In San Diego, I live next to the I-5 corridor so network availability is testable. Never,ever does ATT fail to provide ringtone. QoS degrades during calls and commute time is predictably sketchy. Dropped calls follow a QoS degradation and occur with bars showing on the handset.
Call quality ranges from iffy to " pin drop" clarity. The majority of calls exhibit a kind of compression algorythm artifact that clips dead air, trips leading enunciation of words and drops portions of words. There is a difference between QoS between brands of phones. QoS is relative in this matrix of phone, network, time of day mixture. Best call clarity has twice yielded "pin drop" clarity one long distance and one local call. Both "pin drop" calls occurred well after midnight. So the network is capable of delivering incredible service.
I am a longtime mobile user from 1982-present. I have little issues with data service technically. The iPhone UI is a level above the competition in terms of richness of experience.
I have a Blackberry and consider it to be a more business reliable provider of communications than the iPhone which has nothing to say about ATT and everything about iPhone's version of "push" email service.
I've experienced 3 geniuses each who represent the range of character between brilliant and dangerous. One CIA-type speaks 14 languages and programs in as many. He holds the keys to the Federal money transfer codebase, wears a pager 24/7 and understands national security. Another founded Greenpeace before it had a name and proceeded to develop the rest of the planet despite the costs (think AIG). The last hacker programmer, groks boardlevel to crypto, easily bored.
In all cases the outcomes are the same, parallel development, modularity and never allow access to the whole crown jewels. Anything less is stupid, irresponsible and risks the crown.
Digital payments processing should "just work" capturing transaction informations and validating exchanges without selling private behaviors to the highest bidder (including participants) and unwind in accountable fashions
The US banking system is forced by law to process payments by "cheque" or "credit card" period. Every transaction ultimately passes down one of these two legislated payment paths.
Without new legislation for digital transactions that establishes digital protocol, it perverts commerce into this circus of new product actors that are only entertaining instead of simply working. Hence, the money grab of the gatekeepers.
$0.99 apps = Choice .vs. Open source and that is Apple's kryptonite
OPEN is simply "un-supportable". NeXT taught Steve Jobs ' just because you can, doesn't mean you should'. Support is a very real line item on the balance sheet. Not everything is supportable... financially, technically or morally in production. Apple must choose product success roadmap.
There is no story here against CheckFree. CheckFree, Inc. guarantee every transaction over its payments processing engines. This company is prima-facia evidence how best to implement and use network technologies for individuals to control their own money.
It has stood behind my every transaction made over the last nine years without failure. The exploit is interesting man in the middle attack but nothing new in Internetland.
You are wrong but right about everything in your post. What makes the excellent post right is the snapshot in time from which it is taken.
This cellular market has been a hog trough in the US. Jobs is about push these behemoths over in their sleep, like cows. iPhone is about building bridges. Apple will use iPhone to bridge the service gap the behemoths have so long ignored, unlike EU cellular markets.
Turn the marketplace upside down and you have smartphones now at the top and cheap handhelds at the bottom of the pyramid, reversed. To do that trick, the iPhone will bridge people's "eye candy" to their "connected" needs. What once was the purveiw of the big phone company, iPhone will empower the user to take ownership.
Voicemail control at the phone. Calendar control at the phone. Email control at the phone. Pretty soon CORPS realize that the device is more than a pretty (inter)face, but eliminates entire departments in the org. iPhone==5FTE (fulltime equiv).
Business will do a "let's roll" and sweep into the category for the savings it can bring to the org.
I've had it with my Crackberry. Its old clunky and causes me to lose calls and mail because of my inability to work the wheel thingie when I'm in a hurry. I was there at the moment Apple chose to "go after" Napster's market. The rest is history...
Be happy you get to witness another moment in history!
SLC is one of those homogenous communities where 60% of state of Utah population lives. This proves a test bed for wild hared ideas from marketing to engineering and public acceptance.
Its also one of those places where the government is available at an affordable cost to approach schemes like this one where anywhere else it would have an EIR, DOE and USC regs to begin an introduction.
is what you get when you run the new compression backwards!
This reminds me of the cryptographer paid to crypto-compress datastreams into musical notation. The work laid the foundation to real time packet sniffing of the Internet
Cryptographer? Got atta boys
"Microsoft got caught red-handed with code in"
That allegation was in-play... yes. Except Jobs doesn't play hardball day-to-day only to let his archrival walk away unharmed if Steve had Microsoft's red handed code in his possession. I didn't buy it then, Don't buy it now. It may have been true.
Steve got what he needed more than anything else in the World at that moment. It put him back in the driver's seat with credibility and license to cross-market his product into the Microsoft pie. Apple couldn't do that without Word, Excel, etc...
Bill G. had a big problem with anti-trust litigation. Apple was his best defence. His company needed for Apple to succeed more than risking copy-waste code blocks from Apple to keep one piece of software competitive.
We would need an insider to salt the truth on this one. Neither of us has the inside scoop.
All the hand wringing... really!
As long as there are window dresser's and make-up artists we'll continue to see XHTML-type evolutions. Missing are the journalists, librarians, ethnographers, anthropologists, etc... who could actually massage *content* into higher order contexts rather than reaching for new formats, colors, bells and whistles.
Academia and official accreditation sources will never capture the rich information stream of sources without people contributing from a Wiki (many:1). A single-source of authority paradigm is dead in today's parallel Worlds evolving faster than Moore's Law will sustain.
Information which was gathered mere months ago, may be outdated and disproven today. Academian's cannot reflect that fast a data-set change and hold the keys to Society's knowledge. Knowledge is the collective intelligence of organized information captured in juxtaposition with accepted wisdom of the present.
We all contribute, we all gain - there are no Master's of the Universe: we are the Universe...
MIPS in the 90's was just raw technology. They had numbers without a following. Their instruction set was unique requiring specialized code optimizations.
Dream on... Job's was running away from the the cult of Mac people in developing NeXTstep. He agreed AUX worked and set out to do AUX one better. Apple were about to piss themselves into obscurity if not for one staffer's temerity to call Apple and tell them what NeXTSTEP was doing that Copland et. al. would never do anytime soon.
The rest is History...
Bill Gates $150M and committment to Office on the Mac.
Microsoft needed Apple not to fail because 5% marketshare was all the evidence Bill Gates needed as proof that Windows was not a monopoly. For $150M, Bill got the room he needed to breathe out from under Anti-Trust and seeded further MS product, even if he lost a window sale or two. It was his cost of staying in business, without the US Gov't breaking Microsoft into separate operating units.
Steve Jobs got serious credibility on the Street, with businesses really nervous about being stuck with Mac's going out of business. Bill G. stopped all that bleed, angst and hesitation in the sales pipeline for Apple Computer Inc.
HP's quote "The network is the computer"?
Apple isn't stupid - to re-invent a better mouse trap. US cellular providers have had this completely piece of shit Oligopoly which panders ring tones and features as service. If Apple brings i* (whatever) its going to disrupt the marketplace, abstract a layer above the network (owned by Apple - think iTMS) and broker the transaction for fee.
I would guess this Apple device is going to know how to "connect", "inter-connect" and "cross connect". European carriers have rolled out extremely valuable properties leveraged off "text" capabilities of phones. Apple will bring it... you will benefit and the phone will be just a vehicle like the pod is just form-factor in the scheme.
Wheat was manually cross-cloned into a hybrid over 10,000 years ago from grasses that produced only 2 seeds in Mesopotamia. Today wheat, the staple of the World, contains a large head of seeds that withstands machine harvest and is much, much more potent than its forebear grasses. Hybrid grasses enabled Hunter and Gatherers to store their food supply and specialize their skills. This single event ushered in Agriculture and enabled the Modern Era of Man.
Today hybrid grasses (wheat, barley, rye, oat) are second most common ingredient in the modern diet behind sugar. The protein in wheat, gluten, is partially indigestable by man. Every person on this planet is unable to fully digest these non-natural grasses. For 1% of the population, gluten is a toxin which causes adverse immune response to foreign substance in the body.
Cloned-food is Post Modern version of Hunter Gatherer's hybrid breeding efforts. Its not that cloning is inherently un-natural, hence, un-healthy. What starts-out as begign technolgy with the best intentions improves the product over time. Fatter, flavorful (beef, here) products become concentrated sources of protein that Neanderthal Man physiology is unable to handle safely.
Physiology has not caught-up with technology in foods we eat. Medicine cannot treat Diabetics, Celiacs, etc... for allergies to foods which cause disease. Food allergy only treatment is to completely avoid food that makes them sick.
Until Modern Man arrives on this Planet, FDA and gov'ts around the World sould be duty bound to protect the heritage of the World's food supply should evolution choose not to release Human ver.3.0.
Genes are your Destiny.